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May Soybeans
After the close recap on 5/3/12: My pivot acted as resistance and was 14.80 1/2, .02 1/4 (.01 1/2 in open outcry), my support was 14.61 which was the exact actual low.
May Soybeans
15.09 2012 High
--------------14.80 ½ Pivot
14.40 Uptrend Line Support
14.33 ¾
5 day chart... Up from last week same day
Daily chart .... Up
Weekly chart ... Up
Monthly chart Up 12.97 ½ is the 200 DMA
ATR 26 ½ Balanced 69%
I still say "Top channel line is resistance, uptrend line supports". This July chart looks like the May contract. I always get my numbers from the "spot month" because that contract has the most real players especially in the delivery period. It has always been the most accurate for me.
During the day, I can use the basis between May and July and just add (or subtract) from the May numbers to get the July numbers.
In my daily soybean numbers on Wednesday; my resistance was .00 ¾ from the actual high, my support was .02 ¼ from the actual low.
Grains: Spot on grain numbers. I will say you had plenty of time to sell the pivots. Soybeans sold off from its pivot, but eventually rallied to the first resistance and failed there. It was easy to sell against the resistance number. My concern with the lofty market prices was sustainability, but corn prices unable to hurdle the resistance levels for quite some time are an easier sell to me.
July soybeans went to the top channel line (resistance) and sold off from there. $14.50 is where the uptrend line is and should support for now. July soybeans did make a new high for the run (May did not) and closed lower which bodes well for another down day to follow on Thursday. November soybeans closed about $.05 above its uptrend line support.
May/July corn spread closed at $.30 ¾ which is almost double the record carry seen in March. Stay away from that spread. Many will read the meaning of that as fewer stocks than the USDA is telling us, but in reality it looks like a simple short squeeze. Longs have the money to take delivery of whatever can be delivered, but the shorts do not have it and cannot deliver, thus having to pay whatever the bulls are asking.
December corn closed $.08 from the low of the year made in April, and the downtrend line comes in just above the high this week continuing to contain any rally. The big question is if we can once again hold these levels, or if buying more protection is the thing to do. I think all of my producers have crop insurance, so each producer has to factor that in their hedges. I have been urging lately to make sure you have protection down to $5. Let's take a look at some things that could be done to reflect your mindset.
Another thing to think about is with your crop protection, you could leave some of the upside here, and just buy something like the $5.10/$4.60 put spread which settled at $.18 5/8. Then selling that call spread above does not stop you from having the upside at $5.10 to the $5.40 put, where your protection ends. $.18 5/8 minus $.07 1/8 from the call spread sold, costs $.12 ½ including commissions. That gives you $.50 protection cheaply. If we rally you could then fill in the missing put protection from $5.10 to $5.40.
Pick your strikes, have the upside you want, protect the downside, and use the strikes and strategy that reflects YOUR decision. Since we had some kind of a break, I would trade the numbers without bias and risk $.04 in corn and $.06 in soybeans using a stop to protect any idea.
Grains: Almost exact grain numbers. First thing I see is that May soybeans gapped lower on Monday night, with my pivot being right on the high and able to take the sell signal using a buy stop to protect. Early in the morning the market went to my support and a place to take profits at my first support at $14.87 making $.13 (or whatever you would have). Bulls could have bought there. In open outcry the market rallied from near there to the pivot once again and was unable to get through there. Again, it was another chance to sell the gap resistance strongly, with maybe 5 or 10 contracts. Market then went down to my first support once again providing profit taking and another chance for the bulls and a bear like me to buy a contract or 2 knowing the next support was not far underneath. 45 minutes before the close in open outcry the market rallied back to the pivot resistance within a $.01 once again providing another profit taking and place to get short a few contracts. By the close the market went down $.10 providing more income.
Not every day trades like this, I would think at least 3 times a month, but 1 day like this makes my month. It does not matter if the market is one like when corn is at $3 and the average range is $.07, the market rotates like this many days out of the week, or month. Nothing fundamentally changed in that time period or 3:45 hours of open outcry except the price, and the price is what we make money on, never the fundamentals.
So we gapped lower once again tonight (2nd day in a row), we are near $15, and you should already know what I want to do and what I would say. You are correct; I want to sell against the gap using a stop just above it. If I was still bullish I would sell only 1 contract, or none at all, and that is my way of being long having no position at all. I would never cheerlead it through 2 gaps at $15. Can it break through and go to $16? Sure, but I would not bet on it, the odds do not favor for me to think that the market can get above $15.09. I said this at $12, $13, $14, but looking back you will see many sell signals for day trades that worked more times than not. Risking less than willing to make adds to my "casino odds" and warrants continuing the bet every time. Selling at $15 is not like selling at $12, it gets easier for me. The key is to use stops, and allocate funds that are no different than any other day or price. I take my bias and chart location, and allocate funds on my ideas. The pendulum could keep swinging higher for another month or two, but good weather and in time, the pendulum will make just as big swing the other way.
This has been one of the most historic soybean rallies that I have ever seen. I took out bites and chucks of every $1 it rallied, and my service keeps raising their protection to where they have captured at least 65% of every $1 and they did not need to be a bull or bear to have done so. Everyone has such good hedge locations, that only a few contracts have been morphed in the last 7 trading days. This is the closest I get to a vacation.
May corn made a new high for the run and closed lower which bodes well for another down day to follow on Wednesday. Not only was it $.00 ¼ from my first resistance which was the April high, and knowing this could be the high for May too, I would have sold corn with BOTH hands. It was late in the day, but 25 minutes later it went down $.09 ½ which was enough to make more than the $.04 that was risked. I would have covered most of them for a $.06 profit, the rest for more on the close. Little gap lower tonight makes me want to sell the market again, and not only for a day trade but for a longer term trade idea. I would use a $6.67 ¼ buy stop for that. Using a known risk strategy I would be looking for a retest of $6. This equates for producers to roll up old and new crop puts as high as possible if any are left to be done.
I want to take the sell signals only and risk $.04 in corn and $.06 in soybeans using a stop to protect any idea.
Grains: Spot on grain numbers. $15 soybeans and the market seem to be not at all jittery about it, but I am. Bull chart is not in question, bulls remain in control above $14, and there is no reason to not go higher. But I know well that sustainability above $14 let alone $15 has never been accomplished. I know there is a first time for everything, but the odds are in my favor that they will not. Playing the short side is the only known risk strategy I can do at these levels. The allocated funds are a known risk, and the times that it will lose on the idea, will be much less than the reward. I want to roll up any November put spread, and would consider converting the old crop option strategy to a futures contract and calling it quits if they rally, and consider putting on the option strategy once again near $14. I had some who did roll from a future to an option strategy so they can go after more money by selling calls for more than they paid for the put spreads, and getting a chance for at least $.30 more upside above the put spreads bought and the calls that were sold. I always tell you that you are in control, it is your money, and now you have the strategy that will best be able to reflect your thoughts.
Crop progress reported corn planting at 53% which was more than even what I expected. IL planted 79% and IN 70% is amazing and I thought maybe 50% was possible. IA went from 9% last week to 50% complete this week, an amazing feat. I know my producers out there put in 140+ acres a day between rainfalls. All my producers are that efficient, go back 20 or 30 years ago and this was not thought possible even by 2012. Soybeans progress was 12% planted and that was on time.
Corn is probably looking at the price of soybeans and think there must be some upside left for them, or the trade is trading off of old crop demand rather than the big crop I see coming on near ideal conditions. If that is the case, I am glad they are looking at the "OZ" of the here and now, rather than the "man behind the screen" which will eventually expose a tremendous crop as long as the favorable weather continues. If they were focused on what's coming in the future (which is what producers must do for their new crop), they would have a plan to $5 in the near term, and $4.50 to $4 by harvest. They would much rather see corn go to $6.30 (or higher so they can get more upside and lock in some of the gain by morphing). All my producers have the upside already open for further gain in their old crop corn hedges, and all have that in the December, but more concerned with protecting the downside. This is also a way of participating on the short term strength in the old crop, and holding off from buying more new crop protection. But time is running out with good weather, and I give us until the end of May before $5 or lower will be tested.
It is too early for me to roll out of the June corn calls; I need to wait until more premium is taken out. Only if you are bullish above your short calls should you roll on this rally.
Soybeans are difficult and risky, so I trade less in markets like that, and concentrate on markets with more known chart parameters. Day trading is always on the table for me, and I can have a bias but trade on both sides of the market more than once if the market gets to my numbers.
I would continue to trade without bias and risk $.04 in corn and $.06 in soybeans using a stop to protect any idea.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
On to kid #2
Now that the virus has been through Caleb (and is still trying to get out), Maddie is hit with the nasty cold. This is so not fun. They are constantly coughing, runny noses, WHINEY>>>CLINGY>>>and just plain miserable. Caleb is still throwing up from coughing spells. I wish sometimes we could take a time-out from parenting. OH, the joys of parenting in times of turmoil. This is a true test of our sanity. Lord, can I be done now? I want my healthy kids back. I would love to be able to get my sleep back, too...oh yeah, and one more request...have you seen my husband? We don't remember each other too well anymore...he is sleeping with Caleb. :)
4 comments:
- Dont make me get out my flying Monkeys! said...
We just got over that YUCK!
Very nice Wordless Wednesday! I am a non procrastinator, so my Wednesday and Thursday are up! Feel free to comment on both!
- January 2, 2008 at 12:32 PM
- PinksandBluesGirls said...
Poor kids! Audrey's two youngest have bad colds right now that they got from their brother! So sad when they just have no clue why they're so miserable.
Happy New Year!
Jane, Pinks & Blues
- January 2, 2008 at 2:04 PM
- Bobbie said...
I can sympathize. I'm battling a bad head cold right now -- and then this morning my hubby woke up and said, "I'm getting a scratchy throat." Uh oh...
- January 2, 2008 at 3:33 PM
- MommyKnows said...
Hope the kids feel better soon! I know how you feel ... we we're virus central right through the holidays. Now we're just plain 'ole tired!
- January 2, 2008 at 4:46 PM
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Its definitely not the first time this has happened. I found myself in exactly the same spot a few weeks ago when social media plunged into an ugly turf war over Raya Sarkar's list. The very impulse to respond or engage was preceded by this intense introspection- of my own position in the debate/discourse. Its like the question "What do I think about this?" is blocked by a much more pressing question:
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Before Coffee Mistakes, Part 1
Happy July everyone! June certainly flew by didn't it? Have you started vacationing yet? I had a short family vacation last month (up in Illinois and Tennessee – a first for me, I had never been to Tennessee before), but I think I'm about done for the summer.
After the long drive back home to Florida, I was in the shower and trying to remember everything that needed to get done around the house. Once my brain starts on this path (and it usually does right before I go to bed), it's difficult to turn off, but it got me thinking about all the funny "mistakes" I've made before having coffee in the morning.
Thus, for our funny theme for the month of July, I thought we could discuss the mistakes we all make (I hope I'm not alone here) before we've had our shot of morning caffeine. I hope you enjoy!
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This is a big one and the first that comes to mind. I suppose this should have been obvious, but since I work from home now, I've had to remind myself of this a few times. When I was working outside the house, it was my usual routine to have a cup or two of coffee before I went to work, thus enabling my patience factor when I'm slammed with numerous emails and phone calls when I walked in the door. Makes sense, right?
Well, now that I can stumble into my office wearing my PJs in the morning, it was funny how I had to remind myself of this. Thankfully, I was on the phone with my mother at the time this became an issue and not a client or agent, (and thank you mom for your patience with me), otherwise that might have been awkward.
Mom on the phone: What's your plan today, sweetie?
Me: Grumble grumble,…blah, grumble
It was almost like a scene from one of those Snicker commercials, except in this one the guy would hand Ms. Monroe a cup of coffee instead of chocolate. In extreme cases, it is my recommendation when facing a monster like me in the morning, combine chocolate and coffee – can't hurt.
So now we know, and realizing that before I've had my coffee in the morning is not the best time to discuss anything other than finding the creamer or telling me you love me. *giggles*
How about you? Are you a coffee or tea drinker who needs their fix before being required to adult?
4 Responses to Before Coffee Mistakes, Part 1
It's really bad at work until I get my second cup. A patient (who comes frequently for inpatient chemo) asked the off going nurse what was wrong with me that morning as I was apparently only grumbling. (I am usually the crazy bouncing off the walls nurse!) She told the patient, "she hasn't had her second cup of coffee." Since that day, when the patient returns, the patient always asks me if I got my second cup. (Teasing of course!)
Coffee is one of my very best friends. Unfortunately, I've had to switch to half-caff because regular makes me a bit high strung. My kids are ever so glad I switched. ?


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In Your Dreams...
Take a few minutes to soak your senses in some spectacular golf course developments and renovations. It is eye candy....Pay particular attention to the 12 minute mark...breathtaking! If only we could have been acquired by someone with vision....
A Question of Leadership
In a recent interview with the Times-Advocate newspaper, Mayor Abed said he always viewed the Country Club issue as a fairness issue. "I believe in the democratic process. This (the decision to approve "The Villages" 382 home development) is behind us...The good news is we are moving forward to end that bad situation."
End what 'bad situation'? The one the residents found themselves in when they were told the golf club would permanently close and a high density housing tract would take its place? The one that has destroyed our property values? Or the one where the new property owner sued the City for one hundred million dollars? Which 'bad situation' are you referring too? Because for most of us who live in the area, we are nowhere near ending this horrible situation.
Clearly there are multiple 'bad situations' that would qualify as turning points during the 'Perfect Storm' leading to the demise of the Escondido Country Club golf course and the subsequent devolution of the entire retirement community.
Right now the community is in shambles. Everything that has happened has happened during the Mayor's tenure. The abandoned clubhouse is a pile of ashes, and the whole neighborhood looks like a war zone. Trees are falling down from lack of water, coyotes roam freely, and the rent-a-fence is lying on its side in many places. As property values plunged, investors have rushed in, turning many homes into rentals, attracting more transient and less invested neighbors.
If you drive around any neighborhood in North County, you will see tons of remodeling activity. Not here, because who would invest in a community in so much turmoil?
We have gone from being one of the city's most attractive neighborhoods to one of the least in just five years. Under Mayor Abed there have been a lot of 'bad situations' for the Country Club community. The Mayor says he has provided good leadership, but the truth is he was outmaneuvered by special interests.
Now the Mayor wants us to recognize his leadership by reelecting him.
Mayor Abed says he thinks the issue is one of 'fairness'. Is it fair that a judge has imposed a new building code on our neighborhood? Is it fair that we have had to look at an apocalyptic scene of environmental decay for the past four years? To have lost thousands and thousands of dollars in home equity just because one man has aspirations to make millions by flipping distressed property in our community? Is it fair the our City Council approved the latest plan that is nearly identical to one city-wide voters overwhelmingly rejected in 2014?
When the Beverly Hills property owner put an initiative on the ballot to give himself legal permission to build over 400 homes, the Mayor said he would let the people decide. They did, voting 2 to 1 against Proposition H. Since then, when the legal tide began to turn against the community interests, the Mayor has consistently said he would protect us from exploitation and overcrowding. He said let the system work, and trust us to find an equitable solution. So we did. A four year term later and the Council approved plan is Proposition H with lipstick.
That leaves the community only one alternative: The community defense organization (ECCHO) says the council's actions have violated the Escondido General Plan that clearly calls for a public vote to approve any increase in residential density. So ECCHO has filed yet another suit, which will effectively stop any further progress until their case is heard by a judge.
Mayor Abed called that move 'unfortunate'. Unfortunate for who? For the property owner? For the builder? For the people who have been struggling with this injustice for the past five years? It seems the Mayor has forgotten the promises he made because at this point, the only one whose interests have been protected is the property flipper.
The fundamental question remains unanswered: Why do we have to destroy the existing community identity in order to construct a few new homes? The community has said, they would accept redevelopment, but any project should put an emphasis on open space, and should replace the golf course with some combination of amenities that retains and enhances the appeal of the existing "Country Club" style neighborhood.
"The Villages" is just a more highly refined rendition of "The Lakes" (Proposition H). It has a few dozen less houses, but otherwise, it is still basically a sea of rooftops, and the marketing plan completely ignores the retirement concept of the surrounding long settled community.
The three council members who voted for "The Villages" project do not answer to the district, and though the Mayor and our District 2 representative vehemently disagreed and voted against approval, the planning process failed to stop the owner's desire to pack the fairways with high density housing.
That means the Council's approval is essentially redevelopment without representation. The destruction of the once prominent Country Club Community was treated like a headache. Just pass the Tylenol, and let's move on.
Mayor Abed's interview indicates he has turned the page and is "moving forward". Politicians bank on people 'moving on', but it won't be easy to forget the absence of leadership that allowed this 'Perfect Storm' to wreck so much havoc on what was once a very respected and attractive retirement community.
A Dark Shadow Lingers
We all have stories of incidents where we have been bullied. Whether it was as a child in school, or in family or personality clashes, or even in the workplace. People who have an advantage over other people are too often seduced into believing they can get away with even greater exploitation and control. We have seen an ugly example of that recently with Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein and many others.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is more than just a Lord Acton quotation, it holds a lot of truth.
The question we must ask ourselves is, at what point do we stand up to it? If we let bullying go on, are we not complicit? When bullying occurs on the playground or in the workplace, we advise kids or employees to turn to authorities, to use proper channels to bring attention to the situation. We tell women to come forward, or they may inadvertently contribute to further abuse.
But what about community bullying?
Six years ago a rich and powerful real estate flipper acquired the local Country Club golf course property through foreclosure. Every action he has taken since has been a form of bullying:
● He turned the golf property into an eyesore
● He sued his neighbors for incidental property line violations
● He made disparaging remarks about community leaders in the media
● He spread raw chicken manure on the dead fairways as an act of revenge
● He sued the city for $100M
● His actions divided the residents of an otherwise united community
He purposely destroyed the ambience of a beautiful, quiet and attractive neighborhood to pressure homeowners to capitulate to his demands for packing the abandoned fairways with high density housing.
These are the actions of a bully.
Our community reacted appropriately, turning to our local government leaders and professional property rights advisors. We followed their advice but were stymied at every turn by court actions that charged us with minor process mistakes or by legal judgements that dismissed our position as "unjustified". In the end, we have been victimized all over again by 'Authorities'.
The entire five-year-old confrontation has sapped the health and vitality out of the neighborhood, which for the better part of five decades was one of the San Diego area's most sought after golf oriented communities.
Meantime, North County property values have skyrocketed due to the improving economy and a gross shortage of new home construction going back two decades. But our Country Club community values are trailing by 30% or more. The decaying condition of the abandoned property has resulted in stalled resale appreciation, an influx of bargain hunting investors and transient renters, and a sense of uncertainty that has rocked the community. The recent fire that destroyed the abandoned clubhouse has only served to make the property values situation much worse, if that is possible.
Recently, Escondido Code Enforcement filed misdemeanor charges against the property owner for failing to properly maintain and secure the property. What was once our little 'Corner of Paradise' is now a 110 acre crime scene.
Just last November, the Escondido City Council approved "The Villages" plan for 382 homes. ECCHO (Escondido Country Club Homeowners Organization), the organization formed to protect the rights of the locals, claims the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was insufficiently researched and lacked important controls over how the land could be used. A typical EIR for any major housing development takes 9 to 15 months to complete. The report for "The Villages" project was completed in less than 90 days. That is unprecedented and has a funny smell about it.
ECCHO claims none of the major issues raised at public meetings were adequately addressed in the final draft. The three council members who voted for the Special Planning Area amendment, none of whom represent the people in the district, dismissed our concerns about traffic and density as "inevitable" consequences of new growth, despite the fact that the community has been settled for over fifty years, and already suffers from major traffic delays, congestion and massive water shortages.
ECCHO leaders decided it was time to put up or shut up. They believe the planning commission violated entitlement protocols, and that the City was intimidated by threats of litigation. They are claiming the rights of the neighbors were violated and the General Plan was improperly and illegally amended as provided by Proposition S, which states in very clear language:
"The following shall be added to the General Plan as GP Amendment Policy E 2.3: (Effective as of January 1, 1999) Permitted land uses in the residential areas of the City shall be intensified only when the voters approve such changes. No General Plan Amendment or new Specific Planning Area shall be adopted which would:
1) increase the residential density permitted by law,
2) change, alter, or increase the General Plan Residential Land Use categories, or
3) change any residential to commercial or industrial designation on any property designated as: Rural, Estate, Suburban, or Urban unless and until such action is approved and adopted by the voters of the City at a special or general election, or approved first by the City Council and then adopted by the voters in such election.
For developments described as Urban 1 (up to 5.5 dwelling units per acre): Detached single-family homes, characteristic of much of Escondido, constitute this medium density category. In addition, mobile homes, patio homes, and zero-lot-line developments are permitted in this category. Typical development at this density is found along Country Club Lane and between Ash and Citrus north of Washington.
a) The minimum lot size shall be 6,000 square feet unless the development is clustered in accordance with the provisions in Chapter VII Implementation.
S.P.A. Policy C4.1: Specific Planning Areas (SPAs) shall be utilized to consider development proposals analyzing zoning regulations, development standards, land uses, densities, building intensities tailored to the need and unique characteristics of a particular area. Generally, SPAs should only be applied to larger areas and where community benefit can be demonstrated.
b) Specific Plans and Area Plans Specific Plans and Area Plans prescribe unique standards, rules, and procedures for development in distinct areas of the community. Specific Plans and Area Plans translate General Plan policies into regulations, development standards, and performance criteria that will govern development within their respective areas. California law requires Specific Plans and Area Plans to be consistent with their General Plans ensuring the community vision is implemented.
The recent adoption of New Urban West's "The Villages" Special Planning Area initiative increased the zoning density by nearly 40% (some lots were only 3200 sf) and was not placed before the voters. For whatever reason, the Council and the Planning Commission decided to bypass the obligation imposed by Policy E, and Proposition S.
One of the original founders of ECCHO told me they are "sick of being bullied and want to make a stand now, setting a precedent for other communities that are also under assault for similar reasons". Public records indicate the owner has interests in at least six other golf course properties in California and Nevada, including Stoneridge Country Club in Poway.
One ECCHO leader angrily said, "We will spend whatever it takes to let the Bully know he can't come into our house and have his way with us. We can match his obsession with our own obsession. We have comparable resources and are willing to commit them to the fight."
ECCHO filed a suit against the appointed developer and the City, and expects more suits to come. While the recently approved plan is subjected to legal challenge, it cannot move forward. That fact alone puts the designated builder's position in jeopardy as they have a limited window to exercise their option to purchase the land from the owner.
So now the owner has again threatened to increase the density should he be unable to get 'The Villages' plan implemented. Based on a new California law that promotes affordable housing, he believes he could get even more homes involved by adding higher density affordable housing to the project, which would supersede any existing zoning limitations.
"I have had significant interest from a variety of developers, particularly overseas developers, who are excited about the opportunity to utilize state density bonus legislation that would allow for a much denser project, some proposing as many as 800 units, which would be allowed by law," he said.
The problem appears to be the owner is stubbornly demanding a King's Ransom for property he picked up at a fire-sale price. The eight figure price tag is forcing the builder to push for nearly four hundred homes to make the project pencil out. If the owner would reduce his price commensurate with historical ready-to-improve assessed residential community values, a project of 125-175 homes could be viable, and probably well received by the community.
Meanwhile, life in the Country Club goes on. But the Beverly Hills Bully is still casting a dark shadow on the community….
What Happened to Our Community?
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Shortly after the holidays, we found ourselves back into the slab pile, rather than a nice wood pile. Grandpa and I hitched up the tractor and as I mounted up he walked ahead to start cutting down a dead tree we had noted on a previous expedition.
I got to the base of the ravine, stomped on the four wheel drive lever, and scrabbled my way back and forth from one side of our tracks to the other, but made absolutely no forward progress.
After about five minutes, I tried the trick of unhooking the trailer and trying with just the tractor, then hooking up the trailer once the tractor was past the steepest portion. This of course didn't work.
I walked up to Grandpa to report on things, and I suggested I would go get my comealong from the dojo tent. He agreed, continued cutting, and I returned along the trail.
When I got back I began hooking up the comealong to a nearby tree. Grandpa happened along, and hopped on the tractor. Without blinking an eye, he drove it right past me and the comealong on his first attempt.
Tossing my equipment into the bucket with muted disappointment in my own abilities, we headed up the trail to where he had finished cutting and bucking the tree. It didn't take long to fill the trailer and return to the yurts where I rounded out the adventure by splitting the larger pieces.
Over the course of the next hour and a half or so, I was able to finally hook up the comealong (which I had sagely brought with me this time), and in a combination of dragging the tractor an inch, then trying to drive it an inch, then dragging it, then driving it, I eventually conquered my mountain!
I cut down a monster jack pine that was unfortunately infested with ants, such that there was no lumber in it, but still much decent firewood.
It was relaxing to finally shut off the saw and carry the logs through the bush and back to the trail. Eventually I got every last one, including the largest one at the stump which had mocked me initially by rolling all the way down the hill to the bottom of the ravine as soon as I cut it. I kept replaying my bible stories of the good shepherd, who, in spite of having all but one of his sheep, spent his time rescuing the lost one. It took me half of my gathering time just to heave that stump back up the ravine to the trail.
I managed to turn the tractor and trailer around at a fork in our trail, which was a boon as it would have been very difficult to disconnect the trailer and turn it by hand with only myself there.
I split what I had brought and put it in the woodshed to join the previous load. The shed now has enough wood to carry us well into February (hopefully), so I can shift priorities for a short while.


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Code Search for VS 2012
Make it work with 2012! :) -naspinski, from reddit
Well, the people have spoken, and we've (finally) delivered. The Sando code search extension is now available in VS2012 (in addition to VS2010), thanks in large part to Kosta Damevski. As we release this version I realize that not all readers are familiar with Sando's Raison d'être. For those of you new to Sando here's the top few reasons why we've spent the last year creating it.
Research-Driven Advances
Above I've quickly described a few reasons that we expect Sando to perform better than available regex-based tools and I've used a few scenarios to explain why. However, its important to know that Sando is not primarily based on my personal insights. Sando is built upon the huge body of code search research, started by Andrian Marcus's thesis work and so ably continued by researchers like Denys Poshyvanyk, Dawn Lawrie and David Binkley, Lori Pollock, Emily Hill, and many others. Thus, you can download and use Sando, assured that it's providing you with high-quality search results influenced by cutting edge advances in software engineering research.
Sando is available as a Visual Studio extension for VS2010 and VS 2012
Sando as a Research Framework - Demo at FSE
While you may know Sando as a software search tool for Visual Studio many are unaware that Sando is also a research-enabling framework. Sando was built to be extensible, for open source enthusiasts who want to support new languages, but also for researchers who need to quickly prototype new search ideas.
You may wonder, why do researchers need to prototype their code search ideas? Because code search is a software engineering problem, involving aspects of program analysis, information retrieval, and even natural language processing, it's necessary for researchers to ground their new approaches in the reality of the engineering issues. They need to test their new search algorithm(s) on realistic source code bases, because it's difficult to simulate the complexity of the system through thought experiments alone.
So, if you're a researcher interested in code search or a developer looking for an open framework to experiment with have a look at my demo (above) on Sando from the 2012 Foundations of Software Engineering Demo Track. I'll cover not only how developers use Sando in their day-to-day work but also how Sando can be used to quickly realize your kooky research ideas. Happy searching!
The ABB team is headed out to FSE next week! While we regularly work with academics (e.g., Jonathan Maletic, Michael Collard, Lori Pollock, Thomas Fritz, Kostadin Damevski, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Gregg Rothermel, Myra Cohen, Mary Jean Harrold...) it's often over Skype, and so we are looking forward to meeting the academic community in person. Please stop by our table, where we'll have ABB tumblers to give away, or grab us during a coffee break. We are always looking for next year's interns, possibilities for collaborations, sabbatical opportunities, or students graduating on the next cycle... so don't be shy!
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If you'd like to read about some of these projects ahead of time you can check out this video on Sando, visit the srcML.Net code repository, or review one of Mithun's papers on slicing industrial scale programs. See you soon!
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It's a Wonderful Life Clarence
Meet Henry Travers: The Character Actor Who Landed a Heavenly Role
By Ken Zurski
Travers John Heagerty, better known as Henry Travers, was an English stage actor who came to America in 1917 and starred in numerous Broadway productions that spanned nearly two decades.
His most famous stage role was in "You Can't Take It With You," a Pulitzer Prize winning play about "a man from a family of rich snobs who becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family." In over 380 performances, Travers played the role of Grandpa Vanderhof, the patriarch of the oddball Sycamore family. When it came time to make a movie version, however, Travers was passed over for the more well known American film actor Lionel Barrymore. Jimmy Stewart played the lead.
"You Can't Take It With You" became the highest grossing picture in 1938 and won an Oscar for Best Picture.
Director Frank Capri won Best Director, his third in five years.
Although Capri went with more established actors in the Oscar winning film, in 1945, when casting for a new production, he found a role for Travers as a bumbling but goodhearted guardian angel who saves a man from taking his own life and shows him the true spirit of living. In turn, the angel earns his wings to heaven.
The angel, of course, was named Clarence and the film was titled "It's a Wonderful Life."
The rest of the movie's cast was a familiarity. Capra tapped the steady Lionel Barrymore to portray the miserly banker, Mr. Potter and mainstay Jimmy Stewart played the part of George Bailey. Travers got fourth billing behind actress Donna Reed who played George's wife, Mary.
But as it turned out, the movie was a bit of swan song for the interminable character actor. After decades in the business and over 50 films, Travis' appeared in just one more movie, a 1949 comedy, "The Girl for Jones Beach," starring Ronald Reagan. That same year, Travis retired from acting. He was 75.
Then in the 1970's, three decades after it's release, "It's a Wonderful Life," gained interest and dedicated fans. It has been a beloved perennial holiday favorite ever since.
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If Avengers Infinity rocked your world this weekend then you probably left the theater with tear stained cheeks and a ton of questions!
This post will answer your most burning inquiries but be warned, if you haven't seen the movie yet, there are a lot of spoilers ahead! (Seriously, I'll be talking about EVERYTHING major that happened in the film!)
Okay, so the movie ends and you wait for the post credit scene…. everything makes sense until you see a pager looking device with an unfamiliar logo on it…
Post Credit Scene – What did it mean?
Nick Fury was able to send one final message out before disintegrating. But who did he send it to? That symbol we saw flash on his pager was an an abstract version of the insignia of … Captain Marvel!
Captain Marvel has yet to pop up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe but she's got a dedicated movie coming out in March 2019. It's a prequel set in the 1990s, focusing on how Air Force pilot Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) gained superpowers after an accident that compromises her DNA by merging it with an alien's.
Let's hope she has enough alien DNA in her to destroy Thanos or at least sway the odds heavily in the Avengers favor.
Who disintegrated? (Keeping track was hard, it felt like everyone disappeared into oblivion!)
Here's a list of everyone we lost after Thanos snapped his fingers.
- Black Panther
- Falcon
- Winter Soldier
- Scarlet Witch
- Drax
- Groot
- Mantis
- Star Lord
- Spider-Man
- Doctor Strange
- Nick Fury (post-credits)
- Maria Hill (post-credits)
- 50% of the universe's population
We also said goodbye to Gamora and Loki earlier on in the film.
Who Survived:
- Thor
- Captain America
- Iron Man
- War Machine
- Black Widow
- Nebula
- Okoye
- Rocket
- Bruce/Hulk
- 50% of the universe's population
Gamora is probably gone for good, here's why:
Honestly, I expected Gamora to make a come back. She's a main character and umm… she's in love with Star Lord! They never got a chance to live happily ever after! (no green babies?!)
Here's the interview that's leading everyone to believe that Gamora is gone FOREVER:
*Theory: there's a theory making its way around the internet that Gamora may be trapped in the Soul Stone and the destruction of the stone would set her free. I want to believe this but I'm not sold, are you?
Was this all part of Doctor Strange's plan?
There is hope!
I'm a strong believer in the theory that Doctor Strange knew all of this would happen! He used the Time Stone to explore millions of outcomes and he knew there was only 1 way they could succeed. There's no way he would have lead the universe down a path destined to fail.
Giving up the stone to save Stark was likely the only way to destroy Thanos. It may have come at a price, like half the universe disintegrating, but I imagine Doctor Strange would be willing to lose the battle to win the war.
When will the next movie be out?
How long are they going to leave us hanging?!
Looks like we'll be sitting on the edge of our seats until May 3, 2019! The next film, which doesn't have an official title yet, is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. They shot it back to back with Infinity War.
What marvel movies are coming out before the next film?
These movies will have to fill the void in our heart until the next Avengers movie comes out:
July 6, 2018 – Ant-Man and the Wasp (Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly)
October 5, 2018 – Venom (Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams)
March 8, 2019 – Captain Marvel (Welcome to the MCU Brie Larson)
What films are coming out after the next avengers film?
There are so many movies coming our way! There are a lot of unconfirmed spots in this line up but we definitely have a lot to look forward to.
May 3, 2019 – Avengers 4
July 5, 2019 – Spider-Man 2
May 1, 2020 – Untitled Marvel Movie 1
July 31, 2020 – Untitled Marvel Movie 2
November 6, 2020 – Untitled Marvel Movie 3
May 7, 2021 – Untitled Marvel Movie 4
July 31, 2021 – Untitled Marvel Movie 5
November 5, 2021 – Untitled Marvel Movie 6
February 18, 2022 – Untitled Marvel Movie 7
May 6, 2022 – Untitled Marvel Movie 8
July 29, 2022 – Untitled Marvel Movie 9
Two of those slots will be for the confirmed Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Black Panther 2
Not confirmed yet – Doctor Strange 2
In development – Black Widow Solo Movie, Eternals
In Conclusion
Are you still caught up in the post movie whirlwind? I know I am!
There's so many more theories to read and so many concepts to ponder!
Still have questions? Share them in the comments and I'll research them for a follow up post!


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'Cutting edge technology made election advertising stand out'
How are outdoor advertising campaigns for political parties planned? And how was this election season different from the previous editions?
by The Editors | firstname.lastname@example.com
As the election campaigning draws to a close in Mumbai, advertising across political parties is reaching a fever pitch. Lok Sabha 2014 has seen some of the most aggressive advertising campaigns from the country's two principal parties – the Congress and the BJP. It seems that every available space, whether on print or online or on the air, has been taken up by election advertising.
The Metrognome spoke to Global Advertisers' Managing Director, Sanjeev Gupta (in pic on left), to find out more about the business of election advertising in the outdoor space.
Excerpts from the interview:
How does the election season benefit a business such as yours?
Outdoor media is the most important channel of communication for political campaigns, which mainly rely on political marches, rallies, morchas, dharnas, and door-to-door campaigns to get the message across. All forms of political campaigning happen outdoors. Moreover, 2014 is particularly special because the campaigns are managed with unprecedented professionalism and there is a marked corporate flavour in the way the campaigns are being conceptualised, planned and executed.
These factors are translating into good business. Our media properties played a prominent part in campaigns of nearly all major political parties.
What are some of the requirements from clients?
All requirements from clients ultimately seek to accomplish one task – of scoring with the voters. They want advertising to be visible to voters. They want the media to work its magic at the right time.
Typically, an election campaign follows four stages: One, the introduction. Two, meeting the voters. Three, spreading information about the candidate/party's USP. While the fourth stage is getting voters to choose the candidate on the big day.
At every stage, companies like ours offer our clients outdoor sites/ hoardings and other media to help them achieve their goals. We must hand-hold the client through the campaign, at every step, from printing to mounting of flex, and ultimately, to providing post-campaign feedback.
What kinds of strategies are required to stand out among hundreds of other outdoor campaigns?
Our strategy has been to coordinate very closely with clients, offer competitive rates, select media carefully and dish up the right media mix. Above all, we have been on our feet for 11 hours for the last three months to accommodate changes in plan, content and sites.
That said, the secrets of standing out in a crowded marketplace are not really new.
Be clear about what you set out to achieve. Be better at service, and with the quality of billboards and other media. Be different from everyone in the way you frame your message, offer tailor-made solutions that work within the budget and out-innovate the competition.
What are some of the new types of outdoor advertising seen this election season?
More mobile vans with mounted hoardings were used in this season than ever before. Parties used concepts like 'chai pe charcha' and 'e-chaupal' and successfully harnessed cutting edge technology and offered it to voters in different parts of the country, which created quite a buzz.
Even with traditional outdoor advertising, the complimentary role of online and mobile media has increased several-fold. These changes hint at the shape of things to come.
This time, special creative content was designed for specific locations for better impact. There were cut-outs, LED, back-lit, 3-D and digital displays. The power of outdoor advertising was displayed like never before in this election. You can see this from the unusually high voter turnout this time.
In monetary terms, what is the kind of boost that your business gets in election season?
All things remaining same, this election season, we expect business to grow by 50 per cent compared to the same period in a non-election year. This is, of course, a rough estimate.
On an average, how much do political parties spend on outdoor advertising?
I cannot discuss figures without explicit permission of a client but if you know the campaign expenses that are made public, you can safely conclude that outdoors gets anywhere between 40 to 50 per cent of the total outlay in a political campaign.
How does outdoor score over other media when it comes to election campaigns?
People who step out regularly either to commute, shop, visit friends or places of worship are more likely to step out to vote on the big day, too. It therefore makes more sense to invest in outdoor advertising than any other medium because the target demographic (voters) and the medium (billboards and other outdoor media) and the desired outcome (influencing voter behaviour in favour of a particular candidate/party on the day of voting) are 1) in the same geographical area, 2) are likely to be the same people (people who are outdoors on other days are also likely to vote on election day), and 3) the campaign, message, brand positioning can be tailored to address the specific demographic in that particular area.
Traditional election campaigns focussed on communicating achievements. This has changed as this time the efforts were on convincing voters and not merely communicating. The entire outdoor media fraternity – vendors, creative minds, agencies, mounters – have taken up this new challenge and have gone ahead to do an excellent job of it.
'Your Vote' is a column capturing the Lok Sabha 2014 fervour in Mumbai. If you have an interesting insight or trend to be featured here, write to firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject line 'Your vote'.
(Pictures courtesy www.indiaprwire.com, globaladvertisers-outdooradvertisers.blogspot.com)


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ORDER THE: avocado confit, of course, which is unbelievably soft and covered in an umami-rich burnt onion and puffed teff powder that looks like the fruit's second skin. Any of the porridge-y things—say, rice with caramelized broccoli, puffed rice, and burnt onion—are a nice savory way to begin the day. At 11:30 a.m., the menu promptly switches over to lunch, which means it's high time for beef tartare with smoked egg cream, pickled mushroom, and chicory.
THE VIBE IS: kind of spaced-out. But not in an intimidating way: You order from the counter using a menu that's projected on the wall, then take a seat at one of the storefront's few blond wood stools or tables. Or just stand and watch the cooking happen while you wait: The kitchen is wide-open and the pantry of spices, mushroom powders, and other dehydrated goods is on shelves near the entrance.
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Forests for the future: Kenya's carbon credit scheme
When 61-year old Mercy Joshua was young, the vast forests of southeastern Kenya teemed with wildlife, but decades of unchecked deforestation by locals have devastated the land.
When 61-year old Mercy Joshua was young, the vast forests of southeastern Kenya teemed with wildlife, but decades of unchecked deforestation by locals have devastated the land.
Japan is set to offer India a carbon offset scheme that would see Tokyo's environmental technology used by the rising Asian giant to help reduce its emissions, a report said.
Brazil said Wednesday that next week's Warsaw climate change meeting should set itself the task of measuring the damage done by rich countries' greenhouse gas emissions.
Human activity is almost certainly the cause of climate change and global sea levels could rise by several feet by the end of the century, according to an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report leaked to media.
Key greenhouse gas emitter Australia on Sunday announced it will scrap its carbon tax in favour of an emissions trading scheme that puts a limit on pollution from 2014, a year earlier than planned.
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday laid out a broad new plan to fight climate change, using executive powers to get around "flat earth" science deniers who have blocked action in Congress.
As UN negotiators roll up their sleeves for the last push towards a universal climate deal, many fear their end-goal of halting global warming at two degrees Celsius is moving out of reach.
Trade in carbon offsets, a voluntary means of reducing one's footprint in global-warming gases, rose by four percent in volume terms last year as the market price of carbon collapsed, a report said on Thursday.
Earth was cooling until the end of the 19th century and a hundred years later, the planet's surface was on average warmer than at any time in the previous 1,400 years, according to climate records presented on Sunday.
US President Barack Obama vowed to make climate change a priority as he was sworn in Monday to a second term, using some of his most forceful language yet despite uncertain political prospects.
The EU executive Monday urged a quick decision on a freeze of 900 million tonnes of pollution credits auctioned to firms in 2013-2015 in order to raise the price of carbon and make investment in clean technology worthwhile.
A government report warned the United States could face more frequent severe weather including heat waves and storms for decades to come as temperatures rise far beyond levels being planned for.
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|Coxen's Fig-Parrot
The observer, who does not want to be identified, watched the parrots feeding on figs through 10x binoculars and a 16x rifle scope (used for feral animal control) on a privately owned farm. He believed 3 or 4 birds were in the tree. The birds were described as tiny, green parrots with no visible head colouration, but bright blue wing flashes were noted on several occasions although the birds were quite distant. It is this feature which makes the observation particularly interesting. The patches of red and blue on the face of Coxen's Fig-Parrot are not nearly as obvious as they are in the northern races of Double-eyed Fig-Parrot (and are much duller than in the painting above); they could have been overlooked easily at some distance. However, the blue wing flashes - and the observer is adamant they were seen - are hard to ascribe to anything else. The sighting of the birds feeding on figs is also significant; this has been rarely reported in claimed records of Coxen's Fig-Parrot in recent times.
|Fruit and leaves from parrot feeding tree
|Tree where Fig-Parrots were possibly seen
|Paradise Riflebird
|Paradise Riflebird
|Red-backed Fairy-wren
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There's no shortage of challenges for leading figures in UK social investment and even the good news isn't always quite as good as seems. For example, those investors and intermediaries who hope the social investment market will (at some point) be catapulted to relevance by a massive increase in the numbers of social ventures delivering public services will have been delighted by last week's credulity-busting claims*, in research from Northampton University, that social ventures have been less likely to 'cease operating' over the past 30 years than PLCs listed in the FTSE100.
Unfortunately, even if you're prepared to swallow the ideas that: (a) this is true and (b) this revelation will somehow make public sector commissioners more keen to give contracts to charities and social enterprises, the researchers also expect you to stomach the idea (see page 24) that the 100th biggest 'Third Sector Organisation' in the UK in terms of trading income is an organisation, Oasis Charitable Trust, that's currently doing just £234,000 worth of business.
Given that, as we've been told, the model of social investment supported by wholesale finance institution, Big Society Capital, only works without subsidy for deals worth £250,000 or more, and (unless you're a dot com start-up) you generally need to be doing a lot more than £234,000 worth of trading to take on a £250,000 investment, this would suggest there's far fewer than 100 organisations in the UK currently in a position to take on unsubsidised social investment.
That's fewer than 100 organisations that are literally big enough to take on these investments. That's before you even begin to consider whether they're actually profitable businesses that would be able to repay an investment. By the end of 2013, Big Society Capital's cash had been drawn down by 57 frontline organisations with only £13.1million of a projected £600million pot spent in the process.
The situation can't really be quite that bad (can it???). I'm pretty sure there are more than 100 charities and social enterprises in the UK with a trading income of more than £234,000 – I'd be amazed if there weren't at least 500 – but there clearly aren't so many more that University of Northampton's finest were able to identify them. Even if my anecdote and gut feeling based optimism is correct, that's still nowhere near 1% of all UK social ventures/third sector organisations/VCSEs/social sector organisations (delete according to taste).
Against this backdrop of staggering mismatches between what 99%+ of charities and social enterprises need, and what (the most prominent element of) the UK social investment is able to offer, Robbie Davison and Helen Heap's work on developing the idea of 'Builder Capital' is particularly timely.
Davison, of Liverpool-based social enterprise, Can Cook, has been a long-term critic of 'Social Finance' in the UK and published 'Does Social Finance Understand Social Need?' (the answer was 'no') in January 2013 before teaming up with Heap, then working for charity, Tomorrow's People, to publish 'Can Social Finance Meet Social Need?' in June 2013.
Once again, the answer was 'no' and in their new book, The Investable Social Entrepreneur, Davison and Heap, reiterate their critique of the current 'social finance' market: "Social Finance, as it is currently arranged, is mostly about not losing money – avoidance of risk in order to protect existing assets. It is nothing more than debt finance and debt finance alone will not address social need anytime soon; it's the wrong type of short-term money trying to attach itself to problems that take a long time to solve."
They then outline their solution, a new form of social investment known as 'Builder Capital'. Builder Capital basically involves a social investor putting between £250,000 and £2million into a social enterprise on the basis that they'll receive no financial return at all for the first seven years. From then on, assuming the business succeeds, they receive a set percentage of the enterprise's revenues every year until year 20 – resulting in anything from simple repayment of capital to a 5% annual return (depending on the percentage agreed).
The plus side of this approach is that it's a model for social investment that genuinely offers social enterprises something that isn't on offer from either grant funders or mainstream finance providers. Grant funders might offer social enterprises money that doesn't need to be paid back but they're unlikely to give them 7-years' worth to spend on developing a business – rather than delivering a monitored set of outcomes. Mainstream finance providers (and most providers in the current social investment market) might offer a social enterprise a mortgage or other forms of loan finance but only if the enterprise can begin to repay the money immediately at commercial rates, which makes it very difficult to both build a sustainable enterprise and meet social needs not already met by mainstream business or the public sector in the process.
The obvious downside to Builder Capital is that it doesn't currently exist, with an apparent lack of investors keen to put large amounts of money into social enterprises on the basis that they may get it back, eventually, over a 20-year period, being the biggest problem. Davison and Heap are clearly aware of this problem and are planning to do something about it. They're running a series of events to discuss how to make Builder Capital a reality, starting with this one in London on July 10th. After these discussions, the plan is to establish a 'Builder Capital Hub' that will bring together investors, entrepreneurs, customers and beneficiaries with the ultimate aim of 'developing and growing a market for Builder Capital that we estimate could soon reach a size of around £50million per year'.
Given that the latest available figures (albeit, figures from a couple of years ago) tell us that the entire market for all social investments other than secured loans was worth £19.8million per year, this seems relatively ambitious but whether or not they achieve that target, Davison and Heap's work on Builder Capital is an important step towards to making social investment more relevant to ambitious charities and social enterprises with the potential to grow into sustainable businesses meeting social needs.
*The claims are true, as long as you're prepared to accept that a PLCs merging with another company is the same as ceasing to exist. 50 companies from the 1984 FTSE are not in the 2014 because they've been acquired. Examples include popular pharmacy group, Boots, which is now part of Alliance Boots. Alliance Boots had a total turnover of £25.7Billion in 2013/14. Only 3 companies that were in the 1984 FTSE100 have gone bankrupt.