April 7, 2013

I need a list of upbeat movies..please...

I got a list of a couple of years ago..seems to be on the old DU...
could we make another..??? That is a worthwhile idea..thank you...

Well...one of my favorite all time...The Producers...Zero Mostel

April 6, 2013

The Food Industry's Overuse of Salt Contributes to 100,000 American Deaths A Year: Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/05/1827821/food-industry-salt/

Think Progress, from: British Medical Journal

By Sy Mukherjee on Apr 5, 2013 at 5:20 pm


In a new study published in the online edition of the British Medical Journal, researchers write that a 50 percent reduction in daily salt intake “could prevent approximately 100,000 deaths from heart attack and stroke in the United States every year.” Curbing salt intake by that high a margin is certainly a mean feat — but not because Americans are saturating their food with sodium. Rather, study authors suggest that the real culprits are food makers who douse their products with harmful levels of salt.

Results from the controlled study — which measured the blood pressures of 3,000 adults who dramatically curbed their salt intake over the course of a month — indicated an average five point drop in systolic blood pressure, confirming similar findings previously published in the Journal. Last month, Harvard researchers conducting a separate study also found that excess sodium was linked to one in ten American deaths. Since high blood pressure is the number one risk factor associated with heart disease and stroke, the findings suggest that U.S. public health would benefit substantially from lower salt consumption.
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Restaurants and Salt: A case in point...Olive Garden...
A couple of years ago, 2 friends and I went to the Olive Garden for Dinner. We got into this argument about "salt" ..so..when we got back to the house, we looked up how much salt was in each meal. The three of us averaged about 2200mg per meal. Evidently the Olive Garden publishes this info for its customers for some reason... an individual watching salt, should get no more than 2000 mg per day. each meal had more...also... their dinner rolls or whatever they are called...each had over 500 mg of salt ..each one..Haven't been back since..

April 6, 2013

So am I.......

I bought a nice new fresh copy...I urge people to read it...but I have only read parts...you want the truth right here...
I am already addicted to that stuff....hard to stay away...believe me..oh welllllllllllll...

April 5, 2013

Roger Ebert's Review..."The Green Barets" June 28, 1968

Zero Stars..

The Green Berets" simply will not do as a film about the war in Vietnam. It is offensive not only to those who oppose American policy but even to those who support it. At this moment in our history, locked in the longest and one of the most controversial wars we have ever fought, what we certainly do not need is a movie depicting Vietnam in terms of cowboys and Indians. That is cruel and dishonest and unworthy of the thousands who have died there.

It is not a simple war. We all know it is not simple. Perhaps we could have believed this film in 1962 or 1963, when most of us didn't much care what was happening in Vietnam. But we cannot believe it today. Not after television has brought the reality of the war to us. Not after the Fulbright hearings and the congressional debates and the primaries. Not after 23,000 Americans have been killed.

Whether we are for the war or against it, we all know it is a terribly complicated struggle. There is a desperate need in this country for a film that will depict the war in honest terms. There have been two such films: Eugene Jones' heart-wrenching masterpiece "A Face of War" and the Academy Award-winning documentary "The Anderson Platoon." The Jones film has never played in Chicago. The other closed after a week.

Neither film is against the war. Instead, both try to explain it in terms of the confused struggle there, and the soldiers who are fighting it. It is this sort of film that many Americans hunger for: a film that will tell it like it is. We need no more propaganda.

But propaganda is what we get in "The Green Berets," a heavy-handed, remarkably old-fashioned film. It is supposed to be about Vietnam, but it isn't. The military adventures we see could be from any war. In one, the enemy attacks a camp and the two sides shoot at each other. In the other, a team of soldiers kidnaps a Viet Cong general.





http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680626/REVIEWS/806260301/1023
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The rest of the review is at the link above......................
Roger was named film critic of the Sun Times on April 5, 1967. So he was on the job for about a year and 2 months when he wrote this.
A young unknown critic takes a shot at a John Wayne film...................

The Green Barets...was a movie about Viet Nam..propaganda......for this death filled war...wrongly fought for the wrong reasons.. I followed Ebert most of my life..as I stated in another post..so..when he wrote this review..zero stars..... in the middle of the Viet Nam War..note (23,000 American killed)...I took real note..and I will always remember it...I had just graduated from college, Roger was new on the job ..and he wrote this great review.. ..... ..one that says a whole lot more about Roger as a person, as we now know...

April 4, 2013

In 1966 or 7 he wrote a column for the Daily Illini which I read when I was at U of I.

It was this essay against apartheid. He had traveled to South Africa and wrote this scathing column against it. I never forgot that.
Somehow the way he wrote stuck in my head then and now. I once wrote him about that many years later, he responded with a kind letter....
He was always a progressive ..always.. a great human being..

April 4, 2013

Rutgers owes Ex Coach $100,000 Bonus

Source: Huffington Post, AP

By GEOFF MULVIHILL 04/04/13 10:54 AM ET EDT

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Rutgers University's fired basketball coach is due a $100,000 bonus for lasting through the season.

Mike Rice was dismissed Wednesday after a video was made public of him kicking and shoving players and spewing gay slurs during practices.

He would not be collecting the bonus if he had been fired in December when the university first saw the video and the administration decided only to discipline him.

Rice was paid $622,500 last year under a deal that also included bonuses for winning games and graduating players. His five-year contract called for a $100,000 bonus if he completed the 2012-13 season.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/mike-rice-bonus-rutgers-fired-coach_n_3014848.html

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So this is what this guy gets for his actions...$622,500 plus $100,000. Not bad for being a complete asshole......Someone who its his student. Now, I used to teach..and if I hit my students, repeatedly........well, maybe jail... not a bonus..

April 3, 2013

CVS Pharmacy settles Federal Claims Suit

Source: Yahoo News, AP

CVS Pharmacy Inc. agrees to pay $11 million to settle federal claims filed in Oklahoma
Associated Press – 2 hrs ago

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A federal prosecutor says CVS Pharmacy Inc. has agreed to pay $11 million to settle allegations that the company's Oklahoma pharmacies violated record-keeping requirements of the Controlled Substances Act.

U.S. Attorney Sanford Coats in Oklahoma City announced the settlement deal on Wednesday.

Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS acknowledged that its stores must comply with the record-keeping requirements. But the company did not admit liability.

The allegations against CVS included that some of its stores created false Drug Enforcement Administration registration numbers that were sometimes provided to state prescription drug monitoring programs.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/cvs-pharmacy-settles-federal-claims-213535265.html

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I guess it is too difficult to keep records, but charge very high prices for prescriptions..well that they can do with no trouble.

April 2, 2013

Salt Sugar Fat How the Food Giants Hooked Us... Interview with author Michael Moss..

This book which is important in my opinion..was discussed in Good Reads forum:.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101658967

The interview with the author...is now available in Video and Multimedia..
I have strong cravings for the above foods....not easy to overcome..
....interesting book which I am reading now..

April 2, 2013

Interview with Michael Moss author..Salt, Sugar Fat How the Food Giants Hooked Us

April 1, 2013

4 Year Old Boy Driving a Car Hit a Toronto Mc Donalds

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/03/31/toronto-child-car-collision-mcdonalds-restaurant-jane-finch.html

A four-year-old boy was behind the wheel of an uninsured Toyota Camry that crashed into a McDonald's restaurant in northwest Toronto on Sunday afternoon, police say.

Toronto police Sgt. Doodnath Churkoo says that the car was left running while the boy's father went into the restaurant to pick up some food.

The child's mother was in the rear seat of the vehicle, while the boy was left in the driver's seat.

Churkoo says the boy put the car in gear, causing the vehicle to drive into the McDonald's, which is located in the Jane Street and Finch Avenue area in the northwest section of the city.
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this thread was lifted without permission from.... alp227...who originally put it up in the Lounge..at least credit is given...so there..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018351802