Welcome to Human-Humane Architecture here on Think Tech, Hawaii. I am this program's co-host. I'm DeSoto Brown, and I work at Bishop Museum as a historian. And joining us all the way from Germany is Native Land, is our host, Martin Despang. And let's see if we can see Martin on the screen with me. There he is. Greetings. Aloha. There he is. Hello. Hello. So what's our show today? Hello. Well, first of all, happy new year. DeSoto and everyone. So might be a great one. So if we can get the first slide up here, we can see what we're going. And so always around the holidays, I'm sneaking out. So I have to accommodate certain things as RPI mobile, which is graciously taken care of by Alexei and Nikola and Lukas at their 1315 Alamoana, which is one of our favorite buildings by Hamasaki. And the car in the building have been designed or gestalted, as we like to prefer to say around the same time. And the other sort of preparation is me flying half around the world. So at the bottom, we can see me at a stopover at San Francisco International Airport and walking by, as other people are, an Hermes store. And next slide, because why is that relevant to us? We're getting closer. So where is that DeSoto? Well, the picture on the bottom left is actually in Berlin. And it is a famous street called the Kudam. And that was West Berlin's main shopping street, particularly during the time between East Berlin and West Berlin. That's when they showed off the littering excesses of capitalism and how wonderful it was in comparison to drab and tiresome old East Berlin. And when we look up in the upper right corner, we see a fake Berlin Street, which was created for the television series Lost. And it's actually Merchant Street in downtown Honolulu. But it does, in fact, look similar to the real Berlin Street that we see in the picture on the lower left with Martin and his sons and their respective girlfriends slash wives. There you go. And we stopped by in Berlin, where Joey and Clara currently reside on their voyage to their culinary cross-cultural crossover, which we've been reporting about and updating you guys frequently. So next slide here, however, then went back to exotic escapism expert Susanna here in Munich. And every major city, probably in the world, has this sort of lychee, a magnificent mile, or a sense of boulevard, or however they're called. This one here in Munich is called Maximilian Straße, with all the vigilance on bells of the exclusive, as you can tell. And these are obviously not current climatic conditions. These ones I took last summer during my sabbatical here. This is summer situation. So let's go to the next slide. Go to where it's always summer. And you tell us how this picture is related to the previous ones, Susanna. Well, what we're saying is that even in Waikiki, which we're saying is our magnificent mile of a sort, there used to be a German-themed restaurant called the Hofbrau. And in the upper picture, you can just see the Hofbrau sign on the left in a picture of Kalakau Avenue in 1963 when President Kennedy's motorcade was coming through. Well, today on Kalakau Avenue, we have a lot of very high-end stores. One of them is our own one of our air mess stores, because we've got three actually on the island of Oahu. And that's my mother and my sister inside the new air mess store after it was remodeled in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center. And in fact, that's what we're going to be looking at for today's show. Let's check this out and go to the next slide. Well, before we do that, we have to say, the audience might say, wait a minute, aren't you these kind of inclusive guys who have always pitched for the proletarian? What does that have to do with high-end fashion stores? But we're also obligated to talk, or self-obligate us, to talk about the legacy of tropical modernism as you were doing a keynote speech here at the National Local Homeless Symposium. So in that capacity to the next slide, we were curious about the store. And this is when Suzanne was there last time, and we were very curious. We said last minute, we should have put in a picture of talking Berlin when Crystal was wrapping the rice talk. So here that remind us of that, that big sort of gift wrapping around the construction side. And next slide is we got even more excited about when it was basically naked it, or the tarp had been taken off, because usually we could have expected from past practices to it having been cheesecake or Tiffany's, so heavily put heavy makeup on, but not so much you, or thinking they're almost stripping it naked again. So we got overly excited about it. Next slide. So it pretty much became. And you've seen it too, so share a little bit with me your impressions along this picture here, so. Well, one of the interesting things that I really noticed in this picture is that there's an interior green wall. Now, not all of that I think is actual living greenery, but there is some real foliage in there. On the outside, outside the window that you can see on the left, however, is real greenery. And we're gonna be seeing more of that in the form of living vines that are growing there. And against this green background, both inside and outside, we've got this nice sort of skeletal floating staircase that we're gonna look at more closely in the pictures that follow. Yeah, yeah. And the top right we referenced, we did a show about tropical ascending and descending. So this one here made us think this is in a lot of the lines of that tradition. And your presentation was about the sort of, the continuation of the evolution of innovation on the island. So this one here seems to be aligned with that. So let's go to the next slide. And more in particular, this reminded us of your architect that you had the chance to grow up in a building by Asipov. And the top right is his outbreak at Camus Club. So these stairs are not attached to the side of the beam, but sort of balancing over it. And it's got this very delicate, intricate and very sophisticated sort of tapering back of these. In fact, I think they're actually bamboo laminated. So there's some craft coming back that we like from the past that we've been seeing diminishing unfortunately. So there's some hope here at coming back, right? Right. And let's go to the next slide. And this goes through the whole detailing of the store. The guardrails here as opposed to doing one post for the structure is taking this double post. So this is also a very mid-century theme, right? They've been using to make things look thinner and more filigree. So another kind of renaissance or renaissance in detail. Next slide. Yeah, and so the staircase reminds me of almost like, it has a sort of a jungly feel, right? You're basically floating. It's very filigree, very dematerialized and it feels very lofty. And on the outside, we can see what you already indicated. We can see some jungle creeping up on the glass. And let's check this out further here on the next slide. So here they are. And as of now, we had to always say, the most innovative green literally and figuratively building is actually the TJ Maxx and Kakaako reference on the top right. Now we have another one here, which some of us think is even better as far as detailing and sophistication, but it's still kept pretty simple. So it's not that. The green wall is the way more artificial. I mean, the one on the inside is a green wall, but it's a very sort of sad artificial one because it's sort of drip irrigated and sort of very artificial, even though it's natural. But this one here is pretty much, pretty simple and original with what plants like to do. If you choose the right plants, they like to crawl up on buildings, especially in the tropics, right? Yes. And next slide shows us that the green is not just creeping up all over the glass, but also here in front of the concrete. And so, we had to reference to a sad example of retrofitting of another concrete building, which is the Goldbond building on Nimitz Highway. This one is likely a good example where you can see, oh, this is an interesting combination of systems. And of course, next slide, us being, yeah, we brought other experts there. On the right is Bandit Kanistakan, who we thought and we talked about in the show. He particularly has done one of the most progressive buildings out of concrete in Honolulu currently. And he was interested in the building and he took his buddy Richard Lowe, who was another previous guest of ours, who was Mr. Tarzan and they both approved and adores the building and its ambitions. And next slide. Yeah, and I want to just point out too quickly that they kept the original brutalist chipped concrete exterior. They did not put it up or smooth it out. So it's a nice contrast of the foliage to that concrete. Yeah, absolutely. And next slide.  And now we can see what these horizontal lines are. They're actually louvers. They're put over the glass. So you get these kind of interesting slice views from inside out. And next slide. And from outside in, this is our typical mandatory biochromatic check. You can basically see that the building, which is at the bottom left of the Google map here, is basically getting some east sun in the morning, however, not so much because the sun is pretty low and the buildings around are pretty tall. And then you get some southern sun due to the location. You don't get much of a dreary western sun. So next slide. What the louvers actually do, usually it's all for the spectacle. There's no performance in retail design, but this one here actually tries to look pretty. And it also works pretty well because as you can tell, and maybe we jump to the next slide here, we can see in detail that this is somewhere, later in the morning, you can basically see how the concrete of the panels, the spandrels, the bellestrates of the building, the structural ones are basically pretty much in the shade. So the thing does actually a performative job besides its iconic sort of look to lure basically frugal people into the building. I noticed something else too, that there's an interesting contrast between the strong horizontal aspect of the louvers and the vertical aspect of the vine growing up and the structure that's there for that. So you've got these two kind of conflicting, but interestingly juxtaposed vertical and horizontal elements. Yeah, no, you're right. Absolutely fine composition. And next slide here. So you see another iconic building reflecting in the glass at the bottom. This is Pete Wimbley's Bank of Hawaii from 1966 that we're loving and continue to report on. And you see maybe an homage to that because that one has a screen that has to some level a performative aspect as well. And at the top, you see that the louver panels are actually sort of not one plane, but actually sort of staggered. And next slide makes us discover that and think about what that this is for. So you got this pretty huge panels and this reminds us of Tropicure Rockwood who always offers this class about prototyping screens. And so this seems almost like a student of his, took his class and basically became inspired to be the project architect on this project here. And the next slide is, well, and these panels are actually there for the purpose of cleaning the glass. If they would be fixed, you couldn't really clean the glass anymore. So they're actually on rails, on tracks and you can slide them away for the purpose of cleaning the windows. And they reminded us because after all Hermès as we should mention is a French-based company, right? So, and the French have these kind of very typical and sort of characteristic for their climate and their culture, these shutters. And these shutters have been incorporated in other classical architectural pieces and tell us a little bit more where and when is so along the pictures. Well, we see some of those here in Honolulu. We certainly see them in the lobby of the Kahala Hilton Hotel in our friend Ron who was one of the designers for the company that built that and the architect who designed it, Killingsworth, was there to tell us about that. We also see them in the Holly Kulani Hotel, the rebuilt new current Holly Kulani Hotel from the 1980s. And we see them at the Harbor Square condo. That's the one of the top upper right corner which is also a Killingsworth design. And what's the one in the middle on the right? The middle on the right is actually the converted to the new Holly Puna which is sort of an appendix of the Holly Kulani which Ron Lindgren designed as the Waikiki Park Hotel, right? So again, another sort of continuation of the evolution of post-contact innovation pieces of architecture, right? Yes. And let's go to the next slide here which we like to see. And you can see how the screen wraps around the building and then basically the one at the right is sort of this more hideous sort of like add-on to the thing but again here it leaves it pretty pure and clean as you were pointing out. And next slide gives us a whole view of their signage. And again, as you said, and after all again being French this style that the original Royal Hawaiian Center has we categorize as Brutalists and Brutalists comes from the same country that Hermès has had water that's French. And here we have Le Corbusier on the right and here again Hermès is sort of celebrating or re-celebrating that sort of national legacy we can almost see but putting the single letters on it and having them back lit and that we basically enhancing the Bush hammered rugged concrete rather than basically what they've been doing in the past being ashamed of it and putting big cheesecake makeup on. Right, right. So this is very promising. So next slide here. And again, as it appears from sort of across the street it seems to be more subtle, right? It's not in your face. It's not like the Tiffany around the corner or the cheesecake by the other ones. It's very subtle and you got to, you know the closer you get as it is in very good architecture the better it gets. So let's go. Now you know what else too? It that's noticeable in this picture is because it's not in the full sun. The appearance changes from day to night. So it's lit from the outside. It looks quite different. When it is lit from the interior as you see in this picture the appearance is very different. It no longer looks like a brown exterior but you see the warmth of the lights coming through it. Absolutely. So let's move to the, I think we got to move a little bit more quickly here. We're running out of time. But I want to chip in here. Hermes has been known for doing really good architecture for many of these stores. This is the Tokyo store by the acclaimed colleague, Renzo Piano that Neil Ambercrombie was, when we had a review with him at school he was saying, you know, we should get a Renzo Piano building in Honolulu. And I agree with that. This is a very delicate store out of a glass block that sort of is an abstract very modern way reminiscent of the flacons which are these glass bottles where the perfume is in. Let's go to the next slide. And we've been inspired by that when we, believe it or not, once we were invited to participate in a competition for the facade of the mall. Can you imagine that? And so this is actually at the top but at the bottom is our main train station from the 1890s in Hanover, Germany, my hometown. And next slide is us and previous works here. This is me post occupancy evaluating our train stations one out of glass block. And next slide is a colleague of mine from Hanover who has done this sort of more intercity train station also out of blue glass block. So we both had a background in this material. Next slide. That is why we were suggesting and proposing to give this new mall a skirt out of glass block that was sort of customized by Vetro Aredo which is an Italian glass block manufacturer in a color is similar to the brick of the adjacent buildings that at night it glows and it becomes this sort of beacon in this amber color. Next slide. And this is interesting because this is the same at the top ride that Renzo Piano has done this cultural center in New Caledonia in 1998 with his sort of very tiki looking huts. And this is what the main big pictures is this is what Hermes decided to basically equip its main one of its main stores in its main city Paris. And it's interesting that we didn't get these sort of very Polynesian looking huts, right? Bar stores, square and modern, yeah. Exactly, next slide. So they treated us very modern and here is another of their stores. And interestingly, you have a Brutalus building in the background and then you have a another kind of louvered theme for the Hermes store. Next slide. And again, if I would ever do ancestry research, you know, best spang, there is a good, a couple of good wines in France they're called Despandia. And to me, the store reminds me a little bit of the brown wine bottles that give the wine that glow, right, that sort of mysterious glow. And that's what the color, the brownish blinds and the light and the concrete gives us sort of this mysterious and rich and very sort of elegant kind of lighting and color feel. And next slide. Again, how, obviously our bad conscious as being the inclusive guys, how can you apply this sort of, and we had quite some trouble, we have to admit to say, how can we justify we pick up on something as exclusive as that? And we basically concluded and encouraged by Tropicure Rockwood to say, well, if there isn't any other good stuff somewhere else, we might go for what we get, right? And the Hermes store seems to be one of the hottest and best things currently. And this is an example, how we indeed could sort of apply these screens that we have prototyped in our critical practice on projects at the top left. And we had suggested to do this for the stratosphere, Lanai Gross, which is a very inclusive project of stacking cargo steel and converting it into housing for the so many in need. In our island, there's reference in many shows on the top right. Next slide. And there's another project going on that is inspired by this one here. And this is a doctor of architecture thesis that our school by Aaron Chow and the committee is comprised of a tropical tutor, Bill Chapman and Mrs. Easy Breezy, Kaili Chun. And they're both advising. And what we hear is that they're gonna retrofit the School of Architecture, which we have been reporting about you with John and Mayumi Hara. And that through unfortunate circumstances didn't turn out the way it should have been. So this could bring back peace to the building by them in generalizing it. So that's a good suggestion. Next slide. And so this is a reference to what we were initially reporting on the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center and basically concluding and saying, well, bring the thing back to its old glory. It's like a car from the 70s that gain in value and you better treat it as a collectible. So we were literally saying strip all that.  And this here seems to like someone finally might even listen to us, right? Yeah, yeah. Because that's what they've been doing. And next slide is where you currently are to Zelda, right? That's correct. We're in a new studio now for Think Tech and you are pointing out that this building that we're in is sort of that I am in is actually got a performative brise sole or screen on the exterior of it that isn't just decorative, but it is a brutalist building. It's of the brutalist era. And we can admire it because as you like to say it's a performative exterior and not purely a decorative one. And something like that inspired us to do what you see on the top left, which we've been talking about what we call the tropical textile. And again, it's very much along the lines of Le Corbusier with his screens that he designed for tropical climates and also for France. And so this is very appropriate. Yeah, so it's a performative screen and skin that we would like to see showing up on more buildings. And there's hardly ever, you guys had to have to cover up the window because of studio recording reasons, but otherwise there's hardly ever any sun hitting your glass and your windows. So you always stay cool inside and we find that really cool. So next slide is that it's a little longer walk to studio now, which you just experienced today in your premiere, right? And it will be for me because I will be back today in a week and we're both sitting in the new studio. And these are our PI mobiles again that the store West Marine is kind to let us part there for that little while. So here are these kind of German young timers here who are very easy breezy because they're convertibles but at times when they're parked and the showers come through that need this little, in my case, the blue tarp. And the walk to studio is always a procession for me because I walk by the dwelling communities of our urban nomads. So you can see at the bottom left another green tarp right next to where our park, which is way more essential because we got people living under these. And so if you walk further and it gets us to our final slide here, next slide, final slide, is that usually the condition I will see next week is unfortunately the one at the very bottom right where you can actually see our building in the next to the left in the distance. So that's kind of the distance we or I walk. But before that, we saw that beautiful tree that you see on the two pictures here. And that is what we call tree texture. This is what, you know, it's comfortable under there. So the urban nomads had a good time there.  They're so camouflaged under the tree, but some people must have thought, you know, they should go away.  And I found this really, really ironic. And so we wanna promise the audience to keep continuing to talk about these people more than the rich people. And so at the top right is sort of the preview of that we're gonna look into our cargo courtyard cabana theme and we're gonna cluster them pretty soon.  So with that, I think we might be at the end of airtime, the SOTO, so. Yeah, just about. And I think to just reiterate is what you said. I think good design is not necessarily just for elite people or poor people. It's for everybody. And if we look at the Hermes store and say there are elements that are applicable to other buildings even if they are for, as you said, re-housing the urban nomads, that makes them valid nonetheless. There we are. Okay, well next time we're gonna be, you're gonna be back in Honolulu. I'll be in Honolulu. We'll figure out how we're gonna do the show. But until then, thank you everybody for watching. Human Humane Architecture and Think Tech Hawaii. Martin Despang, DeSoto Brown. See you again next time. Until then, aloha. Here he goes.


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Start off the day at 16, and I was like, man, we're not gonna get this done, man. But then Mick dropped a little gift here. I canceled the second one for the promo. And then went on a rally, got it down from 16 to like three for a little bit. Then it was two, and then it was one. And then kind of sent there for a little bit at once.  All right, guys. Well, basically, there's three stacks here, but the top four are gonna be one break. So I'm gonna put them right here next to me. So you guys can see that. The middle four are gonna be a break. Put them to the right of me.  This one here, put that one over here. So one, two for the left, three, four for the middle, five, six for the right side, guys. It is a five, one, two, three, four, five, six. Here we go, here we go. Yeah, we'll see right, I guess. I mean, I see a couple orders coming in which I'm sure is for the Bowman Draft Asia, knowing that that's the last break to give away some money. But like I mentioned before, guys, I mean, I still wanna do more breaks other than the Asia break, hopefully. Because we do have a couple breaks that are super close. So, you know, get that one done. And I really would love to do some NT baseball, guys. That is actually our last case. We don't have any more after that. And there's a lot of teams that let us 30 bucks, guys. We can trim it down in the single digits and I can always R&B it. And like I said, maybe some people that win some money will reinvest that into some other breaks tonight. Look at that, Reno just got two spots and that breaks. Actually, we're down to, actually down to two left now. So, even closer now. So, it looks like we might as well get that 2019 done tonight. But yeah, I think you're right. I think now people are just like, all the games are over, let's break. All right, we got Adam Thielen to $1.99. Portals, Handel Hooker, and then Tayson Hill for the Saints. Travis Kelsey for the Chiefs. That was a nice game. 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Awkward, there's two more gifts right there. Seahawks. Rookie. Ooh. I mean, DeVal, well, this one's really nice. I was just hoping for Jackson Smith to jig with being on offense, but very, very nice. For the Seahawks, five out of 10. Seahawks going to Ron. A little gold rookie. Jaylen Hertz there, then we got a little Brett Favre. I have no idea, actually. I didn't check any all pros. Who got it from offense and defense? But he was their top pick this year, though. Steelers, wow, what a veteran box. Jerome Bettis. So we had a Ramondri Stevenson out of Jerome Bettis for the Steelers. Kind of with that one. I like that kind of party. Singletare. B-Zone base. I mean, we have Bobby for the Giants. Laporta. Just one hobby box, Andrew. You're just basically paying for a share of the teams in the title. If those teams hit, you'll have a one in 10 shot depending on how many spots you have to get the hits. But yes, you're just paying for a serial number for those 10 teams, basically. Well, whatever teams are in the title. If they hit, they hit something for you guys. If they don't, well, then obviously you don't get anything, but you're paying a fraction of the price. Ooh, we got a patch of autograph coming up. I think there's something nice hiding in one of those last two boxes, man, to be honest. So hopefully. Nice Marvin Minns color match for the Broncos there. Stover with that one. That's a sick one right there. So, 249. The Forrest Buckner for the Colts. Brandon with that one. Prismatic for Kittle. And how about a Jameer Gibbs, three out of 49. Nice purple power there. Copperman with the Lions, baby. He said, man, they've been hidden. I need to break that. I've been in. I'll take a chance at the Lions. Succeeded, buddy. Very nice. Little Jordan Humphrey. Not this year, Logan. They won your division this year. Not true. Devonte Smith. Daniel Hunter. La Porta. Harrison Smith. Gabe Davis. Nice, prismatic Aaron Rodgers. That's sick. 499. Then we got Dat Nguyen. I think we got a snake skin. Snake skin. Texan Andre Johnson. Nice. That's a case hit. Luke Schoonmaker. Cowboys. He's been a great four boxes here, to be honest, guys. And how about an Adam Vinitari flashbacks? It's crazy. The Goat. Justin Tucker for the Ravens. And Jameer Gibbs here. Oh, I don't know. Was it the fourth play? I thought you were saying ironic with four because of Breff R, but I was mistaken. All right, well, hey, not a bad four boxes, guys. It's pretty solid. I mean, in the four boxes, managed to get case of snake skin, case hit, parbo power. We got a gold Devonte Wetherspoon. You know, we'll love this color there. Nolan Smith. Autographs could have been a little bit better, but hey, still some decent ones. And like I said, this is a promo break, so there you go. Appreciate it, guys. So again, coming up next, I think is the last promo break to unlock the promo, and then we can get away some money and hopefully continue breaking time. Thank you, guys.


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This happened earlier today, man. I'm just showing why they're freaking out right now. Man, Cal, stick with me now. This is the keeper leaving. I don't understand what the fuck, you already seen it or what?   Waste my time.


So let's do this. Let's welcome in our MLB insider, John Marosi now. JP is ready to go. He's been itching to go for like an hour and a half as they're waiting for the truck race to end. And JP, it's great to see you. We know baseball is back. We also know that Clayton Kershaw is set to throw three innings in a simulated game tomorrow. So that I would think is good news. So what are the Dodgers' expectations for when they're gonna get him back here? Well, good evening, Kevin. It looks like Kershaw could be back in the big leagues around the first of May if all goes well, but it's important to note here. This is the fourth straight year now that Kershaw has missed some time with an injury. And in each of the last three years, we saw a diminished fastball velocity from him according to fangrafts.com. Now, earlier today, I asked Dave Roberts, the Dodgers' manager, about if there was a little more concern at the outset of this season, the fact that this was not an injury that came because of a workload during the course of the year, but he just had trouble getting going at the start of spring training. And Dave said, yes, initially there was some concern, but that right now they believe Kershaw's in a very, very good place. Physically, mentally, he should be ready to go, they hope here in the coming weeks. But one thing to point out too about the context here, they've got Julio Urias filling in right now for Kershaw, but the Dodgers really wanna watch his innings, Kevin. Urias threw only 22 innings, minor leagues and major leagues last year. And right now he's really holding that spot for Clayton Kershaw. Interesting, so he's got great stuff, but so yeah, it was very limited what he could do. JP will see you a little later in the show. Thanks, man, as always, great stuff. Not good news for the Brewers, because before the game they received this news that they're closed to Corey Canable. Will indeed have to undergo Tommy John surgery. He will be out for the year. 27-year-old did say he's been dealing with discomfort in his elbow for the last five years, which is incredible, because he's been great. Look, he led the team and saves each of the last two years. It is a loss, even though the Brewers have depth out in that bullpen. And with that, why don't we welcome back our insider JP Merosi and JP. Canable out for the season, we now know that. And I'm curious, there's a guy by the name of Craig Kimbrel, who is still out on the open market. The Brewers make a phone call here at least and inquire about this? Yes, Kevin, according to my information, there are some ongoing conversations right now between the Brewers and Craig Kimbrel's agent, David Meter. The fit is obvious, it's there, and it makes so much sense, because right now, it's not just the Canable situation the Brewers are worried about. They're also without Jeremy Jeffress as well. So of the three key relievers they had late in the game last year that we saw in the NLCS, two of them are now hurt, and that leaves Hater by himself. And we saw yesterday, an opening day, the Brewers had to go to Hater for a two-inning save in their very first game. That's a very, very bad sign. They're trying to trust at the very same time, Kevin. So many young, starty pitchers tonight. Freddie Peralta, just three innings. There's a big gap in the middle of the game, but they want to find a way to get the best out of Josh Hater. They may have to find a way to get Craig Kimbrel. I'm curious, just your opinion here, JP, because what you're talking about now with the injuries already back there, that was the strength of their team, right? They did it all, they wanted four innings, they used the opener last year, they changed it up. Now a couple of those kids are in the rotation, right? And now with the lack of depth back there, I'm curious if you think that Craig Council will push the starters, or at least try to. I know tonight it didn't work out, but do you think they'll change their philosophy early in the year here with Hater, the one real healthy guy? It's a great question, Kevin. And that's a big concern right now for the Brewers. We even saw in the first game, Julius Chassine was out in the sixth inning, they had to really bridge the rest of the game, with just two relievers, Junior Guerra and then to Hater. So I think as much as they can, they'll try to extend those starters, but they're also now without Jimmy Nelson. He is not all the way back yet from a shoulder issue. That's why whether it's Kimbrel or maybe Dallas Kikel, we'll maybe talk about him later on, they've got to find a way I believe to get a little bit more reliability, either lengthen out the starters as you described, or find a way to layer in one more reliever, because based on what you saw tonight, Goldschmidt, those three homers against three different pitchers, the council had to find a lot of different answers there, and none of them really worked. So I think the Brewers right now, maybe not a full crisis right now, but certainly something to think about early in the season there in Milwaukee. Yeah, the stove is on. John, thanks, stay tuned more for me a little bit later in the show. Back our insider, JP Merosi and JP, we talked about Craig Kimbrel earlier. There's a Cy Young winner and All-Star, a Go Glover who is still on the market. Dallas Kikel, I'm flabbergasted to be honest, can you give us any insight and when we will see him with a team at this point? Right now, Kevin, he is a team of one. His agent Scott Boris told me today that Dallas Kikel is still having 95 pitch simulated games every fifth day. They're at the Boris Sport Training Institute. They're close to you in Newport Beach, California, they're close to the Fox studio. Right now, he's there pitching every fifth day. Scott told me that he's talking with multiple teams right now. He is not telling me which teams, of course, at the moment, but I would pay close attention, Kevin, to the American League clubs that have had some injury issues in the rotation, specifically, of course, the Yankees. Right now, with Severino on the DL and of course, CeCe Zabathie as well, I would pay close attention there. The White Sox will see if they play well enough to maybe merit the addition of a starting pitcher. And then Oakland too, with their issues with multiple starters there on the DL. But I mentioned earlier as well, the Brewers. I've got to think at some point, whether it's Kimbrell or Kikel, the Brewers have to find a better way, as you pointed out, to maybe bridge that gap between the starters and the Leavers right now in Milwaukee. Can I just throw out a suggestion, JP, because he's training in Newport. Maybe he drives seven minutes in pitches for the Angels. I'm just going to throw it out there. It seems like a fit to me. Now that, KB, now that's a great, I love the, this has been a very great conversation between you and Swish, about what the Angels should do right here. A lot of great ideas, a lot of great brainstorming there between the two of you guys. Now, maybe add junks to the front office there at Anaheim. I love it, Swish, right there, baby. So I would say this, I will make that suggestion to our friends there at Anaheim, and I will let you know how far that goes up the flagpole. I was told right now, no conversations, but I agree, geographically, thematically, roster-wise, great suggestion. You know what I love about John? Not only is he great at his job, but he could throw the hate all the way from his home. Did you see a wave? So be it. JP, you're the best. We'll see you soon, buddy. My pleasure, guys. Thanks so much.


So with their revenge on the cartels comes challenges for us to complete, today I guide you through the Marking Your Territory Challenge, in which you have to find and use toilets under Villa Ultra Violet before you leave. Has it gone guys, my name is DPJ and today I've been doing another BR3 video, if you do enjoy it leaving a like really helps out and subscribe if you do want to see more. So this challenge is quite simple, but you have to know where to So within the mansion there are 3 golden toilets you have to find and use, it's one of the 18 challenges that comes with this revenge at a cartels event and today I will guide you to all 3. So the mansion and area has been cleared out so you will have to do the same to progress to certain areas, but once you do that just follow the route I take to each which you can see on screen now, and I hope this helps you out people. Now you have to use all three before you leave, you can't come here use one, come out go back use another that doesn't count, you have to use all three even one process of being here. So I will leave you to watch this guys, on that note we have come to the end, if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out, if you're new and want to see more borderlines be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload, you can turn on notifications by hitting that bell button, but guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one


Hello, hello there. Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. For this video today, I want to talk about my ongoing progress in improving my Hebrew through watching hours and hours and hours of Israeli television that I have found on YouTube. So I've been doing a number of videos over the past few weeks about various components of this methodology. I've been sharing them on the Hebrew subreddit, which is called art Hebrew. I've been sharing my playlist in a couple of Facebook groups. It's not an attempt at self promotion. It's just because it's helping me and I'm certain that there are other Hebrew learners who could be helped by this too. So I'm open sourcing everything that I figure out essentially, which is also kind of why I started this YouTube channel. I just enjoy sharing all this stuff. So what I've been doing is I figured out a way to translate Hebrew captions into English. This is a YouTube feature called automatic translation. That has been around for about, I think the past year. I'm not entirely sure, but it works on the desktop to if you have one human origin subtitle file, and I'll get to all the channels and playlists in it a little while. If you've won human origin subtitle file, one subtitle file that wasn't created through speech to text recognition, someone actually sat down and created that file. Then using the YouTube desktop, there is an option in subtitle options called auto translate, and you can translate the Hebrew captions into whatever language you want, whether it's English, French, Russian, whatever is your mother tongue. And this for me is an amazing way to improve vocabulary and pick up new words.  It's called the intermediate plateau. It's when you have enough language, you've got past the beginner phase, you know how to get by basic conversations, but you're lacking that kind of richness in Otsar Milim in vocabulary that, you know, you want to describe something using precise adjectives. And all you have is a really basic stuff and you end up sounding very basic.  I would say that's kind of my the struggle of me is being lacking nuance to express myself in Hebrew. So watching hours of TV has really helped. It's not something that comes naturally to me. I'm not a big TV watcher, but I'm setting aside two to three hours per night to open up my playlist, put them on the put them on the connect my laptop to the TV, and I just watch and watch and watch. And I'm going to show you guys the playlist I've built. I'm going to put them in the description. I'm going to put the Chrome extension that I've used to build these playlists quickly in the description. This is not again a self promotion. I'm just giving you all the tools I've been using so that if you want to improve your Hebrew using the same methodology, you can go ahead and do that. So firstly, this is the Chrome extension. It's called multi select for YouTube. And I built two really big playlist of content on YouTube that is subtitled in Hebrew. Now the situation we have at the moment is that on the YouTube desktop user interface, in other words, if you open YouTube on your laptop or on your computer, there's going to be that auto translate button that is incredibly useful. Now, unfortunately, YouTube hasn't rolled out this feature in full on its smartphone apps. Yes. For instance, when I'm on my Android phone, if there's a video in English, I do subtitle in English, I do actually get an auto translate option. But if the captions are in Hebrew, that option is missing. So it's a case of they're rolling out this feature on mobile devices slowly. There is a workaround. It's an app called Z translate. I'll put that link in the description. I'm going to show you guys that in a second. And that's what I've been using in when I'm on my phone. But to be honest, it just works a lot better from the desktop, because you can simply bookmark your progress in a huge playlist full of videos. So let's go through all the tools real quick to show you guys what I figured out what works. This is the Chrome extension, as I mentioned. And if you want to create your own playlist of Hebrew videos, I'll show you guys how to do that.  So instead of adding videos to a playlist one by one, you can add four eight 12 videos at a time, it just makes it way way more quick. There's no way I could have built playlist with 2000 videos without this multi select plugin. Now speaking of Oh, by the way, I'm getting very close to the 1000 mark here on YouTube. When I do get to that milestone, hopefully just in a few days, I am, as I mentioned, going to be doing a bit of reorganizing on my channel. These Hebrew videos are going to be probably on a separate channel or my Hebrew learning voyage. I will post an update when I've got that done. But it's on my to do list. When I get nine more subscribers to get over that 1000 milestone, which I'm really excited about. So in terms of the playlist, here are the ones I've built. Now this is one built on the content posted on YouTube by Khan Digital. As I've explained in other videos, Khan is Israel's public broadcaster. It's called, in English, the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation IPBC, but Khan is kind of its moniker. And for whatever reason on the Khan Digital channel, not on other channels, they add subtitles. And this opens a huge reservoir of content. So this is my playlist. There are 2362 videos. So all you need to do, I'm going to just open one video to show you guys how to how to use this. In case any of that wasn't clear, you open up the playlist or open up a video. I'm going to just pause it so I don't get like a copyright strike from this TV company. And then when you click on captions, you're going to see your Hebrew captions. Click on the setting icon, click on subtitles, and then go for this auto translate option. And boom, you can translate these captions from Hebrew captions to English. And now, even though nobody's actually added English captions to this video, I'm able to translate the captions in real time and use all this content to learn. So that's the one I actually really wanted to draw attention to. The other one I built is called Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles. Again, I'll put the link in the description. And it's kind of more varied. It's a bit of stuff I pulled in from Khan. It's a bit of stuff I pulled in from other channels. And by the way, another way to find content is to just Google a keyword, right? So if I Google, I'm just going to open up YouTube here.  And now you're only going to be finding content that actually is subtitled. Now, there's no way to filter on the language the subtitles are in. But this is all I've been doing for my videos is essentially thinking how can I find more content in Hebrew with subtitles and adding that to huge playlists.  And of course, if you want to do this really, really methodically, you'd probably be a good idea to have a notepad with you and just, you know, kind of pause the video whenever you encounter a new word, add that to a little notebook or something like that. But to be honest, there's so much content in the playlist I've built and the ones that anyone can build that you're probably going to get sort of repetition on the vocab just by watching a lot of it. So that's my method. I'm drawing, as I mentioned, most new videos from can those are available for me on YouTube, although I am accessing this from Israel. So if it's geo restricted, I don't know about it, and I don't know how to get around it, but there probably are ways. If you are learning Hebrew, I hope I know that I kind of packed a lot of info into this nine minutes of video. But I can say that as a Hebrew learner, as an Oleh Hadash, this method may seem unconventional, but it's really, really working for me. It's just the flip side of how a lot of Israelis learn English just by watching lots of films. And it's been easier for them to do that for a long time because a lot of stuff produced in English gets worldwide captions. And now, thanks to advances in YouTube's automatic translation of its captions, a whole world of Israeli content has opened up to Hebrew learners. And I think it's a great, it would be a great pity not to take advantage of it. Thank you guys for watching this video. Hope it was helpful. If you know of any other content in on the internet, whether in YouTube or elsewhere, that is has subtitles that can be translated. I'm all ears always looking for more stuff. But I can say after 200 watching 200 videos, my Hebrew has definitely improved and I can recommend this method. Thank you guys for watching.


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Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the finals of this year's Carnegie Mellon University three-minute thesis competition. I'm Keith Webster. I'm the Helen and Henry Posner junior dean of university libraries and your host this evening. We're thrilled to be back for our eighth year hosting this event. We continue to attract an impressive array of doctoral students willing to share their research in an informative and entertaining manner. It's wonderful to see so many of you with us in Kresge Auditorium in the College of Fine Arts today. A special welcome to a group of students visiting from our Qatar campus who are here for their spring break. And in addition, we are live streaming the competition courtesy of the CMU Alumni Association. The three-minute thesis competition was developed by my former university, the University of Queensland in Australia, and has grown from what in 2008 was expected to be an interesting one-off local event into an international competition held in universities around the world. The premise of the three-minute thesis is simple. Students have three minutes to present a compelling aeration on their thesis and its significance. It's not an exercise in trivializing or dumbing down their research, but challenges students to consolidate their ideas and discoveries so they can be presented concisely to a non-specialist audience. In bringing the three-empty challenge to Carnegie Mellon, I had no idea of the likely response. Over eight years, we've had more than 530 participants from across the university and judges representing faculty and staff from colleges, schools, and the university libraries. University leaders, alumni, and representatives of the research student body have also represented their areas and participated enthusiastically, and I'm grateful for everyone's contribution to 3MT. 41 students participated in this year's preliminary rounds from all seven of the university's colleges, making this truly a campus-wide event. We have five of the colleges represented in tonight's finals. I'm pleased to introduce our judges for this evening. Jim Garrett, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Anne Malloy, a trustee and member of the University Library's Dean's Advocacy Council, Amy Burkart, Teaching Professor and Vice Provost for Education, Theresa Trumbetta, and Vice President for Alumni and Constituent Engagement, and Jamie Leitch, a PhD candidate in the Department of History. Please welcome our judges and thank them. The rules of the competition are straightforward. Speakers are limited very firmly to a maximum of three minutes, and the competition rules require the disqualification of anyone who continues beyond that time. If they choose, and I think they all have chosen, speakers will be able to view a countdown timer during the presentation, and my faculty colleague, Ryan Splendid, will be operating on the timer and blowing a whistle or something when the time is at its end. Speakers are permitted to display a single static slide, but may not use any other media or props. Our judges will consider three broad criteria in arriving at their decision. These are comprehension, engagement and communication. In just a moment, I will introduce each speaker in turn and invite them to deliver their presentation. Once all of the speakers have taken their turn, the judges will retire to agree on today's winners. Our judging panel will select three winners who will receive awards as shown on the screen, in addition to the prizes they already won in the preliminary rounds. In addition, our in-person audience will have the opportunity to vote for the People's Choice Award. At the end of the presentations, we will collect your ballot paper that's printed on the back of your programme. Please vote for the candidate of your choice, and I'm told that we've taken the hack-proof, paper-based approach. We are also happy once again to partner with the CMU Alumni Association to award the Alumni Choice Award. This $500 prize will be awarded to the participant who receives the most votes from CMU Alumni watching the live stream on the Alumni Association's website after the conclusion of the last presenter's presentation. The winner of the Alumni Choice Award will be announced at the end of this evening's event, along with the other award winners. Before introducing our first presenter, I'd like to thank the many people who have made this event possible. Our finalists arrived here from Eight Heats. I mentioned already 41 students representing all of the colleges participated. Each Heat, like today's event, had a panel of judges, and I'm grateful to all who supported the Heats. I also acknowledge the phenomenal work of my colleagues in the University Libraries, notably Ryan Splenda, Sarah Young, Jimmy McKee, Sonja Wellington, Morgan Wolbert, Shannon Riff, Heidi Wooden-Bartlett, Sarah Bender, and Shannon Baldridge. Thank you all for your support.


I'm delighted to be joining you for this Belmarsh Tribunal in Australia and I'm very sorry that I can't be there at home with you in person. A huge thank you to Progressive International for their work around the world including for this work raising awareness about the persecution of Julian Assange. As Julian's council I've been asked to address three points for you today. The first about the US indictment and the threat it poses to free speech. The second the extradition case and where we are with Julian's appeal and finally the abusive process that we've seen in this case. On the indictment Julian faces 175 years in prison for committing acts of journalism and for the very same publications for which he's won awards the world over including the Walkley Award for most outstanding contribution to journalism and the Sydney Peace Prize medal. The indictment includes 17 separate counts under the Espionage Act for receipt possession and publication of information. As the Washington Post and the New York Times have made clear this indictment criminalizes public interest journalism. The freedom of the press foundation has described it as the most terrifying threat to free speech in the 21st century and they're right because it is. When it comes to the extradition case in short we're playing a waiting game. Julian won his case in early January 2021. The evidence before the court then was that if he was extradited to the United States he would be placed under prison conditions known as special administrative measures or SAMS which have been described as the darkest black hole of the US prison system. The magistrate ruled that Julian's extradition would be oppressive because medical evidence shows that if he is extradited and placed in those prison conditions he would suicide and on that basis she stopped his extradition. But the Trump administration appealed and in its last days sought to get around the court decision and shift the goal post by offering a conditional assurance that he would not be placed under SAMS. But as Amnesty International has said these US assurances aren't worth paper that they're written on. But in Julian's case it's worse than that because the US assurance was conditional. The US only promised not to place him under SAMS unless they decide that he later deserves it and who decides this? The CIA and he would have no right to appeal that decision. As many of you will remember we learned through important investigative journalism that the CIA had planned to kidnap and kill Julian and this is the very same intelligence agency which will have the power and law to place Julian once extradited to the United States under prison conditions that doctors say will cause his suicide. Nevertheless the British courts accepted this US assurance without Julian having the opportunity to contest that assurance with evidence at trial and in June last year the Home Secretary ordered his extradition to the United States. An appeal was filed in August last year but we are yet to hear from the High Court on whether he will be granted permission to appeal and we have no idea when that decision will come. It could be tomorrow and it could be in months. All the while Julian languishes in Belmarsh prison having already served longer in prison than the US prosecutors claim he will serve if he's ever extradited to the United States. It is an absurd case and an absurd position for him to be in. Finally I want to address the issue of abusive process. The organizers have asked me to address why due process isn't working and why the case should never have been started in the first place. So let me take those points in inverse order. The case should never have been started. Since 2010 I've been saying like a broken record that the criminal prosecution of Julian Assange will set a dangerous precedent that will be used to criminalize the rest of the media. It was the Obama administration that opened the investigation but ultimately chose not to prosecute because of the quote unquote New York Times problem. The exact problem that we've been warning about because you cannot distinguish between what Julian does and what the New York Times does. So criminalizing him will be used to criminalize everyone else but Trump had no such plans and it became clear that he would use the precedent against the rest of the media which he called the enemy of the people. We now have a Biden administration who is continuing this prosecution despite it being in violation of its own policy or not prosecuting the media and despite the raft of politicization and due process concerns that arose under the Trump administration and with this prosecution in the first place. But before I get on to that it's clear that there are principled free speech reasons why this case should never have been pursued and should be ended immediately. But it gets worse. Even if we leave aside these free speech concerns the due process violation should stop this case in its tracks. The abusive process in Julian's case is far worse than anything we saw in the prosecution of the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Dan Ellsberg under the Nixon administration. In Dan's case the prosecution was thrown out and with prejudice which meant it could never be brought again because government officials broke into his psychiatrist's office. In Julian's case he's been spied on, his medical appointments have been spied on, his meetings with the arses lawyers have been spied on, I have personally been spied on and legally privileged material has been seized. As Dan himself said in evidence in Julian's expedition challenge what Julian has faced is far worse than the abusive process he faced under the Nixon administration. In my opinion we should all be asking ourselves the question if the abuse that took place under the Nixon administration was enough to have the prosecution of Dan Ellsberg thrown out in the 1970s then what does it say about our democracy in 2023 if the prosecution of Julian Assange continues. To conclude and finally I want to recognise and pay tribute to Dan Ellsberg while I have the opportunity a deeply principled whistleblower and anti-war campaigner who risked everything to ensure the public had information that they needed about the Vietnam War and helped to bring that hopeless war to an end. With his moral authority Dan has been one of the most important advocates for Julian and I cannot thank him enough for his work. He's just been told that he's been given six months to live and has shared that news with characteristic courage and dignity. He continues to inspire me and he will leave this life a hero. As Dan himself said in Julian's expedition proceedings history will reflect on this case. Dan explained that he was vilified after leaking the Pentagon papers and that it was only many years later and today that he's recognised as a hero. He believes Julian has been vilified too just as he was and that history will remember Julian as a hero just as they remember Dan as a hero. But how will history reflect on the fact that Julian has now spent almost 13 years under restrictions on his liberty? I think the answer is that it won't reflect well. So let's do all we can to ensure his freedom. Thank you for what you're all doing and thank you for being here today.


Tags in Moodle 3.0 Tags have had an overhaul. The Manage Tags page is now simpler and improved. Courses may be tagged from the Course Settings page. And adding existing or new tags is now much smoother. Here we are in Site Administration, Appearance, Manage Tags. And the administrator can quickly reset flags and delete flagged tags. They can edit the names of the tags directly and easily mark tags as official. Regular users may tag their interests in their profile and also tag blog entries. Managers and teachers can tag courses by default from the Course Settings page. So let's look there. This is Course Administration, Edit Settings and scrolling down, we see a new section, Tags. If you click the arrow, you're presented with existing tags which you can then add. And you can also type in new tags and add them quickly by pressing Enter. Any tags the teacher enters here can then be searched from Site Pages, Tags.