As a parent, learning how to juggle both your career and family can be difficult. However, researching helpful tools that keep your job responsibilities from home to a minimum is important. For work-at-home parents in particular, juggling it all can be difficult, as maintaining a work atmosphere from home can ultimately be distracting.

Keep Things Organized

Juggling both at-home and work responsibilities is overwhelming. Keep yourself organized with to-do lists on whiteboards or in daily planners. Keep lists of every family members’ schedules on the refrigerator, as well as any of their chores for the week. Read all post…

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Business magnates and successful entrepreneurs understand how rapidly today’s business world is changing. It seems each day, new advancements, especially in technology, are appearing. In order to maintain the effectiveness and efficiency in day-to-day business dealings, it is imperative that companies have talented staff on board.

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Finding the right personnel to staff an office or business is imperative—whether skilled nurses or legal professionals to everything in between. Fin Read all post…

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On this day, Jan. 10, in 1997, 3-year-old Shelby Lynne Barrackman was strangled in Houston by her grandfather because she licked the icing off of cupcakes.

David Andrew Douglas, 49, a restaurant dishwasher, drank a bottle of brandy while he was baby-sitting Shelby. When he found that she had eaten the icing, Douglas went into a drunken rage.

The little girl began crying, and Douglas grabbed her neck and squeezed the life out of her.

In an effort to cover up the crime, Douglas reported to police that she must have wandered away while he was sleeping. Her body, clad in a sweat shirt and a disposable diaper, was found in a field behind the apartment.

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The sister of a teenager allegedly tortured and killed because his tormenters believed he was practising witchcraft broke down in the witness box as she recalled the abuse.

In angry scenes at the Old Bailey Kelly Bamu, now 21, confronted her sister Magalie Bamu and Bamu’s boyfriend Eric Bikubi, both 28, accusing them of killing her 15-year-old brother after torturing him for several days, and said they should undergo the same fate.

Kristy Bamu was found drowned in a bath in an eighth-floor flat in Forest Gate, east London, on Christmas Day 2010.

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A 55-year-old former Clovis resident who allegedly bilked investors out of $3.2 million and then fled the country was deported from Panama to the U.S. over the weekend.

Joseph Randall Medcalf was sent to Atlanta, but has waived any court hearings there and will soon come to Fresno where he will be arraigned on charges that he defrauded investors.

Panamanian officials had arrested Medcalf last week after U.S. authorities sought his extradition. In late March, he was indicted by a federal grand jury in Fresno.

According to the indictment, from May 2002 to October 2007, Medcalf — a financial adviser — defrauded his clients by encouraging them to invest in bogus investment opportunities, primarily two that he had formed himself.

Those were All Valley Holdings LLC and CenCal Value Investments LLC.

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