Investigators say 54 year old Marcus Blanchard of West Palm Beach had a dirty little secret. They say he was molesting a half dozen kids his girlfriend was supposed to be babysitting in her home.
She never got a county day care license, even though records show she was warned in the past she needed one.
“Any child care in this county requires a licensure. Even if you have just one child? Even one child,” said Courtney Shippey with the Palm Beach Read the rest of this entry »
· If your spouse has a separate plan, act quickly to get on it.
· Ask about your COBRA rights. With some exceptions, laid-off workers can continue their coverage for 18 months by paying its full cost. (Congress is considering a temporary, 65 percent premium subsidy.)
· If COBRA coverage isn’t an affordable option, explore non-group plans. Make sure that any coverage meets the requirements to protect you against preexisting condition exclusions Read the rest of this entry »
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The boom has been lowered, the axe has fallen, the pink slip has landed on your desk.
No matter how grim your financial situation may be, you can’t just ignore your bills and creditors. Prompt action is crucial: Let your creditors know you are having difficulties before you begin missing payments.
Financial experts say that when money is tight, you must prioritize what bills need paying first.
Ask yourself Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Cutting calories could do more than just slim down your waistline.
Researchers from the University of Munster in Germany found reducing what you eat by a third may improve memory, the BBC reported Tuesday.
They analyzed three groups of volunteers on different diets, who had an average age of 60.
Three months later, they were given memory tests.
The first group ate a balanced diet containing the normal number of Read the rest of this entry »
An apple a day might help keep the oncologist away. A Cornell University researcher reports that fresh apple extracts significantly inhibited breast tumors in rats – and the higher the dose, the greater the effect. (The rats were fed the equivalent of one, three or six apples a day.)
“We not only observed that the treated animals had fewer tumors, but the tumors were smaller, less malignant and grew more slowly compared with the tumors in the untreated Read the rest of this entry »
(Forbes.com)
When Oprah Winfrey confessed last month that she’d failed to stick to her diet and was again tipping the scale at 200-plus pounds, millions of failed dieters could relate. Their futile efforts are not for lack of weight loss programs and products that drive a $58 billion US industry, according to market researcher NPD Group.
The abundance of information, however, often leaves dieters confused about competing claims.
That’s where Read the rest of this entry »
GARDEN GROVE, CA –
In celebration of community leaders who
lend support for children’s oral health, Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange
County will present “Your Smile Matters: An Evening Honoring Leaders in
Oral Health,” with generous funding by Diamond Level sponsor Wanda Claro,
DDS, of Irvine Orthodontics. An anticipated 200 community leaders will hear
the Fullerton College Student Jazz Quartet perform while dining at the
Anaheim White House, a Read the rest of this entry »
‘Flat Belly Diet’: a review of the hot new diet book–will it be your ticket to weight loss in 2009?
Well, well, well; it’s December 31st and people all across the fruited plain are engaging in a time-honored American tradition –making resolutions to lose weight.
Every year sees its own crop of hip new diet plans (remember Atkins? The South Beach Diet? The Zone?); this year’s frontrunner looks Liz Vaccariello’s
, delightfully subtitled
A Read the rest of this entry »
In 2008, the financial services sector alone shed 148,000 jobs, according to the latest figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For these laid-off workers, losing their salaries had to hurt; losing their employer-sponsored health care benefits could hurt more.
Whether it’s paying the full cost of the premium or buying insurance independently, trying to find the right health coverage after being thrust into unemployment can be Read the rest of this entry »
MASON CITY — Kits are readily available for parents to test their children at home for illegal drug use — but should they be used? Under what conditions is it worth raising serious issues about trust?
“I think they have their place,” said Tim Leibrand, pharmacy manager at Hy-Vee Drugstore in Mason City. “But like everything, they can probably be abused.”
Hy-Vee Drugstore has carried the kits for at least five years, Read the rest of this entry »