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Grief happens to us all. Time is a good healer, but it can help to acknowledge grief and take steps to heal. Here are 5 ideas that might help you cope when someone you love has died: Join in rituals. Memorial services, funerals, and other traditions help people get through the first few days and honor the person who died. Just being in the presence of other people who knew your loved one can be comforting. Let your emotions be [...]

The gift-giving season is here, and for those with children young or old, there are all kinds of toys to be bought. But, not all toys are created equal, and certainly not to the same safety standards. In fact, children's products are recalled more than twice a week. That means more than 100 products make their way into households each year, some of which consumers never even realize have been recalled! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand why [...]

These three words are often heard and yet many times their true meaning gets lost. It is worth a moment to stop and understand the difference between these words in service of your grief journey. What is grief? Grief is our internal experience to loss. This includes the thoughts and feelings that each of us have when someone we love dies. Our ability to grieve stems from our capacity to give and receive love. Many of us have been given [...]

According to the National Funeral Directors Association, the median cost of a funeral (viewing and burial) in the U.S. in 2014 was $7,181 (not including vault burial). The median cost of a U.S. funeral with cremation was slightly cheaper at $6,078 in 2014. Paying funeral costs is difficult enough without doing so after the tragic wrongful death of a loved one. To help alleviate the financial and emotional burden on survivors, Ohio statutes state that family members can recover reasonable funeral expenses in [...]

Accidents happen at amusement parks, from skinned knees to serious ride malfunctions. But theme parks have a number of safety measures in place to ensure that your family's time there is fun and incident-free. In fact, state inspectors and regulatory agencies are in charge of “fixed rides,” such as the roller coasters you find at large amusement parks, and the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) keeps an eye on “mobile rides,” which move with carnivals, fairs, and other traveling attractions. But [...]

Most of us spend a significant amount of time in our cars, whether it's commuting or running errands or simply enjoying the road. But many of us don't know the basics of vehicle maintenance or repair. With a little do-it-yourself spirit and a few basic tips, you can learn how to do most anything on a car. First, find the owner's manual for your vehicle. This is a high level guide to most of the major components, complete with troubleshooting [...]

When Two Words Collide: Car “Crash” Or Car “Accident”?” Words, and how they're used, are important. The more we use words or phrases in certain ways, the more we become accustomed to that usage, making it seem “normal.” In cases of collisions involving motor vehicles, the phrase “car accident” or “traffic accident” has typically been used. For decades, we have been wired to use this “accident” terminology. An “accident” is, by definition, unintentional. We accidentally drop dinner plates, or send [...]

Daylight savings time has become a fact of life over the decades, but does it continue to throw off our sleep schedule? There are a lot of things to dislike about daylight saving time: the disruption in our sleep schedule, the onslaught of seasonal puns in retail advertisements, the fact that it doesn't work as well at saving energy as we've always been told, and thus, it really serves no purpose. But have you ever thought about the possibility that daylight [...]

For many motorcyclists across the country, the end of fall marks a crucial maintenance time for their cycles. Some fortunate riders enjoy year round suitable cycling climate. If you are not one of the fortunate, you need to follow a few important steps to protect your cycle over the winter months ahead. THE FOLLOWING STEPS ARE HELPFUL GUIDELINES TO ASSIST YOU IN WINTERIZING YOUR MOTORCYCLE TO ASSURE COME SPRING, YOU CAN GET BACK ON THE ROAD WITH LITTLE TROUBLE. Gather [...]

A small number of police departments are showing interest in a new type of video camera that can be mounted directly on officers' guns, saying it may offer a better view of officer-involved shootings than body cameras. Some law enforcement officials and civil rights groups are skeptical. Among the cons, they point out, is that gun cameras start recording only after weapons are removed from holsters and won't capture what led to officers drawing their guns, or other interactions with [...]

Robocalls aren't new, but now scammers are illegally disguising their identities under familiar-looking numbers to get people to pick up their phones for these recorded messages. Your phone rings. It's a local number, but it's not one you know, so there are a few seconds when your thumb seesaws between tapping the answer and ignore icons. But it could be a potential job interviewer or a food delivery driver, so you answer the call with a hesitant “hello.” Alas, you [...]

In a small city about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, a criminologist and a police chief conducted a study on the effects of body cameras on policing Police Foundation. For all of 2012, the Rialto, California, police department put body cameras on half its uniformed patrol officers at a time and tracked two variables: incidents involving police use of force and civilian complaints against officers [source: Farrar and Ariel]. The results of the experiment raised eyebrows. When officers [...]