Hey, this is Brett, and this 2020 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Short Box Bighorn Level 1 Sport is stock number 13692Z. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters. This 2020 Ram 2500 has the 6.7-liter Cummins diesel engine. It's paired up with the 6-speed 68 RFE automatic transmission. This truck has been fully safe to be inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And it is 100% ready to go. Max tow rating on this truck is 17,860 pounds and has a max payload of 2,183 pounds. I found that info on Ram's tow guide website. I'll link it in the description below. I'm going to go all the way around in this video. Inside, underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation possible. Diamond black, pro-coats the color. I shoot all my videos in 4K. So if you have HD capabilities, turn them on now because it's your best way to check out the quality condition options and cleanliness of the truck before seen in person. If you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel which is youtube.com slash Summit Auto. Click the bell notifications. You'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Auto as well as access one of the largest catalogs of vehicle walkarounds on YouTube. This one comes with the 20-inch polished aluminum wheels and it has Firestone Transforce AT tires. These are LT28560R20s. And in the front here, they look like they have probably about 70 to 80% of the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is an exceptionally clean condition. This is a one-owner clean title history, clean car facts out of Kentucky. Headlight lenses are nice and clear. You get the painted bumpers with the sport package, factory fog lights and the front bumper parking sensors. Front bumper is in fantastic condition. I didn't see any major dens or dings on there. And you get the gloss black grille with a little bit of chrome trim by the Ram there. The hood is in fantastic condition too. I didn't see any major dens or dings on there. And the passenger side front fender is in really nice shape as well. Passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes on there looks really good. And Diamond Black, one of my favorite blacks, has got a lot of metal flake and it's got a lot of really big gold flakes in it. So when it hits the sunlight, it really sparkles. So it's really a cool color. As you go down this side of this 2020 Ram 2500, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by, just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Back wheel is in excellent condition as well and the back tires are brand new. So you can see just how much tread comes on one of these tires brand new. The driver's side is also brand new. We put those on in our safety inspection. Frame and underbody is in excellent condition. Has all the remaining factory exhaust. Looks really good underneath. Comes with some aftermarket step bars and lower rockers and cab corners all look really good. Coming around the passenger's side here, the box looks really good. You get this sport decal there. You could take that off if you didn't like it. You also get the LED tail lamps on this one. Coming around to the back, rear bumper is in nice shape. Does have the backup parking sensors and the only thing I noted on the entire truck really was just a little bit of a ding on that rear bumper but it does not affect the performance of the truck. Tailgate's in fantastic condition. Full towing package which includes receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. Comes with the fifth wheel and goose neck prep package. Little bit of light duty wear back here. And you get four pin and seven pin wiring as well as some side box tie downs back here. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. And coming around the driver's side just as clean as that passenger's side. Insinidense at Insinidings looks really good. And for full disclosure, this back wheel is in excellent shape and that tire is brand new as well. Down the rest is side cab and doors all look fantastic. Paint is very shiny and reflective. Heated fold up tow mirrors. They are built in blind spot monitoring and directional signals. They fold up like so and they fold in like that. Inside the Bighorn Level 1 package gives you the dark charcoal and black cloth interior. You get the 40, 20, 40 split bench seating in the front here. No rips or tears. Smells very clean inside this truck. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. Power driver's seat, factory, all other floor mats. Auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows locks and mirrors. You get the cloth and wood grain trim on the doors and these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Fixed glass rear window. This one does come with the load floor which is nice. You got muddy boots or tools. Put them on there.  Storage underneath there and you get in-floor storage back here. With removable bins for easy cleaning you can put ice and drinks in there.  Those seats go back down. All weather floor mat of course back here and the side curtain airbags. Child safety locks on the back doors and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look really good on this truck. Wanted to show you the tire and loading information real quick even though we went over the towing capabilities. Everybody always wants to see these stickers as well as the bin sticker. So free feel, feel free to pause them. Hop inside check out the miles, the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. Get that big horn animation there and then you can see that this one has 35,885 miles. You do get the 7-inch LCD display with the digital speedometer compass display, battery voltage and oil temperature and you can change all those corners to read pretty much whatever you want. Time, miles to empty, miles per gallon, average, current, all that, it's all configurable on there. This one comes with the leather wrapped steering wheel. Also has some nice safety features to it. Adaptive cruise control, regular cruise controls, gear selector, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, audio controls on the back. Also has the lane departure warning there as well. You get the 8.4 4C radio AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. This one does have the factory navigation system on it. There's highway 41, so that is working nicely. You also have your climate controls on here, which trucks off right now. So there you go. You get your dual climate controls right there and you get all your other controls on here including your backup camera, which they've made nice and crystal clear and HD. So you can get hooked up to your boat camper trail the first time, every time, and you can zoom in on that receiver hitch to make that even easier. Down here, you have more tactile volume and tune and climate controls as well as your factory brake controller, factory exhaust brake, tow haul mode in your front and rear parking sensors. You also get a push button four-wheel drive and way down there, you get two USBs, two USB Cs and an Augs jack. 40-20-40 split bench seating is pretty nice. You can fit six people in here, keyless entry, dual glove boxes and the passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition. Once again, I don't think this truck's ever been smoked in and the headliner is in great shape as well. 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Hi everybody, my name is Jason Klein. I'm the Senior Director of Education, Partnerships and Learning Solutions at Northern Illinois University. I forgot to start the recording at the beginning. I was so excited about our re-kickoff of the Career Pathways user group. Today's meeting was hosted by myself and most importantly, Heather Lucan from the Illinois State Board of Education, CT and Innovation team. Heather, you will see in this recording. So what I'm gonna do right now, this is actually being recorded after the meeting, but you're seeing this first because I forgot to record this part of the meeting. So I wanna give you a quick rundown of what you missed at the beginning of the meeting and then we'll rejoin the rest of the meeting in progress. So this was the first meeting of the Career Pathway user group for this 22-23 school year. We have currently over 180 members from all across the state of Illinois and all kinds of different roles that are part of the Career Pathways user group. And today we had over 80 people on the call joining us for the meeting. So the agenda for today's meeting was this, in addition to one very important thing missing from the agenda, it's actually one of the two things we're gonna talk about right now at the beginning before we join the meeting in progress. And that is data looking at the actual number of students, number of students who have earned a pathway endorsement during the first three years of this policy in Illinois. So these are the things we're covering here. Again, we had over 80 people in a wide range of positions from all across the state of Illinois, EFE directors, school district people, folks from other organizations. We are partnering with Heather Lucan from the Illinois State Board of Education, CTE and Innovation Team. You'll meet Heather momentarily. And over the next couple of months, Bill Rose from our NIU Illinois CTE project team will be taking over leadership on the NIU side for the Career Pathways user group. We do a jam board that was set up for this first meeting. We've got some notes in there that we will be responding to in the user group. We'll be dropping those in to the user group. And so it's really important that people are part of the user group. You can sign up to be a part of the user group through the ISBCT website or through our website. So here's the purpose. What is a user group? Well, user groups are really common in the IT space, oftentimes around like a particular software product. So for example, in school districts in Illinois, every school district purchases their own local student information system. Three of the most popular ones in terms of the amount of users in the state of Illinois are Skyward Infinite Campus and Power School. And for each of those systems, there are actually statewide user groups. And these user groups are like email lists. And every single day, literally all year, people post questions and other people in those groups pose answers. And this is just people in those roles working with those systems in school districts, helping one another out. Other people read those questions and they're like, oh, that's a great question. I didn't even know I had that question. Oh wow, that's how we solve that. We don't need to do that now, but we might need that later, whatever. And so those user groups really, really work well because people put questions out there and people then are willing to share answers or people put ideas out there. This is something we're trying. So it's really, really an important part of the user group that people are comfortable sharing ideas. In addition to the email component, which is we're using Google groups to do that, but in addition to the email component of the user group, we have the monthly meetings. And so while today's meeting is mostly Heather and Jason talking, moving forward, we hope these meetings are almost entirely all of you talking to one another as part of the group. Sometimes with presentations, sometimes a breakout room conversations, but that's the point of getting together each month is to share. This time we're meeting because there's a bunch of new information we wanna share out with everybody. New legislation we'll be sharing in this meeting. Again, these updated student endorsement numbers that I'll be sharing momentarily. So that's why we're called the Career Pathways User Group here in Illinois. Do have a couple of quick announcements we throughout. We have a statewide professional learning calendar for all things CTE of events offered with ISV. These are almost entirely free events and most of them are after school taking place online. We are in the midst of a severe substitute teacher shortage. So it's very challenging for school districts even if they can afford to do so to pull teachers out of the classroom. So primarily doing that. Additionally, we wanna give a shout out to the fact that on September 29th, we will be hosting webinars in the morning and after school, primarily for teachers and building level administrators to offer their ideas about what CTE standards might look like in the state of Illinois. ISV, there was a draft set of standards developed this past winter that are a combination of the career pathway technical competencies, the career pathway, cross-sector essential and playability competencies or the essential skills and then the ACT career cluster standards that were all put together by career pathway. And so we're looking for additional feedback on that and then the team at ISV, the CTE and innovation team will take that feedback and chart a course for moving forward in one direction or another with CTE standards in the state. And one final announcement in partnership with the IACTI statewide conference that will take place this year at the Marriott and Bloomington Normal on February 16th and 17th, the career connections conference will be taking place the day before as a pre-conference on February 15th. There will also be an evening event that we really hope to engage superintendents, school board members, other assistant superintendents including those in tangentially related to instructional roles like chief school business officials and human resources leaders. That will be a dinner and keynote. And so really excited about February 15th, 2023 the ISV career connections conference building community before the IACTI annual conference. So more information will be coming out about that before the end of September, including registration. So with that said, we are excited to share some career pathway endorsement data with you. We did share this at the beginning of today's meeting which you're seeing as the beginning of the video version of this. At this point, 48 school districts in Illinois from very large to very small in terms of the number of students and from the northern end of the state to the southern end of the state have had endorsement plans that are approved. And so that is about 10% of the school districts in the state that have high schools in them meaning secondary or unit school districts. We also have many school districts in the state not quite half that are elementary districts serving early childhood through eighth grade students. So because the career pathway endorsements is centered in the high school, that's where we get that 10% number. Now, just because they've approved plans doesn't mean they've yet awarded endorsements. They're planning ahead, they've gotten their plans approved. They have students matriculating up through those plans and going through the courses and the course sequences earning early college credit, moving through work-based learning experiences and eventually earning their endorsements as all those things come together. So looking at the actual number of students who've earned endorsements, again, the career pathway endorsements, the college career pathway endorsements have been available for three years now in the state of Illinois. This is the beginning of the fourth year of this policy in the state. And until this time, these have been encouraged. These have not been required. We've also, as you may have noticed, work through and are continuing to work through the COVID-19 pandemic. And so there've been a lot of challenges to school districts. And despite those challenges, we've seen huge exponential increases in the number of endorsements issued each year. So the first year, there were five endorsements issued in one district. The second year, there were, last year, at the end of the 2020, 2021 year, there were 47 endorsements issued. So there was about a 10-fold increase from year one to year two. And in five districts, if I remember right, across three career pathways. And then in 2022, that multiplied again by 10, 449 endorsements were issued across multiple pathways. And so we had another 10-fold increase. And so these numbers keep going up. Those are the number of students each year who've earned the endorsement. These are how those endorsements break down across the career pathways. So thus far, we've had no endorsements awarded in agriculture, food and natural resources, or in arts and communications. I do wanna point out that agriculture, food and natural resources is a pathway where endorsement plans have been approved at the district level. So we are likely to see students earning endorsements in that area either at the end of this current school year, at the end of the following school year in the near term. Then we now have endorsements that have been issued in 2022 in five of the career pathway areas. Finance and business services, health sciences and technology, human and public services, information technology, and manufacturing, engineering, technology and trades. The bulk of these endorsements have been issued in health sciences and technology and human and public services. That's been true each year. Though like this year, manufacturing, engineering, technology and trades was up to 22 students that earned endorsements in that area. So the health sciences and technology endorsements are primarily students moving through programs that have been CNA programs and the human and public services endorsements are primarily have been issued to students who are focused on education within the human and public services. Now that's great because both medical professions and education are areas of workforce need and areas of workforce need where we wanna ensure we have enough high quality individuals to fill the available positions and diverse employees in those professions to match the diversity of the communities that they're serving. And so this really does serve our communities and the state well in addition to serving the students earning those endorsements really, really well as they move through their scholastic and career journeys. So really significant increases in endorsements awarded. Again, one of the points we wanna make is if you're watching this video, if you were in the meeting, if you're here today, you are still on the front end of this change process. While we've seen this great uptick, there are still many, many, the majority of school districts in the state, the vast majority that have not yet had an endorsement improved, have not yet had a student earn an endorsement. And so that that will change significantly over the next few years. But right now sitting here in September of 2022, you are on the front end of that process. So with that said, we're gonna shift into defining HB 3296 here. And at some point in this conversation is where the rest of the meeting takes over. So with that said, we do want to talk about HB 3296. And so let's do that real quickly. So first of all, this legislation focused on two primary areas, and we're just gonna give you a quick high level overview. It focused on the pace framework and the college and career pathway endorsements. One thing to note is there is an opt out provision. So school boards can elect to opt out of the career pathway endorsement requirement. And a really important rulemaking is forthcoming. The rulemaking is gonna be great. There's, it's actually a great opportunity to kind of clarify some of the frequent questions that have come up over the initial years of the college and career pathway endorsement implementation. So I think the timing for that's really good. And Heather is leading that work and there will be opportunities for stakeholders to comment on rules. And obviously this is a group that may be able to influence that process and share thoughts and ideas. And so just a quick fun call out the two students here on the right. They earned career pathway endorsements this past year in manufacturing, engineering, technology and trades. And I think this picture was taken about a year ago as they were beginning 12th grade. So those are like actual examples of students who have earned endorsement. So first the pace framework. You have this, I'm not gonna read this all to you but a couple sections are highlighted that I wanna call out. So one of the keys here is the pace framework previously if you were to go to the ISAC website today and look at the base framework that's posted from the agencies on the ISAC website, it runs from eighth grade through 12th grade. Now this is required to go down through middle school that is actually in line with research that dates back to Clinton's first term to Bill Clinton's first term as president out of the Department of Labor actually that showed that students were making not career pathway the way we were just terming it like different areas of occupations but different kinds of jobs broadly decisions as early as sixth grade and frequently unfortunately students were deciding what they couldn't do what they didn't think was available to them by the time they were in sixth grade. And so really engaging students as early as middle school and even late elementary school is pretty important to ensure that students are really able to leverage all of their strengths and take advantage of the schooling opportunities in front of them to contribute in ways that they'll be really engaged in and that can benefit not only themselves and their families but also their communities. The second part is people wanna know this is the most frequent question I've gotten asked about this over the summer is so when will there be a new pace framework or do we have to make up our own? So either or both. So first of all, yes by next summer by the middle of next summer the state agencies are required to put out a new updated framework that runs from sixth grade through 12th grade. And so obviously as soon as that's out we will be publicizing that for sure through the Illinois P20 network. I know the agencies will also publicize that. So places to watch for more information about that include ISAC email list that you can sign up for on the ISAC website the Illinois P20 network and I'll ask Rodrigo to drop a link into the chat for that newsletter subscription form that is a free newsletter that comes out every other Friday. Our next edition will be out next Friday and then ISB both the weekly newsletter and the CTE newsletter. And if you don't get those ISB newsletters you can subscribe to those at isb.net slash subscribe and I'll ask one of my teammates to drop the link in the chat to that too. So we'll have two links for newsletters if you wanna receive those the CTE newsletter comes out regularly. The goal is monthly I think there and the weekly newsletter from ISB is obviously every week typically on Tuesdays but when there's no school on a Monday it's often on Wednesday. So these are the key highlights the PACE framework you do have to post the PACE framework once you have yours whether it's the state one or a custom one on your school district website implementation needs to begin in CPS by July 21st, 2024 excuse me for the 24, 25 school year and in all other districts by the 25, 26 school year July 1st, 2025. So more information will be coming out about that. Then the career pathway endorsements. So here are the requirements on this all districts need to offer one career pathway endorsement unless your school board opts out you need to offer one career pathway endorsement by 2027. So that's for the 12th graders leaving in 2027. So that means there's no time like the present to get started on that. Two by 2029. And three, if your district has an enrollment of 350 or more ninth through 12th graders. So if you're a unit district the total number of students that matters here is only the number of students in ninth through 12th grade but you have to have three offered by 2031. And so now it is time to move forward with this. And so we are sharing a slide deck that includes these slides and a couple others shortly hopefully next week with the EFE directors to share out regionally so that they can use it with superintendents, assistant superintendents and then can be used internally for high level professional development about what's in HB 3296 here. So that is what's coming. If there's any questions about that before we hand it over to Heather for the meat of this please throw those in the chat. Alrighty, Heather. Oh, wait, wait, we have a question. I've been waiting for someone to ask this question. This is a great question and this is perfect fodder for Heather's rulemaking, I suppose. So let me explain the question here. So one of the things to note, I'm gonna go all the way back to this slide. So you can have multiple ways within each career pathway to earn an endorsement in that career pathway. So different areas of focus within the pathway. So for example, I was at a school district over the fall of 2019, very early in this and they were already planning for their class of 2024 our current 11th graders now who were eighth graders at the time. They were planning two pathways within the IT career pathway and that there were two sets of course sequences and one set of course sequences. They shared one course in common, if I remember right but then one set of course sequences was focused on hardware and networking. And the other set of course sequences was focused on software and computer science and computer programming. And then you would move through your work-based learning experiences and earn your endorsement. So that's an example. Now the example that Laura put in the chat is an even more clear example. So within health sciences and technology, for example, you could have a sequence that focused on nursing maybe centered around the CNA, maybe not. You could have one focused on sports medicine and athletic training, for example. And maybe you have another one focused on nutrition. I'm making that up, but that's a possibility. That could be cool. It could include a culinary class that's focused on nutrition. So the question is going back to this slide where the requirement is to offer three career pathway endorsements, would those three in Laura's example, for example, in health sciences and technology or the two by 2029 in the example of the school district I gave in IT, would those count for this? Heather? Wow, that was a loaded one, Jason. Thanks for putting me on the spot with that. This is why Heather gets paid the big bucks. And if you don't believe it, just know that no one at ISV gets paid the big bucks. They are truly, truly our servants, our public servants. So no, this is a very challenging question for Heather. And again, let me just preface this to support her by saying the rulemaking process will help this. And we are very early in the rulemaking process. Heather, what do you got for us though? No, again, thanks, Jason. No, as I read this and as I'm looking through what the rules will be, I interpret this as that question that Laura asked, that would be no for that. So a career pathway endorsement, basically you have seven options. So even though you can specify different plans within that endorsement area, as Jason mentioned, it would have to be a unique endorsement because even if a student receives the nursing and receives the sports medicine, that's their program that they're following, but it still falls under the health science technology. So I would say that would be as, when I'm starting to look at the rules, I would write that as it has to be a unique endorsement. And again, Heather's saying that, Heather correct me if I'm wrong here, but that's based on what the legislation has given Heather to work with here, based on how the legislation has defined this. I think just about that question, they are aligned to a CIP, so that they do fall under specific programs that we offer. So, yeah. Heather, can you explain to those who may not know what a CIP coded, because that's really inside baseball as you speak. Sure, sure, so CIP code is basically, well that's another question, because we're going through defining all these things as we speak with all these. So CIP code, I would look at that as a sequence of courses aligned to a program. So for example, if you have a nursing or the CNA, you have specific courses that the state has adopted that say that this fulfills the career component for this program, the CIP code. And all of our programs, which are in all of our matrices and CTE, they are aligned to these pathway endorsement. So if you go to our website, it is the website for CTE and innovation, you can see the different matrices for each of these endorsements. So that's how they fall underneath this. So they are. I'm going to jump in and answer Amanda's question, and then we'll go back to Gail's. We'll give Heather a chance to read over Gail's question here. But Amanda, your question is a great question. So first of all, yes. I think that as we evolve, so this is a college and career readiness initiative, not necessarily specifically a CTE initiative. And so that means that CTE, of course, would be at the forefront of any college and career readiness initiative. So right now a lot of the courses have been CTE courses, but yes, you can certainly have a course sequence that's a mix of CTE and core classes or CTE and fine arts classes. That could certainly be the case. I believe we will also increasingly have core sequences that just include core courses as the core sequences while the students are getting work-based learning experiences that might be deeply rooted in CTE as well. So I think we're going to see some blending of that. The examples would be obviously as traditional science classes are involved where social science classes, where students are looking at things from policy angle, for example, so in economics or government or political science classes, part of a core sequence psychology. These are all places where there's lots of room for integrated core sequences. There may be actual room as some of our CTE leaders know for actual integrated courses as well, which is really exciting. So now let's turn it over to Heather. Gail did put a follow-up there with a smiley face. Okay Gail, I know what you're talking about. I shared with her yesterday the crosswalk and that's supposed to be up on the website. So I'm completely redoing the website. They just haven't updated that for me yet. I was really hoping it would be ready to go for today, but it's not. Yeah, Met has basically, so they've taken the 16 career clusters and they've broken it down to our seven endorsements. So what Gail's referencing is under Met, there are basically five of the career clusters that feed into Met. It wouldn't vary though. I think if I'm understanding your question, Gail, it wouldn't vary. It would still be the same. So if one of those five where what you're building your plan on, it's still going to be a Met endorsement. I think that's what you're asking. I hope that's what you're asking. And Heather, that's what I was trying to ask. So like with the SIP, the hyphenated SIP, like the Met-engineering, Met-transportation or manufacturing, those would not be identified as different endorsements. Correct, that is correct. So the hyphenated piece doesn't really make a difference in this case. Hyphenated piece doesn't make any difference except I'm toying with the idea of adding that to the endorsement seal. I've had some requests for that at the school level to be able, the district level, to be able to say they've received, especially for education, they've received the human public service endorsement slash education. So it shows that specialized program, which I think will help when we talk about kind of marketing this and what this looks like. So you may not understand at all what the human and public services or why that would fall in there. Don't really need to know that as long as you know that it's an education focus. So the other thing I wanna call out as being a real source of Heather's success, but that's definitely still in progress is Heather's been doing a lot of work behind the scenes with the SB team. And we'll talk about this next when we talk about the application process on the IT side of this, on the data entry side. And there's a lot more work to be done beyond this year and Heather's got some very clear goals in that space. And Joe, to the point of what you're asking about with like the endorsement plus the SIP code potentially, some of the technology may offer solutions for that. And so that's not a this year thing. Heather wishes it was, but she continues to do that work with the team within the agency and everybody's been great about moving that forward. It's just obviously there's a lot of priorities always competing for that attention of those people. I'm gonna jump in and answer Caleb's question. So Caleb your question kind of, if I understand it correctly, it comes right off that conversation. The seven pathways, I'm gonna say two things. So first on very simple level is there a public list of the endorsements, pathways that can be shared with schools. This is the list. It is the agriculture, food and natural resources, arts and communications, finance and business services, health sciences and technology, human and public services, information technology, manufacturing, engineering, technology and trade. So those are the endorsement areas. Now with that said, we'll let everybody in on a little secret. Our retreat day coming up on Tuesday and normal, we're very excited to be working with Heather, our NIU team to dive in and we're gonna do an analysis of both the core sequences and the team-based challenges this coming week. And then we may be contacting some of you after we've done that analysis to ask you questions and learn more about what you've done and what you've submitted so that we can start putting out some examples and exemplars out there to help other people in this direction. So that kind of work is coming, but essentially the endorsements themselves are in the seven pathways. Heather, do you jump in with Terry's question? Or do you want me to jump in with that one? No, no, no, no, we're good. Terry, Terry, yeah. Yes, the core content, yes, I agree with that. Need to be related to the career area. One of the things that I've been toying with, so you know that you have to have those, you have to reach out to your community colleges or universities to build those partnerships for the dual credit and so forth. So one of the things that I'm looking at potentially is putting into the rules where you can have one of those courses, Jason spoke on this before, being one of the what we call the core, the science or even a math course or that, as long as it aligns to what the program requirements are at the community college or university level. And perhaps that comes from an upload that you provide where it shows that the coursework that the student would need to have to get that associate's degree or certificate or whatnot that would provide evidence of that. But at least one of those courses need to be directly related to the career or the program that they're focusing on. So I wouldn't allow, just I'll just be honest, I would not allow you to use an English and a math course as your pathway courses. If you one of those was related to the program that you're applying for, then yes, that would be sufficient to do that. As long as, and if I need a more evidence, I would just reach out to you and say, show me, show me where it's saying that this specific math class needs to be for this degree or certificate. And I just wanna jump in on both Terry's and Cassie's comments. So the requirements are around early college credit and it is defined by credit hours by the equivalent of six hours. And so, so that gets messy, but in terms of like different schools, for example, for advanced placement, offering different post-secondary institutions offering different amounts of credit for the same score. But it does offer, so that early college credit definition allows advanced placement, IB, dual credit, all to be examples of ways one can earn early college credit, where dual credit becomes such the centerpiece of this is because of what Heather was just describing is by ensuring that we're really tying that early college credit coursework experience to the pathway, dual credit tends to be the most flexible to do that around these different pathways. Now that's not to say that an AP computer science course couldn't fit very neatly into an information technology pathway course sequence, of course it could, but dual credit allows you to work with your local community college, for example, and offer coursework in any of these areas. And so that's what that looks like. Articulation agreements are also an option. That is a possibility as well. So if you have an articulation agreement with your community college that says if a student completes this course, then it will be credited towards them or whatnot. And I've had that as well within these plans. Tara, one question if you could clarify in the chat, is your geometry and construction a dual credit course then? Cause they are not necessarily a dual credit course. So I don't wanna make an assumption there. So if you can drop that in the chat and then Heather, not at this time. So geometry and construction course could certainly count in a course sequence. It wouldn't count as an early college credit course. And again, most, my experience with geometry and construction courses, where I've worked with geometry and constructions, they were also not early college credit courses. So Tara, I wasn't suggesting that you were out of line by not having that be the case. So, but it could count as a course in a course sequence. Certainly for meeting that two year course sequence requirement around the pathway. Well, a lot of great questions there. And there's a great example from Eric. Thank you, Eric, that their geometry and construction course at Ridgwood is dual credit. Again, it can be, and that's gonna impact what geometry is being done in the geometry and construction course actually. And so that's great. Stephanie's asking a question about a new position that our EFE directors are familiar with, but many of the other people in the call may not be. And so, Stephanie, if it's okay with you, I'm gonna defer that question to outside this meeting knowing that we'll be coming back or the agency will be coming back and defining more about the college and career pathway endorsement coordinators separately to the EFE directors. So... And I can tell you, I can say this, Stephanie, that I just received during this meeting the possible dates for our first training. So, and that's gonna be, looks like it looks like that's the first week of October-ish is what we're looking at. So... Awesome. So I wanna, looking at time, I wanna turn it over to Heather, this is the last main part, talking about the application process. So Heather, take it away. Sure. So this is a flow chart that's on the website, but I thought that this would just be an easy way to go through this. So if you're new, a new district, it don't have anything offered to you. All these are going at the district level. You would submit an application. The updated application should be on the website soon. It's just, it's just tweaking a few of the words on that. But if you were to use the current application that's on there, that would be fine. There's nothing, there's no date on that one at all. Like I said, just some clarifying language on there. And I think change in who you're submitting it to because my email's different now. And so then once you submit the application to me, I provide access to the online platform where you can start to build your pathway endorsements and your plans. And then once they're approved, if you're ready to issue for the year, you would send in a district projection. So for those districts that already have access to the platform and you're already offering endorsements, you do not have to reapply every year. The only thing you need to do is send in your district projection. And the reason for the district projections, which I tell, I say all the time, you could put down that you have one student that's projected to get something for, say, health science technology. And at the end of the year, you send me your list and you have 500 students, that's okay. It could be the opposite as well.  It's just so I can monitor as it stands with the platform now, so that I can monitor who is in the process of going to issue those. And then I can send out an official letter saying that you've been approved for the year and also your seals for that. So once, so that's kind of the process for Atlas applying and for your responsibility, if you're already in the platform and you're going to be issuing, it's just the annual report or the district projections that you would send out to me at any point during the year, earlier the better, obviously. But again, you may not know until March that, oh my gosh, we have students that are eligible for this now, I'm gonna send this off. I'll send you your letter and your seals. And then at the end of the year, you need to submit, again, because we don't have this access in the platform yet, you would need to submit the names of the students and their student ID and the school districts that they're issuing or the school that they're getting the endorsement from. And then I send that off to the 15 so that they can put that information in for the college and career readiness indicators and for any promotional materials that we have on that. Yeah, I would love to say, I see that question, Nancy, I would love to say it's like within a day or two, but as it right now, my goal is Monday, I have a free day and some of the day on Tuesday, some of the day. And I can give them that if you sent one in to me. So I have them all, I have a huge binder that has all this because that's the only way for me to monitor it. So those will be going out. And then approval, again, that will probably be if you put one in and you haven't heard back on an official stamp of approval yet, that will be forthcoming as well. Awesome, so just a couple of quick things on this. This does evolve and it certainly has evolved since the beginning of the process. And it has evolved based on feedback from school districts. And thanks so much to the school districts who were early adopters and offered that feedback. And thanks to Heather for not only listening to that feedback, but working through ISV processes. Again, I mentioned this earlier. It is some of this is based on the fact that this is currently a different data collection system than other ISV systems like ISV, CIS and IWAS. And so the big overriding theory is you submit once and then you update the projections annually. And then in the future, the goal is to get this into IWAS or if the data and IT teams is be determined that CIS makes more sense, but ultimately into a regular ISV system. So it can be a more routine part of district uploads. Right. Anything to add there, Heather? Yeah, I will say that I've had two meetings now with the IT team and we're looking at as soon as possible, actually getting this into IWAS. So that as far as access, it would be just the same as if you were going to access one of the applications than I was, it would also allow then for that CIS upload to occur seamlessly. So my next meeting with them is literally to tell them what I need on each page. So I can't tell you when that will happen or but I tell them all the time, I get more and more applications and it's more and more challenging to monitor everything and to be able to run reports which I can't do and so forth. So we're pushing that if you already have plans in the system now, it will be transferred over to the application. So it's not like you'll have to apply again or lose your data. Amazing. Well, thanks for your work on that. And again, you can find these resources on the College and Career Pathway Endorsement website which is in the College and Career Readiness section. You can get there by just searching College and Career Pathway Endorsement on the ASP website. Yeah, that's gonna have a new look. We're gonna, I'm adding more graphics if I can to it or at least links to more graphics. I mean, that tends to be what they like to have. The updated application will be there. And you know that on the application, what I've added for this year and ongoing is for you to be able to identify additional users that need access to the platform. Keep in mind that if you get access to the platform and you try to add or invite someone on your own, it will not work and they will not be able to be added and I'll have to go in and kind of erase them and then send an invite from my own template. So just so you know, and I try to put that in the email out to everyone once they get access and if you need somebody else to add it, please let me know. And then I can send them an invite. So that can be updated. I'm hoping that'll be updated by Monday. I'm hoping I put the request in. So. One other call out here and that is that one of the things Heather started offering last year was office hours to answer specific district level questions about the college and career pathway endorsements and the processes related to that. And so you can see those are listed on this page. Heather has kept up with that and those have been very, very well received. And so while we're happy to offer all kinds of training and support office hours is kind of that tier three support way to get your individual questions answered. So please, we encourage you to take advantage of that when you have those questions and go directly to Heather. And again, she's also keeping track of those. I will say, Chris, you can go ahead and submit your application. That's some of the language that I changed on that. You do not have to have, you do not need to submit your district projections. And in fact, think of it as just the application is used to gain access to the platform. And even if you're years out, you can still get access to the platform and go in there and start to build things and see what requirements to meet it. And then once you're ready to go, then you hit that submit button and then we'll go from there. So you can even have a plan approved and not issue any endorsement. If you have it approved, that's great. And it just sits there basically until you send me the district projection. And then I know, okay, they're gonna be offering something this year. And I wanna jump on that last comment, Heather made. I mean, in my own career as an administrator and thinking through this, both having worked at the middle school level and at the high school level. If it were me, I would want to get our endorsement plans approved as early as we're ready to get those approved. I wanna be talking about those at the latest, beginning with eighth grade student and parent kind of orientation things to high school and getting kids excited about those experiences. And certainly right now, I may get one's approved that I already have students this year or next year who will be able to earn. I'm not gonna prevent those kids from earning endorsements, but as I'm also planning out and building stuff out, I wanna do that longterm so we can be building a culture around that, our school communities and getting kids excited about that. So Chris, I think that's a perfect example. So, yeah, Amanda, there are dozens of school districts and we can connect you with somebody. We can do that offline separately for one of the many school districts that has gotten an approved endorsement and had students walk across the stage, if you will, with their health sciences and technology. You can also throw that question out via email to the group. So with that said, because we have lots of people on here who have students who have earned endorsements, who can help you and that's the exact point of the group. So Amanda, thank you so much for asking. We'll also follow up. So we have dropped an evaluation into the chat. We need your evaluations from these sessions. Again, we know we dumped a lot of information on people today as we restarted, we had a law pass since the end of last school year. There was a lot to kind of go over and get out there. We will be tapping people on the shoulder and asking people to share things that we know they have answers to. If you have something you want to share with the group, please don't be shy about reaching out to Bill and Heather and myself and saying, hey, I'd love to share this at a monthly meeting. But we also know that making that email user group, that Google group come alive is a really important part of this. And so please, please, please share your thoughts there. But we're also looking to the Jamboard today and the evaluations from today for direction on where we go. So please take just a minute to complete that evaluation. And then there is the email address that you would send an email to if you wanna pose it to the user group. And I think that that is not the right date in October. And so I'm gonna double check that and fix the slide if it is incorrect while you are completing the evaluation. Thanks so much. Yeah, it is October 14th, which is, I thought what I had typed. Thanks again to everybody for joining us today. And yeah, please complete that. Thank you.


And welcome to Think Tech Hawaii and Human Humane Architecture. I'm DeSoto Brown. I'm this program's co-host. And joining us live from Germany, where he is currently stationed at, is our host, Martin Despang. And does Martin want to appear on screen? There he is. Hello, Martin. Hello, DeSoto. Hello, Hawaii. So what are we doing this week? We, as we promised in the last show, which was about our way of therapeutically dealing with the, unfortunately, soon-to-be-raised, e-raised Princess Kailani hotel, we promised to look at other hotels who might be keepers, right? Glenn, if we can get the first picture up here, please. At the very top left, you see when we were out there in this next project that we're going to talk about today, looking at the Princess Hotel, and it's using a methodology which you see at the very top right, which is a show with Timothy Schuler, our journalist colleague. And he uses a very interesting way of researching, which is walking. So on Kalakala Avenue, rather than cruising down in your convertible, where you can see things, but not things like we're going to talk about today. So what you see here is something I saw when, at some moment, I was looking up and I started to be intrigued. And you had told me, since it's being conceived, you have, you admitted you had never seen that the way we talk about it today. Exactly. I've never looked carefully at this building to be able to really analyze it the way we are about to do. Okay. Let's jump in because I was so curious. So I try to get up there. And next picture is me pretty much scavenger hunting here and sort of reaching out in a scary way here, flying over that little bell straight. You can see in the back are our favorite Pete Wimbley's Bank of Hawaii building. And at the very top right we referred to last week's show where, within that sort of international rationalism of the Princess Hotel, what gives it a sexy touch are these curvy, benign geometries, right? Which are pretty obvious, but what we're talking about today is less obvious, but nevertheless intriguing. And you can see that here that they went through the effort of basically casting this front with the panels. They're very, very subtly and cavely curved in shape. And try this today, good luck, because that's port-in-place concrete, the foam work, it needs skill, everything we talked in many shows we don't have unfortunately these days anymore. So let's look closer, go to the next slide here, because where I'm standing is on these little anise and they're using, implementing another very typical for the zeitgeist of the mid-century, the breeze block here. And next picture, it's done in a very sort of simple way here. These are not concavely curved manufactured, but they're just applied in this linear way and then sort of polygonally having this sort of breaking point. So that didn't take much to do that, but a very effective appeal. Next picture, what was your response to that? I was saying that there's a strong difference between the day and the night view here. What we're talking about is the exterior emergency stairs. And as you pointed out, every building has got to have those. These really are a feature, however, of this facade of the Outrigger Hotel, particularly at night when they are lit and the rest of the building kind of falls away and doesn't look as clear as it did during daylight. So between daylight and nighttime, the Outrigger Hotel has these two different views or different appearances based on just this one vertical stripe that's in that part of the facade. Exactly. And derived, as you said, from a very utilitarian sort of background and not blinked or bedazzled as they like to throw things on buildings today that make little sense functionally, but just try to catch your eye. So let's move to the next slide here to the next picture. And then as we know, in building codes, you need to have another egress. This is on the other end of that sort of double-loaded corridor organized building here. This is an internal staircase, probably few people ever see that one, but as you can see, there's some nice attention to detail. There's a sort of dark stained concrete in black and the guardrail is very simple but delicately done. It reminded us because our show is pretty much a play to you about, as we said, keep this one, don't tear this down or alter it in a way that it wouldn't do justice to its sort of initial sort of character. And the same, you know, we said that a couple of shows ago at the very top left here to my employer, U.H. Snyder Hall with similar features of breeze blocks and these sort of welded rebar guardrails, don't tear Snyder down, U.H., please. Right. So next picture. Most people will experience it this way in this hallway here. It is a double-loaded corridor. So it's a very generic American type of rooms on the left and on the right. Reminded us of top right are a show about the Kahala Hilton with similar features. But nevertheless, again, they went through the effort to widen the corridor in front of the room so you get more space there. And they were sort of soft edging it in this case here. So there's there's some subtle sexiness to even to that sort of very unsexy type of a double-loaded corridor. Next picture page here.  This is on the sort of upper level, the podium level, not on the ground floor, but elevated one floor above that. And this is here, you know, has a typical sort of ordinated carpet, pretty literal of these days. This is obviously new. All the interior is not original anymore. And what do you think the canoe you told me might refer to? Well, certainly, I think and I think you agree that this is a reference to the hotel's name, which is the Outrigger Hotel. And it's because it was built on the side of the original Outrigger Canoe Club. And this right here as an art piece in the middle of the lobby is an Outrigger Canoe. Therefore, they are literally referring to their name. Yeah, as everything is pretty liberal, jump to the next one. We found something that is at least a little bit referring to some sort of which tourism likes to refer to more to sort of pre-contact and what we're interested post-contact context. And here they're using lava rock. They're using some wood, which is probably once it looked like gold. Probably it isn't. And there's some ancient pictures here. And of course, it's the Hula Grill because Hula is, you know, what you highly well upon and brand tourism, what lures people because it has this exotic pressure here. We don't have luskers. It's freezing cold here, by the way. You know, that's why people from Germany and other parts of the world come by. And another reason is next picture here is the stunning climate and the view to Diamond Head. This is pretty plain and simple. It's unfortunately exclusive. It's sort of a VIP lounge. I was sort of, you know, spying through the window in the door here, but it's got a glass front that reminded you of how probably the hotel sort of has been looking in the past because it was about the view, right? It wasn't about the interior and about the decoration, but it was more really taking advantage of what Hawaii has to offer. A spectacular climate spectacular view. Yeah, next picture, we are now looking at a little elevator because as you pointed out yesterday, this project is squeezed in between the two first hotels, the Royal Hawaiian and the Moana Surf Riding. And it's squeezed in there so the lot is confined and these constraints basically inspire the architect to have this sort of soothe balcony style where you basically tilt the window to give people a good view. It's all about the views these days. And so that and then there was sort of semi-curving the Lanai slab. So you get this sort of more attractive way of outdoor experiencing. And this has been featured not so much a building, but the sort of role of surfboards has been featured by the by the monocle publisher in their city guide about Honolulu and also Will Bruder was intrigued by sort of the the syntax and the rhythm of surfboards being lined up. So again, the hotel is next picture. Is sort of have been dwelling upon that sort of being in between modernism and and the exotic. And these are treasures from your archive, the solo. Yes. And tell us a little bit about how you see the hotel was sort of sold and branded to the customer. Well, in 1967, when the other hotel opened, it was a time when Hawaii was being shown to be modern, swinging up to date, not old fashioned, not overly romantic, but someplace that was just as lively as any other place any other big city. So they wanted you to think the Outrigger Hotel, as you can see, is where it's happening. And that is a totally 1960s slogan. And the illustrations here really also showed you that there's nightlife. There are cocktails. There's entertainment. There are well dressed people. There's the surf. It's got everything happening there. It's Hawaiian, but it's also up to date and happening. Absolutely. And next picture. And while we're pointing out some earlier hotels, even by modernist by Edwin Bauer or by Pete Wimbley, they were trying to do tiki things and alluding more to the pre-contact here. It's purely this is America, right? Yeah. But it has America with a very exotic and we can add erotic touch. Right. Look at the woman at the very bottom right. Yes. And what does she wear? Look at the dresses. What is she wearing? What are you going to tell us about what she's wearing? I think she's wearing Itzi Pizzi, Teeny Weenie, Honolulu, Stran-Pikini, and that's the German version of that famous American song, right? Itzi Pizzi, Teeny Weenie, I love to talk about bikini. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So in the German version, and you're a fan of these kooky German songs, dreaming about this tropical, exotic place in Hawaii, and they were saying Honolulu, Stran-Pikini, and Stran-Pikini is obviously the Yubikini on the beach. So you also see that sort of the Yaloa shirt isn't really the, you know, the high end.  So it's sort of a, you know, a very Hawaiianized American tropical dream and sort of living that dream for these few days of vacation that you can afford. That's really the next slide here because it doesn't just stay on the outside, but on the inside. Here is a postcard comprised of a couple of pictures and I cropped out the interior rooms and let's jump to the next picture and you again recall what we're talking about in the last show already. Yeah, we've got two things interesting going on in this view. In the first place, we've got the screen, which is not literally any particular design, but it is very modern. So it's got these incised or cut out patterns in it, but also the major difference between then and now is that rooms at that time were made very colorful, very exotic, really punch you in the eye with bright colors and lots of patterns. And today we've shifted to where hotel rooms are now bland. They are blonde colored things and light colored things. And you have a plain white bedspread, not a patterned one that and not a patterned colored floor either. So we've shifted from riotous color to a very restrained palette for hotel rooms. Very less playful, very less exotic, erotic these days, right? Right. And our tropical tourist expert Suzanne has touched on that in her show a little later on. So let's jump on to the next picture here. Again, bottom one from your archive, the top one, all the pictures we're showing now are either from your archive or they are from a display, a glass display case that's on that upper podium in the hotel. And that top one is showing the pool and notice the pool isn't is primarily a rectangle, but then they went through the effort to give the narrow end the same in this case concurved sexiness than the hotel has. So again, corporate geometry here we can say. Move on to the next slide. Again, on the left postcard from your archive on the right from that glass box, trying to sell at the end, given all the efforts that we recognize and appreciate, but it's still a pretty American, you know, generic hotel box downloaded corridor. But they try to brand it and sell it as as being exotic erotic. There's the correct. And also with an outrigger canoe in each picture. So in again, playing off the name of the hotel, we're showing you an outrigger canoe in the in the foreground here to get across to you that it's Hawaiian. Exactly. And the lady on the right is dressed less, you know, the way wines used to be dressed. And then, you know, in the 60s, where it was, you know, America free and and and basically emancipating itself, people were stripping off things and then going and that's right. Let's try next picture and move on to the next slide here. The previous one basically said something about deluxe sort of quality of and this is this is a card from you that basically goes more specifically and says luxury with economy. And we wanted to point out while the outrigger chain was more for the middle class, unlike its immediate neighbors, the Royal Hawaiian and the one I'm so proud of, right, are more high and but within the outrigger chain, this one was the most high. Yes, right. So relatively speaking, let's move to the relatively is the point because as we talked about earlier, this was the high end outrigger hotel, but outrigger hotels in general, as you said, were meant to be for middle class people who accommodate them to be able to come all this way to the Hawaiian Islands. So next one here, next slide. Let's go very briefly, we should probably dedicate an entire show to that. But in two sentences, the soda tells a little bit how it all started with the outriggers. Okay, this is Ray and Estelle Kelly. They moved from California in the late 20s before 19 before the World War II. Ray Kelly was an architect. He first worked with Charles Dickey and then he was out on his own. He designed a number of small, concrete apartment houses in Waikiki before the war. And then in 1947, he developed his first hotel and that's in the picture on the left, which is the Islander Hotel. And that was the beginning of the whole what is now called the outrigger hotel chain. Exactly. So very interesting example of what we call the architect as a developer. Right next picture here, showing us basically all the hotels, the bottom one is from you. It shows either all the one that he built or that he purchased and later, you know, made part of his empire. And at the top right is from that glass case. And the top left is from you again, which you were keen to point out, look at the heart around the building because they were thinking it's in the heart of everything. And sort of is location-wise, it's a prime location. Right. Let's move to the next slide, where we basically see that postcard on the left again shows the main outrigger ones. And the right one, we took a picture of one on Covio Street that has now been purchased by Hilton, like the Garden Inn or something like that. So it's an empire in transition. Next picture that has also ventured out, this is from their poster wall in the hotel, where they were showing to which other exotic places in the world they're all ventured out, like people with the outriggers way back. So the voyagers picture. And we want to, with the next picture, start out to phase out and make some suggestions how to go with this in the future. This is a shot we took like in the later afternoon where the street is shaded and the hotel is sort of sticking out and tracing the sun and the views. Next picture. And but you don't see it that way. Usually you see as in the next picture here, you see the podium. We get the next picture please. There we see the podium, the picture you took for us here. A two-story podium and then the hotel slap is basically pushed back. And I was curious how that have looked way back in the cool heydays of mid-century modernism. And you help me out next picture. And we're digging that out of the archive. And you can see very plain and simple, very glazed. Us being keen on saying that architecture also has to perform somehow climatically. This probably worked out fine, because this is facing pretty much east. And then with the high buildings around it, it's probably always shaded. So it was biochlamatically appropriate, or at least not inappropriate to design it that way. And very lean and very clean and very sexy. These people need to undress, obviously, but they will when they go to the beach. They will, yes, right. Next picture. Next picture. Tell us about the other. You were already saying there's a lot more going on in the hotel than just sleeping. So what was that? Correct. And one of the things that they promoted in that in the earlier thing that we saw where they said where it's happening, they were also saying that there was a lot of entertainment going on in this hotel. So there was a showroom at which this particular group that you can see in the two diagonal pictures, the Society of Seven, or SOS, performed there for many, many years. So the outrigger wasn't just a place to sleep. It did have bars. It did have dining rooms, but it also provided live entertainment and was known for being a place that provided live entertainment. And let's move on to the next slide. Because while, again, the podium doesn't look original anymore, nor does the one of Pete, which we show on the left side, which had a plinth that was in compliance with a sexiness of the tower. And on the right side, it's not. It looks like the Cheesecake Factory next door. There's a subtle little sign there that says Blue Note. If we go to the next page, your next slide, Blue Note, if you don't know, is a classic jazz club originating in New York City and they have selected locations all over the world. But I have one and we got one in Waikiki in that building. And on the left, I'm sure you were there, but we didn't know each other at that point because you being the Tiki expert on the island here, this was Don Tiki playing and Don Hibbert and Tropic Gear Rockwood and myself went. And I went there with our tropical tourism expert, Suzanne as well, for a smooth gas show. So that's that's a good sort of continuation of tradition of entertainment. Next one is another tradition because Suzanne remembers something else very vividly and that's something very erotically exotic. That is a pool that has a glass wall as facing a bar. So that's as cool as you can get it way back, right? And we found a little picture of a little mermaid at the very bottom left here. Everything was themed after that. And guess what? She's topless, right? So she's dressed as winds used to be. So there wasn't really, you know, people weren't proved as proved way back as sort of we got more mood mood now both in what we wear and what buildings were, right? Yes, that's right. Let's move on to the next slide here, which is another institution within that probably most people know the building more for this one here. This is the legendary restaurant used that you can that are tropical tourism expert Suzanne remembers from some while ago, many years ago on the left about it left her there and then on the right her visiting. And again, it's an institution. It's a it's a nice place that you pointed out is rather egalitarian because unlike the other restaurants where you have to get in from the sea and street side here you can just walk in from the beach. You got to rinse your feet but otherwise you're just out there and it's for everyone, right? That's right. The hotel has a very sort of inclusive approach versus being expert and that's something next picture we want to further dwell upon here because Suzanne is originally Bavarian from Germany, that part where you think, you know, this is typical Germany with the beers and the journals and all that stuff. We were walking through downtown the equivalents to Kauau Avenue. This is downtown Munich highest real estate prizes and here's some sort of conservative citizens expressed their their worries. This is your German learning lesson. You want to give that a try? Well, the top phrase is let's say to hell with expensive luxury apartments and below that it says wellness for all meaning they were anti gentrification, correct? Exactly, and that's an issue.  It's a little silly, it's a little naive, but I think it's well meant at its time. The building is, you know, has sliding doors, it's rather biochlamatic, so even though it's a big chunk of concrete, but within that, you know, it really tries to be a good building that sort of evolves Hawaii above and beyond what it was, you know, before contact. So next picture, a building upon that, this is under construction and you got to make some correction here and tell the people in the hotel to please replace that sign up there, right? Correct. We call that Schnupstsa, 55 is what, so we call, you know, numbers that have multiple, are comprised of multiple, of the same numbers, Schnupstsa, which means liquor number, so we got to replace that with the next liquor number which is 66 which is familiar to me because it's my year of build and that's when this was built which you had said before, right? Right. So they were mistaking this for the reef hotel and it's actually the outrigger hotel under construction, not the reef hotel. Exactly. But why are we so keen on this stage of construction the solo? Well because we're talking about, yeah let's go to the next slide. What we'd like to talk about is the removal of exterior walls and the concept that buildings can be made to be more adaptable as well as more appealing by keeping some of this, keeping a lot more easy breezy. This is one of Martin's classes projects and it shows that Foster Tower, which is in a fantasy view has been stripped of this exterior, it has a vegetated seaside wall or makai wall and that's one of the ways that perhaps things can be made more livable but that's not the only one if we go to our next slide we'll see that this is again one of the projects done by Martin's upcoming architects who are still students and this is Primitiva 1 which is a cylindrical building which is open to the elements. It also is meant to be where people gather, where people intermingle, where there's a lot of open space, where people are able to purchase their food on the site of the hotel of the hotel of the building itself. It's got transportation, etc. Again we are being visionary if you will and next slide I think we're going to go to yeah Martin tell us what what we want to look at here. You know the recommendation of tropical tourism expert Suzanne is pretty much when you look at the tradition here of the Outrigger it wants to be like a an artificial mountain it's almost as big as Diamondhead as it looks here right and as we said it was innovative you know at its time it was it was cutting edge so we should try to be that now even more because we're at the beginning of the 21st century if we go to the next slide which is our last slide as we pointed out in many shows and the last one about the conversion of the Waikiki Park Hotel into the sort of extension of the Hale Kalani we increasingly have the problem that the people who who do all the work in the hotels for the guests can't afford to be on the island anymore right so we got this you know and we were saying you know to prevent a revolution and civil war which has happened in situations like that in the past we better come up with more integrative more inclusive solutions as a version of what Suzanne and the industry calls a statable tourism basically mixes and you found an interesting island tradition that one could reactivate for that right correct we were talking last night about how during World War 2 because of the lack of living arrangements for workers who had to be brought here to Oahu to work at Pearl Harbor there needed to be people needed to share rooms and accommodations and so one man would have a cubicle or a bed to sleep in while he was off work and that might be during the day and then when he went to work at night another man who was then off would come in and use that same space and that was of necessity because of crowding that what Martin and I have talked about is what about adapting more cohesive uses or co-uses of spaces to not only create more space for people but also to bring people together and what we've also discussed is the idea of having workers for hotels live on site rather than have to commute from a long distance away and we're not there yet and we don't know how that might shake out but these are just as Martin said visionary views or ideas to look at for potential use in the future yeah and it's sort of breaking up with this sort of territorialization and the terrorization of territorialization of space where you you know you claim your room which you only use for I mean you're in Hawaii you're on the beach you're shopping and you only crash there for couple of hours so the other time it's wasted so to utilize that to the wasted space is the attempt to look at the building more as a landscape if you can do sort of more freely inhabit like you do with parks you pop up a tent which is another great island traditions what the locals do on the weekend well it's time for us time but we are but I think we got ourselves yeah we got ourselves into something so next time let's do another erotic exotic hospitality typology and I think there is one just down the road but let's not tell people more so they are excited in its unit okay everybody thank you for joining us for human humane architecture you'll see Martin again and me again in the future till then aloha


Hello and welcome to the Fort Report. I'm Chris Connolly. And I'm Alicia Woodruff. Well, I hate to start out on a negative, but I must tell you, there are Steelers in Fort Worth. Weren't they here in February? No, I'm talking about people who make their living preying on others. Huge pet peeve of mine. There's a particular theft that is on the rise. These are stealing copper wire from streetlight poles resulting in expensive repairs. Not only is this problem wasting money, it's also delaying city response to normal streetlight outages and maintenance. The city is working to stem the tide of these thefts by replacing stolen copper with aluminum, welding access panels shut, and posting signs asking citizens for help to nab these crews. Some of these criminals have been caught wearing hard hats in reflective vests. But remember, city crews or contractors will always be working out of heavy duty trucks and have a clearly marked city or business logo. If you see suspicious activity around light poles or traffic signals, call 911 immediately. Residents should also report streetlight outages as soon as possible at<PHONE_NUMBER>.  It's dangerous. I really don't want to know what you do in your free time. So, Alicia, I hear that Fort Worth's finest just completed their latest click it or ticket operation for the Memorial Day weekend. Tell us what they found. Well, unfortunately, some people still don't get it. Fort Worth PD caught and ticketed more than 380 adults wearing no seatbelts and found 117 children riding without proper restraint. We hate to crock down like this, but it's the law people. And it's for your own good. Fortunately, there was no one killed in accidents during the click it or ticket campaign. And a life may have been spared thanks to this operation. Buckle up, people. And for crying out loud, buckle up those kiddos. Well, looks like you're ready to go tubing on the Trinity. Yes, and I brought one for you too. Ha! Now you have a goofy prop. I'm taking my credibility back. This completely cool and completely free event will be held every second and fourth Thursday in June, July, and August. You can grab a friend and plop into the Trinity River from 4 to 8.30 p.m. There will also be live concerts at each event beginning at 6 p.m. The first 600 attendees will receive a free tube, but if you have your own, bring it. The tubing begins at the Panther Island Pavilion in Trinity Uptown. To get more information, visit trinityrivervision.org. Do we really need the goggles? I don't like people splashing me.


This was almost a fate of complete as we mentioned after the Yankees got swept by the Red Sox four games at Fenway Park. So the Yankees now officially know that their path to the playoffs and deep into the postseason is going to go through the wild card. And that's what they have to accept and that's what they have to do. Yeah, it was pretty evident. And you know, the weeks ago that this was going to happen, there was going to be a day, but there's still a lot at stake out here for the Yankees and the Yankee fans. I mean, where are you going to play this wild card game? That is your race right now. You're playing against the Oakland age, not against the Boston Red Sox. They're celebrating today, much worse if they celebrate here in mid-October. I will tell you this, the Yankees obviously came into the season wanting to win the American League. He sets the best path to the playoffs because it doesn't all depend on just one game. But you win that one game, you're almost on equal footing again.  So you know what the mission is, you know, Paul is right. You got to worry about the Oakland age right now. They put up 21 runs tonight. And even though you've got a two game cushion there in the loss column, they own the wild, they own the tiebreaker the Yankees do against the A's. So yes, it's imperative that this wild card game is at Yankee Stadium because if it's not, then well, you're really into a crapshoot. If you've got to fly out to Oakland and play that game on their home turf. And obviously a very big moment for the Yankees, look like they were going to maybe snatch this game away from the Red Sox when Stan hits the grand slam. It turns out that it didn't matter that much, but it might matter a lot to him. Oh, it certainly does. I mean, as part of their offense, even though Chapman didn't throw the ball, well, he's back in the lineup. Judge didn't have a big series. He's back in the lineup 10 to 10, 12 days from now. They might be in their, you know, in their fashion. Good. And this team will be good again. So, you know, there's a lot to look forward to in these last 10 days. It's exciting times for Yankee fans to see if they can hold on. All right, David, we mentioned Chapman. Was that rust that we saw today? I think it was a little bit of rust. I think you're going to anticipate that he looked pain free. But the fact that he had trouble with this fastball still is a bit concerning to me. I mean, that's something you want to see over the next 10 days that he can find the radar again and get his stuff back over the plate because, you know, that got out of control in a hurry. And he had to start throwing slider after slider just to throw strikes. And then Mookie Betts shot him on another slider that stayed up and hung. So he needs his fastball. He's a fastball pitcher. He couldn't get it over tonight. So that's a little concerning.  There was a lot of pressure in 2000 to beat the Mets because of the Subway series. But there was a lot of pressure for you guys winning 114 games in 98. If you don't win everything, well, it doesn't validate it. And the Red Sox is going to feel a lot of pressure every single stop. Oh, absolutely. I think when you get to the playoffs, all of a sudden, you're going to realize, hey, did any of that mean anything? You know, there's tough times in a playoff, whether you win or lose them. And, you know, an interesting thing for me to think about is how much time is Mookie Betts going to get off? How much time Martin does? Those guys are fighting for the MVP of the American League. How much time are they going to take off? It's going to be interesting. So Bob, the magic number is three for the Yankees to clinch a playoff spot. That will also have to include them clinching that wild card game being played here at Yankee Stadium.


Nathan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in September 2014 as the Undersecretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury. In this position he serves as the senior official responsible for advising the Secretary of the Treasury on international economic issues. Previously he worked as Global Head of International Economics at Citigroup, a position he took up in September 2011, and he previously worked at the Federal Reserve Board for 18 years in a variety of positions. From September 2007 to August 2011 he served as Director of the Board's Division of International Finance and as an Economist to the Federal Open Market Committee, BA in Economics from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1993. So a vast array of very valuable experience both in the public, dominantly in the public sector, but also in the private sector. So with that perspective and at the moment of, I would say, unprecedented uncertainty, we look forward to your contribution today on global regulatory reform. Well, it's a pleasure to be with you today. In the years since the global financial crisis, significant steps have been taken to enhance the resilience of markets and strengthen balance sheets of large institutions. However, as we get further from the crisis, there's a rest that people may forget, the underlying impetus for these reform initiatives and that the commitment to finish the reform agenda may diminish. For these reasons, and in deference to my Irish hosts, is worth briefly reviewing Ireland's experience during the crisis and then moving on to discuss the progress made in implementing the global financial reform agenda. The Irish experience illustrates our reform objectives and also highlights some areas where additional work is needed so that the financial sector can support economic growth during good times and bad. During the six years prior to the fall of Lehman Brothers, assets in the Irish banking sector almost tripled in size as investors pulled back from wholesale funding markets following Lehman's collapse. Banks around the world, including those in Ireland, came under severe pressure. In response, the Irish government introduced a blanket guarantee covering virtually all Irish bank liabilities. In the years that followed, Ireland launched four rounds of bank recapitalization, which cost the government over 60 billion euros or about 35% of GDP, and eventually two banks were nationalized. Of course, the causes of the crisis and the initial response by the authorities were by no means unique to Ireland. Authorities in Ireland as elsewhere were constrained in their policy options. They lacked tools to deal with the run on the entire banking system and resolve or recapitalize large institutions without putting at risk significant public resources. To their credit, the Irish authorities took decisive action. However, the lack of appropriate tools and the ultimate cost in both economic and human terms underscored the need to reform the regulatory framework to foster a more resilient financial system to support growth. We have made notable progress, but the work is not yet finished. Today I will emphasize the importance of all G20 countries taking timely action to complete and implement financial regulatory standards consistent with our ongoing efforts to achieve a robust global financial system. To that end, I will also highlight the importance of U.S.-EU cooperation in this area consistent with our common interests. The G20's financial regulatory agenda has included four core areas of reform. First, bank capital and liquidity, second, resolution. Third, market-based finance, also sometimes called shadow banking. And fourth, OTC derivatives transactions. Let me briefly highlight what we have accomplished in each of these areas and our remaining tasks. On bank capital and liquidity, the G20 and Basel committee members have made important strides under Basel III to improve both the quantity and quality of capital for internationally active banks and have introduced internationally consistent leverage and liquidity ratios. Banks are now less reliant on relatively unstable sources of financing, especially short-term wholesale financing. These steps greatly reduce the risk of systemic crises while ameliorating the possible consequences of such crises, thus allowing banks to continue to play a critical role in intermediating credit for the real economy. Our current priority in the Basel committee is to finalize the Basel III framework, including measures to enhance consistency and calculation of risk-weighted assets. Over time, different approaches to calculating risk-weighted assets have led to excessive and unwarranted differences in capital buffers across jurisdictions and institutions. In addition to raising questions about an uneven playing field for banks, these differences threaten to undermine market confidence in the adequacy of bank capital. Basel III is the cornerstone achievement of the post-crisis G20 financial reform agenda. We must continue to achieve robust and consistent global standards for internationally active banks. The risk that over time, various jurisdictions might step back from global standards due to competitiveness concerns or reform fatigue underscores the importance of completing these efforts in a timely manner. On bank resolution, our task now is to ensure that the necessary components are in place and properly operationalized to enable a systemically important financial institution to be resolved in an orderly fashion. This requires sufficient capacity for backstop funding and for loss absorption. Through the Financial Stability Board, or FSB, we have made important progress in developing new standards for effective resolution regimes. These standards have already helped countries identify approaches that should allow banks to fail without creating broader disruptions for the economy. The FSB's finalization of its Total Loss Absorbing Capacity or TLAC standard in November 2015 is an important milestone for establishing a framework that allows for a resolution of globally systemically important banks. A failing global bank going through resolution can draw on its TLAC to continue its important economic functions, which should limit knock-on effects to broader financial markets. It's now up to regulatory and political authorities to adopt these requirements nationally. The Bank of England has recently done so, and we expect that the Federal Reserve will finalize its rules later this year. The European Commission is expected to release its proposal soon. It is also important that we have the ability to facilitate the orderly resolution of systemically important non-bank institutions, work that is ongoing in the FSB. While these regulatory improvements are useful and necessary, it is vital that the authorities here in Europe continue to press forward to encourage banks to clean up their balance sheets and to discourage non-performing loans. Many euro area banking systems, including Ireland, remain burdened with NPLs in excess of 10% of GDP. The emerging picture is that while banks in Europe have stabilized, many are still avoiding fully writing down their bad assets and releasing those underlying assets into the market. This overhang appears to be constraining the supply of credit to the economy and limiting the banking system's ability to support economic growth. Outside the banking sector, the G20 and FSB are working to promote consistent and robust frameworks for sustainable market-based finance. FSB can supplement bank financing to foster investment trade and growth, but it also brings risks of its own and these risks must be appropriately assessed and monitored. With this in mind, the Financial Stability Board has worked to identify and address potential financial stability risks that may arise from financing activities that take place outside traditional banking channels. For example, the FSB is working on recommendations to address liquidity and leverage risks in asset management activities that could amplify stresses in the financial system. Securities regulators plan to operationalize the FSB's recommendations in this area with liquidity measures expected by the end of 2017 and those for leverage by 2018. Let me note one area in particular where we still have some work to do. That's in the area of over-the-counter derivatives and central counterparties. As the global financial crisis erupted, OTC derivatives presented a toxic combination of opacity and interconnectedness. These factors along with intensified counterparty risk created a systemic threat to the global financial system. In response, the G20 leaders set out a comprehensive approach to promote clearing, trading, and reporting of OTC derivatives contracts. While we've made important progress toward global standards in these areas, implementation in some jurisdictions outside the United States remains uneven in behind schedule. It is critical for all G20 members to act on these reforms, which will foster financial stability, reduce the risk of market fragmentation, and support a level playing field for global firms. In particular, derivatives contracts should be traded on regulated exchanges to the extent possible, where this is not feasible, derivatives should be centrally cleared, or subject to margin requirements. At this point, let me welcome the EU's recently redoubled efforts to implement margin rules for non-centrally cleared derivatives. The EU now appears to be back on track toward implementing rules similar to those already in effect in other major jurisdictions. These rules represent an important component of managing risk and incentivizing central clearing. As the volume of centrally cleared derivatives grows, we must also be vigilant to the potential risks posed by CCPs themselves. We have stepped up our efforts at the FSB and with our European counterparts to enhance the resilience, recovery, and resolvability of CCPs, so that these critical elements of the financial architecture are robust and in the extreme case, resolvable. Our work in these core areas of reform has important implications for financial markets in the United States and Europe. The large size and interconnectedness of transatlantic markets underscores why it's necessary for our two sides to cooperate closely and to provide global leadership on financial regulatory reform. Past financial crises have led to bouts of market fragmentation and reduced liquidity, reflecting in part global policy responses that were not well coordinated. Our shared interest is in maintaining open, integrated, and well-functioning global markets. The United States is a major host to European banks. Their activities include credit intermediation in the US economy, trade finance, and wholesale banking activity, including the sourcing of US dollar funding. US banks operate in the EU with similar purposes. The experience of the financial crisis highlights that globally integrated firms should be closely regulated so that we all benefit from their capacity to serve corporates, small businesses, and individuals. This in turn helps support jobs and growth in both the home and the host country. Over the years, our transatlantic engagement has been fruitful. We've helped solidify the EU equivalent's determination processes for accounting standards, credit rating agencies, and CCPs. We have made progress toward a US-EU-covered agreement on insurance, and we have improved oversight for firms performing cross-border audits. The benefit from international regulatory cooperation is clear. My colleagues and I invest a significant amount of time working with our European counterparts to help make sure that our implementation of the G20 financial regulatory agenda is prudentially robust as well as practical for cross-border firms. In July, we upgraded our long-standing bilateral regulatory dialogue with the European Union, launching the joint US-EU regulatory forum. This intensified dialogue should facilitate efforts of US and EU financial supervisors and regulators to exchange information, explore significant financial regulatory issues in our respective jurisdictions, identify potential regulatory conflicts, and proactively develop solutions. On my way in from the airport, here in Dublin, my cab driver said, oh, the weather was grand last week. It only rained twice, once for three days and once for four days. I offered this anecdote for two reasons. First, to illustrate the cheerful optimism that characterizes this country. It is this optimism and hard work that has enabled Ireland to return to a path of strong economic growth. But secondly, because challenges to financial stability, like rain in Ireland, are probably unavoidable. The global financial system today is demonstrably safer and more resilient than it was 10 years ago. However, there will always be exogenous events like the UK's referendum vote in June, which could become challenges for financial stability. For these reasons, we must continue to work together to fully implement our shared vision of a stronger regulatory and supervisory environment. The goal is to make the financial system more robust and resilient, stronger banks, closer cooperation on supervision, and more effective resolution regimes will enable us to meet future challenges without saddling taxpayers with a financial burden. But we need to finish the job and complete the initiatives we have launched. International cooperation is key to this effort. We need to work together to fix the fault lines that led to the global financial crisis and to monitor for emerging threats. We also need to be humble and to continue to enhance our understanding of financial markets and institutions. Markets are global and dynamic. For example, technology changes at a speed unimaginable just a few years ago. We need to continue to strive for an efficient, globally integrated and inclusive financial system that fosters economic growth and financial stability. I would like to thank the IIEA and all of you here today for your partnership in these important endeavors.


The investigation aimed to interpret genetic polymorphism in flax using IAPD PCR technique, and found that DNA markers are more efficient in detecting polymorphism in flax than protein markers for intraspecific differentiation. The study also revealed that fiber flax from northern continental Russia has genetic roots in flax from Colchidian, an essential genetic similarity between cultivars of fiber flax from Russia and other European countries is established. The distinctness of linseed and fiber flax in their genetic constitution is of strategic importance for preserving genetic diversity and efficient use of the flax gene pool in breeding. This article was authored by T. A. Rosmina, Y. B. Foo, A. Diderickson, and others.