Custom Made Wood Blinds

Frequently Asked Questions

1. QUESTION:
   Caravan blind replacement parts.?
   We have a faulty blind and need a replacement or new fittings. Where do I look?

   • ANSWER:
     wrecking yards, dealer, or other auto body parts centers.

2. QUESTION:
   How does one remove a broken vane carrier clip on a Vertical Blind system?
   The vane carrier clip is the plastic clip that holds the vertical blind. I have replacement carrier clips that I bought in a Vertical Blind Replacement Parts set but doesn't tell me how to remove the broken clip.

   • ANSWER:
     Depends on the parts used . some of the new fittings are simple that you push a smallscrew driver in and the hook pulls out. some of the old ones you have to pull apart. Ask your retailer who supplied the parts how to remove it if you cant do it

3. QUESTION:
   Where can I find find plastic clips for the valance on Granwood brand plantation blinds?
   The plastic clips that hold the valance on Granwood blinds I purchased from Home Depot broke. I can't find relacement clips. Other brands' clips do not fit. Where can I find replacements parts for this brand?

   • ANSWER:
     I would go to your local Home depot. They sell Grandwood and they might have a blind that is destin for the dumpster. If they do they would gladly give you the piece you may need. or they might just have extras lying round

4. QUESTION:
   Where can I purchase a vertical rod blind without the blind?
   I have a 105" vertical blind rod where some of the blind connectors have broken. I wanted to take the vertical blinds off but several have broken in the process. I have lace panels that fit in the vertical blind connector. I have tried to get replacement parts, but have not had much luck. I think it will be easier to replace the rod....but I only find them sold with the vertical blind.

   • ANSWER:
     GO to Home Depot. They sell them separately, And will cut the rod to size for free. I bought and installed 4 this way.

5. QUESTION:
   How can I straighten my mini-blinds when some are bent?
   I hate these mini-blinds, but they came with the apartment. I think they are made of some really light, and obviously easily bendable aluminum or something.

   When I go to open or close my windows, a couple of the blind segments (not sure what those are called?) bend or stick outward, and I can never seem to get them back into place?

   Now, to avoid that from happening, I pull the blinds up to adjust the windows. But I can't figure out the best way to re-form those individual blinds as they are supposed to be?

   Any ideas other than buying some individual replacements? They are part of my apartment, and I don't have money to spend. They look really crappy.

   Thanks

   • ANSWER:
     Are there 'extras' at the bottom that are always grouped with the bottom of the blind? The strings that support the blinds usually feed into the bottom piece and is held in place with a plasic button. You can pop the plastic button out, untie the knot at the end of the string and 'unfeed' the string thru the blinds. Remove the bent one and swap it with one from the bottom. Feed the string back thru the blinds and bottom piece, re-tie the knot and put the button back on.

6. QUESTION:
   VERTICAL BLINDS: replacing Carrier Stems?
   I don't know what brand my verticals are; they're fairly new. A slat that may have twisted in the breeze broke the stem in half and there's no way to glue it. Half of the stem is still in the slat and the other half remains in the carrier. An online web site shows how to remove the stem just by pulling on it with needlenose pliers, while securing the carrier housing in place so it won't break off with the stem, however, my model doesn't seem to allow stem replacement that easy... or am I wrong?

   IS there another web site with directions on how to remove the stem or does anyone here know an alternative way to remove the tiny stem?

   Don't want to pay 0.00 for a repair man for a .00 part
   that seems easily fixable, if only I knew how.

   I appreciate all input.

   Bree
   So. Beach

   • ANSWER:
     It should pull right out. It's a delicate mechanism and breaks easily so they are made to replace easily. It doesnt slide out towards the front, it slides out on the side towards the adjuster pole. One thing to be careful of is, when the stem snaps out, theres a little flat plastic piece with the grooves for the teeth of the stem, it's easy to lose so when you get the stem out, make sure you get that piece out so it doesn't fall out on its own. Without it, the slat will not be adjustable.

7. QUESTION:
   Is it ok to drill holes into my vinyl replacement window frame?
   This is for window treatments. Of course, the hole would be on the outer frame of the window and not on the sash area. I had some window treatments (blinds) requiring drilling for the bracket, into the wood windows before and was thinking of putting them in the same relative spot.

   I replaced these windows myself, so I got pretty familiar with the parts but just don't know how safe this is as they cost me some bank.
   Concerning warranties, I have a transferrable window breakage replacement warranty but I'm unsure as to whatever factory warranty on the window frame, etc exists. I suppose I could just "accidentally" break the window if something goes wrong

   • ANSWER:
     You won't hurt the window at all.

     Builder for 40 years.

8. QUESTION:
   I have a large sliding door that is visible to a lot of people I need ideas on how to keep it private.?
   I live in an apartment and the sliding door faces the street where a lot of people walk by. I have mini-blinds covering it, but they are always breaking and I have a dog door installed on it so, the dogs knock the blinds when they go in and out. I also use it as my main entrance, which contibutes to the blind breakage. I always keep the blinds closed in order to maintain the privacy I need. It's a studio so my whole apt. is visible through the sliding door. I need something to completly cover all view from the outside, that lets in some sunlight diffusing through, that will not break. I can remove the individual blinds, but not the part that holds them up on the wall because that was by the apt owners. What I think would work best is something that sticks onto the door itself, but it needs to be removable when I leave, easy to install, and cover like I need it to. I have no idea where to get such product. Any ideas very much appreciated. I am sick of buying replacement blinds.

   • ANSWER:
     Here are some options. Good luck!

9. QUESTION:
   does god approve of cyborgs and cloned spare body-parts?
   a cyborg is someone who has some robotic parts attached ..like a amputated arm replaced with a robot arm (as opposed to a hook) or ear implants ..or pacemakers

   even chips implanted in the brain to cause a blind person to SEE - have been somewhat successful

   would cyborgs have been burnt as witches back in the day?

   does god think we're playing god?

   what if i cloned a new heart in a tank...then had my old one removed and replaced it with the cloned replacement?

   do you think god has a problem with that?

   • ANSWER:
     Cloning is ethically wrong...It's too god-like, and we'll never really succeed in humans, cause we can barely succeed in normal mammals, their worse off then the original.

     Cyborgs however, I think that's just ok. Nature is put under man, with certain rules set by God.

     Still the problem I have with Cyborgs is, it will be used as weapons for war. Will.

10. QUESTION:
    Anyone heard of or had lense replacement surgery?
    Briefly, here is my story. At 5 y/o it was discovered that I was legally blind in my right eye. My nerves in that side were severed when the doctor delivering me used forceps. Not only that but I am slowly but surely going blind in my left eye as well. At puberty, I regained sight in my right eye for a brief time. (Explanation unknown... something to do with the surge of hormones). That didn't last long. I did therapy for years to try to force that eye to work. None of it cured me, but it has prolonged my sight by many years past my original diagnosis. As a child I was told to be prepared to be completely blind by 16 y/o. (I am 29 and still can see well enough to drive, PRAISE GOD!) I have looked into lasik as an option to prolong my sight even more, but was turned down b/c part of my problem is an astigmatism. The lasik therefore would only speed up the blindness process. I was told to look into lense replacement. Any stories? Any experiences with this? Anything help would be so great
    okay, so after the answer from the doc, I called my mom and started asking ?'s. She says that the whole nerve severed at birth thing was a theory of my pediatrician's and never proved. The doctors at Shan's Hospital in FL diagnosed me with a lazy eye. I was confused as to the diagnosis. My other problems are that I am near sighted in one eye, far sighted in the other, and have a severe astigmatism. These are the things that I am being told are leading me to blindness. With every visit my eyes are significantly worse. Will the lense replacement help these things in anyway? And will the lasik make the agstigmatism progress faster? Thank you for your answers so far!

    • ANSWER:
      It sounds like the forceps delivery, if it damaged your eye, caused some sort of either retinal damage or optic nerve damage. Then again, if you have one eye that's farsighted, and the other that's nearsighted, there may not have been any damage at all, you just have a refractive amblyopia in that eye. That would indicate why they tried patching of the good eye to force the 'bad' eye to see.

      Astigmatism might be looked at like this.

      If you have a glass ball about the size of a golf ball, and you cut a portion off of it, you'd have a magnifying lens. If you tried to focus the sun to a point and burn a piece of paper, the distance from the lens to the little hot spot would be maybe a few inches. That focal distance is determined by the curve of that lens.

      If you took a baseball, glass one, and did the same thing, that focal distance would be larger. It'd be about 8 inches or so (guessing).

      So the really curved lens focuses things close, and the not so curved lens focuses things further away.

      In astigmatism it'd be like taking a slice of American football, from the side where in the middle. That lens would have a really round curve, and a sort of flat curve 90 degrees away. So there would be two focal points. If you tried to focus the sun, you'd get a sharp line focus in one direction, then moving the lens further away, you'd get another line focus.

      In the human eye, if the curve of the cornea is flatter horizontally than it is vertically, that forms a type of astigmatism. We correct that by placing lenses in front of the eye that makes the meridian that's flat...steeper....or the steep one flatter, so both meridians 90 degrees apart are focused at the same distance. Then they move that focal point either back toward the retina, or if it's behind the eye...up towards the retina.

      Surgery:
      Well, there's a problem here. First of all, lens replacement surgery is just plain easy. It's called cataract surgery. Same thing. NO difference, NONE....except (always one of those except things...) that the lens is not cloudy, it's not a cataract. But the procedure...same. And this is done ALL THE TIME. So it shouldn't be all that hard to find someone to do it.

      Except: This is your ONLY eye. What's the risk? Not much. But people DO win the lottery. And the chances for that are like 1 in 54,000,000. The chance of an infection is about 0.05%. So 5 in a thousand get that.

      You sort of have to decide whether you want to take that risk. The astigmatism can be dealt with by some of the refractive surgeries after the 'cataract surgery'. They can sometimes use a suture here and there to tighten up on axis or another to reduce astigmatism. Or use photorefractive surgery which causes little scars that tighten up the cornea in one meridian or another to reduce or eliminate the astigmatism.

      But it's your only eye.....

      So, you should wear glasses all the time (not bathing, or sleeping....). ALL the time. Protect that eye. So even if you get surgery and you have NOT astigmatism, and are focused perfectly at far, or near or wherever you want to be... you should still wear glasses to protect that eye.

      If not for you, for the poor doc that has to try and fix this broken eye at 2 in the morning when you fell over the cat and hit your good eye on the coffee table, or the kids toy, or...you don't want him under that kind of pressure. (That's just not nice...)

11. QUESTION:
    rate my resume please!! give feedback?
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    Education Penn Foster
    Scranton, PA 18515-0001
    Electrician program in progress

    Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
    Scarborough, Ontario
    Major: Industrial Maintenance Mechanic Electricity and Electronic

    College of Arts Science and Technology
    Kingston, Jamaica
    Major: Mechanical Engineer Technician

    Related Work 1998-2010
    Prestige Window Fashions
    195 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, New Jersey
    Worked as an Industrial Maintenance Mechanic. I performed electrical installation and repaired on the building and machineries. Trouble shooting and repairs blind making machines such as, Sani, Faber, Turnils, and Hunter Douglas high speed strapping machines, sewing machine, automation machines and drill presses. Dismantled, rebuilt and installed high speed production machines, electric motors, compressors, pumps, pneumatic and hydraulic presses and compacters. Designed and built replacements parts for specialty tools and machines. Conducted milling, lathing, boring, welding (gas, arc, mig, tig) and soldering. Set up maintenance program to minimizing production down time. Performed wiring and installation of electrical circuits and panels, receptacles, switches, boxes, conducts, cable assemblies and lighting fixtures. Repair and performed preventatives Maintenance on machines and equipments. Work from blueprints schematics and work drawings. Ensure that machines removed for repairs work are done to specifications and within time and budget. Make request for purchases of parts for repairs and services of machines as needed.

    1994-1998
    Otema Interior Fixtures
    Markham, Ontario
    Employed as an Industrial Maintenance Mechanic. Trouble shoot and repair faulty electrical and mechanical equipment. Rebuilt pneumatic and hydraulic equipment compressors, pumps, motors. Operate milling, boring and lathe machines. Perform welding (gas, arc, mig and tig) and soldering. Repair glass cutting machine , table saws ,drill presses, dust collectors, and bending machines. Work from working, drawing, blueprint, schematics. Perform layout and fabrication of metal doors, rails and metal furniture’s. Order parts for machine repairs as needed.

    Honor Seneca College Honor graduate

    Achievement Prestige Window Fashion Employee of the Year

    ReferencesReferences are available on request.

    • ANSWER:
      First off you should list some dates for your education, the year you graduated is usually fine. You also do not need to type out the word 'Major', just listing it underneath the college/schools name will suffice. If you graduated and recieve a degree, diploma or technical certificate, it should say 'Bachelors in/of________' or 'Associates of/in_________' or 'Technical Certificate/License in ___________'

      Also, most employers will probably skip right over you with the laundry list of your responsibilities you have under you work experience. Cut it down, especially the first one. Use bullet points to list 6-10 responsibilities and/or accomplishments at each place of employment, things that will be interesting to the company/job you are applying for. 'Prestige Window Fashion Employee of the Year' should be listed under the list of responsibilities for that job. You also do not need to list the companies' full address, just city and state is enough.

      You should have a header that says 'Achievements' (Like the 'Related Work' and 'Education' ) and list the 'Seneca College Honor Graduate' under that. Related Work should really be titled 'Experience'. Look up some examples of resumes online for your spacing, I'm not sure if this exactly how it's spaced on your computer but it's kind of cluttered looking on here.

12. QUESTION:
    Have you ever seen a HANDICAP Stripper Female or Male Stripper? Not a joke question.?
    * Handicapped like being blind, being def, having a artificial replacement body part, or any type of handicap?

    * I ax because my best friend was in a hole in the wall strip joint in up state New York some years back and there was a handicap female stripper who was blind. My friend watched the lady walk in with a dog. He thought it was a pet but soon realized it was a seeing eye dog. He didn't think she was a stripper till she hit the stage but she did not bring up on stage. True story.

    * Have you ever seen a handicap stripper female or male?

    • ANSWER:
      i've seen a midget stripper! there's a strip club the next town over and they have midget night and apparently it's one of their busiest nights.

13. QUESTION:
    How do I know a replacement DVD drive will be compatible with my laptop motherboard?
    I have an ASUS K0i-j Laptop. Recently, the read laser on the DVD/CD combo drive quit working. I am currently in need for a clean re-install of Windows XP, and can only do so using a CD drive because my bios does not support USB booting. Thus, I must get a new CD drive eventhough I never use them for any other purpose than re-installing windows (and no, I don't want windows 7).
    So, I called support for my computer and got the part number for the DVD drive that it came with. It costs way more than I am willing to pay from any source, especially, since I said, I will only be using it to format and re-install windows XP(probably once a year).
    My current DVD drive is a SATA drive, which means SATA connections. I looked around until I found an affordable (allbeit slow) Asus brand CD/DVD drive with a SATA connection. Whether or not it actually fits into the slot is of no matter to me, if need be I'll get a slimline cable and connect it externally.
    So, here is the deal.... The drive I found and wish to purchase is NOT the model that was originally in the laptop. I have read that often times a different model may not be compatible with the motherboard of the laptop.
    I have already asked customer support for the company, and read the manual. Nothing.
    I would really like to know whether or not it will be compatible before I purchase the new drive.
    And yes, I will also ask the merch guy who is selling the drive, but I wanted another opinion too because sometimes the need to sell the item can be blinding.
    Thanks for any help!
    Oops... The model number for my ASUS laptop is K50I J

    • ANSWER:
      It seems you are tech savvy.

      Nowadays Almost all dvd drives are compatible with all motherboards. If it were cpu than dvd then it does matter. But in your case it is dvd. So, just chill.

      Simply connect your dvd to computer and check whether it is working or not. If it is working means it is compatible.:-)

14. QUESTION:
    It's Been A Long Day, Do You Need to Smile?
    Getting Old

    I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I got my doctor's permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over.

    --- Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman: 'And what do you think is the best thing about being 104?' the reporter asked. She simply replied, 'No peer pressure.'

    --- Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, 'How old was your husband?' '98,' she replied. 'Two years older than me.' 'So you're 96,' the undertaker commented. She responded, 'Hardly worth going home, is it?

    --- I've sure gotten old.! I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees. Fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. Have bouts with dementia. Have poor circulation; hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends. But, thank God, I still have my driver's license.

    --- A 97-year-old man goes into his doctor's office and says, 'Doc, I want my sex drive lowered.'
    'Sir,' replied the doctor, 'you're 97. Don't you think your sex drive is all in your head?'
    'You're damned right it is!' replied the old man. 'That's why I want it lowered!'

    --- An elderly woman decided to prepare her will and told her preacher she had two final requests. First, she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered over Wal-Mart.
    'Wal-Mart?' the preacher exclaimed. 'Why Wal-Mart?'
    'Then I'll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week.'

    ---My memory's not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.

    --- Know how to prevent sagging? Just eat till the wrinkles fill out.

    ---I've still got it, but nobody wants to see it.

    ---I'm getting into swing dancing. Not on purpose. Some parts of my body are just prone to swinging.

    ---It's scary when you start making the same noises as your coffeemaker.

    ---The good news is that even as we get older, guys still look at our boobs. The bad news is they have to squat down first.

    ---These days about half the stuff in my shopping cart says, 'For fast relief.'

    ---I've tried to find a suitable exercise video for women my age, but they haven't made one called 'Buns of Putty.'

    ---Don't think of it as getting hot flashes. Think of it as your inner child playing with matches.

    ---Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up!

    --- Remember: You don't stop laughing because you grow old, You grow old because you stop laughing.

    - --THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.

    Now, I think you're supposed to send this to 5 or 6, maybe 10. Oh heck, send it to a bunch of your friends if you can remember who they are.

    Hope this made you smile on a thursday..love ya guys

    • ANSWER:
      How funny. I needed that. I basically just crawled up our living room stairs due to back pain, trying to bring a few groceries in. I feel like I've got one foot in the grave with this excruciating pain. The last few days have been pure hell, and today got even worse. The funnies helped. Thanks so much.

15. QUESTION:
    Is it legal to hold security deposit for the following things and how much (roughly) can we hold?
    We have tenants that moved out of our apartment about a week ago. On the initial walk through with the tenant, we pointed out a number of items that would need to be repaired, which they are aware we can deduct. But after moving, we are finding a number of things that also are beyond repair, but were not informed of at the walk through.

    1) They were on Section 8 and paid their portion of the rent for the month, however Section 8 has not paid their portion, so can we hold the deposit to cover the S8 portion?

    2) Refrigerator was old. They never reported it broken, so we did not repair it - but when they moved out, they told us it was broken. Is this considered negligence on their part for not reporting, and can we charge something for it? (It was about 5-6 years old.)

    3) Cigarette burns in the carpet. We are replacing all of the carpets, mostly due to the condition it is now (large stains / cigarette burns, etc.) I know carpets are tricky, because they are subject to "normal" wear and tear, but what they've done is way beyond normal. I know we can't charge for full cost of replacement, but I'm wondering if we can charge a portion due to the excessive damage? When they moved in, the carpets were in great condition (no stains, maybe 2 years old).

    4) Broken / missing vertical blinds ? The tenants replaced with curtains, but originally there were vertical blinds in the unit. (One was left, but had only 5 blades left). Would we be able to charge for the entire cost since what they replaced was not like and kind, AND have to also be either deep cleaned or thrown away due to excessive cigarette smell. (the unit was supposed to be non-smoking).

    I think that about covers it. Thanks so much for any suggestions!

    • ANSWER:

16. QUESTION:
    who is responsible to replace toilet seat at apt?
    So I dont remember seeing anything in our lease about this kind of stuff so anyones experience. Our toilet seat all the sudden started to keep getting moldy on the pociline that shows when the toilet seat is up all the way and under the toilet seat (not the part you actually sit on) i clean it and it keeps coming back anyways we went out to buy a new toilet seat that includes a toddler seat but just curious

    also our long verticle blinds were horrible when we moved in so we replaced the entire thing ourselfs when we leave is it ok to take them with? we have spend $$ on them since we have a toddler they break so we have bought multiple replacement packs
    my question is shouldn't that be stuff THEY replace not us
    we threw them out. The blinds were all broken they wouldnt slide open and the toilet seat was moldy and stained with mold I was not going to keep that in my house
    we threw them out. The blinds were all broken they wouldnt slide open and the toilet seat was moldy and stained with mold I was not going to keep that in my house

    • ANSWER:
      A toilet set is only 6 bucks, I buy them all the time. If you broke it you pay that. I personally would not sweat 6 bucks.

      As far as the blinds go you have to leave blinds there when you leave. Either the original or replacements. Since you tossed the landlords property you will have to replace that.

17. QUESTION:
    how to forgive and forget?
    im a married woman with 3 lovely children. my husband and i are both working in different countries and our children are being taken care of by my inlaws.
    heres my dilemma. i met this guy in my workplace. hes also married and have 6 kids. we started out as a typical colleague in workplace, but as time goes by, he started calling/texting me on my mobile. then later on, he told me that he likes me a lot, and hes really interested to invite me out. knowing that both of us were married, i was hesitant with the invitation at first, but i find him also interesting not to mention we " click" with a lot of things.. to cut the story short, i entertain him.we call each day, and we even go out. i know what im doing is wrong, but i think i started to fall for him. few months after we decided to have start this illicit relationship. we talked about our situations, what are the dos and donts since both of us are married. as time goes by, i found out that he has been practising this kind of thing a long time ago. having girlfriends, eventhough hes married. i feel sorry for the wife. because she doesnt have an idea about the extra curricular of his husband at all.but because i was stupidly blinded with this guy, i continue my relationship to him. as we go along, i found out a lot of things also. that this guy was continously texting/calling/emailing his ex girlfriend and still proposing his love to that girl, how he miss her and how he badly wants to see her. we fight a lot of times because of this behavior.the fact that hes with me, and hes married, he was still also fantasizing his so called ex girlfriend. i know at that time i should have stop this thing.. obviously, he s a jerk and he s into polygamous relatioship. but as ive said, i was stupidly blinded. so i continue the so called "relationsip" that we have.i feel like,im almost his second wife. since like me, hes family is far also from him. most of the time,im in his place.i loved him. physically, emotionally, mentally i became so attached to him. after 3 yrs of working , i decided to finished my contract to my employer and go home. i m excited to go home but also a part of me, doesnt want to leave him.but this is the reality, we both have our own families.. as i was about to leave, i found out thru gossip, like few months earlier, he has been already checking out one of my colleagues and the first thing that came to my mind this would be the "replacement" to me since im gonna be leaving. the worst part of it that shock me,that colleague that hes already targeting, is a very close friend of mine. but that girl doesnt have an idea about me and the guy. funny thing is , i have a weird feeling alredy that something is happening to them, because my friend, is telling me already how she feels uncomfortable with this guy in our department with how he behave to her but shes not giving the name at all..i kept quiet in my part, and just give her friendly advise. but it came to a point, i found out that the guy was already inviting the girl to go out with him. after finding it out. i just really explode.me and my boyfriend had a big fight, and i also told everthing to my friend about my relationship with him.i went to his place to talk about this things. as i was staying in his home and while i was in the living room waiting for him, i manage to look up to his mobile and his laptop.. what did i see.. my close friend, who was telling me all the time, how she doesnt feel comfortable with the guy and how s shes avoiding him, i saw there pictures together, in one restaurant, where he also brought me before.and in the picture, they are so close to each other with one hand over the other. in the mobile, i saw all the flirt text of my close friend to him. i was really shocked and crushed.from then on, i decided to finished everthing with him. and to finished the " friendship" that i thought i have with the girl. i feel so stupid and being played by them. i was manipulated and betrayed.. the girl, she constantly explained to me, that she doesnt know that we were together. so she has a point, but what i dont get, is how she is telling everyone of us in the workplace, hows she feels afraid, and uncomfortable with this guy.how she is avoiding this guy.only to find out, that shes doing opposite of eveything that shes said.. i was really devastated. everyday and night, im crying.im crying, because im so mad at them, im also mad at myself because i let these kind of people control me. im mad at myself, because, it came to a point that i almost forget that i have a husband, to whom i have made vows already.. and the thing that is running in my mind, is to have their pictures be sent to evryone in the department.to let them feel how to be miserable and crushed.i know its all wrong.. but im full of hatred and anger. i know i dont have the right to react this way, knowing, what i did also is really wrong. please can somebody help me, how to forgive

    • ANSWER:
      Wow!! Are you crazy??? You are cheating on your husband and are upset because the man you were cheating with is now cheating on you???? He's a player and a cheat and I feel sorrry for his wife and six kids!!!! You are getting what you deserve!! Go home to your husband and children and try to salvage whatever marriage you have left....and don't worry about his new girlfriend and that they have betrayed you..you are all CHEATERS....what did you expect from a man who cheated on his wife??? If he cheated on her, he will cheat on you..and will be cheating on his new flavor of the week very soon...guaranteed!!

18. QUESTION:
    What do you think of the plot for my book?
    In 2044, North America is trashed and on the verge of war with _____. The only way the American government can distract its citizens from the mess their world turned into is with the television and the wonderful lives of the rich and fabulous. French assassins do the one thing they know will cause an uproar with the American government, terminate their number 1 distraction, mega movie star, and teen sensation Elise Everly. What’s the government to do without their little eye blinder? A secret organization deep within the lies of the government has the answer. They have invented a machine that can alter the appearance of anyone. For 11 years they have trained 5 girls, and 5 boys, taken them from their homes and trained them in almost every area, from rocket science and politics to the art of drama, and calligraphy. They were selected for their extreme intelligence to participate in this operation. The organization was training them to be replacements.

    Charlie Mckesson was chosen to be Elise Everly’s replacement, simply because she was the best actress of the 5 girls, and she excelled in all musical forms, which is all part of becoming Elise Everly. The government could only buy Charlie one week before she was to completely replace Elise. Charlie endures severe vocal and dramatic training during this one week, then she is transformed into Elise. Charlie must defend her new life from the French assassins, and protect the secret of the organization, and her real identity. To help her, the government assigns one of the 5 boys, Emerson _________. Much to Charlie’s dismay. As close as Charlie and the 8 others were, Emerson was never really part of that bond. He was an outsider. It was his father who invented the machine, and started this whole organization. They all resented him for that. They were also always jealous of the fact that Emerson got to see his parents almost every day, where as the others were forbidden to ever see their families again. Charlie has to adjust to the new ’fabulous’ life style of Elise Everly. From running away from crazed fans to keeping up the rich girl facade.

    Much to Charlie’s surprise and hesitation, Emerson comes in handy when it comes down to covering for her when she slips up, and being there for her when she needs someone to talk to. And when he saves her life from an assassin attack, she’s realized that she has fallen head over heels. She tries to deny it for a while but eventually, she gives in. Of course Charlie and Emerson would have to keep their relationship a secret, I mean would Elise Everly ever be caught dead with a guy like Emerson? As they grow closer, Emerson begins to open up with Charlie, and expose the secrets of the organization and why the government is really at war with ______. Charlie is convinced that America deserves to know that they are all in danger. Emerson agrees to help expose the government.

    Their plan is to tell the world on a live interview. Charlie is stopped by government FBI's in the middle of the interview. The FBI's pretend that Elise's life is in danger and take her to her old organizations headquarters, where she discovers that it was Emerson who had told his father of their plan. While she is awaiting her sentence, a strange but beautiful boy breaks her out and takes her out of the country. The beautiful boy later confesses to being Emerson. He used his fathers machine to change himself to help her escape. He also explains that he found out that the organization knew about their plan, and he had to tell his father so that it looked like he was still on their side, It was the only way to save both their lives.

    _________________________________________________________

    Also planning to add that the machines transformations are not permanent, but I'm not sure yet, what do you think?

    Just so you know, Emerson and Charlie are probably going to be 17 / 18.

    What do you think Emerson's last name should be?

    What do you think the organization should be called?

    What is a country known for their military?

    Suggestions for improvement?

    • ANSWER:
      To be honest, if you choose to write this story, make sure you're writing it for yourself and not for anyone else. Do it to entertain yourself and learn something.

      The plot is pretty weak and not terribly interesting. It's sort of a spin off of The Running Man/The Island/The Prince and the Pauper. The problem with having a vague antagonist ("the government") is that nobody will care or believe in the outcome of the story. Unless it's really, really well written. And things like "government scientists" and replaced identities seem stilted and extraneous after the fact. Why not just make a more focused plot about someone who is famous who's a secret agent, like in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind? It's more direct and interesting.

19. QUESTION:
    How do I approach mother-in-law about listing my husband's ex as her 'daughter' on Facebook?
    My mother in law has her biological children listed, but also has my husband's ex as part of her 'children' in her Facebook profile. This makes me extremely uncomfortable and (while I'd not admit it) this also makes me incredibly jealous. I know she's a strong part of his history but there is a darn good reason they split in the first place. Having to be reminded that I'm a 'replacement' is hard to take, and that's exactly how she sees me. His ex will always be the favorite simply because she came first. His mother also turned a blind eye toward her infidelity, but if I so much as burn a cookie I'm the devil. My husband and his ex are not connected in any way and share no children. He's moved on. Mom can't.
    I'm not listed as a daughter, and his brother's wife, and sister's husband aren't listed either.
    Out of nowhere the ex popped up as a 'daughter', and our relationship with her is incredibly unstable. I've had to threaten her with a restraining order because she was stalking and harassing us!
    I WANT to be able to have a relationship with his mother, but this makes it difficult.

    • ANSWER:
      Talk to your husband about it.
      He should be the one to bring it up with his mother and let her know that it is inappropriate and in very poor taste to perpetuate and flaunt a relationship with a faithless ex daughter in law!.
      He should also let her know, that her behavior is hurtful to you, and that she is alienating you - and by default - him as well!

20. QUESTION:
    how many lies has the RNC told about health care reform?
    how many lie has the RNC told about healthcare reform?
    (http://www.newsweek.com/id/214254/output…

    The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
    By Sharon Begley | NEWSWEEK
    Published Aug 29, 2009
    From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009
    To the credit of opponents of health-care reform, the lies and exaggerations they're spreading are not made up out of whole cloth—which makes the misinformation that much more credible. Instead, because opponents demand that everyone within earshot (or e-mail range) look, say, "at page 425 of the House bill!," the lies take on a patina of credibility. Take the claim in one chain e-mail that the government will have electronic access to everyone's bank account, implying that the Feds will rob you blind. The 1,017-page bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee does call for electronic fund transfers—but from insurers to doctors and other providers. There is zero provision to include patients in any such system. Five other myths that won't die:
    You'll have no choice in what health benefits you receive.
    The myth that a "health choices commissioner" will decide what benefits you get seems to have originated in a July 19 post at blog.flecksoflife.com, whose homepage features an image of Obama looking like Heath Ledger's Joker. In fact, the House bill sets up a health-care exchange—essentially a list of private insurers and one government plan—where people who do not have health insurance through their employer or some other source (including small businesses) can shop for a plan, much as seniors shop for a drug plan under Medicare part D. The government will indeed require that participating plans not refuse people with preexisting conditions and offer at least minimum coverage, just as it does now with employer-provided insurance plans and part D. The requirements will be floors, not ceilings, however, in that the feds will have no say in how generous private insurance can beNo chemo for older Medicare patients.
    The threat that Medicare will give cancer patients over 70 only end-of-life counseling and not chemotherapy—as a nurse at a hospital told a roomful of chemo patients, including the uncle of a NEWSWEEK reporter—has zero basis in fact. It's just a vicious form of the rationing scare. The House bill does not use the word "ration." Nor does it call for cost-effectiveness research, much less implementation—the idea that "it isn't cost-effective to give a 90-year-old a hip replacement."
    The general claim that care will be rationed under health-care reform is less a lie and more of a non-disprovable projection (as is Howard Dean's assertion that health-care reform will not lead to rationing, ever). What we can say is that there is de facto rationing under the current system, by both Medicare and private insurance. No plan covers everything, but coverage decisions "are now made in opaque ways by insurance companies," says Dr. Donald Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
    A related myth is that health-care reform will be financed through 0 billion in Medicare cuts. This refers to proposed decreases in Medicare increases. That is, spending is on track to reach 3 billion in 2019 from today's 2 billion, and that would be dialed back. Even the 0 billion in reductions (which would be spread over 10 years and come from reducing payments to private Medicare advantage plans, reducing annual increases in payments to hospitals and other providers, and improving care so seniors are not readmitted to a hospital) is misleading: the House bill also gives Medicare 0 billion more over a decade. The money would pay docs more for office visits, eliminate copays and deductibles for preventive care, and help close the "doughnut hole" in the Medicare drug benefit, explains Medicare expert Tricia Neuman of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
    Illegal immigrants will get free health insurance.
    The House bill doesn't give anyone free health care (though under a 1986 law illegals who can't pay do get free emergency care now, courtesy of all us premium paying customers or of hospitals that have to eat the cost). Will they be eligible for subsidies to buy health insurance? The House bill says that "individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States" will not be allowed to receive subsidies.
    The claim that taxpayers will wind up subsidizing health insurance for illegal immigrants has its origins in the defeat of an amendment, offered in July by Republican Rep. Dean Heller of Nevada, to require those enrolling in a public plan or seeking subsidies to purchase private insurance to have their citizenship verified. Flecksoflife.com claimed on July 19 that "HC [health care] will be provided 2 all non US citizens, illegal or otherwise." Rep. Steve King of Iowa spread the claim in a USA Today op-ed on Aug. 20, calling the explicit prohibition on such coverage "functionally meaningless" absent mandatory citizenship checks, and it's now gone viral. Can we

    • ANSWER:
      1/100th as many as obama and Kathleen Sibelius have told.

      No one will be compelled to buy coverage.

      No new taxes on employer benefits.

      Government can control rising health care costs better than the private sector.

      A public plan won't be a Trojan horse for a single-payer monopoly.

      Patients don't have to fear rationing.

21. QUESTION:
    how many lie has the RNC told about healthcare reform?
    (http://www.newsweek.com/id/214254/output/print)

    The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
    By Sharon Begley | NEWSWEEK
    Published Aug 29, 2009
    From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009
    To the credit of opponents of health-care reform, the lies and exaggerations they're spreading are not made up out of whole cloth—which makes the misinformation that much more credible. Instead, because opponents demand that everyone within earshot (or e-mail range) look, say, "at page 425 of the House bill!," the lies take on a patina of credibility. Take the claim in one chain e-mail that the government will have electronic access to everyone's bank account, implying that the Feds will rob you blind. The 1,017-page bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee does call for electronic fund transfers—but from insurers to doctors and other providers. There is zero provision to include patients in any such system. Five other myths that won't die:
    You'll have no choice in what health benefits you receive.
    The myth that a "health choices commissioner" will decide what benefits you get seems to have originated in a July 19 post at blog.flecksoflife.com, whose homepage features an image of Obama looking like Heath Ledger's Joker. In fact, the House bill sets up a health-care exchange—essentially a list of private insurers and one government plan—where people who do not have health insurance through their employer or some other source (including small businesses) can shop for a plan, much as seniors shop for a drug plan under Medicare part D. The government will indeed require that participating plans not refuse people with preexisting conditions and offer at least minimum coverage, just as it does now with employer-provided insurance plans and part D. The requirements will be floors, not ceilings, however, in that the feds will have no say in how generous private insurance can beNo chemo for older Medicare patients.
    The threat that Medicare will give cancer patients over 70 only end-of-life counseling and not chemotherapy—as a nurse at a hospital told a roomful of chemo patients, including the uncle of a NEWSWEEK reporter—has zero basis in fact. It's just a vicious form of the rationing scare. The House bill does not use the word "ration." Nor does it call for cost-effectiveness research, much less implementation—the idea that "it isn't cost-effective to give a 90-year-old a hip replacement."
    The general claim that care will be rationed under health-care reform is less a lie and more of a non-disprovable projection (as is Howard Dean's assertion that health-care reform will not lead to rationing, ever). What we can say is that there is de facto rationing under the current system, by both Medicare and private insurance. No plan covers everything, but coverage decisions "are now made in opaque ways by insurance companies," says Dr. Donald Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
    A related myth is that health-care reform will be financed through 0 billion in Medicare cuts. This refers to proposed decreases in Medicare increases. That is, spending is on track to reach 3 billion in 2019 from today's 2 billion, and that would be dialed back. Even the 0 billion in reductions (which would be spread over 10 years and come from reducing payments to private Medicare advantage plans, reducing annual increases in payments to hospitals and other providers, and improving care so seniors are not readmitted to a hospital) is misleading: the House bill also gives Medicare 0 billion more over a decade. The money would pay docs more for office visits, eliminate copays and deductibles for preventive care, and help close the "doughnut hole" in the Medicare drug benefit, explains Medicare expert Tricia Neuman of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
    Illegal immigrants will get free health insurance.
    The House bill doesn't give anyone free health care (though under a 1986 law illegals who can't pay do get free emergency care now, courtesy of all us premium paying customers or of hospitals that have to eat the cost). Will they be eligible for subsidies to buy health insurance? The House bill says that "individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States" will not be allowed to receive subsidies.
    The claim that taxpayers will wind up subsidizing health insurance for illegal immigrants has its origins in the defeat of an amendment, offered in July by Republican Rep. Dean Heller of Nevada, to require those enrolling in a public plan or seeking subsidies to purchase private insurance to have their citizenship verified. Flecksoflife.com claimed on July 19 that "HC [health care] will be provided 2 all non US citizens, illegal or otherwise." Rep. Steve King of Iowa spread the claim in a USA Today op-ed on Aug. 20, calling the explicit prohibition on such coverage "functionally meaningless" absent mandatory citizenship checks, and it's now gone viral. Can we say that none of the estimated 11.9 million illega

    • ANSWER:
      Countless. Conservatives never wanted health care reform in the first place, like they never wanted Medicare. The definition of conservative is opposed to change, and there is apparently more money in working for insurance companies than there is in working for the public. It appears that they will do everything they can to water down the bill and then not vote for it anyway, since they can't kill it altogether. The plan seems to be to block the public option so the insurance companies won't have any competition and can continue to raise premiums, causing the number of uninsured to increase. If they require those people who can't afford it now to buy from private insurance companies, as the premiums go up and coverage goes down, they can blame the Democrats, because Conservatives won't even vote for the bill after they have ruined it. The fact that health care reform is President Obama's top priority gives them another unreasonable reason to work to make it fail. If so many people didn't stand to lose so much you could almost feel sorry for the party, which is disintegrating before our eyes and stubbornly goes deeper into the elitism, bitter partisanship, and obstructionist policies that got them into trouble in the first place.

22. QUESTION:
    Last Pujols MVP Question of the night...?(at least from me)?
    sometimes to me it feels like people are realy stupid and are blind to facts and stats.
    As ya'll all know Albert Pujols was named MVP today
    and i have seen alot of outcry talking about blah blah pujols played on a team that sucked.
    i also think the definition of MVP is incorectly stated
    A important stat is Vorp(value over replacement player)which is the the team would suffer the most if you replaced that player with a major league average player.
    And i dont wanna go into full depth into that stat but pujols is #1 on that list the cardinals would be a 13 games worse without him.
    Now another thing i have wrong with people is that they are in love with base stats.Like people that think oh K-Rod has had the greatest season of a closer ever saves are just how good your team is..they see sixtey or however saves he had and say thats great.no because when you break his stats down he maybe had the 4th best season in his own league.behind mariano nathan and papelbon.
    but anyless.
    Pujols/Howard

    Lets go into stat analasis

    HR
    pujols 37
    howard 48
    another case inwhich you would think that howard is better

    Rbi
    146 howard
    116 Pujols
    Rbi's are a compilation of your teams success

    so you see those two stats and say well howard has a way beter season.

    lets go farther into anlasyis
    Batting Average
    .251 Howard
    .356 Pujols A FULL .100 POINTS BETTER!

    One base Percentage(best way too see how good a player is)
    .339 howard
    .462 Pujols which is crazy and basically Ted williams in his prime.

    Slugging
    .543 Howard
    .653 Pujols
    not even close

    now another thing that is wrong with baseball is that they dont have a MOP(most outstanding player) which pujols would win also.but it wasnt like howard was sooo valuable philly couldnt do without him he caught fire for a part of the season and also plays in a band box stadium

    so this basically isnt a question because it isnt up for discussion
    but your comments?

    btw
    just another nugget for ya
    Strike outs
    199 howard
    54 pujols

    • ANSWER:
      You left out my favorite stat that shows Pujols' utter dominance of the NL this year: OPS+

      Pujols: 190
      Howard: 124 (43 points less than when he won the 2006 MVP - which should also have rightfully gone to Pujols)
      Average MLB player: 100

      How about one more great stat: win shares. Basically the number of wins a player contributes to a team based on individual stats.

      Pujols: 35 - 2nd in the NL to Berkman's 38
      Howard: 25 - just good enough to qualify for a 5 way tie in 12th place

      Howard didn't even have the most win shares on his own team, Utley had 30.

23. QUESTION:
    Do the Oklahoma Sooners suffer from 'Millenium Curse'?
    Oklahoma opened the new Millenium with the National Championship- shutting out the supposedly unbeatable FSU Seminoles in probably the greatest defensive performance in Championship Game history.
    Then.....
    2001-Jason White who was going to be the next Steve Young with his mobilty and throwing ability, blows out his knee.

    2002- White blows out his OTHER knee.

    2003- White re-tooled as an immobile pocket passer breaks his foot and throwing hand in the Big-12 Championship game. Stoops refuses to bench his Heisman QB for the Championship Game. Sooners dominate physically at the line, but lose game at LSU.

    2004- A graduation depleted OU goes up against a paid pro team in USC and gets whupped bad. NCAA turns a blind eye to their biggest earner's cheating.

    2006- OU plays Boise with Peterson and Malcolm Kelly injured, and a converted WR playing QB. Lose on a couple of miraculous trick plays.

    2007- OU plays bowl game missing 6 out of their best 8 players. Gets beat badly by WVU.

    2008- Predicted to be the best team until all three superstar Juniors (Curtis Lofton, Reggie Smith, Malcolm Kelly) jump to the NFL.

    Pre-season Defensive Player Of The Year- Auston English injured almost all year.

    Team leader and Butkus Award favorite- Ryan Reynolds goes down for the year during Texas game. Team deflates, Sooners lose. His good replacement goes down 4 games later.

    Probable future Heisman Trophy winner- DeMarco Murray gets injured on opening kickoff of Big-12 Championship Game. Thought to be non-serious, turns out to be season ending.

    What the hell else can happen to the Sooners at Bowl time EVERY year? This is getting to be like the 'Curse of the Bambino' or something?

    The worst part is those SEC hacks that claim Oklahoma chokes instead of realizing that they always play these bowl games without their best guys. The evidence is that during the season, OU crushes teams that crush their teams in Bowl Games.

    To put this in the proper perspective, Florida would have to play without Tebow and Spikes to make this even.

    Do you believe in the Millenium curse?
    Big-12 doesn't run anyways? LOL! That what we are famous for! Oklahoma is the greatest running team of all-time!
    Billy Vessels
    Steve owens
    Greg Pruitt
    Billy Sims
    A.D.
    DeMarco Murray
    and about 100 more great ones!
    Ironpump-
    Excuse me for being rude, but I would love to bash your sissy California face in! Good luck with the HIV!
    Injuries yes, always having you very best guys get injured at Bowl time- NO!
    Oklahoma played the Big-12 Championship without Murray who is Much more valuable than Harvin. Florida has three or four fast little midgets like Harvin- they are interchangable.

    • ANSWER:
      I feel your pain and with past experiences we have collasped in situations such as this but I feel that with the 23 days left til the game this team will have enough time to overcome the mental issues in dealing with the loss of DeMarco Murray. Let's give Madu a chance and see what he can do in a big time game. I realize he goes in late and helps us run the clock down when we, of course have the game out of hand. I have to be honest this is probably what is going to happen on January 8th. OKLAHOMA will have in the mid to upper 50's and they will hand off to him and if he breaks one free...OH well.

      I think that ironpump has some issues. He has some anger built up inside and I don't know if it has to do with his childhood or...I need more information. I also believe that he was spoonfed as a child and still has everything handed to him like a little... I just don't know.. I'm thinking...anyone who would wish harm on someone...hmm I am leaning towards the childhood thing maybe you were mo..no I just don't know. It looks to me though that he doesn't have a life. 3 weeks on and he has offered so much already man. wow.
      I would love for the Sooners to play usc right now and take that average points given up to 13 from 7.7.

      Hey Florida be afraid. BE VERRY AFRAID! MARK MY WORDS!

      I'M OUT!

24. QUESTION:
    will my niece have to pay taxes on fundraisers she has had for her eye surgeries.?
    My niece is 25, she was born legally blind with a condition called aniridia, absence of the iris, she got through school and college by holding books about 5 or 6 inches from her face, she lived with a roomate while in college as she will never be able to drive. Last year, she went on vacation with her parents(my sister) and they discovered her sight was alot worse, she was bumping into things, could not read any menus which she used to do, etc. They took her to different eye doctors and found out that a surgeon in Ohio (we are in SC) could do several surgeries on each eye, they are still in the experimental stage, but so far she has had 3 surgeries on each eye, each stay for surgery requires that they stay in Ohio for 10 days in hotels and eating etc. up there while she goes back and forth to make sure she doesn't reject the meds and her eye is doing well after each surgery. She now has beautiful irises, she was able to pick her color and she chose a blueish green. She also has lots of pressure, glaucoma and cataracts, they have done some work on those but are not finished. She is on disability even though she works a part time job at a department store and she has medicaid, but most of these surgeries are not covered as they are in the experimental stage. The next surgeries she willl have, that is one eye at a time, will be stem cell replacement, they will be up there 10 days again, then home and back for other eye.This is not FDA approved in US yet,but I heard it is fixing to be approved soon, but that could mean a year or 2. We have had various yard sales, bake sales,a poker run, etc, to raise money for them to pay the docs, some want money up front. Cooks for Christ put on a fundraiser yesterday for her at the fire department and everyone worked it, maybe about 350 to 400 volunteers, afterwards we stood in a circle and said a prayer of thanks and they made the announcement that the bake sale had made 00 and the total of everything was ,400 which they took over in a container to my niece and handed it to her. She has an account set up at a bank for donations and our church said there are still more donations coming in. Will they have to pay taxes on this, my boss just brought it up and I told her I have no idea. If anyone can give me some information, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

    • ANSWER:
      A person receives a gift does not pay tax on it, unless it is a tip or a bonus.

      Theoretically, you are supposed to pay tax on money from yard sales, but almost no one does, and they rarely get caught.

      However, she cannot claim a Schedule A medical expense deduction for any portion of the expense that was reimbursed if the reimbursement was tax-free.

      You are required to pay tax on gambling winning, including proceeds from playing poker. Playing poker with money may also be illegal under local or state laws that restrict or prohibit gambling.

      The way that the fundraising by Cooks for Christ and the church is being conducted is problematic. If someone gives a charity a donation for a specific person, then the donor is not allowed to deduct the donation on the donor's tax return, but usually (and illegally) does anyway. It is better to have the person give an unrestricted donation to the charity and allow the charity to select which needy person receives it, so that it will be legal to deduct the donation on the donor's tax return.

25. QUESTION:
    Anyone not come back to work after maternity?
    I haven't been treated fairly at work and I am not coming back to work after the baby.I will take 1-2 yrs off work to take care of her since we are financially able to.

    At first I asked (4times already) to work Part-time and 2 months ago and never got an answer. So now I don't want to come back at all and told the babysitter that I wont need her.

    However, they've kept me blind and never answered me and treated me poorly.They didn't want to lift the boxes that I wasn't supposed to lift per my doctor's note, increased my workload, put a lot of pressure, told me to hire my own temp replacement (totally additional and beyond my job description).Now I feel like not saying anything but when its time to come back, just tell them that I am not coming back at all because I don't have a babysitter.If they say that PT is fine I will say I can't because I didn't have an answer when I needed it.

    I will also try to go on maternity before because of the working conditions. Would u do the same?
    Just and FYI...I pay into SDI tax so our maternity is paid by the state and not the employer.
    checked on this and i wont have to pay back but thanks for the heads up..

    • ANSWER:
      sounds liek they are trying to get you to leave by making your workload worse and by tryint ot bring in another person to do your work + theirs! legally i DONOT think they can do that! They HAVE to give you your job back after you come back from maternity. Full-time/part-time whatever!
      THis might be something you need to call up a lawyer for a free consultation!!!

26. QUESTION:
    my mother is in cronic pain and I'm unsure how to help?
    Hi. I am an only child living with my mother. I am legally blind and my mom is an amputee. She's been through hell and back but I'll get right to the point. She was just in the hospital a year ago for a brain absess, however because of laying in bed for so long, she developed a blood clot that travelled from her back to her right knee. She had her left leg amputated just above the knee because of an F up a doctor did. So for just about a year now, this blood clot is stuck behind her right knee. I don't know if doctors are ignoring this or if they don't understand the severity of her pain. Tonight I'm a little bit more concerned then usual because she uses patches, however she has none and wouldn't be able to get any until the 13th of this month. No other pills will even come close to touching the pain, not even perkaset. And only certain patches will help, however these patches will work for a short period of time even though the packaging says they work for 2 or 3 days at a time. She burns through them like water.

    Now let me just add she is not abusing them, I know this, and should not be of any concern to any answerer. Her family doctor is the only person that can prescribe anything but she is a pain to get a hold of. I'm getting extremely frustrated here.

    She has gone to see doctors like her hemotologist and cartiologist which both say if they removed the blood clot that she'd probably bleed to death. I personally think they are full of ***. First of all, people have vain replacements all the time. For her, her vain in her leg is as thick as sausage. Why can't they take a vain from her arm or other top part of her leg and replace it with that one. I just can't stand doctors. She's has health problems all around and while I don't feel like explaining the entire situation I'm at a loss. It is taking a toll on me along with all the other *** I have to deal with on a daily basis at school (it's not like they make it comfortable hell no).

    She's been to the hospital several times and I just want her to be free of pain. Can anyone suggest anything for her to do, or better yet, I would appreciate any references to doctors or if anyone would like to talk to her please let me know. If anyone wants the full story on me and her please contact me privately or just leave an answer here stating so and I will give you my personal email address.

    Her and I have had very bad experiences with doctors all around and do not trust them. Some care, and some could really give a ***. I need someone to help me help her or help her.

    We live in Montgomery Pennsylvania and will be moving as soon as I graduate, which will be in about 3 months, in mid june. She will not have the full access, well I shouldn't say full access, to drugs or at least the patches down there as she does up here. We're going to move to mississippi and her goal is to be well by the time we move. We are moving because of her health and because we will be closer to family. I want to see her improve and be a better person but she is in pain, miserable and her health overall is not the best.

    I'm really despirae for help here.

    • ANSWER:
      I dont know what to tell you as far as drugs to ease pain but I know there has to be something to shrink the clot in her leg. Maybe you should start calling hospitals in your area and see if you can get some information. It sounds like your mother is suffering needlessly. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. I hope it all works out for both of you, take care.

27. QUESTION:
    how many lies has the RNC told about health care reform?
    how many lies has the RNC told about healthcare reform?
    (http://www.newsweek.com/id/214254/output…

    The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
    By Sharon Begley | NEWSWEEK
    Published Aug 29, 2009
    From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009
    To the credit of opponents of health-care reform, the lies and exaggerations they're spreading are not made up out of whole cloth—which makes the misinformation that much more credible. Instead, because opponents demand that everyone within earshot (or e-mail range) look, say, "at page 425 of the House bill!," the lies take on a patina of credibility. Take the claim in one chain e-mail that the government will have electronic access to everyone's bank account, implying that the Feds will rob you blind. The 1,017-page bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee does call for electronic fund transfers—but from insurers to doctors and other providers. There is zero provision to include patients in any such system. Five other myths that won't die:
    You'll have no choice in what health benefits you receive.
    The myth that a "health choices commissioner" will decide what benefits you get seems to have originated in a July 19 post at blog.flecksoflife.com, whose homepage features an image of Obama looking like Heath Ledger's Joker. In fact, the House bill sets up a health-care exchange—essentially a list of private insurers and one government plan—where people who do not have health insurance through their employer or some other source (including small businesses) can shop for a plan, much as seniors shop for a drug plan under Medicare part D. The government will indeed require that participating plans not refuse people with preexisting conditions and offer at least minimum coverage, just as it does now with employer-provided insurance plans and part D. The requirements will be floors, not ceilings, however, in that the feds will have no say in how generous private insurance can beNo chemo for older Medicare patients.
    The threat that Medicare will give cancer patients over 70 only end-of-life counseling and not chemotherapy—as a nurse at a hospital told a roomful of chemo patients, including the uncle of a NEWSWEEK reporter—has zero basis in fact. It's just a vicious form of the rationing scare. The House bill does not use the word "ration." Nor does it call for cost-effectiveness research, much less implementation—the idea that "it isn't cost-effective to give a 90-year-old a hip replacement."
    The general claim that care will be rationed under health-care reform is less a lie and more of a non-disprovable projection (as is Howard Dean's assertion that health-care reform will not lead to rationing, ever). What we can say is that there is de facto rationing under the current system, by both Medicare and private insurance. No plan covers everything, but coverage decisions "are now made in opaque ways by insurance companies," says Dr. Donald Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
    A related myth is that health-care reform will be financed through 0 billion in Medicare cuts. This refers to proposed decreases in Medicare increases. That is, spending is on track to reach 3 billion in 2019 from today's 2 billion, and that would be dialed back. Even the 0 billion in reductions (which would be spread over 10 years and come from reducing payments to private Medicare advantage plans, reducing annual increases in payments to hospitals and other providers, and improving care so seniors are not readmitted to a hospital) is misleading: the House bill also gives Medicare 0 billion more over a decade. The money would pay docs more for office visits, eliminate copays and deductibles for preventive care, and help close the "doughnut hole" in the Medicare drug benefit, explains Medicare expert Tricia Neuman of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
    Illegal immigrants will get free health insurance.
    The House bill doesn't give anyone free health care (though under a 1986 law illegals who can't pay do get free emergency care now, courtesy of all us premium paying customers or of hospitals that have to eat the cost). Will they be eligible for subsidies to buy health insurance? The House bill says that "individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States" will not be allowed to receive subsidies.
    The claim that taxpayers will wind up subsidizing health insurance for illegal immigrants has its origins in the defeat of an amendment, offered in July by Republican Rep. Dean Heller of Nevada, to require those enrolling in a public plan or seeking subsidies to purchase private insurance to have their citizenship verified. Flecksoflife.com claimed on July 19 that "HC [health care] will be provided 2 all non US citizens, illegal or otherwise." Rep. Steve King of Iowa spread the claim in a USA Today op-ed on Aug. 20, calling the explicit prohibition on such coverage "functionally meaningless" absent mandatory citizenship checks, and it's now gone viral. Can

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      Want me to really start in on the lies the libs tell? STarting from BEFORE ELECTION?

      Just because you want to try to make someone sound worse than your village idiot..doesn't mean it is so. FACTS talk for themselves...and you won't find ONE TRUE ONE on the lib side.

      Want me to really start listing them? I can't believe what you posted for one second. You have all been found out to exaggerate the truth and twist facts to suit you.

      the truth is...the CBO has taken out a commercial and are telling people to beware of hidden costs...what is being told is a lie. CBO...!!!!!!! I do think the libs tell more lies and nothing about the health care reform INSURANCE bill can be trusted.

28. QUESTION:
    how many lies has the RNC told about health care reform?
    how many lie has the RNC told about healthcare reform?
    (http://www.newsweek.com/id/214254/output…

    The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate
    By Sharon Begley | NEWSWEEK
    Published Aug 29, 2009
    From the magazine issue dated Sep 7, 2009
    To the credit of opponents of health-care reform, the lies and exaggerations they're spreading are not made up out of whole cloth—which makes the misinformation that much more credible. Instead, because opponents demand that everyone within earshot (or e-mail range) look, say, "at page 425 of the House bill!," the lies take on a patina of credibility. Take the claim in one chain e-mail that the government will have electronic access to everyone's bank account, implying that the Feds will rob you blind. The 1,017-page bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee does call for electronic fund transfers—but from insurers to doctors and other providers. There is zero provision to include patients in any such system. Five other myths that won't die:
    You'll have no choice in what health benefits you receive.
    The myth that a "health choices commissioner" will decide what benefits you get seems to have originated in a July 19 post at blog.flecksoflife.com, whose homepage features an image of Obama looking like Heath Ledger's Joker. In fact, the House bill sets up a health-care exchange—essentially a list of private insurers and one government plan—where people who do not have health insurance through their employer or some other source (including small businesses) can shop for a plan, much as seniors shop for a drug plan under Medicare part D. The government will indeed require that participating plans not refuse people with preexisting conditions and offer at least minimum coverage, just as it does now with employer-provided insurance plans and part D. The requirements will be floors, not ceilings, however, in that the feds will have no say in how generous private insurance can beNo chemo for older Medicare patients.
    The threat that Medicare will give cancer patients over 70 only end-of-life counseling and not chemotherapy—as a nurse at a hospital told a roomful of chemo patients, including the uncle of a NEWSWEEK reporter—has zero basis in fact. It's just a vicious form of the rationing scare. The House bill does not use the word "ration." Nor does it call for cost-effectiveness research, much less implementation—the idea that "it isn't cost-effective to give a 90-year-old a hip replacement."
    The general claim that care will be rationed under health-care reform is less a lie and more of a non-disprovable projection (as is Howard Dean's assertion that health-care reform will not lead to rationing, ever). What we can say is that there is de facto rationing under the current system, by both Medicare and private insurance. No plan covers everything, but coverage decisions "are now made in opaque ways by insurance companies," says Dr. Donald Berwick of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
    A related myth is that health-care reform will be financed through 0 billion in Medicare cuts. This refers to proposed decreases in Medicare increases. That is, spending is on track to reach 3 billion in 2019 from today's 2 billion, and that would be dialed back. Even the 0 billion in reductions (which would be spread over 10 years and come from reducing payments to private Medicare advantage plans, reducing annual increases in payments to hospitals and other providers, and improving care so seniors are not readmitted to a hospital) is misleading: the House bill also gives Medicare 0 billion more over a decade. The money would pay docs more for office visits, eliminate copays and deductibles for preventive care, and help close the "doughnut hole" in the Medicare drug benefit, explains Medicare expert Tricia Neuman of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
    Illegal immigrants will get free health insurance.
    The House bill doesn't give anyone free health care (though under a 1986 law illegals who can't pay do get free emergency care now, courtesy of all us premium paying customers or of hospitals that have to eat the cost). Will they be eligible for subsidies to buy health insurance? The House bill says that "individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States" will not be allowed to receive subsidies.
    The claim that taxpayers will wind up subsidizing health insurance for illegal immigrants has its origins in the defeat of an amendment, offered in July by Republican Rep. Dean Heller of Nevada, to require those enrolling in a public plan or seeking subsidies to purchase private insurance to have their citizenship verified. Flecksoflife.com claimed on July 19 that "HC [health care] will be provided 2 all non US citizens, illegal or otherwise." Rep. Steve King of Iowa spread the claim in a USA Today op-ed on Aug. 20, calling the explicit prohibition on such coverage "functionally meaningless" absent mandatory citizenship checks, and it's now gone viral. Can

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      The best way to find that out, is to watch their spokespersons speak on the subject.
      When their lips are moving, they are lying.