Trickey Treats by Georgia Perez. Good morning, brother son. The great bald eagle opened his eyes and flapped his wings to start a new day. He flew over and circled the village as he did every day. Below he could see the village coming to life. People began moving about to begin their busy day. Today was the last day Rain That Dances and his friends would meet with Mr. Eagle. I better take some snacks with me in case we get hungry. Rain That Dances built his backpack with snacks and water and ran to meet his friends. Little Hummingbird was already waiting for Rain That Dances. They could see Thunder Cloud and Simon running towards them. Are we ready to go? Yes, and we have plenty of snacks this time because we all saw the food today. Look, there's Mr. Eagle. They all looked up to the sky and waved to their friend. They were happy and wanted to hear what Mr. Eagle had to say today. The great bald eagle looked down and saw his friends. He flew down to circle closer above them and then flew ahead. The children started running to keep up with the eagle. As the eagle flew closer to the tree stump, he saw Miss Rabbit and someone with her. He thought to himself, who could that be? It was Coyote. The eagle knew someone else would be joining them, but he did not know it would be Coyote. As the eagle came to rest on the tree stump, he asked, Coyote, why are you here today? Miss Rabbit told me you were talking to the children about staying healthy. I just wanted to join in. Is that okay? Now, Coyotes are known to be sneaky animals. They like to trick anyone they come close to. Mr. Eagle thought about this for a minute and decided it would be okay for the Coyote to stay. You can stay Coyote, but I do not want you to trick the children. Thank you. Coyote gave a sneaky smile as he looked down the hill and saw the children running up the path. Rain that dances, little hummingbird, thundercloud, and Simon arrived, laughing and waving at their friends. This is Coyote. He wants to learn about staying healthy, too. Hello, Miss Rabbit and Coyote. We brought some snacks today in case we get hungry. Well, that is good because that is what I want to talk to you about today. I know everyone likes to snack, but do you know there are everyday snacks and snacks that are to be eaten only sometimes? Coyote lifted his front paw and stopped the eagle from talking. What do you mean by every day sometimes? I think we should eat anything we want to when we are hungry. This made Miss Rabbit hop into the air and Mr. Eagle flap his wings. They both looked at Coyote. This is why I want to talk to the children. I think the best way to talk about this is to see what you have in your backpacks. I went to the store with my mom and I think we did a good job picking some healthy snacks. Rain that dances opened his backpack. First, he pulled out some apple slices. How is this for an everyday snack? Gee, that is such a small snack. That is not enough, even for me. Hooray for you rain that dances. This is a good size and a healthy snack food for every day. Rain that dances smiled and gave his friends a high five. Then he pulled out some carrots that he had helped his mom cut up and put into bags. How is this? Perfect. Those look delicious and they are something that you can grow yourself in a garden. Coyote was disappointed at what he saw. Wait, I'll be right back. Coyote ran off to the village. A short time later, he came back with a backpack in his mouth. Where did you get that? Oh, I found this beside the road and it didn't seem to belong to anyone. I bet there are some great treats in this bag. The children, Miss Rabbit and Mr. Eagle looked at the coyote and then the bag. With one shake, treats tumbled out. Look, now this is a great snack. Coyote picked up a bag of cookies and waved the bag under the children's noses. Can I have some? The great bald eagle knew that the coyote was trying to trick the children. Thunder cloud, it is not safe to eat food that you find lying around. Let's see what else rain that dances has in his backpack. Rain that dances pulled out a bottle of water. The great bald eagle was happy to see that his little friend had brought water instead of fruit drink or soda pop. Coyote just shook his head and looked to see what else fell out of the bag he had found. I have soda pop and potato chips. That drink is a sometimes food because it has too much sugar in it. Water is better. Water is a gift from Mother Earth and something we should have every day. Potato chips are a sometimes food. Little hummingbird put her hands on her hips and looked at the coyote. Coyote, I know what you were trying to do. You were trying to trick us and you better stop it. We will listen to Mr. Eagle so that we can grow up strong and stay healthy. The coyote lowered his head. The eagle was proud of little hummingbird. Now, can we see what you have in your backpack, Thunder Cloud? Well, I was in a hurry this morning and now I think I didn't make the best choices. You know, sometimes we don't always choose the best snacks. But we can still eat the sometimes foods once in a while, just not all the time. So what did you bring? Thunder Cloud pulled out a bag of sugared cereal. Now, let's look at the cereal. What does the cereal have on it? Sugar. Yes, that's right. I like this cereal. Because of the sugar, this is not an everyday food. How about these cherries? You made a good choice. No, that wasn't hard, was it? No, but you do have to think about it sometimes. Thunder Cloud was happy that he had made a good snack choice. When picking a snack or a treat, we need to make sure it does not have a lot of sugar in it. We also need to remember that small amounts are better. Fruits and vegetables every day make for healthy snacks, too. I am very proud of all my new friends. You have taken the time to learn how to stay healthy. Coyote, I hope you will not try to trick the children into eating something you know is not good for them. And I hope you will return that backpack where you found it. I am sorry, I tried to trick the children. When I see the children as I go through the village, I promise not to trick them. Mr. Eagle looked at the children, Ms. Rabbit and Coyote. So what have we learned today? I know, eat fruits and vegetables.  Eat sometimes food less often. Drink water and don't take something that does not belong to you. Move your body every day to help stay healthy in body and spirit. Try growing your own vegetables. Mr. Eagle was so proud of his little friends. I will always be flying above to see how you are doing. And when you see me, you will remember what I have told you. Now, let us share the snacks that you were brought today. Coyote, you need to return the backpack. It belongs to someone. We will surprise the person by putting a new bottle of water and carrot seeds in the bag. And we will put a book through the eyes of the eagle in there, the book about us. They all sat down and enjoyed their snack together. As the children were leaving, they turned and waved goodbye to Mr. Eagle, Ms. Rabbit and Coyote. Rain that dances left with a big smile on his face. He and his friends would tell the people in the village about the ways they could stay healthy. Rain that dances thought to himself. Diabetes might even go away someday. Mr. Eagle will no longer be sad as he watches us from above. As brother's son began to go down behind the mountain to end another day, Mr. Eagle had a happy thought and said out loud. My new friends that have joined us to hear my stories will be strong in body. And like mine, their spirits will soar high with happiness knowing that their future is bright. So until another time, I will say goodbye. The end.


In our society, there is a bias towards skill, against skill. We try and believe that being a Babu in a railway station is probably a better job than being a retail employee. I think that's a huge need of the country at this point in time. And I've heard that the Principal Secretary of Skills of Maharashtra is here. I personally believe that if you are confident about yourself, the world will change itself. I would like you to comment on this because it's very relevant to some very hardworking people here that they get the respect in society and they learn to self-respect themselves in the years ahead of us. The world respecting you is the quality of the world around you. If they are that kind, they will respect you. But I know a lot has been said about this, but you respecting yourself, I think is a little crazy. Respect is between two people, but I'm asking anybody here, isn't respect between two people that you respect somebody for who they are. I respect myself. You must be mad because these things, like this is a big thing, you know, in America people are saying, all these days they used to say, I believe in God. Now they say, I believe in myself. All these days they used to say, I love you to somebody. These days they have started and I love myself. See, to love, to believe, to respect, you need to. If you have become two within yourself, for sure you're heading for madness. If you really become two, then we say you're schizophrenic, isn't it? So this has been worked in so many different ways by religious people, by a new age, philosophers, all kinds. I love myself, I respect myself, I believe in myself, me and my ego, me and my soul, all kinds of things.  Please make up your mind right now, one or two. So this self-respecting business has to go because this will lead to all kinds of expectations. I respect myself, I think I'm a big guy. Now I expect you also to treat me like that, when you don't, I will become resentful, angry, all kinds of things. There is no need for me to respect myself. But if I respect somebody, it may not even be because of their quality, it is because of my quality I respect somebody, isn't it?  So you're looking up, you're looking up to something means you're moving upward. If you're looking down upon something means you're moving downward, isn't it? So respect is between two people, I don't see how it is applicable within myself, I respect myself. I believe myself, I love myself, these are all statements of the insane.


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He'll explain a little bit more about that later and also he coaches and mentors with the University of Nairobi basketball team. Thank you for having me. Yes, so please tell us a little bit about the coaching and mentorship before we discuss the rheumatology. Okay, so currently I help coach and mentor the University of Nairobi team and Nairobi school because I've learned there's a lot of issues with the boy child, so just a way of giving back to society. So apart from empowering them with the basketball skills, we also take them through some mentorship program. Okay, I see. All right, thank you.  Can you please explain to our viewers what a rheumatologist is and then we can dive right in. What does a rheumatologist do? So rheumatology is a field that is not well understood especially in this part of the world.  So rheumatology basically looks at connective tissue diseases, musculoskeletal diseases. Some of the examples of things we deal with things like arthritis, back pain, diseases like lupus, muscle diseases, amongst many other conditions. Okay, all right, thank you for bringing up lupus because as much as today is World Autoimmune Disease Day and we're going to be focusing on a particular autoimmune disease that we know as well as rheumatology. Can you say these words? That we know well as arthritis but an autoimmune form of it and actually this whole month we're going to be celebrating world lupus month. Yes, it is. Okay, and there's a connection between the two you said. Yes. Hi of us, maybe we can dive right in. What is the difference between normal arthritis and autoimmune arthritis? So I think to make it clearer, it's basically, let's go to the basic of the science. Okay. When we say autoimmune, what basically mean is that the body is unable to recognize between yourself and a foreign object. So the natural response of the body is to attack a foreign object. For example, like an infection. Yeah, so the body's response to attack it but when you have autoimmune conditions, the body cannot differentiate the two. So it ends up attacking also your body. So you can manifest in very many conditions can affect your joints, muscles, blood vessels, heart, like best practically any part of your body. Right. And that is the science of it. Yes, that's the science of it. So in terms of the difference between the two, okay, with arthritis, we usually have two types. There's the auto inflammatory, the autoimmune, sorry, and the non-autoimmune. So for most of our viewers, they are more, more likely to do the non-autoimmune. So the non-autoimmune is more common in the elderly. We call it osteoarthritis. So basically, the science would give a very simple explanation is that the grease in the joint runs out. So there's a lot of friction. From the friction, you get arthritis, arthritis basically is joint pain versus autoimmune, which is different in that when your body is unable to recognize your normal joint from a foreign object, it attacks now your joint. And now this one is now more common in the younger age group now. I see. Yes. And more common in the younger age group because we do tend to link arthritis to an older age group. When you hear the word arthritis, you think of the senior members of society, the older people. But nowadays, I was also surprised to learn that it's something that's affecting our youth. Yes. Yeah. So, you know, we're going to take that angle when we're discussing because this is a youth channel. And please remember once again, if you are a parent and you are interested in what we're discussing or you've got a child that is going through what we are discussing, please reach out to us on hashtag, help on Monday and hashtag why in the morning and send your questions to us. Tafadali, please let's continue. What are some of the, you said that this is what we're recognizing children. Yes. What are some of those signs that parents can look out for? Maybe the first thing is maybe to define arthritis. Arthritis is basically a joint pain. Okay. And it can be caused by all sorts of things. So, basically, the first you will sign especially the younger age group for babies and children is a bit difficult. But you probably notice the other work with a limp, some unexplained fatigue, unexplained fevers, unexplained joint pains here today, tomorrow they are okay. When you get first adolescent age group, it's a bit no more defined because the patients are more advanced. I'll tell you now, it's just not as painful or swollen or the back as issues. There's one particular arthritis we call ankylosine spondylitis. It's very common in the younger age group because what happens is that you find a patient wakes up in the morning and the back is stiff. The back is stiff. Yes. And the back is stiff. It means you can be stiff for about even 30 minutes.  Just in the bed.  So, usually another thing which can help especially the younger age group because where we teach, we tell our students to differentiate between what is autoimmune pain versus non-autoimmune pain. So, the autoimmune pain is basically pain that's worse in the morning and gets better with activity. Okay. And that is what is more common with the younger age group versus the older one, when you get the wear and tear, is pain that is worse with activity. Meaning that you'll be, maybe we walk the whole day at the end of the day when you have to rest. That's when the pain does what? Substance. Yes. Apart from that, especially the younger age group, sometimes we get some unusual presentations for arthritis. Some certain heart conditions can put you at risk developing arthritis. When you have diseases like lupus which is basically a systemic disease can come with also arthritis also. Yeah. Wow. All right. We'll touch on lupus just a little bit later on. Maybe we can still continue to talk about, since you've said what arthritis is, we've separated the difference between normal arthritis and autoimmune arthritis and how it may affect people of different ages. You know, when I was doing some research yesterday, I learned that when it comes to places like the U.S., they have particular statistics that they've taken and right now they're standing at, I think it was 300,000 youth, 300,000 children basically that are carrying specifically autoimmune arthritis. Excuse me. Unfortunately here in Kenya, I don't think we have specific numbers that we're working with and we'll talk more about how to reduce those numbers but for now, the numbers that we do have, are there any, how can I say, apart from this particular day to raise awareness, are there any organizations that are catering to dealing with children with this or is it just, you know, you just have to vote for the doctor and he'll refer you? Unfortunately, in terms of rheumatology in Kenya, we are still very, very, I'll put it in the storage. For example, the number of rheumatologists in Kenya are less than 10, serving a population of about 40 years. The number of rheumatologists in Kenya are less than 10? Yes. Wow. And that is the major, the major drawback because in order to raise awareness, you also need to improve the personnel. Another shocking statistic is that there's only one public hospital where you have arthritis you can be seen, which is Kenyatta. So it means that if you have arthritis, the only place you can access, apart from Kenyatta, will be a private hospital. There are some of the issues we have with arthritis. I'll give an example like for the children arthritis. There's a paper which we did some research on arthritis in children and a lot of them were coming late, meaning that there have been so many doctors. By the time the landing on us is late, sometimes one year, even two years, that's in the children. In the adults, the exact figures about 60, 70% were coming after a year, a year and a half, which is surprising. So it means that I think awareness on the ground is not the best. And also too, we need to empower our, need to empower our upcoming doctors. Another shocking thing is that if you look at the universities that teach medicine, apart from University of Nairobi and maybe not even at my university, there are only hospitals that have actually got a rheumatology sitting there. The other teaching universities that teach medicine have no rheumatologies there. So you can see there's a really, there's a big shortfall in terms of that. In terms of organizations, nothing so far, there have been a couple of initiatives. There's one called Uwezo Initiative. So basically Uwezo Initiative was an initiative of some fellows from Sweden, England and Kenya. So the idea was they were trying to empower the local clinicians, so they organized workshops for the doctors, for the physiotherapists, and also for the patients. And it's something which has been started. So we're hoping at the time it can be able to pick up and hopefully at least help in terms of managing these conditions better. Okay, I see. And speaking of managing conditions, but actually that's really sad because it looks like there's a really big gap both in physicians and both in nursing awareness. There's just a huge gap everywhere when it comes to arthritis in every single form. And we'll talk about ways we can change that, but speaking of how to manage this disease, specifically autoimmune arthritis, a young person that is watching right now, maybe, that is undergoing or a loved up parent who has a child that is undergoing, what are some of the ways they can manage the pain? Because you did say that it's joint pain normally, and we have the joints in our wrists and our elbows, our knees, and it could be anywhere. And then it can even affect your organs up to some point. How can they manage this pain? So usually management, what I do with my patients, the first thing is education. Because for a lot of parents, they find it very hard to imagine that their 14-year-old child has arthritis.  My child does not have arthritis. Can not have arthritis. So usually the first thing is empowering the patient, empowering also the parents. About the patient because a lot of, like especially the teenagers, teenagers are a bit difficult because there's a lot of issues in terms of acceptance. Why am I taking medicine at this young age? Other things that what would my friends think about when I'm taking medicine? So empowering them, isn't it, is something which we need to do. And one of the things which I tell my patients is that if, because most of the coffers I've attended, the leading doctors in arthritis for the youth are actually patients. So they started as patients and became doctors and became leading. And so the, the kids were driving because they've been through it. They've been able to make it. So that's some of the things I used to empower the patient. So in terms of medicine, there are a number of options that are available and number, number, number of options depending on the cause. Usually education is very important because people go on Google. Like one of the drugs we use is called methotrexate. It was like for the rheumatoid arthritis and patients come and tell you what, doctor, I went to the chemist and the chemist was very telling me that this is for cancer or something. Yes, it can be used for cancer. I'm not disputing, but in the doses for cancer, but the arthritis are very different. In fact, when children, the doses are what? Are very different. The other options you can give, the drug called chloroquine, it used to be used in all this for malaria. By the way, yeah. You can use it, you can use it both, right? Yeah, yeah. The problem with us Africans, you misused it. No, I would say that everybody has malaria. So eventually the bug would resist and so the drug was withdrawn, but research has shown that it can be useful there. The drug called surfacilazine can be used. The regular painkillers can be used on and off. Once they will give them steroids. The steroids is only for a short duration of time so as to corrode inflammation, but the main steroids I've mentioned and then there's some newer drugs that have been introduced in the market. They're expensive. We call them biologics or designer drugs. So the sum, the cost usually is the prohibitive factor. There's one that costs about 200,000 every two months. 200,000 per what? Every two months. It's another about 85,000 every month. But those are usually for patients who can afford and maybe who have failed the standard treatment. Oh my goodness. Wow. 200,000. Many can afford that. Actually, I think a handful can afford that. Yeah, and that's why I've been trying because like in the 80s and 90s, the HIV medicine was very expensive and the gays who really pushed were the patients. Yeah. Look now cancer. The gays who are pushing for cancer are who? The patients. So you've been trying to encourage your patients that you guys need to push. Yeah, push. Because if you push a lot of these drugs, I'll give you for example, like one of the drugs that is used in cancer, so used in arthritis.  For cancer. And that that costs like about 250,000. So I think going forward, I think trying to petition the government show that the people are here and they need this medicine, something which might help at least lower the cost because arthritis is very expensive. Yes, actually sounds very expensive. And speaking of medication as a way to manage pain, is there anything else people can do apart from exercising? I know you said that some people go to a witch doctor.   But I think simply put joints are joints. Yes.  And when the lubrication at the joint, I guess gets severed somehow, arthritis will come at any age. It's not a matter of witchcraft. Yes. You said medicine. Is there exercise, you know, that people can do? Because sometimes I've seen they limp, literally. And I'm asking myself, how will they get the energy to do exercise or even hydro? Hydro therapy and the rest. So in that particular aspect, there's something we have called rehabilitative exercises. And this mainly is to do physiotherapy and occupational therapy. So physiotherapy is basically when you've come, it's like rehab, being taught how to work again. There's a flexibility of the joint, strengthening of the joint. So that's what physiotherapy is. Occupational therapy is a bit different because you're trying to restore function. Like for example, like if I'm like a cook, how can I use my hand when it's deformed? So that's what occupational therapy is. Unfortunately in Kenya, we have physios and occupational therapies, but in terms of the equipment they have in like most of the districts, most of the counties, sub counties are not up to up to par. So usually we need to encourage our patients to maximize their physiotherapy. Apart from that, exercise is good. And from research, they've been able to show that if patients who have been regularly exercising tend to recover faster from arthritis. Secondly, it delays the onset of arthritis also. And third can actually be able to prevent what some of these arthritis. Apart from that, the exercises diet is important. We run away by a lot of high refined sugars. So these high refined sugars over time can actually have been shown being placated in some of these autoimmune conditions. So we need to be able to eat more healthy food, more fruits, more vegetables, meat or the high meats should be taken down. Because apart from causing the usual autoimmune can also cause gout, which is becoming a problem, especially in the younger age group, which should not be the case. Yeah, amongst other things. Of course. All right. And we've learned quite a bit about arthritis today and the difference between normal arthritis and autoimmune arthritis. Do you mind touching a little bit on the connection? Since this is world lupus month, the whole month, could you maybe touch on the connection between lupus and autoimmune diseases? So lupus is a type of autoimmune disease. Lupus, if you go back history, what it means is wolf bite. Wolf bite? Yeah, wolf bite. That's what it means. So that bite here. So the initial people, I think when the first patients in the 1800s or whatever time it was, they'll get scar here. So then lupus name came from there. So lupus is a very interesting disease because it's very common amongst ladies. I think the ratio is about 9 to 1. Age group is about 15 to about 55. And it's a systemic thing. So arthritis or joint issues is one of them. Muscle is one of them. Heart is another one. Tummy issues. Brain issues. Blood is another way. So you can present in very many forms. I saw someone maybe falling here. Yes, even falling here. So some of the symptoms which the patient pick up will be one weight loss and explained fevers, feeling just fatigue, this unexplained fatigue. Other things will get mouth ulcers. They get a cheek, a rush around the cheek. Others who are very unfortunate can present with kidney failure. Some who are very unfortunate.  It affects your brain that much. Yes. And then another which is for ladies especially, these unexplained pregnancy losses. I remember as a patient I once saw who had lost I think six pregnancies. Her husband had left her. I don't know what the having issues. She was pregnant with the seventh one. Unfortunately she lost the seventh one. I haven't seen her since then. Her husband left her. And that's another thing about this. She still has the lupus. She still has the lupus but I don't know where she is. I haven't seen her in a while. Some of the things you know, some of these autoimmune conditions, a lot of stigma associated with it. And I like that right now people are coming out and talking about the lupus. Maybe I can mention a few people who the youth might relate to. Yes, please. Like Nick Cannon. Nick Cannon is a comedian. He has lupus. For him, he has lupus nephritis. I mean kidney. He had kidney issues. He had to go for dialysis and all that. Selena Gomez, the same kidney. She even had to go for a transplant. They replaced her kidney. Lady Gaga. Yes, has lupus. With all that energy. And her, in fact, if she goes back, I think either her mom and her family had lupus. Tony Braxton also has lupus. I think she passed out one day in some interview or something. They went for a test. It had affected her heart. This is a rapper called Trick Daddy. Trick Daddy, sorry. Trick Daddy now is the, he has one aspect of the skin. We call it the square lupus. You can see it's a very common thing. And I like that he's coming out. Yes, yes, yes. And I noticed you used past tense. This means that they've been cured of it? Not exactly. You see the cure is a bit difficult because a lot of these autoimmune conditions, we still are understanding and we still do not know what exactly causes. We just know that if you are, it's more likely to be ladies. Okay. People who smoke, we take alcohol. I've heard like a lot of viral infections. It's a family history, but we don't really have one particular cause we say like for malaria, we say it's a malaria bug. If it's a type of bug, so treating is a bit easy. But for lupus, it's a bit difficult. And just to show you how difficult it is to treat lupus is that in the last 50 years, there's only been one drug, one new drug for lupus, the last 50 years. In the last five decades, there has been one new drug that has been reduced into the market. So basically it's been the same drug the whole time.  About $2 million a year, the whole cause. Yes. It's not available in Kenya by the day. It's not available in Kenya, but we still have women here that need it. Yes. Yes. Yes. We still have it.  A hydra meaning that it has very many faces. So my face may be the heart, another may be the kidney, another may be the skin. So there are some treatments that are there and if you're able to talk with your doctor, they're able to tailor make the treatment according to what you have. And most of the time they do well on the standard treatment. There are some extreme cases where you may be required and able to go to the country to then access those particular drugs. But the main issue is that most of these patients come when they are very late. So even the standard treatment may not be effective. I see. Okay. Oh, wow. And now that you've talked about the connection between lupus and autoimmune diseases, I hope our viewers are trying to catch up and continue to understand. Maybe you can discuss with us a little bit how, when it comes to autoimmune diseases, maybe how here in Kenya, we can change the numbers of what, yes, we don't have specific numbers. We have no idea how many people have autoimmune diseases. Like in America, we know it's 300,000 young teenagers that have it. But here in Kenya, we still don't know. Still, nonetheless, we'd still like to reduce those numbers. In what ways can we do that apart from raising awareness? So I think the first thing is that we clinicians also, we need to do research. I think that's the most important thing. Like if you're, I'm sure you try googling lupus in Kenya, there are not very few data. But over time, the number of publications that come in, like you have some publications on lupus, I have a couple, is one on rheumatoid arthritis that are there. So I think for doctors is to publish, when you publish or write an article concerning lupus or rheumatoid arthritis or some autoimmune condition, it goes to the internet. So it means there's a number there. And that is what we need to tell, if you go to the government, this is there and we show them the evidence, it makes sense. Other things about arthritis is one to the stigma. The stigma is something which is a bit difficult because I've heard, maybe I can give you the story, there's a lady who has rheumatoid arthritis. So she came with her sister. So chat, chat, chat, she goes away. A few months later, the sister comes back, the sister now, the two sisters come. Now the first lady had rheumatoid arthritis, the sister a few months later develops what? rheumatoid arthritis. In the midst of talking, I'm wondering how, you know, because where I studied, people would come as couples, come husband, wife, husband, wife. So I asked them, how come you guys are not coming with the husbands? They told me that when the first lady got rheumatoid arthritis, the husband bolted. So she would come with her sister. So when the sister got rheumatoid arthritis, guess what? The husband also did what? Left her too. So I think stigma, I don't know. It's that bad. It's that bad. And there's another, the previous story you mentioned as well, the lady with the six miscarriages. So it's stigma. Sorry, before you go further, what are they seeing in this stigma that makes them literally take to heal and run? What are they seeing? What have they heard? What is it that people are saying about arthritis? I'll give you, for example, like lupus. When lupus comes the first time, I very say we are lupus. The first thing to think about is HIV or cancer because it has, it's very similar. The symptoms. Symptoms. It is very, very similar. So that's the first thing people think about. Other issues about, you know, this disease is bad because a lot of the patients tell me that people think I'm lazy because there are some days they just can't wake up. They can't because that day the disease is just bad. They are fatigued, joint pain, so you see for the, for this guy is wondering, you look okay. Why are you in bed the whole time? So those are some of the issues about the stigma and then also witchcraft and all that. I know a lot of these people really don't understand about it. Like there's a very special disease called scleroderma. Called what? Scleroderma. So basically it means thick skin. So you have like a skin that is hard like leather. Wow, leather skin. Very tight. Very, very tight. So imagine that to a layman. What's the first thing they'll think about? It's just witchcraft. So I think stigma is something which we need to deal with. Another thing I think is empowering our doctors. We are trying, at least another rheumatologist is increasing and at least information is getting out there. So I think that's something which we need to do. Another thing is trying to involve government in terms of management of this disease. Because a lot of people don't understand that we actually have guidelines for motor arthritis in Kenya. They released like last year by the, this is an organization called Atrumah Society of Kenya. The guys who were like, we are the rheumatologists who came together. So we came up with a guideline which would help at least with rheumatology. Unfortunately, we didn't get any government input. Unfortunately. Wow. That shows you the things that. Yes, lack of interest. Kenya, we are a react kind of government. When this go bar is going to do what? We react. We kind of wait until things have gone haywire. We're like, oh, let's do something. Let's do something about it. Wow. And then the patient support groups, like where I started, the patient support groups do a lot. They do a lot. So they're the ones who actually fund the research. How do they fund the research? They usually organize campaigns to raise money, concerts. They even have shops where you would like, there's a Luper's UK good for shop for Luper's UK find the rubber bands, t-shirts, shirts, everything is there. So you can buy whatever you're buying goes towards what? That particular. Yes. That's what I think going for something which we can, we can do the guesswork is driving the, the change for the management and even some of them when they go to conferences and even teach doctors about the disease, because who better to teach the disease than a patient. I see. I love how you brought up. There's two things I'd like to talk about which I feel could have help a little bit. You know, yes, the foundations for all this, but you know how, for example, in the supermarket, how you finish paying for your things.  And most of the time it's for children's homes or something like that. I feel maybe for some supermarkets, they can change the initiative a little bit take some of the proceeds and take them to diseases that are not well documented, maybe like mental health or lupus or autoimmune diseases. Another thing I think it would be really interesting to take a step towards is PSAs. A lot of the times when you're watching, like this is a channel, I think it's called ETVA or something. I don't think it's a Kenyan channel. I think it's South Africa. But when they're, when they're break time, they don't have announcements. And even if they do, they're quite few. But they have facts, for example, about Africa. So it'd be like, Oh, did you know that the Rift Valley is this and this and that? And in my head, I'm thinking not, not who cares, but can we use this platform for something more important, like no offense. But some of the facts I read, and I'm like, Hey, I knew that. And I'm sure not the only one who knew that. Can we now use this to raise awareness? Can you throw some facts about mental health? Can you throw some facts about young people having arthritis or lupus or something? And I feel like we just need to really, really take every single initiative and exploit every single space we can possibly exploit. And the people who are raising awareness, I'm so proud of them. Shout out to you guys, by the way, great job. Yes. And they should continue pushing. And if there's a way I could help, I would love to help. But yeah, these are some of the ways I wish we could. Things need to be publicized. Exactly. Even if it means to be put on TV for 30 seconds, just a fact about autoimmune disease, maybe the next time 30 seconds a fact about lupus or something, then people are like, Oh, so it's not witchcraft or Oh, so my wife was acting funny, like three years ago, it was this thing. But without that, it becomes quite difficult. That's true. That's true. Wow. This has been a great discussion. And maybe we can lastly discuss on how what are the differences because I'm seeing how they deal with it in the West is a bit different from how they deal with it in here. What are some of those differences? And lastly, what can we pick from them? Yeah, when it comes to dealing with autoimmune disease, what can we pick from the West? I think the first thing would be empowering the doctors. We need to have more campaigns and teach our doctors better. Okay. And maybe also improve the infrastructure in terms of we can't just have Kenyatta having the only public rheumatology clinic. Yes. We need to have more out there because imagine if I'm in Wajir or Mandara and I have basically I mean, I've lupus or rheumatology. It means I've come all the way to Kenyatta to be seen, then I go back. So I think that's another thing we need to do also. Like what they've done in the West is like, maybe I'll give the example where I studied, I studied in the UK. They have this, they call it the NHS. It's the National Hospital Service. It's like an NHS in Kenya. But there's a bit more organized and I think better than ours. The receptionist is not using helicopters. I don't think so. So like they are what they do first of all, they really encourage education for the doctors. So from the get go from undergrad, once you finish, if you want to become this particular doctor, you already have your path set out. You go to this hospital, I do this, I do this, I end up being this. And then they are posted anywhere. Then matter whether you're from Wajir, you can go to Nairobi, to Bombasa, that's what they do well. And also in between, they organize short courses like one weekend discuss maybe just lupus, other weekend matter arthritis. And it's from the experts, experts, experts. Another thing which they have done is research. I know in Kenya we really don't look here about research, but there they really do a lot of research. And their research is to improve the quality of life of the patient and to drive down the costs for management. And driving down the costs, if it means that I'm going to spend less on treating this patient and save money, that's what they want. And some of the initiatives they've done is that, take for example a patient has this long-term condition, the caregivers actually can take time off work, take care of the patient, get a salary at the end of the month, taking care of the patient, because they argue that if the patient is in hospital, eat up more money, that's a bad space. But this being at home, being brought to the hospital, which I think is a good thing. Yes. Other things which they have done is how they organize their structure from the undergrad, from the regular doctor, the consultant. So like the rheumatology clinics, how they run them is that you'll see a doctor like about twice or thrice a year. That's what, and usually that's for regular, just for the reviews and everything. In between what they have done, there's the general physician, so what they've done that in each area, you have like a bunch of doctors who manage the common conditions, so they can manage, they do what they refer. But at the rheumatology clinic, they have a nurse. So the nurse are the guys who do most of the work. So the nurse, their job is one to educate you on the disease, educate you on the medicine. Actually, I found it very funny that, you know, in Kenya, we just prescribe medicine till the patient go. So there what they do is they tell you, the drugs are one, two, three, four, five, and then afterwards now you go and decide what you want. Then you start. I see. Wow. Those are amazing ideas I feel like we can pick up. And if there's anyone who is you know, vibing on the same vibration as our doctor over here and feels that there's some of the things we can change, and there's some of the things that we can do to raise awareness on this particular issue. Do remember, it's hashtag health and Monday, hashtag one in the morning. And remember, you can find me on joy underscore muchache. We do have to let this conversation go. It has been a wonderful discussion with you. Thank you so much for coming and raising awareness on this particular issue. And also for raising awareness on this day that has been set apart specifically May 20th for autoimmune diseases. Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Joy Muchache. Coming up next is Youth and Politics with Hilda Wadidi. Do stay tuned.


Hi, I'm Jesper, part of the ST TouchDFX team. In this video I would like to show you about video support, a new feature that has been added to the TouchDFX designer 4.18. I have here the new 4.18, and I'll just create a new project based on the simulator. What I'll show you is how to use the video widget, how to interact with it, and how to convert a video file into the right format to be used in TouchDFX. But first let's build our screen. For that I'll add an image as a background. Let's see, there's a style here we can use. Let's call it background. Then let's add the video widget itself, so it's here. So a video widget has a sample of video files that we can choose from in a prototype phase. So let's select this one and center it. Let's try to run the program and see how it looks. So it's here and it's playing. Great. So there are some options here in the properties. So one of them is autoplay, that was why it started playing when the screen enters. We could also have it loop, so run over and over again. If I wanted to choose not a sample, but a video file of my own, I would set it here. I'll do that later in this video. Okay, that was easy, so let's try to make some interaction with the video. This thing is to add a button. So let's have a button here that we could make an interaction with. So let's see here. So I could say when the button is clicked, this button here, then I want to do something with my video and I have a couple of options here. So pause video, play video and stop video. So I could say pause video, compile and see if it works. So we have the video playing and the pause video pauses. Great. Adding yet another button if I want to play it again. So button clicked, button two, action, play video is here. Okay, run again and that should be it. Over here, play, stop. A third option is to instead of have it play, stop the video. So stopping the video will make it go back to frame number one. So when you play it again, it will start from the beginning. Okay, so that's the basic functionality of the video widget. Of course you can do a lot more. So something like seeking within the range of all the frames in the video. All of this can be accessed through user code. You can also stop and start the video and stuff like that from user code, of course. Okay, so the next thing I would like to show you is how to convert a video file of whatever format, so MP4 or something like that, into a motion JPEG AVI file, which is what we need to use to use this video widget in TouchDFX. So what I'll do is I'll open the TouchDFX environment. The shell here. I have downloaded a program called ffmpeg, which is a free tool to convert between different video file formats. Pretty nice tool. So I'll get to that directory. Binary. So this one. It takes a lot of arguments, of course. Some of them I'll show you here. So the input file is an MP4 file I have in this directory. The output format should be motion JPEG. The scale will be one. And the quality. You can give an argument here. I'll say two. It ranges from two onwards and two is the highest quality. This has an impact on the size of the file, of course. The output file. I'll put in the video directory as well. I'll call it the a.avi. Yes, and we see we now have the a.avi file. So if we go back to our application, select the video, and then try to find the file. It's here. And we see that the video is now some sort of coffee beans. That was a very fast introduction to the FFM pack. Play around with it, read the documentation and so on. Or use other tools as well. There's a lot of them out there. And that was what I wanted to show you in this video regarding video support. There's a lot of documentation on this. Naturally, there's a lot of other things you can do with videos in touch with the effects. One big topic is how to get this to run on a STM32-based board. There's some articles on that. You can use the generator to generate a lot of the code you need. But there is some setting up on this. I get something like the buffer scheme used is quite important. So will you use 0, 1 or 2 video buffers when decoding the images? As said, all of this is covered in the documentation. There's some link below also where you can follow and read it directly. That's all from me. Thank you for watching. See you. Bye bye.


I'm the Head Circulation Librarian here at the Kelek Hubbard Library, and today we're going to be talking about Overdrive, and Overdrive is a service that you can use through the library for downloading eBooks and audiobooks. And it's also known as LIP, so we're going to, I'm going to show you some slides to start with just to go over the service and kind of explain the different names you'll encounter and that sort of thing, and then we're going to do some demonstrations about how to actually get into it, log in and actually find something and download it so you can read something or listen to something today. So Overdrive is a service which has been around for a while now, and it's used by quite a lot of public libraries, so if you've been a member of other libraries, maybe you've encountered this already, and it offers both eBooks and audiobooks. And all you need to access it is a device, be it a phone or a tablet or a computer, and you also need your library card. So let's talk about the different names that you might hear in association with this. So Overdrive is the company which offers this service, so if you hear that, that's what it's referring to. Libby is the name of the app. They created an app a few years ago for tablets and smartphones, and they called it Libby by Overdrive. Hi, come on in. And then at this particular library, we're part of the Greenbotton Library Consortium, and so we access this service as part of a consortium of public and school libraries throughout the state. So if you see GMLC, that's what that's referring to. When we log in, you'll see we're logging into the Kellogg-Covered Library, but the Kellogg-Covered Library will tell you it is a part of the Greenbotton Library Consortium. And then Listen Up Vermont is the name that when the Greenbotton Library Consortium was founded so that Vermonters could have access to eBooks, they chose to call their program Listen Up Vermont. So if you see Listen Up Vermont for love, that's what they're referring to. Now back in June when I wrote this slide, there were 15,769 titles to choose from for Vermonters when they access Overdrive. That is certainly larger now. They add new titles every month. So just to give you a sense of how large the library is. If you are using an Apple device like an iPhone or an iPad, an Android device or a Windows 10 computer, you can use the Libby app. And if you're accessing it through a Kindle Fire or a Chromebook, you're going to use the Overdrive app, which is, again, you're accessing the same collection. It's just through different means, through different apps.  You'll need to go through the website, Overdrive Maintains a website as well, which you can also access this. So same collection, same eBooks and audiobooks, just different ways of access. So for all the folks who have devices within here, the first step is to connect to the Wi-Fi here in the building. So to do this, you'll want to connect to the KH public Wi-Fi. It's an open network, which means it doesn't require a password. However, once you connect, you do need to launch a browser and then that will ask you, do you accept the terms of use for this Wi-Fi network and say I accept and then you're fully connected. So it's a two-step process. If anybody has any difficulty with that, let me know. And opening a browser, a counter-covered library browser? So the browser would be like Google Chrome or Firefox or Safari. One of those. Any message that says do you accept? I'm just saying the search bar. Okay, so try typing something into the search bar just to launch it to a website and hopefully that will kick it to the do you accept page. It's a little different for every browser, a little different for every device. And you said that I cannot change my password yet. Is it working now? Yes? No, not yet. It's still working on that. At the moment, everybody's locked into whatever password they have. So I got a sense earlier that most people are working with a default password, which is fine. And so if you had already changed it in the months prior, then you'll be still using your older password. Whatever you change it to. I'm still not getting it. Okay, it says accept conditions. Well, you're in. If you didn't get that page, you're just in. So you're good. I've already downloaded Overdrive. I didn't realize that that wasn't for an iPad. Yeah, so let me explain that. That's a good question. So a number of years ago, when people first started using iPhones and iPads and those sorts of things, Overdrive created an app called Overdrive. And then about two years ago, they created a new app called Libby. And they didn't get rid of the Overdrive app because it wasn't compatible with certain devices. So if you've been using the Overdrive app and you like it, it still works. The Libby app is just newer.  And it's totally up to you. I'm going to show you both today. And it's entirely your decision what you want to use. Okay, so we're good with the Wi-Fi. And then I get the sense everybody here is already pretty interested in eBooks and eAudioBooks. But there's some, I just want to mention the benefits which are when you're reading an eBook, you have adjustable text sizes so you can make it larger, smaller, you can change the brightness on the screen, you can do things like that to customize it for you. It's also going to be a lighter weight than a physical book. And then with the eAudioBooks, you never have to deal with damaged or scratched CDs and you're never going to be in danger of losing any CDs as well. And for both of these, you would never get a late fee. It's automatically going to remove from your device once your checkout period is over. It just goes away. So you will never get a late fee. Can you renew? You can renew in some situations. So we'll talk about that. And there are, there's quite a lot of stuff on the Overdrive library. There are foreign language learning guides. There's all sorts, you know, all your major authors are going to be represented to some degree there, so your Louise Penney, your Michael Connelly's, David Baldacci's. There is, because this is a Vermont consortium, there's an effort to include Vermont authors like our Frank Mosier. And there's also items for children as well. So it's definitely for all ages. So I'm going to start today by talking about the Libby app. So for anybody who is on a device for which you would use the Libby app, this is some instruction for you. So the first thing you want to do is download it if you haven't already. So downloading it requires going to your app store, and if you're using an Android device, it might be called something like your Play Store or something like that, or your Google Store. And you want to search for an app called Libby by Overdrive.  It's L-I-B-B-Y by Overdrive. So if you're on a computer, actually you won't find that app. So I'm sorry, this will be later for computers. Anybody having problems finding that? Yeah, finding anything. All right, I'm going to download it. Okay, let's see. So your app store is just there. No, this is... They just didn't update it. So search for anything by overdrive. Yeah, it's nice to see you can. So you can search for the library by the zip code? Yes, that's one of the ways you can do it. Did you find it? All right, great. So you'll download the app, and because you're all committed to the Wi-Fi, you don't need any data. It wants me to verify a payment message. So it's free, and if you're on... Depending on what you set your account up as with Apple, it still will ask... Sometimes it will ask you to put in a password or something like that, but this is totally free. This won't charge any credit card or anything. So I should just go ahead and... Yeah, there's no fee for any of this. Have any problems? I'm from Overlight Password. Oh, okay, your Apple password? I'm going to see if I've found it somewhere else. I have, like I said before, I can make you handouts of these slides, so if you can't get in today, I do have slides which go through once you have it downloaded how to actually get started. I want somebody to search for a library. Okay, yeah. Are we good if I go on to that step? Okay, great. So once you're in, it's going to ask you to search for your library. So there's a couple different ways you can do this. You can put in the zip code. You can put in Montpelier, Vermont. You could put in Kellogg-Covered Library. And it should give you some results. If you type in, like, Kellogg-Covered Library, it might give you another library with the name Kellogg in their name or something like that. But you just want to choose Kellogg-Covered Library. I'm still on hold, right? Yes. Okay. So your experience is going to be similar, but slightly different. But we'll get there. So you can see in the slides up here, I did the zip code, and it brought, gave me the option of Greenmont Library Consortium Kellogg-Covered Library. And then once you pick up that, then really all I'm telling it is that I'm in the Greenmont Library Consortium, and then I need to confirm that I'm in the Kellogg-Covered Library within the Greenmont Library Consortium. It's a little contraintuitive, but that's basically why it's asking you twice which library you're in. And then once you've added your library, is everybody at this step? I'm in. Oh, okay. The old ribs. They're up for me under Greenmont Library Consortium. Okay. I'm going to get you a Kellogg-Covered. Just because if it doesn't say Kellogg-Covered, you won't accept your library. So choose another location, and yeah, just scroll down until you find Kellogg-Covered. So once you've found your library, then you need to add your library card. And it's going to ask you for your library card number, which is going to be a 14-digit number on the back of your library card. If anybody doesn't have their library card with them here, we can get you that information at the front desk later today. Or you can always give us a call if you forget it or lose it. The good thing is, once you're logged in to Libby, it should remember. So you don't have to type this 14 digits every single time. Every once in a while, it does ask again. Every few months, it does ask me. And what's happening with that is it's doing an update, and then after the update, it's going to require you to log in again. So it shouldn't happen too often. If it's happening very often... Twice through last year. Okay. But if it happens a lot, let us know it could be some sort of issue. But it shouldn't be happening a lot. And then once you've put in your library card number, it will ask you for a password. So again, it sounded like most people were with the default password, which is all lowercase KHL802. And if you had changed your password on the catalog, your Libby account and your library card account and your catalog are connected. So if you've changed your password in the catalog, then you want to use whatever you changed it to in the catalog. Have you done that? I'm going to go find out. Okay. This isn't for me. So I've never signed in a library we just moved to Tampa. Let's go. I have a password from where I was with Overdrive. And the other library showed you that same password. So in this case, so the thing about Overdrive is you can sign in with as many library cards as you have. So if you have library cards at other libraries, you can use them and then you can access to even more materials and check out even more items. But right now we're just logging into the KELO Cover. So you want to use your KELO Cover password for this particular case. So you want to use the KHL802. Anybody unsuccessful in logging in, getting your library card in, getting the password in? Okay. So you're in. Where it says the option rename card or next, why would you want to rename your card? Is there any reason to do that?  But otherwise it's just going to associate it with your library card number. But if you're the only one using it on that particular app, then I wouldn't suggest renaming it, but you certainly can if you want it. So at this point, you are logged in and you're ready to check out materials. And when you're in the app, there's always two options at the very bottom of your screen. One says library and one says shelf. Library is where you search for items and shelf shows you what you've checked out, what you've put on hold. So if you're logged in, you can choose the shelf option down at the bottom and then you can find out what's available. So on this first slide here, I'm showing you how to browse. Some people want to do a specific search and some people just want to browse around and there's options for both of those things. So if you want to browse, there's this explore option. And if you click on explore, it will give you some guides to different subjects. It will also give you some lists of newly added titles. I will show you what's popular, all that kind of stuff. So you can choose any of those options. In this case, I've chosen the guide to mysteries and thrillers. And so I've opened that up and it's going to show me hundreds and hundreds of titles of mysteries and thrillers. And audio books. At this point, I haven't specified that I specifically want eBooks or specifically want audio books, but there's a way to do that. So you'll see that there's a preferences option and if I open up preferences, I can choose the one that I personally use all the time is the availability option. And usually, I don't plan these out very well because I want an audio book for a long drive. It's usually the night before. I should get an audio book, but I don't want to see what's already checked out because I don't want to put things on hold for something I need right now. So if I change my availability preferences from everything to available titles, I'll only be seeing what's available and what I can check out right here and now. Which I find pretty useful. Will it stay this way or I have to do that at a time? So you would do that every time, yeah? I see. And then you can also change the format. So if you're specifically looking for audio books as opposed to eBooks, you can go into the format preference and you can change that as well. There's a couple other ones that I personally don't use that often, but depending on what type of device you're using or what you're looking for, you may want to explore those other preferences. I'm sorry, that format. I have just books and audio books. So books mean eBooks? Yes, what you would actually read as opposed to what's being read to, yeah. But it means that not paper books, but eBooks. Yeah, so it's going to just show the words on the screen and in the audio books, you know, there's a narrator who reads. I understand that. But for me, books are paper books. Right, yeah, in this case, yeah. It's just, yes. Okay. And then if you had in mind a particular title or author, you can also do a search. So when you're in the library, there's always a magnifying glass at the very top. And if you click on the magnifying glass, you can type in, in this case, I typed in an author, or you could type in a title. And you can do a search for something specific like that. You can search by subject. You can search by subject, yeah. Really? And under compatibility, it has Kindle, Libby, or Adobe compatible reading. So this is where using Libby is great because Libby will be compatible with all of those. So you don't have to worry using Libby on your phone or your iPad, what format you use. It will work on all of them. If you were, say, if you had a Kindle white and you needed to transfer the e-book from your computer to your Kindle white, you would need to make sure it was in Kindle format. But if you're using Libby on a smartphone or an iPad, you don't have to worry about a format. So if I go ahead and find a book that I want to read, I don't want to read it right now, I can read it. It will never go away. The collection doesn't, they don't read things from the collection, which is nice. You can always find it again if you wanted to. Or if it's checked out, you can also put a hold on it. So an e-book, can you check that? Yeah. And not available? Absolutely. So this is actually, that's a good point. So you would think, right, this is an e-book, it's not a physical item, that everybody would have access to all of these titles at all times. However, the way that it works, and I wish it didn't work this way, but the way that it works is that the consortium buys access to the e-book. So essentially they're paying for one person having access to the book at a time, or if it's a popular title, they might buy like 10 or 20 accesses, basically like the equivalent of buying 10 or 20 copies. So you will see, that's the availability option, you will see that there are always going to be things checked out, and particularly your newer items, your more popular items are likely to be checked out, because we're sharing this with everybody else in the state of Vermont. So that is an unfortunate reality. There are going to be some titles on here, particularly in the e-book side, that are past copyright, in that case the consortium isn't actually paying for those, we're getting those for free, so there's no limitation. If you're looking for something classic, like Jane Austen or something like that, you should always be able to get right impressions. But if you're looking for something that was published from about the 1920s until now, it's going to be subject to a copyright, and that means that we're paying for access to one person at a time. So should I put it on my shelf? Yeah, you can put it on your shelf, and you'll remember that, yeah? Could you do that by, please, up here or down here? Yeah, so actually, you don't want to click shelf. Let me, actually, that segues nicely into my next slide. So once you find what you want, you'll either see next to the cover image, you'll see either borrow or you'll see hold. Do people see that? You might have to click on the cover image itself, and then it will open up just that book from the search screen. All right, so if it says borrow, you can get it right here now, and if it says hold, you'll be put on the list, and then you'll get it later. If it says place hold? Yeah, place, yeah. So if it says borrow. You can find that. Okay, so let me look. How was 05 available? Yeah, so in that case, see where it says place hold there, so you can add yourself to the hold list. So in this case, I found a book that is available, and I want to borrow it right now, so I've chosen borrow, and now this second screen, the second picture is the most important one, and I really need to stress this. So I told it I want to borrow it. Now it's asking me to confirm, and it's saying you are borrowing this title for, the default is going to say seven days. If you want it longer, you have to click on where it says seven days, and tell it you want it for 14 days instead. It's going to default to the shorter checkout period, but you know, me personally, I'm not going to be able to read a book in seven days, it's going to take longer. I always change it to 14 days. Once I changed it from seven to 14 days, then I'm clicking borrow again, and that will actually borrow the book for me. So then I see this third screen, and it confirms you have borrowed this book for 14 days, and it gives me the option I can either go to my shelf and read the book, or I can keep browsing and look for other books. In this case, I want to read it right away, so I chose go to shelf, and then in my shelf, I'll see that title come up, and it will give me an open book option, and I click on open book, and then in this case, I downloaded a Kindle version of the book, but like I was saying before, I can do everything in the app. I don't need to send this to my Kindle app, I don't need to send this anywhere else. I'm just going to do everything in the app, so I'm going to tell it I want to read it in Libby. Libby has as good of a reading app as any other, as Kindle or anything else you can, like I was saying before, change your font size, change your brightness, all that kind of stuff, so I don't want to send this to Kindle and make things more complicated for myself. I'm just going to read it right in the app. But is it possible to send to my very old Kindle and read it in Kindle? Yep, it is, yeah. And I'll get to that later when I talk about Kindles. What about Nook? So Nook would be the same as Kindle Paperwhite, where actually you would want to start on a computer and then you would need to transfer it to your Nook from at once you've chosen it in the computer. I start with Libby because Libby has the fewest steps. I end with Kindles and Nooks because they have the most steps, unfortunately, that just...unfortunately the way it is, yeah. Okay. So I just want to show you real quick if I were to get an audio book. It's the same process. The only difference is you see a different screen when you...it just shows you a slightly different screen when you open the audio book in Libby. It looks like this. When you open the e-book in Libby, it just shows you the text of the book and you move your finger across to move the page and it's pretty self-explanatory. With the audio book listening screen, it's also pretty self-explanatory. You've got your play button right in the middle and then you can also add bookmarks. You can switch to a different chapter, all that kind of stuff. So for those of you who found a book that you wanted, but it was currently checked out, you would do pretty much the exact same process except you want to click on place a hold as opposed to borrow. When you place your hold, it's going to give you an estimate of how long you'll have to wait and as you can see, it can get very long. You're aware of that problem and all the libraries in Toronto are aware of that problem. We try to get multiple copies of popular books. We keep track of what's popular and we do the best we can. So it's going to tell you you'll have to wait probably so long. Six months, I got it. Unfortunately, it can be that long. Six months? Oh gosh, there wasn't any of it. Now the thing about this is the folks at Grimont Library Consortium who order the books will get a report when they go to order and they'll see well, we have a really long waiting list for such and such a title. Maybe we need to add more accesses to this title and they might buy more. So you may find you get it before six months because they've added more titles, more copies. Might. You can also see once you're in your shelf and you have something at hold it'll show you what you have on hold and you can click on the wait list and you can see, for example, I was third in line for this book. There were five copies available. It will give you all those details if you want to see it. And just because you have a book here like A Heart and Happy doesn't mean it's a bad book, right? No, no. Unfortunately not. Yeah, okay. So we've talked about borrowing books and putting books on hold. You can check out up to three items at a time and I believe the hold limit is something like five or six at a time but I could be wrong about that. So you can have up to three items checked out at a time. Once you return something then automatically your space is open and you can get something else. And you can return something early or, like I said, once you've hit your borrowing period's end it just automatically comes off of your device and then you can go on to something else.  Well, you could try it. Depending, yeah, if nobody else has it on hold or something like that you could try to download it again. Or you could, if you knew that you weren't going to finish in time you can go to your shelf and you can go to Manage Title and you can see if it can be renewed. You'll either say it will be the Renew option or it won't. There's a setting in your Overdrive app. In your settings you can set your preferences. The one that I particularly change is I wanted to make sure that I never download a book on my data, my cell phone data. I always want to use the Wi-Fi so I changed my settings. Under Download Settings I change it to Wi-Fi Home. It depends on what you're, where do you do that? So at the very top of the screen there's a face sort of face in the top right hand corner of the screen. Do you see that? Yeah. If you click on that it should open a menu and then in your menu you should have a download preferences. Are you getting that? Sorry I can't hear you. Set up Libby. Did you change these things on time? Like I said, I set these slides up in June. So I recall a face. It's the Libby symbol at the right hand corner at the top of your screen. Right. Press that. Yep. Press on that and then set up Libby and then change down the menu. Which is already preset. Okay. Thank you. Where is it? I'm just going to read books. Can I choose too? Oh yeah. You definitely can. Yeah. Okay. So that was so like I said before if you have multiple library cards you can put multiple library cards on your Libby app that lets you check out six things or however many library cards you have it would extend your limits. You can definitely do that. So I have this checked out on the screen here what do I do with it so I don't lose it? Yeah. So you're not going to lose it for 14 days. If I go to something else I want to be able to get back to this book. Oh yeah. Thank you. That's a great question. At the very bottom of your screen you should always see shelf. Go to shelf? If you click on your shelf it will show you what you have checked out. So you can go into the library again and you can look for other things you can search around and then you can go back to your shelf and you'll see what you have checked out and you also see what you have on hold. So those two options at the bottom are how you're toggling back and forth between the searching and the search. And if I am in the middle of the book and well I finished reading for today and next day do you have to sign again through all that stuff? So Libby should remember your sign in so all you have to do is open the app and it shouldn't ask you for your library card number it shouldn't ask you for all that stuff. And how does app look? So it's kind of like it's a face behind a book symbol and it looks like it's fun you just downloaded it right? Yes You just can't find it? That's what it is. Right. That's very strange. Also you're using it on the website which is fine but if you've got a device like this on the Libby app I'll help you after I really want to get you set up. Okay If you run into problems obviously you can reach out to the library and we're happy to help. This is sort of my steps that I go through when I run into problems with Libby if I can't download a title my first question is do I have the most recent updates for the app the Libby app and luckily the answer is yes because those updates happen automatically but that could potentially be what's holding it up The other question is am I connected to the Wi-Fi? Because again like I said I had set my preferences and it looks like the default preferences now are to not download anything unless you're connected to the Wi-Fi Then my next question is as my download limit been reached do I already have three things out let me get a fourth thing and then I'm going to check my settings just make sure nothing funny is going on with that and if I checked all those things and I haven't figured it out I'm going to reach out to Overdrive and see what's happening unable to log in the two things that are going to hold you up with that primarily are going to be your library card number and your password if there's any sort of an issue with that that's primarily going to be why you're not able to log in as mentioned before your library card you're you're connected now so your library account in at the library for checking out physical items and that sort of thing is connected to your Libby account so if you have for some reason if we have to block your account here at the library like your fines are over $10 or you've been billed for a book or something like that it's going to affect your Libby access as well so I see lots of excellent library patrons here I know none of those things will happen to you but that could potentially be wrong, yeah are there any records really kept out of what we take out? no so you'll have a history but the library doesn't see it we do not see it you can go into your shelf and you can see what you've checked out in the past and Libby doesn't and Overdrive doesn't I mean I don't know exactly I'm sure that you can look at their privacy you know I'm sure they have a document for that and you can see exactly what they do but I mean they're saving that information so much that you can see it exactly if they're actually looking I don't know I'm not worried about them looking at them I'm not worried about that much I've checked out early and you're having trouble with that again check the wifi connection it's most likely going to be the issue and then I always, if I'm using it on an app you can try it on the website too it's all connected so you can use Libby on your app you can go to the Overdrive website and you can log in on the Overdrive website and maybe knows what you've checked out on the app and so sometimes you can sort of circumvent that problem by going to the website so yes I've just tried to place a hold on something I get a message saying if you place a hold it should be ready for you to borrow in two weeks and it tells me there are three copies in use and one person waiting but I don't know how to go further and place the hold then because so it sounds like you were successful let me take a look I'll be on my shelf oh okay so you actually want to see where this place hold you want to click on that what if I did so that little calendar symbol gives you this so you just click further to the left oh over here there you go thank you I could have been doing that for days does anybody have any Libby questions? I know that was really fast and I just want to make sure we have time to go over the website too any Libby questions always feel free to stop in or you can call or email me as well this is my contact information I'm happy to answer any questions about any of this I don't want to stop because I open to read a single I think that's a good question so so if you click towards the top of the screen and then once you're here so it might be a double double cap alright so I'm going to show the website now if that's okay if anybody has any Libby questions we can still do these stuff is that overdrive? so I overdrive absolutely it's going to be a little different I can show you that too but like I said they're all pretty similar and they're accessing the same catalog I'll show you both so overdrive is for ebooks they're both for ebooks and audio books it's just the overdrive app it was the first app they developed and then they decided they could do better and they made a new app to get rid of the overdrive app because the new app wasn't compatible with everything that the old app was yeah so if you want to access it through a computer you'll be using the website you start at kellocovert.org and then there's in this menu here there's digital and then under digital is ebooks and audio books and you choose that to apply to a computer this is specifically for a computer so if you're accessing if you want to put your ebooks or audio books on a computer you would do this also if you have something like a Kindle White or a Nook or another type of e-reader that doesn't have ability to download apps like a Kindle Fire so if you want to use this as well you'll have an additional step after transferring something to an e-reader okay so I've started at kellocovert.org I've gone into the menu chosen digital and then ebooks so digital and then ebook yep and then here we've provided some basic information about overdrive and then right here in the middle is the overdrive symbol and that's a link so you just click right on the symbol and it opens up the new page the sign in process is very similar to Libby so I'm going to click sign in I'm going to tell it what library I'm at in this case because I'm linking from the kellocovert library it already knows I'm part of the Greenmont Library Consortium but I again have to confirm that I'm at the kellocovert library and it's going to ask me for a library card number and my password and the and the password what password? same password that you would have used for Libby so khl802 it's going to be the same log in if we were doing Libby small letters yeah all are k's khl802 802 yep so you're logging in whether you're doing Libby or you're doing the overdrive app or you're doing the website it's always the same it's your library card number 14 digits and then it's going to be your password which it sounds like everybody here is working with a default password which is fine you don't have to change it if you don't want to khl802 and if you are using it on a website your web browser like mine has here might ask me if I want to save my information that's up to you if you're using the computer and you think that's safe and you know that's still up to you so now I'm in and it just looks a little different but like I said before it's the same collection so I can choose the search option here and I can search for a particular title or author I can choose the collections here and I can browse for various things as well or subject matters so I don't need to go into my account I'm already honored so once you see the my account as opposed to login that's how you know you're in if I click on my account you'll see it gives me options to look at my loans, to look at my hold my wish list, that sort of thing in this case I don't have anything checked out so I don't have anything under loan so I've got to find something I'm going to look for an author that I like and then I found something that I want so I'm going to choose borrow so you should see it looks pretty similar it's going to look slightly different but pretty similar to the app so I'm going to choose borrow and here I'm going to make sure that I get the full 14 days as opposed to 7 days in this case it gave me 14 days to start which is awfully nice of it but if it said 7 days I would change it and then I'm going to confirm that I want to borrow now when you get to this stage and you're using a computer this is where it matters whether or not you want to transfer to your Kindle White or your Nook or whatever it might be so if you're using a Kindle White which is basically different from a Kindle Fire which allows you to do apps you would want to do read with Kindle Now if you're just using it on a computer which is totally fine if you read a book on a computer you can listen to an audio book on your computer you would do read in browser and if you had a Nook or some other type of eReader that was not a Kindle then you would download the Fire you would download the EPUB does that make sense to everybody I know that's a lot of different options and it's kind of confusing but unfortunately download EPUB this last option down here just download because that's what we want download EPUB and then what that's going to do is it's actually going to put the file for the eBook on your computer and then you need to transfer that file to your Nook so if you've got a connector or wire that connects your Nook to your computer you would do that if your device is Bluetooth you might be connected by Bluetooth depends on your device on either the computer or the Nook yep, absolutely you can do both so I'll show you what it looks like if you're using a Kindle and we do have people here using Kindle lights but no I don't know what kind of Kindle it is yeah, so that's a Kindle light or it basically just not a Kindle fire okay so in that case and my apologies you have the most steps you have to take so this is not something for the Nook you don't need to go through that with me okay alright if you have questions let me know after if you're using the Nook you would download the EPUB format and then you would actually connect to your Nook to your computer and transfer the file from your computer to the Nook and I'm happy to work with you with that if you want to so in this case then if we're going to skip that I'll just show you a read-in browser and it just looks like this and I can just read it like that I can change my settings and all that kind of stuff where are the little warnings change the font things there we go so if I click at the top of the page and I can change whether or not I have one or two columns I can search for something if I remember that I read a certain sentence or something like that I could search for it and it will search all the text in the book I can put in a bookmark if I want to remember where I stopped so you just click on that and then this menu here is where I would change my reading settings so I can make the text bigger smaller you just get that by going over I can also change the brightness so I can change what is the optimal setting like is there an optimal setting for when you're reading on a device like this to reduce fatigue or that sort of thing that's really a question I don't know if I have the exact answer what I usually hear from people is looking at a white screen to tie around your eyes there is an option and it's a little weird but some people like it where you can do the dark format which sort of makes it opposite and if you do that you have white text in front of black so it still lives you but that's an option and you can pick the middle too you can do the sepia tone which is a little more of a gray I have a question about the length of time we can borrow things when they ask you to confirm the borrow button you can do it if you're just putting something on hold it doesn't ask you that so at what point do you get to choose one or two weeks when you put something on hold they're going to notify you when your hold is ready they usually will send you an email and you'll get an email that will say your hold is ready so you go into your Libby app and you go to your shelf and you'll see it will be there ready for you and then you click borrow and then you'll ask you at that point how long do you want this for so it doesn't automatically send it to you when it's ready you have to confirm that and for those using a computer it will also send me an email so let me show you where that setting is when you go into my settings it's going to look a little different in the app so in this case here there's this automatically hold checkout so I have it set for me personally that it automatically checks out books that I have on hold but if I unclicked that it would make you go through that process and then you would have your option to say no I want this for 14 days so I'm living dangerously here but you know I didn't have that one checked and what does that mean automatically hold checkout so in that case I had that checked so when my hold was ready it was automatically once it was ready checking it out to me as opposed to sending me the email to say it's ready and making me go and confirm that I want it so you would just automatically get it would come to you would it be rejected if you already had three ooh that's a good question and then you would get to choose some of the time I'm looking at preferences but you said settings so this is the slight differences between the website and the app they use slightly different languages but preferences is where you want where you would look at the app let me open up my app and I'll see if I can get more specific language for you you better reset that automatic one so in the app we've talked a little bit about this before but there's this symbol up here that kind of looks like someone's face you can click on that and that brings up setup Libby and setup Libby is where your preferences are and manage hold notices is where I can tell it which email address you can find me at and then there's also this borrow automatically option which I'm going to now unclick and so now they have to tell me no for me for the computer use for the computer it looks just slightly different let me go back to the home screen here you'll choose my account and then settings and then when you scroll down in your settings you'll see automatic hold check out and it will either be checked or unchecked but if you have it checked it's not going to ask you it's just going to automatically check out your notes so I want to spend the next minute just going over the overdrive app for the folks who are using the overdrive app it sounds good to everybody and then we'll wrap it up okay so which is so the overdrive app if you are using a Kindle Fire or you already had set up your iPhone or iPad or Android device with the overdrive app and you just don't want to use it because you're used to the overdrive app or whatever it might be then you would use the overdrive app and so would I you're using the website yeah so you're good for me quick, I want to sign in using my library card there's some other sign in options depending on what you had set up before you may choose but signing using your library card is always an option for everybody and I think it's the easiest way oops I'm not paying attention what I'm doing here okay so it's asking the same questions as the Libby sign in and the website sign in asked so it's asking me to tell the Libby sign in and then once I choose kella covered I have to choose kella covered again and then I'll put in my library card number which is KHLA2 so the overdrive looks a little bit different and so as you can see here and on your Kindle Fire I should probably look even a little bit more different than what I'm seeing here because this is the computer version of the app but I'm going to add a library once again so one of the reasons they made the Libby app is that the overdrive app had all these steps but they were trying to pare down so they called the Libby app their one click digital device that's a bit of an exaggeration it takes more than one click but it takes fewer clicks than overdrive so again after the third time I'm going to tell it I met the kella covered library I guess that's the Green Mountain Library Consortium so now I'm in the Green Mountain Library Consortium and I've got to sign in again you can see it looks very similar to the website and it functions almost exactly like the website at this point but once you get a book it's a little bit different depending on the book I want I can do the search where I can browse by subject or collection in this case I'm going to do a quick search I want this book a bar for 14 days okay and then you do the click on the download yeah exactly so on the app itself when you want to see what you have there will be a menu option on the left hand side and oh I'm sorry change things on the slide okay no I'm sorry they've changed things on me so I can need to go into my account just like the website and look at my loans or my holds there's also this it looks like some books find see if you can click on that and it takes you two year loans as well two ways to get to the same thing and then from here I can choose to read it as a Kindle version or I can choose to download it as an e-book now one thing that I didn't mention with any of the other ways that I looked at was what if you finish your book early and you want to return it when you're in your shelf so if you're in the Libby app you would choose the shelf option and if you're on the website you would look at your loans or you would click on this symbol here and then there should be a return option and then you can just confirm you want to return the title and like I said before that will just free up your spaces you get three spaces at a time and so if you wanted to return because you finished or you didn't like it and then you can go on to something else okay question? I have a lot of questions I just spent a lot of time looking for a profound book I thought I had borrowed it but it's not on my shelf ah okay and also I can't find other loans I just did these from a while ago but when I hit here I don't see where it says loans yeah so let's go into the subscription page here I just put it then it says it doesn't work this device after all that wait a minute I would suggest if you're using my pad to go with Libby it's going to be a lot easier for you oh my gosh okay I'm happy to do that but I wish that you would send that at the beginning so now I have to go yeah just download the Libby app okay do I just delete this whole app you can just leave that up on there yep it's not going to take up all of those spaces so I have to go go nope you would go to your app store and find Libby what you were saying oh I'm just going to keep my overdrive yeah does anybody else have any questions I don't know how to change the library oh yeah so the Kindle is always going to look a little different let's open this up those three lines are like your menu and we want to manage libraries and we want to add so the plus sign here alright and then it's search for kello covered and it'll take you through a lot of places okay there it is there yep so I want to thank everybody for coming and I'll be around all day today if anybody has any questions and I'm always around otherwise too and so thank you so much thank you