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  • Art by Qetesha Haynes

    Promotion is everything (Photos)

     It is challenging to establish a successful art career. It is necessary to network within the art community in order to achieve career success. An artist must actively promote his or her art. It is a creative professional&rsquo...

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  • The benefits of writing shorter albums.

    Lots of bands and groups are still in an old mind set as far as releasing albums. Those of you old enough to remember when cd’s first started taking over, there used to be at least one &lsquo...

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  • Klehm Arboretum 'Family Days' April 13

    Klehm Arboretum hosts 'Family Days' event April 13.

    Rockford's Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 2715 S. Main Street, in Rockford will offer a "Family Days" event from 10 am to 3 pm, Saturday, April 13.  The admission to the event is free for...

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  • Dusting off your resume for a job fair

    You’re ready to start marketing yourself to prospective employers and are planning to attend a local job fair.  If it’s been awhile since you updated your resume, getting the content current and relevant may take...

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  • Companies demand that workers get healthy

    More and more Miami companies are asking and sometimes demanding that their workers get healthy. These companies want lower health insurance premiums."I really want to offer my workers a good health plan. But to do that I need...

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  • Guest Chef Dinner

    Anderson Gardens hosts 2nd Guest Chef Dinner, April 20th.

    The Anderson Gardens will host their second Guest Chef Dinner on Saturday April 20th.  The dinner will feature a four course meal prepared by Rockford chef Al Castogiovanni of Alchemy and Giovanni's.  Each course will...

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  • A Narrative

    I once heard an analogy that captured my attention about how to view the law through time, ultimately the law was written by people and was not sacred under any meaning of the word especially when it created unequal and...

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  • Two new jobs of the week

    It’s the beginning of a new week in Chicago and you know what that means? It’s time to apply for a whole new pair of jobs for the week. These positions are both within the health...

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  • Bad jobs report? Women Lead us out of this dilemma

    The recent March jobs report (BLS.gov) was dismal to say the least. Only 88,000 new jobs in March 2013.According to a new book Women Lead female entrepreneurs have an advantage and more women today should think about...

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  • The Giving Job Hunter

    There is a well-known Zig Ziglar quote that goes like this:  "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." Can today's job hunters...

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