Save for my fusion food adventures, my blogs have tended, recently, to be doomsdayish and gloomy. Today, let me be a lot more inspirational and underscore why life is worth living.
This past weekend Alyssa Campanella (above and right) was selected as Miss USA, which sends her into the Miss Universe contest in Sao Paulo, Brazil in September. The franchise has been owned by Donald Trump since 1995. Miss Hawaii, Angela Byrd (left), placed in the top eight. 
My only recollection is that in 1962, I danced with Miss Universe of 1961, Marlene Schmidt (above right), who was dating an eating club friend of mine at Stanford. Then, of course, Brooke Lee (above left) of Hawaii was Miss Universe in 1997.
Then there is Anna Graceman of America's Got Talent. You must click on on her name to put a smile on your face. She sings okay and plays the keyboard well, and is definitely a special talent at all of 4' 3" and 11 years of age. Watch the post performance questioning. Anna has a personality with facial expressions that are endearing. She, apparently, also plays the guitar, a future act to come. Anna is not as cute, nor sings as well, as Jackie Evancho, then 10 years old, from last year, but Jackie did not win and, who knows, Anna might.
We get these all the time on the internet. A couple of people sent me this clip of a cat playing with dolphins. If you like more cats, then watch the top 10 funny cat videos. Yes, there are these of dogs, also. Enjoy!
By the way, it will take you 1,700 years to watch all the videos currently on You Tube. Lady Gaga's Bad Romance (that's her on the left) has been viewed about 200 million times by now. Don't become #200,000,001. Seventy percent of contributions come from outside the USA. I bet you're way below average, as the average time You Tube users spend watching it is 15 minutes/day.
Oh, by the way, the Huffington Post just published my article on:
The World Population in 2050 Could Well Be 7 Billion
Look forward to your comments.
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The Dow Jones Industrials dropped 80 today to 12,110. I guess investor did not like the message of Ben Bernanke, who announced the end of QE2. (Someday soon I'll give one line explanations for QE, derivatives, EF, hedge funds and more.) World markets were mostly down, but the Japan Nikkei leaped 170 to 9629, which closely tracked the Dow Industrials, until 11March2011. Gold went up $4/toz to $1550. The price of gold was around $1200/toz a year ago and $600/toz five years ago. The NYMEX crude is $94/barrel, while the Brent Spot is $20 more at $114/barrel.
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Beatriz is now no more in the East Pacific, but there are now two storms in the West Pacific: Tropical Depression Haima, which will bring some rain to southern China and northern Vietnam, and Tropical Storm Meari, now at 45 MPH, to become a typhoon in a few days and torment Taiwan and Okinawa and/or China.
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