Come here kitty. Good morning, good morning. Oh, I don't know if I hit public or not. Good morning. Good Saturday morning. I have not an announcement, but I have thoughts to share and for once I thought I would do it in the morning. Here kitty, here we go. Good morning, good morning, good Saturday morning. I hope, you know what, let me check and make sure Sandy's not on right now and that I'm not uh, I know what I'm trying to say. I'm not interrupting her normal Saturday weigh-in video because that would not be cool. Camera's over here. Hi Molly, what are you doing? Good morning, Georgia. Let me put on my glasses so let me start off by telling you guys that I put on my Charlie Brown Christmas shirt over my pajamas because I am in my pajamas and I'm still in bed and I'm going to explain all of this. But I feel like I have something I need to say. Getting the house ready for a possible show. I'm not even sure. Oh man, I hope they show up.  Oh, I feel for you. Um, it's Saturday morning. It is only 8 11 here. Steve is at work. Good morning, Brenda. Thank you. I like it too. I have been sitting here. Steve had to go to work today. Well, he didn't have to go to work, but I need to tell you guys that I have had half a Benadryl. So far so good. It's medicine. I'm not in my car driving.  I'm in my bed with my dog where I am perfectly safe. I have my coffee in my A Christmas mug. So I've already talked on my Instagram this morning. So if anybody's already seen it and I repeat myself, I apologize. I just feel like talking. I feel Saturday mornings with Steve are kind of like our thing. And when he's not here, I kind of am like, Lucy, why? So I thought I'd get up here and bug you guys. Oh, I have the wrong glasses on. You know what? I need you guys to tell me these ones are more comfortable on my face, but I have people tell me that they like the way these look more that they're more. All right. So here's the thing. I'm going to wait a couple minutes just in case anybody else with the nine of us show up. I'm always embarrassed because I look at my friends who go live and they have like 77 people and I have 10 also. In case anybody wants to call me out, I do have my water. It may be early, but I'm prepared. Also, Molly, look at these socks I'm wearing right now. Well, I have one on and one off, it seems. When you wish upon a star. My favorite song. Okay. So I came on here to talk about yesterday's video and last night's dinner. Good morning, Catherine. On your way to weigh in. Good luck. And no matter what happens, let me pop in and say hi to everybody. George is here. Molly, we know Brenda. Good morning. Thank you. Good morning, Jimmy. Good morning, my friend. Brenda, I have this one in the letters. What show am I thinking of? We have S for Steve. We have a C for Casey, but we cannot find an O for Oliver. Oh, I'm sure she's on top of the candle business.  Okay, is it Johnny or Joni? Because I have a friend named Johnny and she spells her name the same way you do. Weigh in at 9am. Okay, so everybody who's going to weigh in today and there's so many of you. Good luck. I have to take the shirt off because I'm too hot with my coffee. Hang on.  Oh, no, don't close your eyes because I have a shirt on underneath it. My pajama's on. Gosh, don't I just look like a... All right, so this is what I wanted to come on and talk about real quick because I know that Sandy's gonna come on and the people who do their weigh-ins on Saturday and I don't want to infringe on their time. Yesterday, I went to weigh in and I was at the scotch and I said that I was gonna take this tweak and off, you know, that I'm just not feeling it, which I'm not, but I have to point something out to you guys. No matter how not feeling it I am, I still automatically do it and I think that's such a great thing. Steve and I went to dinner last night for our anniversary as I told you guys, if you missed it. Last Friday was our anniversary. We weren't having the best day. He was up here. I was down here. I was up here. He was down here. We didn't like each other very much so it was just one of those days. So we went to dinner last night and I said on my video that I was gonna have because normally when we go I have chicken guacamole and that's it. Oh my gosh, I'm having a hot flash. We're having a heat wave. A tropical heat wave. Bam, bam. So I said that I was gonna go. I was gonna have the rice. I was gonna have the beans. I was gonna have the guacamole. I was gonna have the sour cream and I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it because I knew that if I would have ordered a whole plate of all that stuff, even if I would have ordered a child-sized plate, I would have been too full. So I want you guys just to give that some thought. When you're feeling like I'm feeling we're like, oh, I'm so over this whole thing. Are you really? And I guess it's just something I've been doing for so long. I can't do it anymore. Okay, so it is Joni. Okay, Joni, I will do my best to try to remember that. I'm anxious to see how all you guys do on weigh-in. You know, I don't know. A lot of people I've been reading since Thanksgiving and now have been having a tough time. I've been having and I have to make this clear too. I haven't been having a tough time because of the holidays. I've been having a tough time because of me and my personal life. The holidays are not a big boom, boom, boom thing for us. I don't know how to explain it. When Steve left this morning, I told him, I said, I wish I could find something holiday-ish to do tonight. You know, like, find something like the boats when they light up the boats and they're in the harbors and stuff because I'm in California. I have harbors up the yin-yang and I would like to do something to get into the Christmas spirit. But the reason I'm saying that is because any, anything that I'm doing to sabotage my program has zero to do with the holidays. Tomorrow is Oliver's birthday party. I will have some pizza, but I'll count it and that'll be that. That will be that. My jail, I didn't say hello to jail.  I have my, let me show you guys, where I am every morning. I have my window. I've got some fog, which is fantastic though. Lonely and wanted to shout from the rooftops. You know what? I should check my phone and see if Sandy's on it. So I'm going to hang up so that I'm not encroaching on her. I can't remember who else weighs in on Saturday morning. Anybody class feel it? I was super pleased with, I even brought food home last night you guys. All I ordered was a grilled chicken breast. I had some shredded iceberg lettuce. Let me look here. That's some of Steve's guacamole and I ended up bringing some home. We had a nice time. It was a good time. Oh, there's Carrie this morning. So it looks like there's a lot going on. Maybe I should cut out even though you guys could always watch later and it's a great big YouTube world, right?  I'm hungry. I want to go in the kitchen.  I'm going to go have something out of the norm. Hey, Marianne, haven't seen you in a long time. Could you change your name, lady? Good for you, Brenda. And you know what? I think I did too. I think I missed, I missed the spoke yesterday. Good morning, Ruth. And I'm going to sign off because I forgot Saturday morning is a busy morning for way in. Let's see. Sandy's weighing in. Carrie's weighing in. Who else weighs in on Saturdays? I can't think of. There's a collab going on. Oh, Judith, how are you? Good morning, my friend. Maybe I'll just sit here and talk. I have some coffee and some water. I'm just trying to catch up on what you guys are saying. Saturday mornings are busy morning. I have Disney on the brain. I want to go to Disneyland. It's so bad. So, oh, Judith, sure. I'll stick around for a few minutes. Just you and I can talk. I was, I don't know if you thought what I said at the beginning, but Steve went to work really early this morning. I've just been meant in bed. I just felt like talking and sharing that even though yesterday I said that I was going to go off plan this weekend, I haven't and I'm really proud of myself. I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. I love, love, love Saturday mornings because every week morning when I wake up, I get a little bit of anxiety about getting Oliver up and dressed into school on time because I am an on time punctual person and sometimes he drags his knuckles, you know, because he's nine or 10. Sorry, I'm getting a message. Oh, my hands. They're the norm, which is why I'm a little loopy this morning. I took half of a bit of drill to get the itching to go away, but, you know, not much we can do about that. It was so nice to wake up this morning and not jump out of bed and get all over to school and get Steve's lunch Friday. I told him last night, I said, you chose to work on Saturday. You're making your own lunch, buddy. It wasn't very nice, but I did it anyway. He didn't mind. Here I sit. I'm going to try to wrap some presents today. I have a friend who said she's going to come and help me because wrapping presents with these fingers not conducive in any ways. So you were too tired to go in the park. Oh, Marianne. There's no such thing as being too tired to go in the park, even though I know there is. You gotta have the best of the day at Harvard. You can tell I was too tired of wandering. It's so funny. Right now is the time to go during Christmas, man.  Wait a handle, Georgia. Perfect. Popcorners are good. They're really good. I need to decide what to make for breakfast. I'm thinking waffle. I don't want eggs, but eggs, I have noticed as much as I do not care for them. They fill me up for a while. If I take six points for three eggs, three points for guacamole, that's nine. That sticks with me.  I miss it a lot. And Georgia, again, like Brenda said, you're right and move on and there's a big difference. You don't have all the sodium that you do with the regular chips. There's just a million. I like getting all these weird messages. Mindy, see Mindy mom. You guys all watch the Mindy mom, right? The title of her channel is see Mindy mom as in verb.  Go check her out. She's fabulous. She's fun. She's cute. I just love her more than anything in the world. And I will reply to her message when I'm done here. Rosemary says yesterday I came home from work and was so hungry. And yes, I made me a quesadilla but did count it. Then you're good, my friend. Then you're good. Quesadilla sounds good. Good morning, Susan. I'm feeling, I'm feeling good. I'm a little loopy but I'm feeling good.  But I'm all right. I'm good. I have no complaints. You know what too? I have to keep in mind is that on Fridays when I come on and I make videos, by Friday, I'm like just at the end of my week. I'm at the end of my rope. It's just like I'm tired. And I need to cut myself some slack because I am tired. And especially at this time of year, Oliver has a secret Santa. I gotta get something for his teacher. He's got a show two times. You know, it's a lot.  But you know what? I feel good. Steve and I talked about my whole weight loss thing last night. He said that he, and you know what? I need to keep him in mind because he's my honey and he's my, Judith, hold on a minute. I'm going to come back to that. But I have to keep in mind that we live our lives together and what I do, he does. And he says that he would like to wait till the holidays are over for me to really be like dug into my program. And I think what I'll do is I just won't talk about it as much. I'll make choices, but I'm not going to say to him if we go somewhere, oh, I do or don't want this because of WW Weight Watchers. And just let him off the hook because I think that he, he alters what he eats and where we go and everything for me. And he shouldn't have to do that. All right. Let me go back and see what you guys are saying. Okay. Good Brenda, because she's a fab. I love Mindy so much. Good morning, Connie. Judith says, unfortunately no more bill bars for me. Yeah, we are all our challenges. I'm allergic to garlic, so we make judgments. And you know what? I could totally live without bill bars last night on the way home from the restaurant. We went and bought Clio bars.  I lived without bill bars before they came out. I can live without them now. Susan says, there's Mindy. Good morning, my love. Good morning. Good morning. I saw your message pop up on this device. And then I was going to reply when I was done here, because I had to get on here and take half a Benadural. Oh, I love you. And thank you so much. Yeah, Susan, you know, so this time of year and speaking of Mindy, let's talk about Mindy for for a minute. Let me read Georgia.  And some of these meds are hard on the body. Thank you, Georgia. All truths that I don't apply to myself and give my grace over. Let's talk about Mindy for a second. Mindy is married to a pastor. She has three children. She's the music director of a humongoid church. She has so much going on that I can't even imagine doing. And she's still staying right in there in her weight. And she's handling it. She's doing it. And it's because I think she's kind of like me. And she's like, I don't know, I may be wrong, but it's like my whole kiss thing, my keep it simple. Should we work, keep it simple, silly, keep it simple. But she does, she's able to still do all the things that she does and still take care of herself. And we can all do that. We just need to practice doing it. You know, we need to take that time and say, Steve, I'm going in the bedroom. I'm going to lay in the bed and put on my earbuds and listen to some Beatles and Rock Out or some Aerosmith or whatever.  We need to take care of ourselves. And I don't know how Mindy does it because she's got a lot going on. She's shopping. She's a summit. Oh my gosh. Well, that's fantastic. I'm glad you have a lot of help. I'm trying to find help wrapping my presence. There's no way I can do it. And I said in my video yesterday, I got a splinter in this finger here. And I think I'm going to get a staff infection and lose this finger. I think it's just going to fall off. Okay, bags. I know bags.  Judith says, Hubby and I performed in three concerts. Oh my gosh. You know what, Mindy, last night on KVC, I love the drawstring bags. I love the bags. On KVC, they had them for a really good price. And I read the reviews. They said that the sizes have changed and that they smell funny. But I suppose I could go to the 99 cent store. I just want to wrap Oliver's presence because as a child, can't we all look back and remember the anticipation because it takes longer to unwrap a present, especially when you have a sister like mine who uses 4,000 rolls of tape and it takes you an hour to open your present. And that's part of the fun. So the adults, I'm going to give bags to, but for Oliver, I do want to wrap. And I figured something out is that not figured it out. Oliver's best friend has a little sister who's in the sixth grade. And I spoke to her yesterday when I was picking them up. Exactly. Yeah, you want them to go, ah, ah, ah. In fact, I have to wrap his present for tomorrow for his birthday party. But she's going to come over and help me wrap. I poked my head in Mom's car. I'm like, hey, you want to make 10 bucks? Come over and help me wrap. And she's like, yeah. And I said, okay. So that'll be good.  Hate wrapping. Good morning, Hannah. My refrigerator oats. Well, if you're eating my oats, what am I going to eat? You know what? Here's a little confession. I didn't have any overnight oats the other day. So I heated up some of the WW ones. And while they are way too expensive and there's not enough in there, they were dang tasty. Good morning, Teresa. Good morning, everybody. Mindy, I did read your message long enough, but I didn't want to reply till I could give you my attention. And thank you so much. So you know what? When you guys think that you're just not going to do it, you're just not feeling it, you may surprise yourself. Like I surprised myself last night. I'm trying to Oh my gosh. I totally lied. Oh my gosh. I totally lied. Okay. I lied. I did not only eat. Oh, guys.  Okay. So we were at Don Cucos, which is our favorite Mexican restaurant. And we're sitting in a booth and Steve is staring straight ahead at another booth and I'm staring this way. And the couple to our left was a gentleman and his wife and she had like this little terror on and they were to my side. So I couldn't see what was going on. But Steve leaned over and he goes, Oh, she's crying. And I'm like, Oh, because Don Cucos and I just have to tell you guys, they make their drinks really strong. So I've been known to cry a time or 10 when Don Cucos because they make their drinks so strong.  So I'm like, Oh, you know what, honey, to drink. So I kind of was like watching him out of the side of my eye because I'm that person. It was just the two of them and the husband was just sitting there kind of looking down like he did not know what to do. And then I finally caught a glance of her and she was crying. And she got up to go to the bathroom. And I told Steve, I said, I have to go in there. I'm just I'm, it's none of my business. I'm a busy body. I don't know. I have to go in there and I followed her in the bathroom. And I said, and she was crying. And I said, look, I'm sitting across from you. And I just want to let you know. What did I say that I noticed that you were sad and that you were crying? And I'm so sorry. Can I can I just give you a hug? I'm a hugger. I know some people are not huggers. And she said, I would love nothing more. And she just started bawling. And I just gave her the biggest hug and I was just putting onto her. And I didn't ask her why she was crying. And she said, today's my birthday. And I lost my mom a year ago today. Completely forgot about that. And she started crying harder. And I just started hugging her more. And I just told her, I don't know what that's like. But I'm so sorry. And I just felt compelled to come in here and follow you in here into the bathroom. Because sometimes our guys, they don't know what to say. They don't know what to do when we're having these feelings. And they love us and he probably got her the tiara for her birthday. But you know, it's just they sometimes they just don't. And I, you know, it's just how it goes. And I'm so glad I followed her into the bathroom. And I hugged her a few more times and she just kind of cried into my shoulder. And I just let her and I didn't say anything for once. I shet my piehole.  I'm like, are you sure? And I told her my name and I asked her her name.  Happy birthday.  And and I walked her back to the table and I held her hand. She held my hand more.  I think I might have even said something like, I apologize for the sandpaper that is in my hand. And she's like, I don't care. I just needed, I needed something right now. And thank you. And it was the best thing ever. And I've come, I forgot, since I just woke up, I forgot all about that. And I'm so glad I followed her in the bathroom.  And she was, when she sat back down, she introduced me to her husband, and her husband said, thank you. He was like the quiet kind of guy like, like Steve is. And I don't remember how I ended the conversation. I just, you know, I wish your luck. I told her happy birthday. I don't remember what I said, but you know, I'm so glad I followed her in there. Because Steve looked at me like, you know what, you've had a drink. You may not want to do this. And I was like, no, I feel compelled. I have to do this. I have to go in there and see if she's okay. Because the whole time she was just crying, she hadn't had any of her food.  She hadn't eaten any of her dessert. And then next she's getting up and moving. So I don't know. That's my story for the night. I hope she's okay.  And she was missing her mama and anyways, any who, any what's that. Thank you, Mindy, because that's how I felt.  Mindy, I think you know what I'm talking about. We're meant to be places at different times. But so anyways, going back to the lie, we had dessert. I forgot because what started this whole story is we looked at her table and they had this ice cream in something with caramel and hot sauce. And I told Steve, I said, we have to get one of those. We have to get one of those. I haven't had dessert and that's when my diet was delayed. My WW. And it was fried ice cream and it was delicious. So I lied. I completely lied. I did not stick with my program last night. I'm sorry. Hi, Barbara. Good morning. Good morning. Good Saturday morning. I'm telling stories all over the place. I'm bouncing from one thing to another. I'm drinking water. I'm drinking coffee. Oh my gosh. Tomorrow. Oliver's birthday is actually Monday, but tomorrow's his party. So that's all I have. I'm actually going to sign off and I think I need to go back to sleep for a while because Benadryl's just got me loopy, but I was hoping if I got on here and talked that it would help. Let me go on and see if there's anybody I haven't read. I haven't read anything. Let's put on the spectacles, kids. I agree, Judith. Compassion is a good thing. Hugs. Hugs, but don't hug Sandy. Get her permission for it. Oh, Judith, I didn't mean to make anybody cry. Teresa, it was a good dinner. It was, it was a really good dinner. And then afterwards we went to Walmart and got Clio bars. So yeah, synchronicity is wonderful. Now I want to sing the police song, synchronicity. Does anybody have any great plans for today? I have zero plans. Steve's going to work till probably one. Maybe I'll pull out presents. Thank you, Susan. See if I can. Did I tell you guys I ran out of gas yesterday? You're rapping as we speak, Barbara. Teresa lost 2.4. Very good. This week, but going back to Steve, saying that he doesn't want to focus. I don't know what to do, you guys. He deserves not to focus, but Teresa, congratulations. That's awesome. Anybody else who's going to weigh in later today when I'm not here, when I'm snoring? Steve was snoring up a storm. I'm not going to get margaritas. Thank you, Tamsen. It was nice. It was good, because last Friday was not so good. We had to redo the whole thing. That's it. That's that. I think I will go scramble up a couple eggs with some guacamole and, oh, I'm out of egg McMuffins. I'm out of English muffins, too. I don't know. I'll have something. Or maybe if I go to sleep for a while, then I have to worry about eating. Teresa, 2.4 at this time of year. I mean, 2.4 at any time of year is like high five Bravo stickers at the yin and yang. It was a success, too. I needed to redo it. I just was not feeling well that week. Going to an open house at our workshop. Do we all have open houses at our workshops this week, you guys? Because I saw a sign about it yesterday, but I didn't stop to read it because I wasn't feeling good. I just wanted to get home. This morning, when I couldn't sleep, I looked up some Cook with Knees on YouTube from Gals that are not Weight Watchers, and they had some really good, really easy, fun stuff. I think I'm going to do that today. I'm just going to alter them so that they're WWE friendly. My tripod's broken. Okay, so my car got towed. It ran out of gas, and then my tripod broke. So that's three things, right? Nothing else is going to happen. I need to order a tripod. No more about this open house thing, you guys. Oh, I look a mess. I just washed my hair. Everything's good, but it's just not working out well for me, is it? Oh, well, who cares? I don't care. I'm already married. I'm not trying to impress anybody. Barbara, are you listening to Christmas music while you rap? Are you watching something? What are you doing while you rap? I need to know. And then I'm going to cut out. It's almost nine o'clock and I need to eat Christmas music. Yeah. You know what? I was going to turn mine on in here, and then I knew that I'd get nicked for copywriting.  I don't know what workshop we're having. I totally could not relate to this week's workshop. Kind of irritated me a lot. Parties, parties, parties. Well, not everybody goes to parties, parties, parties. Barbara, look right above you, my friend. Look right above you. There's somebody for you. I think maybe we should give him a chance first, unless he meant to say ho, ho, ho in the Christmas sense, but I don't think he did. Sam, that's not so nice.  Hi, Sam. Thank you, Barbara. Much fun. Uh-oh, looks like we got another. I think so too, Jessica. Like I said, mine had a sign. I just didn't read it because I'm already there and all my friends are already there. Oh, Sam. Gosh darn it. That's a bummer. I can listen to it, Tamsen. I just can't while I'm talking to you guys because then I'll get dinged for copyright infringement. And it's, that's all good. I'm going to turn it on actually right when I hang up here, which is going to be about two minutes, which in all actuality, probably be like more like 20 minutes. I'm going to put it on and I'm going to listen to it and I'm going to enjoy it. I love my Christmas music. I think I'll sleep for a little bit longer and then go for a nice walk. This is perfect walking weather. So all right, you guys, I'm going to go so that everybody can tune in to Sandy and everybody's normal Saturday viewing pleasures. And thank you for letting me get on here and chit chat and tell you about my story last night. But my main story was, again, I'm going to repeat it. If you think that you're not in the WW mode, you might be more than you think you are. Love you, Barbara. Thank you for getting the bad guys. And I'll see you guys later.


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The NCC is a performance-based code, requiring all new buildings to meet minimum performance requirements. A deemed-as-satisfied approach is the optional pathway for demonstrating compliance used by this calculator, which applies to some Class 2 to Class 9 buildings, excluding Class 8. The lighting calculator is a non-mandatory guidance tool, helping you apply the deemed-as-satisfied provisions of Part J6 in NCC Volume 1. The calculator is a Microsoft Excel-based tool and can be downloaded from the ABCB website. This video demonstrates using the non-residential lighting, Class 2 common areas, Class 3, Class 5 to 7 and Class 9 buildings option within the calculator. It covers the basic functions of the calculator, including the necessary data import into the different cells. The calculator must be used in conjunction with the NCC. The calculator opens with the main menu. Here you can select which calculator you wish to use. The two options are the Residential Lighting Calculator for Class 2 SOUs or a Class 4 part of a building, and the Non-residential Lighting Calculator for Class 2 common areas, Class 3, Class 5 to 7 and Class 9 buildings, which is the focus of this video. You can also navigate to the guidance materials from the main menu or via the tabs at the bottom of the screen. Take note of the colour guide on the screen, as this will help you when filling out the cells in the calculator. For this example, we'll be looking at a small Class 5 office building, so let's choose the Non-residential Lighting Calculator. This calculator automates the selection of illumination power density and adjustment factors, and undertakes calculations for illumination power loads for the energy efficiency provisions of Part J6. Illumination power density is a defined term in the NCC. It means the total power in watts that will be consumed by the lights in a space including any lamps, ballasts, current regulators and control devices divided by the area of the space. It excludes lights plugged into general-purpose electrical outlets for intermittent use, such as floor standing, desk lamps or work lamps. The measurement of illumination power density is watts per meter squared. The intent of the team to satisfy lighting provisions is to enable lighting to be used in a responsible manner, thereby avoiding excess energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. In order to achieve effective results, the calculator relies on entering accurate information, consulting with lighting manufacturers for the lighting power information and architects and drafts persons for any lights in a space. No nominal or general allowances are to be used in the calculator, only those for the actual lighting design. To find out the correct lighting power information, consult the lighting manufacturer. This information needs to be checked and verified against the design documentation for compliance assessment. We'll look at the calculator in three parts. Part one, building information and parameters. Part two, lighting details table. And part three, calculated outcomes. Start by entering the building name and description. Then select the building classification from the drop-down box. You can find more information on building classifications and the associated buildings in part A6 of NCC Volume 1. Now input the number of rows you'll need for this assessment. This usually corresponds with the number of rooms or spaces being assessed. Once you've entered in the number of rows required, the ID cell will appear red. Click the small arrow icon in this cell and tick the box accompanying the number entered, and rest of the rows will appear. 40 is the maximum number of rows. Before moving on, check all the cells from part one are filled out. If these cells are not filled out, the calculator will not work. Start by entering any identifier needed into the description cell. This can be the room name and lighting system, or it could be another identifier that relates to the building documentation such as the room number. When you move to the next cell, you will notice the description, floor area of the space, design illumination power load and space cells change colour. This indicates that these cells are required to be filled in in order for the calculator to work. The floor area of the space cell is used to enter the area of the space in metres squared. The floor area is measured within the finished surface of the enclosing walls. The next two columns, perimeter of the space and floor to ceiling height, can be used to increase the allowable wattage of the space. This adjustment factor is called the room aspect ratio and applies to small enclosed spaces. The calculator automatically calculates the ratio when data is entered in these cells. The perimeter of the space and the floor to ceiling height are both entered in metres. The design illumination power load cell is where the total sum of the power in watts is entered. This is calculated by multiplying the floor area of the space by the maximum illumination power density associated with the function and use of the space, selected from the drop-down box in the next cell. The maximum illumination power density of a space and its associated function and use can be found in Table J6.2A in Part J6 Artificial Lighting and Power of the NCC Volume 1. Adjustment factors can be selected from the next series of columns using the drop-down boxes when lighting control devices are used. Notice these cells have not changed colour, meaning they only need to be filled if they apply to the lighting design. By using an adjustment factor, the allowance in watts per metre squared will increase for that space. Click on the Adjustment Factors button to view the adjustment factors as well as any prerequisites for their use. Some adjustment factors require additional information. If needed, prompts will appear in the highlighted columns. The cells will display in a shaded gold colour and detail the missing input in red in the calculated outcomes. Using a second adjustment factor is also allowed. However, an advisory warning note will appear as the control devices selected have to be different, but compatible for use with each other. The last input available is any light colour adjustment factors. Where two are selected, they must be different to each other. The spreadsheet automatically calculates two outcomes. The system illumination power load and the lighting system share of the aggregate used, illustrated as a percentage. If a result is displayed in a green cell, it indicates the result is a pass. If it displays in a red cell, it indicates a fail. The first column provides the outcome for the maximum system illumination power load for that space. You'll notice at the bottom of this column is a total which indicates the maximum system illumination power load for the overall design. This will also display green for pass and red for fail. If an individual space is indicating failure, but the overall design still passes, it means you have gone over the allowance for that space. But there is an excuse allowance from other spaces being used. Trading between spaces is allowed so long as the overall design complies by staying under the total allowance for all the spaces combined. The last outcomes column is the lighting system share of the percentage of aggregate used. The first percentage shows how much an individual space within the lighting design is using out of the total allowance of the overall design. The second percentage is the same for every cell in the column, displaying the amount of the total allowance that has been used by all the spaces combined. Below the last column, you'll see a large cell next to if inputs are valid. This cell represents the overall outcome of the lighting design. If the cell is showing green with a tick, the design is compliant. If the cell shows red with a cross, the lighting design does not comply and needs to be reconsidered as appropriate. To the right of the calculated outcomes is additional information, summarizing all of the inputs from the lighting details table. It provides calculated results of the room aspect ratios for each space and the values of other adjustment factors applied. Remember, the lighting calculator input data needs to be checked and verified against the design documentation for compliance assessment. A copy of the calculator can also be printed or saved as part of the design documentation. Further details about the lighting calculator, including additional examples, are provided in the Energy Efficiency Volume 1 Handbook and other resources from the ABCB website.


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Usually when I invest, numbers are not there. Sometimes, you know, even the pitch deck is not there. Even the idea is very, very small. What I look in a startup is a founder. Not that they should be IIT or IIM. Clear they go, founders are not, neither IIM or IIT. Cleanscare founder is not IIT or IIM. I look at them as individual personality. How they are conceiving the idea and how aggressive they are and is the focus clear? Are they clear about what they are doing? If that is intact, then the second thing is timing. If the timing is right, in any business if the timing is right, it's true. If you are selling umbrellas in a winter season, definitely it won't sell. You have to sell umbrellas in rainy season. That's what the timing is all about. That's what I look at. We all have those misses. I do have some great misses. Where in the time sometimes, Fintech is one field where I am missing every time. So I hope this time I won't miss. Because the time is also there and we have the same 24 hours out of which we need to sleep for 6-7 hours and spend time with our family. And then do our business and then invest. So now I am a full-time investor. I do miss. The primary reason for missing out on good opportunities is the time itself for me. I don't have the time to talk to the founders sometimes to go through their deck and then suddenly realize, why didn't I go through this? That's the only reason I miss. Otherwise, like I said, if the founder is clear and he's presenting his idea in the first line itself, I do respond to them even by saying no. Most of the VCs don't say no ever. Most of them. But I do say no. And I'm also open for saying them, boss, please stop it, do something else. It's not the business. You're trying to sell a Maruti 800 in 2019 whereas you should be looking at selling the battery cars. That's what I tell the founders as well. Which is not good but I do that. What I do is when I invest in a company, I make sure that they have an advisory person or an advisory board ready and on board a mentor. So there was this small young guy just out of IIT. They created a robot and I realized they need a mentor. Apart from me, I'm being mentoring them because I was appointed as a mentor to them in IIM Lucknow. I found a guy who was better than me in that field. Who was from automotive and who was... Working in the same industry for the last 20 years, the mentor got them an 8.4 crore order from Tata's. He knew how to pitch to Tata's. He knew how to write a mail to Tata. And he knew how to get that order. And we got the order to a startup which was really, really great. Even IIM was surprised. A startup which is not even generating much revenue got an order from Tata worth 8.1 crore. That's huge. That's what a mentor do to a startup and that's what the first thing I do. Secondly, I make sure that during the period of my investment or the money I have given them, they should be able to generate enough revenue that even if they don't raise in future, they still survive. Thirdly, everybody knows that 9 out of 10 startups fail. That's true and myth as well. Well, when it comes to me and I have invested in them, they fall in the category of 4 to 5 out of 10. Because 50% of these startups never get funded. So they have to fail. And they are not saying that they have to fail. They fail because of money they don't have. So the idea just remains the idea. Out of the ideas which receive money, I said 4 or 5 out of 10 fail. That means 50%. If they get a mentor, the ratio still goes down. So I make sure that these startups do get a mentor. And I keep on searching for collaborative efforts wherein these startups can get acquired. So 70% of all the companies or these startups get acquired. If they are not killed or if they are not dead. If you can get acquired, that's the another way of making money. And that's what you see in the bigger companies like SoftBank. So he's investing in competition as well. He's investing in Ola. He's investing in Uber. So and SnapDeal Flipkart. And the time comes when let's merge. SnapDeal and Flipkart. But then the founders also should have the courage like Kunal Bahal who took step and said no, we are not merging. So 70% of these startups should think that they are being acquired. Only 3% of these startups I look at going to list or out of 100, one startup will go for a one status.


I can't remember dropped for Vishal Bardwash's New film cool. Cool. Yeah, cool. Yeah Cool. Yeah, cool. Yeah, starring a whole bunch of people of each as Ali Fuzzle our dust Taboo who we wish was our dust and One me one Mika Gabi as well But a new Vishal Bardwash home is very very exciting Always exciting. We haven't had actually a new Vishal Bardwash film since we started Indian cinema. I Actually, I came to that realization the other day I was like since half of our time doing Indian cinema has been in a pandemic We haven't seen a lot of our favorite directors or actors actually in new releases in theaters We just we correct because we've been waiting this long for Vishal Bardwash Because theaters have been closed so like we haven't been able to see our favorite actors directors new films come out And we've been at this for three years Almost but there's a new film of his and there's just a whole a whole bunch that got announced as well Finally we get release dates for a whole bunch of stuff at 83 like 10 Akshay Kumar films It's funny 83 is coming out on Christmas, right Ranveer's 83 and then Shahid's Jersey remake is coming out a week after that so that's that's That's talk about competing cricket movies and then sadly though the Amir Khan's Force Gun remake got pushed again to now February. Yeah But yeah Anyways, hopefully it will be able to get a whole bunch of new releases here soon Starting with this one. So let's let me read the synopsis here. Justice gets personal in Vishal Bardwash's Kulfi A spy thriller based on Amir Bhushan's escape to nowhere inspired by true events And it just says coming soon. It looks like it's a Netflix film. So, all right ready? Yep, three two one Love that shot Nice shot. I love the score bind it right now That's taboo's voice Yeah If you want to know Just at what sets certain directors apart from others It's being able to put out a teaser that it's just a guy walking through an office But it's still crazy and copies like how it was like so impressive Everything about it the cinematography the score behind it the just the look of all of it is just it Lighting was magnificent like that's just there's a certain there's a reason we like like Gush about certain directors It's because they're that good and they're so good at their job and Vishal is one of our first loves at the directing And obviously he's one of the most impressive parts of this was I think the score behind it It was almost like a Western Like score behind it, but he's so so talented the cinematography that the score behind it the Just the whole like feel of it and I know nothing about this story. It was just a guy making copies And I'm I'm in Yeah, and it the look of it in the feel of it is very film noir look like Lot of it is paying homage to some of the great Humphrey Bogart crime films like the Maltese Falcon Just and really need to I mean, you know starts off with the black and white shot and then goes and it's in color And then it goes back to black and white Very you know little little tiny hitch cocky in there Oh, well, and just really almost bond as well like the music behind it It was almost bond-esque, and I know it's spy thriller, and I did know I don't know if I don't think anything's a coincidence with Vishal it's just like I don't think he's anything you can swim through the on your own they they think about everything, but like the The paper said for your eyes only For right for eyes only and so I don't know if that's just like an homage to bond itself Because it was it was like almost the Western style slash old-school bond music The behind the scene itself and then if you don't know even though I haven't seen it my wife's obsessed with old bond for your eyes only Well, great film. I think that's her. I think that's her favorite bond actually that film. It's a great bond film Yeah, she's obsessed with all the old-school bond stuff So maybe maybe I'll watch it, but that's the vibe it gave me right Yeah, absolutely did and you just even if if we didn't know it was Vishal because obviously knowing it's him We go in with a sense of expectation and excitement. I would be impressed with this irrespective because that's just top quality Everything in terms of what we got artists wise. It's just the visually Sound everything. Yeah, he's He's so impressive with his scores because he's such a he's obviously he's such a talented composer And then to equal that with being an equally talented director And I don't know if let's see I'm gonna look up the Because certain directors often work with the same cinematographer Often right very often all the time It's just because though if you don't know on sets those are the two people that work the most closely together that's They're the dp and the director Are basically they're the ones basically the directors that he has the end all be all say so But they kind of have to have a great relationship Uh, it must because yeah, the the the the cinematographer Is the one who's going to make the vision? happen So that relationship is is very much the most The relationship of the director and the cinematographer and the director of the actors are the two most critical But it the most critical is the director and the director of photography. Oh wow the cinematographer Let me double check to make sure he did it, but when it came up it was the cinematographer for Life of life of pie Wow and Dark Knight Rises Okay, he worked with him on Kamini as well. Uh, that was one of Vishal's films as well. Um, the Shahid film So yeah, so he's he's worked with him quite a bit, but that's exciting I'm I'm 1000 and I'm sad. This was just a teaser. I can't wait to actually see the the trailer for it And to see Ali and taboo Uh working because we you know, obviously we we interviewed Ali and we'd love to interview taboo Love to interview taboo. You know, we've she's one of the most talented actresses just around in general all around the world She's yes, and she's she's one of the few we've mentioned this before Um Irfan and taboo were the two indian actors that we knew before Coming to osr and being introduced to indian cinema because they they are so used in americans They're not not by name, but we knew them by face. Um, yeah, unfortunately. We didn't We didn't know them. We just were like, oh, that's the guy of uh from uh, uh, yeah But yeah 100 in I'm very very excited Um, I'm hoping we're gonna get a lot more trailers now from not just this but like everything else now since we're actually gonna get theatrical releases and also did you know, um Ranveer now has two films coming out on christmas. It's not only 83 It's the one that we reacted to in the airport on the way to lumbai Airport, yep the one with akshay and ajay and renveer the cop thing That is also coming out on christmas now So it's gonna be a renveer christmas everyone Well, we have full christmas, which is why you know, um, your con was like, you know what? Let's move our Which is weird. He usually does christmas films Anyways, let us know what you thought about this trailer down below and uh, what should be the next vashal film we watch Before this one, please let us know down below


Rita Montes-Martin, and this is in the studio at Davis Media Access, and today's guest is Jennifer Ann Gordon, who is a local author in Davis, and we're going to talk about her book called A Woman's Mind Half Naked, and Jennifer, I've just read your book and I loved it and it's such an inspirational book. It's one that you can just open any place and read something and get some new ideas and new inspiration. And please tell us first how you came about writing this book. Was that an easy job or was it? Tell us about writing. Well, thank you, Rita. Writing is always a labor of love, and although I'm a professional writer and a published author, it's always a labor of love. It is never easy and it's always a journey inward, a joyous journey, sometimes excruciating as well. This book came about out of a deep desire to love humanity and to share what I've learned with other people. So, oh, pardon me. How long did it take you to write it? It took me one year. That deceptively sample book took one year and then some editing, et cetera, afterwards. And do you talk about so many things in here? Are these little bits of your life experience? Yes, they're all memoirs, vignettes of epiphanies. I've had things that amused me greatly or befuddled me, things that inspired me or healed me or relieved me of feeling shame or sorrow. And I noticed that you mentioned a couple of people in your book. Were these people in your life inspiring you or were they friends and family or how did they come to be in your life? Well, it really takes an entire village to raise a book, honestly. So I have an editor, Rafael Guzmanamo, who lives in Dublin, Ireland. And he's a wonderful man who found my work by happy accident and decided that he was going to full-on support me getting the revised edition of A Woman's Mind Half Naked Out. I have my dear friend whom I call my darling Good Chap, James Good Chap, and he did the cover for the book. And then there are people woven throughout the book that have made an impact on me in one way or another. And was some of your inspiration in coming to Davis because you told me that you hadn't been here very long. Well, I came to Davis honestly almost three years ago now because I didn't know where else to go. I had just had a challenging experience and blown the whistle at a company and was invited to stay with a friend for a couple months. So I came up here not knowing Davis at all and found a warm, wonderful community filled with friends old and new and a lot of opportunity here. Well, that's wonderful. And I agree with you because I'm not an old timer in Davis either, even though I've been here 25 years, I still find that welcoming attitude that you're talking about. And that's one of the reasons I wanted to share you with the public, with the people that I know in Davis because it's a very inspirational book. And it's something that I could relate to experiences in my life and things that you talked about. So tell us a little bit more about your experience here in Davis. Well, the Davis community, for want of a better word, is playful at times. And my book is playful and they've really welcomed it and supported it. I'm a suroptimist and so I have all my suroptimist sisters evangelizing the book and Terrence and Janice Lots of Newspeak carry the book. So it's been a village that has helped me launch. And you have a website? I do. And what is that? My website is jenniferangordon.com. And can people, do you mind if people get in touch with you and make any comments about your book? No, I welcome it and the book's also available on Amazon and I share that because another great way to make comments about a book is to review it on Amazon. And some of the stories that I liked, the little vignettes that you're talking about, there were several that I go back and read it again where the one you have about the ways to entertain a woman. Tell us about that because that's something that is very topical. Well, I, one day it just, I started laughing because I thought about the word amuse. And the chapter that you're referring to is how to amuse a woman. And so I wrote this list of how to amuse a woman, especially me, which includes putting the toilet seat down, among other things, more pertinent. And I sent that list to my friend James Goodchap, the gentleman who did the cover for me. And I received an email back from James entitled, how to amuse a man. And it was two sentences. The first, it was point number one, show up naked, point number two, bring food. And I had 37 points to my list. You know, it's very complex. That's very good. I think women will find that very true. That's what they need to have something to eat and have a woman to entertain them. But I love some of these titles that you have, like macaroni and cheese. I mean, that makes you want to immediately read that chapter and see what it's all about. Because right now everybody loves macaroni and cheese. And what, what's your favorite experience and story that you have in here? There's a chapter, and they're microchapters. They're one paragraph long or two pages for, they're written for the busy person, you know, who can open it at random and just get something refreshing quickly. But my favorite chapter would probably be live sexy about the lavender farm. And my experience on a friend's lavender farm and lying in between the rows of lavender. I think my favorite was about the sunglasses. And I want you to talk about that, but I will tell you my impression of that, about the sunglasses, is that it's so easy to look at an issue, a problem, whatever the situation is. We look at it from our own viewpoint. And maybe if we looked at it from a different viewpoint, we'd have a different reaction. But you tell us about the sunglasses. I love that. Well, it's one of the stories my children do not let me forget. We all went to the movies, and we were sitting there. And I was very irritated because the lighting was, there wasn't enough lighting. And I thought there must be a bulb out in the projector or something going on. And I paid good money for these tickets.  So after the movie ended, I realized that I had been wearing my sunglasses inside the theater the whole time. And that made me think about to question whether I'm looking at life through a filter that needs removing, so I could see its bright colors. Right. And I think you were talking about one of your, I'll say sponsors for lack of a better word, but the gentleman that lives over in Ireland. My editor lives in Dublin, Ireland. He is a Spaniard in Ireland working for an American company. He's a translator. And he found me through something I had written online, asked to read everything I had written, wanted to know everything about my process and how I came up with these ideas. And then he asked the simple question, has no one qualified ever offered to support you? I thought about it. And I wrote, no. He replied, I'm offering. And then in there, he became my champion, my editor, and my friend. And what are you, have any more books that you're working on right now? I am. I've got two books of poetry coming out, one in English, one in Spanish. Again, my editor in Ireland is the one translating my work into Spanish. And I have a book coming out called The Ask. And then I would say that again. The Ask. That's kind of a way in business. The Ask is asking for someone's business. And so I've got that coming out. And then I coach writing. So I have several clients who are writing their autobiographies. And those will be coming out. Well, that's good to know that you do help other people who think everyone has a story. And everyone says, well, I want to write a book, but they don't know where to start. But they can talk to you and you will kind of get them a start. Well, I give them a start at the weekly meetings on through the completion of the manuscript. Do you have any classes that you teach? Not at present. Are you planning on any? I don't know yet. I'm still contemplating that. Well, I think that this is so inspirational. And I've been to your talks where you've been speaking to different groups. And you're very inspirational, as you tell about your own experience and things. I think the most important one, in fact, is that when we blame ourselves, we think if there's a problem that it's our fault. And we have to look at a different viewpoint as to how we cope with that. And to me, that's what your book inspires us to. It's a look at a different viewpoint. Well, Jennifer, I'm so pleased that you found time to leave your writing for a few minutes and join me in the studio so I can share you with all the people of Davis. And thank you very much. Thank you, Rita. That's a glorious opportunity. Well, we love having you. And I know everyone who reads your book will love it and will get something out of it. And I hope everybody contacts you and shares with you what you've brought to them. I would love to hear from my readers. It's always a treat. And thank you very much for being here. So goodbye.


Gas gas gas! Soldiers from the 215th area support medical company run through a gas chamber to gain knowledge and confidence in their equipment. Trained today has pretty much been the gas chamber, just building our confidence in the gas chamber and taking off our mask and being able to don our mask on and appropriate time limit and just building confidence with our own mask. The soldiers trained how to don their gas masks in the event of a biological attack. They were then exposed to tear gas to gain confidence that the equipment works. Don't touch your face! Don't touch your face! Oh, they're pretty fun. They're pretty intimidating at first. When you first hear they're always going to the gas chamber, but once you actually do it and stuff, it's a pretty big confidence booster and it is fun. Even though you hate it when you're in there and you're coughing, maybe vomiting, it's nodding all over, it's always fun afterwards. And you can go home and tell people, hey look, this is what I've done. It's a great experience. Reporting for the 120th Public Affairs Detachment, I'm Specialist Antonio Archer.


Welcome to Think Tech Hawaii's Human-Humane Architecture. I am this program's co-host. I'm DeSoto Brown of Bishop Museum here in Honolulu. And joining us from Germany, 12 hours difference between Honolulu and Germany is the program's host, Martin Despang. And Martin, can we have you up here on screen magically right here? There he is. He's in a box, speaking to us from Germany. And Martin is gonna be telling me a story about his son Joey and his son Joey's architectural, shall we say, forays in different ways. And what do we see in the background, Martin? What's behind me and you in this picture? Well, that's not to help people yet too early. Let's move on to the first slide here, please. So this looks familiar to you location-wise, right? It is. It's the Diamond Head Lookout. We are looking down from Diamond Head Road over the ocean at Diamond Head and sitting on the right is Martin and sitting on the left is his older son Joey. And was this Joey's first visit to Hawaii when he came to see you? It actually was. That was a few years ago. That's when you visited the first time. Yeah. Correct. And he found this visit quite- And let's check out what he did prior to that. He found this visit pretty inspirational. Did he not? He did, he did. And we will see in what way further along in the show. Let's move on and see what he did prior to that. And I'll take you the lead a little bit today because I was keeping you updated about what's going on here, me on the other side of the world. Sort of this, and you found this sort of cross-pollinating, cross-cultural aspect really interesting. So I let you sort of reflect on what you heard about what was going on. So Joey has received a master's certificate as an engineer in engineering. And the thing that I found interesting was in this picture, this is Joey and his girlfriend. And to the right of them is Joey's graduation certificate if you will. And I found it fascinating that it's in English even though he graduated in Germany. And of course English is the language that he will be using and is already using it as international travels and as international jobs that he's gonna be dealing with. So this shows you what the state of Europe is right now.  And he chose instead to go into engineering. That's right, he's in another level. Right. And so he, his specialty right after his graduation was that he went into the automotive world. And let's go to the next picture. And there he is. And what was he involved with? Part of his bachelor, and yes, you're right. The idea of us Europeans adopting the American system of Bachelor and Master is it's sort of global compatibility. As part of his bachelor, which you can see on the left, he was interning with one of the companies in the automotive sector that you associate with high end and being German precision and German quality, Deutsche Wettarbeit, how we call that and which company is that? It's Audi, which stands for Auto Union. And it was originally four different companies that got together.  But that wasn't enough for him, right? Now you talked about our cars, now we go to your guys' cars, right? That's right. So he went from a German car company to an American car company and he worked for Tesla. And you see him in the other photograph with the, I believe the Model 3 Tesla. And I think you said that Joey decided he didn't want to be in an office job, he didn't want to be stuck with these things and he wanted to go in a different direction. Is that where we want to talk about this right now? I think that's fair enough to say and we want to do a little bit of traveling in Europe and take you guys along here. We're referring to a previous show with Tim Upicella when he did this great show about transportation and we were out west in Germany and this is where he was working with and for Tesla out in Düsseldorf. Audi however is as Bavarian as you can get it and that gets us to the next slide. Ah yes, yes that's right. What was that at the show though? Well, what Joey decided to do was to go into business for himself and that would require him to have a trailer hitch attached to the back of his car. So you see that's what's going on in the big picture at the bottom so that he can, this particular car can tow a trailer and what's happening in the upper pictures? You see, well actually in the upper picture you can see the car towing a trailer but what's happening in the family gathered around the table there? That's his aunt, my dear sister and business partner. I said the hosting them Clara and Joey here and again he went back. They started with like from zero from scratch and so all the cars you see involved are really, really low budget cars. We're talking a few thousand euros here. So let's go to the next step, what happened next?  The previous one was the most current one and this one here is the previous one where you can see in the background a wooden building, a wooden chalet that's next to her previous home and that's sort of inspired by what we see on the top left which we dedicated a show to or we referenced to that in our crime, crime time show here. This is the Forest Home by Cynthia's business partner Isabel. So let's go to the next slide and see where the journey took them. Where is that? Well, this is the beginning of the construction of, let's say this is Joey's foray into architecture because sitting on that trailer, which is the trailer that they purchased is the beginnings of a structure that is going to become Joey's business that's actually mobile. So he just went and bought various materials and started this construction not necessarily following all the architectural rules but to create something that we're gonna be seeing very soon and may I point out that this license plate on the trailer is a personalized license plate and you can see it says HI 808 that's for Hawaiian Islands 808 obviously being our area code and that's relevant for the business we're gonna be seeing very shortly coming into existence. You the license plate geek had to see that, I knew that, I knew that and that's at the top right location wise they moved back to the east which is former East Germany the GDR has been freed for a while so it's part of a bigger form of Germany and this is where also the office of our father is and this is in Radeboil and Dresden and this is down the road from where Karl Mayer resided who is someone who portrayed America in a fantasy way and world to Germans when they didn't have the chance to go to America as much as they can do now and especially in East Germany not. At the top left we referenced the two previous shows about similar entrepreneur actions with rich Richardson's and Wyatt's sort of tiny homes this year however is not necessarily and primarily a dwelling although Clara looks pretty comfy and cozy in there so let's move on what happens next and I think we're getting close to your license plates continued. Yeah that's right, there we go. Well what we're gonna see now is the relevance of the rainbow. Rainbows are very common here in the Hawaiian Islands because of our normal weather pattern as well as our topography of having mountains where rain falls and drifts further towards the leeward and because that we see rainbows very frequently and we see rainbows so frequently that they are on our license plates which they have been since 1991 and in the two photographs on this page you see a very distinct double rainbow which is not that common but it's one that I saw when I was driving home on the freeway one day last year or the year before had to photograph it out the window just because it was a lot of traffic and I could drive more slowly. These two particular license plates are sort of relevant too because we just saw the Tesla car which is an electric car and that's something we're always very conscious of on human humane architecture but we also see the UH logo on the lower one and that's relevant because that is where Martin's is employed and why don't we go to our next picture and there are more rainbows you don't just see them in certain areas you see them all over the place but they're particularly prevalent in Manoa which is the original location of the University of Hawaii campus and that's why the football team is called the Rainbow Warriors in reference to the rainbows and we also see Suzanne the tropical tourism expert in the lower left corner but we see rainbows in other parts of Honolulu as well. Next picture and what did this inspire? Tell us. You can see here that the finished box basically got rainbow coated and colored at his grandparents which you can see up there in the middle and which you can see at the bottom left is Clara's father and mother who were supporting in their field of helping to get the signs printed and the signs is everything in the project it's everything is self made from scratch and so is the sign and you can see that there is sort of this double meaning of the logo which is referring to the rainbow with the colors but it's also referring to another very Hawaiian associated phenomenon which is the volcano and on the top right this was me from my Waikiki Grand Lanai taking a picture looking at you residing up there at the foothills and there's a rainbow too. That's right. So, one and see where the journey took the next. Right, next picture and there is the finished or partly finished structure and that's the Aloha Shea vise trailer and there it is being towed on the Autobahn but Martin pointed out to me that all while the Autobahn in some cases does not have speed limits if you're pulling a trailer you are confined to a lower speed limit so you don't go crazy and cause a crash while you're towing your rainbow trailer and next picture there's again, what's going on here Martin? Well the previous picture was taken from Joey's brother Lenny's car and we see it's the one with the fancy green rims here and he's unloading into another car that we're going to talk about which he learned driving with in Joey. In a previous show actually the Hawaii 5.0 show we continue to make the references and compare automobiles and architecture and we're saying that the French automakers are the most innovative because they're resisting to be retro and sentimental and romantic they're very evolutionary in the ways of developing their cars. This place here is their former home where they grew up and it's very inspired by it's a mid-century 50s, 60s building that's inspired by what we see at the bottom which is an Arna Jacobs and Roe Hall's development from mid-century back in Stockholm and we move to the next slide which shows us the actual home here there in front of it and their mother was allowing them to basically continue to build the thing in the front yard and we see this other car introduced this is our little frog as they call it and you know Suzanne's kids continue to call it that way this car is family tradition it's a compact micro-compact car that's nearing to be almost a quarter of a century young or old and it's the mule that never gives up as you can see and does all the work and so let's move on to the next image here. So here we go this is the it's actually under construction and it's starting to be a real thing and tell us about it yes pardon me for interrupting you. Well there's no no there's there's another similarity to Hawaii because we love single wall construction and this is what this shows it's a very sort of stripped down construction with simple posts and beams very sort of fragile if you want to say so and on the top right you can see the builders team which is the couple and the brother Lenny here and on the on the bottom right we see a glimpse of what happened next and that gets us to the next page and tell us what happened to so well. Well what I thought was particularly striking about this construction is this exterior covering of the vertical members and while that is very striking and it does kind of tone down the brightness of the rainbow colors as you pointed out to me this also serves a structural function in that it strengthens that single wall construction that we saw from the inside. So a very simple way to do this in an elegant and attractive way and striking because it's different is what you did is what Joey did by putting these vertical strips on the outside of the framework of the trailer. That's fine so that's very much in the modernist tradition that you do a few things that serve multiple purposes here versus today where we're sort of decorate things which are redundant and so this is pretty much the engineering thinking of just doing the right thing and not doing more than you need and that's something that indigenous cultures including Hawaiian culture has been doing right. Right absolutely. This is not a literal interpretation of the Halapele Hut but it's an evolutionary one you know an interpretive one here and now in the 21st century. Correct right. So next picture. Well they had to get another car. This is part of the problem when they were towing their when they were towing their trailer they discovered as you said that the automatic transmission or the transmission didn't really like to have to deal with that so they gave up the previous car and bought this car and what is this car Martin? So we're walking you through the range of French cars we had the little twingo which is Renault as the maker. This is a Citroen here. Again this is a few thousand euros car that they bought and in the back you can see where his brother Lenny lives at the top right. We did a couple of shows from his Lenny Stark studio here where we're assessing the Hawaii five all the entire set that I bought and I promise to go through all of them so that's what we did and the architecture shows you how the European model is three to four to five story buildings which is a pretty robust urban strategy that might be interesting for Honolulu if we think about transit or under developments and we also propose to stack containers in such a way which ended up being the Strasville and Igrove project. So let's move along with them here on their trip. Next slide. And so now is this when they were this is when they actually first took up their first residence if you will in the parking lot of a small shopping mall correctly and during summer it's hot. It gets hot in Germany so people would be enjoying a nice cool shave ice and so you see customers enjoying their first taste of the from the Aloha shave ice shave ice wagon. And again as I mentioned earlier it's fascinating to me that a German company for German customers can use a title, a name that is entirely in English and people will still understand it read it and be able to understand what it is. There you go. That's true very very cosmopolitan approach. Next slide please. And on the inside they obviously this is a utilitarian vehicle it's got to hold the bottles of the shave ice flavoring and you can see there's a built in rack for that. You see the shave ice machine in the upper corner I believe and Martin told me fascinatingly that in order to buy shave ice machines you have to even in Europe they have to go through suppliers here in Hawaii which is the home of shave ice as we now know it and there's a special little orange sink there because that's also a requirement along of course with the freezer that you see in the right hand side Martin tell us about this special little orange sink.  He gave him the book by Richard Branson which is called The Virgin Way which basically Branson says I don't want the ordinary average guys who have just straight A's and are just following a beaten path. He says I want people who try new things and I want people who take a risk and I want people who even fail. So that was sort of a great encouragement to not be shy and not to be afraid of anything and they weren't. This little sink is we got that way back when we're students from sort of a promotional event from one of the most vintage sink makers Alapa and he had that with him I didn't really know what to use it for so he gave it to Joey and the background of the wall the black is basically chalk more color which we used and again as he indicated the Department of Health anywhere in developed countries give you a hard time so they got a taste of that not always a sweet sometimes a bitter taste. Let's move on to the next slide. And there we are. Okay this is at the shopping mall that this is where they were last summer and they got a little Facebook shout out from the shopping mall saying come down and have some Hawaiian shave ice and that's what you see in these pictures. Exactly. And next picture. Well okay this the cool thing for me was this is this is where the shave ice machine or the shave ice trailer lived during the winter when it was not in use but the crucial thing to me is next to the shave ice trailer is a 1960 Plymouth Fury. Now why that is sitting in Germany I don't know that is the exact same car as my family owned when I was six years old and so in the upper right upper left of the screen here you see me as a little kid in New Hampshire because we lived in Boston for one school year and we had that car and we drove it up to New Hampshire so I was astonished to see this show up in Germany of all places and Martin tell us where this particular place was where the Germans had Plymouth. There that's right and that took them to the very north so all the way back from the very south in the area to the very north where the family of Clara is from and you can see and this is another sort of similarity between you and her and them because this it shows her and her grandmother and her grandmother is a very healthy and happy woman and the young age and that reminds us of you and an event you had yesterday in your family right. Well actually it's still today it's here right this minute now. Oh it's still today wow.  Wow. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. How exciting. Okay. Let's move on. Next picture. We should deliver. Yeah move on. So again that second car didn't like having to pull the trailer and so they had to get a third car and so there's the third car pulling the trailer and this is when they were on route to their next destination is that correct when they were on their way to Malta? Is that right? That's right and this car is we had the Renaults and they had a Renault and they had a Citroen. This is a Peugeot now so we got all French car makers now which as we said in the 70s I think they brought them to America but ever since not anymore. Correct. We'll put that back on the road along with the trucks. Next slide please. And where are we now? We're back to Munich. This is the office home by my sister and a business partner Isabel here our local Southern branch. We're back there. They did a little pit stop here. You can see sort of a tribute of Joey to the architectural work of as you said of his relatives and at the top you can see Suzanne's children and Cynthia good-buying and giving them farewell on their way to as you already said Malta next page picture which you already indicated in one of the previous shows. They did another stop here in Zurich with Suzanne friends here. Thank you guys and then they're out. At the very top you see his grandparents on the mother's side who were also cheerleading them and wishing them all the best so everyone in the family was really excited.  Next picture. And the crazy thing is that Malta used to be a British colony and they drive on the left and that means automobiles have their steering wheels on the right. And so to fit in in Malta they bought a used car in England shipped it over and then shipped it down to Malta to drive around there. But because Malta is the most southern part of Germany I'm not Germany the most southern part of Europe closest to the continent of Africa it's also the warmest part so it was considered acceptable normal and smart to have a convertible there. So here is their convertible car from England in Malta with palm trees in the background pulling the Aloha Shave Ice Machine. Next picture. And there we are. Lenny again coming and joining them and helping out exactly. Right. And there's Malta and Malta is somewhat similar. There are similarities but there are differences and one of the differences is that Malta is much drier it's smaller and it also has a particular type of architecture which we're going to see that uses the native or indigenous stone which is a light-colored stone. So everything there tends to be kind of a beige color and the Shave Ice Truck is very brilliantly colored to stand out nicely against a beige and blue background. Is that correct? And now that's perfectly illustrated in the next picture. Perfect second wing into that. There we go. There we go. And as you were saying it's kind of too bad that our buildings here in Hawaii tend to be all beige and light colors as well where we live in a very vibrant, tropical and colorful community but nonetheless there's the Shave Ice Truck and it really does stand out and we hope that people are intrigued to want to come and see it on this promenade in a prominent location. You said this is one of the first places they tried because they were trying to figure out where good business places would be. Yeah, this is all testing out. This is all venturing out and making experiences. Next picture here. Oh, there we go and there's the Shave Ice. Yeah, we're almost at the end of the show. We don't want to forget to mention our previous guest, Bandit Kanistakhan who is, which we still have to do a show about. He's a master in the culinary, crazy, cool architecture. And he was giving heads up and saying, guys, you're doing the right thing. This is a cool thing to do. So thanks Bandit for the heads up and the compliment to these guys. Next picture. So there we go and there's the Shave Ice truck again in the beige Malta environment. And this is an interesting situation of trying to convince people or to influence people or to try to show people that this, such a thing as Shave Ice exists in a place where it's not that common. And Suzanne was saying, Malta is already sort of an exotic type of destination or location for Europeans anyway. And is Shave Ice really something that's exotic enough to fit in there or is it too similar to what's already there for people to really pay much attention to it? And I think that's something that's still being discussed. Yeah, that's illustrated by the next slide here. Right. So there's a tropical background. So you see Suzanne in her show at the, exactly, and you see Suzanne up there referencing in her show and she was contemplating exactly what you were just saying. But we wanna point out that whatever happens next, that was a really interesting experience cross culinary, cross cultural, cosmopolitan experience and the time we have been there and visiting we had nothing but warm welcoming. This is a guy who after they had to look for a place to put it because they couldn't put it on the road. This is just a neighbor where they sort of desperately put in a note in his mailbox and he was immediately calling back and saying, hey, put it in my courtyard. And that is great, friendly, welcoming experiences all over the place on all levels. So that's really great. Let's go to the last picture here because we're at the end of the show and got a second to last picture here. Again, when they're moving on they're making some different experiences now going back maybe more to their sort of core discipline of their degrees and of their experiences but the trailer is gonna be taken care of here by some other very friendly people on this board yard here and sitting along with these yachts. And I make a reference and I already made some humorous comments about you and that you might be potentially interested in the trailer as well. For what reasons could that be? Maybe we're gonna get all the way out here to the Hawaiian islands and show it to people here because well, we already know that we like shave ice. We already know what it is and maybe there's a customer for, there maybe there are lots of customers for it here but it does show that the international aspects of Hawaiian culture are, they're all over the place and unexpectedly so. And suggest you have more evidence of that. Yeah, and let's go to the last slide here. We continuously talk about the evolution of culture, right? This is some screenshots from an early episode of Hawaii 5.0 in which there was a contrast of over development and there was an environmental activist involved. And what was going on in this picture is you just, it looks like a boy running along wearing a regular Aloha shirt, Hawaiian shirt. If you look closely, you can see that on his shirt is a pattern of a Volkswagen Beetle, which is crazy. So we see this connection of Hawaii and Germany yet again and this brings us to what we're gonna be talking about our next show two weeks from today. We're gonna be looking at the air-cooled Volkswagen and the various mutations and forms of that, how popular it was here in Hawaii, where it was the exotic thing as opposed to the Hawaiian culture being exotic in Germany. And I think that we're gonna, because of our technical situation, we're gonna end right here. Thank you all very much for being with us and I'll be seeing you next week. Martin will be back two weeks from today. Thank you again for joining us on Think Tech Hawaii and till next time, Aloha.


that's from his uncle Hariprasad Chaurasi Ji so the entire lineage phenomenal and he's a genius who from the age of 4 from the age of 6 and mesmerizing audiences from the age of 4 his first professional concert and I think he's got a recording of that as a gift recently but at the age of 11 he can play more than 20 instruments but we all know him the man with the golden voice and the magical compositions the one and only Shankar Mahadevan Ji gentlemen thank you very very much first let me ask you Ganesh Ji what is Bharat for you Bharat is Shakti why do you say that you try to steal it but I'm going to push you over Harad I'm going to ask you why you know I think as you have rightly named this Conclave as Rising Bharat I mean we are rising in all spheres and music is one that you can see here and even otherwise we see that Bharat is the next hope for humanity so I feel that is why I'm saying Bharat is the Shakti of the world is the Shakti of the world are we making the music of Bharat its Shakti Selva Ji let me ask you this when you play the Kanjeera you connect with people when you play music when we play classical music and music gets interpreted so are we connecting is the world connecting with Bharat's music oh yeah for sure you already introduced like you know there are five Grammys from India so Bharat is already like noticed and also like two other Indians also nominated and our beloved prime minister also nominated so Bharat is like you know you can see it you can feel it but do you see a change you know one of my other good friends Ricky Cage was part of the nominations he is one Grammys a lot of time so shout out to him too but let me ask you this the years that you've played concerts that you've gone to is there a greater appreciation for what Bharat brings to the table when it comes to music yeah for sure definitely it is definitely our friend right now and especially me if you ask me like you know I follow the footsteps of like you know the three legendary musicians one is my dad one is John G. John McLaughlin and Zakir Bhai so whatever they do they just do they don't look for what we are going to get it just the Bharat like you know we give our 100% to music which we definitely have to do that Rakesh ji when was the last time or the first time let me ask you that that Hari Prasad Chaurasiya ji said good work when Grammys won you what did he have to say well it was never it's okay because maybe he is expecting a lot from me that's I think that's the sign of a greater guru not to compliment and then talk about your student with other people you know he is doing good so this has happened that he doesn't say anything to you but the world is around it come back to me he was praising you that is my energy to keep me on my toes so what was his reaction when you told him that two Grammys won oh wow that was it that was it you were little confused why two for the same album that said this is a different category oh what is category now in album so I had to make him understand one for the song and one for the album so this is I think there was three nominations and we got two one was for the composition also oh fantastic so here I correct there was a nomination for the but I think it's all his blessings and whatever I am today because of his and as you mentioned what is Bharat Bharat for me is a breath you know what I blow in my flute is a breath is breath what an answer Bharat for me is breath what I blow in and to my flute phenomenal and you are communicating that 25 years with Shakti sir for you and the first Grammy comes via voice note compositions tell us to take us to that story what did it happen this whole thing the album that won the Grammy it was via voice notes this album the way it happened was very amazing Anand it all happened during the peak of Covid you know because we tour so much used to do 20 concerts in 30 days and all over America all over Europe all over India we were continuously travelling and then we were almost getting withdrawal symptoms so we have to do an album and nobody can move out of the house because of Covid so the way this album happened was completely remote control Zakir Bhai was from San Francisco Selvaji Ganesh Ji from Chennai Seattle I was from Mumbai and John Ji from Monaco all of us recording files going up and down on a server you know bars being exchanged comments emails mixes oh my god by the time the mix got over it was a what a process it was but when we heard it we said we have cracked something that is almost next to impossible this was your studio album for Shakti after how long 46 years 46 years this band is 50 years old by the way we jumped into the bandwagon about 25 years back and we are lucky to be the ones who got the Grammy ok now I am going to put all of you in the spot a little you know by the way I will tell you if this guy would not have been a television anchor he would have definitely been a musician or a musician of heart that is what Anand Radha said sir my note doesn't sound right that's why I have never sung it sir someone is looking like a note that's fine ok now what I am going to ask you tell me something special about Ganesh ji's music why is he who he is and why is he part of Shakti ok I will tell you something we are in the middle of Europe in a completely non-Indian atmosphere complete foreigners in the audience this gentleman only one Tampura is playing no other instrument he plays Abhogi Ragh for about a good 10-12 minutes nothing else we are all sitting quiet he plays that just his instrument and the Tampura and he gets a standing ovation so that is what Ganesh ji is all about so these are these are musicians melodic musicians who don't need too many notes to prove themselves one note and it goes straight into your heart it's like that you like that I cannot talk like that you better talk some nice things about me I cannot talk like that nor can I sing so now from a person who is a master a maestro at string now do you talk about somebody who is a maestro at percussion oh yeah now I know the game so ok as Aakir bhai is more like brother and mentor, guide, friend is lots of that and I am very lucky to be even partnering with Zakir bhai I just interrupt all of us over here because of this man called Ustad Zakir Husein let's have a loud round of applause for Ustad Zakir Husein sorry it's true actually so that's what Zakir bhai is for me and as he said for all of us and Selvaji we have been childhood friends we know each other from when we were like this you have to hold the mic you are older we are not the same age you are not the same age he is older I'll tell you for what I am a grandfather in that case I am older ok so we have played together and I have been fortunate to be playing with his dad Vikumama and toured quite a lot and both of them have played together I mean like Vikumama and him, myself and Kumaresh we have toured a lot and it's always a pleasure because he is my go-to guy so it's just fun just being with him because he is very very affectionate and very lovely person to be with so he didn't talk about my name so now what was that last one always the response thank you very much thank you respond on what on the bowl ok thank you thank you thank you thank you what are you saying now Selvaji let me ask you you played with Haripasad ji also but at a time when your father was also there I know there were butterflies in your stomach and all of that was there then when you first played with Rakesh ji was that how good he is it was the same feeling when I played with Hari ji and whenever I played with him too and recently we did a concert too like nominees not just amazing it's very tough guy on stage too but with some unbearable dirty jokes you could have said only jokes dirty is also a picture see the face of that joke but yeah not just the classical music even if it is a fusion even one of the Shakti like I would say one of the best lotus feet I think this man can definitely play that tune without like lagging or because it's very tough it sounds easy but to form with the form I have heard him so many times playing lotus feet and I said oh my gosh this guy is amazing and of course Hari ji also played the same tune in remember Shakti first album in 1999 so that was the first remember Shakti when they started so Hari ji and my dad played and same tune in Bangalore like we both played it so father son son whatever you call it so this guy is amazing and I was lucky enough to Zakir bhai and Ganesh ji was performing in Ajivasan with John ji and I was sitting in the audience and suddenly he told me to come on stage and play this piece in lotus feet they suddenly asked to come out and yeah so if you were to suddenly ask because sir if your flute comes here then you can play something yes why not you want to listen so you have to cheer him you have to sir where are your flutes where are they so I am here if you help because I know by the way she is Mrs Rakesh Chaurosh for them also so ma'am you have got to help us out suddenly I thought because these people you have a breath so until Basuri comes then how will you speak Murli yes by the way you have to play in this house she is married so it is better to practice ok by then please tell me why something special about this person here he is a monster when it comes for singing when it comes to finding cuisine means when you go to google what is the best cuisine of this city and then he takes everybody there let's go there and find it is a very good food it is very difficult for this kind of combination amazing artists and amazing human beings very friendly everybody wants to say something he was saying about no Shankar Ji was saying about Ganesh Ji playing just Raghav Bogi with Tambura just imagine most of the concert not too many notes he will do one top note sustained this happens like every concert before he finishes he gets the standing ovation before he stops that one tone which stays for more than we can't even count it how long he is sustaining that's enough so to sustain it at one breath it's not going to be difficult I do agree that but it's all different notes people can let go so many notes but one note sustained and he gets a standing ovation let's listen to Rakesh Ji and then we will ask Rakesh Ji to give him the note that he has to sustain but I am enjoying this mutual admiration club I will hold it I will hold it I will hold it you don't have to think about it what is Pashto? Lotus feet or Pashto? whatever you choose Pashto won the Grammy this year fantastic now you too you have to do the note now that's why it gets warm up what sir give that to the money hold it hold it I will hold it just on national network it's okay amazing ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for the one and only Shankar Mahadevan Rakesh Swarasiya, Selva Ganesh Ganesh Raju Gopalan do you want to hear more of them? do you want to hear more of them? ladies and gentlemen if I remove this their instruments are ready it's going to be a grand Grammy winners performance right here on the Rising Bharat Summit we just need to give them 25 minutes to set up so this stage is clear and the stage is all theirs and they will be joined by the one and only King of Jazz in Bharat and Gino Banks the phenomenal percussionist Ojasadia and of course the bass guitarist Sheldon De Silva it's going to be a phenomenal line up along with these four in a short while from now are you ready? I love the spirit let's go big round of applause for them thank you so much


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I started to see that this was an opportunity to demonstrate this by this I mean the academic commons but more broadly this this kind of virtuous cycle where you have the money from the university going to a developer who then works closely with the university to build something which is then redistributed to the broader public I started to see this as a model of public engagement that stands alongside and really compliments the larger goal of public engagement of the university you know universities are really big on having their public intellectuals they want them to write books and to give give talks that are open to the public and to have a do media appearances and this sort of thing. We can take that same sort of model of the university kind of opening up the doors of the ivory tower so to speak, and we can apply that to the infrastructure of the university as well in terms of the software that we build so instead of thinking of the software as plumbing that's hidden behind the walls. Instead we think of building software and conceptualizing software in a similar manner to the way that we do public intellectualism so we build it. We share the processes behind behind the building, and then we give it away, and that creates a conversation around the tools that we build, because I mean, we all know that the tools, especially now in 2021 we know that the tools that we build for communication these spaces are they underscore and to some extent they dictate the kinds of conversations we're allowed to have in the public intellectual sphere. So this is not like a false connection here I mean, they are very their intrinsically link we can't talk about. Oh what's it like to have a public discourse without talking about the tools that on with you know that facilitate the public discourse.