tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-308770782024-03-13T11:39:13.546-04:00Misc-ReportsAll the news and items unfit for print, but fit to be on the internet. Odd, funny, interesting, informative, weird and sometimes overlooked news.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08092574925356576780noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-45944406112370746042015-02-21T18:17:00.000-05:002015-02-21T18:17:36.460-05:00<h2>
<b>For twenty years the secret code to launch US nuclear missiles was simply 00000000.</b> </h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This item didn't not get its proper due when first published: <b>For almost twenty years the secret code needed to launch US nuclear missiles and start World War III, was simply 00000000.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's like buying an attache case and leaving the unlock code at the factory preset 000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This fact was originally revealed in a column in 2004 by then-president of the Center for Defense Information Dr. Bruce G. Blair, a former US Air Force officer who had manned Minuteman silos. It was also mentioned in a paper by Steven M. Bellovin, a computer science professor at Columbia University who teaches security architecture. Both of these sources were cited in an article on the site <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Today I Found Out</span> written by Karl Smallwood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The codes, known as Permissive Action Links (PALs), were supposed to prevent the use of nuclear weapons—and the nuclear weapons under joint control with NATO countries in particular—without the authorization of the President of the United States. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently, this security feature was largely symbolic. For two decades, multiple US presidents carried around a briefcase with the allegedly constantly changing codes. The contents might as well have been a dozen copies of bathroom reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is certain irony to this simplistic code. Image a Soviet spy learning that the launch code was 00000000. He or she would start over attempting to learn the code sequence because it would be so unbelievable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The U. S. military claimed they worried about the possibility of command centers or communication lines being destroyed in real nuclear war, stopping soldiers getting the codes or authorization to launch missiles when they were actually needed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So they simply left the security code for the weapons as eight zeros, getting around the security safeguards. This was the situation from 1963 - 1978. You know in the middle of the fun Cold War years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ten years after the release of this information the Air Force has gone into loud denial mode, claiming this was never true. At the same time there is push in military to replace or rebuild its existing Minuteman arsenal and needs Congress to approve money to do so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What should the next set of codes be? PASSWORD</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr. Bruce Blair's 2004 Column</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Steven M. Bellovin Paper on PAL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I Found Out by Karl Smallwood</span><br />
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I'm Certainly Not Buying A Ticket For This Movie…. "Ebola - In Your Face, Jack!"</h2>
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Previously the largest outbreak of ebola occurred in Uganda in 2000 - 01. There were 425 people infected and 224 deaths. This time the ebola footprint is much larger. With the increased numbers of victims comes the likelihood that the disease will mutate to a hardier virus, perhaps an airborne variety. </div>
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Is this idle speculation? Not according to Margret Chen. She stated that the longer the virus circulates, the more it becomes a public risk: "Constant mutation and adaptation are the survival mechanisms of viruses and other microbes. We must not give this virus opportunities to deliver more surprises.</div>
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In 1989, one such surprise occurred at a research quarantine center located in Reston, Virginia. A group of monkeys imported from the Philippines that year were found to have transmitted a variant of Ebola while in captivity at the lab. Richard Preston discussed the theory that virus may have become airborne in his 1994 non fiction book "The Hot Zone" It was lucky for all who involved in that incident that the strain of ebola didn't infect humans. </div>
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The greatest risk comes from the rising number of new cases which increases the opportunity for the virus to mutate into a more dangerous form.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08092574925356576780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-69651216803419849362014-07-07T12:32:00.001-04:002014-07-07T12:32:38.869-04:00Ebola Not A Hollywood Movie This Time<h4>
Events in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone look like the stuff of a Hollywood or television thriller. This time its for real. At the moment the news has been very low key.</h4>
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On July 7 news agencies reported a US citizen was being tested for the Ebola virus in Ghana, which has had no confirmed cases of the virus in the current West African outbreak. As of this posting the results are not in.<br />
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<br />On July 4th Tom Geisbert, a microbiologist at the University of Texas, agrees that the risk of somebody coming from the affected area and causing a huge outbreak in North America or Europe is extremely low.<br />
<br />But on July 6th British Ebola outbreak: Doctors ordered to look out for deadly symptoms as killer virus hits UK. Although authorities in Britain didn't expect it to spread there they weren't taking any chances. You can get a really bad feeling that something isn't quite right in the British Isles.<br /><a href="http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/06/british-ebola-outbreak-doctors-order-to-look-out-for-deadly-symptoms-as-killer-virus-hits-uk-4789186/">http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/06/british-ebola-outbreak-doctors-order-to-look-out-for-deadly-symptoms-as-killer-virus-hits-uk-4789186/</a><br />
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<br />But on July 7th Aid agencies such as the French organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) suggest that the world quickly needs to wake up to what is unfolding. According to Bart Janssens, the director of operations for MSF, drastic action is required.<br />“The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a second wave,” he said. “And for me, it is totally out of control.<br />There needs to be a real political commitment that this is a very big emergency,” he said. “Otherwise, it will continue to spread, and for sure, it will spread to more countries.”<br /><a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/ebola-threat-no-less-than-terrifying-274485.html">http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/ebola-threat-no-less-than-terrifying-274485.html</a><br />
<br />Is this all the beginning of a larger and more horrifying pandemic? Let's hope not.<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08092574925356576780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-62711382269005485862014-06-20T17:24:00.002-04:002014-06-21T00:29:10.012-04:00LITTLE OLD NEW YORK<b>LITTLE OLD NEW YORK, published 1910</b><br />
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This vintage booklet contains 45 engravings depicting views and buildings seen and and built in New York City over the city's first 300 years. The illustrations include numerous city and farm homes as well as a 1659 vista along the Broad Street Canal, Gov. Stuyvesant's Mansion in the Bowery which burned in 1778, the Government House which served as Federal Capital from 1788 to 1793, Tammany Hall in 1830, the Shakespeare Tavern at Nassau and Fulton Streets which was demolished in 1836, Columbia College in 1758, and the Croton Water Procession passing City Hall in 1842 as part of the celebration of the new aqueduct. The booklet closes with an 1808 map of the city.<br />
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Tobacco companies were leading producers of baseball cards by the mid 1880's although the cards first began appearing in the 1860's as promotional vehicles for various trades. For the tobacco companies, the cards served to protect the cigarettes in the pack as well as to promote the brand. Many cards, like the following, were colorful drawings of leading players.</div>
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"Monte Ward" pitched the second perfect game in baseball on June 17, 1880, for the Providence Grays -- only five days after the first perfect game had been thrown by pitcher Lee Richmond for a Worcester team.</div>
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Outfielder Ned Williamson held the single season home run record from 1887 until 1919 when Babe Ruth surpassed his total.</div>
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Sometimes referred to as Getzin, "Pretzels" Getzein pitched for 4 different National League teams between 1884 and 1891. His total 277 complete games still ranks 58th for Major League Baseball.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11980777733940420330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-2144461510321008222014-05-03T15:30:00.000-04:002014-05-03T15:30:59.401-04:00Robert Altman's Unfinished Thriller<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">At the time of his death in November 2006, Robert Altman had still not commenced filming what was known as "Altman's Untitled NY Art World Film," a thriller about a murdered NY painter and his fellow-artist younger brother. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">The project had been announced in late 2003 as a spring 2004 production and was slated to star James Franco opposite Salma Hayek. This rare Capitol Films production broadsheet below outlines the intriguing plot.</span><br />
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11980777733940420330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-81990058446607365312014-04-26T11:25:00.000-04:002014-04-28T13:42:34.170-04:00Horn & Hardart Funbook <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These excerpts are from a Horn & Hardart 1920's booklet of contemporary cartoons and jokes on the Automat lifestyle.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11980777733940420330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-58049946078788764132014-03-20T11:15:00.000-04:002014-03-20T11:15:06.391-04:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Miscellaneous Comment </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It just may be that the real reason to hijack this airplane was to gain possession of a Boeing 777. This was very clever capture of this airliner. This notion has gained credence over the six days following its disappearance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is some speculation that Flight <span style="color: #282828;">MH370 is to be used in a 9/11 style attack on the </span>Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, one of worlds tallest buildings and the pride of Malaysia. If this were so then the hijacked flight would, with all is transponders turned off, have already hit the Petronas Towers before anyone knew there was a problem with the aircraft. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a real possibility that some group wanted this aircraft so they could attack a target, somewhere in the world, with a weapon of mass destruction, You can pick on your own from a basket of chemical, biological or in the extreme, nuclear possibilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It looks like this is a far fetched notion. It seems to be in the same group as an extraterrestrial kidnapping. But it is not. Someone went to a great deal of effort to turn off aircraft communication systems. Someone went to a great deal of trouble to hide this aircraft as it changed course and flew to who knows where. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyone who plans the capture of a Boeing 777 and doesn't crash it where their actions get noticed has other plans for the plane, They would have a place to land this plane already prepared in advance. It is time to stop thinking that this was a crime of opportunity. Someone made this happen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It may be entirely likely that whoever hijacked this plane plans to spoof another Boeing 777's flight and become that flight as ascertained by taking over the transponder, UHF and VHF radios, automatic beacons, GPS and computer communications systems of the spoofed plane. The original plane would be destroyed in a dark zone as the former Flight <span style="color: #282828;">MH370 takes its place, on its way to deliver a deadly cargo somewhere in the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At first glance it seems unlikely that this could happen. At first glance it would have seemed unlikely that the world could lose <span style="color: black;">Flight </span>MH370. </span></div>
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On Tuesday my wife who is a building manager, had to look at some of the buildings that she and her company manage nearby and close to the river.</div>
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In this building there were two basement garage attendants. Both of them noticed the water was coming in and one of them decided that he would patiently wait until the water subsided. The other attendant saw how quickly the water was filling the garage and he made for the stairs. After he went up 10 or more steps the attendant turned around and saw his friend standing on a car roof just above the rising water. This all happened in less than 20 seconds. Needless to say the garage filled to the ceiling and the attendant that stayed behind drowned. </div>
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An uptown electrified friend offered hot showers, wifi to check our email and place to charge our devices. Our nephew, who lives three blocks away from this friend, offered his Jeep so we could have transportation for the duration. The biggest obstacle to all this help was getting there since the subways weren't running. </div>
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On Thursday I walked down to the Battery Tunnel and back again. In that time I saw the news being created at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, somehow renamed while I wasn't paying attention to The Hugh Carey Tunnel.<br />
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The only area that had electricity was Battery Park City and some of the area north of BPC. By chance we found an electrical and wifi oasis where the new tribe of digital nomads was gathering. Here the Conrad hotel opened a spare room where they installed extension cords and allowed people to join their wifi network. It makes one very aware how dependent we have become on digital communications and informational technology.</div>
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Soon afterward it became apparent that our travails were insignificant compared the hardships and loss suffered at the New York and New Jersey Shores and on Staten Island. We had gotten by, others are still coping with an unprecedented disaster. This holiday season give a little something to the Red Cross and agencies to help our neighbors. </div>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08092574925356576780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-44266988755914200742012-11-16T18:40:00.000-05:002012-11-16T18:45:20.958-05:00No Power - No Peace - Getting By In the DarkDay One After Sandy<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tuesday we called our neighbors and asked for left over defrosting chicken and warming refrigerated vegetables. With these ingredients, I cooked a fresh and hearty soup. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." </span><br />
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-- Dr. Lee DeForest, "Father of Radio <b>&</b> Grandfather of Television." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"> "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.</span><span style="font-size: 32px;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> <br />
</span>- - Admiral William Leahy , US Atomic Bomb Project </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.</span><span style="font-size: 32px;">"</span></span><span style="color: teal; font-size: 12px;"> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 </span> <span style="color: navy;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
</span><span style="color: navy;">-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943</span><span style="color: teal;"> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.0px;"> <br />
</span></span>--The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;"> </span> <span style="color: purple;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "But what is it good for?"</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"> "640K ought to be enough for anybody."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">-- Bill Gates, 1981</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">"This <i>'telephone'</i>has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us,"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.0px;"> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
-- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> </span> <span style="color: magenta;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible,"</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"> "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper,"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.0px;"> <br />
</span></span>--Gary Cooper on his decision <i><u>not</u> </i>to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> </span> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"> "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make,"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.0px;"> <br />
</span></span>-- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"> </span> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.0px;"> <br />
</span></span>-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"> "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible,"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
-- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"> "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <br />
The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this,"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
- - Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy,"</span></span><span style="color: teal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.0px;"> <br />
</span></span><span style="color: magenta;">-- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.</span><span style="color: teal;"> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
-- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University , 1929.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value,</span><span style="font-size: 32px;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.0px;"> <br />
</span></span>-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre , France .</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;"> </span> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> "Everything that can be invented has been invented,"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"> </span><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="color: teal;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required."</span></span><span style="color: teal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.0px;"> <br />
</span></span><span style="color: teal;">-- Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University</span><span style="color: teal;"> <br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> "I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.0px;"> <br />
</span></span>-- the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> </span> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.0px;"> <br />
</span></span>-- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> </span> <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: teal;"> "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon,"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
-- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.</span><span style="color: teal;"> <br />
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And last but not least...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
</span><span style="color: red;">-- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977</span><span style="color: teal;"> </span></span></span></div><div align="CENTER"></div><div align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"> </span></div><br />
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</span></div><span style="color: teal; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><div style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;">Particularly interesting is the quote from Bill Gates. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;">Here’s a man who was dead wrong. But he learned from his mistake and, in fact, built a career based on that fact. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;">Would that other leaders had that grace.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 18px;"><br />
</span></div></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08092574925356576780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-1322803718832465832011-10-03T11:01:00.000-04:002011-10-03T11:01:09.000-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Bob Dylan In Plagiarism Row Over Paintings.</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Ode to Dylan </b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>New Positively 4th Street</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">You got a lotta nerve</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To say I copied anybody<br />When I was drawing<br />You just stood there grinning<br /><br />You got a lotta nerve<br />To say you I'm another Richard Prince<br />You just want to be on<br />The side that's winning<br /><br />You say I let you down<br />I'm just a plagiarist MoFo<br />If you're so hurt<br />Why then don't not go to my show.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/28/bob-dylan-paintings?INTCMP=SRCH" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/musi<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>c/2011/sep/28/bob-dylan-painti<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>ngs?INTCMP=SRCH</a></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08092574925356576780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-57663775222244095802011-06-21T18:47:00.000-04:002011-06-21T18:47:00.871-04:00Ghostbusters Firehouse On The Chopping Block<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7-6EggglV9ke8DrZhgct5effCNXmilVG8DkJFVRMhDOawtcCQQmdXeIoIoS1Uc-knsv6ZyzvfbhOiiDubwMITvgU9xgHlKkt9_8xLYEY3YO-hrRFz3VuDGFEi0ixSUlZqy5s/s1600/StayPuft.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB7-6EggglV9ke8DrZhgct5effCNXmilVG8DkJFVRMhDOawtcCQQmdXeIoIoS1Uc-knsv6ZyzvfbhOiiDubwMITvgU9xgHlKkt9_8xLYEY3YO-hrRFz3VuDGFEi0ixSUlZqy5s/s320/StayPuft.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">20 firehouses in New York City are threatened with closings.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">One of the most well known is the Ghostbusters firehouse that serves lower Manhattan. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Local officials have led numerous protests before June 3. But on that day there was a protest march led by the firefighters themselves and their unions. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">With each closing the chance of someone in the city losing their life because of delay in fighting a fire will increase. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Some have suggested that Mayor Bloomberg could save some of the firehouses by minimizing the number of private contracts for jobs that city workers could do for a lower cost.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 16.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">But as of today it seems that the Stay Puft man will have to go and smile no more. </div></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08092574925356576780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-28339670811271558482011-06-06T13:48:00.000-04:002011-06-06T13:48:21.121-04:00Nightline Wins-Late Night Ratings Battle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEeWu-4z4Zf41MzfmLQcQx3YejwRud4YJMiUAtOTtDP3ZCmKaULSPMh8ib7UZ6MXBhZu6ev_M7EhX3VqBvjQDv4EnYyutMPr-K77pfbwjIUmEKQtQt6e9cv-YG6SZi_ZWhJoqR/s1600/flat+tv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEeWu-4z4Zf41MzfmLQcQx3YejwRud4YJMiUAtOTtDP3ZCmKaULSPMh8ib7UZ6MXBhZu6ev_M7EhX3VqBvjQDv4EnYyutMPr-K77pfbwjIUmEKQtQt6e9cv-YG6SZi_ZWhJoqR/s200/flat+tv.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><br />
<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nightline Scores a First in Late-Night Ratings Battle </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ABC's "Nightline" has achieved a milestone in the late-night ratings, B&C reported. For the first time, "Nightline" ended the 2010-11 broadcast season as the highest-rated late-night show.</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font: 13.0px Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It is the first time ever that the program placed first and beat </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">CBS's "Late Show With David Letterman" and NBC's "Tonight Show With Jay Leno" in both adult demographic segments -- adults 25 to 54 years old and adults 18 to 49, the story says.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the 2010-11 broadcast season, ABC News’ “Nightline” ranked No. 1 across all key demos: </span></b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b>NightLIne - ABC</b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Total Viewers - 4.023 million -- Adults 25-54 1.649 million -- Adults 18-49 1.277 million</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b>Late Show - CBS</b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Total Viewers - 3,489,000 million -- Adults 25-54 -1,548 million -- Adults 18-49 1,151 million, </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b>Tonight Show - NBC</b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Total Viewers - 3,874,000 million -- Adults 25-54 -1,596 million -- Adults 18-49 1,274 million, </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">according to Nielsen Media Research</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For more information:</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/469169-_Nightline_Tops_Broadcast_Season_For_First_Time.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/469169-_Nightline_Tops_Broadcast_Season_For_First_Time.php</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/pressroom/2011/06/ratings-report-for-abc-news-nightline-for-week-of-may-23-2011.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://blogs.abcnews.com/pressroom/2011/06/ratings-report-for-abc-news-nightline-for-week-of-may-23-2011.html</span></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08092574925356576780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-70083440587067661682011-06-02T19:04:00.000-04:002011-06-02T19:04:20.954-04:00Rare Sexy Gucci Timepieces Catalog<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">I have no history on this catalog which is post 1997 but not current. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">16 full color pages and price list still included in the back folder.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">This catalog is not cited on google. It is like Gucci has forgotten about this item. </div><br />
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</div><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000fe; font-family: Times; font-size: 24px;"><i>I planted some bird seed.</i></span></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>A bird came up.</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Now I don't know what to feed it</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>I had amnesia once</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>---or twice</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>The easiest way to find something </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>lost around the house </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>is to buy a replacement.</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 29.0px; text-align: center;"><i></i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Life is sexually transmitted.</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i> I went to </i><span style="color: black; font: 16.0px Tahoma;"> </span><i>San Francisco. </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>I found someone's heart. </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Now what?</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Protons have mass? </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>I didn't even know </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>they were Catholic.</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>All I ask </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>is a chance to prove that money </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>can't make me happy.</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i><span style="color: black; font: 16.0px Times New Roman;"> </span><span style="color: black; font: 16.0px Tahoma;"> </span></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>whole box to start a campfire?</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i><span style="color: black; font: 16.0px Times New Roman;"> </span><span style="color: black; font: 16.0px Tahoma;"> </span></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i> If the world were a logical place, </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>men would be the ones </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>who ride horses sidesaddle.</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i><span style="color: black; font: 16.0px Times;"> </span><span style="color: black; font: 16.0px Tahoma;"> </span></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>What is a "free" gift? </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Aren't all gifts free?</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>They told me I was gullible </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>and I believed them.</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Teach a child to be polite and courteous </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>in the home and, when he grows up,</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>he'll never be able to merge </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>his car onto the freeway.</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i><span style="color: black; font: 16.0px Times New Roman;"> </span><span style="color: black; font: 16.0px Tahoma;"> </span></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Experience is the thing you have left </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>when everything else is gone.</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>My weight is perfect for my height</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>--which varies.</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>I used to be indecisive. </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Now I'm not sure.</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 29.0px; text-align: center;"><i></i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>All of us could take a lesson </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>from the weather. </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>It pays no attention </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i> to criticism.</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>How can there be </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>self-help "groups"?</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>******************** </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>If swimming is so good for your figure, </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>how do you explain whales?</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>********************</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants off</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>*******************</i><span style="color: black; font: 16.0px Times New Roman;"> </span></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>Is it me --</i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>or do buffalo wings </i></div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>taste like chicken?</i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0000fe; font: 24.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><i>******************** </i></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08092574925356576780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30877078.post-22240899513977143892011-05-19T11:20:00.000-04:002011-05-19T11:20:52.446-04:00Top Twenty Celebrities for 2011<div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes has released it's top 100 most influential celebrities in America for 2011. </span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year Lady Gaga has overtaken Oprah Winfrey as Number One. </span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the complete 100 list with all the standings go to: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/wealth/celebrities#p_2_s_arank_">http://www.forbes.com/wealth/celebrities#p_2_s_arank_ </a></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Top 20</b></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 Lady Gaga</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oprah Winfrey</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Justin Bieber</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U2</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elton John</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tiger Woods</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taylor Swift</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bon Jovi</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simon Cowell</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LeBron James</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Angelina Jolie</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Katy Perry</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Johnny Depp</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kobe Bryant</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leonardo Dicaprio</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black Eyed Peas</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">17</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Donald Trump</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr. Phil Mcgraw</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tyler Perry</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paul McCartney</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Top 10 Richest Celebrities as Ranked by Forbes</b></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oprah Winfrey </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$290M</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U2 </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$195M</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tyler Perry</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$130M</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bon Jovi</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$125M</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jerry Bruckheimer</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$113M</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Steven Spielberg</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$107M</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simon Cowell</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$90M</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lady Gaga</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$90M</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10 </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James Patterson</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$84M</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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I have seen them around, but until recently never took advantage of them, I never realized their actual worth.<br />
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</div><div style="color: #777777; font: 11.0px Arial; line-height: 13.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">By Stefanie McIntyre and James Pomfret – Thu Apr 14, 2:17 pm ET</div><div style="font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">HONG KONG (Reuters) – A period drama about a young man, a duke and royal orgies drew hundreds in Hong Kong to the premiere of the territory's first 3D erotic film earlier this week.</div><div style="font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The soft-porn "Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy" debuts as the stricken porn industry turns to 3D as a potential money-spinner to revive its fortunes following the success of Hollywood blockbusters such as "Avatar."</div><div style="font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">"What we're going to expect is that people don't take it as an erotic or any gross thing to look at," said director Christopher Sun.</div><div style="font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">"Try to take it as an entertaining movie for adults."</div><div><br />
</div><div><div style="font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">His father, Stephen Shiu, was responsible for the original "Sex and Zen," a 1991 film that grossed over US$2.6 million and held the crown as the city's highest-grossing adult film for over a decade.</div><div style="font: 13.0px Arial; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26px;"><b>Taming Chaos with a Personal Plan</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336c96; font-size: 15px;">March 16, 2011 | 1805 GMT</span><br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody></tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>By Scott Stewart</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Over the past week we’ve seen a massive </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.stratfor.com/theme/japanese-disaster-full-coverage"><span style="color: #00497c;">earthquake and tsunami in Japan</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> that caused a nuclear accident, the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110315-state-emergency-declared-bahrain"><span style="color: #00497c;">Saudis sending troops into Bahrain</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> to quell civil unrest there and the government of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110311-protests-saudi-arabia-bahrain-and-yemen"><span style="color: #00497c;">Yemen taking measures to expel foreign media</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> as protests have swelled against Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">We have also recently seen large-scale evacuations of expatriates from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and it is not unreasonable to assume that we might see a similar exodus from Bahrain and Yemen if developments in those countries deteriorate. Moreover, in Japan, the risk of radiation and conditions that are not yet under control at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant could force further evacuations there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">In light of this uncertain environment, STRATFOR thought it prudent to address once again the topic of personal contingency planning. Indeed, we also made this topic the subject of this week’s </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="javascript:launchPlayer('y5tm3kt1','http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR2MTtmx4s0')"><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><img alt="playbuttonsmall.gif" src="webkit-fake-url://3AC46C63-7BD6-4B68-A126-F324EAD32EBE/playbuttonsmall.gif" /></span><span style="color: #00497c;"> Above the Tearline video</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">. While we have often discussed this topic </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.stratfor.com/personal_contingency_plans_more_ounce_prevention"><span style="color: #00497c;">in relation to terrorist attacks</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">, its principles are also readily applicable to crises caused by natural disaster, war and civil unrest. When a crisis erupts, having an established personal contingency plan provides people with a head start and a set of tools that can help them avoid, or at least mitigate, the effects of the chaos and panic that accompany crisis events.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00497c; font-size: 25px;"><b>When Chaos Reigns</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">When a crisis erupts due to civil unrest, natural disaster or a major terrorist attack, a number of things happen rapidly and sometimes simultaneously. First, panic ensues as people attempt to flee the immediate scene of the disaster, usually seeking safety using the same escape routes. At the same time, police, fire and emergency medical units all attempt to respond to the scene, so there can be terrible traffic and pedestrian crowd-control problems. In the event of large civil disturbances, roads can also be clogged with protesters, troops and panicked civilians. This can be magnified by smoke and fire, which can reduce visibility, affect breathing and increase panic.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">In many instances, an attack or natural disaster will cause damage to electrical lines, or the electricity will be cut off as a precautionary measure. Natural gas, water and sewer lines can be damaged, causing leaks, and in the case of natural gas lines raising the threat of explosions and fire. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Earthquakes and mudslides can cut roads and shut down mass transit. Often, people find themselves trapped in subway tunnels or in high-rise buildings, and they are sometimes forced to escape through smoke-filled tunnels or stairwells. Depending on the incident, bridges, tunnels, subway lines and airports can be closed or jammed to a standstill. Grocery stores are frequently inundated by people scrambling (and sometimes fighting) to obtain food and supplies.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">In the midst of this confusion and panic, telephone and cell-phone usage soars. Even if the main trunk lines and cell towers are not damaged by the event or otherwise affected by the loss of electricity, this huge spike in activity quickly overloads the exchanges and cell networks. This means the ripples of chaos and disruption roll outward from the scene of the crisis as people outside the immediate vicinity of the crisis zone hear about the situation via the media and wonder what has become of loved ones who were in or near the crisis zone.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00497c; font-size: 25px;"><b>The Need to Plan</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Those caught in close proximity to such a disaster site have the best chance of escaping and reconnecting with loved ones if they have a personal contingency plan. While such planning is critically important for people who live and work overseas in high-threat locations, recent events have demonstrated that even people residing in places considered safe, like Cairo and Tokyo, can be caught in the vortex of a crisis. Taking this one step further, sudden disasters, such as tornadoes, earthquakes, school shootings or the derailment of train cars carrying chlorine, can strike almost anywhere. This means that everyone should have a personal contingency plan.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Emergency plans are vital not only for corporations and for schools but also for families and individuals. Such plans should be in place for each regular location — home, work and school — that an individual frequents and should cover what that person will do and where he or she will go should an evacuation be necessary. This means establishing meeting points for family members who might be split up — and backup points in case the first or second point also is affected by the disaster.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">When school-aged children are involved, parents need to take the time to coordinate with the school to learn what the school’s crisis plans are so any measures the school employs can be accounted for during the planning process. A crisis plan should also account for any pets a family may have.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">The lack of ability to communicate with loved ones because of circuit overload or other phone-service problems can greatly enhance the sense of panic during a crisis — especially in this age, when people are so dependent on almost-constant communications via the ubiquitous smart phone. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Perhaps one of the foremost benefits of having personal and family contingency plans in place is the reduction of stress that results from not being able to contact a loved one immediately. Knowing that everyone is following the plan frees each person to concentrate on the more pressing challenges presented by their personal evacuation. This is critical because someone who waits until he or she has contacted all loved ones before evacuating might not make it out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">It also is important to have a communications plan, which should include the contact information for the designated rallying site as well as an alternate communications hub outside of the area. It might be difficult to communicate from point A to point B, but someone at point A or B might be able to get through to a person at point C. For example, it may be impossible to call from Tripoli to New York, but both parties may be able to call through to Rome.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Alternative means of communication also should be included in the communications plan. If the phone lines and cell phones are clogged, many times text messages can still get through and Internet connections may work to send e-mail. Satellite telephones, though expensive, are also very useful in a communications blackout, as are two-way radios. Analog fax lines can also prove useful when other forms of communication are shut down.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">People who are going to serve as communications hubs need to be briefed on the evacuation plan and have contact information (landline and cell phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.) for each person who will be participating in the evacuation. The communications hub should also be provided with important personal data on each person, including full name, date of birth, passport numbers, etc. The communications plan also will be helpful in case one member of the family is unable to evacuate immediately or finds it unwise to evacuate at all. In that case, he or she will know where the rest of the family is going and how to contact them once communications are restored.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Planning is important because, when confronted with a dire situation, many people simply do not know what to do or where to start. It is not unusual to find people wandering aimlessly at the scene of a disaster. Not having determined their options in advance — and in state of shock over the events of the day — people quite often find themselves unable to think clearly enough to establish a logical plan, so they just drift around or collapse in helplessness. Having a plan in place gives even a person who is in shock or denial and unable to think clearly a framework to lean on and a path to follow.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00497c; font-size: 25px;"><b>Evacuating</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">One of the keys to surviving a catastrophe is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100609_primer_situational_awareness"><span style="color: #00497c;">situational awareness</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">. Situational awareness allows people to recognize a potential threat at an early stage and take measures to avoid it. Situational awareness also helps people know where to go when an unforeseen disaster strikes. For example, if the airport is closed by the crisis, situational awareness enables one to understand the alternate means of leaving the country, and if a bridge is damaged on an alternative land route, you can locate another way out. Being aware of the layouts of your residence and workplace is also critical. If an office building is hit by an incident of workplace violence or catches fire, people with a plan will know where the fire exits are and where they lead. Situational awareness will then help them realize when an exit could lead them out of the frying pan and into the fire.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Situational awareness also aids in reacting to a dangerous situation while on the move. If a subway tunnel is filling with smoke from a fire or bombing, situational awareness tells one to keep low in order to avoid being overcome by smoke. Better still, proper preparation can lead people to carry important items such as a smoke hood that can be worn to protect against smoke and a flashlight to help navigate a dark place like a tunnel.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">For individuals who work in high-rise buildings, frequently travel or routinely take a commuter train or subway, these two items can greatly assist you if the need to evacuate arises. Smoke hoods are relatively inexpensive devices that can be carried in a briefcase or purse and quickly donned in case of emergency. They will usually provide around 20 to 30 minutes of breathing time, which could quite literally mean the difference between life and death in a smoke-filled hallway, stairway or subway tunnel. Likewise, a small flashlight could prove to be invaluable in a crisis situation at night or when the power goes out in a large building or subway. Some of the small aluminum flashlights can also double as a handy self-defense weapon.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Of course, in some situations, evacuation might not be the best idea. If there is no immediate threat at a specific location, it may be more dangerous to join a crowd of panicked people on the street. In some cases, it might be safest to just stay in place and wait for order to return — especially if the shelter is stocked with food, water and other basic necessities. Situational awareness will allow you to make the call on whether to stay or go.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">As part of a contingency plan, it is also prudent to prepare a small “fly-away” kit containing clothes, water, a first-aid kit, nutritional bars, medications and toiletry items for each member of the family. It also is a good idea to include a battery-powered or crank-powered radio and other items such as appropriate maps, multi-tool knives and duct tape. An appropriate amount of cash can also prove quite useful. The kit should be kept in a convenient place, ready to grab on the way out. Even if it is impractical to keep all these items in constant readiness, keeping most of them together and using a prepared list to collect the other items quickly can help get one out the door in seconds. Maintaining important papers, such as vehicle titles, deeds, licenses, birth certificates, passports and credit card information, in a central file allows it to be quickly retrieved in case of an evacuation. Of course, passports are of vital importance in an overseas situation.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Another important part of situational awareness is having the means to receive instructions and information from the authorities. In addition to radio and television, many locations have emergency text and e-mail alert systems that can provide critical information. Overseas, embassies also maintain networks for disseminating information to expatriates such as the U.S. Department of State’s warden system. Individuals should register for such services and ensure they know how information is disseminated before the crisis hits and results in communication disruptions.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">When it comes to information pertaining to emergency plans and fly-away kits, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Administration’s ready.gov site is an excellent resource. For people residing overseas, the U.S. Department of State’s travel information site and the Overseas Security Advisory Council are also valuable resources filled with helpful information.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Now, while it is important to listen to authorities in the case of an emergency, individuals cannot rely on the government to take care of them in every situation because the resources simply may not be available. This means that individuals must have a plan in place designed to take care of themselves and their families.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #00497c; font-size: 25px;"><b>Flexibility Required</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">In order to be effective, an emergency plan must be fluid and flexible. It is important to recognize that even a good plan can be worthless if reactive measures taken by authorities during an emergency impede execution of the plan, or if the catastrophe itself closes down the airport or a section of a primary escape route. For these reasons, it is best to have several alternate contingency plans that account for multiple scenarios and include various routes and modes of evacuation. Once the emergency is announced, it likely is too late to start devising a back-up plan.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Plans must be also reviewed periodically, at least once a year. A plan made following 9/11 might no longer be valid. Bridges and roads included in the original plan might be closed for construction at the present time or could have been changed to a one-way traffic pattern. Communication plans may also need to be updated if family members move or change telephone numbers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">The contents of fly-away kits should be checked periodically to ensure the kits are functional. Flashlight and radio batteries can lose their charge and need to be replaced. Items such as smoke hoods can become damaged by being carried around in a purse or briefcase for too many years. Food can become stale and inedible. Medications can expire. Children can grow and require different sizes of clothing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Finally, while having a contingency plan on paper is better than having nothing, those plans that are tested in the real world prove to be far superior to plans that are never tested. Running through an evacuation plan (especially during a high-traffic time such as rush hour) will help to identify weaknesses that will not appear on paper. It also will help ensure that all those involved know what they are supposed to do and where they are supposed to go. A plan is of limited use if half of the people it is designed for do not understand their respective roles and responsibilities.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">No plan is perfect, and chances are that individuals will find themselves “shifting on the fly” as conditions on the ground change in the event of an actual emergency. However, having a plan and being prepared allows a person to be more focused and less panicked and confused than those who have left their fate to chance.</span><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110316-taming-chaos-personal-plan"><span style="color: #00497c;">Taming Chaos with a Personal Plan</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> is republished with permission of STRATFOR."</span><br />
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