I'm Eddie Glaude, I'm a professor of religion in African American Studies and chair of the African American Studies department here at Princeton University and the author of Democracy in Black, How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul. In so many ways, the work of the Iraq war tribunal echoes a sentiment voiced by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his last year of life. When we look at his most important, I think one of his most important texts, where do we go from here? Chaos of community. He laid out three, the kind of three triples, triple evils in some ways, right? That is militarism, capitalism, and racism. And he said that we had to in some significant way address all three, if we're going to in some significant way liberate black people, not only in the United States, but black and brown people around the world, oppressed people around the world. So it's important that we understand the relationship between what's happening on the domestic front and what's happening in the world around us. We can't have domestic programs that will address the impoverished community. We can't have domestic programs that will ensure an adequate social safety net for the most vulnerable among us. We can't have a robust conception of the public good if we have a militarized understanding of our country where we think we can bomb people into oblivion, where we deploy our military to protect private interest, where in some significant way our interest, our imperial interest will undermine the quality of life of other people around the globe. And you combine that with this relentless pursuit of profit, this relentless pursuit of surplus value that leads to the conclusion that some people are disposable as we engage in the relentless pursuit of profit and we deploy our military to support those efforts. So Dr. King, working in 1967, speaking in 1967, working to end the Vietnam War, working to really fundamentally reorganize and transform the way in which we think of our societies today by arguing for a revolution of values, where what we think matters most is fundamentally the quality of life and the dignity of every person called for a link, a connection between understanding of domestic policy and our fight against your U.S. imperial policy. And this leads me to the second point that we need in some significant way the Iraq war tribunal to kind of get us to look outward to kind of turn our attention away from the kind of naval gazing that is really rooted in this belief, this false belief that America is the shining city on the hill, a beacon of freedom. We have to begin to understand the evils that our country actually engages in around the world. And in order for us to do that, we have to see the connection between the tear gas canisters deployed on the activists in Ferguson and the tear gas canisters deployed on those Palestinians in the West Bank. We have to begin to see the connection of our struggle right here at home with the connection with those struggles across the globe. We have to understand that the water protectors in North Dakota are fighting a battle that's similar to those who are fighting for water in the Middle East, who are fighting around environmental questions and issues in Sub-Saharan Africa, right? If we look outward, we can begin to see that we actually outnumber those who are on the side of corporate interests, who are on the side of U.S. military power, who are on the side of greed. And if so, I think the importance of the Iraq war tribunal, to my mind, the importance of the Iraq war tribunal is to get us to see ourselves in solidarity with all the people, the oppressed peoples around the globe. But in order for us to do this in a genuine way, I think there's a third part. We have to confront the ugliness of who we are. We can't live the illusion, as I said earlier, that we're the shining city on the hill, that we are a beacon of freedom, right? An embodiment of light. We have to confront the darkness that is an inherent part of who we are and who we actually, I should put it this way, who we are and confront what we have done. And this will involve, I think, an honest confrontation with war crimes and its honest confrontation with the blood stains that's on our soul and on our hands. So I think we need a commission of truth and accountability around the Iraq war to expose the mendacity, the lies that led to the slaughter, not only of the men and women here in the United States, but so many millions in Iraq. And it's only when we confront the ugliness of who we are to look ourselves squarely in the face where we open up the possibility for a different future, a different pathway. So like Dr. King said in 1967, we have to understand the connection between militarism, capitalism and racism. We have to understand our connection with all the oppressed people around the globe. And we have to honestly confront the ugliness that we ourselves are complicit in. Unless we do all three of those things, we will never, in some significant way, change the course of this nation. But if we dare to do all three of these things, then perhaps we can imagine a brighter future for our children and our children's children.


The message was really that if we do not improve access to connectivity for all we will not be able to extend services, in particular healthcare services that are needed by our communities and that link to that is the prices of internet access for all. If we don't find or drive down the cost of data, the majority of the people will remain excluded in terms of having access to internet services which has become the service provider to go to actually for people to access their basic services. And lastly is the issue of how do we use emerging technologies such as biometrics to make sure that we improve access to technologies but also access to the basic services. For instance, if you use an example of healthcare, if we use artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence for good, how do we improve that access for people in Africa and the majority of the people who are poor who cannot read and write sometimes but with their biometrics their data and their records can be kept with them. So let me start with the challenges. The challenges has been the connectivity. For instance, we've got universal internet penetration but we do not have internet access. The first part is because majority of our population which is poor, they do not have connection to their households and also that internet access and penetration is also determined by prices. South Africa's data prices are very high so those are the challenges that we're faced with but also the issue around digitization of our records. For instance, if you go to our home affairs which is responsible for records. The records are there in paper. So if you want to find out who's great-granddaughter I am I, you'll have to do ten years of digging and that will take forever but instantly we cannot then prove the identity of a person. So that's the work that we're doing but what are the opportunities? So the opportunities is that we are now driving connectivity of South Africa aggressively. As we talk today our communications regulator ICASA have just put service obligations for connectivity for the release of spectrum or licensing of spectrum to the mobile telecommunications operators which will result in the connection of over 18,000 schools, over 5,000 healthcare centers including hospitals and clinics, over 8,000 traditional authority offices. Why is that important is because you're then driving connectivity to the home. As government we are going to connect in the next and this is over the next 36 months. In the next 36 months as government we are going to connect 21,000 government institutions that were not connected which will in 36 months the whole of government will be connected but also connect, provide over 33,000 community Wi-Fi hotspots so that the communities can have access to the internet. But we are also working, I'm shown for those who follow politics of South Africa they've had me saying we are looking at providing free basic data to the households and I mentioned the gigabytes and the telcos were not happy. We want to see if we can provision 10 gigabytes to the households. Why we want to do that is because we want to drive that. But when you do that it's not about just connectivity for itself it means that e-commerce will benefit. It means the SMMEs who are sitting out there can then participate in the economy. It means they can move their goods, they can move their products, they can get a whole lot of people in those products. But it can also mean for our poorer households they can have access to education because currently the Minister of Education and kudos to her during the COVID-19 pandemic she had to manage on a shift basis some sort of attendance of schooling so that she could preserve education. But imagine if we were connected kids would have been able to go to school virtually and not disrupting their lives. But those are the things that are the opportunities that we can develop our countries. We pay a social grant in the country. The president in the state of the nation address just extended the 350 rents that we pay to poorer people to alleviate the impact of COVID-19. But they have to go and queue in a post office to receive that. But if we had the connectivity they would be able to get that money on their phones and then could go and redeem that coupon anywhere they choose to whether they pay for it or withdraw the cash. So those are the opportunities that comes in. And for us the opportunity to catapult South Africa into the digital economy is massive and we are looking at the next 36 months to make sure that South Africa is predominantly running a digital economy. The conversation is important for everyone because the issues around health, access to health, access to services, government services, access to connectivity, the prices of data, they are global in terms of the poor. And resolving the issues of poverty. I've made a statement in my speech. We don't believe that poverty is a permanent state. It's a situation that can be changed with correct and timeless interventions. And those timeless interventions will need global society to invest, multilateral institutions to invest, the global setting standard, standard setting organizations to say what are the applicable standards or frameworks that must be there for all of us to be equal. Because you may not achieve equality but you may achieve equity and that needs all of us to participate together. The eradication of poverty is everybody's problem because a poverty driven or poverty stricken society means an insecure society and that insecurity is not only for South Africa or for Africa. At the end of the day it will bite the western or developed countries later.


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Okay, Bolo Buddies, I have another exclusive offer for my followers. This is going to be over on what not. Hey, Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. Okay, I had my first show on what not for Snapback Hats and I'm starting to do more themed shows, but I've never done Snapback Hats. So it was pretty cool. It went pretty good. I sold 57 hats. Right here is what didn't sell. Now I told you guys that I was going to do special offers over on what not and I haven't done one for a while. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to show you the hats and I'm going to make a big bundle and I'm going to put them over on what not in the buy it now section. I am going to release it tonight on my buy it now. It'll be up in my buy it now on what not at let's go with 9 30 PM Eastern Standard Time. So this lot is going to be available. I'm going to see how many hats are here at the end of this video.  It's going to be a good price and some of the ones that got passed on, I can't believe they got passed on, but there was only probably, I would say around 20 people there watching, lots of views, but 57 items sold. So I'm really excited about that. So if you're not on what not, go down to the description. There's a link. You can get $15 to shop with you with that referral link. So if you've not joined what not, guess what? You can apply that towards this purchase. The other thing I did find out some people were saying that they weren't getting their $15, you have to put your phone number in to get the $15 because they don't want people creating duplicate accounts to get the $15 over and over and over again. I think that's why they need you to verify that you have one account. So make sure you put your phone number in. All right, let's look at the hats that didn't sell. I'm going to make one big bundle and this is going to be available at 9 30 PM Eastern Standard Time tonight on what not. All right. Are you ready? Let's look at the hats. The first item I'm going to show you is and I'm going to give you some tips throughout the video also about some of the things I know about snapback hats, not a lot, but some. And I do have a video on snapback hats. But one thing I do know is K products is an awesome brand. If you see K products, look it up. This is a K product seed hat pioneer seed hat. I had this $5. I was offering this for $5. It's corduroy and it got a pass. Now it's not in the best condition. So I kind of get it. It's missing all of the foam on the inside, but I still think that was a really good deal. Somebody probably could have taken taken the patch off and sold that and a lot of people repurpose the little snaps. Now one thing you want to do when you're selling hats, you want to check the snap snap. Yeah, that snap and make sure that it doesn't break when you bend it. You also want to check the bill. Okay. A lot of times there was one in the video and it literally, I wonder if it's in here. It might be in here. It literally cracked when I checked when I checked the bill. So you want to make sure that this isn't deteriorating on the inside. You also want to disclose if the foam is missing. All right. Those are important things to put in your listing. If you're listing these items on eBay, show any discolorations, any defects, take lots of photos. So there is, look, you could see the foam still coming out. So this is not a perfect hat, but this is still a sellable hat for sure. I'm not going to talk about each one that much. This one right here is a constitution supply company. It is a mesh hat. Another thing to look for when you're looking for snapback hats is the mesh hat. I had somebody specifically come in and ask if I had any trucker hats that had mesh, which I had a bunch of them and they all pretty much sold. I don't know why this one didn't sell. It is USA made. It is vintage. It is.  See the foam is deteriorating. That's okay. It can still sell a Chernox connection on YouTube. I will pop up a screenshot right here. He has a video that tells you how to make a replacement for the inside of your hat to replace that foam. So check out his video on that. I think he also has a tutorial on how to clean and wash hats. So you're going to get all of these hats in one bundle. This one says high school jock and it's a snapback. It does have a stain on the top. I said just put a pin over it. I was joking with rummage raiders because they sell pins over on what not. And I'm like, just go over to rummage raiders and buy one of their fun little pins and just place it on top of that. But it might come out with a wash. I have no idea. This is just Stephen Berry. So it's more of a novelty hat. Most of the items that I sold today were vintage, but there is a mixture. Now here's another one. I've got this one. It's a mess. This one, you're going to want to leave in the plastic because there is foam everywhere. When I say foam everywhere, I mean, it is totally deteriorating, but it is another K products. I'm going to put it back in the bag. Really besides the foam, it's in pretty good condition. So if you go to sell this, I would shake out all of that foam and I would just sell it. The bill is good. So I went like this on every item and you guys can watch the replay of the sale to see what I sold the hats for on what not. Would I have made more money selling these items on eBay? Absolutely. But I don't have time. I don't have time. So I'm bringing them to what not. So if you guys are not following me on what not, definitely give me a follow. All of the hats started at $2 today except for the green hat. The first one I showed you, I did it five. Everything else, $2 starts. This one says car quest auto parts and this is the one that if the foam is deteriorating, but besides that it's K products and in really nice condition. This is a Chevrolet 100,000 mile club. Great looking hat. You're going to get that. This one is a Young's RV center from Ohio foam looks great. A lot of these look like they've never been worn. A lot of the ones that were left were towards the end of the show when less people were still at the show. So there's still a lot of really great hats in here. This one is multi plastics and here it is. This one is made in the Philippines. Again, I don't even know if it's ever been worn. This one is a hot mess.  So it is from 1986 and it's really cool. It's a baseball hat, but condition is bad. I even said, I don't think I would buy this one. Marine towing ink. That's this one. This is another vintage snapback hat made in Sri Lanka. Padding is all there. Dependable transportation. Snapback hat looks great. Made in Bangladesh and it's got that tag on it. Again, it looks really good. These are definitely sellable hats. So I am doing this as, oh, here's the one. Okay. So here's the teachable moment. If you bend it and it is, listen, ready? Now this is gratifying, satisfying. I don't know what the right word is, but oh my goodness. Listen, are you ready? It's like pop and bubble wrap. You hear it? Oh, it's so fun. It's just all deteriorated in there. You can hear it snapping. I'm making a mess. But anyway, I'm gonna put this one in there just because it is a profit made in the USA one size and somebody may need a replacement band for another hat that they have. But it is deteriorating up inside. That's what it looks like. But that's just for a replacement part on that one. I don't know what micro cat is, micro cat. Here it is. This is a hook and loop and it's by Toppers. So this is probably more of a modern hat. You guys, there's so many hats in here. All right, let's try to do this quicker. Here's an old Masonic hat. Condition is okay. You could take the patch off, sell the patch. It is, I don't see any markings on this one. So that one's gonna go in there. This one is a hatchet man sport fishing and I sold a whole bunch of these in different colors. It's white. It's by Odo. It's an Odo cap made in Thailand. It does have a little dirt stain right there. So you're gonna wanna pretreat that probably. But I have checked all the bills on these and all the snaps during the show and you can watch the replay back on my live shows. I think I'm gonna leave this one up so you guys can kind of get an idea of what it's like to sell on whatnot. If you're thinking about selling on whatnot, I do have a referral link down below. After you join and get the $15 to shop, go back and join with my selling link and that's gonna tell what not that I referred you, okay? So definitely do that. Let me know if you have any questions. North Fork Deer Processing. This one is all foam on the inside. The foam looks pretty good. This one says, I don't know, it's got a couple tags on it, made in Taiwan. So you're gonna get that one. You're gonna get Matthew's Ford and this is also made in Bangladesh and it's got the rope on the front. So that would be another keyword that you could use if you list these. And do I know that I'm crazy doing this and that I'm selling these really cheap? Yes. And that's okay because I appreciate all of you watching. Headliner, this is a headliner and it's in pretty good condition. It's an Owens Corning Hat. Now, some of these like Owens Corning, this is a local, I don't even know if they're still in business. This is probably gonna take the right buyer. This may be more long tail. And you guys can look these up. I'm not gonna post the video or post the box until 9.30 on what not. So look for that at 9.30. This says stone products and this one is by Cobra. It still has the original thing inside of it and I don't know if that one's vintage or not. This one says Ohio Auto Auction. So here it is. This one is by Casey, made in the Philippines. Again, I'm not sure if it was ever worn. Great hat. This one is Van Wei or Van Y Sand and Gravel. It's got the rope. Everything looks good on the inside. Again, probably never even worn. Ohio Alapa, Alupa, something like that. So you're gonna get that one and we'll do a count when I'm done here. Now this one is in, I don't even know if I want to include this one. I'm not gonna include that one. That one's pretty much, I don't think I even showed that one. This one, okay. Again, you can see I'm gonna have this one in a bag but it is made in the USA and it's an NRA hat. I'll show you in just a second. So some people collect NRA. So you're just gonna have to go outside, shake it out, clean it up and then just disclose in your eBay listing that it doesn't have the foam. This one here is a Team Dow. It's a yellow hat. It's by Capital, it's vintage. And you guys, I'm gonna show you the best I can right now. I'm trying to do this quick. I don't want to spend a lot of time on it. This one is Norc 16th anniversary. It's got the, who is that guy? I just forgot who he is. Oh, that guy right there. I can't think of who he is. Another Owens Corning hat. This one has this type of strap and there is your tag on the inside. So again, use that link down below, get $15 to shop. It's my referral link. And this will be available on what, not at 9.30. Satisfaction pays, team challenge. This one is made in Bangladesh. And again, does not look like it's been worn. Everything looks good on the inside. Conditions vary from pre-owned to new old stock. I have two of these. They are MPW, new old stock hats. They are vintage, made in the USA by Graffiti. If you want to look them up. This one here is Farmers Town Meats Better Than Ever. And it's got the awesome mesh back. This one is made in China, but it looks vintage. The mesh is good. And let's see. This one is another one that is, the foam is falling out. It is by Made in the USA on the strap. So you may want to use the strap. That's that one. I don't know what it says. It says a new adventure sport craft, sport craft. Now this one I cannot believe did not sell. Now this may be an older hat with a newer patch. It says modern. Why does that look backwards? Does that? So funny. Did I mess something up on my camera? Anyway, it says modern, M-O-D-E-R-N. But this is another K products hat, you guys. And it's good. It's good to go. There's the inside. It is all mesh, all mesh K products made in the USA. Bam. So that one's going to be in there as well. And this one is also has foam. It says Made in the USA. And it says safety quality, productivity. And I thought maybe somebody would want to take the patch off of this one. So that is a kind of crafters one as well. So we've got one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 hats. So let's do, let me make sure there's none on the floor here. Now you are going to have to pay shipping. So I'm going to get these all packaged in a box, 30 hats. Let's do, let's do $40, $40 for 30 hats and you guys just saw them all conditions vary. So watch the video again if you need to 30 hats for $40 buyer pay shipping. This will be on my whatnot at 9 30 PM Eastern Standard Time tonight, look for the listing. It should be at the top and it'll be in the buy it now section and it'll be whoever gets it first gets it. So I think that is a stellar deal for a reseller. So good luck, go down, join my whatnot right now. Get your $15 to shop so that you can buy this bundle. All right. Thank you guys so much for being here. I have a bill to bear whatnot show tomorrow at 10 28 AM. I have a hair accessories like with bling and cool different hair accessories on Friday morning. Friday night is going to be jewelry. So I hope to see you at those shows. I will link those in the description as well for you guys to bookmark. Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for watching and I'll see you at the next one. Thanks for watching.


Good to have you back with us, the Soto Brown and Martin de Spang in our continued search for a built environment, being in compliance with the natural environment and particularly here in our urban coastal mid-century modern jungle paradise of Honolulu, Hawaii. All of that and more, right? All of that and more. That's exactly right. So while our producer Eric walks us through some jungle, you know, I want to share a story from some years ago on the Big Island actually pretty soon after I came here at the chance to drive be driving along with some colleagues in a bus with a great madam of landscape architecture, Cornelia Oberlander. She was pointing out to me the difference between invasive and exotic and invasive we know. Something from somewhere else that takes over and pushes the local stuff away, right? Exotic is also not from the place, not endemic, but it basically complements the place. So she was pointing out to the west side of the island where everything is lava, rock and nothing grows and there was some grass that only that grass grows there and it's not a native grass. So ever since I applied it with any kind of flora and fauna and these other creatures called human beings and what they create as environments, right? That's right. So plants are part of that. We're talking about buildings, but plants are a part of it, particularly for the building group that we're going to be talking about today in today's show. So is there maybe this sort of jungle that we can dwell in in these days? I think there is and let's go to the slide 5 for that. The slide that's going to tell us about that. So that one looks magically mysterious, right? And we see something in the back that we've seen before. That's right. That is the originally the Kahala Hilton Hotel built in the 1960s. And so we're somewhere close to that, but it looks like we're in a jungle, but there's some light on so that's kind of really mysterious. And you can see here, these are labeled and copyright labeled down there. And there's all taken by a gentleman with the name of Andrea Britzi and Andrea is a fellow European. He's from Italy, but has lived here for a while and these Europeans are probably particularly obsessed with living in the jungle because there is no such thing. I mean, he could have done it a little bit more in Italy, but it still gets cold in Italy, right? Even if you go to even if you go down to Sicily or something like that, right? So next slide here is Andrea in his jungle place and that he truly indulges in and enjoys, right? Absolutely. And we've got to visit it. Exactly. And so let's go to the next slide. And we want to basically already say that this building was built soon a few years after the Kahala Hotel in 1967. And it's on Kamehameha School Land. Yes. And they negotiated a lease for 60 years. So if you do the math in 2027 and eight years, that lease expires, right? And everyone is very, very afraid that that's going to be the end of this project here. And we want to move on now within the next couple of slides here. And basically one after the other organization, individuals, entities, people say, why not? Advocating for this group of buildings to be saved. And let's also point out that in this slide that we're looking at right now, there's Andrea in the upper left corner. Next to him is Julius Schulman, who is a very famous mid-century architecture photographer, documented in very important buildings. And Andrea is a fan of his and the picture on the bottom, which shows the Kahala Beach Apartments is by Julius Schulman. Absolutely. And that made, as you can tell, the postcard of the National Locomomo Symposium that we just had. It was actually an international symposium. So once again, Julius Schulman's books are owned all over the world. So there are people who come here, particularly to see that. So I think as an owner, with a more than private obligation, but a public obligation, which Kamehameha School certainly has, is obligated to basically serve this demand of culturally interested people from all over the world. Correct. And I have to say, while Andrea here, because that's basically a picture from his website. But just so we know that he says, well, due to the nature, literally, and figuratively speaking of his place, when he comes home, he does something that you just concluded one of the recent shows with and say, let's go. What do we do? We go swimming. We go, what? No, no, we strip down. We strip down, or we're talking about the nudism. Exactly. Oh, we haven't gotten to that show yet. Well, we will. But you were announcing that and closing a show recently and saying, let's stay naked. Right. So that's what he does. I do the same and basically just throws everything off. And basically, because you can do that, because this jungle provides the privacy that you might want, that you might need. And the place is so easy breezy that it's comfortable that he just like his idol Julius Schulman. And the thing on the left is basically his business card, which is the bill. And he is he is a very sought after high end photographer that shoots all over the world and all of the United States, the TWA terminal that you always wanted to visit and almost did. It was under construction. He was recently there. So that's it there. That that that Andrea chooses this his home as the visual address for his business card speaks again for this project. Right. Appropriately. So let's move on. Who else would endorse this at the top left? We see a place that we have heard about. We have. And the gentleman to the left, as he looked familiar. I don't know. There's there's this guy.  The very left. I wonder if that. Well, there you go. Does that look familiar from this other side? That's right, because that's me. So why would this guy and his institution be interested of keeping that? Well, there are a number of reasons and we're going to be talking about those. But the thing that we're talking about in this particular photograph is there are two large painted murals that are original pieces of art. And the woman on the right is an inhabitant of these apartments. She has this 1967 issue of American Artists Magazine, which has an article about these two paintings, which were commissioned for this site. And they're both in extremely good condition, which is amazing, because they're open to the open air. They were painted in latex and they're still there. And she was coming when we were there, thanks to Andrea visiting that with a bunch of other people that we're going to introduce to you soon. And she was coming with this magazine, actually not knowing who we were and what we wanted, but approaching Andrea as a fellow resident and basically saying, look, I found this magazine and how amazing it's this. So again, there's there's also many residents who there's some who couldn't care less and they have homes all over the world and they're hardly ever there. But there are these hardcore people who basically really live the place and being there and one want this to let's point out who else is in that photograph. There is a gentleman on the left side who is who is the one one next to you. And we can jump to the next slide to do that, because here is actually on the right side, right of you, because the picture was taken from the other end as copyrighted. Andrea did this one here. And this gentleman is a late partner of the firm who was basically designing the hotel. This is Ronald Lindgren and he's a late partner in what was called at that time, Killingsworth, Brady, Lindgren and Stricker at that time. And this was a chance. He was kept so busy and we will have a couple of shows with him. And he was actually working next door. He wasn't part of the original design team of the Kahala, but he then basically remodeled it to be the Mandarin. Yes. And so he never really had the chance to see next door because he was so busy. So that was his chance here. And again, this is a book on the top right that again, we own that in the office back in Germany and in many architectural and cultural interests as people all over the world. This is the case study how serious from mid-century by Intenza. This is America at its best and many people again have that. And that's the travel guide and they travel the world and they want to see these iconic mid-century. So he just can't tear this down because then these people will be pissed. Exactly. Well, we shouldn't lose it. We should not lose it. Absolutely. So let's move on to next another gentleman here that you have known for some while, Ryan. Yeah, but I also want to say too, we're in Andrea's apartment here. We are. And we are enjoying the not only the easy breeziness, but we get to see the interior of the whole complex. And talking, you probably think about the bicycle there.  So this is a Bianchi, so it's from his culture. Yeah, right, right. But it's also very interesting because Ronald told us that he basically when he was doing the construction supervision, they basically generously offered him a hotel room in the, what is now going to be the Hale Puna, which was the Waikiki Park Hotel, which is the one Maoka of the Hale Kalani, which he designed, who will do a show about. And he chose to stay there and then bicycle all the way past your home and up that pretty steep diamond-head foothills to go all the way to Kahala. So these are pretty fit people, right? And who choose that lifestyle of not being the lazy air-conditioned dwellers going to the air-conditioned cars, all air-conditioning, they really intentionally, because none of them are actually from here, they're all Howleys, right? And this gets us to the gentleman in the middle who at the beginning of one show that I called Howleys Hawaii, he said, well, I want to make sure a disclosure that you said that and not me. And who is that gentleman? Well, he's the acting, he's the acting dean? Well, he- He's the acting dean of the architecture school. He is, but that comes next. I first want to say before he became that, he was working with you guys. Oh, historic Hawaii, that's right. And that's Bill Chapman here, who has been involved with Historic Hawaii forever, as others. And again, the two shows within one was about the Candleys restaurant, which isn't anymore around. And then the other one is the Varsity building, which we're very afraid won't be around sometimes soon. We're gonna actually do a Doko Momo walking tour with Doko Momo on the 26th of this month at 2 p.m. Please all come and let's save this building as well, right? Correct, same landowner, same landowner, which is Kamehameha Schools. Absolutely right, yeah. So next slide here, who else? So as you already said, yes, Bill is the current acting dean of my School of Architecture. So he's my boss, as you correctly said. And we're doing this job for inspiring the emerging generation. And so what is this picture here reminding us of? Well, we've got Bruno Mars up at the top, and we've got, do we have Dwayne Johnson in there? We haven't too, yeah. Because we're hoping that those guys who came from here, and they're now rich and powerful, we hope that they will want to participate in some of these preservation activities too. And not only that, also to do the evolution of this tradition. So we have this cargo courtyard cabana project in the magic with them, right? Very good to talk about that. And so the students actually enjoyed this here as a very good precedent for their project and move on to the next slide. And what did they find out, which is really surprising? Well, this amazes me. They found out that the lanai of this unit in the Kahala Apartments is the same dimensions as a shipping container. And we talk about shipping containers being used for housing. So this is a high-end housing development that actually is using part of those same dimensions. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In high-end, we can already go to the next slide and talking about, it's actually only high-end because of its location, right? And the clientele. But as we were pointing out in an appetizer show about this, which we did a while ago, we were saying this was built very efficiently and effectively. And Ronald has basically confirmed that and they said, well, they were not making money on the hotel on this one they were because they're so sort of repetitive and they're so lean and mean design. So you could actually say they have social housing soul and just happened to be because of the location and the inhabitation there are more upscale, but from their concept they're actually not. They're almost social housing from their thinking and making. And that's why we get to Mr. Social Housing Expert, Tropicare Rockwood, and then Bandit Kanistakon, both educators and practitioners. And you had interviewed Bandit about having done the contemporary, currently best building in that tradition in the Moliili neighborhood. That's right, that's right. So all these people basically said, no, this is the best. We need this as an inspiration. We need this to stay around, right? Next slide shows us that it's not in its absolute original condition, some of the units still have the lanai being opened but at some point this aluminum window manufacturer came in and sold it to many people but Andrea was telling us when he had his daughter visiting that she sleeps on the lanai has these all opened because sort of generously there are three tracks. So you can actually open the large majority of that still and she sleeps there and watches the stars and hears the birds and feels like I'm in paradise. I'm in the jungle, right? She is. So next slide here is another gentleman you might have seen before. And so that's him. That's this guy here. And Desping architect then has been also employing the same strategy of what Ronald called structural expressionism quite a bit which we were pointing out in this previous show.   And this project here is a future proposal for our islands here. Next slide. And what is this project? Well, this is going to be, I believe we're talking about this is the shipping container one? No, no, that's Primitivo one. This is Primitivo one, which is the circular, those are those are sections of the circular cylindrical unit. And that's what we see in the plan on the table. And this is the engineer who made all of these things possible and sitting with you. I called him the master of mid-century marvels. This is Dr. Alfred Yee that I had the chance to meet once before he passed away at a pretty old age.  And there was just like magic to meet him.  He's saying, yes, it can be done and this is how you do it. Yeah, but he was actually, this is what made him so special. He was a Da Vinci guy. He said, well, the structure is, don't worry about it, we figure this out. I want to talk about this project because it's a life and it lives. He was pointing out to Queen Emma Gardens in this project here. So he was very much a social engineer as much as a technical structural engineer, right? So next slide here is pretty much him. This is the result of the master that he was able, only he was able to make these bones so skinny, so slender, so elegant. And again, if people say, well, you know, besides where the roof is, what are they good for? Can't we value engineer them? Can't we clip them off? But it's just like my experience with that community grocery store, which is very much along the lines we've been talking before, is like, if you're saving money elsewhere and making them so repetitive and rigid and efficient and effective, then you have some money left over that you can spend. Then we can do one thing for this. Because actually the cubic footage of the extra concrete is really not worth mentioning, right? So with so little more, you create so much as you, before the show, you were like, again, expressing your love, made a lot of declaration towards these, right? Oh yeah, the aesthetics of this entryway, the soaring high quality is something you'd never see again. Yeah, and let's go to the next slide here because we're having the tourist industry because there's a hotel. We were talking, well, maybe they could keep it, but then basically make it luxury suites for the hotel. And then there is our exotic escapism expert, Susan, who basically says, no, don't do that because this project was innovative because it was foreseeing a trend that we now have even more that you don't wanna create hospitality ghettos or resorts, the keyword is mixed use, right? And you mentioned another lady. Yeah, and Kimberly Pine, who I believe she's either a representative or a senator in the state government, and she just recently introduced a bill saying, people who are incoming to the Hawaiian Islands should be signing an agreement saying that they will respect this environment and treat it as though they were residents here. Same type of mentality. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And before we now actually have, we speak on behalf of the architect or Ronald, let's do one more thing here, thank you, which is the environmental check that we always do. Well, the hotel is strategically, as Ron told us, facing south towards the ocean, Makai, and then Malka to the north because at that time, they weren't able to handle it differently even if air conditioning wasn't able to handle anything else. So they had to do that. But the apartments are turned around, which is usually a no-go. We tell the students, don't face west, but here because of the dense pecking and then the landscaping is basically self-shading and it works very well. And you pointed out the trade winds too. And we've got strong trade winds in this particular location. In fact, in the hotel itself, sometimes it's a little too windy, but there's always air movement, almost always going through this and helping keep it comfortable. So we're now, let Ronald talk through us and we have our producer Eric basically walk us through the project one more time, actually from sort of, you know, Makai to Malka. And so we're gonna switch and basically alternately basically say what is the wonderful. We thought we'd just have to share that with you guys. So another angle is considering saving the apartments from destruction before 2027 is that it was very much a partner with the original Kahala Hilton Hotel. Some of that statement is rather obvious. Both themes were designed at roughly the same time by an extremely talented architect who was at the very height of his creative powers. And the architects love this man who wrote this for the original Kahala Hotel is tied up with how avowed modernity was enriched with elements of classical planning, especially touches of axiality and symmetry. The warmth of the traditional was used as a pleasing contrast with the modern setting. Wood louver panels, art glass chandeliers and light fixtures, a beautifully curving stairway whose wooden handrail is a masterpiece of the carpentry arts and soft, pleasing paint colors over all the exposed concrete. Both structure and walls add to this the respectful touches of tropical Hawaiiano. Black lava stone wall, festooned with colorful orchids as it wrapped around the curving stairway, lush plantings everywhere. And as I've just recently, this display of a museum piece, example of ancient Hawaiian bird feather crowning headdress and cape in the very epicenter of the entry lobby pavilion. But as Ronald says, the apartments that we're talking about here are even more starting a classical and plan layout. The buildings over their 5.5 acres are completely symmetrical. The major classical axis runs through the very centerline of the outdoor reception lobby through a jungle garden, there we go, across a long midline of a classically oval swimming pool that we have seen out over the beach and far away into the ocean. Cross axis through all four apartment buildings shorten the corridor experience and brings welcome, natural, side lighting to the experience of traversing the long though relatively wide corridors. There is no more traditional experience so well incorporated into a modern building in all of Hawaii as the two enormous new baroque murals that face each other over a soaring entry space that is hung with a bravura art chandelier. When the arrival of Kamehameha and the bird of Hawaii were first unveiled to the Oahu public, the local art world was truly incensed at what they considered a retrograde and black siding artistic endeavor completely out of place with its time. So that's to be argued. Yes, to be argued. The truly breathtaking and absolutely free gift that was lavished by Ed Killingsworth on both adjacent properties together is the soaring vertical proportions of applied columns and cantilevered beam ends and we've been seeing that very clearly. They are simply perfectly proportioned in my mind, in the mind of the architect. One looks at these and one is invariably and helplessly pleased with the active looking. Even more so, those exposed structural elements brought another lavishly and totally free gift to both the hotels and the apartments, simple flat facades, the enlivening humanizing and just plain mesmerizing play of constantly moving shadows throughout a sunny day and a full moon evening. Now comes a touchy part for me as an educator. Why haven't architects more amply provided such free gifts as deeply human proportions and the play of light in their architecture? There is a simple answer. The skill for creating pleasing proportions isn't been developed in architectural education, oh-oh, or in architectural practice, ooh-ooh. When one talks of deeply satisfying human proportions in buildings, one is skating too close to the concept of beauty. Architects are uncomfortable with this concept, possibly because they can't recognize it as the driving need that is most certainly is within a fulfilling life. It said that beauty was the promise of happiness. Can they no longer make people genuinely happy with their architectural settings? The miracle of Albert Choi's landscaping is especially evident at the apartments. After all, these are, quote, four shoeboxes setting out to sea, unquote, as Ed ironically described this major residential creation, all faced each other closely across dimensions as small as 30 feet. How could any reasonable degree of privacy be achieved from unit to cross unit? The answer is both simple and extremely difficult at the same time. It simply required a lush tropical landscape design from Albert Choi, who I pointed out to you, my parents knew, and who did landscape work for them, who was both a master landscape designer and the most knowledgeable plantsman in the island. It brought the difficulty of the need for constant and expensive maintenance, meaning trimming, cleaning, replanting, feeding, watering, et cetera, to create a consistently private and beautiful, there's that uncomfortable concept again, tropical paradise for the apartment's lucky denizens. Now for a discussion of a less obvious partnership, a symbiosis between the apartments and the hotel, especially in their early years of such close adjacency. The owners of the 196 apartment units had spacious residences. That is true. However, they used the hotel as their semi-private living room, source of lively entertainment, dining room, and guest facilities for visiting family and friends. And that is what exotic escapism experts and us is today even more necessary in the future. Today and in the future. They were apartment residents who rarely ever cooked, choosing to simply stroll to their gracious and delicious hotel dining experiences. Indeed, in the early partnership years, the hotel kitchens provided room service to the apartment. Once the hotel had become successfully busy with their own fully occupancy guests, this practice was gradually curtailed or could be reactivated. To Ron's mind, the original hotel and the apartments are the unblemished left facial cheek and the right facial cheek of a single beautiful woman. He did like to talk about that. He does. Please forgive the bold and histrionic romantic sentiments. But a successful intoxicating romanticism is what was created here in these closely related architectural achievements. As perhaps never before, modernism, traditionalism, classicism, and a warm touch of authentic Kauaiana were superbly combined to create the unique and piercingly beautiful romanticism of tropical living that was shared by both short-term hotel guests and long-term apartment residents. This was done so well that it deserves to be maintained for many future generations. Perhaps it has never been done better anywhere in the world's tropic and subtropic regions. It certainly deserves an unmitigated love directed toward preserving it, not just a stale and impartial consideration of the merits of what surely exists today as a human community of the highest order. And let's also just point out that Ron is very experienced in building in many tropical environments because he had done a great deal of that. He told us that. He gave me a list of 222 projects all over the world. So that is very experienced. And that's for him to say that with his experience. Absolutely. So thank you, Ron, for that. No one could have cut this more perfectly. Exactly. We phased out here with quoting you, DeSoto, and of the architect of your youth, because we were saying, well, the landowner can say, well, who says that? Obviously, are we. But is there an example where that has basically been able to work out? And so what is that project? And the example is the IBM building, which is also designed by Vladimir Ossipov, a very important local architect. And the Howard Hughes Corporation was made to understand that that was a building worth keeping. And they fortunately did take the step to do it. That's their corporate headquarters now for their local operations. And it's been saved in the midst of an area of tremendous redevelopment. So as you said, we understand that we can't keep everything. But there are certain buildings that we must focus on, and we must keep. And this building is a zeitgeist zibling, because it was built in 62. And the hotel's one and a half, two years later. So it's definitely, again, please come here at school. The message is clear as the name of the show. Kahalas, Killingsworth, Condominiums, Keeper. So please, please, please. And with that, we're at the end of the show. Hopefully, we hope to see you again soon for one of our next shows addressing the same issues. And until then, please stay troppy, hearingly, treatextually tropical. Bye-bye.


Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2018 here in Durban, South Africa, where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Fatima Hursi-Mahamed, who is principal secretary for the State Department for Broadcasting and Telecommunications for the Ministry of Information and Communications and Technology for Kenya. Principal secretary, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Now, I'd like to start off by asking you about smart digital development. It's the key catchphrase here at ITU Telecom World this year. What is smart digital development mean to Kenya? Well, smart digital telecommunications or communications and development for Kenya is basically in all aspects of life in Kenya. Kenya, the mainstay of Kenya is agriculture. So we have smart technology in agriculture, helping the farmers, health. The government has Jubilee government, which is the government now in place, has four key areas. We call it the big four agenda. And basically that is in agriculture, in health care, affordable health care, affordable housing and poverty eradication. So with in all these four areas, smart technology, smart development is going to be used to help the country achieve its goals of the big four agenda. And what single digital innovation, innovative technology, product strategy or policy do you think it would be the most transformative? Well, in Kenya, we've had quite a few digital technologies. For instance, the M-Pesa, which is mobile money transfers. And that has really changed the whole country. We are a population of about 45 million. And I think 44 million Kenyans are connected via mobile. And a lot of the people in the rural areas are able to transact money. They're able to make savings. They have products such as M-Shwari, where you can save money and then use it to take a loan from the mobile telephone company. We use it for paying our utilities. You can pay your water. You can pay your cable TV connections. You can pay for a lot of things. So it's in connection with banks, which quite a few banks are on board. People are able to make payments. People are able to transfer money. People are able to save. So M-Pesa for us, it has been a big, big, big digital transformation for the country. Absolutely. It's all over. Helping people everywhere. So in terms of key priorities, what are the key priorities for Kenya's government in developing the digital economy? Well, the key priorities for Kenya are things like, as I said, the big four agenda. The government, the telecom industry is liberalized. And Kenya's primary, you know, we have the digital literacy program, where children in primary schools have been given tablets. And their teachers are given a laptop.  This has helped the, you know, school attendance has increased. The children are very, you know, being prepared for the 21st century. And everybody, the family, everybody is excited about learning new things online. And the government, and it's the various, you know, education, like the Kenya, you know, it's school for the curriculum development department has developed curricula for the schools in math, in English, in science, and Kiswahili, which is the national language. So the children are able to learn and the parents are learning from the children and the teachers are also more excited to teach in class because everything is exciting, you know, Internet and ICT is exciting. Yeah. Now you haven't come alone to this exhibition, to this forum and to the conference. You brought a number of SMEs with you. I wanted to ask you what can be done, do you think, to further stimulate digital entrepreneurship and which sectors are currently having the greatest impact and also just about bringing these SMEs with you? What do you think they're going to get, benefit they're going to get from being here? I think the first, obviously, benefit is exposure, being able to talk about their, you know, their innovations to more than just Kenyans. This is a global stage. And I think other countries can learn from Kenya and we can learn from others. So for them, the SMEs, it's the exposure they're getting, the networking opportunities they're getting, being able to go to other stands and see what other people are doing. And with that knowledge, they can go back to Kenya and probably even get more, you know, share with their colleagues and also be able to come up with even more innovative products and services for the people. So I think it's important for us to give that exposure to them. And for us, obviously, we also come to ITU, telecom, to network, to learn, to share. So I think it's a good thing to do. Stimulating entrepreneurship in Kenya itself? For instance, in Kenya, we have an internship program and we're trying to connect the young people straight out of university to give them opportunities in companies. So we have a presidential internship program where young people in IT and are being connected to the workplace and they're able to learn on the job. We also have a program called Ajira Program, which has just started and what they're doing is that they're getting the graduates now or even while they're still in university to get online jobs. So we're already preparing them for the workplace by giving them and they're already earning money from online jobs. And so the government is already making contacts with global companies, with local companies, to give jobs, back-end jobs, IT jobs to these young people and they are making money. So we're already preparing them for the work in the future and to be entrepreneurs themselves. Yeah. And finally, you're here at ITU Telecom World. What's the value of attending events such as this? You touched upon it briefly, but just what's the value of being here I think the main thing is to learn, is to network, is to be able to meet other countries and other people from different parts of the world, learn about what they're doing, sharing what you're doing back home and improving, constantly improving, because you see people who are better than you. You probably see people who are not as advanced as you, but you're able to help those ones that are not as advanced because they are learning from us as well and we're learning from others. So I think it's a good opportunity to network, to meet, to know each other. That human contact is important. Fatima Hirsi, Mohamed, thank you very much indeed for being with us. Thank you so much for having me and have a wonderful rest of the time. Thank you.


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