$100 from each sweater is donated to her chosen charity, the End Fistula Campaign, which is a compelling women’s rights issue that is prevalent in many poor countries of the world. To find out more go to: www.endfistula.org





Taking inspiration from the spiritual journey of her life, and the many opportunities she has been given, Natalie celebrates this by creating the ‘Lucky’ sweater.

Featuring a 4-leaf clover intarsia on the back, and the word ‘Lucky’ on the wrist cuff of the left hand sleeve (to mark the actual 4-leaf clover tattoo that she has on the inside of her wrist), the sweater has gorgeous detailing such as a hand-plaited drawstring through the hood, and extra length in the bodice for warmth and comfort.

A gorgeous sweater that’s perfect for weekends. Nice and long in the bodice to keep you cosy in the cold, it’s perfect with a pair of leggings or jeans.

Banjo & Matilda Australia was launched in May 2008 by Belynda Macpherson. With its headquarters located at Bondi Beach, the Aussie lifestyle of sun, sand and the surf resonates innately with the label and its philosophy of low maintenance style and comfort – but always in luxe cashmere.

With childhood memories of ballet classes and costume-making with her mother, Belynda knitted her own leg warmers and ballet-wraps as a child and grew up with a love of creating her own knitted styles.

Her passion for ultra-soft cashmere staples, pairing simplicity with cool sophistication has rapidly gained loyal customers worldwide – positioning the label as the ‘go-to’ for contemporary cashmere products.

Always with the customer in mind, Banjo & Matilda conveniently ship their cashmere worldwide from their on-line store, delivering it promptly and in exclusive custom-made brown boxes to their delighted customers’ doorsteps and offices.

Currently offering womenswear, Banjo & Matilda have plans for Mens, Baby and Home collections in the near future.

“I design for real life and a love of absolute comfort and longevity. Simplicity with a generous serve of discreet luxury makes me happy, and I am guessing/hoping/knowing you’ll love it too.” Belynda Macpherson

People have been mixing savory ingredients with alcohol as long as we have been drinking alcohol. Writers from the 17th century, including John Locke and Samuel Pepys frequently imbibed and wrote about savory infused ales. It turns out that mixing sweet and savory in food and beverage is not a new idea.

Around the world today, high-end lounges are serving a variety of “carnivorous cocktails.” The best mixologists are like chefs behind the bar and they don’t want to be limited to standard fruit-flavored infusions. These bartenders have found that the savory aspect of bacon makes a great dominant profile in a cocktail like a Bakon martini with a blue cheese-stuffed olive. But it can also take the back seat, with bacon’s smoky flavor subtly enhancing the taste in a concoction like a Chocolate Martini.

The makers of Bakon Vodka started out testing various infusions in their kitchen in the fall of 2007. They wanted to do it right, to create a premium-quality vodka that you’d enjoy drinking. To match an infusion, they tested recipes for over two years, finally landing at the one true “Bakon Vodka”.

They start with a superior quality potato vodka. Distilled in Idaho from potatoes, it is smooth, slightly sweet with the well-rounded flavor that you only get from a quality potato distillation, with no strong burn or aftertaste. Their vodka is column-distilled using a single heating process that doesn’t “bruise” the alcohol like the multiple heating cycles needed to make a typical pot-still vodka. Getting the perfect savory bacon flavor took them a while to get right too. They wanted it to have the essence of a delicious crisp slice of peppered-bacon.

Try it for yourself and see if you agree. Here are a selection of recipes:

Bakon Mary
• 1½ oz. Bakon Vodka in a pint glass filled with ice.
• Fill glass with tomato juice
• 1 dash each of celery salt and ground black pepper
• 2-4 dashes each of Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco
• 1/8 tsp. horseradish

Shake and pour into a salt rimmed pint glass. Garnish with a celery stalk and your
favorite pickled vegetables.

Bakon Chocolate Martini
• 1 part Bakon Vodka
• 1 part chocolate liqueur
• A splash of cream

Combine in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice. Strain and pour into a sugar-rimmed martini glass.

The Elvis Presley
• 1 part Bakon Vodka
• ½ part hazelnut liqueur
• ½ part banana liqueur
• splash of cream

Shake with ice and served like a Martini -or- strained into a shot glass.
Created by Scott Marx from Rock Bottom Brewery in Bellevue, WA.

And finally, you may want to eat something to soak up all this alcohol:

Bakon Vodka Marinated Steak (Serves 6)
• 1/3 cup Bakon Vodka
• 1 tablespoon sea salt or 1/2 teaspoon table salt
• 2 tablespoons black peppercorns, crushed
• 3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped thyme
• 3 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• A slice of beef cut from the top of the rump, about an inch thick or 24 ounces
Combine marinade ingredients and put into a closed container with the beef, making sure to evenly coat with herbs. Marinate for 3 hours at room temperature. Or for superior results, marinate for 1 to 3 days in the refrigerator before cooking.

Cook to preferred temperature, and enjoy.

Jerry Leigh will offer Betty White apparel for guys and girls at all tiers of distribution. This limited edition collection will include t-shirts as well as HoodieBuddie™ with HB3 Technology™ styles.

HoodieBuddie™ with HB3 Technology™ has patent pending technology incorporated into its design, as these styles feature machine washable earbuds and an input jack in the pocket.

Now in its inaugural season, HoodieBuddie™ allows its wearer to stay connected to devices such as MP3 players, taking apparel beyond its traditional form.

A portion of all proceeds from the Betty White collection will benefit the Morris Animal Foundation, an animal health organization, for which Betty White serves as a trustee.

Betty White officially licensed apparel will be available at retailers beginning in August, as well as on the official HoodieBuddie™ e-commerce site. For additional information on Jerry Leigh’s exclusively licensed Betty White apparel, please visit www.hoodiebuddie.com.

Betty White, most widely known known for her role as the loveable Rose on The Golden Girls, can currently be seen in “Hot In Cleveland.”

Jerry Leigh, established in 1962, is a family-owned clothing designer, manufacturer, and brand management company with a philosophy of designing fashion that reflects consumers’ lifestyles, utilizing a wide range of brands and licenses.

With over 750 employees worldwide, Jerry Leigh distributes to retailers at all tiers of distribution, from boutiques to mass market, and manufactures apparel for everyone, from toddlers to adults. For more on Jerry Leigh, please visit www.jerryleigh.com.

Source: prnewswire.com

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The Wrestler star and alcohol-free beer may not be an obvious match, but a new campaign breaking in August links the two in a humorous way that Bavaria hopes will make it market leader over the next 12 months.

Bavaria’s alcohol-free lines have grown 57% to £2.8m in the past year [Nielsen 52w/e 12 June] in an off-trade non-alcoholic beer market worth £15.2m.

The brand hopes to overtake ABInBev’s non-alcoholic Beck’s Blue, which has grown 19% to £6.9m.

A combination of the new campaign, growing interest in the category and Wit, Bavaria’s newest 0.0% abv wheat beer, which was launched last month, would enable the brand to hit its target, said managing director Mike Teague.

In the adverts, which run on Central and London TV networks through August, a grouchy Rourke unknowingly drinks a Bavaria Alcohol Free beer, served by a hotel bartender who is aware of his hard-drinking past. The scene switches to Rourke storming through the hotel lobby in a rage because he can only find alcohol-free beer in his room’s mini-bar and asking the bartender for another beer unaware that he was originally served an alcohol-free beer.

In the second ad Rourke sits with his pet chihuahua and his girlfriend drinking Wit, which leaves him with a white moustache. He then demands of a staring man: “Are you looking at my girl?”

The campaign would combat one of the biggest barriers to people consuming non-alcoholic beers the fact it has been seen as “uncool” said UK marketing manager Sean Durkan. “We want to grow the category. It’s growing anyway as more people are being sensible about their drinking choices.”

The alcohol-free category was a “small but very profitable market”, added Teague. “There are lots of issues it taps into. There’s also a new wave of young people who are very image-conscious with men going to the gym. It’s very low calorie,” he said.

Watch the ad here:

Source: thegrocer.co.uk

Madonna commented, “Lola’s influences, you know, watching films, watching music videos – she pays attention to what’s going on in the street and what people are wearing, and she’s much more fashion forward and savvy than I am at this point!”

A teaser ad campaign will break on June 29, 2010 and will offer a hint of the celebrity muse for the launch of “Material Girl.” Madonna and Lola picked the muse who will appear in the multi-platform marketing campaign launching the first week of August,

Material Girl mixes hard and soft elements, like a tutu dress and studded combat boots, or an oversized boyfriend sweatshirt with a floral print mini skirt. Inspired and designed by the duo, “Material Girl” will also launch in multiple categories including footwear, handbags and jewelry and will be available exclusively in approximately 200 Macy’s stores and online at www.macys.com.

“We mix and match textures and fabrics and elements that are both masculine and feminine. It’s not complicated. It’s dressing in layers. It’s not looking like you took too much time thinking about what you’re wearing,” says Madonna.

Visit http://www.macys.com/materialgirl or the “Material Girl” Facebook and Twitter pages to see more exciting imagery and behind the scenes videos featuring our Material Girl, along with Lola’s blog on what’s hot in fashion and a sweepstakes for a chance to meet Madonna at Macy’s Herald Square in September.

Heaven by Deborah Mitchell is a natural alternative to botox and the first product of its kind. This unique product has been specially created using natural and organic ingredients, combined to work in synergy for an instant anti-ageing effect.

Containing Manuka Honey, renowned for its soothing and healing properties, it also contains the magic Bee Venom ingredient that works to control the facial muscles for immediate lifting, tightening and firming, whilst getting to work on frown lines and wrinkles.

Bee Venom Mask also contains ingredients of softening and calming Shea Butter, Rose and Lavender essential oils – leaving you looking your youthful best. Apply Heaven Bee Venom mask daily and leave on the skin for 20 minutes before washing off and your skin will look and feel instantly younger and smoother.

Guess that’s why Gwyneth Paltrow, Dannii Minogue and the Duchess of Cornwall are reputedly avid users.

We Sing Robbie Williams will feature 25 tracks from the chart-topping artist, which will be accompanied by all the original videos making it a true celebration of the British born, multimillion selling pop star.

The release of the game will coincide with Robbie Williams’ definitive greatest hits album entitled In And Out Of Consciousness: The Greatest Hits 1990-2010. Spanning 20 years, the album is testament to his incredible success as the UK’s biggest selling solo artist.

“After 20 years in the business, Robbie’s fan base covers practically every age group, and both genders – that represents a massive percentage of the population who will want to play the We Sing version of the game,” says Nik Blower, Nordic Games Sales and Marketing Director. “This is a huge deal for Nordic Games and a real first in the gaming world.”

Rafael McDonnell , Senior Vice President for Brand Partnerships, Licensing & Synchronisation at EMI Music, said: “EMI has been at the forefront of working with the gaming industry and recorded music, with artists such as Robbie embracing this important format.

We are really proud to be able to offer the opportunity for all of Robbie’s fans to get the chance to sing along to their favourite hits with this new and exciting game, and celebrate Robbie’s 20 years in the music industry.”

The full tracklisting for We Sing Robbie Williams is still to be announced but with a vast array of tracks to choose from, such as Angels, Rock DJ, Let Me Entertain You, She’s The One and Old Before I Die, it’s sure to appeal to fans of all ages.

Robbie Williams started his career at the tender age of 16 when he joined Take That as a dancer and singer.

He left the group in 1995 to go solo. He has sold 57 million albums (including over a million copies of his last record, ‘Reality Killed The Video Star’ in the UK alone), 11 million singles, and has had seven UK No.1 albums making him the biggest selling solo artist in the UK.

Earlier this year he picked up the Outstanding Contribution To Music BRIT Award.

EMI and Nordic Games are working to tie in the release of the game with his definitive greatest hits album, In And Out Of Consciousness: The Greatest Hits 1990-2010 scheduled for release in October 2010.

We Sing Robbie Williams will be available for Wii in October 2010.

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The line is full of pantry staples–like pretzels, cookies, candy, dried fruit, coffee, and tea–that follow USDA organic guidelines and are certified by Oregon Tilth, which means farms haven’t used pesticides in at least three years, and all the after-tax proceeds from the natural pasta sauce, dressings, lemonade, and salsa that are part of the Newman’s Own line are donated to charities across the globe.

In their own words: “Newman’s Own was supposed to be a tiny boutique operation-parchment labels on elegant wine bottles of antique glass.

We expected train wrecks along the way and got, instead, one astonishment followed by another astonishment followed by another. We flourished like weeds in the garden of Wishbone, like silver in the vaults of finance.

A lot of the time we thought we were in first gear we were really in reverse, but it didn’t seem to make any difference.

We anticipated sales of $1,200 a year and a loss, despite our gambling winnings, of $6,000. But in these twenty-six years we have earned over $300 million, which we’ve given to countless charities.

How to account for this massive success? Pure luck? Transcendental meditation? Machiavellian manipulation? Aerodynamics? High colonics? We haven’t the slightest idea.”

Newman’s Own is a food company that was founded by Paul Newman in 1982. The company makes all-natural salad dressing, pasta sauce, salsa, lemonade and steak sauce.

Newman’s Own Organics was founded in 1993 by Paul Newman’s daughter, Nell Newman, as a division of Newman’s Own.

It became a separate company in late 2000. Their motto is “Great Tasting Products That Happen to Be Organic.”

Their products include organic pretzels, cookies, popcorn, chocolate bars, peppermint cups, peanut butter cups, olive oil and vinegar, dried fruit, fair trade coffee and pet food.

Watch this incredible video with Paul Newman discussing Newman’s Own:

For more information about Newman’s Own Organics and their products, please visit www.newmansownorganics.com.

He serves on the boards of the Environmental Media Association and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and has chaired both. He currently lives in Los Angeles in a home powered by solar energy and drives an electric car when not riding his bicycle.

Ed began Begley’s Best to give the marketplace an easy way to bring environmentally friendly products into the home.

A committed environmentalist for more than thirty years, Ed Begley, Jr., has always tried to “live simply so others may simply live.

Now, as more and more of us are looking for ways to reduce our impact on the planet and live a better, greener life, Ed shares his experiences on what works, what doesn’t–and what will save you money!

Purchase Begley’s Best™ cleaning products and discover it’s unique effectiveness all the while knowing it is safe for use in your home and our planet.

Made from extracts of pine, de-acified citrus, maize, fermented sugar cane roots, and olive seeds. The ingredients are all natural, non-toxic and totally BIODEGRADABLE in just 3 to 7 days.

Begley’s Best™ dissolves away grease, grime and dirt, quickly, safely and effortlessly. You can use it on any surface that is compatible with water, such as tile, showers, porcelain, counter tops and cupboards, linoleum, plastics, wood, leather, stainless steel, aluminum, chrome and colorfast fabrics.

Begley’s Best™ is ideal for shampooing and spot-cleaning colorfast carpets and upholstery. It’s the perfect cleaner for use on appliances, large and small, inside or out.

Watch an excerpt from Living With Ed:

Source: begleysbest.com