Welcome back to the Human-Humane Architecture here in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii on a early Tuesday evening. This show here being a critical format, we want to talk about architecture primarily. And our founding father of the show, J. Fidel, and I keep constantly talking about the state of architecture on the island, and we agreed that it could be described with a word that starts with S, and I'll leave it to him to ever mention that or not, that exists in both our languages of our cultures. And if Zuri can help us out with a first slide, please, that has an informed citizen's comment about that subject matter. And this is how one of our guests of the recent shows is our dear activist journalist, Kurt Sandburn, and we're sitting together and brainstorming along the lines of that paraphrasing, and this is actually one of the viewers of his civil beat article that he wrote, and so along these lines. But we quickly went to let's be constructive and let's find something that is actually good architecture on the islands here. And as you guys can read in the article, our suggestion or proposal was that the best new piece of architecture is the new rainbow drive in canopy. So our today's guest is the client and owner of that project. So it's Jim Kuzukuma. So welcome to the show. Thank you very much for being here. Thanks for having us. And explain a little bit about yourself, obviously, and the project. And what we will see in the background here is actually the condition that inspired you or informed you to actually make a change to your situation. First of all, I'd like to say thanks very much. And it was a big surprise, first when Kurt approached me and wanted to do an article on the canopy. It was just a canopy and a utilitarian piece for us and something that we wanted to do, of course, to help the environment and save electricity. And then it was a bigger surprise when you asked me to come and think tech Hawaii to talk about the canopy and also that you're an architect and appreciated the structural and the visual elements of that building. So thank you very much for having us and I like to talk about it. I'm the Senior Vice President of Operations for Rainbow Drive-In. It's a family business. My father-in-law actually started the business in 1961. We've only been at that location. We don't own the property. We lease it from an old Kapahulu family that still owns the property. And if you know anything about these traditional families, first, my father-in-law always tried to purchase the property, but they were like, oh, well, as long as mom's alive, we can't sell the property. And then it was as long as the kids are alive and now it's the grandkids. And rightly so. They want to pass it on as a legacy in their family. But they've been so great to us in that they've always agreed to extend the leases. And about five or six years ago, I thought that we should also plan our family's legacy in the business and ask them about getting a 20 or 25-year lease on the property. Previously we had five to 10 years. And they were gracious enough to accept it. And so at that point, you know, we could really invest in some infrastructure into the building and whatnot. And so at that point, solar panels and looking into some sort of long-term solution to this stuff really became possible and feasible. Zurich, could you bring the next picture, which actually shows just for a little glimpse that family tradition, how long it's been around. This is sort of a historic picture here. It actually shows the building as it actually still exists. That was probably taken on opening day or very close to it. They're not quite sure. But you can see by the flags and the flowers. If you can see the flowers in the window, so it's got to be pretty close to opening day. And that originally building where the windows are and that cement around it is still there. It looks a little bit different. We covered it with tile and extended the dining room out to the side and did some cosmetic things to it. But that's basically the building. The kitchen inside is the same size and everything. And if we could get the next picture, please.  Because the first additions was already, as the background we see all the time was basically adding little knives. I would say you've also changed or optimized the performance of the building, right? Yeah. Because the previous picture had no shade in front of where you get the food. Obviously, for customers' comfort, we, you know, eventually, and as the business advanced and became successful or a little bit more successful, we added lanais and shading and extended the building out, of course, to protect the customers from rain. And the most recent step of that is what we see now here in that picture. Right. It's, you know, the canopy that overhead houses the solar panels. And underneath provides some shaded parking for cars. We didn't lose any parking, fortunately. And also on the other side gave us tables for additional seating and to keep people out of the sun gave some shade. And the previous show I would have left to witness that I read about, so I will listen to it later on because they're all on YouTube, was about, is a car-free Hawaii possible? And I'm very excited about that. It might be a little contradiction with you as being Rainbow Drive in, however, that first picture showed mainly bicycles there. So there is sort of a multimodal aspect of your project. You know, I don't have a problem with a carless Hawaii, just get that rail built and tag it on. Sorry, they mean to be political. But you know, yeah, no. We definitely have a car problem and I guess, you know, we're going to have to change the name to, I don't know, Rainbow Walk-In or something, but that's okay with me. That's very creative. So I actually subtitled these pictures. The first one I said is obviously bicycle-friendly, you know. The next one, it is still car-friendly. There was this picture with, I love that, with the old VW bug, which I see a lot of these old German cars being frequent customers of yours, but there's also these, these, these, these buggies. I see a lot of these buggies and then the most crazy way, right? From time to time, yeah. See, so there's, there's that. And then the other pictures actually show it all encompassing. It also shows actually fauna, shows birds. And I know it's sort of like the birds are kind of a love-hate relationship. Yeah, absolutely. But, but you don't kick them out. You kind of live with them. There's kind of a coexistence to it, at least my feel was. And then I see plants, you actually put plants down there. So you got the whole ecosystem pretty much covered in, in that. Yeah, you know, I don't know if we purposely did all that, but you know, I mean, I'm glad you see it that way. But you know, you know, plants definitely add, add a better feeling and, you know, we thought it, it, it would definitely cool the place down, you know, rather than just have a bare parking lot and bare columns to, to try to add a little. And then, then we're planted friendly because you actually, you know, the roof top, the roof cover, the, the rain membrane, talk more specifically what that is. The solar panels themselves. Yeah. So, you know, we, and in, in thinking about it where we started to think about actually doing this and getting the cost together and then the design of it all. Yeah. Then we decided to, to definitely put it on top of Academy because as far as solar panels go, the roof of the actual drive in itself didn't have nearly enough space to make it worthwhile to, to put panels up, you know, and, and, and make it pay off. So the only alternative was to, to build a canopy to put enough panels up there to make it worthwhile. And in doing that, then we thought, hey, you know, we'd just go ahead and, and use the panels as a roof covering. And of course build the structure up high enough so that cars and some, some, some sort of trucks and things would fit under it without hitting the panels or the structure. And then decided to move it out, cantilever it and put seating on the other side. So it all kind of came together as a, as a organic thought thing to satisfy, satisfy both sides. Yeah. It was me like a very informed client. I wish I would. And I had clients like that, but I love them because I need to have an informed client. I said in the last show, unfortunately a lot of architecture happens without architects, which sort of a little bit selfishly, I'm kind of torn about that, but it can never happen without clients. So the client, we need to inform and educate clients and you're informed and self-educated client. And I just want to point out, this is really provocative and I know I put myself on a hot spot in the hot sea here. So we call Kurt Sandberg the most activist, you know, journalist on the island. And an architect here and educator, we call the best piece of architecture in Honolulu. There was no architect involved. There was an informed client involved, but you then had a contractor, you had a PV consultant and that's basically it, right? Yeah. You know, the PV company, we just come on a solar, can I say that, I don't know, of course. We worked very closely with them and I was fortunate enough to have a very good representative that worked from their company that worked with us. And they actually obtained the engineering company, but I was, and they came up with several proposals and we sat down and talked and sketched out different alternatives and things. And I think all in all between what we needed and what they proposed and then also what was engineering possible, you know, I think we have the best looking building and the best structure and the best practical things to, yeah.  Because you say, well, I don't know. He actually asked you, he confronted you and says, this is a local building. Yeah. And I love your reaction was like, well, actually, no, but maybe thinking about it and you admit it, you know, it might, but intuitively and, right? Yes, exactly. I mean, we never designed it to be local or to be architecturally pleasing or anything like that. And, and I still am in awe that you recognize the building and, and consider it, you know. But you saw so eloquently and elaboratively talk about what actually a building should do in Hawaii, right, which is your home. You say it's a basic protection from the elements being the sun and the rain here.  I really am. I'm concerned about, yeah, the movement of the wind and how buildings are changing that basic flow of energy or that natural flow from the mountains to the ocean. Yeah. Yeah. So definitely we wanted to build something that allowed that also. So, so as a theory proposition rather than doing something that's invasive and then decorating it local, right? You're actually doing something that's exotic because steel, to be honest, if I have to explain to the students, I say mainly per default steel is not good because it basically rusts on the island. But in your case, you know, achieving what you wanted to do, it was the best choice. And if you take good care of it, just like with a car and repaint it every once in a while, if you saw an off and it can actually last pretty long. So it's a very logic decision, right? If you say so. No.  So I got to try harder and I will do that after the little break we take. Okay. We're going to be back in a minute. Bear with us. Hey, everybody, my name is David Chang and I'm the new host of a new show, The Art of Thinking Smart. I'm really excited to be able to share with you secrets on giving yourself a smart edge in life. We're going to have awesome guests and great mentors of mine from the political, military, business, nonprofit, you name it. So it's something for everybody. For a very healthy summer, watch Viva Hawaii. We're giving you the best tips and with our best health coach here. So Viva health coach. Viva la comida saludable. Aloha. My name is Reg Baker and I'm the host of Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're a show that broadcasts live every Thursday from 2 to 2.30. We highlight success stories in Hawaii of both businesses and individuals. We learn their secrets to success, which is always valuable. I hope to see you on our next show. Aloha. Welcome back. Welcome back to the show, which I forgot to say, which I called Rufi Texture Rainbow Drive with Jim Kuzukuma. So we started off that I need to try harder to convince you about that you really did the greatest piece of parking technology here on the island. I'm honored, really. I'm shocked. So just like, you know, my proposition is the indigenous ride here actually everywhere, not just here everywhere, even in northern Germany where I'm from, we don't have that much wood. We just had a, we put a tree every three feet as a stud, you know, we call this half timbered. It's just the vernacular that rises out of the local resources and then the means and methods develop naturally out of that. So your thing was like, I have a limited budget. I need to provide shade for all these different species. I want to basically generate as much as possible my own electricity. That way help myself, but also help the environment because you believe in them. That's the future. And for that you just needed the right solution, nothing more and nothing less. And I allow myself to say this is the way people everywhere in the world and also here have done that. And way back they came up with, okay, we got some trunks and we got to do some latching to keep it together. And the best way to put it together is this way because then, you know, gravity plays out. So that's the way. Here is obviously looks different because it's not nostalgically trying to sort of remember that in a kitschy sort of a skewed post-modern way, but just continue that kind of rationality. And what comes out of this poetry is a direct result of this sort of pragmatism. As we look at the hollies, the fetch hollies, so nostalgically and say they're so cute. They're so lovely. Well, they weren't way back. They were just the best they could do at that point. And so you did. And I love about your project. If we can go to the two last slides really quickly here is that you actually then came up with touching the ground lightly and maybe actually the last picture here. There are only three posts where actually the structure, and that needs to be because otherwise, you know, you can't drive there. You can't sit there, all these things. But this is my favorite detail here. And I never actually asked you about it and I do it right now. I find this so extremely poetic and I refer to the previous picture, which is the case study houses in California in the 50s. They were done by these young architects, emerging architects that didn't want to build in a classicist way anymore. They just want to be modern and stripped down and naked, bare to the bones. And this house here is the case study house number 22 by Pierre Koenig and actually the guy that did the Matrix movies, Joe Silver, bought that house. And we talked in the last, one of the last shows, Bob Lilliestrand at his house, you know, has been communicated and celebrated by his Wi-Fi of old people and stuff like that. So we need to make things cool. And I think, you know, maybe not, you admit already that not intellectually and not obviously and not reflectively, but intuitively there was that thing. So what I'm going to ask is why do these beams kind of leave route more than the PV panels, which make them look really light as opposed to heavy. And there's the other thing you actually talked about why the main truss is basically taper, as we call it. So they're actually thicker at where the column is, and then they get thinner too. And why is that? Well, I don't know. I think the engineers designed it. No, the reason why the ends are hanging, I mean, I know architecturally and design-wise and all that, but it's really more just of a practical thing is that the panels didn't make it out to the end. And we had already designed the cantilevers out, and so that's just the way it happened. As far as the cantilevers themselves and the angle on the front and the back side, you know, they could have easily made it straight across. Practically speaking, by angling it out, it gave us a few more inches or feet of clearance on the front side so that if a tall truck or something, by some chance, backed into there, that they would gradually make contact rather than just tear the whole end of the beam out. So there was a practical reason for that. And that's basically what happened. And once they designed it and I saw it, of course, I thought it was really nice. I think it adds a lot and gives it, like you would say, a gracefulness maybe to the building rather than just have a solid beam out there. But it originated with a practical solution to giving us additional inches of clearance. And there we go again. That's what we're talking about. That's frustrating. You are that informed client. I keep telling you about it. You know that. You're not arguing that, you're just arguing the part, that sort of cultural reflectiveness about it, which is good. I mean, that's the compliment. Yeah, I can't really say that we, you know, all of this was specifically planned and detailed out, which is even better because otherwise it wouldn't be true. It wouldn't be authentic, right? A lot of it. Because the only builders, you know, when they would do the canoe hollies, you know, the trunks themselves, they're thicker at the bottom and they're thinner at the top. And that's the way they put them in because the loads get actually heavier towards the center of the construction. So actually the engineers, they were just following the load lines, right? And that is just like, that's what a wide tree is so organic and so appealing because it does the same thing, right? So there's no superficiality in there. There's no dropped ceiling.  And then actually the engineers tell it to angle them in 45 degree towards the sun so you get the most efficiency. You didn't do that. Why? Why didn't you do that? Well, we didn't do that because it wouldn't have provided the covering and the protection from the rain and the elements that we wanted. And because the canopy was already on the southwestern side of the building, we didn't think that we would gain enough sunlight to make it worthwhile to change that design. So again, you know, it was just a practical design element, a practical solution that we needed to do in order to achieve the total thing that we wanted to do. Yeah, which was to provide shelter plus solar power. Call that comprehensive design that's inclusive of everything, right?  But seriously, it was, and you know, since talking to you and Kurt, I've actually come to appreciate the building a lot more and see a lot, a lot more in it. And I'm even happier with it now than I was with it. So slowly but surely you accept the award, right? We appreciate that. And I appreciate actually taking the students there and you talk to the students and they were actually mostly impressed by actually your motivation and your ethical principle. And they actually feedback back to me and said, you know, there is this sort of, which in corporate America, you call this a corporate identity. And you're obviously not. You're the opposite of that. But it's where the design ethics are in coherence and consistent with actually the business model. And your business model, I want to go back to that, is actually sort of feed the people, you know. It's you take good ingredients, you know, and make a good meal that's affordable. So there's no fuzzing around. There's no icing on the cake. There's not Waikiki. And then we go with the analogy where you basically fake something as being Hawaiian and you put a pineapple on top of that and some kind of straw and make it look tiki, right? You're not doing that. You're saying we have a serious issue here that we have certain parts of the society that they're cut out. So I got to provide decent food. And it's the same with your building. Your building is doing the same. It's something, you know, that I guess has become part of our business culture because we're constantly looking and, you know, deciding whether to modernize, quote, you know, do the new cuisine or how much of it to put in versus sticking to the traditional food. But, you know, every time we look at it, we're just kind of determined to just keep the food simple and feed people for the most economical prices and yet, you know, use honest food that we can. And that's kind of like where we're at. So it translates over into my thoughts about energy and doing the solar panels. We as a business obviously can't or not obviously, but we don't do everything we could. I mean, we still use plastic. We still use things that we could turn into more disposable items, but then it would raise the cost up. But we can do solar panels. You know, we can do other things that we recycle our oil. We do things that we can within our business model to do that. And I mean, I look at it like if every business did that and did what they could and really put themselves out there that, you know, we overall would have a really pretty good place to live. And it's something we share. You know, we talked before, I call this people and planet-friendliness. So the planet-friendliness is your PV roof. Is your, by the way, I hope you don't mind saying that. We talked about the cars, so the IF3 is yours. Yeah. In that case, and you also have a heart for the people. So that's the people-friendliness. Yeah, you know, I mean, I personally have, personally speaking, I have solar panels on my roof. And I did that several years before I even put it into the drive-in. So I knew about the panels and they worked fine for me. And I knew, you know, what they could do as far as cutting energy down. And then that naturally led to me looking into electric cars. And, you know, of course, people say the batteries, you know, could contribute and all. But, you know, if you can eliminate that carbon output, you know, if you can eliminate using those kinds of energy sources, gasoline and petroleum, and it's not for everybody, again. I don't, I'm not militant to propose that everybody get an electric car. Everybody did, you know, do it with fossil fuels. But if everybody did what they could and within their means, then again, you know, we would go a long ways to becoming sustainable, energy-wise and otherwise, yeah. Thank you so much. That was a great final conclusion because we're at the end of the show. Thank you so much, Jim, for having been here. Thank you for being such an informed citizen, self-trained, informed client. And I insist to say architect. And I know you inspire a lot of students of mine. And I think this is very promising that the most innovative architecture comes from citizens. So it's kind of a grass-root kind of movement. And so please keep that up. I know you will. And I hope we see you again here because we've talked a little bit. You're trying to move on and go a little bit more in directions of people and frankness. So with that, thank you very much. Thank you for having us. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I hope to see you back next week on Tuesday early evening for Human-Humane Architecture. Thank you very much.


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Well lucky is in his private office now politely explaining it to one of the said Customers the way I figured mr. Willard. What's the use of winning if you can't collect? And so I make it a rule to always collect.  Those are gambling debts Legally you can't collect a cent on them 100% correct, mr. Willard So when I run into a welter I have to use methods that aren't so legal if you're threatening me Why I wouldn't harm a hair of your head mr. Willard But you could meet up with an accident Couldn't you what do you mean? Oh a couple of broken legs? Maybe? It could even be a fatal accident In fact, I am willing to bet that's what it would be lucky lucky. You got to give me time I'll be able to pay you every cent if you'll only wait wait How long will my uncle Jonathan has millions? I'm his only air if you just be patient you mean wait till the old man kicks off He might outlive the two of us, but if anything happens to me, you'll never get your money Yeah Yeah, that makes sense Maybe to be better if your uncle met up with an accident, huh? You you don't mean that I don't mean anything Why don't you ask the old boy to loan you the money? Well, I'll try but that's right you try Try hard enough, and maybe there won't have to be any accidents Well, mr. Willard it was over a week ago. You said you were going to ask your uncle to loan you the money How about it? I begged him a dozen times to let me have the money, but he won't that's too bad, isn't it? Look lucky I'm going to Lake Placid for the weekend, but I'll ask him again on Monday, so if you'll only wait until then I've waited a long time now, mr. Willard From now on I'm making no promises Briggs residents. Hello Kirby. I'd like to speak to my uncle. Oh, yes, mr. Harry just a moment sir He's in the study. I'll put your call through to him there. Hello uncle Jonathan. This is Harry Oh, I thought you're up at Lake Placid. That's where I'm calling from I was worried about your cold. I don't believe it. You knew very well that I'm so much better The doctor said I could get up today, but uncle you've been in bed for the past week, and I Yes, what you really called about was that money wasn't it? Well, um Kirby can't hear you Kenny. What's the matter with you? You know, I'm always alone in my study at this time of day Well, yes, uncle Jonathan. I did want to talk to you about the money.  I penny and that's final if you I'm Nick Carter. This is my secretary miss Bowen. How do you do? Sergeant Matheson of the homicide squad asked me to come up here and take a look around. Oh, yes Won't you come in? Thank you. The study is this way, sir Yo Kirby mr. Briggs houseman, aren't you? Yes, sir it was I who found the body after the accident This is mr. Briggs study what why it's like a room in a medieval castle That's what it is miss mr. Briggs bought the entire room from the owners of McLennan Castle in Scotland And brought it over to America piece by piece even the wall paneling and that huge stained glass window across the room there Everything sir how unusual to find a room like this in a big city apartment. Yes, miss a city in town Photographed it last year for their October issue.  That's a high boy miss and look at those old guns on the wall beside the high boy Mr. Briggs collected antique firearms miss God here is the one that Caused the accident. Hmm an old flintlock musket. Yes, sir Certainly is a clumsy looking thing just about as deadly at close range as a sawed-off shotgun Why do they call it a flintlock? Well, you see Patsy the hammer holds this bit of flint.  That's what Maddie was wondering and that's why he asked me to take a look Suppose you tell me just what happened Kirby well, sir Mr. Briggs was in his study as he always was at that time of day early this afternoon wasn't it? Yes, sir The clock had just struck 230 when mr. Harry called from Lake Placid He wanted to talk to his uncle so I pushed the button for the buzzer in the study And when I heard mr. Briggs pick up the phone I hung up how long after that did you hear the shot not more than a minute or two sir I rushed in here and found mr. Briggs in that chair behind the desk did The gun was lying on the floor over there on the floor, huh? Yes, sir Kirby are you sure there wasn't anyone else in the room with mr. Briggs? They couldn't possibly have been sir as you can see there's no place to hide in here And there's only one door. I was right outside and no one could have got past Well, how about that stained glass window? Does it open onto a terrace? No miss outside There's a sheared drop of 23 storage and it's the only window in the room. Yes, sir Well, I guess the next thing is to talk with mr. Briggs's nephew. Mr. Harry hasn't arrived home from Lake Placid yet, sir I expect him at 10 tomorrow morning. I see All right, then you can expect me at 11 Lucky what's the idea of phoning me here at the apartment that was convenient for both of us look lucky I can't talk to you now. I just got in from Lake Placid an hour ago And there's some people waiting for me in the study.  Yes, of course. Good. Bye I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Mr. Carter. I was in my work room work room in an apartment like this Well, I I make a hobby of astronomy and I have a little place fixed up where I can build my own telescope Sounds very technical. Well, it is rather of course I can't grind my own lenses, but I have them made to my specifications and then do the rest of the work myself Well, I I suppose you want to know about uncle Jonathan No, no, that's all right Kirby keep on with your work need any help with that ladder. Oh, thank you, sir I can manage I'll do the outside for the outside my goodness. How do you get at it? Oh, it's very simple miss Mr. Briggs had the window mounted on a special frame so that it swings into the room. You see Very neat arrangement It's a beautiful window, mr. Willard. I've always thought so as you can see it represents Satan being cast out of heaven Well, mr. Willard about your uncle's accident, I'm afraid there isn't much I can tell you I Was talking to him by a long distance when I heard the shot Then a moment later Kirby picked up the phone and told me what happened. How do you think it happened? That seems pretty obvious to me the gun fell off the wall and was discharged by the jar when it hit the floor You mean to say that a gun like that hung on the wall loaded it never was loaded as far as I know That's the part I don't understand. Oh Nick. Did you cross cubby before you left the office? Oh, darn it. I forgot all about better call him right now. There's a phone in the living room if you want to use it Thanks, better come along perhaps you in case you want any of those figures right? Good gracious. Well, what's the matter Kirby? Something wrong with the window. Yes, mr. Heady something very odd What is it Kirby? Satan's left eye. It's It's Kirby look at the ladder it's half out the window. He lost his balance. I tried to grab him, but it was too late He fell 23 stories down to the street From the antique stained glass window the evil face of Satan seems to lure triumphantly down into the room where violent death Has struck twice within 24 hours. 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Oh When I am not so fat like this we play all the big time before flying Serrino's tumblers extra Giuseppe I wonder if you have a copy of city in town for October of last year sure sure sure back this way Is that the issue of city in town the Kirby said you paint a picture of the Briggs study? How's business Giuseppe? Everybody she's got a too much money can afford the new magazine. No one told the magazine Well, if you'd like to pick up some extra cash, I've got a job for you. Oh, no, I take fine October 1946 you are yes, that's right here. Yes. She is almost like a new that's it Giuseppe. Thanks. Is the picture there Nick? Here it is in color to all the stained glass window certainly shows up well Yes, and here's what I was looking for what a gun at 17th century Flint luck I knew it couldn't have fallen from the wall beside the high boy and landed where it did why It's on the high boy in the picture, and I'll bet that's where it was when it killed Jonathan Briggs Yeah, but even if it was there Nick that doesn't explain how it could go off by itself No, you're right there, but it may prove that Willard was lying about where the gun was and With Giuseppe's help I may be able to learn how the second so-called accident happens What the kind of job you're like a for me to do something is right in your line Giuseppe a little tumbling Oh I'm not so sure It's a long time now since I do very hard stonk This one won't be hard Giuseppe. We can do it right in my office, and it's easy as easy as As falling off a ladder Hard worker for fat the men like me You've made him fall off that ladder a dozen times first You haven't leaned to the left until he gets off his balance then you haven't leaned to the right Yes, and every time he and the ladder fall in opposite directions, huh? What do you mean? Well, Pat see if Kirby had been leaning away from the window opening He'd have fallen inside the room and the ladder would have fallen across the sill the way we found it But Kirby didn't fall inside he fell outside then he wasn't leaning away from the opening If he'd been leaning toward the opening he would have fallen outside and the ladder would have fallen inside the room But why that's what Giuseppe's been proving for me when you fall off a ladder your feet Instinctively push it away from you in the opposite direction But suppose it happened this way Not hurt are you Giuseppe? No, no, no, but What's a big idea push the ladder when I'm in no look? Sorry Giuseppe. I had to prove my point See Patsy when I pushed Giuseppe and the ladder both fell in the same direction just as Kirby and the ladder did this morning Well, you think will it push Kirby out the window from what we've seen here I think he did but this test of yours isn't proof that he killed Kirby No But when you add this to the fact that he was probably lying about the gun hanging on the wall Mr. Willard appears to be a very suspicious character as far as I'm concerned But Nick Willard was in like plastic. He couldn't pull the trigger of the gun by remote control. No, he couldn't But he could have shall we say made arrangements? What kind of arrangements? Come on, Patsy. We're going to take another look at Jonathan Breaks study. Maybe that will answer your question The police sealed his room up right after Kirby was killed There's any evidence here. Nobody's had a chance to destroy it. Mm-hmm Even the step ladder still here fortunately for us. I Need that to get where I'm going to get where you're going. Yep. Where's that? Be careful that you don't fall Nick. I won't what are you looking for Nick? Huh I'm up here beside me. I'll show you. Oh, it better be good Nick. I don't like bladders. It is good See here.  What do you suppose those books are doing up here? The bottom of the gun were propped up on those books and the muzzle were resting on the edge where these scratches are Where would the gun be pointing? What I got that chair when mr. Briggs was sitting when he was shot. Mm-hmm He began to see how he was killed. Oh, yes, and it's such a short distance. It couldn't have missed right But how was the gun set off? You still don't know that I think I do See these burn places here They look like cigarette burns, but nobody could lay a cigarette down up here. It's too high Patsy Take a look at the face of Satan and the stained glass window there across the room See anything strange about it. No, no, it's pretty badly warped, but that's just age. Isn't it look at his eyes Why they don't match exactly the right one is yellow and the left one is white How do you remember what time mr. Briggs was killed about 2 30 Kirby said right and about 2 30 tomorrow I think we can put this case in the file marked case closed Why did you insist on my meeting you here in the study at this time mr. Carter I had an appointment for two o'clock with a friend. This is more important Willard sit there behind the desk, please All right, but What is this all about?  You'll stay in that chair. I have to hold you there What time is it Patsy? 229 Carter let me out of here in a minute or two. It'll be too late. You're in no danger, Willard The gun can't go off by itself Or can it for the love of heaven look at Satan's left eye in a few seconds Oh, you know about that left eye you put it there didn't you You phoned your uncle at exactly 231 the next day to be sure he'd be sitting in that chair at the right time Didn't you I don't know what you mean you'd better know what I mean if you want to get out of that chair And you'd better talk fast Yes, yes, I did it but how about Kirby he noticed the eye I had to do something quick before he had a chance to tell you so you pushed him through the open window Oh, God, let me out of this chair. It's after 2 30 now Oh, don't worry the gun isn't loaded isn't loaded now that we have the truth of you Nothing's going to happen. That's where you're wrong my friend lucky things are going To happen right now This gun of mine doesn't have to wait for the Sun Lucky Bristol stands in the doorway his revolver aimed at Nick and it looks as though Jonathan Briggs study may be the scene of still another Killing we'll see what happens in just a moment Ladies the next time you're faced with a sink full of greasy pots and pans Simply do this use new post war old-age cleanser made with activated seismite See if it doesn't clean in less time with less rubbing than any other cleanser you've ever used Notice how amazingly fast it cuts grease thanks to activated seismite It cleans away both dirt and stains and harder soft water Thrilled to the new almost effortless ease in cleaning with new post war old Dutch It cleans and polishes with a smooth gliding action that means less work less rubbing. It's utterly different So try it compare it see for yourself how new post war old Dutch cleanser made with Activated seismite gives you new speed new ease in all your cleaning Now for the conclusion of the case of the devil's left eye today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser Harry Willard has confessed to the murder of his uncle Jonathan Briggs But before Nick can take him to the police lucky Bristol the gambler appears in the doorway Revolver in his hand. Well, well lucky Bristol. How do you fit into this picture lucky? I'm just protecting a little investment of mine mr. Carter. Mr. Willard here owes me a hundred grand a hundred It's only 50,000. It's a hundred thousand now mr. Willard or do you want me to tell mr. Carter? He can put his hands down. No, no hundreds all right and cheap at half the price When you didn't show up at my place at two o'clock I came up here to see why well you found out now Nothing. I'm leaving. Well, what about them they know about uncle Jonathan. Well, if I were you I'd make sure they didn't tell anybody You mean I've got I don't know what you're going to do.  I'm still protecting my investment. Don't worry. I know when I'm like, okay, lucky I got Carter's gun, okay I'll send a couple of my boys around late tonight in case there's anything you want carried out of the building and left someplace So long you're going to let this man make a fool of your willard What do you mean?  Well, of course how about lucky?  Yes, he is smart lucky.  I thought well in the curter willer that the gun he took wasn't the only one I had I carry this one in the shoulder holster for just such emergencies.  I may be lucky, but I'm no stiff All right, willard.  Here's your gun back Nick will it is all through with it. Thanks Fatsy Better call the police evidence for willard and tell Maddie to send along the hurry-up wagon for his pal right away Nick They may ride down to headquarters separately, but they'll end up in the same place when they answer for their crimes When are you going to explain what's been going on? I don't understand it at all I didn't want to try to explain until I could show you a little experiment, huh?  I'm listening willard replaced Satan's left eye in the stained glass window with a special lens He'd had made a lens that would focus the sun's rays right on the powder in the firing pan of the old flint lock You fire the gun that way Well, I'll be darned with the charred spots on the top of the high boy that gave him away You see he had to experiment for several days at the same time in the afternoon to be sure that he had the lens set in the Window at exactly the right angle golly. They must have been pretty complicated Figuring the angle of the sun the right kind of lens the right time of day and everything was even for an amateur astronomer like willard But fortunately his uncle was sick in bed for a week and willard was able to use the study undisturbed So he was able to set the gun go to Lake classic 300 miles away and then call his uncle on the phone at just the right time So he'd be sitting at his desk when the gun went off right now. You know as much about it as I do Well, I knew Satan was dangerous, and I've heard of the evil eyes But I never expected to see a stained glass Satan with an eye evil enough to kill a man. Oh, that's really something And now Nick about the case that new post war old Dutch cleanser is going to have for us next week Uh, does it get off to a pretty exciting start? Well, it was exciting enough for Patsy and me It began when we found the dead man lying on the floor in the middle of my office and before it was over We spent most of the night tramping around in an old deserted cemetery. That sounds exciting enough for anybody What do you call it Nick? I call it the case of the graveyard gunman Attention homemakers now you don't need a mixing bowl to color margarine the sensational new Del rich easy color pack margarine ends mixing bowl mess with del rich the margarine and color berry are both Inside a sealed plastic bag you simply pinch the berry then gently need the bag and del rich quickly blends to a luscious Golden color inside the bag and listen the delicious country sweet flavor and freshness of del rich are sealed in It's truly America's finest margarine. 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Thank you for joining me, Professor Vaso Tileschi, your professor at Gosei Del Sev University of Stip in North Macedonia, and obviously you're our FEMS director for events and internationalization. Thank you for taking the time in your busy schedule to join me for an interview today. I would like to thank you for your kind introduction and to say that I always enjoy talking with you, especially when we have interviews. Yeah, it's great fun and this is my third professional for the job. Oh, thank you. So I best start us off with my first question. So I wanted you to tell us a bit about your commitment to FEMS. I mean, I've introduced you as our director of events and internationalization, but what does that involve? And what accomplishments for FEMS and the FEMS community are you most proud of in your role? Thank you very much for this question. I am devoted to FEMS for almost 28 years. As a young microbiologist, I became a president of Macedonian microbiological societies in the term 1993-1997. And my first big success was to join my society to FEMS. After presidency, I became a delegate in FEMS and I was very active delegate. So I devoted past years completely to FEMS, to its mission activities, development, visibility. And can you believe that I never missed any consul meeting, which is annual meeting of FEMS delegates. I believe that I was... 100% attended. ...twenty-five consul meetings. And in this respect, I am the oldest member of FEMS. I had a chance and possibility to be a FEMS Grand Secretary for seven years. And I shadow, I took a position of two FEMS officers before that. And in that time, only two types of grants existed. But when I became Grand Secretary, the strategy of the FEMS board was to develop this grant scheme and we end up with eight various type of grants for different categories. So I'm so proud about this, because during these years, FEMS has supported over 1,000 early career scientists to conduct their research, short-term research, up to three months.  So thousands of people attended and get direct help from FEMS to accomplish their wishes and to join some meeting and to introduce themselves to make new friendships and collaborations. As a delegate, I was a member of one group named Terra NOAA. And I was responsible because I forced the most to... My question was why FEMS has no its own congress? And then I made this pilot study, which was accepted by the Executive Committee of FEMS, and it developed further, and we started organizing a serial of congresses. And as everybody knows, who is familiar with FEMS activities, with eight extremely successful congresses, next one will be in 2021. And we have plans for the forthcoming after that congress. I was a member of the organizing committee of all congresses and the chairperson of Congress Grants Committee for seven FEMS congresses. I'm very happy that we supported also almost 2,000 young scientists to attend FEMS congresses because FEMS invested in science in young scientists and it was tradition for FEMS to support about approximately 200 young scientists with a budget of 100,000 euros. And for the next congress, it will be double, 200,000 euros. But unfortunately, we will not have probably, most probably face-to-face congress and to use this budget. But for the forthcoming, this is a huge help of FEMS to young scientists. And one day we will meet in person. So eventually, hopefully we can... Maybe that is one note, but the next one. I also participate as initiator to develop FEMS declaration on microbiology. This is a fantastic document. Maybe it is time to some adjuster to the current situation in the world. As you mentioned in 2017, I was elected for the position FEMS director of internationalization. And re-elected for the same position in 2022 for events and internationalization. So I'm very happy and proud that in a short time with the support of the board of directors and with the support of the staff from the FEMS central office, we accomplished from idea to realization to make live some visions that I had. We start organizing FEMS summer school for postdocs. I will tell something a bit later. Then FEMS network of ambassadors and the organization of conferences of this type as we are now present, fortunately online. So I contribute a lot to spreading of FEMS vision and vision in Europe and worldwide. But FEMS enabled me. I'm very grateful for that, to realize these noble visions and projects. So helping the young scientists and funding meetings and organizing events to bring scientists from around the world together, I guess. What FEMS does and what you're most proud of. So an example of one of those meetings is of course this conference. So I was wondering as the main, as the chair of the organizing committee and starting from a conference that was going to be in Belgrade and then transitioning to an online conference in just a few months. It must have been a lot of work. So can you tell me a little bit about what it was like behind the scenes and how it was to organize this conference? Had to really sort of change tack really fast to deal with new systems in this ongoing pandemic. So how was that? I may say that maybe the main goal of FEMS is to connect people on the first line to connect microbiologists and microbiology. When FEMS board of directors approved this project, we start working with a great enthusiasm. And everything was prepared in about one year or a year and a half for the first FEMS conference on microbiology in 2020. We prepared a great program and great speakers and also fantastic venue. Brand new hotel Hilton in the center of Belgrade and Belgrade is a beautiful city. And but unfortunately COVID-19 pandemic was faster than us. And what happened? So although when it started and it's some more difficult situation in February, March, I was very optimistic that by May or beginning of June everything will stop by start of the summer but this didn't happen. So in FEMS we had organized a FEMS emergency task group taking care of everything, follow all events, situation and in the first place to take care of the safety of the FEMS community. And we decided that we should cancel most of the events and about this conference about some discussion we decided to make a question to the speakers what is and the scientific committee what they think about to go online. And the feedback was fantastic all accepted to be part of this conference and then we decided to go online but we needed some more time instead of July. We decided to have this conference on this October with the hope that the pandemic will be behind us and we could help maybe if not completely conference face to face and live but maybe to have a heavy conference. For example, I intended to be in Belgrade at least now during the conference but because of the worsening of the situation I couldn't go. So are you in North Macedonia at the moment then? Are you? Yes, I'm in a lot of Macedonia at home but you see FEMS is with me. Yeah, absolutely. FEMS is everywhere, FEMS lives in the cloud. We are completely in a new field, new zone. Everything is new, new experience for all of us for FEMS, for staff of FEMS, for organizers, for hosts, for everyone. And this is the, so I will say a little bit more about this. Maybe I cannot say at the moment what I feel about organizing online conferences but I know that it looks like a more complicated than organized live conference. And probably we will need some time when everything finished to summarize all advantages and disadvantages. But I would say that my preferences were and will be always to have online face-to-face meetings. So I just wanted to point out that hopefully we will return to Belgrade in 2022. Is that correct? So that we should make use of this wonderful venue and hopefully do the in-person conference in Serbia as planned later down the line. But for now, we at least get to have a conference which is better than no conference. And I just wanted to ask, for me, this is my first online conference, for you perhaps the same. But for many scientists joining, perhaps presenting their first posters, it might be their first conference at all. So I just wanted to ask, yeah, what advice do you have for young scientists at their first conference and what kind of wisdom can you give to them from your position as a senior scientist? For young scientists, I will repeat that I'm sorry that this is online conference, but we will learn from this, we will get some lectures and we will know how to behave and to be prepared for any kind of situation in life. Not only for conferences. I would say to them that this is the best period of their lives, they are young, they are healthy, they are ambitious, they have a lot of energy, they have their own dreams. I would suggest them to follow their dreams and doesn't matter are they are small or big dreams. If you have small dreams, you will easily come to a big dream and never be disappointed. But you should always be committed to the science if you take this way of your life, committed to science, to love what you work, to fight for truth in the science. Talking about microorganisms, try to be friends with them to live in harmony but never underestimated microorganisms. And always collaboration with your fellow young scientists and senior scientists will lead you to the best success. And as a FEMS officer for many years that I know all advantages and possibilities you can get from FEMS, I would suggest you always to follow what is in the FEMS website to join as a FEMS affiliates and to join as a member of your local society because through your societies you are a part of the big FEMS family who is always there for you to support your needs. So I mean, I've asked a few different people what are the pros and cons of a virtual conference like this and I've heard lots of big lists of cons, it's hard to talk to people but I think there are also some pros and one of the things I think it's good to highlight is that with a virtual conference it's a lot cheaper for young scientists who are all over the world to attend and it's more accessible perhaps to people who can't travel or can't afford hotels. So hopefully in the future, even if we have in-person conferences perhaps we can do a kind of hybrid maybe so that people who can't travel can also access the science. So I've had lots of scientists moan at me about how difficult online conferences are but I think there are also some pros and we'll get used to aspects of this as we get used to this whole format. You are completely right about this. We're talking about costs. Costs are much lower for everyone. Benefits in some terms can be much higher than expected and I believe that the future will be probably most probably hybrid conferences for those who cannot afford to join some meeting from different reasons they can join online. So hopefully we can get good at this format and get more and more people involved in microbiology and actually this brings me on to my next question which was, yeah, you know how and why did you become a microbiologist? I've talked to people sometimes they say oh, it was by accident. I was interested in genetics and bacteria were easy but what was your story? Everyone has an interesting story. My story is also interesting at least for me. Believe or not I'm a medical doctor and I used to work as a general practitioner for almost five years. I work with people and I enjoy my job. When the time for specialization came I was offered from one famous professor of microbiology Boris Sokoloski. He was very famous in former Yugoslavia in a big country and he invited me to be a microbiologist. And my dreams were to be maybe specialists of internal diseases or dermatologists or psychiatrists I don't know what because I have different view but I accepted this challenge and can you believe that first three months when I was in laboratory I was staying with my head between my arms thinking what I am doing here, see my place here or not. But after three months when I start going deeper and deeper in the microbiology when I make connection with people then I saw that this is my world. It doesn't matter that I'm a big like a person and work with a so small microorganism that you cannot see. So I became a secretary of my society as a young doctor on the specialization of microbiology. And when I finished my specialization because I was very active my society recognized me as a good leader of the society and I was elected as a president of the society. So in microbiology I accomplished a lot of things. I became specialist of microbiology, master of science, PhD, full professor, I work with students. I have hundreds of students every session and I'm very proud of them. So microbiology is a special world. And one more thing that tell me this is very funny that can you believe that two things all my students knows that Louis Pasteur was born on 27th of December. And I was born on 27th of December, but different year. So maybe his spirit was blue toothed into you at some point. But this is some coincidence that this is very interesting. And one thing that during my beginning of the specialization gave me courage to continue. There was a one serial of movies produced in Germany, Linux first world and the best person in the serial was the microbiology. I did talk with this is a good way to continue. You just mentioned that you have lots of students. How has it been teaching them during this pandemic? Has it been difficult or is it just a lot of Zoom calls with them or do you miss the contact with your student? Since March this year, everything is online. I and I believe all my students enjoying having classes with me because I'm not talking only microbiology. I'm talking about other things to them to give some advices of life because they have to be not only people with a diploma but they have to work on their personality on their view of life to be good persons. And really this is, I have one group of 220 medical doctors following my lectures, this is a very big group and several smaller groups and it is not the same. But this is something that we can overcome the situation. And also we have defending of diploma works or specialization work online, which is not the best way to go but this is a maximum we can do and hopefully we will stop next year. Okay, so just to sort of bring us back to the conference you're chairing the FEMM session and short presentation by grantees at four o'clock on Saturday, what are you looking for in a good presentation from a grantee? Look, this session is meant to be traditional session for every forthcoming FEMM conference on microbiology because we want to emphasize how FEMM contribute to young scientists and to develop one or their career with different types of FEMM grants. We have now excellent presentations for this session and this session will be just before the after COVID-19 on table, they are all excellent and they are not only Korean scientists anymore. Most of them are now, they have scientific titles, they have teaching titles and they are very experienced and I'm very happy that FEMM help them in development of their career and I personally, I don't expect any answers to their research but I would like to hear from them how was, what was the influence of FEMM support in their research and in their career development? And as well as, you know, chairing a session, you're actually going to be presenting your own research at 10 past five on Saturday. And so, yeah, the title is Metagenomic Insight into Microbial Diversity of the Unique Laurentite Mine in Alkar. Can you tell us about this mine? It sounds very fascinating. Did you get to visit? Did you get to sample? What's this place like? Thank you very much for this question. This is really something fantastic and I would like to invite everyone who follow this interview to join the session and follow my talk because I give there more information and we can talk about this maybe one week. This is the unique main mine in the world, Alkar because it is main, very ancient with gold arsenic, antimony and pallium deposits and a lot of minerals. Most important there is thallium. Thallium is part of the mineral Laurentite. This mineral exists in several mines in the world but the purest Laurentite without any other elements or just small traces of few elements is in Alkar and in the main part of Alkar, estimates are that there are 500 tons of this thallium element and what is interesting about thallium? Thallium, you cannot find free thallium in the nature. There are a lot of isotopes but one isotope 203 and 205 can be found but what is the interesting that from the sun there are some particles named Neutrinos. There are three types of Neutrinos that's solar Neutrinos from the sun, they go up to the earth and when they in the contact with thallium, thallium transfers to lead 205 and you can scientist estimates with the concentration of this lead about, so there is belief that they can find the secret of the producing power of the sun and the secrets of the universe and it was the reason that thallium was suggested as a geochemical detector of solar Neutrinos. So now there is a legend about this main deposit ore that Alexander the Great, this is written in one book from a famous British writer, Christopher McDonald. He was talking about the secrets of the power of Alexander the Great because he believed in the power of stones, crystal and thallism and he used this crystal, Lauren did beautiful, like red color, use this for himself, for his favorite generals and soldiers. So I'm very proud about this and we make a research. I was in the tunnel inside, it is very narrow. I couldn't go more than 30, 40 meters deep inside because just more people can go there and in the collaboration with the Serbian university, university, I took samples, then we extracted DNA in Belgrade and we send this DNA to Visabio Valencia. And finally we prepared a great paper and I'm very proud and happy that this paper was published in a famous journal, very prestigious journal, Fence Microbiology Ecology. And it was one of my dreams that I would like to publish sometime a paper in Fence Journal and how it's happened. I have a little image of the lorandite here. So it is this beautiful red color, isn't it? It's so lovely. I want to follow my talk to get more information about this, it will be just this. Okay, well I'll, yeah, look out for this talk. I can't wait for Saturday. Okay, so I mean, obviously the background of this whole conference and this whole year has been the ongoing pandemic. I wanted to ask from your perspective, how is this, what is this pandemic taught us about how the scientific community can respond to a crisis? Joseph, this is very complicated situation. I mean, the beginning I believe that it will be solved very easily or in a short time. But as we see situation is complicated. Microbiologists are on the first line of this, let's say war and they should be emphasized. Collaboration I think is very in the highest level and the scientific community allowed, for example, publishing all scientific research and everything what is connected with something new. We call it to be published as soon as possible. And to be available to all scientific community, but I think that there are still more questions than answers. One of the reasons about this was that we decided to organize COVID-19 pandemic round table. We invited fantastic speakers, eight speakers and we have a great moderator. And I believe that maybe on Saturday, after these discussions, we will have answers to some questions that we don't know yet. So we'll wait and see on Saturday, I guess. So yeah, as the FEMS director for events and internationalization, I wanted to ask your opinion on how important is the international nature of science to its effectiveness and success? And what can we do to build and also defend international collaboration in this era of perhaps increasing nationalism and localism and protectionism? How do we defend that international aspects to science? Look, collaboration between scientists is on the first place. Most important is if they succeed to work independently, not disturbed by the politics. And I am sure that the science community, they need support from politicians, from business sector and so on, but they should make decisions themselves. This would be the best approach to solve this crisis. Always if you look back in the history, big crisis in different area of the life forced the science to have a big jumps. And this is always in the history when we have some great findings and developments in this kind of situations. The problem now is that a lot of lives are gone. This is the problem. This is the main problem. And I think that the science and scientific community should be on the first line and all advice is to be respected from the society. I guess one of the ways that you've helped to build another aspect of FEMS' internationalization is by setting up our ambassador network. We now have ambassadors in China, South Korea, Japan, America, and just recently we've announced two new ones in Canada and Australia. So how can this network help FEMS and the microbiology community? And yeah, what should we all be doing with our ambassadors? How can they best help FEMS and the community? Look, this project, which is not project, it's live project and developing project is a great project. And to explain that we decided to have ambassadors for the beginning in a big countries and big societies that are out of Europe. In Europe, we have FEMS member societies and we have FEMS delegates. So as you mentioned, we have six ambassadors. They are all very active. Three ambassadors are actively involved in this conference. Two of them as invited speakers, Yoshi Yoshida from Japan and Lixin Zhang from China. They are invited speakers. Lixin Zhang is from China. And we have Linda Kenney, FEMS ambassador from USA. She's... She's chairing the COVID table. She will be chairing the COVID 19 round table. And also she provide us a fantastic speaker from United States. So ambassadors role in a few verses to promote FEMS activities, to connect microbiologists of their societies with FEMS societies, to encourage their members to publish in FEMS journals, to attend congresses, conferences, to be joined affiliate members of FEMS. And also I would like to mention that all of these six ambassadors we have now, we will develop this network next year for two more, I believe. They're all great scientists and fantastic personalities on the first place. And so much expertise and experience coming with them. This is unbelievable. They're respected in their societies. And I believe that this communication on the global level will be more intensive for the benefit of microbiology and the benefit of... They have been really great at helping us to meet you scientists in their regions. And I hope that the program can expand over the next few years. This brings me to my final question for you, Vaso. So hopefully looking to the future, next summer we might be planning to run the FEMS summer school for postdocs in some format. So can you tell me a bit about what the plans are for this event and any information for potential candidates watching? I was at the previous one in person in Split and it was a wonderful event, amazing venue, so much great science, beautiful surroundings. Can we expect it to return next summer? What's the thinking at the moment? Joseph, you were the witness of the first summer school for postdocs. This is a fantastic project. And this is aimed to the most ambitious, great, young, early career scientists. We have a fantastic venue. It is a Mediterranean Institute of Life Sciences in Split, Croatia. And last year we had the first summer school for postdocs. It was more than successful. We had extremely good program and fantastic mentors and speakers and the feedback from all participants was more than we even expected. So for this year, we also prepared great program with different mentors and speakers. Everything was ready to start and we were in the process of selecting candidates. But unfortunately, COVID-19 also was the reason that we canceled this year and we will continue with the same program and same speakers next year. So this is a challenge for the most ambitious postdocs. This is the place there where they should spend 10 days together with the great scientists and their colleagues. So my suggestion to them will be to follow fans' website, not only for summer schools for every information they can find there, they have all useful information. But in terms of summer school, we will announce that maybe in a month or two and they should follow if they think these topics are good for them. I invite them to apply because this situation is like that, that will have a lot of people applying for this exceptional summer school. It really was exceptional. And I hope that I can attend again this year and perhaps film more interviews with more people because there were so many amazing scientists there. And in terms of the topic, I think it is the same as the one we planned this year. It's gonna be microbial evolvability mechanisms, resistance, biology and strategies to defeat and detect antimicrobial resistance. So a really interesting and useful topic for any young scientist. And that brings me to the end of the questions I have for you. Is there anything else you'd like to say in a final moment? I would say that I enjoy this interview with you. I would like to send a message to all young scientists, early career scientists to join the FEMS family. And thank you very much again for this possibility to give this interview because there are some things that I never thought would happen. Well, thank you for joining me. It's been a great session. And good luck with all your speaking engagements later on. I hope they all go well and that all your mics are unmuted. And yeah, good luck. That's the conference. Thank you for organizing it. It's gonna be a fantastic few days. And I'm sure we'll speak again in the future. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.


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Hello, Texas Steven Montezuma is here. He is driving. Don't worry. I am not so we are perfectly safe to be live streaming listen, we're on the road right now and I Wanted you to know that today Vivalrevival will not be occurring, but that doesn't mean we can't jump on and say hello to you real briefly We will be back next week for Vivalrevival and I know how much we love our gatherings together And we so enjoy our time with you every time we're together So I just wanted to come to you live from the road while we drive around We're actually looking at some facilities for the potential location for the brand-new TV studio It's gonna be an awesome time and I see many of you joining me now I see Naomi and Blaine and Morgan and Rosa. God bless you all coming on good to see you All let me know where you're watching from as I said, I'm coming to you live from Hutto, Texas We actually just came from Round Rock, Texas We were looking at a particular building that just may be the one for the television broadcast studio Now we're here. We're in Texas. We're not in the studio So we can't do Vivalrevival today But as I said that doesn't mean we can't jump on and say hello to you and see how everyone is doing so I just wanted to jump on real briefly and I and I wanted to I wanted to share a simple message about the favor of God Luke chapter 2 verse 52 and Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature in favor with God and in favor with man When you walk according to the will of God When you walk in obedience toward his word when you live a life of holiness and worship and when you live a life of selflessness As God has called us to live Then you experience the favor of God and favor isn't just vertical Favors horizontal There's favor that you can experience with God where he blesses you with his presence. He entrusts you with revelation He empowers you with the anointing. He strengthens you by his grace and Then there is favor That actually works horizontally between you and your fellow man When you are in right relationship with God that favor works both ways Now this of course does not mean that everyone's going to love you Jesus said in this world you'll have tribulation and he said that he's going to make it. So he's going to command us So he's going to instruct us. So in a certain way in a certain lifestyle that ultimately causes people to hate us Now that's not the goal of it, but the truth is if you follow Jesus You're gonna be hated by people. That's that's a fact of life But that doesn't mean that God can't turn the heart of those who are against you for his purposes There are moments when God can sovereignly move upon even your enemies to bring favor to your life God can bless you through a boss that doesn't like you God can bless you through a family member who has discord with you God can bless you with people who don't find you favorable. Why because you walk in right relationship with God And as long as you walk in right relationship with God that you are becoming the kind of person Filled with love filled with grace filled with patience filled with those things that are Others centered those traits that help you to interact with your fellow man You connect with God those things begin to flow naturally and as those things begin to flow naturally That favor comes upon your life So favor comes from God and favor comes from man You grow in both favor with God and with man through obedience to the word of God and the voice of the Holy Spirit now When you begin to walk in that favor There's nothing that can stop you There's no door that anyone can shut and keep shut God will continue to open doors and nobody can say a thing Nobody can come against it Try as they may man cannot stop the favor of God upon your life This is why it's so important that we remain connected with him through prayer through the word radical obedience through a lifestyle of surrender through living the crucified life and God will take care of the rest God will take care of the rest So that's just a short word I wanted to encourage you with the favor of God is yours if you walk in obedience to his word in the voice of The Holy Spirit that favor works vertically as well as horizontally God will open doors for you that no man can Shut now I want to start reading some of these comments and Say hello to you as I said earlier. There is no viral revival today, but I just wanted to jump on say hello That's because we're on the road right now Scouting locations for the future home of encounter TV. So let's go to the comments now Queen Miri writes why do pastors feel intimidated when young believers are used by God and his favor? I understand what you are saying, but what what is it jealousy? Well in some cases it absolutely is jealousy I know I myself personally when I was growing up and when I first began to preach the gospel You know, there was some attack on me that came from people who were well established in ministry But you also have to realize that not every time you are corrected by a seasoned minister Does that mean that they're jealous of you? I've seen a lot of young preachers talk as if they have all the answers talk as if they're the only ones getting it Right and even go as far as condemning other people and saying well, your pastor doesn't get it Well, your pastors out of line and I'm thinking my goodness first of all We don't know the situations in every circumstance and we don't know if people are misinterpreting what even their leaders have said So it's important that first of all you don't speak ill of other ministers, but sometimes when pastors bring corrections Young ministers interpret that as oh, they're jealous of me They're trying to keep me down and I know we have to be careful of that trap. So there's a balance to this So in regards to your question, yes, sometimes pastors are jealous of you Younger ministers and they do things to try to suppress their ministries, but if that pastor doesn't have a track record for Done that then it's very walking in pride So let's keep a balanced look at all of these things Brittany L advice for those who cannot find a spiritual leader teacher subscribe to encounter TV We meet every single Wednesday at 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. It's a wonderful community of believers There's no community like the encounter TV community none whatsoever We have an amazingly supportive loving spirit filled fired up group of believers Who walk in the power of the Holy Spirit and are grounded in the word that's so key And so join our group join our spirit family as we so affectionately refer to it as and be a part of what God is doing through encounter TV in fact We're actually changing the time very soon for Bible revival so that more people can be a part of it And then eventually I think later this year. We're adding a second stream There's a lot coming your way from this ministry, but I say get connected get to know us be a part of what God is doing This is gonna be an awesome awesome season of ministry. So you're looking for spiritual guidance You're looking for a community of believers subscribe to encounter TV connect with our ministry and you can be a part of that Okay, I see Queen Marie writes what you said about them thinking they're the only ones that hear from God the spirit to the point of demanding that No communication can be among people unless they know they are apart a part of I didn't say anything like that But but that is also a good point I mean some people who have very cult like Leadership styles like to make it sound like they have all the answers. No one else gets it Whenever you hear that kind of talk just know that there's a lack in power because they have to make up for in their mouth What they lack an actual demonstration, so be very careful with that Z Zs writes, thank you for listening to my feedback about changing the time Well Zs you and many others were giving us that feedback now I know we have people who love Bible revival at its original time But we just realized that there's just so many people I mean a higher percentage of people would actually be able to tune in if we did it a little later So we're gonna be doing Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Pacific Standard Time starting very soon. I don't think we're doing that this month I think that's next month. Okay. What else do we have? I have to bring the camera a little closer to my face guys, so excuse the angle in order for me to read this Daunted foam right? I was watching the video from two days back and I was really moved and it was such a blessing Praise God for everything. Well daunted. Thank you for saying that and thank you for being a part of our livestream here today You know that really is the move of the Holy Spirit People are healed people are saved Demons are cast out of people believers are filled with the gift of speaking in tongues their spiritual gifts are stirred leaders are raised all of that Happens in a mood And so we're thankful for the Lord Really blessing us. I should say trusting us with such a unique move of his spirit for sure Teachings about the Holy Spirit. I saw I saw how God favored you from the very start when you haven't had your church or video Studio, that's true. We some of you were with us since the beginning when we didn't have a studio We didn't have any of that going on for us. It was all really just You know, it was the humble beginnings of a ministry and and we still try to keep that humble posture because of course the Lord himself Is the one doing everything? But my goodness, I'm so I'm so blessed to know that God is blessing his ministry. So that favor comes from obeying the voice of the Holy Spirit We teach his word. We obey his voice. We just stick to the Bible We stick to demonstrating his power and you walk in that obedience favor comes Um Frank Javier soza writes, I really want to help your ministry, but I might go to federal prison in 20 22 please pray for me I'm so hungry for Jesus and ministry Big time. Well, Frank, we all make misunderstand that but you know, God is a God of new beginnings And so I pray that the Lord favors you that he causes his will to transpire in your life Whether that looks like you doing some time or no time or as much time as they said you're going to do It matters not because the favor of God can follow you even in the prison Even if you're there by your own mistakes, that's the power of God's love So you can stay in touch with us. Of course be a part of it I mean, I pray they have some way of allowing you to watch the teachings in the live streams And maybe you can minister to everybody in there as well, but we're gonna be praying for you and God will be with you Jason Peter Parker writes, hi, I am from India. I want to know more about Guys, I got to bring the phone closer to my face. I'm sorry I want to know more about God like by reading the Bible, but couldn't I Wasn't able to remember all the things I want to be a preacher. Oh, that's a wonderful wonderful Desire to want to be a preacher and that's something that you should definitely aspire to be That's a good thing that you desire to be a preacher of the gospel Just remember that there are standards that God has given to us and there are certain ways We have to live in order to be ministers of the gospel. So I actually just released a teaching I think it's called. I think I think I don't know how many signs we I think was seven signs of ungodly ambition Make sure you go and watch that. That's a nice start It's right here on the channel and those of you watching this live stream here this impromptu live stream If you're not subscribed make sure you subscribe to the channel We are a community of believers who love Jesus and we love the power of the Holy Spirit We let the Holy Spirit move freely We meet every Wednesday at 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time for a live stream and we release content almost every day We do events around the world.  Do you speak Spanish? It'll be beyond powerful to have a revival for not non-English speakers Well, I think the power of the Holy Spirit's the same every language. So let's establish that first and unfortunately No, I don't I don't speak Spanish. I'm a fourth generation Hispanic my great grandparents came from Mexico and You know, we just we do we assimilated to to the language of the nation and since then we've lost that language And so I do not speak Spanish. I understand very very very little of it But that's the wonderful thing about translators. We can use translators and it would be of course just as effective I think if you get a good translator Let me see here Eva Cortez. It's a nice place to park right here Eva Cortez writes Question there's a wave of folks Memorizing the New Testament. What do you think to religious? No, my goodness I try to memorize as much of the Bible as possible. If I could memorize the New Testament, I would do it I my memory is not as sharp as most people's you may not believe that But I'm just being honest with you vulnerable with you. My memory is not the greatest I'm constantly forgetting things. In fact today my brother had My brother had to drive me my wallet because I left it at the partner dinner last night and Ruben Who assists us that all the services knows I forget everything sports Steve with me all the time I'm constantly forgetting things this guy has to constantly say hey, you forgot this Hey, you forgot that I leave phones at restaurants wallets in hotels and dip the dead all over So if I could memorize the New Testament, I would do it That's a great and noble thing to do now if they say you need to do it to be saved Okay, they're they're crazy religious But but but if it's just memorizing it because you reference the word and you love it by all means of course memorize it Morgan Whitlow writes just finished praying in the Holy Spirit. It was so amazing best book to go deeper in prayer Hey Morgan, I really appreciate you saying that it's really nice of you to say I pray it was a blessing to you I pray that many people are being blessed by that book praying in the Holy Spirit is my latest work I took about a couple of years to write it and it really helps you to tap into the depths of prayer and Receive the gift of speaking in tongues So if you haven't received that gift go get that book if you can't afford the book all the teachings are on YouTube for free So check out our channel I'm Queen Kish writes it's been a year now and I haven't been to church But I usually conducted Bible study each Sunday for two hours with my kids Is that okay for me to continuously conduct a Bible study as a single mother? Not only is it good for you to do not only is it okay? It's a wonderful thing for you to have a Bible study in your home with the kids Just make sure that you are also fellow shipping with other believers You know, there's an interlinking of households to to that's to take place not just one family the entire family of God But oh, that's a wonderful thing. Hey Natasha wrote. I'm still reading praying in the Holy Spirit great book Well, thank you Natasha. That's very kind of you to say Lynette Erasmus writes I have trouble remembering the Bible. I want to be even closer to God Well, thankfully memorizing the Bible isn't the key to getting closer to God It's surrender to the Holy Spirit and he'll do the rest Let me see here Wiseman Nathari writes. How did Jesus's resurrection change both heaven and earth? Well, Wiseman, that would be a whole different topic, but think about the fact That God himself the creator of all things stepped into his creation Interacted with that creation and then caused all things to become new it set the cosmos in order That was the power of his resurrection Resurrection TV writes I was just reading 25 truths about demons and spiritual warfare. Okay, that book Steve will tell you Steve Did that book get me in trouble? Oh, yes, it did that book got me in trouble read it Please read it. It's a good book and I'm still stand by every word I wrote But oh my gosh When I wrote that book 25 truths about demons and spiritual warfare the religious spirits that stirred up. Oh my goodness when I started telling people the truth about Say for example generational curses and the fact that no curse can come upon my life for the Bible says he broke the curse and That blood breaks every curse when I'm blood bought with the blood of Jesus When I started telling Christians the truth the truth the biblical truth that Christians can't be demon possessed Oh, the religious spirits it stirred up people got mad at me who were calling me saying hey I have a whole ministry where I cast demons out of Christians. Why are you doing this? I say well, don't base your ministry on things that aren't biblical simple But man that book. Yeah, I started attacking all of the superstitions the the myths and the conspiracies that really are just Sadly come about because people don't know the word That was I was a wild ride in 2015 It was 2015 that I wrote it and I've been preaching that ever since and that has caused that's really stirred the pot But I pray I pray it blesses you want more if you don't if you can't afford the book go watch my e-course It's free on YouTube on demons and spiritual warfare. It was just a couple months ago. You can go look at its two parts It's like I think like six hours of teaching but yeah, so Anyway, okay, David when healing does praying to myself work or does someone have to do it for me Like do someone have to pray for you to be healed? excellent question, um You know, you can ask God to heal you But there seems to be something about the connectivity of others when believing for healing I don't know what it is, you know, the woman with the issue blood had to touch Jesus James 5 15 tells us lay hands with oil go to the elders and so forth. So I think it's quite an interesting subject Let me see here Resurrection TV says as I was reading I was completely Understanding that it's based upon the truth of the word of God.  So thank you. We love you. We appreciate you When I wrote that book I Had I had been challenged in my own thinking I Said to myself, okay, I got a challenge my own my own thinking I got to come to the word and Do what the word says and let me tell you it changed the way I approach spiritual over because I used to teach all of that you hear me I used to teach all of that, you know That's the the 12 steps to being delivered and so forth and and then I realized the power of the Holy Ghost lives in me I have the power of the Holy Ghost and I'm supposed to believe that that can't handle some some little warfare in my life No, I just I had the change I had to change my thought processes toward the word because I used to say things to people.  They're powerless They don't understand or well I got the proof you don't have anything and it was such arrogance such arrogance on my part and I repented it I had to repent of that and that's where that book came out of the truth about spiritual warfare The truth about demons the truth about all of these things Okay, let me see here Jacqueline and then I see oh that comment disappeared and Natisha Chetty says tuning in from South Africa Thank you for your guidance and being rooted in the word I wanted to speak in tongues for a long time and your sermons guided me I thank the Holy Spirit for his love and power one Natisha. Thank you for sharing that. Hey, by the way guys Can you all do me a favor? Can you all go and like this video and leave a comment because that really helps us to to spread the content around and anytime We release a video Just a little like on the thumbs up man That'll help us so much and I would so appreciate you doing that for us some of you wonder about you know Supporting the ministry and some say oh, I don't have enough finances to support one of the great ways You can support it's just a little like and a comment and they maybe even share it that helps Okay, let me see here. Oh Resurrection TV says I'm art. I'm a darsh. We've talked many times on viral revival and partnerships Well, thank you for being a part of everything Let me see here. What else do we have? What else do we have Natasha? Thanks. Thank you for your honesty It's so important and helps us. Well, all I can do is preach the truth and if I get attacked for it So be it. I'm not afraid of religious spirits. Let them come for me God is with me. You see the favor of God on this ministry on my life on Steve's ministry on Steve's life That's because we just obey God and I'm not willing to sacrifice that favor for anything Um, let me see here. Oh, somebody said hi from Germany. Well, God bless you all the way from Germany Carolina and Collie says can I heal slash cast out demons after giving my life to Christ or do I need to be ordained? Well, what does Mark 16 say? These signs shall follow them who believe They shall speak in new tongues. That's one of them.   Oh My goodness the confidence you would walk in. Oh my goodness the joy you would have That's my goal. I want you to know your power. I want you to know the power that rests in you Okay, comments comments coming from Let the lie limp ox is how to be more aware of the Holy Spirit. I'll give you one key You want to be more aware of the Holy Spirit? slow down I Have to tell this to myself all the time. I'm very fast-paced. I'm a fast-brained guy I want to move on to the next thing The Holy Spirit has to remind me slow down rest Listen to me some of us live life at such a fast pace that we move too quick for the guidance of the Holy Spirit We don't allow him to speak to us and we move so fast time goes by and we don't even realize that he was trying to talk to Us until we look back at that moment.  Thank you for tuning in Do me a favor Actually, I read a couple more questions But do me a favor like this video and make sure to leave a comment and share it with your friends That helps us to spread it around again. No viral revival today. This is the special stream We're on the road Steve is driving not me. So don't worry. I'm not driving But you know help us spread the word by liking commenting again viral revival We back next week make sure you join if you're new to this stream. Make sure you subscribe We want you to be a part of our wonderful community. Hey, everybody do me a favor. How about do this? I'm gonna get to the questions right now, but can you leave a comment on? Why people should subscribe to encounter TV just real briefly tell them why they should subscribe and leave it in the comment section Right now. Okay, somebody left a comment Justin rewrites. Do you have any tips on fasting? You know, I think we lost signal there I'm about to give you a tip for fasting and then at the same time I need you to leave a comment on why people should subscribe to the channel and leave a like Please a tip for fasting is don't do it as self punishment thinking that it's pleasing God Do it because whatever disconnects me from this world connects me to the next one Do it because in learning to fast. I'm training myself to say no to temptations and cravings