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the duke

Twenty-two year old tight end Vernon Davis recently signed a five year contract worth $23M with the San Francisco 49ers.

new york city

NYC is a very unique place. It’s filled with rude fast talking people rushing after money and throwing litter in the streets. It’s very expensive and not very clean. It’s filled with scavengers like pigeons, rats, roaches, con artist and street hustlers. It houses a million unregistered aliens. One in three registered residents carries a green card. And as if that’s not enough it is the number one terrorist target in the world! This is no big deal. New Yorkers are accustomed to doing business under hardship. Port Amsterdam was the main African slave trading port in early 17th century America. At that time the African slaves outnumbered the Dutch. Of course the Africans revolted and burned the city to the ground but New Amsterdam rebuilt. When the English moved their warships into port and claimed the island, the people of New York just pulled down the Dutch flags, hoisted English flags and went off to work. New York has always been about non stop business. No city on earth claims greater financial wealth than New York. The average Manhattan resident makes $100,000 a year. Naturally such big business attracts large scale culture and entertainment. That’s why people flock to the Big Apple. By the way, an apple is an ancient jazz term for the breakdown in the song. And although New York did not create jazz, exposure on the scale New York offered projected jazz into the mainstream and so New York became known as the Big Apple.

Because the city is so dense and exciting you will constantly find yourself asking this question, “So what to do now?” Go to the museum of the City of New York. It’s very cool and small and quaint. You might as well stop in the International Center of Photography because you’re in the neighborhood. Their small gallery is a nice blend of traditional and nouveau. You will notice Central Park and the impressive Upper East Side Fifth Avenue apartments as you stroll. Keep going uptown to 125th Street if you want to do some clothes shopping. Another fashionable shopping area is downtown on Broadway below Astor Place. You can shop your way straight down into the Financial District. Or when you hit Canal Street feel free to turn eastward (your left) and shop your way into Little Italy or Chinatown. Go over to the Chelsea Piers to bowl or swim or play golf or skate or just hang out. And always exercise caution when approached even on a crowded street in the bright of day because the scavengers can spot an out-of-towner two blocks away.

If you don’t have much time and really just want to over indulge in shopping, partying, people watching, socializing and general merriment as quickly as possible, map out Tribeca, Soho, the West Village, Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Clinton. This small area alone is packed with more people, stores, bars, restaurants, gyms, hotels, theatres and excitement than you can possibly consume during your stay in the city. As you stroll about, go in Manganaro’s on 9th Avenue at West 38th Street and have lunch. Manitus on Bleecker and West 10th Street is always open. Have dinner at Moran’s on 10th Avenue and West 19th Street. Stop at Yaffa’s on the corner of Greenwich and Harrison Street for late evening soup and sandwich.You will never do all the things you want to do in New York. So be careful not to hurt yourself trying.

Are you not much better than they?

Continuing our health conversation ask yourself this question: how many times do I move my bowels in one day? If the answer is less than once a day your body may be too toxic. Why you ask? Well you put food (usually poisonous) in your mouth more than once a day so why wouldn’t you expect to remove waste from your body with a similar frequency? If you are pushing food into your mouth faster than you are removing bodily waste where is all that salt, animal fat, flesh, refined sugar, cow mucus and FDA approved food dye and preservatives that you ingested? Well some of it may be sitting in your intestinal track like sludge in a slow moving drain. Food is intended to cleanse fuel energize and heal the body, not sit in the intestines to cause blockages and poor health. Not to mention those foul odors that accompanies excretion of rotting organic material. Remember that after you feed the dogs you let them out. And are you not much better than they? So what not to do? Don’t use laxatives. They cause the intestines to pull too much water from the body. This is not an acceptable long term solution. Don’t believe your doctors when they tell you that your metabolism is different and a slower rate of waste removal is normal for you. You can accept as normal the fact that it takes hours to drain the water from your bathtub, or you can clear the plumbing. Positive steps include more exercise, less fat and lots more roughage in your diet and a regular use of a holistic internal cleansing product.