Avon raises quarterly dividend a penny to 23 cents

Avon raises quarterly dividend a penny to 23 cents
(AP:NEW YORK) Beauty items company Avon Products Inc. said Thursday that it has raised its quarterly dividend to 23 cents per share from 22 cents. The dividend is payable on March 1 to shareholders of record on Feb. 17. The enhance boosts the annual payout to 92 cents from 88 cents per share.
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Do not miss new Richard Johnson paintings at Cole Pratt Gallery, Saturday
Critic Doug MacCash picks Richard Johnson’s “Beauty, Power & Circumstance” exhibit at Cole Pratt Gallery as the show not to miss Saturday night in New Orleans. The well-recognized abstractionist has turned to nude figure drawings as the basis for this series of optical illusion paintings. Saturday (Feb. 5) from 6 to 8, at Cole Pratt Gallery, 3800 Magazine St., 504.891.6789. Via March 12.
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Sushmita wants India to win at Miss Universe
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Former beauty queen Sushmita Sen is hopeful that India will finally break its decade-long jinx at the Miss Universe 2011.
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Simone Dinnerstein’s Bach: ‘A Strange Beauty’ indeed
Bach: A Strange Beauty Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1 and 5; English Suite No. three; “Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ,” BWV 639, arr. Busoni; “Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein,” BWV 734, arr. Kempff; “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” BWV 147, arr. Hess. Simone Dinnerstein, piano; Kammerorchester Staat…
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