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    1 hour ago, peenie said:

    I'm reading about it and I'm even more confused:

     She skied over the the edge of the course

    Giant slalom

    Slalom

    Another article says:

    Simply put, it means Shiffrin fell and that fall disqualified her from finishing the rest of the course. To take it one step further for confused viewers, it means Shiffrin skis came out from underneath her.

    The fall didn't "disqualify" her, she missed a gate.  She could technically get up and go back through the gates correctly, but once she went down/off course she was effectively out of the race anyway. 

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    40 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

    I suppose, but I feel like you see less of that when you get to a level high enough to make it on ESPN (like basically, the CWS).

    My daughter played SB into HS, and I played BB into college.  Those college SB pitchers throw fast from pretty dang close; I'm not sure I could have hit it well back in my heyday.  

    Thirded.  We're big softball fans around our house.

    Slapping seems to be falling by the wayside a little bit since they changed the in/out of the batter's box rules.  Hotter bats are making it more of a power game as well.  

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    'The Reckoning' by David Halberstam.  It's basically about the history of the auto industry in American and Japan - focused on Ford and Nissan - but with a lot of tangential historical asides about oil, Japanese reconstruction, etc.  Fascinating stuff.  In the hands of a lesser writer it could be pretty dry stuff but Halberstam makes it a page-turner.  The only thing I'd read of his prior to this was 'The Education of a Coach'.  Now I'm thinking I need to read a lot more of his books.  

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    19 hours ago, supermike80 said:

    I dont remember who said it but I always liked the quote

    An electric car is a coal car

    Coal has been steadily declining as an electricity source for more than a decade and is now well out-paced by natural gas, which is much cheaper and much cleaner.  Coal is dying because natural gas is killing it.  We actually produce almost as much nuclear power as coal power at this point.  

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/U.S._annual_electricity_generation_by_energy_source_in_1970_through_2019_(49882975922).png

  15. Posted

    On 9/13/2020 at 12:00 PM, TylerRoseFan said:

    Damn, Man.  Just now seeing this.  Truly sorry to hear.  Keep doing what makes you happy.  Do the sh!t out of that stuff.  

    Same.  This focking bums me out Wiff.  I want to thank you for all the times you made me laugh out loud reading your stuff on here.  You're my boy Blue!

  17. Posted

    39 minutes ago, usurpers26 said:

    Yeah.  I know they made a big to-do on how there was no "cost" to the borrower (of course we all pay for it in the long run).  Who knows what the feds and lenders have worked out on the back end.

    They are interest-bearing at 1%.  I assume that is the bank's cut.  And even if you eventually get full forgiveness on the loan principle, the vig is running from day 1 so there will be some interest to be paid.  

  18. Posted

    14 hours ago, fandandy said:

    My payroll is not large enough to have even bothered with it plus I stopped scheduling the employees I had weeks ago.  What I don't understand, scrolling through this thread, how are some of you getting half a million-dollar loans for 2 plus months of wages?  What am I missing?  

    We got $420k for a 60 person payroll.  

    60 ish employees x 160 hours per month = 9,600 man hours per month.  9,600 x 2.5 months = 24,000 total man hours.  $420,000/24,000 = $17.50 per hour on average inclusive of all bennies.  Not hard at all.  

  20. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

    I’d wait to see if either loan is required to be paid back before throwing the bone?  Getting the money may be the easy part.

    We were going to apply for the PPP for both entities regardless.  It was just a matter of which bank or banks we were going to use.  

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, Hawkeye21 said:

    Did any of you have multiple banks get a hold of you about getting the loan.  I think every bank in the area called us asking if we knew about it and if we were going to apply for it.

    None called us, but  we used two different banks for ours and it was funny how different their standards were.  Our main bank wanted tax returns and some other stuff that wasn't required as we understood it, so we talked to one of the other banks we do business with and they were like "Oh no, we don't need any of that .  Show us your W-3 and a statement for your employee health insurance and you are good to go."  So I went back to our first bank with that and suddenly they didn't need near as much info.  We threw the second bank a bone with our S-corp loan, though it was a lot smaller.  

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    3 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

    Our business got approved for $520,000.

    We got $420k for our C-corp and $50k for our S-corp.  It was a little unnerving how easy it was to get that kind of money.  

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    24 minutes ago, usurpers26 said:

    Very interesting!  I personally know two business owners (construction company and travel agency) all of their "employees" are 1099.  They both were approved for PPP.  I wonder if they got their funds.  Selfishly, I am glad we have all W2 employees - so all my info on the 1099 side is anecdotal.

     

    They might get their funds if their banker isn't clear on the rules or is counting on them when certifying the number.  Where they could get into trouble is when it comes time for loan forgiveness and their "payroll" doesn't qualify.  

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    42 minutes ago, vuduchile said:

    According to my banker, originally they said you could but the rules have since been amended.  
     

    She’s saying that my 1099 workers could apply for their own PPP loan.  

    This is correct.  

    https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/PPP--IFRN FINAL_0.pdf

    h. Do independent contractors count as employees for purposes of PPP loan calculations?

    No, independent contractors have the ability to apply for a PPP loan on their own so they do not count for purposes of a borrower’s PPP loan calculation.

  25. Posted

    7 hours ago, Patriotsfatboy1 said:

    Both teams walk down the same tunnel to exit the field.  Which is just stupid. There were a couple of coaches from the Patriots that were watching the Bills finish warm-ups in AN OPEN AIR STADIUM as they walked off the field.  There is nothing illegal about it.

    McDermott had a stick up his ass all day and was a whining tool-bag.  It actually cost them some timeouts.  He probably should have worried more about noticing that his gunner on punts should come in to block if the Pats come with an all out blitz or have his punter (who the Patriots probably knew couldn't throw the ball since they had him in camp last year) throw the ball to a wide open gunner.  

    Then he b!tched after the game about the Jones hit saying it should have called for a suspension, when Allen was the one leading with this head trying to get first down.  It's like he's applying to be the third Harbaugh brother.  

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