Merkel on"Energy Source and Its Strategic Role For a Country"

A month after Russia cut off gas supplies to the Ukraine for the first time in 2006, Angela Merkel said that the European Union which gets 40 percent of its gas from Russia needed to develop a common energy policy over the next 15 years to guarantee supply security.

At the same time, Russian energy monopoly Gazprom, along with its German partners E.On and BASF-Wintershall, were deciding on "Nord Stream" as the name for a pipeline that would make Germany heavily dependent on Russia for energy for decades to come.
The European Union, meanwhile, is largely absent from this debate. Talk of a common energy market died soon after Ms. Merkel made her 2006 statement, but in Berlin, there has been little support for Merkel's concerns about overreliance on Russia.The nations continue to make deals that make them reliant on Russia for the long term. This tension between the recognized need for a common market and nations acting in their own long-term energy security interests is at the core of a growing European rift over how to deal with Russia.

Energy source however playing very significance role for each country and what Merkel concern over her country overreliance on Rusia its one of her visionary step for her country. We have all saw what happened to the world when ones of the important energy source such as the oil price increase. Higher oil prices since 1999 partly the result of OPEC supply management policies contributed to the global economic downturn in 2000-2001. Accordind to the report by The International Energy Agency on May 2004 the vulnerability of oil-importing countries to higher oil prices varies markedly depending on the degree to which they are net importers and the oil intensity of their economies. Eventough Germany has successfully become one of the strongest economy in the world but the fact that Germany is one of the largest importers of Russian gas will easily put a country in unstability once if Russian gas import isn`t available any longer.

My Comment`s of Dewi Soekarno

Well I got 10 for the Dewi Soekarno`s quiz, eventough to be honest at first I just knew her only as the Japanese widow of Indonesia's founding president Sukarno. Well anyway It is nice to know that many great things Dewi Soekarno have done through the years after her husband passed away. It must be very hard to her at the young age she has to move to a very new condition because and meeting with people that probably so much different with her life before. In fact at the time she got married, Indonesia right just declared its Independent and still far behind japan at several aspect, with of course many other new thing like culture. Through all that I think she is a very talented and smart woman that`s able to learn so many things and easily adapted in a new condition and environment.
Moreover I think she is also a good mother. I also read several article about her daughter with Soekarno named Kartika Sari Soekarno. Well she is also a good woman, today while her mother Dewi Soekarno active in several foundations helped people around the world her daughter continue to help many Indonesia through her foundation named Kartika Sari Foundation.

Lena Maria and Us

Born in Sweden to parents that always giving her full of support Lena Maria was very special from the start. The compassion and abiding love but never pity from her parents, have made she grown and turned became the remarkable girl who is today Lena Maria Klingvall, a woman of indomitable spirit and unshakable faith.

Lena learned to use her one fully formed foot to do all manner of things, from basic self-care to complicated matter like playing keyboards and driving a car with unceasing faith in her parents. She has shown her independent and remarkable spirit from early on, Lena refused "special" status, preferring instead to learn how to accomplish things her own way. In her own words, "I prefer to rejoice in what I can do-not mourn what I can't." In that spirit, Lena has not only learned to play keyboards and drive a car, but also to conduct a choir, develop a successful professional singing career and compete in the Paralympics in Seoul, Korea.
In youth she never scared for trying various sports and artistic activities. She excelled at swimming, representing her country at the 1988 Paralympic Games in Seoul. That the same year she visited Japan for the first time. Many Japanese impressed of her, It's quite something to be successful at both the arts and sports, and particularly so if you have physical disabilities. Known simply as Lena Maria in Japan, where she enjoys a large following, In the past decade, she has visited Japan nearly every year and performed in 45 of the nation's 47 prefectures. It is said that she often sings in Sweden, too, but has not achieved the celebrity status she has in Japan.

It is important to quote here that Lena Maria's disability did not stop her from trying various activities, even something thatmost of people with no handicap could not ever done. There must be a lot of factors lay inside the successful of Lena Maria but something I learnt as wonderfull factors from her are support, try and continue. There is a lot of extraordinary wonderfull thing happened when parents` love and support exists one of them is Hee Ah Lee from Korea she borned handicapped and have Lobster Claw Syndrome but with all love and wonderfull struggle and support from her mother Woo Kap Sun, she success become one of the pianist well known not only in Korea but also able to held several successful concert around Asia. The next are about try and continue, well many people wish and dream but only a few of them that finally do something in order to try, in order to change what they dream and wish into reality. Well let`s said many people tried but then less than the few I said you before after facing obstacle and failure were able to continue their “try”. I think that`s several things what makes someone like Lena Maria become different through her great achievements today.

Last but not least, Be brave and never give up for something you trust as your great and best dream you have that will be a great contribution you will be able to give in the future. One of the greatest person in my life once said that “what`s makes you a winner is not when you are winning, it is when you are failing then you able to stand up over and over again until the highest of your achievements, one day you`ll figure this out and when you do, you will change the world".