Lemi Shine dish detergent (200/day)
Izze t-shirt (Facebook)
Pampers
Thomas Coffee
Education DVD from Izzit (for teachers)
Sun Chlorella cream
Shout Color Catcher
Zone Perfect cookie dough bar (Facebook)
Dove Ultimate go fresh deodorant (Sam's Club)
Friday, October 1, 2010
Website Spotlight: Tiny Prints & Halloween
I think one of my favorite Halloween memories was the time that my dad went trick-or-treating with us and rang the doorbell at our friend's house, acting like a kid. It's a really good memory, because it started a tradition. Michelle (my friend's older sister) opened the door, and yelled, "Mom, there's a delinquent at the door!" Then she gave my dad a rock. The rock went back and forth between our families until Michelle died in a car accident years later. It's special to me because it shows how little traditions get started.
Tiny Prints provides simple, modern and unique stationery from photo cards to personalized greeting cards to thank you cards and business cards. Offering exclusive designs from the nation’s top designers, easy card personalization, a powerful preview engine and top-notch customer service and paper quality, their designs have been lauded by numerous television networks, publications and celebrities. With Tiny Prints by your side the Holidays will be a cinch! They offer adorable Halloween Cards, Thanksgiving Cards, Christmas Cards, Hannukah Cards, and even New Years Cards. All fully customizable and personalizable.
Global Influence has once again partnered with Tiny Prints to bring our members a fun opportunity to blog about a company we love and enter to win great prizes. For more information about the Twitter party Monday, click here.
Website Spotlight: ATETV
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of ATETV.org. All opinions are 100% mine.
I just learned about the site ATETV (Advanced Technological Education Television). ATETV is a site sponsored by the National Science Foundation via a grant to produce a variety of videos. The project was funded as an attempt to attract students into the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math). The US Labor Department predicts that the demand for employees capable in these fields will exceed the rate at which students adequately prepared in these fields are trained. These jobs include some great fields like robotics and aviation, work on "green" jobs such as wind farms, and also bringing technology to "old" fields like agriculture.
As a math teacher, I find a site like this particularly interesting. Videos are short, with many right around 2-3 minutes long, and others around 7-8 minutes, so they would be easy to incorporate in any classroom. There are some videos really useful to everyone, such as Building Your Resume While Still in School and Using Math and Science in the Real World as well as some very specific ones like Fuel Cells are the Future. Videos can be browsed by popularity, location, category, and date, and there are even some special FAQ videos, answering questions that include "What kind of salary can I make?" and "Are there opportunities for women?"
If you have kids interested in math and science, this would be a great site. If you're a math or science teacher, I highly encourage you to check it out. And even if your kids aren't interested in the STEM fields right now, it's still worth viewing a few, just so they can see what's out there.
Consumer Critique: Lang Lang “Live in Vienna”
I recently had the chance to review “Live in Vienna” by pianist Lang Lang. As a pianist myself, I loved the chance to do this review.
The album is actually two CDs. The first CD is two Beethoven Sonatas (#3 Op 2 and #23 Op 57 “Appassionata”). The second CD includes three Chopin works familiar to those who have listened to very much Chopin at all, as a special tribute to Chopin’s 200th anniversary, and pieces by Albéniz and Prokofiev.
Lang Lang has been called “The hottest artist on the classical music planet” by the NY Times, and this recital is a great example. My husband, a music major himself, was really excited when he saw the CD and wanted to listen to it right away.
Lang's technical ability is amazing. And the nice thing about piano music is that it's so easy to listen to in the background of whatever you're doing. This CD is no exception. It's great for keeping the office from being too quiet, it helps put the girls to sleep, and it's musically interesting enough that my husband and I enjoy "active listening" too (where we just listen to the music itself, without any other form of entertainment).
Lang's story is interesting too. He started piano at the early age of three and was preparing to enter the Central Conservatory in Beijing when his piano tutor kicked him out for not being good enough. Then the music teacher at school reminded him of why he loved to play, and he went back at it. His mission now is to share classical music around the world, especially by encouraging young musicians. He even started a foundation to help financially support young musicians.
Lang is a great piano player who will be around for a while (he's only 28). I encourage you to check out his work!
Disclosure: I received a free copy of “Live in Vienna” to facilitate this review.
The album is actually two CDs. The first CD is two Beethoven Sonatas (#3 Op 2 and #23 Op 57 “Appassionata”). The second CD includes three Chopin works familiar to those who have listened to very much Chopin at all, as a special tribute to Chopin’s 200th anniversary, and pieces by Albéniz and Prokofiev.
Lang Lang has been called “The hottest artist on the classical music planet” by the NY Times, and this recital is a great example. My husband, a music major himself, was really excited when he saw the CD and wanted to listen to it right away.
Lang's technical ability is amazing. And the nice thing about piano music is that it's so easy to listen to in the background of whatever you're doing. This CD is no exception. It's great for keeping the office from being too quiet, it helps put the girls to sleep, and it's musically interesting enough that my husband and I enjoy "active listening" too (where we just listen to the music itself, without any other form of entertainment).
Lang's story is interesting too. He started piano at the early age of three and was preparing to enter the Central Conservatory in Beijing when his piano tutor kicked him out for not being good enough. Then the music teacher at school reminded him of why he loved to play, and he went back at it. His mission now is to share classical music around the world, especially by encouraging young musicians. He even started a foundation to help financially support young musicians.
Lang is a great piano player who will be around for a while (he's only 28). I encourage you to check out his work!
Disclosure: I received a free copy of “Live in Vienna” to facilitate this review.
Shopping Savings: Hennepin County
Hennepin County has a Choose to Reuse program where you can download a coupon book that has all sorts of coupons for various retailers that sell used goods, like Once Upon a Child or Goodwill. It's good for the environment and your wallet!
Consumer Critique: Seagate GoFlex
I did a video review of this over at ExpoTV. Go check it out if you want to see a cute little external hard drive that makes a slick solution for backing up your computer!
While you're there check out my other video reviews too!
While you're there check out my other video reviews too!
Consumer Critique: Paula Cole’s “Ithaca”
Grammy Award winner Paula Cole recently released a new album, “Ithaca,” on September 21st. This is her fifth album, and in it, she sings songs inspired by some deeply personal topics: divorce, new love, and being a working mom. “The overall theme of ‘Ithaca’ is making peace with life,” Cole says. “I hope to show people through my music that these lessons in life can truly be a healing process.”
Never having been divorced, not all of the songs really spoke to me. But some of them really struck a chord with me, particularly “Music in Me” and “2 Lifetimes.”
“I thank you God for the music here in me. And I’ll health with understanding. And I’ll deal with patient loving. And I’ll make it cause the music’s here in me.” - part of the lyrics from “Music in Me,” which I really enjoyed because music does that for me, too. “2 Lifetimes” is a beautiful song celebrating the union of two different people.
The CD was easy to listen to, and even the songs I couldn’t relate to, I could appreciate for their emotion and songwriting. If you’re looking for some uplifting songs to help you through a difficult period in your relationship, this CD has some great tunes for that. If you want to celebrate the love you have, this CD works for that too!
For more information, please visit PaulaCole.com or her MySpace page.
Disclosure: I received a free copy of “Ithaca” to facilitate this review.
Never having been divorced, not all of the songs really spoke to me. But some of them really struck a chord with me, particularly “Music in Me” and “2 Lifetimes.”
“I thank you God for the music here in me. And I’ll health with understanding. And I’ll deal with patient loving. And I’ll make it cause the music’s here in me.” - part of the lyrics from “Music in Me,” which I really enjoyed because music does that for me, too. “2 Lifetimes” is a beautiful song celebrating the union of two different people.
The CD was easy to listen to, and even the songs I couldn’t relate to, I could appreciate for their emotion and songwriting. If you’re looking for some uplifting songs to help you through a difficult period in your relationship, this CD has some great tunes for that. If you want to celebrate the love you have, this CD works for that too!
For more information, please visit PaulaCole.com or her MySpace page.
Disclosure: I received a free copy of “Ithaca” to facilitate this review.
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