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For a movie surrounded by so much controversy and hype, "The Interview" was a very enjoyable experience. The movie's plot is centered around the host of the talk show "Skylark Tonight," Dave Skylark (James Franco), a dim-witted star with a knack for embarrassing celebrities on live television, and his producer, Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogan), as they are invited to North Korea to interview the dictator Kim Jong Un (Randall Park). Upon being invited to do the interview, they are approached by agent Lacey (Lizzy Caplan) of the CIA and are told to assassinate Kim Jong Un, to which they reluctantly agree.
Franco and Rogan share a lot of chemistry in this instant classic. The idiocy of Skylark mixed with the snarky attitude of Rapoport make for many hilarious moments and quotes such as, "They hate us cause they ain't us!"
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The options aren't great. There's Saturday nights spent swigging wine in spirit-crushing silence while an "unhappy compromise" film rented from the Sky Store grinds to its unsatisfactory conclusion.
There's horrific swingers parties attended by grim middle-aged couples whose relationship sell-by date expired around the turn of the Millennium, I'd imagine.
Or you could jointly embark on a gruelling exercise regime that would bring an Olympian to their knees.
Guess which one me and the boss picked, and it doesn't involve pampas grass in the front garden or car keys in a bowl?
If it's Sunday, Tuesday or Wednesday, then it must be spin class. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, spin is basically pedalling an exercise bike with adjustable resistance as fast as you can for 45 minutes to the beat of some "bangin' choons" while an instructor does their finest Full Metal Jacket impression.
If you're doing it right, your liver dissolves into tiny particles and you sweat it out through your eyeballs. If you're not, don't worry, the instructor will be the first to let you know.
Maybe it's the booming 90s techno, maybe it's exhaustion, but spinning gives you occasional moments of euphoria you last felt before you got married and had kids.
Then there's Pilates, which for anyone with a glass back like me and the boss, is basically medicine.
Fifty-five minutes of glorious core-strengthening stretching with chill-out rainforest music tinkling away in the background. It is as wonderful as it sounds.
The class is enjoyable enough but once it's over the feeling of being an inch taller and your lower back feeling like someone's taken out all your vertebrae, squeezed them gently between their thumb and forefinger and then sprinkled them with fairy dust before expertly placing them back into position is literally the best time you can have clothed and sober.
It's taken us 23 years but at last we share a common interest that doesn't revolve around bringing up children, walking the dog in the rain or watching hours of mindless telly as the nights draw in. So far so good


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What is there actually except our own species? To whom but it can one appeal in the wide and empty world? All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.
Kafka wrote this 'story' in September and October 1922, soon after abandoning work on his unfinished novel, The Castle. Like A Report to an Academy (narrated by an ape), Josephine the Singer (narrated by a mouse) and The Burrow (narrated by a mole), the narrator is an animal, in this case, as the name suggests, a dog.
These later stories are perplexing because there is a great weight of verbiage and little actual plot. I wonder if anyone's compared late Kafka to late Henry James (died 1916). There are the same very long, sesquipedalian sentences, printed in solid blocks of text, whose sole point seems to be the pleasure of seeing how long you can stretch out a sentence for, by inserting qualifications and hesitations and subordinate clauses, and deploying numerous other tricks of rhetoric.
When I think back and recall the time when I was still a member of the canine community, sharing in all its preoccupations, a dog among dogs, I find on closer examination that from the very beginning I sensed some discrepancy, some little maladjustment, causing a slight feeling of discomfort which not even the most decorous public functions could eliminate; more, that sometimes, no, not sometimes,
but very often, the mere look of some fellow dog of my own circle that I was fond of, the mere look of him, as if I had just caught it for the first time, would fill me with helpless embarrassment and fear, even with despair.
Little or nothing 'happens' in these stories – the text is more like an adventure in pure language. These later stories sound like lectures given by a particularly pompous academic, or parodies of lectures given by a particularly pompous academic, as the title A Report to an Academy suggests.
Now that is, if you like, by no means a simple question, of course; it has occupied us since the dawn of time, it is the chief object of all our meditation, countless observations and essays and views on this subject have been published, it has grown into a province of knowledge which in its prodigious compass is not only beyond the comprehension of any single scholar, but of all our scholars collectively…
And indeed the Investigations do in fact consist not in any physical investigations of the real world, but a series of 'philosophical' investigations which are rendered 'absurd' to the reader because it becomes clear that many of what the dog takes to be the strange and insoluble problems of canine existence are accounted for by the simple fact that it is humans who breed and feed and look after them.
But because he omits this simple fact, all the dog's investigations are filled with puzzlement and confusion. For example, he remembers seeing what we, the readers, slowly realise is a pack of performing dogs, presumably at a circus but – omitting the presence of humans altogether from his account – the narrator is bewildered by why the pack of dogs is going through such unnatural motions:
Why were they afraid? Who then forced them to do what they were doing?.. Was the world standing on its head? Where could I be? What could have happened?
A common tactic of these late stories is to exhaust all the possibilities of one way of considering a subject… and then to say, 'but the converse is also true' and set off to spend another page considering the precise opposite. The text proceeds by negations and reversals.
A striking example occurs in Josephine where the narrator spends some time telling us that mice have a short intense childhood which often leaves them giggly and immature, subject to an 'unexpended, ineradicable childishness'. Only when he's utterly finished and exhausted this trope does he abruptly tell us that the other important thing about mice is that they are also prematurely old and decrepit – and then spends a page explaining the reason and consequences of this.
Same happens here. Early on he goes to some lengths to describe dogs as sociable animals who stick together, who live all in a heap. Then, abruptly, comes the volte face.
But now consider the other side of the picture. No creatures to my knowledge live in such wide dispersion as we dogs…
It feels a little as if Kafka is teasing the reader, seeing how many contradictions, changes of track and tack he can get away with.
The lack of tangible content also explains why these stories which he wrote towards the end of his life (he died in 1924 at the age of forty), despite being fairly long (Investigations is 16,000 words long, 40 pages in the Penguin edition) are so difficult to remember.
I remember what happens in The Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony because something does, indeed, take place (the transformation and the grisly punishment, respectively). Whereas texts like Investigations and The Burrow can be summarised in a few sentences but defy longer description because nothing at all happens in them except for the extended, mock scholarly meditations of the ageing and rambling narrator.
Even the so-called 'ideas' which the animals consider, the hypotheses and postulates and theories and speculations which their author makes them lay out and weigh with such straight-faced seriousness, can't really survive outside of the stories.
Thus the 'story' begins with the dog narrator recounting a puppyhood memory of coming across seven dogs behaving oddly to music; only slowly do we realise he's at a circus watching performing dogs
Then he addresses the great and mysterious subject of dog food, which seems to appear as a result of certain magical rituals such as scratching the ground
In these cases the humour, such as it is, is in the puzzlement caused by the dog's failure to acknowledge, or even realise, the prime role played in the existence of all dogs, by their human owners. At no point does he realise that dog food is given to dogs by owners. In the doggyverse various theories abound as to what produces it, and why it appears, sometimes ready-placed on the ground, at other moments descending out of the air (as a human places a bowl before its pet). Half the story or more is devoted to the dog-narrator's tortured and endlessly convoluted engagement with various doggy scholars as to how these mysteries come about, all of them, of course, a complete waste of time.
And there is a certain humour in Kafka's invention of a handful of doggy sayings which his dogged investigator subjects to much mock-learnèd scrutiny:
"Water the ground as much as you can."
"If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being."
"If you haven't enough to eat, we'll give you some of ours."
But what are we to make of his lengthy pondering on the mystery of the soaring dogs who spend most of their lives suspended in mid-air? I didn't understand this, maybe it is a satire on dogs who live on pampered cushions.
Or the even more inconsequential and prolonged ruminations about his neighbour dog and whether he is, or isn't, or might be, or might not be, a worthy companion in his doggish investigations.
Naturally I do not talk to my neighbor of these things, but often I cannot but think of them when I am sitting opposite him — that typical old dog — or bury my nose in his coat, which already has a whiff of the smell of cast-off hides. To talk to him, or even to any of the others, about such things would be pointless. I know what course the conversation would take. He would urge a slight objection now and then, but finally he would agree — agreement is the best weapon of defense — and the matter would be buried: why indeed trouble to exhume it at all? And in spite of this there is a profounder understanding between my neighbor and me, going deeper than mere words. I shall never cease to maintain that, though I have no proof of it and perhaps am merely suffering from an ordinary delusion, caused by the fact that for a long time this dog has been the only one with whom I have held any communication, and so I am bound to cling to him. 'Are you after all my colleague in your own fashion? And ashamed because everything has miscarried with you? Look, the same fate has been mine. When I am alone I weep over it; come, it is sweeter to weep in company. I often have such thoughts as these and then I give him a prolonged look. He does not lower his glance, but neither can one read anything from it; he gazes at me dully, wondering why I am silent and why I have broken off the conversation. But perhaps that very glance is his way of questioning me, and I disappoint him just as he disappoints me.
These stories don't consider anything which is applicable to actual life; the content can only subsist within the matrix of the text. (Unlike the Metamorphosis, the glaring exception to this rule, which does contain a massive, central event which anyone can summarise and explain to anyone else, and which explains why it has been adapted countless times for stage and screen. Investigations of a Dog couldn't be adapted for anything, or it would make for a very dull play – a pompous orotund dog pondering the insoluble mysteries of the doggy world.)
This is what I mean by adventures in pure language – that when you try to extract a 'meaning' from these texts, it's difficult or impossible to find one. They are more like long-winded, meandering and strangely empty 'meditations' whose nominal subject or theme is not the actual point.
This one doesn't even manage to say anything at all 'useful' or quotable about dogs. Because it isn't in fact about dogs at all. The following passage is typical: what does it tell us about anything?
How much intelligence is needed even by an ordinary dog even in average and not unfavorable circumstances, if he is to live out his life and defend himself against the greater of life's customary dangers. True, knowledge provides the rules one must follow, but even to grasp them imperfectly and in rough outline is by no means easy, and when one has actually grasped them the real difficulty still remains, namely to apply them to local conditions — here almost nobody can help, almost every hour
brings new tasks, and every new patch of earth its specific problems; no one can maintain that he has settled everything for good and that henceforth his life will go on, so to speak, of itself, not even I myself, though my needs shrink literally from day to day. And all this ceaseless labor — to what end? Merely to entomb oneself deeper and deeper in silence, it seems, so deep that one can never be dragged out of it again by anybody.
In its last quarter or so the story wanders off topic because the dog narrator, as part of 'scientific' investigations into the mysterious appearance of dog food at regular intervals, determines to fast, to go without food and see what happens to the mysterious appearances. In fact the description of fasting and its psychological affects last for several pages, and reminds the reader very much of the near-contemporary story, The Hunger Artist, and also – if we've read the biography – that Kafka submitted to a number of food fads and dietary regimes which all anticipated his death, which was actually due to the closing up of his larynx and the prevention of swallowing, even liquids. This is gruesome and horrible and nothing to do with dogs, although cast in a doggy context.
My beautiful fancies fled one by one before the increasing urgency of my hunger; a little longer and I was, after an abrupt farewell to all my imaginations and my sublime feelings, totally alone with the hunger burning in my entrails. 'That is my hunger,' I told myself countless times during this stage, as if I wanted to convince myself that my hunger and I were still two things and I could shake it off like a burdensome lover; but in reality we were very painfully one, and when I explained to myself: 'That is my hunger,' it was really my hunger that was speaking and having its joke at my expense. A bad, bad time! I still shudder to think of it, and not merely on account of the suffering I endured then, but mainly because I was unable to finish it then and consequently shall have to live through that suffering once more if I am ever to achieve anything; for today I still hold fasting to be the final and most potent means
of my research. The way goes through fasting; the highest, if it is attainable, is attainable only by the highest effort, and the highest effort among us is voluntary fasting.
This rather random straying into psychopathological territory, the point, if any, seems to be that late stories like this are very pure exercises in the possibilities of thought and language. And hence my comparison with the dense, difficult but – if you have a taste for that sort of thing – wonderfully, elaborately and curiously crafted works of the later Henry James. Maybe.
The narrator is remote in space and attitude
Like several other of the 'scholarly' narrators, the dog narrator gives the impression of being very, very detached from the run of his society, utterly detached, alienated and ignored by all the other members of his species.
It seemed to me as if I were separated from all my fellows, not by a quite short stretch, but by an infinite distance, and as if I would die less of hunger than of neglect. For it was clear that nobody troubled about me, nobody beneath the earth, on it, or above it; I was dying of their indifference…
Messages rarely penetrate through to what, by implication, is his remote distance from dogkind.
Solitary and withdrawn, with nothing to occupy me save my hopeless but, as far as I am concerned,
indispensable little investigations, that is how I live; yet in my distant isolation I have not lost sight of my people, news often penetrates to me, and now and then I even let news of myself reach them.
This all feels like the narrator of The Burrow who lives vastly remote from all other creatures, and the conditions described in The Great Wall of China where the vast distances mean that remote villages go through their entire existences worshiping a particular emperor without even realising that not only the emperor but his entire dynasty has perished.
The narrator is very old
I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
wrote T.S. Eliot in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, published in 1920 when he was 32. Similarly, Kafka, another hypsersensitive hypochondriac, creates narrators in these final stories who also lament (or boast) about their advanced age, poor memories and general decrepitude.
How, indeed, without these breathing spells, could I have reached the age that I enjoy at present; how could I have fought my way through to the serenity with which I contemplate the terrors of youth and endure the terrors of age…
… all our laws and institutions, the few that I still know and the many that I have forgotten…
I can recall an incident in my youth…
In itself it was nothing very extraordinary, for I have seen many such things, and more remarkable things too, often enough since…
in the course of a long life one encounters all sorts of things…
And I have preserved my childlike qualities, and in spite of that have grown to be an old dog…
Perhaps I have the prospect of far more childlike happiness, earned by a life of hard work, in my old age than any actual child would have the strength to bear…
I shall very likely die in silence and surrounded by silence, indeed almost peacefully, and I look forward to that with composure…
the diligent labor of a long life
But I have seen much, listened to much, spoken with dogs of all sorts and conditions…
Or, as Eliot put it in The Waste Land:
And I Tiresias have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead…
Something about Modernism which aspirates to a sort of global, primeval wisdom. The generations of novelists before were content to tell a tale, either of fantasy or social realism, to entertain like Balzac, to craft a work of art like Flaubert or to waken the reader's conscience like Zola.
Kafka's generation thought they were struggling with the nature of being, and of language, itself, an endeavour which required the adoption of a pose of great, almost superhuman, antiquity.
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Investigations of a Dog (1922)
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"When we began scheduling the upcoming lineup of ESPN games we sought matchups that would give viewers and the average fan that may not get to attend our games a strong representation of our brand of football," said SWAC Commissioner Dr. Charles McClelland.
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ESPN's season coverage of the SWAC will begin on Saturday, August 31, with the Labor Day Classic as Prairie View A&M travels to face rival Texas Southern at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston.
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Leroy (18 years old) is a happy monkey in his special space.
Welcome once again to the Primate Care site. In my last post I spoke about toys and many of the safety issues surrounding using them for monkeys. I wanted to speak more about building a safe and happy place for your monkey but first I am writing about the importance of setting up an extra savings account for your monkey.
This special account will allow you to comfortably cover vet bills and other important needs that will arise for your baby monkey in the months and years that follow. We as monkey caregivers seem to experience many of the same things that parents of human children do. We begin to get all excited about our new monkey coming and begin to collect toys, diapers, diaper covers, clothes, monkey bottles and blankets, and of course, their travel cage and then their play cage.
Many of you who will be getting a monkey may already be part of a group of monkey caregivers, or have a friend that has a monkey or you may be choosing to get your information about caring for a monkey from this site.
After reading this post I hope that many of you will wish to know more about my book called "Living With Monkeys." You will not only find out the way to purchase the book there but you will also get more information about it on this site too. We wish for you to be informed and not be surprised when you make your big decision about getting a monkey. Being totally prepared and peaceful with your decision will make for the best possible outcome.
This important account needs to be plentiful in case of a monkey emergency such as an accident or an illness that might occur. The needs of a monkey can change from one day to the next. Without a "A Monkey Care Bank Account" you could find yourself in deep debt in order to meet their needs.
"A Monkey Care Bank Account" Is Not A Credit Card: None of us wish to not be able to pay for the big things that could or might happen to our monkeys. This is why I recommend having the price of your monkey that you are going to pay and at least another half of that price held in your special "Monkey Care Bank Account" and choose to add frequently to that account whenever possible. The vet bills for a sick monkey can run unbelievably high as well as medical procedures such as spaying or neutering a monkey.
As we have learned from our readers of the Primate Care Site, there are all different types of people from all types of walks of life who like to stop by and read our information on our site about living and caring for monkeys. If you are a new reader to our site we are so glad to have you and hope you will stop by frequently to learn more about becoming a monkey caregiver. For you regular readers who visit us often we just wanted to say thank you for continuing to visit us regularly.
Sometimes, we feel that it is important to bring things to the attention of the new readers that may possibly turn out to be future monkey caregivers. This is one of those times. The following words that I have written are very important things to think about when making your decision to be a monkey caregiver of a pet monkey in your home.
Many people have wanted to be monkey owners for a very long time and then one day they truly begin to try to make that happen for themselves. Reading and studying is such an important thing to do before you make the life changing choice about getting a monkey. In my thirty years of living with monkeys, I have only had about nine years of working and networking with other pet monkey caregivers. My early knowledge of living with monkeys was very different with a very different type of educator, but due to this, I have always thought that it has helped me be able to give a very different slant on helping people be the best that they can be as monkey caregivers.
I have seen many people choose to use their income tax money, government back pay of SSA checks, inheritance, company bonuses, or many other different type of extra money to buy a monkey with. By the way, monkey prices have reached an all time high. You can now spend $8,500 to $9,000 to buy a female Black-Cap Capuchin baby monkey or even more. The rates for one has doubled in the last ten years.
If you do not have the lifestyle to support having an exotic monkey, even though you have the money from an inheritance or wind-fall; please seriously consider these important words that I have written about having "A Monkey Care Bank Account." I have seen people that did not know about having an account like this and when a great sickness came upon them with their monkey they had to be heavily burdened not only with their precious sick monkey but they were worried about the debt for the vet expenses.
Yes, we now must all live with many uncertainties and move forward in life never knowing what is going to happen in our lives that might alter our directions and plans in life. May I suggest that if you are already struggling to keep your head above water (on a month to month basis or your funds are very low each month) – PLEASE GIVE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION BEFORE SIGNING ON TO PURCHASE A MONKEY. Please continue to listen for that all important peaceful guidance, when making your decision about having a monkey.
Many People Are Now Choosing To Leave The Proceeds Of Their "Monkey Care Bank Account" With The Families or Sanctuary That They Leave Their Monkey To In The Case Of Their Deaths.
I wish for you to always be placing money away in your "Monkey Care Bank Account" for the unexpected things that your precious monkey may need. There will be a day that you are so glad that you did this.
During my years of having monkeys I have not shared photos of my facility very often. I think one of the reasons that this is true is that I have never spent a great deal of money on their habitats. But for this posting I felt that it would be helpful to share how I have inexpensively made their habitats full of colorful things.
So, now, it is time to move forward with learning how to build a habitat that will be inexpensive, fun and safe. I am a monkey caregiver who believes in spending the least amount of money on the fancy stuff for my monkeys. This decision to be this type of monkey caregiver began due to my early lifestyle with having several monkeys while traveling and living with them in my rolling home.
Although my lifestyle has changed to a more natural type of life with monkeys, I still hold onto many of the original things that I used from the very beginning of being a monkey caregiver.
The habitats for a smaller type of monkey or a baby monkey are in most cases the same as they are for the larger monkeys. The main difference is that everything is smaller in size such as toys, hammocks, size of cage wire, and the size of their blankets.
These are a very important part of the lives of my monkeys. They serve as warm cover for them to snuggle in hammocks, carry slings for them be be placed in when they are out with me in the house, and they even serve as a soft place for them to land on the bottoms of their cage.
I purchase these blankets in different places and keep my supply of them constantly available due to the importance of having them for my monkeys. A monkey blanket can be a nice old thrift store house coat, blanket or just a nice piece of remnant blanket fabric. Many times I will go to Walmart for sales on blankets or nice pieces of remnant blanket fabric. It is also wonderful to go to garage sales and church sales to shop for these usable monkey blankets.
Blankets That Have The Zigzag Threads On Them: I am constantly taking the time to pull the zigzag type made from heavy thread that comes around the outside of many of the blankets. This is because I do not wish for an accident to happen with one of the blankets having this type of thread on it. Many of my monkeys wish to take these threads from the blankets and will begin to wrap these threads around their toys. I have heard of monkeys using these strong threads to wrap around their fingers. So, this is a very important chore that I wish to do often for my monks.
Blankets Make Great Hammocks: No matter what size of cage you have, a blanket can make a great hammock for your monkey. The thicker blankets are great for the larger spacing of the wires of your cages and then the thinner style blankets are easier to use for the thinner wired cages. Several years ago I had someone also show me that you can use sheets to also make into hammocks. These are great for cages that are outdoors too.
How To Use Blankets For Baby Or Smaller Monkeys Breeds: When I use a blanket for a smaller breed of monkey or a baby monkey, I make sure that the way I tie the hammock is a safe distance from the light on their small cages and of course, the electric cord is safely tucked away under one of the outside cover blankets. When building these smaller monkey habitats, I also use a very small metal piece of mesh up under the light to keep little fingers from getting to close to the light bulb when they are moving around in their cages. I believe that it is very important to have a little play cage for all baby monkeys. This cage will help them learn how to love and nurture themselves when you need to have time away from them. Having this cage is not only important for your baby or small breed of monkey; it is as important to you as it is to them. It is equally important for you to have time away from your monkey as it is for them. Many people begin to have unhealthy thinking about not leaving a monkey when they are little babies. I believe it is important for all monkeys to learn how to be by themselves.
This small cage is best for them when it is placed high up from the ground at least waist or thigh high. They should be able to look out and see their environment and begin to feel safe in this space. Stuffies and their favorite blankets or toys should be used in this cage – everything that you feel will help them enjoy their time in this cage. The wire of course, should be spaced close together such as a medium size bird cage. The closeness of the spacing of the bars (or wires) on the cage is an extra safety for the small breeds or baby monkeys.
In order to make the cage even more comfortable it is great when you can put a nice light colored blanket around the backside of the cage. It also should be pulled up a safe distance from the light fixture so that the cord can be out of sight from the monkey. I hope the photos have been helpful as I have given you readers the information.
Many baby monkeys come on Stuffies so remember that you will be placing this in the cages with them. Choose the toys that will be in them from the toy guidelines that we showed you in the previous toy post. Always hang things low towards the bottom so that they do not hurt them when and if they fall. Some baby monkeys come very active and then others come very sleepy and shy. Many will come acting as if they enjoy their thumb or hanging on to their Stuffies more than they like you.
The main thing to remember when you are leaving your monkey by themselves in their play cage is that you must feel comfortable and at peace. I believe that our animals are always reading our energy and our pictures that we make in our minds. So, is is very important to be at peace when we are getting ready to leave our monkeys. If you do not like leaving them with a hammock or blanket in their cage, then take it out. The most important thing is for you to feel peaceful and to be able to leave showing your monkey or other animal that you are peaceful. I believe that wrapping our loved ones in peace is a very important thing for us to do as we are saying goodbye.
The Stuffie Issue: Stuffies are stuffed toys, like a dog, cat, monkey, or it can even be a blanket that works the same way. The breeder often places them on one of these types of Stuffies while they are feeling the things around them. They will cling to this and feel safe and secure while they are hanging or holding onto it. While they are on the Stuffie they will be happy monkeys but when you try to pull them from this they will show you how heart-broken that they are and cry to be back upon their wonderful Stuffie.
Some monkeys do not come on a Stuffie but will soon begin to use your arm or arms, shoulders, head or even wrap themselves around your ankle. They are looking for a substitute for their normal thing, which would be the back of their mother or other troop members. But soon your baby monkey will begin to choose to be with you as they learn soon who is their monkey caregiver.
I like to keep changing things up with them when they come, like using a blanket instead of their Stuffie to feed them their milk or gently pull them from my arm to a Stuffie. The main thing is to change things so they will not just take one type of Stuffie or one type of blanket. This will also save you money in trying to buy more of what they love. They will soon learn that they love it all and whatever you choose will start being a happy thing for them.
STORY TIME: In October, I was brought a lovely little Squirrel monkey to love and care for. I listened closely to everything that they were telling me and began caring for the little girl just as they had suggested. They had trained her to come to the Stuffie when she was running through the house and to get her diapers placed on her on the back of her special Stuffie. At first I thought that this was a good thing but I soon began to process this and realized that in my world this was a mixed thing of good and bad so I went out shopping for little, smaller sizes of her favorite thing, her hairy "Puppy Dog Stuffie." It was much easier to change her to other puppies than I thought it was going to be.
The former family performed a wonderful job of teaching the little Kizzy to be diapered, wear clothes and all of the necessary things. It made it easy to become her new mom. I did find out (the hard way though) about a diaper-less Squirrel monkey. These little monkeys are jumping and eating and shooing every jump. They are very messy little things. I was so glad that I had the great idea of getting all different sizes of Stuffies for her due to the constant need to clean her cage.
The big mistake that I made was to change the way they diapered her on top of her Stuffie. Oh, 'yes,' I had the bright idea that it would be hard for me to constantly have a treat ready to give to her after she was changed on the Stuffie, plus I knew it was equally going to be even more difficult to get a treat ready every time I wanted to put her diaper and belly band on around the other monkeys. They would also wish to have a treat every time they were diapered and tethered so I dropped using the Stuffie and the treat for diapering her. This turned out to be a very bad idea for little Kizzy. She is currently being trained all over again to a new way of doing this diapering thing…..ugh. Bless both of our hearts.
A Really Big Thing To Remember: We make mistakes all of the times when living with monkeys in our homes. When things are not working please do not continue to do the same thing over and over again, expecting it to work or there to be a change. Stop what you are doing and try to do it differently until you come upon the perfect thing that works. Monkeys are not like any other animal and certainly not like children either.
When baby monkeys are learning so many things such as good manners, limits and boundaries, and such important things like their early life in captivity programming, they can become overwhelmed when they are put into a cage that is much to large for them. All of these things are very important as you are raising a monkey when it is young. Not only will the book help you understand about these thing that I have mentioned but the many posting here on The Primate Care site will help you too.
Many Of My Cages Have Come From People Who Wished To Sell Them: Even when I have needed cages, I have been very lucky to find exactly the right cage from "Craigslist," garage sales or on-line shopping groups. After obtaining the perfect cage, a good cleaning and a little touch-up paint and a proper locking system for monkeys is placed on the cage, then it is ready to build the habitat for the monkey that the cage is for. There are many different types of locks on bird cages or ferret cages. I like to always use a pad lock on my cages for safety and peace of mind. Replacement locks can be located on line. I like the ones that I order from www.kingscages.com. They sell the locks that can have a pad lock put on the cage. I hope this is helpful for you economy minded people or for you readers who need a replacement lock that you feel safer with.
As you can see these nice replacement door locks come in two sizes and when slid to the right can have a pad lock placed on them.
Most of the time when it is time to build the habitat for the monkey that the revamped cage was bought for, I already have an idea about what needs to go into the cage. My decisions are based first on the age, size and type of monkey that will be getting the cage. Since I have many re-homed monkeys, I must also take into consideration if they have had their teeth removed when planning their habitat and of course, the space that I have decided to place the cage when it is ready for the monkey.
The Location Of Your Cage Is Very Important: You people who will be getting your cages for your pet monkeys will need to take into consideration many of the same things that I have mentioned in this section of this post. Of course, as your monkey grows you will wish to add either extra space to your cage or maybe obtain a larger one. The size of the cage is a very important part of raising a baby monkey. Too much space too soon can cause problems due to the monkey's thinking that they have freedom before they have matured emotionally. You must be able to have the monkey come to you when you call them before you put them in a very large cage. When they do not come to you, they are not ready emotionally to go into a larger cage. Monkeys who live in captivity must get used to their worlds in captivity. So, gradual increases in the size of their play cages is best as they mature.
This was one of the cages that I spent many months looking for. I was able to take this hand-made cage and turned it into being the perfect feeding cage for Pixie.
Travel Cages/Crates: Selecting a small travel cage/crate is important to do when your baby monkey is small. Of course, these cages/crates will also change as the baby grows. It is so much easier to put them in these cages/crates when your baby monkey is on a Stuffie. It was not easy to place my Silly Willy in a travel cage (who my book is written about) because he was an arm monkey when he was little. I started giving him a treatie after he was taken off my arm and this began helping him with his tender feelings about separation from my arm. But this took time due to him only being nine weeks old when he came to me. I was so thankful for starting to do this in order to eventually get him to easily go into the travel cage.
One of the things that many people will have problems with is remembering that monkeys have teeth, long arms, and love to pull things into their cage. I have lost many a strap to a new purse from forgetting that those little hands, arms, and teeth are very destructive and can pull things up to the grates of their cages and work those teeth and strong arms together and damage even the largest of items beyond being able to ever use them again.
This is such a huge problem with my travel cages that I have put extreme effort into putting the smallest hole barriers over the cage doors and windows. This is also the way that I keep people from putting things into their cages when I take the monkeys out. Children will push sucker sticks, pieces of wood, toothpicks, and blades of grass in their cages when I turn my head. Even though they know to not come around the cages, sometimes I am amazed how quick they are there and gone. At least I have never had a child try to open up the cage. Thank goodness!
The monks need so much supervision and this is more than with a child. It is okay to put a small child into a playpen or a baby pen and expect things to be great when you return. This is not necessarily true when you have a monkey. Accidents are the number one reason that captive monkeys pass away. It is hard to relax when you are a monkey caregiver, especially when they are babies.
So, after you have decided about a beginning travel box or crate and their first cage, begin next to build the habitat for these areas. Choose what blanket or blankets that you will insert into the cages. Many baby monkeys come on Stuffies so remember that you will be placing this in the cages with them. Choose the toys that will be in these cages from the toy guidelines that we showed you in the previous toy post. Always hang things low towards the bottom so they do not hurt themselves when and if they fall. Some baby monkeys come very active and then others come very sleepy and shy acting as they are enjoying their thumbs or hanging onto their Stuffies. As a monkey caregiver you may many times think that they like them more than they like you. UGH!
Remember To Place Your Monkey's Dearly Beloved Things In Their Travel Crate/Cage Or Their First Small Home Cage: Remembering these special things will make them love you (for sure) in their first days with you.
One of the reasons that I use the phrase "Building A Habitat" for putting things into their cage is that I speak of the "monkey's natural habitats" in my educational presentations. So, since we who are responsible for building their captive habitats we needed a phrase for doing this also. They can really love their lives with us in captivity and even though we cannot recreate their natural habitat, we certainly can be very creative with their fun spaces. I have always called this procedure "Building Their Habitat." It is their special captive habitat and they certainly do enjoy them.
So, now let me teach you how to add great things to your cages without spending a great amount of money. At a later time you may wish to change these types of things out for the other more expensive things but it does not matter what you may choose to do but now you will always know how to do it the old fashioned way.
Nice branches for perches (USDA) requires these to be sanded and Polyurethane painted upon any wood that you place in a cage. I agree with doing this with any wood items that you are going to use.
Now Create Your Very Own Habitat For Your Monkey: Below you will see photos of some of the cage habitats that I have built. These ideas are here to inspire you to do even better than I have done. Enjoy!
Little Kizzy in her eating cage.
"Cheech and Sissy Lou La La" visiting while their large cages are being cleaned.
This is an extra eating cage that I keep ready for visiting monkeys.
This is another view of the extra eating cage. I wanted to show you the bottom of the cage so that you would know what is necessary for you to have a cage that monkeys can have a space for diaper free time. Everything drops down upon the tray away from your monkey. It makes it become a hard clean up when this tray is not there.
"Pincher's" wide perch of PVC pipes. These pipes are secured with black electrical ties.
We certainly hope that some of these ideas will help you when designing your monkey's habitat. Get creative and enjoy every moment of creating for your monkey no matter what age they are. We certainly hope that you will share your creative space that you make for your monkey with us here at the Primate Store Site.
I have always believed that it is an important thing for a monkey to be able to have diaper-less play time so they can learn to clean themselves and be free to explore their body's. Try to make a time and space for them to always have diaper-less time everyday. Many people have shared with me that they really like giving their monkey free time without a diaper on after their bath time. Have fun when building spaces for your monkeys.
Thank you for visiting us here at Primate Care. We are committed to bringing good information for you to think about and share with your family, friends, and other monkey caregivers. In the next posting on the Primate Care Site we will be talking more about traveling with your monkey and the use of travel cages.


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Pauline Christianity refers to the teachings of Christianity as expressed in the New Testament writings of the apostle Paul. The term is generally used by those who believe Paul expressed different teachings from the Gospel of Jesus and promote the idea that Paul's Christianity is much different from the Gospel of Jesus.
However, the Bible actually presents a unified message in the New Testament. The apostle Paul was originally Saul, a Jewish religious leader who opposed and persecuted early Christians. In Acts 9, Luke recorded that Paul was converted to Christianity through a vision of Jesus he experienced on the road between Jerusalem and Damascus, where he intended to arrest Christians. The vision left him blind for three days, during which he did not eat or drink.
A Jewish Christian named Ananias restored Paul's sight and Paul was baptized as a Christian. Paul would then go on to share the Gospel of Jesus with both Jews and Gentiles, becoming known primarily for his missionary work among Gentiles in the Roman Empire. He helped to start more than 20 churches, writing 13 letters in the New Testament in the process. He was also associated with at least Mark, Luke, Peter, James, and John, men who wrote many of the other books of the New Testament. Paul wrote and personally knew all or nearly all of the New Testament's human authors.
Despite unique areas of emphasis in Paul's writings, it is clear his message was the same as that taught by the other early followers of Jesus. He wrote in Galatians 2:9, "when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised." Paul's mission work focused on Gentiles rather than the Jews, yet the message was the same—a message of faith in Jesus Christ as God's risen Savior (Romans 10:9; John 3:16).
First Corinthians 15:3-5 affirms this Gospel message by Paul as the same one received from the apostles who were with Jesus and saw Him resurrected: "For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve." Paul's Christianity was the same as the Christianity of Jesus' early followers.
Throughout history there have been those who have rejected Paul's writings. He was even opposed during his own lifetime according to his own writings. Ebionites and other early Christians who rejected Gentiles or freedom from the Law of Moses rejected Paul's teachings or parts of them in the first century. Documents found in Alexandria from the second century and beyond confirm the existence of Gnostic writings that opposed parts of Paul's writings (as well as those of other New Testament writings). Yet Paul's writings were affirmed by the apostles and accepted by the early churches. He did not and does not present a different Gospel but ministered to a different audience than some other New Testament writers. His writings are essential, inspired works included in the Bible for our benefit today.


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Divorce in Iowa
The decision to get a divorce is never an easy one. However, now that you have arrived at this decision, you are probably looking for the simplest way to get a divorce available. Fortunately, the divorce process in Iowa is fairly straightforward and you might be able to complete it without a lawyer. Beginning the divorce process can be as easy as filling out the proper Iowa divorce papers online and submitting them to your county clerk.
We've compiled the following information to help you understand the basics of an Iowa divorce and how to get started.
Iowa Divorce Facts
In Iowa, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the divorce rate in 2011 was 2.4 for every 1,000 residents. The divorce rate in Iowa in 1990 was 3.9 per 1,000, but it has gone down steadily since then. Iowa's divorce rate is the lowest in the United States of all reported to the CDC.
Iowa refers to divorce as "dissolution of marriage" and has one of the longest residency requirements of any state. You or your spouse must live in the state for a full year before you can file. The fastest and least expensive way to get divorced is to seek an uncontested divorce, where you and your spouse come to terms about property division and child custody before you file. If you and your spouse are struggling to reach an agreement, mediated divorce may be an option, or in more complicated situations seek legal representation from a divorce attorney.
Iowa is what is known as a "no-fault" state. A no-fault divorce state means you do not need to place blame on one spouse for the need to divorce. Since no party needs to be at fault, you can simply say that the marriage has broken down and that the relationship will not improve.
Iowa Divorce Papers and Forms
The Iowa Judicial Branch website has a page devoted to divorce and family law forms, where you can find guides and papers for different types of divorce. Iowa offers forms for "Divorce with no Minor or Dependent Adult Children" and "Divorce with Children". You will need to determine what category you fall into before you begin filling out forms.
Before starting Iowa's divorce papers, you should check with your local county clerk to verify that you are filling out all the appropriate forms for your situation as some counties have different requirements.
The Iowa Commission on the Status of Women offers a pamphlet Divorce: Things to Consider that explains divorce in the state. It is worth reviewing this and any other materials you can find on divorce prior to filing. The more informed you are about the process and your rights, the better you will be able to look after your interests. In addition, if filing for divorce on your own, you are representing yourself in your divorce case. The Iowa Judicial Branch website has a page that offers tips on how to represent yourself, information that can also be useful as you move forward.
When pursuing a divorce on your own, there are several different options to consider and you'll be faced with a large number required of forms and legal guidelines. To navigate through this process many people choose to get their Iowa online divorce documents from an online divorce paper preparation service like CompleteCase.com. With CompleteCase.com you'll get the help you need to choose the correct forms for your specific circumstances, and assistance to complete those forms. Our experts will provide you peace of mind by ensuring that you are doing everything right the first time – and avoiding any unnecessary delays or additional costs in your divorce.
How to File Divorce Papers in Iowa
When you have completed your Iowa divorce papers online or otherwise, you will want to make at least two copies – one for your records and one to serve to your spouse. It is always recommended to call ahead to your local county clerk and verify that you are bringing all the necessary documents to the court. You should also ask about the state filing fee and accepted forms of payment. When you hand your forms over and pay your fee, the clerk will stamp all of your documents and file the originals with the court. Make sure to ask the clerk about the "Report of Dissolution of Marriage or Annulment" form. The clerk will have you fill out most of it, and will complete the rest before filing.
How to Serve Divorce Papers in Iowa
When you have filed your Iowa divorce papers documents with the court, you will need to serve your spouse a copy of the documents immediately afterward. It is important to start the serving process as quickly as you can, as it can sometimes take a while to complete. The court will not move forward with the divorce until it has received proof that your spouse was served. You have 90 days to serve the papers, after which the court will dismiss the case and you will have to start all over.
Iowa allows you to serve your spouse in several ways. The easiest – if you and your spouse are on good terms – is to deliver the divorce papers in person or mail them. Your spouse will need to complete the "Acceptance of Service" document, which you will then need to file with the court.
If you do not have the option of serving your spouse directly, or if you expect him or her to be non-cooperative, you can hire someone to serve the papers. Iowa allows you to hire a sheriff's deputy or a private process server to get the job done. A sheriff's deputy is often less expensive, but will usually only attempts to serve the papers once. If you think it may take a few attempts, the private process server may be a better value, as he or she will usually try repeatedly to serve the documents.
When the court has proof of service, it will begin to move forward with the divorce. If you and your spouse are in agreement on everything, the divorce should not take that long to finalize. If you will need to argue your case to the court, the divorce may take quite a bit longer.
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Online divorce in the News
Web site offers point-and-click splits
By Deborah Sharp, USA TODAY
Couples can find a mate, fill out a bridal registry and plan a honeymoon on the computer. Now they can also divorce online.
A Web site started last year by a Seattle attorney gives the unhappily wed in Washington, California, Florida and New York the option of dissolving their marriages online. Texas is next, and several other states are being considered.
The site is the latest twist in a do-it-yourself trend. Changing trends in the USA Average age of first marriage Divorce year male female Divorced Americans Divorces granted 1970 23.2 20.8 4.3 million 0.7 million 2000 26.8 25.1 19.9 million 1.2 million Sources: U.S. Census; National Center for Health Statistics
No national figures exist on self-representation. But some experts estimate that as many as half of 1.2 million couples divorcing annually in the USA do so without a lawyer representing at least one of the parties.
The Web site, www.completecase.com, differs from the many self-help sites offering advice, referrals or downloads of documents needed to file for divorce in a particular state.
For $249, the Web site prompts couples with questions on everything from dividing financial assets to deciding where the kids celebrate birthdays. The software then uses their answers to fill out the documents that a couple can download and submit to a court.
Requirements vary by locale as to whether a couple must show up in court or can mail in or fax their divorce filing. But in all cases, a judge must still sign the order ending a marriage.
Randy Finney, a family law attorney for 11 years and the founder of the Web site, says it was designed for uncontested divorces. It's not for couples with convoluted finances or for those fighting over child custody and who gets the dog.
"The decision to get a divorce comes way before the decision about how to get a divorce," says Finney, 35, who is happily married. "I don't think anyone takes their wedding vows so frivolously that they're going to get a divorce just because they can do it for $249."
Not everyone is thrilled with the notion of cyber-divorce.
Judges and lawyers fret that couples who use the Web site may believe they've had legal counsel when they haven't. And leaders in the movement to save marriages complain that point-and-click divorce further undermines the institution's supposed sanctity.
"I can only think of one use of the Internet that's worse and that's pornography," says Dennis Rainey, executive director of FamilyLife, a religious group based in Little Rock. "We're trying to do all we can to call people to keep their wedding vows."
FamilyLife has joined with 30 other organizations since 1999 in drawing 175,000 spouses nationwide to "I Still Do" ceremonies that affirm marriage.
Despite the marriage celebrations, about one-fifth of American men and women have been divorced at least once.
A study released last month by the U.S. Census shows about 90% of Americans will marry at some point. For men, 54% married just once. For women, 60%. Serial marriage is rare: Only 3% of Americans have married three times or more; 13% have married twice.
Finney estimates his Web site has helped 1,000 couples unhitch. Stacey Kiss of Seattle is among those who traveled to virtual Splitsville. The self-described "Internet junkie" says it took her and her husband of seven years about three hours one night to click through the Web site's detailed questions.
"We never got along on anything through our entire marriage, but we still managed to come to an agreement," says Kiss, 36, a hospital business-services manager. "Why drag it out and make it complicated?"
She says the online split was cheaper and easier than her first, traditional divorce. Now single, Kiss says she's comfortable with dot-com divorce, but she draws the line at cyber-dating.
"I like surfing the Web," she says, "but not for men."
Express Divorce
Ernesto Gomez and his wife Blanca had been planning to get a divorce for three years. They had already separated and worked out custody and child support for their two kids. But they had stalled on filing because they didn't want to deal with the hassle and expense. Hiring a lawyer, they were told, would cost at least $1,500. Using a free service offered by the court would involve numerous meetings spread out over several weeks.
So when Gomez heard an ad on the radio for a service called CompleteCase.com that would let him fill out the paperwork online for just $249, he decided to give it a try. Four days after he logged onto the site, he had the papers completed and filed in court. "CompleteCase gives you step-by-step instructions. You can't miss anything," says Gomez, a distribution-center manager in Miami.
Gomez is not the only one turning to the Internet to simplify the process. Other services, like divorcewizards. com and divorcesyourself.com also offer quickie online divorce kits, usually for $300 or less. No lawyer is involved unless a client chooses to pay extra for a consultation by phone or e-mail.
Brian Lee, president of legalzoom.com says his site has handled more than 30,000 divorces since its launch in 2001. Though people still have to convey their forms to the court, the process of filling out the paperwork can take less than an hour, thanks to simple online questionnaires that hand-hold customers through the process.
Online divorce is not an option if the couple can't agree on the terms. Even when they can, not everyone thinks it's a good idea. "Instant divorce is the last thing we need," says Mike McManus, president of the marriage advocacy group Marriage Savers. Instead of a divorce, McManus says, couples often just need time to cool off before working out their differences.
Still, such services are spreading. Utah and California offer do-it-yourself sites that let you fill the forms out online (for $20 at utcourts.gov/how to; free at www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) Traffic on the California site rose from 6,800 page views in May 2002 to nearly 17,000 in May 2003. --By Anita Hamilton
Couples Can Untie the Knot Online; Divorce is a mouse click away, but not for everyone.
The Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles, Calif.; Nov 19, 2001; MARTIN MILLER;
Abstract: Californians can legally split from their spouses over the Web site www.completecase.com and never have to set foot in a courthouse or lawyer's office. Legal papers can be completed within anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours, depending on the complexity of the split, according to Randolph Finney, a Seattle-based family law attorney who founded the site.
For Californians, once the judge signs the documents, they are "legally binding and enforceable," says Finney, but per state law the divorce doesn't become finalized for six months.
Full Text: (Copyright, The Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles Times 2001 All rights reserved)
The circle of online life is now complete. You can date online; you can marry online; and now you can divorce online.
Californians can legally split from their spouses over the Web site www.completecase.com and never have to set foot in a courthouse or lawyer's office. Legal papers can be completed within anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours, depending on the complexity of the split, according to Randolph Finney, a Seattle-based family law attorney who founded the site.
For a flat fee of $249, the site walks divorcing couples step-by- step through such issues as community property and calculating child support payments. When the online form is completed, the applicant simply signs the papers and mails them to the courthouse.
But it's not for everyone. It works only for those couples who are parting amicably and filing for an uncontested divorce. "If you can't agree on who gets the kids, our site is not for you," says Finney, a married 35-year-old.
The site debuted earlier this year, but only to residents of Washington state. Last month, California was added, and soon Florida, New York and Oregon are expected to be added. So far, the site has helped process hundreds of divorces, says Finney.
The site has drawn critics who denounce the online divorce as yet another blow to society's bedrock institutions. The very ease of the process, some contend, makes family and marriage as disposable as an old appliance. Indeed, a similar site in England was recently condemned by the pope as immoral because it made divorce too easy.
Naturally, Finney disagrees. "I think our Web site has the opposite effect," he said. "If you're going to get divorced, let's do it in a civil manner. I really don't believe having something available that makes it easier and costs less money is going to encourage divorce."
The inspiration for the project came from his law practice, where he primarily handles divorces. It took about a year to get the site up and running. "On almost a daily basis, I would get clients who said they needed a divorce but didn't have the money or the patience with the legal process to pursue it," he said. "These people are really stuck between a rock and a hard place."
For Californians, once the judge signs the documents, they are "legally binding and enforceable," says Finney, but per state law the divorce doesn't become finalized for six months. "It isn't quite as fast as a Las Vegas divorce," he says.
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Analysis: Louisiana among states with most amicable divorces
By KSLA Staff, KSLA NEWS 12
It's generally assumed that once any couple has reached the stage of divorce, things have reached a low point.
But thankfully, divorce doesn't always have to be a bitter situation. Some couples manage to part ways as friends.
Many couples manage to part ways quite amicably; just look at the blissful 'conscious uncoupling' of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, or observe how Demi Moore and Bruce Willis holiday together with their new partners. There's even a hot new trend for former husbands and wives to take 'divorce selfies' just after leaving court.
A recent analysis by CompleteCase.com found which states have the happiest and easiest divorces by comparing couples in each state who declared online that they were in agreement with each other against those who were not.
Louisiana came in the top ten when it comes to an easy, amicable divorce.
According to CompleteCase, which facilitates online divorces, completing divorce papers in the Pelican State, as well as other states from Oregon to Rhode Island can be a pretty painless process as this is where couples are more likely to have an uncontested divorce. Couples in these states might even remain friends afterwards.
Things are likely to be pleasantly cordial in states stretching across the nation from Hawaii to New York; there might be a few conversations through gritted teeth, or a little bit of sniping back and forth, but generally divorcing couples in these states can politely get through it all without too many recriminations.
However, if you live in Alabama, you're not likely to have a quick or easy divorce; relationships which break down here can be the most disagreeable in the country when starting the divorce process. From bitter disputes over who owns what, to raging arguments over alimony, lawyers in the Yellowhammer state stand to do rather well.
Blake Shelton Opens Up About 'Fast' Divorce From Miranda Lambert
By Deborah Sharp, HUFFINGTON POST
Country music star Blake Shelton has finally addressed why his split from Miranda Lambert seemed so quick.
The two announced their divorce on Jul. 20, but according to US Weekly, it was finalized just hours after it was made public. Shelton had filed divorce papers two weeks earlier, TMZ reports.
In a recent interview with "The Bobby Bones Show," Shelton shared how he kept their breakup quiet.
"In Oklahoma, it happens so fast," said Shelton. "Like, Miranda and I didn't have any kids, and we had a prenuptial agreement, or whatever we had. So, it was like once we filed for divorce… it was like a nine or 10-day waiting period until it's over."
He said that he was not too worried about rumours, or whispers about infidelity.
"By the time anyone knew anything, it was over."
The superstar couple were married for four years and famously met in 2005 while Shelton was still married to first wife Kaynette Gern.
"I didn't know if it was just initial butterflies… I don't know what it was," Lambert told Hoba Kotb in 2011, about when she first met Shelton. "It was just this draw to each other."
But while those butterflies may have faded for the couple, their speedy divorce may have helped them avoid any further drama.
Oklahoma came in second in a ranking of states with the nicest divorces, according to new research from divorce form preparation service CompleteCase.com.
Shelton told "The Bobby Bones Show" that he and Lambert are still on good terms.
"Our whole thing was: You know, we're just going to be cool about this," said Shelton. "It is what it is. We're buddies."
"I just want everyone to be friends," Little girl has a heart-to-heart with mom about divorce
by KFOR-TV & K. QUERRY, NEWS CHANNEL 4
Divorce can be difficult on everyone involved, especially children.
6-year-old Tiana decided that she had seen enough of her parents' arguments and fights following their divorce.
Instead of bottling up her emotions, the little girl decided to have a heart-to-heart with her mother.
"Mom, are you ready to be his friend?" Tiana asks. "Just try your best. I don't want you and my dad to be replaced… and mean again. I want you and my dad to be placed, and settled, and be friends. I'm not trying to be mean, I just want everyone to be friends."
While divorce is usually full of emotions, it doesn't have to be a bitter experience.
An analysis by CompleteCase.com found which states have the most amicable divorces by looking at the number of couples who declared online that they were in agreement with each other.
In fact, researchers say Oklahomans tend to be pretty easy going when it comes to getting a divorce.
Experts say people with the easiest divorces live in Vermont, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Oregon, Kansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Delaware, Ohio and Texas.
The worst divorces tend to happen in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Hampshire, Florida, Wyoming, Nebraska and Tennessee.
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