Ammo Shortage....

Apparently there is a mass shortage when it comes to bullets. I was informed that most dealers have more orders than it's possible to fill at this time, makes you wonder what is going on. Only a certain amount of ammo is manufactured during each quarter and the demand is so great at this time that the manufacturers just can't keep up. Gun sales are also at an all time high, does someone know something that they're not telling the rest of us?

In Connecticut there has been a large amount of break ins..maybe that's the concern, but it has increased the amount of sales......

From WTNH.com:
Andres Gomez shows off his new gun permit.

"I am worried and scared there have been a lot of break-ins in my neighborhood in Watertown," Gomez said. "And that is something that I want to be prepared for."

Even though he just got laid off, a gun is something he says he will buy. And, he is not alone. Across the state, communities like Wallingford and Meriden have seen gun permits go way up. Southington Police say they have already handed out more permits in the first three months of the year than all of last year.

"We have been doing between 40 and 50 a week, week in and week out. It's nuts," said Scott Hoffman of Hoffman Guns. "In an average week, we would see 10 to 12 people."

Hoffman Guns has been in business since 1919 and Scott Hoffman said he has never sold so many guns or ammunition. He believes there's a combination of reasons.

"We have had scares of tougher laws before and bad (economic) times before, but we have never had all these things together at the same time," said Hoffman.

Not only are the numbers of permits up and gun sales up, but ammunition sales are as well. So much so that the 9 mm rounds are almost impossible to find. A gun range would normally be packed but it is empty because there are no rounds to fire.

"I'm out of amo, I don't have any nine millimeter ball amo," said Hoffman. "That's like McDonald's running out of hamburger rolls."


So as Gomez looks to buy a gun, he will have to wait for the bullets, along with many other people in Connecticut. Hoffman said he has $5 million rounds on back order.

"I get phone calls every day; hundreds of phone calls and I tell people the same thing, the whole gun world has gone mad," said Hoffman.

Maybe its a good thing that there is a shortage right now, after all the numbers of people that are flocking in for permits are astounding.

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Does Viral Ads Unleashed Really Work?

That's the exact same question I asked myself when I first heard about it. It sounded great, it made a lot of promises about how it would send waves of targeted traffic to your website, and increase profits, while lowering advertising cost.

And if you're like me, I was a bit cautious, because I had heard all of this before. And to be completely honest, I didn't believe a word of it. But since I routinely test new products, I decided to give it a try...

And guess what?

It works!

I mean, I was really shocked. After I joined, I just knew that I was going to have to delete my membership because so many other products and services had failed to live up to their hype...

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Here's how:

It uses the power of viral advertising to explode many different traffic-generating sources that sends customers to your website like clock work.

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And it drives a ton of new visitors to your website, resulting in a huge increase in profits!

Well, it did for me.

What I like most about it is that it advertises your sites in many different ways all rolled up in one package.

I've never seen anything like it, so in my book, I give it a thumbs up!

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Does Florida Protect It's Victims?

Today i heard the most disturbing news that i've heard in some time. There was a news broadcast about a child murder that brought me to tears.

There was a beautiful three month old child that was thrown from a moving vehicle yesterday at 3:15am.

Now this is what i'm having a hard time understanding....

Fact: This is a man that has an extensive violent history since the age of 11.
Fact: There have been protective orders filed and then denied by the Florida courts because of incomplete paperwork?

Fact: This person was still walking the streets because the Florida courts pretty much gave him a get out of jail free card for his offenses.

Fact: There was an active warrent for this person and even though the authorities knew exactly where this person was no one went to pick him up on his warrent.

Call me crazy, but this terrible tragedy could have been avoided if someone was doing thier job. So, who do you think will get the blame? The mother of this beautiful litte boy happens to be 17, but should that matter? This young mother missed her court date to put a restraining order in place and people are pointing the finger at her. That in my opinion is wrong.

First or all it's very difficult for ANY woman in a domestic violence situation to get enough courage to seek help and a lot of times the end result is more abuse or death. There are countles numbers of victims that hide what they are going through or are threatened if they try to get out of their situations.

This young mother should be embraced not ridiculed for losing her child. Her community should show her as much support as possible , this is something that she is going to have to deal with for the rest of her life. One could only imagine going through the loss of a child, but to have a child murdered in such a horrible way is unimaginable. My heart truly goes out to her.

Swine Flu...So Much Panic, Now The Facts!

Ive been doing a lot of digging on the subject, mostly because i have kids of my own and that's the first priority.

I've heard so much in the media about this "swine flu" aka H1N1, that i wanted to know the TRUTH of what it is and if i should start thinking of the movie "The Stand". I know, that's a little drastic, but i'm sure all of you were going through the same thing if you have been watching the news.

Every day you see the red on the screen to show confirmed cases in each state, you see people walking around with face masks and you wonder if you should run out and get a huge supply for you and your family. People, panic can also be a cause of death. So before locking yourself in your basements let's educate ourselves a little shall we?


(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flu: With so much media attention, it is hard to distinguish the facts from the hype in the current spread of H1N1 flu. Critical readers want reliable information about such viruses and their risks. One such recognized expert is Arnold S. Monto, MD, a leading educator, researcher, and the author of a compact, evidence-based handbook, Contemporary Diagnosis, Prevention, and Management of Influenza®.
Dr. Monto, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, is an international authority in epidemiology who is currently serving as a primary consultant for the United Nations World Health Organization to assist with the flu pandemic.

Here are five interesting facts adapted from Dr. Monto’s book:

(1) Influenza Outbreaks Aren’t New. Influenza outbreaks have occurred periodically over the last century, with varying degrees of severity. Here’s a brief history:

Virus

Year


Type


Name of outbreak


1900 H3 Pandemic not confirmed

1918 H1 Spanish or swine influenza

1957 H2 Asian influenza

1968 H3 Hong Kong influenza

1977 H1 Russian influenza, age limited

2009 H1N1 Type A H1N1 (Swine flu)


(2) All-in-One Vaccine. For a flu vaccine to be effective, it must include inactivated strains of the Type A H1N1 virus now in the news, as well as strains of the other two main viruses circulating in the world, Type A H3N2 and Type B.

(3) Pandemics Don’t Discriminate. When the impact of the 1918 A(H1N1) influenza pandemic was tallied, an estimated 500,000 individuals had died in the United States and 20 million worldwide. More recent studies have doubled that estimate because most of what we now consider the developing world was omitted in the count. Pandemics of influenza do not skip any part of the world.

(4) Pigs Don’t Fly. Unlike birds, pigs don’t fly, so they cannot rapidly carry viruses geographically. But in 1983-1984, before a flu outbreak could be controlled, more than 17 million birds had to be destroyed.

(5) WHO’s Alert. The World Health Organization (WHO) has produced a pandemic plan with these stages of alert:
Interpandemic Period

Phase 1 No new type A influenza subtypes detected in humans.
Phase 2
No new type A subtypes in humans, subtypes in animals pose substantial risk of human disease.

Pandemic Alert Period

Phase 3 Human infectious with new subtype, but no human to human spread.
Phase 4 Small clusters of human-to-human transmission, but spread highly localized.
Phase 5 Large clusters of human-to-human transmission, but geographically limited.
Pandemic Period

Phase 6 Increased and sustained transmission in the general population.
Post-Pandemic Period

Return to the interpandemic period.

For more credible facts and science-based information on influenza, consult Dr. Monto’s handbook, Contemporary Diagnosis, Prevention, and Management of Influenza®, published by Handbooks in Health Care (HHC). The book examines prevention and treatment options and discusses how potentially lethal strains are spread—essential information for clinicians and educators throughout the world.

I hope this helps a little, i'm still going to look for more credible information and i will continue to post my finding until this scare is over.

Alternative Energy Continued........

What are the advantages of alternative energy?

To be honest there are so many advantages.For one the amount of pollution would drop drastically. Now i'm not saying that it would happen over night but over a very short period of time things would improve more than you can imagine.

Now here is something about wind power that i found and i thought it was very interesting:

Wind power is another alternative energy source that could be used without producing by-products that are harmful to nature. Like solar power, harnessing the wind is highly dependent upon weather and location. The average wind velocity of Earth is around 9 m/sec. And the power that could be produced when a wind mill is facing the wind of 10 mi/hr. is around 50 watts.1

Now what is one thing that's pretty much always there? Air...Wind and if it were cleaner then it would flow more freely. Harnessing the power of the air we breathe could not only benefit us as a whole, but would reduce the cost of what the average consumer dishes out every month in utility bills.

How does it work?

The fins of a windmill rotate in a vertical plane which is kept perpendicular to the wind by means of a tail fin. As wind flow crosses the blades of the windmill, it is forced to rotate and can be used to generate electricity. Another type of wind power generator is the two hollow half-drum-type wind collectors. This wind collector rotates in a single vertical axis, making this device independent of the wind direction, which may generate more electricity.

In other words..the more it spins, more energy, more power, less expense.

Now solar energy:

Solar energy is one the most resourceful sources of energy for the future. One of the reasons for this is that the total energy we recieve each year from the sun is around 35,000 times the total energy used by man. However, about 1/3 of this energy is either absorbed by the outer atmosphere or reflected back into space (a process called albedo)1.
Solar energy is presently being used on a smaller scale in furnaces for homes and to heat up swimming pools. On a larger scale use, solar energy could be used to run cars, power plants, and space ships.

Interesting right? This is something that has been in use for quite some time.The average consumer really had no idea that this is and has been in the works to eventually replace our dependency on foreign energy sources.
Now i'm sure some of you have seen these panels on roofs and you think "AHH what an eye soar", but the people that have these installed are truely the lucky ones. I guarantee if these panels are active their energy cost is very little or non-existent. Right now as you're reading this more and more people are having panels installed...some are even living solely on the power stored from their panels.
It's something to really think about.....

Now Geothermal Energy:

Geothermal energy is an alternative energy source, although it is not resourceful enough to replace more than a minor amount of the future's energy needs. Geothermal energy is obtained from the internal heat of the planet and can be used to generate steam to run a steam turbine. This in turn generates electricity, which is a very useful form of energy.

The radius of the Earth is about 4000 miles, with an internal core temperature of about 4000 degrees celsius at the center. The mantle surrounds the outercore and is only about 45 miles below the surface, depending on location. The temperature at the mantle-surface crust boundary is about 375 degrees, celsius. (This is too deep to get to...as of today)

Something that is still in the works so to speak, but also a good resource.

Tidal Power:

Even the power of the tides can be harnessed to produce electricity.
Similar to the more conventional hydroelectric dams, the tidal process utilizes the natural motion of the tides to fill reservoirs, which are then slowly discharged through electricity-producing turbines. The former USSR produced 300 MW in its Lumkara plant using this method.

One Of My Favorites Outside Of Solar and Wind Is Hydroelectricity:

Hydroelectricity comes from the damming of rivers and utilizing the potential energy stored in the water. As the water stored behind a dam is released at high pressure, its kinetic energy is transferred onto turbine blades and used to generate electricity. This system has enormous costs up front, but has relatively low maintenance costs and provides power quite cheaply. In the United States approximately 180,000 MW of hydroelectric power potential is available, and about a third of that is currently being harnessed.

With a world made up of mostly water,who can say it's not a good idea..


Our children are inheriting the Earth, the same as we all do. With each generation it is important you make things better and fix what's broken. Yes, we have a lot of work to do, but if we all work together over time we can return Earth to it's glory.

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