to strengthen and help rebuild trust between the community. Thank you so much for considering this again, and I urge you again to push this forward. Thank you for your comments. Thanks for being with us today. Shahid Boutar, am I even closer? You're not too far off. Shahid Boutar. I appreciate you asking. Thank you. My name is Shahid Boutar. I'm the Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And I'm here both to thank you for your leadership and I urge you to forward the proposal to the Board of Supervisors with a favorable recommendation. There are a few points I'd like to make. The first is that around the country, law enforcement agencies have sought forgiveness presuming permission to deploy essentially military tools in communities without prior approval from local legislators like yourselves. And without particularly the post-deployment assessment and oversight necessary to ensure compliance with constitutional limits. In that context, legislating affirmative requirements for acquiring, using, or beginning the procurement process for new surveillance technology is imperative to protect the rights of your constituents. And there are three particular points I'd like to make here. The first, with respect to the device neutrality of the proposed ordinance, that is to say future-proofing it, it is important to require forgiveness, permission rather than forgiveness because the pattern and practice of law enforcement agencies around the country is precisely to acquire first, use, and then ask questions later. It's worth noting that SB 34 and 741, two of the measures that the Sheriff's Office cited as potential concerns for preemption, this ordinance does nothing more than ensure the going forward effect of those state measures, which were pegged particularly to two pieces of technology, automatic license plate readers, and sting rate devices, which have been used by law enforcement agencies in the state for nearly and in some cases over a decade. What the California State Legislature did last year was try to close the barn doors 10 years after the horses had left. Future-proofing this ordinance is critical to make sure that does not recur and there certainly are not preemption issues at stake here. We do have some ideas with respect to the definitions, both to tighten them, specifically adding communications and biometric to the list of proposed definitions and some ideas that might narrow them to address some of the undue burden concerns. Thanks for considering this. Thank you. And again, we have any written information can go either to our clerk or to my staff and we would appreciate it. And before we take the next speaker, in the baffling category, I know we had a card from somebody with the investigators association and somehow it is not still in the pile. So if you would just fill out a card again and hand it to me, I apologize for making you fill out the card twice. Welcome, sir. Hi. My name is Michael O'Brien and I'm a resident of Santa Clara County and also a ACLU board member with the Mid-Ponential Chapter. And I'm just here to stand in support of the ordinance and to urge you to push forward and to a vote. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks for being with us. Next speaker. My name is Gary Schwartz. I'm a resident of Palo Alto and a volunteer with the ACLU. And I've been here several times for previous hearings on this ordinance. And I am very pleased that it has gotten this far and I would not object to its going forward. But if it does go forward, I will repeat a comment I had, I believe at the last meeting, which is it's not clear what happens, what the requirements are with regard to transfer of data to third parties. And I'm in particular concerned with ALPRs, where it seems to be widely available. There was an article in the R's Technica website three or four months ago in which they had obtained every record from Oakland. And I believe they got it from Vigilant, but I don't actually remember how they got it, but they got every ALPR record from Oakland. And it seems to me if that would be possible for Oakland, it might be possible for Santa Clara County. And somehow that has to be covered in a use policy. And it's not clear to me that the current state of the ordinance requires that. It doesn't exclude it, but it doesn't seem to require it. So I want to thank Supervisor Summiting for all your efforts in this area. It has been very impressive, and in particular your efforts with regard to the shallows long ago. How many months now? Six? Request to request. Thank you, Mr. Forrest. Tracy Rosenberg to be followed by Michael Winnington. Ms. Winnington, as soon as you handed in your second card, I, of course, front the first one. And then to be followed by Paul Donahue, and then by Isan Noor. And I believe that is all of our speakers. Welcome. Hello. One more time. I've been down here several times to talk to you about the ordinance. Tracy Rosenberg from the Oakland Privacy Working Group and for Media Alliance. I'd like to address three points fairly briefly. The first is the Request to State Bills 741 and SP34. And I bring those up specifically because I travel to Sacramento on several occasions to testify on behalf of those bills. And what I want to clarify in this space is that those bills were transparency equipment ordinances. They were very specifically set out requirements for usage policies and usage audits. Exactly the same process that we are seeing in this ordinance that we are considering today. So the idea that they would preempt or contradict or in any way were not congruent with each other is not an accurate statement. And it's important because we are walking in the path of several trends both statewide and nationally that have been going on in terms of how do we provide oversight for the use of this equipment. So we are not jumping out into someplace where no one else has ever gone. We are in fact following state and national trends. We're just trying to do so in a global way so we don't have to pass seven different ordinances for seven different kinds of surveillance equipment this year and then next year pass seven more ordinances for what develops in 2017 because your time is too valuable for that. I would encourage you to take a look at the letter in your packet from my colleague, Brian Hofer, who is heading the ad hoc Privacy Commission in Oakland. I've gone through a process where they have created several privacy policies that are again ordinance specific and there are some helpful comments in there I think just one more second about the correct definition of burdensome and if you look at the issue of pre-clearing things in advance and if you look at the issue of knowing with certainty what permitted uses are and aren't then I think you can maybe redefine the word burdensome into not having to guess and lowering the opportunity for the kinds of mistakes and abuses that happen, that have happened. Thank you at this point. And that we've seen happen. So thank you. Thank you again. All right, Mr. Whittington, thank you. Welcome. Thank you. I was actually going to give her one of my minutes. There you go. Thank you. My name is Michael Whittington from the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Investigators Association. I will not take much of your time. I'm just here to say that I'm currently opposed to this measure as it's currently written from a labor standpoint. For my investigators, it is very important to me that their future, whether there's something intentional or accidental in the process of doing their job, does not force them into a misdemeanor court violation or something where they are facing, basically losing their jobs. And I know this is a very long-written document and a lot of analysis is going into it by us, but at this current measure from a labor standpoint we are opposed. Thank you. Thank you. And Mr. Whittington, I just want to underscore for you the fact that the language involving a misdemeanor is very clear about the fact that it has to be, it can only be a misdemeanor to intentionally use county-owned surveillance technology for a purpose or in a manner that is specifically prohibited in a board-approved use policy or without complying with the terms. And I just want to underscore for you the concern that we had in drafting to say that means that if you were charged, anyone were charged by the district attorney, they'd have to prove that there was an intentional misuse and that there was an intentional misuse in a manner that was specifically prohibited. So a pretty high bar for a misdemeanor. And I don't expect you to change your mind. I just want to make sure people understand that that consideration was taken into the drafting of the document. Yes, sir. And I noticed a lot of that. However, I did notice that a lot of the verbiage, almost anything can now be considered surveillance from a Google Earth to a Twitter to a Facebook. All these things are changing every single day. And I am not here to say that we are not for oversight. We are not for accountability, far from it. We are all for that because in our association, the ultimate accountability is in court for us. So we don't want to violate those things. But by having a vague or broad topic where there could be some type of thing that could trip us up, that could cause tremendous issues later down the road in a criminal prosecution, as well as on the labor side as far as how our investigators do work. So simply put, at this current state, we're opposed. And I just want to say thank you very much. Thank you. Have a good day. Next speaker is Paul Donahue, to be followed by Asan Noor. Hello there, Paul Donahue. I want to thank you again for looking into this ordinance. And I'm glad that this ordinance, as you said earlier, doesn't hamper the appropriate use of surveillance technology because there are appropriate uses. It just really makes the decision on what's appropriate and what's not a public decision where people can give feedback and take part in the debate. One concern that I have is on Section 9, as you've probably heard a million times. But I'm concerned about perpetual exigencies because, for instance, terrorism is kind of an ongoing concern and that involves a danger of death or serious physical injury. And I'm just concerned that rather than making the report required after the beginning of the exigencies, it's after the end of the exigencies. And if it never ends, no report would ever be required. So that is one area that I would suggest improvements. But overall, I really do think this is a great ordinance and I hope that you recommend it to the board. Thanks. Thank you very much for your comments. And I believe our last speaker is Asan Noor. Welcome. I'm Asan Noorbach, resident of San Jose. I wanted to support... Can I ask you to speak right into that microphone? There you go. So I'm a resident of San Jose. I wanted to support the ordinance. And it increases the public's trust and not only the purchases of surveillance equipment, but also how they're actually used for that. I'm very thankful. The opposition by the District Attorney's Office regarding the great burden caused is honestly a cause for alarm by itself because if the county is considering using so many surveillance equipment that just bookkeeping is not feasible, then we already might have a problem. So thank you. Thank you for your comments. And again, thank you for being here. Let me just make sure before I bring the matter back to our full board, excuse me, to our full committee that we have all of the cards. The clerk has no more cards. Anybody else from the public who wants to speak? Gentlemen, any additional comments either of you would like to make? Mr. Walsh? No. Okay. Supervisor Chavez, comments, questions, thoughts? Thank you. I would like to ask just a couple of questions.


Dr. Pappnam, you are a professor at Harvard University, but the next two years you will always also be a visiting distinguished professor at Ohush University. What do you hope you will get out of this new collaboration between you and Ohush University? I'm looking forward to exchanging ideas and exchanging experiences with the scholars and students at Ohush. My research, my own research, has been basically focused on changing developments in American society, big social changes. Denmark is a quite different kind of laboratory, social laboratory, because it's of course much smaller, more homogeneous in many respects. It has characterized by the Scandinavian type of welfare state. And therefore I'm interested to see in what respects the developments in America have similar counterparts here in Denmark are quite different. It's like trying old familiar experiments, but in a new and exciting laboratory. But why Denmark? Why Danish university? Well, frankly partly because Danish university asked me. But the reason I accept it, as I say, is because Denmark is marked as a really quite unusual place. It's the happiest country in the world, as you know. It's at very high levels of what I call social capital, that is social trust, social cohesion. And in that respect it's especially interesting, it's an especially interesting laboratory. And your work on social capital and social cohesion is often referred to in the Danish political debate, especially your best selling book, Falling Alone. And how would you like to impact the Danish debate during the next two years, where you are a distinguished professor at Ohush University? Well I want to be careful because I'm not at all an expert on Denmark. I'm here mainly to learn about Denmark, not to advise people in Denmark. I think it is true in Denmark as in the United States that the character and the intensity and the depth and the vitality of ties among us is a very important characteristic of a society. I think the whole idea of social capital is the idea that connections among us have very powerful effects. They have effects on our physical health, they have effects on the health of our communities, they have effects on crime, economic growth, education and so on. And so I suppose I hope to be able to convey to Danish leaders the importance of social capital and then the ways in which that can be either, social capital can be either enhanced or put at risk. You have been in Ohush now for a couple of days and in Copenhagen as well. What is your first impression? I suppose the first impression of any, especially any progressive American, is that they seem to have come to paradise in which everything seems to work well and the streets are clean and the people are friendly and the first impression, of course, is that there seem to be no problems at all either at the university here or in the country as a whole. Of course I'm aware that's not true. There are also real challenges here and some of the challenges that are facing Ohush as a city and Denmark as a country are not unfamiliar to Americans. I'm thinking, for example, of the challenges of living with ethnic diversity, managing the challenges of immigration and so on. And I'm very interested to learn more about that. You say the word paradise, but if you only have three words to describe Ohush, what would that be? Efficient, rainy and lovely. So you say rainy, efficient and lovely. And do you think that image will last during your two years in Ohush? I'm hoping to modify the rainy image to get a sense that also it's sunny here. Today is a lovely day, but we did experience a couple of days of rain. I'm certain that it will continue to be efficient.  And perhaps I'll add to that, friendly. I'm just beginning to make friends here, but I'll have the opportunity over these two years to develop deeper personal friendships. We at Ohush University, we look very much forward to having you here and we will make sure that you will not be falling alone. Thank you very much. Thank you.


CHAPTER 19 EXPLANATIONS I cannot endure this, came in one burst of feeling, from the lips of Mr Blake. She don't know, she don't realise, sir, cried he suddenly, becoming conscious of my presence in the room. Will you be good enough to see that this note, he hastily scribbled one, is carried across the way to my house, and given to Mrs Daniels? I bowed, ascent, routed up one of the men in the next room, and dispatched it at once. Perhaps she will listen to the voice of one of her own sex, if not to me, said he, and began pacing the floor at the narrow room, in which we were, with a wildness of impatience that showed to what depths had sunk the hope of gaining his lovely woman for his own. Taking myself no longer necessary in that spot, I followed where my wishes led, and entered the room where Lutra was bidding goodbye to her father. I shall never forget, I heard her say, as I crossed the floor to where Mr Grice stood, looking out at the window, that your blood runs in my veins together with that of my gentle hearted, never to be forgotten mother. Whether my fate may be, or wherever I may hide the head you have bowed to the dust, be sure I shall always lift up my hands in prayer for your repentance, and return to an honest life. God grant that my prayers may be heard, and that I may yet receive at your hands a father's kindly blessing. The only answer to this was a heavily muttered growl that gave but little promise of any such peaceful termination to a deeply vicious life, hearing it Mr Grice hastened to procure his men, and remove the hardened wretches from the spot. All through the preparations for their departure, she stood and watched their sullen faces with a wild yearning in her eye that could scarcely be denied. But when the door finally closed upon them, and she was left standing there with no one in the room but myself, she steadied herself up as one who is conscious that all the storms of heaven are about to break upon her, and turning slowly to the door, waited with arms crossed and a still determination upon her brow, the coming of the feet of him whose resolve she felt must have, as yet been only strengthened by her resistance. She had not long to wait, almost with the closing of the street door upon the detectives and their prisoners. Mr Blake, followed by Mrs Daniels, and another lady, whose thick veil and long cloak but early concealed and patrician features and stately form of the Countess de Merac, entered the room. The surprise had its effect, Lutra was evidently for the moment thrown off her guard. Mrs Daniels, she breathed, holding out her hands with a longing gesture. My dear mistress, return that good woman, taking those hands in hers, but in a respectful way that proved the constraint imposed upon her by Mr Blake's presence. Do I see you again and safe? You must have thought I cared little for the anxiety you would be sure to feel, said that fair young mistress, gazing with earnestness into the glad but tearful eyes of the housekeeper. But indeed, I have been in no position to communicate with you, nor could I do so without risking that to protect, which I so outrage my feelings as to leave the house at all. I mean the life and welfare of its master, Mrs Daniels. Ha, what is that, quote Mr Blake, it was to save me, you consented to follow them. Yes, what else would have led me to such an action, they might have killed me. I would not have cared, but when they began to utter threats against you, Mrs Blake exclaimed Mrs Daniels, catching hold of her mistress' uplifted hand, and pointing to a scar that slightly disfigured her wide arm a little above the wrist. Mrs Blake, what's that? A pink flush, the first I had seen on her usually pale countenance, rose for an instant to her cheeks, and she seemed to hesitate. No is not there when I last saw you, Mrs Blake. No was the slow reply. I found myself forced that night to inflict upon myself a little wound. It is nothing, let it go. No, Lutra, I cannot let it go, said her husband, advancing towards her with something like gentle command. I must hear not only about this, but all the other occurrences of that night. How came they to find you in the refuge you had attained? I think, said she, in a low tone, the underlying suffering of which it would be hard to describe, that it was not to seek me they first invaded your house. They had heard you were a rich man, and the sight of that latter running up the side of the new extension was too much for them. Indeed I know that it was for purposes of robbery they came, for they had hired this room opposite you some days previous to making the attempt. You see, they were almost destitute of money, and though they had some buried in the cellar of the old house in Vermont, they did not leave the city to procure it. My brother was obliged to do so later, however. It was a surprise to them seeing me in your house. They had reached the roof of the extension and were just lifting up the corner of the shade I had dropped across the open window. I always opened my window a few minutes before preparing to retire, when I rose from the chair in which I had been brooding, and turned up the gas. I was combing my hair at the time, and so of course they recognised me. Instantly they gave a secret signal, I, alas, remembered only too well, and crouching back made me put out the light that they might enter with safety. I was at first too much startled to realise the consequence of my action, and with some vague idea that they had discovered my retreat and come for purposes of advice or assistance, I did what they did. Immediately they threw back the shade and came in, their huge figures looming frightfully in the faint light made by a distant gas lamp in the street below. What do you want, when my first words uttered in a voice I scarcely recognise for my own? Why do you steal on me, like this, in the night, and through an open window fifty feet from the ground? Aren't you afraid you will be discovered and sent back to the prison from which you have escaped? Their reply sent a chill through my blood, and awoke me to a realisation of what I had done in this allowing to escape convicts to enter a house not my own. We want money, and we're not afraid of anything, now you are here. And without heeding my exclamation of horror, they coolly told me that they would wait where they were till the household was asleep, when they would expect me to show them the way to the silver closet, or what was better, the safe or wherever it was Mr Blake kept his money. I saw they took me for a servant, as indeed I was, and for some minutes I managed to preserve that position in their eyes, but when in a sudden burst of rage at my refusal to help them, they pushed me aside and hurried to the door with the manifest intention of going below. I forgot prudence in my fears and uttered some wild appeal to them, not to do injury to anyone in the house, for it was my husband's. Of course that disclosure had its natural effect. They stopped, but only to beset me with questions till the whole truth came out. I could not have committed a worse folly than thus, taking them into my confidence. Instantly the advantages to be gained by using my secret connection with so wealthier man for the purpose of cowering me and blackmailing him seemed to strike both their minds at once, slow as they usually are to receive impressions. The silver closet and money safe sunk to a comparatively insignificant position in their eyes, and to get me out of the house, and with my heaviness at stake, treat with the honourable man who notwithstanding his non-approval of me as a woman, still regarded me as his lawfully wedded wife, became in their eyes a thing of such wonderful promise they were willing to run any and every risk to test its value. But here, to their great astonishment, I rebelled, astonishment because they could not realise my desiring anything above money, and the position to which they declared I was by law, entitled. In vain I pleaded my love. In vain I threatened exposure at their plans, if not whereabouts. The mine of gold which they fondly believed they had stumbled upon unawares, promised too richly to be easily abandoned. You must go with us, said they, if not peaceably, then by force. And they actually advanced upon me, upsetting a chair and tearing down one of the curtains to which I clung. It was then I committed that little act concerning which you questioned me. I wanted to show them I was not to be moved by threats of that character, that I did not even fear the shedding of my blood, and that they would only be wasting their time in trying to sway me by hints of personal violence. And they were a little impressed, sufficiently so at least, to turn their threats in another direction, awakening fears at last which I could not conceal, much as I felt it would be policy to do so. Bringing up a few articles I most prized, my wedding ring, Mr Blake, and a photograph of yourself that Mrs Daniels had been kind enough to give me, I put on my bonnet and cloak and said I would go with them, since they persisted in requiring it. The fact is I no longer possessed motive or strength to resist. Given your unexpected appearance at the door, Mrs Daniels offered no prospect of hope. Arouse the house, what would that do? Only reveal my cherished secret, and perhaps jeopardise the life of my husband. Besides, they were my own knee-kin, remember, and so had some little claim upon my consideration, at least to the point of my not personally betraying them unless they menaced immediate and actual harm. The escape by the window, which would have been a difficult task for most women to perform, was easy enough for me. I was brought up to wild ways, you know, and the descent of a ladder forty feet long was a comparatively trivial thing for me to accomplish. It was the tearing away from a life of soul and peace, the re-entrance of my soul into an atmosphere of sin and deadly plotting. That was the hard thing, the difficult, dreadful thing which hung weights to my feet and made me well-nigh mad, and it was this which had the sight of a policeman in the street led me to make an effort to escape, but it was not successful. Though I was fortunate enough to free myself from the grasp of my father and brother, I reached the gate on the street only to encounter the eyes of him, whose displeasure I most feared, looking sternly upon me from the other side. The shock was too much for me in my then weak and unnerved condition. Without considering anything but the fact that he never had known and never must, that I had been in the same house with him for so long. I rushed back to the corner and into the arms of the men who awaited me. How you came to be there, Mr Blake, or why you did not open the gate and follow, I cannot say. The gate was locked, returned that gentleman. You remember it closes with a spring and can only be opened by means of a key which I did not have. My father had it, she murmured. He spent a whole week in the endeavour to get hold of it, and finally succeeded on the evening of the very day he used it. It was left in the lock, I believe. So much for servants I whispered to myself. The next morning continued sheen. They put the case very plainly before me. I was at liberty to return at once to my home if I would promise to work in their interest by making certain demands upon you as your wife. All they wanted, said they, was a snug little sum and a lift out at the country. If I would secure them these, they would trouble me no more. But I could not concede to anything of that nature, of course, and the consequence was these long weeks of imprisonment and suspense, weeks that I do not now begrudge. Seeing they have brought me the assurance of your esteem and the knowledge that wherever I go your thoughts will follow me with compassion if not with love. And having told her story and thus answered his demands, she assumed once more the position of lofty reserve that seemed to shut him back from advance like a wall of invincible crystal. End of CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. OF A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Nicole Carl, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2008. A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE by Anna Catherine Green. CHAPTER XX. THE BOND THAT UNITES. But he was not to be discouraged. And after all this, after all you have suffered for my sake and your own, do you think you have a right to deny me the one desire of my heart? How can you reconcile it with your idea of devotion, Lutra? My ideas of devotion look beyond the present, Mr. Blake. It is to save you from years of wearing anxiety that I consent to the infliction upon you of a passing pain. He took a bold step forward. Lutra, you do not know a man's heart. To lose you now would not merely inflict a passing pain, but sow the seeds of a grief that would go with me to the grave. Do you then—she began, but paused, blushing—Mrs. Daniels took the opportunity to approach her on the other side. My dear mistress, said she, you are wrong to hold out in this matter. And her manner betrayed something of the peculiar agitation that had belonged to it in the former times of her secret embarrassment. I who have honored the family which I have so long served, above every other in the land, tell you that you can do it no greater good than to join it now, or inflict upon it any greater harm than to willfully withdraw yourself from a position in which God has placed you. And I, said another voice, that of the Countess de Merac, who up to this time had held herself in the background, but who now came forward and took her place with the rest. I, who have borne the name of Blake, and who am still the proudest of them all at heart. I, the Countess de Merac, cousin to your husband there, repeat what this good woman has said, and in holding out my hand to you, ask you to make my cousin happy, and his family contented by assuming that position in his household, which the law as well as his love accords you. The girl looked at the daintily gloved hand held out to her, colored faintly, and put her own within it. I thank you for your goodness, said she, surveying with half-sad, half-admiring glances the somewhat pale face of the beautiful brunette. And you will yield to our united requests. She cast her eyes down at the spot where her father and brother had cowered in their shackles and shook her head. I dare not, she said. Immediately Mrs. Daniels, whose motion had been increasing every moment since she last spoke, plunged her hand into her bosom and drew out a folded paper. Mrs. Blake, said she, if you could be convinced that what I have told you was true, and that you would be irretrievably injuring your husband and his interests by persisting in that desertion of him which is your purpose, would you not consent to reconsider your determination settled as it appears to be? If I could be made to see that, most certainly, returned she in a low voice whose broken accents betrayed at what cost she remained true to her resolve. But I cannot. Perhaps the sight of this paper will help you, said she. Unturning to Mr. Blake, she exclaimed, You are pardoned for what I am called upon to do. A duty has been laid upon me which I cannot avoid, hard as it is for an old servant to perform. This paper, but it is no more than just that you, sir, should see and read it first. And with a hand that quivered with fear or some equally strong emotion, she put it in his clasp. The exclamation that rewarded the act made us all start forward. My father's handwriting, were his words, Executed under my eye, observed Mrs. Daniels. His glance ran rapidly down the sheet and rested upon the final signature. Why has this been kept from me, demanded he, turning upon Mrs. Daniels with sternness. Her father willed it so, was her reply, For a year was his command.  At the expiration of that time, Mark, if my son's wife sits at the head of her husband's table, If she does and is happy, suppress this by deliberately giving it to the flames. But if, from any reason other than death, She is not seen there, carry it at once To my son, and bid him, as he honours my memory, To see that my wishes, as they are expressed, Are at once carried out. The paper in Mr. Blake's hand fluttered, Are you aware what those wishes were, said he. I studied his hand while he wrote, Was her sad and earnest reply. Mr. Blake turned with a look of inexpressible deference to his wife. Madam, said he, When I urged you with such warmth to join your fate to mine and honour my house by presiding over it, I thought I was inviting you to share the advantages of wealth as well as the love of a lonely man's heart. This paper undeceives me. Lutra, the daughter-in-law of Abner Blake, not Hallman, his son, is the one who by the inheritance of his millions has the right to command in this presence. With a cry she took from him the will whose purport was thus briefly made known. How could he exclaim she, running her eye down the sheet, and then crushing it spasmodically to her breast? Did he not realise that he could do me no greater wrong than in one yielding up of her whole womanhood to the mighty burst of passion that had been flooding the defences of her heart for so long? She exclaimed in a voice the mingled rapture and determination of which rings in my ears even now. And is it a thing like this, with its suggestions of mercenary interest that shall bridge the gulf that separates you and me? Shall the giving or the gaining of a fortune make necessary the unitle of lives over which wholly your influences have beamed and loftier hopes shone? No, no, by the smile with which your dying father took me to his breast, love alone, with the hope and confidence it gives shall be the bond to draw us together and make of the two separate planes on which we stand a common ground where we can meet and be happy. And with one supreme gesture she tore into pieces the will which she held, and sank all aglow with women's divinous joy into the arms held out to receive her. I was present at the wedding reception given them by the Countess de Marac and her elegant apartments at the Windsor. I never saw a happier bride, nor a husband in whose eyes burned a deeper contentment. To all questions as to who this extraordinary woman could be, where she was found and in what place and at what time she was married, the Countess had apt replies whose art of hushing curiosity without absolutely satisfying it was one of the tokens she yet preserved of her short sway as a grand lady in the gayest and most hollow city of the world. As I prepared to leave a scene perhaps the most gratifying in many aspects that I had ever witnessed, I felt a slight touch on my arm. It came from Mrs. Blake, who with her husband had crossed the room to bid me farewell. Will you allow me to thank you, said she, for the risk you ran for me one day and of which I have just heard. It was an act that merits the gratitude of years, and as such shall be always remembered by me. If the old French artist with the wracking cough ever desires a favour at my hands, let him feel free to ask it. The interest I experienced in him in the days of my trouble will suffer no abatement in these of my joy and prosperity. And with a look that was more than words, she gave me a flower from the bouquet she held in her hand, and smilingly withdrew. End of Chapter 20 End of A Strange Disappearance by Anna Catherine Green


The following is a presentation of TFNN Trade what you see With Larry Pezzavento Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> Now Larry Pezzavento Okay, looking good Billy Ray feeling good Louis. We're gonna start to show in a rather unusual way today We want to welcome a new guest From Terre Haute Indiana none other than my cousin and she is the daughter of the lady that kept Louise's restaurant in business for 77 years and our family fed for all those years. God bless you Esther It's great having you on. I don't know if you remember this darling, but when I went to St. Anthony's hospital when I was just a little whippersnapper there 17 years of age and you got me a job as an orderly in the next year I became a operating room technician and it supported me for all during my college years You've always been by my side and we certainly appreciate it Her sister Roseanne passed away here about four years ago here in Tucson And we got to spend some time with her towards the end of her life, but Esther's lived a charm life just like I have we've been very lucky that way. So welcome dear. Anyway, let's get on We'll take a look at the NASDAQ Excuse me. Let's try it again folks the DAX and also the footsie both of those are rolling over and Folks, I'll tell you this these markets are looking bearish more bearish all the time now. It's very interesting I'm going to post the chart here for the E-mini S&P because we just hit a magical number here this morning I'll post this so you'll be able to see it We made the ABCD pattern to the downside down there at 45 90 We've now made the 38% retracement folks at 43 48 46 48 if we can get above 46 48 today That's got a positive sign because we've completed that large ABCD pattern that we talked about here on the show yesterday If you'll remember, I think I can get it up here without too much trouble. We had had yes Here it is. We'll get up here to take a quick look at it and then we'll be able to our guest today By the way, it's going to be none other than Alfie Lavoie of air software. He is the he's the oldest Well, he well, he's pretty yeah, he's a little older than me So but Alfie is probably the got the best cycle program for Cycles in the market that you'll ever find that his titanium program and he's going to give it to the folks here and a much I mean a huge discount. I mean like I think 70% off or something So that's going to be really good to look at now Let's move on here and take a look at one other thing that we follow here close I'll have to share this with you folks. Someone was kind enough to send me a picture Basically, I guess it's a self portrait of myself and the caption is it's I just had a bad nightmare again that I Found everyone found out that I'm in my late 30s and I still have no idea how the stock market works Rich Anderson was able to send it to me. He's probably saved it for 40 years But you don't have to worry about what the stocks are going to do folks No, what he's no one knows what they're going to do You have to do one thing and that's the control the risk that you're on once you do that You know, you're going to be far better off than anything else everything we do here is related to the the risk factor of this Just and the perfect example is the gold market now We bought the gold yesterday at 1754 and you add $62 to that which is twice the harmonic number It gives you the high today at 1816 and the high was 1815 60 So we should have a nice correction here about 382 taking us down to about 1798 today But gold still looks bullish in my opinion. So I think we ought to you know, keep that on the burner for being You know still being positive. So let's look at that and also we've had a nice run down in stocks It's a Friday. So I'm not not surprised that the market had major support there But we've got to get that market above 43 48 today in the E-mini and that'll give us a chance to have a little bit more of a rally But right now this is looking very very various folks We've shared a lot of information about this potential bearishness and I wanted to bring a couple of them to your attention One of them here is oh before I do that Sorry for getting off the bat because I promised George in Hong Kong that I would cover his he sent me If you remember George in Hong Kong about three weeks ago, he was in oh shut the front door and raise the rent What have I done now? Just a minute. I've knocked over my speakerphone Dear hold on just a second there we go, I think we're back in business He's now in Pfizer and I'll get the price of a Pfizer.  So just give me a just give me a second. I'm TIGER Ordinarily Esther, I'm not this flustered but because you're on the show. I have to be a little bit more conservative If that's possible We get back in okay, I think we're back now and let's I think I'm back in the den without any trouble So I wanted to post this chart here This is the chart of Pfizer and I'll bring the I'll bring the chart of Tesla up in just a second But if you remember He was asking a question about Tesla now. He's asking me the same question. You'll see where he bought He bought the the Pfizer down here at 50 and now it's trading at 61 and he asked me what should I do? I gave him the same answer that I gave him when he was in Tesla And let's take a look at Tesla and you're gonna be able to see the same thing So hold on one second here it is and here is the start the chart of Tesla You'll bring it up here now. Here's where remember you remember when we were at 1200 He asked the question What should I do and the answer George is the same as it is in Pfizer if you have to ask me the question of Whether you should be in or out you should be out because on that painting right behind me here in the office It says number one trading rule of all is if when you're in doubt Get out so you're in doubt and you got out when you should have got out and the market was telling you that now regarding the price of Tesla here I think that's the S&P getting ready to move here a second folks. I have to turn off my Yep, it just broke the 382 that we got a good chance to some more rally for the day That's a good thing to look at now. Let's move on here just one second here I get back to Tesla Tesla now look at this chart closely the gap folks was at 910 and the low that we made yesterday was nine nine Nine oh eight so it's filled it's filled that gap. That's a very very important thing to Remind ourselves that when that's happened you've got to be able to you know got to be able to do that so Very very important. I think you've got to be able to do that now those of you that are trading the NASDAQ Right now. We are just hitting the 382 retracement in the NASDAQ and so that one's acting pretty nicely also and So keep keep your eyes on that because these markets are going to get very very volatile and even more volatile than what we've already seen Now I've been able to get some information From the Elliott Wave people from several of our subscribers and they asked me to talk about those today And one of they wanted to show you just where we are on a long-term basis Of some of these bubbles that we've had Uh-oh just a second here boys and girls. I gotta Get this out get this out of the way Okay, all right move this out of the way just a tiny bit here Okay, there we go get this out of the way and here we go get this chart up for you I just got so many charts today That uh This is the highest equity valuations in the history of the world folks from our We are higher than we were in the great impression. Hey, let's be right back. We'll take a break eight seven seven nine two seven six six four eight You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market You're going to need a crystal ball. After all it's impossible to predict the future, right? 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This is the rydex funds I mean the people that you know put their money into the market All the time and you can see here. They they've been buying Incessantly over the past two years remember the figure that we talked about earlier in this week There's been more money put into the stock market During 19 or during 2021 Then there has been in the other 20 years combined going back to you know way back to 2000 I mean so everybody's in the market now the question is when they get start to get out Who are they going to sell to that hasn't happened yet? There's no panic coming in I don't know if there will be a panic history says there would be because we're in the generation that should see it The last one we had was in 1929 Given to that fact if you remember if you've read anything about the market of 1929 You know mr. Kennedy john kennedy senior He was of course real heavily involved in the The stock market and he was out and he was actually short during the crash Into 1932 and in 1932 the merchandise mark in chicago the largest commercial building in the world I still think it is Was up for sale because they were in bankruptcy and he bought that Building for 1.2 million dollars in 1932 When the kennedy family sold it I believe in 1978 I recall the rent on the property was a million dollars a month So you can see the type of money that they made on that not counting the value of the property Which was right on the chicago river. So anyway, that's that's what happens Just be careful up in here folks Because something wicked this way comes and I don't know when it's going to happen But it's getting closer and closer all the time. So we've got to be extremely Extremely careful. I posted the chart about how the market breath is looking very bad Jeff huge was our guest yesterday from alpha insights He also brought us this chart and warned us of the fact that the market was getting a little bit overbought And that was a key to uh, you know paying attention to these things So let's remind ourselves that uh, you have to be very very careful in these markets and make sure that you don't make any You know really really serious mistakes Several people have asked me why didn't we take profits? In the gold when we had $6,000 profit from yesterday because we think we've got a chance to make some more I I recommended that if people wanted to take profits, we were up two harmonic numbers at 18 I think it was 1815 or something right in that ballpark I said, but you know if you don't get that pullback Well, you're getting a little bit pulled back down to stand about 12 dollars from there But that's going to give you some other great opportunities. Remember folks our motto here It's not how much money you make it's how much money you don't lose warren buffett says rule number one Don't lose your money rule number two Don't break rule number one So you're going to have to take losses, but you got to keep him small And when when chart when uh, george from hong kong asked the question about tesla about three weeks ago And he asked the question again about feiser. I gave him the same answer george If you have to answer that question by golly, you got to stand out it stand out of the way So that's it now hold this we've got to love the gold mr. Z saying about the gold radii We got pretty lucky on that one. They don't always work that way, but the stocks have worked well in the The s&p is working pretty well. We just missed a crude oil by heartbeat, but there's nothing else you can do about that There'll be others coming down the road. We're going to have some incredible volatility folks If you think we've seen volatility now, you're going to see days This coming year in 2020 where the dow will swing probably a thousand points a day I know you think that's very hard to understand, but this is nothing we hardly ever go 2% You know in a day in the dow jones, but when the market starts down fear is a greater emotion than greed We've talked about that, you know greed is more euphoric and everybody's feeling great and doing everything with fear You have physical logical symptoms of fear. You have diaphoresis or sweating.   That's why markets drop faster than they go up and look how fast this market's going to go up So if it does start to hey remember 2000 the market dropped 80% 2008 the market dropped 80% and here we are now in 2021. How much is it going to drop? I don't know. Maybe it's not going to drop at all But it's at least it started to doing what we're doing if you remember we posted this chart last week And we're going to do it again right here. This is from our friend over in london Mr. Az and he said that the high on that should be around 47 27 plus or minus And the high was 47 31. So He's a pretty smart dude And I had the the fortune of working with him for well over 15 years and uh, it's you know, he just knows what he's doing and these are just patterned folks I'm not looking at the fundamentals this thing with the interest rates doesn't mean anything in my opinion It's just a matter of the fact that we're just looking at The markets that are just jumping around and they're going to continue to jump around That's why this volatility is going to be so, you know, extremely important as we look at this now I wanted to bring natural gas to your attention because we've talked about this several times All I've got to do is find the darn chart. There it is right here. Hold on the reason why I have to Hold on just a second here. We'll get this up here and take a look at it Okay, and I will I will post it in just a second Z just a matter want to get this with the this is the natural gas folks. We made a new low today We went down to three Six two the old had the old low had been three six three. So we made a lower low We've had a nice bounce So we're getting ready to get a buy signal in natural gas that'll probably be next week sometime So that's what we're looking at. I kept this for mr. Z because he was probably going to ask me that question Let's get this up here. Here we are Here is what we were looking at for the ai for today That's the artificial intelligence program that we work with. You see we had that strong Heavy bias until the opening right around 10 30 Then we were expecting a really strong rally to go into about 11 o'clock, which was about How long ago was that that was about 25 minutes ago And the number we were looking at on the upside was 49 48, which was a 382 retracement of that move I don't know where it was trading at that time, but That was where the cell signal came in at 46 48 We were risking 10 points at that point, but we had made a great deal of money on the short side So that was very very helpful to us on that also the bond trade that we were looking at this morning worked pretty good The gold is still up on the day even though it's given off about 12 dollars From that level what's interesting though If you look at the nasdaq and I know a lot of you will go and look double check this yourself Look at the high of yesterday in the nasdaq and then look at the low today in the nasdaq and watch this rally The 382 on this came in exactly at 15 956 and the high was 15 956 and it's now 25 handles It's 50 handles below that already. So that has come in to play Perfectly in the nasdaq do it yourself, you know like the 21 says defy human nature do the work yourself You'll be able to figure it out, but that's exactly what's happened so far today It's on a friday and we're in a holiday atmosphere here and things are going to be really interesting next week Because we only have three and a half days of trading. Hey, let's take a break here Guess is going to be alfie la voy of air software. 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Good i'm doing good Alfie, I don't know if you remember this but 33 years ago 1988 I was in las vegas getting ready to introduce my book astro cycles the traders viewpoint And commander liam's was supposed to introduce me But he was ill and so you set in for him and you didn't even know me or anything but introduced me and stuff And of course we became Very very dear friends over the years, but I have to tell the folks my I have to tell them my favorite alfie lavoy story we were in connecticut visiting carol and alfie for about a week And uh, we went to dinner at the casino one night and alfie does not gamble at all And sarah likes to play the slot machines and I you know what this is this is a true story folks He went up to sarah and he said go play this machine And she won and he said now go over and play that machine and she won Then she went over to the third machine and then she won and he said okay, we're done for the day Do you remember that alfie? I mean she went like only 150 dollars, but she had she had she didn't lose I mean on three straight machines. That was just totally we should we should mark it would be that easy for us, right? Yeah, we told her exactly where to face. Yeah. Yeah, that's right a compass on my phone. Yes Yes, I remember that she was she was blown away with it because she She viewed some of this stuff as I have newt to a frog At least during that time as she's seen some things that happened over the years that worked pretty good Alfie you told me when we were talking this past week that you're having a special sale for us folks here At tfnn on your titanium software and the question that I'd like to ask you to answer Is how long did it take? You to do this you had bill meridian and and surge and some other people doing it It's been over 30 years developing this isn't it? Yeah, we started writing Astrology trading software in 1982 Wow Holy cow, that's dirty night That came and see me. He had a seat. I forgot, you know at 87 years old. I keep forgetting names But uh, you know, you had a seat on wall street in in new york And he came and see me and he wanted he got me into astrology and trading And he said if you can write this software using astrology and get 55 percent, I'll make you rich Well, you you've certainly accomplished that part. That's for sure Alfie Have another couple questions, you know folks Alfie and I don't talk as much as we used to and that's my fault Not his but Alfie. Do you still do to work for pepsi and stuff where you uh, select where they're supposed to be putting their stores and things Are you still doing that? Yep, I still do Well, I have I have about 20 businesses that's been with me for about 40 years and you know I tell him what to do how to do it and and you know, especially, you know Should I close this store open this store? You know this kind of wow Well, you must be doing it right to keep customers for that long. That's for sure Tell us about the titanium software. What's all in it Alfie? Well right now You know Titanium we don't we don't we don't recommend the titanium We'll go we're going to pull it off the market in about like at the end of the year What we did, you know, remember back in 1982 we started writing Software nobody really knew how to use astrology with the market So, you know, they bought the titanium and then they say well, maybe we should put that in there put this in there It got up to a point where the titanium one was like had 25% of the stuff you couldn't even use Okay, so in the last year Here in a half what I've been doing is going through, you know Talking to people that use it and find out this works good. This works good So we pull all those things out of there and we came out with the alpha trading system one Which we start selling last Last january and now we just came out with the alpha trading system two Using more of the titanium that works. I read it all the artificial intelligence Create all new models. It's very good now Uh, well, it was good before so if it's good now, that's got to be better Now you're offering a special price for the folks Yeah, we give a 10% for christmas and it's cheap. Remember the titanium was 3,500 bucks And people were buying it now for the the offer trading system one Is 499 and wow if you update to the other one, it's another 499 it's a thousand dollars And it's better that that's the than the titanium You know, it's hilarious because Carol, you know, my wife is my business partner She runs more or less runs a business and you know in the last months She's been telling me, you know, I got this guy that wants to buy titanium at least 10 of them I said talk them out of it You know, she said but the other one is 3,500 dollars No, no, tell them to you know the other one Yeah, Carol is a real princess boy. That's for sure Oh my gosh, it's been so long since we've known each other alpha I just can't even believe how long it's been but folks I am talking to the real prince of the commodity markets and stock markets in astrology There is no one that has your experience alpha because you brought bill meridian into the fold And a whole bunch of other folks through the years that you've helped teach some of this stuff And fortunately, we've been able to meet each other at least once every couple years and share our information How will the folks reach you alpha if they're interested in You know getting into the new alpha two or alpha one What what's the best way for them to reach you the best thing is on the website and you know The website is very easy. It's w w period Alfie and Alphie .com Okay, that's good. That's very good friend Alphie Yeah, yeah, I can understand that.  I told carol that said don't book me up anywhere Yeah I'm through and I have to say that alphie and carol are my own personal astrologers I'm proud to say and They have certainly helped me along the way when what to do and what not to do on some of these things I should have done In fact, the only time I ever really screwed up was you told me not to do the deal with those guys over in The middle east and I went ahead and tried it for three months and I I remember calling and I said, oh my god Alfie I said you were sure right on that one. That was a disaster and He told me that even before it happened. Hey, listen, I want to wish you and carol a happy It's the holidays and we'll have you on again right after the first of the year. Okay, buddy Okay, thank you and have a merry christmas and a happy new year. You bet. Thank you, Alfie We'll talk to you later my friend Alfie the boy folks. He's the dean of the astrology You bet but Shane's million uses the programs from Alfie Quite regularly and of course Shane is an experience astrologer also, which is really good Okay, we've got another break coming up here pretty soon when we get back from the break What i'm going to do is i'm going to talk a little bit more about that nasdaq and the number that it hit While we were on the air here the number we were looking at in the s and p of course was 46 48 and we're now trading at 46 30 hi was i think 46 57 the nasdaq went to the exact tick at 15,956 i had written down here And we'll be talking about that when we get back From this first break and then we've got a few other things that i want to talk about overall We'll be right back folks Are you in the market for buying or selling real estate in the bay area including the surrounding st Petersburg tampa and clearwater markets tiger real estate Is a firm that has extensive experience in the tampa bay area Whether you're looking to sell your current property for maximum value Or you're in the market for a second home or investment property Tiger realty has the experience across all areas of real estate in the tampa bay area to help buyers and sellers Make the most informed decisions across all price levels from the price You should be paying per square foot in certain up and coming areas to the type of cash flow investment properties are capable of creating Tiger real estate can help you make the best decision when it comes to all areas of the market Before you make one of the biggest decisions of your financial future call tiger real estate llc today at 727 329 83 22 or email us at tiger at tfnn.com. 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Does it work all the time? No, of course not But does it work some of the time? Yeah, it does a lot more than some of the time works about 60 of the time The problem that people don't understand is the fact that hits that number is not nearly as important Is what it's telling you it's telling you at that particular point You do not have to risk any more than a very very small amount to see if you're right I mean look at that the the s&p Which is even wilder than the nasdaq it went a few points higher Then the uh thing it's already down a thousand dollars from that number So it helps helps you where we are we we did the same thing yesterday folks We're right here on the air when we were here We talked about the fact that we were looking at the the foreign exchange markets Of course, which we trade euro and the pound and the australian dollar And this is a daily chart on the australian dollar and you notice here the high yesterday was The number we were looking at was 7205. That was a sell signal. The high was 72 30 It's now 600 dollars in in your favor after only risking 200 dollars Against you and now it's up 600 dollars and dropping quickly. So that's uh, that's a situation that you you put The the cart before the horse how much do you have to risk? Remember folks what we do is nothing like gambling in gambling and an event starts And it ends and you don't have any control in between. It's a flip of the coin roll of the die spin of the wheel Uh the toss of the ball blow the whistle whatever it happens to be once that game starts You don't have any control over until the the final the whistle is finally blown and the game is over Whether the turn of the card whatever it happens to be But what we do we can be in something in one second and be out of it in two seconds We have total control. The second thing is we get to vary our bet Once we see whether we're right or not. So if it starts to work We could add the contracts to it or something like that add shares to it But that's not the case with gambling. So the only thing that relates to what we do with gambling is we keep score with money That's the only thing you've got to keep that in mind, uh, you know Because it's very very important the other thing to keep in mind That this past week on sunday night, let's look at this because we made a new high On all of these futures sunday night. This is the cash s&p that i'm pulling up here You can see that uh triple top that we had in here with the which is the head and shoulders pattern We went a couple ticks above that number exactly to that 47 32 number We were talking about and the market has rolled over since that time. So that's it. Okay Mr. Z is telling us that the o march corn is breaking out, which we were hoping to see Thank you, mr. Z for bringing that to our attention and I noticed that coffee is still doing quite well So all of those are working very very nicely. Let's see where we are here If we can get that corn chart up for everybody and let them see it and that is going to be interesting here Let's get it there. I think yep.  We've got it running for you right here There's what we're looking at. We're looking at a price objective at around 6 10 In the corn and we're going to have rich anderson on next week the christmas week Because rich is going to be talking to us about the farmers the dilemma they're having with the fertilizer and the seed All of those things are going crazy the nitrogen that they use to replenish the soil and stuff Is three times the cost that it was last year and that's related to the natural gas yet natural gas It's just made new lows for the year This morning. It's rallied a little bit in here, but it's doing a little bit better right now So anyway, let's keep in mind here that we do have rich anderson on I think it's going to be good Mr. Z was the last price in the in the march March corn my friend the last I had was around six bucks. So I don't know what What we're also going to try to have sim only on too But boy, he is really busy because of all the stuff that's going on in several of the farms that he had through the Kentucky area got hit pretty badly, but You know, they have to help the farmers out themselves, but they're doing okay $5.97 very good. Yeah, because it broke out about $5.92 And now we're looking for a price about $0.15 higher at least up to that 610 level where you have the butterfly pattern coming in at the 78.6 Retracement but that will it might be today But you know, it's a friday and remember we they start slowing down trading christmas week folks starting On monday it starts slowing monday tuesday and then wednesday. I mean after tuesday its history. And of course We have a christmas eve is going to be a holiday. That's the 24th the market will be closed And on friday and so wednesday thursday it's going to be very very sparse And but that doesn't mean the camp market can't move because if you don't have traders in there It'll acquit it can dry up and just a slight movement can make the markets move very dramatically So don't let that lull you into any complacency. That's not the way to to handle this because remember It's not how much money you lose or how much money you make it's how much money You don't lose winners think how much money I can lose Losers think how much money I can win and that is the motto of las vegas nevada Let's talk here a little bit here about mr. Z here because he was talking about coffee last week And I believe he was uh, we were like this was as of sunday night folks Last week a very strong support in the coffee at that 229 level I don't know where the coffee is trading right now But my assumption is that that 220 that 229 level held really good and it would be pretty good So that's what we're looking at. Yes. Oh beautiful bottom and bean oil.  Hold on here I think we'll be able to get it up here one second here Yep, here we come. Yeah, we I think tell me if we made this I've been so involved with stocks and commodities and stocks and corn Stocks and gold and crude oil And the australian dollar. I didn't really focus on the oil But did we get down to that? That 51 80 level in the march Oil z I'll have to update that later, but that was a beautiful abcd pattern Right at major support. Yep. It held really well and probably bounced really good. I missed that one because of the Concentration i'm looking at with gold and of course I can't complain because you know We were short gold into the break and then bought it and it had a good rally So we were just got the the the trading god smiled on us That particular time. Hey by the way folks Do something nice for your neighbors this christmas week because so many of them are having such a great difficulty You know just making ends meet even in the area here in tucson We see so many homeless people And they they do need help you don't have to do a lot make sure they get a meal or something and and that That's really the bottom line because it's tough and you know here the weather is relatively nice Even though we got down to 39 here in the desert last night. I could think of these homeless people You know that are really in really bad shape That's uh, that's the main thing. By the way, if you want a really good pick me up movie about that rent down and out in Beverly Hills with nick nolte and Richard dryfus. That's and bet middler. It's a fabulous movie. It'll just make you laugh and it's It's all about uh, how homeless guy comes back and you know does really good Anyway, let's we got a break coming up here and we'll be right back I'll cover some of the other things that we want to cover to alert you to what's getting ready into the future Especially the foreign exchange markets. 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We're back and I posted the chart a couple charts that I wanted you to look at of course one was coffee I also posted the chart of the cotton. You know, that's been absolutely just absolute perfect technical analysis chart We had a 135 lower tops We had a beautiful abcd at the bottom and we're in the midst now of making another rally It looks like we're not going to exceed much above that 108 level in cotton I don't trade cotton often, but this is one that really is lining up Pretty nicely. So that's going to be on our watch list this coming week For sure Mr. Z was talking in the room here the traders stand about the fact that we've got some major cycle stuff coming here Very shortly right into the equinox here. It comes on the 21st of the month Which will be next week and we want to be able to talk about that We'll be bringing in Shane's mullion next week with the wolf trader to give us some ideas of some of the implications of the equinox that we have I was fortunate enough to go to mexico a couple of times once during the fall equinox in another word during the december equinox down to uh Tichen itza to see in the pyramid of the sun and watch the The as the sun hits exactly above the the pyramid It forms a snake and it goes down through the side of the pyramid looking like a snake going out into the jungle You can google that just go to chichen itza equinox and you'll be able to see That snake form as it does and you stop and think The mathematics and that it only happens once a year on that day It's the only time it does it and it forms this beautiful snake that goes right down the side of the pyramid It'll flat blow you away folks makes you a believer in something what it is I don't know, but we'll have to pay attention to it. 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