If you are an animal lover - then please don't take Prempro - sm

• Does hormone replacement (specifically low dose Prempro) cause you to gain weight? nm - bloom off the rose
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    • Soy can also help, but you have to be careful... - wondering
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    • That's true.. At 16 I ate anything and was a size 7, now at 45 I watch what I eat and am - a size 16 and battling! NM
    • That's true.. At 16 I ate anything and was a size 7, now at 45 I watch what I eat and am - a size 16 and battling! NM
      • You and me both. I want my old body - back! Boo, hoo!
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Zipper and a few others are not one in the same...sorta like those multiple personality disorders

Reason being is that they all sound alike, very immature and nasty

Large parrots are very sensitive birds.  They do not do take kindly to new human companions, so it might be wise to really think about what you would be letting yourself in for.  You will have to give a large parrot a lot of attention and affection if you do not want it to mutilate its feathers.  You will have to keep its cage squeaky clean if you do not want to risk your parrot becoming ill.  You will have to provide a complex environment and a large cage for your parrot if you want it to be happy.  Large parrots do NOT enjoy just sitting on a perch all day. 

Large parrots are affectionate and lively companions.  They are also messy, noisy, animals who will often caress their owners but bite strangers.  They can sink into what passes for depression if they are not cared for or if they are given to a new owner. 

All in all, sharing life with a large parrot can be a blast

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You can switch your PRD entries to ShortHand and then use with Word. Shorthand runs you through the process, no problems.

I have several friends who use Averatec laptops and swear by them.  I, too, am a DELL lover and I never use their tech department anyway, even when the tech dept was still in the USA.  I have 2 computer people who help me when and if I need computer help/fixing.  I think the Averatec runs around $600 but I'm not sure today.

I use ExText too and I love it.  I don't use ESP though since I already had a lot in my Shorthand, but if your account is like mine it might just be so many doctors. I can't even count how many doctors, residents, etc., there are, and I have loads of phrases not just words.  I have a lot of the doctors' physical exams in my expander, etc.

Now, I used to have an account for another MTSO where I got the same 4 or 5 doctors every single day.  I worked about 5 hours a day and my paychecks were easily 2500 every 2 weeks as an IC, but I haven't had anything like that in years!!!  That wonderful account got sent overseas.  Go figure!!

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.

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!

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.

boycott Iams pet food - they have been charged of horrible animal cruelty in testing their food, see web site below. 

www.peta.org/

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. 

http://www.myanimalart.com/pages/galleryliberation.html

posters you can buy, as well...

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!!!