Sunday, February 26, 2012

Yale set to return 4,000 Inca treasures to Peru

News report update(joadelymigo)- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/yale-set-to-return-4000-inca-treasures-to-peru-2140316.html ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... "a duty to academic and cultural institutions everywhere to recognise their important contributions to the study and understanding of all the world's cultures" ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................The US Senator Chris Dodd, who as a member of the chamber's foreign relations committee has been working to encourage an agreement between Yale and Peru, welcomed the weekend's progress. "I applaud Yale's decision to return the Machu Picchu artefacts to their rightful owners," he said. "These artifacts do not belong to any government, to any institution, or to any university – they belong to the people of Peru. Now future generations of Peruvians and visitors to that country will have access to this rich history." .............................

As Peru counts down to the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu by the American explorer Hiram Bingham, thousands of artefacts taken from the breathtaking lost city of the Incas could soon be returned to the country.

The relics, some 40,000 of them, according to the Peruvian government, include pottery, jewellery and human bones. They have been in the collection at Bingham's alma mater, Yale University, since he first hacked his way through the Andean jungle to the site in 1911, and have become the subject of a bitter international dispute and a ferocious academic debate about how and where to display archaeological treasures. Alan Garcia, Peru's President, announced that the artefacts would begin to be returned to the country next year, following an agreement with Yale during talks last week.

The university said that mporitant details were still being worked out that could derail a final deal, but welcomed "positive developments". It said: "It has always been Yale's desire to reach an agreement that honours Peru's rich history and cultural heritage and recognises the world's interest in ongoing public and scholarly access to that heritage."

The university has "a duty to academic and cultural institutions everywhere to recognise their important contributions to the study and understanding of all the world's cultures", it has said throughout the dispute.

Peru says the artefacts were only ever loaned to Yale, and that an earlier deal to repatriate the objects fell apart two years ago. That plan had included funds for a travelling exhibition of the objects, and a study centre in the Peruvian city of Cuzco.

Yale says it returned scores of boxes of artefacts in 1921, and that Peru knew that the university would keep other pieces.

A lawsuit is working its way through the American courts, and earlier this month Mr Garcia appealed for the intervention of US President Barack Obama so that a resolution could be found ahead of the 100th anniversary of Bingham's excavations.

Barely a month ago, Peru was threatening to launch criminal proceedings against Yale and its president. After last week's meeting, Mr Garcia opted for magnanimity, recognising the university's role in preserving the artefacts for the best part of a century.

In a statement announcing the outline agreement, he said: "The Peruvian government is grateful for this decision, and recognises that Yale University conserved these parts and pieces that otherwise would have been dispersed in private collections throughout the world, and perhaps would have disappeared."

Machu Picchu had been abandoned for centuries before Bingham's discovery. The ferocious Incas had spread across South America from what is now Peru, using warfare and diplomacy to build an empire that stretched from Colombia to Argentina, but they were no match for the firepower – and the imported diseases – of Spanish invaders who arrived in 1532.

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Sunken treasure finally arrives in Spain

Update news report- http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/25/world/europe/spain-sunken-treasure/index.html?is_LR=1 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Two Spanish military cargo planes, which retrieved the nearly 594,000 coins in crates from a secretive warehouse in Florida, landed at the Torrejon military air base in Madrid just before 2 p.m. (8 a.m. ET ).................................................................................................................................................The company that found the treasure lost its claim in the courts ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Sunken treasure finally arrives in Spain

By Al Goodman, CNN

February 25, 2012 -- Updated 1704 GMT (0104 HKT)

The treasure will be turned over to Spain's paramilitary Civil Guard for safekeeping.

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Sunken treasure finally arrives in Spain

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

A treasure estimated worth half a billion dollars arrived in Spain
The coins had been the object of a legal battle in the United States
The company that found the treasure lost its claim in the courts

Madrid (CNN) -- A treasure worth an estimated half billion dollars in gold and silver coins, recovered from a Spanish warship that sunk two centuries ago, arrived in Madrid Saturday, just weeks after U.S. courts ruled that Spain had rights to the loot, not the Florida deep-sea salvage company which found it on the ocean floor.

Two Spanish military cargo planes, which retrieved the nearly 594,000 coins in crates from a secretive warehouse in Florida, landed at the Torrejon military air base in Madrid just before 2 p.m. (8 a.m. ET).

The two planes arrived at a U.S. military base in Florida earlier this week -- on the heels of a team of Spanish government experts who did an inventory of the treasure -- and departed on Friday for the overnight flight to Madrid.

That was after the Florida company, Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. had exhausted its legal appeals all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined without comment Odyssey's motion for a hearing earlier this month.

"Spain has now been victorious at every level in the United States courts, from Tampa to Atlanta to Washington," said Jim Goold, who defended Spain's claim to the treasure. "I am pleased and proud for all of us."

Odyssey Marine Exploration made an emergency appeal to the high court in an attempt to block a lower court's order that it turn over the treasure to Spain.

The dispute goes back to 2007, when Odyssey announced it had found a 19th-century sunken ship off of Spain. The company claimed ownership of the coins and said it had flown them to a guarded location in the United States.

Spain filed suit in a federal court in Tampa, Florida, also claiming the treasure.

Spain says its navy warship Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes was carrying the coins. The 34-gun frigate left Peru in 1804 and crossed the Atlantic to within a day's sail from Spain when British ships attacked the Spanish fleet.

In the ensuing Battle of Cape St. Mary, south of Portugal, the Mercedes was hit in its powder magazine and exploded, according to the Spanish government's filing to the Florida court.

In 2009, the federal court in Tampa ruled in favor of Spain and the federal appeals court in Atlanta upheld the ruling last September. Last January 31, the appeals court denied an Odyssey motion, which Odyssey appealed to the Supreme Court.

Spain's Culture Minister, Jose Ignacio Wert, told CNN in Madrid earlier this month that the case was never really about the money.

"We're not going to use this money for purposes other than artistic exhibition, but this is something that enriches our material, artistic capital and it has to be appreciated as such," Wert said in an interview.

He said the coins would be exhibited at Spanish museums, and perhaps elsewhere.

Peru, too, has followed the fate of the coins, which came from Latin America when Peru was a Spanish colony.

"Formally, they haven't claimed anything, but we are completely open to consider the possibility of distributing some part of the treasure also among the Latin American museums," Wert said.

The treasure includes fabled "pieces of eight," some minted in 1803 in Lima, Peru, Spanish officials have said.

The treasure, which already has crossed the Atlantic Ocean twice, by ship in 1804 and then by plane in 2007, has now arrived on the Spanish mainland for the first time.

A Spanish Defense Ministry official at the Torrejon base said the treasure will be turned over to Spain's paramilitary Civil Guard for safekeeping.

The Culture Ministry is expected to hold a news conference and possibly show off a portion of the coins in the coming days.

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by Alberto de Leon on November 11, 2011

the salesman subject: the salesman from: bob evangelista thru: julio valino

A young fellow from Kansas moves to California and goes to a big

'everything under one roof' department store looking for a job.

The manager says, "Do you have any sales experience?"

The kid says, "Yeah, I was a salesman back home in Kansas ."

Well, the boss liked the kid so he gave him the job.

"You start tomorrow. I'll come down after we close and see how you did "

His first day on the job was rough but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down...

"How many sales did you make today?"

The kid says, "One."

The boss says, "Just one? Our sales people average 20 or 30 sales a day. You're going to have to improve considerably or look for another job!

How much was the sale for?"

The kid says, "$112,237.64."

The boss says, "$112,237.64 !! What the hell did you sell ?"

Kid says, "First I sold him a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium

fish hook. Then I sold him a larger fish hook. Then I sold him a new

fishing rod.

Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down at the lake,

so I told him he was gonna need a boat, so we went down to the boat

department and I sold him a new bass boat.

Then he said he didn't think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him

down to the automotive department and sold him that new Ford pick-up.

I Asked him how long he was going to be out at the lake and after he said 5 or 6 days I took him down to the RV department and sold him a slide-in Camper for the truck."

The boss said, "A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat, a truck and a camper?"

Kid says, "No, he came in here to buy a box of tampons for his wife and I said, well, your weekend's shot, you might as well go fishing."