Hyper-inflation has always been a currency event, not an economic event. The currency event has always been, for whatever reason it occurred, a loss of confidence phenomenon. Clearly confidence in the US dollar and its management is slipping. Historically when this currency event comes about the transition is extremely fast.
We have been doing a countdown to the beginning of the end, or that process acceleration. There are 33 days to go.......
EARLIEST SNOWDAY IN HISTORY IN IDAHO TOWN
Sounds like fun and games until power lines snap due tree yet to loose their leaves!
SNOW PILING UP: Idaho school kids enjoy 'earliest snow day in history'...Colorado ski resort boasts 'earliest opening day in 40 years'...
CLIMATE CHANGE
National Space Institute in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) validated 13 years of discoveries - key role for cosmic rays in climate change
Airline asks passengers to use the toilet before boarding - to weigh less and cut carbon emissions!
TOILET PAPER NEWS
CREDIT CRUNCH: Irish children told to bring own toilet paper to school...
FAKE TREES HIDE CELL PHONE TOWERS
Cell Phone Trees
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Flu Shots Delayed in Canada 07 Oct 2009 An unpublished Canadian study that suggests getting an annual flu shot may make it easier to contract swine flu has caused most provincial governments in Canada to postpone or limit seasonal-flu vaccination programs. The study is co-authored by researchers from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion and Laval University in Quebec.
"Swine flu's bigger impact on blacks and hispanics is not being addressed" notes the NY Daily News today.TENT CITY NEWS
Advocates fight cap on homeless camp
By Nicole Young
THE TENNESSEAN
Police Cmdr. Damian Huggins told the Metropolitan Homelessness Commission on Tuesday that it's time to put a limit on the number of homeless people at Tent City and move toward shutting down the site near the Cumberland River.
But homeless advocates say closing the camp will drive the residents back to the streets and make it more difficult for them to get the help they need.
"These people are in a set location where they are able to be reached and they can reach out to us," said Jeannie Alexander, a homeless outreach advocate with Park Center. "The reason that people are continuing to come to Tent City is because they can get services there. It's not the fastest process, but it's happening."
As of this week, more than 40 people have been moved out of Tent City and placed into permanent housing, Alexander said.
"What we can't lose sight of is that these people aren't statistics. They are human beings and they are asking for help," she said. "I can't as a human being turn my back on another human being asking me for help.
"Putting a cap on Tent City with no alternative for the other people who show up there asking for help doesn't solve homelessness. It just pretends it doesn't exist."
Crime has increased nearby
Huggins, the police commander who oversees the Central Precinct in downtown Nashville, still wants the camp closed, citing safety concerns and an increase in downtown crime.
A breakdown of the calls for service shows that the majority of the calls in about a mile radius of Tent City — 137 of 184 calls in a year — were attributed to reports of a suspicious person or requests for an officer for an unspecified reason.
Reports of a person with a weapon increased from three to nine, and calls for an intoxicated person grew from two calls to five this year.
Huggins says he is frustrated by Tent City's growing population. He believes the homeless at the camp, near Anthes Drive, are contributing to crime in the area.
The camp has grown from a handful of residents to about 80 during the past year.
"I think we need to cap it off and move forward," Huggins said. "We need a list of who is down there currently and stop the resources at that point. This is not a safe place for people."
Alternative site sought
Councilman Erik Cole, chairman of the commission, said officials had been working with the Metro Development and Housing Agency in the search for an alternative site for a homeless encampment for about six months with little luck.
"I don't know how to make a cap on Tent City work without having another site to direct these people to when they need help," Cole said. "There's going to be homeless people. That's not going to go away. It's obvious that they are migrating to Tent City to get services."
The commission will meet in two weeks to continue the discussion.
Bird Cam Captures Albatross, Killer Whale Rendezvous
Tiny cameras attached to the backs of four Antarctic albatrosses have revealed a clever feeding strategy: Instead of randomly scanning the open ocean for prey, some birds appear to fly alongside killer whales and scavenge for scraps left by the mammalian predators.
The researchers say it’s difficult to quantify how often black-browed albatrosses associate with killer whales in the open ocean, but they say their findings suggest that shared meals may be quite common.
“When killer whales feed on fish, fragments of prey are often left near the sea surface,” the scientists wrote. “These prey fragments could be an important food resource for albatrosses. Scavenging on such prey fragments may be more energetically advantageous than the pursuit and capture of live prey, as such activities can require frequent take-off, landing and prey handling, which may all be energetically costly.” FULL STORY
Image 1: Black-browed albatrosses fly over Bird Island, British Antarctic Survey. Image 2: Albatrosses interact with a killer whale on the open ocean. Photo taken with the bird-borne camera, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan.
Video: British Antarctic Survey.Looks to be pushing 70 degrees today - we'll take it!!
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