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Almost everyone is asked to write a reference letter at some time during his or her career. Whether it’s for an employee, a friend, or someone you’ve worked with, it is important to be prepared to write an effective letter of recommendation. It’s equally important to be ready to say “no” if you’re not comfortable recommending someone for employment. Read below for tips on how to respond to a recommendation request, and how to write a strong letter of recommendation....

Rock en Espanol, also known as Latin rock or Spanish rock, is one of the most popular genres in ​Latin music. From legendary artists like Andres Calamaro and Soda Stereo to contemporary Latin rock bands like Mana and Aterciopelados, this is a list of the artists that shaped the sounds of rock en Espanol. 10 of 10 Los Prisioneros muaca/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 This Chilean band played a big role in the construction of the identity that rock en Espanol was building during the 1980s....

Spain’s Primera Division is made up of 20 teams. The usual round-robin format applies, where teams play each other twice: home and away. At the end of the season, each team will have played 38 games. The team with the most points at the end of the season is the champion. Matches are played every weekend throughout the season, except when there is a break for international games. Games take place on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings, with some morning kick-offs (kick-off times vary)....

The UH-60 helicopter repairer is primarily responsible for supervising and performing maintenance on UH-60 helicopters (also known as the Black Hawk). This is military occupational specialty (MOS) 15T in the U.S. Army. It’s an important role, since the Black Hawk is usually a part of any combat situation. The helicopter has played a role in numerous battles, including in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other areas around the world. History of the Army Black Hawk Helicopter...

Animation has certainly come a long way in the decades since its debut in the early 1900s. The techniques used by animators to bring characters and stories to life have improved immeasurably over the years, yet there remains only three primary types of animation: traditional, stop-motion, and computer. Descriptions of and the significant differences between the three major forms of animation are described below. Traditional Animation Arriving on the scene at roughly the same time as its live-action counterparts, traditionally animated films have certainly come a long way since the early days of crude drawings and experimental narratives....

A good ballstriker in golf is a golfer whose full swings - shots with woods, hybrids, and irons - result in dead-solid contact over and over again. The golfer who is ultra-consistent in impact position - at making great contact - is a great ballstriker. All Golfers are Ballstrikers… … but some of us are better than others. When you hear television announcers call a tour pro “a great ballstriker,” it means that golfer rarely makes contact on the heel or toe of the clubface, rarely catches it fat or thin....

Here’s the sitation: You’re playing a golf course where large electrical towers or utility poles are posted, and electrical wires or other overhead cables are strung high overhead but crossing a fairway. You tee the ball up, take a whack, and your beautiful drive flies straight into the overhead cables, deflecting away. Do you get to replay the stroke without penalty, or is it rub of the green and play the ball as it lies?...

If you’re not on local television, you don’t exist. Not to a big chunk of people. And if you’re not on radio news, you’re invisible to a different audience that turns on news radio when their turn on the ignition and drive to work. In public relations, there’s always been a bias toward newspapers. It’s easy to see why. Most professionals started out as print reporters. Newspapers are also tangible. You can hold a story in your hands....

An overheating engine is more than an inconvenience, it can be an expensive engine killer. It may even leave you on the side of the road then on to the repair shop for a serious repair bill. If your car has been running hot, you know the feeling. You’re sitting in traffic, the light turns green, and you hope that traffic breaks fast enough for you to get some air flowing through the radiator so the temperature needle will go down....

As critic Gary Kelly has observed, “Jane Austen is one of the few novelists in world literature who is regarded as a ‘classic’ and yet is widely read.” Though her novels were by no means autobiographical, the facts of her life to shed light on her fiction, and more importantly, they offer aspiring writers one model of how great works of literature are created. Below are 22 facts about Jane Austen:...

Are you trying to decide what kind of law you want to practice after law school? One type of law that is often overlooked or not thought of as a subtype of the legal profession is appellate law. If you like research and want to be an advocate as part of your legal career, then appellate law may be for you. Practice Description Although all cases are initially tried at the trial court level, the losing party may appeal his case to higher courts known as appellate courts....

The biography and story of Bruce Lee began on November 27, 1940 in San Francisco, California. He was born Lee Jun Fan, the fourth child of a Chinese father named Lee Hoi-Chuen and a mother of Chinese and German ancestry named Grace. Personal Life Bruce Lee married Linda Emery in 1964. They had two children together: Brandon Lee and Shannon. Unfortunately, his son, also an actor, was fatally shot in 1993 while on the set of The Crow by a gun that supposedly had blanks in it....

In the NHL, the crease – also known as the “goal crease” – is the area of ice directly in front of the net, identified by a red border and blue interior. An attacking player is not allowed to precede the puck into the crease, though the referee is instructed to use his discretion in enforcing this rule. Background The crease is the goalie’s turf – and attacking players are not allowed to enter the area unless they are in possession of the puck....

The Gemini man flirts indiscriminately because he’s naturally so social and curious. It’s not hard to make his acquaintance, and he has loads of friends. But it’s not a cakewalk to become his significant other. Very often, his flirting is his way of playing and there’s nothing serious behind it. Gemini men are players in different senses of the word. They are playful and often lighten the mood with their hilarious comments and ways....

Have you ever been on a decompression dive? Perhaps you have not engaged in technical diving or dives exceeding the recreational no-decompression limits, but if you dive at all, you have engaged in a dive involving decompression. Every dive involves some level of decompression, even if it does not require decompression stops. This may sound like mincing words, but changing the way that you look at recreational diving enforces safe diving guidelines and leads to more conservative dive practices....

The golf tee is the little piece of equipment that raises the golf ball off the ground when playing the first stroke of a hole from the teeing ground. A golf tee is typically a thin, wood or plastic peg, two or three inches in height, atop which a golf ball sits in a stable and stationary position. The tee is pushed down into the turf on the teeing ground, leaving a portion of the tee above ground, and the ball placed atop the golf tee prior to playing the stroke....

In the military, throughout the career of a soldier, airman, Marine, or sailor, members are expected to advance in rank and pay grade every few years. An enlisted person must be promoted within certain time frames during their career, or they must separate from the service. This is known as the “High Year of Tenure” (HYT). The Army High Year of Tenure program is called the retention control point As long as you are not neglecting your duties and have not been in serious trouble, an enlisted person with more than six years of service and less than 20 years of service (retirement eligible) who is involuntarily separated (under honorable conditions) is entitled to receive involuntary separation pay (severance pay)....

Depending on where you live, a grass flat can be a different thing to different people. In South Florida, a grass flat is a shallow area of usually turtle grass. It can be very shallow, even out of water at low tide to as deep as 5 or 6 feet deep. Farther north, a grass flat may contain different grasses or maybe even no grass. But it is still shallow water, and fishing techniques in either area are basically the same....

If you were to add up how much money you spend a year on manicures and pedicures you might be appalled. For some, the cost is totally worth it. If you live in New York City and your twice-monthly pedicures are so cheap, it makes better sense (and cents) to pay someone to do the job rather than spending the time doing a poor job yourself. That said, you can still find ways to save on your manis and pedis....

Resumes are often the first and last chance a job seeker has to make an impression on a potential employer. Unfortunately, too often, resumes are ignored. According to a Business2Community article: The average time spent by recruiters looking at a resume: 5 to 7 seconds.76% of resumes are discarded for an unprofessional email address.Only 35% of applicants are actually qualified for the jobs they apply to. Most resumes are boring lists of skills and experience, or they try to stand out by doing something unique, that ultimately gets them rejected....