Got this sort of curve before you get there. Is that a new design that the city's using? Can you tell us a little bit more about why you're using that? Yeah, there's a lot of different factors that go into that. In this instance, based on the budget associated with this project, we try to just minimize the work that is required for this intersection. Traffic signals in themselves will help alleviate a lot of the congestion in this area. And so the installation of more of your traditional left churn lanes probably wouldn't really do much more than what the traffic signals are already doing. But do you see what I mean about the, if you look at there, there's some in that in that left hand left hand turn coming south. There are some areas that are cash marked. Correct, correct. And that's just to kind of separate. The the left churn lane a bit and deflect it. The image probably doesn't capture it as well, but this left churn lane actually does begin further up north and south because there are 2 left churn lanes. So that that kind of separation is kind of already there. We're just allowing by with this design, we just allow pedestrians to kind of ease into the turn rather than have to kind of speed through it to make a 90 degree turn per se. Okay, so I've been regarding that symbol that Rusty was just talking about. Is that actually drawn on the asphalt or is that concrete separating it from the. No, those are payment markings. Okay. Yes. Thank you for asking that question. Yeah. All those are payment markings. There will be no. Medians all of it will just be striping. Okay. And since you mentioned that these are this plan is specific. To alleviating left hand turns, obviously, right, southbound and northbound to getting on to Ray White. Are there I'm assuming this all probably normal day to day that how you guys plan this. Um, are there going to be sensors to determine. Those protected left turns, or is it is it going to be like time based? Yeah, I believe we have a Aziz on the call. He's a little more familiar with traffic signals than I am Aziz. Do you yeah, can you hear me? Yes, sir. Yeah, so this will be have traffic sensor for all and even for the left turn and it's going to run as like protected and permitted. So, first, it's going to be on the protective phase. So, most clear that you use vehicle and then it's going to be another permitted meaning where it will have a flashing green arrow flashing yellow arrow. For the traffic to make turn the first to show green arrow, then we show flashing yellow arrow. Is that answer your question? I think so, part of it. So. And this is 247 that it won't. You said the it's all sensor based. So it's not really like during known rush hour periods. You're going the frequency of the light will be or the timing of the light will be longer or what have you. It's just all based on sensors. So it will be based on sensor, but during peak hour, where the volume is like it is a platoon of cars. Come clean at that time, we have even a sensor base. It has a mechanism there where it's hold the green little longer to flush the queue. So we don't want to break the platoon or queue in the middle. So, this is it will be run a sensor base, but during the peak hour to flush the traffic, it will have some mechanism there where it can hold the north south being a little longer. Okay, clear up to you. Okay, because you have an expectation that that left turn will have more volume during those peak hours. So. Okay, thank you as well as a lot of school buses come in and work as well. Ivan, this is Susan Kenny question on the south side of the intersection when you're on beach street heading north. I think somebody was just asking, maybe it was rusty or maybe the lady afterwards. You have the Chevron striping between the through lane and the left turn lane. Did you say that won't be curved at all? That is just striping correct. Okay. So, I mean, that's. So, the pedestrian will be up in the crosswalk. So, I guess the timing for the crosswalk, they'll be able to get all the way across without having to wait in the middle. Okay. Okay. And will there be ever be a point where they would have to sit in that Chevron area or not at all? No, the, the design of that has nothing to do with the pedestrian improvements. The, the signal timing and all that is kind of what or the design of the where we take into account the crossing of the pedestrian. The, if there was in fact a need for refuge, that would be a complete different design. Yeah. So, is there no way to do a pedestrian refuge because those are kind of a lot safer, aren't they? Like, could you just not do it or fit it or something of that sort? Um, I believe they aren't needed in this for this intersection for this width of intersection. It's you're really those refuges. It's like really big arterials kind of like the the next project. We're going to talk about, which is, uh, be sure you add, uh, North Terran Parkway. Right. But yeah, if you look at this, you know, you've got the 2 lanes going North, then you have the turn lane going left and you have that middle part. In reality, that looks like it's about a 4 lane road in that 1 direction, you know, before you get to the median. So it's actually, you know, a long distance for the pedestrian. But anyway, I hope it will be safe. Well, I can respond like, uh, it will be timed in a way that there'll be, we don't want anybody to stay in the middle of the intersections like, uh, the speed like the roadway. So it's going to be 1. Step crossing from end to end. If the, uh, if the pedestrian start crossing the road before it goes to the flashing hand, it shows. Then he should have enough time. To cross the entire roadway. That's how it's going to be. Okay. Yeah, a lot of times the walker will start later and maybe not make it all the way through. So they'd be stopping at that point of that median. I would imagine and. Hope that they don't get hit, you know, because it's a pointed thing. I don't know if I've ever seen that that much around here. Is that it's a new thing? Right. You're referring to the median nose? Yeah. And with that left turning kind of more at an angle, it's not straight like it usually is. So you're taking away from the median nose. Maybe I don't. Correct. Correct. Well, the, the median, um, the median work is minimal. It's kind of hard to see, but you can see what the dash is right here. We're just kind of cutting into it and kind of reshaping the nose. Okay. All right. Thank you. You're going to, you're not going to have to widen Ray White, right? At this time now. Ray White's wide enough now to do this. Correct. Along way why it really is just a striping exercise. And I mean, even really along. As well in the, the median construction. Are there any other questions regarding. Each street at Ray White traffic signal improvements. Well, with that, I will formally end the public meeting for that project. I will pull up the 2nd PowerPoint for the 2nd. All right. Can everyone see my screen? We see it. All right. So, this is the 2nd part of this community meeting. Um, this is for the intersection improvements at North Tarrant Parkway and North Beach Street. Once again, this is located in council district 4 and 10. Um, and for those that may have missed it initially for the 1st part, my name is Ivan Lopez and I'm the project manager with the city for worth. Actually, and this is all the Ivan, this is all in. It doesn't go far enough to be in 10. Thanks, Rusty. I wasn't going to start a turf or anything, but. All right, so this is the agenda for this project. We'll go over the project background and its goals. We'll look at the existing intersection as well as the proposed design and the changes that will be coming with this project. The approximate schedule for it and then the project contact information. Um, and once again, we'll leave it leave it open for questions at the end. Um, so we are talking about the intersection of North Beach Street and North Tarrant Parkway. This is south of sugar road west of Park Vista Boulevard and just east of I 35 W. So this project is 1 of the 2022 bond programs. The objective of this project is to improve the capacity of the existing intersection. There's a lot of congestion that happens due to the lack of lanes essentially at that at that intersection. And so we. Really hope to be able to improve all the turning movements in all all legs, all directions of this intersection to just make the fluidity of that intersection a lot more. And so it's not so stagnant. And so this project this project. We've already completed. We did this design meeting for the 30% right now we are. This is what we're calling an update meeting essentially and you'll see it later in the slide. But we are at a 90% design level now. So we just kind of wanted to give a refresher to the public. So this is the existing intersection North looking. The North is a beach street and then North Tarrant Parkway from West East. As you can see from this image of the this day, there's only a right channelized right turn lane on the southeast corner. And there are only 1 left turn lane in each direction of this intersection. So with this project on the image you'll see you you see right now the hatch that you see the the dark hatch are the. Having improvements that we are planning on doing really in a nutshell what we're doing is we are going to introduce dual left turn lanes in all directions. And then we're going to introduce the intersection of the intersection and we're going to mimic what is happening at the southeast corner of the channelized right turn lane and installing new ones on all on the 3 other legs of the intersection. To do this, we will be introducing mediums at 3 of those 4 corners. So these next images are just going to be zoomed in versions of the same graphic that I previously showed. This is down North Tarrant Parkway. So as you can see, we will be installing we will be doing median work and introducing an additional left turn lane. So there will be 2 dual lefts going northbound with that we will be cutting into that corner on the southwest corner and introducing a median that will then allow for a channelized right turn lane. So it'll be a yield condition and so hopefully it will speed up that process in that queue at that intersection. This is North Tarrant Parkway going westbound. Once again, dual left dual left turn lanes in the introduction of that channelized right turn lane going northbound. And so we will be pulling back that turn lane past the Walmart driveway to allow for additional queuing for the right turn lane. We do hope to install this those pavement markings that will prevent people from coming out of the Walmart and turning right trying to get into the left turn lanes. Because that's one of the major issues out there right now. And so we do hope that that will decentralize people from making that movement. And then these next 2 images are just Beach Street. The one on the left is going northbound and the one on the right is going southbound. Once again, just dual left turn lanes with channelized right turn lanes. I'm going to go back to the overall with all these improvements. We will have to reinstall will install new traffic signals. Those new track those existing traffic signals are now where the proposed improvements are being done. So we will be removing those and installing new ones. Some of them are in the pork chops. Actually, sorry, all of them are in the pork chops. And then we will be redoing all the pavement markings within 2 to 300 feet of the intersection in each direction. With that, we will be installing all new pedestrian curb ramps with push buttons. And if that person from the previous meeting, this is kind of where we. Time it or we have the refuge areas within those pork chops to allow people just. Cross and have a safe space to wait it out. We will be shortening those median noses bringing them back down. And then installing on new crosswalks. And signage mentioned before we had we held a 30% public meeting for this project. I believe back in May. Currently, now we are in the final design phase about 90% approaching 100%. We are getting close to finalizing the design. All while we've been working on the right away acquisition for this project. We do anticipate having that complete January of 2024. And so, once the design is complete, we will have another pre construction public meeting sometime in May. Right before construction starts when we do anticipate construction starting sometime in August of next year, 2024. And then the project duration we do anticipate it being about 14 to 16 months. And this project does have a construction cost of about 2.85 million. So, once again, my name is the project manager with the city of Fort Worth. Todd Buckingham is the. Designer with freezing nickels. They are designing this project. He is on the call and can help answer any design questions that anyone may have at this time. If anyone has any questions. And on that, would you show the. The east side of. Each at North Tarrant. Are you going to in that hash marked area. Are you going to put up those cute little. Sandy things that people can't drive through. Or are you just going to think that those pavement markings are going to keep people. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe right as of right now, we were, we did look into doing those, but we. We landed on just the gore striping right now. I don't think that's going to work. Yeah, I mean, this is time and go ahead and rusty. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. We, on that area, we are not doing the flexible posts. Those over time can be challenged to maintain and keep in place, but we'll be adding eight inch domes, which are. Essentially raised payment markers that will. Determine from making that turning movement into that Gordon area from the Walmart parking lot to that left turn lane. So there will be a vertical element there will be as tall as the flexible posts. But those payment markers that will be raised will be there. Okay, well, I just wish that you would keep in mind that. Unless unless you have something that stops them. Even those won't have much bearing on people coming out of there. They're going to, they're going to try it anyway. But the other side of it, the other side of it is, is they'll be able to this, this should free up the north. The exit from Walmart, that's farther up. Because there won't be that line of traffic that blocks it. So maybe people will just go up to the north to the one that's farther, farther east. And we are hoping that is, you know, this is going to be a lot of changes to this intersection. We are hoping that. You know, with time, the public will kind of adjust to the new traffic patterns and they'll find. Better alternatives of how to maneuver this intersection. The. And I've been. This is Todd again in the chat. I saw people who will ask the height of those raise markers so they're eight inches in diameter, but they're only three inches tall. So I don't know if that was confusing the whole eight inch dimension. I thought it was going to be eight inches in diameter only three inches tall. I've seen, I've seen them over in Dallas.  It's not just going to be, I mean, that's the whole point of them is to get you rethink next time to do that. Yeah, okay. I mean, you know, if you're going to try to zoom across and try to get, you know, you're going to hit those at a pretty decent speed and you'll, you'll feel it. And are those going to be put like right next to each other all the way along?  We have a specific, but enough to where, you know, the. We look at the wheel patterned essentially until we'll, we'll, we'll look at the spacing to make sure that there's not a big enough gap to where someone could just, you know, miss them. You know, and I saw this, I thought it was going to be a raised little median with that Chevron, but it's just striping. And I agree with rusty people are still going to go over there. So if they still do that from an engineering standpoint, will that cause more accidents by designing it this way? I don't believe so. Like I said, I think, you know, it'll take the public some time to kind of get used to the new. The new geometry and the new configuration of the design. And, you know, if someone were to try that, we would hope that, you know, our new design would deter them from doing that the next time. So. Okay. Hey, I have been real quick on that again, just to sound like a broken record. I completely agree with all that because we see it all the time. They'll definitely go across those. Now this may be a question I need to ask. Patrol, but there's nothing illegal about going over those, correct?  Is that correct? Do you know that? I can't say 100% that it's illegal, but I want to say that you're not meant, you're not supposed to do that.  Coming off ramps. You're not meant to, there's a sign that says you're not meant to go over them. Well, people do it all the time, but whether that can be enforced. I'm not quite sure on that. But the idea is that the payment markings, you shouldn't traverse them. Correct. So my issue there though is if it's just the, you know, those raised bumps there, if it's completely legal to go over them, it's just not recommended. Issues because people will and that they'll make a mad dash across it and either cause damage to their vehicle or. You know, backup traffic even more than they're going to try to hold the city liable for any damage from trying to, but again, if it's illegal, then obviously that's going to fall back on them. But I'd agree with the rest that we're certainly going to still have those folks unless there's an actual physical barrier stopping them. They will definitely go across because coming out of that parking lot. I'd venture to say a lot of the traffic is going to hit south and that's exactly where they're going to come out of. You know, I would deal with that often and then letting people through trying to be the nice guy next thing, you know, they're stopped right in front of me waiting to get over the far left lane. It's like, okay, that's I thought you were just going to get right in front of me not wait, you know, a year to get over. So that that is a concern there for me. So as you guys are going through all the, you guys are obviously a lot smarter than I am being an engineers. That's just one concern that I would definitely echo. And then my other was from an engineering standpoint. Have you or it was time, right? Is that the actual engineer? Not the actual the other engineer that's going to be on this project. Is that it? Yes. Okay, awesome. Have you all ever seen any is I certainly understand the. You know, the, the islands being safe for pedestrians. Have you all seen any, any engineering of these islands that I guess doesn't make it a pain handler friendly intersection at all. Have you all seen anything at all because I know a lot of the ones that we're building now, they're super nice and they're super inviting. And if you know about this area, you'll know that that particular intersection. You know, we constantly have an issue of pain there and you'll see for a place at this point, they just pop right up in the intersection and they'll make contact. But I'm just wondering from an engineering perspective, if you guys have seen anything that kind of like. I guess so makes it safe for pedestrians, but not necessarily great. Yeah, unfortunately, I don't think I've seen an engineer design that kind of reduces that. I think it's people are just going to go where. Where they go. So, I don't think unfortunately that our design will inhibit that in any way. Okay, I was just curious. I'm not necessarily from this particular 1, but this is in general. So, thank you. I appreciate that. Todd, Todd, you're with freezing waves, right. Yes, I'm freezing that's correct. Yeah, freezing that is as freezing that goes looked at that situation anywhere else in the country. I've heard of a lot of what we've heard from different cities is the enforcement side of that. And I know there's a handful of signs across Fort Worth as well. At times this could be successful other times they can be ignored. And the, I have not seen a physical design. That would specifically remove that opportunity. I can think of different places in Fort Worth, even on textile interstate roadways that you would think someone would not be able to pay and handle that has. Maybe no shoulder or a meddling guard fence that's along the edge of the road and people are still there. Pay and handling asking for money or other handouts. So it seems like there's a lot of where there's a will. There's a way that's at some point. But we can talk to the city seems any options out there that can be explored. But it does seem like that's a it's an enforcement. enforcement challenge versus a physical design challenge. Yeah, and I've seen those. I've seen those situations that there's, there's one down near. Brian Irvin, yes, they're balancing on a gosh darn. Gabriel, yes, yes. All right. I've been what kind of just what kind of disruption do you see for traffic during this construction? It doesn't look like it doesn't look like a lot of the construction is actually in existing road. Except for the turn lanes. Yeah, we'd have to get with the contract and kind of talk through what they're thinking with regards to TCP, but similar to the other intersection. We don't insist pay the intersection having to be closed. However, there will have to be definitely lanes shut down. So there, you will see probably a significant lane reduction, depending on the phasing of it. But, you know, to get into inside that that median to make those cuts and work inward. Maybe not so much the paving, but as far as making those cuts. Initially, we, we may be looking at maybe. Closing a lane or two and then possibly just reducing the width of the lanes. Okay. This isn't much different than, than what you did at basketball. It is it. I'm not familiar with that project. Okay. Anybody have any more questions or comments. Just Ivan and Todd, this is Susan Kenny again. I guess when I'm looking at this design, I don't really see. How it will be very safe for pedestrians and there are a lot of high school students that walk over from fossil hill or fossil rich high school and go over to Walmart. These are many, many lanes, you know that people are going to be crossing. And I know I see North Heron Parkway and part this to a lot. That's kind of the way I go. And there are many times I see high schoolers are walking to my neighborhood, which is part Glenn. And they're like sitting in the middle or standing in the middle in the median because I didn't make it all the way across. And this is so many more lanes. And I just can't imagine how this could be safe. For people crossing, I just, I don't think it was designed at all with the thought of the pedestrian or maybe it was. I don't know. Maybe it can explain to me, but. I think here you have to make it all the way across after that little island for the pork shop all the way across. Or otherwise you're going to really be sticking in the middle and maybe get hit by one of those left turning vehicles or a straight through person. And that kind of goes back to Aziz was speaking earlier with regards to the pedestrian push buttons. All that is taken into account when installing these and designing these with those traffic signals to make sure that pedestrians are able to get across safely and not be stranded in those midpoints. While the inside we are introducing a right turn lane or sorry, a left turn lane in the in the median, we're just cutting down the median. So we're not actually making it any wider where we could be making it wider would be at these corners. However, we that's where that that pork chop, what we call it comes in and that can act as a refugee area for those pedestrians. I feel like the medians and by the way, are those medians concrete or grass. Those are grass day they are grass. Okay, I feel like somehow. Can you not make a pedestrian refuge area there at least in the middle if they can't make it all the way across because I know what you're saying about pushing the button. But a lot of people go later or they just try to rush it. And there are going to be people that aren't going to make it all the way across because they started later than they should have. And we don't want them to get hit just because they made a mistake.  I guess my concern is that left turn lane that's right next to that median. You know, they could easily hit somebody that's standing there that doesn't make it all the way across. But is there any solution that could help the pedestrian? I guess is what I'm asking. And Susan, this is Todd real quick. And I will say that maybe there may be some experiences today where people are in those median areas that are using it for a refuge and with it is different today. That will be something that's today that will be different whenever we construct this project is we are using and upgrading the pedestrian signal heads to be countdown signal heads where it tells you how many seconds are left for that walking movement. Today, those do not exist. So, people do not know how much time is left on the crossing movement. And like I said, could be stranded in the center where those will now have the signal heads for pedestrians will now have that timer that people can observe and and understand that if I start when that countdown starts, I can make it all the way through. Or else they will be able to they'll need to stay on that corner and not use that median as a refuge. Is this more of like a highway design? Like, I wouldn't imagine you would do this design and downtown Fort Worth where you're trying to promote walkability. Would you? I'm not sure what the, and maybe as these is more familiar with what the differences of how the crosswalks would be in the downtown area than I, but I think it would be it's the same concept. I believe downtown Fort Worth we have those similar countdowns as well. Hello, my name is Chris and if you actually just go up to the intersection at heritage trace and beach. It looks just like what you're proposing. And I cross that intersection all the time I walk through there all the time and do not have any issues with it at all. Yeah, I was going to say real quick as Susan, just to alleviate some of your concerns. I know you're saying, but no, that median right now is super wide. I mean, huge median. And so, like, even if you're looking at the, and I'll send you a text here in a moment, show you the overhead like just cutting into one more lane. They're going to have plenty of room if they need to seek refuge in the actual grassy part. They'll have plenty part because if you look at the lanes right now, it's like 37 or so feet. The actual lanes themselves. And then if you were to measure the median currently it's like 5657 feet. So they'll still have plenty of room there for refuge. Thank you. That'll be good. We hope this was informative and helps alleviate concerns with regards to this intersection. Moving forward. Sounds like we have no more questions. I've got, I've got 1 question for you. 1 more. That doesn't have to do with the actual construction here, but when you take down the existing. Traffic signal equipment. What happens to those polls and arms? They will be removed completely, but not before the 1st, the proposals are up and running. I understand what he, what does the city do with those polls and arms after they take them down? I'm not sure on that. Well, I've been as he's in his team, do reuse those as they do salvage them and bring them out of the city yard in South 4th pending on the condition. Yeah. Okay. So you, so you do try to reuse them at another intersection. If they're up to code and have the, if it's a reusable piece of equipment, that's correct. Okay. Because we're having a terrible time getting these things. Anywhere we can. Make use of the ones we take down the better. Because it's the lead time on these new arms and polls. It's just absolutely absurd. I mean, I'm sure that then it's necessary, but it's just, you know, 8 to 10 months to get. Those kinds of polls and arms are just absolutely. Absurd. I would say. City use those for lockdown. Okay. All right. Well, thank you all everyone for joining these public meetings. Thank you for those that stayed. There's a bunch of stuff in the chat here. Let me go through some of them. Yeah, I was just about to say, there's questions in the chat. Russell, are you going to read them? Go ahead. Let's see. Are you turns prohibited at these intersections? Aziz, do you know that? You don't are not prohibited. They are not prohibited. They are not prohibited because they are channelized right turn. So it's not completely the left turn. Right turn for channelize. Would you consider heavy landscaping the medians with various cactus to make it less panhandling friendly. I saw that. That's interesting. I'm not sure if we can do that. Also saves water. Lily's point she's saying they would. Then they would be more unsafe for pedestrian refuge. So. Yeah, it's a it's a it's it's a trade off, isn't it?  People saying thank you for the meeting. There's there's a question about the Walmart exit being closed. Could the exit from Walmart be closed? And I don't think we would be successful at trying to get that exit closed. And then there's a suggestion to look at. Let's see. Riverside. So, I went and looked at that and Google maps just now at Riverside and North Tarrant instead of the Chevron's. It looks like we have installed sort of a raised landscape median to provide the separation for the from the turn lanes between the through lanes so diseases. Is there a reason other than budgetary reasons why, you know, sometimes we, we have a median in that area compared to just a Chevron strapping time. So the two things like it's the one like operation wise if it's needed to like that part needed.  So that means we have to do like a left turn with a like a median there. So, and another thing is the cost. So both like, what is that? Who are like a traffic signal operation required that. Or not doing that the way we did it and the Riverside is a more costlier solution than this one. Okay. It doesn't operation doesn't require that we don't suggest that. Okay. Are they going to cut in another exit out of the Southwest corner. If you notice where the only exit is on the Southwest corner from those shopping center. They would, if you wanted to make a left, you're going to have to cross this new median or these bumps or whatever. Say that again, ma'am. If you're in the Southwest corner of this intersection and coming out of that little shopping center, which right now has hardly anything in it. But if you want to go north on beach, you will have to cross those bump things you're talking about to make to get into the left lane. Well, you can come out. You can come out into the CBS and come out. The bumps are only along the Gore that is striped in front of. Walmart proposing that on the Southwest corner coming out of the CBS. So the other side won't have that. No. Okay. I didn't realize that. Do you know why you did not use the same design as basswood because best would, if you look at basswood. They separate the travel lanes with the turn lanes with a concrete pad. Raised concrete pad. It just, can you guys look at that? It may not be possible. I have no idea. But if you look at basswood. The east west on basswood is. Is the 2 lanes, the 2 turn lanes are separated from the through lanes with a concrete pad. That's curb height. Yes, I think we initially designed like a 1st, a bad student that way and we get also some. Complain for missing the left turn, not able to get in opportunity to get in later in the left turn pocket. So that there's like both like pros and cons of doing that way as well. And this one, I think has been in structure in the median. So it's going to be impacted. So, I think that, that, that, that, that is another reason not doing that for this, this location. Okay. So you did look at it. Okay. When you add those medians, like, you know, what a few people are talking about those raised medians, it does give the panhandlers another area to walk along. And so it might be a thought as to not really wanting that. Yeah, no, you're right. It does. It does do that. Okay.  Thank you very much, Ivan for putting this together. And time for being on the being on the call. Thanks, Laura and Chad Allen for being. Being here too. We really appreciate your. The staff coming out here and telling us what's going on at various. In summary time so we can at least comment and see what's going on. Hopefully those. Comments if they can be implemented, they will be and if they can't, they won't. But we're very happy to see the improvements coming to far north. I keep. Second that. Thanks, trustee. Thank y'all for y'all's time. We hope everyone got some good information out of this. We will be posting these. These presentations as well as the videos of these meetings to. Project pages. And like I mentioned before, if you have any question regarding these projects. Feel free to reach out to me. My contact information will be on. Those presentations. Look forward to seeing you in May. Thank y'all. Y'all the green. Thank you. Good night. Bye.


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So I definitely try to get cocky and confident and make sure the hitter knows my presence how do you do that? Attack in with heaters Just have confidence as you're walking around Honestly, I don't know. I think it's just a mentality that you get and hope that the hitters intimidated Biggest takeaway and what the team has done so far. I mean It's now come both ways I felt like the pitching definitely picked us up early on in the year and now the bats have come alive and It's it's fun to play when both sides are going at full tilt So we've had a lot of success and we just want to keep rolling Like tonight, how did you feel about yourself? I felt good. I definitely needed to warm up a little bit more I felt came out of the gate and I saw got 91 and 93 on the board So I knew I needed to let it eat a little bit more But everything felt great when you're, you know, not getting the velocity that you're used to Yeah, I actually just talked about how Not having anything I felt like I still had good command of my sinker and a good slider today, but If I didn't have anything and I still got out so that would be The happiest I am with my own performance when I have all four pitches. I should be able to get out So I definitely not having to be low early and then figuring out late and and still getting ounces is nice


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Happy Thursday. We're coming at you with some baseball on football opening night 2020 tops Chrome baseball 12 box pick your team number 14 Very big. Thanks all of these lovely people here for getting into the action Right here Thursday the 10th if you have a little rooftop next year That means you won that in the in the filler pack break right here. So thanks everyone TJ with last spot mojo nationals. Thanks teach. Let's get this bell ready For potential train whistles Plenty of top loaders for this All right settle in folks Tyler, you know this, you know the answer to that You've been here long enough to know the answer to that. All right. So once again, sorry Here's here's the list once again. I have to move some stuff around slide These over here, you can see it on the top camera. I just need to make myself a wee bit of room Good luck everybody. There's tops chrome baseball 2020 edition. We're looking at two autographs per box on average Do I have financial interest in the football games? I do Colin, you know me. Well, I Couldn't have could not avoid Thursday night. Oh Nick Jaspy wheeling in here to help out. I know we need like a Nick just so you can see the transfer of the boxes right here this will help Break go a little bit more quickly Which I appreciate and then we'll probably have more time to kill that football mixer, which is only one One hangar box away 16 spots away from unlocking 28 boxes of good stuff We have to might have to squeeze in a little dinner in between now and the football mixer But then we'll then we'll be fueled and ready to go It's a hey for the 28 box ball, mister, and we'll do it tomorrow We just should we just call in the righty Sean out of the bullpen We'll just watch football Have him do the mixer by himself Make Ted do it. Yeah Why is that freaking out? Oh He's facing David Johnson in his football league In his life. That's all he has left in life. It's just fancy football the only thing that brings him joy I've never seen Ted more happier when I walked in today and said hi And he was like are we gonna do an extra long woo-woo for the intro today because I was like, yeah, sure Ted white it's like He's like football football is that he's very excited. I was like, all right. I was already fired up Ted got me real fired up Let's see what my financial interest here is here Colin I've got a little bit on Houston on the money line, which is looking pretty good right now in the first quarter I've got in some crazy props that I put like scratcher money on I've got like my homes 400 plus yards and three passing touchdowns at plus seven twenty five Brandon cooks with 150 receiving yards and two touchdowns That's at plus twelve thousand eight hundred one twenty hundred twenty eight to one That's not not very likely, but hey you put a dollar on it get a hundred and twenty dollars back I'm slightly more realistic one Brandon cooks 70 receiving yards in one touchdown plus 650 and Dishon Watson plus three hundred and seventy five or three hundred seventy five passing yards to passing touchdowns at plus Five fifty That's the only way that they're gonna win if the like cooks and Watson definitely have to get those numbers if they want All right, here is box one. Can you see? All right, so we're gonna breeze through these rather quickly obviously stuff like that Brandon McKay is Gonna ship In the interest of time we're just gonna Think really we're only gonna pay attention to Luis Roberts really in Kyle Lewis's there's Justin Dunn speaking of his teammate Kyle Lewis's teammate Justin Dunn autograph for the Mariners Kevin Mendoza Really didn't have going back to football really quick. I didn't have a strong feeling on one side or the other So went with fun little props Kansas City should Should pull away by the by the end I would finish better every over week one I don't know like no preseason as well. These are preseason games right here basically Look at Andy reads droplets to see that He's gas to he's breathing heavy He's breathing heavy into that into his mask. Yeah, his face shield that is Abraham Toro to 50 You don't think they were Right droplets could so like slip under there, right? If he has it droplets could be leaking out. I mean, who knows That's a cool mouth guard for Clyde Edwards Hilaire Yeah I was like I almost freaked out and then I realized that we still have gentlemen working on the gutters Logan Webb going to Gary and the Giants Gavin Luxe starting to heat up a little bit folks Dodgers Richard Miller No, wait, I need it. This is very important. I've got two Richard Millers. We have to distinguish between I already changed in the account, but there's a main Miller and a Illinois Miller that we have to not mix up Nolan Ryan die cut. It's just pretty cool. That's Tim Anderson Eloy and the White Sox have been looking really good And we've got a Carter ki-boom future stars Nationals that'll be for TJ with the Nats nice Nice ki-boom. It's a cool design here eight out of 99 There you go on the board early teach trout done Yes, Martin that is correct. You do have the bin bangers in this No, you didn't Joey I still need to go through orders after this. Ah, Domingo Leyva. Is he running his hand across? Is he a lefty? He bats both. Maybe he signs left drag dragging hand across that Smudged or something John Alfie's. I don't know With tops replace something like that. I don't know There's Kyle Lewis He's been playing some good baseball for the Mariners. So is Gavin Luxe playing well for the Dodgers I think are playing right now. There's a lot going on wait real quick real quick Lakers 84-68 at the end of that games over I feel like I feel like the Rockets aren't the type of team that'll like be like let's plug gutsy fourth-quarter Try to beat the Lakers Yeah It's Jennifer Brady know me Osaka There's Nico Harner to 25 Not a touchdown Too much mustard on that Isn't the second one didn't he almost get the first one two drops already To TD drops already for the Marcus Robinson They're Kelsey, you know, he knows how to catch touchdowns And we got Andres Munoz rookie auto for the Padres That's gonna be for Nick Stober. I think Carter Keeboom pretty guy. He's got some upside. Let's just say that Not sure if he's lighting it up just yet But not like Juan Soto or anything like that, but I think Carter Keeboom Trey Turner Victor Robles Juan Soto, I think are the core of that new Of the the young core of the nationals that is This hose a uranium to the 299 Robert with the Marlins the creep know what happens I'm trying to see what else is on tennis Osaka's up, I can tell you for one It's 40 40 but what about the third set Those are the those are the sets so you got to win 15 30 40 I know that that wins you one thing and then six things wins the set I don't know you can ask the French. I think they came up with it That'd be awesome All right, you are due to receive a rookie autograph of Well, they're gonna you're gonna see the team first See H Chicago Maybe Chicago L. Give me Chicago L. Give me Luis Robert. Whoo. That is nice Matthew Shearer picked up the White Sox straight up Scared money don't make money folks. Boom. Oh Matthew we're having a great time We just pulled the Luis Robert rookie autograph for a person who bought a team straight up No filler nothing like that just said I'm gonna pull the trigger on that We got that we got NFL on we got NBA playoffs on we got US Open tennis on All the all the big sports I'm sure things are happening in the NHL And they're they're teasing us on golf right here, too Baseballs being played you see all those runs scored yesterday. Yeah, that's ridiculous. They had a Yeah, they already had six runs in the game already against the Nats Not the Dodgers game coming up a little bit And we got Trent Grisham Padres next over that's pretty amazing actually it's better than baseball That's true Trent Grisham for next over in the Padres The last what the last Robert's over 400 nice, it's not bad you get that graded maybe There's gold wave Joey Gallo 41 out of 50 the Robert redemption. Oh, maybe live it'll go for more. I would think If they redeem it They grade it Matthew Shearer grades it He's gonna win a L rookie of the year. I would imagine Not too much competition, right? Jordan Yamamoto was one of the guys that gave up like a million runs yesterday 2.2 innings and like a lot of earned runs. That's a Louise Robert refractor. I want to say Yeah, it is nice one Matthew Shearer's the hits just keep on coming. Oh, that's a variation I think that bachette looks different from the other ones and there's the negative refractor George Springer Love comes from the French word for egg. Oh like a goose egg. Got it. That makes sense See, it's the French It's crazy egg words There you go Nice, that's pretty cool. That's for the blue Jay Sean Maddock Just throw more did he Watson just sit down next to my home and say hi. It's pretty funny. Abraham Toro needs to He's like hey, what's up? Astros Martin It looks like it's a blowout like everyone just left in the stands. Yeah, it looks like preseason looks like we have preseason It's a preseason blowout and don't oh nice Chris Ryan rather Yeah, Teddy was saying like next over cuffs Oh, that'll affect people players more perhaps Nick and Joe I think you guys need to move out out of the burning state and move to the Midwest Chicago would be a nice Jaspy home Yeah, I was gonna say if there's if someone made me move to a Midwestern city. I think it would be Chicago Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then maybe put a nice beach next to it I guess there's a lake is Aaron's of all The God's decrease in humidity Cleveland Indians that'll be for Robert Yeah, the snow I won't be able to handle That's right. You grew up in here like forget it. Do you have to do a lot of shoveling shoveling get power outages? There'd be your car would get stuck in the road if it didn't have enough change Wow, that's the shed variation sold for two oh two hundred bucks basically TJ saying that's crazy Well the fires are never near our house You know Thankfully there's Matt Boyd's nine, but snow would be on our house if we moved Chicago Yeah Tsunamis is a thing earthquakes. I'll take that over snow though Don't want to know There's Albert Pujols negative photo negative for Eric J and the on hells Prim says we can go to the Colorado for fire and snow. That's a trip Sean Murphy Oakland A's Capola good year for Patrick my Homes Good for you, buddy. We got Ron Hill or a velo That's for the Cardinals Mike G. Not the new face Dad's a ball player. I think that helps. I always think this is red a red parallel, but it's not So I heard I was telling the gang this earlier today the I don't know if you were listening the the most Who sold the most Jersey so far this football NFL Dustin May Greenway Tom Brady number two Offense and number two surprisingly AFC East no, it's a quarterback though. No, Cam Newton number two selling Correct, yes But then like third was like George Kittle someone someone said and then like Think so, yeah All right. Yeah, once well once we get that Spotify money rex then we'll just We'll just break. We'll just have apartments everywhere and we'll just break whenever we wherever we feel like it's like Hey today feels like it's a big game in Chicago. Let's go break there Just have a little mini Jaspy concert. Well, Jaspy Fest You know, yeah, maybe I'll get a ranch in Texas. There's no fires in Texas, right? I can't I wouldn't get a ranch here feel like they're be brush fire and Keen Wong for The Giants that's for Gary who I think yeah This brother's Colton thinking it Clyde had words of layer dust off those rookie cards And there's your dawn Alvarez rookie auto for Martin who won that spot in the Jumbo pack race 35 out of 499 Once we get Spotify money, we all get a free case break of 1819 prism. No That's not how we get Spotify money by giving things away for free No, sir Yeah, we actually had a boba shut short print Which is pretty cool looking Is that gold hunter doger? It is Hunter doger for the Royals that gold is going to Jarell Taylor more boba shats going out to Sean Maddock. What is the gigantic creature that can come into my home whenever? Whenever it wants what kind of monster is out there Rex In Texas, I don't want to see that. You know alligators in Texas going in giant armadillo, maybe More Louise Roberts go along with that autograph Matthew sheer giant spiders No, no, thanks No, thanks. I guess everything's bigger in Texas Joey. I guess so should I think Shane beaver you darwish might get science by the end of the year Things are only like what 15 15 16 games left and Chris Collins worth Sneaking to your homes and an orange Anthony Santander 23 out of 25 for the O's Thomas Bove won the Organs and Kyle garlic rookie out over the Dodgers Richard Miller Well, I think we've learned now that it's not so much as tips pitches were being tipped The pitches were being stolen By certain people Not him though. And we got Michael Bayez for the Padres Nick Stover I've got Zach Collins another autograph for the White Sox Matthew Shearer Whoa Well, it's this whole this this whole jazzy thing doesn't work out Rex I guess I could just move in with you and work for sweet water. There's Bobby Bradley autograph Yeah, well, I've got a backup now Yeah, with every with every carry Jeffrey, you're right Clyde Edwards hilarious are going up like a face mask for a second Harold Ramirez 75 yeah, stop running Darryl Williams more Clyde Edwards hilarious. That's hashtag good for the hobby God check on check on the Lakers Sandy cofax die-cut Lakers are cruising 99 to 78 was 740 left in the fourth quarter. There you go Lakers Doing work. I have no idea laser. Did you ask what's next? How am I supposed to know I've been breaking for the last 30 minutes Here's the last box right here I think I was going through orders at the same time doing this If you're gonna break I wish I had two extra hands Logan Allen to 299 Robert with the Robert primrose with the tribe Watkins touchdown Justin Verlander relic Yeah, looks like they take they take throwback cards The throwback design And then make it a relic card That's what it looks like Tiger's edition of Verlander that'll be for Capola Yes, you can now take it No, no, no, it's not you coming across as rude.  One out of 50 when I've been in the middle of doing this Colin posh for that's why I was laughing Rhea Just one man laser jet Just one man Just trying to get through this tops chrome baseball break Before I go through some more orders and see what else is gonna happen after this No, I think his knee went down a little bit early Rex. I asked about this a year Do you think we'll do pack breaks at some point? We do do pack breaks We do pack breaks all the time to help fill up breaks In fact, we did a jumbo pack break to fill up this break nice Kyle Lewis autograph Kevin Mendoza with the M's That's Kyle Lewis still been uh He's still been hidden. What's what's his what's his dilly-yo? Kyle Lewis. No, I'm slumping a little bit last week But still nice though promising start to hopefully a long career Kevin Lakers and football both commercials. No, oh like like everyone gets a pack. Yeah, I'm sure we'll do that I think price-wise It gets a little expensive sometimes. I think you would work best with Like a spectra football break or something like that. See oh, I said me, huh? It was elbow. I thought I got it The elbow went down first no touchdown I'll see you in a bit. Oh, I thought that was Clyde Edwards Lair first First TD was was not to be Kyle Lewis hyper It's another good one for Kevin and the M's And they're Sam Hilliard for the Rocks George Cobb got the Rockies Or does he I think that probably works best with stuff like that prism draft football like one Ottawa pack But I don't know I'm not sure if we're gonna do it do something like that too often I think to go one at a one box at a time sometimes a little inefficient Try to rock through a case roost our gray or also twins edition in this one goes to David Ross Cubs manager joining our breaks good to see you coach 89 out of 250 on that one and the last box ladies and gentlemen Good luck. Oh, I think the dinner's here and look at this an Orioles autograph. It's gonna be Hunter Harvey For the O is Thomas Bove Dustin May blew away 19 out of 75. I love when the parallel matches the color of the team and Richard Miller with my Dodgers and Another there's Aaron's brother Austin, Nola Rookie autograph for the M's in Austin, Nola get traded 103-87 340 left for the Lakers. There we go Lakers That the Lakers MO lose game one and then figure it out and then not let teams come back into it another Kyle Lewis nice Oh, Austin Ola went to San Diego That's right. And my friend that is That that's nice trout right there too for the angels there you go ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe for jaskies case breaks calm and that Was a 12 box? Tops chrome baseball break 2020 edition all 12 boxes pick your team number 14 Here's a quick little autograph in Luis Robert recap nice relics there, too Nice autos couple cool relics in the mix. There's that boba shed short print Which is pretty nice and Luis Robert refractor Luis Robert autograph Carter key boom at the beginning and Some Justin Dunn as well. So pretty awesome stuff ladies and gentlemen big. Thanks everybody who got into the axe and really appreciate it I'm Joe once again, and I'll see you next time on jaskies case breaks calm


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Iwan Marie Chupwanya from Malawi, 50 years old woman working for medical aid society of Malawi. I deal with patients, doctors and hospitals. That's the type of job that I do in Malawi. About 5 years plus I've had a back ache and I've been seeing my GP for all these years. The pain was progressing and I was changed on the painkillers I was receiving. And then this time come 2022, the pain was getting worse. So this other day as I was having my lunch hour walk, my leg just froze while I was walking. Then I went to see my GP. They said, I've given you so many, several painkillers that are strong. But this time I'll not do anything. You continue with that but I'll refer you to a orthopedic surgeon, which he did and I went to see the orthopedic surgeon. We have the orthopedic surgeon speciality but we do not have the spine specialist in Malawi. So he said, for this I'm going to refer you to Manipo. I chose Manipo because we have been sending so many patients and the success rate of all the patients that we sent to Manipo was very good, 99 plus. When I came, we came through the international registration. We registered, we met friendly frontline officers who were very helpful, told us everything that we were supposed to go through. After that the same day I was able to see my doctor. Recently we had an experience of treating one of the top officials from Malawi, Mrs. Annie, who came to us with severe back pain and leg pain, making her difficult to walk and stand for long time. She was barely able to walk a furlong and we diagnosed her using X-rays and MRIs to have lumbar canal stenosis with instability at lower levels. We offered her a surgical option knowing the severity of the functional disability and she happily accepted to undergo the proposed surgery. The way they received us and the way they treated us made me calm, made me feel at home and it gave me the belief that always we are going to be assisting. Post surgery she had recovered quite very fast and in a day she was able to walk few steps and in a weeks time in the guest house she could manage to walk a kilometer or so. After surgery my doctor came to see me and asked me are you having any pain from the concerns you had when you came?  You really feel that no matter what the way I'm being treated I'm going to recover and indeed I had a quick recovery then I was discharged and went to the apartment where we were staying we were told that the nurse would be coming every evening for the injections and one of the physiotherapy doctors would be coming also every day for physiotherapy which have been through that and now I'm able to walk or the pain is gone all the problems that I came with concerning my back have disappeared. The general spirit at Manipu is very good, is warm and that alone is healing. Your healing starts immediately when you walk so thank you to Manipu Hospital I'm very grateful now I can lead a normal life, go back and assist my people in Malawi.


This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community matters here. Welcome back to human-humane architecture here in our tropical paradise of Honolulu, Hawaii. That, if you look at popular media for sure, or lifestyle media, actually has been the coolest a while ago, almost like a century ago, and I hate to say that, and we got to get it back to that. And De Soto and I have been on a roll recently at the beginning of this year, so to speak, to look for some of these gems from the century that might potentially be endangered. Yes, that's right. And so today we want to focus on one that is sort of typical for a couple of buildings here mid-century, and I would say they were on this sort of hula hoop thing. Hula hoop thing, we might say that, circular buildings. Let's bring the first picture and we see, if we can get the first picture now, we can see actually... There we go. Three of them. And the one at the bottom is my neighbor back in Waikiki. That's a circle tower from the 60s, and so is the one above, which is the Jade Tower in Kaimuki. Yes. Both still existing, but the one we talk about today is the other one. Which one is that? And that is the Varsity Building, which is located on University Avenue, and we have been told by somebody in the know that it is threatened with potential demolition, and so... Oh, no. Oh, yes. We don't like that, and we are sorry about that, and we want to address that. Nor one's historical why one's that, and I pulled that picture here, if we can zoom back out of it. We can see, I just pulled that from the web, so you guys can do that too. And they've been writing this article, I think, some years ago, in like 2013. Yes. Where they already sensed that that might happen. Correct. So we want to start talking about the creator of the Varsity Building, and that is the next picture, who is an architect, and we apologize because we, you know, once we heard this like few days ago, we said, okay, let's do the next show, let's scramble together. You didn't even have the chance to go into your marvelous archives, or at least not Dick Dieb. Right. But you went out and took pictures while I was down with the flu. Yes. So we did our very best, and I pulled this here from myself when we, at Delcomo, had a talk story that also you did one of the best ones ever. Thank you. And this one was Pete Wimbley, the architect we're going to talk about, later partner, Mr. Gu, Don Gu, who was giving a slideshow about it. Yeah. And so I took this from the screen, and this is a picture of a slide he did, and you see the master of the time, Vladimir Asipov, that's very familiar to you personally and professionally sitting, and you see Alfred Price standing next to him, and the guy sort of almost in the middle to the left who looks the most casual is our guy of today's show, and that's Pete Wimbley. And there he is in his aloha shirt. Exactly. And while sort of rushing this time, we didn't pull from a previous show that we had shared probably his most, say globally his most popular building, and which one was that? Well, that's the Alamoana building, and when we say it's popular, it's because when it was constructed in 1961, it was so prominent in the skyline of Honolulu that on television and in movies, you very frequently could see that Alamoana building in very prominently in the background. And plus I brought something here for Ken Barken. And you brought something here, and let's get back to the studio so everybody can see what Martin has got. And that is the German DVD of the film Blue Hawaii and starring Elvis Presley. And in that film, in more than one scene, you can see the Alamoana building in the background. And you can see that too. And I have to thank my best friends, Kirsten and Stefan, who gave me that. So it's called Blowers Hawaii. That's the German version. And it's available these days in the store. As it should be. As it should be. It shows it's still popular. That's right. There's this building, but at the end of it, sort of the celebration, at the end of the movie, it celebrates another building. Absolutely. It celebrates the Coco Ponce Hotel. Exactly. We did an entire show. We did. Unfortunately, one that is threatened as well. Yes. So poor Pete left and right. His work basically gets endangered. Yes. But since we're in Honolulu, we choose to show another project, which is the next picture. Correct. And there's also something we have touched at a certain point. And our most activist journalist, Kurt Sennberg, was the most outspoken labeling what has replaced that building, which is a high-rise, a timeshare condo. Yes. And he has taken it as the prime shot for his article that he called Ugly Honolulu. We analyzed a little why in a show that we called the Lanais or something like that. But this one here was prior to that. That was the Waikiki Inn, as we can see. And so that was Pete in his early era, which is very ticky, right? Yeah. But as you pointed out, it was also not specific to Hawaii. It was very Californian. It was this type of style, which took from a lot of different original Pacific indigenous cultures, was found in a bunch of other places, particularly California, but other places in the U.S. and even internationally, because it was exotica. It was an amalgamation of elements from different things that were not supposed to be 100% accurate to the cultures they came from. No, in fact, in the last time we talked about this hyperbolic parabola. That's a tongue-breaker in many ways. Yes, it is. But I tried my best. I went to North Carolina when I had a job offer at NC State, and there was a building just like that. This one here, sort of, Pete, maybe wasn't at its best yet as far as what he became later, because you can see this was fully glazed, and you can see the sun hitting it. So this probably needed AC, which isn't quite in line with a sort of polyneedee and sort of pre-fossil, easy breezy kind of way. But there were many Pete's, and the next one, his next picture, is another Pete once again, me from Don Gu's slideshow at Dolcomomo. He was racing his Lotus, his orange-yellow Lotus, together with this familiar-looking guy, Steve McQueen. So I labeled this Pete the Playboy. All right. So he was a guy who really enjoyed life, and we paired this sort of era with another project of his that's luckily still there, at least in large, and that is which one, next picture? The next picture is the Bank of Hawaii Tower in Waikiki on Kawakawa Avenue. And as you pointed out, unfortunately, the ground floor has been changed quite a bit from its original appearance, as you can see in these pictures. But the bulk of the building is still there. It has this very interesting exterior covering, which people wonder what it was supposed to be at the time in the 60s. Was it supposed to look like a palm tree? Was it supposed to look like the top of a pineapple? He, as I understood it said, it isn't supposed to resemble anything specific. That's natural. It is just a path. And I think that's an excellent point. And dating that, the Waikikian was early 50s or something? Middle 50s, 1955, 56. So this was 10 years later. 10 years later. So he had sort of moved on. And it's exactly like you say, you can see in it whatever you want to see it. So the typical tourist probably sees something exotic in it, some palm leaves or something like that. But the scientist, the engineer, just sees a repetitive pattern that is basically arches. And arches is one of the best forms and structure that the Romans and all other cultures have used. Have used for a moment. The user, I know someone who lives in there who says, you know, it's actually keeping us cool. Significantly. Not perfectly, you know, but sort of like in the range of the IBM building, which we'll get to at the very end of the show. So a very nice, true modern building that different than postmodernism, just wants you to see that one thing only.  So next picture is Pete, the provocateur, because these nice and sexy legs, I'm just wearing shorts. That is Pete. And so if we would put our feet here up, maybe we'd do it at this point. That's what we will allow ourselves to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we're believing easy breezy as well.  He wasn't. He believed he went to the beach where he got his ideas and he sketched. So he was a truly exotic guy and so probably his most exotic building or representative for that attitude is our today's project. And the next picture shows that this is a picture, all these next pictures come from you. You took this here and this is great because you took it from where the tree is and I teach this class here, which is called tree texture, which recognizes that the most comfortable place to be in Hawaii is under a tree. Right. And so this building has a lot to do with nature. We think, and in fact, we referred to it in a previous show that was called Tropical Brutalism and we made this reference to the saguaro cactus. I was familiar with it because I was in Arizona for two years before I came here. And a cylindrical form, which this building assumes, is a natural form. There are a lot of plants that assume a cylindrical form, not just cacti, but the trunks of trees are roughly cylindrical as well. And just like, not just formally postmodernism, but modern, high modern, a saguaro cactus has that crazy shape of a section because it shades itself. It surely does. Always at any time of the day, significant parts of self-shaded, that's how it survives. Right. And so Pete said, should architecture be here on the islands? And the next shot is one that I took on my daily bicycle up the hill to Manoa. And I always felt, when you step back and you see it from a distance, it's nicely pixelated. It's got these shadow dots. Yes. And so has the mountains in the back. Yes. So there's a sort of performative in the term performance, is also the term form. So there is this sort of alluding to a natural phenomenon that in fact... Correct. And the cylindrical part of the building is not solid. No. You are not looking at a solid concrete surface there. Exactly. So stepping back a little bit, next picture, this is the most familiar view that we're afraid will be soon gone. But that hasn't always been the case, because in fact, if I would have been here as long as you have on the island, I would remember what we see in the next picture. Right. Because next door to the varsity building, and in fact, before the varsity building, was a varsity theater. And you can see in this photograph, the varsity theater in the foreground and the varsity building in the background. And the varsity building took its name from the theater, which was from about 1939. And the varsity building is from the 60s. The varsity theater was a typical streamlined building of that time period of the 30s. It had a nice exterior, not only that thrusting out facade, but it had a large open space, which as you can see in the upper picture on the very top, was to accommodate people waiting in line or waiting for the next movie to start. So it had an ample exterior part. But those two buildings right next to each other meant that you didn't see either one of them completely by itself, because you saw them together. And today, of course, the varsity building has no neighbors, and so it stands by itself. Yeah, and then the lush vegetation seems tropic exotic to me, but picture top left unfortunately gone, I think in 2008. 2008 it was demolished, so the varsity theater is gone. Okay, so let's hope we can make that picture. Don't do it to this one. Let's go inside, which you did next picture. Right, so there we are inside the varsity building, which has small curving interior hallways, which in some ways are not that inviting, and you made the additional comment about, well, first of all, the hallways inside the Alamoana building, which we see on the middle lower right, are a lot less forbidding than that. They are more open, they're more easy and nice to walk into, but we also recently discussed the Kahala Apartments, which has a beautiful exterior, but the interior hallways again are really not very pleasant to walk around in, and those are the two pictures that you see in the bottom right. Exactly, but we imagined in the next picture, right, that if you would go inside into a unit, which we didn't have the chance, but as we sort of were estimating in the previous show about the Brise Soleil, that it must be pretty pleasant because you're not tortured by the sun and there's no glare, so it's probably a very comfortable work atmosphere within the building. But you do have a view as well. It's not completely cut off, but you also are not, as you said, the glare is going to be considerably reduced from, and this is at a time period also, let's say in the 60s, they didn't have film to put on glass yet to reduce glare, so this is, you just had plain glass and if the sun was coming in, that's what you got. Yeah, and next picture is when you step out of the building and into that open staircase, that's where I sort of reflect on what you just said, whether Kahala Hilton's, and you said that was a linear, I mean, that was a long, long, long trough, you know, trap trough. But this one here is a relatively small building and short circle, and it reminded me of the John Graham Alamoana building that we keep talking about, which they allowed itself the luxury, John Graham, another purely commercial architect.  And I also want to say too, of this building, the varsity building consists of two separate units. They are connected with walkways at each floor, but there's the large cylindrical building and then there's the skinny rectangular building on the right, which you see is where the stairs and the elevators are. So it's really two units next to each other. And plus you taught me that what we see on the right side was originally not there. It was open, easy breezy, and as for wind blocking, you know, this is where the Minoa wind comes and the rain can come with it too. Right. So let's go to the next picture, which sort of celebrates that iconic staircase sculpture, you can say. But then again, let's go back to these iconic fins where even more iconic. This picture and you walked inside and documented this interstitial space between the fins and actually the glass. Correct. And that's pretty remarkable because that's sort of under current developer terms is sort of wasted space. But it's actually not because it helps cooling the building because they got that buffer where the air is already not over heated. There's air circulation. Plus he probably never in his life, the opposite of it, imagine that would have allowed the depth for that nasty AC machine. That's right. But it allows the depth for window cleaning and for keeping maintaining these slabs, which we will talk actually in about the second to the next slide. But the next slide here is you once again zooming in into these iconic fins and what's in between. Right. And we discovered something interesting. Yeah, and you pointed out something which I would not have thought about, but in terms of engineering, the folded look of these interweaving panels actually adds strength to them rather than them being a flat slab. So that V shape makes them stronger, but it also adds interesting visual texture to the outside of the building. Exactly. If the camera could go to studio for one second, we could just simply demonstrate that here with our cheat sheet here. Right. Which, you know, that is pretty instable. Right. But once you start to... And then... And once you start to bend and you get structural integrity to it. Right. So once again, whereas, you know, you can look at these spandrels as a chevron and that's one of the most popular pattern that you find these days. You just throw them on buildings. Right. Here throwing on wasn't the intention. No. The intention was very engineering. Correct. It was very clever. Correct. It was very much like any indigenous culture would have done it in the past. Exactly. Including here. It wouldn't have been just... Do the most with the least, you know. Just to make it pretty. Exactly. It would have been because it made some sense. So to that degree, you can call this sort of and, you know, evolved indigenous building because he was just thinking like everyone had been thinking in the past in a progressive way and was just like doing this with modern means and methods and materials. Right. So this is really interesting. Yeah. So this next picture he took at the left part was taken where? Okay, that's at the very bottom of some of those vertical panels and this is where a large vehicle happened to strike these and chip off the concrete so that you can see the interior structure and there's actually rebar in there as well as this sort of strips of metal that have holes in them and that's the structural part of what was concrete. I said originally when I saw these I thought maybe they were metal with a finish on them and you pointed out, they truly are concrete. That's what you said in the Tropical Brutalism show but I have to say they probably shouldn't have been concrete because there's no space in there to cover the rebar sufficiently and I want to give credits and thank Kamehameha Schools, Maintenance, you know, bosses Bob Oda and Paul Kay because for many years you've seen this building almost all the time in scaffolding and they've been doing, you know, very, very careful, you know, and so thank you guys for doing that and probably little, you know, that they know that there would be sort of a sad, desperate sort of destination for the building to be taken down but the top right picture here is our previous guest from the early show, Urban Transcendence, Les Campers who's just demonstrating to our emerging talents here that these days you can make these fins again by using the carbon fiber reinforcement that doesn't have the spalding problem anymore so you can actually make them I mean these days that shows us again how ahead of the time Pete was correct and the problem with rebar is it rusts and carbon fiber isn't going to rust so if it doesn't rust it's not going to crack the concrete and talking ahead of its time that Pete had, next picture is also true typologically and this is a project that has informed me the most when I was in the Midwest students in my mid-20s and this was the hottest building and still is, this is I am Pays and we have East West Center from here we're blessed and this is a bank the NBC Bank at its time now it's bought by old Fargo as you can see in the picture I took at the top left and it's a marvelous building that has a lot in common you see that sort of structural biochlamatic fin screen bristle lay but also more important as importantly is that the structure makes that stretch to keep the lobby all open it's one big room it's free flow and it's as big as you can see at the top right that we were able to have these exhibits in the building, these big architectural urban displays and so that gets us to the next picture because Varsity was not unsimilar and these are all drawings we were able to obtain from Pete and actually we have to make a correction because the firm at that point was still called Wimbley and Cook and this one the drawings at the very top right are actually signed by Mr. Cook as partner but that was before it became how the firm is called today and so these are original drawings and if you look at that how passionately and playful he was sort of undulating that theme of circular and of swooping curves that's just pretty remarkable and obviously a left over from that original function as a bank as you can see First National Bank is that sort of a window where you can drive by it's got a road entirely around it so people can drive around and use the drive up teller and so if you're still not convinced why this is so innovative if you look at the plan usually if you're not an architect where structure goes down it's mostly more visible it's chunky so like black dots but were black dots in these drawings and the next picture is he didn't forget them no not in the center let's go that's what the lobby looks like today and thanks to you you shot this picture here and this is like the best usually we don't stand up in studio I know but let's do this here hopefully they'll forgive us for that so the building functions go on your one leg because that's what the building is doing and then it reaches out with one arm and then it is not touching itself but it's touching a ring and I should have brought a little hula ring here and we would have been holding on to that hula and that is how the building basically works and then all the top floor is coming up we're going to rest on our arm and isn't that crazy one leg is off the floor we're standing on one leg and we're holding our arms out and in the center that's what's holding up and the empty space so when we look at the interior of the ground floor of the varsity building that's what that is exactly and give us the next picture please that's the drawing that basically is the reflected ceiling plans how we call that and usually that's the least sexy that's the least sexy the most unsexy plan but here it reveals a super ingenious and it wouldn't surprise me if Pete Wimberley worked with basically Dr. Alfred Yee on that one I don't recall but it's just like amazing and what's also amazing is the next picture because you were in there and got an impression of the most current use because it's been empty vacant for quite some while and you were rather impressed by what's in there right so what's in there now is something called the YY Collective which is a Hawaiian themed gathering place they have art shows, they do music they do other types of events making use of this one big space that we just were talking about that's got this wonderful dynamic ceiling with the open beams that they've accentuated with the new lighting that they've put in and they are using the vault as part of their space as well so what you were pointing out is this is very innovative of an innovative Hawaiian use of what was originally an innovative building and we're really wow if I look at the clock we gotta keep going and it's innovative it's within Hawaiian tradition down to the details next picture down to the bathroom door and the bathroom door just simply points out that this is for men for women and for transgendered people as well so that's really inclusive and that's what Hawaiian culture traditionally was and should be but unfortunately hope everyone is seated we are again so next picture this is where our fear comes from because this is exactly across the intersection of where the varsity building is this is new exclusive hermetic invasive student housing going up what drives me the most crazy and you're from here so I can't imagine how you must feel where Hawaiian terminology is basically used slash abused for basically invasive development and why is it so invasive next picture because if we're up on our university hill next picture the right picture is you barely see varsity at all but you start to see that big chunk which the left part of the picture is that monster and so why is that why are we fearful next picture as far as the varsity building is concerned you took that picture it's going to be overshadowed by the new Halimahana building which the varsity building right now by itself looks really large and substantial but once that new building is there it's going to permanently change that neighborhood in the high-rise neighborhood and we're afraid what's going to happen until that develop it's going to be some years and it's going to be more Christmas trees which is what it's used for for that time there are more RVs which I thought RVs are not allowed on the island so never mind now we're doing a stretch we're like apologizing to Pete but saying if we don't want to be called basically yesterday people called Waldorf and Stettler the guys on The Muppet Show overly sentimental right the two old guys if we want to say we believe and change and evolution has to happen the next couple picture is going to be a project we've been doing at school and you've been starting to talk better about it than I could do it's called Primitiva and it is not unlike the varsity building a round building it would be a high-rise building it would be more open this is the rooftop this would be open for people to be growing things enjoying nature more if we see in the next picture we've got and if I'm correct this is just one of the different floors and so the floors open outwards everybody looks outwards you've got this inner part which again has more open spaces for people to do things you've got greenery just like we just did in the varsity and in the next picture we've got this is the ground floor and again open space we've got the open stairway we've got walkways with the central part open like we just saw and on the left we've got that kooky mode of transportation which is essentially a ski lift which has been proposed for moving people around in that neighborhood rather than automobiles that traces back to the bottom ride to Nicole Horie a board member here I think to Kawai who's proposing that bringing like the students and Minoa residents up the hill in an easy breezy correct and enjoyable way and that's very breezy I can tell you and in the next picture this is well tell me what's going on here well this is we go one step further where we're complaining about the hermeticness of Pete's core we open this up this has a green light so it's got a central skylight exactly and that's the central part and on the ground floor next picture on the very ground floor we would have in our there we go we've got a farmers market so you've got people bringing in food and you're buying food you're intermingling with people and that's where you're getting your sustenance so once again it's a social space in place it's dedicated to the public it's not exclusive it's not a controlled security controlled lobby where it's all about if your resident come in show you a card Ryan exactly and this is not like that so this is a break from what the most high rises are now which are exclusive in which if you do not have a past you don't get to go in exactly and not because of all that that you were so kindly explaining the next picture is that's how it would look like right in that same similar location except it's filled with greenery and I don't think you'd see the Beatles walking across the street but perhaps in your vision you might it's it's exactly and we want to be very clear we've been saying this not as a Doko Momo board member founding part of me as University of Hawaii member but mainly as a practicing architect who is a big fan of Pete Wimberley and as you can see is informed and inspired by him he's really one of my mentors and that being said let's not even think about what you just tried to promote in the last couple pictures but let's make our last picture which is the last picture and this is something if we can there we go this is a picture I pulled from from the web from Flickr so at the first glimpse because it's grayscale I thought this is a historic picture but you can see from the contemporary cars it's not that old so someone you know many people out here must think this building is so iconic it's so cool and we caught the shore the show Vanity varsity varsity vanity and this is just like on vanity fair right and he called Kidman is posing as Marilyn Monroe so there's something timeless about certain people about certain actors about certain images and this actor is certainly one of them and we want to point out to a positive case because it's a positive show and we are a positive positive yes we are yes we are because there was a case with Howard Hughes where they also originally didn't appreciate one of their buildings and wanted to tear it down and that's the IBM building and today they got it and this picture was pulled from them and probably celebrated as their showcase their showroom correct and both the IBM building and the varsity building have unique exteriors designed just for them and both of them are iconic both of them one is a survivor now the other deserves to be a survivor alright so to everyone out there who owns the varsity who wants to own it who wants to redevelop redevelop around it but let's keep it but let's keep yes alright with that stay exotic and stay like Pete see you next week bye bye