Long Island Jobs Employment Site Gets New Look
Trumbull, CT (PRWEB) June 14, 2010
Regional job board network, AllCountyJobs.com LLC recently unveiled its newest job board, LongIslandJobs.net. The new site which features only long island jobs, is the 13th site in the online network which currently serves the states of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
LongIslandJobs.net was purchased last year and revamped to make it more search engine friendly and easier to use. Now job seekers can post resumes and use many more job search features. The design of the site mirrors the rest of AllCountyJobs online properties so employers will find it familiar when it comes to posting jobs and searching resumes.
“We’re proud to be able to bring Long Islanders with a top notch job search experience”, says Chris Russell, the Founder and President of the online job search company. “Entering the Long Island job market has always been our goal and when the opportunity came we seized it”, he adds.
The new site features email alerts, career advice, enhanced search features and new resume profiles. Job seekers can take their existing resume file and upload it seamlessly into the new system. It also protects job seeker privacy by giving them control over who can see their contact information.
Employers will benefit by being part of the same job board software that powers the rest of the company’s network. Job postings start at just $ 99 each for 60 days.
The site web address is http://www.longislandjobs.net
About AllCountyJobs.com
AllCountyJobs.com LLC is a fast growing network of local job boards and publisher of job search tools & services. Our local job boards will let you search jobs in Connecticut, Southern New York,Western Mass, Eastern Mass and Rhode Island. Combined, they reach over 150,000 monthly jobseekers in the four states. Each site links to the others to form a local network of thousands of job listings in the Northeastern U.S.
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Camp Bow Wow
Long Island City, NY (PRWEB) July 24, 2008
Tails began wagging on July 18, 2008, as the first Camp Bow Wow® in New York opened for business in Long Island City. Dogs and their two-legged guardians are invited to visit the premiere doggy day care and overnight boarding camp located at 4716 Austell Place, Long Island City, New York at the intersection of Skillman Avenue and Austell Place. Pups are invited to come in and experience an entirely new concept in doggy day and overnight care.
Camp Bow Wow® has a lot to offer to their furry friends. Its upscale environment enables pooches All Day Play, Snooze The Night Away® while receiving lots of love and attention! Camp Bow Wow® Long Island City features a state of the art facility that sets it apart from competing doggy boarding centers. The camp-themed décor creates the feel of a cozy mountain lodge, and the indoor/outdoor play areas are surrounded with premium wooden fencing.
Only at Camp Bow Wow are live Camper Cams® installed in every nook and cranny of the camp, so that owners can remotely watch their beloved pooches play all day. Certified Camp Counselors® are always present at camp, and Camp Bow Wow® offers the leading staff-to-dog ratio. The camp has a 10,000 sq. ft. facility complete with 6 spacious play yards. The play yards are equipped with doggy jungle gyms and pool splash parties during the hot summer days!
This doggy day care is just different. For one thing, there’s the all day play. Instead of spending most of the day in a cage, with minimal walks, dogs that visit Camp Bow Wow® enjoy most of their time (whether it’s for day camp or boarding) playing in one of six large indoor/outdoor play areas. “During the day campers can spend most of their time outdoors playing with their four-legged friends,” says owner Stephen Neagus. “At Camp Bow Wow® our day campers find themselves exhausted by the end of the day when their guardians come to pick them up. The guests who stay overnight are given a tasty campfire treat just before being tucked into their own private and spacious cabin.” The facility is completely climate-controlled to maintain maximum doggy comfort throughout the day and night, and all cabins come complete with a cozy fleece-lined cot.
Another unique quality of the camp is that Certified Camp Counselors® monitor the pooches all day and adhere to a strict camper-to-counselor ratio for dog safety purposes. All counselors are trained in dog behavior, safety, and health management, including CPR and First aid training. Camp Bow Wow® knows how dogs play and interact, so all sizes and types of pups are kept very yappy! As an additional safety measure, large and small doggies play in separate areas.
Stephen is ready to open the doggy doors for business and is very excited to be a part of the great NYC dog-loving community.
Stephen has owned and operated a successful dog walking/pet sitting business in the city the past 6 years. He wanted to expand his doggy horizons to include a place that all pups would be pulling their owners toward. Once Stephen left his corporate job on Wall Street, he could fully commit to what he enjoys the most, the pups! Thankfully he has achieved that with Camp Bow Wow®! In addition to upholding a strong commitment to the dogs, Stephen has made a commitment to improving his community. Stephen has volunteered with the Big Brother/Big Sister program for the past 8 years improving the lives of youth in the NYC community.
Camp Bow Wow® Long Island City will be hosting a VIP (Very Important Pooch) event on July 31st at 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST. This is the perfect opportunity for local businesses owners and invited guests to meet the staff, take a tour of the camp, and enjoy a little wine and cheese while networking and enjoying the new facility.
There are a few requirements to be a camper and it all starts with the free interview day. The interview is a meet-and-greet with dogs of similar size and temperament, and Stephen advises owners to leave their pooches for the full day. “Basically, it’s a free day of camp and we get to know our future guests on a first-name basis,” says Stephen. Before coming in for an interview, all campers must be spayed/neutered and up to date on Rabies, Distemper, and Bordatella vaccines.
For more information:
Visit Camp Bow Wow® online at http://www.campbowwow.com/longislandcity, stop by for a personal tour, or call the Camp at 718.392.WOOF (9663).
About Camp Bow Wow®
At Camp Bow Wow® campers can enjoy indoor, climate-controlled play areas as well as large outdoor play areas complete with security fencing, puppy pools, and doggy playground equipment. Overnight campers lounge in cabins with cots and fleece bedding, and are provided a campfire treat at bedtime.
For the campers’ protection, Camp Bow Wow® has a variety of security features including live Camper Cams® allowing dog owners to view their pets from remote locations throughout the day as well as a 24-hour security monitoring system. Camp Bow Wow® also has Certified Camp Counselors® to watch over the campers while they are at play. Camp Bow Wow® is the largest doggy daycare and boarding franchise in the country, with 73 locations open nationwide and over 220 franchises sold.
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TIP Concert Part 4: Turtle Island Project Cowboys & Angels benefit for White Buffalo Calf Woman Society on Rosebud Reservation
Munising, MI – Northern Michigan residents helped fight American Indian teen suicide and family violence during December 13 third annual free benefit concert in northern MI. The non-profit Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising organized the third annual “Cowboys and Angels” concert that was held to benefit the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society (WBCWS) in Mission, South Dakota the first Native American domestic violence shelter in the world. The WBCWS battles domestic violence, sexual assault and an alarming increase in teen suicides on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, the home of the Sicangu Lakota people. Poverty, depression, a lack of jobs, drugs, alcohol and other social problems are among the reasons behind Rosebud suicides and family violence. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard performed original songs and seasonal music during the concert on Saturday, Dec. 13 from 7 – 9 pm at the Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore at 104 East Munising Ave. in downtown Munising The WBCWS was founded 30 years ago by a group of courageous Native American women including current executive director Tillie Black Bear. “The White Buffalo Calf Woman’s Society and its domestic violence shelter are vital to address social issues like teen suicide and domestic violence on the Rosebud reservation,” said Dr. Hubbard, pastor of the Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, MI. “Women and children are treated with dignity.” “The Rosebud Reservation has been described as a Third World Country in America’s …
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TIP Concert Part 2: Turtle Island Project Cowboys & Angels benefit for White Buffalo Calf Woman Society on Rosebud Reservation
Northern MI residents give generously during the Dec. 13, 2008 Cowboys & Angels free benefit concert to help fight American Indian domestic violence, teen suicide Munising, MI – Northern Michigan residents helped fight American Indian teen suicide and family violence during December 13 third annual free benefit concert in northern MI. The non-profit Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising organized the third annual “Cowboys and Angels” concert that was held to benefit the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society (WBCWS) in Mission, South Dakota the first Native American domestic violence shelter in the world. The WBCWS battles domestic violence, sexual assault and an alarming increase in teen suicides on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, the home of the Sicangu Lakota people. Poverty, depression, a lack of jobs, drugs, alcohol and other social problems are among the reasons behind Rosebud suicides and family violence. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard performed original songs and seasonal music during the concert on Saturday, Dec. 13 from 7 – 9 pm at the Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore at 104 East Munising Ave. in downtown Munising The WBCWS was founded 30 years ago by a group of courageous Native American women including current executive director Tillie Black Bear. “The White Buffalo Calf Woman’s Society and its domestic violence shelter are vital to address social issues like teen suicide and domestic violence on the Rosebud reservation,” said Dr. Hubbard, pastor of the Eden on the Bay …
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TIP Concert Part 1: Turtle Island Project Cowboys & Angels benefit for White Buffalo Calf Woman Society on Rosebud Reservation
“Cowboys and Angels”: Third annual free northern MI benefit concert a success in effort to battle domestic violence and teen suicides on one of the the poorest American Indian reservations in the US (Munising, MI) – Northern Michigan residents helped fight American Indian teen suicide and family violence during the third annual free benefit concert in northern MI. The non-profit Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising organized the third annual “Cowboys and Angels” concert that was held to benefit the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society (WBCWS) in Mission, South Dakota the first Native American domestic violence shelter in the world. The WBCWS battles domestic violence, sexual assault and an alarming increase in teen suicides on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, the home of the Sicangu Lakota people. Poverty, depression, a lack of jobs, drugs, alcohol and other social problems are among the reasons behind Rosebud suicides and family violence. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard performed original songs and seasonal music during the concert on Saturday, Dec. 13 from 7 – 9 pm at the Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore at 104 East Munising Ave. in downtown Munising The WBCWS was founded 30 years ago by a group of courageous Native American women including current executive director Tillie Black Bear. “The White Buffalo Calf Woman’s Society and its domestic violence shelter are vital to address social issues like teen suicide and domestic violence on the Rosebud reservation,” said Dr. Hubbard …
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Homelessness and hunger in Rhode Island
People who care about the homeless and hunger in Rhode Island should be walking the talk and living in a way that doesn’t involve the ownership of property, and is far more dependent upon cooperation, sharing, simplicity, austerity and nature and than it is on our corrupt society providing stupid jobs nobody wants to do anyway.
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This is a getting started video that will get your job search started on www.jobsinRI.com You can find additional help and quick tour videos at http JobsInRI.com’s mission is to help job seekers find real, local, jobs in Rhode Island and reach their career goals.
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Komodo Island, the Lost World Was Found
Komodo Island, the Lost World Was Found
Sitting in a torrent of activity where the Pacific pours into the Indian Ocean, Komodo Island is home to a multitude of marine life. Simon Rogerson dips his fins in two worlds.
Amazing things happen when two oceans meet. At Komodo National Park in Indonesia – a relatively small stretch of sea around the famous ‘dragon island’ – cool upwellings from the Pacific are forced into relatively shallow water and then flood into the Indian Ocean. The area which sees this massive movement of water is marked by a few volcanic islands which conspire to create some of the most powerful and unpredictable currents on the planet.
It’s a remarkable place – a hothouse for evolution and home to an incredible array of marine life. Of the 500 or so coral species found in the Indo-Pacific, Komodo has 260. It harbours more than 1,000 species of fish and 70 species of sponge. Acre for acre, it is one of the most diverse coral reef environments in the world.
My journey began on the 42m Kararu, a traditional rigged sailing vessel which serves as an extremely spacious liveaboard. It operates from Bali, 160 miles to the west, but the journey to and from Komodo is punctuated by dive sites which are fascinating in their own right, and serve as a build-up to the world-class diving at Komodo and its neighbouring island, Rinca. My host was the boat’s co-owner, Tony Rhodes, a Brit with an easy manner and a knack for spotting near-microscopic animals.
On an early dive at a site called Mentjang Wall, we were finning along in mid-water when Tony suddenly swooped down to the reef. I followed, squinting at the scrappy patch of coral to which he was pointing. At first nothing, then I could make out a tiny brownish nudibranch (of the Flabellinidae family). He had seen it from 10m away! Suspicious, I wondered if he had sneakily placed it there when I wasn’t looking, possibly inspired by Donald Pleasence’s similar trick in The Great Escape.
As I was to discover, his spotting skills were quite genuine. While there are plenty of sizeable creatures to marvel at in Indonesia, the area does tend to attract divers with a penchant for the diminutive. These are rich seas, and there is a perpetual battle for space on the reefs. After just a few days, your eyes become familiar with the environment, so that semi-camouflaged critters begin to reveal themselves. Professional dive guides become finely attuned to this sort of diving.
Komodo National Park comprises the seas around the islands of Komodo, Rinca and Padar, and some smaller islands. It’s a two-wetsuit trip: on the northern side of the islands, the water is warm, and most people dive comfortably with the thinnest of skins. Cool, nutrient-rich upwellings prevail on the southern side, where 5mm suits, hoods and gloves are the order of the day.
These islands act like a dam, holding back the warmer Pacific waters, which are then forced through various straits, creating a pressure void along the park’s southern side. This allows cold water from the Sumba Sea to rise up, effectively replacing the water removed by the currents at the surface. With the cold water comes a bloom in phytoplankton, forming the basis of Komodo’s super-charged food chain. It is a very, very special place indeed.
The results of these crazy upwellings are best experienced at Horseshoe Bay on Rinca’s southern side. These are the most crowded reefs I have ever seen, but the payoff is low visibility caused by all those nutrients suspended in the water. Horseshoe Bay’s famous site is a pinnacle known as Cannibal Rock (named after a monstrous Komodo dragon seen eating one of its own kind nearby), where dense swathes of black, yellow and red crinoids jostle for space.
It’s a great place to test buoyancy skills, because crinoids stick to neoprene like glue; any contact whatsoever and you’ve got yourself a hitchhiker. Once, after taking head-on photographs of an implacable lizardfish, I looked down to find I had picked up two featherstars complete with clingfish and crinoid shrimps – a whole ecosystem! I guiltily set them back on the reef.
Just outside Horseshoe Bay is a fascinating site known as the Great Yellow Wall of Texas, renowned for its soft corals. Visibility here was reminiscent of British shore-diving standards, and the coral polyps were all retracted, so I hardly saw the reef in all its glory. Still, I could appreciate the sheer intensity of the place. Nestling among the crinoid forest were some fascinating animals, including brightly coloured sea apples, a spectacular member of the sea slug family. Tiny hawkfish nestled between the fronds of soft corals, while gobies darted around their tiny territories.
Night dives were even more atmospheric. The currents sweeping over Cannibal Rock were too much to cope with after dark, so we searched for night creatures in the shallows. At first glance, the sandy expanses were devoid of life, but a closer inspection revealed a wealth of nocturnal drama. Octopus each the size of a child’s fist moved over the sand, extending their tentacles into tiny holes as they hunted for suitably small prey. Every now and then, they would retract their foraging limbs in pain, having received a nip from some hidden sand-dweller.
Inshore sites often serve as nurseries. I saw lots of tiny fish, including juvenile oriental sweetlips (flapping wildly like some out-of-control bumblebee) and a rockmover wrasse complete with protruding unicorn’s horn. Photographers found the night dives to be the most productive of all, and some would sacrifice an afternoon dive to be alert for the evening.
The best night dive took place beyond Horseshoe Bay on a sandy slope near Banta Island. The site has a particularly cheesy name – ‘It’s a Small World’ – which nevertheless hints at the macro wonders which have made it their home. I dropped in and descended 10m to what looked to be a lunar landscape, devoid of life. The gritty sand billowed briefly into the water column as I landed on the sea bed and looked down to see a skeletal face leering back with utter contempt.
It was a stargazer, a voracious lunge-predator whose stealth is rivalled only by its monumental ugliness. It buries itself in sand right up to its eyes, then waits for a suitable morsel to happen along. Ambush predators don’t like being seen, and this one looked up at me with undisguised disgust as I gently fanned the sand away from its fearsome features. Eventually, the indignity of being exposed in this way proved too much; it launched itself off the sand and sped off into the darkness.
I enjoy watching other divers at night. Despite the best intentions of the buddy system, there is something about the combination of shallow, current-free sites and diving by torchlight which internalizes the diving experience. Divers retreat into themselves, their attention focused chiefly on the thin column illuminated by their lights. I hovered behind a professional videographer, Roger Munns of Scubazoo (the film-making outfit based in Southeast Asia) fame, who had found a handsome red frogfish – okay, ‘handsome’ isn’t a word often associated with frogfish, but we’re talking ‘eye of the beholder’ here, okay?
As he trained his video lights on the frogfish, the brightness attracted a small food chain. Driven by some inexplicable urge, tiny worms massed around the lights in writhing density. They in turn attracted the attention of some cardinalfish, which foolishly took the frogfish to be a lump of coral. They were soon disabused of this notion as the predator extended its jaws and sucked a hapless cardinalfish into its maw.
This super-gulp is too fast to see. Later, watching Roger’s footage on an iBook laptop, we studied the lunge frame by frame. You see the frogfish give a dainty little leap, and there is a slight blur around its mouth as it takes the fish, but the movement itself is too fast even for a professional-quality video recording in slow motion mode. Viewed at normal speed, the frogfish twitches slightly and the cardinalfish simply disappears.
In addition to illustrating the efficiency of the frogfish’s feeding mechanism, this episode revealed to me the depth of the cardinalfish’s stupidity. The ‘not exactly quick on the uptake’ survivors kept returning to the lights, and the frogfish enjoyed a further six courses while the cardinalfish doubtless wondered where all their companions had gone. By the time I had sidled in to photograph the frogfish, it was noticeably bulkier and appeared to have a case of the hiccups.
Providing a contrast to Komodo’s macro dives is a great manta site off the island of Langkoi, a busy little channel where the graceful rays can be seen feeding on plankton-loaded water. Langkoi’s mantas are among the biggest I have ever seen, some even approaching the legendary 6m mark.
It was a pleasure to dispense with the hood and gloves when our boat Kararu returned to the balmy sites of the north. Here, I was presented with dizzyingly clear water and some classically beautiful reefs. There were plenty of reef fish, but I saw little in the blue, despite the preternatural clarity of the water. Occasionally, schools of barracuda, jacks or bannerfish would appear, but there were no sharks or tuna. This is the case across much of these islands, where shark-finning has decimated reef shark populations over the past decade. Illegal shark fishing and even dynamite bombing still takes place in Komodo National Park, despite its protected status.
Still, conservation efforts at Komodo – reinforced by the presence of tourism – have succeeded in preserving vast tracts of reef. These reefs have an additional importance which transcends the pleasure they give divers. The coral here is especially resilient to the effects of coral bleaching caused by factors such as global warming and El Niño. This is due to the upwelling effect of cooling water from the depths of the Sumba Sea.
Marine biologists believe that as coral reef systems continue to be lost, it is places such as Komodo that will replenish and re-colonize devastated habitats elsewhere in Indonesia and the wider Indo-Pacific. The same currents which make life so difficult (if entertaining) for divers, carry coral larvae beyond the national park to places where reef space is available. In this sense, Komodo is a mother among coral reefs, and one we should all cherish.
• Simon Rogerson dived with Kararu Dive Voyages. Charters are available for trips of different duration, but the standard Komodo tour takes 11 days. Trips to the remote reefs of Alor and Rajah Empat are also available. For further information, contact UK agents Divequest on 01254 826322 or check out Kararu’s website, http://www.kararu.com.
The world’s easiest wreck dive?
No diver should visit Bali without diving the wreck of the Liberty, a First World War-era cargo ship which lies off the beach at the village of Tulamben on the nortwest coast. The Liberty grounded itself on this beach after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1942, and stayed there until 1963 when the Agung volcano exploded, pushing her into the water and splitting the hull in two.
Today, the wreckage sits on black volcanic sand at a diver-friendly 27m, providing a home for a prodigious amount of marine life. It pained me not to include the Liberty in DIVE’s recent rundown of the world’s best wrecks, but the truth is that this is a wreck dive for divers who don’t like wrecks.
The structure of the wreck is undeniably impressive, but the resident marine life steals the show. There is a school of jacks which regularly form the classic spiral shoaling formation, and tame reef fish abound (they’ve been fed, and approach divers with feverish enthusiasm).
The wreck is coated in coral, and sought-after macro subjects such as the pygmy seahorse can be reliably found. It has to be one of the world’s best shore dives, but what makes it so ludicrously easy is the presence of a local co-operative which charges a small amount for access to the shore, then carries your BC and cylinder to the entry point.
What makes all this slightly shameful is the fact that the co-operative is made up of local women, most of whom are slightly built and less than five feet tall! They can carry two sets of kit at a time for the ten-minute walk over the pebble beach! On their heads!
I couldn’t bring myself to let them carry my gear, but my guide warned me that it would be seen as unforgivably patronizing not to let them do their job. So, I hobbled over the beach behind my petite kit-bearer praying to the Balinese gods that no one would recognize me.
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Staten Island Options for New York Visitors
Staten Island Options for New York Visitors
Budget-conscious travellers to New York could make significant savings on their hotel bills by choosing to stay at nearby Staten Island, and taking advantage of the free Staten Island Ferry to go sightseeing in Manhattan and the other Big Apple boroughs. With hotels in Manhattan amongst the most expensive in the world, it makes perfect economic sense to stay just over the Hudson on Staten Island, where hotel accommodation is significantly cheaper.
Although, nearer to New Jersey than the other four boroughs, Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City with a population of almost half a million. The Staten Island Ferry takes only 25 minutes to travel the five miles from the St. George Ferry Terminal to Battery Park, Manhattan and runs regularly throughout the day. But, best of all its free; there is no charge for foot passengers who use the service. There is room for 4,440 foot passengers on each ferry, and with over 50 weekday round-trips you should have no trouble getting a place on board, although try to avoid the rush hour periods when many residents of Staten Island make their way to jobs in Manhattan, and back to their homes in the evening. At the weekend there are less services but still a significant amount, enabling you to make the most of your big city vacation.
With all the major sights in New York City such as the Empire State Building, Times Square, Central Park and Grand Central Station all easily accessible from the southern tip of Manhattan via the subway and bus, it makes great financial sense to stay in Staten Island. Both uptown and upstate New York can be conveniently reached using the excellent transportation system throughout the five boroughs and beyond.
Also, while you travel on the ferry you will get excellent views of the Lower Manhattan skyline, and you’ll steam past Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, although if you wish to visit the latter two attractions you will need to embark on a separate Liberty ferry that travels from Battery Park.
From your hotel in Staten Island you can be in central Manhattan in less than 45 minutes; while benefiting from the much lower room prices – easily saving 0 per night per room – money you will save on your accommodation during a one week stay could pay for all your sight-seeing activity, and may even fund other entertainment options and for all your day-to-day dining!
Adam Singleton is an online, freelance journalist and keen gardener. He lives in Scotland with his two dogs.
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The Perfect Storm – Rhode Island Budget Crisis (Part 1)
“Rhode Island is clearly facing one of the biggest budget deficits in the country. We’re hearing that more and more states are coming into this column of states with significant budget deficits. From what we’ve seen, we know that the size of our budget deficit compared to the overall size of our budget is very serious. It is something that has been developing over the past several years. We know that there is the 0 million hole in this budget year that we are now in, and another 4 million projected for FY09. So, clearly, it is a very serious situation that has to be solved. There is a whole variety of things that probably lead to the kind of time that we are in: the economy isn’t great right now; the revenues that the state counts on in the form of people being here, paying taxes, businesses opeing up, jobs coming online, has not been what the state was hoping for; and it just leads to almost a perfect storm of economic difficulties both in the state, the region, and the country at the same time that we’re looking for ways to plan for the future of the state.” Find your legislator: www.rilin.state.ri.us .
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Rhode Island Real Estate on Craigslist
Rhode Island Real Estate on Craigslist
Most Americans know that Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union in terms of landmass. Fewer people know, however, that Rhode Island holds a few other other distinctions. For instance, it was the first colony to declare independence from England and it is the state with the longest name, as its official title is the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Trivia aside, however, Rhode Island is also a nice place to call home, especially for people who love the ocean. When shopping for a home in the area, one great resource to use is Craigslist.
Craigslist is a network of sites for communities throughout the United States and around the globe. The Craigslist network helps people connect to have garage sales, sublease an apartment, find a job, and even spark a new relationship. Initially, CL began as a resource for just the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995. By 2006, there was a Craigslist site representing each of 450 cities, U.S. states and Canadian provinces. With a few exceptions, advertising on Craigslist is free, and postings are placed in various sections, all organized into major categories for easy browsing and navigation.
Whether you are moving to Rhode Island and are in search of housing, or you already live there and just looking for change in scenery, the housing section of Craigslist RI (http://providence.craigslist.org) is an invaluable resource. The “real estate for sale” board is the place to start for those looking to buy a new home. While browsing the listings, you would do well to notice the search tool at the top of the page. This allows you to narrow down the listings based on price, keyword, or whether the listing includes images. This can be a big time saver, as it cuts down and having to manually weed through each listing title.
One of the most useful features about Craigslist is that it not only allows posters to include pics in the listings, but will also provide a link to a map of the property’s location based on the address. Simply click on the “google map” or “yahoo map” link near the bottom of a listing, and you can instantly see where the property is located within the state. This is especially useful if you know a few things about the geography of Rhode Island already and know certain locations you might want to be live near.
Rhode Island’s location makes it a great place to live. After all, it is close to two of the largest major metropolitan areas in the country, and no where in the state is more than a half hour drive from the ocean. If you are a prospective home buyer in Rhode Island, Craigslist RI makes the process of acquiring your home just that much easier– no poring over newspapers or real estate ads, just typing and clicking.
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