at the table, and we're going to talk about some big, big issues. We're going to get briefed on exactly what some of those things are. I just want to say thank you. Thank you for being here tonight, and thank you for taking that step. I want to thank Goughlin Field for helping to agree to this. 7-Eleven is here. The whole idea is to have an important conversation about what makes place significant. What's culturally significant about places like Walthaus. And we know we have other issues like this throughout the city. So this, I think, is going to be very groundbreaking for all of us. It's important for us at the City Council to see this kind of collaboration, this kind of conversation. And so we hope to work together collaboratively, positively, towards some great ideas. With that, I'm going to welcome Shannon Miller of OHP to help reap us and walk us through what some of the issues are and get us up to date on what we're doing here tonight. Shannon Miller. Thank you so much. So again, we're not in any sort of, the ball is really in the applicant's court in terms of timing. They're not in an application before the city at the moment. And so we don't know necessarily when that next step will occur. But whenever it does, it will then be scheduled for the HDRC. There is a kind of FAQ for Colnack's question sheet that is on the front table. And they wanted to pick it up. But it has some of the basic information that we got. Some of you might be asking. And so be sure to grab that and you can have questions. And then also, Claudia Guerra and Kathy Rodriguez are here in the back, also from OHP. And they'll be floating around a lot, as will I. If you have any questions related to the process or design review or anything like that, while we're going through the evening. So with that, I'll turn the room over to Tim. Yes, please. I'll spend here a little minute and talk to you from here. So a lot of what Shannon mentioned was strictly the start and the finish to the end product of this discussion regarding this problem. And what we were suggesting is that it needs to be part of the community. It needs to reference some of the stuff that happened on the site. It should not be ignoring that the mall house was here. It should be celebrating that this was the site of the mall house. So one of the things that we required, there are two historic signs on the property. One's a little bit larger, one's a little smaller. We asked that they incorporate one of the signs into their plans. They agreed to that. They also agreed to donate the other sign to an organization on the west side that would be willing to take care of it. So they were willing to do that. We started looking at the architecture of the existing mall house, the scale of it, the size of it, how it's oriented to the street and see if any of those things could be mimicked. And then the last point that we kind of talked about was, again, this community gathering space. So we asked them to try to create a community gathering space on the site, an outdoor place, a covered place that you couldn't necessarily pull a car up into. That might be a gathering place, a picnic table, something like that. We're dealing with trying to find possibilities in public projects that not only sometimes look towards revitalization and trying to find something new and a way of expressing ourselves as a community and wherever we're going, but also quite a bit in terms of the notion of place keeping. The idea of trying to preserve the integrity or the authenticity of what we all remember that has been inherited through the work of generations that have come before. I'm fortunate to be a third generation San Antonio. So I've got lots of photographs of what San Antonio looked like to kind of help me become passionate about the projects that we're doing as a city today. And I also get the chance to work with a lot of artists. And public art isn't simply about artists, though. Every project that happens in the public realm involving property owners is involving professionals and consultants and thinkers about finding a solution. And in this kind of a project, which is not one of a kind, there's many projects in many areas of the city that are facing situations of this type, it's important to remember that the benefit we have in face of the situation is kind of reaching into our creative best, our ability to work with situations and find beauty and find something that we can do that is the best available option sometimes. Because nothing we never necessarily say the same forever. The other thing to remember is the talents that we have as a community. We have the talents that go into projects of this kind but also amazing fabricators, artists. And it's kind of a situation where whatever we can think has the possibility to actually come to life when we're working through a public art process. We literally find a lot of people that years ago would say, not in my backyard, not, you know, they're resistant to that type of investment, cultural investment, but we're in a different city today and I think that there's a lot that could be accomplished. I think part of this conversation is about looking for the nexus between the community and also development which is happening at an ever increasing pace but it also brings back opportunity to communities and jobs and it brings back, you know, some prosperity as well. So I think that what's on the table today with artists and community members and architects is to look deeply at what could be done and when it comes to public art, every surface, every vantage point sometimes opens up a new opportunity and many of the times those can be at a very high caliber that can draw attention not only locally but nationally and then on the other side of things, a very simple appointment project can do something that recalls the past like in a deep and very touching manner and so the murals that capture images of those that have gone before are what we do to kind of keep them with us today and honor them. Just to make sure that everyone understands, this property is currently zoned in such a way that allows for the 7-Eleven to operate as is so no rezoning is required, it is an abuse allowed by right so the conversation tonight is really not intended to be about abuse because that is already determined by the underlying zoning as is dictated by the city council. This is really about design and that is what is under the purview of HDRC and that is what we're here to discuss is what is the appropriate design for whatever is to be constructed on the site and we really do not have the ability to comment on use because that is already determined by the underlying zoning. I guess one key point and I kind of come up at the end that preserving or retaining a social gathering space there on the site is much more important than maybe retaining the architectural components of the malt house. The malt house is a very important place for community, for gathering and for people to meet with one another or just hang out and retaining those elements on the site is very important. The malt house was seen as a sort of community geographic landmark so in speaking the malt house was a point of reference in the Westside community the need to create a democratic space that welcomes the full spectrum of the Westside community I think one of the wonderful points about the malt house was its price point allowed for anyone to enjoy it and while selling it as its own price points still creating a space where everyone in the community feels welcome to be there and making it convenient not just for those accessing the site via their vehicle but also for those accessing it through the bus and on foot. My name is Isabel Garcia and I don't know how we're supposed to share this plan, any idea? Any piece of paper? Describe it. Describe it. Describe it. So what we did was we went with what they're proposing pretty much because in terms of what Paul was just saying it's not so much trying to preserve the natural building as it might be trying to preserve a memory. So what we did was we looked at taking the building as they proposed it and sliding it just a few feet as many feet as they can they said there's a little bit of room to the north to allow for there to be more room along the what it is to the side up to the corner where it hits the front of the board so that we can put in a covered or a canopy kind of patio area that then allows the neighborhood to come in and start to take ownership of that space. It would be, well it would be covered pretty much from where the parking on the interior of the site is to 7-Eleven pretty much to the corner and it might wrap the corner and have some kind of relationship to the roots of the proposed bus stop as well. This way then there becomes a kind of transitional space between 7-Eleven and the street allowing for people whether they're pedestrians or just neighbors coming over to actually occupy that space. It was also suggested that maybe on the interior of the building they provide a function that hearkens back to the mall house from the standpoint of the gallery and that would be to have three tables there where you can sit with your company or look at the sandwich you buy or whatever it might be to kind of generate that idea of people staying there not just kind of buying, paying and leaving but actually spending some time there and hanging out because social spaces on the outside are great unless you kind of but only as an idea unless there's something to have you actually linger so this would be doing that to promote that idea and then on the north side where there's parking we were also looking at maybe providing a canopy over those parking spaces to again kind of make a gesture back to what the old mall house was in terms of when you would pull up in your car and park under that canopy and you know they would come and serve you I don't think so I don't have anything to do with that but you never know. Any other ideas on that? I'll make reference to the poles, the tent pole type. The structure for the canopy for the pumps to maybe be a little bit more playful kind of referencing back to that kind of architecture of that area that was on that time. I guess our priority was to kind of look at all the different aspects of the mall house and highly related to the residents at that time and you know I have vivid memories of the 80s home that's what I remember but I do remember it was a place to go and I think memories is probably what stands out in our mind as being a priority was the neighborhood and the fact that you know not only the entire neighborhood around the mall house came to visit this restaurant but from all over San Antonio so it was to us an icon and so looking at the comments that the HDRC gave plus all the input that we had we've come up with our own solution as to how we can incorporate everything that we heard but the biggest thing is just the memories felt that this was sort of similar to the pig stand although very different in many ways but there were similarities we think that the mall house should be respected I think the fact that so many people have fond memories of this location I think that needs to be implemented into the plan Being realistic, the first thing we asked was where the guest exit will be? Will it be next to the neighborhood or what? And also where the tank is going to come through? And the only way for it to be done is to be able to build so some of that location part has to be addressed and everyone should be aware of it so the coming in and the tagging charts they're also using one name of our customers so we looked at the entryway, the exits safety, public safety so that was the first thing and then from there we went all crazy and started going into the building putting the mall house sign here and there and everywhere but top priority is safety of the community how are we going to get these tankers in and out and also we're not having people from the SAM shelter reaching our area so it's only fair for the 7,000 people to be aware that they do need to have a way of seeing all parts of their facility outside, inside, everywhere we do put tables because at first that was the first thing and we don't put tables but then we're going to attract an element that most of us are probably used to right now but an element others are not used to so that will affect our business also so we just try to be open and honest and things that they need to look at this is starting to all families so that's where we came to to be able to design the building and just be aware of that so we don't have any surprises later that hey, wait a minute, wait a minute the first element of the site was the food of the mall house and we thought about a couple of different ways to incorporate the food or the memories of the food one being to use recipes from the old mall house and specifically we focused on onion rings onion rings that could be sold we also were trying to address some of the concerns of turning the 7-Eleven into a restaurant which might not be ideal for 7-Eleven so we thought maybe putting a food truck on the site would be good specifically the mall house food truck and maybe incorporating the signage onto the top of the food truck in some way would be exciting and that keeps right into the second element that we thought was most important which was community gathering space which obviously would be just working hand in hand with that food truck and we tried to address some of the concerns other groups have brought up about potential emergency issues so we'll let Paul talk a little bit more about that and the design the third element was a reflection of the history of the site so that would have this thing like photography, URLs a time capsule or other creative storytelling methods that incorporating quotes or stories into physical structures on the site like sidewalks or other physical monuments to those stories and then last but certainly not least the structural features of the current the current structure like the canopies and the signage we felt were pretty similar to incorporated in some way into the future plans and so all of those are reflected in our in our stages


Thank you. What a nice introduction. I don't know about the star of that. There were some good people in that. How's everybody today? Good crowd. Good looking group. The women of Orlando are in trouble, I think. Save some for me. I'm a good writer. I've got a blog called righthandmanifesto.blogspot.com. Show hands. Who's ever read any of my articles on there? Okay, good. I'm a much better writer than my speaker, so I'd rather just kind of give you a talk. Not the most gifted, but I'll try to add some of my humor and experience. A little about myself. Contrary to the popular opinion that I was raised by wolves or nuns, depending on which woman you ask, more than just like an Irish boy that can hold my drink in a conversation. I'm a father, son, brother, friend, former husband, mentor, sometimes a lover. And I'm just like your average guy. I've had some success in business. Now I define my life by the kind of things I enjoy to do.  And you're kind of judged by your vocation or what you've chosen to do with your life. I think of more things, you know, I describe myself, you know, I play the guitar. I sound worse than Bob Dylan. I sing off key, but I still expect to be treated like a rock star. I like to cook. It's a great skill to have. It's fun. I've got three daughters.  Raising them, seeing them grow up. It's really cool. And I've got a lot of great friends and great family in town. Someone was asking earlier, it was out in the lobby talking that I'm fortunate. In the American culture, generally, when you reach adulthood, you go to college and you kind of move off and you move away from your family. I'm very fortunate. All my family lives here in Orlando. My kids, my parents, my brothers. So it's really a nice twist. American culture seems to be more pulled apart than it seems in the past 30 or 40 years. So that's a little bit about myself. On the interview for the community tapes, I explained a little bit how I got in the community. I joined the local Lair a few years ago. I met some great guys. I see a couple guys in it, hear from it. Three of my best friends now I met through the community. So I owe a lot to it. I kind of backed away from it in the past couple years. Because I think there's a progression that people go into. They get in the community. They get involved because they need a new paradigm in dealing with women. And so I found that, got excited about it, did some crazy things. And I think you got to push yourself to the edge of your comfort zone and do some things. I never wore a feather boa or a stuffed animal around my neck.  And I've seen some good results from that. But I thought, what am I going to, I talked last year. You guys can go online and look at the speech. A couple of guys told me that they had seen the video from last year and enjoyed that.  Because I was trying to throw all my experience of what I do, my own style in dealing with women, into one speech and it ran over. And Anthony was very gracious. He gave me more time. But this year I thought, when we were doing the community tapes, he asked me the question, what are you going to talk about? And I thought, well, everybody, there's guys better at pickup that are coming, you know, to share with you their style of doing it. My experience really comes from, I'm not a great pickup artist. I'm not lacking by any means in that area. I always have a lot of options in my life when it comes to women. But the other part of the background, why I chose to talk about it, is that I'll be 45 this year, so I'm a little older than most people in the room. And when Anthony asked my question, what do you talk about, I said, well, since he's kind of turned in the whole 21 convention to be more of a success type seminar for young men, what's the best thing I could share? A good buddy of mine always have these conversations and we're sharing things about mistakes we've made in the past 10 years. He said, wouldn't be great if you get your hands on a book that was all the things my dad never told me. Our dads had an experience of growing up with their father and what they shared with him. Maybe some of them had limited experience with different things in life. Some of them had one part of expertise, but some of them missed it in this area. Some of them got young, some of them, some of our dads maybe married a couple of times. So I thought that the best thing I could share with you is the top 10 mistakes that a man can make in his 20s. And I'm going to pull my watch out now, my clock. I don't wear a watch anymore. Who wears a watch these days? When somebody asks me the time, it's always like, if somebody asks you the time, you still pull out your iPod or your cell phone. I'll put that there so I don't run over. Top 10 mistakes a man can make in his 20s. I probably made half of these and watched other people make the other half. And it seems like when I talk to my friends who are in their late 30s, the guys that I hang around with are the closest with. I see some common threads that run through. And I wish that when I was 20, somebody would have got ahold of me and told me. I have these deep conversations with my mom and she talks about my ex-wife and she says, you know, I saw that coming. And I'm like, well, why didn't you tell me anything? She says, well, because you were 21 and you thought you knew everything. She goes, you know, you wouldn't have listened to me anyways. So there's really no particular order of importance. But I'll go through these. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to talk for a little bit. And at the end, I'll give us plenty of time for Q&A because hopefully I'll raise some questions in your mind and then we can just like restyle it as they say, right? Number one mistake that a guy can make in his 20s to avoid would be chasing any woman. It seems to be the theme in the community more and more in the past three years is who is the guy that writes the blog? He used to be herbal. He's got that little book out, how to make women, how to get the girl to chase you. And I think that's actually the way you want to flip the script. But chasing any woman is bad and it starts from the very first time that you see a woman because how does the traditional, typical American culture thing go? Boy sees hot girl and all boy sees is hot girl.  I get her. A lot of pickup in the past and the early stages of the community was all geared toward you trying to impress her, get her attention, try to create some attraction, try to get her interest up and try to escalate from there. But I think the problem with chasing a woman, number one, is you set the stage that you come across as needy. I need something from you. So this may be a girl that you meet at work. It could be somebody in your social circle. It could be the girl that you see at the bar or the club. And all of a sudden, you see hot girl and you feel a twinge in your groin or you're like, wow, she's hotter than the girl I'm seeing right now. Or you're like, that would be a great notch in my belt.  Let's see how far I can push it with her. But that whole thing of you being the one chasing, it just reeks of neediness. And even after the pickup thing where you see this girl, and maybe you go in and hang out with her, and you start to hang out with her a little bit more, and you find yourself that you're the one kind of initiating the communication. It's just, unless you're a little bit aloof, it kind of reeks of cleanliness. It's like, I need something from her. So the way to combat that, to avoid that mistake, is my rule is that any non-face-to-face communication with a woman should be very limited.  It's got to be face-to-face. So any kind of non-face communication text, phone calls, e-mails, just you got to keep it to a minimum. That way the woman knows you're not chasing her. I had this conversation very recently, and the woman said to me, she's like, I'm the one who is always initiating the communication. And we're sitting down, we're having a glass of wine, some cheese, she came out of my house, and she's like, I want to ask you a question. I've got this other guy that I've met, I know him seven years ago, and he didn't want to date me then, but now he's interested. And I just met you a couple of weeks ago, but I'm the one making all the initiation. I've made the phone calls, I've texted you, I called you back, she's like, yeah, but I'm the one doing that. I said, listen, my role is I'm not going to chase any woman. I said, because I'm not the clingy type. I said, how about that other guy? She's like, yeah, it's kind of creeping me out because he's calling me all the time.


Hey guys, I'm Josh DeMarco. I'm a hair stylist and educator, and today I'm up at Free Salon Education with Mizutani Scissors. We're gonna film a really classic graduated bob and show you guys some tips and tricks on how to sharpen up your lines and make sure your graduation is very balanced and perfect. So I started the haircut with using my comb on the jawline, and a great tip is that if you put the comb on the jaw and wrap it around, you'll find the occipital bone. And what's important is you can find the angle at which to put your graduation. So today I did triangular graduation.  So a great tip is to use your comb to get your first angled line. Also, I started the center back. Now a lot of times when you graduate a haircut, you kind of go from your new section to your guide. But what happens is, unless you're really really trained, you're always going to over direct the new section into the section you're about to cut, which after multiple sections, there's too much over direction, making your shape sit. It goes from really tight to really long, too fast. So what I do is I'm going through the haircut and I'm taking my guide into section. That way I'm always cutting the hair directly out from the head, which will make sure that I'm very balanced and I do not over direct. After taking my vertical section on graduation, you'll notice when I get to the mastoid, which is this part of the head that I drop my elevation. That is not an over direction. That is just dropping the elevation. So I'm not cutting the hair up where it doesn't grow. I'm cutting the hair where it hangs naturally. So by dropping that elevation, I preserve this part of the haircut, which is a very common area where stylists will cut too short. Then in refinement, the only way to fix it is to keep shortening the haircut to compensate for the hole you gave. So a huge tip is make sure you drop your elevation in the mastoid, this part of the head, and that's going to preserve that length because that length is what's going to connect to the side of your bow. After I set the graduation in from vertical, vertical slims the shape. So after slimming the shape and getting above the acceptor bone, I start to take horizontal sections. I'm taking horizontal sections because I want to build weight. If you want to graduate hair and you want a really nice, heavy shape, you want to set the weight horizontal. Think about a shirt, right? Vertical, slims, horizontal widens. So I wanted to really be able to see my graduation right at the acceptor bone. So I start to take parallel, diagonal forward sections, working up to right above the ear. Once I get above the ear, instead of finishing the back and connecting the side, I'm going to keep my shape triangular the whole entire time. So my sections go from back to front in one continual section. Now, after I set in my sections, I'm going to sharpen my line. Here's the key and this is an amazing tip. If you make your section a certain angle, make sure you cut the hair at that exact angle. What does that mean? If I'm doing a square shape, I don't want to cut like this. I want to cut like this. So you'll notice I do a triangular shape. So I'm cutting triangular. My comb or my fingers is going to mimic my section. That'll make sure that you stay balanced through your haircut and that you always keep your shape the same. Afterwards, I work through the whole entire head doing horizontal sections until I come up to the parting. Another tip, it's important to know the difference between a parting and a section. Parting is where you wear your hair. A section is what you're cutting. So after I set my basic shape, you'll notice on my graduation that the nape looks kind of dirty and not refined. This is because we're going to do refinement when the hair is dry. So a really good tip is knowing that your final shape and the precision part of the haircut is going to come after you blow dry the hair. So don't worry, don't get stressed out about making the most straight line of your life while the hair is wet because when it's dry, you can really, really, really refine that. I chose to flat wrap the hair because I did not want any elevation. So I go around and I teach haircuts a lot and the one thing I notice is hairdressers that are learning this will cut a really beautiful shape and then they'll get a round brush and they'll elevate the hair.   The haircut is going to build itself guys, you have to remember graduation builds weight. So I don't need a round brush to make that shape. I can flat wrap the head and the head along with the haircut is going to give me the perfect shape that I want. When I go through the haircut after I blow dry, I chose to do a quick flat iron pass just to smooth the hair. Then you'll notice in the back of the haircut that it gets really heavy, right? We like I said earlier, we built a horizontal shape. A great tip to soften the shape is go through section by section on dry hair. Hold the hair tight in your fingers. Make sure your fingers do not overlap. This will cause either layering. If your pointer finger goes over your middle finger, it'll layer the hair. And if it goes under, it'll make the top too long for the hair. So what you really want to do is grab an even section. Elevation softens your finish. Remember that. So why do we elevate hair? Think about layers. Everybody wants volume. They think layers, but layers does not give you volume. The round brush that you put in the hair gives you volume. So I can take that and soften it just by elevating. When I do this, you notice that I'm cutting parallel to my fingers and I'm just almost making sawdust, right? Nothing major. My haircut is in shape. I'm really just trying to soften my line by squeezing tension on the dry hair and elevating while I cut. The finger and blade parallel to each other. That'll soften the back of the haircut. I then take an oval shape around the crown of the head and I'll cut that at the angle that the hair is pulled vertically. So when the hair is down and lifts up, I don't want to layer this haircut, but I want to be able to band out the hair and soften the bevel of my line. So by following my fingers and my scissors, I elevate with the hair.  The problem is when you graduate hair and you don't go in and refine it and soften it, it tends to look really heavy. Also maybe wedge. Like a wedge. That is not what I want to do here. After going through the haircut, I go section by section on the side of the head. Here's a big tip for the side of the head.  So the head should either be straight or tilted. That's really just a great way to make sure that you don't lose the front of the haircut. If you're doing a triangular shape, a triangular bob, and that piece isn't longer in the front, you've ruined the haircut. So it's a great way to make sure that you stay safe and that you don't cut the front too short. After refining my line, here's a great tip. It doesn't matter how sharp your scissors are, try point cutting. Scissors push hair if you go parallel with them. So if you really want to refine a little bit of a line, just chipping it with the point of the scissor that are really sharp in your line. When point cutting hair, you want to make sure that you hold even tension when you pull the hair out. Notice that I'm going parallel into the way the hair grows.  So I just want to soften my line. You don't always need a point cut, but when you do, that's a great way to do it. So even tension, even elevation, and make your scissor go parallel into the hair.  The greatest tips when you cut this haircut is knowing that elevation controls your finish. No elevation, blunt line. Higher elevation, either graduation or layering. So elevation controls your finish. Tension is also really important because too much tension can make the hair jump. When you want to set out to make a line, minimum tension is your best friend. So don't get in the habit of pulling the hair on the side of the head. It'll be too much tension and your line will jump. You'll notice in the back that I chose to do some slide cutting. The reason I chose slide cutting is because I wanted to soften the top of the hair just to have movement so it's not just such a solid shape. As beautiful it is to do these haircuts and then make them look perfect. People aren't going to wear their haircut that perfect. You want the hair to fall into place when it's done. And honestly the most important thing is we can make the hair look amazing but it's how they are going to make the hair look when they're wearing it. So if I slide cutting the hair it's going to add movement to the hair and it's going to soften a lot of the one length on top. Notice when I do my graduation I keep really blunt lines. My hand and my section are parallel to my cutting. The reason I do that is because I don't want to build this whole entire shape and go in and point cut it to death or cut at an angle because that's just going to collapse my shape. And you have to remember graduation builds weight. If I'm going to spend the time to graduate a hair to build the weight I don't want to spend a lot of time taking away all the weight that I've just built. So today I showed you guys how to use Mizutani scissors. You'll notice my hand position.  I want to control my scissors. I don't want to cookie monster when I cut. Just my thumb. Once you get your thumb technique down with simply controlling your thumb everything else will come secondary. You can take stress off the wrist by changing the shape of your scissor. No matter how you put your scissor you got to control your thumb. That'll really help you become a much better hair cutter because guys when we cut hair we want to control the hair. We don't want the hair to control us. I want to thank Mizutani scissors for making the best scissors in the world. These scissors have helped me be able to achieve the hair cuts that I want. And I want to thank Matt Beck and Free Ceylon Education for giving me the opportunity to make this awesome video. I hope you guys learned a lot. Listen guys there's one thing to remember. Education will always get you further and all the knowledge I have. I love to give you because I would like to pay it forward. We got to keep the industry strong give out the education. You can find me. My name is Joshua Marco once again. You can follow me on Instagram at HairDMarco. Hair D-E-M-A-R-C-O. Thanks guys.


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Okay. James P. Madonna here at the Royal Abachi Buffet, Route 46 West, Saddlebook, New Jersey. I am doing something in reverse. I'm getting my lemons first. In the color-coordinated bowl, Jeff Zambello. Please get well, Jeff Zambello. My buddy, my close buddy, Palomine is in the hospital right now. Send him your prayers.  It's not an orange, is it? Wait a minute. I'm confused. I don't want an orange. I want- wait a minute, wait a minute. I want lemon water. I never heard of an orange lemon. Got orange lemons? I've never heard of an orange lemon. It's a new type of lemon. You need lemons? I don't even know if they're real lemons.  I don't know. I'm a little confused here. But then again, some nice mangoes will be good. We've got some mangoes. Kiwi fruit, mangoes. It's a fresh pineapple. Hmm, interesting. Now I hope to God these are not oranges. Unless it's a new type of lemon. An orange lemon, maybe it's a hybrid. Maybe it's a hybrid, Jeff Sambo. You know? I don't know. I'm really confused. I hope I'm not making a mistake. Mistake, mistake. Speaking of mistake, I hope they got steak. Look, the lemons are orange. Is that a real- is that an orange lemon? Or is that really an orange? To try to pass it off as a lemon? I don't know. It better be a lemon. It's lemon, but a little bit orange. It is a lemon with orange skin. Orange skin. You want to be on YouTube? No. You know, she always says no. Okay, let me try one of these mangoes. Papayas are good too. Sometimes they put up papayas. Now I go get my food. Make you a star. You get discovered. I'll put you on the internet. You'll be a big star. Are you seeing? Okay, let me go get my food. Okay, see what I got here. No duck. Maybe the ducks are lucky ducks. Maybe they're escaping the people that ring their little skinny necks. The scrawny necks are saved. Hey, the sushi is covered. Look at that. The sushi is under a dome. Look at that. Hey, man, how you doing? The king of Mongolian barbecue. I was just talking to him. The king. The king. What do we got here? Telapia? Really? African cichlid. Telapia. Why not? Why not? I'll take some Telapia. They're originally from the Nile River, I believe. Jeff Zanbello of Africa. The deepest, darkest Africa. It's a freshwater fish, so it would not be surf and turf. It'll be turf and turf. No, I'm sorry. It will be surf and turf. It just won't be in the form... Oh, they got lamb ribs.   Bouillon balls. All right, here. Get some mussels. Over there we got a shrimp wrapped in plounder. On that side. We got some succulent lamb ribs. Oh, yeah. No, there might not be duck, but I sure as hell I'm going to have wonderful surf and turf with these lamb ribs. Sacrificial lamb, Jeff Zanbello. I also want to give a shout out to the Exorcist Bishop, Bishop Brian from the famous show on the Travel Channel, Ghost Adventures. Give a shout out to the Exorcist Bishop Brian, who is a culinary connoisseur of fine fruits and also fine scotch. I'm sure he blesses the scotch. Beautiful. All right, let me get out of here. Let me get out of here before I get out of there. Oh, forget it. Oh, look at that little bit of food. Anyway, the king of Mongolian barbecue. I will be back. He's got a little bit... Me, I eat ten times that amount, you know. Okay, here's one finished product. I think that the artificial crab meat in there. All right. You know what? I'll come back. How are we doing with the soup? Chicken noodle, potato soup. No, that's peasant food, peasant food. Now the seafood soup. The seafood soup is pretty good. The seafood soup is pretty good. See, they've got everything nice and covered. I like that. Keep the cosmic dust out of it. Hot and sour soup. Very good. A little bit of a cold egg drop soup. I think the original egg drop soup was dropped from the Great Wall of China. Jeff Zimbelo, you have to have the right altitude. Vegetable soup. Ah, peasant soup. Steam dumplings. A shrimp in a creole sauce. Here we go to the angel hair rice noodle. Some crawfish. Okay, Shirley. Here I have some tilapia with lamb ribs and mussels, like mussels. Here we got chow mein phoon. Chow mein phoon. Crawfish. Shrimp in spicy creole sauce. Here we got steamed dumpling. Steamed dumpling. Okay. And a different kind of soup. Egg drop soup. There's the sushi up close. And let's see. I'm going to sit down now because I think I have enough food. Seafood soup again. I'm just showing it to a friend. Okay. Here's your favorite. Hard ice cream. Ice cream is there. Let's see what they've done to it. It's not too bad. Not too sloppy. Here we have a squash. So take squash. And we have eggplant. Very good. Very tasty eggplant. They look like churros. Like churros, to be honest with you. French toast. Okay, I have enough. Now I will find out if the orange skin lemons really taste like lemons. All right, Jimmy. I got barbecue lamb ribs. Some tilapia. Black mussels in a bouillon ball. I mean bouillon base sauce. I'm going to see if these orange skin lemons are real lemons. They told me that they are. Just a different variety. Got a hunk of mango. The owner of the buffet over there, the Turkish guy, wants to open up a place by the Patterson Falls. The mayor of Patterson comes here often. I gave him my suggestions. Okay. Whether or not a politician takes it or not, who knows. I should tell him to call Bill Pascal though. I think this isn't a private agency. Okay. The party room is open. There are the beautiful lamps from Turkey. Beautiful Turkish lamps. The party room is open. Okay. Now. Royal Apache. Buffet Rue 46 West, south of Brooklyn, Jersey. I'm going to... I'm waiting for the true king of Mongolian barbecue. I don't know what happened to him. Hmm. Well, maybe he'll return possibly. Some large shrimp. I'm going to load it up with shrimp, like I normally do. Okay. As a foundation for my Mongolian barbecue. Don't crimp the shrimp. Jeff Zambelo. And Exorcist Bisher Bryan and Jimmy LeBurre. Don't crimp the shrimp. Baby corns. No. They're not indigenous to Asia, so I am not going to select them because I like only authentic things that are indigenous to the part of the world. Since I am a fun guy, I love mushrooms, of course. I am going to go heavy on the mushrooms. Okay. Being very careful not to spill anything because I am very meticulous. I am very meticulous in every damn way. You understand your bronies? Okay. Ah, but... Ongyons or broccoli? You know what? Broccoli is good, but I think Ongyon, as Justin Wilson used to say, Ongyon adds a lot of flavor. All right, now. It's getting awfully high now, man. Little Ongyons. I don't know about a little. Looks like a lot of Ongyons. That's the Louisiana Cajun way to do it. I'm coming. I'm coming with my grande. Mongolian barbecue grande. Da-da-da-da-da-da. There we go. It's coming.  Oh, my God. This is going to be a disaster? Or what? Look at that. This is the before. This is the before. Look at it. Hold on. Look at it. What a beautiful sight. It looks like Mount Everest. Mui Pocante and lots of garlic. A lot of garlic and a lot of hot pepper. A lot of hot pepper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of hot pepper. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I have some soy sauce? Yeah, yeah, some soy sauce, sure. Look at that. Look at that beautiful sight. It happens to be, I think my second massive Mongolian barbecue. Look at the vapors of life. Commodore Jeff Sandbello. I got a lot of mushrooms. I got a lot of Ongyons. A lot of garlic. A lot of garlic. I got to have a lot of Mui Pocante hot pepper there. I got a Cameroons. I got Chao Mei Fung, you know, angel hair rice noodle. I guess that's it. Yeah, mushroom. I said that already. There you go. Beautiful. This is the work of art. And this is the king. The king of all Mongolian barbecue is right there. He's the king because I said so. That's all. Simply because I said so. I will give him the PH, honorary PHD in Mongolian barbecue chef. He will get a certificate. Not from Trump University though. That's not worth anything. You know what they did?  He promised to take photograph with a graduate. It was a cardboard like a statue made of cardboard of him. It wasn't really him. The poem is not worth anything. It's worth nothing. What a scam he was.  Unbelievable. Very crazy man. Beautiful. Look at that. You have sesame oil? Sesame oil? You have sesame? Put a little sesame. If you have. Sesame oil is a very nice flavor. Yeah. Very nice flavor. Look at that. Sesame oil. Open sesame.  Oh my God. Beautiful. Wonderful smell. And very good for you too. He is mixing up my massive used to be massive. When I first grabbed it. Put all the ingredients when it was raw. But now it is shrinking down. It's getting cooked. My shrimp. Chow mein phoen. Hung ins. Mushroom. And sesame oil. Little soy sauce. Second. Mongolian barbecue grande. This one is mine. This one is for me. That's why I got so much shrimp in there. The king of Mongolian barbecue is completing my wonderful Mongolian barbecue. This is the Royal Hibachi Buffet. On Route 46 West and south of New Jersey to find this buffet in New Jersey as far as I'm concerned. The best value, the best bang for the buck. For lunch only $10 or you can eat. You've heard it right. You've heard it right. Only $10 or you can eat for lunch. And they have fresh seafood here. Nothing frozen. Oh the Cameroon. And they put out lamb. Barbecue lamb ribs. Cagolin. Heart ice cream. Latin desserts. And there he is, the finished product. Beautiful. Beautiful. Gracias. Thank you. There we go. Alright. That is a beautiful sight. Alright. Let me bring it back to my table.  There you go. Well you can smell that sesame oil. Gee, what a pleasant surprise. Not the baby crying but look at that. I believe that's hummus. I do believe that is hummus. And there's my color coordinated hummus bowl. How about that? Well it's actually a soup bowl but anyway. Yes, I love hummus. What should I put on it? Maybe some of this. Maybe. Beautiful. What a pleasant surprise. Delicious hummus with a parsley cucumber and tomato salad on top. And a hummus color coordinated bowl. How about that? Here at the Royal Hibachi Buffet. Okay. What flavor am I going to have? Because it's the end of the buffet. I think I'm going to have chocolate, the old standby. Chocolate. I think I'm going to have chocolate. I get a chance to have the eggplant but I'm not in the mood. Better be chocolate. Okay. Who can think of a better way to finish off the best bank for the buck the best value in lunch buffets than with the old standby hard chocolate ice cream hand scooped. What am I going to have?


Yeah, he got my back foot. But I probably should have cleared some space a little bit. But yeah, he just got my back foot and pushed me up a little bit. You guys have had some good offense the first night here. What happened tonight? What was so hard about the collar to him? Yeah, just one of those nights. Just couldn't get a whole lot going. Yeah, he pitched well. But I don't, you know, when we did hit the ball hard, I just felt like I was right at somebody. And overall, we just didn't swing it very good. What was the foot he got wrong with the toe? No. OK. DJ, Aaron was talking before the game yesterday that it might be something that you need to manage the rest of the year with your toe. Do you feel that you can manage it very well, be pain-free, and perform to the best of your ability the rest of the season? Yeah, I'll be all right. I'll be good to go the rest of the year. Is it something that you have to constantly monitor and have treatment and deal with your orthotics? Or it's about finding the right spot? It's just, yeah, it's just dealing with it. Is anything you guys, last night, how much better do you feel about this team after the way you guys rebounded this past week after that? Two or three weeks of really struggling? Yeah, I played really well the last four or five days when kind of our backs were against the wall a little bit. Came out and played really the best baseball. I think we have all year. So it's definitely encouraging and still got a month to go. So I don't think any of us are going to relax. DJ, when you guys go out to the West Coast and have to play teams like the Athletics and the Angels and so on that are sub 500 teams are not performing well this season, you're expected to sweep. You're expected to win this series. Is there an extra kind of pressure when you are the New York Yankees scuffling and playing against teams that are not having good seasons? I don't feel like anyone feels that kind of pressure. It doesn't really matter who we play. We're just going to take care of business and play like we're capable of.


Morning everyone. My name is Meng Cheng. I'm the Executive Vice President at Purdue University and the Johnny Everson Dean of College of Engineering. On behalf of many parts and organizations of this university and the Purdue Research Foundation, we'd like to extend a warm welcome to all of you here in person and those watching online. Now or later, to the first in the series of the Ambassador Distinguished Lectors at Purdue. And we are honored and privileged today to welcome Madam Ambassador Olaf Stater and Dr. Brogdon to be the inaugural speakers in this new series here. In particular, we are absolutely delighted that Purdue University, the state of Indiana, are able to enjoy this growing relationship with many enterprises and universities from Sweden. And to welcome students here, to welcome business here, to welcome technology and economic development along with research collaboration here in the middle of this country. And we are committed to be part of this utterly important and increasingly stronger bond between the Kingdom of Sweden and the United States of America through technology. Madam Ambassador, welcome. Good morning. Can you hear me? Yes. Thank you so much for having us here. It's true delight to leave Washington DC. Haven't done that for a long time now. So good to see you all here. I hope you've been doing okay during this particularly strange times, maybe to be a student with COVID. So it's good to see you all back here. I hope you, I don't know if you studied at home or if you were here all the time, but if you were home all the time, I'm sure you're very happy to be in college. So this is a great honor. And actually, I will give you a small history lesson today. I don't know if you know very much about Sweden.  Well, it's a it's a quite long story, actually. It starts in 1814. But I will just tell you that the first Swedes actually arrived in the United States in 1638. We established a colony in Delaware. And if we hadn't been beaten by the Dutch in after 15 years, and they eventually by the Brits, maybe you would all have been speaking Swedish at this time. But that's that's not the case. Anyway, but the Swedish strong defense industry actually goes back to 1814. We then had to import a new king. And because the dynasty that we had was was kind of over, we had to get someone new. And then at the time they thought Napoleon, it would be good to have a French general as a Swedish king. So they imported Marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, who became crown prince at the time. So when he eventually inherited the throne in 1814, he realized his goal was to get Norway back from Denmark because we had lost Norway. We had lost Finland. And he did not at all side with Napoleon. He sided with the French to get Norway back. And then he looked at his empire and thought, not so big, fairly big land, but not many people, very poor, because we had been at war for so many, many years. So he decided that the union between Sweden and Norway, we should become neutral. And he himself wanted to have an important role in Europe as a mediator in all the wars, you know, there were constant wars at the time. So he wanted to be a prominent figure in Europe mediating peace between different actors. And so he thought it was good that Sweden then became neutral itself, because that would give him more credibility. And I think in Sweden, at least, Sweden is not a member of NATO. We didn't join after the Second World War. Many think that we are by default bunnyhuggers and peaceniks. That's not the case. So the reason for him to do this was actually to give himself a prominent role, and we were so poor. This poverty that we had actually led to that one fourth of our population, or one third even, left for the United States in between 1850s and onwards. So at the year 1900, Chicago was the second biggest Swedish city after Stockholm. And we have played quite a big role in the development of these country skyscrapers of Chicago, for instance, were started to be built by Swedes, several household companies here in the U.S. are Swedish Walgreens, for instance, Greyhound, Carlson, Waggon Lee, the travel company, and others are Swedish. But anyway, so one fourth of our population left because of poverty, religious persecution, and inequality. And of course that eventually led to the creation of the Swedish welfare state that we know today, because of course the politicians at the time panicked. One fourth of one third of the population left. They had to institute schooling for everyone since the 1860s. And then we had some great innovations, late 1800s, like Ericsson, for instance, telephone company, SKF, ball bearing company, which is also here in Indiana, and many other inventions. So we became a country of engineers. I think due to the fact that so many people left for America, they went, we had mandatory schooling from the 1860s, and then a strong engineering culture. Anyway, then, you know, it's all about location. So we have a very big neighbor to the east. So the neutrality that was then instituted in 1814 carried us through the First World War. We stayed outside of that. Of course, it was tough for Sweden as well at the time. Same went for the Second World War. There we had a very tough balancing act to be neutral. We, for instance, sold iron ore to the Germans during the war. But at the same time, we provided the Brits with ball bearings, as I said before, Swedish invention, air protection, military air protection from the Swedish industry. So we tried to play both sides. So then after the Second World War, NATO came about and the war so packed. So the Cold War was a fact. Sweden decided, given our long history of neutrality, to try to continue to stay neutral. So we did not join NATO. Finland had to, after the war, have a friendship packed with the Soviet Union. So they were kind of left on their own in the corner next to us. So we then decided, as I said, to be neutral or militarily non-aligned. But to make this non-aligned as trustworthy and believable, we got a huge military industry going. As I said, country of engineers. We had an air force already back in the 1920s. But after the war, our military industry really boomed. So since then, we have created our own fighter jet plane. We are usually competing with the US on the international market. I can tell you that the US wins more often, even though we think we have just as good a plane for a decent amount of money. But so we also produce our own submarines. I was just in Washington at the huge Army Fair, a USA, where you could see a lot of Swedish inventions together with the BAE. We have one of the biggest companies when it comes to, what do you call it, how you aim for your weapons to reduce casualties. We have grenade launchers that used by the US Army and so on.  And the reason, as I said, why we did this, why we got this big industry is to make our own neutrality credible and believable. So the most of the production during the Cold War were for our own needs. We had a very strong army during the Cold War time. But then when the Soviet Union fell and we all thought peace would come to earth, and we changed our military doctrines and we kind of not disassembled our military, but we really scaled down. We started selling and exporting. And SOB together with the that have created the Gripen fighter jet has been quite successful. And now, as I said, we are opening a huge facility today in Lafayette to produce trainers fighter jets. So it's airplanes, but it's not the real combat ones, but it's the ones you use for training. So huge factory, huge production, and of course, great for innovation. And I know that SOB together with the university in Linköping, where they are located, will have a very strong tie to Purdue University. So that's another strong link. So for those of you who are interested in aeronautics, come and work in Linköping for a while. I think it would be great. And we also have, I think you have an exchange program with our with our university there. So this is a long story of telling you why a small country in the north that is kind of a peaceful, trying to have a peaceful existence in a very tough area has a strong military industry that is actually going to Indiana. Today, we are increasing our defense spending quite a lot. We see Russia as an increasing threat when it comes to military activities. We cannot anymore rule out a military attack from Russia. We see a buildup of the Russian military forces. We see much more activity in the Baltic Sea, which you can see the ocean between the water between Sweden and Finland and Russia. We see much more present activity there of Russian forces. Annexation of Crimea in 2014, of course, shows that Russia does not respect international law and sovereignty of other countries. And we are quite worried about the situation in our vicinity. We are, of course, completely aware of the US focus on China. We share that worry about China. But of course, we don't see a military threat from China in our area, but we do see that from Russia. So very much about my work, everyday work in Washington, is telling the story that I just told you why we need to cooperate very closely with the United States. As I said, we're not a member of NATO, but we cooperate very closely with the United States when it comes to development of our military equipment, when it comes to military exercises. We have been in all NATO, even if we're not a member of NATO, we still have been in all NATO's military operations, taking part in Afghanistan, alongside with American colleagues, and so forth. So for us, it's paramount to our security that the US interest in Europe is still there, and that you show up at the exercises, show the Russians that you, the transatlantic link and the Article 5 in NATO is valid. So that's what I try to preach everyday in Washington. And I can assure you, we have a very good cooperation. But given the shift of focus, which we completely understand towards Asia, and every government and every administration just has one bag of money, and when that has to be divided, when it comes to your security, we just want you to keep your interest in the Baltic Sea and in our region as well. So we can stay safe. Of course, we don't only see military threats, cyber hybrid is very much a reality, and that's maybe where we are even more vulnerable. I'm sure you have taken notice of the ransomware attacks in your country. Washington DC was out of gasoline this summer because the ransomware attack on a pipeline from Texas, we just had an attack on like our safeway. So 800 stores could not sell food for a whole week, quite serious. So that's also things we need to take more seriously. And I think you as students at this fantastical technical university have all the opportunities to also get into those kind of technical issues. How do we protect ourselves from cyber attacks in the future? Because maybe that's even more of a realistic threat to our societies than an actual military threat. So Sweden is not just military superpower, we're also an innovative superpower actually in the last ranking. We were number two, the second most innovative country in the world after Switzerland. We are very proud of that. As I said, we're a country of engineers. We're very innovative when it comes to all the new technologies that I've talked about. Stockholm is second place in the world when it comes to unicorns after Silicon Valley. So now it's my great pleasure to hand over to Maria Brouberis, who is the Innovation Counselor at the Embassy to tell you a little bit more of what we are doing. So thank you so much for your attention. Thank you, Karin. And thank you Purdue University for inviting us. It's a real pleasure to be here. I will broaden the scope from defense and security to sustainability in general and inviting you all to cooperation with Sweden in this area. We have just launched this wording, pioneer the possible to show that it's, I mean, sustainability and technology to advance sustainability is really here. So that's what I want to invite you all to collaboration with Sweden. So let's pioneer the possible together. Yeah, sorry. The Sustainable Development Goals. Goals, 17 goals that are due in 2030 and it's only a bit more than eight years to go. And we are not on track with most of the goals. So we need to really speed up what we are doing. Climate change really needs to be tackled. Sweden has quite ambitious climate targets. And we were really happy when the US announced that you would re-join the Paris Agreement. That's a really, I mean, good, it's a message to the world that when the world's largest economy really commits to this, it's really powerful and it mobilizes efforts from everywhere. And I mean, you could say that these are only, I mean, the dates here, carbon neutrality in 2040 or 2050. It's just, it's targets, it's maybe just words. But I'm here to, I mean, to give some example of what's really happening in Sweden and also in global cooperation because the green transition is really happening. There are a lot of stuff going on. Green batteries, for example. In the end of this year, the Swedish company North Vault will start full-scale production of the world's greenest battery cells in the north part of Sweden. And that's an area which is really booming with new companies in the area of technology. So these batteries, it would be lithium ion batteries using renewable energy and also in a closed-loop process where all the materials will be recycled. So using recycled materials as input and then having this closed-loop. And billions of dollars has been invested in this, in this project. Another example is fossil-free steel. We have now produced the first steel with input of hydrogen from renewable electricity producing steel without carbon emissions. And that has been delivered to the Swedish company Volvo for producing trucks. And this is called the hybrid project. So fossil-free. And also it says here fossil-free from mine to steel. And also the mining industry is making the shift towards pure electricity-driven machines with the help of engineers, of course. Hybrid will have commercial scale production of fossil-free or carbon-free steel from 2026. Now it's only a pilot plant so far. Other new solutions are whatever you can make from wood. For example, you can make, I mean, of course, high rises with wooden structures. The picture in the middle here, clothing. A new factory in Sweden is starting now to produce cellulose and textiles from wood. And of course, airplane fuel can also be made from wood. Maybe Saab will run on that in the future. Yeah, thumbs up over there. Yeah, so a lot of things are really going on. And also when it comes to technical innovations for human well-being, for quality of life, there are also many things going on. And as Karin said, we have a long tradition of engineers in Sweden. And we're really proud of that. For example, the marine propeller is a Swedish invention invented by John Ericsson in 1850. And this propeller was actually used in the Civil War ship monitor, which beat the confederation, what's it called? Yeah, Merrimack. So it proved that it functioned. And Karin also mentioned the ball bearing, which we are proud that SKF, the Swedish company, invented in the early 20th century. And now development of this technology is going on here at Purdue. And actually, I heard that Purdue has produced two and soon to be, we hope, three PhD that is working at SKF with advancing this technology. So great cooperation there. More recent, modern inventions are, for example, Bluetooth, which is a Swedish invention. The pacemaker, Skype, the free internet call service is a Swedish invention, Spotify, online music, streaming, more modern and popular inventions, I guess you have heard of all of them.  It's cooperation. Of course, scientists have a huge part in this, making the foundation and breaking new, I mean, pushing the frontier of our knowledge. But there are also business leaders who have the courage to invest and to make these inventions into real innovation and put them on the market and investors that are willing to risk their money in helping the business leaders. In Sweden, we find that politicians have been really important in putting the long term rules of the game in place. In Sweden, politicians were really early out in establishing a carbon tax, perhaps not so popular by everyone at the time. But that has really showed that we want to reduce the use of fossil fuels. It's a carbon tax on the content of fossil fuels in energy. So that has had a crucial role in decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. And you see it at the same time, we have increased GDP quite a lot. So there is not, I mean, the economy did not suffer. And what was crucial here is this long term direction, this is where we are going. That was also the reason why Sweden were one of the, I think we were the first country to have this carbon neutrality goal, to set the direction for businesses to minimize risk. And as Karen said, we're a really small country, up in the north, only 0.13% of the world population. So we have always had to be open. We have, I mean, we're also depending on our exports. So that's sort of in our DNA. But although we're a very small country, we are proud to have 3% of the world's top 100 universities. So, I mean, far more than our sort of chair of the top universities. We have an innovative public sector. We have had this triple helix cooperation between academia, the public sector and business. That is really also something that defines Sweden, which we value a lot. But of course, it's not only Sweden, we cannot meet the sustainability goals ourselves. So it's also a lot about cooperation. And we already mentioned the ball bearings several times.  But what the ball bearings have done for the world is actually huge in saving costs and fossil fuels. So those, I mean, give us a handful of those inventions. And I mean, it makes a difference. So I would like to invite you all to connect with us and join us in the co-creation of a more sustainable society and technology to assist on that journey. So just, I mean, you could come to Sweden and study as an international student. There are many different, I mean, we have a lot of different university and you can do a short period of time or you can stay longer. And there are information at studying sweden.se, for example. If you are a more senior researcher, a doctoral student or senior researcher, there are also a lot of opportunities, grants. And we have this foundation, Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education that can guide you, for example, if you're interested.  A specific event that we will host is in connection to the World Expo in Dubai. We will host a virtual innovation event for the Sweden Innovation Day, this event to cooperate on co-creating sustainable solutions. And I just picked two before different sessions. So I picked two here, missions to achieve the global goals and co-creation for innovation, which is more about how we innovate, if we can innovate the way we innovate. So you're all very welcome to join us in this journey to pioneer the possible. And I hope I was able to share some of the inspiration. I'm really inspired to be here. I will have a lot of interesting meetings during the rest of the day, really looking forward to that. And thank you so much for listening. And if you have any questions, you are welcome to contact me. I work at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C. as a science and innovation counselor. So please, if you have any questions, you're welcome. Thank you. What do you see as the biggest industry going forward with cooperation on a technological level between the U.S. and Sweden? Thank you. We see a lot of Swedish investments here, a lot of startups coming over to the U.S. Many of them do the mistake of going to New York and Silicon Valley first and realize it's too expensive. But that's a big part. We are creating lots of jobs with SOB here, for instance, technology-wise. Ericsson is putting a huge, Ericsson, you know, it's Swedish, and it's putting up a huge research facilities in the United States, really growing strongly. IKEA is expanding. So there's lots of them actually. But we are also trying to invite as many American companies to come to Sweden as possible. Many of them have been in the U.K., for instance. But now that they have left the EU, we are actually a good spot for American investments given, as I said, our technological level, but also that most of us speaks English. But the U.S. is our fourth largest market. We are the 13th largest investor in the United States and growing. So as Maria said, when it comes to population, we're like number 90 in the world. So being the 13th largest investor here is huge. So this is a very attractive market for Swedes. So in all sectors, I would say. I don't know if you want to add any special sectors in technology? I mean, we are pushing the green transition now. So that's what we are really. I mean, also defense. But I would say that the green transition is really a priority for the Swedish government for cooperation. Also, life sciences. I'm Jay Gore. I'm a professor in School of Mechanical Engineering, also a faculty member in the Maurice J. Zuckrow Laboratories, where the sub-enterprise is growing across the street. One of the large recent projects I received was to help a traditionally coal-burning 1300 megawatt power plant make transition while operating and not losing large number of jobs and the exergy-based efficiency doubling as well as retraining of the workforce in the information technology areas in the, I will simply say the phrase, artificial intelligence area. We have progressed. I have colleagues at Lund University who I interact with in Sweden. But could you comment on information technology and the advent of artificial intelligence and more importantly, pathway to green while not losing jobs? Well, I think one of the things that we are very proud of in Sweden is how we have transformed our society. When it comes to, you know, we have all lost industries over the years. So for instance, Malmö used to be one of the biggest shipbuilding places in Sweden and also in Europe. I don't think they hardly built any ships anymore. So that society was transformed. We have a program that the Employers Association together with the trade, we're very highly unionized country, 80% are unionized. But so the Employers Association together with the trade unions have a program where, for instance, if you work at an industry that is going out of date and not being replaced, they will actually put you in a program where they will ask you, so what is your dream job? And let's say you say florist and there's a need of florist, they will retrain you. So within one year, 80% of the workers are actually in new careers. So I would say for 40, 50 years, we've had this kind of program to shift people's focus. And also, as I said, after the Cold War, we not dismantled, but made our military armed forces much smaller. So we had lots of military regiments, for instance, that had to close down. We have to retrain. So many officers actually became teachers, which they have been very successful. So we have a long tradition of transitioning workers from industries that are not. We don't save industries in Sweden, we save workers. So the government will never go in and, for instance, you remember Saab the car, that had never got any help from the government to survive. But we retrain the workers. So that's how we do it. That's the business has to be sustainable in its own right. But then we will help the people to transition into something else. But when it comes to AI, that's of course a highly important political area where the politicians are now. I just read a paper yesterday trying to figure out how they should be able to coordinate their efforts better to support the development of AI technology in many sectors of both the public sector but also the private sector. I think our politicians have been a bit late, but industry is going forward. And I know the Wallenberg Foundation that was mentioned here are putting a lot of money into research, for instance, at the Swedish universities when it comes to AI. No, okay. So, hi, Jan Andersmansson. Today I'm primarily Sweden, but I'm also professor here at Purdue. I know you have a lot of great program with great university around the world. Now we have a wave here we can ride, we can surf on with Saab coming here. Do you have any good recommendation for how we can get more of these young people in exchange program with Sweden and Swedish universities? I think as students you have to think a little bit out of the box. I think many don't think about Sweden as a country to go to because I guess many would like to go to Germany or France or the UK or Ireland or English speaking countries. But as I said, in Sweden, as Maria said, lots of programs in English. We are, as also been said, we have lots of universities that are world leading in many ways. So I think for you if you decide to come you would have an experience that you wouldn't have anywhere else. Our society is also very different given the welfare system of Sweden. And actually if you decide I don't want to pull you away from Purdue, but you can get an engineering education in Sweden for half the price or one third of the price at a very good quality. So that's also interesting. So if you want to experience something totally different, really do come. It's huge. There are lots to experience, lots of fun young people and good universities, but Maria can add. I also want to add now I'm looking at Miguel Anderson over there that the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce is putting a mobility program in place for student exchange, but also for internship at companies. So it's a two-way mobility program.  And I think that's, I mean, that that will be a very strong, create a very strong bond between the US and Sweden. And also you can go to a bar when you're 18. Good morning. Thank you for those comments. I just wanted to add, and you know, Georgia's here, but before the pandemic there were, we had a significant increase in the number of students who were going to Sweden. I mean we have partnerships of course in many universities, but including internships in Skania and, you know, many other universities study abroad. But we also had, interestingly, faculty who led faculty that study abroad programs all the way to Kiruna. So, you know, we read the news, see what's happening. And those of you who don't know about the Kiruna story, it's a pretty amazing story as well. And our faculty pivot and lead students to see what Sweden is doing. So just wanted to add, all that was going on well before the pandemic. No, Kiruna is really exotic. You know, it's over the Arctic Circle. They have actually just moved the whole town because it was sitting on the big mine, Kiruna is a mining town, and they felt that they were worried that the city would actually sink because of the all the hollowness underneath. So they moved the whole city. I know it's a fantastic experience, it's a fantastic town. And there's also the Technical University of Luleå, which is really on the forefront of technology as well. So please do come. I think you would really enjoy it.