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You guys! This weekend was the most exciting weekend in the master bathroom renovation so far.
By far.
I can't really explain it all, but the moment the finishing touches start happening is the same moment a renovation starts to feel like a real room. And ghost face and I installed the vanity lights!
Actually, ghost face did it all, I just handed him electrical tape so I took a picture of that hard work in action. 🙂 And if you weighed in on our vanity light dilemma you remember the big debate (OK, maybe it wasn't all that big) about what kind of vanity lighting to choose. And then once we decided on a two light vanity light I showed you all kinds of options we were considering. And here they are. We picked #8 on the list.
And I love them. "This is so exciting!" That's what I said on repeat every time I've looked at them since they've gone up. There may also be some shoulder shaking involved of that dear husband of mine to show him just how exciting it is! I'm still not sure he gets it.
But this happened, too.
I made a vanity. And the most exciting part … it actually fits into the nook! It's no secret that me and measuring don't always see eye to eye so I made Joel help me bring it in there just to make sure it really fit. And there were a few sighs of relief.
Up until now most of what we've been working on are things that really aren't seen by anyone. I mean no one is going to walk into this bathroom in the end and be like "My, what a nice shower pan you have." These new details make demolition feel like the distant past, that stage when everything is just hard … did that really even happen?
Now we're adding in the pretty, and it is so inspiring. And motivating. And makes the whole process feel so worthwhile.
There are still so many little details I need to tackle like finishing the molding and baseboards and door trim and a door would be nice. And there is a tub in our side yard
because we continue to be awesome neighbors that needs to find a permanent home. And the vanity in the bathroom was short-lived because Sunday was slated for grouting.
Which is another big and exciting step! Grout somehow just brings tile to life. And true to form Marley made herself right at home on it while I finished up grouting the shower.
Mico still has yet to summon the nerve to venture into the new room, but she gets at least a half-inch closer to the door everyday. 🙂
And if I were to make one suggestion for anyone getting ready to tackle a 5 hour grouting extravaganza, having a husband who will stream your favorite team's football game is kind of the best way to go. I have all kinds of tips to share on the grouting and the tiling, coming soon for sure. And it will involve the suggestion of having a "bucket b!tch", I'm just saying. Game. Changer. Much more to come on that.
It may seem weird that I did the floor before the shower but I was worried the gray grout was going to be too dark for the shower so we started with the floor and gave it an hour to dry to make sure it was going to dry lighter … and it did. And it's exciting to have the grouting behind us. Some trim has started to go up and I'm pretty excited at how the rustic wood slat walls work with the long octagon marble tile.
It's starting to really come together!
Here's a look at what still needs to happen for me to just take a bubble bath already:
- seal newly grouted tile (need to wait 3 days)
- baseboard, molding, door trim and shoe molding all around – hang, caulk and touch-up paint
- finish and install vanity
- install two sinks
- install two sink faucets
- install shower valve and rain shower head
- make and hang vanity mirrors
- remove old window
- install new tub (it will be coming through the window opening) 🙂
- install new window (by professionals)
- install tub faucet
- make/find chandelier for above tub
- install toilet
- install glass shower walls (by professionals)
- prep, prime and paint bathroom door
- hang door on rolling door hardware
- install towel hooks and other necessities
- shelving of some kind maybe over the toilet?
- accessorize and organize
- I'm sure I'm forgetting something
Ok, I've rambled on enough. Time to get back at it, and I have some totally-not-bathroom-related posts coming to you later this week but just know while you are reading them I am in the bathroom ticking some things off the list while exclaiming "This is so exciting!" and shaking Joel's shoulders as he tries to elude the inevitable.
Is there any stage of a renovation that really feels like a turning point to you? Is it freshly primed drywall maybe? Something different? Or beginning of the real pretties, too?


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Today's Q poll finds New Yorkers have adopted a wait-and-see stance on Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with 36 percent saying they don't know enough about him to form an opinion yet.
Cuomo's favorable/unfavorable rating is with 47-11. The Q pollsters didn't ask the job approval question, reasoning that the newly-minted governor hasn't yet been in office long enough to have much of a track record.
It should be noted that these findings aren't in keeping with a recent Siena poll that pegged Cuomo's favorability rating at 70 percent – the highest it has been in well over a year.
According to the Q poll's numbers, however, Cuomo isn't enjoying much of a honeymoon period. Instead, the poll's Mickey Carroll said, the governor is getting a "so-so welcome."
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Little Håkon, the 3 year old son of a Greenpeace campaigner in Norway, Truls Gulowsen, delivered a wild wood anemone to Al Gore in Oslo today. Håkon and his father found the spring flower by the river blossoming in December. It should blossom in April!
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Without reforms, Idaho continues to look case-by-case at liquor license laws
Five years ago, Gov. Butch Otter urged lawmakers to stop approving special liquor licenses and instead reform Idaho's system that requires anyone seeking to sell liquor by the drink outside city limits, or outside a strict population formula inside cities, to come to the Legislature for a special law. Lawmakers rejected his reform plan, however, and the system remained the same. This year, there are three special liquor license bills pending: One for the Caldwell Night Rodeo, one for the Nez Perce Tribe's new convention center, and one for the resort town of Driggs, which gets only two liquor licenses under the formula. AP reporter John Miller takes a look at the dilemma the situation poses for Otter; click below for his full report.
Otter may face tough choice: principle or hometown
By JOHN MILLER, Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A tough choice appears to be looming for Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter: His principles or his hometown rodeo.
A measure to grant an exception that would allow the Caldwell Night Rodeo to serve cocktails is working through the Legislature. Also on tap are two additional proposals to get around Idaho's strict 1947 liquor license law — one for Driggs in the eastern part of the state, another for the Nez Perce tribe.
In 2008, Otter said his patience was fraying with such "tortured exceptions" expanding where drinks can be served. As an antidote, he proposed an overhaul to shift license control to local governments. "It's time to draw a line in the sand," Otter wrote lawmakers that year.
But his plan failed in 2009, leaving intact a system where the rodeo in Caldwell — where Otter grew up, and an event he's competed in — and others seeking to serve alcohol must do exactly what he lambasted: Go on bended knee to the Capitol to seek a special accommodation.
"It's for economic development," said Sen. Patti Anne Lodge, R-Huston, sponsor of the bill that would allow liquor at the rodeo.
"It's a big thing for our community," she added.
Hard liquor has long been served at the 78-year-old event. But Idaho's liquor regulator said last year that was illegal, necessitating this dispensation.
For his part, Otter is mum on whether he'll act on his 5-year-old threat to help end "the era of specialty licenses."
"The governor does not comment" on incomplete legislation, said Jon Hanian, his spokesman, last week.
Idaho's quota system allows a single liquor license for every 1,500 residents in cities.
Consequently, selling booze outside city limits requires legislative indulgence. Dozens of exceptions have emerged over the years, for golf courses, airports and others — some so narrow they border on the absurd.
One, for Hayden Lake's historic Clark House, is restricted to a hotel at least 75 years old, on a lake with 36,000 acre feet of water — when full.
Idaho's 70-year-old liquor law, passed two years after World War II when the state had few resorts, also means cities like Driggs with 1,600 residents have just two liquor licenses. Local leaders want more, arguing thousands of visitors to Grand Targhee ski area can hardly find a place to sip a margarita or mojito.
In 2009, however, lawmakers who rejected Otter's overhaul feared new city- and county-issued licenses would undermine existing state-issued licenses worth hundreds of thousands in places like tony Ketchum, due to limited supply.
And then there's Idaho's 1890 Constitution, mandating "the first concern of all good government is the virtue and sobriety of the people." Some argued changes could lead to profligate boozing.
"They could slip a little something in there, a little nippy in there instead of a happy toy for a Happy Meal," opined then-Rep. Russ Matthews, R-Idaho Falls.
Last week, Silas Whitman, Nez Perce tribal chairman, said he'd rather not travel "hat in hand" to Boise, just so his group's new $16 million hotel, convention and casino complex on the Clearwater River can win permission to serve cocktails to visitors.
It's downright uncomfortable: One lawmaker, GOP Rep. Brent Crane of Nampa, suggested the tribe shouldn't get a license — because he believed its members had an alcohol problem.
But Whitman has no other choice but to come, since the facility is beyond city limits. "It shouldn't be incumbent on them," he said. "We want to exercise sovereignty."
The tribe's measure squeaked through the House State Affairs Committee on a 9-7 vote last week and is up for House debate. Freshman Rep. Jason Monks, R-Meridian, was among foes, arguing perpetuating these specialty licenses provides little incentive to reform a system that picks winners and losers, at the Legislature's whim.
"Until we stop and say, 'Enough,' nobody is going to change the system," Monks said.
But other lawmakers, including those who experienced the divisive 2009 debate, say that's easier said than done, since many exemption foes combined four years ago to dump Otter's overhaul.
"They don't want it fixed," says Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake. "You can talk about reform, but when reform is offered to you, you don't bite."
In the meantime, the fate of this year's three measures could hinge on Otter, should they get his desk.
Quoting his political idol in 2008, the governor made his feelings clear, presaging how little times have changed.
"To paraphrase Ronald Reagan," Otter wrote then, after lawmakers sent him three bills, " 'There you go again.' "
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
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Post subject: A different kind of RNG for D&D 3.X
Another RNG thread? Really?
So, with the current RNG system (d20+bonuses vs DC), and the usual situation (the number that actually matters in most cases is not a probability of succeeding, but rather an average number of attempts between failures/successes), the +1 bonus can actually have a vastly different effect on your survivability depending on both the DC and your current bonus. Also, there's the annoying effect where, at high levels, even characters of same level that are both supposed to be able to do something can have bonuses to doing that thing, that are not on RNG within each other, due to accumulation of a lot of little +1's little bullshit modifiers.
I've seen some people here that wanted to switch to a dicepool system, but dicepools have a negative side in that, while it's harder to technically get off RNG, practically you do so even faster than in d20 system, and again, that +1 bonus can have vastly different effects, depending on whenever you start near the center of the bell curve or in its tail. Also, it's very hard to figure out how to convert the existing D&D numbers so that they'll continue to make sense.
So, I've tried to make a RNG system that would be:
1) At least somewhat compatible with D&D 3.X and existing numbers in it (so you can theoretically plug it in).
2) Have the system be based around the "average number of attempts before success/failure" as directly as possible.
3) Have a +1 bonus mean the same thing on as large range of possible bonus values and DCs as possible.
4) Do not have a "get off RNG" effect at all.
The result is this algorithm: when you have to roll against a DC, you add all your bonuses and maluses together, add 11 to the result, then substract the DC from it. You should arrive at a number +N, +0, or -N, where N - some integer number. For later reference, I'm going to call it "resolution number".
If it's +0, then you simply flip a coin, or roll a d6 and succeed on 4,5,6 - 50/50.
If it's a positive number, you then roll a number of d10's equal to that number plus 6, and if at least one of them has 10 on it, you succeed.
If it's a negative number, you roll a number of d10s equal to the (module of that number + 6), and if at least one of them has 1 on it, you fail.
What is this shit and why is it so complicated?
The reasoning here is that every +1/-1 in this system, unless it flips the sign of the resolution number, increases/decreases the average number of attempts between successes/failures by 10%, because every new d10 die adds a separate and independent 10% chance to succeed/fail, probabilty of a event "all dices don't roll a certain number" is equal to a multiplication of probabilities for each dice to "not roll a certain number", which means it scales exponentially, and average number of attempts is inverse of probability, so it scales exponentially, too.
Which is about equal to an effect of +1/-1 bonus in in D&D if you roll against DC 11 with +0 modifier - 50% success chance turns to 55% and 45%, which results in about +10%/-10% relative difference in average number of attempts between successes/failures.
So in effect, it's mostly similiar to d20 near the region where chances of success/failure are equal, and diverges as you go away from it.
That also explains why the heck I'm using d10's here, and not d20's.
Where the heck did that "+6" came from?
It's to make it relatively smoothly transition from "likely success" through "50/50" into "likely failure" zone. With 7 d10, chances of at least one of them rolling up 1 (at negative resolution number) or 10 (at positive resolution number) is about 52%, which results in about 2.09 average rounds between failures/successes. It's not as smooth as I'd like it to be, but that's the best you can get with d10s.
This system has me rolling piles of dices, fuck this non-D&D bullshit.
Well, it's not actually that hard, especially seeing that you only have to watch out for dices that roll a certain number - and that's very easy to spot. It's also very easy to extend towards very large numbers - since you don't actually have to keep in mind any numbers (as in most dicepool systems), you can just, instead of rolling all dices at once, roll the first 10 d10s, then, if it didn't show up a single 1/10, roll a second dozen of d10s, and so on. Pretty easy, as long as you remember how many dices you've already rolled.
Wait, does this "no to getting off RNG" business mean that my uber-armored-character can no longer be effectively invincible to the low-level plebs?
You can still become effectively invincible, because the average time between failures scales exponentially with the bonus you get.
For example, at resolution number of +10 (equal to DC 21 - which is already off RNG in normal d20 system), you get 5.4 attack attempts between someone sticks it through the armor. Not that high, right?
If your resolution number on AC check is +20, the average number of attack attempts is about 15.5. Getting there...
With resolution number of +30, it rises up to 37.7 - which is more than a d20 system's maximum 20.
And for +40, it's more than a hundred - 127.3 average attempts, before the poor low-level shmucks get one attack through your armor.
As you can see, there's still enough space in the system for numerically-ridiculously-overpowered shit, unlike in 5e with its "bounded accuracy" crap. And what's more, all these additional little +1 bullshit modifiers that you simply forget about in normal D&D play, they all still matter, even at such high level - because every single one of them still increases that number by 10%. And, they also don't break RNG.
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Also, why the fuck D10s? I mean, it's better than d12s, but worse than d6s and d20s for having that number of dice, and feeling D&D respectively. Would it really be that much harder to do the math for rolling those dice?
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Its a shitty stupid idea implemented with shitty stupid results.
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Your goals, even if they were actually good goals to have, and not at best neutral, aren't worth the work you put in to get them.
Also, why the fuck D10s? I mean, it's better than d12s, but worse than d6s and d20s for having that number of dice, and feeling D&D respectively. Would it really be that much harder to do the math for rolling those dice?
The amount of "work" I put into it is about 2 days of being bored, and I did it almost purely because I wanted to know if there is any other kind of RNG that's different from "flat RNG" a la d20, or "bell curve RNG" a la Shadowrun and GURPS. All these other "goals" are something I've actually added after seeing properties of that RNG I've constructed. I think it was worth it at least because it made me less bored as a result.
D10s were chosen because they usually are already used in buckets, and you need buckets of dice for this system. And well, I suppose you can use d20s (counting 19 and 20 on d20 as 10 on d10, and 1 and 2 on d20 as 1 on d10). Or d6s, for a more steeper curve.
It would probably be a better idea to use d6s, actually now that I think about it - because of that "steeper curve" thing, it would be overall a better fit to the existing distribution; thank you for suggestion.
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All these other "goals" are something I've actually added after seeing properties of that RNG I've constructed.
Methodology THEN Goals.
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This is hysterically, impossibly complicated for the core mechanic of an RPG.
And unless I've missed something (which is possible, see above) it absolutely requires every roll to be against a known DC, which means you have to be told every DC before you make the roll, and it completely fails to handle opposed rolls and degrees of failure or success. Which means your idea is bad and you should feel bad.
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OK, so ... really, you're subtracting a reduced DC from your net task bonus to arrive at a somewhat small number. AC 15 -> "-4", +7 attack -> +3.
So then I roll, uh, +6 => 9d10, and check if I got a 10. Which is ... well, uh ... that's ... I'd need to buy some more d10s.
The shortcut seems to be to assume you're rolling against DC 15, note how many dice that gives you (it's your net bonus +2), and subtract 5 dice for DC 20 (net -3), or 10 dice for DC 25 (net -8), except it flips to adding dice at 6, but you shouldn't be rolling that anyway so don't sweat it.
Um, except ...
You've sorted it around 50% success, instead of the 70% success that D&D uses for PCs, where +1 is worth 7% more successes, but 17% less failures where it's failure-critical. Where the bonuses are often much bigger than that, and rip you through to the limit of 36% more successes and 83% less failures.
That's also a thing, where in D&D you're supposed to collect up little +1s to almost eliminate your failure chances, that's the whole point of character building and treasure rewards in many editions (as much as the authors claimed otherwise), including the current abomination. That's why they gave us so many annoying-ass +1s to collect.
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I love the engines being on top. It looks so good.
Seems the RCS system needs redoing. it is basically. the exact center of gravity of the pod so they don't do anything lol. damn :/
Okay. remodeled the RCS tank and RCS modules and now they do stuff in orbit :)
Also, I noticed it allows for some interesting designs to be made @_@
mated it to the TKS block and made it's RCS tanks. Tomorrow perhaps i will make it's RCS blocks
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That's a dream come true for me. Thanks!
I was thinking more I dream of geini lamp
but soda bottles are good at holding pressure. so i guess the soviets copied the for that reason :D
on a side note. KSP forum people are really hating on the green. should I not make them green?
fuck em,
make them bright green.
Really just keep them green, they can deal with it
Well shit...
Seems legit.
I had to try docking the Kerpollo CSM to the Kerpollo LEM
Did she cum?
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eh... also you can see the new radiator panel and RCS tank in there. but not in their proper places lol.
That looks way better than the green.
Sega Saturn I though o something you could do to help the pack & help you get comfortable with modelling but it doesn't need an exact amount of accuraty.
Well then what is it? :P
should get on steam
Just want to let you know for whenever you get back, right after you left 3DS Max's interface pretty much shat itself and I decided not to bother with it. I actually watched the tutorial videos last night and familiarized myself with the interface to an extent, so I wasn't expecting any trouble from something as simple as camera controls. But no, apparently. Suddenly I couldn't zoom in and out with the scroll wheel anymore, nor could I do anything with the camera without dropping everything I was doing and set it to orbit mode. Then I created a box and tried to set its height and width dimensions, something that was easy last night, but now the box isn't responding to the numbers I set it to until I type them into the box two or three times and hit enter every time. When it finally did respond, it wouldn't let me move any objects along the axes because the "move object" cursor (another thing that worked fine last night) now selects the ground behind the axes or object and snaps the object to that position on the grid.
Edit: I don't care what you guys say about sketchup, it doesn't pull this kind of shit, lol.
You know there's a reason why sketchup is used for training.
Alright, I've restarted the program and am now working from scratch. Everything appears to be in order now. Turns out hitting Ctr. C causes the editor to place some sort of camera object in the working area that causes havoc on the controls. Deleting the camera solves the issue.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Hm, I think that Venku moderator-guy is letting his 'power' get to his head.
I deserve that...
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Since Christmas, the Pentagon has begun alerting units around the United States and overseas to prepare for deployment. The Navy has been ordered to prepare two aircraft carrier battle groups and two amphibious assault groups - which carry thousands of Marines - to be ready to head to the region sometime in January, officials said Friday.
Air Force combat aircraft wings and Army units also are receiving orders to deploy, officials said. Military personnel will go to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain, among other locations, reinforcing the 50,000 U.S. military personnel already in the region.
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The Independent Rage
If he's actually puffing on the tree on gamedays, that is (literally) one toke over the line.
this makes total sense. What a jerk. He is horrible.
Cato the elder
People who smoke grass in their houses shouldn't throw stoned. Or catch stoned, either. Straighten up and fly right, dumbass.
The Independent Rage
As a person who myself freely uses (in Internet writing) incomplete sentences, run-on sentences, split infinitives, sentences ending with prepositions, etc., I have no problem with Hearne's writing style. He's trying to be conversational. He's not turning in term papers.
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Nice one Glazer. I agree totally. Any HALFWAY decent QB would have thrown a couple TD passes yesterday in that game and any half-ass receiver would have mde those catches.
Said thing for the Chiefs is that if Cassell goes down we have Croyle as a back up. Croyle gets injured watching the replays on the Jumbotron when he is watching on the sidelines…
Which again begs the question; the Chiefs didn't draft a QB in the last draft because of what again?
Thanks for the coaching, guys. Independent Rage has it figured. I try to write in a conversational style. However, this is Craig Glazer's column, remember? And that's pretty much exactly what he's doing, too.
Remember how much weed DT smoked. Maybe he just smoked during the off season?
That explains the Bowe problem, not suprised. These guys have no education, get the big bucks and then let everyone down with off the field crap like this. Hey its ok to blow some smoke but not on the day of a game. He should be punished.
I'm a bit suprised that the front office puts up with this stuff. Considering how poorly Bowe plays. I doubt he will be a Chief much longer. Take Fat Matt with you.
He probably does other drugs too.
re: he's a Bud man, i.e., "it slows you down"
– must be contagious; ever heard the chiefs 'head' coach channel comedian steven wright? Listen to any his kc press conferences…
Colts win, Kerouac nails another prediction
Manning: outmaneuvers crennel & kc d ?
charles: still shares hands with bowe ?
ca$$el: $63 mill question answered; refund due ?
"Croyle gets injured watching the replays on the Jumbotron."
Funny stuff. I heard this too…
"Bowe can't catch, if my fuckin house was on fire, I wouldn't throw him my kids."
Heh heh.
Thats very funny Chuck
If Bowe got left by the team in Indy there is no way he could get home.
He couldn't even catch a cab…
Ba dumm dumm
Preacher checks into a motel and says to the counter guy, "I hope the porn channel in my room is disabled."
The counter guy says, "No you sick fuck, its just normal porn."
OK, OK, off subject, but my favorite joke.
Awesome, Chuck! I bet I steal that one and tell it 10 times this week…
Gentlemen, gentlemen…
Oh snap! Did I confuse Glazer w/ Hearne?? Wow.
Yo Hearne, this goes to show how great your writing has become when someone confuses it with the "writing" of Glazer.
No, but seriously, you should delete this comment before it muddies your shoes.
HC: My shoes are already muddled, thanks Hon
Am I the only one who wasn't impressed with the Chiefs preformence last night? The offence STILL stinks. And yes, they have a good D, but Indy I think had an off night, but when they had too they scored on this team.
Everyone thinks the Chiefs can win in Houston. I think the Texans will destroy Kansas City the way people thought Indy would destroy the Chiefs.
Scott Egoli, please draft a QB in the first round this next draft.
BTW, so far Berry=BUST!!!!!
Didn't get to watch game yesterday…Chiefs 3-1 the rest of the West 2-3. Anybody who thinks they can handicap NFL is full of shit. If you picked "random" the last 3 weeks… you most likely won your pool.
As far as Bowe…don't care if he is drunk or stoned…point is can he catch it or not in NFL. I'll Let Turner Gill worry about abstinence, and the twitter.
Why hasn't Black Barbie voiced an opinion? She usually does, not that anyone cares…. actually most don't. Must be a busy day on the stripper pole
Too much hippie lettuce makes Dwayne a slow Bowe.
Craig said "Yes, they test for enhancement drugs, like HGH and coke/speed, but word is not so much with weed."
Really? I think Santonio Holmes from the J.E.T.S Jets Jets Jets just finished serving a 4 game suspension for smoking left handed cigs.
The players union specifically demanded no pot testing in the current labor agreement. Too many bumps and bruises and nicks and dents. Sometimes aspirin is not enough.
For a QB that sucks, Cassel is 3-1, has thrown fewer picks than everyone in the league (except Manning and Brady), has been sacked 3 times (least in the league) and has not fumbled once. Remember last year?
And no one is looking at the big elephant in the room…those damn pink gloves and shoes…. nuff said.
get off my back.
The NBA and NFL both test for marijuana, cocaine and other narcotics. MLB prohibits those, as well, but only regularly tests for steroids.
But for the vast majority of players, unless there is reasonable cause, the collective bargaining agreement mandates no testing for the likes of cocaine, marijuana, amphetamine, opiates (morphine and codeine) and phencyclidine (PCP) until April.
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Maybe we need a column bashing him. This one seemed to work wonders for the supposedly awful Bowe. Stick to comedy, Craig because it's clear you don't know football.


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It's no wonder that it found new homeowners who,without doubt, are thrilled to be a part of the home's story.
Here is part of the tale that lead the past homeowners to move on and give a new family the opportunity to live in such a luxurious home.
Name: Mark and Paige Huff, and their children, T.J., 17; Halle, 16; and Hannah, 14
The home: A home built in 2001 with six bedrooms, six full baths and two half baths
Where: Johns Creek, Country Club of the South
Why they sold: To move to Sandy Springs. "We were at a point where we said, 'We want to find our dream home. What does everybody want in it? What would be ideal for all of us?' " Paige said. In addition to the inside-the-Perimeter location, they wanted a property with room for them to add amenities including a tennis court.
Time on market: 249 days
Original price: $1.69 million
Sale price: $1.29 million
What it took: The family first tried to sell their custom-built home in 2007. After a year, they took it off the market and leased the house for 21/2 years. In 2011, they relisted the home with Sue Marshall of Atlanta Fine Homes/Sotheby's International Realty. Since the home was vacant, a key step was staging the property. "I visited some homes the staging company had staged to make sure the quality of furnishings would go well with our house, and it went beautifully," Paige said. "I think there's a lot to be said for that, especially on a high-end home, if you have a company that can stage it with the proper high-quality furnishings and artwork. I think it really made the house look its best."
In the luxury marketplace, a home not only shows better occupied, but the seller has the ability, through the home manager, to keep the home in pristine condition, Marshall said.
The home's abundant amenities, such as hardwoods and stone floors, master on the main, bathrooms attached to each bedroom, and the level of high-quality fixtures helped the home stand out among luxury properties. The floor plan also included the ability to walk out from the main level, instead of the basement, to the pool. French doors lead to the covered patio and pool/hot tub.
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Potential stumbling block: The Huffs had two prior contracts fall through because the buyers were unable to secure financing.
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Thank You!
Born: June 23rd, 1912 in London
Turing: the Mathematician & Computer Scientist
Computer Scientist, Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst, Mathematical Biologist and Marathoner
Alan Mathison Turing
Family: His father was an official in the East India Company and his mother was the daughter of the Chief Engineer of the Madras Railways. Alan Turing also had an older brother: John Turing.
At the age of 13, Turing went to
, a well known independent school.
The first day of the term coincided with the 1926 General Strike in Britain, but he was so determined to attend that he rode his bicycle alone more than
97 km
from Southampton to Sherborne.
At Sherborne, Turing formed an important friendship with fellow pupil
Christopher Morcom
. Their relationship provided inspiration in Turing's future endeavours and Morcom's death in early 1930 shattered Turing's religious faith, causing him to become an
Turing was also severely
: in one instance he was trapped under the floorboards of a classroom by some classmates.
After graduating from Sherborne School, Turing studied at
King's College, Cambridge
and later obtained a PhD from
Princeton University
The Enigma
Turing the Ultra Distance Runner
Turing was a talented long-distance runner; he occasionally ran the
64 km
from Bletchley Park to London. He was capable of world-class marathon standards and when he tried out for the 1948 British
Olympic team
, he almost made it (he was hampered by an injury). His tryout time for the marathon was only 11 minutes slower than the British silver medalist, Thomas Richard's Olympic race time.
In January 1952, Turing was charged with "
gross indecency
" because of his sexual orientation which was not socialy accepted in Britain at the time.
Turing was convicted and given a choice between imprisonment and
hormonal treatment
. Turing accepted the hormonal treatment which made him weak and led to a general decline in his physical and mental health.
June 8th 1954
, Turing's housekeeper found him dead. He had died the previous day. A post-mortem showed that the cause of death was
poisoning. When his body was discovered, an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, and it was speculated that the fatal dose of cyanide was consumed through it. An inquiry determined that Alan Turing had committed
Alan Turing, the man who may have saved the world from Nazi rule and made enormous contributions to human knowledge, was unjustly driven into the ground due to the unjust British laws.
Recognintion After Death
Since 1966, the "
Turing Award
" has been awarded for major contributions to the computing community. It is widely considered to be the computing world's highest honour, equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
In 2013 Queen Elizabeth II granted Alan Turing a
posthumous pardon
Prime Minister Gordon Brown released a statement in 2009 apologising and describing the treatment of Turing as "appalling."
Since his death Turing has been given numerous awards and civilian honors. Universities across the globe have buildings named after Alan Turing.
"Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine."
― Alan Turing: War Hero, Genius, Philosopher
Enigma Machine
was a cipher machine used by the
. During the war, cryptologists at
Bletchley Park
, a British facility, attempted to crack the code; a task that was considered impossible by most.
Sherborne School
Breaking the code
Alan Turing created an
electromechanical device
called a
that could decrypt Enigma messages. He used several methods to reduce the time it would take his machine to loop through the huge number of possible Enigma settings. He recognised that the Germans repeated some phrases in many of their messages and he was able to use this to find the correct enigma setting faster. One such phrase was "Hail Hitler."
Turing led the design work for the
Automatic Computing Engine or ACE
and ultimately created a groundbreaking blueprint for store-program computers.
Turing went on to hold high-ranking positions in the mathematics department and later the computing laboratory at the
University of Manchester
in the late 1940s.
He first addressed the issue of
artificial intelligence
in his 1950 paper, "Computing machinery and intelligence," and proposed an experiment known as the "
Turing Test
"—a test to differenciate between human and a robot.
Turing designed an abstract computing device known as the
Turing machine
— which could perform calculations and follow instructions. This breakthrough enabled Turing to answer an important question that was bugging mathematicians at the time: is there an algorithm that can decide whether any other algorithm will eventually halt, or whether it will run forever.
Enigma Machine
In addition, he developed the "Turing Test", which set the standards for measuring how smart any AI is.
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A new approach to an
emerging threat
According to experts, waste and fraud in spending programs like Medicaid can be as high 10%. Few if any states identify and recover anywhere near this level of wasteful spending – much more can be done to ensure these funds are well spent on their intended purpose.
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sleeplessness; insomnia:
a troubled week of insomnolence.
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WASHINGTON — So just what is this "fiscal cliff" that has the financial markets rattled and economists and policymakers alike in a tizzy over the potential for sending the economy into another tailspin?
It's a one-two punch Jan. 1 of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and major across-the-board spending cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs that could total $800 billion next year, based on Congressional Budget Office estimates.
The "cliff" is the punishment for previous failures of a divided Congress and White House to deal with the government's spiraling debt or overhaul its unwieldy tax code.
The largest component of the cliff comes with the expiration of tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 and extended two years ago after the Democrats' drubbing in the 2010 midterm elections.
It also includes sharp spending cuts imposed as a consequence of the failure of last year's deficit-reduction "supercommittee" to reach agreement.
There are other elements, chiefly a 2 percentage point cut in payroll taxes orchestrated by President Barack Obama and unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless that would disappear.
Specifically, the fiscal cliff includes:
— The expiration of Bush-era tax cuts on income, investments, married couples and families with children and inheritances.
— A $55 billion, 9 percent cut in defense spending next year and $55 billion in cuts to domestic programs, including a 2 percent cut to Medicare providers.
— The expiration of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and a sharp cut in reimbursements for doctors participating in Medicare.
— The expiration of Obama's 2 percentage point cut in payroll taxes.
— The imposition of the alternative minimum tax on some 26 million households, which would raise their taxes by an average of $3,700.
— A variety of smaller tax cuts for businesses and individuals collectively known as tax "extenders" in Washington-speak. They include a tax credit for research and development, and a deduction for sales taxes in states that don't have an income tax.
A Congressional Budget Office study estimated in May that the fiscal cliff would force tax hikes and spending cuts totaling more than $600 billion in the first nine months of next year — or perhaps $800 billion or so over the entire year if allowed to stay in effect.
A subsequent, less detailed CBO update estimates a somewhat smaller impact. The agency is expected to release a new estimate soon.
The fiscal cliff would require such a sharp cut in the deficit that the economy would contract, economists say.
Not all elements of the fiscal cliff are guaranteed to be averted. New taxes on family investment income exceeding $250,000 set to take effect Jan. 1 as a way to help pay for Obama's health care law are unlikely to be forestalled; and the common wisdom in Washington is that temporary payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits won't be extended.
Some Democrats have called on Obama to propose renewing the payroll tax cut, but he has not taken a position.
Some experts say the economy could withstand going over the fiscal cliff for a short time because the Treasury Department might be able to adjust tax withholding tables to mitigate its effects and that agency budget chiefs could be flexible in allocating the automatic cuts, known as a sequester, and buy several weeks' worth of time to negotiate.


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Now is the time for anyone who is unhappy with his or her state's election laws to ask a state legislator, or a legislator-elect, to introduce bills in the 2013 sessions of that state's legislature.
Deadline vary tremendously, but some states have very early deadlines for legislators to introduce bills. Indiana requires bills in the 2013 session to have been introduced by late 2012.
As far as is known, activists in the following states are already working on getting ballot access bills introduced: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Georgia Libertarians ought to be seeking a change in the law, to enable the party to run candidates for U.S. House, legislature, and county partisan office. The Georgia law, making it virtually impossible for the Libertarian Party to run for these offices, is absurd, when one considers that statewide Libertarian nominees in partisan elections carried counties in both 2008 and 2012, and polled over one-third of the vote in one statewide partisan race last week.


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It's Monday here in Downtown Nashville, and Newt is going to be here today. Right across the street from me. Sooooo excited…. *yawn*
In other news, as we wrap up the month of February (I will be adding the last batch of songs for the month tonight), I thought we would hit the Way Back machine and head back to January 2012. Remember when…ah nostalgia..
Shuffle of songs added in January 2012…
The Only Living Boy in New York by Simon and Garfunkel from the Bridge Over Troubled Water album. "I get the news I need on the weather report."
Three Times A Midnight by MAKAR from the Funeral Genius album. "I'll take you on a suicide drive."
Have You Ever Seen the Rain? by Joan Jett covering
The Minutemen Creedence Clearwater Revival from Joan's The Hit List cover album. "Someone told me long ago, there's a calm before the storm."
And finally, a song about the guy who walked on the moon and blew his lines at the very moment Burris Weems the protagonist of Greg Matthews' novel Little Red Rooster was born. Neil Armstrong by The Dexateens from their 2007 album Hardwire Healing. "Well it's cold in July when you're up in the sky…"
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Peoria is a county in Illinois. It was formed in 1825 from the following county/ies: Fulton/unorganized. Peoria began keeping birth records in 1878, marriage records in 1825, and death records in 1877. It began keeping land records in 1818, probate records in 1825, and court records in 1825. For more information, contact the county at 324 Main St., Peoria 61602. On the attached map, Peoria is located at D4.
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Mobility is what moves our world. We live to move from one place to the other, which led to our society's evolution. Thanks to the introduction of the Motorola Dynatac 800X in 1983, mobile communication was born. Ten years later, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web and the internet was born, forever intertwining the lives of billions of people on the planet.
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|Reference : Nanopatterned monolayers of an adsorbed chromophore
|Scientific journals : Article
|Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences : Chemistry
|Nanopatterned monolayers of an adsorbed chromophore
|Frederich, Nadia [Université catholique de Louvain > > > >]
|Duwez, Anne-Sophie [Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Nano-chimie et systèmes moléculaires >]
|Nysten, Bernard [Université catholique de Louvain > > > >]
|Muls, Benoit [Université catholique de Louvain > > > >]
|Hofkens, Johan [Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - KUL > > > >]
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|Institute of Physics
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|[en] patterned surfaces ; nanolithography
|[en] A simple lift-off process was developed to rapidly fabricate nanopatterned photofunctional
surfaces. Dye molecules of a perylene derivative (PDID) were adsorbed irreversibly on clean
silicon through the holes of an electron-beam lithographied polymer mask. The subsequent
removal of the mask in a proper solvent results in PDID nanosized regions of width as small as
30 nm for stripes and of diameter as small as 120 nm for dots. Numerical analyses of atomic
force microscopy and laser-scanning confocal microscopy images show that the dye molecules
are confined to the regions defined by the lithographic process, with the integrated fluorescence
intensity being essentially proportional to the size of the nanofeatures. This demonstrates that a
simple organic lift-off process compatible with clean-room technology, and not involving any
chemical step, is able to produce photofunctional nanopatterned surfaces, even though the dye
is not chemically bonded to the silicon surface.
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