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How to find out about trainings / volunteering stages / other educational forms financed by the European Union (Erasmus+)?
In the article below, I list some of the solutions you have if you want to take part to a training / volunteering stages / other means of education financed by the European Union. I took part to 6 trainings like these (2 in Romania, then one in Serbia, Germany, Turkey, Ireland), and to other various smaller projects. I greatly enjoyed them. I also know some people who did volunteering via EVS. Below some information on things like these.
(the video is not mandatory, but it explains better what I say in the article)
The most important part of this article:
SALTO-Youth – this is for people interested in trainings. Generally, there are 20-25 participants, from various countries in the European Union. The trainings are usually aimed at people with ages below 30, but you can find options if you go over that age. Generally a training goes for 7 days. The working language is generally English. The International trainings I took part to were generally not held in big cities, but in places quite isolated from big communities. I think it's more interesting to participate in a training in a different country than yours, but it's simpler to just go in a training in your country. Of course, you can pick the trainings which interest you, and even decline if you are accepted. Most of the times, the age for participation is required to be more than 18 years. Some programs have an upper limit (no more than 30 years old, let's say), others don't. I wrote about the reasoning for taking part to such a training here – How to visit a new country like a PRO?: Betterish. So, the links:
- SALTO-YOUTH – European Training Calendar – Training for youth work and projects – or recruit participants
- SALTO-YOUTH – European Training Calendar – Browse a list of all trainings in the Training Calendar
- A PDF with extra resources
- Facebook: SALTO-Youth Participation
EVS (European Voluntary Service) - this program is for people interested in volunteering in the European Union countries (and not only). You can volunteer anywhere from 2 weeks to 12 months. You can pick the country and the NGO for which you wish to do EVS. You need to be between 17 and 30 years old.
- Database of European Voluntary Service accredited organisations | European Youth Portal
- Facebook: Discover the EVS – European Voluntary Service
Other programs:
Below, some extra things. Less important, but, still useful things to know.
Why should you soak in water various nuts & seeds overnight?
You might have heard that if you plan to eat some nuts & seeds on Friday, you should consider leaving them in a cup of water from Thursday evening.
What are the benefits of doing so?
- Better taste. Yummy!
- Better activity through your body (they tend to be hard to digest otherwise):
- The body absorbs the minerals better.
- The body can digest them easier.
- They produce more nutrients.
A quote:
Soak your nuts and seeds anywhere from 20 minutes, to 2 to 3 hours, even overnight in the refrigerator. In general, harder nuts will take longer to soften. If your recipe calls for soaked nuts or seeds and you are low on time, try to squeeze in 20 minutes or just do a really good job rinsing them. Otherwise, plan ahead a bit and soak them overnight in your refrigerator in a glass container with an airtight lid. Soaking nuts in plastic is generally not recommended as plastic can leach into the water and into your food. (Soaking Raw Nuts and Seeds: Benefits (Raw Food Diet))
Some details on the process:
Some Gmail add-ons for better productivity
If you want a piece of software which makes Gmail better, you should know about:
- Free – Mail-Trail for Gmail: when you send an email, you set a number of days in which you wait for a response, and when that time passes, the email automatically gets sent to inbox, back again.
- Paid, but with better functions – RightInInbox.com – Schedule send emails in Gmail. Track emails. Set reminders for follow ups / Scheduled sending and email reminders | Boomerang for Gmail.
- Free – Rapportive – gives you detailed information about the people sending you emails.
- Free – Gmail Labs – Undo send – helps you cancel the sending of an email.
- Free – Gmail Labs – Canned Responses – helps you pre-write a message.
- Free- Gmail Offline – read & compose messages while offline.
Other ideas:
How to learn a foreign language better? Watch movies with subtitles in that language
"We've all probably tried to learn a new language at some point. Foreign films can help you learn those words and accents, but a recent study suggests that subtitles can help a lot.
Your first instinct is probably to turn on subtitles in your native language (English subtitles on a Spanish movie for example). But ideally, you'd watch with the subtitles in the foreign language as well. In the study, students learned the accents better and were able to understand new material easier. Plus, it helps you pick up individual words when people talk quickly."
Source – Learn a Foreign Accent by Watching Films With Subtitles
The study (Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitle… [PLoS One. 2009] – PubMed – NCBI) says:
Understanding foreign speech is difficult, in part because of unusual mappings between sounds and words. It is known that listeners in their native language can use lexical knowledge (about how words ought to sound) to learn how to interpret unusual speech-sounds. We therefore investigated whether subtitles, which provide lexical information, support perceptual learning about foreign speech. Dutch participants, unfamiliar with Scottish and Australian regional accents of English, watched Scottish or Australian English videos with Dutch, English or no subtitles, and then repeated audio fragments of both accents. Repetition of novel fragments was worse after Dutch-subtitle exposure but better after English-subtitle exposure. Native-language subtitles appear to create lexical interference, but foreign-language subtitles assist speech learning by indicating which words (and hence sounds) are being spoken.
Personally, I always watch movies in English with English subtitles only. Now I have some material to backup my thesis.
How to choose the title of a publication?
I will present below my opinion on how to pick the title of a publication, based on My gorgeous article about the best attributes to successfully use: Olivian Breda, which I suggest you to read first.
How to visit a new country like a PRO?
I see people saying things like:
- I've visited 100 countries, most of them for less than 2 days! (my reaction – facepalm)
- Next month I'll go and visit 8 countries in Asia! (my reaction – facepalm)
- There's this low-cost airline company who just created a new route to Paris! (facepalm)
- Last year, I saw both the statue of Christ the Redeemer and the Eiffel Tower. (facepalm)
- I'll go with some friends to the seaside! We'll sunbathe in the day and spend the nights in a tent. (half-face-palm)
- I'll go with some friends to the mountains! It's useful for health and bonding. (half-face-palm)
Some thoughts about these?
How to set the price for an electronic equipment, second-hand? (e.g., at what price should you sell your laptop?)
Let's say you have an electronic equipment you wish to sell. What price should you settle for?
When you buy a product, should you buy it after only seeing it online, or should you go to a store to view it, and only then buy it?
Let's say you want to buy something. You can't decide whether it suffice to buy the product online, or you should see the actual product in store, test it for a while. I talk in this article on tips on how to buy a computer case, a mouse, a keyboard, a CPU, a case fan, a backpack for a photo camera, some electronic cords, some headsets, a flat TV and a computer monitor. I also give basic criteria on what to look for on any of these products. I use, for my research and example, only amazon.com. I also give links to some reviews I made during the past years for some products I mention in this article. The article has both a video and a text version, they tend to complement each other well.
Let's proceed then.
How to buy a product online with a quick research only?
I talk in this video about how to buy a product (the solution being to have a quick look on the biggest sellers online, and get quick product information from there).
I previously wrote on the subject in Romanian: Cum găsești rapid ce produs să cumperi, din mai multe opțiuni?: Olivian Breda.
Links I mention in the video:
- Aparate foto D-SLR ieftine Pret Custom price – eMAG.ro
- Aparate foto D-SLR – eMAG.ro
- Aparate Foto DSLR (Reflex) – F64.ro
- Amazon.com: 4 Stars & Up – Digital SLR Cameras / Digital Cameras: Electronics
How to translate an event in English into Romanian?
Let's say you're an event organizer. Your conference is in English, but half of the participants know English (and Romanian), and the other half know only Romanian. How to translate?
- The first thing to think about is reducing your audience. I had a teacher of Economics in school who said that if you pay someone a good wage, you get a risk – he might be a good or bad employee. Pay that person a poor wage, and you get a guarantee – that's surely a poor employee, since no qualified person will stay and work for you for a poor salary. It's the same logic with this audience – don't translate the event, and some people who don't know English, might leave, annoyed. But do translate simultaneously into Romanian and you get a certain fact – lots of people will be annoyed by the long waits – the speaker says something, the translator translates this into Romanian, the speaker says something else, the translator translates and so on. See this video – or this one. Yes, most Romanians don't know Greek, but, still, it's a very poor choice to translate sentence by sentence. The first thing to do is consider not offering any translation at all. It is annoying for both the speaker (you tend to forget what you are saying, and it's much more difficult to focus in those conditions) and the audience.
- Another option is having a screen, and writing the translation. You could use two translators at the same time – one translates a sentence, the other one another sentence. Or translate just partially what the speaker says. This is much more efficient and pleasant than the first solution.
- Another option is to somehow split the audience into English-speaking one and Romanian speaking one (two separate rooms, for example; or some in front, with English, and some in the back, with Romanian. And for the Romanian audience do simultaneous translation (no breaks).
- If it's possible, you could have the text of the conference in English and Romanian given to the audience, so it's easier to follow. (via)
- Of course, there is the option of having headsets, and this is actually the best option for translation, but the logistics and costs are much more complicated.
In my opinion, translating simultaneously does so much evil to the event, that it's the worst option to consider.
How to back-up HTML files visited web pages on your computer? (2014.06.15)
In the video, I present you how to back-up web pages on your computer as HTML files.
I show you how to bulk organize lots of files, how to work with HTML files, why should you compress them, give alternatives (saving as screenshots).
The end result is a list of folders organized by date (the folder names are similar to 2014.06.14 Saved file #1, 2014.06.15 Saved file #2 and so on).
My recommended solutions on eating healthy
- The best article on health I've read: Unhappy Meals | Michael Pollan (in Romanian – Rezumat pentru articolul Mese nefericite (cel mai bun articol despre a trai sanatos pe care l-am citit) | știrimess: știri scurte, ca pentru messenger (închis)).
- The best documentary I know of on health – Sugar: The Bitter Truth – YouTube (in Romanian, more details – Schimbător de vieți? Despre zahăr, video în engleză, 90 minute (cu alternative de non-vizionare): Olivian Breda).
- The best diet I know of: Mediterranean Diet Review: Foods & Weight Loss Effectiveness / Mediterranean Diet — What You Need to Know — US News Best Diets.
- How to lose weight / live longer? Eat less. BBC News – The power of intermittent fasting / Eat, Fast and Live Longer – Horizon on Vimeo
The best goals to set in order to motivate yourself
What are the best goals to set in order to motivate yourself?
It's simple – put no goals to yourself. Instead, focus on creating a system in which you will like things.
So, instead of saying "I'll write 10 pages each day for a month", say "I'll find something which I like doing, like writing, and have lots of fun doing it".
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The researchers came to a stunning conclusion – one they didn't expect and a result that turned conventional wisdom about both education and parenting on its head. The kids who were rewarded for their pretty pictures chose to spend less time drawing than those who weren't rewarded. The children who weren't told about the prospect of any prize continued to enjoy drawing, but the children who were given awards seemed reluctant to carry on without the promise of further honours. The initial award reduced the children's motivation rather than spurring them on to greater heights.
But that's not all. The investigative team also asked a group of independent art aficionados, who were unaware of the goals of the study, to evaluate the quality of the children's handiwork. The pictures drawn by the children who were rewarded tended to be rated as less competent, less skilled than those drawn by the unrewarded children. In other words, the rewarded children didn't just spend less time drawing when given a choice in the matter; they seemed to put less effort into their art too. (source)
A new study by a pair of researchers at the University of Chicago and the Korea Business School shows that this approach has some benefits. Focusing on goals fires up your intentions to engage in the activities that will help you achieve those goals. But there's a major downside. Stay focused on your goals and you spoil your experience of the activities you'll need to pursue. In turn, that makes it far more likely that you'll drop out early and fail to achieve the very goals that you're so focused on. (source)
Here's another example. Going to the gym 3-4 times a week is a goal. And it can be a hard one to accomplish for people who don't enjoy exercise. Exercising 3-4 times a week can feel like punishment – especially if you overdo it because you're impatient to get results. When you associate discomfort with exercise you inadvertently train yourself to stop doing it. Eventually you will find yourself "too busy" to keep up your 3-4 days of exercise. The real reason will be because it just hurts and you don't want to do it anymore. And if you do manage to stay with your goal, you use up your limited supply of willpower.
Compare the goal of exercising 3-4 times a week with a system of being active every day at a level that feels good, while continuously learning about the best methods of exercise. Before long your body will be trained, like Pavlov's dogs, to crave the psychological lift you get from being active every day. It will soon become easier to exercise than to skip it – no willpower required. And your natural inclination for challenge and variety will gently nudge you toward higher levels of daily activity while at the same time you are learning in your spare time how to exercise in the most effective way. That's a system. (source)
How to avoid cravings?
First, read some more on the Stanford marshmallow experiment – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Stanford marshmallow experiment refers to a series of studies on delayed gratification in the late 1960s and early 1970s led by psychologist Walter Mischel, then a professor at Stanford University. In these studies, a child was offered a choice between one small reward (sometimes a marshmallow, but often a cookie or a pretzel, etc.) provided immediately or two small rewards if he or she waited until the experimenter returned (after an absence of approximately 15 minutes). In follow-up studies, the researchers found that children who were able to wait longer for the preferred rewards tended to have better life outcomes, as measured by SAT scores, educational attainment, body mass index (BMI) and other life measures. However, recent work calls into question whether self-control, as opposed to strategic reasoning, determines children's behavior.
So, the solutions here would be to be able to think of something else (distraction) or think of the final prize (change the desire).
The second solution, by Scott Adams:
Expanding on that point, let's say you have a choice between pasta and a white potato. Assume you enjoy both foods equally and you want to choose the best one for your waistline. Which do you pick?
I recently posed that question to a crowd of ninety senior managers at a huge tech company. About 88 of them chose the potato. That's the wrong answer because pasta is only half as high on the glycemic index. The two people out of ninety who knew pasta was the better choice wouldn't need to use as much willpower later in the day to stay within a good diet range. Studies have shown that if you use your willpower resisting one temptation you have less in reserve for the next. The systems approach to weight management is to gradually replace willpower with knowledge, e.g. knowing pasta is better than a potato. (The book describes more ways to replace willpower with knowledge in the diet realm.)
This solution implies finding a system in which the craving isn't there.
Third – find habits and create them. Find what you like about the craving, and create a system / habit which stops it from happening.
How to watch movies at a PC?
- First note: It might be a better idea to watch movies at the cinema. Not for the quality of the video or sound, but for your experience of going to the cinema, the people you're with, the people around you.
- Second note: I'm not an expert in computer software for movies. I'll share my experience.
- The best program to watch a movie - BS Player.
- If you want to watch part of the movie, do something else, continue viewing, BS Player has the single most useful thing to me – resume where I left off.
- It's got a very good search for subtitles. You set the language (EN / RO / whatever), and the software can automatically look for subtitles for the movies which don't start with one already. Even if the movie has a subtitle, it can still search for new ones.
- It's very good at scrolling through the movie, either with clicking at the desired destination, or using keys.
- It has simple keys (if you know the keys of WinAmp, you'll do fine – XCVB. F for full-screen, Space for play/pause).
- It has simple to understand menus.
- As a setting, in Romanian, I like to set the subtitle font for Central European, which has diacritics – ș, ț, ă, â, î.
- I watch the movies in sequences, not the whole movie at a time, so I like to set the default movie to another player (VLC, Media Player Classic). I like BS Player better, but the function for continuing the movie where I left off doesn't work so well if I open lots of other videos.
Gramatică – diferențe între cratimă și linie de pauză
Observație personală:
- Văd frecvent evitarea liniei de pauză pe net (e o linie mai lungă –, în locul ei văd cratima -).
- Văd frecvent scrierea 13 – 17 ianuarie (greșit), în loc de 13-17 ianuarie.
Will Smith: "The keys to life: running and reading"
Some things to add:
- Reading is nothing without reflection. If you only get stuff in, you don't go through the necessary processes to do change. Some people advise others, for this, to stop and think (1) and put into practice what you read (2). I advise another thing – teach others. Give presentations with what you learn. Even better, write. Keep a blog. Make it public, if it makes you any better. More on this – Writing Is Thinking · An A List Apart Article.
- Will Smith says if you are hurt when you run, you should keep running, and this is why running is good. I'm thinking more in health terms – do sports, do any sports, keep doing that sport. At times, even if it mildly hurts, but don't overdo it, and always ask for an external, proper, opinion on this.
Each Windows installed has its own specificities
Sometimes, I install Windows-es. They're all sort of them – XP, 7, 8, different service packs for each of them, x64 and x86. Windows 7 with SP1 on x64 is a different thing than Windows 7 on x86 with no SP. Some programs work, some don't. The thing is, you can't predict things easily. You install Last FM and don't know if it will work, and if it will work correctly. Again, the thing is lots of programs are not installed right away with Windows. So, you install Windows, you install the other software and, surprise!, after a month of usage you discover you need some other programs. And these don't work.
I don't have a clear solution to this. I just wanted to clarify some things.
Productivity tip: start small
In marriage, you first go through engagement. Even engagement starts after meeting someone. All these meetings generally start with the first date. The first date starts from doing something which gets a positive emotion.
You see, in all these steps:
- The first emotion – the first date – the following dates – the engagement – perhaps moving in together – marriage – children.
People first take a taste. A sample. They see how it's like.
I think this is mostly a productivity reason – prior to making the big step, you take a small step and see how it's like. Prior to making the perfect situation, you make a not-so-perfect and try to perfect it.
In day-to-day processes this could mean, instead of hiring someone with a 3 years contract, you have a trial of three months. Instead of signing a big contract, sign a small one first. Instead of doing it all at once, do it in small steps.
You want to build a PC from scratch? How about, prior to buying all the pieces and then seeing what it's like, you first watch an YouTube video with this?
You want to build a house? How about you first get an idea of what construction is by helping a friend doing home improvement, to get a taste of the process?
Some things can't be tested. You can't test how it's like to fly a plane. You can have an idea, but for the process itself you just need to do it. You can't "partially" move. When you go and sleep at other people's houses, you don't have enough time to test everything, and you won't know 100% how would it feel if you lived there. You can't partially move (well, most of the time, see engagement above).
For the other ones, those who can have a trial version, it's actually better to do it like this.
Let's say 3 people want to work for you. You could go through a laborious process of finding the best candidate, or you could hire all 3 of them for one week and see how it goes. And at the end of the week keep one, or two, or three, or none. Or extend the test period to two months. And after that to two years. And after that to a contract without a time frame.
It's a typical mistake – you assume that you can predict future behavior by analyzing the past. So, you read CVs, one interview, another, a test, and all of that to predict the behavior of the potential candidate. How about you give that person something to do, and you would see exactly, on the spot, what are the weaknesses and strengths?
You want to clean the whole house in one day. How about you start in small processes, which can be not linked to the big one? Organizing a cabinet. Organizing the deposit box. In the end, by doing the small steps, the final task will only involve dusting and using chemicals to clean, and using the vacuum cleaner, and it would only take a few hours, instead of a whole day.
You want to reorganize your hard drive. How about you start with a folder. And, in another day, with a different one. And, yes, you will have a very large folder with old documents, which will take more time. But by that time you would have entered the mood and you would know the pleasure you (probably) have after finishing a small step.
Save the world. One step at a time.
How to restore a Lenovo IdeaTab K3 Lynx 11.6-Inch 64 GB Tablet?
You may try first automatic repair.
If not, try to boot:
- Press and hold the power button until the tablet turns off.
- Press and hold the following buttons (in sequence) to boot into the BIOS: Power button > Volume Up > Voume Down. When done correctly, it will show you the BIOS screen.
But instead of booting from a "real" Windows bootable CD, you need either:
- A repair disk provided by Lenovo (you need to contact Customer Support for this, but I failed in getting a CD from them).
- A repair disk made previously in Windows 8, by following these steps (you should do this as a pre-emptive measure).


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Though screenwriting is an essential part of the film production process, in Britain it is yet to be fully recognised as a form in itself. In this original study, Jill Nelmes brings the art of screenwriting into sharp focus, foregrounding the role of the screenwriter in British cinema from the 1930s to the present day.
Drawing on otherwise unseen drafts of screenplays, correspondence and related material held in the Special Collections of the BFI National Archive, Nelmes's close textual analysis of the screenplay in its many forms illuminates both the writing and the production process. With case studies of a diverse range of key writers – from individuals such as Muriel Box, Robert Bolt and Paul Laverty, to teams such as the Carry On writers – Nelmes exposes the depth and breadth of this thriving field.
About the Author
Jill Nelmes is Senior Lecturer at the University of East London, UK. She is the author of Writing the Screenplay, founder of The Journal of Screenwriting, and editor of An Introduction to Film Studies and Analysing the Screenplay. She studied screenwriting at UCLA, has been a script reader in Hollywood, and has had a number of feature length screenplays in development.

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What an episode!!
I do not blame Claudia Joy for shutting the door in Denise's face at the end. Didn't Claudia Joy already warn her about having an affair when it was the doctor guy?
I hope Frank doesn't die. We know something happens from the previews for the season, but Denise wouldn't be an Army Wife anymore if he dies.
I'm glad that Pamela was able to help Roxy get rid of that guy.
There's more that I wanted to say, but I'm drawing a blank right now.
I think it's going to be a great season.
What did you think?


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Oops: WABC Accidentally Airs Parts of WNBC Newscast
During his weather forecast at the top of the 4 a.m. newscast Monday morning, WABC meteorologist Bill Evans did a double take at what was airing in one of the screens behind him (above left).
That's because, if you look closely, the programming is the early-morning newscast on rival WNBC, anchored by Darlene Rodriguez and Michael Gargiulo. And it didn't end there: before switching to a map, WABC showed WNBC's programming full, taking a live shot of WNBC meteorologist Chris Cimino during his weather forecast (above right, with Evans' lower-third banner still up). Read more


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TC Electronic's BH250 Bass Amp Head is so compact that it will fit in the pocket of your gig bag, and the weight is hardly noticeable. Whether you need a bass head at a rehearsal spaces, one at home for practicing, for gigging at small to medium sized venues or all of the above, BH250 is the perfect bass amp for you. Other Information Inspirational TonePrint Signature Bass Effects TonePrint Artists Signature Effects Created by Some of the Best Bass Players Around TonePrint Effect Types Chorus, Flanger, Vibrato, Octaver, SpectraComp & BassDrive Built-in Bass Tuner Tunes Any Bass with 4, 5 or 6 Strings in Seconds Intelligently Contoured Tone Controls Cut and Boost at Different Frequencies, Tailored Specifically for Bass (Bass Cut: 80Hz, Bass Boost: 100Hz, Mid Cut: 500Hz, Mid Boost: 800Hz, Treble Cut: 1800Hz, Treble Boost: 3150Hz)Features & Technical Specs Input connector 1/4 jack Input impedance 500 kOhm / 100pF Gain range -96 to 36dB Bass 80Hz @ Gain: -24 to 0dB; 100Hz @ Gain 0 to +15dB Mid 500Hz @ Gain: -24 to 0dB; 800Hz @ Gain 0 to +15dB & 0 to -12 dB Treble / Tweeter Tone Center Freq.: 1800Hz @ Gain: -24 to 0dB; 5000Hz @ Gain 0 to +15dB Tone Print 0 to 10 embedded parameters for TonePrints Tuner Bass Tuner, always on Tuning range B0 (30.87Hz) to G4 (392.00Hz) Mute Mutes speaker out, Phones out and Balanced out Master Level / Headphones Output Studio quality headphone amp HP Out Impedance 40 to 600Ohm Mains supply 100 - 240V~ 50/60Hz (70W @ 1/8 of Max. Output) Power module rating 250w (500w instantaneous Peak @ min. Load) Speaker output Neutrik Speakon Balanced output Balanced XLR, Pre/Post Pre-amp Bal. Out Max. +2dBu Bal. Out Optimal Load Impedance 600 Ohm Rehearsal input 1/8 jack input, fits to iPod Humidity Max. 90 % non-condensing Dimensions 220 x 63 x 231 mm / 8.7 x 2.5 x 9.1 Weight 1.8kg / 4 pounds Finish Brushed and anodized aluminum front plate/ Metal chassisFREE Shipping with $25 Order
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Keiko Nobumoto
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Toru Emori
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Tokyo Godfathers (東京ゴッドファーザーズ Tōkyō Goddofāzāzu ) is a 2003 anime film directed by the late Japanese director Satoshi Kon, and co-directed by Shōgo Furuya.
Tokyo Godfathers was Kon's third animated movie, which he wrote and directed. Keiko Nobumoto, noted for being the creator of the Wolf's Rain series and a head scriptwriter for Cowboy Bebop, co-wrote the script with Kon.
Tokyo Godfathers received an Excellence Prize at the 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival.[citation needed]
The movie puts an emphasis on the theme of "coincidences". Movie critic George Peluranee notes that "Tokyo Godfather is a film that shows the small yet significant ties that each of us have with supposed strangers, and tells well the story of miracles, family, love, and forgiveness"
One Christmas Eve in present day Tokyo, three homeless people — Gin (ギン), a middle-aged alcoholic, Hana (ハナ), a transsexual and former drag queen, and Miyuki (ミユキ), a runaway girl — discover an abandoned newborn while searching in some trash. Deposited with the unnamed baby is a note asking the finder to take good care of her and a bag containing clues to the parent's identity. The trio sets out to find the baby's parents. The baby is named Kiyoko, "pure child" as she is born on Christmas Eve.
Outside a cemetery, the group encounters a high-ranking yakuza man trapped under his car. The man happens to know the owner of the club Kiyoko's mother used to visit; he is getting married to the man's daughter. At the wedding, the groom tells them that the baby's mother is a former club member named Sachiko. He gives them Sachiko's address, but the party is interrupted when a maid is revealed to be a Latin American hit man in disguise, attempting to shoot the bride's father with a Tokarev TT-33, the hit man kidnaps Miyuki and the baby and takes them back to his home. There, Miyuki befriends the hit man's wife and shows her some pictures of her family.
Hana searches for Miyuki and Kiyoko while Gin takes care of an old homeless man whom he finds dying in the street. The old man dies after giving Gin a little red bag. Some teenagers show up to beat Gin and the deceased old man. Meanwhile, Hana finds the girls and they go off to find a place to stay.
Hana takes them to a club she used to work at. Gin, who was found by another member of the club, is also there. The trio sets out to find Sachiko's house. They're informed of the unhappy marriage Sachiko shares with her husband. The group rests at a store until they are told to leave by the shopkeeper. Hana collapses and is taken to a hospital. At the hospital, Gin finds his daughter who works as a nurse. Hana humiliates Gin in front of his daughter and storms out of the hospital. Miyuki follows with Kiyoko.
Hana and Miyuki find Sachiko about to jump off a bridge. Sachiko insists that her husband got rid of the baby without her knowledge, and they return it to her. Meanwhile, Gin finds Sachiko's husband, who reveals that Kiyoko is actually a baby that Sachiko stole from the hospital. The chase for Sachiko and the baby begins. After an intense car chase through the city, Miyuki follows Sachiko as she escapes to the top of a building. Sachiko tries to jump off the building, but her husband comes out of his apartment (just across the street) and encourages her to start a new life. Sachiko jumps off nevertheless and accidentally drops the baby off of the building. Hana jumps after Kiyoko. He catches the baby and miraculously lands safely.
Hana, Miyuki, and Gin are taken to the hospital. Miyuki hands Gin his cigarettes and drops the old man's small red bag on the floor, revealing a winning lottery ticket. Kiyoko's real parents want to ask the trio to become her godparents. When a police inspector introduce them to the trio, the inspector is revealed to be Miyuki's father.
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HermeticismSubmitted by Asclepius on Sun, 05/19/2013 - 17:54
by Ross Bishop
For thousands of years Hermeticism and Judaism coexisted in The Middle East. Hermeticism offered a mystical philosophy in contrast to Judaism's more practical approach. Hermeticism had widespread acceptance at times but has generally remained a mystical tradition, practiced in remote locations by dedicated adherents.
Although respected by Church theologians privately, Hermeticism has also often been seen as a threat. At a critical period for the fledgling Church in the fourth century, decisions had to be made regarding the Church's spiritual direction. On one hand the Church could follow the spiritual practices and beliefs of its mystical traditions or it could adopt the rational teachings of men like Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.
Acceptance of the fledgling Church had been spotty throughout the Roman Empire as it had to compete with Roman gods, nature religions, Wicca, Judaism, Hermeticism and Gnosticism. The Gnostics were a Christian sect, but like the Hermetics, held as a core belief a practical gnosis, i.e., direct personal knowledge of the Divine. Both sects held that the true nature of all things was Divine and that people could, through a process of purification, learning and initiation, come to an actual experience of The One.
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Are you referring to the Gnosticism brought into the early Christian church in Alexandria Egypt by Origen , who writings the Hexaupta were collected , and interwoven into mainstream Christianity via Eusebius. Eusebius being the person that the Emperor Constantine had create 50 copies of scripture in order to further establish the brand new State religion of the Roman Empire in the 5th century? It is from these copies of Eusebius that both the Codex C ( Latin Vulgate, i.e., Douay/Rhemes ) and the Codex Aleph come from, as both textual documents are nearly identical, saving that the Aleph has numerous overwritings by many editors making it for all intensive purposes, illegible, thus it's future discovery in what was once the trash heap in the catacombs of a Alexandrian Nunnery ( Convent ). Whereas the Codex C was discovered, by coincidence, in the burgeoning archives of the vast Vatican Library in Rome.
There are major textual differences between the Codex's Aleph / C when compared to the Codex B, or Textus Recptivus from which the King James was translated.
Those differences are not limited too, but are basicly thus.
A. The divinity of Jesus Christ as the sole mediator between man and God
B. the state of the dead, ie Limbo, purgatory vs...a deep sleep, mortality of the soul.
C. indulgences, purchasing redemption after the fact
D. The apocrypha.
So hermeneutics, are the Greek Philisophical influences that have become part of modern Christianity, such as the concept of hell as a place of forever burning ( and our experiencing it forever ) as verses a place that is forever burning that instantly consumes whatever is thrown into it. As you correctly stated, Thomas Aquinas was responsibile for the greater part of such error being intoduced as literal doctrine.
The other thing I wanted to note was that the link you provided seemed disjointed from the body of your post, i.e., they didn't flow together much, is this by intent?
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"there shall come after us men whom shall garner great wealth using our system, and having done so shall seek to slam the door of prosperity behind them." George Washington
Thank you! I found a more direct link to the article...
While you can find the rest of the article from the link provided above, you have to scroll down 3/4 of the page to find it. However, here is the direct link to the article:
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds. - Bob Marley
Thanks, that does work better
I 've briefed it, but will later go over it with more detail. But from what I have so far read, it looks to be a brief, rather undetailed, but accurate description of events concerning the Gnostics, and ReligioTyrany as practiced by the early/ middle ages Church of Rome.
Thanks for the update.
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Drew, by the very grace of GOD through the blood of Christ Jesus.
"there shall come after us men whom shall garner great wealth using our system, and having done so shall seek to slam the door of prosperity behind them." George Washington


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3 residents are foreign born
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2012: $775 (1.2%)
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Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Indianapolis, IN (96.7 miles , pop. 781,870).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Chicago, IL (158.8 miles , pop. 2,896,016).
Nearest cities: Ashmore, IL (2.2 miles ), Westfield, IL (2.7 miles ), Redmon, IL (2.7 miles) , Oakland, IL (2.9 miles ), Brocton, IL (3.4 miles ), Charleston, IL (3.7 miles ), Paris, IL (3.7 miles ), Hindsboro, IL (3.7 miles ).
Latitude: 39.55 N, Longitude: 87.94 W
Area code: 217
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On 7/11/1958, a category F3 (max. wind speeds 158-206 mph) tornado 9.1 miles away from the Kansas village center injured 3 people and caused between $5000 and $50,000 in damages.
On 6/2/1990, a category F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 35.1 miles away from the village center injured 6 people and caused between $50,000 and $500,000 in damages.
Earthquake activity:Kansas-area historical earthquake activity is slightly above Illinois state average. It is 78% smaller than the overall U.S. average.
On 4/18/2008 at 09:36:59, a magnitude 5.4 (5.1 MB, 4.8 MS, 5.4 MW, 5.2 MW, Depth: 8.9 mi, Class: Moderate, Intensity: VI - VII) earthquake occurred 76.2 miles away from the city center
On 6/10/1987 at 23:48:54, a magnitude 5.1 (4.9 MB, 4.4 MS, 4.6 MS, 5.1 LG) earthquake occurred 50.8 miles away from Kansas center
On 4/18/2008 at 15:14:16, a magnitude 4.8 (4.5 MB, 4.8 MW, 4.6 MW, Depth: 6.2 mi, Class: Light, Intensity: IV - V) earthquake occurred 74.7 miles away from the city center
On 4/3/1974 at 23:05:02, a magnitude 4.7 (4.5 MB, 4.7 LG) earthquake occurred 67.0 miles away from the city center
On 4/21/2008 at 05:38:29, a magnitude 4.0 (4.0 MB, 4.0 MW, Depth: 6.2 mi) earthquake occurred 73.2 miles away from Kansas center
On 11/11/1991 at 09:20:47, a magnitude 3.8 (3.8 LG, Depth: 6.2 mi, Class: Light, Intensity: II - III) earthquake occurred 58.2 miles away from the city center
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Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 5
Emergencies Declared: 1
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Boingo Expands In Germany; Adds Three Key Airport Hubs
Boingo Wireless (NASDAQ: WIFI), the Wi-Fi industry's leading provider of software and services worldwide, today announced agreements to manage and operate Boingo Wi-Fi services at three of the ten most highly trafficked airports in Germany: Berlin-Tegel (TXL); Nuremberg (NUE); and Stuttgart (STR).
Boingo will be the first and only international Wi-Fi service provider at each airport when services launch in spring 2013. The three airports collectively serve more than 30 million passengers annually and are gateways to Germany's government, industry and technology hubs.
"The launch of Boingo's Wi-Fi services will provide our travelers with a familiar option for global Wi-Fi access," said Knut Deimer, Head of IT at Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH. "Boingo's success in leveraging their neutral host roaming platform to maximize accessibility will help our passengers stay productive while in transit."
"These airports serve the tech-savvy international traveler who needs to stay constantly connected, making them strong additions to Boingo's growing portfolio of European airports," said Bjorn Thorngren, vice president of international markets for Boingo Wireless. "The launch of our services at these airports will help our customers and roaming partners cost-effectively navigate international data connectivity without incurring exorbitant mobile data charges."As a premium Wi-Fi provider at TXL, NUE and STR, Boingo will broadcast its "Boingo Hotspot" SSID and fully manage the customer experience to ensure fast and reliable service for travelers from around the globe. Boingo's Wi-Fi services include authentication, roaming access and support to ensure quality connections for all users. Boingo's services at these airports will also be available to the company's roaming and platform service partners, including Orange France, NTT DOCOMO, Skype, LGU+, Korea Telecom, Telefonica, and Verizon, which wholesale Wi-Fi access from Boingo and provide self-branded Wi-Fi to their customers as part of their existing services. Boingo access plans available to travelers at all three airports include Boingo Europe Plus, providing unlimited Wi-Fi at more than 200,000 hotspots throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa region for €27.95 per month, and Boingo Global, providing flat rate access anywhere in the world for €49 per month. Hourly and day passes will also be available for purchase. Boingo is the leading provider of airport Wi-Fi in Europe and North America, and was named "Best Wi-Fi Service" in the 2012 Global Traveler "GT Tested" Awards. The company manages Wi-Fi services at more than 60 leading airports worldwide, including London Heathrow, Chicago O'Hare, New York John F. Kennedy, Beijing Capital International, Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International, and Rome Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino. Boingo has also been chosen as the exclusive Wi-Fi provider for the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport. About Boingo Wireless Boingo Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIFI), the world's leading Wi-Fi software and services provider, makes it easy, convenient and cost-effective for people to enjoy Wi-Fi access on their laptop or mobile device at more than 600,000 hotspots worldwide. With a single account, Boingo users and Boingo's wholesale partners can access the mobile Internet via Boingo Network locations that include the top airports around the world, major hotel chains, cafés and coffee shops, restaurants, convention centers and metropolitan hot zones. Boingo, through its Concourse Communications Group subsidiary, operates Wi-Fi and/or Cellular DAS networks at large-scale venues worldwide such as airports, major sporting arenas, malls, and convention centers, as well as restaurants and retail establishments. The company's Cloud Nine media platform enables brand advertisers to reach a captive audience through high engagement Wi-Fi sponsorships. For more information about Boingo, please visit http://www.boingo.com and http://cloudnine.com. Boingo, Boingo Wireless, the Boingo Wireless Logo and Don't Just Go. Boingo are registered trademarks of Boingo Wireless, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains "forward-looking statements" that involves risks, uncertainties and assumptions. 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ANALYSIS FOR EDIT -- U.S.: Obama's Energy Plan
Released on 2012-10-19 08:00 GMT
Catherine for research done on this.
As part of the overall $789 billion U.S. economic stimulus bill agreed
upon by the House and Senate leaders on Feb. 11 to be signed by United
States President Barack Obama Feb. 17, about $50 billion will be set aside
for energy programs, focusing on efficiency and promoting renewable
energy. This follows President of the U.S. Barack Obamaa**s announcement
on Jan. 26 that his energy plan would look to invest a total of $150
billion over the next ten years on a variety of projects. Obamaa**s
intention is to essentially kill a**three birds with one stonea**,
addressing what his Administration perceives as the country's need for
economic stimulus, greenhouse gas reductions and greater energy
security. Among the areas his long term 10-year plan addresses are vehicle
efficiency, clean coal power plants, biofuels, electricity generation and
usage efficiency and increased domestic oil and gas production. The
plan also makes clear that his Administration will work to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050, and he will
start on that path by reviewing a Bush Administration decision to deny
California its own climate change-focused law. President Obama also
announced that he would ask the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to
review California's stringent emission standards, originally struck down
by the former President George Bush's EPA chief Stephen Johnson in
December 2007.
An objective of President Obama's energy plan is to spur the U.S. economy
out of the recession and mounting job losses. The stated goal of the
energy plan is to fuel job growth through the a**Greena** sector to the
tune of at least 460,000 new jobs (over the next three years). The
stimulus package, which includes the short term $50 billion of energy
projects, currently provides about $14 billion in loans for renewable
energy projects, $11 billion for the a**smart grida** electricity updates,
$6.4 billion for nuclear-weapon production site clean up, $6.3 billion in
state level energy efficiency grants, $5 billion for home weatherization
projects and $4.5 billion for making federal buildings more energy
efficient. These expenses would make only the first step of a total $150
billion dollar investment over 10 years for energy efficiency and energy
The idea behind these projects is the attempt to push Americaa**s
construction industry away from traditional house remodeling and building
(residential construction fell a record 27.2 percent and overall
construction spending fell 5.1 percent in 2008 from 2007) towards Green
remodeling projects such as installing solar panels and efficient
insulation on private homes, schools and government buildings. This is
similar to projects undertaken during the Great Depression to build public
parks and paint murals in public buildings, projects that were intended to
keep Americaa**s construction workers and painters employed, but this
would (if successful) have the added benefit of creating a fundamentally
new business sector while decreasing the country's energy bill. The
government would therefore provide a stimulus for private business by
creating a demand that otherwise would not exist.
The second stated goal of the Obama long term energy plan is to eliminate
the U.S. dependency on Middle East and Venezuelan oil imports by 2019.The
U.S. imported roughly 10 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in 2007, of
this the imports from Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, Kuwait and Venezuela
combining to a total of 3.3 million bpd. Removing the need for Middle East
and Venezuelan oil would give the United States much greater room for
maneuver in both regions.
The 10-year energy plan also contains a climate change environmental
portion. While Obama's target (an 80 percent reduction from 2005 levels)
is softer than Europe's (80 percent from 1990 levels), Obama's 25 percent
renewable energy goal surpasses Europe's 20-20-20 plan (LINK:
http://www.stratfor.com/eu_plan_energy_efficiency_and_independence) which
seeks to increase EU's usage of renewable fuels to 20 percent of total
energy demand and reduce total EU energy demand by 20 percent, all by
2020. It is by decreasing reliance on non-renewable energy that Obama
hopes to wean the U.S. off of Middle East and Venezuelan oil.
To achieve these inter-laced goals -- job creation, greenhouse gas
emission reductions and energy security -- Obamaa**s energy plan will
depend on encouraging a mix of technology innovation (in both energy
generation and automobile technology) and boosting domestic energy
production of oil and natural gas as well as renewable energy.
Economy wide cap-and-trade program:
One of the most ambitious proposals of the Obama energy plan is a national
a**cap and tradea** program. Under a "cap-and-trade" program the
government would set emissions standard for various industries, allowing
companies that emit less carbon dioxide than their allotment to trade
their excess a**credits" to those who are emitting above the cap. The
initial allotments of carbon credits will be one of the more contentious
domestic debates in the coming years, as will the steepness of the
emission reduction curve -- i.e. what will the total national goal be in
2020 or 2035 in addition to the goal of an 80 percent reduction by 2050.
At the bottom of the national cap-and-trade program are lobbying efforts
by businesses and industries. American businesses do not want to see
states be left in charge of setting green house gas emissions since that
would only increase a**greena** accounting and legal fees companies would
incur to deal with the system on a state by state basis. Instead they want
to see a single national standard.
Setting the rules of a cap-and-trade system will also allow energy utility
companies to factor in future costs of emitting green house gases,
currently an unknown because no emission standard exists on the national
level. Utility companies currently dona**t know whether it makes sense to
build regular coal plants, clean coal plants, solar, wind, natural gas
because the rules of the game are not set yet. Until that moment, energy
expansion in the U.S. is at a standstill.
However, the U.S. domestic climate policy first must be negotiated at the
global level, particularly in regards to China. Obama, or any subsequent
Administration, will be hard pressed to adopt carbon emission rules
without first getting some sort of a deal with China that would guarantee
that Beijing would also address its own greenhouse emissions; otherwise
U.S. greenhouse emitting industries (chemical industry, paper and pulp,
steel industry, cement manufacturers, etc.) could bolt for China and the
developing world. A conversation with Beijing about climate change is
therefore high on Obamaa**s list of priorities; his energy envoy Todd
Stern will accompany Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on her current trip
to East Asia primarily to float some of Obamaa**s energy ideas to the
Improving Automobile Mileage
To reduce consumption of imported oil by approximately a third, President
Obama's plan is to force implementation of a Congressional decision from
2007 to raise federal fuel economy requirements to 35 miles per gallon by
2020, from their current levels for cars of 27.5 miles per gallon and
trucks/SUVs and pickup trucks of 24 miles per gallon. (Currently about
60% of US oil demand is used to power the American vehicle fleet) The
2007 Congressional decision was never put on a path for implementation by
the administration of President Bush, a decision that President Obama
will look to reverse by asking the Department of Transportation to come up
with a plan by March to implement the mileage standard.
The problem with increasing the mileage of the current fleet (which has
essentially averaged, on a fleet wide basis, slightly above 20 miles per
gallon since the early 1980s) is that it would necessitate replacing a
substantial number of America's current fleet of over 250 million cars,
small trucks and SUVs. In the Energy Independence and Security Act of
2007, Congress allocated $25 billion to a**reequipping, expanding, or
establishing manufacturing facilities in the United States to produce
qualifying advanced technology vehicles or qualifying components.a**
However, all of the $25 billion was subsequently relocated to provide
bridge loans to the auto industry as part of their bailout announced on
Nov. 20, 2008.
Therefore, it will be up to consumers to seek out hybrid vehicles, and for
that purpose Obama hopes to encourage consumers to begin replacing their
old cars by offering $7,000 of tax credits per car for the purchasing of
advanced vehicles (presumably to include various types of hybrids) and to
put 1 million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2010. If implemented and
sought by consumers, however, this would mean that the U.S. government
would -- in terms of total costs -- essentially be spending huge amounts
on tax credits for new car purchases. Currently (figures from December
2008) the U.S. purchases of hybrids average 17,600 per month (down from
about 30,000 during the first half of 2008), or approximately 3 percent of
total purchases. At that rate, were Obamaa**s $7,000 tax credit per car
system adopted, the U.S. government would have to spend approximately $245
million in tax credits per month, or nearly $3 billion a year just to
sustain the current level of consumption (the rate at which the U.S. car
fleet would become all hybrid in 600 years).
Encouraging "Plug-in hybrid" Technology
Part of the drive to increase mileage is also a plan to put 1 million
"plug-in hybrid" cars with mileage of over 150 miles per gallon on the
road by 2015, a direct plug by the Obama Administration for the domestic
manufacturer GM which has essentially put all of its eggs in one basket
with its flagship to-be Chevrolet Volt electric plug-in car. The Volt, a
plug-in electric car that can go 40 miles purely on stored electricity and
then switch to its onboard gasoline engine, will have a price tag of over
$40,000, which means that even with the $7,000 tax credit for "advanced
vehicles" (which presumably will also go to the cheaper Japanese hybrid
alternatives) it will cost essentially more than double its foreign
competition. GM flatly stated in the Congressional hearings on the
automobile industry that the Volt would not be profitable in its first
production run, that total costs of production would be around $750
million and that return on the investment would only be expected after
At the moment however, there is very little certainty that consumers would
chose U.S. made plug-in hybrids like the Volt over the (mostly Japanese)
competition. Complicating calculations relating to the energy efficiency
of the plug-in electric hybrid is the fact that the economics and
ecological benefits of these vehicles will depend on local electricity
costs and the relative a**greennessa** of the consumera**s power source --
a traditional gasoline-electric hybrid brings fewer net greenhouse gas
emissions than a plug-in hybrid in states that rely on coal for
electricity generation. This calculation would change, of course, with the
changes in the electrical grid (see below).
Investing in Coal:
President Obama's plan is to "develop and deploy clean coal technology" as
part of relying more on domestic energy resources. If there is one
non-renewable the U.S. has plenty of it is coal. United States had in 2006
proven reserves that totaled 27.1 percent of the total global coal
reserves, the highest number in the world. Coal already accounts for
roughly 51 percent of electricity generation (in 2007) and for 22.8
percent of total energy use.
At the center of the debate over coal in the United States is the question
of "clean coal" technology, especially carbon capture and sequestration
(or as it is scientifically known: advanced amine-based, post-combustion
carbon capture). As the term implies, this combination of
techniques allows for a coal-fired power plant to produce power without
spewing carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. Instead, the
carbon is captured and sent to deep underground repositories where they
will be sequestered. The technology could probe to be a panacea (should
it ever become cost effective): the U.S. has over a quarter of the
world's coal; it wants increased domestic energy sources; and needs to
reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The only problem is that while the
technology exists, no one yet knows how it can be done economically.
To retrofit an existing coal plant the price tag would be approximately
$1-$2 billion per plant (a 300 megawatt coal plant by itself costs $1.1
billion and a 630 megawatt costs around $2.4 billion) and would require a
doubling of the actual real estate acreage on which the plant was built.
An additional problem is that sequestration would require 30 percent of
the plant output, limiting the total energy output of the plant.
The elephant in the room is the cost of a potential total overhaul of many
of the current coal burning plants likely necessary to make them
economically viable under a future cap-and-trade system. The price tag for
such an overhaul would be monstrous and definitely higher than the $150
billion currently earmarked for the next 10 years for all energy projects.
The U.S. has 1470 coal-burning plants and if the cost of retrofitting
subterranean sequestration was factored for each one of those, the numbers
would be astronomical and could measure in the trillions.
The final problem facing the coal industry is that the authority to
regulate the building of new power plants in the U.S. rests with the state
government, not the federal government. Some state governments have come
under pressure from environmental groups to delay or cancel the building
of coal power plants to avoid exacerbating climate change. In other
states, environmental organizations have used law suits to tie up proposed
coal plants for years. These suits have added to the uncertainty
surrounding the economics of building new coal plants. The economic
uncertainty, legal uncertainty and litigation have resulted in a situation
in which of the 151 coal plants proposed for building in 2007, 109 were
essentially scrapped or tied up in court, with only 28 actually under
construction in 2008.
Encouraging Ethanol:
Encouraging greater usage of ethanol was one of Obama's primary electoral
campaign messages, particularly to the Midwest corn producing regions of
the U.S. where he picked up Iowa, the undisputed corn producing king -- by
a wide margin (Iowa voted Republican in 2004 and only just Democrat in
2000). Ethanol can be mixed with refined petroleum to create gasoline that
can be used to fulfill America's transportation energy needs (which
account for 30 percent of total energy usage and over half of oil use in
the U.S.). To fulfill President Obama's pledge to become independent of
Middle Eastern and Venezuelan oil, U.S. refineries would most likely need
to use six times as much ethanol in gasoline.
The key problem with such a surge in ethanol use is that it would
appreciate food prices (ethanol is primarily derived from corn). According
to calculations by the University of Illinois economics department at oil
prices of $50 per barrel (and with the current ethanol subsidy of 51 cents
per gallon for fuel with ethanol mixed in) it is profitable to convert
corn into ethanol if corn prices are lower than $4 per bushel. Current
corn prices stand at approximately $3.67, which would mean that were oil
to climb above $50 per barrel, it would be more profitable for farmers to
sell corn to ethanol refineries than sell it for food. As oil prices
climb, the threshold for corn bushel prices rises as well, giving farmers
more incentive to convert corn into fuel and thus raising food prices.
One way to avoid the problem of increasing food prices would be to produce
ethanol from cellulosic material (essentially any sort of non-edible plant
material from grass to corn stalks). The problem with cellulosic material
is that it requires expensive enzymes to break down the plant material
before it can be refined, a recent study found that this process is
competitive only with oil prices above $90 a barrel. The process would
also still require gathering massive amounts of low-value raw materials
-- itself a very energy intensive process because these materials have to
be carted from the farm to the refinery. Currently cellulosic materials
like chaff are simply ploughed into the soil as fertilizer or burnt (and
is sometimes used for animal feed). In order to use it as main source of
ethanol production, the material would have to be shipped to refineries
from the farm.
The current collection-transportation networks in the Midwest are
calibrated for food distribution, not for gasoline delivery. The first
problem is therefore how to get the cellulosic material to the refineries.
The first problem is that chaff and agricultural by-products are usually
less dense than corn, so it would take more trips to the local refinery to
make it worthwhile, increasing transportation costs. Farms would either
have to ship their agricultural waste for refinement to a centralized
collection point (most likely right next to the grain elevator) or run
mom-and-pop refineries right on their farms.
Either way, once refining process is complete, the ethanol would have to
be shipped to consumers around the country (most of who are on the coasts,
far from the food producing Midwest). There are no pipeline networks ready
to take the fuel-ready ethanol from refineries to the coasts and a
pipeline network, and one akin to the natural gas pipelines in Europe may
have to be developed -- an extremely expensive project. Therefore, switch
to ethanol could work for the Midwest, leading to a bifurcated system
where the coasts still use petroleum for transportation while the
agricultural producing regions rely on ethanol.
The Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline:
To boost domestic production of energy, Obama's plan would "prioritize the
construction of the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline", which would tap natural
gas deposits in Prudhoe Bay on the banks of the Arctic Ocean. To get the
pipeline to reach the U.S. lower 48 it would need to cross over 1,500
miles including the imposing Alaskan Brooks Mountain Range and essentially
the entire North-South length of Canada. The project is not new, it was
proposed in the late 1960s when the deposits were discovered and became a
popular idea during the oil shocks of the early 1970s. Currently there are
three competing projects, the ExxonMobila**s Mackenzie Valley (cost at
$16.3 billion), TransCanada Project ($26 billion) and British Petroleum
and ConocoPhillipsa**s Denali project (estimated cost between $30-40
billion). All three projects are financially daunting, comparable to the
Soviet-style infrastructural development that aim to connect connected
Russian natural gas fields on the Yamal Peninsula with the consumers in
Europe. As a point of comparison, the Yamal-Europe pipeline that ships
natural gas from Russia to Germany via Poland and Belarus traverses over
4,000 miles of flat terrain and cost roughly $45 billion. As such, it is
actually cheaper per mile than either the TransCanada Project of
BP-ConocoPhillipsa**s Denali project.
Adopt "Use it or Lose it" Oil and Gas Lease Strategy:
A U.S. Congressional report, supported by Democrats within the House
Natural Resources Committee, has highlighted 68 million acres "of leased
but currently inactive federal land and waters" which according to the
report could produce "an additional 4.8 million bpd of oil" per day. In
and of itself, this production would decrease U.S. imports by 75 percent
and eliminate the need for Middle Eastern and Venezuelan imports. The
Obama energy plan would seek to boost domestic oil production by tapping
this supposed wealth of untapped domestic wells that energy firms hold
leases on but choose not to produce from.
The problem with this plan is that U.S. energy firms hold leases on
potential wells and deposits that often require a long period of time to
survey. Some underwater deposits are also currently unexploitable, at
least until technology is improved (which generally takes a long time). By
forcing energy companies to "use it or lose it," the government will
discourage careful surveying and most likely run off the energy firms from
the deposits by attempting to force them to develop currently
uneconomical fields. Unless the United States government develops a
state-owned energy company willing to tap and produce from fields for a
loss then there is no point in taking leases away from energy firms.
a**Smart Grida**:
Ultimately the most significant change to Americaa**s energy usage and
efficiency may be the retooling of the entire electricity grid with what
is called the a**smart grida**. A a**smart grida** is essentially an
amalgamation of modern technologies in distribution and supply of
electricity. It uses digital technology (such as digital electricity
readers which would replace manual readers) to coordinate supply and
demand of electricity across the nation. It combines more efficient
distribution of electricity to consumers with advanced long distance
transmission lines that would be able to take alternative energy sources
(such as windmill for example) to electricity markets far from their
As such, a "smart grid" would introduce "two way" communication between
energy suppliers and consumers, allowing utilities to direct power more
efficiently away from low-energy users to high-energy users depending on
the time of day or need. It would also give consumers more room to create
their own usage preferences by actually programming how (and when) their
appliances use energy. The smart grid would also regulate electricity use
of homes and businesses by being able to turn off appliances that are not
being used during peak times.
The concept is simple enough and would simply update America's electricity
infrastructure (currently running on technology not much different from
its nascent stages in the 19th century) to a modern digital
consumer/provider system. However, such a national grid would necessitate
replacing all of Americaa**s electricity meters, as well as all
transmission lines and all transformer stations, a project with a likely
price tag of somewhere near $200 billion. The current stimulus package,
however, commits only $11 billion to a a**smart grida** upgrading of
around 3,000 miles of transmission lines and upgrading about 40 million
homes with a**smart meters.a** This funding will not be enough to begin a
serious overhaul of Americaa**s electricity transmission network, it is
more an attempt to kick start industry and private businesses and move
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IAPH Asia/Oceania Regional Meeting for 2013
Hosted by Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) this years IAPH Asia/Oceania Regional Meeting is being held on 18 March 2013 at the St Regis Hotel,
St Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, Abu Dhabi - is offering a very special room rate for IAPH and summit attendees of AED900++
This special deal includes buffet breakfast and free wifi, and access to the spectacular views and facilities offered by this prestidious hotel
To reserve please use the direct link to the discounted rate:
is being held alongside the IAPH meeting on the 19-20 March at the St Regis Hotel.
All IAPH attendees are offered complimentary delegate places for both days including the WPTS Awards Gala Dinner on the evening of the 19 March.
The two-day summit agenda will deliver a hard-hitting programme of conference sessions designed to promote trade development, examine supply chain management systems and discuss port efficiency, with a number of exciting new panel discussions covering breakbulk, project cargo and heavy lift, waterborne tourism and marina development, as well as the introduction of a special Africa focus. A premium exhibition provides further networking opportunities.
For full programme click here
IAPH attendees are invited to join ADPC on a hosted tour of Khalifa Port, the new state-of-the-art gateway to Abu Dhabi handling all of the capital's container traffic. The Port also holds the title of first semi-automated container terminal in the region.
There are two available tour dates for IAPH Members. The mornings of Monday 18 March or Thursday 21 March
Tour Timetable
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