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In the news today, jazz fusion guitarist, Al Di Meola, suffered a heart attack while performing a show in Bucharest Wednesday evening.
The hospital released a statement that Di Meola was sent to the cardiology ward and treated for a segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

Al stated he is postponing live performances until next year.

Oddly, I was talking with a coworker yesterday about music and how Miami is a mecca and great place for touring musicians. This guy is Brazilian and told me Al is booked to play at the Rio Montreux Jazz Festival in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil next month.
Make that Al 'was' booked to play in Brazil.


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- Chapter I:
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“If barely found someone to really care about human nature at all, what to expect of the so-called civilized society, anyway?! The landlord, does not care from where all the bricks come, or how they are made. So like most of the people, living the futuristic dream coming true, if would be to count or track on something, they will mostly imagine that since all is mechanized and fully technological development, the workers just overwatch the machines, making all the hard jobs. They just can’t imagine a world in which some working like in medieval times, or they just can’t imagine a world in which people working like slaves or just replenishing the dreamed robots who just ease the task of mankind. Many people, nowadays, just exalted over the idea of such a progress, to invoke how the machines were invented to ease the worker’s jobs. Even more, among them, are to be found plenty who would even boast in vain over the technological progress, where the development – as they have seen in various presentations – is to such scale as all becomes easy in the world of man. Man invented the machine, saying it is to help him, but actually, it has proven the opposite. Man built the machine for more productivity, because of the greed. Modern man, was not satisfied with the efficacy of a simple worker, and invented the machine, to replenish the work force. Modern man, invented the methods of constraining people into work more faster, faster and faster and faster, and to process more and more amount of stuff. “Time is money” – they have said. Yet, less time to work, means faster working, but the thing is that if a man can make a brick faster, it is required from it to make more bricks – and if possible, to work as faster as possible, so that the efficacy to increase. Then comes the selection process, the employer must hold the right persons, who could process more bricks in less time. That would be more profitable, for the more bricks they can make in the working schedule, the more benefit the employer has. Then, of course, if it is possible, to find the right people, meaning, those who does not require much, for their work; the less one to be paid and the more efficacy might have.. well, that’s the right employee! Heh! Modernism! Modern men say: we invented the machine, because the employees, can not compete with it. The employer say: indeed, such a benefit, with such invention, because this machine can make bricks all day long, while the workers, have needs. This machine we invented, does not require much, than electricity, and look! It takes by itself all the ingredients, and mix them, and lay them on the mold and then can process so many bricks per hour! How much money, I would have to give to an employee who will come to carry the aggregates, how much, to the one with the molding, how much, to the one with the pallet, to clear the area for new processing? How many bricks can produce one person per hour, and how much I would have to pay it? How many workers, how much money?! I’ve got the right solution, now! Here is the machine who can work one hundred times faster and make thousands of bricks per day, all with the same quality, all in the same parameter, all deposited in the proper shape, and yeah, such investment! I have paid for this machine – calculated, an entire salary for twenty employees, for one year. But this machine, does the best job and actually, I will even buy more. More machines, more bricks; more bricks, more money; more money,.. well.. I will make a fortune, and expanding my company. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand, now. It is easy to understand. Human ego, to fuel human greed… “

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- Shall be continued…

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EDELWEISS - Vol. I/Chapter I: The ALGORHYTHM

Suziecute, these sculptures, ‘Les Voyageurs” by Bruno Catalano were at the Amalfi Coast when Art and I were there.

Carbon emissions may play a part in the environment but is not ultimately the heart of the issue.
Heat emissions is the core here's why:
The heat of a regular gasoline car is up to 1400 degrees Fahrenheit or 760 degrees Celsius

Apply this heat emissions on the Highway 401 in Toronto America
Or Dan Ryan Expressway through Chicago on a daily basis.
Also apply this to factories whose heat emissions are equally high you have current practical idea of what is affecting climate change

The morning heat of the sun creates fog which lowers the moisture content from the soil that same fog rises and becomes clouds. But the most important factor is lowering moisture content in the soil. But radiant heat can not achieve this if it is affected by convective heat and if the soil has prolonged moisture content it will begin to crate water mold on a molecular level.

This is a war of convective heat versus radiant heat on a global scale day to day.

But also this creates an unbalance of natural weather cycles because the moisture content if ever is dissipating at a later time during the day due to the high levels of convective heat.


However this is solvable and a business here in Whanganui has created a solution of lowering heat emissions by 99% called TPE Racing. Owner David Tunnell.

You could apply this to computers where u will no longer need fans or water coolant systems to cool cpu hard drives gpu motherboards etc or even large computer systems the amount of savings u would make would be substantial.

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Profits from Real Estate make up about 30% of China's total Gross Domestic Profit (GDP). Currently most of the Real Estate development companies in China are showing huge financial loss as the market has collapsed and the largest company (with over 181 Billion dollars of debt obligations) has gone into default. Many of the directors have been arrested and face possible execution because of criminal fraud charges. Other larege Real Estate companies with holdings in places such as Malaysia and Bermuda are also tottering on the edge of default and bankruptcy. The way the Chinese judiciary handles the bankruptcy of a publicly traded country is not the same as how courts of the Western world handle such cases. In China the penalty for going bankrupt can include execution and some CEOs have in recent years already been executed. 34 of the top 50 Chinese Real Estate developers have already gone into default. The77,000 acre Chinese Market Gardens complex in Malaysia is currently tottering on the edge of default and it's owner is hoping the government of Malaysia will somehow provide capital and bail them out. This is unlikely. The payment on Market Garden bonds is due in mid October. If the firm can not raise the capital it too will join the list of Chinese development companies that own miles of half built high rise complexes that will forever sit empty and unoccupied. China in the past 15 years had encouraged Chinese banks to issue as many development loans and mortgage loans as possible and encouraged recipients to borrow more and use the money to develop and sell as much as possible. This allowed much of China's population to engage in bidding wars for apartment homes in buildings that were never built (or even started) while instantly assuming a mortgage debt on the not yet completed (or even started) future home. Because of the bidding wars the dollar (Yuan) cost of the future properties shot for the sky. Smart borrowers were permitted to sell their mortgages on not yet built properties and after paying it off re-enter the market and receive on paper profits each time. The sudden lock down policy China implemented during the Covid crisis literally prevented many from even going to work much less make mortgage payments, while also halting all construction work. This assured their (not built yet) homes would go into foreclosure with the banks assuming Title and ownership of properties that did not exist. Meanwhile the banks continued to issue new speculative development loans until recently. Developers plowed forward, but after Covid ended the buying market had ended.

This video provides more information. It is possible China's belt and road initative may soon basically experience a major down scaling.

I'd never heard of this before - insulin for non-diabetics, as a way to lose weight. A man in his early 70s that I know has recently started it, because his overweight daughter did. I looked it up, and seems there's quite a trend, mainly in the US. They are not in the US but their doctor is providing the stuff and monitoring quantities and, presumably, their health.

Changing the body's chemical make-up - AND knowing that diabetics struggle to rid themselves of stored bellyfat when they start on insulin - is surely not a great idea, but father and daughter are both very happy so far with reduced appetite and steady weightloss, don't mind the occasional attack of biliousness. Both are pretty large.

Anyone know more pros and cons - literally asking for a friend, since his wife (a naturally skinny wench who therefore Doesn't Understand How Hard It Is To Lose Weight) is absolutely appalled.

EDELWEISS
Chapter I:
The ALGORHYTHM
XXX.

“I probably will count on fingertips, those who would really love what they are doing. In rest, everything feeds the human ego, the desires, the appetite for illusions. There comes the owner of the place, to make the deal with the one in charge for gathering the workers. If everything is pretty much negotiable, what about to really count on a large scale, all the things?! But who has time, to count these? I haven’t seen so often a landlord, to count the moments of the lives of those who are requested to complete a task – in this case, the wall surrounding a property. One say that since the rightful owner of the place is preoccupied only about the task being completed, regardless of all what takes from the sketch to the final outcome, one should not question authority in such matters. Because all what takes, is the right chief or engineer, and the right people who would work as a team as the indications provided. But I do wonder, at some point, does really any of them know what involves whole process? The one with the sketch, or the plan, comes to lay it flat on the table, and claim: this is the way it has to be done, after analyzing the perimeter of the place. The other one comes and consulting the landlord, over the estimated price for the materials, establish what has to be done next. The landlord, thus, has a view of ensemble of how the project will look like when finished. It agrees, or just bargain, upon case. Then the one in charge with the teamwork, fix the schedule, upon agreements. All go happy, upon settlement. The right time comes, and the team arrives. They have the tools, they have the muscles, they have the brains. And all, occur as normal as it should. They say. All of them, say it. The workers say they are satisfied with the task given, with the fixed schedule, and with the payment. Those in charge, come once in a while to overwatch the process of building the wall. They have dealt with all paperwork. That’s only a surface, to count. But who’s really counting in depth, all these?! Nobody. Yet, I’m the questioner, and then, I ask the landlord why he wants this wall being built. I ask then, what is really its satisfaction, upon the completion of such a wall. I ask also, if knows from where these materials come from, and what was the process of delivering each of them, who’s providing and under what circumstances. Funny way, if not weird, to look upon things. For at their surface, all looks neat and clear. But in their depth, requires a different approach. Yes. Logical. Or too logical, for even the common landlord. What business has the landlord, to know from where those stuff came for? When one just pays for all, does not count an origin. When one just open the wallet or just sign off a check, with ease, has no concern, for these all. These, don’t matter. Under the devise of “I’ve got money, I can afford” or “on what I’ve just gave these money for?” there’s always, something missing. One can not count, in complex issues. Who cares from where the construction materials came from? Or, who’s managing those?! Or, who’s loading those?! Who’s packing, - who’s delivering? As when bargain over the price, for even a brick, who does that? One does not care how that brick was made. All it wants, is cheaper. Same, in working. Who’s really treasuring the work of a man, the effort of a human being, into even making a simple, common brick? But I have seen people making bricks, in a desert. I have seen the struggle of a woman and two little girls with the hands in molding clay, under the heat of the sun, and nobody asking there if any of them needs fresh water, nobody there to ask, if such process is painful, what their bodies have to endure, and how their hearts feel, working like slaves. This example, is one among billions. Nobody truly cares, how a brick is made, - why would someone care how a wall is built?! All feed the human ego. “
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It was reported last week that Trump's ex-Executive Assistant Molly Michael told investigators that Trump regularly reused paper in a bid to save trees.

He wrote to-do lists for her on the back of White House notecards used to brief him while in office, rather than recklessly binning them in landfill waste collection. They were only spoiled on one side with sensitive information and classification markings.

Molly Michaels went on to recycle the card through an FBI reclamation scheme.

'I've been waiting for you all day,' the officer said.
The kid replied, Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could.'
When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.