We have been exposed to so many great musicians and singers in our lifetime and heard the best of the best, that when someone strikes us as subpar, we will poke fun at them. We do not mean to be hateful or hurt anyone, we just feel like our opinion and expertise on the subject […]
Growing up in South Africa, my folks tried to keep things as American in culture as possible. The culture there was so vastly different from our own, not bad, but different, that they wanted to preserve our heritage as much as they could. Not only was the culture different, but there were also many cultures
The third president of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson, served from 1801 to 1809. At the early age of thirty-three, he was a principal drafter of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, becoming a key leader in the American Revolution. He secured the Louisiana Purchase and chartered the University of Virginia, serving as
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We know that the existence and use of currency dates back thousands of years, so far back, that it is a foreign concept for us to think of having to live without it. It is said that the first regulations as to governing money were set in Ancient Babylon. One source states that the Chinese
I read an article recently in the Tennessee magazine called, “Arrow Dynamics.” It was the story of how Mike Conkle of College Grove, Tennessee, who works as a farrier, has tried to keep the Indigenous people of America alive, by making arrowheads as their ancestors did originally. The process is called “flintknapping,” which is “the
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Here is a summary from sparksnotes.com, of a famous story by Charles Dickens that everyone will be familiar with: A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Scrooge sits in his counting-house on a frigid Christmas Eve. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, shivers in the anteroom because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating coals for a fire.
I have worked for the State I live in for eleven years. During that time, I have held various positions. I am currently in the Auditing department and have specifically been conducting audits on Childcare facilities. When we, as auditors, arrive at an establishment, one of the items we are required to ask the Contractor
My husband and I are coffee lovers, and probably drink way more than we should, or maybe it is just me. When he is away from home, I can drink about a pot a day by myself. I even throw some hot tea into the equation every now and then, which I also have an
As an auditor, the admonishment and reminder I get from my supervisor regularly is we can never presume or assume anything. It is extremely easy to assume you have a match when you see two numbers that are the same, however, until you have the evidence to prove this is so, then you must keep
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Though I am not a TV binge watcher, there are times when I do get to relax and watch a show now and then. There was a show called MONK, that aired from 2002 through 2009 that I have caught a couple of episodes of. It starred Tony Shalhoub as the main character Adrian Monk.
