Article: In the United States, business and professional licenses are typically issued at the state level. The exact department managing that information may vary from state to state. In Alaska, for example, licenses are issued and recorded by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. In Washington State, business and professional licenses are issued by the State Department of Licensing. In Florida, business and professional licenses are managed by the State Department of Business & Professional Regulation. And in California, licenses are issued and managed by the California Secretary of State.  Search online for business and professional licenses in your state to determine which government office is responsible for managing this information. Most state sites let you search by the license owner's name, the license number, the type of license in question, or the city or county in which the license was issued.  At the state-level Secretary of State website, you should be able to search by corporation name, limited liability company name, or entity number to find a business. Many cities, especially large cities like Chicago, provide online databases of businesses licensed in the city. Each state’s Secretary of State keeps track of publicly-traded corporations that have filed corporate disclosure statements in that state. This document identifies the parent corporation and all publicly held corporations that own 10% or more of its stock. Search your state's Secretary of State website to learn more about the publicly-traded corporations in your state of residence. Each state has its own Alcohol and Tobacco Commission (ATC), which regulates the sale of alcohol and tobacco within that state. All businesses selling alcohol or tobacco must be registered with the state and have a license. To find these businesses, search for “alcohol license” or “tobacco license” on these websites.
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Visit your state’s licensing website. Search for corporate disclosure statements. Find alcohol and tobacco licenses.
Article: Macs are much more standardized than PCs, so this should work on any working Mac keyboard. Note that the selection of available symbols is much more limited than on a PC, and that each is caused by pressing and holding the Option key while pressing one or more of a variety of keys, rather than a strictly of a code. You can find lists of available keyboard symbols at sites like http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/mac/.  Accented letters are created by holding down the Option key, then pressing a key for the type of accent, then the letter you want to accent. If it is a capital letter, you will need to hold down shift as well. The accented letter Á, for instance, is obtained by pressing Option and Shift, then pressing E and A in sequence, then releasing all keys. Symbols other than accented letters are still created by holding the Option key and pressing another key, but rather than making the symbols capitalized, the shift key changes the symbol altogether. For instance, holding down Option and pressing = creates ≠, while also holding down the shift key creates ±.
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Hold either the Option key or the Option and Shift keys. Select the symbol you want. Press the key that corresponds to your symbol.
Article: You can create your own Christmas decorations by stringing through the hole in a disc and tying it at the end. Draw patterns on the disc itself or glue on glitter to complete the decoration. Stick CD labels on your discs to lend more space for decoration. While whole discs can be used in crafts, you'll have far more possibilities if you break them up. Breaking them up, you can create a number of different shapes and increase the reflective surface of the disc. Snap the CD into multiple shards and glue onto a surface for a striking mosaic. If you're breaking CDs, keep the sharp edges in mind. Be careful when you're snapping the discs. Use a hammer to break up smaller pieces and pick up broken sharps gently, as if they were glass. CDs are the perfect size to set hot drinks atop. They will bear the heat and save your kitchen surfaces from damage. You can paint or draw on the discs to give them some ornamental appeal as well. If you snap a CD in half, you'll have a nice decoration to line a flowerbed with. Due to the likelihood that you'll have a lot of CDs to go through, you shouldn't be surprised if you're able to transform your entire garden in this manner. CDs can be linked together and hung from a wall in a large pattern. If you have enough CDs, you can conceivably cover a wall in this way. Chain links through the CDs and secure the highest CD of each row to the wall by looping the highest link through a nail to the wall. You can create holes in the CDs by using a drill. Drill it with an old piece of wood underneath.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Make your own Christmas decorations. Break your discs into shards for use in crafts patterns. Turn your discs into drink coasters. Decorate your garden with CD shards. Create a hanging wall layer.