Pimp, Pimp C. Kane to my beauty shop in Chicago. I didn't know Pimp. Kenny sent him over there. Pimp, he gave me a bag then, a bag of money. Really? And showed me so much love and said, hey man, thank you. Whatever you want, shoot my video, be in it, I want you there. Man to man showed me so much love and the fur coat he got on the white one? Yeah, the white one. Come from church first. I made that coat from my company. You made that coat? I made that coat. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk. Let me ask you this, man, because I gotta get this out of you, man. I'm a Texas cat. Okay. And I'm a real stomp down on Texas stuff. And I seen you, you was over there at that play. I choose you, video shoot. Stop playing, y'all boys, man. And that was Pimp C. I'm up, that's my number one of all time. So Pimp C, you know, in me, like when it comes to Texas music, that's where I'm at with mine. So tell me about when you and Valentino and Pimp and Ken and all y'all was sitting in there and done one. I won't know about that. Well, man, game recognized games. So that's why they put it together. Now Pimp, Pimp C came to my beauty shop in Chicago. I didn't know Pimp. Kenny sent him over there. Pimp, he gave me a bag then, a bag of money. Really? And showed me so much love and said, hey man, thank you. Whatever you want, shoot my video, be in it, I want you there. Man, the man showed me so much love and the fur coat he got on the white one. Yeah, the white come from church first. I made that coat for my company. You made that coat? I made that coat. That was a 25,000 dollar coat. Okay, you can't just say that.  Man, you done messed me up now, man. If you might stop, boy, I'm a fan of him. Oh, he came. Yeah. He came to my beauty shop. Real player, man. I didn't know him. My barber said, someone here to meet you. I said, ain't nobody looking for me cause I don't even come in the barber shop. I don't even come around. So I was so happy that day, he pulled up in a Lincoln, a black Lincoln, a car. Not no long limousine, but it was a black with 10-inch windows. He got out and came in with a lot of jewelry by himself. Said, hey man. Oh, he buying solo. He said, hey man, that's how you do. I said, how you doing, young man? Come on in. He came in. He said, do you know who I am? I said, no I don't. He said, I'm Film C. I said, what? He said, man, you my mentor. And I did like folk, folk songs with them on his CD. Which song? Man, I think one of them is Lickie Pallis. Really? One of them, what is that? It said, I don't like, one of them is I don't like titties, titties, stank or something like that. He was tough, wasn't he? Yeah, he was tough. And I've been trying to get with them for I can get paid. Let me know about this jacket though. How did he end up, did he pick it? Are you picked it for him or how was it? No, he wanted to be top in the game.   And brung him in. And at the player ball, he said, man, we'll do ours and we'll shoot the video. So when he seen us come in and Kenny, Kenny was sharp in this game too. He came under Bishop, Kenny, he came in, PMC came in on the Kenny. So at the time, he said, man, I wanted to give me a fur coat to the floor. I said, what, let's do it. We made it up. I think we made one for his mother too. May she rest in peace. My mama was. Yeah. You know, I think his son, we made a couple coats for his son. We made a few coats. He spent a bankroll with us. Wow, man, how did you, okay, how did you think it looked when y'all did the, after seeing that video?  It was beautiful. You can pull it up now. The coat is beautiful. He had all the top flight female skins, man. He spent a bankroll on that coat. You know, so, man, we gave him love and we gave him support, man. He just, he couldn't, he couldn't stay out of Chicago. You know, he came all the time, unexpected, so I came out the house to kick it with him. He just felt so comfortable around me, man. Showed love.  One on one. Yeah, we gon' talk.


In the early 1980s, no rock band put on a show like Van Halen. Before anyone in music was doing complex stunts, they would rig lead singer David Lee Roth up to contraptions that would allow him to fly over the stage while also setting off various pyrotechnics. Traveling from city to city, Roth and the rest of the band needed to trust that wherever they played, those in charge of the stage show had rigged everything properly. The problem? There just wasn't the time for them to check everything. The band's contract had explicit instructions on how everything needed to be set up. But how could the band know if the venue crew had carefully read it? Their performance in sometimes Roth's life depended on it. Their solution was genius and has become a legend, though for the wrong reasons. Roth invented a way to check if the contract had been carefully read. He included in the instructions somewhere deep in the document the demand that a bowl of M&Ms be put in the band's dressing room, but that all of the brown M&Ms had to be removed. Failure to comply meant the band would not play but still be paid in full. When Roth arrived for a show, if he saw a bowl of M&Ms without brown ones, he knew the crew had read everything carefully. If he saw a bowl of M&Ms with the brown ones not removed, he knew they had just scanned the contract so he couldn't trust them and the band wouldn't play. Ironically for decades, this story was used as a knock on how spoiled Van Halen could be, but that's because people didn't understand the purpose of the clause. Roth needed to perform his best and devised a way to make sure everything was prepared for him to do so. It makes sense to trust others, but never blindly. If your preparation can be undone by someone else's lack of preparation, find a way to check it before the big moment so you don't go crashing to the floor.


Azerbaijan's anti-terrorism measures have led to strategic changes in Caucasus. Anti-terrorism measures carried out by Azerbaijan against separatists, illegal armed groups and groups on the territory of the country in its Karabakh region have led to strategic changes. Brenda Shaffer, a professor at Naval Postgraduate School of USA, and a member of the American Political Science Association said in an article published in the Mareev online newspaper. Armenia's refusal to interfere in these activities gives hope that the peace process can be resumed and progress can be made in opening transport and trade routes in the region, Shaffer said. However, according to the expert, Iran and Russia will not give up control over the strategic region so easily. Therefore, most likely, we will see greater activity by Tehran and Moscow in order to restore their influence. The events that took place this week in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan are very important for Russia, Iran, Turkey and even Israel. The Caucasus is a strategic region as a border crossing between Russia, Iran and Turkey. The results of the steps taken have strengthened Azerbaijan and weakened Iran and Russia which support the Armenians in their conflict. The article emphasizes, during anti-terrorism measures within just 24 hours, over 90 illegal posts of the adversary were neutralized, 20 combat vehicles, 40 artillery installations, 30 rocket launchers, six electromagnetic warfare systems and two air defense systems were rendered inoperable.


The reason why it never works with a narcissist. The reason why no matter what you do, no matter how you do it, things never work out with a narcissist. You can never win with them. The reason for this is because they are self-absorbed and lack empathy. They only care about themselves. They are not team players. They are not interested in working with you to reach a mutually desired goal or objective. They are just trying to survive and meet their own needs. A person who is trying to survive does not have the capacity to consider you. They have a huge void inside of them where they are constantly starving for attention. They need someone to attend to them because they cannot attend to themselves. And they cannot attend to themselves because they abandoned who they really are. They disowned that part of them because they believed that it could never be good enough for a relationship to be successful. The two people must feel whole. They must feel complete even on their own. They might want and desire a relationship but they shouldn't need it to complete them. Narcissists constantly need people to prop up their false self. They are like bottomless buckets where they leak at the bottom. They cannot fill themselves up so they depend on other people to do it for them. They depend on other people to attend to them. To validate them and to make them feel like they are enough. Like they are worth something because they cannot do that on their own. And no matter how much someone tries to sustain them. It's never enough because it's supposed to come from within. We are not supposed to depend on other people to regulate our emotions or our self-esteem. That's supposed to come from within and that is why the narcissist can never be satisfied. They can never feel whole or complete and they refuse to accept that the reason for this is because they have disowned who they really are. It has nothing to do with you. They made it seem like you could never satisfy them. But the truth is that they cannot be satisfied. Nothing will ever be enough for them because they were never enough for themselves. They were never satisfied with who they were. So now they can never be satisfied with you. As within so without. We must appreciate ourselves first before we can appreciate anyone else. The narcissist could never accept who they were. So now they can never accept you. But they will never acknowledge this truth because it's too painful for them to accept. The core of their disorder is that they are in denial. They are in avoidance of the truth and reality of the situation. Doing everything they can to avoid reflecting on what they have become. So in their minds you were the problem. You were not good enough or you couldn't satisfy them. You were the reason why it never worked out. They have to see it this way because the truth is just too painful for them to accept. They are shame-based individuals doing everything they can to avoid reflecting on their shame. It's either you or them and narcissists are cowards. They lack the courage to deal with their pain. So of course they're going to bail on you. Just like they bailed on themselves because they don't want to acknowledge what they've become. They don't want to accept that they were the problem and yet they associate you with the truth. They connect you with the facts. Every time they see you it reminds them of who they really are. It reminds them of what they did to you and it makes them sick. It makes them feel pain and shame because they realise who and what they are. And that is why they become so vicious towards you. Because it's either you or them and remember they are cowards. They're not going to deal with the mess that they have created. They're going to expect you to clean it up because they can't deal with responsibility. They're not going to hold themselves accountable for everything that they've done. They will bail on the false character that they created for you. And when they do that all of their responsibility goes with it. Which includes you. Any regard that they once claimed to have for you goes with the false character that they created for you. The reason why it never works with a narcissist. The reason why nothing you do can fix the problems that they have created. The reason why is because they are not your problems to fix. And no matter how much you change yourself it will not change the situation. It will not change the end result because it really has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them. Everything that is going on in their minds. Their lack of love for themselves. Their lack of empathy. If a person cannot resolve their own internal conflict. They will lack the ability to resolve anything with you. And that is the reason why it never works with a narcissist. 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So you guys just want a deal I can imagine, but walk us through a little bit of what that was like to get Barbara to commit.  Talk to the producers and all that, like that sounds about right. That's all it was. That's really all it was. Yeah, we just wanted to make it fair and we didn't want to say, you know, 200,000 or something like that. We wanted it to, okay, they just have to put a little bit in here and they're gonna get a substantial part of the business. Barbara ended up with 30% for 50,000, but she took a plier on us. We're now her most successful Shark Tank company in her 12 years being on Shark Tank. And we're number three total all time.


INEC has informed Nigerians that the passing of voter care to be ready before the end of November. This was disclosed by INEC's Director of Voter Information and Education, Fester Sukhoi on Friday in Abuja. He also assured that the PVC of those registered between the 15th of January and July 31st will also be ready this month. The chairman of the commission, Professor Mamoud Yacubu, will in the next week or two outline the fine details of the standard operating procedure. The commission wants to ensure and will ensure the seamless collection of permanent voter scars by all eligible registrants. We assure all Nigerians that the PVC of those registered between the 15th of January 2022 and July 31st 2022 will be ready this month. And the chairman will give the exact date for PVC collection to begin. All those that registered within this period, as well as those that carried out transfer and those that apply for replacement will get their scars as soon as possible. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Welcome back That was quick Forgot to do the break credit so top five People's name All you had to do is qualify is have at least two teams or more if you had two teams you get one entry four teams two entries Six teams three entries so on and so forth. So top five names $50 and break credit each $250 total so here is the Original list from Travis down to Aaron Clark based on teams So I just copied and pasted that over here Travis back down to Aaron Clark So let's go ahead and alphabetize this to see how many spots we have each So Aaron's got two spots. That'll give him one entry John two spots, I'll get you one Eric two spots that'll get you one Greg two spots One entry I Kapola two spots one entry Jarell two for one Yancy two for one Mark Bessette two for one Mark two spots gets you one and that'll do it So let me just make sure Tyce Tristan Travis team and Ryan Harold Robert Oliver Nick Miguel mark Mark Bissette to Yancy three Jarell four I Kapola five Greg six Eric seven Charles eight Aaron nine So five out of the nine names here gonna get $50 and break credit each So here is that list Aaron down to mark Dice roll here to see how many times we're gonna randomize it top five after Seven one Two three four five Six and seventh the final time Congratulations to Aaron Clark John Samuelson Greg Davis I Kapola and Yancy You five got yourself an additional $50 and break credit in addition to whatever you hit for yourself in the break So thank you guys that was the Break credit randomizer for 2020 Bowman Chrome Baseball HTA choice 12 box case break pick your team number seven I'm Sean Jasper's case breaks. We'll see you next time


The telephone system welcomes you to telephone time with the stories of John Nesbitt. How do you do, everyone? Our story this time is about a man's triumph over almost unbelievable odds. And yet, our most important clues are not physical ones, but happen to be invisible. These can be seen, however. On these three trays, we reproduce exactly the total amount of food a grown man was permitted to eat each day over a period of 70 days.  Unless, of course, he could rest most of the time. That would be nature's defense. In which case, you would keep waking him up or hold a light burning through his eyelids. Theoretically, after 70 days of this, you should be his master. Nevertheless, your man might still defeat you if, throughout, he had clung to our final clue, which I think quite proper to represent here as the cross. So we have named his story, I Am Not Alone. In the week of June 4, 1951, there was published a picture of a dark-haired, rather handsome man, together with the review of a book he had written, dealing with 70 days of his life in a prison. He was Polish with the somewhat difficult name to pronounce of Stipelkowski. His record states that Stipelkowski and 15 other members of the Polish underground government, who had fought for freedom throughout the war, were invited to leave Poland and come to Moscow to be honored with a state luncheon there on March the 28th, 1945. And in their hideout cellar in Warsaw, the underground leaders starkly considered whether the invitation to lunch would mean Russian friendship or death. They want control of all Poland, and they intend to find some way of discrediting us, so they may set up their own government openly in our place. But everybody knows that we have been fighting for Poland. How can they possibly discredit us? Suppose they accuse us of organizing sabotage behind their lines. Who in their senses would believe it? Who outside Poland understands the meaning of this force we face? Has anyone else anything to say? If not, then let's vote. Those in favor, then it's agreed. We accept. Will you go with us, Stipelkowski? Yes, and I pray God for Poland's sake. I'm wrong in what I think. This is how the journey started, and this is how it ended. Why don't you speak up? During the hours of sleep. What are the hours of sleep? You're not allowed to talk loudly. Why is the luncheon I was invited to? Weakling, you are giving way in a matter of hours. That's what this is for, to make you give way. The staring eyes, the silence.  You're not allowed to turn your face from the light. Get ready to see the commissar. Number 788. Number 7788. Major Tujana, fit your service. I am honored to meet a leader of the heroic Polish underground. We know all about your heroism during these past six years, and we are overwhelmed with that. You have noticed something. It is your calendar. It tells me I've been in prison here for more than two days now. Your clock tells me less, for I do not know if it is night or day. It is a very sunny day outside. Oh, I am forgetting my manners. Do sit down. Thank you. A cigarette. Thank you. I don't smoke. You will not mind if I do. How did it happen that you came here to the Libyanke prison? I did not come here with my own accord. I came to Moscow with my colleagues in response to an invitation to lunch at the Kremlin. So? Then, obviously, there must be some misunderstanding somewhere which will soon be cleared up. I hate to bother you, Mr. Stapolkowski, but as a lawyer, you will understand that I must have some personal details about you. All right, good, you know. Yeah. Now, I have your full name, age.  They are well, I hope. For the past three years, they have been in a German concentration camp at Ravensbrook. I don't know whether they are living or dead. Don't say so. How terrible for you. I see you have two brothers. No, the younger one was killed during the war with the Germans in 1939, and the older has been missing for some time. Under what circumstances? I never heard. He's probably dead. Tragic, tragic. And your son? Some friends were looking after him. When the liberating Soviet armies marched in, well, up until the time I came to Moscow, I had not found him. But why would a man like you leave his boy without protection? When I came to Moscow, I did not expect to be absent from war, so more than a day or so. But you must have some idea of where he is. Tell me, perhaps I can help you. I'm sorry to say I have no idea whatever where he is. It's half past two already. You must be tired. Seven seventy-eight a.m. is ready. I won't bother you anymore now. There seems to be certain stipulated hours of sleep. What are they? Ah, yes, let me see. Ten p.m. until six a.m. and two to four in the afternoons. A generous allowance, don't you think? Quite. I've had no food or drinks since I've been here. You haven't. What must you think of us? That I can promise you will be put right. And I can promise you, too, you will find the food good. Simple, you know, but of its kind good and excellently served. We don't starve, I guess. It wasn't so bad. And he did not find out where my boy is. And he never will. He never will. The good, simple food excellently served. Two pieces of freshly cooked bread and hot water. Luncheon soup made of a fine quality cabbage leaf and the hot water. Dinner, two spoons full of the finest quality ground oats and the hot water, as he promised simple but good and excellently served. I trust you ate well since we last talked. Yes, thank you. Sit down. We have a rule here that during interrogation your hand should be always in sight on the table, do you mind? Mr. Stobokowski, I have come to regard you as someone I would like to call a friend. I would really like to help you. For instance, you must be terribly anxious about your son. If only you could give me some idea how ever vague of his whereabouts, I'm sure I could find him. Thank you, I haven't any idea at all. Well, then about these activities of yours said to be hostile to the Soviet Union, maybe I can help you there. I can only repeat, I know of no such acts. Perhaps you didn't realize they could be regarded as hostile. How could that be? All my efforts have been concentrated in fighting Germany. Let's get at it this way then. Suppose you give me a detailed account of everything you did do. After all, we may be wrong in this charge and if so, we would like to clear up the whole misunderstanding. But I beg of you for your sake, not to try to deceive us. If you are reticent, how can I help but think that you have something to hide? Let's clear it up. Be frank! Six o'clock, the birth of a new day. How happy I would be to think that you were going out into its life in light of free man. Why spend this new day like the last? All we ask is proof of your sincerity in telling us something we already know and we can help you. Do please, think it over. Are you quite sure you won't let us help you find your son? He may be in danger. How can I if I don't know where he is? A 778A is ready. No instrument of torture yet. No tool to break my flesh. No whip, no fabulous drugs poured into my veins. At the end of the first six interrogations, I calculated the 20 would mark my limit and I should break.  Yet, am I conceivably even stronger than he? Do I stand alone? Get ready for interrogation. You can feel drunk, con-hot water, warm, all through you.  If you continue to insult me, I will answer no more questions. Do you know how many times you have been here? Yes. 85 times in 44 days and in all that time you have told me nothing but lies. Did you think you could fool us with your story of your women folk in a German concentration camp? If you know so much, you should know it is true. Are you all right? What is hostages for your loyalty to your German masters? Well cared for. Did you think we wouldn't know this? Your colleagues have told us everything. I have their sign confessions. I don't believe you. Stipolkowski did this, Stipolkowski did that. Your friends are working with us now.  What chance have you got against the testimony of all the others? I won't say any more. You can murder me. Murder you? We don't wish to murder you.  A pole a traitor to Russia? This is not a question of treason to a country but to an idea. We are an idea.  Think about what I have told you. 778A is ready. Not yet. I've tried every known means. If he has not lied to me, he has a prodigious memory. I have not missed the chance to trip him up. He is unusual, very gifted. I have never known anyone quite like him. You mean he is, shall we say, in vulnerable? No, we know better than that. I have just sent him away more broken than I have ever seen him. For the first time, I have seen him afraid. And when they are afraid, they crumble. No man is invulnerable. You still think your Anglo-Saxon friends will help you? They have already forgotten you. Why should they bother about one man? I know what you are waiting for.  But you are mistaken. I am the stronger, do you hear? I am the stronger. You said I was lying before. Look at these. They are your colleagues' confessions. You know their signatures. Look at them, examine them. We want you to go back with them, back with your friends. And all you need to is sign. What are you one man against so much? Who cares anyhow if you do sign? Give in and end it all. All you need to do is sign your name. Sign. Sign your name. All you need to do is sign. Sign your name. I want to see the commissar. You have asked to see the commissar. Then you are willing to cooperate with us. I applaud your wisdom. Give him the papers, the journal. Take your time, Stepolkowski. Read it carefully before you sign. Sign. What are you saying? You must sign just the two words of your name. And it is over. Confess. You must take him away. Charles Press reported the public state trial at Moscow, which occurred during the closing days of June 1945. Correspondents and photographers were invited by Stalin's order to listen to 16 leaders of the Polish underground confess to treason, sabotage, spying, and murder. One prisoner for the first time in the history of the Soviet exhibition trials refused to plead guilty and to confess. The name is given as Stepolkowski, who declared his innocence, was detained only a few weeks, and was given his freedom. The man who failed to gain a confession from him has never been heard from again. Outed in the story, we had here the case of an extremely devout man in a struggle against a man who had no religion at all. Nevertheless, there have been a great many good and brave men of faith who have broken under the communist brainwashings, we believe temporarily, and we must add that Colonel Stepolkowski had a special advantage in his struggle. As it happened, in the years before the war he had been an extremely successful courtroom lawyer and was hence used by training to the long and tedious process of interrogation or question and answer. But the accident of legal training would have been useless without the fact that he was a believer in a power above all states. And that's why we titled the story, I am not alone.


Once again, let's hear from Aaron Boone. It is the manager's report brought to you by Geico. Aaron, is there any indication as to the severity of Garrett Cole's injury? Right now, he just experienced some tightness, so we'll kind of see where we're at tomorrow on it. I know in talking to Garrett, he feels pretty optimistic about it. Something that's popped up before with him, with other pitches. Pitchers, just something that he felt like he was going to push through in there, risk doing something a little bit more. So hopefully it's something that he got out in front of enough, and we'll just see where we're at tomorrow in the coming days. Will he have an MRI? Nothing scheduled as of yet. So we'll see where we're at with him tomorrow and see what the next steps are. Did you notice something wrong with him on the mound, or when did he first kind of complain of a possible issue there at the hamstring? I did not. It was actually the Maguire at bat. It might have been a fastball up and in. He felt a little bit something. And when he got through that at bat, felt like he didn't want to risk doing some damage to it. I know you kind of have to wait and see, but do you expect for him to make his next start, or do you think it's a situation? I think it's possible. We'll see. I mean, he's pretty optimistic in there right now, but we'll just honestly have to see how he is overnight and tomorrow and then in the coming days, you know, how he responds. Yeah. Brendan Cuddy, please unmute. Erin, you mentioned how Garrett said this is something he's maybe dealt with a little bit in the past. Does he mean this season? I think it's just something that I think can pop up with pitchers every now and then. He felt he had something similar in the first half of the season in one of his outings. He was able to kind of work through and not to start or anything. So and he feels like it's something similar. But honestly, it's kind of silly for us to sit here and speculate as he's still hot from the game. And it's like, let's see how he is tomorrow. Are you glad that it seems like he went the cautious route to make sure he didn't push it too hard? Absolutely. Absolutely. Hopefully, you know, avoided something more serious. But again, we'll have to see. We can take a next question. Dave Lennon, please unmute. And Erin, I think from an offensive standpoint, I think that was the first time you guys had gone back to bad games, let a walk or an extra base hit since the 60s maybe. Our guys getting with the offensive struggles, getting a little jumpier, or maybe getting a little less patient at the plate? I think that's happened at different times. I actually thought tonight, you know, in comparison with yesterday, I thought we at least put some good swings on balls. I thought, for example, Judge had a few really good at bats and nothing to show for tonight. Voight, same way, we had some guys that hit the ball OK today compared to yesterday. But the bottom line is we've got to be better. We've got our guys now. And if we're going to be the team we hope to be, our offense has to carry that freight for us. And so we've got to get it rolling.


Greetings, and welcome to this, the first campus conversation of the new academic year. I'm Dan Mogulah from the Campus Office of Communications and Public Affairs. Today, I'm honored to welcome Ben Hermelin, our Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. Ben took office in July, 2022, with just over a year under his belt. It's really great to have this opportunity to talk with him about his plans and priorities for the campus. Ben holds professorships, both in the Economics Department and at the Berkeley Haas Business School. He received his PhD from MIT in 1988. The same year, as a matter of fact, he joined UC Berkeley as an assistant professor. From 1999 to 2002, Ben served as the Berkeley Haas Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of the Faculty. He was the Economics Department Chair from 2005 to 2008, the Chair of our Academic Senate from the fall of 2015 until spring 2016, and then Vice Provost for the Faculty from 2016 to 2022. His areas of research include corporate governance, the study of organizations, especially leadership and the I'm sure, industrial organization and law and economics. We already have a number of really good questions that you guys have sent in before we started today, but please, as always, feel free to post additional queries you may have for Ben on our Facebook live streaming site, and we'll do our very best to proceed to respond. So let's get started. So Ben, start off just a little bit about what exactly is a provost and what's the full scope of your job and responsibilities on campus? Well, thanks, Dan, and thanks for having me participate in this conversation. So the provost is the Chief Academic Officer for the university overseeing everything that has to do with academics. The deans report to me consequently, as do a number of other people like the University Librarian and working with them and the Council of Deans, as well as of course, consulting with the Academic Senate as part of shared governance. We set the course for all things academic, the teaching and the research. In addition, as Executive Vice Chancellor, I am the number two person after Carol Christ, our Chancellor, and I serve with her to help run all the other parts of the university. And the way that Carol has organized the organization is that many things, many people report to what's called the box, which is the Chancellor and the Executive Vice Chancellor. So I'm wondering, obviously, you were a vice provost and none of this was entirely new to you, but what surprised you? Share some impressions from your first year or so in office of what it's like to sit in that corner office that you occupy. Well, it's a different view in both a literal sense and a figurative sense. When you're the vice provost of faculty, you're principally concerned about faculty welfare, faculty advancement and so forth. And now the scope of things I need to attend to is far greater. Some things I knew a little bit about, some things I've learned a lot more about, such as our finances, particularly how we do our finances and how we can improve our finances. I've got a better sense of some of the challenges across the campus and other in areas outside of the academic part of the university. Learned strange things I didn't think I'd ever need to know about seismic safety and things like that. So it's a lot of different things. It's a very interesting job. Are you having fun? It depends on what day you ask me.  Oh, don't spend the spinner. Okay. Yeah, this is, look, look, this is a very rewarding job. This is, I think this university is one of the greatest institutions out there. And feeling to have any job where you're helping to advance the mission of this university and supporting all the people who worked in it is really satisfying. It gives meaning to my life. I mean, I know that might sound trite or contrived, but truly it does and that, it's very rewarding. I think everyone to really be content in life has to feel that their life has purpose and doing this job creates a lot of purpose for me. You know, I noticed I was reviewing before we sat down today, the speech or the remarks you recently shared with the deans and chairs. And you talked about gratitude. I mean, quoting a past guest of Campus Conversations, our very own, Dr. Keltner, why was it important for you to bring that up to the deans and chairs? Well, I think Dr. Keltner could answer the question better than I could. So, I'm really channeling him to some extent. I think that when we lose sight of gratitude and we don't recognize gratitude in our day-to-day lives, we are certainly less content, less happy, less compassionate, we are less collegial. And so, it's something that we want to feel and something that we need to pay attention to. I also think that it's very easy sometimes for people to lose sight of just what an amazing institution Berkeley is, how great it is, how much in demand it is, right? Over 100,000 students every year apply to come here.  Faculty around the globe would like to be here. And I think sometimes we lose sight of that, how well we do and how important our job is. And I think having some gratitude for that as well as perspective is very important. Otherwise, I don't think we can be as effective to our jobs as well and maintain good mental health. Yeah, that's great. I'm gonna go on and ask about plans and priorities before I do for those of you who may have joined us late. Welcome to the first campus conversation of the academic year. We're with executive vice chancellor and provost Ben Hermelin. We already have a number of questions that we received before we started. But if you have any queries, post them to our Facebook Live site and we're gonna do our very best to respond. Ben, let's talk a little bit about your priorities. What occupies sort of the top three or four items on your list this year? So the top three are working on financial sustainability. This has many dimensions, principally has to do with thinking about how we do our budgeting. Our budgeting model is not one that reflects our strategic needs. And so changing that to ensure that resources are going to where they're needed to maintain our excellence is important. We face some challenges due to the fact that over the last few years, our costs have risen at a far faster rate than our revenues. And so part because of that, our central ledger that is the central reserves of the university are fairly depleted in that rebuilding those central reserves and figuring out how to function with some of the pleaded central reserves is critically important if we're able to continue to be able to fulfill our mission. Second priority is trying to continue to reduce the bureaucratic burden. We had a lot of success this past year. There was a task force report we find on the EVCP website, summarizes a lot of what has been achieved and a lot of what we hope to achieve. And we wanna continue to work on reducing the bureaucratic burden in large part by changing the culture around bureaucracy here to really make everyone feel that they're a problem solver, not a gatekeeper and that they're recognized that everyone is a vital member of our team who plays a vital role through their own initiative and thought. And then the third priority is to continue to improve inclusion and belonging that applies in so many ways across our campus. One way I particularly wanna focus is in the classroom and making sure that we have inclusive classrooms. I feel that every student who comes to Berkeley comes with a contract from us that we are going to do everything we can to make sure that they have, get the education that they deserve and are able to go as far as they wish. And that means that we have to think about that when we think about how we design our classes so that they lift up every student. We can't teach to a particular point in the distribution. We must teach the entire distribution. And we must also recognize that we live in a society that is very unequal. And so we have bright students who come from high schools where they can take BC calculus and beyond and others who come from high schools where the highest math they can take is algebra two. And if you've only had algebra two no matter how bright you are, that's gonna put you at a disadvantage competing with students who've taken BC calculus. We have to figure out how to make Cal work for everyone. So inclusive belonging, inclusion and belonging particularly in the classroom is a priority. But let's unpack those a little bit and start off with the finances. I mean, I've been on campus for 19 years and boy, the budget seems like a perennial evergreen issue. Is there a fundamental problem at the core? Is there a systemic issue? It seems, it just seems to be a recurring issue that we can't get past. Is there hopes that we're gonna ever put financial challenges in our rear view mirror? Well, yes and no Dan. One of the amazing things about Berkeley is there's so many wonderful things we can do. And you think of all the wonderful things you could do we'll never have enough resources. No university would ever have enough resources do all the wonderful things Berkeley do. Even Harvard with all its riches would feel resource constrained in some sense to try to do all the wonderful things that we can do. So in that sense, no, the answer is no we're always going to have to make decisions, trade-offs and so forth. That's inevitable. On the other hand, I think what you're getting at is where we're always gonna feel this incredible austerity that we've felt off and on. And here I'm hopeful, but we also have to recognize the challenge that we face for quite a long time ever since the Great Recession and even somewhat before that state funding has really fallen off. And although California state funding has started to come back from that deep trough following the Great Recession in California in many ways has been a better state than other states in that. And we were very fortunate that the governor and the legislature has put in place this five year compact with 5% increases every year. Nonetheless, our revenues for a very long time have fall our operating revenues for a very long time fallen shorter operating expenses. Now, that's not the end of the world because we've had non-operating revenues as well as reserves we could draw upon to cover that difference. But as I said earlier, our reserves are now fairly depleted and our costs are rising much more rapidly than our revenues. So we're going to have to think about how can we raise our revenues and how can we have our revenues grow more quickly? There are a number of things philanthropy is one. We've been incredibly successful. We've hit $6.7 billion in the campaign. Our goal remember was just 6 billion. We've hit 6.7. We hope to get to 7 billion before the end of the campaign. We now rank number seventh in the country in terms of philanthropy. And we're the highest ranked school that doesn't have a medical school but highest ranked university that's known medical school. We are an entrepreneurial powerhouse and we're increasingly figuring out ways to profit from innovation and intellectual property. And that continues to be a growing source of revenues. We have a number of programs, academic programs that bring in revenue. So I have to continue to work on all those things as well as the state continuing to increase its share of funding for us. And then we're just gonna have to think about how can we ensure that we're using our funds wisely into the best purpose and that's the financial sustainability analysis initiative is about and we're doing a deep dive analysis and a number of different units to make sure that we're doing that. And we'll have to have some thoughts about where are there places where greater discipline in terms of increased expenditures can be implemented so that we can slow the growth in our expenditures? So it was interesting. You talked also with the deans and chairs and I was looking at remarks, you shared a very similar message but you also talked at length and it was interesting and impactful I thought about Berkeley's resilience and this idea and your impression that we always rise to meet the challenges. There was a good deal of confidence between the lines. Where does that come from for you? Well, I've been at Berkeley 35 years Dan as you mentioned that the outset and in that 35 years, I've only seen Berkeley get better. I mean, the university of today is a better university than the one I joined. The one I joined was obviously a wonderful university but I think we're a far better university on any dimension that you want to think about. And yeah, the whole 35 years I've been here people have also been very anxious about various financial things. I had no sooner arrived and there was a state budget problem and we had the voluntary early retirement programs and many cuts. We suffered with the dot com bust. We've suffered with the great recession but we are amazing in our resilience and part of that resilience comes about because we're very innovative. We're not wedded to the status quo or always asking the question, how can we improve? What can we do differently? Where are things going and how do we stay ahead of that curve? And I don't know of any university that's been as successful as we've been in that regard. Wow. Let's move to the second one. The bureaucratic burden. And in fact, we got a question and directed exactly at that issue. If you don't mind, I'll read it. Sure. For many reasons, the UC Berkeley is a wonderful place to teach and conduct research. At the same time, the excessive bureaucratic burden associated with hiring staff and non-latter rang faculty, financial management and establishing public and private partnerships severely dampens the growth trajectory for many of our individual and collective research endeavors. We are, quote, significantly out of step with the flexibility enjoyed by our colleagues for these routine processes at peer UC and non-UC institutions, which ultimately has the potential to threaten retention of the brightest minds at Berkeley and limit educational and research opportunities. How is the institution trying to make it easier to be successful as a faculty member at UC Berkeley? And if you could go from there, maybe and talk more generally, but let's just focus on that. So it's an excellent question. It is an excellent question. I think just to give just a little bit of caution. So one always has to remember higher education is one of the most highly regulated industries in America. We are a state institution and many of the policies and practices or procedures that we have to operate under are not set on this campus, but set at 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland. And that would be the address of? Office of the President. Got it. Okay. And now, you know, different UC campuses are perhaps a little bit freer in how they interpret some of the dictates from the Office of the President's policy. So there I would agree with the question that some of our sister UCs seem to have less of a bureaucratic burden than we do. And one of the things we're doing as part of the Financial Sustainability Initiative, but it does spill over to reducing bureaucratic burden is examining our processes as benchmark against other large public R1 universities such as UCLA. So we hope to learn from what they do and to make changes accordingly. We are looking into a lot of the hiring practices and other things that have caused people a lot of concern and we're trying to improve those. Some of what we've accomplished already is listed in, as I said, on the EVCP webpage. And the other thing is people should make sure that we know about what those pain points are. And no one should sort of suffer in silence. We're committed to working on that. And so please, you know, bring to my attention or bring to someone's attention the specific issues and we will look into them and we will try to resolve them to the best of our ability recognizing some of the constraints I mentioned earlier. Got it. Let's move on to the third leg of your priorities stool as it was, as it is. And that was diversity and inclusion. And so obviously this is something important for the campus, equity, inclusion, diversity and belonging, number of people who are working on that every day. But why did you feel it necessary to elevate it to one of your three priorities this year? Well, this was a priority I started last year, but it remains a priority this year. And in fact, I hope to accelerate our work on it. I think that one of the things that has struck me is that we have worked very hard to improve diversity on this campus. And I read the first to say that the pace has not been as fast as we would like, but we have made a lot of improvements. That's only part of what we need to do though. I really feel strongly that everyone who comes here should feel a strong sense of belonging and a sense of belonging, not only that they feel they belong, but they're confident that others see them as belonging and being a vital part of this campus and its community. And so I think, you know, I don't wanna take my foot off the diversity pedal or some of the other pedals, but I think trying to work on inclusion and belonging is important because I want everyone who comes here to thrive and to really benefit as much as possible from their time at Berkeley, whether it's a student, faculty member or staff. And so that's, and I think we have not always done work on that. And we've not always been as conscious about making sure that everyone feels that sense of, feels included and feels that sense of belonging. So that's why I raised it, because I think it's vital. And I think, you know, when we think about our mission, it has many parts, but really key part of our mission is education. And I don't think we can do a excellent job in educating people if we are not conscious about inclusion and belonging. There are all kinds of studies that show that when people feel that they're not included, that they don't belong, they don't do as well as they can or they don't take advantage of all the resources that are available to them. So I think part of being excellent in our educational mission is improving inclusion and belonging, as well as I think it positively infects everything else we do as well. You know, I noticed you also talked again, referring to that same set of remarks to the deans and chairs recently. You talked about community and it always struck about how community is front and center in so many speeches and messages delivered by Chancellor Christ as being an inherent and essential element of a high quality education. How do you see it? You see the importance of community. Well, I totally agree with what Chancellor Christ has said about community and she's absolutely right.  Yeah. You know, one of the things that social scientists have pointed out all the way back to the 14th century in Ibn Khaldun is that what makes an organization successful or a key to an organization's success is it's social cohesion. It's a sense of community that people have and organizations where people have a sense of community do well. And that's how we outperform those where that is lacking. I sometimes say that, you know, part of Berkeley's secret sauce is that in so many departments, we have such a strong sense of community and that's lacking in a lot of our competitor departments and that's in part what allows us to attract and retain the world's best faculty if people enjoy the community that they have here. And as I said earlier, community and a sense of community is vital for people to thrive. They need that and they can't be successful in the classroom and their research in their day to day job without that. So that's why it's so important. Ben, I'm gonna go on in just a second to a question we received in particular about our Latinx community, but I also wanna note we've received a very large number of questions about some named and specific employees. And I just wanna note that we are strictly forbidden by California law from talking about personnel issues and we are completely committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality. So we just can't answer in any specificity about any specific employee past or present. So just to note that, but I can read this part of the question. Dear Provost Hermelin, what is your plan for retaining Latinx faculty from other underrepresented groups? It's a great question. So we've been doing a lot of things to work on that. It encompasses many things. First, we've worked very hard to improve our recruitment faculty from underrepresented groups. We've had over the last few years a sharp increase. Again, it's not as fast a pace as we would like, but it is an improvement in the recruitment of people from underrepresented communities. We've had a number of initiatives like the Latinx and Democracy Initiative that's a cluster hire that's very exciting. We've not only hired faculty interested in this area, but provided a lot of funding for research for them. We are working on making sure that a number of other initiatives, such as those in the African-American Studies Department continue to thrive. There was a wonderful program going on in the Collaboratory that the grant is running out. We're gonna make sure that the funding stays so that can continue to be successful. We know that a big challenge for many faculty is the housing market, which is very tough. And so we also know that, again, because we live in an unequal society, often people from underrepresented groups are also people who don't come with a lot of inherited or family wealth. So we're trying to do everything we can to improve access to housing. That's a challenge, but we've put in place a number of programs to facilitate that, whether it's the zero interest forgivable loans, whether it's raising the minimum off-scale component in faculty salaries, so a number of things there. We've worked very hard on retentions. We have a very high success rate in retaining faculty from underrepresented groups. In fact, I think I'm pretty sure our success rate with that group is higher than with other groups. So we're working very hard. And I also note that the Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion, Don Yamatos, has a number of thriving initiatives, one of all of which together are going to help a lot. And there is one specifically around Latinx issues as well. So continue to work on it. Moving on to a somewhat different subject, question that's come in from the audience. I hope you'll update the audience on the status of PAC-12 negotiations. And for those who may not know, even though the amount of coverage has been absolutely mind-boggling, there's major realignments going on in the conferences which formed the foundation of intercollegiate athletics, a lot of speculation about where Cal and Stanford are going to land. What can you tell us, Ben? Well, I can't tell you very much in part because I really don't know very much. I said earlier that Carol has a model, two in the box for many things, but there's some things that don't report to the box. They report only to Carol and athletics as one of them. So I do know that the chancellors work remarkably hard along with Jim Nolton, the athletic director, to try to resolve the conference realignment issues and negotiating with other conferences and trying to come up with the best possible outcome for Cal. What little bit I've heard, and I think everything I've heard has probably been in the press too, is promising that we'll land or remain in a top five, power five conference, thank you. But things are still ongoing, so we'll have to wait and see. And should any future agreement create budgetary challenges, what happens after that? What's the process that the campus uses in that regard? Well, we'll have to see what it really entails and how we can best tackle any problems that arise. I don't, you know, not knowing even what the scope of that may be, it's a little bit early to begin to say what we would do. There are many different possibilities. Also keep in mind that we also get, we're supposed to get some money from UCLA to make up for their abandoning the PAC-12 and precipitating all of this. So we'll have to see what happens. You know, we remain right now committed to, you know, continuing to field the teams that we're fielding in our collegiate athletics. The chancellor has made clear that she sees intercollegiate athletics as playing a vital role for this campus. So we're gonna have to figure it out, but until we know exactly what's what, it's a little bit early. Makes sense, thanks for that. Gonna bounce into another subject, picking up a question that just came in. Thank you for addressing the faculty and also for answering our questions. My question is, this person wrote, would you consider helping to improve the situation for faculty who do research internationally? Though our research is often more costly, the university provides us with the same amount of funds as faculty whose research allows them to remain inside the United States. Might there be some way to enhance the university support for faculty doing international research? Yes, the short answer is that there might well be. We haven't looked into it. As many people know, although we provide funding for faculty research, it's principally in terms of startup for faculty when they join or sometimes in retention cases to help induce them to remain here. We have some other limited funds that we provide through, for example, the Bears Grant program and so forth. We can certainly look into whether there are other ways that we can support faculty who are working internationally. We've tended, I would say, with our programs to be somewhat egalitarian in our funding and perhaps we can also think about whether we wanna have programs that are a little bit more tailored to specific needs of the faculty requesting funding and if you have thoughts or send them to my office. Great, thanks. Another question from the faculty. I'm an assistant professor under review for promotion to tenure. My case has been stalled. I've heard from others that their cases are also delayed. Can you please share what has caused the delay and when we can expect to hear about our decisions? Sure, so first of all, obviously, it's very hard to have one's tenure case delayed. It's a very anxious period, so I wanna recognize that. I do also wanna mention that having your case delayed is not a signal of anything. So people shouldn't try to read into it, some hidden message. Unfortunately, this year was somewhat of a perfect storm in terms of academic personnel matters. We have a wonderful new vice provost for the faculty, but everyone has a learning curve, and so that is a factor. We also, and a much bigger factor is we had a lot more retention cases this year than we ordinarily have. Retention cases always jump to the top of the queue. We've also had a lot of late appointment cases and faculty appointment cases also jump to the head of the queue. And if they come in late, they come in right around the time that we're trying to wrap up all our tenure cases. I know that the vice provost is working very hard on the tenure cases. I know the academic personnel office is working very hard on them. I've received a number of them recently for my review. So for those who don't know, once the case gets through the budget committee and the vice provost, it comes to the provost and then to the chancellor. So I've tried to expedite every case that's come to me turning around in a day or two because I know people are eager to hear. Right, so it sounds like help is on the way to some degree? Yeah, and that's a good point, Dan. I should have mentioned that. We have added staff in the academic personnel office to try to deal with that. One of the economies that we made and maybe a false economy is that we have a very lean academic personnel office. Our academic personnel office, I think is roughly half the size of UCLA's. It's one of the smallest in the system. People having worked with them for many years of people in the academic personnel office are fantastic. They're so fortunate to have them. But they're only human. They're only 24 hours in any day, only seven days in any week. So when we have too few people, things sometimes take longer than would be ideal. Thanks, before I go on to the next one, I'm gonna read another question that came in from the audience, just reminding people. We do have a number of questions we're working through that came in before. But if you have a query that you'd like to see if we can answer, that you'd like to have answered today, please post it to our Facebook live site and we'll do our best to respond in the time that's remaining. Ben, this next question. What is your opinion on remote work? Working from home, they explain, especially in the context of maintaining and building our community. Okay, well, since you're working from home, Dan, I gotta be really careful here. There are trade-offs, I think, you know, for a lot of jobs and a lot of people's situations, people, particularly people who face long commutes or family issues, having the flexibility of working remotely is a real godsend. And we wouldn't wanna take that away. On the other hand, as I said earlier, I think community is really important. And Zoom technology, at least in my humble opinion hasn't replaced in-person communications. There's something to be said for conversations around the proverbial water cooler in the hallway and so forth. And so I think we need to figure out a way to balance these things. I really think we want people to have a sense of community. I think they'll feel better if they have a sense of community. And so we need to promote, you know, that sense of community in what's clearly going to be some kind of hybrid environment going forward. You know, Ben, speaking of community, I've talked to a number of people who've expressed some trepidation about the fact that we have obviously a presidential election coming up, those have been times of where a lot of passions are expressed on the campus, issues about free speech come up and some of the inherent tensions that might exist between free speech and some of our communitarian aspirations. Talk to us a little bit about how you view that issue, the importance of free speech and diversity of perspective on a campus like Berkeley and how we can hold the community together in the face of passionately held views that can be highly divergent. Yeah, I think this is obviously a huge challenge, been a challenge for society forever in a day. So, you know, I'm not gonna be great and brilliant to say about it. I think a few things. One, I think each and every one of us has an obligation to give some thought to how what we say will be perceived by others. This isn't to say we should censor ourselves or we shouldn't speak about things we feel passionately about, but we should think a little bit about how we convey that message. Second, I think everyone should, I believe as a society, and my personal view is not the view of the university or anybody but my own view, I think we as a society have lost a considerable amount of goodwill for others, tolerance, and instead of assuming that someone has said something out of malice or because they're a bad person or they're a jerk or whatever to try to give them the benefit of the doubt, try to hear what they have to say. You don't have to agree with it, but going to anger or getting, striking back at someone isn't probably not the right response. And so I think we as a people just need to rediscover our abilities to be tolerant and so forth. This doesn't mean we should put up with people who are behaving poorly. We shouldn't put up with hate speech in the sense of saying it's fine. It certainly is not fine, but just simply saying that we have to figure out ways to be a little bit more calm. Because as you say, Dan, I imagine there'll be a lot of people who'll be trying to incite a lot of anger and emotion over the course of the next year plus. And we're a target for it because Berkeley is a name and getting your protest on TV is gonna be easier if you do it at Berkeley than if you do it at Wichita State or Texas El Paso or something. Uh-oh, now we're gonna get all kinds of letters from alumni from Texas El Paso who won't be pleased with that one bit. But yes- I apologize in advance. Yes, but I've long thought that they should adapt that song to say, for Berkeley, for certain activists and people who love attention. If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere. Anyway, I'm gonna bounce around, go back to a question we've received from the audience. Can we expect to see enterprise systems related to graduate student fellowships slash private awards and fund management? Currently, units use Excel spreadsheets, CADs and ledgers to figure out balances and other items this person lists. And as we create more and more funds, the administration management and stewardship of those funds has become increasingly difficult. So it sounds like a call for help here. Yeah, so I don't know all the issues that this questioner is raising in terms of the specifics. Obviously, we wanna make things better. I believe that UDAR is looking into improving its systems. We're looking into improving all our systems. I think if you have specific concerns or questions, again, if you can direct them to my office, we can try to think about what we might need to do. Maybe we're already working on it. Maybe it's something we're not aware of. Sometimes it can be, we have too many people involved in things, where can we streamline and so forth. So happy to look into that. Great, another issue that you and I talked about last week before this conversation was the issue of digital accessibility that you raised as something of importance, a particular area of attention. Can you unpack that a little bit for us? And what exactly that means and what we're doing in that regard? Yeah, I mean, there are a number of things. So one, we have to make sure that whatever we present in a digital format, particularly online, is accessible to everyone who wishes to access it, particularly our people in our community. So that means that materials have to be accessible by those who have vision impairments or have hearing loss or hearing issues. So we have to think about that. We're under a consent decree with the Department of Justice in part to improve accessibility. And we should be doing that anyway, but we're even more obliged to do it than we would otherwise be, perhaps. So that's really important. And I think people should also think, people teaching classes or other things, make sure they think about, are they doing things in ways that everyone can access them in ways that work for them? That's obviously important, as well as not relying on people necessarily having access to certain technology, which in our unequal society may not be true. You know, Ben, one of the things that caught a lot of attention over the summer was the Chancellor's message that she'll be stepping down next July. Can you just really broad brush strokes? How does the search process? Is the campus run the search process? Does the office of the president, how involved are we? Where do things stand? How is this gonna unfold over the next few months? Sure. So the office of the president runs the search for any Chancellor, any of the campuses. They do so under a very scripted set of procedures. There's a regents order that describes what they do, and then there's a 19 page detailed thing that specifies exactly what that means and how that's implemented. We have no say or very little say in who serves on the search committee. Different groups are allowed to make nominations of slates from which the office of the president may choose. So I know the Berkeley staff association will be able to submit a slate. The students will be able to submit a slate. Let me just interrupt you for a sec. What do you mean by slate? Like a list of names? Yeah, list of names. So for people, the one I know best is the office of president asked the academic Senate's committee on committees to submit the names of nine to 12 faculty, then the system-wide committee on committees will narrow that down to that list of nine to 12 down to six, and then the president will choose three to serve on the search committee. The committee is made up of the president of the system and under regents, some people from our community, the chair, vice chair of the system-wide academic Senate, faculty member from another UC campus. So we're not the drivers of this. There is opportunities to give input to the search committee. So on October 10th, there'll be what's called campus day when the search committee comes to talk to invited guests to provide input, there'll be other forums for people to provide input as well on the search process. Got it. Last question before we wrap up. Can you give us sort of a summary about construction on campus, about where things stand? Any major projects that we stand on the cusp of beginning right now? Well, certainly people who've been on campus notice that we're doing a fair amount of construction. The most notable new construction is Anchor House on Oxford, which would be a dorm for transfer students. I think it has 760 beds. It seems like it's almost completed, although I know they have a lot more to do. Yeah, it's like another, I think it's like another year or something, which, yeah. So right now it's a little bit of a Potemkin building in the sense that the outside looks all done inside. I guess that needs to be taken care of. I think the next major thing that people will notice is the building of a new classroom building and also a home for LNS advising that will be built on what is now the Rinell parking lot. So between Valley Life Sciences and the Twin L fall. I believe that's slated to begin sometime this fall, but I got off the top of my head. I don't remember when. The Bechtel construction is underway. This is to improve Bechtel for students. You mean an engineering center there? Yeah, yeah. So there are a number of things that are underway and a number of things are planned as well. So we continue to build and change. And of course everyone's seeing the gateway building, which will be the home of CDSS and the School of Information. I noticed the legislature just passed a new bill, a statute that addresses some of the issues in the People's Park lawsuit. My understanding is that we still need, we're waiting to hear from the Supreme Court. The administration, does the commitment remain the same as it's always been for that particular project? It does. So as you say, the legislative action that just passed and obviously needs to be signed by the governor, but assuming his signature, then that doesn't immediately give us a green light. We still have to continue with the process in the state Supreme Court as you mentioned in and all legal technicalities are not something I know or understand, so I can't talk to them. But the chancellors has remained clear that, she wants to move ahead, that the need for student housing is incredible. We house the smallest number of our students of any of the UCs. And particularly if we all want to maintain access and ensure that everyone who wants to come to UC Berkeley and gets in can afford to be here, we are gonna have to address the housing issue for our students and People's Park, along with construction on Channing Ellsworth, along with construction in your former home on Fulton and Bancroft, and so forth, all gonna be part of the solution to this problem of ensuring adequate housing for our students. So we've reached that point for the hardest question, which is, wanna share some closing thoughts, just as we embark on another academic year here and face the challenges and opportunities, many of which you've addressed today. Sure. I would like people to try to channel the enthusiasm that I see in our new students and our new faculty. I really, I had a wonderful opportunity before the semester started to meet with both new faculty and new students. And their excitement about being here is just amazing. I mean, they are just grateful to be here, excited to be here, enthusiastic. And they remind you, again, to go back to what we talked about with gratitude, what an amazing place this is, how wonderful it is to be at Berkeley. And yes, we have many challenges. And I'm not trying to sugarcoat anything. I'm not trying to deflect from those challenges or to say we should ignore them, we can't ignore them. Yet at the same time, we have to remain aware of just what a great place this is and how fortunate we are to be here. So those will be my closing remarks today. Not bad. Ben, I wanna thank you so much for your time. Thank you. I wanna thank everybody for tuning in to this, the first campus conversation of the academic year. We have all kinds of great conversations lined up in the future. We hope we'll see you down the road. Have a great day.


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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical below here's to my scream six in this video here again today talk about two images They have the fandom going crazy today One in particular is this one on your screen, which we shared on Melissa Borreira's husband's Instagram page I believe he's now deleted it, but as you see here on your screen wouldn't this be all but official confirmation from them That this is our official title for scream six now What's not clear is are these Roman numerals are these two exclamation points are they two bloody fingerprints and Honestly, I'm down for either one either or I don't really care I know some people would of course love for this to be scream six I've seen people even go out of the way to say it's it's quite bold of them to number the movie When that's the trend now when movies aren't numbering themselves So they think it's a very bold move to do that. I I genuinely do think it's it's two exclamation points I've also seen people say that it looks like there's a six slashed into The exclamation points or Roman numerals or two bloody fingerprints Now the reason I believe this is the official title is just going back to remind everyone about the Parkside Alpha stuff Anyone can the conversation can correct me but to my knowledge there was no one on the set That was sitting in a chair that said Parkside Alpha We know Parkside Alpha was the working title for screen 5 There was someone who we saw sitting in a chair on set with a title of scream once production wrapped We got a post from Kevin Williamson and a lot of other outlets of course picked up after it Where it was revealed that the actual title of screen 5 was indeed scream in reference to a lot of the Requel stuff going on now with a lot of genres not just horror, but a lot of IPs So more specifically I really do think they were poking fun at Halloween 2018 But now with this someone sitting in a chair that says scream with either two Roman numerals two exclamation points or two bloody bloody fingerprints I think this is the sign that this is the Official title for screen 6 we'll get confirmation of it in the coming weeks Of course when they're done filming and when we get the official stuff to start coming out to hype everybody up for the movie And it's released next March But the fact that again this isn't a chair that says blackmore because we know the working title for this one is blackmore is also I think very telling because it's still again something that's very reminiscent of what happened with the Parkside Alpha project There was nothing on set of anyone sitting in a chair with Parkside Alpha The chair just said scream and the title for screen 5 ended up being screen So I believe we now have just discovered the official title that will be announced in the coming weeks for screen 6 We'll see how true this ends up being and if those are actually again two Roman numerals two bloody fingerprints or two Two exclamation points and then again see if that's actually a six slash into it in some fashion I've seen people zooming in saying that that's a six slashed into it. So that's one topic I also want to address the crowd that I know I've already seen. I'm not necessarily saying I'm that crazy about it either These title changes and these variations Besides just sticking to screen 5 screen 6 screen 7 they could even actually just stop doing that and just do subtitles as well I the honest reason for that is again to draw in your audience If they want to call this their scream to the chances of people coming out and seeing that I feel a much higher than if they called it scream 6 or if they just call it scream and they indeed just have two exclamation points That's also very effective as well But here's the image the other image that has everybody going crazy This image. I don't know who originally revealed this on Twitter, but as you see here This is Mason Gooding on a stretcher With what many people are assuming is after he is shot Chad's death sequence So people think that he is dying because of this image. I do want to remind people of a few things one He's not in a body bag. So I don't think he is necessarily dying in this moment He could be it doesn't have to be in a body bag necessarily to be dead on the stretcher. I guess but uh The fact there's no body bag is telling the other thing again, of course He's he's sitting right side up That doesn't mean that he wasn't in some other other form when they were actually filming if they're not filming right now in that image exactly and The other thing is they can shoot two different things They can shoot a scene of Chad dying at whatever event This is that he may be dying at and they can shoot a scene of Chad surviving They could also then take said two scenes Show one version to a test audience and allow said test audiences or audience to decide to fate of certain characters That's something that I think many people should remember You won't know if these characters are actually dead or not And so you sit down and watch the movie because that is of a Possibility that I know a lot of people aren't really considering or at least speaking on it They can easily shoot multiple scenes where Chad lives and one where Chad dies They can shoot multiple scenes one where Mindy lives one where Mindy dies Shoot multiple scenes one where Kirby lives one where Kirby dies They could do that they could play around with that and this I guess would also eliminate the need for reshoots because if you already have backups Planned when it relates to who's living or dying you won't have to reshoot a survival scene and decide to let them live or There's another thing that could be going on if he is in fact dying This could be something that gives Mindy a lot more to work with going into scream six and her arc Going forward if Chad actually bites it at whatever this is I'm assuming this is him dying at this presumed party. We all think is going on Honestly, it's becoming pretty clear that they're not shooting this movie in order for one Hating as far as I know and as far as the internet. I don't think she's still even on set So I don't think the Hayden Panthear's character of Kirby Reed is actually showing up at the very end of this movie I think they will see her sometime before the before the final chapter or not the final chapter before the Third act and of course during the third act But the fact that she's not even on set and she has scenes to shoot tells me of course that They're shooting this out of order considering how there's still people who aren't on set like her who need to have scenes shot So as far as like again chat dying if he dies that at least gives Mindy material to work with as far as like something to Have her traumatized throughout the movie give her an emotional wrench for your audience to grow attached to her a little bit better Hopefully we get to learn a lot more about both Chad and Mindy even if one bites the dust But also it is possible that both of them die in this movie I just want to actually just tell everybody to remember that it is possible that they shoot a Survival and a death scene and allow test audiences to decide these characters fate It is possible that you find something out like that after the movies released But we'll see what ends up happening. We'll see that's the official title see if Chad dies or not Let me know what you guys think about all this down in the comment section below if you haven't already of course Make sure you subscribe turn on postification near miss a video in the description I'll have links from social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there of course so let me know if there's any movies News or reviews let me to cover in the future without any mind guys. I will see you in the next video


Next up is Gadik, he's going to do an impersonation of Ian talking about money. Alright, so I have no idea if I look like Ian Ray. Ian Ray, no Ian Jeffrey. Ian Jeffrey, yeah. Ian Jeffrey. Anyway, here in Montreal we are very pleased. There's a new accelerator program called Thunder Fuel. They gave a smallish amount of money to young startups, and I have no idea what they arranged, but I think it's around 20k to 60k. I thought it was like 10,000 initially and then 5,000. Not more than that, but that's all you need to start a web startup, because you know, you can run lean. And the very exciting thing about it is that it's just a cross street in Nutman House. They give you some room to run your startup, and it's time right now to apply because, you know when they're... I think it's even July 1st or August 1st. Yeah, you have no more than a few weeks to submit, to pitch an idea and to be approved, but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't stay all night to find out a great idea and to pitch to these guys to get your share of the big loot. Thank you, Eric. Okay, so next up is a proper flash presentation, and it's Sebastian and Franco. They're going to be talking about cryptography with save. I'll put the mic both of them. Stay very close. I have a bar. Can people hear me? Thank you for the invitation. So, Eric invited us to give a small demonstration on using Sage to explore cryptography. So, first I'll start off with a reminder of Sage. Some of you may have been here for our one hour presentation. Sage is a free open source, Python-based mathematics software system, and the goal is to support research and teaching in various areas of mathematics, one of them being cryptography. Both Sage's development model and the technology in Sage itself are distinguished by its openness and community cooperation and collaboration. And the idea is that we are building the car and not reinventing the wheel. So, instead of reinventing pieces of software, we're taking existing open source software systems out there and merging them together. And the overall goal of Sage is to create a free, viable open source alternative to maple, mathematical, magma, and MATLAB. The website for Sage is SageMath.org, and I'll mention quickly two killer features of the software. One is Scython, so here you should think Python to C compiler. So, it's a super set of the Python programming language which allows you to declare data types and to use C data types in your code, and it gets compiled to C. This makes things run off faster. The second is the Sage notebook, which is an interface to your software. You can run Python examples, include images, and so on. And it's great for doing presentations, as you can see here. Great. So, let's do the first example. So, it's an easy example of the first crypto system we learned as cool. So, take the alphabet from A to Z, and represent them with the integer... Oh, I'm speaking French. We understand the 0 to 25 entities to represent the entities. So, all I want to share here is that we can do this process by coding a message and then decoding it with Sage. So, of course, it's mostly for the beginning of the assignment here, so we don't have to decode messages here. So, if I do this example, I start by transforming the Python-Montréal string into a string on the alphabet of 26 letters in a single line. So, I'm going to use the Shift-1 simply to make it easy to verify that it's not wrong. But I can use another value here. So, the people who write the message in the alphabet, the P is transformed into Q, so that's good. So, the rest should be okay. And then, to decode the message, you have to connect the key. So, the key is the Shift. So, the person who receives the message can decode this message in this way and then get it back and go back. So, it should be able to illustrate this crypto-card system. It's pretty simple. So, the second example I'm going to illustrate here is the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange. So, here, what we want is the key, the number 1. It was the same key that was used to decode the message. So, when we want the two people to share this key, we're using a non-secure file. So, there's a way to make sure that we can establish this key without the other people searching it. So, this is the system here that can be used to establish a key. So, here, I'm going to make an example. So, we don't have to consider the code. It allows us to display an Interact. It's very good. It allows us to illustrate the example. So, here, I can change the cursor, but I'm going to do it all at once. So, for example, let's say Bob agrees on two numbers, P and G, 109 and G equals 6. So, G is the base on which we're going to multiply. So, all that's chosen on their side is two explosions. So, for example, let's say we're going to choose the explosion, oh, it's 592. Bob is going to choose the explosion P equals 588. So, it's going to change the power of the base G with the explosion. And each of their sides can complete the power with their own explosion to obtain a key that's going to be common. So, in this case, it's 38. And then, they can start to exchange messages with these keys that they only know. And for more information... Oh, really? So, here, it's just to illustrate the Interact. So, I can choose... I can change the output here, which gives us the number of bits. So, here, we obtain a little more than 55 bits. Here, we obtain a key that's... A little more than half an hour. So, I finish by saying that there are two references here. So, these are people who have been using a lot of code in the sage, but who work in cryptography. So, the first one is Min, Val, Julienne. In addition, they made a thesis in education. So, the first example, they made a thesis. And the second one is more in research. So, he works on things that are more advanced. Thank you. Thank you.


We want to fire up in the machine. DJ LaMahieu is about to start his third season in pinstripes. He's on board for the long haul after signing a six year deal over the winter. There's LaMahieu on his return to the Bronx. Yeah, I mean, I'm just extremely honored to continue my career with the Yankees. It's a place, you know, when I signed two years ago, it's a place I wanted to be, and then two years later, it's a place, you know, I really wanted to be. So I'm just glad everything worked out and I'm here. And I can't wait to get out there again this year. Well, it was music to the ears of Yankees' universe when news of LaMahieu's deal broke. And like artists such as Cardi B or Justin Bieber, Bebe's LaMahieu churns out hit after hit, which has led to him putting up some of the best numbers in baseball since joining the Yankees. He's become just the second player in team history to finish top five in American League MVP voting in each of their first two seasons with the club joining the great Roger Barris.