Since the 1960s, the career pool resources have been used as career exploration and planning tools in schools, learning communities, and organizations across the country. Career Clusters is a system that combines educational and career planning. Step 1: Identification of the areas of interest of the career group Career groups are groups of similar occupations…
Do you like to cook, but not all the time? For many, one way to truly relax on vacation is NO cook at all. Asheville is known for its culinary talents. But you can opt for a personal chef, rather than a restaurant. Locals living in western North Carolina can bring personal chefs into their…
Before we hit the Reagan landmarks in Dixon, we stopped at Paw Paw, Illinois, a small town that many of you Illinois residents have probably passed by on Interstate 39, you know you are there when you see the big mills of wind generating electricity on the horizon. Prior to 2005, the village of 850…
The most striking thing about The Legend of Romasanta is the unspeakable stance of director Francisco ‘Paco’ Plaza, whose previous experience with horror was in 2002 as the Ramsay Campbell adaptation of Second Name. The Legend of Romasanta claims to be based on the true story of a 19th century Spanish salesman, Manuel Blanco Romasanta,…
In 2017, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Defended health care network v. Stapleton that the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) did not apply to church-affiliated hospitals and supposedly other church-affiliated organizations. ERISA and church affiliated organizations Legislative history suggests that Congress relies on churches to adequately protect and fund its pension…
Have you ever wondered where all these somewhat confusing terms come from? Well, the answer is that all types of lawyers originated from various legal systems. Some of the terms are from the English legal system, some are from Scotland, and some are from the American legal system. An attorney is someone who is legally…
Chris-Craft boats have their roots in 1874 when 13-year-old Christopher Columbus Smith built his first wooden duck hunting boat. By 1930 Chris-Craft had become the largest mahogany boat builder in the world. This second part of the short history of the classic shipbuilder covers the period from 1930 to the present. The Great Depression of…
It was Friday night, and Larry and Donna Hicks were about to catch the six o’clock news at their lakeside home in Palos Verdes Estates outside Troy, Alabama. Hicks was a 52-year-old retired sergeant major in the Marine Corps, now serving as a conservation officer for the state of Alabama. He’d gotten home from work…
What is a broken soul? Your soul is broken when what you are on the inside does not match what you are on the outside. A broken soul is related to how you feel about yourself, your truest, deepest and most honest beliefs; your philosophy about life; your original ideas and sincere thoughts, feelings, emotions…
In the September 9, 2008 issue of The Wall Street Journal, as awareness of the global financial crisis was widening and deepening, I predicted that of the countless lawsuits filed by real estate buyers hoping to recoup their initial deposits of preconstruction, among those with the highest probability of success were scenarios in which the…
