Hello and welcome to Dane Fern and inside the Stone River Estate. An estate that's just a stone throw away from Dane Fern Shot Pincente as well as the schools of Stain City and Dane Fern College. And a short drive away from Sanson City itself. This is an area that is both tranquil as well as up and coming with home prices that are about to skyrocket in the near future. My name is Chad Rivera. This is the private property home shopper show. And I'd like you to come with me as we explore this 3.5 million four bedroom two and a half bathroom townhouse within Stone River Estate. Come along. Oh, inside this beautiful four bedroom home going at a steel of 3.5 million rent. The first thing you come into is this welcome area slash sitting room area, beautiful chandelier above me. And something that you'll note is these large tiles as well as fairly high ceilings make this room feel far more spacious than another home of this caliber. Another thing that draws your eyes is this double stack staircase leading upstairs to where all your bedrooms are located. Beautifully finished off with some wood as well as wood tops on the balustrade giving this home quite a rustic yet still modern feel. Now behind me is the door to the double garage and then just here is your guest toilet again framed with the beautiful wood finishing solid wood door leading off to your guest bathroom. Now your guest bathroom's got a single vanity mirror above it as well as some under vanity storage as well as your single toilet sitting off just below a beautifully frosted window. Now if we move a little bit further into the home even more beauties are revealed like this perfectly situated dining area just large enough to easily accommodate an 8 seater dining room table. And right here we've got the solid wood one going along with the rest of the finishes in this house. Nice window here letting in a lot of natural light and off to my left you've got your lounge area. But before we get to the lounge area and start talking about what you get outside let's take a look at this kitchen heading into it. First thing you'll notice is this right here stunning countertop. I do believe it's Caesar stone and left here. Some of you rock experts in the comments telling me whether or not I'm right on my right. We've got a pantry area and then a scullery area just over there that we're going to get to. But let's talk about this kitchen easily accommodates a double door fridge. You've got your staple on homes of this caliber your single chef's sink right here within easy reach when you're prepping for food. So much under counter storage, beautiful extractor as well as oven and then electric cooktop all done by DeFi. Your ultra high storage cabinet here for any other dry goods. And now taking the walk back to the lounge area some things I'd like to note about this house and one of the coolest features and I think a feature so many people are looking for.  It is completely self sufficient and that means you are off the grid should need be. But here we are in the lounge area. You've got plenty of space for your TV as well as whatever wall unit you want. You've got this all shape couch that fits in here very easily. And then we've got these double opening doors again continuing the rustic feel. I love how it is framed with this wood leading out onto your porch area. Continues the theme of this home in utilizing its space while again easily fits in a 60 to dining room table. You could even put out some furniture here for you to lounge and relax and enjoy the fact that in this part of Daneford it is still so quiet and so tranquil. Now above us we've got wooden slats continuing that rustic theme as I'd mentioned. I really love the look of it is not something you see too often. And just in front of me you'll find your briar area there. It is a natural briar. You'll be using your coals. You'll be getting that nice flavor in as well as more Caesar sewn countertops for you to prep all of your briars making sure when you're entertaining you're doing it well. But what is entertainment specifically in the summer? Guys we're moving into spring. You can feel the heat. You can feel the passion in the people in South Africa now that we've all warmed up and thought out. And right here you've got a perfect plunge pool. It's even a pool large enough to do a good couple of laps. But what makes this pool so incredible is that it is again solar heated. So even in the winter if you're feeling brave you can sit and relax and thaw off in your heated pool. Now this garden's also got some green area here. So if you're looking to store pets, if you've got a loved dog or beloved cat easily you can have them here. They've got some place to scamper about and do their business. And there's a door there for the garden service to come in so that they can keep your garden nice and tidy. But there's so much more and the rest awaits us upstairs. So let's take a walk up that staircase and see what the bedrooms look like. Now finding yourself on the stairs, the balustrades have got these beautiful wood toppings. We've got a light there providing you all the luminescence you might need when walking up these stairs as well as a frosted glass window reaching almost from floor to the ceiling providing some natural light into this whole welcome area and all the way up the stairs. Now as I mentioned the stairs has got all four bedrooms as well as two bathrooms. So let's take a look at the first one just yet to the left of the stairs. Now this is the first bedroom you'll find coming up the stairs. We've got a beautiful little staff here running around here for she doesn't come with a house but I do like him scampering about. Now this bedroom being the smallest makes a perfect office space but could easily suffice as a bedroom. We've got a window right over here letting in plenty of light as well as a fan above us and down lighting built into the ceiling. This for sure I'd create as an office space or maybe a reading room or library but there are other three bedrooms serving as primary bedrooms and let's show you those. Now coming out of that office space we cross around the staircase and we find ourselves just in front of the other two bedrooms here and on my right hand side is one of the bathrooms. But let's take a look at this bedroom. We'll then look at the bathroom and then we're going to take a look at the master suite. The creme de la creme we've got to leave it for last but here it is one of the other bedrooms again easily fits in a double bed. You can see these two singles side by side really doesn't make the space feel cramped. On my left hand side you've got all your built-in cupboards with what I do like specifically in the house. This price are the built-in drawers all of them with chrome handles and then the beautiful lighting so much fresh air and this bedroom itself comes with its very own balcony. The balcony is located just above the garage and wraps all the way around the house so you've got plenty of space to put out a little bit of furniture and maybe one of those hanging chairs. Sit down, read and enjoy the view that Danefern provides. But that wraps up this bedroom. Let's take a look at that bathroom and then we left to the last two bedrooms. The bathroom found upstairs services the two bedrooms closest to it. You'll find yourself a built-in bathtub, walk-in shower as well as toilet located in the corner. Just above the bathtub you've got a frosted window and then a single vanity with a hanging mirror and some undercounter storage for you to utilize as you see fit. Now your third bedroom out of the four found upstairs has plenty of space for a bed. You've got your built-in cupboards as you've seen previously with those really handy drawers also built in and the killer feature on this bedroom is it shares a balcony with your master suite which we're going to show you right now as we head off to the master suite.  You'll be living lavish for such a reasonable price. 3.5 million I would never have expected to get something you see here. Just above me another one of those fans so much space we've got a king bed here that fits so easily. We've got a full-on wall unit here where you see the TVs above and again it shows you the size of this room specifically with how high the ceilings are. You've just come from the balcony and what a balcony it is with such an incredible view double doors opening out into it but again all the homes we do have got a walk-in closet and you're going to see it here once more but for 3.5 million here it is cupboard space all around and plenty of it. This cupboard space also locks which for those of you with kids I'm sure you will definitely appreciate. We've got a little cupboard right over here and then your own en suite bathroom. So let's take a look at that and then let's head outside again onto that balcony and wrap this up. So follow me and here we are within the master en suite bathroom. We've got a double vanity again under counter storage for you to utilize as you'd like. Two separate mirrors plenty of down lighting coming from the ceiling and this massive built-in bathtub making it look so special.  But that concludes everything that this four-bedroom, two and a half bathroom, incredible Tarnas in Stone River State has to offer. So let's head onto that balcony. Let's tell you how you can find yourself living right here and then let's say goodbye. And here we are outside on the balcony appreciating a view that only Danefern has to offer but you've seen this home. You've seen how incredible it is. You've seen the really cool features it has to offer. So if you want to call this home yours if you can see yourself living here and trust me I think a lot of you can. I really love it. Looking down onto this garden area it is such a nice tranquil experience. So I don't hesitate then to contact our resident estate agent Ash. He works for none other than England Focus Broad Acres as specialists when it comes to Danefern and he will take you through all the necessary steps that it takes to call this home yours. So from myself Chad Rivera from the team at Private Property and everybody at the Home Shopper Show thank you so much for joining us once again and we can't wait for you to come on the journey when we air our next episode. So thank you so much. We love you. Goodbye.


So this is a very exciting project that's implementing what's referred to as low impact development techniques, which is where the LID comes from in the project name. So we're constructing bioretention cells where you essentially take your curb line along the roadway and you bump it out sort of into what's currently pavement. So we remove some of that impervious paved area and instead we direct the stormwater runoff into these bioretention areas. So they're sort of intentionally planted with vegetation that will filter the stormwater runoff and remove pollutants before it enters our storm drainage system. The city was very interested in pursuing this project as one of our water quality improvement projects. We were particularly focused in this area because the road ownership in the neighborhood is primarily city-owned streets and so that gives us sort of the ability to provide these enhancements on city maintained right-of-way. And then additionally the city leadership was very interested in this location because it gave us a very unique opportunity to partner with Benedict College. The location of this project is just adjacent to the college and we were able to partner with their engineering curriculum in order to conduct field trips and have the students engage in sort of a mock extension of the project and learn some of the design practices. So that partnership has been really great both for the city and hopefully for those students as well. This project has a number of positive benefits by sort of filtering that stormwater runoff and removing pollutants. Any little bit of that capture helps improve the stream further downstream. So that's feeding into Smith Branch which feeds into the Broad River which actually ends up in our water treatment plant. But then additionally this project removes some of that impervious surface so by removing any small portion of roadway that we can remove causes a little bit less of that sort of flashy response to storm events. So in that sense this project while it's not the primary goal of the project it does provide a modest improvement in your peak flows during storm events. And then by bringing out the curb into the roadway slightly there's a natural traffic calming effect and so the tendency of cars to potentially speed down some of these residential streets that's mitigated a little bit by providing this project.


Three, two, one, clean green electricity. Well, we're celebrating the wrap-up of BC Park's 100th anniversary here at Golden Ears Park in the beautiful rain, which is, of course, part of the BC tradition. And we lit up a Christmas tree with clean green electricity after investing $1 million in an underground cable to connect the park into the grid. That replaces four dirty diesel generators that used to be used, and, of course, saves us a lot of money, $40,000 a year in fuel costs. And, of course, the air is much cleaner without those carbon pollution going up into the atmosphere. So kids from the environmental school we're here today helping us celebrate singing some Christmas carols, Jerry the Moose is here, and we're enjoying some Park's 100th birthday cake along with some much-needed hot chocolate. We're celebrating the Cadavacianino's leg-leg ball. It's perceived that as the head of this organization that celebrates Vancouver and all of its awesomeness, that I've got my finger on the pulse of everything new and exciting happening within city limits. And while that's true, whenever I'm asked about what my favorite thing is about Vancouver, it's always the proximity to nature and how easy it is for all of us to get out here on a day like this or any day in it to enjoy this park and these protected pieces of lands and facilities on them that are part of what makes not only Vancouver and the Lower Mainland awesome, but all of our province. We're not the red nose reindeer, reindeer, you'll look at a history like Elvis.


We spent a lot of time together going back to when I was Vice President and you had just become Prime Minister. And since I've become President, we've continued our relationship built on mutual trust, candor, and respect. Challenges and opportunities facing the world in this century require that India and the United States work and lead together. And we are. With your partnership, we've invigorated and elevated the quad between the United States, India, Australia, and Japan. To advance our vision of a free, open, secure, and prosperous Indo-Pacific. Decades from now, decades from now, people will look back and say quad bent the arc of history toward global good, as the Prime Minister describes it.


This is Beyond the Lines. I'm Rusty Kamori. We are live from the Think Tech Hawaii TV studio in the Pioneer Plaza in downtown Honolulu. This show is based on my book also titled Beyond the Lines, which is about having a constant striving for excellence, creating a superior culture of leadership, and finding greatness. My guest today is Chris Lee, the former president of Columbia TriStar Pictures. He oversaw the production of hugely popular films such as Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise, My Best Friend's Wedding with Julia Roberts, Philadelphia with Tom Hanks, and As Good as It Gets with Jack Nicholson. Chris was also the executive producer for Superman Returns, Valkyrie, and SWAT. Today, we are going beyond blockbuster movies. Chris, it's great to have you joining me on the set today for Beyond the Lines. Good morning, Rusty. You accomplished extraordinary things in your career. It's an amazing career that you have, but I want to start from the beginning. You attended Eolani School. Yes. Tell me about your experiences at Eolani School. It was still a boy's school, but it also gave me a chance to do my first work in media because I was with the AV department, and we would record all the football games. And so whatever technology we had in the school, I had a chance to play with there. Great. And then you ended up going to Yale for college. What did you study at Yale? I was a political science major. Why did you choose political science? I had every intention of becoming an attorney. I had been an admirer of public defenders in particular, and that's sort of the field that I was interested in pursuing. That's interesting because it was the same with me. I actually went to Creighton University to study law, but my career took a different turn. How did your career begin after graduating Yale? So when I was at Yale and I graduated, I really wanted to go into entertainment business, and I also wanted to stay in New York. I had visited a lot because New Haven is very close to there. But there's actually not a lot in New York in the entertainment field. A lot of the management is, but it's really a Los Angeles business. So you had the morning shows, you had the soap operas, you had the newscasts and things like that, and actually I sort of focused on getting a job at Good Morning America. Wow. I really literally just learned everything I could about that show and the history of the show. When eventually I was able to get an interview there, I could be somewhat fluent in, like it seemed to have some idea what I was talking about. That's amazing. And then you connected with the director, Wayne Wang, for the film Dim Sum? Yes. Actually, so I was at GMA for a couple of years, and eventually I was a segment producer doing a lot of entertainment stuff, and what I noticed about having to fill two hours of programming every day is that you kept doing the same stories over and over again. I think after the third time that I had done the anniversary of Elvis' death, I thought, maybe I should do something else with my life. And Wayne had finished his first, his first film had been a success, Chan Is Missing, and then he offered me a job as an assistant director on his second film, which was going to shoot in San Francisco.  I know what they do on television, but it's a very different job. And he said, well, I've never had one, so if you come out and you're willing to not be paid any money and work with me, we'll find out together what they do. So, you know, I think that's an important lesson in that, especially in this business, because it's still a business of apprenticeship, of being a journeyman, of basically taking advantage of whenever opportunity comes your way, even if it seems like a bit of a left turn. And so, you know, I left a paying job with a network where I guess I could have risen through the ranks there, but I wanted to pursue something different because I was really interested in film. And so this was kind of like my film school. So how did you get your start at TriStar Pictures? You know, I did a lot of interviews that summer. I think I finally got a job in August. I was really about to come back to Hawaii because I had no money and I was very literally destitute. But, you know, you have to just sort of network yourself.  People know people and, you know, people generally want to help other people. So, you know, eventually I was able to get an interview, which led to another interview, which I think I had six or seven interviews before they finally hired me. So what was your first job at TriStar? What did you actually do? So TriStar is a similar situation where, you know, I had worked on the film. I had been the assistant director. I actually ended up being the apprentice editor. And this is back in the time when it was actually 35 millimeter film. So, you know, I learned about production. I learned about post-production. And I came to the conclusion that I wasn't going to be an A.D. and I wasn't going to be an editor. So there's a part of the process called development, which is where you identify material and then you develop the script and you try to get it made. It's basically producing, right? And there are very few entry-level jobs in the business in Hollywood if you're not from the right family. And one of them is to be a script analyst. Now, most of the studios, it's a union job, so it's very hard to get. TriStar was a very young studio at the time. And they had freelance script readers. And again, somebody knew somebody. I got an interview. They sent me down for another interview. They gave me a test to see if I knew what I was doing. I didn't know, again, I'd never done it before. But I got hired to be a freelance script analyst. And that was, you know, $25 a script, $50 if it was a rush overnight or something like that. You got more if you had to read like a book of 500 pages overnight, things like that. But that was my first gig. And then sometimes it's just luck. And what happened was, after a short period of time, my boss got promoted. And for whatever reasons, other people didn't want the job or get the job, but they offered me the job at my boss's job, which suddenly made me the assistant story editor at TriStar Pictures. And from then, I was actually in an office. I was in the building. I was able to then work my way up to eventually president of production for the studio and then for the two studios. But I will say that along the way, again, there was a woman named Bonnie Lee, who's from Hawaii. She's Edgy Lee's sister. And she was this really big executive at Warner Brothers. She discovered Tim Burton. She was huge executive. And she took me out to dinner one night and she gave me a list of 11 people. And she said, use my name and go meet these 11 people. And 10 of those 11 people actually saw me. And so that started my sort of networking process of getting to know people in Hollywood and introducing myself around town.  It's absolutely fascinating to me how you started as a script analyst for TriStar and then you became president of production for Columbia TriStar Pictures. That's amazing. Well, it's a process. I mean, I was assistant storyteller, then I was director of creative affairs, and I was a vice president, then I was a senior vice president, then I was executive vice president, and then I was president of production. So it's a process. One of the biggest movies you oversaw at the time was Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise. Was Tom Cruise always the first choice for that lead role? Actually, no. The history of the project was Cameron Crow, who had done Say Anything, and I was a huge fan of his work. And he had done a movie called Singles and stuff. And he basically had a deal with another producer at the studio named Jim Brooks. Jim Brooks is very famous for winning the Academy Award for Terms of Endearment, to doing The Simpsons, to doing Taxi. He's a complete genius. Anyway, so Cameron was kind of under his wing, and it was a project. I didn't know anything about it. It was just about a sports agent. I never saw a script. I never saw a script for three years. Really? It's a little unusual that you don't know that much about it, but when you're with Jim Brooks and Cameron Crow, you go with it. So during that time, I think Cameron did a lot of drafts and worked very closely with Jim on it until eventually he was delivered to us. And as I understood, it was originally written for Tom Hanks. But Tom eventually got busy on his own. I think this is when he directed his own picture, that thing you do. It was like a band or something like that. And then we came this process of everybody wanted Tom Cruise. And I think at the time, Tom was married to Nicole at that time, and they had this deal where one made a movie and one took care of the kids. He was off in early. Anyway, so we were very fortunate. He said yes. And then it was putting everybody together. And it just became a huge hit. And then after all of that, you also became the executive producer for hit films, such as Superman Return, SWAT, and some Valkyrie with Tom Cruise. How was it working with Tom Cruise? I love Tom. He is literally the hardest working man in show business. And you'll see it next week. And I think the new Mission Impossible comes out. And he's still throwing himself off of buildings and falling out of air. I mean, I heard something crazy. There's a parachute stunt that he did like 100 takes of it or something like that. It was very funny when we were making Valkyrie because he wasn't just the star of the movie. He was running the studio. That's when he was running United Artists with his partner at the time, Paulo Wagner.  But Tom would fly his own airplanes all the time and everything. And I think he was just doing it to get a rise out of me. That's great to hear. But he's great. He's wonderful. I love hearing that. Now, you've walked the red carpet countless of times. And you've worked with the most famous actors in the world. How are these experiences for you? Well, of course, they're fun. It's an odd thing because a lot of it is work, especially if you're there with somebody. I worked on a movie called Legends of the Fall once. And we had a royal premiere in London with Prince Charles. And I basically was given the assignment to take care of Brad Pitt for the night. So he's a little bit shy in some of these things. He knows what he's supposed to do and stuff like that. But I remember I had to go get him out of the stairwell and stuff like that. And I just remember we had to sit in the balcony with him and Prince Charles. And then every time he'd come on screen, the audience would start screaming, which was to the great dismay of the director, Ed Zwick, who's amazing. But yeah, I mean, the red carpet is, if you're in the business, it's a work opportunity. But of course, it's fun. And I think I haven't gone for a while. But I want to have a film that goes back. I'd be happy to go back. Now, I want to ask you this, Chris. You've worked with so many famous actors. Which actor would you like to work with that you haven't had the opportunity to work with yet? There's a huge generation of actors that I haven't worked with. I mean, it's very kind of you to list the movies that I had a chance to work on and stuff like that. A lot of those people are not working as often as they used to. And the business has changed so dramatically. It's not a movie star business anymore. It's you basically, you see Will Smith doing his deals on Netflix these days and stuff. So the whole star industry thing has gone away. And now it's essentially Hollywood is bifurcated between superhero films, which often star really great actors in unexpected parts. But they drive those movies because their performances are so good. But you may have thought of them. Who thought of Robert Downey Jr. to play Iron Man? He didn't have a career when they cast him in Iron Man and stuff like that. So it's like, I can't think of any names on the top of my head. But I think all actors are hopefully right for the part. And they're really, really great to work with. In your opinion, is it more important who you know or what you know in that industry? Well, like I said, it's this combination. Everybody comes to Hollywood with some level of talent. And everybody comes to Hollywood with some level of ambition. But the ones who I think survive and succeed are the ones who have tenacity. Because it is a business of rejection.  And I admire all actors for putting up what they have to put up because every day is going out and audition and not getting the part until finally. And when you're a star, you're not really an actor.  It's a really different lifestyle. But I think, yeah, it's very much about being willing to get knocked down and pick yourself back up and then move forward to the next day. Resiliency is key. Very important. I love watching music videos. Have you produced any music videos in the past? Yeah, actually, I was partnered with Joseph Conn for a while. We had our own company. And we did everybody from Backstreet Boys to Janet Jackson to Elton John. Joseph is probably most famous because he does almost all of Taylor Swift's videos now. But he has done thousands of music videos. I mean, he's one of the top couple music video directors in the business. And he's extremely talented. That's great to hear. Chris, we're going to take a quick break. And then when we return, I want to focus about you founding the Academy of Creative Media for the University of Hawaii. Sure. You are watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii with my guest, Chris Lee. We will be back in one minute. I'm Pete McGinnis-Mark. And every Monday at 1 o'clock, I'm the host of Think Tech Hawaii's research in Monart. And at that program, we bring to you a whole range of new scientific results from the university, ranging from everything from exploring the solar system to looking at the Earth from space, going underwater, talking about earthquakes and volcanoes, and other things which have a direct relevance not only to Hawaii, but also to our economy. So please try and join me at 1 o'clock on a Monday afternoon to Think Tech Hawaii's research in Monart. And see you then. And Aloha. My name is Calvin Griffin, the host of Hawaii in Uniform. And every Friday at 11 o'clock here on Think Tech Hawaii, we bring in the latest in what's happening within the military community. And we also invite all of your response to things that's happening here. For those of you who haven't seen the program before, again, we invite your participation. We're here to give information, not disinformation. And we always enjoy response from the public. But join us here, Hawaii in Uniform, Fridays, 11 AM, here on Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha. Welcome back to Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. If you're just joining us, my guest today is Chris Lee, the former president of Columbia TriStar Pictures. Chris, you founded the Academy of Creative Media for the University of Hawaii. When and why did you start that? It actually was approached a few times by the university to start a film school for the university. Awesome. And it wasn't something that I thought I could do remotely. And so when I eventually decided to relocate and base out of Hawaii, which was around 2001, 2002, that's when I took a much closer look at what they were suggesting. But what I asked them to do was to allow me to look around and explore things. So I actually went to every campus in the system. I talked with people in the business community here on Bishop Street. I talked to the legislature. I talked to the film industry folks and stuff like that. To see about, do we really need this? Do we want this? And if we did, what should it look like? And what I proposed was something that I guess is a bit unique and that it was actually system-wide. Because what I found on all the campuses has already been a lot of investment in this area, in different areas. KCC had a really good New Media Arts program. Leeward had television production studios and stuff like that. HCC was getting into building the home LA program, which was music, audio, recording. And so I knew that they weren't going to give me any money to do this. And while I know that Manoa wanted a traditional film program, I thought if you could get the programs to work together, the whole would be stronger than the parts. That's so great to hear. And we're actually going to show a video of the new building that's going to be built groundbreaking this January. So let's have our viewers take a look at this video right now. So this is going to Brown Creek in January 2019. It will be accommodating 500 majors. It's at the West O'ahu campus. It'll be the building that's closest to the train station, actually, which is going to open around the same time in the fall of 2020, which is when this is going to be occupied. It has a traditional, a great, like a 3,000 square foot soundstage. It has emerging media for VR and AR. It has a complete post-production suite. It has a separate screening room for 100, but it also has a little bit of an Avid S6 mixing panel. So you can do like Dolby Atmos in there. I think it's going to have like 66 speakers in it or something like that. I'm so excited about it. Let's run the video here. I thought we were. That's an amazing vision and video about the exciting things that's going to be happening with the Academy of Creative Media. Can you share more about what's currently happening with Creative Media now? Yeah, so we now have programs on all 10 campuses on every island. And they, like I said, they do a lot of different things. But they, like, we do a lot to sort of enhance existing programs. So at HCC, we added audio post-production. We added Foley and ADR. And that's actually where we recorded Moana. And Moana is the best example. The Hawaiian language version of Moana is something that I was able to work out to deal with Disney animation for us to re-record the entire movie in O'lello, Hawaii. And that required us to use programs from five different campuses. Ali Kravaleo came back as the star, which is amazing. Nicolas Schrodinger plays the mom again. But then we had open auditions and we had 143 auditions uploaded to our website by native speakers. And we cast about 30 people locally. And we recently premiered the film at O'Lani.  And the main purpose, though, is for education. It's really to encourage students to really want to study the language. So we will be distributing the DVD for free to every school throughout the state. So from preschool all the way through college, any accredited school will be getting a copy. Some will get multiple copies, depending on the programs that they have. We can't sell it, unfortunately, because it was done as an educational effort. But it was all recorded at MLA by student engineers. I think they did something like 4,000 files. And we ultimately did the final mixdown at Disney with the Disney folks with us. But it was really very much a student and faculty-driven program. That is absolutely fascinating. Now, Disney Moana Movie is such a huge, popular, successful movie. I want to know, Chris, what advice would you give to people that's interested in creative media? Well, I use the term creative media because it's very broad. The program that we set up at Manoa campus originally is very much based on USC and AFI. It's kind of very much a legacy film school kind of program, which is fantastic. And they've developed some great filmmakers there. But for instance, West O'Wall campus is everything that's happened in media since. So it has a much stronger emphasis on things like this, like trans media. When we started, there was no YouTube. There was no Facebook. There was no Instagram. There was no Snapchat. There was no smartphone. Everything has changed because of technology in a very, very short period of time. And the modes of production and distribution have completely changed. And you have to be aware of that and keep moving forward like that. So the focus at West O'Wall, as I said, is everything that's happened in creative media since we started the first program. That's amazing. Technology, the advancements, it's evolving at a rapid pace. You have to keep up with what's going on. Obviously, you're forecasting a lot. So the building is very, we're making it as much future proof as possible because we don't really know what's coming down the line. And we do now work with a lot of this emerging stuff like VR and AR and what the story, what kind of shapes and forms the storytelling is going to take in the future. But it does just come down to telling stories. And that's always going to be a sort of a key thing that we hope we can impart to our students because they do have a lot of great ideas for stories, but then we've got to figure out how to get them to tease it out and figure it out and tell it. Well, you have so much experience in your career.  You know, I started at a time when there were very, very, like I was the first minority head of a studio. Wow. I actually started a group called the Coalition of Asian Pacifics and Entertainment, which was a network group. There were three of us when we started. Now there's about 10,000. And they're basically at every level of the industry in front of and behind the cameras.  He's a point-a-hole grad. But I'm working with this guy named Kevin Lin who founded this thing called Twitch, which is the eSports channel. Like he sold it for a billion dollars to Amazon. Ryan Higa is like one of the biggest YouTube stars ever. Sure. You know, and he started in the backyard of Hilo. So it's really about, you know, people started taking advantage of changes that were happening in the industry and were ahead of the curve and not sort of stuck in the past. Who was one of your mentors? Who impacted your career the most, would you say? Well, I think there's been a few that I've been very, very grateful to. There was the head of production at TriStar at the time. I mean, you know, Sagancki who also ran NBC and CBS and stuff like that. And I got a lot of great advice from him. You know, I think some of it is a little bit about finding your own way, especially when you happen to come from Hawaii and you don't really know anybody to begin with. But as I said, you know, I was very grateful to Bonnie who sort of gave me a little booster rocket when I was just getting started and stuff like that. So you kind of remember those kindnesses and you try to emulate them for other people. What are some mistakes that you see people make when they're trying to advance their careers? I think it's really easy to suffer from hubris, to think you know it all and think you're the smartest person in the room and you rarely are. I prefer to put myself in a room where everybody else is smarter than me and to continue to learn from them. And so I think that you can get kind of dogmatic in your opinions and kind of stuck in certain places. Your career, I'm just fascinated the things that you've accomplished and the things that you're still accomplishing right now. What would you say was your lucky break in your career? Was there like one lucky break that happened? I don't know if there's any sort of one. Yeah, you know, my boss got promoted and I got my boss's job, you know? But I think before that, it was a willingness to explore different things. So I went into television first and found out that that's not where I wanted to be and I was still young enough to make a change. Then I went and was working in physical production and physical post-production and I learned a lot about the process. But I also realized that this probably wasn't the right thing for me. And then I settled into creative development and being an executive and ultimately being a producer and that's where I felt most at home.  Even ACM was something that I looked at as a startup. I didn't look at it as a traditional academic program. I looked at it as something that was gonna be disruptive, was gonna try to do something that was different. But I also had to go out and raise all the capital for it and then you had to find the right people to execute it. And that's the most important lesson that I could give anybody is that you have to find the right people. No matter how good your vision is, if you can't write the right people to execute it, it's not gonna work. So there are challenges to that and sometimes maybe you think too far in the future. I mean, I recently was accused of always being at 30,000 feet and seeing the big picture too much and not enough of the nuts and bolts of stuff. But I really do try to correct myself when I get that criticism and stuff. What are you most proud of with Academy of Creative Media? I mean, it's been in existence for a long time now and there's so many exciting things that's ahead. But what are you most proud of? Well, I'm most proud of the kids that did stay here in Hawaii and that have jobs. We actually have a number of graduates that are doing extremely well on the mainland. We have kids that are working for Blumhouse, kids that were the story editor of Newsroom on HBO. But the thing about when Hawaii folks go to the mainland, it's not hard to be successful because there's so much more opportunity and that's the only difference. It's not that we don't have the ability to do these things. It's just that we're not necessarily given the chance here. So I always feel like there's something else that we have to get to. So getting this building done after a long time is gonna be really important. But getting an actual studio built, that's been my goal for over 10 years now and I think we're getting closer to doing an actual studio complex. Diamondhead is great, but it's been, 5-0 has been there for the last seven years and loss was there before seven years before that. And there's no more room for anybody. And we have a wonderful film and television industry and we've had one since 1908 when Edison shot his first film here. But we have a capacity issue. We basically have like we're a tourism business with one boutique hotel. And until we have fully fledged studio facilities like you can find in Georgia or you can find in many parts of the world, all of those big shows that come here like Jumanji or Jurassic Park or Journey to the Center of the Earth, parts of the Caribbean, they can't shoot anything here except for the exteriors, the beaches and jungles. So I'm really looking forward to the day when we can actually build out the industry so it's not just this fantastic $200, $300 million dollar business, but it's a billion dollar business. And that's really where we should be with this. It should be a billion dollar business. Well, Chris, it's been such an amazing pleasure having you on the show today. You've accomplished extraordinary things in your career and you're continuing to accomplish even more extraordinary things with your career and all of Hawaii is lucky to have you here and wanted to really thank you for being on the show today, Chris. Thanks for having me. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Rusty Kamori encouraging you to consistently outdo what you have done and find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha.


All right, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I'm your host, I'll be here on the end, Krista Porter from the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar show where we cover a variety of topics, maybe of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesday, that's fine. We do record the show every week, and it is then posted to our website in our archives. And I'll show you the end of today's show where you can access all of our archives of the show. Both the live show and the recordings recorded archives are free and open to anyone to watch. So please share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might have an interest of any of the topics we have on the show. The Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries in Nebraska, and that's for all types of libraries. You will find things on our show for K-12, academic, public corrections, museums, anything that has a library or something library-ish related, there could be something on our show about that. We have a mixture of things on the show, book reviews, interviews, mini-training sessions, demos of products and services, anything we think that may be interesting to anyone in the library world. We do have Nebraska Library Commission staff that sometimes do presentations on topics that are things that we are doing here at the Library Commission. And we also sometimes bring in guest speakers to talk about things they are doing. And today we have a mixture of that today. Today we are talking about the 2021 Book 1 Nebraska title, All the Gallant Men. And I think I'll just hand over to you, Jessica, and we can introduce as we go, who's doing here, I guess. Tessa Terry is our communications coordinator here at the Nebraska Library Commission, works with the Nebraska Center for the Book, and he made Nebraska and all of these events that we do related to this, so I think I'll just hand over to you and you can take the way and talk about the book. So this is our annual 1 Book 1 Nebraska Encompass Live. We do this every year just to talk about the program itself. The Center for the Book is doing to promote it, and then how the Library Commission and Humanities Nebraska all kind of have a hand in this program. So we're going to start it off by just talking about the Center for the Book itself. And I'm going to hand that over to Rod Wagner, our director. Yes, good morning. The Nebraska Center for the Book is an affiliate of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Every state has a state center. Ours was among the early states organized with a Center for the Book. And we have a number of programs, including the 1 Book 1 Nebraska program. We also have the letters about literature program that we participate in. We have a book awards program in which we annually present awards for outstanding books written with a Nebraska connection. But today our purpose is to talk about this year's selection for 1 Book 1 Nebraska. And who is next? Becky. Becky Faber. She is on the Nebraska Center for the Book board, as well as the selection committee for our 1 Book 1 Nebraska. And can you tell us a little bit about the 1 Book program and then how we chose this year's book? The 1 Book 1 Nebraska is a program that unites the state of Nebraska in reading 1 Book throughout a calendar year. This program has been intact for about 15 years. The process is very straightforward. The books that are nominated come from the public. So before the selection committee even begins to work on choosing a book, we look at the books that have been nominated and at the end Tessa will show the form for being able to nominate a book. But every book that is nominated is considered and every book that is nominated comes from the public. And this is not the same in all states but in Nebraska the process has always been that the nominations are made by public readers. The books need to be written by Nebraska authors whether that author has been born in Nebraska or lived his or her entire life there, that is not an integral part of it the author does need to have lived in Nebraska at some point. Or the book needs to have a Nebraska setting or a Nebraska theme. And once books meet at least one or two of those criteria and they also must be widely available to readers, then the committee begins the selection process. Every book that is nominated that meets criteria is read by at least two readers. And as the readers finish the book they give feedback on their evaluation of the book and how they feel that readers across Nebraska would respond to the book and the process then continues to narrow until we have a short list of four or five books. At that point we do publicize what the short list is so that readers across Nebraska can see how we have been advancing in this process. And then that short list goes to the entire board of the Center for the Book and the board is given background and information about each book and then the board members vote and one book is selected. So here we have a slide with all the past One Book, One Nebraska selections. If someone nominates the book last year that didn't get chosen do they have to nominate again for 2021? Yes. Yeah. So new nominations every single year. We do have on the One Book, One Nebraska webpage, we have a specific page for each book but we do have the list of these books on the Center for the Book webpage as well so you can go back and take a peek at them. They're also all still available as book club kits from the commissioning and the regional library system. So this year's selection is All the Gallant Men. Can you tell us a little bit about why we chose this book and how it came to be our One Book, One Nebraska selection? Well it met criteria initially because of course the author was born in Nebraska and certainly this book published in 2016 is quite widely available. And Mr. Stratton talks very clearly about his upbringing in the state of Nebraska. This is a very appealing book as the committee read it and we looked at feedback from the readers. The readers talked about it as being personal yet incredibly important historically. They found it to be very well written and compelling to read. I've talked with readers who have commented that it was a very difficult book to put down. They were so caught up in it and I actually talked with one woman who said that she would be glad when her husband finished reading it so he would talk with her again because she was so engrossed in the book that he was this kind of in his own world again. I've read the book cover to cover at least twice and I've gone back and looked at other parts of it and each time I read it I'm picking up on something that I didn't notice the first time through but I'm also sharing that feeling that others have talked about which is that this is such a unique account of Pearl Harbor. It is the first memoir by a survivor of the USS Arizona and regardless of how many films one has seen about World War II or the way it was taught in a history class there is information in this book that simply is not available anywhere else and I think that it also it's written by a very humble man. Mr. Stratton does not elevate himself as a hero in any way. He's very humble but it is very touching to see what he endured when the USS Arizona was attacked by the Japanese planes on December 7th 1941 and also his resilience from the incredible injuries that he suffered and then his desire to return to military service in 1944 and fight in some of the final battles in the Pacific of World War II. On the committee who read it was just taken by the immense commitment and resilience that Mr. Stratton had. Every reader I've spoken to whether it was in the process or afterwards has really been taken by this book. I see you've got a copy with you. Were there any parts you had picked out to read or? I had marked some things in the book that I thought were important and the book has a copyright of 2016 and so one might wonder why he waited until 2016 to tell this story and he was talking about that he wanted to write this story for the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and he said at 94 which he was at that time I don't take the years ahead for granted I share what I remember when I can but a day will come when I can no longer speak what then I've asked myself what will become of the memories that I as a survivor have experienced or the lessons that we as a nation have learned. That's why I wrote this book and of course such a blessing for us that he did write it and his co-writer Ken Geyer helped to put this book together because as I'm sure everyone has heard Mr. Stratton passed away last weekend and this book is certainly a testament to the stories that are very important to American history. So we do have a couple ways that you guys can get involved in One Book One Nebraska aside from reading the book which is obviously one of the most important ways to be involved. We have a web page just for this year's One Book and it has several different pages on it where you can learn about the book and the author. On the author page I believe we have a video recording of Mr. Stratton talking about the novel or not the novel, the memoir. We have a get involved page where you can find information about getting a book club kit, finding the book just in general, different versions of it. We have a talking book and braille version that we can offer to readers as well through that service. We also have speakers listed on the get involved page from Community Nebraska that coincide with this year's theme. So we also have a Facebook page that you can like and follow and keep up to date. We post different events that are happening and just any information that we have about the book that we would want to share with you. So speaking of programs, you sent us a few speakers. Tell us about the Community Nebraska's part in One Book One Nebraska. Yeah, Humane Nebraska annually funds One Book One Nebraska. We help provide funding for the book kits that get sent out to libraries. We also can provide speakers that have something to do with the book or related to the theme. And this year we have five programs in our Speakers Bureau that relate to World War II. They aren't specifically about all the galitimate, but they can provide some context to what was going on at that time. For instance, we have one called the Allied Invasion of Japan by Jack Campbell that talks about the last days of World War II and that invasion. We also have a program by Doug Rung called Nebraska's Remember World War II. And that provides some oral history that he has collected, but also provides opportunities for citizens who come to that program to share their own stories. So those are all available. You said they're on the One Book One Nebraska page. Yes, they're listed on our One Book One Nebraska page. Yeah, I'm looking at here. They're on the Get Involved section where you can get the book and then you scroll down. There's about the Facebook page and then the five different sessions that you mentioned, too. Yeah, and that's an easy process to apply for a Speakers Bureau presentation. You can go to, actually it's right here on the screen, Humains Nebraska dot org.  We have a very easy online application that you can fill out. The steps to apply for a Speakers Bureau is to, first of all, contact the speaker, make sure they are available, get them scheduled, and then go onto our website and apply online. And if you have any questions at all, just call our office at<PHONE_NUMBER> and we will walk you through the process. There is an application fee of $50, but we will cover the costs of the speakers. We'll cover their honorarium and their travel. They will travel throughout the state. Yeah, it's a really great program that we've utilized for the one but one Nebraska for several books and it's just a really good connection for once you've read the book to have a speaker come into your community and just expand on that a little bit for you guys as well as your book club readers, but also anybody in your community who want to attend that kind of session. Becky, tell us a little bit about some of the other ways people can get involved with. You were going to set up a few speaking about the one book in general. Yes, I'm looking into some possibilities for programs here in Lincoln and then also more toward Central Nebraska. So as I'm able to get things tightened up, we will definitely put those on the website. But I think we have a book here that is going to generate wonderful response from people who attend these presentations, whether they have a connection with someone who served in World War II or someone who served perhaps in the military later than that or even with family folklore, stories that they've heard through their families. And a few years ago, our one book, One Nephilim, was a book that was published in the United States of Nebraska was Once Upon a Town about the North Platte canteen. And people who had never been to North Platte still found ways that they could connect with the troop movements through Nebraska or the assignments in World War II. And so I think that one does not have to have a friend or relative who served in the military to be able to respond to this book. And I think with that in mind that in any community, any of the presentations are going to draw wonderful response from those who attend. Yeah. Another program that we're, I'm going to say partnering with, in a sense, is the Humanities Nebraska and Nebraska Warrior Writers Program. So can you tell us a little bit about that here, guys? Yeah. In fact, I was thinking a lot about the Nebraska Warrior Writers Program when Becky was talking about how Donald Stratton took a while to write this book, because I think I had read the place where he spent 25 years trying to forget what had happened at Pearl Harbor, and then he wrote this book to remember. And we have a lot of veterans in Nebraska who work very hard to forget their combat service. And the Nebraska Warrior Writers is not really a therapy for that. It's just a chance for veterans and active military to get together in a safe writing group where they can explore writing in different genres. About different things. They don't always write about their military experience, but they can write memoirs or fiction or poetry, nonfiction. We have some science fiction writers. We have some fantasy writers, and it's just a safe spot to get together and write and work with professional writing instructors. We have other published authors who come in every week, almost every week, to talk with them and lead them in writing exercises. And we have a picture of our Lincoln group up there on the screen. It's just been a really successful program. We have one going on in Lincoln right now that is on Saturdays. It started February 8, and it goes until May 2. And I think we have some of those flyers available with the dates. And you can, if you're active military or a family of a veteran, you can attend at any time. So for instance, if you missed February 8, but you can go February 22, you are always more than welcome to go. We also have a group going on in Omaha right now. They just started, I think, last week on the 15th. And they're going to meet again on the 29th. They go until May 16th. So once again, if you missed the first week, you can go the second week or the third week. They are free to attend, which is quite amazing for writing workshops of this caliber. Usually you have to pay $100, $150 to get professional writing instruction and get one-on-one with published authors. So we provide this for free thanks to very generous donations. Where else in Nebraska, so we've talked about Lincoln and Omaha. Are there any other programs throughout the state? We're in Nebraska-Warriorite. Yes. We have had a program in Grand Island in the past. We are currently seeking some, we're currently seeking a location and facilitators for a Central Nebraska program. We do Nebraska-Warriorite in partnership with Nebraska Writing Project. And that's where our writing instructors come from. It's from the Writing Project. They have years and years of experience leading these writing workshops. All right. So if someone out there is interested in starting something like this in their community, how would that process work? Well, contacting me first of all by e-mail. And then what happens is I will talk with Robert Brooke of the Nebraska Writing Project to see if we have any Nebraska Writing Project instructors out there in the community. And then trying to get that together. I know we have several people out in Central Nebraska who miss our Grand Island program and want to get involved again. Sounds great. And we do have the link to that website up on the slides right now. So you guys can, if you're interested, take a look at that and possibly contact Erica to find out more. Just another shot of the Lincoln and Omaha sessions that are currently happening. So sort of the culmination of our One Book One Nebraska program every year is our Celebration of Nebraska Books. We've already got a date for this year, which is October 17th. We always have that at the Nebraska History Museum downtown Lincoln. And this is just a really great program experience. Do you guys want to talk about the Celebration of All and your experience with that in the past? I think it's such an interesting day because it's more than just the announcement of the One Book One Nebraska. And the Nebraska Book Awards are given on that day. And as a voracious reader, I love seeing the books that are receiving the Book Awards because my hand is just flying, writing down titles and making little notes in the program of things that I would like to read that are award-winning books. So for people who are voracious readers, it's a wonderful day to find some books that are being acknowledged as being very strong books in a variety of categories. So one does not just have to be interested only in a novel or only in poetry or memoir, but there's a wide range as well. And so I love that part of it. I also like seeing people being recognized for the Mildred Bennett Award and Groups for the Jane Gesby Award because I think it's a way that we acknowledge people who have really given strong effort to promote language literacy and literature in the state of Nebraska. And as a full disclaimer, I am not a native Nebraskan, but I've lived in Nebraska most of my life. And so I never had that fourth grade history class that most Nebraskans have had. So I'm always about two steps behind trying to catch up. But I'm very proud of the efforts that people in this state have taken to encourage their cultural heritage. And so I like that. And of course, I always love when the one book, when the Nebraska Selection is announced. I like to make it so like, what's going to happen? It's very suspenseful, yes. And then, ta-da, we have a winner. But I love watching the faces of the people in the audience because, of course, they've been able to see the short list. And so I like watching the response of the people who come because it obviously is important to them and that's going to be a part of their reading list for the next year or two. People have their favorites that they voted, that they may have nominated or read because they saw the short list. Yes. And those who attend tell us how much they enjoy hearing the authors talk about their experiences in the book. The authors have a brief opportunity to do some reading from their book, make comments about it. And the museum store also has copies of the books available for sale and then signing afterwards during the reception that ends the event for the day. Yeah. I always go home with a whole new book list. Yes. Something about hearing authors talk about their own work just really ignites my curiosity for it. Yeah. I've read a lot of books that way that I probably would not pick up otherwise because I'm a pretty solid fiction reader. And a lot of nonfiction books that just sound so appealing after hearing the authors speak about them are my favorite. Well, and to reinforce Rod's point about the fact that those books are available in the museum store right then. I don't have to make another trip out or, you know, try and find a source for the book. When I hear about a book that I think is just tremendous, I'm wanting to buy it right away and the museum as well. And the museum as well. That's what I usually buy my copy of the next one book when Nebraska has a celebration. Well, and I often will buy copies to give a gift. I can't do it before the announcement because I can't give away but once the announcement is made then I can go in and buy copies to give. And I have, I've given several copies of all the Gallant Men already in the short time that it's been the designated one book when Nebraska. And the store buys copies of the books that are on the shortlist. Yeah. They're there and you can buy any of the ones that were under consideration for the final move. So before we talk about nominating for one before Nebraska, I just want to give you a chance to type in any questions you might want us to answer. So go ahead and submit those while we talk about this and then we'll address your questions. I did something I wanted to mention on the webpage for we were talking about events and things going on. There is a calendar of events, but we are looking for what you're doing out in your libraries to let us know. There's a link there to submit your event by email or to call us to let us know so they can be on the calendar so it can help promote if you are, did get some maybe in Humanity Nebraska or someone local to talk about their experiences. Submit it there on the webpage so we can add it to our events colors. Everybody knows what's going on around the state everywhere. We would love to do that. And it's just nice to see a whole list of what everyone across the state is doing with this program. So we really appreciate your feedback and your information about your local events as well. So even if it's just your book club getting together to talk about the book and you've invited the rest of the community to come in and talk about it, we will put that up there and let everyone know what's happening. So, nominating a book for the One Book One Nebraska, this is last year's flyer, but you can nominate for the One Book year round. It's not just a certain time of year. This is available all year long on our Center for the Book webpage. And this is just a screenshot of what that submission page looks like. It's very simple and straightforward. We don't need a whole book essay about why you've chosen this book and why you should be submitted. We just ask whether it checks, marks those boxes of is it a Nebraska author? Does it have a Nebraska setting? Is it available in print? So those are really our only requirements and not even all of them, just the only one that probably is most important is, is it available? That's the one we need every time. But otherwise just some sort of Nebraska connection is really what we're looking for. We do have a question about this year's book specifically about the author, which I'm not sure if you didn't know. If you want to know, was the author able to do much promotion of his book, which just came out in 2016, because of his age? Do we know? I mean, there's that one video that's on the page. It's my impression, yes. And also through the Facebook page that was created to focus on the book. The book has its own Facebook page for the book, for the first time. Yeah, I know there, the publisher did a lot of work on it. I don't know if he did a book tour or if Ken Geyer maybe took a bigger hand in that. That's a great question. Yeah, because there's the book trailer video on our page, on the one book, on the Nebraska page under the book section that has him talking. And this was a New York Times bestseller, wasn't it? Yeah. So it did get a good amount of publicity back in 2016 when it was first published. Yes. And to that end, because it was so well documented as an important book about Pearl Harbor, one of the things, excuse me, one of the things that you have seen over the last few days is how widely the story of Mr. Stratton's passing has been. It's been on ABC, CNN, national news sources, so this is not just a local notation of his passing, but a national notation. Yeah, I read a USA Today story about it that we shared. Do you guys have any other questions for us? Were we able to get in touch with him about the type that had been selected for the Brexit? Yes, we did. We didn't hear back from him directly, but we heard from his son Randy. Oh, great, okay. So they were very much aware of the book was selected. Then I have a question about you. This is written with Ken Geyert. Do you know much about him? Or would he be available to do things throughout the year than you know? You know, I don't know about him. I don't know about his availability for book talks. That's usually something you have to find out from either his publisher or agent, but I do believe he has written several books in the past. He's a very accomplished author. He's a professional writer, and the last time I knew he lived in Colorado, and he has comments at the end of the book about how he came to write the story, and he had a daughter who lived in the Colorado Springs area, and she had heard about Mr. Stratton and had contacted her father and encouraged him to look into this. So Mr. Geyert met with Mr. Stratton, and the project took off from there, and they were aware of Mr. Stratton's age and the limitations in being able to do this, but they were able to sell it to Harper Collins very quickly and have the book come out for the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. I don't know much more about Mr. Geyert than that, but he obviously is a professional writer, and I will go back and say that was one of the very strong points about this book was that it was so beautifully written. It's very nice, and it's presentation of information. Yeah, Krista was kind enough to find Ken Geyert's Twitter, so he does have a Twitter account that you can contact him through, and he has a page for all the Gallant men on the Harper Collins Publishers' webpage. So potentially going through the publisher would be a way to get in touch with him to see if it was something he'd be willing to either come to speak about, and a lot of authors do Skype things with both classrooms and with libraries as well, but you can't travel to wherever you wanted to have it in. In Colorado, it's not too far away, so you never know. There is an interstate. I think this is segueing from Mr. Geyert, but I think that an important part of this book is Mr. Stratton's background, not only because he was born in Innavale and then moved to Redclout, but he also talks very clearly about rural poverty and the ways in which rural America were impacted during the Depression and post-Depression, and that he initially entered the service to have a steady paycheck and one that he could send home to his family, and many of the people that we think of in the military during World War II, we think that they often enlisted because of the Pearl Harbor attack, and with Mr. Stratton, that was not the case. He entered prior to Pearl Harbor and then, of course, details it as an experienced sailor, but I think that the background of what rural America looked like in the late 1930s and early 1940s is also a very important part of American history. I think that's good to know about this book, too, because I think some people may see it and see the title and think it's just about the war or just about that event, this whole book, all about that, but there's so much more in there beyond just that one day of looking at that. We do have contact information available for me. If you have questions about the One Book Process, my email is up there. I'll put my phone number so you can give me a call at the office, and I can help guide you through some of those One Book One Nebraska resources we have. Yeah, do you guys have any questions? We've got a little time left. Oh, yeah, we have time. Are there questions, comments, thoughts? Anything you want to say about the One Book One Nebraska in general or this particular title? I'll go ahead and type it in there, or if you want to raise your hand, you can use your microphone and comment your questions that way. I can't tell if people are typing in. That's the thing. While we're waiting, I would like to ask Becky if you would talk about work she has done, writing she has done, and other activities she's been involved in related to veterans. Well, I thought it was very interesting when Erica was talking about veterans and the warrior writers and that often veterans don't want to talk about their experience. And that was what I saw. My father had served in World War II and he enlisted after Pearl Harbor. My uncle enlisted in the Army prior to Pearl Harbor and my uncle ended up being a prisoner of war in Germany for almost two years. And when he came back, he never talked about it and we were told never to ask him about it. And of course, as I got older, many of the young men with whom I went to high school or college served in Vietnam and my brother was in the military as well. Somewhere in the last few years, I learned that the suicide rate for veterans was 22 veterans per day and now the last figure I've seen is 20 per day. And that has just haunted me and I've been writing for a long time and I decided in 2017 to put together a book that dealt with military and service issues and a portion of the sales of the book go to the Military and Student Veterans Center at the university because every year they do a rough march before the Iowa and Nebraska game to raise awareness of the veteran suicide rate. So I've really been caught up more strongly in this project in the last couple of years and as I was on the committee for the one book on Nebraska, I had to pull back as a writer and a relative of veterans and read it for the beautiful writing that was in there. But it also, to me, reinforces what Mr. Stratton said early in the book, why he wrote it. He pulled away from that for a long time and then it was that the story needed to be told. And so as we encourage veterans to find workable ways to deal with their experience. We do have a comment. Chuck at Hebron C. Chris Library here in Nebraska said, we had our book club discuss the book last night and I would highly recommend this book for Book Club Street. We have book club kits available through the Nebraska Library Commission. Your regional library systems also have book club kits available so you can get them either through us or then. I know there is probably a bit of a way people are already scheduling this book for our book club kits. We have 50 copies, two large prints and it's available to the Talking Books in Braille Service too. So they read and produced that here in our library commission studio. So it's a really great version of it as well if you have anybody with visual or reading impairment. Get them set up with that Talking Books service so they can get this book as well. And we did send kits out to all four of our regional library systems too so they have their own set as well if all the copies that we have here via the commission are not available. We're also buying them or interlibrary loading them from anywhere in the country is an option for you guys too. We try to offer as many as we can but there's only so many we can purchase and have a. Oh, one more question. I wasn't looking. Nebraska City, Claudette says I will be hosting a book club on this book in October in Nebraska City. I'm glad it was chosen as I had sent in a nomination for it. Two years ago. See, that's just telling you if your book's not picked one year, submit it again because who knows what it's been submitted again and maybe that year something else is a little bit more timely or catches people's interest but we have so many great submissions just because it's not picked one doesn't mean it won't be picked another time. Exactly. That has happened though on a number of occasions. Yes. From our commission staff here I believe it's probably Lisa or Amy who is there watching about the book club because they handle those. There's many reservations for it. Some months in the summer are still available but otherwise fall or winter would be the next time you'd be able to definitely get it. Yes. Contact our book club staff. The commission staff. The book is very affordable so please buy books too. You guys both have hardcover so I'm assuming by now also I will put my paper back. I'll put my paper back at my office. Those are the options and the e-book and the audio all the usual. If you're a library that has a copy of the book you can contact us with promotional materials as well through the commission. We have bookmarks that we can send you. We have discussion questions for the book. We can get your book club. We have posters. There's always we have One Book One Nebraska Seal stickers. If you have a copy in your library you'd like to have a rather than just on your book. We'll hold that up for us. So just to signify what year it was selected for. You can always contact us and ask for promotional material and supplies. We'd love to help you out in that form as well. Any more questions or comments from our watchers? Nothing right now. Yeah. So for these promotional materials people wouldn't have to print them out themselves. We would send them. We order a bunch of them here. We try to send them out with book club kits but sometimes they get sent back to us. So when we send them out to you we mean for you to keep them. But yeah if we don't send them back we have plenty. But we're always willing. We gave a bunch to Erika and Kimania to send out. We send them out all over the place. Yeah, we love it. So if you're a bookstore owner and just want them for your library users we'd be happy to send you a stack of them just to put out on your desk. Hand out for free. Definitely. So it doesn't look like any other last minute desperate questions are coming in. Desperate questions. I don't know how desperate they are. But we do have a test of contact info of course here or the web pages to go through to find out if it's to reach out. Thank you for coming in. Oh, sure. You guys are welcome. So I think if you don't have anything else you guys want to talk about or share about right now we could wrap it up this morning. Any last minute words from any of you or I take over? Alright, get the book. Read it. Talk about it. Learn more about the event. We are going to wrap it up for today's Encompass Live. And here on our website I'm going to show you where the archive will be. If you go to the commission's website and look up Encompass Live you can see it comes up in our search here. But also if you choose any search engine of your choice and type in Encompass Live so far we are the only thing called that on the internet. Alright. Some day I'm not going to say that on your website. But it's been like 10 years and nobody seems to. But you can find our web page. This is where we have our upcoming shows and our archives are right here just underneath. So if you click on here you'll get all this of our archives, the most recent ones on the top of the page. So today's show as long as go-to webinar and YouTube cooperate with me by the end of the day should be up there on the top of the list. I will have a link to the recording on our YouTube channel and then a link to the slides that we used today as well. You can browse through those. They will be available there as well. Everyone who headed this morning or who registered for today's show will get an email from me letting you know it's available. We also pushed out into our various social media our mailing list, Twitter, Facebook all the places we have to communicate with to let you know when the recording is available. While I'm here I'll show you too our archives where we have a search feature here. We can search all of our historical shows here. You'll notice we do have a you can look at just the most recent 12 months. That is because we have our full archives here and come to a slide premiered in January 2009. And if we scroll all the way to the bottom that's what I won't do to make it dizzy. We'll find our very first shows back in 2009. There we go. And I'll see. If you just want to see something on a topic of anything that we did over the years go ahead and search for it. It's not really current information limited to those recent 12 months. Pay attention just when you're watching an archive to show of the original date of that it was broadcast. Some things may no longer exist. Some shows will always be useful to use on topics. But some things may no longer exist anymore. Blinks may be broken. Services or products may have changed or just been limited completely. But just pay attention when you are looking at the archives in there. But as long as YouTube keeps hosting our recordings then we'll keep them up there. And if YouTube never disappears we'll find some more. May I have one comment? My book is entitled One Small Photo and it is 17 Poems and One Short Story and they are all military related. It's available at Francine Finch in Lincoln. At chapters, books and gifts in Seward and at the Cather's Center in Redclout. Definitely a good companion piece. I think it is. Yes. Yes it is. Absolutely. Great. So that's what I've got for today's show. I hope you'll join us next week when our topic is our pre-sweet tech. Once a month Amanda Sweet, our technology innovation librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission comes on Encompass Live and does something tech related.  Next week we should be talking about coding languages. Which coding language should I learn? I have no idea. I'm going to come and tell us all about them. There are so many different ones out there and why you would use them and how you would learn them. She's going to come and talk to us about that on Nick Wednesday's show. So please do sign up for that. Any of our other shows we have here. You see I've got almost all of March in here working on actually on Wednesday there. You'll start seeing some of the April shows come up as well on to the schedule. So just keep an eye on that and set up for any of their other shows. I've got a couple of reminders here posted about the stress and passing and log in for today's show. No, I don't want to log in right now. So I keep me up two or three times a week to post notices up here about upcoming shows, previous shows, recordings that are all coming up available. So if you want to keep up with us on Encompass Live out there you can do so. I think that wraps up today. Thank you everybody for being here with us this morning talking about this great book. Hopefully more and more people will read it. Thank you everybody for attending this morning and we'll see you another time on Encompass Live. Bye-bye. Bye guys.


Hello everyone, welcome to Channel KIS Academy, current of AMCQs. Let's see today's questions. Question number one. Recently infused mission was in the news. It is associated with which fun of the following fields. The options are a study of superconductors, b study of supernova, c study of chemical emulsions and d study of quantum physics. The correct answer is b study of supernova. Let's talk about integral field ultraviolet spectroscopic experiment mission. NASA launches rocket in mission to study 20,000 year old supernova. NASA has a new mission dedicated to studying the information of new star systems, specifically how they emerge in space after stellar deaths. The space agency kicked off its integral field ultraviolet spectroscopic experiment mission by sending off a rocket from New Mexico on Sunday, October 29. NASA explained that a constellation called Cygnus is on display throughout the northern hemisphere for a few months out of the year and within it is a supernova, the Cygnus loop. The loop is the remnant of a star that was measured to be about three times the size of the sun prior to exploding under its own gravity. The event gave away to the formation of Cygnus loop nearly 20,000 years ago. With infuse, NASA is aiming to learn about supernova formation from the dust and gas leftovers from bygone stars which gives way to not only new stars but also entire star systems and planets. For the mission, NASA created a telescope that measures far ultraviolet light to look closer at some of the gas leftover from the explosions still sizzling at temperatures ranging between 90,000 and 5,400,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The rocket contains a spectroscope and instrument that looks at what the light and gas are made out of and how it has moved over time. Question number two, with reference to Indian ocean dipole consider the following statements. One, IOD is similar to the El Nino phenomenon occurring in the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian and Malaysian coastline in the east and the African coastline near Somalia in the west. Two, a negative IOD usually brings good rainfall in southern India. Which of the above statement is or are correct? The options are A, one only, B, two only, C both one and two and D neither one nor two. The correct answer is A, one only. IOD sometimes referred to as the Indian Nino is similar to the El Nino phenomenon occurring in the relatively smaller area of the Indian Ocean between the Indonesian and Malaysian coastline in the east and the African coastline near Somalia in the west. A positive IOD usually brings good rainfall in southern India. Question number three, recently Shian 6 was in the news. It is the options are A, research vessel, B, hypersonic missile, sea spacecraft and D, moon surface lander. The correct answer is A, research vessel. Let's know about Chinese research vessel Shian 6. Chinese vessel begins research of the cost of Sri Lanka amid India's concern over the vessel's visit. Chinese research vessel Shian 6 is said to begin its two-day research of the Sri Lankan cost. The research will be pursued of Sri Lanka's western coast and in collaboration with Sri Lanka's national aquatic resources research and development agency and the University of Ruhona. It is marine scientific research. The ministry had earlier said the vessel was at the Colombo port for replenishment. Let's know about Shian 6. Research ship Shian 6 was added to China's fleet to marine research vessels in 2020. It is said to be the country's first scientific research vessel focusing on geophysical exploration. Question number four, recently Karkuma carp chingens was in the news. It is the options are A, species of bat, B, species of flowering plant, C, species of algae and D, species of mushroom. The correct answer is B, species of flowering plant. Let's know about Karkuma carp chingens. The researchers in Manipur have discovered a new flowering plant species named Karkuma carp chingens. It belongs to the algeospermic family, Genzi barancy, which includes Karkuma, gingers and cardamom. It is a robust plant as tall as eight feet, having large terminal inflorescence. It has close resemblance to Karkuma fryavan, a species reported from Thailand, but it is distinguished by having lemon yellow rhizomes with a very bitter taste. The conservation status is data deficient under red list category. Until this discovery, there were 93 recorded Karkuma names as accepted species worldwide. Question number five, the international group of seven nations include the options are one, Germany, two Russia, C, China, four Canada, five France and six United States. Select the correct answer quote. The options are A, one, two, four, five, six, B, one, three, four, five, six, C, one, four, five, six and D, one, two, three, four, five, six. The correct answer is C, one, four, five, six. The international group of seven is an intergovernmental political form consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Originating from an ad hoc gathering of finance ministers in 1973, the G7 has since become a formal high profile venue for discussing and coordinating solutions to major global issues, especially in the areas of trade, security, economics and climate change. We conclude today's session here. Tomorrow we will meet with few more MCQs. Till then, please like, share and subscribe our channel. Thank you. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon to never miss an update.


In our segments on stars, we introduced a number of rungs for our cosmic distance ladder. Stellar parallax, the HR diagram, and two standard candles, CFIDS and RR Lyra. In this segment, we added expansion parallax. In our next segment, we'll add star clusters and supernova.