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The Western U.S. is being particularly hard hit by the flu this season. Colorado has reported 6,306 cases, more than in the last two seasons put together, and at least 5 children there have died from it. Texas was the first state to report heavy flu activity and has had 4 flu-related deaths. New Mexico has run out of serum for flu shots and Nevada and Utah report many cases as well.

“Obviously, the number exceeds (the norm), and the season is not over,” says Dr. Ken Gershman of the Colorado Department of Public Health. The 300,000 doses of flu vaccine that were originally available in New Mexico have been used up already and the state is trying to buy more. Gary Simpson, of the New Mexico Infectious Disease Bureau says, “As a state, we’re almost out of vaccine.”
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This message may or may not be authentically from Mayan elders in Guatemala. But it displays deep knowledge of Mayan religious and cosmological belief and as such, is well worth our thoughtful attention. Their predictions forecast changes, starting from December 4th.

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In his latest Journal, Whitley writes: “I’ll be totally frank. Something has obviously changed?The only close encounter tales left are tales of terror. I am intimately familiar with some of these cases and the experiences of the people involved…and it is dark indeed.”

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Musicians treasure the small number of Stradivarius violins that were made in the small area of Cremona, Italy in the 17th century. Modern manufacturers have struggled in vain to make instruments that have the same musical qualities. Now a tree-ring dating expert and a climatologist have discovered the secret of the Stradivarius.

Henri Grissino-Mayer and Lloyd Burckle say the “Little Ice Age” in Europe, which lasted from the mid-1400s until the mid-1800s, produced long winters and cool summers that slowed down tree growth, making the wood used for the violins incredibly dense.
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