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Touch/touchless kitchen faucets
orange dream replied to HiggyBaby's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
We've had a Moen version for about 7 years. I wasn't particularly sold on it but relented to the wife's requests and I have to say it is great. Ours is touchless and can be activated in two ways, first by putting your hands or a glass, dish, etc. where you would normally put them to wash hands or fill a glass which will turn the water on for as long as motion is detected in that space. The second option is to wave your hand over the top of the neck of the faucet which will activate the water for about 10 minutes. Ours is plugged in so no idea about the battery issues others have mentioned. The comments about adjusting temp is valid, but hasn't been that big of an issue in my opinion. I don't know why anyone would pick the touch version instead of touchless. If you are going to have to touch it you might as well just push the handle. -
Does anyone (@MaclovioBrown ) know definitively that there are funds remaining in the PPP program? I found out this morning that a friend of a friend is having to lay people off on Monday because they never could get their PPP application approved / funded. I'd like to help them but I don't want to send them down a rabbit hole if there is no possibility of getting funded at this point. I get the impression that the EIDL program is only accepting new applications from agricultural based businesses at this stage. If that is wrong, please let me know that also. TIA
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The I'm an American by God crowd and their "why do you hate the constitution?" retort is more than I can handle. Outside of them being a pain in the ass, I really don't see why anyone would choose to not wear a mask in the current environment. No one is mandating it until the end of time. To me it really boils down to we can sit around the house for several months and continue to watch the economy die or we can wear a mask, practice some measure of social distancing and protection of the most vulnerable while resuming as much of our normal routines as possible. Yes, some of the early doomsday predictions were way off base, and now it's unknowable what the outcome of things would have been if the lockdown had not occurred so we find ourselves in this place of people who think the whole thing is a hoax or powergrab (by whom?) and others who think no one should leave their house until there is a vaccine. As someone said earlier the extremists on both ends are not helpful to the ultimate cause of people making sensible informed decisions and complying with the necessary guidelines when there are actual hotspots in the future.
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Info from the AICPA website dealing with PPP forgiveness: https://www.aicpa.org/interestareas/privatecompaniespracticesection/qualityservicesdelivery/sba-paycheck-protection-program-resources-for-cpas.html About 2/3 of the way down are these choices: 1st is just a link to the application from the treasury dept. 2nd-5th are links to excel based calculators to help walk you through the calculations depending on your specific scenario. Calculators PPP loan forgiveness calculator This calculator uses available guidance from the SBA and Treasury to track eligible costs covered by the PPP and provides a look at how much of your PPP loan may be eligible for forgiveness. PPP payroll calculators for loan application The PPP provides three scenarios for calculating maximum loan amounts depending on how long the business has been in operation and whether it’s seasonal. You can add all three to your COVID-19 resource library. They’re designed so that your client can complete them following the steps outlined in the calculator. When you click the link, please look for an Excel file calculator to download rather than opening in a new window. PPP Loan Calculator – Non-seasonal & In business 2/15/19 – 6/30/19 (Excel) This calculator will apply for most businesses that operated in 2019. PPP Loan Calculator – Nonseasonal & NOT in business 2/15/19 – 6/30/19 (Excel) This calculator will apply for new businesses. PPP Loan Calculator – Seasonal business (Excel) This calculator will apply for clients that don’t operate year-round. PPP Loan Calculator – Self-Employed (Excel) This calculator will apply for self-employed individuals.
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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
orange dream replied to bigup2dahorns's topic in Food and Travel
The info below is from Johns Hopkins also. I suspect PilotsError is referring to death rate as the % of deaths versus the whole population while you appear to be referencing the death rate versus those who are infected. gross death rates @ cases deaths population infection rate gross death rate death rate among infected 10x 50x 100x CA 69,418 2,789 39,510,000 0.18% 0.01% 4.02% 0.07% 0.35% 0.71% NY 338,485 27,215 19,453,561 1.74% 0.14% 8.04% 1.40% 6.99% 13.99% NJ 140,917 9,531 9,200,000 1.53% 0.10% 6.76% 1.04% 5.18% 10.36% TX 40,642 1,121 29,000,000 0.14% 0.00% 2.76% 0.04% 0.19% 0.39% FL 41,923 1,779 21,600,000 0.19% 0.01% 4.24% 0.08% 0.41% 0.82% MI 48,031 4,674 10,000,000 0.48% 0.05% 9.73% 0.47% 2.34% 4.67% LA 32,050 2,347 4,648,794 0.69% 0.05% 7.32% 0.50% 2.52% 5.05% AZ 11,736 562 7,278,717 0.16% 0.01% 4.79% 0.08% 0.39% 0.77% Totals 723,202 50,018 140,691,072 0.51% 0.04% 6.92% 0.36% 1.78% 3.56% Totals minus NY/NJ 243,800 13,272 112,037,511 0.22% 0.01% 5.44% 0.12% 0.59% 1.18% -
Asking for prayers, thoughts, good vibes, etc.
orange dream replied to Junior Bonner's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
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We were going to be there the last week of May and beginning of June. On the empty hotel front. Back around the time the quarantine started we were in middle of some remodeling and needed to be out of the house for a few days. We ended up renting 3 rooms so we could spread out a little for work and school purposes and it turns out we were the only guests in the almost 200 room resort hotel. Unfortunately, no food other than prepackaged grab and go stuff. The staff was very attentive ( and bored). They would actually push the elevator call and the floor buttons for us. I have 7 year old who is used to the "be quiet, don't run, etc." in hotel hallways. By the end of our time there we were playing hide and go seek and tag in the hallways. Pretty surreal experience. We considered a road trip to Big Bend in mid to late June but it looks like it's starting to heat up (100 degree highs) out there by then. Anyone been out there at that time of year. Thoughts?
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Just received an email this morning from the hotel that I was planning to stay in at the Amalfi coast has canceled my reservation as they will be closed. No big shock,( Flights and other parts of itinerary had already been canceled) but still makes me sad.
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classic by Ingram. Should be a fun minicamp once things kick back in. lol
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Just keep in mind that a 4 person tent comfortably holds 2 adults. Not to say you can't get 4 people in there, but it will be cozy. If you're carrying it a long way when you actually camp it might be worth keeping it small, but other than that get a 6 or 8 person tent to have a little room to spread out.
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This has probably been addressed but I don't think I've seen any kind of definitive answer: PPP Loan amount calculation : Payroll costs including rent / utilities, etc. (as defined) let's say Payroll is 100k /month and the rent / utilities, etc. bucket is 15k/month. Monthly eligible amount is 115k * 2.5 = 287,500 PPP loan proceeds. Forgiveness as defined in Treasury Fact Sheet: - The loan proceeds are used to cover payroll costs, and most mortgage interest, rent, and utility costs over the 8 week period after the loan is made; - and Employee and compensation levels are maintained. So in my scenario let's say the loan was funded on April 16th for 287,500 and the company is a semi-monthly (15th and end of month ) payroll company. The 8 week period ends on June 11 at which point the company will have paid payroll for 3 semi-monthly periods (End of April and Middle and End of May) (after loan was "made") That would total 150k in payroll and paid rent / utilities, etc. at the beginning of May and June for a total of 30k. With that, for the 8 week period after the loan was "made" the total amount used to cover the allowed categories in the 8 week period is 180k vs. the 287,500 that was "borrowed" under PPP. Any thoughts on how those will be reconciled to come up with what is forgiven? Even if you change the dates (or payroll frequency) so that you get a full 2 months worth of payroll and rent/other stuff in the 8 week period that would only come up with 230k of "forgivable" costs in the 8 week period. Is the working assumption of everyone who is getting these PPP loans that they will need to pay back approximately 20% of what was borrowed? I've had that thought in the back of my head but haven't ever really seen it addressed. I'd be curious to know your thoughts / assumptions.
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I think the financial sector will take the hit in 6-9 months when a significant number of customers default on loans, mortgages,etc. Unless they do basically what they've been doing with O&G assets for the last 3 years or so and just push those non-performing assets down the road in hopes that things get better. That strategy is going to kill banks heavy on O&G in 3, 2, 1...
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@troph thanks for your thoughts. Yes, you are correct that I am NOT saying we overreacted I am genuinely surprised at how low these rates are and just trying to make sense of how we learn from what has happened both locally and in other places as we move to "re-open". I look for masks and gloves to be commonplace for the foreseeable future. We'll all look like group of Asian tourists transiting through Heathrow. Getting back to crowded concerts, games, events, festivals will look different. Not sure how that will translate to little league, etc. Curious to hear Gov. Abbott's plan today and how that is then interpreted by county, school and city officials. Moving this data table to this page for those who may have missed it and wonder what you were referencing.
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Ok, I have some questions about where we go from here. The table below is information pulled from the TX Dept of Health COVID-19 dashboard. I know we have all been staying at home, staying healthy, flattening the curve, etc. but I am astonished at how low these numbers are. What is your guess of what percent of the picture this really represents. 20% / 50% / 80% ? I'm sure these are artificially low because of the lack of testing, limits of testing to those in risk groups or with severe symptoms, etc. but I don't have a good feel for how low. Are 70% of the people currently infected going to still die which will drastically alter the fatality rates? The highest infection rate in a county is basically a tenth of a percent in Galveston County and fatality rates of total population are between 1 and 2 thousandths of a percent of total area population. Multiply those numbers by 10 or even 100 and certainly it represents a tragic loss of life but at some point you reconcile that versus a longstanding death rate of the US population of around 0.9% annually. Am I really terrible at math? Are we amazing at flattening the curve? What's the go forward plan. Are entire schools closed for 2 or 3 weeks each time a kid is sick or does a classroom monitor for symptoms if someone gets sick but keeps operating? Same question for offices, stores, restaurants (complete shutdown if someone is infected)? For those of you who own / manage businesses, if working from home has been successful and is viable for your business model do you encourage it beyond the government directive or is everyone "ordered" back to the office at the first opportunity? Troph's questions about commercial real estate I think hangs in the balance. https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83 County cases deaths population infection rate fatality rate of those infected fatality rate of population Travis 977 17 1,274,000 0.077% 1.74% 0.0013% Williamson 128 4 590,551 0.022% 3.13% 0.0007% Hays 109 1 230,191 0.047% 0.92% 0.0004% Austin Metro Area 1,214 22 2,094,742 0.058% 1.81% 0.0011% Dallas 1,986 43 2,636,000 0.075% 2.17% 0.0016% Tarrant 990 30 2,103,000 0.047% 3.03% 0.0014% Denton 547 14 887,207 0.062% 2.56% 0.0016% Collin 494 10 1,035,000 0.048% 2.02% 0.0010% DFW Metro Area 4,017 97 6,661,207 0.060% 2.41% 0.0015% Harris 4,097 58 4,713,000 0.087% 1.42% 0.0012% Ft. Bend 627 15 811,688 0.077% 2.39% 0.0018% Montgomery 331 6 607,391 0.054% 1.81% 0.0010% Brazoria 272 3 374,264 0.073% 1.10% 0.0008% Galveston 401 13 342,139 0.117% 3.24% 0.0038% Houston Metro Area 5,728 95 6,848,482 0.084% 1.66% 0.0014% COMBINED TOTAL 10,959 214 15,604,431 0.070% 1.95% 0.0014%
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I was going to "like" your post but you were sitting on 69 and I didn't want to ruin that for you. Awesome, congrats!!
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