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  • Your Child Is Missing  By : Frank Go
    If your child is missing, time is of the essence! Take a deep breath and try to remember the last place you saw your child. If your child is missing from home, search the house quickly, check the closets, basement, and laundry, under beds, where ever else you think your child may crawl or hide. Check the doors and windows, do you see any way somebody got in. Yell out their name. Remember all this must be acted on as fast as possible! I can’t stress that enough!

    If you stil...
  • Dangerous Children In A Dangerous World  By : Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D.
    Juvenile violent crime rates increased 62% from 1988 to 1993, and then declined by just 6% from 1993 through 1997, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). However, the rates for juvenile drug and curfew violations, sex offenses, and simple assaults have continued to increase. The greater the number of risk factors and the fewer the resiliency factors the greater the risk that a youth will commit a violent act. To prevent dangerousness i...
  • Fraud. Beware Of The Fraudsters  By : Michael Challiner
    According to Which, the consumer watchdog, about 5 million of us have been targeted by fraudsters and have lost money as a result. Fraudsters are clearly finding rich pickings!

    So what are the most widespread scams and how do you steer clear of them? Here are six scams to be aware of.

    You've won a lottery prize

    Here you receive a letter, or e-mail telling you that you've won a big prize on some lottery you've never heard of. All you have to do is pay an administra...
  • 7 Surefire Self Defense Tips Criminals Want Women To Never Learn.  By : Michelle Annese
    Self defense tips for women. Are you at risk? What makes a woman a perfect target? Here are 7 ultimate techniques and weaknesses criminals who were interviewed look for to take advantage of you. These tips aren’t just for the busy holidays either. It’s all about keeping your awareness all year round. Follow these tips and you can protect yourself from becoming one of this year’s next statistics.

    1. Coming up to my vehicle, did I look around - aware of who is near it? Am ...
  • Document Security? – Why?  By : D. David Dugan
    Why should document security be so important to me? What exactly is it anyway? These are just a couple of questions you might have when someone mentions document security to you. With today’s technology, thieves are getting smarter and attacking both large and small businesses.

    Where it used to only be financial institutions, security firms, and those working on government contracts that had to worry about document security, now it involves everyone. Even if you don’t own...
  • Personal Injury Claims Process  By : Robert Kliene
    Personal injury lawsuits are filed following a standard claims process, much as other lawsuits are pursued. The following is a brief overview of the steps of the process.

    Step 1: Complaint (Petition)

    In most cases, the first document filed with a court to initiate a personal injury lawsuit is the Complaint or Petition. This document outlines the Plaintiff’s (injured party’s) case, as well as providing the names of all parties involved and the court’s jurisdiction.

    St...
  • Power Tool Safety  By : Daniel Smith
    There are a lot of basic rules for working around power tools that everyone has probably known since they took a high school shop class. These are the kind of rules that were born out of common sense, even though they aren’t always applied in our everyday lives. Everyone knows you should always pay attention to what is going on around you and never rough house in the shop area. Eye protection is a must, even if you feel silly wearing goggles. Proper protective clothing that f...
  • What Is A Stun Gun And How Does It Work?  By : Gray Rollins
    Stun guns belong to a class of weapons known as non-lethal weapons. This means that you can use a stun gun to defend yourself without risking that a shot from your hands can end in manslaughter or accidental homicide. Stun guns are often used to neutralize threatening animals without killing them. Although getting shot with a stun gun is certainly painful and unpleasant, it is not fatal so long as the shooter is trained and uses the gun correctly, which makes stun guns popula...
  • Direct Deposit Cash Advances For Recipients Of Social Security  By : Cash West
    Nearly 20 percent of Social Security recipients depend solely on their payments to meet their monthly needs and more than half rely primarily on them to make ends meet each month. The Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program, administered by the U. S. Social Security Administration, provides to millions of elderly, widowed, and disabled American citizens their only regular source of income. The program, created under the Social Security Act of 1935, is a social in...
  • Why Water Is More Expensive Than Gold?  By : Jim Thio
    What is marginal economy?

    Think it this way, which do you need more, gold or water?

    Of course you need water more.

    Which one will you pay more money for? One kilogram of gold or one kilogram of water? Of course, gold.

    Why?

    That's because in economy, only the marginal matters. What does that mean?

    Water is precious.

    However, the value of water is the value of that least useful water that you still use anyway.

    You use water to drink, you use water to tak...
  • Planning Ahead For Medical Emergencies Spares Loved Ones Pain & Expense  By : Laurie Ecklund Long
    What would happen if you were suddenly rushed to the hospital with a medical emergency? Would your family know where to find your most important information, such as insurance policies or legal and financial documents? Would they be able to access them at a moment's notice? What would happen to you (and them) if they can't?

    I've spent nearly a decade working with people from all walks of life who have been affected by crises of all types. And almost without exception, they...
  • Steps For Preventing Identity Theft  By : Robert Davis
    Have you been hearing reports about identity theft crimes? Do you have any idea what identity theft is?

    Identity theft is the stealing of your personal data such as your social security number, licenses number, credit card and bank account numbers, and even your mother's maiden name in order to commit fraud.

    Being prepared is necessary. It might seem inconvenient, but it's less convenient when you want to go shopping one day, only to discover that the department store...
  • Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft  By : Jon Arnold
    Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world today. You've worked hard to get and maintain a good credit rating. There are several steps you can take today to ensure that you are protected as much as possible against the crime of identity theft, which can sink your credit rating to negative numbers almost overnight.
  • Preventing Identity Theft  By : Jake Feuerbacher
    Identity Theft ran rampant in the year of 2006. We saw a record number of exposures of personal data, rounding out the top of the list with The Department of Veterans Affairs exposing more then 28 million records. Also in 2006, a milestone of 100 million victims had been exposed to some type of data breach.

    Were you one of those 100 million people? That amount of exposure tells us that our personal information is accessible in a various number of ways. There were exposures...

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