Baseball batting technique out of the question! Have you heard of crushing the bug? Sometimes in sports, as in life, we do things and we don’t really know why. Our techniques and responses have been ingrained in us for so long that we just accept that this is the way to do it. There are […]
ONE day a colleague turned to me and asked: “What is FYI?” “For your information.” “What is FYA?” “For your action.” “What is WRT?“ “With reference to …” Before the conversation got any longer, I quickly looked up a website with acronyms used in business communications and emailed it to him. This conversation made me […]
One of the most common mattress problems today is the smell of urine. If you have a child at home, this will surely bother you for quite some time. While cleaning a mattress is often challenging, there are ways to cut time and clean easily. Here are some cool tricks that you can try at […]
Estate planning, writing a will, passing on property when you die – these can be a minefield of unintended consequences, especially if you don’t see an attorney. In this article, let’s explore some examples of the many things that can go wrong. A common mistake is putting the property in joint names with an adult […]
Solitaire is a card game that generally involves a single player. The cards are dealt from a deck that has been well shuffled. They are placed on the playing surface in an arrangement that follows predefined rules and limitations. The player can then play solitaire by organizing the deck through starting moves to replace cards […]
Daria and Alvin’s love story Daria and Alvin put online on one of the websites where people exchange languages. It was March 2014 and at that time she was living in Harbin (North China) and he was living in Shanghai. They have started exchanging letters and emails as friends. After several months, they couldn’t imagine […]
As an academic who teaches criminal law and writes about the debate on the death penalty in the English-speaking Caribbean. [hereinafter the ESC]I am pleased to learn that there have been no hangings, the form of execution sanctioned by the governments of ETUC countries, since 2008. I was even more pleased to have recently read […]
Paralegals assist attorneys in providing legal services. They work under the supervision of a lawyer. One of the most important tasks of a paralegal is helping attorneys prepare for corporate closings, hearings, trials, and meetings. Paralegals serve as support staff for attorneys by collecting and analyzing information relevant to court cases. They perform any function […]
Mr. Robert W, described by prosecutors as a “deranged demon” who abducted, raped, brutally tortured and nearly murdered a Columbia University journalism graduate student in 2007, was sentenced on July 24, 2008 to 422 years in prison. The sentence was the maximum allowed by New York law. His victim was not in court at sentencing. […]
In “Restrictions on Leisure,” Edgar L. Jackson and David Scott provide an overview of the field of research on limitations on leisure in the late 1990s. They note that researchers in the field originally studied what was then called “barriers to recreational participation”, but the word “barriers” refers to what is now considered only one […]
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