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Morning rituals are important, and for me, making smoothies is my thing. Not only are smoothies convenient, but they contain tons of nutrients, depending on what ingredients you use. Moreover, it's easier for our bodies to digest foods that are in a more broken down form (which is why it's important to chew your food). When you blend your food, the cell walls of the food is broken down to a point where you can extract more nutrients and allow the body to absorb more of these nutrients. While juicing your food has become very popular, juices can have high sugar content and do not contain the pulp. With smoothies, the entire fruit or vegetable is blended in, which I like because you get more fiber and antioxidants from the pulp. Other reasons to blend are that it allows for slower sugar absorption, a blender is easier to clean that a juicer, and overall I feel like you can do so much more with a blender than a juicer. That being said, you can absolutely switch it up between juices and smoothies; both have their benefits. Whenever possible, make sure to use organic produce, although you can get away with buying these "Clean 15" non-organic.
Leafy Greens
I put all types of things in my blender. Spinach, romaine, and kale are a few of my favorite leafy greens to use because they don't really stand out in the smoothie. Who wants to feel like they're drinking spinach? Ick, not even me. Unfortunately, I've found out from my clients that not all blenders can successfully blend leafy greens. Experiment with your blender at home. At least with my Vitamix, there does seem to be an order in which you should put ingredients in your blender. Start with your base liquid (I use purified water, hemp milk, coconut milk, or unsweetened almond milk), then put in the leafy greens, followed by fruit and lastly ice or frozen goods. If I'm making two servings of smoothie, I generally put in one big handful of each type of leafy green.
Citrus Peels
Lemon has always been a staple of my smoothies, but recently I experimented by including the lemon peel. The peel actually contains 5-10 times more nutrients than lemon juice and adds an extra punch to the drink. For example, one tablespoon of lemon peel contains double the amount of vitamin C and triple the amount of fiber than one wedge of lemon without the peel, according to the USDA database (Reboot With Joe). Once I experienced a smoothie with lemon peel, I started adding peels from other types of citrus (blood oranges and oranges, to be specific). I highly recommend! I don't use the entire peel, maybe just a quarter from each type of citrus. Upon further research, I've also learned the peels contain an antioxidant called Naringin that's powerful in fighting cancer.
Brown Bananas
Ripened bananas have higher levels of antioxidants and cancer-fighting properties. I've never been a fan of eating brown bananas since they're a little softer than a yellow banana, but in a smoothie, the taste and texture are not distinguishable. If you are diabetic or pre-diabetic, you actually should eat your bananas while the peel is still green, but if you aren't diabetic, then "the more dark patches a banana has, the higher its immunity enhancement quality will be" (One Green Planet).
Morning Citrus Smoothie
-1.5 cups purified water, unsweetened almond milk, or hemp milk
-1 handful spinach
-1/2 organic green apple
-1/2 organic blood orange (leave peel on)
-1/2 organic lemon (leave peel on)
*If you don't have organic citrus, make sure you wash the peel before adding it to your smoothie.
-1 ripened banana
-1 scoop unflavored protein powder (optional)
- Add ingredients to your blender in the order listed above, making sure to blend gradually unless you know your blender can handle everything at once. Add more liquid if the smoothie is too thick.
- Pour and drink immediately. Enjoy!


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The attempt to affect a global market in bonds long term by purchasing bonds short term is a futile effort and a total waste of resources - as we can all see.
'No Credibility'
Europe has "no credibility" in ruling out debt restructurings, Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard University professor and former International Monetary Fund chief economist, said in a Bloomberg Television interview broadcast today. "Greece will be very lucky to avoid restructuring, Ireland, Portugal -- they're just in denial, saying it can't happen. They really haven't drawn clear lines, they haven't really said what they wanted to do, they haven't really made choices."
Bingo! The professor is right on point. Thus far, it has been nothing but words that have been given as an indication that said states won't default. The market forces point to default. Their track record in terms of credibility point to default, as illustrated:
Once You Catch a Few EU Countries "Stretching the Truth", Why Should You Trust the Rest?
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Sovereign Truths: Why the Euro is Destined to Collapse!
The numbers show default.
- Here's Something That You Will Not Find Elsewhere – Proof That Ireland Will Have To Default… November 30th, 2010
"What is the Most Likely Scenario in the Greek Debt Fiasco? Restructuring Via Extension of Maturity Dates
- A Comparison of Our Greek Bond Restructuring Analysis to that of Argentina
Only their proclamations say otherwise. Back to the Bloomberg article...
Under pressure to shield taxpayers in Europe's largest economy, Merkel is drifting back into the role she played in the early stages of the crisis, when Germany held out against an aid package for Greece. The political standoff may saddle the ECB with more of the crisis-management burden, said Citigroup Inc. economists including Juergen Michels and Michael Saunders in London in a Dec. 3 e-mailed note. "Eventually the ECB will be forced to increase its contribution to the rescue packages substantially," the economists wrote. "We expect that after another round of market tensions, the European fiscal policy makers will eventually come up with additional measures to fight the crisis."
The inevitable truth of the matter is that several European states WILL default, and default they will. If Germany, or any other economy that still has its druthers to it decides to stand in front of said occurrence, it will likely be dragged down as well. The Germans apparently realize this. See this excerpt from our discussion on the topic regarding Ireland's prospects for default:
... from the post Ireland's Bailout Is Finalized, The Indebted Gets More Debt As A Solution But The Fine Print Is Glossed Over – Caveat Emptor! wherein BoomBustBlogger Nick asked:
Do you have any reason as to why they are choosing 2013 as a deadline ? Seems like an arbitrary date.
Well, Nick, just follow the money or the lack thereof…
So, what debt raising and servicing that was unsustainable in 2010 was lent even more debt to become even more unsustainable. The chickens come home to roost in 2013, post IMF/EU/Bilateral state leveraged into Ireland loan/Pension fund raiding bailout! What Angela in Germany was alluding to was what all in the know, well… know, and that is that Ireland is already in default and those defaults have been purposely pushed out until 2013. Angela simply (and wisely from a local political perspective, although unwisely from a global geopolitical standpoint) admitted/suggested was that the defaults will be pre-packaged and managed ahead of time. The EU politbureau insists that politics rule the day, and no prepackaged structure be in place for the Irish defaults to be. This means the potential foe even more carnage through the pipelines of uncertainty!
And back to the article...
ECB Bond Purchases
The Frankfurt-based central bank said today it settled 1.965 billion euros of bond purchases last week. While the figure was the highest in 22 weeks, it didn't include bonds bought between Dec. 1 and Dec. 3.
The bank is "actively" operating in the government bond market, Governing Council member Athanasios Orphanides said today in Nicosia. The ECB will act as necessary, said Orphanides, who heads the Cypriot central bank.
Greece won a 110 billion-euro EU-IMF rescue in May, leading the EU to create the three-year facility that was first tapped by Ireland with an 85 billion-euro program last month.
Both of these actions were clearly anticipated by BoomBustBlog research and analysis months ahead of time:
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet indicated last week that EU governments might need to top up the emergency fund, a position echoed Dec. 4 by Belgian Finance Minister Didier Reynders.
Reynders said the IMF also wants the EU to put up more money and would boost its 250 billion-euro share. IMF spokesman William Murray declined to comment. Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is at tonight's Brussels meeting.
All I can say is The ECB and the Potential Failure of Quantitative Easing, Euro Edition – In the Spotlight!
Re-Introducing the Not So Stylish Portuguese Haircut Analysis
Note: this is a repost of the information initially made available to subscribers in the summer of 2010
For those who feel that the simple application of arithmetic and math amounts to "Doomsday Scenarios", Fear-mongering, and vultures in the market place, I present to you BoomBustBlog's scenario analysis of the Portuguese Haircut.
You think those are ugly? You ain't seen nothing yet!
The Mathematical Truth Concerning Portugal's Debt Situation
Before I start, any individual or entity that disagrees with the information below is quite welcome to dispute it. I simply ask that you com with facts and analysis and have them grounded in reality so I cannot right another "Lies, Damn Lies, and Sovereign Truths: Why the Euro is Destined to Collapse!". In other words, come with the truth, or at lease your closest simulacrum of it.
In preparing Portugal's sovereign debt restructuring model through maturity extension, we followed the same methodology as the Greece's sovereign debt maturity extension model and we have built three scenarios in which the restructuring can be done without taking a haircut on the principal amount.
- Restructuring by Maturity Extension – Under this scenario, we assumed that the creditors with debt maturing between 2010 and 2020 will exchange their existing debt securities with new debt securities having same coupon rate but double the maturity. Under this type of restructuring, the decline in present value of cash flows to creditors is 3.3% while the cumulated funding requirements and cumulated new debt between 2010 and 2025 are not reduced substantially. The cumulated funding requirement between 2010 and 2025 reduces to 120.0% of GDP against 135.4% of GDP if there is no restructuring. The cumulated new debt raised is reduced marginally to 70.6% of GDP from 72.2% of GDP if there is no restructuring. Debt at the end of 2025 will be 104.8% of GDP against 106.1% if there is no restructuring
- Restructuring by Maturity Extension & Coupon Reduction – Under this scenario, we assumed that the creditors with debt maturing between 2010 and 2020 will exchange their existing debt securities with new debt securities having half the coupon rate but double the maturity. The decline in the present value of the cash flows is 18.6%. The cumulated funding requirement between 2010 and 2025 reduces to a potentially sustainable 99.5% of GDP and the cumulated new debt raised will decline to 50.1% of GDP. Debt at the end of 2025 will be 88.6% of GDP (a potentially sustainable).
- Restructuring by Zero Coupon Rollup – Under this scenario, the debt maturing between 2010 and 2020 will be rolled up into one bundle and exchanged against a single, self-amortizing 20-year bond with coupon equal to 50% of the average coupon rate of the converted bonds. The decline in the present value of the cash flows is 17.6%. The cumulated funding requirement between 2010 and 2025 reduces to 100.1% of GDP and the cumulated new debt raised will decline to 52.8% of GDP. Debt at the end of 2025 will be 90.9% of GDP (a potentially sustainable).
The scenarios above were also calculated using the haircuts necessary to bring debt to GDP below a pre-selected level (user selectable in the model, 80%, 85% or 90% - please keep in mind that a ceiling of 60% was necessary in order to gain admission into the Euro construct). We have also built in the impact of IMF/EU aid on the funding requirements and new debt raised from the market between 2010 and 2025 under all the scenarios.
A more realistic method of modeling for restructuring and haircuts
In the previously released Greece and Portugal models, we have built relatively moderate scenarios of maturity extension and coupon reduction which would be acceptable to a large proportion of creditors. However, these restructurings address the liquidity side of the problem rather than solvency issues which can be resolved only when the government debt ratios are restored to sustainable levels. The previous haircut estimation model was also based on the logic that the restructuring of debt should aim at bringing down the debt ratios and addition to debt ratios to more sustainable levels. In the earlier Greece maturity extension model, the government debt at the end of 2025 under restructuring 1, 2 and 3 is expected to stand at 154.4%, 123.7% and 147.0% of GDP which is unsustainably high.
Thus, the following additional spreadsheet scenarios have been built for more severe maturity extension and coupon reduction, or which will have the maturity extension and coupon reduction combined with the haircut on the principal amount. The following is professional level subscscription content only, but I would like to share with all readers the facts, as they play out mathematically, for Portugal. In all of the scenarios below, Portugal will need both EU/IMF funding packages (yes, in addition to the $1 trillion package fantasized for Greece), and will still have funding deficits by 2014, save one scenario. That scenario will punish bondholders severely, for they will have to stand behind the IMF in terms of seniority and liquidation (see How the US Has Perfected the Use of Economic Imperialism Through the European Union!) as well as take in excess of a 20% haircut in principal while suffering the added risk/duration/illiquidity of a substantive and very material increase in maturity. Of course, we can model this without the IMF/EU package (which I am sure will be a political nightmare after Greece), but we will be recasting the "The Great Global Macro Experiment, Revisited" in and attempt to forge a New Argentina (see A Comparison of Our Greek Bond Restructuring Analysis to that of Argentina).
Here is graphical representation of exactly how deep one must dig Portugal out of the Doo Doo in order to achieve a sustainable fiscal situation. The following chart is a depiction of Portugal's funding requirements from the market before restructuring…
This is the same country's funding requirements after a restructuring using the "Restructuring by Maturity Extension″ scenario described above…
And this is the depiction of new debt to be raised from the market before restructuring…
And after using the scenario "Restructuring by Maturity Extension″ described above… For all of you Americans who remember that government sponsored TV commercial, "This is your brain on drugs. Any Questions?"
The full spreadsheet behind all of the calculations, scenarios, bond holdings and calculations can be viewed online here (click this link and scroll to the bottom until you see the live spreadsheet) by anyone with the wherewithal to click the link. This product was formally available only to our professional subscribers, but I have decided to distribute it much more widely. Our Ireland, Greece and Spain (to be published within 72 hours) haircut models are available solely to professional and institutional subscribers. Click here to subscribe or upgrade.
Please be sure to read up on our full Pan European Sovereign Debt Crisis analysis, which is freely available to everyone.

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It has been a no-good-very-bad week for drones. First an MQ-9 Reaper crashed on a training mission over Lake Ontario, and now the Navy is saying that a target drone helping the USS Chancellorsville slammed right back into it. Good grief.
Target drones are regularly used to help calibrate and test weapons systems, because putting an actual guy in a plane while everyone aims at them and everyone hopes nobody sneezes is kind of crazy. That's exactly what was going on in the late afternoon yesterday off of Point Mugu in California when the drone went on the fritz and slammed right back into the US Navy cruiser, according to USA Today.
Two sailors are being treated for burns, which doesn't make it sound like the thing exactly went plunk and bounced off the side.
The Chancellorsville is now headed back to San Diego for assessment of the damage and repairs.
While drones have been around more than 20 years now, they're still relatively new technology and kinks are still being worked out. Let's just hope, for these two sailors' sake, that it's worked out sooner rather than later.
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Madam Speaker, my colleague and I share many of the same views on this. I have often attended citizenship courts. Having realized what this bill is about, I go less often now because I do not want to stand up and tell people that they are now third class Canadians and that in five years they will be second class Canadians for the rest of their lives.
However, when I did attend citizenship court and saw people from Bosnia-Herzegovina coming to get their citizenship, there would be Croatians, Serbs and Muslims. What I always said to them was "Please, for God's sake, bring the best you have but do not bring over your centuries' old grievances because Canada needs the best you have. We cannot handle your strife".


text: Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist Share: June 5, 2011 Invasive Species, Environmental Policy We've all been to movies where the characters do something stupid and dangerous — something no reasonable person would do ("let's split up and search the old barn!"). Sometimes this is just the result of a cheesy script, but sometimes the characters don't recognize their situation as dangerous — they think it's just an ordinary tendril, or an old rust stain, or that nice neighbor boy dressed up in a hockey mask.We're acting like those foolish movie characters right now by failing to recognize growing populations of non-native wild boars in New York as a menace. Private hunting preserves in New York release wild boars for "trophy hunters" to shoot. This benefits only a tiny population of hunters and the game preserves, while presenting serious risks to the public.The boars easily escape from these preserves and have now established breeding populations in New York. These wild pigs tear up the forest like Roto-Tillers, causing soils and stream banks to erode and killing ground-nesting birds, wild flowers and other native plants and animals.They damage crops and carry diseases such as brucellosis and pseudorabies that can spread to domestic livestock. Wild pigs may even harm human health —there is good evidence that wild pigs may have been involved in the contaminated spinach from California farms that sickened so many people across the United States in 2006 (and, of course, they may chase you down and gore you!)Solution: Stop releaseThe solution to this potentially large problem is to prohibit hunting preserves from releasing wild boars and aggressively eradicate the population that has established itself outside of the preserves. If we fail to do so, we may be looking at large damage to agriculture, forest ecosystems, and water resources, and millions of dollars in losses and control costs in the future.Why did we allow this situation to develop, and why aren't we fixing it? When new industrial development (such as drilling in the Marcellus shale) is proposed, we rightly are concerned with its possible effects and try to ensure its long-term costs to the public don't outweigh its short-term benefits to the few.For some reason, we don't often subject plans to move species around to the same scrutiny, even though the careless movement of species probably has cost more human lives, environmental damage and lost dollars than industrial developments.If this claim seems extravagant, consider the human deaths and suffering caused by the movement of European diseases into the New World or the arrival of the potato blight in Ireland in 1845. Or consider the ecological havoc that resulted when escaped European rabbits caused massive damage to Australia's native plants and animals, or when blight removed chestnuts from our eastern forests.And if you think these are just isolated catastrophes too rare to worry about, then let me remind you of the multibillion-dollar damages now piling up from the ongoing invasion of the emerald ash borer, the ecological and economic damage from zebra mussels, the deaths of millions of hemlock trees in the East and oak trees in the West, the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes around the world, or a thousand other examples.Shouldn't a human activity with such large risks for the public be given our most careful scrutiny?I don't know why we don't recognize that moving species around is dangerous — perhaps our long association with agriculture has led us to regard species as benign, despite so much evidence to the contrary. I don't know how we can get over this misleading way of thinking and start treating species introductions with the caution they deserve.Come to think of it, I don't even know how we can deal with the wild boar problem in New York before they spread out of control, damage our natural resources and cost us millions of dollars. I suspect some sharp letters to the elected officials who are supposed to be safeguarding our natural resources and tax dollars might be a good start. Tell them Freddy Kreuger is knocking at the door. Share: Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist Dave Strayer is a freshwater ecologist whose work focuses on measuring the long-term effects of zebra mussels on the Hudson River ecosystem, and understanding the roles of suspension-feeding animals in ecosystems. Strayer also works on broader issues in freshwater conservation ecology and invasion biology.


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Randi's Blueberry Super Pancakes
- ½ cup egg whites
- ⅓ cup almond milk
- ¾ cup rolled oats
- ⅓ cup blueberries, divided
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 pinch xanthan gum
- nonstick cooking spray
- sweetener of your choice, to taste
- peanut butter, optional (but highly suggested)
- maple syrup
- Combine all ingredients in your blender or food processor. Include half of your 1/3 cup blueberries in the blender mixture, and put the rest aside for now.
- Blend ingredients until your mixture is the consistency of a thick batter. If your blender or food processor has a "batter" option, use that. Otherwise 30 seconds is probably sufficient.
- Spray your pan lightly and pour your batter into the pan.
- Sprinkle in a few of your remaining blueberries into the pancake batter, but be sure to save some for your second pancake.
- Cook on medium heat for approximately 3 minutes. Keep a close eye on your pancake, checking every few minutes for a golden brown bottom. With a spatula, flip when ready.
- Repeat steps 3 through 5 for your second pancake.
- Once ready, plate your delicious creation and marvel at your new breakfasting skills.
- Optional: top your pancakes with peanut butter (my favorite) or (the more traditional option) maple syrup.
Makes: 2 pancakes • Total Time: 15-20 minutes
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Chef: Randi Cantrell
Profession: ZCode Media Associate Editor
Family: Husband – Collin; Cat – Kikka; Dog – Kiba
Hobbies & Interests: Writing, strength training/fitness, reading, traveling
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About the Recipe: As a fitness enthusiast, I'm often looking for healthier or macro-friendly alternatives to my favorite foods. I adapted this recipe from somewhere long ago, but have changed it so much over time that I now consider it my own. It's easy to make and can be changed according to the season – skip the blueberries and add pumpkin puree instead, if that's your jam. While they may not be like any pancake you're used to, I think you'll enjoy what they bring to the table. Perfect as a pre-workout breakfast!
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Author: Northumbrian
Story: Strangers at Drakeshaugh
Part: 1: The Drop Off
Rating: Young Teens
Setting: Post-DH
Status: WIP
Reviews: 5
Words: 3,218
Updated: April 13, 2013, 7:41am
1: The Drop Off
Introduction (and Author Notes)
This is another story in my sporadic "Potter family" series and, as it's set in 2009 it's the most "modern" of my stories. This particular story is something of an experiment, so please let me know what you think.
Alwinton and Harbottle (and Harbottle Castle and the River Coquet) are real places in Coquetdale in the Cheviot Hills, Northumberland. The house called Drakeshaugh (pronounced Drakes-hoff) exists only in my imagination. Harbottle Lough, Drakestone Burn and the Drake Stone itself are real, too, although I've had to rearrange the geography slightly in order to fit the Potters' new home into the landscape.
Haugh is an old English word meaning meadow, or hollow (or sometimes hidden place) and is a common place name in Northern England and Scotland. For some unknown (to me at least) reason, Northumbrians use neither the English word lake nor the Scottish word loch, instead following the Irish tradition and calling large bodies of water loughs (locally pronounced loff). Confusingly (to some, at least), a "burn" in Northern England and Scotland, is a stream. Coquet (if you're interested) is pronounced koh-kett.
This is a part of the UK I am familiar with (as should be obvious from my nom de plume), nevertheless, any resemblance between my Original Characters and the residents of Coquetdale is purely coincidental. The canon characters, of course, belong to JKR and I'm simply playing with them.
Finally, apologies to local footballing legend Jackie Charlton for the bad joke.
My husband saw her first.
I'd been facing backwards, twisted uncomfortably in my seat and with my fully-extended seatbelt digging into my shoulder. I had been trying to prevent Henry from prodding his little sister. I'd succeeded by creating a barrier between them using his school satchel. As a consequence, Henry was glaring at me with that sullen "how dare you stop me from doing what I want" expression of his.
'Blimey,' said Mike admiringly. 'D'you think that's real?'
As I turned to face forwards I caught a brief glimpse of the object of his appreciation. The woman was not tall, but she was curvy; she wore tight denim shorts and a white t-shirt. Her bright red hair was a twisted rope tied with two black bows; one was at the nape of her neck, the second was a little above the small of her back, and it danced and swayed as she walked. She was holding a small boy firmly by the hand and pushing a buggy. The boy was wearing grey shorts and a turquoise sweat shirt, the same sweatshirt that Henry was wearing, the uniform of Harbottle Primary School. I doubted that Mike had even noticed him.
'The bum?' I asked, knowing my husband. 'Definitely real.'
'I was talking about the hair,' Mike protested as we drove past.
'No idea,' I replied.
I turned and looked back; the buggy was a double. The woman was striding determinedly down the road towards Harbottle and the village school. She was a stranger, a newcomer to our little corner of the hills, but I instantly decided that I wasn't going to like her. She had no right to a figure like that after three kids.
The Alwinton to Harbottle road is narrow, and there are no footpaths until you get into the village. The woman had been walking down the road, facing the oncoming traffic. Not that there was anything coming. We don't see many cars on our roads and anything larger than a car is very unusual, unless the army are on the ranges.
We'd been crossing the River Coquet when Annie had started protesting about her brother's prodding. We'd reached the castle car park when Mike pointed the woman out. I wondered where she had come from. I know everyone on our side of the river, in Alwinton and the surrounding farms. On this side, the south side, we had only passed two properties and I know who lives there, too. There was nowhere else.
Unless … unless someone had actually bought Drakeshaugh. The old farmhouse had been derelict for years, but as I considered the possibilities I realised that there was nowhere else she could have come from. Drakeshaugh was a mile and a half from Harbottle, up the track alongside Drakestone Burn. If she was from Drakeshaugh she had walked along the old and rutted track, and then along this road, while pushing two kids and holding on to the third.
'Anyone mentioned any newcomers to you?' I asked.
'You keep up with the gossip, Jacqui, not me,' said Mike. 'We'll find out soon enough; she'll be taking the lad to school. He was in uniform.' My husband had noticed the boy. Sometimes I underestimate him. After nine years of marriage I should know better.
We swept around the bends and into the single street that is Harbottle village. The stranger was lost in the distance behind us.
'I could drop you off at the school, go back, and offer her a lift,' Mike suggested.
'Michael Charlton,' I told him as we slowed down. 'You are here for your son's first full day at school, not to pick up curvy redheaded strangers.'
'I could combine the two,' he said with a grin.
'What're you talking 'bout?' Henry asked us from the back seat.
'We've just seen a lady who we don't know walking towards the school, Henry,' I informed my son. 'She has a little boy with her; he might be a new friend for you. That would be nice, wouldn't it?'
'No,' Henry told me firmly.
I kept the sun visor down at all times, and I kept the flap which conceals the vanity mirror up. By careful use of the vanity mirror and the passenger door mirror, I could watch my children without them realising what I was doing. Henry was convinced that I really did have eyes in the back of my head. My son was close to tears this morning, poor little lad. He was worried, nervous. It was a big day, his first full day at school.
Henry had been going to school for half days, mornings only, since Easter. He had settled in nicely, even made friends with a couple of the older children, but the six week summer break had been long enough to make him forget all about that. We'd had tears and tantrums from the moment we'd roused him this morning and I was extremely thankful that Mike had arranged to start work late.
My husband had insisted on helping, he wanted to be with Henry for the start of his first full day at school. He pulled up at the end of the long line of cars already parked on the street. We were almost out of the village; we'd only just passed the school warning sign.
'Here we are, Henny,' Mike announced.
'Hen-ry,' Henry corrected his father crossly.
'You used to say Henny when you were a little boy,' Mike reminded him. 'Aren't you still a little boy?'
'No!' announced Henry importantly. 'I'm a big boy, I'm nearly five.'
'A big boy who's going to school for a whole day, like big boys do,' said Mike knowledgeably.
'I'm glad you're here,' I told my husband in an undertone. He grinned and winked at me.
I took my time getting out of the car, allowing Mike to walk around to lift Henry out from his seat onto the path. I leaned across Henry's car seat and unbuckled Annie from hers. As I settled her on my hip, I watched Henry take his daddy's hand. Mike was doing a good job; he was playing the ignorant fool, keeping Henry's mind on other things.
'Is it this way?' Mike asked, leading Henry in the wrong direction, away from the school gate, and allowing our son to scold him and lead him into the school yard. Mike says that sometimes acting daft is the most sensible thing to do; it certainly works with Henry a lot of the time. I smiled as I watched them walk down the path towards the gate, and noticed that Henry didn't have his bag.
I checked the back seat and realised that Henry had knocked his school bag onto the floor. When I picked it up, I cursed. It was dripping. The carton of fresh orange juice I'd packed for him was leaking, that was obvious from the smell. I swore under my breath, lifted the bag out from the car and dropped it onto the path. The bag was a sticky mess, and now, so was my hand.
'Wassamatter, Mammy?' my daughter asked.
I lifted her into Henry's car seat and ordered, 'Don't move, Annie; I need to clear this up.'
I squatted down on the verge and began to unzip the bag.
'Need any help?' someone asked. Her accent gave her away instantly, she certainly wasn't local. It was a southern drawl; West Country I thought. A few more words and I'd be certain.
I looked towards the voice. There was the boy in the school sweatshirt. He was auburn-haired and freckle faced and he was looking rather worried, not unlike Henry. There, too, was the buggy. It was a muddy three-wheeled off-roader. Two children sat side by side in the buggy. The younger was a toddler, eighteen months old I guessed; a girl with hair as bright a red as her mother's and tied into two bunches. The older child was perhaps three, and completely unlike the other two, he had a mop of unruly jet-black hair and bright green eyes.
Behind the buggy was a pair of sturdy, freckled and well-muscled legs. The woman's faded denim shorts were quite long, three or four inches above her knees and they did not seem so tight from the front, but as her white t-shirt was low-cut, my husband would probably find something else to attract his attention; two something elses.
Oblivious to my uncharitable thoughts, the freckle faced and red-headed stranger looked at me, smiled, and then waved at my daughter who sat patiently in the car seat. The woman's children looked at me as though they'd never seen another human being before.
'Are we there yet, Mummy?' the boy in school uniform asked her as I opened Henry's bag.
'Yes, James, we're there,' she told him.
Juice had dripped from Henry's lunch box and onto his coat, which was wet and sticky. Under the silent scrutiny of the woman and her three children I pulled out the coat and dropped it on the path before opening the lunch box and checking the contents. Henry's apple could be salvaged, if it were washed and dried it would be fine, but the rest of his lunch was ruined.
They were still there, watching and waiting. I glared at the woman; then remembered that she'd asked me a question; she'd offered to help, and I hadn't replied. I was horrified to realise that it was me, not her, who was being rude.
'Sorry, I don't think that you'll be able to help, but thank you for the offer,' I apologised to the woman. 'My son's orange juice carton has leaked and his lunch is ruined.'
'Lunch?' The young woman looked worried. Her children simply continued to watch me. 'Isn't lunch provided? I thought that lunch was provided.'
'It is, if you've paid for it,' I told her. 'Have you?'
'I don't know,' the woman looked confused. 'Harry—my husband—made all of the arrangements. He was supposed to be here with me, but there's been a crisis at work and he had to go.'
'Want Daddy,' the dark-haired boy announced. His ears had pricked up at the word "Harry".
'He's at work, Al,' the woman said exasperatedly.
'We can talk to Mrs Wilson, the early-years teacher,' I reassured her. 'She'll know whether … James (I struggled, but remembered what she'd called the auburn-haired boy) … has his name down for school dinners, and I'll need to buy Henry lunch, too, now.'
'Thanks,' the woman gave me a pleasant and very grateful smile.
'Would you like me to dry your son's coat?' she asked. 'I'm Ginny Potter, by the way.'
She held out freckled hand. I picked up Henry's coat, which now had grit sticking to it, too, and shook the hand she'd proffered. She had a surprisingly firm grip. I'm a farmer's daughter; my grip is good, but hers was better.
'Jacqui Charlton,' I said, warily telling her my name. 'I've heard all of the jokes, so don't bother.' She looked at me blankly. She's a Southerner, I remembered, so she's probably never heard of Jackie Charlton.
'I don't think that you'll be able to do anything with this,' I told her. She simply smiled, reached under the buggy and pulled out a magenta towel. Taking the coat from me, she wrapped it inside the towel and rubbed vigorously. When she lifted the coat out it was clean and dry, and it wasn't sticky.
'How on earth did you do that?' I asked.
'This …' Ginny Potter stopped and thought carefully before starting again.
'George … my brother … one of my brothers … is a bit of an … inventor. His son, Fred, is the scruffiest, stickiest kid in the family, and he's got a lot of competition, especially from this one.' She ruffled her eldest son's hair affectionately. 'George … invented … this towel. It's … specially treated … and a sort of test version.'
'I'd buy one,' I told her.
'Don't be so sure. I wouldn't be surprised if everything I clean with it suddenly turns magenta later.' She smiled, then realised what she'd said. She looked horror-struck at her words and covered her mouth with her hand.
'Oh, shi… da… bother,' she exclaimed, moving from one uncompleted swear word to another and doing the "not in front of the children" word shift I often do myself. 'If it does, let me know and I'll replace the coat. I'm sure we'll see each other at the school gates again.'
'Oi!' my husband shouted.
'Coming, Mike,' I called.
'My husband,' I explained. 'It's our son's first full day so he decided to take time off work.'
'So did Harry, but something came up,' Ginny told me. She was looking rather bewildered and I suddenly felt sorry for her.
'Come with me, Ginny, I'll introduce you to some of the other mums. This …' I lifted Annie out of the car, '…is my daughter, Annie.'
I put Annie down, grabbed her hand tightly, and we toddled slowly towards the school gates alongside the Potters.
'Say hello to Mrs Potter, Annie,' I suggested.
'Ello,' Annie mumbled shyly.
'Hello, Annie. These three are James, Al, and Lily. Say hello to Mrs Charlton and Annie, kids.'
'Hello,' the two younger ones chorused.
'Hello to Mrs Charlton and Annie.' James scowled.
'James, behave yourself,' Ginny scolded.
'Don't wanna go to school!' James told his mother.
'Neither does my son, Henry,' I told him, 'Perhaps you could keep each other company.'
'That would be nice, wouldn't it?' Ginny asked.
'No,' James announced.
Before Ginny could speak we'd reached the gates, where my husband and son stood waiting. I performed the introductions. Mike was on his best behaviour, thank goodness, and he graciously agreed to look after Annie, Al and Lily while Ginny and I took our sons into school.
James and Henry were assessing each other carefully. James was looking wonderingly at the impressively painted school yard and, as we strolled up towards the school, the two boys began talking quietly to each other. Henry, I noticed, was explaining things. Suddenly my son wasn't the new kid. He had found someone even newer.
'It's quite an old building,' Ginny observed.
'More than a hundred and fifty years old, early Victorian, but it's been well modernised, don't worry,' I reassured her.
'The school I went to was a lot older,' she smiled.
'Really?' I began, but my son interrupted us.
'James's having school dinners,' Henry announced.
'Would you like school dinners, too?' I asked, praying for the right answer.
'Yes,' he announced.
'Well, if that's what you want, Henry, we'll organise it now.' I winked at Ginny, who smiled a knowing reply.
So we took our sons into the school, spoke to Mrs Wilson and watched her settle the boys into the small class of four-, five- and six-year-olds.
It did not take long for Mrs Wilson to set them to work with paint and paper. When they turned their backs on us and started to mix paints, we left.
'We can't offer you a lift, sorry, Ginny,' Mike said when we left the school. 'Five seats for six people, I'm afraid that you won't all fit. Have you been here long? Just moved in? Where are you living? What does your husband do?'
'Oh, for goodness sake, Mike, don't be so nosey. How can she answer all of those questions?' I glared at Mike and he shut up. I could see that Ginny was on her guard the instant he began firing questions at her. Realising that Mike's questions meant I'd not find anything out, I decided to tell her about us.
'Mike works in Morpeth, he's a solicitor and land agent,' I told Ginny. 'I was born and bred up here. Mike's the newcomer, originally from the big city, Newcastle. Eight years and he's still not used to our quiet country ways.'
We were passing the huddle of other Mums at the school gate when I spoke. Mary Saville called across to me. She was looking curiously at Ginny and would want to know "absolutely everything, darling" about her.
'Just as well we are out here in the "quiet country",' boomed Mary, waving a newspaper, 'I certainly wouldn't want to be in Sheffield at the moment.'
The headline read: "Werewolf Killer Writes: I'll keep killing."
Ginny frowned grimly and walked on, ignoring Mary.
'Daddy gone Se'feed,' Al Potter announced, looking up in interest at the mention of the city.
'Yes, he has, Al. He's there on business,' Ginny said. 'Thanks for your help, Jacqui, but I'd best get these two home. We have a lot to do today.'
'Thank you,' I told her. 'Henry has a clean coat and, I hope, a new friend. He was very nervous this morning.'
'So was James. It will be nice if he can mix with some Mu… some children who he isn't related to.' She looked a little sad as she spoke. I knew how she was feeling.
'Kids have got to go to school. It's good for them, even if they are a miss around the house,' I reassured her.
'That's what Harry says, too, I hope that he's right. Bye, Jacqui, bye, Mike. I'm sure I'll see you again.' With that, she turned and pushed the buggy containing her two younger children back down the road.
I didn't have a chance to discuss Ginny Potter with Mike because Mary bustled over.
'A mysterious stranger, tell me everything, darling,' she began. I was a severe disappointment to her and I was glad when, after a couple of minutes, Mike helped me to escape by reminding me that he needed to take me home in order to get to work.


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When Oakland Athletics outfielder Josh Reddick stepped to the plate for the first time against the Tampa Bay Rays Saturday, he stood in his normal stance, held his bat the normal way and swung as he normally would. But something was different - Reddick had trimmed his hair and his beard.
The change came as a shock to many as Reddick had been proudly boasting about his wonderful beard. In fact, in March, he accepted a challenge from another proud beard owner, WWE performer Daniel Bryan. The terms of the 'beard-off' challenge stated that the winner with the best beard would be awarded at the end of the year and the loser must shave immediately.
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Aunt Samantha Bumgarner (née Biddix) was a fiddle and banjo player from North Carolina who, in 1924, became the first woman to record hillbilly music. In doing so, she opened the doors for all the great female hillbilly and country musicians who followed. Imagine for a second a world without Brenda Lee, Iris Dement, Jean Shepard, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Norma Jean, Skeeter Davis, Sue Thompson and Tammy Wynette, to name a few. Not a pretty place.
Samantha Biddix was born in Dillsboro, North Carolina on Halloween, 1878, the same year Black Bart held up his last stagecoach and, more relevantly, Thomas Edison patented the phonograph. Her parents were Has Biddix, himself a fiddler, and Sara MaLynda Brown Biddix. Though Biddix showed an early interest in music, her father wouldn't allow her to touch the fiddle, an instrument occasionally referred to by hillbillies as a "devil's box." Nonetheless, when he wasn't around, she played it and displayed a natural talent. The banjo, then viewed as a slightly more acceptable instrument for women, was not forbidden and Biddix's first, constructed from gourd and cat hide, was presented to her at fifteen. Later, having demonstrated her skills for her father, he bought her a ten cent model and allowed her to perform with him in the area. Ultimately, he consented to her entering a banjo competition in Canton and she won. Gaining confidence, she began entering and winning competitions routinely.
When she married Carse Bumgarner in 1902, he gave her her first fiddle but she remained most acclaimed for her banjo playing. A few years later she acquired the nickname "Aunt Samantha." Although through the lens of modern ignorance, a hillbilly woman gaining fame with the banjo may seem completely out of the ordinary, it was actually fairly common for women to play the instrument, especially amongst hillbillies. In 1916, when Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles began field recording in the upper south, nearly three quarters of the hundreds of tunes they compiled as English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians were performed by women. In addition, many famous male hillbillies learned to play from the women in their lives. Ralph Stanley was taught to play by his mother, Lucy Smith Stanley. Cynthia "Cousin Emmy" May Carver taught "Grandpa" Louis Jones. Clarence "Tom" Ashley learned to play from his aunts, Ary and Daisy. Morgan Sexton was schooled by his sister, Hettie. Earl Scruggs was beaten to the banjo by his older sisters, Eula Mae and Ruby.


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When I retired from my day job nearly two years ago, I had a very definite idea of how I planned to use the nine hours each day that I had given over to public service for the previous 22 years. At the top of my list was Zumba class. A colleague who had raved about hers, convinced me to join her at a local studio packed to the gills with other Zumba enthusiasts. I went twice a week for six weeks, and bought a pair of regulation Zumba shoes when I saw that my old reliable jazz shoes were not up to the challenge. I had recently recovered from hip surgery, and a subsequent fractured hip. I couldn't wait to get my mojo back!
Eduardo's Zumba class attracted that remnant of the population parlaying dance movement to settle accounts with a stressful day. After six weeks, I was forced to acknowledge that replacement of my hip hadn't extinguished my arthritis. Though the rest of me was singing after Zumba class, my right knee was screaming, and no amount of heat/ice/heat/ice or ibuprofen could relieve the pain. I bid my teacher Eduardo a reluctant farewell via email, and signed up for water aerobics at the faded glory Richmond Plunge natatorium that had recently been artfully renovated to keep the natural light of its original design. During the two hours a day, twice a week of water aerobics taught by Sandy, I balleticized jumping jacks into echapés and turned side steps into glissades. I had almost recaptured my dance mojo! The only obstacle was that knee, now at the bone-on-bone stage of its degeneration. Last week, I noticed that the Plunge had begun an aquatic Zumba class! I couldn't wait to join it! My compromised knee and I could now dance outright in a new non-weight-bearing context. My new water Zumba teacher is Oscar Ivan Solano, Jr. and I had an opportunity to speak with him about Aquatic Zumba.
Oscar was born in El Salvador. Both his parents were teachers in the 1970s there, when a civil war divided the country into two camps. Opponents of the government favored overthrow of the 60-family right wing oligarchic dictatorship headed by Jose Napoleon Duarte, a figurehead who remained in power with the help of U.S. government-trained death squads and military aid. The national teachers union was a big force in protests against the Duarte government. Oscar's father was a member of the teacher's union, but he was not politically active. Nonetheless, his name showed up on a list of individuals targeted by the death squads, and so both of Oscar's parents fled to the United States, leaving Oscar, his two brothers and younger sister in the care of their grandmother. They had hoped that the conflict would be a short one, and intended to return, but the separation lasted six years, at which time, the two boys came to the United States by obtaining student visas.
"I studied at the Philip and Sala Burton High School in San Francisco, graduated, and went to community college with the intention of becoming a doctor, but that was not possible, so I switched to architecture, as I loved drawing and sketching."
Solano attended Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, and became an architectural designer. "Never feeling any urgency to become an architect, I worked in the architectural field for 10 years before the economic woes hit and I lost my job. I was unemployed for almost a year, and through salsa dancing, met someone in San José who happened to be a Zumba instructor. She saw my style, exuberance, honesty, and we became friends. In May, 2010, she suggested that I become a Zumba instructor, and by October, 2010, I was teaching it."
The Zumba industry is international: There are different styles from all over the world, including merengue, salsa, cha-cha-cha, tango, flamenco, bhangra [Indian] , swing, bachata [Dominican], hip hop, and reggaeton. Another aspect that lends Zumba its international character is that instructors are from many different countries. Bay Area Zumba teachers are planning an evening Zumba party on July 4th, in Concord, California. The teachers who will participate are from Mexico, India, and the Americas, including the United States. Solano sees it as a "wonderful opportunity" for Zumba dancers to experience all styles. "I feel like the world has gotten a little smaller thanks to Zumba. Another international aspect is that I can go anywhere on the globe, and the class will be the same. Also, students come from different backgrounds, ages, nationalities, and economic backgrounds."
Beto Pérez, a Colombian aerobics instructor, created Zumba. He invented it by playing music from many different cultures and choreographing progressive exercise steps to the music. The physiological goal is aerobic exercise to burn calories, and to get dancers moving fast to achieve a racing metabolism. "The way I see it," says Solano, "is that the endorphins kick in and make you feel happy, love dancing, and you want to share it. Your mental ability is improved, and it helps the memory, calms you, and whatever anxieties you have accumulated can be turned around. Students say they feel great: they come in feeling stressed, but during class they don't think about those stresses, and by the end of class, put enough distance between themselves and their stress that they feel happy. For whatever reason a student comes, I always tell them 'Do your best, be here in the moment, let's move,' and they do that, and the seniors are the ones who seem to have the most fun. They yell 'Wepa!' They are my favorites."
Oscar currently teaches an average of 14 classes per week. Sometimes there are parties and he teaches more, mostly at the Richmond Recreation complex, and now at The Plunge in Point Richmond.
"The point is the journey to find what makes you feel good or happy. People ask, 'What happened to architecture?' Maybe it was for the best that after ten years, I was laid off, and met this person who was instrumental in changing what I do. When I was trying to find work after I was laid off, I was skeptical, but after 10 months, I grew frustrated, because I did as much as possible to get interviews, and even though I sent out 25 resumés I never even got an acknowledgment from a single one of the companies I wrote to, so I thought that maybe I should try something new, and then that's when I tried Zumba." What about the difference in income? "Right now, I think am making about 60 to 65% of what I made in architecture and that is pretty amazing, because I hear that the pay is not as good as that for fitness instructors, and by being independent of the fitness industry, I think I can reach a level where I will be as comfortable as I was in my former job, especially if I am being smart about what I want, honest in reflecting my sense of self worth; I give a lot, but there's still more room, and to reach my former income level may require becoming a personal trainer. Though I don't have health care benefits, because of Zumba I am living a healthy life style."
Could this fun form of exercise be promoted to public school officials as a required program?
"Yes, it could be sold as a package for the school district. I have taught a few free community classes at Mira Vista Elementary School to make parents aware of how much fun it can be. On July 7, the City of Richmond will host the American Tennis Association, and I'll do a Zumba demo there. City council reps will be there and it's national, so I'll have that opportunity and we'll see what they are willing to do to extend Zumba into the schools."
Oscar Ivan Solano's Aqua Zumba classes: FRIDAYS at 9, SATURDAYS at 10 AM, Richmond Municipal Natatorium -"The Plunge" at Point Richmond, 1 East Richmond Ave. (at S. Garrard Blvd.), Richmond, CA 94801 ($10); SATURDAYS at 8:30 AM, Richmond Recreation Complex, 3230 MacDonald Ave. Richmond, CA 94804 ($8/class/student or a $72 monthly pass; SATURDAYS at 12 noon, Forma Gym,1410 North California Blvd., Walnut Creek, CA 94956 (go to www.formagym.com for free guest pass and price information).


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Romit necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web codificada y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 24 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
My new project is an Proxy List site.
Site would run on an custom coded php script. I am looking for highly professional and moder look. Read more for details.
Nothing as of now. You can suggest.
Desired Color Scheme:
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>maybe all links in footer (instead of nav bar) as explained in mock-up (though not sure)
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http://www.RequestProxy.com & http://www.ProxyRequest.com
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Whole idea of site is like this:
There are many webmasters who run their own proxy sites (example: cqxin.com). And there are millions of such proxy site on the net.
But, there are sites like Proxy.org and http://www.goodwaiter.com/english.php who are themselves not a proxy site.. but they provide list of other proxy sites on the net. Webmasters pay them to put their proxy site on the proxy list. (a kind of directory)
I suggest you to first look at proxy.org to understand what this site will do. Our custom coded script has similar functionality though it is way more advanced at back-end.
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If you see proxy.org you will see that the most important part of homepage is the proxy list itself. And that is to be give most importance.
I love simplicity and adore professional, modern and web2.0 designs.
following are the examples of site i like:
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Details and shades - i love this one too!
look at the use of css to decorate border of contact form. I just love the way they make text area and input boxes beautiful using css. I would love effect like this on the proxy list form we will have on homepage. (This is IMPORTANT)
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Philadelphia Fed July Outlook Suggest Pickup in Activity
Manufacturing firms responding to the July Business Outlook Survey indicated that regional manufacturing conditions improved this month. All of the survey's broadest current indicators were positive, and most showed improvement from last month. The survey's indicators of future activity also showed a notable rise, suggesting that firms expect a pickup in business over the next six months.
Indicators Suggest Pickup in Activity
The survey's broadest measure of manufacturing conditions, the diffusion index of current activity, increased from 12.5 in June to 19.8, its highest reading since March 2011 (see Chart). The percentage of firms reporting increased activity this month (37 percent) was greater than the percentage reporting decreased activity (17 percent).
Other current indicators suggest continued growth this month. The shipments index increased notably, from 4.1 in June to 14.3. The demand for manufactured goods as measured by the current new orders index remained positive, although it fell back 6 points to 10.2. Firms reported a drawdown of inventories this month: The inventory index fell 15 points, from -6.6 to -21.6.
Labor market conditions showed a notable improvement this month. The current employment index, at 7.7, registered its first positive reading in four months. The percentage of firms reporting increases in employment (18 percent) exceeded the percentage reporting decreases (10 percent). Firms also indicated an increase in the average workweek compared with June.
Price Indexes Suggest Moderate Pressures
With regard to purchased inputs, 29 percent of firms reported paying higher prices for inputs, while 8 percent reported lower input prices. The prices paid index edged down 1 point. The prices received index, reflecting firms' own manufactured goods prices, decreased 8 points, to 7.0. Over 14 percent of the firms reported higher prices for their own manufactured goods, while 7 percent reported lower prices. Nearly 76 percent reported steady prices for their own products.
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The survey's future indicators suggest improved optimism among the reporting manufacturers. The future activity index increased 11 points from its reading in June (see Chart). Nearly 52 percent of firms are expecting increases in activity over the next six months, up from 45 percent in June. The new orders and future shipments indexes improved, increasing 17 points and 14 points, respectively. The future employment index also improved this month, increasing 9 points. Nearly 41 percent of firms expect increases in employment over the next six months, compared with 33 percent last month.
In special questions this month, firms were asked about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its effects on firms' health insurance plans and workforce (see Special Questions). Over 70 percent of the surveyed firms indicated that they have not made or do not plan to make changes in their health insurance plans. Nearly 14 percent of the firms indicated they would be cutting back or dropping health insurance coverage, and 10 percent indicated that their firms were too small to be subject to the employer mandate. (All survey responses were received after the announcement earlier this month of a delay of the employer mandate until 2015.) With regard to workforce changes to date, 71 percent reported minimal or no changes related to the ACA. But 11 percent indicated there has been more outsourcing of work, and 6 percent indicated shifts from full-time to part-time workers attributable to the ACA. With regard to future workforce changes, 18 percent of firms indicated they would outsource more work over the next year, and 8 percent indicated they would substitute part-time workers for full-time workers.
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Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship
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A nationally recognized expert on the psychology of women shows how the angerand agony of the mother-daughter relationship can be replaced with a new bondbased on understanding and respect.
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