Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch where we bring UNI's developments from across the world, our headlines. The US to indict Assange on new accusations of recruiting hackers. UN chief asks Israel to desist from annexation plan and security council meeting. Egyptian authorities arrest journalists nor our UNIS as media crackdown intensifies. The RMT union condemns UK ministers comment on underpaid foreign workers. Thailand social movements commemorate 88th anniversary of the Siamese Revolution. In our first story, the Donald Trump administration in the United States announced on Wednesday a new indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The indictment was announced in a press release by the US Department of Justice. The DOJ has been pursuing the case against Assange. In the second indictment, Assange will be facing a federal grand jury on accusations of having hired and conspired with activists. The new indictment will not add to the earlier one, but it will broaden the scope of the existing charges under federal secrecy and cybercrime laws. The DOJ has based the indictment and passed statements by Assange. This includes the 2009 hacking at random conferences in the Netherlands. There, Assange held a session demonstrating how to obtain unclassified but non-public documents from the US Congressional Research Committee. The statement is not mentioned whether the act in itself is illegal. The DOJ also claimed that Assange tried to obtain the services of Lulsek, Anonymous and other affiliated hackers in 2012 for a list of unnamed targets. It further alleged that Assange had obtained access to government computers of an unnamed NATO country in 2010. Assange's lawyers and supporters as well as human rights activists have slammed the new indictment by the US government as an attack on a news publisher for working with the sources. In our next story, in a virtual meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Secretary General Antonio Guterres asked Israel not to move ahead with his proposed annexation plan. Guterres argued that the plan would grievously harm the two-state solution. The UN Special Envoy for the Middle East, Nikolai Mladenov, blazed in East Jerusalem, also said in the meeting that Israel's unilateral move will take everyone further away from peace. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki spoke at the meeting as well as called for sanctions on Israel by the international community if the annexation happens. The new coalition government in Israel headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been preparing to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories along with large swaths of territory in the Jordan Valley. The annexation aligns with the deal of the century proposed by US President Donald Trump earlier this year. The Palestinian Authority and other Palestinian groups have warned that annexation will lead to large-scale uprisings. The PA also announced the end of all coordination with the Israeli government. Trump and Netanyahu's plans have received widespread condemnation from different quarters of the international community. Over 1,000 parliamentarians from more than 25 European countries have signed a joint letter to Israel, asking it to desist from the annexation. Palestinians have been organizing several demonstrations against the looming annexation. On Tuesday, thousands gathered in Jericho in the Jordan Valley in protest despite Israeli suppression. We now go to Egypt where authorities arrested yet another journalist on Wednesday. The authorities raided the office of al-Manasa, a news agency and arrested its editor-in-chief, Nora Yunus. Officers took her to the Mahdi police station in Cairo, where she was denied access to her lawyer. Yunus' lawyer stated that she will face a charge of managing a website without a license. This is despite the fact that al-Manasa's license renewal application is under review since 2018. Nora Yunus has worked with al-Masri al-Yum, a popular Arabic daily in Egypt, as well as with the Washington Post before founding al-Manasa in 2015. She has been critical of the government's record in human rights. Al-Manasa is one of the more than 500 websites, which has been banned or blocked, or has had its license lapsed under the administration of Abdul Fatah al-Sisi. Several journalists have also faced arrests and detention in the meantime. Activists have alleged that the arrests and harassment of journalists in news organizations has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nora is a third woman journalist who has been arrested by authorities in the recent weeks. Last month, they had arrested Madha Masr founder Lina Atala, who was later released on bail. They also arrested Shima Sami, a young journalist working with Arabic language newspaper the Darbh, for a piece on the government's detention policy. Yesterday, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers of the RMT intensified their campaigns to save jobs in British ferries. The RMT's action came in response to the UK Transport Secretary's statement that employing foreign seafarers on lower wages than UK-based seafarers is in line with international maritime laws. The Secretary's statement was in response to a Parliamentary Committee's questions over P&O's plan to retain the Filipino agency crew on £4.5 per hour. P&O ferries, owned by the Dubai-based logistics company DP World, has been at odds with the RMT for nearly two months now. The RMT's dealership accused the British government of abandoning UK-based workers while supporting the company's policy of paying foreign workers below the national living wage. The union has been demanding the nationalization of P&O ferries, which controls major sea transport networks between the UK and the EU. And finally, Thailand's grassroots movement commemorates the 88th anniversary of the 1932 revolution. The Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand, along with the People's Democracy movement of Thailand, organized a public meeting on Wednesday and do use the occasion to talk about the political situation of Thailand today. Social movements across the country have taken the university as an opportunity to reflect upon the current civic military regime in place. The 1932 revolution in Thailand marked the transition of the Siam Kingdom from the absolutism of the Chakri dynasty into a constitutional monarchy. The revolution was led by a group of progressive bureaucrats and military leaders who founded the People's Party that rebelled against the monarchy's mismanagement of the country. The revolution eventually led to the first constitution of Thailand and also paved the way for universal adult suffrage by 1933, making it the second Asian country to sue. The DFAC 1933 constitution has often been used as a model by democratic movements against successive military regimes, including the current dispensation. The public meeting by the Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand was livestreamed over social media and discussed the situation of the peasants under the military-supported government of Pryut Chan Ocha. They also discussed the problems of access to land and resources and the dangers faced by human rights activists. The group also called for movements to work towards democracy and amending the current constitution that entrenches military control over civilian government. Thailand has been run by a military-led coalition in power since the 2014 coup that deposed the democratically elected government of Yingluxinwatera. That's all we have in this episode of the International Daily Roundup. We'll be back tomorrow with major news developments from across the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.


Well Gillette's specialty health care always has had a presence in Bemidji but now they have a new permanent building to help reach patients all over our viewing area. Reporter Cheryl Moore tells us about the care. The new Gillette's Children's Specialty Health Care Clinic opening up in Bemidji means so much to the community that there was not only one ribbon cutting today but two to celebrate. We used to bring all this equipment in a truck and have to drive to each location and then offload all this equipment for the day and then unload it again at the end of the day. Now we have a facility where we can keep things stock what we need and be a solid presence in the community. The facility will help people with child-on-sag diagnosis such as cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spinal bifida, and much more. Everything can be done here like creating leg braces, prosthetics, and even cranial caps. For the doctors of Gillette, adding a Bemidji location was a long time coming. I just thought Bemidji would be a nice central site for a facility like this because it's easy to draw in from the region. People coming down from international falls or Crookston or in from Grand Rapids or up from Walker. Here at the Gillette family clinic spaces are wide so patients with wheelchair can easily get through. The exam rooms themselves are also very spacious so that way patients can feel comfortable with their whole family surrounded by them. Another thing about Gillette is the care doesn't stop when a patient turns 18. Instead, they receive the care for life. We see these kids all the way through to their adulthood so each individual timeframe has its needs. You can have a very good fitting for a child and then they grow and you have to do adjustments. If a patient needs extra attention, the facility stays connected with its main campus in St. Paul. Doctors work with families to make sure they're getting the best care possible. We pretty much accept anyone with any type of insurance or no insurance at all. We never turn anybody away. For the near future, the site is already looking towards expanding services to help the community even more. We will also be adding other specialties via telemedicine and that will be orthopedics and sleep health in the near future so stay tuned for that. Reporting of Amidji, Shromor, Lakeland News. The clinic is open on Wednesdays and Thursdays and appointments are necessary. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Soto Brown in your Bishop Museum. Hi, Soto. Good morning, everybody, or good day, everyone watching this. That's correct. And me, Martin de Spang, in the bathroom studio of the Grand Hotel in Waikiki, the Waikiki Grand, and we welcome you back to this our show, Human Humane Architecture. This is our 260 second one, and you're about to be our 14,200s viewer. So we appreciate that. And we jump right back in where we had left, which was looking at cities and at their urban fabric. And you just sort of reminded us of Rockefeller Center and in New York City for urban reasons. And so and architectural reasons as we discussed. And if we can get the first slide up, you wanted to share with the audience, which is the equivalent for these urban reasons for us here in Honolulu. The equivalent of Rockefeller Center for us in a similar but not identical way is the financial plaza of the Pacific, which is built in the late 1960s. And the reason it's similar is because it is a complex that takes up an entire block. And it consists of multiple buildings, but possibly most importantly is it dedicates part of its space, a goodly part of its space, I might add, to the open free use of pedestrians, meaning that you don't have to necessarily even be going in or out of one of the buildings in the financial plaza to simply walk through the open grounds. And not only are these open spaces for pedestrians, there are places for people to sit. And there also is public artwork, which was created for the space and installed in the space purely for the enjoyment of the public. And this is something that was pioneered by Rockefeller Center in the 1930s in New York City, which gradually spread to other places and us being a recipient of a similar type of building, as I said, in the late 1960s. So 30 years later, and this set a trend for downtown Honolulu, which other buildings subsequently mimicked as well, which was probably an international concept by then, again, of not building on every square inch of the property out to the side, out to the sidewalks, but instead, leaving space for people to enjoy, which is a benefit for everyone in the downtown area, not just the tenants, but everybody. And it's a very civic concept. Yeah, it is. And the author of that is the great American landscape architect, Lawrence Halprin, who is most shockingly good example I experienced in the most shocking way, because Shaman Martin, he wasn't prepared when I was invited by Portland State to join their faculty and they for the interview, they set me up in a former motel aid, whatever motel that became a boutique hotel. And I took a stroll around the block. And it was supposedly empty block. And I started it on, you know, the whole city is on a slope, different than here downtown Honolulu. And I started at the top of the block and recognize some subtle cracks in the, and I thought this is seismic that must have been an earthquake. But it was part of the of the concept and the cracks got bigger and bigger and turned into creeks. And the creeks eventually, because everything is horizontal. So then he basically created this urban waterfall wall that crushes down, I think probably six meters, like 18 to 20 feet. My colleague and friend David Rockwood isn't quite as romantic as I am about it, because he lived his Portlandian and he raised his kids there. And he said it scared the heck out of him. When they were there, because there's no guardrail and nothing, it's like the Grand Canyon where they don't have this either. And it's, it's a miracle to me now in these days of paranoia of liability and suing and all of that. It's probably because it has never been touched. Well, I know that if you don't touch a building, you don't need to update it to code. But once you do, you have to. So maybe different than doing just some regular maintenance, they never had to do anything. So it's quite fantastic. We are not well, we, we shouldn't compare. But the irony is that on the other side of the view that we have here, there is indeed something if you look very close, there's a big planter area. When you look at that edge of the planter, you see some blue tiles. That's where there used to be a pool, a shallow pool, and a spout that's still there, you know, spitting the water into that. Not so intelligent, not so educated people have been draining that and putting dirt in there and growing grass. And we said in some show ago, we want that water back, because that's a little whole print from the famous and there's there's the highway, I think, or Freeway Park in Seattle by hot print as well. So these are gorgeous. Very, as you said, you know, very cosmopolitan ideas at a time. But from my experience, at least not in Germany, no where else than in America, it was executed in such a heroic and playful way and powerful ways. So these are really unique things that we believe and we is also Doko Momo, who we have here, because we're doing our next walking tour starting or dedicated to Fort Street Mall, because the only part that's basically out of the sort of more pedestrian walkable part is actually Fort Street Mall, but whole print together with others designed it to be for the entire downtown. And in all honesty, every major European city and I mean, every German city in its core is pedestrian and has been for a long time, right? And even Mary American cities have started that. So this is long overdue to do this to more than just than to just one street, but that street we want to dedicate to and I had just been able to acquire our Dean Bill Chapman to be to do the the opening comments. And he always reminds us rightly so because he is historian, as you are and he says, well, there were some buildings on there before they were pretty nice too, right? And that some like him miss, but I think is it fair to say the Soto, this is a good example of what we always say when you tear something down, you better replace it with something better, which unfortunately these days rarely happens, but this is an example, right? This is really good. And I'm not saying it was better than the one before, but it tried to be as good as it can and it turned out to be pretty awesome. So that's definitely you guys join us for the walking tour. There's the link down there at the very bottom. It's on October 15th and it starts early in the morning and so please do that. We however this picture was taken out of our additional pying mobile as you see the mirror sticking out and what did it had to look at which thanks to Graham hard who brought this to our attention first, we see on the building that wasn't there before and you checked it out a couple of days ago, right? Yes, I did. And what's happened is that one of the buildings, one of the three buildings in this complex, which was originally the American Security Bank building, which my father's office was in when the financial Plaza first opened and so very frequently I visited the 11th floor of this building. That's right. I remember you saying that. That's right. That's right. I witnessed an participant or whatever. This building has a new tenant and they are now adding decorative panels to the exterior and in this photograph you can see them. They're on the two vertical shafts that are facing us in this photograph. And this is something we discussed in a great deal modernizing and revamping buildings to make them look different, to make them look more up to date. As a rule, I'm not a fan of that, Martin, you're not a fan of that. In this case it's not something that I think it's going to be permanently attached to the building necessarily because these are exterior panels. However, it does mean you have to drill into the concrete of the building which means you have altered it forever. It's not necessarily that these are unattractive or that they are disfiguring the building but they are compromising to a degree the original integrity of what was designed and created back at the time it was created. And for the financial plaza to have successfully lasted as long as it has without major exterior changes is admirable and the ones that are being done here are not necessarily something we would have liked but they're also not necessarily as different or as intrusive as they could have been so we go with that. Yeah, I agree but then again they're like oh here I am you know I'm new I'm different but I don't really know who was there before right so I think once again that's why we do this we need to educate these people the new owner the new tenant and saying hey this building is already cool and you being in there is cool so that's enough right treasure what you have versus are we going to talk about that in the next slide but before that we can say the show quotes on the on the right is basically it's not quite as bad as it happened to peter's cheese gold on building which we talked about and with him where they're more permanently turned at least just surely fins that could cool the building into a thermal mass into the opposite and we show quote bottom right is when we were having a cigarette lighter and trying to simulate you know what happens to material that has thermal mass and it overheats so maybe the people and probably it was meant to be just decorative but giving them more benefit of doubt that they probably deserve is like they could have said well if we cover the concrete then the sun can't get to it and heat it up that much probably not the reason why they did this year but it could have been but again um there's a building even new buildings there's a zaha deep building in walsberg so the cradle of walks wagon and it's an edutainment center and she she made a very fluid building out of very fluid concrete that she didn't want to you know insulate from the outside in stucco and plaster so they did on the inside it is not the perfect way because the concrete then in the temperate climate gets cold and then inside it's warm so the dew point happens at the sort of iffy point there so it's not the best dear young generation don't think this is like what we should do but um in some buildings you know um you can actually go in and and insulate from the inside when maybe the inside is less expressed and i would you can tell me from your memory i'm not sure to what degree the concrete on the inside was as exposed what do you are childhood memories of having visited that in the office tell you it was it was completely exposed the interior was just unadorned plain concrete so that was that was part of what i thought was particularly intriguing about brutalism when it got started at this time and as i've said before the first brutalist building i experienced was in city of montreal in canada in 1967 when i went to the exposed 67 world's fair and stayed in a brutalist hotel there and that made a tremendous expression impression on me at the age of 13 that the interior of this building was the raw chipped concrete in contrast to the other elements in the inside and and my dad's office in the 11th floor of the american security bank building was also plain unadorned concrete and i thought that was really a very interesting thing and i liked it and still do wow you know we've known each other for quite some while and been doing shows every week but there's still new stuff to discover i'm highly jealous of you having been at that expo you saw musher softies habitat 67 yes yes we know which is which was his thesis project that he you know managed to build and you saw which we did couple shows about my german pavilion by fry auto and lary medlin who was our guest so and you saw bucky fullers yes grand of your of your country so how awesome i'm i'm very jealous well you're not old enough that's the problem i guess i guess people like me who got to do that i i guess i guess yeah so well i i was one year young so i they could have taken me there but i wouldn't make much of an impression though these days however returning back i doubt that we have to go in and see i doubt that it's still in the original condition where the concrete is exposed i'm sure they have covered it up so then you could basically you know stop start you know building up insulation on the inside um so uh different than in the next slide is a building just like actually from that same year almost same year 68 we're talking 67 68 so this is the sibling of what you experience as a child young age of 13 in uh in montreal and here in chicago and both have the same climate and they were crazy about brutalist buildings and here um top left picture is me on that boat tour that dank ubrick recommended to me to be the wendela and not the architecture sent out one and uh but i had an interesting tour guide who said he came from acting which we could see and that helped him and then he went into teaching and now he teaches the public the interested public about the architecture without being an architect and he's been really been doing a great job the only thing where i think he needed some correction which i then started to talk to him after that was uh when he was classifying brutalism and we talked about that so what how's your reaction to what i share it with you well he was talking about brutalism in a very negative way and he was saying that it was kind of an expression of government uh because brutalism was very popular for government buildings in a lot of countries uh he was saying it was kind of an expression of government oppression and and you know government control because it was supposed to be brutal etc and as we have enlightened people a number of times about the word brutalism does not come from the english word brutal or brutality it refers to a french term for raw concrete or unadorned concrete so it has nothing to do with attitudes or suppression and that's something that the current king of england king charles now newly newly anointed as king of england uh is not a fan of brutalism either and brutalism was used a great deal in his home country for government buildings and particularly for low income housing and he thought of it as an expression again of suppression and government control and that is not where it came from that is not what it truly represents and we don't agree with that and i'm going to never let people get away with saying that because it's not true no as this building here shows it's a very nice fine building by mr murphy mr murphy is someone who's very well established in chicago we might remember his name because the other big one um as he self-acclaimed flesh gordon of architecture as he was called uh german born helmut yann started out in this office well he started out elsewhere too but then he joined murphy and made his way up in the firm pretty quick and then when murphy retired and then eventually passed away at higher age he took over the firm however is still recognizing its root and keep calling it murphy yann and only i think probably been 10 years now he then got rid of the murphy name and it's only yann these days and helmut is unfortunately not with us anymore either because he got run over by two cars on his bicycle at young age of 80 not that long ago so um that is murphy and so uh you see on the other side of that picture at the very top left an example another example of the same era that is very untypical and that is marina city and that's that kind of tropical brutalism that we probably would love to have here on the island because that's a very easy breezy lanai brutalism all out of concrete but concrete in a very filigree way and not so in such a stereotomic clumsy kind of heavy way and embodying the the problem of of thermal mass overheating another master of uh concrete um in his early days is at the very bottom left show quote uh who had passed away also in his early 80s this is ricardo bull fill Spanish architect who in 73 adopted and transformed this former uh cement factory into his home studio and this is one of the most beautiful poetic uh examples of how you can soften up concrete with vegetation which is by the way what my oldest son joey who you know very well the what he found most intriguing also not being an architect was central closet of the pacific and it's volcreti dark color and the vegetation around it he thought this was really the most tropic exotic that you can get it here you can see the concrete looks more bluff colored and this is why similar I believe to the building that had informed me the most which is a brutalist building by the architect that we have a fine piece of or a couple of pieces which is east west center that's I am pay so it's NBC bang in my home away from home link in Nebraska use the same uh beige uh yellow colored sand that they imported from Texas to mix in there to make the concrete look more appealing less industrial right and that is just like uh an example example here in Honolulu of the panam building which I refer to as blonde brutalism because it is not dark gray and it also has the interesting aggregate surface of the multiple different types of rock that are incorporated into it which provides a very interesting texture for you as a pedestrian or someone who when you are close up to it can enjoy but even from a distance you have a different feeling from the dark concrete but I don't favor one or the other necessarily I like them both yeah they're big great members of the same family right yep what sometimes happens in families is when people get old especially they sometimes transform I guess it's a nice way to say and and Ricardo Bofill you know God bless him but I have to say when I was where my students are in school in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1991 and as I said before I was lucky to have have the most progressive professor Alex Mela, hi Alex who then took us to Chicago that was my first encounterment with Chicago but even he was a victim of time in these early 90s and he said what's the form determining factor when you walk by my desk in our desks and wanted to know so there was no consideration of anything else but form and certainly not performance so Ricardo Bofill got caught up in that because the building again we're still on the looking at the picture at the top left that is to the right of it which has this very neoclassicist top by the way we were told in Nebraska that the capstone project the terminal project had to be a high rise and we were told at the beginning the introduction to the typology that a high rise traditionally always had a base and a shaft and has a crown and in postmodernism people were overdoing these crowns we're also remembering one of our best architects on our island here run Lindgren having referred us to Philip Johnson who got you know after starting out modern and has gotten into postmodern high rises quite a bit and there's a shot out there somewhere of us where he was indicating that so you know that was really disappointing to me I thought like oh my god what's going on this is going back in time this isn't anything you know Marina City was so innovative and what is that that is really rather reactionary which the times were because we're talking just phasing out the Reagan era and you know at some point then we're venturing into the Clinton era but in between we had Bush right at that time and my classmates in Germany said oh are you sure you want to go there with someone like Bush running the country and I said well I I'm not afraid I will you know make the best of it so that was it and you know the one right to that is one of these days from 2014 by Handel Architects and that one is doing what many seems to do that's the newest fashion which is what we label these kind of blow in floors or part of floors that aren't you know pushed all the way through but they're not doing much then trying to make the building look more interesting but not from an inside out performative way but from an outside in so this is more the sculpture doing a building and we should be past that at you know way too much into our what we'll have to be as all signs show us the post-fossil era so we're we're not getting there with these kind of buildings unfortunately and again if I would have been here going to school in the early 90s I would have had at the same situation that you had in the early 90s seeing similarly silly post-modern piece of cake buildings and one of them we're going to look now on the on the next slide and you explain to us where that is so and what well this is this is a building which is located on fort street mall which we were just mentioning replacing an older commercial building small retail building and it was built interestingly as an office building but as we were discussing before the show shortly before the start of COVID in 2020 this shifted to becoming being rebuilt or remodeled as a residential building which is what it is now and that was kind of a precursor to what we have seen increasingly which is that people no longer have to go physically to an office to do their work so COVID forced us to become more at-home workers and this is going to be this is very significant for architecture and particularly for downtown areas where people had to congregate for work and no longer are necessarily going to do that so that means buildings are going to be reconfigured and redone as this one has been yeah absolutely and it's from 1991 that same year that I went to America the first time in the heartland that was my year in school and there were buildings like that all over the United States where one was just getting reactionary and nostalgic sentimental about the good old days and designing building in that fashion you and I had never heard about the architect Jin Wang associates I looked them up there out of California which is not a bad thing because some of the best architects here on our island that we will get to return to pretty soon in two slides which is killingsworth Lindgren stricker and wilson they were from there and they did the most awesome tropical exotic work so it's not a question of where you come from physically but it's where you come from spiritually and mentally right and if you immerse into some other you know circumstances and climatic conditions at the bottom right this is the image that could you give to give you the most hope because the interior decoration show some filigree lattice work here that you can think okay maybe it's some kind of Tarzani Janie approach but we have to disappoint you with the next and likely last slide because we're almost at the end of the show but we go there because on the inside it doesn't look like it first of all it's hermetic it's all aced the materials are all imported from elsewhere and how does that unit look to you on the right well one of the things we were just discussing was the differences between an office building and a building into which you live in which if you live in the building you are offered usually and you should be offered a Lanai a place that you can go outside you can be outdoors office buildings normally do not do this and I conjectured that's because they don't want you to be enjoying leisure time you're supposed to be working when you are in an office building so you are not offered a Lanai with sliding doors to go to the outside well when you reconfigure a building that was an office building into a residential building obviously you are not going to have Lanais to be able to use and therefore your dwelling unit is never going to have that access to the outside now it may have opening windows but that of itself is not even a given meaning that this is going to continue to be an enclosed air conditioned box with no access to the outside in which you are forced to use fossil fuel constantly in order to remain comfortable and it's also not we got Stanley Chang's newsletter as always right before the show it's also not very affordable here between four hundred and seven on the square foot two and a half to three thousand dollars is not what we need on the island right so with that we're at the end of this show how you could have done this better we're going to start out with next week and until then please don't stay sort of temperately trampling through our islands here but be tropically exotic exotically tropical all righty see you next week hi thank you so much for watching think tech hawaii if you like what we do please like us and click the subscribe button on youtube and the follow button on vimeo you can also follow us on facebook instagram twitter and linked in and donate to us at think.kawaii.com mahalo


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But it will tell you that lesson one science in the universe and it will give you what you will see when you first start is the checklist. Now if you have not completed the syllabus checklist the remainder of this material will remain hidden. So the syllabus checklist is required to access the materials in this first lesson as it tells you right there in the title. So what you want to look at within each lesson if you have you don't see lecture materials discussions and assignments that means you have not completed the checklist make sure you go back and complete that checklist you can do that right here or you can go back to the previous lesson to do so. Now once you do that you will be able to see lecture materials which consist of textbook readings, links to the lecture slides for the chapter and the video lectures as well as some review materials for you. So the textbook will take you right links will take you right into the specific textbook link you need for this chapter and there may be one or more chapters depending on the specific lesson. The lecture slides will take you to a Google Drive link that will allow you to access the lecture slides in either PowerPoint, Apple Keynote or in PDF format if you want to be able to access those to follow along and you have my video lectures which are based on the same lecture slides and you'll have links to those on YouTube here. Review materials are just some games and other things that you can use to review the class material. Under discussions you will see the discussion for the APOD for the week that is for my astronomy classes that is the astronomy picture of the day that is available only for that week and you can then go ahead and access that and it will take you it will take you to that discussion directly so you just click on this to get to that discussion and once you do that it will open up the discussion it will give you the information and it will take you the picture directly here so there is a link to the specific picture which is always the Monday picture of the week that you will be looking at so you can access that there. You will also see links for the graded discussions what you see here when we're under discussions there are graded discussions that will take you to the discussion topic itself. Your topics I give three options for each discussion so you can look at each of these and decide which of them you want to go ahead and respond to and the specific requirements are given in the discussion itself what the word requirements are and when everything is due and of course I will post reminders especially the first week about that. Then there are also class announcements I recommend you follow along with that because anything that shows up in the news feed will also show up under class announcements for you to be able to review if there are any issues or anything that needs to be corrected or just general reminders of things that are coming do those will be there and if you have any questions on assignments you can go to the assignments discussion and that will allow you to post anonymously if you like so if you don't want to speak out as to who you are but you want to ask me a question or ask a question of the class you can when you start the thread post it as anonymous you can also post it with your name either way is perfectly fine but that allows you to get information about any assignments and I monitor that just as quickly as I monitor things like email. Now as we look at this then we also see that there is a the general class questions if there's anything that's more general this I refer to for specific questions this is more for general questions about the class then there will be an assignment section so we'll click on assignments there is an option for a 48 hour extension on one assignment that can only be used once during the semester so make sure your time when you use it and which assignment you use it for very carefully don't just use it for a small assignment the first week because once you use it it's a done and gone and will not appear again but all you have to do is go in submit a file that just says I'm requesting an extension on say lab one you will get it automatically you'll have 48 additional hours from the time it was due not from the time you request the extension but from the time that it was actually due so you will have those extra 48 hours without penalty there's no explanations that are needed you just have to submit that and request the specific assignment there's a reminder about the different observing assignments there are other videos that will show you about those and then there is the first lab now under the lab there is a pre-test which is multiple choice questions you can use just as a review looking at the material it's ungraded so it doesn't give you any credit but I do also use those credits those questions in the lab quiz so you can take this as many times as you want get very familiar with those questions so you know you'll be able to get them right when it comes time for the lab quiz at the end then there is an assignment sheet which has the instructions and an answer sheet which is what you would be filling out when you go to the lab quiz you will be going to having a multiple choice questions you will upload your answer sheet with part of the lab quiz so make sure you've done the answer sheet before you start the lab quiz and then you also have to upload at least one photo depending on what we're doing either of a calculation or of a screenshot if we're using one of our simulations so we'll make sure that is all ready that you're ready to do that before you start the lab quiz and then the last sections there are some extra credit assignments so any extra credit assignments including review quiz or other extra credit assignments will be available here for you so there will be at least one type of extra credit assignment given each week and then finally at the end of each lesson if we go down to the very end here you will see the checklist now the checklist is one of the ways I organized the course when you go into the lesson one checklist it's a reminder of everything that you should have done so did you read the chapter did you watch the video lectures did you complete the lab did you complete the graded discussion did you do the extra credit opportunities did you post any reminders which are things that are not specifically do but reminders of things that are coming up and once you check all of those off then lesson two will be visible for you so lesson each lesson will be available up to a week ahead so if you wish to work ahead you can actually do that working ahead up to one week so you can't do lesson one and two the first week you still won't be able to access lesson three until that is one week early but some people like to get work ahead they know they're going to be busy with something else you have a chance to be able to do that and what we'll see is that each lesson is exactly the same if we go to lesson two it says you must have completed the lesson one checklist to do this the setup is identical textbook readings lecture slides video lectures and review materials there's discussions if there are any discussions that week there's the assignments that you would see and then there is the continuing checklist so the process continues the same way for all of that material and the practice lesson is a quick way to get an idea of that if you want to go through the practice lesson the introduction module which i didn't show because i was giving more of the course navigation here includes the link to this video as well as some information on course navigation links to the textbook and some other important links on various different assignments so it's very useful make sure you review this as some extra material to really get you started on the course so that concludes this lecture on the course navigation we'll be back again next time to continue our work and introduction through the class so until then have a great day everyone and i will see you in class


It's the Everton News Daily here on Toffee TV. Marco Silva has done his press conference ahead of the trip to Leicester and has confirmed that Seamus Coleman misses the game. It was hoped Coleman would be back for this one but he is out. What he did say Marco Silva was that Coleman, Jerry Mina, Andre Gomez and Phil Jagielke should all be fit after the international break for the game against Crystal Palace. Silva hoping that Everton have a bounce game behind closed doors during the international break with an opportunity to give those players a chance to get some minutes under their belt to go along with the training. Silva talked about Andre Gomez said he does need a little bit of a mini preseason which is what he's been getting but he confirmed that both him and Mina had trained all week so that's good news for the Everton bosses. We hope to try and get finally something that resembles a fully fit squad and I think the fans desperate to see Mina and Gomez in that Everton squad and the start of 11 to see just what they can bring to the club. Seamus Coleman has been missed although John Jo Kenny has done well in his absence so it'll just be good to get these players back and get something like a full strength squad to choose from because it benefits everybody. Marco Silva talking about the trip to Leicester St, it'll be very very difficult but we're going there to win. He fendered again his decision to change so many players in midweek. He spoke about the likes of Tokshin and Snidel anew and Leighton Baines who were all facing players that come in and it shouldn't have really affected it but did say that perhaps changing the three behind the strike might have had more of an effect than what he first thought. Although he did say that Lukman and Bernard were the best two players on the pitch but he did say that Lukman off on our left which was a bit mad. So it's going to be a tough one tomorrow but let's hope we can go there and cause Leicester problems. I think we can, they'll cause us problems no question about that but I think we can cause them problems as well. They do can see goals, they do give up chances in games the same as us. Can we actually be clinical for once and do the job properly? Let's hope we can. Guilfee Sigarton has been nominated for the Player of the Month award, whether he wins it is another thing. Obviously he's in there with Edwin Hazard who personally I think should win it but it's good recognition for Guilfee to get nominated in that. That comes the day after Leucadine and Cerdzuma were brought back into the French national side, well cut winning French national side remember. So good news for Edwin on the hole because what it does is it shows those players that Edwin are a club that people do take notice of, the Premier League itself. And it shows players who are maybe woman and are on a little bit of our evidence that you know what I still go there, I can still be recognised by my country, I can still produce and do well and have a good, you know it can continue to fade on my career. Cos let's be honest that's what we need at the minute, it's difficult to get players to come to clubs that aren't in the Champions League so you need every little bit. You can squeeze out of negotiations and say look it doesn't affect you come here, we're high profile, we'll get you in your national side or we'll continue to help you. And that seems to be the case with Zuma and Dean because like I said they're going into a side that won the world cup, the best team in the world. So there you go, very good news for them and Edwin in my opinion. Marco Silva was also asked about Tom Davis, the pressure on him said there is pressure on Tom Davis and he is supporting him. He said well he's just got to play and they have to cope with it and get on with it and you know see where we go with that. He's got to perform to the best of his ability and if he does then he's got a chance of staying in the team but obviously that becomes more difficult once Andre Gomez is fit as well and it should do, it should have headaches having to pick players because of the options on the bench as well. He was also asked about Nicola Vlasic today, he said that he's very much our player. He said he had to let him go out on loan because he couldn't guarantee him games. Vlasic wanted to play, he's glad he's gone on to Moscow and is doing well, playing at a high level and scoring but he's very much our player and he expects him to come back and fight for his place at Everton. On the back of that Nicola Vlasic is aiding to said that he hopes that someone like Intermalam will come in for Vlasic in the summer. He said he spoke to them last summer about the possibility. He said well hopefully a prestigious club like Intermalam will come in and take Nicola because he's talking about one of Croatia's finest prospects. Well you can't argue with that can you but let's hope he comes back and does it forever if he's good enough. If not we wish him well and he moves on. It's a week now until we do the zip wire challenge for Everton in the community. It is getting to be a bit like that once you think about it. If you can listen everybody who's donated so far absolutely outstanding. It's been a fantastic effort and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for donating. If you haven't donated and you can, it'd be amazing. Even if it's a quid it'd be fantastic to push that total up and all of the money is going to Everton in the community to continue. 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It's time for camp camp, baby. We shall bounce around training camps, looking at highlights from the incredible football players that have checked in to NFL training camps. Let's go ahead and dive right into the camp cam waters. Tre Lantz and Brandon Nayuk have had more than a few highlights. Tre Lantz serves a wobbly ball, but it appears as if he puts it right on the money. This offense looks explosive through training camp through the highlights, AJ Hawk. Yeah, right, look at Fred Warner. That's who I noticed. 54 to the linebacker put his foot in the ground, absolutely fly to Tre Lantz. Great play by everybody here, actually. Their team speed looks legit. Fred Warner thought it was a run. Uh-uh, I got a guardian cap on. I'm putting pressure on Tre Lantz. Perfectly timed route, perfectly timed ball. That offense is gonna be a problem. Oh yeah.


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Hello everyone in this video we'll talk about one more sorting algorithm, which is the merge sort So the merge sort has quite a history. It was written around 1945 and commonly attributed to John von Neumann who was one of the basically the founding fathers of Computing as a discipline and certainly if you've heard of air if you're taking CSC 242 hopefully you have heard of von Neumann machine, but it's the architecture that all computers are still based on today So he came up with this algorithm way back when when computers look nothing like they look today Merge sort is a divide and conquer algorithm So much like quicksort we're going to split the problem down into smaller and smaller pieces And in this case what merge sort does is it divides the list you're sorting All the way down until you've got little lists of size one And then it starts to merge them back together and putting them in order while it does that so Here next slide so I'm kind of looking now at the first page of the handout where you have this example here these example values And I just want to give you again the overall flavor of how this thing works Okay, so merge sort takes a list all of our sorting algorithms. We're splitting we're sorting lists here We've got a list of integers Now it's a recursive algorithm and the way it works is you're going to split the list in half and then sort each half Okay, the base case for our recursion is we're going to stop splitting the list once we get lists of size One or zero, okay? Then once we have split the list down down down and they're so small Then we merge them together by putting them in order. Okay, so When we start our algorithm, the first thing that we do is we split it Okay, so we pick the middle point here and we have split it into these two sub lists Now what is splitting look like well in the code usually an easy way to think about it is that you are Just dealing with smaller copies of the list, right? if you think of Python slicing operator where you take say a Sub zero all the way up to a sub mid. That's what you're doing here. Okay so you split and you actually do the splitting is The first step of the merge sort so you're going to keep splitting and you split left and right Okay, so we're splitting and we keep making these lists smaller now. We're going to split this side, right? Okay, and now we've hit our base case If you want to see the order of the splitting take a look at the pseudocode I think it's on page two of your handout So now we've hit our base case right after we have hit our base cases here We know how to sort these things they're actually already sorted 22 is sorted 18 is sorted now. We need to merge right the merge operation is going to put these two sub lists in order All right, so 18 basically they're going to swap places right and here's their their natural ordering Okay, so now that we've merged here right we've hit our base case Where we actually come back is up here, right? This guy gets split and merged back together Okay, so now we've if you think about it. We've Sorted these two guys, right? We've sorted these two guys and now we're going to merge them back into a four element list And when we merge them, that's when we put them in order okay So now look at where we started we split here we split here and we Then started ordering them back together, right? So this is the ordered value of this This is the ordered value of this we merge again and we get the ordered value of this Okay, so what I invite you to do is fill out the right-hand side here What what do the operations look like it's going to kind of mirror this okay? So take a second and do that I'll pause for just a second to let you kind of work it out And then we'll fill in blanks Okay, so if you split You split this way again. We're not splitting on a value. We're just splitting on a position. We take the two sides of the list Split it again until we have lists of size one or zero So you will wind up with a list of size zero at some point if your Initial list has an uneven number of elements, right? If you have an odd number of elements at some point you're going to have a list of size zero Merge this side back together Now we split this guy Merging back together right and now we're ready to merge these We get this okay, so now we have sorted our two original sub lists So what's the final step the final step is going to be to merge these two and as we do that to put them back in order Okay, so that's the essence of merge sort I very strongly recommend checking out both of these Visualization tools. They're really neat. They they try and capture it Especially this first one help you walk through some some more examples. Okay, so let's go over to our handout and Let's walk through the merge operation So if you're looking at your handout, you're gonna be on page three, right? This is the table that we're looking at on the right hand side I've copied in the merge sort algorithm, which for you is going to be on page two At the top. I've just pasted it over here. So so we can all be looking at it on one screen. Okay? So Here's the merge sort algorithm. We've got our base case first Remember it's a recursive call. We're gonna keep making the list smaller until We're trying to merge sort and is greater than one or excuse me less than or equal to one So we merge sort the lefts we merge sort the right and then once we have merge sorted them Now we need to merge the sorted sub lists together and that's what I want to walk through the merging operation It's actually, you know, it's one while loop It's actually not too bad. It may seem a little confusing, but once we walk through it, hopefully I'll understand what it's doing Okay, so let's look over here and fill in this table and kind of walk through this teal block because this is the merge operation And it's the kind of the key part of all this Okay, so we're at the point here where we've sorted our two sub lists So let me go back to the slides. We're basically at this point right here Okay, we've sorted our two sub lists and now we need to merge them together So that's what I want to illustrate for you Okay, so I've got two sorted sub lists I'm going to call them the left sub list and the right sub list and you can see they're sorted Let's walk through the merge algorithm Okay, so we've got an I, a J, a K and they're all initialized to zero Okay, so K is going to represent the place in the merged list, our List that we're kind of like putting our results into it's the slot. We're going to fill in Okay, I is a counter for the left sub list and J is a counter for the right sub list Okay So what this loop does is it walks these two Indices it's not a counter. Excuse me. There are indices. It walks I and it walks J up these lists and it compares their values and Based on the result of that comparison it decides who to put over here, right? Okay, so while I is less than the length of left That means we're going to walk all the way through this left list and while J is less than the length of right We're going to walk all the way. We're going to walk one of these pointers at least all the way through their sub list Okay, if left sub I is less than right sub J. So is this element here? less than let me Put in some shading here Okay So is this element here on the left sub list less than The value on the right sub list. Well, yes, it is Okay, so what we do then is we say a sub k This slot gets the smaller value, right? So the smaller value is 14. It goes over here Okay, so we put 14 over here. So what gets included? We include 14 from the left sub list Okay So what happens next? Well now we're going to increment I Okay, so we're going to move I up a slot and we're going to move K up a slot All right, so let's do that on the next line. So we've already figured out Where 14 goes? All right, so K is Now here, right? So now K is always so for every iteration of this loop K is going to point to the slot we want to fill in in the merge list I is the next thing we're going to compare in the left list and J is the next thing We're going to compare in the right list. Okay. All right, so iteration number two if left sub I is less than right sub J Okay, 32 and 23 well 32 is not less than 23. So what do we do? We trigger our else clause here a sub K gets the right Value right so a sub K is going to get 23. So we wind up copying in 23 from the right sub list Okay You then increment J and increment K again. Okay, so In the next iteration J will be here I will be here um Basically, also you can see that anything to the left of these guys of these indices It's it's done with it's already been moved over here Right, so now what are we going to compare we're comparing this guy In this guy and we're going to fill in the slot. Well 32 is less than 41 So 32 goes over here Because we took it from the left sub list. We're going to move I up a slot J will stay the same in our next iteration and K will move up a slot. Okay, so we're in the state where we've got This right now we're on to the fourth iteration of our loop and we're comparing these two elements So who's the smaller of these two elements? Well 41 is okay, so we copy over 41 from the left sub list Let me fill this in just for from the left 41 from the right Okay, and then what happens? Well, I stays the same J gets incremented by one and K gets incremented by one Loop again Right now we're comparing this one and this one All right, so we're at the top of our y loop if left sub i is less than right sub j It is not so we copy into our merged list a sub k right Sub j the right value. So that's 58 All right, so we've taken care of 58 So we increment j by one We increment k by one moving in over here And we loop around again. So i is the same fill in these values That we already have All right, so each line here represents a single iteration of this while loop What are we comparing now? Whoops, I didn't increment j properly We're incrementing we're comparing 67 and 85 well obviously 67 is less here. So we copy 67 From the left Goes into our slot here. Yep, I forgot to fill this in Okay Now we're gonna move k up a slot Uh Because we copied i i gets moved up a slot and j is the same All right, let me try and get everything on one page here.  All right, so, uh, where are we now? We're on the next iteration. We're comparing these two guys Okay We already have our partially sorted list So who gets copied? Here 76 or 85 or 76 does according to the logic We increment i Okay, so here's an important point. We increment i i is now kind of like It's gone off the edge. He's over here somewhere right i has moved over here. We've already done everybody Um, the only thing left is there's still some elements inside of j Okay, so i let's look at our loop condition while i is less than the length of left Well at this point i is going to be over here somewhere. Uh, i's going to be Five or four excuse me index four four is the length of the list. This loop will terminate Okay, this loop will terminate. So what happens? Uh, we've wound up Now in this situation where uh, we've completely exhausted one of the sub lists Let me turn There we go. That'll help that'll help Okay, so we've exhausted one of the sub lists, but one of them still has something in it, right? Um 85 is still not been copied here. So whenever this loop terminates you have another loop Okay, one of these guys will still have elements So all this loop does is it's going to find the one that's still got some data in it the right list And it's going to copy all of its value remaining values into k Right, so if this had like 85 and then 100 we're going to put 85 here and then 100 and then 120 whatever happens to be left in there, right? Keep forgetting to fill this part in And that's okay because These the sub lists are sorted, right? So anything that happened that may happen to come after 85 is already going to be in order So we just got to copy it on All right, so that's the intuition behind the merge operation Um and merge sort we're splitting it splitting it splitting it all the way down till we have lists of length one or zero And then we merge them and here's the merge operation. It's actually relatively simple how it works Once you can wrap your head around it All right, so let's answer some questions here about merge sort In the worst case How many comparisons are made in the merge sort function on a list of length n? Okay, so there's going to be m plus one comparisons Right and plus one comparisons at a minimum These guys are like, you know, you have to look at each Uh item in the worst case you have to come and we kind of saw this was the worst case here, right? Um, actually, I'm sorry. It should be n minus one comparisons. So Um, and then how many movements do you make or you make n moves, right? Move is a copy from the left to the right, right? This is we're just talking here about one comparison um How much in the merge operation? Okay so supposing I should change this in the merge portion Of the operation of the function. I'll change your worksheet. So it says this to begin with Okay So uh n minus one comparisons with n moves. So the that's this portion of the operation All right, supposing that we start our merge sort with a list of length n At most how many times will we have to split the list? So how many times do we have to split a list of length n? Well, if we're dividing it by two Every time that looks a lot like binary search, right? So at most we are going to have to split it log base two of n times All right, so we have to split this many times.  This is maybe a downside of merge sort at least the way that we have it You can potentially need a lot of extra memory to keep The sub lists, but there are ways around this, right? So a good efficient sort algorithm does not use much extra space at all So it's highly memory efficient, but if you're not clever in how you do it This algorithm is pretty I want to say kind of clever um The fact that it's returning a value here means you're Going to be returning a copy or at least no actually not in python in python. You won't this is a pretty efficient algorithm um If you were to try and do this in java the way we have it written it would not be so efficient All right, suppose you have a list containing blah blah blah What is the sub list that is to be sorted after three recursive calls to merge sort? Okay, so i'm asking you here to kind of fill in This chart with uh the list that you see here and trace it like Which list are you going to be splitting after the third recursive call? I'll post an answer to that and the solutions to this chart in general All right, so merge sort quicksort and merge sort are our two n log n algorithms And they they have a style to them that is somewhat similar It's both divide and conquer in quicksort You pick that pivot value and you put it in its spot And then you guarantee that everything that the partition to the left of that pivot and the partition to the right The left is less than everything is less than the pivot in the right Everything is right and then you do quicksort on the left and right half merge sort You just divide straight in the middle pick the middle merge sort the left and the right And it's the merging operation when you recombine them where you do all the work. They're both divide and conquer um But in practice merge sort is used a lot more often And the reason is because it's more resilient merge sort is big O of n log n Regardless of the data that you're sorting if you remember from quicksort There are some cases where quicksort can look a lot like insertion sort if the list is already partially sorted You lose a lot of the efficiency of quicksort merge sort doesn't care. It's very steady merge sort is also a stable sort so everything's going to be in the same order that it was inserted And also because so because of these properties quicksort is uh, I believe it's not a stable sort, right? So because of these properties most built-in sorts such as pythons sorted and list dot sort They use a version of merge sort. All right, so that's it for merge sort. Um We'll have I'll wrap up in just one more video that kind of summarizes all the sorting stuff and what we need to know


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Hey y'all what's up, welcome to a new vlog. It is a Sunday vlog and Rad and I are gonna go to the farmer's market here in Austin. It's in Mueller and recently, well I guess not too recently but they switched like the location cause they actually made this whole building for the farmer's market. It used to be outside and when we go in the summertime it was so hot, like we loved it but it was like really, really hot and like kinda unbearable especially for Sophie who's coming with us and she has her pink sweater on. Also there's a farmer's market at the beach that we usually go to like Rosemary Beach and my dad showed me these like King Trumpet mushrooms. I don't know why I always call them like oyster mushrooms. King Trumpet mushrooms, right? We're gonna try to see if this farmer's market actually has it because I remember my mom buying like some mushroom kit at the Swarovsk market so it's like, do you remember that? I vlogged it. I know there's a mushroom guy. I just can't remember if he had like other mushrooms like edible mushrooms. So anyways, we're gonna go see. It's 54 degrees out. So I got my aloe set on. The color is cocoa I believe. Shop ace at the beach hat. Literally one of my favorite trucker hats. I have my little Austin tote bag. I got this at Madewell Men's. Ryan was shopping there on South Congress and I loved this tote bag that they gave us. This farmer's market is in the Mueller area and if money was no object and there was obviously like houses to buy, I would definitely buy a house here.  And it's basically like all townhouses pretty much and they are so expensive. I mean like if you live in Austin, you know this already. A random house that's like maybe 500 square feet can go up to like $700,000. You're pretty much just buying like the land it sits on cause everyone just wants to live in the city of Austin. Obviously same as me. But also like everywhere else in Austin, it is like pretty much impossible to find something that's actually available here in Mueller. But never say never, it's definitely a dream to live here and it's still being developed to like there's still so much land over here. So I mean, there's a lot of apartments going up but if I were to live here, I'd probably want to live in a house. Yeah, I mean, there's not really houses, like townhouses. Yeah, well that's what I meant. You can live across the street over here. Yeah. If you've ever been over there, the houses are like falling, I don't think we can pick it out here. They're like falling apart and they're like a million dollars. Yeah. I also love Sundays in Austin cause all street parking is free. You only have to pay Monday through Saturday. And we have to like before 7 p.m. too, I think. What? It's only before 7 p.m. too, on weekdays. Oh. Really? Yeah. It's interesting. Sophie. Kulachi. And sauces with cheese. Let's see. Two. A half of the hot dog. Kind of cold here. Yeah, I think mine's cold. Okay, well I gotta send them minerals. Lemon, right? And then Adventure Falls is the new one, right? With caramel and chocolate. Happy boy with his tag alongs. They ain't no better patties actually. Oh yeah, they like have all different names here, I guess. There they are. Okay, so these are like some of the townhouses I was talking about. This is so pretty. It has like such a big yard and all of these houses. I guess they're not townhouses, these ones at least. These are all really cute and actually kind of big. But most of Mueller, I would say is townhouses. Well, for the guy he said he bought, I guess grandpa bought a house in Mueller right a long time ago and then he ended up buying another one. And he said he paid like $185,000 for something a long time ago. Which I guess may be a long time ago. That was probably a lot still, but. I mean, I think my house in Roswell, they paid like $110,000 for the 80s in 1985, just 45 years ago or something. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Now it's still not much more, but. So the reason we went to the farmer's market, obviously to go to the farmer's market and to get out of the house, but we really wanted those freaking King Oyster, no, King trumpet mushrooms. And also I asked the guy, I was like, what's the difference between an oyster mushroom and a trumpet mushroom? Because I've kind of like seen them together. I don't know. I just get confused with them. He said, wait, which ones did he say? The pearl ones were more similar to the trumpet oysters or trumpet mushrooms, black pearl. Okay. Yeah. He said it was a hybrid stalks or the stems or whatever you call it, they were really thin and like a trumpet mushroom is like this thick and you just cut them up and they're almost like scallops, but not, I don't even know how to describe it, but basically like if we saute them with butter and salt and just like almost like a steak seasoning. It's pretty much remodeled though. Oh dang, yeah. These are nicer houses. I wonder how much these are. We love like going through neighborhoods and looking it up on Zillow. Wait, actually can you slow it down? I'm kind of curious, let's see. On Zillow, you just top this arrow right here. So these are the last sold prices on Zillow. Okay, so the one right next to us is like 891K, but all of these are ranches.  Honestly, these are a little bit smaller houses, but they are probably the nicer houses here in Austin or just like, or the nicer smaller ones, if that makes sense. The Lake Austin, like Territown houses are all about like this size. Yeah. Well, those are. But a lot more yardage and they're like eight million. Yeah. Sophie, which one do you like? That house is actually for sale right now. Everyone's waiting to see it. It's actually really cute. As I was saying about these trumpet mushrooms that I've been literally craving for so long, we're gonna go to Central Market and see if they have them over there. Wow, look how beautiful this is. So apparently it does say King trumpet and King oyster. So maybe that's why I was getting him to use this the whole time, but these are them. Nice. I think I probably can't afford it, but I got King oyster mushrooms. My God, I swear to God, if I'd called that one more time and then leaches, my grandma used to buy me like a couple of leaches every time I went to California and still does when I go. So I got some and now we're just like looking around because there's so many fun snacks. So hopefully we don't buy anything else because it's probably gonna be a good one. Look how beautiful this spread is. I can't stop staring at it. Do I get it or do I not? If you watched my last vlog, you would know, but this looks amazing. I didn't even know they had it like readily available, but I guess it's not that cheap either, 12.49. Oh wow, that's so pretty and big and like actually fluffy. They're so pretty. Since we are up north, I wanted to, are we not up north? Let's go to Hmart while we're at it. Yeah, let's go to Hmart. I think I said that in my last vlog. I can't remember, but we are north, right? Yeah, we are, well, north-ish. So I thought, anyways, I was thinking, let's just stop by Precision Camera. Let's make it a day. So we are here. I'm gonna go in and check out a new lens. I'm always like looking into like what's next, what's the best, which is honestly a toxic trait, but I love like just quality vlogs and just like, you know, I'm a photographer too, but this next lens that I'm looking at would be for my vlogs. So I'm gonna see if they have it in stock and if I could like try it out on my camera. Unfortunately, I get to test out the lens because the one that they had was not for my specific like mount of camera.  So it was really, really heavy. I was like, there's no way I could vlog. He was like pulling it out. I was like, nope, it's not happening. And then he also said that the lens I have right now, which is the 17 to 20, 28 millimeters from Tamron is like one of the best lenses to vlog with for like this camera setup, just because it's kind of more lightweight and it has the zoom and you know, it does give like a little bit of a blurry background, but I just hope in the near future that they are able to like figure out the technology that they can have like a zoom lens and lower aperture and lightweight, which I don't even know if they can, if it's possible. But anyways, so I'm glad we checked it out just to, you know, see it in person and talk to someone else. I feel like whenever I'm like questioning something about a camera, my first instinct is to walk into the camera store and get like multiple people's opinions on it instead of like actually just watching YouTube videos. Cause I just like to hear people's opinions and I like to get sold on stuff. Like I just, I don't know why that's just how I am. This taco truck was at our apartment complex. So we got some Birria Tacos. Birria Tacos came with three, so I only had one and they were actually so good. I've had Birria Tacos before and I wasn't like impressed. Like they always looked so good, but I wasn't impressed. But that place, Pepe's Tacos, I guess, is amazing. They just pulled up to our apartment complex. So that's why we like even stopped. But I wonder if there's like a specific place that they always are. I need to find out because they were so good. We've been home for a bit and now we are going to Lucky Robot on South Congress. We've actually never been there even though I feel like it was definitely a well-recommended place to go right when we moved here. But I feel like ever since then there's been many sushi places that have been popping up. So we've never been and I always know that we need like a little bit of sushi every weekend or like every week at least. So I made this reservation a while ago but I just opened up my ASOS package and I need to show you guys this coat because it's actually really funny. I mean, like I wanted a belted coat but I literally look like a straight up marshmallow. My huge marshmallow coat, I love it. But I'm just like, am I gonna be way too dramatic if I wear this on South Congress right now? Probably because it's like not that cold outside. I'm very excited to style this because I feel like it's just so cool. Definitely from the side in the back I look like a marshmallow, but I'm fine with that. Especially if it's cold outside, like I need to be comfortable. We did a little pickup around here, kind of cleaned, put away stuff. I always say to Ryan we need to get the house Monday ready and that means when I wake up on Monday I don't wanna feel like I have to spend time cleaning. I'd rather just like go do my workout or get straight to work. So that is why we try to do like a little pickup on Sundays. Do you want some sushi? You're not allowed to come. She's probably pooped from today. She came with us for all those errands this morning. Are you pooped, Sophie? Are you pooped, Sophie? It's up in the bar to watch the game because Sonali saw it. And I feel like she always stumbles upon watching clinic history or games. Yeah. Brady would have won that. That would have been like the largest point deficit and he would have gotten to the champion. Oh, he would have to play and be able to get the Super Bowl but stay all out of it in a big game. And now Matthew Stafford won is always one of the first games that she could shoot. On Lucky Robot, it was actually really good. Four out of five. Oh, I thought you were gonna say four out of 10. I don't know. For the exam. I think one of the roles, oh yeah. There's this hat in here that screams me. Look at this. It says, Hetty, it's Sherpa and Tam. Like I literally need that. Oh my gosh, how cute. I literally need that hat though. We ended up coming in. They have like so many trucker hats. $60, is it worth it y'all? Is this worth 60? How cute is this? Oh, it says bananas. I don't really wear black anymore, but that's cute. I love this though. What do you think Ryan, should I do it? I think I'll have to get it. It's so cute. I love it. I wear my other Tam's trucker hat like all the time. I love it. $60, I don't know. But if I wear it a lot, then I will justify it. I had to do it and got the hat. It was so cute. Ryan was just saying if I wore like a lazy outfit and put that hat on, it would like make me look really cool and put together. So I was like, all right, sold. I haven't made like a meal plan or anything yet, but I wanna get avocados because I don't have any breakfast foods except for smoothie and I still have like leftover bread. Are we gonna regret this 7 p.m. on a Sunday? Probably, because the parking lot. I know, but like I told you this old checkout line that one random weekday night was crazy. Actually, the parking lot doesn't look that bad.  What? You're seeing avocado? No, avocado. No. We're back home and I thought I would end this vlog here. I'm about to take my makeup off and get into my cozy PJs. Thank you guys so much for coming along with me on this Sunday in Austin. I feel like I did a lot of Austin things, which is fun. I know a lot of you guys like the Austin content and there will definitely be more coming. And I just posted a week in my life. So if you guys are not subscribed, I post week in my life every single Sunday and they're really long vlogs and I'm trying to make them a lot more aesthetic too and take my time on my B-roll because that is just so exciting to me too. I'm very into videography, photography, you name it. So definitely go ahead and subscribe and if you guys aren't following me on Instagram and TikTok, go ahead and do that too. It is so underscore gnarly without the G and I will see y'all in my next video. Bye.


The radio was quite interesting. There would be people on there that liked to talk, a lot of entertainment, music, especially western. And there was country dances that we all loved to go to. And my husband was really a good dancer. Their parents taught them to dance. Dad's Russian-German family. They were all good dancers and they did that Russian dance where you could mix up, they could all do the house clean. And they were quite musical as well so they played the accordion and so they really liked to have a good time. And was that the school, wasn't it, Mom? Yes. That's where they had all the dances was in the school house.