Usually years. Were you given a used one, full of animal hair, dust, or
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I am 38 and have been coloring my hair for at least 15 years - sm
I started going gray very early. I tried the stuff in the box, but have had much better results with professional products. Luckily for me, my sister is a licensed cosmotologist and can get the good stuff at cost. Have you considered going to a beauty school, if there is one near you? There are instructors there who can give you advice and then the students can do the processing under their guidance for a lot less than in a salon.
30 years and I'm still pulling my hair out sometimes
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I dunno. The same woman has done my hair at FS for years. I try to go to
fancier places sometimes, but I always go back there. She's really a good hair cutter.
Actually, I have not worked as a full time MT for nine years
and that's the problem. Is there hope for me to get back in to MT even though I've been out of it for so long. I did work part-time from home from the lab for about two years after that.
Shelley
From one who worked for MQ nearly 18 years, no matter was MQ bone they throw out, I know with a full
Always has been, always will be.
I've used my laptop to MT for about 5 years, full-time. Couldn't
I love being portable, plus I have a small working space. It's great transcribing on the deck (or at the beach) on nice days. Have never had any technical issues; there's always some sort of adapter thingie that's available for whatever comes up.
my dad just retired at full retirement age, and there is a limit on income for the first 2 years tha
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Do you need to have 2 years full time experience or just 2 years' experience? nm
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Laser Hair Removal (for dark hair)
I've tried Epilators (basically an electronic tweezer) and wax, but nothing beats Laser HR. It's a bit pricy and takes a few treatments to be 100% effective, but definitely works.
Dust....
Hard drives are factory-sealed, so although it's true that a small bit of dust can harm a drive, that's probably not what happened to your drive. If you have a hard drive failure (are you sure?), it was something else that caused it. Dust ON a hard drive case doesn't cause drive failure.
Dust inside a computer causes overheating, which mostly affects power supplies and circuit board components like the CPU (main processor).
Dust and molting
I don't really have a problem with the feather dust. I know what you mean though. I have had Cockatiels before too. As far as molting goes, my Grey loses several small white down-like feathers a day. I have been told that this is completely normal. Molting for pet Grey's is usually a continuous process so it is not as noticeable as it would be with other birds. They don't tend to lose large amounts of feathers at one time. I think in the wild they do molt once or twice a year. But as pets it is more of a continuous process. I usually will notice a feather or two in the bottom of the cage every week or so. Really the mess is mostly the seed, like you said...they LOVE to throw it around. LOL But they are wonderful and very funny birds.
DSM-IV is about to bite the dust and the DSM-V is on its way. sm
And shame on you anyway. What psychologists do, how they do it, what they call it and how they diagnose is not always consistent with medical diagnoses. The ugly word "retardation" is only one example of this.
I'd like to see you find a doctor and a psychologist who can agree on the differences between situational depression, major depression and recurrent depression, and how they should best be treated. An MD wants drug therapy. A PhD wants psychotherapy. When you have a certain type of hammer, everything looks like your special kind of nail.
I am finished with my shift and I come in for a visit, but I am not on here all day complaining about doctors or bashing my fellow MTs. Glad YOU don't have a job that takes your time and attention because YOU could not be on here all day to stir the pot.
Hey, I like that! I'm a member of DUST
Downtrodden US Transcriptionists....
You got that right. We are being left in the dust
Why sell cars to us when our jobs went to China and India and we have no money to buy. Wonder what will become of us? Who knows. 
Well, well, word gets around, another OSi QA bites the dust
What is wrong with all you QA's who will not leave OSi altogether, how many is that lately who won't put up with you know whose QA BS and need to tell the whole company good riddance and up yours
Suckups
just a thought, but perhaps the "adapter" bit the dust??
just a thought.
Full Core means full CPR code.
NM
I found the problem - dust bunnies!!!
I got brave (or stupid) and tried to open it up. It was full of dust bunnies!!! I blew out the stuff and put it back together, and it works GREAT now! It guess it's like how a mouse with a roller can get filled with junk and not work. Who knew!!!
I actually was worried that I wasn't putting enough weight on my pedal. I barely rest my toes on it instead of my whole foot, so there isn't much up/down motion - lazy I guess.
But just so everyone knows - save your $$$ and blow the dust bunnies out if this happens to you!
I so agree. My blazer finally bit the dust last year. I used to go driving just because the sm
seat felt so good. It was perfect. Sigh. gone now.
give it time, dust is settling, they just have no place else to gripe yet. nm
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Definitely could be dust and dirt inside your computer. Be careful when you open it,
buy computer air cleaner at electronic store, and blow the air into all computer parts. Use a clean and static-free brush to dust all components. Be careful not to touch any parts inside with your hands to avoid static electricity whch may zap your machine. Important to unplug everything before opening up the case. If you are nervous about doing this yourself, take it to a computer tech for a good cleaning.
Is rad a whole different animal (sm)
when it comes to transcribing it? I would like to expand my specialties, but have never done rad before. Any info would be appreciated! Also, can it be learned just by doing, or would I need more thorough training, i.e.; more schoolin'? 
Yeah, but full-time lines does not necessarily mean full-time hours, so I would do it if your produc
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Foot pedals break easy. You're lucky they supply one. I have SIX different ones gathering dust.
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to ANIMAL ADVOCATE
Please note my response to your query waaaay below where the original thread started, again thanks for your interest.
animal update
i am the OP on thread below re CRUELTY CLARIFICATION and just wanted to say thank you to all who responded .... have not recently come across a such a large, and largely POLITE - WOW!!!!!! -- and informative group in a long time. this information will stay with me for a long time and i plan to share it with others. did not know how ignorant i was. am not by any means a bleeding heart. it's a tough world and you have to be tough -- but the way we apparently treat these animals in the year 2005 is PATHETIC, just pathetic, and there is simply no need for it.
to those who say 'but this is a consumer-driven industry," yep you are right, but you know what? consumers like to be INFORMED. we don't like to feel that someone or some entity is trying to pull a fast one on us, and i STRONGLY feel that if every child in america -- and the child's uninformed parents and grandparents -- KNEW the real deal, the pressure would be on IMMEDIATELY and things would change in the industry faster than martha stewart's gonna get out of her ankle bracelet. Before anyone says Yeah but there goes the economy, well i don't think so because if i knew that i could get chix at the store from happy chickens versus what we are 'offered' now, as well as happy cow meat (look at how successful the California dairy industry has been on their little ad campaign, hmmmmm?) vs what we have now, i'd be willing to pay more. not double, but more! i think anyone except the poorest of the poor would, too. and the same government that is subsidizing the cruel farm animal conditions could subsidize the poor for their better quality meat, instead.
anyway, those are my thoughts. i really really appreciate all of you smart people telling me something i didn't know, and that's no bull. great big kudos to all of you who kept the thread polite, too. 'night.
OT: for animal lovers
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/finnegan.asp
why keep your animal on a chain 24/7
Going off topic from your cat post for a minute... I never understood that..especially with dogs. I think it is cruel for a dog to be chained 24/7 with someone who will rarely walk it.
As far as your cat, we have had outside cats since I was a little girl and they always came back. In fact, I had one (an old "barn cat") that would leave for months at a time lol and come back.
Keep your hopes up and don't stop looking!
Animal question...sm
I was always under the impression that cats had to be at least 6 months old before they could be "fixed". I was on the SPCA website for our area last evening reading their info and it said kittens older than 6 weeks must be spade or neutered within 6 weeks of adoption. Isn't that a little young?
Just curious.
Animal contacts
If you are in need of a veterinary ophthalmologist, it is best to check with your local vet to see if there is one in the area. Animals do not wear contacts for the obvious reasons. Instead, they get lens transplants from donor animals that were healthy when euthanized (sad I know). There are also Doggles sun glasses that dogs wear.
If you are an animal lover - then please don't take Prempro - sm
I worked in a gynecologist's office for 8 years. It was beyond dispicable when the Wyeth drug rep would come in. This was at the time when TV shows were always doing the "hidden camera" things - and of course, the pregnant horses, abuse, catheterizing, etc. This also came at a time when drug reps were no longer allowed to use company money to take docs on trips, expensive dinners, theater tickets, etc. Needless to say, our Wyeth rep made a bundle off of Premarin and Prempro and to make up for all the media hype, she was going to all the gyn docs and sending them on trips, spa packages for their wives, nice dinners, etc. And the docs kept prescribing it.
Agree...no animal has to suffer for me...
I have been using the wild yam - so far, so good. ?
fellow animal lovers/MTs
boycott Iams pet food - they have been charged of horrible animal cruelty in testing their food, see web site below.
www.peta.org/
Call Animal control
Okay then, should you kill every animal that scares you be it a dog or - sm
or a cat....does not make sense. They are animals, they just want to be left alone. Some people scare me sometimes, should I go out and shoot them? People need to be a bit more tolerant. I am not a huge fan of snakes either but I will never understand the killing of any animal unless it is for food or if the animal attacks.
well, I am NOT obsessing over animal rights! sm
What exactly are you doing to make the world a better place? Discussing the killing of dogs in another country sure does help, yeah, uh huh...get over yourself
Laser hair removal. Has anyone tried laser hair removal on their face and if so, did it work?
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To romey and ANIMAL ADVOCATE...see inside please:
Just copy and paste into your browser (with whatever video player you have)...
Do not get side-tracked with your feeling about peta...
One is narrated by Alec Baldwin. (I have mixed feelings about peta, but these videos do not lie, and if you research for yourself you realize the government more and more allows this hideous behavior to SAVE money - again, it is all about the money).
I have watched it once, and half with my eyes closed. Call me whatever you like, but I sobbed at the cruelty.
The other is about a (huge) grocery chain we have here in WNY.
A few months ago I became a vegetarian to lose weight...but still ate eggs, cheese, some poultry.
Since the day I watched these videos, because of my conscience, I have not touched a piece of meat or poultry.
I refuse to contribute to this inhumanity, no matter how it is justified...
1. http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=meet_your_meat
2. http://www.wegmanscruelty.com/downloads/Trailer-WegmansCruelty.wmv
If there was one, I would belong to the humanitarian party...forget republicans, democrats, etc.
All animal lovers - check this out. Made me cry.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.snowball.ap/index.html
There is a natural order in the animal world
that does not include mankind. Those animals which are debilitated, old or very young become food for other carnivorous animals. It is population control and also keeps disease at bay as the animals carrying disease are attacks, killed and taken out of the picture. Also, stops bad blood lines as those animals with hip dysplasia from in breeding or the weak and runts are also food for the natural predator.
Thank you for not making fun of me. I just wasn't sure which part of the animal it was and what
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romey and animal advocate...here are some nice pictures...
http://www.myanimalart.com/pages/galleryliberation.html
posters you can buy, as well...
not sure about you, but we have several wild animal care and education centers...
The best way to start is to volunteer.
We have like Messinger Woods and Hawk Creek around here, like animal sanctuaries, where they have owls, eagles, deer, all sort of animals they need to take care of. You can always visit one and ask questions. I would love that, too, only I can not get my boyfriend interested. I would love to even volunteer.
Sounds funny, but what about a zoo...same thing, you can volunteer at first, see if you like it, and I believe those positions offer decent pay...?
I would spend whatever it takes to keep my " animal kids" healthy. nm
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report on companion animal pet food ingredients
http://www.api4animals.org/facts?p=359&more=1
http://www.homevet.com/petcare/foodbook.html
Check these out if you want to learn more, shocking!!!
re: report on companion animal pet food ingredients
The book "Food Pets Die For" is an excellent. I have been feeding my goldens and Shelties Innova since 1996 or 1997. I now feed Canidae Platinum as it is lower in calories. They all did quite well on both dog foods...shinny coat, bright eyes...in other words, they are healthy looking. No preservatives are in either food so it does have a shorter shelf life than the regular dog kibbe.
My dogs also have marrow bones every night. Some of my friends feed a BARF diet (bones and raw food) only, but I just could not keep that diet up on a regular basis.
A good magazine to subscribe to is the Whole Dog Journal.. www.whole-dog-journal.com/ it is like a "bible" for any one who is interested in the natural way to care and feed dogs. I believe there is a Whole Cat Journal, too.
see post below "To romey and ANIMAL ADVOCATE...see inside please" (nm)
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I'll be watching Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet!
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That sounds like an episode of Animal Cops! I'm glad it worked out in your favor. nm
I work a full time and a part time, but not sure about 2 full-time...
My hubbie is disabled and I am the only one in my family working also, so I fully understand. You will not have a day off at all working 2 full-time as that is going to be the only way you will get in all your hours. I work one job in the mornings from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the other from 5 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. and do have off one day a week, but if I had to get in the extra 15 hours to make the other job full-time I am not sure how I would do that other than lose my only day off. Also, make sure you have your account specifics in front of you at all times because you will get yourself confused as to who is what and having notes will help in that area. Good luck to you, as it is possible, but forget about your house being clean, having any social life, etc. Feel free to email me personally if you just need someone to talk to, as I have been where you are and still am.
Its not the animal lovers fault about abortion and abuse of innocent children, it's the fault...
of our government to allow such a law. The innocent dogs being killed over the so-called rabies roundup vs. shortage of "beef" have no government to help protect their rights to live so the humans have to step in and protect their rights and the humans should protect the human's rights as well to live, but when a government passes laws, etc., you can only fault the government; afterall, they have the final decision.
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