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Can see text, but no links to videos/photos work. Also, same experience as @South Austin - I tried to quote his message. Shit's borked. Chrome on win10 Chrome on ios.
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Agree w/ everything @TexasEd said on the options. It's easy to say when it's not my money, but don't skimp on options that are "permanent" (tile, deck, water features, etc.) On our first pool, my wife designed a small rock waterfall at the shallow end. It fed a relatively short "stream" leading into the pool. A raised rock was placed as a step to enable walking on the deck from one side of the stream to another. I do not have a picture handy, but it was great looking and worth the extra money. Good point about DE vs. Cartridge on a salt chlorinator. However, the salinity/balance challenge is similar after a large party with kids. You'll typically lose around 1% of pool water when backwashing, so (assuming you add water) a 20k gallon pool would need about another 5-6 lbs to get back to the same balance. As noted, it'll be another required step in the process.
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Wasn't he jogging home from some tryst? If so, he knew the way home. Breadcrumbs not required. Joking aside, I often wondered if he wasn't sleep deprived from the late nights followed by early mornings. Symptoms of sleep deprivation include slowed thinking, poor decision making, poor attention span, etc.
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Intent to project "screw this" to the world. Even without the groping/griding, viral videos would exist. He's at his own bar in Columbus, having a good time when every other coach would have been back at the office trying to figure shit out. Few coaches do not take the team plane back after a midseason road game. Those occur because they get fired before they are allowed on the plane.
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I can't help but think this is Meyer's way of getting out of a bad situation. All year, his body language has projected that he is miserable. This was a major public mistake and may have been intentional. If he gave one damn about the Jax job he (1) gets on the plane Thursday night or (2) acts with a lot more discretion while staying behind. Again, I suspect intent. The Jax coaching staff is really not composed to handle losing Meyer as HC. Charlie Strong is the assistant head coach - he's not getting promoted. OC Darrell Bevell was 1-4 as interim HC at Detroit, but I think they'd need him to remain as OC for the sake of protecting Lawrence. Perhaps DC Joe Cullen. Safeties coach Chris Ash has some HC experience He'll walk away w/ about $8.5mm, go to some form of "coach retread assignment", and will be refreshed and ready to go in a few months. He did the same crap at tosu and Florida. It's his MO. He's a good coach, so someone will take a chance. In a few months, he'll be showered and blue blazered, filled with quarters, and mistaken for stranger by his own friends.
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Typo. They were calculated from the 25, but I typed "1". From the 1, the win %-ages are 99.9% and 100.0%, respectively.
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I'd avoid the popup in-floor cleaners. They break and are inferior to a robot or a Polaris. We had a salt system in our previous house. The "problem" with the salt systems is that the cells did not last very long; I have read they are better now. The salt does tend to erode limestone faster and that's well known. I have never heard of a pool builder cautioning about ruining metal and other stuff around the yard. That was never my experience and almost zero of what your pool water will contact should include metal. Perhaps he's worried about spillover or splashing ultimately challenging the integrity of the rebar used under the concrete decking, but I think we'll all be long gone before that becomes a problem. OR, he's worried about premature aging of the heating elements, should you choose to add a heater. I've only had DE filters and recommend. They do a really good job at filtration. I have never used a cartridge filter, but the cartridges require frequent cleaning and flow/pressure needs to be lower than in a DE filter. This means full turnover of your pool water may take longer. Faster full turnover will keep your pool cleaner, in general. Backwash/clean/replace DE in your DE filter is a little more involved and dealing w/ DE is not that great, but you get used to it. Just do not inhale it. Recommendations: Get as big a pool as you can tolerate consider adding an integrated spillover spa/hot-tub. You will use it. Plus, the heater option allows you to consider heating your pool a couple of degrees to give you a few more weeks of swimming early and late in the season. Consider a design that incorporates forms of water features. Shears add visual appeal and additional audible ambiance. Make sure the design includes an option to separately turn on/off shears. In other words, if your main pump is running, shears could be on a secondary pump or on a controllable valve. Don't allow them to cheap out on the above ground plumbing in the equipment area. Use Jandy valves (not cheaper ball valves). Make sure the filter, pumps, chlorinator, or anything you might have to work with is easily accessible. In fact, you should ask for a plumbing schematic early in the process so you can evaluate. Feel free to ask more questions here...
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This. Around this time last year, Texas had just survived a precarious OT win over TTU, and a turtled loss to TCU. I prefer where we are now. Pro Football reference website has a win probability calculator. While it largely uses NFL info for its metrics, it cannot be that far off. Up 12, 4th-1 at 1, 9:32 left ->99.7% Up 12, TCU 1-10 at 1, 9:32 left -> 98.5% Up 15, TCU 1-10 at 1, 9:32 left -> 99.7% Up 19, TCU 1-10 at 1, 9:32 left -> 100% (hard to believe) The ESPN tracker showed 98% on 4-1 and 97.1% when TCU got the ball. Subtle differences in %-ages are likely due to the fact that college football stops the clock at first downs. That all said, going for the TD is the right call.
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Geez. I wish you would have actually read it before you posted. Nice pic, though. The article is quite lazy and banal. I'll save everyone the effort and put the 7 bullets here: Greener - no CO2 emissions Plus no gas money You get tons of exercise Parking's rarely a problem More social (stop riding and talk to people you pass - HUH?) They are cheaper (citing the $100 mech-shit variant you buy from Target) Yes to helmets, no to insurance. I was an avid cyclist in the Austin area for years. Backed off when kids and other parts of life started taking more time. When I have returned to cycling, I find it is more dangerous than ever before. Too many cars on the road; too many people in a hurry; too man people distracted. As a result, it's really not a great means of transportation beyond a couple of miles. For exercise, you need to go really early on weekdays and fairly early on weekends. That all said, I have SEVERAL pet peeves about cycling: If you are riding on Old Spicewood Springs road between Spicewood Springs and 360, you are both a moron and an asshole. Moreso if you are doing it around rush hour. Do not roll through a stop-sign - at near full speed - if there are ANY other vehicles around. I do not care how it impacts your exercise to release and reinsert your shoes. Learn the freaking hand signals for left and right turn. Use them. Do not filter to the front of the line at an intersection. Cars just spent and exhausting amount of energy to get around you. Don't make them do it again. Riding 2+ abreast on busy a 2-lane road. Rant over. Enjoy the road.
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Changing your mind on a job offer?
boilerhorn replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
Agree w/ @Chewbacca - do what is best for you and your family, especially given you are dealing with 2 large corporations. Heck, even if you were dealing with a smaller corporation, you should do what is best for you and your family. The conversation might be a little more painful and personal, but so be it. Another thing to consider: big companies seldom consider employees' personal situations when making deleterious decisions. It's "all business" to them and should be for you. -
Highlighting what stood out to me: winter and City of Austin. Years ago CoA would allow you to self-report pool fills and not consider that amount for wastewater averaging. I believe they no longer do that. Regardless, you should check, as you DO NOT want to be paying monthly wastewater fees for any of that.
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https://www.quora.com/How-do-prescription-discount-coupon-plans-like-GoodRx-work This explains it fairly well, too.
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I told the guy next to me at the game, "That was a great defensive play by Tech. 15 yds vs. 6 points." Foster should have taken note.
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The intra-squad practices can distort things a bit. QBs wear the red jersey, so they know they are not going to get hit. The DL knows they cannot hit the QB; there's a chance that they play a little "soft." With an extra split second and the confidence he is not going to get hit, a QB can be VERY successful. I think that happened to Card. When you remove the red jersey and add an opposing front seven with zero interest in the QB's physical well-being, you really get to see who the gamers are. Also, players learn the tendencies of their own team. That can often lead to players looking fantastic in practice and struggling in games. I've seen it other sports (basketball, lacrosse, etc.). An offensive player will exploit his teammate-defender because he has learned how he will respond to specific footwork, leans, etc. I wonder if that did not play a part here, too.
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Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
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Shitty football is still better than damn near any other TV alternative.
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With MBAs, they should understand FMV quite well, even in the world of timber real estate. A relative novice can spend a couple of minutes on the interwebs and determine a rough price-per-acre for Arkansas forest land (Price per acre as a function of overall acreage, etc.). The 20% delta on 500 acres is material and I think the 1 year old appraisal is irrelevant. We Austin-based folks would definitely not sell our properties today based on a 12-month old appraisal. You are clearly trying to keep familial peace and that is to be lauded. However, the same should be expected from them and y'all should eventually agree to something that is darn close to FMV.
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If it is any consolation, Eddie Resse has led Texas men's swimming to 10 consecutive Big12 championships and 5 of the last 6 national championships. Hook 'Em
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I had something similar happen. I was #40-something and after the first 30 started giving stupid responses or claiming claimed they did not agree with drug laws, I was certain I would get selected. After all were queried, the judge emptied the room. About 30 minutes later, we were all excused, as a plea agreement was reached. The judge interrupted the 2nd (or so) guy who claimed he disagreed with drug laws. The judge reminded everyone that the role as juror was to determine the guilt of the accused using the parameters of the existing laws only. I think that encouraged even more folks to assert their anti-drug position.
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My wife did this by accident. I called ~1 month later (after I found the summons) and apologized. The person said, "No problem. Happens all the time." And she received another summons around 1 month later.
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It would definitely be great to have Studdard add some context and insights. His mean streak was both learned and innate, though, as his father and uncle were some of the meanest bastards ever to play at Texas (the Talberts are definitely high on the list). This OL group seems confused or overwhelmed at times. You want a competent and confident group playing with a mean streak, not a confused and overwhelmed group. A meaner version of Jones or Majors does not solved the botched plays everyone is referring to. It just makes Majors mess up the play faster or with more aplomb. No thanks. And, it seems mental more than physical/mean. Another key issue with Studdard: he was all about accountability. When he made a mistake he owned it; when others around him made mistakes, he made sure they understood the ramifications. Example: At the 2005 fall game, Young made a bad pass and the DB dropped an easy INT. Kasey walked 15 yards down the field yelling, "You need to make that play! You need to make that play!" Young was tapping his chest saying "my bad." He knew it. Kasey made sure the DB knew it, too.
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Maybe. First, QBs are considerably more protected in practices and scrimmages than any other position. Not only do they have the red jersey, no one wants to be the guy who knocks QB1 out for the season. Card may have relied on that and "balled out" against the D. Second, our DL ain't that great, so he probably saw little pressure. Sarkisian likely learned more about Card and Thompson in the previous 12 days than he learned in the previous 8 months.
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My observations, comments, fwiw (some has already been said) Coaching competency was night and day over what we've seen over the past 7 years. The first drive of 3rd quarter was a breath of fresh air. I only seem to recall disastrous 3-and-outs in similar situations in the recent past OL needs work ST was extremely well Brando is an idiot. In addition to all of the other other things mentioned above, he referred to Card as "Hudson Hudson" one time. With ULL down 20, he pointed out that ULL had more first downs than Texas. I guess he thought he needed to fill dead air. He did not. Whittington is a beast. Some have complained that he spends too much time lifting; his physical strength and overall athleticism will create mismatches Robinson, Johnson, and Robinson are really good (obvious comment) I thought I saw Sark said, "Wake the F*ck up" to the ginger (not shut). For as "smart" as everyone claims Napier is, the final ULL drive was foolish. It served zero purpose. Best case, you lose by 12. Worst case, you get someone injured. Lewis almost got injured on the final official play of the game. TCU scheduling Duquense is an embarrassment. Duquense is a D1 FCS team located in Pittsburgh. Their stadium has a capacity of 2200 (yes 2200). OU looked like dogshit. Historically, they improve significantly, but I hope they do not.
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