Okay, hello and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. Encompass Live is Nebraska Library Commission's weekly online event where we do presentations and sessions on various library topics of interest to the Nebraska Library world. We do these every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. They are free one-hour sessions and they are recorded so if you can't attend the live sessions you can also always go in and listen to the recordings afterwards. We do a mixture of presentations, interviews, web tours, many training sessions, anything we can think of or that you may think of that will be of interest to libraries and librarians across the state. This morning we are doing government information for you and your customers. Beth Goble for here and her staff who you can't see on camera are here this morning to talk about all the different resources that they have in their department. So take it away. Hi everybody this is Beth first off I want to tell you this is not going to be a workshop it's just an informal tour of some of the government information services that we provide here and maybe hopefully show you some cool sites that you can use with your customers or help your customers know how they can find government information on their own. So yeah we've got a fairly large crew here and first off we'll just all introduce ourselves and I'll mention that the first four people are all people on the documents team what we call it around here and Emily is our cataloging librarian who's actually a colleague of Chris's on the network services team or whatever you guys are calling yourselves now. That's what we are for now. I'll just tell you a little bit about myself and I know some of you are regular so you've already seen me on a couple of these other ones and on the Meet the Commission one but I am Beth Goble and something that you might not all know about me is that I'm originally from Alberta Canada I have lived here for nearly 30 years and Nebraska and I've got two lovely granddaughters I always like to brag about and I've been doing something to do with government documents for most of my library career my very first job out of library school but and they didn't tell me this until the day I showed up for work and this was Kingston Public Library in Kingston Ontario Canada and I was the new reference librarian there and they said oh by the way we didn't tell you till you got here that you're gonna have to catalog our government documents oh and they were they were Ontario government documents and a few Canadian national government documents and we even got a few pamphlets from the US government so that was my first intro to government documents and hey I'm still doing it so they they can be pretty interesting didn't scare you away no and we kept most of them in this this dungeon down in the basement the the library was an old dairy building and there were no windows and and it was really like going down to a dungeon there but hey I came back so anyway that's me let Bonnie introduce herself and we'll just go around yeah I'm Bonnie Hanzel I've been with the library commission since 1997 yes prior to that I was in technical services at first-aid college library I am married and have three kids and some of you know her from the terror board they didn't want you to see him today I'm Laurie sailors and I've been at the library commission since 1979 I think our director Rod Wagner and Laurie and Burn bias or maybe the three it's Rod Burn and I so in that order okay I've worked in government documents the whole time they've been there so you know a little bit would say that one time that now it's strictly federal and manuals and I have been with the commission for eight years and I am married and have a seven-year-old daughter I'm Emily names the content I'm probably the newest one here I just started at the commission last October I'm cataloging librarian and I make sure all the good docs are accessible through our catalogs and I am married with no kids just a cat okay oh this is Beth yeah I'm married too I didn't intentionally leave that out I am and I've got a cat in a dog so there you go I'm a legitimate librarian I've got pets okay yeah next slide and some of you I think Ellen you may have been watching these just about from day one is this is the mug shot of the documents team so you can see for yourself who we all are and my apologies Emily's not in here but as I mentioned actually she's she's in a different she is in a different team but she's still part of our team too so we'll just move on now and tell you a little bit about the Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse Service and keep going she's moving my coffee cup well this way you can talk yeah right the reason we're called the Nebraska Publications Clearinghouse Service is because that was the name of the service that was set up in 1972 by a state statute that directed the library commission to begin this Clearinghouse Service and to do two things and one of them was that we would become a depository library with the federal depository program and the other one was that we would become we would start ourselves a Nebraska Publications program so as far as the federal depository program goes as we we were a very large selective in fact at one time and Lori can chime in because she knows everything about yeah we were actually a joint regional with University of Nebraska Lincoln although I suppose that wasn't we weren't legally a joint regional because I think that's still an issue with the feds and that's all technical stuff that probably doesn't interest you but at any rate there was a time when we were selecting 100% of the documents that were put in the federal depository program and that is a program that is run by the government printing office in Washington DC and most federal agencies are directed to provide copies of publications that they produced and I think it's the same kind of criteria that we would use it can be statutes reports things that are multiply produced and intended for public distribution so you know the classified CIA reports are not going to be in there and there's always lots of controversy about what gets in the program and what doesn't but it is thousands and thousands of things every year well back in the 80s I believe we just didn't have room for all those documents so we the University of Nebraska Lincoln became the regional depository which means they do they're required to get 100% of everything that's put in the program and we became a selective and over the years we have cutback on our selection profile and we did a big cutback a few years ago because we're close enough to the UNL library that we don't need to be both collecting a lot of the same things so we're now pretty small we collect about 2% of what is put in the program so just as an example last year we added less than 800 documents and there were years ago it was thousands and now it's we concentrate on things that our customers are most likely to need so that's what we get for the federal depository program and I'm going to show you a couple of resources related to the government printing office later on another thing and Lori's going to have to help in with this because I didn't look up the date when we became a census data center back in the 80s okay that's a good decade that was a good decade no it was prior to 80 because they were in the 80s census okay we as far as I know this is something that is is that is operated through the census the federal Census Bureau and every state has a census data center and actually we are not the center we are what's called a census data affiliate so the the center is located at the Center for Public Affairs Research at UNO and it is now I think it was at UNL at one time it's now at UNO and we are an affiliate and that just means that we have agreed that we will provide census information and information services for people in this area so we we work with them and they have an annual conference every year that we attend or if somebody comes from the Census Bureau and gives us an update on what's new with the census and if we have time today I'll probably give you a quick tour of the census website too so the one that we currently spend the most most of our time on is the Nebraska Publications Program and that is something that we were directed to do and what we do is collect publications from Nebraska State Agency so we are like the GPO for the state of Nebraska and we collect things that are multiply produced and intended for public distribution so a lot of annual reports we still get newsletters we get directories and you're gonna see one that Bonnie is gonna show you later and we have a pretty large collection of those now and we don't weed those when we get those we are committed to keeping those forever so that they'll be available to Nebraska and so right now we have about 153,000 state publications in our collection and we used to do a microfiche distribution program to 13 other depository libraries and back in 2005 we started doing something different with those we still have a good relationship with those depositories but we've expanded the program and it's now an EPUBs program and I think at this point I'm gonna give Bonnie a chance to tell you a little bit about that she's the one who's responsible for that. Okay the E publications program is what I do is I basically will go out and search the agency websites and find out if the document is electronic and if it is I will download make a copy of their file and download it to our server so that way we can guarantee that it we downloaded to our server so that we know that it will not disappear and another thing I do is instead of the microfiche program we now do a CD that is distributed to the depositories that want one. Basically we have only four that are asking for it mainly the university. Mainly the universities but one good thing about the EPUBs program is even if you're not a depository you can still have access to those electronic documents because they are put in our catalog and we do have an update list that is on the EPUBs site. I think as Krista tells you every week that the links that we're going to be going to today most of them are on our delicious account so we'll be able to see them later. Okay this outlines pretty much what our program is about. Can you scroll down? What was the update part? There's the eDoc alerts list is something that I put up and it will it's a listing of all the new documents that we've added to our catalog and are available online. Can you click on the update? These are the most recent ones that have been collected and burned onto a CD and it's this list will stay up there and you can you should be able to go directly to the images from here and this would be what you would come up with the electronic version of the biennial report. I think it's all public library folks listening in today and I don't know how often you might get asked for this kind of information but if one Bonnie maybe taking some words out of her mouth but one of the advantages to this ePubs program is that you don't have to be a depository library to use these. You can go in and look at these eDocs alert lists you'll see those same URLs and what's up doc and we'll show you that in a minute to our blog that has listings in it and you can take the you can download those records into your own online catalog so if there's certain things that you know your customers would really be looking for you don't have to take them all you could be selective and actually we'll give you the OCLC numbers so you could actually add selectively add some of these online publications to your own catalog. In the alert list there are serial like the annual reports and stuff there's one there wouldn't be one link that would give them a list of all. It's a little hard to see here and you'll be able to see better. The audit report of the state college system go to that one it's an HTML you would get instead of the going directly to the document it would bring up a listing of all the reports that we have electronically for each year not what you only have to go and you're not trying to decide which is the most recent because it will show you which one is newest. So personally for some reason you wanted to have the audit reports of the state college system in your catalog that's the URL you could use and then you would never have to go in and change it because Bonnie just keeps adding to it every time she gets a new one. So for now that probably tells you enough about the the state e-pubs program. Yeah I thought maybe Jennifer and I could both talk about this. We used to have a by monthly publication called what's up jock we are actually required by that state statute to maintain a listing of all the new state government publications that we received. So we used to do it as a newsletter that came out every other month and a few months back we changed it to a blog and it gives you exactly the same information it also has some news items in there. Yeah I just put up a posting about the Google data search being launched which is kind of a cool thing you can do with Google now to look for mainly statistics from the the federal government and then not you see links like this if you want to just click on that one that says new publications received. Yeah and Jennifer can tell you a little bit about this she prepares these lists. Well I just um to type up these lists of the publications that you know the state publications that we received. There's very few federal publications that go in there anymore since we don't select very many and I just type up this list and here it is. And it looks a lot like those that Bonnie was showing you. You can see the LC numbers in there and also the hot link to it and you can easily see the difference between the ones that end in HTML those are the ones that are going to go to one of those index type lists so there's probably going to be multiple ones and if it just says PDF at the end that means we don't um it's just a one-time publication so far and eventually Bonnie might make an index page if we get more of them. So that's another way you could find out what if you saw something in here that you're interested in adding to your own catalog that would give you an idea of what they what they are and that's probably about all we need to say about what's up doc right now you can find what's up doc from our main from that EPUB's page that Bonnie just showed you we linked to it from there you can also find it from the main library commission site just like I think if you went to our publications and you could find it from there too and I'm assuming you could find it by searching too yeah so now the that link goes to the blog and then archived issues goes to when we were still producing individual print issues that's our way of letting people know what's new at the library commission so and Laurie probably remembers coming up with that name what's up doc that was that was even before Laurie okay okay okay okay so why don't we go to the the next slide see the PowerPoint now we're going to get into the fun stuff that you'll find more useful probably and that is what government information services you can get or you can refer your customers to from the library commission and I'm hoping that you all know about the ask a librarian link that's directly off the nlc website and why don't we just go there and I'm not if you don't mind yeah that one okay and hopefully you're all familiar with this that you can use this to chat with us you can use it to email with us and as far as the government information goes it's there aren't separate people here who only answer government information type questions is myself and Lisa and Julie are the ones that that get your emails if you use this online form and I know many of you use the same forms to submit questions you also use the interlibrary loan forms all that stuff goes to the same three people and the email for this one as you probably know is ready at nlc.state.ne.us you can chat we could chat if you want sure it's either Julie or Lisa they were kind of fighting about who was going to be down there at 9 30 so it's Lisa we just looked through the window we're any of you that ever been have been here our meeting rooms got windows where you can see down into the reference area hi okay just telling him yeah you just did okay and then of course you can call us on our 800 number and so on so we can just go say goodbye to them for now okay yeah and just go back to our slide oh yeah well or I can just well another thing that that is interesting I guess about about our service is we lend out just pretty much everything we have a very few things that we don't lend out like the US code in print which is the US statutes but nearly all of our collection is for loan so in addition to all those electronic publications Bonnie makes sure that we have a print copy as well and a lot of times I think she has to print that off from the agency's website because they're not as good as they used to be about supplying us with print copies of stuff that oh well it's on the internet you know they don't have to give it to us but so there is a very large collection there and just about all of it is for loan and we have things that probably other libraries have but they wouldn't lend out we even have a set of the of the Nebraska statutes that we lend out and we also get as part of our program we've really had great collaboration with the University of Nebraska press and we have a really large collection to going back to 1972 of University of Nebraska press publications we're a little selective about which ones we get from them but we do we do you can either interlibrary loan that through regular interlibrary loan channels or you can actually tell your your customers they can do direct loan with us in other words they can just phone us up or email with us and we'll do a direct loan and they don't have to go through their home library for an interlibrary loan we'll do it direct and of course it's all free we will do a certain amount of government information research for people this is an exception to our usual ready reference where if it's just somebody coming in to ask us anything at all we would probably not spend more than five or ten minutes on it but if it's government information we do a few things that are a little more lengthy and one of those is they're called legislative history and Laurie has been through the trenches with how to do a legislative history on with federal documents but does anybody know what a legislative history is anybody out there you can answer um in the text chat if you do know or if you want to guess I suppose yeah well I again I don't know how likely this would happen in your library that if somebody came to you and said I want to know the history of how the legislature passed the the smoking ban the statewide smoking ban and supposing it was like three years from now and they're asking about that what you would have to do is is find copies of the legislative journal and find the days that that was discussed in a committee meeting or on the floor of the legislature you'd have to get the number of the bill that's all the type of research you'd have to do and we actually have microfilm here that we buy from the clerk of the legislature that's got transcripts of the floor debates on the legislature and very few libraries have that we're one of only six in the state that has those and we also have transcripts of the committee hearings so doing a legislative history for somebody on a bill is a fairly time-consuming process and I'm not saying we do a lot of these but we will spend probably up to an hour hour and a half just on on it or we'll invite somebody to come in and we'll help them use the microfilm here so we'll do we'll do more extensive government research than we would just for regular ready reference things okay now um we want to talk a little bit about some other services that we do and I wanted to turn over this over to Jennifer now and talk about some of the special things we do for people I have been doing some scanning we're doing the governor's addresses to the legislature and I think if you go to Nebraska access okay we can show you how to find that and you scroll down to the search and then um type in governor now we're going to use the Nebraska access the jumping off point for a lot of uh the things we're going to show you today and it's the second one down where can I find the governor's address to the legislature and right now we just have up there so 2003 but I have scanned several more back to the 40s I believe but just have not been put on up there yet so we'll be getting those up there soon and also I keep um I keep a site up called legislature's past and present while you're navigating to that I'll just jump in and say the reason why this little website exists is we create these little websites in the brass access it used to be called best of a web um it's it's based on customer customers asking us we've been asked several times about for inaugural addresses and they're oftentimes they're graduate students sometimes from other states that are doing research and as I mentioned it can be pretty time consuming to dig out those legislative journals that's where these are these features and photocopy them and fax them to somebody so we're being more proactive now with this type of thing is if somebody's asked us for it several times well we might as well get them up on the web so that other people can find them okay and then for the legislators past and present the site just type in senator and first one where is the list of Nebraska senators and this list is just all of the senators past present and this is jennifer's site that she asked to do just some basic information of when they the time they served on this you can search it what it does it just right now it just jumps you to the letter of the outfit so you have to scroll down to find the next type in so that it will take you just to that letter again it's not a very precise search and then you just have to scroll down to find 30 I'll do a control F to get there and this list is getting longer and longer we do have plans to turn this into an ASP database that will do more precise searching but we found genealogists like this site because it's um we're hoping to take it further back in time right now it just goes back to the unicameral 1937 but we'd like to get all of the state legislators in there eventually and there are thousands of them it's amazing when you go farther back just how many there are that's an example those are two examples of sort of special projects we do uh or the standing on demand as we call it when we when christa did that that search um further back that uh showed you the governor's addresses there was also one there called governor's executive orders and that's was one that bonnie created by scanning um governor's executive orders that top one so we don't need to spend a lot of time on it but that's just a so some of these pages are actually the result of some scanning work that's been done for us there's now one on with uh biographies from nebraska blue books that julie has worked on so that's part of our services so let's move on next slide i bet this is exactly the same list you have except maybe you leave genealogy on your list is that so do any of you do legal consultations or medical consultations i sure hope not and uh the reason genealogy is on there is simply because we don't have genealogical resources at the library commission other than those nebraska blue books that have um pictures of state legislators we really don't have much here that would help a genealogist so we spend more time referring them to other places that have that information we can move on okay now uh we just want to show you a couple of uh we're gonna go back to nebraska access um we're gonna do a search so i will mention while we're over there just scroll back up in nebraska access in case we run out of time you see that there's a we have a a lot of web pages in nebraska access that are state government related and federal government related we also have this thing called a related resource over on the side that state government publications and if you clicked on that that will go directly to an online list that's maintained by bonnie of state government publications so that's a quick way to find state pops online is you can link to it you can find it directly from nebraska access and we will come back to that in a minute so going down and searching using the search box i said we've got a lot of federal state and local level websites so i thought i just um i looked at our twitter account to see what kind of questions we've been getting and we've had just in the last week it's been really busy we've had about 40 questions that came in one way or another and i would say at least 30 of them were government information related and one that we've had twice in the last week sadly is how do i get on food stamps so i added some more information to nebraska access and that's a few typed in food stamps and you know anybody can use this um then you get to one of our pages and i added you might have to do a control to find it but um um yeah yeah right yeah and they have if you went to that page there's a link there because both both questions i got was how do i apply online and they have i believe they have a food stamp link here and if you if you went there they actually have online forms that people can fill out and print off and then they're supposed to mail them or take them to their local um health and human services office and there's also a link to where those offices are so i don't know if you all are getting questions like that with the economy the way it is but we're sure seeing a lot of those kinds of questions now yeah okay um we're also getting a question we get questions on tax forms and we don't need to go through them all but the same kind of thing if you get asked for tax forms you could use the just use that search box and type in tax forms and you would find ways to find both federal and state tax forms and sometimes we get really specific questions we had one last week on i have new employees that had asked about publication 919 and 972 when completing your w4s and we get some really specific questions so we try to have resources like this available um oh just last week we had how to get unclaimed property and we're not going to search in all these because it's two questions on food stamps reverse certificates death certificates that's when we get a lot both from genealogists and other people just needing copies of their own maybe because they're trying to get on the social services and they need those that information property tax information or property assessments we've got a there are a lot of different assessors in the counties now that have their property assessment values up online and one of my kids is now shopping for a house so every time he goes to an open house and we get back in on the Lancaster County property assessment site to find out what the assessor says the house is worth so that can all be found just by searching in Nebraska access okay let's go to the next slide I would be remiss if I didn't show you the official state of Nebraska website and it's there's its url there so if we could go to that website but some of you may have been here a lot of the questions we get are from people who have been on this site and not found what they needed yet so they're they ask us a question it does take a long time to load they have a lot of graphics it's very graphics heavy yeah so I would encourage you to go and take a tour of it uh while we're waiting for it to come up I can tell you that they group the services on there across the top basically by who you are are you a citizen are you a business person are you somebody who's moving to Nebraska are you a visitor who's just looking for tourism type information you can see those links there they do that um they've also got um yeah we don't need to go into those in any depth I did want to show you that they have um some how do eyes a little further down and if you go to and these are customized depending on which user group you're in so you can see how they change when you go in there and actually some of those link back to some of our Nebraska access stages so we do work in cooperation with them and if you want to just click on the more how do eyes for businesses there uh oh okay it's really hard to see because they've chosen to do this black background but in that upper right hand corner there's that stack of books and it says reference desk well that's us and so we're getting more and more of of those we had this goes to a different email address that still goes back to Beth and Lisa and Julie or Lisa Julie and Beth whoever depending what day it is um it's just got a slightly different uh address so we can track whether or not they're coming off of this page so we could go ahead and chat with uh it's Lisa right yeah so we won't I don't have to bother again you don't have to bother again um but in April we had uh 44 questions that we know came in off of this site from people in I don't know that was March in April we had about 30 and so far in May things are really ramping up we've had 21 questions that we know came in off of off of there so you can refer people to ask questions from there too and now I'm going to turn it over to the rest of the folks here and they're going to talk about their favorites I have a funny story about the world back book I've worked with government publications federal documents like I said since the dawn of time and one day my daughter decided that she had to do well she had to do a report on a another country comes home and she told me about this new website that they found and all this wonderful information but it was top secret for just you know certain kids in her class well it ended up being the world back book which has been out there in print and is now only available online so we can take a look at it are any of you familiar with the world back book nobody's talking to okay from this page you can select a country up from the top and I'm just gonna we're just gonna select Afghanistan because it's kind of a popular topic right now just to give you an idea what's kind of on here you'll always get a map at the beginning of the page and if you want okay okay there's always a map on the first page and then as you go through it you will get all the little information that you need like the background of the country the economics what they you know how much land you know it's like right here it's a slightly smaller than Texas every I don't know where they get this information but they have it they have the climate they have whatever and usually when your child or your somebody comes in they have to know the terrain the climate the economics the how much money they make per person everything and this is really a good publication that will give you just the basic facts of what you want for a country and so like here's the birth rates the death rates the median age you know look at that 17 years they only live to like 40 something I think in Afghanistan that's the average age life expectancy 44.64 years this is that's just amazing and it's probably because of all the fighting and stuff over there I don't know that was an editorial comment but anyway if you ever have anybody who comes into your library and is looking for you know pretty can you know information about a country and they don't need long editorials or whatever this is a great publication that you can refer your people to so you could use the search box in Nebraska access so you essentially get navigated to this publication yeah yeah because we do have a page in there that's a link to federal resources and this is one of the have listed on there so you don't have to remember the best you can find it by in the grass to access but it's the on here you also have the flags of the world there's a lot more information that you know and you can also download this publication if you really wanted to and have it you know accessible without going online so there's a lot a lot of there you know there's a lot of good information on there but I had to tell you my story about my daughter okay I'm passing this on and Bonnie's gonna tell you how to snoop on some of your France right one of one of the most um weighted on state documents comes out about every August or September and that's the University of Nebraska personnel roster and I have people starting end of July emailing me when's it gonna be out when's it gonna be out because I'm the only one who puts it up it is not available electronically through the university no they tell people to they tell people to check with us yeah so this is it gives listings of all of their personnel and what their salaries are do you want to search anybody you can find out exactly how much they make and you it should be keyword searchable so if you go there and search polinbo Polini P. E. L. I just want L I'm a bad we figured he stayed because it could be well known in ways this is a fairly large document through several hundred pages so they made to take a while for you to load yeah this is one publication that the university does not make electronic so it's one of my big scanning projects every year I didn't know his name was really mark well this is a fond of information look oh and I saw that one million one million yeah one foot one three eight five there you go this is when I get a lot of emails prior to it it's going up I think this last year I had maybe eight to a dozen people wanting to know when it was going to be available and they just will not wait so this this has the entire annual system for you and k the med center you and oh you and i don't lock out of it hold on it okay a typical nickname between the mark anybody no worries from it's a little hot might have been a name in both his name I think his real name is mark Anthony because his dad's name was made up okay well maybe your name was mark Anthony that's a rather inauspicious name if you know anything about about world like history his fate wasn't too good okay that's my one of my top one so I think Emily's turn now sure okay what I'm showing off is not so much a favorite resource is just I wanted to make sure everybody was aware of the fact that these resources are also available through the library commission's catalog on our website so if you would take us out to the homepage yeah and search the catalog along the side there it is okay eventually I'm not as good as Beth would come here with filler material here there we go okay um if you do a title search for uh Nebraska population report in quotation marks and probably held I'll let him close I feel like it does this out and you get a bunch of other ones I don't think it's simple on people um no s I don't think at least reports yeah I kind of went through my recent things I was working on in the fine one we have to say since Emily joined us you know we need most of you probably know that Debra Riggles was in that transition period when moved on so to speak and we did get a bit of a backlog of eight combinations but since she's been here I don't know how many hundreds she's cataloged but I think we're up to pretty current staff now okay so if you click on the details button this you'll get the full record basically just want to point out you'll see up at the top it shows print copies are available but if you scroll down on the whole record the big whole page yeah there's also the web link at the bottom and this is where all Bonnie's hard work with the e-pubs comes in something like this you'll see is an html so it has the index page which will be updated by Bonnie so it's continually current in our records and so that's just a quick example of what you'll find if you come to our catalog I'll tell you note you may see again here here's that ask the librarian chat box that we were playing with on the other page it's all every page apparently not every page now on the catalog I guess yeah um so anytime you're in here and you're like I'm not sure I don't know how do I use this type in there and Lisa who's down there or whoever's on the desk can answer chat with you right here from within our catalog if you're having trouble or questions about how to navigate it and get around it it's also really nice when it comes up when you get a search that has no results yes we do if it's working properly actually you don't see that when we're closed so you're right that if you're if there's nobody on duty you won't see that because yeah you can't see anything so we're not and if we don't want to disappoint people if you know they try to chat and nobody answered that's that doesn't look too good so it should only show up when there's actually somebody there who can chat I'm done okay okay does anybody have any questions for us okay does anybody have any questions about anything they talked about today um for anybody here or anything they didn't talk about that maybe you were wanting to hear about feel free to um go ahead and type into the text chat any questions you might have we can wait for you to do that okay um I had one more page I just wanted to let you know about if we had time so uh Christa this you can just get to this from the main nlc page it's I didn't give Christa this link because I wasn't sure if you were going to have time to get to it so if you just started here I went to search this site and just typed in government resources let's see what happens okay um that's actually not the one I want so would you back out of here I'm gonna do a search of here or no I want you to use the links for librarians instead yeah that one you know we've made some changes to our website and we've now kind of split out some of the things that used to be in what we used to call best of the web the ones that are more librarian related uh are now uh in this section called links for librarians so if you would do a search in there and now type government resources that's weird um it worked for you right that's what you wanted right yes and I think I must have put in references resources for reference librarians in a prior search and it came up higher but anyway I just wanted to show you where this is this is a little page that I put together quite a long time ago but I I've tried to keep it updated and if you want to scroll down a little bit because it actually has links to a lot of the stuff that we talked about today so this could be if you wanted to bookmark this page for some reason this goes to some of our favorites uh that eef pubs program um a couple of other pages I've put together uh there's one government links for kids that might interest you there that I just thought we probably wouldn't have time to show you that today but that has both some federal and the end's guide to U.S. government is done by the government printing office and it's a really good site 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Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Iyer's Academy. Displayed are the list of news articles selected for today's analysis and their page numbers in Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram editions of the newspaper. The link for the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the news articles are provided in the description box and the time stamping for the benefit of smartphone users is been provided in the comment section. Now let us move on to the first news article. This news article is with reference to the update process in the state of Assam in the National Register of Citizens. The news article states that a guide has been published to check the names in the final NRC that is to be released in two days that is on August 31, 2019. The news article also talks about supplementary list of inclusions or exclusion status. The article mentions that this list is for three category of persons. One set of persons who have submitted claims after the exclusion of their names in the final draft released on July 30, 2018. And this list will also contain the status of those persons against whom some objections were filed against the inclusions of their names in the final draft published on July 30, 2018. And this list will also give the status of those persons whose names were excluded through the additional draft exclusions list that was published on June 26, 2019. See, after the publication of final draft of NRCSM that was carried out on July 30, 2018, this publication was followed by process of claims and objections. Those persons whose names were excluded, they claimed that they have to be included. And some persons felt that the names of certain persons are wrongly included, meaning so and so is an illegal immigrant, but his name is included. So I object the inclusion of his name. That is what we mean when we say objection.  The news article mentions that the NRC was carried out in Assam in 1951 and we know that since 1947 Assam has been facing the problem of immigrants from the territory of East Pakistan. And this is because of partition of India and Pakistan. And way back in 1950, we had a legislation called as the Immigrant's Expulsion from Assam Act of 1950. This law was enacted to protect the indigenous inhabitants of Assam. And if you see since 1947 to 1971, there were large scale migrations from East Pakistan to Assam. But from the day when Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight in then territory of East Pakistan and the present day Bangladesh, it was from this day huge number of illegal immigrants came from Bangladesh to the state of Assam. And that is one of the reasons why any person who came to India on or after March 25, 1971 has to be detected and deported from India. And after this in the year 1978-79, all Assam student union and few other indigenous organizations have found the names of large number of illegal immigrants in the electoral roles. And they asked how the names of illegal immigrants who are not citizens of India, how can their names be included in the electoral roles. From this moment, they started the anti-foreigners movement or Assam Andolan. And this movement started in 1979. It came to halt only in 1985 on the Independence Day of India with the signing of Assam Accord in the presence of then Prime Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. This Assam Accord was signed between All Assam Student Union, All Assam Ghana Sangram Parishit, the state government of Assam and the central government. This Assam Accord dealt with the foreigners issue about the safeguards and economic development of Indian citizens in Assam. And it also talked about other issues such as security and international border and about irregular issuance of Indian citizenship certificates and also about restricting the acquisition of immovable property by foreigners. All these things were dealt with and also it also talked about restoration of normalcy. That's why we said with the signing of Assam Accord, the anti-foreigners agitation came to a halt. In this Assam Accord, clause 5 dealt exclusively with the foreigners issue. It said that foreigners have to be detected and their names have to be deleted from the electoral rolls and they have to be expelled from the Indian territory in accordance with law. This is one of the reasons why we say the present update process is also because of government's commitment to implement Assam Accord. But even after the signing of Assam Accord, there was no strong implementation of identifying the illegal immigrants or depoting them. And therefore throughout the years, all Assam Student Union have been demanding the central government and the state governments to carry out the responsibilities as given in Assam Accord with respect to foreigners. Therefore in 2005, they arrived at a tripartite meeting. This meeting was held between the Prime Minister of India, the state government of Assam and the all Assam Student Union. Three parties in this meeting, the state government of Assam has agreed to update the National Register of Citizens 1951. So that was the development in 2005. Even after this, there was no strong measures taken against the foreigners or the illegal immigrants. And as a result, the Assam Public Works, which is an NGO, has filed a repetition in the Supreme Court in the year 2009. And following the orders of the Supreme Court, the state government of Assam has started the pilot projects to update NRC in two blocks in the state. However, because of law and order problems, these projects were stopped. And afterwards in 2013, in the same petition filed by Assam Public Works NGO, the Supreme Court issued orders to carry out the update process in NRC. And as a result of the order in 2013, the state government of Assam has started updating NRC since 2015 by calling out applications. And this process, which began in 2015 in two days, is going to end with the publication of final NRC for Assam. And one another news article states that the year 1971 cannot be the base year for determining the illegal immigrants. So they are saying that even though the state government publishes the updated NRC on August 31, this cannot be considered as a final updated NRC. This is because they are saying that the Supreme Court has not yet given its verdict on the petition filed by Assam Sunmilita Magasanga, which is an umbrella organization of several indigenous groups. So they are demanding that the cut off year should be 1951 and there should not be any special consideration for illegal immigrants in the state of Assam. Because only for the state of Assam, the citizenship criteria extends till 24th March of 1971, which is not the case for any other state in India. So they claim the equality has to be maintained according to the constitutional provisions and also according to the Citizenship Act of 1955. So these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of these news articles. Now let's move on to the next article. This news article discusses about the recent upgradation in the protection status for certain animals in the sites international agreement. During the analysis on August 9, we saw that India has proposed to upgrade the protection status of certain animals and also plants. And today's news article mentions that India's proposal has been approved by the concerned authorities and framework related to the sites agreement. Now sites is the acronym for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. It's not an organization, it is an international agreement. We know that thousands of plant and animal species are internationally traded and used by people in their daily lives for various purposes, maybe for food, for medicinal purposes, for housing. Housing is for plant species and as tourist soveness, cosmetics, fashion and for also as pets. But some aspects of the trade with respect to certain animals threaten their very survival. Countering this threat by regulating the international trade in these wild plant and animal species is the main ambition of the sites agreement. Sites regulates international trade in around some 35,000 species of plants and animals including their products and derivatives. Thereby it ensures the survival of plant and animal species in the wild. This will ultimately result into protection of global environment and it also gives benefits to the livelihood of local people. See, rural communities in certain parts of the world, they depend heavily on wild species of plants and animals for their livelihoods. There are two things with respect to this. One, say for example, they grow a certain plant variety and they earn money through it and two, they grow a certain plant variety to that extent that the plant becomes threatened. So in such cases, the sites framework promotes alternatives to such communities that will focus on conserving the threatened species by giving protection and trade. At the same time, empowering the rural communities with alternative mechanisms, they may suggest some opportunities to go for other crops that may yield better money for the rural communities and rural communities can also be used for conservation of endangered species of wild flora and fauna and most of the rural communities that we here talk about will be of tribal population or indigenous communities. They depend on the ecosystem for wild flora and fauna species and when this ecosystem is preserved, it is expected that the local population dependent on the ecosystem will have a sustainable livelihood. In some places, the local communities are also used for conservation activities and they are being paid for that. They are also used for community based protection and they are also given salary allowances for that. These are also some kind of approaches that promotes livelihood of local communities. The agreement was signed in Washington, DC in the year 1973 and it entered into force in 1975. We already have seen in several our analysis that any country or a regional economic integration organization can be a party to this agreement with respect to India's position. India has become party in 1976. Whether there is any regional economic integration organization in this agreement, yes, European Union is there. It has become a party under this agreement in 2015. So as of now, there are more than 180 parties. They say 183 parties. These parties to this convention meet together once in three years, ABC and three. So they meet once in three years and the parties to this convention are called as Conference of Parties. For the last three days, we have been seeing about COP. First, we saw about COP of UN of CCC. Yesterday, we saw about COP of UNCCD. Today, we are seeing COP of SITES. So the COP of SITES meets once in three years. And the 18th meeting of Conference of Parties of SITES happened at Geneva and Switzerland in this month till yesterday. It is in this COP 18, India's proposal for protection of certain species has been approved. Before entering into the news, we'll also see briefly about the three appendices under which SITES regulate and protect the international trade in wild flora and fauna. Appendix one is the highest level of protection. It includes species that are threatened with extinction. Trade in these specimens are permitted only in exceptional circumstances. For example, scientific research. Permits has to be issued by the exporting and importing states. And permits has to be issued only for scientific research. And in the case of a live animal or plant, the process of shipping has to take care of minimizing damage and ensuring health and preventing any cruel treatment. Coming to appendix two, this includes those species that are not necessarily threatened with extinction. However, trade in these species has to be controlled so that these species could be used in a compatible manner, not threatening the survival of these species. And appendix three consists of the species that are protected in at least one country. And these countries would have asked other parties to the SITES convention to assist in controlling the trade in such specimens. On 9th August, we saw that India has proposed to SITES to upgrade the protection status of three animals from appendix two to appendix one. They are star tortoises, the smooth-coated otter, small cloud otters. These species are now listed under appendix one of SITES after the 18th COP.  The news article has also mentioned the comments of the head of Traffic India. See, Traffic is a leading non-governmental organization that is working globally on trade in wild animals and plants in the context of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. So it's an international wildlife trade monitoring network. Now let's see in brief some of the animals mentioned in the news article. First, let's see about star tortoise. Now the scientific name of star tortoises, geocolony elegans. It's a medium-sized tortoise that can be found in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. And within India, it can be found in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Odisha. Some of their present threats include illegal collection, loss of habitat, accidental deaths in road accidents. And they are also kept as pets in many homes because they believe that they bring good luck and fortune by taking them from the wild and keeping it in their homes. And it is said that in terms of numbers, Indian star tortoises is the single most confiscated species of tortoises in the global illegal wildlife trade. It is said that 90% of trade of star tortoises occurs at part of the international pet market. Possessing this species as pet in India is illegal. And we have been seeing in newspapers of several cases being reported with respect to protection under national legislation, that is Indian Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. Star tortoises are placed under schedule four of the WPA 1972. And in IUCN Red List, this species has been listed as vulnerable. And IUCN predicts that if the exploitation of star tortoises continue, there will be a decline of more than 30% of their numbers by the year 2025. That means by 2025, all the dependent organisms of star tortoises will also be threatened. So earlier it was placed in appendix two. There was only controlled trade. Now it is moved to appendix one for better protection within sites framework. Now let's see smooth coated otter. Its scientific name is Lutrogale perspicillata. This otter type is found in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Iraq, and also in majority of Southeast Asian nations. Listed under schedule two of WPA 1972 comes under vulnerable category in IUCN Red List. Now we'll see small clod otters. Its scientific name is Anoics Cinerius. This animal can be found in most of the Southeast Asian nations and South Asian nations. We can see it in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, China. It is protected under schedule one of Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. Listed as vulnerable in IUCN Red List. One side they are facing loss of habitat. Their population is declining. On the other hand, these type of otters are traded internationally for their fur. Anyhow, both these otters have been upgraded from appendix two to appendix one in sites agreement. One more animal is mentioned in news article that is toque gecos. It is now included in appendix two of sites. So that means trade has to be controlled in this species so that the trade is compatible in a way that it does not threatens the survival of the species in the future. Gecko is a nocturnal and highly vocal lizard. Nocturnal means the lizard is active in night. The scientific name is Gecko Gecko. They are classified as least concern under the IUCN Red List. It is reported that they are sold in the open in some South Asian countries for pet trade and also for medicinal purposes. But now the inclusion in sites appendix two will bring some control and restriction on the sale. So we saw about star tortoise. We saw about sites. We saw about the three lists. We saw about smooth coated otters, small clod otters. We also saw toque gecko. So these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this news article. Now let's move on to next article. This news article talks about a recent statement made by the speaker of the House of the People. He has said that a common code of conduct will be framed for legislative bodies in India. So generally when we say a code of conduct it means it will have some collection of rules and regulations. And the relevant stakeholders to whom the code of conduct will be applicable are expected to follow the code. Say for example we have model code of conduct for elections and the electoral candidates and the people are expected to follow accordingly as mentioned in MCC with respect to elections. The news article talks about Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, India region and that the speaker, Lokshaba speaker has presided over the meetings of the Executive Committee. This meeting was held in Parliament House in New Delhi. One of the main purpose of introducing or framing a common code of conduct is to check interruptions caused by the members of the legislative bodies. Here when we say legislative bodies it includes lower house and upper house of Parliament that is Lokshaba and Rajesh Shaba. And in terms of states it includes state legislative assembly and legislative council of all states. So who will be playing a very important role in framing this common code of conduct? The presiding officer of Lokshaba has stated that a committee of presiding officers will be formed. Here presiding officers means it includes speaker of Lokshaba, the chairman of Rajesh Shaba and the speakers of various state legislative assemblies and the chairman of the state legislative councils. By the end of this year they will present their report based on which a common code of conduct will be developed. Now if you come to Rajesh Shaba or the council of states, there is a code of conduct. There is a code of conduct. This was introduced in Rajesh Shaba in 2005. There are some 14 principles under this code of conduct which the members of Rajesh Shaba are expected to follow. But if you come to Lokshaba there is no exclusive code of conduct similar to the one that is present in Rajesh Shaba. But in Lokshaba there is rules of procedure and conduct of business in Lokshaba. Under this rule 316 capital B describes the functions of the committee on ethics in Lokshaba. One of the functions of this committee is to formulate a code of conduct for members and to suggest amendments or additions to the code of conduct from time to time. However note that no code of conduct has been formulated for Lokshaba till now. The news article mentions that there is a consensus among the presiding officers of legislative bodies in India to increase the number of sittings of legislative bodies and also to increase the productivity of legislative work. When we say legislative work it includes discussion with respect to introduction of bills, statement and objects, whether there are any issues with respect to bills, any amendment required, any amendment not required, the positives and negatives, debates and then passing of a concerned bill. All these things are included in the legislative work. And legislative bodies say parliament or state legislatures. They are also called as representative institutions. These are called as representative institutions because the members are directly or indirectly elected and they represent the people in these institutions. The presiding officers have also agreed that there should not be disruptions or interruptions and issues have to be constructively discussed and debated in the legislative bodies. Reports say that in the 16th Lokshaba around 16% of the scheduled time was lost due to disruptions. In the case of 15th Lokshaba, about 37% of the scheduled time was lost due to disruptions and disruptions also cause delay in bringing policy or bringing a legislation and also to conduct the normal business of the legislative body or the house. This will reflect in delay in providing welfare to the people or it will also delay the governance reaching the people. Thus it will affect the governance process. It will also lead to wastage to the public exchequer and thereby the people's money is getting wasted. See this is because say for example, the house gathers for a day and lot of money is spent to ensure proper conduct of business for a scheduled day. But say the house is disrupted and nothing happens constructive on the particular day. That means whatever resources spent has become a waste. That is one of the way in which disruptions lead to wastage to the public exchequer. Now, while there is discussions on there is increased interruptions, there is increased disruptions. We should also keep in mind when framing the code of conduct, the presiding officers of the particular committee has to keep in mind, it should also adequately talk about the time that has to be given for the opposition parties. See opposition determines health of the democracy. Inclusive discussion is very important for our country where there are diverse populations, diverse communities. So the code of conduct should also have certain provisions with respect to having some ethical timeframe for opposition parties to give its remarks during a debate or a discussion also. And there has to be one of the reasons that are mentioned with respect to disruptions or interruptions is that because of lack of ethical conduct among the elected members to the legislative bodies. The news article talks about the Executive Committee meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association of Indian Region. See this Commonwealth Parliamentary Association is the voice of parliamentary democracy of the Commonwealth countries. That means members of the Commonwealth. When we say Commonwealth, it is also called as Commonwealth of Nations. During our daily analysis on 12th July, we discussed about Commonwealth of Nations with respect to the matter of including Maldives again into this group. Now the objective of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association is to promote rule of law and individual rights and freedoms and also to pursue the ideals of parliamentary democracy. This association consists of around 185 entities and these entities could be national level parliaments or subnational legislatures which are also called as provincial assemblies or state legislative assemblies, et cetera. But these entities must be those entities from the members of the Commonwealth. At present, if you see there are 53 countries that are members to the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association was originally established in the year 1911. At that time it was called as Empire Parliamentary Association. This name was changed in the year 1948. The name was changed to Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. It consists of nine regions. One of the region is India. The other regions are Africa, Asia, Australian region, no British islands and Mediterranean region, Canada, Caribbean, America's and Atlantic, Pacific and Southeast Asia. The headquarters of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association is located in London, United Kingdom. So these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this news article. Now let's move on to next article. This news article talks about a new study commissioned by the central government to assess the microbial diversity along the entire length of river Ganga. It is also said that the study will test whether the stretches of the river contain certain microbes that promote antibiotic resistance. When we say antibiotic resistance, it means the resistance offered by bacteria to the antibacterial drugs. Therefore, antibiotic resistance is a kind of antimicrobial resistance. Here the microbial is the bacteria. When there is antimicrobial resistance, it means that whatever the antimicrobial drug is given to the particular patient who is infected by a microbe, the microbe will adapt itself by taking certain modifications. Thereby, it will make the drug ineffective. This resistance is what we call as antimicrobial resistance. If the resistance is offered to antibiotics or antibacterial drugs, then it is called as antibiotic resistance. And those microorganisms that develop this resistance, antimicrobial resistance, are also referred as superbugs. And when we say antibiotics, and these are medicines that are used to prevent and also to treat bacterial infections. One or two examples for bacterial infections could be diphtheria or tetanus or even syphilis. Now, coming to the commissioned project, it is expected that the project duration will be two years and the project will be undertaken by scientists from Mothilal Nehru Institute of Technology in Allahabad, which is a public institution and the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute shortly called as NEERI, which is a research institute under CSIR, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and then Sardar Patel Institute of Science and Technology of Kaurakpur, along with two startup companies. It is said that the startup companies will provide genome sequencing services. The present study is also expected to involve mapping the genomes of microbes that are collected from the stretches of river Ganga. When we say genome of a particular organism, it will have the complete set of genes of the particular organism. Say for example, genome of bacteria will have the all set of genes of a particular bacteria. The genes of an organism are made up of deoxy, ribonucleic acid, that is DNA. And when we say genome sequencing, it is about figuring out the order of DNA nucleotides or DNA bases in a particular genome. That is, what is the order or sequence of adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine, the compounds that make up an organism's DNA. We said this study also involves mapping the genomes. A genome map actually helps the scientist to navigate around genome. It is a set of important information that will give information about genes, DNA sequences. It is said that it is less detailed than genome sequencing. A genome map is less detailed than genome sequencing. A genome map will give the location of genes and also the distance between genes. Now, the objectives of this research project or this new study is to indicate the type of contamination in river Ganga. And while attempting to study this, the research project will study the contribution of wastes from sewage collection and from industries, whether the wastes are released into the river after the treatment or before treatment, all these things will be studied. The study will also indicate the level of threat to human health because of the contamination of the river. This threat to human health has to be read with the antibiotic resistance. While attempting to research about this threat, they will also identify the sources of bacteria E. coli or Escherichia coli. See, this is a type of bacteria that lives in the stomach of animals and humans. The word gut is used to represent stomach or belly. These bacteria are largely harmless, but some species of E. coli have been linked to intestinal diseases and also for aggravating antibiotic resistance, thereby becoming a threat for human health. So in that case, if these species offer some resistance, then whatever medication we give to the particular patient, it will be made ineffective. One specialty with respect to the new study is that there have been several studies, but these studies have looked at the microbial diversity in isolated stretches, whereas our new study will be conducted throughout the entire stretch of river Ganga to the length of around 2,500 kilometers. Some of the previous researchers that were conducted along Ganga has said that the superbugs increase heavily during the pilgrimage months of May and June than in any other time of the year. One of the reasons is because of mass bathing in Ganga during these months, the time at which some of the antibiotics are released into water. And one another reason could be disposal of medical wastes. Somehow the antimicrobies or antimicrobial drugs come into contact with the bacteria that are already present in the river. In other cases, the antibiotics used in humans and animals are actually not completely broken down. So they eventually pass through the body and they enter the environment as waste. And if this environment is a river environment, they will interact with the bacteria that are already present there. So that bacteria will modify itself in its environment and develop the resistance to the antibacterial drug. Once the resistance is developed, the resistance can be passed from one bacterium to another. Now when people take baths or dips in the river as part of their pilgrim activities, the resistant bacteria enters human body and obviously it will lead to bacterial infections. But these infections cannot be treated with the existing drugs because these drugs will be made ineffective because of the resistance. So therefore the study aims to assess the microbial diversity and the contribution to the threats for human health. So these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this news article. Now let's move on to next article. This news article discusses about werewolf syndrome is also called as hyper trichosis. It's a very rare condition. Hyper means more. Trichosis means any abnormal condition of hair or any disease of hair. Hyper trichosis is excessive hair growth or too much hair growth. It can happen anywhere on the body for both male and female. Hyper trichosis can be classified based on the distribution in the body or it is also classified based on age of onset. In terms of distribution, if the condition is present throughout the body, it is called as generalized hyper trichosis. If it occurs only in a particular region of the body, it is called as localized hyper trichosis. If the condition is present since birth, then the condition is called as congenital hyper trichosis. If it is acquired, it is called as acquired hyper trichosis. The news article talks about acquired condition only. You will see that. And this condition is also classified based on type of hair that grows on the body. Wellless hyper trichosis or terminal hyper trichosis. Wellless hair means thin short hair. Terminal hair means long thick hair. The news article states that at least 17 children developed were-wolf syndrome in Spain as reported by the Health Ministry of Spain. Now this issue has happened because of a major medicine mix-up. See, children were given the wrong drug. Children were admitted for gastric reflux. Gastric reflux is the burning sensation in the chest and a sensation where one feels that contents in the stomach are in the throat. So the apt drug or the right drug to cure gastric reflux or to treat gastric reflux would be omprazole. But instead of giving this drug, they gave a drug that contained minoxidil. Now this minoxidil ingredient that is used for increasing the growth of hair or used for the treatment of hair loss and because of this wrong treatment, the parents started noticing hair growth in children and the problem here is some of the children were babies and because of this the condition has occurred all over the body for some children because of administering wrong drugs and therefore it is called as acquired generalized hyper trichosis. Now it is called as were-wolf syndrome because of abundance hair growth. These are some of the information with respect to this news article. Now let's see if you practice questions. Now this question is with reference to sites convention. They have given three statements and are asking which of the statements are correct. First statement, the convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora is an international agreement to regulate the international trade of plants and animals including their products and derivatives to ensure their survival in the wild. Now this statement is correct. Now the second statement, India is not a party to this agreement. Now we saw that India has been a party to this convention since 1976 after the agreement came into force in 1975. So the second statement is incorrect here. India is a party to this agreement or this convention. Third statement, once the second statement is wrong we can eliminate option B and option D and this increases our probability of attempting the correct answer to 50%. Now the third statement, appendix one includes species threatened with extinction and the trade in specimens of these species is permitted only in exceptional circumstances. As discussed the first and third statements are correct. Therefore option C is the correct answer. Which of the following animals are classified as vulnerable under the international union for conservation of nature? Red list of threatened species. Star tortoise, smooth coated otter, small clawed otter and toke gecko. During the analysis we saw that the first three animals are now protected under appendix one of sites convention as the 18th conference of the parties to sites convention recently approved India's proposal for better protection of these three animals. Star tortoise, smooth coated otter and small clawed otter. All these three animals are also listed as vulnerable in IUCN red list. Toke gecko has been listed as least concern. So therefore fourth point should not be there in options. So we can eliminate option C and D. So the correct answer for this question is option B one, two and three only. Now this question is with reference to common wealth parliamentary association. They have given two statements asking which of the above statements are not correct. Now the first statement, it is a voice of the parliamentary democracy across the world. See common wealth parliamentary association is the voice of parliamentary democracy across the common wealth countries. So the first statement is incorrect, not across the world. Now the second statement, the objective of the common wealth parliamentary association is to promote rule of law and individual rights and freedoms and also to pursue the ideals of parliamentary democracy. Now this statement is correct. So the incorrect statement is first statement. Therefore option A becomes correct answer. Now this question is with reference to werewolf syndrome. We saw this news article with reference to few kids in Spain getting affected by this syndrome because of medicine mix up or because of wrong treatment of gastric reflex. We saw that this syndrome is also called as hyper trichosis which refers to excessive hair growth. So therefore the correct answer for this question is option D, a medical condition that causes excessive hair growth in the human body. So the correct answer is option D. With this we have come to the end of our today's news analysis. If you like the video press the like button, comment, share and subscribe to Shankara AI's Academy YouTube channel for daily updates and content on civil service exam preparation.


Riot police reacted to protests after five people were injured in a knife attack in Central Dublin on November 23.Police said they had not ruled out any motive over, including whether it could be terror-related, the incident sparked clashes between riot police and a group of anti-immigrant protesters, who arrived on the scene near the main thoroughfare of O'Connell Street shortly after the attack.A police car and double-decker bus were burned out and windows smashed in at a nearby Holiday Inn. Hotel in McDonald's restaurant.A five-year-old girl was receiving emergency treatment after sustaining serious injuries in the stabbing. A man in his late 40s, also being treated for serious injuries, was arrested by police who said they are not looking for any other suspect.Police said it appeared the man attacked a number of people on Dublin's Parnell Square shortly after 1330 GMT. Members of the public intervened at an early stage of the attack.


Income tax 2021-2022, change an accounting method. Get ready to get refunds to the max diving into income tax 2021-2022. Most of this information can be found in Publication 334, Tax Guide for Small Business Tax Year 2021, looking at the income tax formula line 1, which would be supported by another schedule, basically an income statement, income and expenses. The expenses basically being deduction, the net then flowing in to line 1 of the income tax formula, as well as page 1 of the form 1040, the tax return. We have the schedule C, which would flow in then to the schedule 1, the schedule 1 flowing in then to the first page of the 1040 line number 8. This is the schedule C, the profit and loss for a business, basically an income statement. We're looking now at a change in accounting methods. So in prior presentations, we talked about a cash method, on a cruel method, a combination method. Now we're thinking about what if I need to change the method? What if I marked off the wrong thing? What if I changed my process of accounting in the future? Am I locked into whatever method I put on that first tax return? Because we saw that that was important. It's important to pick out the proper method when you make your first tax return, because if there's a problem with it, can you just change it? Willy to the nilly, willy-nilly? No, you can't. You've got to get permission. You might be able to get permission, but just realize that. So you want to get it right on the first one, and then if you need to get permission, then you've got to ask for it to change it. So changing an accounting method, once you have set up your accounting method, you must generally get IRS approval before you can change the accounting method, change to another accounting method. A change in accounting method includes a change in one, your overall method, such as from cash to an accrual method, and two, your treatment of a material item in it. So to get approval, you must file form 3-1-1-5 application for change in accounting method. You can get IRS approval to change an accounting method under either the automatic change procedures or the advanced consent request procedure. You may have to pay a user fee for more information. See the instructions for form 3-1-1-5. So if you pay them enough money and ask nicely, there might be a fee to it. You've got the schedule that you got to basically have here. Note that under certain circumstances, you would think they would be more likely to accept the change. So for example, if you're moving from a cash method to an accrual method, possibly because you have inventory or something like that, you would think the IRS would approve with that kind of change because typically, that lines up with the thought process of people with inventory and that change. If you're moving from an accrual method and you have inventory to a cash method or something like that, that might be a little bit more difficult of an argument to make as to the rationale from an IRS perspective. So automatic change procedure. Certain taxpayers can presume to have IRS approval to change their method of accounting. So you could just, I presumed, I presume that I have the IRS approval. So these would be methods that would be more kind of like automatic type of things where the IRS, you would think they would give the approval so that you can have the approval assumed. The approval is granted for the tax year for which the taxpayer requested a change, year of change, if the taxpayer complies with the provisions of the automatic change procedure. No user fee is required for an application filed under an automatic change procedure generally covered in Revenue Procedure 2015-13. So you can look that up on the IRS website, 2015-15IRB419, which is available at, you got the IRS website here. If you want to check that out, you could possibly just go to the IRS website and type it in there too, but you got this extension you could take a look at. Generally you must use Form 3-1-1-5 to request an automatic change for more information. You can see instructions for Form 3-1-1-5. So if you're going through this process, good luck, God bless, hope it goes well. Take a look at the instructions that Form 3-1-1-5, and they could find that on the IRS website, hopefully guiding you to success.


President of Azerbaijan sets condition for U.S. Secretary of State. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a phone call to President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. During the telephone conversation, President Ilham Aliyev said the latest statements and actions taken by the U.S. have seriously damaged Azerbaijan-U.S. relations. The head of state noted that the remarks about our country made by the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James O'Brien at the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe hearing on November 15, 2023 were biased, failed to reflect reality and were rejected by Azerbaijan. It was emphasised that the Azerbaijani side took note of the statement about cancelling the senior-level engagements with Azerbaijan and no chance of business as usual and responded adequately. President Ilham Aliyev reminded that Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on this matter on the 16th of November and that Azerbaijan had in its turn cancelled all senior-level visits from the U.S. With the aim of normalisation of the relationship, Secretary Blinken has asked to allow the visit of the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James O'Brien in December to Azerbaijan. President Ilham Aliyev has agreed to this proposal on the condition that after this visit the unfounded ban on the visits of Azerbaijani high-level officials to the United States will be lifted. Secretary Blinken has accepted this.


Alrighty, let's check this one out. That's a lovely accent you have. New Jersey. So looking at this here. That's a lovely accent you have. Definitely better silhouette. New Jersey. But I think you can still, there are a couple of things. You can still push the acting in this section. That's a lovely accent you have. Because he's, I'm not gonna look at the lip sync just yet. I'm still kind of focused on body mechanics and head accents so that his movements are more tied into what the audio is doing. That's a lovely accent you have. So when he goes, that's a lovely accent you have. It's your kind of staying puts in that lean, which is, I mean, the orientation is good. But when he goes, that's a lovely accent you have. That's a lovely accent you have. If you listen to the ups and downs of the audio, you can go, that's a lovely accent you have. You can have a good up and then you have. A bit of a turn towards the character.  That's a lovely accent you have. He could start here but end up with that nose tip here so that he advances throughout this whole section and then goes, you have, he has a little dip and then goes back up, right? So that's a lovely accent you have. A little bit of a move there. New Jersey. The accent you have. New Jersey. I do like this here. New Jersey. New Jersey. Like he's even more interested. So it would be New Jersey. But even here you have New Jersey. It just kind of goes up and maybe has a slight hint of coming up there, yeah. But you can do New Jersey. You can have a little, like a little, and it's the patient almost of New Jersey. A little moment where he, you know that the wheels are turning, he's thinking about this. Lovely accent you have. And then looking at this you're careful you have this big arm move that seems totally disconnected where I see a little bit of movement in the shoulder here but there's nothing going on in the chest. So if he's too close to my table but if I'm like this and I go and I kind of bring it down you don't just have it mechanically rotate down rotate down like a New Jersey robot. It's a bit too simple. He is leaning on this at this point, right? So all the way it's going to be through this section. New Jersey. But as you do this, is he going to, is he pointing on this? And then New Jersey, is he going to lean even more? Is that going to give us a slight change in the body? The shoulder might go up there with a little bit of change in the head because of all that, all of this is going to change. Maybe this elbow is going to drop. So I would look at that mechanic and you can maybe shoot some more reference for this. New Jersey. And then I wouldn't bring that moving hold back. I will bring the moving hold forward. So he goes, New Jersey. And he's still interested. He's still looking at connecting and figuring out who she is, where she's coming from and everything. So to me that interest is towards the character. He's still going towards her. And then on Austria, I would delay that by maybe five frames. You want to have the character here, Austria and then react to it. Right now it's a bit too in sync. Austria goes right back a bit too early. But then it's good that he goes backwards. But I think you're dipping here down a bit too soon. I will go up a little bit longer and then go down on Austria. So you have time for him to think where he goes back and either stares at her or back, the blink maybe a head tilt or back and just kind of darting, thinking and then Austria and then snapping out of that thought. Now let's see, as you go back, same thing here, I see, I don't see quite an effect of this hands here. Not that he has to put his hand down and push himself over so that this rotates and this pushes up, but I think you can still push it a bit more. Watch out, and just here seems a bit, a broken arm angle here. You can see how that forearm goes this way, where that wrist goes this way. So watch out for the IK hands here, especially through here and you have a lot of movement, but nothing's moving here, but that's detail stuff. So going back here, it's not too bad.  Austria to kind of lean on this and maybe push then more on this arm to give this a slight raise. I know we want to be straight here, but you can have a slight raise with the head and slightly tilt it back for balance, which might give him still a bit of an interest by having that head tilt a little bit more. Just right now it feels like that move, especially towards the end, it's a bit disconnected from the rest. Now, here it comes back, pretty big here. In fact, I mean, such a big move and I do see the shoulder going up, but it doesn't really connect with the rest of the body through here and even through here as he leans, the back just kind of stops, this arm comes down and this arm goes down this way. There's a slight adjustment in the chest through here, which is good, but it doesn't quite feel yet how he comes back, puts his arm back and then kind of sinks into this.  And through all of this, this is a bit too loose here, the head. It's a bit too simple how he goes back here and then it just kind of goes, but the head kind of follows the chest, it's a slight separation, which is good with some accents, but it just all seems too simple and especially through here, as you do this, you can see the rotation comes out of the upper part of the neck, there's nothing engaged in the lower one or nothing here. So he might go, well then, you know the moment of, well then, and then he can say his last line of, can I make like a little bit of a head tilt, just a bit more involved, a bit more attitude so that you have a bit more contrast at the end as well. It feels a bit too subdued and timid. And then careful here, you see some sliding there. So you want that, if that arm is there, really connect and stay put, like it's resting on that backside of the chair, so there would be that much sliding. Alrighty, I would focus on that first and then next time, I'm gonna take a look at the lip sync in the mouth, there's a lot of open shapes that kind of stay put where there's not a lot of contrast and kind of not enough connection to the audio, but for now, I would still kind of focus on that body part first, so you can really nail the mechanics, the way shifts and get that settled there. All right, thank you. All right, there's an email, you can sign up, you can start whenever you want, you can submit whenever you want, you get 16 submissions, either way, a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right, thank you.


Welcome to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 here in Bucharest, Romania where I've got the great pleasure of being joined in the studio today by Councillor Cooper W. Cruea Sr. who is the Minister of Post and Telecommunications for the Republic of Liberia. Minister welcome to the studio. Thank you very much for having me. Now I'd like to start off by asking you a little bit about progress. What is the progress that your government has made in the area of ICTs over the past few years since we last met? Well thank you very much. In terms of progress I remember the when our current administration took over the president was very concerned about our development in RTC and so one of the things we had a look at was to review our legal framework. So we're able to develop a new ICT policy that was very inclusive and that ICT policy has been working very fine and then it helped us to move further you know with our ICT programs and we're able to by that we're able to develop a legal framework for our cybercrime prevention so we drafted a new cybercrime act for Liberia. In fact that will be the first act ICT cybercrime act for Liberia and that act is presently before the legislature the Senate for passage of the law and and and then as we speak we now completed the draft of our of our personal data protection act all geared towards improving our ICT programs in the country. So we are following the first step of those who are ahead of us and but want to make sure that we do it right there because we want to make sure the legal framework that are in place and so that at the end of the day we are be able to protect our cyber space. What have been the main challenges in the development of your ICT program? Well you know Liberia is a developing country so our challenges are not very different from other developing country but but to specifically address some of them will be like a manpower development that's been a serious challenge for us and and and we think we think it's important capacity building. When we started our program we needed training in an area of ICT training in the area of cyber security and as we speak we've done a normal training not only within the sector where I head but we'll be able to extend our training to Georgia's we'll be able to extend our training to security police and and and and now that we've read it I think we've read it for implementation to the to the extent that we we have had a number of discussions or series of discussion with ECUAS they've volunteered to help us set up our forensic cybercraft lab for Liberia and so again you can't train people if they don't have the equipment to work with so we are looking forward to setting up a forensic lab of cybercraft forensic lab for Liberia and and and to continue on the training aspect of it because you'll be more efficient and proficient with better training better development in the manpower in the country. And you've got to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to cyber security don't you? Oh yeah we definitely want to be because you know this is a cyber crime is a global concern right now and in every nation ought to take some steps to make sure that you address you prevent it don't wait until it happens before you move our way so we're trying to to be proactive with our programs. Finally are there any final words that or message that you would wish to convey to our ITU leadership currently and of course the newly elected ones too? Well I tell you thank you very much for that question because it's important you know as a developing country a nation we think that ICT program or the leadership ought to now begin to take a poster that would make them to look beyond Geneva. You have to be able to to get people out there to visit your member countries see what their problems are see if you can make take some decision to be able to address the problem because if you wait for everybody to come to you before you address their problem it might be late it might be late so we look forward to the new leadership we see new faces we are encouraged by the results of the election but we like to look at the practical aspect of it in terms of what they do for our member state and what they do for Liberia we're very concerned about that. Well Councillor Cooper W crew senior thank you so much for joining us in the studio and we very much look forward to catching up with you and hopefully come and see exactly what's going on in Liberia in the in the coming months or years thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much.