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Study: Online jewelry sales drop 24% this holiday (National Jeweler)
Other categories that showed negative online growth this holiday season include: books and magazines (-1 percent), consumer electronics (-5 percent), flowers, greetings and gifts (-7 percent), toys (-7 percent), computer hardware (-8 percent), home, garden and furniture (-14 percent), event tickets (-18 percent), computer software (-24 percent), office supplies (-30 percent) and music, movies ... Tributes.com Establishes Online Memorial for Jett Travolta: A Place to Share Memories and Condolences (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Tributes.com has established an online memorial for Jett Travolta, John Travolta's 16-year old son, who passed away Friday morning in the Bahamas after suffering a seizure and hitting his head at his family's vacation home. Teens warned to clean up online profiles (Seattle Times)
Adults can encourage safer Internet use by young people, who may not consider the consequences of posting drinking habits and sexual behavior, a study shows.
Obituaries Jan. 6, 2009 (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Bayne Cobb BRUCE – Bayne Cobb, age 93, died at the Bruce Community Living Center on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009. Mr. Cobb was born in Banner on Jan. 2, 1916, the son of Harold J. Cobb and Roxie Dickson Cobb. He lived all his life in Calhoun County. In & Around Town (Mt. Olive Chronicle)
SATURDAY, Oct. 4 The second ‘Shop ‘n' Rock' will be hosted from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Budd Lake Firehouse, Route 46. The event is sponsored by the Mount Olive Kiwanis and Mount Olive Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 122. The family event will include food, activities, music, a kid's play zone and vendors. Vendors and sponsors are sought and should visit www.mtolivekiwanis.org, call Lisa Kennedy at ... Handmade Floral Gifts are Budget-friendly Season Brighteners (Lexington Clipper-Herald)
(ARA) - Are you trying to balance a shrinking holiday gift budget with a list of recipients that just seems to grow longer every year? You're not alone.
Govindraj Ethiraj: Lunch On The Shop Floor (Business Standard India)
Guess where Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spent the first day of the New Year? Receiving visiting dignitaries with bouquets of flowers, at the party offices with party colleagues and workers, with friends and family or a function to commemorate something or the other..? Obama's Mideast Brief: Beware Flying Shoes, Clinton's Whispers (Bloomberg)
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- As Barack Obama prepares to move into the White House, expectations are rising that bouquets rather than shoes will be lobbed at him in the Mideast. Thank you for the music! (The Star)
THE cast of the hit musical Mamma Mia! holding bouquets of flowers and waving goodbye to the audience who caught the final show at Istana Budaya, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday.
Wild Roses 'definitely not a chick show' (London Free Press)
Wild Roses proudly features women, but it isn't exclusively for women. Bashful Wahid rescued by roses (The New Straits Times)
KUALA TERENGGANU: Roses came to the rescue of Pas Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election candidate Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut when meeting voters in Kampung Cina recently. 'Wild Roses' showcases Alberta (Jam! Showbiz)
TORONTO - It's easy to draw parallels between the new CBC-TV drama 'Wild Roses" and those '80s nighttime soaps "Dallas" and Dynasty," admits star and veteran performer Gary Hudson.
Student's painting of Troost tulips wins third place in Wendy's contest. (The Kansas City Star)
Tulips weren’t the obvious choice. Entered in a national arts competition, 22-year-old Kristen Phillips set out to depict Kansas City and its spirit. Cherry Blossom Time: Germany's Doris Dörrie ventures to Japan for drama of aging and rebirth (Film Journal)
Doris Dörrie's Cherry Blossoms , from Strand Releasing, is one of the most sensitively intelligent, humane films ever made about two subjects whose serious treatment is all too rare in cinema—aging and death. IOWA: Tulip time (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Kevin's New Experience Tours of St. Louis is making a three-day, motor-coach trip, leaving May 7, to catch the Pella Tulip Festival in Iowa. Two nights will be spent in the capital city of Des Moines, with a visit to Pella to see Dutch costumes, stage performances and countless beds of tulips.
Keep Saginaw Beautiful Committee to meet Wednesday, Jan. 14, to discuss planting 72,000 flowers (The Saginaw News)
The Keep Saginaw Beautiful Committee meets at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, at City Hall. The group hopes to help repeat the May beautification effort that featured volunteers planting 72,000 flowers across Saginaw's city and township, said Amanda Kitterman-Miller, a... Johnsons House of Flowers in Flames (KJCT 8 Grand Junction)
A section of North Avenue is closed to drivers this morning after a local flower store went up in flames. Johnsons House of Flowers at 1350 North Ave was reported on fire by someone passing by shortly before 5:45 this morning. Iridescence invisible to human eye enables bees to view flowers in different colours (PhysOrg)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bees see some flowers in multicolour because of previously unknown iridescence of the petals, usually invisible to the human eye, researchers from the University of Cambridge report this week in Science.
The not so secret life of a red fox (The Evening Sun)
She came into our yard one evening as my husband and I were sitting on our front porch. As she traveled through our yard and flower beds, she seemed more interested in play than in us. She was gorgeous! The Films of Michael Powell (DVD Talk)
The Movie: Those of us who take our movie viewing perhaps a bit too seriously are apt to speak in reverential, hushed tones when discussing the works of famed British duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Year in review: a look back at 2008 (The Norwood Young America Times)
Jan. 3 — The Central High School dance team begins its inaugural season after seniors Nicole Lind, Abbey Carey and Ashley Zabel organize support. Rick and Paula Gort and Del and Ken Gallup are new members of the Cologne Lions.
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