I am planning to volunteer today.

• Katrina in Mississippi/Alabama - Dano
  • RE: Katrina in Mississippi/Alabama - Same situation
  • There is a church in Gonzales that is a small church but housing evacuees. - NYmom
  • Katrina - lynn
    • Katrina - lynn
    • Forgotten people - Dano
      • I went to the Red Cross to volunteer locally and was told that I needed to apply to the state for a - memt
        • I am planning to volunteer today. - What state did you volunteer? nm
        • Did you see Scarborough Country last night? - sm
          • Volunteer at the Astrodome - txmt
            • I am not - Dano
            • Uh...ok. What does that have to do with federalizing donations from the private sector? - sm
              • oops - txmt
          • No I didn't see - Dano
        • Guess we're in the same boat - Dano
          • I'm in Kentucky. - memt
  • You are very generous! It's been like 10 days, but - Parts of MS still haven't seen Red Cross
    • Mississippi/Alabama - Dano
      • Still need help & clothes, etc... - Alabama MT girl
      • See the message above about small churches. - They need real help.
        • Very good - Dano
          • http://www.gonzalescofc.com/hurricane.html - there ya go
            • THANKS! nm - Dano

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It may be more dignified to retire from MT workforce and take up editing or transcribing as a 'volunteer' stating we would simply do it for free.

To accept a paycheck for a very low paying job may seem insulting to the profession itself, the skills it demands, the stress it endures, the tenure and experience it comes with. Unfortunately, it also gives out the wrong message about the profession conveying a simplicity that it does not bear and understating the practice it takes to excel.

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... to work holidays?  I'm actually still on yesterday, so I'm  for now.  But in about 2 hours, probably lots of     and

Hang in there! I feel your pain!!  Hopefully you're getting a higher, holiday rate to offset some of the frustration.

From an article from our local news station:

"The broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and the cable networks Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC planned live coverage of the speech. "

You can be the "cool mom" and see a little bit of what your child's day is like when you're not around.  I did this and it helped a lot.  Also, after a couple of hours with a roomful of kids I was anxious to get home and make some money!

and would love to sell this T-shirts on my website at some point in the future. 

I have a friend who is in medical billing, got her coding certification, but can't get a job without actual work experience as a coder.  So we've brainstormed and thought we might go into business together.  Create a company that offers medical billing and medical transcription and eventually coding services to private practices, hospitals, etc.

I'm also toying with the idea of incorporating some sort of online MT mentoring/education program into the new business venture.

But like I said we are in the planning and brainstorming stages and when I read about this T-shirt idea, I thought it would be a fabulous addition to the website.  Because one thing is very certain our business venture will stand firmly against offshoring.

my ShortHand would type only the first letter of an expansion and then take all the letters away!  I checked and the Type It button is grayed out!  I have restarted the computer and looked on the Shorthand Help menu but can find nothing that applies.  Can anyone please help me ASAP?  I am lost without it!  TIA

But this article states it would only affect new customers right now.  So I am upset over nothing.  I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge.  I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me.  It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc.  It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.

Junior League was like a full-time job sometimes, but I loved it. Now that I have to work, even though it is from home, I still volunteer through my son's school.  I am a school teacher in my previous (pre-MT) life, so I volunteer my tutoring services for children who need the help beyond what the schools are able to provide but whose parents cannot afford to pay for private tutoring. I also know how you felt about being afraid.  I was strangely afraid before I joined the Junior League.  It was just the unknown. But I was SO blessed by being able to help.  Honestly, I am sure that it helped me just as much, if not more, than I helped others.  Go for it.  You won't be sorry.  (Just remember that you have to say NO when you have to say no, okay?  Remember that and you will be richly blessed by the experience!)

I don't think I'd make it down south.  We had high 90s with humidity for 16 days straight and that was bad enough.  Glad it is cool again. 

e-mail because of the high prices and this a national boycott. Wondering if anyone else received or heard this.

Just did 1343 lines in 170 minutes but that includes printing, 24 envelopes, looking up names, getting on here three times, doing 3 E-mails to my subcontractor -- at 0.11 per gross line.  So I am happy today.

DOCTOR:  "Please send a CC to her primary care physician.  I do not know who that is, but send him or her a copy anyway."

No other reports exist for this patient.

Yes, in my spare time I'm a psychic! 

Recently I had to do a lot of paperwork to enroll my youngest in kindergarten for the 2007-2008 school year.  They ask all sorts of questions about family history and specifically who has diabetes, heart disease, blindness, etc.  Does this not violate the HIPAA laws?  Do I have permission to disclose my grandmother’s health problems to the school?  Or my mother’s and father’s?  I never really thought about it when I enrolled my older child because I wasn’t a MT at the time and I never really had knowledge about HIPAA in those days.  What do you all think about this? 

Living paycheck to paycheck these days with the cost of living  being so hight and DH being on disability.  Today I get my check in the mail – national company—and it does not have a signature on it!  I called the office – of course the payroll department had left for the day – it was only 3 something in the afternoon.  I was told to physically mail the check back to be signed and they would return it right away.  Why not just cut me a new check and mail overnight?  Really sick of this place lately.  Never did get any resolution of the 60 odd lines I was cheated out of before only weeks ago.  Lost a few days work over the last week because the system crashed.  *Sigh* I just started a new job on the side.  Hope this one has a better track record.