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Admission requirements: A potential student must be in possession of a BCom or an Advanced Diploma and should have appropriate knowledge of Accounting, Taxation and Internal Auditing (New NQF level 7/Old NQF level 6). The department may require the completion of a bridging programme should students not comply with the rules of access regarding the specific module knowledge in Accounting, Taxation and Internal Auditing. Final admission requirements will from time to time be set by the department.


Wave Reading: Teacher Chooses a type of word or words that are to be focused on when reading( words that start with "T", Special grammar:My,Your, This, That. Categories such as colors, nouns, verbs.) Students must jump and say these words when the teacher comes to them while reading the passage. The best student may sit on the floor and be "Out" of the drill. (students must continue saying special words even from floor or they must return to their seat to participate again) When one team has all students sitting on the floor, that team wins. (Points, play game...) Continue to restart the drill until all the reading is completed.
This drill continues on until each page has been read perfectly by all students. If one student is not reading well, point it out to the class and start over from the beginning. When all the pages have been read perfectly by all students then play a fun game. * Make sure that students know that when they complete this difficult drill that they will all get to play a game that they love... Use fun games to motivate.
Role Play Reading: One student from each team stands in front of the class. The teacher then chooses a box from the page for the remaining students to read (after the teacher or all together without the teacher) As the 2 students don't know which box has been chosen they must do their best to act out what is being read. The best actor is the winner and is awarded points or money cards. Then 2 new children are chosen and so on.
* All students read together many times.
* Each student gets a chance to try and listen to the passage and act it out without seeing the passage.
* Teacher chooses the boxes out of order so the acting children are unsure of which box is being read and must listen closely.
Popcorn Reading: Teacher starts reading the book, when he says popcorn in the middle of the sentence and stops he then calls on another student to read. The student must start exactly where the last reader left off. The student then reads as long as he/she wants then calls popcorn "new student". If a student is lost when called upon the other team wins points. The point is for students to try to read quickly, and lose the other team, then call on one of the students from the other team in hopes he/she is unsure of where the reading stopped.
*Can have students choose any one in this case students will attack slower students in hopes that they make a mistake.
*Can have students that have read sit on the floor so they may not be called on again until all have read and are on the floor.
Perfect Reading: One student reads one passage. If they read the passage absolutely perfectly then they may sit on the floor and be "Out". If a mistake is made stop the reader, correct the student, have the class repeat correctly, then choose a new student to try the same passage. The same passage is read, and corrected until finally it is read perfectly. When a team has completed the drill and are all on the floor then they win points/ play board game/ money cards. Restart the drill as many times as it takes to read all the required reading.
Red/Black Reading: New DD grammar is in red text and all other text is in black. The teacher reads one color and the students must stand up and read when their color comes. If students don't all stand up and read together then they box is read again until they all do it well. As its easier for children to read the few words of new grammar that can be done one day, and the following time have students read all the black text and the teacher reads the few new grammar words in red.
*If students are slow in standing up, or not reading together, read the box again... This drill pushes perfection for all.
Pair reading: 2 students stand up to read a sentence/passage together. If both read well they may both sit down and the next 2 children stand up to read the next sentence/passage. But if one student does not read well they must continue to stand up with new groups until they read loudly and clearly. This pushes weaker students to read more (as they must read with next groups until they read clearly) with the help of one or more students. Continue to read in pairs or by 3's until all the reading is finished.
*Poor students that don't read well or stand nicely can easily end up reading everything, but with the help of other groups as to not embarrass too much.
Musical Chairs: The teacher reads and has students repeat. When the teacher makes a mistake students must switch seats. (any seat near or far) The slowest person is "out and sits next to the opposite wall. Students that are out must continue to read after the teacher, for if they don't they risk sending another person from their team out of the game for their lack of reading. Also the class must read the sentence again without any mistakes which then just makes a fun game take longer to get to the fun part of mistakes and switching chairs. Continue the game until there is a single student winner. Award points, money cards, or board game. Then start the drill again, play until the reading is completed.
For the last lesson of each unit, let one student at a time read the book and take the place of the teacher. The student teacher reads then has the class repeat after them. After the student teacher reads a portion of the reading, they can choose who will be the next student teacher.
*With this drill, reading may take a few more extra minutes.
*Children seem to like having the teacher's power while reading.
Spin the bottle: Students sit in a circle and spin a bottle to see who reads.
C. Difficult: One person reads.
*If it is read well then award points and spin the bottle again. Continue until the reading is finished.
Breakaway Race: 2 children are chosen to play while all other students will read with the teacher. The 2 children will sit on the floor facing their teams with a dice or ball behind them. When the teacher makes a mistake the 2 students must turn around and race to kick the ball against the wall for a "Goal". As the 2 children on the floor do not have books they must listen to try and find the mistake or rely on watching their team for when a mistake is made the children with books must put their books on their heads to signal the kicker to turn around, race to the ball and beat the other student. After each "Goal" switch students. Play until the reading is completed. The team with the most goals is the winner.
Steal the bacon: 2 children must race to steal the "bacon". 2 children that don't have books sit on the floor and listen for the teacher to make a mistake reading. All other children read after the teacher, but if they catch a mistake they yell "Get the Bacon!!!" The student to grab the "bacon" first wins. Switch students and play until the reading is completed. The team that has Stole the bacon the most is the winner.


He may be the oldest person to have invented an app for Apple devices, but 84-year-old George Weiss didn't originally intend on marketing his Dabble word game to the mobile crowd. He first came up Dabble back in 1958 when he was just 31. "A lot has changed since 1958, but people still love a good game," said Weiss on his introduction into the iTunes App Store last month.


If you have been arrested and convicted of a DUI, the conviction will have an impact on various areas of your life, including your right to own firearms and obtain a Concealed Pistol License (CPL). The reason a DUI can affect your right to own firearms is related to the fact that many crimes are the result of someone making poor decisions or choices. As firearms can be dangerous if not handled, used, and stored properly, the legal system of the United States has established that it may be unwise to allow someone to own firearms when that person has an established track record of making poor choices in other areas of their life as demonstrated by having committed other crimes. A DUI conviction may be considered either a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the circumstances of your case. The circumstances that affect the classification can include how many previous DUI convictions you have had, damage caused as a result of driving under the influence, injury to others or death related to driving under the influence, and the laws of the state where the conviction occurred. There is often confusion among people about how long a DUI stays on your record because the length of time is different depending on if you are referring to your driving record or your criminal record. In the case of your driving record, most states have laws stating a specific number of years that a DUI conviction will stay on your driving record. After that time period has passed, the conviction will be removed from your driving record. In the case of your criminal record, whether the DUI conviction was a misdemeanor or a felony, the conviction will stay on your record permanently. The permanent nature of a DUI conviction is established because in many states the seriousness of a DUI conviction escalates when there are multiple convictions. Therefore, the court is interested in seeing previous convictions when evaluated the severity of the sentence you should receive for additional DUI convictions. As it relates to gun ownership, in general, someone who has a misdemeanor DUI conviction on their record will be able to purchase a gun and obtain a CPL. How soon after the misdemeanor conviction you can purchase a gun and obtain a CPL varies by state. If the conviction is a felony, gun ownership and obtaining a CPL will not be options. Keep in mind that the information above is general in nature. To know for certain how your DUI conviction affects your ability to purchase a gun and obtain your CPL, you should consult an attorney who is familiar with the DUI laws in your state and can evaluate your DUI conviction and other information against those laws. In addition, if a DUI conviction is affecting your ability to purchase a gun, obtain a CPL, or get a job, you should work with an attorney to evaluate if your conviction can be expunged. Additional information about expungement of criminal records is available at Criminal law allows for expungement of criminal record. The article above was written by Mark J.


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Q: How to insert data from csv file to JMS in talend using talend open studio for big data I have a .csv file that contain some data. I need to create a job that insert data from .csv file to jms in talend using talend open studio.
Thanks in advance...

A: If you have a lot of column you need to create a metadata of a delimitedfile (right click on it in the lef menu) and after that you need to make a job like :
tFileInputDelimited --> tmap --> tJMSOutput.

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Britannia Heights in Nelson was once known as Signal Hill. The Songer tree, a Sequoiadendron giganteum, now marks the site from which the state of the tide was signalled to incoming vessels and...
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3. Click Resources from the list on the left, and then choose Check for Updates.
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1. Open any Office application such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook.
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while she scalds milk to thicken, slowly.
inside milk skin? A scab, a patch of hair.
Also called Eggs in Snow. Also called Birds Milk.
but we are making a dessert to serve to daughters.
line up beside me, aproned, wedding-dressed, tattooed.
With immersion blenders, apple corers, electric frying pans.
Also called Île Flottante. In Serbia: En Senockle.
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Sandy Johnson (nacida el 7 de julio de 1954) es una modelo y actriz estadounidense. Fue Playmate del Mes para la revista Playboy en junio de 1974. Fue fotografiada por Mario Casilli.

Johnson nació en San Antonio, Texas. Después de aparecer en Playboy, Johnson se metió en el mundo de la interpretación. Sus créditos incluyen Halloween (1978) como Judith Myers, Gas Pump Girls (1979), y H.O.T.S. (1979), junto a la Playmate Pamela Jean Bryant y a la eventual modelo de Playboy, KC Winkler.

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  en la Base de datos de Película del Internet

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JENSEN, Carl G. (1893-1930)
Date: 9/3/2020 at 09:45:34
Carl George Jensen
(August 14, 1893 – May 2, 1930)
Ida County Pioneer Records, Ida Grove, Iowa, Thurs., May 8, 1930, p.4
Third Member of Family Taken
Carl Jensen of Holstein Succumbs in Hospital – V. Giese Hurt.
Holstein, May 17 – The old saying: "Ill fortune comes not singly," has truly been verified in the Carl Jensen family. It was only a little over a year ago when the only daughter of the family was summoned, and she was called by death two years to the day after the only son had gone before, and now came the call to Carl, thus leaving the wife and mother along of a once happy family circle.
Carl George Jensen was born on a farm near Ida Grove, on August 14, 1893. He grew to manhood in the parental home. He had reached this stage when our country became involved in the World War. He along with many another was summoned to the colors and to arms. They left home in July 1918, for Camp Gordon, Georgia. After but a brief stay in camp, only about a month, they took ship for France, where Carl saw active service. He returned home on May 19, 1919. On June 2, of the same year, he was united in marriage with Miss Hertha Thorberg of Holstein. For the next three years they farmed the Jensen homestead. They moved to the farm north of Holstein, which they occupied since. As a prosperous farmer, Carl measured up in every way, same as he had as a soldier for his country. All in all, their married and home life was very happy. They were devoted to each other and planned and co-operated in such a way that they met with deserved success. In due time a little son came to gladden the home and then a daughter. Parental hearts full of happiness and hopes resulted. Then the clouds came and began to linger. The angle of death called the son and he went. After a time the daughter too followed, leaving father and mother behind. From this time on there was much tugging at the parental hearts and they lingered much and often with their children in their thoughts. Mr. Jensen gave expression to the wish more than once that he might be united with his children again. The immediate cause of his death was sinus trouble that he was afflicted with during winter and spring. It became so bad in course of time that he was hardly able to carry on or to think straight at times. Early last week he was taken to Sioux City, where he submitted to an operation. Not long after his life began to ebb away. He died Friday morning, May 2, 1930, at the age of 36 years, 8 months and 18 days. Left to mourn his going is his companion, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nels Jenson, four brothers, Gust, Axel, August, and Lester, and two sisters, Mrs. Maurice Shaw of Cresco, Iowa, and Mrs. Arnold Jurgensen. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in Turner Hall, conducted by Rev. A. W. Gauger. The American Legion was present and participated in the services at the grave, firing the usual salute at the grave of their dead comrade. Interment was made in Galva Township Cemetery.


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StemExpress CEO Says Abortion Clinics Profit From Fetal Harvesting
Rachel Stoltzfoos Staff Reporter
August 25, 2015 12:17 PM ET
The CEO of a company that purchases aborted fetuses and distributes the parts to researchers says abortion clinics and buyers should and do profit from the exchange, in new undercover footage released Tuesday by The Center for Medical Progress.
"We're going into it knowing that it has to be financially beneficial for you," an undercover actor posing as a fetal tissue buyer tells StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer in the video.
"Yeah," Dyer agrees. "Yeah, and both of us for sure."
The undercover actors are discussing an arrangement in which their front company would harvest fetuses from abortion clinics and deliver them to StemExpress, which would then process and ship the desired cells off to researchers. (RELATED: Planned Parenthood Whistleblower: 'This Is Not Political To Me')
"You feel like there's [Planned Parenthood] clinics out there that have been burned?" Dyer asks. "That feel like they're doing all this work for research, and it hasn't been profitable for them?"
"No, I don't," one of the fake buyers replies.
"Oh okay good," Dyer says. "Yeah, I was going to say, I don't see that either."
It's a felony to receive "valuable consideration" for aborted baby parts, but it is legal to receive "reasonable payments" for costs associated with the exchange, including but apparently not limited to: transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, or storage of the aborted baby tissue.
CMP alleges Planned Parenthood is breaking this law by profiting from the sale of aborted fetal tissue, but Planned Parenthood maintains it is charging legal fees and does not make any money on the exchange. The middlemen who receive tissue, such as StemExpress, sometimes charge thousands of dollars to the actual researchers working with their prepared samples. (RELATED: Nearly 1 in 3 Abortions Happen At Planned Parenthood 'Health' Clinics)
Dyer says its expensive to isolate the tissue and cells researchers want. Neural tissue is particularly fragile, she says in the video, and is the "hardest thing in the world to ship."
"The procurement for us, I mean it can go really sideways depending on the facility," Dyer says. "And then our samples are destroyed, and we're like, really? This was all so much work, and then just to have them be destroyed is awful.
"Researchers wait forever, and they want certain things perfectly done," she adds.
To ensure neural tissue is intact, Dyer says they've had success simply shipping off the entire head to researchers.
"Yeah, make sure the eyes are closed," one of the fake buyers jokes.
"Yeah, tell the lab it's coming," Dyer laughs. "So they don't open the box and go, 'oh god!"
"Its almost like they don't want to know where it comes from," she adds. "I can see that. From where they're like, 'we need limbs but we don't need the hands and feet to be attached.' And you're like [what] They want you to take it all off, like 'make it so that we don't know what it is.'"
"Yeah, bone the chicken for me and then I'll eat it," a fake buyer chimes in. "But not before."
"Thats it," Dyer says. "But we know what it is."
One of the fake buyers suggests it has to do with the "stigma" surrounding fetal tissue procurement and research.
"Oh yeah, and their lab techs freak out, and have meltdowns," Dyer says. "I think, quite frankly, that's why a lot of researchers, some of them get into other things. … They want to look at adult human, kind of adult based sampling, because they want to get away from having to publish a paper that says they derived this from fetal tissue."
StemExpress is a for profit company that reportedly grew 1,316 percent in three years, making $2.2 million of revenue in 2013. It no longer obtains fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood clinics. (RELATED: Planned Parenthood Allegations Turn On Squishy McConnell-Backed Law)
In a statement Thursday, StemExpress called the videos "highly edited" and "highly deceptive," and Dyer called the video "a sad attempt to malign StemExpress and me personally."
CMP has released seven other videos, which are a combination of undercover footage and cuts of an extended interview with a whistleblower who used to work in the clinics.
1. "People want liver."
A top doctor talks frankly about how the clinics harvest and distribute the body parts and organs of aborted babies, while munching on a salad.
2. "Violating the protocol"
Planned Parenthood's medical director haggles over the price "per specimen" with undercover actors posing as fetal tissue buyers, and appears willing to alter abortion procedures to get better tissue.
3. "This is a leg."
A phlebotomist who used to harvest and dissect fetuses in Planned Parenthood clinics describes her work experience, saying the procedures were so shocking she passed out on her first day.
4. "And another boy!"
Planned Parenthood employees dissect fetuses in front of undercover actors posing as buyers, while the group negotiates a contract and haggles over the price.
5. "Mixed up together in a bag"
A Planned Parenthood clinic director says skirting fetal tissue laws is "just a matter of line items," and a technician pulls an aborted 20-week old fetus out of the freezer and shows it to the fake buyers.
6. "Cold-hearted"
The phlebotomist who worked in the clinics describes them as 'morbid' places where women with unborn babies were seen as profit opportunities by staff who sometimes took their fetus without their consent.
7. "What did I just do?"
The phlebotomist says she decided to quit after cutting through the face of a late-term male fetus to procure its brain for research, and struggling to stuff its remains into a container packed with aborted fetuses.
CMP also published full footage and transcripts for the undercover videos.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Genre
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Starring: Kathleen Harrison, Jack Warner, Alastair Sim, ,
Run time: 86 min
Stubbornly refusing to believe in Christmas, and to be separated from his inexhaustible wealth, the Victorian money lender and parsimonious recluse, Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim), can't be bothered with the poor and destitute at the most festive time of the year. Intent on spending the holy night alone, instead, the sceptical curmudgeon is visited by an unexpected and sympathetic friend, Jacob Marley (Sir Michael Hordern), who will pave the way for the inevitable visitation of the otherworldly spirits of Christmas Past (Michael Dolan), Present (Francis De Wolff), and Yet to Come (Czeslaw Konarski). But, what do the pale ghosts want? Can a wicked old miser admit the error in his ways, and embrace change? In the end, is Scrooge ready to love and be loved?
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Brian Desmond Hurst directs a fine cast, headed by the incomparable Alastair Sim (a man who can play both malevolent and humorous) as the about-to-be-redeemed Ebenezer Scrooge. Sim's reactions are priceless and he settles down well in the role. Michael Hordern is a less successful Marley, certainly when he visits as a ghost, but the three Ghosts of Christmas are just as you imagine – Christmas Past is a wise old sage, Christmas Present is a jovial party-giver …
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Find creative ways to solve problems.
Think of some more things to write here.
Encourage other people with lupus to see the things they can do despite this condition.
Contribute something worthwhile to the online support network that already exists for people with lupus.
Find an elephant if it were hiding in my strawberry plants.
Make the time to take proper care of myself.
Sleep more than anyone else I know.
Learn to let go of the things that really don't matter.
Stay sane, even if the internet does constantly drop out through the summer.
With God's help, and with the help of my amazing friends, get through any challenge this stupid disease throws at me.
Make the most of the gifts and abilities I still have.
Use the extra time that working only part-time has given me, to develop skills I have not practised for some time (art, creative writing, music, etc), thereby using time that might have been a burden for a valuable purpose.
Keep my sense of humour. No matter how bad things get – laughing helps get things in perspective.
Find the energy to care for others as well as myself.
Health Blogging Month Day 15: A Song to Lupus!
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Often referred to as the sleeping hormone, melatonin has more applications than just inducing sleep. Melatonin is a hormone that is produced naturally in the body but can also be produced synthetically. In any of its forms, melatonin is an effective treatment for an array of conditions.
Melatonin's main purpose revolves around regulating the body's internal clock. As such, it is often used for treating jet lag, adjusting an individual's sleep versus wake cycle, and helping blind individuals establish a regular day and night cycle. The hormone also has other applications, though.
Melatonin can also be used to treat sleep-related issues. Such conditions include insomnia, delayed sleep phase syndrome, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, and regulation issues involving individuals with developmental disorders such as autism, cerebral palsy, and intellectual disabilities.
The hormone can also be used to treat a variety of conditions unrelated to sleep. Other applications of melatonin include Alzheimer's disease, ringing in the ears, depression, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia. Other conditions including migraines, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, epilepsy, and osteoporosis also respond well to the treatment. Melatonin may also be an effective treatment for preventing breast, brain, lung, prostate, head, neck, and gastrointestinal cancer.
While its most well-known application is inducing sleep, melatonin can be used to treat a variety of other conditions as well. Individuals taking melatonin should be careful when driving or operating heavy machinery as the hormone may contribute to irregular waking periods.
Known scientifically as N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine, melatonin is a naturally occurring compound found in all living things including humans, animals, plants, and microbes. The natural levels of melatonin in humans and animals vary throughout the day and follow a common cycle that generally regulates sleeping and waking.
While it is most commonly known as the "hormone of darkness" as it is secreted at dark or bedtime, melatonin also has other purposes. Melatonin also functions as an antioxidant that eliminates free radicals in the body. It also plays a role in controlling weight gain and inducing weight loss as well as improving the blood lipid profile by raising good cholesterol levels and reducing bad cholesterol levels. Research has even suggested that the hormone plays a role in female fertility.
I have been taking Melatonin for 7 months now and originally started to have vivid dreams and now my dreams are much more gentle but amazing nontheless, and great sleep indeed … I started with a cream of 50mg per night for the first two months then upped the dose to 100mg per night for 4 months then tried the 250mg SR capsules but I was a little woosy in the morning, so I stayed on the 100mg for another month and now I am almost done the bottle when finished then I will try 250mg SR again …(SR) stands for slow release 😉 eventually working up to 400 or 500 mg at this point the pineal opens up and you begin to experience the truth of who we are 😉 those who have done the research already know this.
Can you express a little more on the relationship between melatonin and the pineal. Thank you.
I'm from a city down the coast from you, Charleston. I really miss the ocean. It was easier to get enough sea salt there.
It appears that in your situation, there are paradoxes to negotiate. I've read that some people do have increased insomnia, anxiety, and other side effects from melatonin supplementation. It's been suggested that they may try a dosage as low as. 1-.3 mgs. I also have low cortisol, and insomnia from early childhood. Although I have tried so many substances for this; herbs, amino acids, exercise, and even medications; my best results have been from combining a low dose b-complex with a sublingual b12. There can be paradoxical reactions to them also, as some can relax and or stimulate the system. I suggest trying the b-complex made from foods. (unfortunately it's expensive) It may be only needed in smaller amounts. Try 1/2 tablet in the morning. ( I have it with an empty stomach, but it may be easier with food).
Also, try methylcobalamin sublinguals, (active-b12); because it enables the other b's to operate. A 1000 mcg. Tablet can be divided with a pill cutter into 4 wedges. It may be that only 250 mcgs. Is needed daily for sensitve individuals. I have also found that folate has been very helpful with depression, But it must be measured carefully according individual needs. I recommend methylfolate. It comes in 800 mcg. Tablets that can also be subdivided.
While there is the RDA of folate in supplements, some people with atypical depression have responded very well to extra folate. It can have mild stimulant properties for some people, so I suggest trying small amounts in the morning. (It is also good for sensitive gums and canker sores when dissolved in the mouth). I have found these supplements to also lower many types of inflammation that can deplete cortisol.
Thank you for responding back and I appreciate your input very much! Since my last post what I have done for the next 2 nights was stay at 2mg of melatonin and even though for both those nights I got awake in the middle of the night, I fell back to sleep for each of those nights for about another 2. 5 hours approx so I guess that is a good sign. Maybe my body had to get used to it if that is possible, I don't know. Last night I upped it to 3mg and slept striaght thru for a total of about 6. 5 hours. I'm atleast happy with this because I know for years that I have only been averaging about 5-6 hours of sleep per night. So "maybe" I am on the right path with the melatonin. Time will tell.
As far as you mentioning the B-12 and methylfolate, I have tried both of those in the past and both never seemed to do me any good. I think I have tried most every supplement under the sun LOL (and then some.. Haha) I had my B-12 levels checked awhile back and they were fine.. Actually very good but at that time I was taking B-12 even though it really didn't help me. As a matter of fact I have read that some people that are hypoadrenal can't handle the extra B-12. Whether or not that is true I don't know, but maybe it was true for me. I seem to even feel more lethargic which doesn't help my depression even when I do Brewers Yeast. Maybe it is a particular B that isn't agreeing with me. I "might" have been taking too much Pantethine. I tried it because many others and other websites mention it is good for hypoadrenal but quite frankly ever since I stopped taking it, I seem to be not as fatigued and not as achey in my joints.
The site that I have frequented often which I think has a lot of good information is……says that too much intake of B-5, people can get severe fatigue and joint pain. Maybe this applies to me because ever since I stopped it I an not as fatigued nor as achey in my joints. The site actually mentions B-1 thiamine good for people that are hypoadrenal. It says that extra thiamine can help raise sodium, which I know us later stage AF'ers deal with. He also mentions choline can help with that also. Funny how when I did the Braverman test online awhile back I was also Acetylcholine deficent as well as being Dopamine deficient. So I am also starting to take CDP-Choline as well as some lecithin granules which I know Ted is very high on taking. I noticed you said you are still low cortisol. Have you tried extra thiamine? I just started yesterday taking Allithiamine. Apparently it is similar to Befotiamine that it is fat soluble, but I have read that Allithiamine may work better on the CNS where as Benfo works more periphally. Who knows but I am giving it a whirl and maybe it can atleast help to some degree with my atypical depression. The site also mentions tin being good for hypodrenal and I know Ted has mentioned it too and good for depression that can go along with it. So I am going to try that too. I just ordered some stannous chloride from a chemical supply company so I'll see how that works for me too when it arrives.
One other thing I wanted to mention, and maybe there is some merit to this. I can't remember which book I read this from.. It might have been Wilson's book on Adrenal Fatigue, in that having dental work done can stress the adrenals. I can look back and remember that it was around the time I had some dental work done that I started feeling a lot worse. Maybe it was that, that just sent my low adrenals over the edge.. Then on top of that I burned them out more by working out at the gym too strenuously. Live and learn. Recently I have read that weight lifting (not to the point of exaustion) can actually raise cortisol but anything aerobic lowers cortisol. So I'm going to just do the weights but ditch the running on the treadmill.
Maybe the moderator reading this can also post this in the adrenal fatigue and depression sections, since this post also applies to those conditions. Me being new here I don't know if I should be copying and pasting this in both of those sections.
I was wondering about the use of melatonin..some use it as a sleep aid and i've heard it works really well..is there any other uses..are there any side effects of the oral form, is there any longterm side effects noted from using it?
I use to take melatonin, but stopped because of two side effects. One side effect was that it acted as a diuretic, so I really didn't get much sleep b/c of running to the bathroom. The other was very real dreams. It got to the point that I could not figure out if I had really had conversations with people in my dreams versus reality. Melatonin is actually a hallucinagen your body naturally produces. I guess when you add more of the chemical to your body, it coases you to dream more realistically.
My son has been taking Melatonin for almost 4 years now. He is now taking up to 6 mgs at age 10 and he sleeps great and has had no side effects. He is ADHD and never slept well thru the night before melatonin. It really makes a difference in his behavior as well. I would strongly recommend it.
I have found that Melatonin is extremely beneficial in helping me get to bed. This is on top of the Seroquel that I already take, which is dosed at 100mg. I usually start off with 3 mgs. of Melatonin, and if that doesn't help, I take another 3 mgs. (because the supplement that I take only comes in 3 mg. tablets).
The usual recommended dose of Melatonin to start with is 5 mgs., and then take it from there. This is a extremely effective supplement, and I would recommend it first before anything else.
NAY- I have tried Melatonin and I did not find it to be a good alternative for insomnia. Firstly I am on a antidepressant-Lexapro, and I feel like Melatonin really makes my depression worse, and it's effectiveness was inconstant, one time I felt real drowsy and slept good, another time only slept a few hours then woke up again. My boyfriend's Mom also tried it and said it did not work for her either.
I suffer from adrenal fatigue (low cortisol) and atypical depression so I decided to try melatonin the last couple of nights to try to give my adrenals some well needed rest. Typically I only average between 5 to 6 hours of sleep per night but the last couple of nights I only got about 3.5 hours of sleep. First night I only did 1mg and last night I did 2mg and with upping the dosage I still only got 3.5 hours of sleep. Why am I getting less sleep taking melatonin? I have read where it can have the opposite effect with some people and I am wondering why this happens? Anyone else have the same experience?
Insomnia: My kids have a hard time sleeping at night. I've struggled for about 10 years trying to put my ADHD girl to bed at night. The older she became, the worse it was, telling me to "get lost" when I came in the room at 11:00 p.m. She would just continue on the computer and ignore me. It was very depressing. I had to sleep so I would just go and leave her alone. Her dad didn't help much. Rescue remedy! melatonin! I bought the chewable kind and used to give it to her when I was totally exasperated at 10 or 11 p.m. Now I give it to her at 8 or 8:30 p.m. and now she jumps into bed by 9 or 9:30 p.m. What a miracle! Why did it take me so long to figure that one out? She was sleep deprived for many years!
Melatonin is WONDERFUL! My daughter (11 yrs.) has always had terrible problems going to sleep…until I started her on Melatonin. She takes 1 pill (300 mcg.) about 1-1/2 hrs. before bed and has had no trouble falling asleep since the first time she took Melatonin. Also have a 22 yr. old nephew who has had sleep problems for a few years. He takes a larger dose before bedtime – has been falling asleep at bedtime with no problems since his first dose. What a God-send!!!
Melatonin has also been beneficial to me for sleep. I also use at varying times: -lavender essential oil rubbed into my skin (with a carrier oil) spray lavender water in the bedroom -take a "tea" of honey and apple cider vinegar (adjusting to taste) with water. (1/4 cup does the trick). -another idea, is to turn off the electrical things (like tv, computer etc) an hour before bed to allow the body to slow down and let it's natural melatonin do it's job. Turn off the lights and light a candle and have quiet time an hour before bed. Sweet dreams!
thank for suggesting that the electronics be turned off earlier at night for a natural melatonin. I was reading all the comments and many of them had the electronics piece in common.
Melatonin has been a God-send for me. I'm a terrible insomniac, especially on business trip. I don't like druggy meds, so I tried melatonin several years ago. About 20 minutes after taking one I drifted quite naturally off to sleep. Now, I still take them occassionally, but usually just the thought that they're in the medicine cabinet is enough to relax me to sleep! Melotonin induces the body's 'down time' mechanisms which night owls like me tend to inhibit. Now I know to relax, read a book, watch tv, or just 'chill' about 20 minutes before bed, this behavior allows the body to naturally produce it's own melatonin and drift peacefully to sleep. – sleep tight!
I have found melatonin to work well for sleep. Also just heard magnesium prior to sleep works – I will be trying that tonight.


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Q: Formatting error bar mark pgfplots, append to style? I am trying to increase the thickness of my error bars. I found that the stem and the marker needs to be changed individually here. Problem with this is that using /error bars/error mark options={*styles} I am overwriting the defaults which gives me no marks to begin with. Trying to use /error bars/error mark options/.append style={*styles}, however, compiles fine but has no effect, neither does .prefix style={*styles}. What am I missing?
\documentclass[]{standalone}
\usepackage[]{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{
    error bars/error bar style={opacity=0.7,ultra thick},
    error bars/error mark options/.append style={ultra thick,red}} %does nothing
\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \begin{axis}[
            mystyle/.style={thick,mark=square*,only marks ,error bars/.cd, y dir = both, y explicit}
            ]
            \addplot[mystyle] table[x index={0}, y index={1},y error index={2}]
            {
            0 1 0.5
            1 1 0.5
            2 1 0.5
            };
        \end{axis}
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

On another note, I find the design choice of the error bar styles a bit cumbersome in the first place: why is there is no high-level command to change the thickness of the vertical and horizontal portion of the error bars at the same time? But rather they need to be changed individually. Maybe a suggestion, it would be nice to combine more styles and make it the default behaviour to change both by using error bar style, then make the styles individually accessible via error bar mark options and error bar stem options or something of that sort. It's just my impression, but so far I have seen mostly examples, where the stem and the mark have the same thickness, so that seems to be the default for most people - myself included.


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Q: Bootstrap 3 dropdown doesn't work with Rails 4 & Turbolinks I recently upgraded my site to Bootstrap 3 and am in the process of going through all the layouts to update class names and various functionality to work correctly. My most recent problem is that drop downs don't seem to be working. At first I thought I hadn't implemented the code correctly for my nav bar, but after getting frustrated, I actually tried just getting rid of my nav bar and using the one straight out of the BS 3 documentation. Even that code doesn't work. I've looked into this, and I'm fairly certain I have all the proper .js libraries loaded. Here's my application.js:
//= require jquery
//= require bootstrap-sprockets
//= require jquery.ui.datepicker
//= require jquery.timepicker.js
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require turbolinks
//= require bootstrap
//= require jquery.remotipart
//= require chosen-jquery
//= require_tree .

Here's what appears in my <head>:
  <script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/jquery.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/affix.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/alert.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/button.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/carousel.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/collapse.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/dropdown.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/tab.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/transition.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/scrollspy.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/modal.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/tooltip.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap/popover.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap-sprockets.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/jquery.ui.core.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/jquery.ui.datepicker.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/jquery.timepicker.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/jquery_ujs.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/turbolinks.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/bootstrap.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/jquery.iframe-transport.js?body=1"></script>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/jquery.remotipart.js?body=1"></script>

And I have popovers and other collapsible items on the same page, and all works fine, so I'm fairly certain all the .js is in tact.
I've read elsewhere that turbolinks can create problems for Bootstrap 3, and have even tried (and then abandoned and reverted back) the jquery.turbolinks gem to no avail. Needless to say, I have no idea how to reproduce this on jsfiddle (sorry).
Finally, I've verified that the following four js functions are called every time I click a drop down, presumably in the following order:
jquery.js:4306
            eventHandle = elemData.handle = function( e ) {
                // Discard the second event of a jQuery.event.trigger() and
                // when an event is called after a page has unloaded
                return typeof jQuery !== strundefined && (!e || jQuery.event.triggered !== e.type) ?
                    jQuery.event.dispatch.apply( eventHandle.elem, arguments ) :
                    undefined;
            };
            // Add elem as a property of the handle fn to prevent a memory leak with IE non-native events
            eventHandle.elem = elem;

turbolinks.js:324
    installClickHandlerLast = function(event) {
        if (!event.defaultPrevented) {
            document.removeEventListener('click', handleClick, false);
            return document.addEventListener('click', handleClick, false);
        }
    };

tujquery.js:4306 (again)
turbolinks.js:324
    handleClick = function(event) {
        var link;
        if (!event.defaultPrevented) {
            link = extractLink(event);
            if (link.nodeName === 'A' && !ignoreClick(event, link)) {
                visit(link.href);
                return event.preventDefault();
            }
        }
    };

Any clue what might be happening here and how to fix it?

A: I answered this question over at: turbolinks issues with bootstrap modal
In short: you need the jquery-turbolinks gem.

A: I was able to solve the problem by adding "data-turbolinks-eval" => false to my Bootstrap CDN link.
<%= javascript_include_tag
  "https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js",
  "data-turbolinks-eval" => false
%>

A: You are not using turbolinks the good way. The turbolinks should not be used with assets.
The method of using turbolinks can be seen here:
Handling Turbolinks and JS incompatibility in Rails
You should not change any javascript_links. Just in App/assets/javascripts/application.js put code like:
//= require jquery
//= require jquery.turbolinks
//= require jquery_ujs
//
// ... your other scripts here ...
//
//= require turbolinks

after putting jquery-turbolinks in Gemfile.
The bootstrap require should come in between jquery.turbolinks and turbolinks.

A: This issue can be resolved without using jquery-turbolinks. You need to first understand why this happens. When turbolinks is enabled and you click on a link, a page:change event is fired and all javascript is re-evaluated from the newly loaded html.
This includes the bootstrap javascript code that's loaded within application.js. When bootstrap's javascript is reloaded, it breaks. You can fix this by using data-turbolinks-eval=false in the application.js <script> tag.
For ERB:
<%= javascript_include_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-eval' => false %>
<%= javascript_include_tag params[:controller] %>

For SLIM:
== javascript_include_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-eval': false
== javascript_include_tag params[:controller]

A: See this answer on twbs github: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass/issues/714


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Charlotte Caspers (* 1979 in Gent) ist eine niederländische Künstlerin und Restauratorin. Sie schuf die Reproduktionen in der zwölfteiligen 3sat-Serie Das Geheimnis der Meister.

Werdegang
Caspers studierte Kunstgeschichte an der Radboud University, spezialisiert auf die Malerei des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. Danach absolvierte sie die Ausbildung zur Restauratorin im Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL) in Maastricht. Von 2007 bis 2017 unterrichtete sie Maltechniken der Konservierung an der Universität von Amsterdam.

Restaurierungen und Reproduktionen
Caspers hat unter anderem Rekonstruktionen für die Tate Britain, die Princeton University, das Van Gogh Museum, das Rijksmuseum Amsterdam und das Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen durchgeführt.

Sie schuf die Reproduktionen in der zwölfteiligen 3sat-Serie Das Geheimnis der Meister, wo sie im Austausch mit Jasper Krabbé große Maler kopierte.

Weblinks
 charlottecaspers.com
Das Geheimnis der Meister - Van Gogh auf 3sat Kulturdoku

Belege

Bildender Künstler (Niederlande)
Restaurator
Niederländer
Geboren 1979
Frau


Gastrocardial syndrome, or Remkheld's disease,- a syndrome in which there is a complex of heart disorders caused by food intake. Especially often it occurs when overeating. This disease was first described by L. Rehmeld in 1912. Initially, this disease was considered as a neurosis of the heart.
American doctors do not recognize this syndrome as a disease, believing that it simply does not exist. The disease is recognized in some European countries, including Russia.
Manifestations of the syndrome are very deceptive. The heart is closely related to the nerve endings with many organs, so cases are known where heart disease is reflected by pain in other organs, and vice versa. So it happens here. During the digestion of food in patients suffering from gastric ulcer or esophageal cancer, irritation of the mucosa of the digestive organs occurs, which are related to the heart by nerve endings. This neighborhood is expressed in symptoms that are confused with a heart attack.
Remkheld's syndrome is more common in humans,suffering from vegetovascular diseases, hernia of the esophagus, ulcer of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract, malignant neoplasms of the esophagus and excess weight. As a rule, the main cause of the syndrome is excessive excitation of the vagus nerve.
Constant weakness and high fatigue.
Pain in the chest and heart.
When you go to the doctor, you have an anamnesis. An examination of the heart, stomach and esophagus is prescribed. If the results of the study do not show any cardiac changes on the ECG, and ultrasound of the abdominal cavity and radiography reveal diseases of the stomach, esophagus and diaphragm, the diagnosis is: Remkhelda syndrome, or gastrocardial syndrome. Treatment is carried out under the supervision of the attending physician.
At the same time, conducting an exercise is extremely undesirable, since it can cause a deterioration in the patient's well-being.
Particular attention should be paid to the heart of the patient. If the patient complains of the appearance of rapid heartbeats, not only after eating, this may indicate the onset of angina pectoris.
The food should be small portions, at least 4 times a day, while the diet should be excluded from all fatty and fried foods.
The last meal should consist of light foods, so as not to overwork the stomach during sleep.
Do not eat spicy or salted foods.
Do not eat too hot food.
Increase the amount of fiber in the diet, it facilitates digestion and eliminates constipation when eating foods containing large amounts of protein.
Exclude from the diet legumes and any other products that cause increased formation of gases.
Monitor intestinal activity, avoid disorders and constipation.
To restore normal cardiac activity, use mild sedatives, which include herbal preparations.
In case of painful symptoms, take antispasmodics.
In case of excess weight, measures are taken to eliminate this problem.
In the event that the drug treatment was ineffective, resort to an operative intervention, in which the hernia gates are sutured, and the stomach is fixed.
If the patient is diagnosed with "Remkheld syndrome" (gastrocardial syndrome), the treatment will be most effective only if the doctor's recommendations are fully observed.
After eliminating all disturbing symptoms andmanifestations of the disease should not abandon the prescribed diet in order to avoid relapse. People who are susceptible to this disease are advised to follow not only their food, but also the health of their nervous system. This is why a variety of herbal sedatives are prescribed. At the same time, the right way of life, proper nutrition, absence of bad habits and constant sports activities will help to avoid the return of the disease in the future.
Pain in the heart causes not onlyRemkhelda syndrome, so if the patient has already experienced this problem, and the symptoms return, do not self-medicate. To confirm the diagnosis it is extremely important to undergo a full examination with a doctor to exclude possible heart diseases. It is possible that pain in the heart can cause not only Remkheld's disease. Syndrome of the disease of the stomach and esophagus - is far from being the only one, causing after eating discomfort in the chest area. Similar symptoms are myocardial infarction - a disease in which necrosis of the heart tissue occurs due to partial or complete absence of blood supply.
Precisely because of the neglect of one's ownhealth can miss a very dangerous disease for a person's life, so it is important to consult a specialist, carry out all the necessary research and prescribe the necessary treatment.


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Tar sands oil is the worst type of oil for the climate, producing three times the greenhouse gas emissions of conventionally produced oil because of the energy required to extract and process tar sands oil. Tar sands consist of heavy crude oil mixed with sand, clay and bitumen. Extraction entails burning natural gas to generate enough heat and steam to melt the oil out of the sand. As many as five barrels of water are needed to produce a single barrel of oil.
TransCanada's proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline would ship heavy crude from Canada's oil sands to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. Citizens from across the country have bravely taken action to demonstrate their opposition to the pipeline and make a strong statement that enough is enough. We should not spend even one more dollar to build infrastructure that will continue our dangerous addiction to oil.
For almost a decade, a powerful coalition of First Nations, ranchers and farmers, environmentalists, youth fighting for their future and people from all walks of life resisted the construction of the 1,179-mile pipeline that would flow 830,000 barrels of oil a day from the Alberta tar sands to Nebraska, eventually heading to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Engaging in everything from lobbying to non-violent civil disobedience, they ultimately swayed Barack Obama to reject the pipeline.
Donald Trump revived the once dead pipeline with an executive order that unblocked the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, and set in motion a plan to curb regulatory interference on future pipeline projects. On March 24, 2017, the Trump administration approved TransCanada's application to build the pipeline. The Trump administration's plans to expand the nation's pipeline infrastructure will only be stopped by a coalition willing to lead with their hearts and put their bodies on the line.
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To be eaten raw
Tom, Dafna, Dagger and Peaches the dog all believe that bread is bad, pasta is putrid and ice cream is idolatrous. For them, a lettuce tastes like chocolate milk and the foul-smelling durian fruit brings heavenly rewards. But who gives up cooking for the good of their spiritual health? Peter Conrad reports from New York, where the pursuit of eating raw food has become a religion of the nuttier kind
Reportage by James Rexroad
Sun 15 Jul 2001 11.32 EDT First published on Sun 15 Jul 2001 11.32 EDT
I begin with a health warning. What follows will probably put you off your food (which is hardly the mission of this magazine). Alternatively, it might save your life - if, that is, you already possess the proper quotient of credulity.
It begins from basic principles. We eat to live, but we die as we're eating. Nowadays we're acutely aware that we kill ourselves in the struggle to stay alive. Our arteries are clogged with cholesterol, our brains (if we're very unlucky) deranged by tissue from mad cows, our palates teased by artificial and probably harmful additives.
Europeans have traditionally been fatalists about food, and about most other things. As an unrepentant French gourmet put it, we dig our graves with our teeth. What you eat may be deadly, but who cares so long as it tastes good? You'll die anyway. In America, however, mortality is considered no more than a design fault in the human species, which can be overcome with some technical adjustments. The maddest American diets are elixirs of eternal life, like plastic surgery for your insides.
To engineer your own immortality, you must first decide what original dietary sin is responsible for bringing death into the world. In New York recently I spent time with cultists who believe we're condemned by our habit of eating cooked food. At a restaurant called Quintessence in the rancid East Village, I joined in as they herbivorously chomped on 'nature's food for the body, mind and soul'. A meal here is a devout religious observance, and also a session of psychotherapy. The dim sum promises to be 'heavenly', while the tomato soup guarantees to boost the body's 'healing power'. Desserts are no longer synonymous with sin. The pecan pie, because its ingredients are all raw, administers a dose of antioxidants, sees off free radicals and tops up your immunity. Or so they say.
I'd have been more persuaded if these anti-culinary puritans hadn't been chowing down on nostalgic metaphors, facsimiles of the cooked food they have renounced. Quintessence dehydrates flax seeds to make a would-be burger, and coats it with a bean paste that mimics cheddar cheese sauce. A blend of romaine lettuce and carrot, I was assured, tastes just like a chocolate malted milk. The craving for such a simulation of milk seems odd in people who regard dairy products as anathema. Nevertheless, the eaters at Quintessence look as sanctimonious as if they were chewing on communion wafers. In pious expectancy, they await lift-off: are they becoming immortal even as they sit there?
The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, analysing the mental habits of native Americans, noticed their myths constantly referred to a disparity between 'the raw and the cooked, the fresh and the decayed, the moistened and the burdened'. The tribes of the Amazon made these distinctions in order to explain man's origins, his descent from the gods, and his loss of divine privileges. When they began to cook, did the first human beings incinerate or cremate themselves? In Christian myth, too, unfallen man is vegetarian, or strictly vegan: when Adam and Eve entertain the angels in Paradise Lost, Milton notes that they serve rabbit food - 'No fear lest dinner cool'. America still thinks of itself as a would-be Eden, and the raw-food sectarians believe their diet has repatriated them to paradise.
That regime is a religion, whose prophet is David Wolfe, a Californian in his thirties who criss-crosses the country delivering inspirational tirades and, of course, selling books, videos, olive oil, almond butter, soy sauce, seaweed and anything else that his followers will pay a premium for. Wolfe keeps his acolytes in line with fundamentalist embargoes. Brutal criminals, he explains, are 'born to mothers with impacted intestines', predestined to a life of violence by parental vices such as a fondness for Big Macs. Like all prophets he disturbs the faithful, predicting a grisly doom for the owners of microwaves. But he offers other, more seductive enticements, and swears - without producing the evidence - that his raw diet massively augmented the size of his penis. Wolfe's books recite a mantra insisting 'Cooked food is poison'; he feeds the hungry sheep with nursery rhymes, pointing out that 'Raw is Law' and adding, with sacerdotal menace, that 'Raw spelt backwards equals War'.
Wolfe has afflicted his converts (who are also his customers) with a holy dread of innocent, sustaining, reassuring foodstuffs. 'You have a bread fix?' one of them asked me. 'That's deranged flour, man. It turns blue in your system. Bread is glutin. Don't you know that's glue?' He winced at the thought. 'Pasta!' said another prissy purist. 'How can you eat that stuff? It calcifies inside you, it turns into cement. Peter, have you thought of having some colonic work done? You must be all backed up down there.'
Foulest of all, apparently, is ice cream. 'It's pus and mucus,' an emaciated rawie with wild eyes shouted at me. 'That's all, pus and mucus.' To repeat a slogan in these circles makes it true. I began to wonder where I was: in obese, greedy, permissive America or in a society of totalitarian zealotry, run by Ayatollahs who breathe fire even though they don't approve of cooking?
It's not easy to be raw, especially in New York. A heliocentric cult works best in California, where you don't have to struggle through an Arctic winter on lettuce leaves and juices. Manhattan rawies therefore huddle together for solace. Mostly they meet in basements, as befits the members of a nascent church. The early Christians had their catacombs; the born-again intestinal puritans I met use a cellar on 23rd Street. Beneath an Italian restaurant which joyously advertises Sophia Loren Spaghetti - boasting about the satiated body type which makes these skeletal fanatics shudder - they meet once a month for a pot-luck meal.
The table, on the night I attended, groaned beneath edible herbaceous borders and confections of nuts resembling briquettes. Little old ladies grazed in bovine content while I imagined myself upstairs masticating Sophia Loren. The evening concluded with the ritual massacre of a durian, a Thai fruit which looks like a bagpipe. A knife hacked through its rind and released a whiff of rotten eggs. The flesh is a pustular yellow and has to be scraped away from a bulbous stone. 'It smells like hell,' said the officiating rawie as he dug into it, 'but it tastes like heaven.' It tasted to me at best like purgatory.
The religious language is inescapable. The transition from cooked to raw is a conversion, and a change so drastic is usually motivated, like most religious belief, by fear. Wolfe recommends terror as 'the key to enlightenment', hence his apocalyptic ranting. Those gathered round the table were the city's wounded - its lamed, maimed psychological and medical victims, who had come in quest of a miracle. Anecdotes about salvation were breathlessly exchanged, and the dead testified to their own resurrection.
A few years ago, Tom - who describes himself as a singer but is coy about explaining that he's actually a singing waiter, and in an unraw restaurant at that - had fullblown Aids and needed a liver transplant. He vanquished HIV by dismissing it as an imaginary ailment dreamed up by the pharmaceutical companies. He sacked his doctors, blamed their drugs for making him sick, fasted for 40 days and is now in remission because he's stringently raw. Shopping with Tom in Chinatown, I saw him pick up a half-eaten fruit from the blackened pavement and put it back in his mouth. 'We don't believe in germs,' he explained. 'The body knows how to look after itself.' Religious certainty entails a blissful self-deception, reinforced by the consensus of the group. I declined to share Tom's recycled titbit.
At the pot-luck, I talked to a vampirish beauty called Dafna, who paints duskily supernatural tableaux which she calls 'Art for Healing'. 'People don't come for the food,' she said. (Just as well, I thought.) 'They are here out of desperation. We all want to get acquainted with our diseases.'
I was introduced to several diseases in the course of the evening. Dafna's mother cured her crippling arthritis by rejecting medicine and going raw; her room-mate recovered from cervical cancer thanks to the diet. Donna, a luminous assemblage of skin and brittle bone, told me about her rite of passage: 'I suffered from candida - terrible yeast infections. When I first transitioned, I had menstrual problems, awful cramps. But that happens when you're detoxing. I got better with the diet, and with yoga. Oh, and I do colonics.'
The durian - I felt sure as I monitored its express progress through my tubes - must be good for flushing.
'You wanna hear my story?' asked Angela, a bejewelled, jangling, gabbling personal trainer with a Coppertone tan. 'They diagnosed me with mononucleosis. On top of that I had years of eating disorders, plus I was going through the divorce, the this, the that. And you should have seen the cysts on my breasts - boy, those suckers were big-time!'
Angela's pecs flexed frighteningly inside her purple leotard. 'Sure, I still like to get my head in the garbage can. Whenever I'm in crisis I just scream for Chinese spare ribs and chocolate cake. But I work it out by doing bicep curls and looking at myself in the mirror.'
She gazed around the room for some self-authenticating piece of glass. 'Now even my cats are 90 per cent raw. They eat grapes, tomatoes, melon rind, and I give them distilled water. I let them have meat once in a while - raw, not cooked - because I don't wanna deal with them in detox.' Detoxification, in these narratives of spiritual struggle, counts as the long night of the soul: the body's purgative agony as it pours junk through all available orifices. Angela, mercifully, had spared her pussies the pangs of withdrawal.
Next to inveigle me into the confessional box was Doug, a sleek, loquacious yuppie who coolly introduced himself as 'a born-again capitalist and the CEO of a venture-funded Internet outsourcing company' and gave me his variant of the compulsory spiritual travail. 'I didn't have a health problem, I had an epiphany. And now I'm a missionary for raw. I work 100 hours a week, I never know fatigue or catch cold, and do I ever look good! I lost 40 pounds on the diet: for a white guy, I used to have a big ass, but now it's real firm. That's why I enjoy my colonic sessions, though it feels kinda weird to have a man grabbing my butt and getting excited by what comes outta there.'
I noted with dread another reference to the colonic cubicle, a sacred place for these people who disparage eating but delight in excretion. Would I have to go there? Did I dare? Doug, meanwhile, was emitting the energy which Blake calls eternal delight. 'I just feel the light and life radiating out of me. Overcoming the hostility of carnivores and omnivores gave me a strength I never knew. And that translates into my deal-making too. I give my clients coconut milk to drink, not soda. Every week I share a durian with my staff. Did they tell you that thing's aphrodisiac?'
I wondered whether it might not be bad policy to make your employees randy during office hours. Doug patiently explained another basic principle of the new, raw world to me. 'No, the durian frees up the body and creates an ecstatic state. It lowers inhibitions and makes you want to spread your seed. Peter, I don't have to tell you that successful people like us have a high sex drive. We have strong seeds!'
I thought, dolefully, of the durian's bulbous wooden pod, which reminded me of a testicular tumour. So a man is a fruit - an organism defined by the little bag of self-perpetuating spores inside.
Up on the street, Doug volunteered to demonstrate the reverberant force caged in his trim, colonically-cleansed frame. You see that bus there? I feel I could roll that sideways with my bare hands. That's what raw food does for you.' Before he could metamorphose into Superman, I fled.
The food, as I soon realised, is a pretext. Eating raw is about the life, the lifestyle, and also the afterlife. On another scrofulous East Village street, I searched for High Vibe, a store which sells enzymes, silica gel, goat's whey and a tipple called Happy Face Tea, as well as holding classes on the preparation of raw food. Next to the clubhouse of Hell's Angels, I followed instructions by entering a tenement, edging along a linoleum corridor, negotiating a rubble-strewn yard and groping into one more basement. In the aromatic, candle-lit gloom, a middle-aged hippie with tattooed pythons coiling round his bare arms stepped from behind a curtain. 'Welcome,' he said. 'They call me Dagger. This is my space. I am a minister and this is my church. It is a place about healing, health and love.' He opened his serpentine arms, as if about to gather the world into his embrace. In fact it was me he gathered. 'Down here we hug, we don't shake hands.' He crushed me as if in a nutcracker, and said: 'Why so stiff? Are you British?'
No, I thought, I'm Australian, and I believe (with a religious fervour of my own) that purification ought to happen in the shower. Dagger, being raw, was undeodorised, which is why I flinched. He drew his own assumptions from my reaction. 'Peter, your energy field is under cosmic attack. I know it, I'm never wrong. Let me balance your chakras. How's your colon health? From the look of you I'd say you were B-deficient. How about some dried papaya? A four-dollar bag oughta do it for you.'
To loosen me up, Dagger retreated behind his curtain and re-appeared with a libation. I think my hand shook as I placed the straw between my lips. That it should come to this, I thought: to die in an East Village basement. Luckily the potion was nothing more than coconut milk. 'That stuff,' Dagger said, 'is like blood plasma. It's just one molecule away from mother's milk.' With the temperature at 95 degrees in the streets, I was grateful at least for its wetness. As with religion, I suppose that something is good for us if it makes us feel good - if it fills our emptiness, slakes our thirst.
Having dosed me, the proprietor of High Vibe offered to make me vibrate. 'I'm very good with my hands,' said Dagger. 'It's a gift, I'm humbled by it. You want I should do some body work on you?'
The cult has its headquarters in the East Village because this is the entrenched home of all alternative cultures. The rawies have seceded from the city, and from a consumerist America which sees the individual as a maw - a receptacle for burgers, fries, shakes, autos, home electronics and whatever other luxury you don't need but can't do without. Manhattan has a blasé indifference to this and every other kind of freakishness. It takes more courage to be a weirdo in the suburbs.
On a Sunday afternoon I drove out to New Jersey to visit a raw nuclear family, living in a leafy cul-de-sac between neighbours who taunt them by barbecueing chops, steaks and sausages in their backyards. The Ranzis, sealing off their house from such carnal odours, live on an island of the mind. Karen has withdrawn her children from school, where they are taught to love fast food and candy; she indoctrinates them herself at home. Her husband, Harvey, is a commodity broker, but he would sooner die, she insists on his behalf, than trade pork bellies. Even their dog, Peaches, whose ribs protrude through her skin, is raw.
'We made her do it cold turkey when we got her,' said Karen, proud to have put the animal through the torture of detoxification. 'She was in shock, she fasted for three days. But she has good karma, she came through OK. Now she eats nuts, pumpkin seeds, avocado, once in a while a raw egg yolk. And every so often a bit of biodynamic beef, but not cooked. She has the firmest bowel movements of any dog in the neighbourhood: I check when I take her out for a walk.'
I felt a colonic appointment looming. Every raw conversation returns, with grim inevitability, to the triumphant exit of roughage from the body. I listened to Karen's account of her own transitional traumas. Canker sores, a swollen tongue, alarming weight loss: these were her merit badges as her detoxifying body vomited mucus. She believes that she cured her son's chronic allergic rhinitis, his croupe, ear infections and asthma by banning cooked food. Now the children are nearing adolescence, it worries her that they will lapse from rawness. Other parents fret about drugs; it pains Karen to think they might sneak an illicit slice of birthday cake at a friend's party. 'That's why I home-school. They've had candy with friends - and they've paid the price with cavities.' She said this with punitive relish, rejoicing in the harsh moral lesson. 'Eating M&Ms isn't all that far away from smoking cigarettes or taking dope. They're all toxic, they all kill you in the end. I give them my own vegetable cookies - well, they're uncooked actually - to take when they go to parties. And you know, their friends laugh at that. Those people out there!' Karen shook her head in dismay at unregenerate, unraw America.
The Ranzis' daughter Gabriela, who receives her education at the kitchen table, showed me a story she had written about a family which disobeys David Wolfe's law. 'Brittany's Mom made soup out of a can,' I read. I scented dietary pollution. Was Brittany's Mom, I asked, a bad person? The answer came as quickly and automatically as a dental cavity after eating refined sugar: 'Oh, sure,' shrugged Gabriela. 'She dies in the end.'
Karen's nurturing of her children has been fiercely protective and possessive. She breast-fed her son Marco, she told me, until he was five. I gaped, but she insisted that weaning had to be the child's choice, not the mother's. 'Sure, it used to gross people out when they saw it. We did it secretly near the end. And when he stopped drinking from me, that was the last time Marco had milk. I'm disgusted by dairy products. Imagine drinking from another species!' While imagining that, I also imagined gnawing your mother's nipple at the age of five.
Meanwhile Peaches, having wolfed down a bowl of mashed avocado and pumpkin seeds, loped towards me, stuck her snout between my legs, and began to munch on the meatiest part of me. 'Didn't you tell me this dog was a vegan?' I yelped. Karen disengaged her from my groin and said, 'Yeah, but she still has a food issue.' So, I thought as I soothed my mangled durian, do you.
Controversies agitate the raw sub-culture. One dispute can be summed up in the terms Hamlet used - to juice or not to juice. If you juice, are you discarding valuable pulp? Should you go for sprouts or wheatgrass? Are green drinks (cocktails of cabbage, spinach or lettuce) beneficial? The most hotly debated issue, among those who want to detoxify at speed, is the virtue of colonic irrigation. Should the body be cleaned from top to bottom, or - with the aid of a hose pipe - in reverse?
Under the chairmanship of the re-arisen Tom, all these doctrinal choices were argued about at a meeting of a weekly support group that I attended in the basement on 23rd Street. The atmosphere was once more churchy, thanks in part to a collection for funds to pay the rent. A pity that the plastic bag passed round for donations was emblazoned with the logo Western Beef. An Indian swami sat in a corner, near an enigmatic Haitian 'breatharian' who is admired by all because he lives, supposedly, on air alone. A natty young gay man gossiped about the guacamole burritos he serves to friends: 'They look so festive, cos I tie them up with thin fancy carrot strips.' A pink mesomorphic fellow exuded sweat and self-congratulation: 'I ate six mangoes today, and it was like, wow, awesome!'
Tom gave recipes for sprouting grain to make green bread, condemned asparagus and broccoli because of their sulphur content, and issued edicts about gall bladder flushing. Everyone deferred to him. He had, after all, come back from the dead, thanks to the gospel of rawness. He reduced detoxification to a stark and simple equation: 'What went in has gotta come out. When you go raw, you have to put out what you ate plus all the toxins that built up during the years when you did cooked. They're all in there, they won't move until you detox. Garlic is good, it causes major flushing. When you get into the cleansing process, that means some pretty damn massive bowel movements.'
His audience took this as a challenge, and compared stools like a gang of competitive coprohiles. A black woman bragged: 'I put out 10 pounds when I had my colonic last week.' Tom beamed approvingly. A frail, wasted old man moaned: 'I don't have that much in there. I wanna know when I'm gonna bottom out here?' Tom ordered him to keep on flushing: 'Maybe you've got a worm you need to put out. Some people put out three feet of tarry rope at a time.'
'You've got a lifetime's crap in there,' said the fat man, detoxing through every shiny pore. 'A friend of mine put out three wax crayons she'd eaten as a child 30 years ago. They came out coated in mucoid plaque.'
Tom once again approved: 'Your stools should be sheathed with mucus when you detox, they come out easily that way, they're sheathed.' The gay guy announced his own personal best: 'I had fuzzies! I put out this black stuff, and there were hairs on it!' He earned some admiring applause.
A tense young woman remained unpersuaded by this display of anal produce. 'I'm raw, but I have trouble breathing, I constipate, my breath is raspy, I get rashes. I'm doing enemas. I've been thinking about colonic work, but it's expensive. And I'm not sure that I want colonics to be part of my lifestyle.'
'It's medically proven,' said Tom with his usual authoritarianism, 'that people who don't do colonics die young, and they die insane. Honey, you need flushing. Get yourself a home kit, use the gravity method. I flush myself for 45 minutes every day. Every home in America should have a juicer in the kitchen and a colonic unit in the bathroom. That would be the end of all our problems.'
In the end, I saw no way of avoiding it. I made an appointment with Gil Jacobs, the colonic therapist or 'healing artist' recommended by Tom. 'If you're in a crisis of healing,' Tom said, 'he'll make a sliding scale of payments.'
Gil is a Jewish stand-up comedian dressed like a Californian beach boy, with pastel shorts and bare feet; he flushes the faithful in a studio - as he calls it - on top of a skyscraper beside the East River. Giggling naiads, who are his technicians, circulate between bathrooms with piles of towels and absorbent tissues. The growling of the city below is hardly discernable over the cataracts of running water heard behind closed doors: discharged from taps, I wondered, or from liquefying human bodies?
'Sir,' said one of Gil's water nymphs, 'are you here for a treatment?' I felt my sphincter defensively tightening. 'No,' I said, 'to sit in on one.' I sat in on it on top of a toilet, with the lid closed. Beside me on the bed was the client, a 67 year-old tango instructor (this is, never forget, Manhattan) called Deborah - bare except for a flimsy hand towel held at her groin, bald and dangerously thin because she has ovarian cancer, but bright-eyed and desperately hopeful. She is something of an anomaly in raw circles, since she contracted the disease long after taking up the diet which should have prevented it. To the outrage of her doctors, she has refused further chemotherapy and entrusted herself to Gil.
Coaxing the hose into her, Gil breezily recited his qualifications. 'You can't get intellectual about it. It's like being a sex counsellor, or a priest. Matter of fact, an orang-outang could do colonics. It takes no skill. I'm just a publicity agent for the work of healing. This is not a career choice. I mean, who'd do this for a living?' He gaily topped up the tank with some peroxide, which he pumped into Deb. 'I got into this when I self-healed. I drank hydrochloric acid at age 22, I was not digging life at the time. Then I went holistic. I used to be a teacher, but I got fired from 10 different schools. No, dude, for being too radical! So here I am - I'm the punk rock of healing, I'm like Sid and Nancy, I'm way out there. Hey Peter, did you know that Jesus taught the disciples to do enemas? It's all in the Dead Sea Scrolls.'
Out of Gil's mouth flowed slogans, out of Deb's bottom flowed sludge. He kept up what I'd have to call a running commentary as he twisted the hose, pushed and pummelled to adjust it inside her, fiddled with taps, added another fizzing splash of peroxide and raised her legs in the air. 'Now we're seeing the effects of the peroxide. Jeez, will you look at those runs, Peter? That's the cancer she's putting out, it can't live when you oxygenate it. Deb darling, we're gonna go on beyond the hour today, because you're really letting fly. You're in the state of healing, so the body just dumps from all organs. Now we're getting up as far as the newest stuff. Did you juice today?'
I remembered the menu at Quintessence, which invokes Renaissance alchemy by predicting that uncooked meals will enable us to regain that 'fifth essence, or ultimate substance' which is the prerogative of the angels. Food will be aerated into pure spirit. Here, trying not to notice the contents of the transparent hose, I was watching alchemy in reverse, as food was transmuted into impure, toxic waste.
'How's that feeling?' Gil asked Deb, who smiled wanly. 'I'm not getting any vibe,' he added: he uses the hose like a divining rod, and apparently her innards weren't making it tingle. 'I think we just hit a pocket.'
As we left her to put on her clothes, Gil said: 'I gotta tell you, there's a negative side to this work. It's my joy to do it, but when I see that stuff coming out of her, I wonder what's going on in the bowels of the people in the street. You see a construction worker with a big gut, what they call a meat-and-potatoes guy: that's his impacted colon the sorry bastard's carrying around. Or some overweight mother giving her kid a greasy pizza and an ice cream. They're just cardiac cases waiting to happen. When I walk down the street, I watch people killing themselves.'
Manhattan, that insatiable, carnivorous city, howled outside the open windows like a zoo at feeding time.
Deb emerged from her cubicle, and shyly asked Gil's permission to eat two Portobello mushrooms and a spear of asparagus for dinner. He reluctantly consented, but warned her to keep on juicing. 'And Deb,' he said, 'you make sure you get radical with the wheatgrass.'
I thought I detected a flicker of revulsion around her lips. 'No, no,' she said, 'raw feels good. I was dead in the days when I used to eat cooked food, I was so dysfunctional. What brought me back to life was the tango and my colonics. The surgeons want me to go back to the chemo, but I know Gil is going to save me.'
Then her eyes clouded over, and she admitted a momentary recidivism. 'Sometimes I have this longing,' she said. 'I know it's wrong, but I get desperate to have a tuna fish sandwich. Oh, and a martini with it.'
Gil scowled. 'It's OK,' she sighed. 'I can remember what they tasted like. I have the memories.' That, I thought, is all any of us have - a souvenir of meals eaten, of a life lived. On the wall behind Deb I noticed a poster advertising a group called Beyond 100, whose members believe that rawness will enable them to live that long. David Wolfe has vowed that he will live 'for one or more full spans of a cooked-eater's life'. Deb's demands are more modest: a few more years, a bowl of mushrooms, the smell of tuna if not the taste, a cocktail. Why shouldn't she eat, drink and be merry? Tomorrow we are all going to die.
Back at my apartment I found an admonitory email from Doug, the seed-spreading CEO. 'Hi Peter,' it said. 'Hope you have incorporated what you learned the other day into your lifestyle.'
Indeed I had. Walking home that evening, I stopped on 23rd Street and incorporated a portion of Sophia Loren, complete with meat balls.
The Raw manifesto
'Living and Raw Foodists believe in eating only an UNCOOKED, UNHEATED, UNPROCESSED and ORGANIC plant based diet.'
'The act of heating food over 116 degrees F destroys all the enzymes in food. If you eat food that is enzyme-less, your body will not get maximum utilisation of the food. This causes toxicity in the body.'
'The original diet of homo-sapiens MUST have been vegetables, fruits, and nuts! What other choices did we have? Clearly, a raw, plant-based diet is the main food staple throughout the vast majority of the history of Humankind!'
'If you put your hand just for a moment into boiling water or on a hot stove, that should forever persuade you just how destructive heat is. Food is usually subjected to these destructive temperatures for perhaps half an hour or more. What was living substance becomes totally dead very rapidly with exposure to heat!'
Side effects include: headache, nausea, upset stomach, diarrhoea, acne/rashes, strong body odour, little or no sex drive, hunger, fatigue and emaciation.
From: www.living-foods.com


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