The holidays are coming up soon, and plans for the holiday feast should be forming up. If you’re up for a change from the traditional roast turkey, how about smoking a turkey on a charcoal grill. It’s easy to do, relatively inexpensive, and it tastes delicious. Here’s how it all works. The Grill: The best […]
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This is the second part of a previous blog from a couple of years ago explaining the fundamentals of short selling. With this we are going deeper into tools available for technical analysis required for good short selling. How Does a Short Sale Work? A short sale of securities takes place when the investor sells
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The fall classic is underway as the Los Angeles Dodgers face the New York Yankees for the twelfth time in MLB’s championship, The World Series. A championship game or series brings out the best in some athletes and the worst in others. The pressure of the event trickles down to every pitch, every swing of
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Edgar Allan Poe was widely renowned as being one of the first great writers of the horror genre. His work paved the way for many others to come along, even to this day. He lived an up and down life of victories and defeats, seemingly one after the other. As he wrote many mysteries, there
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On the night of October 8, 1871, a seemingly innocuous fire began in a barn to the southwest of the central part of the city of Chicago, Illinois, known as the Near West Side. By the end of the next day, a major portion of the city including the downtown business district lay in ashes.
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Hurricanes hit parts of the U.S. every year. The damage can be massive and can reach places that were here-to-fore thought of as safe havens from such a disaster. One of those safe havens recently faced the worst destruction in its history owning to flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Helene. That city was Asheville,
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In today’s international relations, many countries view the British Prime Minister as the Head of State, acting in lieu of the King. Though this seems to be the case to outsiders, the truth is a little bit different. The relationship between Prime Minister and the crown has been developed over a long space of several
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The U.S. Constitution is the framework of how the Federal Government is established and maintained. It is the oldest surviving written constitution in the world today. The overarching concern of the Framers was the need for a unifying governing body to represent all of the constituent states either with problems or issues arising among the
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“Water, water everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798. The above line comes from Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a tale about a seaman returning from a long adventure at sea who stops a man attending a wedding to
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In the year 400 BC, the city state of Athens levied taxes on grains and other products brought to them from other regions through the port of Piraeus. This constituted the first known usage of tariffs to raise revenues for a government. The Athenians went a step further and blocked all other entry points, requiring
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