Objective of the PicSmile Site

A key objective of the PicSmile site is to
generate funds in support of advancing an
intellectual property (invention) I call
"Catastrophic Event Preparedness and Response".
The invention focuses on national first rescue
response resources in cases of very large
magnitude earthquakes in the United States.

The picture above is of the 1906 San Francisco
Earthquake. It impacted the city plus rural areas
all the way south to San Jose, including the
farmlands that are now Silicon Valley. The next
such earthquake will hit the area filled with
businesses, and those often forgotten business
parts called people who both work and live
in what will, in an instant, become a very
large area of damage and devastation.

Similar large magnitude earthquakes threaten
the +10 million people of the Los Angeles area,
the +5 million people of the greater Seattle
region and millions of people in the heartland of
America within devastation and damage range
of the less known New Madrid fault zone.

Hurricane Katrina indirectly demonstrated the
lack of rapid first rescue response America
now has in place for very large earthquake
disaster events. Since Katrina little has changed.
The product of the invention noted here is the
deployment on the disaster grounds of an army
sized division of light search and light rescue
responders within 24 hours of the strike of such
an event. As a perspective on the unique nature
of the invention, the US Army standard for time
to form up a division for movement is 3 days and
that's if the division has already been on standby.
Then the division must get from home base to the
disaster area. The well known time frame for
effective rescue in earthquake disasters is 3 days
from the strike of the quake.

Present US national response resources are
of around one quarter the size, focused on
specialized heavy rescue. The 10,000 person
division sized light rescue and support entity
of the invention will be deploying into a
distressed population in excess of 5 million.
Operating as 1,000 ten person teams that's
1 team per 5,000 residents in the disaster zone.
Certainly there will be local, regional and
State responders. The division of the invention
will be joining those overwhelmed responders.

Advancement of this invention takes money.
American venture capital sources could fund it
with a good potential rate of return, but it
doesn't fit into a "standard" business pattern
and the funding amount appears to be too small
to have been attractive so far to even the
Silicon Valley VC firms! The US government and
in particular FEMA have not to date recognized
either the problem or the solution and from
past communications don't seem to know what
an invention is! The Katrina response was not
an accident. At present it's due to be repeated
on a massively greater scale.

The PicSmile site is one means for moving this
IP ahead, slowly perhaps, but certainly ahead.
The site as promoted is not spam. It promises
a free smile. It delivers a free smile. The page
has links to ads on it. A huge number of other
sites on the net have content along with very
similar ad links and even direct ads and are
on numerous occasions daily linked to in board
messages.

On June 15th, 2007 the estimated time when
the intellectual property could be advanced
to where the "Division" could begin active
organization for deployment was 2010, based
on the site visitor levels when unrestricted
posting was permitted on Yahoo!. Now it's
back to more like 2020 or far beyond.

Many posters and viewers of these boards are
located in earthquake threatened areas. All might
well take a lesson from New Orleans and write
on a post it note that like hurricanes...
"Earthquakes Don't Wait!"

The Catastrophic Event Preparedness and Response
invention first notice of discovery was faxed to
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on
28 June, 2000, with receipt confirmed by the
Joint Staff J-8 Lieutenant General Bruce Carlson
on 20 July, 2000 along with referral to DARPA
which proceeded to lose it.... ;-)

If you have any comments of a constructive nature
you're welcome to email me *****@yahoo.com .
***** Sorry, Yahoo killed the email link.
Thanks for reading this. Now you know what the
PicSmile site is about. Keep smiling... ;-)

picsmile link: http://www.picsmile.blogspot.com/

Papers and articles by this blogger have
been published and/or received with
positive documented feedback by;

- The Associated Public-safety Communications Officers (APCO)
- The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
- The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
- The Armed Forces Communications
and Electronics Association (AFCEA)
- Special Warfare, Journal of the
John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center (the Green Berets)
- The Commander in Chiefs Initiatives Group,
United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
- The National Security Council