Any human can face a crisis with honor – it’s day to day living that proves the hero in the heart! These are the times that tests our souls. So believe – That life is worth living and your belief creates the fact one Heartbeat at a time. Richar’

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The more sand that escapes from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we see through it.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

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Imagination. Sees what the eyes cannot see. Hears what the ears cannot hear. Feels what the heart cannot feel. Live out of your imagination and not your history.

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

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Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?

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Friendship is Love without it’s wings! For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

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A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

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All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height!!!

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Wisdom is knowing you ask for Wisdom First.

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Any human can face a crisis with honor – it’s day to day living that proves the hero in the heart! These are the times that tests our souls. So believe – That life is worth living and your belief creates the fact one Heartbeat at a time.  Richar’

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Until now, I have not ever gone to Los Angeles (Hollywood) with the idea to set up shop and be a part of it all. I have had my opportunities, but turned them down. Until now. Five years ago I retired from an amazing 30 years career in the television/film industry. Right place, right time, kinda stuff.

My a self imposed retirement was primarily due to a great personal loss. I was fried, tired, and grieved. So I rested and healed. Even though I did dable in graphic design, internet radio, some video production, and an extensive amount of writing. I continued to keep myself informed on the industry, but I have zero plans to return. I was looking for the next thing in my life. But there was nothing else!

Then around the 1st of February 2009 I was moved to call a few friends and tell them I was interested in looking at editing once again. (To test the waters for getting back into the game) Well bam!, I was handed with opportunities to edit a movie.

OK… That happened quicker than I thought. Then to finish the setup, out of nowhere a fully loaded screaming Apple G5 with all the software a guy like me could need was dropped in my lap for penny’s on the dollar. Looked like I was editing again.

The movie project was just a touch and took no time. But the TV show was from point zero and required me working from a suiteo tucked away on the studio lots in Hollywood. So that is where I am going. Yep to Hollywood. They tell me there will be a many more projects after this one and I will never look back.

So I thought it would be fun to track what happens. Here we go…

A Journey After All The Others —> “A Journey After All.”

Out of nowhere I got a fully loaded Final Cut Edit System with the full Adobe CS suite package for pennys. As an editor I am back in business and headed to Los Angeles with a job and a place to stay. When does the other shoe drop?

All I want is for the next ten years to create the work of a lifetime and make buckets of money. There is so much that has lead up to this moment. I was told I will never look back. I hope that true.

Well for now I am going to finish the process of buttoning everything up. Pray for a safe travel to Los Angeles.

Richar’

December 21, 2012

The significance of this date in Mayanism stems from the ending of the current baktun cycle of the Maya calendar in 2012, which many believe will create a global “consciousness shift” and the beginning of a new age. Speculation about this date can be traced to the first edition of The Maya (1966) by Michael D. Coe, in which he suggested the date of December 24, 2011, as one on which the Maya believed “Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation.”^[5] This date became the subject of speculation by Frank Waters, who devotes two chapters to its interpretation, including discussion of an astrological chart for this date and its association with Hopi prophecies in Mexico Mystique (1975). The significance of the year 2012 (but not a specific day) was mentioned briefly by José Argüelles in The Transformative Vision (1975).^[6]

Waters’ book inspired further speculation by John Major Jenkins in the mid-1980s, including revision of the date to one corresponding with the winter solstice in 2012. Interpretations of the date became the subject of further speculation by José Argüelles in The Mayan Factor (1987), promoted at the 1987 Harmonic Convergence. It received further elaboration in the Novelty theory of Terence McKenna. The supposed prediction of an astronomical conjunction of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy with the winter solstice Sun on December 21, 2012, referred to by John Major Jenkins in Galactic Alignment as having been predicted by the ancient Maya and others, is a much-anticipated event in Mayanism. Although Jenkins suggests that ancient Maya knowledge of this event was based on observations of the “dark rift” in the Milky Way as seen from Earth, others see it as evidence of knowledge imparted via ancient contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The relevance of modern “dark rift” observations to Pre-Columbian and traditional Maya beliefs is strongly debated, and academic archaeologists reject all theories regarding extraterrestrial contact, but it is clear that the promotion of Mayanism through interest in 2012 is contributing to the evolution of religious syncretism in contemporary Maya communities. Psychonaut author Daniel Pinchbeck popularized New Age concepts about this date, linking it to beliefs about crop circles, alien abduction, and personal revelations based on the use of entheogens and mediumship in his 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl ^[7].

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The History Channel in its coverage of the 2012 Doomsday Prediction cites a number of prophecies that may relate to the present day.^[8] For example, in the 1940s members of the Hopi tribe warned that of a series of global catastrophes would strike after nine omens were realized. A third world war, geologic upheaval, hotter temperatures, drought and famine would all contribute to the collapse of civilization. This prediction was integrated into an older legend and is today known as the Hopi Prophecy. Among the omens that presage the final days are supposed to be a “spider web crisscrossing the earth” and a “blue star”.^[9]

Other prophecies considered by doomsday proponents to be relevant to modern times include:

• The Book of Revelation, by John of Patmos.

• The Sibylline Books.

• The Quatrains and the Lost Book of Nostradamus.

• The Prophecy of the Popes, by Saint Malachy.

• Terrence Mckenna’s Timewave Zero interpretation of the I Ching.

Two Medieval prophets dramatized in the History Channel program 2012: End of Days are Mother Shipton (a.k.a. Ursula Southeil) and Myrddin Wyllt. Both envisioned an apocalypse during the era of modern technological society. However, the authorship of both prophecies is disputed by scholars.

In The Orion Prophecy (2001), Patrick Geryl and Gino Ratinckx allege that descendents of the utopian civilization Atlantis settled along the Nile following the end of the last major ice age. These Atlanteans survived a catastrophic flood and later encoded a warning about a 2012 apocalypse in hieroglyphs. According to Geryl and Ratinckx, this prophecy can be found inside the Sphinx, the pyramids at Giza and the zodiacs in the Greco-Roman Dendera temple. The authors cite a rare translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead by the French mathematician Albert Slosman, as well as Slosman’s book Le Grand Cataclysme (1976), as sources.^[10]However, Plato dated the destruction of his Atlantis to around 9000 B.C., nearly 6,000 years before the establishment of Egypt.^[11]In addition, no definitive archaeological evidence of Atlantis has ever been uncovered. ^[12]

Interest in the 2012 Doomsday Prediction has spread in recent years as a result of several programs airing on the History Channel, a groundswell of internet sites and blogs, and numerous books on the subject. George Noory, main host of Coast to Coast AM, believes something significant will happen in 2012, and in recent years it has been a common theme on the show.

^[31][32] A movie called 2012, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring John Cusack, is scheduled for release in 2009. It is the latest action film premised on the world ending in the early 21st century. Emmerich also directed Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow.

In addition, some proponents of the doomsday premise argue ancient Mayan astronomers were aware of a rare alignment of the Earth, Sun and center of the Milky Way on the December solstice in 2012. According to this belief, the alignment is tied to the precession of the equinoxes and signals a transition from one world age to another. A New Age interpretation of this transition posits that, during this time, the planet and its inhabitants may undergo a physical or spiritual transformation rather than the apocalypse that has been suspected to coincide with the ending of the Mayan calendar.

While scientists generally concur that the earth’s climate is approaching a period of instability, academics dispute the apocalyptic interpretation of the Long Count calendar end-date and the precession-alignment interpretation. Those versed in the study of classical Mayan civilization insist the date 12/21/2012 simply marks a resetting of the calendar to Baktun 13.0.0.0.0.

Skeptics of the apocalyptic forecast note that predictions of the imminent end of the world have a very long history, with literally hundreds of documented examples, some associated with religious prophecies, others with astronomical events such as comets or eclipses, and others with calendar events such as the millenium. In every one of these cases, the predicted dates have passed, without noticeable result.

There are many new revelations about the man himself but more importantly about the church Living Word Fellowship of today and their leadership. So I am going to move the release of this important shocking story 60 days to June 15, 2009.

This is going to be an explosive story about a cult church and shocking actions amoung it current leadership. This cult needs to be exposed. They have destroyed a lot of people lives and I am sure a number of the current leaders could be open for civil suits against them.

This story will not be about its membership as much as it will dive deep into the leadership’s methods of control and behavior. I know for myself I continue to be shocked by constant new revelations and how the leadership always flys just under the radar…. Until NOW.

There are many other sites out there that try to expose the con-artists that these folks are, but none more than this complaint page that express the problems folks have with this company.

You will incur a debt that you and the non-custodial parent will never be able to get out from under – and you will barely receive a penny of any support collected! Plus, as an added bonus, once SupportKids gets involved – the gov’t agencies will no longer help you!!!

SUPPORTKIDS doesn’t help children – they help themselves – to your children’s money!!!

its services. Zipperer seeks to enforce her complaint as a class action under Wis. Stats. §803.08 on her own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated. On behalf of the class, the complaint seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, rescission or reaffirmation of agreements, restitution of certain fees paid pursuant to the agreements, as well as costs and attorney fees.

Supportkids responded to the complaint by filing a motion
to dismiss on August 30, 2002. After the parties submitted
briefs and presented oral argument, the court on January 7, 2003 granted the motion to dismiss the breach of fiduciary duty
claim, but allowed the fraud claim and the Texas Consumer Act
claim to proceed. The court also ruled that this case would be
governed by Texas substantive law.

The court has determined that Supportkids’
advertising was intentionally false and misleading, In conclusion, while Supportkids’ advertising is in violation of a number of provisions in the DTPA,

Because of this, I applied with Supportkids, Inc on July 3, 2008 hoping they would be helpful in locating him so that he could be served with the order to Register an Order of Foreign Support in NC and the state agency or Supportkids, Inc could collect the child support owed to my children. They promised they would locate him and collect payments on my behalf and, in return they would keep a percentage of each child support payment they collect to pay for their services.

I provided Supportkids, Inc with my ex husband’s employment information, SS#, cell phone number and last known address and my application was accepted on July 7, 2008. The following day they contacted him and his employer and verified said information. According to their records online, they proceeded to call him again the following day and left a message on his voicemail and again on August 6, 2008.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, the state agency was able to locate him on their own and the order was served on him at his current address on the same day I applied with Supportkids, Inc. I wasn’t made aware of this fact until I received a letter in the mail in late August, along with a copy of the court order, notifying myself and the non custodial parent that as of August 8, 2008, an order had been entered against him, jurisdiction had been moved to NC and his wages were subject to garnishment immediately.

This letter also had a copy of the Affidavit of Service which is how I know it was served on July 3rd. On that same day, August 8, 2008, the state agency was finally able to file the wage garnishment because the order was entered in NC and they had the jurisdiction to do so. On August 20, 2008 the first payment was received in the amount of $140.00 by North Carolina Centralized Collections in Raleigh, NC and another payment of $140.00 was received by the same state agency on August 25, 2008. I did not receive either of these payments.

At the end of August I found out that the reason I did not receive those payments is because Supportkids, Inc had intercepted the first payment and applied it to my account with them on August 26, 2008. The following day they applied the other payment I didn’t receive to my account with them as well.

I immediately contacted Supportkids, Inc via their client response unit at (512) 437-6001 and explained the situation to the client advocate who took my call and was told that I would need to send any requests for refunds or termination of services to their office in writing via their PO box, fax or email. I complied with this request and sent a letter explaining the situation once again, a copy of the court order which shows the date it was served and the date it was entered into record with the Mecklenburg County courthouse in Charlotte, NC, a letter from my case worker at the state agency in NC detailing their timeline and verifying that they acted on information I had provided to them personally and information they had obtained independently without any assistance from Supportkids, Inc.

I was also informed by the case worker that the state agency never deals with Supportkids, Inc at any time. They do not act on information or requests received from Supportkids, Inc nor do they communicate with them at all. At the request of Supportkids, Inc, I also included a payment history from the state agency showing the payments intercepted by Supportkids, Inc were initially collected by NC Centralized Collections. I then sent all of this to Supportkids, Inc via the US postal service, email and fax to ensure they received it in a timely manner. My account online was updated on September 8, 2008 with a message that they had received my request and would review my case and respond.

During this time they proceed to contact the non-custodial parent twice, harassing him to pay them directly even though his wages were already being garnished each week by the state agency and I had asked Supportkids, Inc to stop calling him since the state agency was handling it and their services were no longer required.

On October 1, 2008, my account online was once again updated to reflect a message stating:

â��After careful review of your case, the terms of the contract for services you have signed and your request to terminate service, we have concluded there is not sufficient cause to cancel your contract. You will receive a notice of this decision in the mail.”

On October 2, 2008 I called Supportkids, Inc for an explanation and spoke with Casey, who refused to give me her last name or an operator ID but assured me she is the only Casey who works as a client advocate. I asked Casey to transfer me to the supervisor who denied my request to discontinue their services and was told that the supervisor would tell me the same thing she was going to tell me so I should speak to her instead.

I asked Casey why was the request and evidence I sent not sufficient to close my case with them and she stated that Supportkids, Inc is in fact garnishing the non custodial parent’s wages themselves and that’s why they wouldn’t cancel. I informed her that the wage garnishment was not being handled by Supportkids, Inc but by NC Centralized Collections as I stated in my letter to them. She put me on hold to verify the information she was giving me and came back to inform me that the reason NC Centralized collections were garnishing the wages is because Supportkids, Inc had sent the request to do so on July, 29, 2008 and that’s the reason they intercepted the payments and refused to close my case or refund the $280.00 they obtained from NC Centralized Collections.

I tried to explain the situation to her and she then asked me why I applied with Supportkids, Inc on July 3, 2008 if the state agency had already located him and I explained that I wasn’t aware of it until the order was entered on August 8, 2008 and the notification was received in the mail in late August. She also asked why the state agency didn’t garnish his wages before I applied with Supportkids, Inc if they had already served him with the necessary documentation, to which I replied because they didn’t have jurisdiction over the case in NC until that document was served and entered as a judgment in the court in NC, after the mandatory waiting period for the noncustodial parent to respond to the request to transfer it from SC to NC.

She continued to argue that Supportkids, Inc was directly responsible for obtaining payment from the absent parent and refused to close my case. I asked her to transfer me to the supervisor after all and was told that no supervisor was available but I could leave a voicemail. She transferred me to the voicemail and I left a message requesting a call back before the end of business to rectify this situation or I would file a complaint with the necessary authorities. I have not received a call back as of yet.

After leaving the message with Supportkids, Inc, I called the state agency in NC to get the date they sent in the wage garnishment forms and was informed that it was filed on August 8, 2008; the same day the judgment was ordered on the absent parent at the courthouse. I asked if they had received any request from Supportkids, Inc that may have prompted them to do this and was told that they haven’t received anything from Supportkids, Inc and was once again informed that even if they did, they would not act on it because they do not deal directly with Supportkids, Inc and they would only process a such a request from myself. I was made aware that the wage garnishment could not possibly have been filed before August 8, 2008 because the court in NC had no jurisdiction to enforce the order from SC until this â��Order to Register Foreign Support” was confirmed by the court on August 8, 2008.

When I signed up with Supportkids, Inc I had every intention of letting them keep the initial payment of $475 for the case development fee and the percentage they would take from each payment for the work they would do in locating the absent parent and collecting support from him. However, it’s not fair or ethical for them to keep money they had no part in collecting. I provided them with sufficient evidence to prove that the state agency was able to secure payments on their own but they still refuse to refund the $280 they intercepted from NC Centralized Collections on my behalf or close my case with them.

Each time I call them about this matter I have to wait on hold for at least 15 minutes or more and am treated as if I’m an outright liar and dismissed and ridiculed. After I signed up with them and realized they were intercepting payments they had no right to, I began to research them a little more online; something I wish I had done before ever dealing with them. I found I’m not the only one they are preying on and I’m sure I won’t be the last unless some kind of action is taken to regulate and monitor them more effectively. In hindsight, I would have never signed up with them if I had known that they would turn it over to the same state agency I was already working with. I certainly don’t see a need to pay an initial fee of $475 and 34% of each payment as a â��payment processing fee” for them to intercept payments from the state agency that the state agency collected on their own, and then forward them on to me.

Supportkids, Inc’s claim that the state filed the wage garnishment as a direct result of the request they claim to have sent in July is invalid because there is no way any NC agency could have garnished his wages before the Confirmation to Register Foreign Support Order was registered on August 8, 2008.

Given the fact that the state agency chose August 8, 2008 as the date to file for the wage garnishment, it should be obvious that it was because that’s the day the order was finally registered and NOT because of some letter they received from Supportkids, Inc. Even if they had acted on that letter… ask yourself, is a couple of phone calls and a letter to an agency asking them to do something you’ve already asked them to do yourself really worth $475 upfront and 34% out of EVERYTHING collected after that? I don’t think so.

www.supportkids.com
Austin, Texas, 78765
U.S.A.

A Fourm post:

I want everyone to know what thieves the people at SupportKids are. I am a single mother, and called SupportKids to ask for help in collecting Back-owed Child Support! I thought I asked all the Right Questions! I wanted to make sure that they Would NOT take Child Support paid to me through my court order. I was told that they only collect Back Owed Childsupport!

I finally agreed to open a case, after thinking it over for a couple of months, and speaking to SupportKids representatives many times. I was assured that my Court Ordered ChildSupport would not be touched! BIG LIES!

As of today, SupportKids has NOT collected a penny for me, but have stolen hundreds of Dollars from me! I have been told that they WILL NOT close my case, and continue to Steal from my children!! They advised me to get a copy of my Ex-husband’s Wage Garnishment, and they would then close my case!

Well, as it turns out, this is against the law! They still refuse to close my case! I want all parents to know what a scam this place is! Don’t let them take your money! They will tell you everything that you want to hear, and do nothing but Steal from you! Someone has to stop them!

Pamela
Sierra Vista, Arizona
U.S.A.