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We’re getting word that Paco de Lucia has died at age 66. Here’s a profile on the Spanish guitarist from 2004 by Alt.Latino's Felix Contreras.

Pace de Lucia always had a fierce allegiance to tradition and strong appreciation for contemporary genres, but, as he told Contreras, “I’ve always been careful that [my music] doesn’t lose the essence and the roots and the tradition that is flamenco.”

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woke up this morning. put on the new Beck album.

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“ECOSYSTEM GESTALT,” HAWAIIAN WAYS OF KNOWING AND THE POWER OF MODELING

Herein lies another intersection between Hawaiian knowledge systems and Western science. Despite the focus of Western science on objective evaluation and the observable world, researchers doing some of the greatest, most game-changing, most useful studies spent years learning the system before they created models for it and made very high-impact predictions that were then verified by real events. Holistic knowledge of an ecosystem, or even a whole watershed, is plentiful in Hawaii, a place whose culture incorporates place, person, and family into one element.

A view that I have heard many times is that Hawaiian knowledge focuses on a whole, while Western science seeks to pick things apart. Methodologically, this may be true: in research, we seek to tease apart different processes to quantify their effects, and the method of research does a very good job of describing observable phenomena. Hawaiian ways of knowing are primarily experiential, and build holistic knowledge from personal and ancestral experience. However, research and traditional knowledge systems are not necessarily opposed to one another. As emphasized by Dr. Pacala, knowledge of the system as a whole is integral to using science analytically.

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I loved this post by Margaret Siple of Fishpond Fever because it combines cultural anthropology, ecology, and mathematical modeling in ways that I can only dream about. Intersectionality of the humanities and sciences often get lost in our siloed academic research environments, it’s important to get out of our self-imposed boxes and utilize knowledge in other forms.

Read more about He’eia fishpond here. Apart from having a very pretty name, these fishponds were ingeniously used by indigenous people to feed themselves if fishing became to dangerous. The fishponds are constructed so that the fish might enter them when they are small, but when they grow larger, they are unable to leave, providing a captive food source. Invasions by mangroves and algae and cracks in the seawall have altered the food web and environment of the He’eia fishpond. What I love about Siple’s project is that her results will be used the help the local Hawaiian people restore and manage the fishpond so that it may once again be a productive fishery.

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Na Pali Coast from the air, Kauai | Hawaii (by Alfred Hermida)

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My favorite beach on Kauai

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Beautiful Na Pali

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I love the details you notice in some photos. Here, there are quite a few things. One, the plethora and diversity of people (not band) in the photo, they are encroaching on the stage, hanging around, some facing the band, some walking away, and one lotus positioned man on the riser above. Second, the tie dye covers on the stage monitors (think about it - the audience can’t see this, this was for the band’s pleasure alone). Third, the weather - people (Phil!) are in sweaters and parkas, it was cold out. Fourth, the detailed and decorated guitar straps on the guitar players. Alot to digest in the seamingly simple scene.

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It’s a Very Small World by Michael Gittes

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Ari’inui Pai’ea AKA King Tamehameha ‘The Great’ of the Kingdom of Hawai’i

Artwork: Herb Kāne.

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Beautiful view of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Mauna Kea […]is a volcano on the island of Hawaii. Standing 13,796 ft (4,205 m) above sea level, its peak is the highest point in the U.S. state of Hawaii. However, much of Mauna Kea is below sea level; when measured from its oceanic base, its height is 33,500 ft (10,200 m)—more than twice Mount Everest’s base-to-peak height of 3,650 to 4,650 meters (11,980 to 15,260 ft). Mauna Kea is about one million years old, and thus past the most active shield stage of life hundreds of thousands of years ago. […]

source of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea