Trinidad-Tobago's Prime Minister Patrick Manning said that the declaration has gaps due to the fact that the document had been submitted to negotiations by technocrats for the past year and a half. By that time the world situation was different from today's, said Manning and went on to explain that due to that reason the document does not reflect the current hemispheric scenario.

The final declaration of the summit is in favour of promoting the development of the private sector. In that direction, the document turns to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Inter-American Development Bank and other regional credit institutions to step up efforts aimed at expanding and developing the private business sector.

The objective stated by the declaration is that by 2012, credit lines destined to the micro,of Our Americas regional integration initiative, known by its Spanish acronym ALBA, is made up of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Honduras, Cuba, Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The ALBA countries argue that the declaration does not give any response to the world economic crisis, despite the fact that it is the major challenge that has faced humanity in decades and the most serious threat of our times for the wellbeing of the nations. They also say that the declaration excludes Cuba without saying a word about the general consensus prevailing in the region against the US economic blockade of the Caribbean nation and the US attempts to isolate Cuba.

Venezuela and ALBA promote `new climate' at Summit of the Americas

By Tamara Pearson

Merida, April 21, 2009 -- Venezuelanlaysis.com -- Venezuela


and the countries of the Bolivarian Alternative to the Americas (ALBA) decided not to sign the final document of the Summit of the Americas held on April 17-19 in Trinidad and Tobago, saying it excluded Cuba and offered no viable solution to the current economic crisis.

The economic blockade of Cuba imposed by the United States was one of the most anticipated themes of the summit, in which 34 heads of state across the North and South American continent participated, with the notable exception of Cuba, whose president was not invited.

The dynamics of the summit were somewhat different compared to previous summits, as ALBA countries worked together to assert the needs of Latin America, whilst the new president of the United States, Barack Obama, was also more respectful tothe other countries.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said, "Of the three Summits of the Americas that I have been to, the first was cold, behind a wall and driven by imperialism and everyone else was quiet, except Venezuela. Later, in the Mar del Plata [in Argentina, 2005] the summit ended up fragmented in pieces, but we defeated FTAA [Free Trade Area of the Americas], now this summit has opened the gates to a new era of relationships between all the countries of this continent."

Chávez said that although this meeting hadn't been perfect, cordiality had reigned and that "it has finished with success and with a new climate". However, Chávez criticised the nature the summit, saying, "Someone notes all these proposals and later comes the big question, who is in


general consensus ... in the region in favor of condemning the blockade". ALBA then proposed alternative themes for discussion, including problems caused by capitalism, climate change and the food and energy crises and the need for solidarity not competition.

Chávez said the document is "totally de-contextualised, as if time hasn't passed" and complained specifically about its characterisation of Cuba as non-democratic. "Where is there more democracy, in the United States or in Cuba? Who has the democracy meter?... I have no doubt that there is more democracy in Cuba than in the United States", said Chávez.

Chávez justified ALBA's rejection of the declaration to the press saying, "It is a sovereign decision and it forms part of the battle that we are waging from ALBA, not only of resistance toimperialism and its hegemony, but also with viable proposals and in full construction of a better world."

"The Summit of the Americas was born to try to impose the FTAA and it failed", Chávez said, referring to the previous summit in Argentina in 2005. In this case Chávez signed the final declaration but expressed reservations around the point on free trade. Venezuela created ALBA with Cuba in 2004 as a counter project to the FTAA.

In the end, only the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning, signed the declaration, saying that while there wasn't unanimity around the content of the document, there was a consensus that he should be the only one to sign it.

Another highlight of the conference was the resumption of US-Venezuela relations and a resumed


cordiality between the presidents of those countries, Chávez and Obama.

Chávez said "we affirmed a desire to initiate a new stage of relations. The president of the Unites States said that he would keep his word to not interfere in the internal issues of any country and we agree that we want to work together."

Various presidents also expressed hopes that the summit would mark new relations between the United States and the rest of Latin America, especially given the new president of the US. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said, "[The summit] was a fantastic meeting, we understand it as ... the start of a new type of relationship. There was an environment of ...optimism and high hopes." Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa said he felt the main achievement of thesummit was "open, frank and friendly dialogue".

Speaking about the theme of energy security discussed at the summit, Chávez said, "We're prepared to continue with initiatives like Petrocaribe, the gas pipeline of the South, promoting renewable energy... and to continue doing our part because we have the biggest reserve of petroleum and one of the largest reserves of gas. We propose a true energy revolution across the continent."

In his intervention in the conference, Chávez expressed his concern about the resurgence of economic forms of intervention. "Be careful with the International Monetary Fund [IMF] because they have revived it... In Latin America the IMF was the big destabiliser of the region," he said.

Chávez also alluded to the "media terrorism of the powerful elites against the state", giving the example of


the recent assassination attempts towards Bolivian president Evo Morales, and said these efforts reflect a form of fascism in the region.

After the summit, Chávez classified Venezuela's participation as "one of the biggest victories of our history" because of the positions it defended of resistance, dignity, sovereignty and independence. He said he was happy about what is happening in Latin America and the Caribbean where "Bolivarian unity is being consolidated, the dream of San Martin, Bolívar and Artigas; only united will we be free and be able to talk on an equal footing and with dignity with the powers of the world, this has started to become reality in these latest meetings and summits."

Chávez proposed the next summit be held in Havana, Cuba.Kai the hitchhiker became an internet sensation after he saved a man’s life. Jett Simmons McBride reportedly thought he was Jesus, and proceeded to hit a California utility worker with his car.

Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, who calls himself Kai, was a passenger inside McBride’s vehicle. After hitting the utility worker, McBride tried to attack a woman who intervened. McGillvary eventually hit McBride in the head with a hatchet to stop the attack.

McGillvary’s interview about the incident went viral. Although his manner was unusual, he won the hearts of millions with his carefree demeanor and humorous description of the attack. He soon became known as “the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker.”

Nine months after he was heralded for saving a woman’s life, Kai the hitchhiker is back in the news. Unfortunately, the news is


not good. The notorious drifter was recently indicted in the murder of 74-year-old attorney, Joseph Galfy.

As reported by NJ.com, prosecutors said the two men met on May 12 in New York City’s Times Square. Later that evening, they both went back to Galfy’s New Jersey home.

On May 13, authorities found Galfy beaten to death inside his home. The elderly man was discovered wearing nothing but his underwear and socks. Within days after the murder, authorities received a tip that led them to McGillvary.

The internet sensation was arrested in a Philadelphia Greyhound bus terminal and charged with murder.

Prior to his arrest, McGillvary made several comments on his Facebook page, suggesting he was drugged and raped:

“… what would you do if you woke up with a groggy head, metallic tasteBryant Turner Jr.

Bryant Turner Jr. (born November 25, 1987) is a former Canadian football defensive lineman. He made his professional debut with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2011. He played college football at UAB.

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Police say a 28-year-old man from Oshawa has died after his vehicle crashed head-on with a public transit bus on Friday.

Durham Regional Police say they were called to the area of Victoria Street East and South Blair Street in Whitby after a car collided with a Durham Region Transit bus.

They say the driver of the car was pronounced dead on the scene, while the bus driver was treated for minor injuries.

Police say there were no passengers on the bus at the time.

Shortly before police were called to the collision at 6:55 p.m., Ontario Provincial Police say they were responding to multiple collisions where the driver allegedly failed to remain at the scene involving the same car in the westbound lanes of Highway 401 between Simcoe Street and Thicksonpaid by her to a co-executor who acted as her agent in connection with the performance of her duties to the estate. The question in the case is whether the additional tax of $2,240.82 determined by the Commissioner was properly assessed.
Hugh C. Wallace died on January 1, 1931 at Tacoma, Washington. His will was probated in that State, and in February, 1931, Mrs. Wallace and Forbes P. Haskell, Jr., qualified as executors. The estate consisted of real and personal property of the value of $2,000,000 located in the State of Washington, the District of Columbia, and Paris, France. The executors had power under the will to sell the property and reinvest the proceeds. Haskell was president of a bank in Tacoma, and was well qualified to handle the


estate, and he was familiar with the assets and the business affairs of the deceased through close business relations with him in his lifetime. Under the terms of the will, a legacy of $15,000 was bequeathed to Haskell, at his election, in lieu of any other allowance for executor's fees. He elected to take the legacy.
Mrs. Wallace decided to return to her home in Washington, D. C., after her husband's death; and it became necessary for her, under the law of the State of Washington (Sec. 1457 of Remington's Revised Statutes of Washington), to appoint an agent or attorney in writing to represent her as co-executrix in the county where the estate was being probated. Accordingly she executed two writings. On March 2, 1931, she wrote to theexecutors were performed by Haskell, who was the active executor of the estate. He kept all the books relating to the affairs of the estate, handled all details concerning such affairs and attended conferences with the attorneys and others. Mrs. Wallace corresponded with him, exercised her judgment as an executrix and performed all such work in connection with the administration of the estate as was possible for her to perform while absent from the jurisdiction in which the estate was being administered.
The election of Haskell to take the legacy of $15,000 in lieu of fees was approved by the Probate Court on August 27, 1931; and on the same day the court fixed the fee of Mrs. Wallace at $26,860 payable upon the approval of the final report.


were described in the stipulation of fact in general terms rather than in specific detail.
Nor may it be fairly concluded that the expenditure to her colleague as her agent was in the nature of a gift rather than a payment for services rendered. Haskell did not consider it a gift, for he reported it in his return as part of his income. There was every reason to consider it an ordinary and necessary expense for services rendered, since the State statute required her to appoint an agent to represent her as executrix during her absence. Haskell accepted the appointment and did the work. The letter of March 2, 1931, wherein she directed the attorneys of the estate to pay $10,000 to Haskell out of her fees as executrix,and the power of attorney *608 of March 7, 1931, wherein she appointed Haskell as her agent to act during her absence, were separate writings, and did not refer one to the other. But in the absence of any other explanation, the only reasonable inference to be drawn from them, when considered together, is that there was an understanding or agreement between the parties by which Haskell agreed to act as Mrs. Wallace's agent during her absence, in consideration of the sum of $10,000, to be deducted from her commissions.
In our opinion the taxpayer was engaged in business within the meaning of the statute while performing the duties of executrix in the administration of the estate, and the payment to Haskell constituted an ordinary and necessary expense of


that business. This conclusion is supported by an appreciation of the realities of the situation. The arrangement for the payment of $10,000 of the fee of the taxpayer to Haskell was made shortly after the death of the testator in the early part of the administration of the estate. It was intended from the first that the greater part of the services should be rendered by Haskell, and that the greater part of the fees of the executors should be paid to him. It is true that the entire sum of $26,860, allowed to her by the Probate Court, passed through her hands; but so far as $10,000 thereof was concerned, she acted merely as a conduit for the transfer of the money from the estate to Haskell.This act is defined as the addition of any non-condimental substance to a food, such substance not constituting a portion of the food. Even this carefully-worded definition is not perfect. Some kinds of salt provisions have so much salt added that some of it has to be removed by soaking, to render the food edible, yet this does not constitute adulteration. Adulteration of food has long been practiced. It is mentioned in the case of bread by Pliny, who also says that difficulty was experienced in Rome in procuring pure wines. Athens had its public inspector of wines. England and France early passed laws to guard against the adulteration of bread, and as far back as the days of Edward the Confessor public punishment was provided for the


Holdings, led by developer Bobby Ginn, was the company resulting from a leveraged buyout that combined the old Sea Pines Co. and the Hilton Head Co. Gerwing had been vice president and controller for the Sea Pines Co.

The newly formed company controlled developer operations in the Sea Pines, Shipyard, Wexford, Port Royal and Indigo Run communities. But Ginn Holdings unraveled quickly. The company was sold in March 1986, a year after the Ginn purchase, and its name changed to Hilton Head Holdings Corp. Nine months later, it was in bankruptcy. The Hilton Head Holdings bankruptcy was a $100 million affair, with about 2,000 unsecured creditors — many of them local businesses — that were owed about $10 million. The rest of the debt was held in mortgages onprime property in Hilton Head.

After the demise of Ginn Holdings, a company called The Club Group was formed by Mark King, who had been director of sports for Ginn Holdings. The Club Group was a golf and amenity management company. Gerwing joined King at The Club Group by at least 1987, according to Island Packet stories. King is currently president of The Club Group and Gerwing was its chief financial officer.

The story begins an odd twist when John and Elizabeth Calvert, who split their time between their home in Atlanta, GA and a yacht on Hilton Head Island. The couple was last seen in March and effort to find them have been fruitless. Gerwing was the last person to have seen the Calverts. After being questioned by the


for today, not only a gift for today, but a gift to be
sought by every Christian who wants the fullness of the Holy Spirit and
the fullness of the blessing of God. It is so much a part of the fabric
of the Charismatic movement that it is one of the primary things that
they endeavor to teach the children in that movement.
Someone
sent me a sample of some Charismatic Sunday school literature which is
designed specifically to teach kindergarten children how to speak in
tongues. It's titled, "I've Been Filled with the Holy Spirit," and it's
an eight page coloring book. One page has a caricature of a smiling
weight lifter with a T-shirt and it says, Spiritman, and under him is
printed 1Corinthians14:4,
"He that speaks in an unknown tongue builds himself up." Another page
features atimes, Acts 2, Acts 10 and Acts 19, and then in 1
Corinthians, those are the only three books of the Bible that mention
tongues. Now earlier in our study you'll remember that we looked into
Acts, didn't we? We saw something about this gift of tongues, as it's
become known, in the Book of Acts. We discovered that when it occurred
in the Book of Acts, it was a known language; we'll say more about that
in a few moments. It had a very specific purpose in God's redemptive
history along with other miraculous events in the apostolic period it
had a very unique purpose. So we have covered the ground I think fairly
well in the Book of Acts, and we saw the unique historical purpose for
that gift.
It was a sign that the Spirit of


God had come, that
God was speaking from heaven His truth. It was also a sign to
unbelieving Israel that when they wouldn't listen in the language they
could speak, God would now begin in judgment to speak a language they
couldn't understand, and so as Paul will point out in chapter 14 of 1
Corinthians, it was a sign of judgment. It was given as a sign gift on
the day of Pentecost. Several other times in the Book of Acts it was
given again so that those believers being added to the original Body of
Christ would be seen to be participating in the same Body and receiving
the same Holy Spirit. So it had a unique historical place in the Book of
Acts.
Then it appears in Mark 16:17,
it simply mentions tongues as one of theyou don't
understand, and that's a sign of judgment," and after all the judgment
was coming wasn't it? They had rejected and crucified their Messiah.
It
was a sign that God had done something wonderful, that God had brought
the spirit and the church was born. Gentiles and Jews all together would
come to Christ and form one body; and it was a sign to unbelieving
Israel that they were going to be put outside, set aside, and that the
God who spoke once to them in a language they could understand, and gave
them the oracles and the covenants and the promises in the Hebrew
tongue, would now speak in a language they didn't understand as a
judgment.
But very clearly it was language. The word in Acts 2 is glossa,
it means language. They were hearing people speak in


here in the Corinthian Church, it's the same as it was
then. This is early in the life of the church and God was still
speaking, and God was still identifying Himself through this miraculous
expression of languages that had never been learned by these people, and
it was a wondrous thing, and it showed them that God was in their midst
and God was speaking and it was also a continuing sign of judgment on
Israel, but it was a language again. The word unknown never appears in
the Greek text, it was a language.
There is an interesting
footnote to that you can look through carefully. Notice the plural and
singular usages of the word language, and that's helpful. I believe when
he uses the singular of glossahe's referring to the false
gibberish, and when he uses thethat can't be uttered, not groanings that
can be uttered, and it isn't us, it's Him. How could you ever convolute
that? There isn't any Scripture to support it, all you have here were
times when God desired to speak in a language that the people didn't
know in order to reveal His supernatural presence and His Word, and then
it was translated for the edification of everyone, it was a very
unusual situation. It happened early on; apparently at the time of
Corinth it was still going on. We hear nothing about it from then on, in
all the rest of the New Testament, and when it was done, it was totally
restricted and very clear guidelines were given.
Another
indication, as I noted to you, that Paul had in mind human languages, is
in verses 21 and 22,


Biblical gift.
William
Samarin is a professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto. He
has done some extensive research and writing on this. He says, "Over a
period of five years, I have taken part of meetings in Italy, Holland,
Jamaica, Canada, and the United States. I have observed old fashioned
Pentecostals and neo-Pentecostals, or Charismatics. I have been in small
meetings in private homes as well as in mammoth public meetings. I have
seen such different cultural settings as are found among Puerto Ricans
of the Bronx, the snake handlers of the Appalachians, and the Russian
Molikhans of Los Angeles. I have interviewed tongue speakers and tape
recorded and analyzed countless samples of tongues. In every case, glossolaliaturns out to be linguistic nonsense. In spite of superficial similarities, glossolaliais fundamentally not language."
William Samarin is one of manythrough the churches,
the revelatory gifts had ceased to have a purpose and so they passed
away.
Second, tongues were identified as a sign to unbelieving
Israel. They signified God had begun a new work which encompassed the
Gentiles, and once that message was made, and that was made clear to
Israel, it was really not necessary to keep repeating it. Again, it was a
period of transition, they had been the people primarily involved in
the old covenant; now the church was in the new covenant in the time of
transition. The sign was made to Israel, that's done with. We're now in
the new covenant, no sense in repeating and repeating and repeating and
repeating the sign.
O. Palmer Robertson articulates it this way,
"Tongues served well to show that Christianity, though begun in the
cradle of Judaism, was not


the only time you really see any claim to tongues are the
followers of Montanist, who was branded a heretic. The next time any
significant tongue speaking arises is in the late 17th century. A group
of militant Protestants in the Sevenall region of southern France began
to prophesy, experience visions, and speak in tongues, now we're talking
the 17th century. They were known as the Sevenall Prophets and they
were remembered for their political and military activities, not their
spiritual legacy. Many of their prophecies were unfulfilled. They were
rabidly anti-Catholic and advocated the use of armed force against the
Catholic Church. Many of them were consequently persecuted and killed by
Rome.
At the other end of the spectrum were the Jansenists, who
were Roman Catholic loyalists who opposed the Reformers' teaching on
justification by faith and claimed to beable to speak in tongues. Then
there were the Shakers, they were an American sect of Quaker roots that
flourished in the mid-1700's, the 18thCentury. They were led by Mother
Ann Lee; and Mother Ann, a strange name for someone like her, because
she regarded herself as the female equivalent of Jesus Christ and
claimed to be able to speak 72 languages and believed that sexual
intercourse, even in marriage, was sinful. Now how you can believe that
and be called Mother Ann Lee, I'm not sure. Not only that, how you can
believe that teaching and expect your movement to last, I'm not sure.
They spoke in tongues while dancing and singing in a trance. In the
early 19th century Scottish Presbyterian pastor, Edward Irving, and
members of his congregation practiced speaking in tongues and some of
these other


ANOTHER's own words, his motivation for these postings was the discovery by "big traders" in the Far East of this opportune facility to buy gold at ever lower prices."

Another: "When everyone that has exchanged gold for paper finds out it's real price, in oil terms they will try to get it back. The great scramble that "Big Trader" understood may be very, very close."

"The problem is, "if the CBs don't expand their roll as "primary suppliers" LBMA will implode and in the process create the greatest bull market in oil and gold the world has ever seen. That is why some "Big Traders" are holding ONLY gold as events unfold. Interesting, don't you think?"

"That's why "Big Trader" and his bunch closed out all paper and pulled in bullion.Don't worry about the CBs selling everything, the market is huge compared TO WHAT THEY HAVE! And Comex is nothing, if "only a silly game". Worldwide trading in gold could be cut in half and still equal all the metal in existance!"

"Well a funny thing happened right after the Gulf war ended. What looked like big money before turned out to be little money as some HK people, I'll call them "Big Trader" for short, moved in and started buying all the notes and physical the market offered. The rub was that they only bought low, and lower and cheaper. They never ran the price and they never ran out of money. Seeing this, some people ( middle east ) started to exchange their existing paper gold for


require the physical transfer of gold to HK in 1997, or just the 'paper cornering' of it?"

Another clearly said that the CB's would have to step in as primary suppliers or the whole thing would fall apart.

The Day Backwardation Came

Well, two years later on May 7, 1999 we had the BOE announcement and "Browns Bottom" where the Bank of England became a primary supplier of 400 tonnes.

This action was followed four months later on September 26, 1999 by the 'Washington Agreement on Gold' during the IMF meeting in Washington, DC. Under this agreement, 15 European CB's agreed that no more than 400 tonnes of gold (between the lot of them) would be sold in any given year. This agreement was in direct response to "Brown's Bottom" (and I'mmarkets opened, through the trading day, and ending on a different note at the end of the day. Interesting in hindsight, knowing that was the day that backwardation came!

2009

Now jump forward 10 years to 2009.

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- China boosted its gold reserves by 76 percent since 2003 and has the world’s fifth-biggest holding by country, said Hu Xiaolian, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong is pulling all its physical gold holdings from depositories in London, transferring them to a high-security depository newly built at the city's airport, in a move that won praise from local traders Thursday.

Also in 2009, we have the IMF announcement that it will sell 403 tonnes of gold. (There's that 400 tonne number again!) We also


events, you cannot possibly prepare too early or too much. Mish says that you are a fool to play the inflation trade until it comes time for the government and the Fed to devalue the dollar. He says that you need not worry about the inflationary impact on your savings until all the consumer debt is cleared from the system. This is possibly the worst advice ever. Would you let your children play in a forest because the forest fire still looks like it is a couple miles away? Would you play football at the edge of the Grand Canyon? Would you take your kids swimming at the edge of a giant waterfall?

As Daniel Amerman says, the United States has no choice now but to keep its dollar-denominatedwords, debased money drives non-debased money under mattresses and into shoe boxes.

Sir Thomas GreshamSir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579) lived during the reign of the Tudors in England. Those of you who have been watching the excellent TV series, "The Tudors", will appreciate this history. Gresham's father, Sir Richard Gresham, served as the Mayor of London, a member of parliament, and was knighted by Henry VIII.

Thomas served Henry VIII in his younger years and went on to serve King Edward VI (son of Henry and Jane Seymour), Queen Mary (daughter of Henry and Catherine of Aragon) and Queen Elizabeth (daughter of Henry and Anne Boleyn) in the role of royal financial wizard.

Henry VIII and Edward VI, during their reigns, drastically debased the silver coinage of the kingdom through both weight


and purity. In 1544, young King Edward VI issued a coin containing just one third silver and two thirds copper — equating to .333 silver, or 33.3% pure. The result was a coin copper in appearance, but relatively pale in color. A shocking debasement considering England's first silver coins were .999 pure, followed by .925 which later came to be known as sterling silver.

The TudorsThen, in 1552, a penny's weight was cut to only 8 grains (0.52 g). The penny began at 22.5 troy grains of fine silver and was reduced to 15 grains around 1420, then to 12 grains in 1464, and 8 grains in 1552.

In 1551 Thomas Gresham was called upon by King Edward VI to rescue the pound sterling which had embarrassed the king asit collapsed in value. Gresham's solution was to manipulate the value of the pound sterling on the bourse (exchange) in Antwerp (modern-day Belgium) through "ingenious, arbitrary and unfair means". His methods were so successful that King Edward later discharged almost all of Gresham's personal debts.

Sir Thomas Gresham went on to serve Edward's two half-sisters as they took succession of the throne. Another interesting story is the fictional excerpt from "The Virgin Lover" related by John Rubino inA Tremendous Secret. Sir Gresham was Queen Elizabeth's closest monetary advisor at the time:

The year is 1560 and the young queen Elizabeth rules a country nearly bankrupted by a Spanish alliance that produced only war and debt. The English treasury has been systemically debasing its coins by clipping and shaving them, so


as the world tries to make gold into something it isn't.

It is the mashing of the gold wealth concept with the circulating credit receipt concept that opens the door to some of the greatest problems man has ever seen. Take, for example, the period of the modern gold exchange standard. 1913: Creation of the Federal Reserve System. 1914: WWI. 1923: Weimar hyperinflation. 1930: The Great Depression. 1939: WWII. 1950: The Korean War. 1959: The Vietnam War. 1971: Off the gold exchange standard.

Inflation of the circulating money supply is simply a fact of life in our imperfect world. The collective or the King always finds a way to inflate or debase money to its own advantage. And if circulating money is gold, or based on gold, then inflation isages as the ancients did, in your possession. In this way, the average family can know their wealth is real while society at large pursues its greedy folly while issuing unlimited receipts of credit.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Let us take a trip back in time to visit the first users of gold. We'll travel back 6,000 years to the very end of the Stone Age, a period where the first metal tools start to appear along side the stone tools that were used for the previous 6,000 years. This was a time of human transition, sometimes called the "copper age" or the "bronze age", followed by the "iron age".

Stone Age toolsDuring this period of time we see the emergence of agriculture which allowed for the storage of food which


created the first cities that could support the first division of labor. We also see the emergence of the first long-distance trade routes between cities and civilizations. 5,500 years ago we see the emergence of Mesopotamia, "the cradle of civilization", on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq, followed a couple hundred years later by Egypt on the Nile.

The discovery of metal literally changed the world, bringing it out of the stone age and into civilization. This "cradle of civilization", called "The Fertile Crescent", was also the birthplace of writing, recorded history, and the wheel!

Trade

During these ancient times, the force which most drove the development of civilization was trade. Trade, or commerce, allowed the division of labor to flourish and spread. But money had yet to beconceived. To ancient man, trade meant the exchange of real goods. Spices, silk, oils, incense, ivory and live animals were popular long-range trading items because they were transportable and durable. But for one who was setting out on the trade road with his camel bearing the weight of his goods, one item stood out head and shoulders above the rest.

That item was gold. Its most precious quality was that it always traded for the most goods, especially on the road. In town, you could trade your perishable items directly for other needed items. But on the road, gold ruled.

I can imagine that the first man to trade gold would have offered it at a pretty low price. But as the shiny metal began to circulate throughout this young


an excellent store of value for these ancient "super-producers".

Because gold was proving itself most valuable as a mere medium for trade and as a luxury for kings, it was not used in essential activities like fighting and cooking. So an ancient "mogul" could hoard as much gold as he could muster without depriving his countrymen of the necessities of life. It was a stand-alone store of value that did not invade the rights of others to their share of the limited resources necessary to the support of life.

It was completely durable. It did not rust, tarnish or rot. And it was soft and malleable making it easily divisible when called upon for trade. It was rare and difficult to remove from the earth, and most importantly, it wasbe fair, I should note that modern academics (who also notably embrace Keynes and Marx) no longer refer to this period as "the Dark Ages". It is now called "the Middle Ages".]

The word 'currency' did not enter the lexicon until more than 400 years later, in 1699, 12 years before the founding of the South Seas Company and 21 years before the infamous "South Seas Bubble" which cause massive international financial ruin.

I bring this up because the very concept of money and currency is most certainly a modern construct that has been imposed on gold to the detriment of society at large. Historically, gold filled two purposes by popular demand. It quickly evolved into the medium of exchange of choice in the absence of any forceful government interference.


Arabia, China, Russia, Central Banks... all physical gold advocates - all net accumulators).

As a collective society engaged in the stealthy proliferation of contractual paper debt, we have evolved a paradox in which it is commonly understood that more wealth comes from less work. The individual has forgotten the age-old wisdom that he is responsible for his own well being, and exchanged it for the illusion of collective responsibility.

The individual still claims all the rights which have been hard won through centuries of blood, sweat and tears, yet now he shifts the obligation of providence onto the collective. Now in full, unstoppable, political swing, this movement has turned the world's producers and savers against the infantile collective. Their goals and desires are no longer aligned. Their future plans nothink of as "deflation". So in 5 years when the farmer must reacquire gold on the open market, he will have to surrender more goods than he received for that same gold 5 years earlier. Likewise, the lender will receive his gold back with greater purchasing power than it had 5 years earlier.

In essence, the lender received "interest" and the borrower paid "interest", even though the money supply remained the same. All that changed was the economy against which the money is measured! The interest was the productivity that the borrower added to the economy. The lender profited from this economic growth and the borrower labored to meet his obligation.

So in this perfect world, the price of borrowing money means keeping up with the average productivity of everyone


BY CROM, THE GREATEST SWORD-AND-SORCERY HERO RETURNS TO MARVEL! From an age undreamed...hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet... Robert E. Howard's creation returns to comics, in an epic tale as only MARVEL could bring you! Conan's travels have brought him to the far reaches of the unkown, from his birthplace in Cimmeria to the kingdom of Aquilonia and all in between. As his fighting prowess allows him to carve his way through life, so too does it attract the forces of death! The all-new ages-spanning saga begins here, by writer Jason Aaron (THE MIGHTY THOR, STAR WARS) and artist Mahmudthese motions even though it appeared that they were served with them.
*1242 In an order dated July 30, 1996, the court directed Defendants to respond to the motions by August 9, 1996. On August 4, 1996, the CDC, purporting to appear on behalf of the State of Arizona, filed a motion to terminate the consent decree pursuant to the PLRA. On August 14, 1996, Defendants objected to the appearance of the CDC and moved to strike its motions; Defendants, however, did not respond to Klein and Foley's motions by August 9, 1996, or at all. Accordingly, in an order dated August 16, 1996, the court again directed Defendants to respond to the pending motions by September 4, 1996. The court further denied without prejudice CDC's motions since it


During the hearing, even though the United States did not provide an adequate reason for its delay in filing its motions and even though Plaintiffs' counsel averred that the United States was given notice of this action several weeks in advance, the court granted its motion to intervene. While the defendants did not object to the intervention of the Unites States, surprisingly it did object to the granting of additional time to Plaintiffs in order to respond to the United States' argument in support of the PLRA's constitutionality. Notwithstanding, because due process required no less, the court gave Plaintiffs and Defendants an opportunity to respond to the United States' motion on the constitutionality of the PLRA.
[7]  During the Senate hearings, Senator Dole explained that the PLRA wasnot be reached at any time except at the initial stage of the interaction time (see figure 1). To apprehend the essential features of detuning effects on coherence loss, we presented in figure 1b the contour plot of the concurrence, where complete separable states are shown in the severe shading areas.

In Figure 2c we show the time evolution of the atomic inversion. Apparently, it is easy to observe the existence of collapse and revival of Rabi oscillations of the atomic inversion and the first maximum of the idempotency defect is achieved in the collapse time, while at one-half of the revival time, the idempotency defect reaches its local minimum. Also, it is noticed that in absence of both detuning and phase-damping, a gradual decrease in the amplitudes of


club Malmo could meet Ronny Deila's side. Serbian champions Partizan Belgrade and Skenderbeu - who are from Albania - are the other possible foes.

Louis van Gaal's side can be paired with one of five teams in Friday's draw

Manchester United join the competition at the same stage and like the Scottish champions have five possible opponents; Belgium's Club Brugge, CSKA Moscow, Lazio, Monaco - who beat United in the knock-out stages in 1998 - or Rapid Vienna.

The dates for play-off first leg are 18/19 August with the second legs taking place on 25/26 August. The winning teams progress to the group stage, the losing sides enter the group stage of the Europa League.over suspected ISIL-links.

The detained suspects were reported to have been supplying ammunition to conflict zones.

Turkey’s Special Forces Command broke into 14 predetermined addresses and detained the suspects whom were understood to have been in communication with ISIL militants in Syria, and who were supporting ISIL in terms of recruitment as well delivering ammunition.

The suspects captured in Adana were taken to the police station following their medical examinations.

In Hatay’s Kırıkhan district on the southern province, a 23-year-old suspect was captured by gendarmerie forces for attempting to enter Syria illegally to join ISIL.

The suspect, who reportedly admitted he was on his way to join ISIL during the interrogation, had an unregistered shotgun and knife on him when he was captured.

Three other suspects of Syrian origin were captured and detained in


Odontoameloblastoma: report of a case.
Ameloblastic odontoma is a mixed odontogenic tumor, which is characterized as being extremely rare, displaying aggressive clinical behavior, resembling a mixed radiopaque and radiolucent radiographic appearance and containing both ameloblastoma and a composite odontoma. An eleven-year-old boy complaining of the edentulous area at the anterior maxilla, was seen at the Department of Oral Surgery of Ege University Dental Faculty. The lesion presented a radiopaque and radiolucent features on panoramic radiogram. Locally operated lesion was diagnosed as ameloblastic odontoma, because it contains islands of ameloblastoma with calcified dental structures as odontoma. The patient was followed-up for 7 years and no recurrence was seen. This case is presented because of its rarity, early detection in an edentulous area of a child, and the successful choice ofInterview: The #czarnyprotest and Monday’s women strike might be a turning point in Polish politics

Large protests have taken place in Poland against a proposed ban on abortion in all cases. On Monday (3 October) Polish women are taking part in a nationwide strike to defend their basic reproductive rights. Mark Bergfeld, who researches Polish immigrant workers as part of his PhD, spoke to Aleksandra Wolke who is a feminist activist and on the steering committee of the Razem party in London and MikoÅ‚aj Ratajczak, a philosopher who edits the Praktyka Teoretyczna journal and is a member of the Razem party in Warsaw.

via Razem/Facebook

Aleks, what will the proposed abortion law mean for women in Poland?

Aleksandra: If the new law is implemented, it will force women to give birth regardless


was recently fined over 150 crore rupees by the NGT for causing environmental and health damage” in Raigarh, Shripad Dharmadhikary, founder of the Manthan Adhyayan Kendra, said. Ideally, according to him, the ruling should have some bearing on the company’s reputation for compliance with environmental laws and regulations.

The project remains under consideration with the FAC. And the environment ministry has reportedly been flooded with letters – some in support of and others in opposition.

According to a person familiar with the matter, landowners of the Idu Mishmi community in the region are in favour of the project, but many others opposite it. For example, on May 1, the Kera-aa Initiatives for Cultural and Ecological Security, an NGO established by members of the community, wrote a letter to the FACGrindHouse Double Bill in the UK!

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It is being reported by our friends at FilmIck. that Momentum the UK Distributor of GrindHouse has caved in to the fans and will show the films as they were seen in the US and Canada as one film. So UK fans will soon be able to see the film exactly as it was intended, shorter versions with all the trailers!


Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s chief of staff Valentin Yumashev has made headlines for his candid interview about President Vladimir Putin’s career in the late 1990s. Shortly after Yumashev’s appointment as unsalaried adviser appeared on the Kremlin’s website in June 2018, the Kremlin revealed that he had actually served in that role for 18 years and had his own office. 2019 marks 20 years since Putin has been in power as either president or prime minister. The Moscow Times picked out four quotes from Yumashev’s interview with veteran journalist Vladimir Pozner at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg last Friday: On two firing attempts Yumashev: “A little known fact, speaking of [then-Prime Minister Yevgeny] Primakov, as an aside, he tried twice to fire Putin from the post of FSBWeiler's remarks  "The native population gave the early explorers syphilis, which they brought back to Europe. Blaming Columbus for the extermination of the native population is as fair as blaming the native population for people who die using tobacco and cocaine, which the natives introduced to the Europeans"  were considered offensive and racist by protest organizers, who put up a Facebook page calling for Weiler to make an apology.


a man or in any stage of life old or young.

Therefore
the Saktas conceived supreme Brahman in the form of goddess. In reality she is
neither male nor female not neuter. She is not bound to any particular form. She is
the personification of primordial energy and the source of all divine and cosmic
evolution and also the source and the controller of all forces and potentialities of
nature. She can be manifested in any form to fulfill the desires of her devotees.
She is the cause of world's creation, preservation and destruction. She inherent in
the gods, human beings and inanimate and animate beings of this universe.
Therefore the universe with all its beauties is a part of her. In the words of Sarada
Tilaka "She pervades in the universe as does oil in the sesameseed." She
manifests in so many forms as Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, and Saraswati etc. She also
manifests herself in Dasa Mahavidyas. Dasajagnmatas, Saptamatrikas
etc.

He conception is popular from Himalayas to Kanyakumari. The worship of
this female principle can be traced in India to the hoary past. The cult of this
mother goddess existed in some form or other among the Indus valley people. It
was confirmed by the Terracotta images of the goddess found in course of
excavations. Since vedic age to the modern period its worship can be traced
without any interruption.

This book attempts to present a comprehensive study
of the origin and evolution of the concept of he goddess since Vedic age to the
modern times; discuses various forms i.e. terrific and peaceful and also as the
consort of the main gods; mythology stories associated with specific


acts of
destruction.

It also describes the iconographical features of various images of
the goddess along with textual description and the significance of her
attributes.

About the Author:

She was awarded Doctorate in Art and Architecture
by the Banaras Hindu University and started her career as a lecturer in Fine Arts
in he department of Indian Culture, in the Poompuhar College of Indian Culture in
Tanjore District. For some time she served the Banaras Hindu University as a
lecturer in Sculpture. Later she became Reader in Indian Culture at A. P. College
of Indian Culture, Palani, the extension centre of Madurai Kamaraj University and
now she is working as Professor and Head of the Department of History, I.C.C.&
C.E. Madurai Kamaraj University. She is devoted to the research work in Indian
Culture and many of her works are under preparation. She isthe form of a man or in any stage of life old or young.

Therefore
the Saktas conceived supreme Brahman in the form of goddess. In reality she is
neither male nor female not neuter. She is not bound to any particular form. She is
the personification of primordial energy and the source of all divine and cosmic
evolution and also the source and the controller of all forces and potentialities of
nature. She can be manifested in any form to fulfill the desires of her devotees.
She is the cause of world's creation, preservation and destruction. She inherent in
the gods, human beings and inanimate and animate beings of this universe.
Therefore the universe with all its beauties is a part of her. In the words of Sarada
Tilaka "She pervades in the universe as does oil


in the sesame seed." She
manifests in so many forms as Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, and Saraswati etc. She also
manifests herself in Dasa Mahavidyas. Dasajagnmatas, Saptamatrikas
etc.

He conception is popular from Himalayas to Kanyakumari. The worship of
this female principle can be traced in India to the hoary past. The cult of this
mother goddess existed in some form or other among the Indus valley people. It
was confirmed by the Terracotta images of the goddess found in course of
excavations. Since vedic age to the modern period its worship can be traced
without any interruption.

This book attempts to present a comprehensive study
of the origin and evolution of the concept of he goddess since Vedic age to the
modern times; discuses various forms i.e. terrific and peaceful and also as the
consort of the main gods; mythology storiesassociated with specific acts of
destruction.

It also describes the iconographical features of various images of
the goddess along with textual description and the significance of her
attributes.

About the Author:

She was awarded Doctorate in Art and Architecture
by the Banaras Hindu University and started her career as a lecturer in Fine Arts
in he department of Indian Culture, in the Poompuhar College of Indian Culture in
Tanjore District. For some time she served the Banaras Hindu University as a
lecturer in Sculpture. Later she became Reader in Indian Culture at A. P. College
of Indian Culture, Palani, the extension centre of Madurai Kamaraj University and
now she is working as Professor and Head of the Department of History, I.C.C.&
C.E. Madurai Kamaraj University. She is devoted to the research work in Indian
Culture and many of her works are under


in January. Queens of the Stone Age kick off the second half of Season 39 in the New Year, making their ACL debut on January 4, Neko Case returns on January 11, Sarah Jarosz and The Milk Carton Kids appear on February 1, Kacey Musgraves makes her ACL debut on February 8 and Mavis Staples encores on March 29.

And don’t forget – our own executive producer Terry Lickona is also co-producer of the Grammy telecast, as well as the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Recording Academy, the Grammys’ parent organization. The Grammy Awards broadcast on January 26th – Good luck to Terry and all the nominees!

The 55th Annual Grammy Awards show has come and gone. We want to not only congratulate, ACL Executive Producerthe second year in a row, co-producer of the Grammy telecast, as well as the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Recording Academy, the Grammys’ parent organization. The Grammys are in good hands!

The 54th annual Grammys ceremony has come and gone. While we were particularly excited this year because our own Terry Lickona co-produced the broadcast, we’d be remiss in not congratulating the winners, including upcoming ACL performers the Civil Wars, who took home trophies for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Folk Album, ACL veterans Alison Krauss & Union Station, who won Best Bluegrass Album, Season 32 performer Corinne Bailey Rae, who earned Best R&B Vocal, and Season 34 alumni Foo Fighters, who swept the rock categories in the same way Adele swept the


Washington, master's degrees in operations research and
electrical engineering, as well as a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Southern
California. Stuart Deel. <J[ 4. Dr. Stuart has more than 40 years of experience with satellite
telecommunications and phased array antennas. Tr. 182. Dr. Stuart was formerly the project
manager for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was the head of a Mars mission and
designed an Earth orbiter which had a phased array antenna attached. Since his time at the NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. Stuart founded and managed more than six companies in the field
                                  equivalent, with at least eight years of relevant work experience with
antennas. The Court recognizes that additional relevant work experience in phased array antennas,
including satellite communications, may substitute for formal education.

Effective Filing Date

        The filing date on the face of the '134 Patent is Februat·y 25, 2000, with a priority date
claimed to the '134 Patent's provisional application No. 60/121,874 filed Februat·y 26, 1999. For
the purposes of claim construction only, the Court accepts Defendant's unrebutted position that
the effective filing date of the' 134 Patent is February 26, 1999, the date most favorable to Plaintiff.

Claim Construction of the Term "Sphere"

       The patties dispute the meaning of the term "sphere" as it appeat·s in all 30 claims of the
'134


Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
Colorado School of Mines, with 38 years of experience in phased array antennas. He has a Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. In 1993, he was named the Federal
Engineer of the Year - - the top engineer employed by the United States Government. He is
currently the chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ("IEEE") Antennas and
Propagation Society Fellow Committee, and from 1999 to 2014, was a member of the IEEE
Antennas Definitions Working Group that defines government and industry terms for antenna
specifications. Haupt Deel. ']['][ 4-11.
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Cat odor exposure caused an increase in the number of c-Fos positive cells in the mitral cell layer of the AOB (AOBmc), but this effect was greater in rats exposed


wear life is shortened.
In order to prevent such abnormal wear, there have been proposed to increase the hardness of the rubber for the sidewalls of the lateral grooves, to decrease partly the groove depth of the lateral grooves, to increase the inclination angle of the sidewalls of the lateral groove, to and decrease the groove width and the like, which are intended to improve the resistance to wear or to lessen the amount of the slip of the tread against the road face by lessening the movement of the groove sidewalls GW into the lateral groove G.
However, to use the harder rubber for the sidewalls of the lateral groove complicates the production of the tire, and such rubber partly increases the hardness at the tread face, which sometimescourt erred in not excluding the evidence.
The rule Alabama Power Company relies on as a basis of its objection is inapposite to these facts. In actions such as this, the plaintiff's cause of action accrues, and the statute of limitations begins to run, when the defendant's negligence causes the damage complained of. The limitations period is one year. The plaintiff must, therefore, bring her action within one year of the date on which the damage occurred. The damage to Cummings's house first occurred in May of 1979. In order to bring an action for that damage, Cummings was required to file suit within one year, which she did. After she filed her complaint, she incurred additional damage. If she had failed to file her complaint until after May


The season finale date for Supernatural was announced today as part of The CW's spring 2019 slate of new and returning programming.

The season fourteen finale will take place on April 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW. After Supernatural wraps its season, iZombie will slide into its time slot for its fifth and final season.

It has been a big year for Supernatural, with the family back together (ish) and hunting side by side, while the chemistry between the brothers is tried because of Dean's brief disappearance.

The show will also celebrate 300 episodes soon, complete with guest appearances by some fan-favorites including The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan returning to reprise the role of John Winchester.

“I went up to Vancouver to go shoot a role that IMembers of the Shan State Progress Party and Shan State Army-North meet for their fourth congress at party headquarters in Wanhai in Kyethi township, eastern Myanmar’s Shan state, Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2018.

RFA

An ethnic Shan political organization has called for dialogue to bring about a cease-fire between opposing Shan armies in beleaguered eastern Myanmar, in an attempt to stop the fighting and advance the country's faltering peace process.

The Shan State Progress Party (SSPP), whose armed wing, the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N), is one of the state’s ethnic insurgent groups, issued the call in a statement the party released at the end of a five-day congress at its headquarters in the town of Wanhai in northern Shan state's Kyethi township. Nearly 340 SSPP members attended the meeting.

The SSPP said it


had tried as much as possible to negotiate between opposing Shan groups engaged in inter-ethnic clashes, but its efforts have been unsuccessful.

The party will continue to push for talks and will try to resolve political problems through political means in accordance with state and national government-level agreements signed in 2012, it said.

Shan state has long been plagued by inter-ethnic conflict as well as by hostilities between Myanmar government forces and ethnic armed groups, including the SSPP/SSA-N, the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and its armed wing, the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S), and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA).

Fighting between the RCSS/SSA and the TNLA continued to flare late last week on the outskirts of Lashio, the largest town in northern Shan state, prompting more than 200 villagersto flee their homes, the Myanmar Times reported.

Clashes in the area have occurred for more than a year, at first between the Myanmar military and a combined force of the RCSS/SSA and TNLA soldiers, but now between the two armed ethnic groups, the report said, citing Than Aung, administrator of Pan Sok village.

Previous skirmishes occurred in the area in March and July, he said.

TNLA spokesman Colonel Tar Aik Kyaw told the publication that his group has been involved in at least 80 clashes with the RCSS/SSA over territory this year.

The SSPP has accused the RCSS of fighting together with the government army against it, though Myanmar forces are battling RCSS troops, said Khun Sai, an educator at the Union Institute in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

“All organizations and people, including


ethnic armed groups and the Myanmar military or between different ethnic armies, has resulted in civilian casualties and additional displacement in several conflict-affected townships, OCHA said.

Clashes between the TNLA, the armed wing of the Palaung ethnic group, and the RCSS have intensified in recent months following a joint effort by the SSPP and the Ta’ang army to try to push back RCSS soldiers expanding into northern Shan state, according to a November report on the Shan Herald Agency for News website.

The TNLA began fighting the RCSS for the same reason after the latter signed the government’s nationwide cease-fire agreement (NCA) in October 2015, though the RCSS argued that its troops had been in the area for more than a dozen years, the report said. The TNLA has notsigned the peace accord.

The RCSS also accused TNLA troops of attacking Shans who had completed military training at its headquarters and were returning home to the Namkham area in November 2015, it said.

Deadly shooting in Muse

The ongoing violence in the state was evident in a shooting Sunday night by an unknown group that killed three pro-army border guards and injured two others at a militia camp in the trading hub of Muse on the border with China, a militiaman who declined to provide his name told RFA.

The attack occurred while security guards were on duty at the border crossing police station, immigration office, and the Nantkham Myoma Militia camp, he said.

“They shot at the militia camp at around 7:10 p.m.,” he said.

“The Myoma Militia has been working together


HAVANA, Cuba -- It's been nearly a year since direct commercial flights began from the U.S. to Cuba -- and Americans are making trips to the communist nation long off-limits, but not in the numbers expected.

Claire Jerome from Boston is among the surging number of Americans visiting Cuba. Last year, nearly 300,000 went, up 74 percent.

"I thought there were many more Americans here, it seems like a good time to come visit the country," Jerome told CBS News.

U.S. carriers rushed to launch service to Cuba in August after the U.S. government approved 110 daily non-stops. But many are already cutting back.

Collin Laverty, who runs Cuba Educational Travel that organizes high-end tours, addressed a possible gold rush that never happened.

Collin Laverty CBS News

"I think it didn't happen as fasthard labor. The court ordered that all three sentences be served concurrently with each other.
On March 20, 2007, the State filed a habitual offender bill of information alleging the defendant was a second felony offender. On the same day the defendant waived his rights and entered an admission to the allegations in the habitual offender bill. The court vacated the defendant's sentence as to Count 2. In accordance with a sentencing agreement, the court imposed an enhanced sentence of 15 years on Count 2, to run concurrently with the sentences on Counts 1 and 3 and with any other sentences the defendant was serving.
The defendant now appeals under Crosby, supra.
FACTS
These facts are taken from the transcript of the defendant's suppression hearing, as well as from the transcript of


based on the information Lieutenant Harrison gave him, he planned an investigation of the Houma Boulevard residence. Gerdes went to the apartment building and surveyed the area. He determined it would be impossible to conduct surveillance of Apartment 411 from a vehicle, because the front door of that apartment faced a courtyard and was not visible from the street. He felt a surveillance done from the courtyard would be compromised. Taking those factors into account, Gerdes decided his group should perform what he termed a "knock-and-talk" at the residence.
At about 10:30 p.m. on the night of November 15, 2004, Gerdes approached the front door of Apartment 411 with several other officers. Deputy Frank Gattuso, the only officer in full police uniform, knocked on the door and announced thatthe Jefferson Parish Sheriffs Office was there. A woman answered the door and identified herself as Patrice New. Detective Shane Klein testified he immediately smelled the odor of burning marijuana.
Relying on the attachments on Patrice New and the smell of marijuana, the officers stepped inside the apartment. Klein testified that Patrice New was immediately arrested on the attachments. Gerdes and Klein saw the defendant running up the staircase that led to the second floor of the apartment. Klein said he and Gerdes followed the defendant, and they stopped him as he walked out of a bathroom on the second floor. Klein testified he did not see what the defendant had been doing in the bathroom, but he saw water around the toilet. Klein said that based on the


defendant's behavior, he believed the defendant was discarding contraband.
Agent Eric Dufrene, who remained on the first floor of the apartment, discovered some marijuana blunts (i.e., cigars stuffed with marijuana) in an ashtray on the kitchen table. One of the blunts was still burning, and Dufrene determined it was the source of the marijuana odor. Gerdes testified that Dufrene alerted him and Klein to the discovery of the marijuana.
Klein and Gerdes arrested the defendant for possession of the marijuana in the ashtray and handcuffed him. The officers searched the defendant's person incident to the arrest and found crack cocaine and marijuana in his pocket. They escorted the defendant to the first floor of the apartment. Klein testified that he saw the ashtray with marijuana blunts on the table inplain view. At least one of the blunts was burning and was hot to the touch. Gerdes said Nekita New, Patrice's sister, was also in the apartment, and he issued her a summons for misdemeanor marijuana possession.
Dufrene and Klein left to obtain a warrant to search the apartment, while other officers stayed behind to secure the premises. Dufrene testified that he wrote the search warrant application. Dufrene and Klein went to the home of Judge Ross LaDart, who signed the search warrant at 12:15 a.m. on November 16, 2004. Klein notified Sergeant Gerdes by radio that the warrant had been signed.
Dufrene and Klein returned to the apartment and aided in executing the search warrant. Klein testified that the officers broke open the toilet on the second floor and


found narcotics, although he did not specify what types of narcotics were in *873 the toilet. The return on the search warrant lists several other items seized, including a digital scale, a box of clear plastic sandwich bags, tennis shoes and other items of male clothing, a "ballistic vest," a cellular telephone, and a gun.
Patrice New testified for the defense at the suppression hearing. She stated that when the officers arrived at her apartment, she was playing cards at the kitchen table with Nekita (her sister) and the defendant (her boyfriend). She said that neither she nor Nekita smokes marijuana, but the defendant does. The defendant smoked marijuana earlier in the day, but he did not smoke any while they were playing cards. The blunts the defendant hadsmoked were in an ashtray on the kitchen table, but none of them were lit or smoldering at 10:30 p.m. Patrice further testified there was no marijuana smell in the apartment when the officers arrived.
Patrice testified that when the officers knocked on the front door, the defendant went to the door. He returned and told her there were police officers there. The defendant then went upstairs. Patrice opened the door and the officers asked for her name. When she identified herself, they told her they had a warrant for her arrest. Patrice testified she did not give the officers permission to enter her apartment, but the officers nevertheless entered and began searching the place.
She said that at one point some of the officers left the apartment for about


one hour. During that time she and the defendant were under arrest and were held at the apartment by the remaining officers. The officers who had left returned with a long black pipe-looking object. Patrice presumed they used it to break the upstairs toilet. She did not see what the officers did, since they were upstairs, and she was handcuffed to the table on the first floor.
Nekita New, who was also called as a defense witness, testified that no one smoked marijuana at Patrice's apartment during the time she was there that night.
ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR NUMBER ONE
In his sole assignment of error, the defendant asserts the trial court erred and/or abused its discretion by denying the Motion to Suppress Evidence.
The defendant argues the officers improperly began their searchstated that 10:30 on November 15, 2004 was the time the officers initially arrived at New's apartment, and not the time the search warrant was executed. Detective Klein also testified that the search did not begin at 10:30. The only officer who both stayed behind to secure the residence and testified at the suppression hearing was Sergeant Gerdes, and he did not give any testimony as to exactly when the search began.
The defendant points out that Klein's police report listed 12:07 a.m. on November 16, 2004 as the time the search began, which was a full eight minutes before the judge signed the warrant. The report to which the defendant refers was used at the suppression hearing for impeachment purposes, but was not admitted in evidence. In his


closing argument at the suppression hearing, Patrice New's attorney read the following passage from Klein's report: "At approximately 12:07 a.m., Detective Klein notified Sergeant Gerdes that he possessed a lawful order of search." The prosecutor responded that the report gave 12:07 a.m. as an approximate time, and that it could simply reflect a discrepancy between the officer's timepiece and the judge's.
The defendant further points to Patrice New's testimony that immediately after placing defendant under arrest, the officers began to search her possessions. She stated that the officers were "[t]aking the pillows off the sofa. They were raising upwe had a plant. They were raising things up." New further stated that the officers went into the kitchen and "went through the cabinets, opened the drawers, looked in the refrigerator,things like that."
Klein said that occurred after the search warrant was issued. Klein also stated that, aside from the marijuana in plain view and the items found on the defendant's person in the search incident to arrest, nothing was seized prior to issuance of the search warrant. Klein testified he was present when the toilet was broken and the narcotics were found inside of it.
Dufrene testified that Klein notified Gerdes by radio once the search warrant had been signed.
We conclude that the officers who remained at the apartment began the search after they received the radioed communication from Klein that the judge had signed the warrant, but before Dufrene and Klein returned to the scene with the warrant.
The Fourth Amendment does not require that the accused be served


By Matt Farr

Everton are closing in on the signing of highly-rated Real Sociedad attacker Willian Jose, according to a report.

The Guardian report that Everton’s director of football Steve Walsh met with representatives from the Spanish club this week in an attempt to push through a deal ahead of the summer window for their top priority target.

It is understood that the 25-year-old has a buyout clause in his contract worth £33million, but Everton are confident they can strike an agreement at just £28million.

The fee would equal their current club transfer record, with Everton spending £28million to acquire Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea in 2014.

Everton owner Farhad Moshiri is expected to back Ronald Koeman in the transfer market this summer, and a potential deal for the Brazilian attacker could be thefirst of many by the Merseyside club.

Willian Jose has been in fine form for Real Sociedad this season, contributing 12 goals and three assists since his move from Deportivo Maldonado a year ago.

He signed a five-year-deal at the La Liga club, but the buyout clause in his contract could enable him to quit after just one year.

Football Insider verdict

In terms of his goalscoring record, Willian Jose would be fantastic addition to the Goodison Park ranks. Everton have few reliable goalscoring options besides Lukaku in their attack, with a number of players having tried and failed to make the cut – most recently, £13.5million flop Oumar Niasse. But the ongoing uncertainty over the long term future of Lukaku means that Everton may be in the market for an outright


Tiwari to be sworn as Andhra Governor

HYDERABAD: Veteran Congress leader N D Tiwari will be sworn in as Governor of Andhra Pradesh at the Raj Bhavan here on Wednesday.

High Court Chief Justice G S Singhvi will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Tiwari at 0945 hrs, officials said on Tuesday.

The former chief minister of Uttarakhand and four-time chief minister of undivided Uttar Pradesh arrived here on Tuesday to a warm welcome.

Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, his cabinet colleagues and a large number of Congress leaders received Tiwari at the airport.

Tiwari later inspected a guard of honour.

He was named the Governor of Andhra Pradesh on August 19. Orissa Governor Rameshwar Thakur, who was holding additional charge of Andhra Pradesh, was shifted to Karnataka to complete hisA Citrus County teacher is suspended without pay while she is investigated for allegedly giving students pot, alcohol and sex tips at a Christmas party hosted at her home last December.

Josephine Breviario could face termination.

A complaint was filed Dec. 15 with the district against the Citrus High School teacher.

The complaints says Breviario hosted a party Dec. 12 at her home for several students.

According to the district, Breviario may have known several high school students were drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana at her home. She may have hosted several parties over the summer and fall where similar incidents were reported and she allegedly discussed her sexual relationship with her spouse to students, discussing how to perform oral sex acts with students and reportedly making sexually derogatory statements to a


male student over the phone.

School district leaders say 15 students were interviewed and all claimed they attended an "ugly sweater" party at Breviario's house. They reportedly said six students had to stay overnight at the teacher's home because they were too intoxicated.

It is not clear if Breviario provided the alcohol or marijuana to the students, the district report says.

According to the district report, a Snapchat video of Breviario was taken showing her wearing a student's jacket and slurring her words.

ABC Action News knocked on Breviario's door for comment but no one answered.

Steve Rossi, her lawyer, said she is upset and insists she is innocent. She doesn't plan to resign.

Citrus County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Heather Yates says they have forwarded the case on to the State Attorney's Office. NoA union in Andalusia has announced plans to occupy Gibraltar for one day next month with the goal of denouncing tax havens, dismantling the British military base, protecting small-scale fishing in the area and reclaiming Gibraltar as Andalusian territory.

The decision to take action against Gibraltar on 29 August was made at a recent national assembly, said Andalusian Workers' Union spokesperson Diego Cañamero Valle. Emphasising that this would be a "peaceful protest", he added that it was primarily an action against tax havens. "It's a crucial topic right now in Europe, as there are more than a dozen tax havens where money is hidden, allowing people to dodge taxes."

The details have yet to be worked out, he said, including how many of the group's 20,000 members would participate and


turned them over to cooperatives to be farmed and carried out raids on Spanish supermarkets, leaving with trolleys laden with food and school supplies to hand out to families in need in Andalusia.

The group's interest in Gibraltar comes after a year of high tension between London and Madrid over the creation of an artificial reef by Gibraltar. The move angered Spain, which argued that the reef disrupted Spanish fishing boats.

In a move that many saw as retaliatory, Spain imposed tighter controls at the border, leading to long queues for people trying to enter Gibraltar. Spanish authorities said the stricter border controls were necessary to crackdown on tobacco smuggling.

Last week the European commission said that Gibraltar had not violated EU environmental regulations in the creation of an artificial reef,as Spain had previously alleged in various complaints.

• This article was amended on 29 July 2014 to clarify that while the union claims Gibraltar is a tax haven, the territory itself says it complies with all EU tax regulations.


after it became clear it lacked the votes and after immigrant advocates warned about unintended ramifications of giving non-citizens the vote.

The timing of the proposal – amid the national debate over immigration policy and President Trump’s demands for a border wall – made it a hot topic outside of Portland city limits. Even if the Legislature approved Faulkingham’s bill – which would require two-thirds votes in the Democrat-controlled House and Senate – it would still need approval by Maine voters on a statewide ballot to amend the state Constitution.

Waterville Mayor Nick Isgro, who is vice chairman of the Maine Republican Party, said Monday that when cities such as Portland “are determined to promote the destruction of the republic by eroding the essence of citizenship, it becomes clear thatthe 20th century that we began stopping immigrants from having the right to vote.”

Portland has, for years, been a destination for immigrants fleeing war, persecution and economic strife in their native countries. The city is home to a vibrant community of immigrants in a state whose population consistently ranks among the whitest – and oldest – in the country. Yet the influx of asylum-seeking immigrants from sub-Saharan countries – most of whom arrive in the U.S. legally with visas – in recent years has strained the city’s social service programs and drawn national scrutiny from conservatives amid the polarized debate over immigration.

Strimling said other cities around the country already allow non-citizens to vote in local elections because immigrants are active – and important – members of those communities.

“You


play style.

Festival of Blood takes place in the same setting as inFAMOUS 2. On Pyre Night (a New Marias holiday that's like a mix between Halloween and Mardi Gra) Cole MacGrath is bitten by the vampire queen Bloody Mary, the leader of a vampire cult that is rampaging through New Marias. In classic vampire story telling, Cole has one night to find and destroy Bloody Mary before he completely turns into a vampire and New Marias falls to her wicked plans.

The narrative of the story is told through the eyes of my favorite inFAMOUS character, Zeke. While trying to pick up a sexy lady at a bar, Zeke retells the events of Pyre Night to try and impress the young bar patron. This provides a fun twist tothe Flint River, east of Leesburg, was indicated to have "no bridge or ferry". Between June 1955 and July 1957, this crossing was no longer indicated to have not bridge or ferry. The entire length of SR 32 was paved. In 1993, a western bypass of Leesburg, designated as SR 910, was proposed from US 19/SR 3, where they met SR 32 just south of the city to US 19/SR 3 north-northwest of it. In 1998, SR 3 Byp. was established on the proposed path of SR 910, including the concurrency with SR 32. In 2007, US 19 Byp. was established on the paths of SR 3 Byp. and SR 32 in Leesburg.

Major intersections

Special routes

Leesburg truck route

State Route 32 Truck (SR 32 Truck) is a  truck route of SR 32 that directs truck traffic from the main part of Leesburg. It begins at


The Department of Labor has awarded Utica, New York, $2 million to teach young refugees how to build drones as part of a summer jobs program.

About 400 teenage refugee students living in the city will get part-time summer jobs through the program, as well as tutoring in English and Math. Those who demonstrate academic competence will then take part in a year-long drone building challenge during the school year, as the work and tutoring continues.

The 14- and 15-year-old refugee students will learn how to design a drone and then construct their own model using the lab of the local Mohawk Valley Community College, which has an award-winning drone studies program.

“It was just a population we chose to target,” Alice Savino, executive director of the area Workforce Development Board"I don't regret speaking out, but since then, people have looked at me with strange eyes," laments 16-year-old village boy Irfan.He was one of 20 children sexually abused by a gang who sold videos of the acts and used them for blackmail purposes, in a scandal that shocked Pakistan.The police, who had conspicuously failed to act despite pleas from some parents, eventually arrested 37 men after clashes between relatives and authorities brought the issue into the media spotlight last summer, years after the abuse began.Six months after one of the country's biggest paedophilia scandal broke, police now confirm 17 of the accused remain in prison awaiting trial, while three more are out on bail.But the young survivors who defied taboos to seek justice say they have little hope


school."Though the scandal finally made it to the national news media in July, the local police were found to have turned a blind eye to the crimes for several months "which amounts not only to criminal negligence, rather it was connivance," according to a report by the National Commission for Human Rights.Several of the accused belong to locally influential families.It took a series of clashes between the survivors' families and police, in which dozens were injured, for politicians to act and demand arrests.The families and survivors were then served up to the media, with some local leaders placing the number of abused children at 280 -- though that figure is believed to have been inflated as a result of attempts to leverage the tragedy for business and politicalgain.Authorities established that 20 youths were raped and sodomised, the only two sex crimes recognised under Pakistani law.The country's penal code does not prohibit sexual abuse that does not involve penetration, nor child pornography."This scandal shows there are no institutional structures to tackle sexual abuse or to protect children," says Valerie Khan, the director of Group Development Pakistan, a local NGO which advocates legal reforms.A law criminalising sexual abuse of children is currently being debated by Pakistan's Senate.These reforms are all the more urgent given the growing number of cases being reported, according to child rights' group Sahil, which records statistics based on press reports in the absence of official data.The group recorded fewer than 2,000 cases in 2008, but more than 3,500 in 2014, a rise it


said "reflects an increase in social awareness of the problem".Veteran human rights activist Hina Jilani said that while increased reporting was welcome, cases must be handled sensitively -- noting that activists, judges and police were not trained in how to question child victims.Another obstacle to greater reporting of crimes are the families themselves, who are often reluctant to intervene when they feel their "honour" is at stake, according to Jilani.Eighteen-year-old Sonia says it was unreported childhood abuse, and the subsequent loss of her honour that drove her toward prostitution.Forced to abandon her studies to work following the death of her father at the age of 16, she found herself at the mercy of an employer who she says raped her."If I would tell my family, they would notgo to the police station," says the frail young woman, because of the shame it would bring.It was difficult for her to make her complaint herself because "there (are) no lady police" at the station, she said, and she quit her job fearing more attacks.Having lost her sense of worth, she turned to an intermediary at a beauty salon who guided her toward prostitution, which she now uses to support her family.Wearing light make-up and modern but modest clothing, she has all the airs of a carefree high-schooler -- apart from the fact she walks the streets alone at night.Back in Hussain Khan Wala, the parents of abused children are waiting for the government to help them rebuild their lives anew elsewhere.Muhammad, a labourer whose 17 year old


Photo: The Canadian Press

Nexen Energy says it will spend about $400 million to build a 26,000-barrel-per-day expansion of its Long Lake oilsands project in northern Alberta.

The company, which was purchased by Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Co. Ltd. (CNOOC) in 2013, says its Long Lake Southwest expansion will add three steam-driven well-pads that will send bitumen to its existing facilities.

It says in a release on its website the project has been approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator and "affirms" CNOOC's long-term confidence in the Alberta energy sector.

GMP FirstEnergy estimates Nexen's existing works produced about 41,000 barrels of bitumen per day in 2017.

A company spokeswoman said site preparation has already begun, with first oil anticipated in late 2020.

Nexen is facing provincial labour charges from the deaths of twoA 45-year-old man was reported missing from Bronzeville on the South Side.

Ronnie Davis was last seen July 22 in the 400 block of East 42nd Street, Chicago police said in an alert. He was wearing a gray shirt, white pants and black boots.

He may seem to be in need of medical attention, police said. He is 6-foot-2, 300 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.

Anyone with information should call Area Central detectives at 312-747-8380.


Midnight Creeper (Teddy Edwards album)

Midnight Creeper is an album by saxophonist Teddy Edwards which was recorded in 1997 and released on the HighNote label.

Reception

In his review on Allmusic, Scott Yanow states "52 years after his recording debut, Teddy Edwards proved to still be in his musical prime"

Track listing
All compositions by Teddy Edwards except where noted
 "Midnight Creeper" – 7:30
 "Walking in the Rain" – 5:40
 "Sensitive" – 6:06
 "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin Ira Gershwin) – 10:34
 "Don't Blame Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) – 6:49
 "Sunday" (Chester Conn' Jule Styne, Benny Krueger Ned Miller) – 5:34
 "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 9:44
 "Almost Like Being in Love" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 5:29

Personnel
 Teddy Edwards – tenor saxophone
 Virgil Jones – trumpetIn the 40 years Mark Perry has worked for clean water in Florida, he has borne witness to toxic algae blooms, fish kills and seagrass die-offs.

But this year's environmental devastation stands out — for both its duration and geographic scope.

“I’d definitely say it’s one of the worst, if not the worst," said Perry, executive director of the Stuart-based nonprofit Florida Oceanographic Society.

Low points in the year we have come to know as "Toxic 2018" included:

Red tide on all coasts

A rare confluence of red tide on all three of Florida's shorelines — the west coast, the east coast and the Panhandle — prompted some beaches to close and lifeguards to leave their posts after experiencing respiratory problems caused by the algae blooms.

The situation was deadly for marine life. An


Florida's biggest lake, and it looked like a festering wound. In a sense, it was.

The algae was bad news for the lake itself — and it was worse for the two rivers that serve as its relief valve: the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee. Both were on the receiving end of billions of gallons of discharged water as Lake Okeechobee swelled this summer and fall.

Those discharges led to blue-green algae blooms in both waterways. Along the St. Lucie, the algae sickened employees who work near the river and, in some places, was 10 times too toxic to touch. The algae, which is a cyanobacteria, produces toxins that are linked to neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Blue-green algae persisted in the Caloosahatchee River as recently as last month. Citingharm to threatened species such as manatees, three environmental groups announced Wednesday they were suing three federal agencies that play a role in the lake discharges: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Human waste pollution

Last year, Hurricane Irma revealed vulnerabilities in sewage capacity in the northern Indian River Lagoon region, where some 30 million gallons of human waste were dumped in the portion of the estuary in Brevard County. The effects of that pollution, known as "brown tide," continued to plague the region's water in 2018.

Compounding the problem, an old pipe in Titusville leaked another 870,000 gallons of sewage into the Indian River Lagoon in July.

Farther south, the application of treated sewage known as biosolids in Indian


reservoir to alleviate discharges from Lake Okeechobee to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers, its completion remains years away.

And it won't solve the crisis in the northern lagoon or Lake Okeechobee itself.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration this month proposed weakening the Clean Water Act, which could endanger about 6 million acres of wetlands in Florida, according to reporting by the Tampa Bay Times.

Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis has everything to prove. On the campaign trail, he positioned himself as an Everglades advocate and vowed to bring tangible solutions to communities reeling from this year's toxic algae.

As his January inauguration approaches, DeSantis has assembled an environmental advisory panel to solicit input.

More: Here's what to expect from Ron DeSantis on the environment

More: Turning the Toxic Tide: Florida needs a new approach to environmentalAn outbreak of meningococcal disease: implications for community medicine.
A local outbreak of five hospitalised cases of meningococcal disease, one of which was fatal, occurred over a period of three weeks in a small community in one health district. The events surrounding this outbreak illustrate many of the problems of dealing with the community medicine aspects of potentially serious infectious disease. Difficulties in the management of the outbreak are identified and contributing factors discussed.


With a navigating tanker, various forces act on the hull. For example, the hull itself is subjected to a longitudinal bending moment and torsional forces, the outer bottom plating and the outer side plating to the pressure of water, and the inner bottom plating and side wall of the hold (oil tank) to the load of oil cargo under gravity. To withstand these forces, the hull includes a large number of structural members such as longitudinal members (side longitudinal members, bottom longitudinal members, central girder, etc.) extending longitudinally of the ship and reinforcing transverse members (side reinforcing transverse members, bottom reinforcing transverse members, etc.) provided transversely of the ship. In the case of such a structure, however, longitudinal members and reinforcing transverse members are provided in an intersectingportion only, an external force acting on the bottom and delivered to the side portion through bottom reinforcing transverse members will buckle the inner and outer side platings because the side portion has no vertical reinforcing transverse members.
An object of the present invention is to provide a transverseless ship which has a double shell structure comprising an inner hull plating and an outer hull plating connected thereto by longitudinal members only and which is nevertheless free of the problem of buckling of the inner and outer platings, the double shell structure having an interior space which is advantageously used owing to the absence of reinforcing transverse members.
To fulfill the above object, the present invention provides a transverseless ship comprising at least opposite side portions and a bottom portion


each having a double shell structure, the double shell structure comprising an inner hull plating and an outer hull plating connected together only by a plurality of connecting longitudinal members fixed to transverse bulkheads spaced apart longitudinally of the ship except by the transverse bulkheads, the bottom portion having a space defined by at least two optionally selected connecting longitudinal members and divided by a partition into upper chamber means and a lower chamber, the upper chamber means being adapted to pass a fluid therethrough, the lower chamber being provided with docking brackets conforming to the sectional shape thereof.
With the structure described, an external force acting on the hull can be transmitted through the connecting longitudinal members to the transverse bulkheads having sufficient strength to thereby prevent theand used luggage carts to set up barricades in front of security checkpoints. They also physically blocked passengers from getting to their flights. In the ensuing clashes between protesters and riot police, six people were hospitalized and five others were arrested. The airport resumed operations this morning, with airport staff seen removing stains and covering up graffiti as passengers arrived. Click here for the latest on the unrest and to find out why demonstrators are still protesting

2. Dayton mass shooting

Police in Dayton, Ohio, provided a detailed timeline in the mass shooting there earlier this month. But it doesn't answer the biggest question: why. The 24-year-old shooter arrived in the nightclub district with his sister and a companion. He left them at a bar named Blind Bob's and went


until December 15 . That means popular items, like toys, cell phones and video game consoles, won't be subject to price hikes possibly caused by the tariffs during the important Christmas shopping season. President Trump, who has used the threat of tariffs as a negotiating tactic, said he made the move to spare consumers pain heading into the holiday season. Wall Street appreciated the move, and stocks surged almost 400 points.

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4. Russia explosion

People living near a suspected missile accident in Russia won't have to leave their homes after all . Russian officials called off a planned evacuation of a village in the northern partfrom a combination of gold, silver and other ‘medicines’ (‘sal armoniak’, ‘vitriol’ and ‘golermonik’ – probably meant to read ‘bole armoniak’) by the art of alchemy which William claimed he had been taught according to the doctrine of a canon of the king’s chapel at Windsor.

William had previously been successful in selling his alchemical metal at the Mint, for the price of 18s. At his second attempt, however, after five weeks of work, de Brumley’s attempt at counterfeiting had been unsuccessful, and he was arrested, with his alchemical coins being seized as evidence.

The narrative of the case bears a strong similarity with the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale – a story of a priest working an elaborate alchemy swindle on his unsuspecting victim for financial gain. In this Canterbury Tale,


consisting of a prologue and two parts (the second of which resembles the King’s Bench case), a canon and his yeoman catch up with the pilgrimage party at Boughton under Blee (a few miles from Canterbury), and the yeoman tells his master’s story after the canon has slunk away in shame at his secrets being revealed. The second part of his tale talks of a canon (although not – he says – his master), who convinces a London priest of his skills in changing base metals into gold and silver, conning him into paying £40 to learn his skills, and then disappearing once the priest has paid up, after which his new metals will not pass assay by experienced professionals.

The connection between the two narratives is not entirelymerchant who had previously run the London exchange. They valued the counterfeit coins as being worth 35s. but stated that they would have been worth £4 6s. 8d. had they been pure gold. These men were experienced professionals in the assaying of the coinage, a vital skill for those dealing with money in the 14th century, in the context of ongoing disputes over the coinage and the import of foreign coins. Money and bullion could be deposited at either the mint, to the customs collectors, or to one of the Exchanges found around the country, and as such, it was important that the officials at these institutions were competent in recognising and assaying metals, both English and alien.

One of these expert witnesses – John Norwich – went further,


the London Customs House, where, in June 1374, Chaucer would be appointed controller of both wool and petty customs in the port of London, in which capacity he audited the various collectors’ accounts.

Perhaps Norwich, or one of the other customs officials, told Chaucer the story of the coins as a cautionary tale, or perhaps the coins were still in the customs house when Chaucer took up his new position. As customs officials, both Chaucer and Norwich needed to possess a working knowledge of the coinage – both English and alien – with which they worked, and it seems likely this new type of counterfeit alchemical coin would have been of great interest to both men when drawing up their accounts.

It is interesting to speculate as well, that sometwo sons and grandmother of six, Bond won the 2013 Miss Michigan Figure Overall Championship and was recently elected as a Republican delegate for St. Joseph Charter Township Precinct 1. She served as a military police officer in the U.S. Navy for two years prior to graduating high school, according to her obituary.