What's good? Josh the bull rocks back again with another video. So we're gonna check out 10 best stone cold Steve Austin feuds We did the HPK feuds earlier this week. So we're gonna do stone cold Steve Austin feuds, man This one is going to be a good one man stone cold.  So one of the notable feuds I can easily think of of course the Brett Brett the hitman heart feud the feud he had with triple H I thought that was a pretty interesting one. He's had some pretty good feuds with you know with different different characters Of course the one with the rock that's the noticeable. I think a lot of people gravitate to his feud with the rock and He's also had some good feuds with the Undertaker as well And of course you got to put Vince McMahon in there the owner of the company his feud with Vince McMahon kind of poses him to the stardom that he was in the attitude area and beyond so Let's get right into this video appreciate all the love and support Let's do this bad boy stone cold Steve Austin is one of the biggest stars in wrestling history. It's true Ex-rated Unapologetic Austin captured the zeitgeist of the 90s and became the focal point of the WWE during its hottest period ever The attitude era yeah with his no efs given attitude and love of dropping whoever was near him with a stone-cold stunner Austin made a bevy of enemies from fellow wrestlers to company officials and even entire companies themselves If the Texas rattlesnake had a problem with you you would better be prepared for a fight Many great feuds the bionic redneck engaged in some were of course better than others And if you'd like to know which ones then give me a hell yeah More importantly shut up and watch this video I'm Sam driver from cultaholic wrestling and these are the top 10 rivalries of Steve Austin join us number 10 WWE and WCW Long before he was stone-cold Austin was stunning Steve in WCW Before Eric Bischoff fired him over the phone that is incensed Austin called his mate Paul Heyman who allowed him to vent his spleen at WCW on ECW Hardcore TV with Austin ripping everything from Bischoff to Mongo McMichael through WCW as an institution and all of the old Codgers who wrestled for them Austin of course had the last laugh joining WWE and becoming the biggest star in history when the invasion happened in late 2001 Austin put aside his hatred of WCW and joined the Alliance leading to a fight against a WWE that no longer appreciated him this led to some of the best heel work of Austin's career and finally the WWE audience had a reason to actually boo him as the face of the Alliance Austin Yeah, it was one of the scenes where it was hard to make Stone-cold a heel it took a lot of work But it was hard to make him a heel cuz everyone loved him so WWE title almost at hostage and would frequently clash with Kurt Angle and The Rock but more on them later Eventually WWE would emerge from the invasion victorious because well, they were always gonna one. Yeah number nine It was set up like way a big part of our mission is to create a space in which culture can be shared Brian Pillman They didn't get a proper breakup feud until both men found themselves in WWE in 1996 Pillman originally rekindled his alliance with Austin upon arriving in Titan sports But soon started cozying up with Austin's rival Bret Hart leading Austin to brutally beat down Pillman and snap his ankle in half with a chair and that is why we call it Pillmanizing kids the two would continue feuding as Pillman recovered with Austin invading the loose cannons home one night in October 1996 Austin had clearly forgotten that the loose cannon was well Pillman pulled a gun and attempted to murder Stone-cold in one of the most Controversial in wrestling history Pillman would officially join the Hart Foundation and assisted them in their war with Stone-cold Eventually lacing up his boots to fight Austin on Roy's war before the historic in your house Canadian stampede The foundation would emerge victorious from Canadian stampede But Austin wasn't done yet with the boys in pink and black number eight oh and heart After Canadian stampede Austin shifted his focus to this crazy. He was really feuding with the hearts man That's oh man. That's crazy. Yo, it's it shows back then even like the storytelling with WWE They knew how to Like increase the feud to the matches that you really wanted which was Stone-cold versus Bret Ward Owen Hart with the two having clashed in the tag division earlier in the year Owen got the decisive pin on Austin at Canadian stampede and that was enough to spur Austin on with the rattlesnake looking to end Owens intercontinental title run the two signed off for a match at SummerSlam 97 But if Austin lost he'd have to kiss Owens ass Unfortunately, though this match is actually remembered for Owen breaking Austin's neck a mistake that nearly ended Austin's career With Austin on the shelf Owen bragged about the incident wearing an Owen 316 tee taunting the new intercontinental And this is where they would take realism They weren't afraid to take realism and incorporate it into a storyline which made it more believable back then Champion from afar Austin went on to vacate the title But he made sure Owen would regain it interfering on Hart's behalf letting Owen know that when he was cleared He'd be coming straight back for him several months later and Austin was back and more popular than ever At Survivor Series Stone Cold defeated Hart once more for the intercontinental title and the Bionic Redneck took off into the stratosphere This is also when the Intercontinental Championship was the the stepping stone for you to be the WWE Championship champion number seven Shawn Michaels Austin didn't like the Hart Foundation Shawn Michaels didn't like the Hart Foundation neither liked each other But they put their differences to one side for a while to strip Owen Hart and British Bulldog of their tag titles in 1997 with the Hart Foundation dissolved after Montreal HBK ran virtually unopposed at the top of the WWE totem pole until Austin won the 98 Royal Rumble and set up a title clash with Michaels at WrestleMania 14 Austin not known for playing well with others had stacked the deck in Michael's favor by making enemies of all of D-generation X as well as I and Mike Tyson with which was one of the most craziest segments ever Mike Tyson getting into it with stone cold ridiculous X memorably crazy upper hand in the weeks leading up to mania But all this did was piss Austin off He would overcome the odds to sink a stunner and take home the gold whilst Michaels ate a jab from the Baddest man on the planet and retired from the business Could have been worse though if HBK didn't do the job then undertaker was allegedly waiting by the curtain ready Yeah, we yeah, we saw that in the previous video with Them talking about HBK's greatest feuds. Yeah, he didn't want a job out to Well, not job out, but he didn't want to drop the title to To stone cold and the undertaker was like, yo, if you don't do it You and me we're gonna really have some issues. All right, we're gonna we're gonna throw down like he was Backed in undertaker and I think all at any point then take was always a locker room leader, bro So you didn't you didn't want to cross them Burger meat and speaking of Big Mark number six the undertaker Heading into Somerslam 98 take her and Austin seven-year-old baby faces in WWE But mind games from taker Kane Paul bearer and seemingly everyone in between make taker's intentions unclear After a fantastic main event belt Austin would leave Somerslam with the gold still around his waist But taker would soon snap and become something close to satanic as he pursued Austin going into 1999 Take her would try and in balm Austin normal Buried him alive again completely normal before summoning his ministry of darkness You know to take over the WWE with the help of a higher power normal behavior After crucify I was scared of the undertaker at this point. I was a little kid. He's like, yo, he's crucifying people Man ministry of darkness. I'm good, bro Didn't totally 100% normal taker would dethrone the rattlesnake at over the edge 1999 Before the higher power was revealed to disappointed Gears Austin wouldn't take those insults lying down and took the title back on the June 28th Raw in one of the highest rated segments in WWE history Yeah, one last battle was slated for fully loaded where Austin would again emerge victorious leaving the corporate ministry in tatters number five Kurt Angle During Austin's high I did it. I did it for the rock. I did it for you With his first reign as WWE champion coinciding with Austin's return the two would circle each other and where little cowboy hats Full-on feud untold the invasion after Austin hit Angle with a stunner to defect from team Alliance Angle wanted Austin's and that's when you heard some of the best commentary from Jim Ross. Why oh, no I think that was a win. Um, I know he turned like he turned heel against the rock But it was so it was still some good commentary because boys JR sold the shockness of it. I use this. It was great, man. This is I miss it miss it so dearly WWE title but Stone Cold was having none of it Angle won the WCW title instead But before he could face off with Austin the rattlesnake screwed Angle out of big Goldie then retained the WWE title at SummerSlam Despite Angle winning by DQ Kurt however would finally get his mitts on the title in front of a hometown Crowd at unforgiven 2001 but just two weeks later Austin would regain it and the two would set their differences aside as Angle joined the Alliance Because Angle would help the rock topple Austin and kill the Alliance once and for all number four Triple H by 1999 Triple H was ready for the big time Yeah, Steve Austin refused to put him over at SummerSlam and drop the WWE title to transitional champion mankind instead When trips got the belt oh, I didn't know that that's crazy Wow came back for Austin beat him at no mercy And eventually gave Rikishi 20 quid to hit him with when Austin returned later He was understandably fuming and proceeded to beat the absolute snot out of the game at backlash 2000 allowing the rock to regain the WWE title Triple H and it kind of makes sense back then because they cared about their characters like Value to the fans so I can see Stone Cold being like nah, I'm not gonna let you put me over Oh, I'm not gonna put you over like that. We'll just have Mick Foley do it because Mick Foley can take that loss You know saying I'm not gonna let you do it. I can see How it was back then cuz it if you was over that means you had the most screen time If you wasn't really that over he was gonna be in the back in catering for the most part That's just what it was back then proud to end Austin once and for all and attempted to run him over once more But Austin picked up hunters with a forklift and dropped it on they were literally trying to commit murder to each other in these storylines It was clear that neither man would be satisfied until the other was decimated So they signed up for the first ever three stages of hell match at no way out 2001 Triple H squeaked out a win then a few months later. The two became BFFs Yeah, and reigned as the two-man power trip And it just goes to show that real men are able to put vehicular assault behind them and move forward folks number three Bret Hart Yeah The mood in the WWE started to change Whereas once the virtuous heroic Bret Hart had been at the forefront of the company He was now on the verge of being left behind a relic of past glories and he did not like that one bit Soon Hart returned from hiatus crossed paths with Austin and it went from one to a hundred at the drop of a hat Hart defeated Austin at Survivor Series But Austin would cheat Hart out of the 1997 Royal Rumble and then Hart would properly snap The two were on a collision course for WrestleMania 13 and a submission match which would change both men's Destinies with Austin weeping blood from his head Hart locked in the sharpshooter and caused Stone Cold to pass out Achieving the rarest of the rare a double turn. Yep It doesn't usually happen But when it does you you got to be able to notice it and do to switch properly Stone Cold was technically a heel going into this match Bret Hart was the face and Because Stone Cold didn't give up blood dripping down his face though one of the most iconic Images in wrestling history. He didn't give up. He passed out. He never tapped out People started to Cheer people I wouldn't say cheer, but they started to recognize like yo this motherfucker didn't tap This is somebody I want to cheer for he didn't give up and Bret Hart wasn't you know, he was starting to lose to Steve in the overness and it was starting to happen It was starting to become more of an acceptable thing to cheer for Steve because he went toe to toe with Brett bleeding from his face and Didn't tap out People like to see stuff like that someone that's that's gritty. It's gonna give it.  It was hard not to cheer for the guy While the match stood as one of the greatest in WWE history Hart would then reform the Hart Foundation to help him drive Austin out of WWE Although the Foundation would win the feud Austin was now the man. Yeah number two I knew the Rock was gonna be here Rock had to be out of this list. It's the rock Intercontinental champion Austin decided to beat up the Rockabits before forfeiting the belt and launching it into a river, of course And the Rock was the corporate WWE champion molded in Vince McMahon's image Austin won the 98 rumble and took on the Rock at WrestleMania 15 and despite corporate shenanigans He toppled Rock and left with the gold two years later And the situation was the same a face Rock was champion and Royal Rumble winner Austin vowed that he needed to beat the Rock at WrestleMania X7 One of the best WrestleMania's of all time, of course, it was in my home city Houston, Texas back in the Astrodrome one of the best WrestleMania's of all time one of my favorites not even lie to you We never expected just how Austin would get the job done Yeah Siding with Vince McMahon to bludgeon the Rock with a chair and beat him at Mania for a second Yep another two years later and the two would clash at Mania for a third and final time with both men wanting to prove Who was the greatest superstar of all time after three Rock Bottoms Rock finally beats Stone Cold at Mania In what proved to be Steve Austin's final ever match And number one mr. McKnew it it had to be mixed in my man. This is the feud that helped them Beat WCW this feud right here stone cold versus the boss Many people could relate to this feud. This is why this works Because it related to the everyday working man and woman. You just sometime wanted to stun your boss This was that few that catapulted WWE to the just At the time WWF but to the stratosphere You couldn't this was the most hot thing everyone talked about every week Man the feud that pretty much single-handedly won the Monday night Yep turned WWE into the hottest thing on the planet Yeah, the importance of Austin versus McMahon cannot be understated Perfect the two quite frankly hated one another McMahon hated that Austin wasn't a tie-wearing corporate player The Fed could be proud of and Austin hated that McMahon was a stuck-up stuffed shirt trying to ruin his buzz The two did everything in their power to destroy one another with McMahon constantly stacking the deck against Austin and Stone-cold planting everyone in his way with a stone-cold stunner. They were countless I have a package at the door. Hold on Got a package from Nike Been waiting on this package for a while actually Supposed to be here yesterday, but we're not gonna talk about that back into the video moments between the two the beer bath bang 316 but man in Austin's face Austin in McMahon's face And let's not forget the Corvette filled with cement or the Zamboni Yeah, lots of vehicles and arrests basically the two only fought in a handful of sanction singles matches with Austin getting the win in a cage It's st. Valentine's Day massacre and Vince winning Royal Rumble 1999 Despite moments of alliance McMahon and Austin are destined to do battle until the end of time Yeah, man, this this was dope. I love this video man It just brings back memories man Stone cold has some legendary feuds legendary segments. He is the embodiment of the attitude era He is the embodiment and one of the best errors in wrestling history stone cold will forever be remembered when it comes to wrestling as The guy, you know I'm saying like when you think of wrestling You think of stone cold, you know saying you think of the rock you think of the Undertaker You think of Kurt Angle you think of these legendary people you think of Triple H HPK You think of these legendary people because without them we wouldn't have the wrestlers we have today Simple as that man, but comment down below. Let me know what was your favorite feud that stone cold ever had For me, it's gonna be It's gonna be the rock. That's one of my favorite feuds because they were both Great on the mic. I mean fantastic on the mic You believe both of these guys you believe what the rock was saying you believe what stone cold was saying You believe both of them can win. You didn't know who you wanted to win This was so dope. So the rock has to be my favorite feud that Oh, no, the favorite my favorite feud is stone cold versus a rock those those matches those back and forth promos We're fantastic, but I would like to know y'all favorite feud from stone cold who we ever feud it with Appreciate all of the support road to CCK. Appreciate y'all kicking to me. See y'all next time. Peace


Good morning, everyone. What a beautiful day it is here at NASA Ames. We're so glad you joined us. I'm Michelle Johnson, the Ames Communications Director here. On behalf of NASA, we are delighted to have all of you join us here in the live audience, as well as those of you online. As we announce this very special initiative that has the potential to advance innovation and inspire the next generation. We have three speakers joining us today who will give remarks. From NASA, we have Ames Center Director, Dr. Eugene Tu. From University of California Berkeley, Chancellor Carol Christ. And we have SKS Partners Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Dan Kingsley. Thank you all for being here today. And thank you all for joining us today. Regrettably, Congresswoman Eshew and Congresswoman Loughran were not able to join us as they are needed back in D.C. for the work of the people. Following remarks from our speakers, we'll take questions from the media who are joining here live as well as online. For media in the room, we'll also make speakers available for questions after the briefing. Before our speakers share the remarks and the news of the day, it's my privilege to welcome Dr. Saul Perlmutter, a Nobel Laureate who won the Prize in Physics in 2011. Dr. Perlmutter will share some perspectives on research and innovation to set the stage of the importance of today's news. Dr. Perlmutter. Well, good morning. And it's wonderful to be here in Moffett Field today for this announcement. As a scientist and a citizen, I'm personally excited to see the new work and the new ideas that will come out of this meeting of the university and its students and faculty with government and industry in this novel, Conception of a Shared Nexus. I thought it would be good today to just say a few words about the role of this endeavor's interests and priorities in the world today. I always find myself wondering, what is it that aeronautics, aviation, space exploration, and then for that matter my own particular involvement in the space sciences and AI and cosmology, what is it that they offer our students, our government, and industry partners and the larger world? To first, there are obvious huge benefits to society that come from all the practical results of training a generation of skilled engineers and scientists and bringing them together with leading government and industry researchers. They create things like the world of rapid communications, satellites of air transportation, not to mention GPS and laser technologies and new energy sources. And we are potentially entering a new phase of design and experimentation aided by our new uses of artificial intelligence to multiply and accelerate our engineering and modeling. Now my own research has not been targeting practical problems. I've been part of this community of scientists who have been trying to chart out the history and origins of the universe. That's practical. The research that I was engaged in and it led to that surprising result that the universe was expanding at an ever faster and faster rate. That research benefited though from a team drawn from just the kind of more practically skilled engineers and scientists and students and professors who will be working here in the near future. Clearly this will be an exciting source of shared interests between the new Grand Venture this new Grand Venture and the Berkeley campus mothership including its space sciences laboratory. But along with these applied science and basic science results there's also something else that these fields of interest in particular might offer in a world that is often riven apart by polarization and historical conflict both domestically and internationally. This is because aeronautics and aerospace, space sciences and cosmology are some of the emblematic fields of collaborative achievement. They need collaboration, people who come from all over to work together sharing expertise and ideas. So what can humans do when they come together to solve problems rather than struggling with each other? They can fly, they can go to the moon, they can begin to decipher a big bang universe. So my hope today for this exciting new project is that it gets to play a role in teaching a next generation to work together to solve big problems with the aspiration towards the amazing world that we know we can live in where all are cared for and all can thrive. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Poelmutter. Thank you so much for that moving insight and you captured so wonderfully the impact of research and innovation on our lives and the power and promise of people coming together for a common goal. Well, we'll now move into the news of the day. Dan, why don't you get us started with what we've all come to hear today. Thank you, Michelle. It's quite a transition to go from billions of light years, Dr. Poelmutter to 36 acres at Moffitt Field, but I'll try. It's very gratifying for everyone at SKS Partners to be here after four years of work with UC Berkeley and with NASA. We've had an amazing relationship with the University of California, Berkeley, and the strength of that relationship was exemplified during the creation of a name and a logo for this project that reflects the aspirations of both partners. The academic and research goals of the Berkeley Space Center are an essential element of the joint venture that we have with the University of California, Berkeley. So it is my honor to introduce Chancellor Carol Christ. Thank you, Dan. This is an extraordinary day for UC Berkeley for our academic mission and for the public that we serve. The planned expansion of Berkeley's physical footprint and academic reach represents a fantastic and unprecedented opportunity for our students, faculty, and staff. We're thrilled by the prospect of new collaborations that can speed the translation of research discoveries into the inventions, technologies, and services that will advance the greater good. This is a prime location and prime time for this public university. On behalf of the campus community, I want to thank Professor Pearlmutter for his moving and welcome words that remind us of the sobering contemporary context for this project and its highest purposes. We also wish to express our appreciation and gratitude to Eugene too, the director of the NASA Ames Research Center and to Dan Kingsley, the managing partner of SKS Partners. Over the course of recent years, this project has benefited from and has been propelled by the hard work, dedication, and creativity of your teams. The quality and outcome of our collaboration to date boasts extremely well for the future prospects of the Berkeley Space Center. And while they were not able to be with us today, we're grateful for the support that the Berkeley Space Center has received from Senator Newsom as well as Congresswoman Anna Eshoo and Representative Zoe Lofgren. At its heart, this endeavor is a resounding vote of confidence in the power and purpose of academic research and education in California and the Bay Area's enduring spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship and in the societal benefits that can be achieved when the academy, government, and the private sector join forces to expand the frontiers of knowledge and possibility. This is a wonderful neighborhood with ample room for a second world-class university and a pressing need for a palette that includes not just red, but a little blue and gold as well. May the Golden Bears thrive in their new home away from home in Silicon Valley. The San Francisco Bay Area has offered the world endless possibilities since 1849. Over 174 years later, the Bay Area remains a beacon that attracts forward-thinking people who are determined to shape a better future for humanity. That combination is why the world's greatest ideas still come from the Bay Area and disproportionately from the Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley is the world's preeminent center for innovative technology, and it has been for over 75 years, which is why there are so many other places in the world that want to create the next Silicon Valley. And while that ambition is admirable, there is still only one Silicon Valley. And there is still only one university to California, Berkeley, which is consistently ranked among the four top research universities in the world and the top university, public university in the United States. And of course we know there is only one NASA, the preeminent space agency in the world responsible for the greatest achievements in space exploration. So when the University of California, Berkeley, and NASA combine their research brilliance in the geographic center of the Silicon Valley, they will produce a critical mass of talent that will accelerate the aerospace industry. From urban air mobility to satellite remote sensing, the research from the University of California, Berkeley, and NASA will change the world and attract pioneering companies to the Berkeley Space Center. It's now my pleasure on behalf of our joint venture to share our vision for the Berkeley Space Center, the world's new home for the private space industry. The Berkeley Space Center is currently planned for 1.4 million square feet of research and development buildings on 36 acres. The University of California, Berkeley is developing a robust series of workshops, symposiums, and other industry events at the Berkeley Space Center. Alex Bayan, associate professor for the Berkeley Space Center, is leading these efforts and he will describe his vision during the question and answer session. We're here today to celebrate the next step in realizing the 20-year vision for a university-centered research and development campus to complement the NASA Ames Research Center. It's my honor to now introduce Dr. Eugene Tube, the director of NASA Ames Research Center. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Carol. Thank you, Saul. What an exciting time this is for NASA Ames. Reaching the milestone of kicking off this initiative with UC Berkeley has been over 20 years in the making. And it's a testament to NASA's commitment to building partnerships that advance science and benefit humanity. I want to thank everyone here at Ames and at NASA headquarters who has worked on this project and helped us reach this point. It's thanks to the dedication and perseverance of many who have spent long hours so that this project could move forward. And although I've been leading this center for over eight years now, I must also give due credit to previous AEM Center directors, including Dr. Pete Warden, Mr. Scott Hubbard, and the late Dr. Harry McDonald, who helped lay the foundation for what we're building and announcing today. I'd also like to acknowledge several of our guests from NASA headquarters, Assistant Administrator for Strategic Infrastructure, Dr. Joel Carney, Director of our Facilities and Real Estate Division, Dr. Eric Weiser, and from NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Dr. John Cavaloschi, who serves as a Director of the Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program. Thank you all for your support. I'd also, of course, like to thank the Ames leadership team, many of who are in the audience here for their support and steadfast commitment to this project. Ever since NASA took over stewardship of Moffat Field after the Naval Air Station was closed in the mid-90s, we have envisioned a major academic campus to complement the federal, industry, and academic research complex we are building right here in the heart of Silicon Valley. In many ways, this is one of the final major pieces of the puzzle that we have been looking forward to. Here at Ames, we are one of the original four NASA research centers, and we are chartered to advance world-class research in aviation, Earth, space, and life sciences, space exploration, and cutting-edge technologies to support NASA's mission to explore and to improve life here on Earth. We firmly believe that partnering closely with a leading educational institution like UC Berkeley will help us meet our goals for the future. Our NASA research park is already home to a satellite campus of Carnegie Mellon University, and Ames has a long history of partnering with the extensive academic community here in the South Bay Area, including Stanford, San Jose State University, and UC Santa Cruz. We are excited about taking this step and hosting the Berkeley Space Center here on our site. And I must mention a family-connected educational career. In addition to our experts, we will look to leverage our world-class research facilities here at Ames, including our wind tunnels, thermal testing environments, flight simulators, supercomputers, and our engineering and science labs. Partnerships, like what we're announcing today, truly represent how NASA Ames will be supporting our missions of the future. These partners, located right here in the NASA research park, include other government labs, major universities, established high-tech industry, as well as new startups. Having begun my career as a student in mechanical engineering and interning right here at Ames nearly 40 years ago, I personally know how impactful it is to have opportunities to engage with experts and researchers to receive their mentorship and guidance and their transfer of knowledge. The collaborations we're aiming for with the Berkeley Center will be a shiny example of enabling and enhancing just this sort of exchange. For NASA, this partnership has the potential to help inspire not only the next generation of technologies and discoveries, but the next generation of explorers, the students of today who will be the future engineers, scientists, technologists, and business professionals in aviation, science, and space exploration. We look forward to seeing the role this new initiative could play in that landscape and to continue the journey together. Thank you. What an exciting and beautiful vision of the future. Pushing boundaries and striving for new heights, thank you all. Well, before we transition to questions and answers, Professor Perlmutter, you know you have to leave us, but thank you again for the time today, your support, and for setting the tone for today's exciting announcement. Now, I'd like to call a couple other members to the stage to join us for questions and answers. Associate Provost Alex Bayon, and Executive Director Derek de Fries, the founder of this initiative. Right, so we have several reporters here in the audience on the timeline as well. When it's your turn, please state your name, your media affiliation, and then direct your question to a member of our panel. So with that, we'll get started. So I will take the first question here. I see one right here in the right alley. Just wait for the microphone please, thank you. Hi there, Zach Fuentes with ABC7 News. So can someone give us an overview of the timeline and some of the key milestones as we get towards completion of this, getting up and running? The process that we are starting next month is to analyze any environmental impacts under state law, and that process will take approximately two years. During that time, the SKS team will be refining their marketing plan, meeting the companies that could become the tenants of this project, and at the same time working with our architectural engineering team to develop the plans for the first buildings. It's anticipated that that first building could begin construction within about three years. Thank you. We'll take another question from the live audience here. If you have a question, please raise your hand and we'll bring a microphone to you right over there on the left. Thank you, Ariza. Keep your hand up so she has a target. There we go. Hi, my name is Sarah Clearman. I'm a reporter with the San Francisco Business Times. This may be for SKS partners, but I welcome anyone who wants to jump in. I'm wondering if someone can tell us a little bit about the estimated project cost and anticipating anticipated financing strategy, if you will, for this project? We are in the Bay Area, so the project cost is quite high. It's estimated to be about $2 billion at full build-out, and the financing for the project will evolve by phase. So you will have your normal construction debt along with your equity that is required. Thank you. I'll take another question here before we go online. Our online reporters, if you could add your questions to the Q&A sheet. And we have one right here, third row on the right hand side. Thank you, Ariza. Hi, Chase DeFleach-Antonio with the San Francisco Chronicle of the about 36 acres and all the buildings you showed up there. Any idea how much of that is going to be occupied by UC Berkeley folks and how much is going to be occupied by companies that you all bring in and add them to that? Any particular companies showing interest at this early stage? Thank you for the question. We actually do have already some indicated interest. UC Berkeley has a lot of industry relationships, but to go back to your initial question, we're estimating that approximately 10% of the occupying space will be consumed by UC Berkeley, but that isn't really where we stop. The intention really is to collaborate and cohabitate with industry partners that are going to be resident on the site. We want to make sure that those relationships are strong and that we can actually frame a whole network of collaboration from the companies that are on the site. So just to fine-tune on the amount of R&D space that we anticipate, probably about a million square feet that will be leased out to private industry. All right, we'll take a question from online. What kinds of private sector tenants are you hoping to attract? And what criteria will you use to vet them? We will be relying on our partners at the University of California, Berkeley to help us identify the emerging companies in the sub-industries that will be the tenants. Associate Provost Byron will be able to describe in a minute the different research clusters that University of California, Berkeley is working on that are related to this site, as well as Dr. Too could describe some of the work that NASA is conducting. But we anticipate that we will have a range of companies starting with urban air mobility, which is clearly a part of the industry that is growing rapidly. And there's a lot of work that takes place with the University of California, Berkeley, and NASA related to that. But there are others. The USGS has a very significant presence here at Moffitt Field, and they are one of the world's leaders in remote sensing, and that data is used by climate scientists, is used by people looking at the natural resources on Earth. So we anticipate that this is going to be a very broad selection of private industry mostly with our two partners. And just to complement what Dan Kingsley said, so the research programs at the University are organized around clusters. These clusters are centered around themes. I'll give you a few today, the future of green electric aviation, the future of mixed autonomy, traffic operations, space robotics, remote sensing, as we just heard, firefighting, climate change, planetary sciences. I think what's very important to recognize is that once we start assembling tenants in this new Berkeley Space Center, they will have R&D teams that are crucially focused around key disciplines that advanced each of these applications, in particular machine learning and artificial intelligence, data science, advanced robotics, computing, and many others. And I could just add to that, and I mentioned in my remarks that we're one of the original research centers for NASA. We work in every part of the agency, which is not the case for all the centers. And so we support science, we support space exploration, we support aviation and aeronautics research, and we support technology development. And so this makes us a great partnership here because we have a visibility into all aspects of NASA's missions and programs, and we expect that this partnership will not only be with NASA Ames, but will open doors to other parts of NASA and other parts of the agency as well. All right, thank you. All right, let's take another question from our live audience. Do I have a hand out there in the audience? There we go. On the left side, please. Thank you, Arizu. Just remember to state your name and your media affiliation, please. Hi, I'm Andrew Mendez, the Silicon Valley Business Journal. In my work in discovering EV tolls in urban aviation, I know NASA has a huge partnership with AFWORK and the U.S. Air Force. I was wondering if any of the research is going to be done here will actually contribute to those programs. Yeah, I can mention from our perspective, bringing NASA's partners and particular NASA Ames partners together with the university partners is a major part of what this is about. And so, yes, we have partners with AFWORKs, we have partners with industry, we have partners with the FAA, and the state of California has a strong interest in the future of revolutionizing the use of our airspace and EV tolls and urban air mobility. And so, these are areas that we certainly plan to bring to the table as part of this partnership. All right, thank you. Well, they say timing is everything. Why is timing? What is the time now for this project? Why is now the time? I'll let Derek and the Chancellor speak to the University of California's involvement, which has been many, many years. This is an ideal time for the Silicon Valley for the Bay Area economy because the private space economy is estimated by some organizations like the Bank of America as a $500 billion industry today growing to over $1.1 trillion by the end of the decade. That is very significant growth. That means significant growth for the Bay Area economy, employment opportunities, as well as education opportunities through the University of California, Berkeley. And I'll invite the Chancellor to speak after this, but the timing is right for UC Berkeley because we are seeing now more than ever some strong interest in creating innovation spaces on our campus. This is not the only one. And the opportunity to be in the center of gravity in Silicon Valley to create an innovation center that is focused on the clusters that we all talked about and absolutely feels right for UC Berkeley at this time. We are space constrained on our campus. We have run out of room, and so we need a place to grow so that we can continue to advance our projects for the public good. And I might add to what Derek said. In addition to the explosive interest in innovation and entrepreneurship on the campus, we have new undergraduate and graduate programs in aeronautics, aerospace, and incredible interest in space health or space medicine that's emerging on the campus. So it's a perfect time for the kinds of intellectual interests that are emerging on our campus. And I'll just add from a NASA perspective, the timing could not be better. We are at a major pivot point, we will, in space exploration. Unlike the last half century, the future of space exploration is going to be much more dependent on and reliant on partnerships. If you look at the commercial space industry and how it's growing, and also in the academic sector. Also, as Chancellor mentioned, the new aerospace engineering program that Berkeley has established and the new College of Data Sciences. There are changes in technology, changes in the world that, and especially in the environment that NASA works in, that makes this perfect timing. I might add, we have a new college at Berkeley the first in over 50 years, CDSS, the College of Computing Data Science and Society, which is eager for the collaborations that bring to bear the extraordinary development of data science and artificial intelligence to all kinds of scientific problems. Wonderful. The time is now. All right, I saw a couple other questions right here in the front row. White shirt, thank you. Hi, I'm Matthew Brown with the Daily Californian. I was wondering if you could speak to how much housing you expect to be committed to UC Berkeley folks as compared to the amount of Berkeley people you intend to bring in. So, we have a ground lease with NASA. So not only are they our partners, we welcome that relationship. The ground lease currently contemplates 300 units of housing. That could be a market rate, but it also contemplates additional student and faculty housing. So, we can and do intend to explore building student housing on the site to support the efforts here at NASA Ames. I wanted to mention that I think NASA Ames, correct me if I'm wrong, Dr. Two, but hosts approximately 900 students per year through internships. And we anticipate that some of those interns will be UC Berkeley interns. We're also contemplating teaching here. So, part of our degree pathway in aerospace engineering might be a semester instead of abroad, a semester in Silicon Valley. So, we think there's going to be some really exciting and enticing opportunities for students to not only do their fundamental research here at NASA Ames, but also with neighbors around us. Silicon Valley is home to a number of tech companies and early startups as well. So, what we're trying to do is open up the doors and open up opportunities for students to go to work for those companies and with those companies. Chancellor? I just want to add to what Derek said very well, is that we anticipate a kind of junior year abroad in Silicon Valley opportunities for undergraduates and also opportunities for graduate students to engage in research and collaboration with NASA Ames and to also have the opportunities for internships in the various companies that will occupy space here. We actually brought a number of students with us here today and we'd invite you to meet with them after, but they've already started. I mean, our students are incredible. There's a student here today who's already had one of their missions on the ISS. There are students here who plan to work for space agencies. There's another student who continues his academic career. So, it's really exciting to be a student at UC Berkeley right now because those partnerships have already started. We're not waiting for the first building to go up in three years. Maybe a associate provost by and can comment on that. Yeah, I think what we're really excited here is that we're really creating a learning and teaching environment and a research environment that just doesn't exist. It's hard to imagine any other place in the world where students can be on an airbase like here with such amazing research infrastructure. Not only that is already there with NASA, we heard we have the largest wind tunnel in the world, but also the ones we will build at the Berkeley Space Center. The diversity of talent we bring at Berkeley but also the intermixing of that talent with the NASA research staff as well as the private sector tenants we'll bring. And finally also a path to deployment and commercialization with the private sector. That type of ecosystem just doesn't exist today and that's really what we're launching here at Berkeley with NASA. And I guess I could add one more remark from NASA's perspective. The proximity and accessibility to students, to faculty, to resources and facilities is going to greatly benefit our role in supporting NASA's missions. Wonderful. I was one more hand. I saw up over. I addressed that question. Let's see. We have another question from online. The project concludes 18 acres of outdoor space. What is the logic of that decision? The logic is very simple. With 36 acres, it's a lot of land for 1.4 million square feet. And so we have the opportunity to create fantastic open space, which we know from the historic Shenandoah of NASA, is really enjoyed and valued by everybody who is here at the Ames Research Center as well as Moffitt Field. And everyone learned some lessons during the pandemic that open space is a really important part of your health and your mental health. And we see that as an integral part of all of our projects. If I might return to Professor Cromotter's really inspiring remarks about collaboration. We know so much collaboration results from people bumping into one another. I've been really struck by the intentionality of the design in regard to pathways and to people finding outdoor meeting spaces, bumping into spaces that really fuels scientific discovery and collaboration. We call those accidental collisions and I want to thank the team from HOK and the team from Field Operations who really put together that beautiful design. We know and we've seen that when you create spaces that have different elements from government, from academia, from private industry that those accidental collisions are magnified. So I like to think about the partnership with NASA saying alone we can accomplish great things, right? By ourselves we can accomplish great things. But together we can accomplish heroic things. This is an opportunity for all of us to come together to do some heroic things. Thank you. Let's stay on the facility. So according to the press release, the grounds in the buildings would serve as a test bed to pioneer and advance novel low carbon design and construction practices. Can you talk about the underground up aspect and other sustainability components of the project? Our director of development Tim Smith many years ago started talking about the opportunity here to develop a new project from the underground up and I know PG&E has borrowed that phrase for their ads but Tim's perspective is valuable. We have the opportunity to rethink how we use water which we know is a scarce resource in California. Can we recycle more water and use that gray water for more than just irrigation and flushing toilets? Can we use it for cooling the mechanical equipment on the buildings? How can we design buildings that are more sustainable, use less energy and once again provide a healthier environment for the people who are working inside? We literally have a blank slate to work with here and our goals at SKS partners are consistent with the University of California which has very strong sustainability goals that we're all going to work very hard to meet and see if we can advance our antiquated industry of the design and construction world into exploring what is really possible with new construction. If I can add to that I want to say that the quest to sustainability is also something that will continue inside the buildings once the buildings are erected. There's a lot of interest in the College of Environmental Design at Berkeley to participate to this construction, but even beyond that the research topics that we will be pursuing such as firefighting, planetary sciences, climate change and many other domains that are very close to what NASA is doing also will pursue the quest towards establishing a more sustainable life on Earth. And we at NASA will benefit from that as well because there's no environment more requiring a sustainability than where we're looking to go in terms of low Earth orbit and outer space and other planets. So true. I'm looking around here for any questions from our live audience. Any hands? All right. Looks like we have another one from our live audience, Deborah Werner from Space News. Workforce development is a major concern for space companies and government agencies. How could this initiative impact workforce development? I'll begin. The partnership between new industry and universities is so critical in workforce development we think these new opportunities that we're providing for both undergraduates and graduate students will help produce the kinds of professionals of the future that companies are looking for. And if I can add to that first we're not starting from scratch we're really excited that there's NASA already teaching classes at Berkeley for example, data science and aviation. There's already Berkeley activities conducting workforce training in AI. We had this last month at NASA Ames. So we're not starting from scratch. It's also important to recognize that it's not just training the future workforce, it's also retraining the current workforce. See, aerospace engineers like myself that were trained in the late 90s maybe did not have the chance at the time to take machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, computing and space robotics who didn't stay connected with academia. This is an opportunity to come back to come here to the Berkeley Space Center and be trained in these new disciplines that are changing disciplines that are fundamental to the quest of space and aviation. One of the things we anticipate is the university extension as well as our schools and colleges will be providing programs at this location for working professionals. Wonderful. Thank you, Arzu. Third row. Thank you. Mind just to state your name and your affiliation. Thank you. Hi, Chase Tieflich Antonio with the San Francisco Chronicle again. Can you talk a little bit more about the machine learning artificial intelligence application here both in terms of what you all are doing right now and how you hope to apply those technologies in the future in space? So the problems that are experienced both airborne and in space are very different than on Earth. For example, if you think about computing you need to be certifiably executable that means essentially you cannot reboot an aircraft while it's flying. If you work on different planets or if you work in the orbit you have huge latency, you have very low bandwidth you're doing computations on components that have to be radiation resistant because they're going to be exposed to radiations for sustained periods of time. All of these create new paradigms that have to be invented for computing both in space and airborne. And in addition emerging new domains like we have seen in generative AI for example are also changing the way human machines interact and that is something that we expect to have a huge impact that we'll be working on as well. And I'll pass it to director too who probably also has remarks on the NASA side. Yeah, for NASA and for NASA Ames we are wholly dependent on advances in machine learning and AI and we've been working with that for quite some time. If you think about our missions and where they go and as professor Byatt mentioned the time latency even our human exploration missions in the future when we are looking to be sustained on the moon and eventually on to Mars they're going to require systems in a very different way than we operate today where we have hundreds of people on the ground basically operating a space station that's in orbit. You can't do that when you're looking at the type of places we want to extend human presence to. So both from a scientific and robotic exploration perspective and even from a human exploration perspective and then also in aviation the increases in AI and autonomy and machine learning are going to be absolutely critical for our missions. Alright, we have one more question from our live stream from Emily Landis from The Real Deal Any question? Could you speak more specifically about the financing for the first phase of development? Who is the financial partner on the development and how difficult is it to find financing for a project of this size at this point? Financing is never easy but we are confident that the demand for this project will allow us to be able to sign leases in advance of constructing any of the buildings which will make the financing much more manageable. I think I can speak that from the UC Berkeley perspective. One of the things that we were very intentional about was to delever to the risk, the financial risk from this project and to so not only to make this about a public private community coming together but also from private financing so that we could ensure that the public dollars that we put into this project are extremely intentional and that we're not putting the public's money at risk. Excellent. Thank you so much. We've exhausted all the questions. Thank you all for joining us today. Before we conclude, I want to give our speakers a big round of applause for all their words of inspiring. Thank you each for sharing your vision of this really exciting endeavor and today is certainly one for the books. So that concludes today's briefing. For more information about NASA Ames and the materials that you've heard today, visit us at www.nasa.gov forward slash ames. Thank you all and I wish you a lovely day.


Aloha, I'm your host, Krista Stadler. Welcome to Condo Insider on Think Tech, Hawaii, where we explore all topics relative to condo living and your condo investment. Today, our guest is Randy Trager with Trager Design, here to discuss Ordinance 19-4, the new fire code of the city and county of Honolulu. And Randy, welcome to Condo Insider again. Hey, thanks for having me back. Thank you so much for being here. I know this is a really important topic and I've been kind of promoting it and encouraging people to watch this particular episode. Can you, I don't know if you want to start with telling us what it is and then telling us how it came about or why it came about or whichever way you want to do it, but I kind of wanted a little history of why it was implemented as well. Okay. It got started because there was a tragic situation recently just a few years ago at the Marcopolo Building. And what happened there was a disaster to put it mildly. The city officials, fire department officials, they just said, we're not doing this again. We don't care. We're just not doing this again. So, oh, next slide. And what they did is they convened the city council and this is like the third rendition of this bill. It's labeled 19-4 and it's in effect May 28th because that's when the first one passed. But it concerns how you fire protect and make life a safe place in a high-rise building, apartment building, like a condo. And that was the whole thrust of this. So, in order to preserve life, which is the real function of anybody that protects people, such as the fire department people and the police, how do you protect life? So, this then generated a statement essentially. And the statement was real simple. Why don't you do the next slide? Okay. And if you have a building that has eight floors or more, then you now are affected by this new fire code. Let's move to the next slide. What does it mean?  So, what does that mean? Here in Honolulu, the fire department has identified 373 buildings that need this. It just so happens that out of that, there's 42,500 apartments. We have to May 2026 to May 2030, depending on the kind of things that have to get done in order to have compliance. So, one of the questions always is, well, that's expensive. Are there any options? And the answer is yes. And we're going to talk a little bit more about this in a few minutes, but it's called the Building Fire Life Safety Evaluation Assessment. And it's to be performed by licensed design professional authorized by the building management that has to be done in such a way that the design professional has to use his seal or stamp. He has to be authenticated and he has to sign it, the report. And essentially, so I put a little note there, hope what that means. So, we can talk for a second here and just kind of get an idea what this is all about. Well, I definitely have some questions about this. Yeah. So typically, I think you had mentioned to me earlier that only a very small amount of the required assessments have been actually completed. So, there's quite a few more to go. How long does it normally take to do a full assessment? Like on average, I know it depends on the size of the building and whatnot. And what is the typical cost? How is the cost determined? What are some of the details of that assessment? What are they actually looking at during the assessment? Well, the assessment is trying to answer 17 very important categories. They range from mobility, getting people out of the building, getting firefighters into the building. Okay, that's actually all part of one part. And it goes on to 16 other categories after that. You get a rating or a score, if you will. That score is then tabulated at the end of the report. And you get it boils down to about six or seven questions would that end up saying yes, you comply. Excuse me. Or no, you don't. Now, the thing about it is, in order to pass as a building for fire life safety, you have to have all yeses. A single no means you're not qualified. You're not certified. So what happens is now you have to bring your deficiencies up to standard. And the standards are set essentially by the building codes. So that whole process starts at the basement parking garage levels goes through every floor, every type of room type of area, corridors, stairwells, lobbies, mechanical rooms, electrical rooms, janitor rooms, and it goes up every floor to the very roof. Because you have to inspect the roof also. Sure.  And there's three or four really key areas that they want to focus on. One of them is called a fire barrier. The other one is known as a smoke barrier, which most of us never think of. No, then there is the alarm. That's supposed to notify people that hey, we got a problem. And then finally, how do you get people out efficiently? And that's the real bubble. And the reason is a lot of our older buildings didn't really plan for these kind of things that well, they didn't do it. Are the idea I never asked this, but are these all these 374 units of 73? I mean, buildings, are they all residential or is this a combination of commercial and residential? They're all condo buildings. Okay. Okay. I thought I was just curious. And the cost for this assessment. How is that? Well, divvied up typically amongst the it's gonna have to be essentially paid by every condo owner in the building, eventually, because that's who always ends up paying for anything in a building anyway. So but to get this going, we have to talk to let everybody know they have to vote. Mm hmm. The management doesn't get to arbitrarily choose the law states the voter, the residents of the building vote to either install sprinklers, or they vote to do the life safety evaluation. And that's a recorded vote.  That's how serious is this? Yeah, that if they never voted, then they cannot move forward. And I would venture to say there are our associations out there that probably haven't voted yet, or haven't been able to come up with enough votes to form a forum or whatever it is, or yeah, right, right. But here's the thing, whatever the vote is, now it's applied entirely to every unit in the building. No one gets to opt out. Yes. Alright, now this is just we're just talking about the assessment. This is before either one of those decisions any work takes place regarding that. Well, that's the first decision is, are you going to do sprinklers? Are you going to do the life safety evaluation? That's the vote. Right. And then there's a whole then we're going to the next layer of it, which are going to be whichever path you're going to go down. Sure. Now the rather the ordinance is set up if you choose to do the sprinklers and the alarm systems, you don't have to worry about the life safety evaluation. Totally ignore it. Don't even have to spend the money on it. That's correct. But you do have to spend the money to engineer your building for the water system and all that other stuff and the alarm system, you got to put that in no matter what, which sounds significantly more expensive. I'm just saying it's going to be really expensive. The other option. But then you also have until 2030 to get that completed. Is that correct? It depends on the number of floors of the building. So if there are a certain number of floors, you get your time frame stretches to 2030. I see that's why you had the range in there. Correct. Yeah. 20, 20 states to 2030. It depends on the number of floors of the building. So, but money wise, let's look at it this way. If you're going to sprinkle the building, it's not it's numbers in the range of the mid 20s to the mid 30s per apartment. Oh my goodness. Is the going idea right now. Nobody really knows because no one's done it yet. So when you ask how much is it? Nobody knows. Hasn't been money yet. So everybody's a guinea pig. Well, I wonder if this is going to affect sales for those older complexes that are I would imagine that's a whole other conversation. Conversation. Yeah. Okay. So you're right. So but whatever it is, it gets divided out. Now the life safety evaluation to perform the corrections probably is half. Yeah, or even a third or quarter of doing the wet sprinkler system. Interesting. Wow. All right. So so for the assessment, just the assessment, how long does that assessment take typically? Well, there's only two companies doing it that I found so far. They're both engineering companies are specialty engineers. They're not fast. We can tell because Mr. Dennis, the fire chief, as of the middle of January, he had 12 out of 373. Yeah, because and he was really disheartened that it was that small. So what he did is in the middle of January, a third week of January, he had all his building inspectors, because they know their buildings, right? Take a hand prepared letter from Mr. Neto's and personally hand deliver it to every building manager, face to face, eye to eye, hand to hand, a friendly reminder that they need to get on this and get going. I think that's a really good idea. Yeah, they took them three days. They only had three days to deliver these to all the buildings. That's amazing. But they did it. Wow. Now. What's happened after that? No one knows. Yeah. Well, they're going to have to get on a waiting list with one of these two companies to do the assessment. So they really have to do is get their vote. Well, that that yeah, I guess that goes before anything, doesn't it? Yeah, that happens until the vote. I have to return the vote into the fire department. Do interesting. Yeah, because that's who wants to see the vote is Mr. Neto's the fire chief. So each board has to take the responsibility to provide that vote on some type of document to the fire to the fire department. It's got to be documented. It's got to be legitimate. It's got to be that, you know, there's always somebody that's going to complain about whatever, but whatever the vote is, it applies to the entire occupants of all the buildings of the building. Alright, whatever that vote is. So if they decide not to put the system in, Oh, you know what? I think we're gonna, we're gonna stop and gonna get into a big long discussion about something and we've got to go to a break. So stay tuned. This is extremely important information. If any of you live in a condo on a condo, I should say, or part of a board. So please join us after the break at condo insider with Randy Trager. Thank you so much. Aloha. Out and about. It's a show that we have every other Monday on Think Tech Live here. We explore a variety of topics that are really interesting. We have four organizations, events, and the people who fuel them in our city, state, country, and world. We've got some amazing guests on here like all the shows at Think Tech. So if you want to catch up on stuff, tune into my show every other Monday and other shows here on Think Tech Live. It's a great place to learn about stuff, to be informed. And if you have some ideas, I'm on my show. Let's talk about it. See you later. Aloha and welcome back to condo insider. I am your host, Chris Stadler here with Randy Trager with Trager Designs talking about ordinance 19-4 regarding the new fire code. Well, it's not really new, but it's deadlines are coming up quickly. So let's talk about pick up where we left off and talk about if you if your board does decide not to go with the full sprinkler system installation, and they're going to go, they're going to move forward with the assessment. What is the deadline to have the assessment? I guess completed, right? There's two steps. First, you have to turn in the assessment, and it has to be documented, etc. with all the things that you got to, you know, by when? That is May 3rd, 2021. Okay, I think we have a slide for that just to really, really nail that in your brains, right? Right, it says conducted, but what that means to the third martial guy is he wants to see it. Yes, by that date. That's exactly what he's talking about. So we're like, we're not talking a little bit more than a year from now. And if I understand understood you correctly, there's only two companies that each have one person each. So two people doing this assessments, which could be a month to two months long, right? Yes. So if you haven't already, people got to get get your board going and get your vote and decide which way you're going to go so you can get these deadlines. Right. If they don't meet that deadline. Is there some type of fine or penalty? Yeah, it's funny. I asked that one of the fire inspectors, he said, Well, right now, the plan is they will get a notice of violation from the fire department. I'm sure there's some number dollar associated with that. Well, that means you have a clap and you have to bring your building into compliance, or you have to show efforts to bring your building into compliance and to be honest, it turns out what that means in English, you have to file a building permit application to bring your building into compliance. Oh, and you wouldn't otherwise if you had completed the assessment on time. Well, that's the next step after the assessment. Yeah, okay, so they have to get a building permit to do the work. So the assessment is completed. You meet your deadline. And now you need to move forward with actually making the changes in the building. So let's talk about if you don't choose to go with the full sprinkler system. What are some of the types of things that that they're going to be having to change in their building? Well, smoke barriers is probably the single largest concern. And the reason is, in a high rise building, it's been proven statistically, nation actually worldwide for a number of years, anywhere from two thirds to three quarters of the people who succumbed to a fire in a building like that, it's because of smoke. That's what does it because there's a lot of toxins and smoke, a lot of toxins. And they come from the finishes that we install and other things like that. But we have to address a total of 16 categories. Smoke barriers is only one category. Fire barriers is another category. And those are defined by building code, what they are and how they're supposed to be constructed. Older buildings in the 60s, 70s, even through the early 80s, in mid 80s, they were kind of lax on doing those sorts of things at the construction level. And that's just because that was the nature of construction at the time. Today, just because the building seemed to be okay in 1972, doesn't mean it's still okay today. So what happens now is we have to compare the building to what is anticipated to bring compliance. Now, that's what's going on. And we have 16 categories to do it in. And one of the biggest categories is getting people out of the building. Oh, a plan to get them out. Yeah, that's the first thing on the checklist. How do you get them out? How do the fire department people personnel go in? How do you get them out safely? So nobody gets hurt? How do you get them out? And the higher the number of floors, more difficult it is. Imagine, right? And so some will have to build new stairwells, possibly. Is there any any group other than being eight floors or less? Is there any other type of building that would be an exception to have an exception to having to do any of this? There is. It's a technical exception, kind of hard to explain. But if you're if all the floors of your building have walkways that are actually exterior of all the sleeping rooms and the apartments, and the stairwells are open and not enclosed, then those buildings can avoid the fire life safety requirement to go through. May not necessarily get them off the hook for putting in sprinklers and alarms, but it definitely but it can do that now. That's an exception. Every building has to be evaluated. Whether or not that exception really applies to the building. That's that's what it happens. And I'm really curious about smoke barrier. What would be tell me what they do to create a smoke? I mean, I understand a little bit more the fire barrier. But what what is this? Explain what a smoke barrier is? What does it look like? Yeah, well, that's, yeah, that's chapter seven of the building code. Okay. And the chapter is smoke barriers. But what do they do? What are they physically? You have this existing building that doesn't have a smoke barrier. What are you doing to it to create the smoke barrier? You have to seal connections and joints. Okay. Okay. A lot of concrete fabricated building concrete fabricated buildings, they have loose joints.  So sometimes the solution is fire stopping certain things. Sometimes the solution is collecting the door going into it. That's what I was. Yeah. Okay. Correcting the door of the apartment. Okay. The ductwork. Some buildings have not or they have forced ventilation with the fans on the roof and all the way in the apartment. It just goes out the top. Okay, because that's where they vent the kitchen cooking area and they vent the bathrooms. And if they have washer and dryers in the apartments, that's where they vent the dryers. Absolutely. They have those ductwork. Well, if you don't have and smoke travels up those ductworks and into all the apartments around the ground of the ductwork, even though there's no fire in there. Wow, that is just they're not asked to be corrected. Yeah, I can see I can I live in a condo on the 23rd floor. I can just I can just visualize everything you're talking about. And some of the condos have central air. Well, they have return air ducts. And so those have to be considered. What do you do with those? Because if one apartment is housing a problem, you don't want it to pump air it smoke air into other people's apartments. Absolutely, especially when everyone is sleeping. This also sounds like just a huge I hate to use the word disruption, but it's going to be no matter which way you go, there's going to be disruption to the occupants of the building as the work's being done. That's correct. And sounds like almost in most of these cases, again, no matter which way you go, they may have to even vacate their property for a period of time. Well, basically, you do it floor by floor. That's really the only way you can do it. And so you have to make your remedies for that for you to start from the bottom, work your way up or you start at the roof and work your way down. And that's essentially how you have to do it. And then there's testing along the way to make sure the work that you did actually functions the way it's supposed to. And there's, and you still have to put in the alarm system. Which connects to the fire department. Right. You still, no matter what, you got to put the alarm system in. And then there would be testing as time goes on. Has this type of ordinance and kind of the way they're structuring it been done in any other city in the United States that you know of? Well, Hawaii is unique. You know, Hawaii was all high-rise condo building rules and et cetera, et cetera, originated here in Hawaii. Interesting. Back in the 60s. Meaning that the other... They didn't have high-rise apartment buildings in other cities in those days, except for people like New York and some of the other cities, like Chicago, New York, and Philly. San Francisco and... Well, San Francisco didn't have a lot of high-rises because their soil doesn't allow for those kind of foundations. So they don't have too many. They have some now, but they're all office buildings, like trans-America and people like that. So... So we're kind of the trendsetter? We are the trendsetter. Or maybe the guinea pig? I'm not sure which way you want to look at it. I don't like using the term guinea pig. Well, somebody's got to do it. I suppose. But you are correct that we are paving the way because we have more high-rise apartment buildings per square foot, you know, per landmass on this island than probably any other city in America. Now, you have to go to Hong Kong. You get the other Asian countries. You're going to see lots of it over there. And you're saying thing in Japan, Korea, and all those other countries. You know, those... Because they lose to it. That's what they built. Yeah, exactly. So your company, you, along with it, sounds like... I have a team. Your team. You'll actually be, or actually are, you're providing the assessments now? Yes. Okay. Yeah, we'll be doing the assessments. We're connected with a contractor who has all the correct licenses to perform any of the correction works. So it's very important because not all of the contractors have the correct licenses. So they have to depend on other people coming in on a schedule basis. But if you have a contractor that does have all the proper licenses, they just schedule their crew, bang, bang, bang. Do you feel like... I'm feeling like it, but do you feel like the building department's just going to be bombarded with... As people wait in procrastinating, as we can see they are, and you know they will, are they just going to be bombarded with permits to get these things done? Yes. Yeah. I mean, I'm wondering how fast... I mean, everything has its delays. The voting and the, you know, all of it has its delays. That gets us back to the permitting process that's now in effect from December 2018. And what it says is you better do good quality and complete detailed information drawings, not omitting anything. And then you can go through the system pretty well. But the trick is if you short change the information on the drawings for expediency reasons, then your drawings will be kicked back and sometimes they'll just simply say, sorry, but your plans are rejected. Yeah. Start over. And they only have, they only reject them once or twice before they just... You get two cycles. Two. Two. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, better get... They don't care. I build the building because you get two. Yeah. Wow. So having some alchemy on how to put all that together is going to be extremely valuable. Right. The whole process. Yeah. And that's what I've been doing for a long time is condos and doing that. So I've got some familiarity. Exactly. Sounds like you're going to be very, very busy. Could be. But if people don't vote, there's nothing to do. Well, that's true, but it doesn't sound like they're really not going to have a choice when it comes right down to it. It's just how long... Well, here's the deal. If they don't vote, then they vote for the end sprinklers. Oh, that's just going to have to happen. Yeah. Yeah. They're not going to have a choice. That's it. So that's not to have your choice taken away from you and to vote and make the best decision based on the ownership of that particular condo. Exactly. Right. Well, I really appreciate you being here. And also, can you please share your website information again? It's triggerdesign808.com. Okay. That's it. Randy, you have all of this information and a bit more, actually, that we kind of cut out for people to go ahead and go on and do that. In fact, this entire presentation is on my website. Excellent. Just click on condos and then you'll see some stuff under there. Click on the buttons. And if you want to read all 30-something pages of the ordinance, you can click on that too. I went through it. It's fun fun. Thank you so much. Thank you all out there for watching Condo Insider. And I will see you next month. Take care. Aloha.


I'm really proud to tell people that I'm a volunteer because it's just like it's a really exhilarating feeling to give back to other people who have already given to us. Hey Hailey, how are you? Good to see you this morning. Hailey's volunteering has impacted our veterans at the hospital by improving the patient experience and really just an enthusiastic way she really puts a smile on the veteran's faces when she volunteers at the hospital. I've really learned how to listen to people because you could go and just start to strike up a conversation with the veteran and they've got your attention for the next 20 minutes because there's so many wonderful stories that they're going to tell you and you just listen and you enjoy it and you love it and learn how to actually talk to other people. Hailey is a remarkable young lady. She continues to work a full-time job while she goes to school, maintains a 4.0 GPA, active in school, runs track, and finds time to volunteer more than 1,500 hours at the Arkansas VA Medical Center. So, friends, you have good luck too, okay? I plan on going into the medical field and I chose to join the Army National Guard. I go to Basie Training this October and I am going to be a medic and I'm going to go to Arkansas State for College. If I had to say one thing to the other youth, I would tell them that if you really want something to fulfill your summer and get a good experience with others and figure out maybe what you want to do with your life, then this is what you should do.


Thank you, Mr. President, I guess not, Mr. President. Mr. President, we have a couple of good updates on the report I just gave at the conference table. One is that we have a big splashy newspaper. Gee, there's some familiar faces out there. Well, it's that way every day when I come home. Not really. Well, first, let me welcome you, members of the Senatorial Trust, and thank you for what you've been doing. This may surprise you, but for many years the U.S. Senate was not on the top of my hit list. Hit parade. Hit list. I just realized I said that wrong. Hit list is a different thing. Session after session, it voted to spend more, tax more, regulate more, and meddle more in the lives of American citizens. I think it was Henry Adams who wrote, If I ever turn anarchist, it will be for the fun of murdering a senator. Now, obviously, that never crossed my mind. Well, not often. But I think we all felt the frustration. Now, because there may be some people here getting uncomfortable, let me explain. That was before 1980, and then you helped to give us the first Republican Senate in 25 years. And what a wonderful gift that was to find in our election day stocking. And I can't tell you how absolutely essential and central it is to what we're trying to accomplish for this country. Without a Republican Senate, without Howard Baker as the Senate Majority Leader, we'd probably be just getting the cabinet confirmed by now. So let me say thanks right here to our Republican senators and our Republican leadership. They've done a wonderful job. But what I said a moment ago is absolutely true. Without that one house on our side, very little of the things that we've accomplished so far, if any, could have been accomplished. Business would have been still going on in the same old way. I probably would have had a lot of practice at vetoing. But even there, the odds of not getting them overturned would have been greater. There's been this Senate that has given us the ability and the power to, well, just a little sample of some of the figures, although you probably know them all already, from 12.4 percent inflation rate when we started. For the last six months it has been running at around 2.8, and for the last three months it's been running at less than 1 percent. And even one of those three months it was below zero. It was actually deflation. George Bush has been heading up a task force having to do with regulations. We've just through that task force eliminated enough unnecessary regulations that the estimated amount of government-required paperwork imposed on the people has been reduced by 200 million man-hours. Well, let me, as I say, say thanks again to our senators. I know you're working hard and all of you to keep that Republican majority and there is no higher priority this year. Now, if at the same time, and I know you're the Senate trust and so that's your top priority, your first job. If you have a little sideline time there and you want to help us get a majority in the House, can you imagine what that would be? But from my experience over the last 17 months, one thing I can say for sure, the more Republican the Senate is, the more responsible it is. And while I'm on the subject of responsibility, let me bring you up to date on what's happening with the budget. Although we didn't get everything we wanted, I was pleased the Senate House Conference Committee reached an agreement and now it's up to both bodies to pass the resolution and then for the individual committees to implement it. It's in the committees, especially in the House, that the whole thing may come unraveled by those pushing their special interests and their pet projects. But I want you to know I too have a special interest or two and I'll be sitting here watching the show ready to let out a yell on television if the Congress returns to business as usual. There are tough votes ahead for our people in the Senate and they'll need your support. And we need to give them some pats on the back and encouragement for the election campaign this fall. A Republican majority simply must be returned to the Senate so that we can carry out the programs that have been started already. The improvements I only gave you one angle, but the indices are beginning to come up. They're beginning to show that little turn that we've been looking for. And incidentally, some of them may not even know this. We reorganized the Inspector General's program and I gave them one assignment to be tougher than junkyard dogs. And they turned in a report to me every six months. And so just a few days ago they came in with their latest report and in the preceding six months they have found and saved $5.8 billion for the taxpayers of America. It's amazing what you can do with some cross-checking on the computers and finding out as they did a number of people receiving Social Security checks who've been dead for an average of seven years. They found another agency that was buying brackets at $318 apiece. They were available in a local store for $4 apiece. And one person was ripping off the commissary for $50,000 on pizzas. So they're doing what they're supposed to do and they're back out there now starting the fourth six months. But the progress we've made so far will evaporate. If we don't have that Republican edge and I know that you'll help us keep it. You know, I was just thinking you all are so supportive and so friendly if I didn't already have a job I might like to run for the Senate myself. Well, I'm going to get off of here and come down there and mingle a little bit so we can at least say hello for a minute or two. But bless you all for being here and for what you're doing. Just stay with it. And in the coming campaign I still think the issues will be with us. We'll be able to point to things like inflation and some of the things we're doing and the leadership, particularly of the House and on the other side we'll only be able to point to the fact that they didn't want to cut the spending and fought like tigers to keep from doing it and they didn't want to give the people a tax cut and they fought against that and if they want a campaign on that program let them go to it. I'll take our case to the people and I think you will too. Thank you.


I need you to have constant contact with me so I know you're not gonna disappear and leave me. See, the problem with relationships today is that we are in a dysfunctional dating pool. And I was been thinking about this, given how radically dysfunctional human beings are, how can we hold any bit of hope of actually attracting a good partner in our life?


Somewhere around the 90s to the early 2000s, there was a new operating system that Microsoft was working on in secret. The code name for the new system was London, named after the capital of England, and the company had high hopes for it to be the most advanced and user-friendly OS ever created, possibly for users from the United Kingdom. However, something sinister was lurking within the London code. As the release date drew nearer, strange reports started to come in from Microsoft employees. They reported seeing strange messages popping up on their screens at random times, even when the system was supposed to be in sleep mode. The messages were written in an unknown language, and no one could decide for their meaning. As the launch day approached, the reports became more frequent and disturbing. Some employees claimed to have seen ghostly images flickering on their screens before the messages appeared. Others reported feeling a cold presence in the room, even when they were alone. Despite the growing concerns, Microsoft decided to go ahead with the release of London. The system was a massive success, with millions of people all over the world, including the UK, installing it on their computers. But soon, they too began to experience the strange messages and ghostly images. As the weeks went by, the messages became, again, more frequent and way more sinister. Some users claimed to have received threats, while others reported seeing disturbing images of death and destruction. The London operating system had taken on a life of its own, and it seemed to be determined to spread its malevolent influence to as many people as possible. In the end, Microsoft was forced to recall London, and the company never spoke of it again. But some say that the London code lives on, getting deep within the darkest corners of the internet. And if you're not careful, it may just find its way onto your computer, bringing with it a world of terror and darkness that you may never escape.