Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is a Commission's weekly online event where we cover any library topics that may be of interest to librarians, Nebraska librarians across the state. We do these sessions every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time Live. They last about an hour, give or take, depending on what we have to talk about. We have a whole mixture of things, presentations, interviews, little, many training sessions, whatever we can come up with if anything may be of interest to you guys. We bring in guest speakers sometimes. And sometimes we have our own commission staff, which is what we have today. This is next to me today is Michael Sowers, who is the Technology Innovation Librarian here at the Library Commission. And he does a monthly show, bit episode. Bit, well, bit works, episode works too. He does Encompass Live once a month. He does his tech talk, where he talks about anything interesting that's come up in the past month. Interesting, useful about technology. Get a little geekier. Yeah, a little geekier for the geeky people out there. But we do, you know, you don't have to be geeky to listen to him. I can make it. And you can be geeky and listen to her. I can translate for him. Well, in the other episodes. Some other episodes are technology related, but... This is true. Yes, this is true. Some of our other regular sessions are just whatever the topic happens to be, but we always have a monthly one. So that's your kind of thing that you're interested in, that you do at your library. You know, check in once a month. Michael will be here always doing this. So I will... All right. And I will pick it up from there. And what you're doing today. Okay. Regular listeners will know that typically I try to bring in guest speakers for my sessions. People to interview. We've had Tim Spalding from Library Thing. We've had Bobby Newman from Chattanooga, right? Yes. We've had people from all over talking about different topics, iPads and Google laptops and all sorts of other things. Those interviews have been going so well, usually at the end of each one of those episodes, I try to spend, you know, plan on 15 minutes of news and updates and things. And the problem is that those have gone so well, I usually end up with five minutes. I run out of time to kind of cover the news and things. So what I'm kind of doing this month is not having an interview, mainly because a lot of the people I would have asked were at ALA. This is true. And they're just coming back yesterday today. But I just had lots of odds and ends and a lot of news has happened. So things that I think we ought to talk about, cover and just deal with some of the issues that have been kind of outstanding. So as usual, I have a whole bunch of bookmarks. And you will see the URL up there. We will link to it with the recording, all of those other things. You don't need to write down all of these individual URLs. We'll just go from there. In fact, these are the copies of the bookmarks in my delicious account. We will be transferring them over to the commission's delicious account. So they'll actually be available in two places once the recording is up probably tomorrow. So what is the first big topic that I want to talk about today? Unfortunately, if you know me at all, if you've been listening to me for the last two years, the one topic that keeps coming up over and over again is passwords. Passwords, yes.  No, having to change passwords. Yes, well, guess what? Pick a new one because somebody had to go and break into something. Probably going to make you change your password again. But through the things that I watched and the people I listened to, I might have a better way for you to create a really strong password without too much trouble remembering it. So first, yes. Okay, so first we're going to talk about why I'm having this conversation yet again. And then we'll talk about what kind of the new methodology for creating passwords is. So the first one is this wonderful website called should I change my password.com? I don't know how many of you in the audience have been paying attention to security news over the last month or so, but a whole bunch of websites in the last couple of months have been compromised, starting with Sony being the big one, the Sony PlayStation Network, and a whole bunch of other websites that... At this point, it doesn't matter because if you think that you didn't have an account on one of these sites, chances are you might actually have done what you have. And you just didn't realize that it was linked to that? Yeah, or I think I signed up with the PlayStation Network when I got my PS2 like 10 years ago. And I've never used it and I've completely forgotten about it. Oh, we can try. Okay, so anyways, what this site does is it actually got all the databases, copies of all the databases that everybody that got released, and will tell you whether or not your email address was included in any one of these databases that was hacked. So what I did was I kind of came here a couple of weeks ago, and I put in my email address and I said, check it. Now, bulk check will allow you to put in multiple email addresses. And here we go. My email username and password have been compromised at least one time. Most recent recorded occurrence was December 12, 2010. So in other words, my password, my username, or this email address, along with the matching password, was in at least one of those databases that has been compromised. Okay, do we want to try your email address for Krista? We'll try. Do you want to do this for the benefit of the recording or no? We'll try it later. You can try my Gmail on Krista. That burns a Gmail. Okay, that burns a Gmail. I can't talk in time at the same time. Oh, no, you're good. Now, it looks like your passwords may be safe. There was not in any of the breaches that it knows about. Okay, so, you know, this isn't 100%, but you're generally safe from these recent incidents. I'm not. Yeah, interesting. Now, those... Now, your travel and line-baring to info email is older than my Gmail address. May that have a... Maybe, I mean, if... Well, not necessarily. I only got this email like a couple of years ago. But if you had used that email address in any of the compromised sites within the last couple of years. So, anyways, you know, this is just... If you get the red flag, you really want to start changing your passwords. Yeah. Now, if... If people have listened to me before about passwords, I've given several strategies. And one of those strategies is kind of create kind of this master password using a phrase and do some character replacements and all these other things. And then what I've done, and actually do continue to do, is then tweak that password for each and every individual site. So, for example, I have a base password and then say, for example, add AZ on the end for Amazon and might add DE on the end for Delicious or for Yahoo add YH on the end. So, I don't use the same password across multiple sites. That's already good. The problem is, is I use... I potentially use that strategy in the site that was compromised. So, if you can look at that and kind of figure out what I had done, you might be able to guess my other passwords on other sites. Because I have a pattern. Now, patterns are not necessarily bad, but I need to pick a new pattern now because my pattern has been exposed. So, this forced me to start reconsidering passwords.  That would be obnoxious and time-consuming at best. But I have changed like banking password, Amazon, Google, kind of the major sites where maybe the most damage could be done if somebody figured out my password. You might have some really, really sensitive information behind that password. And in fact, banking password doesn't even use my same strategy. I have a different strategy for that one because it's super sensitive. So, now let's get into the kind of new strategy for creating a password. And the general strategy still theoretically applies. Such as think of a phrase, pick the first letter from each of those phrases, and then maybe start substituting numbers for letters, symbols for things like this. Now, this is where, though, things get a little more complicated. So, bear with me just a little bit. For example, and Chris, I'll have you look at this, let's say that my password is that. Would you consider that a good password? Yes. Good. Good answer. Because it's got uppercase, lowercase, no real words, special characters. But it's impossible to remember. Right. So, it's bad because it's a randomly generated. You can do this. So, basically, a good password will include letters, uppercase and lowercase, numbers and symbols. Which this one does. We've got some uppercase, we've got some numbers, we've got some symbols in there. And longer is better. So, on my whole Wi-Fi network, this is great. I had a 64 character completely random password. That's insane. Which, when I first created it, it was super secure, completely unmemorable, but I did have it written down in a secure location, and if somebody brought in their laptop, I'd plug in my flash drive, and I would copy and paste the Wi-Fi password into their computer, and off you go. That's really not necessary, right? You just did that for fun. It was a little extreme. I kind of did it to prove a point, but it follows all the rules completely random. A lot of what's called entropy. In other words, there's a lot of randomness in it. And that's what you want to do to fight these people. Right, and that's what you want to do for a super secure password in general. Now, the problem came like trying to type that into iPods. And typing it into little tablet machines where I can't plug in a flash drive and do copy and paste. And that got to be kind of painful. I did it, and a couple of times I had to type it in more than once, because I got a character wrong somewhere in the middle of the 64. But somebody I mentioned before, Steve Gibson from GRC Corporation, or Gibson Research Corporation is very big in security. He does a podcast called Security Now. Really put in a lot of thought to this. And basically what he said was, is that password that I just typed in there, and in fact, I will make our lives a little easier here, and I forgot to do this before. We'll kind of make it a little bigger. What he said was, maybe something like this, let me see, let me come up with something and see if you think this is more or less secure. So I'm going to do it N, an L, and a C. Okay, now that's a lowercase L there, by the way. And then I'm going to say something like, you know, L, I didn't plan this out good enough here. So NLC and we're going to say something like pound exclamation point there, and then 10 periods. Okay. How good is that password? Good password, bad password. What do you think? 10 periods? I have no idea. There's no numbers in it. Oh, okay. Yeah, sorry. And then because I did 10 periods, I got the number 10. Okay. How's that? What do you think? I can't imagine anyone would guess that. Compare the two passwords on the screen. Which one do you think is better? I don't know. Okay, well, here's the fun part. Without actually counting. The second password is actually just as good, almost as good as the first one. Because of the 10 periods. Well, here's the key. Because you are using capital and lower case. You're doing all the rules. And symbols and numbers. But the previous thought was is that you want that entropy. You want that randomness. Well, you can put in 10 of the exact same thing as long as it's long and is using kind of all four categories. It's almost just as good. Okay. So for example, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to chop this one down just a little bit here. And I'm going to take this one. I'm going to copy that. And I'm going to put it into another side of link two called password haystacks. And this is from GRC. And I'm going to paste that in. It's going to do a little test here. And this said that it is 18 characters long. I've got seven uppercase, seven lowercase, two digits and two symbols. So I've got four green lights across the top there. And basically we're looking at worst case scenario. It might take one point two hundred or one point two eight trillion centuries to crack this. It's that sort of thing. I found out that this long does crack that. But how memorable is that? Not very. Okay. So let's take this one. And so I've kind of created NLC and a couple of symbols, ten periods and then the number ten at the end because I had ten periods. Okay. So a little more memorable. Okay. I'm going to paste that in. Again, I've done all four categories there. This one's 17 characters long instead of 18. And worst case scenario it might take 13.44 billion centuries. Instead of a trillion it might take a couple billion. Okay. Okay. The point being is not necessarily randomness. Randomness is not as important as we thought it was in passwords. It's in the same length with the ability to have things in all four of those categories. Because think about how you ever watch a movie where they're cracking a password. They're breaking into something and they get the first letter or number and then they get the next one and then they get the third one. It doesn't work that way. This is completely Hollywood. You type in the password it's either character is wrong. It's not that game mastermind. It colored pegs and you had to guess the pattern that the person created. But at each step the person would tell you if you had right color wrong position or wrong color. Computer passwords don't work that way. So the idea is that you can create a memorable password that is as complex as it needs to be theoretically unbreakable. So what I've done is I've created I took my old pattern made a new pattern with more symbols and numbers stuck in and then I've padded the end of it with a bunch of extra stuff like for example in this case the padding would be my 10 periods. I could take those 10 periods and maybe do something like N1C and then something like that. It's memorable. It uses uppercase. It loses number case. It uses a digit and it uses symbols. But it's something that I could probably remember. And worst case scenario you're looking at 1.49 million centuries to break this. I feel safe. Yeah, you're feeling a little better. So if you've got bad passwords I would say change your passwords. I would definitely go into this should I change my password and if you get a red result start changing passwords. And then come up with a new method make sure you use all four categories uppercase, lowercase, digits and symbols. And then what padded on the end make it longer and making it longer doesn't have to be unmemorable. Make it memorable like that. Make it memorable I mean just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 1.6500 centuries. So random is not necessarily important as length and using the four types. That's really what it boils down to. Any questions coming in on this? No? Okay. Now if you want there is an episode of Security Now which is a weekly podcast hosted by Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson and look up the episode it's from about a month ago called Password Haystacks. And he explains this over about 45 minutes and he actually gets into the math and yeah we know exactly. Actually this web page also continues on way down here and explains what all this is and gives a much more detail. Yeah if you really care. It's interesting. I am not a math by any stretch of the imagination but I understood what he's saying here. So that's math major I was not. No. Took me two years to get through trigonometry and I've forgotten all of it since. This is just algebra. Oops I'm hitting the wrong buttons. Okay so that really is my bit about passwords. I promise I will try to not talk about passwords as much in the future but things happen and I want you all to know about it. Be aware. So back to my list and some of this is really really random but let's kind of stick with the security related things for a few more minutes before we go any further. And this first one here I've heard me talk about this before and that is logging into websites using SSL or the HTTPS as opposed to HTTP. The big time I really started bringing this up was when that Firesheet program came out and was allowing people to log into your Facebook account on your behalf. You can now set up Google so that it always logs in as a secure connection and what you do is instead of going to google.com you go to HTTPS colon slash slash encrypted.google.com So you kind of set that up as say maybe your home page in your browser or something like that and when you actually go there you will see that you have this little lock in the Google logo. You will also have an HTTPS connection and then now if you're on like open Wi-Fi for example you cannot sniff on what you're searching for Google and to which if you know you're kind of more concerned about patron privacy maybe making this the Google bookmark that you give your patrons on public machines as opposed to that and that way you know things are not logged it's encrypted you can't know what they're searching that sort of thing if you don't need the information and want to have the information so that is now available to you from here you can always go to the classic Google which is the open unencrypted plain connection so just an article about that something you might want to consider and also talks about the benefits of doing this in a little more detail than I just talked about myself and then I had one other security issue here and that is a little plugin called Ghostery Now this one gets a little more complicated and what I want to do real quick is I'm going to install this in Firefox and in Firefox it's a plugin also available for Safari and Chrome and Internet Explorer so all the major browsers do have this available and I maybe should have done this in advance but I didn't so we're all going to see an actual real life example of installing a Firefox plugin because I think what it's going to do is make me restart my browser to do this I'm going to go ahead and install that now I'm going to try to as my browser crashes please do not crash on me there we go okay restart now give me just a second here just in case this doesn't come back up I am going to now restart my browser now we get back to my bookmarks this is the pause that refreshes as we refresh the browser and drink some more coffee and wait for Firefox to load there we go so let's go back to my bookmarks here now one of the things I need to do is I need to make a ghostary show up so I'm going to customize this and give me now a little ummm where is it not cool oh boy welcome to live demonstration now downloading add-on install now restart Firefox if it doesn't work this time we're moving on what ghostary does is it's a little plugin that keeps track of what's tracking you online okay so for example just cookies google analytics ummm things that track advertising is what's coming up there are hundreds upon hundreds of these things going on behind the scenes and what ghostary is going to do is is going to alert you whenever you go to a website and here we go this is what I'm supposed to see when we start it up there so I'm going to get started and ummm the first thing I can do is turn on the ability to report back to the ghostary system it's not allowing so we're going to go ahead and do that okay and then do I want to be alerted whenever I find something so yes let's do that ummm and then do you want it's library of tracking things to be auto updated yes please let's do that and then do I want to enable the ability to block certain tracking things so by default it just notifies you of things but what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn on blocking here and by default I can say block 550 something different things or I can turn them on on a case by case basis I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to block everything okay because I really want to protect my privacy here and it says okay you're done thank you very much and the other thing I'm going to do is I'm going to customize my toolbar here so that I get my little ghosts to show up there's my ghost alright so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to reload let's say my delicious page here and what should happen is it tells me that I'm not being tracked at all nothing happened with my little ghost instead let's go to MSN.com now I'm not picking on MSN it was just the first thing that popped into my head and right there there's something popped up and notice that list is getting longer okay and so now this website is tracking me via DoubleClick, Microsoft Analytics Microsoft Atlas, Net Ratings, Site Senses I can bring this back up here and WallStreetOnDemand and so you know what of analytics it's blocking everything by default because I told it to well I can say well you know don't block Microsoft Analytics let's let that through okay let me just give you another example I'm not just picking a Microsoft here okay and what Google right off the top didn't have anything but if I was to go to Google Reader which I believe does use it okay there's two of them they're using the Google Analytics and the Google Website Optimizer now a lot of websites including my own uses Google Analytics to kind of yeah exactly and so now you see lots of libraries actually discussing that about how they're using it the institution that the library is in is actually using that as their main way of tracking how their website is being used are people using this page and why are they so I've installed this on my own browsers but I've unblocked Google Analytics because you know I don't necessarily mind that people know what browser I'm using and how I'm getting through their website but I have blocks say double click because that's advertising and I really don't want them tracking me that way so it's here it's available some of the people I've talked to have played around with this is they just turned it on not blocked but like let me know what's going on here just to try to get an idea of what's going on behind the scenes and it'll really give you an idea of for those of us who don't think it's a big deal yeah I've heard the stories read that you're tracking whatever look at all those things that just came up I'm going to MSN which you would probably think is just oh it's just a site it's a major well known site but all those things are on it it may scare you depending on your point of view it may be like oh well of course those things are there it depends it's going to be your own personal choice on what you're comfortable with do you want to block do you want to not block Google Analytics and that wasn't the Microsoft Microsoft Analytics those are things that people use to make their websites better that's the information so the kind of thing that you wouldn't have to worry I would say to be you know for me personally as a good deed I'll leave that open so that I can help them make websites better so the internet's not so crappy anymore but certain things like stuff that's for advertising yeah I'm like you don't get to use me and you might be surprised some sites use you would think a site like Disney would do a lot of tracking they actually don't do much double click and Omniture which are both advertising that's come up so far but that's about it MSN like half a dozen so you know like Christa said I'm not here to tell you you must go do this although you can maybe make an argument that on public machines maybe you don't want this tracking to happen I don't know it's an argument to be made the counter argument might be though that letting the tracking happen on public machines is really interesting because the tracking assumes there's one person on the computer and imagine what sort of randomness will come out of a public machine in a day it's gonna not be very helpful for these people really you start messing with their numbers so you know there's just different issues to think about and so it's there it's a plugin for users it is something that you can consider so speaking of interesting issues for libraries have you heard about Pottermore yes who hasn't heard about Pottermore right now and I Pottermore is the new website about Harry Potter coming up Jake and Rowling and it's going to be more driven nobody really knows what that means yet they put out a really cool video with characters coming out of books and very animated it was absolutely wonderful and the biggest news out of this however is you will be able to buy official ebooks of the Harry Potter books from Pottermore coming this October big news yes big news not through Amazon, not through Barnes & Noble directly from JK Rowling's website that's the super big news now the back end big news is that these books will be DRM free no digital rights management however I guess from what I understand they will be kind of watermarked so that if you bought your copy and you set your copy free out on the internet and you know it was your copy what got me thinking and so this is just kind of planting a seed in people's brains what does what effect if any does this have on libraries can a library buy a digital copy of Harry Potter from Pottermore to their patrons I don't know what are the terms of service we don't know yet the same issue with Amazon and the Kindles the terms of service sort of said something we're vague they wouldn't give anyone an answer when librarians actually ask can we or can't we so libraries did it anyways to see what happened we need to know what it says in the actual I don't have an answer I don't know this question literally popped into my head this morning as I was kind of preparing for this making my coffee and I saw this direct sales of no DRM and I went wait a minute no DRM how does that affect libraries where does that fall into play I don't know it's something to start thinking about and something to start looking at so I will just kind of throw that out there now DRM kind of copyright okay it's going to lead me into my next topic here and that is 3D printing okay um okay huh? Christa seems a little confused oh that 3D printing well yeah now there's I've got two links on the 3D printing and one of which is a little further down here and it is a video that I'm not going to actually bring up and play but it says here watch Stephen Colbert meet his maker bot double-gangers 3D printing 3D printing is becoming mainstream in that it was even on um uh Stephen Colbert okay and what they did was they had a guy bring out what's called a maker bot I don't know if you've ever seen a maker bot and just think for the benefit let me step back and just describe 3D printing for a second think inkjet printers but for physical three dimensional objects okay you build a machine you get a maker bot for I think 500 bucks I want one so bad I've got some income coming I'm thinking about buying one you buy some basically streams of plastic that you feed into this you download a CAD file from one of many websites that are out there and it will actually melt the plastic or other uh material and then print it in very thin layers so it builds something in three dimensions and so I've seen a video this this what is a 12 year old who printed like a new keychain for his mom because he broke it I mean that was a cool video it's a video called why I love 3D printing you've got to watch it it's hilarious uh that that kid is going to rule the world someday he can make a presentation happen he's like 12 um people are just printing projects okay and at this point I mean just taking it out wait till you can print your own custom sneakers it's not quite there yet but it's gonna happen well no it's not paper it's plastic but there's other materials that are eventually going to work I mean so we're not we're not to 3D printing fabric quite yet but it's getting close and there have been some articles written about you know maybe the library should start offering 3D printing we offer printing this is like Earl Grey hot yes well yeah it's okay it's not quite the um the thing in Star Trek I can't remember the name of it now but it's close okay that's just what popped into my head where this is starting to get interesting is this article here that I found the other day but decided to include today that um there are copyright issues starting to be raised over 3D printing okay this is a particular example where oh and by the way look at how much tracking this website does notice I still got this turned on here yeah um if I scroll on down well the basic story behind this one is that there's this object which appears in the movie Super 8 which I'm about to go see at the moment um and so what somebody did was they watched the movie they went home and in CAD software created this object and then uploaded it to one of these sites called Shapeways which is where you can download models 3D models well Paramount Pictures sent the person who did this a cease and desist letter saying that is an object that we have the rights to we've sold the rights to another company that is going to be selling replicas of this object um and therefore you are not allowed to distribute this right so you know just just kind of think out when I say print your own pair of sneakers well what if somebody uploads a 3D model of those Air Jordans and you can print them in your home you won't need to buy them from you won't need to buy them from Nike you know I want to get into that that if you want to you have to buy our model model as opposed to their model for printing and by the way ours is going to cost more and the knock off isn't going to cost as much and how legal or illegal will things like that be if we think we're having issues over copyright now with words take that into 3D space it's going to get really complicated really fast and many years ago Cory doctor wrote a story called print crime which is about that exact situation about being able to print stuff at home and the cops coming after you for doing so so it's technology and copyright like I said we get geeky here there you go so things to think about alright let's just get completely different here at this point this I found this morning through I believe friend feed I unfortunately forgot to note who posted this link but the New York public library has a new collection of historical restaurant menus New York City really cool and you can search it because they have transcribed all of it into searchable data along with the images they need help this is why I'm mentioning this one over here on the left it says we're describing them disc by disc so they can be searched by what people were eating back in the day it's so big a job we need your help so if you got a little spare time want to help a really cool library project you can actually sign up it starts transcribing it there if you scroll down that takes you through and go ahead and click on that and so you literally can start bringing it up start transcribing zero dishes and counting 31 dishes and counting zero dishes and counting now they have the two transcribed they have the ones that are under review so they will verify you can't just go in and monkey wrench it and start typing weird dishes or that but it will be verified things like that I just think this is a cool project it's crowd sourcing it's historical, it's digital archiving it's metadata it's all sorts of stuff and I just thought if I got some free time this week and I might go take a look I'd like to contribute it's a neat, neat little project what else have we got here I'm jumping around a little bit in my list I'm not going to get to everything it's already quarter of ten Google's image search let's talk about speaking of searching things they've add something different to Google image search and we're going to try this out live here awesome live demos always work so well live demos always work so well I know I have not done this yet so I played it on a completely different computer okay if you go to Google image search and you have this little icon in your search bar this means it's been turned on for you looks like a little camera that's right, thank you for reminding me we also put this out on audio only so if there is an image a little camera icon in your search bar on Google images you have access to this they're kind of rolling it out to everybody eventually so it seems kind of random on a computer which I didn't test before and I should have if you do that there are a couple things you can do you can put in the URL of an image or you can drag and drop an image okay so here's what we're going to try I've gone into my images folder here on my computer and we have this one here of turtles so I'm going to drag and drop the turtles onto that and it's going to upload the image and do a search based on that image that's awesome I mean I'm just thinking about this guy okay so similar images I think it's the same one yeah it's pretty much the same one because I'm pulling off these sample images that came with Windows I didn't pull off your own pictures or something use your own picture let's try the way and I need to go back up to my search box and I'm going to pull this off to the side here and hide us from view for a moment drag that over and drop it and I will now close this because we don't want to spend all day on this one I could spend all day on this now visually similar images I'm using images that come with Windows so you're going to get a lot of repeats but if you have something completely custom I've seen it done with people I uploaded actually an image of me and it found other pictures of me online I could spend way too much time playing this I could be very useful too yes you want to know what lots of people I see post pictures up into Flickr or just your friends a picture of a plant and they say what the heck is this thing growing in my garden that might work think about that people coming into your library with the same thing I've got this thing growing in my garden you've got a picture throw it on the scanner I've got this brush on my arm I don't know what it is I've got this bug bite someone in our group here Margaret says I have plants to ID try it and report back please let us know how well it works this is brand new now you'll notice that it has it's also pulled in the filename of the image so in this case that's how I figured it out well but it did give me my image size I have all my narrow even if there wasn't a name of it it was just like 1234.jpg it would find those visually similar ones and that would help you ID what was in your picture the examples we're giving here include well identified well named files to begin with time allowing you to yank something from flicker and drag and drop but you get the idea so there you go I think that's pretty neat that's a brand new feature this month with Google Images Google will stick with them for a few more minutes has also released what's called a knee on the web tool basically this is just kind of a combination of Google alerts and vanity searching but what you can do and it's a new component of the Google dashboard which I don't believe I'm logged in so let me actually go there and it might actually log in and it's in kind of encouraging people to keep track of how they themselves are presented online so give me a sec here to let me log in and I have to use my new password see if I remembered it Google was one of the first ones I changed from that first thing we showed so Google dashboard if for those of you haven't seen it before is basically a way to find all of the information that Google knows about you especially if you have Google accounts this new area here is me on the web and it's pulling in links and then really what you can do here is set up search alerts for your data and then it talks about how to manage identity, how to remove additional content and about me on the web and it uses the Google alerts to search on your name and the links that it knows about you and all this other information that you provided to Google and then alert you when new information shows up so this is kind of existed in other forms but it's Google trying to say a lot of, enough people are doing this we're going to create a tool that does this a little more than the automated process and the reason I wanted to talk about this one is this week's thing in 23 things for professional development is on your online persona and managing it and one of the assignments is to do a Google search on you to see what comes up this is a way where you can automate that process yep yep, hey tie in it all together alright and then this I'm only going to mention because it pretty much happened I think yesterday and this is Google plus oh yeah this is Google's social network that they are doing it is invite only at the moment I've did this keep me posted and hopefully I'll get in soon but you can kind of get this interactive tour the joke going around is what is it? well it's just like Facebook because you know a lot of people don't like Facebook so I'm just throwing it out there I'm just saying that it's there you probably can't get into it yet anyway but it's something to keep an eye on I see lots of people saying I want in, I want in, I want in I don't think I've seen anyone yet say hey I'm in, I know like you said it was just came out yesterday there are a lot of articles out there of people who have gotten in but I don't know anybody in the library won't get in without it yet yeah that review and they were all at ALA anyways so you know maybe they had invites and we just haven't gotten back to a question yeah it's like oh me you said like there was I could have misinterpreted no just my own comment it's Google trying to compete with Facebook pretty much we'll see what happens I read what the circles and the hangouts and sparks that gave new names to stuff that we've already been doing they made it their own I don't know we'll see Google has a spotty record with social stuff so we'll kind of see what happens yeah they've tried lots of different things and it's great that they tried this thing we do have just a comment from someone on this session here that's a link to some article somewhere where someone said first take Google plus gets features right but offers no reason to leave Facebook that's the title of this that she sent to it talks about the features that are in it well I'll sign up I mean you know establish your presence sure and see what happens I did see one person somewhere in line say can't wait for it I want to get into I can't wait to get off Facebook okay it will only be useful if everybody gets on Facebook well so you just got to see if it comes out that it's something that beats Facebook yep brand new though so we'll see what happens alright speaking of Facebook this is kind of cool Aaron on his walking pipe blog pointed me to this and I'll show it to you but the problem is this is pretty much all in either Portuguese or Spanish I'm not sure which because it's done by the public library network in Medellin I cannot really say that very well but it's called Fantastic Book and I just I think somebody should do this in English it's a pretend social networking site for kids to learn about literary characters so Dracula has a page was the example that he provided here and it does take a bit to load up it's flash based I think so we're loading up here and again I can only go so far because I have enough trouble with English but so you can go in here and so you have Dracula and Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and Alice and Pinocchio let's pull up Tom Sawyer here and that will load up his page and the idea is to kind of use this interface and they talk to each other too see they're leaving messages there a little of Lighting Hood asking Tom Sawyer some questions here and he has some friends including Becky Thatcher and Huckleberry Finn of course and Sid I don't know who Sid is but it's 332 amigos and the idea is to kind of use the Facebook like interface to teach kids about characters and literature and it's fun it was fun looking around in this even though I didn't really understand most of what was being said I was just really impressed and I think creating this in other languages I think would be a really really great idea to play around with and you know done by a library so there you go alright I am running out of time so let me see a few more things to talk about here oh well okay we got a little more time okay a little bit back to copyright but this happened about a month or so ago YouTube now allows for Creative Commons licensing of contents and this is where Firefox come up it doesn't allow a lot of options though it's kind of my response people know me know I'm very big on the Creative Commons I was looking for choose which Creative Commons license I want and it doesn't it offers you traditional copyright or attribution share alike I think it doesn't allow you to narrow down to just non-commercial uses I think it's either Creative Commons has several different licenses to pick from YouTube is allowing for traditional copyright or one particular license oh the CC by 3.0 okay so that would be attribution so you could not prevent commercial use you either have to have full traditional copyright or Creative Commons attribution only I would argue step in the right direction but explain there that YouTube reps told me over the phone earlier today only one will be available but thinking they said is to start simple multiple license classes maybe overwhelmingly complex or casual users flickers been doing it for years yeah wow so it's news it's a start I'm kind of I was happy and then quickly underwhelmed by lack of options I was like awesome let me go make my choice oh there isn't really a choice but like it says it's a step in the right direction I think they'll get a lot of comments like this Flickr has been doing it for years Creative Commons is new to a lot of people but it's not to a lot of casual users it's been around for over a decade at this point I think they'll get a lot of backlash but in a good way just give us all the options we're not dumb right capable of reading and then figuring it out okay okay Christy you want to ramp up by talking about Facebook Facebook had another kerfuffle yeah okay Facebook had a kerfuffle earlier in the month about facial recognition yes okay now what I will do is I will bring up this article and I will give you the general take that I've been reading and then you can talk me off a ledge okay I upload pictures to Facebook and Facebook has turned on facial recognition so that automatically any picture I upload of myself or of my friends they will automatically be tagged so that if I upload a picture of you everybody's going to automatically know that it is you and you know what I don't want that so I need to turn this feature off okay how am I wrong talk me off the ledge because it's one short thing it's not automatic okay all right fair enough it is it suggests who is in this photo that you have uploaded to you as the person uploading it okay you've already tagged pictures that look we can see facial recognition you've already got pictures in your Facebook photos and this person looks like that same person okay would you like to tag it with that person's name correct and you then as the person uploading it have to actively say yes and tag it okay so there is no automatic tagging there's automatic recognition and suggesting to you as the uploader of the picture to tag it okay which you have had to actively tag in the first place anyway so let's say a year ago I was at one of your parties and I took some pictures and I uploaded those pictures and I said in this picture that's Krista now it's today and I upload another photo that has you in it what you're telling me is Facebook will say hey I think that's Krista would you like to tag this person as Krista on the new picture it's not automatic it's providing me with a suggestion okay so what is there to turn off there is a feature in Facebook that they added that you can go into your profile and this video and I'm sure this blog post here explains it where you can prevent anyone your friends whoever from tagging you in pictures I believe is what it is okay so if you turn it off Facebook will not suggest you to me on my photos but I could still manually say that's Krista unless you prevent people from tagging you at all I'm not sure if it has that feature honestly I'm not sure but you can also whenever you are tagged in a photo also you are notified by Facebook saying you've been tagged in this and then you can go there and untag yourself whenever people do that photos I've put up sure that they just they think they don't look good in the picture sometimes I can tell sometimes that's it or sometimes there are certain people are just like no I do not my face associated with me so they untag themselves so anytime something is tagged you will always be told you've been tagged and then when you go to that picture look at it you as the person has been tagged there will be a little thing that says untag me untag so if I turn off and I see there it's a suggest tags if I turn off suggest tags that doesn't mean that suggestions won't be given to me it's that I won't be suggested to other people is that my understanding so if you try to yeah okay yeah wow that's subtle yes that you will still be told that you can tag other people will not be told that they can tag you right okay yes so not necessarily a big monster kerfuffle it's just making it's making image tagging a little easier and when it first was announced made wide open to everyone poster put up by I think it was lifehacker or maybe somewhere else I saw a page and I think it was said the titles of articles were incorrect they actually said and they went back and changed some of these articles once people actually read the info and replied back to the website saying it doesn't do anything automatically why are you trying to scare people the titles of people panicked and said oh my god Facebook is automatically tagging your pictures end of the world privacy is gone and then when people actually read the information from Facebook and realize I'm confused it doesn't say it automatically does anything and then they have to suggest to your friends and then they have to actually do something actively why are you people went back and changed there are still people still are going to say I don't like facial recognition because it's bad in privacy invasion anyways sure okay that's your you can say that you can have that opinion and feel free to go into your Facebook and follow these instructions and turn off anyone's ability turn off the Facebook ability to suggest you to your friends alright once you we've already had this conversation once Krista kind of explained it to me I mean some people accuse me of being a little obnoxious when it comes to privacy issues online I'm not concerned about this one another thing too was some articles came out I know it's not so strange to remember to say the oh my gosh Facebook has snuck up and threw something at us again without telling us how evil of them um no this was first enabled actually last December and it was actually announced to the world last December that they were rolling this out as December 2010 as a test thing and some people were going what is this just I'm sorry I was going to show one more thing before we wrapped up so that was another thing we've seen stuff people saying Facebook evil again suddenly throwing this thing at us without even telling us and enabling it they're horrible no they announced it last December you can find the articles from back then and the announcements then that it was actually being rolled out as a test thing to some people and we're going to see how it goes and then it was just was it last month I don't know yeah it was end of May beginning of June that they then put out a new announcement of we are now now that we've had this test phase from December to now we're now rolling it out to everyone to have and use so lots of misconceptions and panicking without reading the actual info which I think kind of speaks to a lot of things that happen on the internet I would say or in the technology world or in the Facebook world people panic when they first read something and don't look into it fully don't panic about these things read anything like this that comes up that you're concerned about research it find out about it or librarians we do this anyway so for us this is no brainer to research it and really figure out what are they really doing help your patrons by doing that for them and calm them down when they come in and panic and say the evil end of the world has come because of this speaking of the end of the world and the end of productivity boy boy you segued that beautifully you can now play Angry Birds in your browser chrome.angrybirds.com it does actually work in multiple browsers not just Chrome I'm bringing it up right here in Firefox yep here we go so I'm not going to actually play I'm going to close that now I'm sure the recording just picked that up but yes so as the end of all productivity now that one feel free to panic about that one is totally and that's not even in my bookmarks list go find it on your own all right there are I'm not going to be an enabler no well I just kind of was okay there's a few other things in here you might want to take a look at I did I always have more than I could possibly fill in time but I got to the things that were really important and I wanted to make sure everybody heard about during this session so that's that's me that's my all of the links that are listed here even once did not get to talk about today will be in links to from the recording we put that up so even if I couldn't get to you you'll be able to get to them and read up on it yourself does anybody have any final questions comments or anything before we do wrap up we have a new website oh hey you I just go look the new website is up it is live the blog is there new menus new reminders new pictures of libraries off to the side enhanced search functionality a brand new calendar that puts everything in one place instead of two different calendars a lot of work has gone into this and just in case you hadn't heard yet here's your chance go check out the new website nlc.nabrasca.gov it's also a new URL it's also a new URL check it out if you go to the old URL I'm sure you will be sent to the new one but go ahead and do there all these things rearranged by topics of the things we do hopefully more helpful to find things so there you go we do have a comment from someone in the audience saying thanks so much to us it was nice to know a few things I'm not aware of like this should I change my password now's a good chance that if you haven't changed your password change it anyway and you want to bring up encampus live that's encampus we're still learning the new website and compass alright now I'm done thank you everyone for attending this week lots of very good information crammed into there, glad to have it and our encampus live page is still there you can always get to it hope you'll join us next week when we have a session on the best of ALA 2011 ALA is just wrapped up in New Orleans and we have a bunch of librarians people from here in Nebraska who attended I'm sure some of you may have and we're going to have a group of them coming here and sharing their experiences I've got sorry some people I don't have the names up here yet so I'm just getting people confirmed today as people get back today because we're traveling yesterday Amy Mather from Omaha Public Library Jessica Chamberlain who's our Northeast Library System System Administrator Robin Bernstein from Bellevue University Mary Jo Ryan and Rod Wagner from here at the Library Commission so far all those people will be here chatting with us about what they saw at ALA this year so and if you attended please feel free to show up and if you have anything cool you want to share with us we want to hear it as well so come to our encampus live next week for the ALA and find out what people saw and share what you did there if you were there so it doesn't look like anything new has come in while I've been in that bungalow here so thank you very much for attending thank you Michael for all the information and we will see you next week


On Tech on Spectrum OSI 16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to Tech and to Hawaii. I'm Arby Kelly. And I'm Cynthia Sinclair. In our show this time, we'll learn about the trip Aloha Medical Mission recently made to Bangladesh. It was much more than medicine. It was also social services, microloans, infrastructure, and education to help the people there. We all know Aloha Medical Mission. It's a Hawaii non-profit organized years ago, at first to provide medical help to people in the rural Philippines. Then we found it was helping people in Nepal, that it has been providing dental services to local people here in Palama. And most recently we found it has been helping people in Bangladesh too. Craig Thomas is a doctor with Hawaii Emergency Physicians Associates, HEPA, a medical practice group in Hawaii. Craig has been involved with Aloha Medical Mission for some years. He was the leader of the recent trip to Bangladesh and the person who told us how it went. Craig is the host of our much more on medicine show, which plays at 10 a.m. every Wednesday on Think Tech. He spoke about his trip to Bangladesh on a recent episode, so we decided to find out more and get a handle on this interest in Aloha Medical Mission and Bangladesh. And with me today, Tony Meranaka and Carly Creutzfeldt from the Aloha Medical Mission. Thank you. Thanks for coming. So the Aloha Medical Mission, in full disclosure, I've been involved since I think 1991, I've forgotten exactly. And over that time it's evolved substantially. When I started, and it's how I started, we were doing medical missions, sort of what people think of when it's a medical mission. You get together a crew of folks, usually some interventional folks like classic surgeons, ophthalmologists, general surgeons, ER docs, and a whole bunch of support staff.  You sort of assault customs and whatever the country is, you end up and they shake their heads and wave you through. And you go to some place in need of service. You engage the local providers and facility and do a lot of cool stuff, to be honest. And that was the core of Aloha Medical Mission. So I was founded and it's what it's done for years and what it still does. But over the years it's also developed a couple other things and that's really what we're going to focus on today. So one of the challenges as I see it in improving health, especially with a primarily volunteer and donation supported organization, is you have to be able to identify a need that you can obtain resources to address both sort of skill-wise but also funding-wise and match those up. And Hawaii, honestly, has very good healthcare coverage for almost everybody. We are I think the second best state in the nation in that, following Massachusetts. So that's fabulous. Dental care, not so much. And so there's the need. And thanks to HDS and a number of other local donors, there's the resource. And I know that the dental clinic has been a major effort on both your parts. Why don't we start with you, Tony? What you pointed out is very true. Dental care is a stepchild to healthcare. And so there is a huge need. So around 2002 we developed a clinic and we wanted to do so much for the community and one way to do it is to have volunteers. So we have 16 highly skilled professional volunteers that do dentistry. And people wonder, how do you do this for free? It's because, like you mentioned, the wonderful funders, all the individual donors that come in and help us. So there's a lot involved. Not only do we do patient care for dental, we also have educational components. And one of them is called for a smile. We go into the elementary schools, the preschools as well. And we educate them how to take care of their teeth, which is really important. And then also we have a program called Welcome Smile. So that is for women who had been incarcerated or abused. And so we provide them with free restorative dental work. So it's really neat that we're able to give back that way. And I've seen some of the before and after pictures and it's quite stunning the difference. And what you said about good dentition being key to health is definitely true. And in fact there's some evidence that bad dentition is associated not only with, it hurts, hard to eat your food, but even things like heart disease, which is kind of surprising. But the body is a more integrated entity than most of us recognize. And as an ER doc, I am well aware how difficult it is to get somebody hooked up with dental services. So this is a real need. Yeah, but we also have outreach. So one of the outreach works is where Carly comes in. I came here through AmeriCorps. So I'm at, actually, Loha Medical Mission through AmeriCorps VISTA. And VISTA stands for Volunteers in Service to America. And then AmeriCorps is a federally funded national program. So they place VISTAs within local nonprofits all around the US. And the goal is to help build capacity of those clinics or of those organizations and also help them work towards breaking the cycle of poverty. So specifically with Loha Medical Mission, it's helping patients who don't have dental insurance or are underinsured. Along with that, they may not have the funds to be able to afford dental care, but then also. Over the years, it become obvious that medicine wasn't everything and that the people of these areas needed more than just medicine. They needed social services. They needed microcredit. They needed water and housing projects. And more than anything, they needed schools for their kids. So Craig and his friends started other projects, social services, microcredit projects, infrastructure projects, and schools to help the people there. For that purpose, they formed a Bangladeshi corporation called Loha Social Services and they really meant it. For this trip, Craig went in a group of four and brought back lots of pictures and movie clips. Let's look at those and talk with him to find out how things went, what they did there, what they learned in the process, and what it all means for him. There are really three different kinds of projects in Loha Medical Mission. And it started off, my involvement started in 1991. It had been going for a few years before that. Ramon C had set it up. I think Brad came in about the same time I did. And it was a pretty typical medical mission kind of setup.  Because of course, things like appendectomies, you can't schedule. And you'd go somewhere, usually the Philippines in those days, but a number of other places too. And kind of take over a local hospital and do your stuff for a week. And there was a lot of good impact. There's a lot of impact too. Taking over a hospital is not without challenges and harm too. You know, you disrupt a lot of things. So I did that for a few years. I went to some interesting places, Vanuatu, for example, China, and ultimately Bangladesh. And when we got to Bangladesh, similar sort of setup, we actually were traveling by boat sometimes. Some amazing things happened. We took a boat to the middle of nowhere, Bangladesh is mostly water, and had a feast. And in the middle of the table was a large pot. And in the middle of that was a goat's head. And that was the centerpiece of the feast, which was pretty interesting. You eat, of course, with your hands, so that made it more interesting. Yeah, so the great thing about it was people were wonderful. We did some medical good. But it became pretty clear that the health problems were primarily not medical. They were nutrition, access to food, water, clean water, shelter, and the wherewithal to make a living. So the first thing we did was set up a clinic focused on women and children in Old Dhaka, which is a fascinating, crowded, wonderful place. And this enabled us to give nutritional advice and, in fact, supplements, food to kids, and to chart their growth and look for trouble. And we staffed this with local physicians, so it was a year-round operation. This went on for a couple of years. And then 20 years ago, we formed an NGO over there called Oloha Social Services, Bangladesh, because we felt that the scope needed to be larger than just medicine. And about the same time, Old Dhaka got really, really crowded. It was merely really crowded before. And we were offered an opportunity to move to Denajpur, which is in the northwest of the country. It's quite rural, which should not be confused with un-crowded, but it's agricultural. And, as I said, quite rural. And set up our, moved our clinic up there, which was wonderful. And we were able to get a local physician to work year-round. And for the first year or two, we kind of came. Did medicine, mostly cases that were selected in advance. We introduced an operating microscope for cataract extractions, which was the first one in the whole northern part of the country. It was a really big deal. And experienced the same thing. How are we going to feed the kids? How are we going to clothe the kids? So we opened a preschool. It was great. The kids came in, got a little uniform. They got medical evaluation, and they got lunch every day. It was fabulous. They were cute as my. And excited to come. Well, you can't have preschool in there. You can't biff them after preschool. So pretty soon, we had first grade and then second grade. And now we have a number of graduates. So that's how it started. It also became obvious that we needed to be doing something for their parents. And Bangladesh pioneered microcredit. The Grameen Bank was the beginning of that, and about 20 years before we got there. So we didn't invent anything. On the other hand, the Grameen Bank's penetration, although good, is by no means universal. And that's because microcredit is challenging. You can't just give out loans. You actually have to provide business support and mentoring. And it's quite labor-intensive. So in the catchment areas where our clinic served, and ultimately a couple other ones, the NGO set up microcredit programs. And thanks to the really capable people working over there, they also were able to attract other partners, both locally within Bangladesh, Lyons, for example, which is funding intraocular lens implants. They're going to do 600 this year, which is impressive. But also a number in Europe. And this allowed building schools, a little medical mission made it possible to build a hospital. And it's grown. It's been an exciting, fantastic experience. The great thing about going to Bangladesh, it makes you realize how little of what we think is essential matters. And I would say that the people are doing OK in Bangladesh, which now is most people. When we started 20 years ago, it was fewer. But are the people doing OK? And by that, I mean they're eating. And they have a roof over their heads. And hopefully they have some sort of gainful occupation. I think those people are pretty much as happy as people here. I think everyone who's gone experiences gratification. It's highly rewarding to see kids go through. And we've been doing this for 20 years. So kids have graduated. Kids have gone on to college. We have a little scholarship program. And when I say we, there are nine, as I think I mentioned earlier, different NGOs supporting various aspects of this. There are also three Bangladeshi NGOs and a couple of government entities too. So collectively, the whole is much greater than some of the parts. But if you see somebody who's had nothing, who gets an education, gets a job, gets a family, can support them as a house, it's a wonderful thing. And we brought it early on. We brought a couple of kids back to Shriners. And they had their club feet repaired. And this time we met one of these kids. He's now 25 or 26, met his wife, met his eight-month-old child. It's a wonderful thing to see. So it's tremendously gratifying. It was a great trip. Good for Aloha Medical Mission, good for Craig and the others in the group, and good for Hawaii. It demonstrated their continuing generosity and kindness in making these trips and in helping people on the other side of the world. The clinic has turned into a year-round hospital. The microcredit program has attracted 11,000 members and 8,000 microloans with nine funding sources from around the world. Water and housing projects have been built. And the school is way bigger, with lots more kids and grades than before. There are now 600 kids in that school. Some 250 people are now engaged in these projects, including the hospital, the microloans, the water and housing projects, and the school. It has been great for the people in that part of Bangladesh. It's a good deed many times over and over many years. In fact, this is the 20th year of Craig's efforts in Bangladesh. We should all be doing things like this, either in Bangladesh or right here at home. We should be expressing our generosity and kindness in the same way wherever we are and especially for those less fortunate. After all, we're from Hawaii. For us, that's what it's all about. We gotta say, this is all pretty cool. And from Hawaii, an ambitious and daunting challenge successfully executed by intrepid medical and social alterists who have made remarkable progress and enjoyed tremendous personal gratification in the process. We gotta give Craig and Aloha Medical Mission big kudos for what they've done. Wanna know more about what they've done? Check out their website. It includes the most recent annual report of their activities, and you'll see what we mean. And now let's check out our ThinkTech schedule of events going forward. 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Today, in surprisingly connected etymologies, we're marking time. Hopefully enough time has passed that we're finally starting to get the pandemic under control, with a lot of help from vaccines, masks, and other safety measures. But of course, time will tell. Pandemic is formed from the Greek prefix pan, all, and the Greek word demos, people, as a fan in the word democracy, literally people rule. Demos had the original sense of district coming from the Proto-Indo-European root da to divide, which also lies behind the old English tima, time, period, and modern English time, which originally meant a segment of time before broadening to mean time more generally. What's your favorite day of the week? Well, etymologically speaking, perhaps it should be every day. Though the etymology of both words is debated, day from old English dye might ultimately come from Proto-Indo-European degua to burn warm, so in other words literally meaning time when the sun is hot. Since paide and voiced aspirates in general became Latin f. This root might also lie behind Latin fauora, to regard favorably be well-disposed, and fauor goodwill support, which passed through old French to give us English favor, and thus we'd be related to Latin fauora, which means to heat, but also to cherish, from which we also get English foment. Diary and journal on the face of it seem like synonyms that are not etymologically connected. However, they both descend from Latin dyes, day, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dieu to shine, and surprisingly not from the same root as English day. Diary comes from the Latin diarium daily allowance journal, first appearing in English in the 16th century. Journal comes from the Latin form diurnalis, daily, coming into English through old French journal, a day, time, a day's travel or work, in the 14th century, originally referring to a book of daily church services. Similarly, journey was originally a day's travel. A year and an hour are quite different lengths of time, but etymologically they're one and the same. They both come from Proto-Indo-European year, with a somewhat imprecise meaning of season or year. This led to Old English yar, year, as well as Greek horror, originally season or just period of time, but eventually one-twelfth of a day from sunrise to sunset. It wasn't until after the word passed through Latin and old French that it gained the more precise measurement of 60 minutes. Horoscope comes from the same root, meaning literally observer of time. It's getting close to conference season for academics like me, and many of us will be heading off to attend seminars about various topics. And if we're lucky, we might even hear some seminal research. Seminal and seminar come from the Latin word semen, seed, is basically an agricultural metaphor. Seminal work is at the seed stage. To disseminate information is to scatter it like seeds. In seminarium, plant nursery gained figurative educational senses in seminary and seminar. All these words go back to the Proto-Indo-European root se to sow, which through the Germanic branch also gives us the words sow and seed. This root also produced the Latin verb serrera, to sow, and from it the noun satio, a sowing, a planting, which became Old French sezon and English season. As its form changed, so too did its sense, shifting from the act of sowing to the time of sowing, and then broadened to mean time of year in general. The verb to season, as with spices, comes from the notion of a fruit seasoning or ripening and thus becoming more flavorful as it ripens. So wish me luck in my conference going and hope that I'm not too much at risk from that pandemic. Thanks for watching. This is one in a series of occasional short videos about connected etymologies. To see more, you can also follow the endless knot on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.


And welcome back to the channel, welcome back to the vlog. We are on another seven days stretch of Paul. Unfortunately, this time is on the west side, which means I'm going to be covering three hospitals, which is the vein of my existence. Because every time I'm on this Paul, covering all three hospitals, I inevitably be caught in for something. I hope you all can hear this because it's so loud. But anyways, we are about to start right now. It is Monday morning. I think I start out today with a little fist show up. Also, it's beautiful out today, and let's get to work. And as per usual, I was so busy that I didn't really film anything today, and by not really anything today, I mean, I didn't film anything. This thing is so loud. We are all good, no idea where I'm going. Found the little secret elevator in the back. And what I didn't mention is we are officially done today. Just did a mix of like bread and butter style cases today. That's a strain, biopsies, another biopsy. Pretty chill. A few consults in. We're all good. And as per usual, it is a beautiful day because it is springtime now. And hold on a second, let me get to this side. This side feels good. So in summary, not a bad day. It's about 4.30 PM right now, headed home. So you can't beat that. It's only Monday, six more days ago. So let's not get too carried away because even tomorrow's going to be a little bit busier. All right, so you probably can't see me, but it is 2.30 in the morning. Just got caught about an emergent bleed that was an emergency, luckily. So I'm going to go back to sleep now. Okay, it is officially Tuesday morning. As you can see, I woke up at about what, 2.30, 3 AM. As I look at a CTA on a potential bleed. But maybe it was actually bleeding. There wasn't evidence of acute hemorrhage. However, the patient has had this bleed for probably about three days now. It is stone cold and stable. So there's no real reason for us to come in overnight to embolize the bleed of the patient's stable. So what I told them was if the patient becomes unstable, we could come in and do an emergent procedure. But the patient has been stable for so many days now that I have a hard time believing that would happen. So we may just proactively embo it today on a non-emergent basis. But we're just gonna monitor it and we may not need an embo at all. So we'll see. It's actually not at the main hospital I'm at today. It's at one of the ones I'm covering. So when that happens, you have to tell the team because they obviously have to deal with it today if they need to. So anyways, headed in today. Have a few big cases. Reno, Anjo, and a prostate embo. So let's do it. We just finished today's procedure log, which is full of a ton of different stuff.  So we did a ton of different procedures today. Prostate artery embolization to start the day followed by a renal mass embolization, which was phenomenal. We did both of those cases so quickly. They were so easy, money. Then we did a whole bunch of biopsies, the lung nodule biopsies, liver mass biopsies. And now waiting for the post lung biopsy chest x-rays before I get out of here. And it is now 4.15, probably... Interruption. It's now 4.15 and I will be getting out of here as soon as the post operative chest x-ray is done. And that's pretty much it for today. Just started feeling a little tired as you can see.  But what can you do? All right, we'll see how the rest of the day goes. Yeah, so I'm doing three uterine fabric embolizations today. However, two of them canceled, which is kind of unfortunate because I love that procedure, but nonetheless, I still have one to do. And then I do a couple of add-ons, biopsies here and there and whatnot. The good thing is I didn't get caught in at all last night and I didn't even get caught last night while I got paged at 10, but at least I wasn't asleep yet. Also, might I add, I was taking the bus to work this morning and I was just scrolling through TikTok. If you don't follow me over there, don't follow me over there. I was scrolling through TikTok and I missed the bus stop that I was supposed to be off at and it's the last bus stop on that route. So I had to do like this whole loop and I was like literally 20 blocks away so I had to run to work. So that's cool. All right, let's get to it. So I guess the weather took a little turn for the worse, but nonetheless, I'm leaving now. It's Wednesday afternoon, headed home right now. I just said I'm leaving right now and headed home right now. So that's cool and that's pretty much it. Have some fresh home cooked meal from the mother-in-law as per usual so I don't have to worry about dinner. All right, so this vlog has been pretty boring. I must say so myself. Did a few things today. I will say that I did a uterine fibroid embolization in literally 15 minutes. It was like the easiest quickest procedure ever. I just did an IVC filter and so loud right here. And I also did a biopsy, all of that before noon, which is like record pace we're up here in New York City. But it's a beautiful day right now, as you can see.  The sun is out, no longer raining. Probably gonna go home, sit on my rooftop and read a book or something. And might I add it's about 3.30 p.m. So this week isn't half bad. But it probably just seems to be something. All right, so I just had to come into one of our good friends, whoop, forgot to press the elevator button. By the way, it's 1 a.m. right now. And just had to check in on a PE patient. I'm going to do a procedure on them, but we decided just to wait until the morning. That's the patient's table. So I'm going to go back home because I am exhausted. And like I said, it's 1 a.m. now. And I gotta get this set up for first thing in the morning. But while I wait for my Uber, I mean, look how bad I look, by the way. It's actually pretty warm outside. It's like 65, 70 degrees. And it's not too bad. I almost didn't have to wear a jacket, but I did just because I like to just use my pocket suit. So this hallway looks familiar. It's because I come here every time I'm on call on the west side. It is now 8.30 in the morning. As you remember, I was here last night at 1.30 in the morning. So I got a few hours of sleep and now we're back. We're going to do this procedure last night, but it wasn't emergent. It's just urgent. And we needed full support for my anesthesia this morning. And they weren't available overnight. So now I'm here a couple of hours of sleep. Feel pretty good. I actually showered, which made me feel even better because I wasn't going to shower because it's like 80 degrees in here. When we work in this room at this hospital and I knew I'd just be sweating the whole time. So I just kind of committed to being distressed for the next couple of hours. But then I decided to take a shower. It's super tired and I feel like a million bucks. So let's get to work. It's lovely Saturday morning. Also, do you see how nice it was out there? Beautiful outside. All right. So remember when I got here at about 8.30 AM? Well, now it's 1.45 PM. That was a very long case, but very successful. And I'm pretty tired right now. All right, so I took a little detour. I was going to go straight home, but then I realized that I haven't eaten pretty much anything today. So going to grab a salad at the local deli over here, take it back to my place and eat it, relax on the couch, and hopefully not get called in the rest of the weekend. And I know that's a bit ambitious. All right, so I just got home, had my salad. And as you can see, I'm on the couch, ready to pass out. Probably take a quick little nap and hopefully relax for the rest of the day because I am starting to feel the tiredness right now. I was like pretty good when I had some coffee this morning, chugged another cup of coffee. I was good for the procedure, but now after I eat that big meal, I'm pretty tired. So, oh, also, shout out to Pikmonik, not sponsored by the way, but love Pikmonik. And yeah, it's time to hit the old hay for me. Yeah. In this official, I did not get called in. The rest of the weekend is now Monday morning. First thing in the morning, and I can officially say, I no longer have to take West Hall ever again in my entire life, which means I no longer have to go to those hospitals that I was on all week. So we're making progress here. And now I only have two more weeks of call left. So we are really making some progress here. I'm super pumped. Don't even care anymore because there's such limited call left for me. So I have clinic today right now. It doesn't start until about 1.30.  Hope you all enjoyed this video. I'll see you on the next one.


Hi again. In this lesson, we are going to talk about annotations and why and how you should use annotations in Python programming language. If someone wants to use your code, it will be easier for him if you've provided documentation. Annotations are a document standard. Python 3 supports annotations. They are optional and they give to us informations how to use that code. Let's make a simple function and let's add annotations to it. We want to give a user of our function info about what that function does and what the arguments and return value are going to be. Let's make some simple function. For example, let's define function multiply by 5. We are going to multiply any number that is given to us as an argument of this function. So we want to get some number as an argument and let's say that it has integer type with colon sign and int. This kind of additional information that we are providing is annotation. So we are going to inform users of our function that the argument of our function is integer and now we also want to give information that returning value will be also integer. So on that way, when we are writing this code, we are giving to our users of our function that returning value will be int. Let's say that we want to return that same number multiplied by 5. Okay, but before we are going to do that, let's give to our users some additional information about what our function does. We'll put our description of our function inside triple quotes. Let's say this function returns number multiplied by 5. Okay, and let's return our number multiplied by 5 and that's our function. Let's check if it does work. Multiply by 5, for example, number 4 and we get result 20, so 5 times 4 equals 20. How we can use our information or better say that we provide it to our function, that user can further use them to see what function does and what are the arguments and return value of this function. If we call function help and inside as an argument of this function we put our function, we'll get information that our function needs integer number as argument and it returns integer number and what this function does, this function returns number multiplied by 5. So this annotations really helps to users of our function to use our functions further in coding. That's all for this lesson, thanks for watching.