Prolly the fault of the element more than the thermostat.

Get the Oil of Olay spinbrush for her. Works just as well for way, way less cash.

It's generic. Counterfeit would actually have the word Hellman's on it. There was an idiotic special on TV a little while about that was SUPPOSED to be about counterfeiting. Most of what was discussed wasn't counterfeit. It was copyright or trademark infringement, or it was stuff that didn't go through quality testing, like extension cords that weren't UL listed. It was absurdly sloppy "journalism." This is none of those things. It's generic. And it's owned by a VERY large German corporation, not some Asian smuggling ring.

There''s an Asian market that does that here. HATEHATEHATEHATE it.

The most accurate would be to go to a clinic and have a water displacement bodyfat measurement taken. What I'm saying is that BMI isn't going to tell a woman she's obese if she is actually a healthy weight unless she is doing some EXTREME sports training. This is like super-competitive swimming or weightlifting. It just isn't going to happen. Women who have a high BMI because they are extremely athletic are 1 in 500. If you are looking to lose even a couple of pounds....then that doesn't include you. So many women who are so obvious quite heavily overweight console themselves with, "Oh, well, BMI is just not accurate at all!" Well, for a super-athlete, sure. (For men, it's easier to be "too heavy" because they bulk up faster--you just have to be a gym rat to get a heavier BMI. For women, it's harder.) But if you aren't working out 10+ hours a week and you're a woman, than BMI will work just fine for telling you if you are too fat. Then again, so does a tape measure, a mirror, and your pants size. Professional body fat measurements are more accurate than scales. The problem with a scale is that they REGULARLY vary by 2 percentage points with measurements taken the same day. Weigh 150lbs? That's 3lbs of fat more or less that it will measure arbitrarily. If you're weighing daily--and if you want to lose weight, you should be--and are working out to lose a healthy 1-2lbs per week, then you are not even going to know for sure if you are losing anything relying on body fat measurements of a scale for 2-4 weeks. That doesn't work. If you want to lose fat, then YES, measure weight lost daily. You should be losing weight even as you gain muscle. Measure inches twice a week.

It's close to me, so I go EVERY WEEK. I always get milk, eggs, and butter there, and if I'm not couponing, cereal, too. I get my most basic produce there, too, and some canned food basics. It's cheap because ALDI negotiates for really low rates and accepts NO coupons. Most of the goods are store brand. Like Trader Joe's (owned by same company), ALDI often gets companies to make the same product with their label for less. The $.25 is so they don't have to pay anyone to get carts. The store setup is to make you walk down that first aisle full of crackers and maybe grab some spur-of-the-moment purchases.

Only in the young because young overweight people are relatively sedentary and don't do the interesting things that get young people killed, because certain types of drug abuse is associated with being thinner, and because few people who have cancer die while STILL overweight. There are a number of conditions that cause dramatic weight loss that are much more likely to contract while you are overweight. The only study that showed that being fat was better measured the weights of CORPSES versus the population, not the weights of people when they contracted the disease that would eventually kill them. To put it another way: A heavy heroin user is likely to die before age 30. Someone who is 600lbs isn't going to kill themselves until mid-30s at the VERY earliest, nore likely over the age of 40. And if that person isn't ever leaving the house, he isn't going to be dying in car accidents, much less skiing in Taos.

Daily: Declutter or make place to store old Christmas cards Weekly: Kitchen counters ---- How is everyone doing?

That's the one I have--the tiny Cuisinart. It does pretty well, but I still use a hand nut gringer if I don't want any nut dust.

You could have that discount made a legal requirement. So you would still "bill" everyone the same but get paid within a reimbursement range by everyone.

But laws could change that. Pretty easily, actually. It's just not a priority.

Not really. The food processor doesn't control slicing width as well as the mandoline. It would tend to mash the nuts more than the chopper. And the box grater is WAY less of a pain to wash.

Epi is the first line for giving birth--I guess because it works the fastest and the baby gets compromised first? ONE nurse in a discussion involving about 12 said in their hospital they prefer to start with something else--I think it was Dobutamine--but everyone else said they didn't do that.

So I get the kids out of the house this morning to go to swim class, and I hit the "unlock" button on my minivan. Hmmm. No noise. We go around to the side of the house. No car. Oh, yeah. I brought it in for repairs and maintenance yesterday! Dur. My car was still at the shop. I got my (homeschooling) neighbor to drop DS off at his class and to dump me out at the shop. I paid, got the car, everything was dandy. But boy did I feel dumb....

It depends on where the nurse works. If you don't want a flu shot, you should choose your work appropriately as a nurse so you don't threaten the lives of the medically fragile.

I originally found the management of hypotension on a site for OB nurses, with them discussing when epinephrine should be used and why it was needed sometimes and not others. Anyhow, here is another site. Epinephrine isn't generally considered risky, so it's not something people get warned about. http://www.kimjames.... risk chart.htm Also, shivering would cause an episode of severe myotonia. Not. Good.

My particular muscle condition makes labor abnormal. I will probably be spasming too hard to try out different positions. It's not anything they would have seen or been familiar with.

They start with cranking up the fluids. About a third of all women with epis need this. If it doesn't work as well as they'd like, they start with the epinephrine. That's more than 10% of women with epidurals. I don't want and epidural. So that's fine.

Yup. I'm meeting with an anesthesiologist at the hospital next week to develop a protocol they can follow! No epidural, no potassium in my IV, warmed IV fluids (and a warmed blanket for surgery if I have to have it), no succ. (can kill me), light on opiod/hypnotics (my condition has a GREATLY exaggerated reaction, which means I might not breathe on my own again for many hours even if they don't put me so far down the kill me). In the mail!!!!

"You could say that I shouldn’t charge for procedures that I know are simple and are being overpaid for by insurance. But we rely on being able to charge more for those to make up for all the other times where we are paid much less than our time deserves. It’s the way the insurance companies have designed the system." Very true. But you shouldn't be allowed to make a patient pay for more than what you would get reimbursed for by the average insurance that you accept.

I got the very cheapest dishwasher that had two arms. Then, I make my own dishwashing detergent using 6 parts cheapie detergent and 1 part potassium permaganate from chemicalsupply.com. Potassium permaganate is what they took out of dishwashing detergents back when they all stopped working. I don't even rinse. Just scrape. Stuff fully, wash on pots and pans, and almost everything is clean every time. It is loud, though. Cuz it was cheap. (We had to do an emergency remodel of two bathrooms AND buy a new car when our dishwasher died unexpectedly.)

BTW, my insurance pays less than $50 for an EKG in a doctor's office. I know because I had a GP who gae EVERYONE an EKG once a year.

Yes! It is too funny to listen to boys wrangle over design aesthetics.

I've had 2 natural births, but because I just discovered that general anesthesia can be VERY bad, my OB/GYN wanted me to walk in and get an epidural. I was jumpy because I don't want to mess with something that has worked twice JUST fine. Come to find out, I'm right--I shouldn't have an epidural.

Doing something you quite like can be better because there is more to life that the job itself. There are your coworkers, your working conditions (including how you are treated and the number of hours you are expected to work), your standard of living, and the region in which you can live to get a certain job.