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A man sitting at Mississauga, Ont., clinic got shocked when he heard a lady demanding ‘a white doctor’ who ‘speaks English’ and ‘doesn’t have brown teeth’ to treat her son.
Hitesh Bhardwaj recorded the whole video while he heard the woman ranting about a white doctor for the treatment. He got extremely upset after listening to her demand of a white doctor who spoke English for her son’s treatment.
The 4-minute video which Bhardwaj recorded shows a woman constantly demanding a white doctor for the treatment. The son had chest pains. When the doctors told her of the unavailability of a white doctor she said,
…being white in this country I should just shoot myself. I saw a doctor that was not white that did not help my kid. I would like to see a white doctor. You’re telling me there isn’t one white doctor in this whole entire building?
Some news outlets tried to trace the woman and get a statement in this regard but they failed in the endeavour. Bhardwaj told media that he started recording video as soon as the woman next to him asked the ranting woman that why she wanted a white doctor for the treatment.
This is bad, this is inappropriate and shouldn’t go unnoticed. – said Bhardwaj
Bhardwaj himself is an immigrant and in an interview with CBC News, he told that he was quite shocked and uncomfortable to watch the whole incident. He couldn’t believe that an incident like that actually happened in Canada.
He thinks that racism is resurfacing with time which is quite critical.
Several other people standing with the woman who demanded a white doctor confronted her for the racist demand. One of the women in the hospital told her that the son is clearly in more trouble than a chest pain because of her being a mother.
Later the woman blamed the people arguing with her as racists because she thought that they were attacking her merely for she was white.
The police were called for the disturbance in the clinic. According to the police, the matter got closed and her son was treated in the same clinic. Nobody pressed any charges against the woman as no charges of assault and threat were brought forward and this all ended in peace.


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Cork is an often overlooked insulating material, even though it is a great choice for the job, since it’s completely renewable. In the renovation of this 1920s beach house in Essex, UK they used it for cladding and it’s a great choice. The beach house itself is a great example of modern architecture and renovation done right. The renovation was completed by UK-based architect Lisa Shell.
The home was built using cross-laminated timber (CLT) and raised on stilts, since this area is quite prone to flooding, due to it being located on a flat and watery salt marsh landscape. The cladding is 180mm thick expanded cork agglomerate overcoat, which was made from the by-products of wine cork production in Portugal, so it is also recycled. The cork panels used were manufactured sustainably, since they are made using only heat and compression, which creates a chemical bond between the cork particles naturally. They also did not coat the panels with polyurethane, which is the reason why they are a light grey color having been allowed to weather naturally over time.
They used reclaimed wood to renovate the interior, which creates a very cozy feel, perfect for weathering out those summer storms. The windows they installed are large and offer great views, while effectively blurring the barrier between the indoors and the outdoors. An added benefit of using cork is also the fact that it attracted wildlife, namely sparrows which have already begun nesting here. It is nice to see architecture work this well in alliance with nature and more designers should take this into consideration when planning their projects.
The overall design of this beach house, and the use of so many renewable resources in the renovation make this a great example of what modern architecture can achieve when done right. It’s also great that the home was designed in a way that allows it to blend into the surrounding area like it was always a part of it.

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So few artists try anything truly new. Clichés abound in music, and you become accustomed to the routine, and generally put up with it because it is only fleeting: a step to be crossed to get to the music. Every once in a blue moon, however, you see something that no one else is doing, and it haunts you. That is how half·alive captures you from first song to the finale. The start of their set begins with a sheet obscuring your view of the main stage. Odd, since one expects to see the musicians as they perform. Then the lights dim, and the ghostly silhouettes appear. As their song Tip Toes begins the visual surreality of this set up kicks in. Using multiple lights cast upon each instrumentalist they create a visual spectacle unlike any other. It’s almost as if the iPod commercials from the early aughts have come to life.
This is how half·alive performs, creating a holistic of experience of sound and visuals. This is truly embodied through their use of contemporary dancers Jordan Johnson and Aidan Carberry. Throughout the night their rhythmic entanglements add a visual style unique to half·alive. The way they move is almost otherworldly which matches the vibe of the group’s alt-pop styling. The band’s performance, much like the visual flare of the dancing, hits the sweet spot of organic and electric. With clear dance and electronic vibes throughout, they still give off an almost acoustic feel. If mythical wood nymphs dabbled in EDM, I feel they would create something akin to half·alive.
Everything rhythmically hits a pocket that seems off, but always right. Brett Kramer does this through tempo shifts, and varied rhythms that always delight and surprise. It scratches an itch that you never even knew you had. This peculiarity, yet mesmerizing, quality would not be possible if not for J. Tyler Johnson’s directed bass work. He is the heartbeat behind the complexly layered rhythms. This is all rounded out by lead singer Josh Taylor’s fantastic range. He has an undefinable quality, much like the whole of h·a. His tone from his low end to his falsetto hits all the marks, and when combined with his harmonizer and effects, the group creates a transcendent whole, that is not easily forgotten.
All taken into account, this was less of a concert, and more performance art. You never feel pandered to, but you always feel drawn in. They have crafted a live show that delivers a multi-sensory experience that produces wonder and awe, not through shock or bombastic spectacle, but through intricate beauty. A trend that I hope continues to grow throughout live music.


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In the field of stem cell research, stem cell treatment, inclduing transplants and treatments for those diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes have shown positive results. These results include lower blood sugar levels, and for some, reversal of the diabetic process.
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You must carefully monitor your diabetes. If you don’t, you can end up with kidney disease, eye disease (such as impaired vision and even blindness), and nerve damage. The damage caused to multiple organs and tissues in your body by long-term diabetes inadequately or improperly managed can cause cardiovascular problems, including stroke or heart attack.
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After watching his players conduct several bewildered interviews in the wake of their 88-84 victory over Oklahoma City last Wednesday, Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins felt the need to address the team in the locker room in order to explain the implications of their win.
“Because we were able to beat the Thunder four times before they beat us four times,” Hollins said while hastily sketching a representation of the NBA playoff bracket on the whiteboard, “We have advanced to the Western Conference Finals where we will play the winner of the San Antonio/Golden State series.”
Baffled Memphis players watched the coach as he circled their team logo and drew an arrow to the next line in the bracket.
“Nobody really prepared us for this moment,” explained center Marc Gasol (10 pts, 7 reb), “I didn’t know you could keep playing basketball into late May. I guess I’ll have to tell my girlfriend that I can’t help her move that patio furniture until next month, after all.”
Several players did not take the news as easily, with some sitting in front of their lockers and scratching their heads long after the game had ended.
Zach Randolph (28 pts, 14 reb) was seen staring at the carpet and muttering under his breath, “If we keep winning, we keep playing…how long can we do this for…does it ever end…how is Memphis, Tennessee geographically in the Western conference…goddamnit, I already bought tickets on Fandango for Fast and Furious 6 next week but now Coach Hollins says we have to practice.”
At press time, the FedExForum in downtown Memphis was struggling to sell seats to home games of the Western Conference Finals, with most season ticket holders gawking at the hundred dollar prices for what they assumed to be a fun, postseason exhibition match against another NBA team that was also eliminated from the playoffs.


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14 March 2020 — Saturday
YESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUM
The gold price crawled higher by a few dollars once trading began at 6:00 p.m. EDT in New York on Thursday evening. But ‘da boyz’ appeared at 9 a.m. China Standard Time on their Friday morning — and sold it down a whole bunch of dollars by 10 a.m. CST. It then traded pretty flat until around 12:30 p.m. CST — and then jumped up a bunch. From there it traded sideways-to-a-bit-higher until 9 a.m. in New York. JPMorgan et al. reappeared — and set a new low for this move down at 12:45 p.m. EST in COMEX trading. From that juncture it chopped quietly and very unevenly higher until trading ended at 5:00 p.m. EDT.
The high and low ticks in gold were recorded by the CME Group as $1,597.90 and $1,504.00 in the April contract…an intraday move of around 94 dollars.
Gold was closed in New York on Friday afternoon at $1,529.90 spot, down another $45.50 from its close on Thursday — and miles off its Kitco-recorded $1,504.10 spot low tick of the day. Net volume was gargantuan once again at a bit under 466,500 contracts — and there was a bit over 84,500 contracts worth of roll-over/switch volume out of April and into future months.
‘Da boyz’ guided silver’s price in the exact same manner as they did for the gold price — and the Kitco charts are almost identical to the tick…except for the fact that most of the price damage in silver was done by the 1:30 p.m. COMEX close in New York. It then crept sideways until 3:00 p.m. in after-hours trading — and edged a bit higher into the 5:00 p.m. EDT close.
The high and low price ticks in silver were reported as $15.89 and $14.425 in the May contract.
Silver was closed in New York on Friday at $14.685 spot, down $1.11 from Thursday, but a long way off its Kitco-recorded $14.33 spot low tick. Net volume was incredible for the second day in a row at a bit over 152,500 contracts — and there was a bit under 12,500 contracts worth of roll-over/switch volume in this precious metal.
The platinum price traded flat to a bit higher until around 12:15 p.m. CST on their Friday afternoon — and it began to head higher from there. The price was capped and turned a bit lower at the 9 a.m. CET open in Zurich — and from that point it traded quietly sideways until the 10 a.m. EDT in New York. It was sold lower until a few minutes before the COMEX close — and then rallied a bit until trading ended at 5:00 p.m. EDT. Platinum finished the day at $965 spot, up 1 whole dollar from Thursday.
Palladium traded in a similar fashion as platinum up until 1 p.m. in Zurich/8 a.m. in New York. ‘Da Boyz’ showed up at that point — and the low price tick of the day was set at 1 p.m. EDT. It rallied a whole bunch from there — and finished the Friday session at $1,698 spot, down 45 bucks on the day, but light years off its Kitco-recorded $1,450 spot low tick.
The dollar index closed very late on Thursday afternoon in New York at 97.47 — and then opened down a couple of basis points once trading commenced around 7:45 p.m. EDT on Thursday evening. It traded quietly and unevenly sideways until about 8:52 a.m. in London. At that juncture a ‘rally’ began — and most of the gains that mattered were in by around 12:42 p.m. in New York. From there it chopped unevenly sideways until 3:45 p.m. EDT. The 98.81 high tick was set in there someplace. Then it gave up a bunch of that gain between 3:45 p.m. and the 5:30 p.m. close of trading.
The dollar index was marked-to-close on Friday at 98.75…up 128 basis points from its close on Thursday — and up a whopping 44 basis points from its reported close on the DXY chart below.
Like the engineered price declines in the precious metals, it’s my opinion that this ‘rally’ in the dollar index was equally managed as well…but there are different opinions on that if you read some of today’s Critical Reads.
Here’s the DXY chart for Friday, courtesy of Bloomberg. Click to enlarge.
And here’s the 5-year U.S. dollar index chart, courtesy of the stockcharts.com Internet site. The delta between its close…98.90…and the close on the DXY chart above, was 15 basis points on Friday — and the second day in a row where the futures price of the dollar was higher than the Bloomberg spot close. Click to enlarge as well.
It was another bad day for the gold stocks, as the mutual funds and ETF redemptions continue…along with the obvious panic selling by those who wanted out no matter what the losses were. They jumped up a bit a the open for some strange reason, but were overwhelmed by a wave of selling — and the HUI closed down another eye-watering 10.11 percent.
The price path for the silver equities during the Friday trading session in New York was very similar to the gold stocks, with the exception that Nick Laird’s Intraday Silver Sentiment/Silver 7 Index closed down ‘only’ 7.47 percent. Click to enlarge.
Peñoles didn’t trade yesterday — and the star was Hecla Mining, closing unchanged on the day, believe it or not. The rest were dogs, with the ugliest pooch of Friday’s litter being Pan American Silver, down an eye-popping 16.63 percent.
And since Peñoles didn’t trade yesterday, the true decline in Nick’s Intraday Silver Sentiment Index was actually 8.83 percent…but what does it matter.
And here’s Nick’s 1-year Silver Sentiment/Silver 7 Index chart, updated with Friday’s doji. Click to enlarge as well.
As you can tell, all the wonderful gains that we accumulated since the third week of May last year have vanished under the boots of JPMorgan et al.
And in the interest of full disclosure, I bought a small position in SilverCrest Metals Inc. yesterday. It was on sale at half price from a week ago — and I just couldn’t resist.
Here are the usual three charts from Nick that show what’s been happening for the week, month — and year-to-date. The first one shows the changes in gold, silver, platinum and palladium for the past trading week, in both percent and dollar and cents terms, as of their Friday closes in New York — along with the changes in the HUI and the Silver 7 Index.
Here they are…weekly, month-to-date and year-to-date — and you don’t need me to do the play-by-play on any of them. Besides which, it’s too depressing for me to write about them — and just as equally depressing for you to read it. But this is what ‘da boyz’ have done as the CFTC, the CME Group, plus the DoJ stood there with their hands in their pockets, watching these criminal acts unfold. Click to enlarge.
As Ted has been pointing out for a long time now, how precious metal prices unfolded over the longer term, depended on whether or not the Big 7/8 commercial traders that were holding huge but unrealized loses on the short side, were able to snooker the Managed Money traders [and others] out of their historic and unprecedented net long positions. Well, now we have our answer…engineered price declines of Biblical proportions, never to be seen again.
The CME Daily Delivery Report showed that 43 gold and 303 silver contracts were posted for delivery within the COMEX-approved depositories on Tuesday.
In gold, there were four short/issuers in total — and the three largest were Citigroup, Advantage and Marex Spectron, with 19, 14 and 9 contracts. There were four long/stoppers as well — and the three biggest there were Morgan Stanley, Advantage and ADM, with 14, 13 and 10 contracts. All contracts, both issued and stopped, involved their respective client accounts.
In silver, the only short/issuer that mattered was Canada’s Scotia Capital/Scotiabank with 302 contracts out of its in-house/proprietary trading account — and as I’ve stated before, the don’t have a client account. There were eleven long/stoppers in total — and the three largest were ADM with 123…JPMorgan with 82 — and BofA Securities with 31 contracts. All contracts stopped involved their respective client accounts.
The link to yesterday’s Issuers and Stoppers Report is here.
So far in March there have been 1,725 gold contracts issued/reissued and stopped — and that number in silver is now up to 3,971 contracts.
The CME Preliminary Report for the Friday trading session showed that gold open interest in March dropped by 73 contracts, leaving just 51 still around, minus the 43 mentioned several paragraphs ago. Thursday’s Daily Delivery Report showed that 114 gold contracts were actually posted for delivery on Monday, so that means that 114-73=41 more gold contracts just got added to the March delivery month. Silver o.i. in March rose by a hefty 122 contracts, leaving 660 still open, minus the 303 contracts mentioned a few paragraphs ago. Thursday’s Daily Delivery Report showed that only 4 silver contracts were posted for delivery on Monday, so that means that 122+4=126 more silver contracts were added to March.
Total open interest in both gold and silver took big drops on Friday. Total open interest in gold fell by 10,451 contracts — and that number in silver was 8,173 contracts. These would be net numbers…the difference between longs liquidated — and new short positions put on. So it’s a reasonable assumption that the commercial net short positions in both precious metals declined by much bigger amounts that these numbers indicate.
There was another big withdrawal from GLD on Friday, as an authorized participant removed 404,766 troy ounces — and in SLV, there was a very hefty 2,892,312 troy ounces taken out. All this gold and silver is now owned by someone else — and if you could see the Post-It notes on each pallet, I suspect that JPMorgan is the new proud owner, although I’ll wait for the final word on that from Ted.
In other gold and silver ETFs on Planet Earth on Friday…net of any changes in COMEX, GLD & SLV stocks…there was a net 59,377 troy ounces of gold added, but there was a net 1,980,634 troy ounces of silver removed. All of that silver, plus a bunch more, was withdrawn from SIVR.
There was no sales report from the U.S. Mint — and as I mentioned yesterday, the mint has halted silver eagle sales because they’re temporarily out of stock.
Month-to-date the mint has sold 6,500 troy ounces of gold eagles — 5,000 one-ounce 24K gold buffaloes — and 2,320,000 silver eagles. This is a huge improvement from February when only 2,500 troy ounce of gold eagles — 3,000 one-ounce 24K gold buffaloes — and 750,000 silver eagles were sold during the entire month.
And still no Q4/2019 or 2019 Annual Report from the Royal Canadian Mint.
There have been several stories on the Internet over the last few days from bullion dealers reporting that business is up substantially recently — and getting busier with each passing day.
There was a bit of activity in gold over at the COMEX-approved depositories on the U.S. east coast on Thursday — and all of this activity, both physical and paper, occurred at Delaware. They reported receiving 6,944.616 troy ounces/216 kilobars [SGE kilobar weight] — and there was also a paper transfer of 192 troy ounces from the Registered category and back into Eligible. I won’t bother linking this.
The only activity in silver was one truckload…597,932 troy ounces…that departed Canada’s Scotiabank. I won’t bother linking this, either.
There was a decent amount of activity over at the COMEX-approved gold kilobar depositories in Hong Kong on their Thursday. They reported receiving 81 of them — and shipped out 800. Except for the 500 kilobars shipped out of Loomis International, all of the remainder of the in/out activity was at Brink’s, Inc. The link to that, in troy ounces, is here.
Here are two charts from Nick’s website that I’ve posted before. These 20-year charts show the physical gold activity in all known depositories, mutual funds and ETFs as of the close of business on Friday March 13. For the week just past, there was a net 522,000 troy ounces of gold added, but in silver, there was a net 3,351,000 troy ounces withdrawn. Click to enlarge for both.
The “yesterday’s news” Commitment of Traders Report for positions held at the close of COMEX trading on Tuesday showed very decent reductions in the commercial net short positions in both gold and silver.
In silver, the Commercial net short position fell by 8,108 contracts, or 40.5 million troy ounces.
They arrived at that number by increasing their long position by 2,234 contracts — and they also reduced their short position by 5,874 contracts — and it’s the sum of those two numbers that represents their change for the reporting week.
Under the hood in the Disaggregated COT Report, the Managed Money traders didn’t account for much of the change, as they only reduced their net long position by a net 2,225 contracts. It was the traders in the ‘Other Reportables’ and ‘Nonreportable’/small trader category that were responsible for most of the change — and mostly the latter category.
The ‘Other Reportables reduced their net long position by only 1,131 contracts, but ‘Nonreportable’/small traders decreased their net long position by a very healthy 4,752 contracts…which Ted would construe as being very bullish.
Doing the math…2,225 plus 1,131 plus 4,752 equals 8,108 contracts…the change in the Commercial net short position, which it must be.
The Commercial net short position is now down to 301.7 million troy ounces — and is obviously massively less than that now.
Ted says that JPMorgan reduced their short position in silver by around 3,000 contracts during the reporting week — and that puts them down to about the 6,000 contract mark. Of course since the Tuesday cut-off, they’ve obviously covered all that — and are most likely net long the COMEX futures market in silver.
Here’s Nick’s 3-year COT chart for silver — and the improvement should be noted. Click to enlarge.
You don’t need me to tell you that there’s been a sea change in the COMEX futures market in silver since the Tuesday cut-off. Not only have the Managed Money traders [plus the other two categories] been blown out of their long positions, they have also gone massively short…which was the object of the exercise of this engineered price decline…especially Friday’s trading action.
In gold, the commercial net short position declined by a very decent 22,704 contracts, or 2.27 million troy ounces of paper gold.
They arrived at this number by adding 4,814 long contracts — and they also reduced their short position by 17,893 contracts. It’s the sum of those two numbers that represents their change for the reporting week.
Under the hood in the Disaggregated COT Report there was, like in silver, surprisingly little change in the Managed Money position, as they reduced their net long position by only 5,176 contracts. Ted was astonished by the fact that these traders reduced their short position by 17,103 contracts, cutting their short position down to a record low 10,457 contracts. They also reduced their long position by 22,279 contracts — and it’s the difference between those two numbers that represents their change for the reporting week.
The traders in the ‘Other Reportables’ were the big movers and shakers, as they reduced their net long position by 15,026 contracts. The ‘Nonreportable’/small traders reduced their net long position by a scant 2,505 contracts.
The commercial net short position in gold is now down to 32.83 million troy ounces.
Ted estimates JPMorgan’s short position in gold at around 32,000 contracts, or a bit less…down from the approximately 40,000 contracts they were short in last Friday’s COT Report. It’s certainly less than that now…much less.
Here is Nick Laird’s 3-year COT chart for gold — and the improvement in that should be noted as well. Click to enlarge.
There certainly has been a massive drop in the commercial net short position in gold since the cut-off on Tuesday. But, unlike silver, JPMorgan et al. have not been able to break its price below its 200-day moving average, although they gave it the old college try on Friday during the New York trading session. Is this the best they can do? I don’t know, but we’ll find out on Monday, as these guys are in a hurry.
Ted’s back-of-the-envelope calculation on the phone yesterday was that the Big 7 commercial shorts had reduced their net unrealized margin call losses down to around the $2 billion dollar mark as of the end of trading on Friday…an improvement of about $5 billion or so during the reporting week. This criminality was all aided and abetted by the CFTC, the CME Groups, the DoJ — and also by the precious metal mining companies in their ongoing conspiracy of silence.
In the other metals, the Manged Money traders in palladium decreased their net long position by a further 442 COMEX contracts during the reporting week — and are now net long the palladium market by only 3,575 contracts…a bit under 29 percent of the total open interest…down from 31 percent last week. Total open interest in palladium fell for the third week in a row…from 13,055 COMEX contracts, down to 12,210 contracts. In platinum, the Managed Money traders decreased their net long position by a further 2,574 contracts. But they’re still net long the platinum market by 15,663 COMEX contracts…a bit under 21 percent of the total open interest. The other two categories [Other Reportables/Nonreportable] are still mega net long against JPMorgan et al…although both reduced their net long positions during the reporting week as well. In copper during the reporting week, the Managed Money traders didn’t do much, decreasing their net short position in that metal by a tiny 1,114 COMEX contracts. They are net short copper by 42,791 COMEX contracts…a hair under 19 percent of total open interest. This works out to 1.07 billion pounds of the stuff.
And it’s already a given that all of the above numbers will look radically different in next week’s COT Report…as the Managed Money traders most certainly puked up longs and went short during the reporting week by breathtaking amounts. That’s especially true in platinum and palladium, but not nearly as bad in copper, as the Managed Money traders are already massively short…but not record short.
Here’s Nick Laird’s “Days to Cover” chart, updated with the COT data for positions held at the close of COMEX trading on Tuesday, March 10. It shows the days of world production that it would take to cover the short positions of the Big 4 — and Big ‘5 through 8’ traders in each physically traded commodity on the COMEX. Click to enlarge.
For the current reporting week, the Big 4 traders are short 141 days of world silver production…down 2 days from last week’s COT Report — and the ‘5 through 8’ large traders are short an additional 60 days of world silver production…down 1 day from last week’s COT Report — for a total of 201 days that the Big 8 are short…down only 3 days from last week’s report. This represents just under 7 months of world silver production, or about 469 million troy ounces of paper silver held short by the Big 8. [In the prior reporting week, the Big 8 were short 204 days of world silver production.]
In the COT Report above, the Commercial net short position in silver was reported by the CME Group as 302 million troy ounces. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, the short position of the Big 8 traders is 469 million troy ounces. So the short position of the Big 8 traders is larger than the total Commercial net short position by around 469-302=167 million troy ounces. This is beyond obscene and grotesque.
The reason for the difference in those numbers…as it always is…is that Ted’s raptors, the 30-odd small commercial traders other than the Big 8, are net long that amount. And during the last two weeks they’ve really been piling back onto the long side, adding about 130 million troy ounces over that time period. I’m sure they’re even longer now.
Another way of stating this [as I say every week in this spot] is that if you removed the Big 8 commercial traders from that category, the remaining traders in the commercial category are net long the COMEX silver market. It’s the Big 8 against everyone else…a situation that has existed for about three decades in both silver and gold — and in platinum and palladium as well.
As mentioned in my COT commentary in silver above, Ted estimates JPMorgan’s short position at around 6,000 contracts, down from the 9,000 he said they were short in the prior week’s COT Report. That’s about 30 million troy ounces, or around 13 days of world silver production held short by JPM…but I’m sure it’s zero now, or they could even be long the COMEX futures market as of the close of trading on Friday.
As per the paragraph below, I suspect that JPMorgan is now the smallest of the traders in the Big 4 category…or the largest of the traders in the ‘5 through 8’ category. HSBC USA and Citigroup hold short positions larger than that. Who the fourth player might be, I don’t know…perhaps Goldman or Morgan Stanley. Australia’s Macquarie Futures comes to mind as well.
As per the first paragraph above, the Big 4 traders in silver are short around 141 days of world silver production in total. That’s about 35.25 days of world silver production each, on average…down a tiny fraction from last week’s report. The four traders in the ‘5 through 8’ category are short around 60 days of world silver production in total, which is around 15 days of world silver production each, on average…also down a tiny fraction from last week.
The Big 8 commercial traders are short 50.2 percent of the entire open interest in silver in the COMEX futures market, which is up a decent amount from the 48.3 percent they were short in last week’s COT report. And once whatever market-neutral spread trades are subtracted out, that percentage would be a bit over the 55 percent mark. In gold, it’s now 46.6 percent of the total COMEX open interest that the Big 8 are short, which is also up a decent amount from the 42.3 percent they were short in last week’s report — and also a bit over 50 percent, once the market-neutral spread trades are subtracted out.
In gold, the Big 4 are short 69 days of world gold production, unchanged from last week’s COT Report. The ‘5 through 8’ are short another 34 days of world production, up 1 day from last week’s report…for a total of 103 days of world gold production held short by the Big 8…up 1 day from last week’s COT Report. Based on these numbers, the Big 4 in gold hold about 67 percent of the total short position held by the Big 8…unchanged from last week’s report.
The “concentrated short position within a concentrated short position” in silver, platinum and palladium held by the Big 4 commercial traders are about 70, 77 and 76 percent respectively of the short positions held by the Big 8…the red and green bars on the above chart. Silver is unchanged from last week’s COT Report…platinum is up about 3 percentage points from a week ago — and palladium is up a hair week-over-week.
It should be noted that the short position of the Big 8 traders in palladium has vanished into the background on the above “Days to Cover” chart — and in last week’s Bank Participation Report, they have exited stage left as well. They are totally gone as of Friday’s close — and might even be net long this market now.
And as Ted has been pointing out for years now, JPMorgan is, as always, in a position to double cross the other commercial traders at any time and walk away smelling like that proverbial rose — and that’s because of the massive amounts of physical gold and silver they hold. Nothing about that possible scenario has changed on iota over the last year — and has grown stronger during the last couple of weeks. We’re just awaiting that day — and when it does arrive, you won’t have to ask “is this it?”…as it will be evident in the price.
I don’t have all that many articles, stories or videos for you today.
One certainly can’t blame the Fed for trying: after firing a repo “bazooka” yesterday, which could provide up to $5 trillion in monthly liquidity in exchange for eligible pledged securities, and following that up with an emergency QE operation today when the Fed announced it would buy up to $37 billion in securities across the curve from domestic and foreign banks, risk assets have staged a modest rebound after the biggest selloff since Black Monday, and the relentless selloff of Treasurys, likely prompted by risk parity fund unwinds, has moderated.
But where the Fed has catastrophically failed, is in addressing the most important task facing it this moment: easing the unprecedented dollar shortage which is getting worse by the minute.
Despite the barrage of central bank actions meant, more than anything, to ease bank fears that dollars will not be available when needed to rollover trillions in maturing debt, the dollar has seen a relentless surge higher, with today’s move shocking in its severity and consistency. Click to enlarge.
Yet while one can argue that the dollar is traditionally a flight to safety in times of stress, the fact that the dollar is surging today even as stocks are soaring and the Dow is about to be up 1,000 suggests that something else is going on.
That something else is the relentless move higher in the 1st IMM FRA/OIS, which was supposed to ease after today’s massive term repo operations, yet which spiked when it emerged that there was barely any usage early this morning, arguably due to regulatory limitations and concerns about liquidity coverage ratios.
The first of three heavy-reading chart-filled articles in a row from Zero Hedge. This one put in an appearance on their Internet site at 3:27 p.m. EDT on Friday afternoon — and I thank Brad Robertson for sending it our way. Another link to it is here.
On the first day of this week, which would soon mutate into the worst week for capital markets since the 2008 financial crisis, we warned that markets are about to go full tilt for the simple reason that “there is no liquidity“, something we first highlighted at the start of the month when we pointed out “Two More Problems For The Bulls: Market Liquidity And Short Interest Are At All Time Lows.”
Why our constant focus on liquidity? Because as Goldman explained on Thursday, “liquidity and volatility are interconnected, creating a self-reinforcing loop, and as a result liquidity conditions have been an important contributor to the velocity of recent S&P 500 moves.” Yet while liquidity had dipped in the past on numerous stressed occasions, what we saw in recent days has been borderline biblical as top-of-book depth for SPX E-mini futures, typically the conventional metric of liquidity representing the dollar-amount of SPX E-mini futures available to trade electronically on the typically 25-cent wide market, has – as Goldman put it – “started to lose meaning as fewer and fewer market participants are quoting one-tick-wide markets for the futures at all.”
Indeed, the staggering moves in the bond market itself have been the best indicator of just how illiquid it has become: on Monday, 30-year yields posted the biggest intraday decline since at least October 1998, followed by a bizarre last hour crash even as stocks continued to sell. And while a massive injection of cash from the Federal Reserve, President Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency and hopes for fiscal support lifted stocks Friday, analysts and investors say the U.S. government-debt market is still not functioning properly.
“Liquidity is still atrocious,” said Mark Holman, chief executive officer at TwentyFour Asset Management. Mark here laments something we said earlier: while some traders may have found trades in the insane roller coaster market we observed in the past few days, they were unable to take put the trades on as there simply was not enough – or any – liquidity:
“We were just trying on Monday to trim a long position in the 30-year Treasury because it had moved so far in our favor, and were unable to get bids from several major dealers. We’ve never seen that before.”
“I understand that dealers don’t have the risk appetite and budget they normally have,” said Holman, who unlike most active “traders” today has in fact seen a bear market in his career which stretches back to 1989. “But I’ve never seen that before, the inability to trade a U.S. Treasury.”
Meanwhile, confirming our Friday observations that liquidity is not only cataclysmic but getting worse, Goldman points out that a pair of block trades in Treasury futures printed well below market levels on Friday in a sign that conditions remain volatile. Traders also reported a shortage of prices on screens, while futures on U.S. ultra bonds hit circuit breakers repeatedly during Friday morning trading in Europe.
““We heard there were some issues in off-the-run Treasuries,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on CNBC Friday morning. “We are working on that“… but apparently not enough, and the result was the biggest VaR shock of all time as risk parity funds launched a crushing deleveraging which has crippled conventional correlations, and left traders speechless at the bid or offerless Treasury markets.
This very long and very thick chart-filled commentary appeared on the Zero Hedge website at 7:05 p.m. EDT on Friday evening — and it’s not the parts that you don’t/won’t understand that should scare you. Another link to it is here.
While many postmortems will be written on what, despite Friday’s torrid 9% rebound, has been a historic, unforgettable week which saw the U.S. stock market plunge the most since the worst days of the global financial crisis, one of the more detailed and impactful was that of Nomura’s quant Masanari Takada who put the week’s events in simple, easy to understand context: “In little more than the blink of an eye, the situation has come to look like the 2008 Lehman Brothers crisis all over again.”
Below we re-post some of the key points from his note as we brace for another historic week, especially since something tells us – perhaps the Fed’s failure to normalize the funding situation – that the events from next week will be even more memorable.
“The plunge in U.S. equities yesterday (12 March) pushed weekly returns down to 7.7 standard deviations below the norm. In statistical science, the odds of a greater-than seven-sigma event of this kind are astronomical to the point of being comical (about one such event every 160 billion years).
Setting aside legitimate quibbles over the statistical significance of this, we can say with confidence that we are witnessing a history-making market disaster in real-time.
Looking back at the performance of the DJIA since 1900, market shocks have exceeded the current rout in magnitude on only three occasions: in 1914 (when a growing financial crisis caused trading in U.S. equities to be halted), in 1929 (the historic market crash that led to the Great Depression), and in 1987 (the Black Monday event).
U.S. stock market sentiment has also seen a jarringly swift collapse, as equity sentiment has now gone beyond the low point marked during the 2015 renminbi shock. In little more than the blink of an eye, the situation has come to look like the 2008 Lehman Brothers crisis all over again.
It may be, then, that the market has only just begun staring into the abyss.”
Wow…and double wow!
This long, chart-filled and worthwhile commentary showed up on the Zero Hedge website at 8:31 p.m. on Friday evening EDT — and another link to it is here. Gregory Mannarino‘s post market rant for Friday is linked here — and it’s definitely worth watching.
Being a fallen angel is not a good thing, whether in the Bible or the bond market. For investors, a fallen angel is a company that has lost its investment-grade debt ratings — a fall that can have costly consequences. The ranks of that category may be about to get far more crowded, as new economic woes push nearly $1 trillion of debt owed by companies that are currently barely above that level closer to the line. The market has already made up its mind on roughly a third of that, trading the bonds as if they’ve slipped into junk status, even if credit raters haven’t made that call.
1. What makes a fallen angel?
Generally speaking, a fallen angel is a bond that is downgraded to BB+ or below (categories considered junk, or, more politely, high yield) by at least two of the three major rating firms — Moody’s Investors Services, S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings — after being formerly rated BBB- or higher (categories that are investment grade). Downgrades can happen when a company isn’t creating enough revenue or generating enough cash to service its debt, or when it takes on so much debt that its financial leverage — usually calculated by debt as a measure of earnings — becomes disproportionate.
2. What happens when bonds lose investment-grade status?
A fall to junk status affects both borrowers and investors. For companies, downgrades make borrowing more expensive. A downgrade that extends all the way to junk could mean a need to tack debt covenants to the formal contracts with bondholders. These covenants protect investors who agree to lend to the now-riskier issuer and, often, prevent the company from benefiting shareholders at the expense of bondholders. Junk status also can force a wave of selling by investment companies and funds whose mandates prevent them from holding credits below investment grade. The prices on the bonds may need to fall to compensate investors for holding a less liquid, or actively-traded security.
This very interesting article appeared on the Bloomberg website at 7:28 a.m. PDT [Pacific Daylight Time] on Friday morning — and I thank Swedish reader Patrik Ekdahl for pointing it out. Another link to it is here.
International Man: What is it exactly that you are looking at that might lead to a collapse?
Jeff Thomas: Well, there’s going to be a major debt collapse. It’s inescapable at this point. You get to a tipping point where, even if it hasn’t occurred yet, it’s too late to fix it.
When you get countries at the point where they’re borrowing so much money that they can’t even pay the interest any longer yet are moving headlong to borrow more and offering their people increased entitlements, the money isn’t going to be there. It simply doesn’t exist. In that regard, it’s really a question of simple arithmetic. Do the numbers add up, or do they not?
We see that in the U.S., where it’s rapidly moving in the direction of far greater entitlements and more Americans who are demanding much more in the way of entitlements. Somebody’s got to pay for this.
Historically, the same thing happens in every empire.
Every empire ends in the same fashion because human nature remains the same in any generation, in any era. The same mistakes end up being made by those in charge. So, you can look at what’s happened elsewhere.
This very worthwhile Q&A session with Jeff Thomas showed up on the internationalman.com Internet site on Friday morning EDT — and another link to it is here.
It was as if global markets pulled elements from the 1994 bond market dislocation, 1997’s Asian Bubble collapses, the 1998 Russian/LTCM fiasco, and the 2008 market crash – and synthesized them for a week of ridiculous market instability and dysfunction.
Thursday was an extraordinary day of global market panic – The “Worst Day Since the 1987 Market Crash” – “Biggest VaR Shock In History.” Add the “worst week for Credit in Decade.” It was the dreadful global de-risking/deleveraging episode – a disturbing case of synchronized liquidation, market illiquidity and dislocation. Global markets – stocks, bonds, Credit, derivatives, currencies and commodities – were all convulsing and “seizing up.”
The Dow sank 2,353 points, or 10.0% Thursday, with the S&P500 sinking 9.50%. Italy’s MIB index collapsed 16.9%, Germany’s DAX 12.2%, Spain’s IBEX 14.1%, and France’s CAC40 12.3%. Major equities indices were down 14.8% in Brazil, 12.7% in Poland, 11.5% in Hungary, 8.3% in Russia, 8.2% in India and 10.8% in Thailand. Japan’s Nikkei traded down as much as 10% in early-Friday trading before ending the session with a 6.1% loss.
Equities markets almost appeared orderly compared to Credit market mayhem. An index of U.S. high-yield CDS surged 92 bps to 685 bps, capping off a six-session surge of 317 bps to the highest level since the crisis. For comparison, this index spiked 138 bps in seven weeks to 485 bps during the late-2018 dislocation. An index of investment-grade CDS jumped 21 bps Thursday to 139 bps, with a six-session surge of 73 bps to the highest level since 2011.
It was a week when, to those paying attention, the potential for a crisis much beyond the scope of 2008 became readily apparent. We witnessed more than a glimpse of how global financial collapse could materialize.
Myriad perceived safe and liquid financial instruments/strategies lost their Moneyness this week (fiscal and monetary stimulus notwithstanding, I don’t think it’s coming back). The run was on. With risks illuminated, leverage must come down. The “hot money” is now fleeing countries, markets and instruments – marking a momentous change in the flow of finance and global marketplace liquidity.
I certainly appreciate the seriousness of the unfolding crisis. But I do ponder what the government response will be after the Bubble has deflated and policymakers are confronting a deep recession and financial calamity.
The critical issue is not so much the coronavirus and its economic impacts, as it is the uncertainty associated with the pandemic as a catalyst for the piercing of history’s greatest global Bubble. We’ll get through this, but the world is today poorly prepared for the great challenges it now confronts.
Doug’s very worthwhile commentary, which is definitely worth reading, showed up on his website in the very early hours of Saturday morning EDT — and another link to it is here.
The Venezuelan government removed some six tonnes of gold from the central bank’s vaults between late 2019 and early 2020 to raise more hard currency for President Nicolas Maduro’s cash-strapped administration, according to two government sources familiar with the movement.
Last year Maduro’s government repeatedly withdrew monetary gold to exchange it abroad for euros in cash, sources said at the time, as falling oil production, an economic collapse and U.S.-imposed sanctions hit public income and restricted access to credit. The government has never publicly commented on this.
The new removals of gold bars worth about $350 million lowers the central bank’s reserves to about 90 tonnes, the sources said, down from 129 tonnes at the start of 2019.
Neither the central bank nor the information ministry, which handles media inquiries for the government, responded to requests to comment.
This Reuters article, filed from Caracas, put in an appearance on their website at 1:09 p.m. EDT on Thursday — and I found it embedded in a GATA dispatch. Another link to it is here.
The PHOTOS and the FUNNIES
Continuing along Highway 16/The Yellowhead on September 1…the next two photos were take from the exact same spot along side the highway. The first is a shot with my ‘walk-around’ lens set on 57mm looking east down the highway in the direction of McBride. The second is of the same view, except with the 400mm telephoto lens attached. As you can tell, the telephoto really compresses distance and narrows the field of view considerably. It’s hard to believe that it’s the same scene, but it is. The third shot is just another general photo that I took from the side of the road as we continued along our journey through the inter-mountain country of B.C. This was the last of the sunny weather, as things began to deteriorate from hereon in.
Today’s pop ‘blast from the past’ is one that I’ve featured before, but only once — and it’s time for a revisit. This was a monster hit — and I mean monster in every sense of the word when it appeared on the charts in very late 1999. Although my days of rock and roll had vanished by the early 1980s…this song was such a giant, even I got caught up in the wave. Featured is Carlos Santana and vocalist Rob Thomas. Carlos Santana is a name that’s been around the rock/pop scene for about 55 years…but who’s counting. It’s a goody — and the link is here.
Today’s classical ‘blast from the past’ is not overly long — and one I’ve feature before, but it’s been many years. Composed by Spanish violin virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate back in 1878…it was premiered the same year in Leipzig, Germany. As one of his most popular compositions and a favorite among violin virtuosos, the work has remained a staple on records at least since Sarasate himself recorded it in 1904. It’s entitled Zigeunerweisen…Gypsy Airs…and it’s a tour de force and show piece extraordinaire in every sense of the word, so buckle up. Here’s Sarah Chang doing the honours — and the link is here.
For the second day in a row it was an embarrassment to read and listen to the drivel that passed as market commentary on the precious metal price activity. In one form or another, they were all saying the same thing, but are missing the overall…either deliberately, or through complete ignorance.
The engineered price decline since the Tuesday cut-off had zero to do with anything stock market or currency related — and everything to do with Ted’s ‘Big 7’ traders moving heaven and earth to extract themselves from the financial hole that they’d dug for themselves. At the peak of their unrealized margin call loses, these seven entities were in the red to the tune of around $8.2 billion.
As Ted said on the phone yesterday…”cui bono?“…in English “to whom is it a benefit?”. It’s a Latin phrase about identifying crime suspects. It expresses the view that crimes are oftentimes committed to benefit their perpetrators, especially financially. This is what this week’s bloodbath in the precious metals was all about. It was entirely for the benefit of JPMorgan et al. That’s all there is, there ain’t no more.
As Ted also mentioned, they’ve cut their combined loses down to around the $2 billion mark — and I can say with one hundred percent certainty that their remaining loses are in gold only. They’ll be able to wipe that out only if they can punch gold back below its 200-day moving average for a few days — and after what they’ve been able to pull off since the Tuesday cut-off, I wouldn’t put it past them.
I suspect that we’ll know for sure what their intentions are beginning at the 6:00 p.m. EDT open on Sunday evening in New York — and if not then, there the 2-day FOMC meeting that starts on Tuesday. That will give them good cover as well…as does this dollar index ‘rally’ we’re in the midst of at the moment.
As it stands right now, we’re literally miles below any moving average that matters in silver, platinum, copper and WTIC. COMEX palladium futures are no longer a market in the true sense of the word, as the short positions of the Big 8 traders has dropped below both coffee and sugar on the ‘Days to Cover’ chart posted further up. And that’s was just as of the close of trading on Tuesday. I expect that the short position by the Big traders in palladium to be around where corn and WTIC are right now…well under ten days of world production. It has become a speck of dust in the precious metals world from a COMEX futures market perspective.
The set-up in five of the Big 6 commodities of which I speak of every day in The Wrap section, is now primed up for a moon shot to the upside, with gold being the sole fly in the ointment currently — and I just stated, ‘da boyz’ could take care of that in a New York minute.
But when the next rally in the precious metals gets underway, will JPMorgan et al…the Big 7…these shorts sellers of both first and last resort reappear? I think not…but if they do, it will be at precious metal prices astronomically higher than they are today.
So we wait some more.
Here are the charts for the four precious metals, plus copper and WTIC…in full colour — and suitable for framing. These are charts for the ages…historic in every way. But as you can see, the jury is still out on gold. They don’t need any embellishment from me, as the dojis from both Thursday and Friday tell all. Click to enlarge.
The world has finally arrived at the proverbial brick wall…its Wile E. Coyote moment…on Friday March 13, 2020. How apropos.
We are done for — and there is no escape. All we can do now is watch the central banks of the world’s attempt to salvage the unsalvageable. They are already far behind the curve — and as we’ve already seen, their attempts…beginning mid-September of last year…have been futile.
The economic, financial and monetary landscape is deteriorating far faster now than even they can ever hope to move. The central banks, along with their associated governments, are now viewed as not only incompetent, but impotent as well — and the more these situations deteriorate, the more draconian their responses will most likely be.
Liquidity in the bond market has vanished — and the trillions injected over the last few days has not helped at all. When the stock market turns south again, there will be no buyers…only sellers — and at some point in the very near future, the bond and currency markets will freeze up. The high-yield bond market will implode.
It would not surprise me, or others, if they were forced to close the banks and even the stock exchanges of the world at some point. That’s how critical things have become in just this past week.
And as Jeff Thomas pointed out in his Q&A session in the Critical Reads “…there’s going to be a major debt collapse. It’s inescapable at this point.”
And as Nomura’s quant Masanari Takada so succinctly put it another story in the Critical Reads section…”In little more than the blink of an eye, the situation has come to look like the 2008 Lehman Brothers crisis all over again“…and…”The Market Has Only Just Begun Staring Into the Abyss“.
He would be right about that, dear reader.
And as one youtube.com comment correctly pointed out…”Would someone tell the central banks and governments that liquidity does not fix a solvency problem.”
Then there this coronavirus pandemic. It has gone from not a big deal a month ago, to a really big deal now. It has swept through the world like a firestorm in the last week or so — and before it’s done with us, the geopolitical and social landscape that we’ve known all our lives, will be no more.
And it’s a certainty that our current economic, financial and monetary system will not survive it, either. As a matter of fact, it will become one of the first casualties. It is a dead men walking right now, but that fact hasn’t drifted down to the average person in the street because the main stream media is keeping them ignorant, although the central banks and the deep state are more than aware of it.
And I can’t shake the feeling that this sudden, unprecedented and historical engineered price declines that we’ve see in the Big 6 commodities, is the precursor for a change in the financial system which will require much higher precious metal price, particularly gold. Will they use the implosion of everything paper, as the fuse to let precious metal prices rip to the upside?
I don’t know, but watch for it.
I’m sure you haven’t forgotten what Jim Rickards had to say in my Thursday column. Here, in part, is what he said…
“If the Fed bought gold at $5,000 per ounce and made a two-way market, gold would be $5,000 per ounce. The point is not to enrich gold holders, but to get widespread inflation. The world of $5,000 gold is also the world of $150 oil and $75 silver. Every other price goes up at the same time.
So gold can solve the benchmark problem and the inflation problem. But that won’t be tried until things get much worse. Authers anticipates a “new” system but he doesn’t know what it is or how to get there. The answer to both questions is gold.”
So, is that the reason for the panic out of the Big 8’s short position in the precious metals? I don’t know, nor does anyone else. There was a meeting with the big New York bankers and the President at the White House on Tuesday — and one wonders what they discussed. The COMEX stage is certainly set, except for gold, for what Jim says is a way out for the central banks.
The gold card, as I’ve spoken of multiple times over the years, is the last card that central banks have in the deck. And although loath to play it, at some point they will…because they won’t have any other option, as we are on the cusp of a deflationary implosion the likes of which the world has never known — and that cannot be allowed to happen.
So, how did it come to this, I wonder…here at the end of all things.
I’m done for the day — and the week — and I’ll see you here on Tuesday.

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Value of Brazil's wood product exports reaches US$238M in June, up 7.2% year-over-year, with pine sawnwood exports up 40.8% to US$16.9M; pine plywood export values fall 0.2%, but increase 4.1% in volume to 109,000 m3
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(International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO))
– In June 2014, wood products exports (except pulp and paper) increased 7.2% in terms of value compared to June 2013, from US$222 million to US$238 million. Pine sawnwood exports increased 40.8% in value in June 2014 compared to June 2013, from US$12 million to US$16.9 million. In terms of volume, exports rose 38%, from 53,100 cu.m to 73,300 cu.m over the same period. On the other hand, tropical sawnwood exports fell 17% in volume, from 34,200 cu.m in June 2013 to 28,400 cu.m in June 2014. In value terms export earnings dropped 13.6% from US$16.9 million to US$14.6 million over the same period.
Pine plywood exports fell slightly (-0.2%) in value in June 2014 compared to June 2013 but the volume increased 4.1%, from 104,700 cu.m to 109,000 cu.m, over the same period.
Tropical plywood exports declined 37.5% in terms of volume, from 4,800 cu.m in June 2013 to 3,000 cu.m in June 2014.The value of exports fell 34.5%, from US$2.9 million in June 2013 to US$1.9 million in June 2014. It came as a disappointment that exports of wooden furniture declined in June from US$ 42.8 million in June last year to US$ 41.4 million this June 2014, a 3.3% drop.
The source of this article is the ITTO Tropical Timber Market (TTM) Report March 16-31, 2014. The full report can be viewed at: http://www.itto.int/mis_detail/id=3976

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On June 21, the Philadelphia City Council passed a resolution calling on the U.S. Congress to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan, cut military spending, and devote the monies saved to our very real domestic needs.
Philadelphia’s needs may be greater than Montgomery County’s and its constituent townships and boroughs, but our needs are still serious, and the only place to find large amounts of money is in the Pentagon, where waste, fraud and almost limitless spending cause us to spend more money on the military than the next eight nations combined. Those who question the value of local efforts on such national questions forget American history where local pressure eventually brought about abolition and women’s suffrage.
Similar resolutions have been adopted in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and many other cities. It would be a wonderful thing to see Montgomery County and its townships and boroughs pass a similar resolution.

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text: Rincón de Ademuz is a rural area in the north west of the province of Valencia, between Cuenca and Turuel. It has a continental climate with low levels of precipitation (350-400 mm per year) but frequent winter and spring frosts, which often cause significant damage, particularly in spring when fruit trees blossom. The areas where Esperiega apples grow have fertile deep soils due to alluvial deposits from the rivers Turia, Ebron and Boligues. The region of Ademuz is traditionally known for the cultivation of an important group of apple varieties (Esperiega, Miguela, Normanda, Ricarda, Garcia and Comadre), some of which are native and others of unknown origin. In the 1950s these varieties had a certain degree of economic importance. At present some of these cultivars are at risk of extinction for various reasons—a lack of generational change, an unfavorable climate, but mainly economic reasons. Until the 1960s production was absorbed by wholesalers who came to Ademuz to buy Esperiega. In the 1970s these buyers started to demand new, more commercially attractive varieties of American origin (such as Golden, Starking and Red Delicious), causing the gradually replacement of traditional varieties. Fortunately, thanks to the renowned quality of Esperiega apples, particularly in the province of Valencia, its production did not totally disappear. Its present rediscovery is mainly due to the efforts of a group of young growers, members of the Valencian cooperative “Virgin de la Huerta”. In addition the Valencian cooperative CEAGA is trying out the cultivation of traditional varieties using ecological methods—in fact these cultivars are better adapted to the soil and climate of the area and do not need to be kept in a cool store. Cultivation continues to be carried out in a traditional manner, from pruning and irrigation to manual harvesting. New treatments against pests and disease have been introduced, but in the case of Esperiega, unlike commercial varieties, only limited treatment is needed. Due to its widespread nationwide popularity, Esperiega apples are variously called Esperiega, Esperiega Fina, Esperiega Roja, Esperiega Encarnada. It is a variety that blossoms between April and May. The fruit is medium to medium large in size, has a flattened spherical shape with regular or pentagonal profile; its skin is hard, waxy and shiny. The flesh is yellow-green, with “frozen” areas. The skin has red stripes of varying extent depending on how much sun it received, and white patches covering the rest of the surface. The stem is short, greenish, strong and very wide near the center of the fruit. The stem cavity is almost always wide and open, with cracks. There are triangular, pointed, outwardly curving sepals. The flesh is white with greenish veining in the center; it is hard, crispy, and fairly juicy with a slight wine flavor. Fruit is picked from the end of October to the end of November. Given the consistency and properties of the flesh, the apple is suitable for cooking. After picking, it keeps well when stored over winter and this is when the apple develops its best condition for eating: it loses its hardness and the flavor is more intense. It is a typical feature in the province of Ademuz, in 1903 the first tree was grown in the area of Guerrero (region of Rincón de Ademuz), nowadays a deserted area, on land owned by D. Manuel Manzano.

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Dreams do come true: Firefighters' biggest fan gets her own truck
It could have been mistaken for a full-scale theatrical production.
In the middle of Spartanburg's Evangel Cathedral Church parking lot, about 20 county firefighters waited for their cue to maneuver eight fire trucks like a choreographed dance, ready to unveil a surprise two years in the making.
"Everybody in their trucks -- crank it up, lights on," commanded firefighter Stephanie Sands Smith, 29, of the Spartanburg City Fire Department.
The show was for one spectator only -- 20-year-old Amanda Eury, who had long before endeared herself to county firefighters through her tender heart and steely passion for their profession.
But far from embodying the typical fan, Amanda has been battling several life-threatening illnesses since birth, including congenital heart blockage,
scoliosis of the spine, cerebral palsy and severe restrictive lung disease, making her simple dream of operating a real fire truck hard to imagine.
That big obstacle would prove to be small to her firefighting friends. Amanda thought she'd be spending her chilly Saturday morning riding the mountain train in Bryson City. Instead, the strong-willed strawberry blond received the shock of her life when members of several Spartanburg County fire departments presented her with her very own 1943 restored antique Ford fire truck.
"Wow, dreams really do come true!" is all Amanda could exclaim as she eagerly climbed into the bright red truck and gripped the steering wheel with her red gloves.
Capt. Billy Norris of Spartanburg Public Safety donated the truck, which still needs a new engine. Firefighter Smith is working on that detail, but she had already successfully convinced MAACO Auto Painting and Bodywork to donate the $3,000 paint job and M&R Wrecker Service to provide free towing trips. Complete with fire hose and two ladders worth about $2,000 donated by the Poplar Springs Fire Department, the whole truck looks like the real deal.
"It's not often we get to see the happy moments in life like this," said Jason Merchant, assistant chief of the Croft Fire Department. In fact those firefighters in attendance seemed to radiate a palpable sense of happiness from being able to give such a gift to Amanda.
"I've never met anyone like her before," said 21-year-old Roebuck firefighter Kevin Tucker. "To know someone with a heart so big with all the illnesses she has -- she's made me realize how quickly things can change for a person."
What a heart, said her mother, Yvonne McAllister, of the girl doctors said would not live past the age of five, but has grown into an energetic, happy woman who never meets a stranger.
"Did we think Amanda would ever own her own fire truck? Not in a million years," Yvonne said.
They always had more pragmatic worries, like the constant struggle to keep Amanda healthy. That struggle has translated into hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills, and also precluded them from legally adopting Amanda as a baby. Doing so, they said, would have caused Amanda to lose Medicaid benefits and proved financially prohibitive. They remain her permanent foster parents.
With tears, Yvonne struggled to express what the firefighter's presence in Amanda's life over the past two years has done to simply encourage her spiritual well-being.
It was Amanda's sister who first arranged a ride for her in a Roebuck fire truck in January 2005, but that very same day she had to be admitted to the hospital. So Roebuck firefighters drove Amanda to the hospital in a fire truck instead.
"She was just flat out of her mind about that -- it was awesome," said Roebuck firefighter Chris Harvey, 25.
Harvey and many others have been a regular fixture in her life ever since, and Yvonne said it has "put a new brightness, a new light" in Amanda's eyes.
But for now, Amanda said she thinks it's just pretty cool to have a fire truck of her own.
Her father James added jokingly, "We're gonna have to start a fire in our backyard now just so she can put it out."
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Vitamin B12 is one of the nutrients that is essential for proper body functioning. It is required for the normal blood flow and functioning of the brain and is mostly found in animal proteins.
Food items like beef, eggs and other poultry items are rich in the vitamin. Also, Vitamin B12 can be found in sea food like Prawns and Salmon. Unsurprisingly, the deficiency of the vitamin is mostly seen in vegetarians as the vitamin is mostly found in animal proteins.
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‘No plans to reopen J&K Bank branch in PoK’
The J&K Bank has not submitted any proposal to the state govt for re-opening its two branches in PoK), its chairman Mushtaq Ahmad said.
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Bank has not
submitted any proposal to the state government for re-opening
its two branches in Pak-occupied Kashmir (PoK), its chairman
Mushtaq Ahmad said on Saturday.
"In 1947, there were two branches of the J&K Bank in
Muzaffrabad and Mirpur but, at present, we have no plans to
reopen these branches," he told reporters on the sidelines of
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He said during the current fiscal, nearly 1500 youths
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Important: Once you have saved your template selection you can't change it. In that case, just create a new app.
This step lets you style your application. First, choose your device format from the dropdown menu above the preview. CSS of all UI elements may be customized by clicking on them and changing the CSS of the related classes in the editor on the right side. After finishing all the changes, don't forget to save them before moving to the next step.
If you hold shift and click, you can use buttons to navigate inside the app.
The template app may be created with a set of sample 3D models. It will be added to your content library and accessible through the application functionality. You will be able to edit or remove that model through the content library at any time. Adding it is highly recommended if you want to test the app functionality, therefore choose the "Add Sample Content" option.
To learn more about 3D model upload and editing, visit the 3D Content Section.
This section lets you configure your tracking. For trackings that work markerless, there is nothing to prepare here. Some trackings like marker tracking, 3d object tracking, indoor navigation tracking need configuration.
Follow the instructions displayed and after you are done, just hit "(6) Test App".
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Kwaku Manu has reunited funny face and wife Vanessa.
It has been over a week now where funny face underwent so many tribulations from his police case to the Psychiatric hospital.
Today photos and news flooding social media and reaching nanansem.com confirms that Funny face is finally back to his wife Vanessa and his two children.
In the photos shared, the comic actor was seen happily smiling with his family for the reunion and very happy he has finally seen his kids.
Per the story followed by nanansem.com, going through the case, Kwaku Manu is the glue who brought Funny face together with her Wife Vanessa.
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How was the incredible title screen sequence for Secret of Mana made?
January 24, 2022
This is excerpted from an article that was originally published in Japanese at i-mezzo.net. It was translated by Sevon and posted here with permission.
[Secret of Mana] was released on August 6, 1993 [in Japan], but the title screen sequence has touched the hearts of many people and is fondly remembered to this day. This time, Composer Hiroki Kikuta reveals on Twitter how [Angel’s Fear/Fear of the Heavens] was created along with precious memos from the time. Koji Sugimoto, who had just joined Square, also reveals some programming secrets.
According to these Tweets, the images and title sequence were created, then the song was composed afterwards to match the timing! That’s why the reveal of the main image and the appearance of the flock of birds perfectly matches the song!
For the [Secret of Mana] title sequence, I actually loaded it on the SFC and watched it play out on the screen. Then I measured the timing and composed [Angel's Fear/Fear of the Heavens] to match. You can see things like "1:05 birds fly" written in the notes. Sevon's Note: It's hard to read the handwriting, but the gist of it is--- Opening 32 sec | image at +/- 2 | 1:05 birds fly | 1:22 Square [logo] Total time 1:36 Image reveal open 29 sec - full 10.5 sec Note that this is the timing for the original Japanese version, where the Square logo doesn't appear until the very end.
In addition, it took the Super Famicom about a minute to decode the background image, so it seems they were using super compression technology! The image had to be compressed in order to fit inside the limited ROM capacity of the Super Famicom. Since it took a minute, the logo and text scroll were there to stall for time.
A technological point of interest in the [Secret of Mana] title screen is that the background image is a highly compressed lossy algorithm JPEG. The heavy calculations take a minute to finish, so immediately after a reset, the image decodes in the background from bottom to top while the text and screen wipe are displayed. This was the work of Programmer Yoshieda. Sevon's Note: Satoru Yoshieda
PS: I received additional information from Mr. Sugimoto (Square Enix)!
When the image is displayed for the first time, the processing hasn’t yet finished and is still happening in the background.
To be more specific, the image when it first appeared wasn't finished and continued to be decompressed behind the wipe (the black bars on the screen). (It ended up being placed so that the image pans from the bottom up) Thank you, as always!
According to Akira Ueda (formerly at Square) and Mr. Kikuta, the flamingos initially weren’t meant to fly, but Mr. Ueda decided to make it happen!
On a whim, I cut out an illustration of a flamingo and divided it into parts, then made a 16 frame animation with the wings flapping. Before I knew it, there were so many flying flamingos.
The flamingos in the [Secret of Mana] title sequence weren't originally meant to fly, but were able to take flight thanks to Akira Ueda's efforts. Developing for Square back then had a real feeling of freedom—it was fun.
In conclusion, that magnificent title screen wasn’t planned out from the start: a minute was needed because of technical issues, the birds were made to fly on a whim, and only then was [Angel’s Fear/Fear of the Heavens] created to match the long sequence timing. It’s a miraculous combination of music, art, and technology, isn’t it? Maybe they’re all geniuses…

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Vinyl LP pressing. 2015 debut album from the Seattle, WA-based death/grind newcomers. Theories, featuring former members of Book of Black Earth, Skarp, and Samothrace, has been performing across the US since their inception in late 2010. They've earned slots on tours with Goatwhore, Fallujah, Toxic Holocaust, King Parrot, and more. The lineup of vocalist Rick Powell, guitarist Lee McGlothlen, bassist Kusha Karimi, and drummer Joe Axler have joined forces for one purpose: to write vicious grindcore/death metal, and to tour extensively. The album was engineered by Derek Moree (The Sword, Pelican) at Red Room studios and mastered by Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer/Agoraphobic Nosebleed) at Visceral Sound.
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|Album:||Rapturous Flesh Consumed|
|Release Date:||11th of December, 2020|
|Released via||Gilead Media / Redefining Darkness|
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Shortly before the end of this epidemic year, an album has been released that has the quality to make it into the AOTY list of one or the other. Especially for fans of gloomy Black/Death stuff, Rapturous Flesh Consumed, the new long-player from Heretical Sect should be high on the charts. The ominous band from Santa Fe, USA, whose members play in various local bands, but want to remain unrecognized with using evil looking masks, has puked out an almost maddening chunk of inconceivable malice, which you should not leave unnoticed as a constant follower of this genre.
The Californians start without hesitation and beat the hell out of each other as well as you right from the start. With fulminant drumming that sounds like the war drumming of a hellish brood feeding on armored chocolate, to cymbal playing that sounds like chain rattles, the drummer puts on an unbelievably good performance that enlivens the sound throughout and gives the right foundation along the way. The guitar playing is in no way inferior to the aggressiveness and drills, saws and latches itself into the auditory canals, while it remains versatile consistently and spreads a darkness that is unparalleled including some disgusting catchy melodies. In combination with the blast beats, this alone acts like a hurricane full of nails that you don’t want to get too close to. The sound on Rapturous Flesh Consumed is completed with bestial vocals, which besides virtuosic roars also drift into otherworldly directions and have a mechanical undertone that sounds like you’re getting an angry message from aliens, fervently proclaiming that you should go to hell and stay the fuck away.
The entire record is packaged in clever song structures that mostly remain in fast-paced Black/Death, but also do not shy away from an outbreak in slower Doom passages. Especially the tempo changes between the different parts hold various surprises and solidify the devilish atmosphere and the already strong basic structure. Mainly here it becomes clear that Heretical Sect is probably an association of well experienced artists, who all know themselves already tested in different genres.
I can’t or don’t really want to say which elements I actually like the most and left the biggest impression on me, because they stand out individually, but also fit seamlessly into each other without losing quality. Which leads to the fact that you can enjoy the album in one go, but just as well in the several songs itself. Thanks to the bombastic production, the instruments as well as the rotten vocals can completely unfold and show off their malevolence to the fullest.
Rapturous Flesh Consumed was published on December 11 and has been released in digital form as well as all the physical variants to be needed. Gilead Media has been responsible for the vinyl record, while the CD version was realized by Redefining Darkness. Tape lovers have the chance to get the album directly from the band, but due to strict limitation they better get hold of it. If you’ve been blown away by the albums of Black Curse, Dearth or Of Feather And Bone in 2020, you must also get into Heretical Sect, who can only stand out a bit because of their doom influence, but otherwise deliver exactly the same monstrous kind of metal and definitely leave a lasting impression!
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