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| What A Doll!
Jennifer Bowman
Home: Brooklyn Age: 23 Height: 5’9" Weight: 126 lbs. Stats: 34-24-33 When Jennifer Bowman was 14, her older cousin who participated in beauty pageants, dressed her up like a doll. Now, at 23, Jennifer has competed in a beauty pageant of her own. She placed in the top 20 of this year’s Miss NY USA pageant. It was her first pageant for the Brooklyn girl and Jennifer who spends time in Queens with friends and family who live here, found it to be a learning experience. “I learned how to take chances and I would do it again for the experience alone,” she said. Jennifer has done both runway and print modeling. She’s modeled for several well-known designers but is presently on the runway for a line called Perfect Blue, by Kenya Joseph, an up and coming designer. “In the spring or fall there’s usually more work in terms of runway because they want to get everything out,” she said. Jennifer attended Hofstra University where she earned her bachelor’s degree in international business and marketing. Right now she is doing event planning and media work and would like to go back to school and get her masters in broadcast and communications, but modeling will always remain a part of her life. She describes herself as easy going yet energetic and credits her family for their support and push for her to get into modeling. “They didn’t let me get stuck in the mindset that a rejection should paralyze me in any way,” said Bowman. Jennifer makes sure that she gives back to those that are less fortunate. She is active in many charities and enjoys spending her time for a good cause. “I feel that I’m blessed and lucky to have the opportunities I do have,” she said. “You never know what’s going to happen,” she added. |
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| When You Gotta Go . . .
You know it’s happened to you before.
You’re on the LIE, struck in massive amounts of rush hour traffic, calmly tapping the steering wheel with your fingers and nodding your head to light jazz, when all of a sudden it hits. You need to get to a restroom – quick. It could have been all the trips to the water cooler or all those sips of coffee, but you suddenly need to get out of the traffic and into a comfort station. It’s not a good situation, and it’s happened to everyone. Well now, there’s an invention on the market that could make those days of bladder induced problems history. Restop, a new invention that is being sold via internet or 800 number, is an actual waste holder that can be used in the car. No, seriously. According to it's website, www.whennaturecalls.com, there are two variations on the product: Restop 1, which only handles liquid waste, and Restop 2, which handles both liquid and solid. According to the site, “Both contain our exclusive blend of polymers and enzymes to instantly gel liquid and break down solid waste.” Prices start as low as $2.60. When you gotta go, you gotta go. |
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| Political Charge!
Forget about pulling the lever.
Now there’s a way to help the Democratic Party each time you use your Visa Card. That’s right, according to an offer being circulated by Providian Bank in Lincoln Nebraska, credit card holders can help “support the Democratic Party” by using “your Democratic Party Visa Platinum Card.” With the custom credit cards, user can “earn a one percent rebate on every purchase and choose to donate it directly to the Democratic National Committee,” according to literature being sent via mail. The cards are available in five designs, including an American flag, the U.S. Constitution, a donkey or traditional platinum. What better way is there to support our capitalist system than through good old fashioned American capitalism. Beware, the interest rate on the cards can go as high as 16 percent. |
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| Affordable Housing
For Queens residents looking for affordable housing, the answer is just a mere 12 hour plane ride away.
The town of Norseman in Western Australian has been offering homes for $5. The homes are being offered through a raffle system – 6,000 tickets went on sale in books of 10 for the $5 houses. The houses have three bedrooms on a quarter-acre block. Not bad, huh? And there won’t be any traffic either – Norseman has a population of about 1,000. |
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| Sign Of The Times
A Family Medical Care Center in Southeast Queens was so happy about opening their doors last year that they decided to leave the grand opening sign up permanently. Let’s just hope that the date on the sign doesn’t match the date on their prescriptions.
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| Satchmo!
It is not so unusual for a Queens-born talent to move out of the borough once stardom is achieved. However, to find a celebrity who was born someplace else but found the final resting place in Queens is a rare thing. One such celebrity is the king of jazz, Louis Armstrong.
A New Orleans native, “Pops,” as Armstrong was affectionately called, played in New York City for the first time in 1924. Despite succumbing to his wife Lillian’s encouragement to return to Chicago for a bigger payoff, Armstrong never lost his affection for New York. After all his turbulent times in this “wonderful world,” Armstrong spent his final days in Queens. He is buried at Flushing Cemetery. | |||||||||
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