The Queen has her Military; Panama City Hall Begins Vehicle Sticker Distribution for April; Requirements for Traveling to European Countries from Panama; ENA, Partial Closures on the North Corridor Eastbound this Weekend; Lakes.

Friday, July 28, 2023

When it comes to my never-ending practical jokes, profound embarrassment and finely directed personalized sarcasm, my boys are fair game for me. Delving into what some may call borderline child torture, I try to put them both into scenarios that force them to lash back at me with fervor. Not with disrespect, just fervor. Last weekend, I took them fishing. Yes, “again”. And we’re probably going this weekend as well, if it isn’t pouring rain out.

Once we got the boat into the water and the poles were ready to attack the local species around the Fort Espinar public boat landing on the Colon side, I got to the front of the boat to manipulate the trolling motor. After nearly an hour at the helm, I was gliding our vessel through the tree trunks which protruded more than 5 feet out of the water due to our local drought. Quite confident in my graceful abilities, I wasn’t paying attention as I was simultaneously casting my lure in one direction and moving our boat in another. The boys had been arguing about who the better fisherperson was between them (which is ridiculous because they hadn’t caught anything yet), when I bumped into one of the vertical logs. The boys stumbled but didn’t go into the brink… …”Darn, no splash!”, I said out loud.

Brandon, picking up on the joke, spoke up first, “Oh no, we’re going down!”, he said with a grin. “If you survive, tell you mother that I love her!!”, I yelled out jokingly. “A crew always goes down with their ship.”, Brett Jr stated. “Oh no sir, just the captain goes down with the ship. And you’re the captain.”, I clarified. “I’m not the captain, YOU’RE the captain.”, he said kinda upset that I had given him such a prestigious title. “I clearly heard someone say earlier, `Hey, that’s Brett Mikkelson, the captain… …he’s a cool guy´, and I knew they must’ve been talkin’ about my son!”, I continued to prod. “I’ll accept the title of captain when I start making the big bucks.”, he finalized. Yep, it can truly be a blast when you share your name with your son.

So yesterday, when I got home from work, I was looking for him and yelled out, “Hey Brett, where are you?”. He popped his head from around a corner and clarified, “That’s CAPTAIN Brett, if you don’t mind. Do you have our allowance?” Immediately behind him Brandon spoke up, “And you can call me Sergeant Brandon! Cha-ching!!!” I forgot it was payday.

And that’s how the Queen gained her own military force financed by yours truly. I’ll find out what my rank is this weekend when all 4 of us are in the boat.

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REQUIREMENTS TO TRAVEL TO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES FROM PANAMA

Requirements to travel to European countries from Panama.

Starting from the year 2024, Panamanian citizens will be required to complete an ETIAS permit application before boarding a flight to 23 European countries. For this reason, we are explaining the requirements that you must not forget before purchasing your airplane ticket to Europe.

Firstly, it is important to explain the meaning of ETIAS, which stands for the European Travel Information and Authorization System. Panamanian citizens will be required to apply for this permit to enter the participating European countries for short stays of less than 90 days, for purposes such as tourism, business, transit, or medical reasons.

The ETIAS program is intended to control travelers arriving from abroad in response to the global increase in terrorist activities.

Other requirements necessary to enter Europe from Panama

It is important to take into account that when applying for the ETIAS permit or visa, Panamanian citizens can request it online, and the following points should be considered:

The ETIAS permit is valid for arrivals in Europe by air, sea, or land.
Travelers must have a machine-readable electronic passport.
The ETIAS is for short visits for tourism, business, transit, and medical purposes.
Applicants under 18 or over 70 years old will receive their ETIAS permit free of charge.

An important piece of information is that ETIAS permit applications submitted by Panamanian citizens will typically be processed and approved within minutes, and the authorizations will be sent via email in the form of a PDF document. It is not necessary to print or present any documents since the ETIAS permit will be electronically linked to the corresponding passport details stored in the European immigration system.

Countries that are part of the ETIAS permit

The 23 countries that are part of the Schengen group and can only be entered with the ETIAS permit are:

Germany
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Slovakia
Slovenia
Estonia
Spain
Finland
France
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Czech Republic
Sweden

It is important to mention that these countries are known as nations that signed the Schengen agreement and, in addition, they do not have internal border controls, allowing for the free movement of people as if it were a single country.

However, this is not the case for all members of the European Union (EU), as the primary focus of this organization lies on economic and political matters.

READ HERE: REQUISITOS PARA VIAJAR A PAÍSES EUROPEOS DESDE PANAMÁ

MINSA WARNS ABOUT FRAUDULENT CHARGES TO MERCHANTS

MINSA warns about fraudulent charges to merchants.

The National Directorate of Food Control and Veterinary Surveillance (DNCAVV) of the Ministry of Health (MINSA) issues a warning to sanitary-interest commercial establishments, system users, and the general population regarding scams involving fraudulent charges by individuals who do not belong to the institution. These scammers make threats of imposing sanctions such as fines, closure of the premises, and fees for processing paperwork.

MINSA informs the public that all officials are always in uniform and carry identification from the competent authority. During inspections, a record of the inspection is left in the form of an inspection report.

Requests for food health registrations for human consumption are made through the Integrated System of Procedures (SIT) of the Panamanian Food Agency (APA). Payments related to this process are made in cash or certified checks payable to the National Treasury at the central treasury cashier of MINSA. A receipt is provided for the payment. Online payments, yappy, credit or debit card payments are not accepted.

MINSA urges affected individuals to file complaints with the competent authorities for appropriate investigations. We emphasize that the public should communicate any doubts to 512-9180 or through the email consultadinacavv@minsa.gob.pa.

READ HERE: MINSA ADVIERTE SOBRE COBROS FRAUDULENTOS A COMERCIANTES

MAYOR OF PANAMA BEGINS THE DELIVERY OF VEHICLE DECALS FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL

Similarly, people have the option of receiving the sticker at their home address.

Panama City Hall announced that the process of delivering vehicle stickers for April 2023 began on Thursday, July 20.

The authorities of the capital district informed that the distribution of the stickers takes place at Francisco Arias Paredes Park, diagonally opposite the Hatillo Building on Cuba Avenue, from Monday to Friday, between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. On Saturdays, the service is available from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Additionally, individuals have the option of receiving the sticker at their home address, and the request can be processed on the website alcaldiadigital.gob.pa.

Panama City Hall reminded that “to receive the sticker, the circulation tax must have been paid, and the vehicle must have a valid inspection.”

READ HERE: ALCALDÍA DE PANAMÁ EMPIEZA LA ENTREGA DE LAS CALCOMANÍAS VEHICULARES CORRESPONDIENTES AL MES DE ABRIL

PANAMA EVALUATES POSSIBLE INCREASE IN ELECTRICITY RATE

Panama evaluates possible increase in the electricity rate.

After experts talked about a possible increase in electricity rates in Panama, alarm bells were raised among the citizens; some point out that the rising electricity prices are considered a blow to the wallets of Panamanians.

It is important to mention that in the country, every four years, authorities along with energy distribution companies review the tariff tables to then be evaluated and decide on the cost to be applied to the sector.

The potential increase is related to the Tariff Schedules for Distribution and Commercialization of the Electric Distribution Company Metro-Oeste, S.A. (EDEMET) and the Electric Distribution Company Chiriquí, S.A. (EDECHI) for the period from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2026.

Citizens are complaining about the inexplicable increase in electricity bills, and some have filed complaints with the authorities.

The National Authority of Public Services (ASEP) informs that citizens have until Thursday, July 27, to participate in the public consultation No. 007-23-Elec. This consultation has been called to subject the proposal of the Tariff Schedules to the consideration of the public, allowing them to submit comments and observations.

Those interested in participating can access the proposed document through the ASEP website or at the offices of the National Directorate of Electricity, Potable Water, and Sanitary Sewer, located on the first floor of the Office Park Building, on Via España and Via Fernández de Córdoba.

It is important to mention that the Electric Sector in Panama comprises installations related to the conversion of primary energy sources into electrical energy (Generation), the management and voltage elevation of such energy to deliver it to consumption centers (Transmission), and its final delivery to customers for use (Distribution) at various voltage levels.

READ HERE: EVALÚAN EN PANAMÁ POSIBLE AUMENTO EN LA TARIFA DE LUZ ELÉCTRICA

THE COST OF WORK PERMITS FOR MIGRANT WORKERS IS SET

The cost of work permit cards for migrant workers has been set.

The Ministry of Labor and Labor Development (MITRADEL) has set the cost of B/. 100.00 for the issuance of identification cards or permits for Migrant Workers under the status of Temporary Protection Permit in Panama.

This is the cost of the Temporary Protection Permit for Foreigners in Panama (https://www.telemetro.com/nacionales/este-es-el-costo-del-permiso-temporal-proteccion-extranjeros-panama-n5902087).

According to Resolution No. DM-267-2023 of July 19, 2023 (https://www.gacetaoficial.gob.pa/pdfTemp/29831/GacetaNo_29831_20230724.pdf), the validity period of the card is 2 years.

Where can I apply for the temporary work permit for migrants?

On the Mitradel website, under the “Empleo” (Employment) section (https://www.mitradel.gob.pa/empleo/), you will find various available virtual processes. Click on the one described as “Departamento de Migración Laboral: Registro de Mano de Obra Migrantes (Permiso de Trabajo Temporal de Protección)” (Labor Migration Department: Migrant Labor Registration – Temporary Protection Work Permit) (https://apps.mitradel.gob.pa/Survey/inicial&meth=IrVerificacion&idsurvey=6). Here, you will be asked to complete a form if you have already done the pre-registration and have an appointment with the National Immigration Service to process the Temporary Protection Permit.

The Panamanian Government approved Executive Decree No. 7 on July 13, 2023, which temporarily regulates articles 17 and 18 of the Labor Code (https://www.mitradel.gob.pa/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/c%C3%B3digo-detrabajo.pdf) and establishes the Work Permit for Migrant Workers under the status of Temporary Protection Permit.

READ HERE: FIJAN EL COSTO DE LOS CARNÉS DE TRABAJO PARA TRABAJADORES MIGRANTES

FUEL PRICES: IS GASOLINE GOING UP OR DOWN IN PANAMA?

Panama Fuel.

Starting from this Friday, July 28, new fuel prices will be in effect in Panama, with an increase in diesel and 95 and 91 octane gasoline.

These prices will be valid until August 11, 2023.

95 octane gasoline will increase by B/.0.064 per liter, while 91 octane gasoline will increase by B/.0.063 per liter, and diesel will increase by B/.0.042 per liter.

Prices per Gallon

Per gallon, the prices are as follows:

95 octane (B/.4.28),
91 octane (B/.3.70), and
diesel (B/.3.33).

Every fourteen days on the calendar, the gasoline value in Panama is updated based on the variations experienced by the respective average import prices and the estimation of transportation costs and reasonable marketing margins for each type of fuel.

READ HERE: PRECIOS DEL COMBUSTIBLE: ¿SUBE O BAJA LA GASOLINA EN PANAMÁ?

PANAMA CANAL TO MAINTAIN DRAFT DUE TO LACK OF RAINFALL

Water shortage puts the Panama Canal in a complex situation.

Due to the lack of rainfall recorded in this “winter” season as a result of the climatic variations caused by the El Niño phenomenon, the Panama Canal has announced that it will maintain a competitive draft of 13.41 meters or 44 feet in the coming months.

This measure will be in effect until the weather conditions normalize and do not affect the current projections of the Panama Canal.

This draft will only allow the passage of approximately 32 vessels per day.

This decision has been taken in view of the forecasted changes in precipitation patterns, which could affect water availability in the region due to a global-scale phenomenon.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States officially declared that the El Niño phenomenon is present and will persist in the coming months.

The Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology of Panama (IMHPA) has repeatedly announced that there is a high probability of entering a dry season in 2024 with rainfall deficit due to its presence.

The Canal has been implementing various strategies to improve water efficiency in its operations and is also conducting studies to identify long-term solutions to cope with climate variability.

However, the severity and current persistence of the situation are unprecedented in the history of the canal.

Water levels of Gatun Lake / Courtesy / Panama Canal.

What is a competitive draft?

The competitive draft of ships refers to the capacity of a vessel to transport a maximum load efficiently and cost-effectively. It specifies the maximum depth to which the ship can be submerged with its full cargo.

If a ship has a draft that is too large for a specific port or route, it could face limitations or additional costs, such as the need to unload part of its cargo to enter the port or encounter navigation restrictions that affect its efficiency and scheduling.

The Panama Canal stated that all its clients have been notified of the measures being implemented to continue providing service to thousands of customers worldwide.

READ HERE: CANAL DE PANAMÁ MANTENDRÁ CALADO DEBIDO A FALTA DE LLUVIAS

LAWYER CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR DOCUMENT FORGERY

Prison for Panamanian lawyer.

32 months of imprisonment and 32 months of disqualification have been enforced for a Panamanian lawyer through the condemnatory sentence number 1554 of July 24, 2023, issued by the guarantee judge of the first judicial circuit of Panama.

The sentence is given for the commission of the crime against public faith in the form of document forgery.

Background

The National Migration Service (SNM) filed a complaint with the authorities against the woman after discovering that she had in her possession forged documents, institutional seals, and the signature of the General Director of the SNM, Samira Gozaine.

READ HERE: CONDENAN A PRISIÓN A ABOGADA POR FALSIFICACIÓN DE DOCUMENTOS

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRONIC BRACELETS FOR DOMESTIC ABUSERS HAS BEEN APPROVED.

The implementation of electronic bracelets for domestic abusers has been approved.

Through an interinstitutional agreement for the implementation, use, and monitoring of electronic bracelets, they have approved their implementation as a protective measure for victims of domestic violence and other crimes. The Attorney General of the Nation (PGN), Javier Enrique Caraballo Salazar, highlighted that the use of the bracelet is a tool that they hope will protect the physical and psychological integrity of victims of domestic violence.

This measure will allow monitoring and prevention of violent acts from escalating into regrettable incidents such as homicide and serious injuries, emphasized the Attorney General.

Furthermore, Attorney General Caraballo pointed out that initially, these bracelets will be used as a pilot program for domestic violence cases; however, with their application, they can be used for other crimes when the physical integrity of the victim is at risk.

The signing of this interinstitutional agreement is important for the Public Ministry, as it has the authority to prosecute crimes and offenses of constitutional or legal provisions, as established in Article 220, numeral 4 of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Panama.

Also present at the signing were the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, María Eugenia López Arias, the Minister of Public Security, Juan Manuel Pino, the Minister of Women, Juana Herrera Araúz, and the Minister of Government, Roger Tejada.

Electronic bracelets as a protective measure

The agreement highlights the need to implement a special protective measure that guarantees real and effective security for women victims of domestic violence and other crimes, as there is a perceived increase in the breach of the prohibition of approaching the victim, putting the woman’s life and integrity at risk.

Through this agreement, the Public Ministry commits to establishing statistical records on cases of domestic violence, gender-based violence, and sexual crimes nationwide, disaggregated by age, ethnicity, migratory status, and location of the incidents.

Additionally, they will maintain coordination with the Judicial Branch, the Monitoring and Location Center, and the prosecutors will request hearings before the Guarantee Judge once they become aware of the breach of protective measures or non-compliance with precautionary measures.

READ HERE: APRUEBAN IMPLEMENTAR BRAZALETES ELECTRÓNICOS PARA AGRESORES DOMÉSTICOS

PARTIAL CLOSURES ON THE CORREDOR NORTE THIS WEEKEND. WHERE WILL THEY TAKE PLACE?

La Empresa Nacional de Autopista ENA.

The National Highway Company (ENA) informs drivers and users of the Corredor Norte that there will be partial closures this weekend due to preventive maintenance works in the following sections:

Lane closure on the access ramp to Corredor Norte in the direction of Albrook from Los Andes, for concrete slab replacement, starting from Friday, May 26 at 9:00 p.m. until Sunday at 12:00 p.m. During the closure, one lane will be open in the direction towards Albrook.

Drivers should take the detour to Milla 8 to access the corridor via the ramp of ramal 32 Cerro Quemado, in the direction of Tinajitas.

In the Torrijos Cartes area, specifically in the ‘La Fula’ section in the direction towards Albrook, one lane will be closed from Friday, May 26 at 9:00 p.m. until Sunday, May 28 at 2:00 p.m. also for slab replacement. One lane will be kept open for traffic.

These locations will be properly marked and illuminated during the nighttime hours.

ENA reminds drivers to exercise caution, obey traffic signals, not exceed speed limits, and avoid distractions while driving.

Maintenance works that require temporary road closures are scheduled during nighttime and/or weekends to minimize the impact on users.

READ HERE: ENA, CIERRES PARCIALES EN EL CORREDOR NORTE ESTE FIN DE SEMANA ¿DÓNDE?

PROVISIONAL DETENTION FOR ONE OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE BANK ROBBERY

Provisional detention.

The Public Ministry, through the Second Section of Crimes against Economic Patrimony, charged and ordered the precautionary measure of provisional detention for a man allegedly linked to the armed robbery at the bank branch located in El Ingenio.

The individual was charged with the alleged commission of the crime of aggravated robbery, and his apprehension was also legalized.

The man was arrested on the same day of the robbery during the night hours in the Curundú district.

During the guarantee hearing, the prosecutor representing the Attorney General presented the evidence that links the Panamanian man to the incident.

The detention occurred after the National Police conducted intense police operations to locate the 4 criminals who committed the robbery.

During the search and seizure proceedings conducted in the parking lots of Multis in Curundú, in addition to the capture of the individual, two vehicles were found, one of them a taxi with $2,850 in cash.

The National Police will continue with search and tracking operations in other areas of the Capital City with the mission of apprehending all those involved in this crime against the bank entity. The financial loss caused amounted to $28,500.

READ HERE: DETENCIÓN PROVISIONAL PARA UNO DE LOS INVOLUCRADOS EN EL ROBO A BANCO

ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL ANNOUNCES DATE AND TIME FOR THE CONCLUSION OF SIGNATURE COLLECTION

The Electoral Tribunal announces the day and time for the conclusion of the signature collection.

The Electoral Tribunal calls on the citizens, especially the candidates running for public office through independent nomination, that on Sunday, July 30, at 5:00 p.m., the process of collecting support signatures throughout the country will conclude, as established in Decree 11 of February 15, 2023, published in the Electoral Bulletin 5280 of the institution.

One of the candidates for the Presidency through independent nomination, Melitón Arrocha, stated, “Today, we have 345 days of collecting signatures, from my perspective, these are 345 primaries that we have been having during this long year of work. This is a matter that needs to be reviewed in the electoral regulations.”

Meanwhile, the Electoral Tribunal indicates that, in this regard, the use of signature collection methods through the App, CAU, Kiosks, and TE Offices will be suspended as of that time, as the registration of information in the computer system for the final process and the counting of the support signatures to which each candidate is entitled begins.

Likewise, it is reiterated that all candidates have until 3:30 p.m. on Monday, July 31, to register their alternate candidates at the electoral institution, respecting gender parity. Those who do not comply with this legal requirement will not be recognized.

READ HERE: TRIBUNAL ELECTORAL ANUNCIAN DÍA Y HORA DE CONCLUSIÓN DE RECOLECCIÓN DE FIRMAS

Coronavirus statistics:

Daily COVID-19 Cases

Date	Cases	Difference	Percentage of Cases
2023/07/23 - 2023/07/29	1047696	375	3.5%
2023/07/16 - 2023/07/22	1047321	321	4.6%
2023/07/09 - 2023/07/15	1047000	485	6.6%
2023/07/02 - 2023/07/08	1046515	663	7.8%
2023/06/18 - 2023/07/01	1045852	1909	10.0%
2023/06/11 - 2023/06/17	1043943	1312	11.8%
2023/06/04 - 2023/06/10	1042631	1302	11.1%
2023/05/28 - 2023/06/03	1041329	1099	11.3%
2023/05/21 - 2023/05/27	1040230	835	10.3%
2023/05/14 - 2023/05/20	1039395	753	8.9%
2023/05/07 - 2023/05/13	1038642	664	7.4%
2023/04/30 - 2023/05/06	1037978	654	5.8%
2023/04/03 - 2023/04/29	1037324	591	5.3%
2023/04/16 - 2023/04/22	1036733	633	4.9%
2023/04/09 - 2023/04/15	1036100	743	4.9%
2023/04/02 - 2023/04/08	1035357	627
2023/03/26 - 2023/04/01	1034730	949
2023/03/19 - 2023/03/25	1033781	3123
2023/03/18	1030658	108
2023/03/17	1030550	123
2023/03/16	1030427	112
2023/03/15	1030315	121
2023/03/14	1030194	144
2023/03/13	1030050	43
2023/03/12	1030007	51
2023/03/11	1029956	74
2023/03/10	1029882	86
2023/03/09	1029796	85
2023/03/08	1029711	91
2023/03/07	1029620	90
2023/03/06	1029530	25
2023/03/05	1029505	55
2023/03/04	1029450	65
2023/03/03	1029385	50
2023/03/02	1029335	91
2023/03/01	1029244	73
DIFFERENCE IN NUMBER PUBLISHED BY MINSA	1029171	-221
2023/02/28	1029392	110
2023/02/27	1029282	31
2023/02/26	1029251	38
2023/02/25	1029213	63
2023/02/24	1029150	66
2023/02/23	1029084	42
2023/02/22	1029042	14
2023/02/21	1029028	38
2023/02/20	1028990	14
2023/02/19	1028976	22
2023/02/18	1028954	53
2023/02/17	1028901	60
2023/02/16	1028841	50
2023/02/15	1028791	58
2023/02/14	1028733	78
2023/02/13	1028655	23
2023/02/12	1028632	34
2023/02/11	1028598	93
2023/02/10	1028505	67
2023/02/09	1028438	71
2023/02/08	1028367	76
2023/02/07	1028291	77
2023/02/06	1028214	35
2023/02/05	1028179	25
2023/02/04	1028154	87
2023/02/03	1028067	73
2023/02/02	1027994	70
2023/02/01	1027924	93
2023/01/31	1027831	112
2023/01/30	1027719	35
2023/01/29	1027684	43
2023/01/28	1027641	103
2023/01/27	1027538	100
2023/01/26	1027438	117
2023/01/25	1027321	104
2023/01/24	1027217	116
2023/01/23	1027101	51
2023/01/22	1027050	49
2023/01/21	1027001	112
2023/01/20	1026889	115
2023/01/19	1026774	138
2023/01/18	1026636	134
2023/01/17	1026502	163
2023/01/16	1026339	58
2023/01/15	1026281	69
2023/01/14	1026212	126
2023/01/13	1026086	172
2023/01/12	1025914	201
2023/01/11	1025713	221
2023/01/10	1025492	83
2023/01/09	1025409	104
2023/01/08	1025305	118
2023/01/07	1025187	190
2023/01/06	1024997	271
2023/01/05	1024726	358
2023/01/04	1024368	240
2023/01/03	1024128	115
2023/01/02	1024013	76
2023/01/01	1023937	153
2022/12/31	1023784	319
2022/12/30	1023465	346
2022/12/29	1023119	404
2022/12/28	1022715	460
2022/12/27	1022255	165
2022/12/26	1022090	104
2022/12/25	1021986	268
2022/12/24	1021718	360
2022/12/23	1021358	425
2022/12/22	1020933	689
2022/12/21	1020244	236
2022/12/20	1020008	582
2022/12/19	1019426	205
2022/12/18	1019221	320
2022/12/17	1018901	516
2022/12/16	1018385	675
2022/12/15	1017710	731
2022/12/14	1016979	1029
2022/12/13	1015950	1033
2022/12/12	1014917	398
2022/12/11	1014519	608
2022/12/10	1013911	1142
2022/12/09	1012769	1096
2022/12/08	1011673	400
2022/12/07	1011273	1742
2022/12/06	1009531	1245
2022/12/05	1008286	495
2022/12/04	1007791	598
2022/12/03	1007193	1104
2022/12/02	1006089	1260
2022/12/01	1004829	1378
2022/11/30	1003451	1615
2022/11/29	1001836	610
2022/11/28	1001226	513
2022/11/27	1000713	611
2022/11/26	1002102	1105
2022/11/25	1000997	1223
2022/11/24	999774	1210
2022/11/23	998564	1103
2022/11/22	997461	1023
2022/11/21	996438	350
2022/11/20	996088	421
2022/11/19	995667	731
2022/11/18	994936	624
2022/11/17	994312	446
2022/11/16	993866	459
2022/11/15	993407	571
2022/11/14	992836	98
2022/11/13	992738	174
2022/11/12	992564	307
2022/11/11	992257	102
2022/11/10	992155	231
2022/11/09	991924	260
2022/11/08	991664	309
2022/11/07	991355	98
2022/11/06	991257	65
2022/11/05	991192	115
2022/11/04	991077	69
2022/11/03	991008	172
2022/11/02	990836	157
2022/11/01	990679	175
2022/10/31	990504	77
2022/10/30	990427	73
2022/10/29	990354	175
2022/10/28	990178	118
2022/10/27	990060	114
2022/10/26	989946	144
2022/10/25	989802	138
2022/10/24	989664	52
2022/10/23	989612	64
2022/10/22	989548	99
2022/10/21	989449	114
2022/10/20	989335	73
2022/10/19	989262	109
2022/10/18	989153	120
2022/10/17	989033	39
2022/10/16	988994	49
2022/10/15	988945	110
2022/10/14	988835	98
2022/10/13	988737	109
2022/10/12	988628	123
2022/10/11	988505	184
2022/10/10	988321	53
2022/10/09	988268	48
2022/10/08	988220	109
2022/10/07	988111	105
2022/10/06	988006	121
2022/10/05	987885	138
2022/10/04	987747	111
2022/10/03	987636	42
2022/10/02	987594	41
2022/10/01	987553	108
2022/09/30	987445	92
2022/09/29	987353	96
2022/09/28	987257	128
2022/09/27	987129	150
2022/09/26	986979	76
2022/09/25	986903	97
2022/09/24	986806	156
2022/09/23	986650	147
2022/09/22	986503	167
2022/09/21	986336	175
2022/09/20	986161	221
2022/09/19	985940	67
2022/09/18	985873	119
2022/09/17	985754	169
2022/09/16	985585	218
2022/09/15	985367	280
2022/09/14	985087	270
2022/09/13	984817	323
2022/09/12	984494	122
2022/09/11	984372	198
2022/09/10	984174	314
2022/09/09	983860	337
2022/09/08	983523	383
2022/09/07	983140	393
2022/09/06	982747	497
2022/09/05	982250	192
2022/09/04	982058	296
2022/09/03	981762	406
2022/09/02	981356	487
2022/09/01	980869	614
2022/08/31	980255	629
2022/08/30	979626	770
2022/08/29	978856	296
2022/08/28	978560	439
2022/08/27	978121	717
2022/08/26	977404	762
2022/08/25	976642	913
2022/08/24	975729	974
2022/08/23	974755	1077
2022/08/22	973678	339
2022/08/21	973339	539
2022/08/20	972800	919
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2022/08/18	970923	969
2022/08/17	969954	1157
2022/08/16	968797	976
2022/08/15	967821	479
2022/08/14	967342	563
2022/08/13	966779	845
2022/08/12	965925	1031
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2022/08/10	963775	1167
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2022/08/07	960934	634
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2022/08/05	959403	1046
2022/08/04	958357	905
2022/08/03	957452	1010
2022/08/02	956442	1099
2022/08/01	955343	413
2022/07/31	954930	561
2022/07/30	954369	800
2022/07/29	953569	930
2022/07/28	952639	904
2022/07/27	951735	1052
2022/07/26	950683	1160
2022/07/25	949523	502
2022/07/24	949021	548
2022/07/23	948473	838
2022/07/22	947635	944
2022/07/21	946691	1002
2022/07/20	945689	1184
2022/07/19	944505	1160
2022/07/18	943345	534
2022/07/17	942811	728
2022/07/16	942083	1137
2022/07/15	940946	1182
2022/07/14	939764	943
2022/07/13	938821	1424
2022/07/12	937397	1713
2022/07/11	935684	704
2022/07/10	934980	863
2022/07/09	934117	2007
2022/06/08	932110	1578
2022/06/07	930532	1693
2022/06/06	928839	1762
2022/06/05	927077	1137
2022/06/04	925940	686
2022/06/03	925254	926	16.9%
2022/06/02	924328	1338	17.1%
2022/06/01	922990	1626	18.3%
2022/06/30	921364	1624	13.9%
2022/06/29	919740	1828	18.3%
2022/06/28	917912	1989	18.8%
2022/06/27	915923	886	18.0%
2022/06/26	915057	1125	18.9%
2022/06/25	913932	1584	18.0%
2022/06/24	912348	1826	19.3%
2022/06/23	910522	2130	19.7%
2022/06/22	908392	1957	18.7%
2022/06/21	906435	2080	19.0%
2022/06/20	904355	826	18.6%
2022/06/19	903529	1143	19.0%
2022/06/18	902386	2053	19.2%
2022/06/17	900333	1451	14.9%
2022/06/16	898882	1958	19.1%
2022/06/15	896924	2080	18.7%
2022/06/14	894844	2389	19.5%
2022/06/13	892455	1106	18.5%
2022/06/12	891349	1389	18.3%
2022/06/11	889960	2323	19.1%
2022/06/10	887637	2591	19.5%
2022/06/09	885046	2793	20.5%
2022/06/08	882253	3244	21.2%
2022/06/07	879009	3523	21.9%
2022/06/06	875486	1692	20.6%
2022/06/05	873794	1942	20.5%
2022/06/04	871852	3056	22.4%
2022/06/03	868796	3296	22.3%
2022/06/02	865500	3789	22.7%
2022/06/01	861711	3443	22%
2022/05/31	858268	3819	22.6%
2022/05/30	854449	1842	22.2%
2022/05/29	852607	2123	21.1%
2022/05/28	850484	3109	22.4%
2022/05/27	847375	3678	24.1%
2022/05/26	843697	3951	24.4%
2022/05/25	839746	3825	22.7%
2022/05/24	835921	3876	24.3%
2022/05/23	832045	1758	20.8%
2022/05/22	830287	2167	20.7%
2022/05/21	828120	3203	22.7%
2022/05/20	824917	3417	20%
2022/05/19	821500	3842	22%
2022/05/18	817658	3506	20.7%
2022/05/17	814152	3910	22.2%
2022/05/16	810242	1799	21.4%
2022/05/15	808443	2166	20.8%
2022/05/14	806277	3054	21.8%
2022/05/13	803223	3248	23.3%
2022/05/12	799975	3514	21.7%
2022/05/11	796461	3324	21.5%
2022/05/10	793137	3307	21.5%
2022/05/09	789830	1359	22.4%
2022/05/08	788471	1615	21.1%
2022/05/07	786856	2672	21.6%
2022/05/06	784184	1919	20.5%
2022/05/05	782265	2117	18.4%
2022/05/04	780148	1838	17.9%
2022/05/03	778310	652	14.3%
2022/05/02	777658	538	11.9%
2022/05/01	777120	700	13.3%
2022/04/30	776420	932	12.1%
2022/04/29	775488	939	12.3%
2022/04/28	774549	874	12.2%
2022/04/27	773675	845	11.2%
2022/04/26	772830	744	9.9%
2022/04/25	772086	267	7.1%
2022/04/24	771819	481	6.3%
2022/04/23	771486	481	7.6%
2022/04/22	771005	542	8.4%
2022/04/21	770463	487	7.9%
2022/04/20	769976	519	7.4%
2022/04/19	769457	479	6.7%
2022/04/18	768978	184	5.4%
2022/04/17	768794	200	5.1%
2022/04/16	768594	124	5.0%
2022/04/15	768470	271	6.2%
2022/04/14	768199	364	6.3%
2022/04/13	767835	397	6.1%
2022/04/12	767438	371	5.5%
2022/04/11	767067	136	4.0%
2022/04/10	766931	254	4.2%
2022/04/09	766504	327	4.8%
2022/04/08	766177	247	5.4%
2022/04/07	766177	247	4.3%
2022/04/06	765930	253	4.0%
2022/04/05	765677	340	5.1%
2022/04/04	765337	124	3.5%
2022/04/03	765213	159	3.4%
2022/04/02	765054	223	4.0%
2022/04/01	764831	295	4.8%
2022/03/31	764536	293	4.8%
2022/03/30	764243	310	4.5%
2022/03/29	763933	325	4.2%
2022/03/28	763608	125	3.4%
2022/03/27	763483	203	4.0%
2022/03/26	763280	255	3.7%
2022/03/25	763025	290	4.3%
2022/03/24	762735	341	4.8%
2022/03/23	762394	386	5.5%
2022/03/22	762008	365	4.8%
2022/03/21	761643	135	3.7%
2022/03/20	761508	193	3.6%
2022/03/19	761315	311	4.7%
2022/03/18	761004	269	4.4%
2022/03/17	760735	330	5.1%
2022/03/16	760405	300	4.5%
2022/03/15	760105	323	4.6%
2022/03/14	759782	146	4.0%
2022/03/13	759636	175	4.1%
2022/03/12	759461	237	4.3%
2022/03/11	759224	301	5.0%
2022/03/10	758923	310	4.5%
2022/03/09	758613	301	4.6%
2022/03/08	758312	382	5.2%
2022/03/07	757930	362	5.4%
2022/03/06	757568	81	4.7%
2022/03/05	757487	426	6.5%
2022/03/04	757061	522	7.1%
2022/03/03	756539	454	6.3%
2022/03/02	756085	232	6.3%
2022/03/01	755853	355	6.6%
2022/02/28	755498	236	5.6%
2022/02/27	755262	357	7.8%
2022/02/26	754905	543	7.7%
2022/02/25	754362	668	8.1%
2022/02/24	753694	787	8.2%
2022/02/23	752907	734	8.2%
2022/02/22	752173	932	9.2%
2022/02/21	751241	481	10.7%
2022/02/20	750760	673	10.6%
2022/02/19	750087	952	11.4%
2022/02/18	749135	1219	13.6%
2022/02/17	747916	1221	12.5%
2022/02/16	746695	1328	12.5%
2022/02/15	745367	1714	13.3%
2022/02/14	739770	799	13.9%
2022/02/13	742854	1203	14.5%
2022/02/12	741651	1881	15.9%
2022/02/11	739770	2111	17.5%
2022/02/10	737659	2424	19.0%
2022/02/09	735235	3028	20.0%
2022/02/08	732207	3180	17.8%
2022/02/07	729027	1614	19.9%
2022/02/06	727413	2345	21.1%
2022/02/05	725068	3589	21.0%
2022/02/04	721479	4308	24.2%
2022/02/03	717171	5210	24.2%
2022/02/02	711691	6081	26.2%
2022/02/01	705880	5606	21.6%
2022/01/31	700274	3150	26.6%
2022/01/30	697124	4490	27.2%
2022/01/29	692634	7004	28.9%
2022/01/28	685630	7502	30.4%
2022/01/27	678128	8268	30.9%
2022/01/26	669860	10481	35.5%
2022/01/25	659379	9241	36.2%
2022/01/24	650138	5455	37.6%
2022/01/23	644683	7164	36.3%
2022/01/22	637519	10629	36.3%
2022/01/21	626890	11933	36.3%
2022/01/20	614957	12351	34.3%
2022/01/19	602606	10763	36.3%
2022/01/18	591843	11519	33.2%
2022/01/17	580324	5468	37.4%
2022/01/16	574856	7278	36.0%
2022/01/15	567578	8902	35.3%
2022/01/14	558676	9530	33.4%
2022/01/13	549146	9074	33.0%
2022/01/12	540072	6513	27.6%
2022/01/11	533559	4105	25.0%
2022/01/10	529454	3139	23.0%
2022/01/09	526315	4066	23.0%
2022/01/08	522249	4804	20.2%
2022/01/07	517445	5043	21.0%
2022/01/06	512402	4623	21.5%
2022/01/05	507779	4372	20.0%
2022/01/04	503407	3259	16.7%
2022/01/03	500148	1363	14.7%
2022/01/02	498785	977	13.2%
2022/01/01	497808	1888	12.8%
2021/12/31	495920	2213	10.4%
2021/12/30	493707	2664
2021/12/29	491043	1348
2021/12/28	489695	1354
2021/12/27	488341	574
2021/12/26	487767	563
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2021/05/11	368368	460
2021/05/10	367908	252
2021/05/09	367656	386
2021/05/08	367270	508
2021/05/07	366762	398
2021/05/06	366364	389
2021/05/05	365975	356
2021/05/04	365619	320
2021/05/03	365299	195
2021/05/02	365104	260
2021/05/01	364844	268
2021/04/30	364576	358
2021/04/29	364218	323
2021/04/28	363895	362
2021/04/27	363533	368
2021/04/26	363165	198
2021/04/25	362967	271
2021/04/24	362696	338
2021/04/23	362358	366
2021/04/22	361992	314
2021/04/21	361678	359
2021/04/20	361319	275
2021/04/19	361044	203
2021/04/18	360841	244
2021/04/17	360597	348
2021/04/16	360249	419
2021//04/15	359830	314
2021/04/14	359516	395
2021/04/13	359121	329
2021/04/12	358792	181
2021/04/11	358611	234
2021/04/10	358377	279
2021/04/09	358098	394
2021/04/08	357704	427
2021/04/07	357277	364
2021/04/06	356153	357
2021/04/05	356556	179
2021/04/04	356377	304
2021/04/03	356073	223
2021/04/02	355850	351
2021/04/01	355499	448
2021/03/31	355051	447
2021/03/30	354604	519
2021/03/29	354085	246
2021/03/28	353839	342
2021/03/27	353497	480
2021/03/26	353017	438
2021/03/25	352579	497
2021/03/24	352082	415
2021/03/23	351667	454
2021/03/22	351213	222
2021/03/21	350991	326
2021/03/20	350665	445
2021/03/19	350220	715
2021/03/18	349505	485
2021/03/17	349020	440
2021/03/16	348580	425
2021/03/15	348155	236
2021/03/14	347919	278
2021/03/13	347641	415
2021/03/12	347226	451
2021/03/11	346775	474
2021/03/10	346301	542
2021/03/09	345759	523
2021/03/08	345236	402
2021/03/07	344834	357
2021/03/06	344477	734
2021/03/05	343743	462
2021/03/04	343281	540
2021/03/03	342741	722
2021/03/02	342019	599
2021/03/01	341420	505
2021/02/28	340915	470
2021/02/27	340445	664
2021/02/26	339781	398
2021/02/25	339383	682
2021/02/24	338701	896
2021/02/23	337805	718
2021/02/22	337087	566
2021/02/21	336521	484
2021/02/20	336037	698
2021/02/19	335339	876
2021/02/18	334463	708
2021/02/17	333755	504
2021/02/16	333251	572
2021/02/15	332679	500
2021/02/14	332179	487
2021/02/13	331692	707
2021/02/12	330985	910
2021/02/11	330075	708
2021/02/10	329367	891
2021/02/09	328476	822
2021/02/08	327654	563
2021/02/07	327091	627
2021/02/06	326464	977
2021/02/05	325487	998
2021/01/04	324489	1107
2021/02/03	323382	1181
2021/02/02	322201	1098
2021/02/01	321103	724
2021/01/31	320379	926
2021/01/30	319453	1200
2021/01/29	318253	1445
2021/01/28	316808	1408
2021/01/27	315400	1566
2021/01/26	313834	1676
2021/01/25	312158	914
2021/01/24	311244	1393
2021/01/23	309851	2058
2021/01/22	307793	2041
2021/01/21	305752	1975
2021/01/20	303777	2243
2021/01/19	301534	2173
2021/01/18	299361	1342
2021/01/17	298019	1750
2021/01/16	296269	2677
2021/01/15	293592	2307
2021/01/14	291285	2877
2021/01/13	288408	3315
2021/01/12	285093	3740
2021/01/11	281353	2157
2021/01/10	279196	2424
2021/01/09	276772	3735
2021/01/08	273037	3946
2021/01/07	269091	4321
2021/01/06	264956	5186
2021/01/05	259770	3540
2021/01/04	256230	2494
2021/01/03	253736	1972
2021/01/02	251764	2031
2021/01/01	249733	2943
2020/12/31	246790	4046
2020/12/30	242744	4465
2020/12/29	238279	4574
2020/12/28	233705	2348
2020/12/27	231357	2633
2020/12/26	228724	2064
2020/12/25	226660	2986
2020/12/24	223674	3413
2020/12/23	220261	3059
2020/12/22	217202	3164
2020/12/21	214038	1699
2020/12/20	212339	2755
2020/12/19	209584	3274
2020/12/18	206310	3015
2020/12/17	203295	3348
2020/12/16	199947	2960
2020/12/15	196987	2368
2020/12/14	194619	1612
2020/12/13	193007	2422
2020/12/12	190585	2806
2020/12/11	187779	2355
2020/12/10	185424	2477
2020/12/09	182977	1811
2020/12/08	181166	1936
2020/12/07	179230	1511
2020/12/06	177719	1812
2020/12/05	175907	2300
2020/12/04	173607	2388
2020/12/03	171219	1880
2020/12/02	169339	2028
2020/12/01	167311	1505
2020/11/30	165806	1077
2020/11/29	164729	1276
2020/11/28	163453	1709
2020/11/27	161744	1457
2020/11/26	160287	1755
2020/11/25	158532	1602
2020/11/24	156930	1272
2020/11/23	155658	875
2020/11/22	154783	1206
2020/11/21	153577	1288
2020/11/20	152289	1200
2020/11/19	151089	1256
2020/11/18	149833	1112
2020/11/17	148721	1054
2020/11/16	147667	1014
2020/11/15	146653	1344
2020/11/14	145309	832
2020/11/13	144477	1125
2020/11/12	143,352	887
2020/11/11	142,465	1163
2020/11/10	141,302	971
2020/11/09	140331	804
2020/11/08	139527	1021
2020/11/07	138506	746
2020/11/06	137760	1193
2020/11/05	136567	543
2020/11/04	136024	432
2020/11/03	135592	677
2020/11/02	134915	579
2020/11/01	134336	738
2020/10/31	133598	731
2020/10/30	132867	822
2020/10/29	132045	798
2020/10/28	131247	825
2020/10/27	130422	671
2020/10/26	129751	551
2020/10/25	129200	685
2020/10/24	128515	649
2020/10/23	127866	639
2020/10/22	127227	792
2020/10/21	126435	696
2020/10/20	125739	558
2020/10/19	125181	436
2020/10/18	124745	638
2020/10/17	124107	609
2020/10/16	123498	615
2020/10/15	122883	755
2020/10/14	122128	832
2020/10/13	121296	494
2020/10/12	120802	489
2020/10/11	120313	647
2020/10/10	119666	825
2020/10/09	118841	787
2020/10/08	118,054	754
2020/10/07	117300	698
2020/10/06	116602	683
2020/10/05	115919	633
2020/10/04	115286	633
2020/10/03	114653	691
2020/10/02	113962	620
2020/10/01	113342	747
2020/09/30	112595	742
2020/09/29	111853	576
2020/09/28	111277	722
2020/09/27	110555	447
2020/09/26	110108	677
2020/09/25	109431	705
2020/09/24	108726	736
2020/09/23	107990	706
2020/09/22	107284	474
2020/09/21	196810	607
2020/09/20	106203	602
2020/09/19	105601	722
2020/09/18	104879	742
2020/09/17	104138	672
2020/09/16	103466	634
2020/09/15	102838	628
2020/09/14	102204	459
2020/09/13	101745	704
2020/09/12	101041	711
2020/09/11	100330	615
2020/09/10	99715	673
2020/09/09	99042	635
2020/09/08	98407	829
2020/09/07	97578	535
2020/09/06	97043	738
2020/09/05	96305	709
2020/09/04	95596	686
2020/09/03	94914	830
2020/09/02	94084	532
2020/09/01	93552	570
2020/08/31	92982	917
2020/08/30	92065	728
2020/08/29	91337	713
2020/08/28	90624	642
2020/08/27	89982	900
2020/08/26	89082	701
2020/08/25	88381	896
2020/08/24	87485	585
2020/08/23	86900	1420
2020/08/22	85480	1143
2020/08/21	84392	817
2020/08/20	83855	842
2020/08/19	83754	964
2020/08/18	82790	598
2020/08/17	82543	603
2020/08/16	81940	1275
2020/08/15	80665	1263
2020/08/14	79402	956
2020/08/13	78446	1069
2020/08/12	77377	913
2020/08/11	76464	1115
2020/08/10	75394	857
2020/08/09	74492	841
2020/08/08	73651	1091
2020/08/07	72560	1142
2020/08/06	71418	1187
2020/08/05	70231	807
2020/08/04	69424	968
2020/08/03	68456	1003
2020/08/02	67453	1070
2020/08/01	66383	1127
2020/07/31	65256	1065
2020/07/30	64191	922
2020/07/29	63269	1046
2020/07/28	62223	781
2020/07/27	61442	1146
2020/07/26	60296	1432
2020/07/25	58864	871
2020/07/24	57993	1176
2020/07/23	56817	911
2020/07/22	55906	753
2020/07/21	55153	727
2020/07/20	54426	958
2020/07/19	53468	1207
2020/07/18	52261	853
2020/07/17	51408	1035
2020/07/16	50373	1130
2020/07/15	49243	1147
2020/07/14	48096	923
2020/07/13	47173	1540
2020/07/12	45633	1301
2020/07/11	44332	1075
2020/07/10	43257	1040
2020/07/09	42216	965
2020/07/08	41251	960
2020/07/07	40291	957
2020/07/06	39334	1185
2020/07/05	38148	1166
2020/07/04	36983	988
2020/07/03	35995	758
2020/07/02	35237	774
2020/07/01	34463	913
2020/06/30	33550	765
2020/06/29	32785	1099
2020/06/28	31686	1028
2020/06/27	30658	753
2020/06/26	29905	868
2020/06/25	29037	1007
2020/06/24	28030	716
2020/06/23	27314	562
2020/06/22	26752	722
2020/06/21	26030	808
2020/06/20	25222	948
2020/06/19	24274	923
2020/06/18	23351	754
2020/06/17	22597	635
2020/06/16	21962	540
2020/06/15	21422	736
2020/06/14	20686	627
2020/06/13	20059	848
2020/06/12	19211	625
2020/06/11	18586	697
2020/06/10	17884	657
2020/06/09	17233	379
2020/06/08	16854	429
2020/06/07	16425	421
2020/06/06	16004	541
2020/06/05	15463	418
2020/06/04	15044	435
2020/06/03	14609	514
2020/06/02	14095	258
2020/06/01	13837	374
2020/05/31	13463	445
2020/05/30	13018	487
2020/05/29	12531	400
2020/05/28	12131	403
2020/05/27	11728	281
2020/05/26	11447	264
2020/05/25	11183	257
2020/05/24	10926	259
2020/05/23	10577	156
2020/05/22	10267	151
2020/05/21	10116	139
2020/05/20	9977	110
2020/05/19	9867	141
2020/05/18	9726	120
2020/05/17	9606	157
2020/05/16	9449	181
2020/05/15	9268	150
2020/05/14	9118	274
2020/05/13	8944	161
2020/05/12	8783	167
2020/05/11	8616	168
2020/05/10	8448	166
2020/05/09	8282	212
2020/05/08	8070	202
2020/05/07	7868	137
2020/05/06	7731	208
2020/05/05	7523	136
2020/05/04	7387	190
2020/05/03	7197	107
2020/05/02	7090	370
2020/05/01	6720	188
2020/04/30	6532	195
2020/04/29	6378	178
2020/04/28	6200	179
2020/04/27	6021	242
2020/04/26	5779	241
2020/04/25	5538	200
2020/04/24	5338	172
2020/04/23	5166	174
2020/04/22	4992	171
2020/04/21	4820	162
2020/04/20	4658	191
2020/04/19	4467	194
2020/04/18	4273	63
2020/04/17	4210	194
2020/04/16	4016	265
2020/04/15	3751	177
2020/04/14	3574	102
2020/04/13	3472	72
2020/04/12	3400	166
2020/04/11	3234	260
2020/04/10	2974	222
2020/04/09	2752	224
2020/04/08	2528	279
2020/04/07	2249	149
2020/04/06	2100	112
2020/04/05	1988	187
2020/04/04	1801	128
2020/04/03	1673	198
2020/04/02	1475	158
2020/04/01	1317	136
2020/03/31	1181	106
2020/03/30	1075	86
2020/03/29	989	88
2020/03/28	901	115
2020/03/27	786	112
2020/03/26	674	116
2020/03/25	558	115
2020/03/24	443	98
2020/03/23	345	32
2020/03/22	313	68
2020/03/21	245	45
2020/03/20	200	63
2020/03/19	137	28
2020/03/18	109	23
2020/03/17	86	17
2020/03/16	69	14
2020/03/15	55	12
2020/03/14	43	7
2020/03/13	36	9
2020/03/12	27	13
2020/03/11	14	6
2020/03/10	8	7
2020/03/09	1	0

This is a list of the number of cases per day since the first case was discovered in Panama

END NOTES:

I love fishing in all bodies of water, but the freshness of natural lakes have a special place in my heart. A calm sensation always hits me head on when we get out in the early morning to fish. It’s that perfect nature that lures me back as often as work allows me to. In honor of these beautiful geographical features, I decided to look up a few poems on lakes for your reading pleasure.

The Lady of the Lake

by Sir Walter Scott

The Chase.

Harp of the North! that mouldering long hast hung

On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan’s spring

And down the fitful breeze thy numbers flung,

Till envious ivy did around thee cling,

Muffling with verdant ringlet every string,—

O Minstrel Harp, still must thine accents sleep?

Mid rustling leaves and fountains murmuring,

Still must thy sweeter sounds their silence keep,

Nor bid a warrior smile, nor teach a maid to weep?

Not thus, in ancient days of Caledon, 10

Was thy voice mute amid the festal crowd,

When lay of hopeless love, or glory won,

Aroused the fearful or subdued the proud.

At each according pause was heard aloud

Thine ardent symphony sublime and high!

Fair dames and crested chiefs attention bowed;

For still the burden of thy minstrelsy

Was Knighthood’s dauntless deed, and Beauty’s matchless eye.

O, wake once more! how rude soe’er the hand

That ventures o’er thy magic maze to stray;

O, wake once more! though scarce my skill command

Some feeble echoing of thine earlier lay:

Though harsh and faint, and soon to die away,

And all unworthy of thy nobler strain,

Yet if one heart throb higher at its sway,

The wizard note has not been touched in vain.

Then silent be no more! Enchantress, wake again!

The stag at eve had drunk his fill,

Where danced the moon on Monan’s rill,

And deep his midnight lair had made

In lone Glenartney’s hazel shade;

But when the sun his beacon red

Had kindled on Benvoirlich’s head,

The deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay

Resounded up the rocky way,

And faint, from farther distance borne,

Were heard the clanging hoof and horn.

II.

As Chief, who hears his warder call,

‘To arms! the foemen storm the wall,’

The antlered monarch of the waste

Sprung from his heathery couch in haste.

But ere his fleet career he took,

The dew-drops from his flanks he shook;

Like crested leader proud and high

Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky;

A moment gazed adown the dale,

A moment snuffed the tainted gale,

A moment listened to the cry,

That thickened as the chase drew nigh;

Then, as the headmost foes appeared,

With one brave bound the copse he cleared,

And, stretching forward free and far,

Sought the wild heaths of Uam-Var.

III.

Yelled on the view the opening pack;

Rock, glen, and cavern paid them back;

To many a mingled sound at once

The awakened mountain gave response.

A hundred dogs bayed deep and strong,

Clattered a hundred steeds along,

Their peal the merry horns rung out,

A hundred voices joined the shout;

With hark and whoop and wild halloo,

No rest Benvoirlich’s echoes knew.

Far from the tumult fled the roe,

Close in her covert cowered the doe,

The falcon, from her cairn on high,

Cast on the rout a wondering eye,

Till far beyond her piercing ken

The hurricane had swept the glen.

Faint, and more faint, its failing din

Returned from cavern, cliff, and linn,

And silence settled, wide and still,

On the lone wood and mighty hill.

IV.

Less loud the sounds of sylvan war

Disturbed the heights of Uam-Var,

And roused the cavern where, ‘t is told,

A giant made his den of old;

For ere that steep ascent was won,

High in his pathway hung the sun,

And many a gallant, stayed perforce,

Was fain to breathe his faltering horse,

And of the trackers of the deer

Scarce half the lessening pack was near;

So shrewdly on the mountain-side

Had the bold burst their mettle tried.

The noble stag was pausing now

Upon the mountain’s southern brow,

Where broad extended, far beneath,

The varied realms of fair Menteith.

With anxious eye he wandered o’er

Mountain and meadow, moss and moor,

And pondered refuge from his toil,

By far Lochard or Aberfoyle.

But nearer was the copsewood gray

That waved and wept on Loch Achray,

And mingled with the pine-trees blue

On the bold cliffs of Benvenue.

Fresh vigor with the hope returned,

With flying foot the heath he spurned,

Held westward with unwearied race,

And left behind the panting chase.

VI.

‘T were long to tell what steeds gave o’er,

As swept the hunt through Cambusmore;

What reins were tightened in despair,

When rose Benledi’s ridge in air;

Who flagged upon Bochastle’s heath,

Who shunned to stem the flooded Teith,—

For twice that day, from shore to shore,

The gallant stag swam stoutly o’er.

Few were the stragglers, following far,

That reached the lake of Vennachar;

And when the Brigg of Turk was won,

The headmost horseman rode alone.

VII.

Alone, but with unbated zeal,

That horseman plied the scourge and steel;

For jaded now, and spent with toil,

Embossed with foam, and dark with soil,

While every gasp with sobs he drew,

The laboring stag strained full in view.

Two dogs of black Saint Hubert’s breed,

Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed,

Fast on his flying traces came,

And all but won that desperate game;

For, scarce a spear’s length from his haunch,

Vindictive toiled the bloodhounds stanch;

Nor nearer might the dogs attain,

Nor farther might the quarry strain

Thus up the margin of the lake,

Between the precipice and brake,

O’er stock and rock their race they take.

VIII.

The Hunter marked that mountain high,

The lone lake’s western boundary,

And deemed the stag must turn to bay,

Where that huge rampart barred the way;

Already glorying in the prize,

Measured his antlers with his eyes;

For the death-wound and death-halloo

Mustered his breath, his whinyard drew:—

But thundering as he came prepared,

With ready arm and weapon bared,

The wily quarry shunned the shock,

And turned him from the opposing rock;

Then, dashing down a darksome glen,

Soon lost to hound and Hunter’s ken,

In the deep Trosachs’ wildest nook

His solitary refuge took.

There, while close couched the thicket shed

Cold dews and wild flowers on his head,

He heard the baffled dogs in vain

Rave through the hollow pass amain,

Chiding the rocks that yelled again.

IX.

Close on the hounds the Hunter came,

To cheer them on the vanished game;

But, stumbling in the rugged dell,

The gallant horse exhausted fell.

The impatient rider strove in vain

To rouse him with the spur and rein,

For the good steed, his labors o’er,

Stretched his stiff limbs, to rise no more;

Then, touched with pity and remorse,

He sorrowed o’er the expiring horse.

‘I little thought, when first thy rein

I slacked upon the banks of Seine,

That Highland eagle e’er should feed

On thy fleet limbs, my matchless steed!

Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day,

That costs thy life, my gallant gray!’

Then through the dell his horn resounds,

From vain pursuit to call the hounds.

Back limped, with slow and crippled pace,

The sulky leaders of the chase;

Close to their master’s side they pressed,

With drooping tail and humbled crest;

But still the dingle’s hollow throat

Prolonged the swelling bugle-note.

The owlets started from their dream,

The eagles answered with their scream,

Round and around the sounds were cast,

Till echo seemed an answering blast;

And on the Hunter tried his way,

To join some comrades of the day,

Yet often paused, so strange the road,

So wondrous were the scenes it showed.

XI.

The western waves of ebbing day

Rolled o’er the glen their level way;

Each purple peak, each flinty spire,

Was bathed in floods of living fire.

But not a setting beam could glow

Within the dark ravines below,

Where twined the path in shadow hid,

Round many a rocky pyramid,

Shooting abruptly from the dell

Its thunder-splintered pinnacle;

Round many an insulated mass,

The native bulwarks of the pass,

Huge as the tower which builders vain

Presumptuous piled on Shinar’s plain.

The rocky summits, split and rent,

Formed turret, dome, or battlement.

Or seemed fantastically set

With cupola or minaret,

Wild crests as pagod ever decked,

Or mosque of Eastern architect.

Nor were these earth-born castles bare,

Nor lacked they many a banner fair;

For, from their shivered brows displayed,

Far o’er the unfathomable glade,

All twinkling with the dewdrop sheen,

The briar-rose fell in streamers green,

kind creeping shrubs of thousand dyes

Waved in the west-wind’s summer sighs.

XII.

Boon nature scattered, free and wild,

Each plant or flower, the mountain’s child.

Here eglantine embalmed the air,

Hawthorn and hazel mingled there;

The primrose pale and violet flower

Found in each cliff a narrow bower;

Foxglove and nightshade, side by side,

Emblems of punishment and pride,

Grouped their dark hues with every stain

The weather-beaten crags retain.

With boughs that quaked at every breath,

Gray birch and aspen wept beneath;

Aloft, the ash and warrior oak

Cast anchor in the rifted rock;

And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung

His shattered trunk, and frequent flung,

Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high,

His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.

Highest of all, where white peaks glanced,

Where glistening streamers waved and danced,

The wanderer’s eye could barely view

The summer heaven’s delicious blue;

So wondrous wild, the whole might seem

The scenery of a fairy dream.

XIII.

Onward, amid the copse ‘gan peep

A narrow inlet, still and deep,

Affording scarce such breadth of brim

As served the wild duck’s brood to swim.

Lost for a space, through thickets veering,

But broader when again appearing,

Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face

Could on the dark-blue mirror trace;

And farther as the Hunter strayed,

Still broader sweep its channels made.

The shaggy mounds no longer stood,

Emerging from entangled wood,

But, wave-encircled, seemed to float,

Like castle girdled with its moat;

Yet broader floods extending still

Divide them from their parent hill,

Till each, retiring, claims to be

An islet in an inland sea.

XIV.

And now, to issue from the glen,

No pathway meets the wanderer’s ken,

Unless he climb with footing nice

A far-projecting precipice.

The broom’s tough roots his ladder made,

The hazel saplings lent their aid;

And thus an airy point he won,

Where, gleaming with the setting sun,

One burnished sheet of living gold,

Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled,

In all her length far winding lay,

With promontory, creek, and bay,

And islands that, empurpled bright,

Floated amid the livelier light,

And mountains that like giants stand

To sentinel enchanted land.

High on the south, huge Benvenue

Down to the lake in masses threw

Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled,

The fragments of an earlier world;

A wildering forest feathered o’er

His ruined sides and summit hoar,

While on the north, through middle air,

Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare.

XV.

From the steep promontory gazed

The stranger, raptured and amazed,

And, ‘What a scene were here,’ he cried,

‘For princely pomp or churchman’s pride!

On this bold brow, a lordly tower;

In that soft vale, a lady’s bower;

On yonder meadow far away,

The turrets of a cloister gray;

How blithely might the bugle-horn

Chide on the lake the lingering morn!

How sweet at eve the lover’s lute

Chime when the groves were still and mute!

And when the midnight moon should lave

Her forehead in the silver wave,

How solemn on the ear would come

The holy matins’ distant hum,

While the deep peal’s commanding tone

Should wake, in yonder islet lone,

A sainted hermit from his cell,

To drop a bead with every knell!

And bugle, lute, and bell, and all,

Should each bewildered stranger call

To friendly feast and lighted hall.

XVI.

‘Blithe were it then to wander here!

But now—beshrew yon nimble deer—

Like that same hermit’s, thin and spare,

The copse must give my evening fare;

Some mossy bank my couch must be,

Some rustling oak my canopy.

Yet pass we that; the war and chase

Give little choice of resting-place;—

A summer night in greenwood spent

Were but to-morrow’s merriment:

But hosts may in these wilds abound,

Such as are better missed than found;

To meet with Highland plunderers here

Were worse than loss of steed or deer.—

I am alone;—my bugle-strain

May call some straggler of the train;

Or, fall the worst that may betide,

Ere now this falchion has been tried.’

XVII.

But scarce again his horn he wound,

When lo! forth starting at the sound,

From underneath an aged oak

That slanted from the islet rock,

A damsel guider of its way,

A little skiff shot to the bay,

That round the promontory steep

Led its deep line in graceful sweep,

Eddying, in almost viewless wave,

The weeping willow twig to rave,

And kiss, with whispering sound and slow,

The beach of pebbles bright as snow.

The boat had touched this silver strand

Just as the Hunter left his stand,

And stood concealed amid the brake,

To view this Lady of the Lake.

The maiden paused, as if again

She thought to catch the distant strain.

With head upraised, and look intent,

And eye and ear attentive bent,

And locks flung back, and lips apart,

Like monument of Grecian art,

In listening mood, she seemed to stand,

The guardian Naiad of the strand.

XVIII.

And ne’er did Grecian chisel trace

A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace,

Of finer form or lovelier face!

What though the sun, with ardent frown,

Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown,—

The sportive toil, which, short and light

Had dyed her glowing hue so bright,

Served too in hastier swell to show

Short glimpses of a breast of snow:

What though no rule of courtly grace

To measured mood had trained her pace,—

A foot more light, a step more true,

Ne’er from the heath-flower dashed the dew;

E’en the slight harebell raised its head,

Elastic from her airy tread:

What though upon her speech there hung

The accents of the mountain tongue,—-

Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear,

The listener held his breath to hear!

XIX.

A chieftain’s daughter seemed the maid;

Her satin snood, her silken plaid,

Her golden brooch, such birth betrayed.

And seldom was a snood amid

Such wild luxuriant ringlets hid,

Whose glossy black to shame might bring

The plumage of the raven’s wing;

And seldom o’er a breast so fair

Mantled a plaid with modest care,

And never brooch the folds combined

Above a heart more good and kind.

Her kindness and her worth to spy,

You need but gaze on Ellen’s eye;

Not Katrine in her mirror blue

Gives back the shaggy banks more true,

Than every free-born glance confessed

The guileless movements of her breast;

Whether joy danced in her dark eye,

Or woe or pity claimed a sigh,

Or filial love was glowing there,

Or meek devotion poured a prayer,

Or tale of injury called forth

The indignant spirit of the North.

One only passion unrevealed

With maiden pride the maid concealed,

Yet not less purely felt the flame;—

O, need I tell that passion’s name?

XX.

Impatient of the silent horn,

Now on the gale her voice was borne:—

‘Father!’ she cried; the rocks around

Loved to prolong the gentle sound.

Awhile she paused, no answer came;—

‘Malcolm, was thine the blast?’ the name

Less resolutely uttered fell,

The echoes could not catch the swell.

‘A stranger I,’ the Huntsman said,

Advancing from the hazel shade.

The maid, alarmed, with hasty oar

Pushed her light shallop from the shore,

And when a space was gained between,

Closer she drew her bosom’s screen;—

So forth the startled swan would swing,

So turn to prune his ruffled wing.

Then safe, though fluttered and amazed,

She paused, and on the stranger gazed.

Not his the form, nor his the eye,

That youthful maidens wont to fly.

XXI.

On his bold visage middle age

Had slightly pressed its signet sage,

Yet had not quenched the open truth

And fiery vehemence of youth;

Forward and frolic glee was there,

The will to do, the soul to dare,

The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,

Of hasty love or headlong ire.

His limbs were cast in manly could

For hardy sports or contest bold;

And though in peaceful garb arrayed,

And weaponless except his blade,

His stately mien as well implied

A high-born heart, a martial pride,

As if a baron’s crest he wore,

And sheathed in armor bode the shore.

Slighting the petty need he showed,

He told of his benighted road;

His ready speech flowed fair and free,

In phrase of gentlest courtesy,

Yet seemed that tone and gesture bland

Less used to sue than to command.

XXII.

Awhile the maid the stranger eyed,

And, reassured, at length replied,

That Highland halls were open still

To wildered wanderers of the hill.

‘Nor think you unexpected come

To yon lone isle, our desert home;

Before the heath had lost the dew,

This morn, a couch was pulled for you;

On yonder mountain’s purple head

Have ptarmigan and heath-cock bled,

And our broad nets have swept the mere,

To furnish forth your evening cheer.’—

‘Now, by the rood, my lovely maid,

Your courtesy has erred,’ he said;

‘No right have I to claim, misplaced,

The welcome of expected guest.

A wanderer, here by fortune toss,

My way, my friends, my courser lost,

I ne’er before, believe me, fair,

Have ever drawn your mountain air,

Till on this lake’s romantic strand

I found a fey in fairy land!’—

XXIII.

‘I well believe,’ the maid replied,

As her light skiff approached the side,—

‘I well believe, that ne’er before

Your foot has trod Loch Katrine’s shore

But yet, as far as yesternight,

Old Allan-bane foretold your plight,—

A gray-haired sire, whose eye intent

Was on the visioned future bent.

He saw your steed, a dappled gray,

Lie dead beneath the birchen way;

Painted exact your form and mien,

Your hunting-suit of Lincoln green,

That tasselled horn so gayly gilt,

That falchion’s crooked blade and hilt,

That cap with heron plumage trim,

And yon two hounds so dark and grim.

He bade that all should ready be

To grace a guest of fair degree;

But light I held his prophecy,

And deemed it was my father’s horn

Whose echoes o’er the lake were borne.’

XXIV.

The stranger smiled:—’Since to your home

A destined errant-knight I come,

Announced by prophet sooth and old,

Doomed, doubtless, for achievement bold,

I ‘ll lightly front each high emprise

For one kind glance of those bright eyes.

Permit me first the task to guide

Your fairy frigate o’er the tide.’

The maid, with smile suppressed and sly,

The toil unwonted saw him try;

For seldom, sure, if e’er before,

His noble hand had grasped an oar:

Yet with main strength his strokes he drew,

And o’er the lake the shallop flew;

With heads erect and whimpering cry,

The hounds behind their passage ply.

Nor frequent does the bright oar break

The darkening mirror of the lake,

Until the rocky isle they reach,

And moor their shallop on the beach.

XXV.

The stranger viewed the shore around;

‘T was all so close with copsewood bound,

Nor track nor pathway might declare

That human foot frequented there,

Until the mountain maiden showed

A clambering unsuspected road,

That winded through the tangled screen,

And opened on a narrow green,

Where weeping birch and willow round

With their long fibres swept the ground.

Here, for retreat in dangerous hour,

Some chief had framed a rustic bower.

XXVI.

It was a lodge of ample size,

But strange of structure and device;

Of such materials as around

The workman’s hand had readiest found.

Lopped of their boughs, their hoar trunks bared,

And by the hatchet rudely squared,

To give the walls their destined height,

The sturdy oak and ash unite;

While moss and clay and leaves combined

To fence each crevice from the wind.

The lighter pine-trees overhead

Their slender length for rafters spread,

And withered heath and rushes dry

Supplied a russet canopy.

Due westward, fronting to the green,

A rural portico was seen,

Aloft on native pillars borne,

Of mountain fir with bark unshorn

Where Ellen’s hand had taught to twine

The ivy and Idaean vine,

The clematis, the favored flower

Which boasts the name of virgin-bower,

And every hardy plant could bear

Loch Katrine’s keen and searching air.

An instant in this porch she stayed,

And gayly to the stranger said:

‘On heaven and on thy lady call,

And enter the enchanted hall!’

XXVII.

‘My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,

My gentle guide, in following thee!’—

He crossed the threshold,—and a clang

Of angry steel that instant rang.

To his bold brow his spirit rushed,

But soon for vain alarm he blushed

When on the floor he saw displayed,

Cause of the din, a naked blade

Dropped from the sheath, that careless flung

Upon a stag’s huge antlers swung;

For all around, the walls to grace,

Hung trophies of the fight or chase:

A target there, a bugle here,

A battle-axe, a hunting-spear,

And broadswords, bows, and arrows store,

With the tusked trophies of the boar.

Here grins the wolf as when he died,

And there the wild-cat’s brindled hide

The frontlet of the elk adorns,

Or mantles o’er the bison’s horns;

Pennons and flags defaced and stained,

That blackening streaks of blood retained,

And deer-skins, dappled, dun, and white,

With otter’s fur and seal’s unite,

In rude and uncouth tapestry all,

To garnish forth the sylvan hall.

XXVIII.

The wondering stranger round him gazed,

And next the fallen weapon raised:—

Few were the arms whose sinewy strength

Sufficed to stretch it forth at length.

And as the brand he poised and swayed,

‘I never knew but one,’ he said,

‘Whose stalwart arm might brook to wield

A blade like this in battle-field.’

She sighed, then smiled and took the word:

‘You see the guardian champion’s sword;

As light it trembles in his hand

As in my grasp a hazel wand:

My sire’s tall form might grace the part

Of Ferragus or Ascabart,

But in the absent giant’s hold

Are women now, and menials old.’

XXIX.

The mistress of the mansion came,

Mature of age, a graceful dame,

Whose easy step and stately port

Had well become a princely court,

To whom, though more than kindred knew,

Young Ellen gave a mother’s due.

Meet welcome to her guest she made,

And every courteous rite was paid

That hospitality could claim,

Though all unasked his birth and name.

Such then the reverence to a guest,

That fellest foe might join the feast,

And from his deadliest foeman’s door

Unquestioned turn the banquet o’er

At length his rank the stranger names,

‘The Knight of Snowdoun, James Fitz-James;

Lord of a barren heritage,

Which his brave sires, from age to age,

By their good swords had held with toil;

His sire had fallen in such turmoil,

And he, God wot, was forced to stand

Oft for his right with blade in hand.

This morning with Lord Moray’s train

He chased a stalwart stag in vain,

Outstripped his comrades, missed the deer,

Lost his good steed, and wandered here.’

XXX.

Fain would the Knight in turn require

The name and state of Ellen’s sire.

Well showed the elder lady’s mien

That courts and cities she had seen;

Ellen, though more her looks displayed

The simple grace of sylvan maid,

In speech and gesture, form and face,

Showed she was come of gentle race.

‘T were strange in ruder rank to find

Such looks, such manners, and such mind.

Each hint the Knight of Snowdoun gave,

Dame Margaret heard with silence grave;

Or Ellen, innocently gay,

Turned all inquiry light away:—

‘Weird women we! by dale and down

We dwell, afar from tower and town.

We stem the flood, we ride the blast,

On wandering knights our spells we cast;

While viewless minstrels touch the string,

‘Tis thus our charmed rhymes we sing.’

She sung, and still a harp unseen

Filled up the symphony between.

XXXI.

Song.

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er,

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;

Dream of battled fields no more,

Days of danger, nights of waking.

In our isle’s enchanted hall,

Hands unseen thy couch are strewing,

Fairy strains of music fall,

Every sense in slumber dewing.

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er,

Dream of fighting fields no more;

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,

Morn of toil, nor night of waking.

‘No rude sound shall reach thine ear,

Armor’s clang or war-steed champing

Trump nor pibroch summon here

Mustering clan or squadron tramping.

Yet the lark’s shrill fife may come

At the daybreak from the fallow,

And the bittern sound his drum

Booming from the sedgy shallow.

Ruder sounds shall none be near,

Guards nor warders challenge here,

Here’s no war-steed’s neigh and champing,

Shouting clans or squadrons stamping.’

XXXII.

She paused,—then, blushing, led the lay,

To grace the stranger of the day.

Her mellow notes awhile prolong

The cadence of the flowing song,

Till to her lips in measured frame

The minstrel verse spontaneous came.

Song Continued.

‘Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done;

While our slumbrous spells assail ye,

Dream not, with the rising sun,

Bugles here shall sound reveille.

Sleep! the deer is in his den;

Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying;

Sleep! nor dream in yonder glen

How thy gallant steed lay dying.

Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done;

Think not of the rising sun,

For at dawning to assail ye

Here no bugles sound reveille.’

XXXIII.

The hall was cleared,—the stranger’s bed,

Was there of mountain heather spread,

Where oft a hundred guests had lain,

And dreamed their forest sports again.

But vainly did the heath-flower shed

Its moorland fragrance round his head;

Not Ellen’s spell had lulled to rest

The fever of his troubled breast.

In broken dreams the image rose

Of varied perils, pains, and woes:

His steed now flounders in the brake,

Now sinks his barge upon the lake;

Now leader of a broken host,

His standard falls, his honor’s lost.

Then,—from my couch may heavenly might

Chase that worst phantom of the night!—

Again returned the scenes of youth,

Of confident, undoubting truth;

Again his soul he interchanged

With friends whose hearts were long estranged.

They come, in dim procession led,

The cold, the faithless, and the dead;

As warm each hand, each brow as gay,

As if they parted yesterday.

And doubt distracts him at the view,—

O were his senses false or true?

Dreamed he of death or broken vow,

Or is it all a vision now?

XXXIV.

At length, with Ellen in a grove

He seemed to walk and speak of love;

She listened with a blush and sigh,

His suit was warm, his hopes were high.

He sought her yielded hand to clasp,

And a cold gauntlet met his grasp:

The phantom’s sex was changed and gone,

Upon its head a helmet shone;

Slowly enlarged to giant size,

With darkened cheek and threatening eyes,

The grisly visage, stern and hoar,

To Ellen still a likeness bore.—

He woke, and, panting with affright,

Recalled the vision of the night.

The hearth’s decaying brands were red

And deep and dusky lustre shed,

Half showing, half concealing, all

The uncouth trophies of the hall.

Mid those the stranger fixed his eye

Where that huge falchion hung on high,

And thoughts on thoughts, a countless throng,

Rushed, chasing countless thoughts along,

Until, the giddy whirl to cure,

He rose and sought the moonshine pure.

XXXV.

The wild rose, eglantine, and broom

Wasted around their rich perfume;

The birch-trees wept in fragrant balm;

The aspens slept beneath the calm;

The silver light, with quivering glance,

Played on the water’s still expanse,—

Wild were the heart whose passion’s sway

Could rage beneath the sober ray!

He felt its calm, that warrior guest,

While thus he communed with his breast:—

‘Why is it, at each turn I trace

Some memory of that exiled race?

Can I not mountain maiden spy,

But she must bear the Douglas eye?

Can I not view a Highland brand,

But it must match the Douglas hand?

Can I not frame a fevered dream,

But still the Douglas is the theme?

I’ll dream no more,—by manly mind

Not even in sleep is will resigned.

My midnight orisons said o’er,

I’ll turn to rest, and dream no more.’

His midnight orisons he told,

A prayer with every bead of gold,

Consigned to heaven his cares and woes,

And sunk in undisturbed repose,

Until the heath-cock shrilly crew,

And morning dawned on Benvenue.

Frost at Midnight

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Frost performs its secret ministry,

Unhelped by any wind.
The owlet’s cry

Came loud—and hark, again! loud as before.

The inmates of my cottage, all at rest,

Have left me to that solitude, which suits

Abstruser musings: save that at my side

My cradled infant slumbers peacefully.

`Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs

And vexes meditation with its strange

And extreme silentness.
Sea, hill, and wood,

This populous village! Sea, and hill, and wood,

With all the numberless goings-on of life,

Inaudible as dreams! the thin blue flame

Lies on my low-burnt fire, and quivers not;

Only that film, which fluttered on the grate,

Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.

Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature

Gives it dim sympathies with me who live,

Making it a companionable form,

Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling Spirit

By its own moods interprets, every where

Echo or mirror seeking of itself,

And makes a toy of Thought.

But O! how oft,

How oft, at school, with most believing mind,

Presageful, have I gazed upon the bars,

To watch that fluttering stranger! and as oft

With unclosed lids, already had I dreamt

Of my sweet birth-place, and the old church-tower,

Whose bells, the poor man’s only music, rang

>From morn to evening, all the hot Fair-day,

So sweetly, that they stirred and haunted me

With a wild pleasure, falling on mine ear

Most like articulate sounds of things to come!

So gazed I, till the soothing things, I dreamt,

Lulled me to sleep, and sleep prolonged my dreams!

And so I brooded all the following morn,

Awed by the stern preceptor’s face, mine eye

Fixed with mock study on my swimming book:

Save if the door half opened, and I snatched

A hasty glance, and still my heart leaped up,

For still I hoped to see the stranger’s face,

Townsman, or aunt, or sister more beloved,

My play-mate when we both were clothed alike!

Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side,

Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm,

Fill up the interspersed vacancies

And momentary pauses of the thought!

My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart

With tender gladness, thus to look at thee,

And think that thou shall learn far other lore,

And in far other scenes! For I was reared

In the great city, pent ‘mid cloisters dim,

And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars.

But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze

By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags

Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds,

Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores

And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear

The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible

Of that eternal language, which thy God

Utters, who from eternity doth teach

Himself in all, and all things in himself.

Great universal Teacher! he shall mould

Thy spirit, and by giving make it ask.

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,

Whether the summer clothe the general earth

With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing

Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch

Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch

Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall

Heard only in the trances of the blast,

Or if the secret ministry of frost

Shall hang them up in silent icicles,

Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.

The Broken Balance

by Robinson Jeffers

I.
Reference to a Passage in Plutarch’s Life of Sulla

The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways,

Were all suddenly struck quiet

And ran from under stone to look up at the sky: so shrill and mournful,

So fierce and final, a brazen

Pealing of trumpets high up in the air, in the summer blue over Tuscany.

They marvelled; the soothsayers answered:

“Although the Gods are little troubled toward men, at the end of each period

A sign is declared in heaven

Indicating new times, new customs, a changed people; the Romans

Rule, and Etruria is finished;

A wise mariner will trim the sails to the wind.
“

I heard yesterday

So shrill and mournful a trumpet-blast,

It was hard to be wise.
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You must eat change and endure; not be much troubled

For the people; they will have their happiness.

When the republic grows too heavy to endure, then Caesar will carry It;

When life grows hateful, there’s power .
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II.
To the Children

Power’s good; life is not always good but power’s good.

So you must think when abundance

Makes pawns of people and all the loaves are one dough.

The steep singleness of passion

Dies; they will say, “What was that?” but the power triumphs.

Loveliness will live under glass

And beauty will go savage in the secret mountains.

There is beauty in power also.

You children must widen your minds’ eyes to take mountains

Instead of faces, and millions

Instead of persons; not to hate life; and massed power

After the lone hawk’s dead.

III

That light blood-loving weasel, a tongue of yellow

Fire licking the sides of the gray stones,

Has a more passionate and more pure heart

In the snake-slender flanks than man can imagine;

But he is betrayed by his own courage,

The man who kills him is like a cloud hiding a star.

Then praise the jewel-eyed hawk and the tall blue heron;

The black cormorants that fatten their sea-rock

With shining slime; even that ruiner of anthills

The red-shafted woodpecker flying,

A white star between blood-color wing-clouds,

Across the glades of the wood and the green lakes of shade.

These live their felt natures; they know their norm

And live it to the brim; they understand life.

While men moulding themselves to the anthill have choked

Their natures until the souls the in them;

They have sold themselves for toys and protection:

No, but consider awhile: what else? Men sold for toys.

Uneasy and fractional people, having no center

But in the eyes and mouths that surround them,

Having no function but to serve and support

Civilization, the enemy of man,

No wonder they live insanely, and desire

With their tongues, progress; with their eyes, pleasure; with their hearts, death.

Their ancestors were good hunters, good herdsmen and swordsman,

But now the world is turned upside down;

The good do evil, the hope’s in criminals; in vice

That dissolves the cities and war to destroy them.

Through wars and corruptions the house will fall.

Mourn whom it falls on.
Be glad: the house is mined, it will fall.

Rain, hail and brutal sun, the plow in the roots,

The pitiless pruning-iron in the branches,

Strengthen the vines, they are all feeding friends

Or powerless foes until the grapes purple.

But when you have ripened your berries it is time to begin to perish.

The world sickens with change, rain becomes poison,

The earth is a pit, it Is time to perish.

The vines are fey, the very kindness of nature

Corrupts what her cruelty before strengthened.

When you stand on the peak of time it is time to begin to perish.

Reach down the long morbid roots that forget the plow,

Discover the depths; let the long pale tendrils

Spend all to discover the sky, now nothing is good

But only the steel mirrors of discovery .
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And the beautiful enormous dawns of time, after we perish.

Mourning the broken balance, the hopeless prostration of the earth

Under men’s hands and their minds,

The beautiful places killed like rabbits to make a city,

The spreading fungus, the slime-threads

And spores; my own coast’s obscene future: I remember the farther

Future, and the last man dying

Without succession under the confident eyes of the stars.

It was only a moment’s accident,

The race that plagued us; the world resumes the old lonely immortal

Splendor; from here I can even

Perceive that that snuffed candle had something .
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.
a fantastic virtue,

A faint and unshapely pathos .
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.

So death will flatter them at last: what, even the bald ape’s by-shot

Was moderately admirable?

VI.
Palinode

All summer neither rain nor wave washes the cormorants’

Perch, and their droppings have painted it shining white.

If the excrement of fish-eaters makes the brown rock a snow-mountain

At noon, a rose in the morning, a beacon at moonrise

On the black water: it is barely possible that even men’s present

Lives are something; their arts and sciences (by moonlight)

Not wholly ridiculous, nor their cities merely an offense.

VII

Under my windows, between the road and the sea-cliff, bitter wild grass

Stands narrowed between the people and the storm.

The ocean winter after winter gnaws at its earth, the wheels and the feet

Summer after summer encroach and destroy.

Stubborn green life, for the cliff-eater I cannot comfort you, ignorant which color,

Gray-blue or pale-green, will please the late stars;

But laugh at the other, your seed shall enjoy wonderful vengeances and suck

The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces.

Brett Mikkelson, CII, CPE

Director, B.M. Investigations | M1 Consultants Inc

Mobile (+507) 6674-1183

brett@bminvestigations.com / www.bminvestigations.com

Proud Member of: Council of International Investigators (CII – Past President 2018-2019; Executive Regional Director 2021-Present), World Association of Detectives (WAD), The Fraternal Order of Investigators (Founding Member), Victory Services Club (London), Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA – Isthmian Chapter), Association of Certified Anti-money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), Association of Fraud Examiners (AEF – Panama), Business Security Alliance (ASE – Panama).