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Interesting Guest post by Fernando Sanchez, see his blog here Life Mirror.
Le petit argent, the French call it. They even made a movie about it, so they did. Small money. Loose change. You get the idea.
Now, imagine a world without any of that. Real money, that is. Imagine a world where banknotes and coins are relics of an age long since past, now neatly catalogued and displayed inside glass exhibit cases in a dimly lit museum wing labeled Curiosities of our Ancestors.
What is real anyway? To paraphrase Morpheus, how do you define real? Without sounding too Matrix-esque, real money is, to you and me, a 50€ note or a 20c coin. The things that burn inside your wallet and weigh your pocket down. The tangibility of currency is what defines the value of money to the man in the street.
But what if all that were to disappear? The demise of money, an extinction event of greater magnitude and significance than the untimely exit of dinosaurs from the Earth stage.
Real v digital: The dilemma of a future past
Money, in itself, is largely worthless. It is simply a piece of printed paper or cheaply made coin used as a token to represent a given transaction.
Yet, despite the apparent insubstantiality of money, few things stand shoulder to shoulder to absolute reality today than cold hard cash. From bankers, to retailers, craftspeople selling their wares, or agents of the nefarious underworld, the undeniable reality of money speaks loud and clear. Today's world is bound by monetary ties, and cash flows like lifeblood around these binds.
But what if one were to shuffle these mortal coils, as Hamlet would put it? Can we do it? Should we do it? Would we better off without the very thing that enslaves us from birth?
There are a few alternatives to real money. Enter virtual currencies.
Bitcoin shuddered into existence back in 2009, just as financial markets floundered amidst one of the worst economic recessions in recorded history. Bitcoin's origins remain as unfathomable as the canyons of Mars. Popular lore attributes its inception to a single individual or a conglomerate of programmers working under the moniker "Satoshi Nakamoto". Whether this is the name of a man, or an anagram for something else, remains unknown.
Bitcoin is a form digital currency, a concept that has been around almost as long as the internet itself. Digital currencies were originally restricted to niche markets, such as virtual assets in online gaming, though they are slowly filtering down to more mainstream applications.
More specifically, Bitcoin belongs to a subset of digital currency known as cryptocurrency. It is so deemed because it relies on cryptography to facilitate secure transactions, as well as the creation of new currency units to be added to an ever-increasing ledger.
Bitcoin is doing big business, too. As of June 2017, total market capitalisation of cryptocurrencies worldwide exceeds $100bn. There is a growing number of entities that accept bitcoins as a form of payment, and even some ATMs dispense it. Still, the utilisation of bitcoin is largely restricted to a bunch of hardcore users. It is far from mainstream.
In a "traditional" financial market environment, the management of money relies on centralised banking done in a single financial institution; the Federal Reserve System in the United States, for instance, the Bundesbank in Germany, and so on. Officials within these organisations place a value on the country's currency based on market demand, fluctuations, and other economic factors, and print more or less banknotes to regulate the flow.
The cryptocurrency system does away with the centralisation part, relying instead on a global network of people known as miners, who use their computers to validate and time stamp transactions based on a set of rules. The integrity of bitcoin ledgers hinges upon the principle of honesty of worldwide miners, as there is a financial motivation behind this assumed honesty.
The times, they are a changin': Should virtual currency replace cash?
Bitcoin mining is not easy, nor is it straightforward. A lot of knowledge is required, both financial and computer-related. Bitcoin mining is currently somewhat of an elitist game, and some would say, a skill, played out by a few hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Bitcoin, and other such virtual currencies are precisely that: Virtual. They exist merely as lines of code inside computer networks.
By contrast, everyone knows how to use money. Cash is real. Tangible, remember? You can feel it weighing in your pocket, or bulging your wallet, if you have enough of it. There is no such thing as a pocketful of bitcoin.
Cash is not impervious to calamities, however. Its very tangibility belies its own Achilles Heel. Cash can get lost or stolen, and once it's gone, it's gone forever. And crucially, you cannot use cash to pay for goods or services online.
Increasingly, people can use their smartphones to overcome hurdles that only cash could resolve not so long ago. Pay for parking, for example. Gone are the days of desperately rooting underneath smelly car mats for chewing-gum covered coins. US retail giant Walmart has regularly been using Walmart Pay for a couple of years now. Open the app, scan the code at the checkout, and you're pretty much done. Amazon are trialling out similar payment systems in their physical stores. No dirty cash changes hands at any point. Many people also choose to use debit cards to pay for stuff these days, as opposed to carrying coins and notes of varied denominations. The transition to a cashless society is already well underway.
The complete removal of cash from the financial equation is only a matter of time. In a short few years, banknotes and coins portraying the faces of famous personalities will become a footnote to mankind's once dogged obsession with money.
As the Internet of Things slowly but surely takes over our daily existence, the relevance of cash will become negligible, turning coins and notes into playthings to be used in a grand game of Monopoly. And even that is likely to be played on a computer or smart device.
So should virtual currency replace cash? Just as DVDs replaced the old, clunky and wretched VHS tapes, and CDs took the baton off vynyl records, there is a time when all things see their long deserved sunset. Cash is people's biggest catalyst for greed and conflict, and though these traits will never be eliminated by the lack of a physical fulcrum, a cashless society would be a step in the right direction. Widespread adoption of virtual currency is still a long way away, but the writing is on the (virtual) wall.
Edited and prepared by Oscar Michel, Masters in Journalism, DCU.
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Ceramide-Fabricated Co-Loaded Liposomes for the Synergistic Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Combination therapy is one of the important methods to improve therapeutic effect on the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Sorafenib (SF) is a canonical US Food and Drug Administration-approved multikinase molecule inhibitor against HCC. However, therapeutic benefit with Sorafenib alone was usually unsatisfactory. Ceramide (CE) is an endogenous bioactive sphingolipid, which has a strong potential to suppress various tumors. The combination of SF and CE was hoping to exert maximum synergistic antitumor effect through different tumor-suppressible mechanisms. In this respect, SF and CE co-loaded liposomes (SF/CE-liposomes) were developed to verify synergistic antitumor efficacy. The optimal molar ratio of SF and CE was determined through combination index. SF/CE-liposomes were prepared by thin-film hydration method, which exhibited spherical or ellipsoidal shape. Particle size of SF/CE-liposomes was 174 ± 4 nm with homogeneous distribution. Release profile of SF demonstrated that addition of CE imposed no significant impact on the release of SF. SF/CE-liposomes exhibited acceptable stability in different media and desirable storage stability over 30 days at 4°C. In vitro cellular uptake confirmed that SF/CE-liposomes could be efficiently internalized into HepG2 cells. In vitro cytotoxicity evaluation indicated that SF/CE-liposomes exhibited higher cytotoxicity on HepG2 cells. IC50 value of SF/CE-liposomes was 11.5 ± 0.44 μM, which was significantly lower than that of SF-liposomes (**p < 0.01). Evaluation of in vivo synergistic effect on H22-bearing mice verified that SF/CE-liposomes achieved robust antitumor activity in preventing tumor growth. All results suggested that SF/CE-liposomes might be served as an efficient co-delivery system for improving therapeutic efficacy of HCC.
KEY WORDShepatocellular carcinoma co-delivery sorafenib ceramide liposomes
We are very thankful for Dr. Livesey David Olerile (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University) for modifying the English language of this manuscript.
Funding Information
This work was partially funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 81573368) and the Science and Technology Development Project of Shandong Province (2014GGE27121).
Compliance with Ethical Standards
All of the animal experiments were performed with the approval of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Shandong University and in compliance with the Animal Management Rules of Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China (document number 55, 2001).
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest in this work.
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My fitness journey began in high school as I fell under the stewardship of two personal trainers (Lee & Teddy) who helped me to develop proper form and technique. They also taught me personal training was about relationships, and to this day I try to build personal relationships with my athletes.
After high school I ventured off to the University of Florida to complete my bachelor's in microbiology, during that time my passion for lifting only grew. At UF I started to learn the nuances of training and eventually progressed to an intermediate level. As I was learning about molecular biology I realized I could meld my two passions into one.
This led to my master's degree in human performance and my start as a personal trainer. I continued to gain hands-on experience working with all types of clients at various local gyms.
During my master's I realized I still had a ton of questions, which led to me pursuing my PhD in muscle biology. Concurrently, I was continuing to expand my personal training reach and started coaching athletes online.
I now work in both an academic setting as a post-doctoral scholar doing large-scale clinical trials using exercise interventions to study the molecular mechanisms of muscle adaptation. In addition, I work as a coach and the Director of Education and Research with The Strength Guys. I also hold a position on the NSCA Bodybuilding Executive Council as well as judge local bodybuilding competitions. I keep a very small (<10) athlete roster to ensure my clients get everything they need.
My teaching and research background allows me to use an evidence-based approach. I focus on building a relationship with every client to help motivate, support and guide them towards their goal while using the best available research to create personalized training programs.


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Many New Mexico residents may hope to be able to care for their elderly relatives when those loved ones are no longer able to care for themselves. Unfortunately, some individuals may need more care than their family is able to provide. As a result, relatives may become residents of nursing homes. However, nursing home neglect could lead families to think about other options.
Nursing home neglect may have New Mexico residents thinking twice
New Mexico family members can help stop elder abuse
Most Americans will live to be approximately 79 years of age. However, average life expectancies have been rising steadily since 1950. Ten years from now, the average lifespan for individuals living in New Mexico and the rest of the United States should be more than 80. With more elderly people in the Untied States, we must be on alert for any instances of elder abuse happening to the ones we love.
Does allowing kids at gun ranges increase risk of serious injury?
A recent fatal accident at a Southwest gun range has led to a great deal of debate among New Mexico residents as to the wisdom involved in allowing kids to shoot automatic weapons. The incident has been widely reported in the media and has sparked increased discussion on gun issues within a wider context. In light of this serious injury that led to death, many across the nation are wondering whether restrictions should be placed on the age of individuals who shoot these powerful weapons, even within a controlled environment.
Medical malpractice claims related to birth injury
Hospital administrators in New Mexico are under tight budgetary guidelines, and they are often searching for any way to cut costs and achieve more with less money. This cost-cutting kind of situation can have the disastrous effect on hospitals, and some see it as the institutions caring more about saving money than they do about saving lives. In situations where an accident occurs and a surgical doctor or hospital staff commit medical malpractice and/or surgical errors during the birth of a baby, the employing hospital may be liable for damages.


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Technical Manager
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- London (Central), London (Greater)
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- Food Manufacturing
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- Permanent
The Company
A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Technical Manager to join an exciting and rapidly evolving branded food business. Driven by a culture of innovation, ambition and entrepreneurship, this company works to bring their unrivalled product ranges to food lovers throughout the UK. The Product Team is growing and needs a bright and capable Technical Manager to take full technical responsibility for their amazing products.
The Role
In this dynamic role you'll have Technical responsibility for Food Safety, Quality, Legality and Brand Reputation. You will have a key role in Supplier Management and Governance, Process Innovation and will make a positive contribution to the company's NPD Programme. Your key accountabilities will include:
· Using your technical expertise to maintain optimum levels of quality through managing the Quality Control programmes both internally and at suppliers, guaranteeing compliance with legislative requirements including HACCP and BRC.
· Managing all supplier and third party visits, highlighting and resolving any potential issues using Crisis Management procedures whilst reporting on outcomes and ensuring quality management systems are updated accordingly.
· Agreeing and managing KPI's with suppliers, audit and investigate complaints and enquiries efficiently to ensure their specifications and standards are met to drive quality improvements.
· Supporting Product Managers to agree Product Specifications with suppliers.
· Being actively involved in NPD Projects to help push the company to be first to market with innovation.
The Person
Suit a bright Technical Manager or Food Technologist with a Science qualification and strong experience in a FMCG manufacturing environment. Experience of working for a growing food brand would be great, or a combination of experience from retail and manufacturing is ideal, but not essential. Technical knowledge and a solid understanding of quality assurance requirements including HACCP and BRC is a must but you must also have first class organisation and influencing skills to achieve the best results for this market leading brand. You must be able to juggle lots of different projects, not be afraid to get hands on when needed and thrive within an entrepreneurial company. There will be some travel to work with suppliers in the UK and Europe so you must be happy to travel.
Could this be your dream job with a brand you can really get passionate about? Interested in finding out more? Apply now or call 0345 2600 737 for a confidential chat.
Please note that we are only able to accept and respond to applications from candidates with eligibility to work in the UK and those who hold valid work visas.
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Record Books For Your Children With SparkUp: The Magical Book Reader (VIDEO REVIEW)
Record Books For Your Children With SparkUp: The Magical Book Reader
LOVE this idea! SparkUp allows parents / grandparents and children to record their voices reading any of their favorite books. The system holds up to 50 books and you can use any book you own – there's no limit. Somehow (I want to say magic but I'm pretty sure it's more about technology), the system registers what page you are on while you are recording and logs it in the system. Then whenever your child turns to that page, SparkUp KNOWS to play your recording from that page.
I made a video to show you but I have a confession – I made one little mistake! I mention in the beginning of the video that you can purchase books from SparkUp. That is NOT the case. The book that came with the system was just a tester so the company can show you the possibilities of the reader.
So, how does SparkUp work???
What's coming up for SparkUp??
Hundreds of professional recordings, accompanied by music and sound effects, will be available for download from Sparkup's website this coming fall.
I love this idea for grandparents that live far away, for parents that have to work (or who need a minute to do the dishes!!), for siblings that want to do something nice for their younger brother / sister. It's basically for anyone who wants to inspire a love for reading in a child!!
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I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish. ― Mother Teresa
In today's world, people are seemingly more miserable. Bills are high, family is far away, and there simply isn't time to enjoy life. In short, life is tough. The number of people claiming loneliness, anxiety, and depression are exponentially rising.
Frustrating isn't it?
Experts are saying it might have a lot to do with the amount of time we spend with technology. Because we're constantly comparing the lives of others to our own.
BUT! There is a way to be happier– without the drugs. From the way society conducts itself, the consensus holds: smiling is underrated.
Achieving Happiness comes with a smile.
It's easy to go through life thinking that unless "I'm feeling" happy or motivated, it'll never come. The truth is happiness doesn't always hit you in the face. Happiness is nothing like Tinkerbell's fairy dust.
You've got to go look for it. It sounds ludicrous, but you can set yourself up for it.
As a musician, no one wakes up and suddenly says, "I can't wait to practice!" Music is a daunting task that just never seems to have an end.
I remember having to force myself to wake up at 6 to get to school by 7AM. By the time I arrived, I realized I really didn't want to be there. It would have been much more pleasing to sleep in.
But things didn't stay that way.
Even if I started with a bad mood, I noticed that as I began to work I would light up and I'd forget my lack of desire.
Same thing happens with a lack of happiness.
If you're in a bind, just take a moment to pause and reflect on good things that make you happy. For me, that would be riding a bike in the Netherlands or having a baguette. Everyone has those few things that make them instantly light up.
Don't forget to smile.
Who would Mr. Rogers be without his smile?
Smiles change everything. Smiling more adds hours to your life and gives you better health.
Maybe this sounds a bit corny, and a bit forced. Even if you don't feel like it, molding your face into a smile will reduce stress levels! Sometimes you just gotta force things and once you open that door in your heart, the rest will follow.
Ron Gutman realized the power of smiles and compiled research to present a TED Talk examining the Hidden Power of Smiling.
The Hidden Power of Smiling
Smiling is simply contagious and it's free!
Paul Ekman a renown researcher of human facial expressions found that even in remote tribes in Papua New Guinea, a smile is the same!
This is data from an indigenous tribe without Western contact but with cannibalistic rituals!
He also asked them to make facial expressions and showed them pictures of their Western counterparts. They were able to successfully decipher emotions without a sweat.
Longer Life Anyone?
Ron Gutman presents data suggesting that smiles lead to a longer life according to various studies. Baseball players with no smile lived an average of 72.9 years as opposed to a beaming smile with an average age of 79.9 years! That's not a small difference.
He also attributes a good prediction of success based on smiles. It seems however that Donald Trump is the only anomaly. Ignoring his or my political views, the man simply does NOT know how to smile.
If you have more questions, here's the written version of the Ted Talk by Ron Gutman.
A Smile is Disarming
It's true.
You might remember the above phrase from Loving Out Loud Through Conversation. It was definitely something I believed with my heart, but now I have scientific evidence to back me! There is evidence that emotions are contagious so, spread your good vibes around!
If you meet me in person, you probably will notice that I can't stop smiling.
It's not because I never get stressed or frustrated, but life is too short to stay that way. We got to live our lives loving out loud if we're going to make a dent in history.
Manners Are a Good Thing
I always say this, but as a New Yorker, it wasn't easy. I actually learned my manners from living in Europe.
In New York, you only talk to who you need to, and only then. Like at the cash register. There's no point in bothering to talk to people because they are of no benefit to you and vice versa. It's a really dark way to think, but it's the mentality.
Luckily with influences from outside things are changing.
In Europe, whenever you walk into a store, a greeting is always given as well as when leaving. Telling people to have a nice day and meaning it is normal. I know that this is done in the rest of the states, but often times it can feel really empty and superficial.
Maybe you already have good manners and say nice things, that's great. If not, that's why we're here.
The secret is, to not say the same thing everyone else says. Say something different, unique, and with a flair.
Why? That's too much work.
If you say it in your way, they'll know you meant it.
24 Ways to Make it Happen
Remember that one of the greatest things about smiles and happiness is that they're contagious. When we make the first move and give out happiness, we will receive it in return.
In the examples below observe a tiny but important detail– all it takes to make someone smile is adding a special adjective! Do note that because wording is important, there will be a lot of variations on a theme.
There's one more secret. Don't just say the counter culture sentences. It's always good to set it up. Use filler exclamations like you know, whoa, do you, man, I don't know if you know this, did you notice… etc.
If you say things straight, it'll come off as forced, out of the blue, and be like a pizza without any toppings.
Maybe you like it that way, but pepperoni is always nice.
When meeting people:
In addition to the 5 Sure Fire conversations, you can always use these to make people feel good.
- Whoa! Look at you! You look great/stunning today!
- You look nice/gorgeous/dazzling/snazzy today!
- Man, it's been TOO long! I'm really glad to see you! Just made my day!
- You look like a person with a story!
- Look who's here everyone, the party's just arrived!
When Sending Friends Random Messages/Hanging out:
- I just wanted to let you know you're **(insert adjective)**
- Hope you're thriving this week! (Stolen from a friend).
- Thanks for never getting tired of me and your constant friendship.
- You're always so positive! I really appreciate that about you!
- Can I give you a hug? (Don't wait.)
- You're such a great listener and I appreciate that about you.
- I love that you're always **(insert adjective)**
- I really value the time we spend together.
- You remind me that everything's going to be ok.
- I don't know if you know this, but you're a breath of fresh air.
- Dang man, you're so thoughtful! How do you do it?
- I really like that you always seem sure of what you're doing.
- I really appreciate you taking the time to be my friend.
- Just wanted to say I'm honored to be your…
When Saying Goodbye:
- Have a splendid day! (You can replace with "mammoth of a day," tremendous, or whatever adjective of your choice.)
- Thank you for working here. We need **(Insert adjective)** people like you! Possible adjectives are hard-working, integrity, capable, compassionate etc.
- Variation of above: Thank you for doing your job. It's important! (This is great for janitors and people doing "mundane" jobs. Imagine seeing hundreds of people every day and not talking to any of them.
- Hey, (before I go) I got a joke for you!
- Keep that smile going! Don't ever lose it!
Smiles = Happiness
Go outside, look to the left, look to the right, look in front of you, you got three choices! -Bob Goff
I get it.
Saying mushy things isn't up your alley, "there's got to be another way!" Before giving up, I would give it a try. People are so depressed because they feel no one believes in them and accepts them.
That's probably why we're constantly searching for happiness. But in our search for it, there is a very important ingredient. The "L" word.
Love is a verb which means it's an action, and it's intoxicating.
The best part is the very tool we use to spread it is something we cannot forget at home! As we've discussed this whole article, it's your smile.
Now go and see the impact your smile will have on others! No drugs necessary.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
31, Yay!!!!
The more I worked on the hydraulic system circuitry, the more components I realised I needed for the machine to operate safely and effectively. I very seriously regretted going in this direction, A far better option would have been to make a 3 phase Generator, too late now! The list of bits, including swivel and removable couplings, control valves, pressure switches, braking valves, gauges, pipes and hoses along with the myriad of various sized and threaded adaptors to connect them all together seemed never ending.
I spent many months of scouring junk yards, eBay and the internet in general for suitable controls and fittings along with the designing and redesigning of the system. The bulk of the more expensive items I purchased from America, spending a total of about $600.00 including shipping. Paying the list prices in Australia for the same items would have set me back about $5,000.00.
By mid April, I had all the hydraulics in place and the moment had arrived for the inaugural turning of the blade, why, after 4 years of toil and a number of trial runs of the power unit too numerous to count, does the starter motor choose this point in time to fail? To say I was p****d off would be an incredible understatement!
Another couple of weeks went by before I was able to install a replacement and on the 22nd of April, 2006 all my work finally finally paid off.
A bluestone block, measuring 322mm wide, 215mm high and about 150mm thick, still wet from the saw, was carefully positioned for a photograph. As silly as it sounds this was one of the highlights of my life, this piece of stone had cost me about 4 years and in the vicinity of $20,000.00 to produce. This figure included the shed and is purely a guesstimate as apart from the main components, I kept no record of the money spent on the seemingly endless bits and pieces.
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airplanes! (That's what NAHI in the nav bar stands for.)
We got a news release in August 2017 that the California Capital Airshow was to be the new host. It's no longer held in conjunction with the Reno Air Races...
At Oshkosh 2018 AirVenture, it was announced that it will be moving back to the Reno Air Races... we'll try to keep checking!
The National Aviation Heritage Invitational (NAHI) held its first competition at Stead Field outside of Reno in 1999.
It was held at the same time as the Reno Air Races.
Through the years NAHI has hosted over 20 competitions. Each featured an average of 25 to 35 expertly restored vintage aircraft.
Now that it has been moved to its new venue with the California Capital Airshow it's on our bucket list to revisit and see more antique airplanes being restored to flying condition.
We're overdue for another visit. The competition was still in Reno last time we saw it. When we went in 2010, there were several planes that excited us.
We had to leave Oshkosh that year before the Hamilton Metalplane arrived. Mark was disappointed about that... but then...
We saw it at the the Reno Air Races that same year... made him very happy.
Aircraft that participate must be 45 years or older.
They must be airworthy... they fly in after all.
You'll find aircraft of all types, early passenger planes to World War I and World War II planes.
Trophies are awarded in five categories: antique airplanes, classic, contemporary, military, and large aircraft.
The overall winner is awarded the Neil A. Armstrong Aviation Heritage Trophy. We like the "National Aviation Hall of Fame's People's Choice Award" that you can vote on yourself.
If you decide you want to vote on a plane, you'll find it hard to pick just one.
The event was established in 1998 by Rolls Royce North America, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the National Aviation Hall of Fame and the Reno Air Racing Foundation.
The goal was to "encourage the preservation of aviation history through the restoration of vintage aircraft to original flying condition."
The Invitational's judges review participating restored aircraft against standard criteria developed by the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. These criteria include authenticity, quality of workmanship, attention to detail and technical merit.
Put this on your calendar. The California Capital Airshow is held in September.
We think they should ALL get trophies for restoring them and keeping great historic aircraft in the air.
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Welcome Back to Exponential Thinking: Part 6
1. Introduction, 2. Renewables, 3. Smart Ag, 4. Online Learning, 5. Vertical Farming
In the last few months, we've covered renewable energy, smart agriculture, online learning, and vertical farming. This week we'll be talking about something even more revolutionary and mind-bending.
Continuing Our Series on Exponential Technologies.
If you're reading this, maybe you're like me and follow technology news. If so, you've seen a rising trend recently, especially in the last few years. This is beyond the scope of what we've discussed in the past few articles. In fact, this might seem like an article better fit for Science Fiction Quarterly or a similar publication. But I assure you, as certainly as fish poop grows great plants, the future of food will depend on this emerging technology.
So what is this trending technology changing the way we interact with our world? I'm talking about artificial intelligence or A.I.
If you've used any of the most popular websites in the world, including Facebook and Google, or have used an Apple or Microsoft product, you have used artificial intelligence. Many of us rely on artificial intelligence multiple times every day, whether or not we know it. Recently, Google revealed that an artificial intelligence nicknamed "Rankbrain" was the 3rd most important factor in the Google Search algorithm that controls the ubiquitous search function from google.com. So the next time you look up, "how do I compost fish solids," "what are the different steps of the nitrogen cycle," or some other aquaponics question, you'll get your answer from a real-life thinking machine.
First, I'll describe three prominent trends in artificial intelligence: Machine Learning, Deep Thinking, and the Digital Assistant. Then we'll explore how these and other artificial intelligences will change how we grow food, and sooner than you might think.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
So what is Artificial Intelligence, exactly? AI comes in many forms, but at its most fundamental level, it's a computer that is capable of learning from its environment and past experiences to create new programming for itself. This is akin to a human child learning as she grows up from a child to an intelligent woman, and why we call it artificial Intelligence. Think of it like learning your times tables. When you learn 3×3 equals nine and 4×3 equals twelve you can infer that 6 x 3 will be eighteen. AI works like that. Once it learns the rule is to count by three it will know the value for any amount of three's you want to know.
One form of AI that has been generating major buzz lately is known as Machine Learning. Machine learning is when an AI is capable of analyzing and recognizing patterns and then making predictions based on that data. Google's Rankbrain represents machine learning with a predictive search function. You know how when you're typing something into the search bar, it finishes the word or phrase for you? That's Rankbrain's way of helping you out!
Rankbrain and other AI like it are remarkably similar to microbes. Just as the tiny Nitrobacter tirelessly devours nitrite and produces nitrate in a joyous cycle of self-fulfillment, Rankbrain's day is happily spent serving over 3.3 billion searches per day (that's billion with a B).
Deep Learning, or Why The First AI to See Youtube Watched Cat Videos
A subset of Machine Learning AI is known as Deep Learning. Deep learning algorithms allow computers to analyze images and videos and come to conclusions and describe what they see. When Google unleashed their deep learning AI on Youtube, it spent 3 days analyzing 10 million randomly selected videos. The result? This adorable AI ended up watching and cataloging over 80,000 cat videos!
In addition to Rankbrain, Google recently announced another machine learning based AI. A new feature for their two email apps Gmail and Inbox now serves the user automatically generated responses to emails based on your own language. This new feature uses your previous correspondence to craft replies that actually are something you would say! I think of it as the next evolution to autocorrect during typing. The beauty of this new AI feature is that it can analyze contextually, meaning it can understand what is happening between the people in an email exchange. It knows when you buy a plane ticket that it should track your flight info for you. It knows when someone asks you and your significant other to come to a party, it will prep yes, no, and maybe responses and it will make them plural because you and your significant other were invited together.
Ever wonder how Facebook recognizes your face and your friends in photos? Well, the answer lies in Deep Learning. In the last two weeks, Facebook announced their in-house AI is able to observe images and describe them in detail. For now, it can only observe objects and living things in the photos, but in time it will also recognize contextual information like what action is happening in a given photo. So not only will it recognize you and your dad but it can differentiate and say you guys are enjoying a drink at the bar in one photo and in the yard in another photo.
The Rise of the Digital Assistant
The Digital Assistant, and I don't mean a personal digital assistant, those clunky bricks from the 90s, this is a new form of application available from many major technology companies. They offer a very wide range of services but generally are all about making your life easier. It all started with searching the Internet using voice activation commands. Then eventually you could set alarms, reminders, and even text people all by talking to your digital assistant on your phone. Now it is quickly evolving into something new altogether.
Siri came first, entering iPhones in 2010. She was the first real entrant to the digital assistant market but initially was more fun than useful. You could ask your phone weird and crude things and get funny canned responses from Apple. You could also set alarms, search the web, and send texts all by voice. The new Siri is cool and allows you to search your entire phone, app store, and the web all simultaneously anytime you have a question. Siri keeps evolving as it learns from millions of users. It gets more accurate every day.
Microsoft's entry is named Cortana. She's the first Digital Assistance to go through real Cultural Etiquette training. Cortana is trained in a country's local etiquette and mannerisms in order to fit more in. Ask Cortana a question in foggy London and she will respond with a droll, self-deprecating joke. Ask her the same question in Tokyo and she'll respond with some surprisingly witty word-play.
Despite Apple's early entrance and Cortana's cultural sensitivity, Google is the true frontrunner in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Google Now is the name of their Digital Assistant. Google Now is unique in that it is not anthropomorphized with a human name like Siri or Cortana. Google Now specializes in cultivating your perfect digital environment by serving you exactly the stuff you need to know, when you need to know it. Have a plane ride later today? Google Now lets you know when you should leave given current traffic conditions and can even call an Uber to come pick you up just in time. It will also serve you cultivated news articles from across the web in any topics that you show interest in via a thumbs up/down method combined with your search history.
Facebook is another innovator in the digital assistant space. Beyond their deep learning AI, Facebook has a unique take on how they think their 1.3 Billion monthly users will interact with artificial intelligence. A small rollout occurred quietly in San Francisco Bay Area in the last few months. Known as M, this AI/human-operator hybrid is built right into Facebook's popular messaging app called… Messenger. M is unique in that the AI shares the workload with a team of human operators who help it along when it is stuck on something. If you ask M to book a restaurant reservation for you, M can relay this request to a human operator who can get your task done for you without you having to worry about a thing. While Google Now is about serving you answers instantaneously (Google NOW), M can take awhile to answer your questions, up to 5 to 15 minutes. This is understandable because it is capable of handling a much wider array of tasks, including tasks requiring multiple steps. You can ask M to make a reservation at a Thai restaurant near my house and M will search the area for Thai food, match it to your budget and compare the results to the ratings for those restaurants on the web. It will come to a decision for you and then a human operator will place the reservation for you. Finally, M will relay back to you that you have a reservation at that cool new restaurant no one knows about yet! M will even order you an Uber to get you there just in time for your reservation.
Robot Butlers and the Farmer of the Future
By now, you're probably saying 'so what?' You're asking yourself, "what does some robot restaurant reservation service have to do with changing the way we grow our food?" I believe the future of food is strongly tied to AI.
As aquaponics entusiasts, we understand the future of food will be tied to local production. In order for that to happen a huge number of people will be growing food who have never done so before. They will also be growing food in places its never been grown before. They will need the know-how to grow productively in their unique environments. Previously, we've discussed the importance of online learning and how it is already changing the aquaponics industry. What if all of the knowledge contained in the online courses, databases, and other information stores was collected and synthesized for you? What if it was only ever a question away? What if it actually learned about new techniques and could suggest them to you and show you how to implement them? This is the power of AI to the farms of the future.
With the world's best growing information at your fingertips, anyone can grow like a fourth generation farmer. All the most cutting edge planting tips, harvesting tips, and everything else will help you grow to your fullest potential! Thi is an incredible barrier currently to farming that should be completely removed with the advancement of AI.
Machine learning AI will evaluate the data from the sensors embedded throughout your aquaponics system and serve you up with alerts, best practices, and optimization strategies based on all of the data collected across the shared food network. As more farms and gardens join the connected network, the gardener AI will learn more about growing conditions in a wide variety of settings and scenarios. Over time this will allow new farmers to start off on the right foot with guided preferences for their given situation. Use your mobile to scan a given area and you can receive a customized aquaponics system perfectly optimized to your location.
Aim your phone's camera at a plant and deep learning AI will recognize the plant and cross evaluate it with context, telling you if it is healthy, sick, nutrient deficient, or ready to harvest. The AI can report back to you on exactly how to proceed if you are ever stuck in the garden and don't know what to do.
Avoid disaster with live push notifications to your mobile in case of imminent flooding, power outage, ammonia spikes, or other issues. Your smart digital farm assistant will even enable controls automatically when it learns your preferences, saving you from potential emergency failures.
We may be years away from this level of AI being commonplace technology on farms, but like all the technologies we've discussed in this series, AI is progressing to this point and it's happening a lot quicker than anticipated.
Dangers of Artificial Intelligence?
As with any new technology, there are dangers involved. With something as game-changing as artificial intelligence, these dangers are magnified to the extreme. A whole genre of media, including the Matrix and the Terminator series, looking at the post-apocalyptic world of an AI-gone-bad. Even technology wunderkind Elon Musk is fearful of AI, cautioning for its strict control and oversight.
Would we be foolish to entrust such valuable information to artificial intelligence programs like our eating habits, food production numbers, or distribution networks? Do the benefits of enabling a whole new wave of farmers outweigh the potential downsides? These are questions that are more real than ever in light of the recent announcements from all the tech firms listed above.
I feel these dangers are warranted, especially considering the vast amounts of data we hand over to the various AI populating the web. However, I do not think that fear and apprehension should hold us back from exploring the power of this amazing exponential technology. Assuming AI is evil speaks more about the person doing the assuming than about the AI itself. Anything that can help someone with no growing experience grows sustainable food for their community is worthwhile in my opinion.
What Does this Mean For Us?
Above all, I think that most important part an AI will play in the food system is connecting growers to buyers directly. Drawing from its massive data stores, an AI could create a map of food demand in a given area. Then it could plot the food production in the same area. Then using machine learning algorithms, a system could be created that would match local food demand to local food creation as best as possible. Essentially, an AI system could match food production to local production and generate an optimal schedule and delivery system for the food. This same model could be used to help producers as well. New farmers could look in their community and see what was in demand and meet that demand when they start growing. It would reduce waste but also the uncertainty that can go into farming and not knowing what you should grow.
Given the variety of applications for aquaponics and the sheer productivity, the future of food will be a network of small farmers making a living from their basements, rooftops, and backyards. This complex network will be managed by AI in order to conduct food efficiently even in super-densely populated urban areas. Food aggregation can become automated with the advancement of self-driving electric cars, and a car can come to the house or the farm, collect the harvest, and bring it to the processor for distribution to local residents.
As we learn about new technologies we always look to see how they can integrate into a model that helps us to create the City that Feeds ItselfTM. It is a lofty endeavor made much easier when technology breaks down so many of the barriers to achievement. The advancement of A.I. will be very integral to empowering hidden farmers in cities across the world with the knowledge they need to be successful. Feeding an urbanized population of 9 billion people by 2050 will definitely be a challenge. But the advancement of A.I. and it's ability to help us optimize and learn new solutions to existing problems give us hope and confidence that we can make the transition to sustainably fed cities.
We live in the most exciting time the human race has ever seen. The gap between science fiction and science fact gets shorter every day. As aquapioneers, you and I are actively taking part in this change every day. Our aquaponic gardens represent the cutting-edge of agriculture technology. When aquaponics collides with exponential technologies like artificial intelligence, there is no limit to the abundance we can create together.
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I went to the bookstore a bit before catching the train home yesterday. I saw this book and I remembered that it was on my TBR list so I picked it up. :D
The book is pretty funny and also relevant to today. I was laughing at some points because the whole thing was pretty funny especially with the pictures. Especially when the grandma started taking away all the technology and throwing it out the window and her family was looking so horrified and trying to make a leap for their stuff. Haha. It's funny too because it says our technology will still be waiting for us in the morning. And it will, but after grandma tossed it out the window, it wouldn't be fully functioning. Haha. It made me laugh even more because I can imagine people actually doing that and reacting that way. :D
I also thought it was a good book because it is relevant to today. It shows us how we are so into our cell phones, TV, and other technology, how technology has come to be a major part of our lives, when sometimes we just need to unplug everything and spend more time with each other and less time with our technology. And it showed us how sometimes we lose sleep because we are so mesmerized by our technology.
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Anthony "Tough Tony" Anastasio Biography
Born in 1906, Anthony "Tough Tony" Anastasio was an Italian-born American mobster who ruled the Brooklyn waterfront for several decades. Aligned with his brother, Albert Anastasia, who became the head of the Mangano crime family (later known as the Gambino crime family), Anastasio gained control of the longshoremen's union, though his power declined after his brother was gunned down. Anastasio died in 1963.
Early Life
Antonio Anastasio was born in 1906 in Tropea, Italy. Sometime between 1917 and 1924, he entered the United States after deserting a ship where he had been working as a deckhand. Antonio chose to anglicize his name, and eventually became known as Anthony "Tough Tony" Anastasio.
Anastasio became a U.S. citizen, along with his brothers Joseph and Albert, who had jumped ship with him. While Anastasio worked on the docks of the Brooklyn waterfront, Albert Anastasia—who used a different spelling for his last name, a decision he may have made following his 1921 arrest for murder—became a hitman whose nickname was "The Executioner."
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In time, Albert became a key figure in the organization known as Murder Inc., which undertook contract killings for the five crime families of New York. His brother's deadly pursuits helped Anastasio rise to power in the longshoremen's union during the 1930s. Anastasio eventually served as president of the International Longshoremen's Association Local 1814, and vice president of ILA International.
Anastasio's reputation was one that demonstrated how perception and fear could rule. In the midst of World War II, a rumor emerged that Anastasio had arranged for a fire on the S.S. Normandie, a French luxury liner. Though no real evidence existed to support the story, once mob boss Lucky Luciano received a transfer from Dannemora to a more pleasant prison, no other ships were destroyed.
While in his positions of power in the 1940s and 1950s, the docks Anastasio oversaw were a steady means of illegal profit for the mob. Sources of income included worker kickbacks, stolen merchandise and payoffs from shipping companies. As Albert took control of the Mangano crime family, which later became known as the Gambino crime family, Anastasio also saw an upswing in his own power.
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In 1957, Albert was murdered at a barber shop in the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City. Anastasio identified his brother's body. After his brother's execution, Anastasio's influence waned as Carlo Gambino took control of the crime family. However, Anastasio was allowed to keep his position at the docks.
Fear for his own life, perhaps combined with anger at his loss of power, prompted Anastasio to start meeting with the FBI. During one such encounter, FBI records document that Anastasio admitted Albert's death was deserved. Anastasio stated, "I ate from the same table as Albert and came from the same womb but I know he killed many men and he deserved to die."
The FBI was never able to use Anastasio as a full-fledged informant. A short time after beginning to talk with investigators, Anastasio died at Long Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on March 1, 1963. His death, at age 57, was the result of complications following a heart attack.
Anastasio's son-in-law, Anthony Scotto, succeeded him in running the longshoremen's union. A life of crime may have been passed down from one generation to the next as well, as Scotto allegedly also became a member of the Gambino crime family.
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Gian Turci, champion of smokers' rights
I was very sorry to hear that Gian Turci, CEO of the smokers' rights group Forces International, had died of a brain haemorrhage last week.
I got the news on Thursday and I've been mulling it over ever since, wondering what to say. You see, I knew Gian but not well enough to write about him with any authority. In addition, while I liked him personally (he could be very charming), we had our differences and it would be hypocritical to suggest otherwise.
Better, perhaps, to say nothing. Then again, one or two comments have appeared on this blog asking why I haven't mentioned his death ... so, fingers crossed, here goes:
I first met Gian through Joe Jackson. Joe was keen for Forest and Forces to work together so we flew Gian over to London and the three of us had a long (and exhausting!) lunch at Boisdale. I say "exhausting" because Gian never stopped talking! He was relentless, and there was an intensity about him that was a bit daunting, if I'm honest.
To be fair, he was a mine of information, especially when it came to his specialist subject - secondhand smoke. As a result I commissioned him to produce a report that was published by Forest in 2005 under the title "Prejudice & Propaganda: The Truth About Passive Smoking" with a foreword by our then chairman, the late Lord Harris of High Cross.
Following our initial meeting in London in 2004, Gian invited me to visit him in Genoa where he lived. For various reasons I couldn't go, but we kept in touch. A typical email, sent by Gian in February 2006 shortly after MPs voted overwhelmingly for a public smoking ban in England and Wales, read:
How are you doing? I have heard of what is going on, my heart is broken, but it was not unexpected. I have interesting news and developments. Looking forward to further contacts! Take care, Gian.
Later that year we met again in London to explore what Gian called "some form of mutually beneficial cooperation". Unfortunately, while I admired his commitment and valued his opinion, Gian was infuriatingly intolerant of any strategy that differed even slightly from his own, and in 2007 he abruptly dissolved our embryonic working relationship citing irreconcilable differences.
I wasn't offended because, being Gian, it was all very amicable: "I hope you do not construe this as personal, Simon - for absolutely it is not." That was the last direct contact I had with him.
Despite our differences of opinion, I shall remember Gian as an immensely kind, warm-hearted man whose love of liberty inspired many who met him. My condolences to his wife, his two children - and to Forces International which has lost a dedicated champion of smokers' rights.
PS. Michael Siegal pays tribute to Gian HERE. See also THIS tribute on the Forces website.


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Re-Advent December 16, 2016Posted by indigobunting in Uncategorized.
In December 2013, I wrote about the advent calendar of my childhood as a kickoff to writing something—anything—for twenty-four days. It looks like I did that again in 2014, and I've been making the attempt this year after last year's (near) December silence. It hasn't been easy, though, so I've been posting snippets and photos and things already written for others and, like today, some repeated material.
The advent calendar began to appear when I was still quite small. Between the time I went to bed on November 30 and the time I got up on December 1, elves stopped by the house to hang it on the wall: a long blue-cloth calendar numbering 24 days, a ring sewn under each date from which two small packages wrapped in white tissue paper were attached. My sister and I opened a present every morning. We would not receive the same elf offering on the same day, but by eyeing the size and shape of what the other got, we could usually identify its future match.
It was easily as much fun as Christmas.
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I think every clothing major brand is branching out into the wedding arena. I currently stand by the fact that J. Crew does it best, but they need to watch out. Enter: The Limited Wedding and Events Collection. We'll see how this new venture pans out for the established company. They currently only have 2 wedding dresses and 2 bridesmaids dress, but this is definitely a collection to keep your eye on.
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Art of Friendship Social-Coping Program
Main Office:
678 Pont Reading Rd.
Ardmore, PA 19003
ph: 610.649.1080
If you have any questions or if you are interested in enrolling your teenager in this program, please contact CONNECTIONS director, Jonathan Jenkins, MA, ATR, at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 570-878-9457.
CONNECTIONS SOCIAL CLUB FOR TEENS provides:
An Important Bridge to the Real Social World
It can be difficult for teenagers to take the steps to apply social skills out in the real world. Social skills therapy groups offer a necessary and safe environment in a clinic setting to learn and practice new skills. However, outside of the group therapy setting, teenagers have to face the anxiety of navigating less structured or unpredictable social activities. These real life activities include school dances, after school clubs, extracurricular activities, school sporting events, parties, or even just hanging out. It can be so overwhelming to navigate these activities that many teenagers avoid these situations all together. Lastly, teens with social challenges often remain isolated and may lack - or avoid - opportunities to socialize.
CONNECTIONS SOCIAL CLUB FOR TEENS bridges the gap between therapy and the outside social world.
Benefits of the CONNECTIONS SOCIAL CLUB
CONNECTIONS helps teenagers:
The Structure of a Typical Connections Event
Participants meet at an agreed-upon activity facility (laser tag, miniature golf, bowling, etc.). The opening of the activity is a lunch or dinner together at an eatery at or near the venue. This serves as a wonderful opportunity to practice independently ordering food,table etiquette, and appropriate dinner conversation. Plus, it provides structure at the beginning of the event to help teens ease into the activity, meet new peers, and initiate and sustain conversation. Following dinner the group engages together in the fun activity.
Sample Activities
Our participants suggest and vote on community activities. Examples of possible activities may include:
CONNECTIONS SOCIAL CLUB FOR TEENS Facilitators
Events are led by CONNECTIONS SOCIAL CLUB program founder/ director, Jonathan Jenkins, MA, ATR.
Jonathan is a master's level therapist at the Child and Family Art Therapy Center (CFATC). He is an experienced social skills therapist at the Art of Friendship Social Skills Program and a Clinical Supervisor at Camp Pegasus. If five or more participants plan to attend an activity we provide an additional coach in the form of a second master's level clinical associate from CFATC, Camp Pegasus, or the Art of Friendship Social Skills Program.
CONNECTIONS is an exclusive club for high school students currently enrolled in, or who have graduated from, the Art of Friendship Social Skills Program. Participants are required to have completed a minimum of 8 social skills group sessions prior to joining CONNECTIONS. This requirement ensures they are familiar with essential social awareness and social skills. Prior to enrollment in the CONNECTIONS program, we require a verbal recommendation from the youth's social skills therapist. We ensure that our participants are developmentally and emotionally ready to take this next step in community-based social skills practice.
Collaboration and Feedback with Parents, Caregivers, and Therapists
CONNECTIONS has an added benefit because of our relationship with the Art of Friendship Social Skills Program. Challenges that your child experiences at a Connections event in the community are first supported in real time at the activity. THEN the issue is more deeply addressed in the privacy and comfort of their social skills group. When necessary, CONNECTIONS' therapists communicate with the Art of Friendship Social Skills therapists about additional social skills or lessons that would benefit your child. CONNECTIONS provides parents/caregivers with email feedback summarizing each community outing.
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there are 2 main variants
- page allocations
- object allocations (e.i slab allocator)
and for the object allocations there are a number of different variants
- RWPool, "ordinary" slab, only objects of same type on 1 page, free-list per page and object
- WOPool, allocations which are short-lived, no free-list just ref-count
- ArrayPool, fixed array of packed object
and I'm just now introducing a ArenaAllocator (which will be used for spj)
- RWPool, WOPool and ArenaAllocator/Pool are "new", meaning that they are build from start with support for more dynamic memory handling in mind.
- ArrayPool is very fixed, and exists both in the structured form, and various hard-coded variants.
one thing in common for all the "new" allocators is that they use magic numbers per object, so that every time a pointer (once per signal) that validity of the object is checked, and a trap is generated on a invalid memory access.
another thing in common is that they are all used by 1 thread at a time, and only pages are allocated/freed to a global free-list.
- to support variable length data, linked list of fixed size objects are used (DataBuffer)
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Generosity is a Gift
When cancer touches one of our community it affects us all. That is what made the difference for the employees of Norman S. Wright Mechanical Equipment Corporation's Hawaii office. Each year they designate a charity for their holiday giving and with this year's choice of the American Cancer Society they invited family, friends, and co-workers who have been impacted by cancer to share their stories. According to Branch Manager, Marites Calad, there was not a dry eye in the place and everyone was moved to contribute to their wonderful gift, including the three owners, Rich Leao – President & CEO, Sal Giglio – Executive Vice President, and Bob Beyer – Executive Vice President. Their total contributions came to $58,993.00! Their gift has been designated to support our Hope Lodge Hawaii operations, which provides free lodging to cancer patients that need to travel to Oahu for treatment.
From all of us at your American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific, a huge Mahalo and Happy Holidays!
Hope all the way from Hilo
Hope comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Survivors and Caregivers from the Cancer Support Group, Malama Ka Pili Pa'a, from Hilo, provided 20 hand sewn comfort pillows to be provided to new guests staying at the Hope Lodge Hawai'i. The material for these special pillows was donated by Uncle Johnny Lum Ho and Sandra Claveria. Pictured below (l-r) Kristy Victorino (Cancer Program Manager, Hui Malama Ola Na Oiwi) , Rob Anderson (Manager, Hope Lodge), Debbie Kenui (ACS volunteer and cancer survivor), and Debbie Apolo (Assistant Manager, Hope Lodge).


text: Immortalized by Blondie, feted by the hip hop cognoscenti, Grandmaster Flash is the man who turned the humble record deck into an instrument as potent as the piano or guitar. He was the first DJ to put out a rap record and in "Adventures On The Wheels..Immortalized by Blondie, feted by the hip hop cognoscenti, Grandmaster Flash is the man who turned the humble record deck into an instrument as potent as the piano or guitar. He was the first DJ to put out a rap record and in "Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel," he created an aural template that let the world at large into the secrets of the New York ghettos. If Afrika Bambaataa provided the ingredients and Kool Herc a rough method, more than any other, it was Grandmaster Flash who refined the recipe and turned hip hop from a boroughs novelty into a worldwide phenomenon. He's the decknician with magic in his fingers. The DJ who put the hip in hop. Flash is fast. Flash is cool. And then some. Born in Barbados but raised in New York, Grandmaster Flash (aka Joseph Saddler) was an electronics student with a desire born of seeing his heroes Pete DJ Jones and Kool Herc to turn the music they were playing into an art form. "I didn't find the way he played exciting," says Flash of Herc. "What I found exciting was what he was playing." Kool Herc had had the idea of eschewing the disco hits of the day the Donna Summers, the Trammps in favour of old funk records. More than that, though, he was mainly playing the breaks, those instrumentally-sparse and rhythm-heavy parts of the records where the dancers could really cut loose. Flash's idea was simple. He would take the types of tunes played by Herc and assimilate them using the methods of beat-mixing he'd seen employed by DJs like Pete DJ Jones. "What I liked about Pete's style is that he kept the music continuous. He didn't take out a certain section of the record or continuously go back and forth, he just kept everything going." Ensconced in his bedroom, and aided by his understanding of electronics, Flash worked on this new style of playing. For three whole years. He invented something called the Quick Mix Theory and the Clock Theory (Flash has more theories than Stephen Hawking), the former his way of explaining the dexterous way of working one break seamlessly into another, the latter the method by which a DJ could find the beginning of a break (the habit of hip hop mixers to mark the breaks on their vinyl with sticky tape derives from this very ritual). "When I first created the style I played in a few parks in the area, but nobody really quite understood what it was that I was doing" recalls Flash. "A lot of people ridiculed it." But not for long. Soon the parks turned into small venues and the small venues into large. He hired out the Audobon, more famously known as the place where Malcolm X met his untimely death, and filled it. "I went down them long long stairs outside to see if there was anybody on line," he remembers. "To my amazement I seen license plates from Philly, Connecticut, Washington." When he played downtown, DJ and scenester Johnny Dynell caught him in action and was amazed at what he saw. "I went with a friend to this church basement and I saw this battle with Grandmaster Flash, Hollywood, all those early guys," says Johnny of his first glimpse into the hitherto hidden world of hip hop. "And Flash was DJing with his toes. He was scratching (which I'd never heard before). He just rocked my world. To me, coming from the art world, I thought it was brilliant. I thought, I'm going to have to tell Andy [Warhol] about this. This is incredible. It's like Marcel Duchamps." Despite the clamor for this novelty sound the first tunes to hit vinyl, as good as they were, were little more than canny approximations of hip hop. Flash, suitably stung ("Damn I coulda been there first. I didn't know the gun was loaded like that."), unleashed "Adventures On The Wheels," an astounding record even today, a beat symphony entirely comprised of battered old records and Flash's manual dexterity. Entirely mixed live, he nailed it in three hours. Sadly, the DJs' role in hip hop history was soon sidelined in favor of those natural showstealers, the MCs, but even here, it was Grandmaster Flash who prefigured them. "I think Grandmaster Flash was the first person to write a rhyme," claims former Flash protegé Grandwizard Theodore. "He actually sat down in a corner, wrote a rhyme and tried to get his MCs to say it." Theodore can even remember what he wrote: "Dip dive, socialize, try to make you realize that we are qualified to rectify and hypnotize that burning desire to boogie y'all." He whoops, half surprised he remembers so well. It is a sad fact of musical history that its pioneers rarely get either the credit or, significantly, the paychecks that their prescience unquestionably deserves. In hip hop's case, it's the karaoke kings of Puffdaddyland who've vacuumed the royalties and these days ghetto fabulous means the weekend retreat in the Hamptons. Grandmaster Flash, meanwhile, continues to do what he does best: filling floors, making people dance, and there's no-one still who can do quite what Flash does with a mixer and two decks. He invented the damn thing, see? This CD, although full of records recorded over a decade ago, still sounds incredibly modern, his style and skill undiminished by advancing years and the inexorable march of sampler technology. Seamless, clever, cheekier than a box of monkeys, this is what innovation sounds like and who'd have thought it could be so much fun? We make no apologies for the lack of pimps, gangstas and pistol-packing badmen contained herein, because this is the sound of original hip hop: raw, soulful, funky and with a big daft smile on its face. Flash is fast. Flash is cool. More importantly, Flash is back.


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Summer time
Hello everybody,
Would you like to enjoy the summer now? I can't wait for it to do too many things: go to the swimming pool, go to the beach, do sport outside, visit the town like every year, etc. Now that I think it, when I enjoy a lot is when I go with my family and friends to the town in Leon. There we have fun a lot because it is a peaceful small town where there aren't cars and you can play and stay on the street until late at night. As well as, the best of everything is that although we aren't the same age, we meet together and nobody can stop us. We sometimes hike, it is a very beautiful walk but other days we go for a walk until near towns.
In addition, this summer I take the decision to do more exercise because if you don't know, I will join to the Spanish Armada and if I want to achieve this, I have to be stronger.
That's a wrap
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