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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

What is Paternity fraud


Paternity fraud is the act of falsely naming a man to be the biological father of a child, particularly for the purpose of collecting child financial support , by the mother when she knows or suspects that he is not the biological father. In cases of paternity fraud, there are many potential victims: the defrauded man, the child deprived of a relationship with his/her biological father, the biological father who is deprived of his relationship with his child. Subsidiary victims include the defrauded child's and the men's families. In particular, financial hardship may have resulted for the defrauded man's children and spouse in cases in which the man made child support payments for the unrelated child. In some jurisdictions in some countries, there is limited opportunity to legally challenge the assumption of paternity. If you choose to do so you can request DNA tests for you and the children. Expect to pay upward of $400 for the testing, but if you believe a child is not your biological, it's a worthwhile expense. Your goal is to avoid becoming a victim of "Paternity Fraud." Monetary gain is generally the reason that most women lie about the children biolocial parent. Most men will be on the hook for 18 or more years of child support for a child or children who aren't yours. The bad news is that paternity fraud is not uncommon. If the DNA tests show that you're not the father, you need to get a lawyer and challenge paternity. Depending on where you live, you'll typically have six to 24 months to do so. Forbidding men to challenge paternity, especially in the context of marriage, by limiting the amount of time allowed to challenge paternity, or by allowing women to make a claim paternity without adequate chance for rebuttal by the alleged father. Such is the case in state of California U.S.A.. In some jurisdictions, the husband of the mother of a child is held to be the father, regardless of biological relationship. Access to such testing is restricted in some jurisdictions as it is held to not be in the best interests of the child for such information to become available. A man finding out that the child is not his biological child contrary to information supplied by the mother may result in his rejection of the child or mother. One man received a bill for $75,000 in back child support. That came a quite a surprise, since he didn't think he had any children. He tracked down his ex-girlfriend and his child and got a paternity test, which proved conclusively that he was not the father. But because he hadn't challenged paternity soon enough he was still held responsible for the arrears. In another case, a dad found 18 months after his divorce that the child he'd been paying support for was not his. The mother admitted she lied about the child's paternity, but because the deadline to challenge had passed, dad'll be paying $1,200/month for the next 15 years - more than $200,000! Unfortunately, even challenging paternity within the window doesn't guarantee that you'll avoid being defrauded. In many states, when a child is born during a marriage, the husband is presumed to be the father - biology is irrelevant. So even if DNA shows that he's not the father, he'll still owe child support. Why are the courts making men pay for children who aren't theirs, whom they may never have met or known about or have no legal rights to see? Unfortunately, it's big business. Many states receive government funds for every child support claim they issue, and they may take a percentage of money collected - often to the tune of tens of millions of dollars per year. The big complication here is that you undoubtedly love your son and you may decide that you want to claim him as your own regardless of what a paternity test might show. Unfortunately this is very common behavior in women. Collectin child support is one thing but collecting child support should be a crime, a felony. This would at least stop women claiming a man is the father and he is not. Then restitution should be paid for all the money that was paid to that woman with interest. That should be the next bill that should pass as law!

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The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.




















It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.


















Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.




















Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.


















May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

















Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too



















The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.



















Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.



















When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying. !



















This message is my appreciation to all that visit the site. I hope it touches your life. It can make you smile when you really need it, or make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down, but if it helps you appreciate friendship that you have developed, then it accomplished just what it needed to do. And if you don't, don't worry, nothing bad will happen to you, you just missed out on the opportunity appreciate someone who cares for you...

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Locking men up for not paying child support



I don't believe that Locking men up for not paying child support is the answer. Once a child is born it is the obligation of the mother and father is to raise that child and take care of him or her. Treating a man or woman like a common criminal because they can not afford to pay child support is not the answer.You not only ruin the father’s life but the child as well. The point is not to figure how to lock him or her up, but how to make them contribute to the cause. So many programs could be initiated that would help although if a work release programs could be implemented it would be a resolution to one big problem. 1st he pays child support and he would pay fees to remain in the program. Most important to stay in the program he has to participate in the child’s life. This could be a simple answer to a big problem. We just need a open mind to make it work.

TAKE HOLD OF EVERY MOMENT






A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:

"This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package."
He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.

"She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion.Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:
"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".I still think those words changed my life.
Now I read more and clean less.
I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.
I spend more time with my family, and less at work. I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day. I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it.
I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to. The words "Someday..." and "One Day..." are fading away from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now. I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food. It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come.I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters... letters that i wanted to write "One of this days".I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at least, how much I love them.Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives.And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day.Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.If you got this, it's because someone cares for you and because, probably, there's someone you care about.

Prayer by Rick Ross

I heard this song about a year ago and the more I heard it the more I could feel what was being said. Rick Ross pulled my coat just how deep he is. I included his song with the lyrics so you can feel where he came from...




"Prayer"[Sniff Sniff]Psalms 27 is my life and salvation whom shall I fear(I Ain't Cryin' I Ain't Cryin')'Cause I Have Sinned The LordIs The Structure Of My Life and Whom I Sow be Afraid and before I Wrap Up This Port Of Miami Emamies and (please Lord)Some Foes Trying to Take My Fresh There's A lot Of My Brothers and Sisters that's Stumbling' Still That Wasn't Hereto That Wasn't Here to Watch This Come Past (Sniff Sniff Sniff) Lord Who That Is Cooping Against I Should NotFear Since I can't Do Shitthou Washer Rise Else I Will Say A Prayer (Aman) and This Ishou be Confert (AmanAman) This Is 12 Years In The Making No Side Deals with Satan I'm Dealin' with The Maker (Strate Up) A lot OfHomies Ask what's A Prayer?A Prayer Is What kept My Foucis 12 Years (12 Years)A Prayer Is What Save I Sud Of Been Indited Now My Kids No Jay-Z (Sawn Carter)A Prayer Is What Kept My Here When The Bullets Cut The Air IFelt It and I Just Said A PrayerA Prayer Is Like Medicines It Will Heal Wounds Ask Bush Vietern (Ask) BigHoles In A Nigga Side Snug Nose 45homeboyJust Close your Eyes Put your Hands together Bow your Head[chorus:]Keep Me AliveKeep Me Out The FedzGotta Bless The Kidsone for The Famfor The dividend Dear Lord Here I Am So I Repant My Sins forgive MeThe Grapes On The PlateThe Tags On Their FeetThe Nice Mama CriedI'm Thugging with The Famfor The dividend Dear Lord HereI Am I So to God (Ross)I Did Some Things In The Past If I Cud Lord I Will Help you Bring 'Em Back (Please Lord) I (Ross) Feel Pain ManIt Ain't 'Cause I can't Speak That's why I Get So Many Songs I can't Sleep On It (Damn Man Damn Dog) Tattoos forforgiveness (Cross) I Might Not Get But forgive Me (Laross) I'm Here and I'm Fighting Like AMotherfucker (Motherfucker) Triple Cs excited Like A Motherfucker (Triple Cs) Say A Prayer Put The Weed InThe Air and Thank God Once Again for makin' Me A Millionaire (Aman Aman Aman) Thank God for Makin' Me A MillionairePut your Hands together Bow your Heads[chorus]I Am (Ross)I Used to Get Sticks Of The Hoes Zonenow Back to Back Covers for The Ozone Jb (Ozone) Made The MagazineBillboard Goin' Stongrolling In The Phanum with Motherfucking Rollin Stones (Stones Nigga) you Stuck with Me ThouThick and Thin Sitting Back Got your Mama Sitting In A Benz (Lord) Make you Damn Near Want to Cry Low 95 Stack MoneyLike Homacide (Homacide) Blood Sed After Midnight (Midnight) Its Just Me and This We've Tryin' to Get Right (TryingYou all Right) Blood Sed After Midnight (Midnight Midnight) It's Just Ross Trying to Get Right (Just Trying to Get Right)Put your Hands together (together) Bow your Heads[chorus]E I Am (Ross)

Top 10 Biggest Interview Mistakes


Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources, CareerBuilder.com
Hiring managers don't want to hear a lot of things during an interview confessions of a violent past, a cell phone ring, a toilet flush. Yet job seekers have committed these interview gaffes and worse, according to CareerBuilder.com's annual survey of the worst interview mistakes.
Odd behavior isn't the only way to ruin your chances of landing a job. When hiring managers were asked to name the most common and damaging interview mistakes a candidate can make:


51 percent listed dressing inappropriately.

49 percent cited badmouthing a former boss as the worst offense.

48 percent said appearing disinterested.

44 percent Arrogance.

30 percent insufficient answers.

29 percent not asking good questions.


To ensure your interview is smooth and error-free, follow these five tips.


1.Do some research: When you walk into a job interview, knowledge of the company's history, goals and current activity proves to the interviewer that you are not only prepared for the interview, but also that you want to be a part of the organization.


2.Don't lie: If the conversation drifts to a topic you're not knowledgeable about, admit you don't know the answer and then explain how you would go about finding a solution. Displaying your problem-solving skills is better than babbling about something you don't understand.
Keep it professional: Although interviewers often try to create a comfortable setting to ease the job seeker's nerves, business decorum shouldn't disappear.


3.Know what to expect: Expect to hear staple interview questions: "What's your biggest weakness?" "Why do you want to work here?" "Tell me about yourself." "Why did you leave your last job?" These open-ended questions are harder to answer than they sound, so think about your responses before the interview.

4.Put on a happy face: The interview is not the time to air your grievances about being wronged by a past boss. How you speak about a previous employer gives the hiring manager an idea of how you'll speak about him or her once you've moved on.
Unfortunately, many job seekers are not only ignoring these tips, they're making mistakes that leave unforgettable impressions for all the wrong reasons.


5.Avoid offering personal details: that can be controversial or have no relevance to the position, such as political and religious beliefs or stories about a recent break-up.


Here are 10 real-life examples from this year's survey:


1. Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a "private" conversation.


2. Applicant told the interviewer he wouldn't be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if his uncle died and his uncle wasn't "looking too good."


3. The job seeker asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.

4. Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was "classified."


5. Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss.


6. When the applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn't want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.


7. An applicant said she was a "people person" not a "numbers person" in her interview for an accounting position.


8. During a phone interview the candidate flushed the toilet while talking to hiring manager.

9.The applicant took out a hair brush and brushed her hair.


10. The applicant smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room.

Monday, July 7, 2008

How Hurricane Bertha developed from a tropical storm



During hurricane season, thunderstorms form over Africa and travel west across the Atlantic, The Atlantic hurricanes usually start as weak tropical disturbances off the West African coast and intensify into rotating storms with weak winds, called tropical depressions. Once the winds exceed 35 miles per hour, the system, now called a "tropical storm," gets an alphabetical name. where some develop into tropical cyclones. Bertha developed from a tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa on July 1. Bertha continued to gain strength from warm ocean water, high humidity and favorable atmospheric and upward spiraling wind patterns off the ocean surface. and became the first hurricane of the season on July 7.
The storm now has the circular structure of a hurricane, Bertha strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane that feeds on herself to gain strength. In their energy flow, hurricanes resemble large thunderstorms. But while thunderstorms can start over land or water, hurricanes only start over water. Hurricanes also last much longer, carry far greater energy, and cause much greater destruction. Due to the Coriolis effect, the lower levels of a tropical cyclone start rotating counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, but clockwise in the Southern. Eyeball the eye wall Hurricane winds whirl around the bizarrely calm "eye," a circular region with little wind, no rain and often a blue sky. The placid eye is surrounded by a circular "eye wall" of furious, thunderstorm-type clouds and the fiercest winds.


The force of the release is tremendous—the amount of heat energy released by an average hurricane is equivalent to the amount of electric energy produced by the U.S. in an entire year. A small portion of the energy released actually warms what has become the inner core of the storm. As the temperature of the air in the inner core rises, its pressure drops, increasing the speed and intensity of the winds swirling around it. These stronger winds bring more warm, moist air to the clouds surrounding the inner core of the storm further fueling its energy. When the swirling winds reach a speed of 74 miles per hour or more, the tropical storm becomes a hurricane. Once a storm officially becomes a hurricane, it receives an intensity rating based on its wind speed and potential to cause damage. As a hurricane develops, its intensity rating often changes.
I Category Once hurricanes have wind speeds between 74 and 95 miles per hour and are expected to cause minimal damage to buildings and homes. Trees, shrubbery and mobile homes tend to bear the brunt of the damage caused by Category One hurricanes.
With wind speeds reaching 100 miles per hour, this is typical of a Category Two storm.
Category Three and Four hurricanes are characterized by even stronger winds and much more damage to homes, buildings and trees.
The most intense classification of a storm is the Category Five hurricane. A Category Five storm will have sustained winds of 155 miles per hour or more and is capable of extensive damage. The inner core of the hurricane is known as the eye of the storm—a calm, often clear-skied patch where winds are lightest and pressure is lowest.
Surrounding the paradoxically calm region of the hurricane is a ring of clouds called the eye wall. The eye wall clouds are thunderstorm clouds, and it is in this region of the hurricane where the heaviest rains and winds originate. The outermost ring of the hurricane is made up of bands of heavy rains that swirl inward toward the storm's center, called spiral rain bands. While the clouds and rain bands are forming in the sky above, the weather on the land below the hurricane turns nasty. The spiraling winds that accompany hurricanes can extend even further beyond the eye of the storm. Typically, hurricanes are about 300 miles wide, so they can affect fairly large areas at one time. Unfortunately for those in its path, a hurricane's speed of travel is hard to predict and varies greatly from storm to storm. Weather experts have calculated that hurricanes move forward at an average speed of 15-20 miles per hour, but a big storm also has the potential to linger over one area for a while, causing torrential rains, or move so quickly that there is no time to prepare for its arrival. Eventually, a hurricane's energy begins to dissipate and the storm weakens. Weather experts have identified several factors that contribute to a hurricane's demise, including the storm's movement over cooler water or drier areas. Even when a hurricane appears to have blown over, however, it can potentially re intensify if it hits weather conditions that are favorable for its development. Every year between June 1 and November 30 (commonly called hurricane season), hurricanes threaten the ­eastern and gulf coasts of the United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. In other parts of the world, the same types of storms are called typhoons or cyclones. Hurricanes wreak havoc when they make landfall, and they can kill thousands of people and cause billions of dollars of property damage when they hit heavily ­populated areas.

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