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Thanksgiving Leftovers Stuffed Shells
35 Reviews- Prep: 25 min
- Cook: 1 hr 10 min
- Ready In: 1 hr 40 min
"This recipe sounds odd, but I promise it makes for an unbelievable, rich hearty meal! Family and friends all show up a couple days AFTER Thanksgiving knowing this will be on the menu... Cheesy and delicious, and feeds a crowd!" - by abbeydave2003
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Original recipe yields 8 servings
- Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
- Fill a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to a rolling boil over high heat. Once the water is boiling, stir in the shell pasta, and return to a boil. Cook the pasta uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the pasta has cooked through, but is still firm to the bite, about 13 minutes. Drain well in a colander set in the sink.
- Place turkey and stuffing in food processor, and pulse until finely ground and combined. Place the ground turkey and stuffing mixture in the bowl of a stand mixer along with the cream cheese, Parmesan cheese, mayonnaise, and 2 cups of the mozzarella. Mix with paddle attachment on medium-low until well blended.
- Spread 1/2 cup of gravy on the bottom of the prepared dish. Stuff the pre-cooked pasta shells with the turkey mixture and place in the dish in tight rows. Top with the remaining gravy and the remaining 2 cups of mozzarella cheese.
- Bake, covered, for 45 minutes. Uncover and cook for an additional 10 minutes until top is browned and bubbly. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving.
Amount Per Serving (8 total)
- Calories
- 675 cal
- 34%
- Fat
- 28 g
- 43%
- Carbs
- 64.9 g
- 21%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest
The following is excerpted from Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest, published by Evolver/Reality Sandwich in partnership with Tarcher/Penguin.
La Purga
Purging during an ayahuasca ceremony is not like performing normal bodily functions. In holistic health and yoga communities the mind and body connection is emphasized. People meditate to be more present, thinking less and experiencing more, clearing the head of mental detritus. More extreme detoxifying hot yoga classes have become more popular all across the United States. Bikram's yoga class, for example, a 90 minute workout including 2 sets of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises in a 100+ degree room, with 50% humidity, was designed to detoxify the body and mind. People go to saunas to sweat out holiday debauchery, while ecstatic dance and Pilates awaken the repressed feminine. The list of metaphors and exercise practices related to detoxification both psychologically and bodily could go on, but nothing I have experienced comes anywhere close to what it feels like to purge and detoxify the body and mind in an ayahuasca ceremony. Ayahuasca purging is in a league of its own.
When I purge during an ayahuasca ceremony, it is not just the physical release, and it is not just the emotional, spiritual, or psychological release, but the phenomenal combination of all of the above into an astronomically unique event that makes the purge life altering. I mean never ever the same again. A scream becomes the unique story of an entire lifetime, reaching out into the periphery of individual freedom and diva-like melody. By screaming you claim back something repressed, fragmented or forgotten.
A vomit sounds inhumanly grotesque, painful, relevant, funny, and finally desperate, until somewhere a mountain crumbles and boulders drop like rain off the side of a cliff centuries old and steeped in words like "karma," and "original sin." Every muscle of the body forces bile and stress out of your soul. And it's not just vomit. It's everything you've been holding onto for the past six years. People releasing baggage like typhoons and avalanches.
At the same time it's not all painful or scary. Laughter during an ayahuasca ceremony is the reunion of thousands of lost children and is often accompanied by tears and sobs like earthquakes, until you laugh so hard you vomit again like the birth of a star. This purge is soul shifting. It is the plate tectonics of your reality. People don't just lose it when they purge. They feel every shred of their existence, of what it really means to be human, until they might burst, and then they explode and survive anyway.
I remember how my very first ayahusaca purge started, evolved, and finally finished my first night at El Puma Negro lodge.
It was raining hard outside the mesa. Thunder boomed over the tops of the trees. Branches snapped and fell as the larger sentinels of the jungle ran for cover, stirring up birds and the sounds of flapping wings in the undergrowth.
The rodent-sized lodge dog, Cucaracha, growled and barked. The vibration of the crickets grew louder and then vanished. Several splashes sounded off one after another, and reptiles disappeared into the brown river. The sound of rain ricocheted off the water.
The icaro had changed. The pace of Ethan's melody had quickened. As if Ethan's icaro was stirring the soup of a large boiling cauldron, gradually building momentum, the medicine song gathered everybody in the circle into the same vision. Each time the melody dipped into the haunting minor notes, I could feel myself getting sicker.
I saw the mesa sitting inside of a canoe, each one of us lying limp on the hull. It was the same canoe my family took onto the lakes during my childhood. The waters were dark and the banks of the river covered in shadows and trees. Red eyes peered at us from the forest. Ethan had morphed into a life-size golden hornet. He hovered above the canoe. His translucent wings buzzed at the speed of light. Small sparks of electric white and silver burst off from their tips as he paddled us down river. Each stroke of Ethan's paddle fell in synch with the rising and falling of the icaro melody. Each stroke was also the sound of his chakapa leaf rattle, the vague but persistent reminder that I had taken ayahuasca.
As the speed of our journey downriver increased with each paddle stroke, I felt dizzier and dizzier, until I woke in the mesa to find myself on my knees, hovering over my purge bucket in the dark. I choked on stomach acid. My jaw unhinged so wide I thought my eyes might burst. A giant black snake poured out of my mouth. I fell forward as mucus spilled into my bucket.
"Nice healing," Ethan said to me.
His chakapa whisked over the top of my head. For a moment I saw the glowing red of his cigar near my face. A cloud of mapacho smoke suddenly covered me, and although it was dark I could see the smoke as if it were a glowing, white halo. It smelled sickly sweet. The black snake swam inside of the bucket. Ethan's face gyrated in front of mine, half hornet and half human being. Thousands of golden sparks danced around his face.
"How ya feeling?" he asked me.
"I don't know," I said.
I looked down at the bucket to see the black snake was gone. In its place were rainbow strands of light shooting back and forth.
Up until that moment I had only ever read about the purging of an ayahuasca ceremony in books and magazines. I knew the purge could be life-changing, violent, and terrifying. I had read that people could purge addictions and old "stuff," the life-baggage each one of us carries, but nothing could have prepared me for it.
Watching my jaw unhinge and a black snake pour out of my mouth, my body clenching like a medieval bone crusher and geysers of unknown substance evacuating my stomach (we had fasted for the entire day before ceremony, what was it?), I had sat squarely situated in not just the fear of death by consummation of ayahuasca, but a fear of death so primitive it had simultaneously conjured up the most timeless visions of finality: Hubble-like pictures of dead stars; forest men killing animals and drinking their blood; the underground plates of the earth moving back and forth; the blank stare of a decomposing body; and the nebulous floating black of that which is not physical but always present, that blank container from which all life passes in and out, the place I sat experiencing for the first time as I watched myself purge every last inch of a giant black snake.
Realizing such little time had passed since drinking my cup of ayahuasca, I wondered if I would make it through to the other side. Could I make it until morning without losing my mind? And if I did lose my mind, would it ever come back?
"We have to learn how to say yes to our experiences. Especially if we want to stay centered during an ayahuasca ceremony." Ethan blew smoke over my face again, and I felt the leaves of his chakapa rattle brush across my cheeks as another out-of-body vision ensued.
Spouts of flame shot up from the oily muck of a black-red fire swamp. Back in the mesa my body sweated profusely. Each reminder of my body, each droplet of sweat translated itself into the spouts of flame that shot up from the swamp. Next to the swamp was a stairway that reached from the pits of the bog into a far-away light. Each step upward was painted in silver hieroglyphics, like nothing I had ever seen before. The letters and words on the stairway were more coherent every ascending step, but the light in the heavens seemed too far away from me.
"I can't do this," I said.
"Believe in yourself," Ethan answered.
"It's too much to expect of someone," I argued.
There was no reply.
I woke in what must have been the ceremonial lodge. It was strangely quiet. The rain was gone. The jungle noises were gone. The icaro was gone. Cucaracha was silent. I could not sense Ethan's presence or anybody else in the mesa with me. For several moments everything was empty, and then I heard the sounds of one man purging.
I tried to determine which group member was struggling, but I could not trace the sounds back to anybody specific. Whoever the man was it quickly ceased to matter. He was purging so hard that his plight seemed insignificant. Beyond reach and impaled upon the most arrogant delusions of grandeur, an unseen hand squeezed toxic waste out of the man like a wet sponge in the humid jungle grass.
As the man continued to purge I saw the dragon again, wrapping and coiling around the man's chest and throat (now I could see the man's body but still could not make out his face). The rainbow colored serpent squeezed chunks of black matter from the man's stomach into his purge bucket. I saw the man's inner organs. They were pink and red. His veins and arteries and nerve branches glowed and trembled. Each time he vomited the dragon squeezed its grip tighter and his eyeballs jut further out of his skull. Still I couldn't identify the man purging. The purging sounds were so impersonal they were almost beautiful. Almost transcendent. But trying to relax into the sounds, I felt something tugging at my very essence, as if I were a grey puddle pushed by the wind.
Then I cupped my hands over my ears and momentarily saw myself curled into the fetal position, somewhere, disoriented and trying to escape. But escape from what, exactly? Not the effects of the ayahuasca or the visions, but something deeper, something residing at my core: the malignant feeling of being insignificant and alone in a universe far too vast and vicious for me to make headway. If it was my responsibility to find happiness, then I would never succeed. Who could?
"I can't do it," I blurted out.
"Yes, you can," Ethan's voice answered.
As if on command from Ethan's voice, I found myself kneeling again in front of my purge bucket. I could feel my body. Thunder clapped above the mesa. Rain pounded the lodge roof so hard I could barely hear Cucaracha howling outside. People vomited around me. The medicine song darted through the circle like a jungle snipe. I saw piranhas swimming through the air and devouring demon like entities as they left people's bodies. The rainbow serpent circled the mesa in the lodge rafters, looking down and watching over us. The guardian creatures were being commanded by Ethan's singing.
Somebody screamed, "I can't do this!"
"It's impossible!" another man yelled.
It became clear to me, like a black-velvet curtain had been slowly pulled back, the person I could not see purging in the dark had been each one of us, suffering in exactly the same way. The man I had not been able to identify in the darkness was not anybody in particular, but rather the entire mesa together. The illusion of absolute individuality was exposed. Like all of the existentialist philosophers I had read and loved instantly became people no different than me, suffering was revealed for what it is: an impersonal state of being; something we each feel despite our stories and reasons, not because of them.
"We can all walk toward the light," Ethan said. "One moment at a time. We make it through the night by focusing our minds and believing in ourselves and each other."
"I don't believe in myself," I said. My words choked in my throat as another stream of vomit left my mouth. "I don't believe in any of you, either. I'm sorry," I said. I pounded my fists on the floor of the mesa. "I'm a tourist; I admit it. Please make this stop!"
"Don't exaggerate. Life gets easier when you stop lying to yourself. It took courage for you to drink ayahuasca," Ethan said. "And you're being honest right now, not cowardly. This is your moment. Right now, you're becoming a man. You wanted to drink ayahuasca. This is what ayahuasca medicine is about. It's about getting real."
I vomited once more. I could see myself changing before my eyes. I saw visions of myself as an adult, calmer and more reflective. What did I know, anyway? I was experiencing something so far out of the ordinary, so transcendent of my everyday boundaries, what could I possibly claim to know with absolute certainty? Knowing I would never be the same again, and knowing I could never capture the profundity of what was taking place in the mesa, I knew that I would become a kinder and more humble person. I would not become kinder because the ayahuasca was imparting a moral lesson, but rather because there would be no other choice. I would have to admit, from that moment forward, that I didn't have the slightest grasp on anything. My only truth would be the simplest statements: I'm breathing, and my heart is beating. I'm alive.
Ethan sat in his rocking chair, collected, linear and professional. "That last icaro melody was Domingo's," he said. "And it was taught to him by Arturo. They taught me the icaro during my apprenticeship. So that was an official medicine-song greeting from my teachers. They hope they can meet you the next time you visit El Puma Negro."
"Next time?" a woman asked.
"Of course," Ethan joked. "You'll be ready to do this all over again by tomorrow afternoon!"
The woman vomited and then began to laugh uncontrollably.
"I had no idea," I said.
In the brief moments of clarity that followed my first round of purging, I reflected on the difficulty of explaining ayahuasca to empirically minded, "scientific," people. I thought specifically of my best friend back in the United States, a PhD Chemistry student and intern at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Before I had left for Peru he had said to me, "You know your brain can produce some pretty amazing things. That doesn't mean you're going to be entering the spirit world."
As I briefly thought of my friend I felt an overwhelming sense of love for him. I imagined hearing his commentary next to me in the mesa and knew that he would probably not be able to rely on his empirical reductionism to quite the same extent. Even if my brain was firing randomly and creating the spirit world I had entered, even if it could all be reduced to some "thing," then what chance occurrence of reality had created creatures so puzzled by their own existence?
But the more I pondered in the mesa, the more I felt that perhaps all my philosophical questions and answers were no more than a self-made virus, the equivalent of pulling my own hair on the mesa floor, pounding my fists until I would purge by the help of a gringo shaman and a rainbow colored serpent.
"I had absolutely no clue about any of this," I said.
"Of course not," Ethan replied. "You can't know until you find out."
"You drank a full cup, didn't you?"
"That's right," he answered.
"How did you learn to do this?"
"With good teachers and a lot of hard work," he said.
Throughout the course of nearly five years, Ethan had lived and trained in the jungle: fishing for his food in the Amazon River, bathing with natives, collecting and harvesting his own plants and healing herbs, and learning the medicine path from his maestros.
After hundreds of ceremonies and dozens of rigorous plant diets in training, Ethan had earned the title of practitioner only months before I arrived to the Amazon. Arturo and Domingo had given him full responsibility over the mesa and instructed him to perform ceremonies alone for the time being. From the first day Ethan began studying, whenever locals asked Domingo and Arturo about training a white man, they would say, "We've seen that he has a good heart, and we've received the vision to train him correctly. The ayahuasca medicine vine was first given to the people of the forest as a gift from the one who planted the garden. It was given to the people for healing, and it should be given to the rest of the world in the same way. Let fall on us what will. We are going to train this man to be a master ayahuasca shaman."
It was only the mid-point of my first ayahusaca ceremony. While the rain softened, each of us in the mesa enjoyed a small break: the sounds of shared laughter and the feeling of our body on the solid earth. Ethan was quiet in his rocking chair, rocking back and forth in the dark, whistling lightly under his breath and puffing a mystical mapacho cigar.
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Charles Shaw
Author - Exile Nation
Ok... in that literal context, it makes sense... I was thinking of it in these terms:
gospel |ˈgäspəl|
1 the teaching or revelation of Christ : it is the Church's mission to preach the gospel.
• (also gospel truth) a thing that is absolutely true :
...and you'll please excuse the cynicism, but my mind went...oh great...another person takes ayahuasca and thinks they are the Messiah here to save the rest of us...
I enjoyed this very much, which says a lot because I'm not particularly enamored with the whole ayahuasca tourism thing, and I don't feel the need or much interest in learning any doctrinaire spiritual practice, whether it's yoga, tonglen, or the specific orthodoxies of each South American tribe that uses the brew. My purpose is iconoclastic, and often annoying as hell.
That being said, it is precisely the lack of cynicism in your narrative voice, the genuine innocence, that gives your work the potential to really reach people not otherwise inclined to read about this. More powerfully, it has the ability to reach millions of disaffected christians.
Simply put, you spared us the woo-woo and instead offered us genuine reverence. When most people look at you, they see their brother, or boyfriend. Or they see themselves, and where they could be if they let go (conversely, when they look at me, they see their Shadow, and they fear me. I seem to only reach those willing to look at their Shadow, or at the very least, the collective Shadow).
Bravo, Adam. I'm really happy for your success. You took a brave journey, and an even braver step to publish it.
Another truth soldier joins the front lines.
We will win this war.
Charles Shaw
Author - Exile Nation
Fishers of Men
Personally I think if I was
Personally I think if I was going to try ayahuasca I rather try it in the privacy of my own home or environment, and start off with small doses to familiarize myself with the effects first. Also being quite introverted, I don't like the idea of making such a spectacle of myself in front of other people I don't know. Somehow I feel people are attracted to all the drama involved, especially if they can relate it to their friends afterwards. But this cynical attitude is probably more a symptom of my own issues.
A word of caution.
I personally tried ayahuasca in the comfort of my own home with a few close friends. I had a very pleasant and profound experience (except for the part when I drank a big glass of sandy bile, lol.)
good point
Good point, I think the reason I said it is because when it comes to marijuana and mushrooms it seems I've needed quite a small amount compared to other people, and also with mushrooms especially I've enjoyed experimineting with small amounts. For instance a very small amount just before going to sleep has in the past, given me much more vivid and colourful dreams and although I'm not much good at lucid dreaming these dreams seemed closer to that state. Also with mushrooms I think I've enjoyed them most while walking outside in Nature again in very small doses, I think the act of walking and breathing the fresh air kept me centered and high on the experience, so I felt a pleasant fullness in the heart and gratitude torward the beauty of my enviroment, it seems to have helped connect me to where I've lived. So I imagine with ayahuasca (which I don't know much about) I'd want to try a similar approach first. Although I have done larger doses of mushrooms in the past and enjoyed it very much and it is profound and eyeopening, it's something I've had to really psyche myself up torward doing, (maybe out of fear of not being in control). I guess I just hate the idea of paying a lot of money to travel half way across the world to gulp down ayahuasca and put myself in a situation where I am depending on a shaman, who I've never met before, to protect me from evil spirits, by shaking a rattle or whatever. It seems totally alien to me, to do it that way, but perhaps that would just further add to the profoundity of the experience.
In your experience, how did the ayahuasca experience differ from mushrooms?
I would say the experiences, for me, were quite different. The most notable difference is the time. Mushroom trips can often last 8hrs while my experience with ayahuasca was about 2 1/2hrs total (including the lengthy amount of time I spend choking it down.) Again, my experience is fairly limited, so hopefully others will weigh in here, but I'll give you a run-down of my aya experience and I'll assume for now that you've got a pretty good feel for mushrooms.
I drank about a pint of the ayahuasca brew that we made on our range. It was literally like drinking sandy bile, so that took some time to be sure. I think that I took the longest, out of the four of us, to finish. That may have been a good thing since I managed to keep it down the longest as well (seems plausible anyway.) I sat for about half an hour waiting for the inevitable purge. Which, when it came, was very severe. It seemed like the hardest I'd ever vomited. Once I had stopped, I looked in the mirror and had the clear thought, "If you can live though that you can live though anything." After, I went back into the living room. I was sitting calmly on a couch in the dark looking out the window which overlooked the city and the ocean. I remember feeling surprisingly calm since typically this kind of thing would make me pretty anxious. Then I started feeling the effects. It's kinda hard to describe but I'll do my best. At first the view in front of me seemed to become sort-of two-dimensional. But it was more like multiple layers of 2-D were stacked together to make the 3D perspective. They were pulsating back and forth changing the depth of field. I felt at the time that I was being shown the malleability of the world. I remember the room expanding and the ceiling seemed to disappear upward and into space. I think at that point I decided to lay on the floor face down with my head in my arms. With my eyes closed there were some very interesting coloured patterns which were similar but at the same time much different than the patterns I've seen using other psychedelics. Then the trip changed. From that point on I don't really remember any visual component at all really. Which I guess is kinda weird based on the reports I've read from other people. You might say they were less translucent. There certainly were no snakes flying around me or anything like that. I started having negative thoughts about myself. (NOTE: It might be worth mentioning here that I was going through a very difficult time in my life which to a large degree I still am facing.) The thoughts were making me feel really bad about myself and they kept coming faster and faster. I was really struggling to keep up with what was happening. These were thoughts that I was already having about myself normally but it was if I needed to isolate the individual ideas and defend them or something. Eventually the thoughts were moving so quickly that I had to just stop thinking about them. Then something changed again. It was if I broke into two different people and they were talking to each other. The two people were the regular everyday self that was the norm for me and the self that I could or should be. It might be more accurate to say that the confident self was doing the talking and the loathing self was doing the listening. It went on like that for awhile. It was very reassuring and nice to hear these things that I had basically been denying about myself. It pretty much ends there. I think that happened and then I just started coming out of the experience. I should note that during the 'conversation' I was sort-of in another dimension or at least wasn't really aware of much else going on.
In retrospect it was a very interesting experience that was definitely worth having and I came out of it feeling really good. That said, I certainly wasn't 'healed' or anything. I mean maybe somewhat. Perhaps I was given a glimpse of the possibilities of my life. But old habits die hard and I still am not the 'confident self' that I was shown. At least I know it's out there I suppose.
Thanks for the reply,
Thanks for the reply, I could relate to that experience of being broke into two different people, I experienced something like that myself, like a timeless, pristine part of myself able to take a step back and observe my normal persona and physical life from a detached perspective, and see it as being something of an unconscious act, but I was actually fooling myself by believing in my own act, by believing that this physical self was all that I am, somehow it was valuble to have another platform from which to see myself from, and realise that there are way more different layers to life and myself than I'd ever previously imagined.
I came across this video -Alex Grey on Ayahuasca and quite enjoyed it -
The mushrooms seem to give the insight but not so much the purging.
I agree with Sacateca, a word of caution
The idea of puking my guts out in the Amazon surrounded by a bunch of hot twenty-something men is not my idea of good time. Sorry if that sounds shallow.
Also, I am uncomfortable with the notion of traveling to South America and paying for an ayahuasca ceremony in cash, like some of these ayahuasca tourism organizations request. One organization, which shall remain nameless, will only take cash (and no, they won't take traveler's checks or credit cards.). They also instruct tourists to go to a specific bank and withdraw the thousands of dollars required for the ceremony. I am sure the criminals in the area stake out this bank and rob the tourists after they have withdrawn the money.
Taking this safely in my own home would be so much better, if I was so inclined.
Minnesota Nice
Adam -- Thank you for a wonderful story, brilliantly composed and containing many important insights. I found the book very hard to put down.
My question concerns the expression, "Minnesota nice." You use it once, relatively early on and it seems in a way to be nothing more than a peripheral remark. But it stuck in this reader's mind. As others have observed, the story is as much (or more) about family as it is about the medicine. I would appreciate hearing any additional thoughts you have about this this expression and whether any dimensions of it are evident in your personal experience. Or perhaps it is nothing more than a generalized characterization, like Southern hospitality or Yankee ingenuity.
You have a great ear and a gift for phrasing. The "one fear" is another that grabbed me. So real, so true.
I had to edit this post to point out that last line might be me being unnecessarily polite. :)
Thankyou Abuelita
Dr. D N Moharana
love love the book, couldn't put it down, just so good
Adam, I liked the spiritual slant of your story, having done peru 3 times with about 13 sessions of yage. Having also stood on the top of a cliff over the ocean when I was maybe 20; initiated by a baptist minister of homeless boys, (I'm 58 now) I spoke in tongues (and I also felt a loosening and a gift if I chose to overcome my ego. (never-ending-I-might-add). Funny story about that, when I returned home after being away for years, I was at a christmas service ready to receive the episcopal wafer, with my dad, who used to teach sunday school. Dad said . . . go up there now and receive the waver. I told him that I couldn't . . remember how I refused to get confirmed and you said it was ok, but I' not confirmed. Of course I never told my dad about any of my speaking-in-tongues experience, not any of it. I was just home visiting. He looked at me and said you go up there now, I can see that you have received the christ spirit. A powerful moment.
To me, any healing activities embody the connection to christ consciousness (know by many names, through time, no doubt) a very generic thing to say for something so big.
My experiences were very loving and holographic-immediate teachings. My purging was mostly down, In fact looking at the sand I realized that everything on earth is spirit, our loving mother. I looked into the eyes buddha. My humor continues . . . I almost died laughing when you thought you may have taken too much, too funny! I too wish I could give it to help some others but you have to be ready to surrender to the bigness of it. I was ready to dive. Many deep experiences.
I did have a christ encounter in a dream when I was in my late twenties. I had been in a sort of debate with a devote baptist at work about christ. She had me doubting my personal relationship, I worried before sleeping. Am I missing something because I am sort of non-conforming. He appeared in the crowd as they were building a rock-concert-stage, walking among everybody but no one saw him in the crowd. I said what gives here; you are walking around and nobody is noticing? He said, not everyone can see me and not to worry that I was one of his special cheerleaders of which I have many. Then 3 types of girls blossomed-morphed right before me, in case I needed some special effects. ha, ha So what's with the concert? for some that is the only way many can see me, he replied, and not to worry about my connection with him.
So do I have a point, sort of . . .Yage may be a catalyst but you can miss the core of the experience if you are not intending to change. Therein lies the rub.Anyway I loved the book and boy would it be fun to trade stories, I wish I could beam up, chat, and split, no fuss.Fondest reguards, jez

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Shelfari Review
In our current age of technological development, some people believe that books are being replaced. Why read an entire book when you can listen to podcast, read a blog post, or watch a video that offers the same information or enjoyment? It is true that the definition of a book is changing. No longer is it a pile of bound paper, but a literary work that can be presented in many different mediums. This includes electronic books available online and through e-readers like the Nook or Kindle. Regardless of what format a book is read and enjoyed, there has been a definite rise in interest for book lovers to interact with technology. Websites have even been developed to create a more global community of book lovers through social media. These websites include:
Library Thing (http://www.librarything.com/)
Listal (http://www.listal.com/)
Delicious Monster (http://www.delicious-monster.com/)
Shelfari (http://www.shelfari.com)
What's on My Bookshelf? (http://whatsonmybookshelf.com/)
What Should I Read Next? (http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/)
Good Reads (http://www.goodreads.com/)
and Many Others
Among these sites, Shelfari shows a lot of potential for becoming a widely used social technology.
Shelfari is an emerging social website launched in 2006. It was later acquired by Amazon.com in August of 2008. Since it has been released, the site has targeted book fanatics, book clubs, authors, aspiring authors, and publishers in order to enhance the reading experience. The site offers numerous useful links for avid readers including: featured books and most popular books. Additionally, you can search for books of potential interest based of their tags or by browsing authors, series, subjects, etc. Shelfari also encourages its members to connect with each other using the following features:
Building virtual bookshelves
Bookshelves are customized (different styles, colors, and designs) lists (catalogs is a better word) of books that the member has read or plans to read. Beneath each book you can view how the member has rated it. This bookshelf can be made public or private depending on the preference of the individual user.
Sharing with circles of friends
As a member you can follow other members and they can follow you. What you share with the public has a lot to do with your preferences. You can share a short biography, profile picture, your bookshelf, receive and send messages to people privately or publicly on "public notes", view or share other members' friends or groups they are active in, view reading stats, view reading goals, and view any posts or edits that you or other members have made about books or "Book Extras". According to Shelfari,
"Book Extras are curated factoids by the Shelfari community that provide readers with helpful information while they're reading or deciding if they should read a book. These Extras include character descriptions, important places, popular quotations, themes, book-specific glossaries and more. We have integrated with the Kindle Apps for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch, Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac. You can also access Book Extras on the Kindle device, Kindle for Android and a growing number of devices and applications."
Rating and discussing books online
Pretty self explanatory. You can do this through reviews and the "Book Extras" feature described above. There are also numerous discussions that a member can take part in by simply searching topics they wish to read more about or participate in the ongoing discussion.
Being linked or suggested to interact with people who have similar reading tastes
You can search the Shelfari Community and filter results to a tab of "Members Like You" in order to follow this members or sift through their bookshelf if it is open to the public.
Participating in online book groups
Similar to a book club, these online book groups focus on a book topic, author, genre, or a defining feature of the people in the group (such as profession) and discuss whatever the deem relevant.
Interacting with authors
This can be compared to following "famous" people on twitter. Members of Shelfari can find authors they like who are part of the Shelfari community and see what books they are reading or just message these authors privately or publicly with their admiration.
Shelfari users can connect their Shelfari account to other social websites by adding the Shelfari widget to their personal blogs for instance. Additionally, Shelfari allows its members to connect this social site with his or her Amazon account. However, I have not seen any added benefit minus the ease of logging into Shelfari more quickly and the ability to read the first chapter of some books in order to see if that book appeals to my tastes (a function of Amazon).
Although Shelfari is a well designed website with several useful features, the site itself is not considered as popular as Library Thing or Good Reads. Shelfari users often complain that they are not finding groups or discussions relevant to their literary interests and that the social aspect of the site is not practical unless you want to waste hours browsing the site. Users also complain of legitimate spam to the email address they chose to connect to their Shelfari account.
However, users have also expressed a dislike for Library Thing due to its poor design and the fact that Library Thing costs money if a user catalogs more than 200 books (a surprisingly low limit).
In my opinion, Shelfari has the most potential for growth and further development due to its affiliation with Amazon. Recently, it has even added the option to access a mobile version of the Shelfari site where the member can use some of the more popular features such as viewing your books on your shelf, adding and editing these books, learning more about books, and viewing your friend's books.
To receive more information about Shelfari follow their blog: http://blog.shelfari.com/
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Watch this short clip of our state-of-the-art interactive film about evolution.
In 45 minutes 'Who do you think you really are' brings the story of evolution to life before your eyes, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The complete film is on show to the public daily in the Darwin Centre Attenborough Studio.
This is the first time augmented reality - the blending of computer graphics into real life - is used in a high profile public space in this way.
During the film, which is projected on 3 large screens, visitors discover how we are related to dinosaurs, early humans and even bananas, interacting with the story using a unique handset.
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Following her graduation from University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she was a member of Law Review and a Fellow with the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, Jennifer Paschen Bergeron worked in general litigation at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP.
She later joined Ulmer & Berne LLP in the Labor and Employment Group before serving in her current position as attorney for the Ohio Innocence Project.
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Donald graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was a member of Moot Court and Law Review and a fellow at the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights. Following a clerkship with a federal district court judge, Donald joined Gerhardstein, Branch & Laufman, a boutique civil rights firm, as an associate.
Donald subsequently opened his own practice, focusing on criminal defense and appellate litigation. He later served in the appellate division of the Butler County Prosecutor's Office before joining the Ohio Innocence Project as an attorney.
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Running, or rather road racing, is currently one of the most popular activities in the United States. It's cheap (you only need shoes), it's accessible (just go outside), it's social (join a club), and it's good for your health (in moderation)…in short, running has the deck stacked in it's favor when it comes to rapid growth.
This is most apparent at the marathon level, where tens of thousands of runners tackle the challenge of 26.2 miles, regardless of experience and ability level. The goal of this article is to make the overall process of becoming a first-time marathon runner both transparent and easy to follow. The more successful you are, the more likely you'll be to continue running and contributing to the growth of our sport. Are you ready?
Once the elite playing ground of running fanatics, the marathon is now accessible to all through charity programs, group training services, a wealth of coaches and more. Ask anyone about running a marathon in the 1970s and 80s, and it will sound like another era: only water, no food, minimal aid stations, little to no gear, a number for your shirt, etc.
Since that time, entire industries of apparel, equipment and nutrition have evolved to market and serve long-distance runners, and the combined result of this focus is clear–one of the largest segments of the running population is the the first-time marathon runner.
But that doesn't mean that doing a marathon is any easier. After all, it's still 26.2 miles of running on the heels of a whole lot of training. The Internet abounds with one-shot programs and insider reports promising to give the first-timer the "One True Way" to train. But truth be told, there is no one single right way to train for a marathon.
Coaching runners during the last decade has taught me that a successful marathon experience isn't about a magical pill or plan. I have given the same training plan to 10 runners and seen 10 completely different outcomes. It's not so much about what you do to train as how you handle the impact of training on your life, body, and mind. Instead of talking about mileage per week, it's more important to discuss the principles of marathon training — what I will refer to here as the six key phases of the marathon lifecycle.
It's one thing to put a marathon on your bucket list, it's another to actually pick a race and drop the money on an entry fee. Signing up gives you something to show to your friends and family; it's an event that you can mark as a milestone on your personal calendar. Who knows, maybe you can even convince some of your crazy friends to sign up with you.
I suggest you follow registration up quickly with lodging and travel arrangements, making your participation just that much more likely. The closer we can move it to inevitable, the better off you'll be. Other options for this momentum building include:
Now that you are officially "in" for the race, it's time to start building a little community who will support and motivate you en route to your finish line. While you might have your own pre-existing group in place, here are a few things to do if you were to start from scratch.
First, find a local running shop where you can sit down and talk (even if briefly) with a fellow runner about the right shoe for you. An easy way to tell if this store is invested in you is whether they watch you walk/run and then recommend shoes for you…and watch you run a bit in those shoes. Picking the right pair of shoes is critical if you are to enjoy even a single mile of your training — it might take a few tries so you'll want someone you can trust and talk with to help you through the process.
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A convenient oral treatment patients can take at home to prevent venous thromboembolic events (VTE) following elective total hip or knee replacement surgery is now available in the UK.
Eliquis (apixaban) has been launched through a collaboration between Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer and could help prevent up to 25,000 deaths each year resulting from blood clots.
Dr Ander Cohen, Honorary Consultant Vascular Physician at King's College Hospital, London, says the treatment "represents a new option" for surgeons in the UK.
VTE can lead to two serious conditions: deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism which can lead to death if not treated.
The license of Eliquis is based on the ADVANCE-2 and ADVANCE-3 clinical trials in patients who underwent elective total hip or knee replacements. More than 8,000 patients were assessed during the trials which assessed the efficacy in preventing blood clots and death, and bleeding risk of Eliquis when compared to enoxaparin.
"Clinical data showed that apixaban was more effective than the anticoagulant enoxaparin and importantly, it also showed no increase in bleeding rates compared to enoxaparin," said Dr Cohen.
Dr Rick Lones, UK Executive Medical Director, BMS, said the two companies "hope to reduce the burden of blood clots" in patients undergoing major surgery after the drug's release in the UK.
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Sucanat is a fantastic substitute for brown sugar. It has a light molasses flavor and adds a rich sweet taste. Try adding it to coffee instead of white sugar ... it's delicious.
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Phone: 60163655220Kuala Lumpur's elite condominiums,set right at the commercial hub of Kuala Lumpur's "Diamond Triangle" offers the best in terms of accessibility,convenient and affordability plus stylish accommodation
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location : Located strategically within walking distance of the Putra World Trade Centre (Kuala Lumpur Main Convention & Exhibition Centre.Just a 3 minutes walk from to the Mall shopping paradise. Just 7 minutes driving to Suria KLCC and 10 minutes driving to bintang walk bukit bintang-shopping area. 1,9km from Titiwngsa lake and 2.9 km from bird park, buterfly park and orchid park.
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+ I consider this election a win for the people
Dear Editor:
I must comment on your editorial of Nov. 15.
"Liberty lost, Statism (whatever that is) won."
My perception of the national election, which your paper ignores (except in editorial form), is that the following won: women's reproductive rights, separation of church and state, equal rights for minorities (LGBT's); preservation of public broadcasting; Planned Parenthood; FEMA; affordable access to health care (a right rather that a privilege); Medicare as we know and love; and a rational next Supreme Court nominee.
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Longboat Key
+ Why not a toll to use Gulf of Mexico Drive?
Dear Editor:
Graham Forbes recently submitted a letter on the high traffic patterns on Gulf of Mexico Drive; the danger created by the excessive speeds on this road for Longboat Key as a retirement community; and the use of GMD by a high percentage of the traffic as a "cut through/short cut" from Sarasota to spots in the Bradenton area. I have been a neighbor of Graham's for several years and completely understand and support his commentary and the need for some solution. I would add that perhaps another solution might be the use of reduced speed limits, at least during the day from 6 a.m. util 6 p.m., or perhaps to impose a "toll" for non-Longboat Key residents not in possession of an appropriate permit for access (similar to the bridge charge imposed by Boca Grande for access to the island). I am suggesting to create a hassle factor to use GMD and thereby reduce the daily traffic from cut-through and truck traffic and to ideally make for a safer travel experience on Longboat Key, whether you are traveling by car, foot or bike. I believe some correction is needed before our new season gets under way.
Norm Cavedo
Longboat Key
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- My first thoughts after reading Mr Cavedo's letter last week was it must be the Observer's April 1st edition. Really, a toll road and driver check points located along GMD. "Papers Please"! The Elitists Island vs we the tax payers. Come on! No, how about a better solution. Let's close both bridges to the island and initiate a ferry service. Residents of Bradenton Beach rejoice, traffic will now be down 90%! No hassle here!
Paul Curtis
Bradenton Beack
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- Hey Norm, I'll expect a refund on the tax dollars (state tax dollars) that I've spent on that road, in the mail soon. Will you be sending that to me? Seriously, a toll? Excessive speed? Sounds like you've never driven on Gulf of Mexico Drive! The 45 mph speed limit cannot be achieved on any given day due to slow drivers. That is what is choking up the traffic, not the traffic itself. If everyone did the speed limit and stopped rubbernecking, things would be much smoother. To reduce the speed limit would be ridiculous. That would bunch-up traffic even more, as would a "toll.". I had to laugh when I read that.... a Toll... hahahaha...
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At the center of Bill Halter's campaign for Governor of Arkansas is his progressive proposal to pay for college for every eligible high school student in the state.
21st Century Democrats endorses Halter and his groundbreaking scholarship plan, Arkansas Promise, which should be used as a model across the country.
The Halter program would ensure that any Arkansas high school student with a 2.5 GPA would be able to attend college in state with all tuition paid. Funded by a combination of lottery scholarships, philanthropic support, federal grant assistance and the Arkansas Promise, the plan would not raise taxes or increase state spending.
21st Century Democrats, as well as progressives in Arkansas and across the country, most recently supported Halter in the 2010 Senate primary against the incumbent, conservative Democrat Blanche Lincoln, who went on to lose the seat to Republican John Boozman.
Halter's progressive track record includes championing health care reform, spearheading a free clinic, supporting a minimum wage increase, working for student loan reform, advocating for clean energy and leading on gay rights.
Halter served in the Clinton administration beginning in 1993, working to help trim bureaucratic waste with the Office of Management and Budget. During his six years at OMB, the government's $290 billion budget deficit turned into a $125 billion surplus, and the United States saw its first balanced budget in 40 years.
President Bill Clinton appointed Halter, a fellow Rhodes Scholar, as deputy commissioner of Social Security in 1999. Halter also served the U.S. Congress as an economist for the Joint Economic Committee and as chief economist for the Senate Finance Committee.
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PNCA is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and whose mission is to provide an education that prepares students for sustained creative achievement in the fine and design arts and throughout their lives. It seeks to strengthen student's ability to interpret the conditions and events shaping the world and prepare them to engage that world and its cultures with understanding, enthusiasm, and integrity.
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The Web Developer is responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting the websites for Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) and Museum of Contemporary Craft (MoCC), working in close proximity with the College's Institutional Technology Department. A member of PNCA's Communications Department this position works closely with departments across the Institution, in particular with Information Technology, Institutional Advancement, Enrollment, and MoCC. The Web Developer ensures PNCA's web properties are visually compelling, easily navigable, and on the forefront of emerging design and technology best practices. The ideal candidate will possess excellent coding skills, as well as the ability to generate and execute concepts and project timelines to support online initiatives.
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The Unitarian Universalist Church of Wakefield opens each year on the Sunday after Labor Day, welcoming people of all religious backgrounds. The church building itself, located in the center of town facing the town common, was built in 1813 and serves as the town's oldest still-standing building. The church and its members are active in the community both by participating in food drives and volunteerism.
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Port Adelaide star Jackson Trengove was disappointed with his 2012 season form and sees this weekend's big AFL clash in London as the beginning of a new chapter for him and his club.
ONE player with an appetite for a contest is Port Power's Jackson Trengove. The towering defender, who celebrates his 22nd birthday on the eve of the match, will have increased responsibility in the upcoming season, and can't wait to get started at the AFL European Challenge at London's Kia Oval on Saturday. "We want to win every game we play and this will be no exception", he said.
Trengove was taken at number 22 in the 2008 National Draft and has become a vital cog for the Power after being the youngest player in the club's history to win the John Cahill Medal. At the tender age of just 21, he is already a member of leadership group and is touted by many as a future captain.
"I enjoyed a good season from a personal point of view in 2011 but I was disappointed with my form this season," he said
"There is no substitute for hard work and preparation.
"That is not to say I didn't work hard over the last twelve months but I'll be looking to work even harder again this pre-season to get fitter and stronger so I can play my role for the team."
Despite whispers that he would return to his home city of Melbourne at the end of the season, he ended the speculation by signing a new two-year deal, highlighting his determination to be part of Port's renaissance.
"We won't be putting any limitations on what we can achieve individually or as a group next season," he said.
"The whole competition is so competitive and any team can beat anyone on a given day.
"Every side wants to play finals football, and we are no exception, but our expectations for 2013 are about developing and improving our young group so we can build for eventual sustained finals success."
Similar to the Bulldogs, Port players have been active since their season ended in early September.
"We've all been doing our own training away from the club, so we all should be ready to go," said Trengove.
His teammates will also prepare by combining the UK visit with a stopover in Italy.
"Our pre-season officially starts this week in Milan at a training camp which will also get us set for the game," he added.
More Power: the other Port players to watch
Port will field a young team, bursting with promise. Matt Broadbent enjoyed a breakout season as a goal kicking midfielder and will join forces with attacking on-baller Brad Ebert and mercurial 19-year old Chad Wingard.
Others who pose a threat are Justin Westhoff and Jay Shultz who were a menace for opposition defenders in 2012, kicking 70 goals between them. They are capable of simply ripping the Bulldogs apart if they get their tails up.
"We'll be looking to try a few things and have a look at what some of our younger and newer players can do," Trengove said.
"Certainly we'll be looking to provide an entertaining spectacle for the fans so hopefully that will include a lot of goals, especially for us.
"It's very exciting to play in front of a new audience. Some of the British fans may have only seen a few games on TV so we'll be looking forward to showcasing some of the best of our game like high marking, long kicking and hard tackling."
And when it comes to streakers, Trengove was unsure of how he might react: "Well it will be dependent on whether they are a male or female as to whether I might sneak a peek."
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A thunderstorm is a fairly rare weather condition which takes place randomly during rain, snowfall, or dry desert storms. All changes from these weathers apply, though since lightning occurs and the light level falls to 10, thunderstorms are distinct. Even in the middle of the daytime, hostile mobs will be able to spawn, acting as if the light level had been reduced to 5. However, fewer mobs will spawn relative to night.
Lightning is a lethal element to the storm. It strikes randomly across the Overworld, creating brief fires. While most are put out almost immediately by the rain, it is possible for it to ignite wood and other flammable blocks. Lightning striking uses the same sound as TNT or a Creeper exploding, or at least until the Beta 1.8.1 update which changed the sound of a TNT explosion, as well as a few other sounds.
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- Thunderstorms are darker than normal rain, at light level 10 during daytime. Hostile mobs are allowed to spawn, as though the light level was at 5, nearly as dark as night.[1] Like rain, thunderstorms won't reduce the light level below 4 at night.
- Thunder can be heard by the player up to 512 blocks away from where the lightning strikes.
- Lightning creates fire where it strikes. The accompanying rain can usually put out fires before they spread. Overhangs can prevent rain from putting out lightning fires, allowing the fire to spread.
- If lightning strikes a pig, it morphs into a zombie pigman.[2] However, if The Player's difficulty is on peaceful, the zombie pigman immediately despawns.
- If lightning strikes a creeper, it becomes charged and has a much more powerful explosion.[3] Additional strikes will not make the explosion any more powerful, but may kill the creeper.
- Being struck by lightning or standing near a lightning strike deals two and a half hearts of damage, not including damage from the fire.
- If lightning manages to strike a portal frame, it will activate the portal.
- The player can sleep in a bed during a thunderstorm, regardless of the time of day.
- When lightning strikes an entity, it can disappear.
- If lightning strikes a boat, the boat will disappear and usually destroy the drops.
- If lightning strikes floating sand or gravel, it will cause it to fall.
- If lightning strikes a painting, it will cause it to fall off of the wall.
- If lightning strikes a mob (except pigs) it will cause it to take damage.
- If lightning strikes and kills the Player, they will disappear without dropping anything, as opposed to dropping their items and experience orbs.
- If lightning strikes a minecart, it will break the minecart and usually destroy the drop.
- Like normal rain, thunderstorms are harmful to Blazes, Endermen, and Snow Golems.
- If lightning strikes TNT it will ignite.
- If lightning strikes close to the player, an explosion sound will be heard at the same time, as well as the thunder.
- Under the new 12w34b version, thunderstorms cause a lot more damage in harder gamemodes, due to the fire it creates.
- Lightning can still touch down (from a nearby storm) in dry biomes such as Deserts, with no rain to extinguish fires.
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- Lightning, unlike other weather, does not have an image file associated with it. Thus, it is coded directly into the game engine, allowing for dynamic, realistic lightning.
- Lightning can go directly through blocks to hit the ground.
- As long as you are within 512 blocks of lightning, you will hear it the same time as you see it.
- You can hear thunder all the way down to the bedrock layer, even when falling in and suffocating in The Void in the Overworld. Just like ambience, thunder is not an indicator of anything but areas that were struck by lightning.
- The new lighting system in Beta 1.8 introduced dynamic lighting effects. Each lightning strike will now briefly light up all the topmost blocks, creating a more noticeable flash.
- Lightning cannot be seen through water. Similarly, when looking at water through a lightning bolt, the water is not visible.
- Forest fires made by lightning are rare unless the lightning strikes underneath a tree where the rain won't be able to extinguish the fire.
- If lightning strikes between you and your line of vision to a lit End portal, the End portal (minus the frame) becomes invisible during the strike.
- Lightning can occur in the Taiga and Tundra biome types.
- If the player is killed by a lighting bolt in SMP, the death message will read: [playername] died.
- Lightning strikes create an explosion effect and sound but won't destroy blocks.
- There have been reports of lightning strikes without a representing storm.
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First things first. Protein. Pretty much everyone is familiar with the concept that proteins are the building blocks of life. The word itself is derived from the Greek word, protos, meaning first. Protein is the basic material of all living cells. We take in proteins, break them down into amino acids, then re-form them into specific proteins required by our bodies. Opinion varies as to exactly how many amino acids exist, but 27 have been identified. These are: Alanine, Arginine, Asparganine, Aspartic Acid, Carnitine, Citruline, Cysteine, Cystine, GABA, Glycine, Glutamine, Glutamic Acid, Histidine, *Isoleucine, *Leucine, *Lysine, *Methionine, Ornithine, *Phenylalanine, Proline, Pyroglutamate, Serine, Taurine, *Threonine, *Tryptophan, Tyrosine, and *Valine. In the human body they link together to form an astonishing 50,000 unique proteins, and a further 20,000 enzymes. Some of these proteins are used to construct muscles, bones, organs, glands, hair, nails and connective tissues. Some are required for the protein structures in genes, enzymes, hormones, neurotransmitters and body fluids. They are all required for the correct utilisation of vitamins and minerals. The eight marked with a * are commonly called "essential" amino acids, that is to say that they cannot be synthesised within the body and have to be obtained from outside sources, ie, diet or supplementation. Some of the others also fall into this category under certain body conditions such as illness or stress. The rest are made from the essential amino acids. For example, tyrosine, which is vitally important in the thyroid process, is made from phenylalanine. All of the amino acids perform a variety of highly specific functions, and a deficiency of any of them can have far reaching effects on health. Cysteine acts as an antioxidant, arginine stimulates human growth hormone, lysine promotes production of antibodies, hormones and enzymes, phenylalanine is involved in the production of dopamine and adrenaline, and tryptophan participates in the biosynthesis of the neurotransmitter serotonin, without which we sleep badly, suffer nightmares and become depressed. Deficiency states successfully treated with the appropriate amino acid include osteoarthritis, menstrual pain, headaches, insomnia, depression, drug and alcohol addiction, allergies, ulcers, anaemia, high blood pressure, fatigue, sexual disinterest, Parkinsons' Disease, liver damage, skin lesions, weakness, oedema (fluid retention), depigmentation of hair, artherosclerosis, pain, impotence, poor memory, obesity, mania and aggressive behaviour, vision problems and even epilepsy. The good news about this daunting array of vital nutrients is that, contrary to popular belief, these proteins are widely available in plants, and not just in animal produce. Unless you are existing on a terrible diet of refined and processed foods, or have serious absorption problems, there is not much likelihood of any significant deficiency. However, absorption problems are commonplace in all chronic health conditions, and deficiency states cannot necessarily be ruled out.
Next in the chain of nutrition come minerals. We all know what minerals are, more or less, but what you may not know is that you need adequate mineral levels present in your body in order to utilise vitamins and, indeed, many other substances. If you've ever taken a multi-vitamin and mineral preparation and gained no benefit from it, or even felt worse whilst taking it, there's a strong possibility than you are deficient in some of the minerals. You have to replenish your mineral levels first. Mineral deficiency states are incredibly common, and the reason for that is that plants cannot make their own minerals - they have to be present in their soil to end up in the plant, and thence in us. Considering the extent of over-farming that has happened over the last century, much of our planets' soil is depleted of minerals. It only takes 5-10 years to drain the minerals out of the soil - ask any farmer. This problem was identified as long ago as 1936, when the US government produced Senate Document 264. To quote: Another quote from this document:
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