It's year four of the pandemic and if there's one thing that has changed during this period, it's the fact that a lot more people are trying to be aware of, trying to find out more about various aspects of healthcare from medicines to even issues related to policy. We've seen of course health workers coming out onto the streets in larger numbers to defend their rights and there's been a lot of discussion on issues such as vaccines, diagnostics, the right to access to healthcare. All these have come to the fore and that's maybe one of the few positive things that has come out of this pandemic but there's still a lot of aspects which are really behind the veil so to speak, which are discussed in board rooms which don't really make it to the news so much but which have a huge impact on our lives, on our health. Today we'll be talking about some of these aspects. We are joined by Jyotsana Singh or the People's Health Movement. Jyotsana has just been to the World Health Organization's Executive Board Meeting which took place in Geneva. Thank you so much Jyotsana for talking to us. Always a pleasure. So Jyotsana, just to sort of set the stage, could you maybe take us through why the Executive Board of the World Health Organization, why is it important? It sounds very bureaucratic, it sounds like a committee but why is it so important for you and me and for all of us? Absolutely. So the thing is WHO holds two meetings a year which are very important because they're open to everyone to witness. It is live-streamed civil society and health activists and other stakeholders in health can actually go and be there. So it's like a gala ceremony so to speak where the governments are there, the health ministers and if not the ministers, the health secretaries are definitely there and then you have that space where you can directly talk to them, talk to the WHO officials who end up guiding a lot of policies what we witness in our countries and have a chit-chat and see where in which direction is the global health governance moving. So these two meetings are one is the Executive Board which just happened in Geneva in the WHO headquarters. The other is World Health Assembly which is a much bigger version of this meeting which happens in the month of May. So in the Executive Board meeting it is a limited number of countries who are part of the Executive Board of WHO and only they have the right to vote and things like that whereas in WHO it is all the countries who have equal participation. So these are the two and I mean in between there are a lot of meetings that happen but everybody is not a party to it, it is fewer number of people so that's where they become important. So just now in the EBE meetings that took place and you were there, you talked to people over there, what do you think are some of the main things that you know of the top of your head, what are some of the main things that sort of struck you as themes that were significant at this point of time? Right, so Executive Board meeting it discussed around 23 or 24 agenda items this year starting from social determinants of health to universal health coverage to budgets and the WHO is looking for more and more money and funds. So all of these issues were discussed there, behavioral science was another one. Some of these issues are going to be reflected in World Health Assembly also. So this was more, this is like a preparatory meeting. So that definitely was there and but if you, I mean there are many interesting things that happen when you are there, you can see how the international politics plays a role in itself because the Russia-Ukraine war was a theme that determined a lot of discussions throughout. So the Director General had made a report on health emergencies in which there was a mention, I mean it was a detailed mention or just a mention of the war in Ukraine and Russia completely disagreed with it. It said that we won't let this report pass because it is so one-sided and you could see EU and other NATO countries coming together and saying no we agree with the report. So that is one thing that you really see. The other part would be I think the way national politics in the countries also get reflected in these discussions. For example, I mean it was in one sense amazing to see the Brazil declared Brazil is back, science is back. Obviously taking a satirical jab on Bolsonaro's government who was very unscientific so to speak in dealing with COVID-19, calling for hydroxychloroquine as the treatment for COVID and etc. So all of that you see US for example, the kind of a stances it takes now compared to how it was doing during the Trump administration is different. US clearly said that we stand for the rise of LGBTIQ plus communities. Trump administration was very much against it. The new government also said Biden's government, the language is much softer in favor of sexual and reproductive rights which was the opposite during Trump administration again. So these are the kind of things that you really witness. I believe you said Columbia also, Columbia also had an interesting intervention. It did. So one of the civil society constantly has been saying and we have been raising our voice saying that civil society is getting excluded more and more by the WHO and the amount of time that is given to us, where we are made to sit within these discussions. All of that has come under attack by the civil society to WHO. Columbia and obviously there has been a change in the government recently. It's so openly and a beautiful statement by Columbia saying that we need more of civil society in the room and they should be included more. So all of these things when you witness it tells you what is happening in the nations also and how it governs these global governance issues as well. So just of course now the meeting taking place like I said this is the fourth year of the pandemic. Various countries have taken various stances on how they view what the state of the pandemic is so to speak. But generally I think it's, there's a general feeling that the pandemic is now maybe a bit on, there's a bit of a downturn so to speak. It's not over of course but it's not as pressing an issue as it was maybe in 2021 or even early 2022. So but the pandemic definitely must be casting a shadow on the world health organizations, deliberations on the deliberations of people who work in the health sector. So how did the EB actually, you know, how did the pandemic sort of figure in the discussions of the executive board? Throughout. I think when the countries make their interventions, if you read all the reports that are presented by the director general Dr. Ted Rose, there is a constant reminder about COVID-19 pandemic and what we have learned. The entire question of equity comes up again and again in all the deliberations that happen. So one can see that but I think the question is that have we, has WHO and have the developed countries actually learned from the pandemic or not? That is a big question mark and I think the simple answer is no. So WHO is also discussing the pandemic treaty. It is called the global architecture for health emergencies, preparedness, response and resilience. In short, pandemic treaty that is being called. There's a parallel process going on which is amendment to IHR which is the International Health Regulation 2005. So when the agenda of health emergencies come, you can see people are responding and the countries and civil society is responding to it. But it is important to mention that these two processes are happening simultaneously throughout the year in WHO. There is an intergovernmental negotiating body that has been formed to discuss the pandemic treaty. And maybe if we can spend some time on these two things. So IHR 2005 has been in place since 2005 as the name suggests. But the developing countries actually started to ask for amendments in the light of the pandemic because one realized that so health emergencies is not only about pandemic. It would also be about the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria or floods that we witnessed in Pakistan. But pandemic of course was at such a global scale and there was such lack of equity in the response and how the developed countries and their big pharmaceutical companies and everybody dealt with it that there was a need to make some amendments. So these proposals have come and if you see India, Bangladesh, the Africa region, 47 countries are represented by that. They have made a detailed plea that how IHR should be amended so that if we are in a similar situation later, people do not die of something for which the vaccines and medicines exist in some other part of the world. The point is and then we talk about pandemic treaties or how it came about in the middle of the pandemic. European Union and many other developed countries, they proposed that we need to be ready for future pandemics. So we were still struggling. The developing countries were still struggling with the current pandemic and the developed countries had, of course they had vaccinated majority of their population and they had the audacity to go ahead and start discussing future pandemics. So there was at that point of time also a lot of opposition that how are you discussing the future pandemics? Can we deal with this one? So it was a problem but well we have it now so we have to discuss it. And there also if you see there is a zero draft of the pandemic treaty that came about a few days ago earlier this month. And if you look at the preamble of the zero draft, it has all the correct language in it. Equity is there, they talk about health workforce and how they were overburden and they should not be. It recognizes very clearly that the internationally we failed to respond to COVID-19 the way we should have. It says that 70% of the health workforce is women and we should be taking care of that. It talks about community and community participation, everything. And then when you start to see the actual language which will determine the policy, none of these things appear there. It looks like there is no learning from COVID-19 at all. You are talking in the preamble about intellectual property barriers but you are not giving a solution to it in that. So it is a huge problem the way zero draft is. The proponents of it, the people who have written it have clearly not really taken into consideration what the poor countries have gone through during the pandemic. So the point is that we need to see the IHR amendment process and the new proposal of pandemic treaty as parallel processes and look at both and fight for equality in both. Because the IHR is going to be the founding principles and the pandemic treaty is going to be a part of it because it is one part of the entire health emergencies domain. So we need to look at both. Both are not in a good shape at the moment and we can see developing countries fighting for it. It is just that the kind of experience we have had through trips waiver where in the World Trade Organization despite so much of push, the gain was much less. It was not just nothing but it was much less. Learning from that the developing countries I think will have to put forth, I mean they have to set red lines at a very different level. But because if you see the developing countries are asking for in IHR amendments a health system strengthening. If you see what the developed countries are asking for it is asking for securitization. So this is also a classical debate in public health where the developed countries say surveillance. They focus more and more on surveillance which means we will know when the pandemic is about to emerge. Developed countries are saying and have been saying that we need to focus on response also. If in a poor country it has happened and you know there is a possibility of an outbreak what do you do about that? Developed countries can immediately go on producing vaccines and hold the vaccines what will happen to the rest of the world. So surveillance and response have to go hand in hand together. We do not see that. We see 80% surveillance, 20% response. Huge problem. The other problem in these drafts that we are facing is there is no, you do not find access and benefit sharing. Now what is it in very short that if a pharmaceutical company is able to make a vaccine or any medical product using a pathogen that has emerged in some other country and the country has shared it and that is why this company is able to produce it, right? Then the sharing of the benefit should go to that community as well. For example Ebola, if you have got the strain from West African nations and you are sitting in a developed country, you cannot say I will not share the vaccine or the know-how with the Western African nations and I will use it only when Ebola comes to my rich country. So that access and benefit sharing should happen. It is not happening. That discussion has been going on for a decade in WHO. It should also get reflected in this. So the health system is strengthening, access and benefit sharing, equity. These are the three things that the developing countries are fighting for in these two mechanisms and there is a lot of opposition obviously to that. Long road to go for many of these countries. It is interesting that you mentioned, when you started, you mentioned something about the behavioral sciences, which when you hear behavioral sciences, you always go, okay, the alarm needs to sound at this point. So could you maybe just take us through how that came up and who is behind that as well? Absolutely. So this was one of the agenda items and many eyebrows were raised. What is this about? And one did not know where this agenda item came from. But well, it is not as simple. So the thing is behavioral science. So WHO, SPHM, we have a position that the vertical way of dealing with diseases is problematic. You have to look at social determinants and the structural problems. You cannot go disease by disease. If you strengthen public health systems overall, you fight all the diseases together. So that has to be the approach. Now this behavioral science is even a further attack. It is actually putting the entire onus on the individual to do or not to do to make healthy choices and not make unhealthy choices. So and this push seems to have come from the World Bank and etc. Because the World Bank and OECD countries for the past one decade almost they have been working in the field of behavioral economics. Which says that you work on people's behavior. And then so in a supermarket, put healthy items at a more prominent space and put the junk item at some other place. The point is there should be no junk material or unhealthy material in the supermarkets. And that regulation has to come from the governments. So it actually takes away your entire focus from regulating the market and the TNCs, the transnational corporations and ensuring healthy food. So no regulation, but you leave it to the individual. And then if you don't make the correct choice, boss, we try. So that is coming and this kind of an approach is going to be a problem. And we know that the World Bank policies and the way World Bank deals with health is a huge problem. The way OECD countries look at it. And if WHO starts to get influenced by that so much that it has an agenda item and they're spending time on it. Then we really need to sound caution there. Absolutely. Definitely not a very positive or quite an alarming trend, in fact, actually, if you think about it. Thank you so much, Jyotsana for speaking to us. For giving us, I think, a very concise and clear idea of what actually happens in these meetings, breaking down some of these technical aspects. So thank you so much for talking to us. Thank you. That's all we have time for today. But keep watching NewsClick and People's Dispatch for more such videos on issues such as health, on issues such as policies in various aspects of life, but in a language in a way that all of us are able to understand and act upon it.


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Okay, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am Krista Porter from here on the end. Here at the Library Commission, I am the host of Encompass Live. I haven't been a couple weeks since I've done the show since I've been out traveling, so I'm trying to get back in the swing of things. Encompass Live is a commissioned weekly online event. We are a webinar. We broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time, but our shows are all recorded, so if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. You can just head over to our website, which I will show you later at the end of the day show, possibly during this show, depends on your questions, and share where all of our archives are. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, neighbors, family, colleagues, anyone who thinks might be interested in any of our topics. Send them to our website. They can sign up for the live shows, and they can watch all of our archives that are on there. We do a mixture of things here on Encompass Live. Book reviews, interviews, any training sessions, demos of services and products. Basically, anything library related is good for the show. That's my only criteria. It's something that libraries are doing, something that they could be doing, services that we provide to commission and think of these libraries, interesting things that libraries out there around Nebraska and outside of Nebraska are doing. We do bring on guest speakers sometimes to show from outside the commission and outside of state, but sometimes we have commission staff do presentations, and that's what we have today, a whole lot of commission people. Mom, I love. And I think we'll just have the joke where everyone uses themselves, short name and title, and we have one other person joining us in a little bit, and then we'll be able to do it. So I'm first quarter, you know, close to the show, and Library Development Director here at the Library Commission. I'm Mary Jo Ryan. I'm the Communications Coordinator here at the Library Commission. Hi, I'm Rod Wagner, Director of the Library Commission. Joanne McManus, Project Manager for the Library Innovation Studio Project. Susan Wisely, I went through, this is Library and Technology Access Services Directorate. Sam Shaw, Planning and Data Services Coordinator. So we have quite a crowd. Yeah. Good. That's good because we have a lot of questions to answer, and so we need a lot of people to help make those questions happen. If I could, Krista, I'll just kind of describe what's up at the commission, this particular show that we're doing today. We actually did a show like this when we was in a session at the NLA and SLI conference. We thought it would be fun to just have asked people what their questions were about the Library Commission, and so we do have quite a stack of questions that people were asking about the Library Commission. But also, we want to ask you, those of you that are on the show right now, to please put your questions into the chat box. Krista will be watching the chat box, and she'll interrupt us with your questions, so your questions get top priority. So if you have questions that we can answer about the Library Commission or about services of the Library Commission, we would really appreciate it if you would just go ahead and type them in the chat box now or anytime during the show. So, is everybody ready? We decided to do this sort of like Backyard Farmer TV show, and so if somebody lapses into suggesting that we try some 2-4D on your lawn, you'll know that it's just an accident. We'll go right back to Library. It might be a good answer though. It might be a good answer. So I don't know who wants this question, but here it is. Should I use Interlibrary Loan or Book Club Kits for multiple copy requests? Who wants that question? Susan wants it. Oh, girl. I'll answer. Lisa can send a message if I answer one. I think the Library Commission usually tries to fill those first with Book Club Kits if they can. People can certainly browse through and look. They've got international Book Club Kits on the website. So that seems a good way to pick books for your Book Club. So that, I think, is the preferred method of Book Request matches content of our kit. Otherwise, they do go and look for copies of others in the country. That's a little bit more tedious in terms of coordinating. I can imagine. You have to go through Interlibrary Loan to do it in multiple times, probably. Yeah. If you need 10, you need 10 in July with a lot of requests. Book Club Kits are way more convenient. So as long as we talk about Book Clubs, we do have a lot of titles for Book Club Kits. I know they just added a bunch of new titles. Can we go ahead and go to the website here and say, What is this? Book Club Kits from the Nebraska Library Commission. And so you can see that you can ask for, if you know exactly what you want, or you can browse the entire collection, or you can browse Nebraska-related books, or browse Nebraska 150 books, so all fiction books. So it's fairly easy, too. Let's just look at what looks like the Nebraska books. And there they are. They've got the cover. And they've got links to discussion questions. So this is pretty handy. I think there's 1,263 titles that have three or more copies. And there's Young Adult, Graphic Novels, all kinds of Book Club Kits. And I think Lisa might be on the show remotely. Yes, she's in the laptop room. Lisa, if you have anything you want to add, you can go to the chat box and we'll get that information in. Okay, here we go. Can I just ask one thing about Book Club Kits? Oh, sure, Sam. Is the service free? It is free. And that is a good thing to say. And just to remind you, it goes always through a librarian as school librarian or an academic or public librarian. Lisa says, Yes, it's free, but of course, you would have to pay postage to return them to us. There's no cost for us to get them to you or for using the books, of course, but whatever it costs you to get it back to us in postage. You would pay that. There's no prepaid boxes or things that we have. And again, if you talk to somebody who has a Book Club, have them order it through the library, not contact us directly. And there are also Book Club Kits available, and I only know this because you were just asking about it, through our regional library systems. Yeah. So our regional library systems are the first systems that we have. If they are more like convenient for you to get to them to pick them up or to just drop them off for return them, if you, you know, you might be able to go through them. They have different ones in theory that we have, but they are also no research. Right. I guess we might come down a little bit more that way to make it more centered for everybody. Yeah. And he said, type in the chat box if you have any trouble hearing this. We have quite a large group, larger than we usually have. Okay. I have a question here from somebody who says, I'm new to the Nebraska library community. I just started at a library. Do you have any good suggestions for getting to know the library community or the library commission's resources? Any suggestions? And this could be for anybody on the panel. Well, when we were at conference, that was kind of a no brainer was attend the conferences and meetings and events that are going on. And I think that's good no matter what. Yeah. I think, you know, think about what kinds of trainings coming up in your area. What kind of the conference has caused, of course, but a lot of the workshops and trainings are free. So it's only your time and letter to get there. There are also some groups like the castle, the groups of libraries of different types, and some of the different systems get together in your regular meetings. So actually look at your, it's less of the regional library systems, web pages. It's actually there. They have a website of their own. So if each of our systems has their, I don't look at a website of their own, that you can go to and see what's on their calendar of trainings they're doing, workshops, just meetings. So you can click right here. Oh, and there we go. And you'll go to their website. This is Western Library System. And find out what's going on, for example, an overdrive workshop, a workshop, you know, a variety of things like that. And they do that. I'm not sure. It's just the very top of the menu in the bright. It does have a calendar. Let's see if they have down other pages. Yeah, let's all cross the top too. So there's a calendar. So here's a suggestion from Beth Fala, Fala from Lena Perri Public Library. She says, invite people to come to your library or offer to host a workshop. That's a good idea. Reach out to your system or to us and say, I'd like to have something here. We've got space. We've got a meeting room. And then they'll come to you. And of course, we want you to watch Encompass Live on Wednesday morning. So you'll catch up and stay up. Anybody else have anything else they'd like to add? It would be good for someone who's new. There are a couple of new resources available on the Library Conditions website for new library directors and library trustees that this is a good source for people new to public libraries. Do you have a director's handbook? I'm just going to see what happens if I do a new library director. Oh, we don't call it that. Because I just thought maybe it would come up. Okay. I'm not used to this keyboard, so I'm having a little trouble. I think that's it. Library directors guide good. And so if you're a director, and even if you're not a director, there's a lot of good stuff there that you can learn about. Funding, accreditation, events. And then Rod also mentioned something Yeah, I'm having a little trouble with this keyboard, aren't I? Let me try again. Let me see what's going on. Oh, my, my, my, my. Wireless. Okay, so over here under our accreditation and certification sections, we have links about boards being certified, librarians being certified, and libraries. And this is where you have a link And the library board manual. Okay, there we are, library board manual. And here you see. But if you had a keyboard that wasn't wireless, you could do it. You could do what I was trying to do. Much better. And we did one other comment that came in about the BookLipKits. I wanted to mention, I didn't know this. And I know I've done sessions about it. In addition to the search for the BookLipKits, it actually includes other libraries that also have BookLipKits. And we'll just share, like, library to West Point. So we've actually gathered into that database, not just as ones that we have. So you may have ended up with some local to you that is who you end up on. Now that's a great idea. Okay, well, I've got one for you, Kristen. I am having trouble with my basic skills class. I can't make Moodle do what I wanted to do. Yeah, I know. Yeah. I don't feel the messenger. I'm just saying, what do you suggest people do if they are taking a basic skills class and have trouble with Moodle? Basic skills, that is run by Holly Duggan, who is the C Continuous Education Coordinator here. And she is in charge of that. We have a lot of resources on the website. There she is in the middle of our classes. Yeah, she would be your first line of defense for that. Well, it depends what your problem is, actually. If you're in the middle of a current class, you have an instructor. Whoever your instructor is, reach out to them first. It may be just something that is going wonky in their particular class. They forgot to update a link. Something has broken since they set up the class. You never know what things can happen with technology. So your instructor, whoever class you're currently taking, will be the first one to talk to you. If they can't figure it out, they may go to Holly for you. Or you could also contact yourself. If it's more of, I don't know what my password is, or I've lost my password, that kind of contact, basically getting into it. But navigating your course, if that's something that you're unsure about, we, everyone who teaches it, well, we have to know as well. So we can probably give you tips about where you should be clicking. If something is changed, because it does get updated, the interface and the backend part of it. So reach out to your current instructor, and if that's not helping, Holly is our lead person. Yeah, I had a question here. And actually, I got this one at the library commission booth. So I had, they wrote it down on the card at the booth. They had cards at the booth, and cards all over the conference. And this one says, can I customize the handouts for Nebraska Access or Overdrive? That would be useful. You sure can. We usually oftentimes put them up in PDF format. But if they're handouts that we created, oftentimes, the ones that I've created, I create in Microsoft Word, so I can find the original Word version before I converted it to PDF. And I've sent those handouts, versions to people before, too. So they can... Can you show me where those are? Or do you have a mouse you can do it? Well, the Nebraska Access handouts, there's that question mark after each database logo. And so they'll usually find those, they'll often find those there. So like for a going on list. So just so now you can go to, go down to the third heading. There's a novelist, hand out under for more help, the top created by us. Those are created by us. And then the ones down below, the social media. So that's an example of something where I've got a Word format on your computer, so I can probably send that to you. And there's also, I know one thing people ask for was videos. And there are videos, but I'm going to use a lot of these databases right on the website now. I don't know if this is one of them where there is one. They actually have a whole YouTube channel devoted to novelists. I'm pretty sure it's listed there. They've got multiple short videos on different types of searching. Two minute tours, it says. That's great. That's perfect. It's going to vary from database to date. Correct. Some of you'll have an overabundance and others will be less than you'd like probably. It does vary. Is there also somewhere for promoting this and add your libraries address here in a blank space? We have... Type in here. It's in the toolkit, right? Type in a library in this toolkit. See the problem is it isn't letting me type. I try to... It fails to get everything I'm putting in here. The toolkit should be enough. Just click on the search. There it is. Toolbox. Toolbox. Got it. So here we've got your toolbox. We've got a variety of promotional materials, some of which we can just fill in the blank. Right. So we can cover our handouts. You can just fill in the blanks. And print your own. It's got your own information with your own password and your own library. Name, school, whatever. Business cards, the same thing. Password, business cards, your own password. So this is pretty useful for folks. So here's a question. This is a pretty general question, but you can maybe expand upon it, Joanne. How can we get the maker space to our library? That's a pretty general question, isn't it? Yeah, that is general, but it's... There's an answer. We have selected the first 17 libraries to give the maker space. And we will still be selecting 13. We'll have an application process. It will have a deadline sometime in May. We don't have any exact date, but we're looking at May. On our website, if you look under Grants, and then it will go across the Library Innovation Studio project, we still have all of the information and application information for the first round. So for instance, if you want to know what that application looks like, just click on either the PDF or the word file, that application of interest and commitment. So obviously the deadlines will be different in there, but that will be the application that we'll be using. And there's also the right above that, library participation benefits and expectations and answers to questions. That's a good document to read, to get more information about what would be expected in a library, what the benefits are. And I don't think there's too many... I haven't updated that, but I don't think too many changes to that as well. The last course, those that were at conference, you probably saw the studio equipment. There's certainly a lot of it. We delivered the first equipment last week to the Plasma Public Library, and this week we're in Ainsworth, Nebraska, installing and training on their equipment. And so when these studios are in your area, you can check them out and see what's all involved. Or take a look at this, because this website has pretty detailed information about each piece of equipment. This is the Carby Inventable CNC router, and it's got some information about it. It shows you what it looks like. It's got its dimensions, and the fact that it has a computer attached to it shows what it can do and a video. So there's quite a lot of information about each piece of equipment, and if people want to take a look and see just what we're talking about with this maker space. Right. And it's pretty exciting. Those libraries don't think that they have room for all of this equipment, because it is a lot of equipment. We can also do mini studios. Creed and Loop City are an example of mini studios that we'll be installing in a few weeks. And what they're doing is rather than having all of the equipment for a total of 20 weeks, they each will split up that kit. Each will get half the equipment for 10 weeks, and then we'll swap it, and then put the other half for the other 10 weeks. So if you don't have quite enough space, that's what we do. And of course, you don't have to have all the space in one area. For instance, we're a big meeting room or something. We can put the CNC router in that corner and the laser cutter in another corner. And so it can be scattered across your library if that's the only way it will work for you. Let me just show you just real quickly the community engagement page. One piece of this project, which makes this more than just a maker space, is the expectation of community engagement activities. And basically, it's a simple way for the community to get very involved in the library, to get very involved in the community. And part of it is forming the community action team. Another section is forming a training team, planning events, and planning a longer term activity schedule of trying to get support for the community, or from the community, for the maker space in the library. So we've got resources here about community engagement as well. Because that's another expectation of the maker space grant. And kind of a, I think this is helpful. It's kind of a timeline of what goes on. This is the week, if this were the weeks that your maker space is installed, and then you have for 22 weeks here, and these are the kinds of things you're doing during that 22 weeks. And then these are the kinds of things you're doing before that 22 weeks. She did. It is. Dagan Valentine, who's one of our partners at the university, put together a milestones chart, and then she did that timeline for us from that. So we're very fortunate to have Tessa. I like the kind of visuals. It doesn't help. I know. To me, it really helps just to see that visual. Okay, so I've got a good one here. I can't remember the Nebraska Access password. How can I make this easier? So I don't have to keep re-entering it. What do you think, Susan? Well, if you're, if you're entering it all the time, it probably means you don't have IP access. So tell me that you can set up IP access is probably not helpful. Sometimes you can have, depending on your web browser, you can have your web browser, remember a password. There's certainly nothing wrong with putting a little sticker with the password on computers in the library. That's certainly acceptable. But you will have to change that. You'll have to change it. Twice a year, then you can get re-issued. Yeah, so I want to enter it too strongly to your computer desktop. But yeah, you can certainly put a little card up or something. And those password cards, those business cards, business cards are good because you can give them to people, as well as have them around. And you can put those up and take it to your computer until the next one comes out. And then the other workaround is, you've got your driver's license. You can always pull out your driver's license, and type in your driver's license. Oh yeah, that's perfect. Yeah, and any citizen in the state can just use their driver's license number to get in. They don't need to even go to the library and get a password that's specific. Right. Nebraska Access is purchased for use of all Nebraska citizens. Pretty much. We do a little type, I assume this is Lisa, type this. She actually was responding to the first part of the question. Just like, I need my Nebraska Access password. And she says, caller 800 number. Call 800 number. Remember, you don't know what it is. Call 800 number,<PHONE_NUMBER>. And then we can look that up and give it out to you, as well, too. Yeah, right here. About us, you can find our 800 number. Okay, Rob, there's two questions here that I have from two different people. Uh-oh. I know. And they are basically around, if I tell you the first one, it's about the same as the second one. How are the budgets going to play out in the commission? This one says, I can't control reading it. It's a, what is, what are the budget cuts in the commission? Okay, well, this goes back to the legislative session from earlier this year. The state tax revenues has been the case for a number of, actually for a long while, state tax revenues have fallen below projections. And so the legislature and governor enacted a state budget for the current biennium that began July 1, 2017, that reduced many budgets for state agencies, state programs, and services. The library commission state funds budget for its operations program is reduced by 8% about. The library commission's state aid to libraries program, which includes our grants and contracts, database licensing, regional library system funding, state aid to libraries, and other things, actually was not reduced. It was left at last fiscal year's funding level. So that's the current biennium budget and so two-year budget going through June of 2019. The update, though, is that state tax revenues have continued to fall below projections. And the state's economic forecasting board last month when they lowered their projections again. And so the governor and legislature when the legislature reconvenes in January, they will again be looking at resolving this reduced revenue situation and that likely will lead to further state budget cuts of some amount. On the federal side, there's been lots of concern about what will happen to federal library program funding. There's been some good news in that the House, the U.S. Congress, the House of Representatives passed appropriations bills that included federal library program funding that is the funds for the Institute of Museum of Library Services and Library Services and Technology Act. Those funds were left at the last fiscal year funding level. The Senate has yet to act on the federal budget, but their earlier funding levels that came out of their appropriations committee actually had a slight increase for LST funding. So they're expected to pass legislation before then December and then they're going to have to be resolution with the House of Appropriations. So the federal funds, the prospects are good at this point. Remember though that we're already a couple of months into the new federal fiscal year and appropriations have not been made for the full year. So that is yet to be resolved. That's where we are right now. It's a bit of a wait-and-see. Always wait-and-see on the federal standards. So I have kind of a timely one for you, Sam. This is the person who says they're having trouble submitting a Billy Estat profile. The public library survey. Yeah, I guess so. So the public, every year between mid-November to mid-February we collect data as part of the public library survey. So maybe if you could go on our website over to the Billy Estat page. Okay, where is it? If you type it in, well, it researches. I know it's real, I know. And so there it is. The survey is actually the IMLS public library survey. We use a tool called Billy Estat to collect the data. So it's Billy Estat to collect. So on this page here, you'll see a link to the login screen. And your username and password is the same as your accreditation application. So if you do need that, either contact me or the reference desk as well. They would be able to get that username and password to you. You'll see a lot of other tools on this page. A blank copy of the survey. Sometimes it's helpful to print that out and then fill it out before you actually enter the data online. But some of the data is already pre-filled. Correct. We try to pre-fill as much of the data as we can. Some of it doesn't vary from year to year. Address, phone numbers, things like that. We also pre-fill the overdrive data if you're a member of the consortium. We'll pre-fill the holdings and your circulations for overdrive. If you do have an advantage account, you'll need to enter that information in the holding section. The circulation data includes all of your overdrive. So that would include your advantage titles as well as what's in the consortium. If you do want to know what changes we've made, there's also a link. It's the third one from the top there, Mary Jo, that has the changes highlighted from year to year. The good news is this year there weren't very many changes. So if you're familiar with it from last year, there weren't very many changes this year. Also, I want to point out one more thing, filing. The second one from the bottom there, there's a guide for new directors. So if you're new, this kind of takes you through the process of why we do this and how we do it. It also has a guide that looks as well. If you're not familiar with that. If you do have any questions, feel free to contact me. I'm available to help you with the survey. Like I said, it just started. So it's now available and it runs until February. Very convenient timing because it just opened up two days ago. And the other question I had to do with the survey was how are the peers selected? Peer libraries and accreditation. So generally on the accreditation application, if you're up for accreditation, there's a link on the right-hand side of that page where you should log in. That says view peer libraries. Yeah, there's going to log into your particular accreditation account or form. There's a blue button that says peer. So you can look at those peer libraries that are used in those calculations on your accreditation application. Generally, that's libraries that are within 15% of your legal service area. That's how those are populated. And if it's during the time when the applications are not available, should you get that info? I don't think that you can log in to your accreditation application. Just check after that time period. But you can always email me how I would pull that data or the data set that's used on the accreditation application or if you want the full data from the Public Library Survey for your peers. You can also pull it yourself from our website. We publish the data on our website. I always do the data services. That's kind of the main page. And that data is available from download either in Excel or CSV format. See, now it's letting me type, isn't it? Library data services. So if you scroll down a little bit. What? Under library statistical data and maps. And then the first link there. There's your files right there. Great. And then there's some maps down here. There's some maps and some summaries and some handouts that we use to retrieve and then we collect them. Okay. Two for one, man. We have a good question for Scott. She'll also join us for any student director of the talking book and morale service in the library commission. So I'll sneak in while we're talking. We didn't stop talking. The question is, how have digital talking books changed talking book service? And I'm going to let you move up here and I'll tell us too. I'll try to do a little show and tell which unfortunately is a past report. Yeah, I'm just going to move right out of your way. We have all these boards. Yeah. Normally digital talking books have batteries, which is excellent. So this is a demo of a prototype chain. Yeah, how have they changed the service? I think from a page perspective, they're much easier to use. They sound much better and you don't have to switch between a bunch of different sets for this one. Which is huge. Say if you were reading something like The Bible or the joy of cooking, something that's a fairly large piece of literature, they were really difficult to use on a set. The joy of cooking is bringing something to sets and it's very difficult to remember where you were. Whereas with a digital machine you just get right to what section you want, what recipe you want, and sort of bookmark digitally so you can return to that area. They're just much more convenient. And actually I brought this machine up with me to kind of expand on how digital will continue to influence the talking with the rail service area. We've got two programs coming up probably over the next year. We'll start to see how these things will impact the service. One of them is called duplication of demand and with that we'll entail we're hoping to be part of a pilot project working with duplication of demand hopefully in the spring of next year. And basically what that will be is instead of pulling mail cards for different patrons in the learning and going to shelves and pulling books that have already been made to go take two patrons, we'll be able to actually copy the books that the patron has requested or will be interested in and actually make a copy of each book potentially even bring more than one book by cartridge if they would like that and mail those out to the wrapping and pulling things off the shelf. That should save us space and organization and also give things into a lot of washable order for patrons. There can be situations when you say like a new book is very popular we not only have eight or nine copies and they might all be out. This way if a new book becomes available if there's a hundred people that want it but per se it's available. So that will really expand people's appreciation of new books in particular and make things quite a big use for to use. We're starting to kind of experiment with doing duplication of demand with some books that have been created digitally that we don't have copies of in-house that you would have for about four months now and it's been going pretty well. We're moving maybe more to a day at this point of just making sure you have whichever book you're interested in that way. And the other thing that's coming up they don't have an official name for this yet but this demo prototype machine here is called the MOGA project which will center for mobile cartridge and the idea of this is kind of like digital copy books meets the kind of work or something. It will be a wireless machine and it's using cellular connectivity in order to grab books from a wish list that's on the BAR site and the natural library services down on the site for audio books and great materials. And let's see if this thing is working here. The push button here it should say that it belongs to Moog and Roman. This device is registered to SCOT shows there are three books available no cartridge connected network ready internet ready, art is ready press the button to list the books on the bookshelf. The idea of this machine will be that it can download books that are already on a wish list for you and when you put a cartridge in, let's say what's on here is something that I just finished reading and I don't like it anymore, but I'll pop this cartridge in and copy it and give it to it. Cartridge connected. Cartridge has one book with very ordinary counterfeiter press the button to return this book or remove the cartridge to keep it. So I'll return this book. Book returned. The animals. Press the button to skip this book or wait five seconds to copy it to the cartridge. So there's a few books waiting let's say I don't learn that one let's give it back to you. Press the button to skip this book or wait five seconds to copy it to the cartridge. So I'll let you go ahead and copy this one it will copy it very very quickly after that five seconds. Moving new book to cartridge. The books chicken stew. Please remove cartridge. Alright, so this will be ready then for a patient to put in a player and listen to you right away. So the idea of this prototype is the next generation of the digital partner player will incorporate technology along these lines directly into the figure itself so there will be two devices to do it but they're kind of getting some information now on how this works and seeing troubleshooting in the field to see if it works around the country. So this is still kind of in beta. But it does work. The functionality is there and I can see how this would be a very powerful addition to the machine where sometimes in the future with digital books we'll be able to, a lot of people will be able to download a book directly to their machine without having to do the mail system and for those who for whatever reason are in a place where the wireless connectivity is working we'll be able to send our books through that to the management system that way too. And we still have books on the shelf so people will be able to send those to you. So yeah, there's a lot of different ways that it's helpful so I think that this year actually was the official end of the cassette era. It was around May and June of this year that the National Library Service pulled us to go ahead and return the cassette player machines to be been holding on to which we did over the summer and I think we sent it in a total of 573 machines that were officially made up so but for the most part we're all digital reality so can we still have the sets here at the library machine? Not very many there's less than right there's less than I think there's only 6 or 7 there's about 3,500 users so there's a lot So I have a question here that says Big Talk and Small Libraries Webinar schedule yet for this year Well, for next year Yeah, for next year Yeah, and actually it should be on our calendar Let's check out our calendar We have a calendar here at the top of the page and it is Always a good thing to remember too that we do have things on this calendar that go beyond just with the library Yeah, Big Talk Big Talk is traditionally then the last, whatever is the last Friday in February so wherever that happens of all figure in the middle of winter people don't want to drive to places so there's nothing online and yes so it will be Friday February 23rd there's nothing more here besides the basic information linked to the main website at the moment because and actually it just popped up in my to-do things that this would be about the time when I open up the call for proposals for the conference so I'll be conservative and say in the next week I was going to say by the end of this week but I don't want to get myself in a hole with that within the next week there's not there'll be an announcement asking for the call for proposals so for libraries out there if you've got something you want to present about Big Talk from Small Libraries this is our Little Libraries FT Orders population served of 10,000 or less of any type of library school, academic, public but we want to hear from you what you're doing and just what you want to hear from too so there will be an announcement and messages out and then there will be on the website for a link to submit your proposal that'll be added in the next week or so and I'd like to have some small libraries in Nebraska but this is also if you look at the previous conferences on here we have libraries from all over the country that participate in both presenting and attending this is a map of last year people logged in from all across the United States and Canada this is attendees but if you look at our previous conferences here that all the previous ones listed going back to the beginning which the first year was 2012 those are archived right we have all of our presentation under presentations you will have links to the recording of that particular session and if they did have slides or PowerPoints you have those as well so you can watch all of the previous series if I'm here and here was our first first one let's do the rest of the library just so yes it's coming it says they're joining us for 23rd 2018 so look for more info coming very briefly excellent so how many libraries are part of the overdrive group and what's required if I want to join we just added three libraries this fall so we are at 173 that's fantastic yeah to join we established library we talked to me to let me know you're interested and there's a couple of forms to fill out and then we go about talking about getting you set up for authentication how much do they have to pay? for small libraries and I think all of the libraries are eligible at this point I think everyone would pay that minimum for the 500 and is there okay here we are we've got the overdrive site so this is the main website overdrive site that's where we wanted to go and that is the actual digital collection site so I think the first page you are on is how to participate and so you scroll down instructions and that's more information but once you join that means the pricing details pretty much you know we don't have as many new libraries joining now because we really gotten a lot of 173 that it's feasible more to participate do participate so now you know it's more a matter of library context so we work directly with that send them the people and this is any type of library just for the the eyes of overdrive alright I wanted to mention that if anybody in the audience has a question now would be a good time to get that typed into the chat box we did start a little late as you guys notice we're getting things set up here so we'll go as long as it takes if you guys have questions type it into the questions section we'll get them asked if you do have to leave before your question gets asked that's okay we'll answer it anyways and then you can come back and hear it on the recording we'll go to at least since we started late I'd say at least 1115 for getting some questions we have here and longer depending on what comes in we asked as a heads up if you guys are wondering if we're going to be rapping us so I need help finding books and other languages for my students so what's the best way to do that what does the library commission do for a teacher that comes to a school librarian says I need some books in probably the best best to go to the best databases let's do that and then go down on the left side there you can see world cat there it is and that will let you search for a title of a book that you're looking for and limit by a language and so as long as a library that catalogs their books you'll see assuming the book is available in that language and that it's owned by some libraries that are representing in the world cat you should be more tracked down in the questions and it is going to vary depending on the language and the popularity of the book that's certainly that's the first thing I'm going to do it's great actually a teacher could do that in southside I'm at it and they could do it in the library on request so I'm trying to get through these how can we get a website for our library that's something that Craig in our department has been taking care of for the last couple of years and he's leaving us shortly but we are still going on and offering the WordPress website and we also we don't have to move that WordPress site we don't have to else and then the library is giving some last-minute tips and instructions from Craig so she's going to kind of tie this over and we're looking for other places so there it is so the Nebraska libraries on the web so there's a page that talks about how you can participate what's the cost there's no cost but there is time that people have to set up and maintain and post regularly so that's that would be the first stop I guess and then the next stop might be the contact of the library and Debra, who's the head of our department would be a good choice to talk to initially when you're away is sort of trying to learn some technical details if you see anyone gets stuck or has any problems we are between libraries responsible for that so I have another question about statistical reports this one says how do you use the statistics and how can the libraries use them well we talked earlier about peer comparisons that's one thing that we use on our end for the accreditation process but also something that can be helpful to libraries when they look at their data and compare it to their peers that can be very helpful for librarians and decision makers on a local level but also if a library has so then there's statistics over a certain period of time they can compare themselves to themselves and say how have our programs changed over the years and how has our attendance changed over the years maybe it's time to try something new or maybe that's evidence of some successes that they have so that's I think a couple of ways that they can be used on a statewide level we use them a lot talk about some of the budget process and we use those statistics and for those purposes we are required to report them to IMLS too every year so that's one of the reasons we do collect them very good one more question here have you got any on the chat box no one again okay the last question we have is does Nebraska Access help school libraries meet rule 10 requirements yes so we probably want Nebraska Access back up again to help show that it will meet the requirements for a number of magazines and journals that you have access to and then it meets the requirement if you see there's a lower left corner that's spunk and gag balls it does provide it up to the so those two those are the ones that everyone asks about it there's two requirements by Nebraska Access and so those are two things that if a school library is struggling with budget issues they don't have to do because we're offering that for excellent well those are the questions that I got in advance like I said I got them at the conference the NLA and SLA conference we got them at booth we had them at sit now people put them in the box so we answered them at the conference session we're answering them again today here because we feel like this really extends the conference session on into the fall so if there are no other questions is there anything anybody on the panel would like to share for the good of the group let's go to the commission that we need to talk about I guess if you're curious about the commission at any time please take a look at our website that's always a good place to get up-to-date information as well as information about other libraries across the state well thank you very much everyone thank you Chris for running the show for us I'll give you back to the right scene to get my questions up there nobody has anything else everyone's still here so that's good thank you for staying with us next alright so thank you we have recorded today so this will be available on our website potentially this afternoon possibly tomorrow and I'll bring up that right now our encompass live website here so this is our main page and our recordings are upcoming shows and our archives are linked right underneath all the upcoming shows that you can get to the archives from and this is where we posted most recent ones this is last week's show we will have the recording which will be on our YouTube account there isn't a presentation for this one as you saw it's just our website so just a little bit of the recording will be here what is done and available I will email everyone who attended and post it out on all of our various communications so that wrap up for today's show I hope you enjoyed this next week we just said this this morning and hopefully you can explain non-visual desktop access to The Good Love this is a session that one of our staff this week did at our MLI conference and she had offered and I wanted to definitely have it on so I don't know what I did but some of you may have participated in the VTOP program a few years back which I believe include JAWS has a non-visual way to use computers over time JAWS can become sort of complicated and expensive to maintain and this is an alternative it's very close to free for keeping track of keeping a screen reading non-visual desktop building a new library so they had this gone through and it works she's going to demonstrate a little bit with our website and I just want to talk a little bit also about how to make sure your website is set up to function properly in the screen reader this description is what I pulled this morning off of this conference website but she's created a little bit but we can talk about that because a lot of people she discovered at conference were asking this is great but what could I have done already to have my website better prepared for the next three years but we did have both this and other kinds sounds like a great show as well so definitely sign up for that next week because I just added it before I came down here this morning to do the show so that will be next week and you can see all of our other sessions here through November and December that are added and more will be added as we go this is an ongoing thing and we'll start getting our 2018 time to hear and I've got to note to myself too 2018 and I don't know if I'm just it's actually the 10th year of Encompass Live we're about to have a birthday cake a little so yes and we'll talk about how long I've been here or whatever that all means about anything beyond that so definitely do 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No, oh so sad. I hate to be harsh harsh, but like it's just too expensive. There's other and that first quarter of 2020 is in the books. What a quarter it was. I am actually I'm excited. It's April March was just so crazy And now we're starting the second quarter. I'm I'm optimistic I know we're gonna be going through some very difficult times around the world in the month of April Let's hope the month of May is is better and then the month of June even better than May And we just keep working through this together, but I'm saying is good riddance to the first quarter of 2020 Okay, everyone Gosh, I am catching up on a lot of different things through these strange times and I just tweeted this out I said only took me 18 months, but I finally aggregated a Hoka Hoka on a on a running shoe review playlist on this channel. It only it only took 18 months I'd say I don't know what I'm gonna do in my time But upper right hand corner in case you want to see the carbon X the ring con the hoka Evo speed goat in one playlist and again upper right hand corner I'll also link to it at the end of this vlog But today we're talking about hoka. Oh, yeah, and I also did it for a six and what was it? Oh, yeah, Skechers ace. I don't know where they're others. There's some Skechers up there Over the past couple of weeks. So but today we're talking about hoka running shoes of 2020 and listen This is not in fact, somebody tweeted back of me no love for the Bondi And it's like I got nothing against the Bondi, but I just had so many shoes So little time as I'm always saying so we're going over the mock three the cavu three the Elevon two and the a raw high I think that's how you say it the a raw high for today in the studio and real quick as far as how Hoka works into my running shoe rotation. You know how I love talking about the rotation is that I Lean toward hoka, of course for my recovery days when I want to as I put it kind of baby my legs In fact, I did it today I ran in the hoka Evo speed goat because I was going out on some trails And this is a trail shoe and I just wanted a little extra cushion to absorb my training from the half marathon Time trial on Sunday. So today is Wednesday. So Monday Tuesday Wednesday, and finally my legs are starting to feel better today In fact, okay, so I did 10 miles Seven I think it was there it is on your screen.  I was maybe gonna go a little faster today But I decided to ease it. I'm easing back into it after that time trial and then I will go faster tomorrow And just one more point on hoka and the running shoe rotation is that maximalist and high stack heights I enjoy but I also don't want to over rely on them because Even though it feels good to me on my legs It might allow me to run more and is that necessarily a good thing for my trend like basically Leaning into perhaps overtraining or doing long runs that are almost too long. Okay, so it's a balance It's all about that balance for me when it comes to hoka I guess this vlog is not my full review of all these hoka shoes from 2020 Of course the cards will pop out in the next seven to ten minutes If you wanted to go deeper into each shoe for example talking about the uppers the midsole the outsole in more Detail and let's dive in first to the hoka Mach 3 if you remember from I guess about probably six weeks ago now I took this shoe out for a couple runs and did not take it to 50 miles So if you know if I don't take a shoe to 50 miles, you know that it did not It did not blow me away as far as the performance and the reason I did not enjoy the hoka Mach 3 is The midsole foam felt too firm In it I would say like definitely a tempo day shoe potential But for some reason I just did not have enough Forgiveness through that midsole and also I was running in the shoe when there was a decent amount of snow out here in Denver And the outsole was really really slick. Ah, just really slick like not no additional outs Outsole rubber to help kind of grip the roads So anyway, keep that in mind if you live somewhere where the roads are a little slick right now Or worse like at least in the past in the winter So maybe if you're in a really dry arid climate, you don't even have to worry about that But anyway Mach 3 did not Did not do it for me in 2020 a hundred and forty dollar price tag too much I think 120 would be a more realistic Price point for me to get a little more excited about picking this shoe up But anyway, sadly the Mach 3 did not make it to 50 miles in 2020 moving on to the Kavu 3 there it is on your screen if you're wondering how to spell it interesting name We're looking at a six millimeter drop from heel to toe 26 millimeter in the heel 20 in the forefoot. So definitely medium on stack height category. So Look on the lower scale, you know compared to a lot of other hoka shoes on the marketplace 6.9 ounces in men's size 9. That is what I'm talking about hoka That is a solid weight category for the Kavu 3 and the price point a hundred and twenty dollars Okay, so less than the Mach 3. So I like that a lot now. Where would I put this shoe in the running shoe rotation? Oh Man, it's almost coming across. Yeah, I want to say easy day But that stack height is just actually a little too lean for an easy day I just like a little more stack height, you know 20 millimeters in the forefoot is just a little too low for me And for this Kavu, it's almost coming across everyone as a Cross trainer so you go out for your three mile jog outside your gym and then you transition from outside your gym Straight into the weights straight into the plyometrics in the gym straight into whatever you're doing in the gym Maybe hopping on a bike. It just I don't this is you know, even though the weight is really low I'm not I don't feel you know one of the points. I remember from the The first impression is that it the upper is not locking down over the top of my foot Tight enough or well enough. It's just a little too loosey-goosey through that upper to take it up to higher speeds You know it's 6.9 ounces like that's a tempo day shoe weight category for me But that's how I am going to use the Kavu 3 Moving forward is more like okay I'm gonna go easy out around my gym for three to five miles and then hop right into the gym And now moving on to the Elevon 2 there you go And that's how many miles I have in the Elevon 2 at this point on your screen So a 5 millimeter drop from heel to toe 32 millimeter in the heel 27 in the forefoot so that high Stack height category looking at 10.1 ounces for men size 9 and there's all the stats on your screen In grams and also for the ladies as well now. Oh boy. So I put this shoe In the long run category absolutely middle distance a long run so for me that you know 15 to 22 mile range and 160 dollar price tag for the Elevon 2 Pushing it for me really pushing it there I'd like to see that closer to 145 maybe 150 160 is a little much now. I will say though. I think gosh and again There's on your screen the amount of miles I have in this shoe I think this shoe is gonna go the distance 500 miles 600 miles even higher and you know, I'm not seeing really Anywhere and tear on the outsole at this point I really enjoyed the ride in the Elevon 2 it did well through this Homburg marathon training block you just get in the miles and get in the miles in now because of that weight I did not take the Elevon 2 to you know higher paces Let's say like sub 6 30 minutes a mile for me. Um, I hung out I remember I hung out closer to that 7 minute to 7 45 a mile pace for my middle distance and long run days In this shoe overall love the ride of the Elevon 2 the upper very comfortable in the lockdown on top of the foot What they did with the tongue and I just to remind myself. Yeah, it's oh, yeah, it's a unique gusseted tongue It's not really gusseted but it is connected to the outer wall How they how they set up the eyelet chain is just unique I'll leave it if you want more details Go check out the full review there of the Elevon 2 and I'll let you know if I would buy all four of these Shoes again here in a second and now last but not least the a raw high for okay 5 millimeter drop 32 stack height in the heel 27 so just like the Elevon 2 as far as that 5 millimeter drop All right, but the a raw high for is stability so they built in some Higher density rubber through the outsole so this orange here. It makes a J. Actually, okay? There's the J. So this is higher density foam Just to create more stability through your foot strike I'm more of a neutral running guy neutral running shoe guy But every now and then I mix in some stability shoes and I must say I don't love when running shoe when stability running shoes have a guide rail or a roll bar sometimes it's called built into the Basically built between the midsole and the upper usually it sits right about there I really like really like what hoka did with this And here it is on your screen. I forget the name of the technology off the top of my mind right now But there it is on your screen this J that they built in to the outsole so good work hoka I really really liked it and it is coming in. Oh, yeah 9.6 ounces in men's size 9 or 8 ounces in women's size 8. Okay? In a hundred and thirty dollar price tag. All right, so I I think it's good I like that price tag. I think life lifespan of this shoe Maybe not okay not quite as much as the Elevon 2 because of the outsole rubber that the Elevon 2 built in There's blue here on the outsole, but I do still think that 500 range Absolutely in the a raw high for now the big question. Here we go Mach 3. Bye it again. No Caboo 3 buy it again. No, oh man. Okay, Elevon 2 buy it again $160 No, oh so sad. I hate to be harsh harsh, but like it's just too expensive There's other shoes on the marketplace That you can buy in that more again like I said that 140 range rather than rather than the well Actually, I'll put them on your screen right now that I would put into the same Longer in category that are closer to that 140 range rather than 160 so sad, but I'm just I'm just telling you the truth. Okay, a raw high for one What was it 130? There you go. Yes, the a raw high for the stability shoe makes the mark for purchasing again in 2020 there you go to hoka running shoe lineup of 2020 now question of the day hoka fans out there What are you running in right now and why like why do you love that hoka shoe? And this is an opportunity everyone to go because there's so many like I Feel like I did pretty good thus in the first quarter of 2020 But there are so many hoka shoes out there like the Bondi that I just haven't had a chance to run in yet All right, everyone. There you go. That's today's vlog all about hoka. I love you again. There's many other Playlists out there on the channel right now that you can go Why if you want to learn about a six if you want to go learn about Nike Solomon Skechers and next up is gonna be Adidas. So I'm working on that playlist right now All right, we're gonna toss it back to oh man. What did I say? I think we're gonna toss it back to well If I remember I think it's gonna be right there. I think I'm gonna toss it Oh, yeah, well, I'll do it to the hoka playlist. There you go hoka playlist right there on your screen You guys rock. All right, everyone. Thanks for being here. Thanks for watching. See beauty work hard And love each other. See you tomorrow


Royce, we just heard that you've been the boys kind of saying I'd be what was just the message to this group of those locker Map of this loss.  I mean so long season I mean we don't care about two or three losses like what we're doing a lot of guys say that you feel like you guys deserve to Won this game what happened and what changed those last few minutes.    We're kind of turnovers here and there Just what did you see from the offense that didn't get the motion that you guys make you want it? I think just another situation if you have you more poised I mean, all of us to be connected on the same page.


With their angular faces, big ears, and smooth bodies, Sphinxes are living and purring, proof that there's more to a cat than its fur coat. Here are a few facts about the fleshy feline. 1. They're from the land of ice and snow. You'd think a cat whose ancestors come from the North country would be equipped with a warm coat. But the modern-day Canadian Sphinx, the hairless breed we know in North America, has been defying expectation since the mid-1960s, when an Ontario cat gave birth to a hairless kitten, the result of a natural genetic mutation. Then, in the mid-1970s, two separate sets of hairless kittens were born to owners in Toronto and Minnesota. Thanks to various breeding efforts, their lineages resulted in the affectionate animal we love today.  Similar breeds exist, and lookalike felines have been reported in countries across the world. For instance, the Sphinx has a hairless doppelganger, the Dinskoy, that's actually a separate breed from Russia. While they look nearly identical, the Sphinx's lack of long hair is thanks to a recessive gene, whereas the Dinskoy's hairlessness is the result of a dominant gene. 2. They're not actually bald.  If you pet one, however, you'll discover they're not actually hairless. Sphinxes are covered with a fine layer of downy fuzz. While they're not plush to the touch, their coats feel akin to suede. 3. They're patterned and colored. Although Sphinx's are naked cats, their skin pigment can vary in color and pattern. From tortoise shells to tabbies, you're bound to find a Sphinx version of many longer-haired cats. 4. They're not hypoallergenic.  Despite rumors to the contrary, the breed isn't actually hypoallergenic. Sphinx's still produce Fel D1, the allergenic protein in cats' saliva and skin secretions that causes your eyes to grow itchy and red. 5. They're warmer than most other cats. The Sphinx cat naturally has a higher body temperature. This just goes to show you that genetics are pretty incredible. While the average feline has an internal temperature of 99.5 and 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit, to compensate for their lack of fur, the Sphinx cat's internal temperature regulates at 4 degrees higher. And even though these cats are a bit toastier, they still love to cuddle in blankets. Many do not even mind the occasional cat sweater. Above all, these are not kitties that should travel outdoors or roam freely. They can actually sunburn easily in the sunlight despite the external temperature. Obviously without fur to protect them, the elements are not their friend and this is intended to be an indoor only breed. 6. They need a weekly bath. Think Sphinx kitties are super clean because they don't have fur. Think again. While your cat's coat might not be a magnet for dust particles, pollen, and other substances, its skin still produces oil. For most cats, oil help keeps their first leak. But with Sphinx cats, it can form a greasy film over their bodies, meaning their owners must give them weekly baths. The same goes for the ears, since there aren't any hairs to block dirt or dead skin cells from accumulating inside the cavities, owners have to regularly wipe them down with a washcloth or cotton ball to keep ears clear. 7. They have sensitive skin. Don't slather sunscreen on your Sphinx every time it sits in a sunbeam, but do keep in mind that because it's not covered in a dense coat, your cat's skin is more sensitive than other felines. And yes, they can get sunburnt, they can get overheated or cold and, though they can go outside, they should be mostly indoor cats. 8. They're popular. While pet owners in America love furry cats like exotic short hairs, Persians, and Maine Coons, Sphinxes are currently ranked the 8th most popular feline breed in the country, according to the Cat Fanciers Association registration statistics from 2014. 9. And friendly. While they share a name with the great Sphinx of Giza, Sphinx cats are nothing like the Stoic Statue. They're sociable loving and playful animals, so much, in fact, that a recent study in the Journal of Veterinary Behavior ranked Sphinxes as the most affectionate cat breed. Why are Sphinx cats so friendly? Experts have a few theories, it could be because they rely on humans to keep warm, because friendlier cats might be selected for breeding, or because breeders tend to leave Sphinx kittens with their mothers for longer periods of time. 10. They eat a lot. Thanks to their fast metabolisms, Sphinx cats need more food than the average feline. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high-quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out, BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife, to get 20% off. 11. The Sphinx cats that played Mr. Bigglesworth in Austin Powers had punny names. The main Mr. Bigglesworth, Ted Nugent, was specially trained for the films, sitting still for up to 45 minutes at a time while actors screamed and actor Mike Myers petted him. It helped that he had been a show cat, and was used to having lots of people around, animal trainer Tammy Maples told the Daily News. And also that he just loved Mike Myers. Mike always took time to talk to Ted. It wasn't just sit down, roll cameras. And when the filmmakers needed a Bigglesworth kitten for the spy who shagged me, they used Mel Gibson. Later, as a grown cat, Mel served as Ted's double. 12. They still have patterns and colors. Depending on what the breed standards allow, these cats still have a lot of the unique patterns that regularly coated cats have. For example, the Sphinx can even have tortoise shell and tabby markings, just without the hair. 13. They're fun. Hairless cats have all of the fun attributes of every other cat, just with a few added perks. While the look isn't for everyone, those who get to know hairless cats learn that they are active, intelligent and affectionate companions that make a great addition to any home. 14. They are known to be fashion models. The Sphinx cat's unique appearance tugs at the heartstrings or causes a strange fascination among their admirers, and there is no shortage of fan pages across the internet. Those very images prompt an exciting question as Sphinx appear in every kind of outfit from the mundane to the outlandish. 15. Sphinx cats are very talkative. Sphinx cats meow a lot because they are one of the most vocal cat breeds. They meow every time they need something from you. May it be their basic needs or if they need attention. What is so intriguing is that they do not only purr and meow, but they like to talk back to their owners. 15. There are Sphinx cats with tattoos. Although this seems to have been happening for a few years, one of the first cases to go truly viral was in Russia earlier this year. The cat in question was tattooed by Aleksandr Pertov, a tattoo artist who worked in Ekaterinburg, Russia. It was his cat's fourth tattoo that made headlines, causing outrage from animal lovers and activists across the globe. The tattoos mimicked Russian gang tattoos and featured a prison tower and a man with a cigarette. In response to accusations of cruelty, Pertov reportedly replied, I hope it is not too bad for him. It is not his first tattoo. Usually, he feels fine and recovers from the anesthesia pretty fast. The tattoo trend continued. The latest case comes from Ukrainian bodybuilder, Elena Ivana Kaya. Just days ago, it emerged that she had her Sphinx cat, Yasha, tattooed with an Egyptian style design. Critics were quick to condemn the act after she posted photos online, with many comparing it to torture. Ivana Kaya, however, appears not to regret her decision and took to social media to defend her actions. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


what's going on youtube it's been a while i was on vacation i'm sorry i didn't post last week but i'm back at you with another video and in this video i'm not gonna lie i'm a little bit frustrated so i went to go get my car service for an oil change at dodge curb this is chrysler and after getting my oil change i inspect my vehicle which i recommend that everybody inspect their vehicle and what i come to find out when i check my shaker hood is that these notches are supposed to be here and well the notches in the bolt and this bolt was snapped off let me see if i can focus that for you guys try that again see that see that right there that's snapped off and the worst thing the worst thing about this is that the mechanic did not tell anybody so he tried to hide it all right so i'm gonna get into the facts of the situation so this incident happened july 27th 2018 on a friday i went and got an oil change i inspected my car before i drove off the lot i noticed that as i showed you previously that the little bolt the little rod the threaded rod is snapped off the mechanic tried to hide it so i speak to the manager at that point they're very apologetic they tell me that they're going to order the part it's on them you know yada yada yada right so during the time i'm waiting to speak to the manager i'm waiting a total of almost two hours after something that they broke i know you guys are probably like jordan your car still works it's not like your car is broken your car still works but the point is it's the principle of the matter the mechanic made a mistake he chose to hide it instead of informing somebody then if i would have drove off the lot it would have been my fault so that's why i'm making a big deal about it you know if you get your car serviced at a dealership you should feel that your car is in good hands why should you be in fear that something's going to happen to your car because now that's how i feel so anyways going back into it after the two hours um they told me that we are still working on it and i waited another 45 minutes so on top of that they're not there's no sense of urgency at this dealership i don't know what's going on right now so i'm still waiting i finally speak to the manager they tell me that you know the part is going to get ordered don't worry about it we're very sorry shook my hand looked at the car complimented the car try to you know make me feel good right so then i was told that i was going to be getting a phone call i never got a phone call so i called the manager back the service manager i'm not going to say any names because i don't want to put anybody on the spot just know that it was courtesy chrysler and dodge or courtesy dodge chrysler whatever you want to say in brandon um they called me saying that the part was ordered so i was like okay i didn't receive any updates throughout that week not even on the saturday so i wrote an email you know basically explaining the situation that i'm explaining to you now and i got a phone call that monday morning keep in mind that this happened monday july 23rd and it's the next monday that i'm just trying to see if the part was even ordered right so i get a phone call monday morning saying that the part was ordered and and because of my inconvenience they're going to throw in the splash guards the service manager responded to my email saying that the parts are going to be here tuesday august 7th i have not received a phone call another email about the eta of my case so i called the service manager three times on friday and my phone call was not returned so then i go and drive up to dodge courtesy chrysler or courtesy dodge chrysler um today actually that's where i just came from to see the status on there it turns out that the service manager is off which is fine you know i just wish that there would have been some type of follow-up it's not even about pointing people out it's just about the lack of urgency and the lack of importance that my car has or appears to have at this dealership when their employee broke something on my car and you know it it it just goes to show you that if you don't persist and you're not persistent you know you won't get the things that are are rightfully supposed to be done like like it's been what over going going into three weeks now and i don't even know if the parts are ordered or they're they keep you know using terminology like they're gonna give me the eta on that and and stuff like that like it doesn't it just doesn't make any sense you know and i'm trying not to ramble on here so long story short when i went to the dealership today they told me that the the service manager is off um that the parts are not in the shop yet so they're gonna have the service manager give me a phone called monday on the eta of my case so now i'm just stuck here waiting still driving around with a broken shaker hood it just doesn't make any sense why you know this dealership is is dragging their feet it it you know i feel like i've been very patient it's been over three weeks and my car is still broken but anyways my name is jordan the comment underneath i would love to hear what you've gone through or just your opinion on my situation um i'll see you in the next video oh yeah by the way um another thing that they did when i got my vehicle serviced is i asked for the tires to be set to the pressure that was recommended for the car which you can find in your door jam i don't know if you can see that but the pressure that is needed for these tires is 32 psi people and i checked the meter and the gauge now mind you i know that it's not completely accurate but it was way way from the recommended psi it was at 40 psi when i specifically asked for 32 when you go get your car service at these dealerships make sure you look at your car before you drive off the lot so if there's any mistakes it will be their fault that is my public service announcement for this video


Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and welcome to theCUBE's preview of Nutanix.NEXT London 2018. Happy to welcome back to the program, two friends of the program, Julio O'Brien who's the Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Sunil Podi who's the Chief Product and Development Officer both with Nutanix. Thanks so much for joining us. Yeah, it's great to be here again. All right, so we've been there since day one. I was actually just recently down at the Fontainebleau in Miami reliving one of my favorite sets that we did. It was this beautiful kind of Miami colors which match the bright green and blue of Nutanix with the cubes, so I've been to every single one of them. You have the European version, which is the third year. We did Vienna, we did Nice, and now London. So, Julie, start us in as what we can expect this year. Sure, yeah, so we actually just finished our dot next on tour in APJ in the Americas. We were from Beijing to Boston, over 20,000 registrants and 44 cities. So now we're coming off of that, heading into the conference, which is our multi-day event. First time being in London for the multi-day conference. We have a great lineup of speakers. So, from a main stage perspective, Bear Grylls, who you may be familiar with, man versus wild, he's a well-known survivalist. I'm sure he'll have tips to connect what we survive every day in technology with what he survives in the wilderness. We're gonna have Jane Goodall joining us, so renowned anthropologist. She's giving back to conservation, just a phenomenal woman who's gonna be on stage with me in a fireside chat, cannot wait for that. Anna Alex from a startup in Berlin called Outfittery. So we always like to bring in some fun, interesting companies from the region. They're actually using a mashup of AI with their clothing business to figure out how to dress elegant professionals, such as yourselves, with all of the right clothing items. So she should be a lot of fun. And then I did wanna share something really special today. There's breaking news that we haven't shared anywhere else yet on one of our new main stage speakers. So for those of you who are football fans, this gentleman was one of the top performing German national football team members when he played. And his name is Michael Balak. So he'll be joining us and we're really excited about that. So for all the Germans out there, hopefully they'll be thrilled to check him out. We'll do some live juggling on the keynote. Awesome. Well, one of the things I always love about the show is customers always want to kind of expand their horizons, learn new products, get to know what they have, even better, help their job, but also expand your mind some. You've had some great thought leaders on the program. Thank you. I've had the opportunity of interviewing some of them on theCUBE, which is great. Authors I've read, professors that you read and I've done a lot of research, thought leaders in space. It's always fun. But the main reason most people go Sunil is to learn about the solutions that they have, learn about some of the cool new stuff and you're always well-dressed on stage and helping the customers understand kind of where things are today and where they're going. So what can they expect from you? Yeah, and I think this time around, just like prior times, there's going to be a bit of the continuation of the journey, which is what is practical about the company is that the vision continues to be consistently evolving in the sense that we've embarked on this two-part re-architecture of the enterprise cloud and in the first act, it was all about converging various silos of infrastructure. We called it the invisible infrastructure era and then we believe, and you'll see a lot of this on dot next London, is that a little bit more light around the reality that we are on the cusp of this, the world of many clouds. So, from going from the world of many silos of infrastructure to going to the world of many clouds and a lot more depth of products beyond what we've done in the first act around invisible infrastructure, transforming to invisible clouds is what's going to be the underpinning of the team. Yeah, you bring up something we've been watching at a lot of the shows and in our research. Cloud was supposed to be, many people thought, oh, it's going to be simple and it's going to be inexpensive and what we found is it's often neither of those. We live in a multi-cloud world, absolutely. The question I have for many users is, well, how did you get there? Was it by choice? Do you have a good plan? And who's going to help you get your arms around things? Or have we recreated through multiple clouds and applications everywhere, the silos that we were trying to collapse in our data centers before? Yeah, and I think some of this is also going to be, just like we've sort of, in any problem solving, define the problem well, it's 50% of the solution. So in some cases in the world of multi-clouds, one of the things that we've sort of had to kind of give it some time and it's a rite of passage is to really characterize, when we say multi-cloud, most people think it's just public and private, right? So it's to really characterize the problem of the multiple clouds or the multi-cloud error actually is a construct of many public clouds, but the quote unquote private cloud is becoming increasingly more dispersed or distributed, right? All the way into the remote office, branch offices, but also all the way into what we're calling the edge, right? So part of what we're going to be talking about is a pretty reasonable understanding of how we've seen some of our early customers sort of templatize their different kinds of clouds and then overlay the solution to say, look, it's not one size fits all, but you need from an operational perspective, at least, something that can be a single control play. Yeah, you're absolutely right. If you follow the applications and you follow the data, it's become even more dispersed. I remember the early days, when I first spoke to Diraj, it was, oh, are we taking a bunch of boxes and collapsing it? And what it came down to is the premise is that the challenge of our time is software for distributed architectures. And five years ago, we weren't talking about edge computing and IoT and all those things, but that's following along those trends. And I think so one of the core technical themes you're going to see is that the last 10 years of cloud has been about the era of scaling out. And that's proven now and there's more to be done. I think to really fulfill this next 10 years, you're going to see this thematic view of scaling in, especially when you scale small, which is a different art, than scaling out to some extent, right? And especially if you want to solve problems at the edge, you want to do it consistently so that you can actually follow the app, as the app's transformed, some of these newer architectural paradigms have to be understood. So that's going to be sort of like an underlying theme. Yeah, and edge computing, I think we know is a really hot topic amongst our customers. And this year, we're going to have an API accelerator lab. So in New Orleans, we had a hackathon. We're going to do it a little bit differently. So this is going to be really focused on giving people an opportunity to get their hands involved in our IoT product, along with some nooks as well. So it should be a lot of fun for people. This is a great area and it is a great application for that multicloud distributed edge kind of environment. Great, so November 27th through 29th in London, we're going to have two days of theCUBE, of course, go to theCUBE.net to watch the program. NextConf has always been the hashtag. I want to give you both just the final takeaways, what people should turn into, other than, of course, watching your keynotes in theCUBE coverage. Yeah, I think you'll see a lot on social media. Hopefully stay involved with all the innovation that we're going to be announcing. You're going to hear a lot from the breakout sessions. People will be tweeting from those sessions. We have more than 60 breakout sessions across a range of topics for people that are in different phases of their journey with us, whether it's just hyper-converged infrastructure, whether it's blockchain, whether it's IoT, and they're starting to think about the multicloud hybrid environment too. So there's going to be a lot of great information coming out of the event, and see you. Yeah, no, I think you've covered it all, but in general, so there's going to be a lot of cool stuff, both people-wise as well as technology-wise, but I think hopefully the common theme that everybody will participate in is this construct of this whole Nutanix vibe of dreaming big, acting fast, and having fun. Okay, well, Julie and Sunil, thank you so much. And also, breaking news, we're actually going to have a first on the program. We've actually got my first European co-host for a multi-day event, Upe Piscar, who's a CUBE alum been on a couple of times. And what I'm actually looking for, audience, I'd like to do my first non-English interview on theCUBE, so Upe is fluent in Dutch. He's going to be taking the train into London. I would love to be able to do a short segment, preferably a user, but we would welcome a thought leader, a partner, somebody in there to be able to, as we've expanded our coverage, we did our first Chinese event last year. We've done many in Europe. We did our first Middle East show in Bahrain just a couple of weeks ago. So look for that as, you know, but like Nutanix, we're all over the globe with what we've done. So Julie and Sunil, thank you so much for Stu Miniman. Once again, thank you for watching theCUBE.