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Setting up Dad on Father’s Day doesn’t seem to be nearly the amount of work to “get it right” like Mother’s Day. Most dads just want to be acknowledged. The gift doesn’t have to be expensive, just unique.
This Father’s Day (Sunday, June 17), find a way to inspire the man who has long inspired you. Here are some ideas that are big on meaning and small on cash.
Inspire a memory. Put together a small photo album containing pics of good memories the two of you share. A special fishing trip, a concert, or a fun vacation. Look at it together and relive the happiness.
Inspire a sport. Golf balls are ALWAYS good for a Dad who plays golf. Get the ones in a shiny new box, or look for and collect strays near your local golf course.
Inspire fitness. Your Papa is a wannabe pro cycler. Make sure his bike gear is gathered for him before his next ride. Fill up his water bottles, pack the trail mix, and send him off on a nice, long excursion.
Spend actual quality time with your Dad if you can. He’ll be gone one day, and you may wish for the chance to just talk with him. Tell him you love him.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/sc-cons-0607-save-fathers-day-20120608,0,5461234.story
Most job seekers perceive landing an interview to be their biggest hurdle in the search process. Once that foot’s in the door, they think it’s all downhill as long as they wow the hiring manager with their charm and skills during the meeting.
Actually, you can murder your chance to get hired by not following a few basic steps after meeting your potential employer.
By all accounts, a thank-you note is expected from any candidate who’s serious about the position, and a well-written one will put you ahead of the pack.
Always promptly email a thank you. If you are working through a recruiter, they will appreciate it. These days, it’s critical that your note arrives promptly, and an email thank-you is quicker and less likely to get lost. An email is also easy for the recruiter or employer to save or circulate to other members of the team. And it’s much more eco-friendly to email if that’s highly valued at the company. If your recruiter or future employer seems like the type who will appreciate an old-fashioned paper thank-you, though, feel free to supplement with that.
Be concise. The purpose of a thank-you note is to actually thank people for their time and interest in you as a candidate, not to pitch yourself again or give a play-by-play of the interview.
Never stalk the employer. If you were told you’d hear something by a certain date and haven’t, wait a week and then contact the employer again via email. If you weren’t given a time frame, follow up with an email a week after the initial interview, Gilfeather says. “Don’t be paranoid if you don’t hear quickly,” she notes. “Remember that hiring may not be their top priority and they also may be out of town for business, or taking time off from work. A delay in response is not always a clear indicator of disinterest.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/chi-what-to-do-after-the-interview-20120607,0,1893636.story
If awards were given for “Dumb Things to Say to a Cop”, Martin Johnson would be a shoo-in.
Speeding past a police station was only the beginning of Martin Johnson’s problems, authorities say.
He almost hit a squad car pulling out of the station, reeked of booze when he was finally stopped by the police car, had a water bottle filled with liquor in the center console and could barely walk when he got out of his car, according to the police report.
Then the real trouble began, police say.
“I’ll give you $5,000 if you’ll let me go,” Johnson told the officers, according to the police report.
“Where are you going to get $5,000 from?” one of the officers asked.
Johnson handed over a flash drive. “Just look into my thumb drive, you the police, you figure it out,” he said, according to the police report.
On the drive police said they found lists of credit card and Social Security numbers and other financial information on people, the report states.
Johnson was arrested around 5 p.m. Tuesday. Two officers were leaving the Harrison District police station when they saw his car speeding past and crossing the center line and “almost striking their squad car,” according to the police report.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cops-speeding-dui-driver-almost-hits-squad-tries-to-bribe-officer-20120607,0,5729504.story
Quick! To the Orvillecopter! We all mourn and honor our deceased loved ones in different ways. Creating a taxidermied aircraft is not one of the first things I would have done with my dead cat.
The cat helicopter was conceived by Dutch artist Bart Jansen, and debuted for the public at the KunstRai ArtFair in Amsterdam that ended Sunday. Jansen calls his creation the Orvillecopter and describes it as “half-cat, half-machine.”
The Orvillecopter is exactly what it looks like: A taxidermied cat with a plastic propeller attached to each paw. No animals were harmed for this project. The cat, who was conveniently named Orville, belonged to Jansen and died after he was hit by a car.
The artist says he did observe a period of mourning before turning his dead cat into a flying machine, but he clearly thinks he’s done Orville a favor by giving him flight after death.
“Now he is flying with the birds,” he writes. “The greatest goal a cat could ever reach!”
I hope the tail doesn’t break off if he crashes.
SEE ORVILLE FLY
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-la-fi-tn-cat-helicopter-takes-flight-20120604,0,2381140.story
We are not talking about a Daisy Red Ryder bb gun. Not a Super Soaker. We are talking about a 9mm handgun containing eight live rounds.
Police pulled over a car on Chicago’s West side because they saw children inside that were not either strapped into a car seat or wearing a seat belt, CBS Chicago reports. Inside the car, they discovered that one of those children — a three year old girl — was holding a 9mm handgun.
Queshawn King, the driver of the car, was charged with unlawful use of a weapon, endangering the life of a child, and possession of a firearm without a valid FOID (Firearms Owner’s Identification), the Chicago Tribune reports.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/04/toddler-holding-gun-disco_n_1567734.html?ref=chicago
Job search hurdle number ONE–Dazzle the computers, which these days are more likely than people to be frontline resume readers.
“Computers have a very specific way that they look at resumes,” said Jon Ciampi, founder of Preptel Corp. in Danville, Calif. For a subscription of $25 a month, Ciampi’s two-year-old company will help a candidate reconfigure a resume so a computer can better spot the qualifications that make that candidate a good match for the job.
With the recession and its lingering aftermath, the number of resumes generated for any job opening is so overwhelming that human resource staffs can’t handle them all. The Labor Department reported that in February there were 3.5 million job openings and 12.8 million people unemployed.
No wonder recruiters turn to software created by companies such as Kenexa Inc. in Wayne, Pa., a leader in the field.
All this talent management may be efficient, but it can be maddening for job seekers, who spend endless hours applying online, only to feel as if they’ve sent their resumes — and their hopes — into a realm impossible to divine.
Most counselors advise that the best way to get a job is networking, making connections through people you know. But there will remain some portion of the hunt that relies on online applications.
Ciampi said job seekers really need to prepare two categories of resumes — one for humans, the other for computers. For example, he said, a resume for humans might use the words “career successes” and “accomplishments,” but a computer scanner would rather see work experience.
Work history presented in a spreadsheet is unreadable for a computer, no matter how clear it is to a human. Computers, Weidner said, like to see company name, followed by title, dates and description of duties. Varying the format may confuse a computer.
Only the top 10% to 20% of resumes, those with the highest number of matches, make it through to a human for further consideration, Weidner said.
And all this assumes that the employers writing the job descriptions are actually capable of crafting postings that clearly reflect the skills and qualities needed for the jobs.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/la-fi-resumes-20120530,0,1045142.story
Robbing a bank while an off duty police officer was at the drive through window? Definitely not “winning”.
Charlie Montalvo, 36, of Hillside, is charged in the robbery of $3,480 from a First Merit Bank branch, 7227 W. Addison St. on Wednesday morning, according to an FBI affidavit.
After his arrest, Montalvo admitted to robbing four other banks and trying to rob another one as long ago as last August, according to the affidavit.
As the robbery was going on, an off-duty police lieutenant was waiting in a drive-through lane and saw the man reaching into a teller’s drawer. The lieutenant then called 911 and described the robber, according to the affidavit.
The description the lieutenant gave was broadcast over police radio, and a law enforcement officer who knew that Montalvo was suspected in earlier robberies heard the broadcast. The officer followed Montalvo into a nearby alley, where it stopped behind a home, and Montalvo got out, according to the FBI. The officer announced who he was and drew his gun, but Montalvo ran away. He was arrested soon after.
Montalvo told FBI agents he robbed the banks to feed his gambling habit.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-bank-robber-suspect-0601-20120601,0,1325572.story
Are you disappointed the Taste of Chicago will only be held for five days this year? Five days, down from 10 in previous years, and considerably smaller.
Thursday, the city released the names of this year’s restaurants; there will be 37 full-time participants this year, down from 57 a year ago. Which means 20 restaurants that had participated in the 2011 Taste won’t be around this summer.
“A lot of people lost money last year, us included,” said Guey Lon owner Jean Lee. “We’re a small restaurant; we have to at least break even to do (Taste). This year, with only five days, it’s very iffy; if it rains one day, you’ve had it. I wish the restaurants this year good luck and good weather.”
The sole newcomer is Pazzo’s, a Loop restaurant that will be serving chicken vesuvio sandwiches and tiramisu at Taste.
Eli’s Cheesecake, the only remaining restaurant to have participated in every Taste of Chicago, will be back. So will Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria, which has been at every Taste of Chicago but the very first one.
In addition, 15 first-time participants will be at Taste for one day each. These so-called Pop-Up restaurants, including Arun’s and West Town Tavern, are by definition joining Taste for the first time. There will be three Pop-Up booths at Taste each day.
Taste of Chicago will run July 11-15 in Grant Park.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/stew/chi-taste-of-chicago-announces-2012-restaurant-lineup-20120531,0,860326.story
“OK, I’m looking at how many boobs I can see,” Diane Drall said.
They were a bit startled. But they stood obediently as Drall checked to make sure the women didn’t have low-cut necklines, and she explained herself.
“When a handgun is fired, it ejects the bullet’s extremely hot casing,” she said. “If a piece of brass reaches you and it goes down your bra,it’s not going to kill you, and it may not leave a scar, but it can hurt.”
You don’t get the casing-in-the-bra talk just anywhere. But at Women in the Outdoors, they got that, and sessions on jewelry-making and quilting too.
Women in the Outdoors is an outreach program of the National Wild Turkey Federation, a hunting and wildlife conservation organization. The federation sees women as key to the future of hunting, which is declining nationally but increasing in popularity among women.
It’s a way to try an activity that is completely unfamiliar, probably frightening, possibly off-putting, and in the middle of a major political and cultural debate on gun control. It’s an opportunity to meet people who might think differently than you do, and to find that you like them anyway.
For the gun-shy, there were gentler activities like soap-making and container gardening. But the shooting and archery sessions were among the day’s most popular.
Where do I sign? PunkMetalMamma is up for it all.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/columnists/ctx-outdoors-brotman-women-20120530,0,1990347.column
Was it from a collection? Leftovers? Secret arsenal?
Several building in the Lakeview neighborhood were evacuated yesterday after bomb and arson investigators found three live grenades in one of the buildings, police said.
Officials had called for a hazardous materials response to the 900 block of West Newport Avenue after investigators found the World War II-era grenades in the basement of a building there, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-bomb-and-arson-investigators-called-to-lakeview-neighborhood-20120530,0,6581968.story
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