| OfficeMax debuts at Fountain Square
An OfficeMax store grand-opened early Monday at Fountain Square in Waukegan. City officials led by Mayor Richard Hyde were on hand to congratulate the company on the opening of the 25,000-square-foot store opposite the Super Wal-Mart. .
Shopping Sprees Can Cost More Than You Think: How to Identify a ...
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- While shopping is usually viewed as a leisure activity by the general public, for one shopper in twenty, the habit is a process addiction. For these "shopaholics," trips to the mall are more than holiday buying and trying on new work clothes. Rather, their "retail therapy" is an expensive habit that can spiral into financial and emotional disaster. "Addiction is a complex behavior," said Dr. Stephen Grinstead (http://www.therapistfinder.com/TherapistDetail.cfm?id=036560), licensed marriage and family therapist of CAMFT, "and most addictions fall in one of two categories: process or substance. Shopping addiction is a process addiction, similar to gambling, spending, eating, and sexual addictions that can have life-altering consequences." Shopping addictions work like this: When one is feeling lonely, depressed, or stressed, s/he heads to a number of retailers.
Bizbits: Computers: PC makers update offerings for holiday shopping
Computers outranked peace and happiness for the most desired gift this year in an annual U.S. survey by the consumer electronics industry’s largest trade organization. PC vendors are happy to oblige. They’ve come out with desktops and laptops to cover a gamut of needs, budgets and styles. There are souped-up machines for gamers, attractive space-saving all-in-ones for home offices or kitchens, simple low-cost laptops for youths and pricey ultra-lightweight notebooks for those seeking flair and function. More than ever, alternatives to computers running Microsoft Corp.’s long-dominant Windows operating system are also hitting the market. A sampling of the offerings this holiday season: ——— Everex TC2502 gPC The gPC stands out from the crowd like a man wearing sandals at cocktail party — it’s cheap and it’s different.
Postal workers to strike
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Buildings bring change and growth into focus
On Thursday, the Tulalip Tribes hit a milestone in the development of a 12-story luxury hotel in their Quil Ceda business area. Tribal Chairman Mel Sheldon said it may vault the tribes into encouraging a whole new group of visitors to the nearby casino and outlet mall.
Some 66 tribal members helped build the hotel, which some see as an important symbol.
"This is a monument," said Glen Gobin, chairman of the tribal business committee.
"That's our future," said tribal board member Tony Hatch. "We're growing so fast that we're going to need a second tower."
The hotel, which will be the most imposing building on the reservation, clearly means a lot to tribal members. Some spoke about being proud that they were members of the Tulalip Tribes and that it could create such a thing, and do it, at least so far, ahead of schedule and below budget.
Will anti-racists cheer for Obama?
The beauty of bargaining is that it turns the black desire to live without racism into a white self-interest." And bargainers themselves are able to achieve iconic status: Sidney Poitier, Oprah Winfrey, Colin Powell, Bill Cosby, bargainers all. And Barack Obama too, of course. He is a classic bargainer. Each of these figures had another choice - being a challenger. As Steele puts it: "Challengers put all whites in the position of having to chase after their racial innocence. The challenger's code: whites are incorrigibly racist until they do something to prove otherwise." And challenging can be incredibly successful too. It's just that not everyone wins. Only the challengers do, and in certain very limited ways. Challengers - figures such as Jesse Jackson and the firebrand Al Sharpton - build their power and their careers by setting themselves up as arbiters.
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