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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Netflix's US customers get Facebook-sharing tool

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A long-awaited coming attraction has finally arrived for Netflix's U.S. subscribers. They will now be able to automatically see what their Facebook friends have been watching on the Internet video service, as long as they are willing to open a peephole into their viewing habits, too.

The sharing tool announced Wednesday is rolling out 18 months after Netflix Inc. introduced the feature to its international subscribers.

The expansion exposes the feature to a much wider audience because Netflix has 27 million Internet video subscribers in the U.S. versus 6 million customers in more than 50 other countries and territories. Netflix isn't creating an outlet for the 8.2 million subscribers to its steadily shrinking DVD-by-mail rental service to share what they're checking out on discs.

Netflix withheld the sharing tool in the U.S.to avoid breaking a 1988 law that banned the disclosure of video rental records without a customer's written consent. After several years of lobbying, the Lost Gatos, Calif., company persuaded Congress to revise the law so that subscribers could choose to activate a video-sharing feature.

President Obama signed the amended law in January, clearing the way for Netflix to offer U.S. subscribers another way to find movies and TV shows that may appeal to their tastes. In the process, Netflix hopes to deepen subscriber loyalty and generate positive buzz about the $8-per-month service as the company strives to reach its goal of reaching 90 million customers.

"This has been a missing link for us," said Tom Willerer, Netflix's vice president of product innovation. "Being able to see more recommendations from your friends can be a very powerful thing."

Investors apparently believe the new feature will increase Netflix's popularity and, by extension, its profits. Netflix shares stock surged by $10.25, or 5.6 percent, to close at $192.36.

The sharing tool could backfire if it raises privacy concerns as subscribers discover how much their Facebook friends are finding out about their viewing preferences.

Netflix is trying to make sure that happens by corralling the sharing within individual subscriber accounts when the feature is first turned on. The company plans to offer all its U.S. subscribers the option by the end of this week.

Once the sharing feature is activated, new rows labeled "Friends' Favorites" and "Watched by your friends" will be displayed within a subscriber's account. On the flip side, any subscriber who has signed up for Facebook sharing will have their movie selections displayed with the accounts of their Facebook friends unless an extra step is taken to exclude a specific movie or TV show. What subscribers are watching won't be posted on Facebook's social network unless they go into their setting to permit the sharing on that website, too.

Beside the general rows of recommendations, Netflix will also devote rows to the watching lists of up for five Facebook friends that the company's computer formulas will select, based on an analysis of common interests. Netflix eventually hopes to allow subscribers to designate the Facebook friends whose video opinions that they like the most, Willerer said.

In households where multiple people share the same Netflix account, the sharing option will be tied to the Facebook account of the primary subscriber. Netflix is currently testing technology that allows several people using the same Netflix account to splinter into individual profiles that sorts their viewing histories into different queues. If the experiment is successful, Willerer said Netflix may add more ways to share video recommendations under the same account.

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Tiny shops and boutiques get an online lifeline - Business ...

Small retailers at risk of getting crushed by Internet giants like Amazon turn to a Canadian start-up

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For small stores, standing out online isn?t easy. Surging Internet sales are pushing major retailers to spend big on technology to improve their web presence?$60 billion a year in the U.S. alone, by one estimate. To compete against giants like Amazon and eBay, hundreds of shops and boutiques are turning to a Canadian start-up, Shopcaster.

The site draws on the appeal of image-focused websites like Pinterest (where users ?pin? photos of products they like to online bulletin boards) to help stores advertise and sell their goods online. ?In the course of talking to retailers, [the Shopcaster team] found out they were having trouble with their online presence,? says CEO Judy Sims. Founders Aron Jones and Matt O?Leary realized there was a big opportunity. With an initial investment from Toronto firm Mantella Venture Partners and an additional $1-million round of financing last July, Shopcaster quickly began signing up stores, first in Toronto, and more recently, in Vancouver and Montreal.

Of the 875 stores now signed up to Shopcaster, about 180 are using the site?s ?click-to-buy? service. Retailers sign up for free to use the site, but are charged a 15 per cent commission on online sales. With the emphasis on extending the feel of walking into a boutique and discovering a one-of-a-kind gem, shops such as Toronto?s Even & Odd, which sells home decor, are doing particularly well on Shopcaster. Owner Carmen Tsang says some of the shop?s bestselling items get thousands of views on the site.

Shopcaster has yet to turn a profit and faces stiff competition from sites such as Shopify, which sells e-commerce platforms to retailers, and even Pinterest, which serves as a massive window-shopping site driving sales for retailers. Shopcaster is now planning expansion into the U.S. and is hiring a scout in New York to seek out local boutiques for the site. It plans to facilitate cross-border shipping so that customers can readily order items from any city. After all, borders are easier to cross online. As Sims says: ?World domination, that?s the plan.?

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Can gay child share tent? Boy Scouts survey members

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Robin O'Neal holds a sign during a prayer vigil at the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Texas, on Feb. 6. The Boy Scouts of America have delayed until May a vote on whether to end a controversial ban on gay members.

By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News

?Bob is 15 years old, and the only openly gay Scout in a Boy Scout troop.?Is it acceptable or unacceptable for the troop leader to allow Bob to tent with a heterosexual boy on an overnight camping trip??

?Tom started in the program as a Tiger Cub, and finished every requirement for the Eagle Scout Award at 16 years of age.?At his board of review Tom reveals that he is gay. Is it acceptable or unacceptable for the review board to deny his Eagle Scout award based on that admission???

These are some of the questions on a survey being conducted by the Boy Scouts of America as the private youth organization prepares to decide whether it should end its controversial policy banning gay Scouts and leaders. The Boy Scouts intends to make a decision in late May on the ban, which has roiled the organization in recent years.

More than 1.4 million surveys have been emailed to registered volunteers, parents of Scouts and alumni. The questionnaires were part of a biannual survey, ?The Voice of the Scout Survey,? that the BSA conducts of leaders, parents and youth over 14 years old. But this time, the BSA used the survey to add questions about the policy banning gays (those questions went only to adults).

BSA spokesman Deron Smith, who provided the questions on the survey to NBC News, said in an email that ?the BSA is committed to dialogue on the topic of its membership standards policy, within the Scouting family at the local and national levels.? The group was in the listening phase, which included the survey of key stakeholders, he added.?

The Boy Scouts? policy has increasingly been a sore spot for the organization over the last year, following the dismissal of a den leader because she is a lesbian and the denial of the Eagle Scout rank to a California teen because he is gay. Some of the questions on the survey provide similar scenarios and ask respondents how acceptable or unacceptable these situations are.

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Tristam Harrington, an assistant district commissioner of the Water and Woods Field Service Council in Michigan, provided a screenshot of the survey, which he completed Wednesday morning.

When the BSA announced in late January that it may ditch the national policy and instead let local sponsoring organizations decide if gays can join, the organization received a flood of responses from both sides. It then decided to push a decision to May, when some 1,400 members of Scouting's National Council will vote on a resolution the Boy Scouts' officers are crafting on the policy. The survey results will be shared with those officers, Smith said.

Tristam Harrington, an assistant district commissioner for the Scouts in Okemos, Mich., who opposes changing the policy, said he thought the BSA had done a good job with the survey.

The members ?have the right to have their say and I think it?s better for them to understand exactly where their membership stands,? he said Wednesday. ?Are you just assuming it needs to change or is this really a groundswell from within the organization? Is this an outside influence? A combination of both? ? You don?t really know unless you ask, and I think it?s fabulous that they?re actually, you know, taking the time to now ask.?

Steve Gates, Scoutmaster of Troop 98 in Taos, N.M., who supports changing the policy, agreed with Harrington.

??They come at it from all sides and I think that?s good. I don?t see it as any kind of a biased survey,? he said.

But he added that some of the questions may rile up some members opposed to the change who could perceive talk on the issue in the survey as having validated homosexuality.

The survey was developed by a third-party research provider, North Star Opinion Research, with input from volunteer and professionals representing diverse viewpoints, Smith said. The Boy Scouts have asked for the surveys to be returned by April 4.

The BSA also asked if the currently policy was a ?core value? of Scouting and if respondents would leave the BSA if a decision was made that disagreed with their view.

Actor Ed Asner, 83, treated for exhaustion in Ind.

FILE - In this May 29, 2012 file photo, actor and former Screen Actors Guild President Ed Asner is interviewed in Portland, Ore. Asner?s publicist said Wednesday, March 13, 2013 the 83-year-old actor who has been touring the country performing a one-man show for more than three years has been hospitalized with exhaustion in Indiana. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

GARY, Ind. (AP) ? Ed Asner's publicist says the 83-year-old actor, who has been touring the country performing a one-man show for more than three years, has been hospitalized with exhaustion.

Publicist Charles Sherman tells The Associated Press that Asner was taken off stage at the Marquette Pavilion in Gary, Ind., on Tuesday night.

Sherman says Asner was taken by ambulance to a Chicago-area hospital where he is "resting comfortably" and is expected to be released later Wednesday.

He says the actor, best known for his roles in TV's "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff "Lou Grant," has been touring the nation portraying President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in "FDR" for 3 1/2 years.

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avast! Premier 8

By Neil J. Rubenking

Most security vendors offer a standalone antivirus tool as well as a security suite that rounds out protection with such features as a firewall, a spam filter, and parental control. These days quite a few vendors offer a higher-level suite with additional features such as backup, performance tune-up, or password management. avast! Premier 8 ($89.99 direct for three licenses) does add several features not found in avast!'s basic suite, but the additions really don't merit a $20 bump in price.

The program's main window looks exactly like that of avast! Internet Security 8, except for the window title. It has the same Windows 8-inspired touch-friendly buttons, and the same big panel that reflects overall security status. You'll have to dig a little to find those premier-only features.

Same Antivirus Protection
Antivirus protection in this suite is exactly the same as in the basic suite, and in avast!'s free antivirus. Please read my review of avast! Free Antivirus 8 for details beyond the brief summary that follows.

Getting avast! installed on a couple of my twelve malware-infested test systems required hours of remote-control diagnosis and repair by tech support. On my new scale defining ease of installation, that rates two stars. A product that installed and ran with no hassle would earn five stars; one that utterly failed to install on one or more test systems would get just one.

Tested with a brand-new malware collection, avast! detected 75 percent of the samples and scored 5.5 points. Both detection rate and score are very close to the average of products tested using my previous collection of malware. With 6.6 points each, Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete 2013 and Norton 360 (2013) scored much better. For details on how I perform this test, see How We Test Malware Removal.

Avast! did a good job of blocking access to malware-hosting websites, but its overall score in my malware blocking test was 8.5 points, a little below the average of products tested with the previous malware set. Webroot owns the top score in that test, 9.9 of 10 possible points. To learn more about my malware blocking test, please read How We Test Malware Blocking.

All of the independent labs I follow include avast! in their tests. It gets high scores in some tests, but not all of them. Top products like Bitdefender Total Security 2013 earn high scores across the board. For more about the independent labs and their testing methods,

see How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests

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FAA approves Boeing plan to fix 787's batteries

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2013, file photo, a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 jet aircraft is surrounded by emergency vehicles while parked at a terminal E gate at Logan International Airport in Boston as a fire chief looks into the cargo hold. Federal regulators have approved a Boeing plan to redesign the fire-prone lithium-ion batteries, although extensive testing will be needed before the planes can fly passengers again. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday, March 12, 2013, the plan includes a redesign of the internal battery components to minimize the possibility of short-circuiting, better insulation of the battery's eight cells and the addition of a new containment and venting system.(AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A Boeing plan to redesign the 787 Dreamliner's fire-plagued lithium-ion batteries won approval Tuesday from the Federal Aviation Administration, moving the cutting-edge planes a step closer to flying passengers again.

The plan includes changes to the internal battery components to minimize the possibility of short-circuiting, which can lead to overheating and cause a fire. Among the changes are better insulation of the battery's eight cells and the addition of a new containment and venting system, the FAA said in a statement.

The FAA statement didn't provide an estimate for when the grounded planes might return to service. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., who was briefed by the agency, said that if all goes well, the FAA could give final approval by mid- to late April for the 787 to resume flight.

Boeing would still have to retrofit the 50 planes already delivered to eight airlines in seven countries, Larsen said in an interview. That could mean the plane wouldn't return to the skies until late April or early May, he said.

First, Boeing's redesigned batteries have to pass a series of 20 separate tests lab, Larsen said, then flight tests would follow.

"If there's any one test that isn't passed, it's back to the drawing board for that particular part of the tests," he said.

So far, test flights of two 787s have been approved ? one with a complete prototype of the new battery, the other with only a new, more robust containment box for the battery, Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel said.

The plan is an outline for a recertification of the plane's batteries, the FAA said. The 787 has two identical lithium-ion batteries, one of which is located toward the front of the plane and powers cockpit electrical systems, the other toward the rear and used to start an auxiliary power unit while the plane is on the ground, among other functions.

Every item that is part of an airplane, down to its nuts and bolts, must be certified as safe before FAA approves that type of plane as safe for flight.

The 787 fleet worldwide has been grounded by the FAA and civil aviation authorities in other countries since Jan. 16, following a battery fire on a Dreamliner parked in Boston and a smoking battery that led to the emergency landing of another 787 in Japan.

"This comprehensive series of tests will show us whether the proposed battery improvements will work as designed," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement. "We won't allow the plane to return to service unless we're satisfied that the new design ensures the safety of the aircraft and its passengers."

The airliner's troubles have raised concerns that the FAA has ceded too much responsibility for evaluating the safety of new aircraft to manufacturers. To save manpower, the FAA designates employees at aircraft makers and their subcontractors to conduct the safety testing of new planes. Boeing's battery testing concluded that short-circuiting wouldn't lead to a fire and that the chance of a smoke event was one in every 10 million flight hours.

Instead, there were two battery failures when the entire fleet had clocked less than 52,000 flight hours.

The FAA's approval of Boeing's plan "is a critical and welcome milestone toward getting the fleet flying again and continuing to deliver on the promise of the 787," Jim McNerney, the aircraft maker's CEO, said in a statement.

The 787 is Boeing's newest and most technologically advanced plane. Its grounding on Jan. 16, an enormous black eye for Boeing, marked the first time since 1979 that FAA had ordered every plane of a particular type to stay out of the air for safety reasons.

UBS analyst David Strauss estimated that the 787 will cost Boeing $6 billion this year. Besides the battery problems, the plane already costs more to build than it brings in from customers.

United Airlines is the only U.S. carrier with Dreamliners in its fleet. It has six, plus another 44 on order. American and Delta have also ordered 787s. Boeing has orders for more than 800 of the planes from airlines around the globe.

Steven Udvar-Hazy, CEO of Air Lease Corp., which has ordered 12 of the planes, said it could still take months for the plane to fly again and that a very long-term grounding could damage the 787 Dreamliner brand.

"It's important to get the airplane back in the air," Udvar-Hazy said while attending an airplane finance conference in Orlando, Fla. "Every plane has mechanical issues, but this was one that was considered serious by the authorities and I think Boeing has done everything it can to get that under control."

Udvar-Hazy has had weekly updates from Boeing's CEO of commercial airplanes, Ray Conner, and daily conversations with others at the airplane manufacturer. He has then relayed that information to his airline customers around the world.

"Boeing has been very transparent and I think they've made a very concerted effort to address this issue ... to come up with a fix that hopefully is a permanent fix, not just sort of a Band-Aid solution," he said.

Boeing plans to begin test flights within days, Birtel said. The new battery design will be tested on a plane that has been identified elsewhere as being built for LOT Polish Airlines. Boeing also plans to fly a 787 that is used exclusively for testing. That plane has the stronger battery box, and will also be used for unrelated engine tests.

Before the fire on Jan. 7, Boeing shares had closed at $77.69. They closed as low as $73.65 three weeks later, after the planes had been grounded. But the shares have been recovering as anticipation grew for a battery fix. Boeing's gains have outpaced the strong rise in the Dow Jones industrial average, of which Boeing Co. is a member.

On Tuesday, Boeing shares rose $1.22 to close at $84.16, and rose another 28 cents to $84.44 in aftermarket trading.

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Freed reported from Minneapolis. AP Airline Writer Scott Mayorwitz in Orlando contributed to this report.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Ed Asner Hospitalized: Actor Treated For Exhaustion In Indiana

Celebrity Photos: March 2013

Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar filmed scenes on the beach in Malibu, Calif., for the TV show "Franklin & Bash" on March 12.

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Pregnant reality star Kim Kardashian headed to an office to film scenes for 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 12.

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Jessica Alba returned to her hotel in Soho in New York City on March 11.

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"Pretty Little Liars" actress Shay Mitchell prepped her skin with Bior? Acne Clearing Scrub in the green room in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 12.

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Charlize Theron stopped for a sweet snack at Pinkberry with her son Jackson in West Hollywood, Calif., on March 11.

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Maxxinista Giuliana Rancic picked up designer finds for spring at T.J.Maxx in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 11.

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Ryan Gosling returned to his hotel after attending a press junket in New York City on March 10. The actor's girlfriend and co-star was close behind.

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Camila Alves is seen with her kids, Levi and Vida in New York City on March 10.

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Isla Fisher took her daughters, Olive and Elula, out for a shopping trip in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 9.

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Eva Mendes walked her dog in West Hollywood, Calif., on March 7.

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Hilary Duff stopped by Paquito Mas in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to grab some mexican food to go with her baby boy Luca on March 6.

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Lea Michele and boyfriend Cory Monteith seemed upbeat as they arrived in New York City on March 5.

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"Twilight" star Kristen Stewart was escorted by friends out of the Troubadour in West Hollywood, Calif., on March 5.

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Selena Gomez grabbed a lot of attention as she posed on the set of a video shoot in Palmdale, Calif., on March 4.

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Rihanna attended the launch of her River Island collection at the Oxford Street River Island store on March 4 in London. She donned a sexy sheer dress, of course.

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Newly single Michelle Williams took daughter Matilda Ledger grocery shopping in Brooklyn, NY on March 4.

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West attended the Givenchy Fall-Winter 2013-2014 'Ready-To-Wear' collection show held at Halle Freyssinet in Paris on March 3.

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Natalie Portman went casual in an all brown ensemble for a trip to the grocery store in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 3.

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Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield strolled through Tribeca on a chilly afternoon in New York on March 2.

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Britney Spears was seen playing with her two sons, Sean and Jayden Federline in Santa Barbara, Calif., on March 2.

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Jessica Chastain attended the Viktor & Rolf Fall-Winter 2013/2014 Ready-to-Wear collection show held at Espace Ephemere des Tuileries in Paris, France on March 2.

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Justin Timberlake and his wife Jessica Biel took an arm-in-arm stroll through graffiti filled Soho together on March 1 in NYC.

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Newly engaged "90210" star, Shenae Grimes, got her lips ready for her big day with eos Summer Fruit Lip Balm on March 1.

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Mariah Carey, wearing a very tight black dress and leather jacket, left a midtown hotel in New York City on March 1.

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Justin Bieber left his hotel wearing a particularly colorful outfit that included two watches, purple leopard print trousers and a studded yellow baseball cap on Feb. 26 in London.

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Olivia Wilde wore leather pants to open Brazillian store BoBo in Rio de Janierio on Feb. 26.

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"Private Practice" star Kate Walsh stopped by the Andy Lecompte salon in West Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 26.

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Britney Spears was escorted out of a Target store in Los Angeles, Calif., by a security guard on Feb. 26.

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Pink showed off her killer abs while on the beach with her family in Miami, Fla., on Feb. 25.

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Lisa Rinna went makeup-free while out and about in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 25.

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Gabrielle Union was spotted at Burger King picking up their new smooth roast coffee in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 25.

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Anne Hathaway posed with her husband Adam Shulman as she carried her Oscar for best supporting actress at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 24 in Hollywood, Calif.

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Britney Spears wowed at the Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Party held at The Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 24.

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Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence posed in the press room at the Oscars on Feb. 24 in Hollywood, Calif.

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Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux posed together on the red carpet at the Oscars on Feb. 24 in Hollywood, Calif.

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Kristen Stewart walked (or hobbled on) the red carpet at the 2013 Oscars on Feb. 24 in Hollywood, Calif. The "Twilight" star was on crutches after injuring her foot a few days ago.

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"Vampire Diaries" star Kat Graham enjoyed a sweet treat in Atlanta, Ga., on Feb. 24, while sporting the U by Kotex Generation Know bracelet (symbolizing her pledge to learn about girls' health).

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Zoe Saldana wore Dolce&Gabbana to the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Feb. 23 in Santa Monica, Calif.

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Kim Kardashian heads to the gym in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 23.

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Kendra Wilkinson danced the night away at OK! Magazine's Pre-Oscar party in celebration of the 85th Academy Awards Ceremony. Celebrities, including Kendra, Kristin Cavallari and Taylor Armstrong came out to Hollywood?s newest hotspot, Emerson Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 22.

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Katie Holmes took a stroll in chilly New York City on Feb. 22. We're loving her pink pants!

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Vanessa Hudgens attended the "Spring Breakers" photocall held at Villamagna hotel in Madrid, Spain on Feb. 21.

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Mila Kunis was seen texting on her phone while taking a break from filming "The Angriest Man in Brooklyn" in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 20.

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Amy Adams and her fiance Darren Le Gallo hit the gym together in West Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 20.

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Hayden Panettiere hung out near the beach with her on-again boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko in Miami, Fla., on Feb. 19. Hayden played with an adorable new puppy while Wladimir went paddle-boarding.

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Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough promoted their new film "Safe Haven" during a photocall in London on Feb. 19.

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Michelle Williams was accompanied by a friend as she arrived ahead of her appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" in New York City on Feb. 19.

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The Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton, showed off her baby bump as she arrived at the Hope House in South London on Feb. 19.

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Bethenny Frankel got a surfing lesson while on vacation at North Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Feb. 19. Later, she stripped down to her bikini and flaunted her incredible body.

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Britney Spears took her new puppy to a pet hospital in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Feb. 18.

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Tori Spelling packed her trunk after a quick trip to the market to pick up Dole Fruit Crisps in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 18.

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