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Monday, November 23, 2020
Grassroots organisation works to combat violence against women
Sarah Bedson
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- A team of fewer than ten employees and volunteers are making a huge difference to hundreds of women across the northern West Bank area of Salfit and Qalqilya.
Women For Life
(WFL) is an independent, non-profit Palestinian organisation that works to combat violence against women and empower them in all aspects of life - legally, socially, economically and politically. To do so, WFL implements programmes and develops partnerships that support violated women, enable women to attain their rights, promote gender equality and provide women with opportunities to advance in society.
Formerly known as Woman Against the Wall, the organisation, based in Biddiya, began in 2002 as a group of Palestinian women practising non-violent resistance against the erection of the separation wall. Through demonstrations, camp-outs and rallying, the women succeeded in diverting the wall by 3km, and in doing so saved a school from demolition.
Fatima Assi, director of WFL, told Palestine Monitor how, in the beginning, the organisation was confronted with scepticism from the local community. "People are not open-minded like they are in big cities such as Ramallah, so it was a challenge," she said. Over time, through word of mouth, the organisation has garnered local acceptance. Fatima reported that she knew she was on to something when fathers began bringing their daughters to workshops. "We let our actions speak for themselves. People began to trust us."
One of WFL's missions is legal empowerment. The organisation has its own lawyer and helps over 100 women per year in court cases against their husbands. Na'ila from Masha is one of the women to have received legal support from the organisation. She shared her experience with Palestine Monitor:
"One day, my husband told me he wanted a second wife. In the beginning, I accepted it but then there were complications. Four days before he got remarried in 2014, I found out I was pregnant with my second child. After his marriage, my husband became distant. He stopped living with me and stopped supporting me financially."
Like many women seeking help from WFL, Na'ila didn't complete her secondary education and while her daughter is still young, she is not working. WFL helped her to take the matter to court free of charge. "When I went to the court, I didn't have enough money to pay for the taxi. I had to sell my jewellery to support myself and my children," she recalled. "After the court case, my husband pays 900 shekels (approximately USD 240) per month in alimony and child support."
Such cases remain rare in small Palestinian villages. "I don't know anyone else who had a divorce or a problem with their husband. It's not a normal thing but I was forced to. I didn't do anything wrong. What I did is best for my children and me. Women For Life stood by me when nobody else did," Na'ila said.
WFL's social worker, Leila, admits that court cases are a last resort for the organisation. "Being a divorced woman in this society is very difficult for a woman. Here in Palestine, a divorce is not just between two people; it's a breakup between two families." Leila therefore opts to work on the social side as a first port of call, offering couples' sessions to help resolve marital problems. "The sessions are very successful," she says.
"Our aim is to empower women and give them independence but sometimes families interfere with a divorced woman more. Here in Palestine to be independent and powerful you have to have your own work. If the woman works, she can be independent," Leila said.
The female labour participation rate in the occupied Palestinian territories as of
July 2016
was 19.6 per cent, which remains very low
compared to
25.2 per cent in the middle east and north africa and 50 per cent in other developing countries.
In 2013, WFL partnered with Première Urgence Internationale to implement the Women Economic Empowerment project, which included assisting local women in setting up their own micro and small businesses in order to sustainably contribute to the socio-economic empowerment of women in the region.
Funded by the European Union and cofounded by Agence Française de Développement and Muslim Care-UK, 600 women applied for the scheme and a panel of local organization representatives whittled down the final number to 60 women from nine local communities across Salfit and Qalqilya.
The selection was based on a number of specifications including the applicant's motivation and how their project matched the market's needs.
Successful applicants went on to attend a 10-day business-training course and received on-going mentors and support to bring their projects to fruition.
Project grants were provided in tools and equipment rather than a lump sum, with approximately 2000-3000 euros being invested depending on the project. The beneficiary was asked to provide 10% of the money.
The 60 women's projects represent a diverse range of business categories, among them agriculture, commerce, handicrafts, livestock, cosmetology, acoustics techniques, gyms, photography studios, tailoring, bakeries and DJ services.
In Biddiya, Mariam Aqraa used to work from home but thanks to the project has opened a shop mainly selling sweets and gifts for weddings and events.
"We were taught about budgeting, customer service and recording finances. Women For Life provided everything you can see here – the shelves, the table, the air-conditioning, even the door! I'm so grateful - this project improved my income so I can better support my three disabled children. I still communicate with the society when I need advice in managing my project," Mariam said.
Over in Azoun, Fadwa Shbeta has set up her own organic green house in which she currently grows and sells cucumbers, beans, lettuce, celery and parsley.
"My husband is very supportive of the project and made me the owner of the land. Women For Life helped me to build the greenhouse and provided me with tools and products. People like that my produce is organic. I feel very fortunate. Now I can help to sustain my family," Fadwa said.
In Kifl Hares, Izzya Saleh had been running her own bakery in a small shop for four years when she heard about the project that she states changed her life: "Before, the bakery was so small that it was hard to breathe from all the smoke. The project supported me to expand the shop and build a new bread furnace. My husband's income is limited so it's a big difference having my own work. I feel more self-confident now, I have met new acquaintances through the bakery and I can expand my business by hiring employees."
Despite the tangible success of this project and many others, WFL struggles to sustain itself. "The main problem is permanent finance," Leila conceded. Working for WFL for ten years, she considers the organisation a part of her family. Even though the organisation cannot always offer her a salary, "It's OK for now," she says. Regardless of concerns for the future of the organisation, volunteers conveyed that they enjoyed their work as it gave them a role in society. Fatima Assi added, "We work from our hearts, we have a passion about what we do. I think we make an impact."
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If anyone thought the recent University of Miami pledges by Northwestern CB Artie Burns and Southridge S Jamal Carter were going to start a sudden influx of Miami-Dade prospects committing to UM, don't look for a trend leader inBooker T. Washington LB Matthew Thomas.
"They don't have anything to do with me," said Thomas, who competed at the Champion Gridiron Kings 7-on-7 event as part of the champion Southeast team on Sunday at ESPN's Wide World of Sports. "I don't really care about any of that. I don't have an opinion about it. None of that even matters to me."
Those comments might lead one to believe the Hurricanes are far from landing Thomas, who said Sunday his top five schools of interest are Florida State, Alabama, USC, Georgia and Miami, in no particular order.
"But that doesn't really mean anything," Thomas said of his five. "I'm still open."
The recruiting process is wearing on the 6-foot-3, 200-pound linebacker, who was with the Tornadoes at the ESPNHS KSA 7-on-7 tournament at Wide World of Sports last week, as well. Booker T. lost in the title game to Miami Carol City, falling to 55-2 for the summer 7-on-7 circuit.
"Yeah, I am getting pretty tired of it," Thomas said of the process.
He's hoping to graduate early, but he said he doesn't have a particular timetable for his commitment and he also said he is unsure yet which five schools he will visit officially this fall.
"Whenever I feel comfortable, that's when I'll know it's time," Thomas said.
Booker T. will be tested this season in its quest to return to the Citrus Bowl and a spot in the Class 4A state final. The Tornadoes lost to Jacksonville Bolles in the title game a year ago.
The Tornadoes open with a kickoff classic game against Northwestern, then start the regular season with a rematch, of sorts, with Carol City. They then take on Central before traveling to Dallas to face Cedar Hill (Texas). Booker T. will host Orlando Jones the following week, before moving into district play in four of the last six games.
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The Economist magazine names the eight best economists of the next generation:
- Esther Duflo, MIT
- Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago
- Roland Fryer, Harvard University
- Amy Finkelstein, MIT
- Raj Chetty, Harvard University
- Ivan Werning, MIT
- Xavier Gabaix, New York University
- Marc Melitz, Princeton University
Clearly, Esther Duflo is the star in the list!
Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received more recommendations than any other economist. Some who didn't nominate her thought she was too established to count as "new".
With her colleague, Abhijit Banerjee, Ms Duflo and Mr Kremer have remade development economics, nudging it away from its concern with policies, towards a preoccupation with projects. They study economic development as seen from the field, clinic or school, rather than the finance ministry. They might be called the "peace corps" of economists, bringing the blessing of their investigative technique to the neglected villages of India or the denuded farms of western Kenya.
Ms Duflo has made her name carrying out randomised trials of development projects, such as fertiliser subsidies and school recruitment. In these trials, people are randomly assigned to a "treatment" group, which benefits from the project, and a "control" group, which does not. By comparing the average outcome of each group, she can establish whether the project worked and precisely how well.
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The $279.95 Sennheiser RS 170 is a set of wireless headphones with a base unit that doubles as a transmitter and a battery charger. One of the nicest things a reviewer can say about wireless headphones is that they don't sound like wireless headphones, and the RS 170 certainly succeeds on that score. Connectivity is limited to just one analog input, which might be a deal breaker for some potential buyers, but the idea is that you hook up the transmitter to your TV or AV receiver, and then run your sources, like your cable box, Blu-ray player, or games, etc., through the TV or receiver. If that's what you're looking to do, the RS 170 is definitely worthy of your consideration.
Design and features
The RS 170 weighs just 216 grams without batteries thanks to its plastic construction. The satin black-and-silver headphones' build quality feels sturdy enough aside from where the earcups attach to the headband. There seems to be a bit of play in the joint that may cause problems with breakage over the long term.
The plush, padded headband and user-replaceable faux-leather earpads feel luxurious, and their oval shape conforms better to ears than the circular earpads used by competing headphone manufacturers.
The RS 170 is powered by a single NiMH (nickel-metal hydride) AAA battery in each earcup, and the company claims a fully charged set can deliver up to 24 hours of play time.
The black plastic transmitter/battery charger base also doubles as a headphone stand. Some buyers may feel slighted by the single 3.5mm analog input, but I actually don't consider it a limitation when the RS 170 is used with a TV or AV receiver. Those users can plug all their sources (cable box, game consoles, Blu-ray player, etc.) into their television or AV receiver and simply connect the RS 170 to the TV or receiver's stereo analog outputs.
If you absolutely insist on a digital connection, go for Sennheiser's $599 RS 220 wireless headphone model that has two digital inputs. Finally, the RS 170's power supply comes with four power receptacle adapters, one each for the U.S., U.K., Australia, and the EU.
The tightly clustered volume up/down, power, Surround Sound Simulator, and Dynamic Bass Boost button arrangement along the bottom of the right earcup isn't ergonomically ideal. For example, the power button is centered between the volume up/down buttons, so I accidently turned the power off when trying to adjust the volume a couple of times.
The Surround Sound Simulator and Dynamic Bass Boost buttons are smaller and even trickier to find when you're feeling around with your finger, so it may take some time before you can locate them without making mistakes. Sennheiser also gives access to the bass booster and surround features from the transmitter/charger base.
The RS 170 features 2.4-2.8 GHz Kleer carrier frequency wireless technology that offers lossless, CD-quality, 16-bit/44.1-kHz resolution. The system mostly worked flawlessly, but the sound occasionally cut out when I was across the room from the transmitter and seated in front of my computer. I experienced no other interruptions anywhere else in the room or my apartment.


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I used it about an hour ago, and it worked just fine for me. I wish I could help.
What's the url of your toplist?
Whenever I click the list breaks on my advance setup so I can edit them, it takes forever to load then it makes me download a php. document to my pc. Is something wrong with it?
I used it about an hour ago, and it worked just fine for me. I wish I could help.
What's the url of your toplist?
It's working for me too... if you send me your top list url, I can try yours. I think maybe it's some kind of issue with your browser settings though.... although if you are able to access the forum (which is in php) then that is a bit baffling....
I use both internet explorer and firefox.
my url is divapreneur.gotop100.com
Ok thanks. We are looking into it.
You had set the number of members on your list to 999999999.
That was creating thousands of pages for your list and causing problems on the list break. We have fixed this and reduced the limit on your list as well.
Can't help but laugh at the thought of someone trying to manage a toplist that big!
That would be a handful wouldn't it. I'm sure it was just meant as a way to make sure the list was unlimited, without realizing the effects it might have on the way the list works. In fact, I wasn't even aware that doing this would cause a problem because no one has ever tried it before.
It makes me wonder what the actual limit could be, before it slows down the system too much. I've seen people with over 1000 members on their list without it causing any problems....
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Police treatment of slain teen's mother questioned
Separate investigations launched into whether mother was kept in squad car for hours
While the man accused of shooting a 13-year-old neighbor to death last week pleaded not guilty in court, two separate investigations have been launched into how Milwaukee police treated the mother of the victim.
John Spooner, 75, is accused of shooting Darius Simmons in front of his home on Milwaukee's south side May 31.
The victim's family said Spooner had an argument with Simmons as he believed the teen had stolen items from his home.
The court ruled there was sufficient evidence for a trial, and Spooner now faces first-degree intentional homicide charges.
While the investigation into the shooting continues, a new investigation has begun into how Patricia Larry, Simmons' mother, was treated at the scene.
"We're obviously going to look at the timelines of that investigation," Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said.
Flynn responded Monday to reports that Larry was kept inside a police squad car at the scene for several hours while officers searched her home.
"As a general principle, when somebody's murdered, our first duty is to bring justice to the victim, and that requires us to slow a scene down and get the best, most accurate immediate testimony we can from eyewitnesses," he said.
But while MPD investigates its treatment of Larry, the head of the city's Fire and Police Commission is moving forward with its own investigation.
"We are conducting our own internal investigation to determine what actually happened during the criminal investigation at the scene," said Michael Tobin, executive director of the commission. "We would like to find out whether Miss Larry was treated appropriately at the scene by Milwaukee police officers."


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The 'RoboCop' remake has been pushed back until 2014.
Sony Pictures have moved the opening of Jose Padilha's project - which stars Gary Oldman and Abbie Cornish and Joel Kinnaman as Alex Murphy/ Robocop - back six months to February 7, 2014, after it was originally due to open on August 9, 2013.
Matt Damon's forthcoming film 'Elysium' will instead take the movie's place, moving back five months from its original release date of March 1, 2013.
The reason for the delay of 'RoboCop' - which will now go up against 'Need For Speed' - has not been confirmed, but there is speculation the film could be set to get a 3D bolt on as a result of the additional time.
'RoboCop' - a remake of the 1987 original motion picture which saw Peter Weller in the titular role and also starred Nancy Allen - is to feature a star-studded cast including Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Heaton, and tells the story of a fatally injured policeman who returns to the force as a powerful cyborg.
'Elysium' - which also stars Jodie Foster - will be set in the year 2159 and sees a man (Damon) who lives on a space station and aims to bring his world together with those who reside on an overcrowded Earth.
Matt previously said the movie will feature "a lot of action" and be "really fun and entertaining"


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Columbus Parking Garage Rates Below National Average
Every year, global commercial real estate organization Colliers International produces an annual survey on parking garage rates across the United States and Canada which they compile into a public report. Columbus was noteworthy in that there was zero change between 2011 and 2012's pricing, while the national average rate of increase was 1.6 percent.
"This year's report shows that Columbus's parking rates have held strong and are now listed as below the national average for monthly parking rates," said Leslie Hobbs, Director of Marketing at Colliers International for the Greater Columbus Region.
The average cost of parking in a covered or underground parking garage in Columbus is $95 per month, while the national average is $164.80 per month. The city at the top of the list is New York City, where in Midtown Manhattan the average cost is $562 per month.
To read the full report, visit www.collierscanada.com.


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This file describes all the parameters of the configure script and their possible uses.
For a quick help of available parameters, run
./configure --help.
This parameter takes a comma-separated list of all the flavors that the build system should assemble.
Depending on a default stage1 image setup, this list is by default either empty or set to
coreos,kvm,fly for, respectively, detailed setup and flavor setup.
Note that specifying this parameter does not necessarily mean that rkt will use them in the end.
Available flavors are:
coreos - it takes systemd and bash from a CoreOS PXE image; uses systemd-nspawn
kvm - it takes systemd, bash and other binaries from a CoreOS PXE image; uses lkvm
src - it builds systemd, takes bash from the host at build time; uses built systemd-nspawn
host - it takes systemd and bash from host at runtime; uses systemd-nspawn from the host
fly - chroot-only approach for single-application minimal isolation containers; native Go implementation
host flavor is probably the best suited flavor for distributions that have strict rules about software sources.
This parameter takes a version number to become the version of all the built stage1 flavors.
Normally, without this parameter, the images have the same version as rkt itself.
This parameter may be useful for distributions that often provide patched versions of upstream software without changing major/minor/patch version number, but instead add a numeric suffix.
An example usage could be passing
--with-stage1-flavors-version-override=0.12.0-2, so the new image will have a version
0.12.0-2 instead of
This parameter also affects the default stage1 image version in flavor setup.
The parameters described below affect the handling of rkt's default stage1 image. rkt first tries to find the stage1 image in the store by using the default stage1 image name and version. If this fails, rkt will try to fetch the image into the store from the default stage1 image location.
There are two mutually exclusive ways to specify a default stage1 image name and version:
Flavor setup has only one parameter. This kind of setup is rather a convenience wrapper around the detailed setup.
It takes a name of the flavor of the stage1 image we build and, based on that, it sets up the default stage1 image name and version.
Default stage1 image in this case is often something like coreos.com/rkt/stage1-
Detailed setup has two parameters, both must be provided. This kind of setup could be used to make some 3rd party stage1 implementation the default stage1 image used by rkt.
This parameter tells what is the name of the default stage1 image.
This parameter tells what is the version of the default stage1 image.
This parameter tells rkt where to find the default stage1 image if it is not found in the store. For the detailed setup, the default value of this parameter is empty, so if it is not provided, you may be forced to inform rkt about the location of the stage1 image at runtime. For the flavor setup, the default value is a special relative path, telling rkt to look for the image in the directory it is located. Normally, this parameter should be some URL, with or without a scheme. Relative paths will be partially ignored - only the directory where rkt binary is will be searched. In general, you will be best off by specifying an absolute path to the image file. This parameter is currently very shabby and will be reworked in the near future.
There are some additional parameters for some flavors. Usually they do not need to be modified, default values are sane.
src flavor
src flavor provides parameters for specifying some
git-specific details of the systemd repository.
This parameter takes a URL to a
systemd git repository.
The default is
You may want to change it to point the build system to use some local repository.
This parameter takes either a tag name or a branch name.
Tag names are usually in form of
v<number>, where number is a systemd version.
The default is
You can use branch name
master to test the bleeding edge version of systemd.
coreos and
kvm flavor
coreos and
kvm flavors provide parameters related to CoreOS PXE image.
This parameter is used to point the build system to a local CoreOS PXE image.
This can be helpful for some packagers, where downloading anything over the network is a no-no.
The parameter takes either relative or absolute paths.
The default value is empty, so the image will be downloaded over the network.
If this parameter is specified, then also
--with-coreos-local-pxe-image-systemd-version must be specified too.
The build system has no reliable way to deduce automatically what version of systemd the CoreOS PXE image contains, so it needs some help.
This parameters tells the build systemd what is the version of systemd in the local PXE image.
The value should be like tag name in systemd git repository, that is -
v<number>, like
If this parameter is specified, then also
--with-coreos-local-pxe-image-path must be specified too.
There is only one flag for testing - to enable functional testing.
Functional tests are disabled by default. There are some requirements to be fulfilled to be able to run them. The tests are runnable only in Linux. The tests must be run as root, so the build system uses sudo to achieve that. Note that using sudo may kill the non-interactivity of the build system, so make sure that if you use it in some CI, then CI user is a sudoer and does not need a password. Also, when trying to run functional tests with the host flavor of the stage1 image, the host must be managed by systemd of at least version v220. If any of the requirements above are not met and the value of the parameter is yes then configure will bail out. This may not be ideal in CI environment, so there is a third possible value of this parameter - "auto". "auto" will enable functional tests if all the requirements are met. Otherwise, it will disable them without any errors.


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What would you do if faced with injustice—if it meant putting your life, and the lives of your loved ones, in danger? That's the question author Richard Doster asks in his poignant, well-written historical novel, Crossing the Lines.
In his first book, Safe at Home, Doster gave us the story of Percy Jackson, an African-American baseball player who becomes the "white knight" of a minor league team. The story is told through the eyes of journalist Jack Hall, a Caucasian sports journalist who becomes deeply involved with Walker's struggle.
In Crossing the Lines, Doster once again revisits the Deep South of the '50s, taking us to Atlanta and then Montgomery, Alabama, where the fight for Civil Rights is raging.
Crossing the Lines picks up where Safe at Home left off. After surviving a trauma that most could only imagine, Hall takes a job at the daily newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution, where the legendary Ralph McGill begins mentoring him. A staunch proponent of Civil Rights, McGill sends Hall to Montgomery to cover a bus boycott.
There, Hall meets the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the movement, including John Lewis. Their interaction causes Hall to once again reflect on his own fears and prejudices. Before long, the sports journalist has become a war correspondent. Reporting from the front lines, he faces the same evil holding captive his fellow Americans.
During a recent interview with Crosswalk, Doster said that he writes about the Civil Rights because he believes it's a time that we don't want to revisit—but need to.
"I think it's neglect and indifference," he explained. "I hope people will read this book and engage in conversation about where we've been and where we need to go and what we need to do to get there."
Here, Doster shares his perspective, as a writer and as someone who witnessed the integration of schools in the South, post Brown v. Board of Education. …
Why do you write fiction?
I write fiction because I can. At least I think I can! If you have the ability to do it, then you have the responsibility to use that gift, and use it for the broadest possible good. Fiction is an incarnational art. It brings things alive that we haven't understood or seen, and it does so within the context of the flesh-and-blood world of what is real and concrete and here. And it helps us make sense of that.
I have a friend who doesn't read any fiction except mine. He says, "Why would I read something that isn't true when I can read something that is?" I point out that when Jesus is asked who is my neighbor, he told a story. He told the story of the good Samaritan. He didn't write an article on propositional truth then give an illustration of that propositional truth. He told a story.
Jesus told fiction in order to convey truth. And the reason I write fiction is to convey truth. My favorite quotes in Flannery O'Connery is the one about how fiction is a plunge into reality and a shock to the system. I think those who have read my two books would see that I have written to plunge them into reality and shock them in their system.
What do you mean exactly?
I wanted to take people back to a time (the Civil Rights) that I have discovered that—even though it wasn't that long ago—is largely forgotten.
Don't you think that's intentional?
No, I don't. I think it's neglect. I may be wrong, but I think it's neglect and indifference. In the book, The Dumbest Generation, the overwhelming majority of college students who were shown a black-and-white photo of a sign in front of a movie theater that said, "Colored Only," didn't know what it meant. So part of it is to bring us back to that time, but also to see how far we have to go. I hope people will read this book and engage in some conversation about this, and talk about where we've been and where we need to go and what we need to do to get there, as well as the nobility of the Civil Rights movement and the sacrifice that people made.
I spoke with an African-American woman the other day. She hesitated, but she finally said that most books about the civil rights weren't written by white people. I told her that, having done my research, and from a white guy's perspective, it was my opinion that through my lens, white people actually gained more. Now, I want to be careful how I say this. Looking back, of course, black people gained a tremendous amount. They got to sit in restaurants. They got legal rights. But what we got changed our hearts and attitudes. We got a whole new view of what a righteous society looks like, what institutional justice looks like. And, from a Christian perspective, looking at a whole new race as brothers and sisters.
On your Web site, you talk about the paradox of Southern culture in that time period. What do you mean by that?
It's hard to believe that in the same era (generally speaking) when Faulkner was crafting works of genius, Martin Luther King was pleading for racial reconciliation. During the days when Sam Phillips was inventing rock and roll, when he was introducing the blues to a whole new audience—producing the music of B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf Burnett, Ike Turner, Jackie Brenston, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley—black students were being jailed for ordering coffee at the Woolworth's lunch counter. As Flannery O'Connor penned enduring works of fiction, Georgia governor Marvin Griffin was vowing to stop the 1956 Sugar Bowl, to prevent Georgia Tech from playing a Pittsburgh team that fielded one "Negro" player.
This was an era when Southerners were, at the same time, creating the best of the world's culture—and the worst. And the fact is, we'd have never had the one without the other. We now realize that it's because of our once-segregated society that we now know the thoughts and theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. We also know that it was a long history of racial oppression that gave birth to the blues. And, without a history of racial strife, we're never enriched by the "Christ-haunted" and guilt-inspired fiction of so many great Southern writers. The worst of Southern culture spawned the best. This is the paradox that sends Jack Hall down a career path he never envisioned.
How did you become so fascinated with the Civil Rights?
I'm 56. In my first book, Safe at Home, the backdrop is baseball. We were at an Atlanta Braves game and Jackie Robinson was being commemorated. A week or so later, we were in Asheville, N.C., for a minor league game, and I started to wonder who the first guy was to play baseball, and what life would have been like for him. I started looking into it and found some great sources and ended up writing the book. It's the story of a fictional black player who was the first to play on a minor league team, told through the eyes of a white sports writer.
Life for those guys was brutal. It was lonely and discouraging and disheartening, but they persevered. They were not educated or sophisticated, but they knew they were doing something that mattered. Think about this: the first time Americans saw black and white people working together toward a common cause, in public view, was on the minor league baseball field. In fact, I believe that the first time an organized demonstration of civil rights took place was at a minor league field in Greenville, Mississippi, where they were protesting their seating. This story deals with real people and real events, but it came from my curiosity about the breaking of the color line of sports in the South.
Were you involved in the integration of schools?
For the most part, I was too young. But I do remember standing outside on the sidewalk of my junior high school in Central Florida when the black kids were bussed in for the first time. I remember standing outside to watch.
Was that the germ?
It might have been, but I think it was watered and fertilized in Atlanta—a city where race is a more visible and prominent issue.
You've spoken about the hope for people to have a dialogue. Is there anything else you hope people will take away from Crossing the Lines?
I want people to enjoy the book. I want to be a good writer and have people enjoy the experience, and I hope I have put together something good enough to draw them into the story. I care about the aesthetic quality of the work. Beyond that, I hope people will take away the story of it, as well as the pervasive nature of the civil rights nature of the unselfishness of what it means to us.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the early leaders of that movement loved white people. What they set out to do was not merely win rights for black people. They met to change people, to renew institutions, to come against "powers and authorities." King knew that as long as one person was mistreated, the entire system was unjust.
There's an episode of the book where John Lewis and John Nash are jailed for sitting in at a Nashville lunch counter. They don't have room for them in the jail, so the police tell them to post bail. They refuse. The police lowered the bail to $5 and still they refuse. Their goal wasn't to get out of jail. Their goal was to change an unjust system. By paying the $5, they knew that they were contributing to the system. To have paid the fine would have been to recognize the law, which was unjust. And they weren't going to participate in that system. It wasn't, "I want my rights." It was, "We must change the entirety of the way this system works."
What is your next book?
I'm about 50,000 words into a book that is much different from my first two. It's not race related. It deals with the use of gifts, the use of fame and what we do with talent and celebrity and thinking through the reasons those things exist. It's the story of a young woman who becomes a pop music star, from being a high school girlfriend of the football player in a small town in the North Georgia mountains. She is thinking about what that means and why she has that ability, and as kids look at her and want her autograph and want to be close to her, she has to think why this happens and what she should do with it.
Click here to read an excerpt from Crossing the Lines.
Richard Doster is the editor of byFaith magazine. To learn more about Richard and Crossing the Lines, please visit www.richarddoster.com or www.davidccook.com.


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The brains of men and women aren't really that different, study finds
In the mid-19th century, researchers claimed they could tell the sex of an individual just by looking at their disembodied brain. But a new study finds that human brains do not fit neatly into "male" and "female" categories. Indeed, all of our brains seem to share a patchwork of forms; some that are more common in males, others that are more common in females, and some that are common to both. The findings could change how scientists study the brain and even how society defines gender.
So in the new study, researchers led by Daphna Joel, a behavioral neuroscientist at Tel Aviv University in Israel, tried to be as comprehensive as possible. Using existing sets of MRI brain images, they measured the volume of gray matter (the dark, knobby tissue that contains the core of nerve cells) and white matter (the bundles of nerve fibers that transmit signals around the nervous system) in the brains of more than 1400 individuals. They also studied data from diffusion tensor imaging, which shows how tracts of white matter extend throughout the brain, connecting different regions.
The team found a few structural differences between men and women. The left hippocampus, for example, an area of the brain associated with memory, was usually larger in men than in women.
To accommodate this overlap, the researchers created a continuum of "femaleness" to "maleness," for the entire brain. The male end zone contained features more typical of males, and the female end zone contained the version of the same structures more often seen in females. Then, the team scored every individual region-by-region to find out where they fell on that male-to-female continuum.
The majority of the brains were a mosaic of male and female structures, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Depending on whether the researchers looked at gray matter, white matter, or the diffusion tensor imaging data, between 23% and 53% of brains contained a mix of regions that fell on the male-end and female-end of the spectrum. Very few of the brains—between 0% and 8%—contained all male or all female structures. "There is no one type of male brain or female brain," Joel says.


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Future D-backs make good use of big stage
First time in New York gives world better look at trio of prospects
NEW YORK -- Call it the Baby Snakes Take Manhattan. And they took Queens by storm.
For the three kids from the D-backs' organization picked to play for the U.S. Team in Sunday's 4-2 victory over the World Team in the SiriusXM Futures Game at Citi Field, it was their first time in New York.
Matt Davidson, a third baseman from Triple-A Reno, grew up in the Inland Empire, about an hour east of Los Angeles. Archie Bradley, a pitcher at Double-A Mobile, is from Muskogee, Okla. Chris Owings, a shortstop from the Reno Aces born in Charleston, S.C., was also on the squad.
Davidson hit a two-run homer and was named the game's MVP. Bradley pitched a scoreless third inning. And Owings was a whiz in the field after coming in as a defense replacement.
"It's amazing this first time in New York; it's a lot for me to take in," said Davidson, who was in the starting lineup, batting fifth. "It's certainly different. The cab rides are crazy. My family is here taking it all in, so it's definitely fun."
"I'm very excited to be here," said Bradley, who was selected by the D-backs in the first round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft just four picks behind No. 3 Trevor Bauer, since traded to Cleveland. "The city is nice. It's big. It's an incredible thing for me to just to be here."
Davidson hit what turned out to be the deciding homer to left-center off Oakland prospect Michael Ynoa in the fourth inning and was immediately taken out of the game. Bradley pitched the third inning, easily retiring the three World Team players he faced without incident. Owings came on in the top of the fifth and made a fine over-the-shoulder grab, of a pop fly skied into short left field, before smoothly turning a couple of double plays.
The trio of youngsters are all top D-backs prospects.
Davidson was a supplemental pick in the first round of the 2009 Draft and might be miscast as a third baseman. He is batting .291 with 14 homers and 59 RBIs in 90 games for the Aces, but he said he was trying to grow at the position.
"It's been an adjustment year at Triple-A," said the 22-year-old Davidson. "I've probably learned the most this year, hitting-wise and defensively. Defensively, I know I started off defensively pretty rough at the start of the year, but it makes sense; it's only my second full season. Sometimes I see ground balls I've never seen before. I haven't been playing a lot there. But it's been fun. I've been getting better every day."
Davidson and Owings will be traveling from here directly back to Reno, where they are scheduled to appear in Wednesday's Triple-A All-Star Game. Davidson, who donated his helmet and batting gloves to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, will take part in the Triple-A Home Run Derby on Monday night fresh from Sunday's homer heroics. Bradley said he was replaced on the roster for Wednesday's Southern League All-Star Game because he could not play in both places.
Davidson was thrilled with the full schedule.
"That's not a lot of time off," Davidson said. "But in the offseason, when you're working out, you say you want to be busy during the All-Star break. So I guess I got my wish. I'm pretty busy."
Bradley opened his season at advanced Class A Visalia and then made the jump to Mobile. He is a combined 8-4 with a 2.06 ERA with 115 strikeouts in 104 2/3 innings, covering 18 starts. A month shy of his 21st birthday, the right-hander is awaiting the next move up the Arizona organizational ladder.
The most important thing he has learned this season?
"Getting ahead on the count," Bradley said. "I've never understood how important that was until this year, starting an at-bat ahead with strike one. That controls everything. Your stuff becomes more playable. You get swing and miss stuff, instead of being behind in the count and having to throw 2-0 fastballs just trying to recoup."
Owings, now 21 and a native of Charleston, S.C., was also a supplemental pick of the D-backs in the first round of the 2009 Draft. He has been beating up Pacific Coast League pitching to the tune of a .353 batting average with 11 homers and 65 RBIs.
"This was awesome just to be here as part of the game," Owings said. "I've never been to New York before, so now I've seen Citi Field for the first time. I feel like everything is just amplified. You're just ready to go. New York? It's pretty exciting. We're staying right there by Grand [Central] Station. I walked to Time Square last night.
"I just tried to take it all in, you know?"


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Philosophy of English Language Arts Education
Township of Ocean Schools
The building blocks of the English Language Arts—phonics, reading, writing, speaking, listening and grammar—are the means through which people learn to communicate with one another and, indeed, the world at large. These facets of communication allow us to receive information, to respond to it by applying both logical and creative thought, and to express our ideas in many varied formats, including verbal, nonverbal, and written forms. Literacy, as defined by the State of New Jersey Department of Education, is ". . . a way to acquire knowledge for thinking and communicating; it is more than the acquisition of a specific, predetermined set of skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. Literacy is also recognizing and understanding one's own purposes for thinking and communicating (through print or nonprint, verbal or nonverbal means) and being able to use one's own resources to achieve those purposes."
Within these documents, the areas of reading, writing, foundational skills, speaking, listening, and grammar are addressed at each grade level, emphasizing the anchor standards and grade level progress indicators set forth by the New Jersey Student Learning Standards for English Language Arts. Click here to view the New Jersey Student Learning Standards for English Language Arts for grades K-12. Because the English Language Arts are so highly integrated and interdependent, a balanced approach to instruction is therefore required. Characteristically, the development of literacy skills is highly spiraled, i.e., introduced, developed, and reinforced. Once introduced, most skills are repeatedly revisited within that grade level. They are reinforced in successive grade levels with increasing rigor and in greater depth. Thus, a Scope and Sequence has been developed to coincide with the K - 5 English Language Arts curriculum to aid the teacher in meeting the English Language Arts goals and objectives set forth by the Township of Ocean School District in alignment with the New Jersey Student Learning Standards.
Because every learner is an individual with specialized educational needs, the Township of Ocean School District endeavors to present its rigorous curriculum through the application of differentiated instructional strategies. Direct and explicit instruction as well as the application of research-based instructional strategies, such as cooperative learning techniques, teacher and peer modeling, and the regular implementation of formative authentic assessments are fostered.


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I need to install a SQL Server Express instance (as an admin) which can be later on read and modified by regular users.
I run into http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms254504.aspx, and I'm trying to make it work like it says there, with this connection string:
Provider=sqloledb;Data Source=.\\DUBOCALC;Integrated Security=true;User Instance=true;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|\\" + HelperClasses.DuboCalcSettings.dbname + ".mdf;Initial Catalog=DUBOCALC;Trusted_Connection=yes;
The problem I have is that the instance is created under
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.INSTANCENAME, but all this under the Administrator's folder, so regular users can't have access there, where the
.mdf files are.
In my bootstrapper file, I have the following line to install SQL Express:
<Command PackageFile="SQLEXPR32_x86_ENU.EXE"
Arguments='/q /hideconsole /action=Install /features=SQL /instancename=DUBOCALC /enableranu=1 /sqlsvcaccount="NT Authority\Network Service" /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="Builtin\Users" /skiprules=RebootRequiredCheck'
How could I do that, please?
I think it's a very common use, to install a SQL Server Express instance as admin, then running it as a user, but I can't find any useful information which will help me get this working.
thanks a lot everybody in advance, Manuel.


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Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-a-Fella)
Slick production does not automatically equal great art. Such is the challenge faced by Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF).
To be fair, this is an album in which an artist's vision and his ability to execute seemingly came together. There's a sense of grandeur in the music that says big and impressive, owing to the sweep of musical influences that he's marshaled. I'm also relieved to hear that his mic skills have improved considerably since his College Dropout days.
Where West's last album, 808s & Heartbreak, was about his heartache, loss, loneliness and self-doubt, MBDTF shows he's so over that. He's embraced his superstar status with a certitude that was missing from the previous album. When he talks about any of his failings, such as in "All of the Lights," it's done matter-of-factly. That's the most humility that's shown on this album. Whatever his history, he's done apologizing for it. He's living the life; West no longer walks on the same ground as the rest of us, and he's just letting us know.
And his efforts have been commercially rewarded: Rolling Stone recently crowned MBDTF as the No. 1 album of the year; and West had impressive first-week sales of more than half a million, putting his album in the No. 1 slot on the Billboard chart. The album dropped to seventh place in its second week.
Despite its shortcomings, there's a lot to like on the album. "Dark Fantasy," "Gorgeous," "All of the Lights" and "So Appalled" shine as standout tracks. "Power" is damn near anthemic. Toward the end he says, "Now, this would be a beautiful death," followed by the soaring male voice singing, "Jumpin' out the win-dooow/Lettin' everything go." It's chilling and sublime.
West is many things, one of which is an aesthete. By that I mean he has a strong sense of that which is beautiful. And he perceives himself to be at the top of the game, so it's not surprising that there may be some nagging suspicion that there's nothing left to achieve. So why not end it? I'm not suggesting that West is seriously considering suicide when a No. 1 album wasn't enough, but the notion probably makes sense to him. In fact, I'd be surprised if he hadn't noted the outpouring of adoration for Michael Jackson that occurred after the singer's untimely death. Given his ego, it's not too much of a leap to suggest that West expects that same type of canonization.
There is something to music and cultural critic Marcus Dowling's assertion that "Kanye West Is Culture." As Dowling writes, West "drives culture because he can." As West states in "Power," every superhero needs a theme song. But heroes aren't heroes just because they have superpowers or because they decide to call themselves such. Rather, every hero also needs a villain or some other opposition to overcome. Superman has Lex Luthor, Batman has the Joker and Ra's al Ghul. Their conflict, particularly when the hero is seemingly outmatched, pushes him to discover and express his best self.
It took the death of his mother to get him to look inward in 808s & Heartbreak's "Pinocchio Story." Looking back on his success to date, he asked, "Was I ever a real boy?" That was powerful. Authentic vulnerability usually is. Fast-forward to today, and he's the king of the hill. He's got all the cultural power and creative abilities, but unfortunately no challengers — certainly none who inhabits that similar space in American culture. What's needed is someone to make West's ideas rise to meet his production abilities.
As West says, "No one man should have all this power." True, indeed. Because, in the end, it's the art that suffers. And for the listener, that makes Dark Fantasy more of a frustrating dream.
Pigeon John
Dragon Slayer (Quannum Projects)
If you don't follow Los Angeles' underground hip-hop scene, you may not be familiar with Pigeon John. You may be more familiar with the Volkswagen commercial with the two guys seat-dancing in the backseat, which featured his song "The Bomb," the lead track from his thoroughly enjoyable new album, Dragon Slayer.
As opposed to the bombast of Kanye West, Pigeon John (born John Kenneth Durkin) takes his love of Hank Williams, the Beach Boys and Run-DMC and comes up with an album in which he plays to his own strengths, not to those genre conventions that are so well-worn by now.
First, he mixes in singing with his raps, which helps make the album feel more cohesively musical than most mainstream hip-hop offerings. Another important quality is that John is a great storyteller, one who's not afraid to poke fun at himself. He has an atypical point of view, as in "So Gangster," where, over a beat that brings to mind a Western, he says he's "got Hawthorne [California, his hometown] backin' me up" and raps about when he's "bangin' some Depeche Mode" in his truck.
It all speaks to a far different orientation than that of someone like Kanye. While Kanye is rockin' stadiums with "the power to make your life so exciting," Pigeon John has more everyday concerns: "I'm not tryna ball in the Lambo/I'm tryna keep my little nephew in some clean clothes," he says in "Buttersoft Seats."
"Davey Rockit" is a poignant tale of paternal rage at a dream deferred, and how it affected and inspired the man's son. And every married man will get a chuckle out of "To Do List." Dude's wife goes out of town and leaves him a list of things to do around the house, but he chooses to hang with his boys. Both hilarity and calamity (when the wife returns) ensue.
Pigeon John's Dragon Slayer, like Shad's TSOL, works because he's taken his experiences and spun them into short stories to which everyone can relate. It's a welcome break from hip-hop's lyrical orthodoxy.
Rob Fields writes about black rock and black alternative music on his blog, Boldaslove.us. Follow him on Twitter.


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I see trees of green, red roses too…
Kenny G & Louis Amstrong - What a wonderful world:
For sure, Wonderful music by wonderful musicians, and yes, it's a wonderful world!
Now that the tune's in our heads, Nate's twisted economic lyrics just seem to flow out smoothly:
I see bills of green, not worth a thing…
Mountains of debt, got to have that Corvette
And I think to myself… What are people gonna' doooo???
I see them blue, their faces white…
The dark side of debt, and all their sleepless nights
And I think to myself… Oh, What's Obama gonna' doooo???
The number of the bailouts… plain thievery in disguise
Are also on their faces… the shock is in their eyes
I see stimulus for me, massive bailouts for you…
The bankers are all sayin… we own you!
I know, "negative Nate" strikes again to throw a bucket of cold water on those who see roses and sunshine, but that's my job right now, to protect my investments and hopefully help protect yours so that your retirement and financial future don't get flushed with all the other fiat paper (as happened en mass in 2008).
Right now a huge number of analysts are bullish beyond belief. They cite a basing pattern, washout internals on October the 10th, "cash on the sidelines," stocks that are seemingly "on sale," never been a better time to buy, don't miss out, on and on.
Most of these people have a vested interest in the market going up; realtors, business owners, your financial advisor, the financial industry as a whole, the media, and even our own government. And besides, it's human nature to be positive. Everyone wants to help, and everyone in the government wants to "fix it," which is one of the fundamental problems. "Stimulus," they all say, "is necessary NOW, we'll worry about the consequences later."
I read and follow many of the world's best economic advisors and market strategists, day in and day out. MOST have been completely wrong about the events of the past year and will be about 2009 as well. Even though an advisor has been in the market place for years, if they don't have the complete picture they will continue to be wrong.
Who has been right? Here are the people who I think have been most correct, there have been many others too, but they have been the most consistent:
Jim Shepherd - jasmts.com
Karl Denninger - Market Ticker
Mike "Mish" Shadlock - globaleconomicanalysis.com
Robert McHugh, Ph.D. technicalindicator.com
Anyone who you choose to call an 'advisor' had better have a good understanding of the forces that underlie the market. They do.
There are three facets to understanding any market, they are the fundamentals, the technicals, and psychological. Forget to consider any one, or misinterpret any one and market disappointment awaits you. Yes, it's great to be optimistic, but the markets do not care one iota about your personal optimism. If you're going to have a retirement that's worth anything, it's time to be realistic, and consider the facts. ANYONE who does not hone in on these three areas, and especially if they do not understand the fundamental situation as I describe below, should be ignored and should not be entrusted to handle your money.
Our monetary system is such that all money enters into being as debt. All that debt (all money) carries interest. Our money system is interest bearing, fractional reserve (leveraged), money by fiat (by decree): Huh? Interest Bearing Fractional Reserve Money by Fiat… Doh!. It requires never ending growth, year after year. But the law of exponents causes all that interest to compound upon itself and grow to giant, unsupportable extremes over time.
The greatest credit bubble in the history of mankind was created through the process of debt securitization. What that means is that all the debts were sliced and diced and turned into derivative products. A derivative is simply a piece of paper that represents some other underlying thing – in this case promises to repay debt.
These derivatives were then leveraged up by financial institutions through the use of other derivatives. Thus the entire system became permeated with derivatives of derivatives – gigantic, scary amounts of them. So many, that there's NO WAY that the people who have promised to pay can. It's as simple as that, don't let anyone try to tell you that it's so complex you couldn't ever understand – that's exactly what they want you to think!
The most egregious example is our own Secretary treasurer, Hank Paulson, who as the CEO of Goldman Sachs threw parties in celebration of his sales team's victories in shoveling off (selling) these debt derivatives all over the world to unsuspecting people, their retirement plans, and their governments. Goldman Sachs, with Paulson at the helm, even turned around and placed bets (derivatives) against the very product they were selling and profited from their demise (have pitchfork?)! Today he preaches about transparency but practices obscuration while asking for your future earnings to bail out his personal holdings and a private central banking industry which should belong to the people in the first place.
Conveniently, our government looked the other way and left the world of derivatives to be completely unregulated, untracked, and unchecked. Collectively, the production of and flow of derivatives around the globe is referred to as the "Shadow Banking System." That process of securitizing debt grew to parabolic and out-of-control proportions (Spend some Time with the Good Dr. Bartlett…).
An important question to ask is who controls and provides the money that gets the politicians elected? (My MONEY 'tis to thee...)
Now that process of securitizing debt is crashing down the backside of the parabolic curve. Since it was not tracked, no one knows for certain how big it is or how much leverage was deployed. It was huge, and the world of derivatives grew to many times the size of global GDP.
The debts permeated all facets – federal, state, and local government debt; corporate debt; and personal debt. All that debt must be serviced by the same 305 million people in America. It all adds up to more than $300,000 per man, woman, and child. This debt is NOT SERVICEABLE, even at half the present level (Death by Numbers).
There are two and only two ways to pay debt back. It can either be paid back (with interest), or it can be defaulted upon. Our government, with the help and pressure of the financial industry, chose to pass their debts onto the taxpayer. They have simply moved from one bag holder to the next, the vast majority was never defaulted upon which is what should have happened to clear the system. Instead, all the bad debt now sits in the government's hands, our hands. It has not gone away, and the math will not work until it does.
Many still fear inflation. Inflation is what happened over the past 25 years. It was one of the longest uninterrupted growth periods in history, and most living adults have not known anything but. That certainly doesn't mean that deflation cannot transpire and that's why it's important to know and understand history. Deflation is occurring now and will for some time, despite "quantitative easing" and cash hauling helicopters – Bernanke's folly.
David A. Rosenberg at Merrill Lynch is an economist who understands history. He just released an article entitled, "Rosenberg - Don't know much about history: the sequel" which can be found in all its glory here: Don't know much about history .
I love his title and instantly got another classic tune in my head…
Sam Cooke – Wonderful World (Don't know much about history):
In Rosenberg's article, he lays out many things that can, and probably will, go wrong. When they do, the vast majority of industry pundits will be wrong – again. It's an article worth reading. One paragraph and chart particularly struck me:
Process of unwinding excess credit is very deflationaryThus, the underlying debt and math must be kept in mind when evaluating anything regarding the markets or our economy.
As Chart 2 illustrates, this household and business debt/income ratio is still 50 percentage points above the long-run pre-bubble norm. So, it is difficult to believe that we can actually embark on a new credit cycle when the level of outstanding private sector debt remains $6 trillion beyond the bounds of what the economy has traditionally been capable of handling.
I have written many articles about the technicals, here are two that can help you catch up if you missed them:
Half Way to Zero
Voyage to the Bottom of the 'C'...
The 'C' I am referring to in the Voyage to the Bottom of the 'C', represents in Elliott Wave terms the third and final leg of an A-B-C correction which is correcting an up cycle which began before America was even born. That puts this correction on a higher order than the Great Depression, a "Grand Supercycle Degree" corrective wave.
According to Dr. McHugh, these Grand Supercycle waves are of the highest order and they are "nation changing."
The 'B' I am referring to in the title of this article is the middle wave of the A-B-C. Wave 'B' is the eye of the storm and its motion is up/sideways.
Now, to be honest, Elliott Wave does NOT forecast or predict the future. What it does is eliminate possibilities leaving narrower choices of possible outcomes. One of the outcomes that was eliminated was that this correction is merely on a supercycle degree, that's because the S&P 500 broke the 2002 lows. Once this occurred, it cannot be ignored or wished away. It happened.
There are several possibilities left from an Elliott Wave position, but most practitioners currently see three realistic possibilities:
If I am correct, this is where we are in the scheme of the bear market:
1. The peak in the year 2000 was THE peak and the move to the 2002 low was wave A. The bounce to the October, 2007 peak was wave B. And now we are in wave C down. This is my LEAST likely scenario because the peaks in several of the indices were higher in 2007 than in the year 2000 and that is not in accordance with the rules of construction. Let's suppose that those indices do not count… if that is the case, then we are currently in wave 4 and we have a 5th and final wave down to go that should break beneath the lows of this past November.
2. Wave A began in October of 2007 and we are in wave 4 of A. That leaves us with wave 5 down, same as above. Plus, it leaves us with wave B and all of wave C still to go. This would be the most bearish scenario and it is prescribed to by a number of people.
3. We completed wave A in November, and are progressing through wave B, which will be followed by wave C down beginning sometime early this year. This is what I've been subscribing to and writing about although I'm still open to the other possibilities. In the medium term, it doesn't matter as the next major move is DOWN under all three scenarios. Those who do not understand or prescribe to Elliott Wave are missing this vital piece of the technical picture.
Most likely we are either in wave 4 down of wave A (which is either done or about done), or we are about to begin resume wave 'c' up of wave B (labeled red (b) on the chart above).
In Dr. McHugh's latest update he said, "…The third phase will be a plunge characterized by a response to declining corporate and personal income, plunging dividends, spreading unemployment, and perhaps fearful geopolitical events, Supercycle degree wave (C) down, which could start in 2009 and last a year or longer."
He goes on to say that, "The Great Depression was of Supercycle degree, one lesser than the current Bear Market, which is of Grand Supercycle degree."
This is a chart of the DOW from 1928 to 1932. Note how the A-B-C unfolded. The decline from 380 to 40 represented a 90% loss of market value. And according to Dr. McHugh this is on a higher level! I will note, however, that doesn't mean that it will necessarily lose more of its value; that would be hard to do.
Here's how the current decline compares to past bear markets in a chart that D.S. Short (dshort.com) does called the four bad bears. I note that there are two other bears not shown here that are very comparable to the 1929 collapse and that's the Japanese Nikkei index from 1990 to today and our own NASDAQ from 2000 to 2003:
There is a lot more evidence that says this decline is not done but will not be covered in the scope of this article. Suffice it to say that I have several long term indicators that can and will signal when the next bull market has begun and they have not been triggered. I place the highest odds of us being in wave B up/sideways and then wave C down should probably last until at least the first half of 2010. And that's just in equities… real estate will take longer before it begins to gain in value again.
Obviously there is still much fear. We can see it on television and we can see it in the economic data that shows the consumer is withdrawing. Remember what all the experts said a year ago? That it was all "contained to sub-prime," and that it would not spill over into the "real" economy? Are people still believing that? No? Do they believe the current mantra that we'll be turning the corner in the second half of this year? No? Why not, could it be that they were saying the same thing last year and it didn't come true? Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice…
So we see a fundamental shift in the psychology, and I believe we're about to experience another similar shift. People are about to realize that the underlying situation is far more troubling than they could imagine. Unemployment is ramping and corporate earnings are suffering. The shifts in market psychology produce similar responses as going through a dramatic loss, like a death in the family. Here's what people feel like as they receive their retirement statements quarter after quarter:
The Five Stages of Stock Market Realization (or death) – as explained by a giraffe!
Ha, that giraffe kills me! But all this psychobabble so far is just subjective. We have many objective measurements of sentiment we can use like the put/call ratio, the trin, the VIX, VXO, and others.
To keep this short, I'm just going to say that objective fear levels are elevated but way down from their peak which is expected for wave 4 or wave B sideways market movement. If you would like to delve into detail, I wrote a report about the VIX on New Year's Eve and it is still mostly valid and has been behaving so far as I predicted here: VIX Analysis.
Oh, I could go on and on, as if this wasn't enough! I still want to talk about the bond market, P/E ratios (still way overvalued), our currency, what I see as a way forward, etc. And I will, but you'll have to come back to see those another time. The purpose of this article is simply to let you know where I think we are. Yes, it's a wonderful world, but our economic mess and stock market decline are NOT over, we're likely still in wave B.
Louis Armstrong, What a Wonderful World – Original and Amazing


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ArchiType Font Family $50 | 12 x TTF and OTF
With the famous and much used Eurostile and Bank Gothic in my mind I wanted to design a mono-line font as simple and legible as possible. A square with rounded corners, i.e., the letter 'o' as its basis. From there on back to basics, so straights remained simple straights with 90° endings, whatever the angle. Numbers are monospaced.
The result seems to be a pleasantly balanced and neutral font. Excellent for display purposes and surprisingly legible in even small sizes.
This perhaps typical approach by an architect led to the name of the font: ArchiType.


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NEWBIESPLAYGROUND Unreal Contest 2020 [08-04-2020]
Merry Christmas [25-12-2018]Community, friends, mates, let me thank you for another year of being together here. It's been a very long time we are playing and supporting this game together. Who would have thought that back then ;)
Tournament (TEAM COOP --> 4 players) for celebrating the 20th anniversary Unreal Gold [20-05-2018]Yeah, 20 years!
YET ANOTHER MASSIVE EVENT SCHEDULED FOR THE MASSES [04-01-2018]The new year is young, but we already have another great event!
6th Anniversary Confederate Server Local Event -> Sigma Confederation [16-12-2017]Yes, Unreal is not dead already!!!
NEWBIESPLAYGROUND Unreal Contest 2017 [16-07-2017]Almost becoming a tradition already, I want to thank the DOG clan for their efforts keeping the fun in our game!
"Frags for OldSparky" - 2nd memorial day: 25th of june 2016 [16-06-2016]The DOG Clan announces this upcoming event:
Unrealty is back! [14-06-2017]Do you remember Unrealty? Really great and impressive things like the "Virtual International Space Station" and "Virtual Reality Notre Dame" ?
Merry Christmas [25-12-2016]Again it's time for some peaceful days, it's the time of giving with your heart, not the time for commercials.
NEWBIESPLAYGROUND Unreal Contest 2016 [15-08-2016]
"Frags for OldSparky" - 2nd memorial day: 25th of june 2016 [16-06-2016]The DOG Clan announces this upcoming event:
Olympic Games of Unreal [07-03-2016]I got news about a new kind of tournament for Unreal. It sounds like a lot of fun, so I hope participation will be great. Forgive me that I am late announcing it, things don't go that well right now here. The sign up time for the first discipline is already over, but I was told that it is still possible to join for the other events. There is a also a forum topic about it in which you can ask questions: http://www.oldunreal.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1455928809
Merry Christmas [25-12-2015]
Massive DeathMatch event on "Redrum Experiments" on Saturday, August 8th at 3pm to 1145 pm Eastern usa time! [02-08-2015]The popular server REDRUM announced a DM event in order to proove that Unreal and Unreal DeathMatch is still alive and kicking.
Oldunreal Forums upgrade [12-07-2015]In the last week the forums have been updated to YaBB 2.6.11.
NEWBIESPLAYGROUND.COM - COOP CONTEST 2015 [12-07-2015]Yet again the DOG clan is inviting to a contest. People who played it already 2 years ago know this means a lot of fun and a nice challenge.
Newbiesplayground DM/KOTH Event [21-06-2015]I got news from Newbiesplayground and I hope there will be many players to honor the memory of our old friend and community member:
Merry Christmas! [25-12-2014]Another year is almost past, now it's time again to think about all what happened. Time to give, time to forgive. Don't forget you only have one life. Think about the happy days in this year, enjoy the following days with your friends and family.
New forum section "Other UEngine Games" added [11-11-2014]A new forum section has been added on the forum for other UEngine based games.
OldSparky's Party: Sep. 5th - DeathMatch / KingOfTheHill [31-08-2014]-(DOG)- clan invitation.
Goodbye OldSparky! [26-06-2014]I got this very sad news from Newbies Playground in the morning, about a great loss in our small community:
Firetrucks 1.2 released [21-06-2014]Got some news from ebd this morning that a new version of his exciting Firetrucks mod has been released.
MasterServer news update [17-06-2014]A while ago, GameSpy announced to stop the GameSpy Master Server services on the 31st of May this year. So far the service is still operational, but no one knows for how long this will last. This means that one of the biggest and well known Master Servers will no longer be available to provide the list of unreal-servers in the Unreal server browser.
MasterServer news [22-04-2014]Since GameSpy will be shutting down their masterservers as of May 31st, we must now rely on community masterservers. Masterservers are needed to provide the list of servers in the Unreal server browser.
Happy new Year [01-01-2014]A new year is like a blank book. The pen is in your hands. It is your chance to write a beautiful story for yourself.
Merry Christmas to all of you [25-12-2013]Again its Christmas time and as every year I would like to wish you all a merry Christmas!
Amazing single player maps released![22-11-2013]Got the following news the other day, and most files are already mirrored here as well, enjoy!
New Masterservers Online[01-11-2013]There are fantastic news regarding the future support for Unreal. Due to the efforts of HDD21 and the DOG Clan we have now 2 additional masterservers!
Unreal Nightmare[25-09-2013]I became recently aware about that Unreal Nightmare got an update this year. Unfortunately I missed it so far, so forgive me that the news about is rather late, but if anyone ever has something to report about, please mail me, I simply can't keep track about everything myself.
New site online [22-09-2013]As you can see, we have updated the page. Not only the layout has been changed and improved, also a lot of content rework has been done and many downloads have been added.
Forum bug [26-13-2013]Some Forum bug caused an invalid password to be sent after registration. This bug is fixed now.
Merry Christmas to all of you [25-12-2012]Our game is getting older, as we are. But still we are having lots of fun with our game :)
227i Release [11-11-2012]It's been a long time since 227h was released and it is more than about time to release 227i now. As always it took way longer than expected, but our team of scripters and coders became very small. Also the number of testers and reports is not as big as it used to be. So forgive me if we missed something.
Happy new year! [01-01-2012]I wish you all a happy and healthy year 2012 and want to show you that the Unreal community is far from being dead:
UnrealSecrets [31-12-2011]Final version of the Unreal Secret Area Guide Released by Rob_KC A.K.A SnakeBite!
Merry Christmas to all of you [25-12-2011]Again its Christmas time and as every year I would like to wish you all a merry Christmas!
Unreal 227h patch release [02-06-2011]It took longer than intended, but work kept me busy and some bugs have been more tricky than expected.
UnrealSP.Org 10th Anniversary Speedmapping Contest commencing soon [14-04-2011]Our sister site
Unreal 227g patch release bug devil [06-04-2011]Seems the bug devil came into 227g despite all efforts to squash the bugs. There are a few, not even hard to fix, but annoying bugs in 227g which force me to update to 227h soon.
Unreal 227g patch release [05-04-2011]The patch is up and can be downloaded in the
Merry Christmas to all of you [25-12-2010]Whether you celebrate this holiday or not, I would like to wish you all a merry Christmas!
Server maintenance / Forums down[06-12-2010]The forums are up again since this night, but some permissions had to been corrected yet. They are working now entirely again. If you are still experiencing problems try
Server maintenance / Forums down[05-12-2010]It seems we have some Forum downtime due to the ongoing Server maintenance. Don't worry, it will be up again soon.
UnrealED Dungeon Maker has been released![29-10-2010]With it you can create complete dungeons without any mapping experience and play them inside Unreal.
Forum Maintenance[06-08-2010]The forum update took longer than expected because by some "funny" coincidence the server broke down at the same time. But my hosting service fixed this pretty fast, so most things are done by now.
Forum Maintenance[05-08-2010]Due to some maintenance the forum will be offline a while today.
Unreal single player project "Forgotten" updated [21-06-2010]Forgotten has been updated to version 1.2
Unreal single player project "Forgotten" released [26-01-2010]Forgotten is a Map pack created by Andrew "Sinistral" Allison for Unreal 227.
Merry Christmas to all of you [25-12-2009]Give and forgive, don't forget this.
A new mod called StargateUnreal ( SGU ) is coming soon! [30-06-2009]It has many features and a awesome storyline. It also has RPG style players, Awesome inventory like a Radar, Camera's, Awesome guns, Online savegame meaning you can do whatever you want, and it will stay regardless of traveling or a servercrash.
Oldunreal 227f patch release [15-05-2009]This release is a release canditate!
Nephthys 1.4 release [08-02-2009]Zora has released version 1.4 of the native server protection mod. Comes also with client features and support for Rune, so go grab it in our downloads section. A complete list of features and changes can be found in the manual.
Happy new Year [31-12-2008 - 01.01.2009]Oldunreal wishes everyone out there a happy new year and may your dreams come true.
Merry Christmas [24-12-2008]It's christmas again and I wish you all out there a happy one. Stay with your family and your friends, its the most valuable thing out there. Its not about getting something, give and forgive, thats the idea of it.
Grand wiki opening [23-10-2008]After running the wiki pretty silently for a while now, I decided to announce it officially. At the moment it contains information about Unreal, UnrealTournament, and Unreal II.
Masterservers for Unreal [20-09-2008]For a few days now the regular Unreal MasterServers are gone. So at the moment there are only a very few or no servers at all are in the browserlist.
Unreal 227e released [23-07-2008]Some Server additions, some new features and again many improvements are in this
Unreal 227d released [07-04-2008]This new version contains aside some other fixes especially a fix for a recently discovered server bug. But some client improvements are included too. Enjoy! :)
Unreal 227c released [01-04-2008]Again lot of fixes have been applied for clients and some more stability tests and fixes for servers.
Unreal 227b testrelease is out!! [10-02-2008]I'm just uploading the next testrelease of 227. 227b contains many fixes for reported bugs and should be more stable now especially for servers. Still it needs testing, and it hopefully it turns that stable that a final version can be made soon. So happy testing, and please report in the forums.
Unreal 227a testrelease is out and Merry Christmas and a happy new year !! [26-12-2007]Again one year is past now, and finaly I was able to make the first testrelease for 227. It can be found in the download section, Oldunreal-Patches. Details and installation instructions are in the forums. This is a testrelease, to find remaining bugs and problems, so please report any problems in the forums.
www.unrealtexture.com [14-12-2007]Out of the Unreal-Retexturing project a new site was born.
Oldunreal is still alive ;) [01-05-2007]Oldunreal is still active, it's community and many news can be always found in our forums. As for 227, made a big step today, and soon a first beta can be really now expected. Don't want to be to specific yet about some very unexpected features I managed to realize, but I'm sure many people will like it.
Support and Netfix for Unreal Anthology [30-11-2006]Some (Old)Unreal community members made a fix to make the Unreal Anthology Boxset version of Unreal netcompatible again. Also installers for the OldunrealMultimediaPatches (OMP) were added. You can find them in the download section.
Nephthys 1.3 public [01-10-2006]Zora and Winged Unicorn made their latest Nephthys 1.3 public. It is available for download in our download/security section.
Full online again & mirror added. [08-03-2006]Oldunreal is fully operational again and we have a US mirror now. Other mirrors are in work, but the first mirror is complete.
Parts are back Online [08-02-2006]I made it to gather a little bit more traffic, to bring back at least the most important parts of the page. But the bigger downloads- including maps and such will have stay offline until the end of the month, sorry that i can't do more.
Offline [07-02-2006]Due some idiot(s) mass downloading an unreal video, even after i renamed it,i ran out of traffic for Oldunreal. Looks like sabotage.Will be down for this month, maybe longer until i can pay it again. I'm really sorry, but can't afford to put more money into here. This is the second time i have to take down the page since i created it, and it hurts me very much. But every MB costs me now additional money, which i don't have. Even the donations made so far wouldnt be enough to catch it otherwise. Truely it seems, that it doesn't matter how bad a situation is, it always can become worse.
Oldunreal Mainpage Update [20-01-2006]I reworked the page completely, hope i found all problems, dead links - if not, drop me a mail. Be sure to have the latest Browser installed, page tested and seems to work fine with IE6, Opera, Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox. Firefox needs to be version 1.5 however, 1.07 seems to have a minor problem with css.
Unreal Upgrade Project [12-01-2006]The first beta release of the Unreal Upgrade project which was created by {KDS}Bozo has been released. It currently replaces the Automag, Minigun and Rifle with upgraded features. It can be downloaded by clicking the link below.
You can post questions, comments and report bugs at the Unreal Upgrade forum located here.==========================
Merry Christmas ! [24-12-2005]Although I know that not everyone out there is Christian, I still like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy, successful good year (it's the idea that counts, isn't it ?)
I hoped to provide Unreal 227 already, but its not going that fast. A pretty good part is made, but a lot of minor bugs and improvements, cheat protections and such still need to be applied. We are working on it.
Unreal-Server Protection update [06-09-2005]
Oldunreal starts working on Unreal 227 [26-08-2005]
Oldunreal Multimediapatches update V0.2 [15-06-2005]
Oldunreal is proud to present a next generation patch for Unreal and UnrealTournament. [30-05-2005]
Crystal Castles Version 1.1 released [30-03-2005]
Jurrassic Dinosaurs Monsterpack [30-03-2005]
Oldunreal needs help [24-02-2005]
MonsterSpawn 2.02 - Unreal and UT [06-01-2005]MonsterSpawn is a Mutator designed to add just about any type of Monster to just about any type of Unreal 1 or Unreal Tournament type game.


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Housing starts jump in December
- Housing starts in December were highest since summer 2008
- The annual rate was 954%2C000%2C up 12.1%25 from November
- For the year%2C builders started work on 780%2C000 homes%2C up 28%25 from 2011
Builders started work on homes in December at the fastest pace since the summer of 2008 and finished 2012 as the best year for residential construction since the housing crisis began.
The Commerce Department said Thursday that builders broke ground on houses and apartments at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 954,000. That's 12.1% higher than November's annual rate and nearly double the recession low of April 2009.
"Construction joined the housing recovery in 2012," as builders bet on markets with strong job growth and low vacancy rates, says Jed Kolko, economist with real estate website Trulia.
The rebound has not created a lot of construction jobs, however. Despite the increase in starts, residential construction employment was down 1.2% in December from a year earlier, Kolko says.
Construction activity was strongest in Raleigh, N.C., Austin and Houston, he says.
Steady growth in home construction is the latest sign of a housing recovery that is gaining strength.
>For the year, builders started work on 780,000 homes. That's still only half of the number consistent in healthier markets. But it is an increase of 28.1% from the 608,800 homes started in 2011. And it is the most since 2008 — shortly after the housing market collapsed in late 2006 and 2007.
In December, the pace of single-family home construction, which makes up two-thirds of the market, jumped roughly 8%. Apartment construction, which is more volatile, surged 23%.
Applications for building permits, a sign of future construction, inched up to a 4 ½ year high.
Single-family home starts have been improving for the same reasons that the existing home market is doing better. Job growth is lowering unemployment, fueling more housing demand as more people can afford to form households.
Improving sales and fewer foreclosures have thinned once-bloated supplies of homes for sale. That too is driving demand for construction.
Based on November's selling pace, the nation's supply of existing homes for sale was at 4.8 months, down 23% from a year ago, says the National Association of Realtors.
In 19 markets tracked by online brokerage Redfin, new listings of homes for sale were down 29% in the first two weeks in January from the same period last year. That could set the stage for even tighter home inventories this spring unless more sellers come to market, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman says.
Rising home prices have also convinced buyers that the housing market has hit bottom. CoreLogic says home prices were up 7.4% in November over the same month last year.
The National Association of Home Builders has predicted that single family home starts will rise 35% this year over last.
Yet even that big of a jump — if it comes to pass — would leave the industry a good distance from what's considered normally healthy levels. Single family home starts in 2011 were the lowest in more than a half century.
Home builders see cause for concern. Home builder confidence in the market for new single family homes was unchanged in January after eight consecutive monthly gains, the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index showed Wednesday.
While builder confidence in January held at its highest level in more than six years, uncertainties stemming from last month's fiscal cliff negotiations "contributed to the pause in builder confidence," said Barry Rutenberg, NAHB chairman.
Tight mortgage credit conditions and the "ongoing stalemate in Washington over critical economic concerns continue to impede the housing recovery," added NAHB chief economist David Crowe.
Contributing: Associated Press