Los Angeles Times headline March 28, 2011 Dorothea Puente, 82, died at the Central California Women’s Facility where she was serving a life sentence without parole. She was sentenced for three first-degree murder convictions for two life sentences. She was a Sacramento rooming house operator who was convicted of killing her tenants in the 1990s. […]
What does it take to succeed in a job interview? Put on a nice suit, take some breath mints, and make sure the tie matches the shirt? These are difficult economic times. Fewer and fewer companies are hiring new candidates, choosing to invest in experience over youth (if they are investing at all). In this […]
A recent internet post propagated an increasingly common myth (a blatant falsehood, many will probably say) about filing for bankruptcy, namely that debtors can no longer even file a cheap Chapter 7 bankruptcy without an attorney, much less except any type of bankruptcy. As the author of this article put it in the caption of […]
Joining my first sales job out of college, I soon learned that I wasn’t a natural persuader. Fortunately, my mentor, Gary, was, and I took his sales leadership very seriously. He was a genuine and honest salesman who had been in business 7 years when I started. Throughout my first year, I took detailed notes […]
The theaters of the 20th century witnessed a great number of peculiar experiments. It was, needless to say, an avant-garde era. Of many, however, the one that still thrills and excites me is “Waiting For Godot”. A Beckett masterpiece, it revolutionized the literary world with a series of unusual ones that he brought with ‘silent’ […]
What is wine? The first known wines date from the year 6000 BC. C. and are believed to have originated in what is now Israel, Georgia, and Iran. Making its first European debut in approximately 4500 B.C. In what is now Greece, wine quickly became a common drink in ancient Greece and Rome with the […]
A greeting card is just a small piece of printed or hand-painted or handmade paper with a printed or handwritten message to convey your feelings to someone. Today there are so many ways that we can express our feelings to someone, such as SMS, email, e-card, fax or just a phone / cell phone. But […]
One of the most common calls I get is from a parent concerned that their daughter is spending too much time with her boyfriend… “I keep telling her to spread her time with her friends and school, but she ignores me.” You know the scenario, your pre-teen daughter arrives at the breakfast table one morning […]
It is now generally accepted that wine was discovered by accident somewhere in the Fertile Crescent, the bountiful agricultural expanse of river valleys that stretches from the Nile to the Persian Gulf. Although archaeologists have traced the origins of wine grapes back tens of thousands of years, the first evidence that wine was actually made […]
For many, the start of a new year signals a time to make some kind of change in their lives and become more like their ideal self. For others, January marks the time to make a different kind of change, one that’s much easier to make: cut your property tax bill. The tax appeal process […]