Our proposed rotation-dense feature Pyramid Networks, RDFPN, is a novel ship detection framework designed to address the limitations of existing methods. It uses dense connections between layers to enhance feature propagation and encourage feature reuse, while also incorporating a rotation anchor strategy to reduce the redundant detection region and improve recall. Experimental results demonstrate that RDFPN achieves superior performance compared to other state-of-the-art methods. This article was authored by Shwayan, Haosan, Kuon Fu, and others.


In 1913, industrial tycoon Henry Timkin of the Timkin Roller-Bearing Company in Canton, Ohio, sought Rife's help to solve a manufacturing problem, the scanner improved the quality of the company's products and streamlined production to such a degree that Timkin was overjoyed. When he learned that Rife's passion was medical imaging, Timkin gave him his full financial support and set him up at the family's estate in San Diego to create his personal lab.


In the past, each country of the European Union had its own money. Today, 19 countries of the Union have the same money, the euro. 338 million Europeans are stronger together with the euro. But who looks after the euro? It's the European Central Bank and the central banks of the euro area countries. They issue euro banknotes. The European Central Bank is located in Frankfurt, Germany. Each country has its own national central bank, usually located in the capital. All the banknotes show windows or doorways on the front and bridges on the back. Some of them are old, some modern. Because banknotes are valuable, criminals try to forge them. But it's easy to tell whether a euro banknote is genuine. You just have to do three things. Feel, look and tilt. So it's not hard to check the banknotes. Now let's have a look at the coins. They have a European side that shows a map of Europe. And they have a national side showing a famous person or building or symbol. Now you know. So come and play the euro run. The more you know about the euro, the more points you'll get. Play online at neweurobanknotes.eu. The euro, our money.


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Gang, let's read a few pages from the Tao of the Yicheng, way to definition by Zhou Suang Houwa, brutal pronouncing it, and this was copyrights this is the 6th printing, June 22,000, the first printing was Taiwan March 1983, okay and I got the 6th printing and we're gonna read chapter 1, Raising the Veil of Mystery, starting at page 45, okay starting at page 45, and we'll read until we get a nice break in the read, which will probably be, and I'll show you the pictures as we're going, yeah this thing goes into the human body and everything, I'm not sure how far we're gonna get into this, okay, because there's a fair bit of like thinking about what's being said here I think, okay, page 45, I'm gonna show you this diagram because it's referring to the diagram, the above diagram shows the distribution of the hexagram, oh hold on, the above diagram shows the distribution of the hexagrams in groups that occurred if we think of yin plus yang raised to the sixth power, here's the diagram, so the above diagram diagram shows the distribution of the hexagrams in groups that occurred if we think of yin plus yang raised to the sixth power, the diagram shows that the traditional methods of deriving the order of the 64 hexagrams are not the only ones and that new and modern derivations can be evolved. A student of mathematical statistics might note the similarity of the diagram to the standard curves used in statistics to predict events and find new, find many new things from the study of the hexagram. Those of us who apply it to everyday life can easily find as many things. Suppose for example we take a yin line as being in day when our intelligence and intuition is most dominant and a yang line as a day when our sense of action and effective action is most dominant. Then we can read each hexagram as the six days of week. In this study we'll find less than one week a year when our intelligence is totally dominant and the same for our ability to act. Weeks when all but one day is dominant one way or the other will occur six times a year for each possibility. Finally we have the weeks where the two are evenly balanced or close to it. These will occur 78% of the time or about four weeks in every five. We are now at the core of the yin. It's 64 hexagrams. Each hexagram contains six yos and people always ask the question, quote, a trigram has three yos. Why don't they use four for the next step or for that matter five or seven? Why six? End quote. The question was occasionally a conversation point when in ancient times but it was largely a waste of energy. The equivalent of medieval Christian theologians arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pen. To understand why six yos are used ask yourself the following. Why does a foot have 12 inches? Why does a meter have 100 centimeters? Why does an hour have 60 minutes? Why isn't our week nine days instead of seven? All we can say in reply is that experience shows that a foot is a very convenient way to solve most problems of measurement in daily life. True, if we need to measure the diameter of a hair on the distance between New York and Boston we need a special division of measurements but otherwise a foot will do fine. The same is true of the hexagram using six yos. Six yos can solve most of our daily problems but we are free to use what is useful for us. It is not hard to imagine that we might make up a series of seven lines, line figures, and use them to study our weekly activities. We can see how different numbers of yos are useful by other studies of the moon. We can use yin and yang or filled in circle and open circle or double dash and single dash to talk about the new and full periods. This is one Yao. Then if we begin to talk about the quarters we need to use the four symbols which are built with two yos. If we want still more detail we can use the eight trigrams with their three yos and hexagrams with six yos as shown in figure 1Ae, 1A5e, and 1A-5f. Of course this concept can apply to many things. If we take the circle in the center to be the sun and imagine the outer sphere to be the earth then we are studying the seasons. We can study the career of an individual or a nation and it is clear we can use even more than six lines if we want. For example someone can make up a seven Yao symbol and use it to study the course of the week. So we repeat six lines can show clearly that we need to know about most problems of daily life but we can sometimes use fewer or more lines. Another important matter is the ordering of the 64 hexagrams. We saw how Fu, Xi, He Xi, and others arranged the eight trigrams into a complete circle cycle and use this order in a logical way. How do we arrange the 64 hexagrams in a circle that makes sense? One way is the example of Yin plus Yang, which generates a mathematical sequence. In the Zhou dynasty, mathematicians had not yet developed to this degree of sophistication and algebra. Instead the Chinese used an ingenious visual method. First they arranged the eight trigrams in the Fu, Xi arrangement as shown in figure 1-5G. Note that in these diagrams the bottom line is the one closest to the circle which stands for the earth. To develop the 64 hexagrams from the eight trigrams they expanded trigrams further out from the center and drew a circle around it. Now all they had to do was put another eight trigrams around each circle. To read a hexagram, we read first the inner trigram and then the series of outer trigrams circling it. We have eight hexagrams, then we go on to the next circle, circle trigram in the diagram and get another eight and so on as shown in figure 1-5H. The final result of this kind of computation by diagram is a wheel like the one shown below. The one shown here is derived using a circular order that follows the pattern of the eight trigrams we derived by branching Yin and Yang as shown in figure 1-5I. The ancient students of the Yi Qing also invented a grid pattern for developing the 64 hexagrams in an orderly manner. If we study the block below we will see that the inner bottom trigrams are always the same in each file going across while the outer upper trigrams are the same in each vertical row as shown in figure 1-5J. If we combine the wheel and the grid we get this frequently reproduced diagram as shown in figure 1-5K. The diagram looks as tightly packed with data as a railroad timetable. Since the hexagrams related to any subject, can hexagrams relate to any subject, they contain much information in them. Yet we can see how they begin with a simple notion of Wu Qi and Tai Chi, Yin and Yang, and expand to more complicated situations in a few steps in a similar way. At times we may be in a mood to see that all human actions begin with the simple relationship on one of one person to another, and at other times marvel at the complexity and richness of other human social world which seems unbounded. The order of yo in a hexagram is read from bottom to top. The image of this is the earth below with things growing out of it to the sky. The simple order of yo, yao, from the bottom is first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and top yao. For each of these yaus in a hexagram they are a text or judgment giving the meaning of the yau. We also use the odd number nine to represent the Yang quality occupying a yau, and even number six to represent the Yin quality occupying it. A sample is shown in figure 1-5L. The first and second, I'm going to show you this. I think I'm supposed to be E. There might have been a typo. Yeah, I'm going to show you this. The first and second yau are the beginning stages, or an omen of an event or phenomena. The first and top yau indicate its conclusion and fulfillment. These are the beginning and end of the six yaus. Also the inner dot trigram represents the past and the outer one, the future. Their combination represents our present. We must keep in mind that notion of past, present, and future are among the most complex and mysterious perceptions we have. We do not perceive the past and future in everyday life and experience, but a kind of continuous present that is perceived without a beginning or end. And yet without notion of past and future we could not organize our lives, and the world in which we live. Further, we can easily imagine how the past affects the future, but how can the future change the past? Consider two men who have separately been working towards some goal for three years to date. Next year the work will be completed, and one man will fail completely, and the other will succeed. Next year one man will say, quote, that three years of work was a waste of time, end quote, end quote, and the other will say, quote, those were the most productive year, three years of my life, end quote. Yet right now the three years do not have meaning for either of the two men. We look at them and see that they are both the same. In this case, the future will give the past its meaning. In the same way, we find ourselves making experiments in living and later saying, quote, that was stupid, end quote, or quote, that was smart, end quote. Yet as we make these experiments in the present, we can only give them our best efforts without always knowing that meaning until some future time. Let's end the reading there, because I think that's a great place to end it, since we were just talking about the past, present, and future. And when I was reading this, I found these two pages extremely interesting 20 years ago. Right? Very cool perspective on life. And that was page, what was that? Page 47. That was page 47 to 51 of the Tao of the Yi Qing, Way to Divination, like Zhou Songhua. Fantastic. I like this allegor says, let's read it. We must keep in mind that the notion of past, present, and future are among the most complex and mysterious perceptions we have. We do not perceive the past and future in everyday life and experience, but a kind of continuous present that is perceived without a beginning or end. And yet without notion of past and future, we could not organize our lives and the world in which we live. Very cool, very cool, very cool.


Hello in this presentation we will define materials ledger card. According to fundamental accounting principles wild 22nd edition the definition of materials ledger card is perpetual record updating each time units are purchased or issued for production use. When considering the term of materials ledger card we're usually thinking of a company which is a manufacturing company one that produces inventory. Support accounting instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable so once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Starting from the raw materials moving it to the working process ultimately to finished goods that inventory being what is available for sale at which time of sale it transfers from finished goods to the cost of goods sold expense account. The materials ledger card is dealing with the tracking of the raw materials at the beginning of that production process much like a supplies account we need to track the materials as we purchase the materials and we need to track the materials as those are then transferred from raw materials to either the working process or the factory overhead for example the job cost system would look something like this materials could be used in a job cost system or a process cost system the two systems generally used when working in the accounting for a manufacturing company here we have the trial balance and we have multiple inventory accounts related to the inventory the raw materials work in process factory overhead finished goods we can see the process is going to be going from raw materials then to the work in process and or the factory overhead then to the finished goods at which time the inventory is available for sale when sold it's going to be moved from the finished goods to the expense account of cost of goods sold these accounts will be backed up by general ledger accounts for example raw materials gl account finished goods gl account work in process gl account factory overhead gl account those in order by date and the total in the gl account then backing up and matching the total in the trial balance the general ledger is also going to be supported in a job cost system by job that tracking the costs by job cost unit therefore when transferring work from work in process to finished goods to cost of goods sold we can track the total cost which include materials but also labor and overhead through that job cost process when considering the materials in particular it's going to be similar as when we account for supplies in just a service company or any company at which time we generally purchase the supplies which means we're going to increase the raw materials we need to track what that increase is going to be then we need to attract how we consume those raw materials so we can imagine the raw materials piled up in the warehouse and we've got to track the raw materials that are there then as that raw materials is used and consumed it's going to move to either work in process or factory overhead as the case may be and at that time we're going to have to of course track and reduce the raw materials account here that inventory that inventory asset account going down with a credit and record the increase in the work in process the other inventory account and or the factory overhead those also being asset accounts inventory accounts for the most part and therefore would be going up with a debit


Oh, what's poppin'? We are on Twitch, we are live! So you can come join us if you want. If not, that's cool. Just leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post notification bells. Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK. Now, if you happen to miss the live, this is where you can catch the live. All the highlights and things of that nature will be on this channel. Don't forget, we do got the Patreon as well. This is a loosely accurate list of everything that's on there. I need to update it. And we also got the Discord as well. Now, this is episode two of Staying Out of Prison, Life on Tag. Let's get into it. Yeah, appreciate you. Well, I've been a jolly, I know what people are. Right, I see people are savage people in this world. Is this a recap? Yeah, I've just taken someone's car. Yeah, this is a recap. I'm in the building. All right, no need to recap. Things have been going well for 24-year-old Rhys and his girlfriend. Okay, keep him on tag for another four weeks. Okay. And then I'm off tag. Until... Did he beat her? When the police came, they looked really pissed off because they've got this information about Rhys wanting to strangle the girlfriend. They came in full force, straight. To Rhys' room, like, bam, bam, bam, bam. Open the door, open the door. It's Rhys in there. They came in with a taser and all of them. That looks really dramatic. Rhys' girlfriend made a serious allegation against him and he's been arrested. I'm not happy with Rhys at all. The way he treated that girl was heartbreaking. Rhys is just insecure. Man, let me tell you something, man. Fresh out of prison, on tag, on remand. Anything of that nature. If you and your girl not married or engaged, don't stay with her.   Don't do that. Just go ahead and stay with your mom. Don't even do it. Go ahead to your mom, crib. Not stay on my girl if I'm on tag.  Well, maybe it's scared. It's terrifying to know that you're gonna have a baby when you are so unstable. 47 pounds? Sam's late for a meeting with probation. Yeah, hello. My name's Sam. I've got an appointment at 12 o'clock today. So it looks like I'm gonna be there at like five past 12. Yeah, no problem at all. All right, thank you. Thank you, bye. All right, bye. Five past 12, I would have told him 12, 15. That's me, not in trouble. There's a chance of shift work at the local pork pie factory. But Sam must get his curfew. There's a chance of shift work at the local pork pie factory. Pork pie factory. That's a whole factory for it? But Sam. They don't make nothing else but pork pie? Must get his curfew time changed or he'll miss out. I need to get something in writing, say it on a bit of paper. So I'm saying that I can get my tag time changed. I could be starting work next week. In a job that I can't do. Because of my tag. They don't miss out.   Okay, I was about to say, let's take some responsibility, my boy. I'll be a pork pie factory worker. Christian's job prospects are unhauled until after his trial. Who are we going to meet? My child. I had seen her in a while. I know Christian is trying to change his life over, but he accidentally stole a car last episode. You know what I'm saying? What's it look like he chew bricks for breakfast? Like, I'm just saying, like, okay, Christian, my bad. That's not a thing that was when I went into prison, before I went into prison. His ex is now seeing someone else, but that doesn't seem to be too much of a problem. She had never felt it before as well. He looked like a member of a, what's that group called? The boy chiller group or what, what is it called? He looked like he could be a member of them. Even when she's been with her other partners and stuff. You know, she still tells me I'm a one true love and all that. So I know, I know.  Yeah, well she'll still send me two kisses, so. Ha ha. He says she lives on the same road as the petrol station. This is the only petrol station really around here, isn't it, really, the roundabout is? I think it is, man. Sam is one step closer to his job at the Port Pie factory. This is from probation, basically just saying that I can get my tag changed if needed to be explaining it. That I can work all the rest of it, I'm free to do so, so, yeah. No, that's ages away. I keep walking. You've got to keep walking it. I went in there, obviously, we had a good old chat about, you see, they basically ask you what's going on in life and how everything is, you know, he's basically asking if I've made any friends since I've been out of prison, which I said not really, because no, everyone, like, they look at you coming along the road or you're at the gym and that, then they'll notice you're ankle and they just, people just want to avoid you. They're like, they just presume you're some criminal. But, yeah, they just presume you're some criminal. Would that be an accurate presumption? Presumption or whatever the word is? But, yeah, which do you are? I'm not. Howdy, cameraman! Hey! Oh, man, yeah, because I, hey, listen, I was confused. Which do you are? I'm not a criminal. I don't see myself as a criminal, just because I've been to prison. It doesn't make me a criminal. It meant that... it wasn't even really a criminal activity what I got involved in. You know what I mean? So you don't identify as a criminal. You identify as a law-abiding citizen. Salute, gangie. Hey, Siri! What's the definition of a criminal? A person who committed a crime, relating to crime, relating to crime as opposed to civil matters. Sam served 18 of a 45-month sentence for breaking someone's jaw in a fight.  He was released early on tag after being assessed as low risk. Oh, Sam broke a jaw on some junk stuff, right? You, hey, you should have ran. Allegedly. I don't condone violence or anything or doing anything that would be considered a crime, which would make me a criminal. Across town, Christian has finally met up with his ex and her new fella. You were late. I literally said to him, I said, I'm not angry with what I'm going.  What do you like about Christian? What are his best qualities? He's very kind-hearted at times to certain people. Being mean to people is close to. But no, I've never really had many problems with him. So to me, he's been a... You've never had many, many problems with him.  Yeah. The new boyfriend is sitting there like, ah, y'all just reminiscing, having a good time, frolicking in your memories.  You mad. Clearly, he ain't even cracked a smile. That's tough. What's your history with him? He's basically my ex-partner, my ex-babyfather, that obviously together, we're hostile and violent. What we've took his years, now we can remain friends and be civil with each other, and that's all I want really, just to be able to get on, meet up, have a chat now and again, and see how he's doing, because I do worry about him. You got adopted when he was two, so when he was born 2013, so 2015, was when he was out of our lives. Because of the... Rest of violence and social services due to my past and his past. You have no idea where he's from. No, I just know that I'm not, which I'm grateful for, because he's not in. So they're not even around? Obviously, me and Christian, we do have feelings for each other, but we don't work together as a couple, so it's best to be friends and get on with our lives really. I'll always love her, I love her even if she's not with me. She could be... She could be married, she could have kids, she could be in the proper family and still be there for her, which I don't even know. No offense, man.  If I was in a bro's situation, ain't no way I'd be talking to my baby mama. We both don't know where our kid is. There's no more reason for us to communicate. I'm out of here. Unfortunate, but like... kids in a better situation, clearly, we didn't work as a couple. We're not reconciling. I don't want to be your friend. Am I bogus for that? I don't think so. I ain't trying to kick it with you and your new man, you know what I'm saying? See what I'm saying? Y'all see what I'm saying, though? Hey, he with his baby mama. She called the police saying he trying to strangle me, but then dropped the charges. You playing with my freedom at this point. I'm not... I understand you're pregnant, whatever. You can stay here. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I'm pregnant, whatever. You can stay here. I'm going to stay with my mom. No. I didn't do it. I didn't put one thing on her. I'm glad I'm released.  They've got a new girlfriend? Yeah. They've got a new girlfriend. Yeah, I didn't take her long. What's her name? Billy. I'll get back to... If that kid is mine, I want to be in his life. My dad wasn't here for me. My dad's been off. I don't even know how old I was. At the end of the day, I brought myself up on these streets. And you know what? The terrible job. At first, I brought myself up the wrong way. But it's about time now I bring myself up the right way and do what's right for me and be a dad to my kids that they need. That's a good... That's a good move for your sanity.  She might be a little bitter. She might not be. I don't know what type of woman that is. But if you want to just skip all of that heartache, go ahead, go to the court. Take care of it in the courts. But Reese's decision may be too late. Having the police come here for one particular individual on a regular basis does not make us look good. He's quite a troubled young man and we are trying to walk with him but he's making it very difficult. We've been quite patient with him but he's on the verge of leaving us. I mean, he could possibly be recalled because he has to be here through his licence and through his tag. So... If he gets evicted, yeah, he's possible that he could go back to jail. Yeah. I've had enough of it. I can't cope with jail anymore.  The sooner I calm down, I'm cool. It doesn't bother me. I don't want to go back to jail.   For what?  Sitting there on a visit for two hours.  You're better off out on the road, man. He's... nice. I feel like he's hit like a mental... like he's over a mental barricade. It sounds like... he's now convincing to me right now. He had that moment of realisation. Like, I can't be here. It's not his first child but 30% the re-offending rate within the first year of those charged with criminal offences. On the other side of Nottingham, it's a big day for Sam. We are going to Total Bakery which is a pork pie factory. For my job interview. I'm a bit nervous though because I imagine if I don't get a job at a pork pie factory. There is no holding back. I might as well just... Oh, man. Oh, dude. I didn't notice that you're hitting your tag. Well, I'm not gonna... If my tag was out that means I would have purposefully made effort to have it out with jeans on. I'd look like a right turd, wouldn't I? Well, walking around with a pair of jeans all tucked in around the tag. So, yeah, it's a way. Are you worried that having a tag will affect getting the job? Yeah, sort of. Obviously, I've told them and they said they don't discriminate but it's not really whether they discriminate. It's down to me, do you know what I mean? So, it's one of them, isn't it? That's the only worry I've got, really. That's true, man.  If you can't fit their needs, they've not come up. They don't matter. On to the next. At the hostel. Christian has a visitor. Hey, yo. I guess Christian answered my question for me. I asked him if he still get with his baby mama. Apparently, she laid up at the hostel with him. Where's her boyfriend? You see what I'm saying? When you got a baby mama, you can always still hit.  So, what's this arrangement now, then? What arrangement? I'm just chilling out in the night. He and his ex-girlfriend might have reconnected. It can't be God. And they reconnected was crazy is.  Some ways, because it might motivate him. I mean, a lot of the problem with Christian is I think he doesn't have anything to focus on a lot of the time. At the moment, he's going through quite a lot concerned about this court case and what's gonna happen. He's very nervous. I know he doesn't want to go back to jail. Well, I date someone with a kid. Me? I'm getting questions in the chat.  But would I date a woman with a kid? Yes.  Damn near. Not multiple kids, maybe one. And let me give you my reasoning. As a grown man now that's been through real life things, I need to be certain that a woman is gonna be there for her kids. And me? I'm not saying I wouldn't date nobody with an I don't know, of course I would, but like I'm saying having a kid wouldn't bother me and honestly it checks a box for me. If we have a child she will be there for the child 100%. She's in her kids life, she takes care of her kids. Cool. She has that motherly instinct. She checked off my list. I'm never again will I be in a relationship with a deadbeat with a person that doesn't take care of their kid. Like that's me personally. I don't want to go down that path. You know what I'm saying?   Like that should honestly like with everything that's going on with men not taking care of their kids that should check a box for you.    I'm just this is wild to me though. On national TV on national TV hurt our current boyfriend let her ex come around raise her back up and the next day she's at the halfway house in his bed probably getting you know what I'm saying that's tough. That's moving wild right now. Well, I'm kind of nervous. He's shitting himself he opens up to me he's not looking forward to her. Do you think he's going down? I've got a feeling he's going down. They might not you know what I mean they might think no. Sending to prison is not a good idea but it's hard to know. Christian has got a lot of potential I think he just needs some focus perhaps things to occupy his mind things to do and I mean if he does wrong but in the long term I don't think he's going to do a money bud. I've got a job I think they're going to call me tomorrow and I'll be in there Sunday so happy days I'm officially a pork pie factory worker. How's it sir? I feel good man. I feel alright. It's not really that good a feeling I've got a job in a pork pie factory. But still you feel good? I feel good yeah. I feel better than I did this morning when I woke up so that's the main thing I feel good. There is no more to it. That's it. Deep down. Deep down? Deep down I don't even want to work there.  Yeah I eat that much pork pie with 12 hour shifts that's crazy. Did the factory close? It's a job so it's whatever isn't it? It's whatever and I don't need the social anyway man I don't know anyone up here just getting boring so maybe I'll meet some people and make some friends yeah follow me you weirdo At the hostel there has been someone for a chat with manager Mustafa The longer you tolerate your behaviour in this house your service charges have not been paid since you moved in here your behaviour in house is considered anti-social you play loud music allowing people to climb through your window and these are behaviours that will not tolerate so I'm prepared to listen to you and after that I'll consider it and then I'll get back to you I shouldn't be staying here from what I've done but I want to prove to you I can be a good tenant for you and respect your building If this opportunity is giving back to you then there's no possibility there's no reason why you should break it further You're one of a few people that will break it over 8-9 times I don't know how much more 10 times 10 times the charge 10th time is the charm Opportunity you want for us to give to you to show us that you can actually turn the corner take yourself seriously engage with the support Nobody wants to see you in this kind of conversation I'd rather focus our energy on something positive How old is he? He's like 23 also He's really bad But I've listened to what you've got to say I'm still hesitant about your sincerity I'm going to interject I don't want to get kicked out I've heard what you've got to say I'd like to have a discussion with others and then I'll get back to you and let you know why decisions Cheers, thank you I personally want to believe him man But I ain't know he'd had this conversation 10 times already I don't believe in what he says but I'm prepared to give him the opportunity to demonstrate to us that you know he means what he's got what he said See they're open they don't believe him but they open to let him try one more time because this is the last time though like for real Rafa wants to speak with Rhys' probation officer before making a decision Rhys breaks the news to his new girlfriend Because obviously all the fools are broke in the yard he needs to go through probation to see what they're saying see if I'm able to stay in the building or if they need to move me Move you to prison?  I'll have to go brother but I'll retreat Will you go angrily is the question What do you mean for the tag? I'm going back to jail Christian's trial is now just days away Hey this is reality though this is how we be trying to act like we're going to be cut up with our girls like this this is real life Christian want to be baby like the rest of us grown men you know what I'm saying it's tough His drug use has definitely increased I don't know if that's related to the girlfriend to be honest I think it's something he does regardless of what's going on in his life I think probably the tag and having to be in a lot of the time will increase his drug use Did it matter? Yeah I'm not obviously on that but yeah it's not a good thing I think it's put on here on a person that's cool people and he told me his fiend and I come to see him and the first night I'm here he was actually smoking a mamba and then I was just like I've been walking around I've sat there and cried seeing him in such a vulnerable state it's breaking me when it comes to Christian if he does get caught and that specific thing doesn't stay in your system like marijuana does it's like you smoke it and it's gone it's not traceable so I'm pretty sure they run a test on it and taking drugs and smoking on the premises you've got an addiction notice Yeah no bedsheet was crazy for recent but I just don't want him to be like this for the rest of his life I think it's escaping his own head he says that when he smokes mamba it's like he's out of his body so he doesn't feel all the pain, the anger so that's sort of what I've got off him What do you need to wash with? Do you love him? I do, I do love him he's a father of a child I love his love him it's just hard obviously the world is like this isn't it? this is not the man that I fell in love with I really hope he doesn't go to prison but I mean he might he might what do you think the verdict is likely to be?


Did you know that about 805,000 people suffer from a heart attack in the US every year? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that it is the leading cause of death in the US. But how do you know you're having one? In the next 60 seconds, I am going to share with you 7 warning signs of heart attacks you should never ignore. The last one is super important, so keep watching. Number 1. Chest Pain. Chest pain is a very common symptom of heart attacks. It can feel like an elephant on your chest, a crushing sensation, or just heavy pressure. It might center in your chest or hang out to the left. Two. Tingling or discomfort in other body parts. Heart attack symptoms can be experienced in other body parts and not just heart, such as tingling or discomfort in the arms, jaw, back, or stomach. It's important to pay attention to these symptoms even if they don't immediately disappear. If they persist, they could be a warning sign of a heart attack.


Plant Health and adjacent concerns for soil health was brought into sharp focus on the inaugural International Day of Plant Health. This comes as the Research and Development Division of the Agriculture Ministry hosted a showcase featuring displays of various elements within the area of plant health. Thematic concerns such as alternatives to pesticide use and pest incursions were highlighted all in an effort to bring about awareness and increased discourse on the connection between food security, sustainable agriculture, a socio-economic reality, and plant health. Chief Plant Research Officer attached to the Plant Research and Development Division, Hannah Romain, explains that plants are the source of the air we breathe and most of the food we eat. She says the exhibition sheds light on issues affecting plant health and steps that can be taken to address them. We have worked with key agencies in ensuring that our health of our plants is maintained through the work that we do and our work program. We work with farmers in ensuring that we develop innovative techniques in protecting our plants. And I am happy that Plant Health this day really and truly embraces all of our partners, our farmers, our exporters, our importers, the florists, all everybody because we do understand how important it is to save God, our plants. Representative of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, IKA, to the Eastern Caribbean States, Greg Rawlins, highlights that his organization has undertaken several initiatives geared at supporting plant health in St. Lucia, including the development of updated plant health regulations for St. Lucia. In reaffirming IKA's ongoing support to the Research and Development Division, in its quest to implement a robust suite of actions to build resilience in plant and soil health, Mr. Rawlins has signaled the deepening of ties between the Ministry of Agriculture and IKA in 2022. And we wish to reiterate to everyone our commitment to supporting stakeholders here in St. Lucia in their efforts to protect and safeguard plant life. Without plant life, there would be no human existence. And we therefore need to do all that we can to safeguard plant life, not only here in St. Lucia, but around the globe. The initiative aims to raise national awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development in St. Lucia. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anicia Antoine reporting.


Good afternoon. I'm Amy Yeager of the Association of Research Libraries, and I'd like to welcome you to this afternoon's webinar, IPED Survey Definition Changes Based on Academic Library Community Employee. There are a few announcements before we begin. All participants have entered the conference in listen-only mode. We invite you to join the conversation by typing questions in the chat box in the lower left corner of your screen. The speakers will answer questions at the end of the presentation. This webinar is being recorded on Tuesday, November 3, 2015. ARL will share the presentation slides and a link to the recording in the next week. Today we will hear from IPED's program staff, as well as members of the Joint ARL-ACRL Task Force on Aligning IPED's Academic Libraries Component Definitions with Established Practices. Our presenters are Mary Jane Petrowski, Associate Director of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Martha Kira Lidu, Senior Director of Statistics and Service Quality Programs at the Association of Research Libraries, and Chair of the NAISO Z39.7 Data Dictionary. Also joining us are Bob Fox, Dean of Libraries at the University of Louisville, and Chair of the ARL Assessment Committee, and Bob Dugan, Dean of Libraries at the University of West Florida, and Co-Chair of the ACRL Academic Library Trans and Statistics Survey Editorial Board. We'll also hear from Christopher Cody, who's Senior Researcher at the American Institutes for Research, and the IPED Survey Director for Academic Libraries and Admissions. And perhaps joining us later for the question and answer session will be Bal Lee, who's Associate Education Research Scientist, National Center for Education Statistics, and the IPED Survey Contact.  And now to begin the webinar, I would like to turn the floor over to Mary Jane Petrowski. Mary Jane, please go ahead. Welcome, everybody. I'm so glad you all could join us today. It looks like we have a full house. Here you see the agenda for today's talk. And before we get into the nuts and bolts of all the changes, we're just going to take a quick look. And I'll talk to you, say, just a few words about the ACRL Academic Library Trans and Statistics Survey. I first of all want to thank all the institutions that participated in our 2014 survey. We had a 43 percent participation rate and we are looking to increase that rate this year with your help. We have published our 2014 survey results in ACRL metrics along with our longitudinal data, which includes the NCES Academic Library Survey data going back to 1998. And for the first time last year, we gave respondents the ability to input and download their IPADS responses. And over 200 institutions took advantage of this new feature. The good news is that with our 2015 survey, all respondents and participants can download their IPADS responses and send those to their local key holder or upload them into IPADS directly if you are a key holder. And I want to thank Bob Dugan and his leadership of the ACRL Academic Library Trans and Statistics Editorial Board because the 2015 survey now will also include important benchmarking questions from the former NCES Academic Library Survey as well as a trans questionnaire on collection budgets, institutional repositories, and digital collections. So I hope everyone will participate this year. And if you haven't received an invitation to contribute, please contact our Survey Administrator at Counting Opinions by email or phone as indicated above. And now I'd like to turn the podium over to Martha. Hello. You heard from Mary Jane, you know, both ACRL and ARL have their annual surveys out in the field collecting data. And of course we have an interest in seeing consistent definitions across the board at the national level. And that's why we wanted to see the IPADS definitions align with our established practices. The ARL Statistics is the longest running library data series in higher education, goes beyond any of our lifetimes back to 1908, known as the Gerald Statistics. And currently the 2014-2015 survey is open for our member libraries. The history of the survey of course has influenced the academic library statistics field above and beyond our member libraries. And our established definitions over the years have been incorporated in many other academic surveys, including national surveys. We did transform the definitions in the survey a couple of years ago. This is an evolutionary transformation process that we have to maintain as our libraries are changing our national instruments of capturing the way we describe our libraries need to change. And at the same time the IPADS, as we will hear, was changing and some of the definitions there were not fully aligned with our established practices, therefore the work we are going to be reporting to you today. In addition to managing the ARL Statistics here at the Association of Research Libraries, I also chaired NISO, National Institute for Standards Organization, the standing committee that's responsible for maintaining the standard known as Z39.7. It's a data dictionary where all the definitions from all the national surveys come together and are being compiled. Actually we do have a teleconference next Monday, November 9 at 3 p.m. Eastern time for those of you who want to learn more about the Z39.7 data dictionary. Now the need to align the definitions at the national level was really what drove the key goals for the joint task force. So we wanted IPADS, the Academic Libraries Component Definitions, to incorporate and reflect established practices. And as you will hear, the goal is achieved and I will pass the floor here to Bob Duggan. Thank you. What we ended up doing, ACRL with the Trends and Stats Board was working to track comments that were coming in from the Academic Library community as early as September of 2014 in terms of questions that were coming in concerning the IPADS, the Academic Libraries Component, the AL Components Survey. And we were tracking questions and answers and corresponding to either email or phone calls with Baoli and IPADS to get answers. And then I was able to, through a lib guide, keep up, compile a kind of frequently asked questions aspect of questions and answers related to the AL component. And then in January of 2015, at the ALA midwinter in Chicago, I was able to, I was invited by ARL to attend the ARL Assessment Forum in which Elizabeth Edwards and David Larson from the University of Chicago made a presentation about some of the definitional issues that were coming in the IPADS survey. And at that point, when we looked at that, we said, well, wait a minute, we have the similar, if not identical questions that was aligned from the ACRL Stats Board and from the ARL Assessment Forum and that we should look at pulling this together so that we're asking the questions and not overwhelming IPADS with a bunch of the asking the same question 20 different times. So fortunately, we got together and reformed a task force. And the members of the task force are listed here on the PowerPoint slide. I know that Terry Fishel is on the line or she's attending, Steve Hiller is attending, Court Martha is here, David is also here, Bao is from NCS is here and then Mary Jane. And the other party that was involved with this was the American Library Association Office of Research and Statistics, which of course manages, also works with the public libraries and that. So it helped when we were working with the creation of identifying the issues and then working to get some answers. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Bob Fox for how the task force worked. Our task force was formed in April 2015 and this gave us a very tight time frame to produce a set of recommendations. So we launched right into the planning process very quickly. And starting in April, the task force leadership held three conference calls where we identified known issues with existing IPADS definitions. And a number of these concerns had built up over time as they worked their way up to us through individuals at various ARL and ACE-RL institutions. Beginning in mid-May, we rolled the calls out to the full task force and we had a total of five conference calls between mid-May and June 3. We issued our first draft, or internally at least, on June 15th. It was a working draft. Based on that draft, then a number of us met in Washington, D.C. in person at ARL headquarters to work through and finalize those recommendations in Bowie within CES was at that meeting. With all the feedback we had to that point from the various members, we did issue what was our second draft and we shared it very widely within the academic library community because we wanted to solicit feedback for that. We also took advantage of the ALA annual conference in San Francisco to host some information and feedback sessions. And you see two of them listed here. One was held during the ARL Assessment Forum and then ACE-RL also held an IPEDS update at that time. After ALA, we held two more conference calls, one on July 6th and one on July 7th. And at those calls, we reviewed and discussed the feedback that we had received to that point. And then you see as of July 9th, that was the last day for public comments. So taking all the feedback we had received to the various channels we did produce a final set of recommendations and on July 14th, we sent those to the IPEDS Academic Library Survey Director. And on July 23rd, we were notified that those recommendations had been accepted. So with that, I'm going to turn it over at this point to Chris Cody who is going to discuss the changes to the survey that were actually incorporated. Okay, thank you. Today, based on the recommendations of the joint task works, I'm going to walk us through the changes of the 2015-16 Academic Library Survey that will open for collection on December 9th of this year. I'll begin by going through the changes for section one of the survey. This includes library collections and circulation. This section is to be filled out by every institution that states they have a library expenditure that is greater than zero dollars. So looking at the individual recommendations and how IPEDS updated the survey to reflect the recommendations, the first task for recommendation was based on the issue from that the 2014-15 AL survey component regarding digital and electronic books in which IPEDS definitions of e-books selected versus e-books as being a database did not always align with current practices. The issues that determine what constitutes an e-book based on selection method did not make sense in the context of contemporary collection development practices. Based on the recommendation from the task force, IPEDS in 2015-16 will now ask that you report e-book titles owned or leased by the library if individual titles are cataloged and or searchable through the library catalog or discovery system. Provided on the slide is a link to examples of discovery systems. The second task for recommendation for digital electronic books was based on the issue from the 2014-15 AL survey component in which IPEDS was counting e-books in terms of the number of simultaneous users. The issue here is that it was difficult to provide an accurate collection count based upon simultaneous users. Based on the recommendation from the task force, IPEDS in 2015-16 now will ask that you report e-book titles in aggregated sets in which the library selected the aggregator even if not each individual also here you will count e-book titles as equivalent of one volume regardless of the number of users. You'll also report the number at the ministry level and not duplicate unit count for each branch. And here you will not include titles in demand driven acquisitions or patron driven acquisitions collections unless they have been purchased or leased by the library. The third task for recommendation for digital electronic books was based on the issue from the 2014-15 AL survey component on how IPEDS asked that providers should report open access titles as part of the collections. Based on the recommendation from the task force, IPEDS will now ask that open access titles are included in digital and electronic books if the individual titles are searchable through the library's catalog or discovery system. The fourth task for recommendation for digital electronic books in the AL survey component was that government documents were excluded as e- documents. So based off the task force recommendation, we will now ask in the upcoming survey that you report government e- documents when you count government documents for digital and electronic books. Count government e- documents within the digital electronic book collection if they are cataloged and again searchable through the library catalog or discovery system. And moving on to changes in the survey component for physical books and media, the first task force recommendation for physical books and media was based on the issue from the survey component in 2014-15 in which microfilm forms, maps, and non-print materials are excluded from the account of physical materials and not included anywhere else. So based on the task force recommendation, we now ask that the institutions report microforms and cartographic materials in the physical media account since they are in the library's collection. Here, media materials are reported by title and cartographic materials are defined in the IPEDS glossary when you fill out the survey component. Moving on to digital electronic media changes, the first task force recommendation for digital electronic media is based on the issue from the 2014 survey component in which again maps and non-print materials are neither included nor excluded from the digital electronic accounts. So based off this task force recommendation, IPEDS will now ask in the next survey that institutions report digital cartographic material in the digital electronic media account. Similar to the second recommendation regarding digital electronic books, the task force also asks for digital electronic media that based on the issue from the survey component, IPEDS is counting e-books in terms of the number of simultaneous users for this section as well. Again, the issue here was that it's difficult to prepare an accurate collection account based on simultaneous users. So the new survey coming out this year will now ask that your report titles of e-me materials on release by the library if the individual titles are catalog and or searchable through the library calendar discovery system. Again here you'll report e-media titles in the agri-a sets in which the library selected the agri-a even if not each individual title. You'll report the number at the administrator level, but do not duplicate until account for each, unit account for each branch. And do not count image databases in this category. Count as and do not include titles in DDA or PDA collections until you've been purchased or released by the library. Moving on to changes to databases, the only task force recommendation for databases was based on the issue from the 2014-15 survey in which there was confusion on how to report databases on the survey. The task force wanted clarification on definition and what to count as databases. So based on the recommendation from the task force we asked in an upcoming survey that in regards to databases, institutions report the total number of licensed digital electronic databases in your collection if there's a bibliographic or discovery access to the database level at the database level. Each database should be counted individually even access to several databases as a support through the vendor interface. Do not include discovery systems in the counter databases. Do not include individual releases such as annual updates of content or the migration of the user interface to the next vendor release as separate databases. In terms of circulation, the first task force recommendation was based on an issue from the previous survey component in which the term circulation does not accurately reflect what iPads are seeking to measure. As is used in libraries, the concept of circulation is primarily applied to transactions in which library materials are linked to library users over the circulation desk when the library is physically open. However, much of the use to the library collection is now conducted through digital electronic transactions in which usage is a more accurate term in understanding use of digital electronic resources. Based on this recommendation in 2015-16, the iPads survey form will still have circulation as the label for the metric, but then the restrictions refer to physical in terms of circulation and digital electronic in terms of circulation and usage. Shown on the slide is an example how it will appear in the actual component when you fill out the survey where usage and circulation is labeled and then where just individually circulation is labeled. Again, in terms of circulation, there were two additional recommendations from the task force. The first was in which circulation included the count of non-returnable interlibrary loan items, included reserve collections with general collections, and included renewals. In terms of non-returnable interlibrary loan items, the issue was very few libraries considered them as circulations as these transactions were often counted in interlibrary loans, so they felt a change needed to be made. Also, in terms of circulation, the issue was that including reserve collection and renewals and general collections, there was some variety in local policies for how both renewals and reserves were viewed. So based off this understanding and the recommendation from the task force, iPads now, regarding circulation, ask that you report the total number of times fiscal items are checked out from their general collection, include only initial checkouts, exclude interlibrary loan lending and borrowing, include transactions in media, books in media, and do not include transactions in equipment or computers. However, circulation of electronic reading devices can be included if the device is preloaded with an e-book. Moving on to digital electronic circulation, the first task force recommendation was based on a previous survey's issue that we were not counting transactions of digital electronic databases. Much of the academic library usage is digital electronic and so there felt a need to be included in the circulation count. So based off this recommendation, an upcoming survey asks the institution to report uses of digital electronic titles whether viewed, downloaded, or streamed. This includes uses for e-books and e-medit titles only. The entire title is purchased as part of a database. Do not include the usage of titles in DDA or PDA collections until they have been purchased or leased by the route library. And do not include transaction of VHS, CDs, or DVDs as a transaction in these materials are reported under physical circulation. Again, looking at digital electronic circulation, another recommendation from the task force was based off the issue that the survey component did not identify a method for a library to collect circulation usage of electronic resources. To resolve this issue, iPeds identifies counter and DAL component of the upcoming survey as a source of usage data for e-books and media only. The definition of counter reports for e-books are provided on the slide. Regarding counter, if counter reports are available, iPeds suggest that libraries report counts from BR1 and MR1. If BR1 and MR1 statistics are not available, BR2 and MR2 statistics can be used. However, in cases where vendors do not provide counter reports, libraries may report using other means for monitoring digital electronic circulation uses such as downloaded session reviews, transaction logs, etc. So those were the changes to definitions and instructions for the first section of the AL component. Looking now, we'll be going through the changes for the second section of the survey that includes library extensions and interlibrary services. This section is filled out by institutions at state that have library expenditures greater than $100,000. There's only one task force recommendations for Section 2 based also on the issue of the previous survey component. The issue was in all other expenditures for this section stated if items in this section are not paid from the library budget, they can be easily identified in other parts of the institution's budget, report them here. The task force recommended this should also be reported in salaries and wages. So in the upcoming AL component we now ask the institution to report salary and wages before deductions for all full-time and part-time library staff, including student assistant wage and federal work-states student's wage from the library budget and all other institutional sources that are identifiable. So there were also some overall changes to the AL survey from the 2014-15 to the 2015-16 survey component. Some changes were based on recommendations from the task force others were based on issues or results that the NTS staff noticed from the 2014-15 survey. So we'll go over a few of those changes as well for the upcoming survey. The first overall change deals with the screener questions that determine if the institution fills out the AL component on what parts. In 2014-15 the screener question for institution was based on reporting total library expenditures and the institutional characteristics header survey determined eligibility if the institution filled out the academic library survey. This practice resulted in institutions reporting estimated AL expenditures which sometimes required amendments when the final expenditures were known. In some cases the misreported data in the fall collection from the IC header survey result in the wrong form assigned for the spring reporting for the AL component. So in order to address this issue 2015-16 two screener questions are provided. One in the institutional characteristics header survey to determine the institution's eligibility for AL components. And the second one in the AL component to determine the institutional eligibility for section 2 of the AL component. So first a yes-no question is asked regarding whether library expenditures are greater than zero in the IC header during fall collection. If the answer to this question is yes then based off this the institution will receive the AL component to the survey. And then regarding the screener question in the AL component this question asks if expenditures were greater than 100,000 if the institution asks and answers yes to this then they will receive section 2 of the survey to ask more detailed questions on expenditures for the academic libraries. The next slide here just shows the two screener questions that will be asked in the upcoming survey. The first one is the will be included in the institutional characteristics header survey. As I said regarding if they receive the AL component or not. And then the second will be actually on the AL's academic library survey to determine if they receive section 2 of the survey. Another overall change to the 2015-16 survey. Another overall survey recommendation that came from the task force was guarding the issue from the 2014-15 survey where libraries did not have an applicable choice. This was an issue because not all libraries have responses to questions asked on the survey. So based on the task force recommendations and the limitations of our data collection the 2015-16 survey will not ask the institutions will now ask the institutions to please respond to each item in the survey. If the appropriate answer for an item is zero or none or if material is providing counts are not manageable you will answer the question with zero. However now if the material is not provided or if expenses are not applicable you will leave the item blank. This here will count as a not-askable answer for the survey. So we still not provided with a blank as not-askable. You will now just leave the survey answer blank to define your choice of NA. So those are all the changes for the 2015-16 survey. A few things that we are going to move on to now is talk about possible changes to the 2016 Academic Library Survey. We are currently beginning our process for review on survey changes through the Office of Management and Budget. So we will go over a few of the proposed changes that we are going to be making this year. The first change for the 2016-17 survey that we are discussing are adding an additional screener question to the institutional characteristics of which it asks, does your institution have access to a library collection? So in the upcoming survey we determined eligibility as a pre-lustated for the AL component based off institutions having library expenses greater than zero. This practice has allowed institutions that do not have library experiences but do actually have library collections being eligible to complete the AL component. So what we are proposing asking institutions is an additional screener question that says does your institution have access to a library collection? So if the data providers answer yes to this AL screen question or answers yes to both questions then the institution will be eligible for the AL component. The second possible change for the 2016-17 survey we are considering making is changing the question about academic libraries and the institutional characteristics surveys. From does your institution have its own library or are you financially supporting a shared library with another post-secondary education institution? To which of the following library resources or services does your institution provide to its content? Check all that applies. Physical facilities and organized collection of print materials. Access to digital electronic resources. A staff trained to provide and interpret library materials. Established library hours. Access to library collections are shared with another institution. The changes detailed here allow that providers to report all aspects of an academic library that are accessible to the institution. Also the proposed change aligns the library question and the institutional characteristics survey component to IPEDS definition of an academic library. Based on other discussions with the task force IPEDS is also considering for the 2016-17 survey adding a serials row to the library's collection circulation. Provided on the slide is a definition of what a serial would be regarding the collection for the 2016-17 survey. Also finally based on discussion with the task force IPEDS is considering moving the following from section 2 to section 1 in the 2016-17 survey. We're discussing moving interlibrary services. The questions regarding total interlibrary loans and documents provide to other libraries. And the question regarding total interlibrary loans and documents received. We're planning to move this from section 2 to section 1. Section 2 questions are more aligned with library expenditures. Section 1 questions are more aligned with library collections. We propose moving the questions associated with interlibrary services to section 1 of the survey since they are more related to library collections. This would also allow people that receive AL component not just people who receive the second section of the AL component to fill out this information. Also based off task force recommendations for the 2016-17 survey we're proposing deleting the following question from section 2. Does your library support virtual references services? It's a yes or no question. The joint task force proposal limited this question due to the fact that almost every library now provides some means of virtual references. Deeming the question somewhat outdated. And then finally another area change we're discussing with this task force. We're not planning on implementing this into 2016-17 survey collection but it's something we'll present today and we'll have future discussions about. We're discussing adding a not shared and share column to the digital electronic materials of library collections in section 1 of the AL component. Since digital electronic collections, books, databases, serials, and media are not always accessible within an institution but also across institutions it is important to account for what items are shared and not shared. So adding a shared and not shared column to the digital electronic column of library collections will capture additional information on how institutions are sharing resources. It will also allow staff providers to more accurately report all aspects of their library collections. However this is something we are still discussing with the task force and so there's no plan to currently propose it in the 2016 changes with our OMB package and just something that I want to present today giving an example of on the slide and we'll let you know that we'll be having discussions about this in the future. And I believe that all the changes and possible future changes for the survey component that we're planning to implement for the collection that's coming up in December 2016-17. I think we'll now turn it over to what's next for the task force. Yes. Yes. So as you see here we've still got a little bit more work to do. We are going to pull the academic library community to see if there is additional data that they would like to incorporate into the iPad survey. We're going to review the publish or otherwise made available data from the first academic library component. I'm not sure what the timeline is for that but as soon as that's available we'll be taking a look at that. I do see questions coming in. Val Lee has been responding to a number of them. So please type if you have more questions in the chat box in the lower left corner of the screen. Let's see. We can answer some also by voice. Val, are you on the line? Maybe you are muted maybe. So one of the questions from Stephanie Wittenbach, where are archival materials counted? I don't see them. Anyone on the call wants to take that? Val, are you still online? Dougan, Bob Fox, how would you answer this question? Where are archival materials counted? This is Dougan. I notice that there are a couple questions coming about the ACRL survey and then there's other questions related to the AL component. It depends on the nature of the archival material. Is the archival material from the AL component is archival material in print or is it electronic? If it's in print, it may be underneath the print books. If it's electronic, it would probably be underneath the electronic media. It depends on the format. I'm having trouble looking at that and talking at the same time but it depends on the AL component side. It looks like to me it's good to depend on the format. Same thing kind of goes with the ACRL survey. The definitions are fairly robust there. We don't separate out archival material other than we do have questions about institutional repositories on the ACRL 2015 survey. You may look at it as coming from the IR, the institutional repository, or again it depends upon what is the format or what's the format of the material. She's clarifying, Stephanie. She's asking about manuscript materials, specifically not books. Of course, those are usually boxed as another person indicates and counted in linear feed. Right now we do not have a question about archival materials in linear feed in the iPad survey. We do not have that in the ACRL 2015 survey either. One of the things that we should point out from both the ACRL 2015 survey and the AL component is that neither survey is designed to measure all library activity. However, the ACRL 2015 or as we look at developing the 2016 survey that will be released in 10 months, if this is something that academic librarians think we should capture then we would certainly look at a section or a couple of questions on the ACRL survey that would seek to measure this type of material, the archival material in linear feed or however you think it should be counted. On the ACRL 2015 survey towards the end of the survey document there is a question that asks you do you want or do you recommend or do you suggest any other data elements for inclusion? That is a perfect place to put those kind of questions and the ACRL trends and statistics editorial board will certainly look at that for expansion or inclusion in the next survey for 2016. Right now it's a couple of other people are chatting. They can be counted as titles. We do not have the linear feed but they can be counted as titles as long as they are cataloged or as long as they are discoverable. And of course yes they are a significant component of a library's collection. There has been actually quite a bit of inquiry regarding titles in institutional repositories in our interactions with our constituency, the ACRL libraries and we have been describing the issue in a couple of phone calls we've had with libraries that are asking questions about that. We plan to create a blog entry and initiate a discussion where people can crowdsource their views on how to report them of the titles from the institutional repositories. When they are cataloged in your library catalog of course the solution is obvious but oftentimes there are collections that are not cataloged and they only exist in the institutional repository. We have a few more comments coming. There is Steve Heeler who is actually the US representative to ISO, the International Standards Organization, points out that ISO is currently working on a standard for archive statistics. Let's see what else do we have here? Pamela Price is asking under what category heading will library data appear in the final report? Will it be in services or will it move to another category? I'm trying to get a handle on what categories library data might move to. That's a question for now and Chris Cody. If I'm understanding the question correctly in our data center it will be under its own academic libraries category. It will be separate from all the other categories that you can actually drop down and go into the data center and pull the data for academic libraries and for institutions directly by just looking at the academic library section. The press release we had had a link to the iPad surveys and the academic library survey and it's on its own. Also there was a previous question about when the iPad data for the 2014-15 survey will be coming out. We're expecting that out to come out in early to late November so it should be out soon. Great. Thank you. Ashley Muffin is asking a question. Have there been any discussions of breaking more formal library instruction from presentations to groups? I'm going to add to this because I have received inquiries about research consultations and whether we want to track research consultations in a separate category. Can we stop it from any people on the call? This is Doug and we do have a different definition in the ACRL 2015 survey related to consultations in terms of reference transactions and the second part is the breakdown or further breakdown to presentations to groups and taking on instruction. This is the second time that I've heard this that this request has been made and anytime I hear things the second time it really moves up quickly onto the agenda. So I think that that's something that we'll take a look at for the 2016 survey. Again I encourage you as Terry Fishel has responded on the chat on the ACRL 2015 survey number 80. If you want to include that as a comment back to us we will be looking at everything that comes back to that. I think that's a good idea. As we do these surveys the ACRL survey and the iPad survey you can see that we're evolving in terms of trying to capture best practices and capture those type of data elements that are important to academic libraries. So please use that box line number 80 in order to let us know other data elements you would like us to consider. There are a couple of other questions because we skipped a few that were asked earlier. The Kathleen Bell a little data collected for the last survey be made publicly available. Okay yes you did answer that Chris. And then Cardin Locker is saying it's unclear to me is Lee's to the same thing as subscription. This is Dugan from the ACRL perspective. Yes Lee's is the same as subscribe. And Sandy Rosada is asking we do not track serial circulation will not applicable be an option when that is added. That is something we're still working on with our MD submission. I'm assuming as an out that it will be the option to leave it blank. So which would be a not applicable. During Q&A Constance Malpatis is asking during the Q&A could iPad staff address the deletion section to question regarding owned slash shared academic library how will outsourced slash shared library infrastructure be tracked. This is likely to be an important arrangement especially for two year and some smaller four year institutions going forward. This is the new concept that iPad is thinking for adding in 2016-17 the concepts of shared. Something is completely outsourced. How would, how could iPad handle that? We will still be tracking that. If something is completely outsourced there will be guessing the way they're saying that there will be a parent-child relationship set up in the iPad system. And so that's how we will identify that. And then the parent will report the data for the child institution or child library instance. And then the ratios will define how much of that is allocated to the child academic library compared to the parent academic library. But that's how they're discussing it all versus shared. We'll still capture that in the parent-child relationships. And it will be a shared collection, correct? Yes. Thank you. Am I forgetting anything? Anybody else tracking that? There is one question at the end, whether IRL will ever ask iPad to include a question on libraries digitized collections. I think the challenge is they are defining what's a digitized collection. Anybody would like to take a stab at it? This is Dugan. I think the task force should take a stab at it. Okay, continuing on the track of the outsourced library services, Constance Malpas has a follow-up question, but what if the provider is not an academic library? For example, a public library providing services to an academic institution. Regarding that question, there will be an open comment period for those questions. We'll be going through our AMB submission package. We'll inform the task force when that comment period opens for that question and all the other question changes for 2016-17. And so it's this type of feedback that we'll be considering and possibly, as of now, it's just a suggestion that we change that. But based off this example, it might be something we consider also leaving it. So that would be something I'll bring back to our NTS team and discuss a little further regarding public libraries providing services to an academic institution in terms of sharing and keeping that question in. Also, I think Melissa had a question, why will blank equal NA instead of having a third option to type NA? That actually has to deal with our internal data center and how we upload and migrate data over and how the functionality is for us to move that data over if we need to have blank equal NA instead of having that third option. I think we may be exhausting the question to the chat box. That's wonderful. I think it's worth repeating again the fact what you just mentioned, Chris, that the new items that we'll go for AMB approval for the 2016-17 survey will be available for commentating. Can you give us a brief description of how that process will move forward? The process, but how I think I'll disseminate it through all the associations and then you can let your constituents know and what it will be, you'll be able to, anyone, public person will be able to go on. It's a public website. And as comments are on concerns or issues or suggestions, and then we will comment back and then depending on the comments we usually could influence how those changes are submitted and continued for the 2016-17 survey. But with this one issue it raised, I'll probably go ahead and bring it back to NCS staff now and discuss it a little bit further. Wonderful. So for the institutions filling out the iPads that's opening up in December 9th, I'd like to remind everyone that we have on our website and you'll have it on your survey as you fill out the Help Desk. So any additional questions that come up regarding any survey component or item, you can call our Help Desk or contact them and usually they have expanded information on how to fill out a survey and if not then it gets risen to NCS staff. Also all our information is online that you can contact us directly if needed. I would like to thank you Cody and Bao Lee and Bob Dugan and Bob Fox and Mary Jane Petrovsky and Amy Yeager. And we are receiving thanks from our participants in the chat box too. Thank you everybody for attending this Webcast. It will be available on the ARL YouTube channel next week. Goodbye.


I'm not sure what to tell you about this book. It's difficult to get excited about or invested in a book in which you don't care about any of the characters. It's a very cynical book. That by itself is not a problem. I need to have some character with some sort of ethics or morality or some way for me to sympathize or care about them. And there is nobody that matches that description in this book. You can support 30 Seconds Sci-Fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below. It was an engaging enough read for me to finish it, but the author never really had me on her side and she did a couple of things at the end of the book that were so outrageously stupid that she lost me altogether. I've heard about this book. I've seen people write about it and say how unique and interesting it is. Well, it's certainly unique. By the cover art alone, you can tell it's about an alien in the White House. And I had always imagined it was like those bogus stories you see on the cover of the gossip rags about a secret gray alien meeting with the president and advising him on scientific secrets. But it's nothing like that. It takes place in the 1990s. The gray aliens landed en masse in the 1950s. Their presence is not a secret. They have pushed their way into every government in the world. And they're not here to bring peace and enlightenment like so many new age urban legends seem to say. They are just as decadent and amoral as we are. I can't slam it completely, but I can't get excited about it either.


The other important aspect to interpersonal relationships is the idea of a psychological mirror Relationships are phenomenal mirrors to your own self psyche of what we end up end up doing is we project on a subconscious level undeveloped needs or desires or aspects of our own personality that are unresolved Into the relationship when we look to fulfill it You'll hear them in women's culture the the simple term you complete me women are very cognizant of that Men typically are not You'll find other aspects who you choose to date who you and choose to bring into your life Who you allow to enter in your life how you spend that time? How you value those aspects are all value and judgment aspects that reflect upon your your ideas and your sense of the world Your sense of self-entitlement what you expect for yourself what you expect for your life. They're terribly Eye-opening and if you spend time to actually look at the natures of your relationships You can tell a lot about an individual you can tell a lot about yourself The biggest issues is when you start to have trouble in the relationship or when there's a failure of one or when you start Looking at your emotional needs Relationships again are amazing mirrors to that self reflection You can find and discover a tremendous amount of yourself about that and there there's signs to sit down and say These are things I need to look at these are these are elements. I should study these are elements I should probably investigate a little bit further to actually get a better handle on myself my life and why I'm doing this We also can look at you know the psychological mirror for your personal baggage At no point can we all sit down and say we're all innocent You know you had issues you've been hurt you've been scarred We all come with a number of things relationships can help under underscore some of these issues Looking into handle ease will actually free you up in a number of ways And and many of them can be very very heady and it can have a tremendous amount of emotional weight You don't need to be carrying that and Relationships can actually help you discover these aspects in your own behavior and insight and how you regard them And so in that regard, you know cleansing yourself out of that I think are phenomenal the other aspect is your ability to use a relationship as a testing ground What are your interpersonal skills like? How are you able to communicate? How how much empathy are you able to show are you able to relate with other people? Are you a selfish individual and there are amazing testing grounds to sit down and say I want to learn and develop particular skills And then utilize them and of course this doesn't necessarily have to be just in in very intimate relationships committed monogamous Relationship as younger guys. You should be dating. Okay, that's what these things are for It's part of an interview process and you can have a variety of women in your lives and be utilizing these same skills Appropriately now. These are still relationships. Okay, they may not be monogamous. They not be highly committed But at the same time there's still relationships and developing a better integrated aspect of you is what we're trying to achieve We want you your aspects to be integrated in a very cohesive way that that's also socially and culturally appropriate to your own morals And it's it's it's it's a tough tough kind because you're operating often without a net You're going to be invested, you know, you're going to have something at stake you literally have skin in the game and That that makes decisions much more harder.  Unfortunately, you're gonna have to work to a process We're involved with somebody to the point where you come across that again that make it may take time It may take years, you know But the idea is you're gonna see reoccurring themes again and again and again in your lives until you are able to better handle it And you don't know if you're gonna be able to handle it until life Presents you that same issue or a similar issue and you don't make the same mistakes again You know awareness is not the same thing as knowledge. Knowledge is when you don't do it and trust me I'm aware of so many things in my life I don't necessarily do what I know I'm supposed to and that's human nature You can't be flagulating yourself as well You have to sit down and be a little bit easy on yourself But to sit down and say you're human but to be aware of this situation try better and when you know better do better one of one of the most important aspects of Interpersonal relationships, I feel is not just all the things I've listened This in a very very serious way is where the real damage is done This is where it's gonna cost you dearly. This is where your self-esteem is gonna take a beating This is where you're gonna get gut punched with your self-respect when you put yourself out there. You're highly vested Whether it's emotional monetary commitment any number of things you are gonna be highly invested in an individual in a relationship Often we project our self-identity in them and they get destroyed for any number of reasons One of the sariest aspects and we hear people talking about this within society the breakdown of family structures When you actually commit to the point that you're married to an individual have families and have that and then the failure This affects our world community affects our society Learning basic interpersonal relationship skills I think it's integral to actually alleviating some of that not only in your own lives But in in the greater aspects of the world in which we live in some regard That's that's the real seriousness of what we're talking about the fun side about it is you want to sit down and say I'm gonna have better quality relationships I'm gonna have better quality women my life and I'm gonna enjoy myself in a manner in which I wasn't free to do before These are all very real things On a very selfish level I'm enjoying learning about interpersonal development within relationships because I like one in the client again It's an economic business term. It's easier I'm telling you the idea of being able to have a woman on a regular basis not have to go out every day and hunt for Your food bring it home and kill it and drag in the house and repeat that process on a daily cycle It just makes economic sense emotionally physically everything. I don't want to have to be doing it not only that I'm getting older I'm not like a lot of you. I don't have you know George Clooney's mug You know, it takes work and in relationships are like that. They're also highly beneficial and it's not always about the fucking It really really isn't and that brings me to the last point of why I think interpersonal relationships are so critical Is because the highs and lows of your life the amount of tail you got last night just isn't gonna cut it all right when when you're dealing with Professional development personal achievements day-to-day grind where you've achieved you're gonna want to share that with more than your family and friends No matter how close you are It is not gonna be the same thing as when you are actually very very connected with a specific individual that you share the daily days in days out grind with and That that is a serious issue one of the worst ones is not necessarily when you're alone and you're you're a high point Because we know they may not occur, but I can guarantee you're gonna have low points in your life Some of them are going to be extreme. I went through one pretty much three weeks ago Wasn't in a relationship and I felt it Literally had to face death Lots of loved one in my life and it was a devastating aspect You know and I had to come face-to-face with that be responsible for the terminal care of an individual and What I wanted more than anything else in the world at that moment With somebody I can be emotionally weak with emotionally vulnerable with and emotionally real with and when you're alone You're alone You don't get that back All right, these are kind of the serious aspect I don't want it to be super super serious But it's things that we don't necessarily talk about it's things that we don't relate to and men need to be talking about these things All right Moving on from the purpose of why I think relationships are actually a positive aspect committed relationships You're gonna need to know probably some basic elemental skills and one of the more important ones I think is the notion literally a filtering screening people of Making sure that you're you don't have to deal with toxic individuals things You don't want to do and actually you're dealing with the elements that you want And if you don't have an ability to screen you're gonna be dealing with everything The best way I can relate to it is if you go to a restaurant and you order food and every time you get is a garbage plate You know anything the chef could actually slow throw and slop onto a plate. That's fine as a novelty Sometimes it's damn good more often not you're gonna find stuff. It's like what the hell am I dealing with you know On the flip side is you don't want to have your your control so tight that you have the opposite problem Where you have a fine dining French dish where it's mostly plate It's just a little bit of food.  What do you want to screen for? What do you want to screen against? One of the things that I'll typically do very very early on is Is what something I'll call the screaming narrative people project their life story constantly Watch for it. What are they telling you? What are they telling you by the nonverbal cues?   I'm wild I'm out of control and I'm an American princess I tell you I'm going to introduce you guys to her Okay, you want to stay away from that one unless that's exactly what you want But Ultimately, if you're looking for a long-term committed relationship, you want to have somebody in your life Those may not be the qualities you want to exhibit All right, another one a psychologist friend of mine and god I wish I could pay him every time I use it Is I'll ask a simple question Tell me about the relationship you have with your father Which incidentally is going to be the longest male running male relationship. She has All right, and in most cases this is going to be the most experience. She has with inter male intersexual relationships And what you what you're looking for is not the specific answer, but the tone of it You know what it's not whether it was healthy or an unhealthy if it's healthy bravo outstanding probably a good sign If it's unhealthy Really pay attention How is she handling how is she working through it or is he just the biggest asset on the world and is a son of a bitch Guess what she's going to do Renact that relationship with probably every male she has in her life You want to watch for these aspects? so that'd be the first aspect of Of filtering screening The other aspect is a business notion And that is that you make your profits at the buy not at the sell and the notion there is What happens is the people you let in in your life the quality of those people that you let in Determined the profit margin you're going to have most people are not going to all of a sudden break out and have a massive transformation They're not going to all of a sudden become these glowing swans of fairy tales They pretty much will move through their life Consistently evolving a little bit but not a big marker change and the quality of those individuals you let in your life Determine the content of it All right And in another way of of analogizing is don't let people in it's almost like taking a train ride get on the wrong train And every stop is going to be the wrong one same thing with people let the wrong people in Every stop every aspect of your life is probably going to be the wrong one you want all right Another aspect I'd like to cover is the idea of not giving women a free pass Too often as men we do this they're they're cute. They're female I want to show them attention and we start becoming performing monkeys.  You're here.