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Having trouble getting your resume noticed by Department of Defense (DoD) agencies? You're not alone.
For more than eight months, John Rosen submitted more than 60 online resumes to the Navy, Air Force and Army. He was sure he was qualified, but he was never referred to the supervisors for an interview.
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There are at least four places you can go to find position-specific or general federal keywords and skills you can use in your resume. These places include the vacancy announcement itself, the relevant agency's mission statement, the relevant agency's program and career description, and the position-specific qualification standards.
To identify relevant keywords, you need to read the language the agency uses. For example, when you find an announcement either at USAJOBS or an agency site, analyze the duties, qualifications, specialized experience and questions, searching for nouns, proper names and unique verbs. Once you've identified those that best match your skill set and experience, try to incorporate them in your resume's work experience section.
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In addition, you can peruse the language used in the agency's mission statement, required job competencies and even the agency's described services. Using some of this language in your resume may well improve your "hits" with the Resumix system.
Lastly, you can also incorporate language used in the desired position's qualification standards from the US Office of Personnel Management. To identify which keywords you should use, find the five top critical skills for your target job. Review the language and try to add some of this description in your resume. Wherever you can, use the government terminology. Keep it reasonable and truthful.
What Happened to Rosen?
Once Rosen knew how to find the right keywords and skills, he was determined to find them and add them to his resume. After analyzing three job announcements, he made a list of more than 50 keywords. He found crucial keywords missing for his job series -- Contract Specialist, GS 9. These included: acquisition management, negotiations, customer services, problem-solving, Excel, briefings, PowerPoint, team leader, problem-solving and vendor interviews.
Once he added some of those keywords, he found his referral rate increased from no referrals to 70 percent. Within 60 days, he had a job -- not bad for the two hours of work it took to identify and add a few keywords.
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If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favors nor your hate.
I've always liked that snippet from Banquo's second speech in Act 1, Scene 3, of Shakespeare's Macbeth. But as fans have gotten more and more aware of the minor leagues and player development, it's become more and more applicable to baseball.
"Which grain will grow and which will not…"
Here are some images from the 1992 Fleer ProCards set of the Fort Lauderdale Yankees of the Florida State League. 20 seasons have come and gone since these kids were the future, and there were more opinions about them than each had seasons under his belt.
Do you remember this guy? Second-round pick in the 1990 draft, gaunt, rangy at 6'3″, 170, with the exotic birthplace of Rotterdam, Holland. The Yankees' shortstop of the future (as viewed from 1992)…Robert Eenhoorn?It is literally true that he was a Yankee shortstop of the future. In fact, he was the shortstop on May 28, 1995, as the Yankees beat the A's 4-1 in Oakland. Eenhoorn went 0-for-4, lowering his season performance to 0-for-7. The next game, in Seattle, the Yankees tried another young shortstop to fill in for the injured Tony Fernandez. Jeter somebody.
Remember this next guy?
I was at the Expansion Draft, the November after this card was made. The Yankees had just lost him to Florida, and I stepped into the hotel elevator to find General Manager Stick Michael, who looked like he'd just given blood – or was expecting that George Steinbrenner would make sure it was taken from it. He lasted longer than Eenhoorn (he did 202 homers and was on a World's Championship team in Chicago) but given the baggage he seemed to proudly carry around (he was just arrested on family violence charges last week) it seems Michael's anxieties were unfounded.
Everett and Eenhoorn were the Yanks' top two picks in 1990, but this next guy was the star of stars in their system as of 1992 – the first overall pick in the 1991 draft. If you bought this set in 1992, you bought it to get this card:
What is sadder than this?
Brien Taylor was the real deal. I saw him pitch at New Britain, Connecticut. Not only have I never seen anybody throw harder, I've never seen anybody throw as effortlessly. His 100-MPH pitches seemed to be thrown about 5% harder than his warm-ups. You couldn't see any of them from the stands. And then there was a brawl in a bar, and his brother was in trouble, and he went in to help him, and they tore his pitching arm to shreds.
And so the star-crossed 1992 Fort Lauderdale Yankees would mostly be a tale of woe (there's also a card of Mike Figga – he'd hit a major league home run – and of Domingo Jean – he'd win a major league game). But, if you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak to me then.
There was also this skinny pitcher – he made Eenhoorn look robust – who'd struggled in Greensboro the year before (3-4, 5.45, 52 strikeouts to 40 walks) and he's about to hit a milestone in a career that, frankly, dwarfed everybody else who was playing in the minor leagues when this card was made (and nearly everyone who was playing in the majors).
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"Out, out damn spot…"
Two quick outs — sounds like a typical Rivera ninth.
Thanks for introducing me to all these guys, Keith. The only one I recognize is Rivera! You are so right! He grew! Amazing player! Also, all English teachers love Banquo's speech! Willy Shakespeare could call 'em! You've got vision, as well!
As a former minor leaguer (Tigers, A's) I love this. Played in the Florida State League for a bit, myself.
Keith, I also write a similar blog, in support of the baseball-focused charity my siblings and I founded in memory of our parents. My late father, Del Wilber, was a lifetime baseball man. If you ever have two minutes to check it out, I'd be honored.
The latest installment has Ted Williams, Richard Nixon, and Frank Howard all included…
Enjoyed this post. Always amazing to see how prospects succeed (or not).
Thanks for bringing up Brien Taylor. I had forgotten.
Wash yer hands
Clint Hartung, outfielder, New York Giants
Wayne Simpson, pitcher, Cincinnati Reds
Both were great prospects but….
Tony Raimondo, slick-fielding, graceful first baseman for the Dobbs Ferry, New York Embassy Club 1949-1956 era. The players that loom large in a kid's imagination are not always the big leaguers.
Wade Taylor, Jeff Johnson, Sam Millitello, Mike Humphreys, Hensley "Bam Bam" Meullens, Dave Silvestri, and Mike Blowers, their names are etched in Yankees history right there with Eenhoorn, Figga, and Pat Kelly.
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Jesse James
Fox's Blu-ray is a real head-scratcher. The high-def video transfer is on one hand amazingly sharp, with practically zero signs of damage and age. In this sense it looks astoundingly good. On the other hand, the color tweaking of this three-strip Technicolor production seems way off. Instead of the uber-rich if stylized hues one normally associates with the three-strip process, there seems to have been a concerted effort to dial everything back. An almost Sepia brown permeates the entire film, with blues especially looking completely desaturated except for night scenes, where there too much blue. At other times the image looks less like three-strip Technicolor and more like Cinecolor, the cheaper, inferior process used on lower-budget movies.
Blu-ray.com's review opines this is because the original black and white matrixes for Jesse James no longer exist. But if that were true, wouldn't Jesse James more closely resemble something like Olive's Blu-ray of Denver & Rio Grande (1952)? To my eyes, Jesse James is just too sharp picture-wise, with zero misalignment of the three-strips, and a color palette lacking the harshness of secondary elements, to blame the lack of original film elements. No, what looks wrong with Jesse James, to my eyes anyway, seems less to do with what survives and everything to do with trying to make Technicolor more palatable to a 2014 audience.
Directed by Henry King, Jesse James opens well, with railroad thugs led by Barshee (Brian Donlevy, very intimidating) strong-arming farmers to sell their land to the railroad at a pitiful $1-2 an acre. Those who hesitate are beaten into signing away their rights. At the James farm, matriarch Mrs. Samuels (Jane Darwell) refuses to budge, and when Barshee threatens her, Frank James (Henry Fonda) steps in, beating Barshee instead. Barshee's men are about to kill Frank when younger brother Jesse (Tyrone Power) arrives and shoots Barshee in the hand.
Barshee pressures the local lawman to issue an arrest warrant for the brothers. Barshee and his men recklessly toss a stick of dynamite into the James's home, killing only the James Brothers' mother. Soon after Jesse turns up a saloon where he shoots Barshee dead.
Now outlaws, the James brothers vent their anger against the railroad company by becoming train robbers, urging passengers to sue the railroad instead of blaming them. This strategy works for a while, with the bandits becoming folk heroes. Jesse marries childhood sweetheart Zerelda "Zee" Cobb (Nancy Kelly), but she's concerned that his outlaw ways are beginning to define his life. Working with newly-appointed lawman Will Wright (Randolph Scott) they arrange with railroad owner McCoy (Donald Meek) for Jesse to turn himself in with the promise of a light prison sentence, 2-5 years. But after his arrest McCoy reneges on the deal, appointing a new judge promising to see Jesse hang.
Jesse James fascinates on many levels. Made near the height of the Great Depression, the ruthless railroad company is clearly likened to present-day banks foreclosing on the homes of the hard-working poor. The James Brothers become something like folk heroes, much like Arthur Penn's later Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Like Bonnie and Clyde, Jesse yearns for an ordinary domesticity with Zee and their young son but can't escape his past. As in that later film, as well as the psychological Westerns of the 1950s, Jesse becomes increasingly paranoid. After Zee builds Jesse a home he can finally settle down in, within minutes of his arrival he's ready to pack up and move on, all because a family innocently stops by to ask for directions.
The movie gained a measure of notoriety for one scene where Frank and Jesse escape a posse by riding their horses off a cliff into a river below. Details about exactly what happened remain sketchy. The IMDb and other sources contradict themselves, alternately stating a) one of the two horses died; b) both horses died, or that c) only one horse went over the cliff and it died, and that it was one stunt, shot from two different angles. The latter claim is dubious, as in the film one horse goes off the cliff feet-first while the other slides off the cliff on its back.
The more reliable TCM Database, citing Fox's legal files, reports that the horse in question was not injured in the fall, but rather drowned before the crew could get a rope around its neck. In any case, the incident prompted stricter compliance to regulations set forth by the American Humane Association.
Ironically, the incident overshadows King's extremely effective handling of the scene. As Frank and Jesse charge through thick brush, only Frank is aware of the cliff seconds away, and the abrupt cut to the horses and men going over the edge is a real surprise for both Jesse and the audience.
In addition to effectively drawing parallels to the Great Depression, King's direction is both adult and subtle. He also generates considerable suspense throughout, especially after Jesse is arrested and told the plea deal is off, and Frank sends McCoy a note that he'll be there at midnight to free his brother. McCoy and the others initially scoff at Frank's brazenness, but eventually dispatch soldiers McCoy has commissioned all over town to ensure that Frank can't anywhere near the jail. How Frank might affect Jesse's escape, and the growing tension at the jail as they await Frank's possible arrival is admirably nail-biting.
Another of the film's many assets is that most of the exteriors were shot not in California but rather in and around Lake Ozark, Noel, and Pineville, Missouri, locations that had changed hardly at all since the 1870s. They look nothing like the much more familiar Southern California locales favored by Western genre moviemakers and add much verisimilitude. The cinematography is also superb. One particularly amazing sequence in this regard, one I've seen in no other Western, is a nighttime train robbery that sees Jesse, in silhouette, running along the top of the moving train as passengers, initially oblivious to the robbery in progress, sit quietly in the warmly-lit train cars below.
The cast is also exceptional, with Power, Fonda, and Scott all excellent. Henry Hull, as Zee's newspaper publisher uncle, is outrageously hammy, but the rest of the supporting cast is equally fine, with John Carradine an interesting Bob Ford. Lon Chaney Jr., billed as "one of James gang," reportedly had a larger role but was fired midway through production, reportedly for drunkenness. I noticed him in but a single shot and a background extra at that.
Jo Frances James, Jesse's granddaughter, is credited as co-historical consultant and no doubt helped ensure a whitewash. But that the real Jesse James was no social bandit, no Robin Hood of the Wild West is beside the point and the depiction of outlaws as misunderstood antiheroes (e.g., Buster Crabbe's 1940s film series in which he played a heroic Billy the Kid) was commonplace. Undoubtedly it was this film that inspired the goofy "Bobby's Hero" episode of The Brady Bunch, in which young Bobby Brady comes to idolize Jesse after seeing, presumably, the Tyrone Power picture.
Video & Audio
Jesse James, in its original 1.37:1 standard size screen format looks, well, odd, for reasons described in much more detail above. The not-quite-right color timing of this high-def transfer is a definite but not ruinous distraction, offset by the extreme clarity and subtlety of the colors, wrong as the color scheme may be. Equally odd, in addition to a 1.0 original mono option, the film has been remixed for 5.0 DTS-HD Master Audio surround. The sound effects are aggressively directional, with trains, gunfire, and sounds of galloping horses impressively full of bass. Shots of a train pulling away from a station incorporate the surround speakers to good effect, but mostly the surround channels are utilized for the film's score. The disc is Region A encoded, and my Japanese PS3 defaulted to Japanese menu and subtitle options not listed on the packaging.
Extra Features
The meager supplements consist of very brief Fox Movietone newsreel excerpts of the film's premiere and a trailer in poor shape that's also missing text overlays.
Parting Thoughts
An excellent film anticipating the psychological Westerns of the 1950s and even the later, celebrated Bonnie and Clyde in some respects, Jesse James is presented in a problematic but in some ways still very impressive high-def transfer. Highly Recommended.
Stuart Galbraith IV is the Kyoto-based film historian and publisher-editor of World Cinema Paradise. His credits include film history books, DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries and special features.
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With bands including Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Cactus, and The Rockets, Jim McCarty gained international fame as a rock 'n' roll guitarist. With the Detroit Blues Band and his current group Mystery Train, McCarty has earned renown as a blues artist.
Who would have thought that the roots of his musical career are in jazz?
"My old man (the late James McCarty) was a drummer in the big band days," explained McCarty, who will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Detroit Blues Society (along with the late piano player Big Maceo Merriweather) at the group's monthly meeting and jam on Saturday. "I grew up listening to jazz, all the Blue Note and be-bop stuff – Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell.
A chance purchase turned McCarty into a devotee of the blues.
"I don't think it's a conscious decision," McCarty said. "B.B. King is the guy who inspired me to play guitar, through a record I bought at a hardware store. It was 'My Kind of Blues.' I started teaching myself to play guitar by listening to it. I've still got that album."
McCarty, 68, who recorded with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Seger, says he always had both rock 'n' roll and blues in his soul.
"I've mentioned more than one time that I need both rock 'n' roll and blues to be musically happy," McCarty said. "Even during my days with Cactus and The Rockets, being on the road for 20 years, I listened to more blues than rock 'n' roll. The blues has always been a part of me, it reached a part of me of what I want to play."
After The Rockets broke up, in the late 1980s McCarty joined the Detroit Blues Band. Other band members at that time were Emmanuel X. Garza (vocals/guitar), Bob Rabut (harmonica), the late Billy Landless (bass) and Tommy "T-Bone" Wagner (drums). McCarty and the band recorded two albums, "Real Life" (Blues Factory) and "Can't Get You Off My Mind" (No Cover).
"When The Rockets ended I made a conscious decision to play the blues," McCarty said. "With The Rockets, the mindset was always to get a big (rock 'n' roll) hit record and have a blues project on the side.
"At that time, I wanted to play the music I really feel in my heart."
After an eight-year stint with the Detroit Blues Band, McCarty formed his band Mystery Train. The band, which includes both McCarty and Rick Stel on vocals and guitar, bassist Marvin Conrad, and several musicians including McCarty's son Dylan on drums, has been together for about 18 years.
In 1997, the band joined with Detroit blues legend Willie D. Warren on the No Cover release "Willie D. Warren and Mystery Train Live."
"We played with Willie every Sunday at The Firehouse," McCarty said. "Mike Boulan (of No Cover Records) was running sound and recorded it. Willie didn't even know it, and I don't think I did either.
"After the gig ended, Mike told me 'I think you should listen to it.' What was great about that recording is it caught Willie right before his health started failing him.
"That old man's voice raised the hair on the back of my neck. He was a sweetheart too. Me and Willie first met years before that. It was immediately, 'I know who you are,' and 'I know who you are.' It was great. I miss him."
McCarty is still actively playing music and tearing it up.
In 2011, he released "Jim McCarty & Friends" (Cally's Records and Tapes), a collection of 12 songs recorded live at Callahan's Music Hall over a three-year period. Each tune features McCarty in impromptu jams with the likes of Duke Robillard, Jason Ricci, Jimmy Thackery and John Nemeth. It demonstrates McCarty's ability to excel in a variety of blues styles.
Late in 2013, he released "Jim McCarty and Mystery Train Live," which is available on iTunes and CD Baby.
Joining the band on the recording was harmonica player Kenny Welk.
"It starts out as a straight-ahead blues band and then moves into Cactus territory," McCarty said. "It's a continuous building of energy."
McCarty loves the CD and especially credits the playing of his son Dylan, 40.
"He's right in the pocket and just nails it.
"You should hear it when he kicks his old man in the ass on 'Oh Well.'"
The Detroit Blues Society monthly meeting and jam starts at 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at Cooley Lake Inn, 8635 Cooley Lake Road, Commerce Township. Hosting will be the Tosha Owens Band. There's no cover charge.
Joe Ballor is associate editor of the Daily Tribune. Check out his blues music blog, JB Blues, at jbblues.blogspot.com.


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Posted by Rolland on January 12, 1998 at 20:34:16:
In Reply to: WHINING SHEEPEOPLE/Re: 2 IRS Agents Expose it all posted by Richard on January 11, 1998 at 08:41:59:
: : Dear fellow Americans,
: Body deleted to save space:
: 1st. I have been a reader of this and other forums
: for quite some time and all I have heard from many is
: that these people are acting like and being WHINING SHEEPEOPLE,
: you know who you are.
: You all want you freedom(s) but like all SHEEPEOPLE
: you want someone (like BIG BROTHER) to give it to you.
: Well, let me tell you that's notthe way one gets or takes back
: their lost or stolen freedom(s). You get it back at a
: cost - it's not free, never was and never will be.
: *******************************************************
: 2nd. Someone - using a bad mouth - put down, stated
: that you should all save your money and spend it on junk food,
: and not to bother to get the information being offered
: by the magistrate on traffic tickets, and this person also
: stated that the information was in a childish language, and
: that everyone knew all the information on the disk.
: I say to that person; There are many who do not know anything
: of what the disk contains, secondly, the information on the disk
: is in plain language for everyone to understand.
: If that "person" requires information in some cryptic, non-understandable
: language then that "person" should stick to the IRS code,
: and stop putting out disinformation.
: I myself had a problem regarding a traffic ticket,
: I purchased the disk and using the information that
: it contained, BEAT THE TICKET, on my own and with no help
: from individuals like "that Person."
: Also, I have been in a fight with the IRS for two years now,
: and was getting nowhere. Then I got smart, and started
: listning and corresponding and collecting, (and yes, I did
: have to pay, afterall FREEDOM is not "free" only the word is)
: opinion letters from respectable individuals such as,
: (((former Judge Rizzo, from Nevada at firstname.lastname@example.com
: and a IRS tax consultant in Florida, at email@example.com)))
: just to name a few, and using these individuals' letters,
: as well as others that I received, was able to stop the IRS
: dead in their tracks.
: Did I pay for them, damn straight I did, $2,240.00 to date,
: and I intend to gather more and they were well worth it,
: because what these disinformationsits (most likely work for the IRS)
: and sheepeople do not see, admit to, understand, or choose to overlook
: is that, these opinions letters are SIGNED by these individuals and the
: writers of these opinion letters, and they know full well that they can
: be called into a court of law, on behalf of the defendant using their letters,
: to justify the TRUTH about IRS and it's fraud.
: Are they putting them selves at risk by signing their names to their
: opinion's, damn straight they are, and they need to be respected for comming
: forthe doing so, not condemened or put down for it. They are willing to
: put their GOOD NAMES on the line - ARE YOU.
: Do you think that a judge who no longer sits on the bench, where
: the weight of their opinion(s) became LAW, and just because they are retired
: and helping others, that their opinion means less, or that they suddenly
: became stupid,I DON'T THINK SO.
: Do you think an individual that is a registered
: tax consultant is going to put his/her GOOD NAME and family support on
: the line for something that is NOT WORTH A DAMN, or is untrue,
: I don't think so.
: The two former IRS agents are absolutely 100% correct
: in what they say.
: *********************************************************
: Therefore, In parting, I say to all the WHINING SHEEPEOPLE
: you have one of two choices to make;
: You can either remain as the SLAVES YOU ARE, continue your whining
: and be slowly beaten and blead to death, or;
: You can STAND YOUR GROUND LIKE MANY OF US HAVE, gather as much
: and as many opinion letters and TRUE information that you can afford
: and take back your F R E E D O M, either way, there is
: a price. As for me, I prefer my blood right where it
: belongs, and not at someones feet.
: The choice is yours, and if you choose slavery, then you
: have no bitch.
: NOTE: If there are those among you who would like to take
: back their freedom and would like a list of the names
: of other professional individuals that I have contacted
: across the country for their opinion letters, reply
: to this post with an e-mail address and I will send it
: to you.
: Richard
: I was wrongly placed in a situation regarding a traffic
: violation
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How many television shows arrive with free, online computer games? Downton Abbey? Rock Center? Mad Men? If you're looking for a game filled with totally destructive awesomeness, adorned by inflammable conflagrations, garnished with stupendous explosions and topped off with all-around mayhem – and who isn't? – then you need look no further than Striker Inferno, the game created by BBC America in celebration of Richard Hammond's Crash Course (premiering Monday, April 16, 10p/9c).
In the game, you control a Striker 4500, a front-line fire fighting truck, on an airfield being bombarded by huge projectiles that look like meteors, which ignite firestorms that engulf your surroundings. (Note: Richard learns to drive a Striker in the series, and that inspired the game.) You spray water at the blazes, and, as you put them out, you are rewarded with sneak peeks at video clips from Richard Hammond's Crash Course. We say you get to see the clips, and we mean *you* – because when we played the game, we quickly lost to the fire. This is how things ended up for us:
It's pretty cool how the projectiles and flames end up all over the screen window and aren't just limited to the game area. We also love the pounding, pulsating music.
• Richard Hammond's Crash Course premieres immediately after another premiere – the first episode of the all-new 18th season of Top Gear. Crash Course is at 10p/9c on April 16th, while Top Gear airs at 8p/7c.
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• Crash Course may at first appear to be about enormous vehicles and even more enormous amounts of mayhem, but Richard Hammond tells Men's Journal that his new show is "as much about the people doing the jobs as it is about the machines that are used to do the jobs." Whether it's an Abrams tank or a 100-ton landfill scraper, they're machines with important functions, and Hammond says "everybody likes to talk about what they do, and sometimes it does you good to break it down and think about it."
Men's Journal also asked whether, as a car expert, Hammond had any advice for the military on improving the Abrams M1A1 tank. The Hamster pointed out that he's a civilian, so he's limit his suggestions to the interior.
"I'd put less sharp corners inside it. I think I'd put some leather in there, a bit of sued," he said. "And there was no cup holder in the driver's area."
Read the full Q&A here.
• Speaking of Abrams tanks, you can get a sneak peek of some photos from the first episode of Crash course, which features said tank, by clicking here. Or just turn your eyeballs downward to see a sampling.
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The Maine Republican Party came up with a creative way to attack Democratic State Senate Candidate Colleen Lachowicz. They sent out a mailer savaging her for her scary-looking World of Warcraft character, and for online comments touting the violent acts that character committed.
"I love poisoning and stabbing! It is fun," the flyer quoted Lachowicz as saying. The GOP operatives who put together the flyer evidently didn't appreciate the difference between fantasy and reality. Or perhaps they hoped Maine voters wouldn't know the difference.
But while the flyer was creative, Techdirt notes it wasn't very effective. Lachowicz has defeated Thomas Martin, the Republican incumbent, to represent Maine's 25th Senate district. She received 52.8 percent of the votes in her district, about 900 votes more than her opponent.
The Bangor Daily News reports the attacks on Lachowicz's gaming generated an outpouring of support from around the world. Supporters raised $6300 to promote her candidacy. Because Lachowicz accepted public funds under Maine's "clean elections" law, she wasn't legally permitted to accept the money herself. So the money was donated to an independent Political Action Committee.
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Kedar Quashie used the 11 stolen credit cards to buy more than $80,000 worth of Equinox gift memberships during the 2008 holiday season, the newspaper reports. Quashie's buyers paid anywhere from $600 to $1,000 for the memberships normally priced at $2,800. Quashie had used various aliases but only one phone number, according to the report.
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Finlayson: Greater Vancouver Regional Economic Policy Needed (Vancouver Sun)
In today's global economy, the competition for talent, investment and high-value business activity increasingly is playing out at the metropolitan level.
According to the Brookings Institution's Global Metro Monitor, the 300 biggest cities account for almost half of world production and consumption, despite being home to only one-fifth of the human population. Canada has six metro areas big enough to rank in Brookings' top 300 list: Toronto, Montreal, Greater Vancouver, Ottawa-Gatineau, Calgary and Edmonton.
The idea of the "global city" or "global city-region," first coined by U.S. sociologist Saskia Sassen two decades ago, has been taken up by academic researchers, business analysts and policy-makers. In B.C., Greater Vancouver — consisting of more than 20 municipalities with a combined population that's fast approaching 2.5 million — clearly fits the definition of a global city-region, even though few local residents or political leaders appear to think in these terms.
Two notable characteristics of most thriving global city-regions are that they serve as trading hubs for the provinces/states/countries in which they are located, and they host a sizable number of export-focused industries and firms. Engaging in trade and other forms of commerce with outside markets increases the prosperity of urban regions by generating external income and bringing in new wealth, ideas, knowledge and people. In fact, the importance of international (and inter-regional) trade is such that it deserves to be at the core of the economic development strategies adopted by major urban centres.
Understanding the critical role of international and interprovincial trade in underpinning the economic well-being of Greater Vancouver has been hampered by the region's division into a multiplicity of different-sized towns and cities — all overseen by a weak regional government that lacks authority and competence in matters such as economic development, trade, and business and investment promotion.
Metro Vancouver has no regionally defined economic development plan, export strategy or relevant programming. But Greater Vancouver's fragmentation need not preclude taking a more region-wide approach to these issues.
In this regard, Metro Vancouver policy-makers may want to take a look at what's unfolding in Portland, Ore. Like Metro Vancouver, the Portland metro area consists of a host of individual cities and towns (some are actually located across the border in Washington state).
Two years ago, local governments in the region partnered with educational institutions and industry to create a single regional economic development body, Greater Portland Inc., which has gained traction and may soon produce positive results (greaterportlandinc.com). Its core mandate is to support the retention, expansion and targeted recruitment of businesses and jobs in the Portland region.
The organization's board of directors is made up of municipal leaders from across Greater Portland, along with representatives of business, universities and other key institutions. Funding to support the agency's economic and business development programs comes from area cities, two county governments, post-secondary institutions, and a few large companies.
Recently, Greater Portland Inc. launched a regional export strategy (the Greater Portland Export Initiative, GPEI). Since 2002, the Portland area has doubled the value of exports, one of the most impressive records among all U.S. metro areas. The goal of the GPEI is to build on this success by further enhancing the ability of local companies to access global markets, strengthen their linkages with global supply chains, and grow high-paying jobs tied to trade.
Metro Vancouver policy-makers and business leaders may profit by studying the model that's evolving in Greater Portland.
Like Portland, this region needs to look at ways to bring greater coherence and effectiveness to the economic development and trade/investment promotion work being undertaken by individual municipalities. The B.C. government should also support such an effort given the Lower Mainland's demographic weight and many vital contributions to the provincial economy.
In particular, leveraging Metro Vancouver's existing assets to build stronger clusters of traded industries capable of selling in outside markets would help to boost incomes and support more high-paying jobs in the region.
Among the traded industries with a sizable presence in the Vancouver area are advanced manufacturing; international education; information and communications technologies; tourism; scientific, technical and environmental services; finance; agri-food; wireless products and technologies; health research and the life sciences; and engineering and other professional services.
Transportation, logistics and trade-related infrastructure such as the airport and the port are also a critical part of Metro Vancouver's export base. All of these industry clusters have upside potential linked to the growth of global demand. A coordinated regional strategy that pools resources to strengthen and expand these traded industry clusters would produce economic benefits for the entire province while increasing the prosperity of B.C.'s dominant population centre.
Jock Finlayson is executive vice-president and chief policy officer at the Business Council of British Columbia.
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Buyers looking to own a piece of San Francisco history need look no further: 331 Prentiss Street, a former earthquake shack in Bernal Heights, has recently come to market at $1.15 million. The two-bedroom, two-bath house has undergone some major renovations, including a new foundation, new kitchen and new bathrooms, and is more than twice its original 550 square feet. But it still contains three of four "shack" walls, including its historic facade (though a window and wraparound porch have been added).
The home's current owners say the structure originally built on the land burned down in the fires caused by the city's famed 1906 earthquake. The displaced residents had to move into one of the "refugee shacks" built to provide housing in the aftermath of the quake. When the parkland refugee camps began closing in late 1907, the Prentiss property owners hauled two shacks (one of the larger 14′ x 18′ models and one of the smaller 10′ x 14′ cottages) back to their property and combined them together to create one home. As The Chronicle recently reported, almost all of the approximately 5,000 shacks built for quake refugees are now gone, but the largest concentration that remains can be found in Bernal Heights. (A few have also been found in the Sunset, Ocean View, Daly City and even Santa Cruz.)
The current owners of the Prentiss property kept the shape of the combined shacks and added traditional trim work to the new addition to maintain the look and feel of the historic home. A sense of history was also on the owners' minds when creating their beadboard-backsplashed kitchen and traditional bathrooms with features like a clawfoot tub and subway tile. But the home has definitely been modernized with an open floor plan, overhauled plumbing and electrical systems, and double-paned windows. The backyard also underwent a transformation of its own, with the addition of a patio, eat-in solarium and private hot tub area.
Also transformed: the price. After the quake, refugees typically paid $2 a month toward the $50 cost for their shacks. But more than 100 years—and a major renovation and expansion—later, the $891 per square foot asking price at 331 Prentiss is actually a bargainfor the neighborhood.
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We have been following the growth of bitcoins since soon after they started. We followed the tough parts (when Mt. Gox was hacked and many lost funds, something that occurs in all markets), the happy parts (when some nice guy gave our teenage son 50 bitcoins for winning a silly contest), and the funny parts (when people compare the previous value of bitcoins to current value as in the $2,000,000 pizzas).
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Meet the $2 Million Dollar BitCoin Pizza by Katherine Mangu-Ward explains how two pizzas purchased mid-2010, "...are generally acknowledged to be the first tangible goods purchased with bitcoins, the online crypto-currency."
Silliness aside, bitcoins are a common sense next step for currency / merchant processing.
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If you're unfamiliar with bitcoins and do a few searches online you'll find all sorts of bad information. People tend to be scared of things they don't understand (though the less-dsyfunctional, smarter reaction is to be curious).
Bottomline: Currency is a funny thing. We could trade laptops for cookies if we wanted to** (which would require a http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html which is simple enough). Bitcoins are easy enough to turn into USD and despite the way they are typically slandered, they are a potential solution to the many issues that plague the merchant processing industry. Bitcoins are a great solution and the merchant processing industry could see that if they stopped being scared and started being curious.
We are thrilled that there are enough people who buy computers from ZaReason who are smart enough and curious enough (open-minded enough) to ask us if they can use bitcoins. If you want to purchase an item from ZaReason.com (or zareason.co.nz for Australasia) when checking out please select the Purchase Order option and mention in the Notes field that you'd like to pay with bitcoins.
People get their computers using cards, checks, wires, purchase orders, all sorts of payments. Using bitcoins isn't bizarre. It's just different.
--Cathy Malmrose for ZaReason
* Later I tried to hire him but it was too late. He was already working on other projects.
** We don't actually accept cookies as payment. Please don't ask, especially don't ask in the late afternoon when we are hungry for a snack. Thanks.


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Air Quality and Emissions
This page last reviewed March 13, 2018
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) gathers air quality (AQ) data for the State of California, ensures the quality of this data, designs and implements air models, and sets ambient air quality standards for the state. ARB compiles the state's emissions inventory and performs air quality and emissions inventory special studies. The Air Quality Data page provides access to ambient air quality data, maps of areas that violate the national and state air quality standards, and maps of the ambient air quality monitoring network. The ARB uses the Emissions Inventory and Air Quality Models to evaluate air quality and reduce emissions in each of the 35 local air districts.


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New Acquisition: Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings & the Politics of the 1850's
My copy of Tyler Anbinder's Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings & the Politics of the 1850's finally arrived yesterday. One of my readers recommended it as one of the best resources on the Know Nothings Party which I've just finished a series of posts on. Can't wait to dig in.
Paper, 352 pages
Oxford University Press
Published: May, 1994
Winner of the Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians
New York Times 1992 Notable Book of the Year
Chosen by The Gustavus Myers Center as a 1992 Outstanding Book on Human Rights in the United States Outstanding Book on Human Rights
Dr. Anbinder is chair of the Department of History at The George Washington University. You can view his complete C.V. here.


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Welcome to Urban Villages. In this series of stories, we'll look at Montreal's up-and-coming stomping grounds and the little things that make them flourish. We'll start with the Village, then move on to Old Montreal, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Mile-Ex, Snowdon, Villeray and St. Henri, and tell you why they are on the rise. Look for the stories in coming editions of Weekend Life. For a long time, the Plateau Mont Royal borough has had a stronghold in Montreal on all the things that make a district desirable: cool hangouts, a variety of shops and great food.
For a long time, the Plateau Mont Royal borough has had a stronghold in Montreal on all the things that make a district desirable: cool hangouts, a variety of shops and great food.
Now, outlying neighbourhoods such as St. Henri, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and Villeray are appealing to the artsy/yuppie demographic that used to flock to the Plateau. Property costs are no doubt influencing the migration, but it also has a lot to do with features all of these areas have in common.
Pierre Gauthier, an associate professor in Concordia University's department of geography, planning and environment, thinks so, and a lot of the credit goes to the city of Montreal back in 1992, when it decided in its first urban plan to preserve the distinctive cachet of so many areas, and went the opposite route of high-rise- and sprawl-focused development.
The urban plan "described Montreal as a city made up of urban villages," Gauthier says. As a result, policies were borne out of efforts to protect commercial streets, promote small businesses, maintain original architecture and ensure the congruity of new buildings.
The first neighbourhood we'll look at in the series is the Village:
The Village: eat your heart out
The Village is an in-between place. It's somewhere between the east end and downtown, the Plateau and Old Montreal, dusk and dawn. New condos were developed at a staggered rate, though it's still mostly made up of century-old row houses. It's a manifestly Montreal 'hood, but for almost 30 years it was party central, with a thriving nightlife but an unremarkable restaurant scene.
Sure, there was Italian, Indian and Thai, plus some poutine joints, yet other than O'Thym, the stuff of slightly moneyed foodies was missing.
But in 2006, one street closed and another door opened: Ste. Catherine St. was given over to pedestrians during the World Outgames. So popular was the move that it became an annual summer occurrence known as "Aires libres." That was a turning point for the neighbourhood as restaurateurs took note: It was hard not to.
"It doubles our business," says Alexander Fernandes, owner of Papas Tapas Martinis. Like many restaurants and bars along the 1.2 km stretch between St. Hubert St. and Papineau Ave., he builds a terrace just for the occasion. The boom has arguably inspired new eateries to set up shop.
In fact, Bernard Plante, executive director of the Société de développement commercial du village, reports that the number of available commercial spaces for rent on Ste. Catherine between Berri and Cartier streets dropped to 7 per cent in 2012 from 20 per cent in 2010.
He also notes that while the number of restaurants hasn't changed considerably, the quality certainly has. NÜVÜ Bistro-Expériences, for example, had its interiors created by Moment Factory and Philippe Dubuc designed the wait staff's original outfits for the 2010 launch.
The same year, a new Steak Frites St-Paul opened on Ste. Catherine, as well as Picapica grill and tapas on de Maisonneuve Blvd. In 2011, pastry shop De farine et d'eau fraîche got things rolling on Amherst St., followed by Bistro 1272, Lallouz and Papas Tapas Martinis along Ste. Catherine.
"There weren't that many places in the Village where you could enjoy fine dining," says Bernard Beauchemin, a consultant for Bistro 1272, which focuses on progressive cuisine. Lallouz kebabery owner Zohar Bardai agrees, adding: "People in this neighbourhood … are willing to try new ethnic foods and appreciate it for what it is."
The epicurean scene isn't the only thing that has evolved. The population is not only growing — up 6.5 per cent since 2006 — it's also changing. "Now you're seeing families," says Gotha Lounge owner Langis Cyr. "You didn't see it that much before. (The Village) is getting more integrated."
Real estate agent and Village resident Angela Alston has noticed the same thing. She sees a variety of folks like couples, gay or otherwise, single women or men, students and seniors.
What might be attracting such diversity are the Village's relatively inexpensive rental costs. Alston pays $630 per month for a three-and-a-half bedroom place with a backyard, a set-up that could cost $1,000 or more in the Plateau. A Craigslist search for apartments in the Village turned up a two-and-a-half for $450 and a three-and-a-half for $625.
The area still has a dark side, however: criminal activity. "I think it's the price of living downtown," says Serge Cloutier, who moved to the Village in 2006 with his partner, James Duff.
Organizations such as J'aime mon village don't take it lying down, though. On top of raising awareness about crime in the neighbourhood, they co-ordinate flyer campaigns in places like Parc Serge-Garant, known as a drug hotbed.
"That's what we need to do," Duff says. "Don't let the drug addicts or the drug dealers hang out behind Beaudry métro. Reclaim it."
Still, Cloutier feels safe. "When we go out, I don't feel threatened," he explains.
With a sizable IGA in Place Dupuis, a few fruiteries in the area and the Marché Saint-Jacques on the corner of Amherst and Ontario streets, there are certainly enough amenities for the Village to sustain itself. But there's still room for progress. "I'd love to see some cute clothing stores for girls," Alston critiques.
The Village has food covered. Can boutiques be far behind?
North border: Ontario St.
East: Papineau Ave.
South: Ste. Catherine St.
West: St. Hubert St.
Duration of Ste. Catherine closing: May 17 to Sept. 3
Métro stations: Berri-UQÀM, Beaudry, Papineau
Borough: Ville Marie
District: Mostly Saint-Jacques, with a small portion in Sainte-Marie
Saint-Jacques population in 2006: 26,960
Saint-Jacques population in 2011: 30,903
Social housing in Saint-Jacques: 17.9%
Local festivals:
Festival des arts du Village (July)
Divers/Cité (July-August)
Festival Image et nation (September)
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story that also appeared in print gave an incorrect date for the end of the closing of Ste. Catherine St. in the Gay Village. The street closing ended on Sept. 3.


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In the wake of the Newtown shootings, school districts across the country are hiring armed guards to patrol the hallways of their schools. Meanwhile, in Harrold, Texas, teachers are encouraged to carry concealed handguns. NBC's Charles Hadlock reports.
Gun-control advocates responded with outrage and disbelief Friday after the National Rifle Association called for armed guards in every school and blamed music, movies and video games for firearms violence.
While some people in Newtown, Conn., said they supported the idea of police with guns in their schools, critics said a volunteer force was impractical at best, dangerous at worst.
"The last thing we need are the George Zimmermans of the world patrolling our schools," said Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, referring to the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing unarmed teen Trayvon Martin in Florida.
The slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week has prompted some gun-rights advocates to soften their position, and there was speculation that the NRA might put forth some type of concession.
But NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre -- who will appear Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" -- did not indicate the group would support new restrictions.
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the National Rifle Association held a news conference in Washington and blamed the media and video games for cultivating a culture of violence.
Defiant NRA leader rejects gun controls, asks to put police in schools
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,'' he said, roughly outlining plans for an NRA-sponsored program to train and certify volunteers to protect schools from "the next Adam Lanza."
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said he was at a loss for words after hearing the proposal.
"I don't even know where to begin," he said on msnbc. "As a supporter of the Second Amendment and a supporter of the NRA — even though I'm not a member of the NRA — I just found it very haunting and very disturbing that our country now is talking about arming our teachers and our principals in classrooms."
Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, D-N.J., said he was stunned by LaPierre's comments.
"It is beyond belief that following the Newtown tragedy, the National Rifle Association's leaders want to fill our communities with guns and arm more Americans," he said in a statement.
"The NRA points the finger of blame everywhere and anywhere it can, but they cannot escape the devastating effects of their reckless comments and irresponsible lobbying tactics. The NRA leadership is wildly out of touch with its own members, responsible gun owners, and the American public who want to close dangerous loopholes and enact common-sense gun safety reform."
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the press conference "a shameful evasion" of the gun crisis, devoid of soul-searching.
"They offered a paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed and no place is safe," he said.
In Newtown, where funerals for the Sandy Hook victims were still going on, opinion was divided.
"I think that's a great idea," Elaine Bartell said of LaPierre's armed-guard proposal. "I would feel much safer, and children would be protected."
Msnbc's Thomas Roberts talks to a political power panel that includes former RNC Chairman Michael Steele to get reactions to the NRA news conference on gun control.
Mary Fernandes, a mother, said an increase in guns is the last thing schools need.
"I think it's sad that it's come to this state. We need do something about the gun control and I don't think that [armed guards] is the answer," she said. "I don't believe people need guns in their homes."
Some gun control advocates target ammo clips
Dennis van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, told NBC News the idea "that there be a policeman in every building" deserves to be part of a wide-ranging discussion about how to protect schoolchildren from bullets, but he scoffed at LaPierre's call for volunteers packing heat.
"We have 90,000 [school] buildings in America, and you want to volunteers to come and have a gun at the school?" he said, noting that many schools already have armed safety officers. "When somebody has an assault rifle and blows out a window with it, you can't stop that."
Gun-rights advocates said LaPierre struck the right tone in his hotly anticipated announcement – the powerful lobbying group's first comments since the Sandy Hook tragedy.
Robert Farago, publisher of a popular blog called TheTruthAboutGuns.com, said he did "a good job putting forth a positive solution to the problem of spree killing in schools."
He was disappointed, however, that LaPierre did not explicitly say the NRA would fight any proposed assault-weapons ban. And he thought LaPierre's criticism of video games and movies was off-target.
"I think the effect of the culture isn't the determining effect in an attack like this," Farago said.
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Dave Workman, senior editor of The Gun Mag, a publication owned by the Second Amendment Foundation, said the NRA news conference "just ramps up the attention to gun-free zones."
"We've had shootings in shopping malls, movie theaters, schools, colleges – all gun-free zones – so maybe it's time to take a look at that," Workman said.
"The prevailing wisdom with a lot of the gun owners is -- it's about time we started talking about something other than banning guns."
A long-dormant national conversation about guns has reignited: some are calling for an assault weapons ban while other feel guns themselves aren't the root of the problem. So far the shootings have sparked several gun buy-back programs and even an anti-gun video organized by big-city mayors – but the NRA says it's the entertainment industry that is partly to blame. NBC's John Yang reports.
For Dave Hoover, whose nephew A.J. Boik was killed in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre, the time for talk is over.
"Nobody wants to come in and take your gun away from you, but I don't think it's too much for us to ask that if I'm an individual who has lost their mind and wants to go wreak havoc in a mall or at a church or at a theater -- for the love of God we should be able to stop that," Hoover told NBC affiliate KUSA.
"We need to stop having these discussions about it, get down to work, roll up our sleeves and accomplish something."
While LaPierre was still talking, Twitter lit up with reaction.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence instantly asked for donations to support its efforts to ban assault weapons and limit the number of guns that can be bought at one time.
"To all #NRA members who believe like we do, that we are better than this, we send this message … Join us," tweeted the group, which was formed after Jim Brady was shot with President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
Businessman Mark Cuban, who owns a movie distribution company and a chain of cinemas, wrote this on his verified Twitter account: "I think the NRA press conference is what the Mayans had in mind when they said the world would come to an end today."
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Imagine a world where batteries last 10 times longer, electronics are lighter and more powerful and electric cars are a commercially viable invention. Thanks to researchers at Stanford, this could be a reality sooner rather than later.
Scientists at Stanford have successfully used ordinary paper, coated with silver and carbon nanomaterial ink to make a "paper battery".
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This technology could mean power sources that are much more powerful than the lithium ion batteries used to run many of today's electronics such as cell phones and laptops.
This lightweight power source could be the key to creating lighter, more efficient and longer lasting electric vehicles, which have yet to really take off with available technology.
"Society really needs a low-cost, high-performance energy storage device, such as batteries and simple supercapacitors," Yi Cui, an Assistant Professor at Stanford told Reuters.
The technology has exciting applications because of its high power, low cost, light weight and high efficiency and it could appear in the commercial market in just a short time.


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The second chakra in the energy system is the sacral chakra. It is located in the lower abdomen just below the navel and is associated with a vibrant orange color. Its associated element is water. The primary purpose of the sacral chakra involves emotional control, relationship development, financial success and creative expression.
The sacral chakra provides the tools for helping to build your own self-reality. The key components are the evolution from the "roots" of your group and family identity (the root chakra) into your own identity and being able to provide for yourself. This involves building your own personal and business relationships, creating financial security through work and discovering the creative energies within you.
Sacral chakra energy is bold and determined. It is oriented in survival instincts and balanced with resilience and creative energy. When open and balanced, the energy center helps us work through all types of life challenges. The second chakra oversees our ability to make good choices for ourselves over less desirable ones such as breaking the law or succumbing to addictions. A person with a balanced energy center will be eager to experience life, adapting easily to change as it occurs and feeling safe in the process. They will have a hobby or job that promotes and fulfills their creative desires and are often seen as entrepreneurial.
Both creative and procreative energy housed in this chakra are vital to our overall health and sense of well being. Uninhibited creative energy allows us to carve out our own identity in society, distinguishing us as unique, productive members of society. It fosters success in building friendships and allows us to raise and nurture our children. We are able to fully express our emotions, feel confident in who we are and happy in our life choices.
Do you often feel that work is the center of your life? Do you feel that life has become a daily grind? When was the last time you experienced the feeling of joy, wanted to try something spontaneously or had a desire to pursue a creative project? Has a spouse or friend told you lately that you don't express your feelings? These can all be signs that your sacral energy may be unbalanced or blocked. It can also manifest itself as a physical ache or pain in the lower abdomen or back. You may experience emotional turmoil, wanting to withdraw from friends, family and responsibilities, feel a lack of motivation and make poor decisions.
If you feel out of balance, try spending time near open water, or swim! Surround yourself in a place where you find personal beauty, whether it's a garden in full bloom, an art museum or a concert listening to music. Introduce the color orange into your wardrobe, your office or home as a reminder. If you meditate, visualize a vibrant orange; it will help ground your energy center to your physical body. If you work with mala beads, the gemstones related to the sacral chakra are carnelian, garnet, tiger's eye and moonstone. Incense can also be a useful centering aide. Jasmine, Rose, Ylang Ylang and Sandalwood are associated with the sacral chakra.
In the next issue, we will explore the third or solar plexus chakra its color, meaning, how to restore balance and its relationship to the root and sacral chakras.


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Although Bückeburg was first referred to as a castle in records from the 14th century, it was not until the middle of the 16th century that the four-winged Renaissance palace was built. After the fire of 1732 the palace interior and exterior were both restored in the early baroque style. The new wing exemplifies the neo-baroque and neo-rococo styles. Bückeburg Palace has features typical of the Renaissance period. Its gables with rounded finials and the external scroll and shell decorations are a giveaway for this architectural style. The palace was built in Obernkirchen sandstone, the most popular building material of the day. Intricate woodcarvings can be admired in the chapel and the Golden Hall. Dating back to 1893, the imposing rococo banqueting hall is nine metres high and 24 metres in length, and has a second-storey gallery. The hall still provides the setting for royal functions. Outside in the beautiful gardens, typical baroque features include pergola walks, fountains and a maze. The mausoleum, a domed building 42 metres in height, lies just a short walk from the palace. Its magnificent interior is by the brilliant Berlin architect Paul Baumgarten. The mausoleum is the largest privately owned funerary monument in the world and still serves as the family burial place. Nearby attractions: Schaumburg Castle, which was first documented in 1110, sits atop the 225m Nesselberg and makes for a great day out in the Weser valley hills. To reach the fortified island of Wilhelmstein, which was built in the 18th century on a man-made island on Lake Steinhude, visitors must cross the water on board a traditional sailboat.
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Building Contractor Directory For > Illinois > Libertyville
Builders in Libertyville, Illinois
Find Libertyville, Illinois IL local builder, building companies, and building contractors near you for residential and commercial building repair or new building. Get free estimates, bids, and quotes.
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Quality Electrical, Inc.
Phone: 2625489803, Ask For: Chris Fabisiak
Fax: 2625227359
Sample Job Price: $600.00
Description: My partner and I are just starting our business, and are in the process of looking for work. We do residential new and remodels, and commercial.
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Phone: 847-926-9476, Ask For: JR
Fax: 847-681-9436
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Paint JAR Inc is a Decorating & Remodeling company that specializes in all phases of home improvement. We pride ourselves on exceptional quality and professionalism. We work primarily on Chicago's North Shore and Gold Coast, and understand the special needs this market demands.
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We welcome the opportunity to discuss your remodeling and decorating needs with you.
Blank & Baker Construction Management
Phone: 847-574-7415, Ask For: Chad Blankenbaker
Fax: 847-574-7415
Sample Job Price: $80,000.00
Description: We are a custom builder located on Chicago's Northshore. We specialize in your residential needs from New Construction to Kitchen Remodels to Finished Basements.
Communities we work in include Winnetka, Wilmette, Northfield, Northbrook, Lake Fo
J and B Kitchen Designs
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Fax: 8474394548
Description: Experts in kitchen planning and design work for 28 years.
We design 70-90 kitchens PER YEAR.
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Overleaf Construction Inc.
Phone: 847.816.1397, Ask For: Chuck
Fax: 847.816.1397
Description: We are a remodeling co.in commericial and residential
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