Toxic Baby Bottles?!
There are just so many things new moms and dads have to think about that you never know what will raise a red flag. That said it doesn't surprise me that parents are reacting to the BPA leaching possibility in baby bottles, regardless of what the FDA and industry groups say. I want to give you multiple links to look at so you can read through it and come to your own conclusions.
Here is a link to the Environment California report, and an additional link to another environmental group EWG that looked at canned foods:
http://www.ewg.org/reports/bisphenola/execsumm.php
Here are two plastics manufacturers websites:
On a totally different note, I also wrote up this cool little story on something you might notice the next time you are boppin' around town people-watching:
http://www.kgw.com/health/stephanie_stricklen/stories/kgw_050907_health_streak_stroke.52be83b7.html
And Sherrie sent in this waterfront picture that makes me want to take a day off to play in the sun!
Roger writes: I want to understand how you work. I take from comments you've made on your blog about the stories you work on that you don't have a requirement to get something on the air every day. Are you then free to 'work' a story as long as necessary to get it done? Even if you don't have to get something done everyday, are you expected to get something on the air two or three times a week? It seems like you have a bit more 'freedom' than the anchors and some of the other news reporters, but hey, I'm a civilian, so what do I know.
That's a great question.. you know, I pretty much do have to put something on the air every day. It's just that I also work on a fairly large number of special reports during ratings (about 12 per each month that we are in ratings—Feb, May, November specifically) so on those days that I'm out shooting I usually 'front' something.. either a special report I worked on previously or a quick health segment that includes 3 or 4 stories that our 5pm producer Gina puts together. Just depends. So, today for example, I wrote the special report that I shot yesterday. It runs Friday at 5 (I'm pretty excited about it). And tonite you'll see me 'fronting' the baby bottle story which I worked on last week since it, too, is a special report. Hope that helps!!
Mike just wrote me introducing me to the notion of 'twittering'. Have you heard of it? I found this on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
And finally.. I have balloon envy. The balloons I got from my diva girlfriends have all passed away into balloon heaven with one exception.
Look at Drew Carney's collection.
Apparently it's his birthday or something like that so he has enough balloons to float the Portland Spirit right up out of the Willamette. Seriously, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Drew!!
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