Paybox pays you $50 just for signing up
Two days ago, I stumbled upon Paybox, a new payment processor which is projected to be fully operational by 2011. Paybox aims to provide:
- Person-to-Person transactions.
- Small Business integration, including payment processing modules for all popular shopping cart software.
- Mid-sized Business integration.
- Major Online Store integration.
- Debit Card linked to your PayBox account.
- Currency exchange with all major world currencies.
Paybox started September 1, 2010 and allowed early bird users to sign up and recruit new users. Paybox started to grow exponentially than what was expected so the launch has been scheduled sooner.
So to test it out, I joined Paybox and true to what it said, an initial $50 is added to my Paybox account. But for the account to be active, you must log on to the site each day. Do some surveys and watch your Paybox money grow. So in two days time, my $50 has almost doubled.
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Seafarers Code of Silence
Merchant Marines lately brought the issue regarding Seafarers Code of Silence. If it happens in this segment of the Marine Industry, more so in Commercial Fishing.
Fishermen are more prone to abuses such as food rationing, low salary, physical and verbal abuse, sex abuse, unpaid overtime, no medical benefits and non-observance of holidays. In commercial fishing, fishermen are subject to 18 hours of rigorous work and sometimes two days of straight hard work without extra pay.
Long Line fishermen as we call it stay in the deep seas for at least one year and a maximum of two years mostly in the Indian Ocean where Tuna and Shark abound. During this period, there is virtually no communication with their families. However, calls can be placed via satellite phone at USD 5 per minute. At this rate, calling families via satellite phone is a luxury. Fishermen earn meager salaries starting at USD 150 – 300 a month depending on the length of service rendered to the company.
Ready to Fish? What to Expect on Fishing Jobs
Commercial fishing in Asia is at its steady growth especially in Taiwan. What is ironic about this is Taiwanese crew never increased through the years. Commercial fishing depends on the crews recruited from neighboring countries such as Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and some come from countries like Vanuatu, India and Sri Lanka and mainland China.
Commercial fishing is listed as the most dangerous job since 2007 until this writing. Occupational deaths related to commercial fishing is around 400 deaths per 100,000. During my stay in Taiwan, I have met several fishermen mostly Filipinos and they all related the same story and treatment they received from their superiors. Maltreatment and physical and verbal abuse especially out in the high seas. New crews are forced to work even during their periods of adjustment. Most of the time, following orders is really hard due to communication barriers.
Fishermen Recruitment Procedure
In the Philippines, the recruitment of fishermen is “referred” by relatives and friends to an agency based in Singapore. The most common agency where Filipinos were brought although I have seen other nationalities as well is called Step-Up located at People’s Park Complex I.
Relatives will then contact the local agents to facilitate the recruitment process. Once the contact is established, the local agents will ask the applicants their passport and demand a certain amount ranging from P 12,500 – P 40,000.00. Necessary documents are then secured such as Seaman’s Book but I have a strong feeling that these are fakes due to non-submission of pertinent documents and training required to obtain it. A picture is taken where the applicants wear a seaman’s uniform. A medical examination is then performed, where the results are never revealed to the applicants.
In less than 5 hours, the documents are ready and they are sewn by hand on one of the applicants long pants and kept in the check-in baggage. An order from the agent said that they are not supposed to be shown to anyone except the agency in Singapore. Then contract signing follows. The contract is then placed in an envelop where the name “Mr. Lim” is written on it. All of these is done not in an office but in the hiding places of these agents.
Fishing Vessels A Threat To The Waters
The International Maritime Organization’s effort at stopping the dumping of waste for over two decades is deliberately being ignored by the fishing vessel operators in Taiwan and probably others as well. As I have observed during my five months of work aboard a Taiwanese fishing vessel “Ying Ta Hsiang”.
During our arrival at the port in Singapore, all the fishermen in the vessel were already awaiting repatriation back to their homelands. Some were Filipinos, Vietnamese and Vanuatus. These fishermen left a lot of used clothing and plenty of garbage on the vessel. When all the workers were repatriated and only two of the original crews remained to familiarize us of the workings of the engine and the deck, six of us (new crew) boarded the ship and we began our journey.
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Worldwide Air Pollution Barrier Discovered
A “chemical equator,” a 31-mile-(50-kilometer) wide boundary separating the Northern Hemisphere’s dirty air from that of the less polluted Southern Hemisphere has been discovered. A “barrier” that can block air pollution from traveling southward. The discovery is reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres.
This “barrier” cannot block everything, however. Chemicals that remain intact in the air on a timescale of around one year will eventually cross the barrier. Carbon Monoxide and aerosols will be kept out but carbon dioxide, will not.
Now we know we have a barrier but the study is just the tip on an iceberg and there remains more questions than answers as of the moment. The implications of this discovery will only be known when atmospheric chemistry and weather interaction is understood.
Daimler Tiny Cars Evolved
The Smart ED as they call it. ED means Electric Drive and can cover 90 miles without recharging.
Daimler started testing an earlier version of the Smart ED since the end of 2007 in London. Daimler will test 100 EDs which runs on lithium-ion batteries. Utility giant RWE will install 500 charging stations scattered along strategic places in Berlin for the testing.
Daimler plans to use “onboard unit” that communicates with the charging station which will contribute to ensuring that the battery is automatically charged with low priced electricity during off-peak periods.
The components are now optimized and ready. Next year the system will initially undergo internal testing and optimization. The two seater smart car will start production at the end of 2009 and plans to market these cars in 37 countries including the US since last January. These beauties will arrive in China starting mid-2009.
Solar Cells can now be painted on steel…
A new photo voltaic paint is being developed in a UK university and a commercial partner and the steel industry. Buildings covered in steel sheets will be generating huge amounts of solar electricity in three years.
These new solar paints have the advantage of being able to absorb across the visible spectrum which makes them more efficient at capturing low radiation light than conventional solar cells which is suited to British climate with many cloudy days.
This paint is made up of a layer of dye and a layer of electrolytes and can be applied as a liquid paste. Altogether, there are four coats of solar paint, a dye-sensitized solar cells, a titanium dioxide layer, an electrolyte layer and finally the protective film layer. These layers are built on top of the others in a successive and rapid manner.
A laboratory built to develop the new solar technology that replicates plant’s photosynthesis will start on October 30th 2008 in Shotton, North Wales.
Mr Stephen Fisher said that Corus was developing the photovoltaic paint as part of its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
“Although typical CO2 emissions per tonne of steel are now around 50% lower than they were 40 years ago, the steel industry is still a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions. We invest significant amounts every year reducing the environmental impact of our processes and work hard to ensure we continuously improve our performance beyond mere compliance.”