Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am Krista Burns at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event where we cover NLC activities, any Nebraska library topics of interest to Nebraska librarians. We have NLC staff do sessions like we are today. We also bring guest speakers sometimes to make it more interesting. We do these sessions every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. They are free, and they are recorded. We are recording today, so anyone who is not able to attend live on Wednesday mornings can listen to and watch our recordings afterwards. This morning, as I said, we have one of our NLC staff, Sally Snyder, who is going to talk to us about books for kids and teens. I will just pass over the end control to Sally. Oh, I have control. Good morning. I just want for all of you to know that this is going to be almost exactly like my presentation at NLANEMA. I did switch out a few things, but overall it's practically the same presentation. So if you saw that, then you'll get a repeat today, but I'm hoping that that will be okay with you. So we'll start off with picture books. And the first one, although this particular book is not an alphabetical order by author, which the rest of them will be, I thought this was a good one to start with because tomorrow's Thanksgiving. From the moment a boy wakes up and throughout the day, he gives thanks for many things in his life. Everything from the sun that wakes him up in the morning to the bees that didn't sting him that day. I think it's a really fun look at different events in a child's life and the reason he could be thankful for his family, for his aunt and uncle, and his dog, everything. This is a sequel to The Cow Who Laid an Egg, and in this sequel, the farmer's wife holds a beautiful baby contest for the cows and calves. Marjorie the Cow enters Daisy, her child, who looks a lot like a chicken, but the other cows think Daisy doesn't have a chance. Stregonona has big Anthony help her prepare the earth, plant the seeds, and nurture the plants, and she is meticulous in her methods. Big Anthony throws some seeds over the fence and lets them grow every which way, because he wanted to grow something himself, too. After the harvest, Stregonona learns that the village had a poor harvest that year, and she shares what she has with everyone. So again, kind of a thankful book for this time of year. I know Halloween's over, but this one was such fun. It's a take-off on Over in the Meadow. You children's librarians know that one. This counts through various Halloween-related creatures, and it goes from number one through number 13, which I also thought was fun for Halloween. Many of you probably already know this book, Let's Do Nothing. Friends Sal and Frankie have done everything. So now they try to do nothing. It's a big challenge for Frankie. He's the guy with the glasses, because he keeps coming up with disturbances for every scenario. Sal will say, let's just sit in our chairs like we're statues in the park, and we can't move, and they're sitting there, and you see them as statues, and then the pigeons come, and they only land on Frankie. They don't land on Sal.  Roberto walks home, is by Janice Harrington, who I consider a Nebraska author, because she wrote, oh gosh, I can't think of the name of it, but she and her family moved to Lincoln when she was in third or fourth grade, and she went to school here, and she moved away later. But in this book, Roberto is waiting for his brother to walk him home. He's sitting on the school steps, because his brother promised he would come and walk him home. But he doesn't show up, and finally Roberto walks home alone. His excitement is gone, and when he sees his brother playing basketball, he is hurt and mad. And that green jacket tossed over his shoulder, he wore proudly at the beginning of the book. His brother had given it, it's an old one of his that he had given to him. Towards the end of the book, he throws it down, because he is so mad, but they do make up. And it says, based on characters created by Ezra Jack Keats, because it is that format art-wise, and Janice Harrington was selected by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation to write this book. So that's fascinating too. Rachel Isadora, I almost said Isadora Duncan. What does that mean? Rachel Isadora has been retelling European fairy tales and setting them in Africa, which is really interesting. The artwork is beautiful, bright colors and collages that highlight each of the books, and children will enjoy hearing what I hope is a familiar tale to them with a new setting. On this list, I have Hansel and Gretel Rapunzel and The Ugly Duckling, and she has more than that, five or six more that she's done so far, and they're all beautiful. So a nice addition to your fairy tale collection if you have the funding for that. Also in the fairy tale vein, but slightly different, is this version of the Pied Piper. In this one, an elf is given a magical pipe, but no one knows what the pipe's magic is. The elf does get the rats out of town, but he does not steal the children. He finds another way to deal with the mean town leader. With the artwork by Stephen Kellogg, of course it's going to be busy and fun and colorful. This might be a little dark, it's a little dark on my screen, but it's so much fun. It's a sequel to Bats at the Beach. Here they visit the library in the middle of the night, and they enjoy all it has to offer. It's humorous, and you could also use this as a good introduction to things that you can find in a library when you have a class come in to visit. I actually have that book. My mom sent it to my sister and I are both librarians, and my mom sent it to both of us this year for Halloween gifts. She thought it caught her eye. That's great. This is about a young girl who has decided that this year, for the first time, she's going to observe Ramadan herself. Her family, of course, always does. The children are not required to until they feel they are ready. The girl is different to not be able to eat or drink during the day until the sun goes down. She's doing fine until she's invited to a classmate's birthday party. Her parents are concerned, and she wants to go, so she does go to the party, but when they serve lemonade and cake, they don't have anything, and she really begins to feel the issue. What I love about this book, besides this fact, it's a nicely told story, are that the two families come together and they work out a way to have this smoothed over. So what they do is the Muslim family comes over to the birthday party girl's house after dark, and they all have cake and ice cream and lemonade to celebrate the birthday. This is coming together of cultures and finding a way to make something work instead of being a problem. I think that's great. My family, Mi Familia, is a series by Pat Mora, who wrote our first book, The Thanks, Gracias, and she has this family that have very simple stories of things that happen in everybody's lives. In this one, the family has a new kitty and she likes to hide, and so the children, find her here and there. In the second book that came out lately, Danny, the boy, comes in to have lemonade with his family and mom notices his pockets are wiggling. He has frogs in them. Oh, the frogs get into things in the house before Danny gets them all gathered up and back outside again. A whole different slant is Cromwell-Dixon Sky Cycle, and this is based on a true boy and a true event. He did invent this sky cycle. There's a picture of him and his mother in the back, and he was a teen when he came up with this invention and brought it to the fair, and he designed it so that it's like a blimp-like thing that lifts him up and then his petals help him propel himself in turn. I thought it was very interesting and it's a fictional account of an actual event. Quite clever. This is an extremely silly book. The whole thing is about these two voices arguing whether this drawing is a duck or a rabbit. And every time this creature does something, each side uses that for an argument for their side. It goes into the grass. See, the duck is hiding in the grass. No, the rabbit is looking for something to eat. So you never do find out which it is. I'm sorry to disappoint you. I told you the end. I happen to love Skippy John Jones. I think he is hilarious. He's a little kitty boy.   So he has his chihuahua friends, most chimichangas, who are actually stuffed animals in his closet. When he goes into his closet, this is when all his imagination cuts free and he has exciting adventures. But he goes to Mars and he meets a one-eyed kitty. My friend Maria, who works here at the commission, she and her extended family love Skippy John Jones. They think he is hilarious, but there are some Hispanic people who are not fond of him who think he is inappropriate because he makes up Spanish words and Judy Shackner is not Hispanic and I can understand their point of view. I think that some people are going to be thrilled with Skippy John Jones, like I am. Then of course there is Splat, who we met in Splat the Cat. This is a story about Valentine's Day. Splat can hardly wait to give kitten the special Valentine he made for her until he finds out that Spike likes her too and he has a bigger Valentine for her. And Splat's pet mouse there on his tail, his name is Seymour and Seymour is always involved in Splat's adventures. Then there's also a Christmas one. In this one, all Splat wants for Christmas is a big present. He really doesn't care what's in there, he just wants it to be big. And that's quite fun too. This is about the third or fourth book about the group of animals that live at the One Lady's house. They've all pretty much been rescued from the storm as Duck was. And this time, Max the Duck is sympathetic when a large alligator asks for help in hiding from the zoo detective. All the other animals are afraid because they are all animals that the alligator would normally eat. But they do let him in. And then they find out why he's in trouble at the zoo. And of course, I also love Scaredy Squirrel. This is the fourth book I think about Scaredy Squirrel. And Scaredy has so many things that he's afraid of. This one deals with what he's afraid of at night. He has bad dreams about ghosts, dragons, polka dot monsters. So he has a well thought out plan to stay awake and to keep safe as usual. Great, he's a glow in the dark book too. Well, his teeth and on the cover they do glow in the dark because he is a friendly guy but always scared. Now we'll talk about a few beginning reader books that I've seen lately. I like Cork and Fuzz. Cork finds and then loses a green rock which Fuzz soon finds on the ground. Fuzz believes in finder's keepers and he doesn't want to give the rock back to Cork. It's a great friendship story as they all are so far. And also it's an issue that kids deal with in their normal lives. Who does this belong to and if I find it is finder's keepers really the right way to go. This is a little nonfiction story about basic information about the elephant life cycle including how they used their trunks and why they're now threatened. There's some all aboard science reader has several different books about different animals. I love this one. I put it on the summer reading program list too. This is by of course Gene Craighead George. So a boy finds a hatching egg by a pond and a glossling hatches out right then and imprints on him. So he's got to take care of this glossling. Well it isn't too long before a hatching duckling imprints on the goose. So now there's a trio and they are together all the time. And the boy has his hands full. There's a few life science facts that are included in an unobtrusive way and of course at the end of the summer the glossling and the duckling who've grown quite a bit are headed off to migrate. And a great summer reading program title. Meg's family has moved to a new town and she is thrilled to make a new friend Jill who happens to live on a pony farm. How could that be bad? Soon the girls include a shy classmate named Annie and they decide to form a club called the pony scouts. So of course this is book one about the pony scouts and look we have book two already and that two up there that's the level of the I can read level so you know how many words are on a page.  The new pony is having a foal. So for those boys who don't like ponies or at least not the pony scouts, they can read about monster trucks and also police cars. These are Blastoff readers number one level so they'll have a very limited number of words on a page but I think just having some nonfiction titles that attract boys of course is always a good plan. Pearl and Wagner, there are a couple three books out about them oh this is book three. Wagner the mouse does not enjoy April Fool's Day as he falls for one joke after another. It's worse when he thinks something is a joke and it's not. They really are having a test. April Fool's permeates all three stories in his collections and students will relate to Wagner's feelings and his joy in getting the last laugh. He finally joins in on the fun. And of course I'm very fond of Cal Girl, Kate and Coco. I think this is book four about them. In this book Cal Girl, Kate wakes up to a nuzzle from Coco, he's in the house and he thinks the stalls in the house are much better than the ones in the barn. One of them even has a refrigerator. So Kate has to convince him to get out of the house and back to the barn before her parents get home. And of course Coco is thinking he's not too interested in him because he's kind of his own guy. They're very fun. A few nonfiction picture books. This first one is a look at different dinosaurs giving a perspective on their sizes. And at the top of the page you can read this just with a rhyming text. Just read through and turn the pages and look at the dinosaurs and it's a very simple story. If you want to you can look at the bottom of each page and there there's a silhouette of each of the several dinosaurs that are highlighted on that page. And so you can tell this silhouette is exactly that dinosaur. And next to the silhouette is just a list of facts. The name of the dinosaur how to pronounce it, what period or age it lived in, how big it was, things like that. So it's kind of a you can also use it as just a matching. Here's the silhouette where's a dinosaur that fits that. So it's all kind of fun. It has a variety of things that you can use. You know long about Kentucky Derby Time if you wanted to you could read this book if you're reading about horse racing. This focuses on one jockey Jimmy Winkfield and it tells of the changing times in horse racing because early on in the late 1800's most jockeys were black. Jimmy, who they called Wink, won the Kentucky Derby in 1901, 1902 and came second in 1903. That's why he's the last black king of the Kentucky Derby. Because then economics and racial tension forced most black jockeys out of the business and Wink went on to race in Iraq. So you get a little bit of a sense of prejudice and segregation along with information about horse racing. This is a beautiful book. It's got excellent color photos that highlight this introduction to the life cycle of the eastern blue bird and there's about two to five sentences per page to just tell the child a little bit of what's going on. And you really don't even you can barely need those sentences because the pictures so eloquently tell the story. This is a very simplified telling of Greg Mortensen's story he told in his book for adults Three Cups of Tea. This will give readers and listeners a sense of life that are lived quite differently from their own and I like the idea of looking at somewhere else in the world where people don't live exactly like we do. And thinking of that here's this book called San Francisco. This is a look at the different time zone and the different lives led around the world. It's all anchored at six o'clock in the morning in San Francisco when it's six o'clock in San Francisco it's two o'clock in London and the boy might be playing soccer with his friends. So it's simple but it also is carrying through a story about the time zones and how it's not the same time everywhere and people live differently around the world. This is a lyrical tribute to Coretta Scott briefly telling of her childhood from Mary's to Martin Luther King Jr and their work in the church as well as for equal rights. It's certainly not anything you could write a report from but it's just a recognition of her contribution to the world. Fiction for grades two to five or so will start with Cam Jansen. I don't even know. This is number 30 on the Cam Jansen books and stories of it. So the school is having a sports day at the park and the first mystery occurs while the students are walking to the park because the bakery is robbed. And then there's two more mysteries at the park and of course with their photographic memory Cam Jansen can help solve the mysteries. This is a sequel to the puzzling world of Winston Breen. Winston loves puzzles and he and his friends spend a day solving puzzles to reveal a prize. They are one team trying to win $50,000 for their school. It's readable and compelling and there's puzzles every so many pages that readers can solve or they can look in the back of the book and find out the answer and go on with the story. It's really great fun. Will David having just turned 12 takes over his brother's newspaper route just in time to find out the newspaper will no longer be provided to his town. He is determined to fight this decision. On another note he decides to investigate a new game at the fair which promises $1,000 prize and he wonders what the catch is because he's figured out all the other games at the fair.   His brothers go to the school and he uses the library a lot and is a good researcher. I think readers will be curious about the outcome of both of these issues and Will is a character who might show up again. I wouldn't be surprised. The angel stays in a stone tower in a small town in the Swiss Alps.  She also has trouble with the language and she often uses the wrong word or the wrong form of the word when she's talking or very irritating. I haven't defined it in Deering so I think this is a fun book. She's not really sure what she's supposed to be doing or what maybe any power she might have but when people in the village start to have altercations she kind of floats between them and calms the atmosphere calms them down so that they cease fighting with each other and that's really all she's done the many many years that she's been there and she's feeling like she's contributing well then Zola arrives with her father to open a school Zola can see the angel nobody else can see her and she keeps asking her to do something about the problems of the people in town she'll just climb up to the top of the tower and say angel where are you going to do about those nine kids hiding in the barn three miles up the road and the angel goes what what are you talking about it really activates not only the angel but other people in the town and the angel and Zola help remind the townspeople to do the right thing for others it's very fun and kind of a different story for sharing preach Roland and his older brother Shelby each want the chance for one of them to become a knight their wise blacksmith father must make the choice so he devises a way for them to show their true skills and beliefs in a new series sassy Simone Sanford nine is tired of being called little sister her whole family calls her that they keep forgetting to call her sassy then her family is in a tough situation and sassy is the one who comes through for everybody they're trapped in an elevator during a blackout when they're the only person who's small enough to fit through the partially open elevator door is sassy it's quite fun and this is also the beginning of a series this is a new one on my list in case you hadn't noticed Deja is so excited about her eighth birthday even if her aunt did make her invite all the girls in her class at school then she finds out that Antonia is having a just because party on the very same day maybe just to ruin Deja's party and this of course birthdays are so important to kids and having your birthday ruined would be a big catastrophe when you're turning eight this is another book by Jean Craighead George and it's about the cats who are feral cats and their lives near the Rocksville train station and the people who take it interest in them and try to help them out and even sometimes try to domesticate them and they're not always very interested in that although they do like to keep warm another new series Diamond is in third grade in downtown and she is rare on to go full of energy and a positive attitude she wonders why the other new kid whose name is Free, he's a boy she wonders why he's so grumpy Diamond is going to figure him out and I don't know if Free really wants to be figured out but you know you're not going to hold Diamond this is another one of the baseball card adventure books when Stocius hid in the head with a baseball and survives he learns how it is compared to Ray Chapman the only major league player to die after being hit by the ball Stocius goes back in time to try to save Ray and to try and convince him to wear a batting helmet which of course Ray thinks looks ridiculous but it's a very good story about a baseball major league baseball player I'd never heard of until this book came along this is a sequel to uh oh Clio and this easygoing family story tells Stocius older sister Jenna and annoying younger brother Jack the family takes a trip to Colorado to visit grandma and while they're there they climb out Baldy on the top they encounter a freak snow snowstorm to keep warm yes their mother pulls out extra pair of underpants and has them all put them on their head the most fun in this book while it's all quite fun is the photo of the author inside the back cover she's about eight years old with underwear on her head I think we know where she got this idea Crusher excuse me Crusher as named by her captor is a free roaming gopher snake until she is caught and placed in a terrarium by Goonhardt sometimes humorous and sometimes sad this book looks at captivity of wild creatures and of the neglect some receive from their easily distracted young captors and through a pulmorphic heavy the reptiles can communicate telepathically but the creative and unusual activities do not detract from the point the most fun is the hunger strike Crusher holds and her eventual affection for the live mouse that she refused to eat the live mouse is named Lunch which is what Goonhardt said when he put her in there this is book eight about Martin bridge in the first story Martin's mom is practicing the keyboard almost nonstop and Martin is sick of it because she is terrible he keeps wishing she would quit but then he learns a little something about his mom in the second story Leila a girl who sits in front of Martin in school joins the junior Badgers and she ruins everything because junior Badgers are supposed to be boys where does she I love this new series this is book one of course I love this format it's told in their usual style of new narrative just letters, newspaper articles, illustrations notes the authors tell of Ignatius B Grumpley best selling author of a children's book series who has rented the old house in Gasla Illinois in order to write one more book into this series only to find it comes complete with a boy Seymour and a ghost Mr Grumpley has writer's block which his house comes already occupied excuse me this is the sequel to Swindle and in this book the man with the plan is back and so is his crew when they learn that all aboard animals a floating zoo has stolen Savannah's cat monkey they come up with a plan to get her back and we know the man with the plan is going to be able to pull it through this is the sequel to oh gosh what was the first Theodosia anyway this is book 2 it's the early 1900's in London and Theodosia whose 11 helps her father with the work at his museum of legends and antiquities and of course her mother brings the ancient artifacts back from Egypt and Theodosia has a gift her parents don't know this but she is very good at ferreting out secrets and curses and she can look at these artifacts and know oh my this is a terrible curse I have to get rid of this before it gets anybody well in this second book Theodosia accidentally finds a staff of Osiris in the storage room and soon a number of people are after it and they are all unscrupulous this is book 4 about Gooney Bird and she decides she needs to keep her brain warm so it will work better and she begins to wear her true ponytail hat which is a pair of frilly underwear I don't know if they talked with the other author not get a theme going soon other classmates follow her example and Mrs. Pigeon is supportive and understanding she's a very good teacher the class is studying poetry learning about haiku limericks and other things and the teacher reads some poems written by her mother Mrs. X the class feels the loss when Mrs. X dies and they find the perfect tribute to her Banjo the great walloper of Bishbash is 11 and he has a wicked hitting slump while his team is working toward the baseball championship can you see that black cloud over his head yeah the slump is manifested as that dark cloud and it gets in his way sometimes his friends all have humorous names and there's some fun comments in the book such as the place was like a suitcase at the airport packed still Banjo slump is real and he knows he needs to find a way to get past it another baseball type story this is book 4 in the scraps of time series James and Peter Turner are a year apart but they look like twins they are baseball crazy during the depression and are beyond thrilled when Josh gives in rooms at their house while his team is in town and they include some information at a timeline of the Negro Leagues this is another story about simply Sarah Sarah is assigned to report on a country and she has decided to report on Mexico where her friend and neighbor Mercedes was born she brings a special surprise to school as part of her report oh I love down girl and sit they are so silly this is the third book about them down girl and sit whose names really are happy and dot continue to do their best to protect their respective properties and owners much to the owner's chagrin they really believe their names are down girl and the other dog thinks her name is sit and they think that the neighbor's cat's name is here kitty kitty and they are always doing things it's so much fun to read it from the dog's point of view and how they help their masters get up every morning and other things book three about auto line and this one auto line and Mr. Monroe Cecilie Forbes Lawrence the third at the park and soon all three of them are off to boarding school the Alice B Smith school for the differently gifted numerous bizarre and unexplained things are happening at the school and there are illustrations in black and white and blue throughout the story to add to the fun this is kind of a retort to Diary of a Wimpy Kid it's an Australian import and it will probably be popular with the same crowd Max is positive that he is not a bully after all he has never hit anyone he does however convince them to do what he wants Nerdstrom well really his name is Triffin Nordstrom is assigned to be Max's tutor for math and things may start to change this is the fifth book of this popular character and that's the first one I've read I've heard of him before there is no text used in any of this series except for little words like an action like shiver shiver the story is completely conveyed through the illustrations they're black and white throughout the stories in this you don't have to have read the earlier books to enjoy these stories they're very gentle stories and I've been told that they're popular with from elementary school all the way through high school so see if that's true in your community this one is quite fun and sometimes very silly some of the stories are humorous some of them are groaners there are numerous short stories told in manga style so you start at the back of the book they're black and white art and throughout it's just stories about dinosaurs as if they act in kind of human like except they do still eat each other and there can be blood dripping but it's only black and white art so that's not so bad and again silly and goofy and with that one on the front there I'm pretty sure there's going to be another book this is the sequel to Jellaby this is Jellaby Monster in the City Portia Bennett and Jason are taking Jellaby when the story continues they find the door Jellaby remembers and think they are on the brink of bringing him home when more trouble occurs it's a satisfying continuation of the story and this could either stop now or it could go on for more stories because they really haven't found where Jellaby belongs three vignettes give a sense of Lincoln's love for his sons especially Willie and Ted it is sympathetically told covering incidents from 1859 to 1865 just little short vignettes and because they're retold it's in the fiction section sequel to Locomotion in this book Lonnie has decided to be the rememberer for his sister he and his sister live with different foster families that sense their parents death in a fire this book is all letters with only three poems that tells her about what is happening now with both of them and also an occasional memory of before the war makes an appearance with his foster mom Miss Edna who was worried about one of her sons in Iraq it's a worthy sequel some nonfiction this is an overview of man's concepts of space highlighting the US space program good introductory information for browsers and of course it's by Buzz Aldrin and four fold out pages highlight this look at reptiles basic information is included on snakes lizards turtles crocodiles and alligators some illustrations are marked actual size others are not labeled as such so I would think that probably they're not definitely will appeal to boys this is book eight about Tommy de Paola's childhood and in this one the author talks about rationing for the duration blackouts for the duration and also everyday things like his upcoming dance recital he also has an unexpected reaction to his special choir seeing the army air court anthem his cousin blackie was shot down in the words of the song bring it all back to him he has to run out of the room to the voice bathroom so it's very heartfelt and also gives a sense of the time of the child at that time the title of this is barbarians you can't read it over there it has one chapter each on Goths, Huns, Vikings and Mongols that gives good basic information about each group and you can tell right from this illustration that you're going to get some good information about weaponry which of course is very appealing to certain boys this might look like a picture book but it's really riddles of well-known children's books and we had a fun quiz for readers and the reason I put this in the older group is because some of the books that the riddles refer to are novels some are picture books and just looking at this artwork you can pick out what probably a few of those riddles are going to be about and then I think having the kids write up riddles for one of their own favorite books would be great fun this has good basic information on the steps needed to complete a research paper it's well organized and easy to follow and it's one of the better books about this that I've seen and really emphasizes if you follow these steps you're going to be writing it in your own words and it's important to to write in your own words and not copy out of another book more books in the you wouldn't want to series this popular series tells of historic events in a humorous and gruesome way illustrations dominate the pages with snippets of information and plenty of smart aleck remarks thrown in and you got the word body snatcher up there that book is going off the shelf right now excellent photos highlight this look at very big and very little insects including a map of the world at the back of the book that points out where each insect mentioned lives again with the three cups of tea but this is a novel retelling of his story that he told in his adult book and it's geared to this age group and I think again finding out about how important school is for a group of people who haven't, the kids climb up and write in the dirt at the beginning of the story they're doing their schoolwork but they don't have a building and again I think this is good things for our children to learn about okay this is an introductory look at how different parts of the body function and interestingly there's no reference to the reproductive system that's the one that causes us trouble right and I think it's because it's about organs and how they can be replaced we haven't really come up with something about that for that part of the body it does include the urinary system with only an outline drawing of a body with an X on the place where the bladder would be just giving you information so you know what's in this book I think it does a good job of explaining the different functions of these different organs and I think it'll be a good addition to your collection this is a follow-up to his earlier book if the world were a village and of course this title shows the reader the makeup of the United States if we were just one village how many of us would have a college education and things like that a photo essay of the people of Everest their culture, the animals and the geography and climate of their world it does also mention some of the well-known climbers like Sir Edmund Hillary but this book is really about the people who live there all year round and about Everest oh yeah this is going to be popular how to make fake vomit fake dog poo and more it includes the necessary cautions regarding using the stove or using a sharp knife but yes 25 great special effects well particular Halloween's gone now I know but next year around Halloween time this is going to be popular fiction for younger teens we're doing on time 7th grader Sophie who's the narrator Margaret Rebecca and Leanne are asked to solve puzzles and math to find a ring left by the elderly neighbor's father for her daughter side story is about a possible boyfriend for Sophie these girls go to a Catholic school and the school is right next to the church and the elderly lady lives in an apartment that's kind of between the two buildings and kind of connected to both of them and the first in the series of course this is volume 3 of Vladimir Todd the ongoing saga of half vampire Vlad in and out of school he continues to learn new vampire skills and he's trying hard to survive but there is something of a conspiracy against him because he shouldn't exist and he's not sure who he can trust his uncle had to leave and there's a really rotten vampire after him wanting to get rid of him so he's got his hands full oh yeah and then there's school too Paul is 13 and he and his grandfather are Abinacchi they've been kidnapped by treasure hunters to lead them to the legendary treasure of an Abinacchi monster on a mountain near their home it's good tension and a touch of the scary so this is another in Joseph Fushach series of modern day stories based on ancient Abinacchi monsters and I think that that's always appealing to kids excuse me the story is told in free verse Matt who's now 11 was 9 when he was airlifted out of Vietnam he remembers his mother and brother and he has a secret that haunts him he has a new family in the United States that are very supportive and wonderful to him care a great deal about him but he has to get past this secret of his past before he can really embrace his family this is book one of the hunting Adam is 13 and his father has been developing a very realistic video game using Adam as his model and tester when his father disappears Adam is concerned but when the apartment building is demolished by something no one can see he is running for his life and this science fiction title a group of unscrupulous people have stolen information and forced Adam's father to create a genetically altered tyrannosaurus Rex called Z-Rex and it is intelligent Adam must try to save his father while avoiding the creature or will the Z-Rex be able to help him oh you can't see much of anything on this one the spooks tale in other words there's three shorter stories in this companion book to the last apprentice series the first tells how Tom Woods master became a spook tells of Alice's history before she met Tom and the third how Grimulkin became the witch assassin is sure to be popular with readers of the series Josh is 12 and he's hoping to help the school baseball team when his father a former minor league player pulls him off of the school team to have him try out for a traveling team hosted by the local go-getter Rocky Valentine Josh makes the team but he isn't sure about Rocky's schemes and he tells additives to his team players and they're legal but then some of the other players offer Josh steroids and he has to decide what am I going to do another book by the same author this is the sequel to football genius Troy whose 12 can predict winning place for the Atlanta Falcons because somehow he knows what the opponent's defense plans to do now the NFL is investigating him and trying to find out if and how he is cheating this is the third book in the vampire island series the title and character in this series it focuses on Lexie who's about 14 she's the oldest of the three children all of her immediate family are focusing on giving up all vampire impulses in order to try to become fully human Lexie finds herself losing ground as she completes competes for ninth grade president and does some underhanded needs to further her cause which also takes her back away from being human Prometheus Jones is 13 and he was born on the day slaves were freed though he's never been a slave but he finds himself and his younger cousin fleeing injustice and heading for Texas Jones wants to try to find his father so they both join a cattle drive to earn some money before beginning their search Cowboys did not have an easy life and there are personal loss and heartbreak in store for Prometheus he is an honest honorable young man and faces trouble head on high school junior Marcus and his mother moved to town in the middle of the summer Marcus hopes to make the football team but has no friends to practice with when he is throwing passes at a picture frame in the park and a 50 something year old man catches it he has found someone to help him get ready but Charlie sometimes acts peculiar and Marcus keeps getting blamed for Charlie's pranks what is up with this guy well it turns out he has early onset Alzheimer's from he had been a pro football player and it's from the concussions that he's had it is 1958 and Bob Barnhart 12 and his family have moved in next door to Mrs. Dowdle his father is a minister and starting a church in town trouble and surprises are in store for the new neighbors Grandma Dowdle is still in fine form 20 years after we last spent time with her both of these books are sequels to dead is the new black Daisy and her two sisters and their mom all have different psychic powers and often help the local police in book 2, dead is a state of mind a new student predicts a teacher's murder which occurs and it looks like a werewolf has done it in dead is so last year people of nightshade California have started seeing doppelgangers all over town Daisy thinks she has seen her own father who's been missing for several years what is going on? of course everybody probably knows The Last Olympian the fifth and final book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympian series and this title maintains series quality this is a prequel to the bone series and it tells the story of Rose and her twin Briar they are to go and take their final tests to complete their training and controlling and understanding their dreams but then there is a betrayal and this is a graphic novel format and she returns in this fifth book to find her landlady's house ransacked the kitchen girl tied up and her landlady kidnapped and Nola is at a loss as to who would do such a thing and immediately sets out to find and rescue Mrs. Tupper then we have the 39 clues series continuing book 4 takes place in Egypt book 5 they go to Russia and book 6 they're in Australia they're not really following a clue this time they just wanted to reconnect with their uncle ship and repeat a trip their parents had made Amy and Dan's parents had made many years built but while they're there they stumble on a clue Billy is 12 and his older sister have joined the 1897 Klondike gold rush they're trying to find their father on the trail because their mother passed away from the fever the first thing Edna does when they hit the trail is cut her hair and they named Ed because she's not sure that Edna would be a good person to be out there on the trail with just her younger brother and they have many adventures in trying to find their father why don't you want to go on if it wants to stop there I don't know we have a little bit more time so let's go on to teen nonfiction um the authors who brought us bodies from the bog and bodies from the ash now has a photo essay of the recovery of bodies from European glaciers most of the bodies are a couple of hundred years old but one is from the copper age he's about 5300 years old and even handed biography of what is known about Babe Ruth the author notes when appropriate the different versions of specific stories and how even Babe Ruth himself was unclear on what was true it's certainly be popular with readers who love sports stories it reads like a story oh yeah there's gonna be trouble now I have read snippets of this book not the whole thing it is full of practical joke type ideas the reviews emphasize that the book constantly reminds readers that pranks should do no harm and help clean up your mess and by the way stay in school learn something and become a useful citizen of the world so while they are learning how to do mischief there also may be learning a couple of other things the stories of three different scientists is told one flies into the eyes of hurricanes to collect data one explores caves hunting microbes that live in extreme conditions and the third is the first person to climb into and research life at the top of the redwoods very different this is a sequel to the circuit and breaking through now Francisco is in college and he has a whole new set of challenges to face again an excellent book about someone who's come from a completely different culture Mexico and into the United States and of course it's set a number of years ago because now he is a college professor but interesting to hear his remembrances of this part of his life oh I should hurry this is a photo journal of the death bowl it's well organized and tells of the conditions that brought about the death bowl and about the thousands of people who became homeless during this time and it does include an index this is an encyclopedic look at many things connected with death entries include assassination body-snatching, hearse, limbo soul the author includes Christianity, Hinduism Islam and Buddhism and other religions when appropriate to the topic in alternating narratives it tells the stories of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr from Earth through school, military service careers and politics and how they ended up facing each other that early morning a look at the war interact through one young man's experience he was a member of an equipment crew which repaired craters made by IEDs moved Earth to create firms and occasionally interacted with the children of Iraq languages crude at times and one scene it's quite hard to read they are salvaging army from a vehicle in which two soldiers died a photo essay of the early 1960s and the 13 women who were tested to determine if they could become astronauts called the Mercury 13 physical endurance tests, psychological analysis even with all of this there were very few who took them seriously the book contains a letter a copy of a letter about the women across which then president Lyndon Johnson wrote let's stop this now it includes an index okay fiction for older teens we're gonna make it this is just a fun book Morgan Abbott is a senior in high school and she's the daughter of the first female president she has all the regular challenges of a teen plus the added pressure of the nosy press and a mom who is very busy there is a bit of a stretch in here when she is acts as a decoy for her mom but teen girls who go for it and also with two girls in the white house right now although she's of course a senior in high school a little older than those girls Graceland is the first book in this series by Cass Short Katza is about 15 and she lives in a it's a fantasy so she lives in one of several countries where many people are born with a grace which means they have some kind of ability that is almost supernatural they can they can't be defeated and she thinks that her grace is to kill and that really rips her apart her uncle is using her as a thug so to speak to coerce people into doing what he wants or to punish them if they don't but she finds a way out of that situation and she goes off to find out really who she is and what she can do it's a very interesting story and it's companion book because I think this one takes place before Graceland Fire is a human monster and anyone who looks at her is irresistibly drawn toward her it's very hard for humans to shield their minds from her and she also has to try not to draw people but it's difficult her father used this skill for his own gain and the gain of the king but she resists this and tries to live as humanly as possible when she is asked to help the king retain his crown and finds danger, treachery, and betrayal but also human companionship it's a very intriguing story another intriguing story is The Hunger Games and this is the first book of a projected trilogy Katniss Everdeen is 16 and she volunteers to take the place of her younger sister Prim in The Reaping each year each of the districts of Panem which is formerly the United States so this is futuristic they must send two children to participate so think gladiators they're going to be in a physical environment that is hard on them and they're fighting each other until only one is left there's some gruesome situations but um somehow you're so compelled to read this book and the sequel which just came out I think last month is Catching Fire and in this I'm not giving much away to tell you that Katniss is back in the games and so are all the other champions and this is book two can't wait for book three three excellent short stories each of which has one or two earlier creature characters in them as expected language will be an issue for libraries but very well told stories of course this is the sequel to Under a War Torn Sky which I have not read it's World War II Henry is 19 and he was in the war shot down managed to escape that happened in the first book now he feels he must return to France to find out what happened to the boy Pierre who was nine at the time who helped him escape the Germans he sees first hand the terrible conditions left behind when he first goes back to France Hitler is still in power but he's lost control of France and he is his power is waning but he sees how even though the Nazis are gone people are still starving because the railroads have been destroyed and we get things from here to there it's part of the war that I really hadn't thought about before it's very well written it is World War II Ida Mae Jones just graduated from high school and all she wants is to fly she hears about the WASP program Women Air Force Service Pilots and hope she can get in but she is black a very light black should she try to pass as white it's a novel of the segregation of the limits set on women at that time and the last book I'll talk about is response his two friends talked Noah 17 into going into the neighboring all white neighborhood to steal a car before they get one three local teens spot them and chase them Noah trips and falls and is beaten in the head with a baseball bat the book explores guilt and innocence the trial of the white boys the meaning of a hate crime and Noah's determination to do things right from now on and thank you notice I think you just click it and it'll say thank you there it goes and that's the list for today so I hope that's some I didn't even stop to give anybody a chance to ask questions does anybody have any comments about some of the titles or questions before we call it quits if you have any questions or comments if I'm unmuting anyone if you have a microphone you can feel free to use it if not 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In this module, we'll talk about one major component of gender order that was discussed in previous modules. First of all, we will define what convention is. Actually, conventions are their synonymous words like custom rituals. They are ways of being and ways of doing things in a culture. We acquire them, we learn them unthinkingly in a natural way, without knowing their rationale. See, we'll be using rational with E and we will pronounce it with seconds test level, rational. And without E, we will pronounce it as rational. The second syllable would be answer test with different meanings. So now, again, coming back to conventions, conventions are ways of being and doing things which we acquire without knowing why we are following them, why we are learning them. We take them timeless. First feature is that they are timeless. We learn them because we say that these things are centuries old. Our ancestors, predecessors, forefathers, they have been doing this. So that's why we learn them, we follow them and we take them as necessary. What law says, what religion says, we never bother about that. We think them unavoidable, inevitable. We say that they are necessary to be part of a particular culture or social group. The origin of customs is erased. Nobody bothers from where this particular custom originated. We don't bother about this. For example, Old Gramerians, I mean Gramerians of 16th century, they thought men are superior. So when we talk about men and women together, we should first mention men. And that's why with the passage of time, we see such expressions in English language. For example, Mr. and Mrs. Ali, instead of Mrs. Ali and Mr., our husband and wife, instead of wife and husband. So why is this order? We just follow the tradition. That became gradually ideology. And whose ideology is this? This was ideology of Gramerians. So to conclude, obviously gender ideology, supports convention. The ideology of the Gramerians, for example, it continues the tradition of writing men, mentioning men fast. And convention supports ideology. So there is mutual relationship and mutual support of ideology and convention.


When he was first established in 1962, so no one believed that he would continue for 50 years or so. Because at that time, the role was to increase rice production in South Asian countries. Then this role was primarily achieved. Many Asian countries achieved self-sufficiency in the 1980s or 1950s. Then doubt comes how would be the role of it? Of course, first role is to maintain wealth of gene resources. This should be kept. Otherwise, there is no reliable international organization to keep such important wealth of human beings. That is the major task. As an aspect, I don't know whether he should maintain the same activity as now or as it used to be.


So as I briefly discussed that this is a series of modules in which we will be talking about creating super content so remarkable content and in this module I will be continuing with the previous module we were talking about color and logo. So in this module I will talk about the aspects of logo and I will also talk about and I will conclude this module at what should be there in a home page which is the main page of the website. Home page is the page where the main traffic lands the organic search results I will talk more about it. So let me talk about the combination of colors and shapes and fonts that go into a logo so what's in a logo well to tell you the truth a lot of lot of thing is in the logo the companies the company itself the aspects of the company are in the logo so let's first look at the example of Federal Express. Now this logo was redone in 1994 by Lander and Associates and they were giving the task to come up with a logo and if you look carefully at that logo you will see there is an arrow between capital E and X I will highlight it for you you see here is the arrow over here this arrow is not kind of clearly embedded it's kind of sublime and it gives the message of action it gives the message of motion of focus and this was done after trying out 400 logos 400 so that was done by Lander and Associates and they discovered that when they put capital E with the small X lowercase X this arrow is generated so you see the tremendous amount of effort goes into creating a logo. Then is the second example is the logo of Baskin and Robbins which is the which everybody knows is the famous ice cream chain and in 2005 they were redoing or their presentation or their logo also and prior to that they had 31 flavors they still have those 31 flavors and in the older logos what they had was that 31 number was written in a circle and that circle kind of look like a scoop of ice cream and what after they have redone and they have used this colors blue and pink color you can see over here which is showing energy and excitement and fun that 31 is still here as you can see over here this is the B of the Baskin and the R the 31 is still there you see that the colors are there the shapes are there the message is there also and then we look at this example of data to business intelligence so we have the data then we have information then we have knowledge then we have intelligence what it is showing is that a quantum leap from data from a hard disk to intelligence which is which is over here and shown by those arrows and the left most arrow the first left most arrow looks like an eye a calm and and in peace so when the data is converted into intelligence into intelligence then of course there is commonness and there is peace you see how much important messages are there in the logo so if we have to say something if we have to tell something then if that something can be conveyed using an image using a small video clip then why not do it what is the point of using lots of text so show instead of telling if you can convey your message by by an image instead of a thousand words then it is better that you use an image instead of thousand words on your website because remember when people come to the website they have a short attention span there are not few hundred websites there are millions of websites and if the person who comes to your website the visitor doesn't get the message which you are conveying that person is going to go away okay take them yourself these images you have the device their device is your smartphone you can take the pictures but be careful about the background and the color and the lightning to take the picture yourself and the other option is that you go for stock images which are very high quality and cost a fraction as complete the picture which which I can take on you can take but if you want to invest and if you are selling the products on the internet then engage a professional photographer for that investment is going to pay you and over here this this basically is a text which says my hero and it is overlapped and this creates a picture so instead of writing thousand times my hero I believe this is a picture of Nansal Mandela so this text is overlapped to create this visual message so about the mobile friendly if you recall in module number five I told you that 68 percent of the world population 68 percent penetration is of unique mobile numbers of course all of them may not be smartphones but they are look at the statistics people are doing 80 percent of their purchase searches over their smartphone moving their fingers sliding over it and in a day or two 50 percent of them actually go to a store and make a purchase point over here is that having your website displayed on a mobile phone is not is not enough your website should be designed it should be designed for a positive impact on a mobile phone it should be optimized for a positive impact on a mobile phone so that the people they make the purchase using your mobile phone and they they go for a purchase using your using your website on the mobile phone if it's not that case you're out of luck bad for you and finally you have to make a first impression and that first impression comes from your homepage and that homepage is the key because there are numerous statistics for example there's one statistic 94 percent of the people who make a decision by looking at your homepage your homepage is the first page in which a visitor lands through organic search this is the home page from a blog traffic comes to your homepage as opposed to a paid advertisement page so homepage is critical so there's about it I have in this module


I did not mention something here, I was just discussing with Dr. Bragmushan about using the resting state of Moray, which I did not touch actually here. Now, this question became relevant because he was surprised the guy who discovered resting state was an Indian, Bharat Biswan and that was his PGA topic and he just will do the paradigm without doing any paradigm, just do take on, off, on, off like that. And it was primarily designed because children, it is difficult to train them to, especially doing difficult paradigms, motor they would do, senses they would do, language they may still do, but getting the memory and getting into emotion, getting into other paradigm, it is pain, no, they do not cooperate with you. And when it comes to smaller children, like children who need sedation to be in the machine, how do you do this? So, that is where the new methodology what is called as a functional connectivity MRI or resting state of Moray became available about 7, 8 years back. We have a large data available with the test BGI, I think we have loaded a tested, because we are busy with so many things which we are having, you know, beside of clinical responsibilities. But this is one area which can really take care of your needs, you do not have design paradigms actually. You can look at your domain, what you are expecting and you can do a connectivity based on domains, surface connectivity, functional connectivity and collecting the DTI. Tectography, that has become the new thing. The last 2 years, a number of people has become collecting the DTI with the network connectivity. So, that is what has become very, very important today and I think we need to work on our data as we go back. I think next month on what I will start working on the data also. We have huge data line with us, because every patient was going to the machine, we are doing the resting state as routine and it is of subject. So, we have a huge data line of 7 policy B12, especially we have data available on them and we had a lot of work on this and we have looked into this. So, children is a difficult proposition to work with. They have to understand what you are doing and the best way to do is they do a resting state with them and that is the only way to do that. The reason is, I always believe that you are not trading them with anything and you are getting your domains from the connectivity which is a natural connectivity of the brain. Even in like, there are example people in like deep coma. In a deep coma, if you look at the, I have got data from the brain dead patient actually. I have looked at the data.  All connectivity just slowed down or just disappears. That is the proof of concept actually. We have not published it actually. We have not looked at the data. It is a fantastic data that you have. I would, that is what I am saying. We have a, we have a huge boss, Dr. Latter did not have much time and he was busy. We are busy with other things, but we have to look at the data actually. In the next, if you are interested, I can give you the data, look at this with Dr. Latter actually. That is a huge strength we have with us, dead brain data. There is a confirmation of death by no flow in the brain and there are ways to confirm that and the guy was dead actually. You can actually see how the cobitose patient, we have got cobitose patient data also, grades 3, grade 2, grade 1, grade 4. You can see how the arousal, the brain arousal, that is important, affects the connectivity. I am sure if you are interested, we can give you the data to look at and let Dr. Latter spend some time with it and may be Vasudevi could set up some of the things which we have done and then you can move from there. Unfortunately, my data which we have I am not able to look at all the data because the critical responsibilities are so many that most of the time we are working on the patient and whatever time we look at the science, that is the problem. You see, I always believe that you cannot force a brain to think what you want to think, whatever paradigm you generate and paradigm you are training the guy to think those things, to do those things, that is why the resting state became the reality. You are not training for anything, you are not doing anything, you are looking at the domains and checking how they are done. So, I am not sure it is really true, whatever you may still be told to do x paradigm start thinking of y paradigm in the machine. I mean, there is no control on that and even when you are lying quiet, resting state, if you call it, see another interesting I will tell you about the FMRIS, then when I was doing the resting state or otherwise like the motor function and all, a lot of activity coming in the occipital brain because the eyes, you are seeing through the eyes, you see a lot of activity in the brain. Even the resting state, if you close the eyes and open the eyes, there is a difference in the activity. So, whether you like it or not, you see things yourself, you do it what you are doing and that will only when reflected in the brain, the brain is functioning, what are you doing. So, I am not sure what will be published is all truth you know and you have to take it as a bench of salt. The question that I have is how can we use FMRIS for naturalistic models. For example, where the people actually have to be exposed to real situations. For example, say driving or when piloting aircraft or something, if we do want to understand on a neural basis. Yeah, that is a good question because I happen to know somebody who was working on you know how to find out somebody is accident prone or not you know. It in context with the hepatic and sublimatic, a lot of patients who could live on dysfunction, they have a dysfunction on the brain condition and the biggest problem with them is how to ensure they are safe drivers or not. So, design a paradigm in which the guy actually sits on the you know apparent on the make believe or virtual you know car and start driving the car.  So, you can create some simulators by which you can actually create situations on the console and that is possible within the machine. Otherwise machine cannot go in the sky to do that something you know. So, best way to create a paradigm and that I learned from that guy who is very smart either reading guy in myoclinic who developed a methodology to find out that how you can be accident prone and why not adjust simulations or virtual methods of doing things. So, is there any technical development for example, if we leave out fMRI where we do not have to use these virtual systems and the person is actually put into the real situations and we can still get to know the green areas behind it or the underlying neural connections. See I told you the beginning there are three methods one is a imaging method, hemodynamic method, the second one is the neural method, neural stimulation method. You can do a electronic photography EEG you can take a small MBGs and check that that is the only way you can look at the function of brains outside the otherwise you need a magnet you need the whole set of things to see the hemodynamic change. It does not have a resolution special resolution it has a very excellent temporal resolution. So, people have done that actually it is not something new people have done all kind of situation where they can put electrodes and check for the you know brain activity during that like you know you must be knowing that lie detector reducing with the use. So, they use all this MEG, EEG, all kind of heart rate this is it all physiology are using to check those things that you can do anywhere for that you do not need a very high infrastructure, but for this kind of methodology you need a hardware which cannot go to the real situation actually. Within that they do not explain the actual underlying structures as that is what I told you. That is that is all saying that is that is that is this is like making believe and that is real believing it.  The same way when the guy is lying quietly inside the machine whatever is thinking we do not know what is thinking that gets reflected into the network you know.  So, everybody has a attention span right it varies from x to y timing, but it is something which is not really you know constant. So, so many times when I am talking to somebody suddenly my brain goes somewhere he thinks I am listening to him and I am somewhere else. So, this thing happens all the time with all of us. So, to say that you are attentive to what I am saying how I guarantee that what I am saying to do you are doing that think of a woman think of a kind think of something you know of a god think of a devil. So, it depends on what you think, but actual thinking I do not know what is actual thinking yes. So, that is the biggest issue with the f real application of paradigms and then I told you about that getting used to a paradigm familiarizing with paradigm you know that becomes another issue that is why in a very big way the resting state is becoming very very popular method. I think the last five years you read the paper resting state of why there are huge number of problems because it has no subjectivity no subjectivity all objective. How you analyze the data that becomes now the analytical tools become like professor Rathar will give or somebody has will give that is becomes most important part there is subjectivity. So, that is the way one has to move in the functional MRI improvement resolution and improvement is learning connectivity.  This is all this resting state and this Q ball imaging or DSI they are the one they are the one it is getting and the FC of mori. Note the bold of mori FC of mori then becoming more. We started working on a four years back on FC mori, but we never published anything we never did anything very exciting area you know FC mori because there is no involvement of the patient like you do imaging and see images the same way you see the function and see how they are connected to the wires like fibres fibres and with the DSI you can go to sub cortical fibres the resolution is so high different spectrum imaging DSI. I wanted to ask you something you made a statement that when you take a subject and put a mark into a simulator basically there is a great degree of habituation effect something that usually in behavioral studies one would like to get rid of psychologist would like to have a unconditioned and habituated type of a response considering that fine this is a true response, but in the real medical practice you would have a patients whom you cannot ask to know undergo a situation phenomena in the simulator. So can one construe it that if you have certain type of psychological functions cognitive functions which are derived out of patient population research that would be much more objective compared to where you have the normal participants who are sent to simulators and then introduced to you know I totally agree with you on this because like I give you an example if I perform the same test as a volunteer 2 time or 3 times I know what I am doing now it is a teaching in psychology and you know more about that I know about that that never perform the same test again for a week at least let them forget what they did you know like jigsaw puzzle for a small child children they are very smart they will quickly pick up once they pick up then they can tell you without without you telling them anything you know. So that is a big problem with all of us you know when we see the time you know and try to get different kind of persons to of the same paradigm so that they do not have the reputation of things you know there are other method using the number connection test or the figure connection test. So once somebody knows 1 2 3 how they play they just he does it that quickly and finishes connect the whole thing but first timer what it does especially in disease is a real life situation and we do it every day we do it like a lot but once you give one person 3 times the same person who is disease he will do better next time I am telling you that we all do that and most you understand you also know the way how to come to the room first I will take 5 minutes second and 3 times the next time 2 minutes I will be there it is what is called a habituation fact learning fact or whatever you know that is there. So same thing happens in that is why I stress on this resting state and look at the look at your own domains inside the resting state that is more meaningful than actually doing the true bold meaning that is old knowledge is people looking different because there are no limitations you know and to know a limitation about technique is more important than knowing the usefulness of technique that makes you more alert about what is otherwise you keep writing the crap the same crap again again which is all good for the science. Also in terms of say with respect to the pain sensitivity the physiologically derived pain versus the emotional appraisal of the pain there are no in all religious practices you have certain type of belief based practice which forces you to inflict pain on yourself say one religious community. More on. More on for example. Walk you go on fire walk you go on fire I mean I see them every day you know I was looking at one television episode where you know the person had multiple cuts it was knife cut throughout his body it was profusely bleeding and but then because somebody had convinced him that this is what you know this is how with every cut your sins are also being removed. So with multiple cuts the man still was no without sign of pain.  So the brain conditioning has a lot of effect on the functionality of the brain I also so that is why always try to see a unconditioned brain not conditioned the brain. And there is also an interesting whole set of neuropsychological test batteries there happens to be a fantastic test in terms of capturing the overall cognitive state of an individual in terms of how X type of a cognitive function is being performed. I was once just going through the details of how this test actually got evolved and the best part of it was that there were a set of items usually the way psychological tests are designed but then for all of them MRI was done. Usually the standard way the way psychologists would use it that you have a set of performance activities and then you run factor analysis and then on the base of the eigenvalue and the factor load cross load you drop the items this is the standard way that this are being evolved it was a fantastic way where it was not basically the statistical properties but it was rather the magnetic visible and many, many items got deleted many things had to be evolved and I read in the historical incidents how that finally the final version came forward with multiple revisions that it was primarily outcome of the MRI which decided whether a particular item should be retained in the test or not. More objective. More objective and that is the reason why in still in many clinics where they have psychologists in the neurosurgery departments there they use disarray test because they know that fine this is a well validated test so there is no need for MRI right now to be performed. You just have a few selective tests to see the outcome and you know that fine this is how the thing is working before surgery of course you will have the scanning done. Good thing happened to psychology is that MRI objective is a whole thing and with that I will say with all the limitations I have talked about I am not trying to criticize too much of the technology also but technology still evolving one has to evolve the technology you cannot be at the same position you have to move forward what we are getting so that is what we have to do actually I cannot still do a bold when I would rest instead the connect term is a connecting function and structure wiring current functions you have the functioning brain but there is a road block it does not function right. Then the guy find what is the find some alternative routes of coming you know we call it a accessory area secondary area in the brain or tertiary area in the brain to function something like that it comes you know they all come because of this thing only you know and I think this is going to be the future of collective is going to be the future for understanding brain function. But I am planning to write a grant where I will know all about doctor and so on. If you can put that grant especially in B 12 contact which I will talk tomorrow you know which is interesting very interesting to my mind and then we can connect the real you know structure and function to understand why it is happening. Talking about clinical population let us say we have others who have some kind of intellectual disability let us say mental retardation or any kind of developmental disability let us say autism suppose you are interested in a particular paradigm let us say the paradigm is to see how they match it is a matching task right. So, is it a good idea to take individuals who can a group cannot match and who have the same disability a little bit I did to compare with. No, you should not go. Or take one group that has the disability and compare it with a normal. Normal. Individuals who have autism or mental retardation obviously the brain is compromising some of the other type and within that you have high function and no function. One group is able to perform the other group is not able to perform. So, when you are trying to compare it is to be the idea to compare between the disability group or take children who have this mental retardation autism and see how they perform in relation to children more normally. So, which is a better paradigm. See, it is a question of what kind of population you are handling. If your power analysis tells you you have the numbers in each group. There is subgroup policy and it is important. I will show an example tomorrow where I have taken children with cerebral palsy with low IQ with normal IQ and compare the cognition with the DTI. How they fare differently? How their IQ affects the technography and the functionality. So, it is always good to have subgroups if possible. The numbers allow it to take. It will take numbers if they are giving you false impression. They should be statistically viable in terms of power analysis, in terms of justification numbers you are taking. They should do it well. That gives you a better understanding of the whole analysis which you are doing. Subgrouping is always good as long as you have the numbers. I can make a suggestion. Maybe we can have a project in which not just we work with those templates to take an individual's data and then put it on that template and match. But then, imbue the template with other things. So, like all these collectivities.  So, we have the associated images which will make the corresponding volume. And then we have the tracks. We have the areas. We know a little bit about their functionality. So, whatever is known, we code all that and make it a kind of functional software. And then whatever you expect in psychology. So, this area will be activated. Why it will be activated? Whatever you are doing, what is the purpose of that? How does it interact with the psychology of the person? All these things are put as associated properties whatever is known. So, those things are known. So, then I know that if I activate over here then it has a relation with these things. So, much is normal. And then is there some abnormal reaction or there is something extra. And then what is normal? How much should be normal correlation? So, all this could be done by making a model and then I mean just like you are having simulators. So, here then for emotions, what are the kind of actions which will take place? We can code those. And then along, so now this becomes our setup instead of just the template. No, I agree. I see to begin with you start somewhere. But you can create your own template number one. Like I give an example, MNI template. But MNI is basically if you have larger normal. First of all what is normal? That question is always now after having the last couple of years seen that. I am not sure we are all normal. We are abnormal in some way or the other. To define normality, if it is like 66 percent or like outlier 33 percent, I do not know how to. And which way, which aspect we are 66 percent, which way we are 33 percent, we do not know. So, that is another issue which I always debate in my mind that why I am normal and why this guy is not normal. That is the question which you, the same two individuals you can question yourself. And you must be seeing that discussion. While you have a heated discussion with your friend or your colleague is, oh, this guy is not normal. He is something wrong with him. So, to define normality is a big issue by itself. So, I do not understand how to define normality. Is it biochemical normality or functional normality or morphological normality? So, I really do not understand this question. It is a big question. I am not here at any length of time, you know, without any problem. But what you have suggestions is a good suggestion, but it needs a lot of effort and dedicated groups who work on this and definitely come out with it. I always believe that we published a paper not with the part of the paper where we showed that the Indian brain development, children, the brain development in the, in the, in the child, in utero, it follows different pattern than what Americans have described. We published that based on the astrology and DTI. And when I showed that to the DBT, they were amazed. They said, nobody has done this. See, we do not know. We always compare with the western world. Our gold standard is the west, not us. I think you and myself have discussed a number of times regarding, you know, the same paradigm or a psychological community paradigm used in eastern UP, the same paradigm used in Olisa, the same, a different meaning. And you cannot generalize the paradigm used in X part of the country, even the country and the Y part of the country. Because the local dialects, the way they perceive things is different. In Delhi, it is different. In Gurgaon, it is different. I have seen now. In Lucknow, it is different. In Kalman, it is different. So, one has to create, I think, we had discussed at length a number of times how to create our own paradigms based on the local language, the local understanding, the local dialects. What is common to a person in this part of the world? Maybe the bird is a sparrow. For some, the bird is a parrot. For some, the bird is something else. Or, you know what I mean? So, this is important. So, you have to generate your paradigm, the local dialects, the local needs, the local understanding of the subject. So, and what we always… I have never seen a guy who is talking about the Indian paradigm or the paradigm. In our context, paradigm in relation to the X community or the Y community. Even the community-wise is different. Even the same local dialect, the practice from the Muslim, the practice from the Christian, the Muslim, the Sikhs are different. They perceive different the same thing, you know. So, we have never designed the ethnic difference in the, you know, in the perception of the same thing. And we try to put in everything in one way or the other, you know. There is another big issue which I think which needs to be addressed. And it is not a simple issue. It needs a lot of effort. And I think me and Dr. Brijesh had discussed a number of times this issue. He said let us put somebody and let somebody does it. That is all. We never went beyond that, I think. It is a good thing to understand, but it is not easy to do it. Actually, it gets related to the phenomenon of an operator and a machine. The same machine can be used differently by two operators. And the two operators behave differently if the machine is different. Our psychology changes when we switch over from tablet to desktop. And if I use a tablet and a kid uses a tablet, the user is different. So, here the brain, the structure is similar. What differences are made by how a person uses it? How do I use my brain? So, then what are the effects of the, say there is a patient or there is a person. You are imaging it. The psychology of the person, I mean the earlier psychology. How does that react? The current things whatever you are trying to do. So, this also comes into question. In fact, I can see a beauty in what you are saying. Say, like most of the construct in psychology in terms of quantification. Majority of them are always concerned psychologists who try to put it on a scale. So, you have a variable degree. Now, if I look at MRI data, I find that say area X of the brain is right now lit and therefore, I consider that this is area responsible for this task. Now, when you have a variable intensity, is it that the same area is involved or is it that some corresponding area also gets involved? And most of our psychological processes cannot be completely compartmentally removed from associated functions. Like say, if I am experiencing an emotion and if you are say looking at the intensity of my emotion, my emotion by default will have some cognitive appraisal of the experience. The feedback that I get. I am happy I express my happiness and if my surrounding is not appreciating my reflection of happiness, I will calm down. So, there would be no emotion itself for example, even though I am mapping the intensity, will be associated with several other functions. So, if I now put it into the model that you are suggesting, then perhaps some great things might come out. Let us say, which MRI research as of now shows that this area. So, there you find out it is not only this, but other associated functions or variable intensity and more than the area that was usually anticipated. One function relates to so many areas of the brain. You have not seen that. Bhashwati has done the FSL analysis, where we have tried to see which areas of the brain are showing a correlation with some of the cognitive functions. And you can see that actually. You can actually see this is a structure. That is automatic. And then you do an ROI analysis. You find this correlation for the same reason. So, that I think you are one of the causes by the way. We submitted the abstract to the RSLA. We did not tell you that we have done all this. So, here there is one question. What about fMRI with humans and fMRI with animals? There are plenty of people. So, because their psychology hopefully is not that complicated. No, people who do like this, all these various models of the animal where they do different kind of commission test, you know, and they do it on MRI. There are a number of people available. So, does it have? Awake and sleep and all kind of things. They do all kind of things. I think certain things. Say, for example, motor activity, for example. Motor, no issue. Or, say, sleep, eating behavior. Yeah. Sixth behavior. Many behaviors, you know, which are common. Repetitiveness. Repetitiveness. So, many behavior, these behavior, you can still make a comparison. But higher cognitive functions. No, higher. Sir, I also have a related question. I will try to put it as best as possible. My question is about dynamic systems. For example, the usual paradigm that we develop in measuring, say, memory. We are measuring some point of the memory. For example, we are asking the person to recall a word and when he recalls the word, maybe you can measure that entire process. But what about the entire dynamics? From the time that he is asked to recall it till the time that he actually recalls it. That actually can be an entire dynamic system. That we cannot assess at this point in time. Because we do not have temporality. We do not look at the temporality. We are looking at few seconds. It does not take few seconds to think. What you have just not told me, it does not take few seconds to think. So, that is something which the resolution and the temporality, both are lacking. I mean, this is just a very crude tool to begin with. I will say that. And if you feel something, if you feel happy, something is happening. What is the real truth? We will know maybe in the next avatar or something. I will say that. That is my and Dr. Rathore, the other end of the story. So, we may gradually get into that kind of moment. But certainly, what you said is absolutely correct. I mean, I am with you on this. What we are seeing is not real truth. But something is being said. Something is being done. And you feel happy about what you can understand today.  That is how people make interest in science. Do new things, develop new things.