Attacks at Community Colleges Has Gone Too Far

Community Colleges are not intended to be the battleground to stage attacks.  Attacks could come in the form of knife, gun, or some violent rampage.

A doctorate thesis requiring years of research is not necessary to come to this conclusion, and to state that the situation needs to be addressed.  Surely there are many that concur to this.

If you were to do all of 10 minutes of research on a history of attacks at community colleges within recent years, you will probably find a bundle.

An example of what is being discussed here, a quick list:

• Texas
• Lone Star Community College stabbing rampage earlier this week
• Lone Star Community College, North Harris, January 22nd this year, shooting

• Wyoming
• 3 dead on November 30, 2012, last year, Casper College; bow-and-arrow type weapon reportedly involved

• Florida
• Stun Gun attack at Brevard College, June 18-19th, 2012 thereabout

• Missouri
• Man found shot near St. Louis Community College, February 20th, 2013, this year

• Connecticut
• Threat of Mass shooting at Gateway Community College, this year, same date as immediately above, 20th of February

This list might be updated soon.  Meanwhile there are enough incidents cited that the point has been more than made.

Japan Strategies to Reduce Inflation and Correlations to U.S. Economy. Thoughts of the Days Just Before and After 9-11.

It is asked, to ask the questions that come to mind after reading both of these stories, and answer those questions, with or without whether an analysis is necessary to do so:

Story 1, published by the NY Times this yesterday:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/business/global/japan-initiates-a-bold-bid-to-end-years-of-falling-prices.html?pagewanted=1&ref=world

Japan Initiates Bold Bid to End Years of Tumbling Prices

Story 2, written in September 2002:
http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL31617.pdf

Report for Congress
Received through the CRS Web

The Economic Effects of 9/11:
A Retrospective Assessment

 
Highlights of story 1:
Japan Initiates Bold Bid to End Years of Tumbling Prices
April 4, 2013

TOKYO — Haruhiko Kuroda, the new governor of the Bank of Japan, delivered on his promise to drastically change Japan’s economic policy to end a long, debilitating era of deflation.

The central bank said it had inflated the economy by aggressively buying longer-term bonds and doubling its government bond holdings in two years. The bank said it would aim to create a robust 2 percent inflation rate “at the earliest possible time.”

Some economists were cautious, though. The central bank’s giant purchases of government debt could eventually be seen by investors as enabling runaway public spending, quashing confidence that Japan would ever pare its already sky-high public debt. They also said it could also drive up long-term interest rates.

Others argue that rising prices, once stoked, can be hard to control, a fear related to memories of Japan’s bubble economy of the 1980s and the subsequent painful collapse.

In a statement detailing the new measures, the bank said it would buy longer-term government bonds, lengthening the average maturity of its holdings to seven years from three years and expanding Japan’s monetary base to 270 trillion yen by March 2015.

Under that plan, the bank will buy about 7 trillion yen in bonds each month, equivalent to over 1 percent of its gross domestic product, which is almost twice the bond purchases of the United States Federal Reserve Bank.

 
Highlights of story 2:
The Economic Effects of 9/11:
A Retrospective Assessment
September 27, 2002

International Capital Flows and the Dollar
While international trade plays an important role in the U.S. economy, it is not the only role played by international forces. A characteristic of the economic
expansions of the 1980s and 1990s was the large net inflow of foreign capital to the United States. During the late 1990s, this net inflow furnished between one-third and one-half of the U.S. net saving. In times of international crisis and uncertainty, foreign capital has often sought refuge in the United States. This time, however, the United States is the battle ground. Even though there was no panic selling of dollar-denominated assets after 9/11, it would appear that there was a short run decline in the net purchase of U.S. assets by foreigners. This was clearly over by mid-October.
However, this may be due to timely action of the Federal Reserve, which restored confidence in the smooth functioning of the nation’s payments system, action supporting the dollar in international financial markets by the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank, among others, and interest rate cuts by key central banks in support of similar cuts by the Federal Reserve. [[aprxmtly. page] CRS-3]

Prior to 9/11, the slowdown in the U.S. economy already was being transmitted to other economies through trade and investment channels, particularly through a sharp decline in U.S. imports of high-technology components from Asian suppliers.
The aftershocks of the terrorist attacks were felt immediately in foreign equity markets, in tourism and travel, in consumer attitudes, and in temporary capital flight from the United States. Central banking authorities worldwide reacted by injecting liquidity into their financial systems.
Still, the downturn in business conditions became more generalized, and the world has had to rely on China and the United States – the only two major economies to register significant growth – to pull itself out of the recession. By and large, however, the sharp immediate drop in stock values, airline travel, and general consumer confidence was temporary. After a few months, most began to turn upward again, but what recovery has occurred has been fragile and difficult to sustain.
The recession, along with increased government spending for the antiterror campaign, contributed to rising federal debt in the United States and other nations.
Combined with a weakening dollar that pushed up the exchange value of the yen, Euro, Chinese renminbi, and other currencies, central governments intervened to bolster the value of the dollar by purchasing more U.S. debt instruments. A side effect of this activity is that, despite Japan’s weak economy, its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities continue to rise ($321.0 billion by May 2002). China also has become a major foreign holder ($80.9 billion) of U.S. debt. [[apr. page] CRS-19]
 
The Bank of Japan intervened in foreign currency markets on five instances between September 11 and September 27 by buying dollars to stop the rise in the value of the yen. These efforts were undermined partially by
Japanese firms that were repatriating some U.S. holdings to shore up their
cash balances to meet financial reporting deadlines on September 30.
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Since 9/11, in particular, stock market values in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, and Japan have tended to move in tandem with those in the United States (as measured by the S&P 500). [[apr. page] CRS-19]

Looking to the Future
In the aftermath of 9/11, it appears that the international economy has currently become a one-locomotive world. Only United States – with some help from China – has had the size and strength to provide the economic stimulus to world economies necessary to help pull them out of the global recession. Japan and Western Europe remained coupled to the U.S. business cycle and have remained dependent on exports for economic recovery rather than relying upon domestic fiscal and monetary policies. The limited recovery in their domestic sectors has been too weak and unsteady to counter the global downturn. For U.S. policymakers, therefore, actions to restore health to the American economy also may determine global economic conditions. In this sense, foreign and domestic economic interests coincide. [[apr. page] CRS-22]

Computer Shopping Malls | What Happened at Search Engine Rankings

The reality of the market interested in computer shopping is evident, and the tide of online computer searches continues--
There are more people in China than the United States.
There are many people in China seeking computers online, inputing search queries.
There are many websites and Internet pages that discuss the term 'shopping malls', whether they are walk-in malls or online malls, that are in China and locations nearby, such as Japan, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
The result of simple math, reference elements like Google algorithms and logarithms for searches, Google search strategies and mechanics, shows that when you take the basic facts about the search term 'computer malls' in consideration, what happens is, the search results that appear on your screen are increasingly having to do with computer malls of China, Japan, Thailand and the regions surrounding.

What does this do for U.S. business?
Google is one of the most popularly used web search engines.
Apple Computer, with their iPads, and iPhones, although having a large share of the market, are not even appearing on search query results to the broader terms of computer mall, until several pages later.  And what about other leading computers, such as Dell?

Internet users stand the chance of clicking on the webpages that appear on the first set of listings that result from their search queries.  Are they going to surf through 15 Google pages of search results until they see a computer mall or company that is U.S.?  Maybe not, otherwise they would have put the term in the search query box.

A concern is, after time, U.S. computer companies and malls might not even show up on U.S. search engines, at least not soon enough that they access the market share that would be helpful to increasing market outreach.

In short, the situation is a basic flooding principle.  If you have two containers of water, each of them with a different food coloring, and you pour the water into an empty mixing bowl, when the amounts of water from each container are the same, you essentially get a color resultant of the mix of the two, for instance red water mixed with a blue, you get purple.  When the amount of red water is 100 times as much, the presence of the blue water does not show up, and the purple water in the mixing bowl, becomes predominantly red.  That is an analogy of what is happening to search engine results.  The number of queries and input related to computer malls from west China to the east edge of the Asian continent land mass and neighboring regions, have all but drowned-out desirable search results with U.S. in them.

Lions Kill at Least 3 People this Week, Sharks Approach Florida Beaches

An intern in a Fresno California big-cat sanctuary, was killed earlier this week, by a 550 pound lion.
The name of the deceased, is Dianna Hanson, age 24.
The rumors are she died almost instantly of a broken neck.  She was on a cell phone call with a co-worker which abruptly ended.  The lion was apparently in an adjacent cage which had some formation of the gate with an opening of some extent.

In Zimbabwe, another female was mauled to death.  A body in condition of remains was found of a second person in Zimbabwe after a hunt for the lion blamed.

Both of these incidents are remindful of the film The Ghost and the Darkness, 1996. --Although thousands of miles apart.

It is extremely important to remember, that when dealing and interfacing with animals that have predatory skills in their nature, that basic prima facie [on the surface] theories of space, and time, may not be absolute limitations on that animal.

For example, a science book says an animal can leap up to 15 feet when attacking.  DO NOT stand 16 feet away and think you are safe.  Another source says an animal is 500 pounds, and 4 feet at the shoulders, and 3 feet wide; do not assume that if you build a containment that is just under 4 feet high, and a few inches below 3 feet wide, that the animal will not manage to DEFY laws of nature, physics, and the behavior that was caught on video when the animal knew humans were watching.

Mauling in Fresno story here with video: http://abcnews.go.com/US/dianna-hanson-died-broken-neck-lion-attack/story?id=18682116


Florida beaches have been making their precautions against shark visitors resulting in beach closures in some areas.  What the demographics of beach visits this Spring Break season is is yet to be seen.  About 2 weeks ago a shark about 14 feet long killed a man just off the northwestern coast of New Zealand.  The sharks approaching Florida in the past few days are evidently of a different species; however, taking safety measures is performed.

Map of where Fresno, California is:

Map URL: http://playfresno.org/img/californiaMap.jpg


Maps of where Zimbabwe is, the attacks took place at a 'man-made' lake, Lake Kariba, in the northern area, town of Kariba, in the region in, around, near where Zambia meets Zimbabwe:

map URLs: 
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/africa/zwaf.gif

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In outward appearance, the lion in the Fresno sanctuary might have more glamour, in that it was large and muscular, the weight of 550 pounds is like a large NFL defensive lineman together with a large NBA basketball player, 300 pounds and 250 pounds, at almost zero percent body fat, making it a very powerful predatory cat; essentially what we think of when we think of lion attacks here in the U.S.  The lion or lions in Zimbabwe, which might have less fame than lions in South Africa, of the ones that we have seen, might not be as glamorous in appearance, might not have the mane in cartoon films and picture books such as the 'Lion King', might look more down to earth, and a creature of the land that has to chase down food in the food chain like all the other animals, grungy, thirsty, nearly dehydrated.  All in all, lions are still lions.  Sharks are still sharks.

When 'Bad Calls' and Bad Judgement Keep Up: From Snow Flurries to Top Decisions. Before-this-Day-is-Over-Mention.

Snow/weather conditions in DC surrounding areas of Maryland/DC area today are on BORDERLINE before drawing connections to cancellation of business as usual to recent trends of misguidance reflective of a status of lawlessness.

Lawlessness is a buzz word, referring to when people that clearly cannot differentiate between right and wrong whereas they are engaged in wrongdoing are appointed to positions that are esteemed which also by the way has the appearance of an attempt of retroactively undermining the system of reward for maintaining morals.


What happens is, when the momentum of bad judgement keeps up, the natural orders of the world form hardships that result in retrogression and relapse to decadent conditions.

The right-guided plans for the full-house of the eyes on the horizon to warn us from danger is not what the enemy that seeks to destroy us wants.

This before the rush of thunderous scold.

Schools have been left open for weather conditions more severe than today's.

Sun rays that we see today... are from the past, some say days ago, today's weather based on yesterday's... common sense would dictate what the totality of the situation would be...

Luckily this time around, it might have been better to keep school buses safe.




This story was not worth and did not make the severe weather blog at etisworld.com

[comment on March 7, 2013: just clarifying Maryland/DC area means the areas near DC and the DC surrounding areas of Maryland; not talking about the conditions in Frostburg area or the mountains at the far west of the ladle-handle.  First sentence has been edited accordingly]

Ultra-Deep Oil Drilling :: Before the Rush

With increased capacity of oil drills respective the depth they can go, comes a perceived possibility of changes in the dynamics of the industry; geographically, where it is if it there, and if it is there, the effects on the oil exchange stage.

Markedly a geographic region referent, is the South China Sea.

Geologists are steering toward indications that there can be a lot of oil down there, which is supposed to correspond to a lot of money, worth.

U.S. representatives have already been making a presence in the area about the prospective/advent.

Complexity to the arena, is some of the waters involved are 'disputed'.

Further complexity is where the rigs will relocate/ be built.


Basic, introductory information about ultra deep oil drilling at: http://etisworld.com/answers-wiki-fusion-and-product-select/what-is-ultra-deep-water-drilling-oil-focus-who-are-some-of-the-major-contenders-in-this-drilling-arena-

Map of South China Sea:

map courtesy of: 
http://www.chinatouristmaps.com/assets/images/chinamaps/south-china-sea.jpg

Prepare for Meteor Shower Season Just Like Tornado or Flood Season

It might be a time to get ready for meteor shower 'season'.

Protection from meteors and phenomenon of that ilk, is not just in the areas of people getting struck by pieces and particles, such as the result of disintegration or fragmentation of the meteor, but additionally in the areas of force fields and other disruptive qualities as it pertains to the astrological object or objects, and the targets could also include buildings or important structures such as sources of energy and communication.