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mo lippage (Follow-Up #10)
posted by: mongoct on 08.06.2007 at 07:50 pm in Bathrooms Forum I should add a couple more items:
I wrote that ANSI allows 1/32nd lippage for 1" to 6" square tiles. That is for, I think, a 1/8" grout line. I think if the grout line increases to (I think) 1/4", then the allowed lippage increases to 1/16". Not positive. Also, there is a "standard" for tile being installed in a "workmanlike manner." Again, I think that there is a viewing distance, something like 6'. If you can see deviations in the installation from a distance of 6' or greater, then it is a deviation. The idea being that if you pull out a magnifying glass to find imperfections, you need to go get your thrills elsewhere. Still, to me, a larger part of this particular thread is that the GC implied afterwards that the tiles would look crappy because they were large format tiles. He needed to 1) bring this to the attention of the homeowner 2) get an installer who has the ability to do a difficult installation like this or 3) pass on the job. Mongo NOTES: <none>
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RE: Please help--bad tile job! What now? (Follow-Up #9)
posted by: mongoct on 08.06.2007 at 07:33 pm in Bathrooms Forum Flyleft,
I don't have a specific reference regarding the 3/32nds of an inch. ANSI has a "lippage chart" but only for tiles ranging from 1" squares to 6" squares, and the lippage allowed for that size is 1/32nd of an inch. Honestly, I can't tell you where the 3/32nds tolerance that I use came from for 16" squares. I got that number somewhere several years ago and since then I've always used that in agreements that I've written up just to have a number and to set expectations. Bill may have a better idea of any true standard since he is a full-time tile setter. Mongo NOTES: <none>
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RE: Please help--bad tile job! What now? (Follow-Up #7)
posted by: mongoct on 08.06.2007 at 12:54 pm in Bathrooms Forum "He is now telling me that it's a very tough tile to lay--16", straight edge porcelain--and that's the problem. OK, so what is the solution? And shouldn't they have mentioned this before we bought the tile?"
It is tough to lay large tile. A little more thought and care has to go into the process. I's say your GC is an ass, but I don't think I can write "ass" on this forum, so I won't write that. If he thought his tile guy couldn't do a decent job, he should have told you up front and given you the option to 1) proceed or 2) bring in your own tile guy. If the tile guy didn't think he could do a decent job, he should have passed on the job. I remember the original thread, but I'm not sure how far the discussion went. I recommend documenting the discussions in writing and by email. Send the GC and certified letter, return receipt requested. In the letter, explain the problems, and how you'd like it resolved. Give him a certain number of days to reply. The options are that he fixes it, or you hire someone else to fix it at the GC's expense. You can also go the route of binding arbitration, if that service is available in your area. When setting large format tiles, it's often good for the installer to go to a medium-bed mortar instead of traditional thinset. Medium bed mortars tend to slump less under the weight of a large tile, meaning that once the tile is set it won't sink into the mortar. That's important because with large format tiles you need a thicker bed of mortar under the tile to give you wiggle room to account for deviations in both the floor (uneven) and the tile (warped). Wider grout joints also allow any lippage to be better disguised. Lippage tolerance? I'm not certain if there is a standard or not, but I've always used 3/32nds of an inch as a tolerance when discussing these types of installations with the homeowner during the design phase. Any installer worth his salt, and any GC who claims to be a GC and accepts money for coordinating the work, has to know all aspects of these types of installations. The larger the tile gets, the more difficult the installation. The tile installer did the installation. The nuts and bolts of the installation, and the final outcome of the intallation, are his responsibility. The GC hired the installer to set the tile. The GC is responsible for the tiler doing the work to industry standards. If the GC chooses to not correct a substandard installation, then he's giving you the right to correct it on your own, and you deduct the cost of the repair from the GC's payment. It's HIS responsibility for things to be done right. He either gets the original tiler to correct it, or he brings in someone else to correct it, with the cost of those repairs being invisible to you. Or he agrees that you bring in someone on your own to do the repair, with the cost going to him. Mongo NOTES: <none>
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RE: husband worried about heating mat install....anyone electrocu (Follow-Up #2)
posted by: shaughnn on 08.01.2007 at 02:02 am in Bathrooms Forum Hello ChrisKelly,
Stick with a reputable brand: Watts "SunTouch" Warmly Yours "TempZone" "NuHeat" Laticrete "FehrenHEAT" These are all self-contained heating systems which are relatively simple to install safely. Of these four, only "NuHeat" is a mat which is custom built to fit your room exactly. The rest are rolls of woven material which is flipped, split, and unraveled to fit your space. It is important to test the heating mat at several stages during installation Out of the box After it has been fixed to the floor After tile has been installed Before control thermostat is connected The resistance should read similar on all tests and if there is a variance beyond the manufacturer's allowance then you've got a problem. But most are built tough and designed to protect the elements from the sharp teeth of notched trowels while tile is being installed over them. Piece of cake!, Shaughnn NOTES: <none>
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RE: Is granite tile a good idea for a shower? (Follow-Up #3)
posted by: bill_vincent on 06.12.2007 at 10:04 pm in Bathrooms Forum We are thinking of using these with a shower pan. I'm getting conflicting information about grout(sanded or unsanded)/no grout, sealing, cleaning, maintenance etc. Does anyone have experience to share? Thank you so much.
In spite of the fact that there are those who've used 12x12 tiles for their shower pans, I'm with oruboris on this. You want to keep the pan tiles at 6x6 or less, and the smaller the better, so as to conform better to the cone shaped slope from the walls into the drain. That's not to say you can't use this stone, or even these tiles. You can always have the tiles cut down either to 6x6 or 4x4 and use the smaller squares. Now, onto your other questions. Concerning grout, there is one thing, and one thing ONLY that will determine whether you sanded or unsanded grout, and that's the size of the grout joint. Anything less than 1/8", you use unsanded grout. Anything 1/8" or larger, you use sanded. No exceptions. As for sealing, cleaning, maint. issues, you couldn't ask for a better natural stone for the shower. The reason is that granite is a much denser stone than any of the others, and as such, it won't allow as much in the way of staining. It also isn't affected AS MUCH (I won't say it's not affected at all) by the acidity of some cleaners. You still want to use a ph neutral cleaner for normal cleaning. Now for the sealing part. I'm not familiar with that granite specifically. There are many that shouldn't be sealed, and others thatr just really don't need to be. The best way to tell whether you should seal your stone is to take a wet rag or sponge, and set it on the stone for about 5 minutes. Come back and pick the rag or sponge up, and if you see a wet "stain" (a dark area on the tile), then you want to seal it. NOTES: <none>
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RE: Sherwin Williams vs. Ben. Moore vs. Behr (Follow-Up #6)
posted by: jasonmi7 on 11.09.2006 at 12:26 pm in Paint Forum I've used nothing but SW professionally for years. Never had a problem with Duration, but then again, I'd rather die than use a brush; that's why sprayers were invented.
I personally didn't like Behr; I used it once or twice, but there was just such a startling lack of consistency in quality from one can to the next that it wasn't usable. Then again, that's kind of the problem with those stores in the first place. NOTES: <none>
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RE: Sherwin Williams vs. Ben. Moore vs. Behr (Follow-Up #5)
posted by: vanyali on 11.09.2006 at 11:42 am in Paint Forum First of all, any paint shop can match just about any color from any other manufacturer. 99% of the time, they can match it by the brand and the color name. 1/2% of the time they will need the number of the color on the color card. 1/2% of the time they will need the color card itself and they'll use their color-matching machine. It works just fine, I've done it a lot. You should not choose your paint brand by color. Color is a completely separate issue.
As for brands, I won't use anything other than Benjamin Moore any time I'm going to be painting with a brush (such as on trim or paneling). I prefer their water-borne Satin Impervo for it's nice leveling (the paint goes on flat, so you don't see the brush strokes as much). The Sherwin Williams paint I've tried does not self-level at all. I bought their scrubbable Duration paint, and I really don't like how it brushes on at all. Duron paint is horrible stuff, don't touch it. I've thrown the stuff away it's so bad. Behr tends to be thin, so you'd need to put on more coats, but other than that I don't know anything wrong with it. When using a sprayer or roller, you generally don't have to be as picky (thinner paint is better for a sprayer anyway). The Sherwin Williams rolls on fine, as does the Benjamin Moore. The Behr is thinner, as I've said, so you might need to put up a third coat, especially if you're putting up a dark color or a red or something like that. But in general it'll be OK. Don't forget to prime first -- it really helps adhesion. NOTES: <none>
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RE: ANY users of Benjamin Moore Matte paint? (Follow-Up #1)
posted by: brushworks on 10.25.2006 at 07:16 pm in Paint Forum I've had nothing but good experiences with it in my residential repaint business. Use the satin in the kitchen and the matte in the other two rooms.
Be sure to prime first! Use Fresh Start Acrylic primer and then two coats of Regal Matte. Michael NOTES: Michael is referring to Benjamin Moore
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RE: Shower pressure (Follow-Up #6)
posted by: jamesk on 06.05.2007 at 11:16 am in Bathrooms Forum By federal regulation, all showerheads sold in the U.S. are limited to a flow rate of no more than 2.5 gallons per minute. On many showerheads you can get around the regulation by removing the flow restrictor after purchase -- but not on all. It is not illegal to remove the flow restrictor, the showerhead simply can't be sold without it.
Different methods are used to restrict flow by different manufacturers. If you unscrew the showerhead from the the spray arm, you may be able to see a disk in the top of the showerhead with a small hole in it. Other brands employ an "O" ring or other mechanical device. If you can pry out any of these contrivances, you'll see a marked increase in the flow of water. That being said, many showerheads are capable of delivering a satisfying shower experience with a flow rate not exceeding the 2.5 GPM limit. If you're interested in conserving water or reducing your water heating costs, you might want to try a different showerhead. I've found that showerheads from Grohe perform very satisfactorily with the flow restrictors in place. You might want to take a look at the Grohe Relaxa showerhead, which is the one I prefer. Here is a link that might be useful: Grohe Relaxa Showerhead NOTES: <none>
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Other photos (Follow-Up #48)
posted by: flyinghigh on 05.24.2007 at 10:12 am in Bathrooms Forum Thank you for the compliments. This is a guest bath so there is no shower... The glass artist that did the sink and lights put this on her website and there are a few more photos there - link below. You need to click on each photo to enlarge it. In the one photo, you can see the chrome plumbing underneath, but in reality you don't really notice it so we didn't bother with oil rubbed bronze p-traps and other plumbing.
We worked with SinksGallery.com that is part of a bigger company that specializes in artisan crafted "functional art" including sinks, lighting, etc. There people were very helpful in all aspects of the project. They're not designers - nore are they installers - but they have access to hundreds of artists doing glass, wood and other mediums. We bought our two teak wood sinks through them for our master bath and a friend used them for a beautiful glass chandelier (one of their other websites - GlassArtistsGallery.com). If you are looking for something unique - they are awesome! Here is a link that might be useful: Guest Bath Photos NOTES: <none>
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Our wood countertop (Follow-Up #44)
posted by: flyinghigh on 05.23.2007 at 10:46 am in Bathrooms Forum Here's ours:
The wood is reclaimed old growth cedar milled and left with a "life edge". Sink is a hand blown glass vessel by glass artist Suzanne Guttman - she also did the matching sconces. NOTES: <none>
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RE: wood counter top in Bath? (Follow-Up #20)
posted by: mongoct on 05.11.2007 at 12:53 pm in Bathrooms Forum fausonk,
Hydronic radiant works fine under solid or engineered hardwood flooring. Electric mats (nuheat-type) can be used under an engineered wood flooring, but not solid hardwood flooring. With hardwood over radiant, there are some types of hardwood flooring that work better than others. Example, an engineered hardwood would be easier to detail than solid 3/4" hardwood, as the engineered wood is more stable. As to solid hardwoods over radiant, there are basic considerations... Most of the times these limitations can be worked around, though. Example if you had your heart set on using a hardwood that had large movement across the grain, then I'd recommend installing it using thinner strips. But you need someone who knows what they're doing and who care about doing it right to get it right. Engineered flooring can be used over resistance mats like NuHeat. The mat is adhered to the subfloor using the only flooring adhesive I'll ever recommend, Bostik's Best. The flooring is then glued to the mat using more Bostik's. Bostik's is awesome stuff. If you use an engineered flooring, go with a quality product. Some have extrememly thin veneers of finished wood, about 1/16" thick, with underplies of questionable-grade softwoods. Better products may still have a thin 1/8" veneer of show wood, but the underplies are better grade and thus give the product better performance once installed. Other products have a 1/4" show layer. There's a good mix out there, engineered flooring has come a long way over the past 10 years. I wouldn't install a laminate in a bath. Actually, I wouldn't install a laminate anywhere. The "photograph" show layer of "wood" often repeats throughout the floor, and many of the products had MDF cores. When MDF gets wet, it absorbs moisture and swells. So what does all that mean? Mongo NOTES: <none>
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RE: wood counter top in Bath? (Follow-Up #12)
posted by: mongoct on 05.10.2007 at 03:28 pm in Bathrooms Forum Flyleft,
The backsplash is indeed painted wood. Poplar, primed and painted with oil-based. Atop the poplar sits a strip of teak. Nothing terribly fancy. There is caulk between the bottom of the poplar backsplash and the teak countertop. I dryfit the poplar, and with the poplar in place I run a strip of blue painters tape on the teak, right up against the bottom edge of the poplar. I then remove the poplar and run a bead of caulk on the teak, between the blue tape and the wall. I then reset the poplar in place, sammiching the bead of caulk between the poplar and the teak. Any squeezeout ends up on the blue tape. When I pull up the tape it takes the squeezeout with it, and I end up with a nice crisp inside corner that is caulked, but there's no evidence of caulk. The floor is brazilian cherry, and yes, it is gorgeous. It's even more wicked gorgeouser since there is radiant floor heat underneath. Mongo NOTES: <none>
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RE: wood counter top in Bath? (Follow-Up #10)
posted by: mongoct on 05.10.2007 at 11:31 am in Bathrooms Forum I've done quite a few bath countertops in walnut and teak, only one in white oak.
I say "naysay" to the naysayers. Here's one in teak: The sink countertop is 8/4, the countertop between the sink and the toilet is 5/4, and the small strip atop the sink backsplash is 4/4. The base for the round make-up mirror (sitting on top of the toilet cabinet) is 8/4 as well. Me? I'm 304/4. Thankfully, 304/4 tall and not 304/4 thick. Mongo NOTES: <none>
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RE: wood counter top in Bath? (Follow-Up #7)
posted by: cliff_and_joann on 05.09.2007 at 05:00 pm in Bathrooms Forum Here's a rough template of the countertop.The good template is on the work bench... My head cabinet guy (also doubles as my hubby) just came home from the mill. He bought 2 lenghts (8 ft each) of 2" thick white oak rift, another piece of walnut and another piece of maple.
we're on our way! I think the height will finish at 33" NOTES: <none>
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RE: Bathroom finished (Follow-Up #7)
posted by: kitnguye on 03.05.2007 at 11:23 am in Bathrooms Forum Awwwww! Thanks so much guys... I was so afraid I would post and hear the sounds of crickets chirping their apathy :)
Mirrors were from bed bath and beyond, clearance section. One has a tiny chip in the veneer on the top I filled in with wood paint. 2 for $60. Vanity was from costco. Comes with the granite top and sinks. They had a $100 off coupon so I got it for $700 or $750. Faucets, tub faucet and shower faucet are Price Pfister Ashfield Collection - Oil Rubbed Bronze. Found lowest online price and printed and had HD price match and used 10% coupon. Vanity -- Murray Feiss - VS8002-ORB. Here is a better pic with the light off Just a hint. Local lighting store was $160 each. Lowest online price was ~ $105. If you call a lot of the online stores, they will sell lower. They just can't post the lowest prices online per agreements with the manufacturer. I used lightnleisure.com. I think I got them for $80/each, no shipping. I buy all my lighting this way. Tub is the KOHLER purist soaker - No bubbles. Again, found lowest online price and had HD price match with 10% coupon. I think I paid about $740, with tax included. The floor is travertine. I'm not sure of the brand. The local tile store sold it for $3.50/sq which was a lot less than other places which wanted $12/sq or more. Wall tile is porcelain and is Spoleto Beige by Esquire. The mosaic is Beige Mosaic by Bengali. The listello around the tub and shower is river rock as is the shower pan. Ok, so I just have to brag a little about my best bargain. I know it's probably tacky, but I'm asian and it's cultural :) The window over the tub is an Andersen window that sells for $1800+ at HD; I got it for $225. Locally, there is a closeout warehouse builder's store which goes to auctions and buys returns from big box retailers. It's all cash and carry though and was a pain in the @ss to get home! Thanks again for all your comments! NOTES: <none>
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RE: Bathroom finished (Follow-Up #26)
posted by: kitnguye on 03.13.2007 at 10:25 am in Bathrooms Forum Monica:
I have found HD's price matching to be variable, depending on store and (in)competence of employees. At one local HD, they wouldn't price match. At another, they would, but the printout also had to show the shipping charges and those had to be factored into the price matching. At a third, they price matched it without factoring shipping. Obviously, I went with Store #3, especially re: heavy Kohler bathtub. I found the best strategy is to gain some kind of rapport with the kitchen/bath people. Everything in the bath needed to be special ordered by the kitchen designers. I found one designer who I became friendly with, and only ordered when she was working. I had just moved into this home, so I went to homedepot.com and got a "mover's coupon" which they give to new homeowners. I'm not sure they really check to see if you are a new homeowner though. https://www.homedepotmoving.com/sign_up.do?action=SignUp®Mode=10percent Lowes does the same thing and they will take each other's coupons if you prefer one store over the other. http://www.lowesmoving.com/ Also, another hint, when you special order from the designers at HD, they input the orders into a computer in the back of the store and you present your coupon to make sure it is applied. You then get a printout and go to the front to pay where they almost always forget to ask for the coupon. I used mine a few times. NOTES: <none>
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RE: Bathroom finished (Follow-Up #31)
posted by: kitnguye on 04.16.2007 at 10:33 pm in Bathrooms Forum Vanity is actually about 72" long.
I got a huge range in prices for my shower enclosure. From wilsonglass.com (diy glass enclosure), the cost was going to be about $1550. I also called around to about 5 different local glass places. I found that well-known bath enclosure places used a lot of Basco products, and although they make good enclosures, they are pricy. Basco estimates were between $3200-3500. A couple local places contracted directly with glass companies or they made the glass themselves. The place I went with charged me $1850, including labor. I figured the extra $300 was worth the headache of a DIY glass shattering accident :) Also, keep in mind that my shower has only one knob to open the door. If I wanted a more substantial handle, they would have charged an extra $50/hole (they cut a hole in the glass for the handles, I guess?). I actually got lucky and found a coupon in the back of the phonebook for my glass company that gave me 10% off the cost of the shower enclosure. You might want to check your local phone book for something similar. Good luck with the remodel and thank you for the comments! Kim NOTES: <none>
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Bathroom finished
posted by: kitnguye on 03.05.2007 at 09:17 am in Bathrooms Forum Hi all:
I have been a constant lurker on here for several months, popping in occassionally to ask questions to various subject matter experts. Just thought I would post some pics of my completed bath. Thanks so much to all of you for your helpful answers and insightful design ideas. Kim NOTES: <none>
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Master Bathroom finished
posted by: annkathryn on 04.25.2007 at 05:27 pm in Bathrooms Forum All finished, except for the mirrors (any suggestions?) and window shades, plus the steam shower control needs to be installed (that's the hole in the shower wall). The shower surround is starphire glass, granite counter tops are Costa Esmeralda, vanities from Ronbow, porcelain floor and wall tiles, quartzite mosaics, and lights from Minka Lavery. Wall color is BM Adobe Beige. Teak bench is from Smith Hawkin. Bedroom walls are Renovation Hardware Sycamore Green. This was a remodel of an existing bath, with very little changed structurally except to remove a large tub and expand the shower area.
Thanks for everyone from the forum who helped along the way! Ann NOTES: <none>
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RE: Claire de Luna's Vintage Inspired Bathroom (Follow-Up #21)
posted by: claire_de_luna on 02.18.2007 at 01:51 pm in Bathrooms Forum Liz and Houseful, Thank You! Houseful has been around since I started agonizing about all of this and I'm grateful to be almost done. I appreciate everyone's kind words.
Tina, I'm glad we could make the Rejuvenation debacle finally fade away. (The finish carpenter made a big difference.) I found myself at the local craft store one day and had some foam core poster board cut to the size of the mirrors so we could back them and be done with it. It was straight anyway! It's working out well so far. The main floor tile is the Sandblasted, Honey Mustard terrazzo tile from Santa Regina. It's lighter than it is when it gets wet, which is nice because you instantly know if the floor is wet because of the color change. I'm loving it so far. It may sound silly but I also love the swing arm reading lamp. Sometimes you just need to see right in front of you. NOTES: <none>
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Claire de Luna's Vintage Inspired Bathroom
posted by: claire_de_luna on 02.16.2007 at 10:47 am in Bathrooms Forum It's small and utilitarian, not quite finished but close enough. We wanted something simplified that was easy to use, easy to clean. The room isn't opulent and I know isn't to everyone's taste but I like going in there! Like Johnmari, I used a particular picture from Bungalow Bathrooms as my inspiration for the floor, and went from there. We love the doorless, curbless shower, the mantel style ledge for less counter clutter, Toto Washlet and heated floors. Here's the list:
Kohler "Bancroft" fixtures and robe hooks (Polished Nickel)
Here is a link that might be useful: Claire de Luna's small bathroom NOTES: <none>
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RE: pix from Bill V and Mongo in one place? (Follow-Up #1)
posted by: bill_vincent on 03.25.2007 at 06:28 am in Bathrooms Forum Well, as for mine, if you don't mind some misc. fishing and family pics, go to photobucket.com, and do a search on Bill_Vincent . I've made my account public, and they're all (atleast all the ones I've used in here) there in one place. :-)
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RE: Traditional master remodel pics (Follow-Up #19)
posted by: dockside on 05.18.2007 at 07:23 pm in Bathrooms Forum sassyinak,
What a beautiful bath. I just saw it now (almost two months later). I hope you are still around to answer my question. What is the name of the granite tile on the lower part of your shower? It is just what I am looking for. Looks like it has red or rust in it. It's gorgeous. If anyone else can answer (in case sassy doesn't see this), I'd appreciate it along with where I can buy it. Thanks bunches. NOTES: <none>
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RE: Traditional master remodel pics (Follow-Up #20)
posted by: sassyinak on 05.18.2007 at 08:21 pm in Bathrooms Forum dockside,
I also answered your question over on the "dream bath pics" post. It is New Colonial Dream and yes, it does have a rusty color in some swirls. There is some red- the small dots that look black in the picture are garnets that are actually a deep red. Then there are a few areas with a blueish red. It is a very variable stone. I would say the dominant color is amber though. Thanks for the compliment, happy to answer any questions. NOTES: <none>
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RE: Traditional master remodel pics (Follow-Up #8)
posted by: sassyinak on 03.25.2007 at 11:53 pm in Bathrooms Forum Cactuscatie,
The wood tub base was built by the finish carpenter, who also installed the vanity base and mirrors. The panel was ordered from Schrok by my local cabinet/interiors store, so it came already stained to match the vanity. We also ordered three cabinet doors that go over the panel, base moulding and the 45 degree trim piece for the angles from Schrok. An unexpected benefit is a bunch of storage space behind those three doors. They are on hinges, so much easier to open than my old access panel which was attached with clips. Thanks for the compliment! -Sassy NOTES: <none>
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Traditional master remodel pics
posted by: sassyinak on 03.23.2007 at 07:37 pm in Bathrooms Forum After a year of planning and two months of construction, our master bath remodel is nearly finished. All that remains is some caulking around the tub and shower floor, cherry switchplates for the medicine cabinets, install towel warmer and sealing the tile. Many thanks to the wonderful people on this forum, especially Bill Vincent, who held my virtual hand the whole way.
Here's some pictures: Materials used:
Here is a link that might be useful: more photos here NOTES: <none>
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RE: where did you find best price for glass tile?? (Follow-Up #2)
posted by: ibmali on 03.12.2007 at 02:40 pm in Bathrooms Forum Depends somewhat on the type of glass tile you're after ...mosaic, subway, clear or opaque, etc. I love Susan Jablon mosaics. She has a great selection, does custom blends, a has provided me w/ terrific customer service. Give her website a look.
Mel Here is a link that might be useful: Susan Jablon Mosaics NOTES: <none>
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RE: where did you find best price for glass tile?? (Follow-Up #1)
posted by: meghane on 03.12.2007 at 11:17 am in Bathrooms Forum I bought my tiles here. The prices were the best I could find. I ordered on Sunday night and my tiles were here on Tuesday afternoon, very well packaged and in perfect condition. I will order again from them!
Here is a link that might be useful: Wholesaler USA inc NOTES: <none>
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Article: On Terry Ryan, Truth And Gravity
Posted 13 December 2013 - 07:32 AM
The actions have changed significantly, but I doubt you'd ever hear Ryan admit the philosophy changed. He might not even be aware it has.
Edited by TheLeviathan, 13 December 2013 - 08:23 AM.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 07:40 AM
Posted 13 December 2013 - 07:44 AM
Got to argue about one thing though:
[quote]This is even true for scientific facts, like gravity (*2).[/quote]
[quote](*2)You might have trouble, even in the Twins Daily forums, arguing against gravity. But before Isaac Newton, people noticed that stuff tended to fall to earth. The accepted Truth was that objects had an "earthly nature" that made them return to earth. It wasn't until Newton came along and started talking about the other heavenly bodies and how they were holding objects in orbit, and creating formulas for how quickly things fell to earth, that the idea of gravity sunk in.
For the record, those previous "nature" ideas weren't proposed by some dummy. This was Aristotlian (as in Aristotle) Physics. It was the truth for nearly two thousand years because it made sense to everyone. We accept gravity because it made even more sense once we started realizing the earth wasn't the center of the universe.[/quote]
What you call "scientific facts" above, you describe as "commonly perceived truth" below
Different things. And every scientist will tell you that there is not such a thing as a "scientific fact". Just suggestions and likelihoods, that why every scientific paper and thesis is full with expressions such as "the data suggests...", "it likely..." etc, but not absolutes, because as you say, truth is:
[quote]just the prettiest of the explanations[/quote] or the one that might fit the data you have the best, unless you discover something else...
(and one's got to argue that Ryan's explanations up there are not that pretty.)
But in the case in hand, the data suggests that Ryan for some reason is trying to make two conflicting situations (a. our philosophy is not to sign free agents because that is a bandaid aka a "bad thing" aka a "square peg", and b. let's go out and sign a bunch because this is what we need to do to improve the team, aka a "good thing" aka a "round hole") match.
And they can with a very single explanation (aka the "truth"), that I really wish Ryan had the fortitude to go out and tell people:
A. The best way to build a sustainable contender is mainly through the draft and international free agency, supplementing the major league team with strategically placed free agents and refreshing your talent pipeline with minor league talent you get by selling stars high (aka the MacPhail way)
A1. The Twins as a team screwed up in this for a while.
B. Thus, in order to compete in the near future, we have to go out and get free agents.
But you got to have the fortitude to publicly admit A1 (i.e. that you have failed) for A and B to mesh...
That's what I see as the most likely explanation here
Posted 13 December 2013 - 07:51 AM
Regardless, it sure is nice to witness the "fact" that Ryan admits to having resources, admits to having opportunities, and admits to being in the right time to act.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 08:45 AM
Posted 13 December 2013 - 09:23 AM
Great book, and great post!
As Thrylos noted, science doesn't provide facts. It yields correlations, p values, significant (or not so significant) effects… all of which are affected by sample size, validity and reliability of design, etc. But when it comes down to it, we - the general public - either buy it or we don't, regardless of how strong the evidence is. As you said, we choose the explanation that is most appealing.
I'm not sure if Ryan's free agent philosophy has truly changed, nor am I sure I 'truly' care at this point. I think the additions we've made were a) smart, and have potential, and I'm looking forward to watching them play out.
"The solutions are all simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are."
Posted 13 December 2013 - 09:39 AM
I do think he blew moving Willingham last off season though, if he felt the team wasn't going to improve last year then he really should have sold high on him after the year he had, it seemed like the perfect opportunity for a player who was not going to be a part of this teams next run.
Having said that, I don't really know whether he tried to make that happen but didn't like what he was hearing.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 09:40 AM
I think TR is spending some money because he realizes that the 'cash cow' called Target Field is going to dry up if they don't try to put a winning team on the field. Fans will just stop going to games, less $8 beers and $10 sandwiches sold.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 09:42 AM
And they can with a very single explanation (aka the "truth"), that I really wish Ryan had the fortitude to go out and tell people:
A. The best way to build a sustainable contender is mainly through the draft and international free agency, supplementing the major league team with strategically placed free agents and refreshing your talent pipeline with minor league talent you get by selling stars high (aka the MacPhail way)
A1. The Twins as a team screwed up in this for a while.
B. Thus, in order to compete in the near future, we have to go out and get free agents.
This is absolutely Terry Ryan's thought process on the matter, and it confuses me that people who really pay attention to the Twins don't get this. Terry Ryan was always willing to sign big contracts, just not a ton, and not all escalating at the same time, because he values having flexibility for next year. He's always been willing to sign some free agents that fills a void, just not such that it backs him into corner in the future payroll obligations. He made offers to Santana and Hunter, but he couldn't comfortably commit that much and still have the flexibility he wants.
But he's never been in a situation over the past couple years where he's never had ANY young, in-house players to re-sign, or plan to re-sign. He's never had such financial flexibility in the coming years as he has today, because there's been nobody in-house to extend. There has never even been remotely close to this small amount of future obligations.
So he has money to spend. A lot of us might think of that as an opportunity, but Ryan considers that a failure...a failure of Plan A. Plan B is to do the next best thing and sign some notable free agents, but to try to get back to Plan A as fast as he can...by developing more young, good players to extend, instead of going to free agency next time. He's right.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 09:48 AM
I'll probably get lambasted for this but I have to disagree, I was assigned 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' in a college novel class, it was horrible, I love to read but I couldn't finish it. If I found a copy at a garage sale I would buy it, take it home, and have a book burning party. Then again I can't understand the facination with the 'The Great Gatsby' either, twice I was assigned to read it, slogged thru it but wouldn't recommend it to anybody.
Or War and Peace or The Iliad. All those books were great for the time they were written in the context of the time they were written. When Zen and the Art was written this country was in a war that brought a whole bunch of people who did not want to go there back either in body bags or in mental incapacitation and was losing a war for the first time, its president was about to resign before he was impeached, and the thread of a nuclear world war III was very strong.
Great time to question truth.
Fast forward 40 years and things have changed (maybe.)
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Posted 13 December 2013 - 10:24 AM
McPhail had no problem handing out huge (for the time) free agent contracts. Ryan never did until this year.
We really have no idea what has or has not changed. What we do know is that instead of dumpster diving, TR has decided to spend real money this year. We should all be thankful for whatever caused that to happen, and hope it continues.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is both a good and bad book, imo. I enjoyed reading it, but I read it when I was in a spot where thinking about important stuff was important to me. I remember wondering about some of the writing, but mostly I remember it making me think.
Maybe we should have a book thread someplace around here.....
Posted 13 December 2013 - 10:33 AM
I think Terry will adapt to this change and Pohlads have been good employers in that continue to keep people in positions if they are willing to adapt and change with organization philosophy. I also think Pohlads are changing as owners also they have been hiring internal studies to how to adapt this organization to compete and remain competitive year in year out. The bottom line for them is too remain profitable and continue to grow brand name Twins so it has more value each year. With this Brand name increasing in value it lets Pohlad family gain business with ever more businesses and crosses over into their other businesses ever increasing the empire they have built.
Terry is right that spending totally on free agency to build club is disaster waiting to happen unless your one of couple of franchises with unlimited funding and even these organization are running into trouble if they don't develop their own players also. I believe NY is becoming example of this its getting harder and harder to fill their needs with FA and payroll with luxury tax has begun to even the playing field some. Its teams like Boston and ST. Louis that have used FA to fill needs that they have failed to do so with their farm system. The Twins failure these past three seasons is from reaction of FA when Twins lost key players to Free Agency or were about to loose players to Free Agency. They made series of Trades in which Twins lost talent and received little in return in the final end. Also their development players wasn't there either because of some bad luck or I also believe their unwillingness to spend more money on top line draft picks which had changed with some smaller market teams willing to spend more money here than on Free Agency. Some this has gone away now with new caps put in place by baseball. Because if you look now some of better prospects the Twins have now is because they did spend money like Sano signing.
I do believe that Terry Ryan does feel pressure of getting talent back on the field and putting somewhat competitive team for this coming year. I also think its been harder this year because Free Agents don't believe they are close enough to be winners again and my guess were a lot closer to being a winning team that we think. Its just matter getting right talent assembled with prospects coming up and i also think we need to get a little lucky in that players start to also believe in that they can win.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 11:08 AM
Why ? wasnt our payroll in 2009 about the same as it is now 79 million?
and if you add in inflation at about 40% arent we at about 50 million in dome dollars.
Using owner Jim Pohlads restrictions of 50-54% of the teams income, shouldnt we have a payroll of 128.5 - 135 million this year?
Posted 13 December 2013 - 11:16 AM
But the older I get, the less I believe in any one truth. In any situation, there are a myriad of factors that come into play. It's why, so often as human beings, we seem to be speaking out of both sides of our mouths. We just react differently to different people, ideas and situations.
I think you could highlight a number of John's reasons and they would be part of why we are seeing what we are seeing and include in that fact that there was $25m in "free money" (so to speak) from the TV deal. TR didn't even spend all of that annual TV money on Nolasco and Hughes (I think this would appeal to TR's conservative side). Add in a green light from his owner to spend plus (I would guess) some impetus from both the business AND baseball sides (underlings plus field staff) to improve the club (I think TR probably felt some guilt about the crappy hand he dealt Gardenhire last year).
I don't see an organizational shift in philosophy. Under TR, the Twins are always going to build from the farm system but I think last year showed that some of those prospects may be a little farther away than we think. I believe that keeping that farm system mostly intact is important to TR and that's why he seems reluctant to make trades this season (and actually sounds a little more reluctant now than he did when the off-season started). He is able to hold onto the core philosophy of building the farm and club from within -- while, hopefully, satisfying his bosses (plus underlings, fans and media) just by risking some monetary resources. If you had the green light to do that, why wouldn't you?
Posted 13 December 2013 - 11:18 AM
Posted 13 December 2013 - 11:21 AM
What I just typed is probably an opinion, not a fact. I mean, I'm usually right, so you should maybe assume it is or will be a fact soon, but that's up to you.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 12:04 PM
The Star Trek Next Generation episode on lenses/perspective/truth where Riker is accused of murder is a great episode to watch for a philosophical view on truth (remember when TV used to have philosophical discussions?).
I remember when it had awesome sci-fi too!
Posted 13 December 2013 - 12:39 PM
The bottom line is the Twins have generally spent the available budget on talent. We have had one year (last year) where TR opted to not spend on the available talent. He was crucified here any many went off on how much better Marcum, Dempsey, Saunders, Jackson, etc would have been. Well, who was right? People still cursed the not spending even after it was proven that those acquisitions would have been detrimental to the team. Many seemed to completely ignore this fact. Success has a thousand fathers while failure is an orphan. For some, there is a spend every available penny no matter what edict. Given we are talking about long-term contracts, that is a very ill-conceived strategy. IMO, this is the root of much of the discontent.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 12:48 PM
He was crucified here any many went off on how much better Marcum, Dempsey, Saunders, Jackson, etc would have been. Well, who was right?
We were. We were right
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Posted 13 December 2013 - 01:18 PM
At the time, Ryan was quoted as saying he thought the class was "thin", and he did not want to spend money unwisely just for the sake of spending money. It turns out he was right about this, and you can hardly argue that the FA class heading into 2013 was much better than he said it was at the time based on the stats they put up.
Since this is the 46th thread about how cheap Ryan was last year, I assume I am missing something. Please enlighten me.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 01:21 PM
And, man, this went off topic to the same old arguments fast....it had the chance to be a fun thread.
What I just typed is probably an opinion, not a fact. I mean, I'm usually right, so you should maybe assume it is or will be a fact soon, but that's up to you.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 02:33 PM
To answer the question of why not spend last year, I think is two fold, and John approached these. 1) the Twins didn't like the pitchers available last year at the prices the market set 2) it was one more year removed from what help would come from the minors. To answer the question of why spend this year: 1) we were unthinkably awful again last year 2) our young talent on the ML roster fell flat on their face 3) the minor league system looks like it might produce impact players sooner than expected. In both these instances, I think the budget played a limited role in their thinking.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 03:18 PM
The main difference between this year and last year is the depth of the free agent pitching pool.
Speaking of facts and perception - I wonder how one would try to measure this. I'm not sure it's that important to the discussion, because what is important is Ryan's perception of that free agent pitching pool. But my perception is completely the opposite. I don't think last year's was worse.
I tried to show this before last offseason started, by comparing it to the previous five years, using the dollars likely to be thrown at them (and still underthrew the mark on those dollars considerably). But I suppose one could say that the dollars show how thin it was, though I would disagree.
I wonder how we could do that. Maybe compare some basic metrics from teh year before for each pitcher?
Posted 13 December 2013 - 04:39 PM
We were. We were right
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In light of the reality that we signed Correia and Pelfry instead of those four, why would you ignore their production?
Also, are there some remaining financial obligations to any of those four that would make it logical to wait to draw a conclusion?
Posted 13 December 2013 - 05:21 PM
We were. We were right
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When looking at free agent signings Pelfrey and Correia pitched 338 IP and combined for a 4.65 ERA. Try to find two pitchers that signed short term contracts similar to those two for comparison.
Posted 13 December 2013 - 05:41 PM
Nice article, John. But I question your statement that the top "fact" is that the Twins were in the exact same situation last year. It seems reasonable to conclude, based on Ryan's quote here, that he might dispute this. So much of why some of us cut Ryan more slack and others are harshly critical stems from our amazing ability to see the "facts" so differently, or to create a fact set that supports our agenda.
Regardless, it sure is nice to witness the "fact" that Ryan admits to having resources, admits to having opportunities, and admits to being in the right time to act.
In other words, in "discovering" these "facts", Ryan is admitting that his Plan A was a colossal failure on the field, anyway (Financially, they did just fine, hollowing out the team, failing to use short-term contracts for flipping purposes....... Going forward, I've got a strong feeling the financials didn't look nearly as good, but for the "found" $25M in media money, hence, "Time for implementing the Plan B!.... just ignore that we said it was next to impossible, just a year ago") .
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and bottle them, there would be no need for medicine," Bet tells me one afternoon. We're talking upstairs in the sewing room while she works on her Vietnam quilt. The room is stuffed with fabric: tweeds, cottons, velvets, hundreds of men's ties. Bet sews at a small table by the window. She listens to oral histories of Vietnam veterans as she works. On the left side of the quilt is an army-green map of Vietnam, showing the three cities where James, Cecil, and Arnold served. The rest of the quilt is blue, and three male figures float there, separated from one another and bearing labels: anger, despair, and guilt. The quilt reads: my husband and his brothers came home from vietnam…three islands in an ocean of silence.
James is the Angry one, Cecil the figure of Despair, and Arnold is Guilt.
Bet has brown shoulder-length hair, light blue eyes, and thin, curved lips. She has what I can only describe as a thoughtful face, ideas, connections, and realizations playing there as clearly as any emotion would. She is, according to her husband, "so honest it hurts sometimes." Bet often uses writing in her quilts, which is fitting, since she's a very verbal person who, at 19, came into a culture that isn't. She says she was never truly happy until she met Cecil. Still, Bet's an outsider here, with the perspective of an outsider or an anthropologist. From the sewing-room window we can see Cecil and his nephews, Jamie and Archie, in front of the barn, conferring around a truck. Bet turns from the window, laughing. "See, here's the deal," she says. "This is how you get boys in eastern Kentucky, if you ever want to do that. Stop at the side of the road and pull up the hood of your car. It's like bees to honey."
In the months leading up to Cecil's breakdown, Bet says, there were signs of trouble. He always had a temper, but he began to get angry at small things, and he would stay angry. He became withdrawn. "But you never think that somebody's just gonna break apart," Bet says.
That March afternoon, after the call from the emergency room, Bet waited to hear from Cecil or the doctor. The day passed and no one called, so the next morning she and their 27-year-old nephew, Jamie, drove to Lexington and found Cecil in the mental ward, lying in a small room with barred windows, wearing a hospital gown five times his size. The room was painted a sickly green. Cecil was staring silently at the wall. Bet sat down on the bed and began to comb his hair.
Over the next few hours, Cecil went from almost comatose to a state of severe agitation where he would pace the floor and rant against the hospital staff for treating the other patients badly. "Cecil's trigger is abusive behavior from people who are in power toward people who are weaker," Bet explains. Then, like he'd blown out all his circuits, Cecil would lie down on the bed, catatonic again. "Anger was his only bridge to the world. It was the only way he could communicate. The rest was…he was just, like, gone."
Jamie lingered in the hallway, measuring the scene. When a male nurse's aide came in with food and Cecil refused to eat, the aide threatened to strap him to a bed and force-feed him. Jamie waited until the aide stepped outside the room. "I told him you don't know that man, you have no reason to talk to that man that way, and if you want to talk to somebody that's in their right mind, here I am."
When Jamie and Bet went down to the hospital cafeteria for lunch, Bet cried on his shoulder. Her husband was ill, so ill; she wanted this to be the right place for Cecil, but it was becoming clear that it wasn't. Jamie told her so. When they got back up to the room, Jamie said to his uncle, "Cec, time to get out of here, buddy. Get yourself dressed. Let's go." Five minutes passed, ten…and Cecil just stared off at a spot on the wall.
"Let's get out of here, let's go home," Jamie said again.
Cecil turned and looked at him. "Well, Jimbo, I've hit rock bottom and I don't know if I can get back up."
"Cec, if there's a rock, you can climb back out," Jamie said.
On the ride home, Bet drove Cecil's car and Cecil rode with Jamie. "Somewhere along the line, I remember cutting loose with just a huge tirade of blasphemies," Cecil says. "Jamie had just recovered from spinal cancer, and he just said, 'Yeah, I know, man. I know, man. Shit happens.' "
The next morning, as Cecil stared down at a breakfast he couldn't eat, he announced to Bet, in a voice filled with rage, "I curse them for what they have done to me." He meant the VA. During the case conference that was held on his first morning at the hospital, before Bet and Jamie arrived, the doctors had made Cecil talk about the terrible image in his head. Now there was no stuffing the genie back in the bottle; from here on in, he knew, it would be hell.
So Cecil decided to write the memory down, thinking that might banish it from his mind. After he was done, he swore he would never speak of the memory again.
For the next month, Cecil was spookily docile. He wouldn't eat unless Bet coached him through the meal. She took him to a private therapist who put him on drugs. Cecil wouldn't return to the VA, wouldn't admit he had PTSD, wouldn't admit that this break had anything to do with the war in Iraq or his own combat experience.
Bet had to go back to work the week after Cecil's breakdown, but Jamie came by every day, got Cec into his truck, and took him for long drives, hitting every dirt road he could find. "For about a month straight, I got 'im out and wandered," Jamie says. "The first week, Cec was tight, real tight. Maybe in a day, I'd get five, six words out of 'im. It just took him a while to realize where he was at again. I believe if Cec stays in his woodlands, Cec is happy. I believe that's where he gets his peace, right there."
That summer Cecil attempted to go back to work. It took two more severe breaks, one while he was at the office, for him to admit he might be suffering from combat trauma. One day he went with Bet to a local VA outpatient center—not Lexington; he swore he would never go there again—and he was given a handout listing all the symptoms of PTSD.
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ie xmlhttp printing issues
Something came flipped out of the blue earlier.
Essentially it's this:
The pages on the rest of the site (that don't use xmlhttp, but otherwise use the same css/javascripting/html) all print fine.
There is no specific media print stylesheet applied to any relevant page.
The problem *only* occurs in IE - i have tested in safari, firefox and opera with success.
Around the same time this problem originated, there was the round of the latest Microsoft updates/patches going onto each individual users machines.
As the pages were working fine, with no problems and have not had any major changes with regards to code (aside from an a few bits of javascript I am tracing back) it would appear the windows updates have caused this problem.
My question is, does anyone know of any problems that are associated with printing (in ie only) of pages that use xmlhttp, conversely if any of the latest windows patches would have an impact on anything that i've previously mentioned.
I am currently trying to find out exactly which patches were installed by the network admins, but was hoping that someone on here might already have come across this problem and addressed it and save me the time researching the impact of each one of the 20 or so patches that would have been installed.
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The local authorities also aim to increase the number of small-loan companies to 100 from the current 69, with a target of boosting loans to about 35 billion yuan annually, the municipal government said in a statement today.
China's small businesses are facing higher energy, raw material and labor prices. Funding costs are rising with government measures to curb accelerating inflation, the central bank said last month.
Only 10 percent of small companies in Shanghai, the nation's financial hub, had bank loans as of June 30, according to Liao Min, head of the China Banking Regulatory Commission's local bureau.
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My instinct is to say why don't you ask your friend? Of course, if you so that you're opening yourself up to her saying that she would be hurt, and then you really can't use it. Even so, that's probably what I would do.
December 20th, 2012 04:05 PM #13
I personally wouldn't feel comfortable doing it, but if you are fine with it then I say just ask to be on the safe side.
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December 20th, 2012 05:51 PM #15
I agree with the previous posters. Whether you approach it as asking for their blessing or just as a head's up that you're planning on using it is up to you, but it will be easier to decide what to do if you know how they feel about it instead of trying to guess. It might help to explain that you've had a hard time agreeing on a name and complimenting their taste in choosing it in the first place.
My grandfather got the name fn/ln combo of his deceased brother, which I find much creepier since everyone in the family, including older siblings, all had that link to the name. With your situation, there's distance between you and them. They may feel hurt or they may feel like a little piece of their son is living on. It's really tough to know, and I'm sure they'll appreciate you considering their feelings by discussing it/letting them know ahead of time.
December 20th, 2012 05:54 PM #17
I would mention to your friend that you love the name Logan and would like to give the name to your son. Since it's such a popular name I personally don't feel that there should be any hurt feelings over it, but you never know. I don't think you need your friend's permission to use Logan, but I do think you should at least mention it to her before the birth announcement.
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I agree with most previous posters. It is probably fine, just discuss with your friend before the birth announcement. An email might be best initially to broach the topic....just so she has time to digest it and think about it before responding. Good luck!


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The Senate has no plans of coming into session today, aides tell ABC News. Why? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made his feelings clear when he deemed "pointless" the House vote to keep the government running, but only on the condition that major parts of the nation's new health care law be delayed by a year. The White House issued a rare weekend veto threat, too.
2. What happens to the House bill that was overwhelmingly approved by Republicans in a post-midnight vote?
It dies a very expected and quick death in the Democratic-controlled Senate. There's little interest in a prolonged fight — even among most Senate Republicans — so the measure will be "tabled" or set aside. Then, the bill goes right back to Square One in the House, where Speaker John Boehner again must decide whether to hold firm and protest President Obama's health care law or go against the wishes of many hard-liners in his party and pass an emergency spending bill with the support of Democrats.
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3. At this point, is a shutdown guaranteed?
Nothing in Washington is certain, but yes, a shutdown is almost assured if both sides continue on their current path. Most lawmakers across the Capitol — including those who said only a few days ago they didn't think it was likely — now believe a short-term shutdown is nearly certain. The bigger question is not whether the government will have a partial shutdown, but for how long? A short-term shutdown is the most likely outcome, perhaps a matter of hours or days.
4. How does this impact the next fiscal fight, when the nation's borrowing limit must be raised by Oct. 17 to avoid default?
That's the most worrisome question of all to leaders across Washington. The optimistic scenario is that this latest bruising episode of fighting — Republican v. Republican and House v. Senate — may have let out enough steam to satisfy conservative activists. That could give Boehner a stronger hand to play among his fellow Republicans when he asks for their help to keep the country from default. But that is very much an open question. And the debt limit fight has far deeper economic consequences.
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5. Will you notice a government shutdown?
Yes, particularly if it lasts a few days or more. If you're one of the 800,000 federal workers who are deemed as non-essential, you will be directly affected immediately and not report to work. But the implications go well beyond Washington. If you're applying for a passport or visa, you will likely be out of luck. First-time home buyers looking for a mortgage will be delayed because the Federal Housing Administration will be closed. And the 401 national parks will be off-limits starting Tuesday morning. The biggest fear for hundreds of thousands of federal workers — and members of the military — will be if they receive back pay. In the last shutdown nearly two decades ago, workers received lost wages. That's not guaranteed this time. And why everyone should care: a shutdown will cost, not save, taxpayers' money. A study from the Office of Management and Budget puts the overall economic price tag for a shutdown around $2 billion.