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In the 1967 movie “The Graduate”, Dustin Hoffman’s character, fresh out of college, is given sage advice about what business to pursue.  Plastic, his future father-in law tells him, guarantees a golden future.  In the 1960’s no one would have thought that plastic – that boon to the economy, that symbol of modern convenience would wreak havoc in our oceans, turning them into environmental disaster zones.  Plastic accounts for 90 percent of the garbage in the ocean, and according to the UN Environmental Program, one square mile of ocean contains 46,000 pieces of floating plastic.  Six times more plastic than plankton currently floats in our oceans.

Much of the plastic in the Pacific Ocean has swirled together to form two Garbage Patches.  There is the Eastern Garbage Patch, currently twice the size of Texas, located in the waters between California and Hawaii; order imitrex online.There is also another Garbage Patch, christened the Western Garbage Patch, which is east of Japan and west of Hawaii.

You can imagine the damage plastic is causing to marine animals that ingest it or become tangled up in it.  If you’d like vivid proof, go to Google Images and type in Great Pacific Garbage Patch – then be prepared to weep or get very angry  or both.

When I’d first read about the Garbage Patch a few years ago, it was the size of Texas.  How could it have doubled in size in only a few years?  And how could another patch have formed in so little time?  For the answer, all I have to do is look around my neighborhood.

I live in a nice, modest, neighborhood in Van Nuys, California and the amount trash in the streets is appalling.  Part of the problem is that we don’t have street cleaning in our neighborhood.  When I called the city to complain, I was told there would be no additional street cleaning routes because of budget shortfalls.  I was told by the city I could sponsor a public trash can.  Great idea – order imitrex online.Problem is order imitrex online, I’ve seen too much garbage accumulated around trash cans to have faith in public receptacles.Littering no longer makes you a social pariah.  People of all ages and races just toss things on the ground without a moment’s hesitation.

The majority of curbside catch basins are not grated order imitrex online, so every bit of garbage on the street is swept into the storm drains and out to the Pacific.  Many curbside catch basins in my area are literally stuffed with trash.  Once in the ocean, much of our local trash will hook up with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.  Since plastic doesn’t biodegrade, it will remain in the ocean virtually forever or until eaten by a marine animal, mistaking it for food.  Just as we have seen the global impact of the financial meltdown, so too, the casual toss of water bottle onto the street, impacts the global trash heap.

I know, I know – more negative news.  We are all weary of the steady harangue of terrible, calamitous and outrageous news stories.  But talk brings change.  If we all find a few ways to quit our addiction to the convenience of plastic, we actually will make the world a better place.  Here is what one small business owner has done.  The commercial casting company where I free-lance, has recently taken steps to reduce plastic use.  I want to give a shout out to Broad-Cast owner, Dan Cowan.  He recently did away with individual plastic water bottles, all plastic utensils as well as paper plates and cups.  When clients come for a callback session, water is served from elegant glass bottles and poured into real glasses.  Not only does this look more appealing, but the business is saving money by eliminating water delivery and the purchase of plastic items.  Kudos to Dan Cowan for a smart business decision that has huge benefits to the environment.

Dan has inspired me.  I’ve made the decision to stop buying water in plastic bottles.  A Brita filter on the faucet and reusable water bottles for workouts has enabled my family to eliminate plastic water bottles.  So, why not find one way to eliminate your plastic use.  Who knows how many people in turn will be inspired by your actions.  After all, we’re all swimming in the same ocean.

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Yes, info can be had on the internet…BUT…what’s missing is the journalistic ethics and the newpapers’ historic role of bringing out the truth and shaping political debate.Mr.Rainey writes in this article about the consequences of newspapers’ efforts to stay afloat by cutting their staffs, often losing the most experienced (i.e – mg imitrex.highest paid) reporters.One of the political operatives he quotes says he planted attacks on opponents in partisan blogs, knowing the stories could bleed into mainstream news outlets; mg imitrex.And another described to him how he got novice reporters to write stories on ads that the candidate had no intention of ever paying to air on TV – mg imitrex. Mg imitrex: he quotes him: “They don’t know any better, so we can get away with that.” And his contact went on to say that he regularly encounters less-experienced (and more easily fooled) reporters, who often don’t bother to check whether the ads he had them write about were really going to appear on TV.In other words he got thousands of dollars worth of “free” media.

And as more and more papers shut their doors or whittle their staff down to nothing, the info we get will be more and more able to be manipulated.

In “The Vanishing Newspaper” by Philip Meyer, printed in ’04, he predicts that the final copy of a real newspaper will appear on someone’s’ doorstep in the year 2043.In the spring of ’08 The Newseum opened in D.C.- already showing newspapers displayed behind glass as artifacts.

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Julia Roberts, Clive Owens and Duplicity came in third at the box office this past weekend tallying $14.4 million on 2,574 screens. The film definitely skewed towards adults with people over 30 purchasing 78% of the tickets. Imitrex no prescription: just to keep things in perspective, Clive Owens’ recent film The International opened with a little over $9 million a couple of weeks ago.

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Julia talked about the film and her life to EW and some of what she said I found very interesting and telling – imitrex no prescription. She totally a hands on mom, takes her kids to the set, and this film was delayed for a year while she had her third child because they wanted HER.

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“But as women the world over fall for Owen, who at 44 is just hitting his stride as a leading man, Roberts’ turn in this film should quell speculation over whether her most seductive years are behind her.” Imitrex no prescription: i think the days of ‘Oh, we hit 40 and we’re f—ed!’ are really over,” she says, her firm rat-a-tat voice willing it so.”Because the best actresses around who are working with consistency are Susan Sarandon imitrex no prescription, Frances McDormand, Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Holly Hunter.They’re not 30″.”

“And what’s going on with girls in their 20s? Where are the movies that are motivated by the 20-year-olds? There aren’t any! There certainly aren’t as many as there were when I was in my 20s.” Now people go from relative obscurity to being wildly famous and hugely overpaid and expectations are so out of proportion imitrex no prescription, and it’s a huge disaster story”.”

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I believe that the new Julia Roberts post-40 will be way more interesting in her film choices than the old Julia Roberts. I for one am psyched that she still has juice to use.

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We’ve got many years experience on the work and personal front behind us, yet now we feel like we’re backpedaling in the mom friendship department.

What is that about? Has that happened to you?

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It takes a lot to be in sync with someone, and making new friends is never the easiest.Especially if you are seeking relationships with some level of depth, which I’ve always appreciated.

I just never expected to be thinking about this at this stage in my life.

Some of the moms I’ve met, I’ve noticed, who already have a mom social circle, have children older than Seth, so they’ve already had the opportunity to meet through school and other outlets; levaquin interactions.And, they may also have a close family, which makes a difference too.  My mom passed away 10 years ago, and my dad is a senior with health challenges.  My sister is married with two teenage daughters and lives a busy life in NYC.

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The Three Tomatoes were amused to read that New York’s Fashion Week celebrated the 50th birthday of Barbie.  Yes, that still incredibly youthful looking doll turns 50 next month, and 50 top designers came up with Barbie inspired outfits for the occasion in a Barbie Fashion Show.   Barbie is an ageless wonder.  She still gets to wear princess clothes, has the body of an 18 year old, no cellulite, wrinkles, or grey hair.  And she’s still with Ken, who is also ageless, and doesn’t have to worry about “ED” because, well to put it politely, he was never anatomically correct.  Poor Ken.  Sad Barbie.  But since Barbie is now right smack in the middle of the “boomer generation”, we’d like to suggest to Mattel that they consider creating a new series of Barbies.   Like, AARP Barbie, Invisible Barbie, Nip/Tuck Barbie, Recession Barbie, Downsized Barbie, followed by of course, Reinvention Barbie, and Tomato Barbie.   And that got our silly brains thinking, “What would Barbie do as she turns 50?”

Baby Boomer Barbie gets that AARP letter in the mail.   Barbie was enjoying a lovely day in the last days of her 49th year, when that horrible piece of mail showed up in her mail box, making a total mockery of that “baby” boomer term.   And she did what every other self-respecting not quite 50 year old woman does when the dreaded “AARP” card arrives — she shredded it to bits and pieces, yelled and screamed about her invasion of privacy, and made Ken’s life miserable for a week, since he obviously must have leaked this news somewhere.  But she soon recovered her dignity, because after all, she still looks hot.

Invisible Barbie.Or so she thought.  To celebrate her milestone birthday, Barbie’s two best friends, Midge and Christie, (who also worked for Mattel) suggested they meet for drinks at trendy, model packed A-lister wanna be hot spot, Balthazar’s for champagne and oysters.  And just to catch you tomatoes up, Midge is now divorced and is thinking about appearing in the next season of The Real Housewives of New York City, and Christie lives with Tiffany, the love of her life.  Barbie arrived first, wearing her Manolos, and her DKNY mini, and stood at the bar knowing it would only be minutes before one of the good looking guys standing around would offer to buy her a drink, which would be her favorite, an extra dry vodka martini, dirty of course, extra olives.   And there she stood.  And stood.   The good looking guys at the bar gazed right past her to ogle the 20 something, empty-headed gigglers, and the bartender was too busy ogling them too to look up and take her drink order!   OMG, thought Barbie in horror, “I’ve become invisible.”

Nip/Tuck Barbie.  So the next morning, slightly hung-over Barbie was walking by one of her hundreds of mirrors,and instead of seeing her usual pleasing appearance reflected back, she saw (gasp!) her Mother’s face!  She immediately ordered Ken to cover every mirror in the house and booked the very first appointment she could get with Dr – levaquin urinary.Nip/Tuck in his fancy Park Avenue office.  During her consultation, Dr.Nip/Tuck presented her with a wealth of options, from Botox, to liposuction, a butt lift, tummy tuck, a thigh and arm slimming surgery, an eye lift, a lower face lift, and injections that would make her hands look as young as her chemically or surgically enhanced face.   Well, she thought, money can buy most anything.

Recession Barbie; levaquin urinary.But alas, androgynous Ken had made an appointment for them to visit their financial planner who had the indecency to point out that their investments were now roughly half of what they were the year before, and that perhaps they should think about “cutting back.”  So Barbie agreed to fewer massages, and facials, less time with her personal trainer, to only buy “on sale” at Saks and L&T and get a few less highlights at Berdorfs.   “Well at least I still have my job,” she thought.

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Reinvention Barbie.So after taking to her bed for a full week levaquin urinary, reading the National Enquirer, and watching The Today Show and Oprah, she realized the “secret” was to visualize her new self, get empowered, and reinvent herself.  So she bought every advice book on New York Times best seller list, hired a visualization coach, a career coach, a life coach, a yoga coach, a meditation coach, a marriage coach, a shaman, meditated and mantra’d,  took art classes, Italian lessons, and every course the 92nd Street Y had to offer, then one day she woke and discovered…

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So Happy Birthday Barbie and tomatoes everywhere.

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* MS is a neurological disease in which lesions form in the central nervous system, interrupting the transmission of signals to the rest of the body.

* Relapsing/remitting MS, the most common form at onset, causes flare-ups followed by periods of remission.

* There are several types of progressive MS in which symptoms worsen over time.

* Symptoms vary greatly from patient to patient (and from day to day) and include fatigue, numbness, visual impairment, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, cognitive impairment, tremors, vertigo, pain, lack of coordination, paralysis, and blindness.

* MS is more common in women.Most people are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 45; levitra 50mg.Due to MRI, more children are being diagnosed with MS.

* There is currently no single definitive test for MS. Levitra 50mg: rather, it is diagnosed through clinical history and a series of tests, along with elimination of other diseases.

* MS is not contagious.

* The cause remains a mystery.A combination of genetics and environmental factors is one avenue that researchers are pursuing.

* Though symptoms are often invisible levitra 50mg, it is a serious medical condition.

* There is no cure, but there are disease-modifying drugs thought to slow progression.

What MS is not:

* A psychological condition, although depression in MS patients is common.

My own journey through diagnosis, acceptance, and learning to cope has taught me a lot about this business of living.Just as I was hitting midlife levitra 50mg, the body I knew so well became a stranger, and a frightening one at that. Levitra 50mg: as the daily struggle with MS continues, I must constantly re-evaluate my physical self and make adjustments.But the person who lives inside this mutinous body is not only surviving, but thriving, with the support of my loving husband and children, as I approach my 50th birthday. 

Obstacles? We’ve all got them; levitra 50mg. Levitra 50mg: it’s in how we choose to handle them that our true self emerges.Inside, I’m still me, only older and wiser. 

annpietrangeloheadshot2.jpgann-sig-2.jpgAnn Pietrangelo (aka Mandy Crest) is a Virginia-based freelance writer for WebCamp One, LLC.She is a featured blogger at Multiple Sclerosis Central and Care2.com levitra 50mg, and has been a frequent contributor to Women Over 40 Rock! She is a passionate advocate for multiple sclerosis patients and health care reform.For more information, visit AnnPietrangelo.com.

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