THE CRYPTO CRUISE SHIP

 From Worldometer (new deaths from COVID-19 yesterday):

        DAY  USA  WORLD   Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9     1093    4732        1185       246          82

July    22     1205    7128        1293      1120         572

Aug    12     1504     6556       1242       835         130

Sept     3      1094    5886        830     1083         174
            9      1208    6222        1136      1168          82

Oct      8        957    6420          730       967        160

          21     1225     6849           571       703         85

Nov     4      1199       8192         276       511         74 

          11       1479    10178         564       550         60

          14      1260       8823        727       449         53

          17      1615     10502        676       472        118

          18      1964     10970        754       587        124

          19      2065     10758        644       584        115

Summary:

• The USA suffered its all-time high for new cases yesterday at 192,186.
• The CDC  could well follow a plan from the National Academy of Medicine for the coming vaccines:
• Phase 1a, 5%:  Front-line health workers, ambulance drivers, cleaners and first responders.
• Phase 1b, 10%:  Those with serious underlying conditions, with  two or more chronic conditions and 65 and older in group living facilities (this would qualify me...but will I want to wait a bit?).
• Phase 2, 30-35%:  critical workers in high-risk situations like teachers and child care workers, others with an underlying condition and people under 65 in prisons and similar facilities.
• Phase 3, 40-45%:  pretty much everyone else.
• Phase 4, 5-15%:  everyone else.
• But what percent will actually choose to be inoculated?

The CDC also recommended:

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving, saying the safest way to celebrate was “at home with the people you live with.” (Here’s what more than 600 epidemiologists are doing. A common theme: staying home.)

From The New York Times this morning:

If you're wondering if there has been any progress with the Blue Revolution, here is something interesting from the Seasteading Institute sent by Seavangelist Joe Quirk:

Hello Patrick, Mark January 3rd, 2021 on your calendar as a huge milestone towards seasteading. This is the day when the first offshore floating community opens its doors for full-time residents to move in. If you haven’t already heard, our friends over at Ocean Builders have acquired a massive 777 passenger cabin cruise ship via their new spinoff company, Viva Vivas. They have named the ship the MS Satoshi and she will be arriving in her new home several miles off the coast of Panama City just before Christmas.

This Saturday at 1pm Eastern join me, Joe Quirk, for a live call with the ship's owner Chad Elwartowski from Viva Vivas and Grant Romundt from Ocean Builders to talk about what life will be like aboard the MS Satoshi. Signup here to participate:        https://oceanbuilders.com/signup Chad and Grant will also present the never before shown masterplan for the community and you can ask any questions you might have. Ocean Builders is celebrating the launch of the Satoshi by auctioning off the first 100 cabins. They are offering very special pricing for early pioneers. You can find out more here: https://ocean.builders/cruiseship/ Join the Auction

Live free on the sea, Joe Quirk President and Seavangelist

According to CruiseGuru:

• 200 cabins will be auctioned from November 5-28 for $25,000 to $50,000 for residency early in 2021.
• The Satoshi is also known as the Crypto Cruise Ship, where bitcoin and other forms of payment will be accepted.
• Ship is 804 feet long, coming from Mediterranean, and to anchor in the Gulf of Panama, a 30-minute ferry ride from Panama City.
• Capacity of 2,020 people plus crew.
• Multiple restaurants, theater, casino, gym/wellness area.

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  An incubator for entrepreneurs, with a goal to create a floating community for the advancement of ocean technology, engineering, sustainable living and experimentation.
• To be connected to an off-grid of SeaPod homes (right) close-by.

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  The company, Ocean Builders, where the chief operations officer is bitcoin investor Chad Elwartowski (46-years old), who, you might remember, two years ago--with his girlfriend (Nadia Summergirl or Supranee Thepdet), who serves as chief sustainability officer--on their ocean structure 14 nautical miles off the coastline, fought off the Royal Thai Navy in the Andaman sea off Phuket.  If they had built 200 miles away, perhaps he would have been more secure...then again, maybe not...that is the nature of the subject matter.

Blue Revolution Hawaii has formed a partnership with the Seasteading Institute.  They handle the today while we develop tomorrow.  Here is a talk I provided to them in San Francisco.  Last year they published a short article about OTEC and the Blue Revolution.

Song #38  will come from the following list:

• Pictures at an Exhibition:  Modest Mussorgsky
• Clair de Lune:  Claude Debussy
• Bolero:  Joseph Ravel

Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten pieces originally composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.  The composition is based on pictures by Victor Hartmann, a close friend, who passed away at the age of 39 in 1973.  The suite was written in 1874 in homage to him.  The Scene by the Fountain was expanded into Mussorgsky's opera, Boris Godunov.  Maurice Ravel in 1922 upgraded PaaE for a full orchestra.  

Clair de Lune, moonlight in French, is the third movement of Suite bergamasque by Claude Debussy, who began writing this piece at the age of 28 in 1890, but only published in 1905.  CdL was cut from the original 1940 Fantasia, but restored in 1992 when scored by Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Bolero was premiered by French composer Maurice Ravel in 1928 as one of his last pieces.  Dancer Ida Rubinstein commissioned this work, which he based on the Spanish dance called the bolero.  It has been suggested that the constant repetition was caused by his onset of progressive aphasia.  

Ravel disapproved of the Toscanini version in 1939 as too fast, increasing the fame of this masterpiece.  Ravel wanted around 16 minutes, but Toscanini finished in 13 minutes and 25 seconds.  

George Raft and Carole Lombard starred in the 1934 film, Bolero, where the music plays an important role.  You know you've arrived when Burger King uses it for one of their commercials.

However, the reason I select Bolero as #38 is because of the film 10, starring Bo Derek and Dudley Moore.  I actually talked to her once on a United flight back to Honolulu.  Sitting next to her was a grouch, her husband, John Derek, 30 years her senior.

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