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BOISE -- Here in Idaho, sinkholes can happen as the ground thaws from winter's freeze.
Scientists say sinkholes typically are caused by heavy water flows under roads -- and sometimes from rain and flooding, or even tunneling animals.
Just last week, several cars were engulfed by a sinkhole that opened up under a Chicago neighborhood street.
Yet, while Idaho has strong soil, according to geologists, we aren't safe from sinkholes.
In fact, last July a Melba woman died when she drove her can into a sinkhole that she didn't even notice on Butte Road, near Marsing.
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"Winter is rough for our roads because of the water," said Dan Bryant, the Maintenance Coordinator for the Idaho Transportation Department.
In the spring, his road crews head out looking for changes in the roads they patrol on a regular basis. They are looking for stretching asphalt or a bend, or dip in the road, even too many potholes in one area.
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When a crew finds something, Bryant said they have to act at once, to keep drivers from getting hurt.
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No one was hurt, but he said drivers can help road crews by looking for simple signs.
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Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course of two millennia. If they were to meet on the road today, what would each think of the other's spiritual views and practices?Twenty years ago at a conference I attended of theologians and professors of religion, an Indian Christian friend told the assembly, "We are going to hear about the beauties of several traditions, but that does not mean that we are going to make a fruit salad." When it came my turn to speak, I said, "Fruit salad can be delicious! I have shared the Eucharist with Father Daniel Berrigan, and our worship became possible because of the sufferings we Vietnamese and Americans shared over many years." Some of the Buddhists present were shocked to hear I had participated in the Eucharist, and many Christians seemed truly horrified. To me, religious life is life. I do not see any reason to spend one's whole life tasting one kind of fruit. We human beings can be nourished by the best values of many traditions.
Thich Nhat Hanh has been part of a decades-long dialogue between the two greatest living contemplative traditions, and brings to Christianity an appreciation of its beauty that could only be conveyed by an outsider. In a lucid, meditative prose, he explores the crossroads of compassion and holiness at which the two traditions meet, and reawakens our understanding of both. "On the altar in my hermitage," he says, "are images of Buddha and Jesus, and . . . I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors."
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Brian Hibbs looks at the lessons to be learned from what happened to Comic Relief in the wake of Rory Root's passing, plus what the current Borders crisis illustrates about the benefits of buying locally.
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Brian Hibbs looks at the lessons to be learned from what happened to Comic Relief in the wake of Rory Root's passing, plus what the current Borders crisis illustrates about the benefits of buying locally.
Full article here.
Hey Brian,
Great article as always. So great to hear actual knowledge about how these things are versus fans speculating about how things are.
I'd say that for LCSs, like any business, the key is how to differentiate your product/store such that there is a reason to shop there. There is such fixation on "price" in the comics industry and that is just a losing game for LCSs. There is just no way in hell they can ever compete with online shops like DCBS or back-issue places like Mycomicshop or eBay. They lose and lose badly.
So, basically, the LCS is selling a premium priced product and they have to do something to justify that premium.
The biggest advantage they have over the other channels is their IMMEDIACY. If you buy your comics at an LCS on Wednesday at lunch, nothing will get spoiled. Play that up! Of course, that means that the LCS employees have to act excited about generic Marvel/DC comics. I know and understand that most LCS employees who love comics often love non-Big 2 comics, but their advantage in IMMEDIACY doesn't help them sell things like Fearless Dawn or Atomic Robo because those comics aren't going to get spoiled if I have to wait a week. But, who died in Fantastic Four is going to get ruined if you don't read your issue asap!
I think they also need to figure out the whole browsing thing. I'm not a big one for leafing through issues before buying, but if one of your benefits is being able to "hold the merchandise in your hands" you should probably put up a little sign that says, "Feel free to leaf through the front copy."
And....there are little thing they could do also like get their customers hooked on custom binding their back issues and then offer to be a middle man between the customer and the binder to ease that baffling process for first timers.
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I'm gutted to hear about the closing of Comic Relief, much as I was devastated to hear about Rory's death.
I didn't know him personally, but I grew up in the East bay, taking the bus on the weekends to that other comic book store where Rory worked to buy my comics, and he loomed large as a warm, charismatic figure over my childhood. I was generally too shy to get into meeting strangers, but I always loved being around the guy and listening in on whatever conversation he was having, usually some fascinating (and hilariously rendered) take on comics or the industry.
When Comic Relief opened I was in transition, towards the end of high school, away at college and later relocating to LA... but on my regular visits home Comic Relief was one of my few mandatory stops. Their last two locations epitomized what a comic book shops wants to and can be. At least, to me they did.
Last fall, home for Thanksgiving, I of course went by Comic Relief. I had to ask if they had moved new comics from the back wall (as it was bare) and was informed that they hadn't received new stock in a matter of weeks. I found something to take away with me anyway (support!) but left mostly with a gloomy feeling about the state of affairs in the shop.
Well, your article sheds a lot of light on the situation... Rory is missed, even by those who only knew him from afar. I suppose Comic Relief will be missed, now, too.
Support local business!
If you love having a local comic book shop then you better darn shop in it.
Nuff said.
Well Written Article Brian,
Rory was a Personal Friend. I'm not telling you aything new to say he thought highly of you Brian and always had 'Tilting at Windmills" in stock to refer to anyone (including me) who was considering entering the retail Comics Business.
It breaks my heart to see what happened to Comic Relief after his death. I've never met any of his family and frankly do not care to.
His wishes, while not in a will, were clear to all of us. He said it to me personally several times.
Another lesson to take away from Rory's passing is to take care of yourself as well...he continually put off Medical Procedures.
His Dr had been telling him for some time that he had to get his weight down to lower the risk of having surgery until it couldn't be put off any longer.
As a business owner, taking care of yourself or as you said, having the appropriate documents in place to assure the business continues; is looking out for your employees.
I just wasn't right to not have a Comic Relief booth at Comic-Con last year.
-Ray Feighery
Y'know, the reason why LCSs and brick and mortar bookstores are in trouble is the same that the local aircraft modelling stores are disappearing. They've been confronted with a new - and better - business model. DCBS and Amazon can supply the same product at a huge savings. And since I live in Seattle, and therefore have to pay the 10% sales tax, the rest of the country gets an additional 10% discount above what I get. Honestly, unless you have to have it RIGHT NOW I can't see how local stores are going to compete in these particular niche markets. That's just capitalistic Darwinism in action.
It has been my dream to open up a comic book store for a long time.
Reading about the current state of affairs makes me wonder, this store would really have to be something special.
I've seen a couple where the people running them were miserable, the selection was poor and they ended up closing up.
I go to Forbidden Planet in the UK and others LCSs a fair bit and buy my montly issues there but they are pricing themselves out of the market for TPBs. Amazon with low to no postage cost could eat them alive in the UK. Most Northlander books are £6-7 on Amazon while they are £10-12 in stores.
Glasgow's Forbidden Planet has the best selection in Scotland but they lump the quality stuff in with a deluge of superhero dross.
The Beguiling in Toronto is probably the best comic book store I've been to and they separate their superhero stuff from everything else. And they really have a great deal to offer.
Independent stuff, Tintin, Disney, vintage, erotica, magazines like Illustration and TCJ, all sorts of stuff. It's a store for the medium and probably no surprise that they are the best rated by creators and consumers.
If I were to take the plunge I would follow their model, but I can say I've been to maybe 10 different LCSs and theirs was the only one to use the medium model.
Good article as always, Mr. Hibbs.
Interesting.Originally Posted by Brian Hibbs
There's a factoid from six months or so ago that's recently been trotted around by various comics internet militantly-pro-digital pundits: Apparently sometime last year Amazon announced that within an uncertain span of time sales of digital books surpassed their sales of hardcover books. (BTW, the comics pundits often leave out the qualifier of "hardcover", opting instead to say that digital books surpassed all physical books.) This factoid, however, was debunked soon after the story broke: a huge percentage of the digital book sales made thru Amazon cost $0.00. There were/are many digital promotions in which Kindle buyers can get many digital books for free. Usually they're books they don't want, but the free legal files are there, and they show up in Amazon's shopping cart, for a price of $0.00, so technically they were bought.
I'm not anti-digital, but this is the sort of skewed information one has to fight through to find the truth. Unsurprisingly, many of the most rah-rah pro-digital people have insufficient attention-spans to actually look beneath the surface and study what's really going on.
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My sympathies on the loss of your friend, Brian. Rory was a big presence in the industry, and he and Comic Relief are missed.
I miss a lot of the great shops that I frequented over the years. I used to love going to a new town and finding the Indy bookstores and the out of the way comic shops. I always joked with my wife that I had "Comic Sense" meaning that I could predict with eerie accuracy the location of a comic shop in a town.
Unfortunately that particular superpower rarely activates these days.
While the majority of physical purchases may still happen online, that changes with the demographic. Consider that the majority of your customers are "geeks", who tend towards knowledge work, and who are more likely technically savvy (and who obviously have disposable income). They tend to be the first to migrate to a new way of thinking.
Plus we're all (comic nerds), hitting the same age where we need more space for our children's stuff, and can't justify the 29 long boxes in our basements anymore.
On top of that, our overall bills are increasing and diversifying. I pay nearly $300 a month on a bill that 10 years ago simply didn't exist (2 wireless phones with data plans, home phone, cable, and Internet).
On top of all that, people have changed their habits. A large majority of people (upwards of 75%) use the Internet to research major purchases. If your shop doesn't have a GOOD Internet presence with easy to find information about what's new and your location, your chances of success are lower. I'm not talking about Diamond's silly comic shop locator service, I mean good ole fashioned Google, where 90% of all searches happen.
Some shops get this and are successful. Look to A Comic Shop and the major presence they have online. That translates to dollars in the door.
Comic retailers need to evolve, and time is of the essence.
Brian Garside
I live in Tempe, Arizona, and there's a new-and-used bookstore called Changing Hands. It used to be on our main street, Mill Avenue, and my dad would take me there when I was four.How many thousands of independent book stores have gone under in the face of chain retail, and now how many scores of communities will now have no bookstore available to them when their local Borders closes?
Ten or fifteen years ago, rents on Mill got high; Changing Hands had to move and Borders set up shop a little ways down the road.
That Borders is long gone -- years ago, well before the bankruptcy -- but Changing Hands is still around. In fact I biked over there yesterday, and bought a copy of Zot.
There's no doubt whatsoever that Amazon played a role in Borders's collapse (and iTunes in Tower's, and Netflix in Blockbuster's), but Barnes and Noble is still doing brisk business. Therefore we must conclude that B&N is doing something right that Borders was doing wrong. Brian mentioned the rent; maybe B&N simply chose its locations more wisely. And there's also B&N's online and eBook presence -- no, it's no Amazon, but it's a damn sight better than Borders's was, and people know what a Nook is. (Anybody ever hear of a Kobo?) But that's not the whole story; you can't prop a brick-and-mortar business up entirely on a website and an eBook reader.
I think part of it is simply that people still prefer walking around a physical location, holding products in their hands, and talking face-to-face to other human beings. Amazon can beat just about anybody in terms of price and selection, but if I'm walking past a bookstore and have some time to kill, I'm probably going to wander around for a bit.
Amazon is tough competition, there's no doubt about that. But it IS possible to compete with it -- if it weren't, there'd be nobody else left. (And see how long those low prices would last THEN.)


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Write analytical papers about conflict resolution concepts and a recent or current interpersonal conflicts. Select a real conflict situation where you either a participant in the conflict or a closely related observer. Thoroughly analyze the conflict, prepare a plan for conflict management, implement the plan, and evaluate the outcome. This analysis needs to be substantive and reflect mastery of the key learning outcomes of the course. Length and format are determined by your instructor, although papers are typically a minimum of 10 pages and use American Psychological Association (APA) style format. Please use the following structure for your core assessment assignment:
PART 1: INTRODUCTION. Demonstrate the positive value of conflict. Students should describe the conflict situation, including the people involved; focus on observable facts; and describe the valuable opportunities offered by the conflict. Preview the rest of the paper.
PART 2: ASSESSMENT. Demonstrate examination of the types of responses to conflict and understand one's personal responses. Students should demonstrate course content knowledge by applying textbook principles and course learning materials to assess the conflict. Students are encouraged to use research-based theory and peer-reviewed journal articles in their external research for the papers. Students may want to discuss personal and other perspectives on the conflict, goals, power, conflict styles and tactics.
PART 3. PLAN AND IMPLEMENTATION. Demonstrate skill training in the positive resolution of daily interpersonal conflicts. Demonstrate investigation of the concepts of getting to yes and getting past no and the value of win-win outcomes. Demonstrate study of the relationship of communication skills and group process in building positive conflicts. Students should demonstrate course content skills by applying textbook principles and course learning materials to plan for resolution or management of the conflict. Students should discuss problem-solving, conflict resolution, mediation, or other conflict management skills they can employ in the specific situation.
PART 4. EVALUATION OF RESULTS. Demonstrate identification of the communication behaviors that result in more successful outcomes in conflicts. Students should demonstrate course content analysis and evaluation by describing how they implemented new skills, changed previous behaviors, and worked toward resolutions or management of the conflict.
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Assessment of learning will include class participation, exercises, written papers, oral presentations, and written examinations. Individual student assessments will be based on the student's on-going involvement and contribution to the class. The following tools will also assist in the assessment process:
Journals – You will create a journal with entries documented at the end of every class. These will be short (one paragraph, single-spaced) responses to a selection of questions to demonstrate your competency of the learning objectives. Label each with your name and journal entry # on the top right hand of the document. Journal entries will be checked for completion on the dates they are written. At the end of the term you will combine them into one document and turn them in Week 9.
Mid Term Examination: A culmination of the information presented in Chapters 1 through 9 will be on week 5.
Final Examination: A culmination of the information presented in Chapters 10 through 14 will be week 9.
Conflict Description Paper – Analysis paper of a movie that demonstrates achievement of competencies. This should be a three to five page research based paper that utilizes a minimum of three sources. The paper is due on week 6.
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Write analytical papers about conflict resolution concepts and a recent or current interpersonal conflicts. Select a real conflict situation where you are either a participant in the conflict or a closely related observer. Thoroughly analyze the conflict, prepare a plan for conflict management, implement the plan, and evaluate the outcome. This analysis needs to be substantive and reflect mastery of the key learning outcomes of the course. Length and format are determined by your instructor, although papers are typically a minimum of 10 pages and use American Psychological Association (APA) style format. Please use the following structure for your core assessment assignment:
Grading: Attendance &Class Participation 20% 100 points
Midterm Exam 10% 50 points
Final Exam 10% 50 points
Conflict Description Paper 15% 75 points
Core Assessment Paper 20% 100 points
Oral Presentation 5% 25 points
Class Exercises & Assignments 5% 25 points
Weekly Journals 15% 75 points
Total 100% 500 points
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Introduction to class and syllabus
How do you deal with Conflict Class Assignment
Introduction to the Study of Conflict
Types of Conflicts
Responding to Conflict: The S-TLC System
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Communication Options in Conflict Situations
Conflict Styles, Strategies and Tactics
Effectively Confronting Others
Cooperative Negotiation in Win-Lose Conflicts
Journal Entry
Social-Psychological Perspectives of Conflict
A Process View of Conflict: Phases, Stages, and Cycles
Mid-Term(Chapter 1-9)
Conflict Climate: Power, Distrust, and Defensiveness
Conflict Case Study
Escalation of Conflict: Anger and Stress
Impression Management in Conflict Situations
After the Conflict:Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Mediation as Third-Party Intervention
Review – Final Exam (Chapter 10-14)
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Final Exam (Chapters 10-14)
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The magazine reports Mathieu appeared in a video made by a group of his friends that goes by the name Era Nation in which he promotes a party at a Baton Rouge club called The Palace on March 10 of this year.
His pictures were also on fliers promoting the event called "Era Nation Album Release Party For Tyrann Mathieu." The flier also featured photographs of former LSU star Mo Claiborne, now with the Dallas Cowboys, and current LSU defensive tackle Anthony Johnson.
NCAA rules prohibit student-athletes from allowing their names or pictures to be used in advertising the sale of a product or service.
LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette said the school is aware of the promotional material with Johnson's photograph, but does not believe he committed an NCAA violation.
"We are comfortable that Anthony did not know about it," Bonnette said.
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Normally I hate flipping through the various pages. But this one was worth it. No Ring Having *****e$ was my favorite.
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That's not a monkey or gorilla nor is it made to look like one. But I am also offended by this as I like Mr. James.
I saw the gorilla pic. That's not cool!
So how come you all aren't offended by the picture comparing Bosh to the ostrich? It seems like you're the ones discriminating against monkeys and gorillas. If anything, I'm sure gorillas everywhere are up in arms about being compared to an arrogant douche like Lebron James. Before anyone starts crying or pulling out the race card, no, I'm not white. ALL the pictures were funny. Get over your insecurities already, please.
I have a picture comparing different facial expressions of George W. Bush to those of monkeys and gorillas. Does that mean rhat I'm calling Bush a black man? Get over yourself.
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If the IOC had been smart, they would have also trademarked the factorization (2 * 19 * 53) to ensure than any year derived from any of those was also kept in check. Heck, just trademark the number "1"…
I'd be interested to view the same statistics framed in a per-capita context to see whether it's just because population is rising (and thus there's a corresponding rise in output). I suspect that, even looking at the per-capita stats, one would still see a rise, but it would be helpful to have that included.
Story here. Sigh. This country is so messed up.
The filing runs only two pages but is loaded with adjectives.
The two-page, bare-bones Summons With Notice accuses the newspaper of "falsely, maliciously, recklessly, slanderously, libelously and irresponsibly publicly stating in the interactive website www.lohud.com that plaintiff First Impression LLC is a licensed handgun owner."
My first thought was to use the star+digits (e.g. *57 or whatever) for reporting after the call. Thich is both easy and reasonable for the telcos to implement. Issues I saw:
- marketing that the feature is available. This can be addressed with money which the telcos certainly seem to rake in hand-over-fist. I still remember *69 from the telco advertising back in the 80s.
- pranksters that report people. This could be mitigated by the telcos maintaining a "this phonenumber/source has received more than N complaints from more than M recipients" tally, and only take action against those that exceed a certain threshold.
Fair enough. But the 145% is about 16% per year for each of the 6 years, which is what I seem to remember is decent for credit-card interest :-)
But for Harvard to complain "it's gone up an average of 16% over the last 6 years" doesn't sound nearly as dramatic.
It's not to say that the periodicals' prices aren't ludicrous TOO, it's just to say that an institution of higher learning are at a pretty lousy place to complain about compounding prices.
27-28% isn't nearly as much as the 6-year increase at 1987 which was +76% total (and a jump of almost +90% of base tuition). No wonder academic publishers figured ridiculous pricing hikes were the norm. For Harvard to complain that it "far exceeds not only the consumer price index, but also the higher education and the library price indices" sounds a bit rich to me. Literally.
Prices for online content from two providers have increased by about 145% over the past six years, which far exceeds not only the consumer price index, but also the higher education and the library price indicesI mean, Havard's total student cost (PDF) has only gone up 27-28% in the last 6 years. How's a poor university to cope?
A while back, Techdirt posted a definitive post on why SOPA and PIPA are bad ideas. Perhaps a similar post on the point-by-point issues with CISPA would help raise awareness on this latest troublemaker.
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Even after the Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension expires, I suspect Disney will lean on the Mickey/Steamboat Willy trademarks to come down hard on anybody who has the audacity to use "their" works.
it's just the visual analog to audio-sampling which is clearly legal! Oh, wait. Nope, never mind. The music folks have pressed hard to demonstrate that sampling is not legal.
But it's just in the background, not the primary focus of the video! Oh, nope. Forgot about arguments in Lenz v. Universal.
Um, give me a bit more time and I can tell you why this is different from the others...oh wait, because it's the recording industry being sued, instead of doing the suing!
How about "Give our troops something worth protecting: freedom. Vote against HR-3261"?
My protozoan ancestors originally designed this "evolution" thing and you "evolvees" are merely coasting on minor tweaks in their original design. Pay up, you parasitic primates!
my first thought on reading this article was "Hmm, there's a business opportunity here for somebody to set up an auto-request-extensions business because this judge isn't meeting the needs of his government customers..."
Which is why the redaction-of-the-final-letter(s) case interested me :) Does one treat it as if the terminal "s" is there, or does one treat it as if it's not an "s", or is there some peculiar exception for redacted letters?
From your first two links, it sounds like either is acceptable as long as one is consistent. :)
commnet.edu: "Some writers will say that the -s after Charles' is not necessary and that adding only the apostrophe (Charles' car) will suffice to show possession. Consistency is the key here: if you choose not to add the -s after a noun that already ends in s, do so consistently throughout your text."
purdue.edu: "James' hat is also acceptable."
Personally, I'm from the Strunk & White category that would use "James's" (or in this case, the original "Mr. Smarta**'s" as was in the post), but I can't see things like that without at least wondering about it.
Next up, we have Mr. Smarta**'s wonderful comment...
Even if you wanted to argue that it's somehow "good for the economy" to artificially prop up pharma companies with longer and stronger patents, if it comes at the expense of public health, that's not going to help the economy at all. A healthy population is a consuming population. Letting people die around the world is not good for the economy.


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Our combined Pre-Occupational Therapy program and the Master of Occupational Therapy program are fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). To comply with the ACOTE and AOTA requirement that all entry-level occupational therapists be prepared at the Master's degree level:
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The NHL gets no direct financial benefit from allowing players to represent their homelands and gets little access to players, their images, or video of them during the Games, limiting promotional opportunities. After losing nearly half of this season to a lockout, owners have little incentive to shut down for 16 days for games that won't be aired live during North American prime time.
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The cost will depend on how long it takes and that depends on what, if anything, is in the vent and where it is.
I am pretty sure our vent pipe is obstructed. I can't see what exactly it is (too far down, but must still be above where the upstairs toilet joins as that still flushes. I don't know if it is bird, squirrel, etc.)
Is there a safe way for me to remove the obstruction without great risk of pushing it down further?
I am not opposed to having a professional do the job but have no idea how much a typical plumber would charge. What would some of you plumbers charge (and what part of the country are you?) We are in Northeast Indiana, if anyone is close.
If hiring a professional is the way to go, I will make calls this week. But, I wanted to get an idea of the price/cost first.
The cost will depend on how long it takes and that depends on what, if anything, is in the vent and where it is.
MPM will probably tell you that 3" is not required as VTR in the state. If you have 1.5" or 2" sticking through the roof, and your roof is a 9/12 or 12/12 pitch, expect hazard pay for the work to be done to unobstruct the vent.
Read what the end of this sentence means.
Good info. Never hired a plumber before. What is the typical mid-west hourly rate (range)? Is there an outdoor rate that is different than indoor? I am sure most of the plumbers have done a few of these. Is this a ten minute job - or at least less than 1 hour (1 hour minimum charge) or a 2-3 hour job (typically)?
I don't know the pitch of the roof, but it strikes me as a little steep. Probably would get charged hazard pay. How much more does this typically add on (double rate, 1.5x rate, rate plus $10, etc)?
I didn't measure the pipe, but it is larger than 1.5 - 2 in. Probably 3-4 inch. It is located along the driveway side of the house, maybe 4 feet in past the roof line (gutter), on a 2nd story roof.
Thanks for your help!
Last edited by DavidD; 07-15-2007 at 11:17 AM.
Regarding my question about typical mid-west rate range... I am not looking for specifics necessarily.
I don't know if plumbers charge $30/hr, or $75/hr or $150-200/hr.
Main focus with this: 1hour x $30/hr = $30 job; 3hrs x $200/hr = $600 job. Big range! Just trying to get an idea.
Why don't you call a couple of locals and ask them?
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"The biggest regrets we have in life are the chances we never took."
Did I not say this in my first post? What is the point of this forum if I can't run things by people first who are NOT interested in getting my money?Originally Posted by DavidD
Please read the posts before making such 'BRILLIANT' comments.
I've already admitted my ignorance on the matter, which makes me a prime candidate to be taken advantage of. Pretty pointless to have a forum to help, when no help is offered.
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a forum is good to have, when you are unsure about things. For example, how do you "know" that the vent is obstructed? That might be worth discussing. Your skill at diagnosing may not be up to the task; you might pay for an expert to do something that then turns out to be the wrong thing to do, or not enough, or whatever. Far better to get experts in to perform both stages, 1. querying, probing, and diagnosis, and then 2. recommendation of one or more solutions, and execution of the agreed-upon one.Originally Posted by DavidD
As for pricing, you can certainly find out locally what range you are in by talking to friends and neighbors; you do have some. No-one in this forum (or in other forums, AFAIK) likes to name prices because so many things can vary regionally and depend on the scope of the work -- which is not defined yet regardless of the few questions answered so far. The first response, from hj, said a lot in a few words. It could be argued that everything he didn't say didn't need to be said.
Some threads sit without any responses for several days. Yours got a lot of posts. When no-one answers a specific question, and you ask again, you haven't struck any taboos, but the answer you got was fair and I wouldn't mind hearing you thank the forum.
When one person then posts something sarcastic, you can certainly extrapolate and blame the whole forum, but I wouldn't recommend blaming everyone, assuming you will listen to me.
I did say above that you can ask friends and neighbors; there is an easy quip coming from anyone with a sarcastic mind, and here it is : "Assuming you have friends" Glad we got that out of the way.
run it by us.Originally Posted by DavidD
I like helping persistent people who are able to figure out what they don't know and what they need to know. If people call themselves ignorant in certain matters, that is fine by me.
Plumbers will state their hourly rates when you call them on the phone. It's not a big deal.
I read the posts before hand.Originally Posted by DavidD
That was humor, intended for Gary's note on the obvious.
Put the gun down...no need to shoot me.
Also, I am a plumber, I get these calls all the time "Can you give me a quick price on remodelling my home over the phone?"
You can definitely get an hourly rate on the phone, but there's no possible way to tell you how long it'll take...it could be a pile of dried leaves, it could be some mangled piece of metal thats hooked onto the sides of the pipe, my guess...something more in the line of leaves.
"The biggest regrets we have in life are the chances we never took."
Thank you, geniescience and others who responded.
"The first response, from hj, said a lot in a few words. It could be argued that everything he didn't say didn't need to be said."
Others did add very useful information, to which I did reply, "Good info." I didn't want to say thank you till the end so as not to imply I didn't want anymore information. I didn't know anything about hazard pay, although I still don't know how much it could amount to. I understand that folks don't want to quote money, but asking for an approximate range, I didn't think was out of line. Regardless of the regional hourly rate, I also thought it was fair to have someone more clearly define hazard pay. 1.5x normal rate, doesn't disclose anything too specific, but gives me a very good idea as to what to expect. But if no one wants to tell me any approximations, that's fine.
I have spoken to friends, neighbors and family. Most of whom do for themselves and have never called a plumber. I would rather do this for myself, which is why I also asked about how to safely do it. No one has made any suggestions though. If I knew a snake would retrieve it and not push it down further, making it even more costly to retrieve, I would surely try that.
About diagnosis, my friend who helped me first, didn't think that the vent was obstructed. We tried several things, none of which worked. I did have a diagnosis discussion in this forum earlier. No consensus was reached - which is hard to do not having it in front of you. My dad was over recently and he is pretty convinced that it is in fact obstructed. I agree with the points that he made, and am reasonably sure that the problem is in fact due to a vent pipe obstruction.
In my diagnosis discussion, I stated that the problem happened all of a sudden, in the middle of winter. So, I don't think it is a leaf buildup, but rather a bird/nest or squirrel. Here & now, I did not restate all of the diagnosis info, but did theorize that it was an animal. It seemed reasonable to me that for someone who does this type of job fairly routinely might be able to tell me if it 'usually' takes less than one hour or multiple hours to remove an animal. But then again, I still don't know the normally used method(s) used to remove obstructions. Is it one method for leaves and another method for dead squirrel? A combination method for bird/nest?
I am not the expert, so I don't know all the right questions to ask. Thanks to all who have helped and/or might respond further.
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You can expect to pay a plumber anywhere from about 60 to about 150 an hour; depends on your location, etc.
Some outfits, in some places (like Manhattan) will charge a lot more than that, I've seen 250/hr (but only once).
Some will charge you for travel time, some won't.
Well, I called several plumbers today. A couple gave me an estimated flat rate for the job, both around $275. Another gave a $65 service and $80/hr with 2 guys because of the second story (I understood this then to be $160/hr). Two methods were spoken of as I understood them: An augur (removal) operated by 300lb machine. Difficult and expensive to get up on a second story; and Power washing (forcing it through).
Knowing these 2 methods, I chose to try my own hand at it. Took my Rigid professional portable 4 gallon shop vac up, ran the hose down, sucked up a bunch of stuff. No leaves, no squirrel. Mostly about 3.5 cups of rusted cast iron chips. There was 1 bird skeleton and 1 walnut. There appeared to be a bend in the pipe where the stuff accumulated. Checked the toilet flush and there was basically no air gurgle (got air through the stack instead of the bowl). I don't have a power washer, but put the garden hose with sprayer attachment down and did a final flush. If I need to, the neighbor has one I can borrow... just as soon as they get it back from their daughter... Checked the toilet flush - nearly perfect. I am not saying that professionals could not get it better, but I got it good enough in less than 1/2 hour and without a 300 lb machine.
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Sweet! Shopvacs are the greatest thing (I can actually remember the days before shopvacs)... it's like there's always another use I never thought of.


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