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The following reports are based on police reports from Chicago's 19th Police District.
The district provides police protection on Chicago's north side, from Lawrence Avenue on the north, Fullerton Avenue on the south, the Chicago River on the west and Lake Michigan on the east.
Driver Rapes, Robs Woman on Diversey
A 21-year-old Edgewater woman was raped and robbed at 6 a.m. on New Year's Day after reportedly getting into the car of a stranger who promised her a ride home.
The woman told police she got into the sport utility vehicle near the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Diversey Parkway, according to the report. That's when he drove to an unknown residential area, parked and told her to get in the back seat.
The woman told police the man locked the doors, joined her in the back seat and raped her, said the report. He later drove her to another unfamiliar area, grabbed her iPhone and kicked her out of the vehicle, police said. She was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital in Lincoln Square where a rape kit was used to gather evidence. Health officials determined that she was not intoxicated during the incident.
Tenant Robbed at Gunpoint While Entering Apartment
Police were called to the 700 block of West Cornelia Avenue in East Lake View at 3:20 a.m. after two men, believed to be 25-to 35-years-old, reportedly robbed a man at gunpoint. According to the police report, the 26-year-old victim was entering his apartment when two men pushed him into his apartment and said, "I have a gun." Fearing for his safety, the man gave them $40 while one of the suspects snatched his iPhone. Police are still searching for the two men.
Drunken Woman Beaten With 2-by-4 at Hotel Chateau
Police were called to Hotel Chateau at 9 p.m. New Year's Day when a resident walked into another's apartment, picked up a wooden 2-by-4 and used it to hit a woman, according to the report. The 49-year-old victim, who was reportedly intoxicated during the incident, told police she was in her apartment with the door open when a man from another floor walked in and started a verbal fight with her.
The fight escalated, so the man picked up the piece of wood and cracked her in the arm. Police said she may have had a broken arm. The woman was transferred to Thorek Medical Center for treatment. Authorities weren't able to find the 2-by-4 or the assailant. However, they said they know the man's identity.
Teens Rob Lake View Man
Police were called to a robbery in the 1100 block of West Wellington Avenue around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday when three men who police said were 17-to 19-years-old reportedly committed a robbery. The teens came up behind the 29-year-old man repeatedly saying, "Let me use your phone, let me see it," police wrote, in the report.
The victim told them, "I do not have my phone. It's a radio," according to the report. That's when the suspects started pulling on the man's bag and hitting him in the back of the head, police said. They reportedly snagged the bag from around the victim's neck and took off.
Con Man Steals Thousands From 86-Year-Old
An 86-year-old Lincoln Square woman called police at 4 p.m. New Year's Eve when a phone conversation with a man who claimed to be her second cousin made her feel like "something wasn't right."
It turns out, she was right, as the man successfully conned her out of thousands of dollars.
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Robber Targets Deaf-Mute Man
Two men robbed at gunpoint a 45-year-old man who was deaf and mute around 7:50 a.m. Jan. 1 near the corner of North Broadway and West Montrose Avenue. After the attack, the man drove to the 19th District Police Station to file a report.
The robbers, believed to be 20-to 25-years-old, came up behind the victim, police said. One suspect put the man in a headlock, pointing a gun at his head while the second suspect stole his wallet, which contained $150.
Mentally Ill Patient Rapes Fellow Patient
Police were dispatched to Wilson Care in Uptown at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday to investigate the criminal sexual assault of a 27-year-old patient and resident, they said. Located at 4544 N. Hazel St., the center is a residential facility for the mentally ill.
According to the police report, the 23-year-old suspect removed the victim's clothes while she was in his room and proceeded to rape her. The woman told police she asked the man to stop and also kicked him, they said. The woman was taken to Weiss Hospital so doctors could test her using a rape kit. The man was not taken into custody due to his mental disability, but when questioned, he told police he didn't know what the woman was talking about.
Gunshot Wounds 17-Year-Old
A 17-year-old girl was shot in the back around 9:20 p.m. in Uptown Friday night while walking in the 4600 block of North Malden Street, police said. The girl was reportedly walking with her friends when they heard gunshots, so they started running. That's when the teen realized a stray bullet grazed the middle of her back, according to the report. She was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital.
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#Tip of the day for journalists: Questions to ask around online community
September 7th, 2012Posted by Sarah Marshall in Social media and blogging, Top tips for journalists
At Hacks/Hackers Brighton this week Joanna Geary, digital development editor at the Guardian, shared her tips on five questions news outlets should ask themselves before starting a social media campaign or a project to engage with the online community.
Geary's tips, which are explained in this post on Adam Tinworth's blog, are:
1. Why are you doing community?
2. How are you measuring that?
3. Are you paying attention to the results?
4. Are you sharing what works?
5. Are you doing enough to support them?
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Finding historical background
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Finding literary analysis
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Overheard at CES: mumblings of the tired and extremely nerdy
CES is a crazy place filled with weird people. Here are some things I heard inside The Verge trailer, on the show floor, and around the city of Las Vegas — which was packed to the gills with 150,000 tech nerds, you might care to know. Read, enjoy, savor, and it might make you feel a little bit more like you braved CES with us. You can even play this like a game. Who do these quotes belong to, and what were they talking about?
"'Tired but vaguely aroused' pretty much describes my CES experience."
"I feel like a disembodied spirit. I look at objects and I'm looking into their souls."
"Our CMS is broken. My team is drunk. My deputy is having a baby."
"What type of grip do you use on your mouse? Do you use 'the claw,' or are you pinky-out?"
"You Americans want tailored apps catered to your needs. We Bulgarians like universal tools, like hammers and swords."
"CPM vs CPC: it's an extraordinarily simple concept, Todd."
"I download everything I can find, and I'm constantly let down."
"It sounds fun, but I'm never around human beings."
"Is that a pancake in your pocket or are you just using a really stupid cell phone?"
"If you jump that fence I'm gonna take away your credentials"
"I'll talk to you in a bit. I need to feed."
"It has moved our idea of our new cyborg selves forward, and that's why it matters."
"If you divide all the minutes the exhibitors are open and take no bathroom breaks and no food breaks and measure the time it would take to go from from booth to booth you'd have an average of 39 seconds each."
"There is a giant snake you can ride inside."
"There was a time when I would turn on Safari and it would peg one of my cores. It got really annoying."
"Goin' mouth-on with this pulled pork like a motha fucka"
"We are starting to see more iPad stands, which is good."
"It's metadata-powered evolutionary media and entertainment."
"What's your batch setup?"
"Your daughter's sixteen?"
"What's she into?"
"You know, arts, theater, writing, music..."
"Does she have a good head on her shoulders?"
"We've been living in this booth for the last four months just to get ready for this show. I have no idea what else is going on."
"They're doing way better than General Motors. And they did it without taking any money from the government!"
"Nvidia looks like it's pretty fancy these days"
"Does anyone have a full-sized AT&T SIM?"
"So as you can see, I slept from about 3-5 last night"
"He gave me that look that says 'I totally know you didn't follow me back.'"
"With Android taking a pretty strong stance, we've been very lucky to diversify our portfolio."
"What happens at CES doesn't stay here... thanks to the cloud!"
"You are offending me personally by offering me money."
"I'm gonna go raid the floor again. Anyone want to join me?"
"Show him the picture of Sinofsky"
"What do I need a roomba for? I don't even have a floor!"
"When I walk around with 4G LTE and I get 45 down I am the fucking future"
"I miss Comdex"
"I don't gamble, I just spend my money on video games."
and finally
"We should sell it to them, and then they should just buy it."
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AMD is 'transforming', will be profitable this quarter, says CEO Read
AMD has entered phase two of its "restructure, accelerate, and ultimately transform" realignment project, says company president and CEO Rory Read, who sees brighter days ahead. "With our restructuring complete, our focus in the second half of the year is on continuing to accelerate our business," Read told the analysts and …
AMD is moving forward
AMD has definitely found new markets and products that are helping them rebuild in a very bad economic environment worldwide. That's impressive. A $29 millon quarterly loss on a billion dollars in sales is insignificant in the grand scheme of business. Some of the previous quarters AMD made good money but showed negative numbers because they purchased SeaMicro, bought out of exclusive CPU production with GloFo, etc.
Someone who doesn't understand the accounting - and there are many who fall into this category, falsely conclude that AMD has only experienced red ink in recent times, which is untrue. In addition SeaMicro will be bringing in nice revenue and developing new micro servers by Q4 of '13. It's good that AMD has made the painful transition but they seem well positioned going forward despite the naysayers.
Re: AMD is moving forward
There seems to be a sound business plan there, and the exec knows where he is going. They need to integrate better; I recall there being difficult times with the ATi purchase, almost as if AMD hadn't appreciated the sheer complexity of GPUs. I think SeaMicro was a good purchase, and I thought ATi was a good purchase.
Sadly that didn't stop a share price dip yesterday,
It still only has a market cap of around £2 billion, which is peanuts. I'm surprised they haven't been bought out.
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Have you noticed this where you live? Do you think that the quickening pace of technology (or other things) has made us not want to invest in those built-to-last projects? I notice this kind of thinking in other areas. Why invest in a new car, computer, cell phone? A better model will come out next year, month, week.
Well think about how much money it would cost to build a house entirely out of marbel or various other structural materials they use to use. Plus think about how uncomfortable it woudl be and how long it would take to build.
Thats one thing thats great about Catholicism though. We have built a hell of a lot of incredible structures. Theres a church nearby I use to go to. Its only 100 years old but its still a great structure compared to everything around it. Theres a new church uptown that rivals our city hall in size and is far more awe-inspiring then the city hall (and the stupid city hall looks like an alien space ship.... funny story behind that). Don't know what religion is there but its pretty big. But of course, the hell if I could ever be in these places for more then 3 hours a week. Cold... kinda intimidating if your alone.... uncomfortable... but i love the organs!


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Mark Hayward's City Matters: Plenty to be thankful for
As I thought about Thanksgiving this week, I fantasized about Thanksgiving in an alternative universe. In my alternative universe, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was not so devastated by disease and death in its first winter (only 47 of the 102 original Mayflower colonists survived the winter, according to Wikipedia).
So, in my alternative history, Plymouth Rock got crowded quickly. Leaders of the Mass. Bay Colony started levying taxes to build an ornate dock, fund a few cushy jobs for their brothers-in-law and pay for colony-wide schooling beyond the eighth grade.
That caused about half the colony (the ornery half) to say 'I'm out of here' and move north. They made camp at falls on the Merrimack River, where they thrived off the abundant game, made peace with the natives and celebrated the first Thanksgiving feast, all on granite-hugging soil.
My story may be fantastical, but as we city residents gather today with friends and family, we have much to be thankful for.
-- That Myles Webster is a lousy shot. Six years ago, Manchester grieved over the death of police officer Michael Briggs. We dodged that bullet this March when officer Daniel Doherty survived a shoot-out between himself and Webster. Webster fired 12 shots at Doherty, most when the 25-year-old officer was on his back returning fire. At times, Webster was as close as three feet from Doherty, according to court testimony.
Doherty, who was hit five times, remains very much alive, although out of work because of his injuries. Webster is scheduled to go on trial next month for attempted murder.
If pretrial hearings are any indication, his lawyers might raise what I call a good-man, good-shot defense: that Webster didn't really want to kill Doherty and is therefore a good shot. (Talk about alternative universes.)
Of course, the prosecution will argue that Webster, who has a history of gun-related crimes, is a bad man, and a bad shot to boot.
-- That Jim O'Connell likes a good fight. For the past 20 years or so, school funding in Manchester has basically come down to two goals - keep taxes low and keep teachers on the job. Any reformers have tended to be quiet types content to send out emails and hold workshops.
Enter O'Connell. He has the time on his hands and the determination to keep parents active in a fight for better schools. O'Connell, whose Irish brogue betrays a leprechaun's cunning, didn't mind calling the Fire Department on the first day of school to say that overcrowded classrooms were a fire hazard.
The father of four frequently appears before aldermen and the school board to demand better schools. And much to Mayor Ted Gatsas' dismay, his organization - Citizens for Manchester Schools - boasts a website, bumper stickers and, apparently, staying power.
(In the interests of full disclosure here, Jim is a neighbor. If you stop to say hello to him, beware. He will talk at length about schools, politics and Ireland.)
-- For patient voters. Earlier this month, 49,052 people voted in the Queen City, which works out to roughly 58 percent of the voting-age population. (I'm using a 2010 census estimate of 85,090 Manchester residents who are 18 or over). Throughout the day, polling places had lines I hadn't seen since this summer when the third movie of the Batman trilogy came out. They were patient and proud. Like the outcome or not, the turnout shows that many - in fact, most - Manchester residents still believe in democracy.
-- The the wobbly Jet Stream. Last month, that great turnpike of upper-air currents whipped Sandy south of New England, saving us from the winds and rains that struck New Jersey and New York. Now if it can just settle somewhere between New York and Philadelphia for the next four months. Keep the warm air south of us, the cold air over us and let those nor'easters ride its slope like a kid down a water slide.
Thanksgiving is over at midnight. It's time for some big snowstorms.
-- For Sister Angie Whidden. When I did my Thanksgiving grocery shopping Wednesday, a man came up and asked me for a couple of dollars. He had two children at home, he said, and no way to give them a Thanksgiving dinner. Of course, my generous streak wanted to help, but I'm wary of giving cash to strangers, not knowing what it will be used for.
Thanks to Sister Angie, who died last month at 86, I suggested he seek out New Horizons soup kitchen and pantry. When she started serving soup out of a Winnebago to the homeless on Christmas Eve 1979, there were no homeless shelters or soup kitchens in the city. Few - if any - existed in the state. But because of her hard work and example, shelters, soup kitchens and pantries exist throughout New Hampshire. Because of her, no one will go hungry today who doesn't want to. (Of course, she started it all; it's up to us to continue her work, so please remember the less fortunate today and write a check to your local shelter or soup kitchen.)
-- For happy doggies. Last year, some Manchester residents took it upon themselves to build a dog park in the city. It lacks the pizazz (running water, agility courses) of parks in Hooksett and Derry. But no city dollars were spent building it (although it is on unused city land).
Of course, this is Manchester: Patrons are bickering over how to improve the park. But they will eventually agree, egos will heal and the park will prosper. To put things in perspective, Bedford is so divided on a dog park that it looks like residents will have to vote on a park this spring.
-- Manchester water. Two weeks ago, I visited my hometown of Syracuse, N.Y. Turning on the faucet there is like opening the valve in a chemical plant. The water stinks of whatever is used to purify it, and it tastes about as bad. (Nonetheless, natives claim Syracuse water is some of the best in the country. The mass delusion makes me think they've put something in the water besides chlorine.) Here in Manchester, I can drink gallons of our vintage Lake Massabesic waters.
It's fresh, clear and tastes like a mid-December snowfall. The longtime director of Manchester Water Works retires in January after 42 years at the city-owned utility. Thanks Tom Bowen, for the drink.
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When it comes to money, it often pays to ignore financial news. The media is in the business of selling news, and to do that, they sensationalize it. Fueled by the over-eager reporting, irrational exuberance can quickly turn to pervasive gloom. Neither state of mind makes sense. They're both extremes that lead investors to make poor decisions.
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|Vermont Hunger Facts
One in five Vermont children experiences hunger or food hardship. Many Vermonters find this number surprising. In the United States, a country with so much wealth, it is inconceivable that there are people who struggle to meet their basic needs. And yet, hunger is a daily reality for Americans in every state. Lack of affordable housing, low wages, high unemployment, a decrease in the number of local, affordable grocery stores, and lack of public transportation all contribute to hunger and food insecurity in Vermont.
Food Insecurity with Hunger in Vermont (2010-2012, 3 year average from US Census): Households that are classified as food insecure with hunger are those in which adults have decreased the quality and quantity of food they consume because of lack of money to the point where they are quite likely to be hungry on a frequent basis, or in which children's intake has been reduced due to lack of family financial resources, to the point that children are likely to be hungry on a regular basis and adults' food intake is severely reduced.
Emergency Food Utilized in Vermont
The effects of hunger on children can be detrimental to their health, well-being, and lifelong success. Children living in food insecure homes are at greater risk for poor health, nutritional deficiencies and obesity/overweight, as well as developmental delays, poor academic achievement, depression, and increased aggressive or hyperactive behavior.
Hunger and obesity exist in the same households. Learn more about this paradoxical correlation.
Federal Nutrition Programs Improve Health and Well-Being
Participation in 3SquaresVT (formerly Food Stamps): reduces food insecurity and improves children's diet quality; decreases risk of poor health, anemia, diabetes, and malnutrition; increases achievement in math and reading; and is associated with decreases in child abuse.
Click here for the Vermont Hunger Facts (pdf).
1 "Household Food Security in the United States, 2012," www.ers.usda.gov. The food insecure households with hunger are a subset of the total food insecure households.
2 Data on Vermont children living in food insecure homes from 2010-2012 Current Population Survey of the US Census, through DataFerrett.
3 Data from 2010 Vermonter Poll.
4 Emergency food data from "Report on the 2008 Survey of Vermont Food Shelves and Community Kitchens," Planning, Policy and Regulation Unit, Economic Services Division, VT Dept for Children and Families, April 2008.


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Amundson expected to make a decision this week
Forward Lou Amundson, the odd man out in the Phoenix Suns' offseason shuffle, is expected to sign this week with the Golden State Warriors, New Orleans Hornets or Indiana Pacers. "We're getting close to doing something," said Mark Bartelstein, his agent. "I think we'll get something done with Louis this week."


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Jessica Rachelle Davis and Justin Dale Curtis were married March 1 at First Christian Church in Henrietta. Howard Walker officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Terry and Amber Davis of Henrietta and the granddaughter of Kenneth and Earlene Davis of Iowa Park. The groom is the son of Mike and Stacie Curtis of Lakeside City.
Jennifer Davis was matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Lyndsey Reid and Lauren Petree.
Kevin Murphy was best man. Groomsmen were Jason Curtis, brother of the groom, and Chad Davis, brother of the bride.
Heston Davis was ring bearer. Hope Davis was flower girl.
The bride's parents were hosts for a reception at the Henrietta Senior Citizen Center. The groom's parents entertained rehearsal dinner guests at the church.
The bride is a graduate of Henrietta High School and Vernon College. She is a licensed cosmetologist and a hair stylist at Salon Bella.
The groom is a graduate of Henrietta High School. He is employed by the postal service.
The couple took a wedding trip to South Fork, Colo. They live in Wichita Falls.
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April 18, 2007
By JOHN HANEY 6 News Anchor/Reporter
KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- A father took extreme measures Wednesday to discipline his 14-year-old son, who he claims was abusing drugs.
Because the boy is a minor, 6 News won't reveal his or his father's identity.
The boy was forced to wear a large sandwich board sign that said "I abused & sold drugs," while standing in front of Cedar Bluff Middle School.
"I would like to say that I'm not out here doing this to humiliate my son,' the dad said. "I'm doing this because I love him. We do have an extreme drug problem in America, and maybe it's time for extreme measures that parents need to take to monitor this problem that we have."
The man says he recently learned after reading the boy's MySpace page his son was involved with marijuana and OxyContin. That's when he decided to take immediate action.
"Basically he said, 'Well, I did do the crime and I'm willing to serve the punishment for it,' and he's taking it all in stride," the boy's father said.
The school's principal soon came out and asked the father to call it off, which he did.
By that time the boy said he had already learned his lesson. "This is embarrassing. I ain't going to be doing it again."
And the boy added, "Drugs are for losers. That's all I can say."
Those were the words his dad hoped to hear.
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Vermont State Police are investigating a suspicious fire in Springfield.
Around 2 a.m. Tuesday, Springfield firefighters responded to a two-family house on Main Street.
The homeowner says he was woken up by a smoke detector and called 911.
The fire was contained to the basement area.
There were no injuries.
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Ornamental, or exotic fish farming could be a lucrative business in Jamaica. The colourful fish are kept as pets and are in high demand in the US, especially in colder states — they are said to help lift spirits during longer periods indoor during the winter. The global demand is now valued at US$6 billion ($528 billion), according to the foreign affairs and trade ministry. The Jamaican tropical climate is good for improving the aesthetic value of the fish, by intensifying their hues, when compared to those farmed in cooler climates. And the country's close proximity to the US adds to the possible viability of the business of growing the fish here for export to there.


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The CD comes with a Limited Edition, numbered, signed print of a song lyric handwritten by Glenn.
The vinyl is 2 x LP gatefold sleeve and includes a digital download of the album.
Please note that we have been advised that the LP is running approximately a week late. We expect to be able to ship around October 10. Apologies for the delay.
Pre-order the digital version and instantly get the track Definitive History.
There's also a Deluxe Version on iTunes, which has three extra tracks.
(Friends outside Australia - it will be up digitally shortly)
After the band went 'on hiatus' in 2009, Glenn Richards opted to move from Melbourne to Hobart seeking lower rent and the chance to develop a working studio. This he did, building a soundproof bunker out of a small cave carved out of the wall of an underground garage in Goulburn Street, West Hobart. He began to write and demo songs for something, anything, next.
Inside of a year he'd been given the choice by his negatively-geared landlord to either eliminate the abandoned sibling kittens now in his care or be evicted. In his new rental lodging further up the mountain there was a large garden and a bungalow, which was duly converted to a more ambitious studio and sometimes speakeasy.
Communication amongst Glenn, Adam, Edmondo, Dave and Kiernan flickered to life. The idea of a new album was floated, one made in their own time, under their own steam; an album that was just made until it was made.
Within a year, despite two different wrists, one broken and one wrenched from its preferred location, and the perpetual problem of just getting together, Augie March began putting basic tracks down in the glow of the news they were finally, blessedly, independent once more.
In dribs and drabs over months and eventually over a year drums and bass were laid down at two different Melbourne studios. Vocals and assorted overdubs were then completed in Hobart, Brunswick and Yarraville by individual band members.
Of thirty-odd tracks, the list was refined to a smaller number. 14 tracks made the final cut.
The album is mixed beautifully by old friend and engineer illuminati Paul McKercher.
Its themes are various, but times passing, loss, dislocation, distance, new hope and healthy anger are coals in its fire. It contains elements of each release that has gone before and will be cherished by those who have kept faith with this rare outfit.
The album is Havens Dumb.
- The Good Gardener
No – not the final ever shows! But the final two of these special hometown return shows at Howler in Brunswick.
The first three shows back are now completely sold out. TWO more shows are now announced - Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd November. Tickets are on sale now. No more of these shows at Howler will be added.
Tickets are $45 +bf and on sale now:
The band are feeling very warmly welcomed back. These shows will happen about three weeks after the new album 'Havens Dumb' is released on October 3 (you can pre-order that here), so will feature some of those new songs, as well as plenty of songs from the earlier albums.
It's likely they will play with a different special guest each night - more about that later.
They would also like to get to every town and city in the world that wants them to play, but for now, these shows are the only ones.
Way back in late 1995, the band – well they weren't really actually a band at that point, just some friends with a notion of being a band – were invited to play at an art gallery in Brunswick Victoria for the opening of a friend's art exhibition.
It will be a full nineteen years later, again in Brunswick, just a few streets away from that first venue, that the band will take to the stage again after a five-year hiatus.
From October 29 to November 2, Augie March will play at Howler, in Dawson Street Brunswick.
Adam, Dave, Edmondo, Glenn and Kiernan will play a special show drawing on songs from their back catalogue as well as some songs from their forthcoming new album.
See you there,
- The Good Gardener
So over the past two-and-a-half years, the band have been quietly piecing together an album. They started with a pool of over forty songs, then gradually sifted through and refined them until they had what they wanted – under their own steam, with no clock running; just making the album until it was made. Much of it was made in Glenn's home studio in Tasmania, and was mixed by Paul McKercher, who worked on Sunset Studies, Strange Bird and Moo, You Bloody Choir.
The first song from the album is 'After The Crack Up' and it's available now via iTunes and other services (friends that are in USA and Canada - please note it will be available for you shortly):
Here's the official video for 'After The Crack Up', the first song from the forthcoming album. The video places the band in a piece of cinema history - the world's first ever feature-length narrative film, made in 1906.
The Story Of The Kelly Gang was at its time a wildly successful film in Australia and abroad. Despite its fame, the historic film was thought to have been lost by 1940 as all known prints had disappeared. In 1976 a lucky find started a chain of events that eventually led to the film being painstakingly restored by the National Film and Sound Archive.
The video is faithful to the film's silent-movie style. It was directed and edited by the brilliant Colin and Cameron Cairnes, the team behind the Australian horror-comedy 100 Bloody Acres, for which Glenn provided the music score. The Cairnes brothers had also previously worked with the band on videos for The Mothball (1998) and The Hole In Your Roof (2000).
Edmondo took some photos on the day.
And here's a video with the lyrics for 'After The Crack Up':
The album will see the light of day/the light on the inside of computers later this year.
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He was scheduled to be there from 5-6PM at Steve and Barry's. The purpose was to promote the launch of his "Big Ben Wallace" clothing and shoe line.
There was a lot of people there and the lines to see him were ridiculous. I got there like 20 minutes before the appearance and of course the place was already packed.
I brought along my copy of NBA 2K7 with Shaq on the cover and planned to ask Ben Wallace write
"I owned him" and sign it.
However, The lines were way too long and I had to take care of somethings in a short amount of time so I figured I'd just stay to see him in person.
He arrived around 5:08 and there was people of the media surrounding him almost immediately. Wallace brought along his son, I guess his PR person and some other people.
According to some other groups of people, his brother Al Wallace was there too with his daughter.
Ben was wearing his corn rolls, a black hoodie, I believe gray sweat pants and a black head band, all seemed to be his Big Ben clothing products. He was freakin tall of course and I noticed he had really huge arms.
Before he started signing autographs, he was talking to the media and getting flashed by photographers. At around 5:20 he started signing autographs.
Ben simply signed autograph and occasionally smiled at the little kids who were very excited to see him. He had a quite demeanor which I expect since he is known to be a sort of quiet guy.
From what I saw, most of the fans quickly walked to him and had him sign whatever they wanted and walked off. I guess I was not the only one intimidated by his presence.
I left around 5:40. Later on my brother told me he was there too and his friend got his basketball signed by Ben.


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U.S. 2¢ "Black Hardings"
On August 2, 1923, during the return leg of a voyage to Alaska and the American west, Warren Gamaliel Harding suffered a heart attack and became the sixth U.S. president to die in office. Harding had been popular despite the charges of corruption and cronyism that tarnished his brief administration, and the Post Office Department (POD) rushed a 2¢ black mourning stamp into production. The National Postal Museum owns a specialized collection of this stamp that was assembled and exhibited in the 1940s by Howard A. Lederer of New York City. Lederer's collection documents the stamp's hurried production and chronicles the two philatelic crazes it spawned: first day covers and precancels.
One of the earliest preproduction items in the Lederer Collection is an August 15, 1923 draft press release boasting that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) would "break all existing records...in the engraving and in the production of these stamps." This was not an exaggerated claim. Clair Aubrey Huston, a twenty-one year veteran of the BEP, designed the stamp in one day—August 16—using a modified version of the Fourth Bureau Issue frame and a copperplate etching of the late president. The Lederer Collection contains a copy of the etching signed by its artist, Frederick Pauling, and inscribed "To Howard Lederer / Harding Memorial Stamp was Engraved after this Portrait."
Reportedly this etching was Harding's favorite and his widow suggested its use; in reality it was chosen for expediency. Because Pauling was a Bureau employee, his work was readily available. It also had the advantage of being a profile, minimizing the chance that postal clerks or customers would confuse the Harding stamp with the 7¢ black McKinley already in circulation. Huston's design was quickly approved and the Pauling etching ran in newspapers almost immediately.
There has been some confusion as to which BEP employee actually engraved the vignette. Beverly S. King and Max G. Johl contend that "E[dward] M[cClellan] Hall engraved the master die," but this must refer only to the lettering since Hall was a specialist in that area. Gary Griffith in United States Stamps 1922-26 credits the vignette to Pauling himself. Two items in the Lederer Collection argue strongly in favor of Pauling: a pen sketch by him on celluloid appears to be a study or tracing for the vignette, and there is an imperforate block of four signed in the margin by "F. Pauling, / Engraver."
Pauling must have slept little and worked at breakneck speed since only six days elapsed from design until the stamp went to press. Two large die proofs were pulled and approved on August 21; the first plates, #14853 and 14852, were certified and went to press the next day. Modern experts believe that approximately eighteen die proofs were ultimately printed, and two of these reside in the Lederer Collection: one purchased in the February 4, 1946 Harmer auction of the Franklin D. Roosevelt collection and another bound in morocco leather and inscribed by Postmaster General Harry S. New to U.S. Army Colonel Frederick R. Chamberlain, Jr.
The first printing of 300,000,000 stamps was released on Saturday, September 1 at Marion, Ohio (Harding's home town) and Washington, D.C. Two hundred people were in line when the Marion office opened at nine o'clock, and by the time it closed its entire allotment of 200,000 Harding stamps was sold out. The Washington Post reported that in the first week, $58,250 worth of the stamps—or approximately 3 million copies—had been purchased at Marion and Washington alone! Recognizing that the first printing would not satisfy the public demand for the stamp, the postmaster general ordered another 1.3 billion copies.
A dizzying array of varieties soon became available to collectors: the original, perf. 11 flat-plate stamps issued on September 1 (Scott #610); the perf. 10 rotary press printing released September 12 (Scott #612); and the flat-plate imperforate variety issued on November 15 (Scott #611). In addition, the Black Hardings produced two important twentieth century rarities: the rotary press stamps that were perfed 11 on the flat-press perforator (Scott #613); and the Schermack Type III coils, created when the Mail-O-Meter company of Detroit pasted together strips of the imperforates and privately perforated them for use in vending machines. Although the Lederer Collection is lacking Scott #613, the Schermack coils are well-represented: there is an unused pair, an unused strip of three, and a single used on cover—one of very few known examples.
All of these varieties, though interesting and visually appealing, were even by 1923 the stuff of traditional, respectable philately. The Black Hardings' appearance, however, gave a boost to two fledgling collecting specialties: first day covers and precancels.
First day cover (FDC) collecting in the modern sense was not really possible until the early 1920s. In December 1921, a Philatelic Agency was established at Washington, D.C. to cater especially for collectors. At roughly the same time, the POD began communicating information about new stamps to the philatelic and national press in advance of their release. For the first time, average collectors could know when and where stamps would be issued and prepare their own envelopes to be cancelled on the first day.
Ohio philatelist George Ward Linn seized just that opportunity with the Harding issue. On September 1, he mailed himself about 200 envelopes franked with the stamps and cacheted with the typeset inscription "IN MEMORIUM [sic] / WARREN G. HARDING / TWENTY-NINTH PRESIDENT / BORN / NOV. 2, 1865 / DIED / AUG. 2, 1923." He advertised the resulting covers, today widely regarded as the first modern FDCs, for 50¢ postpaid in Mekeel's, Collectors Club Philatelist, Weekly Philatelic Gossip, and his own publication, Linn's Stamp News. Others copied Linn's example over the next decade, and cachetmaking finally exploded into a full-fledged industry during the 1930s.
The Lederer Collection has numerous first day covers serviced by pioneer collectors Philip H. Ward, Edward Chauncey Worden, and Charles E. Nickles. Many of them are on official mourning stationery of federal departments, including an envelope from the White House. The use of black-edged mourning stationery was rapidly declining by 1923, so all such first day covers for the black Hardings are scarce; White House mourning stationery, however, is exceptionally rare, making this cover a showpiece despite two damaged stamps and a large glue stain where Lederer once overlapped another cover.
Precancelled stamps (stamps cancelled before being used, typically by overprinting) were intended to eliminate the facing and canceling of individual mail pieces at the post office. Although the practice began informally during the 1870s, the POD, concerned that precancelled stamps could be easily reused, did not officially sanction them until 1903. A variety of methods were used to create precancel overprints, including typesetting, hand stamps, and even mimeograph machines. The Black Hardings were only the fourth non-definitive series to be widely precancelled, and this attracted a great deal of attention from collectors; the philatelic writer Herman Herst once compared "the Harding craze of 1923-1925" to the tulipomania that swept the Netherlands in the 1630s. Throughout late 1923 and early 1924, extensive lists of reported Harding precancel varieties ran in the Weekly Philatelic Gossip , as did advertisements seeking and selling them. Precancels are well represented in the Lederer Collection, including a variety of typefaces, positions, and colors.
Griffith, Gary. "The Black Harding." United States Specialist 66 (1995): 431-438.
_____. United States Stamps 1922-1926. Sidney, OH: Linn's Stamp News, 1997.
Herst, Herman. "Remember the Harding Precancels? Stamps Don't Always Go Up." SPA
Journal 44:5 (January 1982).
Johl, Max G. and Beverly S. King. United States Postage Stamps of the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. New York: H. L. Lindquist, 1934.
Mosher, Ernest A. "The U.S. Harding Mourning Stamp and M[ourning]C[over]s." Chap. 57 in Mourning Covers: The Cultural and Postal History of Letters Edged in Black. Topeka, KS: Published by the author, 2003.
Mueller, Barbara R. Precancel Primer. Cincinnati: B.F. Deitzer, 1961.
"Many Harding Stamps Sold in Day at Marion." Washington Post, September 8, 1923.
Newton, Barry. "The 50th Anniversary of Modern FDC Advertising" Parts 1 and 2. First Days 19:3 (May/June 1974), 12-14 and 19:4 (July/August 1974), 52-57.
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Rep. Adam Smith today submitted a plan to ensure the Pentagon actually delivers cost-savings if Congress moves forward with its request for a round of military base closures.
Smith's measure is intended to help sell lawmakers on the worthiness of a Base Realignment and Closure Commission after a 2012 postmortem on the last round revealed that cost-overruns dramatically undercut its savings to the defense budget.
That BRAC in 2005 was supposed to trim $36 billion in Pentagon spending by 2025, but expensive construction projects meant to "transform" the force ate into the savings.
As a result, the Government Accountability Office estimated in 2012 that the base realignments would lead to only $10 billion of savings.
The 2012 GAO report dashed whatever chance Congress might have had of approving then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's 2012 request for a BRAC.
"Given that the last BRAC round transformed more than it closed and has cost more and saved less than original estimates, members of Congress have justifiable reservations about giving the Department of Defense authority to conduct another round," Smith, a Democrat from Bellevue, said in a prepared statement.
Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, would change the process by requiring the Pentagon to declare that the purpose of a new BRAC would be to save money that could be applied to military readiness.
His BRAC amendment to the annual defense funding bill would require the Pentagon to submit master plans for each recommendation detailing the costs of any construction. If defense officials wanted to change the proposal, they'd have to seek congressional approval.
The amendment also would call on the Defense Department to create a transparent BRAC by publishing unclassified descriptions of the condition of its facilities as well as calculations of any projected savings.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel this year renewed the Pentagon's request for a BRAC. Defense officials say they have excess capacity and they're using money for building upkeep that could be applied to training and readiness.
BRAC rounds are difficult to approve in Congress because they have the potential to slash military installations in lawmakers' home districts.
"The Department of Defense estimates it has excess infrastructure capacity, and this excess takes money away from training, maintenance, and operations. In the current budget environment, where important programs are being cut across the board, this is a waste of scare resources," Smith said in his written remarks.
The 2005 BRAC resulted in the creation of 12 joint bases, including the merger of Fort Lewis and McChord Air Field. Army officials have not been able to say whether that merger saved money.
The cost overruns identified by the GAO in 2012 included:
* $1.7 billion in unexpected expenses in the consolidation of medical serves at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
• Closing leased offices for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency at a cost of $2.5 billion instead of $1.1 billion.
• Closing Fort Monmouth, N.J., at a cost of $1.9 billion instead of $1.1 billion.
• Creating the San Antonio Regional Medical Center at a cost of $2 billion instead of $1 billion.
• Realigning Army maneuver training at Fort Benning, Ga., at a cost of $1.7 billion instead of $773 million.


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Ø Sustainability minor will be approved by faculty senate.
Ø Biology Field Station in Ecuador will be used for eight weeks during the summer for research and education in sustainable issues.
Ø Greenwood Laboratory School is officially Silver LEED certified. Submission for certification will also occur with the Foster Recreation Center. A submission is in progress for certification of the education facility at the Darr Agriculture Center.
Ø Better monitor the amounts of waste and recycling from the campus. A waste audit was completed in late October of 2012 and a plan will be implemented to better meet the campus needs..
Ø PSU vendors will be encouraged to use sustainable materials. Chick-fil-A is working to change the styrofoam used in their packaging.
Ø PSU staff plans to sell reusable cups for drinks. The profits will be donated to Habitat for Humanity and drinks will be available at discounted pricing at the various vendors.
Ø Facilities continues to work on projects related to water conservation and energy conservation - LED lighting Ø Facilities staff are developing a native plants policy and wildlife habitat policy.
Ø Dining Services will work on AASHE credits with the committee.
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Ø Recycling has started at the JQH Arena for 2012-2013 basketball season
Ø Engage students at Greenwood to encourage a no-idle zone.
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Ø The sustainability committee will become a standing committee with a charge and list of members by January 2013.
Ø The committee will investigate forming a committee on socially responsible investment.
Ø Students are working with the Bookstore to encourage the sale of fair trade BearWear.
Ø There are a variety of sustainability educator programs going on in the residence halls and other places. We need to catalog these and maybe even bring some cohesiveness to the training.


text: Bully Bosses Prevalent in U.S. Workplaces, Study Finds By Bill Leonard 3/27/2007 Most people believe that a bully is someone you have to deal with when you're a kid. Well, think again. A study released by the San Francisco-based Employment Law Alliance on March 21, 2007, found that bullying in U.S. workplaces is alive and well. And, in many cases, managers and supervisors are the bullies. According to the survey, nearly 45 percent of the respondents reported that they have worked for an abusive boss. For the report, the Philadelphia research firm the Reed Group did random telephone surveys of 1,000 U.S. adults and conducted extensive interviews with 534 full- or part time workers. Robert Reed, president of the Reed Group and lead researcher on the project, called the survey results "statistically significant." "We were very surprised at the number of people who said that they have had or in some cases still have an abusive boss," said Stephen J. Hirschfeld, CEO for the Employment Law Alliance. "We though the results would show some people worked for abusive bosses; we didn't expect to see that the problem was so pervasive." The survey focused on abusive behavior by supervisors such as verbal abuse, intimidation and threatening gestures. The study was designed specifically to examine workplace behavior that is not typically regarded as serious enough to warrant special legal protections such as those provided for racial and religious bias or sexual harassment. Hirschfeld believes the survey may be the first of its type ever conducted. "There have been other studies of workplace bullying, but most I have seen have been non-scientific or informal Internet-based polls," he said. "I have not seen many surveys that have specifically addressed the issue of bullying by bosses, and I have not seen any that have been as in-depth or comprehensive as this survey." Potential for Legislation Hirschfeld says the survey points to a growing awareness of the problem and believes employers need to pay close attention and look for ways to remedy the situation. Otherwise, he believes that it could become a hot legislative issue—especially in state legislatures. "There are proposals in about a dozen states for some form of workplace bullying legislation," he said. "If you add this to the fact that 64 percent of the respondents to the survey said that employees should have some legal recourse, then this has the potential of becoming a very hot legislative topic." Hirschfeld points to a recent anti-bullying law enacted in the Canadian province of Quebec. The law gives workers the right to file suit against their employers and to recover damages for "any vexatious behavior that affects an employee's dignity or their psychological or physical integrity." "I believe that sets the legal bar fairly low and would open a floodgate of litigation if a similar law was enacted in the United States," said Hirschfeld, who is an employment lawyer with the California-based law firm of Curiale Dellaverson Hirschfeld & Kraemer. Changing the behavior of workplace bullies could be problematic for employers, Hirschfeld concedes, because workplace bullies can be high performers. Aggressive or "type A" behaviors tend to be rewarded in the workplace, but Hirschfeld contends that employers need to draw the line and make sure aggressive workers don't become abusive managers. "I ask my clients, 'Would you accept this type of behavior if it was aimed towards a member of your family?' If the answer is no, then I tell them that they should then consider cutting this type of employee loose," Hirschfeld said. "Only an employer in a state of denial would ignore the survey results and not re-examine their HR policies, supervisor-employee relations and management training." Bill Leonard is senior writer for HR News. Obtain reuse/copying permission Related Content Del Monte Settles Bias Lawsuit Involving Thai Farmworkers for $1.2 Million Calif. Hospital Settles English-Only Harassment Suit EEOC Releases New Data on Private Industry Job Patterns Managing a Diverse Workforce: Affirmative Action Religious Discrimination and Racial Harassment: What Ever Happened to MarShawn DeMur? ADVERTISING LINKS


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The actors not only rehearse their lines, so does a group of specially-trained volunteers at the Flat Rock Playhouse.
"I think giving everybody the opportunity to enjoy what the rest of us just take for granted is really important," says audio-description volunteer Pat Roberts.
Roberts has learned to speak "between the lines" to describe what is happening on stage for a visually-impaired audience.
And it's that kind of dedication allowing people like Michael Nelipovich who lost his vision 20 years ago to still enjoy live theater.
"The describers take me to a new level," Nelipovich said.
Flat Rock Playhouse offers one audio-described performance during every production.
Volunteers spend nearly 40 hours preparing for it.
They will watch the play themselves multiple times before they explain what they see.
From entrances and exits to facial expressions, action sequences and costumes – volunteers will dictate what is going on without interrupting the performance for the other person listening through an earpiece.
"You are there to enhance their experience of live theater," says Roberts. It is not about you at all, it is about them."
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GlobeMed at Amherst College partners with Pastoral de la Salud in Cuscatlán, El Salvador to improve access to high quality health education and care for 47 communities.
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Cuscatlán and the rest of El Salvador are undergoing an epidemiological transition in their disease burden. It is now possible to see malnutrition and stunted growth side by side with childhood obesity, high cholesterol, and diabetes.
"Our partner organization is an incredibly effective, professional organization, and we feel privileged that they have agreed to work with us [...] We are engaged in what we hope is a more or less equal partnership, founded on solidarity."
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About the Partnership
Founded in 2010, GlobeMed at Amherst partners with Pastoral de la Salud in Cuscatlán, El Salvador to improve access to high quality health education and care for 47 communities, and to advocate for their human right to health. Pastoral de la Salud began their work in the early 1990s, delivering health care to civilian populations in civil war-torn areas. Pastoral de la Salud is a coalition of 12 parishes that attends to a total of 47 communities. Through the work of volunteers and community health workers, Pastoral provides health education, prevention, and natural medicine, placing a focus on children's health from pre-natal care through age five.
The organization also serves as a hub for community organizing, mobilizing communities to advocate for their human right to health care. Since the fall of 2010, GlobeMed at Amherst has raised over $16,000 to support Pastoral's community health worker training initiatives and an income generation project for local youth.
This year, GlobeMed at Amherst aims to support a series of trainings for community health workers. Pastoral holds bimonthly workshops that are designed to empower and strengthen the capabilities of its community health workers, leading them to become agents of change in their work areas.
The workshops will include both theoretical and practical training, covering a range of topics that include human right to health, food security and nutrition, vulnerability to natural disasters, family medicine, and Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI).
This project will have a direct impact on the community by empowering 57 health promoters who are the point of contact between Pastoral and the population in the Cuscatlán area.
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Monetary Theory and the Great Capitol Hill Baby-Sitting Co-op Crisis.
- Reference book:
Swedish translation of The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
- Cooperative, co-op = a system for job rotation.
The point:
- Over time the supply for ↓ babysitting coupons decreased.
- There wasn't a sufficient amount of babysitting coupons in circulation for their isolated market.
Couples who thought that their reserves of babysitting coupons have become insufficient were eager
to babysit but reluctant to go out.
It became difficult to find babysitting jobs which made couples even more reluctant to use/spend their reserves. Except for special occasions which increased the shortage of babysitting opportunities.
- In short the babysitting co-op went into an economic downturn ( konjunkturnedgångSwedish ).
How did this recession emerge? ( lågkonjunkturSwedish )
The problem didn't have anything to do with the co-op's capability to produce, but rather it was just
a shortage of effective demand:
Too little consumption of real goods ( babysitting time ) because people instead tried to accumulate cash
( babysitting coupons ).
The lesson to be learned here for the real world is that your vulnerability to the
economic cycle
( konjunkturcykelnSwedish ) don't have much to do with, or even have anything to do with your basic economic strength and weakness:
- Bad things can occur even in good economies.
How does one handle such a recession? The problem is basically technical and easy to solve. The co-op's officers first treated the problem as if it was a structural problem. In other words through some sort of basic and fundamental reform process, the co-op's officers forced the couples to behave in a certain way in the supply and demand market.
In the end the economists got what they wanted but not without having to face a difficult to convince
board of directors. Since a majority of the co-op's officers consisted of congressmen and lawyers.
What the economists wanted was to increase the supply of babysitting coupons.
The result was magical: with big reserves of coupons the couples got more willing to go out, resulting in more abundant opportunities to babysit. Which made the couples even more willing to go out. The co-op's GDP ( BNPSwedish ) measured in amount of babysat children - skyrocketed.
The reason for this wasn't because that the couples had become better babysitters or that the co-op had undergone some sort of basic and fundamental reform process. It was simply because the monetary lock had been corrected.
Economic downturns could in other words be fought simply by printing money and could sometimes
( usually ) be cured surprisingly easy.
However printing too much money would lead to inflation, which would unfold a different kind of bad events.


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Alesia Desjardins, 26, a lifelong resident of Woonsocket, loved selling beauty products to people so much she decided to open a store on Park Avenue and be her own boss.
The Bernon Heights resident has been an Avon sales rep for about a year and a half now. "I just absolutely love it," she said. She began with Avon as a part-time job, but she discovered she really enjoyed the work. She realized she was not just good at selling for Avon, but also had a knack for selling at her full-time job as a stock supervisor at the outlets in Wrentham, MA. "I feel that I sell a lot of stuff when I am there," Desjardins said.
She figured she ought to capitalize on her talent for sales and work for herself. That required taking a position with less responsibility to free up some time. She worked and saved for about seven months before finding the spot at 825 Park Ave. to set up her shop, BEAUTY and more 4 LESS. "It took a little while," she said, buying stock a little at a time and saving money to rent the store space.
She said though she's optimistic about selling Avon beauty supply products like makeup, hairspray and skin cream - even items for men like cologne, deodorant and aftershave. Desjardins said she also sells accessories like flashlights, small tools, and pajamas for guys. With her shop, she said, people who like to buy Avon products don't have to wait for their purchases to be delivered - they can walk out of her store with the merchandise in hand. Also, she said, she can offer deals they're not likely to find at big drug stores.
She said anyone who would like to get set up as an Avon representative should giver her a call. "I want to help people in the Woonsocket community have a job, also." Desjardins said.
Desjardins met her goal of one customer per day for the first month, and though things have been a little sporadic since then, she's optimistic about her chances of success. "I don't beat myself up about it. It's going to happen," she said.
BEAUTY and more 4 LESS is located at 825 Park Ave. in Woonsocket. You can also buy from Desjardins online at her
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