Longaberger pushes ahead with new sales strategy (Affiliate Program)
Longaberger pushes ahead with new sales strategy
NEWARK — Longaberger customers soon won’t have to visit a home show to buy the company’s famous handmade baskets. The company’s sales consultants will get a slice of new sales made at the Longaberger Homestead or online, even if they never have met the buyer personally.
Home, green home
EASTON — Walking through this unconventionally designed but warm, elegantly decorated and secluded single-family home, you have to wonder if building it to be as environmentally friendly as possible was really worth the extra money and labor.
U.S. December New-Home Sales Rise More Than Forecast (Update2)
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — New home sales in the U.S. rose more than forecast in December, showing the real-estate market is improving following its biggest slump since 1990.
Natchez puts program to work
NATCHEZ The City of Natchez might not have trusties, but they have something the county doesnt a work release program. The program, run out of municipal court, allows some of those who owe fines to work off their debt.
Hanif Kureishi on how Junichiro Tanizaki’s work inspired the screenplay for Venus
A middle-aged couple who rediscover erotic love, an old man who becomes infatuated with a young woman’s feet - desire is everything in Junichiro Tanizaki’s intense tales. Hanif Kureishi explains how the work of the Japanese master inspired him to write the screenplay for Venus.
McDonald’s 24/7
It is 3:36 a.m. Thursday at McDonald’s in Garner, N.C., a bedroom community just beyond the city limits of Raleigh. Although the town’s taverns closed more than an hour ago, the last clubgoers are straggling home. Their cars barrel by ones driven by waitresses, commercial cleaners, musicians, nurses, and computer analysts heading home from work. The McDonald’s sign, posted high along a …