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Eliminate Toxins and Feel Fantastic
Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS in Nutrition
The headlines today say it all: "Contaminated Beef Recalled in 22 States," "Bagged Spinach Tainted by E. Coli," "Salmonella Contaminates Peanut Butter in 26 States." Common foods, poor food handling, and every-day habits can be surprising sources of toxins that can make us feel sick, tired, and bloated. Learn to defend yourself against tainted foods and discover how to naturally boost your body's good intestinal flora, stomach acid, and enzymes by cleansing your system and revitalizing your health.
When A Good Gut Goes Bad
Food sensitivities, digestive difficulties, yeast infections, frequent colds, diarrhea, constipation, and irritable bowel syndrome are all symptoms that may signal the gut causes of your grief. Even some seemingly unrelated symptoms including gum infections, unexplained weight loss or gain, skin problems, arthritis, and menopausal discomforts can be signs of gut troubles.
Declare war on germs and get back on track to health— fortify your system against pathogens and parasites, flush out hidden invaders or toxins, and feed yourself nourishing foods and supplements to encourage and rebuild gastrointestinal (GI) health.
Step #1: Fortify
The friendly bacteria that inhabit the walls of the small intestine and the colon are called probiotics. Probiotics strengthen the gut, making it hard for pathogenic bugs to take root. Optimal health traditionally required 100 billion to 1,000 billion beneficial bacteria per milliliter. Yet today, levels of friendly bacteria in the gut are decreasing with rising global toxicity. Researchers predict that the twenty-first century body may need 100 trillion beneficial flora colonies to preserve good health.
A probiotic supplement will help the body digest foods, provide the enzymes necessary to metabolize cholesterol and bile acids, help transport nutrients, and more. Help strengthen your GI tract by avoiding sweets, molds, and starches and consuming plenty of fiber. Drink half your body weight in ounces of water daily.
Step #2: Flush
Now that you've given your body a boost with probiotics, flush any lingering pathogens from your system. Lucky for us, some of the brightest, most colorful vegetables—carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, and yams—are also packed with a natural chemical that helps the body defend against pathogens: beta carotene. This precursor to vitamin A protects the long-term health of the intestinal tract. Enjoy at least two servings of beta carotene–rich foods every day.
Remember that sugars and even hypoallergenic gluten-free grains and starches can provide a food source for yeast and parasites, so moderation is key. Enjoy up to two servings daily of gluten-free grains and starches such as quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth, brown rice, and millet. Spice up your life with cinnamon, garlic, oregano, and cayenne to flush bugs that give you food poisoning, diarrhea, and ulcers, and add flushing beverages such as mugwort tea and Pau d'Arco to your diet. In addition to detoxifying spices and herbs, be sure to consume one tablespoon of fish oil every day to support your cellular membranes.
Step #3: Feed
Feed the beleaguered lining of your GI tract with all the foods it needs to heal and regenerate. You'll also give your immune system some much-needed nourishment and help it get back into fighting form. Very important to feeding your gut, proteins can stop pathogens and parasites from entering the bloodstream. Eat at least eight ounces of protein per day from lean beef, poultry, and fish. Also enjoy omega-rich eggs and whey-based protein drinks.
Not only is a diet heavy in vegetables good for your complexion and your waistline, but it also provides natural protection against food-borne parasites and other infectious agents. Vegetables naturally have protective compounds to ward off pathogens and infections. Eat at least five vibrant nonstarchy veggies per day, such as peppers, cauliflower, zucchini, tomatoes, parsley, and broccoli.
Fruits are also packed with phytochemicals that may help the body stop the growth of pathogens, parasites, and undesirable bacteria. While fruits' sugar content may sometimes encourage the growth of yeast, the fiber and phytochemicals offer dependable benefits to the body's disease-fighting process. Enjoy up to two low-sugar but satisfying fruits per day, such as an apple, pear, berries, plum, cherries, grapefruit, and orange.
Finally, enjoy beans several times a week. One of the primary benefits of legumes is that they move through the GI tract mostly intact until they reach the colon, where they provide nutrition for probiotic bacteria. Probiotics convert the starch into butyrate, a fatty acid that is so powerful at stimulating intestinal repair that medical researchers have given this substance intravenously to hospital patients who have had sections of the small intestine surgically removed. Garbanzos, adzuki, black beans, and lentils are excellent choices.


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7 Reasons Why Gym Workouts Beat Home Workouts (Building Muscle Mass)
October 8, 2010 by Shaun
Filed under The Fitness Bug
Every once in a while, I take it upon myself to step away from everyday life and just reflect (You should do it some time too). But in regards to the fitness industry, I like to take a 'step back' there too, and just reflect. To look at what's going on from an outsiders point of view.
This is actually something I have done recently, and one thing that I have noticed about the 'workout' is the rising popularity of the home workout.
Could it be because of a bad economy and people deciding not to pay for a gym membership to save money? (Maybe)
Could it be because people don't have the time? (Possibly – If so, this article may help)
Could it be the simple fact that home workouts are convenient (I'd say most likely)
It's probably a mix of all the above. In fact, I know it is. That's why I created the Unique Bodyweight Exercise ebook (v3.0 was just released btw). But the argument still stands…
Can you 'effectively' build real muscle mass performing home workouts?
After all, with the latest version of the ebook, I included a strength and mass workout. And of course, plenty of weight assisted bodyweight exercises to go around.
But is that enough when building muscle mass is the goal?
Well, I'd say it's a mix of both. You have to include at least some gym workouts into your fitness lifestyle if you want a real body changer.
In short…
Gym = Speed
And that's why I've decided to give you all of the 'pro's' when it comes to deciding whether you should attend the gym or not. Because there's more to this fitness and bodybuilding game than just lugging a few weights around.
#1 Attending the Gym Gets You Out of Your Comfort Zone
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The number one concern that you should have when you start to lift weights to build muscle mass, is to make sure you are always giving your muscles a shock to take your muscles out of their comfort zone, as that's the only way they will continue to grow. This means that you will need to focus your mindset on that.
The easiest way to begin adapting that mindset is to get yourself out of your comfort zone first. Taking yourself from one room to another in your home still means you will face distractions from activities, people or events that happen in your home. This will lead you to get side tracked at times. What usually happens then is that you are no longer 'in the zone' of your workout. Once that happens it's very hard to adapt that train insane mentality again. So the first step you need to take before taking your muscles out of their comfort zone, is to take yourself out first.
Which leads me to my next point.
#2 Focus On One Thing Only
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You are more likely to succeed if you focus on one task at a time, instead of everything at the same time. Which is what will happen when you workout from home. Picture this…
- You eat a good meal (No problem)
- You relax and let that meal digest (No problem)
- You prepare for your work (No problem)
- You begin your workout
Possible problems
- Phone rings
- People within your household demanding your attention (Wife/ Husband/ Sister/ Brother/ Mother)
- Those same people come to join and watch you workout
- Your favorite TV program comes on
- Your instant messenger starts ringing in the other room, which draws you away to have an online conversation (5 minutes will turn into 30 minutes)
- You remember an important task that needs to be completed. You run off and do it.
This list could go on and on AND ON!
The point I'm making here is that there is no way you can continuously focus on taking your muscles to the next level, workout after workout, operating in an environment such as this. Actually, you can. But just know it will take you twice the time to get the same results, had you decided to go to the gym.
Which again, leads me to my next point.
#3 The Gym Has The Tools For The Job
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Builders, Web developers, Fire men, Plumbers. It doesn't really matter which profession I talk about. If you take one of those professionals tools away, they will do a s****y job. And the same rules apply when the goal is to 'effectively' build muscle. Now let's put things into a visual perspective for one moment and make a hardcore comparison between the tools you have availble at home compared to the tools you have availble at the gym.
- Spare room/ Garage
- 100kg Cast iron weights set, dumbbells, Barbell
- A 'decent' weights bench
- Chin up bar
- Exercise ball, stability ball, Powerblocks
The gym
- Locker room and shower (Hygiene)
- Gym staff (Maintain the order of the gym, replacing weights, save you time from doing tasks that sap your energy)
- Cafeteria (Relax before a workout)
- Other gym goers (People to network with)
Now for the tools you get physical with.
- Spacious workout area (Allows you to scream, curse, release bursts of energy)
- A complete weights set (Variations of weights, barbells – The most important aspect… because to grow you will eventually need to increase the weight)
- Floor mats
- Variations of weights bench (Which will allow you to perform all types of exercises)
- Other gym goers (Ask for help when needed)
- Dipping belts, dip bars, a complete chin up bar with all ranges of handles for exercise variation
- Weights machines (Practice good form or certain weightlifting exercises. This is also important when considering a full body workout)
- Decent sized mirrors (Essential for practicing good form. But not for tracking your progress. Confused? Read this post)
- Loud music (Probably not important, as you can use an ipod. But nothing beats a solid base line when you are taking your muscles to the next level. Besides, you have no neighbors to complain about you here).
- Air conditioning (Plenty of fresh air and water at your disposal. Do I even need to say more!)
- People to network and relax with after a workout (Not entirely important. But it's always nice to chill and just hang out while snacking or sipping on that post workout meal)
This list really could go on and on. But I think I've included most of the important things.
As you can see. If you have the right tools for the job you will…
1) Get the job done more efficienctly
2) Get the job done in half the time
3) Feel happy about what you are doing
Because if you don't feel good about what you are doing in this lifestyle, you're going to quit. Which is why the core of what I talk about on this site is how to improve and live a good fitness lifestyle. Now come on over and build my home gym (ironic). Just make sure you have the right tools for the job ;).
#4 Get motivation from like minded people
Aka Networking
But what I also like to call
1 +1 = 11
This will make sense to those of you who train with a gym partner. Because the key to building a successful body and fitness lifestyle is to draw motivation from somewhere. And one of the best ways to do that is by training with someone who has the same goals as you do. It also makes for some good friendly banter and competition too.
But if you don't have a training partner, then the gym is a perfect place to train instead of training alone at home.
1) You can ask for help (Spotters)
2) If you're in a 'homely' gym where everyone trains for similar goals, you'll get plenty of training tips (Learning from other peoples mistakes). Which is essential if you want to avoid injury. Which of course you will.
3) You can make new friends and connections
This actually leads me on to my next point.
#5 You Treat Your Workout Like A Real Event
A real event is something that you prepare for, get up and go to. You freshen up, put on fresh clothes and leave the house. You're going somewhere to make something happen. And whenever you go out to make something happen, you usually try to make the most of it. No one likes to waste time.
If you workout at home, you are already at the event. Which kind of takes away the urge to get some real work done. This is why you are better off going to the gym if you want some real muscle building results.
If you want keep your urgency to perform well, then build a real home gym. Yes, it will set you back quite a bit of money, but if you do it right, you may never need to attend a public gym ever again (Unless you really like to. For the same reasons discussed in this post).
#6 You Can Find Love At The Gym
I touched upon this topic once before, in these two posts…
Is the gym a good place to find love?
Finding Love at the gym – The Do's and Don'ts
But if you attend the gym, it's inevitable that you're going to see some eye candy. But more importantly, you're probably going to meet people that have similar interests to you. Yes, the fitness lifestyle is like that. There's more to it than just pumping weights here and there.
Nevertheless, if you are a single free spirit with ready to spread love seeping through your veins, then you might as well go to the gym. It's better than going to a night club. Those dates never amount to anything.
A tip from the Bugmeister
Don't go out looking for love… or even a date. Just go with the flow. It will come to you naturally. 🙂
#7 You Can Get A lot More Done
Earlier (Point #2) I created a list of all the tools the gym gives you, that will allow you to build muscle mass quickly and efficiently, while feeling happy throughout the process. But I want to add a little more to that list.
Now, we already know that treating your workout day as an event will improve your urgency to perform well and get the most out of your workout. But it's even better to treat this day as an event, so that you get the most out of your day. Meaning instead of going to the gym just to workout, do it all!
- Workout
- Spa, Sauna
- Yoga
- Spin
- Boxing
Or whatever it is you like to do. Most 'good' gyms will offer these extra amenities. Either way, it's a better alternative than pumping weights at home to just lounge around straight after. Get out of your box.
To conclude
I actually like to perform both home and gym workouts throughout my workout week. Mainly because I'm a homely person at heart. I like my space and I love being a geek (PS3, Macbook and all that techy stuff. Nerd!). But if you really want to get your muscles pumping quickly and efficiently, then you need to go and get yourself a gym membership. Doing so will help you stick to your program (Because you're paying for the damn thing). And most importantly, you really will feel better about yourself once you start seeing rapid changes to your body within the first 4- 6 weeks. After that time, you'll notice all of the benfits I've mentioned above. After that, it's pure bliss.
Where do you perform most of your workouts?m At home or at the gym?
See you in the comments.
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Centaurus A is an active galaxy, meaning it gives off extraordinary amounts of radiation, most likely the result of a supermassive black hole. Somewhere inside these gas clouds and dust lanes, that black hole is creating unimaginable cosmic chaos.
This Hubble image shows off the central region of Centaurus A, which is a mix of red glowing gas, dark clumps of dust, and lots of bright blue star clusters. This particular image has been processed to appear in its natural colors, meaning this is basically how the galaxy would look to the human eye. Viewing it that way, however, obscures the presence of the supermassive black hole that is constantly showering this region in radiation.
To see the evidence of that, you have to look in a different part of the electromagnetic spectrum, as a NASA astronomer explains:
Infrared images from the Hubble have also shown that hidden at the center of this activity are what seem to be disks of matter spiraling into a black hole with a billion times the mass of the Sun. Centaurus A itself is apparently the result of a collision of two galaxies and the left over debris is steadily being consumed by the black hole. Astronomers believe that such black hole central engines generate the radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray energy radiated by Centaurus A and other active galaxies. But for an active galaxy Centaurus A is close, a mere 10 million light-years away, and is a relatively convenient laboratory for exploring these powerful sources of energy.
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Aso-ebis (or uniform as they are known) – I do not do them very well. I also think most chaps share this sentiment. Girls do not.
I don't mean to come across an asshole, but I have never liked rocking the same outfit or designs as the next man. And definitely not the same one as the next chick. I think somewhere, somehow, this stems from my fears and nightmares of what I had seen over-enthusiastic mothers do to their kids, especially twins when I was growing up a young'in in the 80s. I mean this was an era where parents dressed their children from the okpara/ada (first son or daughter) to the last born child in the same outfit. Male and female child alike were dressed in the same color and pattern of clothes except for shoes. Family unit was preserved by making sure everyone was cut from the same cloth. Sibling rivalry was eliminated, and laundry costs were cut. The Von Trapp family would have screamed if they had met the Adio family.
Twins were worse off in that inglorious era for fashion. What was good for Taiwo was good for Kehinde. What was good for the goose was good for the pepeye. If Claurus was being dressed up in a red colored aso-oke, Gringory had to rock that too. Or Chinedu and Chidinma. Or Peter and Paul. Or Tia and Tamera. Or Lawan and Ibori. No wonder I could never tell them apart.
Now, I hope I am not coming across as the type of fella who over self-obsesses about what he wants to wear. Nah, I am more metro-textual than metro-sexual. You can find Esco sporting a 3 day stubble of beard on his chin, slightly faded Levis and a distressed Tee. Pretty boy, I am not.
On the flip side, I am the sort of bloke who goes to a clothes store, sees something I like, is about to pay for it, but changes his mind once he sees another person on the queue with the same item. It is worse if it is one of the same item on the clothes rack. I may only then pick the outfit if it is plain colored and so hard to distinguish or if it is a staple like say a navy blue Blazer. Or a Converse Chuck Taylor sneaker.
Though I like to keep my wardrobe trendy enough, I tend to stay away from wearing what everyone is getting at a particular time. It is the brand-wagon culture that I tend to shy away from. For example, when it was the thing for chaps to wear Timbs, I broke out a pair of Doctor Marten boots instead. And when every Femi, Mohammed and Ikenna in Nigeria were sporting Polo Ralph Lauren shirts with the huge eshin (horse/pony/donkey/ass), I rocked the ngwere (lizard) {Lacoste} instead. If dudes are wearing boat shoes, I opt for drivers instead.
And it was the same in primary school. I took my pair of Cortinas to the neighborhood aboki shoe-maker to apply a bit of chocolate brown polish to them, to make them more distinguishable from the drab light brown every pupil was sporting in my class. He must have been either color-blind or maybe just misunderstood the color I was trying to go with, so I ended up with toney-red shoes instead. Wow, I looked like Sonic the Hedgehog especially after I wore my white socks with the shoes. It was worse when I got to school and had to come out for general assembly. I should have clicked my heels 3 times and wished myself home. That eliminated my chances with Toju the class beauty. I need not have bothered: even a shoe-less person can become a president.
In secondary school, I developed a unique way of knotting my school tie, as there was no other way to distinguish our uniform of white on white. I know some people who sported cream white on egg-shell white but that was not by choice – they were dirty.
Back to the topic at hand, there is nothing wrong with aso-ebi – it used to be the preserve of Yoruba folk who rightly used it to show solidarity towards kin celebrating an event. Uniform had its purposes and advantages:
- It encouraged kinship and camaraderie amongst the family and well-wishers of the celebrants. We dress alike, so we must be alike.
- It later became an effective tool for fundraising. Attendees were expected to chip in to purchase the material at a price even higher than the cost price of the material. People did this to show their support to the inviters even though they did not plan to attend. The celebrant/organizers pocketed a tidy profit. The buyer did not attend and was saved from wearing uniform. It was a win-win for everyone.
- Aso-ebi also ensured that all the guests had a similar dressing theme which makes for better photographs of the event as a coordinated color theme is camera-friendly. It also ensured that some less well-off guests stuck to the chosen color and pattern of the event, and did not embarrass themselves by turning up in their own inferior akwarakwa or okirika clothes. Sad but true, no dulling.
With Nigeria being a multi-ethnic society, it did not take long before the culture of wearing aso-ebi spread to other cultures. Then womenfolk from all races in Nigeria "high-jacked" it until even Igbos were doing it. And when women start doing something, they usually make men do it and menfolk have to comply. Or it is the couch. NEPA and mosquitoes are bad enough.
Now it has encroached into Esco territory. Let me tell you a brief story:
Some few years back, I used to work for a law firm on the Island. One of the firm partner's mother passed away. The firm olofofo (ass kisser) got together with some other senior figures in the firm, and they decided that everyone in the office (except the partners of course) should wear "uniform" to the burial ceremony as an act of solidarity. Excuse me, but solidarity to me is holding up a placard and shouting "Make public the results of the Fuel Subsidy Report" in front of the National Assembly.
The olofofo was commissioned to choose and buy the material design and buy a bulk quantity, and everyone in the firm was "encouraged" pay for a couple of yards from her, make into a traditional outfit and wear to the ceremony. Choosing whether to buy or not was as voluntary as NYSC.
Not being the biggest fan of "uniform", I was debating whether or not to stick or twist when I saw the material itself. My mind was made up. This material was a hot mess of rainbow colors, some of which looked like a toddler had been playing with stack of Crayola on a bouncy rubber trampoline. The material was Ankara but with loads of color riot. It had the same colors as the bip of a traditional female Fulani outfit, combined with the colors of a LASTMA officer's uniform and then some. The girl who chose this must have been suffering from river blindness.
The colors on the material were more female friendly as red and orange were predominant colors along with some other "fruity" shades. The material looked good for an Ankara clutch purse for females, but for Esco to rock as a danshiki? The colors slapped the eyes like Olisa Adibua.
I mean, I felt sorry for my boss's loss even though I did not know his mum from Adam when she was alive. Surely, the money used to purchase the material could have been utilized as a monetary gift for the bereaved. Not that they needed it, as they were mad minted. But that was not the point.
I dropped coins for the material and put it in my car boot. My plan was to give it to my mother to use as "wrapper" for sleeping or for hanging in the house. I was going to wear a nice lace traditional outfit instead. However when I handed my mum the material and explained everything to her, she laughed off my concern and then told me that if I planned to go for event and if my co-workers were all wearing it, I would have to do the same. She even took the material and my measurements and said she was going to take it to her tailor to sew it into an outfit for me, so I had no more excuses.
She also explained how aso-ebis worked, saying that in some owambe parties, the ushers may not seat or serve you if you did not come in uniform. It is a bit like hyena clans. If you come smelling different from the rest of the pack, you were ostracized and eaten alive. Clifford Orji.
A few days later, my mum handed me my outfit. The tailor had done a 'marvelous' job of making the outfit as "janded" as possible. It had some correct gold plated buttons, sleek jeans-like pockets and the pants even came in a boot-leg cut. Sura the tailor would have turned in his grave. Whatever next? Slim cut and fitted agbada robes? Or isi-agu tunics with Versace Medusa buttons and the lion "Express" logo?
I got to the venue, which was somewhere in old Ikoyi. The place was packed to the rafters. Mercs, Rolls Royces and smart SUVs were competing for parking space on the car park. All the tabloid huggers, big politicians and society people in Lagos were all present. Lots of old money and money-miss-road met Nollywood and Bella Naija's finest. I parked my car and stepped into the place with swagger like I had a pebble in my shoe.
To say I stuck out like a sore thumb was an understatement. Most guests were dressed in white or shades of cream jacquards or laces traditionals. There were some people in suits too as it was on a Friday night. I looked across and there was a table with my co-workers. Their orange/red Ankara collective really stood out from the rest of the venue. From outer-space I am sure they looked like a huge palm oil stain on a pure white Egyptian silk jumper. But uniform is still uniform, right? Wrong o! I got closer. Everyone in my work group, to their credit, had done something unique with their 'uniform". The girls were the champions in this. One has made a pencil skirt and a smart top with hers. One had made hers into a jump suit with a plunging neckline which showed her 36DDs. Maybe it was the flutes of champagne playing tricks on my brain, but later I could have sworn that her bra was also made from the Ankara material too. Shhhh….Victoria's secret.
Moments later, one of my co-workers showed up on African time. He.was.not.wearing.the.uniform. He had worn white lace instead and looked pleased with himself. And sod the Ankara material, he had gotten it sewn into a Banky W style Kangol hat which he rocked by placing it on the side of his head in true hip-hop style.
Some of my co-workers looked at him like a leper. A senior associate scowled angrily.
And I don't wear jerseys I'm thirty plus/
Give me a crisp pair of jeans nigga button ups/
S dots on my feet/
Makes my cycle complete/
Jay Z, What More Can I Say (2003)


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"This groundbreaking study documents that the infamous Tuskegee experiment, in which black syphilitic men were studied but not treated, was simply the most publicized in a long, and continuing, history of the American medical establishment using African Americans as unwitting or unwilling human guinea pigs . . . Washington is a great storyteller, and in addition to giving us an abundance of information on 'scientific racism,' the book, even at its most disturbing, is compulsively readable. It covers a wide range of topics—the history of hospitals not charging black patients so that, after death, their bodies could be used for anatomy classes; the exhaustive research done on black prisoners throughout the 20th century—and paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex, and the abuse of power."
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"Medical ethicist and journalist Washington details the abusive medical practices to which African Americans have been subjected.
"She begins her shocking history in the colonial period, when owners would hire out or sell slaves to physicians for use as guinea pigs in medical experiments. Into the 19th century, black cadavers were routinely exploited for profit by whites who shipped them to medical schools for dissection and to museums and traveling shows for casual public display. The most notorious case here may be the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which about 600 syphilitic men were left untreated by the U.S. Public Health Service so it could study the progression of the disease, but Washington asserts that it was the forerunner to a host of similar medical abuses . . . African American skepticism about the medical establishment and reluctance to participate in medical research is an unfortunate result. One of her goals in writing this book, aside from documenting a shameful past, is to convince them that they must participate actively in therapeutic medical research, especially in areas that most affect their community's health, while remaining ever alert to possible abuses.
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You can see the half-timbered homes of Nuremberg and the baroque architecture of Vienna. Visit the splendid Benedictine abbey of Melk, with its library of 16,000 books, and enjoy a concert on Europe's largest church organ in Passau. Take in the sweeping views of Budapest from the Fisherman's Bastion, and explore the well-preserved Old Town and 18th-century Primatial Palace of Bratislava.
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What do you get when you introduce Johnny Depp to a premature baby bat? Well, possibly the cutest thing you've seen all day.
The Australian Bat Clinic & Wildlife Trauma Center shared an adorable video this week of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor snuggling up to a tiny bat while in full Jack Sparrow costume.
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Depp is seen bottle-feeding the teensy bat and asking the caretakers all the details surrounding the animal's adventure into the world.
And it turns out that the actor didn't just stop by for kicks, he actually ended up sponsoring the little fellow--who is appropriately named Jackie Sparrow!
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"Johnny Depp caught up with us again last week for an update on little Jackie Sparrow (the orphaned bat he is sponsoring)," the wildlife center explained on their Facebook page.
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"Here is a video of Dad bottle-feeding his little orphaned baby. It's so fantastic to see him showing a genuine interest, and helping us raise awareness for bats!"
The clinic also added that this particular visit "was at the end of a very busy day or shooting" for Depp, who came in full Sparrow gear straight from the set.


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2006 Barefoot Contessa
- Yield
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- Good olive oil
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 2 cups sliced yellow onions (2 onions)
- 2 cups sliced fennel (1 large bulb)
- Kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic (2 large cloves)
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh thyme leaves
- 1 tablespoon Pernod or white wine
- 3 cups fresh bread crumbs
- 1 (3 1/2-pound) loin of pork, butterflied
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. For the stuffing, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil and the butter in a large (12-inch) saute pan. Add the onions and fennel with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Cook over low to medium-low heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the onions and fennel are tender and lightly browned. Add the garlic and thyme and cook for 1 more minute. Add the Pernod and cook for another minute, deglazing the pan. Cool slightly. Add the bread crumbs and 1 teaspoon of salt to the stuffing mixture. Lay the pork on a board fat side down, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Spread the stuffing evenly on the pork and roll up lengthwise, ending with the fat on the top of the roll. Tie with kitchen string, rub with olive oil, and sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper. Place the rolled pork loin on a baking rack on a sheet pan and roast for 30 minutes. Lower the heat to 350 degrees F and roast for another 20 to 30 minutes, until the interior of the pork is 137 degrees F. (If the thermometer hits stuffing rather than pork, it will register a higher temperature, so test the meat in several places.) Remove from the oven and cover tightly with aluminum foil. Allow to rest for 15 minutes. Remove the strings, slice thickly, and serve.


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The Olympics are in full swing, which means the world's finest athletes are gathered from all corners of the globe to entertain me while I eat pizza. Thanks, Olympiads, I appreciate it.
Speaking of the world's finest, I had a chance to talk pizza-shop with one of my favorite people on the entire planet, Mr. Scott Aukerman. Scott is a lot of things to a lot of people – a television personality, a podcast super star, a Mr. Show All Star, world famous media mogul…. and now, for the first time ever, a Pizza Pal! As a fan of "Comedy Bang Bang!" and all other things "Scott" it was a thrill of a lifetime to shoot the slice with him.
Scott is coming to Philadelphia next Thursday August 9th to bring Comedy Bang Bang to us, in what is probably going to be THE single funniest thing to happen to the state of Pennsylvania this year! He's doing the tour with a menagerie of friends, and in Philly we'll have James Adominian, Tim Heidecker and perhaps some "special" surprises…
So what's Scott think about Pizza?? We'll check it for yourself:
Pizza Pal Joe Moore: How much do you like pizza?
Scott Aukerman: I'd say I like my share. And my share is usually my four slices and one of yours.
PPJM: What is your favorite pizza place?
SA: Pasadena has THE BEST Pizza Hut. It's a little out of the way, but IT IS WORTH IT.
PPJM: Which toppings are you into, or do you prefer it plain?
SA: I prefer cheese! Maybe it's just me, but for me – without it, pizza is just bread and tomato sauce!
PPJM: What day was "Pizza Day" in your house growing up?
SA: Pizza day was whenever Mom couldn't climb out of the bottle long enough to throw some Hamburger Helper in a pan. So Fridays.
PPJM: What is your favorite pop culture reference to pizza (music, tv, movies, etc…)?
SA: I miss the eighties, when you would call nerds "pizza face." I never know what to call nerds now. "iPhone face?" Boy, modern society, huh?!
Wait a second… did Scott Aukerman just admit to being a Noid? Well get a ticket and ask him yourself Thursday, August 9th at 8PM!
Among non-pizza related news, Scott also mentioned:
– Earwolf is working on a Brian Posehn podcast!
– Between Two Ferns DVD – Look for it (hopefully!) this winter!!
– You can purchase live recordings of the Comedy Bang Bang Tour so you can listen to it ANYWHERE!!!
Alright "Pizza faces" that's all from me. Now, wipe the grease out of your eyes and I'll see you on the 9th!!!
Joe Moore is a comedy fan and sometimes-performer. You can follow him on Twitter (@TheJoeMoore).
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This is awesome. I'm so psyched that Comedy Bang Bang is coming to town!


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A new North Korean missile base being built near its border with China is larger in scale than existing bases and can eventually launch intercontinental missiles, South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday.
North Korea's missile program is a pressing security concern because the secretive state has an arsenal of 800 ballistic missiles that can strike South Korea and Japan and is working to build a functional missile that can hit U.S. territory.
The new base is 80 percent finished, Minister Lee Sang-hee told parliament.
North Korea has conducted an engine ignition test for a long-range missile at the base in Tongchang-ri about 50 km (30 miles) from the Chinese border, intelligence sources have been quoted as saying by South Korean media.
"Our assessment is that it can launch larger missiles or satellites than is possible at the Taepodong base," Lee said. Taepodong is the name of an east coast missile base and also the North's long-range missile series.
The North launched the Taepodong-2, a multi-stage missile under development with a possible range of 3,500 – 4,300 kms (about 2,200 – 2,700 miles), in July 2006 from the east coast. The missile fizzled and blew up a few seconds into flight.
North Korea, which conducted its first and only nuclear test in October 2006, has produced about 50 kg (110 lb) of plutonium, which experts said would be enough for about eight nuclear bombs.
Despite its long-running program to develop a delivery system, experts doubt the North has mastered the technology to make a nuclear warhead small enough to mount on a missile.
In a show of force timed to tense negotiations on ending its nuclear arms program with the United States, the North fired two short-range missiles in October that the South played down as part of regular military drill.
(Reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by Jon Herskovitz and Bill Tarrant, Reuters)


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In my humble opinion, we would all be much better off in opposing the horrible solution, the political, social and legal framework for regional and international Communitarian Integration. The new planning law, this new spiritual law that in some nations is now part of their revised constitutions, is not called communism or capitalism. If it's called socialism at all, it's called Communitarian Socialism, or in less official documents, Market Socialism.
Americans could so easily find the premise for many new laws in the United States if they stopped using the outdated words communism and socialism AND capitalism. We'd be much better off focusing serious attention on the growing body of regulations that balance individual liberty against the common good. Our people should be looking for the words Communitarian or Community when studying recent, drastic regulatory changes to local, state and national standards and norms. Citizens could find their newly formed agencies enforcing the new communitarian laws, if only they knew the legal term Community is different from the word.
Communitarian Law and Community Law are exactly the same terms and are used interchangeably in the international legal arena. All UN, EU and WTO and Regional Unions are based in the Supremacy of Communitarian Law clause. The real and verifiable name of the emerging global governance bureaucracy is called Communitarianism. The documentation to support this is all over the world now, and new publications such as this one appear online daily:
The European cooperation for development policies: between national interests and communitarian normsThere are stages that have to be achieved before the next level of social evolution can be reached. Everyone who studies Marxism learns the basic formula for helping reluctant, unenlightened people to change like butterflies into the next stage.
Drd. Victor NEGRESCU1 is currently a PhD candidate at the National School of Political Science and Administration (SNSPA), with an MA in International and European Studies at IEP Grenoble and Pierre Mendes France University, and a member of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Political Science of the Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University. He is a member of FOND – National Federation of the NGOs for Development in Romania and member of several research working groups on development policies.
Abstract: In the context of the growing importance of the cooperation for development in the European Union and the appearance of a common growing public opinion agreement supporting this kind of initiatives, it is necessary to understand if we can talk today about a true common European policy. Still covered on intergovernmental level and considered to be a part of the national foreign policies, EU development aid is still far from reaching the maximum of its efficiency.
In this paper we try to introduce a new evaluation method of the cooperation for development policies and interpretation of the degree of communitarisation of the national policies that will enable us to appreciate the stages that have to be completed by the member countries but also by the EU to realize a completely uniform European assistance strategy and of the activities, so necessary for raising the efficiency of the funds allocated by the EU, but also in the perspective of achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Keywords: Developing countries, world economy, communitarisation, Europeanization, public opinion, international society.
The revolutionary process called dialectical materialism is the core foundation for Marxist thinking. Marx modified the Hegelian theory of dialectical idealism. Unlike Hegel's theory of ideals driving history, dialectical materialism is the idea that material conditions drive ideals, and more importantly, can influence human history. Marx proposed mankind embarks on an evolutionary series of MATERIAL conflicts between the classes, and the bloodier the battles, the better. Hegel provided the Big Idea that mankind achieves perfection when the state becomes God, and that the highest form of freedom is only achieved through complete submission to the state as God. Marx and Engels took the conflict further and made it a physical struggle as well.
Dialectical Idealism and Dialectical Materialism are the two main forces driving every 20th century and onward revolution on the planet. The part most conservatives refuse to accept as a possibility, is that without their support for the opposite theory of capitalism, communism could not exist as the force that it became. These theories of economic systems were designed to feed off each other's never ending natural breeding grounds for animosity, and it has the most potential to turn vague senses of wrongdoing into seething anger into violence. Both Hegel and Marx agreed violence is the best scenario for moving humanity toward its destiny.
Capitalism versus Communism is designed to be most effective when there are only two classes left, the poor and the rich. Naturally the American middle class has much to lose in this "final" battle between the top and bottom class. Recent history of Marxist inspired revolutionaries extends beyond Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler, it includes capitalist funded imperialist puppets, like the Somoza family in pre-Sandinista Nicaragua. Neither "side" of the Capitalist versus Communist debate can claim perfection over the other. Both economic theories have contributed their share to global poverty and deaths in the millions. The Capitalist versus Communist conflicts are also a bit inconsistent. The United States sided with Stalin and still sides with Israel, a nation founded on an kabbalistic communitarian system called the kibbutz.
Our thesis is global communitarianism is the final stage that balances all of the conflicts. We pose that this is the final, unnamed system planned to unnaturally occur at the end of the dialectical conflicts of opposites game. Some schools still teach that both Marx and Engels were vague about what that final perfect middle between all opposite ideologies would be called, but in the U.S. patriot news communism is usually taught as the ultimate goal of Marxist revolutions.
If you follow the line of Marxist logic, communism cannot be the final synthesis of Ideas. The final perfect solution has to be a combination of the conflict between two previously posed ideas. It cannot be one or the other, because the final solution is totally Balanced and new. Even the Dictatorship of the Proletariat was only a phase toward ultimate harmonization of all people under one set of values and norms which requires no enforcement. Since there is a direct, ongoing dialectical conflict between capitalism and communism/socialism, then none of those ideologies can be the synthesis. Any one of the familiar theories that has existing opposition cannot be the final, perfect solution, according to the forumla for human social evolution.
Each new synthesis has to be identified as something that merged the thesis and the antithesis into a new Idea. Political synthesis can only be something that brings people from both sides to a middle compromise. Up until Communitarianism was introduced, the middle compromise has continued to become a new thesis with an established opposition camp. According to the theorists, the way we would know when we had reached the final stage of human social evolution was when there arose no opposition to the synthesis. Perfection is reached when nobody alive claims the most recent synthesis is imperfect. Communitarianism is the most recent synthesis, and so far, the only organized opposition is us. We are nobody lowborn commoners without titles of nobility or degrees. That basically means there's no opposition.
Our anticommunitarian argument is based on a few basic ideas:
1. Capitalism versus Communism, in a Hegelian/Marxist equation, equals Communitarianism. (Or Individualism versus Collectivism, Right versus Left, Republican versus Democrat, etc.)
Evidence for Communitarianism being the final Marxist/Capitalist solution between the two supposedly opposing "sides" exists in abundance. Our argument has, so far, proved incontrovertible. Our argument, our reasoning, and our version of the evolutionary history of Communitarianism have never once been disputed, nor have any of the documents we cite been proven to be fraudulent. We have, since 2003, openly solicited responses from Dr. Amitai Etzioni and his Network. We have also had our thesis introduced in graduate level classes where we offered to print anything the students wanted to write about it. We have never received any papers disputing us. Our ACL research website has had over a million visits, and over half of them have been to our thesis. If our poll and stats data can be trusted, we've had more than one school review board visit our Hegel page. I still feel this should qualify us for a nice fat grant and admission to a formal anticommunitarian studies program, but that offer is still forthcoming. :)
Back to the argument:
2. Communitarianism, a recent modification of the U.S. legal system, did not arise naturally from the people of the United States, it was never approved or adopted by the U.S. House (of directly elected) Representatives, or any directly elected state legislatures.
3. Anything that changes or modifies the constitutions of any states or the federal constitution, without full disclosure and full consent of the people who legally govern in this nation, is sedition against the authority of the legitimate rulers here, who are the American people. Sedition and treason are criminal offenses under US Code.
International environmental and trade associations, councils, and courts, established under WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA, UN Local Agenda 21, and the Earth Charter, have never been officially explained to Amercians, nor have the provisions inserted into the above documents. New terms in American law that adopt the supremacy clause have never been approved by 3/4 majority of the state legislative bodies, as is required to revise the Constitution of the United States. (People call for a new Constitution all the time now, but it was already quietly invalidated by Communitarian supremacy under international agreements over 20 years ago!)
All dissent against the insane expansion of government power over private lives and national economies is funnelled into groups that play a role in the conflict or the pre-prepared solution. I have found more and more people from every side of the political and religious spectrum clamoring for a communitarian solution to the global economic crisis. From the Occupy movement to the Pope, to the leaders of many nations and major NGOs, they all repeat the same three things: Elimination of 1.Degradation of the environment, 2. Poverty, and 3. Social Equity.
Many agreements to reach these goals by specific dates already exist. Agenda 21 and sustainable development are just the tip of the iceberg. Related agreements like The Millennium Goals, and their significance to the radical legal and structural changes now happening to existing national systems, cannot be overemphasized. Remember what Victor said about the Millenium goals in his paper about Communitarian norms? Didn't he say, "In this paper we try to introduce a new evaluation method of the cooperation for development policies and interpretation of the degree of communitarisation of the national policies that will enable us to appreciate the stages that have to be completed by the member countries but also by the EU to realize a completely uniform European assistance strategy and of the activities, so necessary for raising the efficiency of the funds allocated by the EU, but also in the perspective of achieving the Millennium Development Goals"?
We're so lucky, because Victor told us the method. He provided the link between sustainable development, human development, and communitarian norms. Notice Victor didn't write a paper about communist or socialist norms that would help in the perspective of acheiving the Millennium Goals.
The emerging supranational system of global governance, or the New World Order (NWO) as many of our esteemed leaders prefer to call it, is based on a philosophy of law called communitarianism. It's basic, most simple concept is explained as the "balance" between too much liberty and too much servitude. It's a balance between unfettered anarcho capitalism with limited government intrusion, and state controlled collectivism with total government intrusion. It's the perfect middle, and it is being presented as the most reasonable compromise between all the forces gathering to fight the dialectical battles in the streets of America.
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Environmental problems threaten human development progress, UN report says
The annual UNDP Human Development Report was released on 2 November. In the lead-up to Rio+20, the upcoming UN conference on sustainable development, this year's edition entitled Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All focuses on the link between human development and environmental sustainability. The report calls for urgent action to slow climate change, prevent further degradation and reduce inequalities as environmental deterioration threatens to reverse recent progress in human development for the world's poorest.
The global system has already been built that will replace all national governments. In Russia, China, Cuba, Indonesia, Africa, Israel and the EU, the ideology for the new system is well understood by officials. In South America and portions of Africa and the Middle East it's been used to rally the Indigenous people's support for global enforcement of protections of Human Rights and the Environment. Sustainable Development, one of the programs under Communitarianism, has been adopted not only by global to local governments but by most businesses as well.
Bolivia, leading the call for full Human rights for Mother Earth, modified their national constitution to openly embrace a new form of socialism called Communitarianism. The social evolution of humanity as planned is well into the advanced stages.
Many Americans say they are ready to fight, but armed struggle is a two edged sword for Americans. An armed rebellion or conflict within our national boundaries would be disastrous for anyone clinging to any sense of freedom. There are many new law enforcement agencies dedicated to preserving global communitarianism, and not only have our forces become militarized peacekeepers, the datagathering capabilities and interdepartmental sharing between Community Police around the globe continues to grow.
I still say we all need to ask for our COPS' "file."
Twelve years ago when I started my rants against communitarianism, nobody had heard of the term. Today more than some of our people are saying communitarianism is a much better way to live. The "masses" still believe in the dialectical lies, much the same way 20th century Russians and Germans did,. My studies have shown that historically, as well as today, the masses aren't always the 99%, until membership in the ruling party becomes mandatory.
Every former nation in the world has been subdued and forced to committing to the same efforts. The invasion of Afghanistan wasn't just about oil pipelines or poppies, it can't only be that, not when the primary result is their adoption of the global system for a sustainable planet.
21 November 2011 – The General Assembly called today on countries to reiterate and scale up their support for Afghanistan during its transition period, and outlined six major areas the country should focus on to ensure its long-term stability and progress.The only thing that leads us to finding Communitarian Law is a familiarity with the term communitarianism. There exists no confirmable source for "communist law" or "socialist law" in any of the important global governance documents (although it does exist in some national documents that cede communitarian law is supreme). The name of the law of integration, and of the principles for which it stands, is Communitarian Law, also known as Community Law.
In a resolution adopted unanimously this morning, the Assembly called for increased efforts in the areas of security, justice and governance, social and economic development, reconciliation and integration, regional cooperation and strategic partnerships. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40472&Cr=afghanistan&Cr1=
The principles for supremacy are defined as Communitarian. Capitalism, communism, socialism, totalitarianism, libertarianism, anarchism, fascism etc are not nor have they ever been globally supreme. They were all only stages in the dialectic. Much like the movie Alien with Sigorney Weaver, our familiar political and economic systems are all brothers and sisters working to protect and eventually crown their Big Mother Sucker, Communitarianism.
If we can't see the most powerful enemy to ever invade our lands and our homes, how can we possibly come up with ways to kill (or at least table) it? We don't even know what we're up against. It's so confusing, we need lawyers to study the laws from a constitutional perspective. We need local politicans who are aware and on the lookout for the terms inserted into proposed legislation. But the term Community isn't being taught alongside Sustainable Development and Agenda 21 by the leaders of the pro freedom opposition. Locals aren't being taught the one thing that could be the basis for the biggest class action lawsuit in the history of American civil courts.
Many of the communitarians operate in our neighborhoods as both concerned citizens and government paid agents. This is a glitch in the system, according to my unlawyerly observations, and even though we failed miserably in our Dawson lawsuit, I still think it's an avenue worth pursuing if you go after the actual terms inserted in legal documents. I was once told by a Washington State Supreme Court Justice that he could not rule on anything that didn't come before his court. Dawson never made it to the State Appelate Court, it was bumped up to federal because we cited federal statutes, and a Clinton appointee ruled in favor of the federal community police. Maybe if we'd only cite state laws in our filings we could keep the cases at the level where we have the most power to pack the courtrooms with our neighbors and our local media, and in some states, take our cases before justices who are directly elected by us.
Citizens across America have been subjected to communitarian laws, penalized for violating communitarian laws, and lost their property under communitarian takings. The basis for all these new laws that "balance individual rights against the rights of the community," or the collective, the Common Good or Mother Earth, is the Communitarian philosophy of law. And yes, the neo global ideology has a soft side and a more muscular side.
As our most revered Communitarian guru wrote on his blog in on January 08, 2010:
One more time, because it's well worth repeatng:
Now: Muscular CommunitarianismThe time for muscular communitarianism has come. In his second year, President Obama best reveal that his communitarianism is not powerless, but indeed has muscles of its own, although these have so far been rarely exercised.
The president has gone the extra mile to show that he is willing to talk, consult, and collaborate with allies and foes alike -- foreign and domestic. Nor has this form of kumbaya communitarianism been without results. Russia and China are supporting sanctions against Iran. The fever of anti-Americanism overseas has subsided some.
But, all said and done, Obama's soft communitarianism has yielded relatively little. Iran continues to thumb its nose at his solicitations; the GOP is mocking it; and the business elites are paying out their bonuses using taxpayer dollars, as if Obama never railed against them. Obama can maintain his positive posture, continue to refuse to hector nations whose regimes are different from ours, and even keep extending an olive branch to the business elites. But he would be much more effective if he would show that communities whose norms and leaders are ignored can twist the arms of, even give a kick in the pants to, those who refuse to collaborate. http://blog.amitaietzioni.org/2010/01/now-muscular-communitarianism.html
.. he [Obama] would be much more effective if he would show that communities whose norms and leaders are ignored can twist the arms of, even give a kick in the pants to, those who refuse to collaborate.To a communitarian thinker, especially an Israeli commando who fought as a terorist for Israeli independence, nuking Iranian civilians may be little more than a swift kick in the pants. To the rest of the thinking world, it's more like an explosion that blows uncollaborating pants into tiny pieces. Remember, in Orwellian doublespeak, war means peace. And nobody speaks doublespeak better than Amitai Etzioni, the Tree of Knowledge from Zion.
A well known intellectual on social policy who first rose to prominence in the 1970s, Amitai Etzioni is a professor of international relations at George Washington University and founding director of the Institute for Communitarian Studies.[1]
Although best known for his work and theories on sociology and domestic policy, Etzioni has, since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, become an increasingly strident—if often idiosyncratic—proponent of military solutions to U.S. foreign policy problems, in particular those dealing with Israeli security. (For more on Etzioni's history and ideas, see Marsha B. Cohen, "Muscular Nonrationality: Amitai Etzioni and War with Iran," Right Web, July 21, 2010.)
An illustrative example of Etzioni's militarist views is his May 2010 article for the U.S. Army's Military Review titled "Can a Nuclear-Armed Iran Be Deterred?" In the article, Etzioni claims that once armed with nuclear weapons Iran will be impervious to nuclear deterrence and thus, the United States should bomb the country to derail its nuclear program. He contends that a concerted bombing campaign targeting civilian infrastructure—including "bridges, railroad stations, and other such assets, just the way the U.S. did in Germany and Japan in World War II"—is the only way to dissuade Iran from attempting to develop nuclear weapons.[2]
Because the objective of such attacks on non-nuclear targets would be causing pain to the entire Iranian population, "it matters not if one misses some," Etzioni said. He even proposes that the strikes be carried out at night, and with "proper warning," in order to minimize civilian casualties.[3]
But first we'd have to stop fighting each other and turn our wrath toward our common enemy. We'd have to stop furthering the phony dialectical conflict between rich and poor and not allow ourselves to be swayed anymore into helping to hasten our own defeat. We'd have to put all America first to find a way to come together to ward off the creeping invasion. We'd have to find a way to respect our many differences, because it's that lack of honor among men that's costing us our freedom, our lives and the lives of countless innocents around the globe. The more hate we promote toward our countrymen and other nations and religions, the more we fuel the communitarian bonfire. Our nation is one big spark ready to blow. I'm gonna pray for rain.


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Andrew Rossi's 2007 film, "Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven," followed the Maccioni family as they attempted to open yet another incarnation of their famed restaurant. Four years later, Rossi is back, this time with "Page One: Inside The New York Times," a film that follows the paper as it attempts to develop the next incarnation of the venerable paper as it is forced to change and grow with the advent of new media.
Rossi was granted unprecedented access to the offices of the Grey Lady, focusing on the Media Desk, in general, and veteran writer David Carr in particular. It was a smart choice, as Carr is an unfiltered font of opinion, attitude and wisdom who doesn't care much what you think of him.
With "Page One" opening Friday, Rossi took some time to talk to us about his new film. We figured it made sense to start with the question that kicks off the film's press note, "What will happen if the fast-moving future of media leaves behind the fact-based original reporting that helps define our society?"
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"I think that society would be very much at a deficit for original breaking news," Rossi told PopcornBiz. "This movie is all about the threat to original reporting (and) institutions, which have as their mandate original boots on the ground reporting. It could've been made at the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times or Reuters or AP, we chose the media desk at the New York Times because the Times is a premiere journalism institution in the country and also because it has David Carr, which is sort of a secret weapon of this film."
Carr is undoubtedly the driving narrative force behind "Page One," a grizzled old newsman trying to reconcile how technology is changing the nature of his profession at a dizzying pace. Brian Stelter, meanwhile, is the new-school wunderkind of the Media Desk, offering a peek at what the future likely holds for the Times.
"(The Carr/Stelter relationship) was sort of a happy accident in the sense that my original idea was to focus on David and his media reporting and the Media Desk as a whole, as part of the New York Times' attempt to chronicle what is happening in the media, and I was not familiar with Brian until we started shooting--at that point it became clear he is such a leader in the New York Times newsroom with new technology. He has a huge twitter presence, tweeting his reporting from tornadoes in Kansas and Missouri, in addition to creating front-page stories on a very regular basis."
"[Carr] has that great line that he believes Brian is a robot that was assembled in the basement of the New York Times to come and destroy him."
If Carr is the star of the show, and Stelter is the budding second-banana, Media Desk Editor Bruce Headlam is the hilarious character actor who steals every scene he's in.
"David refers to him as a sort of the short Cary Grant of the newsroom," says Rossi, laughing. "He's got a really rye sense of humor--this gallows humor that pervades the newsroom. He's fantastic and just really a very calm force in the middle of the storm of trying get the paper done with all of these attacks from the outside and internal obstacles."
As vexing as all the new publishing tools maybe be for those in the business of gathering and disseminating news, there's no doubt in Rossi's mind that for the rest of the world, consumers of news, it's been a huge plus.
"I would say decidedly a net positive. Absolutely, without question. But that doesn't mean they're aren't consequences, some of which are troubling, especially if it hastens the demise of certain original reporting institutions, which are providing vital quality reporting that is amplified to great effect on the web, but nonetheless is one of the key drivers of it.
I can't say for sure (what the news business will look like in 20 years), I would guess that it would continue to be a very positive force in the evolution of how communities are built and communicate with each other. And I think, also, something that David says quite a bit is that the web is a self-cleaning oven, that when it observes certain trends--information that's wrong or trends that are unhealthy--that the web and in its many constituent individual elements, somehow gather together and right that. So perhaps part of that process is observing in 'Page One' what the impact of both the economy tanking and the Internet has wrought for traditional journalism."
"Page One: Inside the New York Times" goes into limited release Friday, June 17.


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Finishing up with a trip around the NL West, here's the last of the face of the franchise posts…
- Arizona – Right now, I'd have to imagine that Justin Upton is very high on the list. The team has had a lot of turnover in the past year or so, and Upton has become one of the longer tenured members of the team.
- Colorado – I would say that the previous face, Todd Helton, has been eclipsed at this point, with Troy Tulowitzki taking the helm instead. And with Tulo under contract through 2020 at this point, he's not going anywhere for a while.
- Los Angeles – I would imagine that the most identifyable player at this point would either be Matt Kemp, or possibly Andre Ethier. I think it's only another year or two until Clayton Kershaw could overpower the other players on the team for this, as he is still very young.
- San Diego – I'm not sure that they have one currently, as they traded Adrian Gonzalez away to Boston during the offseason. It will be interesting to see who establishes themselves as Spring Training and the season progresses. The first candidate that popped into my head was Mat Latos, and I think he may be able to do that as well.
- San Francisco – Right now, it has to be the 2-time Cy Young award winning Tim Lincecum. Buster Posey will likely eclipse Lincecum at some point in the not so-distant future, but for a team built around its pitching, the best pitcher on the team fits that role very nicely.
Upcoming in the next couple of weeks will be my look at how I think each of the divisions will shake out, along with my predictions for the season.


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