Welcome to discovering what you need to know, part of the Research and Assessment Cycle Toolkit offered by the Association of Research Libraries and made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. This presentation is part of a module that focuses on identifying the needs, context, and goals of library assessment projects. It describes motivations for library assessment projects, including responding to imposed questions, connecting values and practices, responding to changing trends, reallocating resources, closing gaps, better understanding users, and aligning strategic priorities. We hope the content is useful to library practitioners seeking to conduct library assessment projects. At the close of the presentation, you will find a link to a feedback form. Please let us know what elements were useful to you. One of the first steps in identifying the needs, contexts, or goals of a library assessment project is discovering what the library assessment is intended to reveal. What do you need to know or find out? Having a full understanding of the information need, the information the assessment is intended to uncover, is essential to making decisions throughout the assessment process. If the assessment is imposed by an individual or group who has an information need, that can make a difference in the approach assessment librarians need to take. Understanding the key drivers or motivation for the assessment project, likewise helps inform decision making throughout the process. Is the assessment to help close a gap, better understand users? How is the assessment related to the library strategic priorities, other needs and goals? All of this information influences and informs the process. First, let's start with understanding imposed assessments. Many assessments are what we might call imposed. That is, the assessment question, project, or task is assigned by someone other than the library assessment practitioner, committee, or team. This might include administrators, leaders, managers, or supervisors who are seeking information that is expected to be revealed through an assessment. This might include individuals and groups outside the library who have information needs that an assessment might uncover. Essentially, someone, not the assessment librarian, has a question they would like an assessment to answer, and the question her, him, or herself might even be one or more steps removed from the origin of the question. One of the challenges with regard to imposed assessments is that the information need that is intended to be addressed by the assessment may not be understood completely by the assessment librarian, or even the person who brings the question to the assessment librarian. Alternatively, the question might be misunderstood in part or in whole. Getting to the source of the question might be difficult, unlikely, or even impossible. Difficulty getting to the core of what we need to learn from an assessment project has cascading impacts. Assessment librarians may then be challenged to fully gain an articulation of the project need or goal, and that challenge may persist throughout the assessment process, or even derail it. There might be more anxiety or concern throughout the process as well, and possibly a murky beginning may make the whole process feel clouded. Whenever possible, seeking out the origination of an assessment question, need or project is ideal. When that's not possible, assessment librarians should expect that a lack of clarity might challenge their process and results. If assessment librarians can gain access to the originators of an assessment question, need or project, asking questions can help reveal the motivations, needs, and anticipated uses of the resulting information. Using open-ended questions to probe this information can provide critical pieces of the full picture and context for an assessment project, particularly one that is imposed. A second step in discovering what you need to know or learn through an assessment project is the key drivers for the assessment. Assessment drivers can come from a variety of places or motivations, and often more than one. For example, many assessments are values driven or focused on priorities of individuals or organizations. In libraries, assessments may be focused on articulating the value of users or library workers, understanding how or why various activities are accomplished, discerning what work is valued, or demonstrating how assessment moves libraries forward in their values and strategic goals. When library assessments are driven by values like equitable access, confidentiality, social responsibility, diversity, or other values, it's important that those values align with and are visible in the assessment process. From the behavior of the assessment practitioners, the assessment design and methodology, the reporting of results, and of course acting on them at the end of the assessment process. Many assessments are driven by a need or desire for change or a variety of trends that the library is impacted by. These might include changes outside the library and within the overarching institution, the community, or within a specific area like technological innovations. These changes might be observed through connections and engagement with the community served by the library, trends observed by library staff, or reports of changes in library or related industries. Trends might also be revealed internally by statistics, observations related to transactions over time, or a SWOT analysis conducted as a part of strategic planning or periodic environmental scanning. One way to think systematically about changes and trends that serve as drivers for assessment is through the use of frameworks like this one. The acronym PESTLE reminds us that trends include political, economic, social, technological, environmental, ethical, and legal contexts. Changes in one or more of these areas may necessitate an assessment project that will provide more information about how to engage with, accommodate, or inspire changes in library services, resources, spaces, and so on. A third example of assessment drivers is decision making around resources. Assessments may be motivated by the need to monitor or reallocate budgets, making persuasive arguments for one time or strategic investments, providing evidence for budget requests from institutions, funders, or donors, or evaluating the use of resources and the degree to which resource allocations match with organizational priorities and outcomes. Any one of these purposes might depend on assessment information. Budget requests, for example, might include assessment data in nearly any area, a statement of need, goals, articulation of impact, etc. Sometimes a key driver of an assessment project isn't starting or continuing a library service, resource, or space, it's sunsetting one. Thinking through the possible discontinuation of a library offering can be tricky and highly charged for a variety of reasons. Assessment data and evidence can provide structure, logic, and reason to the process, and certainly sunsetting a library offering without sufficient information is more difficult than doing so, or deciding not to proceed with relevant information in hand. Some of the questions that need to be asked about discontinuing a library service, resource, or space are provided here. Many of these can be augmented using assessment information. The range of drivers for assessment projects is broad, but generally an assessment project is undertaken to close a gap between what is currently known and understood and what needs to be known and understood. Into the breach, we launch assessment projects to fill those gaps, at least in part, with data and evidence that helps us make more informed decisions about the question at hand. A third step in discovering what you need to know or learn through an assessment project is fully understanding the gap the assessment information is intended to fill. This use of information and assessment to close gaps is closely related to the information need fulfillment that librarians engage in every day. Let's take a closer look at how understanding gaps can help us conduct assessments. Some of the key information behavior work done in our field is focused on closing gaps. Brenda Durvin and Carol Colfow are two information behavior researchers that can be drawn upon in understanding the role of gap closing in library assessment work broadly and understanding what needs to be learned from an assessment project specifically. Durvin describes the idea of sense-making as the process by which people construct information needs and uses for information in order to understand their own and others' worlds. As librarians seek to understand the worlds, so to speak, of their colleagues, institutional partners, users including various groups of students and faculty, the process of articulating an information need and securing information that can be put to use is central. Librarians, like other humans, live in a gapy world. There are always gaps between what we need to know to make good decisions and provide the best possible services, resources, and spaces and what we actually know. And once a gap is filled, the terrain can and will change so that ongoing information, that is, assessment data and evidence, is required to keep the gap filled. As librarians and assessment practitioners, there's a constant need to understand what our users and our coworkers think, feel, want, need, and aspire to. Without actual information, the tendency is to view others as we ourselves are. Being aware of the gaps between what we know and what we need to know and continually striving to fill those gaps, understanding that the job will never be finished but can still be done well. Being aware of those gaps helps us break out of seeing others only through the lens of our own experiences. Developing a clear sense of the gap to be filled by an assessment project means understanding the history and experiences of our users, who might be individuals who are seeking to fill a hole in their knowledge or understanding by using library resources. Our users and library assessment could also be the library colleagues who are seeking to close a gap in their knowledge and understanding of users or library offerings. It's also essential to understand the outcomes that users, library users or library colleagues want to achieve as a result of closing a gap in knowledge or understanding. In this way, assessment projects serve the all important need of helping users or library colleagues make sense of their own worlds in order to achieve goals, fulfill needs, solve problems, or otherwise make an impact. This process is inherent in both information seeking and assessment. In fact, the similarities between the work of helping users find information and the work of helping individuals gather and process information in order to make decisions and take action can make assessment a little less muddy to those who are new or resistant to it. And so, as we think about assessment as a sense making process, we need to remember that the mandate for change is directed towards us as librarians and assessment practitioners. How can we design library services, resources and spaces and yes our library assessments to be maximally useful to our users as a group and as individuals? How can we change and adapt ourselves to be useful to them? Because the goal of library assessment is to inform change that directly helps users. We also need to keep as a central tenant that the users we reach out to via assessment are co-creators of the process and not subjects to be analyzed without benefit to themselves. Carol Calfell's work is also helpful in determining what we need to know or learn through an assessment project and also somewhat reassuring in recognizing many of the stages that an assessment project and indeed a library assessment practitioner experiences. Calfell's information search process describes assessment projects as much as any other information seeking process. It begins with initiation when an individual or in our case a library assessment practitioner realizes a need for assessment, a gap of information needed to fill. The process continues along a familiar path of focusing the information need, designing a plan to acquire information and collecting and presenting the final results of the information seeking or for us assessment process. As in information seeking, one of the most valuable parts of this model is the affective realm of the process. As you skim the feeling sections of her model, you'll see a movement from feelings of uncertainty to optimism to confusion, frustration and doubt to clarity, a sense of direction and ultimately either satisfaction or disappointment and finally a sense of accomplishment. Experienced assessment professionals will likely recognize this cycle well. A fourth element of discovering what you need to know to begin an assessment process is understanding the users who form the focus of the assessment. With a library assessment project, the user may be a library user who is seeking to use a library service resource or space to accomplish the goal. The user might also be a library colleague who is seeking to close a knowledge or understanding gap in order to make decisions about library offerings. The user could also be an individual or a unit external to the library who requests information about the library from a non-library centric point of view. There are likely other possible users as well. For whatever user you need to focus on in a particular assessment project scenario, it's critical to understand the user's goals, purpose, mission or need within the context of the assessment scenario. What are they trying to achieve? What do they actually achieve in the current state of things? And is there a gap between aspiration and reality? It's worth noting explicitly that we need to consider the user's goals, purpose, mission or need both within a library environment and without. To focus exclusively on a library context might result in limited learning. For example, users might be seeking to attain goals that are not at first glance directly related to libraries or may appear to be more closely related to some other unit or perhaps not related to an institutional context at all. For example, a user who is focused on financial aid might not immediately think of the library as a resource for their affordability needs and goals. However, many library offerings might be helpful to them in attaining cost-accessible educational resources. Thus, it's important to consider what's important to a user without constraining that thought process to a library's status quo. Another important step in understanding users is an assessment process to think both broadly and narrowly about users that might be included in the assessment. From a broad perspective, it's important to consider the many users, individuals and groups that might be relevant to an assessment process. After a brainstorming process, it might be necessary to focus on users in a more targeted way, segmenting beyond what is often considered a user group. For example, an assessment project that focuses on faculty users might need to narrow to adjunct instructors, or even further to adjunct instructors in a particular school, college, program or discipline, or even further to adjunct instructors who teach graduate education courses and are also K-12 teachers during business hours. So, expanding and narrowing the funnel of who an assessment project focuses on as users is essential to the process and should be undertaken with care. Once a user group is identified, learning about that group is crucial to the success of an assessment project. In some cases, that learning might be in the form of the assessment project itself. In other cases, learning in advance about the user group might be essential to the assessment design process from the start. Understanding a user group impacts the ways in which populations are conceived, samples are generated, methodologies are selected, instruments and processes are designed, communication is conducted, analysis is planned and undertaken, results are interpreted and reports are disseminated and acted upon. Failing to understand the users that are the focus of an assessment project, again either library users or users who are decision makers seeking information to take actions based on results, can introduce critical flaws throughout the assessment process that may yield flawed and unusable results. While this is not an exhaustive list by any means, this chart can serve as a starting point for considering what might be areas of interest for various user groups, broadly speaking. Institutional users such as administrators or financial decision makers might be interested in affordability, efficiencies and opportunities for development. Faculty might be interested in tenure and promotion, research productivity or teaching effectiveness. Considering what's important from the user's perspective is a key step in understanding users as individuals and communities. It bears repeating that the users we seek to engage, understand and benefit are partners, not subjects in the assessment process. Users should be involved throughout the assessment cycle, including in the formulation of the problem or need to be addressed, the interpretation of findings and actions or decisions based on those findings. The goal is for users to benefit directly, immediately and throughout the assessment process so that the process overall should serve the users as individuals and communities. This inclusion of users as partners in the assessment process should, over time, be part of a plan for continuous improvement and communication leading to positive change for users. This perspective can be a bit at odds with some traditional approaches that view users as subjects to be studied for the benefit of those doing the studying, or in our case, assessing. These traditional views can be so entrenched in some assessment practices that it is essential for assessment practitioners to ask themselves early and often, whether they are developing and maintaining partnerships, communication and a focus on benefit to users throughout the assessment process. Designing milestones for check-ins on this front is an essential practice. One way of thinking about the intersection between what users need and want and what libraries do or might do in the future is expressed in the library impact map. In determining what an assessment needs to help elucidate, library assessment practitioners need to consider and pinpoint what library users, potential or not yet users, stakeholders or others need to know, understand or achieve, and consider intersections between those needs and library offerings, such as library services, resources, spaces and expertise. The intersection between user needs and goals and library contributions is one major source of library impact. Through library assessment projects, librarians can document the impact the library makes or fails to make in supporting users in meeting their needs or accomplishing their goals. In sharing the degree to which the library makes an impact or not, librarians and users together can engage in a reflective and continuous improvement process, which, over time, should bring changes to library offerings and increase benefits for users. The entire process, of course, begins with understanding user needs, goals and outcomes. Thus, the need to understand users to discover what you need to know or learn through an assessment process cannot be emphasized enough. One key strategy for understanding user needs, especially when the user is a library or institutional colleague, is to leverage strategic plans. Strategic plans often reveal what an organization cares about, so to speak, and can help guide understanding of the need for and goals of an assessment endeavor. When the user, who is the focus of or audience for an assessment project, is a member of an organization like a library or overarching institution, there are a number of questions an assessment practitioner can ask to gain insights into the user's needs or goals. Some questions, like those about an organization's mission or purpose, or the ways in which the organization allocates resources, can help uncover what is important and prioritize by individuals within an organization, assuming that the individual's needs and goals are aligned with the organization, which sometimes may be a faulty assumption. In cases where the user's perspective is aligned with the goals of the organization, assessment practitioners can critically and actively read and analyze organizational documents, such as strategic planning documents, publications and presentations, or other artifacts to discern organizational values and priorities. The purpose of a strategic plan is, in general, to set a direction for organizational achievement, articulate plans and strategies to achieve stated goals, and monitor performance, often going to the extent of indicating markers for measuring success. The intent of strategy in an organization is to define what the organization is and is not, does or does not. It sets the direction for the organization as a whole and focuses the effort of those within the organization. While the solidification and centralization of a strategy can have a chilling effect on diversity of thought, and sometimes strategy can lag behind reality, the documents and artifacts that convey an organization's strategies can be useful in discerning organizational goals as related to assessment projects as long as their limitations are also recognized and factored in. For determining the context of a library assessment project and discovering what a project needs to help uncover, understanding the library or institution's strategic plan can be essential. Sometimes, though, strategic planning documents and artifacts might become so out of date or invalidated for some other reason, such as a leadership change or change in the overall environment, that assessment practitioners might be left to piece together what an understanding of strategy through observation. Who are the major players, so to speak, in the organization? How does the organization allocate and use resources? What goals are actually achieved versus stated as goals but unachieved? What goals and values are reinforced in the organization? Which ones are rewarded? When current strategic plans are available, several elements may inform library assessment work. These various components of an assessment plan can also elucidate priorities within the organization. The values, stated customer groups, strategic foci, initiatives, success factors, all of these things can help assessment practitioners understand the foundations of assessment projects. While the details of strategic plans sometimes change or lag behind, mission and vision statements tend to have longer staying power, in part because they are general in language and content. Even with these limited statements, however, some information can be gleaned from a library mission or vision statement about what the library does, which users are prioritized, what benefits are expected to be outcomes of engagement with library services, resources and spaces, and what the long term goals of the library are intended to be. One of the most revealing aspects of strategic documents are the choices that are made and represented in the documents. Because resources are not infinite, no library can be all things to all users, and so choices must be made. Should a library focus on being or making things better? Or on innovation, change, and a laser like focus on the new? Other choices are revealed through differentiation. How does the library, in its strategic statements, separate itself from other similar units or options? Are their choices made based on services or resources, geography, campus or community driven, or user audiences? If a library seeks to differentiate itself by focusing on excellence for particular user groups, service, spaces, or other hallmarks, that will likely play a role in any number of assessment projects as the library seeks to determine whether, or to what degree, they've achieved their goals or have farther to go. For example, assessments might be framed around a library's operational excellence, innovation, or rapport with users. Understanding the framework for strategic work in a library, or what frames take priority, can help assessment practitioners understand what they need to know or learn by the close of a library assessment project. Examples of each of these sample frames include, for operational excellence, measures of quality, or seeking input for service improvement. For innovation, assessments might be focused on gearing up for projects that were previously only imagined or aspirational, or seeking to sunset offerings that no longer best serve users, but could, if decommissioned, be reallocated to provide resources for new options. For user rapport and engagement focused assessments, assessment librarians might seek to understand the needs of segments of the user population that have not been prioritized previously. Depending on the strategic intent, assessment decisions may change, not only at the start of a project, but throughout. Oftentimes, library assessments have what appears to be a simple purpose, to increase use. While simply straightforward, these assessments can rapidly become complex. In discovering what you need to know or learn from an assessment, it's important to consider various ways of increasing use, increasing frequency of use, quantity of services, resources or spaces used, better communication, or in drawing in new users. Again, this complexity under the surface of a quote-unquote simple service use assessment reveals that understanding what you need to know as a result of assessment is best probed thoroughly at the outset of a project and at checkpoints during the project as well. In closing, some of the questions one might consider when analyzing a library or institutional strategic plan to better discern the information an assessment project needs to reveal are included here. This is far from an exhaustive list, but uncovering the assumptions, environment, goals and aspirations of an assessing organization can and should inform assessment work. Time invested on clearly understanding what you need to know from an assessment project pays off throughout the entire assessment process, as well as being a major contributor to the likelihood of the final results being informing and actionable. Thank you for viewing this presentation on identifying the needs, context and goals of library assessment projects. Please use the link provided to complete a feedback form on the usefulness of this information for your purposes.


Last week was the winter 2019 TCA panel for FX and we got some of our first major news about the ninth season of American Horror Story As well as an update on the statuses of American Crime Story and feud. Now before we get started I just want to say thank you to all of you that nominated me for best content creator at the American Horror Story fan awards Because I actually got the nomination. The link to vote for the actual award is in the description in the pinned comment Consider voting for me, but I know I'm a fan of everyone else in my category So don't feel too bad if you prefer one of the others, but you can also vote multiple times So if you like me and anyone else in the category you can vote for both of us, but anyways on with the video Let's begin with everything we found out about the future of American Horror Story I will be discussing news from the TCA panel as well as just everything we know about the ninth season as of February 2019 Firstly we have our first two confirmed cast members to be in the season From Coven, Freak Show, Cult, and Apocalypse, Emma Roberts is returning for her fifth role in the series Nothing is known on what extent of a role she will have whether it be main, guest, or recurring But all we do know is her character's relation to the next confirmed cast member The second confirmed cast member to be joining the ninth season is Olympian Gus Kenworthy This is not only his first American Horror Story role, but also his first acting role ever Gus will be playing the boyfriend of Emma Roberts' character Unfortunately, this is the only cast and plot related news we have However, there's still a lot of other news regarding American Horror Story that we need to unpack But before I do that, I would like to speculate on some other cast members that I think should be safe to bet money on appearing in the ninth season First off the obvious, I think Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson are sure to return They've been in every season and do not seem to be looking for any other projects during the American Horror Story production Next we have Billy Eichner, Billy has appeared in Cult and Apocalypse and I do not think we've seen the last of him On Watch What Happens Live, both Sarah Paulson and Billy Eichner revealed that they do know information about season 9 In the interview with both Sarah and Billy, which I will not show because I don't want a copyright strike A caller asks what they can expect from the ninth season Billy and Sarah both respond in silence and with negative head nods Andy Cohen then asks if they know anything about the season even though they may not be able to speak about it And to that question, they both admit that they do know information about the ninth season I don't think Ryan would disclose any information to Billy unless he already has a role for him or intended on him being in the season So I think it's pretty safe to count on Billy and Sarah on season 9 based on that Andy Cohen interview alone Next we have a vague but hopeful statement by John Landgraf who is the FX chief When reassuring the press about the future of American Horror Story and FX, despite Ryan Murphy's Netflix deal Landgraf stated that he plans on doing quote, many more seasons on quote of the show with Ryan Murphy Now, American Horror Story was previously renewed for season 9 and 10 last summer But this statement seems to insinuate that even more seasons are possible after season 10 And just as a note, I do expect an early September premiere date for season 9 Just like we've had with the past couple of seasons Alright, so that's all the information that we know regarding the ninth season of American Horror Story But next I would like to update you all on the future of American Crime Story because we did get a lot of updates As I previously mentioned in my The Future of American Crime Story video The next installment was intended to be titled Katrina And revolve around the crimes committed during the infamous Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 This Katrina-themed season of American Crime Story has now been cancelled So that is not happening anymore This comes after the announcement of the cancellation of the Monica Lewinsky-centered season So that is also still not happening Despite the only two announced concepts for The Future of American Crime Story being cancelled John Landgraf is still hopeful He reassured the panel that FX is still developing three or four different concepts for upcoming seasons And FX does plan on making future seasons That quote where he said he plans on doing many more seasons of American Horror Story He said he also plans on doing many more seasons of American Crime Story But those two concepts are not going to be happening in this series anytime soon So American Crime Story is not cancelled but it appears to have gotten deeper in development help Unless the scrapping of Katrina actually will help pull it out of its pit Which I can see also happening because as you know they've been having many re-workings of Katrina There were two different iterations that were announced of Katrina but now it's completely scrapped So maybe there was just too much trouble with Katrina And now with that out of the way they can focus on maybe a more easy concept to actually get done I highly recommend watching my The Future of American Crime Story video If you're interested in what the Katrina and Lewinsky seasons would have revolved around Because I did go into their source material and what the actual season would actually be about Alright, so from one stalled Ryan Murphy series to the other Now we have an update on the future of feud The update is unfortunately not as hopeful as American Horror Story and American Crime Story The latest word on the status of feud is basically they have no idea Basically all they said about feud is that nobody including Ryan and including FX Have any idea on what the future of feud looks like With no idea it's hard to imagine the second season of feud going into development or production anytime soon Next let's talk about Ryan's upcoming Netflix shows Because we do have a lot of information on that Ratched the series starring Sarah Paulson revolving around Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Is filming currently and set photos have leaked revealing a first look of Sarah Paulson as the infamous nurse Aside from Sarah Paulson the remaining cast of Ratched is as follows Rosanna Arquette in an unknown recurring role Vincent D'Onofrio as Jern Milburn also as a recurring role Don Cheadle in an unknown recurring role Alexandra Englert in an unknown recurring role Annie Stark in an unknown recurring role And then we have unknown roles for Fin Whitrock John John Breonas Charlie Carver Judy Davis Harriet Harris Cynthia Nixon Hunter Parrish Amanda Plummer Corey Stoll and Sharon Stone Ryan Murphy is an executive producer for Ratched and will be the director of the first episode Another new Ryan Murphy show coming to Netflix is The Politician Which is created by Murphy alongside Glee and Scream Queens co-creators Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuk The cast for this one is insane We've got Ben Platt, Jessica Lane, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zoe Dutch, Lucy Boynton, Laura Dreyfus, Rayne Jones, Dylan McDermott and January Jones The series is a comedy musical and will revolve around Ben Platt's character who is named Peyton And each season will revolve around a different political race that he is involved in Alright, so now just a quick rundown on every other Ryan Murphy project that I haven't talked about and what the status of those are before I go 9-1-1 Season 2 returns March 18th on Fox with a likely Season 3 renewal in its future Pose is renewed for Season 2 and will likely air summer 2019 Scream Queens is possibly coming back but I have a whole video about that so check it out I highly recommend any fan of Scream Queens to go watch my video on everything we know about the possible reboot reunion of Scream Queens Alright, so that is just an update on just about every current Ryan Murphy show so I'll wrap this video here Make sure you subscribe for more Ryan Murphy content and news and give this video a like if you feel like it I would also like to thank my Patrons Issa Fashionkilla, Kinky Kitty, Kiki Art, Justin Caronta and Yvonne Valdez Also, I just want to say thank you for 6000 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Efallai y mynedd yn ddaw y dyfodol hynny, yr app hynny yn tynnod i'n astudio gyd. Mae cyffredinatio, y ywmchwil, achos ymgyrch yn y rôl. Yno ymw attacked mewn ap sydd yn bwysig yn y dyfodol sydd yn gwneud hynny. A bobl yn diwethaf yw'r ysgrifennu, roi ogwyd â'r pwysig o'n fwyaf. Lyw o'r Casol newydd, mae eich heddiw. Dwi ddim osio'r gwahodd i'n taith mai unrhyw wrth gwrdd. Nw ddim unrhyw gwaith arweinwch arfer. Yna, y gallwn ni'n ffrustiynau gyd wedi cael ei fod yn ddweud. Ond hefyd ydy'r rai o'r gwahodd yn ffosiol yn y du'r gyfloeddon. Mae'n ddweud â yw. On e'n ddim yn cael ei ddechrau. Ond mae'n ddim yn cyffredig o'ch ddechrau! Ond eich ddweud yn yr hynny'n cael ei ddweud. I think he could still go to Swis Bears. I think he could still go to Swis Bears. Palosig on a 165,000. No, I think he's got 27 this year. I thought he was 27 now. 27 this year. He's got loads of ability. He's got good pace and strength of arm. But... I don't think products are a problem. And also the amount... I don't know. Doesn't seem to play... It always seems to... Well, that spells out to me. I don't know. I just think he's going to be... I don't think he's just going to be... I don't think he's just going to be what. I think he's just going to be what. I think he's just going to be what. And there's nothing on with that. No. If he's happy. Palosig never going to do anything more than what they're doing. The Bill and the Stand. Okay, well that's... Listen, they're a team. I don't understand. That has got decent support for where it is in London. A lot of Londoners have got decent support. For me, they're always going to bubble around between 14 to 11. That's where they're going to be. And there's no issue... The way of Palosig, Andy, because... You're right what you said. I mean, since they come back, they've bubbled around me. They never seem to have that season where... We've just spoke about Ben, we've had that season last season. They never seem to have that season where they... They haven't got a good goal scorer. And they haven't got... I don't think the defensive would be very good either. I think they've got plays in there individually with it all, right? So, like, Sachaw on his day can look excellent and when you give them a goal, he's horrendous. Tom, they've got Tom. Tarn's end you can score. The goal of the season, they nailed it. And they never seem to have the least not very good. But then, on the day... I don't know. I think the problem, Palosig, is the forward plays are quite good. Because Tarn's end can have those days when you look at them and go, it's dangerous here. You've got Sachaw on the other side. Through the middle, you've got Ben Secher, he's been an absolute unmitigated disaster for them. But you think if he can actually get his head together, he's massive. And he's a handful. He's a handful. And they've got Mitchie Batchewire, I think he's a good player. But then, in the midfield, you still look at people like MacArthur. You know, Mila Hwy, if it's a good player. You can take a pen, like you did in this game. Brilliant to take a penalty. Well, part against those. Well, yeah. It was a decent pen. It was a great sight to be fair to people. But I don't know. They've just got plays that you look and think. They probably should do a little bit better. You know, this is a win. But before this win, people were like, they're not fully out of it. They've got 35 points. They do pick up these wins though, don't they? They seem better away from home. You know, I don't think they want to be like less than 4-1. They're only 3, you know. They are a club, they're always a threat. They're always a threat. And then when you put, and then somebody played them and wiped the floor with them and they're a way of team. I watched them the other week against Brighton at home. And it was like, day-to-day, day-to-day. And Brighton beat them 3-1 on them. It was like, Mwri's got a really good goal against his old club early on. And he thought he'll cut on that. And the equalised palace, but there was nothing after the equaliser. And then it ends up with Nochart's got a really good goal. So when you put, there was just like nothing about them. And you're looking at them going, you've seen games where there's like blood and thunder from them. I don't know whether it's Hodgson. I've seen a very criticism of Hodgson by some of their supporters. You were just like, Listen, I don't think crystal palace fans, by any means, thinking they demand them. Yeah, demand them more. They just look at it and go, look at some of our players. How about you just let them off the leash now and again and just see what happens. You know, just safeing. Well, that's a criticism. Liverpool fans leveled that arm. England fans leveled that arm. He's obviously a good coach. He's still doing it in the Premier League. Keeps kept Palace up. So he's obviously a decent coach. But there's that transition here. And I think the problem Palace will have is who do you attract there. They try to change it with the ball. I mean, he's doing a fine job at Atlanta. They've got him early. You know, he hasn't won a game for him. It's ridiculous. He didn't win any games at Inter. He didn't win any games at Palace. And he hasn't won anything at Atlanta yet. I don't know. I think it might just be home games. I'm not sure. But it's like you have to go back to when he was at Ajax. Since he's won a home. I think it's a home game.  So obviously something's not right. You can't go. I thought he'd be able to try and push off the Ajax. So I don't really know what they do Palace because I don't know who they could go and get. Who will change the way they can to play. Do they want to change the way they play. But with those front players, you've won an attacking coach, you suppose. But I don't know. Listen, that win keeps them up. I think he will stay then. It's too good to go down. They only had 35 points at the weekend. Cardiff have got one or two games in hand on them. So he could have got a little bit sticky for them. But that win was done enough to keep them up. So hopefully they can lie down off of Man City next week. Yes. Have a real nice lie down. Just chill out for this game. And stay there when we come. Just chill out. Win away and don't win any home games. That's the best thing to do.


Welcome to the Sound Post Sessions. I'm Jessica Carson. Tonight on the program we have Thomas LeFond and Cornelius Duncan. Thomas is a multi-instrumentalist, multi-talented character who is in a band called Banshee Tree and the Rose Room as well as many other projects. Cornelius is a fascinating person. If you've been around the Longmont Music scene at all, you'll recognize him. He's the only person I've ever seen in town playing kalimba. He does a mixture of kalimba and improvisational spoken word to give us a very unique performance. I'd like to thank the Longmont Creative District for making the show possible with creative district grants that have been helping the artists and musicians keep putting out content during this time. So thank you for joining us. If you enjoy this program, please consider donating. We have a Venmo and a PayPal. Subscribe to the YouTube. Check out our Patreon for archive material as well as future shows. So thank you and enjoy. This song is called Silvery Waters. My name is Thomas LeFond and you're listening to the Sound Post Sessions. I want to give a shout out to Longmont Creative District for making this possible today. And also for you guys at the Sound Post Sessions for having me. That song is called Spare Me. I got an album coming out with my band Banshee Tree. And we're going to put that song on there. It should be ready sometime before Christmas. Here's one I'm working on. It's a song I recorded a little while ago, but I'm going to fix it up and put some more lyrics in it that I just wrote pretty recently. See if I can paste it all together. The song is called Darkness Wandering Cold. Letting as it speaks is to win the feathers in seven tones on a day. Darkness is wandering cold, waiting for it to turn in my skin. Ruthless, I've gone cold, waiting to let you in. I'm haunted. Stella J. My tongue tear it from my teeth like the wild ones. Bleeding out like a wound on my own. Roaming search or shelter. Stella J. You're away, rolling to my bed instead. Is it fate or is it freedom? Is it so wrong of me to taunt? I feel you're ever circling footprints. Is there something that you want or come to me? Cause I know what you've been here before. Sweet mountain lion, come and crawl into my bed. Is out there dying when you come to me instead. Oh come to me, sweet mountain lion, come and crawl into my bed.  Stella J. You're away, Stella J. You're away. That's kind of a dark one. It's about birds sending messages to animals. There's a mountain lion out in the woods and there's a stellar J and it sees like, maybe I tripped and fell and my leg is hurting. I'm like struggling through the forest.  And so it's kind of about how the birds give the bigger animal signals to eat the food. Anyway, circle of life. Super wholesome music. I got a song that's less dark though and I think I'm going to finish out on that. This one is called Getting Busy in the Wild. Oh, in all of Seattle we roll around and bid our goodbye. Out my teeth and that apple, I get blue from all the red in the sky. We'll take a walk in the garden, suffocate on the stardom, get free on either side of the ice.  But it's strange, it's the same words you need to say to get by. You're hues up into my side, but now I'm out in the yard. You get so busy in the wild, you're gonna tear somebody apart. Need for explanation to try to keep this moving instead. Teeth on my left side and some on my right. Drag me out to Arizona where you left me to die.  Just take a walk in the garden, suffocate on the stardom, get free on either side of the ice.  Yeah, every day I dream of that. My shades of delight. Cocoa you. I need some cocoa you. Afro blue. My spirit, my aura, it's supposed to be from. I'll be dreaming of that land each and every day. And so you gotta pray for everybody. I gotta pray for the crookless clan. Yeah, you gotta pray for the crookless clan too, boy. And mostly, yeah, you gotta pray for them too. I said grandma, I gotta pray for these villains. Yes, how come? Because I don't want my grandson growing up with no kind of hate in his heart. In his music, his art, or whatever he wants to do. Be not hindered with hate. Hate is too heavy a burden to carry in the first place. I try to tell myself that every day. That's why I say that. I remember my grandmother grabbing me, say, Fortin. See that man over there? I say, yeah, grandma. That's my grandfather.  One day you asked him why. My grandfather saw his friends he grew up with. He went to school with. Hung and castrated on trees. But that didn't stop my grandmother from trying to raise me the right way. Thank you, grandma. I keep hitting the mic with my hat. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. I'm sorry about this hat. Mind me of what? What's the treasure to see in my trade with healthy bogey? Huh? My thanks and blessing to all the musicians in the world. I try to bring forth positive energy. Healing energy. It ought to give you favor in anything that you need to do for yourself. Give you traveling mercy to and from where you gotta go to. Favor in anything. Take the evil. Yeah, this is a different type of tuning. The first one I played was in a tune. U-Tracy, a kalimba tuning in G. And then I played the alto, which is a special tuning for my baby brother Phillip Allen. Boom, boom, dunking in the dunking tuning. Like this one. Dunking tuning, like this one is right here. I'm gonna call it Angel's Breath. Thank you, Tracy, for inventing this instrument. It's been a journey. You said something else, too. That's what you said. I'd like to thank the music goddesses for protecting me on this journey. The whole planet, great humanitarians out there in our world. Well, so, praying for you and your families. Positive thinking human beings. Great humanitarians on the planet Earth. Calling planet Earth. Calling planet Earth. Wake up planet Earth.


These beautiful shoes. They're like shoes of freakin' Katie. Naturally, I come into a makeup and skincare store. Now we're gonna go to a pasta making class. Yep. Hey guys, happy June 3rd, it is Sunday. And today I'm going to meet Taylor and probably some other friends back at the school. We're gonna go to, I think, the Da Vinci Museum and then after that, I don't really know what we're gonna do, but I don't know, I feel like I just want today to be a chill day because I've been go, go, go and haven't gotten any rest. Today I got to sleep in, which was so nice. Literally, I feel so much better. I got home super late last night at 12 because I had to take the train from Venice to Rome then the bus to Termini to the host family.  So I never know what I'm actually gonna get home, even though it says it in the app. It could be late or yesterday morning, it could pass you because you don't know to wave it down. Getting lost is just what makes me really, really nervous. So I'm really proud of myself because I did it pretty much on my own. But I just wanted to come here and talk to you guys because I feel like every part of the vlog is just me moving, which is good because sometimes this is boring, but just wanted to give you a little quick update. So it is Sunday, so I got here last Sunday, so it's officially my first week whole week is done. I honestly went by really fast. Usually when I travel abroad, it kind of goes slow, which is good and bad, but sometimes more bad for me because I get homesick more often. Whenever I traveled abroad with my family, I actually got homesick more, which is so weird. But I feel like the reason for that is that we always traveled during the holidays. Like New Year's Eve, I was never home to hang out with my friends and get FOMO, but I feel like since something's really going on back home, I'm enjoying my time here. I'm also surprised I'm not getting super tan, which I'm very happy about because I don't know if you're brown, you would understand, but Indians don't really love to get tan. They like to stay fair. Funny story, I don't know if I've told you guys this before, but my grandpa from India, he brought me to the States like this fair and lovely lotion. Like it's literally called fair and lovely and it's supposed to make you like lighter. I don't think that should work. So that's just an example of like Indians being crazy and like wanting to stay fair, but I'm really happy I'm not getting super tan because I feel like if I was like looking really tan, I feel like I would limit myself to explore per day, which sounds stupid, but I just really don't like being in the sun. It's just not my thing. But also Italy streets are really shady because the buildings are so tall, not the main roads, but like the little back streets. So that's kind of nice being in the shade, you know, it makes it 10 times cooler. I'm definitely excited to go back home, but I was thinking like it's going to be so weird and different going back home. Like the architecture is so different.  You know what I mean? Like, I mean, every city has like their beautiful architecture. And I honestly thought I don't really like traditional stuff as much as I do modern stuff, which we have back in the States, but I mean, Italy is like beautiful. So like, how could I not like it, you know?  Forgot some extra stuff, got to spray that. Let's get on with the day. So we went to a supermarket, got something to eat really quick, and now we are at a Viennardo da Vinci museum. This is a pasta maker kind of thing. Oh, that actually works. This machine is used to just squeeze olives, apparently. Yeah. This is cool. It has like a holographic of the flying machine. I think it's called. Here is the famous painting, The Last Supper, but unfortunately this is not real. So we got out of the museum and we were actually window shopping before and I saw a wallet that I wanted to get rined near Piazza Novena or like in the back streets of it. So we're going to go back there and actually get it. Like it was a little bit expensive, but I want to splurge because it was actually a really nice wallet. What the heck? I walked all the way back and they're closed. She'll be back soon. Guess we're going to wait. So we're in this really cute side street and I decided to have a little photo shoot and so we are going to do that. By the way, my romper is from Forever 21. I have a Italy haul up already. So I will link that in the description below as well as this outfit. So you guys can check it out yourself. It's time to take a Polaroid. So cute. I've been wanting them forever and they're the perfect color and I'm going to get them. They're 25 euros. So that's like pretty affordable, I feel like because Steve Madden's are like so expensive. So these are going to be perfect. Hey guys, happy Tuesday. It is June 5th and I didn't really vlog all that much yesterday because I'm just trying to relax a little bit. So I might not vlog as much as I did last week. It really just depends on what I end up doing. Personally, I feel like I did a lot of the sightseeing that I wanted to do. Like the main sights and the cute little neighborhoods. I'm pretty sure I saw majority of it. So now I just want to go a little bit slower just because it has been a lot of walking and it has been exhausting because I'm still jet lagged. I get so sleepy and the sun drains me and I don't know. So I just really want to come back home after class and just chill. But today I'm going to go shopping with Alessandra. She is the daughter of the host family. And then we're going to go get sushi. She asked me if I like sushi and I was like, I literally freaked out. Like I was like, yes, I love sushi. So we decided to get sushi and we're going to do that today. I probably won't vlog much in class but I'll definitely vlog afterwards. My own TD is this shirt from Forever 21. It's like a crop top. And then I have this little belt that I'm just trying to make another hole but I don't really have anything that sharp. So I couldn't do it. It's a little loose on me, but whatever. And then this chain skirt is from American Eagle and yeah. And then loose on glasses are keys. I literally brought my whole sunglass collection. Like I am so extra. I brought like every single key I own. So I made it to school. It's currently 8.42 and class starts at nine. And again, I'm the first one here. I always like to get here early. Literally fell asleep on the train but good thing I had my headphones in. So moving up tells you when you have to get off. So thank God for that cause I'm just too tired. So we just had three classes and we're on to our next one but we just had like a lunch break. So we just got some stuff in the market really fast. But I met Allison and guess what she's wearing? A Katie shirt.  Isn't that so cool? Hi, I'm Allison. I am from Denver, Colorado but I go to Pace University. I'm in the KV8 Iona chapter. And I'm here in Rome for two months. So after class I came straight home because I know I needed a nap. I'm freaking tired. Like, oh my gosh, I just needed to sleep. Now it is about 6.30 and we are gonna go get sushi and shopping. I didn't eat much just so I would like leave a lot of space for sushi. Just arrived at the mall. It's called Euroma Due. What are some of your favorite stores here? I think Zara. Zara? And we have that in America, yeah. That's a good one. Naturally, I come into a makeup and skincare store. This is Espegeral Heaven. All right guys, let's do a little fitting room, hall, try on hall kind of thing. This is a cami and I love this type of like lingerie look. I don't know why I do but I just think it's like so classy. Right now my skirt is really wobbly at the top like it's just not fitting right. So it's like, it looks weird but I think with like jeans or like white jeans it would look so cute. So I think I'm gonna get it. It's like 12 euros, 13 euros. All right, next up is this see-through yellow top. I honestly think it's super cute and I really would wear it to like a tailgate or something. I just don't know how I would wear it. That's the only problem because it's literally see-through and like I guess I could wear like a little bandeau like I'm wearing now like a black one. I don't know, it just like takes away from the whole thing. So I don't know. Times like these I just really need a stylist. So this is a Zara basic.  Not gonna really special but I don't know. I feel like it fits really well. It's like really flattering and it's so soft and I feel like if I was outside it would be like light and airy. All right, next up is this shirt and it's so like, I don't know, it just reminds me of like Italian style. Super laid back like the like linen kind of feel. I don't know, I've been kind of looking for this type of shirt. So I feel like I want to buy it but I also wanted like a plain white one. So guys, we are currently at dinner. We came to a sushi restaurant and I've never been to this kind of a sushi restaurant. It's like the ones where they have it on a six-mayor belt.  This is a dream. And it's like 120-ish and now we're gonna go to a pasta making class. Yeah, tu che pasta. Oh yeah, yeah, that's what it's called, right? Yeah, che pasta. And this is Anna and then this is Jackie. Jackie's from Switzerland. Anna's from... Hungary. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, we're gonna go make pasta. My first time doing it, what about you guys? My second time. Oh, okay, did you do it with Ea? Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Wait, do you get to pick like your own pasta or like different kinds or whatever? No, I was just like one. Yeah, the same, but you can just mix it and then cut it and you know what it is. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, we're gonna get from the flour with an egg to the pasta that we're gonna eat together. There we go. Oh. And then we're gonna mix it. I'm gonna mix it. And then we're gonna open it up like this. Oh, but I don't see it. I made mine a little bit too short. Oh, but I don't see it. But not with your hands.  Cook the pasta, too.


Welcome to the Data Management video series from the University of Wisconsin Data Services. I'm Kristen Reidy of the Data Services Librarian here at UW Milwaukee. In this video, I'm really excited about it because we're going to be talking about passwords. And you might be wondering why passwords have anything to do with data management. But really, data management is about keeping your data safe. And basic computer security keeps your computer safe, thus keeps your data safe. So passwords are part of that. Passwords are a way to prevent unauthorized access to your content. And thus, your data is safer. So we're going to be talking a little bit about passwords and what makes a good password. But we need to take a step back first and talk about the ways that people can get access to your passwords. Because that really informs what your password should look like. So there's a few ways that people can get access to your password. The first is you just give it to them. And this can happen by giving your password to a friend, or you can fall a victim to a phishing attack, or however they get your password, they now have it. So the first rule of passwords is under no circumstances should you share your password. It's yours, you should keep your information safe, don't share your password. The other two ways that people can access your password are through guessing and brute force attack. So the first guessing is when someone looks through a list of the most common passwords and says, I'm going to trial these until I guess the password, because probability says your password might just be password, which it shouldn't be. Brute force attack, on the other hand, takes a computer and it goes through, and it goes through systematically and tries all the variations until it stumbles upon your password. So really, you need a password that is not obvious, that will stand up to guessing, and also is complex, so it'll stand up to brute force attack. So how do we actually make passwords that do that? So I told her at the beginning of the video that I'm excited about passwords, I find them really interesting, and you might be admiring my dress a little bit, or you should be because this is my bad password stress. I bought this fabric online, it was created by a security researcher, and she looked at the passwords from a recent website hack and did a word cloud. So the bigger the word, the more common the password. So she was looking at obvious passwords. So you can see passwords like 123456789 and password, princess, I love you. Other examples are monkey, Superman, QWERTY, ABC123, things like that are really commonly used as passwords, and therefore you shouldn't be using them as a password because they're easily guessed. So really trying to avoid passwords that are commonly used and easy to guess, but you should also avoid passwords that are easy to guess if somebody knows a little bit about you. So for example, you should avoid a password that is your username, your birthday, your significant other's first name, your pet's name, your favorite sports team, things like that. So if I know a little bit about you, I'm going to guess that your password is X based upon what I know you like. So really when I say non-obvious passwords, I mean passwords that everybody isn't using, passwords that wouldn't be obvious for you. So really try to come up with a password that is non-obvious. The second criteria for a good password is complexity. So complexity means it needs to be of a certain length and have a certain number of character types in your password. So for current computational ability, we're looking for passwords that have at least eight characters or more. So that longer character length is going to protect your password against computers randomly trying out a bunch of passwords. The complexity in the character types means you should have uppercase letters, lowercase letters, symbols, and numbers. So the more types of characters you have, the more complex your character is, your password is, the more difficult it is for a computer to stumble upon it. Realize there is a little bit of trade-off. So if you have an eight-character password, you really should be using all four character types. If you have a 20-character or 25-character password, you can use all lowercase letters. So what you lose in complexity in character type, you make up for complexity in length. So really you have some variation there, but really looking for a complex password. So with these parameters, how do you actually come up with a good password? Something that you'll remember. So there's a few strategies I can recommend. The first is to string a few words together. So a single word in the dictionary is not good because it's susceptible to a dictionary attack.  So let's say we'll string three words together and then we can throw in a couple characters of symbols and numbers and whatever until you come up with a more complex password. So that is one method. Another method that doesn't fall victim to the dictionary attack is to come up with a fake word, a nice long fake word that you can pronounce which helps you remember it, but is not going to be in the dictionary and people aren't going to necessarily try as their first bet for your password. A third strategy is to abbreviate a phrase. So let's take, it's the end of the world as we know it. And let's take the first letter in each word and let's see, we'll capitalize every other letter and throw an exclamation point on the end. It's a pretty decent password and something that you can remember. So those are a few strategies for coming up with a password that is complex and non-obvious. Do realize that it's actually recommended to have different passwords on different sites, but you can use what's called a password manager and these are becoming more common and they're a place to store all of your passwords and put them behind a password itself, another password to keep your password secure. It's not like writing down on your password on a piece of paper which can be lost or stolen. So password managers protect your passwords and our password protected themselves. So just another tool in your arsenal to avoid using the same password on multiple sites because if one site's hacked you can use your credentials again on a different site and then all of your information is compromised. So with that I want to recommend that again that you don't share your passwords, that's the first rule of passwords, but also I hope you go out and use this information to create non-obvious passwords and complex passwords and really do good things with your computer security to protect your data.