Homelessness In America

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LA Homeless Count Up Over Last Year

By City News Service 

  

The number of homeless people in Los Angeles County increased 5.7 percent over the past year to reach 46,874, according to results of the 2016 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count released Wednesday.

The figure is up from 44,359 in 2015, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The vast majority of the county's homeless -- 34,527 people -- are unsheltered, up from 31,025 in 2015.

The number of homeless people in Los Angeles County increased 5.7 percent over the past year to reach 46,874, according to results of the 2016 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count released Wednesday.

The figure is up from 44,359 in 2015, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The vast majority of the county's homeless -- 34,527 people -- are unsheltered, up from 31,025 in 2015.

Source:http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LA-Homeless-Count-Up-Over-Last-Year-378210111.html#ixzz4XPqidr00 
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* The local homeless numbers leave San Jose/Santa Clara County behind only New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle and San Diego.  California has the largest homeless population in the country with 136,826, an increase of 4.5 percent over last year. Los Angeles saw the largest increase among major cities. Its current figure of 53,798 homeless includes 11,445 -- or 27 percent -- more than a year ago. 

In the earlier Santa Clara County report, 85 percent of homeless indicated their last permanent residency was in the county. That shows, Bramson said, that most are not transients.

"These are our neighbors who experienced some kind of personal crisis, and it led to people being outside," he added.* 

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 One of the richest areas in the nation. Perhaps the homeless are hoping they will be taken care of better than being in other areas in California which mostly, are not doing quite as well. According to the article, the population of homeless in New York City: 64,060, Los Angeles city and county: 53,798 Seattle/King County: 9,106, San Diego city and county: 8,879, San Jose/Santa Clara County: 7,631. So far the number for San Jose/Santa Clara County is smallest. However, "85 percent of homeless indicated their last permanent residency was in the county." so then most are not transients but locals who had fallen into hard time. Thanks to great weather and generous people, California has the largest homeless population in the country with 136,826, an increase of 4.5 percent over last year. Be interesting to see if it will be even bigger next year.

The cities with the largest homeless populations are:

New York City: 64,060 

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Seattle/King County: 9,106

San Diego city and county: 8,879

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Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Here is the link to the article on San Jose Mercury News:

Santa Clara County’s homeless problem remains among the worst in the nation.

San Jose-Santa Clara County homeless numbers among highest in nation

www.mercurynews.com

In a detailed report released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, San Jose/Santa Clara County posted the nation's fifth-highest homeless population.

10 Places in the World to Visit

 
10 Places You Must See Before They Disappear

  

Easter Island

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Where: Chile

Known for its famous 887 moai—carved monolithic statues—Easter Island's future may be compromised by a fading culture.

 

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Where: Antarctica

 According to NASA, the frozen continent of Antarctica is thawing. While it may be some time until it “melts” away, efforts are in place to minimize the environmental impact of tourism. Cruise ships carrying more than 500 passengers are no longer allowed to sail the straits.

Machu Picchu and Choquequirao

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Where: Peru

Development will greatly affect the remains of the ancient civilization of Choquequirao, known as “the other Machu Picchu.” The Peruvian government recently announced the building of a 3-mile cable car to Machu Picchu’s “sister city.”

As a result, tourism will explode from five visitors a day to 3,000 when it opens in 2015.

Mount Kilimanjaro

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Where: Tanzania

Few spots in the world are as picturesque as the volcanic mountain of Kilimanjaro. Africa’s tallest peak is beloved by trekkers and was brought to life in Hemingway's short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."

A study published by the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" says those snows are likely to be gone in 20 years, stating that 85 percent of the ice cap has already disappeared during the last century.

Great Barrier Reef

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Where: Australia

Known as one of the world’s premier diving sites, the Great Barrier Reef is suffering from rising ocean temperature, water pollution, and fishing, which are causing erosion to the largest coral reef in the world. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the rate of disintegration to the 7,000-year-old reef is unprecedented; some scientists say that it could be dead within the next 40 years, taking a significant amount of sea life along with it.

Read more: http://www.fodors.com/news/photos/10-places-to-see-before-theyre-gone#!1-intro#ixzz2kgKSbgiP
 http://www.businessinsider.com/10-places-to-see-before-they-disappear-2013-11#easter-island-1

Cities with the Widest Gap Between the Rich and Poor

The American middle class is shrinking. According to a report released earlier this year, an estimated 51% of the population was in the middle class at the start of the decade, down from 61% forty years earlier. It also appears that even as the economy recovers, jobs are being added for low-wage positions much faster. Despite economic growth in the United States, income inequality appears to be worsening nationwide. The gap between the wealthy and the poor varies across the country. Some areas have much more extreme poverty, extreme wealth or both, and very little in between. As of 2012, Sebastian and Vero Beach, Fla., had the highest level of income inequality in the country. These are the cities with the widest gap between the rich and poor.

http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/11/04/cities-with-the-widest-gap-between-the-rich-and-poor/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NOV042013A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter

Homelessness in Silicon Valley.

I used to go to San Francisco for business and occasionally for pleasure. One thing that I noticed was that there were so many homeless people around Market Street. That was so many years ago, 20? to be more exact?  

I used to live in Santa Clara, the high tech capital of the world.  I moved down to Southern California in 2001, I now live in Temecula.

When I lived in Santa Clara, I saw some homeless people who stood around intersection or in front of the super markets with their children (sometimes). Many people would hand them extra changes. I was one of those people too.

Seems like the situation is getting even much worse since the recession.

Today I read on San Jose Mercury News online about a 40 years old father with a 10 years old daughter who ride the bus for  hours as a mean of being in a safe and warm place for the night.  He and his daughter along with other 10 to 15 homeless people are using it as an unofficial shelter each night rather than to reach the end of the destination.

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_24429126/homeless-turn-overnight-bus-route-into-hotel-22

By Mark Emmon. 

Homelessness in Santa Clara County

7,631 homeless counted over two-day period last January
19,063 estimated to experience homelessness this year
27 percent of homeless reported being turned away from emergency shelter in previous 30 days of census

Source: 2013 Santa Clara County Homeless Census & Survey

Forbes World most powerful entrepreneurs:

Forbes World most powerful entrepreneurs 2013: by Vanna Le, Forbes Staff

The World's 12 Most Powerful Entrepreneurs Of 2013

These list are subset of  the 72 World Most Powerful People:
# 1 BILL GATES

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No. 1: Bill Gates

Power People list: No. 6
Age: 58
Country: United States
Cofounder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

Bill Gates still remains the richest person in the world–a title he’s held since 1994.  In recent years, he devoted most of his time to philantrophy. Along with his wife,  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has secured up to $335 million in pledges to eradicate a variety of the diseases around the world, from polio to HIV. 
Find out who else are on this list:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/vannale/2013/10/30/the-worlds-12-most-powerful-entrepreneurs  

The Worlds' Most Powerful 2

The World's Most Powerful People 2013: by Caroline Howard, Forbes Staff

Who's No. 1?

Putin knocked US President Obama off #1 spot:

he Most Powerful People in the World list is an annual snapshot of the heads of state, CEOs and financiers, philanthropists and NGO chiefs, billionaires, and entrepreneurs who truly rule the world. It represents the collective wisdom of top FORBES editors, who consider hundreds of nominees before ranking the planet’s top 72 power-brokers – one for every 100 million people on Earth — based on their scope of influence and their financial resources relative to their peers. (See full methodology here).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2013/10/30/the-worlds-most-powerful-people-2013/

Workig Age Population 2037.

Merrill Lynch (via @soberlook) shows a chart with rank countries that will have the                largest working age populations in 2037, just under 25 years from now.

Looking at the chart, you can see that India passes China at this time.

US hangs is at the #3 spot,  ahead of Indonesia.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-heres-who-will-have-the-largest-working-age-populations-in-2037-2013-10#ixzz2iNWKrE2f

Top 10 Billionaire Cities in the world.

Top 10 billionaire cities in the world. #1 again for the 5th year is Moscow.
It is proven that when the country transformed itself from Communism to Capitalism
it lets their own people prosper instead of Government owning everything.
It is interesting also that in Asia, once considered third world countries:  Hong Kong,
India's and China's people also prosper

#1 Moscow,  #2 New York,  #3 Hong Kong:

1. Moscow Average Billionaire Worth: $4,364.88 Billion As number one for the fourth time in the past 5 years, Russia has a total net worth of $366,650.000. This could be due to their 84 billionaires, which is up from 78 last year, and a total of 110 billionaires from Russia.

2. New York Average Billionaire Worth: $4,528.23 Billion Despite the US number of billionaires totaling at 442, New York City houses only 62 billionaires. While New York City is up 5 billionaires from last year, its total net worth only clocks in at $280,750.000. 

3. Hong Kong (tie) Average Billionaire Worth: $4,541.86 Billion Tied with London on the top 10 billionaire cities list, 
Hong Kong houses 43 world Billionaires. This helps give the city a total net worth of $195,300.000, a leg up on its tied competitor. - 

Read the whole article here:
at: http://www.gizmocrazed.com/2013/10/top-10-billionaire-cities/#sthash.23DkrF3N.dpuf

http://www.gizmocrazed.com/2013/10/top-10-billionaire-cities/

Rare six-clawed lobster is caught off Massachusetts

Fishermen discover mutated crustacean in trap and donate it to Maine State Aquarium in Boothbay Harbor where it will go on public display

September 09, 2013 by David Strege

GOOD FISHERMEN !!!

 

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/rare-six-clawed-lobster-is-caught-off-massachusetts/

 

#fishing #lobster #rare catch #rare lobster

 

Sopport My Friend / Feed America Project.

+Bryan Kramer  and +DJ Waldow  are on a mission to have lunch with Ellen Degeneres to help support Feed America! They are getting support from all the big hitters! Please share the video! Cheers, Shane (http//www.shanebarker.com) #90DaystoEllen #EllenDegeneres  

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A Grisly End .....

This is so cruel, unacceptable!

A grisly end Since the Vietnamese government's ban on bear-bile 

farming, new problems have surfaced in both the trade 

and in the treatment of captive animals 

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A Cranky Old Man

http://positivemed.com/2012/08/09/cranky-old-man/cranky-old-man-3/

When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.

Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre possessions, They found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.

One nurse took her copy to Melbourne. The old man’s sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas editions of magazines around the country and appearing in mags for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem.

And this old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this ‘anonymous’ poem winging across the Internet.

Cranky Old Man

What do you see nurses? What do you see?
What are you thinking when you’re looking at me?
A cranky old man, not very wise,
Uncertain of habit, with faraway eyes?
Who dribbles his food and makes no reply.
When you say in a loud voice, ‘I do wish you’d try!’
Who seems not to notice the things that you do.
And forever is losing a sock or shoe?
Who, resisting or not, lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding, the long day to fill?
Is that what you’re thinking? Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse. You’re not looking at me.
I’ll tell you who I am as I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding, as I eat at your will.
I’m a small child of ten, with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters who love one another
A young boy of sixteen with wings on his feet
Dreaming that soon now a lover he’ll meet.
A groom soon at twenty my heart gives a leap.
Remembering, the vows that I promised to keep.
At twenty-five, now I have young of my own.
Who need me to guide and a secure happy home.
A man of thirty, my young now grown fast,
Bound to each other with ties that should last.
At forty, my young sons have grown and are gone,
But my woman is beside me to see I don’t mourn.
At fifty, once more, babies play ‘round my knee,
Again, we know children, my loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me. My wife is now dead.
I look at the future. I shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing young of their own.
And I think of the years, and the love that I’ve known.
I’m now an old man and nature is cruel.
It’s jest to make old age look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles. Grace and vigour, depart.
There is now a stone where I once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass, A young man still dwells,
And now and again my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys, I remember the pain.
And I’m loving and living life over again.
I think of the years, all too few, gone too fast.
And accept the stark fact that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people. Open and see.
Not a cranky old man.
Look closer .. See.. Me

PLEASE SHARE THIS POEM (originally written by Dave Griffith)
The best and most beautiful things of this world can’t be seen or touched. They must be felt by the heart!

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