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@Kim; Unfortunately, it must just be the way the photo came out and how it looks on the computer screen. In person, the gummies were a dark blue color.

Great article Katie. I came from such a dysfunctional family that I don't think there was any way I could have a successful marriage to this day. There are a few great marriages out there though.

Thanks for the link! She LOVES your idea of the red hots, Oreo pieces & berries. How did you get the berries to be "purple/blue" in color? All the sites I've looked at only have them in black & red. THANK YOU for all of your great ideas!!!

Love this article. I love to bake also, but I also love to eat the end product. I would weigh 400 pounds if I baked as much as I'd like to. Thanks for including my red velvet cupcakes.

This is so cool, first I've heard of it. We have so much fun playing around with hair color. My daughters (teens) are going to love this. Great page and guide! Thanks :)K

I think it turned out great!

Thank you guys for the time reading my article.

@Tiggered

Basically, the reasons revolve around financial matters but dig deeper & discover that there are more reasons beyond money such as providing employees and employers career growth by working with each other from both sides of the globe without leaving their families.

@john galt

I appreciate your constructive criticism.

Regarding outsourcing, I am on the front line of that industry and I speak and connect with business owners every day about the topic and about their options what outsourcing offers every employer in this global age. I could assure you that just because a job could be done by someone offshore or be outsourced don’t mean that every job will be outsourced.

Even for myself as an employer, I have the option to hire 100% offshore and to outsourcing everything, but, I do not, because there are some roles, like in management, I would rather have an American or an Australian do over a Filipino. I have tried both.

Many business owners who we speak with do their best to turn outsourcing into a workable solution. But, you could only make it work on the early stages of business. Once you need to depend and rely on someone over the long term, you do need local people in your country to do the job.

Now at my company, we make outsourcing a sustainable solution for our clients, but we advise them once they get bigger than 30 or 40 or 50 staff, they consider bringing those staff in an office or hire new management to manage the growing teams who have been outsourced.

Like in the industrial era where jobs in the agricultural sector were lost in the agricultural industry but were slowly replaced by opportunities in factories we are seeing this with outsourcing today.

There is a shifting of job roles but this doesn’t mean that all jobs in a country are lost. I actually think the opposite is happening with more jobs being created because outsourcing now allows the smaller business a chance to grow and as a result end up hiring people locally who they were not able to afford when they were starting out in the early stage of the businesses.

Even larger clients who use our offshore staffing solutions do so to get stronger on their bottom line, improve their ability to do the work they are trying to get things done simply and then hire locally once more.

So, will outsourcing take all jobs away from the USA, Australia, UK or any other country? No, but yes there will be a shifting or roles.

Thanks so much, tolovaj - It's hard not to get some great shots, but the truly amazing thing is the quality of the light - at 11 p.m.!

Lentils are great alternative to meat, but I heard we have to be careful how we combine them to use their nutritional potential to maximum... Rice suppose to be their best friend. Thanks for some nice ideas for my kitchen:)

It is weird the first time you use one, but you very quickly get used to it. I find it strange going back to the other kind of mouse now.

Astonishing photos. You have every right to be a proud owner;)

Thanks, zteve!

Thanks for your visit, Mira:)

Hi zteve, yes, it's a good recipe; that photo of mine doesn't do it justice (I'll have to replace it sometime). Do note that I used low-sodium salt. I edited the ingredients just now to mention this. You don't want to use too much salt.

This article mentions nothing on the negative impacts of unfettered outsourcing. Outsouring to decrease labor costs can actually have a negative impact on a company, and can have a negative impact on the economy.

It's funny. I'm all about the profit motive - we need to make money to remain in business. That is why I dont see the logic at all in this race to the bottom in wages, particularly when the very communities and people who buy a majority of goods and services need a decent wage to afford to buy these products.

Simply put, pay your employees a liveable wage and maybe they will take the disposable income in their pockets and spend it on goods and services - inevitable leading back to more profits for companies based here.

There is more to business continutity than how to achieve the quickest turnaround this quarter. There is a whole economic and social part that this article fails to even mention, glossing over in ignorance "the business sense of outsourcing"