Ice Skate Box From Tiffany

post from ShoppingBlog.com on 22 February 2010 11:50:00 PM. © ShoppingBlog.com

Tiffany has created a delightful new ice skate box. It would be perfect for a young girl with Olympic dreams. The Tiffany Limoges porcelain box was hand painted in Tiffany's Paris studio. It costs $225 and can be purchased here.

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Lovin Oven, Trader Joe's Recall Select Granola
Bars

post from ShoppingBlog.com on 22 February 2010 11:40:00 PM. © ShoppingBlog.com

Lovin Oven, LLC of Irwindale, CA is voluntarily recalling certain Health Valley Organic Peanut Crunch, Dutch Apple and Wildberry Chewy Granola Bars because of a possible contaminated with Salmonella. The bars contain organic toasted soy grits supplied by Thumb Oilseed Producers Cooperative of Ubly, MI. The FDA says no illnesses have been reported in connection with the recalled bars and no other types of Health Valley brand bars are being recalled. You can see a list of the recalled bars here.

ABC reports another granola bar recall. Trader Joe's Company is voluntarily expanding the recall of the Trader Joe's Chocolate Chip Chewy Coated Granola Bars.

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Reader Style Spotlight: Amandine of Les
Berlinettes

post from La Petite Fashionista on 22 February 2010 11:25:00 PM. © La Petite Fashionista

The second installment of Reader Style Spotlight features the gorgeous Amandine of Les Berlinettes. Check out her blog to read about style in the eyes of two Berlin fashion lovers. The dress in the picture is vintage & hat is handmade. I love the description of Berlin's personal style-- I'm such an avid thrifter, I feel like I could do some shopping damage in that city!

If you want to be the next reader featured just send me an email with your favorite look: lapetitefashionista@yahoo.com

xoxo, lauren

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Best Actress Oscar Winner Will Also Get $7,000
Compact

post from ShoppingBlog.com on 22 February 2010 11:22:00 PM. © ShoppingBlog.com

People reports that the Best Actress winner at this years Academy Awards show will also win the L'Oreal Paris and Carelle compact pictured above. The $7,000 compact is composed of amethyst rose de France stones. The compact is also embellished with several shooting stars and encrusted with pave diamonds.

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Glee Cast to Perform at White House Easter Egg
Roll

post from ShoppingBlog.com on 22 February 2010 11:20:00 PM. © ShoppingBlog.com

Entertainment Weekly reports that the cast of Glee has been invited to perform at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 5th. First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters, Malia and Sasha, are reportedly big Glee fans. The Glee cast is said to be likely to accept the invitation.

Photo: 2009 White House Easter Egg Roll. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

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Win Free Tickets to The Makeup Show LA!

post from My Beauty Bunny on 22 February 2010 11:17:57 PM. © My Beauty Bunny

Who’s going to The Makeup Show LA this weekend? I will be going for the first time, and I’m super excited!If you don’t know about it, let me enlighten you…This year marks the 5th anniversary of The Makeup Show. It started in NYC, and after a 2009 debut in Los Angeles, the show meets again [...]

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Strawberry Shortage: Cold Temperatures Ruin Some
of Florida's Strawberry Crop

post from ShoppingBlog.com on 22 February 2010 11:11:00 PM. © ShoppingBlog.com

Consumers buying strawberries should expect shortages and higher prices this year, especially in Florida and on the east coast. The Ledger reports some bad news about strawberries. The cold weather in Florida this year has damaged much of Florida's strawberry crop.

The unusually cold weather in Florida this year has nearly arrested growth on the state's strawberry plants, which has cut fruit production by more than half, said Ted Campbell, executive director of the Florida Strawberry Growers Association in Dover, the industry trade group.

"It's absolutely a financial disaster for strawberry growers," Campbell said Thursday. "The fields are full of just green fruit and bloom."

WHIZ reports that Pick 'N' Save stores are already feeling the shortage and costs for strawberries have "more than doubled."

"Some of the crop that we had booked in from Florida was cancelled out. We had to go through the Mexican crop. Florida has less than half the crop that they were setting on a year ago. The cost has more than doubled for the same product, " says store manager, Rich Daugherty.

Daugherty says California's strawberry crop isn't any better because of the eight inches of rain the area has received. So, customers are going to have to pay more than they're used to seeing this time of year if they want to put strawberries in their grocery carts.

Fox 4 reports that there are already strawberry shortages in Florida stores.

Photo: Brian Prechtel, USDA

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Personalize your Louis Vuitton with Mon Monogram

post from Purse Blog on 22 February 2010 11:02:24 PM. © Purse Blog

Louis Vuitton continues to expand their online store and have announced the introduction of the Louis Vuitton Mon Monogram service. The service will allow you to customize your Louis Vuitton bag, ending up with over 200 million…

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Joby Adds Magnetic Feet to Gorillapod Camera
Stand

Joby has added a magnetic feet to Gorillapod, its useful flexible camera stand. The new product called Gorillapod Magnetic has strong neodymium magnetic feet that let you attach your Gorillapod to any magnetic surface. The stand costs $24.95 and can be purchased here.

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Ok Go Talks Video Embedding and EMI

Damian Kulash Jr., the lead singer and guitarist of the band OK Go, wrote an interesting op-ed piece for the New York Times about music videos and video embedding. He talks about the success of his band's song, "Here It Goes Again." The music video for the song - also known as the treadmill video - spread virally around the Internet because of a combination of a great, unique video and video embedding.

In 2006 we made a video of us dancing on treadmills for our song "Here It Goes Again." We shot it at my sister's house without telling EMI, our record company, and posted it on the fledgling YouTube without EMI's permission. Technically, this put us afoul of our contract, since we need our record company's approval to distribute copies of the songs that they finance. It also exposed YouTube to all sorts of liability for streaming an EMI recording across the globe. But back then record companies saw videos as advertisements, so if my band wanted to produce them, and if YouTube wanted to help people watch them, EMI wasn't going to get in the way.

As the age of viral video dawned, "Here It Goes Again" was viewed millions, then tens of millions of times. It brought big crowds to our concerts on five continents, and by the time we returned to the studio, 700 shows, one Grammy and nearly three years later, EMI's ledger had a black number in our column. To the band, "Here It Goes Again" was a successful creative project. To the record company, it was a successful, completely free advertisement.

Things have changed greatly over the past couple years. Ok Go's label, EMI, no longer allows its music videos to be embedded. Damian Kulash Jr. says views of its treadmill music video plunged 90% when EMI disabled embedding.

Embedded videos - those hosted by YouTube but streamed on blogs and other Web sites - don't generate any revenue for record companies, so EMI disabled the embedding feature. Now we can't post the YouTube versions of our videos on our own site, nor can our fans post them on theirs. If you want to watch them, you have to do so on YouTube.

But this isn't how the Internet works. Viral content doesn't spread just from primary sources like YouTube or Flickr. Blogs, Web sites and video aggregators serve as cultural curators, daily collecting the items that will interest their audiences the most. By ignoring the power of these tastemakers, our record company is cutting off its nose to spite its face.

The numbers are shocking: When EMI disabled the embedding feature, views of our treadmill video dropped 90 percent, from about 10,000 per day to just over 1,000. Our last royalty statement from the label, which covered six months of streams, shows a whopping $27.77 credit to our account.

Damian Kulash Jr. is right about blogs, videos and about how the Internet works. EMI should turn the embedding option back on and embrace the viral nature of the Internet. Not only would it help OK Go's treadmill video get more views again but OK Go's latest music video for "This Too Shall Pass" would likely garner a lot more views as well.

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