This blog site initially focused on renewable energy and the environment. But that was SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth. My next book, SS for Humanity, opened the subject area to everything else, including SETI, the afterlife, travel and cuisine. However, I still provide, now and then, SIMPLE SOLUTIONS.
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Friday, April 25, 2025
WE ARE ON THE OCEANIA RIVIERA
The highlight of Day 9 in Japan was lunch in my hotel room. Clouds still blocking a view of Mount Fuji. The Sheraton Yokohama Bay Hotel sits over a large underground shopping mall. A close-by market supplied chutoro and hirame sashimi and a bento of beef curry over rice. The hotel provided the hot green tea and cold beer.
Our final Club Lounge session was five hours and, below, last breakfast on Day 10.
Best croissant I've had in years. All in all, in consideration of price, this has become our favorite hotel in Japan.
Then off to the Oceania Riviera. Azaleas are in bloom.
Approaching our ship.
I've been on more than a dozen cruises, maybe two. Checking-in almost always involves standing in line, with long waits. Perhaps an hour or more. This time, a lot of personnel to get our luggage off the taxi and wheeled to the baggage check area. Then, maybe a five-minute processing period. We were on the ship ten minutes after we were dropped off by the cab. See the front of the Oceania Riviera? Our veranda is in the middle, second deck up, which is the 8th floor of this ship.
Docked next to us is our favorite cruise ship, the Diamond Princess.
Started with a late lunch. I'm going traditional today, starting with spaghetti bolognese and a salad, with Glenfiddich, beer and red wine.
Walked to our cabin and our suitcases were at the door. Unpacked and went for margaritas.
We then walked around before dinner and stopped by a performance by the Amadeus String Quartet playing baroque music. Had another Glenfiddich on rocks.
Moved to a piano bar. Then dinner at Polo Grill.
Started with New England Clam Chowder and Raymond Cabernet Sauvignon
Caesar Salad.
Ribeye Steak and onion rings.
We were exhauste and went back to our room. Walked 6188 steps today.
RADIO GARDEN is a fascinating link. You might need to activate the page, by clicking on it. Then click on any green dot to hear a radio from that location. In that lower-left box, click on EXPLORE or SEARCH to open up a whole new world of choices. Find San Francisco, for example, and you can click your way to 89 different stations from that area, or New York City for 202 stations. There is a feature where you click on the heart symbol to save that station and form your own list of favorites. There is a London station (under Weird Stations, find Birdsong Radio) that only plays a bird singing, or one from Switzerland (also under Weird Stations for Ambi Nature Radio) that plays ambient nature to put you to sleep. You'll bookmark this page and play with it for the rest of your life.
Most Popular Posts
For the longest time, the day when the most visitors (3,356) clicked on this blog site was 27February2010 on THE CHILE EARTHQUAKE. Why? Probably because this posting was linked to my Huffington Post article of that day reporting on HAWAII TSUNAMI. Natural disasters tend to increase readership. However, on 6March2017THE WONDERS OF ALCOHOL drew 6498. Further, too, on 6June2017, the one-month tally of visitors was 70,219, or 2340/day. However, on 18December2018 a record 27,775 people read that posting. On 22April2019, after 13,000 and 19,000 pings the previous days, a second all-time high of 27,318 was reached. The daily average has been about 500/day.
Interesting to note that not one of the top 20 postings reports on natural disasters (not sure what those numbers stand for, but they indicate a kind of relativity), the newest of this list goes back five years, and the highest rated this year is just over 300. Clearly, people are reading my older postings, but there is no sense to which subject areas are popular.
2024 surpassed 2023 as the highest global temperature on record. Global sea level also rose to a new high, 4 inches higher than in 1993, when record-keeping began. Tropical cyclones were 25% higher than the average. The Arctic is melting, severely.
Go to:
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to access a betting odds converter for
- Moneyline/Amercan Odds
- Decimal/European Odds
- Fractional/UK Odds
- Implied Probability
CALCULATE THE CURRENT VALUE OF MONEY
Measuring Worth - Relative Value of US Dollars
....One ballpark estimate of what it cost the U.S. for World War II was $288 billion (in 1940 dollars). If you had inserted 1940 / 288 / 2016 into those boxes, the equivalent value today would be $4,870 billion, or close to $5 trillion.
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AND THE INFLATION RATE
The CPI is based on 1984 at 100. Thus, 241 means a 241% inflation since 1984.
There are various ways to look at this, but one is to subtract 100 from 241, getting 141, so the effective inflation today, nearly a third of a century later, is 141% higher. Another comparison is that the CPI in 1916 was 10.9, and is at 240.853 today, a hundred years later. Thus, the average commodity that sold for a buck then, today goes for $22.
WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE PRICE OF OIL?
Click on:
FUTURE PRICE OF OIL
to gain a sense of what the financial community thinks will be the future price of crude oil. When I last viewed this Chicago Board of Trade (a NYMEX company) future contracts page on 110March2014, the futures price of oil in December 2022 was $78.59. This makes no sense to me.
I more recently (10July2019) checked the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where they quoted the price of petroleum for February 2030: $55.33. Note the price/barrel above for today.
I am Director Emeritus of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii and co-founder of the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research.
I have published three SIMPLE SOLUTION books and have written more than 100 articles for the HUFFINGTON POST. I am working with an enlightened team to pioneer the BLUE REVOLUTION (http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/),
beginning with the development of the Pacific International Ocean Station.
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