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The philosophy that Imam Bilal uses to reinforce the courage of the inmates is that 'the world is a prison for the believers'. "I utilize this ideology so that the brothers are not focused so much on the physical prison that they are in but rather focus on their spirituality to free them of their mental prison,� the Imam says.
(Imam Bilal and his wife).
Ramadan the ninth month in the Muslim calendar, is the time when Muslims fast for 30 days and abstain from food, drink and sexual activity with their spouses from sun up to sun down.Â
The purpose of Ramadan is for Muslims to reflect on their good deeds and utilize the time that they would spend eating and doing leisure activities to reflect on God and his teachings. Muslims are taught to read one thirtieth of the Quran everyday during the 30 days of the month preferably before the fast is broken in the evening time.
The procedure to start the days fasting begins in the morning, when Muslims wake up in the morning and eat their breakfast before dawn otherwise known as suhur. The breakfast is to be taken at least 15 to 30 minutes before the Morning Prayer starts at dawn. The times are determined by sunrise and sunset. This was the method that the Prophet Muhammad the founder of the Islamic religion used to determine a full day before clocks were invented.
In New York, there are approximately 300 Masjids all from various ethnicities and backgrounds. Both brothers and sisters gather together at their local Masjid to break the fast and socialize. Ramadan is the time wherein most members of the community joyfully reunite with people that they may not ordinarily see throughout the year.
Imams, Assistant Imams and wives of the Imams, and general members of the masjid, all take a great responsibility in preparing their community for the upcoming month of Ramadan. Whether it is by preparing the food, compiling a list of the people who will participate in preparing the Iftar dinners, or leading the community in Taraweeah prayers, everyone's contribution helps towards their Masjids month of Ramadan go smoothly.
Imam Siraj Wahaj a renowned Imam both in New York and throughout the United States starts the preparation of his congregation before the month of Ramadan, during the month of Shaban. "I prepare my congregation by trying to remind them of the Hadith of the Prophet and what was the process he used to prepare for the month of Ramadan,� he says.
Imam Siraj narrated a Hadith where the Prophet used to fast mostly during the month of Shaban. He also helps the members of his community by making a chart on which person or family will contribute to the Iftar dinner in the evenings. The Medinah Sisters a group of women who support Masjid At-Taqwa, help out with the preparation of the meals and others help with the serving of the dinner.
Brother Uthman Imam Siraj's Assistant Imam, helps to coordinate the serving of the meals on the brother's side. Imam Siraj Wahaj Masjid located in the heart of Bedford Stuyvesant, once a drug-infested neighborhood in the 1980's now has about forty Muslim businesses that surround Imam Siraj's Masjid. Most of the ethnic make up of Imam Siraj's Masjid are African, African- American and Bangladesh.
Another masjid in Jamaica New York called Masjid Al-Humdullah, under Imam Charles Bilal, a former political candidate for office is also a very family oriented Masjid. Imam Bilal's wife, Sister Aminah Bilal along with other sisters, takes on a great responsibility in preparing the Iftar dinners for a crowd of 30 to 50 a night. Her being the wife of the Imam also plays a role in helping her husband to maintain the Masjid throughout the month of Ramadan. Sister Aminah Bilal wife of Imam Charles Bilal of 35 years takes great pleasure in assisting her husband throughout the month of Ramadan. Over the past nine years, she tries to arrange with her job to take off for the first week of Ramadan to prepare all the meals for each night of the first week. This process helps her husband's Masjid's transition easier for the rest of the month of Ramadan.
"I do it for the pleasure of Allah,� She states. "My goal is to get everyone fed and happy, but I could not do it without the support of the other sisters.� Sis Aminah Bilal who wants to remain humble extends the thanks of the support she receives to individuals such as Sister Beatrice, Brother Suliman, Sister Shahadah Muhammad and Sister Shirley Muhammad: "I cannot take all of the credit, because preparing the food takes at least six hours a day and without these individuals help I would not be able to do it.� Sister Aminah Bilal in addition tries to have food fundraising dinners prior to the month of Ramadan to help support the extra expenses the Masjid accumulates throughout the month.
With the help of her training from her former MGT classes, she adds a loving touch of homemade recipes passed down to her from her mother and grandmother. After the members of the masjid eaten their meal for the evening, the community comes together before the Isha Salat to play an Islamic trivia game. Sis Aminah Brother Shaheed along with other members of the community participates in the game and it extends the spirit of family togetherness throughout the month of Ramadan.
Imam Charles Bilal former candidate for political office for the Jamaica area extends his support to prison inmates during the month of Ramadan. His schedule as a chaplain for the Rikers Island prisons is extended from a five-day schedule to a seven-day schedule. He tries to keep the inmates spiritually uplifted and refreshed throughout the month of Ramadan something that becomes a daily challenge but is very rewarding. In the prison, he makes sure that self-improvement classes are enforced, family counseling programs, and other activities that reinforce the inmates' responsibilities towards society.
"In prison the inmates self esteem is very low so I try to reinstate their importance of their individuality as a human being,� he say. Even though the brothers are locked up Imam Bilal emphasizes that fasting during Ramadan is incumbent upon every human being who is not sick and is mentally stable. Not allowing the brothers to utilize the fact that they are incarcerated as an excuse not to fast, Imam Bilal over the past eighteen years has been able to make sure that the prisoners receive well balanced Halal foods for the morning and evening meals. He also teaches Jumah in the prisons as well as provides an Eid celebration after the month of Ramadan wherein the inmates are able to reunite with their families.
The philosophy that Imam Bilal uses to reinforce the courage of the inmates is that 'the world is a prison for the believers'. "I utilize this ideology so that the brothers are not focused so much on the physical prison that they are in but rather focus on their spirituality to free them of their mental prison,� the Imam says.
He uses the month of Ramadan to reinforce this ideology by using the practice of fasting to further discipline the inmates to prepare them for the outside world upon the time of their release. Imam Abdul-Azeem Khan an Imam of Masjid Bin Omar Aziz another Masjid in the Jamaica Queens area keeps his community busy with fundraisers to help with the expenses of the Masjid and to give to Muslim charities in various countries. The preparation for the Iftar dinners starts from 10am in the morning wherein both brothers and sisters participate in the cooking to feed fifty to one hundred people daily.
This year three Guyanese Masjids were shut down prior to the month of Ramadan, so this increased the participation at Imam Khan's Masjid also a mostly Guyanese Masjid. Imam Khan pledges his Masjid to be an umbrella Masjid under the Imam Warith Deen Muhammad community.
Thus, his Masjid receives supporters from various ethnicities and backgrounds. Some of the activities that Imam Khan plans to have after the month a post Eid dinner in which he will have a scholar speak on Aisah Bint Abu Bakr and her wisdom.
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Periodically I have posted about ebook pricing, the most linked to and discussed post being the one where I analyzed JA Konrath's sales data to determine optimum price to maximize revenue. The take home lesson I try to impress over and over is that the number I arrived at in that analysis is unimportant and not applicable to a general data set – it's the method I used to arrive at the number that matters. I think anyone involved in the sale of digital goods should do the same kind of experimentation in order to determine their own optimum price.
I still see defenses of higher ebook prices. In practically every case, the person presenting the argument has some kind of investment in the way business has always been done. They have done their time in legacy paper publishing and present this experience as a reason why their opinion is informed. In reality, I think this mindset probably blinds them to realities and frames their thinking in ways that makes it difficult or impossible to think outside that frame. In other words, that lifetime of experience and all that hard won knowledge is probalby doing them harm, which is not something anyone wants to consider. "Hey, all that stuff you've learned your entire adult life, throw it out and start over." I blame no one for having a hard time reframing their thoughts.
The first and most harmful bit of the frame is what I call the "Unit Price Fallacy." The classic justification of ebook prices takes a unit, and breaks down the costs. Printing is $1-$2 per book, so the conclusion is that ebook prices should be a few dollars cheaper but not radically cheaper. I've argued against this many ways, but here is where I am at now: you don't get to discuss unit prices and unit costs for units you don't handle. Publishers effectively sell a single unit to Amazon, where black retailing magic occurs and then money is shuttled back the other way. There is no unit cost at all involved in any sell from the publisher end. Using the accounting methods derived from shipping boxes of books back and forth to B. Dalton's does not apply in this situation.
The other giant portion of the frame that does harm is the "Inelastic Demand Fallacy." The publishing world seems to feel that they are doing a holy mission by bringing out this literature, that they are a hedge against the darkness of ignorance. In a sense that is true. Coupled in all this is a belief that when a book comes out from an author, readers want *that book from that author* and will pay what it costs. That is undoubtedly true for very specific authorial brands in the bestseller category, but for the vast majority of books available to be purchased, that isn't true. The books are a commodity. People want to find a book to read, and if book X looks interesting but is priced too high, they'll move on to book Y which also looks interesting but is priced more reasonably. No author wants to think they spent a year or three writing a novel that is a replaceable commodity in the eyes of purchasers, but that's exactly where we are at. Fighting the fact won't change it, accepting it makes it something you can work with.
Recently long time agent Richard Curtis wrote a two part article on Digital Book World defending ebook prices – Part One and Part Two. In Part One he explained that it would cost approximately $1600 to get the final copyedited book into clean digital form. I hope he is talking about books from before, say 1990. My reaction to this was one of horror. "WTF? No one has a digital copy of the final text of the published book? This isn't standard practice for every publisher?" This is one of the reasons publisher cost justifications are so unconvincing. They are full of costs that make any outsider scratch their head and say "Why would anyone do business like that?" His Part Two is absolutely full of the Inelastic Demand Fallacy. He compares how many copies it would take to recoup the fixed upfront costs but with no mention whatsoever of what that change in price does to the demand for the book.
Compare this to the recent experiences of the inaugural Humble Ebook Bundle. There were an initial six books being bundled, with two additional added on for above average contributions and then another five. You can purchase the bundle by naming your own price and even determine what fraction goes to the authors, the charities and to the Humble organization to keep the site running. At the time of this writing, just under $970,000 has been paid in by just over 70,000 purchasers paying an average of $13.76. Breaking these numbers down, if everyone left their division of money at default and we assume $1,000,000 in final amount (it will be higher but that makes the math clean) that would mean Humble brings in $150,000, the charities divide $200,000 and the books get $650,000 or $50,000 apiece. The per book price is ridiculously low – just over a dollar a book with each book clearing just over $0.65 per book per sale.
According to Richard Curtis and the unit price thinking, this is terrible. People should be paying more per book, because a dollar a book is too low. It is low, very low. However, despite being low each author is bringing home a $50,000 bucket of cash per book. Note that Kelly Link, Zach Weiner and the Penny Arcade guys have two books apiece in there. You could apply a unit price thinking and decide that this is a terrible deal, or you could look at it as $50,000 in sales that didn't exist for these books a month ago. The latter mode is more productive. I'm not saying Humble scales to all writers, particularly self-published ones. It is its own thing with its own built-in publicity machine and branding. I'm using it as an example why unit price thinking is harmful. Think instead about the bucket of money that comes out the other end of any given decision and sales process of a digital good. Don't think about it as if you had to pack each envelope and drive them to the mailbox because that doesn't happen. Margins are abstract concepts, not some kind of money that is coming out of your pocket directly. You've already incurred all your costs by the time you deliver the book to the etailer, so it's all 100% margin after that point.
I'm still working on my first novel, which I will self-publish electronically. (I'm writing this instead of proofing it, bad author!) My initial price will probably be $4.95 for an ~100,000 word book. I will also be experimenting to the extent I have possible with changing the price periodically and seeing what that does to sales. Writing this post notwithstanding, I've stopped being an evangelist for ebook pricing. I'm no longer much concerned with convincing anyone to change their business practices. In fact, I've come to believe that I don't want them changed by the big publishers. When my book comes out, priced in the low single digits I'll be competing with those novels from the big publishers. I will get the best looking cover and best written copy I can in the stores, and then I'll be fighting for the same entertainment dollars from the same readers. Go ahead, price your ebooks at $14.99. Those ones from Stephen King will of course get sold for that. All the rest, when the readers say "Naaaaw" to them, my book will also be in the store, priced at 1/2 or 1/3 the cost and will also be a pleasant way to kill a rainy afternoon. I'm not bothered by writing a commodity novel, I'm quite fine with it.
And with that, I'm spending the rest of my lunch hour reading over Chapter 25 of my novel, Replaceable Commodity Entertainment You Could Easily Live Without But I Hope You Don't *. By Dave Slusher.
* title subject to change

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Witherspoon with her precious baby boy!
On Wednesday, Reese Witherspoon quietly debuted her infant son Tennessee James Toth, six weeks, while out and about in Los Angeles.
Wearing a light-blue denim shirt and jeans, the casual, slim actress, 37, pushed her bundle of joy in an Uppababy stroller. In another snapshot, Witherspoon picked up her little boy, named after his mom's home state; the adorable little blonde boy wore a green and blue sweater as he cooed on his famous mom's shoulder.
Born Sept. 27, Tennessee is the third child for the Oscar winner and her first with husband, CAA agent Jim Toth, whom she wed back in March 2011.
Witherspoon and ex-husband Ryan Phillippe amicably co-parent daughter Ava, 12, and Deacon, 8.
"The kids met the baby the first day at the hospital," a source told Us shortly after Tennesee's arrival. "Deacon is excited to have a brother. And Ava can't wait to babysit!" See more photos of Reese Witherspoon and Tennessee.
First-time dad Toth, meanwhile, has "been there for Reese every step of the way. [He's] very excited his son is finally here!"


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"Ye Shall Feast upon This Fruit," Ensign, May 1995, 91
General Young Women Meeting
"Ye Shall Feast upon This Fruit"
Not long after I was called to be the general Young Women president, I received a letter from a young woman from Nairobi, Kenya, in East Africa. Sylvia, who was fifteen at the time, told me her father had been killed in a road accident. She said:
"When he died, I felt a part of me had been killed also. All this has made me a different person. Someone I don't like. It has affected my studies and my spiritual nature. My grades are dropping. I hate school. There are times I forget to pray. I am losing my trust in God. All the love, warmth, and security I used to feel is all gone from me.
"Sister Hales, please help me. I feel if I don't do something or get some help, I am going to destroy myself."
I felt an urgency in Sylvia's plea for help, but I was thousands of miles away. Carefully I wrote a letter, hoping my words of faith would help her regain trust in our Heavenly Father. Then I suggested: "Read the scriptures each day. After reading the scriptures each day, please write and tell me if it helps the way you are feeling."
Weeks later Sylvia said: "I had stopped reading the scriptures; and when I read them, it was like I couldn't understand and I would put them away. You have given me that desire to … search more diligently the scriptures. I am discovering very precious, spiritual nourishment. Thank you for that suggestion."
Sylvia received help when she felt desperate and alone, but she also found the scriptures could help her improve her life. She later said: "I have decided to work hard to be a better person. I have to overcome some of my bad traits and replace them with good ones and to withstand people who want to tear me down and tear down my faith, especially in school. I am the only LDS member in our school."
As Sylvia's commitment to read the scriptures continued, she realized that Heavenly Father would help guide her in making decisions.
Later she said: "I have become busy, but I have not forgotten my scriptures. I desire to have the faith like the Brother of Jared or Nephi which enabled them to know the Lord's will for them. I am planning to meditate on ways to strengthen my faith. I turned sixteen."
As months passed, Sylvia's understanding of the scriptures grew deeper, and she expressed a desire to help others. She said: "I love going to church, and the most exciting part is when I get to help with the Primary children. I love hearing them sing and read and saying what they feel."
As Sylvia started to help others, she started to better understand our Savior. She told of reading about Christ's final ministry on the earth, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection. She came to understand more clearly Christ's mission on earth and his great love for us.
Sylvia continued to face challenges and peer pressure, but she had found a permanent source of help in the scriptures. When she got word that my mother had passed away, she wrote to encourage me and strengthen my faith.
The resource suggested for her three years ago, reading the scriptures, was much greater help than I could have given. Scripture reading did help her with her immediate crisis, but the scriptures have become a permanent resource to her—a resource that will always be with her. She has learned that our Heavenly Father will not fail her.
The scriptures have blessed others. Many of you have read the book The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom. The scriptures were an answer for her in a time much more bleak than most of us will ever have to face.
Corrie and her sister, Betsy, lived Christian lives in prewar Holland. They responded to the brutality against Jewish people by hiding them in the family home. When the hiding place was discovered, the sisters were shipped to a death camp where they suffered all the deprivation heaped upon the Jewish prisoners.
In an unusual way Corrie was able to keep a Bible. She led scripture readings with the other prisoners. Their outer world of suffering grew "harder and harder." But she described their inner life as just the opposite. In her words:
"Our Bible was the center of an ever-widening circle of help and hope. Like waifs clustered around a blazing fire, we gathered about it, holding out our hearts to its warmth and light. The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God. …
"Life … took place on two separate levels. One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory" (Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, New York City: Bantam Books, 1974, pp. 194–95).
Others like Sylvia and Corrie ten Boom have testified of the power of the scriptures. In knowing the scriptures and trusting our Heavenly Father's words, our Savior himself was an example to us. It is recorded in the fourth chapter of Luke that when Jesus had fasted for forty days and was tempted by the devil, the devil suggested that if Jesus were the Son of God, he turn a stone into bread. Even after fasting forty days, Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God" (Luke 4:4). Jesus knew the words of the prophets.
Satan again tempted Jesus, offering him power and glory if he would worship Satan. Jesus resisted the temptation and responded with the words, "It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve" (Luke 4:8). Jesus knew his Father's will, and the words strengthened him in a time of temptation.
The words of the scriptures will strengthen you in times of temptation. The scriptures have been given to us to help us find peace and reassurance in times of crisis, to help us find solutions to our everyday challenges, to strengthen us in times of temptation. The scriptures will help us improve our behavior as we come to know our Savior, Jesus Christ. The young women of the Church are invited in 1995 to make a commitment to read the scriptures regularly.
Just imagine five hundred thousand young women all over the world with open books of scripture. I see open books of scriptures at camp, at youth conferences, in Sunday lessons; a read-a-thon; or scripture reading in a retirement center. Young women may be reading the scriptures to little brothers and sisters or to a grandparent whose eyesight is failing. I see scriptures on pillows, on nightstands, in family home evenings. Alma's heart would be touched this night seeing young women gathered in chapels and stake centers with scriptures in hand. Would all of you open your scriptures to the thirty-second chapter of Alma. I will read verse 27, and we will all read verse 28 together.
"But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.
"Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me."
In verse 37 we are told that after we have planted the seed and it begins to grow, we must nourish it with great care, that it may get root, that it may grow up, and bring forth fruit unto us.
In verse 41 it tells us how to nourish the word with faith, diligence, and with patience, looking forward to the fruit. It is my prayer that each young woman in the Church can realize the promise in verse 42, that when you have planted the seed and nourished it, "ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst."
This is our Heavenly Father's promise to us if we respond to the invitation to experiment upon the word. I bear my testimony of that promise in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


text: Sparks Shocked by Shooting at Middle School Ky Plaskon Tuesday, October 22, 2013 | Sacramento, CA Listen / Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. UPDATE at 11:00am: Police also confirmed the shooter was a 12-year-old 7th-grader at Sparks Middle School. UPDATE at 10:30am: Nevada police believe the student who killed a teacher and wounded two 12-year-olds at Sparks Middle School Monday got the gun he used in the shooting from his home. Police identified the gun as a Ruger 9mm semi-automatic. They say the shooter's family could face charges. Meanwhile, the Nevada National Guard is holding a news conference at Noon. Guard member and former Marine Michael Landsberry is the 45-year-old math teacher killed Monday after trying to intervene in the shooting. ORIGINAL STORY: An early morning shooting at a middle school in Sparks, Nevada has left one teacher and one student dead and two other students injured. At 7:16 AM Monday, Marianne Broberg woke up. She lives next to Sparks Middle School. "I heard the first police car come in and then I heard sirens all over town and I automatically assumed it was a shooting." She was right. Eventually, 200 officers arrived. "We got there and the kids were running out, they were scared, they were freaked out," says Deputy Reno Police Chief Tom Robinson. A student used a semi-automatic handgun to shoot one student in the abdomen and another in the shoulder. Both are in stable condition. But 45-year-old math teacher Michael Landsberry, a former Marine, was killed when he tried to intervene. Robinson calls him a hero: "It was courage, I will leave it at that for now, but he had some courage." The student then shot himself. It was all over in less than five minutes. Afterwards, firefighters cleaned the bloody playground with soap and water. Police didn't offer a motive, but that didn't stop parents like Jennifer Montes and her daughter from searching for one. "She said that she knows the shooter," Montes says. "I guess he was a victim of bullying." Superintendent Pedro Martinez was on the brink of tears all day. He said the fear of a school shooting - like so many others across the country - has always been on his mind. "But I don't think you ever realize how it is going to affect you until it happens." Sparks Middle School and an elementary school that shares the playground will remain closed for the rest of the week as the investigation continues. A Facebook page created after the shooting to remember the shooting victims has more than 18,000 "Likes" as of late Monday. Follow us for more stories like this CapRadio provides a trusted source of news because of you. As a nonprofit organization, donations from people like you sustain the journalism that allows us to discover stories that are important to our audience. If you believe in what we do and support our mission, please donate today. Donate Today


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Helllo all,
Is it possible to get the result of a canvas composition over through videoOut ?
So I can watch the result on a external monitor.
I know this is possible in Macromedia Director over OpenGL.
But does the WebGL standard support this ?
Its important to know for VJ-ing purposes.


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By water, by stone A Cumbrian church and its landscape: St Mary the Virgin and St Michael, Great Urswick, Cumbria Download
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Here you can discover a fascinating corner of hidden Britain and experience the mysterious 'remoteness' of one of the significant cradles of Celtic Christianity.
The Low Furness Peninsula, a recognised Hidden Britain Centre, has shaped and been shaped by humankind for at least 3,000 years and the emerging history and archaeology add further mystery to the particular influences left by Druidic, Roman, Celtic, Viking, Puritan and Victorian faith builders and settlers in their time in this place.
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Within touching distance of Low Furness's deeply rural communities are bustling Ulverston, South Lakeland's Festival town with its famous markets and Laurel and Hardy Museum, and Barrow-in-Furness, 'where the Lakes meet the Sea', home of ship-building, with its Festival of the Sea and its renowned Dock Museum.
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This is the story of Noor Atiqah, otherwise known affectionately as Iqah to her family and friends.
The beginning of the end
It was at a club in Clarke Quay around June 2008 that Iqah had her first contact with Valentine, the Nigerian who eventually led her to the state she is in today. The two started seeing each other in August the same year.
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A vacation gone wrong
In December 2008, Iqah traveled to Kuala Lumpur by bus with a long time friend, with the intention to celebrate New Year's Day. During her stay there, she received a call from Frank, who she had met in Shenzhen. Frank informed her that samples were ready and made a request for her to collect them.
Iqah refused, as she could not afford to fly to Shenzhen on such a short notice. However Frank was insistent. He promised her USD$500 upon reaching Shenzhen as well as USD$200 for her expenses in Malaysia. Eventually Iqah agreed and Frank arranged for her to meet up with Emeka, a Ghanaian, at McDonalds in Petaling Street.
When they met on 3 Jan 2009, Emeka passed Iqah a blue luggage along with a budget flight ticket to Shenzhen. Puzzled, Iqah inquired the purpose of the luggage. Emeka then informed her that the luggage was for her to store the samples.
On 5 Jan 2009, while going through the immigrations at the Low Cost Carrier Terminal in Kuala Lumpur, she was requested to have her luggage through the scanner twice. She then cooperated when asked to open her luggage for inspection, and the rest was history.
342.1 grammes of heroin and 30.3 grammes of monoacethyl were found in a brown enveloped, cleverly concealed in the luggage given to her by Emeka.
"We believe that Iqah is innocent."
Iqah had spent time in prison since then and hence separated from her daughter. More than 2 years have passed since mother and daughter have met.
Before the final hearing on 18 March this year, her siblings were hopeful that she will be acquitted because they believe that she is innocent.
However, they were met with a shock when Judge Noor Azian Shaari delivered her sentence at Shah Alam High Court.
Among themselves, they have started a campaign for Iqah. The campaign aims to raise funds for a second legal opinion as well as to spread the word about the case. Please visit the blog to find out more about how you can help.


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It's taken four years, a multitude of roster changes, a few different sports and at least five second place finishes, but Taylor Thibeault finally has himself a Comox Valley Sports & Social Club championship.
The streak of being the bridesmaid ended recently, as Thibeault and his Amp TNT volleyball team pulled off a clutch 3-2 sets win over Return to Sender in the A Tier final. To say it made his day would be a bit of an understatement.
"It feels great to finally win," said an excited Thibeault, 26. "I am blessed to have teammates that are as competitive as me and that can have a lot of fun playing volleyball together."
A new champion was also crowned in the B Tier final, as Show Us Ur Tips edged Hitting Bricks by a 3-2 count in a game that had both teams buzzing about how thrillingly close it was. Show Us Ur Tips captains Elissa Terrey and Phil Goy also had a similar story to Thibeault, winning their first championship after playing numerous seasons across a few different sports with the CVSSC.
The Smokin' Aces took third spot in the A Tier with a 3-2 win over Sets & Violence, while the A* Team took fifth overall with a 3-0 win over the Block Stars. Rounding out the B Tier was Strike Farce in third with a 3-0 win over We Will Block You, while Served on Ice grabbed fifth spot with a 3-1 win over I'd Hit That. The I.G. Ancient Mariners were seventh after defeating Social Notwork 3-0, and Touch and Go stayed out of the basement by defeating It's Just a Bump to the Left by a 3-2 final for ninth spot.
Registration is currently open for the co-ed winter sports leagues with the CVSSC, which include new seasons of volleyball, indoor soccer, dodgeball and floor hockey. Small groups, teams and individuals can register online at www.comoxvalleysports.ca.
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The problem with Twitter has always been monetization: Ads don't pull in the revenue needed to maintain the social network, and it doesn't have Facebook's pull to entice developers to build on top of the platform. But no more -- or at least so Twitter hopes.
Today at its Twitter Flight event, Twitter unveiled Fabric, a software development kit for mobile apps. The move represents the company's first foray into services and something of a new start for the social network.
Fabric is an extension that sits on top of existing iOS and Android development environments -- including the Android Native Development Kit and Apple's Xcode -- letting devs quickly and easily pop in features like bug and crash tracking, Twitter identity sign-in, Tweet embedding, Twitter ad plug-ins, beta app distribtuon, and Digits, a new app onboarding concept based on the user's phone number (more on that later).
"Fabric is deeply integrated with your existing workflow, so you can manage your entire toolset without ever having to leave your favorite coding environment," boasts Twitter on the official Fabric page.
In early 2013, Twitter made the then-baffling purchase of Crashlytics, a startup with a very popular bug tracking tool for developers. It made no sense: What does a social network need with crash tracking? Now, all is clear. The Crashlytics product represents the core of Fabric's value to app developers, who can now quickly add that functionality to their code in just a few clicks.
By simplifying everything from identity to crash tracking, without forcing users to rely on a proprietary IDE, Twitter wants to entice developers to build more apps on top of its platform, even if those apps have nothing to do with Twitter's own social graph. Of course, if you want your app to post to Twitter or have some other kind of social element, that's now easier, too.
But prepare for a wave of apps that use Twitter technology in ways that end users may never be aware of. Digits, especially, presents a huge opportunity: Twitter has figured out a system for authenticating users with just a phone number, rather than requiring an email address. In developing countries, where phone numbers are a lot more prevalent than email addresses, tying identity to something other than the inbox means a much larger potential user base.
The upside for Twitter here is that MoPub, Twitter's advertising offering (another acquisition, and similar to Apple iAds), is just as easy to integrate as other features. And, of course, Twitter takes a cut of that revenue.
The launch of Fabric is reminiscent of nothing so much as Salesforce's acquisition of Heroku; in both cases, the new offerings seemingly had nothing to do with the product except to make it easier to build new apps atop the core offering and build out the platform. And in both cases, even when developers aren't working with the core product, they still win.
"After this, Twitter will now be Twitter the consumer app, and Twitter the mobile services company," Twitter's Kevin Weil, who's leading the Fabric effort, told Wired earlier today.
It's a lofty goal, but it may be a necessary one for the long-term survival of both aspects of Twitter. After all, building features onto an existing product is relatively easy compared to building a successful, viable platform. It seems like Twitter has found a new line of business that dovetails nicely with the core product that made it famous.


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Want great singlecoil tones without the hum? We discover how well Joe Barden Engineering offers this ultimate sonic package.
What do Bruce Springsteen, Nils Lofgren, Keith Richards and the late Danny Gatton all have in common? They've all favoured Joe Barden pickups in their guitars. Certainly, Danny Gatton had stated these were "the best pickups on the planet" for his Telecaster and expansive playing style. Furthermore, the dual blades on the neck pickup offered him an unusual benefit; an additional high fret! As the company's headlining product, the Danny Gatton T-style pickup set remains popular to this day.
Joe Barden pickups were first created over 25 years ago and today they're manufactured by JBE pickups based in Manassas, Virginia. Always handcrafted, the ceramic pickups range from singlecoil, soapbar and humbucker sizes through to pickups for J-style, P-style and Rickenbacker basses.
Keen to see what they offered sonically, we opted to try out two S-Deluxe singlcoil sized pickups and one HB two/tone humbucker in a Fender Stratocaster HSS swirl. Via a push/pull (or push/push) 250k pot, the bridge HB two/tone pickup offers either full humbucker or single coil tones. Each pickup has a dual blade (the HB two/tone has four) and available in black or white. They fit without any scratch plate alterations and come with 4-conductor shielded cable to allow various wiring combinations.
Having fitted the pickups, the first tone sought is a clean amp setting using a two-channel valve amp. Selecting the neck pickup and trying out a few barre chords, results are pleasingly transparent. With chords, every note is clear and tight without sounding compressed. Unlike some traditional neck singlecoils that can seem underpowered and/or shrill, there's an assured, piano-like breadth to the frequencies with a punchy quality that impresses. Furthermore, they don't suffer from excessive muddiness that some dual blade pickups exhibit in this position. Playing single note phrases the sound is round and bell-like, making slides and bends really come alive.
Moving onto the inbetween positions of neck/middle and bridge/middle, the iconic Strat quack is there in abundance. Cutting without being too hollow, it's a sound that countless rhythm players will love either raw or with some processing courtesy of compression, chorus or univibe. From funk to country styles, you're well covered here.
As all Strat players know, opening up a guitar's tone is never bettered than with the bridge pickup. Here, the HB two/tone pickup is a revelation; a thick and chunky humbucker tone (great low mids) and with only a little volume reduction when tapped, a killing singlecoil tone. Both options come with zero hum. It's an ultimate sonic combination from one humbucker-sized pickup that you're hard pressed to find from pretty much any other manufacturer.
Moving onto amp and pedal derived overdrive sounds, the transparency of these pickups is outstanding. There is power here but not the type that pushes the mids up to excessive levels (a common tendency with hotter pickups). Furthermore, if you're a player that loves to caress the volume or tone controls to get variations, these clean up well. One favourite tone is amp overdrive set to one third gain (10 o'clock) using the neck pickup for bluesy solos then pulling back on the guitar's volume to clean up for chords. Another is strong distortion paired with the bridge pickup; reducing the guitar's volume to around half creates a killer rhythm tone. As maybe expected the full-on humbucker is a punchy powerhouse, dark but clear, while splitting it creates a tighter and brighter rock tone that could easily grace countless AOR classic songs. Pleasingly, the volume change when splitting isn't too obvious but the lack of hum most definitely is!
Dialling in even more distortion (setting at 3 o'clock), the clarity makes soloing very responsive. Notes sustain for ages, pinch harmonics scream out and the changes between, say, legato and picking approaches are admirably mirrored.
The tonal openness on offer here had us reflect on typical areas of sonic compromise; low string riffing with the neck pickup (can be too muddy) or soloing beyond the 15th fret with the bridge pickup (can be too shrill). We can gladly report neither compromise is apparent here; in short, what you put into guitar is mirrored accordingly by the pickups, just how it should be!
Of course, great pickups are rarely cheap. That said, the Joe Barden's are similarly priced to others of high quality so the cost shouldn't put you off. As always, you get what you pay for; if you hanker to get more tone out of your favourite S-type guitar, these should to be very high on your 'to consider' list. With crisp definition, great tonal variety from the 5 way pickup selector, impressive versatility with the HB two/tone pickup and zero hum, what's not to like?
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S-Deluxe pickup - £129/$159
HB Two/Tone - £135/$189
Audio examples
Track 1 - Soul Chords
6 clean tone examples; neck pickup through to both bridge pickup options
Track 2 - Rock and Roll riffing
6 overdriven tone examples; neck pickup through to both bridge pickup options
Track 3 - Rock Ballad demo
Rhythm guitars; neck and middle pickups with either chorus or univibe effects.
Lead guitar: Free The Tone Red Jasper pedal plugged into a Fender Twin amp with the neck pickup, then the bridge pickup selected.


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MILAN -- Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini died Saturday after suffering cardiac arrest and collapsing on the field during a Serie B match at Pescara. He was 25.
Edoardo De Blasio, a cardiologist at Pescara's Santo Spirito hospital, confirmed the death.
"Unfortunately, he was already dead when he arrived at hospital," De Blasio said. "He didn't regain consciousness."
Morosini, who was on loan from Udinese, fell to the ground in the 31st minute of the match and tried unsuccessfully to get up several times before receiving medical attention on the field.
A defibrillator was used on the player, who also had his heart massaged, before an ambulance arrived on the field. He was taken to the hospital where doctors tried to revive him for more than an hour.
A consultant in the hemodynamics department at the hospital, who was watching the game and rushed to help before the ambulance arrived, said Morosini never regained consciousness.
"Morosini never had a single heartbeat again," Leonardo Paloscia said. "From when I arrived, he never gave a sign of revival, not in his respiration nor his heartbeat. When I arrived everything (his heart, respiration) was stopped.
"No one can say what the cause was, I think nothing will come out until after the autopsy."
The autopsy likely will be held on Monday. All Italian matches this weekend were called off after the death was announced.
"We are living through a drama," Pescara's general manager, Danilo Iannascoli, told Sky Italia.
On Sunday, Livorno president Aldo Spinelli was said to be considering a life annuity for the sister of Morosini.
Livorno director of soccer Attilio Perotti said Spinelli wants to "show his personal desire and that of the club to always remain close to Piermario's family."
The club is also considering retiring Morosini's No. 25 shirt.
It was the latest high-profile case of a soccer player collapsing from heart failure on the field, coming less than a month after Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba suffered cardiac arrest during a game in England.
Muamba survived, but remains in intensive care with steady progress.
An inquiry into Morosini's death will be opened and focus on the car belonging to traffic police that blocked the ambulance's way into the stadium. A window had to be broken so the car could be moved, while players and officials were frantically gesturing for the ambulance to get there.
"At the beginning, we didn't really understand the seriousness of the situation," Pescara goalkeeper Luca Anania said. "I immediately ran to Livorno's half, where Morosini had fallen.
"There was great confusion and I seemed to understand that there was also a bit of delay in help arriving, because they said the ambulance couldn't get on the pitch because the entrance was blocked by another car. Some of my teammates helped carry the stretcher by hand to the ambulance."
The match was abandoned with Livorno leading 2-0, and several players left the field in tears. Livorno players and officials rushed to the hospital, where they were told their teammate had passed away.
"Only tears. There are no words to express what I tried to when I found out about Piermario Morosini's death," FIFA president Sepp Blatter tweeted in Italian. "The tragedy which hit everyone who wished him well, is a source of great pain for football fans."
Morosini was orphaned in his teens. His mother died when he was 15 and his father died two years later. His brother died shortly afterward, leaving the young Morosini with just the older sister.
"They are things which mark you and change your life," Morosini said in 2005 after the death of his parents. "But at the same time, they instill in your body so much anger and help you to always give everything to realize what was also my parents' dream."
Morosini came through the youth system at Atalanta before moving on to Udinese.
"He was golden, always trying to help his family," Atalanta youth team director Mino Favini said. "He was a fantastic lad who always rushed to help everyone. He lived for his family, yet he was such an unlucky man."
Morosini made six appearances for Udinese before he was loaned to Bologna in 2006 and then Vicenza for two seasons. Morosini made 18 appearances for the Italy Under-21 side and was a member of the 2009 European Under-21 Championship squad, which reached the semifinals.
He had two other loans at Reggina and Padova before returning to Vicenza and moving to Livorno in January.
"Goodbye Piermario, you will always remain in our hearts and in the hearts of everyone who had the fortune to know you and to have you in their lives," a Vicenza statement said.
There have been several deaths in top-level soccer in the past decade. Marc-Vivien Foe collapsed and died during Cameroon's Confederations Cup match against Colombia in 2003. Sevilla's Antonio Puerta passed away in 2007, three days after collapsing with a heart attack during a league match against Getafe.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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Simulating tCS Electric Fields in the Brain
Introduction: the electric fields in the brain under tCS
We discuss here first the methodology for computing electric fields in the brain as implemented in our software. We then provide and overview as well as tips on use of our StimWeaver software and service.
For more information about the basic mechanisms and technologies in tCS, please see Ruffini et al. 2013 <ref> Ruffini, G., Wendling, F., Merlet, I., Molaee-Ardekani, B., Mekkonen, A., Salvador, R., Soria-Frisch, A., Grau, C., Dunne, S., Miranda, P., 2013. Transcranial current brain stimulation (tCS):models and technologies. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 21, 333–345.</ref> as well as this hive-eu.org project deliverable] <ref> P. C. Miranda (FFCUL), F. Wendling, I. Merlet, B. Molaee- Ardekani (INSERM), G. Ruffini (Ed.), S. Dunne, A. Soria- Frisch and D. Whitmer (Starlab), D1.1– Review of state-of-the-art in currents distri- bution and effects, HIVE FP7-FET Open project, 2009 </ref>.
A forthcoming paper will discuss the optimization of tCS montages from well defined cortical target maps <ref> Giulio Ruffini, Michael D. Fox, Oscar Ripolles, Pedro Cavaleiro Miranda, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Optimization of multifocal transcranial current stimulation for weighted cortical pattern targeting from realistic modeling of electric fields, accepted for publication in Neuroimage 2014 </ref>
The mechanisms underlying the after-effects of tDCS are still the subject of investigation, but in all cases these local changes are brought about by the accumulated action of the applied electric field over time, directly or indirectly. For this reason we focus here on electric field optimization.
Moreover, given that that there are strong directional effects in the interaction of electric fields and neurons, i.e., neurons are influenced mostly by the component of the electric field parallel to their trajectory
<ref>Ranck, J., 1975. Which elements are excited in electrical stimulation of the mammalian central nervous system: a review. Brain Res 98, 417–440.</ref>
<ref>Rattay, F., 1986. Analysis of models for external stimulation of axons. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 33, 974–977.</ref>
<ref> Rushton, W.A.H., 1927. The effect upon the threshold for nervous excitation of the length of nerve exposed, and the angle between current and nerve. J Physiol 63, 357–77.</ref>
<ref> Roth, B.J., 1994. Mechanisms for electrical stimulation of excitable tissue. Crit Rev Biomed Eng 22, 253–305.</ref>
<ref>Bikson, M., Inoue, M., Akiyama, H., Deans, J.K., Fox, J.E., Miyakawa, H., Jefferys, J.G., 2004. Effects of uniform extracellular dc electric fields on excitability in rat hippocampal slices in vitro. J Physiol 557, 175–90. </ref>
<ref> Fröhlich, F., McCormick, D.A., 2010. Endogenous electric fields may guide neocortical network activity. Neuron 67, 129–143.</ref>,
and that the effects of tDCS depend on its polarity, knowledge about the orientation of the electric field is crucial in predicting the effects of stimulation. The components of the field perpendicular and parallel to the cortical surface are of special importance, since pyramidal cells are mostly aligned perpendicular to the surface, while many cortical interneurons and axonal projections of pyramidal cells tend to align tangentially
<ref> Day, B., Dressler, D., Maertens de Noordhout, A., Marsden, C., Nakashima, K., Rothwell, J., Thompson, P., 1989. Electric and magnetic stimulation of human motor cortex: surface emg and single motor unit responses. J. Physiol 122, 449–473.</ref>
<ref> Fox, P.T., Narayana, S., Tandon, N., Sandoval, H., Fox, S.P., Kochunov, P., Lancaster, J.L., 2004. Column-based model of electric field excitation of cerebral cortex. Hum Brain Mapp 22, 1–14.</ref>
<ref> Kammer, T., Vorwerg, M., Herrnberger, B., 2007. Anisotropy in the visual cortex investigated by neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neuroimage 36, 313–321.</ref>. Thus, an important element in modeling is to provide the electric field distribution and orientation relative to the grey matter (GM) and white matter (WM) surfaces (the latter might be important to study the possibility of polarizing corticospinal axons, their collaterals and other projection neurons). In order to do this, we work here with a realistic head model derived from structural MRI images | Miranda et al. 2013 <ref name="Miranda2013a"> Miranda, P.C., Mekonnen, A., Salvador, R., Ruffini, G., 2013. The electric field in the cortex during transcranial current stimulation. Neuroimage 70, 45–58. </ref> to calculate the tCS electric field components rapidly from arbitrary EEG 10-20 montages. Importantly, this modeling approach allows for fast calculation of electric field components normal and parallel to the GM and WM surfaces.
StimViewer is the software component embedded in | NIC which is activated when in use with | StarStim. StimViewer is a fast simulation engine to produce electric fields in the brain associated with a particular tCS montage and display them on two surfaces: the outer cortex or inner cortex. That results from the stimulation montage of each step of a stimulation protocol, is displayed in a 3D model. It is recommended to use the Stim Preview visualization as a confirmation step before loading a stimulation protocol.
The electric field calculations were performed using the realistic head model described in | Miranda et al. 2013aa <ref name="Miranda2013a" /> . Briefly, tissue boundaries were derived from MR images (scalp, skull, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) – including ventricles, Grey Matter and White Matter) and the Finite Element Method was used to calculate the electric potential in the head, subject to the appropriate boundary conditions. Tissues were assumed to be uniform and isotropic and values for their electric conductivity were taken from the literature.
In order to compute electric fields rapidly, we have made use of the principle of superposition. This states that with appropriate boundary conditions, the solution to a general N-electrode problem can be expressed as a linear combination of N-1 bipolar ones. A fixed reference electrode is first chosen, and then all the bipolar solutions using this electrode are computed. A general solution with an arbitrary number of N electrodes can then easily be computed.
Using StimViewer you can display the electric Potential V and the normal (i.e., perpendicular) component of the electric field to the cortical surface (E_n, which can be positive or negative). In the convention used here, a positive value for the component of the electric field normal to the cortical surface means the electric field component normal is pointing into the cortex. According to the literature, such a field would be excitatory. On the other hand, an electric field pointing out of the cortex (negative normal component) would be inhibitory.
You can also display the magnitude of the tangential component (||E_t||), or the total magnitude (||E||).
For time varying protocols (such as tACS), you can also use a temporal slider to display the fields at different time points. Alternatively you can display the time average of the magnitude of the field, which we call the influence map.
StimWeaver is an optimization service created by Neuroelectrics and based on StimViewer technology. It has been designed to create stimulation montages (electrode positions as well as currents) specifically adapted to user-defined targets.
Using the the Neuroelectrics® Stimtargeter online interface, the user provides the necessary optimization inputs: target area(s), corresponding desired effects (e.g. stimulation, inhibition, or neutral), number of channels and maximum current values. Such information is then sent to our modelling team and fed to Stimweaver.
Our staff will produce a mathematically optimized montage based on your specifications (target map, maximal currents, number of electrodes, etc.). Our optimization software (StimWeaver) carries out a thorough search in the space of electrode locations and currents to produce the best solution for the specified target.
The realistic model of electrical fields is based on a model using Pistim electrodes.
Please see our recent paper on the subject of optimization of montages starting from well-defined cortical target maps <ref> Giulio Ruffini, Michael D. Fox, Oscar Ripolles, Pedro Cavaleiro Miranda, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Optimization of multifocal transcranial current stimulation for weighted cortical pattern targeting from realistic modeling of electric fields, available online, Dec 15, Neuroimage (2013) </ref>.
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The FOMC will wrap up a two-day meeting this Wednesday. I suspect the subsequent statement will be met with little fanfare. There simply has been little in the way of data to prompt any new policy path. Steady as she goes.
To be sure, the Fed will be greeted by the Q1 GDP report Wednesday morning, and it is widely expected to be very weak. But incoming data (retail sales, auto sales, industrial production, and employment, for example) suggests that much of this weakness was weather related while the underlying pace of activity, albeit arguably unexciting, remains unchanged. In short, the economy is evolving largely according to the Fed's script, and thus we should expect no major policy change. I anticipate the statement will reflect a greater confidence that the first quarter growth hiccup was a weather effect, that low inflation remains a concern, and a reiteration of the Fed's commitment to a low-rate policy path as long as inflation remains a concern. And another $10 billion cut in asset purchases to push the taper further along.
The Fed may identify housing as an area of concern. Indeed, the recent softening of that sector appears unrelated to the weather. Instead, a variety of issues are at play - higher housing prices in many areas, tight underwriting conditions, insufficient job growth, low wages relative to home prices, uncertainty about the financial benefits of being a homeowner, tight financing for new home development, and limited lot availability and other supply side issues. See Neil Irwin's excellent review of the issues. You can sum this up quickly by saying the contours of the housing market have changed dramatically in the past decade and we do not know when and if we will see a return to what in the past was considered a normal environment.
Moreover, the Fed can have little impact on these issues, with the exception of one factor not mentioned above - interest rates. The roughly 100bp rise in mortgage rates since the taper talk began likely contributed to the softening of housing markets. There was a lack of countervailing factors at play to offset the tighter policy (see also Jared Bernstein). The Fed, however, is not likely to reverse course. They want out of the asset purchase business, and higher mortgage rates was the price that needed to be paid. For now, the policy impact of housing weakness is to ensure the long-term, low rate story holds (all else equal, of course).
I have characterized the Fed's decision to taper as a desire to normalize policy by shifting attention back to their primary policy instrument of short-term interest rates. They believed at the time that they could change the mix of policies without changing the level of accommodation. The softening of housing activity, however, suggests otherwise. Intentionally or not, the decision to taper resulted in a somewhat more hawkish reaction function than is consistent with the Fed's economic forecast and policymaker rhetoric.
This leads to a comment recently posed to me:
I think governors will soon come under a lot of pressure to get off of the zero bound before the next recession hits. Given the big delay in monetary impulse-response, I fear some overshooting could result.
I frequently hear similar sentiments, but I don't think this is the correct way to phrase the issue. I think that policymakers want to be able to normalize policy further, but that ultimately the ability to do so depends on the evolution of the economy. In other words, the path of short-term interest rates is an endogenous variable determined within the context of the Fed's current reaction function. Policymakers realize they can't rush to normalize rates because doing so is counterproductive. Premature tightening will only ensure a low rate environment is sustained even longer. And note the Fed is emphasizing the low levels of rates in their forecast, explicitly acknowledging rates will remain below "normal" levels far into the future. No rush to hike rates.
The tapering adventure and the subsequent impact on mortgage rates and housing has probably driven this point home. Indeed, it could be argued that the recent flattening of the yield curve is an indication that the Fed already risked the ability to normalize policy by initiating the tapering process and signaling their rate hiking intentions:
They probably do not want to push this any further just yet.
That doesn't mean the Fed can't overshoot further on the tighter side, only that I suspect any such overshoot will be the result of a forecast error that prompts excessive tightening, not simply a desire to normalize rates. We aren't there yet. I think we could get there quickly given the Fed's relatively dovish outlook (if firmer data quickly mounted), but not yet.
Bottom Line: I anticipate a relatively unevently FOMC meeting. The data flow appears sufficiently consistent with the Fed's forecast to hold policy in check.


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No doubt about it, drafting in British developers Slightly Mad Studios has revitalised the series and turned it into a serious contender. Of course, it helps that Need for Speed SHIFT has clearly used last year's king of the road, Codemaster's brilliant GRID, as its benchmark.
Gone are the police. So too are the illegal street racing undertones, obsessions with extensive visual modifications (although bodykits, vinyls and paintjobs can still be tweaked) as well as any lame attempt at a storyline or bit-part glamour models squawking mission objectives at you through product-placement mobile phones.
Instead, we've been treated to a pretty damn excellent driving simulator that ticks all the right boxes: a wealth of cars bred for motorsport rather than pimping through LA; visceral engine noises; punishing vehicle damage; and handling that really starts to come alive the less you rely on driver assists. We'd happily admit it's far more realistic than GRID but without the staid and intimidating nature of Race Pro or straight-laced functionality of Forza Motorsport 2.
Any issues we had with the handling at preview stage have been ironed out and what remains gives masses of feedback without feeling unapproachably hardcore. We still have a couple of issues, though – placing manual gear shifts on the shoulder buttons is a terrible idea (no controls customisation options either). And the drift mode requires such precision it's more an exercise in how gently you can feather the accelerator, rather than the fun, smoke-pluming lunacy of GRID.
Unlike GRID's scattershot career mode (throwing you from a Demolition Derby to a Formula 3 single-seater and so forth), SHIFT offers much more predictable progression. Working your way up through four tiers of races, from a VW Golf or tired old 1970's Skyline up to a Bugatti Veyron, McLaren F1 or Pagani Zonda is typically Need for Speed.
In fact, even with the new direction and serious motorsport intentions, it's very clear that SHIFT is a Need for Speed product. Although, being co-developed by EA Black Box (who've worked on NFS games for the last decade), this shouldn't come as a surprise. While EA has entrusted driving duties to Slightly Mad, Black Box have concentrated on placing their unmistakable stamp on SHIFT too.
Beyond the aforementioned modification sections and the glitzy presentation, this comes in the form of your driver profile. With the devil of Aggression and angel of Precision sat on either shoulder (the two key areas in which your driving skills are judged by), you'll be rewarded according to how you behave behind the wheel. With skill badges covering every aspect of racing (Drafting, Overtaking, Drifting, Podium finishes, etc) and specific Invitational events unlocked depending on your style, they act as pleasingly constant pats on the back. Plus, they can be used as a good indicator of an online opponent's skill. For the brief while before everyone has gold everything, that is…
The best thing is that, even after you strip away the bells and whistles of in-race objective star collecting, award badge hording, swooshy menu screens and expensively licensed soundtracks, you've still got a great-looking, fine-handling racer that can hold its head high against some extremely strong competition. SHIFT may not have snatched the yardstick from Turn 10, Polyphony Digital or Codemasters, the damage model might not be the best in the genre, and nor is it the absolute, final word in realistic driving. But it has reignited our affection for Need for Speed – and that alone is a real achievement.
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Deuteronomy Chapters (English Bible : Webster Bible Translation)
1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
2 And the LORD said to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.
3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5 All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns a great number.
6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side of Jordan, from the river of Arnon to mount Hermon;
9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length of it, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob, to the borders of Geshuri, and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, to this day.
15 And I gave Gilead to Machir.
16 And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon:
17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast of it, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the plain, even the salt-sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.
18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it; ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have many cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
20 Until the LORD shall have given rest to your brethren, as well as to you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man to his possession which I have given you.
21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thy eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done to these two kings: so shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said to me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more to me of this matter.
27 Ascend to the top of Pisgah, and lift up thy eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thy eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.


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Parshat Ki Tetzei
The Torah describes the only permissible way a woman captured in battle may be married. If a man marries two wives, and the less-favored wife bears a firstborn son, this son's right to inherit a double portion is protected against the father's desire to favor the child of the favored wife. The penalty for a rebellious son, who will inevitably degenerate into a monstrous criminal, is stoning. A body must not be left on the gallows overnight, because it had housed a holy soul. Lost property must be returned. Men are forbidden from wearing women's clothing and vice versa. A mother bird may not be taken together with her eggs. A fence must be built around the roof of a house. It is forbidden to plant a mixture of seeds, to plow with an ox and a donkey together, or to combine wool and linen in a garment. A four-cornered garment must have twisted threads tzitzit on its corners. Laws regarding illicit relationships are detailed. When Israel goes to war, the camp must be governed by rules of spiritual purity. An escaped slave must not be returned to his master.
Taking interest for lending to a Jew is forbidden. Bnei Yisrael are not to make vows. A worker may eat of the fruit he is harvesting. Divorce and marriage are legislated. For the first year of marriage, a husband is exempt from the army and stays home to make rejoice with his wife. Tools of labor may not be impounded, as this prevents the debtor from earning a living. The penalty for kidnapping for profit is death. Removal of the signs of the disease tzara'at is forbidden. Even for an overdue loan, the creditor must return the collateral daily if the debtor needs it. Workers' pay must not be delayed. The guilty may not be subjugated by punishing an innocent relative. Because of their vulnerability, converts and orphans have special rights of protection. The poor are to have a portion of the harvest. A court may impose lashes. An ox must not be muzzled while threshing. It is amitzvah for a man to marry his brother's widow if the deceased left no offspring. Weights and measures must be accurate and used honestly. The parsha concludes with the mitzvah to erase the name of Amalek, for, in spite of knowing about the Exodus, they ambushed the Jewish People.
The Unchained Tongue
"Remember what the L-rd, your G-d, did to Miriam on the way, when you were leaving Egypt" (24:9)
When Miriam criticized her brother Moshe unfairly, G-d punished her with tzara'at,a serious leprous-like skin affliction that covered her body.
The Torah, for some reason, connects Miriam's punishment with leaving Egypt. What does one thing have to do with the other?
The captivity of the Jewish People in Egypt was more than physical bondage. On a deeper level Egypt represented the enslavement of the power of speech. Egypt not only enslaved the bodies of the Jewish People, but it put in chains the major weapon of the Jewish People – speech. Thus, the Torah writes that the Jewish People "cried out" to G-d. It never writes that they "prayed." For in Egypt, speech itself was bound.
The Exodus from Egypt was the beginning of the rebuilding of the power of speech.
Man's pre-eminence derives from his power of speech. He has the ability to direct himself according to his will. When the Jewish People left Egypt, they went straight into the desert. In Hebrew, the word desert is midbar which is from the root "mi dibur"– "from speech" – because the desert is the place that is separated and removed from speech. Since the desert is the maximum place of non-speech, of non-direction, it is the ideal place to rebuild the power of speech from the ground up.
When the Jewish People left Egypt they were like a newborn baby. When a child begins to speak, his father is obligated to start to teach him Torah. In this formative stage, then, it was essential that the Jewish People should guard their mouths and their tongues with great care. Something is most vulnerable during its construction. To protect the reconstruction of speech, they were given Torah, and to protect their mouths, they were given the manna.
The gravity of Miriam's error was not just what she did, but when she did it. To use the power of speech incorrectly at the time of its reconstruction required a serious punishment. Thus, the Torah connects her mistake with the leaving of Egypt.
It is Miriam's eternal privilege though that every generation has a positive commandment to remember what G-d did to her, to teach us that death and life are in the power of the tongue.
- Sources: Sfat Emet, Ramban


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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Recent Google talks on Google Video
They take a long time to watch, but I enjoyed a bunch of them. Among my favorites was the informative (but troubling) "A Googly MySQL Cluster Talk", Brion Vibber's "Wikipedia and MediaWiki", and Barry Schwartz's excellent "The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less".
[via Nathan Weinberg]
Update: If you want to see any future Google TechTalks as they are published, it appears an RSS feed is available. Not sure if that is supported by Google -- they don't link to that feed anywhere -- but it seems to work fine.
5 comments:
- Mark Brown said...
Greg, you said that talk about sql cluster "A Googly MySQL Cluster Talk"
was troubling...
And does this tie into the "global" master Plan, that bob Cringely seems to talk about (as do I in a few blog posts--see: overview post: http://markbnj.blogspot.com/2006/02/tech-google-will-own-everything-in.html
and the LONG version of that
where I put together a lot of the stuff and hypothesize about the "master plan..."
markb in nj - May 10, 2006 at 6:07 PM
- Greg Linden said...
Hi, Mark. Sorry for being vague there. I've got a post coming out soon on MySQL Cluster that will go into more detail.
- May 10, 2006 at 6:43 PM
- Mark Brown said...
Insomnia strikes us all.
But my real question is WHAT or HOW do you think this ties in with
*Dark fiber to local pops
*data center in a tractor trailer
*the Google-TV served local ads
*the google hardware appliance (customer buy in for say 50.00)
and this...(sql)
It seems that they STILL all tie together, and this distributed SQL cluster is part of the GLOBAL master plan...
ideas?? - May 11, 2006 at 1:47 AM
- Greg Linden said...
Hi, Mark. I have some comments on the Cringely article here.
In general, I'm not sure about his vision for how these things tie together. I'm not even sure they do tie together.
My impression is that Google's strategy is more about experimenting in many directions than about a coordinated thrust in one.
I doubt they have a master plan. I am not sure they have enough information about what works and what does not work to do that. - May 11, 2006 at 7:45 AM
- Mark Brown said...
Greg: I wanted to make this clear.
it's ME that's synthesising the discrete pieces together.
(I've had 3-4 "Grand visions" in my life, that all came true before...
The bottom line is that I think that these things DO tie together
The Datacenter in a truck, (and see one of my posts for a REAL DPC in a truck allows the googl-ites to have their favorite distributed linux environment.
The dark fibers Tie all the DPC's together.
The video-ad server is an app that could run locally
and the SQL cluster is QUITE helpful in managing the darn thing....
and the piece de la resistance is
the google PC which will be a (maybe) 50.00 piece of hardware that someone buys, that will signify buy-in to SERVE them the commercials!
voila. A name a game, a canal...
Sorry that doesnt work anyway...
At any way, we now have a unofficial unifying theory on what google ahsn;t announced yet!
I should have slept last night! - May 11, 2006 at 9:29 AM