I enjoyed working on this one. Created with sketchbook.

 I enjoyed working on this one. Created with sketchbook.

Fish Farms had always been a problem for the environment. When it comes to hawaii the problem is the same. Like in Turkey they have a natural resource to protect while all entrepreneurs are keen on making good profit. Just to give you an idea the size of negative trade balance due to fresh sea fish is around 10 billion dolars.

The Kampachi fish of Kona (sashimi-grade seafood) is a good example. I have not taste it but it is one of those valuable fishes for sashimi. US fish farms are trying to grow them in open sea fish farms but due to the fact that it is highly regulated it is not easy to get a license. ( I am glad that it is difficult) Mexico is highly supportive for such initiatives.

Can we eliminate the price to pay ? Can we make a sustainable aquaculture?

http://www.kampachifarm.com/ is just one initiative with Velella project.

The Question is can we use the same floating system for other type of fish in Turkey. Now see the photo below. What does it look like.

Work with new species is also on the cards. As well as the giant grouper, Sims wants to work with a very high value, herbivorous reef fish, which is not well known outside of the Pacific islands

A Photo from Turkey. The same story with a different loaction. I will try to visit the farm in Kona. Lets see.

Don’t let the name fool you. Coca-Cola’s Simply Orange juice is anything but pick, squeeze, and pour. That cold glass of 100 percent liquid sunshine on the breakfast table is the product of a sophisticated industrial juice complex. Satellite imagery, complicated data algorithms, even a juice pipeline are all part of the recipe. “You take Mother Nature and standardize it,” says Jim Horrisberger, director of procurement at Coke’s huge Auburndale (Fla.) juice packaging plant. “Mother Nature doesn’t like to be standardized.”

Coca-Cola, maker of the Minute Maid and Simply Orange brands, is using its balance sheet and distribution reach to methodically build a global juice machine. That includes the U.S., Coke’s largest market, accounting for one-third of its volume sold. PepsiCo (PEP), led by its Tropicana brand, commands a 40 percent volume share of the $4.6 billion U.S. market for not-from-concentrate juices, compared with 28 percent for Coke, according to Euromonitor. Globally, the market researcher says, Coke gets about $13 billion in revenue annually from pure juice and juice drinks. “You see them focusing on still beverages because that’s been outgrowing sparkling drinks for several years now,” says Thomas Mullarkey, an analyst for Morningstar (MORN) in Chicago.

At the core of Coke’s plan in the U.S. is 100 percent not-from-concentrate OJ, for which consumers are willing to pay as much as a 25 percent premium. Yet producing the beverage is far more complicated than bottling soft drinks. Juice production is full of variables, from weather to regional consumer preference, and Coke is trying to manage each from grove to glass.

In bucolic Auburndale, an hour south of Disney World, Coke has spent $114 million in recent years expanding its premier U.S. juice bottling plant, which it claims is the world’s largest. It’s here that Coke has perfected a top-secret methodology it calls Black Book to make sure consumers have consistent orange juice 12 months a year, even though the peak growing season lasts about three months. “We basically built a flight simulator for our juice business,” says Doug Bippert, Coke’s vice president of business acceleration.

Black Book isn’t really a secret formula. It’s an algorithm. Revenue Analytics consultant Bob Cross, architect of Coke’s juice model, also built the model Delta Air Lines (DAL) uses to maximize its revenue per mile flown. Orange juice, says Cross, “is definitely one of the most complex applications of business analytics. It requires analyzing up to 1 quintillion decision variables to consistently deliver the optimal blend, despite the whims of Mother Nature.”

The Black Book model includes detailed data about the myriad flavors—more than 600 in all—that make up an orange, and consumer preferences. Those data are matched to a profile detailing acidity, sweetness, and other attributes of each batch of raw juice. The algorithm then tells Coke how to blend batches to replicate a certain taste and consistency, right down to pulp content. Another part of Black Book incorporates external factors such as weather patterns, expected crop yields, and cost pressures. This helps Coke plan so that supplies will be on hand as far ahead as 15 months. “If we have a hurricane or a freeze,” Bippert says, “we can quickly replan the business in 5 or 10 minutes just because we’ve mathematically modeled it.”

by Duane Stanford from Business Week

This is how it looks like !!
Enjoy

If you are a frequent visitor you would remember my SAP HANA video. It was just created for the fun of it. During a visit made by Sanjay Poonen (President & Corporate Officer, SAP, Technology & Innovation Products) in Turkey we were discussing about his youTube video where we was explaining what SAP’s solution portfolio was about. During our round table discussion I promised him to make a similar video with an other motive. And as promised delivered the following video

After 6 months my video took over Sanjay’s video and as of today it is within the top 10 videos viewed by “in-memory computing” lovers. more than 27,000 views.  I know when compared to PSY – GANGNAM STYLE views of 710 million views it is small but next time I will target that many views. any how the number of views are good enough for being statistically significant for an analysis. The basis of the analysis gives us some interesting information/observation.

Observation 1: Big Data is interesting for males. Yes you are correct it is not a meaningful observation. Lets try an other one.

This one was done by myself.

After seeing the success of my video our colleagues in SAP decided to make use of my teaching experience and they started using the same method and template. Therefore may be I should be proud to indirectly contribute.

Thanks for watching

Things Learned and Should be careful before moving into such a turmoil.

1- Choose a good technical design, Make sure it worth the time and effort because once into it is hard to walk out. You can not down scale a real sail boat. The performance will not be the same. Be careful. (If you ever had a fluid dynamics course you would know what I mean.)

2- Make sure the project that you are moving in will not be overwhelming. Before starting the project I have showed the layouts to a model yacht guru in Turkey. He was a quite old man with great years of experience in  model building. After seeing the design he asked two simple questions. “Have you ever build a model boat?” Answer is NO. “Do you have patience?” I was puzzled. He continued … “It will take you more or less a year to build it.” (it took me 6+ months and if I were to re-build it I would not hurry as much as I did. He was right in spot) “this is the hardest model you can ever find. It is dynamic (It is designed to really sail). It is made of Aluminium which is not possible to solder. (I had not noticed it in the first sight. I Just realized the meaning on the way)

3- Never start a project if you do not know why you want to finalize it. Know the difference btw “making it” and “not making it”

4- Be sure to have enough room to run the show. I used a balcony. It was painful for the neighbors and the dust was just about to stop the show. By working carefully you can minimize the sanding process which causes the fine grained dust. “Closing the door will not stop/prevent the dust”

5- Most of it is Material Science, Physics, mechanical work. (forget about it. It is just patience)

6- Have a pace not a speed. You can not do it in sprints. Most of the time making it fast does not mean making it at all. (I had to rebuild some parts again and again) Stick to the plan. Short cuts must be designed on the plan, not on the fly. Everything done on the fly will end up in dead ends. (If you are a guru you can see the short cuts in day one. If you are not able to see it in day one re-think what you are changing)

Final words: I learned, experienced and enjoyed. (I prob know more glue types than any boat builder. Their advantages and disadvantages. I had seen radical mistakes in real life sailing projects)

Some Tooling to make your life easier. Not required but might save time.

Keel Lead weights.

The Keel Aluminum attachment

Wow fits well

Starting with the body

Next Photo is really time consuming. You can just glue 2 side panels per day.

I just decided to use a 50 dolar remote car key to control the boat. 4 buttons are available. 2 used for rudder 2 used for sail trim. Works pretty well.

I also visited a old electronics shop. The stuff you see below are old cassette type recorder parts. Just paid a few dolars for all. Since the DC motor is turning very fact you have to reduce it considerably before applying to rudder. This is the way I made it. You can choose your own way

This will trim the sail. Yes it does

First test of the water line. Yesssss it is very well balanced. I was just wandering if the calculations made by the designer was right

Sails are made. We are nearly done.

First water test. It was too windy to make a full test. Then I decided to do the testing after finishing the top cover.

I was amazed by the book called “Emeğinden Bal Damlayanlar” by Ali İhsan Gökçen. We should also give credit to Özen Altıparmak who sponsored the book. What really amazed me was the interesting photos. Here are a couple of them and there is much to see in the book. After reading the book the honey tastes different for me.

The cover of the book

Belive it or not this is a beehive

This is the my favorite: Old Truck used as a protection against bears

The one at the top is also a beehive in Karadeniz.

Those are so other kind of beehives

The Transformation Process in Hindu Mythology: HINDUISM PROVIDES a unique window into the three perspectives:

“Managing the present, selectively forgetting the past, and creating the future”

The religion recognizes many gods but only three main deities: Vishnu, the god of preservation Shiva, the god of destruction and Brahma, the god of creation.

The Hindu mythmakers even paired each of the three gods with symbolically relevant wives. Vishnu was married to Lakshmi, who bestowed wealth. Shiva’s partner was Parvathi, who symbolized power, a vital necessity when selectively destroying the past. Brahma was betrothed to Saraswathi, who symbolized creativity, ideas, and knowledge- critical inputs in formulating strategies. According to Hindu philosophy, the balanced interactions among the three gods create a continuous preservation – destruction- creation cycle that helps sustain all forms of life in a circle without a beginning or an end. Achieving that continuous cycle is a goal worthy of any farsighted organization.

ref: Spring 2012 Harvard Business Review

“And We all think that management is a new ART”

I could not stand posting a blog post about those wonderful photos. This is the moment at its best. Bravo Tobias. It must be real hard trial to get those photo streams.

Tobias Bruning’s photostream: