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Best way to protect yourself from contractor fraud/misuse of fund
Comments (16)First time poster but once I saw this thread just had to post. HANDLE ALL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS PERSONALLY, CHECK UP ON YOUR BUILDER and know exactly which companies they use so that you can personally check the invoices and accounts :) Speaking from experience, a horrible, terrible experience. We began construction in April 2010 using a Highly recommended builder who was also our Uncle's cousin. We interviewed some of his old clients, some of his current clients, no problems. After we felt confident we signed the contract, got our plans and he began construction. He was professional (receipts, permits etc), the house was coming up in a timely manner and about 3 months in we get a call from the cement company wanting their bill paid. Then we get a call from the Electrician, then the Hvac, then the plumber, lumber company etc....all wanting their money to the tune of $50,000. Then the calls from his other current clients start coming in.... he did the same thing to them. About this time is when he disappears and leaves us with the mess. Remember this was a relative w/ a good reputation. We thought we took every precaution, receipts from him saying everything was paid and only gave him the exact amount he asked for by using a construction loan with a draw type acct...never gave any extra. But he was using our money to cover his other projects since he had went in debt on them too. For some reason the lumber, cement and other companies were STILL giving him in store credit even though he had hundreds of thousands overdue. In court for two years since they tried to sue him but that pond was dry (took his land, house, vehicles everything) but money was still owed so they tried to come after us. Thankfully our receipts, recorded phone calls and misc info saved us. We plan to build again in the future but will personally manage all the money and have a tight reign on everything that happens throughout the building process. And he was "jacking up the invoices" too, by about 40%.... never, ever again will I trust any builder with paying my construction bills. Did I mention we had to replace our roof shingles because they were installed wrong and rotted the wood around the edge? And had to replace the showers because noone waterproofed the walls or sealed the drain so black mold set in? Don't expect inspectors to catch everything either.... Our situation is definitely in the minority but these horror stories do happen....See MoreMicrosoft Word/Word Perfect
Comments (13)Nonnie, please don't take offense but I think the problem is more with you being a novice than with Wordperfect. I say that based on a couple clues you give me in your post. One thing is WordPerfect will accept any universal graphics format. Those do not include graphics generated in program-specific formats like Print Shop or Master Prints and other such programs. Universal formats include bmp, jpg, tif, wmf, eps, pcx, png, and there are many others, but these are the most common. WordPerfect will accept all of these and most (if not all) of the others. And, of course, it accepts its own format wpg. To find out what it will accept, go to Insert Picture as if you are going to insert one. Click on the Files of Type arrow at the bottom and scroll to see what all is in there. Files of any other type will not be compatible, which means you might have to tell it to accept more if it isn't already programmed to do that. This is part of setup and is located on your WordPerfect installation disk. Concerning the article you are trying to put into your document, I don't know what that is. Is it type-written words or is it a graphic image? Is it a WordPerfect document? A Word document? A document created in some other program? Or a graphic clip that someone sent you? And how are you trying to insert it? If it is type written, is it possible to copy and paste it in? Please give a little more information? Increasing memory, as Owbist suggested, is always a good. I do know Word is the more popular word processing program used these days, but WordPerfect is also powerful and nothing snuff at LOL. I can understand the documents you receive from people are usually written in Word and having Word will make like a lot easier for you. So, to answer your question, yes you can install and run Word without having to uninstall WordPerfect. Installing Word is simple enough. The installation Wizard will walk you through it. You just follow the instructions on the screen and answer the questions it asks. You may want to instruct submissions to limit file types and size. If I were you, I'd make that only bmp formats because they don't blur or distort as readily as jpg formatted images. Also, people will send 10mg files because they don't know any better. You may want to tell them to limit file size to 1mg or 2 or 3 so you are able to manage the size and functionability of your newsletter pages(s). If you ever have to take your newsletter to a service bureau for printing, they will require jpg images only, so you will need to know that when instructing submissions....See MoreCommon misuse of words, Part 2
Comments (170)Vee, Welsh is not one of the languages of Britain that I studied in linguistics coursework, so the only things I know about it are bits and pieces I picked up in synoptic reading. From my understanding of the 'do problem', it's not the actual word do that comes from Welsh which was apparently Nes in Welsh, as in Nes i agor? meaning Did I open? The Welsh influence is rather in the way a question was constructed with the do-verb. In a Welsh sentence the verb always came first with the subject noun/pronoun coming after the verb. The Celtic languages are some of only a very few in the world that have this structure. The Germanic languages put the verb after the subject noun -- sometimes putting the verb as the very last word in a German sentence (remember Mark Twain's joke about German verbs). English uses the same German pattern (subject noun - verb - objective noun) in most sentences. At some point, English and Welsh began cross-pollinating their languages, and it was the Welsh structure that prevailed for asking questions with the verb do, the verb always coming first. Some linguists have called this "the meaningless do" because its only purpose seems to have been as an opener to ask a question, as an attention getter. Why did this happen? Nobody knows for certain -- it's just one of those oddities of language change. Cornish, the other nearby Celtic language, also bequeathed to English some interesting words and grammatical features, according to McWhorter and other linguists, but I don't recall any of those. In another post, Annpan mentioned the 'a-prefixing plus present participle' pattern. The Concise Oxford . . . attributes it to Norman French influence, but in some of my reading on the 'do problem' I found that some linguists prefer the theory that the Welsh were also responsible for that construction....See MoreFloof - misused phrases
Comments (172)I think it was the Norman conquest in general that brought so many French words into English but I'm not sure. I cited a curious example of a few related words but the uncountable number of food related words and the many other words of all kinds are much more numerous than most people realize. I don't know and didn't look for the answer but I wonder if words of French origin outnumber words from any other single source. In return, many English words are used as shortcuts in French. Not so much incorporated into the language as with other words but rather for colloquial, informal use. A typical comment among co-workers on Friday afternoon is to say "Bon weekend", the meaning of which is obvious to an English speaker. You wear "un smoking" (tux) to formal affairs, leave your can in "le parking", work up "le business plan", and on and on....See Moreyoyobon_gw
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