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Should I try for a promotion at work, or am I better off in my safety zone? Currently I'm in research, but the promotion could be as an account executive. This is more in line what I went to college for, but I am extremely afraid of failure.

how do passenger safety cells work? i need to know how they differ from crumple zones and how they work to keep the passenger safe in a car accident. I need to know for my physics assignment at school but cant find any useful information, plzz help, thnx....

Finally!!...isn't this proposed Anti-Paparazzi 'Safety Zone' Law LONG OVERDUE? It's about time! A proposed ordinance will create a buffer zone between celebrities and the paparazzi who often swarm around them acting like maniacs as they vie for the "money shot". THE STORY: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327865,00.html PAPARAZZI AT WORK: http://www.thadoghouse.com/images/poorbrit.jpg http://www.textually.org/picturephoning/archives/images/set2/paparazzi-5.jpg Those Paparazzi are nutzz.... Isn't a new law creating a "no-fly zone" between the Paps and celebs way overdue and "about time"?? And...will it work to keep them at bay? Your thoughts?

What defense will work for my 8 man flag football team for 10 & 11 year olds? We are one of the smaller teams but we have good speed. I'm think 3 dline, 4 linebackers and 1 safety. In a zone system. If we were bigger I would go 4-3-1 but since we are not I will reverse it.

Moving to Detroit to work in RenCen. Which Detroit community should I consider? I am going to be working in the Renaissance Center. I have spent time in Troy and Rochester and I like those communities but I am worried about the commute. I would love Bermingham but the cost and the commute would be a concern. It is only my wife and myself as our children are grown. My wife likes to run early morning so safety is a concern. My ideal location would be a nice, quiet, affordable community with an easy commute to downtown and decent shopping and restaurant selection. We are also wanting to downsize our home but we still want features like high ceilings, art niches, etc. in the home. Moving to a high rise would probably challenge our comfort zone. If you know of a web site that compares the various neighborhoods I would love to see that URL. All suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance for your answers.

Is this a legitimate speeding ticket? okay so here it goes. im driving down oregon street in sherwood probably going around 35-40MPH, and coming from the other lane i see a cop pass by me, i slow down, next thing i know im geting pulled over. the lady cop, who was a real b*tch i must add, shines her flashligt right into my eyes for about 10 seconds..dead silent. she goes "whats going on?, how fast were you going?" i say "honestly im not sure i was not looking at my speedometer" she takes my license, insuranc, reg and tells me and my friend to put our hands on the steering wheel and dashboard and to not move. she comes back in about 5 or 6 minutes, our arms are hurting like hell by this time.., and she says "you were going 66 in a 35 MPH road, i caught you on radar." i am shocked and ask her for any kind of proof that i was going that fast. she says that shes not required to show proof and hands me a $427 ticket! it gets worse.. i get home and take a look at the ticket closely, where it says Offenses. "hwy work zone, school zone, VBR, safety corridor, RADAR, pace, laser, and other" ALL said "N" for no. even RADAR which she said she used to catch my speed coming towards me. it just says that my alleged speed is 66 and the posted speed is 35. i am planning on fighting it but what do you guys think..?

How can I get my dog to stop growling at me and my other dogs when it feels threatened? My poodle/doxin growls each time my other dogs goes near him when it has a toy or object in it's possesion. I have been trying to train my dogs using the "dog whisperer" style. By not reacting and yelling, but by using a stearn "ssh" sound. But it has not been working. Especially when he goes into his cage where he is in his "safety zone". I even try saying NO and if I try to take the object away, he gets even more aggressive. What techniques should I try or do? I have 2 other male dogs, which make the growling a little more tense and I take the toys(such as rawhides) away because it causes the dog I am talking about to growl and bark which causes the other male dogs to react and sometimes growl and bark and sometimes bite back. He doesn't growl all the time, only when I am too close.

Fear for my own safety when in public? I hate going out of my comfort zone. This includes work. Iam worried about my own safety. What if I get into a car crash? What if I cross the street and get hit? These thoughts arent really bad , When iam feel well and in surrounding i know of. But If I go interstate, I become very depressed. I feel stressed. And I think the worst is going to happen to me, For example flying interstate, I will feel I wont make it back home alive. What if this happens? What if... I cannot travel interstate because of this , It makes me feel very dark and uncomfortable. I have always been a homely person. I tend to stay at home whenever I can but if I plan to go out with my girlfriend I will become abit stressed for my own safety because Its new surroundings. When I work I worry abit that things may happen to me when I have to drive and go out somewhere. I just feel like the world is a dangerous place and I should stay inside. I have clinical depression and iam on a couple of medications.

Safety Crossword on Woodwork? Here is a crossword that I want you guys to fix: 1)These are worn,when using machines, to protect your hearing. (8 letters) 2)Never stand in----------when using electrical equipment. (5 letters) 3)Safety Zones are-----------lines on the floor around the machine. (6 letters) 4)These are always worn to protect your eyes when using machines. (13 letters) 5)Never use your fingers to feel the edge of the blade under the base of the-------------- (5 letters) 6)You must always follow the-------------'s intruction. (7 letters) 7)Always make sure your work is secured in a-------------------- (4 letters) 8)This should always be worn to protect your lungs when sanding timber. (8 letters) 9)Chemicals must never be-------------as they are poisonous. (9 letters) 10)Never poke anything in a---------point (5 letters) 11)Drill bits must always be secured in the------------of a drilling machine. (5 letters)

Does joining the army automatically mean you will be on the war front? I know this sounds like a stupid questions but hear me out. Say I was something like a someone who worked with computers for the army or was a nurse, would I stay in the safety zone or would I see live action or would it be a mixture of both?

ball python habitat? i'm looking into getting a ball python and want more information. i read up on how the humidity is important for the snake. would a small rubbermaid tote with a hole cut in the top work for a soak-safety zone? and if i didn't get that, what would be a good way to ensure the humidty level. also, heating mat vs. a heating lamp. what's the difference/pros and cons of each? any bad things about the ball python i should know about? do tell. <3 thankyou.

Playing safety? I am going to go out for the freshman team at my high school next year, and I have heard that at many positions there are many skilled players, except in the secondary. I am not fast enough to play corner, so I will probably wind up at safety. But I have never played tackle football before. I am working out and in good shape and used to play flag football, but I have no idea how to play zone coverage or knock a guy's head off with a bonecrushing hit! I throw well, but there is a really great QB who is also going to play and I won't get by him on the depth chart. What can I do to work on coverage, and what muscles should I work out to be a good safety. I am 5' 6", but still growing fairly quickly.

My fridge isn't working right, which food might be good still? I moved , and the fridge seems cold, had some pepsi in it, and that felt cold, then I got more stuff, a lot of stuff, and well, my sliced cheese is kinda melted, so I measured the temperature of the pepsi and the inside of the fridge, it is 50 degrees F. I have sliced cheeses, cheddar, pepperjack, american, swiss, (packaged feta). Brick cheese, I have sealed whipped cream cheeses, you know, the flavored ones, eggs, turkey lunch meat, orange juice, ground beef, pepper steak, hummus, bacon, feta & cucumber dip,then veggies. So, what is safe and what should I get in the freezer, it has been in their about 12 hours.. I know the food safety zone is 40 - 120 degrees, just seeing if anything is good as far as preservatives.

Gun-free zones fail; concealed carry laws work? Gun-free zones fail; concealed carry laws work F. PAUL VALONE If your state lawmakers killed legislation to protect students from slaughter, would you celebrate by saying, "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus"? This 2006 hubris was courtesy of Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker. The legislation killed was House Bill 1572, which could have enabled concealed handgun permit-holders to protect themselves on college campuses; and harsh reality trumped Hincker's "feeling" of safety when Cho Seung-Hui murdered 32 at Virginia Tech. When gun control advocates peddle their oft-failed schemes as solutions, they avoid mentioning details of three other school shootings where armed intervention saved lives: • In Pearl, Miss., assistant principal Joel Myrick stopped triple murderer Luke Woodham using a handgun from his car. • In Edinboro, Pa., the 14-year-old who killed a teacher at an off-campus dance was captured by shotgun-wielding James Strand. • At Virginia's Appalachian School of Law, student Tracy Bridges used his pistol to detain murderer Peter Odighizuwa. Beyond anecdotes, researchers John Lott and William Landes, then at Yale and the University of Chicago, respectively, studied multiple victim public shootings. Data from 1976 to 1995 showed the number of shootings in states with concealed handgun laws declined by 84 percent, deaths plummeted by 90 percent and injuries by 82.5 percent. The two called their findings "dramatic," concluding: "[T]he only policy factor to have a consistently significant influence on multiple victim public shootings is the passage of concealed handgun laws." Criminals don't obey laws Like North Carolina, Virginia prohibits guns on campuses. But policies purporting to create "gun-free" zones actually increase victimization, found the researchers: "States with the fewest gun free zones have the greatest reductions [in] killings, injuries, and attacks."Indeed, of eight major school rampages tracked by The New York Times, six occurred after enactment of the federal "Gun Free School Zones Act" in 1996. Said Lott, "Gun prohibitionists concede that banning guns around schools has not quite worked as intended -- but their response has been to call for more regulation of guns. Yet what might appear to be the most obvious policy may actually cost lives. When gun-control laws are passed, it is law-abiding citizens, not would-be criminals, who adhere to them." Concealed carry in schools, while novel, is not untested: Utah has permitted it since 1995. If you Google "Utah school shootings," you will find exactly none. Last week, the Tennessee state house voted to join them. Lest you picture drunken freshman shooting into the air at football games, understand that FBI background checks ensure permit-holders are age 21 and free of felonies, violent misdemeanors and demonstrated substance abuse. After 12 years under North Carolina's concealed handgun law, permit-holders have proven themselves sane, sober and law-abiding. Revocations run less than one tenth of one percent, most for reasons unrelated to guns. Protect yourself Moreover, the concept has support among academics: After the recent murders, Virginia Tech graduate research assistant Brad Wiles quoted his unsuccessful appeal to the school's president last August: "The policy that forbids students who are legally licensed to carry in Virginia needs to be changed. I am qualified and capable of carrying a concealed handgun and urge you to work with me to allow my most basic right of self-defense, and eliminate entrusting my safety and the safety of my classmates to the government." Policy-makers will debate Virginia Tech's delayed emergency response and its failure to address Cho's clearly disturbed behavior; they will debate campus security. But if 32 murders say anything, it's that police have neither the ability nor -- as the Supreme Court has twice ruled -- the responsibility to protect you. Seventy-six-year-old Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, used his body to shield escaping Virginia students. Doubtless, the politicians who killed HB 1572 console themselves that their malfeasance didn't quite cause his murder. But maybe N.C. lawmakers will display uncharacteristic courage by passing legislation allowing concealed handgun permit-holders to deter or stop campus rampages. Heroes such as Liviu Librescu deserve something better than their bodies to stop bullets. F. Paul Valone

Physics Car Crash Questions? 1) Explain the physics of a car crash and how the crumple zone, safety belt, and air bad work in concert to increase the driver's survivability. 2) Compare the average force experienced by a 60 kg person moving 34 km/h (20 mph) being stopped in a distance of 2 cm in one case (e a padded dashboard) or 40 cm in the other case (eg the effective distance due to the crumple zone and air bag)

A grade 10 quadratic word problem.? A chemical planet is rectangular and has a length of 100 m and a width of 60m. A safety zone of uniform width surrounds the plant. If the area of the safety zone equals the area pf the plant, what is the width of the safety zone? please show your work

Tips for explaining to parents school parking lot/road safety? The elementary school I'm working at, due to its boundaries, has a mix of kids who walk, ride the bus, or are driven to school by family members. I'm sad to say that the biggest before/after school hazard are the family members who refuse to obey safety rules when they come with their cars. We have rules to keep kids in safe areas, but some parents refuse to watch out for other kids, obey the speed limit, and stay out of the bus zone. It's become a huge safety hazard. I realize these parents are driving their kids to keep them safe, but some of them are not keeping it safe for the kids who walk. As school is about to start, I'd like to ask parents what reasoning would work.

What are the Physics behind Crumple Zones in cars? Hey :) I'm doing some work on aspects of car safety in physics, and i have been told to make a powerpoint on the physics of crumple zones. Can anyone help me with the physics of why they are good for car safety, or provide me with some helpful websites. Thanks :D

can you get mailed a ticket from a school safety officer? I was in a school zone and the traffic cop motioned for me to slow down. I happened to be going about 5 over the limit after I looked at my speedometer. I immediately slowed down and looked in my rear view mirror and it looked like the safety officer was writing my tag number down. Can they actually send you a ticket in the mail?? I don't even think it was an actually policeman, just a safety patrolman that works for the school system. I was just curious, because I have never known anyone getting their tag written down for this. The only time I have known people to get speeding tickets are if you are actually pulled over by a cop. I know we can get tickets in the mail for running red lights if there is a camera going, but I wasn't sure about this situation.. Does anyone have an answer for this? I am curious. Also, Can they write you one even if they don't know how fast you were going, but just assumed you were speeding??

Can you get mailed a ticket from a school safety officer? I was in a school zone and the traffic cop motioned for me to slow down. I happened to be going about 5 over the limit after I looked at my speedometer. I immediately slowed down and looked in my rear view mirror and it looked like the safety officer was writing my tag number down. Can they actually send you a ticket in the mail?? I don't even think it was an actually policeman, just a safety patrolman that works for the school system. I was just curious, because I have never known anyone getting their tag written down for this. The only time I have known people to get speeding tickets are if you are actually pulled over by a cop. I know we can get tickets in the mail for running red lights if there is a camera going, but I wasn't sure about this situation.. Does anyone have an answer for this? I am curious. Can they write you one even if they don't know how fast you were going, but just assumed you were speeding? The officer had no radar. i never drive through the area, so if they are writing the plate number down to see if i speed there often, then all i can say to them is, have fun.. cause i am never in that area of town.

116mph in a 65mph zone, reckless driving, need help...? PLEASE read ALL of this before you offer your opinion, I really need help... Today I was traveling on 88-East towards Oneonta passing through Afton, NY. I encountered a straight stretch of road (with absolutely no cars around me or in front of me as far as the eye could see) so I did the stupid thing and punched my red 86 Camaro to the top of 4th gear. As soon as I maxed 4th gear (which, by the way, is 100mph TOPS without blowing the engine!), I passed by a state trooper. I immediately slowed down and pulled over. He was so mad, he issued me both a 116mph ticket in a 65mph zone (says verified by stalker dual radar, COMPLETE BS!) and issued me a reckless driving ticket as well. I know for a fact that the mechanical limits of my car will not let my vehicle run over 100mph in the gear I was in, it is literally impossible. I was not in any means filled with intent to harm fellow motorists and will not deny that I was speeding, I was. But for him to say I was traveling at 116mph is ridiculous. I take my car to the track almost every weekend and it's impossible for it to travel that fast in the gear I was in! I have taken SCCA driver training courses (will this help in court?) and plan to complete a Driver Safety program. I am a full time junior in college, I work at NYSEG (to pay for school) in New York, and it is going to be absolutely impossible for me to go to school/work if they decide to suspend my license... What steps can I take to get the reckless driving charge thrown out and reduce my ticket to 30-39mph over? ANY help is appreciated...

How to allow our 6 yr old to start school I another school zone? Hardship- Under Special Circumstances? What other steps can be taking, for declaring a Hardship under Special Circumstances to allow our 6 year old to start school in another school zone? We don’t want our daughter to attend school where her Grandmother teachers at (personal reasons I‘ll explain later in this note)…and here in North Carolina they have not enacted an open enrollment policy. So in other word you can’t enroll your child with your personal school choose- unlike most of the 50 states with in the USA. My husband and I have already filled a Hardship with the NC School Department for our district asking for her to attend another school- which was denied. We stated how we have one car, my husbands a Manager and has an acquired schedule- I don’t work because my daughter is at home with me, until she can go to work- then I’d work as well…to help with our financial problems. We mentioned if she went to school closer to town where we’d work it would help us out greatly… And we also let them know that our daughters’ Grandmother also teaches at this school now where our little girl would attend this fall of 2009 school season. We explained how our relationship is completely rocky with her…and at the same time we let them know that her Grandmother is not going to leave our daughter to her schooling properly- Grandmother will continue to be personally involved with our daughters teacher, and our daughter will continue to want to know where Grandma is 24-7 while at school. Can you imagine if you got a call from the school saying- Your daughter went to the bathroom and never returned (someone more the likely - took her cause she was wondering outside the school- possible looking for her Grandma)…I feel this Grandmother situation is not fair to my daughter education- the teasing from other kids perhaps, the treatment from other teachers- whether it be miss treatment or being overly nice to our daughter…casting a shadow to the other students. As far as our relationship with Grandma it’s pretty crappy- we don’t get along…we don’t see her much at all. She’s a complete mess/ a slob - a complete hoarder if you will, with trash and shopping bags/junk thru out the home…sleeps all day right after work and all weekend- does nothing with herself, but read books. Both her dog use the bathroom all over the house…she’s completely and mentally like not there- We don’t allow her to watch our daughter- we don’t trust her, seriously…(There’s no helping this women, we have tried.) Grandmother pays no attention, she actually food poisoned my daughter and I with expired food…we clean her home often and throw her old expired food out- she had food- most of which was from the year 1999 and 2002....(This women is sick) baking goods/cake mixes- that she admitted to us- that she gives her students…in her words because- expired dates don’t mean anything. Except for school, school is a big deal to her…as it is to us- and so is our daughters safety. Grandmother has been talking to us for the past 2 years about how she’d go on our daughter field trips and be so koi with the teacher…and give her snack money (but our daughter is allergic to lots of things- and she will doesn’t get it.) My husband and I don’t want her in our daughters school business…and we such as HELL don’t want her to be stopping by our daughters class room, being best friends with her teacher. ALSO, we can’t afford private school…What can be say or do with the school board to get this request approved? Before my daughter ends up missing- looking for Grandma when she should be going to the bathroom…before our daughter doesn’t get a good education- and major problems will erupt with us her parents, her teacher and her Grandmother at this elementary school. Thanks for the advice in advance-

How to allow our 6 year old to start school in another school zone? Hardship- Under Special Circumstances? What other steps can be taking, for declaring a Hardship under Special Circumstances to allow our 6 year old to start school in another school zone? We don’t want our daughter to attend school where her Grandmother teachers at (personal reasons I‘ll explain later in this note)…and here in North Carolina they have not enacted an open enrollment policy. So in other word you can’t enroll your child with your personal school choose- unlike most of the 50 states with in the USA. My husband and I have already filled a Hardship with the NC School Department for our district asking for her to attend another school- which was denied. We stated how we have one car, my husbands a Manager and has an acquired schedule- I don’t work because my daughter is at home with me, until she can go to work- then I’d work as well…to help with our financial problems. We mentioned if she went to school closer to town where we’d work it would help us out greatly… And we also let them know that our daughters’ Grandmother also teaches at this school now where our little girl would attend this fall of 2009 school season. We explained how our relationship is completely rocky with her…and at the same time we let them know that her Grandmother is not going to leave our daughter to her schooling properly- Grandmother will continue to be personally involved with our daughters teacher, and our daughter will continue to want to know where Grandma is 24-7 while at school. Can you imagine if you got a call from the school saying- Your daughter went to the bathroom and never returned (someone more the likely - took her cause she was wondering outside the school- possible looking for her Grandma)…I feel this Grandmother situation is not fair to my daughter education- the teasing from other kids perhaps, the treatment from other teachers- whether it be miss treatment or being overly nice to our daughter…casting a shadow to the other students. As far as our relationship with Grandma it’s pretty crappy- we don’t get along…we don’t see her much at all. She’s a complete mess/ a slob - a complete hoarder if you will, with trash and shopping bags/junk thru out the home…sleeps all day right after work and all weekend- does nothing with herself, but read books. Both her dog use the bathroom all over the house…she’s completely and mentally like not there- We don’t allow her to watch our daughter- we don’t trust her, seriously…(There’s no helping this women, we have tried.) Grandmother pays no attention, she actually food poisoned my daughter and I with expired food…we clean her home often and throw her old expired food out- she had food- most of which was from the year 1999 and 2002....(This women is sick) baking goods/cake mixes- that she admitted to us- that she gives her students…in her words because- expired dates don’t mean anything. Except for school, school is a big deal to her…as it is to us- and so is our daughters safety. Grandmother has been talking to us for the past 2 years about how she’d go on our daughter field trips and be so koi with the teacher…and give her snack money (but our daughter is allergic to lots of things- and she will doesn’t get it.) My husband and I don’t want her in our daughters school business…and we such as HELL don’t want her to be stopping by our daughters class room, being best friends with her teacher. ALSO, we can’t afford private school…What can be say or do with the school board to get this request approved? Before my daughter ends up missing- looking for Grandma when she should be going to the bathroom…before our daughter doesn’t get a good education- and major problems will erupt with us her parents, her teacher and her Grandmother at this elementary school. Thanks for the advice in advance-

Wasn't the ICRC requested to flag an additional vessel to speed evacuation from the ONLY safe zone? http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090217/wl_sthasia_afp/srilankaunrest_20090217103058 IF YOU ARE A KID THAT IS BEING FORCED TO FIGHT CEASE FIRE AND GIVE UP YOUR WEAPONS TO THE MILITARY. YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MORE THAN SOME 50 YEAR OLD CRAZY MEN OR THEIR DERANGED KIDS. YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MORE THAN TERRORISTS THAT LINE THEIR POCKETS BY YOUR BLOOD. THERE IS FOOD, SAFETY AND SHELTER FOR YOU. The ICRC is aware that there is one operational safe zone and that the previous zone was abandoned as a designated site due to LTTE infiltration and combat from it. This is the same game of semantical ambiguity/logistic confusion that ICRC was employing in Iraq. Castella, are you flagging a second vessel or not? There cannot be differentiation from a child combatant to an adult combatant because if individuals or groups have weapons and are using them against government forces, the government has not only a right but an obligation to protect its forces and ostensibly the country that would devolve into anarchy without law and order. The ICRC must work in cooperation and in tandem with the military. The government has the power to requisition into service any vessel it deems necessary at a time of war or act conversely to protect. The defense website should put up names, aliases and a variety of pictures of the LTTE heads-The Pabraharakan family, Soosai and family, Pottu Amman, Charles Anthony, Nadesan et al. The more people that are aware of what these terrorist actors look like the greater the liklihood that they will not escape justice. Defense Minister's duty is to proscribe war and protect troops and assets and he should not be limited by false reports or opinions. For everyone has one but if you have actually lived in war and had machine guns held to you face, seen people being killed around you- then you would know that people do want law and order. If 37 square miles are out of order, in chaos and full of weapons being illegally discharged- civilians must make their way out or risk injury by indirect weaponry. All these complaints on Tamil Net will never suffice for the fact that these "Eelam Tamils" in the diaspora will not stop the genocide that each of you is commiting on Sri Lanka citizens by supporting the terrorist organizations. check drafts

How do I change my Xbox profile to download Black Ops Map Pack? We just bought Microsoft points and have Xbox live. The points are no problem but everytime we try and buy the Map Pack the purchase is blocked because it tells us our profile won't accept a premium purchase. We have tried turning off the safety, we turned off the family settings, and we set the gamer zone to "underground" and nothing works:(

Need a trucking Safety person to answer this if possible? I know a driver who is fairly a newbie. Less than two yrs on the road, mostly regional/local. He got a ticket for 21 mph over the posted speed limit in his personal car in his personal auto and then a seatbelt *nonmoving* and then some sort of ticket about "not obeying posted signs in a construction zone".... He went and took the Safety course and paid those tickets, yet has not reported them to his employer and the last two violations were in Sept 08. He has 10 points currently on his driving record. I am a former Safety supervisor and I can't figure out a way for this man to get his points lowered to where he can get another job with his Class A CDL. I was wondering if anyone here had some ideas. This is the state of IN so I am not sure about things these days. I try to keep up but I am not in that career anymore. I'm disabled now. But I'd like to help him if possible to get another local job where he is home every night. I told him the points is what is getting the best of him. He already paid those tickets so those cases are closed. What is a good next step. My advice was to stay working for who he is working for and be honest with them when they have him sign the form every yr about violations and wait three years till it clears..then he can go someplace else. Was I even remotely close? Please help. I need some answers. I haven't seen the actual MVR, but now he says there are only 6 points....From my knowledge, anything over 4 points (depending) is a reason not to hire someone. I understand much of this because not only do I hold a Class A CDL w/ has mat, but I've been a driving instructor myself over the past 25 yr. I just don't know how to convince this man to either go in and face the music or think of using student financial aid and find something else until he can get it all cleaned up. I am proud of my own record. I would seem to be easier these days than it was in my days when I was driving in the 80s and 90s and all the way up to 2003. Thanks for all the answers. This may just help him in the long run.

A poem for your thoughts? Splat! By Semper Fi Reborn My mind is speeding in a work zone. Will the fines be doubled, If I'm troubled? I zip past the signs That shout my demise. Pedestrians in lines, With fear in their eyes, Run and scramble for safety. My mind is not buckled. If I click it no ticket, Yet I press on my luck like an EASY button. But my button's stuck and, I'm not a luck man, it's nothing, I better keep on trucking. Mind swerving, Wheels spinning from the beginning, Like my brain has a hemi. Feeling good I jump the curb and go..... SPLAT!!

Should I play Wide reciever or free safety? Grade: 10 (going to be a junior so its varisty time) Age: 15 Weight: 129 Height: 6'0 Bench:115 deadlift: 255 power clean: 130 squat: 155 ( When I maxed this weight it wasnt too hard so I think I can go up to 180) Push press: 110 40: 5.1 (I only ran it once and didnt do a warm up. I could get to 4.8-4.9 easilly) I play meeeaaaan man coverage but in zone my reaction time and agility need work. I can tackle decent aswell. I also Run decent routes and block very well but I cant catch consistantly or get seperation off the line. Im not sure which i should try to specialize in,

Have DC police admitted that the purpose of traffic enforcement zones is revenue collection, not safety? http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/027741.html If the point of a traffic enforcement zone is to ensure that people are driving carefully, why would police cite drivers who flash their headlights to warn others about it, thereby prompting them to slow down? On the other hand, if the purpose of enforcement zones is revenue collection, issuing such a citation makes perfect sense. Washington, D.C. attorney Mark Zaid was recently given a $50 ticket for flashing his lights to acknowledge a warning of an enforcement zone in Maryland’s Montgomery County. True to form, the armed tax-feeder tried to impress his victim by his generosity, claiming that Zaid could have been charged with “obstructing a police investigation.” All of this is “bootstrapping” a charge, of course. What Zaid — a lawyer who specializes in helping government whistle-blowers — did was perfectly legal. When he challenged the ticket in court, the officer who issued the citation didn’t appear. Zaid’s ticket was dismissed, as were all the other citations issued by the officer at the enforcement zone. Ironically, the officer wasn’t available because he was on military leave. This is one of the few instances in which the co-mingling of military and law enforcement actually worked to the benefit of individual liberty.

Anyone else living with Agoraphobia? I have moderate Agoraphobia. I can go out of the house and continue to work, but I can only go in my "safety zone", which is about a 5-10 mile radius. Anything outside of that, I have to have my husband with me and I still experience a large amount of anxiety. I also can only travel in my camper van, as part of my Agoraphobia started after being diagnosed with IBS and needing to make sure I was near a restroom. The camper van has a restroom in it ,and I literally drive it everywhere. Even to work, which is only a 10 minute drive. I just recently had a baby and she is now 5 months old. I worry about when she gets older and my family is all gung ho about taking her skiing and going to the river and things that I totally can't picture doing. I mean I want to be able to make sure she has an active happy life and I try to go on small walks and take her to the park and find fun filled activities near my home, but I just wonder if there are other mothers who have experienced this and how to make sure my daughter still gets to do all the things she wants to do.

Is this a good way to explain to Mom why I'm moving out for a few months? I'm taking a year off to work and just think about things. Kinda to sharpen my senses, and awareness kind of idea. I decided i just need to leave for a bit you know? I'm moving in with a friend, and while it's not far from home and its still a safety zone I have my freedoms. I'm 18 in 9 days (holy moly) so i'll legally be an adult. Mom is overbearing and overprotective, constantly nagging and in my space. I know mom loves me, i know she just wants the best for me, but i need to breathe too. I plan on saying to her= You know I'm taking this year off to kinda think about things right? Well a lot of kids my age have already gone to university, where they'll do their own thinking... and since I don't plan on taking off to School anytime soon, I want to move out, just for a little bit, to have some extra space to think about things for awhile. I need to do this, to stretch my wings, and it's really important to me that i get this extra space for a bit. What do you think? I know its kinda silly, to move out for a month or two just to go back, but, I feel like i need to physically get some space into my life. And yeah i know moving in with friends doesnt always work, but i work in the evenings, and my friend has school in the day so we wont be at each others throats. We're going to write a contract to get in words some rules and personal... limitation things. But the major is still the fact that I'm moms baby. i always will be. And. I just need a good way to say, Mom i'm moving out, without breaking her heart. I know i'm kinda selfish for wanting to leave, cos mom needs me and i know she does, but i'm coping with massive anxiety/depression issues and i just cant handle mom dumping on me, and theres no way for me to dump on her back. Crap is hitting the fan for her too, which makes it worse.. is it too selfish of me to want to leave just to breathe and think? Oh and i know that it will break moms heart, and it will prolly make things tough after if she holds a grudge for wanting to leave, but. I want to break it to her geeently... Even though my personality is very blunt. I generally would prefer saying "I love you but I moved in with Friend. The door didnt hit me on the way out, so you know." In a note, on my bed. Or leaving a big story that would go against all her perfect ideas of my life (Example of story= Eloping with a gothic lesbian lover with too many piercings and tatoos to have many many babies with male neighbours and support my family with questionable jobs) just to make her feel relieved that I moved down the street. But apparently i can be a bit of a jerk sometimes. Which is why i really consider my actions before acting on them. Thanks to those that answer. Unfortunately its near impossible to come to a truce with mom. She's rigid and can't handle a lot fo things and if i ask for space in the house and just for her to leave me be (in the house) i'll be given a one way ticket to guilt paradise. Heck, even wanting to leave will inspire numerous guilt trips. I dont WANT the guilt trips, i dont want her to feel abandoned. Yet working things out is impossible. And i'm not the first daughter to want out. My sister went all the way to California to get away from Mom. and Mom hates flying, so we've only seen sister once a year for the past few years, cept daddio. Me.... I'm just going down the street. I have told dad about my plan, and he said i better be sure i want to do this, because i'm "opening a can of worms you wont ever be able to close" It's made me a bit scared, cos i know dad wont be backing me up verbally. I'm literally standing on my own, with only the knowlede that Dad accepts my choice. Can we say eek? Eek.

MSF (Motorcycle Safety Foundation) course - beginner driver? Tomorrow is the last day - the few remaining riding lessons and then the riding test. I took the written part today - got a 94%. I was the only one in the class who had NEVER ridden a bike before - and today during riding practice I kept making mistakes. I'm 6'0 and the bike he gave me was so short I kept having cramps around my hips - and I would have to stop in the middle of the course and walk it off. They say the course is designed for a beginner, but they move so fast. Tomorrow, we're moving into the complex stuff like the box u-turn, and meanwhile I am still trying to get used to moving the motorcycle (I kept releasing the clutch and the motorcycle would die). I still have difficulty changing gears while driving - breaking using the front and rear simultaneously - finding my "friction zone" - pause breaking etc... I don't understand how the gears work. You first start at neutral - press down to go to the first gear - then do a large lift to go to the second gear... how do you know when you have changed gears - sometimes I will push and lift and I don't know if anything changed. Sometimes when I lift once, I feel like it has climbed two gears because I feel two changes - sometimes I think I'm in second gear - but turns out I'm in first gear. Sometimes the bike engine revs up and makes a really loud scary noise - even though my hand is completely off the throttle. Anyways... I found all this very confusing. I guess my question is... is this expected from a beginner driver - or am I just slow. Tomorrow is the riding test - and I'm pretty sure I am going to fail (you need a 20 or below to pass). And it doesn't help seeing everyone around you do everything perfectly. There were nine drills today, and I completed all of them - but I made so many mistakes that I have no confidence. I was hoping someone who had never ridden a bike before who took the MSF course could share their experience. But I welcome all help in regard to my questions.

space exploration/finnished target dates recorded in star trek movies? we know from current science;anti gravity systemsare nothing more than sophysticated floings of foward/rev, polarity.making anti gravity engineering posible.if japan {can}build a working small robot to lift heavy objects above its head.then the alt,is true.we could build giant autobots to lift star ships pre built/crew already on board in to orbit.hands heat sheilded for the downward trip back too work here on the star port building dock.can do people & permission from world leaders gets you up & these navy class ships flying across the night star lit skies.funding should be investor friendly.degoi of empire new earth.your tickett into the heavens.we need can do people fpr these projects!.galileo,voyager.u;s;s enterprize.with safety in each section of construction.shading people from hot sun till ready to fly.star trek webbing safety net over protected living/constution zones.and one huge beatifull ship in the sky line day/night.for many land masses.

Confident, but still shy about eye contact? I'm confident, I know that I'm intelligent and I can prove myself when I want to. When it comes to work I'm extremely confident -it's my safety zone. I can stand up and talk to a room full of people, but when I talk to an attractive man alone I can't look him in the eye for too long. I need to look down and I end up stumbling on my words. Also, I think of stupid things while I'm talking to him "like what if I trip and fall down flat on my face" or "Does my breath stink? if it does he'll probably pass out and they'll have to air lift him to the hospital" Eye contact is a big problem, I look at him for a moment and then look away. I really need to get over this. Best part I'm not even shy, whats the deal here? I read somewhere when people are hiding something they can't look someone in the eye, but I have nothing to hide and I still can't bear to look someone in the eye for too long. Again, I ain't shy! Anyone?

What do I need to work on? I am 15 years old i play running back and safety i run a 5.1 40 yard dash (which is fast for my high school team :P ) my height is 5"7 and i weigh 137 pounds i have great vision ball carrying, blocking and juking ability that is why the coach switched me from slotback my coverage is good (man and zone) but my tackling could use improvement my max bench is 120 pounds lol bad i know i have good skill but im not a naturally fast or strong guy and im medium height from the other kids on our team so giving those stats what needs the most improvement for ( my primary position of running back)

Do you think this would work to encourage safe driving? Sydney, Nov 29 (ANI): It's the most innovative way yet, to encourage safe driving practices in Sweden - a lottery for law-abiding drivers - funded by fines from speeding motorists. The Swedish National Society for Road Safety conducted the trial after it was suggested as a means of rewarding people who obeyed speed limits in Stockholm rather than breaking the rules. A traffic camera takes a photo of every speeding vehicle. Then, the vehicle's owner is issued with an infringement notice, with the fine tipped into a pool of money, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. However, if the car is obeying the speed limit, the owner is sent a lottery ticket giving them a chance to win a share of the speeding motorists' fines. The experiment was able to reduce the average speed of cars travelling through a school zone from 32km/h before the system's installation to 25km/h. The idea behind the Speed Camera Lottery was entered in a competition run by Volkswagen to discover fun ways to encourage people to change their behaviour. (ANI) http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20101129/900/twl-speeding-swedish-drivers-fines-to-fu_1.html

How do vitex agnus castus and evening primrose oil work? Repost because I noticed I asked in a quiet period (different time zone). We are pretty close to the time we decided we would go to a specialist if we haven't conceived yet. So I am getting pretty anxious to conceive (and have it stick) BEFORE going into the whole medical circus. I am usually pretty skeptical about both safety and effectiveness of all the fertility supplements out there, but with this 'deadline' coming up I have finally caved and started taking vitex and EPO. From what I have found they should at least be harmless. I am still a little hesitant about it though. Can anybody tell me exactly HOW these supplements are supposed to help me conceive? I have by the way noticed more cervical fluid than usual the last few days. Not EWCM yet (way too early for that in my usual up to 43 day cycle), just more, starting with sticky and turning creamier since yesterday. Is that due to one or both of these supplements? Just to be clear: I have of course been taking prenatal vitamins all along, so that is not something that changed recently. @Jim: That is kind of you, but those bases are already covered. I am well in tune with my body, chart my cycles and have a very healthy diet. Do you have an answer to my question?

How to apply the right or wrong answer of "Reason for Leaving" on an application form or interview? When I fill out an employer application form, I will usually be asked to state why I left my previous jobs. This list will provide with some of the terms most frequently used. The list is it help you are which are the "RED LIGHT" danger zones, the "GREEN LIGHT" safety zones, and "YELLOW LIGHT" possibilities that I can explain or discuss in the interview. Which one are the "red" danger zone?, "green" safety zone?, or "yellow" possible zone? List of Reason for Leaving: Absenteeism Additional job needed Assignment given to another branch office Assignment over Better opportunities Business closed Bankruptcy Career change Child Client ended assignment Could not do the job Company given deadline to trace stench Company moved had to reenter assignments Company relocated Company unclean and unsafe Contract ended Converted to regular staff Could not work hours assigned Department change Did not get along with co-workers Did not pass background check Disagreement Dissatisfaction with employer or job Duties Early retirement Employee voluntarily quit Environment Failure to receive promised salary Fired Forced Forced resignation Got lost on way to job Growth Illness Inadequate performance Job injury Job misrepresented Lack of training Lack of work Laid off Late to work Layoff Left town Location Long hours Low pay Low wages Management Material problems Merger Mistake/duplicate assignment Moved away New job No babysitter No potential No show Not qualified Perm position Personal reasons Personality conflict Plant closure Poor match with client Possible layoff Prefer to discuss in interview Promotional opportunity Quit Reduction in work force Relocated Reorganization Resigned (You will get a chance explain this) Retired Return to school Schedule conflict Seasonal Short term leave/vacation Showed up but was not selected for work Shutdown Still working there Tardiness Temporary Temporary changed mind Terminated Terminated because I-9 expired Terminated because of invalid social security # To insufficient salary Too Far Transportation Travel and broadening education Unexcused reasons Voluntary Walked off the job Went back to school

I get a ticket for passing a police car but don't really understand the situation? I was driving back home last night around 12 am in the morning and I did not consume any alcohol. I pass this one street at this time pretty often, it's in downtown Los Angeles, pretty dark at that time of the day and usually there are many homeless people crossing the street carelessly, so I always drive slowly while on this street. As I was driving down the street to my parking lot, I saw a police car stopped on the right side of the street with the light flashing, so I slowed down to 20 and change to my left lane, slowly passing by. Then I saw an officer at the end of the block, his car was also stopped but with no light on. He stopped me and told me to turn around and not go this way. So I turned around and got stopped by the officer in the 1st car that I passed. He asked me if I was drunk, I said no. Then he asked for my ID and insurance and all that jazz, and another female officer came out and issued me a ticket for passing over the car and "safety zone". I did not know they block the street and set up a safety zone because there was no light flashing at the end of the block, no cones or any thing, it was at mid night so there was no one driving on the street (literally you could only see one police car flashing light on the right side of the road and the situation definitely looked like the police car stopped to capture someone). I asked her why I was getting a ticket and she said: "for not paying attention and cross the safety zone". I explained that I could not see a safety zone ahead as there was no street blocking and I thought they stopped to capture someone. And she almost yelled at me that I could sign the ticket or I could go to jail. The way she talked to me was very rude, I was just trying to understand the situation here and why I was at fault. This is my first experience with police officer and I got a very bad image about them now. If I violated the law, I would take the punishment, I was very polite to her, just don't understand why she could be so cold and rude?? I'm not an U.S citizen, I am a very cautious driver, have never got a ticket or accident ever since I started driving in California. So did I by any chance violate the law? How long will it take for the ticket to arrive in my mailbox? How much am I expecting to pay for this ticket? I'm a foreign student and I don't work because I'm not allowed to in the states so I'm just hoping it will not be something that costs me a month of food. Please understand I'm not trying to defend myself, I'm just not very clear of this law. Thank you in advance. p.s: my friend was with me in my car at the time being, she couldn't understand why we got a ticket neither. While I was waiting for the female officer to write that ticket, another car did the same thing, but she didn't even pass the "safety zone", got stopped right when she was about to go around the police car and also got a ticket. My friend said she was sure we were not the only people who got caught like this tonight, it was unusual, I've been living here for a year and pass by this street a lot, there usually are many police cars trolling around downtown LA and stopping traffic, but this is the 1st time they did such a thing o_0

why do i feel like i am not worth getting to know/ worth dating (2 seperate questions)? I haven't really had much experience with dating. I have just dated one person who I did end up living with, but that is just because i didnt think much of myself and listened to my parents and took the first chance i got at getting and girlfriend and work as hard as i could at keeping her. It has been three years since i broke up with her, and i haven't been on a date since. Since this time i have started and almost finished a bachelors degree (hopefully getting into phsyiotherapy next year). I have lost a decent amount of weight and hope to be able to feel comfortable with my body by the end of the summer. I switched cities so i switched the people i hang around with (unfortunatly it is mostly with athletes from university so they do have typical team support mentality for each other, including me, but i dont really see how they say what they say) I am shy at first, but once i get to know someone i become quite talkative and like to crack jokes. I do not have a clearcut style i can say i have. I can sort of play guitar, like rock music, yoga and playing sports and view myself as an academic. I am not very good at these things. I feel like i am just blending in with society and do not have anything that makes me remotely interesting. I am not a big fan of bars because I almost get the mentality of people going to bars to essentially hook up...and grinding on a dance floor does not seem to be a good way of getting to intially know someone to me. I also believe i do not have much confidence. When i do get introduced to girls at bars from friends or when they randomly strike up a conversation i just get the feeling i am not worth getting to know, since i am dull and just try to be as nice and respectable as i can and end the conversation. Should i just try and keep trying to feel as comfortable as i can with myself through working out and yoga until i feel like i can step out of my safety zone. Are there any books or other methods that can help improve my self worth? second question I do try and always be the nice helpful guy in school. I started working with a girl doing labs and studying at the start of the year. They way we started doing labs and started studying together was because she is friends with a friends girlfriend, and out of the study group we always ended up working together. She lost her boyfriend in a accident at the start of the school year (they had been dating for quite a long time), so i was just being extra nice to her, and the semester went on. Towards the end of the semester i think i started getting feelings for her (i will talk about this later), but i thought since she lost her boyfriend if anything i would be a rebound. The start of this semester we were only in one class together, and she went in the same lab time as me. The thing i didnt get was that none of her friends were in there (they were in a different time that should could have gone in also) and i was the only one she knew. So we continued studying for this class together and doing labs together. Whenever we saw each other in the hallway we would stop and talk and we started going to yoga together also. I was on the fence that she possibly liked me also, but then at a party in february she hooked up with a guy and she would drop his name about once or twice everytime we were doing labs or going to yoga. I am friends with the guy too so i found out she had asked him to date her and he turned her down because he didnt want a girlfriend. Then the last month and a bit she stopped mentioning him and we started hanging out to the point that her friends thought there was somehting going on between us but there wasn't. In the last 3 weeks (she went home for the summer) the first week i kind of avoided her because i was feeling like i was starting to like her again and didnt feel like she liked me, but then last week when she wrote her last final she ended up stopping at a bar i was at with my friends who she didnt know and had supper then we went to another restaurant for a few drinks with two of our friends and when we left i jumped in with our two friends cause they live closer to my place than hers and it almost seemed like she wanted to drop me off. I ended up getting dropped off at the intial bar and my freinds were all telling me that she liked me cause she was laughing at all my jokes (she laughs a lot though...and half the people making those coments were females also) then the next morning she said i should come help with recycling...and my friend said she wanted to hang out so i said ok and i went over cause she wa leaving the next day. I didnt actually help with recycling but we hung out for a few hours and went for lunch (she paid for my meal even though i told her not to with the recycling money). Now i am sitting here trying to think if i do like her or if i am actually just lonely. I do like haning out with her so i want to figure out if i should risk out friendship and ask next year when she is

Dog Training Tips - How to teach her to get off the bed? I mentioned this problem in another post (about the dog puking) but I think it needs some elaboration and its own question. I have a female, 6 mo.-old Sheltie. I'm just looking for tips. I want to help teach her how to get off my bed, without embolding her to try and go up and down stairs. The reason for this is that she is not yet fully trained to "stop and come" if she gets away from me, and she's bolted out of my second-floor apartment door twice. The stairs are a buffer zone that I know she won't cross and I can catch her. I've scolded her about the bolting, and she's stopped, but its still a safety zone. She is both one of the most intelligent dogs I've had AND the most hard-headed/ornery. The breeder whose helping me with her warned me that she was strong-headed, so this has been a character trait since birth. She learned 'sit' and other "tricks" after less than 4 commands, so I know she's not just being stupid. I've trained many dogs before, but this one is just... wow. :P Now, part of the issue here is that I don't know why she's scared to leave the bed. It is one of those Ikea beds, so it's just over a foot off the floor -- I might as well be sleeping on just a mattress. While it's still head-level with her, I've seen her jump off of other things. When I walk her in the park, she'll hop curbs and two-foot or higher terraces with me with absolutely no problem or pause. I have a three-foot tall bed in my living room for a couch (I'm cheap, okay?), and she gets off of that just fine. I know she's still a puppy, but I wonder why she thinks the bed is more dangerous than these other things. I want her to sleep with me. I don't want her getting on my bed while I'm gone. I work a VERY long shift -- too long for her to not go potty, and I accept that, but she gets on my bed and gets trapped up there. I'm tired of washing sheets. :P I come in from work and she's sitting there with that look on her face that says she KNOWS she's messed up and she can't even hide because there's nowhere to go. The only option I have is shutting the bedroom door, which means shutting my two cats in there since that's their only access to their box in my bathroom. It just seems mean to them because it really is a very small space. She was originally crate-trained, but I used to live with some roommates who would ignore her or tantalize her in the crate (one of the reasons I moved out) and then blame me when she wouldn't stop barking at them. I would have to go and get her and stick her in my bed to make her be quiet, that or stick her in an unventilated room which was NOT an option. The crate's become a "time out" zone, so I don't want to leave her in there when I go to work and make her think she's being punished. Think I've covered everything.

What are ways I can be myself instead of always following the popular trends? I only like what is popular. I'm afraid of being my own person to "lead the pack". I feel safety in numbers and therefore chose to root for what is deemed acceptable by the general public. I am becoming grossly untruthful. I lie to gain acceptance from others to try and climb into the safety zone of the main stream vanilla celebrities that they idolize. I envy success more than actual talent and only look to the results and not the hard work. I like Kesha and Justin Bieber because its popular to do so and there is safety in numbers and I won't have to stand on my own, or enforce my own beliefs and opinions, in effect having no true beliefs and opinions of my very own. How can I change this?\

What career would i suit? I'm 18 and going to TAFE next year and have absolutely no idea what career i would be into. My hobbies are a strange mix, i really love video games, movies and personal fitness. I used to have a video game addiction but have majorly cut down to a point where i play casually, though i still enjoy it. I own lots of gym equipment and love working out, running and going to the beach. I love movies and appreciate classics such as the godfather and the shawshank redemption, sometimes i go to the video shop to look for old movies or ones I've heard about. I'm not the typical 18 year old guy who thinks movies like Iron man and transformers are good. ( they're actually terrible.. south park nailed it when they had the part with Michael bay ). I'm average looking, i consider myself very intelligent and down to earth and i feel too mature for my age. I like expensive clothes and food. I'm a very shy person but it is only for the fact that i don't think my looks are anything special. I am completely trustworthy and keep countless peoples secrets, i am respected for that. I think i could make a decent actor but i have what i call a safety zone which i have a hard time coming out of, I'm not a risk taker and am very self conscious. I would be great at working on video games, particularly the game play mechanics/chemistry concept. I have a very hard time studying but am prepared to work hard if i discover my desired career. Anyway i included a bit about myself because honestly i think it helps to show you what sort of person i am. I'm sorry for the spelling mistakes if there is any, I'm very tired and only asked this question because i want something to sleep on. My life is sitting in neutral right now and I'm basically wasting away at home(i have a regular job) and i feel like i could be doing so much more. sorry again if i missed important info or repeated anything.

What job/career would i succeed in? no website references thanks? I'm 18 and going to TAFE next year and have absolutely no idea what career i would be into. My hobbies are a strange mix, i really love video games, movies and personal fitness. I used to have a video game addiction but have majorly cut down to a point where i play casually, though i still enjoy it. I own lots of gym equipment and love working out, running and going to the beach. I love movies and appreciate classics such as the godfather and the shawshank redemption, sometimes i go to the video shop to look for old movies or ones I've heard about. I'm not the typical 18 year old guy who thinks movies like Iron man and transformers are good. ( they're actually terrible.. south park nailed it when they had the part with Michael bay ). I'm average looking, i consider myself very intelligent and down to earth and i feel too mature for my age. I like expensive clothes and food. I'm a very shy person but it is only for the fact that i don't think my looks are anything special. I am completely trustworthy and keep countless peoples secrets, i am respected for that. I think i could make a decent actor but i have what i call a safety zone which i have a hard time coming out of, I'm not a risk taker and am very self conscious. I would be great at working on video games, particularly the game play mechanics/chemistry concept. I have a very hard time studying but am prepared to work hard if i discover my desired career. Anyway i included a bit about myself because honestly i think it helps to show you what sort of person i am. I'm sorry for the spelling mistakes if there is any, I'm very tired and only asked this question because i want something to sleep on. My life is sitting in neutral right now and I'm basically wasting away at home(i have a regular job) and i feel like i could be doing so much more. sorry again if i missed important info or repeated anything.

Does anyone else get a strange, woozy feeling in their head from anxiety along with just not feeling yourself? I'm 20 years old and just finished up my fall semester in my junior year as a Biology Major in College. I've had clinically diagnosed anxiety years ago, back in high school, where it was so bad that I couldn't even go out with my friends and actually missed my freshman year of high school band trip because of chest pain. I've gone over 4 years without so much as a symptom of anxiety or nervousness and now all of a sudden about 2 1/2 months ago it all came back. Some of it is different and some of it new. I started with heart palpitations and vision problems, my eyes would get very sensitive. I also developed this almost woozy feeling in my head that I sometimes feel when I'm walking. I notice it especially when I'm in the woods hunting. I've had other symptoms as well as chest pain/tightness, that has some what gone away. Tension headaches, distractions from school work and lectures, forgetfulness, constant worry that there is some wrong with me. Sometimes I feel better when I'm just at home because I feel like I'm in a safety zone and everywhere else I'm vulnerable incase something happens to me. I havent missed school or work or hunting trips because of my anxiety, but at the same point I just dont feel myself. I've gone to multiple doctors, including my PC (three times), my psychiatrist, returned to cognitive behavioral therapy, my eye doctor, and have an appointment with a pulmonologist. I've also been to a dematologist because I noticed that my hair was thinning and receding, and was told that it was either due to stress, genetics, or a shedding phase known as telogen effluvium. After all these things I'm still bound and determined that there is something physiologically wrong with me, even knowing that all these symptoms I've had years ago were just anxiety. I'm just about at wits end, espcially with the woozy feeling I often get in my head. It is not dizziness or lightheadedness, but it is incredibly strange and triggers me to worry more that there is something wrong with me, like a brain tumor or something. Thanks for any input

Anxiety sufferers, need some advice? Ok to make a LONG story short, I started having anxiety 6 years ago which has gotten progressively worse over the last 3 years. I don't go more than 10-15 minutes from my home, I can go to work, and do local activities but that's it. I live with my boyfriend and have over the last 5 years. My question is, I feel like I can go either way with this, get better or worse. My parents have offered to help pay for therapist, which I have seen about 5-6 different ones, and also have offered to help me work on my anxiety. I keep thinking should I just throw in the towel and go to like an inpatient place where they can treat me 24/7 until I get better. I don't want more time to pass but at the same time I don't know if I should give up my good job and life with my boyfriend. I just hate seeing everyone worry about me but I'm scared to death of leaving my safety zone. Any advice?

what do you think about him? okay so this guy at my new school is extremely shy and everyone told me he really liked me. he started texting me but not talking to me at school and everyone said that he just liked me too much to talk to me in person, but he would. he was very sweet/funny/cute and i thought i would just be patient. i kept saying no to all the guys who asked me to homecoming because i figured he would eventually. today in science, he was talking to his guy friends and has decided to ask his best friend/ sister girl. she has a boyfriend at another school so she didn't want to go but he wants her too so hes going to ask her tomorrow. i feel like my heart shattered. im not sure why though because he didn't necessarily do anything wrong. im just really hurt that he was that much of a chicken that he would go to the safety zone and pretty much say "sorry, not going to bother trying to ask you anymore, too much work" what do you guys make of this?

Pretty please read this, i will give ya ten stars to the first person to answer!!! x? This is the preface and first two chapters of my story called Deep waters :D Enjoy x Preface Till this day, the myth was believed to be untrue, a myth that had the mythical creatures fearful, a myth that could bring any creature to its knees, intentionally or unintentionally. It didn’t matter if you were best friends or family. Once a human entered your life, it was over. The story goes that one time, ten thousand years ago, when the mythical creatures stormed the earth and the humans were not quite there, there was a werewolf. His name was Nahalie. He was leader of his pack and loyal and fierce, a true leader and a great friend. He was good friends with the vampires. There was a truce between the two. Neither would overstep their boundaries. He was especially good friends with Victor the vampire prince. They had known each other nearly their entire lives. One day a rumour spread. A new creature had been found. Something strange, something that drove the vampire’s crazy, make the werewolves hunger and most of the creatures go wild. Nahalie had to find out what was happening. So he and Victor decided to investigate. Their sense of smell was so great, that it didn’t take long to follow the tantalizing smell of the new creatures. Were Nahalie came to a garden, large and beautiful, he hesitated. He could tell that this was what had stopped the others. It was a holy place. A place no mythical creature would go for fear of punishment, Victor pushed ahead, not seeing it, nor sensing it. There was a huge tree, beautiful, amazing. Words didn’t work for it. There were pears that covered the tree and right near the top was a beautiful golden pear. Something about the pear seemed off. He knew for sure the smell never came from it. Its smell was tainted and disturbing. They knew it was forbidden fruit – not to be touched. They continued to walk; the smell grew closer and closer till finally they found the source, a naked creature, something like themselves but different. One could be seen as a man, the other a woman. It was strange how the knowledge came to them. They just knew instantly what they were. Humans, the name was unfamiliar, strange but it also spelt danger. Both Nahalie and Victor fell madly in love with the young girl, not caring at all what she was, all they could feel was a strange drawing to her. From victor, it was simply that he wanted to posses her, to have her as his own, even if it killed her in the process, while Nahalie wanted to cherish the girl, protect her and love her. They both felt strong feelings towards her. She had the power to send them to their knees but she didn’t even know. Before they could take her though, they had to lure her away from this holy place and the man she was with. So this whispered things to her, day or night neither mattered, they just wanted her. They whispered things that made her knees weak, things that made her body throb with unwanted need, things that made her whimper in fear and pain. Finally she gave into them. She did what they asked – she ate the golden pear, the forbidden fruit. She was sent away from the garden, the safety zone and before anyone else could get her – Nahalie and Victor got her. They both felt a pull to her that felt unnatural. And as soon as they realised that they both felt something similar they made it a plan to kill one another, just for this quiet but beautiful girl they hardly knew. They just felt something, something strong enough to pit them against each other, they felt that it was worth it. So they fought. They fought to the death and both died. Victor would have been the winner but the girl struck him then killed herself, for it was not victor that she wanted, though she had felt a strong ppull to him, she had wanted Nahalie, the one who had loved and cared for her. Now they all live in the otherworld, the realm of the dead. They still follow this girl, now named Eve. This is a story of a likewise bond. A bond so strong it hurt. Chapter One I shook myself lightly, preparing myself. I was nervous, my gut was clenched tight and I felt sick. But I loved that feeling, the feeling of adrenaline rushing through my veins. An adrenaline junkie – that’s me! “Yo, Yo, Yo! People in the house welcome our next contender... Ally Angel!” I heard the booming voice and knew I was on. Taking a final deep breath I stepped onto stage. There were some boos and cheers, I’d prove them all though, that I was good. I was blinded by a bright light but forgot all about it when I got handed the mic. I saw the guy I was competing against. Black, tall and muscled. Kinda scary looking. His eyes seemed wide and dilated. I swallowed noisily before turning to the crowd and giving every last one the eye. Then he began and I was lost in my mind and the words. “Yo, yo, yo! You better be a freaking out now, for I am the boss, I own this place and I know that little girls like you ain’t worth the trouble. You see, ma

Is there any real hope for recovering from severe anxiety/panic disorder with agoraphobia? short background--since I was about 9 years old (I'm now 24) I've been getting panic attacks every now and then, and always been an anxious person, but never to the point where it really affected my life, other than stomach problems from always feeling so nervous, and it keeping me up at night every once in awhile because I couldn't breathe. but then in december 2009 I really snapped, I reached the peak (or so I thought, I've only been getting worse) of my anxiety and completely snapped. ended up in a mental hospital, the ER a handful of times since then, two nights in a row I even branded my arm using a screwdriver and a lighter just to try to distract myself from the feeling of extreme fear, like I couldn't breathe, and was out of control and gonna die. I can't tell you how many times I've spent the night in the ER just to wait to talk to a shrink in the morning and have them tell me to just keep taking my pills and see a therapist. which brings me to the pills, I've been taking (and heavily dependent on) xanax and klonopin for close to 15 months now, though I've been taking xanax in at least some form for probably close to 3 years. daily use though, closing in on 15 months. I've also been on 6 different antidepressants just to shut the doctors up and show them that they're a scam and don't work and simply have negative effects (for instance, increased anxiety, or depression and suicidal feelings which I normally would NEVER feel). the other huge part is the fact that I'm terrified to leave my house. currently, aside from a couple of doctors appointment's, I really haven't left my house in about 3 months. it's usually only for a month or so at a time before I take a leap, fall hard, and go back into hiding, but this time my leap and fall were both far greater and so I've been far more scared. I ventured FAR out of my safety zone, well out of the reaches of any hospital or anyone who can save me, and long story short I ended up walking 20 miles in the middle of the night with a dead cell phone and $500 cash in my wallet because I couldn't bring myself to get back into the car. I don't know how I became so terrified of being in the car, I used to drive for a living. I used to LOVE to drive. even when I had no destination I'd just hop in the car and go somewhere for the thrill of it, just to blast the music and drive around with the windows down. I used to be able to chain smoke while driving, drinking red bulls, singing along with my music, talking on the phone, etc. now, I can't do any of the above. I haven't used my car in so long that the battery has been sucked dry and it's been sitting in the front of my house collecting dust for months and months. and then on top of all of that, I've developed tourette's-like nervous tics, which i've never had before in my life. there are two main things that i do uncontrollably, I clear my nose constantly and so hard that it makes a snorting sound, sometimes I do it over and over to the point where it becomes my primary form of breathing until I hyperventilate and nearly faint. the other thing is a rapid exhalation, sort of like a cough or like a little laugh. it's hard to explain, but I do it as if I'm trying to empty all the air out of my lungs. I think it has something to do with the intense fear that I have emphysema and that I need to force the air out of my lungs because people with emphysema aren't able to get it out quickly like normal people. pretty much all of this revolves around extreme trouble breathing. I feel like if I could just breathe, I might be okay, or at least have MUCH more of a chance at being okay. but I just can't breathe. and 5 out 6 doctors so far have told me that there's nothing wrong with my lungs. well, 4 out of 6, but I don't count one because it was just "you might have bronchitis, take these antibiotics". the other just listened to my breathing with a stethoscope and said "you have asthma", gave me a goody bag full of inhalers and pills, none of which did anything for me. along with that, he gave me a peak flow meter which I was supposed to use to document my readings for a month. well guess what? never once did I dip below normal levels. sorry that this has practically been a novel or term paper so far but there's just so much to say about it all and I'm running out of available characters left anyway so I'd better cut it short. finally I should add that right now I'm in something called Crisis Diversion (for the second time in less than 6 months yet their company policy is that you can only be in it once every 12 months and you have to be screened and accepted). apparently my case is severe enough that they took me in again no problem. it's just case workers coming out to my house once per week to talk to me and try to get me to come in the car, st * stuff like that. nothing that really helps. I ran out of characters, so I think I wrote enough. :P

Dead Beat Parents not just dads.? Ok this is more of a vent. I am engaged to a wonderful man. Between us we have 3 kids. I have 2 with my ex husband. My Fiancee has one with his ex. We have custody of all 3 children. My ex husband is not the problem. My fiancees ex is now a major drug addict. She is out of control . She calls the cops with lies on me which I have already proven are lies. She makes stuff up. We are battling in court right now to make her go to rehab. She use to have weekend supervised visitations with her daughter but decided to remove her from the supervised home and take her to a known drug house where she endangered her daughter. Her Her daughter said her mom was taking a lot of pills and drinking and smoking funny cigars. Mind you the person who was supervising the visits didn't call and tell us she took off with her daughter. Well she abused her daughter that weekend called her vulgar names threw things at her. We tried to contact her numerous times on seeing how my step daughter was. We heard nothing finally we had to threaten with the police and my fiancees ex called us saying we will call her brooke needed to go to the er she had bedbugs and they were burrowing through her skin. We were livid drove down and picked brooke up and rushed her to the er guess where we got her from a known drug house. There was nothing wrong with brooke her mother was high and seeing things. My fiancee went down the following day which was monday and filed a violation of court order paper. Well the judge stopped Weekend overnight visitations and moved them to the mall two days a week in center court no where else. Well my fiancees ex has removed her from the safety zone set up by the courts and we violated her hopefully she will go to jail after trial because she constantly endangers the welfare of my step daughter. We have taken every legal route and now await trial. CPS is involved due to the abuse she has caused brooke. There is tons more she told brooke that I was going to kill her and my fiancee because I didn't love her. I am so fed up with this life time movie net work ultra villain. Well today is a visitation day and this moron decided to drop a line last minute saying she cant make it today because she has to paint her place. She only wants to be a mom when she feels like it. She refuses to pay child support and constantly harasses me. I have called the police numerous times due to her threatening in front of my children. The police cant and wont do anything because they say its a family court matter since it happens at visitation. I stopped taking my step daughter to the mall for visitation and my exs fiancee has to come get her now because I am so tired of her attacking me in front the kids and I cant do a thing about it according to the cops. It needs to be settled in family court. Men are not only dead beat parents moms are too. If you don't want to do what you need to do to be a productive parent then why not just stay away? Its my time and money as well as my fiancees that go into raising brooke as well as my 2 kids. I am so sick of the games she is playing with this child's life. Mind you she let brooke get molested and blamed brooke for it she was 4 yrs old that's when we finally got custody. This person is the lowest form of scum how can anyone harm a child let alone their own. I just needed to vent I can't stand this person she is a POS and has proved to be nothing and no one. I love Brooke as she were my own this person has tried to break my fiancee and I up but he knows the truth and knows im not a liar. She has went as far as to accuse me of having multiple boyfriends lol I Am raising 3 kids I don't have Time for anyone but my fiancee and kids. Let alone I would never do that. She accuses me of stuff she does. She has a new guy literally every week and has the nerve to have my step daughter call them papa or daddy or mr. She has gone as far as to subject brooke to a convicted rapist. We are still fighting this. I am so sick of dead beat parents If you are going to make a baby be a man or a women and step up and take care of your child if not sign over rights because you are damaging your child mentally physically and emotionally with your own selfish behavior. There are many good parents out there but far to many dead beats.Wait best part I almost forgot she has an imaginary court order that says I am to pick up and drop brooke up at the mall for visitation. There is no such order I have the order that says she is to have visitation at center court 2 days a week for 2 set hrs. She does this to try to get me there to try to start drama and Im above that I have 3 kids I need to be here for not put away because she is a bipolar drug addicted liar. Ok im done now really I am just needed to vent. if you leave any negative replies to me based at me congrats your as trashy as she is.

calming my cat, she seems stressed, suggestions? My cat is about 15-16 years old and has always been fairly skiddish. She was used to sleeping on my bed growing up, until I moved away. She then became attached to my mother and father, though mostly my mother. My cat also attached herself to mainly staying on my parents bed only roaming the house when I would return for visits and holidays. and currently enjoys spending the night on the bed with my mom, but once she's out of bed, its under the bed she goes until about 9pm each night. This is usually how her routine goes, it changes a little bit day to day. A couple years ago my parents moved back to California and into an apartment. My cat seemed a bit freaked after the plane ride, but nothing was unusual, and for the most part seemed happy and eventually adjusted. A few months ago, my parents moved into a house because the apartment lease was up. My parents are now preparing to move again, this time with my grandmother to help care for her. I recently moved down here to visit, help with the move and look for a place of my own. Our cat notices the boxes occasionally, but everything seemed fine until we noticed some blood spots on my parents bed, took the cat to the vet and he determined it was her gums. He gave us a liquid med to give to the cat twice a day. Needless to say my cat, at first was less than please with having to come out from under the bed and have medicine squirted down her throat. After a good week of this medicine routine she seemed to be getting used to it, as we tried as best as possible to give her the medicine at the same times each day. However about the 8th day, our cat decided she was going to poop on the floor at the foot of my parents bed, of which my mother accidentally stepped in. I had been visiting for a good month and a half by this time as I was helping take care of my grandmother who lives in another home not to far away. I had to leave to go up north for a weekend, and the morning I left my cat peed on the bed, and my dad got a bit irritated, and wanted the cat off the bed. My mother convinced him to let the cat back on the bed that night, and she was fine. A couple nights after that and the night/early morning of the day I was due to return, my dad got up to go to the bathroom, and my cat sleeping and purring with my mom, decided to go over to my dad's side pee on the sheets and covers and then go back to my mom's side as if nothing happened. My dad not noticing pee got back in bed and pulled the covers over to find himself now covered in cat pee. I was not home, but I would not want this to happen to me an hour or two before I need to go to work. So yesterday my cat was locked in the bathroom so my parents could dry out the mattress and was the sheets and covers. My cat usually never exits my parents bedroom as the house she's is, the former tenant had a bunch of cats which I'm sure she smells. But my parents bed laying on it or under it is her only true safety zone. the night before last she was locked in the bathroom b/c my dad did not want to go through the pee escapade again. I don't blame him as I know this all he knows to due and is not trying to be mean. However our cat, being locked in the bathroom (with food, water, and liter) all day and night, she was very scared. after I got back I'd go in during the day yesterday and pet her, and she seemed very happy I had returned. Last night my dad wanted her in the hall bathroom as her upset meow or whimper kept him awake all night. The only problem that's the only other bathroom in the house and if I need to go during the middle of the night, she gets out will run for my parents bedroom. It's now early morning and not only have had to go to the bathroom more than usually thanks to some bad food, I also have had to hear my cat whimper and meow ALL night, with only a couple a breaks, probably to refresh her vocals. I am wondering that maybe my cat thought I left again and was showing her displeasure by peeing on the bed. If I recall correctly, when I left to move back to California and my parents still in another state, the told me my cat peed by old bedroom door. My mother thinks its some kind of stress, and believes the moving boxes initiated the stress and the medicine her over the top. I'm leaning on e leaving as my cat, while attaching to my mom recently has been my buddy since about my sophomore year in high school, a good 14 years. I'm just afraid keeping her locked in a bathroom is going to make her more scared and cause more stress than returning things to normal. But my dad will not tolerate another drop of pee on his bed. I contemplated sleeping in the bathroom with my cat last night to keep her calm, but thought leaving her alone might help her get her stress out. She's pretty old for a cat and don't want her to get any health problems because of one or two incidences. Part of me feels my dad is being a bit i No, there's no other cats, just her. I know I don't want to put her in a bathroom all by herself, but its not my house and I don't have final say. If it was my cat I would have taken her with me to my place, but its not. I figure to just let her roam free throughout the house, and if my dad doesn't want her in the bedroom at night, fine. I honestly don't see her peeing on furniture or carpet outside my parents bedroom, but she might as she would be kicked out of her comfort zone...the bedroom. Thanks for the answers so far. I'll take as many suggestions as possible.

Can someone give me some advice? Please advise me on my condition. =(? Can someone help me with my condition? I'm so sick of whatever my condition is!? I've always had weird obsessions. When I was in the eighth grade, I had this weird obsession about reading. Overtime I read a book, I had to read every single line perfectly, or again, "until I felt right". Eventually, that lead me to not finishing a book for English class. Thankfully, once I came to highschool, my life got better. I read normally. However, every so often my obsessions would happen, but not in a major scale. Anyhow, I still had these weird fixations. For instance, if I didn't understand a sentence or if it was worded very confusingly. I would again repeat it until I felt right. Now onto the present! About 3 months a go, I began obsessing again. In fact, I do remember the first night when I started. I was reading a book for a history essay, and there was a "sentence". I'm sure everyone here knows what happened next. A few days after that, I had a fight with one of my friends. She did something very horrible to me, but I have gotten over it. To this day, I still don't know whether that caused my anxiety to evolve even more. Eventually, my "grammar" obsession evolved from "one sentence" to several grammar terms. Can you believe how stupid that is? I mean the reason i constantly obsess is due to the fact that I'm afraid I will become illiterate. For instance, if I just figured out something, i feel calm again. But then something else comes along, I try to apply my "grammar" knowledge, which is pretty much more or less my "safety" zone. And when it doesn't work I freak out. What's going to happen? Why doesn't this work? I'm going to become illiterate!! Sigh, pretty much whenever I get this "confusing" thoughts, it's like a panic attack. I mean one good thing is that my anxiety has moved on from repetitive thoughts. They now focus on multiple and minor things. For goodness sake, I'm only 16 years old. I can't believe how awful I feel. I've been seeing a talk therapist and my school social worker is helping me find free counseling. I feel like my life has just been taken away from me.

What's your opinion about my issue? I've always had weird obsessions. When I was in the eighth grade, I had this weird obsession about reading. Overtime I read a book, I had to read every single line perfectly, or again, "until I felt right". Eventually, that lead me to not finishing a book for English class. Thankfully, once I came to highschool, my life got better. I read normally. However, every so often my obsessions would happen, but not in a major scale. Anyhow, I still had these weird fixations. For instance, if I didn't understand a sentence or if it was worded very confusingly. I would again repeat it until I felt right. Now onto the present! About 3 months a go, I began obsessing again. In fact, I do remember the first night when I started. I was reading a book for a history essay, and there was a "sentence". I'm sure everyone here knows what happened next. A few days after that, I had a fight with one of my friends. She did something very horrible to me, but I have gotten over it. To this day, I still don't know whether that caused my anxiety to evolve even more. Eventually, my "grammar" obsession evolved from "one sentence" to several grammar terms. Can you believe how stupid that is? I mean the reason i constantly obsess is due to the fact that I'm afraid I will become illiterate. For instance, if I just figured out something, i feel calm again. But then something else comes along, I try to apply my "grammar" knowledge, which is pretty much more or less my "safety" zone. And when it doesn't work I freak out. What's going to happen? Why doesn't this work? I'm going to become illiterate!! Sigh, pretty much whenever I get this "confusing" thoughts, it's like a panic attack. I mean one good thing is that my anxiety has moved on from repetitive thoughts. They now focus on multiple and minor things. For goodness sake, I'm only 16 years old. I can't believe how awful I feel. I've been seeing a talk therapist and my school social worker is helping me find free counseling. I feel like my life has just been taken away from me. I don't know if they're getting worse or not. But to me, it seems as if they're becoming more and more specific and about little things. Help!

Can someone help me with my condition? I'm so sick of whatever my condition is!? I've always had weird obsessions. When I was in the eighth grade, I had this weird obsession about reading. Overtime I read a book, I had to read every single line perfectly, or again, "until I felt right". Eventually, that lead me to not finishing a book for English class. Thankfully, once I came to highschool, my life got better. I read normally. However, every so often my obsessions would happen, but not in a major scale. Anyhow, I still had these weird fixations. For instance, if I didn't understand a sentence or if it was worded very confusingly. I would again repeat it until I felt right. Now onto the present! About 3 months a go, I began obsessing again. In fact, I do remember the first night when I started. I was reading a book for a history essay, and there was a "sentence". I'm sure everyone here knows what happened next. A few days after that, I had a fight with one of my friends. She did something very horrible to me, but I have gotten over it. To this day, I still don't know whether that caused my anxiety to evolve even more. Eventually, my "grammar" obsession evolved from "one sentence" to several grammar terms. Can you believe how stupid that is? I mean the reason i constantly obsess is due to the fact that I'm afraid I will become illiterate. For instance, if I just figured out something, i feel calm again. But then something else comes along, I try to apply my "grammar" knowledge, which is pretty much more or less my "safety" zone. And when it doesn't work I freak out. What's going to happen? Why doesn't this work? I'm going to become illiterate!! Sigh, pretty much whenever I get this "confusing" thoughts, it's like a panic attack. I mean one good thing is that my anxiety has moved on from repetitive thoughts. They now focus on multiple and minor things. For goodness sake, I'm only 16 years old. I can't believe how awful I feel. I've been seeing a talk therapist and my school social worker is helping me find free counseling. I feel like my life has just been taken away from me.

Am i being too annual/germophobic? My mom sat the spot of my bed where a pillow goes while she was talking on the phone. This got me so mad. She knows how i don't like dirty things on my bed. She was even in clean clothes. She came back from work in her work clothes and sat on my pillow spot. I don't have a comfortable pillow because i gave it to my bed and all the pillows in my house makes my neck hurts so i don't use a pillow anymore. My bed is my safety zone of me. AGGH i just got so made when i saw her do that so i went to the other room and started throwing things. I have so much studying and homework to do today and now i have to go and change my mattress cover. i sleep on pillow top, no mattress so it's kind of hard to change the mattress cover. I also would need to wash my hands, take off the dirty mattress cover, wash my hands again, put on a new one. Am i too annual (obsessive) about this? How would you feel if you mom sat on your pillow spot on your bed? What can i do about this germophobia taking over my life? i mean she WASN'T EVEN in clean clothes. sorry

What's your opinion? Any suggestions? I've always had weird obsessions. When I was in the eighth grade, I had this weird obsession about reading. Overtime I read a book, I had to read every single line perfectly, or again, "until I felt right". Eventually, that lead me to not finishing a book for English class. Thankfully, once I came to highschool, my life got better. I read normally. However, every so often my obsessions would happen, but not in a major scale. Anyhow, I still had these weird fixations. For instance, if I didn't understand a sentence or if it was worded very confusingly. I would again repeat it until I felt right. Now onto the present! About 3 months a go, I began obsessing again. In fact, I do remember the first night when I started. I was reading a book for a history essay, and there was a "sentence". I'm sure everyone here knows what happened next. A few days after that, I had a fight with one of my friends. She did something very horrible to me, but I have gotten over it. To this day, I still don't know whether that caused my anxiety to evolve even more. Eventually, my "grammar" obsession evolved from "one sentence" to several grammar terms. Can you believe how stupid that is? I mean the reason i constantly obsess is due to the fact that I'm afraid I will become illiterate. For instance, if I just figured out something, i feel calm again. But then something else comes along, I try to apply my "grammar" knowledge, which is pretty much more or less my "safety" zone. And when it doesn't work I freak out. What's going to happen? Why doesn't this work? I'm going to become illiterate!! Sigh, pretty much whenever I get this "confusing" thoughts, it's like a panic attack. I mean one good thing is that my anxiety has moved on from repetitive thoughts. They now focus on multiple and minor things. For goodness sake, I'm only 16 years old. I can't believe how awful I feel. I've been seeing a talk therapist and my school social worker is helping me find free counseling. I feel like my life has just been taken away from me. I don't know if they're getting worse or not. But to me, it seems as if they're becoming more and more specific and about little things. Help!

I'm so sick of whatever my condition is!? I've always had weird obsessions. When I was in the eighth grade, I had this weird obsession about reading. Overtime I read a book, I had to read every single line perfectly, or again, "until I felt right". Eventually, that lead me to not finishing a book for English class. Thankfully, once I came to highschool, my life got better. I read normally. However, every so often my obsessions would happen, but not in a major scale. Anyhow, I still had these weird fixations. For instance, if I didn't understand a sentence or if it was worded very confusingly. I would again repeat it until I felt right. Now onto the present! About 3 months a go, I began obsessing again. In fact, I do remember the first night when I started. I was reading a book for a history essay, and there was a "sentence". I'm sure everyone here knows what happened next. A few days after that, I had a fight with one of my friends. She did something very horrible to me, but I have gotten over it. To this day, I still don't know whether that caused my anxiety to evolve even more. Eventually, my "grammar" obsession evolved from "one sentence" to several grammar terms. Can you believe how stupid that is? I mean the reason i constantly obsess is due to the fact that I'm afraid I will become illiterate. For instance, if I just figured out something, i feel calm again. But then something else comes along, I try to apply my "grammar" knowledge, which is pretty much more or less my "safety" zone. And when it doesn't work I freak out. What's going to happen? Why doesn't this work? I'm going to become illiterate!! Sigh, pretty much whenever I get this "confusing" thoughts, it's like a panic attack. I mean one good thing is that my anxiety has moved on from repetitive thoughts. They now focus on multiple and minor things. For goodness sake, I'm only 16 years old. I can't believe how awful I feel. I've been seeing a talk therapist and my school social worker is helping me find free counseling. I feel like my life has just been taken away from me.

Please advise me on my condition. =(? Can someone help me with my condition? I'm so sick of whatever my condition is!? I've always had weird obsessions. When I was in the eighth grade, I had this weird obsession about reading. Overtime I read a book, I had to read every single line perfectly, or again, "until I felt right". Eventually, that lead me to not finishing a book for English class. Thankfully, once I came to highschool, my life got better. I read normally. However, every so often my obsessions would happen, but not in a major scale. Anyhow, I still had these weird fixations. For instance, if I didn't understand a sentence or if it was worded very confusingly. I would again repeat it until I felt right. Now onto the present! About 3 months a go, I began obsessing again. In fact, I do remember the first night when I started. I was reading a book for a history essay, and there was a "sentence". I'm sure everyone here knows what happened next. A few days after that, I had a fight with one of my friends. She did something very horrible to me, but I have gotten over it. To this day, I still don't know whether that caused my anxiety to evolve even more. Eventually, my "grammar" obsession evolved from "one sentence" to several grammar terms. Can you believe how stupid that is? I mean the reason i constantly obsess is due to the fact that I'm afraid I will become illiterate. For instance, if I just figured out something, i feel calm again. But then something else comes along, I try to apply my "grammar" knowledge, which is pretty much more or less my "safety" zone. And when it doesn't work I freak out. What's going to happen? Why doesn't this work? I'm going to become illiterate!! Sigh, pretty much whenever I get this "confusing" thoughts, it's like a panic attack. I mean one good thing is that my anxiety has moved on from repetitive thoughts. They now focus on multiple and minor things. For goodness sake, I'm only 16 years old. I can't believe how awful I feel. I've been seeing a talk therapist and my school social worker is helping me find free counseling. I feel like my life has just been taken away from me.

What's your take on my condition? I've always had weird obsessions. When I was in the eighth grade, I had this weird obsession about reading. Overtime I read a book, I had to read every single line perfectly, or again, "until I felt right". Eventually, that lead me to not finishing a book for English class. Thankfully, once I came to highschool, my life got better. I read normally. However, every so often my obsessions would happen, but not in a major scale. Anyhow, I still had these weird fixations. For instance, if I didn't understand a sentence or if it was worded very confusingly. I would again repeat it until I felt right. Now onto the present! About 3 months a go, I began obsessing again. In fact, I do remember the first night when I started. I was reading a book for a history essay, and there was a "sentence". I'm sure everyone here knows what happened next. A few days after that, I had a fight with one of my friends. She did something very horrible to me, but I have gotten over it. To this day, I still don't know whether that caused my anxiety to evolve even more. Eventually, my "grammar" obsession evolved from "one sentence" to several grammar terms. Can you believe how stupid that is? I mean the reason i constantly obsess is due to the fact that I'm afraid I will become illiterate. For instance, if I just figured out something, i feel calm again. But then something else comes along, I try to apply my "grammar" knowledge, which is pretty much more or less my "safety" zone. And when it doesn't work I freak out. What's going to happen? Why doesn't this work? I'm going to become illiterate!! Sigh, pretty much whenever I get this "confusing" thoughts, it's like a panic attack. I mean one good thing is that my anxiety has moved on from repetitive thoughts. They now focus on multiple and minor things. For goodness sake, I'm only 16 years old. I can't believe how awful I feel. I've been seeing a talk therapist and my school social worker is helping me find free counseling. I feel like my life has just been taken away from me. I don't know if they're getting worse or not. But to me, it seems as if they're becoming more and more specific and about little things. Help!

Why do you think people ALWAYS lie about their motives for making money? Perfect example is in today's Boston Herald, about Gov. Deval Patrick's plan to reduce police details at construction zones or wherever roadwork is being done. Massachusetts is the only state that requires a police detail to direct traffic around work-zones. http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/2009_06_01_Gov__Deval_Patrick_hits_brakes_on_cop_details:_Debuting_new_push_for_civilian_flaggers/srvc=home&position=0 Naturally, the police union is opposed to the governor's plan, but they say they're opposed to it because it will compromise public safety. Why can't people ever be honest and just admit it's about the money? Obviously the police union opposes this plan because it means less money for their members. Why are they lying by saying that they're primarily interested in public safety? I'm not interested in hearing your opinion about Massachusetts politics or police unions, etc. I want you to answer the original question, which is: "why can't people ever admit the truth that it's about the money"?

Safety in Iraq? My dad is on some base in Baghdad, working on computers. He says he's in "The Green Zone" and that nothing will hurt him there. He cant go off base, etc. Is he really that safe though? I worry a lot about him, being in the war zone and everything. He's AF by the way.

Does joining the army automatically mean you will be on the war front? I know this sounds like a stupid questions but hear me out. Say I was something like a someone who worked with computers for the army or was a nurse, would I stay in the safety zone or would I see live action or would it be a mixture of both?

Does it concern you these kind of illegals are sneaking into America was deported twice? Police have arrested a man they believe has been stalking and raping young girls in Chandler for nearly two years. On Saturday officials identified Santana Batiz-Aceves, 39, as the person they believe to be the Chandler Rapist, connecting him to the string of crimes with DNA evidence. Police originally arrested him Friday morning on suspicion of identity theft. Evidence led them to believe he could be a Chandler Rapist suspect. They also said that Aceves, a Mexican national, is in the country illegally and he had been deported twice in California related to drug charges. “We are convinced that this suspect is responsible for the multiple assaults that have been committed in our community,” Chandler Police Chief Sherry Kiyler said during an afternoon press conference. That confidence comes from a flurry of DNA examining done by the Arizona Department of Public safety. Employees working from Friday afternoon through Saturday morning in DPS's crime lab were able to match Santana Batiz-Aceves' DNA to that found at the scene of three of the Chandler attacks. “The remarkable work of men and women you often don't see, those are the folks that work behind the scenes and offer support functions like the crime lab,” said Deputy Director David Felix of DPS. Also laboring through the night were Chandler police detectives attempting to sort out the identities of the suspect while waiting to hear the DNA results, said Sgt. Rick Griner of the Chandler Police Department. Officers in Tempe, Gilbert and Phoenix also chipped. As did the FBI. Kilyler said Aceves is facing 25 felony counts, including kidnapping, child molestation, burglary and sexual abuse with a minor. News of the arrest made it's way through the community. Those who live in the neighborhoods where the rapist struck say the precautionary habits they've developed to protect themselves and their families against him will be hard to break. Tim Medlock lives a few houses down from a 13-year-old girl who was raped last March. After the rapist hit his neighborhood near McQueen and Ray roads, Medlock refused to leave his 12-year-old daughter home alone, even for quick runs to the Safeway across the street. He started driving his daughter to the bus stop every school day and called police anytime he saw a suspicious car parked in the neighborhood. “I'm sensitive to anything now,” Medlock said. “I'll have a better comfort zone if they (police) caught him, but there's a bunch of other sick people out there. I'll still worry.” Authorities said Aceves worked as a heavy equipment operator and lived in the area of the sexual assaults for the last 18 months. http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/0112rapist-ON.html

How can I get faster and better at football? I am a sophomore on my JV team, 5'8'' and I weigh about 130. I ran track last year because I was extremely slow for my size, and I have got a little faster (my 40 went from about 6.8 - 5.8). I want to get my 40 down to at least 5.2 by the start of me being on varsity football. Currently i play safety and wide receiver. Catching is generally not a problem with me, and my tackling has got a lot better, though it still needs work. I know that practice makes perfect, but I need some tips on my running and tackling so that I can emerge as a starter. I believe my strides are not that great and I sometimes notice my arm swings are awkward and my knees aren't high enough. I ran track, so I know basic drills, but what else can I do? I also should mention that my right foot has an extra bone, and at random times I get pain (probably because of the tendon not being tight), but I still give it my all in practice day in and day out. As for tackling, my coaches told me I was hitting high; now I am hitting low, and I am doing quite well. The only problem is I read run a lot as safety and my footwork needs some extra help. However, I do not hit extremely hard, and I sometimes get dragged along because of my size compared to some monster backs in our division. And what do you think is better for a coverage safety in zone...conservative or aggressive? I know it depends on the play, but I need to make sure I wrap the guys up and get them on the ground if they come close to me, as I am the last guy out there... what can i do to improve my taking off speed as a wide out (i tend to be an average joe and take that cheat step backwards)...and btw, i know that I am pretty slow (curse you, genetics!), but by all means, be honest and do not be bashful in answering

What are some short school zone safety tips? At our elementary school we have trouble with jay walking and people not driving safely in the school zone. We have a new sign that will display very short messages and we are looking for some fun, educational, easy-to-remember school zone safety messages/rhymes for both the drivers and the kids.

What are some issues about school zone safety? I'm doing a report on improving school zone safety. Can you name some issues and a suggestion to improve school zone safety? Thanks.

Know any good school zone safety rhymes? At our elementary school we have trouble with jay walking and people not driving safely in the school zone. We have a new sign that will display very short messages and we are looking for some fun, educational, easy-to-remember school zone safety messages/rhymes for both the drivers and the kids.

the space immediately in front of the safety zone (not shaded, not part of the safety zone) if a cardn is draw if piece is situated in the spot preceding the safety zone and a card is drawn instructing to move forward more than the number of moves to get home do you move forward as instructed by the card or not move at all?

I am looking for footage of an advertisement that was shown in Europe about school zone safety.? My husband saw an advertisement about school zone safety while traveling that we would like to send to our school. It spoke of percentages concerning speed etc. I believe it said that if you exceed 25 miles an hour in a school zone and hit a child the child is 80% likely to die from their injuries. If you are driving under 20 miles per hour the child has an 80% chance to survive. If you have any info it would be greatly appreciated. thanks

What is the actual physics of a car crash, and its involvement with the crumple zone, safety belt, and air bag Of course I know that a seat belt and all that would prevent further harm to the driver / passenger. I'm curious about the complete physics of a car crash.

What distance is the safety zone from a fluorescent light bulb?

Can a Safety play zone and CB play Man all in the same play? It doesn't have to be either completely Zone or completely Man, correct? Fresher Than You!: I'm still learning.

What is the 30 km safety zone? Singapore may build a NPP in the future, but the 30 km safety zone may prevent them from doing so. What is the 30 km safety zone and who implemented it, the IAEA?

What might be the fine of a safety zone violation?

How did the cardinals get their safety in Super Bowl 43 if the ball was caught outside the end zone? I mean the flag was for holding so how did the refs justify calling a safety?

Where is your safety zone, the place where you find it the safest and can escape from it all?

Do you think women should have a "safety zone" in the house in which their men can't hit or scold them? I think it would be nice for women to have a safety zone which would protect us from our husbands or boyfriends so if they got mad at us or something we could run to it until they cooled off, you know?

when riding a bike in a (Biz-zone) with no bike lane, What are the rules for safety? I recivced a 218.00 tix for riding on the sidewalk !

What does the road sign "Safety Zone" mean?

what does the expression the safety of mother womb signif is the safety zone?

Regarding the SAFETY ZONE rules of SORRY? My grandmother and I were playing sorry, and she says that a rule of sorry is that once you get into your safety zone, you can only go home if you draw the card with the EXACT number of spaces needed to get to home. For example if you need 3 spaces to go home and you draw a 2 or a 1, you CANNOT move because that would be cheating. But you could move back if you drew a 4 or 10...to me this doesnt make sense and it is also not in the rules that come with the box. Can anyone help me?

Is a small chicken barn considered to be a building according to Michigan's laws about hunting Safety zones? There is this hunter that shoots just fifty feet from our chicken barn. The barn is only the size of a regular shed used for a lawn mower. I do know that there are safety zones in which you can't hunt. The law is that you can't shoot anything within 150 yards of any building. I live in michigan so the laws must be for michigan. Thank you for your time.

what is the colorado hunting safety zone?

How often to you step outside your safety zone?

Are most people here living in a safety zone? For example you only allow certain people and events into your lives because it presents no challenges. Please change this and i can assure you,you will grow.All the best.

nervous to travel outside my safety zone? i suffer from panic attacks and anxiety i live in ohio and im going to new york city,anyone have any tips to help me from freaking out,

when will i be in safety zone so i can stop worrying so much about having a miscarraige? im 9 weeks now! ?

Is a ball intercepted at one's own one yard line then fumbled out of the back of the end zone a safety or? a touchback?

If you make an interception in the end zone and get tackled in the end zone is that a safety ?

In the poem "In Westminster Abbey" by John Betjeman, in the 35th row, what does "Eternal safety zone"standfor symbolizes something? elaborate please

I got a speeding ticket today on safety corridor zone in NJ. I was 70 on 50. I got a court date.? I got a speeding ticket today on safety corridor zone in NJ. I was 70 on 50. I got a court date.? I got a speeding ticket today on safety corridor zone in NJ. I was 70 on 50. I got a court date. Can I opt out of it? Just pay the fine? This is my first ticket and I have been driving for 5 years and never even had any accident.. I was just having a bad day today! So I checked online and I got fine for $200.00. is my ticket suppose to show how many points too? And will the point get transferred? I am PA resident and I got ticket in NJ..

Defination of ground shot when upland bird hunting, no shoot zone area/degree, no shot safety zone?

When ypou venture out of your safety zone? Is there anyone laying in wait?

Finally!!...is this Anti-Paparazzi 'Safety Zone' Law LONG OVERDUE? It's about time! A proposed ordinance will create a buffer zone between celebrities and the paparazzi who often swarm around them acting like maniacs as they vie for the "money shot". THE STORY: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327865,00.html Isn't a new law creating a "no-fly zone" between the Paps and celebs way overdue and "about time"?? Your thoughts? @ dave b Yeah...that show is "Celebrity Rehab with Drp. Drew" and new shows are on Thurs @ 10 p.m. on VH-1. I got hooked on the show after watching it for the first time... what has happened to Jeff Conaway since "Taxi" is pathetic...he's a druggie close to death and I hope this rehab works for him. Check it out... http://www.popcrunch.com/vh1-celebrity-rehab-preview/ http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/celebrity_rehab_with_dr_drew/series.jhtml And my favorite porn star...Mary Carey...she's one of the "guests".

In Dead Rissing, how do you get to the safety zone with the girl from the park from the jewelry shop? I'm playing Dead Rissing, and I've got the girl I'm surposed to save from the park, where all the vigilanties are shotting everyone who moves, and i've taken her into the only part of the Mall open. Then taken her to the jewelry shop, the safe zone is flashing red right near the shop, there's nothing to go into there, so I go down a hall way door near by, and all the Zombies keep killing me. Where is the safe Zone and how can I avoid getting killed by the Zombies on this mission?

What is your safety zone?

Do you ever step out of your safety zone?

After Katrina rebuilding: shouldn't there be a safety zone now between the lake(levy) and the residence? I heard and read a story on NPR about how the residents are trying to get grants to rebuild elevated houses. But from the pictures, it looks like these houses sit on spots that are 10 feet away from the levy. Even without the threat of a hurricane like Katrina, it would be a very very wrong thing to do--building a house right next to the levy-- so why aren't there any regulations for situations like this? I don't know much about New Orleans, but I grew up in a country that has Typhoon(same as hurricane) every summer, yes, every summer. That means the flood/wind damages are just part of life but people always get back on their feet and to their normal life. Last time we had a huge flood after a typhoon, the underground transit system there was mostly underwater, yet when I stood in that station two years later, the only sign of the flood was just the marking of the flood level on the wall, I could have easily missed it if I didn't pay attention to it. What I am trying to say is that I am not sure if all the delays, problems, and all kinds of other hooplas are only the government's fault.

I need some advice. Should I go out of my safety zone and talk to him? I used to be good friends with this guy that I met last summer. We've been friends for 8 months, and we both go to the same school and are in a bunch of extracurricular activities together. I am a sophmore, and he is a senior. I started liking him about three months ago. He found out that I liked him through my friend, and a week or two after, he talked to me, saying that he thought we should take time off from eachother and focus on other stuff, because he knew I was frustrated about the whole thing. We haven't talked for two and a half weeks, and somehow it's driving me nuts. I miss talking to him, I don't like the evasiveness I feel whenever I'm around him, and I see him almost everyday, in the hallways and in extracurriculars.I've tried every possible way to forget and deal with it, but I've decided that the only way I can stop feeling really bad everyday is if I talk to him. I'm afraid he is mad at me, or annoyed or something, and I can't go without talking to him, thinking that he might have some negative thoughts on his mind. But whenever I get the chance, I never have enough courage to break the silence we've had to talk. I want to talk to him on MSN. I want to start the conversation by asking him if we were okay, if he was annoyed at me or something, because it bugs me almost everyday. Is this a reasonable thing to do? Should I go talk to him, so I can relieve this sick feeling, and be able to talk to him again. It's almost like, I just want my friend back. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Without the 100% safety in the green zone can Iraq ever have free society and elections? without 100 % stability in the green zone,the city is lost.just a matter of time,the free election that Iraq had,where puppetmaster bourn.what you have is anarky and a real civil war,duyba doooooo

It's Lunchtime & I'm Broke...Is it a 5 or 15 minute safety buffer zone for dumpster diving?

Is it a safety or touchback if a punt gets blocked through the back of the punting team's end zone?

in the NFL when a team gets sacked in the end zone for a safety, do they then kickoff or receive the ball.?

Hi, I am watching the Giants-Eagles game today and was wondering why the Giants scored a safety? Hi, I am not very knowledgeable on football, but was watching the Giants-Eagles game here, and was wondering why the Giants scored a safety. I McNabb was in the end zone and threw it away. I thought a safety is scored only when the opposing team is tackled in the end zone or the offensive team steps out of bounds in the end zone. Any clarification would be much appreciated, thanks!

My Toyota Camry LE needs a new neutral safety switch, is it necessary to replace it or can I have it adjusted? My Camry was just diagnosed with a problem with the neutral safety switch. I like to save some money by having the part adjusted by the autoshop. Is it possible? Or should I have it replaced? I can get a part from Auto Zone and have it installed. What's the best way to go?

What happens if a player commits an illegal forward pass in the end zone, such as on a kickoff in the NFL? An example would be that one team kicks off. Lets say the Cowboys kick off and the Eagles receive it. The Eagles guy catches it 8 yards deep in the end zone, and laterals it forward to another guy only 2 yards deep in the end zone. He decides not to return it though and instead kneels it for a touchback. What is the result on the play? A touchback? A safety? Or a penalty assessed on the touchback?

Laptop safety in connection to overcharging? i have lenovo r60 ibm thinkpad.I am a download freak and my lappy is on around 16 hrs a day on charge always.I have heard about dell laptops batteries getting overheated and damaged .Is this liable for me too.If yes,then what should be the safety zone for me?.And is there any other alternative solution?

If a kickoff returner gets tackled in his own end zone, is it a safety or a touchback (ball at 20 yard line)?

As the neo con made green zone falls in Baghdad does that reduce the republicans chances of a McCain victory? failed economy failed safety zone ,,is that presidential!!!

How can you do an intentional safety ? Madden 08 PS2? Last minute of the game, 4th down , 10 seconds on the clock, ball on 30 yard line, don't want to punt as there is a risk they may score some points, instead of running to the end zone and wait to be tackled. Can i throw it backwards or throw it away as a safety ? ( Near end zone ) closest i can think of is the saints and chargers game 3 or 2 days ago. Anyone ? Thanks , Full marks dude

What are cars made out of? And airbags? Info on car safety features' effectiveness? I need sources for this, by the way. What are cars made out of? What are airbags made of? What are the advantages/disadvantages of the material airbags are made of? Info or links to sites about the effectiveness of car satefy features would also be very helpful. And statistics about how much certain car safety features i.e. airbags, seatbelts, crumple zones etc. would help too. Thanks.

is it a safety if you touch the ball on a kickoff then it rolls into the endzone and another person kneels it? If a player on the receiving team of a kickoff touches the ball but does not have possession, then the ball rolls into the end zone and is recovered by another player of the receiving team but is knelt, is it a Safety of Touchback?

Does Car Safety ratings encourage car drivers to take risks? With the added security of airbags, crumple zones, trusion bars, roll cage and euro ncap +4 safety ratings, does the security of having these safety devices encourage drivers to take risks? Does the consequence of having an accident feel less frightening?

Anyone ever got a ticket for speeding in a school zone? I was going 45 in a 25 mph school zone should I plea nolo contendre ? If I plea nolo contendre will get go on my driving record and make my insurance go up? I live in Georgia and wanted to know if someone know anything about this situation to email me . I wanted to also know is any driving safety courses I can take to have the citation dismissed.? you can't see the school zone sign to know what time to go what speed . I do care about the lives of the kids but it was a busy traffic street and no car was going 25 mph anyways I wasn't speeding me and a guy in truck pulled over so how does he know it was me that was speeding he just go who ever stopped.

In the Oregon-Cal game, when the runner fumbled & the ball went out of the end zone, why was it a touchback? Why should the offense lose possession of the ball when the fumble was never recovered? Would the result have been the same in the NFL? On a related note, what's the curent rule when the offense loses the ball in its own end zone, whether by fumble or a bad snap to the punter, and it's not recovered? Touchback or safety?