Okay, perfect. Great. So with that being said, it's my pleasure to introduce on a lease Kaiser from the University of Michigan, and she'll be telling us, giving us an introduction to configuration spaces and great groups. Awesome. Thank you so much. Yeah. So, I'm on a lease. I use she her pronouns. You can follow me on Twitter, since I guess that's where this seminar kind of sprung out of. I just finished my masters at the University of Michigan and I'm starting my PhD in the fall, and this is kind of a talk meant for a pretty general audience about what I studied during my masters. And that's something I did under the supervision of Dr Jenny Wilson at U of M. I had a little bit of weird health week so like I'm not at the top of my game but you know we're just going to, we're just going to go with it. All right. So, let's talk about what the kind of goals are. Nope, that's not what I had next. See, already off to a great start. All right, a little bit of motivation. So, great groups are an object that were first described in terms of configuration spaces which are much older objects in 1891, and they were formally introduced by Arton in the 20s so they're sometimes called Arden's great groups. And both configuration spaces and brave groups have a really, really broad range of applications that you can do. I looked into a couple of these for my thesis research, although I can't say that I could explain every word that's up on the slide right now. And I'll talk a little bit about that, that most exciting one probably which is robot motion planning at the end. Okay. And yes. All right, so we're going to start out by talking about right so I just said we have great groups and configuration spaces where I start out just by talking about what our what our brain groups and trying to get a feel for that. Yeah, here's my guess. Yes, we will define the brain groups will define configuration spaces and then I'm going to describe the relationships between the two. So these actually are very deeply related objects, but it's not obvious. At first at first glance why that's so and so I'll try to give a good justification for that. And then, yeah. So, alright, what are the breakers.  So we'll start with the brain group, which in my talk I'm going to write as B sub n. There are many different ways you can denote the brain group, depending on whose books you read. Okay, so I'm going to talk about the brain group on end strands. Okay, and well. All right, so this is a group and its objects are braids. And so what does a brain look like. It's going to be a collection of strands that cross over each other. And the important thing about these about these braids is the kind of combinatorial information it's telling us about what strand crosses over what and when. So here I've got a braid on six strands right so I'd be six vertical strands. And I'm going to read my braids from top to bottom and I'm going to number the strands from left to right. Okay, so for example this red strand starts as the first strand and ends as the second. And this blue strand starts as the sixth strand and ends as the fourth. Okay, so if you've ever you know braided someone's hair you've made a friendship bracelet, you're on the right track right that's what you should be thinking about when you think of a brain. So, right so I've got my six strands, and then let's just kind of break down the information this brain is giving us. So the first thing that happens great because again I reach from top to bottom is my second strand crosses over my first strand. Yeah that's the first piece of information it tells me. Then my fifth strand crosses over my sixth strand. Okay, my third strand crosses over my fourth strand, and my fourth strand crosses over my fifth strand. So in a little bit we'll talk about how to how to write that down in this in this notation I'm using down here, but this is again just an idea this is the information my brain is telling me it's very combinatorial in nature. Um, so two braids are going to be equivalent if we can continuously deform one brain together without shipping the ends of the strands. Okay, so these two braids on the screen right now are equivalent. And I color coded the strands just to make it easier to see. Alright, so what this first braid is telling me is that I'm crossing my second strand over my first third strand. And then on the right, this braid, you know it's much longer it looks more complicated but if I imagine if I just had strings on a piece of table right. I can take that this top part of this blue strand, and just pull that to the right, and I can kind of pull the red strand to the left and just kind of separate those there. So that really all of the cross crossings that are happening if I just kind of pull those together a little bit is I have my red strand crossing over my blue strand. I can pin down the ends of the strands and I can continuously to form one right into another, and the order they cross over each other that does matter. Then two braids are equivalent. And I realize I speak a little fast I'll pause just for a moment here. Alright, so I said that this is a great group. Alright, so we've talked about what the objects are so let's talk about what the group operation is. And that's going to be concatenation. And so here I'm going to take, if I want to take. If I have a braid alpha and a braid beta. And I want to know what alpha beta is, if I apply the operation with the two of them. The way that I would come up with this new braid is I'm going to take the bottom of my braid alpha. Okay, and I'm going to glue the top of my braid beta to it. Okay, so I'm taking. Did I make pictures now I did not. So I'm going to take the bottom of alpha and glue the top of beta to it. Right so I can see right here, hopefully you can see my cursor is kind of that split. Right so first I do what alpha tells me to do, which is to take the second over the third, then the second over the third again. Then I do what beta tells me to do, which is first over second, and then third over second. So I've got these braids, I can concatenate them and I know when they're equivalent. And so let's talk about kind of how we could write this down so you can give a presentation for the braid group, if you don't know what a group presentation is that's okay. But the braid group, we can write down a list of generators for it. Okay, and so what it means to write down a list of generators is that I can come up with some braids where I can build any other braid out of either a combination of generators or inverses right. So here my generators are going to be my generator, Sigma one would be crossing the second strand over the first strand and Sigma one inverse would be doing the reverse okay so it would be crossing the first strand over the second. So here's an example. Sigma two inverse okay so this involves the third and the second strands and this one is going to be where the second strand crosses over the third strand. Again this is a thing where convention on how you label your generators various from person to person so apologies if this doesn't match up with something you've seen before. They, they mean the same thing that's worded a little bit different. And so I can see right if I've got a much longer braid. I can break it down into its generators right so in this braid I take my second strand and I cross it over the first that's what Sigma one does. Then I take my third strand cross it over the second that's Sigma two right there. And then I take my second strand cross it over the first that Sigma one again. Okay, so I can build any braid out of these generators and their inverses. There are also relations on the braid group so you can give a nice group presentation. So if you are in a group theorist maybe that's something you're interested in. So the first relation is that to generators commute if and only if they're sufficiently far apart. Right, so if I have. If I have Sigma one and Sigma three, that's saying Sigma one says I take my second strand I cross it over my first Sigma three says I take my four strand across over my third rate they're not really involving the same strands, you can you can separate them so Sigma one Sigma three is the same braid as Sigma three Sigma one. Okay, so I can picture taking the second strand here and kind of pulling it down a little bit, taking this four strand here pulling it up a little bit on my screen and I would have the same braid as I have on the right. Okay. So that's one of the sets of relations I have the other one is a little bit longer. And so this one says here for example that Sigma one Sigma two Sigma one is the same thing as Sigma two Sigma one Sigma two. Let's take a moment and see what that means. So Sigma one says take my second strand over my first Sigma two says take my third strand over my second, and then take my second over my first. And really kind of what this is doing to my braid is it's kind of taking this third strand and making it end up in the first position. And then taking this first one and crossing it over. But notice that if I take this blue strand here, right and I just kind of deform it upwards on my screen to maybe over here. And I take this red strand I just kind of pull it to the right. Again because of the way these strands are laying on top of each other, these two are equivalent rates.  Okay. Right. So that's the braid group. I've got these strands across them over each other. I can do my operations by Academy. So the pure braid group is a subgroup of the break group. Okay, and it's the subgroup where all of the strands and in the order they started in. Okay. So, you know, this is an element of the break group that that I think we were just looking at earlier. Right and I can see that the first strand ends in the third place, the second strand and second place, the third strand ends in the first place. Right, so I can see that I'm permuting the order of my strands. And if I don't permute the order of my strands if I have a braid where each strand and again the color coded to make this easier to see. If I have a braid where each strand ends in the order that they started in. That's going to be an element of the pure break group. Okay. So that's a big difference between the pure break group and the break group pure break group means strands and where they started. You can also give a presentation for the pure break group, although it's much, much messier and so we're not really going to dwell on it. But again, if you're curious, you probably care that at least the fact that we can give a presentation. So here are generators are a little more complicated, because again we need our braids to our strengths to end where they start. So our old generators no longer work. So now we kind of need these generators that kind of cross like twist two strands together and then put them back where they started. Right, so we have these slightly more complicated generators. And if you're, and it's, these are a little annoying to write in terms of the generators for the braid group, especially when you have a great group of lots and lots of strands. Again, as I said there are relations. They're very messy. They're kind of a pain to work through although I promise if you wanted you could sit down and could kind of take some strings and could play with this and you would see that. Oh yeah I believe that this is true. Although I would be, I would not be able to tell you that these are the only relations that would be too hard for me. So it's not a not an easy problem to show. Okay. Um, so that's the pure braid group. So then let's talk a little bit about a new type of object configuration. Right. Again, I'm going to talk about two types of configuration spaces. So I'm going to talk about an ordered and unordered configuration space. I'm going to denote the order configuration space on end points of a space X as comp sub n of X. And I'm going to denote the unordered configuration space on end points of X is the same but with a bar over top. Okay. Again, there are actually a lot of different conventions and I don't think this is the most common, but it's the one that I use. And these named very differently. All right, so let's start with the ordered configuration space and let's talk about what the definition for this is. So, if I have the order configuration space on end points of a space X, what I'm doing is I'm taking X to the end okay so I'm taking tuples of points and X, but I don't want my tuples to repeat the same value ever. Okay. So, if the, if I have two things in my tuple they can't be the same so let me write a brief example. Let's see. Yes, here we go. For example, one to minus one is in the configuration space on and on three points of our. Okay. But one to one would not be in this configuration space. Okay, and again it's because I now I'm repeating one of my coordinates. And topologically I'm going to give this a subspace of topology so I really am I'm taking us X to the end, and I'm taking the subspace where I'm excluding these. You can you can refer to this as the kind of the heavy diagonals what you're excluding or maybe the fat diagonal. I just like to call the heavy diagonal. So that's what the definition is, and I'm going to refer to a whole tuple as a point in configuration space, and each of the little pieces of that tuple I'll refer to as a particle. Right so particles are points in my original space, but I need several of them to come up with a point in my configuration space so these are the words I'm going to use just to try and keep it clear what I'm referring to. Okay, so a point in configuration space is going to be made up of particles. All right. So let's think about visualizing this. So one way of visualizing this if I wanted to think about the configuration space on two points of, for example, the bill line is I can literally take our two. Right, I'm and I want to look at the subspace where X one and X two are not equal. Right so I'm just taking our two and I'm cutting out this diagonal. Right. And so then if I wanted to represent a point in the configuration space I can just plot it kind of in a way that we're used to. But this quickly becomes not very feasible right if I want to look at four points in our. I don't know about you I can't visualize four dimensional space. So that doesn't really work very well. So when we're working with kind of more dimensions. Another way of doing this is instead of take looking at our squared, I'm just going to like draw my real life, and I'm going to label each particle in there. Okay, so I'm going to mark where the particle, the particle one is, I'm going to mark where particle two is and I'm going to distinguish between those. And if I wanted to represent multiple points, I would just need to make sure that I have that I'm labeling them all very clear. Okay, so this method works a little better for things with more high dimensions. I'm going to use both of these for some examples in this presentation but I'll try to be clear which one I'm using when. Okay. Alright, so two different ways that I can think about my configuration space. Then let's talk about the unordered configuration space of endpoints. Okay. So the unordered configuration space of endpoints. It's a quotient space. So I take my order configuration space and I quotient by the action of the symmetric group. And realistically what that means is that if I have x one. I'm going to say a little more expensive. Let's have, let's have one to minus one. Right, this is in comp three of our pay. And another point in comp three of our I could have one minus one two. Right, and these are different points. Okay. Under the action of the symmetric group, they are going to be the same so they're going to be equivalent. In my unordered configuration space. So I'm quite literally what I'm doing is I'm forgetting the order of my points. Right. So we could also write this. I think some people use this as a convention for writing unordered points, I could write the point as, for example, minus one, one, two, using brackets. Okay, so on order configuration space I'm quotient team by the action of the symmetric group I'm going to forget the order of all of my particles. Ooh, I think I said order points a few times there that was bad I should have said we forget the order of our particle. Okay. So, um, let's look at a couple examples right of maybe the interval that's a nice very tidy space that is easy for me to think about. Right, so if I want to look at the order configuration space on two points of the interval. And then I'm just looking at two poles in the interval where the two coordinates are not the same right so this is very similar to the example we did with the real line. So here I'm using kind of that first method of visualization where I'm looking at I, I square. Okay, and so I have the unit square where I'm excluding the diagonal. For the unordered configuration space, I'm now identifying the points x, y and yx. Okay, so that's actually going to be identifying points across this diagonal, and it's going to be equivalent to taking just one of the two triangles we have before. So, just to be clear, order configuration space we have kind of these two connected components, unordered configuration space we now only have one of them, because we've forgotten a bunch of our points we've, we said that they're going to be equivalent. Okay, let's look at a little more fun visualization so what if I want to think about three dimensions about the biggest that my brain can do. So if I look at the order configuration on three points of the interval. Now I'm thinking about the unit cube, but I'm removing three planes right I want to remove the planes x equals y, y equals z, and x equals z. Okay, so my, my configuration space is is again it's this cube with these planes cut through it. And if I want to think about like what that kind of looks like I can actually pull it apart and there's going to be six different connecting components here. Okay, so, so this is the order configuration space on three points of the interval. And it turns out that if I want to think about unordered configuration space on three points. Again, when I take that equivalence relation, I'm going to end up with only one of my connected components. And this is a very cute thing about when you're looking at configurations of the interval. When you quotient by your symmetric group you end up with just one of your connected components. Okay, so here I've arbitrarily chosen one to shade it. Right. Okay. Okay, I did not choose one to shade in I made someone else make this picture for me I cannot make pictures that's good. So my partner on me made these for me and I'm very, very grateful to them. I believe they did it using blender if anyone is curious about how to make very nice 3D images. Okay. All right. Um, so we talked about this configuration space these break groups. And, you know, I kind of get that like break groups have a bunch of strands configuration spaces have a bunch of particles but like it's not really immediately obvious why we talked about these two things at the same time. And it turns out that the pure brain group is the fundamental group of the ordered configuration space of the plane. And the brain group is a fundamental group of the unordered configuration space of the plane. Okay, if you're familiar with the term fundamental group here you might be kind of trying to roll that through your head right now. You don't know what the word fundamental group means that's actually okay. Very imprecisely, please don't nitpick me on this definition. What this means is that if I have a loop in my configurations order configuration space of the plane that corresponds to a braid in the pure brain group. And if I can continuously to form one loop into the other, then the braids represented are the same. Okay, so loops in configuration space of the plane correspond to brains. And when it's the, the order configuration space corresponds to the pure break group, the unordered configuration space corresponds to break. All right, this is all just words. So let's look at an example. So we're going to think about a loop in just to, to, here we're going to do configurations based on four points of R2. Okay, so here I'm again I can't visualize four dimensional space. So now what I'm doing is I'm taking slices of the plane. Right and I'm putting time is zero at the top and time is one at the bottom and I'm just taking four slices here. I've got these, these order these points in my order configuration space so I can see I've labeled four particles as black, red, blue and green. I realize actually that's not very color vision friendly so I'm later I will connect them. But just so you know that there are four labeled points there. Okay. So the loop in this configuration spaces right is it's, I have these particles they're moving around at no point to two particles occupy the same space. Right, so let's go ahead and kind of fill in what this loop looks like. Okay, and here what I'm doing is I'm kind of drawing in the path that each particle takes. I'm going to be observer I'm going I'm kind of observing from this. I'm observing along the x t plane. And when two strands cross over each other. What that means is that two particles have the same x value at the same time, but they can't have the same y value right because two particles can't be the same and so whichever y value is smaller so whichever particle is closer to me. So I'm going to denote that as crossing over the other particle. Okay, so I'm trying to, I am the observer, I'm looking at the x t plane, and I'm looking at this loop and how these particles move and I'm kind of, you know, tracing the lines that they follow, and labeling these crossings like so. And now that I've done that. Um, this is starting to look an awful lot like a braid. Right, so if I if I really take that I'm going to take out the kind of the planes and everything that that extra stuff. This on the left, this is a break right this is a pure braid on four strands. And you know if if the way that I drew it out earlier is like nicer for you, you can think about it in this way. Right, because this is encoding the information of a break right it tells me that my fourth particle goes over my third, and my second goes over my first and so on. Okay, so this is. This is kind of a visualization of how a loop and configuration space really does correspond to a braid. And so the reason that order configuration space corresponds with pure grade group is that if I think about a loop for this to be a loop and not just a path I want to end at the same point I start with. And in order configuration space that means that each particle needs to end where they started out. Okay, so that corresponds to this idea of the pure grade group. So when I'm thinking about unordered configuration space. Now this point is the same as this point, even though my particles are permuting themselves. Okay, so in order unordered configuration space I can commute my particles along that loop. And that allows me to get braids that are actually in the braid group, not just the pure grade group. Okay, so I can see here right if I do the same thing with a different loop but now in unordered configuration space I can end up with a braid in the break group, not just the okay. Okay, so that's kind of the big thing I want you to cross was just like here's the thing called braid. Here's this thing called a configuration space and here's this really cool way they're related. And it turns out that it's it's configuration spaces of if you look at our or if you look at like our cubed or higher dimensions they don't really have very nice braiding. But if you look at particles on the real line they can't really cross over each other if you look at a loop right they can't ever pass by. And if you think about particles moving in 3D space, any braids you can actually just unwind so there's actually not interesting braiding at least in the context of loops in in higher dimensional space. It's really cool that like the configuration spaces of this plane corresponds to this completely other very combinatorial very algebraic thing. So one application just because it's it's fun to describe it's like what whenever someone's like what math video and I'm like oh I do this it's like really cool and they're like okay but like what it was it for. Thankfully, I've come up with a very succinct answer to give them that is usually very satisfying. So say, I, I work for Amazon, I'm a capitalist, and I've replaced all my workers with robots. And I want to. I have these tracks on the floor that I want my robots to take. And I don't want them to bump into each other right so maybe maybe I've got like a station here, no station here and station here and a station here station here station here. There's various tracks that go between my stations. Okay, I'm drawing a graph right now by the way. Right so maybe I've got some some different paths that my robots can take different station to station, and maybe I've got like three, three robots, so let's call this robot one. And I've got robot to, and I've got robot three, and I want them to make their deliveries along these paths and I want them to move stuff between stations. But it would be really bad if two robots bumped into each other. Right, that would. I just have these tracks so if my robots limited to each other that's quite bad. And so if you want to think about all of the different paths that you can have your robots take really what you're looking at is the configuration space of this graph. And it doesn't have to be a graph. Okay, so if I if I didn't have a graph if I just had a bunch of robots moving around in free space. That would be fine too. Right so again my configuration space would be telling me all of. All of the different places that I can have my robots in. And then, when I look at the, the fundamental group of this of this graph for example it tells me all of the different. There are some loops I didn't have robots take. Okay. This also means that like lots of applications here. Another thing is you could, you could have maybe drones that are doing some things that I wouldn't support. And so I don't actually do any of these applications. But this is a nice like, you know when you when you tell your aunt this, she understands what you're saying. So that's really all I wanted to say for today so just again wrap up, we looked at the break group, which were these strands where the strands don't have to end up in the same place they started. We looked at the pure grade group where strands do. And we looked at an ordered and unordered configuration spaces right so these subspaces of x to the n, where no particles can occupy the same space. So that's about how loop in the configuration space of the plane corresponds to a brain diagram. And I just like to acknowledge that my master's was funded and supported by the Marjorie Brown Scholars Program, which is a master's program, a fully funded master's program at University of Michigan for students who tend to come from underrepresented or underrepresented backgrounds. If you're interested in hearing more about that program. Feel free to let me feel free to contact me about it. I'm happy to talk about it. It's a really great opportunity for people who often don't get the chance to go to grad school math. And I'd like to thank my advisor Jenny Wilson, who was tremendously supportive and honestly the best advisor I could ever, ever dream of. Thank you all for sitting here and listening and learning a little bit with me. Thank you very much, at least go ahead and thank you for a round of applause. Does anybody have any any questions. I realize one of my character flaws is that I speak too fast for someone to interrupt me during my presentation so now is a great time to ask a question. I was kind of wondering about something a while back. You had the sort of cube right the planes in it. And when you when you took the quotient, like miraculously somehow you just kind of get one connected component out of that. Is this is just like something that always happens when you do this from unordered ordered or can you end up with like multiple components sometimes. So I know that this is true for the interval in the real line. I'm not sure whether it's necessarily true for other spaces I haven't thought about that which I really should. The other thing that's interesting is that if you're on the end configuration space you have a number of connected components you have corresponds to the number of elements in SN, right so there are six permutations of three numbers and we have six connected components. And if you think about like points moving along an interval, like I have a particles moving along an interval. What each connected component corresponds to is this idea like if I have particle one particle to particle three on a line. They can't cross over particle to right they can slide back and forth, but if they, they can't bump into each other, like they can't cross over continuously. Because the point where they're at the same spot is not actually included my configuration space. So the reason there's like a different content neck component for every element of SN is because they quite literally represent okay, this is the order of my particles on the interval, and here's how they're allowed to, to move. So I don't actually know for other spaces. There's some really cool work that like there's some really cool pictures of configuration spaces of graphs. There's a really great senior thesis by an undergrad that I read that I highly recommend if you're interested in learning about configuration spaces I can find it and send it to anyone interested. So I imagine that the student looks at a bunch of configuration spaces of graphs and I imagine that would be a good way to test like weather. I think I think they draw the order configuration spaces but I imagine you could try to draw the unordered configuration space yourself, and then look and see whether it matches up. Although actually now that I think about it in these graphs. There was just one connect in these configuration spaces of graphs there was just one connected component. Actually definitively then I can say that this this connected component to unordered configuration space kind of correspondence does not always hold. Sorry, I think I interrupted someone also. Oh, I was just saying that if the original space was disconnected surely you would not have only one connected component in the final unordered right it's like the original space started disconnected. Yeah, I would I would believe that that would be rude if you, if you did end up, or should really just sit down and work out some more configuration pieces because they're so fun. Do you happen to know if people look at these things. So it seems like the plane is kind of the most interesting sort of thing but like if you just compactify to a sphere or something or like go on like a, like a flat surface or something. Are these kinds kind of things are. I believe so. I have not but I'm pretty sure that's something that people do. I think my advisor looks at configuration spaces of just manifold in general and kind of what you can say about that. But I think configurations on sphere also. Again they have lots of real world applications right so they're, they're very fruitful things to study. I'd like a small comment just in answer to that question as well like the one thing I don't know much about configuration spaces at all but like I know one super cool example that I've come across is when you want to study a double pendulum the like and you want to you can parameterize this by like two numbers like how much the first thing for taking how much second one is so like the configuration space of the tourists is like the configuration space of the double pendulum and I think it's true that like the bits where the numbers are the same correspond to equilibria. So like there's this fun link between like Morse theory and like homology and stuff and like mechanical bodies and systems. That is so cool. It's so cool. I wish I knew more about it I don't I just know it's a cool story. Like, yeah, me too. I'm so glad I came today so I could hear about that because I, I put a big list of things that configuration spaces and grade groups are related to but I don't actually know how they're related in all of these cases only some of them, where's my big list. I claim that this is just a small subsection of the things that you can apply this to. Does my work did my work ever run into braids on surfaces. Um, no, my, I've mostly been just kind of. So when I did my thesis I was looking at braids more in a combinatorial group theory sense. I've been thinking about, I thought a little bit about like order ability of break groups that kind of thing. So I actually have not thought about braids on surfaces but that's something I would love to learn more about. I'm kind of curious on that side. There's this. Is it like this L space conjecture about like left order ability of fundamental groups or something is this just similar or do you know. I don't know that. I do not know of that, but okay. Yeah, if you send me a longer message I might be able to look up whether that is, is actually. Yeah. Not on my head. Anybody have any other questions. Thank you all so much for having me into exact for organizing. Yeah, thank you. Nice. I think I know it's one more time. And I guess I will stop the recording here.


Hi everyone! I thought today we could do a Cooke Dama together which is a very relaxing thing to do and also it's a very interesting way to display our plants around the house. So I hope that you enjoy this video and let's get to it! To begin we will add our bonsai potting mix to our bowl, our house plant potting mix and our orchid moss and mix. We'll be adding the water little by little just so our mix can start blending together but remember this is little by little and you will start feeling that the materials start to stick together. I'm gonna add more water here and continue to mix until you see that the water drips a little bit like so. Then we will take our fern out of the pot just like so and free the roots from the soil with our fingers. We want to be very gentle here so we don't damage the roots so much and we will do this until most of the roots are uncovered. Next we will start to make a bowl with our mix around the roots just like so be careful with the leaves and we will continue to add our mix around the roots until we get a bowl that is 2 centimeters thicker in diameter than all of the roots together just like so and now that we have our bowl ready we will start using our sheet of moss so what we need to do is to use this one to cover the bowl and protect it and to keep it all together we will use our string so with our string we will start at the top of the root bowl and work our way down so maybe I'm going to start right here and I'll hold it and then I'll go diagonally just let me just here so you go diagonally always holding the moss and then maybe cross over being careful with the leaves cross over your string so it gets it's whole is held there by the other string and we just keep going so another one like this and I like to go over the two strings again just to make sure that it is actually holding there now we're just gonna go around and around again just here maybe I'm gonna do one more so it holds in place here and to finish we can just make a knot with the same string just so we know that it's going to stay in its place so I like to go around like this then just pull really tightly and there we have it now of course to finish up we want to put a string around so we can hang it and then we just need to tie it to the twine here so we're gonna do it like so very tightly and I like to make two knots just in case we go around and we tie again there we have it which plant are you thinking about using for your coque dama I would love to know so make sure to comment below and as always I will see you in the next one okay ciao


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Kirling is back at the sea port. Lanes opened in November, right near one of the holiday market entrances on 85 Northern Avenue. People of all ages can reserve playtime online or walk up to try the sport, and that's exactly what many families did on Black Friday. We discovered this nice market and it has a nice area of Kirling, so we decided to get in line and click with the kids. That's my son over there trying Kirling for the first time and we're having a blast. According to the World Kirling Federation, the professional sport involves two teams pushing stones on ice and using brushes to influence where they land on a target for up to 10 rounds. Kirling made its Olympic debut in 1924 and it was given official medal status by the 1998 games, and that's how most people came to know the sport. I started on the Olympics and thought it was like kind of a funky sport that I'd never seen before. And I was like, like, hey, I wonder if there's anywhere I can try this out. Paul Wilhelm Elrinofsky is one of the founders of the North End Kirling Club. The group hosts learn to curl events at the Seaport every Saturday to teach other curious Bostonians. He says the purpose of learn to curl is to improve local accessibility to the sport. Because a lot of the clubs in the area are within driving distance, but we want to create something that was accessible for the citizens of Boston where they may not have a car, you know, who's T accessible right here in the city. If you're looking to get involved in all of the curling fun that's happening here, you have until February every day to come in and try it out. Here at the Boston Seaport or Snow Port, I'm Stephanie Joseph for BUTV.


have one of those days where you just feel jumpy for apparently no reason? Where you just seem to be on edge all the time? Yep, that's me today. And I haven't had too much coffee at least not yet. So I always chalked it up to a symptom of my anxiety. Whether that's accurate or not, it does happen periodically where I just seem to be jumpy for no reason. I don't know. It is Sunday morning, March 3rd, I think. Did you catch that glimpse of the beautiful sun coming in the window up here upstairs? I have no idea what time it is because, you know, it's me. Look at the sun over here. Oops. Just a shaft of sunlight. It's wonderful. Anyway, squirrel. I'm getting ready to do the intervals of sanity live broadcast this morning. Oh, my computer says it's 8 a.m. Green Room opens at 8 30. I have typing and posting to do before then and I probably should have some more coffee because I'm not really that awake. So that's a thing. I'll be back. Good morning. It's Monday morning. It's March 4th. Don't get all excited. I've been up since about 6.15 this morning and I've already been on the computer for a few hours. Doing daily postings, updating the website, sharing the links for the blog page and the design team blog, basically sharing their videos. Not that that always helps me know what day it is, but yeah, I do this morning. And sitting at the computer first thing this morning is probably not something I should have done, but it is what I'm trying to make my new Monday morning routine. That being said, I was doing a lot of sewing and projects over the weekend basically hunched over a desk of some sort most of the weekend and my old neck injury has been bothering me. So I did some physical therapy on it yesterday, which helped. It's not quite back yet today. I'm sure sitting for a couple hours this morning at the desk didn't help, but you know what are you going to do? So I am headed out to go run some errands now. It's 9.19 a.m. So we're going to make McCann's our first stop because I have some Etsy orders and things to drop off in the mail in one flat rate box to send out. I think they open at 9. And then we're going to head over to Fred Meyer because I need groceries, but I also need a hodgepodge of miscellaneous things too. And rather than making a bunch of different errands to different places, I can just go to Fred Meyer and they probably will have something that'll work and I'm good with that. All right, Bob is home and so is Rebecca from their weekend in California celebrating my mother-in-law's birthday. Again, everybody tell Betty happy birthday. She was 90 years old this weekend and that is a fabulous accomplishment. And what else? That's all I can think of right now. Yeah, I don't know. That's it right now. I mean, you know, I've had two cups of coffee, but I feel like I need like a bunch more. Maybe I just need some activity because I've been sitting at the desk a lot for like three days. So maybe walking around and getting steps in even if it's only at the grocery store will help. Let's hope. All right, I'll be back. Not that that's any big surprise. I've already been up and down the stairs a few times today, getting my daily postings written and stuff like that. Now I'm going to edit the vlog for tomorrow, last week's vlog. I spent more time than I thought it would take trying to get the clips to airdrop from my phone, which we're filming on right now to my desktop. Some days they just don't want to talk nice to each other. I don't know what else to say. Anyway, I finally got it done and was able to go get a take a shower. Obviously my hair is wet. And while I'm also doing that, I'm going to see if a few of the paintings I've done recently are small enough to sit on the scanner so I can scan them and maybe create some printables for you all. I'm supposed to be catching up on my videos for Pauline Agnew's class that ended last week. And I'm two days into five days of being behind. And I'm going to go with Pauline's voice being so soothing because it's not that she's a boring teacher. Her voice is just so soothing that I'm starting to fall asleep while watching the videos. That's probably not a good thing. So I'm going to go out and get some steps in. There is something sort of I want to investigate in the woods if I can do it without going too far in because I don't know what's living in there. So I'm going to do that first. I'll be right back. I'm white and blue back there. I'm thinking it's just garbage. Somebody spun over the fence, which is too bad. I'm not tramping through this to investigate further and we'll pick it up though. I don't really see any safe way to get over there right now. There's really not any safe way for me to get over there, at least not by myself, and I don't know what it is over there. So we're going to let it go for the moment. I am still adjusting to organ life and the fact that the move has been difficult because not everybody was as supportive as I'd hoped. That's all I'm going to say about that. It's been difficult and yeah, but I'm working my way through it and doing art helps, going for walks helps. I know it's for some little chilly outside. It's I don't know exactly 42, something like that. It's all right. I like the cold. My asthma likes the cold. So anyway, I'm going to take pictures of where I can and just enjoy my little walk around the neighborhood, get some exercise in and I'll be back. Good morning. It is Wednesday morning, March 6th, I think. I should know this because I am in the office obviously near the computer. I do believe it's the sixth. Hopefully I got that right. It is Wednesday definitely. I am just getting my day going. I've already done all my daily postings and checked on the Etsy store, already walked to the mailbox with some orders that had to go out and I've had breakfast. I'm trying to avoid having a third cup of coffee because it's probably really not good for me, but I kind of would like more coffee. Yeah, so that's a thing. I need to start laundry. Well, continue work on laundry. I also need to work on this behind me. There's a blank page back here, which I need to watch the last of Pauline's lessons for her class and then do my homework. So that's kind of my focus today so that I can clean off the table and do some art journaling, which I also want to do. I did set up my mini inspiration boards this morning. I had bits and pieces floating around. I wanted to put over there. When we moved into the room, I always envisioned a place for mini inspiration boards and I knew I wanted them on mini clipboards. Anyway, I got it set up. I'm going to show you my Kia wall pocket thing. I think I'm a jig and I have my business receipts and calendars and stuff up here and miscellaneous like these are labels for the stencils. Anyway, the bottom two pockets are my mini inspiration boards and when I have pictures that I want to create something by, I'm inspired by maybe just the colors in it. I'm going to put them on a clip, print them and put them on a clipboard and then attach other bits and pieces like paints to watches. I think this one, yeah, there's a little lace doily on it. If you've been following me on social media, you recognize this picture in the background and a quote underneath here that I thought might go. This is the background image is a print of some bird feathers and paints. Anyway, these and I'll be adding to them, creating from them using the actual bits and pieces sometimes in a piece of artwork or on a journal page and then replacing that, cleaning it off and replacing what's there. It'll be a very fluid kind of thing. I'm very happy to have that here. I need to work on my to do list on my other clipboard and do that homework. So let's get to it, shall we? Hi guys. So it's snowing again. Let's see, hold on. There you go. I don't think it's quite cold enough for it all to stick. But yeah, the next like three days we're expecting a sprinkling of snow. This is not true snowing. This is a sprinkling. Anyway, I spent the morning working on another painting based on the lessons from Pauline Agnew's class. And I got that done, turned out really well. I'll insert a picture here. I also did an acrylic pour on a board.  If you aren't aware, we had a dog Bandit who passed away in November. We miss him. Anyway, I did an acrylic pour in Bandit colors as I'm calling it. I added a little blue because he was a boy dog. I'll put a picture here of the pour, turned out really great. The only problem with how it turned out is I don't want to cover it up with anything. But we're going to add his paw print and we'll add a picture of him after it dries. It's going to take a few days to dry. So I'm going to get that done and right now I'm going to go check the mail and then go make some lunch and have a cup of tea. So I'll be back. Hey guys, if you follow me on social media, you already know I got some new watercolors in today. I needed a few tubes if there's some things I was out of these three in particular. But I didn't really want to drive all the way over to the art supply store to get them. So I just ordered them online. That being said, whether I had gone to the store in person or ordered online, I always kind of feel like I need to justify the trip all the way over there or justify ordering something by at least ordering enough to get free shipping. So I got these smaller tubes of Daniel Smith. I was out of Rose of Ultramarine and I was out of Crocodon Gold. I got the smaller tubes because my pans are currently full. That being said, these are two colors I run out of all the time. So I wanted to have some backup and I have one pan that could use a little bit of a fill up. I was completely out of Grumbacher Academy watercolors in the turquoise, which is a favorite color of mine. I don't think it's light fast at all. It may be a little bit. I don't even know. And I don't have my reading glasses on, so I can't even tell you what the tube says. But yeah, maybe you can read that. I can't. Or you can look it up. Anyway, it's a good color. I love it. That being said, they also had a special for whole mine watercolors, which aren't always like my super favorite, but they do have some opaque watercolors. They don't call them gouache. They do call them watercolor, but they're opaque colors. And I thought that might be nice to add to my repertoire of stuff. I have been using some of my acrylic paints with watercolors, and I'm going to be using some acrylic gouache with my watercolor. I'm interested in using some more opaque watercolors with some projects. And so I got, and I also wanted to do like a spring palette. Aren't these pretty? So I got a lavender. It's W316. And I got the shell pink, which is W226, which are both opaque colors. And then I got leaf green, which is a semi opaque. That's what it says in their chart. And then I got turquoise blue, which is transparent. I think that's the way that went. And that's the way it seems to be on the color chart. The four real pretty colors, and I'm happy I got them. And they came with, because I ordered four of them, I got this free tin. Let's see if I can find it. Isn't it cute? It's like the cutest tin. And you would think like the outside is in a plane inside, but you'd be wrong. So it's going to be great for stirring some watercolor tubes or something in. So there you have it. All right, I'll be back. Good morning, everybody. So we're going to start off the day. Well, I've already started the day. You can hear the dishwasher in the background. And I've already had my two cups of coffee. But we're going to start getting the rest of our day going by pulling a new positive affirmation card. Actually, two of them, because I have one sitting behind the kitchen window. So we'll pull one for here. Trusting, that's a good one. And upstairs in the art room, I have flowing. Let's pull one from the window. Noble. So it is Thursday, March, March 7th, I think. I'm pretty sure it's the 7th because we have a lunch date on the 9th, which is Saturday. So that's a bit better. I at least am not in my pajamas and my hair looks, if I'll be wet, but at least it doesn't look like a big old hot mess. Putting it on my galosh is not because it's super wet outside or anything, but they're just easy to get on. And I'm going to go take the sympathy card to the mailbox so it goes out today. And then we'll figure out what we're going to do from there, because I honestly have no idea. So cool. I thought I heard something when I was getting ready this morning, because our bathroom window faces the woods, but I couldn't figure out what it was. Pretty sure now I know it was Bambi eating the corn, which is fine with me. That's what it's there for. All right, I'll be back. They're still there. Can you see them? They kind of blend in. I have a feeling they're waiting for me to go back inside. So I'm going to do that so they can have their lunch. I'll be back. Guess who you can see out the upstairs? Our studio window. Bambi and his family. Hang on. This is the window by the sewing table. And they're just chilling. I'm pretty sure either they're waiting to see if I come back out, or one of them may be over at the deer corn bowl trying to get some food, which I'm okay with. So very cool. So I unloaded the car when I got back. And as you saw, the deer are still here. I came out the front door once I was unloaded, and I'd close the garage door. I thought I'd just walk down really quick to check the mail. Sometimes it comes early. Of course, it's not their interesting thing though. The deer were coming walking out of the woods, and they did not seem to be the least bit afraid of me at all. Yep, hold on. See that? Oops, there it is. He's standing in my driveway. Pretty cool. Looks like we have another little... He's just sitting there. He's probably one of the many creatures eating the deer corn. That would be my guess. He looks pretty fat and happy to me. Good morning. It's Friday morning, March 8th, 9.45 a.m. I only know that because I'm sitting on the sofa in front of the iPad. And yeah, I'm puppy sitting. She's not happy with me when I try to get up, but I do have stuff to do. She does this whenever she gets left here, because not only does she love her people, but I think she's worried I'm gonna leave like mommy did when mommy left her here, so it's a thing. My roots are getting really white. Oh, yay, yay. Anyway, so we just have a quiet day. I don't have anything pressing I need to do. There's a couple things I would like to do, so I'm gonna work on them, but no errands or chores or anything specifically. The kids are coming over later for dinner. I think we're having pizza, um, and then that's about it for today, so I don't know right now, but I'll be back. Bambi's here. Oh my gosh. Hold on.  Right outside my front window. I'm really fascinated. It's eating my bushes. This is why I got Dear Corn. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Oh, it's not morning anymore. It's 12 12. It's Saturday, March 9th. Yep. Oh, I got it right. Oh my god. Um, we, we were at the mall looking for jeans and stuff for Fred, which we didn't find, by the way. We found a bunch of things that we didn't really need, of course, because you know, we're at the mall. It's easier to just get him to order online. We did find that my other pair of expensive fancy sunglasses, it's a good thing I found these a couple weeks ago because I went to pull them out of my bag to put them on today.  I don't know what happened. They live in my handbag. I've got no idea, but yeah, so this is why I don't buy expensive fancy sunglasses. So not anymore. No, I haven't. That was the one and only pair I bought in years, so we're gonna go run a couple other errands and I'll probably be picking up some other sunglasses at Fred Meyer. We're gonna stop over at World Market first and we'll be back. I need a footstool for the living room. I had one. We moved it with us. It got bent and mangled on the way up and then Polly is sat on it and broke it. So I'm looking for a new footstool. Anyway, yeah, so that's one of the things we're stopping at World Market for. We'll see if they have one I like. All right, so it is late in the evening. It is still Saturday, 10, 16 p.m. I just got done with my daily drawings a few minutes ago and my husband's been watching movies for a couple hours. We spent the rest of the afternoon hunting at bits and pieces of paper for our tax income tax return, which has to be filed soon. Those of you in the U.S. know what I mean. April 15th is a deadline, right? So we had, as all of you know who watched my channel, I moved to this last year and we sold our California house. So that meant we had to find our old closing statements from 1992. I didn't think we had them anymore, but guess what I found them. I'm, but I'm glad that's over with Holy Cow. Anyway, we got more paperwork cleaning up to do, but I think we're ready to send things into the accountant guy and have him do the tax return for us because yeah, that's going to be a thing. Anyway, I'm glad that's done it over with tomorrow. We're going to work on a couple small projects here around the house before husband goes back to work. And you know, a few DIY things I wanted to do. There's one outlet plate I wanted to change. I wanted to add a shelf in the upper part of the pantry closet, things like that. So I'm going to give him a hand and hopefully head to the store hardware store tomorrow so we can get that done. But that's it. It's been a kind of a quiet Saturday. We had fun walking around the mall. I am on the hunt for a footstool because as I said earlier, our other one broke everywhere we went looking for one today. I was SOL. It just wasn't happening. Wow, got a chill there by spine. So yeah, so I'm on the hunt for a footstool. That's a thing. We've got still furniture for the other bedroom to buy. I just need to nail the husband down so we can actually go shopping and go find something that's not outrageous, but you know, it's a process. Anyway, it's been a fun week. I'll put as usual any relevant links in the description below. If you guys have any questions, comments or concerns, please leave them here on the video. You can of course private message me or follow me on social media and get me that way. All of my information on how to contact me, follow me on social media, support the free content here on YouTube is in my link tree or in the description of the video, including the link tree links in the description of the video. My PayPal tip jar, my Amazon store, my Etsy store where to buy my book, all of that stuff. So there's a lot of ways and there's lots of places to follow me like Instagram and Twitter. I post things daily, usually art that I'm doing just life stuff, funny quotes I find on Facebook. So yeah, pick one of those and follow me. I welcome you and that's it I think for right now. I've got projects to do coming up. I've got some artwork that I need to mat and get packaged so that I can put it in the Etsy store for sale. I do have original art for sale along with t-shirts and stickers, stamp stencils. This is one of the new ones.  And we have short sleeve and long sleeve and some of them coming not just in the white t-shirt but gray. Also the logo is on some sites like red bubble or society six on some other merchandise. So there you have it. And again, all those links are in my link tree. That's it for right now.  That's like my top priority thing to buy for the house right now because I use it when I'm drawing downstairs to prop my feet up on because my hello I'm short my feet don't reach the floor. Ask my friends over at intervals of sanity. They've seen me in real life. I am really short. Anyway, so I need a footstool. Anyway, that's it for right now. I hope you all have had a great week. I do have a I do have some people in my life who have had losses recently. And I want to not I'm not naming anybody in particular, but I will send them my condolences. They know who they are. My husband has a co worker I've stated before, whose son passed away. So we send them our condolences. And I know someone else who is going through a tough medical time with her husband. And it's not good. I'm not going to say more than that. So please don't ask. But I will ask you to all send your love and prayers and well wishes to all of those involved condolences. Send out some good energy. They could all use it. And if you know anybody else is going through a tough time, let's send them some too. That's it for right now. I hope you all have a great day and have a great week. And don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. All right, that's it right now. See you later. Bye guys.


I'm Marcia Joyner and today we are going to talk about how you shape the future of Hawaii and the United States. So are you counting? So today we are going to talk to Annie Mae Sokou, who is the partner, I think it's partnership director of the Census 2020 in Hawaii. Annie Mae, welcome Aloha. Thank you so much for having me again on your show and thank you so much for being one of our committed partners in the field, helping us join us in this journey as we prepare our community to be counted this coming 2020. So thank you again. Well thank you. Tell us about the history of the census and what it does and why it's important. So we can go all the way back to 1790 was it? Yes we've been doing the census for more than 230 years for 230 years and so this is really one of the oldest activities that this country has been doing for the purpose of reapportionment so making sure that we have the right representation in the House of Representatives redistricting as well and also the census decides or guides the distribution of federal funds that comes into our community. Funds that support different services for children, our kikis, our kupunas, you know community centers, our roads, transportation, healthcare, section 8 housing, SNAP are really a lot of federally funded programs that we all benefit from. Now you mentioned the numbers in Congress so I have told everybody we have to be counted because we have enough people for another congressional district especially when our congressperson from CD2 is absent. Anyway that's a different story. However, we do want everybody to be counted. You sent me a great article and these are congressional seats that changed because of the census in 2010. The Bureau announced the US population had grown to 308,745,538 million people and an increase of about 9.7 percent. States gaining one or more seats in Congress, Arizona, Florida plus two, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas plus four, Utah and Washington. The state's losing one or more seats in Congress, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York two, Ohio two, Pennsylvania. So we can't afford to lose but we can gain. We do have enough population if everybody signs up. That is newborns, everybody, grandpa, everybody has to sign up. So tell us what we do to get signed up. Okay so from what we're hearing, again we've been doing this for a long time but this is the first time that you will have an opportunity to respond online. So we've been hearing first that our community knows that the census is coming but they're really not aware that they can do it online now. So for less than 10 minutes of your time depending on how many of you in your household you can just go on your laptop, on your iPad, in your phone to respond online. So it's a website that you just go to and that will start beginning March 12, 2020. So we have the timeline. So we always say April 1 is a census day but every household in America will start getting their mail around March 12 to 2020 and you will get an invitation in the mail to respond online and later that's the sample, the sample of the letter that you will get online and you have a census ID so you'll get on the mail. The sample letter you will get on the mail and that is an invitation for you to go online and count everyone in your household. So that's beginning March 12, 2020 so watch out for it on your mail and immediately just do it. However if you're not able to do it during that time, March 16 to 24, the US Census Bureau is going to send you a reminder letter again to respond to the census. However, if you're still not able to do it during that time, March 26 to April 3 is a reminder postcard. So that's your third reminder and then during that time we will assume that your household may not have access to computer or internet and which is a reality for a lot of our community. So you will still get your paper questionnaire on your fourth reminder. So I just want to make sure that everyone still knows that you do have the option online, you still have your paper questionnaire option and you can still make the phone call. So on your fourth reminder on April 8 to 16, your reminder letter will come with a paper questionnaire, okay? So don't be like, oh I'm not, I can already feel, I know we've been hearing this from our partners and when we talk to the community, it's like, how about us? We don't have access to computer or we're not really online, you know, we don't really like going online or not text savvy, we still have the paper questionnaire and you will still get your paper questionnaire. Now if you still did not respond, yes Ms. Marsha? No, I was going to say about the library, can they go to the library to use the computer? Yes, you have an amazing partnership with a state library, there are amazing partners so you can go to your libraries and you know access the computer there because they have those resources so that you can respond online. Just bring your census ID and your letter, it just makes it easier, you know, if you have that census ID, you can still sign up, you can still register but having that census ID will, it's much easier for you and for the census bureau as well and then around April 20 to 27 is a final reminder letter and then after that you really have a month and a half almost to respond to the census, self-respond, be proactive, you can do it at your own leisure and then after that we do the non-response follow-up in which on May we will be knocking on doors to those households who did not respond. So honestly, it's so much easier to just go online or do your paper questionnaire, whatever works for you during that time frame so you don't, you know, you don't get a knock on your door and you can do it at your own leisure. Well, you know, two-thirds of the state of Hawaii is ruled and so many of them do not have internet connection so do you, what's the deal with getting all of those people? It's fine for us that think because we've got internet we kind of think everybody in the world does but, you know, some places on the Big Island for instance, they do not have internet connection, places like Hana, some of them do, some don't. So there's, that is a real issue, expecting people and then know some people right here close to me that have internet but they know how to, they don't know how to do it because they said, well, they're old and they don't know what to do and whatnot. So those, there are a lot of people that don't know what to do. How do we deal with that? What are we doing? Are there people to help? Do you have people that can actually help them through the process? Thank you so much for your question Ms. Marcia and because, you know, it really highlights a lot of challenges in the community such as lack of access, you know, as you mentioned to internet or to computer or any kind of device that, you know, they can do this online and we're very much aware of that and so for the rural areas, depending on, we have this system actually where you can look at type of enumeration area. So depending on where you are, especially for rural areas, you have a different enumeration. So for you, it will be an update leave. What is an update leave? An update leave is you will get your paper questionnaire immediately. You're not going to go through, you're going to get five reminders. Well, you will get your paper questionnaire immediately because we know that that area already has lack of maybe internet or computer access. So you will immediately get your paper questionnaire and just directly send it to the mail. So that will be what we call the update leave and then we actually are implementing and this is really huge because it's really one way of bridging those gaps in the communities and how can you really reach out to those people who might have a hard time responding one way or another, whether it's technology, language barrier or whatnot. So we want to help our community alleviate that problem. So well, this is a big ask that we would like to, you know, ask organizations out there who could help us help us identify areas in your community, the who and the where. Because we have this program called Mobile Questionnaire Assistance and we will send our staff there. We will send with the technology that they need to help that community get counted so they can go there and, you know, they can be enumerated in this Mobile Questionnaire Assistance events. We call it MQA. So right now we're actually gonna, I'm actually gonna go to training later for that and we will get, we'll give more information but right now let's start thinking about where are those areas that we need help so you can contact us, the Census Bureau, your city, Complete Count Committee and ask for, you know, help if you haven't met any of us yet but for those who are already our partners, you know, please reach out and let us know like this area might need help. So we're going to those low response areas where we know there are challenges and we are ready for seeing them but at the same time later on when all of these go live and we will have a live update of which Census tracts are responding or not or slow to respond so we're going to go there and try to help them and we're also working with our partners in making this happen so it's not just us but our community partners, community leaders who are there in the field who knows their community well and who are communicating with us with, you know, what they need. So please let us know if there's any way that we can help your community, we can send people there with their devices and we can get them, get them counted. Well now when we're talking about getting everyone counted so let's let's look at that if, well of course newborns you want you want the baby to be counted absolutely because that person's going to grow so they need to be included then what we have people in the military we have students away at college and we have family in the lock up at OCCC or wherever so tell us about those people how they are counted so for example you mentioned newborn babies thank you so much for mentioning the newborns because zero to five years old kids are usually not counted by their family for one way or another in one way or another maybe they're too young and they forget that they already but you know there's many ways that families forget or maybe the family the child lives with parents you know there's so many ways that the kids are not counted and so we're really pushing this count your kids um in this coming census they will be counted with the family and sleep most of the time okay so just add the the cakey there when you're doing your your questionnaire now for the college students now college students will be counted where they are going to school so where the university is so if you have a kid who's attending university in Nevada or California they will be counted there and at the same time for those mainland kids who are coming to school here in Hawaii they will be counted here so depending on where they live if they live in dormitories where we will be counting them in what we call the enumeration group quarters they will be counted in their dormitories where they live and if they live around you know the university we will also be counting them are in their rented home or space wherever they will be so they will be counted here if they're studying here and then for those who are for example in a correctional facility or in a group home they will be counted the same thing group quarters so we will send an enumerator there we will be working with them with their point of contact and they will be enumerated or in a group quarter set up same with the military it depends we are actually working as well with our military to make sure that we get a complete count because the military personnel and their families will be counted if they are assigned for example they are assigned here they will be counted here in the state of Hawaii so we are working very closely and actually we're meeting next week with you know our point of contacts in different installations as well to brief them about the coming 2020 census so the same thing if they live in a barracks they will be counted in a group quarter setting if they if the family lives on base you will still have the same opportunity as everyone else to respond online on paper and on the phone and the same thing with the military who are living you know off base you you will be counted just like everyone else you will get your your letter to self-response if you are in a self-response enumeration area so yes we encourage everyone if you get the letter to self-response to please do and if you get your paper questionnaire immediately then just fill it out and send it on the mail well now if um let's say you you have a student from china that's more for their term here at the university how is that person counted so our visitors as us um they're here for yeah they're gonna be in your home let's say for nine months how are they counted recent um six months and one day actually so so that so that's counted in your household counted in your household yes that's actually one of the questions i was so glad i was in the workshop because i'm like what is that and they like six months and one day okay so that means so far visitor so that's if you're a visitor and you you're counted in the household where you are physically residing is that correct um is you know for six months and one day um you will be counted you will count your mom there um or however who's visiting whoever's visiting you so what about uh foster children there in your household foster children living in your house will be counted in your household okay household whoever so is living in whoever even if you blood relative they will be counted in your household so um actually we would like to make this appeal like um even if renters are you know someone is renting one of your rooms to please count them as well they're not gonna that's the address you're sharing the same address right so um we encourage everyone to go so like some of those monster houses that have you know who knows how many people so all of them are counted in that resident or do they one of those if they're if they're renting a room would they be counted on their own would they get a letter to to um if that's their address they're renting a room but that is their address would they get a letter also that is only one address so what I mean one letter one census ID for that household so even if someone is you have a monster monster home you have a big house and you know you're you're um renting one or two rooms please count those renters in your household as well who are living with you um because they won't get you're sharing the same address right so they're not gonna get um another letter so we encourage everyone even if you're you know blood uh relative if it's if this person is living in your household to please count them yeah okay I was trying to hope we are not leaving anybody out because like I am hell bent on we have to have everybody counted because we need a cd3 we need another congressional district and I think that so in the long run we are talking about shaping the future that is shaping the future another congressional seat so um more than anything now uh good bye let's see because you know I am I'm not sure that I understand how this works everything is private however if I go back to 1900 I can pull up the census and find that John Doe was living here and he had a wife and there were four children in the house how does that work that it's private and yet it's open to the public so the information is released after only yes the confidentiality of your information so we would like to remind everyone that the census is important it is safe your private information is protected by law under under title 13 um we don't uh share any of your personal information and so your information is safe it is only released after 72 or 73 years I'm not 72 years I believe please correct me if I'm wrong I'm thinking 72 I'm getting confused now but um it's only released after that length of time so if you think about it like a lifespan of a person um average um and then that's really where what you know some of our partners are sharing with us they're using to trace their ancestry um to learn more you know their grandparents or their great great grandparents to learn more about the history of their family so um that is also one of the ways that the census is being utilized but that is after a period of time a very long period of time of 72 years oh okay 72 years all right okay so like you know it's right like that's how um some people are connecting the census and I'm like oh yeah that's that's very and it's very important for a lot of us who would like to know more or maybe we didn't know about our family or our great great grandparents so it's it's good to know their journey as well yes no that's lots of so I'm glad you told us how long that the span is before it's released yes so that nobody's feeling that and and especially here where you have so many immigrants and people that come from countries where they wouldn't dare tell the government their business you know those people have to be made comfortable because so many of them especially in Chinatown where you have seven different Asian cultures in that little area and they have to be comfortable because some of them definitely don't want their government to know all of their business so now the questions the kinds of questions asked other than your name address your date of birth what other questions are asked so we also ask um so your name your phone number so we can follow up with you if there um any you know we want to follow up on anything that we probably missed out on or you forgot to include so your name um your phone number of course the address your raise and I think they ask I'm trying to grab my my copy here um so you can put your raise as well uh it's really however you identify so you can check if you'll feel like um you're if you're a um mix multiple races so please do um share that as well so you can check and you can write that down as well yeah and then um so there are nine questions I'm trying to remember them off the top of my head right now but the what else we ask gender or sex so male female at the moment that those are the options and then we're also asking um the what do you call that I'm trying to remember right now I'm sorry but there are nine questions is that do they ask um income whether you're working or any of those kind of places um we don't ask your social security number we don't in this big census we don't ask your income we don't ask your bank account information credit information um definitely if something like that comes up that is not the decennial census we do have other surveys that ask that um but we only do it in sample but not everyone for this decennial census we don't ask those questions so we're not gonna ask for your financial information just that's one thing too about fraud yeah um to prevent fraud what are the things that we're not asking the household um this coming 2020 since we're not gonna ask for money or donations and you will not be contacted in behalf of any political party so those are no no's for this coming decennial census so just to avoid any um scams or fraud um at home so and then if you have any questions you can call<PHONE_NUMBER> um or your any contact any of your local representative um to ask or inquire if if you are not if you're unsure about this person um asking uh about these questions so so the person that that comes they'll have identification that says who they are and what yes they will have a valid id um and then with their photograph they will have a department of commerce watermarks and exploration date um and i think i believe our director will have a letter as well and then i actually have a sample copy here i wish i shared it with um with you guys as well but maybe next time but here are the questions that we will be asking like just go back so how many number of people live in your household and then um if there are children in your household those kind um if it's an apartment a house or a mobile home and your telephone number and then um so yeah we ask the sex the age of of the person and then um you know your your race as well and then you can put that in the box check the appropriate box that um works out for you or that you know you identify with and yeah those are just um some of the basic questions in the form well now when we look at this overall how do you know how much hawaii has been getting from the fed since uh the 2010 as they this is the population of 2010 but that's been 10 years have we increased in population and pre-relation and or does the census have a mechanism by which they count uh every five years or to account for people uh dying moving whatever you and as community changes uh how do you keep track of those things so or do you so right now in terms of population according to this the state data center there they have like they have the state data center is actually a really good resource for this um state specific um statistics because they produce different reports that describes our demographics or economic situation as a state and even household situations but um right now we're on track uh estimated we are um growing in terms of money that comes into our community there's a good study george washington university counting for dollar study it really depends because it changes every year again um of how much money we we get from the federal funding um so around the last time it was over three billion dollars but that's big that study but it really changes so every count everyone counts everyone matters so that we can get our appropriate care for our i've just got out of time so can you give us the telephone number and the census uh web but one more time because we're out of time so your telephone number and the website thank you so you may contact me at eight zero eight eight nine two five one four one if you have any questions um regarding uh the census or if you want to host events uh to support your community to learn more about the census please check 2020census.gov slash jobs and we're also still recruiting so if you would like to serve your community please apply as well um on our website but there's so many resources there thank you so much well thank you and we'll see you next time


Mehrolli, the first city of Delhi, first inhabited thousands of years back. Many dynasties have ruled here and it has still nestled amidst history. A part of it has blended in well with modern of stars of indulgence but Mehrolli, according to writer and historian Swapna Lidl, has always been multicultural. This is St. John's Church in Mehrolli. Though more than 90 years old, it is a relative newcomer to this neighbourhood which contains the ancient temple of Jogh Maya dedicated to the sister of Lord Krishna and to the 13th century Dargah of the Sufi saint Kutubudin Bakhtiar Kaki. The architecture of the church reflects the multiculturalism of its setting with its very Mughal arches and its temple-like spire. The people of Mehrolli have lived together for centuries despite their different faiths. The evidence of this diversity can be seen in the unexpected corners of this historic neighbourhood. You can start this walk with some quiet time at the St. John's Church. A short walk down through the little lanes that have a charm similar yet different to Old Delhi is Kutubudin Bakhtiar Kaki's Dargah. It is only befitting that a meal of urad dal, gosht, korma and fried chicken be consumed at the Pehelwan Dhaba or any of the nearby ones along the walk out from the Dargah. It is a diet that fuels the remains of the day well. As you wind through more of the subtle character of this place, not far away is the Yogh Maya Mandir. Observe the details and spend some time in the midst of harmony that has sustained through the change of rulers across centuries here. And oh yes, the better known Kutub Minar is not far away.