I enjoy Beliefnet.com because it respects all religions, as I do. I came across a section called Preachers & Teachers, “nuggets of wisdom, inspiration, and advice,” and it sure is.
VIDEO: Stormy Omartian, author of The Power Of A Praying Wife and The Power Of A Praying Husband answers the question
Recent statistics suggest that 50% of all marriages will end in divorce. In Southern California the divorce rate is purported to be even higher, somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-75%.
EXPENSE:
Mediation is much less expensive than litigation. An average divorce can easily cost as much as $30,000. A mediation can cost as little as $3000 including completion of all the legal paperwork. From Keeping the Humanity in Divorce by Deborah Vaupen.
Over 160,000 divorces are filed in California…60% are now done without lawyers according to Ed Sherman in How to do Your Own Divorce In California published by Nolo Press. Californians are saving over a half a billion dollars every year in unnecessary legal fees.
Fighting for custody in a Court can cost a lot - at least $15,000-$50,000 for each side.
Try making these ornaments with your kids. What fun! You can get the necessary supplies at your local craft store, or most large stores like Walmart and Kmart.
The U.S. Commerce Department’s security office warns that “a cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone.” An article in the Financial Times last year said mobile providers can “remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner’s knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call.”
Nextel and Samsung handsets and the Motorola Razr are especially vulnerable to software downloads that activate their microphones, said James Atkinson, a counter-surveillance consultant who has worked closely with government agencies. “They can be remotely accessed and made to transmit room audio all the time,” he said. “You can do that without having physical access to the phone.”
Because modern handsets are miniature computers, downloaded software could modify the usual interface that always displays when a call is in progress. The spyware could then place a call to the FBI and activate the microphone–all without the owner knowing it happened. (The FBI declined to comment on Friday.)
“If a phone has in fact been modified to act as a bug, the only way to counteract that is to either have a bugsweeper follow you around 24-7, which is not practical, or to peel the battery off the phone,” Atkinson said. Security-conscious corporate executives routinely remove the batteries from their cell phones, he added.
# Pet owners have lower blood pressure. (Friedmann, 1983, Anderson 1992).
# Pet owners have lower triglyceride and cholesterol levels than non-owners (Anderson, 1992).
# Pet owners have fewer minor health problems (Friedmann, 1990, Serpel, 1990).
# Pet owners have better psychological well-being (Serpel, 1990).
# Having a pet may decrease heart attack mortality by 3%. This translates into 30,000 lives saved annually (Friedman, 1980).
# Children’s cognitive development can be enhanced by owning a pet. (Poresky, 1988).
# 70% of families surveyed reported an increase in family happiness and fun subsequent to pet acquisition. (Cain, 1985).
# Children owning pets are more involved in activities such as sports, hobbies, clubs or chores. (Melson, 1990).
# Children exposed to pets during the first year of life have a lower frequency of allergic rhintis and asthma. (Hesselmar, 1999).
# Children who own pets score significantly higher on empathy and prosocial orientation scales than non-owners. (Vidovic, 1999).
Fun With Rats
# The American Journal of Cardiology reported that male dog owners were significantly less likely to die within one year after a heart attack than those who did not own a dog.
# Friedmann E, Thomas S. Pet ownership, social support, and one-year survival after acute myocardial infarction in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST). The American Journal of Cardiology. 1995;76:1213-1217.
# Researchers in the UK reported in the January 1999 and January 2001 issues of Seizure on dogs they had trained that could detect seizures 15–45 minutes prior to the episode’s beginning.
# Brown SW, Strong V. The use of seizure-alert dogs. Seizure. 2001;10:39-41
# Strong V, Brown SW, Walker R. Seizure-alert dogs – fact or fiction? Seizure. 1999;8:62-65.
# A brief report in a 1989 issue of the Lancet describes how one dog discovered a cancerous skin tumor on her owner’s leg.
# Williams H, Pembroke A. Sniffer dogs in the melanoma clinic? Lancet. 1989;1(8640):734.
As reported here parent activist John Murtari was released from prison today, and his first stop was Friendly’s, for an ice cream sundae. Here’s a News10Now report, including video.
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