Email Marketing Tip: A wonderful infographic from Get Response about using graphic images in your email. Worth noting.
Scholarship America is the country’s largest provider of college scholarships and financial aid to students. They have awarded $2.9 billion to 1.9 million students over its 54 years. Its Dollars for Scholars program has almost 1,100 local chapters. To donate, go tohttp://www.scholarshipamerica.org.
Curator: John Kremer
Here are a few of the statistics on what happens to children from fatherless homes and/or one-parent homes.
90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of the Census)
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control)
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton County Georgia jail populations; Texas Department of Corrections)
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26)
75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes (Source: Rainbows for all God’s Children)
71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools)
71 percent of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents (Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of the Census)
Ocean Conservancy works to protect the ocean and its inhabitants. Motto: Start a sea change. For more information, check out http://www.oceanconservancy.org.
Curator: John Kremer
Here are W. Randall Jones’s 12 Commandments of Wealth. They are really 12 rules for success. They are worth teaching to your children and following yourself.
1. Never seek money for money’s sake.
2. Find your perfect pitch. Discover your talent.
3. Be your own boss.
4. Get addicted to ambition.
5. Be early. Show up on time.
6. Don’t just set goals. Execute them.
7. Failure is not fatal.
8. Location doesn’t matter.
9. Moor yourself to morals.
10. Say yes to sales.
11. Borrow from the best.
12. Never retire.
Excerpted from The Richest Man in Town by W. Randall Jones
Volunteer Match allows you to search by location and area of interest to find opportunities for volunteering your time and experience. Check out the possibilities here:http://www.volunteermatch.org.
Curator: John Kremer
Book Marketing Magic: http://www.bookmarket.com/novelmarketing.htm – How to market novels, children’s books, memoirs, and more.
15,000 Eyeballs Internet Marketing Program:http://www.bookmarket.com/15000eyeballs.htm – Ten lessons on how to get thousands of impressions for you, your book, your blog, or your website.
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Check out these 14 bizarre, and sometimes horrifying, ingredients that might be hiding in the food you eat every day!
Here are a few of the bizarre ingredients: shellac, laccifer lacca bug, carmine, female cochineal insect shells, isinglass, swim bladders of fish, wood pulp, cellulose, diacetyl, arsenic, diatomaceous earth, rodent hairs, bull bile, taurine, gelatin, silicon dioxide, sand, anti-caking agents, antifreeze, propylene glycol, castoreum, beaver castor sacs, human hair, l-cysteine, and the remains of cow’s hooves.
Remember: You are what you eat!
Operation Community Restore works to eradicate homelessness and preserve the family. They provide assistance to working families experiencing or facing homelessness. For more information, go to http://www.operationcommunityrestore.org.
Curator: John Kremer
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Here is how you should drink coffee in the following countries from around the world: Bosnia, Ethiopia, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, United States, Vietnam.
Yum coffee! Enjoy a cup of coffee today!
See also: Why Coffee and Tea Are Amazing for You
The American Heart Association works to teach people how to identify heart attacks and strokes as well as funds research and treatment for heart disease. Donate via http://www.americanheart.org, or by calling 800-242-8721.
Curator: John Kremer
April Fools Pranks Worth Doing
Take a vow of silence and mime the day away. See which of your friends really understand you.
Send flowers to your ex addressing the card to Voldemort.
Live-tweet Scandal with false intel. The words Olivia and Huck finally! should bust the Internet.
Meet the friend who forced you to wear that horrible bridesmaid dress. Show up wearing that dress and letting her know how much you love it. Instagram her horrified face.
Change your boyfriend’s ringtone to a Josh Groban song. Let him find out the hard way.
Tell your parents that you’re quitting your job because your true passion is reading people’s colorful auras.
Source: Heather Cooks and Jessica Morgan, authors of The Royal We
Action for Healthy Kids partners with schools to promote healthy eating and daily exercise. For more information, webinars, and trainings, see:http://www.actionforhealthykids.org.
Curator: John Kremer
Every child whose parents divorce has . . .
1. The right to love and be loved by both parents without feeling disapproval or guilt.
2. The right to be protected from either parent’s anger with the other parent.
3. The right to be kept out of the middle of parental battles.
4. The right not to pick sides.
5. The right to avoid any complaints about the other parent.
6. The right not to have to choose one parent over the other.
7. The right not to take on the burden of either parent’s emotional problems.
8. The right to know well in advance about important changes that could affect you.
9. The right to reasonable financial support while growing up and going to college.
10. The right to express your feelings and have them heard by both parents.
11. The right to have a life as close as possible to what you would have had before divorce.
12. The right to be a kid.
Scholarship America is the country’s largest provider of college scholarships and financial aid to students. They have awarded $2.9 billion to 1.9 million students over its 54 years. Its Dollars for Scholars program has almost 1,100 local chapters. To donate, go to http://www.scholarshipamerica.org.
Curator: John Kremer
The largest Secret Santa Game was held by the Lexington Catholic High School in Lexington, Kentucky in 2013. 1,563 people participated.
The biggest Christmas stocking was created in Tuscany, Italy in 2011. It was 168 feet long and 70 feet wide.
The costliest Christmas tree was installed at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi in 2010. It was adorned with 181 pieces of jewelry worth over $11 million.
The bestselling Christmas song is Bing Crosby’s White Christmas, with more than 50 million copies sold since 1942.
The largest gathering of Santa’s Elves took place this year in Bangkok, Thailand. 1,792 kids took part in the gathering.
The Alzheimer’s Association raises awareness and funds for the fight to end Alzheimer’s. Honor the strength, passion, and endurance of the more than 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s (as well as their 15 million caregivers) by participating in The Longest Day event on June 21st. For more information, see http://www.alz.org/thelongestday or call 800-272-3900.
Curator: John Kremer