What's up everybody Jason from jasby's case breaks calm 2020 puny absolute fat pack break five box break number six random divisions just sold out Also number seven has sold out. We've we're a little behind here This is our last break that we had in the original break schedule number seven will be coming up after we go through some orders How about 50 orders to go through but remember this is break number six guys and again eight total spots every gets a random division in the NFL And of course no veteran commons will ship but everything else when we're looking for potentially some Nice rookie kabooms. So hopefully we can get some of those rolling Here's a dice roller. Here's a customer names and then here are the divisions as well So let's roll it and we got ourselves a three and a four for seven times. So good luck seven times one two three four five six and so three to four seven times Michael Goluchy down a Christopher Bread I'll explain to you what's going on with that right now, but it's not sold out We have a little mini break. We have to sell out first. All right seven times Here as well divisions now one two three four five six and seven Seven times NFC West at the top down to the AFC West So Michael Luchy you have the NFC West Steve with the NFC South Karen with the AFC South Brett you have the AFC East Alex you have the NFC North Joshua with the NFC East Gale with the AFC North and Christopher last one. I'll do AFC West So I'll give you guys time to make any trades you guys like for your division They could see what division you have of course what teams are in there also Brett Just let you know it is not sold out yet. Technically if you look on the website It is gonna say sold out But we have the little filler here where we pre-took out 20 spots actually so we've only sold 12 So we're giving away 10 spots here in a little mini helmet break. So think of it as a little filler You have a chance to win a little mini helmet and chance to win up to 10 spots Depending on how many spots you grab so you can pretty much save a little more than half this half a Half the spot price by buying into one of these and then you'd have a one in Three chance pretty much to potentially get a team in that and that break itself So once we saw this one out and one more we should be able to break that first off the line And get that rolling All right, let me actually just grab the five boxes like I said I was just gonna grab randomly five five box stack. All right, let's go the trade window guys All righty guys, so there you go break number six So again, we're gonna try to skim through some of these for the bigger rookies. I will penny see them now for the other, you know maybe Like a B or you know, so like that B B rookies will Put them in a stack and then we'll penny see them stuff like that Later, but like I said, we should be able to get this done in the next 35 minutes or so So she'll leave it right to seven o'clock and Then of course I'm gonna go through about 50 plus orders. I have about 54 actually to go through So it's gonna take me about 30 minutes or so So maybe like around 737 45 we'll have the next break schedule But like I said, the only really thing that has pulled out has been another one of these absolutes so Other than that, I mean like I said immaculate football down to one There's other breaks that are about to be in single digits so Continue to grab your spots guys Every other break besides this one here won't take us more than 20 minutes So, you know once we get that number seven done You know if Nick doesn't upload another one, maybe we'll save that for tomorrow and focus on some other breaks But like I said, just absolute ones are the only ones that are a little more time consuming Let's definitely get some kabooms Gotta get a kaboom in this one. There's no guarantees, of course, but we're hoping These are all just base cards Zack Moss that's a green exclusive foil to fat packs. We got some rookies here Chase Glaple green retail foil Justin Jefferson Oh, this is a Sunday, sorry Joshua. I'm not I'm not used to actually breaking on Saturdays. Thanks for the catch Make sure to fix that Saturday JK Dobbins Derek Brown Flip them and then they're flip backwards again. Hey products like this Love the cards though. Just hate when they're always just flip backwards And you flip them the other way and then they're backwards again little Herbie Zach Moss little Joe V Jalen hurts Oh nice little Jalen hurts green foil Jalen Rager, Alberto, Jordan Love, Levisco Chanel Jr. Jalen Rager Tua introductions So T Higgins Jordan Love green foil to talk about In that Oh McDonald had a phone Levisco green foil Joey B. Green foil And I said to be AFC north Herbie AFC west All right, next box guys, I got a second box out of five Okay Oh Dugger Chase Young Rager, Alberto Jordan Love Doverday Blacklock by there was E-Lair James Morgan Tua Kin Law T Higgins Anthony Gordon IU people's Jones, come on Kaboom. Where you at? Swift Josh U Justin Herbert Justin Jefferson put this on the stack over to my right guys. I know y'all can see later Montez T Higgins Camakers, Gabriel Davis green foil JK Dobbins Trevon digs Jalen hurts I Was E-Lair Green foil the visca Zach Moss little Joe burrow chase play pool All right two boxes down guys Three more to go Still no color in the first two actually, right? Yeah, better get a kaboom here. It's all the rookie so far All right guys next box come on kaboom You got to come out here or at least give me some color man. Give me some nice color. Justin Jefferson to start us off a little green foil chase young Ragger, Alberto throughout Taylor Him and jr play out of words either as he assumes Tua with the gay Brandon IU people's Jones Jeff Ocuda Keech on Vaughan Justin Herbert DJ Dallas Justin Jefferson Kuda Patrick Queen Camakers Alrighty guys last stack right here, and then we have two more boxes Jake from JK Dobbins AJ Hurts Joey B Chase play pool Alrighty guys three boxes down Two more to go. Come on. Gotta get something I'm gonna rip open both boxes now Again guys once we get done with this actually are close to 60 orders now. So it's gonna be 60 plus by the time I get done with this So like I said, give me about 30 40 minutes go through orders Hopefully other breaks are contained to sell out. Like I said, the only thing that still sold out was the kabooms But again, I'm sure people are um You know buying into breaks and getting the rest of the stuff done It looks like it's gonna be like the sell-up hacks and you know stuff like that so Continue on guys. Yeah, let's do some prism hobby. I don't mind doing one of those either as well It's a nice fun break Okay, last two boxes are here guys. Good luck Joey B Chase play pool Talking Is it a culture Tua plight over zealander van jefferson T Higgins Jeff gladney Tua Tug of aloha All right, let's put this to the stack over here Second half of the first box I've got our first numbered card. It's a rookie and it's eno benjamin It's $199 CJ Henderson Joey B introductions Van jefferson Kenneth Murray Well, I mean he's not he's watching this chat. I mean you can see it too That's all good man Justin harbert, maybe you can give us some luck and get us a kaboom We need a kaboom Let's continue on guys. Darynson Evans Justin Jefferson Joann Jennings JK Dobbins camakers Patrick Queen Antonia Gibson Justin harbour green foil, that's okay. That's not bad John and Taylor Jalen Hertz AJ Dillon John and Taylor getting cold Matt Jacob Easton You All right last box guys come on kaboom please one one all the news one daddy's boss So Michael hasty kj handler little herbie van jefferson Antonio Gibson joshua kelly jesson jefferson A song request Philip look man if I gave you a song request For getting some people and I'd have everybody doing that But maybe I already have it on my playlist. What is it Philip? Maybe maybe I'll make an exception Well, this is the retail side array. So there's no guaranteed autographs no relics. No nothing like that You could get kabooms.  I got a color right here There's nothing wrong with color, but hand I want to get some kabooms Um, I've did a whole case of this before I mean I pulled a herb and I think I pulled a pain manning I think I pulled two or three out of a whole case, but there's no guarantees, of course that they're gonna pop out But much much cheaper way Going this route especially when you get around a division And uh, you know potentially I think every division has at least one kaboom chance Whether it's rookie or veteran well If you're talking to your resume, but I mean they have their own schedules some people are so The retail side of walmart and target now are so crazy that they they have oh nice little two of green foil exclusive Um, they have their schedules and people know the routes already so Uh, there's people already waiting right out of the door right in the aisle for those people to start stalking again So, I mean it's pretty complex now The retail side and depending on the area that you live in I mean, you know Here in LA what's impossible to get retail the people already got it down I pay the drivers or You know stuff like that Fly it over to e-lair All right, last little stack right here guys. Good luck T Higgins green foil flyers e-lair inserts Tua and javon kim lala All righty guys vlog. I said unfortunately no kubooms in this one as well Um, but we do have another one sold out number seven. We'll be coming up soon gotta go through orders first, but Like I said, I penny sleeved already all the big rookies Bigger rookies I should say so they'll be all top loaded and then we have this huge stack over here to my right That'll be penning sleeve for those rookies We did manage to get two numbered cards out of the five boxes and never rookies not the biggest rookies, but hey, it's something So there you go guys. This was absolute fat pack break number six win them divisions number seven It's sold out becoming up soon once I go through all the orders. Appreciate you guys. Jasper's case breaks.com


Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host Christa Porter here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event. Yes, we are a webinar and we don't mind if you call us that. Encompass Live is broadcast live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time. The show is an hour long officially, but we will go long or short as necessary. We post the show on Wednesday mornings, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do always record the show every week, so if you're not available to join us on Wednesdays, you can always go to our website and look at our archives, and I'll show you where all those archives are at the end of today's show. Both the live show and the archives are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your colleagues, friends, neighbors, family, anyone who you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. We share them with the live shows if they want to sign up for those, or if they want to watch any of our recordings. Our recordings do go back quite a ways. We started Encompass Live in 2009, so we do have all of our archives back there. Do keep that in mind that some of the topics or things that are mentioned may be officially out of date, but everything is dated, so you'll know when it was actually broadcast and recorded. We are librarians, so we archive and save everything, so it's all out there for you to watch. We do a mixture of things here on the show, book reviews, interviews, training sessions, demos of services or products. Really, our only criteria is that it's something library related. Something libraries are doing, something we think libraries could be doing, new resources, services, anything. Some of the topics you might look at the title and say, what is that? Why is that on the show? But trust me, everything always comes back to libraries. That's the key here. We do sometimes have an Nebraska Library Commission staff do presentations and sessions on things that are Nebraska-centric, specific to what we're doing here in the state, but we do also bring on guest speakers, and that's what we have this morning. On the line with us is Amy Newberry, who is the director of the McLean County Public Library in Livermore, Kentucky. Good morning, Amy. Good morning, Krista. How are you? I'm doing good. How are you? Good. All right. I say we're fair to Midland anyway. And we've noticed on the session it did say that also along with us would be Angela Smith, who's the outreach coordinator from their library. However, she's kind of watching from the sidelines today. They were a little short staff this morning, so Amy is going to be handling this all on her own, which I think you'll do just fine. I'm doing a comment box if we need it. Yes, that's true. Yes, Amy, if you're out there, no. Angie, if you do see anything you need to comment on, I'm watching the questions box here. Type in something and I'll let Amy know. So our topic for today, the official topic is how to break up boredom, interactive events for all ages. And this sounds like a lot of fun what they've been doing at the library. And I'm just going to hand it over to you, Amy, to take it away and tell us about what you've been doing there. All right. Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. Including Henry Public Library. We were the last library formed in the state of Kentucky. We have been here a grand total of starting sixth year, beginning made it first of this year. So we came to a non-library, cultured area. We have a very small county and there's about 9,400 people in the entire county. The city where we were located has about 1,000 people in it. So a lot of our patrons come by the ankle express, bicycle, or skateboard, or just wandering by. We do, our county is spread out, it shakes more like a pork top and we're down in the bottom fat corner and we reach all the way across the county with our bookmobile service, which of course Angie is our outreach coordinator extraordinaire. And she handles our bookmobile as well as the programming here in the library. We, as you might imagine, have a very, very small budget. We are a taxing district. Those of you in Kentucky know exactly what that means and maybe across the United States who knows well, but we have a very, very small budget. I have three full-time staff members including myself. So when we did our first annual state report, as you might imagine, we were at the bottom on all of the rankings, whether they be programming events, attendance, collection, whatever. And I'm pretty smug and proud to report and it's due to Angie's hard work. Last year we were number one per capita in children's programming across the state. Awesome, that's great. We were pretty quick with that. Just to give you some background, when I say we do things on the cheap, we mean it because we have a very small budget.  Okay, none of that applies to any of us. Yes, we have a very old building. It was built in the late 1800s. It is a two-story building which gives us a great programming space upstairs. I've got a meeting room that holds about 2,300 square feet. So we can put a pretty good crowd of folks in there, particularly if they're little folks. So we decided that we need to be a cultural center. We need to be a learning center. We need to be an activity center, a family center, all those sorts of things happening in our building. And so we have become that for our county. We had a lot of naysayers. We had lawsuits filed. We won't get into all of that because that's a whole different webinar. But people are starting to say, hey, if it's not happening at the library, it's not happening in town. So that's what we were after. And we started some of these programs to the delight of everybody, parents, children, and grandparents involved. So I'm going to zip through these slides and show you some of the things that we have been doing here in Livermore, which is in McLean County, Kentucky. We all know when you start to plan an event, you have to get your planning straight. There's two methods of planning according to McLean County Public Library. You can have planning meetings. You can have committees. You're going to sign a task, follow-up meetings, lots of paperwork. You appoint people here, there, and yawning. Well, there's three of us. If the three of us can't sit down and say, this is what we want to do, this is how we want to do it, you do this, you do that, which is kind of our method of planning. This is an official program planning form. This was Gleaned from Adult Programming, a manual for libraries printed in 1997, as you can see. And they say, put all these things down on paper. If it's helpful, I will admit. Who is your organizer? Who is your audience? What are your goals? The date and time. If you're going to have a guest speaker or a guest presenter or someone has them come in, how much money you need? Who's going to handle publicity? This is the way that McLean County Public Library plans events. We need to do something. Andrew and I plan across the wall, literally. Her office is next door to mine. We're separated by a very thin dry wall. And we yell, what sounds like fun? Have we got any money? Who can we solicit for donations? That is the key when you're doing programming in a very small area with a very small budget.  You get this, I'll get that. Do we forget anything? Make sure you call your local newspaper. We have a weekly newspaper here in the county. It appears on Thursday. And everybody says, well, I didn't see it in the paper. But if you ask somebody, well, we read the paper every day. It's one of those things. They go back and forth. But make sure that you get the word out. Now, we put up flyers. We put up posters. We put signage out in front of the library. We have a TV with a flip thing going on all the time, a crawler, about the events happening in the library. Some people see it, some don't. But we always put things in the children's backpacks at school. Angie, that's one of her many tasks every week is we print a small booklet that has all of her activities for each month in them. And she gets them to the schools to divvy out to the teachers. And that helps a great deal to get the word home because the parents will at least take the papers out of the backpack. So I'm going to get on the refrigerator.  We all know that. But it has improved the communication to get things out in the school system and get it on the school's website if you can. Always, always have a contingency plan. You think, I've got the greatest game in the whole wide world.  It's on the sidewalk, whatever. And it will rain. So always think of something you can do inside. Keep your audience on. Just say, oh, I'm sorry, we canceled it. Always, always have a contingency plan. Something that you can do inside. Maybe we have used kids as game pieces. We have used foam core on the floor for bases and for board spaces and that sort of thing. You can just fail it down to have it inside. And then you can always just play board games if all else fails. Our kids love board games. I don't know if your kids in your area do, but it's something that, I don't know, it's a little extra contact, I think. And they do enjoy the board game. One of our favorite is Googly Eyes, which is very interactive. You notice the kid in the middle of the picture has an oversized pair of glasses. They distort the vision. He's trying to draw that coke can in the middle of the table. And, yeah, it doesn't really look like a soda can when you finish with it. Some of our small kids get into Googly Eyes and it's amazing what they come up with. They pass the glasses around. They have a huge time with that. Quelf is another board game that we play inside when it rains. You'll notice the foam on the floor. Those are the spaces for the board. It's a very interactive interview. If you've ever played Quelf or not played Quelf, there's different cards in it. The children are all different. And it's, you know, smell your partner's shoe or play patty cake in the middle of the floor or stand on one leg, or there's all sorts of different activities. And, yes, it will be noisy. It won't be like a normal, quiet library. But we kind of like that where we are. Out front, this was a game of trash-git ball. Using trash cans and basketballs. You can see the kids in the middle going for a dunk shot there. Our mayor in our town is Super Pro Library, which is very nice to have.  And he says, fine, I'll bring you a barrel and some cones. So you see the blue barrel and the cones. And we parked the book mobile across the other end. And we play in the street for an hour or two. Very cost efficient, if you look. That's somebody neighbor's trash can. Every kid has a basketball, it seems like. We divide in teams. That's Angie, a referee in the middle in the pink shirt. And that's a fun activity for a couple of hours.  It's all pretty cheap. This one is probably the most fun that we do. When I did this live, we demonstrated, so everybody got to play.  But this is Hungry Hungry Hippos Life Sites. You'll notice that we took a garden hose. Made a circle in the nose floor. We bought those little plastic bottles at Walmart. Very cheap. You'll notice the kid with the laundry basket on his head. The furniture roller that has the cotton rope kind of did it. They divided into teams. You're just looking at one end of the room. And they, under their own power, wheel themselves out to the middle, under a timer, one from each end, and they scoop up however many balls they can in the laundry basket. And then the team, they pull them back. Everybody knows how Hungry Hungry Hippo goes. This works in the street. It works upstairs, mostly nowhere that you can do the laundry basket. The kids love this one. They have to be careful they don't run over their fingers. You just caution them before that. The furniture movers are cheap. We made those. Flywood with the most expensive thing were the wheels. We bought four wheels for each one of them. Put a piece of carpet on the end and tie the cotton rope to them. Laundry baskets are small. The ones we picked up at the dollar store. That game probably cost about $10. And when it rains, can we go out and play? It's really, really life-size Hungry Hungry Hippo. The older kids, this is one of our teenagers. She didn't want to lay down on the board, so she scooted on her backside with a basket on her head. And then of course the parents wanted to get in on it. And it was not nearly as easy as they thought it was going to be. That's why my boyfriend was actually in a black shirt. He was just really into it. It was kind of a trick. It's not as much fun as easy as you think it's going to be. But the life-size Hungry Hungry Hippo is probably one of our more successful life-size games. It looks like you have a... Is that a meeting room at the library where you do this in, or is this somewhere where you push apart the furniture? That's our art gallery up here. We've got about 2,200 square feet. The work on the walls is all done by local artists. I have since redone this room. These vines were made this spring. I got to paint and put new flooring down, those sorts of things. But we will still do these activities at the same time. Yeah, it's a great space. We're really lucky to have it. This is, again, Candy Land. Everybody's familiar with the Candy Land game. So we let our middle schoolers, our tweens, if you will, decorate the street on the Candy Land board. We get a sidewalk chalk, which we had donated, and the kids took off and they went out in the street and made a Candy Land board. You can see the colored spaces all the way around again. The book will be at one end. Columns and marbles at the other. Some of our participants are pretty small, if you will notice. There's the spinner that he's got his hand on. And they prayed, I don't know. They spent, it seems like, two hours out playing Candy Land. It was a long morning, but they enjoyed it thoroughly. Again, cheap and expensive. Something they won't forget. Let's go to the library and let's play again. And I see this is something that's on the street. And I can see in the far back corner there's a cone. So this is something that you said the mayor is very supportive. They just block off the street for the amount of time that you'd be doing the program. Yes, and we actually have a wonderful relationship with our county judge executive and our local mayor for our city. If you'll notice in the back, some apartments you see, some light blue and some brick, that's senior housing. And we're a lot of entertainment for those folks. They come over and they play bingo with us, but they come out and watch everything that we're doing if they don't participate, at least for the money entertainment form. True. Yeah, that's something probably that we never thought about as we are coming to watch. Yeah, just be one of our audience members. They have lots of suggestions and they're a terrible bunch. They really get into the, children and the kids get out and start playing. We have had bounce houses out here in the street with water and all the bouncing in the slide and then all that sort of stuff. We've had some seniors join us for that and we're like, oh gosh, watch a hip, but they have a great time. Because it's a lot of fun. They're not really sure what we're going to do next. Everyone knows Angie. She's been in the school system for 17 years. So she is my true treasure. Because Angie can call and say, we're going to do this and they're like, okay, how can we help? And that's the most amazing part. You've got to have community support and not necessarily monetarily. That's great too. We can call our local subway and say, hey, we need a sandwich platter. We're going to entertain some folks and more likely than not, they donate those too. So I can't stress enough the importance of community relationships, partnerships, if you will. We work very closely with our family resource center. We call them Friskies in Kentucky. I don't know what they are across the United States. But they always have great ideas. They're always looking for numbers to put it on a very practical director level. Headcount and numbers. And so it's always great to help. They have a lot of grants that we have been able to share in as far as programming in different events. And we've had some early childhood type grants and those sorts of things as well. So partner up with your family resource centers if you are not. Same thing with your extension groups. If you have ag extension services in your county. Use those folks. Because they're always looking for programming ideas and are super willing to help. During our summer reading program, this year we were fortunate enough to have Home Depot partner with us. They provided their kits. They had a birdhouse and a wheelbarrow and a boating house and a couple of those things that they brought. And sent some staff members. Sent their employees down to help build and instruct and explain about building and the different tools and things that they would use. We did that for our little ones and our kids under 15. And then we had our extension office partnered with us and we built better meals. And they did some layered salad and some fun stuff like that. So always look at ways that you can partner with community organizations. Stretch your budget. Lean on their budget a little if you can. But it makes an incredible involved experience for the patrons. This also is upstairs. We did this more for our adult patrons. We set up a nine hole golf course. Now that picture of the room doesn't look that big. But again, 2,300 square feet, you can set up nine holes. And you'll see, we went on the cheap. We had the two doors donated. The flowers were donated by our local nursery. And we used pool noodles to make bank shots. And we ordered a kit. Oriental trade, I think, is where we got the kit for the different holes, you know, with the yellow. There's a curve and a whole green ramp and some little cones and things like that. And the rest of it we just made here. And we played golf upstairs.  So there's a couple of jailbirds upstairs playing. I love the flowers, the greenery that was put there as well. We were trying to create our own amen corner. It's not exactly a gust of it. We were trying anyway. But that was very popular. And then the kids came up afternoon after we got the jail over with. But it was a lot of fun. And very different. You didn't really think you were going to be playing golf in the public library. This obviously is outside our library, but we hosted a car show and a concert. This was a cruise in. It was not actually a show. Car aficionados will know the difference between a cruise in and the show. But they did, by popular vote, pick a favorite and that sort of thing. But again, get the older Oakland. Our senior population came out and danced in the street. We had lots of music going. Again, a different event that you don't think was associated with the library. Cost was very little. I think I paid $40 to have dash plates made, which are little things that they put as they show their cars. And they just said something very simple, fall festival, with my public library and the dates. But we had a good turnout. People wanted up and down. We actually sold, we set up, of course, what do you want to call it? We sold baked potatoes and taco salads. We had bottles of water. Our friends made some money with a concession sand to help offset the cost of the plaques. That is also a very low cost. The folks bring the entertainment. When they bring their cars, people always want to see old cars. Old Detroit, they want to see that. This, believe it or not, is our local position. We had Knock Will Hide come in. He plays banjo, like a fiend. Historically, it's crazy songs. And we, again, do this in the library. We close at 6 o'clock, so we start the music at 6. People want to hang around. We have some folks get up and dance and all those sorts of things. It didn't cost us a thing. I said, sure, I'm glad to come down and sing and play. Again, get people that we've never had in the library before. They think, oh, I don't read. I don't like books or whatever. But everybody likes music. And everybody loves Doc because he's in it. And this is a great way to get people exposed to the library. And people sometimes have, I don't want to say phobia, but a fear or apprehension about going in the library. You know, there's something about the library. These sorts of activities, though, reach out to those folks and bring them in. It's something completely unexpected. It doesn't cost you anything. Our seniors are on a limited budget. Of course, the ones particularly in the housing are here beside us. And they can walk over. They can ride their scooters over. And they're entertained for an hour, an hour and 50 minutes. We usually have some kind of refreshments go with it. It's been donated. There's little cookies and a bottle of water in there, too. But again, it's a way to get folks that you don't necessarily normally think of as a patron of the library. This is something we started new this year. You'll notice the bucket at this young man's feet yard seat. It's meant to be played outside. He loved how it was too hot to go outside in the day. So he wanted to do it inside. We take these out as a kit. We do some passive programming, if you will. We have three or four different kits. We have a battleship that we play out in the street. The kids have become the battleships. They stand together and yell back and forth over a curtain. Just kind of a different approach. The yard seat games, they actually check these out and take them home. We have some of the items in our makerspaces. Some kits, making bracelets, making sun catchers. A couple of different activities like that where they actually check them out, take them home, do the activity, bring them back. We refer with them. I see Angie has a question. Oh, Angie said during the concert and car show that it ended a very long day, that during the day you had 300 school students there to participate in Johnny Appleseed Day. Oh yes, I had forgotten that was Johnny Appleseed Day. And then the following up was... We coordinate with our schools. There's an elementary school here in Avertown, and there's an elementary school in Calhoun, which is the county seat, which is about 15 miles, and then Sacramento, which is, yes, about 20 miles from the library from 25 across the country. And we coordinate with those schools to have Johnny Appleseed Day. I have a gentleman that comes with an antique apple press, and he makes apple cider out on the front porch and talks about the apple trees and how Johnny Appleseed planted trees across the United States. And we have games upstairs and books upstairs that we read in activities. So it's a pretty long day, but at the time you get that many elements in and out and pin the apple on the tree and read a few stories and things. It's a long day, and yes, she's right. We did have the car show after that activity. It was a pretty good day. We actually raised money today by spending our hard-earned capital. Nice. The yard teams, like I said, these types of games and kits that we check out to the folks, they take them home. They have a week check out, and they bring them back a lot, and we find check out on Friday, and they bring them back on Monday. They don't keep them. They won't play over the weekend. Well, like Angie's husband is very crafty, as is Angie, and they make a lot of these things, the wooden dice and those sorts of things. She said the cost for this whole one was $5 for the Yardzy. Right. For the Yardzy. I have tons of white buckets, courtesy of my horses, so I have lots of buckets sitting around, and we rest out the pieces of wood. This was a fun day. We had a touch of trucks today. Angie started very early calling different businesses smaller ones. This is a coal mine buggy. We have recently... We're opening our second active coal mine in the county. It's an underground mine, and this is a man-carry, how they load up and ride down the shaft, and then in fact, where they're actually face-mining.  They talked with the kids and explained what they did, how they did it, how this little vehicle worked. We had, I think, 18 different vehicles this year, from National Guard to a coal mine, to a tractor with a hay baler, and a fork on the front, ambulance, police, bait troopers. We call everybody we can think of that had anything that had wheels on it. Again, we're a very small town, so farmers are, of course, our biggest asset. We're working on a combine. The guy wouldn't bring one that far from the dealership. It would take a few days to get it done. They opened them up and let the kids, as you see the kids, they're on them, crawling around and under them and around them. I looked at one point and I wish I had put that picture in. I had these same little girls. They were all sitting in the buckets of the tractor.  It was a cool day, as you can tell, out on Twitter. This event, again, you're out at lunch. We provide lunch for the folks that bring the vehicles, and it's like from 10 to 1, we don't do it all day long. We focus when the kids are in school, so they can walk down from the elementary school and get the numbers. If they get home, sometimes we run it a little bit late, so the early kids can go home, then their parents can come back. We have a lot of adults and seniors are out. We have a Ford dealership in the county, and they brought us a jazzy Mustang and a super-duper pickup truck. And, of course, the parents are really interested in that, crawling through those. The folks are just really good to donate their time and their materials for the events that we do here. The National Guard Unit is in the next county, but they love it when Angie calls. Can we bring you a helicopter? I mean, they are always very proactive and anybody can do to help. And these gentlemen, actually, the one in the middle is their PR and safety guy. And for the coal mine, you can have a look in the brick building behind. That's a very old building. That's behind us. Ourage is older, and we have a basement that is dirt floor. They're going to come next week and we're having a coal mine experience in the basement. So, they're going to show what it would be like to be in a coal mine by being in our basement, which is kind of frightening, though. It's really closest, yeah. It'll be a great interactive event for the kids. We've done dinosaur digs. We've made the eggs, you know, with the sand and the flour and mess and put the plastic dinosaur gentlemen buried those in the basement so the kids can dig them up. That was a great mistake. We will do that again in the next couple of weeks. But touch a track is great because you can get your community involved. Like I said, you're out lunch for the folks that bring vehicles if you choose to. But the kids, I remember I was here for this. I was here for that. And that's what we're doing, we're creating memories and good feelings so that when they're ancients like me, they will want to come to the library and understand the library and they'll bring their children to the library and they'll know our patron base.  The schools, libraries, in the former life I taught school and the elementary schools. The last time I went in the elementary school library, the books were the same when I was there 20 years ago. That's sad. We're new and we're different. Growing a library culture I always tell the story. When we started, we were arranged and we were certainly downstairs and my computers were all against an outside wall and everybody had headphones because they all were into the greatest sound in music. I'd had a meeting upstairs. The county judge executive was there and some of the magistrates. We had walked out on the sidewalk and they were all looking in at the library and one little boy was sitting at one of the computers with his headphones on and he was just jamming. He was chair dancing like crazy and he looked at me and he said, you know, whatever his cost and his aggravated and his hateful phone calls that I have had, he said it is worth every dime for that. And he's exactly right. We make it in one time when we've done our job. But we're reaching out to all of the students in the county. This slide was the end of our event that we had and Angie told them that they did not know that they were going to draw on the side of the building. So again, they took the chalk and they treated them down the length of the side of my building and then they decorated themselves. We were going to do it with a water hose and it was not a good enough day to do the water hose outline on the brick building. But to this day, I still have these cherubs on the side of my building but you think it's grandson when Angie tells them, I don't know anything about it. They have a ball. So again, those are things. When my boy got hurt a couple of summers ago down at the river, we were about a block off of the Green River down here in the rough river. He had cut his foot and he came in just all of a sudden crying and scared and everything else and he came to us because he didn't know where else to go when he was hurt. And again, he said volume. He said, well, I knew you all would take care of me. That's what we're after. Yeah, we're going to take care of you in lots of ways. But, you know, in many, many ways. That's the kind of relationship we are trying to build with our kids.  We will be here for them in many, many ways. And Angie is talking about someone that he says someone is very great that you rest him every year for our friend's jail fundraiser? Yeah. Yeah, we have our share of this is our building. Like I said, it was built in the late 1800s. It's handmade brick. It's very soft. But we have about 6,500 square feet in the building. Collection's got about 24,000 books and movies and that sort of thing in it. We do a fundraiser every year. Our friend's group, we have a jail. Some of y'all are familiar with that. We create a list of folks that we want to arrest. Our county judge is always the top of the list. That's what she's talking about. Yeah, the judge. Yeah. We send the sheriff, he gets in on the game too, a couple of deputies and they will go to the school, the courthouse, whoever, some self-surrender. We say, okay, you've been arrested. Here's your bail. You need to raise this much money. And we won't let you out until you get the money raised. The first year we did it, we raised $1,500. For one afternoon and it's found as small as we are, that's pretty impressive. We did it the next year and we raised about the same amount, about $7,000 and we skipped a year just to kind of give everybody a rest from being arrested. We had some folks that really get into it, they'll put on costumes, they put on the black and white stripes and caps and wear a number around their neck. We make a door and his husband's made a jail cell door in our doorway and it looks just like a jail cell. But then we feed them breakfast if they're here at the 7 o'clock in the morning session because the farmers like to come in early. And then we feed them barbecue at lunch if they stick around as long. Usually the school bunch wants to hang for lunch because they really like our barbecue. Again, it's a tremendous fundraiser and it, like I said, it doesn't cost us a thing and we do extremely well as far as fundraising for our friends group to help the library, of course. We've done various fundraisers, I know there's a library in the adjoining county that is down the Flamingo sale and we've talked about doing one of those as well, but since they're close we probably won't feel their idea. But everyone seems to have a good time, they enjoy it. And again, Fred will, when you're new some of you may be newer than I, but six years is a pretty young library and they're not sure what we're going to do next. So we're always going to try something new and something different. Our next deal will be the coal mine in the basement, of course, and then a dinosaur dig with our kids that do story times with us and our tweens as well. That's fast and furious, but that's pretty much the end of it. Like I said, I didn't do nearly as well as I would have done with my buddy, but she's written a couple of talents. We do have a question. How much is the average bail for your inmates? We're depending. We set the county judge at about $500. School teachers and some other folks I think $200 is as low as we've gone. So somewhere between $200 and $500. And so people can pay a little bit at a time until they've gotten enough for someone to get out. One of our folks from the school, her husband brought down a pack of penny. He wanted to stay a little longer. Most of our folks and our county judge is no exception. He gets all of his money donated before he even comes in. We had one gentleman that stayed. I thought he was going to stay here all night. He kept calling his, he was actually a preacher. He kept calling his folks and none of his parishioners would bail him out of jail. I didn't know what that said. What's going on in that church? So you said you're new.  And this building you said is from the 1800s. What was it before the library was in there? It was many things. It originally, well not originally. I don't know what the exact original part was. If you look at the building you can see it's two halves. It was the first brick building built in the town of Livermore. And about halfway through they decided it's going to need to be bigger. So they built the other side. I'm actually speaking to you from the last window on the left side is my office. But it is in a dry goods store. It had apartments in it at one time. It was a telephone exchange. It was a post office. It was a TV repair shop. It's been lots of different incarnations. We have a lady here in town that has done a photographic history. I guess it's the best way to describe it. I don't know how many pictures she has of our building in those different incarnations. The steps came down from a different side. There are steps on the side of the building that you can't see. There was a wooden sidewalk. There was no sidewalk. There was dirt. There were trees. I mean it's interesting to see it from 1889 I think it was when it was originally built. It looks like it's a pretty good shape for being that old, too. Obviously being kept up over the years pretty well. It is. It scares me a little bit to go in the basement and look up. I try not to. Maybe because it doesn't work. The basement is pretty scary. A tornado came through town and took the roof off in 2009 and they refurved to put a new back wall on it and of course a new roof on it, but other than that it's original back to that long ago. Of course the women's club of Livermore I think a lot of the libraries across the state of Kentucky were founded by local women's club the GFWC if you will now. They started a library kept it as a community library. It used to be known as the Livermore Community Library. If Susie could keep it open for two hours or Sally could come in for three hours or how they kept it open and the books were donated. We had a mayor back in the 70s and 80s in this town that was very pro-library and she tried really, really, really hard to get a tax industry created and those sorts of things and she never could make it happen. She had books donated. There was a troop of Boy Scouts over there that heard about Amber and her drive to get a library in this community and they brought a U-Haul trailer full of donated all the way from Delaware and they brought them in and all the ladies in the women's club helped write spine labels by hand and did all these things and shelved all those books. When we started five years ago I had handwritten spine labels and today of course we're all automated and all those wonderful things. It was a neat project. To build a library is something new. I have a neat police library program in the state of Kentucky and I have a sister library in Campbell County which is one of our larger counties. You said this is originally it was a live and work community library but now it's the county library so that changed Yes, we created a tax industry in 2009. You're the only library in your county then? Yes. I put a little free library you know the little boxes I hope that throughout the county I have I think five of them out that we fill and rotate stock and that sort of thing in and out of those and those seem very popular particularly folks may not be able to reach us during our hours we are open I think 52 hours a week and we run the bookmobile every other week but if they miss us then I can hit the little free library and those are pretty neat. That's awesome. You got to get out to everybody. I was trying to look on a map I looked at a map to see and I looked at your Facebook page did you guys get the eclipse? Did it reach where you were? You seem to be kind of near the line. 98, 99% it didn't get pitch dark but the crickets started hollering and the streets came on security lights and things like that but it wasn't completely dark but we all ran out with our glasses and so much. Did you do any sort of program at the library for that or was it just the whole town? Yes, the whole town schools had things going on in the schools so we gave out some glasses that we had ordered everybody was traveling and going and it was 100% in Madisonville which is about 25, 30 miles from us and so everybody was going that direction to see us since they were that close but we did have some folks that's interesting on the river I had a library dog so I had taken him for a walk after the things started moving and they were from I want to say they were from Michigan her brother worked at the observatory in Livermore, California so they wanted to come to Livermore, Kentucky to watch the eclipse. You know you'll find in Livermore, Kentucky Not the same but yes it's a sister city. Well I probably ran you short but any more questions? Do anybody have any questions that you want to ask of Amy or Angie who's on the line typing to us type into the questions section of your GoToWebinar interface if you want to ask about any of the other programs and things that they were doing I actually did look at you said you'd read down the floor and the upstairs and I think I saw that on your Facebook page the new floor is like a wood I believe a laminate and painted and brighten that space up that's the largest meeting room in the county is in my library so you get used a lot from that there are political forums company meetings we had a company that was trying out some new software and they wanted to come where they could all be in one spot to do it so we had smart boards and Wi-Fi and all those good things so they came here to do their training we've done a lot of different community events in our room so it needed to biffen up it looks good our Facebook page and Angie has an outreach Facebook page as well visit and like us we presented this webinar in Fargo at the Arsall the association was called last year are you all going to that I'm not attending this year no I have previously but not this particular year but we do always promote it and support them yes we have a question that came in about the car show when you had the people bringing the cars in do you is that also a fundraiser do you charge people to bring their cars to the car show or is it just an event how does that work we did not we did that to get people down to see the band we had paid for a boy that had local ties with a southern rock type band and we got him and we did not charge for the cruise in more of a good sort of thing we had the concession stand though and we made about 650 of them a concession stand so that was run by the library by you guys at the library yeah okay and people that have show cars like that they always want to show them it's tricky to find a date that they're not already committed because they don't go far and yawn to show them but if you can get a date that's good then hang on to it they just want to show off and talk about what they've done to their particular cars and to see other people so I'm sure oh yeah that's a whole brotherhood the cars strictly the older the fours the muscle cars those sorts of things it's basically the same group everywhere you go you follow their shows but they have a ball and again that may not be a group that you would normally attract but something you do at the library we do family movies we've done movies on the outside of the building we had 300 people in the street watching the Lego movie on the side of a brick building think about it it was pretty clever oh yes bricks get yes was it either I guess if it's flat enough yeah it would have probably been completely if you're telling a sheet or something but the kids loved it oh yeah again got people that you normally would not attract with just in the world so we think completely out of the box do really weird and different things my father is always constantly at the library exactly and I think it goes back to what you said at the very beginning of your talk that wanting to be the community center the center of activities for what goes on in the town that you just think of anything that your town may want to have done as an event or an activity jump in and offer to do it figure out a way to do that and then just the people will come to it because of whatever the activity is and they'll have that same reaction the library did this well we have put together some kits I didn't have a picture of them for geocaching so maybe all probably for me with that idea we've done that kit we've got one we are if you look in the Guinness Book of World Records thank you very much Livemore Kentucky is mentioned because it is the only place in the United States that with the foot of the bridge you're in McLean county in the middle of the bridge you've crossed one river you've crossed another county you're getting ready to cross another river yet when you get to the foot of the bridge you're still in McLean county it's actually look it up it's the confluence of the rough and the green river and it's right here outside my library I can see the bridge from my window so of course here everybody fishes up and down the river so we put together a backpack type kit it has a fishing pole and a temporary license if you're a kid of course you don't have to have a fishing license in Kentucky and those sorts of things we have an ice skating arena in Owensboro, Kentucky which is 17 miles from us and they will donate free passes to us so our kids go out on ice skate we did that as part of our summer reading last year we took them all ice skating but just different than we bring the animal tales shows and those are not cheap they bring in kangaroos snakes and anything else they can bring because kids won't get a chance around here to see a kangaroo no you're not going to see you're not going to see we do have a question actually I think you're just mentioning a little bit about that someone is asking besides games have you tried lending out anything other than books and you did just the fishing fishing the geocaching brain dead we've not tried the instruments we had thought about instruments there was a lot of musical talent around here but we've not had any donations honestly and we need more donations in order to do that program but the backpacking or a bird watching kit is one that we'll put a guide in you know the local birds and just who they are and what they are some tree identification this is poison ivy don't hold on to it sort of thing if you're going to go out and look for those birds and go fishing you do need to know that yes Angie says you also have backpacks with tennis equipment yes we have two tennis courts here in town it has tennis racket and balls and the USTA rules which I don't think anybody ever reads but they're in a backpack and we have just the town has just installed a disc golf course a non-hold disc golf I don't know if you're aware of that that's probably the most popular we've got books all over everywhere so that's our next kit to get put together is for disc golf yeah I have friends here that play that yeah it's basically like golf with a frisbee yeah it's fascinating I can see where you can get hooked very easily and it's a whole lot cheaper than that bag and clubs and balls and tees oh sure probably for you guys it's a lot easier to check out something like that than actual set of golf clubs yeah definitely well no question oh wait here we go I forget if you'll type sometimes someone just said they love the hungry hippos game that was awesome so just a comment about that one which I thought was really fun too oh and she says that you have a lot of stem kits as well that the schools check out through you yes Angie worked very diligently I forgot about the stem kits she'll bash me for that when I get down different little things that they can build I know the one for elementary kids was how to say Fred and Fred was a worm and you had to build like a life preserver and building bridges there's lots of different all sorts of little activities that she has put together and kits that we do check out to the schools and those are very successful of course stem and theme both and we have two areas set up in our library one for the smaller children we have a little alcove I guess that's the best way to say under the fence and we put the smaller children in that area with more passive type things that they can build and all sorts of supplies tongue depressors and q-tips and I get a shopping list from Angie and I go what is this for we go in her kit and then the older children we have another area towards the back of the library that we set aside for some older projects it's amazing what they will come up with when they start building we have a little box of magnets and fascinating but those kits are always and they're not expensive again I cannot reiterate enough that we do not have much of a budget for the time you pay on a building this size that leaks like I said I might add we do have replacement windows but it's an ancient building my paraplegic month was like a thousand dollars which was talking to me but in a town that's small and we're on KU which is cheap power but anyway supplies are basically cheap you can buy a gross ton of tongue depressors and q-tips and cotton balls and little magnets and those sorts of things and let the kids use their imagination that's part of what I think they don't create and the steam kits and just our maker areas give them a chance to use their brain use their head for something other than to hang a hat on and Angie says most of them cost less than ten dollars if you're like us clean out your closets or your junk drawers and kids will figure out what to do with them and she recommends that Pinterest is great for suggestions just tweak them for your own activity yes look for an activity that someone else is doing and then figure out what do we have that we can do just with different materials right we have used pretty strange things I've got lots of shoeboxes if you all use Schwann's or order any food and those nice hard little heavy cardboard boxes that aren't extremely large they make great things to put the kids in that check out and she said that the stem kits are checked out through the schools so you have an agreement that the schools actually check them out from you to use in their classrooms yeah that's a nice conversation our elementary school here in our town is of course very heavily with our Head Start and preschool programs as well we have one middle school and one high school in the county and three elementary schools so hook up with you Will, she spends all day on the bookmobile at one of the elementary schools on Monday is there all day they check out books, they do activities and that's K through fifth grade and she has all those kids on the bookmobile sometimes she gets quite sick but she gets sick and looks at me trying to make her back and roll and carry on but yeah, it's key to get partnered with your schools and community officials camps with the community because strongly enough absolutely so anybody have any last, we have one last question here that came in because it's almost getting to 11 o'clock, I think we'll wrap it up with this one here someone wants to know, this is a good question I think to wrap up with what do you think is special about your town specifically and how does the library fit in with that especially unique about your town especially unique everything it is, at one time this was a very thriving community it had right at 2500 people in a lot of furniture industry here they floated the logs down the room made a lot of furniture, some of you may remember the famous barrel furniture in the 70's that was yeah, that was all made here in Livermore oh nice my room was here on the furniture factory and he made a lot of things for top value stamps which he used to redeem stamps there were a couple of things that he made specifically for that but as the industry went away so did the people it went from 2500 to just barely a thousand it's very close knit it is heavy agriculture we ranked fifth in the state and agri-seed which means a lot of chickens and a lot of grain soybeans and corn some wheat so we're a very small rural agricultural based community that the world has kind of passed by it's pretty like stepping back about 50 years maybe 60 and many people like that it's very quiet it's very clean if you will quiet most of the time and I think they were hungry for something I don't think they knew what they were hungry for but you know there needs to be an activity we are not in the county seat which was a huge unhappy point when we open the library we need to move to the county seat well the building is here the books are here and we're here now so no we're not moving to Calhoun I mean the greatest need is here in Livermore because the schools the high school and middle school are all in the county seat of course in Calhoun which is more centrally located probably like that we look like a pork chop and we're in the bottom right hand corner of the pork chop and if you put the bone at the top so I think our ability to offer such a wide variety of programming events ideas, concepts totally formal because again you're thinking okay this is 50 years ago a library was a place that had books you could go read the newspaper in the magazine and check out a book and then move on there wasn't a whole lot of stuff going on and I think we've kind of changed that perspective particularly in our county I have a lot of folks that would drive to Davis County which is like the county north of us about 17 miles pay $40 for a library card and then you came here and they said you have the same things you have the same databases the same amount of books if you don't have the beautifully titled you can get it you're in a library alone let's quit paying for that let's support you guys and it's nice to see them go hey we can do this at home and get the same benefits here so I think recognizing what we have here in town and our patron base is key to know what we need to offer sure Angie says everyone knows everything and then she laughs typical of small town but then she says we can call for volunteers because we know the majority of our citizens if we are in need of water for our waterslides our neighbors let us hook into their water if you're cleaning up after an event they are there to help oh and then she mentioned the greatest thing is when a gentleman just walks in the door and gives you a $10 check and says y'all are doing great things keep it up and she says this gentleman comes in every year and does that for you yes he does I look for that white truck that's part of the that's part of the small town that everyone knows everything and everyone yeah and I think that's great that you guys are revitalizing what's going on with the community that's what libraries are for definitely that's what we're here to prove in the beginning we wanted to be the community center and if it's not happening at the library then it's not happening and like you said there's nowhere else for them to go for these things as well and you have the biggest meeting room in the county for people to use for things it was hard to get them to believe that we needed a county library but it didn't take that long once we got rolling for them to go hey let's go and so when a child looks at you and says if it's not going on here then it's not going on again that's an awesome quote we do what we do everywhere great alright I think that's a great way to wrap it up it's not happening at the library it's not happening because we're just a little after 11 o'clock this is perfect time to wrap up for our full hour very good thank you this is great seeing what you guys are doing there so many awesome ideas that are unique to what you're doing but it's great to see that I've seen other bigger libraries do more comp and more expensive versions of the same things and it's just great to see having the kids make the candy land and just so the more simpler displays of the games and things that can use your imagination more I think that's awesome I like those thank you Amy thank you Angie for being on as well as you could there while you were down working the desk so I think that will wrap it up for this week's Encompass Live but I'm going to pull presenter control to my computer and I'm going to show you I do have here there we go your library is on Facebook page there yep that does look at nicely the plans and here's the new floor that you have in the meeting I believe that's it yep so if you're interested in more what they're doing you want to talk to Amy or Angie more about it the Facebook page would be a good way to reach out to you absolutely that's perfect and there's no number right there on our 7th almost over we're having Friday yep alright so I gave them a like of course so that will wrap it up for today's the show then thank you Amy and Angie thank you everyone for attending I'm going to pop that over to our Encompass Live page here the show has been recorded is still being recorded at this moment and we'll be here on our website right underneath our upcoming shows is where we have a link to our Archived Encompass Live sessions and at the top of the list are most recent ones so this is last week's show this new one from today will be posted here at the top of the list as soon as it gets all processed probably later this afternoon it'll be ready just as long as YouTube cooperates with me and I'll have it up here everyone who attended registered for today I'll send you an email letting you know it's available but as you can see here all of our things here are just free and open to anyone to watch so you can just go here 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The House of Representatives is set to investigate the alleged abuse of £2.3 million generated from the tertiary education tax by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund from 2011-2013. The House set up an ad hoc committee following the adoption of a motion by Ulusola Fatua and two other lawmakers. The House noted that the tertiary education tax was introduced as a special corporate tax to provide specialized funding for tertiary education in Nigeria, including capital projects, research and development among others. It recorded that the tax was introduced based on the repealed Education Tax Act, which established the Education Trust Fund to impose an education tax on Nigerian companies at a rate of 2.5% of their accessible profit for the annual assessment. The Education Tax Act was repealed and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund established that in 2021, the finance acts increased the applicable tertiary education tax rate from 2% to 2.5% aware that in the establishment of the tertiary education trust fund in the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, the fund has earned trillions of Naira as revenue generated. However, the fund is reputed for numerous Banasia abuses in the Tizoprations award for the Tertiary Education Trust Fund.


Life is good all this month at Appalachian Wireless. Get the LG G5 for just one penny with sign up or renewal of a two year service agreement. That's almost $100 off the regular price. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. The Pike Fiscal Court has already approved establishing a broadband board for the county. Now Deputy Judge Executive Brian Morse wants to get that board populated and working toward bringing broadband access to the county. At today's fiscal court meeting Morse said the county cannot wait any longer to begin working toward widespread broadband access without risking falling behind. That's why I think our county needs to own the infrastructure to the broadband. Two, we need to find a contractor to come in that the service maintain and give us oversight on the broadband. And three, the board needs to award a retailer to provide the service throughout the county. Morse told the members of the Pike Fiscal Court that it's time the county starts working toward spreading broadband access across the county. He said the 60 jobs created through teleworks located at Ford Mountain at Mita are examples of how broadband access can help create jobs. Morse also said the city of Pikeville has been a model for providing broadband access and it's time for the county to act. The city of Pikeville is setting the standards in the Commonwealth on broadband. Not only do they have their board together, they've already got their funding in place to provide broadband within the city limits. I believe strongly if Pike County doesn't get on board, not only will surrounding counties, not only will the state pass the by-surrounding counties, it passes by on its broadband. Morse wants the court to begin populating its broadband board and let it get to work bringing broadband access to the county and with it economic development. Teleworks is a prime example. Seven months ago it wasn't even in Pike County. By bringing broadband to one location, generating over 60 jobs at 1150 an hour, you know, let's bring the infrastructure that we can bring to Pike County and let's get ahead of the curve. The court took no action on the issue at Tuesday's meeting, but Morse said he plans to continue bringing the issue up for discussion over the coming months. At the Pike County Courthouse, Chris Anderson, EKB News.


Hey, folks, let's talk about schedule. First, please visit that URL, that's GXY.IOslessGAT, which will bring you to this page. And the most important part of this GitHub repository for you is the readme, which is on the same page. Even though this course is offered synchronously, we made a timetable for you. The timetable is completely voluntary, but in our opinion, it will make the most sense to follow it. This whole document is very short and very important. So please go through it. It reiterates all the important links you need to know. It explains why the timetable looks like it does. We approximate that it's about five hours of work every day if you follow the timetable as it's laid out. And it starts on Monday with working with Antible. And as you can see, these are the topics for Monday. The video column mostly consists of links to YouTube where we record lectures for you that refer to the materials in the slide slash material column. The YouTube lectures are strictly supplementary. You don't need to go through them. The core materials are always self-sufficient. So take advantage of it if you want, but you don't have to. And then if you have any questions or if you want to talk to us about any of these topics or any other topics, please join the reference-like channels. There are many of you, and we want to keep things streamlined. So please respect the channel that you're using in terms of where to ask questions for what topic. Thank you. Good luck. Hello, everybody. My name's Simon Gladman, and I'm one of the instructors at the Galaxy Admin course this week. I'm just going to give you a quick introduction to the Slack that we've set up for the week and just give a bit of an explanation on how we'd like you to use it. So the first thing when you sign into the Slack, which is at Galaxy Admin Training, which is galaxyadmintrainingalloneword.slack.com, if you point your Slack app or your web application for Slack at that, you'll be able to see it. So hopefully you've received an invite to the Slack channel or to the Slack group. OK, we have a number of channels set up. There's one for each section of the course, obviously starting with a 01 Ansible, which will be on Monday. And then as we go through each section, each section is numbered here. You can see 01 Ansible, Ansible Galaxy, Ephemeris, Singularity, CVMFS, Biobland, Compute Cluster, Pulsar, Storage, Monitoring. And this one here is Choose Your Own Adventure, which is on the Friday or the last day of the course. There's also a general channel here and then a random channel. General channel is for introductions. So if you would like to introduce yourself here, that would be fine. And you can see we have some people who have done that already. Yeah, so feel free to introduce yourself here. There's some important information here that you could please read. There's a code of conduct which we'd like everyone to abide by. You've all signed this before we started the training. And this is really important because we want to make this to be a very welcoming and friendly environment for everybody. So please be respectful when you're using this like channel. We also have an FAQ in Google. And their schedule is available at gxy.io slash gat for Galaxy admin training. The schedule talks a little bit about a schedule.  Instead, there's a Choose Your Own Adventure day where we've listed a list of tutorials and you're free to choose whichever ones you think are interesting for you. OK, if you have any trouble during any of the tutorials, say you're doing the Ansible Galaxy tutorial and you are having trouble, please go here into Ansible Galaxy and type what your problem is here. We will have people all at all times, well, most of the time monitoring these channels around about the time that these tutorials will be running. So we'll be doing these ones on Monday and these ones on Tuesday, et cetera. And so we will have people monitoring them and who should be able to help you. If you're having a lot of trouble, we can direct message you and even start a short audio or video hookup and help you out. So, yes, there's a channel for each of the different tutorials that we're going to be tackling. There's a general one for introductions and general chat, saying hello to people, et cetera. And then a random one. And in random, we'll just put things that aren't related to the course. But obviously, please keep it suitable for work and abide by the code of conduct. Yes, so off-topic messages can go in random. If you need to direct message any of the coordinators, for example, if you've been contacted, if you have a problem and you say you've put it in the ephemeral channel and somebody replies to you, then you can probably direct message them as well if you don't want to have it in the general channel chat. OK, so that's about it for the Slack. I hope you understand how to use it. If you have any questions, feel free to write the coordinators an email, reply to the email address, and we will help you connect if you haven't been able to do so. Otherwise, enjoy. And thank you. All the videos for this course are available on YouTube. You will find the link in the schedule. So there are a couple things that are nice about YouTube. So obviously, you can play the video here. If you look below the video, you can find more information, including the links to the slides and the training manual that you've seen the video. There are also, for the longer videos, there are sections. And you can jump directly to certain sections of the video. There are also subtitles for all the videos. To enable these, you can go to the gear icon at the bottom right of the video here in the select subtitles and choose English, but not the auto-generated ones. And then you see there are some subtitles that appear on your video. Another thing you can do is you can control the speed of the video. So if you would like to play it a little bit faster, a little bit slower, so you can keep up, you can do that as well with the gear icon. And choose playback speed.  You can choose one of the slower ones. And all these videos will remain online even after the course. You can always come back to them again later if you want to repeat anything, so have fun. Let's talk a little bit about the Galaxy Training Materials. So all of the materials that you will cover this week are hosted on the Galaxy Training Material website. This is the place in the Galaxy Community for all of the different training materials on all sorts of different topics, not just administration, but also bioinformatics and chemianinformatics. All of these different topics are hosted here. Whenever you or maybe some of your users need to learn about these different topics, they can get the Galaxy Training Network to find well-tested, well-maintained tutorials. So we cover a lot of different topics for scientists, but also for developers and administrators. If you want to learn about climate change or genomic annotation, proteomics, sequence analysis, all of this is covered for all of your different use cases, hopefully. All of these have different tutorials with different resources, input data sets, all of their workflows, all of the content that you need to learn about how to use Galaxy for biological analysis. Alternatively, if you want to learn just how to use Galaxy, there is a whole section on user interface which will cover all the different new features like the rule-based upload or how to use that to get large data sets into Galaxy, how to extract workflows from your histories, any of these different topics that you might need to know, hopefully they're covered under the Galaxy Training Network. And if they're not, let us know. But for our week, we'll be covering the documentation hosted under the Galaxy Server Administration folder. All of this documentation is what you need to become a Galaxy administrator. So you can browse to this website yourself or you can just view the Galaxy Training, or the gxy.io slash gat, the schedule, the schedule links directly to all of the different tutorials and all of the different slides. So we have slides and hands-on for most topics. You can read about, okay, if you want to learn about Ansible, you can view the slides by clicking on that button and then scrolling through. For some of our slide decks, we have automatically produced videos from those. So we've taken the slide decks and the speaker notes that we have for what we should be saying about each slide and we've produced automatic videos for those. All of the videos that you'll be viewing this week, all of them are on YouTube. So you don't need to worry about this for now, but for the future, all of these video icons here are automatically updated whenever we update the materials. And lastly and most importantly is the hands-on. So this little computer icon has all of the content you need for a given tutorial. It starts with an overview. There's an agenda so you can see what we're going to discuss and then it gets into things. Notably, you'll see boxes like these, hands-on. These are where you get to do stuff, where you should be running some command, you should be taking some action, et cetera. If English is not your first language and you would prefer the materials in another language, you can use this little dropdown box here to see them translated into another language. This just uses Google Translate. So if you're familiar with another language, if you're familiar with Google Translate, you should not have too high expectations for translation, but sometimes it can make the material easier to understand if you're not a native speaker. For biological topics especially, your users may want to chat with the community. They may not know how to do specific tasks and they may have questions on specific portions. And once students have questions, we have this open chat box which embeds chat with the Galaxy community into the training materials. And anyone who's going through them could just click on that to talk to us. For the administration course this week, of course, we'll be using Slack. And that's it. All of these materials will be available online forever. If you have any questions, just let us know. Hi, everyone. I'm Nicola Soranzo. I work at the Elam Institute in Norwich United Kingdom. I've been working on Galaxy since 2012 and I've mainly developed tools, work on the backend of Galaxy. I also admin a Galaxy instance at our institute and I provide training there and around the world. So welcome all of you to the Galaxy admin training course for 2021. And today I'm going to tell you how to connect to your virtual machines. So as you probably have read on the website, there is going to be a virtual machine for each of you and you can connect to that for the whole week and the week after that. And we're going to provide this for you for free and thanks also to our sponsors. So to connect to your virtual machine, you first need to go to the github.com slash Galaxy project slash admin dash training github website. If you scroll down the page, there's some explanation of the logistics also about the virtual machine here.  There is a link to GXY.io slash GAT machines. Click there, it will open a Google spreadsheet. And here there's going to be the list of the virtual machines and you will find one virtual machine has been assigned to you. So in this column, your name will appear for now there's just some of that are used by our fellow trainers. What you have to do to connect to your VM is go to a terminal and then you should have installed SSH or an equivalent program for Windows. And then you need the username to connect and this is going to be probably Ubuntu for all of them, but it's always listed in the first column, the user column can copy and paste in the terminal. Then you need an ad. We use the second machine. Okay, so I'm doing an SSH Ubuntu ad, the host name. So the host name is the D column here. So you have to find the line, where is your name? Now you take the host name and you paste it here. And then for only the first time that you connect to this virtual machine, it will ask to confirm the authenticity of the host. This is the first time you connect to it and you just type yes, the whole thing, not just why, and then you have to paste the password. So you go back to the spreadsheet, copy the password and paste it in the terminal, enter, and you're in. So that's simply how you can connect to your virtual machine. And now if I go back for a second to the spreadsheet, you will notice that there are two tabs, the one that we are looking at called VMs, but there's a second one called Pulsar. And there's other virtual machines here. And again, you will have one associated with your name, but that's something that you're going to use later on in the course when there's a lesson about Pulsar. But the way you connect to these different virtual machines is the same. So just remember that when you will have to do your Pulsar lesson, the VMs are in the same spreadsheet, just a different tab. Okay, that's all for me, and enjoy the course. We are going to be around to help you as much as we can. Hi, I'm Catherine from Galaxy Australia, telling you a little about Beoboo. The virtual machines we'll be using this week are configured with Beoboo, which is an open source window manager and terminal multiplexer. This improves terminal sessions when users connect to remote servers. And this setup will make it easier for helpers to assist since even admin trainer logs into the same machine. They will see exactly what you see. There are some things that are a little different from using a regular terminal, such as scrolling. So if I open a long text file, I can scroll through this file by pressing the F7 key to go into scroll mode. And you see the little line counter appear in the corner. And then I can scroll through the file using arrow keys or by using alt arrow key or function alt arrow key on a Mac to go through one page at a time. And then I can exit scroll mode by pressing the enter key. And this is all written down. We have a Beoboo help page that describes the scrolling and also some more Beoboo key bindings. And there is a difference between what works on a Mac keyboard and a PC keyboard. Use the Slack channel and ask helpers for any help with this. Thank you. Hello and welcome to Galaxy Admin Training. My name's Selena Rasha. I work in the Netherlands as a teacher in higher education at Afonso school in Breda. And I'm working on my PhD at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. My background is as a system administrator and officially as bioinformatician. I used to do genomics research with viral genomes and then I moved into system administration for Galaxy. I used to be the usegalaxy.eu administrator. This is going to be hopefully an exciting week. I'm one of the organizers of this course and I hope everything goes smoothly for everyone. Hi folks, I'm Martin Chek from Czechia. I've been working on Galaxy for about seven years now, previously developing the core code base with the team at Penn State and currently guiding Galaxy efforts at the Electric Republic. I hope you enjoy our training and I wish you good luck. I am Sergei, Sergei Golditsynski. I'm a software engineer at Johns Hopkins University. I am one of the core developers on the Galaxy team and I'm going to be one of your helpers this week. Hi everybody, my name's Simon Glavin and I'm from the University of Melbourne in Australia and I'm one of the administrators on Galaxy Australia and I have been working with Galaxy since about 2012 and I will be also helping you this week. Welcome to Galaxy admin training. My name's Catherine and I work as a software developer at the University of Melbourne. I'm one of the administrators of Galaxy Australia. Hi everyone, my name is Saskia Hilteman. I work at the Erasmus Medical Center in Holterdome in the Netherlands. I work a lot with Galaxy, mainly developing tools and pipelines and a lot of training as well. But I also run a small Galaxy server for our researchers and clinicians to analyze their data. And this is often data that cannot leave our institute so they can't use one of the public Galaxy servers. And this week I will be helping out with the admin training. Hello, I'm Anthony Brottodou from Reign France. I'm working for INRAE, the French Agronomy Institute. I'm the CIS admin of galaxy.genoes.org and usegalaxy.fr. I contribute to Galaxy and to GTN or IUC. And I'm also part of the Galaxy genome annotation project. Hello, my name is Aaron Petkao and I work with the National Microbiology Lab, part of the Public Health Agency of Canada here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. And I'm also a graduate student at the University of Manitoba here in Winnipeg. And my background is in bioinformatics and computer science. Hi, my name is Derek Benson. I work for the Australian Science Agency, the CSIRO. I work life as being mostly about systems administration of computer systems. In the recent past, I spent about seven years working with the genomics virtual lab team and the Australian Galaxy team here in Australia. But in the last 18 months, I've been working for the CSIRO where I'm the Galaxy Systems Administrator and they're pretty much all things Galaxy person. Hi, everybody. I'm Esther Nonsli. I work at INRAE, which is the French National Research Institute on Agriculture, Food and Environment. I'm the administrator of a small Galaxy instance which serves models on aqua ecosystems, which is a bit out of the initial scope of Galaxy. And I'd be happy to help you if I can. So see you and enjoy the training. Hi, everyone. So I'm Gidele Coquille. I'm from the Station Belgique de Roscoeuf in France. I'm administrator of the French National HPC Infrastructure of usegalaxy.fr. And I might help you about Galaxy itself and cyber security, maybe APA, and about cluster stuff. Hello, Galaxians. I'm Kiran Telukuntam and I'm part of KMS Foundation and also Biocluse Organization. Both the organizations are trying to spread the awareness of Galaxy in India and also trying to bring up the usegalaxy cluster in India. I finished my PhD in pharmaceutical bio analytics and I'll be great to help you all in coming week in the Galaxy admin training. Thank you. Hi, I'm Pietro, PhD student at the University of Milan in Molecular Cellular Biology and one of the developers of Laniakia as of the solution to provide Galaxy on-demand instances over cloud infrastructure. I'll be help you from Milan, Italy. Hi, everyone. I'm John Aura. I'm from Freiburg. I work at the University of Freiburg and I'm the current administrator of usegalaxy.io. And this week I will help you during the training, the admin training.


Thanks to John for the request via Patreon, the SNES had all kinds of gigantic clunky and unwieldy PC ports, many of them courtesy of developer Koei who specialized in simulation and turn-based strategy games, everything from Aerobiz to Romance of the Three Kingdoms to Nobunaga's Ambition to Gemfire to Liberty or Death. Many of these games just aren't that fun to play nowadays because they're just too ambitious for the Super Nintendo hardware. The user interface usually has way too much going on, everything is super confusing and unintuitive, and the games are just too huge for their own good, many of them just should have stayed on PC. Koei did provide some exceptions to that, I did a video on Inindo Way of the Ninja a few months ago, that's a strategy game that has some typical RPG elements and also has some interesting ideas, it's very slowly paced and doesn't look like much, but the game's not a total loss, it's still halfway decent. The same could be said for the Uncharted Water's SNES ports, especially the second game, New Horizons. Starting with the first game simply titled Uncharted Water's, this game was on MSX and the NES before making its way to Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo in 1992, and yeah as you might expect from an early Koei game, the graphics here at First Glance do not look like much, and I guess that's the first hurdle you gotta get over if you want to get into this one. This looks like an NES game in many ways, especially the overworld map, but thankfully there's quite a bit of substance here to dive into that tries to make up for it. Uncharted Water's is part adventure game, part strategy, and part role-playing game. It's an adventure game in that it's non-linear and you can do pretty much whatever you want whenever you want. It's a strategy game because the goal of the game is to outmaneuver your opponents, and it's an RPG because it's a character-driven adventure where you play as Leon Franco, a 16-year-old boy who's out to restore his family name, and he sets out to do this by recruiting a crew for his ship and travel the world trading goods, making investments, fighting pirates and ships of rival nations, searching for treasure, and of course rescuing a princess.  That all sounds cool, right? Of course, Koei games always sounded cool, but once you got down to playing the game, there's a bit of a steep learning curve and it's like, what in the hell do I do? In this case, you start up Uncharted Water's and you're met with a set of skills and scores. You press left or right on the d-pad to scroll through different sets of scores, although I'm not sure it makes that much of a difference because you can apply the bonus points at the bottom to whatever you want anyway and make every score 70 something. So what difference does it make? So yeah, this game is predicated on open world exploration. The time you settle in looks the same though. There's a marketplace where you buy and sell stuff and even invest in the port to raise a little support for your home country of Portugal. But if you do that, it'll piss off other countries like Spain and Turkey and you'll have a tougher time making other allies. You can see some of this info in the guild building where you pay to see who supports or opposes who at any given time. There's also an inn where you recruit your crew and gather info. There's the lodge where you rest up for the night, a shipyard where you buy, sell, fix, or remodel ships and there's a palace which is where the game's main narrative takes place.   The only problem is how incredibly dry this game is. The story is fine for what it is and all the open world politicking, negotiating and maneuvering is cool and reasonably well balanced, but there's just not enough style here to compliment all the substance. The game is fine on paper but the graphics are lousy, the music is decent but a little bland, and there's just not enough personality here to keep you entertained. But that brings me to the sequel. Uncharted Waters New Horizons was also developed by Koei and made available for the PC98, Sega Genesis PC, and the SNES this time in 1994, so the game's overall presentation has made a quantum leap over the previous game, and that goes a long way toward making this a much more fun and engaging experience. This time around you have six different character arcs you can play through. There's Joao Franco, the son of Leon Franco from the previous game, he's searching for the lost land of Atlantis. Catalina is a pirate from Spain who is out to avenge the deaths of her fiancee and her brother. Otto is on a secret mission by order of King Henry VIII to defeat the Spanish navy. Ernst is a Dutch cartographer who wants to map the entire world. Pietro is an Italian treasure hunter who must repay the debt his deadbeat father left him, and Ali is a Turkish merchant who grew up in poverty but stumbled into owning a ship some house so he's out to make his fortune. So yeah the sheer number of characters here gives this game a huge amount of depth and subsequently a ton of replay value, and the storytelling and character development here are a massive improvement over the first game. Each character has kind of their own category though. Joao, Ernst, and Pietro are adventurers, Catalina and Otto are pirates, and Ali is a merchant. Adventurers definitely want to level up, so to speak, before setting out to sea, so get lots of gold and durable ships and a reliable crew, or you won't last long. Merchants should go for volume when it comes to ships so they can hallmark goods. And pirates? Well, just go out there, guns blazing and take over any merchant ships you can find. As for the gameplay, again the best way to classify this is a sailing sim with adventure, roleplaying game, and strategy elements scattered throughout.  So yes, like in an endow wave of the ninja, there is a time limit here, but it doesn't really come into play. The trading system here is much more complex because there are a lot more moving parts at play. Each port has different prices depending on where you are, so the game encourages you to explore to find the best prices for certain goods so you can pull a profit. And there's 120 different ports you can visit, which is kinda crazy. You can also do quick fetch quests and run errands to help build your reputation as a decent fellow, earn enough of that and you'll eventually attract the attention of more powerful folks. That'll have you running missions that involve political maneuvering, negotiating, or straight up battles. And the battle system here is a massive upgrade over the first game. You give orders to other fleets you control, like for example, you sail in close enough to the enemy, and that opens up two new options, a crew battle or a duel. The duels, for example, are between enemy Commodores, and they're based on whatever weapons and armor they have equipped, as well as their stats at the time. There's also weather you have to contend with while you're out at sea, battle strategies you can arrange to sink the enemy's flagship, there's just so much stuff here. But at times that kind of backfires, there's almost too much stuff, and it can definitely feel overwhelming. There's some stuff I don't even understand yet, like the ration meter for your crew doesn't seem to matter for instance, or what the round earth society is supposed to do. Some stuff is just trial and error to figure out the best way to do things, but a lot of it is pretty straightforward. You traverse ports, and sail to sea going from town to town, visit the cafe to gain info, do favors for people, you can gamble, win powerful people's influences, recruit tons of other sailors for your crew, and just get your name out there. There's so much flexibility here in how you want to approach things, and again, there's six character story arcs you can play through. It's really impressive, especially for a 16-bit game made in 1994. So yeah, New Horizons might be a bit intimidating, but it's at least a lot of fun to get to know this game. Sure, there's some stuff that's kind of useless, and it feels like it's there for no reason than for the sake of being there. But New Horizons is still fantastic. The different characters are great, the music is a big step forward, and the freedom to figure things out at your own pace makes this one fun. I would pass on the first Uncharted Waters, but Uncharted Waters, New Horizons is definitely one I would check out. If you've ever wanted to look at any one of those old Koa strategy games, make sure it's this one.