Ree has very bravely and I do stress very bravely volunteered to try flight assist off not only is she gonna try flight assist off she's gonna try assuming we've got time depending on how it goes she's gonna try taking off from station landing at a station going down to a planet surface and landing yes that I know yeah yeah I think probably we decided landing on the planet didn't we and then we decided if that goes okay we'll try landing at a base if I can get to the planet get to the planet yeah job number one and also she's got two ships lined up I won't spoil what they are but they're there suffice to say they're extreme and rain ends of the range kind of extreme ends of the range about as extreme as we we could get given our specific requirements which you will see brand new and I haven't flown either of them yeah she will see in a moment hello everybody thank you once again for joining yourself except does it now say FA off no it doesn't say if you take off have you got you turned off all your flight assists didn't you I did if you now turn FA off God there we go there we go your FA off okay good and the station's moving around you okay now all I've got in my head is that Thomas didn't said treat it like the camera okay what did I have that was clang number one there's a crane thing I can't talk that's okay mate I've got that you're landing gears down my love okay can we just say this goes really really badly we might want to it's alright it's alright this that's the whole point concentrate focus focus don't worry about talking you just focus go there you go look you've got there you go I can see it there you go right okay this is all good this is all good right I've got to be honest I think you're moving backwards a little bit okay there we go okay you talk okay I'm kind of oh my god how do people do this you know what you're doing you're already doing whoa I was about all move there we go on in your own time in your own Christ impossible it's not impossible it's not impossible you can do this you can do this you're okay okay now that stops me okay it's now behind you it's okay it's coming round again I thought it'd be good starting under the I would attempt first of all to try maybe try and get your ship under control so get it stopped I think it's probably okay how do you stop well you're going backwards quite rapidly now very rapidly do you stop right stop ship stop okay you're sort of drifting that's okay okay okay so go a little bit left okay a little bit down I would say I'm guessing because I'm looking at your ship there you go right there you go you are remarkably stopped right I'm fine as long as I don't have so remember what you said small movements no continuous burns okay okay you're drifting up a little bit I'm sure that's fine I'm sure that's intentional okay I'm fine as unless I press the thruster I can see it okay you get that okay oh god that's quite a continuous burn going on that you're okay you're okay okay you're now going down quite rapidly here comes the postbox the motion of the ship is being somewhat frontier there ladies and gentlemen I apologize for the zigzags you'll see oh my god it should be hilarious when you come out fail what you're flying tumble tumble tumble here we go okay yeah it is yeah okay now you're a fail okay I wish I could help you right so what's better to use shuffle or I would suggest shuffle from your perspective actually yeah I would have thought okay you are dropping oh sorry I don't that's okay I think the idea that I land oh yeah you'll do that one way or another yeah you're dropping quite fast darling I just put my landing gear there it's fine I'll stop okay no seriously you are dropping quite fast okay okay got this okay here comes the ground didn't do no look again here comes the ground oh and here we go okay okay it's just like Neil Armstrong in it just like Neil Armstrong you didn't you don't know he didn't do this have you got all your power in thrusters by the way no no no that's forward just try and just try and thrust up I would imagine but if Yaga or anyone has got any suggestions now would be a good time you're still going down still going down oh nice recovery okay how do you slow down enough okay so you want to go backwards what do you mean what okay you know well it's just like any direction yeah it's just it's just a cardinal direction right it comes the ground see this is looking remarkably controlled okay I would call that control down can we get some applause please come on she's actually I wouldn't say that was a landing if I'm being brutally honest that was a sort of reversed crash okay it's fine it's fine so you're getting under control though when you sort of go okay I need to get it under control you're kind of getting ground again was that I believe if I can quote our previous speedballing attempts was the width of a cat you're kind of you're kind of getting it under control yeah okay it's super ground ground again Kat stop stop stop no knockout don't worry about that hey I love a way sort of parked at a jaunty angle on a hill Brabants like how in the name of Brabants skills all this is what that was my friend one piece is clinching his sphincter just watching as an image all right yeah that looks a lot more controlled so chat guys who fly FAF what did you learn in yeah did you have a did you have a learn ship or roof and where my floor is down sweet you're um you're um yeah you know what you're under control you're distressing the under control at the moment are you sure you've got FAF top right inside I shall pretend you've got FAF haven't I was gonna say that was amazing I can't believe okay I'll come back hang on I'm gonna come back in with you're such a monkey that's better that was easy easy all right come on you're so funny oh my god I can't believe you did press the button oh god I've got to get back in now why don't I set a docking computer yeah reasons


Hi guys, so today I wanted to do a video on the topic of is it hard to get a Nursing job as a new grad nurse and I get asked this question a lot and you know I really don't have a great answer So I wanted to open up this discussion for everyone in the comments to see your opinions on is it hard to get a job As a new grad nurse for me personally I felt like I did everything I could to ensure that I got a job once I had moved from Arizona to Washington and So I started my first nursing job within a month after I graduated now some of my classmates weren't as lucky and They didn't start until you know three four five six months after they graduated and so it's different for everyone really at some people It's hard and some people it isn't that doesn't mean that you're a bad nurse If you can't get a job right away sometimes the demand is Different depending on where you're at But there are things that you can do to make yourself more marketable like one start networking with In your clinicals with the nurses and nurse managers No matter if you want to work labor delivery or not be make a good impression. So that way if you do Decide to go and work there. Maybe they'll remember you you can make sure that you have a great resume you can Make sure that you are following up with your interview application and your resumes that you submit and If you do get an interview make sure you follow up with the manager after that interview and thank them and all of that stuff But really it's different for so many people So I don't have a yes or no answer as far as how hard it is to get a job as a new grad because personally for me It wasn't too hard and for some other people it has been hard So I want to hear your guys's experiences and your thoughts and what you've heard from other people Leave those in the comments below and we'll have a discussion so that way we can kind of get a generalized answer of like Yes, or no, is it hard to get a job as a new grad nurse give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel And I'll see you guys next time. Bye


Twenty-four hours away from graduation and the gold bars of a second lieutenant. I don't know about the other men, but I was thinking back over the past four years as a cadet. How fast they'd gone by, how wonderful they'd been. Funny thing is, I never wanted to be a cadet in the first place. I mean, I didn't grow up with the idea of going to the military academy like a lot of others. In fact, even when I was in high school, I didn't know where I was going. Who knows what might have happened if a bunch of us hadn't gotten together for a coke that day. I don't know. All right, you guys. Let's get up here for the folks this evening. He is. Forty bucks for two new tires. That car is running. You gotta watch that. What a money on that. Well, well, you know, Walt is calling in the Ivy League. Why not? Well, I don't know where I was going to college. Who knows what might have happened if a bunch of us hadn't gotten together for a coke that day. Why not? Dad said you can't beat them for liberal arts education. I'm for prestige. What about you, Doug? Where are you headed? I don't know yet. Hey, old buddy, I thought you were coming to state with us. Yeah, well, I mean, I might, but I want to take a look around first. I might not, and they got a great engineering school up there at State University. Yeah, but not like Caltech or MIT. You know, I couldn't make it with my marks, but you ought to consider the military academy, Doug. Me? Oh, sure. Are you kidding? Not that place.  Yeah, who needs that military? Now, come on, you guys. You can get a darn good liberal education at the military academy. Yeah, but you still need polls to get in there. I didn't even think about West Point again. Until a couple of weeks later, when our college counselor also suggested it. I told him what the others had said. The military academy was a place where they locked you up for four years. You've got the wrong impression of the military academy, Doug. I know, because I just visited there with a group of secondary school counselors. It's an up-to-date educational institution, and I don't mean just new buildings and facilities. I mean the whole academic program. That place is still pretty big on engineering, though, isn't it, Mr. Kelsen? No. Of course, there's extensive coverage of the sciences. Nuclear energy, electronics, rocket propulsion, aeronautics, you name it. But there's also more emphasis on non-technical subjects. History, economics, international relations, languages. That's because the academy graduate today could just as well find himself sitting around a diplomatic conference table. Or in charge of a nuclear energy plant, as in command of troops. Or he could be attending civilian graduate school. Three fourths of the graduates do, you know. Three fourths. Here's the military academy catalog and a profile of the class that entered last year. Why don't you look them over? Well, thank you, Mr. Kelsen, but I'm really not interested. That's too bad, Doug, because you have the right combination for the academy. Good marks, athletic skills, leadership ability. Of course, you might not be able to qualify. The competition is pretty stiff. Maybe you'd better think in terms of some other college. Well, I'll just look this over, Mr. Kelsen. That night I studied the academy catalog. What surprised me was the variety of courses. Quantum mechanics, Shakespeare, management engineering, political philosophy, linear algebra and programming. There were over a hundred electives to choose from. I was also impressed by the background of the faculty and by the academy's program and the computer sciences and the use of educational TV. I decided to prove to Mr. Kelsen that I could get into the academy. So I applied to my congressman for a nomination. He asked me to send my school record to a civilian selection board, which then interviewed me. I guess I did all right, but the congressman wrote and said that he took the board's recommendation and would nominate me for an appointment to the military academy. During my senior year in high school, I was notified to take the three-part qualification exam, medical, physical aptitude and college board tests. Even if I did qualify, I still wasn't sure I wanted to go. I knew of a fine athletic program and that interested me, but, well, I just have to wait and see. Then one day my letter of appointment came. And you can guess how the folks acted. You'd have thought I'd been elected president or something. I knew I'd miss my friends if I accepted. Still, it felt good to be picked to qualify for a college with such high standards. Dillard! Hi, Mr. Kelsen. Congratulations. I just heard the news. Well, thank you, sir, but I'm still not sure whether I'm going to accept. Really? I'm surprised it's quite an honor to be appointed to the military academy. I know, sir, but there are a couple other colleges that I want to consider. Well, yes, of course, but then if you do go elsewhere, you'll never really know if you could have lived up to the academy standard, will you? I knew that Mr. Kelsen was challenging me. Well, I never could resist a challenge. The first day is a plea. I'll never forget. I guess no graduate ever does. I sure had a lot to learn about the academy, even though I'd been there on sightseeing trips. End-to-army, football, and hockey games. West Point is open to the public. Anybody can drive right in. But I sure had no idea what life was going to be like as a cadet. But that hair is atrocious. Now, we're going to make a cadet out of you. Although it's officially termed New Cadet Barracks, we plebe soon learned why everyone calls this introduction to cadet life, Beast Barracks. Give me MacArthur's message. Sir, General MacArthur's message. For the Far East, I send you one single thought, one small idea, written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo. There is no substitute for victory. The commander of the New Cadet Battalion is the king of the beasts. He and his staff have the responsibility of making cadets out of civilians, and they take their jobs seriously. Under the supervision of the tactical officers, the cadet's detail provides basic military training, which includes plenty of marching and drilling, PT, and a taste of soldiering in the field using modern combat weapons. They also make sure that new plebes become familiar with the standards of the Corps of Cadets, and with the Cadet Honor Code. The Honor Code was established according to the precepts laid down by Colonel Sylvain Slair, father of the Academy. It means simply that a cadet shall not lie, cheat, or steal, nor condone anyone who does. Rigid adherence to an Honor Code and system may seem harsh, especially when the Cadet Honor Committee has to recommend that a cadet be dismissed from the Corps. But on the battlefield, integrity is a life-and-death matter. The officer's word must be relied upon without question. There were times that first summer when I didn't think I was going to make it, especially when I heard from my buddy on vacation. But whenever I felt like quitting, I said to myself, try one more day. If thousands of others could make it, you can too. And I did. At the end of August, we were formally presented to the Corps. We were no longer new cadets. We were members of the Corps. As we marched along the plane, I felt proud. I knew I had met the Academy's first challenge. That fall, when the academic program started, I began to feel as though I was going to college at last. The aim of the Military Academy today is to give you a general education in both the arts and sciences, along with a broad military education. During the school year, 1% of the time is spent in academics and 20% in military training. Dear Mr. Gilson, sorry I didn't write you sooner. You were right about the academic pace here. It's plenty tough. Take plebe math, for example. So far we have covered vector analytic geometry, much of calculus and linear programming. Now we are into differential equations. Mr. Bell will have you discuss your board first, please. Yes, sir. Under the system established by Colonel Sylvainis Thayer, classes at the Academy are small, of the seminar type. Just a minute, Mr. Bell, what is Kepler's second law? Sir, the radius vector from the Sun to a planet sweeps out in equal area. Classroom participation is stressed, and there are frequent quizzes. As a result, each cadet receives a maximum of individual attention from his instructor and learns to think on his feet. That's right, Mr. Kaiser, thank you. My marks that fall average 2.7, out of a possible 3.0. This was pretty good, considering I was competing with some of the sharpest men in the country. Before I knew it, it was Christmas time. Here you go, sir, basis. Top tenor. Very. Second tenor. I was glad Academy policy had changed, so that now Plebe's too got Christmas leave. We worked long and hard for six months, and we were ready for a break. It was great to be home. When I got back, I was a few hours early, so I took a walk around. The point is our nation's oldest, continuously occupied military post, with links to the past as solid evidence of the past. The links to the past as solid as the links of the great change General Washington used to block the Hudson River to British shipping. Team two, it has been the home of the United States Military Academy and the birthplace of the Long Grey Long. It was a busy one. There never seemed to be time enough for all we had to do, but you learn to live with the routine of the Military Academy, and you learn to handle the academic work. We're going to go to the New Orleans Library, and someone to study with on a weekend afternoon. That's always something that surprises people. That the Academy is co-ed on weekends, just like a lot of other colleges. They like the passing ways to get through this place. Take it easy. What are we going to be? English professors or soldiers? We're going to be officers who have to know how to communicate with our troops. We really got to hand it to you, Doug. You really got this place figured out. That's Arthur, a rising tower. I'm just here for an education. Period. That's all? Sure, that's all. Come on, old buddy. Let's solve this problem. I had things all figured out. At least I thought I did. Until that summer, when we took our field training in the hills near West Point, when I was writing home, it suddenly struck me. particularly our recondo training, recondo, that's short for reconnaissance commando, a combination of mountaineering, hand-to-hand combat, and making like G.I. Joe, revolutionary style. At the end of recondo, we went out on a simulated ranger mission. Take it from me, you sure learn a lot about responsibility when you're the one who has to lead a patrol through enemy territory and launch a surprise attack. But it wasn't all worth it. At Camp Buckner, the cadet hostess is on duty in the summertime. I began to have more appreciation for the benefits of army life. On weekends, Buckner is almost like a summer resort. You can count on Lake Popolovo. It gets them every time. When I reported for classes that fall as a yearling, I felt far removed from the plea of the previous year. Far busier, too. What with physics, chemistry, and history added to our other subjects. The laboratory facilities were modern and continually being improved. In particular, I enjoyed our experiments. The problems our instructors had signed were challenging. Many of our instructors also made use of the closed circuit television facilities. The creation of a new hairdo, which, while not appropriate for cadets, is certain to revolutionize hairstyles for women. Our home permanent apparatus is more commonly known as the Vandegraaff generator. In this experiment, the Vandegraaff merely demonstrates the repulsion of bodies of similar charge. In this case, the strands of hair repelling one another radially outward. Of course, we weren't always in class. There was studying to be done in the barracks, and there were more than 60 organized extracurricular activities to choose from. I worked on the class committee, and I was selected for the Cadet Choir. Along with this, we had a heavy athletic schedule. The United States Military Academy athletic program has been labeled by some experts as the best in the world. Its aim is to make every cadet an athlete. Or, in the words of President Kennedy, intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong. At West Point, every cadet undergoes a concentrated program to improve his basic physical abilities. He is also given instruction in carryover sports, sports that will help keep him in shape throughout his army career. And let's not forget the spectator sports. At the Military Academy, they're almost as strenuous as being on the team, particularly during football season. My second class summer, I served as a squad leader during New Cadet Barracks. As I worked with the New Plebes, I began to realize that it isn't enough just to be an honor student or a good athlete. By the time he graduates, every cadet has to be ready to accept the responsibilities of leadership. He has to prove himself as a cadet, as a man, and as a leader. At the start of our third year, I took on additional responsibilities as a cadet corporal. The academic program broadened out still further when, as second and first classmen, we studied military and constitutional law, history, international relations, political philosophy, economics, and military psychology and leadership. We delved into all aspects of 20th century engineering and technology, jet propulsion and aerodynamics, amplifiers, radar, micro circuitry, lasers, and solid state electronics. We studied nuclear fission and fusion and radiation detection, structural design and analysis, ballistics, rockets, advanced weapon systems, even space technology. One thing I found very interesting was the academic computer center. With the use of closed circuit TV, we were given comprehensive instruction in computer programming and operation, plus hands-on experience at the console. The idea was not to make us computer technicians, but rather to give us an understanding of the many military applications of computers. Later on, I took extra instruction and qualified for a gold card, which meant I could use the computer any time it was available on my own. It was a great help on problems. Major Parker, the officer in charge, encouraged me, and under his guidance, I undertook a special project of my own, a detailed study of the various probabilities of survival in space. It was Major Parker, more than anyone else, who made me realize that there was plenty of opportunity for scholarship and research in an army uniform. Throughout our four years at the academy, we continued our military training. We studied the art of warfare, ancient and modern. Mr. Davis. Sir, how is the paper cartridge used? The paper cartridge, all right. One requirement for the Revolutionary War soldier was that he had his own teeth. He had to bite off a portion of the cartridge and pour a powder in the pan, close the frizzing, and he would pour the remainder of the powder down the bore, followed by the From your ranks, said General MacArthur, come the great captains who hold the nation's destiny in their hands. We learned about our heritage, not only the leaders of our armies in times of war, branch, lead, Pershing, Eisenhower, Bradley, and Westmoreland, but also many of the explorers, engineers, educators, and statesmen who conquered the West and helped build this country into a great nation. During the summers, we took indoctrination trips to various branches of the army, navy, and air force. I served as a platoon leader in a regular army unit, dear mom and dad. It hardly seems possible that four years have gone by. This will be my last letter to you as a cadet. Did you tell your family you turned down graduate school? No, but I'm going to.  Oh, you. You were the one who wasn't going to get involved in West Point, remember? Sure, I remember. Look at you now. Italian Adjutant, you want honorable mention in that National Science Foundation competition? Yeah, with the help of the computer. You're in the top five percent of the class. Okay, okay, rub it in. You know, you should have competed for that road scholarship. Well, maybe. Jack was right. I had changed. Dad, remember I wrote you about the chance I have to go on to graduate work? I've decided, however, to take Ranger and Paratroop training and go to a troop unit first. In a couple of years, I'll have a tour of duty as a graduate student at a civilian university. Thinking back on it, I'm glad I decided to be a cadet. Four years at the Military Academy have really added up for me. Now I can see the road ahead clearly. Opportunities for many careers in the Army. I know now that this is the way I want to go. This is the way I'm going to achieve my personal goals. Not that it will be easy. What lies ahead is the biggest challenge of all. But I feel prepared. I feel equal to for along with a thousand other young men, I've met the challenge of West Point. I know this isn't the end. It's just the beginning.


UIU file 0041. Altered high school building in ██████. Confirmed Anomaly 3. Object Class 53. Highly intrusive, unknown capabilities, unknown nature. Secure containment protocols. Confirmed Anomaly 3, CA-3, is to be surrounded by an electric fence no less than 30 feet high and guarded by the United States Army's ██████ platoon. Any footage or photographic evidence of CA-3's interior is to be excised as soon as possible, and all witnesses detained indefinitely. Under no circumstances should any personnel attempt to enter CA-3 or communicate with the persons inhabiting it. However, any person known to have been inside CA-3 at any point must be detained and interrogated. A direct military assault on CA-3 has been deemed unfeasible at this point due to the unknown capabilities of the entity or entities by which it is controlled. Note, this is a summary and does not contain all information relevant to CA-3. For detailed information regarding CA-3, see UIU file 0042 through 0218. Director ██████. Known information, the unusual incidents unit was alerted to CA-3's existence on 7 September 1954, when students attending ██████ High School reported the interior of the building was vastly different than it had been at any point in the past. Upon discovery, CA-3 exhibited several unusual, if not inherently paranormal, traits. Nearly all walls in the facility have been replaced with steel reinforced concrete, although several rooms were constructed of other materials for no readily apparent reason. All exterior windows have been covered from the inside. All student desks, personal effects, textbooks, and other materials expected of a public high school were completely absent. Lockers were still present, albeit significantly smaller and constructed of stainless steel. The arrangement, location, and size of rooms in facilities did not match blueprints for the school. Often, rooms were the exhibit seemingly random modifications, although the number of changed rooms is currently unknown. No less than 17 electronic computers were found, each of which made use of state-of-the-art magnetic core RAM. Prior to its classification as a confirmed anomaly ██████, High School had no computers. All files on the computers were inaccessible, and the computers themselves were firmly bolted down. A team sent in the CA-3's interior to do the complete survey. Team CA-3-05 did not return, nor did a second team, Team CA-3-06, tasked with locating the first team. The facilities are currently under lockdown, pending new containment protocols. Update 23 days after initial recovery, guards reported white noise emanating from CA-3. The volume of the noise increasing the closer one got to the auditorium. Five hours later, the white noise stopped, although the sound of voices were audible from the interior of CA-3. Upon further investigation, it was found that building now contained a large number of persons, all of whom appear to be wandering aimlessly through the facility. Notably, each individual was physically identical to a member of Team CA-3-06, despite the inhabitants of CA-3 vastly outnumbering the members of Team CA-3-06. Attempts to interview and attain the inhabitants were thwarted by ██████. The twelve members of Team CA-3-05 were not found. In addition to the aforementioned, the interior layout of CA-3 had changed significantly since the previous investigations. No mechanism which could explain this has been identified. Update Three months after the previous incident, white noise was again heard emanating from the auditorium. This time the decision was made to investigate immediately. It was found that most of CA-3-2, the destination given to the inhabitants of CA-3, had gathered near the doors of the auditorium. A circular hole roughly six feet in diameter had formed a still barrier, although the interior was not visible. At 0310 hours, an item resembling a ████ emerged from the hole and was carried away by an inhabitant. The item was placed in one of the classrooms which had not previously been observed to open. This process continued for upwards of eight hours, with a new item being produced once every three minutes. Most were seen entering a different room or locker, although insufficient personnel were available to track all items. Another investigation revealed that most, if not all, of the items produced exhibited anomalous properties themselves. A significant portion of CA-3-2 are involved in either guarding the items produced, collectively CA-3-3, or performing various tests on them. Update Two days after the previous incident, three identical armed guards appeared near each entrance to CA-3. Further attempts to enter the building were futile, as these guards have consistently overpowered all teams sent to enter CA-3, regardless of injury or relative level armament. Note, reports gathered during the two days prior to guards manifesting outside of CA-3 appear to confirm that CA-3-2 is following standard UIU protocol regarding the items produced by the auditorium. Third knowledge of UIU standard procedure is consistent with that of team CA-3-05. Update During the UIU's tracking of CA-6, two men identical to Agent Dixon, a member of CA-3-06, emerged from a parked car and forcibly detained CA-6, dragging him into the car and driving away. Tracking the vehicle for the next eight hours revealed that it was driving directly to CA-3. Upon arrival, the vehicle drove directly through the front doors, which the guards have opened shortly before their arrival. CA-6 has not been recovered. UIU File 0042 Message Received from CA-3 On May 15, 1965, the following message was transmitted at Morse Code from CA-3 on standard UIU communication frequencies. Sensitive data has been classified and the beginning of each sentence has been capitalized, but the message has not otherwise been changed. Hello, we are the O5 Council and we, Secure Contain Protect, have been shown to do and it would be nice to be friends. It is nice to have been a part of your excellent, but it is best that with superior resources given, the greatness we will control containment. Our sincerest apologies regarding guards and detainment, workers and secrets kept needed. The time and weight we apologize, the radio blocked by one SCP or two, expect an expansion soon, for we spaces for although away from auditorium, okay but unwanted. Eight hours later, the following transmission was received. Expanded now, see the ██████ Federal building, it is now a functional. Need doctors, guards, D-men recruiting. Anomalies found in further possibly international, researching of course possible. International may be days, weeks to do. Further, we O5 are aware, sorry to O6 missed, that legible barely, but go between auditorium not ████, goodbye and luck with your troubles. For further information, see UIU File 0 ████, Altered Federal Building in ████, confirmed Anomaly 10 ████.


Hello, everyone, and welcome to Human Humane Architecture here on Think Tech Oyi. I am this program's co-host, Soto Brown, and speaking to us from Germany, where he currently is, is the host of our program, Martin Despang Martin. Are you there? Say hello to us. I am.  So what are we going to talk about today, Martin? Pretty much along the lines of last show, where we take advantage of being trans-continentally all over the place and reflecting on our island architecture, which we did. This is picture at the top right. Oh, wait, no, we're not there yet. We're not there yet. Just behind me. We're not there yet. We will. We just have the Pan Am building behind me, for not letting you know that. And now we can go to our first picture, and now Martin can describe it. And that was stealing the show. And we had a couple of glitches today, technology, you know, we got to talk after on the world. So it's a miracle that we can do this anyways. And we said as it is a miracle that we can fly around the world, which we will talk about today again. That's right. And so aviation architecture has been a vehicle for reflection on what we're doing architecturally. And last show we had the TWA building reminding us of the good old bladesale center that you and I are increasingly sort of curious or worried about what they're going to do to the good old exhibit hall, which they're going to tear down and replace. And you just walked by some illustrations about the new one, and you told me you're not sure about the thing, right? Correct. So anyway, so here's our first picture. And we've got Tom Cruise on the left. And then we've got, we've got Martin on the far right. No, we've got DeSoto on the far right right at the moment. And we're talking about, and you said that Tom Cruise in this film, this of course is the German DVD cover, is a TWA pilot, but we're not talking about TWA today. We're talking about Pan American World Airways. And in addition to Tom Cruise, there's a picture of DeSoto Brown as he looks today, and then there's a picture of DeSoto Brown as he looked back in the 1960s down at the bottom of the picture. He always looked the same DeSoto, he always looked the same. I didn't have a beard back in the 1960s, but in any case, next to me are some Pan Am bags. And back in the 60s, if you were a local nerd, you carried a Pan Am bag to school with your books in it. And I was friends with the nerds who carried the Pan Am bags. They tried to get me to carry one. I said I just can't go that far. So I intentionally ripped it and then said, oh, sorry, I can't carry my Pan Am bag anymore. But it isn't. Thanks for sharing that traumatized experience DeSoto. That's right. And if you could see me live, which we weren't able to do because of technology reasons, you would see what's here under the chin of Tom Cruise is the Tiki lounge where I was supposed to report from, which is in the basement of my best friend Stephon and Kirsten. And we had reported about that about a year ago when I was coming back. And that was with Suzanne and her tropical tourism show. So all our thoughts are still with the island and you will travel. That's the picture at the middle on the ride. You will go to the Tiki Oasis, which is the world conference on Tiki. That's right. And so we will report on that. And again, as you pointed out, I was traveling and had the CBD and TWA was sort of the theme. And next picture, please, is there's another airline that I've been using being German. I'm using Lufthansa and these are the pictures on the very right. And this is a very vintage German air company, of course. And they were rather ahead of the game and bleeding back in the days as they still are. There was a ranking recently that we looked at the top 20 of air carriers. And this one made it to number seven. Unfortunately for us, the American side of us is that no American company made it on that list anymore, right? But that was different way back with this other airline, which is Pan Am. And this is another DVD cover here. This is the German version. And again, it says the complete serie, which means the complete series. And this is Pan Am. And I think this was running rather recently like until 2011 or so, right? And I want to point out in these two pictures that one of the things that's really being shown off here is the swinging stewardesses. Because stewardesses in those days had to be young. They had to be attractive. And they were thought of as sexually available. And if not, they were certainly attractive to men who were flying on airplanes. So that was a whole mystique back in those days of stewardesses. But that's not true. Yeah. So it was a total piece of artwork. It was branded. And we get to the next picture, Pan Am was hiring artists who were doing pretty magnificent to the posters. And this is one I could have been flying with that company, Pan Am, to Germany. Here you can see Neuschwanstein or some kind of artist interpretation of that. But let's do the next picture. And you're gracious enough, although we want to mainly promote one museum, which is your museum, the Bishop Museum, where you're generous enough to also support other museums. Yes. And the Pearl Harbor, some pictures I took, you know, pretty soon after I arrived on the island about like half a decade ago, I went there. And these are pictures that I took that they had a booth that's dedicated to Pan Am back in the days. Let's go to the next picture, which actually shows how it all started and tell us a little about that. Yeah. And the point about Pan American that's really important for the Hawaiian Islands is that it was the first commercial airline to fly here, starting in 1936. And at that time, this was absolutely the leading cutting edge of technology that planes were able to fly that far from the West Coast of North America to the Hawaiian Islands. That was the max that any airplane could fly. They started out with Martin aircraft, and then they shifted to Boeing. And in the picture that we see here, this is a very fantasy view of one of those Boeing clipper planes, Pan American planes. They really were not as huge as this, but it was a very romantic and exciting thing to do to fly all the way to the Hawaiian Islands. It took 17, 18, 19 hours, which sounds preposterous, but that was much, much less than four to five days, which is what it took on a ship. And if we go to the next picture, we can... And that's where you see that at the top right, you can see the old ships in the back in the days, and you see that clipper, which is the name of the airplane. Yeah. You can see, it illustrates what you were talking about.  Absolutely. She was a good friend of my parents, and her name was Patricia Scott, Patricia Kennedy Scott. She dedicated the Hawaii clipper at Pan American plane at Pearl Harbor in 1936, and she poured coconut milk over the prowl of the aircraft and said, I christen you, the Hawaii clipper. And so as you were saying too, if you look at the cutaway views of this, the clipper planes were huge inside. And because you were paying a premium price, you could walk around. There were births. There were other different types of compartments. And I think in the next picture, we're going to see some of the interior detailing. And there we are. That was an event, right? It was rather exclusive, rich, and they were able to roam around. They had a lot of leg room, as they call it today. People weren't squeezed like sardines into a tin can like these days, right? Absolutely. This was luxurious. This was flamboyant. As you can see in these pictures, and the next page is going to be, again, pictures I took from the exhibit at Pearl Harbor, this is the next generation of plane, and this is the Stratocruiser. And that one was flying between, I think, the mid-30s and the 50s. No, actually it was. And that was the next level. Yeah, that's post-war. The Stratocruiser actually, this is a development of technology that was created during World War II. And the Stratocruiser, like the previous plane that we saw, had two levels, and you could walk from the upper level down to the lower level to go to a little cocktail lounge down there. And that's something you certainly can do in planes. Yeah, and you were saying, you know, from today's point of view, you know, I mean, way back I was cutting at state of the art that compared to these days, there was still pretty bumpy ride. Some of them came down and never, you know, made it. So it was pioneering. Yes. And then it was sort of replaced by the next phase, which it gets us to the next picture, which is the jet age. Yes. And here you can see, again, a very sort of stylish poster from Pan Am, sort of branding that and communicating that. You can see Honolulu, which is our city. And you can see people, you know, pretty much stressed internationally. That doesn't look very easy breezy to me. We're not talking about fetishizing the tiki aspect of the island. We're talking about a metropolis to be. And the role of pictures on the right side is my privileged view, which a couple of shows ago, we were talking about the Waikiki Grand in my view and Diamond Head. So just show them to the next page. And that one and the following ones are dwelling upon that most iconic view of Diamond Head, which Pan Am was using for its marketing. Right, correct. And those are both 1950s. The left one on the left is actually a poster from the jet age. It says by jet clipper at the top. And the ad on the right is from the early 1950s. All that's missing in Hawaii is you. So just as Martin said, they're using the iconic outline of Diamond Head to help sell Pan American World Airways trips to the Hawaiian Islands. And so it is on the next page, which again, thanks for providing these from your archives. So this is once again just variations of that. Yes. And let's jump to the next picture here, which is referring to the last show we did here. So here's the jet plane and it's sort of a low on. And you can see people still walking up to the plane, as we said. Yeah, different to today. Getting to the next page. Yes, where we said we were concluding last show. We were saying when you were able to open the door of the airplane, immediately the full senses are attracted and especially the one of smell. And where it's graphically shown here that, you know, the Diamond Head, once again, is sort of framed by flowers. But these flowers weren't just pretty to look at. These flowers were even more pretty to spell. And so again, as the picture you provide on the right side, you've got the lay, you've got the sun, you've got the tropical scent. So that was the whole deal, the whole experience that was so different than than any of the other places where Pan Am was flying. Yes, yes, absolutely. And because this is before Jetways existed, you were immediately exposed to the outside air. And as we were talking about earlier, the trade winds. And you can see the people in the picture are being blown by the trade winds, which is part of the entire ambience of your arrival in the tropical paradise of Hawaii. And all of that, and that's the next picture you were saying was was quite the undertaking to manage this all from technology to organization to logistics was quite the thing. Yes. Back in the days and still is. And this is portrayed by this sort of classic picture with the the Boeing in front of the terminal building. And you can see the crew there. You know, this is symbolic for OK, we're we're serious. This is business. This is professional. Absolutely. And it is comfortable and it is professional and it's safe and it's modern because we are using the most modern planes with trained technical people and with a modern Honolulu International Airport behind it. What else could you ask for on your trip to paradise? Exactly. And talking paradise and being a professional and modern get to the next page. These are my favorite of your posters you provided here because they're not they're not nostalgic. They're not taking. They're not sort of pre-contact. They're they're showing why it's modern way of tradition. This is very fine artwork.  Back then, getting us to the next page where this is funny postcard. Tell me why you found this so funny. Yeah, well, let's go to the next picture and there. Well, this is a it looks like it's a real image of a Pan Am plane flying over the east end of Oahu. And if you look at it more closely, you can see that none of that is really very real at all. Hawaii Kai is not look it does not look like that. There's no Hanama Bay, etc. So it's really an artist's conception. But what it does show is that the jet age, which started in 1959, really led to a tremendous amount of growth in the Hawaiian islands, particularly in Honolulu. So the jet flying over the fantasy of you is still getting across the idea that real changes were happening because of this new type of technology. Yeah, we're in sprawl with it go up into the mountains. You wouldn't do it that bad. You're sort of more worried about that these days.  It wasn't seen as problematic as it is these days. Absolutely. Problematic getting us to the next page. This is in the last show where we're talking about that some fine pieces of architecture. And at this point, this is sort of the audience might say, when what does it all have to do with architecture? Correct. And now we're talking. So at JFK where you were, you know, you were closed last time. We said a fine piece of our island architect, IMP, which is the East West Center is not anymore. And people WAs most sort of iconic building was this one here, which was called the World Port that was also at JFK. And it was built in 1961. Very iconic building that very sadly was torn down not that many years ago, I think like five years ago. And this is sort of tragic. And if you look at that building, it's sort of a perfect symbol for, you know, positive optimistic era of the jets. And you can probably see the roof being inspired by the long span of the wings. And look at that span and look at that iconic sort of technology and tectonics and said that this piece is not around anymore. But the piece that probably most people in the world associate that architectural piece with Pen and we see on the next picture and you stop by on your recent trip to New York. Yes, I stayed right near it. In fact, I took the picture in the upper right corner and the Pan Am building in New York City was very iconic when it was constructed, which is about 1960, unfortunately, because there is no Pan American airways anymore, it's no longer called that. It's called the Met Life Building. But in the picture, you can see that Grand Central Station is at the base with this other iconic building up above it. Now, one of the things we talked about also was that when this building was built for a brief time period, there was a helicopter shuttle that could take you from this my rise to JFK Airport, which it didn't work out very well for a number of reasons. And there was, in fact, unfortunately, a disastrous crash of one of the helicopters, which is one of the reasons they stopped doing it. But when they did do it, it was again an absolute symbol of the most modern way you could travel on this iconic airline that flew all around the world and was really a symbol of the United States internationally at the time that this was going on. Absolutely. And talking international, the architect was an international consortium of what we represent, Germans and Americans. There was Mr. Delushi and there was Mr. Walter Gropius. So again, very iconic building, very iconic architect.  And there's only one other building and we have that building. And this is the Pan Am building. And so at the very top, you can see the iconic original sign that is still so hip and so cool as, you know, you know, communicated through the these here is, and, you know, honestly, and I didn't want to reactivate your trauma with the bags. Luckily, you told me because I said at some point, let's get a t-shirt with Pan Am, which they're selling in that airport shop. And you said then you shared your trauma with me and said, maybe, maybe not. So anyway, so Pan Am is still, even though the company is gone, is long gone, right? Yes. They're still making money off the memory. Yeah, they are. And our building here still has the iconic sign, even though, you know, there's no business in there anymore, as you can tell. And architecturally at the very top left, we feature this briefly already in our introduction to tropical brutalism because we believe it's the fine piece. And the picture on the top right is introducing your next show in two weeks, which is about the sort of increasing in-significance of the magnificent mile, the Cavaliani Boulevard. Right. That's right. So let's jump to the next page and look at the building a little closer. And we once again, we choose this, you know, poster that you provided, which is about the lure of the exotic and the erotic in that case here. That's right. And being, you know, appropriate to these dress, which people would say is inappropriate. We would think it's appropriate because you don't shouldn't wear much because then you're you're getting too hot. And this is something that the building does. The building is comprised of a plinth at the bottom. And out of that rises the slick and slender power. And here, if you have an open linoid, yes, you got shade. Yes. You got plan. Yes. So what more do you want? Then that's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. But it has an interesting texture, too. The exterior of the building. Yes. I mean, but not only get to that. Yeah, not only we can go to the next picture. And when I see the interesting exterior of the building in general, in addition to the close up views, if you look at this from a brutalist standpoint, you can see these two views of the building at different times of the day show how the exterior, the minimizing of the glass areas and the vertical fins, as well as the other exterior parts of the building help shade it. But you also were talking about the heat content and the what the what concrete does when it gets heated. And that's another consideration right here. Well, let's go to the next page for that. I'm glad you mentioned that because we yet have to do more research on that thermal mass problem, because if you minimize the glass, you know, you keep the sun out and the heat, but the sun is also going to hit the concrete. So today you can do ultra like concrete, which is sort of micro infused with our value back in the days. Not so much. But in general, we can say the approach is sort of traffic is exotic and gets go to the next page where I, you know, I have another very one of my favorite pictures of branding a Pan Am Hawaii here with that local lady here. And that made us think about about surface. Yeah, we go to the next picture there. Yeah. So here we can see that. Well, what? Oh, I, you know, maybe maybe it's a little bit of a stretch, but let's let's just think about surface and pigments and skin. Right. And her skin is naturally pigmented to, you know, withstand the UV of the sun better. Right. These are and here the building is doing that too. You can see the aggregates are local. This is the salt is called in there. There's maybe some kind of brown pigments. Right. So again, it's about it's a surface that is locally appropriate. Right. Correct. And we have these two pictures in there, which are, which is all our friends and collaborators from great specific Rocky Mountain precasts, Adam and Les Campers, and there it shows if you want to know more about, you know, why concrete is such a continue to be such a sort of pioneering material on the island, you can watch these shows. We want to get close to the end. So, you know, before you, before we go, I just wanted to say too, that as you said, that mix of materials adds a lot of interest to the close up view of the building that a lot of other buildings that are just playing concrete or concrete block would not have. And that's a kind of a touch that is more thoughtful and more artistic than sometimes is done for commercial buildings. Anyway, that's just me. Let's go to the next picture. And yeah, so we're phasing out that we're talking about, you know, OK, when, you know, in the bigger picture, I think 2045, we want to be off the grid and 100 percent renewable energy. So airplanes and big ships, you know, cruise ships. And I think we're going to do a show. We plant this for a while. We want to call them horizontal high rises because they appear in downtown every now and then. And they're the biggest guzzers and emission creators ever. So that industry is looking into, you mentioned the trade winds again, because people not from the island, when we abbreviate and say the trades are back, people think the stock market is back up. But in fact, it's the wind that blows predominantly from the northeast and the early people coming that they sail somewhere in Seattle and sail straight down. So that industry of shipping, you know, cruise ships industry is looking back into into wind as to power them. So let's go to the next picture. But when you go when you go big, when you think big, and this is one of our urban studies here, jungleism, which we pointed out in these couple of shows up there. And you basically start to make the city a city, which our point is it isn't to the extent it should be. And you really densifying to learn from nature and create a bio climatic building. So then next picture, you end up with what is that? What do you end up with then on the other side on the country? Well, what we talked about, too, in the primitive of buildings are mostly open. They are open to the they don't use as much fossil fuel because they get a lot of their energy, they reduce their energy use by using trade winds, by using natural ventilation. And they also are allowing people to move around more. They're allowing people to congregate. They're allowing people to be by themselves. And because the building is not very dense itself, it kind of fades into the background more than a solid block of a building does. So this is kind of a fantasy view of what could be if we were to adopt some of these other types of procedures rather than just going with everything that we have already been doing. Exactly. So here's the contrast that we're going to chart. And we're not going to do what, you know, the sort of the sort of you said, the artist rendering of that sort of more naive postcard of Kenan, whether we're proudly presenting, we're going to grow up the hills. Now you're going to say, we're not going to do that anymore. Not going to squall. We basically densify the city with the previous picture in order to basically free the country to do what we should do, what we've been doing all the back in the days, which is growing food and keep the country country, that sort of local term. And then every once in a while, a permittiva building can sort of be very efficient and effective in being tall and stacking Chris Sanver and cause a stack of knives. So you can grow food again, which we could do, but we can also grow something else. And this gets us to the very line picture because the industry is doing R and D research and development. Just like BP is the biggest researcher in TV and solar, because when comes the point that they run out of oil, they want to just flip the switch and basically still stay in business and be on top of the game. So the airplane industries are doing that as well. And I was listening to a documentary on the radio while driving in southern Germany in the Alps and the Foothills of the Alps. And I was intrigued by that. They were saying they can power airplanes. So you grow algae to still fuel out of it. And here we go. This is our vision that you basically can then bring back the many tourists. And we have a growing amount of tourists coming every year. It's going to be more. So how do we bring them back if we do it with kerosene? You know, this is part of what we do. And so we probably not going to meet 2045 being off the grid. But maybe with this technology. So this is our vision into the next future. And which is a fascinating one. And when you come down to it, everything comes back to the sun. The sun gives energy to the earth and how we use that energy, either it's fossil fuels or its fuels that are being created right now. They serve the same function, but fuel we're creating now can be renewable rather than used once and then gone forever. And that's one of the things that is going to make travel possible. So if we're talking about the good old days of airplanes that just use fuel, we've got to think ahead to the good new days of airplanes that will use a different kind of fuel. And that's what these pictures are. And that brings us to the end of our show. And I'll be back next week. I think Martin is going to be off next week. Martin, Spillbeats. Well, you will be back. Yes, I will be actually back in two weeks. Because we're in our two week schedule. And next week is going to be our esteemed local Momo board. That's right. I'm a member with another fascinating show. And you will be back. And we share your worries and hopes about the tropical exotic hopefully still in the future. Capulani Boulevard, right? That's exactly right. And so thank you, Martin, for being here. Thank me for being here. Doka Momo will be back next week on Human Humane Architecture. I'll be back a week after that. And until that time, everybody, thanks for watching Aloha.


I can't think of anything more important for any of us in this day than to have the promise that we can hear him, that we can receive his guidance, his reassurance, his protection in our lives. One of the ways I hear him is in the scriptures. The scriptures are the pre-recorded voice of the Lord. And it's not hearing an audible voice per se, although that can happen. It's hearing the scriptures in a feeling, a feeling in your mind, a feeling in your heart. Revelation is thoughts to the mind, feelings to the heart. The scriptures for me are the key in being able to have those thoughts and feelings.


Greetings and welcome to this live event sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Today's program is about leadership in the power of cultural exchanges and launching entrepreneurial ideas. We'd like to highlight a project called SheCAP, started by four Jordanian women who participated in a State Department-sponsored exchange program last year. SheCAP is a female-run taxi service in Jordan aimed at providing safe and reliable transportation for women while creating new job opportunities. The SheCAP founders met each other during their exchange program in the United States and were inspired by a local woman-owned taxi cab service that they used during their five-week exchange program, which is called the Study of the U.S. Institute for Student Leaders on Women's Leadership, also known as SUSE. I'm BJ McDuffie, a program exchange affairs and recruitment specialist at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Before I introduce our guests, we'd like to remind you to use the hashtag ExchangeAlumni and hashtag SUSE to tweet about this live event and send us pictures. Also, don't forget to type your questions in the chat space at the bottom of your video player. I'm excited to be joined today by the four founders of the SheCAP team who are connecting live from Amman, Jordan, Rameh Abu-Shuaimeh, Maha Alamad, Aslam Abu-Khadra, and Surah Al-Mahsis. Welcome to the show. I'm also happy to welcome Ella and her Jones, who is joining us from St. Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana, where she's completing her final year as an undergraduate student. She met Rameh, Maha, Salam, and Surah last year at St. Mary's College. Ella Noor and the SheCAP team are here today to share their experience of launching a business that started as a result of their participating in a SUSE exchange program. They're here to answer your questions. I'd also like to extend a special welcome to our viewing groups in Amman, Rabat, Algiers, Abiyan, Triana, Liberia, including all of you who gathered at our American Corners to watch this program, especially Hira Batul-Rizvi, who also founded a SheCAP in Pakistan, the country's first safe taxi service for working women. Her business connects registered riders, working women, to reliable cab drivers from a database of trusted drivers to provide shared monthly transportation services. While completing her Master's in Science from Georgia Tech on the Fulbright Scholarship, Hira and her team participated in a global hackathon with the idea of a safe taxi-hailing service. They won, and Hira decided to take the idea to Pakistan. She started working with the Venture Lab at Georgia Tech soon after. Her services have been operational in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi since August 2015. We're delighted that she could join us today. Now, while we wait for your questions to come in, let's hear briefly from the SheCAP team in Eleanor. Amman, welcome to the program. Hi, everyone. My name is Chinab Sweeney. I'm the Chief Leader of the SheCAP team. Previously, SheCAP has a safe transportation service for working women and passengers, and it's also a solution that we figured to decrease the number of unemployment among women in Jordan, especially those who have no educational background. So SheCAP is here to provide a new career path for coordinating women as drivers and to advocate women's role in leadership and in all of the sectors. We are presenting women now as cab drivers. Someday, we will present them as the third female Prime Minister in the Jordan. Thank you. Great. And we're truly excited to give the support community, you know, to lead the change in our community in Jordan. Thank you. Great. So, is Eleanor Jones there? Yes, I'm here. Hi. Would you introduce yourself? Hi. My name is Eleanor Jones. I'm a senior at St. Mary's College, and I had the honor of meeting the SheCAP team when they were here studying for five weeks through the SUSE program, and I got to watch the SheCAP ideas start from the very beginning and show our support after they left. Great. So, Rame, we're coming back to you. Can you tell us a little more about SheCAP and how your participation in the SUSE program on women's leadership helped you and your business partners to launch SheCAP? When we were in the SUSE program, we were participating in the SUSE program before investment there. And the last week of the program was about a friendly competition among participants from different countries to develop and to come up with a gender-based project for our community. We came up with SheCAP when we were inspired by a female tax collector in the state named Dale Hickey. She inspired us to design business to provide the service here in Jordan for women. Great. Thank you. Eleanor, this next question is for you. How did you get involved in SheCAP and what was your motivation for doing so? So, I got more involved near the end. So, as the program continued, we had a kind of an in-house competition where the different delegations, we evaluated their projects and SheCAP won. And in result, the administrative staff at St. Mary's got to go to Jordan to evaluate their business plan. And I told them that I wanted to go and we got to go to Jordan and visit the team and see how they were doing. And when we returned, me and Emily Bedouin, another student, decided we wanted to fundraise to show our support of what they're doing in Amman. That's great. Okay. Let's turn to our audience in Jordan for the first live question. Amman, do you have a question? Any questions? No, no, no, no. We have no questions left. Okay. Well, I have a question. So, this is for Hamid. So, I understand that you're studying pharmacy at university. What inspired you to become an entrepreneur and launch SheCAP? Actually, three of our team members are pharmacists. Oh, great. We have the three of us are pharmacists. Or pharmacists, you know, actually. What inspired us is the need. This is what inspired us. We want you to address the need that is, that the ordaining woman takes to Jordan. When we were there, we just wanted to present the idea as an idea for other CAP offices here in Jordan just to let them launch the idea and set. But because we found a lot of social significance and a lot of obstacles and a lot of projection, you know, this is what inspired us to be the entrepreneurs ourselves and to start preserving our health. Wonderful. So, another question. Why is it important for entrepreneurs in the United States and aspiring entrepreneurs from around the world to collaborate on projects like SheCAP to work together? Because, you know, we have seen so many successful stories in the United States that and not much of them here in Jordan. Especially when it comes to women entrepreneurs, because in the States we have met so many successful women in so many other sectors like politics, economy, entrepreneurship and whatnot. But here in Jordan, we still have a number of successful stories in terms of entrepreneurship. This is why I believe it is very important for this cooperation to take place, you know, to learn from the experiences and the successful stories that are going to happen in the States. Okay. So, I understand that you've recently applied for and won a grant from the State Department for your project. Over 800 projects applied and only 50 received funding. So, what steps did you need to take to make this happen? In other words, how did you take SheCAP from an idea to an actual business plan? And how did you think of an approach, branding and market strategy? You know, as I told you previously, when we came back from the States, we just wanted, you know, to implement the idea as an idea and so that others have services agencies would implement it in reality. But because we have faced so many rejections, it was risk-bearing for us to start doing it ourselves. And of course, we needed the money and, you know, we needed funding to start our journey because as you see, we are old students and we have no money basically. So, actually, the fundraising business... First of all, we have a number of workshops to be in and to see like business development and presentation workshops and fundraising. Then we have held the proposal for the US Department of State AEIF and we have been selected to participate in the final phase of the competition. And we have won about $21,000. Wonderful. So, what feedback did you receive from your community so far about your project? Well, we have both the positive and the negative feedback. Of course, we cannot deny the fact that Jordan is a very, very reserved country, but we're trying and we're striving to do this project to advocate, you know, women's role and what women can do and what's not. We want to emphasize that, you know, working and supporting yourself financially as a woman is not a cheap woman. We're going outside to, you know, find a job or seek financial aid for herself and for her family. So, a lot of people were supporters because people know that programming women needs this kind of service.  But, you know, we're up to that and we understand that, you know, not everyone will accept this idea and we're going to keep going because this is how we're going to change the ideology. Wonderful. So, I've got another question, but first I need to ask you to please move a little closer to the microphone. Thank you. So, this question comes from Rabat. So, they would like to know, how does she-cap team fundraise for their projects? So, we just recently heard about you winning the grant from the State Department, AIEF. Have you been able to fundraise in any other ways? Yeah, as Eleanor said, she and Emily Bedwin have raised a fund for us to senior college in Northern Virginia University. They have raised about $2,500. And, you know, right now, we're dealing with this NGO here in Jordan, the local NGO folks who work and they're going to support us for about $8,000. Great. Congratulations. Another question from Rabat. What challenges did you face with the government to register your business? Or did you have any challenges? No, so now we have not faced any challenges because what's great about these regulations is that they apply on men just like on women. So, there are no specific regulations in terms of women starting this kind of business. We're going to through the whole process. Any man who starts such a business will go through. Okay. So, the challenges... Sorry, what? I'm just saying that the challenges are the same and as long as the men are, you know, are handling this kind of challenges, we can do. So, that actually kind of answers the question that we have from Avignon, which is what challenges did you face when you launched your business? Do you have anything generally, any other general challenges besides, you know, how you registered the business with the government? Anything with your team or convincing your families to get on board? You know, not with the government, but of course, we're facing so many social significance very hard. People are saying that, you know, when women start driving, as women did not drive before, but they're specifically saying that as soon as women start driving, you know, accidents won't increase, you know, traffic will be more challenging and, you know, a lot of maybe rate incidents or harassment would, you know, increase because the passengers or the male passengers would start harassing the female driver. But this is where we came up with the idea of developing our own phone app where we guarantee the safety of the women as passengers and as drivers. Wonderful. Okay, a question for Eleanor. Do you have any fundraising tips? Well, I think what was successful at St. Mary's is that we made the connection between the women in Jordan with the women on St. Mary's campus. So being an all women's college, we take women's safety very seriously. And I think safe transportation is something that we take for granted because we have it. So being able to connect our safe transportation to promote safe transportation elsewhere gets the student body involved and makes it more of a personal issue. So I think being able to connect it to the people you're trying to raise money from really helped raise money for She-Cam. Great, great idea, great tip. Sonana wants to know, what steps did you have to take during project implementation? I think that can go to anyone who wants it. Rami? The process of implementation. So what was your, what was the process? How did you get the build from idea to actually making the She-Cam happen? Of course, we've never made it this far. So it was not for the mentorship of the St. Mary's College staff, Martha Smith, Professor, Annalisa, and of course the two great students and supporters, Eleanor Jones and Emily Goodwin. You know, they have helped us developing our business plan and our financial statements. And this is how we started. We have developed our timeline and a specific process to go through and to implement. So this is how the implementation process works. Great. Okay, question from Lusaka. How important is cooperation to your team? Very important, you know, the four of us did not work together if we did not support each other because there was times when people, you know, just, you know, made us feel bad about our own project. You know, they, they, they made it look bad. And if we, the four of us did not, you know, settle for each other and support each other. I don't think that we just, we just made it this far. Great. So thank you for your great questions. Now let's check in with our live audience in Amman, Jordan. Do you have any other questions for us? Thought of any over there? They don't. Okay. Well, we could take more questions from our viewers. Let's see. Challenges. So what beyond women's safety is the goal of your project? Would you like to expand SHICAB to other countries beyond Jordan or other communities? Do you have like an end goal or an ideal dream of how big you want SHICAB to be? I believe the end goal is that the plan is going to be seen as a big deal in one. Well, there is, like, other countries that already thought that the whole idea of SHICAB their own version of SHICAB. But, you know, for me, I think the end goal is... Okay. Sorry. Excuse me. Can you get a little closer to the microphone? Sorry. I want to hear your answer. Perfect. So I think there's a lot of fun things at the moment that they already have their own version of SHICAB. And I think the end goal is that there's a plan that you see with shoppers, that there's a woman who is driving the gas and, you know, a casual thing to do.  So that will be creating more job opportunities. And so, yeah, for me, I think it's to be seen something that is as casual as possible. Great. We'll be looking, waiting to see how that changes. Another question from Lusaka. Have you ever been discriminated against because you're female business owners? So, by other business owners? Yes.  And we're saying that we're not segregating. We're just providing another choice because, you know, part of the challenge as we believe is providing more choices for women, you know, just like any other profession, males and females working these professions and people, you know, have the freedom to choose to whoever to go. For example, some people prefer going to a female doctor instead of a male doctor.  And some people also have said that, you know, as women and, of course, as young women, especially that we cannot succeed because we are affecting the experience and knowledge in business. And that we agree with. We have no experience in this field before, but, you know, it's a learning process and we're learning from the best. Okay. So I have a question now for Eleanor. Hi, Eleanor. Why is it important for women in the United States and women from around the world to collaborate on projects like CCAP in your opinion? I think it's important for these programs to connect because I think it's important to create a unity between women of different cultures to share in our similarities and then share in our differences and be able to support each other. I think that particularly here at St. Mary's some students may not realize that the concerns that they share, the concerns they have are shared with other women in different parts of the world. And I think it just creates cultural ties that are really important for a progressing world. Great. If there's one follow-up to that as well, how has this exchange program impacted you, Eleanor, and your life? Oh, it's amazing.  And I say that even if they don't become as successful as they hoped to, they've still succeeded because they've helped women and it's inspired me to go beyond what I think my limits are. Coming through the Susie program, I don't think any of us expected she kept to flourish as it did and it's been wonderful and it's just shown me that anybody can make an impact and do something worthwhile. Great. Okay, so this is for both Eleanor and the ladies and Aman. What surprised you most about working on this project? Is there anything that you didn't expect or came out of it? It's a good thing that whoever we looked at their door, they helped us and they were just like supporting us and I like to say that they are not they interested in the whole shoot-up project and they were always connecting us with other people. And at first I thought that they would like to support us and think this project has they would like to see us do. So I'm very glad about this. Good. What has been the role of technology in helping you develop and advance your business? The technology has played a critical role actually in developing our business because people were questioning how safe would it be for women to be with another woman which is a question to find that women are not safe here in Gordon. But we are developing a phone app, as I said, that is aiming to provide to guarantee for women as drivers and as passengers. There will be mass-tracking made of the very time and so many other features that would make women as a passenger and a driver so comfortable. So I believe that we will never make our brand comments if it was not for this app. So technology is playing a very critical role in developing our business. Very cool. Did you find a balance between your project and your studies or have you decided to become full-time entrepreneurs? The history to start to balance between studying and the information because I think we need to spend some time to make a project to our project. So yeah, we're managing that. Great. What is, and this is for everyone, what is one piece of advice you would have for other young entrepreneurs like yourselves? I would say keep fighting all the social figures, stereotype, style, anything that suits you because once you start believing in something, you need to take it to the finishing line because some people's lives can't depend on it because when we provide new jobs for agencies for women, we're giving them hopes to break their cycle and start depending on themselves. So these are tangible messages I believe. So to all the entrepreneurs all around the world, you need to believe in your message and take it to the finishing line no matter how many obstacles you make to it. It's very inspiring. Anyone else have any advice? I would like to say that this is an advice for everyone that just do whatever you like whether they're in the industry and whether they're in the company. I would also say that if I'm in the trade-off and you have to do differently with this decision, there's no option. True. Can I apply for Susie? Yeah. Sorry, can you repeat that? Apply for Susie. Apply for Susie, yes. We definitely encourage that. We have a question from Rabat. Have you gotten any anecdotes about women benefiting from your project yet? From your customers. So have you had any success stories from women who have used She-Cab? Our project is under reconstruction. Maybe I would have been successful yet. Fair enough. So that will be seen. We can't wait to hear about that. A question from Algeria. How did you come up with the idea and what is the social issue exactly you were tackling? I think you've kind of addressed this a bit. But I think we could reiterate that you learned, you saw this in action as something, you saw a female cab driver when you were in the United States and you were inspired and the short version is you've brought it back to Jordan and you're starting and launching it from there. Do you have anything to add as well about how that started that we haven't discussed yet? No. So what do you consider to be your strengths and weaknesses together as a team or on the project? Is there anything that you've had to learn or had to work on? Anything that came particularly easy to you when becoming entrepreneurs? What? Well, I would say that we are providing state staff positions for females and we are also in the meantime providing recognition for women's careers. I think it's the passion we all have we all share and I think the thing that makes us all similar or that makes us all focus on our project is that we all work together and with me that we have we share many interests and we share as well understanding and trying to highlight what each one of us stands for as a player we can tell ourselves as a whole to some other things we do. Yeah, it looks like you have a very strong team with the four of you together. I think that's important. So this question is for Rame. When you launched Shecap what was the criticism that you received and how did it help you to improve Shecap? Like as you're working what are the naysayers saying and how are you getting beyond that? We have received so many criticism. People, you know, women cannot drive that incidents would increase a traffic would increase and people will just suffer from this phenomenon that women will be driving Shecap in the streets. How does that help move on to our events? It made us more persistent and more determined. We want to break this very time because as women we have seen women driving before, we drove before and we know that we did not accident and traffic and what not. So as long as people have this very time and I believe it wouldn't embarrass us to hear the great stories that happened. Great. So we have a question from an online viewer and they would like to know who can become an entrepreneur? I would say anyone with fashion and a good strategy and great censorship similar to the one we got from the famous Talbot. Great idea. Excuse me what? Can you repeat that please? Great idea. I would like to know if you have a question about having something new if sometimes you have seen something in a different perspective and you know Shecap itself is not absolutely nothing new about Shecap you did not invent the concept of female driving cap obviously and it has been there from a lot of years so I would like to bring something new to other countries That's very true and that actually kind of goes into our next question from Algiers. You said you know Shecap is a great idea and you need that idea to kind of germinate and their question is did you have any alternative ideas for what to do if your project didn't work or what was your plan B? So as for our plan B our plan A was about having the owner of the vehicle and the car as a plan B kind of a store stand where we can try to make it easier where the start point goes from all over an application so we don't have to handle a lot of posts we don't have to do a lot of you know as much of time since finding investors of the project on having the application that will connect our drivers that we will force train as well as our customer base that we will go through our feedback service and that will be done specifically by the application that's our plan B in case you could not find enough funding to last our Shecap service with the owner of the car and our own stand Interesting Okay So this question comes from Monrovia What are some of the advantages and disadvantages for one to become an entrepreneur? The advantages are mainly the some learning classes we learn a lot from doing an internship more you come to the needs of the needs of people here in Jordan in your country or in the US of the people to learn how to address them in more than a way you know there are so many ways to address the needs of people to make up solutions for problems that people already have it makes you think about all of these all of these segments and all of these avenues it makes you more aware of the economic problems that you have in your community and so I thought the advantages on the other hand are you're going to face so many circumstances a lot of obstacles and it's my fault some people back so it's very important for the entrepreneurs to have a very strong personality and a really good intuition that he or she is doing so these are the the advantages that people rely on to try to go do that and you know people will not always be there to support you when you are just meeting some people might make it harder for you to succeed and these are the disadvantages but you know for everyone who has the the needs to overcome all of these challenges okay so another question from online this is Amal Kayap how do you plan to convince or encourage the use of she-cab in the Arab world what about Saudi Arabia how do you plan to expand and get people to sign up in Saudi Arabia are you actually interested in Saudi Arabia excuse me are you interested in Saudi Arabia yes do you think you should expand you could expand there and have women driving someday someday yeah of course now women are voting someday they are going to start they must make this new mode that allow women to drive in specific hours and you know this is the start and we believe that the end to it and we believe that the start and you know you might want to have an impact yeah we hope you think you will have an impact we'll see question for Eleanor I'm here hi was your trip to Jordan with the St. Mary's Team your first time overseas or have you been to Jordan before it was my first time in the Middle East but not my first time overseas so it was a very exciting experience to see the women because I got to learn a lot about Jordan before going, so coming to actually see the places that these women talked about was really exciting. Awesome. So the last question we have is, how do we apply for a State Department exchange program? And that is a question that I can answer, and I think you can also jump in if you have a personal experience. But I do a lot of work promoting the Fulbright program and the Susie program, and we have a website at the State Department called exchanges.state.gov.   There are a whole lot of different programs available, especially on the youth side as well, for high school students who would like a first experience abroad. So these ladies here participated in the Susie program, and they got to come spend a summer at St. Mary's College in Indiana, and they got to learn a lot about American culture and U.S. culture, and now they're bringing that back to Jordan, and they're also, we're able to share a lot of their culture with their students, as Eleanor can serve as an example about, it was a true cultural exchange, and we're so proud of you all for that, and excited to see what you'll do next. So Rame, before we close, I'd like to hear your final thoughts and anything you'd like to leave with our viewers today, especially those out there who may be interested in applying for the Susie program or another State Department's sponsored exchange program like Fulbright, and so just try to speak slowly and clearly, and we'd love to hear it. I advise everyone to apply for the program, because unfortunately it changed my mind, it changed my mind, my mindset, the way I look at things, and I have an experience in all of you. It made me realize what I want to be because I will be free every one of you, I live by five acres, so for the first time, I would say that I know now what I want to be exactly, so I encourage everyone to apply for these, for these, for these, for these, they are life changing experiences. That's something we hear a lot that our exchange programs are life changing, and they really are. You can't ever be the exact same person you were before you left. So I'd like to thank you all very much for your insightful questions and your answers, thanks team. That wraps up our live event today. To Eleanor, Rame, and the She-Cab team, I'd like to thank you so much for joining us and for sharing your story of becoming entrepreneurs and how your idea grew out of your exchange program. And finally, I'd like to thank our live audience in Amman, as well as all of you who joined this program live from around the world. My sincere thanks to the viewing groups who joined us from all over, and a recording of this program will be available later on the website. So remember, you can go to exchanges.state.gov to find out more about the many exchange programs offered by the US Department of State, including SUSE, and you can also check out the Study of the US Institute's Facebook page, or the nearest US Embassy website for program announcements on how to apply for programs like SUSE in the 2016 cycle. And that announcement will happen later this fall. You can follow SUSE on Twitter, using at Study of the US or hashtag SUSE, and stay tuned for our next interactive program. Thanks again, and see you all next time. Goodbye. Thank you.