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Danny Elfman Attuned To 'Chaotic Thinkers' As New MasterClass Maestro
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EXCLUSIVE: The looming new year brings with it a double anniversary in the singular career of the great Danny Elfman. It will mark the 40th anniversary of the composer's first film soundtrack (Forbidden Zone, the deliriously odd cult classic) as well as the 40th anniversary of Oingo Boingo, the new wave band with a brassy boneyard sound and loads of lyrical mischief in alt-rock standards like Dead Man's Party, Only A Lad, Little Girls and Weird Science.
Elfman remains a movie maestro in high demand and the Los Angeles native has no plans to pass off the baton anytime soon. Still, Elfman has found himself contemplating his legacy more in recent seasons and the thought process has led the erstwhile rock star to a new and unexpected place: the classroom.
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With "Making Music Out of Chaos," Elfman's just-released addition to the highly regarded MasterClass series, the 66-year-old self-taught composer finds himself taking on the first formal musical instruction of his career and doing so as the teacher, not as a student.
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Elfman tells Deadline that his energizing motivation for the endeavor was one of connection with fellow artists who consider themselves unorthodox thinkers. That energy helped Elfman overcome the gripping shyness that usually grabs him when he's in a spotlight with notes on paper instead of the musical variety.
"Artists' brains work in a lot of different ways and I don't think I'm the only — well, know – I'm not the only artist out there who has a very chaotic way of formulating things," Elfman said. "I can never seem to get systematic about how I approach things. It's all chaotic but then out of that chaos I began to learn how to make it work for me. And I felt like I should share this because somewhere out there are other artists who have disorganized systems just in terms of their own wiring. I could explain how it works for someone like me, who's similar. I don't block things out, I can't plan it, I just found a way to make my chaotic mess of a brain work."
Elfman "figured out" how to score a feature film when he was approached 35 years ago by a first-time feature film director named Tim Burton with a somewhat random proposition. Burton, who had seen the Oingo Boingo frontman perform, asked the musician if he wanted to join the fun on Pee Wee's Big Adventure for Warner Bros. For the record, Elfman's actual reply to Burton's invitation to take a ludicrous leap was a succinct one: "F*ck it."
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Conservatory-trained rivals likely dismissed Elfman as a rock-star dilettante in 1985 but the inexperienced interloper proved himself and, eventually, became a self-made institution in a competitive field that usually defines "faceless." Now, with more than 100 other film and television credits, Elfman is still "figuring out" the process one project at a time. That chaos, as Elfman describes it, may be a challenge to manage, but it has also yielded beautiful mistakes and unexpected inspirations during the composer's prolific and eclectic career.
They have led to Grammy and Emmy awards and, with The Simpsons theme, a prime-time signature that has endured for (so far) 31 seasons. His other memorable small-screen successes include Desperate Housewives, Batman: The Animated Series, and The Flash.
Elfman's big-screen scores for Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black, Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting and Milk, and Tim Burton's Big Fish were each nominated for an Academy Award. His list of major feature film projects is dizzying, and includes Dick Tracy, Mission: Impossible, Good Will Hunting, Spider-Man, Midnight Run, Back to School, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Scrooged, Justice League, Hulk, and A Simple Plan. (That last entry, from 1998, costarred Bridget Fonda, who married Elfman in 2003.)
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"The joy of composing for me are those mistakes still, too, those random things that pop out of nowhere," Elfman said. "That is part of the thing that I'm hoping that people will embrace. The possibilities of the unexpected."
Elfman's past successes echo so loudly in pop culture that he enjoys a level of mainstream recognition that outstrips most film composers, including his heroes, Hollywood Golden Age masters such as Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tiomkin and Max Steiner. The echoes are frequently emanating from a stage, too, with ventures such as the 36-date international tour devoted to Elfman's music from Burton films that wrapped up in late 2017, or the San Francisco Symphony's live performances of the composer's gothic score for Burton's Batman (1989) this past April.
Elfman's collaboration with Burton has been a defining relationship for both of them but the composer says it's never been exceptionally easy or even especially easy along the way. The final result has always been a satisfying one, Elfman says, but the struggle to get there has been considerable at times.
Still, Elfman has scored 16 of Burton's 19 feature films with Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, Alice in Wonderland and, most recently, this year's Dumbo, among them.
Not included on that list? Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, which, despite its title, was directed by Henry Selick (it was based on Burton's character creations, however). The 1993 stop-motion animation music featured Elfman as the singing voice of Jack Skellington and has become a signature achievement for all involved thanks to an especially impassioned fanbase. Elfman sees his character's face tattooed on arms, legs, chests, and backs across the world — one of the more literal signs of Elfman's indelible body of film work.
Asked what similarities he finds in collaborating with filmmakers like Burton, Raimi, and Van Zant, the musician said one obvious connection is the lack of musical specifics any of the three will bring to an early-stages project.
"Every director is just really different, and I've tried to talk about that a little bit in the class," Elfman said. "Those three that you mentioned, none of them would ever describe things musically which is, really, a good thing. I try to encourage directors to talk to me emotionally. What are you looking for? I've found that when they get specific and musical usually it leads down a wrong street. Usually they don't quite mean what they think they're saying. It's more problematic."
Elfman has worked with filmmakers as diverse as Guillermo del Toro, David O. Russell, Taylor Hackford, Errol Morris, Joss Whedon, Ang Lee, and Richard Donner. Has there been a musically specific director anywhere in the mix who was in tune with their communication?
"Warren Beatty," Elfman says. "He's one that would be very specific about music because he has a musician's background. Usually directors express what they feel, or what they want to convey to an audience. Do we want to be subtle, crazy big, over-the-top? It's usually not down to specific musical reference. Warren was the only one who might say at the end of a take, 'That was really nice, can we try that melody on an oboe? What if we try it in the key of B flat?' Wow, um, sure, okay."
Elfman's Making Music Out of Chaos series separates out lessons in orchestration, composing, counterpoint, and conducting, but also devotes time to industry insights and historical contexts. The approach throughout is geared toward sharing lessons that will be meaningful to composers of any level.
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With the MasterClass, Elfman also opened up his private studio to the public for the first time. That's kind of a big deal. Elfman found that being a teacher has made him a student of himself, too. Articulating his lessons and answering questions has illuminated the musician in regards to his own muse and his own music-making.
"Funny, I don't think about what I do until somebody asks me about it, until I started doing a few seminars in recent years I never thought abut it," Elfman said. "What I do comes more as second nature."
As a thinker, Elfman is far closer to the extemporaneous magic of Miles Davis than he is to the lockstep formality of John Philip Sousa. When that jazz vs marching band juxtaposition is offered to the composer he responded with a long, deep laugh.
"Well, that's an interesting thought! I see the thinking but, well, to me Miles Davis is the embodiment of cool and if there's anything I'm not it's the embodiment of cool. I love Miles. I saw him in Paris when I was 18…"
Elfman chews on the idea for a moment and tries to come up with a more appropriately "hysterical" jazz icon. Then, without a hint of irony, the Hollywood maestro delivers the perfect downbeat appraisal of a chaotic mind that is full of self-doubt but in harmony with it. "I think," the maestro sighed, "I should be somebody less composed."


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Three wonderfully gastronomic days with talented chef Vítor Sobral.
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First, a cold soup of watermelon and tomato with olives and dates. Then lamb with aubergine sauce, sautéed mushrooms and vegetables with toasted almonds. Finally, a green tea pudding, spiced with lime, carrot syrup, ginger and orange blossom water. What could be more deliciously Moroccan? Location? The Kasbah Hotel Tombouctou in Merzouga, with food created by Vítor Sobral, TAP consultant chef, and his assistant Sofia Oriana. Culinary magic in the Sahara Desert.
The day before, we flew direct from Lisbon to Casablanca, setting off for Errachidia, about 500 kilometres west of Marrakech, where we were welcomed by a high moon. After a brief rest, a hearty breakfast and a morning at the Rissani market, where we stocked up on fresh produce for the regionally inspired dishes, we were raring to go. (Some of the group did more shopping, of course! – we were in Morocco after all – while others went in search of an expresso, in true Portuguese style). On the road towards the Tisserdmine oasis – Did I mention the temperature? By the end of the morning, it was 40 degrees centigrade, attenuated only by the jeeps' air conditioning – our young driver Hassan got us into travel mode with Moroccan music, a perfect aperitif for a first meal in Tisserdmine, on this itinerary designed by Morocco Tourism and the hotel group Xaluca with TAP.
I was telling you about Merzouga. That fine meal was good preparation for the next day. We set off for the desert again and learned in a fossil quarry in Arfoud that, thousands of years ago, it was once sea. We saw Lake Merzouga and flamingos, before visiting the Berber community allotments, each family with its own plot of land, and the palm groves – it's late September, early October, and date harvest season. We enjoyed a moment of contemplation with green tea and dried fruit, before joining the dromedary caravan that transported us to Erg Chebbi's highest dune (the largest are up to 150 metres tall) to see the sunset, close to Algeria. Unfortunately, the sun hid behind clouds, but the balancing act on the camels, which are very slow and docile, was well worth it.
And where to spend the night? In tents belonging to Bivouacs Xaluca (Erg Chebbi), which seemed rather surreal as they have a proper bathroom, king-size beds, lamps and tons of carpets, both inside and out. And it was outside where all the action was. Next to the bonfire, there was a barbecue and a huge counter, where, once again, Vítor and Sofia prepared a showcooking version of our dinner. Some folk helping, others talking, others dancing. The table was laden with chicken and lamb, salads, couscous with mushrooms, aubergine, and chickpeas with cauliflower and almonds. And the evening's stars? What a sky!
Ouarzazate is also known as the gateway to the desert. We left Erg Chebbi behind and travelled 350 kilometres along the imposing Atlas Mountains. There was time for detours, which are highly recommended. The famous Dadès Gorges, with their reddish arid landscapes contrasting with the riverside fruit trees, is one of the loveliest landscapes I've ever seen. We also visited the Skoura Oasis, which we crossed to visit the Kasbah Amridil.
The natural – and manufactured – scenery of Ouarzazate is famous. And you've probably seen it, albeit unknowingly, in films like The Jewel of the Nile (1985) and Gladiator (2000), or in scenes in the city of Pentos, from the Game of Thrones series, among so many other things shot at the gargantuan Atlas Studios, a company founded in 1983 (inspired by Lawrence of Arabia, which was shot in 1962 in the same area). This fun was followed by lunch at Dar Rita, the boutique guest house created by siblings Rita and João Leitão, who swapped Portugal for Morocco over a decade ago. João takes on the role of guide and is one of the best travel companions, a walking encyclopaedia of Moroccan culture. In the late afternoon, the sunset was enjoyed at Aït-Ben-Haddou ksar (fortified village) – but this time without the clouds! The perfect ending.
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Each month at our General Meeting, we recognize a member for their volunteer work with LBGC. Any member who volunteers during the past month is encouraged to fill out a ticket stub for a drawing that will be held just before our speaker's presentation.
The winning ticket holder receives a plant and one of our valued vintage garden club pins that can be worn with pride on their LBGC aprons, hats or bags.
The LBGC would never be the fabulous organization it is, if it were not for the many generous members who give us their time and their hearts.
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"LoveStoned" (also known as "LoveStoned/I Think She Knows") is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake for his second studio album, FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006). It was written and produced by Timberlake, Tim "Timbaland" Mosley and Nate "Danja" Hills. In contrast to the album's theme about sexual innuendos with themes of love, "LoveStoned" contains sexually suggestive lyrics. Musically "LoveStoned" is an upbeat dance song, contrasting with the interlude of "I Think She Knows" which has a more slow, quiet, guitar-driven sound. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 2008 ceremony.
After the release of his debut solo album Justified in 2002, Timberlake thought he "lost his voice" in the sense that he did not like what he was doing. He felt "burnt out" after Justified; this partly changed his career's direction, wherein he took a break from the music industry and instead appeared in films. The first role he took during this time was as a journalist in the thriller Edison Force, which was filmed in 2004 and released on July 18, 2006. He also appeared in the films Alpha Dog, Black Snake Moan, Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, and voiced Prince Artie Pendragon in the animated film Shrek the Third, released on May 18, 2007.
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Colonel Pradeep Singh Chhonkar, SM, VSM, joined IDSA as Research Fellow in August 2016. He is a serving Infantry officer. He has rich experience of Counter Insurgency operations in both North East and Jammu &Kashmir. Among other appointments, he has served as an Instructor in the Indian Military Academy and on staff in the Directorate General of Military Intelligence, where he was responsible for integrated intelligence analysis particularly pertaining to insurgency in the North East. He has undertaken a number of research projects in various domains related to insurgency dynamics in North East India.
The officer has done research work on a wide range of topics including "India's Nuclear Deterrence Policy" in 2004 and "Emergence of Red Corridor in the Indian Heartland: Implications on National Security, Should the Army Wait or Get Involved" in 2012. He attended the Brazilian Army International Strategic Studies Course at Rio de Janerioin 2014 where he wrote a number of papers and did research on "New Paradigm of Terrorism in 21st Century".He has written papers on varied subjects including "Global Environmental Governance" (2012), "Rise of MFOs in Northeast India" (2013), "Naga Insurgency" and "Insurgency in Manipur" (2014), "Political and Economic Consequences of the Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo" (2014), "Defence Industry and Economy: Impact on Military Effectiveness" (2014), "Reconfiguration of the World Order in the Twenty First Century" (2014), "Strategic Challenges of the Pan Amazon in the 21st Century" (2014), "United Nations Security Council Reform – A Need or an Agenda of Developing Countries" (2014) and "Demographic Inversion in Assam" (2015).
At IDSA, his research focus is on Internal Security issues with a particular focus on Northeast India and other emerging threats.
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The Quest for Nagalim: Fault Lines and Challenges
The Naga quest for independence is one of the longest-running struggles in the Indian subcontinent. Despite numerous attempts made in the past towards resolving the conflict, it continues to remain elusive on account of various fault lines. The signing of a 'Framework Agreement' between the National Socialist Council of Nagalim–Issak and Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the Government of India in August 2015 was one such attempt. However, the views of various stakeholders remain fragmented as the details of the agreement have not been disclosed in the public domain.
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It would be prudent for the new state government to re-instil confidence among all parties through a total focus on equitable development in both the Hills and the Valley areas and take all stakeholders on board before undertaking any controversial move.
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Regulated borders with greater emphasis on developing people-to-people contact and cross-border trade initiatives are likely to yield greater security benefits as against a closed border.
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Differing perceptions among the various stakeholders has emerged because the contents of the framework agreement are not in the public domain.


Austin live music offerings this weekend are stock full of great local acts like Les Rav, The Couch, Lord Buffalo, My Education and Wild Child. Austin City Limits Festival veterans, North Mississippi All-Stars will stop by The Parish Saturday for titillating country-blues. The trio's Do512 Lounge Session taping a couple years ago was memorable. Most of the concerts listed below are affordable, so get out and support great, local artists this weekend.
Les Rav, Watch Out for Rockets (with David Thomas Jones) – Holy Mountain – 8 p.m.
Watch Out for Rockets with David Thomas Jones 11 p.m.
Houston natives, The Tontons played a sold-out New Year's Eve show with Quiet Company. The Quiet Company crew had high praise for the band. After streaming their track "Golden" we are excited to see the indie-rock act at Stubb's on Friday with The Couch. Female vocalist, Asli Omar's singing is mesmerizing.
San Marcos-bred, The Couch have made an impact on the local music scene since arriving in Austin. After memorable shows at The Mohawk and a rocking CD release at Holy Mountain, The Couch is fast becoming a favorite. Stream their new, self-titled album here. After multiple listens the album stands out as one of the better releases to come out of Austin recently.
By now you know one of our favorite post-rock bands is My Education. Friday, the instrumentalists are joined by psych-rockers, Lord Buffalo at Holy Mountain. If you have not heard My Education's latest effort, "A Drink for All My Friends", give it a spin. You will likely play it more than once.
My Education will be performing at South By Southwest this year as well as touring Europe for the first time. San Soleil and Followed by Static support.
One of our favorite Do512 Lounge Session performers of 2011, the Grammy nominated, North Mississippi All-Stars return to Austin for a show at The Parish Saturday. Be sure to watch the video of the band's taping in the left sidebar.
London Souls support. Tickets are available here.
The re-opened Scoot Inn hosts several good local acts Saturday with sets slated both indoors and the outdoor stage. Wild Child, Hello Wheels and Whiskey Shivers are slated as well as Sphynx who performed at the sold-out, Vivogig/Deja Set SXSW party last year with Octopus Project. Proceeds benefit Motorcycle Accident Victims in honor of Daniel Cameron.
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import keystone.conf

from keystone.common import fernet_utils as utils
from keystone.credential.providers import fernet as credential_fernet

CONF = keystone.conf.CONF

def symptom_unique_key_repositories():
    """Key repositories for encryption should be unique.

    Even though credentials are encrypted using the same mechanism as Fernet
    tokens, they should have key repository locations that are independent of
    one another. Using the same repository to encrypt credentials and tokens
    can be considered a security vulnerability because ciphertext from the keys
    used to encrypt credentials is exposed as the token ID. Sharing a key
    repository can also lead to premature key removal during key rotation. This
    could result in indecipherable credentials, rendering them completely
    useless, or early token invalidation because the key that was used to
    encrypt the entity has been deleted.

    Ensure `keystone.conf [credential] key_repository` and `keystone.conf
    [fernet_tokens] key_repository` are not pointing to the same location.
    """
    return (
        CONF.credential.key_repository == CONF.fernet_tokens.key_repository
    )

def symptom_usability_of_credential_fernet_key_repository():
    """Credential key repository is not setup correctly.

    The credential Fernet key repository is expected to be readable by the user
    running keystone, but not world-readable, because it contains
    security sensitive secrets.
    """
    fernet_utils = utils.FernetUtils(
        CONF.credential.key_repository,
        credential_fernet.MAX_ACTIVE_KEYS,
        'credential'
    )
    return (
        'fernet' in CONF.credential.provider
        and not fernet_utils.validate_key_repository())

def symptom_keys_in_credential_fernet_key_repository():
    """Credential key repository is empty.

    After configuring keystone to use the Fernet credential provider, you
    should use `keystone-manage credential_setup` to initially populate your
    key repository with keys, and periodically rotate your keys with
    `keystone-manage credential_rotate`.
    """
    fernet_utils = utils.FernetUtils(
        CONF.credential.key_repository,
        credential_fernet.MAX_ACTIVE_KEYS,
        'credential'
    )
    return (
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Denzil Hugh "John" Johnson, 79 - Wood County
Denzil Hugh "John" Johnson, 79, of Wood County, the Montgomery Hill area, passed away June 3, 2010, at St. Joseph's Hospital.
He was born May 19, 1931 in Calhoun County, a son of the late Willard C. and Opal Harris Johnson.
He was a 1950 graduate of Calhoun High School and was retired from Kaiser Aluminum. He was a former employee of O'Ames and American Viscose. He had also served with the United States Marines during the Korean War and was a recipient of the Purple Heart. He was a member of the Rockport Church of Christ.
Surviving is his wife, Lois A. Riddle Johnson; one son, Johnie Johnson of Parkersburg; and one daughter, Jody Ann Johnson of Parkersburg; three brothers, Emory (Saundra) Johnson of Paden City, David (Sheila) Johnson of Parkersburg, and Howard Johnson of Grantsville; two sisters, Lyla Hughes of Parkersburg and Grace Dailey (Frank) of Lubeck; brothers and sisters-in-law, Hope and Eam Batton of Delaware, Tom and Louise Breeden of Maryland, Bernard and Barbara Riddle of Walker, Catherine Hupp of Elizabeth, Janet and Steve Johnson of Rockport, and Pansy and Clarence Civitillo of Parkersburg; and many neices and nephews.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by brothers, Lee "Ox" Johnson, Limer Johnson, Johnny Wayne Johnson and an infant brother; sisters, Claudina "Pud" Kendall, Lennie Johnson and an infant sister.
The funeral service will be 11 a.m. Monday at Kimes Funeral Home, 521 Fifth Street, Parkersburg. Evangelist Steve Morgan will officiate and burial will follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The visitation will be Sunday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m.


Visit the open-cut Magenta Mine which produced up to 13,000 ounces of gold between 1860 and about 1910. Horse-drawn drays carted away the rock for crushing in the nearby battery. A kilometre away is the site of a battery run by the Victorian Government in an effort to revive gold mining during the 1930s depression.
Facilities include picnic tables, a lookout and wood barbecues.


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Dajan er hebraisk og betyder "dommer". Et andet hebraisk ord for samme er shofet. Dajan benyttes i religiøs jødedom oftest om Gud i den betydning, at Gud er det jødiske folks dommer. Særligt i dagene omkring Rosh Hashanah og Yom Kippur anvendes ordet, idet man i disse dage forestiller sig, at Gud dømmer alle jøder ud fra deres gerninger.

Når en religiøs jøde hører om et dødsfald, kan han desuden sige lovsigelsen Dajan haemet ("sandhedens dommer"):
Lovet være du, Herre vor Gud, verdens konge, sandhedens dommer.
Formålet med denne lovsigelse er at bekræfte sin tro og loyalitet over for Gud – selv i en så svær situation, som man står i efter et dødsfald.

Jødedom

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10/3 Almanac
On Monday, Oct. 3: Manufacturing index.
There are 19 trading days before the October options expire, 47 the November, 75 the December and 110 the January.
On the jump, market stats, econ reports, and the trading calendar . . .
9/30 Covered Calls
This daily posting tracks my covered call plays for October and other base positions.
Covered Calls
GMCR
SPRD
I have out-of-the-money puts, as insurance, on BIDU, CAR, CNX, HAL, KEG and NOV.
Other Base Positions
SPY, October iron condor bounded by $126 and $111.
9/30 Indicators
Tangibles
9/30 Forex
Ah, my brokerage lives!
On the daily chart, USD/CAD had burst above the 20-day Donchian Channel and has, as yet. not retraced below the breakout level. The uptrend began on Sept. 19.
USD/CAD 42
Fascinating to note, the 16 hour decline (with two retracements) of EUR/USD on the hourly chart leaves the pair within the sideways channel that has been in force since 4 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 21. The breakout levels at US$1.3601 and US$1.3383 (with no buffer).
Tech Probs
My brokerage's trading platform, ThinkOrSwim from TD Americtrade, is down, down, down. No posts until they are up, up, up.
9/30 Almanac
On Friday, Sept. 30: Personal income and spending.
MOS Watch
The Mosaic Co. (MOS) has set the third in a series of moderately lower lows since Aug. 1. It's not a triangle of any sort, but rather a sloppy sort of downward channel with a sticky top.
It sort looks like a sideways trend, but it's more of a sidewinder wannabe.
MOS 34
The top of the price oscillations has remained steady at around $74 for two touches since July 22. The broader downtrend began Feb. 14, and the price has, since then, fallen by 41%.
Today's decline came after the earnings were announced, a dime below the estimated, and the price has pulled back sharply from the low, although it remains down for the day.
For my account, I'm looking at MOS as a bear trend I can latch on to and ride for awhile. But I'm uninterested as long as the lower lows aren't accompanied by lower highs.
A lower low set Monday was followed by a one-day gap up, and then two days of decline to the present new lower low.
A price move above Tuesday's high, $61.90, would suggest that the top of the formation is still sticky, and I would lose interest entirely. A failure to attain $61.90, followed by a new lower low, below today's $52.61, would tell me that there's a real downtrend developing, rather than a wannabe.
GLD vs. GDX
The gold metal exchange traded fund, GLD, and its gold mining company counterpart, GDX, are showing strikingly different behavior on their charts.
GLD 28
GDX 24
GLD has performed a three-day, three-gap drop to below the 20-day Donchian price channel, but then gapped sharply back into neutral phase, where it remains.
GDX, by contrast, has shown a clearer downward course that continues today.
Gold is an interesting play, in my book, simply because there are many different ways to play it -- GLD for the metal, GDX for miners, GDXJ for the junior, more speculative miners, DGL for gold futures with some contracts as much as a year out.
Each one behaves a little bit differently from the others, making a chart comparison on all the possibilities a smart move for traders like me interested in tracking gold.
GMCR Watch
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR) has been on a roll since February, gaining 205% at the high on Sept. 20.
GMCR 18
But even before the peak things had started to get choppy, and today GMCR dropped below the 20-day Donchian price channel into bear phase for the second time since the rise began.
The intraday drop has been sharp today, 8% from the open with no news to prompt the day's rout.
GMCR's chart is a textbook study in ambiguity.
The phase change comes amid a sideways trend that has held force since late July. The top boundary has been touched three times, in the $111.42-$115.98 range, and there has been a very sloppy lower boundary, that began at $89.01 and was touched once more, a breakdown to $83.50.
That's a wide range, around 30% of the current price, indicating a massive tug-of-war between bargain hunters who are bullish on GMCR and shareholders who want to take the money and run.
The chart shows higher high, lower low, and two moderately higher highs.
The trader of pessimistic temperament will focus on today's sharp drop and the new bear phase to justify a bearish stance (although perhaps waiting for an upward retracement).
The optimistic trader will note that the price is in the middle of the sideways range, concluding that there is no reason to think that the range has been disrupted.
The pessimist will buy puts, and the optimist will open an iron condor, perhaps structured to be profitable from $115 down to $85.
The cautious trader, of course, will simply stay on the sidelines, and thinking about my own account, that may be the best course.
Analysts generally rate GMCR as neutral these days, now that the upward rush is over. The second quarter return on equity is a respectable 18%, with a debt/equity ratio of 0.23 -- a bit too high for a growth stock in my book, but not too awful.
Of course, those numbers came in before the price rise became choppy, and that makes third-quarter earnings, on Oct. 26 a make-or-break event.
GMCR has 81% institutional ownership, and the wide-swinging sidways price action since late July makes me wonder whether some of those institutional owners aren't getting cold feet and reducing their exposure.
I'm holding puts as insurance on BIDU, CAR, CNX, HAL, KEG and NOV.
Corporate high-yield debt (JNK) has dropped below the 20-day Donchian price channel into bear phase, but looks to be retracing back to neutrality.
...was doldrums time. -- Hunter S. Thompson.
Doldrums is what I'm seeing on the 54 forex daily charts I follow. No breakouts, a few timid essays at the 20-day Donchian channel that quickly lose heart and retreat.
On the hourly charts,
EUR/USD has broken a third time above a sideways trend in force since 4 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 21. It could be interpreted as a head-and-shoulders pattern, but I think that would be in error, because the second shoulder peaks higher than the first. I've set my breakout levels at US$1.3601 and US$1.3383 (with no buffer).
AUD/USD's sideways trend began at 5 a.m. Eastern on Sept. 22. The channel boundaries are US$0.9904 and US$0.9628.
On Thursday, Sept. 29: Gross domestic product .
NLY Watch
High dividend shares be wonders to behold. I mean, it's raining free money, just for owning the stock. What's not to like?
One of my favorite high-div plays is Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NLY), a real-estate investment company. it pays out quarterly, and today went ex-dividend on a 14.3% annualized payout.
NLY 27
But this morning, NLY went ex-dividend and gapped down 3.1%, below the 20-day Donchian price channel, into bear phase.
And that's the problem with income stocks. When the issue goes ex-dividend, the price drops by about the same amount. The dividend to be paid amounts to about 3.6%.
That characteristic of high-dividend plays makes them almost impossible to analyze on the chart. Today's drop into bear phase means absolutely nothing about the stock's future prospects.
NLY is trading at the low end of the present sideways trading range that has been in effect since October 2009. The range has been seriously broken only once, with a very sharp downward break after the March 2009 dividend.
I owned NLY at the time, as I do today. On the chart, the initial decline looked like the normal dividend drop. But in this case, it just kept on dropping, and the nature of the decline became apparent only when it was too late to avoid a large shrinkage of the capital value of the shares.
NLY, of course, came back, but there's never any guarantee of that it will -- with any stock.
I can only hold NLY and other ex-dividend play by making them something outside of my chart-based trading system. And that leaves me unable to make any decisions about whether to sell or not in order to protect my base capital. With NLY, I become the worst thing in the world for a private trader: A buy-and-hold investor.
Are there alternatives? Sure. It's easy to construct covered call plays that will return 2% a month -- 24% a year.
Covered call premiums are less reliable than dividends, but the stock can be charted and analyzed, and I can formulate rules for selling in order to avoid capital loss. With dividends, I can only rely on faith that the stock will hold its value and that my fine high dividends won't be wiped out by a capital loss.
Faith-based trading. Not my favorite approach.
DUK Watch
Duke Energy Holdings Corp. (DUK) has peeked above the 20-day Donchian price channel as it resumes a rise that began on Aug. 9. So far DUK has traversed 19%.
DUK 23
The question for me, as I think of opening a position, is whether the move has any staying power. DUK has recorded higher highs and higher lows four days running since completing a 3.8%, two-day correction. On the other hand, after setting a higher high today, it has pulled back to the price channel boundary -- a sign the breakout maybe a head fake.
A close above the price channel would be an entry signal for me. Otherwise, I'll wait and see what Thursday's open looks like.
DUK has a moderately OK return on equity, at 8.5%, and carries a fair amount of debt, with a debt/equity ratio of 0.78.
A range rating of 1.6% is not exactly moribund, but also not the mark of a real zipper mover.
But zippy or not, it's the trend that counts. DUK has already set a higher high today, at $20.15. If it closes above $19.85, thereby maintaining a higher low, then it will be in a very near term uptrend, and if it closes above the price channel, whose boundary is now at $19.96, then that would give added wait to entry.
I've added BIDU to my stable of covered calls.
I've also closed FL from my other base positions, since it paused at the top of its oscillation channel. I doubt that I'll ride it down. The open interest on options in insufficient to support the strategy properly.
BIDU 22
CNX 28
COG 17
CVI 22
HAL 38
JNJ 22
KEG 39
MCO 15
SPRD 40
TKR 19
S&P 500 (SPY), crude oil (USO), gold (GLD) back in neutral phase.
On the daily chart, these major pairs are in the early stages of a bounce off the 20-day Donchian channel boundary back into the interior: AUD/JPY, AUD/USD, EUR/NOK, EUR/USD, GBP/JPY, GBP/USD, NZD/USD, USD/CAD and USD/NOK. Moving in lockstep.
(By major, I mean the 12 most liquid currencies, plus USD/NOK and EUR/NOK.)
There is little of note on the daily charts tracking the currency pairs I follow. Many have bumped against the 20-day Donchian price channel boundary and are pulling back.
EUR/USD has broken twice above a sideways trend in force since 4 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 21, but the first time it pulled back and is in the process of doing so a second time. I've set my breakout levels at US$1.3601 and US$1.3383.
AUD/USD, the same. The sideways trend began at 5 a.m. Eastern on Sept. 22. The channel boundaries are US$0.9904 and US$0.9628.
GBP/USD has paused at the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement level, bounding around on either side for 23 hours, so far.
NZD/USD remains paused for a 31st hour at the 38.2% Fib level in an upside reversal from a Sept. 20 to Sept. 25 decline.
Posted by Tim Bovee at 9/28/2011 06:00:00 AM 2 comments: Links to this post
On Wednesday, Sept. 28: Durable goods.
AMZN Watch
Anyone watching the Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) stock chart in hopes of finding a price bump in anticipation of tomorrow's product announcement is in for a disappointment.
AMZN 30
The price opened high this morning at $234.75, just 9¢ shy of the all-time high set on Sept. 19, but then dropped sharply in the second half hour of trading and in the last two hours has stair-stepped steadily lower.
The rumors are Amazon will announce a relatively inexpensive tablet, the Kindle Fire, to compete with against Apple's iPad, plus maybe two new ereader's -- a $99 wi-fi only Kindle, and a pricier touch-screen G3+wi-fi Kindle.
If the company is indeed set to hammer both Apple and Barners & Noble on price, technology and programming, I would expect traders to be irrationally exuberant. But the chart shows we are, indeed, a dour and pessimistic crowd.
The price rose from $177.10 to $244 and then began a four-day drop that brought the price down to the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level before recording higher highs two days running. Today's broad price swing has straddled the 23.6% Fib level, running from above to below intraday.
From my standpoint as a technical trader, there is nothing on this chart to encourage me to open a position in AMZN.
The price remains within the 20-day Donchian price channel, and the post-peak trend must count as neutral at this point: A higher low followed by a lower high. It needs a third extreme to define any sort of trend. Moreover, the price reversal has been strong enough to flatten the average directional index.
And the Fibonacci retracement is a bit on the wimpish side. Any Fib retracement worthy of the name will take out the 61.8% level, or at least the 50%, and AMZN has a way to go before it does either.
The Fib levels in play are:
23.6% - $228.21
The 23.6% level is just a few cents above the previous peak, set Aug. 19, and that level may well represent some moderately stiff resistance to a further fall.
With a return on equity of 14% and a debt to equity ratio of 0.27, AMZN no longer fits my definition of a growth stock, so my financial bias is not hugely bullish. The stock price has risen immensely since Nov. 2008, when it bottomed at $34.68. The main body of analyst consensus is the AMNZ is a stock to keep if you already have it, but maybe not the best choice for a new position.
If I were to play AMZN this week, it would be purely as a story stock -- buy the rumor, sell the news. The rumors about AMZN's new products began circulating month's ago. They're already priced in to trader's expectations.
The only way I would play it is as a straddle, a long call and long put option with identical strike prices and expiration. With that structure, I profit if the price makes a huge move in response to the announcement on Wednesday. But honestly, I'm sitting on the sidelines for my own account.
Today's reversals have stopped out all of my insurance plays. So I presently have no side bets on any of my covered calls.
FL, January long $17.5 call.
Today's open is showing a many reversal of directions: That which was up is turning down, and the downward crowd is turning up. In most cases, however, the change is not yet sufficient to alter phase and trend.
S&P 500 (SPY) returns to neutral on the 20-day Donchian price channel with a sharp gap up at the open.
Treasury long-term bonds (TLT) are falling sharply for a third day, but must move to a lower low, below $114.05, before the trend counts as falling.
On the hourly charts, EUR/USD has been marching sideways since 4 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 21. I've set my breakout levels at US$1.3601 and US$1.3383.
AUD/USD broke above its hourly channel in the last hour and this hour is pausing. The sideways trend began at 5 a.m. Eastern on Sept. 22. The channel boundaries are US$0.9904 and US$0.9628.
GBP/USD has burst through the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement level in an upside reversal from a decline that lasted from Sept. 20 to Sept. 22, although it is now showing signs of remorse as it slides back toward that Fib level.
NZD/USD has paused is pausing for a sixth hour at the 38.2% Fib level in an upside reversal from a Sept. 20 to Sept. 25 decline.
On Tuesday, Sept. 27: Consumer confidence.
FL Watch
The shoe-seller Foot Locker Inc. (FL) continues its undulating climb up a rising channel that began on Aug. 9 at $16.84. The lower boundary has been touched four times and the upper boundary, three times, on the rise to a highest high so far of $22.18 on Sep. 16.
Given the $2.60 height of the channel -- 12% of the current price -- FL is a candidate for an oscillator strategy -- going long on the journey from the lower boundary to the upper, and then reversing for the next leg down.
With an average volume of 2.4 million shares, FL has the volume and the inventory to support such a strategy. The option open interest is smaller than I would like.
An iron condor, which profits within a range and is very low maintenance -- won't work with this chart, because the channel is rising. I like it best as a series of directional plays, which requires close monitoring and can produce one or two trades a week.
There are two dangers with any oscillator strategy -- be it parallel lines linking highest highs and lowest lows, as I have done, or Bollinger bands, which use two standard deviations for the boundaries.
One is shortfalls, where the price reverses in mid-channel rather than continuing to the next boundary. The other is overshoots, where the price bursts out of the boundary in what looks like a breakout, suckering the trader into missing the subsequent sharp reversal back between the boundary lines.
I handle those by using fairly tight stop/losses -- perhaps one or maybe even 3/4 of the average true range -- and staging my reversals by exiting when the boundary is pierced outbound, and re-entering only when it is decisively pierced inbound. If I miss the first part of a breakout that changes the nature of the play, it's not the end of the world.
I also pay very close attention to the intraday half-hour chart when the price is near the boundaries.
FL has excellent fundamentals and analyst ratings. Earnings were released in August, so earnings surprises won't be a factor for awhile. The stock goes ex-dividend on Oct. 12, but the it is only 16.5¢, around 0.8% of today's price -- too small to have a significant influence.
SPRD Watch
The semiconductor manufacturer Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (SPRD) has moved into a downtrend. An uptrend that began July 29 at $12.80 ended on Sept. 20 at $22.39, a gain of 75%.
The decline has moved the price below the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level at $20.13. The next significant Fib levels are:
38.2% - $18.73
The first signficant price resistance -- a two-day pullback in early September -- is at about the 50% Fib retracement level.
The lower boundary of the 20-day Donchian price channel is about at the 61.8% Fib retracement level, but it is rising, and should SPRD drop that far, it is likely to move into bear phase before reaching that most significant level in the Fibonacci analysis.
I hold SPRD as an October in-the-money covered call with a strike price of $17. My best return comes if the option isn't exercised. So if the price rises above the $23.6% retracement level, I'll buy a deep out-of-the-money call (delta between 15 and 25) for insurance, or if it falls below the 38.2%, I'll buy a protective put.
This daily posting tracks my covered call plays for October.
SPRD has reversed its upward march and continues to drop in a clear bear trend..
I'm carrying bearish insurance plays on COG, HAL, KEG and NOV -- far out-of-the money puts on all but KEG, which is an in-the-money put.
GLD Watch
The bounce off a low on gold futures (see my earlier posting) has far greater magnitude than that of the gold exchange-traded fund GLD.
GLD gapped down at today's open on the half-hour chart and continued to drop, reaching a low but without any significant retracement so far. Meanwhile, gold futures continue to hover around the 23.6% retracement level.
On the half-hour chart, the decline that began on Sept. 6 at $185.85 hit today's pre-open low of $155.24. (The stock has since then fallen further.)
So what's really going on here? Gold is a global commodity play -- the trading never stops on weekdays. GLD is a stock-market play. It doesn't trade overnight.
The low on the futures came while GLD was not trading, and the GLD low set in pre-market trading came in at 4 a.m. Eastern, 90 minutes after the futures low. By then the retracement was halfway complete.
Round-the-clock markets and time-limited markets don't scale well against each other. And today's gold play is a textbook example.
Calculating a low for GLD based on the futures chart, the significant Fibonacci retracement levels should be as follows, based on an imputed low of $149.70:
50% - $168.05
Treasury long-term bonds (TLT), U.S. dollar (UUP), emerging markets (EEM) return to neutral phase within the 20-day Donchian price channel.
I'm checking out gold futures (the Dec. 5, 2011 issue) while setting up for a possible gold exchange-traded fund GLD play at the open.
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On the half-hour chart, the decline that began on Sept. 5 at $1,923.70 hit a low of $1,535.00 in the 2:30 a.m. half-hour this morning, during London trading.
The price has since retraced to a Fibonacci 23.6%, at $1,626.70, and paused. The next significant retracement levels are 38.2% at $1,683.50, 50% at $1,729.40 and 61.8% at $1,775.20.
I'll translate that onto the GLD chart after the New York open.
Weekend Postings
Two postings from over the weekend:
A revision of my trading plan and essay on private trading that merges the two into a single document: "How to Be a Private Trader".
Two excellent reads on why the economy continues to be so sluggish in a post, "Why the Recession Continues".
The energy plays -- AUD, CAD, NOK, NZD -- among the 54 currencies I track are pounding against the boundaries of the 20-day Donchian price channel, pushing the boundary out but failing to achieve a decisive breakout.
In that behavior the currencies' charts resemble that of light sweet crude oil futures, which has been marching down a descending boundary to the bear side for three straight trading days.
These are the pairs I noted as I scanned this morning: AUD/USD, EUR/NZD, GBP/AUD, GBP/NZD, NZD/CAD, NZD/USD, USD/CAD and USD/NOK.
I'll use USD/CAD as an example. The price broke through the channel boundary to the bull side on Sept. 21, rather decisively, and followed through the next day.
However, beginning last Friday, it faltered, touching the boundary and then pulling back, and it has done the same today after setting a new high.
Anyone who caught this particular train as it pulled out of the station has had a nice run -- today's high is 3.6% above the initial breakout point. However, it's not a play for me now unless I see another breakout above the C$1.0361 boundary that shows conviction.
EUR/USD -- we're all morbidly waiting for a euro meltdown, yes? -- has continued its sideways trend for a third day, with lows of US$1.3362 and US$1.3385. The highs have been descending for four straight days.
Here's the updated trading plan document, combining "How I Trade" with "How to Be a Private Trader." It will be available from the menu bar under the latter title. Enjoy!
Why the recession continues
Economist Paul Kasriel has put together a fascinating presentation on why the economy continues to be so sluggish. The title is a play on Texas Gov. Rick Perry's contention that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would be committing treason if he were to increase the money supply.
Kasriel's presentation (as a pdf): "If some dare call it treason, was Milton Friedman a traitor?".
And NY Times writer Joe Nocera wrote a column about Kasriel's presentation: "Ahem. It's the lack of credit, stupid!".
Both are excellent, thought provoking reads.
On Monday, Sept. 26: New home sales.
Weekend Project
Much as the General Theory of Relativity sought to explain everything in the universe, my project this weekend is to do the final work in combining my covered call, income and directional trading into a Grand Unified Trading Plan that covers everything I do.
It's like Einstein, but without the genius.
As part of that work, I'll also be combining "How I Trade" with the "Becoming a Trader" document into a new guide entitled "How to Be a Private Trader".
I've found in trading that when I consider my covered calls and income plays to be separate from my directional speculations, I miss opportunities to profit through side bets on my more static positions. And also, I have a very human tendency to pay more attention to the flashier, high-velocity directional plays than to the boring, old income and covered call positions.
My goal is to remedy those failings by creating a unified theory to govern my trading.
Anyhow, it's supposed to rain on Sunday here in Portland, Oregon, so I'll be motivated to get the work done. Look for the rollout on Monday.
Stocks in General
I've completed my stroll through the 250 stocks and exchange-traded funds that I monitor, and a boring stroll it was.
Whether strongly bullish or strongly bearish on the Zacks list, the issues showed very much the same behavior: A big drop on Thursday, and a bit of retracement today.
So the charts continue to move in lockstep, driven by forces beyond the stocks and funds they track.
SLV Watch
The silver exchange-traded fund, SLV, has fallen in a manner similar to its gold counterpart.
SLV 29
The price dropped below the 20-day Donchian price channel on Thursday, and today it sliced like a knife through jello through lower edge of a sideways pattern that held sway, in two parts, since May 6.
The lowest low of the sidewinder was $31.97 on May 12. Today's decline to around $29 (so far) has brought the price to within another long-running sideways pattern lasting from November 2010 to February 2011. That support level doesn't mean the decline is over, but the it may give SLV a moment of reflection before it hurls further into the price abyss.
The exchange-traded fund tracking gold (the metal, not the miners), GLD, broke below the 20-day Donchian price channel and continued to fall as the trading day progressed. The gold mining funds -- GDX and GDXJ -- are dropping in a similar manner.
The price also broke unambiguously out of a trading range that had lasted since Aug. 25, with a low of $165.88 (by one measure), or Aug. 26, with a low of $171.75 (by another measure). Trend channel boundaries, like love, are often in the eye of the beholder.
This is the second major break in GLD's price run-up that began in early July. The first highest high peaked at $184.82 on Aug. 22, and dropped in three trading days to a low of $165.88 on Aug. 25.
The price then ran up to set a new higher high, at $185.85 on Sept. 6, and then drifted downward until Thursday's downward gap.
Today's trading has set a lower low, moving GLD -- the metal gold, which some politicians think of as "real money" -- into a downtrend. (It will be interesting to see how the political discourse changes now that "real money" is on the decline in terms of the "fake money" in our wallets and our brokerage and bank accounts.)
A decline below $142.55 would place GLD below the low point of a sideways pause that lasted from early May to late August.
Prior to that, the lowest low was $127.80 in January. So GLD has a long way to go before it seriously dents the profits of the year.
And it seems so strange to think that GLD, as recently as 2006, was selling for under $60. Bubble, anyone?
Four stocks in my stable of covered calls have continued Thursday's decline, without retracement. They are COG, KEG, NOV and SPRD.
I'm presently carrying insurance -- out of the money long calls or puts -- on two covered-call stocks: HAL and KEG, and am looking at COG, NOV and SPRD as possible insurance candidates.
Gold (GLD) dropped below the 20-day Donchian price channel into bear phase. The decline brought the price unambiguously below the sideways trend that began Aug. 25, signalling the start of a downtrend.
The S&P 500 (SPY), crude oil (USO), the U.S. dollar (UUP) and emerging markets (EEM) drew back into the price channel following Thursday's breakouts. If they close within the channel, then their phase will return to neutral.
Nearly all of the 54 pairs that I follow are retracing Thursday's dramatic moves.
The exceptions are EUR/DKK, EUR/NZD, GBP/AUD, GBP/NOK, GBP/NZD, GBP/SEK, NZD/CAD and NZD/DKK.
Their commonalities? AUD, NOK, NZD and CAD are commodity plays. EUR and GBP are global players. That leaves the other two Scandinavians, SEK and DKK, as outliers.
I won't present details of any pairs today. I see np clear opportunities on the daily charts, although I'm sure there are plenty of profitable intraday plays.
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Roger Lear honored by Department of Defense for exceptional support
ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense program, announced today founder and president, Roger Lear of OrlandoJobs.com received the ESGR Seven Seals Award in recognition of the exceptional support he provides members of the Florida National Guard and Reserve.
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OrlandoJobs.com signs Statement of Support for Guard and Reserve members
ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense program, announced OrlandoJobs.com signed a Statement of Support for the Guard and Reserve Aug. 26 at The Amway Center in front of approximately 100 people.
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Representative Chuck Clemons signs a Florida House of Representatives Tribute
NEWBERRY, Fla. – Florida Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense program, announced today Florida State Representative Chuck Clemons signed a Florida House of Representatives Tribute in recognition of National Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Week and the men and women who serve in the National Guard and Reserve not only in Florida District 21, but throughout the State of Florida.
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Office Depot manager honored by the Department of Defense for Patriotic Support
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Office Depot Manager Ron Perdue was presented an Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Patriot Award recently in recognition of his tremendous support of his employee, Pfc. Class Heath Smiley who serves in the Florida Army National Guard.
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Statements of Support signed by 49 supportive employers for those serving in the Pennsylvania National Guard and Reserve
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense program, announced today that 46 employers and three local, state, and federal officials signed a Statement or Support (SOS) in recognition of extraordinary support of its employees serving in the Pennsylvania's Guard and Reserve.
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Foxfield Veterinary Services' owners honored by Department of Defense for patriotic support
DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. – Pennsylvania Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense program, announced that Foxfield Veterinary Services' owners Tony and April Rodriguez recently received two Patriot Awards in recognition of extraordinary support of employees serving in the Pennsylvania Guard and Reserve.
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Medical Delivery Service supervisors receive Department of Defense Patriot Awards
TAMPA, Fla. – Customer Service Managers Nadia Pyles and Steve Powers of Medical Delivery Service received the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Patriot Award recently for exception support of their Reserve Component employee.
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MACCS supervisor honored by Department of Defense for patriotic support
Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wash. – Jim Witwer, project manager with Military Aviation and Commercial Cleaning Services (MACCS), was presented the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) Patriot Award by Ohad Lowy, South Sound area co-chair for the Washington ESGR and Kate Lowy, Washington ESGR military outreach coordinator, in recognition of his support he provided his then-employee serving in the Navy Reserve.
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All this effort for our orphaned and abandoned children has been realized by the religious spirit and the dedication of Father Alfred Spiessberger, who was put by the Lord into the children's lives as an instrument of his love.
Father Alfred Spiessberger, son of a working class family, was born in the City of Altmuenster, Austria, in 1938. After completing school, he was employed in construction work. At this time he joined the Catholic Working Youth Pastoral Movement and felt the call to priesthood. He subsequently entered the Franciscan Order.
In 1964 he was ordained a Catholic Priest and his order sent him to San Jose de Chiquitos in Bolivia the following year. One of his first activities there was to attempt to conform the youth there to the philosophical ideas of the Religious and Apostulate Movement, which was a very active and efficient agency in his native country, Austria. However, for reasons beyond his control, his undertaking was not successful. It was therefore decided to convert the youth residence into a temporary orphanage to satisfy the growing need to care for the many orphaned and abandoned children. Father Alfredo had experienced the loss of a parent when his mother died when he was eight.
In 1971, he used his first vacation to travel to Austria in order to meet Dr. Hermann Gmeiner, the originator of the concept of a children's village, who started his work in Austria after World War II. Father Alfredo petitioned him to help him in his quest to care for the orphans and abandoned children of Bolivia. The request was accepted with the condition that a legally valid and proper Charitable Foundation be established. Satisfying this requirement, the promised help and the generous support of other people started trickling in. In February 1973 the first three houses in San Jose de Chiquitos, accommodating 30 children were inaugurated. In 1976 Dr. Hermann Gmeiner honored Father Alfredo with a personal visit, whereby he expressed his great satisfaction for the work he had done. The work grew far more than expected.
The efforts made on behalf of the orphaned and abandoned children during all these years have been recognized by various institutions in Bolivia and by the Austrian Government. It was for this reason that an Extraordinary Assembly was held on November 26, 1998, acknowledging Fr. Alfred's great work and deciding to change the name of "The Hermann Gmeiner Children's Village Association" to "The Father Alfredo J. Spiessberger Children's Villages", under the protection of the Catholic Church. We thank Mr. Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz and Father Carlos Folgado, Head of the Franciscan Order in Bolivia, for having accepted this change of name.
If God gives us the opportunity to serve and attend to the needy, we never have to talk about merit and compensation. We have to consider it a duty, a privilege, a virtue. For sure we are serving the Lord as an instrument of His divine LOVE for the poorest; God promises and fulfills, He awards us a hundred fold. A life inspired by the Lord will reap awards in abundance.


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VP Naidu: 'Need to increase purchasing power of labourers, farmers; Prepare workers for 4th Industrial Revolution'
November 14, 2019 November 14, 2019 The ID Staff	0 Comments
New Delhi: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said yesterday that labourers and farmers contribute to the economy not only through their hard work, but they also create demand in the economy as consumers. Therefore it is necessary to increase their purchasing power to give a further fillip to their inclusive development, he said.
Addressing the 100th Birth Anniversary function of Dattopanth Thengadi in New Delhi on 13 November, Naidu called for equal distribution of resources to create a stable and inclusive economy. Concentration of wealth in few hands leads to an imbalance in the economy and resentment in society, he said.
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Dattopant Bapurao Thengadi was a Hindu Ideologue and trade union leader from Maharashtra. He founded the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, and the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh. He died in 2004.
Highlighting that both capital and labour are important for wealth creation, the Vice President called for cooperation and harmony between the two. He also called for respecting every person who contributes to wealth creation, be it worker, manager or investor, as all of them have important roles the production chain.
Citing Mahatma Gandhi's concept of Trusteeship, Naidu said that wealth is not for individual luxury, but rather collectively owned by the community and should be used for the welfare of public.
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On global economic changes, the Naidu said that in tandem with the global economy, India is also changing its economy. New legislative architecture is being created for a transparent, sustainable, efficient, high growth inclusive economy, he explained.
Noting that India has the third largest pool of startups, Naidu tweeted:
"We are steadily climbing up the ladder of Ease of Doing Business Global rankings. We are witnessing constructive disruptions in the economy. Their adverse impact on the economy will only be transient before economy regains a high growth trajectory."
We are steadily climbing up the ladder of Ease of Doing Business Global rankings.
We are witnessing constructive disruptions in the economy.
Their adverse impact on the economy will only be transient before #economy regains a high growth trajectory. pic.twitter.com/h1Us1rJDio
— Vice President of India (@VPSecretariat) November 13, 2019
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Calling Thengadi a great intellectual and Karmayogi, the Vice President lauded that he built a powerful nationalist trade union in the country. "It is remarkable that he never called for a bandh or indulged the trade union in violence," he said.
Speaking of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Naidu called upon trade unions to prepare workers and farmers for this new challenge. "Institutions like Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and Bharatiya Kisan Sangh should spread awareness about various Government programs and train workers and farmers in new technologies," he said.
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Naidu also tweeted about Thengadi:
#DattopantThengdi ji was a truly inspirational person.
He was a true Karmayogi
I am fortunate enough to have known him intimately
I hope that the younger generation will draw inspiration from the life & work of this illustrious leader & dedicate themselves to nation building
Citing Thengadi as an inspiration, Naidu said that for him nationalism was about taking the views of all sections and their interests into account. "He never believed in class hatred and class wars and rendered irrelevant the very notion of class itself," he said.
Lauding various organisations created by Thengadi, such as Akhil Bhartiya Grahak Panchayat, Bhartiya Adhivakta Sangh and Sanskar Bharti, the Vice President said that democracy should not merely remain limited to casting of votes. Rather, people should be actively involved in national affairs. Such organizations help in giving a constructive voice to people's aspirations, he added.
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By David Fink, WPH- The 2014 Milwaukee Open attracted several of the game's best handball stars, including WPH R48 #2 Luis Moreno, #3 Emmett Peixoto, #11 Anthony Selestow, as well as the top talent from Milwaukee, Chicago, and New York City.
Peixoto entered the star-studded field as the #1 seed, on the heels of his victory at the 2013 Milwaukee Open. Peixoto cruised to the final with dominating victories over former pro qualifier Kevin Pettus, local legend Tony Krokack, and two-time USHA Grand National Series champion Tyree Bastidas. Peixoto never allowed more than 11 points in any game en route to the final, making the game look effortless.
Moreno encountered more resistance en route to the final, defeating 2013 WPH/WOR 3Wallball champion Jurell Bastidas, top 25 WPH R48 pro Daniel Cordova, and current WPH/WOR 3Wallball champion and top 20 WPH R48 pro Nik Nahorniak. Nahorniak nearly defeated Moreno in their last encounter at the 2014 WPH R48 III NYAC Stop #4 and proved that close call was no fluke, as he pushed "The Natural" in both games, ultimately falling 21-18, 21-16.
Moreno and Peixoto renewed a rivalry that started 10 years ago when Moreno was Peixoto's protégé. Moreno dropped the pair's first six encounters as a teenager, but would win their next eight matches between 2009-2014. Peixoto ended his losing streak to Moreno at the 2014 USHA Four Wall Nationals with a stunning and monumental tiebreaker comeback.
Tied at seven in the first game, Peixoto allowed what he perceived to be a bad call disrupt his concentration. Peixoto would lose nine consecutive points and ultimately drop game one, 21-13. Game two mirrored game one, with the top three stars battling to a 7-7 tie. As he had in game one, Moreno separated himself, taking a 16-8 lead and seemingly minutes from hoisting the trophy. Peixoto changed his tactics, slowing down the game with a lob serve and seizing the momentum. Peixoto scored 13 of the final 14 points in game two to stave off elimination and force the tiebreaker.
Moreno regained the momentum he had lost in game two, racing to an 8-1 lead in the deciding frame. Moreno led Peixoto 9-0 at the USHA Four Wall Nationals in their last encounter before losing 11-9, and a similar scenario began to unfold. Peixoto scored seven consecutive points to tie the score at eight before Moreno earned a side out and scored consecutive points to arrive at match point, Undaunted, Peixoto regained control, scoring two consecutive points to tie the game and serve for the match at 10-10. Peixoto served a lob to the left and after a furious 15-shot rally, Peixoto attempted his favorite shot, the left-handed kill down the left wall from the dotted line.
Buoyed by his good fortune, Moreno served a huge hop serve on his second match point that handcuffed Peixoto, forcing a weak return. Moreno executed the "first-strike" kill and clinched the title, 21-13, 17-21, 11-10.
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Child killer in India sentenced to death for brutal rape of infant
Child killer, 26, is sentenced to death for raping and murdering a four-month-old baby girl after snatching her from her sleeping parents in India
Infant girl stolen by sick individual as she slept beside parents in Indore
Four-month-old was brutally raped and murdered in nearby building
Child rapist named as Naveen Gadke has been sentenced to death
Killer was reportedly known to the family, who he was sleeping alongside moments before vile act
A man in India has been sentenced to death after the heinous rape and murder of a four-month-old baby girl.
The infant was sleeping with her parents on the streets of Indore when she was snatched by Naveen Gadke last month in an incident caught on camera, police claim.
Just 15 minutes later the now-convicted child killer was seen leaving the basement of a building where the girl's blood-smeared body was found.
The location where the mortifying attack of a four-month-old girl took place in the city of Indore, central India
Naveen Gadke was captured on CCTV leaving the scene just 15 minutes after he took the infant, who was sleeping with her parents nearby
On April 20, Gadke was laying alongside a homeless family and their baby girl on the streets of Indore when he took away the child in the early morning.
She was taken to the empty basement of a building 50 metres from where her parents slept where she was brutally raped by odd-job man Gadke, an individual who was known the family, reports NDTV.
As the baby kept crying, Gadke killed her to shut her up.
The body was discovered later that morning by a shopkeeper who was opening his store.
Police and prosecutors worked at a furious pace to get the conviction of Gadke, reported Reuters.
The trial lasted 23 days after charged were brought against him within seven days of the crime.
The court sat for seven straight working days to hear the case, unusual in India where one court is often dipping in and out of several cases on the same day.
A government-run laboratory conducted tests on forensic evidence within four days of a police request, a process that usually takes more than a month.
Medical tests confirmed the infant was raped, and the semen from a vaginal swab was found to be a DNA match with Gadke.
After hearing details of his crime from special prosecutor Mohammad Akram Shaikh and witnesses, Judge Varsha Sharma found Gadke guilty and ordered his death by hanging.
'This falls under the rarest of rare case and it would be appropriate to hand such a criminal the toughest punishment,' the judge declared.
The swift conviction is the fastest known to have happened in modern India, a nation where public outrage has peaked in the wake of a series of rapes and killings.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government last month introduced the death penalty for rapes of girls under 12 years.
Gadke was sentenced to death by hanging at the district court in Madhya Pradesh. When he arrived, police reported that he was slapped and shoved by an angry gathering of a dozen lawyers.
India's court system is notoriously slow, with cases taking at least six years on average to final ruling, according to governance tracking group Daksh.
Well-known Supreme Court lawyer Dushyant Dave, a vocal supporter of capital punishment, said India 'needs to send at least 500 people to death in the next one year to end this endemic' of rape.
Such views have resonated with the mother of the dead four-month-old girl as she sat on the front yard of a 200-year-old palace where her homeless family sleeps in the open.
She told Reuters she was happy with the swift verdict but her daughter would get justice only when Gadke is hung to death, just as quickly.
'Once such men are hanged, no one will dare to do anything like this to any girl,' she said.
Rape victims and their families cannot be identified under Indian law.
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