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Do You Let Contractors Use Your Bathroom?
But Summers found it odd when a Sears Home Improvement Products representative asked to use the facilities twice in an hour. She says she later discovered the OxyContin prescribed for her recent back surgery was missing from a vanity drawer.
"I canceled the contract," says the Stanwood, Wash., member. "I didn't want to purchase anything from someone who was unethical." Kimberly Freely, a spokeswoman for Sears, says their investigation of the incident was inconclusive and the representative is in good standing.
Summers says she's now more wary about having contractors use her restroom, though she'd never make it off-limits.
"I just am not the type of person who could deny someone the use of the bathroom," she says. Now she checks the drawers and removes personal items beforehand.
The question of whether to allow a contractor use of your bathroom is one that evokes strident opinions on all sides of the debate, though more than half of Angie's List members who responded to an online poll say they're comfortable with the practice and 36 percent say they're comfortable with it in some situations.
'Everyone has to go'
Susan Jerman of Denver says when she had about eight workers redoing her siding and a patio, a portable toilet just showed up with the dumpster. However, before later jobs that included kitchen and bath remodels, replacement windows and hardwood floor installation, she offered the use of her downstairs powder room to avoid any awkwardness.
"I've always offered it upfront," she says, adding that she's careful to hire contractors she's comfortable having in her house. "Everyone has to go to the bathroom."
Peggy Post of the Emily Post Institute, an organization dedicated to questions of etiquette, says it's best to form a plan in advance.
"There is no one-size-fits-all answer, as long as you are respectful," says Post, who is related by marriage to a descendent of American etiquette icon Emily Post. "I would recommend trying to accommodate the person who's working in your home."
She says it's perfectly acceptable to offer a powder room, provide paper towels or make other special accommodations.
"Prior to contractors coming to the house, I clean the bathroom that they're going to be using," says member Jennifer Hendrix, who's had contractors in and out of her new house in Fountain, Colo. "I make sure there's nothing of value in there, that there's no medication. I even remove the toothbrushes for my own peace of mind."
Fifty percent of members who responded to an Angie's List poll extend the courtesy of using all bathrooms and 27 percent offer up the guest bathroom. Many members said that if you're uncomfortable with workers using your bathroom, you've hired the wrong contractor. Further, many commented that you should treat them as any other guest.
Views vary across the board
Tricia Tahara-Stoller says she always offers workers the use of her bathroom and the freedom to grab cold drinks from the fridge in her Glendale, Calif., home.
Comfort levels
• 55% of members say they're completely comfortable with contractors using their bathroom.
• 36% say they're only comfortable with it in some situations.
• 9% say they're not comfortable with it at all.
"Something as simple as allowing or not allowing a contractor to use your bathroom can send a very strong message about how you perceive them," Tahara-Stoller says. "When people feel respected as human beings, you get a much better result than when they feel treated as untrustworthy."
Some members who responded to our poll were surprised anyone would be uncomfortable having a contractor use their restroom.
"Really? This seems like a no-brainer. I wouldn't hesitate to let someone use my restroom," remarks one respondent. Others say extending the invitation is insurance against having your bushes "watered." Some just wish their guests would be a little more considerate with how they leave the facilities.
"I had a carpet cleaner ask to use the bathroom, then left a disgusting mess in the toilet and didn't bother to tell us about it," another respondent wrote.
When member Michelle Lay discovered a drywall contractor had left the seat up in the bathroom of her Glendale, Wis., home, it was the last straw for an otherwise unsatisfactory experience. "It just shocked me," she says. "My son doesn't even do that when he comes to visit."
Overwhelmingly, members acknowledged there's not much you can do when nature calls, even when they're not wild about having contractors in their most private domain. A mere 9 percent of those who responded to our online poll say they are not comfortable with a contractor using their facilities at all and 7 percent say they never allow it. No one with those views responded to interview requests.
Contractors' opinions
Dan Cox of AHS Plumbing & Sewer Repair in Wheeling, Ill., says denying someone use of the bathroom sends the message you think they're inferior. "If you trust them to work in your home, you should trust them in your bathroom," Cox says.
If someone denied him the opportunity to relieve himself? "I'd get my tools and leave," he says. "I would say, 'I'm sorry but I don't think this is going to work out, consider our contract canceled.'"
But 25 percent of contractors who responded to an online poll of service companies rated on Angie's List say they don't believe customers are obligated to offer the use of their potties.
David Webber, who owns David's Home Cleaning in Raleigh, N.C., says he would never think of using a client's bathroom except in a dire emergency, even though he can sometimes be on a job for eight hours.
"It's like a personal, private space," Webber says.
On long jobs, he'll take a break to use a restroom off-site.
Kristopher Toth, owner of Toth Painting Solutions in Parma, Ohio, says he doesn't expect to use his clients' bathrooms.
"I think it's a courtesy; I don't think we can just assume we can use their bathroom," Toth says.
He and his six full-time employees usually go to a nearby fast food restaurant to relieve themselves, but if a client who lives in a secluded area offers the use of the facilities, they'll accept to save time on the job.
"But we'll definitely make sure that at the end of the day it's tidy," he says. "We don't want to add more stress for them."
Some contractors report taking off shoes when entering a client's home to use the bathroom or bringing paper towels to use in place of hand towels. About 53 percent of service providers who responded to the poll say the situation or type of job — for example, interior or exterior or small versus large — should determine whether customers are expected to provide access to their bathrooms.
Remodeler Russell Parks says sometimes it's just not feasible to use a client's facilities, such as on some exterior projects or on especially dirty jobs. Last year, the owner of A-Carpenter in Seattle began renting a portable toilet for jobs that take more than a week.
"It's not that much money and it's a little more professional," Parks says, adding that a portable toilet only sets him back about $150 a month.
Etiquette expert Post says no matter how you resolve the situation of where your contractor does his or her business, a little common sense, decency and kindness will go a long way.
"You want to handle the situation as respectfully and considerately as possible," she says. "People have human needs — this is life.
Bad experiences
There are some contractors renovating a bathroom on my second floor. There is a downstairs powder room available for their use AND a basement "guy bathroom (I don't know what else to call it). So what did they do? They have used every bathroom in the house including my personal bathroom next to my room. They fouled it up quite terribly a few times. My mom said I was being "unreasonable" for being upset, but i think she just felt personally responsible for their actions.
Bottom line: only guest bathrooms should be on limits, and if they have to go #2 I say they have to hit a public restroom. Sounds extreme, but it is so degrading to clean up a strange man's dump in your own bathroom.
Within reason!
I am all for offering the facilities to contractors, but there really needs to be some understanding about the boundaries. I do mobile work myself and I can count on my hand the number of times I've used a Client's bathroom in the past 10 years.
We're doing a lot of work on our home at present, and the main contractors always ask if they can use the bathroom, even though I've said "yes" before. They rarely use it, and when they do, they always visit the kitchen powder room. I never required this, they just knew. That's why I like them, as they're professional and courteous through and through. However, the other day, someone new was here laying tile in my master bathroom and used the main upstairs bathroom to relieve himself without checking first. The stench in the bathroom was ungodly, and there were hairs and urine on the toilet seat after. This is the bathroom where we bathe our kids and are potty-training our son. Again, I am more than happy to have the guys use my downstairs powder room, but the family bathroom upstairs? And leaving a mess? Come on. Totally unprofessional and unacceptable.
I would rather not
I never used to give this a second thought, but I have had a few awful experiences with men I've hired as contractors making a horrible, foul mess that really was avoidable on their parts - one was a mover, another pest control, and another a flooring contractor. They could have taken some measures to clean up after themselves or even gone to use the facilities somewhere nearby. I don't live a remote area, there are stores and restaurants right across the street. I have a small home and when someone uses the facilities, it's not difficult to tell, even with the vent fan on and some air freshener.
The worst was when I left the house for a few minutes to run an errand and when I returned, the contractor had gone to my upstairs (NOT the guest) bathroom to do his business and really fouled it up. I had to flush at least five times to clean it up and scrub as well, it was everywhere.
I recently had someone come to my house to give me an estimate - I didn't yet know or trust him. He really should have taken time to relieve himself before he got here. A quick visit is fine, but after he was in the bathroom for about 10 minutes, I became disgusted. Then he came out after spraying air freshener. We were looking at the area right outside the bathroom for the estimate, so we had to smell his stuff - maybe this was the point for him. He grossed me out and no, I won't be hiring him.
Bathroom Usage while on the Job
Very interesting because this is my pet peeve. And only men do this, by the way.
Guy comes in to do an estimate and asks to use the bathroom. Sure. He will make his mark on my home in the most unsanitary manner. I have an exhaust fan and three cans of room spray, nothing is ever used, including the sink. Number one is not the issue, it is always number two, it must be some ancient marking gene that kicks in.
Home Depot does not allow their craftspeople to use customer bathrooms as I was told when they did my roof and were here for hours and I offered my bathroom. That is respecting my privacy and my home. I do not run a public rest room and it makes me feel degraded that this is even an issue because they know I can't say no if asked.
To all the folks who think this is elitist or just plain wrong: How many times did any of us do business in stores clearly marked "No Facilities" and took no offense?
Your home is the contractor's
Your home is the contractor's place of work for the day. How would you like to go to work and find out you couldn't use the restroom or if allowed it would be frowned upon?
Or how about this...you have to leave your place of work to find a bathroom and your place of employment docks your pay for the time you are gone. This is how it works for contractors, time is money, so time off the job is loss of pay.
public restrooms and telephones
people use public restrooms with much caution. But how many ever think about using a public telephone? The mouthpiece is close to your mouth, face, ear, chin, etc. Watch people with the hand peace next to their mouth and supported by their shoulder. Yuck.
let a contractor use your bathroom?
I have traditionally let contractors use my powder room; however, I must say sometimes I've regreted it. Some of them have been very unsanitary, as in not washing their hands after relieving themselves. Yuk!!
Workers using my toilet
Four times I have had people working in my home who decided that it was perfectly OK to wait to have their morning 'dump' ( for want of a better word) until they came to my home. I understand that men sometimes need to urinate and, even though I am somewhat uncomfortable with it, since these people are unknown to me and not my 'guests' I usually allow them to use our pool bath, which is just off the family room. However, each time I say 'yes' when they ask, they go inside turn on the fan and proceed to use my toilet to defecate, leaving the bathroom stinky and disgusting. Today, i was having my master bathroom suite granite counters installed. Two of the men are regulars here. They are nice young men and never take liberties. The third however, asked to use the bathroom. I reluctantly said 'yes' assuming that it was just to urinate. He proceeded to use the toilet right there in the room where the others were working, in my master suite. There was no toilet tissue there, so God only knows what he used, and the water to the sinks was turned off, because there are no faucets installed yet. I was furious. Up until today I had kept a still tongue, but today I had had enough and let this guy have it full blast. The other two men said that they were not supposed to ask the client, as it was the company's policy. They were embarrassed, by their co worker, but I told them that I was not angry with them and that I was pleased with their work. I did not want the other man to continue working in there as he had not washed his hands and I was angry with him, anyway. We all have principles and I am amazed at how many liberties some people take when working in private homes. I am paying a lot of money to have this job done, and I feel that this man, and those before him, should be more respectful when they are in peoples' homes
You HAVE to let them use it, or at least offer. It benefits you also. Then again, I have an all-tile half-bath just inside the back door so tracking in dirt is not a big deal. There is nothing in it like medicine. I just put in liquid soap, paper towels and Lysol.
I also feed them lunch and in the morning, I have muffins and coffee or something out there, cold drinks on hot days, etc.
use of bathroom by contractors
I am a contractor, and for ALL the reasons above, I never use, or allow my employees to use a customer's facilities, even when invited to do so. It puts my customer's privacy at risk, as well as my employees' and my own reputation. Any contractor who takes this risk might cut other corners as well... it's not that big a deal to rent a toilet and place it int the customer's back yard. They usually cost my company about $75 per month and are well worth it.
Most of the work we have done
Most of the work we have done is external these days, and we can't let contractors use the bathroom when we aren't there because we have four dogs and they would most likely (hopefully, actually) bite anyone who tried to enter the house in our absence. We explain that up front. If it's work inside the house the dogs are confined or boarded, if it's a project that will take many days. If it's a contractor we know and trust, we leave them alone in the house. If it's a repair or a contractor we don't know, someone stays at home while they are there. I
Contractors using the bathroom
I don't think I would just because you never know what someone is really like. I have heard of people installing microscopic cameras in people's bathrooms. It only takes a minute to do and surprise you are on the internet. I live near several fast food restaurants. They can go there. Fortunately, I have never had one ask to use it. And as far as the comment if you trust someone enough to do work in your home you should trust them in your bathroom, sometimes you don't find out what they are really like until they start the job. I try to use local people, but got burned on my electrical work. He started the job and told me that I didn't need to babysit him. I should have thrown him out, but I had to get the 220 run for the new water heater being installed that day by someone else so I was stuck. Then after he left I found out that the electrical was not working in one of my rooms upstairs. It was working fine in the morning. I called him and asked if maybe something got bumped or disconnected when running the new wiring in the box. He was very rude and said he doubted it, but that he would come over and check it but would have to charge me a service call if it wasn't something he did. Well, I saw what I was being set up for. He would never admit it. He said he would call me when he got back from his latest job. It's been 2 months now. Now I have to find someone new because I don't trust him. So everyone is not always as they seem.
It is extremely unprofessional for a contractor to use your private facilities. It should be spelled out in your contract that they provide a portable toilet along with a construction dumpster, drop cloths to protect your property and daily cleanup at the end of the workday. There is a tried and true rule in the construction business "if its not in writing it was never said", that's why it is referred to as contracting. I am a project manager for a large construction management company.
I keep my medications in my desk drawer, which can be locked when I'm not around. If I don't like the way a contractor deals with me or if they look shady, they don't come in my house much less use the bathroom. I check for licensing, insurance, bonding, etc. The ones I have hired have all been welcomed to use my bathroom and I've found them very respectful and considerate. Respect is a two-way street and I rarely have problems with contractors disrespecting me.
Yes to restroom break
I always let contractors use my restroom. Small town so long way to go for a public one. However, I always prep in advance and remove all meds and stuff etc. My recent painters refused to come inside and made trips to the closest public one. Now I understand why. Getting accused of anything missing.
Afraid of each other
It's quite amazing how human beings are so afraid of each other. Web sites like this probably do nothing but make the situation worse, as people come to rant disproportionately about bad experiences which stick in our minds longer than good ones, despite their relative infrequency.
"I remember a remodel we worked on that when the homeowner found that a worker had used one of the bathrooms ordered the toilet to be removed and a new one installed."
That is absolutely insane, and that homeowner has serious psychological issues that are out of the ordinary. I guess this is why these services are getting so expensive, people are so afraid of each other they won't even let others use a toilet. I've already seen lawn care services towing porta-potties on their trailers. Everyone is different but there's one uniting feature of all human beings: going to the bathroom.
We have a bathroom that is
We have a bathroom that is accessible from the garage without having to go through the house. I would let a contractor use that bathroom without any problem whether they are working outside or inside. Also our guest bath inside does not contain any private products or medicines and we don't care who uses that.
When we built our house the contractors had a portable outhouse outside because they didn't have one available inside. We also are located about two blocks from a large gas station and some fast food restaurants if they wanted to go there.
When building, we provided pop and water in a cooler on ice each day for all the contractors and subcontractors and occasionally bought donuts. It might have cost us about $100-$150 throughout the construction process and we did it so they would be comfortable at work. The side effect from doing that small kindness was they did little extras for us at no charge, some without us even knowing until they showed us.
use of bathrooms
any one contracting can request that a portable toilet be included in the contract. a subcontractor myself, almost all the sites i am on include such a toilet which is provided by the general contractor. no thoughtful contractor would deny a request for one. after all, the client pays for it and it is only a phone call away. on small jobs by myself, clients often allow the use of a bathroom. i keep toilet paper and paper towels in my truck to ensure that the situation does not become a burden for my clients. yes, i do my best to leave the bathroom in the condition it was in before i used it.
I can't believe that so many
I can't believe that so many people are so worried about the use of a restroom. How would you feel if your employer did not provide a restroom for you. A contractor is no different than those of you white collars that sit at a desk. Everyone has needs and you as an employer should be willing to provide for those needs just as your employer does for you.
Thereis a difference in using
Thereis a difference in using a bathroom at your place of employment and a bathroom in someone's private home.
No...there is no difference.
No...there is no difference. The home is the contractor's place of work. I also find it extremely hypocritical of anyone that would deny a worker the use of a restroom but thinks it is perfectly ok for that same worker to go use the restroom of a business that the worker had no plans to patronize but was forced to because their employer (you the homeowner) for the day wouldn't let them use theirs.
Yes there is a difference
It is hard to believe that anyone could be ignorant of the difference between a business and a residence. I have been on both sides of this coin and as an electrician never did I use the customers restroom, that is what nature is for. And, if peeing in the bushes was not possible I would then find an alternate location. I was never directed by a customer to go to a specific business, but we did have customers who would say up front that they do not provide public restrooms.
I have spent my fair share of days in the field and never felt the need to expose the homeowner and their family to my dust and sweat. As an employer/homeowner I have hired workers as well and dislike when they ask. At the end of the day I can tell you that I would not want a laborer stinking up the place, it's just not right. I find it to be an imposition and if they are dirty then I do deny the request. My home is not a work shop, shed, garage or dirty and I do not want it to become as such.
Lets just also be a little more honest here. I as the customer/employer owe the employee/contractor absolutely nothing other than what is agreed upon up front and in writing and this includes a bathroom. Business is business and we are not friends. Perhaps if the contractor were someone in business attire who was not covered in dirt and sweat I would allow it, but would you allow the guy pumping your septic to tromps through you home with his boots on and touch up the place where your family baths and washes?
Medicine cabinet
Actually, you should not keep your medicines in the cabinet of a full bath, as the heat and humidity are bad for drugs.
Use of bathroom to contractors
We live in the country and have installed an outside "facility" (matching our country landscaping) for use by contractors and ourselves when working outdoors. Wish I could attach a photo of the "outhouse".
Some of you people should be ashamed of yourselves
I can't believe how uptight so many of you people are. Its clear that some of you think you are better than people who do construction. I mean seriously? One guy (and a salesman no less) steals some oxycontin and now all contractors are oxcontin addicted dirtbags unworthy of your bathrooms?
As a contractor I find the mentality of many poeple posting about "bringing dirt" in the house and eliminating construction people from consideration of use of the bathroom both insulting and comical at the same time.
If you are that much of a prude, go ahead and rent a porta potty while you are doing construction work or better yet, hire a more expensive and more considerate contractor. The woman in this article apparently shops for construction services at Sears and then lumps up all Contractors into that experience.
You should be ashamed of yourselves, these are not animals, they are human beings, and many of them are far better and more well mannered than most of you.
I am appalled that a stranger
I am appalled that a stranger sat on my private toilet in my master suite to defecate. He should have done that in hisown home before leaving, or took his truck and visited the public toilet at the gas station. I shouldn't ha e to clean up after a stranger in my own home, especially when I am paying the company he works for thousands of dollars.
Busy HVAC serviceman
I used to work 12 to 18 hours a day sometimes more in extreme weather repairing air conditioning. seldom stopping to eat or anything.
Once about 8:00 pm after a particularly stressful day and driving back and forth across 3 counties I arrived and after finding that I would be able to fix the homeowners AC quickly and relieve their suffering in 100+ temp I ask if I could use their toilet. She smiled and told me that they didn't allow contractors to use their bathroom, I smiled back and said OK and left.
You shouldn't keep your
You shouldn't keep your oxycontin in a bathroom vanity drawer, these types of drugs should be kept in a secure place!
Whatever you keep in your own
Whatever you keep in your own bathroom drawer in your own home should be considered a safe place
Yes ~ I always make the
Yes ~ I always make the bathroom available, and I offer coffee, bottled water, and usually provide something to eat, especially if it's a long job. I will say that it is rare that contractors take me up on the offer. Most bring their own food and beverages, or they'll take a break in the middle of the day to grab something to eat at a nearby fast food place. Further, I've been very fortunate to have contractors who are very clean and conscientious ~ wiping their shoes at the door on snowy days, etc.
I'm a contractor and this is the first I've heard of such a story but I guess any thing is possible, and just because they are from a dominate outfit it doesn't mean you are receiving the best work possible..
I'm a small Contractor and my advise is to seek out the smaller guy because he is small for a reason, and the is he takes pride in his work ethics.. Of course recommendations is a plus to find the right one..
Where to go?
In 2001, I worked for a landscaper. NONE of our clients invited us in to use the head. We always used the facilities at restaurants and filling stations. We never asked to use the facilities inside the homes. I decided since then that I will work in a field of business and with only those customers who invite me in to use the indoor plumbing. I do not need to mess around with those who do not trust me in the rest room but trust me to do good job for them!
Common Sense
Seriously? Consider contractors under the same rule as "you don't mess with people that handle your food." There are plenty of little mistakes and goof-ups and happen in a contractors line of work. These things can be fixed professionally, or they can just be covered up for you to discover a couple years down the road. You decide.
Contractor usage of bathroom
I am sorry but some of the proeprty owners are very naive. I used to work as a contractor and UPS delivery man. I never used my customer's home regardless of how remote it was, especially when we were doing dirty work outside. I had a porta potti in my truck for my workers, or rented a full size portable toilet for longer job. Most of the contractors are professionals but some of the workers they hired off the street were not. They might not even be legals. Yes, they are inferior than us with different custom. Do not rust them to use your bathrrom, they may go elsewhere in your home unless you are watching them.
Contractors use of bathrm .
First thing you should first look at the source of this article, they don't give people any common sense as to who they should allow into there homes or bussiness or who they shouldn"t, they should be used maybe as a tool but i give there reviews a 40/60% truth value, don't take the source of this article as "THE LAW" as JUDGE DRED would say.
Seems arrogant and lazy on
Seems arrogant and lazy on the contractors part to not bring a porta potty for large crews or jobs.
It's unfortunate, but after numeous expensive "female problem" plumbing issues and catching one patron shooting up ( that's not insulin there friend..if it was why are there 5 burnt matches on the floor) in my restroom, I no longer allow anybody to use the shop restroom. I rented a porta potty and increased my labor rate to cover the expense. People would pull off the highway, fein some interest in a boat and then ask to use the restroom..and then want to drag the three kids with them!
My "sorry, no public restroom" sign was copied by a half dozen other businesses in town. Sorry if you disgaree, but after the drug use incident I can't accept the libaility of having total strangers come in off the street and want to use the facilities. Myabe a different story if you have contractors you actually trust.
I'd suggest for a long job, just rent them a potta john, trust me..it works wonders and shows them you care. A couple of cases of bottleed water in a cooler eliminates the other problem, but experienced contractors carry such things on thier trucks.
I don't like contractors
I don't like contractors using my bathroom for various dirty reasons I won't list, if you can take the hint.
This opinion was reinforced when I had a contractor tell me that he's PROUD that he no longer goes through the medicine cabinets of his clients!!!!! Needless to say that, among other comments, caused me to let him go.
Of course I "let" contractors
Of course I "let" contractors use my bathrooms!! They're at my house for the day and they're human beings who have the same digestive systems we all have. I always have bottled water available for them, and when they're at my home for 4 or 5 hours, I usually provide them a meal. I'm no "Christian," I'm a card-carrying atheist, and I recognize that we all are in this life together, and deserve to be treated with consideration and dignity.
I am Home Building Specialists and room addition and 2nd story builder based in the SOCAL are for over 30 years. Our jobs generally take over a week so we have a port-a-potti dropped to the job site. If it is a small job I instruct my guys to find one down the street. I feel this is a much more professional approach to this issue. The slight cost prevents issues with customer and crew. Plus we dont play loud or offensive music on the job site. We always have a crew member who speaks English, we do not leave lunch trash on the job site or do we drink or smoke on the job-site as well. The customer comes first the our professionalism
Professional contractors will always make plans to use outside facilities and will not need to use your bathroom. It could be a nearby public toilet or they can make arrangements for a porta potty onsite. Here are the reasons you should not let people you do not know (even if they seem nice) your bathroom. A lot of these things are far fetched but they all do happen. You can not tell who would do these things by looking at them.
One worker excuses himself to use the bathroom while another worker keeps you occupied. The worker cases out your house for things to steal, either now or later.
If they are alone inside, they look for things to steal throughout the entire house.
When alone in the bathroom, they look for things to steal, such as medication.
For some reason some people will do disgusting things to your toothbrush, knowing you will put it in your mouth later. For example, if you are an attractive woman, the worker may rub your toothbrush on his privates (yes this really happens).
When alone in the bathroom, they will dig through your dirty laundry from the laundry hamper and steal your dirty socks and underwear (there really are people who do this).
They may be messy and leave a mess in the bathroom for you to clean up.
I know a lot of these things are gross, but if you don't believe people do these things, just do a quick search online.
Look, as a contractor if I
Look, as a contractor if I wanted to do these things I could do them wether you allowed me to use your bathroom or not. After all, I Am In Your Home Already. I could rob you blind if I wanted to or worse.
Only invite a trusted company into your home. Then trust (but verify) them to do what is right. And let them use the darn restroom when they need too.
I wonder how you ever trust anyone to even prepare a meal for you. You seem to have some real issues when it comes to being paranoid. You might want to get help for that.
I was an employee for 25 years and company owner now for 10. I never asked or do I allow my employees to use anyones bathroom.
Years ago I had a customer who invited the whole crew in the soda and then later complained about tar on the floors.
That's why I don't want anyone on my team to use the customers bathroom.
I provide a truck on the job site for any crew member to use when nature calls.
Thanks for the great service.
John Roussin
Asphalt Restoration
High Ridge, Missouri
Generally Speaking: Yes. Especially those contractors that are working the better part of the day. I direct them to the half bath at the main entrance. Been burned only once, an appliance repairman from Bray and Scarf left it looking/smelling worse than the worst service station rest room I ever encountered. Otherwise, it has not been a problem.
I can't imagine someone needing to use my bathroom and saying no. That's just rude. Most people would be embarrassed to ask in the first place so no need to embarrass them further. However, I have never had a bad experience allowing this. And if you let them leave the property to go to the nearest store, which is 20 minutes from me, you risk them taking longer to get back and finish the job.
Also, I have needed to use a retail establishment's restrooms and have been told "they're out of order" when you know they aren't or "they aren't for public use" or they "don't have one". If I have to go badly, I tell them they just lost my business and go elsewhere. Nothing irritates me more than to be told that. You know darn well their employees don't have to go down the street to the restaurant every time they have to go. That's just plain rude to tell a customer and just plain stupid when the customer has a basketfull of merchandise they intend to purchase!
I've had two bad experiences both ways. I once allowed a contracting company to use my bathroom. They also had access to my garage. One of the workers was drinking the beer out of my outside fridge and leaving the empty bottles in the vanity in the bathroom. After that I did not allow use of my bathroom or my garage (different contractors). And I looked out my window. There was a man urinating on the side of my jaccuzzi (like a male dog). Another was squatting on the side of the house pooping. Not something u would ever expect to see. So I called the manager and reported the issue. They were reprimanded and required to leave the site at designated intervals to use the facilities. What's worse...the squatter later asked me out :(
The responsibility lies with the contractor. We don't allow our guys to use the bathroom even when offered. It is a protection for both parties. We appreciate the homeowners so polite to offer and we completely respect our workers and expect the same respect from homeowners however, we are not guests, we are hired for a service. In our area excusing ourselves to go to a nearby facility is not that inconvenient. Using the yard I'd like to point out is illegal, and yes you should be completely comfortable with your contractor or you have hired wrong but I think part of the comfort level is created by not presuming on our customers hospitality.
Excellent response. I agree
Excellent response. I agree 100000%
I would, and have. I've only had one time when it was an issue: a 20-something guy installing carpet near the bathroom made use of it near the end of the day. I didn't have a problem with him using it, but he clogged the toilet with a large #2 and I think was too embarrassed to say anything. Problem is, after he left I had to #2 as well and that was the only toilet in the house so ended up with a double load in the toilet. I know it can be embarrassing, but at least tell the homeowner there is a problem!
I have never thought to offer the use of my bathroom to a contractor. I assumed that they would use it if they needed to. However, one experience actually made me decide to never use a company again.
I had a small electrician company come in to install some outlets in my basement. A couple of days after the electrician (the owner of the company!) left, I noticed a Gatorade bottle sitting on top of the air duct vent in my basement. Luckily I noticed it, because it was well out of my normal line of vision. When I got a ladder to get it down, I saw that the yellow liquid inside was NOT Gatorade. Not only had he relieved himself in the bottle, he left it behind for me to deal with, in an area where I might not have seen it for weeks or months! Needless to say, I work with another electrician now.
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That's very difficult to answer without seeing the house. As one poster said, the prep is the most important part. On newer homes that don't have a lot of peeling paint, the prep can be very minimal even as low as a couple or a few hundred dollars for the prep labor.
On a 100 year old home with 12 coats of peeling paint on it, then the prep costs can be very high and can easily exceed 50% of the job's labor cost.
A 2100 sq ft two story home could easily cost $1000 just for the labor to prep for the paint job. That number could climb too. Throw in lots of caullking or window glazing, and you could be talking a couple or a few hundred dollars more for labor.
Painting that home with one coat of paint and a different color on the trim could run roughly $1000 or more just for labor. Add a second coat and that could cost close to another $1000 for labor.
For paint, you may need 20 gallons of paint. You can pay from $30-$70 for a gallon of good quality exterior paint. The manufacturer of the paint should be specified in any painting contract. Otherwise, the contractor could bid at a Sherwin-Williams $60 per gallon paint and then paint the house with $35 Valspar and pocket the difference. $25 dollars per gallon times 20 gallons? That's a pretty penny too.
That was the long answer to your question. The short answer is $2000 to $4000 and up, depending upon the amount of prep, the number of coats, the amount of trim, and the paint used.


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As adoption rates drop, support and acceptance needed
Childless parents need care, too, says Sister Julie B. Beck
"Our goal is to make sure that women who are making those difficult decisions have access to information about adoption," Johnson said. "All of the choices are difficult, our goal is to affirm the birth mother in the decision and give her access to information and support."
According to that same research, Utah ranked first in the nation for infant adoptions compared to the number of abortions. Researchers believe key factors explaining that ranking may include better counseling, services and facilities to orient pregnant women toward adoption.
"Research has shown that women who are choosing adoption have connected that the child will be loved and parented by good people," Johnson said. "They are then able to see it as being a pro-active parent with placing the child."
Over the past few decades the process of adoption has changed, causing more members of society to be informed, making the entire process more open in nature.
"I have been involved in adoption for 30 years," Sunday said. "I have seen it in its days of closure and confidentiality and secrecy, and I have seen it today, and from my experience the improvements in the institution of adoption because of openness and because of involvement of all parties together in healthy ways has been one of the most refreshing positive things to happen with adoption in years."
Although huge steps have taken place, the process still has a long way to go, Johnson said.
In a survey conducted by the NCFA in 2009, researchers found that 40 percent of American couples were open to the idea of adopting a child if called upon.
"One of the disappointing things, even with that strong culture that has developed, it doesn't translate to the women choosing it," Johnson said. "As a result of that, 1.2 million abortions a year are happening, and only 18,000 will willingly choose adoption."
Although families, churches and communities are oftentimes very supportive of children brought into a family by adoption, it is often difficult for expectant mothers to make the decision to place a child for adoption. It is through education, Johnson said, more changes will take place.
"Society's view of adoption for birth mom's is totally unfair," Barker said. "It isn't this big, bad, ugly monster. It is a huge big bundle of blessings — you just have to give it a chance."
That chance is what can turn something very difficult into a loving family.
"I think it's wonderful how such a tragic, heart-wrenching experience can grow and blossom and turn into such a beautiful wonderful thing," Barker said. "My biggest fear was that she would resent me for placing her, but I think one of the best things that came out of it is that I get to see that she is happy and that she loves me, and I know that she knows that I love her."
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1982: 17,602
1986: 24,589
1992: 26,672
1996: 23,537
2002: 22,291
2007: 18,078
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It's possibly the most famous letter in reality-show history: the anonymous, all-caps note informing "Jersey Shore" star Sammi that Ronnie had been eagerly messing around behind her back.
Eventually, the truth came out — in hair-pulling, vocal-cord-shredding fashion. What else have we come to expect from the endlessly entertaining "Shore" kids? Sammi ended up repairing her relationship with Ron, though we can't say the same for her rapport with the letter-writing Snooki and JWoww. The past few episodes, Sammi and Ron have been snuggling and first-pumping as if they just got married on the Seaside Heights boardwalk. Meanwhile, things between Sammi and her two roommates have remained icy at best and vicious at worst.
Now finished filming in Miami, Sammi opened up to MTV News about her reaction to both the note and Ronnie's less-than-honorable behavior and why the note seemed to bother her more than her boo's deception.
"Why am I really upset more at the girls than Ron?" she said. "Well, Ron was a douche bag. He kind of screwed me over, messed me up, but these are my girls. The people that I lived in the room with, that probably should have came and told me personally.
"I'm there crying to my friends — who I think are my friends — and they're staring at me lying to my face. I understand they didn't know what to do. I understand they were in a hard pickle," Sammi added. "I'm not mad at them for writing the note. Thank you — I wish people would understand this — thank you for writing the note. I'm more mad that you guys are supposed to be my friends and you were more worried about losing Ron as a friend than me."
Back in Jersey, Sammi said, her friends would have told her the truth. But in Miami, she found herself not only facing the difficulty of living with her then-ex-boyfriend, but doing so without a group of trustworthy peeps on her side. Once she began to suspect that Ronnie was smooching girls behind her back, she began to feel truly alone.
"I'm in this house now, everybody knows something but me," Sammi explained. "Ron was a douche bag, the house, everybody's fake, and I'm on my own. So now I'm coming into this, I'm losing my mind, I'm so insecure, I don't know who's my friend in the house, because not one person can come up to me and tell me what's really going on."
Of course, none of that explains why Sammi chose to forgive Ronnie for his behavior but not Snooki and JWoww for theirs. Sammi does point out that she helped Snooki through a difficult time with her then-boyfriend, Emilio, and was upset that Snooki didn't support her in return. Ultimately, Sammi came to lean on Ronnie once again, if only because she had nowhere else to turn.
"For them to just look at me and just lie to me every single day — knowing that they know something's going on — to me is not OK," she said of her roomies. "I felt really backstabbed when those girls just thought, 'Oh, let's write a note,' and then think it's funny when I asked them about it."
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For 30 years Bob Gregson and Peter Swanson have traveled the world to visit modern architecture. These stories focus on the people who have encountered Frank Lloyd Wright.
Bob Gregson is an artist who uses architecture as an element in his playful installations and projects. His work encourages interaction and participation – and his love of architecture is expressed in his photographs.
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Beautifully designed book, about a Master of Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Great title too:)
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When the first draft. . . is the only draft
Last weekend an army of leading writers, producers and actors took on the challenge of writing and staging plays in only 24 hours. Was it a good day?
SIX PLAYS WILL be conceived, written, rehearsed and performed for an already sold-out crowd – it's only a matter of time. More precisely, for the six writers, six directors, 24 performers, five producers and army of co-conspirators behind The 24 Hour Plays, it's a matter of one day. Forming a circle in Project Cube at 9.30pm on Saturday night, they introduce themselves and contribute props and articles of costume like sacrificial offerings, while the actors also reveal a special talent or artistic ambition.
Caitríona Ní Mhurchú, for instance, confesses to an ability for "liturgical dancing" and Maeve Fitzgerald, an actor with a long résumé of unhinged characters, merely requests to play somebody who is relatively hinged.
These and other suggestions are to get the writers' creative juices flowing. They have until 5.30am to each deliver a 10-minute script. There is a purpose behind the mad experiment. New York's 24 Hour Company which, for 16 years, has facilitated such adrenaline-fuelled experiments in insta-theatre, is raising money for Dublin Youth Theatre, now 35 years young, itself a crucible of quick creation, and the nursery of many professional theatre careers.
This may be a frantic assembly, but the performances are intended to be as finished as possible: no scripts are allowed onstage for the actors. There are obvious and subtle dilemmas to the distillation of theatrical process. If everything comes crashing down, the participants risk professional humiliation while the audience learns the limits of its charity. If the shows seem too polished, however, they undermine the development process that defines theatre and excuses its shortcomings – "It wasn't ready." Here, the first draft is the last draft. The dress rehearsal is opening night.
Somewhere around 2am, Elaine Murphy is the first to finish writing, while Tom Swift soldiers through to the deadline. Deirdre Kinahan has some experience in this method – her 2005 play Melodybegan as an overnight exercise for Semper Fi Ireland's similar Within 24 Hoursproject in 2000 – while it's a baptism by fire for the fearless Pauline McLynn, who is writing her first play.
At 6am, the directors select the scripts and rehearse independent of the bleary-eyed writers who are finally given permission to sleep. "It's a bit like giving your child up for adoption," says Willie White, director of Murphy's mini-drama. "Then meeting them again when they're 18."
If a sitcom ever depicted a theatre, it would resemble the unreal hive of activity in Project Arts Centre on Sunday afternoon. Actors run lines in urgent whispers and stage managers move around with the silent efficiency of polite ninjas while the director Wayne Jordan marshals the cast of Kinahan's piece, Protest, and plots the lighting of a very modest school-office set. There is a certain hum of anxiety but, like the lighting designer Marcus Costello, everyone seems to be a parody of composure.
"I don't think there's time for panic," actor Rory Nolan says of the weird calm, although Karl Shiels, who organised Semper Fi's three 24 Hourprojects and is acting in Kinahan's play, points out a certain dread behind the eyes of the performers. He knows what he's talking about. In 2001, an actor was so gripped with stage fright that he locked himself into a shower. Sometimes the show must go on, even if it means breaking down a bathroom door.
Once the shows began, though, it was easy to forget that they had been put together in less time than it takes the Earth to spin on its axis. Kinahan's play, a subtly political piece about depoliticised people, found a protest against education cuts mooted among a dismally small turnout: "You picked the worst night, Trish. It's Operation Transformation."
Paul Meade's Yellow Roses, a study in double-cross among a broken family, ran longest, a reminder of the much-attributed explanation for writing a long letter – "I didn't have time to write a short one." And Pauline McLynn's mind-bending and preposterously amusing play, directed by Alan Stanford, seemed archly aware of the rules it was breaking, passing its Irish mother and son characters between four actors like a surreal baton. It was also the first performance in which the actors had the good grace to corpse, compose themselves, miss lines and recover, to which the audience responded with something like relief: we could only handle so much accomplishment.
Murphy's The Waiting Room, a morsel of social comedy, made creative use of some volunteered resources, but none more so than the comic pairing of Jacinta Sheerin and Georgina McKevitt as an expectant mother and her friend, sucking down alco-pops in a maternity ward. If that smacked of mild implausibility, Tom Swift's play seemed to reflect the whole project's accelerated time for laughs, featuring Derbhle Crotty as a bitter, unmourning widow, whom Rory Nolan's married man attempts to seduce at her husband's grave. If its spaghetti of sexual attractions bore the giddiness of those who work at 5am, Gary Duggan's final piece had a similarly unrestrained sensibility, enhanced by Annie Ryan's direction of physical comedy. A young woman's new boyfriend is revealed to have once been a stripper, leading, for reasons only mistily apparent, to a whirling improvised dance from Paul Reid.
Although there is a safety net in having an audience prepared to make allowances – it's part of the fun – the amplification of the energy, risk, mutual support and miracle-working of theatre is hugely reaffirming. That may also be the model of DYT, which generates and benefits from buoyant goodwill. Sadly, Ní Mhurchú did not get to dance liturgically. Nor did Fitzgerald's various characters in McLynn's piece seem anything short of deranged.
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I am just wanting to tell all of my friends that I just recently been die-noised with cancer,a rare type of cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma- found in sun-exposed aeras on the head, neck,arms and legs but often spreads to other parts of the body;and sebaceous gland carcinoma, an aggressive cancer originating in the oil glands in the skin. Also called neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin.
Im still learning more about this everyday,since the Doctors are somewhat cluless as to what or how i have it. Im still waiting to get a referral to go to the university of california irvine for further study,but it doesnot help having a noob primary care doctor that does not know much of anything,I have had so many different kinds of tests and everything keeps coming back as ok or little off or a little high etc. Doctor faviorate words are Idk.
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Skip to comments.'Sweet Caroline' gone from Penn State playlist
Posted on 08/27/2012 1:36:05 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Penn State's home opener on Saturday will be missing a game-day staple: "Sweet Caroline."
The Altoona Mirror reports that school officials decided to remove Neil Diamond's sing-along hit from the Beaver Stadium playlist because of lyrics that include: "Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you."
Officials decided the song could be awkward in light of the Jerry Sandusky child-sex scandal.
The 1969 anthem is a tradition at many sporting events. The Boston Red Sox play it at every home game.
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Did they replace it with "Sweet Billy" ??
What a bunch of sick minded dopes we have running schools.
Replaced with The Village People's "YMCA"?
So maybe the victims need to sue Neil Diamond. s/
and the song was about an underage Caroline Kennedy!
Speaking of College Football, the "For Newspaper Only" documents will be out tonight!
I take it we won't see the Penn State Marching Band doing this halftime program again.
Perhaps instead of banning a harmless song they should take a moment to consider the harm political correctness has done to the reputation of the school and the possibility that the hesitance to report homosexual activity was one of the offshoots of the PC movement.
Jerks! I'm a DJ as well as a square dance caller. I use this stuff all the time.
Didn't Neil supposedly write that about Caroline Kennedy who was underaged at the time? If so, I can see why Penn State might want to rid themselves of that song in light of recent developments.
What about, "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" ?
I suppose no "Shower me with your love" either.
Academia holds the silliest, lame-brained idiots there are. Over-educated, insulated and useless.
He said it was written about Caroline Kennedy. She would have been about ten at the time. I'd drop it too
Sweeet Sandusky! Boom boom boom
Goodtimes never felt so goood!
Sweet Sandusky! Boom boom boom
hmmmmmm i can see why maybe they dont wanna play it,,,
Okay, that's stupid.
"There is someone, following you,
"Turn around, look at me........"
How about "Shower the people you love with love"?
I didn't get the connection from the headline but once the article reminded me what the lyrics were I LOL'd.
I almost wish we'd have a pedophile scandal here so that Pitt would stop playing it too.
Ours used to play Amazing Grace before games but I hear they're doing away with all traditions this year. If they can change the school song then I'm sure this hymn is out this year, too.
This from a school whose president (at the time) vowed to make it the "friendliest" campus in America for homosexuals. Seems like Sandusky picked up on that and ran with it...
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Missed link. Here it is;
Seriously, this looks like a scandal they'll still be talking about 50 years hence.
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New Bern aldermen will meet at 7 p.m. in City Hall on Tuesday.
Colleen Roberts, city public information officer, said she spoke with Mayor Dana Outlaw and the meeting will go on as scheduled.
�If weather dictates, the meeting may be recessed until a later date,� Roberts said in an email. �If that happens, the date will be formalized at tonight�s meeting. Mayor Outlaw (and) the board will make a final decision on the status of this meeting at 5 p.m. today depending on the forecast.�
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Properly greeting all residents and guests.
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Assuring that all dining services protocols and procedures are followed in accordance with established policies.
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Responsible for assigned station, and it's respective duties, on the resident tray line. All tasks are to be completed accurately.
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Wears a clean and complete uniform every day.
Reports to work on time as scheduled.
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This trope is also self-serving because it allows the Obama supporters to avoid asking themselves why Clinton supporters are so angry. If they think it's just because Obama won and Clinton lost, then they really have created their own reality.
And as you say, lambert, it's disempowering. Anger isn't always a negative emotion, it can be used in empowering ways to motivate fights for change.
Acceptance is almost always disempowering. Because if you accept something, you're less likely to fight against it.


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The paradox of
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The contemporary concern with 'a crisis of masculinity' has successfully eluded in-depth scrutiny of what is happening to girls and women. However, at a time when masculinities appears to be an ever growing preoccupation within education, it is important to refocus and ask how femininities are lived and regulated at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Recent research studies suggest that contemporary gendered power relations are more complicated and contradictory than the new orthodoxy that girls are doing better than boys suggests (Kenway and Willis 1998; Blackmore 1999; Francis 2000a; Walkerdineet ah2001). There is much to celebrate in both the emergence of new, strong, assertive femininities and the continuing pleasure and reward that the performance of femininity brings many women and girls. At the same time, the contemporary orthodoxy that girls are doing better than boys masks the complex messiness of gender relations. Despite girls' better educational attainment, recent research studies point to a vast majority of boys, as well as a significant number of girls, still adhering to the view that it is preferable to be male than female (Reay 2001).
Historically it has always been the case that masculinity is the preferred 'superior' subject positioning. In fact there is a long mainstream tradition which views female identity as 'non-identity'. Tseelon (1995: 34) argues that this tradition, which pervades psychoanalytic, theological and social


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Falling Asian currencies have triggered a sell-off in bonds and equities. Some investors now fear a repeat of a 1997-style crisis. Yet while a new Breakingviews' interactive risk map shows no economy in the Asia-Pacific region is entirely sober, it is India that has become most addicted to cheap money.
The risk map ranks the region's economies according to eight vulnerabilities by measuring the deterioration since just before the onset of the global financial crisis. The most pressing concern for investors is the region's worsening trade balance.
India and Indonesia, whose current accounts are in deficit, have predictably suffered big drops in their currencies. But the analysis reveals that trade surpluses of Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia have narrowed even more since the second half of 2007. However, this is partly because Thailand and Malaysia have boosted domestic investment, which lifts imports.
A shrinking trade surplus won't cause a crisis if countries can still sell debt and equity to foreigners. This is where India's diminishing net wealth makes it uniquely handicapped. India was a debtor nation even in 2007, and since then, foreigners have acquired another 8 percentage points of GDP in net claims on Indian assets. Understandably, they aren't keen on more. By contrast, all other Asia-Pacific nations have increased net wealth since 2007.
For Singapore and China, where GDP growth has weakened even more than it has in India, a bigger headache is the outsized expansion in private sector credit. Additionally, China's real exchange rate has shot up the most in Asia, making exports less competitive - though that is part of an intended shift toward domestic consumption.
Malaysian and Indonesian companies are grappling with a margin squeeze: The two commodity-producing economies have witnessed the biggest rise in their real cost of capital. The Philippines has the opposite problem: Falling inflation-adjusted returns for savers. This should worry Manila, which is basking in the warm glow of 7.5 percent growth. India has repressed savers for years in the hope that an interest-rate subsidy for borrowers would help keep growth rates high. The misadventure saw the banking system run out of resources.
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ThePortland Trail Blazers center, Meyers Leonard, is a young, specialtalent with raw skills and a phenomenal upside.
Heis athletic as they come at 7-1, 250 pounds. There has not been agame that has gone by as a member of the Trail Blazers, in whichLeonard, 20, has not had one of those jaw-dropping, athletic dunks.He'll even give you a dance to follow.
We'veall unconsciously done it. When trying to figure out whose game aplayer compares to, we often tend to search for a player who sharesthe same ethnicity. Leonard has heard the comparisons to JoelPrzybilla, Chris Kaman, Brad Miller, down to Spencer Hawes.
However,he says when he hears those comparisons, he simply dismisses them.
Itmakes no sense, that's why I disregard it, Leonard said.
Thatwasn't intended as a knock on those players. All of them are greatplayers in their own right, they just couldn't be any more different.
It'sjust a natural thing to compare players of the same race,Leonard said. Because most people say when you think about whiteguys in the NBA, they're more likely going to be able to shoot, notbe very athletic, and not jump high.
Andwhen people think of African Americans, they think they're athleticand can jump. I get it, but I can do a lot more dunks than most white7-foot guys can ever do.
Leonardsays for as long as he could remember, he's been a diligent worker inthe weight room performing the leg curls, leg press, squats, and theseated calf raises. He does however, acknowledge that a lot of hisphysical tools are natural.
Backwhen Leonard was a teenager, he says for years, his black teammatesused to joke around with the fact that he was a fast, quick, athleticwhite guy and says they were always enamored with some of the thingshe could do while in the air.
Theywould joke with me and say, 'It's not normal for you to do that,'Leonard said. Ever since AAU basketball, I've been the only whiteguy on an all-black squad, so I'm used to it and I feel like I'vegained the respect of all of my teammates.
Ifthere is a player that Leonard is comparable to, it's the formerDefensive Player of the Year and starting center for the New YorkKnicks Tyson Chandler.
WhenLeonard was a sophomore at Robinson High School in Illinois, he beganwatching players in the NBA to pattern his game after and Chandler'splay in New Orleans caught his attention.
Theway he Chandler moved in pick-and-roll scenarios on both ends, Ifeel like he guards the pick-and-roll well, and I feel like I can getout there and do that, Leonard said. And obviously, coming upwith the Hornets, especially when he was playing with CP-3 ChrisPaul catching lobs at the rim, similar to how me and Dame Lillardwere in Summer League. His game is what I've studied for a while now,because I think we have some of the same skill sets.
Chandler'scareer started off slow. He was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2001NBA Draft and averaged just 6.1 points per game, 4.8 rebounds, and1.3 blocks in his rookie season.
Ittook a while before he became the defensive stopper that we knowtoday. The point is this: If Leonard, in his rookie campaign, canhave comparable numbers to Chandler's rookie year and he surelycan there's no reason why he can't become at least, aChandler-type player by the time his career is at its peak.
That'swhy it's important that we all learn to only observe one's game,size, and skill set when we attempt to make a realistic comparison.There's no reason a black player can't play like Larry Bird andthere's no reason a white player can't play like Michael Jordan.
Ithink it's us media folks, at times, being lethargic with ourassessments.
Andsometimes, the athletes do the same thing: Patterning their gameafter who they look like instead of which player fits their skillset. We all may end up regressing when it's time to associatesomeones talent to another, but hopefully, after viewing Leonard'sperspective, we can be reminded of what we're doing.
Regardlessof color, if I'm athletic, then I should be compared to someone whois athletic. That's it, Leonard said.


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GAEA offers Friendship, Assistance and Education to anyone interested in meeting the Goddess, the Green Man and the Horned God. In honor of them, we provide this sacred space to meet, share and fellowship with others to build a strong support network in our world. We are open to all Goddess Allied Pathways, which includes but is not limited to Asatru, Drago, Druid, Fae, Goddess, Isian, Magick, Mer, Pagan, Wicca, Witchcraft and invite anyone to join us.
We at GAEA are shameless, ridiculous and totally able to laugh at ourselves. We are old, young and in between...female, male or any combination of the two. We live for gatherings, we delight in feeding people's souls and bellies, and we might at some point snuggle you to death. We love all things beautiful, especially our minds that we find sexy. We have a firm grasp on magick of all shades, but we know that magick is fluid and takes many forms, even silly ones and we do what works.
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NFL is shopping 1-year deal to air Thursday night games
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The NFL is shopping a one-year Thursday night deal to other networks to broadcast games starting in September 2014, according to Sports Business Journal's John Ourand, who adds that the package would share the Thursday night games with NFL Network.
CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora hears that the league is looking for roughly $800 million, and the NFL Network would like to be able to keep late regular-season games leading up to the playoffs, but chances are that the network that lands the deal will want those games.
More from La Canfora: "This has always been the plan -- to use the full-season package to get higher carriage fees and get on Time Warner Cable, then sell off half the package."
Prime bidders include: FOX, Turner and possibly NBC Sports Network.
Back in October, days after Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones hinted that the NFL was considering Thursday doubleheaders, La Canfora noted that selling part of the broadcast rights would be "[O]ne way to get the salary cap up. Because the salary cap hasn't really moved since 2009, and this new TV money from the existing contracts probably won't start kicking in until 2015."


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After a legendary career, Marilyn Brenneman is retiring from the King County Prosecutor's Office after tackling tough cases for more than three decades.
As a high-school student in the 1960s, Marilyn Brenneman expressed an interest in becoming a lawyer. A counselor at her Georgia school — in keeping with the norms of the day — suggested she consider a career as a legal secretary.
Brenneman ignored the advice, demonstrating the stubborn determination that would become her trademark during a career of some 30 years in the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Thursday is her last day in the office.
She will leave a legacy as the prosecutor who took on the big, tough cases.
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Among them: arsonist Martin Pang, who set the warehouse fire that led to the deaths of four Seattle firefighters in 1995; Frank Colacurcio and his son, Frank Jr., whose roles in the "Strippergate" campaign-contribution case led to the demise of their strip-club operation last year; sociopathic wife killers Randy Roth and Steven Sherer; and Joel Zellmer, found guilty last year of drowning his 3-year-old stepdaughter in 2003 after taking out a life-insurance policy on her.
Each case presented major obstacles, testing her razor-sharp intelligence.
Her courtroom pursuit of Sherer in the 10-year-old disappearance of his wife exemplified Brenneman's tenacity. His first-degree murder conviction in 2000 made him one of only a handful of people in Washington state history to be successfully prosecuted even though the victim's body had not been found.
Weaving together circumstantial evidence, Brenneman portrayed Sherer as a violent, possessive husband who transformed his once-bubbly wife into a subservient, broken young woman.
"She has always been drawn to the difficult cases that other people might have passed on," King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said of Brenneman. "She took that on as a challenge."
As a result, there are killers in prison who "might have gotten away with murder if not for Marilyn Brenneman," Satterberg said.
Brenneman, 62, who joined the Prosecutor's Office in 1980 and is now the longest serving deputy prosecutor, has always been reluctant to talk about her cases. Though blunt and opinionated in private, she has steadfastly avoided the limelight.
All she has wanted, she said in an interview this week, was to do cases that were "meaningful and challenging."
She can still vividly recall her first murder cases: the fatal stabbing of a man and the attempted murder and rape of his wife by a Fort Lewis soldier — a "sad" and "very bloody" case that took two trials to get a conviction, she said.
Asked how she can remember details from so long ago, she responded: "I don't think those things ever leave you. I can see the pictures. Autopsy photos don't ever leave you."
It has been that way ever since, she said.
"In this job, it's just little bits of carnage scattered over 30 years," Brenneman said.
But that has been offset by the "affirmation of the fact that people are basically good," she said, citing the courage of those who were willing to step forward and testify, even when they faced dangers and had little stake in the outcome.
Because of Brenneman's fearless reputation, police came to her with the cases that were stalled.
She always seemed to find a way around the problems — through creative investigative work, extracting testimony from reluctant witnesses and understanding the importance of documents.
It was her 2006 memorandum that laid the foundation for the dismantling of the Colacurcio strip-club operations by federal prosecutors. Go after the Colacurcios and their associates for promoting prostitution and make them forfeit their property and assets, she wrote.
"She is the best prosecutor I ever worked with," said Patrick Sainsbury, who was Brenneman's boss for more than 25 years before retiring in 2007.
Not only did Brenneman help find evidence, Sainsbury said, she made detectives and investigators feel like part of a team.
Clam case was big
That was never more true than during Brenneman's strangest case — "Clamscam."
In 1987, game wardens caught two men illegally fishing for geoduck clams off a boat in Dumas Bay in South King County. At Brenneman's urging, Kevin Harrington, a state Fish and Wildlife detective, tracked down the purchaser of the boat's equipment. It was Washington King Clam, the company that harvested most of Puget Sound's geoducks. Brenneman knew they'd stumbled onto something extraordinary.
The FBI and State Patrol had investigated the company, but never filed charges. Brenneman sent Harrington and other cops to the airport to check freight bills. They learned that in one month, the company had shipped 100,000 pounds more geoduck than it had a right to gather. All told, they later determined, the company had smuggled at least $1 million in geoducks over several years.
The case was so complicated, Harrington wasn't even sure how to write a search-warrant affidavit. He asked Brenneman if she could instead.
"She said, 'I can write it, but I also know you can write it, and it will make you a better officer if you figure it out yourself,' " Harrington recalled. "So I did. She made me want to prove to her that I could."
Brenneman ultimately convicted the company's owner and several colleagues and shut down the business. It was, at the time, the largest white-collar fraud case in state history.
"I can't say enough good things about her," said Harrington, who retired in 2004. "She knew how to inspire everybody."
Detectives sought out Brenneman in the Roth case, which almost didn't go to trial because it consisted largely of circumstantial evidence. The sensational 1992 trial produced a cross-examination that was the stuff of television dramas.
Roth, now serving a 55-year prison term, took the stand to defend himself against the allegation that he had drowned his fourth wife in Lake Sammamish to collect $350,000 in life insurance. His second wife also had died, after falling off a cliff, allowing Roth to collect insurance money.
When Roth denied Brenneman's assertion that he had married for insurance money, Brenneman, with her arms folded and her back to Roth, turned toward him, stepped in closer and leaned across the rail within a few feet of his face. "Controlling people and controlling money," she snapped, "is what your lifestyle is all about, based on the testimony in this trial."
Still working in law
Brenneman credits other women who worked in the Prosecutor's Office for inspiring her — Joanne Maida, now retired, who was known for tackling tough cases as a deputy prosecutor and later in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle; and Patricia Aitken, who became a longtime judge.
Brenneman was among a number of women who broke down barriers and took prominent roles under the late King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng — today there are more women deputy prosecutors than men in the criminal division.
Although she is retiring from the office, she plans to continue doing legal work — something involving "public benefit" civil litigation — but more on her own schedule.
She wants to spend more time with her husband and four grown sons and pursue her interests — gardening, hiking, travel and reading mysteries and nonfiction.
While it won't be easy to replace her, Satterberg said, she has mentored the next generation of deputy prosecutors who look up to her.
Still, noted former boss Sainsbury: "Theoretically, everybody is replaceable. But I am not sure we will see another one like her anytime soon."
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