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CTT stands for Consciousness Transformation Tapping and it is a new and exciting way to permanently heal, faster than EFT or any other method we have ever used. We have used it for a couple of months and have profoundly changed who we are. Unlike EFT, PSTEC or TFT it goes many levels deeper and enables complete cures for lifelong conditions in minutes. But the curing is done by you, we only guide you in this. Most clearing sessions are completed in minutes.
It focuses mainly on clearing past life traumas, and before we were introduced to CTT we were of the opinion that we do not have past life traumas. We believed past life traumas were not carried over to our new lives. In fact it is not cleared away, we can carry trauma for many lifetimes and often do, and can carry a single trauma preventing growth through hundreds or thousands of past lives.
It's not just for clearing past lives though, it is also used to clear current emotional issues and to gain insights and have the law of attraction work for us as well. In fact there is no limit to it's potential.
The main inventor of CTT, George Duisman has spent many years perfecting this rapid form of tapping and has given much of it away for free for us to use. He has trained facilitators throughout the world to enable this technique to become well-known, so we as humanity can grow and become all that we can reach our potential quickly.


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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
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Posted on August 14, 2012 By Gordon Henry Celebrity Authors, Nonfiction, Student 2012
The Transformative Power of Writing
Due to space constraints within the print edition of the magazine, the staff at Tribal College Journal could only print a portion of Gordon Henry's original essay. We would like to thank Henry for his generosity of spirit in recognizing the student writers featured in this year's issue of TCJ Student.
I am honored to write the introduction for 2012 Tribal College Journal's Student Creative Writing Issue. As a former tribal college teacher and administrator I am aware of the breadth of opportunities and the wealth of human, social, and cultural resources tribal colleges provide for tribal people and our tribal communities. The reach of those resources stands evident in this collection of writing. This issue of student work illustrates the ways tribal colleges have become expressive communities of artistic reflection, of personal, family, tribal and human experience, as well as sovereign ground for academic development, acquisition of technical skills and for celebrating the empowerment community, self-determined, learning brings to our lives.
As a writer, I have experienced the transformative potential creative work brings to the lives of individuals and communities. The world has literally opened up to me through creative expression and writing. By working with and through poetry, fiction, music and performance I was able to revisit the past, connect more deeply and intimately with my own tribal culture, and reach audiences of people that I never thought to write to or for. My poetry and fiction has been translated into Spanish, Greek, German, Portuguese and Italian and I have given readings and performances in various venues in the United States and Europe. I've received notes and letters from afar, from people in New Zealand, Argentina, Japan, Portugal and various states in the U.S. Those notes were from people telling me they had read my work and were inspired by what they read.
Writing and creative work have also given me the opportunity to travel and meet people I would never have met otherwise. I have traveled to Holland, Spain, Germany, Greece, Italy and England and to reservations and universities throughout the U.S., as part of my writing life. Over the past few years, I have read with Native writers Gerald Vizenor, Simon Ortiz, Marc Turcottte, Kimberly Blaeser, Heid Erdrich, Jim Northrup, Sherwin Bitsui, and Natalie Diaz, among others. I have also had the good fortune of meeting some of the most celebrated American Indian writers, academics, activists, and artists working today. Writing has also opened unforeseen creative work for me. Recently, I was invited to perform my work accompanied by jazz musicians from Detroit. For me that was a great honor, since I knew I would be working with some of the most respected jazz musicians in the Midwest. This was important to me on other levels, as well. That performance required me to re-experience my own words; to adapt to new zones and spaces of sound, words and people; to open myself to new ways of working, creatively.
Rather than saying anything about my writing, or the qualities of my work, I believe these notes I've cited about my own experiences, speak directly to the ways creative work and artistic expression open us to possibilities for personal growth and human liberation. Art, creative expression, writing, music, and performance throw us into an imaginative (perhaps transcendent) world, where story, words, sound, and image communicate beyond notions of self and the limits of jurisdictions of time, space, and body. That world has no horizon or vertical limits, yet it is informed, among other things, by the honesty of our expression, by the playfulness of our sounds, by the flow of our graphic representations, by the intensity of our accounts of experience, and by the liberating energy of our thoughts.
I am writing here of inspired, innovative works of creation. Innovative, creative work—like our traditional stories, songs, and ceremonies—turns consciousness. And in those turns, we learn to re-engage, to see the world anew, to dwell upon the unknown, to empathize and to move toward becoming those people the first creative sparks of our imagination called us to be. But creative work, whether it be song, poetry, story, fiction, painting, or sculpture, doesn't hold transformative, consciousness-turning possibilities for only the writer, storyteller, or artist. Imaginative, inspired work engages the audience and brings them along, gesturing, sounding forth, offering new ways of seeing, and experiencing our engagement with the world we live in. So it is with the writing in this edition of the Tribal College Journal. The student work here carries that imaginative spark, that inspired delivery that reminds us of who we are, how we survive, and what we are capable of, as we continue to learn and grow as human beings.
In her story "We All Look Alike," Jamie Figueroa shows us life with a child's sense of insight, as her character/narrator develops a growing understanding of the behavior and motives of her mother. More than that, Jamie's story brings us into the social and cultural milieu of the child's life with an imaginative array of details in scenes and characters. In one beautifully crafted passage, for example, the child sees herself behind her mother in a mirror:
I'm on tiptoes balancing on the toilet seat behind her. I can see myself in the mirror when she puts her arms down. I pout and make that noise I make when I don't like something, like there's a wind-up toy stuck in my throat.
Here the child can only see herself once the mother moves a certain way. But, as the story goes on we learn, as the child learns, that her mother's distractions and concerns are driven, as much as anything, by a desire to provide for her daughter. In the end this story creates a strong feeling of empathy in me for Mami, the mother character. I understand her as forging, through sacrifice, a way of survival for herself and her daughter.
"Thunder and Lightning," by Jennifer Whitewolf, also offers us a story of survival, but in this case survival hinges on relationships with our relatives, and in the energy and forces of the greater natural world. Further, while "Thunder and Lightning" reflects a more traditional world and storytelling tradition, the story draws us to universal themes of loss, longing for lost loved ones, and the possibilities of regeneration through "vision." Black Wolf's vision allows the twin boys in the story to bring their mother back to life, to bring her back home, where family is made strong again as the boys "grow into strong men providing for their family." The lessons of survival and importance of family are clear in the story, but it is the vision of Black Wolf and the transformative power of vision that speaks most to me in the story. "Thunder and Lightning" reminds us that who we are and how we survive stands in relation to our visionary capacities and is evident in our relations in the natural world.
"Of Hand Blooming" by Monty J. Little is also a visionary piece, but in this case the work expresses a more idiosyncratic perspective, as the world opens up with an up-close view of the main character's bleeding hand. Initially, that view of the hand sparks memory, as his hand reminds him of "thirsty reservation washes." The studied view of blood on the hand transforms then as Little takes us through a variety of poetic analogies and artistic configurations of how blood on the hand draws the interior thoughts of the character toward the larger narrative context:
His blood curls, divides and slowly flakes off his palm. Within these few passing seconds, he stands, surviving a deep concussion of two cars and life around him simply unfolds.
Thus, a deep, protracted meditation of blood on the hand has led the narrator to "stand" as he understands the impact of survival and of how we are all involved in this ironically "simple" unfolding of life. Little's metaphors and use of language are astounding and imaginative throughout the piece. His work here resonates with a strong sense of imagery and complex, concussive strains of musical language and poetic perception.
Katrina Montoya's "Madre," from "A Collection for My Mother and Father," speaks poignantly of the bonds within family and the deeper histories hidden in language. In this piece, an inscription in Spanish and "framed in gold" becomes an inter-generational reminder of child-and-mother-relations, as well as a source of specific memories of the narrator's grandmother. While the young narrator of the story acknowledges that her sisters did not understand the words in the inscription at first, as 'they grew older and wiser in the Spanish language" they grew more connected to the depth of meaning of the words framed in gold. The narrative deftly closes with an English translation of the Spanish inscription and we, as readers, come to understand how mothers have been honored as sources of wisdom and love, for generations in the narrator's family.
"Brown Sugar and Vanilla," Montoya's companion piece to "Madre," links growing up with grasping social secrets associated with "pretty backpacks, pretty clothes, pretty skin" and the scent a girl must find for herself. Again Montoya brings us back to family and it is the memories and words of the narrator's father that help the young girl of the story negotiate the secrets of the world. As the narrator grows older she remembers how her father brought her back to who she was:
At times I catch the scent in the wind, blowing off of me and into my mind. It reminds me of standing in the aisle of the store, just a few years ago, studying each scent as carefully as I had concocted my own. I remember my dad coming over with the shopping basket and joining in, telling me once again about the honeysuckle. He sprayed mists in front of him, looking at me smiling. At last he handed me Exclamation, telling me, "This is you."
Both of Montoya's narratives honor mothers and fathers in memory and the importance memory holds in understanding intergenerational relations, but Montoya's stories also reveal how over time, as we grow, memory often solves problems and unlocks seemingly impenetrable secrets to show us who we are.
Jayni Anderson's story, "The Blanket," delves into the memories of an adoptee. In the story, the narrator looks back to the past and tells of finding a journal in an attic. That journal holds an important account of her past and in the end that account provides the adoptee with the story of how she came to be adopted. Anderson also effectively uses an interesting narrative technique by presenting a story within a story; each story entails remembrance, so that memory spirals from one narrator, the adoptee, back to another narrator, her adoptive father, the author of the journal.. The whole narrative is held together, again, by intergenerational memory, symbolized by the blanket, which appears in both the father's and the adoptee's stories. As in many other stories in this issue of the Tribal College Journal, Anderson's story conveys an appreciation for the love and security a child receives from dedicated loving parents. And, once again, realization through recollection establishes the appreciation the narrative imparts to us.
Family relations stand at the of center of Delores Tourtillott-Grignon's story "She Took the Sun with Her," as well. In this piece the narrator reflects on a day in her life as a young girl. Throughout the story the narrator's observations convey humor and insight about relations between sisters as they try to decide what to do on a "gray day," on a day when their mother is gone. Tourtillott-Grignon also presents the world of the young narrator with imagination and a believable sense of the way sisters influence each other as they negotiate experience without the direct influence of an adult whose absence shadows the very physical reality the girls must contend with. This is no small feat. By presenting the world through the eyes of a middle sister, a child narrator, Tourtillott-Grignon displays an understanding of experience and she conveys that understanding through character and voice to us, as readers.
Katrina Montoya's imaginative poem, titled "Golden Arches and Indian Tacos," deals with the cultural ironies many contemporary Native people face as we move between cultural sites of seemingly incongruent realities: "to become modern, as they say, rolling into drive-thrus." Moreover, Montoya's artistic representation of such ironies sings with a powerful, often musical, sense of the flow of language even as that language depicts hyperbolic images of natives exploding from fast food excess:
They sprinkle white dust like anthrax, choking us from the inside as our bellies spill from our blue jeans onto the floor, expands into the ceiling Hissing and popping golden liquid pull us from Earth to corner windows And we swarm around it, busy bees to honey and suck on fleshy fingers and gnaw on the Colonel's bones
Through Montoya's imagery and commentary we see the debilitating ends of overconsumption of poison food which is not "our own." And we come to Montoya's smart, insightful closing lines which will be our end, unless we change our thinking:
hush for a story someone once told me, Until we allow ourselves to think, we are still not able to survive with this it is not our own, and we are consumed.
Anna Nelson's "Letter to June," promises a different end. This piece offers a glimpse into the life of a character who is writing of her own end, of being "taken by my own hand" in a room she will "haunt until the sun sets it aflame." With an ability to write empathically, Nelson has created a powerful epistolary vision of a character who's lost relation to affection, who cannot understand death on the news, who is writing a letter to another who has already died. Nelson's letter is a haunting, powerful statement on loss of relations. Without a sense of purpose, such loss pushes us to a "void of references to the past: a few pictures of kids who've moved on." Yet, while Nelson's "Letter to June" renders a bleak reality, the imaginative empathy such a piece demands speaks to better possibilities for understanding and releasing the emotions conveyed by the character writing the letter in Nelson's work.
"Red Fox," by Loga Fixico also depicts disturbing moments of human behavior, but in this case, dangerous consequences are connected with "blind," dispassionate human acts. "Humanity," kills while obliviously travelling a "black road," a road of haste, in a state of urgency, but without a vision about where humanity is headed and why humanity is traveling that way, toward an unknown end. Further, this lack of vision, this human blindness, portends a sense of destruction. The road humanity travels "devours" life ignorantly, without seeing or hearing what has been devoured in the process of this blind travelling. Fixico's poem serves as a reminder then; she aptly constructs a symbolic warning about humanity's relations to the larger world of nature, or of life associated with the Red Fox. Though "Red Fox" seems to establish a fixed end on a black road of a devouring way of life associated with human activity, Fixico's poetic statement calls out to humanity with a poet's sense of more appropriate, life-affirming possibilities. The critical language of the poem and the critical eye of the poet, suggest a broader vision.
By the time I finished reading the works by the students, I realized the gift and wisdom of their accomplishments. Their work reflects knowledge, insight, empathy and creativity, as well as craft and skill.
Each nation represented by these writers, each community these writers have drawn from and lived in, each tribal college these writers have attended, each teacher who has worked with these writers, should take pride in and celebrate the student work published in this issue of the Tribal College Journal. We should all admire the skill, the wisdom, and the vision displayed in these student works. They have shown us their gifts and we should be thankful for the work they are doing and for all those who've supported them and helped them bring this work out. For my part, I am inspired and honored to be part of this issue and I wish each of these writers the best as they go on in the spirit of creation.
Gordon Henry, an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe in Minnesota, is the director of the Native American Institute at Michigan State University.
We All Look Alike By Jamie Figueroa
Thunder and Lightning By Jennifer Whitewolf
Of Hand Blooming By Monty J. Little
A Collection for My Mother and Father By Katrina Montoya
The Blanket By Jayni Anderson
So She Took the Sun with Her By Delores Tourtillott-Grignon
Golden Arches and Indian Tacos By Katrina Montoya
Letter to June 2032 By A.M. Nelson
Red Fox By Loga Fixico
Where the Ancestors Cried By Stephanie A. Fisher
Mix Tape Singing My Tunes By Beatresea Kien
The Bike By Chasity Ann Vigil
The Whisper By Jayni Anderson
Intersections on the Journey to Higher Learning By Chad J. Reynolds
Smoke Signals By Elizabeth Sam
I Am Made of Cardboard By A.M. Nelson
Daisy By Loga Fixico
Statistically Speaking By Millicent M. Pepion
Artwork By Crystal Kaakeeyaa Worl Demientieff
Artwork by Burdette Birdinground
by Gordon Henry
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The eighth day of our 12 dollars of Christmas challenge has come and gone so I better get to blogging about it. So here it goes:
My gift to P:
An Avengers towel!
Just add water.
P's gift to me:
Some foot powder just for me because apparently my "feet stink". Sure my feet stink, if "stink" now means smells like a unicorn in a field of roses.
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In a blast from the past, Real Housewives of Orange County alum Alexis Bellino recently popped up in a cameo appearance having lunch with Emily Simpson. Alexis' life has changed a lot since she left RHOC.
In 2018, Alexis and Jim Bellino were divorced. I must admit that the Bellino's marriage was often uncomfortable to watch. When Alexis left the show in 2013, she was on bad terms with Tamra Judge, who attacked Alexis because of her Christian beliefs. Apparently, when Tamra referred to the devoutly Christian Alexis as "Jesus Jugs," it was the end of their relationship.


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The opening of Transpower's Grid Skills Bunnythorpe facility will mark the completion of works to upgrade three key electricity industry training facilities
Transpower plays a key role in New Zealand's electricity industry by providing training through its Grid Skills programme for many of those working to maintain and repair lines, substations, and other key assets.
"We rely on our service providers – highly skilled professionals who complete the majority of our field work – to help us power lives and jobs across Aotearoa New Zealand." explains Transpower Chief Executive Alison Andrew.
"Our Grid Skills programme and facilities ensure the industry retains knowledge and techniques required to safely and efficiently maintain and repair New Zealand's high-voltage transmission assets."
Service provider employees from across New Zealand attend various week-long courses at Transpower's three Grid Skills facilities, supporting the economy of the communities in which these facilities are based.
Two other training facilities at Omaka and Western Road were recently upgraded.


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By law all large businesses in England will charge 5p for single-use plastic carrier bags. This is already in force in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The idea is to encourage retailers and consumers to be less wasteful. Compared with bags made from materials such as paper plastic bags take longer to degrade.
From each 5p the Treasury will receive 0.83p in VAT, the retailer will be allowed to take reasonable costs but not to include the cost of the bag itself. The stores will then be encouraged to donate the remaining proceeds from the bags to go to local and National good causes. In some stores the customer will be able to vote where the money goes locally. You will be able to vote for your favourite local charity or community group.
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Scientists Have Discovered a Real-Life Kermit the Frog in Costa Rica
Kermit the Frog's real-life lookalike.
A Kermit the Frog lookalike has been discovered by scientists in the jungles of Costa Rica. The newly discovered species is called Diane's Bare-hearted Glassfrog (Hyalinobatrachium dianae) and gets it's 'Glassfrog' name from its truly amazing translucent belly.
The frog has remained undiscovered since now because of its remote location in the Caribbean foothills of Costa Rica. The frog was discovered by Brian Kubicki, Stanley Salazar and Robert Puschendorf and named after one of the scientists mothers, Janet Diane Kubicki.
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miniQuest: Trials is a 2D room based Platformer with beautiful Pixel-art graphics where it takes speed, skill, and fast reactions to beat each level in as little time as possible.
Can you beat all the levels and SECRET levels?
Arrow keys or WASD for commands
Z and Spacebar to jump
R = Reset level
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The Key Peninsula now has twice as many dentists to serve the needs of its residents. Dr. John Olsson, who has had his dental practice in the Key Center Corral for over 30 years, has sold it to Dr. Matthew J. Cozby. Olsson and Cozby will co-manage the affairs of the office and plan few changes, other than those that will benefit the patients, community or clinic employees. Cozby will take over full time, while Dr. Olsson will treat patients eight to 10 days a month. "I am not retiring and presently have no plans to do so," Olsson said.
Cozby grew up in Anaconda, Montana, a small rural town, and is familiar with the ways of life in a community like the Key Peninsula. He earned his bachelors in health science at Corban University in Salem, Oregon, before attending Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry in Nashville, Tennessee, for his doctorate degree. He entered the U.S. Army as a dentist in 2008. After a residency in general dentistry at Fort Carson, Colorado, he trained in advanced clinical practice at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Soon enough, he found himself living under occasional enemy fire in a combat housing unit in Iraq.
After serving in Iraq, Cozby practiced at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for five years, completing the Academy of General Dentistry Fellowship exam in the spring of 2017, shortly before his honorable discharge in June 2017. After meeting Olsson in a bible study program in Tacoma and learning about the local practice, Cozby began a regular schedule at the Key Center clinic. "I'm excited about providing dental care to our patients here in Key Center on a continuing basis," Cozby said. "Most of the time in the Army, I'd only see a patient once before they were shipped off to another location."
Cozby lives in Fircrest with his wife, Rachel, and daughters ages 7, 5 and 1. He enjoys the climate and natural environment of the Pacific Northwest, he said, and his outdoor activities include running, bicycling, clamming and the occasional triathlon.
Expanded services at Key Center Family Dentistry now include implants, periodontal surgery and extractions. A new topical treatment to treat and prevent cavities, silver diamine fluoride, is just one of the procedures that may be offered to patients, Cozby said. For more information, go to keycenterdental.com.


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MIO FRATELLO È FIGLIO UNICO My brother is an only child
2006 – 35mm – colore – 100′
Direction: Daniele Luchetti
Screenplay: Stefano Rulli, Sandro Petraglia, Daniele Luchetti from the novel dal romanzo Il fasciocomunista di by Antonio Pennacchi
Cinematography: Claudio Collepiccolo
Editing: Mirco Garrone
Set design: Francesco Frigeri
Music: Franco Piersanti
Costumes: Maria Rita Barbera
Cast: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Diane Fleri, Angela Finocchiaro, Luca Zingaretti, Anna Bonaiuto, Massimo Popolizio
Producers: Riccardo Tozzi, Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini
Production: Cattleya, Babe Films
Accio is driving his parents crazy: he is a surly brawler, an instinctive and frantic boy who fights every battle as the last battle. His brother Manrico is good-looking, charismatic and everybody loves him, but he is just as dangerous… In an Italian provincial city in the sixties and seventies of last century, the two young brothers go into politics on opposite sides, in an endless confrontation, through escapes, reversals, fights and great passions. It is a coming-of-age story that retraces fifteen years of Italian history through the adventures of Accio and Manrico, two brothers who are different, but not too much…
"Fast-paced, vibrant, well-written, well-crafted and well-acted (…) Luchetti's film is neither historical nor political: for the first time, political divisions are a family matter. The opposite political choices of the two brothers are explained by their opposite personalities and experiences, they are portrayed as two young boys who are both idealist but in different ways. It is a light and often funny film, which certainly does not overlook the endless national divisions (…) well-done and accurate, with an exemplary reconstruction of that historical period, luckily not relying mainly on songs". (Lietta Tornabuoni, La Stampa)
"(…) the real surprise is Elio Germano, who is sensitive, versatile, able to combine lightness and seriousness." (Piera Detassis, Panorama)
2007 Cannes FF – Un certain regard
2007 David di Donatello: Best Screenplay, Actor, Supporting Actress (Angela Finocchiaro), Editing, Sound (Bruno Pupparo)
2007 Silver Ribbons: Best Screenplay, Editing
2007 Ciak d'Oro: Best Actor


text: This year, Room 23 have had a huge focus on key competencies and what making a good learning choice looks like and sounds like in the classroom. We constantly reflect after each day and learning block, about what we did well and what we could do better next time. This term, we are putting what we have learnt to use! Each week, Mr Cassidy chooses two superheroes of the week and they notice good learning in the classroom. Before home time, they praise children who they noticed doing the right thing.


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THIS changes EVERYTHING.
What you are about to see is a collection of the most amazing spirit communication I have ever seen, heard or been a part of. I am still in a little bit of shock over how well this works but be assured, it works and is a game changing tool for the paranormal field.
It's all about SPIRIT COMMUNICATION. Hearing them talk to us, having them respond directly to questions, all in real time, all live with no use of pre recorded sounds or banks. This is the real deal and I have been working hard with Anthony Sanchez to create what I feel is the most important app of 2015.
Yes my friends, the SCD-1 is almost here and will allow those who are SERIOUS about speaking with the dead to do so in a way they have never experienced before.
This is 100% real. 100% true. 100% amazing.
This SCD-1 APp will be ready to purchase by Feb 1st 2015 and beta testers have included Bill Murphy from TV's Fact or Faked as well as Tim Woolworth who is a long time ITC expert.
For me, this app means so much more than just being an app. It was a labour of love and passion and a dream I had years ago to create something MEANINGFUL and IMPORTANT to this field. More than just a hacked noisy ghost box that makes it hard to communicate..but a serious tool that is A: Affordable B: truly portable C: Works better than ANYTHING out there.
When you watch this video keep in mind that I have been doing serious spirit work for 5 years now, full time. It has been a passion and love of mine and I am known worldwide as a true "spirit magnet".
When the SCD-1 is released I will have a full video all about it. How to use it. What to do to prepare for it. The best way to do a session. How to open yourself up to the spirit world and how to use it ANYWHERE even without an internet connection.
The SCD-1 has TWO modes. 1. A real time live radio scanner that is just like a typical ghost box but WITHOUT ANY white noise, static or ear killing pops. It scan live 24/7 internet radio without lags, pauses or problems.
The one thing I added after discovering it on my guitar amp and running a super early beta through it and a reverb pedal is that REVERB enhances the replies. I had Anthony add it and it is amazing.
I am so excited about this but instead of rambling on I will let you watch the video 😉
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Madagascar 3 Party Ideas
Are you ready to move it, move it?
We are hosting our very own Madagascar themed party in celebration of the release of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted! My boys love Madagascar so here is a compiled list of great tips to turn your party into Madagascar 3 party.
Madagascar 3 Party Ideas
A little craft goes a long way and keeps little ones busy while other guests arrived. Set out child's table with crafts to make Alex the lion. Have one made so that they can make it along with their friends or with parents help. This is great for keeping them busy.
For the food, buy a few already made french loaves slice. Top with mozzarella and pepperoni slices and pop in the oven one at a time a few minutes before guests are set to arrive. Have other loaves ready to go as the first start to finish off. We go through 3-4 loaves for a party of 15. Just a little trick you start to fill everyone up and don't feel overwhelmed with hungry guests. Also have cut up fruit out. This is an all around crowd favorite.
Mellman's Mozzarella Bread
Add in a sherbet punch with crushed ice.
Marty's Sherbet Punchpic via celebrations.com
Layered jello is another special treat. And is a nice change from cake.
Gloria's Rainbow Jello
A little fun and games perfect for any age. Try some of these and label them with the Madagascar theme. We give out prizes and not for being the best but for having the best spirit, being a great friend, team player. We like to keep it fun and ineresting during the party and not let anyone feel left out.
Alex Says: a take on Simon say's
Penguin Rally: a take on musical Chairs
Marty Freeze: Freeze tag
Gloria hula: Hula hoop game
Mellman Toss: a take on ring over the bottle
Do you have any great Madagascar 3 party ideas to add?
Madagascar 3 Party Ideas


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Any Radio device required to be authorized by MoC for Israel Type Approval – " Type Confirmation ".
This process is based on having the relevant EMC & Radio test reports under RED or FCC for the specific technology and Radio type.
In case manufacturer can't provide those reports, limited tests in a local lab must be performed.
In addition to the above, the manufacturer must provide local representative (LRP) details, since the type approval can be issued only under LRP / entity name.
Specific products determined under HS code, or with hazardous determined under MoE ( Ministry of Economy) categories (e.g. Safety of Toys, External Power Supplies), required to meet Israel Safety Standard approval under SII ( Standard of Institution), or to apply to MoE.
In case when CB report is available, limited tests or visual Inspection could be sufficient, however this could be determined only after SII evaluation of the product at SII premises.
The Ministry of Communications has decided to allow technological
experiments in the frequency band 915 to 917 MHz in the next months.
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What You Should Do To Make Your Business Successful
Do you want to start a business? There are many preparations you should do. The first phase – which is the preparation and working on documents to establish the business might be stressful. In no time, all of these will be worth it once the business gets successful. Especially that anyone who starts their own business wishes it to be successful. If you the following things, your business will surely be successful.
You should know yourself very well. You should come up with a concrete answer to the question, "Why do I want to start a business?" It is very important that you know yourself very well and you are aware of the things that you can do.
You should come up with a business idea. It is also good if you are aware of the current technologies that may be helpful to your business. You should also be aware of the upcoming technologies that are soon to be released by developers. You can learn about these through the official website of a certain developer and another site about technology. If you do this, you can get more info on the available technologies, current or to be released.
You can also ask yourself of a problem that you have encountered. Think of a solution you can provide for the problem. Think if the solution you have provided will be applicable to others.
You can solve the problem with the skills and knowledge you have. This way, you can come up with different ideas and better solutions since you are already equipped with the knowledge and skills.
Identify your market. It is important that you know who will be your possible customers. This is where you can come up with the right products and services to provide them. You can also have a more specific features of your products and services based from the preferences of your potential clients.
Another important thing to do is to compute all the expenses. This includes the paperwork, the registration, the office or building, the equipment that you will need, the cost of your services, and more. Check your finances and see if you can afford the total amount that will be needed. Do not give up easily if you think you cannot because there are still other ways like applying for a loan or looking for investors.
You can also get information and tips from other people. You can ask for help from your workmates, relatives, and friends. Tell them about your plans of building a business and share your ideas, they can provide comments and feedback after. See if their opinions say that your business idea has a good chance of being successful.
Mentioned above are the steps that you should follow in order to make your business successful.


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Today's tip...
In the past, Hello (hybrid scenario) users had to wait thirty minutes after first creating a PIN before they could use it to logon due to the time it takes for a public key to sync back to the on-premises AD using AAD Connect. If the user tried to logon before the sync-back they might see the following error message:
'This option is currently unavailable, please try again.'
Recent improvements to the Hybrid Certificate Trust scenario reduces the wait time for public key sync-back from the original thirty minutes to one minute or less, making it almost instantaneous by comparison. Users can now use their certificate with PIN or biometrics for authentication almost immediately resulting in a vastly improved experience.
NOTE: This does not change or affect hybrid key-trust deployments. Users in these deployments must still wait for the public key to sync to on-premises Active Directory before they can authenticate with their PIN or biometric.


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"Unlocking Potential, Providing Opportunities, Achieving Goals"
Big Bandana Bake Afternoon
We raised a magnificent £701.44 at the Big Bandana Bake afternoon. This is the most money ever raised in a single event at Blackwell Primary. We can't thank everybody enough for their support and to our wonderful Buddies for organising the event. The money will be going to a very good cause.
Rotary Visit
Mr Fox from Alfreton Rotary Club visited school to speak to our School Council. We will shortly be building the greenhouse on the school field. Thank you to all the children, parents and volunteers who are collecting plastic bottles.
Sportshall Athletics - District Champions, County Finalists!
Congratulations to Team Blackwell who won the Bolsover District finals of the Sportshall Athletics competition at Shirebrook.
Our team took part in the Derbyshire County finals and, while they were sadly not the winners, should be extremely proud of being one of the best teams in Derbyshire! Well done to all of you - we are so very proud of you!
Harvest Festival
On Friday 5th we held our annual Harvest Festival event. Thank you to all of our children, parents, carers and those in the community who supported us. Your donations will make a big difference to the most vulnerable in our community.
Free training and mentoring for local women
We're on the look out for women of all ages from Blackwell and surrounding villages who want to take part in our new project: Lean On. We are creating a network of women who are interested in or are currently running their own businesses however big or small, and those who want to work creatively or in the community. You don't need experience to access Mentors, a Weekend Residential and Group Discussions. Expect something a little different: more friendly likeminded groups getting creative than the cut-throat apprentice! To find out more please email/ text/ call: firstname.lastname@example.com // 07851 158174
Derbyshire Healthy Schools Award
Blackwell has been awarded the Derbyshire Healthy Schools Community Award! Well done to everybody involved.
Hen Welfare Trust Visit
On Thursday 19th April the Hen Welfare Trust visited Blackwell to teach Mr Ward's class all about chickens - and were accompanied by some very special visitors! We hope to welcome you back to Blackwell again soon!
Christmas Fayre
Thank you to everybody who supported our annual Christmas Fayre. We raised almost £800 - a magnificent total! All the monies raised will go to the school funds for all the little "extras" our wonderful children deserve.
RSPB Visit
On Tuesday 31st January, FS2, Y1 and Y2 took part in a RSPB activity session. Mr Ward's class focussed on "Giving Nature a Home" and mapped and scored the school grounds for animal habitats, Miss Hatter's class explored the school field looking for mini beasts and where we can find these. A great time was had by all and we look forward to welcoming the RSPB back in school soon.
NSPCC Visit
The NSPCC visited Blackwell to run workshops and a special assembly for all the children in school, on the theme of "Speak Out, Stay Safe". Thank you for coming to see us - we had a great time!
Tesco Bags of Help - WINNERS!
Thanks to all of your help in our school community and in Blackwell village, we have won first place in the final voting for the Tesco Bags of Help scheme! This means the school will receive £4,000 which we will be using to create a STEM lab in Mrs Gardner's old classroom.
Thank you to everybody who has supported us - we couldn't have done it without you! We will regularly be posting updates on our progress so please keep checking back for updates.
Friendship Day Special Dinner
Thank you to Mrs Howe and Mrs Devaney for cooking and serving a special Friendship Day dinner for all the children in school. As usual it was a great success! Also many thanks to Miss Flint for producing the wonderful table and hall decorations.
Progressive Sports Dancing Event
Lucy from Progressive Sports led Key Stage 1 in a special dancing assembly. They have been rehearsing their routines for several weeks and performed for the rest of the school in the celebration assembly on Friday 20th April. Well done to all of you - we really enjoyed watching your performance!
Wheelchair Basketball Day
We took part in a special sporting event, "Wheelchair Basketball Day", on Friday 13th April. All classes will be took part throughout the day and had great fun - as well as building an understanding of what it feels like to be in a wheelchair.
Sunflower Project
To help raise awareness of Centronuclear and Myotubular Myopathy, we are running our very own sunflower growing competition! Sunflowers were sent out on the last day before Easter and we already have lots of very strong seedlings - please keep checking back for updates as they continue to grow!
Bug Hotel/Fairy House/Bird House Decorating
Thank you to everybody who took part in the decorating. We will shortly be varnishing our creations ready to go out in the secret garden.
National Gardening Week & Gnome Zone
Blackwell Primary took part in National Gardening week. We are well on our way to our Food for Life Bronze Award (thank you to Mr White, Miss Flint and the Buddies for co-ordinating this) and the children took part in many exciting activities.
The Gnome Home/Zone lunchtime was, as expected, very popular and we will be the Gnome Roam was similarly popular - some of the gnomes were hidden in very devious places!
Harvest Festival
On Friday 5th we held our annual Harvest Festival event. Thank you to all of our children, parents, carers and those in the community who supported us. Your donations will make a big difference to the most vulnerable in our community.
Winter Warmer Dinner Day
Thank you to Mrs Howe for cooking a delicious "Winter Warmer" dinner for all the children in school. We all really enjoyed it!
Rotary Visit
Mr Fox from Alfreton Rotary Club visited school to speak to our School Council. We will shortly be building the greenhouse on the school field.
Food for Life
Blackwell is participating in the "Food for Life" scheme! We will soon be having sessions for our parents, carers and school community about healthy eating, growing our own food, and making cooking fun! We are applying for the Food for Life Bronze Award and hope to achieve this by the end of the summer term - please help us if you are able to do so!
Congratulations to Miss Flint
Congratulations to our very own Miss Flint, who won the "Dedication to Apprenticeship" award at the Learning Unlimited National Apprenticeship Awards at Ponds Forge in Sheffield on Thursday 22nd November. We are extremely proud of her!
Valentines Disco
Thank you to everybody who partied at our valentines disco! We made a great total of £185.91 for our school fund! Also - a very big thank you to Amy, Kelly, Sally and the other PTA members who organised and ran the disco for us!
Christmas Dinner & Christmas Assemblies
The children really enjoyed their delicious Christmas dinner today - the jokes in the crackers were especially funny! Thank you also to our parents for coming to see the Key Stage 2 Christmas Assembly today. It was lovely to see so many of you there.
Christmas Fayre
Thank you so much for your support at the Fayre - it was great to see so many of you there!
The work produced by the children was brilliant and a big thank you to the Blackwell Buddies who did a fantastic job of organising it.
Thank you to Felley Priory
A huge thank you to Felley Priory near Underwood for donating crates full of wonderful plants for our school gardens - as well as many other extras!
Our gardening club will be meeting soon to begin planting and beautifying the outdoor space.
We look forward to welcoming Felley Priory when our project is completed for a tour!
National Gardening Week & Gnome Zone
We took part in National Gardening Week at Blackwell Primary. Our Food for Life Bronze Award is almost there (thank you to the Office and the Buddies for co-ordinating this) and all children had the chance to take part in gardening themed activities.
The Gnome Home/Zone lunchtime was, as expected, very popular and the Gnome Roam was oversubscribed! Mr White and Miss Flint also had great fun hiding the gnomes in devious places! See our Twitter for our gallery!
CEMEX and Rainbridge - THANK YOU
A very big thank you to Cemex and Rainbridge, who built the new fence around the school pond and cleared a huge space for us. Thank you for all of your help!
Coming soon - Volunteer Passport
After Easter we will be offering the "Volunteer Passport", open to all our parents, carers and volunteers who help us in school. This is a programme based around workshop activities and all participants gain a qualification at the end - more details coming soon!
Sporting Achievements
Congratulations to our school tag rugby team for their masterful performance at the Tibshelf Tag Rugby Megafest!
Also, well done to our girls football team who secured third place at the Shirebrook tournament - we are very proud of you all!
PCSO Visit
A PCSO visited school in February to teach us how to Stay Safe Online! Thank you to PC Land and PCSO Brownlee for taking the time to see us!


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Naltrexone (#ldn) is usually used in 50mg doses as a drug to help heroin or opium addicts, by blocking the effect of such drugs. By blocking opioid receptors, naltrexone also blocks the reception of the opioid hormones (endorphins) that the brain and adrenal glands produce. Many body tissues have receptors for the endorphins, including virtually every cell of the body's immune system.
FDA-approved naltrexone, in a low dose (only 3mg), can boost the immune system, helping those with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and Autoimmune Diseases. The Immune System is "uncontrolled"in Autoimmune conditions. Boosting an uncontrolled Autoimmune response is a bad thing.
LDN is currently under experimental use for many conditions. Preliminary results in theory are very encouraging: Naltrexone increases the body's production of the beta and metenkephalin endorphins and blood tests have indicated that it can double or even triple the activity of natural killer cells. Naturalkillercells(also known as NK cells, K cells, and killercells) are a type of lymphocyte (a white blood cell) and a component of innate immune system. NK cellsplay a major role in the host-tissue rejection of both tumours and damaged cells.
Oh, but Doc, this is Low-Dose Naltrexone. My response: A single spark can ignite a forest fire.
A wealth of experimental data suggest that T cells are self-restricted or self-regulated. Immune regulators of the NEI Supersystem cannot be too high or too low as the self-regulation is dose-dependent. Artificially suppressing or stimulating the levels has detrimental effects on the immune response.
LDN works by suppressing the immune system. Eventually, to quote, Dr. Ian Malcolm of Jurassic Park:
… the kind of control you're attempting simply is… it's not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life (the immune system) will not be contained. Life (the immune system) breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh… well, there it is.
There are three different methods by which the body fights infections. While cellular immunity (Th1) directs Natural Killer T-cells and macrophages to attack abnormal cells and microorganisms at sites of infection inside the cells, humoral immunity (Th2) results in the production of antibodies used to neutralize foreign invaders and substances outside of the cells. T helper 17 cells (Th17) are a subset of T helper cells producing interleukin 17 (IL-17). They are developmentally distinct from Th1 and Th2 cells. Th17 cells are associated with autoimmune disease. The Th17 effector cells are triggered by IL-6 and TGF beta or IL-23 and IL-1β.
In many cases, all three arms of the immune system fight an infection. At other times, only one is predominantly needed to control an infection. A healthy immune system is both balanced and dynamic: it should be balanced between Th1 and Th2 and Th17 activity, switching back and forth between the three as needed. This allows for a quick eradication of a threat and then a return to balance before responding to the next threat. The inability to respond adequately with a Th1 response can result in chronic infection and cancer; an overactive Th2 response can contribute to allergies, various degenerative syndromes and autoimmune disease is a consequence of a Th17 response. In autoimmune illnesses, all of the arms of the immune system are active, creating the inflammation and tissue injury in autoimmune disease.
A failure of the Th1 arm of the immune system and an overactive Th2 arm is implicated in a wide variety of chronic illnesses. These include autoimmunity, CFS, candidiasis, multiple allergies, multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), viral hepatitis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, cancer and other illnesses. If these three arms of the immune system could be balanced by stimulating Th1 and decreasing Th2, then many of the symptoms associated with these chronic illnesses would diminish or disappear and we would have found the answer to immune restoration and balance or the equivalent of a cure. Unfortunately, where Th1 and Th2 leaves off, Th17 takes over and most treatments don't take account of Th17. This is definitely the case for Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN).
While correct in theory, it is incorrect in terms of how the immune system functions. Most view the immune system only in terms of Th1, Th2 and rarely if ever include Th17. Cytokines, chemokines, neurotransmitters and hormones that control the Th1, Th2 and Th17 responses direct the immune response. Hormones are always thought of as only involved in sex and reproduction. However, progesterone, estriol and testosterone are immune suppressive. While two of the estrogens – estrone, and estradiol are immune stimulating. Not to mention the inflammatory hormone Etiocholanolone, which is rarely tested for and drives the Th17 response. Yes, Etiocholanolone is a hormone made from DHEA that drives Th17. All too often low DHEA is thought to be an adrenal problem, when it is actually being converted into etiocholanolone. Neurotransmitters work both to alert the immune system to an area of the body in distress and signal the immune system that the work is over. Again, rarely tested for. Collectively, this is known as the NEI Supersystem.
Th1 cells secrete INF-gamma and IL-2, which activate macrophages and cytotoxic T-cells to kill intracellular organisms; Type Th2 cells secrete IL-4, IL-5, and IL-10, which help B cells to secrete protective antibodies. Th17 cells are triggered by IL-6, IL-17, IL-1β, and IL-23 to clear out damaged tissue damaged by autoimmunity or the uterine lining during menstrual cycles or miscarriages.
Interferon gamma (IFNγ) is secreted by T helper cells (specifically, Th1 cells), cytotoxic T cells (TC cells), macrophages, mucosal epithelial cells and NK cells. Among the effects of increased IFNγ are:
- Promotes NK cell activity
- Increases antigen presentation and lysosome activity of macrophages.
- Activates inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS)
- Induces the production of IgG2a and IgG3 antibodies from activated plasma B cells
- Causes normal cells to increase expression of class I MHC molecules as well as class II MHC on antigen-presenting cells.
- Promotes adhesion and binding required for leukocyte migration
- Induces the expression of intrinsic defense factors.
- IFNγ is the primary cytokine that defines Th1 cells: Th1 cells secrete IFNγ, which in turn causes more undifferentiated CD4+ cells (Th0 cells) to differentiate into Th1 cells.
I recommend calming and quieting the immune system so it can respond appropriately when needed.
Low Dose Naltrexone works by stimulating suppression of the immune response. When immune suppression occurs, those using LDN don't feel the pain and discomfort with their immune system being suppressed. It's a win/winsituation. The patient isn't feeling any pain and the Doctor isn't getting asked by the patient isn't feeling any better.
Low Dose Naltrexone works by Stimulating Suppression of the Immune system.
Parsing the Benefits of LDN
It's worth mentioning LDN "stimulates" suppression. Proponents will parse it to "LDN works by stimulating an immune response." Conveniently leaving off the end of the statement. "LDN works by stimulating an immune response to calm down or stop inflammatory immune responses (AKA – suppression)." Technically they are correct. By convention today, there is an agreement to only look at one aspect when publishing medical studies. They publish a study showing LDN works by stimulating a immune response. End of story. They assume those in the know reading this study would understand the consequences of this "stimulation." However, the average person or Doctor(s) (Don't assume Doctors know much about the immune system) doesn't know or care how it works. They only want to know will it give relief. Consequences be damned.
Fact: Inflammation is an immune response.
In answer to "a common anecdotal report is that people don't get the common cold as much. Technically, they are correct. But??? They are equating not getting sick to a normal healthy immune system. After seeing the results from the Stimulated Cytokine lab test. I realized the reason they not getting sick is because their immune system is so fatigued or suppressed that no symptoms are generated. They come to my office reporting they feel like crap but they "never get sick". "How can I be so healthy but feel so bad?"
Those using LDN usually report a blissful period where their inflammation (see fact above) subsides. Usually for a four to six month period; then other components of the immune system become overstimulated without the feedback control from the components that LDN suppressed. They have had half a year for smoldering inflammation doing further damage to their body. The good news is they will not feel it. The bad news is they will now seek help from a Doctor that will recommend immune stimulating supplements. Exacerbating the condition and the damage being done.
Alternative / Functional treatments focus on Stimulating the Immune Response.
Naltrexone Treatment by Immune Stimulation
A possible line of therapy being investigated by the medical community is to reintroduce some of these cytokines to people who have severe immune deficiencies. This approach can be tricky because large amounts of any particular cytokine can have serious side-effects. This approach fails to recognize fatigued cells that are too exhausted to produce immune cells cause the deficiencies. How is stimulating the immune system beneficial?
The immune system by design provides your body with numerous layers of protection with a multiple backups. The system is set up so that if the responsible system is unable to handle the job and bigger, stronger system is recruited. Thus, if the basic Th1 or Th2 systems are fatigued to respond, the Th17 system is alerted to come in and take care of business.
Naltrexone Stimulation of the Immune System
Naltrexone treatment increases NK cell cytolytic activity and cytokine production in the spleen. Chronic naltrexone administration enhanced both basal and the cytokine-modulated NK cell cytolytic activity and IFN-γ production.
Naltrexone treatment increased the production of IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, and IL-18 and the basal and cytokine-activated NK cell cytolytic activity and IFN-γ production in the splenocytes. Chronic administration of naltrexone stimulates the production of cytokines and NK cell cytolytic activity in splenocytes. Naltrexone does not block IL-1β.,
Naltrexone Stimulation of NK cells
Natural killer cells are a T cells that share properties of both T cells and natural killer cells. NK cells can also produce many different cytokines as well as chemokines. T cells are inherently cross-reactive, and this versatility and specificity is a hallmarks of adaptive immunity. T cells are prone to be autoreactive and thus able to induce autoimmunity. Increasing the NK cell avtivity results in enhanced alloreactivity and autoimmunity.
IL-2 promotes the differentiation of T cells into effector T cells and into memory T cells when the initial T cell is also stimulated by an antigen.
IL-2 does not specify the type of Th differentiation that occurs; instead, IL-2 modulates expression of receptors for other cytokines and transcription factors, thereby either promoting or inhibiting cytokine cascades that correlate with each Th differentiation state. In this fashion, IL-2 can prime and potentially maintain Th1 and Th2 differentiation as well as expand such populations of cells, whereas it inhibits Th17 differentiation but also can expand Th17 cells.
IL-2 has a narrow therapeutic window, and the level of dosing usually determines the severity of the side effects. Some common side effects:
- Flu-like symptoms (fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, fatigue)
- Nausea/vomiting
- Dry, itchy skin or rash
- Weakness or shortness of breath
- Diarrhea
- Low blood pressure
- Drowsiness or confusion
- Loss of appetite
More serious and dangerous side effects sometimes are seen with increased IL-2, such as capillary leak syndrome, breathing problems, serious infections, seizures, allergic reactions, heart problems or a variety of other possible complications.
T-cell recognition is essential for protection against microbial pathogens, recognition of self-peptides by T cells that have escaped negative selection in the thymus can lead to autoimmune disease. A disregulated T cell interaction can initiate autoimmunity. Thus, antigen recognition by T cells must be tightly regulated in order to ensure protection against pathogens and tumors, avoiding activation of self-reactive T cells.
NK cell cytolytic activity has been shown to be activated by interferon-γ (IFN-γ), which has a number of opioid-like effects. Various other cytokines are also known to increase NK cell cytolytic activity and lymphocyte proliferation. Of these cytokines, interleukin (IL)-2, IL-12, and IL-18 stimulate NK cell cytolytic activity. Other cytokines like IL-4 and IL-6 are known to regulate NK cell proliferation and differentiation. Cytokines IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-12, and IL-18 have been shown to also affect the function of other immune cell populations in splenocytes.
Alcohol consumption is also known to suppress Lectin-induced production of various cytokines, including IL-2, IL-6, and IL-4 from splenocytes. Initially, Naltrexone therapy counteracts the suppressive effects of alcohol on NK cell cytolytic activity for the first couple of weeks allowing increase production of IL-2, IL-6, and IL-4 from splenocytes.
Naltrexone Stimulation of Chemokines
Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist when administered the first couple of weeks, but shows δ-opioid-like activity following chronic long-term administration. With constant use naltrexone selectively promotes the δ-opioid receptor activity and enhances NK cell cytolytic activity response to β-endorphin. Naltrexone disrupts the feedback control that results in enhanced NK cell cytolytic response.
The chemokines, macrophage inflammatory protein-1 (MIP-1) and its subunit MIP-1 beta, induce an intense fever. The central action on body temperature (Tb) of MIP-1 beta with that of interleukin-6 (IL-6), has been implicated in the mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of fever along with etiocholanolone. This is potentiated by the presence of lipopolysaccharide.
Naltrexone increases in neutrophil-associated myeloperoxidase activity and chemokine mRNA expression, including macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP-1α) and -2 (MIP-2).
LDN could enhance both morphological and functional maturation of bone marrow dendritic cells (BMDCs). Their main function is to process antigen material and present it to the cell surface to the T cells of the immune system. They act as messengers between the innate and the adaptive immune systems. LDN markedly up-regulates expression of key surface molecules, which will trigger a chain of cell mediated responses. In addition to this, LDN also markedly upregulate production of cytokines IL-12 and TNF-α, which will trigger Th1 cell response.
Dendritic cells are present in those tissues that are in contact with the external environment, such as the skin (where there is a specialized dendritic cell type called the Langerhans cell) and the inner lining of the nose, lungs, stomach and intestines. They can also be found in an immature state in the blood. Once activated, they migrate to the lymph nodes where they interact with T cells and B cells to initiate and shape the adaptive immune response.
Interleukin (IL-1), tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα), IL-3, and IL-6 collaborate with GM-CSF. β-endorphin increased the number of macrophage colonies when bone marrow cells were cultured in the presence of GM-CSF plus lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Naloxone and Naltrexone, an antagonist of endorphins for opioid-receptors, completely abolishes the effect of β-endorphin. Both Naloxone and Naltrexone stimulates suppression of the production of GM-CSF.
Naltrexone Stimulates Suppression of Cytokines
Naltrexone and naloxone stimulates suppression of microglia activation, reduces the production of re- active oxygen species and other potentially neuroexcitatory and neurotoxic chemicals.
Naltrexone causes a significant decrease of IL-12 and IL-10 production by macrophages. With chronic dosages, IL-12 remaines significantly suppressed. As for IL-10, naltrexone seems to partially prevent the IL-10 reduction. Naltrexone significantly inhibited the production of TNF-alpha induced by LPS.
Naltrexone Stimulates Suppression of Chemokines
The anti-inflammatory effect of opioid antagonists naltrexone and naloxone also extend to the periphery, as evidenced by stimulates suppression of TNF-alpha, MCP-1, and other inflammatory agents in peripheral macrophages.
Stimulated Cytokine Testing on LDN Patient
The lab results shown below are from a woman using Naltrexone therapy. Despite feeling better on the Autoimmune protocol recommended to her, she stopped doing the Autoimmune protocol after deciding to start Naltrexone.
After starting the Naltrexone, things changed drastically. A lot of the old symptoms reappeared and some got worse. She was experiencing severe pain on right side of body from neck and shoulder down to her hip and ankle. Her low back was really bad, and she could hardly walk being constantly achy and sore. She could not get out of bed, and had diarrhea a couple of times a week. When she gets a flair up – it can occur for no reason and they are lasting longer. Unfortunately, she failed to mention the LDN therapy.
Naltrexone Induced Ischemia
Ischemia is a restriction in blood supply to tissues causing a shortage of oxygen and glucose needed for cellular metabolism (to keep tissue alive). Ischemia is generally caused by problems with blood vessels, with resultant damage to or dysfunction of tissue.
Neurons that demonstrate particular vulnerability to ischemic challenges have been termed "selectively vulnerable neurons". Of the entire brain, the neurons of the hippocampus are the most vulnerable.
This would result in problems with endocrine system, (thyroid, hormone, adrenal) as the blood-brain-barrier would be further compromised as a results of compromised (ischemic) blood flow to the pituitary, hypothalamus and hippocampus.
Exogenous ligands, i.e. naltrexone, that activate the δ receptors mimic the phenomenon known as ischemic preconditioning. Ischemia preconditioning/hypoxia preconditioning (IPC/HPC) is a phenomenon whereby brief ischemia/hypoxia "preconditions" cells and increases cellular resistance against subsequent lethal ischemia/hypoxia injury. Short periods of transient ischemia are induced the downstream tissues are robustly protected. This serves as a protective mechanism to restrict blood flow around an inflamed area of the body to prevent inflammation or microbes from spreading throughout the body. It is intended for short periods until the immune system is able to control the situation. If longer-duration interruption of the blood supply is then effected, ischemic damage from the lack of oxygen, glucose and elimination of cellular waste products occurs. Naltrexone and naloxone with δ activity mimic this effect.
Naltrexone Reduces Liver Enzymes
Naltrexone significantly reduces the elevation of serum glutamate-oxalacetate transaminase (SGOT) and glutamate-pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) (as index of hepatic function) induced by LPS.
Is LDN right for you?
The comments and posts you are reading saying how good they feel is because their immune status matches how LDN supports their imbalanced cytokines and chemokines. LDN works only for those with the correct immune status that Naltrexone or Naloxone supports.
If you do not match that cytokine or chemokine profile. LDN will only increase the damage and further disrupt your body's ability to control the immune system. If you are using LDN and not satisfied with the way you are feeling. It is probably not right for you.
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Leeds AC's Philip Sesemann and Cambridge & Coleridge's Holly Archer take victories at Lord Mayor's 5K City Centre Classic
PUBLISHED: 11:38 07 July 2019 | UPDATED: 12:36 07 July 2019
Jamie Honeywood Archant Norwich Norfolk
Leeds City AC's Philip Sesemann took victory in the Lord Mayor's 5K City Centre Classic on Saturday in 14:35.
The 26-year-old edged out Cambridge & Coleridge AC's Jonathan Escalante-Phillips (14:40) by four seconds and claim the £500 first prize money. Brighton & Hove City AC's Stephen Ferroni was third in 14:44 and Norfolk's top finisher was Piers Arnold (City of Norwich AC), whose time of 14:59 was enough to earn fifth place overall.
Cambridge & Coleridge's Holly Archer won the women's event in 16:50 with the 25-year-old proving to be in a class of her own in the female field.
CoNAC athlete Isabel Rodriguez produced a fine run to take second place in 17:44 whilst Bure Valley Harriers' Faith Viney continued her excellent year with third place in 17:58.
A total of 220 runners were due to toe the start line for the race, which is aimed at elite road racers, with 190 competitors earning the famous Lord Mayor's 5K mug as recognition they completed the event.
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The race, which takes part just before the Lord Mayor's procession, has become very popular with runners since the first staging of the event in 1996.
This year saw changes to the criteria for entry as female entrants had to demonstrate they had attained a sub 22-minute 5K to gain a place whilst the men had to have a sub 20-minute clocking since January 1, 2018.
On the day male and female runners must be through the 3K point in 12 minutes and 13:12 minutes respectively or they asked to retire from the course.
The race starts at Whitefriars and finishes in Tombland as runners tackle a tough two-lap course, which heads through Tombland, Castle Meadow, and Red Lion Street before turning at the St Stephen's roundabout.
CoNAC race co-ordinator Richard Polley was delighted how the event unfolded.
"It appears to have gone down very well with runners once again, which is obviously the most important thing," said Polley, who confirmed that only two men were unable to make the 3K cut-off from the whole field. "It's a bit like a swan in the staging of it in that there are a lot of people doing a lot of very hard work in the run-up and during the event but a lot of us said this was the most enjoyable of all.
"The racing itself was also very good - the men's leading pack were together for the first 4K before Sesemann made a break."
Sesemann's time of 14:35 was some way short of the course record of 14:11 held by Paul Evans, which was set in 2000 and Polley doubts whether that time will ever be seriously challenged again.
"It just goes to show what a great time it was," he said. "I think it would take a serious world class athlete to come and try to beat it - perhaps someone like Mo Farah. It's a record that has really stood the test of time."
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Montenegro CIP Opens Applications for Agents, Due Dil. Firms: Deadline is 28 Days Away
The government of Montenegro today announced it will be accepting applications from prospective intermediary agents, as well as due diligence companies, for its new citizenship by investment program. Prospective service providers must lodge an application by February 1st.
Originally slated for a premiere in October 2018, Montenegro's new CIP – technically named The Special Investment Programme of Particular Importance for the Business and Economic Interest of Montenegro – formally came into effect this Tuesday.
Opening for citizenship applications by March 10th
Applicants, however, will still have to wait until the government approves intermediary agents – the RCBI-firms licensed to submit applications – and due diligence companies – outfits charged with vetting investors' bona fides – before they can finally lodge their petitions to become citizens of the Adriatic republic by way of a donation and property investment.
"The Secretariat for Development Projects shall decide on the selection of agents within 30 days from the date of the public opening of the applications and it shall be published on the Secretariat's website," wrote the Montenegrin government on its website, adding that a "public opening" of such applications would take place on February 12th, 30 days after which the government would announce its selections.
Download the application for intermediary agents and the application for due diligence providers.
"After the decision is made, the Government of Montenegro shall conclude a contract with the selected agents, on the basis of which the Secretariat for Development Projects shall issue the
Read also: Sneak Peek: Montenegro CIP's Full List of Requirements, Procedures, and Prices
The tender process, noted the government, would be entirely transparent and open to all.
"All procedures will be transparent and, as far as this stage of the process is concerned, the opening of applications will be public – the authorised persons or the authorised representatives of the legal etities shall have the right to attend the opening. "
Will revoke citizenships if foul play is discovered
The government further cautioned that undesirable applicants, even if they should make it through the screening process and reach a naturalization stage, would still see their citizenships revoked after the fact should new information surface.
"If it is subsequently established that a person who has acquired Montenegrin citizenship by admission pursuant to the decision has given false information or deliberately concealed facts and circumstances, as well as in case an international due diligence agent has given inaccurate information in its report referring to that person, a decision on citizenship cancellation will be adopted."


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First of all, it's evident that people often have unconscious motives for their actions. For example, parents "wishing the best" for their children can act out of frustration about their own past failures. So it's likely that some acts of discrimination are based on similar "deep" motives. Some of us who genuinely believe that we are colorblind may still avoid black neighborhoods at night, cross a lonely street when a tall black male comes our way, or favor a CV sent in by someone with a "'Caucasian" name. Tests have shown that people are more biased than they admit to themselves.
So we may be violating anti-discrimination laws without "really" and consciously wanting to. You could say that in such cases we shouldn't be prosecuted for breaking the law, because there is no intent on our part. Discrimination takes place but no one really wants it to take place. True, normally there's an intent requirement when deciding liability: if you drive your car and you hit someone who crosses the road where he or she shouldn't do so, you're not criminally liable. You killed a person but didn't intend to. In some cases, the lack of intent diminishes rather than removes liability: if you're in a fight with someone and the other person dies because of your actions, you won't be charged with homicide but with the lesser crime of manslaughter if you didn't intend to murder.
As the example of manslaughter already makes clear, intent isn't always necessary for liability. Hence, lack of intent can't be the reason not to make unconscious discrimination a crime.
Anyway, intent or the absence of it is often very difficult to prove. In the case of homicide/manslaughter, you can use witness accounts or physical evidence, you can reconstruct the crime and try to figure out if the killing was planned or intended, or you can interrogate the perpetrator, and even then it's rarely easy. Things seem to be much more difficult still in cases of unconscious discrimination. Looking for intent is basically trying to look inside people's minds, which isn't obvious, and when people fool their own minds it's becomes even harder.
If we accept that unconscious discrimination should be a crime in certain cases, and perhaps equivalent to conscious discrimination, then the problem is how to prove that it took place. In the case of conscious discrimination, you can often rely on the utterances of the person(s) who discriminate. That's evidently impossible in the case of unconscious discrimination. Perhaps you can't prove it in individual cases – if one black person's CV is rejected, it's probably impossible to say it's because of implicit or unconscious racism. However, if a company rejects a large number of such CVs, and correcting for other factors such as education or skill level doesn't remove bias in the distribution, then you may perhaps have evidence of discrimination (that's a technique that's useful in cases of conscious discrimination as well, by the way). So you would need to rely on statistical analysis, something that usually isn't done in the determination of criminal liability. It's not because x % of all killings are manslaughter that everyone charged with a killing has x % change of "getting away" with manslaughter. The decision to sentence someone for the crime of murder or manslaughter is always made on an individual basis and not a statistical one, although past conduct of the suspect can sometimes come into play.
An additional difficulty: if we accept that laws aren't only meant to punish but also to prevent and deter, it seems that the latter goal is futile in the case of unconscious discrimination. People who are not aware that they engage in discriminatory activities will hardly be persuaded by laws telling them to stop doing so.
I'm personally not yet ready to take a firm position on these issues. For more information on this topic, take a look at this interesting paper.


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We are thrilled to announce the Poet Spotlight, a new poetry initiative through our magazine.
What is the Poet Spotlight?
The Poet Spotlight is an opportunity for poets to have their work published in exclusivity in an issue of the 'zine, (which is different from our blog) along with an artist's statement and/or an interview to accompany the selected works. Our first Poet Spotlight will debut in the September/October 2010 issue and will feature the Hong Kong-based poet Nicholas Y.B. Wong.
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Poets are eligible for consideration if they have not published more than one book of poetry (including chapbooks and self-published collections). We especially encourage unpublished poets to submit.
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- Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) is the leader in education, training, and research for anxiety, depression, and stress-related disorders.
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- International OCD Foundation
- yourbias.is Interactive site where you can explore your own Cognitive Distortions
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The Denver Film Festival at DU: on-campus screening of Italian film Ark of Disperata with director Edoardo Winspeare
November 6, 2018The Anna-Maglione-Sie Endowment in Italian Culture and the Department of Languages and Literatures are proud to have been among the sponsors of the Italian Showcase at the 41st Denver Film Festival!
The showcase featured ten films by contemporary Italian filmmakers, including director Edoardo Winspeare's Ark of Disperata (La vita in comune). Winspeare, who was in Denver as a Visiting Scholar of the Anna Maglione-Sie Endowment in Italian Culture, presented his film on the DU campus in a special festival screening on November 6th. Italian speakers and film lovers from across campus and throughout the Denver area attended a reception before the free screening and engaged with the director during a Q&A session following the film. Another noted Italian filmmaker and distributor, Antonio Falduto, introduced the film and spoke to the audience about Mr. Winspeare's previous work.
Both Mr. Winspeare and Mr. Falduto took time out of their film festival schedule to visit classes and engage with DU students in the departments of Media, Film and Journalism Studies, Anthropology, and Languages and Literatures.
Director Edoardo Winspeare during the Q&A session
Edoardo Winspeare and Prof. Roberta Waldbaum, Anna Maglione-Sie Endowed Chair in Italian Culture
Antonio Falduto and Prof. Waldbaum
DU Italian instructors Eleonora Miller and Silvia Comuzzi-Sexton
Food and fun at the reception before the film screening
Japanese Culture day Celebraton
November 3, 2018
Japanese Culture Day - Bunka no hi 文化の日
Culture Day (文化の日 Bunka no Hi) is a a national Japanese holiday for the purpose of promoting culture, the arts, and academic endeavors.
The Department of Languages and Literatures partnered with Denver Sister Cities International, Denver-Takayama Committee, to organize a Japanese Culture Day Celebration on campus. More than 125 people attended, including about 50 current DU students in the Japanese program. Notable guests included a representative from the Japanese Consulate and noted author and frequent guest on National Public Radio T.R. Reid. Over a dozen separate community organizations from all over the Front Range came together at the event to showcase different facets of Japanese culture. A number of DU Alumni also participated in Japanese Culture Day. A current student at DU in the Japanese program wrote about the event:
"I thought that this was a really cool event and I am glad that I could make it. Not only were the lectures fascinating but the food was fantastic . . . All in all, I got to do a lot of really cool things - especially getting to meet and talk to Nodoka who was a master calligrapher . . . I loved all the talks, I learned a lot and I can't wait to go again next year!"
Activity Tables
Yosakoi Dance demonstration
Tea Ceremony table and presentation by Aislynn Van Clief
Calligraphy activities table and demonstration with Nodoka Epel
Judo demonstration with Serge-Patrick Kabongo
Influence of Buddhism to Japanese Art by Thomas DeZauche
Ikebana table and presentation by Jaishree Shunmugaraj
Woodcarving demonstration and Shaving Bonito presentation by "Tak" Kida Takayuki
Japanese Hand tools table and presentation by Tom Harvey
Also Featured:
Poetry with Yumino Kimura
Japanese Films table and presentation with DU Japanese Program Alumni Jason Suzuki
Early Religion presentation given by Tina Procter
Music: Koto, Shakuhachi and Shamisen by the group Rocky Mountain Sankyoku
Promotions: Celebrating faculty achievements
October 8, 2018
Congratulations to Victor Castellani, Paula Adamo, Lydia Gil Keff and Sari Havis on their promotions. Read more about the promotion process and see the full list of CAHSS promotions in the Newsroom article.
Winner of the 2018 staff innovator award: ingrid weyher
October 4, 2018
Congratulations to the Assistant to the Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures, Ingrid Weyher, for being the 2018 recipient of the Staff Innovator Award! This award is given to a University of Denver staff member who has demonstrated creativity and innovation in their work.


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- Controversial deejay Vybz Kartel says he will no longer be recording counteractions, war, gun, and bad man lyrics in his songs.
Speaking with The STAR yesterday, the deejay said that he made this decision because he has moved past persons trying to get a 'hype' off his name and he is trying to distance himself from negative associations.
"Me stop do gun song and bad man lyrics," he said. "I did a song called
Bad Up Yuh Mada and everyone and their mada counteracted it. Well, I got news for them. Dem a war wid demselves, cause I ain't giving them the time of day, hush yaw insects and parasites. I must be Twitter cause everybody a follow me."
He added, "With that being said
, the record must show that firstly Big Bad And Brave, secondly Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten and thirdly Clap It Up were all released this month just in case people hear them and think I'm going against my word."
Kartel has been known throughout his career for recording gun and bad man lyrics in songs such as War Nah Talk Over,12 Gauge, Broad Daylight, When We A War, Weh Dem A Go, Kill Dem All And Done and more.
He has also done a number of counteractions aimed at former rival Mavado, former mentor Bounty Killer, and the Alliance. Kartel however says, "I just think it's played out now and I don't have time for the negative associated with it or the other artistes who seek to counteract them as a means to reignite their mediocre career. It takes away from creativity."
'usual Kartel topics'
In the future, Kartel says he will not be responding to any lyrics aimed at him directly or indirectly. He said, "Why should I? It's all about Gaza, Gully and I-Octane, so anyone who wants to bridge the current, so to speak, will have to do so with creativity and originality. Not mediocrity and frivolous banter."
He added, "I wonder if these artistes don't feel shame or they don't have any shame. I did a song saying 'call up me name jus fi get a forward' and it seems like that song just fell on deaf ears, because they're doing it now more than ever. But you know what? More than anything, I feel sorry for them."
As to whether he will do these songs during stage-show performances, the deejay said he had not done a gun song for close to a year. He added, "Only since this year I did Real Bad Man, Clap It Up - both of which I regret doing and Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten. With the exception of Duppy Know, I don't think I will be performing those songs."
The artiste says that even with his stance, his songs will still be lyrically interesting and fans can expect the 'usual Kartel topics.' He disclosed, "remember I'm a person who sings about my life. And in my life there is never a dull moment."
Source: jamaica-star.com


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