Vancouver City residents are bound to love the UBU cart. Hopefully it will replace those very noisy shopping carts being wheeled around all over by homeless people who collect bottles throughout the back alleys of Vancouver.

The UBU cart will be silent and efficient. It was designed as a thesis project by an Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design student. UBU stands for Urban Binning Unit and it is a simply built two-wheel cart. Just think of how much better it will make life for Vancouver's army of bottle binners. Seems like a fantastic idea.

Is forty the new thirty? There's a new reality series starting on TV Land tonight called The Big 4-0.

The people producing the show are the same team that brought us The Biggest Loser on NBC.

Here's a pic of one of the people featured tonight. Lisa is a mom who used to be a Los Angeles model. She's so self-conscious about her age that none of her friends know how old she is. She wonders if she can still be sexy at 40. She plans a big bash for her birthday and her husband plans to surprise her with a reunion with her estranged mom.

See more about The Big 4-0 at TV Land.

See also a hairstyle makeover at age 40.

Tricia Walsh Smith , age 49, is in the midst of ugly divorce proceedings with her rich husband. He is 25 years older than her, his daughters are her age. He wants to leave his money to his daughters but Tricia Walsh Smith is not about to go away quietly. Here she spills everything about her life with her husband on YouTube.

Her lawyer (who didn't become her lawyer until after this video was made) says the video was "the act of a powerless person", and "revolutions are made by powerless people." Looks like we can prepare to see much more divorce dirt on YouTube soon.

Update: Well, pity the people that missed this first video. It was really well done. But it seems it was taken off YouTube by Trishia Walsh Smith herself (because who else could have had the authority to remove it?) ...and below is her second video. Somehow I smell a series coming up out of this. Remember, her husband is a Big Broadway player. I'm beginning to think this public 'divorce scandal' is all just a big YouTube video farce. I've seen some photos of the 'happy' couple from the recent past ( here , here and here and this makes me wonder if we are being duped into a fake reality show. If not, then these photos do demonstrate to me that she was sincere in her role of wife to a man who was 25 years older than her.

Here's part II of the naughty divorce series;

Update July 22nd: The divorce has been settled in court and a New York city judge awarded Tricia Walsh-Smith only 750,000 of her husband's net worth of $60 million. The judge said the prenuptial agreement was valid and now she has to leave the apartment within 30 days but will only get $50,000 in ten days. It doesn't seem quite fair to us. They were married for eight years.

We usually think it’s our face or our body or our clothes that people find attractive. “How becoming that looks on you,” we want people to tell us.

But the greatest makeover you can ever do – the greatest cosmetic you can ever use – is to simply be YOU. There’s nothing wrong, of course, with wearing beautiful clothes or putting on beautiful make-up or making beautiful changes. But nothing, absolutely nothing, will ever suit you more or make you look better than just being your self. The trick is to find – and to BECOME – your true self.

We usually think of ourselves as having a fixed, set identity, with a fixed look and a fixed behavior. But forcing ourselves to fulfill that fixed image creates a lot of strain. Working hard to be the person we think we are or want to be (or want others to see) creates stress. And stress directly affects how we look. Stress eats away at our radiance. Being yourself brings out your natural radiance. You blossom.

So how to do it? Being yourself means simply being here, as you are, in this moment, moment by moment, not holding on to a fixed idea. The more you find yourself in this present moment – and the more you act accordingly, in response to the world as it actually is – the better you feel, the more self-confidence you have . . . and the better you look. The most becoming you is YOU.

Gareth Sirotnik
Author, consultant, Buddhist monk

For more about becoming you, visit Words Become You
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