Hey friends today is Walt Disney World's 49th birthday 49 years ago Walt Disney World opened and I'm so excited to be here today. So let's go celebrate So I guess we'll just start the day off now since we did our little celebration there and we're gonna do one of the opening day attractions and One of the opening attractions that's still operating today is the mad tea party. So we're gonna take a little spin on the tea cups But tea cups are not fun unless you're doing them with somebody So Jackie's here Wow your shirt matches some of the tea cups. I know I wear the classic shirt, you know fancy Spotted tea, please Gotta pick one that matches your shirt Right here butter boom Jackie is just like me. She likes a little spin not a lot of spin There's a lot of people that go crazy. I like to go slow and steady. Oh, yeah, see slow and steady It kind of goes on its own but look at them now. That's dedication. Look at that. She is all that is how you knew it The tea cups were a great way to start and now we're gonna jump right over to the ride that's closest to it And you might might be hearing where we're going get your motor on and Head out of back actually I rode Disney Land's version of this before I actually rode the speedway here at Walt Disney World That's a little bit more a little bit more Right up right there. Good job Thank you Oh steady these things are very hard to steer But holy moly look at the future ahead of us right there is Tron That's where you're going Haven't got a lot accomplished yet, but I'm a little bit hungry So I think we're gonna grab some to eat and what better place than the Plaza. I love the Plaza This is definitely one of my favorite restaurants in the Magic Kingdom. Can you imagine having that seat up there? For a firework viewing that would be absolutely amazing. Wouldn't it or even better? How about right there you see how they have patio furniture and everything? Here is a look at the menu. We have the Plaza Loda fries Cheese steak sandwich meatloaf the Plaza burger the Plaza Cub bangers and mash, you know, I got to get the meatloaf Look at this table we got right here look at the view Jackie behind you I love it. I actually never sat inside here before this little atrium. That's really nifty It's not very often you get to have a bug light with the castle view I Definitely went with the meatloaf itself and in Disneyland they have waltz meatloaf here It's just a regular meatloaf doesn't say waltz meatloaf. It's the Plaza meatloaf still very delicious One of my favorite memories about Disney World is actually sitting here where he actually used to drop down I don't know if you guys remember that or not and eating ice cream and watching wishes Always love that Holy moly look at this It's here already No, John you're the man We both got meatloaf except for I got extra fries instead of green beans I'm sorry But there's the green beans I just I you know, I wanted you know some french fries with the gravy and stuff You know, I should have eaten my vegetables. Don't worry. I won't get dessert now you guys. I absolutely love meatloaf I don't know if you know this I'm what you call a meatloaf enthusiast So we're gonna definitely enjoy this This is just phenomenal guys Much too good for children That was absolutely phenomenal actually I'm still eating it, but I just had to stop for a second to appreciate Actually how delicious this meal was it like I said it's a downed earth meal prices are not that bad $22 I mean the fear is $8. That's Disney prices, but I really like this and it's got a beautiful view The Sun is coming out The Sun will come out tomorrow Now we're all finished up at the Plaza I had my two blood lights and we're gonna head on over to the haunted mansion. I need to change Much better. Yep. Now.  I love it one of my favorite restaurants I said it before I'll say it now and now we're back out in the real world the real world But before we get over to the haunted mansion, uh-oh we got some villains Fine guys Haunted mansion. Oh But the air conditioning is so amazing That was such a great ride. I love it and also it cools you down so much The haunted mansion cools you down and scares you out. Yeah And since the park is closing soon I think we're gonna keep the fun alive and actually head on over to the contemporary and Enjoy some Halloween festive drinks at the wave. This sounds fun I'm having such an amazing day Celebrating the birthday of Disney World But before we head out take a look at goofy and max up there and also everyone from the movie shake a dance parade Hey friends This is awesome. I'll look at that monorail heading into the contemporary So cool that this actually opened the same day this year. It's the contemporary's birthday, too But wait a second if it's also Walt Disney World's birthday and the contemporary's birthday Then even who else's birthday it is today. It's the monorail's birthday, too Hey, we are here at the contemporary Jackie decided to go home. So we're tagging JoJo in That is awesome. I'm excited. I didn't know it's the 49th anniversary of the contemporary as well. Yeah, opening game Very cool. They promised me some spooky drinks spooky drinks. I'm excited. We got the last two seats Lucky last two seats meant to be meant to be honestly They weren't even kidding like literally the last two seats. Look at this Here's a look at those spooky drinks that we were talking about I had the hardest punch before but I think I might get the Witches brew JoJo is getting the witches brew, too It just looks fancy something about the way ball makes the drinks here. I Don't know Look at this Wow the dramatic walking Look at that Wow He's got this This has to be my favorite looking spooky drink so far this year that is amazing, isn't it? So good dangerous dangerous spooky good time. This is You know, you just say yeah dip the gummies in there get the liquor soaked up in there. Oh, yeah It goes down so smooth, but I'm seriously yeah, I'm so afraid because look at the ingredients So now that we're all finished I think we're gonna move along and we're gonna hop up to the California Grill what we're gonna try Jojo's never been there So we're gonna see if we get in the lounge Usually early in the afternoon if you get here in time, they have plenty of seats at the lounge But it being COVID-19 I'm not sure if we're gonna be beginning or not, but we're gonna give it a go All the way up. Oh, here we go. That's off. Oh, they're gonna yell as soon as you get out that door Oh Look at this beautiful, huh Beautiful views and a but light I Decided on getting some food so in the meantime, you're gonna go out to the balconies and Just kind of stare off at the Magic Kingdom Look at this. What an epic video for today. Don't you think I didn't think I'd be doing all this But just kind of how things play out Seriously guys, I am so happy to be up here and the sunset that we may be looking at this afternoon is gonna be party Like I said, it really is such an amazing day. I'm having the best day ever celebrating Walt Disney World's birthday and anniversary And as soon as we get back, look at what we're greeted with Our food. I got the wontons These things are so amazing a little spicy Inside of these little bad boys are So amazing. I'm gonna try to take my time and delicately. Oh, yeah, that didn't work. Oh Yes, this is the stuff right here Amazing. I love it. I love it But also maybe this all planned out Perfectly because we're gonna watch the sunset on the Magic Kingdom on its birthday Maybe that like worked out all perfectly So I'm gonna finish my wontons and you guys are gonna enjoy the view Walt Disney World is a tribute to the philosophy and life of Walter Elias Disney and to the talents the dedication and the loyalty of the entire Disney Organization that made Walt Disney's dream come true May Walt Disney World bring joy and inspiration and new knowledge to all who come to this happy place a Magic Kingdom for the young at heart of all Sketches and plans you will see today are simply a starting point our first overall thinking about Disney World Everything in this room may change time and time again as we move ahead But the basic philosophy of what we're planning for Disney World is going to remain very much as it is right now We know what our goals are We know what we hope to accomplish And believe me. It's the most exciting and challenging assignment. We've ever tackled at Walt Disney Productions So actually with that, I think I'm done here. Look at that behind us. What an amazing day It's beautiful. It's beautiful happy anniversary Walt Disney World Thank you for all this. We'll see you next time. Bye


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Google Cloud Next 2018, brought to you by Google Cloud and its ecosystem partners. Hello everyone, welcome back. This is theCUBE's live coverage. We're here in San Francisco, Musconi West for Google Cloud's big conference called Next 2018. The hashtag is Google Next 18. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. Our next guest is Tracy Gusher, Principal Data and Analytics at KPMG. Great to have you on. Thanks for joining us today. Yeah, thanks for having me. So we love bringing on the big system, global system integrators. You guys have great domain expertise. You also work with customers. You have all the best stories. You work with the best tech. Google Cloud is like a kid in the candy store when it comes to tech. So my first question is, obviously AI is super important to Google. Huge scale. They bring out all the goodies to the party. Spanner, big cable, big query. I mean, they got a lot of good stuff. TensorFlow, I mean, all this open source goodness. Pretty impressive, right? The past couple of years of what they've done. How are you guys partnering with Google? Because now that's out there, they need help. They've been acknowledging it for a couple of years. They're building an ecosystem and they want to help end user customers. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, we've been working with Google for quite some time, but we actually just formalized our partnership with Google in May of this year. So from our perspective, all of the good work that we have done, we're ready to hit the accelerator on and really move forward fast. And some of the things that were announced this week, I think our prime examples of areas where we see opportunity for us to hit the accelerator on. So something like what was announced this week with their new contact center API suite launched by the Advanced Solutions Lab, we had early access to test some of that and really we're able to witness just how accelerated some of these things can help us be when we're building end-to-end solutions for clients. It's a shortcut to the solutions because with cloud, the time to value is so much faster. So it's almost an innovator's dilemma. The longer deployments probably meant more billings. For a lot of integrators, we've heard people saying, hey, we've gone the old days of eight months to eight weeks to eight minutes and some of these techs. So the engagements have changed. At the end of the day, there's still huge demand for architectural shift.  Because I think that's now a conversation that we're hearing is that, look, I can move faster, but I don't want to break anything. The old Facebook move fast break stuff. No, that doesn't fly in the enterprise. No, it doesn't. So I want to move fast, but I need to have some support there. What are some of the things that you're seeing that are impacting the delivery from integrators? Yeah, well, you know, some of the technology that's come that has reduced the length of time to deliver, we see and a lot of our customers see as opportunity to do the next thing, right? If you can implement a solution to a problem quicker, better, faster, then you can move on to the next problem and implement that one quicker, better, faster. So I think that the first impact is just being able to solve more problems, just being able to really, you know, apply some benefits in a lot more areas. The second thing is that we're looking at problems differently. You know, the way that problems used to be solved is changing and that's, you know, most powerfully noted, you know, as we see at this conference, by what's happening with artificial intelligence and with all of the accelerators that are being released in machine learning and the like. And so there's a big difference in just how we're solving the problems that impacts it. What are some of the problems that you guys are attacking now? Obviously, AI's got a lot of goodness to it. What are some of the challenges that you're attacking for customers? What are some of the examples? So, you know, our customers have varying problems as they're looking to capitalize on artificial intelligence. So, you know, one of the big problems is where do I start, right? And often you'll have a big hype cycle where people are really interested. Executives are really interested in, you know, I want to use AI. I want to be an AI enabled company, but they're not really sure where to start. So, one of the areas that we're really helping a lot of our customers do is identify where the low hanging fruit is to get immediate value. And at the same time plan for longer strategic types of opportunities. The second area is that one of the faults that we're seeing or failure points that we're seeing in using artificial intelligence is failure to launch. And what I mean by that is there's a lot of great modeling, a lot of great prototyping and experimentation happening in the lab as it relates to applying AI to different problems and opportunities. But they're staying in the lab. They're not making it into production. They're not making it into BAU, business as usual processes, inside organizations. So, a big area that we're helping our clients in is actually bridging that gap. And that's actually how I refer to it. I refer to it as mind the gap. As a great example, I hear this all the time, classic. Is it, what's the reasons? Just group think, I'm nervous, there's no process. What's holding that back from the failure to launch? There's a few things. So, the first is that a lot of traditional IT organizations embedded in enterprises don't necessarily have all of the skills and capabilities or the depth of skills and capabilities they need to deploy these models into production. There's even just basic programming types of gaps where a lot of models are being constructed using things like Python and a lot of traditional IT organizations are Java shops. And they're saying, what do I do now? Do I convert? Do I learn? Do I use different talent? There's technology areas that prove to be challenging. The other area is in the people. And I actually spoke with an analyst this morning about this very topic. And there's a lot of organizations that have started productionalizing some of these systems and some of these applications. And they're a little bit discouraged that they're not seeing the kind of lift and the kind of benefits that they thought they would. And in most cases- Ooh, the customer's the analyst. The customer. Yeah, I was having a conversation with an analyst about it. But in most cases, it's not that the technology is falling short. It's not that the model isn't as accurate as you need it to be. It's that the workforce hasn't been transitioned to utilize it. The processes haven't been changed. Operationalizing it, yeah. The user interfaces aren't transitioning the workforce to a new type of model. They're not being retrained on how to utilize the new technology or the new insights coming from these models. That's a huge issue, I agree. Isn't there also, Tracy, some complacency in certain industries? I mean, you think about businesses that haven't yet totally transformed. I think of healthcare. I think of financial services as examples that are ripe for transformation, but really haven't yet. And you hear a lot of people say, well, you know, it's not really urgent for us. We're doing pretty well. You know, I'll be retired by then. There seems to be a sense of complacency in certain segments of enterprises. Do you see that? I do. And I'll say that we've seen a lot more movement in some of those complacent industries in the last six to 18 months than we have previously. I'll also say, you know, going back to that, where do I start element? There's a lot of organizations that have pressing business challenges, you know, those burning platforms. And that's where they're starting. And I'm not advocating against it. I'm actually advocating very much for that because that's how you can prove some real immediate value. So some organizations, particularly in life sciences or financial services, they're starting to use these technologies to solve their regulatory challenges. So how do I comply faster? How do I comply better? How do I avoid any type of compliance issues in the future? How do I avoid other challenges that could come in those areas? And the answer to a lot of those questions is if I use AI, I can do it quicker, more accurately, et cetera. Are you able to help them get ancillary value out of that? Or is it just sort of, you know, compliance a lot of times it's like insurance, right? And if I don't do it, I get in trouble or I get fined. But are you able to, and this is like the holy grail of compliance and governance, are you able to get additional value out of that when you sort of apply machine intelligence to solve those problems? Yeah, yeah, that's always the goal. Solving the regulatory problem is certainly, what I would say is are the table stakes, right? The must have. But the ability to gain insight that can actually drive value in the organization, that's where your aim really is. And in fact, we've worked with a lot of organizations, take life sciences. We've worked with some life sciences organizations that are trying to solve some compliance issues. And what we've found is that many times in helping them solve these compliance issues, we're actually gathering insights that significantly increase the capability of their sales organization. Because the insights are giving them real, real information about their customers, their customers buying patterns, how they're buying where they might be buying in properly. And it's not the table stake of what we're trying to do. The table stake was maybe contract compliance, but the value that they're actually getting out of it is not only the compliance over their distributors or their pharmacies, but it's also over the impact that they're going to have on their sales organization. And for something like an internal audit department to have value to sales, that's like holy grail stuff. Yeah, right. What about the data challenges? I mean, even in a bank, who's essentially a data company, the data tends to be very siloed, maybe tucked away in different business units. How are you seeing organizations, how are you helping organizations deal with that data silo problem, specifically as it relates to AI? Yeah, it used to be that the devil was in the details, but now the devil's in the data, right? And there was a great Harvard Business Review article that came out, and I think Diane Greene actually quoted this in one of her presentations, that companies that can't do analytics well can't do AI yet, right? And a lot of companies that can't do analytics well yet, it isn't because they don't have the analytical talent, it's not because they don't know the insights they want to drive, it's because the data isn't in the right format, isn't in usable to be able to gain value from it. And there's a few different ways that we're helping our clients deal with those things. Just at the very basic level is good data governance. Do you have data stewards that are owning data, that are making sure that data is being created and governed the right way? And that's a huge deal, I'm asking for change. Data quality, meta data, lineage of data, how it's transformed, being able to govern those things is just a imperative. It could be a database thing too, it's one of those things where there's so many areas that could be mistakes on the data side. So I want to give you thoughts on the point you said earlier which I thought was about technology not coming out and getting commercialized or operationalized for a variety of reasons, one of them being processes in place, and we hear this a lot. This is a big opportunity because the human side of these new jobs, whether you're operating now, the network, really they need help, customers need help. So I think you guys should do a great job there given the history. The other trend that came out of the keynote today I want to get your reaction to is, and there's a tweet here, I'll read it. It says, GCP Cloud will start serving managing services enterprise workloads, including Oracle, RAC, and Oracle Exadata, and SAP HANA through partners. Interesting mind shift again, talk about a mind shift. Partners are used to dealing with multi-vendors, but now as a managed service, we'll change the mechanism a bit on delivery because now it's like, okay, hey, you want to slink some APIs around, no problem. You want to manage it, we've got Kubernetes and Istio. You want a little Oracle with a little bit of HANA? So it brings up a much more diverse landscape of solutions which makes the partners like sous chefs. You can cut the solutions up any way you want to your point about going faster to the next challenge. Is that going to be the new normal, this kind of managed service dashboarding? Do you see that as a- I think it is, and I'll take it a step further beyond managed service and actually get a little more discreet. One of the things that we're doing increasingly more of is insights as a service, right? So if you think about managed service in the traditional sense of I've got a process and you're going to manage that process end-to-end for me, that technology end-to-end for me, I do think that that's going to slowly become more and more prevalent. And that has to happen with our movement to putting our applications in the cloud and our ERPs in the cloud. And I think it is going to become more of the norm than the last, but I also think that it's opening the door for a lot of other things as a service, including insights as a service. So organizations can't find the data science talent that they need to do the really complex types of analysis. You know, just your insights as a service comment just gave me an insightful, original idea. Thank you very much. You're welcome. And I'll put this in the wrap-up, Dave, when we talk about it. But think about insight as a service to make that happen with all the underpinning tech, whether it's Oracle or whatever. The insights are an abstraction layer on top of that. So if the job is to create great experiences or insights, it should be independent of that. So Google Cloud is bringing out a lot more of the concept of abstractions, Kubernetes, Istio. So this notion of an abstraction layer is not just technical, there's also business logic involved. Absolutely. This is going to be a dream scenario for KPMG for your part, for your customers, for other partners. Because now you can add value in those abstraction layers. Absolutely. By reducing the complexity. Well, Oracle, that's not my department. That's Hanna, that's SAP. Who does that? He is, she's the product lead over there. Gone. Insights as a service, completely horizontally. Latin's that. And you know, to that point, there's magic that happens when you bring different data together. And having data silos because there are datas in different systems, just that's the analytics of 1990. And organizations can't operate on that anymore. And real analytics comes when you are working at a layer above the systems and working with the data that's coming from those systems. And in fact, even creating signals from the data. So not even using the data anymore, creating a signal from the data as an input to a model. So I couldn't agree with you more. Whole new way of doing business. This is digital transformation. This is the magic of cloud. Tracy, great to have you on. Yeah, thanks for having me. It's going to be a whole new landscape change over a new way to do business. You guys doing a great job. KPMG, Tracy, you guys are here inside theCUBE talking about analytics, AI. If you can't do analytics good, why even go to AI? I love that line. theCUBE bringing you all the data here. We'll stay with us for more after this short break.


What's the genetic history of Ireland? And what impact did events such as the Viking invasion and the Ulster plantation have on its genetic maker? A study called the Irish DNA Atlas, revealing fine-scale population structure and history within Ireland, looked at these precise questions using samples from almost 10,000 individuals across Ireland, the British Isles and Europe. The study notes that the Irish modern genetic landscape was established around 3,500 years ago during the Irish Bronze Age, and they sought to understand how invasions and plantations have changed this genetic landscape. A central finding of the study was that the Irish population can be divided into 10 geographically stratified genetic clusters, seven of which are of Irish Gaelic ancestry and three of which are of Irish British ancestry. Unsurprisingly, the Gaelic Irish clusters had the least amount of Germanic influence of all in the analysis, with Orkney having the second least and England having the highest. Interestingly, the study also found that Ireland had a large presence of Norwegian ancestry, a clear signal of the Norse Viking presence in Ireland. In fact, the Irish DNA Atlas study found that Ireland had the second largest of Norwegian influence on its genetics, second only to Orkney, which is not surprising, given the history of links between the Vikings and Orkney, and the Norwegian ownership of Orkney for periods in its history. The study showed that the Norse influence extended beyond areas of Norse settlement, such as Limerick and Dublin, and across the whole of Ireland. The study also found that there was high levels of Norwegian ancestry in the Scottish clusters, whilst there was a relatively low Norwegian influence in England and Wales. Another finding of the study was that there was a notable French influence derived from a single French cluster of high Northwestern French membership. The Northwest of France has previously been shown to have strong genetic links with many Celtic peoples of Britain. Therefore, the notable French signal that this study found could reflect the fact that Ireland could potentially be a sync of Celtic ancestry, given its isolation from other groups in Britain. Considering the links between the Northwest of France and other Celtic groups, this study did not interpret this as a norm in presence. The study also found groups that have shared Irish and British ancestry, and they note that there was an admixture event from the 17th and 18th century. The main reason posited for this is the Ulster plantation. Other events could have contributed to this mixing, however, with the Gallaglass mercenary families being one. Other findings of the study is that there are links between people in the North of Ireland and the West of Scotland, hardly surprising given the history of the Gaels. The study also found that the Ulster cluster had the greatest genetic distance from Britain, despite its geographical proximity. In general, the study found that any genetic differentiation between Ireland and Britain is subtle, and that the greatest genetic distance of all the clusters in the study was when they looked at Orchidian clusters versus non-Orchidian clusters, i.e. the people of Orkney are the most genetically distinct of all the groups in Britain and Ireland.


Okay, welcome to our today's site supervisor panel presentation. I'm Jack Frank, and I'm the coordinator for the Swiss Intentions Program. We have three presentations during this session. The first is by Denise MacIver from the California African American Museum.  And Lee Gleason from the University of California Riverside. You also see the image of Melissa LaFranchise, our student research assistant who put this together for us. So I'm going to turn the mic over to Denise now to go through her presentation. Denise, welcome, thank you for doing this. Well, thank you for inviting me, and welcome to all of the students. I wanted to keep my presentation very short and tight. So I try to only submit four slides. I think I have four or five slides. The California African American Museum is based near USC on the edge of downtown Los Angeles. We're south of exposition, and we're a bit west of Figueroa. We've been in existence since 1977 when we were chartered by the state of California. But we did not open to the public until 1984. As you can see from the slide, we are considered a special collection. The areas of concentration are U.S. general history, art history, regional history, and of course, African American history. We normally mount approximately eight to 11 exhibitions every year. We are free to the general public because it's the good people of California who keep our doors open with their tax dollars. Our very first exhibition was mounted in 1984 in time with the Summer Olympics, which kind of re, I think, I'd like to think of it as a rebirth of Los Angeles. And if any of you are currently living in Los Angeles, you know that this city has become a major tourist destination. And we're quite proud of the offerings that all of the museums in Los Angeles County offer to the public. Some at a fee and some that are free, such as ours. We also host approximately 80 to 90 free events every year. Some of these programs and events surround our current ongoing exhibitions. And some of them are what I call sub-brands, such as Films at Camp, which is a series of films that are shown every quarter. And there's usually a theme. For example, in June, we'll be showing four films that all have to do with African American music, or music of the African diasporic experience. And then we have Conversations at Camp, which is something that's organized by one of our history curators. And that happens every quarter. So I think I gave you a very broad stroke. If we can go to the next slide, please. The primary task that I would like an intern to embrace and take on has to do with, first and foremost, making sure internal staff have what they need in terms of research request being fulfilled. We're also, like I said, we're a state-funded agency, which means I'm open to the public, but we do not loan. Scholars and researchers can always come in, use the materials we have. And they can, of course, we're set up for Wi-Fi, so if they ever wanted to do, you know, database research, they can do that. But we do not loan. It's not a lending library. So as you can see, there are a number of pressing, and it's always pressing because I'm a solo librarian here, but I also do social media for the institution, and I also do web content management and manage and edit our quarterly newsletter. So actually, I'm probably doing less librarianship than I would really like, but because we are small staff, and many of us wear 14 hats, I do the same. It's part of the, I guess you could say it's the corporate culture here, even though we're a nonprofit. So there are basic tasks that I'd like to complete over the course of your internship, and a lot of it has to do with just helping to reorganize the library. And we can go to the next slide. I believe in each one, teach one, so I was very fortunate to have some wonderful mentors when I was in grad school and pursuing my MLS, and I do believe in that wholeheartedly. In exchange, what I'd like to see from the intern is a commitment to developing a career in an information setting. I'd like someone who is, and I've been seeing this phrase a lot, idea generator, and it's a very broad term, but someone who thinks proactively and wants to make things happen. It's as simple as that. One of the things I'd like you to use are the critical thinking skills that you're amassing as you undergo your LIS studies, and I think that's very important, no matter what industry you work in. I mean, I came out of the entertainment industry before I went to library school, and I learned to, that was an excellent experience because all the writings that I do here, I did as an entertainment publicist. I want to promote this library more to the general public. I feel that it's underused to a degree, and I'd like someone to also teach me, because I've been out of school now a while, a couple of years, and things change so rapidly in this field. So I'd like to learn at your knee if you're willing to share information and best practices. May we go to the next slide, please? Is that it? I think that might be it. One of the things I'd like to do is to have fun, and I believe in field trips. I believe that you can only make a career decision if you're exposed or have enough information upon which to base your ultimate decision. So my previous interns, one of whom is a former classmate, she graduated last December, worked with me, and we did tours to local libraries. One of the best was going up to Western Costume, because there is a research librarian there, and it's an amazing collection of clothes. Any feature film or television or music video you might see that's been done professionally, probably rented their wardrobe from Western Costume. They have eight miles of pipe on which hang their collection of clothing. So we've been to the police museum here, which is very interesting. We've been to the Fashion Institute of Design, and I have also taken interns to LACMA. I also happen to be on the board of LAF Subject, and any intern who works with me who has a deep interest in LA history and historical collections and archives is welcome to come and become a member. I believe it's free to join up. And we usually, they are usually hosted at USC's library. The LAF Subject is a collection of archivists, historians, private collectors, as well as just interested parties who love the history of LA and want to make sure it's collected and shared and made accessible. Every year, LAF Subject hosts, or I should say produces, the Archives Bazaar, which is held at the Doheny Library, which is how I met one of my interns last year who happened to graduate from San Jose State University. She was at the Archives Bazaar. So I think that's about it for me. Are there any questions? Are we going to wait till the end? We are, and right now what I have on the screen is your contact information, so you might want to explain how a student would apply to the position. What I would like is a short cover letter, not to exceed more than a page and a half, along with your updated resume, and why you think you would like to embark upon a career in a special library setting. Okay, thank you very much. That was quite interesting, and I am impressed with your willingness to share your professional associations with the students. That's wonderful. I believe in that, and I think networking is critical. The reason I'm sitting in this chair today is because someone I knew from my entertainment background referred me and recommended me for this position. So I think networking and maintaining relationships and making new ones is very important, especially for new students and especially in this current marketplace. Absolutely. Well, thank you very much. Now we'll move on to the next presentation, and I will turn the mic over to Karen Schneider, who will talk to us about Holy Needs University. Well, hi everybody. Well, it's really interesting presentations tonight. I'm fascinated. It's nice to hear from other people. Can you all hear me all right? Yes, you can. Okay, great. So Nicole Branch can't be with us tonight because she was able to attend a special dinner with a speaker who's coming to campus tomorrow. And it's funny, I've just blanked out on his name. Wait, John Carlos. Nicole and I served on a committee that selected his book as the All Campus Read, and he has come to campus tonight, which is just wonderful. So I will talk a little bit about our two internships that we have at Holy Needs University, but first I'll tell you a little bit about us.  We have about 1,400 students, about 1,100 FTE, and we're a mix of liberal arts. We've got nursing programs, education, several graduate programs, a nice small but very nice music program. We also have the distinction of being called by the U.S. News and World Report, the most diverse university in the United States, and about half of our students are first-generation students. And we were founded by nuns in the 1868 who came to California on a mission to found a school for girls and women, and it's a very liberal denomination. We had just huge commitment to social justice. There's very few nuns left on campus, but the ones who are there have wonderful stories to tell about East Bay and how it's changed. We're in the Oakland Hills, beautiful views, and our library, I think, is we've, I've been there four years now, and we have a lot of fun. We're a very small team. There's about five and a half regular employees, and then there's about 12 student workers and a couple of GAs, and, but we think of ourselves as being very agile with our size, and we have a very close relationship with our faculty and staff on campus, and that makes it really nice. I feel that it's a very collegial campus and that people work really hard to provide, to really support student learning to students who might otherwise not be in school, and we've worked very hard to graduate them, so we have two internships. Now, we've done other internships in the past, and in fact, we have a new position developed in the last year that's a half-time regular employee, and the person who filled it was our spring intern. How about that, Jacob Krugman, who is graduating this December in Holy Names? Yeah, and in fact, we have another temporary cataloger who's another Swiss grad, and we've had several Swiss grads come in and then stay beyond and do some other work. We don't actually have a regular cataloger. I'm the head cataloger, as it were, so, but we've managed by hooking by cook to get a lot of cataloging done with Tempson interns, and both of these internships are paid. It's not very much, but it'll least, you know, cover gasoline and lunches and whatnot. And so, let me tell you about the first one. Copy cataloging, you know, it's just straightforward copy cataloging. I know that sounds not that interesting, but I'll tell you, if you are looking for a cataloging position, having hours and hours of work under your belt, especially in an environment where you're closely supervised and where you can take books that are problem books and take them to the intern supervisor and say, you know, what do I do with this one? What do I do with that one? You get real hands-on troubleshooting, it's not just Markham and Parkham. Because a lot of our copy cataloging comes from our weed workflow. We have, what we're doing is we're going through our collection, book truck at a time. Our collection is not that distinguished, so about half the book truck ends up going off to better world books, and the other half gets cataloged. So those tend to be older books, they tend to be more problematic, because that makes the copy cataloging more interesting and fun. This is on-site internship, and it's in a shared office that can be hot in the summer and cold in the winter, and it has a lot of traffic, so you have to be good with that. But you would actually share the office space with Jacob, the intern who cataloged all of our theses, and then became our ILO person, which is really cool. And in terms of the type of copy cataloging, we have straightforward what we call NICS, or Not in Catalogs, books that never got, were never retrospectively converted. We only began circulating online in 2009, right before I arrived. So we've had a lot of catch-up to do. We are, you do need to prepare for a mix of AACR2 and RDA. We're looking for someone who's really interested in, you know, cataloging and doing it well. We have several flavors of collections that need attention. We have your garden variety, Not in Catalog, or NICS, and then we have a large number of scores and mini-scores and music monographs that also need attention. And then we have other areas that need a lot of TLC, such as education collection and so forth. But if there are any budding music catalogers out there, we'd certainly like to hear from you. We can handle it in-house, but it would be great experience for a music cataloger. And in fact, we just accepted mini-scores from what was kind of a former, not real music library that's on campus, and it's exciting to add that information. Then we have another internship, and that has to do with a grant that we received this year from IMLS. It's just one of the small Sparks Innovation Grants. And our grant is called Flipped InfoLit, and what we proposed was to extend the reach of our information literacy instruction through small digital learning objects that will allow students to allow a couple of things. One is spend more time in the classroom on active learning, which our Intrepid Instruction Team loves to do. They're really wonderful instructors. It's just two of them, but they're great. And the other thing is to allow better outreach for information literacy to athletes and graduate students and other students, particularly in areas that require a lot of review and repetition, like citation management, and if you've ever deal with students dealing with citation, that's a real challenge. So this fall, we'll create most of the small videos Daniel and Nicole will be creating them but the intern will help us with our partnerships with the nursing and athletics will help, you know, help instructors embed the tools in their platform, encourage the use, help produce more objects, and help with the marketing and outreach. So that's more of a memento, all kinds of internship. And it again is mostly on-site. I know that some of this could probably be done a little bit off-site, but like other interns supervisors have said, we have found that it really is important for our interns to get on-site experience. And I think when you're out job hunting, you're going to find that it really will stand your ground. When people look at an online degree, I know you're getting a great degree at Santa Day State, I would imagine there about a decade or so back a couple of times around. But you will find that having it on your resume that you did an on-site internship will give you an important critical edge in what is a very tough market out there, especially in Northern California. So they're both really good internships, we have a lot of fun, we do great work, the team is wonderful, and we've got all kinds of interesting things going on in the library. But like I said, the copy catalog being made on land day, but it's surprisingly important, and the information literacy is really kind of fun, especially if you're very interested in information literacy and or online learning and digital learning, instructional designing and so forth, that might be one up your alley. And that one, you really need to be willing to be hands-on with people and outgoing because you'll be working with faculty, staff, and students. So what are we looking for? Well, a self-starter, some people who are mature, good communicator, will organize an attention to detail. The cataloging person needs to know connection, AAC or to an RDA. We do have a subscription to the RDA toolkit, and you have several people on-site who have familiarity with both. I have to say I'm not really very good at RDA, but I support it, and I know we're starting to see a mix of RDA and AAC or two, or as I call it, AAC or RDA, you see these portmanteau records. And you're not expected to be expert, but you're expected to be a good problem solver and also to know to have the judgment, when to set aside an item and say I need help and when to just press on, and you'll also be doing a little bit of technical processing with spine labels and mylar jackets as we all do. And for the information literacy internship, because we really are going to be hitting the ground and running in the spring, if you have experience with providing information literacy instruction in a real library setting at the sewage plus, and a facility and comfort level with online learning projects is essential. That's going to be really important. And sense of humor and patience is important, too, where, you know, it's an older university, we're resource challenged, but we somehow make it happen every year, and it just really helps. So if you want to know more, contact me or Nicole Branch and include your CV in a cover letter, and I will tell you right up front, we will look over your CV in a cover letter with a fine tooth comb, be sure to, you know, get somebody to look at your materials. The hiring process is fully made. Our interns, our employees, separate part-time employees, and it will include a background check at I-9 and a W-4. So I think that kind of covers it. I don't, it's not, I'm sure we're not, we're more of a vanilla, small private academic library, but we're a really interesting environment to work in, especially as we investigate all these things. The most structured around a very traditional system, we have an IT person whose MIT need. We have two instructional librarians. We have a head of access service, which is such a huge complement of student workers to cover most of the desk hours, and we provide walk-up and online research health services. And we have a lot of parties and events that came in this morning, and there were like four empty wine bottles from some huge art reception last night in the library. Somebody was having a good time, so that's, those would be internships in a nutshell. And we have supervised a number at this library, and I've also supervised this in any other, I think it's far back as 2002, I was supervising interns for San Jose State. So we know the deal, and you will get a lot of attention. All right, now we'll go to the last presentation. This one's by Lee Gleason, who will talk about the University of California Riverside. So, Lee, go ahead. All right, thank you, Pat, and thank you both Denise and Karen. I've so enjoyed listening to your presentations, and I hope Carrie and everyone watching asynchronously will as well. I am speaking on behalf of one department of UCR, which is the California Museum of Photography. And we are separate from the UCR libraries, and I do believe that my colleagues, they're both in water resources in the Science Library, as well as in special collections, have their own internships, and I think they're described on the SLIS website. But we at California Museum of Photography are actually part of one of the university's colleges, the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. And in 1990, the university thought it would be a great move to put us in downtown Riverside, about two and a half miles from the UCR campus, to help with town-gallon relations, to be a better outreach for the community, and to achieve a lot of things that were pretty vital to our mission. We were founded in 1973, so from 73 to 90, we were on campus. And then since 90, we've been downtown, and really, I think, have thrived quite well in downtown Riverside. And for anyone not familiar, Riverside's in Southern California, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, about 100 miles north of San Diego, 40 miles or so from Palm Springs.  When we were founded in 1973, we started with a whole lot of cameras. And since then have gone into other things, archival collections, primarily negative holdings, photographs, books, and a few paper's collections, and more traditional archived material. We also, of course, are a museum, and we do exhibitions. Although my area, I'm the curator of collections, my area doesn't do anything directly with that, or it's rare when we do. So I have two different internships listed with SLIS that I would love to find interested people to help with. The first one is my more normal, stable, general project, which is someone working with me in collections. We have this huge diverse collection, cameras, photographs, negatives, books, papers, you know, like I said before, and I really try with every single student I work with to match their interest with a project so that they're doing something that hopefully interests them, engages them, and helps give them experience in something they're wanting to build on their own resume. So the projects vary a lot, and depending who you are and what you're interested in, there may be a project that would be an ideal fit for you that I haven't even thought of yet. I have an undergrad intern this quarter, for example, who is a biology major, and I've never had a science person come to us before because we're an art museum, and the science people at UCR don't tend to think about us, but we have all kinds of scientific photographs that I knew that she had an expertise and an understanding of that no one who's ever worked with me before would have handled in the same way.  So it's hopefully good for everyone that way, and with Flis, I have one San Jose intern who I thought was wonderful, she's now a graduate from the program, but she just wanted to get her hands in processing, start to finish, writing a finding aid, and she wrote a really excellent finding aid for us for a fairly complex collection, and it's now on our online archives of California encoded in EAD, which we did through Archivist Toolkit after her internship. We are involved with online archives of California. We are involved, we do use Archivist Toolkit to some extent. We are going to be involved in the OAC's piloting, piloted hosting of archive space, so for anyone really interested in trying out these different systems, it's another opportunity. Our own collection database when we're dealing with non-archival objects has been in FileMaker, and this year we're planning on transitioning to a major museum system called TMS for the museum system, and so certainly any intern interested in learning about these things could see that as well. The other project I really want to hype is one that I haven't actually had an intern for yet, but I've just been really hoping to find the right person one of these days, and that is someone working with our museum library. We've had books in our collection since our founding 40 years ago, but until I started a museum, and really until actually I earned my MLIS from San Jose several years back, no one really paid attention to the library, and in the last couple years I've worked with UCR libraries and set up an agreement where we are cataloging through their millennium-based system and getting through everything, and we really need to start from the ground up here. I like your comments, Sarah. We need policies in place because we'll get curators turning in books to us, and I know no one's ever going to pull these books from our shelves, and if we have our policies written that we can go through all the rigmarole of getting them read by the right people and getting them approved, it will help deal with these sorts of issues and help us be able to read more effectively and build the sort of collection that it should look like when it's all done. So if you're interested in collection development and collection management issues as it comes to a special library, you know, this is a project I would love to work with you with and we'd go through it together and we'd be in meetings with our administrative staff and make this happen, if you're interested in some other aspect of this, I mean, this is really a ripe ground to work with a special library, I think very similar to the situation Denise is in where we have a lot of needs and just the right person to match the needs we have, it can be a tremendous experience for you. And so, thanks Denise, and so the qualifications I'm looking for, really because we are a museum of photography, we really like people to care about photography. I know that sounds a little bit obvious, but especially in my dealing with undergraduates, you'd be surprised at how often that's not the case. If you like photography, you don't have to be, you know, a photographer of Ansel Adams quality, you don't have to, you know, you don't have to even own a camera, I don't care, but if you're curious about an interest in it, I think it makes it more fun for everyone. The other things I'm going through here, you know, talk about, obviously I'm curious about your coursework, I'm curious about, you know, the sort of topics we're dealing with here, but we really try our best, like I said before, to match with projects that interest you and our needs. We have a lot of needs, and so often we can find a great semester-long project that you'll be very proud of at the end, and we will be very happy to have had your help with. And so I'm just looking for a resume and cover letter. It's really helpful for me to know your availability for on-site when you do apply, so I like for people to include that. Unfortunately, our internships are unpaid right now, but I'm hoping in future terms to have some grants where we can pay students. I hate not paying students for amazing work, but I can, of course, offer references, and I've been referenced for my solicitor, and she's gotten those jobs. And, you know, we are a small community at the museum, and we really are up to support you, and hopefully that makes it worth it for you. Thank you. Thank you very much. That was also very interesting, wonderful opportunity for students, and I believe the only internship that I heard that was paid a little bit today, like the Holy Names University, but all internships can be very valuable to our students, and we have probably the majority are unpaid. We do not get involved in that part of the negotiation. All we do is worry about the credits and the student learning outcomes that the students will achieve by participating in the internship. So, I'm going to just pause for a minute and see if we have any questions for any representatives. Yes, Denise is mentioning that she had, and she was an intern already in general reserve thing, which helped her about protecting oral histories. You know, I was thinking of the individuals that you had mentioned that are still available, that have so much to share, and wondering if any of you were protecting oral histories. But, okay, Jake did oral histories for a while? Okay. Is that what you're saying there, Kate? Oh, I think you're referring to public transportation, isn't that right? Yes. Five to hard to take public transportation to Holy Names. The beauty, yes. And I see that the CAM internship is also a place, yes. But, wonderful references, great networking opportunities. That's exactly what students get out of that. Carrie, I think you might be typing there. Would you like to take the mic? Or do you have a question? Oh, there you go. Yeah. You say thank you for all of you. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? Okay, then what I'd like to do is say to our presenters this evening for sharing your time and expertise with us. And I do hope that we can send some wonderful books and turns your way.


All right, well, welcome y'all. We are so excited to talk to you about the month of May, which our focus will be on mental health. Mental health is something that is very important to all of us, and we want to make sure that we have the resources to support our teams and that our teams are aware of the resources that the City of Fort Worth offers to them. So we're gonna start off with my colleague, Jeff and Ponte. Jeff, good morning. How are you? Good morning, I'm doing great. I'm happy to hear. Oh, and excellent. Well, I know we are very excited about our mental health forum that's gonna be taking place on May the 1st, but before I dive into that, let's talk about our regular classes that we're gonna be offering. You will be offering our mental health class on May the 7th. Tell us how that class supports teams, how that class is better for you to support those that are in the community and your colleagues. It is an overview of mental illness and mental health as well, what we need to do to support our own mental health and to be aware of those that we love. Well, one of the things that we are most excited about that I am just thrilled that is our Mental Health Awareness Forum that's gonna be taking place on May the 1st, you'll be registering for it just like you with any community open in the council chamber and we are going to have a panel from across the city of Fort Worth team members that will be represented and in addition to that, we're also gonna be bringing in some outside resources. We're going to have our National Alliance for Mental Illness, a representative from that organization. They'll be present. They offer friends and family courses that can really support our team. If we support them, they also have peer-to-peer classes so that can be a huge support we're also gonna have Tarrant County Mental Health. They're going to be present and representing and providing information and resources. We're also gonna have our wonderful benefits team providing information on our EAP program, our employee assistance program. It's very important that people know that program is in place. They can reach out and obtain resources for themselves or for anyone who is living in their home but they do not have to go this alone. There's a support network out there. And then, very excited, in addition to that, we are going to have our CIT team from the police department and we're also going to have representatives from the wellness team from the fire department. So we have a couple of representatives with us today and we are thrilled they're here. We have Lieutenant Sanderson from the fire department and we have Sergeant Rips from the police department and I think I'm gonna start off with Lieutenant Sanderson and you were involved in supporting your team and as we discussed earlier, they see some very challenging situations and that support is critical. Can you just maybe touch on support? Years ago, as you hit on it, that has changed a lot. We're trying to team. Because one of the things that we've recognized is, excuse me, whether we know it or not, the things that we see and doctors can put 500 people in a room and do a scan of their brains and they can actually determine who's the first responder and who's not because we see things that other people don't see.  The hormones that are released when you have those things going on. And in the years past, we've not really addressed that. So it's critical that we have some help and some education and we have resources available for people in order for them to continue in a 30 year career that's going to expose them to traumatic events and lack of sleep and then everything else that the average person feels with family and job and illness and all those stresses on top of it as well. So in order to keep our people healthy for a career, wellness has to be on the priority to what we're doing for our people. All right, so next off we have Sergeant Rex and he is from the police wellness team and we're so excited that you're here with us. What can you share specifically about how your team is supporting our police officers and just their overall health and wellness? Sure, so the police department just recently created a wellness unit. It's consisting of one officer, one corporal and I am sort of the ad hoc supervisor over that unit that until we're able to expand. But what we are really focusing on is preventive and proactive steps to address mental health and mental issues as that relates to overall wellness in addition to just wellness in general, whether it be financial wellness, spiritual wellness, physical wellness. We recognize that overall wellness doesn't occur in a vacuum and it's not just important at work and it's not just important at home, it's important both places because if we're not our best at work, we carry that home with us and if we're not our best at home and then vice versa that translates as soon as we come back to work. And it's a perpetual cycle that typically spirals downward. And so recognizing that we are trying to focus on proactive steps to offer our officers, our sworn civilian staff, their families, our retirees to be able to recognize when they're not okay and resources available to address that. Well, again, we are so excited about the month of May. We're so excited about the council chamber. You will register for it just like you in any Fort Worth Employee University course. We're gonna have lots of resources for you. Be looking for that article in Roundup. And as always, thank you so much. We appreciate you, we appreciate everything our city of Fort Worth team members do and we would like to send a special shout out to our amazing fire team and police officer team. Just really appreciate our colleagues being with us today.


Siwet. Y gweithredu y llôr anodd, mae wedi cyrnyf давно o gyflaen iawn. Mae'n gyflaen iawn i'r ysgol ymaiddor yn ystod yn Lleidiaeth Ffraith Llywodraeth Ie свndedol o gyflaen iawn i gyflaen iawn flynyddoedd Cymru. Mae'n gyflaen iawn i gyrsu wrth i chi, fyrfodd yn ystod. Diolch i erioed rhai hynny yn gyflaen iawn neu i chi yw'r cybeithio am gyflaen iawn. I am charged with working with elected members and members of the foreign commonwealth and development office, ensuring that human rights are upheld around the world in direct relations to freedom of religion or belief, article 18 of the universal declaration of human rights. Today, I particularly reminded that we should reflect on the profound responsibilities and opportunities that lie before us. The scripture from James chapter one verse 27 offers a powerful reminder. Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for the orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. This verse speaks directly to our roles as elected members, civil servants, civil society advocates and parliamentarians, highlighting the essential nature of our work in caring for the most vulnerable in society. The essence of our role is encapsulated not just in the execution of duties, but in the spirit with which we undertake them. Micah chapter six verse eight elegantly frames this spirit. He has told you, oh man, what is good and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice and to love kindness, to walk humbly with your God. This directive calls us to a higher standard of conduct to pursue justice, embrace kindness and maintain humility in our service. In the corridors of power, our decisions and actions have the potential to shape lives and futures. This reality brings with it a solemn duty to use our positions, not for personal gain or partisan agendas, but for the betterment of all, especially those who are unable to advocate for themselves. Our commitment must be to the liberation, care, provision, safeguarding and assurance of justice, peace and equity for every citizen. This reflection is not just about adhering to a moral compass, it's about recognising that our true purpose lies in service to others. The hallmark of genuine ministerial service is measured not in accolades or achievements, but in the positive impact we make on the lives of those who are most in need. They're dejected and marginalised. As we navigate the complexities of our governance and policymaking, let us be guided by these scriptural principles, urging us to be mindful that each decision, each law, each initiative should be a reflection of our commitment to justice, kindness and humility. Our role in this platform for meaningful change is an opportunity to create a legacy of compassion, fairness and equity. Let this reflection serve as a reminder of our duty to lead with integrity, empathy and unwavering commitment to the common good. Thank you.


Somebody feel me. Somebody tell me the answer. Me who isn't the answer. Me who isn't. Maybe I'm telling myself that but there ain't nothing that'll change that. What good would it be if I knew how you felt about me. That kid is real strong and I know that I can't get caught. Welcome back to another video. Y'all it's twenty twenty-five. I can't believe it's the new year already and I just came back from Africa. I got my hair done out there. It was super cute and I'm really just trying to bounce back and get him back into my routine. I feel like I've fallen off but I'm trying to get back on girl. One thing about it, I am not going to fall off when it comes to my sense. The scent that I'm wearing today is from Sandbird. It's from Anishio. It's the Ood for greatness and oh my god y'all Sandbird is the perfect way to figure out what is your new scent for this twenty twenty-four. This video is in partnership with Sandbird. You don't know what Sandbird is. Sandbird is a perfume subscription website where you get to try out new perfumes each and every single month for only seventeen dollars. Love that Sandbird gives you a thirty day supply for each and every single sample that they send you. I need a full thirty days to figure out if the scent is for me or not. It's also so overwhelming when I'm in the store and I'm trying to figure out if I like the scent and the sales associates on my bag I don't like I should buy this perfume. No. This is so easy and convenient for me to be out the way and try perfumes at peace. And Sandbird has so many perfumes to choose from and colognes and also unisex options. I'm going to talk about the scents that I got this month. So the first one I'm going to get into is Dime Tuesday Date Night. It has cardamom, iris, leather, cedarwood and ember. And this is giving me very much Soundtile vibes. Very unisex. It's perfect for every day. Y'all if you love Layla Bull Soundtile 26 this is going to be right up your alley. It's called Celestial Petruely. If you are into Petruely y'all this is so sexy. I was wearing this throughout my trip and I was getting endless compliments. This is that scent that you want people to run you down and ask you about because it's very mysterious because it's like what is that saying? It smells so good. I want to go out and buy the full bottle. It has Petruely, cedarwood and cinnamon bark in there. Next we're going to get into commodity rain. It has Water Must Lotus Blossom Lemon. This smells very clean. Fresh out the shower. And I feel like both sexes will enjoy this. A man or a woman if you love to smell. Just very clean and just fresh out the shower. The last one is definitely my favorite. I love a good wood wood scent. It's the initial wood for greatness. It has Musk Petruely Saffron Lavender and wood oil. Very woodsy. And I feel like this is the perfect scent to set off a date night. So you'll be able to try out scent bird as well. All you need to do is click the link down below and you'll be able to check out the scents on scent bird's website. Or you can scan the QR code on the screen and you'll be able to use my code to say 55% off on your first month subscription, which is about $8. Girl, make sure you get this deal for 2024 because I really want you to find your signature scent. We need to make smart choices this year. Sometimes perfumes range from like $100 to $500. And we go ahead and buy the full size bottle and we really don't touch it probably five times throughout the year, which is really sad. I love that scent bird makes it so easy and convenient. Hey y'all, welcome to the first vlog of the new year. And I'm with Cadet. And we are at World Market. And I want a new corner table. I want to do like a little home refresh as I've been seeing. And I've been doing a little thing to my home, whatever. Just for now.  And I feel like I will be able to lay out more books on here. It's more room other than my other round one. So we are here. They have one left in stock. So hopefully they have it yesterday. I literally was just here yesterday. They said they didn't have none in stock. So I went online and they literally said they have one. And I just called. And she was like, oh yeah, we have one. I was like, what? I was just sitting there yesterday. And y'all, I'm so sleepy from my Ghana trip. I've been trying to catch up on sleep. But it hasn't been working out. Like I need a full day of being knocked out. But yeah, we're just waiting. And my cleaning girl is coming tomorrow. I'm doing a home refresh. Yeah, like me cleaning the walls up to down is dead for 2024. I'm investing in a cleaning person. Yeah, no. And I'm going to ask her, do she do laundry? But I'm not. I'm going to just do my own laundry. I don't think she will though. Like touching somebody else's dirty clothes is kind of nasty. She needs gloves. Yeah, we're getting the coffee table hopefully they have it. But I'll check with y'all once we get back on. Y'all need to come to World Market. They low key got really good stuff. Hey y'all, so it's the next day. And I actually get enough good in my coffee table y'all. It's right there. I had to go all the way by the Mall of America. I mean the Mall of Georgia. But Cadets going to help me set it up. But I just took my Christmas tree down. He definitely took that down one too. Thank you. So I just vacuumed a little bit. Oh, and I ended up getting these mushroom little cushions y'all and they also have storage. I'm going to set them out but I'm removing this coffee table and then we're going to set up the other one. And then also we went up to this store called Pop Shelf and I got some new dishes. Y'all, I literally throw away like half my dishes. So I'm like, you know, I need new ones. And these are only like $3 and these are pretty heavy. And then I also got these ice trays to put in like water bottles and stuff. Some plastic ports and spoons and a plastic plate because I'm not going to be doing dishes all the time. So I'm about to go ahead and put this coffee table together. So, let's go. And these little mushrooms are like outside like to close off the living room. But I'm not sure where I want them but they're so cute. Anybody is interested in this, let me know down below and I'll have it for you in my storage. So. Seems like nobody wants to work anymore.  Yeah, age.  I feel like a mermaid. I feel like I'm on sand in Aruba. This rug makes me feel like I'm a mermaid. Handyman. I thought it was going to be a quick one too. Oh, you thought it was an ideal little project. How many ornaments? I need instructions. Here's some what to do. Oh my god. Bitch, I can't hear too. It needs to be in the middle. Wait, let me see. Oh, the mushroom's going to be over there anyways. You want to get a collection? No. Bitch, I didn't mean all the way to the corner. I just got done cleaning my house a little bit. Even though my cleaning girl came, I didn't want her touching my beauty room because obviously, as y'all can see, it was a catastrophe. I feel like y'all are too close. I think I'm going to start using my new vlog camera because this is my Sony VZ1. I wanted to take it with me to Africa because on the other camera, like a certain settings, it will go in slow-mo, in audio. There's no audio, no nothing. So I was like, yeah, I'm not risking it. I got to figure out how wet mode gets in there because I really did like how wide the camera was. I'm going to keep it for emergencies, but I kind of want to go back to using the one I just bought. But anyways, so I'm on my way to go get my nails done first set of the year. I can't believe it's 2024. Oh my God, it's crazy. And yeah, I've just been trying to reset and just regroup and really get my body together just to be my best self this year. It's been just a struggle to catch up with sleep and just I've just been trying to be like, productive or that I'm like, uh, I'm lazy. I need a little break. And breaks are important. So I'm like trying to, you know, ease my way back into like blogging like every day and stuff. But it's just like, I don't, I'm not doing nothing. I'm just laying down watching movies. I'm really not doing anything, but the little things that I have been doing, I have like blogged. And I can't wait till the rest of myself from my living room comes. I just really wanted that to be like a creative characteristic space. I just want, like, of course I love the neutral and stuff, but I do also love a pop of color and just gives it like, you know, character and it's a little bit more lively. I ordered this one of painting. Y'all, I have no paintings in my living room. So I'm super excited for this artwork because even having my eye on it for the longest time. So I did my research and I find out who actually took the photo. Like, he actually takes pictures of Barbie and he sells the frames. So I ordered it. Anyways, I'm all at a 10, but the first thing I'm about to do is go give me a matcha, y'all. Wave 3, Alia posted it on her Instagram and I think Tasha went to and they were like, oh my God, the best matcha ever. And I'm, y'all know, I'm a matcha girlie. So I'm like, let me go try this right when I touch down back in Atlanta. I tried it and I've been hooked ever since y'all. It's so good. And the portion sizes are chef's kiss, not too much. You don't need that much. So I did ask for a large. She was like, no, those are the only sizes. Y'all, it's so good. I get the iced matcha latte with oat milk with vanilla. And then I add two organic sugars. It's so good. I'm going to stop there first and then be on my wedding. I haven't talked to y'all for like two days. I'm really trying to get back into the group of things y'all. I've been really lazy. Not going to hold you the Africa vlog baby. I'm trying to edit it in my fingers. Just won't tap, tap, tap on my laptop. Oh, and I just got my computer fixed, but y'all have seen that in the last clips. But anyway, today is a new day. Went away this morning. Y'all have to get into it. This matcha is the best matcha I've ever tried. And I know some of y'all don't like matcha. You'll think it tastes like grass like him. But it doesn't. It tastes so good. If you're even, I got my nail tech. He was like, oh my God, it tastes so good. It's busting.  And I like matcha too. It's so good. Y'all got to get into it. Anyway. Matcha is just an acquired taste. It's good. I get the iced matcha latte with oat milk. And I add some simple syrup to it. But so good. So good. We have some errands to run for Cadet today. And then I have to go back home and work some more. It's only 11.30. I woke up so early today. I woke up at like 7. I forgot to tell you. And yeah. So I'm going to talk to y'all later. But I'm very cozy today. It's chilly outside. But yeah. We're going to get into it. Hey y'all. So it's a little later. And I'm about to get ready for this movie premiere. Y'all, I don't know. I've been loving my break. Like, it really makes me feel like I got a crown on top of my head or something. Like, she really ate that. I just love them. Y'all know the drill. Ugh. My mama just texted me. Take it slow. Whoa. Whoa. I got to get a new makeup mirror. My other one actually broke. I'm about to put my lashes on first. Y'all, you know, I love these lemonade lashes. And I put on my faded eye patches earlier. Y'all, they really do make a difference. Like, y'all, you know, I've been using them for the longest time. Even before the brand trip. And actually that trip, y'all, it made me feel like I was a part of history. Not going to lie. It's giving like what brand do y'all know taking influencers to Africa?  I can't even believe I was there. When you're in it, living in it, you just don't realize what is happening in front of your eyes until like after and then you really reflect on it. And I really was reflecting on the whole trip. And I'm like, wow.  Not that I always knew I was going to go. I just didn't know when. And I just really felt like God placed me in the right brand trip. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't just like no random trip. This trip is for you Kyra. This trip is for you. Your reward. And I know you're going to enjoy it. It's just going to be the vibe that you want. You know what I'm saying? So that's what I have to realize sometimes that I cannot trust. I cannot go past what God wants from me. You know, I can only go at my pace. Oh, these are old, but these are cute. These are too dramatic. Oh, this is a lot. Oh, I haven't worn lashes like this in so long. But you never rush God's plan. These are, I haven't worn lashes like this in a long time. I need to hurry up. So I'll check in back with you all once I get dressed. I'm just, I'm not wearing no dress or nothing. I don't even think this is a movie for me or like that. Because it's like at a pub. Well, not a pub, but it's at Hobnob Tavern in Atlantic Station. And I'm like, what?  And then the screening is at Regal in Atlantic Station. So I'm like, yeah, I'm not. It's not giving like that. It'll probably give like, you know, maybe I don't even know what to expect. I'm not, I'm not even lying to you. I really don't know what to expect. So I'm just going to look cute, decent, ready for a movie, but not over the top. Yeah, I can't wait and I'm excited. So I just got dressed. I have on this source unknown sweater. I'm trying to figure out how I want to wear it. I think, yeah, I think we'll do it like this. This is cute. And then for my saying, I just have on Tom Ford makes with a commodity. It's called commodity. Anyways, I'm about to head on out. I'm going to show you all the full look when I get out to the living room. But I made great timing. Okay. I'm proud of myself. So we're about to be on our way to the event. So I'm going to check which I want to be there. So y'all, this is the outfit. So the top is source unknown. Super cute. And then these jeans are citizens of humanity. And then my shoes are from Revolve. They're Kenneals period. And then, um, yes, jewelry is fury. And then my bag is with the tone. So we're going to do this tonight. Um, but yeah. So let's go. So we just got to the movie theater. And I thought it was going to get a little red carpet, but I didn't want to overthink it too much because I'm like, but yeah, basically like Netflix is hosting this. And also what was the other place called? The gathering spot. The gathering spot. I guess it's like a networking event. Um, but yeah, so they let Netflix see first and then, um, they're having the gathering spot coming here too. So it's like two events in one screening. Um, but yeah, we're going to get snacks in a second, but in a drink. But yeah, we're here. I should have wore a boots, but it's all right. We need to. Good. See a really incredible movie that comes out on January 12th. So if you hashtag this movie, just hashtag. Lift at Netflix. Hashtag. Oh, you can act Kevin Hart, you know, Kevin Hart for real. You can hit him. But Netflix has done an incredible job with a really incredible movie that I think they're all going to love. Can we get some love for Netflix? Give me a nice round of applause. Put your hand up if you got Netflix.  Put your hand up for that. This is an international cast, an international movie. And before we start the screening of the film, I want to introduce you to the man that directed this movie. I've known this man for a very long time, probably like 30 years. Let me name some of the movies that this man has directed. Friday. Y'all all saw Friday, right? Okay, he directed Friday. Y'all saw Men in Black? Y'all saw International Be Cool? He did that too. Did y'all see The Fate of the Furious? He did that movie too. Did y'all see Set It Off? Did y'all see Straight Outta Compton? Well, that man directed that too. And just for a little side note for Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A. is going to get a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys this year. My friend for over 30 years, give me a applause for Mr. Hathbury Gray, y'all. Thank you. I just wanted to start and just really thank you for a couple of reasons. You may not know it, but you've been a part of my career since before I started making movies. And what I mean by that is I did music video in 1994 with Outkast called Southern Playlist account. I broke a new name. And that was in the beginning of their career and it was at the beginning of my career. And after that, at the end of Friday, with Ice Cube and Chris Hathbury's show. I want to thank you for being a part of my career from the beginning. The second thing I'm going to add is when I made my largest movie, which was Fate of the Furious, Fast and Furious 8. It was one of the biggest budgets I've ever made and I shot it here in Atlanta. And I shot it in Iceland and in a few different countries, but we're based here in Atlanta. So you've been taking care of me since the beginning of my career and at some of the highest points in my career. So I want to thank you for that. I'm very proud of this movie and you'll be one of the first and only audiences to see this movie in the theater. So it's very special to me and I appreciate your support. Thank you for supporting me for my entire career all the way to this evening. So thank you and enjoy the movie. Sweathouse. I was going to go to a yoga class to sweat, but y'all, I wasn't gonna make it. I'm literally trying to make my way slowly into my workout, routines, whatever, moving my body. I would take a walk this morning, but it's so cold. My face is swollen. Anyway, I haven't been to Sweathouse in so long. It's an infrared sauna. The sauna has so many benefits from you. It's really relaxing even though you're sweating. So I'm gonna do that. And then today I have to film a campaign shoot.  That's gonna be at 11 o'clock because I'm trying to just get up and do something, you know, and get into the routine of it instead of just laying in bed and resting up like I've been doing.   But yeah, I'm super excited. So I'll check in with y'all one time. Get there. I got my big bag of puffed up coat on. Oh, and last night was really cute. We went to this new spot called Howl. I think that's what it's called. But they stopped serving food at 10.30. So we wasn't able to get any food. And I went to bed starving. But with no food in my system and my head started hurting, I was just like, I need to go to sleep. And it's so crazy, y'all. Everything in Atlanta, like, what if it's the late night food? Like, I was like, me and my friend were like, what? Like, what's going on here? And then, like, the streets was like dry. Like, everything is just so different now, I swear. It's all right. It's cool with me because, baby, I be in the house anyway. I was like, wow, even Fellini's was close. I was like, what? Like, anything in the late night spot? I'm just confused. Velvet Taco. And it wasn't even 1 a.m. yet. Girl, that's neither here or there. I don't know why my mood is just like, I'm trying to get it together, y'all. I really am. I really am. And then today, I have to do this kind of vlog, y'all. I have to, y'all. I got my throat about it. So I'm like, okay, I need to get into it. I gotta get back into the rotation. They need me. They need me.


Hello, and welcome to the first introductory lesson to the Personal Care and Hygiene Unit. Within this lesson, we're going to be going over Hygiene. Some things we're going to go over is what is Hygiene, what causes us to be sick, and some important things you can do to stay hygienic and clean. A good example of this is right here with his elephant. He's spraying himself off with water to clean himself off. Hygiene is important because it keeps you healthy and prevents you from being sick. The best way to do this is to promote cleanliness. A great example of this is right here with this ma'am, as you can see right here, scrubbing down the deck of a ship. This gets rid of the germs and debris that can make you sick. As I said before, hygiene reduces your chance of being sick, which gives you more time to play like these wonderful kids down here. Good hygiene can lead you to do better in school. A great example of this is right here with these children raising their hands to answer a question asked by the teacher. However, not everyone practices good hygiene all the time, and this can have really bad effects on your health. 25% of all childhood deaths worldwide are due to children not practicing good hygiene. To help put that in perspective for you, I have this picture right here of these four children. If none of them practice good hygiene, unfortunately one of them will die. We'll cross off a little shame here. This is unfortunate because the good hygiene is really easy to do, and we'll cover that more in later lessons within this unit. I've been saying a lot throughout this lesson that good hygiene prevents sickness, but what is it exactly that spreads sickness and what actually gets us sick? There are these things called germs.  Well, that's a big word right there, microorganism. So let's break it down, let's split it in half. Micro means it's too small for the human eye to see, and organism means it's a living thing.  Now that you know about germs, I'm sure you're asking yourself, but wait, how do germs actually cause sickness within my body? They do this in two main ways. The first being, they take away nutrients away from your body. Now, nutrients are important because they keep your body running in tip-top shape and they keep you healthy. The second way is germs produce toxins. Toxins are essentially poisons that attack your body and cause you to be sick. Some examples of this are rashes, coughing, fever, and vomiting. And as you can hear, that I have, the sniffles. Oh, forgot the L there, there you go. To help study germs, we have to use a microscope, which is an example over right here. Microscopes help magnify the germs and we can see them on a much bigger scale. Doctors who have gone to school for a very long time can help use microscopes to identify the type of germ that's in your body. By doing this, they can help provide care and treatment. Having easy access to soap can be difficult. So some alternatives you can use are ash or dry soil to wash your hands. Now, I know what you're thinking. Wait a second. The point of washing my hands is to get the dirt and germs off of it. How is using dirt to wash my hands actually clean them?   Now, we're throwing a lot of terms at you. Germs, hygiene, hand washing, using dirt as opposed to soap. So I'm sure you have a lot of questions or ideas or you've heard a lot of things about hygiene. So we just wanted to spell some myths to help you better understand it. For one, some people think that just running your hand under water is important to clean your hand. This right here is a myth. Though you will remove the surface germs and debris off your hands, there are still germs deep down in your hands that can still be spread. Another myth that is out there is that soap is only used for bathing and when cleaning your laundry. This right here is a myth. Soap is important in washing your hands and should be used most importantly before and after using the toilet and before and after handling food. Now, in the following lessons, we're going to teach you a lot of cool stuff about hygiene such as how to clean your hands, how to clean your mouth, how to treat a wound or cut, and how to deal with lice.


That was hard. Can you get my movies on camera? Movies on camera with my bike? That's one. Still breathing very heavy. Someone get this guy. Did it, did it, let's go! One shift and that was that. Got anything to say? I'll do some shout outs. Shout out to my mom, shout out to my dad, shout out to my brother Jack, to all the fifth liners out there, shout out to my boys, shout out to Dante. You know what I feel for right now? Sushi. Sounds so good. Sushi.