PRVCY Jeans: Privacy Jeans goes viral to help breast cancer research

From out of nowhere comes PRVCY Jeans, and Privacy Jeans has gone viral online. In a very clever use of search, social networks, and video distribution platforms (well, just one, YouTube), PRVCY Jeans vaulted to the top of search trends, Monday. The strategy, coupled with provacative videos and catchy music threatens to catapult PRVCY Jeans to amazing sales levels.

Here's one video:



Moreover, stars like Miley Cyrus, Eva Longoria, and Carrie Underwood at Super Bowl XLIV and Jennifer Garner have been photographed in PRVCY Jeans. A brief online search shows that the trend started in mid-year 2009, then increased steadily as celeb after celeb doned PRVCY Jeans.

The company website reveals PRVCY Jeans mission:

The Privacy label is more than a fashion statement; it is a statement of values. The driving force of our organization is to bring breast cancer awareness to the fashion marketplace. We use a generous portion of our annual revenue to fund breast cancer prevention and research. When you purchase from the Privacy collection it announces your "Commitment to the Cure." It allows us to provide free mammography screening for underprivileged women, and to fund breast cancer education and clinical trials. We believe in quality, for our apparel and for human life. We pursue a "double bottom line": people as well as profit.

This video introduces Privacywear's CEO Carolyn Jones:



The force behind PRVCY Jeans is Carolyn Jones, who started the company to produce jeans and raise money for breast cancer research at the same time. 10 percent of revenue reportedly goes to Breast Cancer research. As a person who's mother survived Breast Cancer in 2005, PRVCY Jeans and it's mission and marketing direction is one I totally support and encourage.

You can learn more about PRVCY Jeans at Privacywear.com

Andrew Koenig ATM card and cell phone used after February 14th

An update in the search for the missing actor Andrew Koenig in Vancouver. On Monday, the Vancouver Sun reports that Koenig's cell phone and ATM card were used after February 14th. Here's what the Vancouver Sun posted via E!Online:

Vancouver Police Constable Tim Fanning is telling ET the very latest about the search for former "Growing Pains" star Andrew Koenig.
Fanning tells ET that Koenig's ATM card and cell phone were used after February 14, the date the actor was last seen. Fanning did not disclose when the items were used because the search for Koenig is still an ongoing investigation.
Koenig played Boner, the best friend of Mike Seaver on the hit '80s sitcom "Growing Pains."
Anyone with information on Koenig's whereabouts should call the Vancouver police at 604-717-2534.

That reports leaves more new questions: 1) Where was the ATM card used and at what time? 2) What number was called? At what time? Does anyone have the number to make a test phone call?

It's not the expertise of this blogger but the police could take his whereabouts on the 14th, then determine the location of the cell phone call (which, according to this CNET post is possible),and at least determine where Andrew may have went to along that path between the two calls.

Disturbing.

Stay tuned.

More: Andrew Koenig missing in Winter Olympics city.

Andrew Koenig still missing in Winter Olympics city

Andrew Koenig, the son of Star Trek's Walter Koenig and star of Growing Pains, is still missing in Winter Olympics city of Vancouver. The USA Today reports that Vancouver mounted police have been searching for Koenig, who was last seen on Valentine's Day in Vancouver.

Now, Vancouver investigators believe Andrew Koenig is in the area and doesn't want to be found. One can only hope that Vancouver police aren't considering giving up the search for him, and have developed a rationale that justifies cutting back.

Andrew Koenig's parents have said that he was suffering from severe depression.

Stay tuned.

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums State of The City via Twitter #oaksotc

If you're away in a place like Suburban (OK, rural) Atlanta, Georgia, and are too busy to sit for a live stream of the Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums State of The City Adress, you can catch what he's saying via Twitter.

In this case, following the tweets of the hashtag #oaksotc reveals some interesting news. For example, The Mayor says he believes in local control of the Oakland Public Schools. Here's the last most resent tweets, most of them sent by @reginaldjames:

reginaldjames Dellums: I believe in local control, referring to OUSD #oaksotc
38s ago via The Remote

bakseet Wondering... SF has a stimulus-funded "SF Jobs Now" program. Where is Oakland's version? #oaksotc
1m ago via web

reginaldjames MD: When people are engaged, their relationsips improve #oaksotc
3m ago via The Remote

reginaldjames MD: Supported Laney College clean energy grant. 'all earmarks are not a bridge to nowhere' #oaksotc
6m ago via The Remote

vanlenning @ReginaldJames tweeting live Mayor Dellums' state of the city of #oakland: Turn this spaceship over to the next generation #oaksotc
6m ago via web

majeeda RT @ReginaldJames Dellums: Turn this spaceship over to the next generation #oaksotc
8m ago via Tweetree

reginaldjames Oakland green jobs corps led to 'Pathways out of Poverty' #shoutout to Van Jones #oaksotc
8m ago via The Remote

vanlenning RT @reginaldjames: Dellums proud that Oakland Green Jobs Corps is a model for the state #oaksotc
9m ago via The Remote

reginaldjames Dellums proud that Oakland Green Jobs Corps is a model for the state #oaksotc
9m ago via The Remote

reginaldjames MD: We are not training our people for obselesence, were training them for imperative #oaksotc
10m ago via The Remote

reginaldjames Dellums: Turn this spaceship over to the next generation #oaksotc
11m ago via The Remote

reginaldjames Dellums: Green corridor partnership is unprecedented. Only in the country, if there another, they follow us #oaksotc
11m ago via The Remote

reginaldjames End the dichtonomy of the port and the city. We are a port city. One city, one vision, one strategy #oaksotc
12m ago via The Remote

dto510 Dellums on Army Base development: "We are a Port City. Come together - one city, one vision, one strategy." #oaksotc
13m ago via web

reginaldjames Oakland is ne of the greenest cities in the nation. #4 Top 20cities to live. not Oaktown, Oakland #oaksotc
14m ago via The Remote

dto510 Dellums naming some new businesses. This newly-built industrial facility in West O caught my eye in the handout. #oaksotc
16m ago via web

reginaldjames Broadway Valdez retail area to combat 1billion dollar retail leakage #oaksotc
17m ago via The Remote

dto510 Dellums notes Specific Plan for Broadway / Valdez retail. Transit vs parking debate over that plan is about to explode. #oaksotc
17m ago via web

reginaldjames Dellums: Lake Chalet created 142 jobs #oaksotc
18m ago via The Remote

das88 #oaksotc hard to parse statement on A's. "Absolutely confident" will get msg in few days-not sure what Mayor saying about content
18m ago via twidroid

Taylor Swift turning into a diva?

Taylor Swift, the country-pop singer with the great voice who's won seemingly every award known to fandom, has presented a good-girl, gee-whiz-this-is-great persona every time she took the stage or appeared before a camera.

Taylor Swift, it seemed, really was the charmed young woman who was nice to everyone. Kanye West's now famous interruption of her acceptance speech at the Teen Choice Awards , and the way the World came to her defense, only solidified her image. Only a slip in the form of a photo with an "accidental" Swastika-T-Shirt wearing Hollywood model A.J. English entered to even threaten to muck her image...



...It didn't.

Now, there's a report that once down under, Taylor Swift has become a diva. All of those awards got to her head. Sydney Confidential reports that Taylor Swift went to a restaurant called a "Teppanyaki" where chefs cook at the table and the customers help out in the process. This is what was reported:

"The chef asked her if she was ready to catch the egg, she said yes and it fell on her. She completely flipped out and ranted and raved," our source revealed. "After being calmed down the chef asked her if she was ready for some rice, again she said yes, but once she caught it she threw it back at the chef."

And Sydney Confidential reports that Taylor Swift wanted hotel staff to open all doors for her. Every one? Even the bathroom? I wonder.

WonderWall checked with Taylor Swift's rep, who said "That didn't happen." But I wonder if that didn't happen in the same way the rep explained away the Swastika incident. In that case, the rep said Taylor Swift had no idea what the T-Shirt was or who A.J. English was.

I wonder.

GOP hates Obama Health Care Plan; GOP refuses to offer own plan

Earlier Monday the White House held a press conference to introduce the Obama Health Care Plan as the one that stands the best chance of actually gaining bipartisan support. Now, with the day not over, it's reported that Republicans hate Obama Health Care Plan, but the GOP refuses to offer their own plan!

It must be asked if the GOP is really serious about fixing the American Health Care system? What else can one infer if the Republicans don't have their own plan? Moreover, the only way voters in GOP districts could reelect any one of their representative is to fail to understand what's going on in the economics of Health Care. Controlling the growth of rates is paramount; it's also something the GOP doesn't want to do.

Over at ThinkProgress a commenter observed that the new plan caves in "to the special interests and wingnuts" but if the GOP doesn't go for it, perhaps they're even wing-nuttier than advertised.

The "party-of-no" GOP strategy can only go so far before it crashes and burns. It did so today in the matter of the jobs bill, where five Republicans bolted from the party line filibuster plan and cast a procedural vote for it. Scott Brown, who was considered to be a major opponent of the bill, one one of the GOP Senators who cast a vote for it. Apparently, even on the GOP side, there are elected officials who want to get things done. The vote passed 62 to 30.



The question is will that desire to get things done carry over into the Obama Health Care Plan? Will the GOP stop playing games?

Stay tuned.

Manny Ramirez doesn't think he's in LA Dodgers future

Is Manny's goose cooked?

According to LA Times, star LA Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez reported to training camp saying he didn't think his "dreds" were in the Dodgers' future. In other words, after 2011, he thinks he's done...with the Dodgers.

The question is what, or how much, will Manny Ramirez be worth on the open market. Given his play , it's going to be less than $20 million per year.

 Manny's missed an estimated 18.5 percent of all games over his career (some of that due to his 50-game suspension) and his after-steroid performance has been less than stellar.

What Manny Ramirez does in this 2010 baseball season will be fun to watch, especially since he knows he may be on the block.

Stay tuned.