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by Steve Holsey
For New Pittsburgh Courier
Apparently it is true that absence makes the heart grow fonder, at least in some cases.
Just ask Arsenio Hall who, according to ratings organizations, has been warmly welcomed back to television with "The Arsenio Hall Show."
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Hall, now 57, said, "I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son, but it came with a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer."
Although he is happy to be back on the air with receptive audiences, some things have changed — and not necessarily for the better.
"There are so many cooks in the (expletive deleted) Hollywood kitchen now, so much micromanagement" he said during a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine. "It's a calculated, computerized demographers' world out there.
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He also noted that some of "the suits" have been speculating on whether or not the new show is "too Black." To which his response is, "I can only be Arsenio."
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During an early morning response to a house fire in Santa Rose de Temuco, Chile, firefighters witnessed the unbelievable. A mother dog risked her life to save her puppies from the fire surrounding the burning house, which started because of a car bomb.
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Drug discovery researchers at Northwestern University have developed a novel orally administered compound specifically targeted to suppress brain cell inflammation and neuron loss associated with Alzheimer's disease.
The compound is also rapidly absorbed by the brain and is non-toxic – important considerations for a central nervous system drug that might need to be taken for extended periods.
As described in the Jan. 11 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, the compound, called MW01-5-188WH, selectively inhibits production of pro-inflammatory proteins called cytokines by glia, important cells of the central nervous system that normally help the body mount a response, but are overactivated in certain neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, stroke and traumatic brain injury.
The compound was designed and synthesized in the laboratory of D. Martin Watterson at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, using a synthetic chemistry platform developed in his lab by researchers at the Northwestern University Center for Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology (CDDCB) for the rapid discovery of new potential therapeutic compounds.
Watterson is co-director of the CDDCB, the J.G. Searle Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and professor of molecular pharmacology and biological chemistry at the Feinberg School.
The efficacy and safety of the compound in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease was evaluated in collaboration with Linda J. Van Eldik, co-director of the CDDCB and professor of cell and molecular biology at Feinberg.
Besides providing a lead compound for drug development, the study has important implications for drug discovery in neurodegenerative diseases in general because it provides proof of concept that targeting over-production of cytokines by activated glia is a viable approach that has the potential to modulate disease onset and progression, the researchers said.
Decline of cognitive functions linked to the part of the brain called the hippocampus is a clinical hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The report demonstrates that targeting excessive glial activation can suppress brain inflammation and neuron dysfunction in the hippocampus and protect against cognitive decline in an animal model.
Neuron dysfunction can lead to further glia activation and contribute to further exacerbation of the disease process. The Northwestern researchers found that 188WH and related compounds slowed or reversed the progression of the neuroinflammatory cascade and reduced human amyloid beta-induced glia activation in a mouse specially designed to develop many of the signs of Alzheimer's disease, including neuroinflammation, neuronal and synaptic degeneration and behavioral deficits.
The compound also restored normal levels of markers of synaptic dysfunction in the hippocampus, the area of the brain that helps regulate memory and is gradually destroyed in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Treatment with the compound also attenuated Alzheimer's-like behavioral deficits in the mice that are due to injury to the hippocampus.
While previous research by the authors and many other investigators in the field has linked plaques, tangles and neuronal injury to synaptic dysfunction and cognitive decline, the direct linkage of glia to these processes and their potential as a selective target for new therapies has not previously been implicated so directly.
There are three key aspects of the report, Watterson said.
"First, a novel compound for development into a new class of Alzheimer's disease therapeutics that target disease has been described. Second, an innovative approach was used for the rapid and cost-effective discovery of orally bioavailable, safe and efficacious compounds, and this approach can be extended to other disease areas," Watterson said.
"Third, the design, synthesis and in vivo analyses were carried out by a new generation of young scientists trained in our educational program to instruct the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists," Watterson said.
Northwestern University patented the compound designated 188WH and has exclusively licensed the patent rights to NeuroMedix, Inc., for clinical development.


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Joaquin's videos have garnered warm and witty feedback from the TikTok community, expressing that it raises their standards in relationships. Such moments would be something that anyone yearns to experience.
In an email interview with him, he shared that he appreciates all the comments he's getting from the videos. "I especially love it when I hear how I'm able to raise people's standards for their future partners kasi we all deserve a healthy relationship and never settle for less," he said.
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Relationships are meant to be cherished and to help each other grow, so this is why seeking and keeping green flags in mind is an essential part of everyone's lives.
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Or tried to get home. Because when we got there, we couldn't get inside. Yeah. My human's key refused to go in the lock. At first she thought maybe her brain was just being gimpy - that she was using the wrong key. Totally possible, but my human's gimpiness wasn't the problem. The problem was the lock.
It was cold and dark and we wanted in. My human was totally not happy. So I suggested we break into our house. I've seen people on TV do it with a credit card. You just slide it in the door crack, wiggle the handle and the door pops right open. Uh, unless you have something called a dead-bolt lock, which is what we have. Then you're kinda screwed.
Unless you also have a dog door.
Luckily, we have one of those too. And because the only way to get into our backyard is through a special entrance that only we can get into, my human doesn't always lock the dog door. And luckily, our dog door is big enough for Dutch to go through. Because that means my human can fit though it too (she was VERY happy about this).
So, my human is home. And even though there was a little bit of swearing at having to squirm through our dog door at midnight, I think she's happy to be back. She promises to help me get caught up with all the comments I missed as soon as she gets caught up on the gazillion unread emails in her own inbox.
Must be really nice to have thumbs....
17 comments:
- Molly in PA said...
Hiya Pug!
Glad to hear that thumb lady is home, holy doggie door adventures - what a mess!
Now we will sit back and wait for the scale photo that will say '25.2', right? Right?
Tee hee :)
Molly in PA - January 6, 2011 at 8:29 AM
Wow Puglet what an adventure!
I'm glad to hear you were finally able to get inside.
Paws crossed for you to still be on the right side of the magical number 25 when your human takes you for the dreaded weigh-in.
Thank Pug your human had the sense to not get tubier on her vacation or she may not have been able to fit through the dog door. Sometimes our humans are just awesome that way.
Sabrina - January 6, 2011 at 8:36 AM
- moPSY+MISIOber said...
I'm glad, that 3 of you are back!!! I was missing you soooo much:) Gosia
- January 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM
- Crabbie Chris said...
Mom totally had a laugh at trying to visualize your mom going through the dog door. Too bad you didn't have thumbs to take a picture of that! Hehehehe
- January 6, 2011 at 8:47 AM
Hi Puglet,
We missed you.
My mom was laughing about your mom going thru the doggie door.
In the summer the people next door came home to find kids in their kitchen eating peanut butter & jelly sandwiches in their house. The kids came in thru their doggie door, no house alarm went off cause the doggie door wasn't alarmed.
We thought that was pretty funny.. the neighbors didn't!!
OH, paws crossed that you are close if not under the 25.2.
Ellie, Emmitt and Eli the SA Pugs - January 6, 2011 at 9:08 AM
We forgot something, there is a Dorito's Pug commercial that needs your vote.
Ask your mom to log onto www.pugattack.com to vote to have the pug commercial on during the Super Bowl.
The video is hilarious, check it out!
The San Antonio Pugs - January 6, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- moPSY+MISIOber said...
ohh that commercial is great :) Here in Poland me and my friend also voted for it :)
- January 6, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- I Love Lucy said...
Oh Puglet,
I'm sorry your human had to climb through the doggie door, but isn't it luck that the door was unlocked. My goodness, Picturing you mom climbing through the dog door had my mom in stitches. - January 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Noodles said...
Oddly enuf my human was locked out yesterday afternoon. She had to go to her cousin's house and wait for Mommy #2 to come home with key. And breaking into our house is hard since the humans have put so much effort into PREVENTING break-ins. No doggie door so THAT was not an option.
Glad your human is home. I look forward to more Puglet and Dutch adventures.
Love Noodles - January 6, 2011 at 10:09 AM
Hey there, Pug!
We have a puggy door, too, but I'm not going through it. My 13 year old girl goes in and out trying to show me it's ok, but nope- not me. Why go through when I can orb someone into opening it for me? I might try it to get some PB&J, though! I'm glad your human didn't lock it so you guys could get home. I think you have lots of messages to catch up on...
Lafayette Lola - January 6, 2011 at 11:23 AM
- Pugs2Luv said...
Oh no! We hope your key/lock is fixed. We wouldn't want your human to have to use the dog door as a regular means of entrance. We have a dog door too but since Yoda's not here to hold it up for us we don't use it anymore despite our humans pleas to. We're in the Lola camp on this one. Nevertheless welcome home all.
Luv, Zoey & Phoebe - January 6, 2011 at 12:13 PM
- Paws on the Run said...
Thank god for dog doors! And while I know that isn't a picture of you Puglet, can I say that I absolutely love this picture of Dutch?!
- January 6, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- Kitty+Coco said...
Hmmm...I just can't picture myself as a doggy door user considering I make mom carry me across the hardwoods. Your mom is right though, at midnight, it is time to get things done.
Kitty and Coco - January 6, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- Ollie said...
Good thing no local critters decided to take up residence while you guys were gone. Remember the raccoon that paid you a visit in the middle of the night? - January 6, 2011 at 1:44 PM
Well I can't fit through the dog door, but if I reach up reallllly far, stretch my arm waaaay out, tweak my shoulder entirely, I can just reach the door lock to flip it to unlock :-) ... I don't worry about bad guys doing this, the dog would eat them first and ask questions later when the stepped foot in HER backyard! (well, of course, unless they brought her a treat... treats = instant best friends - even if you *are* a bad guy!).
- January 6, 2011 at 2:14 PM
And where was Nikon to document your human squishing through the doggie door? I would have loved to see that pic!
Ann, Frodo, Molly & Cleo - January 6, 2011 at 4:51 PM
- insurance quotes said...
Thank Pug your human had the sense to not get tubier on her vacation or she may not have been able to fit through the dog door.Thank god for dog doors!
- January 6, 2011 at 9:48 PM


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Heeding takes all of the big, exciting individual episodes out of training. It makes training a step-by-step development of an understanding between you and the horse. In the last two articles, we talked about how we start teaching our horses to heed by playing with them and why it's important to work the horse in a corridor of pressures or aids. When have the horse on a lead line and you get to the point where he stops consistently as soon as you turn in, start using your corridor of pressures to back him. In starting to back the horse, you have to be careful not to do anything off balance because that will signal the horse to turn. If you do anything too loud, he will become afraid. Create a corridor with the wall on one side and you on the other. Stand facing toward the rear of the horse and hold your whip just in front of the horse's chest so you can touch either of the horse's shoulders easily. Whichever of his feet is the farthest forward, push gently on the corresponding shoulder with the whip handle until he picks the foot up. When the foot picks up, take the whip handle away immediately. When he sets it down, put the whip on the other shoulder and repeat the sequence. Remember to take the pressure away as soon as the picks his foot up. That is because you want every pressure to have a meaning and we want the horse to understand that if he simply moves away from a pressure slowly, it will go away. Removing the pressure is his best reward. So you are teaching him to reward himself while doing what you ask. Remember to move your corresponding foot at the same time he moves his. Eventually you will be able to just face backward, walk toward him and he will back up in the sequence of steps your feet direct him to. As your lessons progress, you want to teach the horse to heed from both his right and left sides. Practice transitions from halt to walk, walk to trot, halt to trot and all the reverses of all those. As the horse becomes better, you'll be able to remove one side of the corridor and work him in the middle of the arena without things falling apart. If they do, go back to the wall and repeat some of the basics. Don't get bossy. Accuracy comes from doing the same thing over and over, not louder and louder. The horse learns from repetition, not retribution. In the heeding process, you can get a lot of refinement and accuracy in the horse's movements if you keep refining what you do to ask and then trusting it will work. Eventually, you don't need to do huge movements to get the message across. For example, once the horse understands the game is to stay by your shoulder, you don't need to turn your shoulders parallel to his body anymore to get the halt. Similarly, when people start to train their horses to heed, they get to using their knees a lot. To be really accurate, however, you want to step forward rather than up. So you point with your toe rather than popping your knees as a signal to the horse to move. In time, all you will need to do to let the horse know that you are about to step forward is to lean one shoulder forward. After time, heeding becomes an auto pilot system. The fact that you are calm will cause your horse to heed the fact that you are calm. As you change positions, it indicates a change in things and the horse will change with you. If your shoulders are lined up with the horse's shoulders, the horse will move with you anywhere. If you back, the horse will back with you. If you move forward the horse will walk forward with you. And if you stay on that line and go out and turn, the horse will turn around you. If you break the line between the shoulders and face the horse, the horse will stand because now you are not asking it to move. The habit will become so complete that there will never be any panic involved. If you pay constant attention to your horse, the horse will pay constant attention to you. And if the horse is paying attention to you, it is not paying attention to anything else, since all horses have a one track mind. This gives you a kind of control that is not obvious but is complete. Heeding takes all of the big, exciting individual episodes out of training. It makes training a step by-step development of an understanding between you and the horse. It creates a horse-logical system you can use to lead the horse, longe him, put him on a trainer, stand him for the vet or farrier or even for a mare in the breeding shed.
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(BPT) – Here comes Santa Claus … and a sleigh full of confusion about Christmas trees. Better to buy real or better to buy artificial? Popular myths are that real trees are bad for the environment, artificial trees make more financial sense and real trees are just a hassle, but read on for some facts that will set the record straight and some thoughts that might turn your head on some of the more subjective sides of the debate.
If your No. 1 concern is the environment, your No. 1 choice should be a real tree. Growing, using and recycling real Christmas trees is good for the environment. Research shows that when compared on an annual basis, the artificial tree has three times more impacts on climate change and resource depletion than the natural tree. Real Christmas trees are biodegradable and can even be recycled or reused for mulch, and every year the circle of life continues. Artificial trees are petroleum-based products and most are imported from overseas. Many are thrown away seven to 10 years after they're purchased, and every year the landfills where they will stay (literally for centuries) get a little bit bigger.
Still don't like the idea of cutting down a tree? Remember that just like the Halloween pumpkin you carve with your kids or the fresh-cut flowers you buy for a loved one on special occasions, real Christmas trees are farmer-planted and hand-harvested specifically for people to enjoy. And, for every real Christmas tree harvested, a new tree is planted.
If it's your wallet that worries you, keep in mind that it's no surprise that artificial things frequently cost less than real things. True, not everyone agrees "you get what you pay for," but there's a second economic case to be made for buying a real Christmas tree: Real Christmas trees provide real business for real farmers. Fully 100 percent of real Christmas trees sold in the U.S. are grown in North America.
Every choice is a trade-off. What you gain with the ease of an artificial tree, you lose in the experience of a real tree. To be fair, this is subjective. But years from now, which do you think you'll remember more warmly: assembling a plastic tree you pulled out of the attic that looks exactly the same year after year, or bringing home and decorating a real tree that you enjoyed hunting for with your friends and family? Selecting a real Christmas tree makes memories. The hunt for a real Christmas tree can create an experience — everything from the scent to the search — that simply can't be manufactured and that no artificial tree can replace.
Ultimately, with all of the myths aside, a real Christmas tree is a choice you can be proud of. Whether you prefer to shop at a neighborhood store, local farm, seasonal lot or even online, there's a real Christmas tree available for everyone. For more information, visit Facebook.com/ItsChristmasKeepItReal.


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QEMU version 0.9 is already out for some time, but AFAIK no official package is available for openSUSE Linux 10.2 yet. Here are some steps I did to have QEMU 0.9 with accelerator (kqemu) on SUSE 10.2. The motivation is simple: I'd like to have a faster system for filter development.
QEMU 0.9 comes, among others, in binary package. I found out that this works well, so just download qemu-0.9.0-i386.tar.gz then unpack it to /. You'll see some new stuff in /usr/local/.
Next step is to install and use accelerator. This time I did compile it from source. First, get kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz, unpack it, then run the usual steps: ./configure follows by make and sudo make install. Don't forget to have kernel sources (install kernel-source package from YaST if necessary) in your system before doing this.
Now do the following:
export device="/dev/kqemu" sudo rm -f $device sudo mknod --mode=0666 $device c 250 0
After that, load the accelerator (kqemu) kernel module:
sudo /sbin/modprobe kqemu major=250
Now, run your virtual machine using the extra -kernel-kqemu option, e.g:
qemu -hda vdisk.qcow -kernel-kqemu
If you forget to load the kqemu kernel module, you'll get the following error message:
Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated
otherwise, nothing shows up and your virtual machine is executed as usual.
To verify that kqemu works, activate the monitor using Ctrl+Alt+2, then type in info kqemu followed by Enter. You should see:
kqemu support: enabled for user and kernel code
(Exit from the monitor using Ctrl+Alt+1)
If, for some reason, you don't want to run the virtual machine with acceleration, use the option -no-kqemu, e.g.:
qemu -hda vdisk.qcow -no-kqemu
Now, info kqemu on the monitor would give:
kqemu support: disabled
I tested QEMU 0.9 with Windows NT 4.0 as the guest operating system. Even without acceleration, I've seen performance improvement compared to previous versions of QEMU. With acceleration (kqemu), it was even faster, although the kqemu documentation says only Windows 2000 and XP are supported. Benchmark done using CPUBench showed that the virtual machine runs roughly equal to a 300 Mhz and 1.3 GHz system without and with kqemu, respectively. Now, that's an improvement!
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Dell Launches EqualLogic PS6000XVS, PS6010XVS, PowerVault MD3200, MD3200i Storage Arrays
Dell has announced new Dell EqualLogic and Dell PowerVault storage platforms.
Dell's offerings now include the EqualLogic PS6000XVSand PS6010XVS and the PowerVault MD3200 andMD3200i storage arrays.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
"- New Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS and PS6010XVS storage arrays combine the advantages of SAS and SSD drives in a single enclosure to improve density and performance. An extension of Dell's expertise in automated load-balancing and data movement technologies, customers leveraging the EqualLogic 5.0 firmware can now benefit from automated data tiering within the new arrays.
– New advancements in the Dell EqualLogic software architecture dramatically improves the performance and scalability of EqualLogic storage arrays – all at no additional cost to new or existing EqualLogic customers. With the introduction of EqualLogic 5.0 firmware, VMware infrastructures can dramatically reduce SAN network traffic for the copy process by over 95% and CPU utilization for the copy process by over 75% VMware vStorage initiative.
– New Dell PowerVault MD3200 and PowerVault MD3200i storage arrays are ideal for small-to-medium sized businesses looking for an affordable, high performance virtualization platform. The MD3200 series of storage arrays provides up to two times the performance, host support and capacity scalability over the previous generation of products."
The Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS and EqualLogic PS6010XVS will be available in early August, while the Dell PowerVault MD3200 and PowerVault MD3200i will be available this week.
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Ringers that are recordings of actual music or sounds.
While polyphonic ringtones can only simulate music by combining preset sounds of instruments in a musical pattern, real-music ringers are the actual music. Unlike polyphonic ringtones, real-music ringers can contain vocals.
Real-Music ringers come in standard audio file formats such as MP3, AAC, WAV, and WMA.


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Summer intern 2015 and 2016. Worked on the web app using React, Redux, Babel and Webpack. Albacross is a B2B targeted advertising company.
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A presentation tool built for Linköpings University, used in recruiting new students. Written in AngularJS.
An app for ship operators to handle ship fleets and visualizing their voyages. Bachelor thesis project, done in cooperation with SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute).
Time management app for IT consultants, made in collaboration with the IT consultancy firm Combitech. Developed in a course at Linköping University.
App concept for bridging the communication gap between kids, teachers and parents at the elemetary school Erlaskolan. Demola is an innovation ecosystem that connects students and companies.
DropEat is an automatic drone food delivery service for restaurants in residence areas. The drone controlled it's hook via the web interface to pick up and deliver food. Made during Gothenburg Startup Hack 2015.
Polygon is an interactive music video experience in space. It's built with three.js in WebGL.
Android app that encourages walking with gamification. Made during East Sweden Hack 2014.
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Reddit user looseONtheGoose posted this photo of a receipt he and his wife received while dining out on Mother's Day with their 1-year-old daughter. This girl wasn't your typical screaming-and tossing-food-all-over-the-floor toddler that you always seem to hear about, though.
Nope, she was a little angel and the restaurant decided to reward the parents by knocking a few bucks off the bill.
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Luka and the Fire of Life
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Random House, 2010 |
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"You've reached the age at which people in this family cross the border into the magical world. It's your turn for an adventure--yes, it's finally here!"
So says Haroun to his younger brother, twelve-year-old Luka.
The adventure begins one beautiful starry night in the land of Alifbay, when Luka's father, Rashid, falls suddenly into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one can rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka embarks on a journey through the world of magic with his loyal companions, Bear, the dog, and Dog, the bear. Together they encounter a slew of fantastical creatures, strange allies, and challenging obstacles along the way--all in the hope of stealing the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly treacherous task.
Chapter One
The Terrible Thing That
Happened on the Beautiful Starry Night
There was once, in the city of Kahani, in the land of Alifbay, a boy named Luka who had two pets, a bear named Dog and a dog named Bear, which meant that whenever he called out, "Dog!" the bear waddled up amiably on his hind legs, and when he shouted, "Bear!" the dog bounded toward him, wagging his tail. Dog, the brown bear, could be a little gruff and bearish at times, but he was an expert dancer, able to get up onto his hind legs and perform with subtlety and grace the waltz, the polka, the rhumba, the wah-watusi, and the twist, as well as dances from nearer home, the pounding bhangra, the twirling ghoomar (for which he wore a wide mirror-worked skirt), the warrior dances known as the spaw and the thang-ta, and the peacock dance of the south. Bear, the dog, was a chocolate Labrador, and a gentle, friendly dog, though sometimes a bit excitable and nervous; he absolutely could not dance, having, as the saying goes, four left feet, but to make up for his clumsiness he possessed the gift of perfect pitch, so he could sing up a storm, howling out the melodies of the most popular songs of the day, and never going out of tune. Bear, the dog, and Dog, the bear, quickly became much more than Luka's pets. They turned into his closest allies and most loyal protectors, so fierce in his defense that nobody would ever have dreamed of bully_ing him when they were nearby, not even his appalling classmate Ratshit, whose behavior was usually out of control.
This is how Luka came to have such unusual companions. One fine day when he was twelve years old, the circus came to town-and not just any circus, but the GROF, or Great Rings of Fire, itself; the most celebrated circus in all of Alifbay, "featuring the Famous Incredible Fire Illusion." So Luka was at first bitterly disappointed when his father, the storyteller Rashid Khalifa, told him they would not be going to the show. "Unkind to animals," Rashid explained. "Once it may have had its glory days but these days the GROF has fallen far from Grace." The Lioness had tooth decay, Rashid told Luka, and the Tigress was blind and the Elephants were hungry and the rest of the circus menagerie was just plain miserable. The Ringmaster of the Great Rings of Fire was the terrifying and enormous Captain Aag, a.k.a. Grandmaster Flame. The animals were so scared of the crack of his whip that the Lioness with toothache and the blind Tigress continued to jump through hoops and play dead and the skinny Elephants still made Pachyderm Pyramids for fear of angering him, for Aag was a man who was quick to anger and slow to laugh. And even when he put his cigar-smoking head into the Lioness's yawning mouth, she was too scared to bite it off just in case it decided to kill her from inside her belly.
Rashid was walking Luka home from school, wearing, as usual, one of his brightly colored bush shirts (this one was vermilion) and his beloved, battered Panama hat, and listening to the story of Luka's day. Luka had forgotten the name of the tip of South America and had labeled it "Hawaii" in a geography test. However, he had remembered the name of his country's first president and spelled it correctly in a history test. He had been smacked on the side of the head by Ratshit's hockey stick during games. On the other hand, he had scored two goals in the match and defeated his enemy's team. He had also finally got the hang of snapping his fingers properly, so that they made a satisfying cracking noise. So there were pluses and minuses. Not a bad day overall; but it was about to become a very important day indeed, because this was the day they saw the circus parade going by on its way to raise its Big Top near the banks of the mighty Silsila. The Silsila was the wide, lazy, ugly river with mud-colored water that flowed through the city not far from their home. The sight of the droopy cockatoos in their cages and the sad dromedaries humphing along the street touched Luka's generous young heart. But saddest of all, he thought, was the cage in which a mournful dog and a doleful bear stared wretchedly all about. Bringing up the rear of the cavalcade was Captain Aag with his pirate's hard black eyes and his barbarian's untamed beard. All of a sudden Luka became angry (and he was a boy who was slow to anger and quick to laugh). When Grandmaster Flame was right in front of him Luka shouted out at the top of his voice, "May your animals stop obeying your commands and your rings of fire eat up your stupid tent."
Now it so happened that the moment when Luka shouted out in anger was one of those rare instants when by some inexplicable accident all the noises of the universe fall silent at the same time, the cars stop honking, the scooters stop phut-phuttering, the birds stop squawking in the trees, and everyone stops talking at once, and in that magical hush Luka's voice rang out as clearly as a gunshot, and his words expanded until they filled the sky, and perhaps even found their way to the invisible home of the Fates, who, according to some people, rule the world. Captain Aag winced as if somebody had slapped him on the face, and then he stared straight into Luka's eyes, giving him a look of such blazing hatred that the young boy was almost knocked off his feet. Then the world started making its usual racket again, and the circus parade moved on, and Luka and Rashid went home for dinner. But Luka's words were still out there in the air, doing their secret business.
That night it was reported on the TV news that, in an astonishing development, the animals of the GROF circus had unanimously refused to perform. In a crowded tent, and to the amazement of costumed clowns and plainclothes customers alike, they rebelled against their master in an unprecedented act of defiance. Grandmaster Flame stood in the center ring of the three Great Rings of Fire, bellowing orders and cracking his whip, but when he saw all the animals beginning to walk calmly and slowly to_ward him, in step, as if they were an army, closing in on him from all directions until they formed an animal circle of rage, his nerve cracked and he fell to his knees, weeping and whimpering and begging for his life. The audience began to boo and throw fruit and cushions, and then har_der objects, stones, for example, and walnuts, and telephone directories. Aag turned and fled. The animals parted ranks and let him through, and he ran away crying like a baby.
That was the first amazing thing. The second took place later that night. A noise started up around midnight, a noise like the rustling and crackling of a billion autumn leaves, or maybe even a billion billion, a noise that spread all the way from the Big Top by the banks of the Silsila to Luka's bedroom, and woke him up. When he looked out his bedroom window he saw that the great tent was on fire, burning brightly in the field by the river's edge. The Great Rings of Fire were ablaze; and it was not an illusion.
Luka's curse had worked.
The third amazing thing happened the next morning. A dog with a tag on its collar reading "Bear" and a bear with a tag on its collar reading "Dog" showed up at Luka's door-afterward Luka would wonder exactly how they had found their way there-and Dog, the bear, began to twirl and jig enthusiastically while Bear, the dog, yowled out a foot-tapping melody. Luka and his father, Rashid Khalifa, and his mother, Soraya, and his older brother, Haroun, gathered at the door of their house to watch, while from her verandah their neighbor Miss Oneeta shouted, "Have a care! When animals begin to sing and dance, then plainly some witchy business is afoot!" But Soraya Khalifa laughed. "The animals are celebrating their freedom," she said. Then Rashid adopted a grave expression, and told his wife about Luka's curse. "It seems to me," he opined, "that if any witchy business has been done it is our young Luka who has done it, and these good creatures have come to thank him."
The other circus animals had escaped into the Wild and were never seen again, but the dog and the bear had plainly come to stay. They had even brought their own snacks. The bear was carrying a bucket of fish, and the dog wore a little coat with a pocket full of bones. "Why not, after all?" cried Rashid Khalifa gaily. "My storytelling performances could do with a little help. Nothing like a dog-and-bear song-and-dance act to get an audience's attention." So it was settled, and later that day it was Luka's brother, Haroun, who had the last word. "I knew it would happen soon," he said. "You've reached the age at which people in this family cross the border into the magical world. It's your turn for an adventure-yes, it's finally here!-and it certainly looks like you've started something now. But be careful. Cursing is a dangerous power. I was never able to do anything so, well, dark."
"An adventure of my very own," Luka thought in wonderment, and his big brother smiled, because he knew perfectly well about Luka's Secret Jealousy, which was actually Not So Secret At All. When Haroun had been Luka's age he had traveled to the Earth's second moon, befriended fishes who spoke in rhyme and a gardener made of lotus roots, and helped to overthrow the evil Cultmaster Khattam-Shud, who was trying to destroy the Sea of Stories itself. By contrast, Luka's biggest adventures to date had taken place during the Great Playground Wars at school, in which he had led his gang, the Intergalactic Penguins Team, to a famous victory over the Imperial Highness Army led by his hated rival Adi Ratshit, a.k.a. Red Bottom, winning the day with a daring aerial attack involving paper planes loaded with itching powder. It had been extremely satisfying to watch Ratshit jump into the playground pond to calm down the itch that had spread all over his body; but Luka knew that, compared to Haroun's achievements, his really didn't amount to very much at all. Haroun, for his part, knew about Luka's desire for a real adventure, preferably one involving improbable creatures, travel to other planets (or at least satellites), and P2C2Es, or Processes Too Complicated to Explain. But until now he had always tried to damp down Luka's lusts. "Be careful what you wish for," he told Luka, who replied, "To be honest with you, that is easily the most annoying thing you have ever said."
In general, however, the two brothers, Haroun, and Luka, rarely quarreled and, in fact, got on unusually well. An eighteen-year age gap had turned out to be a good place to dump most of the problems that can sometimes crop up between brothers, all those little irritations that make the older brother accidentally knock the kid's head against a stone wall or put a pillow over his sleeping face by mistake; or persuade the younger brother that it's a good idea to fill the big fellow's shoes with sweet, sticky mango pickle, or to call the big guy's new girlfriend by a different girlfriend's name and then pretend it was just a really unfortunate slip of the tongue. So none of that happened. Instead Haroun taught his younger brother many useful things, kickboxing, for example, and the rules of cricket, and what music was cool and what was not; and Luka uncomplicatedly adored his older brother, and thought he looked like a big bear-a bit like Dog, the bear, in fact-or, perhaps, like a comfortable stubbly mountain with a wide grin near the top.
Luka had first amazed people just by getting born, because his brother, Haroun, was already eighteen years old when his mother, Soraya, at the age of forty-one gave birth to a second fine young boy. Her husband, Rashid, was lost for words, and so, as usual, found far too many of them. In Soraya's hospital ward he picked up his newborn son, cradled him gently in his arms, and peppered him with unreasonable questions. "Who'd have thought it? Where did you come from, buster? How did you get here? What do you have to say for yourself? What's your name? What will you grow up to be? What is it you want?" He had a question for Soraya, too. "At our age," he marveled, shaking his balding head. "What's the meaning of a wonder like this?" Rashid was fifty years old when Luka arrived, but at that moment he sounded like any young, greenhorn father flummoxed by the arrival of responsibility, and even a little scared.
Soraya took the baby back and calmed its father down. "His name is Luka," she said, "and the meaning of the wonder is that we appear to have brought into the world a fellow who can turn back Time itself, make it flow the wrong way, and make us young again."
Soraya knew what she was talking about. As Luka grew older, his parents seemed to get younger. When baby Luka sat up straight for the first time, for example, his parents became incapable of sitting still. When he began to crawl, they hopped up and down like excited rabbits. When he walked, they jumped for joy. And when he spoke for the first time-well!-you'd have thought the whole of the legendary Torrent of Words had started gushing out of Rashid's mouth, and he was never going to stop spouting on about his son's great achievement.
The Torrent of Words, by the way, thunders down from the Sea of Stories into the Lake of Wisdom, whose waters are illumined by the Dawn of Days, and out of which flows the River of Time. The Lake of Wisdom, as is well known, stands in the shadow of the Mountain of Knowledge, at whose summit burns the Fire of Life. This important information regarding the layout-and, in fact, the very existence-of the Magical World was kept hidden for thousands of years, guarded by mysterious, cloaked spoilsports who called themselves the Aalim, or Learned Ones. However, the secret was out now. It had been made available to the general public by Rashid Khalifa in many celebrated tales. So everyone in Kahani was fully aware that there was a World of Magic existing in parallel with our own non-Magic one, and from that Reality came White Magic, Black Magic, dreams, nightmares, stories, lies, dragons, fairies, blue-bearded genies, mechanical mind-reading birds, buried treasure, music, fiction, hope, fear, the gift of eternal life, the angel of death, the angel of love, interruptions, jokes, good ideas, rotten ideas, happy endings, in fact almost everything of any interest at all.
Copyright © 2010 by Salman Rushdie
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We know about that -- we've all posted there before this topic was started. I suspect that Louis started this topic because that one was moved to the Merged forum and he thought that either changes required a new topic or he just wanted to discuss changes more informally.
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What is Addiction?
In this Narconon drug education video, Bobby Wiggins (Drug Prevention Specialist) answers the question "what is addiction?" in a very simple and concise way. There is much more information about drug addiction but this video gives a basic understanding of the way it works.
Watch the other drug education videos of this 10-part series:
- What is a drug?
- What are the Effects of Drugs on the Mind?
- Why Do People Take Drugs?
- What is addiction?
- Is Alcohol a Drug?
- What are the long term effects of weed?
- Is ecstasy safe?
- What do drugs do?
- What do drugs do to your nervous system?
- How Long Do Drugs Stay in Your System?
Most drugs aren't habit forming, true or false?
The actual fact of the matter is when a drug wears off, the person wants more.
I want to take a minute to just describe exactly what happens there.
First of all let's say this little line here that I'm about to draw represents a person who let's say he's just under a little bit under stress. You know. He's a little nervous, he's a little stressed out. He takes the drug and what the drug does is it temporarily lifts him out of that stress. The problem is that inside the person's body, calcium is burnt up, vitamin c, b complex and many, many other nutrients are destroyed. So when this drug wears off, he comes down off this drug. He comes down in a slightly lower condition then when he started, but not enough to really see it.
So if this made him feel better for a while, what do you think he'll do again? Exactly, tries it again and son-of-a-gun, it lifts him again, but the high isn't quite as high as it was the first time.
More nutrients burn up in the body and he comes down in a slightly lower condition. Each time he takes that drug, the high isn't quite as high. Each time he comes down, more of the nutrients in the body are burnt up and he finds himself in a slightly lower condition.
The problem is, is that normally he doesn't see it. In other words, it's acting so slow on his body that he can't see the slow deterioration. After a while, he doesn't want that drug anymore, he actually needs that drug just to feel normal.
Don't miss our next in the series, number 5: Alcohol Isn't A Drug. True or false? Don't miss it.
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Approximately 2.3 million people in the United States are currently in prison or jail. (Prisons are run by federal or state authorities; jails are run locally.) China, a non-democratic regime with a population four times larger than the US, incarcerates fewer persons in per-capita and absolute terms. What's more, most people in US jails today have not been convicted, meaning that they are being punished without trial. Since US jail admissions number approximately 11 million per year, pre-trial incarceration is, arguably, the real problem of 'mass incarceration'.
The crucial concept governing carceral practices is something called "less eligibility". The idea dates back to the English Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, which codified English practices of dealing with the indigent. In 1832, the economist Nassau William Senior described how the "first and most essential of all conditions" in administering relief to the poor (often by moving them into a workhouse) is that the indigent's "situation on the whole shall not be made really or apparently so eligible as the situation of the independent labourer of the lowest class". That is, the conditions in the workhouse should be awful: worse even than the poorest of the poor.
But even before Senior's famous line, a different carceral ideal was afoot: equality. In 1791, writing specifically about criminal offenders, the English utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham argued that "the ordinary condition of a convict doomed to a punishment that few or none but the individuals of the poorest class are apt to incur, ought not to be made more eligible than that of the poorest class of subjects in a state of innocence and liberty". As the historian Janet Semple observed in Bentham's Prison (1993), his rule of severity is not "less eligibility" but a more commonsense equality principle – offenders should have access to no more resources than they had while free. "Bentham," Semple wrote, "did not envisage grinding his convicts down to below the level of the poorest of the poor."
Reforming the soul
Other countries do not run their jails and prisons according to a principle of less eligibility. German prisons operate under an "approximation" principle, wherein offenders' rights to privacy, dignity and property are protected. Norwegian prisons use a similar "normality principle", which holds that daily prison life should be, as far as possible, no different from ordinary life. Fellow Englishman and Bentham disciple James Mill embraced the normality principle in 1825 by arguing that inmates in pre-trial incarceration should be allowed to lead the same life that they enjoyed prior to arrest, including access to employment and freedom to make small purchases with their own money. Today, US jails and prisons have rejected these examples in thrall to "less eligibility", and not just for the poorest of the poor.
Why are the carceral practices in the US so harsh? Part of the reason is the vestige of a Christian-inspired desire to reform the offender's soul. Around the time of the Revolution, the penitentiary's 'unsocial manner of life' based on order, obedience and silence could seem plausible only to those who thought that they could achieve a 'new victory of mind over matter'. Today, prolonged solitary confinement is coming to be seen for what it is: torture. Another reason, identified in James Whitman's book Harsh Justice (2005), is populism. Elected prosecutors and judges are guided by popular, punitive attitudes in a way that unelected bureaucrats in countries such as Germany (or Canada) are not. Survey research shows that Canadian and US attitudes about punishment are similar, but Canada has much more lenient sentencing policies than the US because bureaucratic appointees, not elected officials, make decisions about punishment. Another layer is race. Warehousing black males is clearly an outcome, and perhaps also an important aim, of US criminal justice. The result of this grab-bag of influences is segregation without soul-craft, and discipline and surveillance without reform.
If, as I think, the aim of punishment is rehabilitation, it is hard to justify less rather than equal eligibility. But not all agree that rehabilitation is the primary aim of punishment. Deterrence theorists think that controlling crime is the most important aim of punishment. Retributivists hold that punishment should repay the harm done to another in a like manner: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Rehabilitation or retribution?
As evidence that precisely the opposite happens in US prisons, The End of Punishment (2013) by the present-day retributivist Robert Blecker's recounts an interview with a Tennessee Death Row correctional officer who feels like a waiter, and a guard who complains that Florida's Death Row is "the best deal in the building". Blecker is right that we should classify offences and offenders according to the severity of their crime. Perhaps the ADX Florence supermax prison should even be, as its ex-warden described it to CNN, "far much worse than death" for the worst of the worst. But think about this: county jail is "hard time", and harder than state prison, as I am told by a local jail administrator. Almost 500,000 held in US jails are being held pre-trial. The average jail time served is short. Offenders quickly return to their communities, but they are not prepared for re-entry. Even the average jail and prison time might actually help offenders to become worse.
Too often, the US conversation about criminal justice is about principles and theories of punishment: rehabilitation, retribution, deterrence. What I am arguing here is that these theories amount to little if we ignore less eligibility, or how we punish. Visiting a jail without an outdoor yard, where offenders have no physical contact with friends and family during their incarceration, or a prison where life unfolds within coils of obtrusive razor wire, is not a normal life, and doesn't prepare you to return to normal life. As opinion in the US starts to move away from some punitive strategies such as solitary confinement, we should reconsider which of our other carceral practices meet or violate the crucial secondary principles (leniency, proportionality, egalitarianism) of a just criminal justice system.
In Germany, there are restrictions on types of uniforms, on partitioning visitors from offenders, and on the use of bars and peepholes in cells. There are also protections of offenders' rights to privacy, information, public exposure, and leisure and culture, that do not exist in the US. In the US, courts have upheld the constitutionality of expressive punishments that demean offenders, pre-trial incarceration that looks punitive, and denials of privacy and dignity.
It is a tragedy if the attempt to have a just society with a suitable criminal justice system has been transformed into criminogenic warehousing, based on surveillance and discipline, which achieves few or none of the goals of punishment. It is foolishness to countenance such a system merely because it has not yet touched you. The road to the present state of affairs leads through less eligibility, which, on the surface, is a principle that makes sense: treat offenders to a life that is worse than life on the outside. After all, why should offenders have air conditioning if the farmer "living in innocence and liberty" does not? But the answer is that it is too easy to forget the other constraints on the dignity, privacy and autonomy of those incarcerated in jails and prisons.
Our present system is costly and ineffective; it creates aberrant economies and empowers prison gangs that in turn influence street gangs. Prisons reproduce the cultural inadequacy of life on the inside on our streets and in popular culture, and when offenders are released into communities, their lack of rehabilitation justifies further segregation and other collateral consequences, such as employment and housing discrimination.
This article first appeared on Aeon.


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I had the privilege of participating in a fantastic roundtable at Focus.com today. It was "A Sales View Of Marketing Automation," with three of the smartest sales and marketing people I know: Alex Shootman, Chief Revenue Officer of Eloqua, Thor Johnson of Team Thor Marketing, and Carlos Hidalgo of The Annuitas Group. It was a great discussion, be sure to listen to the recorded version.
But it got me to thinking, there are endless discussion about sales and marketing technologies. There are constant debates on what do we get out of it. We want to make sure that sales and marketing gets value from these efforts. How do these tools make us more productive, more effective and more efficient? What's the ROI or business case for the implementation of these tools?
These are certainly critical discussions. We have to make sure we are investing in the right technologies, that our sales and marketing people can leverage them, and that we get a return on our investment in these tools. But I wonder if we miss an opportunity when we think of these?
Isn't the real beneficiary of sales and marketing automation the customer? It seems to me, these tools enable us to dramatically improve the quality of the customer experience. They enable us to transform our relationships and the customer engagement process. Rather than blasting them with meaningless drivel, we can tailor every communication, every interchange, every piece of content to be relevant, timely, meaningful, and impactful. Marketing automation tools enable us to reach out, providing content the customer wants, in the way they want it. We leverage the web to deliver deep information and rich experiences, when and where the customer wants it.
Sales automation tools enable us to go even further, sales people now do deep research, they can make sure that in that "last mile" they are engaging the customer in the most impactful ways possible. We can make the customer buying experience better, richer, and easier. These tools enable us to do things we have never imagined in creating higher quality customer engagement experiences.
Properly implemented, these tools enable us to create greater value–supplementing that we bring through our products, solutions, and sales engagement.
It seems the discussion of sales and marketing automation must start with the key beneficiary—the customer. How do we create a richer and more distinctive customer experience? How to we improve the quality of the customer engagement process? My sense is that if we use this as the starting point, not only will our implementation of these systems be better, but the value to sales and marketing is even richer. It seems we are leaving a large part of the business justification for these systems on the table, if we only look at sales and marketing as the beneficiaries.


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Lesson 22 – Space Shooter
Tutorials –
- At this page you will be able access each tutorials that you can perform using the Elecfreaks Tinker Kit for BBC micro:bit
- Clicking on the link opens up the tutorial in a new window – Case_20 Space Shooter
- If there are concepts you do not understand or if you have any doubts please feel free to ask someone, or consider using Google to get them answered and clarified.
- We will be writing our code using the Microsoft MakeCode Block based coding editor. So let's open up the code editor for the BBC micro:bit using the following Link.
- At the end of the tutorial are some challenges. We would encourage you to take on the challenges and enhance your learning.
- Let's get coding!!!!
Prerequisites –
- BBC micro:bit –
- This development track makes extensive use of the BBC micro:bit.
- If you haven't purchased a BBC micro:bit yet you might want to head over to OzToyLib and pick one up now.
- We would recommend that you pick up the BBC micro:bit kit which comes with a battery pack, usb cable and the real micro:bit.
- We will be using the official online python editor to write code for all our tutorials. No investment required here.
- BBC micro:bit Starter Kit –
- You can purchase the Starter Kit through the OzToyLib store – Tinker Kit for BBC micro:bit
- Please note that the BBC micro:bit needs to be purchased separately from the Tinker Kit for BBC micro:bit.
- You can purchase the Tinker Kit for BBC micro:bit at OzToyLib.
- You can also look up each of these products at your local electronics hobby store.
About the BBC micro:bit –
The Micro Bit (also referred to as BBC Micro Bit, stylised as micro:bit) is an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. The board is 4 cm × 5 cm and has an ARM Cortex-M0 processor, accelerometer and magnetometer sensors, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, a display consisting of 25 LEDs, two programmable buttons, and can be powered by either USB or an external battery pack. The device inputs and outputs are through five ring connectors that are part of the 23-pin edge connector at the bottom of the board. The micro:bit can be programmed using the Microsoft Block code program editor which is similar to the block based language Scratch ideal for 7-12 year olds. The micro:bit can also be programmed using the Makecode editor in Javascript and Python which allows for older kids to learn the Javascript and Python programming language using the micro:bit.
You can read more about the BBC micro:bit at the microbit website. Also see Kitronik's resources here – Parents Complete Guide To The BBC micro:bit.
Reference –
- Learn more about the BBC micro:bit here – <Link>
- Look for a BBC micro:bit re-seller here and pick one up now.


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