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Personalized Teas

I spent some time on my favorite tea website customizing a personal tea gift for my friend Simone for Christmas. I've decided to start shopping for Christmas gifts early this year for two reasons; I have money and why not? I'm not big on Holidays but I plan on buying a handful of people gifts this year including myself. Check out Adagio teas website if you are looking for great gifts for friends and family. The teas taste great and I lose weight while drinking the teas and they gave me more energy. I recommend the website for tea lovers and for people who do not drink tea, try their flavored teas; you will change your mind about teas.

Fashion and Style lovers

While browsing through the pages of PNN I found a great website by a PNN member called Chictopia. For people like me who love all things fashion, this was a great find. I quickly emailed the link to a couple of people who I thought might enjoy the site after creating an account. I am a lover of fashion and photography. So I plan on going through my wardrobe pretty soon; creating looks, taking pictures and uploading it to the site. I have pictures I took at the beginning of the year coming up. I'm trying to decide whether to cut my hair into a funky style or not. I'm leaning towards a new hairdo. Maybe by the end of the month I will be sporting a faux mohawk/mullet. I think I might be able to pull it off. I'm also thinking about going to my natural roots and grow out an afro. I'm tired of burning my scalp with chemicals. There must be a side effect to all this vanity. The best part is that the models are every day people, so you don't have to be force fed the skinny model hype. If you create an account, feel free to add me.

There was also an article about the site that I would like to share with everyone. You can find the article on Teen Vogue.

If you're anything like me, you dress yourself in the morning with the hopes of "bumping" into The Sartorialist on the street. But then again, a girl can only wait so long for a close encounter of the Scott Schuman kind. Thank goodness for fashion site Chictopia where you can upload pictures of yourself to share with other fashionable webbies. A do-it-yourself street style blog, Chictopia lets you share your style with the world and check up on photos of other real girls with real style. "My favorite users are Rebecca of The Clothes Horse, Flairtoremember, and Lulu of Everybody is Ugly," says CEO Helen Zhu. "None have a traditional model-like build, but all are very talented at putting together great outfits that suit their body shape and their point of view in style." With such a grassroots take on fashion --style by the people, for the people --and an extensive (and growing!) fan base, it'll only be a short time until Chictopia becomes a household name.

--CONNIE WANG

I hate PETA

It's official...I hate PETA. PETA is trying to take away the one thing I love most in this world...ice cream. I am suing if I eat breastmilk ice cream for emotional distress. If it's not my mother's or my breastmilk...I don't want it near me. I am not a child anymore, I will not be forced to drink breast milk. We eat cows, so we might as well drink their milk also.

* What makes you think women won't start getting pregnant just so they can make quick cash selling breastmilk?

PETA's letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield

September 23, 2008

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, Cofounders

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.

Dear Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield,

On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and supporters, I'd like to bring your attention to an innovative new idea from Switzerland that would bring a unique twist to Ben and Jerry's.

Storchen restaurant is set to unveil a menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent breast milk procured from human donors who are paid in exchange for their milk. If Ben and Jerry's replaced the cow's milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers-and cows-would reap the benefits.

Using cow's milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer's health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow's milk to children, saying it may play a role in anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease-America's number one cause of death.

Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. *Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, cows are forcefully impregnated every nine months. After several years of living in filthy conditions and being forced to produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally, their exhausted bodies are turned into hamburgers or ground up for soup.

And of course, the veal industry could not survive without the dairy industry. Because male calves can't produce milk, dairy farmers take them from their mothers immediately after birth and sell them to veal farms, where they endure 14 to17 weeks of torment chained inside a crate so small that they can't even turn around.

The breast is best! Won't you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow's milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Tracy Reiman

Executive Vice President