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$39 for $100 Worth of Home-Video Conversion to DVD or Blu-ray from YesVideo

Video conversion preserves family moments that might otherwise be forgotten, like the day Grandpa wiped everyone’s memory with a spy drug. Bring precious records to the digital age with today’s Groupon: for $39, you get $100 worth of home-video-conversion services from YesVideo . YesVideo’s physical-to-digital transmographers gather clients’ media-bound memories and preserve them for future enjoyment on a digital disk. Film reels and videocassettes deteriorate over time due to age, storing conditions, and daily showings to the neighborhood mailman. YesVideo’s transfer services ensure past moments can be witnessed over and again by converting 8mm- to 16mm-film reels, camcorder and VHS tapes, and 35mm slides and photo prints up to 8″x12″ onto a standard DVD with titles and background music that is playable on any DVD player, PC, or other DVD-reading device. See services and pricing here . Each order also comes equipped with a free 60-day trial of YesVideo’s online-hosting service, a system that allows movies to be played on a variety of Internet-accessing devices, including iPods, iPads, Android phones, or WiFi-enabled magic mirrors. One of the largest video-transfer companies in North America, YesVideo has basked in the limelight of a variety of news features and publications, such as “Mossberg’s Mailbox” of the Wall Street Journal and CW13′s Good Day Sacramento . Several major retailers, including Wal-Mart, CVS, Walgreens, and Costco, use YesVideo for their customers’ video-transfer services. All conversions and orders are handled in the United States to keep shipping costs minimal. Groupon Says Groupon Guide to: Secret Founding Fathers Did Frank N. Stein ever run for president? Read more…

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Piano-Bar Performance and Fare for Four or Six at Point Street Dueling Pianos (Up to 58% Off)

Watching a show during dinner is the most exciting way to liven up a meal, next to juggling silverware at the table or paying the violinists to play the entire Black Sabbath catalog. Delve into fare while being entertained with today’s Groupon to Point Street Dueling Pianos . Choose between the following options: For $20, you get a piano-bar performance and food and drink for four (up to a $40 value), which includes: Two appetizers or pizzas to share (up to a $20 value) Four beers (up to a $5 value each) For $25, you get a piano-bar performance and food and drink for six (up to a $60 value), which includes: Three appetizers or pizzas to share (up to a $30 value) Six beers (up to a $5 value each) Admission is free for all guests. Point Street Dueling Pianos’s 10,000-square-foot space gathers diners to witness the musical prowess and comedic antics of four skilled performers . Guests can cast secret ballots to determine who selects sharable appetizers from a gourmet menu , with options including baby back ribs tossed in bourbon-and-honey barbecue sauce and pan-fried sweet-potato beignets. Ten-inch wood-grilled pizzas come dressed in toppings such as the meat lover’s italian sausage, applewood-smoked bacon, and prosciutto, or the veggie lover’s mushrooms, zucchini, red peppers, and caramelized onions. An array of chilled domestic and imported beers, which includes Sam Adams and local Narragansett , cools off revelers more quickly than bear hugs from a snowman. While audience members nosh, Ronnie Shelton, Michael Mourachian, Robert Morse, and Dave Laros take turns tickling ivories on two pianos, unfurling bass lines, and pounding colonial-era marches on the drums. Performers welcome audience participation throughout the show with timed glass-raises and dramatic recitations of the menu. Servers deftly carry drinks from two full-service bars as they navigate between café tables under low lighting. Located in historic Davol Square, Point Street Dueling Pianos also boasts ample free parking. Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Infiltrating a Castle Is there a wrong way to pet a castle guard? Read more…

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Piano-Bar Performance and Fare for Four or Six at Point Street Dueling Pianos (Up to 58% Off)

$30 for an Online Test-Preparation Course from BenchPrep (Up to $149.99 Value)

As technology for obtaining information progresses, so does the usefulness of smartphones, which currently discover facts by calling their encyclopedia roommate. Phone in a wealth of knowledge with today’s Groupon: for $30, you get an online test-preparation course from BenchPrep (up to a $149.99 value). Customers have unlimited access to their chosen course after paying the initial course fee. Featured in such publications as the Wall Street Journal , BenchPrep’s educational network prepares students to undertake difficult exams with confidence through innovative and interactive online content. Students can enlist in a field of study from BenchPrep’s courses , forged with the aid of McGraw-Hill, BarOutlines, and photocopies of Athena’s classroom cheat sheets, to gain access to the site’s comprehensive content, reporting, and score-analysis tools. Students cultivate their academic knowledge with content-specific reading material, notes, bookmarks, customizable quizzes, and practice tests. When in need of assistance, students can e-tap the e-shoulder of a number of experts, friends, and fellow test takers through chats and public discussions. BenchPrep’s innovative cross-platform technology allows online students to begin their studies on a web-based computer and continue their lessons in transit via iPhone, Android, or iPad. Lesson plans can also be downloaded to a smartphone device through the BenchPrep app to facilitate on-the-go learning without an Internet connection, handy for studying in signal-destroying subways or while time traveling to pre-WiFi locales. Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Chivalry Do gentlemen still lay their overcoats over puddles? Read more…

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$30 for an Online Test-Preparation Course from BenchPrep (Up to $149.99 Value)

Fights, Arguments & Check Fraud

Friday, Dec. 30 A 14-year-old girl will be charged with assault after she allegedly hit a 16-year-old girl during a fight at a Main Street convenience store.

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Man shot leaving Providence nightclub

The Providence police are investigating after a 23-year-old man was shot in the leg as he was leaving Tantric Nightclub on North Main Street early Friday morning.

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Roundtrip Service to TF Green Airport, One-Way Service to Logan Airport, or a Two-Hour Limo Rental from Mylimostyle (Up to 60% Off)

When neglected for long periods of time, cars may act out by sleeping in the street and consorting with tractors. Give your car attention while you’re away with today’s Groupon to Mylimostyle in Cranston. Choose from the following options: For $85, you get roundtrip transportation to TF Green International Airport in Warwick (a $170 value). For $110, you get one-way transportation to Logan International Airport in Boston (up to a $275 value). For $120, you get a two-hour limo rental for up to 10 people (a $250 value). The drivers of Mylimostyle respect the time of their customers by ensuring prompt pickup and drop-off services in an expanded fleet of Lincoln Town Cars. Drivers meet and greet passengers at their homes while handling suitcases with care and reading them a brief bedtime story before their trunk naps. Riders rest easy as the Town Car delivers jet setters to their terminal of choice at Logan or TF Green Airports, or they can opt for limo service for an additional fee. Mylimostyle also ushers guests off to a wedding, a night about town, or a race against Santa’s luxury-model sleigh with two hours of professional limo service in a 2005 Cadillac Black Stretch that sits 6-10 people, or 10-12 reindeer. Email reservation@mylimostyle.com to inquire about date availability in advance. Groupon Says The Groupon Guide to: Curing the Common Cold Read more…

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Roundtrip Service to TF Green Airport, One-Way Service to Logan Airport, or a Two-Hour Limo Rental from Mylimostyle (Up to 60% Off)

VIDEO: Sacred Heart Jesus statue finds its new home

The giant statue that once stood prominently overlooking Route 95 at the former Sacred Heart Parish on Park Street in Pawtucket was installed on Friday, Dec.

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Swipely Brings Cash Rewards to Boston With 150 Retail Members

PROVIDENCE, RI– – Starting today, Swipely, the free loyalty and rewards program for Main Street, is expanding to the Boston area to help more than 150 area retailers turn credit card transactions into …

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‘Occupy’ meets campus commentary comics College cartoonist…

Occupy Wall Street has gone well beyond a previously obscure park in lower Manhattan and has branched out in many different directions of late including a cartoonist’s pen and sketch pad.

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Goldman Sachs Will Recruit At Harvard When Goldman Sachs Feels Welcome

Several weeks back, emboldened with a thesaurus and having decided they’d had enough, the Harvard Crimson staff ran an impassioned editorial urging Occupy Wall Street protestors on campus to leave Goldman Sachs, and those hoping to gain employment with the firm, alone.

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