Hey everybody, we are live with Dr. Pam Smith. She's been on the podcast and show before and I am so excited. Not only is she a well-respected colleague and friend, just has been such a mentor and great influence in my life and I just have the utmost respect for her as a colleague, clinician, writer. She's done so many things.  And the fact that I get to call you friend as well is it's an honor and a privilege to have that in my life. So happy to have you here today. A little background before I introduce Dr. Smith, you can find us now on iTunes on YouTube and we've got over 70 interviews with great content, great experts. I always learn so much. It's kind of the little secret about this is I get to learn and interview some of my favorite people. Today we're gonna talk to Dr. Smith about her new book called Max Your Immunity. I'll be sure and tell you where to find that. And of course it's very relevant more than ever now. If you wanna find blogs or information about me, you can go to my website, jillcarnahan.com and the retail store is drjilhealth.com. So without further ado, Dr. Pamela Wharton Smith, she spent her first 20 years of practice as an emergency room physician in the Detroit Medical Center and then 26 years as an anti-aging functional medicine specialist. She has trained almost all of us in some way, and another because she's been so involved with A4M in these groups. I remember Pam years ago with PCCA, probably 20 years ago when I first heard you lecture. And what I loved about your lectures is you were so concise as bullets. Like here's a list of this, here's a list of this. And you have such a way of simplifying complex topics. So thank you for being such a pioneer in this field. She's a diplomat of the board of American Academy of Anti-Aging Physicians and is internationally known speaker and author on the subject of personalized medicine. She also holds a master's in public health along with master's in metabolic and nutritional medicine. She's been featured all over CNN, PBS and many other television networks and has been interviewed on numerous consumer magazines. She's hosted two of her own radio shows and featured as a physician in the PBS series The Embrace of Aging. So there are so much more, but she's got a lot of books out today. We are excited to talk about her latest book Max Your Immunity. So welcome, Dr. Smith, so glad to have you here. Thank you so much, I appreciate the invitation. Yeah, so tell us what led you to kind of write. I mean, this is such a relevant topic and I wanna dive into what the content is and why people wanna get the copy of their own, but what led you to write this next book? You've written so many and you've been so successful as a writer. Tell us more about this book in particular. Well, this is what the book looks like, Max Your Immunity and honestly, it is a book I never thought I would write. I was writing the second edition of my book, What You Must Know About Women's Farmants, when all of a sudden literally God brought this book to me and I mean that sincerely. I was like, no, you need to write about how people can improve their immune system. What is the immune system? How do you improve it? How do you not over improve it to the point where you develop an autoimmune disease? What 10 things can you do when they were just there along with looking at nutritional status and how you can improve that through nutrients as well? Well, I love that. And I love you, Sher, we both come from our perspective that we include spirituality in our practice and it's so important because mind, body, spirit, if we just fix the physical, but we don't have a connection to people or connection to God and what he does in our life, it's, we're missing part of the picture. And you and I were both talking about how that really defines who we are and what we do in the world and this is no different. I love that you were inspired in a way to move forward and it's such a needed topic and who knew we were gonna have the second wave? Some people did predict it, but it's even more important as people are dealing with what's coming down the pike. And what I think we've had this last pandemic, well, this last year is this sense of helplessness, right? Like we can't do much about it like we're victims and I do not believe that at all. And I know this book is part of that empowering because we really do have control to some extent over our immune systems, don't we? We absolutely do. We really are the keeper of it. And if we do bad things, it really makes the immune system worse. And there's so many things that we can do. Of course, it's great to see a healthcare practitioner, but that's not what it's all about. We can do many of these things all on our own. And it's actually a very positive book and it's a very exciting book to have written because there are so many things that we can do to help our immune system be balanced. And really that's what it's all about is balance. You have to have the immune system working the right way. Yeah, and first of all, I love that you mentioned balance because overactive immune system is just as bad as underactive. You wanna talk to us a little bit about what happens if you're, so you have this balance and you wanna have the immune system fighting infections, but if it gets triggered or you do something way too extensively, you can go the other direction and fight yourself. Do you wanna frame that just a little bit for people listening on what that means in the balance aspect? Absolutely. First of all, your immune system, really there's two parts. There's the innate immune system and that's what happens when you get neurotoxin or infection, your body has an immediate response. And this is something that you inherit. And so how healthy your mother was and how healthy she was during pregnancy does play a role in that innate immune system. Then you have the adaptive immune system. This is a system that takes over after a while so that you create antibodies to the antigen and you fight the infection, for example, like COVID. And both of those have to be working. However, if you do things that make it hyperimmune, mean you overdrive the system, then the body literally starts attacking itself and you develop what we call an autoimmune disease. There's now 105 autoimmune diseases. And in my 44 years of practice, this number has grown dramatically. It really has. And anywhere from Hashimoto's thyroiditis to Graves' disease to MS to Crohn's and the 105th is chronic Lyme disease. So there are so many of them. The good news is you can actually work on that and you and I do. We very much do three things when it comes to autoimmune diseases. One, stop all gluten. Two, fix the gut. And three, we do prescribe something called low dose naltrexone. I'm actually happy to report that one of my patients never took me seriously. She's been my patient for 17 years and she had Hashimoto's thyroiditis. And as of last year, she actually ended up with four autoimmune diseases. And her ANA was positive, which is like a pre-lupus state. And then she developed lupus and it affected her kidneys called lupus nephritis. And so I asked her to please see a rheumatologist, immunologist about this because we need their help as well as things we're gonna do. She finally at 45 woke up and she said, you know what?  I am gonna fix my gut. And she had been taking low dose naltrexone for five years. And I'm gonna take it diligently. And today, literally four hours ago, I called her with some results and she said, I went to see that rheumatologist and guess what? Because I've been gluten free, my ANA is now negative and my kidney function is normal. So yes, you can actually even reverse some of the disease processes as well. But that was all under her control. Oh, I love that because you're giving people like you can do gluten free. You can talk to your doctor about low dose naltrexone. You can do these things. And you know, Pam, sometimes I share little personal experiences. I am the poster child and really briefly in 30 seconds or so, I had breast cancer 25 and with that really toxic chemotherapy that saved my life but also damaged my gut. Unbeknownst to me, I had celiac. So gluten was a massive trigger. And then that drug plus the celiac, I went on six months later to develop Crohn's disease. That was my first official diagnosis at 26 of an autoimmune disease. And I was bent and determined to figure out how to fix it. I'm considered completely cured 20 years later because I went off gluten. I fixed the microbiome, I fixed the gut. In the subsequent years, I developed Hashimoto's thyroiditis, which is now reversed. And then I also developed type one diabetes. This was after the mold exposure. Not many people know this. It was adult onset latent, autoimmune driven. I had auto, GAD, autoantibodies and went to an endocrinologist. She said, yeah, Jill, your A1C is high. You have this latent onset adult. Well, I was bound to determine even though that's considered incurable to figure out what was going on. And by detoxing from mold, going back to the gut and doing a number of things that you talk about in your book, I actually no longer am considered to have that. I don't require insulin. I eat a low glycemic diet. But other than that and my healthy nutrition, I don't consider myself to have those diseases anymore. So I am a walking testimony of anyone is of this exact principle. And it really is we have control. You do. My mother-in-law is a very interesting woman. I always remember her birth date, it's 10, 2030. So as you can see, she's going to be 91 this year. And when she was 25, she had a really bad virus that landed her in the hospital. And when she left, she was a type one diabetic. And she's required insulin all these years. But because she really does take bioidentical hormones, she does watch her diet. She does check her insulin all the time. She does those things. She is going to be 91 in October. I mean, how long, most people don't live that long when they have type one diabetes, but you can, you can actually balance these things. Yeah, and I love that story. Cause that's one of those. I'm almost afraid to say it because I know people look at me like, well, that's incurable. Like there's a lot of people who are going to even hear this and say, Jill, that can't be true. Now I know it's true. You know it's true, it's such an unheard story because our conventional system doesn't teach us that there are solutions. So let's dive more into your book. Did you say there's 10 different things? Let's talk about some of the things in your book about how to max your immunity. Absolutely. So the first one is an interesting subject. They're in alphabetical order. And the first one is alcohol. It doesn't mean don't drink. I don't happen to drink alcohol. But the reason I'm a tea toddler is that I have a very strong family history on both sides of breast cancer. And the studies are now definitive. Women, they metabolize alcohol differently than men. And because of that, really any woman, honestly, the studies really do show you should not have more than one drink in a day. If you have a family history like I do or you've had breast cancer, then eliminating alcohol is absolutely beneficial. But as it pertains to the book, if you drink a lot of alcohol, you abuse it, it does compromise your immune system. That's been shown positively for sure. Yeah, I couldn't agree more. And I'm like you because of my history of breast cancer and I have no judgment on people who do have a drink a day but I have just chosen to have steam because I feel better. And I don't really find the need to add that. For an interesting perspective too, that acetyl aldehyde, which is the thing that causes a hangover feeling is also a toxic byproduct of fungal and yeast infection. So if you have a predisposition like I did for fungal overgrowth with the Crohn's and some of my gut issues, then you're also producing that in another form from your intestines. So if you add alcohol to that, they have to compete for your detox pathways. And it's just for me, there's no reason to add that in. No, I totally agree with you. The second one is exercise. This is the one that I personally have a problem with. I know you don't Jill, but I do. I honestly, I don't get a high from exercise.   I exercise for one reason only and that is to maintain memory. I don't wanna have cognitive decline. So I do exercise, but great studies on exercise, building the immune system. So if people are staying home and they're not going out as much because of COVID, please still exercise. You could exercise anywhere. You could, I could exercise right here at my desk. So exercising builds immune system. Oh, love that. And just a really practical tip because I used to go out and do the high intensity and the running and what I've done a lot and this is so simple is incorporate it into your daily like activities. So while I'm brushing my teeth, I might do calf raises. When I'm walking the dogs, I might do lunges. And so maybe pushups after I wake up, I do different things, but I've incorporated these like secretly into my life. So I never feel like I'm really doing a big program and it's so freeing because I'm getting the exercise, but I'm not going to a gym for 60 minutes and feeling like burdened by it. Well, and that's all parts of your body. You may laugh, I just turned 67. And it's so funny to me because obviously no one wants to quote unquote age, not gracefully. So for years, I have literally exercised my jaw when I brush my teeth to dry and decrease any wrinkling in here. Of course I have some, I'm 67, but I don't have a lot. And I really, it's because of exercising my jaw when I brush my teeth. I love it and Pam, you look amazing. So you should be a role model for all of us. What's number three? Number three is to fix the gut. And obviously we could spend five hours talking about this, but 70% of the immune system is in the gut. And some of the symptoms, obviously if you have reflux, if you have GERD, you have constipation, diarrhea, loose stools, it's obvious that there's a gut problem, but many people have a gut problem and they don't realize it. They may just have muscle aches and pains. They may have brain fog, they may have just fatigue. And I know you've talked about this many times on your show, but you can't talk about it enough because 70% of your immune system is in the gut. It's imperative that it's healthy. Yeah, and how many patients do you have that are like, oh, I thought that was normal to go to the bathroom every three days. Like it's, people just assume that what their function is is normal. And then when they start to realize, wait, it could be different. It's pretty astounding, isn't it? It is, and optimal health of your GI tract is two bowel movements a day. That usually shocks people. Absolutely, totally agree. So number four. Number four has to do with inflammation.  But when it gets way out of whack, then the inflammatory response goes crazy, then that's what causes disease. And most diseases, whether it's breast cancer, cognitive decline, COVID, they're inflammatory in nature. And with COVID, it's particularly interesting because some people can get what we call a cytokine storm. And I'm sure you've heard people mention that. Cytokines are proteins that produce an inflammatory reaction.  A lot of these symptoms that you hear related to COVID are from the cytokine storm. And we wanna settle that down. That's a major inflammatory reaction. And so we do wanna work with patients. I know you do, I do and other people do to try and settle down that inflammatory reaction. Yeah, and would that be where low-dose naltrexone can play in? Absolutely. I really, my patients that have COVID, I do put them on low-dose naltrexone to prevent. And if they already have cytokine storm to treat it, you know, they usually treat cytokine storm with steroids and people get very concerned. Can you take low-dose naltrexone and steroids at the same time? You can't because their conventional doctor will say, oh no, you can't stop steroids. You know, that's the only way to treat inflammatory conditions. But yes, you can take low-dose naltrexone and steroids at the same time. Some of my patients have stopped the LDN if they've gone to the hospital, did the steroids, when they came back, we restarted the low-dose naltrexone because we don't want them to get what we call long-haul COVID where the symptoms drag on for months and even years. This is great and such a practical tip because LDN we've used with auto immunity, like we mentioned. And the first studies, I think we're in the 80s with HIV patients and they all of a sudden found some really big improvements because when you block that opioid production endogenously, which means in your own body, then all of a sudden your body's like, wait, we need to make more. And so not only do you make more endorphins, which make you feel good, but that endorphin actually calms the cytokine response. And I might be oversimplifying, but it's pretty fascinating, isn't it, the mechanism? I think that's a great way to explain it actually. And people don't realize that we even use low-dose naltrexone for cancer. All kinds of cancer are inflammatory in nature. I have a friend of mine who is an oncologist. He uses a lot of low-dose naltrexone.  There's no studies on that, but I thought it was interesting that an oncologist would do that because cancer is so inflammatory. Yeah, oh, so what's number five? Number five is to get a good night's sleep. Have great sleep hygiene. If you don't sleep well, then your immune system is compromised. Perfect sleep is six and a half to eight hours, not less, not more.   And a lot of that has to do with the hormone melatonin. A melatonin is so important for the immune system. In fact, we use melatonin to even treat some kinds of cancer like breast cancer, we use melatonin to treat it. So it's huge, it's a hormone. Yeah, you can overdo it. So if you take too much melatonin, serotonin, your happy neurotransmitter goes down. The good news is there's a very inexpensive test to measure melatonin levels. It's a saliva test and we measure eight in the morning, five PM and three AM with the lights off. So you can know if you have too much melatonin. It's very scientific, but important. Another thing I wanna point out is that there's a lot of hormonal function in the gut. And we used to talk about the pineal gland that's up here, it's in your brain and it makes melatonin. And we thought, oh, a baby amount's made in the gut, the GI tract, that's not true. A lot of melatonin is made in the gut. So if your gut's not healthy, you're not even making as much melatonin to keep the circadian rhythm so that you eat at the right time, you sleep at the right time. So again, gut's healthy, but you have to sleep to have really a great immune system. Oh, I love this and you're right, sleep is like the number one thing when I start getting patients well or trying to help them, I'm like, how are you sleeping? And I'm a big fan of the tracking devices. Obviously we get a little Bluetooth, so you might wanna turn them off at certain times for the transmission, but I wear an aura ring or the Fitbits or the Apple watches. And again, you have to weigh if you're electromagnetic sensitive, you may not wanna wear those devices all the time, but I found because I have a tracking device, I can do an intervention like lie on my PMF mat or take melatonin or stop coffee earlier and then look at the data of how my sleep is affected. And I learned so much through that because each person's different. And so what you wanna do is hack your sleep and your patterns and what works for you. One question on melatonin that I get a lot, Dr. Smith from patients is that there was some talk on I think news or media about it suppressing your natural production and be worried about it or maybe don't give it to younger people. Are there any contraindications or concerns that you have about using melatonin? That's only if you take too much. And the good news is the body is actually very smart because melatonin also modulates the immune system. It helps it if you take a big dose like 20 milligrams, which is what we use for stage four breast cancer instead of half a milligram or a milligram, which would be a more traditional dose, the body when you measure melatonin it's actually not overdosed. The body, if you have cancer goes, oh, I need this for my immune system and I'm gonna use it for that and we will go back and measure and the body will have a very normal melatonin level. It usually figures it out. A melatonin also has a lot to do with that sleep wake cycle and how you intake food. And we've helped people have normal melatonin levels in the gut, it's help them lose weight. There's so many reasons why you can't lose weight but that's what I don't think we talk about very often. Love that, so practical and so easy. Where are we at number six? Let's talk about number six. Smoking, it's hard to believe but one billion with a B, one billion people in the world still smoke cigarettes, cigars, et cetera. And I would be lying to say that everybody who smokes gets lung cancer. That's honestly is just not true. They don't get lung cancer but almost everybody who smokes has cognitive decline. Many people who smoke get macular degeneration. It decreases their vision or they can lose their vision. If you smoke, it does increase your risk of heart disease and stroke and it severely compromises your immune system. Nicotine is a toxin to the body. Yeah, now I'm glad you brought that up because it's so critical and sadly there still are billions who are still smoking. It's so highly addictive that it tends to be one of the issues. Now I wonder, I am completely out there postulating but I have a thought and I love throwing out new thoughts. We know that nicotine hits acetylcholine receptor and acetylcholine can down regulate inflammation. And I often wonder if some of that addiction is because they secretly have inflammation and it's not helping, this is not a solution but they have that effect. And I wonder if LDN might be a piece of the puzzle in helping some of our, I have no idea. I have no data to support this. I'm literally just talking off the top of my head but I just have this wonder. I wonder if LDN could be a solution in helping people who are addicted to nicotine. Who knows? I don't know that for a fact, I'm just curious. That's a great question. I have thought of the same thing myself. So I have two patients in my practice who smoke and right now that's a sole reason why I put both of them on LDN. So I'm happy to look at it again at some time because I do think part of it is the inflammatory response. I do too. I think they're inflamed in their self-medicating in a very dangerous way. So very important. Number seven, where are we at here? Let's... Stress, I mean, that's another one you could talk about forever. When you're stressed, it does compromise the immune system. Everybody has stress. We all do. But it's up to you whether stress, you let it affect yourself or not. From my office here at home, I have a sign right across from me and it says the following, God calms all storms. When he doesn't calm the storm, he will calm you. And everybody has many ways to decrease stress. The stress reduction techniques are key. Prayer, meditation, Tai Chi, yoga, chagang, exercise, massage, breathing techniques, acupuncture. There's many more, but modulating stress. Because if the cord is all the stress hormones too high or too low, either way, the immune system becomes compromised. Yeah, gosh, and I love that because like we started in the beginning, we were talking before the show just about how do we deal with these stresses at the office or with different things? And we were both saying, you know, ultimately prayer and surrender for you and I, it really does help that. And it's so often, usually, at least I'll just speak for myself, if we get into fear or if we get into controlling, feeling like we have to control the situation. I learned a long time ago, Han Selie research on cortisol and what regulates the cortisol response. And it's an acronym called nuts, novelty, something new, unpredictability, threat to self or threat to health or threat to ego and sense of control. And right now in the pandemic and in our lives in general, that nuts acronym is quite accurate. Most of all four of those are activated. But again, for you and I, part of the solution is that surrender and knowing that we have a God who really does have things under control and that we can trust that. For me, that's a real powerful stress reliever. It really is. We also give people adaptogenic herbs, ashwagandha, ginseng, rhodiola that really does help cortisol if it's too high or too low, calming herbs are fabulous. Lemon balm, chamomile. I actually keep a bottle in my dusk if my day is not going great. Fortunately, most of them don't make you sleepy. They work right away. You can take them. They're absolutely fabulous. So a lot of it really is just knowing your own triggers and what trigger you to have that stress response and to try and settle down that trigger for you. Love that. And I have at my desk, alfionine, which is another one of those. So we each have our own little adaptogens that we use. Let's see, am I number seven? Did I miss a number? Are we on the right number? We are number eight is sugar. This is my second one that is a personal issue. I have gotten much better because I knew Nancy Appleton when she was alive. Dr. Appleton, if you're not familiar with her work, she's a PhD. She unfortunately died of cancer about three years ago, but I had the privilege of knowing her because we share publishers. And she really did teach me that sugar is a toxin. It sets up an inflammatory response and it's really sugar is in many forms. Alcohol is liquid sugar. Soft drinks or what we say here in the Midwest, pop, you know, it really, it's just sugar that also does include sugar substitutes because aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar. But Dr. Appleton spent her life working at looking at this, there's 167 different diseases that are either caused by or make you have an increased risk for by ingesting a lot of sugar. And that's something everybody can do. Everybody who's on with us, we can all cut down sugar intake. It sounds like, well, you can't cut it out. It's very addicting, but you can certainly cut it down. They actually did a study and I mentioned it last time when I was on your podcast, but I'd like to take a second to mention it again. They did a great study. They took little laboratory animals, two bowls. One bowl over here, they put cocaine. This bowl, they put sugar. Guess what happened? The little laboratory animals all went to the sugar, not the cocaine. So it really is addicting, but it very much, very much compromises your immune system. Yeah, gosh, I love that study. And I so think it's so relevant because when we think about that to be more addicted than cocaine, that's a pretty big deal. So first of all, have compassion on yourself. If you're a little bit addicted to sugar, I find it's better for patients to completely eliminate it as best as possible because if you get a little sugar, you'll want more. So for me personally, I really try to keep cane sugar and most other sources completely out because if I have some, I want more. And if you're really struggling with that kind of sense of craving, there's probably back to the gut, back to number three, I think we were, you're probably dealing with dysbiosis. It's kind of driving those cravings because we've shown that microbiome changes can actually cause some of the cravings to increase. Another thing interesting, like you said with aspartame or some of the artificial sweeteners, we were told they were harmless, but what we know now is they have a massive effect on the gut microbiome, which affects us, which affects our cravings, which affects inflammation. So they really, really do have an effect and they alter their study after study that shows artificial sweeteners will actually decrease diversity and alter the microbiome. So there is some pretty big impacts there. And as you mentioned, Dr. Smith, just the sweet taste, even if it's non-caloric, will stimulate the pancreas to secrete insulin and then we're dealing with metabolic issues. Absolutely. Dr.  I do wanna give you an actual report when I've been speaking for many years. I've been very blessed to be invited to speak around the world and those who know me well know that I love Krispy Kreme donuts. I really do. So every year on my birthday, I get two Krispy Kreme donuts. Okay. I just love them. This is the first year. It took me 67 years. But guess what? I did not have Krispy Kreme donuts on July 24th. Wow. So even, you know, anybody can, it may take you 67 years, but that's okay. Work toward it. No Krispy Kreme. I love it. We are never at a point where we can't make these little, I love it. And I do the same every year. I'm like, okay, well, I can make this next step. I remember back in the day when I took out gluten and all the different foods that were I was sensitive to, the last print year for me was cheese.  I'm fine now. That was an allergen to me. But it's those things and we can always make those changes and it still makes a difference. So thanks for sharing. So number nine, what's number nine? The regulator of the whole body, the thyroid. The thyroid has to be functioning perfect optimally in order for you to have a great immune system. If it's under functioning or over functioning then both ways, compromise your immune system. For those of you who are not familiar with thyroid, hypothyroidism, meaning low thyroid function, 70% of people who have it actually have an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto's thyroiditis. For people that have a hyper system, it's over functioning. The majority of those people have Graves disease, also an autoimmune disease. So both ways, the body is literally attacking the thyroid gland and when it does that, your immune system is compromised, please see your healthcare provider and make sure that they actually measure the right things.  You do have to measure both hormones, free T3, the free component, free T4. What rarely gets measured unless you're seeing someone and Dr. Carnahan in my field is reverse T3, stored thyroid and then thyroid antibodies. Of course, you don't know if you have Hashimoto's or Graves if you don't ever measure the antibodies and again, autoimmune diseases, fix the gut, no gluten, low-dose noprexum. Oh, excellent, cause so many people and the thyroid is like the canary. Back in the old days, you've probably heard this, if you don't know what that means, back in the coal mines, they take a little bird down with them and since the gases or toxins in the mine would get high, that poor little canary would keel right over and the guys are like, we gotta head up because that was the indicator of there was something toxic cause that canary was more susceptible than the men or the women down there and so we call the thyroid the canary gland because it's very susceptible to endocrine disruptors. You know, Pam, I don't know if you know this but I had breast cancer at 25, you know that but my sister had thyroid cancer at 28. So what does that tell you about? Number one, our genetics, number two, our environment, these are two endocrine organs that were affected in our 20s and so it's an interesting little story because clearly we had some environmental toxicity and also genetic predisposition towards those endocrine issues. Absolutely and there is a lot of genetic predisposition to all of these things but the good news is you don't have to turn on a bad gene. If you start young enough, even with diabetes, you literally, if you're predisposed to type two diabetes if you change your diet, you exercise, et cetera by the age of 25 and you don't fall off the wagon, shall we say, you don't even have to turn on the gene. You can inherit it but they've proven you don't ever have to get the disease. It's just the science is here to really help people be healthy. It really is. So we are to number 10. What's the last thing for max your immunity? Something we can all do and again, they're in alphabetical order. It's water, drink enough water. You do have to hydrate. If you're not hydrated well then your immune system does become compromised and there's no substitute for water. I really do mean water. If you find water boring then put a lemon in it, lime, raspberries, strawberries, organic of course, then zest it up a little bit but there's just no substitute whatsoever for water. If you want youthful looking skin, drink more water. Oh, love it. So practical and clean hair, clean water, clean food is something people hear me say a lot. Clean water, you cannot even underestimate the power. So you wanna make sure you have filtered water and if you're using an RO system, you're taking out minerals so you wanna replace those minerals. There's nothing wrong with RO systems, they're amazing but any sort of filtration system that's good quality. I've been doing some research for years I've had a Berkey filter, love that. Recently I've been using some clearly filtered products and it's like I think 201 different contaminants and there's others out there but find a good filtration system because sadly much of our water supply is also contaminated so you don't wanna be adding to your toxic load by drinking water that's unfiltered. No, and because of my family history of breast cancer my water filtration system honestly is my whole house. I don't even wanna shower in water that is toxic to my body and has things in it that don't belong. I could not agree more. You may or may not have any answer to this but I'd love to know and I'm sure listeners would love to know have you found a particular RO or a whole house system that you like? Or are they? I'm still looking, I truly am. I haven't found the perfect one yet. I'm still looking for the perfect mat too to put next to my computer. Yeah, me too, both of these things I get asked about that way I ask you. I'm like maybe Pam knows cause I'm the same way. I'm like I haven't found the perfect system for whole house but it's really important. Pam this is such important needed information. As no surprise you always make it so clear so simple anyone could take these things and start to implement them. Where can they find your book? Where can they find more information about you? Well, you can certainly find my book on Amazon. You can find it at Barnes & Noble. You can find it at every major bookstore. I love to put a plug in for independent bookstores because they're grand. I love to spend my time in them. They're just fun. So if they don't have it on the shelf they can always order it. So that's a great thing. I'm from my landing page a little bit more about me. Actually, you just heard about me. I do have a landing page. Dr. Carnahan's gonna put that up for you. But I really just love everybody to read the book, match your immunity. I made a paperback so it's affordable for everybody so that you can understand the balance. You don't wanna over maximize it but there's a lot of things you can do to help prevent disease. Wow, Pam, this is amazing and so practical. I don't know if I've ever heard a lecture just so simple, so concise, so practical. I am glad you were inspired to write this book. So you guys get your copy, share it with friends and family because it's just a super simple way to empower people to take charge of their health, especially this fall as we continue to see cases and things out there and people are in a lot of fear which doesn't help the immune system at all. It does not. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart.  Thanks for all you do and thanks for today for sharing your time with us. Well, thank you so much for the opportunity and I really am blessed to know Dr. Carnahan. I truly would never ever be able to be and do what I have done without her help and many other people's help. So thank you very much. You're welcome. Thanks, Pam.


So, let us try to now do all the tasks which we have planned for the day today on the computer, so that you also get a feel, you also get a confidence and whatever queries you will have either you can put it on paper as Dr. Pathak has said we have to provide the report, so that we know that what difficulties you faced while using Koha and any suggestions you have for the its development for your library benefit and how it will work for the society. When you have you are seeing on your screen one page there on the top you are able to see. So, when you see on the top right now what we have done here is with some IP and colon 8001 this staff client page opens. Now, this staff client page is only for the library staff it is not for the users it is only for the library staff from where librarian will try to complete required tasks which are required to be completed for the processing of books, journals and other documents. Now, when you have installed Koha there is one link for the OPAC and there is one link for the staff client. So, this link is for the staff client. Now, what we are going to do is we are going to login to Koha with a database administrator login and password. When we have installed Koha there is a login and password which is available to you when the installation process is carried out. Now, the installation process is again in a separate learning part we have because in a day we cannot teach you everything we thought we will install it and then you at least see how the modules work ok. So, let us try to login on all your machines with a login and password the login is Koha underscore library and password is library ok fine. Koha underscore library and password is library ok no capital log if you follow me properly on the screen you will be with me ok I do not have to come to your computer ok. Login is Koha underscore library and password is library ok are you all here ok say login. Now it is asking you you do not have permissions maybe you have got this error just click on the main page option on the below you can you see main page click on the main page ok all of you click on the main page. Are you all here who is not here please raise your hand and then Manju will be there to help you out. If you follow me properly I do not think so you need anybody's help because it is just we have tried to login the way you login with your Google account same you are trying to login with the Koha account I do not think so you need anybody's help for that done ok are you all here with me yeah. So, please now follow me properly so that others do not have to come and help you out if you understand my instructions properly I do not think so you need anybody's help ok, but still we will I will go little slow and I think you will be able to carry out the same tasks which I am doing on the screen. Now when you see on the screen here you are able to see a warning message what Koha is trying to say that you have logged in as database administrative user because this is a login and password which we have used when we had used installed Koha. Now if we try to use the same login and password and continue all operations of Koha we are going to get an error. So, what we have to do is we have to create one super librarian as a user in Koha and then we will have to carry out all the tasks. So, what we are going to do is while learning we will also be creating one super librarian and then we will try to order one book we will try to accession that book we will try to circulate that book and we will catalog that book that is what is our agenda similarly we will also do for the serial control ok and that is how we will all learn also every module. Now as I have said all of you can see on the screen all the modules these are the modules of Koha, circulation, serials, patterns, acquisitions, advanced search, reports you can generate several reports in Koha ok. So, like accession register report how many books have been issued out in a year how many books have been issued out in a day which books are not issued out how many books are purchased in Hindi language any kind of report that as a librarian you think those reports can be generated in Koha ok. Then you can generate barcodes you can do the stock verification there are many tools which are available in Koha they allow you to carry out variety of tasks you can import data you can export data then you can generate the barcode you can set up your Koha for RFID there are many many things you can do with the tools ok cataloging is the tool where you can catalog the books authorities as last time I have mentioned whenever you catalog a book you write the author name you also write the key word. Now when you are entering the author name and key word there should be some standardization. So, in Koha there is an authority database available which allow you to pick up if you have entered Sunita Barway once if that Sunita Barway entry has gone in the author authority of Koha you can pick up next time. So, that you do not make any mistake while entering Sunita Barway as an author name you can also create the authority record of subjects. So, Koha has the authority database now let us click on Koha administration first we will try to do some global system preferences because before using Koha for your library you have to set up some global system preferences. If you have missed I will repeat again I am in the home then I have to go to Koha administration are you all able to find who is not with me.  Now what does this mean I will just quickly explain you what global system preferences mean. Now what do the global system preferences do is whenever you are you have installed Koha by default some of these preferences are already set and some of the preferences are not set by default because Koha does not know for which type of library you are going to use this software. As I have said you can use it for a public library you can use it for a school library college library national library. So, these settings will vary from library to library. Now as a librarian when you are setting up Koha for your library you have to take a call and decide which of these global system preferences need to be modified by my library and accordingly then you can start using Koha. Now if we are many libraries what has happened is they have not used the acquisition module at all. Most of the libraries have used cataloging module, circulation module and then they have started using Koha. But if you want to use acquisition module there are some preferences which we have to set up so that acquisition module we can use properly. Now what are these preferences now first preference here is acquisition create item that means in a library at least in an Indian environment library when I order a book I will accession the book when? When do I accession the book? After receiving the book ok. So, here this first option is acquisition create item in Koha any document that we add is called as item ok. Any document that we add is called item whether it is a book or a bound volume or a toy or a CD anything that is called as an item. So, it is asking your question acquisition create item create an item while receiving an order I have already said that I think all of your screen it is already set ok. Then acquisition enable files do that means I can upload invoice copies of my books along with processing the acquisition module. Now this are by default not set because you are using the live CD installation I have created a live CD with professor A. R. D. Prasad and we have done those settings. So, you do not have to do those settings ok. And then one more is here acquisition view basket in Koha purchase order is called as basket ok. Whenever you generate a purchase order it is called as a basket ok. So, what I have selected here created or managed by staff member. So, in my library number of staff members who generate the purchase order I want to see all those purchase order. Then another option which I have already set is acquisition wall on duplicate invoice. That means if I am processing an invoice by mistake my colleague also process the same invoice computer will tell me that this invoice is already processed ok. So, that this option is one when the librarian tries to create an invoice with duplicate number ok. So, these are some of the settings which I have already edited, but I just thought you should know as a librarian which are important acquisition features which should be enabled if you are going to use Koha for your library ok. Now click on administration can you all click on administration are you all with me. Now in the administration very important is Koha admin email address. Here one has to set an email address of the librarian who will receive all the mails related to Koha or patron any users have suggested books anything related to Koha if wants to send the email will be received here. Let us add here your email address there is a root at local host try to add here sunita barway at gmail.com is my email address as a librarian I am responsible to receive all correspondence related to my Koha installation whether user want to send any email user wants to send the overdue notices anything that is related to Koha will be sent on will be sent from and will be received on this email address. So, please enter your email address here are you all here click on administration and on the administration scroll down and you have to enter the email address. There is one more place if the same email address reply to default there also I am going to enter my email address see where I was in the administration then I was in the where I was Koha admin email address and then reply to default I have entered my email address is it done. Now scroll down and then save for the moment. The third option here is authorities what I mean by authorities I have mentioned in the morning session Koha allows to generate the authorities ok. Here there is an option here auto create authorities by default it has said do not generate so let us generate click on generate let us click on generate auto create authorities generate. What does this mean whenever I am creating a cataloging record automatically the authority record of that author will be generated. Then bibliowires authorities we are going to say allow here. Bibliowires authorities we are going to say allow here fine all of you have done and do automatically update biblios. I will explain you when we are doing the cataloging what why we have to do these settings fine and then scroll down and save at the moment we have made three changes what are these three changes auto create authorities generate bibliowires authorities allow and do automatically update attached biblios scroll down and save we have made three changes fine. Now all of you have done now only one change we will do and we will try to learn start learning because I cannot take the whole global system preferences for this class because we have less time click on enhance content click on enhance content. Now in enhance content what we are going to select is I want to see the cover page of the book in my opac and cover page of the book from amazon in my opac. So I am going to select amazon cover image as show amazon cover image as show as well as opac amazon cover image also as show as well as opac amazon cover image as show. Only two changes I have asked you right now you are with me save done. Now what we are going to do one more is click on i18n and l10n click on i18n and l10n have you all clicked I asked you to click on i18n and l10n now it is asking me the calendar first day of week by default it is sunday I am going to say it as monday. Then it is asking me the date format this date format is how all the dates will be entered in coha. So I will select ddmm yy because for me easy is ddmm yy fine all of you have done only two changes here save done. Now last only two changes we are going to do and we will start using the module scroll down and click on patrons scroll down and click on patrons all of you have clicked. Now in the patrons there is an option here auto email opac user that means whenever I add any user in coha an email will automatically be sent to that user that we have created your login and password in coha this is your login name and this is your password. By default it is said do not send we are going to click on send. One more thing we are going to do is auto member id that means whenever I add any new user library user in coha what is the identification number I will use. Generally I do not want coha to do it automatically I will give my institute assigned id number because they say I am working in ncl I can say 2469 is my id and I am entering my details in coha I will enter that. So I have to say here do not. So what will happen is I will enter the id numbers the way I want coha will not generate them automatically is it clear ok. One more change we will make are you all done here. Now scroll down and we are going to also set up enhanced messaging preferences to allow fine enhanced messaging preferences to allow here. Why does what does this mean? The meaning of this is by default coha will not send any email to any user for the books they checked out and checked in but if I select here as allow coha will send an email to the users for every transaction they have carried out ok. So that is called as enhanced messaging preferences ok. Is it ok? Now we are only going to make one more small change and then we will learn how to use coha. Patron images as allow that means I want to see the photograph of every user when I am using the circulation module ok. So patron images as allow all of you have done patron images as allowed everybody. So now let us save when you save you get a big screen fine all of you have done. Now let us this these are some of the very few I have taken there are many global system preferences but we do not have so much time right now but at least you have understood how to make changes. You can read them and make changes as per your library requirements ok for all modules. Up to here you have any questions? Anyone has any question? Please ask question or you can write down for the later part. Now again click on home. Again click on home have you all clicked? All down now again click on coha administration. Again click on coha administration. Now let us try to define a currency because we want to use the acquisition module. Let us try to define a currency. So scroll down here and you will find currencies and exchange rate. Are you able to see? Are you able to see? Click on that. It is very simple I think you should understand I am not taking it at all fast. Are you here? Click on new currency now. Have you clicked? Now let us define a rupee currency ok. So I am going to say yes click on new currency and say rupee. What is the rate? 1 rupee symbol is rupees and this is an active currency I want to click on. You have to just follow on the screen. Only follow on the screen. Submit ok currency added successfully ok. Make this currency as an active currency ok. Make this currency as an active currency. Let us add one more currency. Click on new currency say US dollar rate is say 65 and symbol is there on your screen ok fine. Now this cannot be active only one currency is active at one time ok. Save all of you have done. Now let us go we have what we have done so far. We have tried to do some global system preferences we have created a currency. Now we want to define a library item type. So click on home click on home ok. Now again click on COHA administration fine and then click on libraries and groups. Now if you remember I had mentioned that single installation of COHA can handle multiple libraries ok. So that means I on the this screen itself I can go on adding library A, library B, library C, library D and I can group those libraries A and B in group again A, B and C again in some group. What does this mean? The grouping can be done by say all academic libraries, public libraries, school libraries I can categorize together and do the COHA. So that is why the group option is there. Anyway we are learning today. So for all of you we will not create unnecessarily groups and libraries. Let us click on new library.  Now this code is very important whenever your data is shared between other libraries when you enter this code every record added in your COHA is identified by this code. So if you make any mistake in defining this code you will have difficulties carrying out further tasks in COHA. So when this code is defined it should not have any space in between and it should be a small code it should not be more than 10 characters ok. So this code is a very important. Now again what you see in the red is mandatory rest of the things are not mandatory ok. So I will give here ok Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai library. All of you have entered. Now these are the if not very mandatory fields you can add them later. Let us only say Mumbai city as Mumbai, state as Maharashtra ok and country what is the code for 43076 ok. And country as India ok rest of the things are not important but you can add them later. So what we are doing is we are defining a library name what I have added here IIT as a code Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai library address you can add these details but city Mumbai state Maharashtra zip code country ok not very require things we will see about these later. Now let us say submit. So what it is saying library added successfully am I right all of you are here. So we have added one library. Now let us click on item types let us click on item types where is item types below the library all of you have added. Now click on new item type click on new item type are you here because in our library what all items will be available books journals CD-ROM DVD maps then pamphlets reports this is all variety of documents which are available. So they are called as item types in Koha ok. So right now our first item type is book. So we are going to again give a code as book description as B-O-K. Now this code again item type code is again very important to distinguish documents available in your library. If you make any mistake in defining the code again you will have lot of wrong information and your data will not be properly managed in Koha. So when you define item type again this should be less than 10 character it should not have any space in between ok. So make it as short and as simple. So that it will have proper identification across your Koha. Now you can identify your variety of item types in Koha by the icons which are available. So can you click here there are several icons available as I have mentioned earlier so I generally like bridge and this book is a standard icon. You can click any one other you can select any one which you like ok there are many icons available anyway right now I am selecting book as a icon and bridge fine. I want to hide this in opac no I don't want to hide it in opac is this not for the loan no yes it is for the loan because I want to circulate books for the users ok. So we won't do anything save changes. So what we have done we have added one item type all of you now we have added one item type as book ok. Now let us add one more item type new item type new item type this as a journal I like this I always select this ok. This simple nothing great we are doing library category and one patron also so that we want to get rid of that error which is you are we are getting on the screen. So now we are adding a library we have finished adding item type authorize values I will talk about it later. Let us click on patron categories let us click on patron categories. Now what does this mean patron categories patron means users in Koa ok in your Koa patrons are users and these users can be categorized so that you can make the groups of users so that the issuing rules will vary for the different groups. Say for the there is a student category there is a technical staff category there is an administrative staff category there is a visitor category there is a distinguished scientist category so there are variety of categories under those categories you can add the patrons and for those categories you can define the circulation rules that means for the students I will allow to borrow 4 books but for the faculty I will allow to borrow 12 books. So you can set up the rules for the types of categories which are there ok. So now library staff is also one such category ok because you are all from all library you also will borrow books from the library as well as you are going to do work in Koa one of you will handle acquisition one of you will handle circulation one of you will handle serial control. So this super librarian who has logged in who is logged in right now koa underscore library he will set up different jobs for all of you that means he will assign the task of acquisition to one library staff he will assign the task of circulation to another library staff he will assign the task of serial control to one library staff. So accordingly he will give the privileges to different library staff and they will carry out the work in koa ok. So now let us create one category as library staff. So click on new category and what is the category code here right now library staff ok and the description is again here library staff ok. Again do not add any space this has to be continued there should not be any space in between if you make any mistake again you will have problems later. Now librarian can define for how many months this category is valid for one year two year three year five year that he or she has to decide the validity of this category. Right now we will say only for twelve months ok how many months this category is valid only for twelve months. Now again it is asking you age required so minimum age for the library staff to be a member and maximum age is sixty. Now here option is when you create a library staff category or any other category does your library charge the membership fee. If that is there you will enter the membership fee here like 1000 rupees 2000 rupees 5000 rupees anyway for the library staff there is no membership so we do not need. Whether this category should receive over due notices that means you as a library can borrow books right as library staff. So the koa will automatically send you emails for the books which you have not returned ok. So we will say here yes fine. Now this category type is what whether it is an adult child staff organization. Now this staff means the library staff category so we are going to select this. All of you have done. It is asking me this staff description is library staff for how many months it is valid twelve months then age required eighteen years upper age is sixty then over due notice yes then category type is staff then it is asking me whether you want this category people to receive the mail and which type of mail this category people should receive item due yes advance notice if library sends yes hold find yes item check in and item check out. That means all the people under this category will receive email as soon as they return books as soon as they issue books as soon as they put up a hold as soon as they have a item due they will receive all the emails is that ok. So we will try to create one patron under this category ok.  Let us provide the details your surname enter your initial name enter your date of birth ok what I have been doing I am adding my name done now it is asking me initials ok scroll down now we will not spend time on adding the address details that you can add later now here only email primary email I will add Sunita Barway at gmail.com ok. Now scroll down here again very important is it is asking me the card number ok now it has not generated automatically now my initial ID number is 2469 so I can add here you can add your IIT identity number ok ID number you can add your IIT ID number ok all of you have added now scroll down scroll down and now here it is important the login and password details ok now I here you are going to enter it correctly otherwise you will all get stuck otherwise you can follow me on the screen I am entering user name as Sunita ok and I am entering password as library my Sunita and password as library if you enter any other password you have to remember that so that we are going to need this user name and password see what I have done I have created a library staff as one patron at gmail.com her ID number is 2469 and she is from Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai library she is from the library staff category and her login is Sunita her password is library save can you see here details of Barway Sunita now what we are going to do is we are going to assign the super librarian role to Sunita Barway because we are getting an error on the screen when don't do anything here I am just showing you we are going to make this Sunita Barway as a super librarian for Koha installation ok how you can go do that there is an option here more on your screen can you see level to see more as an option there is an option here set permissions click on set permissions ok click on set permissions all of you have done now makes this Sunita as super librarian make this Sunita as super librarian make Sunita as super librarian all of you have done is Sunita super librarian now I don't know who all but on my screen at least Sunita is a super librarian now when you go to home you are getting this message right all the time you are logged in as this this this ok for this reason what I have done is I created one library I created one item type I created one patron category and I have added one user as Sunita and given her super librarian privileges now what I can do is all of you please log out now all of you please log out how you can log out on your tab will see no library set there you have an option of log out there is an option of log out please log out ok now we will log in with which login and password Sunita and library now we want to log in with Sunita and library the name is there library name also is there that was not there and that warning is there now actually work on all modules of Koha ok that these are previous settings you have to do as a librarian not everybody has to do when you set up initially your Koha for your library one person has to do this task then others can start working on Koha ok these are some basic settings which we have to do now we want to use the acquisition module ok now what we have to do is let us now click on again Koha administration let us click on Koha administration scroll down here and there are options here now budget funds these are options there now we want to use the acquisition module ok now to use the acquisition module we have to define the budget we have to assign the fund and then only we can order a book for the library am I right now let us click on budgets we all click now it is simple now you know click on new budget click on new budget now generally the budget starts from April to March financial year so anyway luckily we are in the April so how we will define 2017 and the end date is 31st March 2017 IIT library budget oh sorry sorry sorry we are learning and understanding let me see let me see and the amount of budget is say I have some 5 lakh rupees ok if I have 5 lakh rupees budget I will say this budget as active budget ok make the budget active everybody has got one by one give me a minute but out of this 5 lakhs I have to add the distribution that means 2 lakhs will be spent for books another 2 lakhs will be spent for journals another way 1 lakh will be spent for e-books some other the logic that every library wants to define but that these settings have to be done properly before really you go live for your koha because as a librarian you are aware that how to set up my budget how to set up my funds then my library staff will work accordingly ok because as I have said once these settings are done properly and if you use the koha acquisition properly you can see the budgetary status on the fly you do not have to do any manual work at all but provided all the jobs of these basic settings are done properly ok now let us under the actions are you all here now you are going to follow me please do not see any other face on your you do not know there is one your friend sitting ok if you follow me properly you do not need anybody's help now on your screen are you all here yes under actions there is an option here add fund can you see under your library budget on the right hand side there is an option here actions ok when you click on actions you will be able to see add fund as an option can you see click on add fund add fund have you all clicked now we are going to define a fund for purchasing books for my library I have a budget of 5 lakh rupees I am going to assign 2 lakh for purchasing books ok so what is my fund code again here book fund name sorry this has to be in the capital fund name as books ok amount I am going to assign 2 lakh rupees ok I am assigning amount as 2 lakh rupees ok now for which library is this fund for IIT library if there are more libraries you can select the fund for those libraries but right now we have added only one library so am I right are you all here please do not enter anything wrong here ok all of you have done now I will scroll down and say submit what I have done I have created for the books this is my total budget am I right out of this total budget 2 lakh is assigned for books am I ok now I still have to assign remaining 3 lakh rupees am I right so let us again add one more fund so there is an option here new fund can you see here on the top of your screen new edit and planning option is there is it there or no not with me and for IIT library now again what is the fund code we will give serials I will assign remaining 3 lakhs here I will assign remaining 3 lakhs here fine I have assigned these 3 lakhs here again I will for which library is this fund for IIT and then submit so what has happened is I have my funds matrix ready with me am I right ok everybody is here now what we are going to do is we have assigned a fund for the library now we have also defined currency we have defined budget we have defined fund right we have also set up the name of the library we have also set up the item type everything is done now we can use the acquisitions module ok now we can use the acquisitions module if anybody is not with me right now please tell otherwise you will all be stuck now let us click on go to home go to home now what we have to do click on what we have to do click on acquisitions please click on acquisitions have you all clicked on acquisitions choose the acquisition module you have to first create a vendor name vendor name means from whom you place the order for the books for whom from whom you place the order for the journals so that is that publisher or bookseller in Koha is called as vendor ok the publisher or bookseller is called as vendor in Koha right now all of your installation does not have any vendor details is it there no so we have to create a new vendor so where is an option new vendor click on new vendor click on new vendor ok so let us add the name of the vendor so let us say sci-tech what we are doing is we are adding the name of the vendor fine now as I have said only ready is compulsory rest of the things are not compulsory you can add the address his fax number everything later ok now scroll down now here important part is there now this sci-tech books and periodicals whether this vendor supply me journals as well as books if yes I have to select on all these options if no I have to select primary acquisition contact ok primary acquisition contact now he does not supply me any journals so I am not going to take on primary serial contact if he supplies me journals I am going to select primary serial contact but he only supplies me books so I am selecting primary acquisition contact contact when ordering yes whenever I place an order I am going to contact him then contact about late orders that means if the books are not sent well in time I am going to tick here contact about late issues that means if the loose issues of the journals are not sent in time I will select here but right now I am not going to select that all of you are with me what I have done I am adding one vendor sci-tech books and periodicals then I have selected primary acquisition contact contact when ordering contact about late orders ok now how is his prices are right now as I have mentioned to you Koha will work properly with rupees so his all prices are rupees if the vendor gives me any discount I can say 15% discount here ok I can say 15% and the delivery time if he takes 2 weeks or 3 weeks minimum I can add that so that if the book is not received in time automatically an email will go to the vendor that we had ordered this book which is not yet received fine ok so are you all done same so what we have done we have added one vendor what is his name sci-tech books and publishers ok now we are going to place an order to this bookseller fine we are going to place an order to this bookseller we are ordering one book which we whom we are ordering to sci-tech books so there is an option here on your screen new basket ok in Koha purchase orders are called as baskets so click on new basket all of you have clicked let us give the basket name ok I will say IITB library sorry PO books can define the purchase order name as you wish ok in library PO BKS 1 just follow it properly so that all your baskets should be identified properly when you have large number of baskets how will you identify right now save you have saved all of you have saved what options are available add to basket edit basket delete basket export basket am I right now we want to add a book to this purchase order am I right I am placing an order for a book correct or not so I want to add the book here so there is an option add to basket can you see here so click on add to basket click on add to basket there are various options anyway at the moment from a new empty record click on from a new empty record from a new empty record all of you have clicked done now we are going to order one book to whom sci-tech books and journals let us write the name of the book wings of fire who is the author Abdul Kalam publisher I do not know edition I do not know here anything I do not know I only know the title and author name ok quantity how many copies I want write the moment if I want to add one copy from which fund I am going to buy what is the currency right now currency is rupee here I can select if it is another currency ok right now anyway this book is available in Indian print say it is for 2450 amount 2450 actual cost the meaning of replacement cost is actual cost budgeted cost why is the budgeted cost because he is giving me discount of 15% so actual cost I am going to pay to the book seller is around 2882 am I right but I do not have invoice at the moment in my hand so I can enter estimated cost ok now let us say everybody is here what we have done we have ordered one book to whom whom we have ordered sci-tech ordered now at the moment I have added only one book here I can go on adding as many books I want to order to sci-tech I am just teaching you right now only for one book ok I can go on adding as many books whenever you have finished adding you have to close the basket ok there is an option here ok there is an option here close this basket please close ok are you all here options here once you have you want to print the basket by chance the purchase order you want to print you have to click on this small square is there but if you do not want to print you can just say yes close are you here close the basket imagine a scenario I have ordered the book today book will come either today itself or book will come after few days ok we are learning how the acquisition module works now imagine a scenario book has ordered today and I have received also today so if at all any book is ordered I have to search for the vendor ok and then there is an option here receive shipment can you all see there is a name of the vendor there is a purchase order which is shown here I can again place a new order to the vendor that means a new purchase order to the vendor and I can receive the shipment are you all here we are going to receive the book now ok so click on receive shipment everybody is with me now the book is in my hand as well as invoice also is in my hand so I know the invoice number ok so enter the invoice number here ok the shipment date if at all by chance you are doing back dated processing of the books you can change the date here ok that you can always do right now anyway we are doing it for the same date so we are not going to change there is no other change you have to do here you have to enter only invoice number here all of you have entered say next are you all done are you all done now click on these options are there am I right let us click on receive option here the small receive button is there click on that I forgot to do that but anyway see there is one small message here no acquisition framework using default you should create a framework we will do that anyway does not matter ok now what you have to do is we are now going to accession the book because we ordered the book now we are going to do what we are going to accession the book are you all understanding now whenever you want to accession the book what all you need to do you have to give the accession number and you have to then adjust the cost amount because now here you can see here you have 2082 maybe the cost would have decreased or cost would have increased that we have to correct and now on the left hand side you can see here there are couple of tags these are mark 21 tags ok and these are 952 related tags 952 dollar 0, 952 dollar 2, 952 dollar 3, 952 dollar 4 so we will be learning that all later today afternoon but what we have to do if your library is using any other classification you have you should have selected in the I will show I forgot to take that in the global system preferences ok anyway right now we assume that our library is which classification you use UDC we will change that ok and then when you scroll down click on date acquired click on date acquired ok now very important thing which we have to do is the barcode option P barcode can you see here P and barcode that is called as 952 dollar P tag barcode in koa is accession number ok barcode in koa is accession number ok so I can say the accession number either only one or I can say IIT1 ok I can say barcode has IIT1 or only one that is up to the librarian they can decide ok are you all here now in the down you have to select what is this item type it is a book am I right you have to select this option here 952 dollar Y 952 dollar Y is for what item type in koa ok that is item type in koa fine so what we have done we have in the 952 dollar P barcode we have added what we have added as an accession number then 952 dollar Y we have added item type as book ok now say add item there is an option on the screen left hand side click on add item all of you have done add item have you all done on the right hand side you will see the quantity received option has changed from 0 to 1 now here in the cost if there is any variation by chance ok so let us say the book is now has become only 2000 rupees ok actually it estimated budgeted cost was 2082 but I have received today and the cost has changed to 2000 remove that comma and correct the error I mean correct the amount ok all of you please write 2000 do not put any comma all of you have done and save tip summary for site books periodicals the invoice number is 5678 when it is created second of April 2017 and the details about the purchase order then order number title of the book and then the form which funds it is sent estimated cost actual cost and the total is it all clear ok now you have to say finish receiving you have to say finish receiving now one more step is remain ok so it is asking you what is the billing date you are when you are create received the bill billing date also is today so I will say today's billing date ok shipping date and billing dates are different right shipping dates and billing dates are different am I right if there are any shipping cost by chance if you order a book from Amazon and there is any cost you can add that but right now there are no other cost I just want to close this invoice that is very important ok I want to close this invoice are you all ok what it says invoice has been modified ok now what we have done we have added one vendor we have placed an order with the vendor we have received the book we have accessed the book now my budgetary status should tell me how much is the balance amount available in my acquisition module right so let us go to acquisitions on the left hand side you have an option as acquisitions are you all able to see can you click on that what change you are able to see deducted 2000 rupees so this is a good feature of coha if you use acquisition module properly without any mistake then you can see the budgetary expenditure you do not have to maintain any any other manual or excel sheet or anything you can maintain it properly provided all the library staff does the task properly without making any mistake so this is how acquisition module works and you can order books you can receive books and you can accession the books so I think anyway though 5 minutes early we will take a break for lunch and then we will come back and do the cataloging module ok


And lo and behold, the older woman who owned the slaughterhouse responded. What she said was very interesting.  So you probably recently saw my investigation at a local family run slaughterhouse. Now this slaughterhouse was owned by a grandma, maybe your grandma and her partner didn't meet her partner, but this place is the epitome of a family run local operation. If you saw my video, you'd see that my investigators had already left cameras in this place. I'd reviewed the footage, so I went there already knowing what the footage showed. So I interviewed the woman, I was asking about what was in the footage. See, a lot of people thought that this, this older woman didn't know what was inside. She was just oblivious to what was going on inside. Do you honestly believe that this woman could own a slaughterhouse, have her son working in there and not know what's going on on the inside? She was gaslighting me and lying the entire time. What else is she going to do? Of course she's going to tell people, oh yeah, now we, we, we take such good care of the animals. You know, my son is, he's just so humane towards the animals in there.  Like the animals don't want to die. But what we saw in the footage was animals desperately pleading for their lives, screaming, like bellowing out. Animals struggling to escape the knockbox for up to 40 seconds, ripping their own horns off in the process. Her son, this big, looked like a juiced up slaughter worker who was just venting his frustration on the cow after it looked like the cow would hurt his hand. He came in holding his hand, grab the cow by the nose, start swearing out the cow, bang, shoots the cow in the head like the cow was his enemy. And then the cow was still bellowing. I don't even think that cow was unconscious and every time he went to cut the cow's head, the cow started moving. All right. And then the cow was trying to breathe through the hole in the neck. Then the cow stopped moving when the head was decapitated.  The cow that annoyed him, he bolt gunned once. And there was other cows who were flailing around in the air and you're trying to tell me they're unconscious. Then you're just gaslighting me. All right. I wonder what an animal welfare organization would think about that footage and, you know, actual vets looking at that footage, you know, ones that that aren't don't have industry bias. But the reason I'm making this video is I wasn't going to say the name of the slaughterhouse because I felt that naming and shaming is good. Yes, but really it's the entire industry. That's a problem. Every slaughterhouse is a problem, not just the slaughterhouse in question because if you leave cameras in a slaughterhouse you're going to see the same thing. You're going to see animals not wanting to die. You're going to see animals not stunned correctly.  Horrible things happen in every slaughterhouse because they're killing factories and animals don't want to die so they desperately try to escape. So I wasn't going to name the slaughterhouse is my point but people obviously knew the slaughterhouse they found out about the slaughterhouse a lot of people are local to the slaughterhouse and they started leaving reviews and emailing the slaughterhouse and lo and behold the older woman who owned the slaughterhouse responded and this is what made me make this video actually because what she said was very interesting and I didn't expect nothing less really. It was actually someone who eats meat who sent this to me they were disgusted with the slaughterhouse and emailed this to them. Why I've eaten me all my life but seeing what you did makes me ashamed. I've always been aware an animal had to die to give me the food I eat but this is a whole another level.  It's sickening what you did and what you do. You have zero respect for the animals that footage shows clearly what sort of person you are and there's no compassion or respect to these creatures from you and this is in no way an isolated incident. I really hope there are consequences to your actions. This can't be allowed to go on now. This is a non vegan emailing them disgusted with them. Okay. Now this was her response for your information. I regret that you will accept a doctored fake video and the vitriol of vegan propaganda. All abattoirs have dedicated qualified food standards veterinarians in place at all times before during and after the slaughtering process. In addition, all areas have 24 seven sealed recording which is retained for FSA inspection for after 90 days. Well, that's interesting, isn't it? First of all, the video is fake. A doctored fake video. Do you honestly believe that anyone with half a brain cell is going to believe that we faked that video? That person is your son. What do you think we we had some digital imaging from Steven Spielberg to recreate your son torturing an animal in a slaughterhouse? Their voice. Like what is this vegan propaganda? Like if anyone's propagating lies, it was you when you were gaslighting me at the front of the slaughterhouse for 40 minutes.  We're just sharing footage that we found inside the slaughterhouse. This is basically why she's saying it's fake. There is no way out of this. The footage does not lie. Does it? Like it's right there. You've been busted. You've been busted.  Period. He should not.  He's got some issues and he needs to sort them out and he's taking those issues out on those terrified animals. He should not be working with animals, but it is a slaughterhouse.  This is what working in a slaughterhouse does to people. They start to get dominant and violent and you know, animals start to become terrified and I've been in violent gangs before. I know how this psychology works. He's taking his frustration and dominance out on innocent animals at work and that is pretty scary that people like that are walking around in public around people.  You never know what can happen and what what type of psychological issues this person has going on. But a fake video. Okay, we're going to believe you. Okay.  You didn't condemn the actions of your son. So you're by virtue of this email, it's like you're inadvertently defending the actions of your son because you haven't condemned them. So what type of person doesn't condemn what we found in that slaughterhouse? Someone who's what trying to lie trying to defend meat eating has vested interest maybe. This is a smaller scale right of what you'll see when it comes to vested interest. The industry is a bigger scale. So they they've got much larger propaganda campaigns than this woman here on their website. This is this is even more interesting.  But the name of the slaughterhouse is C J Byford and sons. Okay. And let me just go to the website here. Did they remove it? Did they remove it? They move they remove it. I can't believe that. Okay, I'm going to go to my I'm just going through my Facebook now to try to find it because other people have it. Here we go. Here we go. I've got it here. I'm going to download it quickly. You can't hide from you can't hide from this. This is a this is shocking. This is shocking. You should be disgusted. You should condemn that.    All avatars have veterinarians in place at all times before during and after the slaughtering process. Well, I know there's a vet at your slaughterhouse because we filmed them. It's really difficult to hear the audio, but we could get the audio cleaned and analyzed to see exactly what the veterinarian was saying look a little bit further into it. But it was something about animals having broken legs because of the slippery the slippery slaughterhouse floors. I'm not I'm not saying the animals at that slaughterhouse had broken legs, but it seemed like that. So I can't until we analyze the audio further. I can't tell you exactly what was said. Does the vet work for the RSPCA or who's this vet? Like what agency? There's food standards veterinarians. Okay. Are they FSA vets? I'm going to have to look into that actually if anyone's really good with looking into like this sort of stuff with them with like vets and what what what is their role here? If there's a vet there, I would like to talk to them. I'd like someone to get in touch with the vet there because those animals did not look stunned correctly. That that there was not professional. He was taking his frustration out on the animals, swearing at them, grabbing them by the nose, pulling their head down. You know, if you got all that on film, you should analyze that or I don't know who else is going to be held accountable for this actually. The vet, is this RSPCA approved slaughterhouse? FSA approved? I wonder what the FSA think of this footage. It says, in addition, we have 24 hours sealed recording, which is retained for FSA inspection for 90 days. You didn't answer anything about what was in the footage. You just said, oh, vegan's faked it. It's propaganda. We have, we have a vet there and we have cameras. Who cares just because you got a vet there and cameras doesn't mean things. We left cameras there. Look what we found just because you got a vet there and cameras does not like debunk what we filmed at your slaughterhouse. And we filmed it in February, February, March, April. It's a big beginning of May now. So it's a few months ago. But the person, let's go back to the person who sent me this message who's not a, who was not a vegan and was just disgusted about what they saw. I just want you to know that what I've seen has affected me and the way that I see the meat trade. I've been ignorant for too long. I've spoken to my husband about how I feel about it and we're both going to learn to live vegan. I can't be part of the suffering. Thank you for the link. I sent them to a link to challenge 22. Beautiful story there. Anyone with a heart, if they seen what I saw in that footage was absolutely heartbreaking. One of the cows when they got into the knockbox, they go in the knockbox and they can smell blood and things. It's a, it's a scary place. And then they look down and they seen the gun. Then the cow tries to nuzzle the gun off.     You know, the animals were walking. She, the lady told me that animals don't see each other get killed. They don't see other animals. They literally go in there.  Like, of course they do. So when they, and those cows come in together on the truck, they're probably friends. So the cow goes in, looks over the ledge, sees their friends getting cut up going, oh my God, I'm next. Starts freaking out, screaming. She lied the entire time. She told me the cows don't see each other. Just a full animal abuser mentality.   This is the mentality of the meat industry. They care not for the animals. They only care for human pleasure, eating steak and monetary gain. That's all they want from the animals. And they operate under the guise of high welfare and we care about animals. We're just big sanctuaries for animals that tend to slaughter them and cut their heads off and abuse them. Anyway, that is CJ Byford and Sons. What I may do is release the footage unedited. So if you want to make claims that that footage is fake, then I'll talk to whoever about this. I can share the footage with them unedited with everyone's faces unblurred. Seeing as you're denying this is real, I've now released the name of your slaughterhouse. What you could possibly do is you could leave a review at CJ Byford and Sons. Someone's created a petition to shut them down. I just think people should boycott these products and just know what slaughterhouses are. They are torture and killing factories for animals. That's what they are. Animals are not willing participants in a slaughterhouse. They go in against their will and come out chopped up into pieces. Why do people think that something humane happens along the way? Killing an animal can only be humane if the animal is suffering and wants to die. They don't want to die. They want to live. And just because you bring them into the world through your forced breeding programs does not give you the right. Once they're a sentient conscious being does not give you the right to do what you want with them. They should have moral rights and moral right to live their life and not be tortured and killed. So anyway, that's my thoughts. Just thought I'd make that video. I'm actually super shocked about that. CJ Byford and Sons will probably release the footage just on its own. Gaslighting tactics. Do not listen to the meat industry. Even when you catch them red-handed and they're backed into a corner, they're always going to say, Oh, well, it's fake. It's vegan propaganda. Don't listen to them. They've got a they've got a vegan. It's got an agenda.  That's the agenda. What's your agenda? Eat their bodies and sell their body parts. Why should we listen to you? Boycott this madness and live vegan. I'll leave a link down below. Share the video far and wide. Obviously, they don't want it getting out. Leave a review at the slaughterhouse. If you wanted to do some vigils, go down there. I would be careful because I don't know how dangerous and violent the people are working there. They seem pretty pretty dangerous and violent. If they can do that to an animal, I don't know what they would do to a person. Keep your wits about you. Be careful. But, you know, places like this should not should definitely not exist. And they should definitely not be making money off of the demise of animals. It's just it's sickening. Thank you all for watching. Thank you all for your support. And I'll see you all in the next video.


So, it's fall now, and today we're talking all about casual fall style. What? The look is kind of boring. Seriously? Yeah, seriously. I mean, sweatshirt, jeans. Boring. Just to be clear, there is nothing wrong with a simple outfit, especially when you're dressing casually. But have you ever felt like this, you know, when you get dressed, it's fine, but then you wonder, what can I do to make this better? For fall style, very simple, and doing this one thing is an easy way to transform and upgrade your casual fall style. I'm Brian Sakawa. This is He Spokes Style, advice and inspiration to help you dress well, develop your personal style, and be more confident. So one thing I believe is that if you put time, thought, and effort into something, people will notice. When you go that extra mile, it's obvious. Now, in a style context, this doesn't necessarily mean being obvious or flashy or showing off in some way. It could be more of a feeling people get when they see you. Not necessarily something they can really put their finger on. These types of details, the ones that you're aware of, but other people don't really see in an obvious way, are, in my opinion, the best ones because they exude a sort of style and classiness that you don't get if something's super obvious. So for casual fall style, the secret to achieving this is by adding to your wardrobe staple pieces in luxury fabrics. There's a big difference between, say, how a cotton sweatshirt looks and feels compared to a cashmere sweatshirt. There's a big difference between how a cotton t-shirt looks and feels compared to a silk t-shirt. I've got five different looks to show you exactly what I'm talking about coming up, but first, want to introduce you to and say thanks to our sponsor for today's video, Lily Silk. Going to be featuring a couple of cashmere pieces from Lily Silk as well as the silk knitted t-shirt you just saw. But in addition to clothing, Lily Silk has a wide product range of everything you can imagine with silk, including pajamas, pillowcases, bedding sets and more like this eye mask that I just got a lot of use out of on some overseas flights. Now, I know this video is about casual fall style, but if you've never tried silk sleepwear and bedding, I highly recommend it. In addition to just being super comfortable, Silk has many other benefits as well, including being naturally hypoallergenic, antibacterial, breathable, thermal regulating, lightweight, durable and long lasting. The brand is committed to zero waste production and they work with TerraCycle to help ensure that they're creating as little waste as possible. Fabric remains, they actually used to make things like the silk eye mask and all Lily Silk products are clean and toxin free with Okotex certification. There's a link in the description to check out Lily Silk. You can save 12% off everything with code HSS12 and then for men's and women's apparel and sleepwear specifically, you can buy one and get one for 25% off with code HSS25. OK, now jumping into our five different looks showcasing how you can use luxury fabrics to upgrade your casual fall style. Look number one, starting off with a simple combo of light wash jeans, black silk t-shirt. Over that I'm layering this Lily Silk cashmere hoodie, minimal white sneakers and a casually elegant watch, which makes for a very simple classic fall combination. Over the past few years, I've been all about upgrading some of my casual staples to luxury fabrics like this sweatshirt. Not only does it feel great when you wear it, but I also feel like it has a little bit more of a mature vibe to it that also projects confidence. So this look great for a fall day, if it does happen to be a little cooler and you need some extra warmth, what you could do is to just add a navy pico, flip the hood outside and you've still got a very classic look that's going to keep you warm. Our second look here, in addition to having some cashmere as a luxury fabric, is going to be focused primarily on texture. Got the cable knit on the sweater, quilting on the vest, and the suede of the chukkas in the belt. Texture, excellent way to not only add some visual interest and depth to your look, but it also gives it an overall richness, which helps to elevate the overall appearance. Next up, we've got a very simple country casual look. Foundation here is this tan lily silk cashmere crew neck sweater, paired with some kind of mid blue colored jeans. Over that, throwing on a wax cotton jacket, some pebble grain wing tips, and pilot's watch on the wrist. Even something like this with a little bit more of a rugged feel, benefits from and is elevated by adding in a cashmere sweater. Soft and comfortable, classic and stylish. For me, this is really something of a casual fall uniform. I love it for when I just need to run out. So simple to put together, really requires no thought. And if you wanted to dress it up a little bit, you could very easily throw on a button down shirt underneath the sweater, and you're good to go. Little nod to my military career here with this one. Again, very simple, black silk t-shirt with some light wash jeans, olive linen safari jacket, got some oxblood boots, speedy on the wrist, and some classic sunglasses. Even though we think of linen as a summer fabric, if it's a heavier weight, it makes a really great summer to fall transition piece. I mentioned earlier in the video that there's a big difference between how a cotton t-shirt looks and feels compared to a silk one, and it really is true. This particular t-shirt has definitely replaced my old cotton one. I love how it feels, love how I can move in it. Highly recommended. Got the t-shirt once again in this look, which I kind of consider sort of a grown-up rock and roll look. Little softer, not quite as edgy, but still has that vibe.  Instead of a leather jacket, which would be an obvious choice, we've got this corduroy trucker, brown leather Chelsea boots, Arabic dial Seiko 5. Love this watch, and smartening it up a little bit with some specs. People always wanna know if brown and black can work together. Yes, it can. I'm a big fan. I love the warm tones. When you've got lighter browns like we do here, it's a nice color contrast, and brown in general gives off a really rich appearance. Thank you very much once again to Lily Silk for sponsoring this video. If you wanna check out specific pieces that I featured here, links in the description as well as a link to the main site. And reminder that you can save 12% off everything, code HSS12, and then 25% off men's and women's apparel and sleepwear with code HSS25.