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  jw Massage therapist

  by carla in

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  what is the deal with this?

  it seems i hear more and more about some jw woman who is a massage therapist.

  i can't think of a more unseemly occupation for a jw woman that is legal.

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  750 hrs. is not exactly "little schooling", each state has different requirements before you can challenge the written and practical tests. It also gets a bit annoying when people continue to sexualize a profession that is not in any way sexual. Plenty of JW's are nurses or doctors and they have far more invasive procedures to perform then any massage therapist ever will. In WA state I have to have a license, malpractice insurance and continuing education courses to practice massage therapy.

  Considering that I often treat children and senior citizens it's pretty sick on your part to associate my profession in any way as sexual. What part of treating whiplash, muscle and tendon strain, chronic headaches and soft itissue inflammation do you consider as un-seemly? I'm curious. Do you also think that male proctologists are gay or female OB/GYN's are lesbians?

  If you are going to sexualize one health profession why don't you just do it to all of them?

  My sister is a flight nurse for Airlift Northwest and is a JW married to an elder. She quite often has to insert foley catheters into male and female bladers. That involves direct genital contact and she is paid to do her job so I guess that makes her a prostitute in your mind? What about her getting rectal core temps on hypothermia patients?

  Before you make sweeping ignorant statements about a profession you may want to familiarize yourself a little bit more about that profession. I have devoted seventeen years as an LMP trying to educate the public what massage is and is not. It looks my work is far from done.
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  Wine For The Heart.

  by Blueblades in

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  is it true that wine is good for the heart.

  if so, which kind is the best one for it, and how much is beneficial at one sitting.

  anyone care to share their experiences with wine and the heart.

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  You can get phenols from dark grape juice if you don't like or drink red wine. They are powerful anti-oxidants found in dark skinned berries and protect and treat alot of health problems. Billberries have the highest concentrations and blueberries are close behind.

  In the US the highest rate of heart disease and stroke is in The bible belt where the southern baptist's don't drink. It is compounded by a very high transfatty diet. In contrast the French who have a high fat diet and far less heart disease most likely due to the amount of wine they consume per person ech day. It's called the French paradox. When cholesterol oxidizes it becomes sticky and more likely to attach onto an artery.
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  A horrible scary thing happened to my daughter. You won't believe this

  by coffee_black in

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  my daughter was on her way to work last week and stopped for a milkshake at a fast food restaurant.

  they were caught on tape using the slop bucket they used for cleaning bathrooms etc.

  to empty out the milkshake machine while they cleaned it, and then pour the milkshake mix (in the contaminated slop bucket) back into the machine.. apparently there was also a group of kids from an after school program that had a party there that same day.

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  There are only two types of people, those that have had food poisoning and those who have not. I got E.Coli from an under cooked hamburger several years ago and spent five horrid days in the hospital. You can completely understand how it can kill children and senior citizens from what it does to you.

  I am glad she is OK and hope she does not have any kidney or GI problems down the road. Most certainly take legal action since getting your ass sued seems to be the only communications most businesses understand. She will have resturant paranoia for the rest of her life from this experience.
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  What happened on your birthday?

  by MadTiger in

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  put your month and date in google, then go to the wikipedia entry and find the year, if it an exact match.

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  november 19, 1967 - the establishment of tvb, the first wireless commercial television station in hong kong.

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  Fire was discovered and wooly mammoth coats were all the rage.
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  Post your photos time!!!

  by dobbie in

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  i don't think we've had one for a while, i can't find the last one anyway!

  so just to satisfy my curiosity it would be great to see some of your photos, of you, your family even your pets (they're family too!

  ) then i'll know if any of you do look like your avatars cos that's what i'm always wondering!

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  Miss Jessica in front of Mt St Helens.

  
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  i'm so freaking nervous

  by bigdreaux in

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  well, as some of you know, i've hung up my tools and am leaving the mechanic world.

  i start my new career tomorrow.

  i am going into new car sales.

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  Hope it works out great for you and good luck!
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  Google Earth

  by Lloyd Braun in

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  how many of you use google earth, and what do you think of it?.

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  I use it to scope out hiking trails or if I am going somewhere that I am not fmiliar with. It's handy to use google maps and sat images together.
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  Canadian Dollar almost at Par with the US Dollar

  by JH in

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  i don't know if that's good or not...... for companies in canada exporting to the us, it means less profits, so possible layoffs.. for those travelling to the us, it's good news, cause it costs less to buy us money now.. what's your take on this?.

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  I use Kitco to buy and sell digital gold certificates. The spread is very low compared to buying the actual bullion. I use physical bullion for my long term holding but day trading gold is very easy in digital certs. When I first started buying gold in 1999 I was paying around 275/toz and today it's 733/toz. Silver has gone up even more since 99'. Or I should say the US dollars I used to buy it have depreciated.
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  Anyone grow up in a small town?

  by RisingEagle in

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  grrrr.

  bad enter key, bad.. those who grew up in small towns will laugh when they read this.

  those who didn't will be in disbelief and won't understand how true it is.

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  I have to drive twenty minutes just to get to my small town.
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  should prostitution be legalized?

  by John Doe in

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  think of all the unprotected prostitutes in the world.

  if their profession were legalized, they might have access to retirement plans, medical insurance, regular health exams that would protect not only the girl but the client also.

  courts and society have traditionally held the body as something sacred that should not be sold, but are people not selling their bodies when they make pornos or pose for pictures or make movies or any such things?

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  But then BigD would be out of a job. He most likely would end up on some street corner with a tin cup doing shadow puppet performances for spare change.