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Haha. This is the first "work" I've done in like 4 sets.

What I want to know is what made the NFL change the rule for the balls. It used to be that both teams used the same set of balls. Now, each offence controls their own. That seems like it opens the door for cheating. I'm sure that they intended to allow offenses to make minor alterations within the ranges provided (some might want 12.5psi others 13.5 for example), but by making both teams use the same ball you're basically taking away the advantage from one or the other.

Either way, it would be a shame if it came out that anyone in Pats leadership (coaching, management, and/or players) knew and encouraged this. They didn't need it to win.

I was watching PTI yesterday and Kornheiser was talking about this and compared Brady's first half to second half stats. First half he was under .500 with 1 TD, 2 picks and like 80 yards. Second half he threw 2 incompletions, 2 TDs, 0 picks, and like 200 yards. So with the underinflated balls in the first half, he threw garbage. The Refs replaced the balls at half-time and then he played better.

Also, Brady has been throwing in the cold for 15 years. This doesn't seem like something that they would need to do to get an advantage.

Belichick isn't stupid. He knows that there's a target on their head after Spygate and that their actions are scrutinized more thoroughly and assumptions are made more quickly. Why would he sanction something that is so easy to catch and measure, that his QB doesn't need, and that ultimately actually resulted in poorer passing numbers? It just doesn't feel like something that they would do.

Thank you!

Looks like that modem is wireless. I wonder what the range is like.

Yeah I've always had linksys but the past 2 years I've had the router built into the modem from Rogers or Bell and we've been staying in a small bungalow so range was no issue.

We're going to go with DSL and this is the modem that is required - SmartRG SR505N

Yes, wireless.

It's a little 1800 sq foot townhouse. The front half of the house is the entry foyer/garage, and immediately above is the master bedroom. The back half of the house is the basement, the living room/kitchen. and then 2 bedrooms above. We don't care about the top 2 bedrooms at least for a while. The place where I intend on putting the router would require the signal to travel through the floor immediately down to the basement, and through one wall/floor about 5 feet up to the master bedroom.

Cutting cable and switching over to a 3rd party internet provider for nice, cheap, unlimited internet. Need a router, as the compatible modems aren't wireless.

Ideally, I'd like to set up a VPN in the future... I know that you need certain routers that are able to configure VPN. But I also don't want to spend too much...

This D-Link is going on sale for $49 after Christmas... http://www.bestbuy.ca/...0l-dir-820l/10257101.aspx

There are SOOOOOOOOOOOO many routers to choose from and I have no idea really what to look for. Is this any good for $50? Are there other better ones for $50? Would spending, say, $75ish get me something that's REALLY REALLY better? Any VPN capable routers under $80?

Santa is obviously Canadian. Red and white, duh. Can't get any more obvious than that, eh?

tl;dr version: If you're in Canada and are currently on an older data contract that's about to expire - DO NOT JUMP INTO A HARDWARE UPGRADE. You end up giving up so much and/or paying a lot more in the long run than just buying your phone up front and continuing month-to-month.

Full version:

I can't speak for the States, but in Canada hardware upgrades are almost never a good deal. Yes you don't pay up front for the phone, but trust me you pay for it throughout the term of the contract.

Many providers have a bring your own device (BYOD) discount and nobody will let you renew an old grandfathered plan and upgrade your phone. A buddy of mine was so excited to get a new HTC One M8 for free he signed a new 2 year, $80 contract with 2GB of data. He was previously month to month on a $55 6GB plan. Over 24 months, the cash alone works out to $576. The One M8 could've been purchase outright for $699. So he's basically giving up 4GB monthly of data in exchange for what works out to just over $5/mo savings. He says that he rarely goes over 2GB now, but from time to time he does (hello overage chargers) and maybe in the future he might need to. To get those same 6GB now that he previously had for $55 he'd be paying over $120 a month. Just so he can save $5/mo and get the phone for "free."

These providers aren't stupid. Nothing is free. They get their money one way or another. Buy your phone outright and hold onto your old grandfathered data plans.

Between options like the One Plus One and the Nexus 5 and the Moto X you don't need to spend almost a grand on a cutting edge phone.

Had my buddy gotten the Nexus 5 for example, he would've paid $400 for the 32GB model and saved the extra $25/mo by staying month to month. He would have had a very capable phone, 3 times the data, and saved $176 over the next 2 years compared to what he did.

Thank you. At times it feels like you have to give more than you have, but overall I love it.

No, you're right. I'm not giving her the answers, I just want to have them myself and have worked through them so that I'm comfortable explaining them. I usually just stick to math when it comes to anything above grade 8, but there are some parts of chemistry and physics that I feel comfortable with at the high school level. The student sent me her assignment and asked if it's something that I could help her with... but I haven't done this stuff in a while and wanted to make sure I was doing it right before explaining it to her.

I think the teacher intended that they assume both are sucrose. The conversions work out such that the given moles of sugar would be equivalent to half a cup, and it requires double the brown sugar resulting in one cup. All of the other calculations (salt = 1/4 tsp, baking soda = 1/2 tsp etc.) are nice and even numbers, and my assumption is that breaking down brown sugar into sucrose + molasses wouldn't result in such a nice round number like 1 cup.

I'll explain to her why in reality brown sugar is different, and also why it's difficult to accurately measure it and why her teacher likely intended them to treat them both the same.

Oh, and milk and flour is given as cups. Just need sodium bicarbonate and NaCl which are straight forward. The only other strange one was converting butter from volume to length of stick... which is so strange and has nothing to do with chemistry. The teacher even goes so far as to tell students to use length x width x height of a stick of butter at home to do this. This particular question is all math - and even then, they're given the formula for volume of a rectangular prism as if a grade 11 chemistry student wouldn't already know this.

Other fun things - latin name of the plants that flour, oatmeal, and chocolate come from? I found wheat = triticum aestivum, oat is avena sativa, and the cacao tree is theobroma cacao is Seems like mostly a pointless assignment disguised as a fun activity to bake cookies.

Yeah, I'm going to just go with sucrose...

The ingredients are listed as:

0.30 moles of white sugar
0.60 moles of packed brown sugar

Convert brown and white sucrose (the guy gave away the answer to a previous question which was to find the chemical name for sugar) to grams and then to cups using the conversion 1 cup = 205.404 grams.

I'm just going to use C12H22O11 for both.

I'm helping someone with a chem assignment. They have to bake cookies but the recipe is given in moles. We need to find the chemical formula, calculate molar mass, and then convert to grams, the various ingredients.

My question - is there a difference in the chemical formula and molar mass between white sugar and brown sugar? Haven't been able to find it anywhere... I easily found the chemical formula of white sugar and it's straight forward to find molar mass... but nothing on brown sugar. I know brown sugar is just white sugar plus molasses, but different brands have more or less, some mix it in whereas others coat the top of the crystals etc. Do I just disregard the molasses?

The purpose of a choke hold isn't to prevent breathing... people can hold their breath for several minutes. The purpose is to put pressure on the sides of the neck and block blood flow to the brain. This blockage can knock a person out in just seconds.

It's probably the best phone for the niche it's targeting. For everyone else it doesn't even deserve a second look.

Think the Pats will sign him?

Really Trife? This isn't just some snow. This is 6 feet of snow.

Yeah... by like 32! Psh

For a more detailed summary of my thoughts, see today's episode of PTI.

Please delete this and any 4 of my previous posts. This post will be my 1004th. I missed my 1000th. Neither I nor the game will be around to see my 2000th... I must commemorate my 1000th appropriately.

Goodell is a moron not fit to run the largest league in the world. He's so inconsistent and all over the place. AP plead down to a misdemeanor and didn't serve any jail time. other players (Hardy the most notable) have been allowed to play and/or get paid while dealing with charges and indictments. You want to ban them all? Fine. You want to let the courts decide? Fine. But be consistent. Whether or not I agree with the court's decision to allow him to plead down, or whatever my feelings on his actions toward his child may be, I firmly believe that given all of the information, Goodell was way off on this one.

Your face!

ford - what does that matter? Unless you're suggesting that the Patriots' SB success came as a result of cheating, and since they've been caught they haven't been able to cheat. Please tell me that isn't what you're saying.

crest - yeah, Gronk is baller. But man, how old are you that you can actually believe the argument that Manning, and not Brady turn receivers into household names. Are you too young to remember Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne? The two of them plus Dallas Clark represent 233 of his 509 touchdowns (as of Oct 20). Harrison caught 112, Wayne 67, and Clark 44.

I found a similar article about Brady from Nov 2013. Of his TDs at the time, Gronk caught the most - 39. Welker (who the hell was he before Brady?) caught 34. Randy Moss (arguably his first "real" receiver ever) caught 39. Deion Branch was a nobody before Brady and he accounts for 24. David Patten (who?), Ben Watson (who?), Troy Brown (who?), Christian Fauria (who?) all caught double digit passes from Brady.

I'll accept that Manning is able to take no-name receivers and make them good; but so is Brady, and Brady has been doing it a lot longer, and to a lot more receivers than Manning. Of all the players that Manning has thrown a touchdown to, the top 6 account for 67% of his touchdowns. For Brady, that number of 50%. In his first 13 season played, Brady has had on average 3.5 new receivers catch a TD pass per season. In Manning's first 15, he's had on average 2.6. That's almost 1 extra player per year that Brady has had to learn to play with and incorporate in the system.

That stat about new players by the way is highest for Brady among all hall of fame or future hall of fame QBs. Think about that for a minute. On a list that includes Favre, Brees, Tankerton, Mannings, Montana, Warner, Elway, Marino, Starr, Bradshaw, Unitas, Graham, Young, Aikman etc. etc. Tom Brady has had THE MOST new players on his team per season played. Brees is next at 3.4 new players per year. Eli, Marino, Favre, Tankerton, and Waterfield are the only others who have, on average, had 3 or more new TD recipients each year.

Thanks for the announcement. I now feel informed.

After we're done banning flights lets also ban socks.

The business part is more of a curiosity thing. We're nowhere near big enough yet to make incorporating worth it.

As for the income - as supply teachers we don't have a fixed salary so all the employer can say is what our daily rate will be, but can't give any guarantees for number of days etc. We also have income from several other sources. For that type of worker they'll usually average the last 2 tax years to get an idea of what you're earning. Our mortgage broker mentioned that after January they may want to see 2014 numbers, but I'm not sure if others have experienced that, or how I'd get those numbers.

Yeah, I understand that... what I'm asking is if they can be used as collateral.

Also - say I have a small private business that's incorporated. Can assets in that business in any way increase the personal mortgage I could get? Can liabilities within that business negatively affect me as an individual?

My question is more around how lenders evaluate fluctuating income. I know they look at tax returns over the past 2 years and average that amount. My question is what type of current income documentation they need. For example, if I were to buy a house today, they would look at our 2012/2013 tax returns. What if our 2014 income is higher? What if it's lower? Will they ask? Do they care? What if we purchased a house in January? Will that then erase the 2012 return and trigger 2014 income? What if we don't file until April? What substitute will they take if we don't have a 2014 tax return until April 2015?

1.6 EURO a litre? And I get upset whenever it goes above $1.35 CAD

Ideally in Ontario. Just had a couple of quick questions I'm trying to get my head around stuff online before going in person and meeting with someone.

Holy crap I was young

Personally, I would say no. That does not appear to be the purpose of this pact.

Furious - that all depends on who the "others" are. For some, threats are more effective.

Google is expected to release new Nexus tablets in the next month or so.

Having spent significant amount if time on both ecosystems (iPhone 4 and iPad for 2 years, Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 for a year) I can say that all the arguments in against Android are crap. Apple might have a bigger app store, but when you think of the main apps that have millions of downloads, they're available on both. Both are just as smooth, snappy, and responsive. I've been using stock android on the 7, and switching between stock, then cyanogenmod, and now omnirom on the 5. I've never experienced lag or anything else that made it feel any less responsive than an iPad or iPhone 5s that I've used. Another thing that will keep me from switching back to Apple is the lack of customization. I can very easily change anything I want on my Nexus devices. I can change the size of the icons on the home screen, the number of apps that show in the folder, the size of icons in the dock, the number if pages in the dock, widgets, quick launch, etc. You can simply do more with Android than with Apple. The stuff Apple does, it does as well as or better than anybody else. But it's limited. Works for many people, but for others it doesn't.

I will mention that my only Android experience has been with Nexus devices running stock Android or very smooth custom roms. I know that almost all other manufacturers have their own skin on top of Android that offers unique features, but draw more resources. That's also why other manufacturers can take up to 3 months to update. For example, HTC made an announcement recently that all HTC One M8 (and I think M7 as well) owners can expect them to update to Android L within 90 days of Google releasing it. Samsung, LG, Motorolla all have similar timelines. They basically need their developers to get their hands on the new OS, add all of their own extra stuff, and then release it to their customers.

My last, and probably most important point, is buy them and try them. People will go into a mall, try on a $30 shirt, put it on hold, go back to the store, try it on again, buy it, take it home, try it on again, ask for opinions, and then decide if they want to keep it; yet, when we're buying a $300-$700 piece of technology, we decide on one before trying it. Go to a store that lets you get a full refund, and buy yourself a Galaxy Tab and a Nexus 7 and an Asus and an LG G Pad and even an iPad and try them out. Maybe don't get them all at once, but do your research online and look up YouTube reviews and hands on videos and find a list of 3 or 4 tablets you'd consider - and *try them out*! Get a feel for how snappy it is. How customizable it is. How easy it is to access features.

Another reason people will drop 1 and cancel even in bronze is because they're trying to drop to under 200 trophies. Sub-200 farming is a strategy used by many TH6s and 7s, and some 8s. Don't ask me why, but you can find lots of resources down under 200 trophies. 201 trophies won't work, but 199 will. Again, no idea why, but I've tried it and it's true. Set all 4 barracks on goblins, and by using 50-75 golbins per raid you can easily get 100k gold/elixer every 5 minutes on a good day.

Hey guys. Still have room? The clan I'm currently in is mostly real life work friends from Manitoba. They've been really cool, but I guess there's been some real life drama lately and a bunch split off to make a different one and it's just becoming way too ridiculous to stay. I've got 2 accounts. Look up the clan Kold Killers. 34 members 16k trophies (that could change.. already down to 33) blue and white shield won 16 wars. My accounts are Justin and Hawkeye. Let me know if either one or both would be helpful. There's a chance I'll be starting a new clan with one of the other guys in there now. He owns all top 5 accounts in the clan.but if that falls through I'd love to play with people I know are active and cool.

Some new player tips:

1. DO NOT SPEND YOUR GEMS on anything until you have 4 builders huts. On both of my accounts I was able to easily save 500 gems for 3rd builder hut before TH 5, and save another 1000 gems for the 4th either shortly after, or during my upgrade to TH 7. During the tutorial, just wait the minute for things to build rather than using gems. Once you've gotten your 4th builder, save your gems for Dark Elixer upgrades. There's nothing worse than stringing together a bunch of raids, having 14,870 Dark Elixer, and then having to go and leave your account vulnerable. Have some gems on hand to get to that 15,000 upgrade.

2. DO NOT RUSH YOUR TH. It can be tempting to unlock new buildings by upgrading your TH, and this is fine until about TH 5 or 6... but after that, do not rush your TH. There is a loot penalty when attacking bases with a TH level lower than yours. One level below, you only get 90% of possible loot. Two levels below I believe it's 50%. Three levels below goes down to about a quarter. It'll be very difficult for you to upgrade your defenses and units if you rush your TH as finding resources will get harder and harder.

3. Army camps should NOT be ignored. You might think that those 5 extra units won't make a difference, but you're wrong. It's not just 5. It's 5, per upgrade, per camp. Get them upgraded.

4. YouTube is your friend. I love using YouTube for base designs and other strategies. There are a few very helpful channels: PlayClashofClans, Wiggy, Daddy, Clash with Cam, etc. You can learn a lot about what to look for when attacking, how to identify whether resources are in storage or in collectors etc.

5. Always have your lab working on something. Upgrades are very important, and you can't fall behind. Generally, archers are the consensus first unit to upgrade. They're the default donation unit in clans, and they're usually one of the main units used in raiding.

Tella - new upgrade will allow you to upgrade an entire row at a time. Also, walls above level 6 will cost elixer to upgrade. Not certain yet if there will also be a discount, but elixer is in such abundance about TH7 that it's going to really help with wall upgrades.

Hog riders will attach nearest defense. I think thats about it in terms of preferences... New Dark Elixer 6 unit I think attacks nearest air defense.

Wall breakers will attack nearest wall. Giants will attack most easily accessible defense. Balloons will attack nearest defense. Goblins will attack most easily accessible resource. Others will attack most easily accessible building. You can see which building your unit will attack based on where you deploy it. A target will show up on the building being targeting. You can use this to drop 1 unit at a time until you find the right spot to drop to hit whatever you want to hit, then drop the rest.

I start by finding 11 friends...

lol, locket. It was a joke.

Toronto, Canada? lol. I honestly never heard of that before.

But Waseem - they aren't removing the player because of his impact on the NFL. They're removing him because of violence against women. They're playing this off to be about violence against women, not an NFL player making them look bad. So if they want to make it about violence against women, fine. I'm all for it. Do something to help.