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    Translated from Hindi by Madhu Singh

    Ramchandra Singh

    May 25, 2018

    This is an excerpt from 13 Years: A Naxalite's Prison Diary by Ramachandra Singh, translated from Hindi by Madhu Singh, published by Navayana. Republished here with the permission of the publisher. From 1970 to 1983, Ramchandra Singh, an avowed Naxalite, did time in five prisons across Uttar Pradesh. From inside the behemoth that is the Indian prison system, emerged pages filled with his experience in captivity.

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    All the jails of Uttar Pradesh that I was placed in had more or less the same layout.  Their internal plan differed only in terms of the available space. In all jails, just after the main gate is the office of the jail superintendent, and next to it that of the chief jailor. Then, after crossing one or two big gates and some open space, comes a dalaan or courtyard—which may be large or small. The courtyard leads to all the circles via galleries. The circles hold the barracks where prisoners live. The structure of the circles and galleries varies with the size of the jails.

    Fatehgarh Central Jail is the largest in Uttar Pradesh. Around two thousand prisoners are on its roll. Built in the year 1865, it has more than a hundred and fifty officials and employees. Its dalaan is huge, from where lead all the pathways to the circles. Even the circles have plenty of space and the compounds of the barracks are large. Besides, the jail has factories on its premises. This was a change from the smaller jails I had thus far known. Factories are a feature of the larger or central jails where long-term prisoners predominate, whereas only undertrials who come and go (on bail) are found in the smaller jails like Hardoi.

    A number of small industries function inside the jail where prisoners are forced to work. The compounds of the factories are spacious. There are green shady trees in and around the circle and the factories. The atmosphere is nonetheless one of fear and oppression, and the prisoners slog like beasts of burden. Tent manufacturing is one of the major industries here. Rugs, carpets, cloth and so on are also produced. In addition, the jail has a huge agricultural farm.

    This jail is a pilgrimage site on account of the many brave warriors of the independence struggle who were incarcerated here, among them well-known revolutionaries such as Bishambar Dayal Tripathi, Shiv Kumar Mishra and Balgangadhar Tripathi. The rebel, Manindra Nath Bannerjee sacrificed his life while on hunger strike here. In independent India, the walls of this jail remained witness to many prisoners who were innocent or who had taken the law into their hands upon being refused justice.

    The moment I reached the gigantic gates of the jail, the cry ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ escaped my lips. The guards at the gate were startled. A voice hollered from the inside: “Quiet!” With this shout, a small door at the gate rattled open and the head warder of the jail, Pandit Chotelal, moved menacingly towards me twirling his moustaches and waving a long, thick cane in his hand. A man in his mid-fifties, he had a thickset body of average build, a salt-and-pepper handlebar moustache—the hair on his scalp dyed black—and the agile bearing of a youth. In short, his appearance was that of a seasoned goon.

    “I’m still outside the jail and I have every right to shout a slogan,” I said.

    “I must remind you that you are now within the jail precincts.” His eyes burned and he shook with anger at my audacity. Seeing this, I became certain that I was in for a special welcome. As soon as I entered he handed me over to two inmates and left, seething. He was sure that these two, notorious for their brutality, would set the foolish newcomer to rights in no time at all.

    “Why were you shouting?” The two hulking men with dull but cruel eyes rolled up their sleeves and stomped towards me like testy bulls.

    “It was for my party and for the masses of my country.”

    “What masses? Which party?” One of them asked.

    “The workers’ party! The Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist), the naxal party.”

    “So, you are a naxal. Which is your home district?”

    Hearing the name Unnao, he became hesitant. (Later I came to know that he too belonged to Unnao.)

    “Go and sit there quietly. If you shout slogans in the jail anymore, you’ll be thrashed. This place is ruled by Gupta-ji. You hear? Gupta-ji!”

    I took my bag and sat in a corner. Then I was searched. I was asked to remove my clothes and my slippers. These were thoroughly scrutinised. The two journals in my cloth bag—Point of View and Mainstream—were seized. After the search, I was handed over to an inmate and sent to the circle. The inmate told me that I had been let off quite easily. Newly arrived tough criminals are made to remove all their clothes and even their rectum is checked to see if they have hidden a roll of currency notes there. I was shocked out of my senses. I couldn’t credit this story but other inmates removed my doubts.

    The inmate-supervisor informed me that a while back some farmers from the rural area of Kanpur (East) had been jailed for their alleged involvement in the agitation over the supply of irrigation water. They too had shouted slogans at the gate. But once inside the prison, they were roughed up by the hardened inmates. A boy among them suffered an injury to his ears and blood had gushed out from his mouth.

    I too recalled an incident told by a freedom fighter. During the British period the prisons did not allow even tobacco or beedis within the jail premises. But these were smuggled in with the help of cleaners or the cart-men who removed garbage in their bullock carts. The scavengers hid the contraband in containers of human excreta, while the cart-men concealed it in the rectum of their bullocks. Once, a bullock happened to excrete in the precincts of the Naini jail and out came the beedis and tobacco rolled inside waxed covers. When this came to light, the cart-man was penalised and the prisoner for whom it was meant was brutally beaten up. I wondered if there was any difference between the jails of the British period and those of today.

    Soon I met comrades who had arrived before me: Amar Singh, Badri Prasad, Vibhuti Prasad and one Mangatraj-ji who was involved in another naxal case. We were all prisoners to be kept under strict vigilance. Here, we had to slog harder: from unloading coal off the truck to taking care of the jailor’s garden. Then I was sent to the First Circle to work on the Amber Charkha. I was given a blanket, a mat, a plate and bowl (tasla-katori). The inmate-storekeeper warned me that if any of these items were lost, I would undergo the paltaiyya, a torturous punishment in which, at the instruction of the official, the prisoner was thrown to the ground and the soles of his feet caned by five or six inmate-warders or senior inmates. After every thirty to forty strikes, the battered and bruised inmate was made to run to restore the blood circulation in his leg. After a few rounds, he was again thrown on his back and made to undergo the same torture. This cycle would continue for some time. Called the paltaiyya or talua parade in prison jargon, it was considered at the time to be the easiest punishment at Fatehgarh jail. The prisoner would recover after applying warm mustard oil on his swollen soles, though his spirit might be shattered for life.

    Ramchandra Singh of Bangarmau village in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, was part of the editorial board of Red Star Monthly. Madhu Singh is a professor in the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow.

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As I get older and am having a hard time remembering things, I do remember the hard ones. I had to take Mom to the vet when it was time to put Bliss to sleep. I think this was the worst time of my Mom’s long life, it was awful, to say the least. We had her at the vet, I can’t remember what happened but she got sick and the vet could not help her, she was up there in years and the vet said it was time, she was a big dobby and she was not going to get better, so we finally decided it was time and I went with Mom, they had her in a kennel in the downstairs (basement) at the vets office, she took us to where she was so that Mom could be there when they gave her the shot. As soon as they gave it to her my mom started screaming, bawling and threw herself into the wall behind her until she hit the floor sobbing. It was the worse thing I had ever experienced with my mom, there was 4 or 5 people down there with us and everyone was crying, it was so heart wrenching to feel the love that my mom just lost when her baby was put to sleep. I will never forget it, love you mom. At least you are with her and all of your other fur babies, along with dad and my sister Pam and my brother Mike and your sister Barb and your brother Bob. Gosh in the past couple of years we have lost so many, all at once…. you must be busy now, and not at all alone.

As for me, I tried to go as small as possible, but he still has gotten bigger than we expected. Maxymus Poof Tackett, a Papitese (Papillon Maltese), he weighs 10 lbs, he is now 4 years old, a little stinker. He barks, licks, loves ice cream and being wherever I am. He is my dog, that we all know…. He has this habit of jumping up on me when we are all together talking, he wants me to pick him up so he can be in the conversation also, it is like, you guys are talking but I am not in the middle of it, so pick me up. He also likes to climb up on my shoulder and just hang out, I don’t have to hold him, he will just hang out. He knows when I am having a bad pain day, he will jump up on top of a chair or the bed so that I don’t have to bend over to pick him up, so considerate. We all love him but he is sure to let the guys know that I am his, unless I am the one who is making a fuss, he has a tendency to get in the middle of a play fight and go after the one who is being aggressive, no matter who it is.

Over the years I have had mostly larger dogs up until now. I was a big pit bull fan, they are very devoted dogs, but the best big dog I had was a Rottweiler, Luger, he was awesome, the best dog you could ask for, he was so awesome, but the poor guy was always sick, he had tick disease from his parents, was the only one that survived, only because we picked him up when he was 5 weeks old and took him straight to the vet. He was on antibiotics his whole life, we had his acl replaced and he always had a hot spot somewhere. He weighed about 120-140 lbs full grown. He was in puppy dog class when he was 6 week old, we didn’t tell anybody he wasn’t old enough to be there, they couldn’t tell because he out weighed every puppy there. He was so smart and such a great dog. He used to sit on the swing in front of the house with me, he would back up and sit down along side of me. He sat on the steps inside the house, we had a sunken living room and he would just hang out on the steps, or lay on one of the steps with a leg hanging over, casual like. He also slept in the bed with us, yes like another adult in the bed. When we got 2 adjustable beds the first time he jumped into the bed he went right to the floor in between the beds, I don’t think he ever forgave us for doing that, he had to pick a side to sleep on after that.

My brother and his family (3 boys) came to my house just about every weekend in the summer since I had a swimming pool and my brothers youngest boy was running around the pool, well Luger was running behind him, grabbing his butt, my sister-in-law was like, ‘Luger is trying to bite Corey”, well no, Luger was keeping the kid that was running around the pool from falling in…. smart dog, sister-in-law, well, never mind…..

Unfortunately Luger was sick all of his life and we had to put him down way before we wanted to lose him, heart failure…. when my husband put him to sleep, outside because I couldn’t watch, he made me come look at him before they took him to be cremated, Luger had a smile on his face…R.I.P. Luger……

Max is a great little dog though, since he may be the last dog that I have, unless I live to be an old fart who can’t move around or remember anything, he will just have to be the best that was saved for last… and while I am writing this he is laying between my legs with his head resting on my foot. He likes to wear clothes, do somersaults on the bed, and hang out with his momma, he patiently waits while I am in the bathroom, helps do the laundry, and sleeps right along side of me in the bed, my perfect little companion.

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In the conclusion I give my views not only on medication assisted treatment but also on treatment generally, the treatment of a condition that research and medicine do not seem to know how to accurately define or conceptualise so subsequently appear to grasp at methods to treat it, although the treatment outcomes are often unproven or relatively unsuccessful. I argue that this may be the case because we have yet to comprehensively conceptualise what addictive behaviour is, what drives it and how are these mechanisms best treated.

“Medication-assisted Treatment at Hazelden

Bill White: One of Hazelden’s most controversial decisions was the decision to integrate pharmacotherapy as an option within Hazelden’s traditional psychosocial treatment methods. How did Hazelden come to make this decision?

Dr. Marvin Seppala: When I was the Chief Medical Officer between 2002 and 2007, we made a decision to start using naltrexone and then acamprosate for treatment of alcohol dependence. When I left the organization between 2007 and 2009, I gained experience using Suboxone with an opioid-dependent population.

When Mark Mishek asked me to return to Hazelden, I told him about this experience and my sense that we needed to take Hazelden into a new realm by integrating the option of medication in the treatment of opioid addiction. I knew that there would be some controversy related to this, but I believed it would be of benefit to selected patients and that such benefit should always be our guiding rod. When framed that way, Mark was supportive from the very beginning. Our Board was also unanimously supportive of this direction, paving the way for such a significant change in programming.

Bill White: How would you describe the initial reactions to this decision from everyone from staff and alumni to the larger field?

Dr. Marvin Seppala: It was variable, with responses at both ends of the spectrum. Our staff was very curious, and some really questioned our decision. Externally, people were saying that we were ruining AA. They were asking how we could turn our backs on abstinence.

There were claims that we were destroying the legacy of the institution and undermining everything Hazelden’s ever done for the treatment of addictions. And on the other hand, there were folks congratulating us for integrating the latest scientific advancements into the treatment of addiction. Amidst the personal attacks, there were those simply saying, “Well, it’s about time!”

Bill White: How have those responses evolved since the initial announcement? And I think, not only the field, but also how the staff attitudes towards this has evolved?

Dr. Marvin Seppala: Our staff wasn’t sure what to think when we first started talking about moving in this direction. In fact, one of our counselors who’s now the Co-Chair with me of this whole project, was quite ambivalent about it and asked me if it was a good career decision to join a team using Suboxone and Vivitrol for the treatment of opioid dependence. Today, we have remarkable support for this move among the staff. When people witness the advantages of using these medications in patients we are treating, they readily get on board, especially when they see the long-term engagement and watch people blossom in recovery.

We have had a marked reduction in atypical discharges among our opioid use disorder patients—in fact, a lower rate than in our general population. We particularly emphasize the importance of long-term care for people with opioid dependence. Some of them take a medication and some of them don’t. We actually have three different possibilities: no medication, Vivitrol, and Suboxone.

All three are together in groups sharing their experience throughout treatment. If you sit in on these groups, you cannot tell if someone is on medication or not, nor which medication. We are doing a research project because we have to figure out in a predictive manner who needs what and for how long. There are people who recover from opioid addiction with and without medication support.

Many recovering physicians have recovered without maintenance medications and some were addicted to the most powerful opioids on the planet. I’ve known a lot of people who walked into Narcotics Anonymous on their own and achieved sustained recovery without medication. I don’t agree with my colleagues who say that everybody with an opioid use disorder needs to be on a maintenance medicine and be on it for life. And I don’t agree with those who would deny medication as an option for all patients. We need the science, not personal opinion or ideology, to guide decisions on who should be and who shouldn’t be treated with these medications.

As a physician, I would like to be able to tell this particular individual and his/her family that this is the best treatment because of these particular aspects of his/her disease and I can’t do that at present because we don’t have the research to guide such prescriptive, individualized decision making.

Bill White: Do you think it’s an embarrassment for us as a field that at this late stage of our development, we don’t have the kind of outcome data you earlier referenced to guide these decisions?

Dr. Marvin Seppala: I think it’s an embarrassment for the whole of medicine. Although there are certainly some pockets where this is occurring in medicine, cardiology’s doing it, orthopedics is doing it, but in general, that’s not the case. If we could do this in the addictions field, we could actually be in the forefront of the direction all of medicine needs to proceed.

Bill White: I know that Hazelden is in the process of formally evaluating the different options you have around medication-assisted treatment and that this data will be reported, but I’m very interested just in you sharing what your impressions are to date. Are you engaging patients today who would not have been engaged earlier? Are people sustaining recovery who previously would not have been able to? What are you learning?

Dr. Marvin Seppala: I think we’ve made a real contribution in both those areas. There are people coming into our treatment settings now who would not have come in without having access to these medications. Opioid dependence is very hard to treat and there’s a high dropout rate. We continue to lose some people early, but as a whole, we are engaging them longer and with longer engagement comes better recovery outcomes.

If we can keep people engaged for at least ninety days across levels of care, they do really well and start to blossom. This is a chronic illness with a substantial death rate. We need to use everything at our disposal to improve outcomes, and we’ve noted a reduction in overdose death secondary to relapse after treatment.

Unfortunately, this issue is not getting adequate attention, and I hope my colleagues continue to focus on preventing this tragedy. We’ve learned that in long-term care how and why people engage changes over time and we need to listen to our patients and provide services they consistently gain from, or they leave. We also thought that many people entering our system would seek Suboxone, and that diversion and excessive use would be significant problems. Neither has been an issue.

In our youth program, many patients refuse Suboxone due to a history of past abuse, or they say it was the first opioid they used for intoxication and can’t imagine using it as a treatment. This was a surprise.

Bill White: Will the work on medication-assisted treatment that started in Minnesota be extended to other Hazelden facilities, including the Betty Ford Center?

Dr. Marvin Seppala: Yes it will. Our plan is to eventually have all our facilities offering this expanded service menu…

Bill White: There was an impression I got listening to critics of Hazelden’s decision on pharmacotherapy that all opioid addicted patients would be expected to go on medication. But, in fact, what you’ve described is really using medication to enhance the potency of all the psychosocial and spiritual supports that were built in to the traditional model and, at the same time, using those psychosocial and spiritual supports to enhance the power and potency of the medication.

Dr. Marvin Seppala: I believe that’s a great way of describing it, Bill. From the beginning, we said that we’re using the medications adjunctively to the primary treatment for addiction. We are not replacing our other methods with medication; we are offering the option of medication for some patients in combination with those other methods.

We think the medications can improve outcomes for opioid use disorders when combined with our robust treatment model and that most people will be able to discontinue medications after getting into solid recovery…

Recovery Management

Bill White: One of the trends you noted within the field are efforts to shift or extend acute care models of intervention to what you described in terms of recovery management. Do you see the integration of medications and psychosocial supports as an integral part of recovery management?

Dr. Marvin Seppala: I hope this is going to be the case. Currently, I don’t think it’s adequately being done. There’s still such bias against the medications or against the use of psychosocial treatments—presented as either/or options. I’m reminded of depression, where a combination of psychotherapy and anti-depressant medication has been shown to outperform either treatment alone. And yet, as with attitudes in our field, people are told to do one or the other. I hope we will find a way to escape this dichotomy.

I’m hoping we can explore models of effective integration of what for too long have been viewed as incompatible treatments.

The Future of Addiction Treatment

Bill White: What would your predictions be about how addiction treatment will likely evolve in the coming decades?

Dr. Marvin Seppala: Well, this may be a pipe dream, but I hope we get medicines that can actually reduce or stop use of these substances while continuing to recognize the need for inner healing and the value of psychosocial and spiritual supports in long-term recovery. My colleagues who are primarily pharmacologists don’t recognize this latter side of things and the need for them based on all the shame and guilt that addiction brings to the table. Abstinence is not enough.

I hope we get genetic testing soon so that we have predictors of risk for our children and our youth. The use of this technology will be fraught with complex ethical issues, but it may open up whole new approaches to prevention and early intervention. I hope we continue to view addiction as a bio-psychosocial, spiritual illness. I think all four aspects of that description are necessary no matter how good our biologic treatments get. Addiction is a complex and unusual illness. It’s too easy to become reductionistic by defining it from one perspective that can be treated with one approach.

I hope we can become a more mature and unified field that utilizes everything available to us in the treatment of addiction. I am also excited about the new field of positive psychology. George Vaillant writes in “Spiritual Evolution” about how the positive emotions are a force for healing in 12 Step programs. I would like to see us harness the therapeutic healing aspects of love to improve addiction treatment outcomes.

Bill White: What are your thoughts about the past, present, and future role of psychiatry in the treatment of addictions?

Dr. Marvin Seppala: In the past, I would say that psychiatry was of little help in the treatment of addictions, except for certain practitioners that were able see beyond traditional psychiatric models of care. Presently, I think psychiatry plays an important role, especially in the treatment of co-morbid medical and psychiatric illness, but unfortunately, those potential contributions have not been fully integrated in most addiction treatment settings. In the future, I hope such integration takes place.

I think psychiatry can bring a great deal more than it has to the addiction field and improve our treatment outcomes. And I think there is much the addiction field has that can contribute positively to the field of psychiatry, such as a spiritual approach to chronic illness and consideration of healing via enhancing the positive emotions.”

This was a fascinating insight  interview and insight into why and how Hazelden are incorporating medication assisted treatment as a treatment adjunct at their treatment facilities.

I think the interview might have benefited from being a little more critical and there was little challenge or counterpoint to Dr Seppala’s views which is not that helpful. Even in this “friendly” type interview it is useful to offer opposing views to encourage deeper insight. As a result I felt this interview was a bit lopsided and did not really go into detail about these medications and counter arguments against their therapeutic use.

At one point  William White  interjects “”really using medication to enhance the potency of all the psychosocial and spiritual supports that were built in to the traditional model and, at the same time, using those psychosocial and spiritual supports to enhance the power and potency of the medication.” which is hardly critical and a bit overblown in it’s effusiveness.

I think we need to get some hard data back before making such wild claims about it’s utility.

Suboxone is reported as having numerous advantages over say methadone and naltrexone. As a medication-assisted treatment, it suppresses withdrawal symptoms and cravings for opioids, does not cause euphoria in the opioid-dependent patient, and it blocks the effects of the other (problem) opioids for at least 24 hours. Success rates, as measured by retention in treatment and one-year sobriety, have been reported as high as 40 to 60 percent in some studies (according to PsychCentral anyway).

Suboxone is used to complement the education, counseling and other support measures that focus on the behavioral aspects of opioid addiction. This medication can allow one to regain a normal state of mind – free of withdrawal, cravings and the drug-induced highs and lows of addiction.  is an opioid that produces less of an effect than a full opioid such as heroin  when it attaches to an opioid receptor in the brain.

Taking more Suboxone than prescribed does not result in a full opioid effect. Taking extra Suboxone will not get the patient high. This is a distinct advantage over methadone. Patients can get high on methadone because it is a full opioid

The only issue here is that Suboxone can become addictive. Addicted people can become addicted to it. Addicted people can get addicted to nearly anything so why not Suboxone?

In recovery,  I once got addicted to an energy drink called Lucozade Sport, properly addicted, hiding away from my wife drinking bottle after bottle, continuously, all day, every day, for weeks. I even had terrible three day withdrawal from it too.

If I can get physically dependent to an energy drink it would be naive to suggest that I would be okay taking Suboxone? A sniff of a potential chemical buzz however small is often enough to get an addict’s brain going? Our brains have become addicted, for me this reward dysregulaton in the addicted brain is permanent and progressive. We addicts are always searching out a buzz, whether via workaholism or other obsessive compulsive behaviours.

Why such unqualified support at it’s adoption in Halezden? Especially  as we have had not long term studies into it’s effects or effectiveness?

As someone who researches the neurobiology of addiction I have often thought maybe we could use anti craving medication to help stabilize the nervous systems of people early in recovery to help them through the first anxiety inducing hours, days and weeks.

I still think we should keep an open mind on medication assisted treatment but so far remain unconvinced by what I have heard thus far.

I am trying to say the problem is always greater than we appear to be defining it. It is certainly more complex than physicians or medical researchers appear to countenance at times.

What do we also do with too much glutamate in the brain in early recovery – this probably continues to the brain hyperarousal which can prompt to “hell with it relapse” or the excess stress chemicals which prompt relapse via anxiety based or withdrawal based relapse? Should we also deal with the hyper stress of early recovery by opposing the effects of stress chemicals like noradrenaline or glucocorticoids by giving noradrenergic receptor antagonists or CRF antagonists to block alcohol withdrawal–induced anxiety or Administration of NPY into the cerebral ventricles of the brain etc etc etc where does one draw the line or should these all be offered as treatment adjuncts?

Why just stop at Suboxone?

For me the real issue is that academic research of varying hues has not grasped what addictive behaviour is, what causes it, what are it’s fundamental underlying mechanisms? This interview highlights that for me too. What is the pathomechanism that drives it forward?

It has to be more that substance as I can get addicted to behaviours too so why is that?

They talk in this interview about treating a spiritual illness but what is that exactly?

Why do addicts have this spiritual malady?

Is this the same spiritual malady which comes straight out of a book written in the 1930s? Isn’t that a bit outdated by now? Even Bill Wilson warned against the Big Book being “frozen in time” but that is what has happened?

We rush to embrace science and it’s various tools when we have not updated our views of what addiction is? At is very heart what is it? What causes it? What is the best way to treat it? This is very urgent!? Is it not that treatment at Hazelden is trying to reconcile two completely opposing worlds – one that of of medication assisted treatment with a spiritual malady borne out of the “sin disease” of the Oxford group. That is where the spiritual malady comes from, good old fashioned sin disease.

Can’t we in 2015 actually do better than this in conceptualising what addiction is? Is this still the best we got?

It strikes me that these two worlds are so distant and difficult to reconcile because each is the product of not having properly reconciled what addiction is? What the underlying mechanisms are? Thus treatment falls between two stools.

For me, as written about numerous times, the spiritual malady would be  better conceptualised in addicted individuals as a emotional disease or in neuropsychological terms as an emotion processing and regulation deficit. This clear conceptualisation also suggests clearly how to treat it, in fact, the 12 steps do actually treat it.

Describing it this way allows it to be treated by the 12 steps without turning sufferers away because they cannot accept the term spiritual malady or the solution, God as you understand Him.

Also this emotion processing and regulation deficit causes a different type of craving as conceptualised by medical and neuroscientific researchers.

To these mainly neuro-biological accounts, craving is a state of physiological urge, to positive reinforcement models, it is pathological wanting, and to negative reinforcement models it is a withdrawal or aversive state based desire to alleviate  these negative emotional states. Both are part of the phenomenon of urges for sure but they do not fully explain what craving is in the recovering person in treatment. Only an awareness of the cognitive-affective mechanisms that prompt craving in this group can show why physiological urges is only a fraction of the problem.

Cravings are distinct but sequentially related to urges in some cases but not in other case. Let me explain.

It is important to realise that in the early days and weeks of recovery that urges and craving (or sometimes the fear of drinking) can be enormous problems.

It took me a long time to realise that I had not been craving but had actually been terrified of drinking to such an extent that the thought of drinking would automatically appear in my mind.

So we need to be aware of how we conceptualise craving too. It is more than just an physiological urge to drink or use drugs it is a cognitive and affective mechanism whereby we try to suppress the automatically occurring thoughts about drugs or alcohol and they rebound into our mind even more prolifically.

These attempts at misappraising these thoughts can lead to a worsening situation whereby we think we want use again because we are not aware these are automatic thoughts which we have not control over and thus misappraise them as being thoughts that prove we actually want to drink.

I am not sure how antagonists or other medication can deal with this which is not simply neuro biological mechanism but a cognitive -affective of psychological mechanism? I am trying to say the problem is always greater than we appear to be defining it. It is certainly more complex than physicians or medical researchers appear to countenance at times.

These researchers look at medication designed to treat the symptomatic manifestation of this condition, urges, but do not fully consider “craving” as I define it.

Seppela cites George Vaillant who writes in “Spiritual Evolution” about how the positive emotions are a force for healing in 12 Step programs. The best way to get to positive emotions that heal is by processing negative emotions that distress. It is distress that prompts craving, urges, memories of past use, physically responding to both external and internal cues.

And this is what Love as a treatment can alleviate too. This emotional distress.  We drank, used and engaged in maladaptive behaviours because distress signals in the brains prompt all our decisions, actions and behaviours.

We need to consider that this is the root of this condition, distress, caused by the undifferentiated negative emotions which haunt us in early recovery.

I suggest that we think of more urgent ways to treating and soothing this distress in early recovery more effectively. Love is one way among others such as the teaching of coping skills and emotion processing skills where addicted people learn how to locate, identify, label, verbalise (share) their  feelings and emotions because if they are like me they were not taught this is their childhoods.

As  Seppela cites in this interview “In our adult setting, over seventy-five percent of our patients have a psychiatric diagnosis before they arrive and in our youth setting, it’s over ninety-five percent”.  The majority (over 75%) of all disorders have emotion dysregulation at their core.

Trauma, abuse, mistreatment co-dependency and attachment disorders, negative self schemas as the result of childhood  mistreatment, neglect in chaotic dysfunctional families is the fertile ground where the majority of addiction grows. Treatment needs to help with this developmental disorder which is what addictive behaviour is.

It needs to treat it by helping addicted individuals learn to develop these essential life skills so that they can cope with life on life’s terms rather than habitually returning to substance abuse to cope instead.

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Each patient wears a virtual reality headset that reads their brain's signals to insight movement to their paralyzed appendages. Paraplegic's brains still send these signals, however they never make it to the paralyzed limbs. Through the VR headsets, patients are able to receive positive visual feedback of actual movement each time their brain sends a signal. This reinforces the signal pathways, and eventually can restore the ability to move their paralyzed limbs.

The initial testing of the devices included 5 patients, and after a year of training 4 of the 5 regained use of their previously paralyzed limbs. This type of rehabilitation has never been seen before, and it could turn paralysis into a temporary ailment, rather than a permanent one.

"Now, with further advancements, the candidate teenage kicker will be trained in Virtual Reality to control technology that will eventually allow them to kick the ball at the world cup. They will do this by wearing a non-invasive headpiece that detects brain waves." ~ Duke

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Brigid, saint and goddess

Saint Brigid of Kildare was born in the 5th century, a time when Ireland was transitioning from a country that practised ancient earth-based religion, to becoming a Christian one.
This transition between the two faith paths is written out in the traditions surrounding Brigid.
Before Brigid, there was a Celtic goddess with the same name. Part of the tribe of gods Tuath Dé, linked to the Celtic mother goddess Danu.
The two Brigids have become intertwined is because both their stories were mostly recorded by Christian monks. Let’s look at some of the similarities.

about Male-Female Duality

The world of humanity has two wings — one is women and the other men.
Not until both wings are equally developed can the bird fly. Should one wing
remain weak, flight is impossible. Not until the world of women becomes equal
to the world of men in the acquisition of virtues and perfections, can success
and prosperity be attained as they ought to be.
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William Wordsworth Poems

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Barbury Camp
 by Charles Hamilton Sorley

We burrowed night and day with tools of lead,
Heaped the bank up and cast it in a ring
And hurled the earth above. And Caesar said,
“Why, it is excellent. I like the thing.”
We, who are dead,
Made it, and wrought, and Caesar liked the thing.

And here we strove, and here we felt each vein

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This model is designed to open women to new possibilities. Keeping it a secret is part of the fun but it’s also intended to infuse new experiences and overcome defenses that may be keeping you locked in old patterns. Listen to the quiet voice within that whispers, “It’s okay to try something new.” You want to play, don’t you?

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    NEW MUSICAL: Rebecca at The Shaftesbury Theatre

    Austrian musical theatre producers VBW Theater have confirmed that REBECCA will make its London debut in spring 2011 at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London.

    The new musical adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel, Rebecca, will replace Flashdance The Musical which is closing early on 15 January 2011.

    The show premiered at Vienna's Raimund Theater in September 2006, directed by Francesca Zambello. The English translation, adapted from its original German by Oscar-Award winning writer and translator Christopher Hampton, has director Michael Blakemore attached to the new West End production.

    The musical, which has received a number of international productions, adheres closely to the original novel, which was turned into an Oscar-winning 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film.

    In Rebecca, following the death of his first wife Rebecca, Maxim de Winter returns to country estate Manderley, accompanied by his new wife. But the second Mrs de Winter soon discovers that the ghost of the seemingly perfect Rebecca still has a strong hold on her husband and his housekeeper Mrs Danvers.

    The Daily Mail have reported that Sierra Boggess, currently playing Christine in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies, is said to be in "complex negotiations" to star as Mrs de Winter in the production. Rebecca has a book by by Michael Kunze and music by Sylvester Levay.

    Rebecca tickets will be on sale soon.

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Forbes has just dropped their list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women and Rihanna has picked up a major title!

Rihanna has been officially crown as America’s Richest Self-Made Woman in music.

The “Rude Boy” singer sits in the top slot at about $600 million.

Rihanna has been picking up a number of checks with her music, Fenty Beauty, and a newly released fashion line.

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Nest / Dropcam Integration Details

Just months after Google / Nest bought Dropcam, Nest has announced the first 2 integrations between their thermostats and Dropcam; one of which is minor, but the other has important value in solving an ongoing problem.

Here's Nest's description:

"When your Nest Protect alarm goes off, Dropcam records a clip of the smoke or carbon monoxide event and saves it for you, regardless of whether you pay for Cloud Recording. And when you set your Nest Thermostat to Away and walk out the door, Dropcam automatically turns on motion alerts so you’ll know if anyone’s in the house. You can buy Dropcam in stores and online and, if you have any questions about your Dropcam or how it works with Nest, phone support will now be available 24/7."

The later, effectively turning off alerts when home, can reduce nuisance notifications, a common problem, known in the industry and recently highlighted in a WSJ critique of home surveillance cameras.

On the other hand, obviously one needs to buy both a Nest and a Dropcam, so that limits the applicable market. However, it is a useful step to make alerts more meaningful.

I'm curious if they'll use the Protect's presence sensors at some point. They're mostly used to turn the nightlight on, I believe, and may not be as sensitive as a dedicated PIR (or maybe they are, they don't really talk about them), but they could be an optional event source to trigger Dropcam recordings, as someone passes beneath it.

Maybe a house full of sensors which are not the most accurate on their own can be combined to improve accuracy? Hey, it helps them sell more Dropcams, and Nests, and Protects. :)

Maybe a house full of sensors which are not the most accurate on their own can be combined to improve accuracy?

I think you just described PSIM's greatest hopes.

I'm leery of DropCam, beyond 1 camera, on a home network. Until they make the motion analytics perform on the edge...anything beyond 1 camera will bring down the average home networks bandwidth when it comes to upload.

The Dropcam HDs my neighbors have use 0.5 Mbps for fairly busy scenes. (b, not B)

Even our miserable ISP gives us an average of 8.5 Mbps per modem.

They run 3 at a time. No crashing home networks for them.

The average, in my opinion, is between .7 and 1 for residential upload speeds from a cable company. Download speeds usually very between 7 to 13.

Read a majority of the DropCam support comments when people buy additional cameras because they liked the first. You will see returns and big disappointment.

They are up front about what the bandwidth draw is so people need to know what they have before they buy another camera. I know it is a MINIMUM .5Mbps, but mine runs way more than that.

Ross- Holy smokes. Do you have it pointed at a very busy intersection or in a lobby full of people?

"Each Dropcam uses approximately 0.2Mbps of upload bandwidth, and depending on the conditions, can peak up to 0.5 Mbps"

I have it pointed at my living room and front door area which also has a very large picture window as well as the glass in the front door. So whenever the clouds part and the sun peeks through it goes bonkers with alerts. I also have two very active cats that tend to chase and antagonize the dog. So between light changes and the animals there is quite a bit of activity.

I will run another check tonight and see what kind of bandwidth it is using.


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DMRCL Recruitment 2016 Online Application Result Cutoff AM JE SCTO CRA Maintainer @ www.delhimetrorail.com

DMRCL Recruitment 2016 Online Application Result Cutoff AM JE SCTO CRA Maintainer @ www.delhimetrorail.com

Candidates who have completed their graduation and are interested in working under State Government Jobs have a good news that DMRCL Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited had released an employment notification. This notification was released for filling posts under Executive and Non- Executive posts. There are total 3428 vacancies which are going to be filled by this notification. The official web where the complete notification was released is www.delhimetrorail.com. Applications are inviting from all the interested and eligible candidates. It also must that candidates must meet all the eligibility criteria needed for the post.

Delhi Metro AM CRA SCTO JE Recruitment Details :-

Organization Name :- DMRCL Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited.

Post name :- Executive and Non- Executive posts.

Number of posts – 3428

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Location of the Job – Delhi

Category of the Job – State Government.

DMRCL Vacancy Details :-

  1. Assist. Manager/ Electrical : 14.
  2. Assist. Manager/ S&T: 07.
  3.  Assist. Manager/ Civil: 05.
  4. Assist. Manager/ Operations: 05.
  5. Assist. Manager/ HR: 03.
  6. Assist. Manager/ Finance: 10.
  7. Station Controller/ Train Operator (SC/TO): 662.
  8. Customer Relations Assistant (CRA): 1100.
  9. Jr. Engineer/ Electrical: 48.
  10. Jr. Engineer/ Electronics: 81.
  11. Jr. Engineer/ Mechanical: 10.
  12. Jr. Engineer/ Civil: 66.
  13. Account Assistant: 24.
  14. Maintainer: 1393.

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Educational Qualifications :-

  • For applying for the post of Station Controller/ Train Operator SC/TO candidates must have to be qualified din Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering/ B.Sc degree in (Physics/ Chemistry/ Maths) or equivalent with good marks from any of the recognized University.
  • For applying for the Customer Relations Assistant candidates  need to be qualified in Graduation in any computer Application Course or its equivalent are allowed to apply.
  • For knowing, more details candidates are allowed to check with the official advertisement released by the Board.

Age Limit :-

Minimum age of the candidates must be 18 years and maximum age can be 28 years of age for applying for the above posts by the candidates.

Pay Scale :-

For Non-Executive posts –  Rs.13500/- – Rs.25520/- or Rs.10170/- -Rs.18500/- or Rs.8000/- -Rs.14140/-

For Executive Posts – Rs. 20600/-to Rs. 46500/-. will be paid to the selected candidates as their salary by the department.

Application Fee :-

General/UN-Reserved/OBC category candidates need to pay Rs.400/- and candidates of SC/ST/PWD category need to deposit Rs.150/- as their application fee.

Delhi Metro Application Procedure :-

  • For applying for the above posts candidates have to reach the official web of the department.
  • Official web is www.delhimetrorail.com
  • After going here search for the above recruitment link.
  • Open the link and download the application forms for both the executive and nonexecutive posts.
  • Fill the form with all the details asking in the application.
  • Pay the application fee as prescribed for the post.
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  • Send the form to the postal address.
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Guild Ball Season 3 Rulebook

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The Season 3 Rulebook brings you the continuing stories of your favorite players from the world of Guild Ball and the Empire of the Free Cities. Along with updated art and stories, the book features the rules for all Guilds, including the new releases and the all-new Farmer's Guild.

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Led by their iconic captain Thresher, the Farmer's Guild is the next Guild to lace up their boots and enter the Big League. These homegrown heroes might be out of their depth though - unlike the other Guilds they'll face, they're undoubtedly the underdogs, with little experience against veteran opponents. With the famous First Lady as their coach and the Solthecian Church taking a renewed interest in the world of Guild Ball, find out how the Farmer's Guild will fare in the face of such opposition!

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Guild Ball uses highly-detailed miniatures to bring the spirit and soul of each player to life on the pitch, with world class sculpts for both painters and gamers. With more than twenty new models hitting the pitch in Season 3, coaches can build their rosters around brand-new strategies and plays.

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Centenary Park Public Golf Course
18 Holes
PAR 73
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Played here for the first time today. It is probably one of the best public courses in or near Melbourne. It is fairly basic with regard to design but the fairways have good grass & there are plenty of good quality bunkers & occasional water to worry about. It is also a good test & fairly long at 6018m from the black tees. Well worth playing if you haven't before.
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Very up and down course. Long course, particularly the back nine. Conditions of fairways and greens were good for a public course in the middle of summer. As far as design goes, there are many straight par 4 and 5's interspersed by the odd dogleg 4. Par 3's were straightforward. For $30 for 18 holes not a bad course, but Eagle Ridge and The Dunes 20 mins down the road and $20 more are more enjoyable. Sandringham has a more interesting layout, but Centenary Park is better maintained due to the water available to them.
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Playing there semi regularly now, and the course is lush and in good nick. It starts off with a generous and straighforward par 5 before asking more of your golf game. The course is pretty flat, and gains it's difficulty mainly via changes in direction, and some good green and bunkering complexes. The holes at each par level vary in length so you will use most of the clubs in your bag. The course has a few intersting par 4's where driver isn't the best option of the tee, but a lot will still try with the big dog. There are a coupe of risk reward holes to enjoy, or to challenge you, but for the most part it's keeping your ball in play in this parkland setting, and leaving it in the correct locations that will assist in getting a good score. The greens themselves while not big, also have some interesting slopes to them, so putting your irons close can make things easier. The course as I said is pretty lush as there seems no shortage of watering, so even now, in the middle of summer you won't get lots of run once you ball hits the ground. This is target golf where you aim and shoot and watch the ball drop and stop ....... and it's in a relaxed quiet location. Once your on this course you won't see any housing developments, it's just you and the course, and thats always nice. Before and after the round, and the pro shop is well stocked and the bar is open. The club itself has a relaxed feel to it, and ht price for a round is certainly very reasonable for what you get.
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When is the Frankston City Council going to realise they need to throw a heap more money into this golf course to improve it and make it a really good golf course???? Who designed the new 4th hole along the road?? What a total disgrace I've never seen such a poorly designed hole in my life!!!!
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very good public course, beautiful greens, fantastic santa ana couch grass, and a brilliant price for a splendid round of golf.
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Very long course, said to be in the top 5 longest courses in Victoria. Don't let that worry you though the layout and challenge is excellent for all types of players. Great value for money with good to excellent fairways and greens. Very busy on w'ends, Ladies day Tuesday mornings and club day on Thursday morning. I give this course three stars with an extra one for value as the price for a round is excellent.

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Spring Pre-Grading Course – Sunday 22nd March

Spring General Grading – Sunday 5th April

Summer Course – Weekend of 20th / 21st June

Autumn One-Day Course – Sunday 25th October

Autumn Pre-Grade Course – Sunday 15th November

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VIDEO: Robert McDowell announces resignation from #FCC @WCIT #netfreedom

At the FCC’s Open Agenda meeting on Wednesday March 20 2013, Commissioner Robert McDowell announced his resignation. Video is below.

Republican McDowell has during his tenure earned the respect of all sides for his stalwart support of an Open Internet. Public Knowledge issued the following statement:

“Although we often disagreed, working with Commissioner McDowell was a pleasure. His willingness to hear opposing views, the intellectual rigor in his analysis, and his leadership at the WCIT made him someone we enjoyed working with. “Commissioner McDowell deserves enormous credit for defending TV white spaces in its darkest hour and pushing back against House Republicans who saw no value in preserving unlicensed spectrum.”

Commissioner McDowell appeared on C-SPAN’s The Communicators program on March 19, a day before his surprise announcement, where he discussed issues such as spectrum auctions due in 2014, internet freedom, and the FCC’s recent approval of a deal to merge T-Mobile and MetroPCS.


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Unity in Diversity (Racial Justice Sunday)

Unity in diversity by Lucy Olofinjana Living in London, we see such rich ethnic diversity around us every day. And being part of a multicultural church such as my church Woolwich Central Baptist, I think we experience something of the … Continue reading

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Philip Mohabir: An Apostle to Britain

One of the pioneers of the Black Church in Britain is the late Philip Mohabir. His immense contribution to the Christian landscape in Britain and other parts of the world is unparalleled.  Philip is like one of those great Church … Continue reading

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Italian Lessons

How to Talk About Email in Italian

How do Italians talk about email? Even in English we don't all use the same spelling. Some people write it as one word; some use a hyphen. We also use email as a verb in English, too: "I'll email you." Language doesn't stay the same. It evolves.

In Italian, too, "email" as a word, and as a concept, receives different treatment from different people. Be that as it may, the official name for email is la posta elettronica. It makes sense: the electronic mail.

And if you say la posta elettronica, you won't be wrong. But la posta elettronica actually stands for email in general, or even the inbox itself. One single email is more like unmessaggio di posta elettronica.

Still, more and more frequently, Italians use English words when talking about computers and the internet.

Since saying la posta elettronica every time can get old pretty quickly, the English term emailhas been adopted by many Italians. It's certainly quicker to say than la posta elettronica or unmessaggio di posta elettronica. But there's a basic problem. La posta is a feminine noun, so it makes sense for email to be feminine, too. So it might become la email. But how to pronounce the "E"?

Many Italians don't fully realize that we Americans pronounce the "E" in "email" like the letter "E."  We say email, e-book, ezine, e-commerce, etc. In Italian, an "E" is pronounced more like the "A" in make.

Italians learn to pronounce just about every letter they see. There are rules. But when they come upon foreign words, they can have a hard time imagining a pronunciation different from what think it should be by following the rules. As in most languages, people invent a version of a foreign word that sounds good or right to them.

And regarding the word "mail," an average Italian who doesn't know English would pronounce the "mai" in "mail" as something more akin to "my."  So it's actually a very difficult word to pronounce.

To pronounce email in a similar way to English, an Italian would write something like ìmeil. Pretty weird, right?

In English, we put the accent on the "E," and when the word came into being, there was a hyphen so it was easier to figure this out, but Italians don't necessarily realize that it's the letter "E" as an abbreviation for "electronic." They just read it as they see it and the accent ends up on "mail."

So we get la email or worse, una email, with two vowels juxtaposed: "A" followed by "E," neither of which is accented. It's awkward.

So lots of people just shorten email to mail

Ti mando una mail.
I'll send you an email.

In the latest episode of La Ladra, someone is sending some files via email. But what they say is via mail. It has become very common to say it this way.

Allora, io Le mando via mail tutti i dati della villa.

So, I will send you all the information about the villa by email.

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In the following example, la mail refers to a single email.

L'hai mandata la mail al commercialista?

Did you send the email to the accountant?

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In the following example, what's meant is the email account.

Se per te privacy è entrar nella mia mail e scrivere a Marco al posto mio...

If privacy for you means going into my email account and writing to Marco in my place...

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Sometimes you need to provide your email address.

Certo. Qual è l'indirizzo mail?

Sure thing. What's your email address?

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Italians have found a darling way to name the @: the "at" sign. They call it a chiocciola (a snail).

Sì, certo. È Arianna chiocciola Phones and More punto it.

Yes, of course. It's Arianna at Phones and More dot it.

Caption 69, Italiano commerciale - Cominciare un nuovo lavoro - Part 2

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Can you provide your email address in Italian? If you can't remember how to say the names of the letters, check out Marika's video. If you have trouble making yourself understood, check out this handy telephone alphabet. Remember that punto (point, period, full stop, dot) is what you say for the dot in "dot com." In Italy, some email addresses end in "com," but many end in it for Italy. Sometimes it gets spelled "I-T" but sometimes it gets pronounced as a word, as in the previous example.

Italians use English words more and more frequently, but they might differ from the original in meaning and in pronunciation, so they might be the hardest words to understand when an Italian is using them in the middle of an Italian sentence.

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Posted on June 5th, 2019

Summer is here! kids are out of school and triple digits are imminent. But here at iTrade, we are revving up for the Holiday Show in November. That means we are officially accepting vendor registrations for Holiday Show booths. For members who are regular vendors at the show, you will likely be hearing from Jimmy soon to get signed up for the coming year. As the show itself gets closer, you will hear more and more about it from us as well. If you are interested in a booth or would like more information about the Holiday Show, give our office a call at 602-308-0385.

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Party like an animal. Hunt down those lasers like no tomorrow, UNLEASH THE LASERS AND BRING ON THE LIGHT SHOW!

Life's a party, celebrate everyday :D! Don't forget to check out the rest of the party animals in this series for more fun times :)!

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