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#Anyone101 Never pretend you can deliver something you can’t. That means don’t sit there silent. Silence= yes I can/will. Say NO.

—(via dknyprgirl)

Thank you for this! My Aunt had MS and eventually died from its effects on her. Not many are aware of how much MS affects lives and prevent individuals from preforming the simplests of tasks that we take for granted. I think its great that a company such as Donna Karan is promoting MS awareness. Thank you. dknyprgirl: Think about this for a moment. You’re living your life, have a good job, great friends, family etc. Your world is pretty much perfect- or at least as good as you would have hoped. Then out of nowhere, something feels different. You go to the doctor and learn you have been diagnosed with MS (Multiple Sclerosis). BOOM. The words hit you like a ton of bricks. That’s unfortunately exactly how this debilitating disease of the central nervous system strikes. It’s scary and it’s prevalent and it seizes the lives of way too many people in the prime of their lives. I’m assuming you didn’t know that MS is the leading cause of disability in young women, the second leading cause of disability in young men and the third leading cause overall in disabilities in the US. Yeah, I didn’t either. and….MS affects children too.  Patients have been treated as young as 18 months old. To put that in perspective, health related costs average $57,000 a year with lifetime costs of more than $3.7 million.  The cost of the disease modifying treatments averages $35,000 a year alone. Can you even imagine?? So why am I telling you this? Because MS is very close to our Donna Karan family. Marlo Donato who has managed our Donna Karan London flagship since 2002 was diagnosed with MS in 2004.  Being the kick-butt kind of gal she is (and beyond chic of course), she decided to tell the world about her life with MS in a best-selling book called “Awkward Bitch.” (I mean best book title ever). Now we have the opportunity to give back and try and support not only Marlo, but thousands of people who struggle with living with MS. Our dear friend & Donna Karan “Woman Who Inspires”, Nancy Davis who also has MS herself has a wonderful foundation that is fighting to eradicate this disease and we are here to help. Donna Karan has designed a beautiful, bright orange silk blend scarf in an effort to help to erase multiple sclerosis, as part of the “Orange You Happy to Erase MS” campaign. 25% of net sales of its $295 price will go directly to The Nancy Davis Foundation for MS. Nancy Davis notes, “This is the symbol of our Orange You Happy To Erase M.S, to help raise important funds for Multiple Sclerosis research and to help educate the public about this unpredictable auto immune disease that frequently strikes young women in the prime of their life, taking away their freedom and independence. With the big heart of Donna Karan, we are sure to speed along this process and make the dream of a world free of M.S. a reality.” The scarf will be available at the Donna Karan stores in New York, London, Las Vegas, Costa Mesa, and online at DonnaKaran.com . So please support The Nancy Davis Foundation. This chic scarf makes an excellent gift and by buying it you are giving to a worthwhile charity. Personally, I would rather give to a charity any day of the week then g-d forbid have to know first-hand what living with a disease like this is like.  Think about it. Help us erase MS. You’ll be glad you did… 

Thank you for this! My Aunt had MS and eventually died from its effects on her. Not many are aware of how much MS affects lives and prevent individuals from preforming the simplests of tasks that we take for granted. I think its great that a company such as Donna Karan is promoting MS awareness. Thank you.

dknyprgirl:

Think about this for a moment. You’re living your life, have a good job, great friends, family etc. Your world is pretty much perfect- or at least as good as you would have hoped. Then out of nowhere, something feels different. You go to the doctor and learn you have been diagnosed with MS (Multiple Sclerosis). BOOM. The words hit you like a ton of bricks.


That’s unfortunately exactly how this debilitating disease of the central nervous system strikes. It’s scary and it’s prevalent and it seizes the lives of way too many people in the prime of their lives.


I’m assuming you didn’t know that MS is the leading cause of disability in young women, the second leading cause of disability in young men and the third leading cause overall in disabilities in the US. Yeah, I didn’t either.


and….MS affects children too.  Patients have been treated as young as 18 months old.


To put that in perspective, health related costs average $57,000 a year with lifetime costs of more than $3.7 million.  The cost of the disease modifying treatments averages $35,000 a year alone. Can you even imagine??


So why am I telling you this?


Because MS is very close to our Donna Karan family. Marlo Donato who has managed our Donna Karan London flagship since 2002 was diagnosed with MS in 2004.  Being the kick-butt kind of gal she is (and beyond chic of course), she decided to tell the world about her life with MS in a best-selling book called “Awkward Bitch.” (I mean best book title ever).


Now we have the opportunity to give back and try and support not only Marlo, but thousands of people who struggle with living with MS. Our dear friend & Donna Karan “Woman Who Inspires”, Nancy Davis who also has MS herself has a wonderful foundation that is fighting to eradicate this disease and we are here to help.


Donna Karan has designed a beautiful, bright orange silk blend scarf in an effort to help to erase multiple sclerosis, as part of the “Orange You Happy to Erase MS” campaign.


25% of net sales of its $295 price will go directly to The Nancy Davis Foundation for MS.


Nancy Davis notes, “This is the symbol of our Orange You Happy To Erase M.S, to help raise important funds for Multiple Sclerosis research and to help educate the public about this unpredictable auto immune disease that frequently strikes young women in the prime of their life, taking away their freedom and independence. With the big heart of Donna Karan, we are sure to speed along this process and make the dream of a world free of M.S. a reality.”


The scarf will be available at the Donna Karan stores in New York, London, Las Vegas, Costa Mesa, and online at DonnaKaran.com .


So please support The Nancy Davis Foundation. This chic scarf makes an excellent gift and by buying it you are giving to a worthwhile charity. Personally, I would rather give to a charity any day of the week then g-d forbid have to know first-hand what living with a disease like this is like. 


Think about it. Help us erase MS. You’ll be glad you did… 

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20 Things I hate about society.

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  1. Body size and appearance: Excuse me? I’m assuming by “body” you mean “skeleton”, correct? I do not like living in a world where we are expected to be stick thin. And we’re surrounded by gorgeous people. Being beautiful is basically an expectation now. 
  2. : You’re 4. Get the fuck out of that beauty pageant. You wear more makeup than drag queens. I don’t like when 4 year olds are prettier than me. 
  3. Fitting in: I’m going to make a really cheesy analogy and compare the world to a puzzle, because in a way, it is. If you think about it, we’re all like puzzle pieces, you just need to find where you fit in. Anyone who has ever made a puzzle has had that one piece that you thought went somewhere and kept trying to force it to fit, but then you realized it fit somewhere entirely different. That’s what we do to ourselves. We try so hard to be something we’re not and force ourselves to fit where we don’t belong. 
  4. Everybody is fake: Celebrities without makeup shouldn’t be a magazine cover. When you go out without makeup and your hair up, it shouldn’t be a shock. It’s natural. Get over it. 
  5. Reality shows: I admit it, some reality shows (such a Jersey Shore, FIIIIST PUMP!) are my guilty pleasure. I’m ashamed of it though. They’re so fucking stupid. THIS is what TV has become? That’s sad. 
  6. : ….. you’re sixteen and pregnant. You do not deserve to be on a TV show. Thank you, MTV, for promoting teen pregnancy. What a great world we live in.
  7. Too much to do: We are constantly busy. I always make time for myself (probably more time than I should…) but we’re always expected to be doing something productive. I have to make time for myself. I shouldn’t have to make time, that’s ridiculous. You should not be too busy for yourself. 
  8. Kids are forced to grow up too fast: (this was the best example I had for a picture, hush) Don’t even try to say this isn’t true. When you’re 13, you shouldn’t be worrying about college already. And the amount of stress kids are put under and work we’re given? It’s fucking bullshit.
  9. : This is not relevant to my interests, why am I being forced to learn it in school? 
  10. We are too dependent on technology: This is hypocritical of me considering I don’t know what I’d do without my iPod, phone, and computer, BUUUT that doesn’t change the fact that I hate how dependent I am on them. And technology is getting too smart. I swear, one day the world is going to be taken over by robots.
  11. The world is moving too fast:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY Watch this. 
  12. Social networks: This is hypocritical again, oh well. Tumblr doesn’t count for this one. I can’t talk to 99.9% of you face to face and this is the only way we can talk. But when it’s people I know in real life, I don’t want to talk to you on Facebook. Call me or come hang out. The worst are people you never see that message you once every 6 months saying “OMG I MISS YOU SO MUCH!”. Then fucking get off Facebook and make plans with me, you douche waffle. 
  13. Competitiveness: Everything is competitive now. It’s stupid.
  14. : I can’t even listen to the radio anymore. All they play is bubbly pop and meaningless rap. Take your mainstream shit and shove it up your ass.
  15. Music: Lyrics mean nothing. If you have a good beat and catchy lyrics, you have a hit. Or you could just sing about drugs and hookers. “Don’t fuck with me cause right now I’m higher than Captain Curk. I swear I be the sickest nigga, you can ask the nurse“…? get out of my life. 
  16. hEy gU1z! mAh nAm3 izz m1Ch@3ll@!: Children don’t know how to speak English anymore. 
  17. No one reads anymore: It’s hard to find people who enjoy reading and read a ton of books. Twilight and The Last Song do not count… That just eliminated 97% of the girls in my grade. 
  18. Stereotypes: You can’t just be ‘you’ anymore. There’s always some other label to go along with it. 
  19. : I have two points to make about our dear friend, Tiger Woods. One: Is it really that hard to be faithful to one person? Apparently so. 
    Two: He cheated on his wife? Okay, great. Why am I hearing about this for months? It’s called a personal life, stay the fuck out of it. I don’t care what’s going on in their marriage, or where people get their groceries. When they’re at home, they’re a regular person. Please treat them like one. 
  20. This is your kid’s role model: Do you not see the impact this has on kids? They’re going to end up like this —>. … I am not going to live in a world where prostitutes have more class than most 9 year olds.