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He wouldn’t. But if he did 150 pools per year at say 100k per pool that’s $15 million per year of gross revenue. He can afford the overhead of managing the accounts.
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This is why I would never use another small-time pool builder unless he showed me evidence that he complied with section 162.006 of the Texas Property Code. I would want a separate construction account with only my money in it. Of course, the guy probably would tell me to get lost. So I would end up using a well established company that presumably would not be judgment proof. Yes, at some level, every entity is judgment proof.
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This, although I agree that the payment schedule at issue is pretty standard. My pool builder, basically a guy in a pickup, ran out of money after gunite and plumbing was done. By that time I had paid him about 70% of the contract price. I finally fired him after three months of no activity (it was post financial crisis and he had no new jobs). I had to sub it out myself to finish the job. It cost me about an extra $20k over and above the original contract price.
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When it finally opened last October, my downtown Houston gym only required masks if you couldn’t social distance inside the gym which was never.
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Zero.
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We are battling Parkinson’s and dementia for both my father and my MIL. Both at 90. In many cases people are living too long. My father is living his greatest nightmare. Not being independent is way worse than death.
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Already sick of rain in Houston. Really fucking up my golf games.
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When our kids were young we gave them all of the vaccines that were available except the flu. Now that they are in their late 20’s they get the flu shot every year as do I. My wife hates shots so she rarely gets the seasonal flu shot. We all have been vaccinated for Covid.
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This. No change here. Good to see some folks who, for many reasons, were holed up for over a year and who are now coming alive.
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The pay schedule is common but try to negotiate for the payments to be more back ended. If the builder is basically just a sole proprietor he’s almost certainly using your money to finish up someone else’s pool. If he doesn’t have another build after yours then he can take a very long time to scrounge the money to finish your pool. That happened to me and I had to finish my pool on my own.
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Try one of the online tee time services. Also, the concierge of your hotel can help.
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There apparently isn't even a consensus on the number of deaths in the period soon after the exposure. The wiki quotes a 30 (not 31) number and then says 30 more died in the "decades since" the explosion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster Other sites use the 31 number for those who died from direct exposure. See quote and link below. You are correct about possible increases in cancer and other deaths over the long term. Thirty five years after the incident and there is no consensus on that and the possible numbers are all over the place. 31 people died as a direct result of the Chernobyl accident; two died from blast effects and a further 29 firemen died as a result of acute radiation exposure (where acute refers to infrequent exposure over a short period of time) in the days which followed. https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima
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From the American Society of Gene + Cell Therapy on November 17, 2020 before the term "gene therapy" was being used by some kooks to argue that it altered your DNA. That was not my intent in using the term. The ASGCT uses the term gene therapy three times. The video from the ASGCT website is probably the best and simplest explanation of mRNA vaccines that I've heard. From the video: the vaccines "deliver synthetic mRNA molecules into cells instructing them to make antigens." https://asgct.org/research/news/november-2020/covid-19-moderna-nih-vaccine
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You would be misinformed. The pharma companies and the media have referred to it is gene therapy. Do just a little research and you’ll find the articles online. I’m not using the term to mean that it modifies genes. It can be gene therapy without altering your genes.
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Hope it doesn’t kill another 31 people.
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LOL. Did that guy ever reappear?
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What’s it like to be constipated? I drop one every morning after my coffee/breakfast without fail. Usually have at least one other BM later in the day. I’m 58 and I’ve never been constipated.
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Yea, the posters here are not as bad as some hobbyists in other areas. The wine geeks, for example, on some wine boards think it's their God-given right to get current vintages of classified Bordeaux at 1980 prices for around $35 per bottle for First Growths and around $15 per bottle for Second-Fifth Growths. No one but them are qualified to truly enjoy the best wines in the world so they blame the producers, the negociants, the exchange rates, governments, the three tier system, etc. They rarely acknowledge that market forces are largely responsible for the current state of the wine market. A growing group of people around the globe with more $$ than ever are chasing a fixed amount of product. That leads me to a question: Is the bourbon craze going on world wide or is it mostly an American thing?
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That there is so much complaining and whining about how expensive the hard to get stuff has become when there is a lot of really good stuff out there at reasonable prices.
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That there is so much complaining and whining about how expensive the hard to get stuff has become when there is a lot of really good stuff out there at reasonable prices.
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As I’m enjoying WT 101 this evening with Israel under attack I just don’t get the angst from chasing all of the crazy expensive Bourbon.
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Can’t tell if you are serious. Harris County has almost 4.8 million people. There are only 195 people with or suspected with covid in ICU throughout the county and 527 in general beds. Those numbers have been continually dropping since January. The only people who actually believe in the red level threat are Lina and a few useful idiots.
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The unknown long term effects are unknown. And there may be none at all. The long term effects of the vaccine are unknown as well. I and my family took that risk and got the shots. I’m only saying that it would be a tougher call if my kids were young. Another data point for me is that I know so many people with college aged kids and younger and none of them have said it was worse than the common cold for their kids. That and the death stats show that the seasonal flu is more deadly than covid for people under 20. So it’s not a no brainer either way for me.
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This. No one in Harris County takes the red level seriously.
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What you think is crazy and what I think is crazy are two different things. There are unknowns on both sides of this. All of the available data shows that youngsters are at very little risk from covid. It’s completely reasonable to not vaccine your young children in this unique case. I’m also saying you are not foolish to have your young children vaccinated for covid. For those of you who might think I’m generally antivax read my first post on this topic. My whole family has been fully vaccinated.
