Hi you guys! I'm Lindsay. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. You guys responded overwhelmingly positively to the last haul video that I did. So I decided haul videos are coming to the channel. So I'm back with another one today. This is from Fabric Mart and I have to tell you, remember the beginning of the year whenever I posted about how to sew on a budget? This is probably one of the most affordable way to buy patterns and fabric that I have ever come across. And it is the Fabric Mart Pre-Cut Kit. So basically they take a pattern, they match it with a suitable fabric, cut the fabric into a predetermined amount based on the sizing and like the type of garment that it is, package it all together and sell it to you as a kit. And then once in a while they put these kits on sale for 60% off. Like I'm not even kidding, it is like yardage of fabric and a pattern, sometimes big four patterns, sometimes indie patterns for four dollars, six dollars. I mean I don't think I've ever seen one definitely not up to 10 dollars, maybe eight is the most I've ever seen. So I got five garment kits for 45 dollars shipped. Okay, so just brace yourselves. So I just wanted to really quickly go double check and see if they were still on sale. It looks like they are but only for 50% off. So still a great deal. If the ones that I'm about to mention are still available, I will link them in the description box below where you can go grab them for 50% off. Okay, so the very first one is this package, which includes simplicity 2774, which is a jersey, I guess like fit and flare with a v-neck or has like a little like, I don't know, slit opening type of thing in there. Super cute. It's from the Kalia Ali collection. So it's a designer simplicity pattern. Great. And I want to say I want to see how current this is. So it's from 2008. So not a super recent pattern, but I mean it's definitely a cute style that's like not super, super trendy. In fact, this one with the sleeves is like really on trend now. So I'm probably going to make Vue which is the knee length with the kind of wider flutter sleeves and the slit opening versus the v-neck. That's the version I really like. But it came with what was that 2774. Yeah, it came with this rayon Lycra jersey, which in this beautiful eggplant color, I'm hoping it shows up on camera. It's like the darkest, deepest purple. It almost looks black, but once you get it in the light, it looks really, really nice. It's a little bit substantial for a jersey. I don't know if that's the Lycra content in it or what, but it is, I mean, look how, I don't even know how many yards of this I got. But it must be, I mean, because this comes with a maxi. So did they give me like four yards? Probably. So I can make that dress plus a really beautiful t-shirt out of this as well. You can see it has beautiful drape. Again, like they've matched it to the pattern so you know that it's going to work with the pattern that they gave you. But there is a ton of yardage here, like so much. I'm going to be able to make multiple garments with this. For this individual one, I paid $7.20 for four yards of fabric and a simplicity designer pattern. So there you go. So that's kit number one. It really is a beautiful color. It'll show up better maybe in photos after I make it. You guys will have to take a look at that, but I cannot wait. And a gray on dress. Oh, it's going to be perfect. Going to be perfect. Okay, so the next one is Soaholics Gabriola skirt. And I've been eyeing this. They've had a couple of kits that featured this Soaholic skirt. Let me try and keep these organized. So the Gabriola skirt is this one that has the description on the pattern is flared, unlined maxi skirt, set to the natural waistline with flattering seam lines and center back zipper closure. Your choice of single button or hook and bar closure on the waistband. View A and B are full length. View B features contrast waistband and yoke panels. So this is super, super flattering with those different panels. I don't think I would do contrasting panels because I don't need to draw attention to that area, but I do love the shaping that it will provide. So with that came this rayon shali. I'm 99% sure just by touching it. Yeah, rayon shali. I paid $7.20 for this kit. You know, the Soaholic patterns, did they have the price on here? They're like $15 or $20.  Okay, so the rayon shali, you guys. So it is kind of reminds me of the calf tan, the Charlie calf tan I just made. But this is a very silky rayon shali. Can you see the print? It's kind of like an all over. I don't know. Is it animal print or tie dye? How is it reading to you guys? It has, you know, grays and blacks with this ever so subtle, subtle, subtle kind of like green tone to it. Oh my gosh, it's gorgeous. Can we just talk about the weight of it and the drape of it? Wow, it feels so soft. It literally feels like silk. I wonder how it is going to wash up. I'm not sure, but it's kind of like an abstract print, which is kind of cool for a maxi skirt like that because you're most likely going to pair this with a tank top. So, and the tank top being solid, those are the easiest ones to find. So this will look really good with like a black tank top or maybe like a chambray button up tied at the waist. There's a lot of options really. This is kind of neutral with all these colors. So I think paired with most any style neutral top, you would be good to go. Oh, I just love this. This is making me so excited to sew all of this stuff. Okay, next we have another simplicity and you guys have probably seen this one. I think it's still in the catalogs. It is an amazing fit pattern, 1652. I feel like I've been eyeing this one at various Joanne sales for years and years. I'm trying to find the year on this one, the copyright on this one too. 2013. Yeah, so that makes sense. But it's a really super cute fit and flare with an adorable little like chain embellishment and in the waist. The back also has you can't see it from here. I don't think yeah, you can. That little triangle cut out, which is really adorable and flattering you guys know like I love a back detail. And you can also do like a piping detail on the sleeve. And of course, with the princess seams and the amazing fit combo, you know, it's going to fit great without having to do a lot of work. So this is almost a no brainer pattern wise. And then they paired it with 1652 is a Ponty knit, which is interesting. I'm not so sure I would have chosen Ponty or a knit at all, I would have chosen woven. But it does say lightweight double knits is an option. And I guess Ponty could fall into that kind of double knit. But it is a lightweight knit ish. No, it's not. I'm trying to like make this trying to sell you on this, but not these Ponty, but you know, Ponty's kind of can be swapped out for woven anyways. So I think it's black. Yeah. So it is just going to be a beautiful black Ponty dress, which is kind of really great because that chain detail, I think you would really want a solid fabric so that the chain detail can really be highlighted. I am planning another trip to New York City at the end of June, I think, still working on the details with Amber. But that'd be the perfect place to source some of this chain, because I really have no idea where to go get it. But the Ponty is really nice quality. It is a little bit, you know, kind of has some weight to it as Ponty does. But it's still very it's hard to see because it's black. But can you'll see some of that drape? Yeah. So the gathers that are in the front of the dress on the waistband are going to look really, really great in this in this drapey, drapey Ponty. It might be a little warm for it might be a fall dress, you know what I mean? Because I don't know that I could wear it maybe in our early spring and then fall and then even in the winter with like a jacket over it. I know I could easily get away with that here. So beautiful Ponty. Okay, I think I have two more. Yep. Okay, so this is a pattern company that I don't think I've ever heard of before. But I'm going to explain to you why I got it anyways. So this is Green Bee patterns. And this is called the Amelia dress. So the Amelia dress is a bias cut dress fit and flare. It has like you can't see from maybe you can see these designs better. There's a glare from the light. But basically it has some interesting like side darts, no set in sleeve, center front bodice and center front skirts. So you could do some interesting strike details. It could be cute. I don't know anything about Green Bee though, nor do I think about this Amelia dress. Have any of y'all ever made it the Amelia dress before? This is so I paid the most for this one actually. This one is $9.60. But I got it because a I love trying new dress patterns. And I do feel like the style lines with those darts that come from the waist up ish diagonally are very flattering. And this would be a quick so I thought. But I think I got it the most because I love the fabric. Now the fabric is gorgeous. It is these little feathers, but Chevron background feathers on top and the feathers are metallic. It is really really pretty. This is a cotton. And I just thought you know what even if I decide to not make the Amelia dress, the cotton in and of itself for $9 is worth it. This is cotton by Jennifer Sampu for Robert Kaufman. Jennifer does not exo go create and shimmer is the line. Yeah, so it is narrow. You got to keep that in mind, which is probably why this dress you can make a whole dress out of this because they all the center front seams and center back seams. But I just thought you know a cute cotton dress you can't really go wrong. I have a good Jillian dress patterns that I can use for cotton. And I just loved this print. I just thought that it was really one of those cotton prints that looked like garment. You know a lot of them can look quilty or like little kids clothes. But this one felt really mature and I don't know just very pretty. So I think that since the pattern is cut on the bias meaning where the two like these what am I trying to say these um feathers are going to be sideways like this going in from each side. Same thing on this skirt. So that is either going to be really cool or really weird. Um, I haven't I can't decide if that's cool or weird. What do you guys think? I'm trying to like mimic exactly what it would look like in reverse so you guys can see. I don't know. I think it could be kind of cool. I mean you certainly don't have to cut it on the bias but it'll just be off green which we all know is just a suggestion. Most of the time not but sometimes just a suggestion. I don't know. I think it's a subtle directional thing that they have going so it could be okay. Better than them getting cut off I think. Okay I'm overthinking this way too much for a haul video. So there you go. Robert Hoffman metallic feathers on Chevron. It's really cute you guys. Really cute. And Green Bee's Amelia dress pattern. Seriously let me know if you guys have made that in the comments below if you have it on a blog or somewhere. I'd love to know what you guys think. Okay we're on our last one um out of five. This is again something I've been eyeing for a while because of the fabric. The pattern is a buttery top pattern by the number of five eight two six. So this is a pullover half-placket loose fitting blouse. It has some various options for the neckline various sleeve options and various shoulder seam options. So pretty versatile. I'm not sure honestly that I would have picked up this pattern just kind of on my own but you know it's nice to have tops and I could see myself making a short sleeve one to be honest. But mostly I got this kit and before I forget I paid four dollars and eighty cents for this kit um for this fabric. I know it's been around forever and ever. It's the rayon shali um that everyone knows and loves. I want to say it's from cotton and steel. I'm pretty sure it's from cotton and steel. I'm sorry if I got that wrong um but it is just a gorgeous print. I want to say one of the first times I had gone to fabric mark to look at their kits this fabric was matched with the gabriola skirt was matched with this. So instead of getting that abstract gray and black fabric it was paired with this fabric. So I mean push comes to shove I could not make that blouse top and I could make another gabriola skirt with navy tank top to go with it. I think that would be really stunning and really cute. So um since this was literally less than five dollars I figured I needed to go ahead and get the fabric because I have always always loved it.


My employer terminate my employment contract during what we call the probation period. Yes, your employer can terminate your employment contract during what you call the probation period. Remember that when we talked about the probation period, the probation period is only you are showcasing the ability, the fitness that you have to perform that particular task. So the employer may decide to terminate your contract during the probation period. Reason being that if he finds or if he or she finds out that you are not physically fit for the job, he has the right to terminate you. However, on one condition, has is supposed to terminate you because of being unfit for the job, your employer has to inform the Adalasa, the Minis of Labor, through what you call an electronic system. Playa one month of what you call termination and you as the person, the employee is supposed to give you what you call a one month notice. He is supposed to let you know in one month notice period. However, something that definitely also we need to understand that if during the termination, the employer attains to how poor you are to call the terms of the contract. It will contrarily depend on the two situations. Yes, what definitely we all need to understand that once he is going to terminate you in that contract. Yes, he will not let have to bear if you decide to move out of the country. If you decide that I need to go back to my country, then he will have to bear all the costs. He will have to bear what you call the repatriation cost by for you ticket and return you back to the place of origin. However, in the situation two, if he needs to have to hold the terms of the contract, let's say for example, you decide to stay in the country, then he needs to have to hand what you call the terms of the contract and you need to agree. Either to have a half compensation, either to compensate him, then you can stay in the country. That is what definitely half holding the terms of the contract may be in that case. So just know that you can terminate the contract during the probation period. It's no job. It's no time you can terminate the contract. Hope I've tried to share something for you and hope I've tried to share something for you. Thank you so much Oris. See you again as I'm trying to give you all these latest updates and giving you all these information. I'll see you next time.


Humans are storytellers. We like stories from the time, you know, we're little and people tell us things. And when we're older, it's anecdotes. Anecdotes catch our imaginations. They stick in our memories. And I think humans have evolved to be anecdotal creatures because, you know, prior to the invention of writing and, you know, widespread literacy, which is a very recent thing, that's the way we pass down wisdom from generation to generation, you know, what plant not to eat, what animal to stay away from, because it's going to eat you, these sorts of things. And you tell stories about Uncle Joe, who got too close to that big cat and it just bit his leg off, right? No, God, I'm not going to do that, right? And we embellish it with all kinds of other things to make it more scary so the kids don't go anywhere near the thing, right? And we're anecdotal creatures. And anecdotes give us on top of that in entertaining a colorful way to look at, to grapple with the world around us. The problem is, good decisions are more often made by statistics or analysis of statistics than by consulting anecdotes. And the problem with statistics is they're not colorful. They're not interesting, right? We have to force kids to sit through stats classes because nobody likes this stuff. While there's no way to make statistics more palatable, it is at least necessary to communicate to people who maybe aren't interested in knowing about statistics. There are great drawbacks to using anecdotes as your map for the world as you go about making decisions. And at least help people to understand things like, you know, when you make a decision to ban a drug or to ban a particular type of weapon or to subsidize this thing or tax that thing, that it's important to hold that back a little bit and remember that the data are the things that we should consult in making decisions. Your heart is a wonderful thing to consult in asking the question, what is it we should be making decisions about? But the decision itself needs to be driven by data.


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healthy planet show for people who care about their health and the health of our planet on the ThinkDeck Live Streaming Network series. I'm your host, Dr. Grace O'Neill. Joining me today are Alyssa Nairi and Afsun Shirazi, members of the board of directors of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund at the Ruling S. Richardson School of Law. Welcome Alyssa and Afsun. Thank you for being on the show. So tell us about what the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, what it is, what it's about. The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund is a chapter, a student chapter, at William S. Richardson School of Law. The Animal Legal Defense Fund is a national legal organization that tries to promote animal welfare. And we, as a student organization, want to continue to promote the message of Animal Legal Defense Fund by spreading the awareness of laws and policies nationally, internationally, and locally here in Hawaii that impact not only the domestic animals in our lives, but also animals that are used for food products and native species of animals whose lives are threatened by environmental degradation. That's great. So can you tell us more about the Animal Legal Defense Fund and what kind of work they do besides supporting the student chapters? Animal Legal Defense Fund is basically our parent organization and they are involved in litigation and different things for any type of animal welfare. They're a non-profit organization. Yeah, Afsun, did you have anything to add? Yeah, for a few decades now I believe the Animal Legal Defense Fund has been at the forefront of animal rights in the United States. They have been the key litigators in many U.S. states and have had cases heard in front of the Supreme Court. Recently they were involved in a case involving a goat that was at a state fair that was the property of a young girl and this goat was taken away and taken to slaughter and without the child's permission. This was a really big case recently that highlights this kind of curious distinction of property and life. Are animals living beings with their own rights or are they the property of humans for which laws and policies need to protect that property right? So the Animal Legal Defense Fund takes on all sorts of cases whether it's food systems related, whether it's house pets related, whether it's just safety and health of living beings in our country and on the planet and their mission is really wonderful and we're really happy to be able to promote and work on their projects as a group of law students here in Hawaii. That's great. Are there any specific cases that you know about in Hawaii? I know there's several projects that are going on at least with a good food movement. I don't know if the Animal Legal Defense Fund in Hawaii has been involved in any cases. I'm not familiar with any cases based here out of Hawaii in recent years however I know that the guidance that Animal Legal Defense Fund provides nationally has helped the state of Hawaii and the state legislature come up with policies and regulations that address several pressing issues not only issues related to invasive and endangered species here in the state, the safety and cleanliness of the waters around the state of Hawaii, but also issues related to the ever-growing feral cat and feral chicken populations. So that's a great segue into the event that you guys put on. I think it was last month, the One Health Supposium. Do you want to talk a little bit about that, Alyssa? Sure. So One Health is this idea that environmental law, well for us it would be the idea that environmental law, animal law, and kind of like human law, human health kind of work together to promote the well-being of animals, humans, and the environment. And it's actually it's actually a concept started by veterinarians but we kind of are trying to see if there's some parallels in the legal field that we can utilize.  Can you talk about some of the people that you had in the symposium who are speaking? I thought it was very good, the parts that I was able to see. Want to go ahead with that, Absod? Sure. So since One Health was initially created by incredibly thoughtful veterinarians, we decided it was really essential that we first start our program off with the voices and perspectives of veterinarians here in Hawaii that are active in the One Health movement. We invited a veterinarian that's based in Maui that does work for the USDA. We invited a veterinarian who works in a little clinic on the west side and they just provided us a really excellent background of the issues in One Health and how they how both locally and internationally efforts need to kind of become intermingled so that way we're not just creating kind of band-aid interventions that don't necessarily that aren't necessarily thoughtful in this interconnectedness reality of human health, animal health, and planetary health. And we also were able to screen the film Accidental Host which was a collaboration between physicians and biologists and local community members here in Hawaii to talk about rat lung worm which is a parasite that is ever prevalent in Hawaii but also expanding globally due to continuous environmental degradation. Very excellent film and we're really grateful to have had some experts talk about how this documentary was produced. And we also had some legal experts and public health experts talk to us about public health's approach to One Health, looking at our oceans and how oceans impact human health and then also talking about some local litigation around environmental health and indigenous sovereignty. And we ended our program with some policy action. How can we as community members not just hear this information about One Health but actually take action learning about the legislative process? A lot of Americans don't know about this very basic part of government and civics which is state legislatures and city councils. They are extraordinarily active in impacting our day-to-day lives. So it was a really, really excellent day to allow law students and community members who have expertise in a variety of fields to talk about something that is so integral to who we are as a species but also just the nature of One Health is that it's interdisciplinary. We have to have lawyers and scientists and veterinarians and community organizers and animals themselves involved in making the planet healthier for all of us. Yeah, I really enjoyed the section on feral cats. I thought it was very, it was very good because you think about those cats all the time but I mean it's just there are a lot of factors into controlling the population everything and it's not as simple as you think about, you know, it could be but I mean it's really quite complicated so I really enjoyed that and unfortunately I really wanted to see the the movie on Accidental Host because I did work on the Big Island a while in Helo Medical Center and there were a few cases about one worm that I had heard about I hadn't actually seen but you know I don't know if they talked about it on there but I would like to see the movie at some point as well. So let's go and talk about some of the other events that you guys have put on. I know there was another event, Animal Law. Do you want to talk a little bit about that, Alyssa? Sure, so you're talking about when we had Adam Karp? Sure, so he basically gave us a crash course in Animal Law and that was really interesting because we don't currently have any animal law course at our school. It's just like a nice way for us to get the rest of the student body involved and let them know what we want to learn about and hopefully we can kind of push our administration to bring in an animal law course in the next couple years. Yeah, that would be wonderful. There's so many different topics in Animal Law as you're saying it relates to the environment, you know, just the interaction between humans and animals like with the feral cats, also just the health of humans and animals. It's all interconnected. So I think a lot of people would be interested in that. I'm wondering, are there any events you guys are planning for the future? Another one health symposium or something else? Sure, so we definitely hope that in upcoming semesters we're able to continue to invite Animal Law, Animal Welfare experts to contribute to expanding knowledge among up and coming lawyers here in the state of Hawaii. But annually we do host our PAW Review, which is a fundraiser that we do which we encourage all students at Richardson to participate in. PAW Review essentially is a photo pet beauty contest, but with the money that we earn from these we are able to donate and contribute to some of the local nonprofits and Animal Welfare groups to support their efforts. And it also allows us an opportunity to coalition build here in the state. And moreover with these partnerships that we build with nonprofits, we tried to organize some volunteer days. So we do every year volunteer day at Aloha Animal Sanctuary on the east side, which we love to do. We just go and we help clean up the property or we help put up new fencing or we help secure some of the cages for some of the sick animals. And these kind of volunteer events just allow us to have a bit of a reprieve from the hectic nature of law school, but also connect with the very beings we're trying to protect. So those are really, really fun events that we really love to do. And we're always trying to find other groups in town or around the state to find more opportunities to give back. And hopefully we'll build a relationship with the Lanai Cat Sanctuary that has been established a few years ago that looks really excellent. Also, we really are big fans of the local cat cafes. They might seem small, but like we've talked about, there's a huge cat over population. I think during the talk, Dr. Jarissa Ching explained that there's, on a walk alone, over 300,000 feral cats. So these cat cafes are really active in making sure that those cats that can be socialized and the kittens can find good homes and receive the health care that they need. So these are great organizations and we try to continue to build partnerships with them. Yeah, no, that's wonderful that you guys do that kind of volunteer work. It's a good bonding situation for everybody. And it's also just making yourselves known to the community and maybe forming some relationships for your futures. I'm wondering how the both of you got involved in the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund if you want to go first, Alyssa? Yeah, sure. So when I started, I was, I've actually always had an interest in farm animal law. I knew that I wanted to get involved in something like that and I was like super excited when on the, it was basically like our club day. I saw the stand and it was the first one I gravitated towards. So I automatically joined and then there wasn't an animal law conference held in Portland shortly after that. So I was able to attend that with them. And I think after the first semester, I was able to get on the board, which was really awesome. That's wonderful. How about you, Afsoon? My background is in public health actually. So I am always thinking about, you know, what it means to be healthy and happy and living on this planet.  And for me, I am a big, big fan of cats and frogs. And I can't imagine living life without these critters around me. So when I saw that Richardson had an Animal Legal Defense Fund student group, I thought might as well start going to meetings. And at that time, this was fall 2021. So it was all totally remote. But we were able to start doing some planning for future semesters and future academic years. And like Alyssa was able to go to the Animal Law Conference this last year, in 2021, we were also able to participate in the online remote Animal Law Conference. It's also based out of Lewis and Clark. And that year, there was actually a One Health section and session. And that's kind of what stimulated us to start thinking about maybe we should talk about One Health when we are back in person. And we are able to go back in person. Now we can start thinking about another possible symposium. I'm hoping that we can get all of our things together to have another symposium in spring 2024, maybe on the topic of food rather than on One Health. But I think food is also so critical to our experiences as humans here on this planet. And so I hope that any community member is interested can participate. It's open to the public. And we would love to have more community members involved in our student organization. No, I think that's great that you guys opened it to the community, because that's how I found out about your organization. And I'm wondering, are there undergraduates who might be pre-long participate in your organization? Or how does that work? So as a student organization at Richardson, due to the way that things are organized, there are lost student members. And then we can just build relationships with other student groups. So for this event, this One Health symposium, we were able to get a variety of undergraduates to come and participate. So that meant that we were reaching out to student orgs like the pre-vet student organization to the public health undergraduate and graduate student organization. And we somehow got a botanist to participate. And we also reached out to 808 vegans, the local vegan organization, which also sent some members. So the undergraduates are eager to learn about this kind of stuff. And then the community members are eager to give their feedback and their opinions about, you know, what does it mean to live in peace with other species on the planet? So it was really interesting to try and connect to all these different groups on the island. And I think one thing that was really beneficial was reaching out to veterinarians who are from here, who are actually involved in other projects at UH, particularly with the pre-vet student organization. And, you know, it's really cool to kind of show young scientists or young social scientists or, you know, young vegans of all ages what our goals are is blooming lawyers. So what do you guys have planned for when you graduate? Do you plan to do something in animal law? If you want to go first, Alyssa? Yeah, I do. So I'm actually going to get the environmental law certificate from our school. I don't know exactly what I'm going to do. I'm still, I'm only in my second year, so I'm still kind of like exploring. I'm actually doing my internship this summer with an animal, a non-profit animal law group. So I'm kind of just trying to see where that will take me. What is the non-profit group called? It's called animal outlook. And they were actually kind of, they're kind of associated with ALDF in a way too. So that's kind of how I found out about them from the animal law conference. Right. And how about you, Afsun? What are you planning to do when you graduate? It's nearer for you, I think. Well, as I mentioned earlier, my background is in public health. So I am currently training to do public health law and some things related to worker health, environmental health. I'm still kind of looking into what kind of federal governmental opportunities there are for me. This summer I am a, I'm working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a public health law fellow and I'm hoping to just find a career that makes me happy but also allows me to continue to promote the health and well-being of all people and critters on the planet. And how about, how long has your organization, the Student Animal Defense Fund at the William S. Richardson School of Law, how long has that been in existence? Is that a relatively recent thing or has it been around a long time? I want to say that it has been around for at least a decade on and off. One thing about COVID was that a lot of muscle memory within the student organizations kind of atrophied and so while we do have some kind of, we do have links and practices that have been going on since the founding of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund at Richardson, it's been really neat to kind of recreate the student organization over the last few years and we're hoping to install some sustainable practices so that way in case of another pandemic where things suddenly shut down or there's another, you know, other issues that may, you know, cause problems or we're hoping that we can put the puzzle pieces together so the student organization doesn't disappear in the future. We want to encourage sustainability of the student org. So, I know that you guys have been inspired by different things to join the Student Animal Defense Fund at the School of Law, but I was wondering was there, was there like a specific bond? I know Absolute has said you especially like frogs and kittens or cats and how about you, Alyssa? Was there, are you, is there a specific animal that inspires you or did you have a special bond with farm animals growing up? Honestly, it kind of started from my love for the environment. That's why I became vegan because I realized how like what we eat as humans has such an effect on the environment and then I think kind of hand in hand in that it's just reading about the atrocities on factory farms. So, yeah, I've read so many books on that it really blows your mind. So, it wasn't a hard decision for me and yeah, so that's why that's why also I'm getting the environmental law certificate. I just kind of want to merge those two interests. Do you have any pets or? Yeah, I do have a pet. I have a dog.  I had like 15 animals in our house at one time. What kind of animals besides the dog? Just different dogs or? Well, growing up we had I think four dogs like four cats. We had hamsters, fish, bunnies. I've had everything. Wow. Are you from Hawaii originally or? No, I'm from San Diego. Oh, okay. Okay. Nice. And how about you have, you said you have had frogs before or was that just that you liked frogs? Well, I was growing up. One of my close family friends was a herpetologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. I was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. And my father is a toxicologist. So he conducts research at the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center on antivenom. And so growing up, I was always kind of exposed to these often forgotten ignored or, you know, these creatures that people are often repulsed by, but I grew up in love and appreciate. So in Tucson, there's one particular critter that is very near and dear to my heart. And that's the Gila monster. And the Gila monster is very thick, muscly and meaty has a nasty bite and releases venom. And I just think that Gila monsters are one of the coolest critters around and uniquely found in the Sonoran Desert. I am such a desert rat. Like I will always, always talk about my hometown, Tucson and the incredible Sonoran Desert that it's founded. So are you planning on staying here? Are you going to move afterward or you're just going to go wherever the job takes you? I am intending on taking the bar here in Hawaii and also taking the Arizona bar. I would like to be able to contribute to the state of Hawaii that has been so gracious and welcoming to me. But I also know that I need to give back to my hometown. So I am kind of going to go with the flow. And how about you, Alyssa? What are your plans? Are you going to go back to California? Do you plan to stay in Hawaii or just take you, you know, just go wherever the job takes you? Um, I've been here since I was 17. So it would be hard to leave. I'm also a surfer. So that kind of like ties me to here. But I don't know. I have to see what what law school brings me and yeah, see where see where I end up. So did you do your undergraduate here as well? Yeah, I went to the University of Hawaii West Oahu. Oh, nice. Nice. And how about you as soon? Did you do your undergraduate here or you just came here for law school? I did my undergraduate at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and I did my master's in public health at Tulane University in New Orleans. So I've kind of been going around places trying to find my niche and I'm happy to have landed here for the time being. Oh, that's great. Well, I mean, if anybody wants to kind of get in touch with your organization or get involved, how would they do that? They can send us an email. Okay, cool. Yeah. That's and oh, we also have an Instagram. So DMing us would work, send a message in the comments. Yeah. And we also encourage anyone who's interested in animal welfare or somebody who might be interested in becoming a lawyer or being involved in animal welfare policy to follow the Animal Legal Defense Fund as the national organization. I know that they have newsletters. We try to stay up to date with the things that they're publishing and releasing to the public. And that's a great way to just know what's going on in your local community and in the United States generally. Well, thank you so much. We're out of time. So we have to wrap it up. This is Dr. Grace O'Neill. This is Healthy Planet on the ThinkTech Live Zoom Network series. We've been talking with Alyson Afsoon, members of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund of the William S. Richardson School of Law. Thanks to Ash, our broadcast engineer, and the rest of the crew at ThinkTech for hosting our show. And thanks to you, our listeners for listening. 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Hey all, Mr. Gibson here with your next lesson in cryptography. Today we're going to take a look at programming the rail fence cipher in Python. So at this point, you should have learned about rail fence transposition cipher back in week one. You should have learned about conditional branching this week in week two. You should have learned about string slicing back in week one. And you should have learned already about functions, including default parameters this week in week two. So if you haven't covered any of those things, this is going to be a little bit challenging. I would encourage you to go back and review those lessons first, and then come on back when you're ready to write this function here with us today. So we're going to get started here in our Jupyter notebook. I've already created a file. I just named it rail fence. And we're going to start by defining a function at the top. So we do def to get a function started. And I'm going to just name mine rail fence. We need to think about what do we want to input to our function? And then what do we want to output from our functions? Always kind of want to think about when I start writing a function. So if I think about what do I need to actually do the rail fence cipher by hand, I need to have a message to work with. I need to have a key to work with which for the rail fence cipher is the number of rows that we're going to implement. And then I need to decide whether I'm encrypting or decrypting. When I'm done, I'm going to return out a piece of text, either plain text or cipher text, depending on what I started with. So let's take that information and turn that into some arguments of our function. So inside the parentheses for the function, I'm going to create an argument called text. So that's what I'm going to pass into this function is a string that'll go into that variable that lives inside the function that variable be local to the function rail fence. I'm going to give it an information about the number of rows. And I might want to give it some information about whether I want to in cipher or de cipher, but I'm actually going to hold off on that. We'll see why in just a minute. And when I'm done, I'm going to want to return a string. And we might want to think about how we're going to create that string based off of text and the number of rows. So those are our inputs. We only think about how we're going to use that to create our output. So let's get let's get into it here. We might want to take different approaches depending on the number of rows. We know that the algorithm in theory is pretty similar depending on what we're doing two row or three row. But in practice, we know we might want to tackle those two things differently. So the fact that you might make different decisions based off of an input value is a perfect idea for us to start using some conditional branching based off of the value of rows. So I'm going to check if rows is equal to two, I'm going to do one set of instructions. And I don't I don't know what those are yet. But I need to have something here under my if statement header. So I'm just going to make a return statement that returns to row branch. So if I run this function with the piece of text and I pass it the number two for that function to take in for rows, I'll at least see that I'm returning back the string that's in the correct branch. And then I'll do an else if rows equals three. And if it ends up in that branch for now, again, I don't know what I want to do with that. But let's just have it print a statement that confirms I've entered the correct branch. And if all else fails, if I don't do two or three for now, let's not worry about it, we've only really covered two in three row rail fence, generalizing that to be kind of an n row rail fence is a little bit tricky, not impossible. We still have enough of our programming tools under our belt yet to really do that the right way. So for now, we'll just do a catch all. If the rows isn't two or three, we'll just return number of rails not supported. And at this point, we should have a function that runs it'll work. It's not going to do what we want it to do. But it doesn't throw an error message. And let's just confirm that our branches that we've set up are working the way that we think they will. So I'm going to print whatever this function returns. I'm going to give it a sample message. So a string, I just made it made it all lower case. I'm going to choose to do row two. So when I run this, this string sample message will be passed to the argument text on our function. So anywhere inside the function, this string sample message, that string object will be assigned to the variable text. Likewise, the integer to this integer object here will be assigned to the variable rows inside this function. So when I run this, we should expect it to kind of start from top to bottom of the function. It's going to check if the value assigned to rows is equal to two. If it is, it's going to return this string back. So that means that this entire kind of highlighted region down here, this function call will return back as that string. And then it kind of decides, okay, well, what do I do next in this cell? I'm going to print what came out of that function. So I should expect the words to row branch to appear if I run the second cell, let's see if I did or if I have any error messages. May it worked. Awesome. Let's try three, make sure that works as planned. It does. And let's try something like five. Perfect. Okay, so we figured that part out. Now I need to figure out actually, how do we do the encryption? So let's go back up here into our branch of logic that has to do with when rows is equal to two, and think about how we might be able to create the correct string. This two row branch is a string, but it's not the string that actually does the rail fence cipher. So if you think about what rail fence cipher does is that it takes when we're doing two row, it takes every other letter starting at index zero and going all the way to the end. So if you think back to how we've learned how to do string slicing, that top row, which is the every other letter starting at index zero, we could write using this function or this call. Remember, when we do string slicing, it takes in three parameters or up to three parameters with the starting index, the ending index, oops, that should be a nothing. We wanted to go all the way to the end. And then we wanted to count by two. So I originally had that wrong. And in fact, that zero at the beginning is optional as well by default, if we don't provide it a first value, it will assume zero. So we've kind of clean that up. So if I were to just take this, we're not done, but this should be the top row of our zigzagging rail fence. So let's see if that works. If it does, if I change this rows number back to two, it should pull the s, the m, the l, the m, the s, the a and the e. Let's see if that works. Now why did that happen? Well, let's take a look. I never actually redefined the function, I tweak some things in this function. And I went down and tried to call that function, but I never re ran this cell to load the new version of the function into memory. It's still working with the old one. So let me try that again. I'm going to run the function cell and then run the print command. Ah, there we go.  Perfect. Now we just need to figure out how to get the bottom row. Bottom row isn't too different. Remember, bottom row is every other character all the way to the end, but not starting at index zero, but at index one. So I'm going to take this and cut it for a second to my clipboard. I don't know, try and just get the bottom row. Start at index one, go to the end, counting by two, reload that function in the memory, run the print command. And now we're getting the others, a p e e s g. And when I would really need to do is combine those two things together, one after the other. Luckily, that's what string concatenation is. So if we remember our string operations, I can take the first set of characters from this slice of this text string and concatenate them with these characters in the second string. If I run this and then run the print command again, there is a successful output from our two row rail fence. Now it's not formatted correctly, right? That's not uppercase, and it's not in blocks of five. We can fix one of those pretty easily. If we were to put a dot upper on the end of each one of these string slices, now we'll at least be working with uppercase letters. The blocking in the groups of five is a little bit trickier to get done. We'll work on that next week, but for now it's okay to just make sure things are uppercase letters. We'll be a little bit more strict on formatting from your outputs of functions later on in the course, but for this week it's fine to just make sure things are uppercase. So let's try and think about the same logic when we do a three-row rail fence. Three-row rail fence is still zigzagging. I'm going to try and see if I can recreate it here. I'm going to make a comment where we can use these hash symbols here for a comment and try to just recreate the zigzags. We got S, A, M, P, L, M, and so on. We want to think about how far apart are the characters in each row, and it looks like this first row is about four characters apart. The second row, those are all two characters apart, and the bottom row is again four characters apart. They just start at different indices. The top row starts at index zero, and then you'll count every four characters, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, to kind of get you that top row string. This middle row, we start at index one, and we count one, two, one, two, one, two. And in the bottom row, we start at index two, and we count every four, one, two, three, four, to get to the next character. So it's very similar to the two row, just a slightly different pattern. So using the same logic, I should be able to create a very similar return statement. I want to return starting at index zero, going to the end, counting by four this time, making sure it's all uppercase, concatenate that with starting at index one, going to the end, counting by two, and then make sure that's upper, and concatenate that with one last string slice, starting at index two, going to the end, counting by two, and making sure that's upper. If we did that correctly, and I changed this to three, we should see our same message, but now with three real real fans. Oh, I did it again. I need to rerun the cell to load it in the memory. There we go. That's looking about right. There's the SL that we predicted right here. We should have APE. There it is right there. There's our double M for the bottom row should be there somewhere. Ooh, that one doesn't seem to be showing up. Let's try and see if we can figure out why that is. I don't think I have any typos. Let's keep going here with our comment and see why that might be. We should have the last part B and then E. Oh, I'm counting by twos, not by fours. You probably already saw that. Remember, the last row should start at index two and go to the end, but I have a typo here. I have it counting every other character going by twos. It should be every four. Let's load up the function again, run the print. There we go. Okay, looking better now. And that's that right there. I wish I could say that was planned, but that's a live mistake that I made. And it's a good way to think about checking some bugs in your code. We call that a bug. It didn't necessarily throw an error, but it's not operating the way that we intended it to. And you kind of need to just go through some examples by hand, comparing what you're doing by code and making sure those two things agree. Alright, now that I've figured out that return statement, I'm going to clear out this comment. And I'm going to leave us with one thing here. We've got a really great working rail fence function. One thing we can add to this function to make it even better. And every good function should have one of these is called a doc string short for documentation string. So I left this row or this line of code right here blank after the function header, because this is where your documentation string is going to go. If you do three sets of double quotes like I've got here, anything that goes in between those, assuming it's right after the functions header, you can you can print those out to the screen if you do help rail fence. So let's just show you here for a second. This is a doc string. If I were to go down to the cell and do help rail fence, and I run that, it'll show you what the variables are in that function. So you can see what they're going to be called. And that might be helpful to knowing what you should be passing into those arguments. And then it shows everything you put inside those triple quotes. So good practices might be to include a sample that rail fence of sample message with the three should yield the output of this right here. And in a perfect world, that would be blocked in groups of five. So we're going to do that, meaning we're not done with this function, we'll come back with it in a week or so and see we can update it to give it the right output. But that's good enough for us right now. And then you can also include your arguments. And you can say this arguments are text, which is string that contains plain text or cipher text. And you've got rows, which is an integer that represents the number of rows. And now when you run that help string or help command, you can see all the information that you need to successfully run this function, you know, what the output should be for a given input. So you kind of an idea of what it's going to do. And you have the descriptor for each one of these input arguments. So you know exactly how it's going to work. One last thing we didn't talk about in this function is about whether this is in ciphering or deciphering. For rail fence, it might not make a difference, but we can think about what's a good best practice for other ciphers. For the two rail fence, it doesn't make a difference. But for three rail fence, it certainly does. You can't undo a three rail rail fence just by running it through it again. So the way that we're going to handle that in this class is we're going to create a third argument, a default argument. So we're going to give it a value to start with. And I like to think about this one is just like a flag. It's either on or it's off. So we have this in cipher argument that we're going to turn on by default. So we're going to set it equal to true in the header. And you'll see if I just did this, it doesn't break anything. Right? That's what's nice about a default argument is I don't have to give it the third or the default argument in this case. It's happy to just take the first two. If I don't give it the third one, it's going to just assume that it's true. And then what I can do now is go into my branches and create secondary branches. So I can say if in cipher, then do what I just said. Then I can say else. And then I don't know what I need to do yet, but I can say this is where the two row de cipher code will go. And now if that is set to true, it's going to do the in ciphering part of the code. And if it's not set to true, it's going to do the de ciphering part of the code once I figure that out. And we can do the same thing down here under the three row condition. I can say if in cipher, and since in cipher is in fact a Boolean that's true, that means if in cipher is said equal to true, it runs this. And then we can do else. And then I'm just going to copy and paste. This is where the three row to cipher code will go. And I think that's a good stopping point for us today. We can show you that it's working by running in cipher equals false. And change this to change this to five. So we can see all of our possible cases still run no errors. It's not actually doing what we want it to do all the time, but we have the right branches set up. So we have all of the options we're ever going to need for this function. Good to go. We've got a nice documentation string. So if we ever need help, we should probably update that to tell it what to do about the in cipher variable. So somebody using the help function could learn from that. But we're in a good we're in a good spot here. I'm going to leave filling out the rest of this function for you all to do. But that's it for tonight. Thanks for watching. We'll catch you all on the next one.


Sixteen centuries ago was a Palawa Prince, nine years he waited. He lobbed off his own left arm, from there comes the now famous One-Handed Namaste. Even today that school is in existence, around fifteen centuries ago was a Palawa Prince, he became a monk, his immersed in what he is doing. As per the wishes of his guru, who told him, go north and spread this, he went north. Went north enough to go into China. When he went there, the new spread that Buddha's disciple or somebody who is in that path, deeply immersed, is coming this way. So emperor who, who had this aspiration all his life, who had built meditation halls, gardens, everything ready and translated all the Buddhist teachings into the local language, kept everything ready for a master to arrive. Now when he came, by then emperor who is over seventy-two years of age, he came to the border of his kingdom to welcome Bodhidharma. Bodhidharma was not impressed, of course he needed some rest and food, but he's not impressed with the grandeur of the welcome. But he received the welcome and sat down and the moment they settled down, emperor who said, can I ask you a question? Bodhidharma said by all means, question. So he asked, I have built so many meditation halls, I have prepared so many gardens and so many translations, everything I have done to spread Buddha's message in this part of the world. Will I get Nibbana? Nibbana means nirvana or mukti or enlightenment.  You, Nibbana?    People tried to hold him in many places, he just went away and he went near a Shaolin temple, but he did not walk into the temple. He went and sat in a cave close by. So when Bodhidharma went and settled in the cave, General Shen followed, wants to be his disciple because he has heard that Bodhidharma is a calorie expert, a master of calorie, but Bodhidharma doesn't say a word, nine years he waited. Then Bodhidharma came out and entered the temple. General Shen followed begging him, please take me as your disciple. Bodhidharma said, that will only happen when the snow turns red. So General Shen in a fit of courage and sacrifice, he lobbed off his own left arm and swung the arm around. And all the snow around was covered in his blood and froze in the snow. Bodhidharma looked at this and he could not push him away anymore, he took him as his disciple. General Shen trained in calorie, became a master in his own way. From there comes the now famous one-handed Namaste. Even today they're doing it, this came from General Shen who had only one arm, he did his Namaste like this. He's considered as the mother of all martial arts. Agastya Muni created this calorie as an art form so that the yogis and the sadhakas could defend themselves against wild animals. It is from here martial arts went to China when Bodhidharma traveled and set up this first shovel in school. Even today that school is in existence and still doing well. They've done various modifications but the fundamentals are from the calorie. This is not essentially a combat process as other martial arts have become, this is essentially a discipline. A kind of an exuberant version of the yogic practices using the body in many different ways which will also deepen one's understanding of one's own physical and psychological makeup and also the energetic system.