Oprah Winfrey attended the funeral Whitney Houston, As quoted by Femalefirst, besides Oprah, other celebrities who certainly comes across that the service that is Kevin Costner, who became his co-star in the film The Bodyguard, Stevie Wonder and Arteta Franklin.

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Cameras will be allowed on the show before the funeral that took place in the church. Later, the event will be broadcast live on the internet, so the event can be witnessed Whitney fan.

After that the service will be buried at Whitney Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey, next to his grave.

Although friends and relatives invited to funeral Whitney, the Whitney’s ex-husband, Bobby Brown as not to come. Whitney family forbids Bobby to attend the funeral.

For the most part, we all like things we can control and things that we know well. But, as Helen Keller once said: “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” The fact of the matter is that to be alive at all involves some level of risk. Every significant activity involves uncertainty and requires us to take risks. Learning to be a wise risk taker is the key.         

Just like businesses need to have a business plan, those who have become successful all say that if you want to have your dreams come true, you need to have a plan and a plan involves risks.

If you don’t have a dream then it is about time you create one. The fact of the matter is, if you want to have a dream come true you first have to have a dream. Knowing what your dream is and taking the necessary steps to get there is exceptionally wise.

Look at Oprah Winfrey for instance. As a child she was once asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she answered without hesitation, “I want to be paid to talk.” She started out as a determined little girl who made her dreams come true and today Oprah has become a financially successful woman and she has touched many people’s lives. She took a risk when she moved from Baltimore to Chicago and took a job as a news reporter. Some didn’t think she could do it but she followed her heart she believed it was a possibility and she made it happen.

Some risks are bigger than others and so it is important that you calculate the risks involved, some are a matter of life and death. Oscar Schindler is a man who took a big risk and because of that risk, thousands of people were saved. Today there are more than 6,000 descendants of Schindler’s Jews living in the USA and Europe, and many in Israel. What would possess him, with all of his power and money, to risk his own life to save others? Somewhere along the line, Schindler decided that it was more important to follow his personal convictions than to follow Hitler’s rules. He risked it all to save lives.

The biggest leap for some is to step out of their comfort zone and reach for success. There comes a time when you have to push towards your fears and tread on new territory, push some boundaries. That is what Mother Teresa did she had a dream of helping the poorest of the poor. She took a risk and traveled to India with a vision and not much else. In the end she built a ministry that is known around the world. It wasn’t always easy and it may not have been the safest route to take but Mother Teresa stepped outside her comfort zone and made a difference.

Not everyone who takes a risk makes it big, that’s why it’s called a risk. But, if you are going to fall, fall forward. When you fall, dust off your knees and get back up. If you find yourself ship wrecked, rebuild, count your losses and move on.

Use common sense. There are times when a ship needs to come into the harbor for repairs and maintenance. There is also a time to play it safe. But, risks are a part of life and we need to realize that it’s okay to make mistakes along the way. But, never be afraid to take on a challenge, always keep focused on your dreams and do whatever it takes to achieve them.

Risks can be a good thing and they can cause us to do something that forces us to stretch ourselves, to challenge us. So, what are you waiting for? Hoist your anchor and set sail. Take a risk, map out your course and move your ship out of the harbor, after all, you are the captain of your life.

Live to make a difference, live your life to the fullest. Don’t be afraid to risk it all for the things that matter. 

This week we tackled a major creative block – money. We were asked to really look at our own ideas around God, money, and creative abundance.

There really was only one question to explore in our morning pages: Write about the god you do believe in and the god you would like to believe in. We were also asked to keep track of the money we spent.

Since this is the week before Christmas it seemed ridiculous to me to keep track of the money I spent. It was a spending week. I do recognize God at work in my life especially when it comes to our finances. I have been unable to work due to illness for 15 years. My husband, on paper, cannot support this family alone. When I first became ill he picked up a lot of overtime at work. God provided for us. We never missed a mortgage payment, never lost our house, never had to deny our children the necessities of life including extra-curricular activities which I believe ARE necessities of life for children.

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I also believe God only gives us what we can handle. As Joyce Meyer says, “Why would God give you a million dollars if He can’t trust you with the ten that you’ve got?” She also rephrases a scripture from the bible saying, “God will give you double for your trouble.” Or as Oprah says, “Give to the world and you get back to the world.” At this time of year, Christmas, I am always prompted to help those in need, and so I gave.

I also felt guilty about spending money buying Christmas presents. I found it a hassle and hard to think of new things to give. I would rather be helping those less fortunate.

Some of the tasks were a little difficult because of the season – collecting stones, leaves and flowers. However, it was a very creative week for me. I began painting a Christmas figurine; I shopped and wrapped Christmas gifts; I baked; I came up with the idea of using pictures as clues for my daughters’ Christmas Eve Box. I went around the house and took pictures of objects and printed them out; and I wrote (not my novel). Then I became exhausted – too exhausted to do anymore, too exhausted to come up with something new and creative to put in that Christmas Eve Box. Looking back at the Artist’s Way’s Basic Principles, which we were to read every day this week, the first one reads, “Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.” I decided I had used up too much creative energy. I needed to refuel. I never did come up with that something else gift. I’ve been itching to write a poem but have yet to put pen to paper.

I discovered that the stories I write could do more to help people than entertain them. I tend to write about social issues. It is time I finished my novel and bring awareness to these issues. This is God’s work.

We need to enjoy our lives, feel free to pamper ourselves without using lack of money as an excuse. I have always complained that my husband spends money we don’t have for his own pleasures such as golf and trips to visit his family. I used this as confirmation that God would not give us a million dollars if we can’t spend wisely the money we have. Perhaps I am wrong. My husband is enjoying his life, am I enjoying mine? It’s time I stopped making excuses and get out and do what I want to do. My only concern is that doing all these other things will take me further away from my writing.

Affirmations:

I will not let money control my life. God will provide.

I can use my creativity to help others.

I need energy to boost my creativity.

I can and will finish writing my novel.

Those same African-Americans she alienated all of these years might just come around.  If anything this should give those Blacks that were watching her for free when she was on network TV, a reason to pay for expanded cable.  This Negro will not be watching her shows; they were hard enough to watch when she was bourgeois, and I certainly do not want to see ghetto coonery on her network. 

Walk through the Pure Food and Wine restaurant in fashionable area of ​​Manhattan Irving or its spacious and luxurious garden and could encounter with actress Katie Holmes.

It could also meet Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea, who have made a series of visits together to enjoy the corn tamales with portobello mushrooms, cashew or mint ice cream for dessert. The place also attended by many Wall Street tycoons.

It could be any trendy restaurant in New York, but Pure Food and Wine serves only raw food and vegan, without an egg or an oven in sight. His upper class clientele consists of a mixture of vegans, vegetarians and lovers of food, but is clearly an indication of how it has changed the face of veganism in recent years.

But the celebrities that we championed the lifestyle of this type of vegetarianism is not just young actresses who are just beginning to shine in public. There is also the host of television talk shows Ellen DeGeneres, with wife Portia de Rossi, as well as Oprah Winfrey, who, though not vegan, led his team to undergo a regime of this kind for 21 days.

In addition there are men like Ozzy Osbourne and Russell Brand, who in recent weeks said vegans. There are even athletes like Carl Lewis and Mike Tyson.

VEGETARIAN DIET

However, among all the high profile vegan stands Bill Clinton. Last year, the former president told CNN that his impressive loss of weight 24 pounds was due to a diet based primarily on plants. Said he was confident that his new regime will prolong life.

The question is how many of these celebrities are influencing Americans.

“All this exposure (the media) is influencing, absolutely,” says Joseph Connelly, editor and publisher of trade publication VegNews. “People can now pronounce the word” vegan “(vegan)! Five or 10 years could not. It’s just something positive. “

The Vegetarian Resource Group, an advocacy group and educational non-profit, says its latest figures show that about 5% of American adults are vegetarians never eat meat, fish, shellfish or pollo_, and that half of these are vegan, then do not eat dairy products or eggs. Vegans do not eat even stricter honey.

ON THE RISE

Moreover, the proportion of vegetarians vegans among Americans seems to be growing, says Charles Stahler, co-director of the group.

Veganism “is no longer seen as a diet of  chickpeas pureed and alfalfa sprouts in a little healthy but very dry bread,” says a prominent chef of this type of food and cookbook author may Ronnen, who has worked with celebrities like Oprah and DeGeneres, is a chef and partner in two hotel complexes in Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn.

“They are not hippies who preach peace and love. Now we have a mix of business people and celebrities most important attractive “.

Losing weight is not the reason I chose to be vegan Daelyn Fortney. The mother of a family and a resident of Greenville, South Carolina and director of vegetarian and vegan ThisDishIsVeg site-focuses on the ethics associated with respect for animals.

However, claims to be delighted that people like former U.S. president will be giving veganism a fresh face and powerful.

“That will probably be the way that will have many more people” on veganism, says Fortney. “It’s always great when a cause has a big name behind.”

However, he adds a note of caution about the celebrities who are vegan.

“I hope we do not proceed!” Says Fortney. “If they do, could do enormous damage.”

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Description accused of trying to assassinate the U.S. President, Barack Obama, himself as a “modern-day Christ,” and in a video sent Oscar Ortega Fernandez, 21, to a channel, “Oprah Winfrey television,” according to British newspaper.

He said Ortega Fernandez in the video, and duration of 45 minutes, in an effort to attract attention to broadcast recorded via the channel that is very popular and wide: “There is what he wants the Lord from me to express it to people .. it is not by coincidence that I am like Christ .. I am Christ the modern era, which waiting for everyone. “

Police arrested the American Ortega Fernandez in Pennsylvania, Wednesday, on the back of the shooting on the White House, Friday before last, and one of the bullets hit the window of the residence of the First American family in the south wing of the presidential headquarters.

The young man who lived in Idaho (North West) is accused of “trying to assassinate the American President,” and faces a life sentence if convicted.

According to the complaint, the witness testified from friends suspect that Ortega Fernandez was describing the U.S. president as “the devil should get rid of it,” added the witness that the accused “was regarded as something”, stressing that it “will not stop until the completion of this.”

Another witness said of the “Idaho” The suspect increased disturbance, was “convinced that the government is plotting it,” he said, adding that he was seeking “to harm,” Obama, who he describes as “the Antichrist.”

According to an eyewitness, the driver of the car a dark color “shot in the direction of the White House from the window of the passenger.”

Investigators found a car minutes after the black Honda Akior aircraft bearing registration plate from Idaho turned out to be registered in the name of the suspect, and was within semi-automatic assault rifle and ammunition.

The document stated that the complaint “found on the effects of several bullets on the southern facade of the building on the second floor or above,” note that the Obama family, who lives in the White House with his wife and their two daughters and the mother of First Lady living in the second and third floors.

According to the complaint that he also found “several bullets and shrapnel,” in the vicinity of the White House.

And imposes Secret Service guarded the presidential residence, and published continuously snipers on the roof.

This is the first serious attempt to target U.S. President, who received death threats before, but the White House has already been targeted in the era of former presidents.

There have been a most famous of these incidents in the era of President Bill Clinton in October / November 1994, when Francisco Duran fired 26-year-more than 20 bullets at the White House, and sentenced to prison in the year following 40 years.

1. Oprah Winfrey: American tv host, actress, producer, and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey is the best paid feminine superstar yet again. She was the very best paid movie star together with both male and female with a large pay of $290M as per Forbes. Nonetheless, the 57 yr old Oprah lost her prime spot within the “Highly effective Celebrities Checklist” to pop sensation Girl Gaga. Oprah’s web worth as of March 2011 is assumed to be 2.7 billion and she is ranked 420 on the world’s richest record and 135th richest in the United States. Oprah Winfrey is best identified for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” which has become the very best-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Her rise from abject poverty to the richest African American has touched the hearts of tens of millions of People and other people around the world. She was not only a celebrity but a way of life in keeping with many and it was not a shocked that Barack Obama, by one estimate, is alleged to have acquired over one million votes within the shut 2008 Democratic major race attributable to Oprah’s support. Nevertheless, the series finale of “The Oprah Winfrey Present” aired on May 25, 2011 and Individuals are nonetheless struggling to return to phrases with the end of an era.

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2. Lady Gaga: Woman Gaga is second highest paid female celebrity with a pay of $90 M in 2010. Although she ranks behind Oprah in Cash rank and TV/Radio rank but she tops the celeb record in new age media ranks reminiscent of web rank and social rank. Girl Gaga additionally ranked no.2 in press rank and he or she has replaced discuss-show queen Oprah Winfrey as the most powerful movie star in this yr’s Forbes list. The 25 year old was additionally involved in loads of controversies within the final 12 months too which seems to have worked in her favor and elevated her recognition even further.

3. Bethenny Frankel: The third feminine superstar within the highest paid checklist is the American natural meals chef, television personality and creator Bethenny Frankel. She makes her entry into the list this yr with a bang as she is ranked because the 3rd richest feminine celeb as per Forbes with a pay of $55 M in the last year. She won’t as massive as Oprah or Girl Gaga and even Gisele by way of overall reputation but nonetheless she has manages her money rank is corresponding to many top celebrities. She is on the rise each when it comes to recognition in addition to incomes and in April 2011, Frankel sold her Skinnygirl cocktail line to Fortune Brands’ Beam Global for an estimated $one hundred twenty million. On June 10, 2010, her sequence “Bethenny Ever After…” became the very best rated collection premiere within the Bravo network’s history.

4. Gisele Bündchen: Gisele Bündchen is the fourth highest paid female celeb and it’s not at all surprising as she has been the very best-paid mannequin on the planet since 2004. In response to Forbes, the 30 yr old Brazilian supermodel earned $forty five million in the final yr although modeling and product endorsements.Her earnings climbed $20 million over the previous yr and in response to an April 2011 report Proctor & Gamble’s Pantene shampoo sales exploded 40% in Latin America after Bündchen began endorsing it.

5. Ellen DeGeneres: American stand-up comedienne, tv host and actress Ellen DeGeneres is the fourth highest paid female celeb as per Forbes. The fifty three 12 months old discuss show host is best recognized for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and has additionally earned $forty five million within the final year as per Forbes. She has additionally hosted each the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys and was a choose on American Idol for one 12 months too.

It might be an enormous stunning that none of the prime Hollywood actresses make it to the highest 5 highest paid female movie star list. It’s fairly notable that the majority of female celebrities within the above record have built a type of brand around themselves leading to extra earnings and popularity compared to Hollywood actresses who are lagging behind in that field.

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Oprah Winfrey:

Winding Up as TV’s best Talk Show Host, doing it for 25-years, the viewing public must be familiar with Oprah-inflicted mass hysteria. Oprah hysterics appear much high on the viewer’s Scale Of Ten, than say, an Ellen hysterics with the body sways and the gifts. Must be because Oprah appears more simple and down-to-earth, with tons of goodies, freebies and genuine help to the Underdogs–motivating them to face life with money, opportunties and genuine appreciation.

The Oprah Largesse:

Televiewers have seen it all, over and over again, how an abused Child, Adult or Parent is presented with the Chance of a Lifetime to face it and change it, accompanied by scenes of Mass Hysteria, screams and excited jumping. Or take the instance of fortunes being extended to hook viewers en masse and the Oprah Largesse Hysteria that follows–screaming, clapping, swearing, swooning, dancing, the works. Well, who doesn’t like freebies whether it comes with a Commercial Stamp or Social Licence. Oprah is never the poorer with a 50-Billion Dollar trip for 40 or 50 dedicated viewers to some far off Ruritania or some Treasure Island. She goes on giving through her Great Social Connections, Commercial Sponsors and few close African American friends. The Oprah Largesse is readily available for sharing and caring of the Have-Nots, ordinary people like me and you, with a little luck, ie. primarily you have to be in Oprah’s bosomy concern and inner wave-length.

Conclusion:

Oprah’s story is one of the most popular about how an unphotogenic African American made it good on TV despite her troubled childhood, grabbing success and honours. Like an Angel, she has shared it all with several have-nots, spreading joy without any strings attached. Win Frey’s Largesse Hysterics is here to stay forever, and there will never be another Oprah Winfrey Talk Show as successful as this.

Bill Gates remains the richest American who tops Forbes’ list of the 400 richest Americans for the 18th year in a row.

Microsoft co-founder’s wealth increased by $5 billion from last year to $59 billion, ranking him ahead of all the other billionaires who make up this year’s list. 

Warren Buffett is on the second spot whose net worth is $39 billion, $6 billion lesser than last year.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison rounds out the top three richest Americans with a net worth of $33 billion, $6 billion more than last year.

Financier George Soros took seventh place, his first time among the top 10. Forbes estimates his wealth at $22 billion.

Forbes said the combined wealth of the 400 people on this year’s list is $1.5 trillion. 42 women made it to the list, including media mogul Oprah Winfrey at No. 139, with a net worth of $2.7 billion.

18 people appeared in this list first time, including Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who ranked 200th, and John Henry, majority owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC, at No. 375.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was the biggest dollar gainer on the list, with a net worth of $17.5 billion that earned him the No. 14 spot.

The top 10 people on this year’s Forbes 400 list are:

1. Bill Gates, $59 billion

2. Warren Buffett, $39 billion

3. Larry Ellison, $33 billion

4. Charles Koch, $25 billion

5. David Koch, $25 billion

6. Christy Walton & family, $24.5 billion

7. George Soros, $22 billion

8. Sheldon Adelson, $21.5 billion

9. Jim Walton, $21.1 billion

10. Alice Walton, $20.9 billion

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