As promised, as promised, the Hoca Clifton 5 has arrived on the vlog. Now I purchased this two days ago from Roadrunner Sports. Shout out again to Patrick and Jessica for taking care of me. So what's going to happen here? I'm in recovery after yesterday's race. The planter is a little sore today. I will, you know, just being completely transparent with you guys. The arch is a little sore in my foot today, but I want to test the Hoca Clifton 5 because today, because it felt so good in the store, I was again, I was almost in tears. It felt so good. Therefore, I'm going to start running here. I'm going to do three miles in downtown Denver, just in recovery mode.  So I'm not going to sugarcoat my facial expression. I'm just going to react to the pain or not so much pain in my foot as we get going. All right, sound good? Just a union station in downtown Denver, going to start jogging. Here we go. Here's my gut reaction to the Hoca Clifton 5. Just got to make sure there's no traffic. All right, it's busy. Here we go. That's the run real quick. Got to pause real quick and give you guys a score on how the Clifton 5s are doing thus far for the planter fasciitis pain. Not quite a 10. 8.75. I wanted to give a 9 real bad. But keep in mind, I raced really hard yesterday, a 5K. And so it is definitely barking at me a little bit through the arch for the PF today, not in the heel, in the arch. So I think that is a step forward. I have no pain in the heel. It's just a little tender in the arch. 8.75 thus far in the Clifton 5s. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to Patrick and Jessica. You're amazing. It's rocking. It's rocking. All right, come on. Let's keep running. Come on. The Clifton 5s can run, but can they dance? So cut up that dance floor. And that is the keyword of the day, dance. Not Clifton 5, not Hoca. It's dance. And yes, the Hoca Clifton 5 did great on the dance floor as well in the streets of Denver today. And my son, my oldest son, just noticed inside. He said, Papa, you got a new pair of Hoca running shoes. And I'm like, wait a minute. How does he know that these are Hoca's? Because he can't quite read yet. He's getting there. Like he can, he knows the letters, but he's not reading fully. And he noticed the bird in the logo here. And that is, you know, that's part of Hoca's logo. And their tagline for Hoca is, it's time to fly. And I would agree. It's time to fly in the Hoca Clifton 5s. So kudos to Joseph for noticing the bird here on the side of the shoe and knowing, like, wait a minute, correlating that to the fact that these are Hoca's shoes. Like, guys, branding, it's crazy. It's like branding is a powerful thing in the 21st century. OK, this shoe has a five millimeter drop from heel to toe. It weighs 9.4 ounces for a size nine, very lightweight. I, you know, for the size of the stack height, you get a good chunk of EVA foam here through the midsole. And considering how thick this is, that's a pretty good weight. It does not feel heavy at all. Very different than the Vamero 14 and very different than the Levitate 2. It's just a nice lightweight shoe. The upper has a mesh upper, and it's quite a bit different than the Clifton 1, which is actually the last Clifton I wore. And another thing that I noticed is the tongue. Remember the Clifton 1? The tongue was very, very thin. And I actually kind of liked it. But after trying the Clifton 5 and this tongue, like, I really like, I think the tongue on a shoe is really important. And when you're trying to lock your foot down into the shoe, which, here's the tip of the day, I went true to size when buying this Clifton 5. You may want to think about going a half size down. I have a little bit, I would say, probably on the narrower side of a foot. If you have a wide foot, you're probably going to be good to go. But my toes are swimming around just a teeny, tiny bit in the toe box. And I don't think the lacing system here is going to be able to lock down my foot well enough just as the shoe is. However, you know how I like Spenco? That's the green cushion that you see me putting into my shoes. Just to take a little bit of the edge off of the pavement pounding and the concrete pounding, it's down below. I'm going to definitely put the Spenco into this shoe, not necessarily for the cushion, but just to help my foot kind of fill up the space that is inside here. One last point on the upper. I think that this upper has a lot of similarities to the Pegasus 35 Turbo. A very lightweight and, I don't know, it just has a similar, like as I'm looking inside here, there's an inner liner that if you have a turbo, you know what I'm talking about. They look very similar. And I don't know if they talk to each other or we're checking out each other's shoes, but the upper on this Clifton 5 has very similar looks and feels to the turbo thus far. OK, what else did I notice on my first run today in the streets of Denver? I felt underfoot like a smooth ride. I'm just trying to, I'm recollecting what my feet were feeling like a smooth ride. I could feel the rocker. You know how Hoka is known for that meta rocker. And it's basic. I can't quite explain it completely. Jessica did a much better job inside the store, but basically how they create this EVA foam, they, I guess they blow air into the foam and that helps create space inside the foam in the midsole. How fascinating would it be to go to the factory, wherever that is in the world, and watch them create midsole? That would be amazing. We should take a field trip, YouTube. I would love to go to a running shoe factory and see how they're making these midsole. Anyway, I digress. So the ride was good. Again, I'm giving it a 8.75 out of 10 for reducing the pain of my plantar fasciitis. That's pretty good. I think because I raced yesterday, my arch is definitely a little tender, a little sore. I think tomorrow, the next day, the next day, this shoe is going to be a lifesaver. So like, I don't think I fully experienced the goodness of the shoe today. It's coming, it's coming. All right, the question of the day. This is for all, and I know you're out there. I know you're out there, YouTube. Hoka fans, what is your favorite Hoka shoe and why? That is the question of the day. And I don't want to create too much controversy here, but if you are not a Hoka fan, could you explain why? Just let me know why. And listen, I'm not trying to stir up any emotions here. I just want to know that. And maybe you just have never tried Hoka. Maybe you tried Hoka and you just didn't like it. And I'd like to know why. And I'm not saying I'm all in on Hoka. Like, you know, I'm not sponsored by Hoka or anybody else. I'm just giving you my thoughts here. Giving you my thoughts, two-way street. So that is the question of the day. Thanks for commenting down below. And that, my friends, is today's vlog in the Hoka Clifton 5, incredible. I'm pretty excited. I must say, I am pretty excited. And all right, I'm gonna stop talking or else we'll talk all night. Tomorrow's vlog is gonna be most likely, most likely, well, probably gonna have some drone action, probably gonna have some other runners involved. And yes, I have some new tools for recovery. Come back for that. All right, guys, that is it. See beauty, work hard, and love each other. We will see you tomorrow.


The purpose of this presentation is to summarise the work we've undertaken since our last public consultation event in April 2019. We've reviewed your feedback from that consultation to further develop the shortlist of options. In addition, we've identified complementary options to improve walking and cycling, public transport and car parking in Flandylo and Firefac. Stage 1 of the Welsh Government Transport Appraisal Guidance Process, or WELTAG for short, concluded in 2018, when the study identified a long list of 41 potential options and recommended 11 shortlisted options to be progressed at WELTAG Stage 2. These options were presented at the public consultation in April 2019. As a reminder, here are the 11 shortlisted options that we consulted on. NB1, which is traffic lights on Ross Mine Street, excluding any relief, road or bypass option. NB2, which was removal of parking on Ross Mine Street, again with no relief, road or bypass. NB5, which was restriction of HGVs, so this would include a legal requirement on Bridge Street and Ross Mine Street, again with no bypass. This option included a one-way system to ease the flow of traffic. Option NB6 was to combine NB1 and NB2. NB7 was also a combination of NB1 and NB2, but the critical difference between NB7 and NB6 is the HGV legal restriction. We also consulted on option TC1A, which would include any of the relief road options. This is a one-way system on Ross Mine Street, which allows for widening of the footpaths and improvements of the public realm. Five different relief road alignment options were also considered. So what was the feedback from our consultation in April 2019? We originally held a stakeholder workshop in which 29 people attended. Public consultations were then held on the 2nd, 3rd and 6th of April, with a total of 404 attendees. 243 responses to our questionnaire were provided. That information provided informed us of the preferences from those that attended. You can see from the pie chart that your feedback choices are approximately presented as a third each. The blue choices would like to see a town centre improvement only, with no relief road. The red choices would like a combination of a bypass with town centre improvements. Finally, the green choices would like to see a bypass or relief road on its own. Also on this slide you can see a bar chart which shows how each of the options scored from our feedback. The HGV removal in NB6 scored quite highly and also the range of relief road options, BE1A through to BE6 were also reasonably popular. This information has previously been uploaded to the Welsh Government website. Just to review how we have developed these options. We have assessed the feedback from the consultation event and appraised how the options align with project objectives. We have then investigated the technical feasibility to deliver the options, which has resulted in the evaluation of 11 options down to 4. The study has also further appraised the technical feasibility of delivering the options against the feedback of the 1993 Public Inquiry. We have developed detailed plans for the constrained area around the railway station and developed a new flood impact model for Flandylo and Firefark. We have also been progressing detailed surveys for ecology and the environment, as well as undertaking a topographical survey. We have conducted a range of stakeholder engagement with Welsh Government Network Management, Sutra, Carmarthenshire County Council, NRW, Sustrans, Focus Groups, Chamber of Trade, Network Rail and Transport for Wales, amongst others. We have delivered a questionnaire survey for those businesses in Flandylo Town Centre. We have also held two meetings with the Independent Review Panel, which is made up of specialists from a range of groups, including Carmarthenshire County Council, Welsh Government, Sustrans and Future Generations Wales. We were originally planning to undertake a public consultation in November or December 2019. However, at the request of the review group and in particular Sustrans, we were asked to undertake additional work before presenting the options. The study has then been disrupted by Covid-19, which has delayed this round of consultations, which was originally planned for April 2020. During this delay, we have undertaken further feasibility work to improve the options presented. We have also investigated the options for a virtual consultation and have now developed this online public consultation, which launched on the 29th of September. As we mentioned on the last slide, a refinement of the short list of options was undertaken, including on how the options met the project objectives. These project objectives were initially generated during the stakeholder workshops and subsequently agreed by the review group at the start of the WellTag Stage 1 study. The agreed project objectives are to preserve the strategic function of the A483, improve pedestrian and cyclist safety within Flandylo and Firefach, including safe routes to school, reduce community severance within Flandylo and Firefach, improve journey time reliability through Flandylo and Firefach, reduce congestion through Flandylo and Firefach, contribute to sustainable economic growth and tourism and cultural opportunities in Flandylo, reduce exposure to air pollution for sensitive receptors and support transition to a low carbon society, ensuring the solution is sustainable and resilient, which minimizes carbon emissions associated with a transport infrastructure, which includes improving access to and provision of public transport. Flandylo and Firefach both suffer from safety issues caused by conflicts between pedestrians and cyclists with motor vehicles and HGVs. Flandylo and Firefach are not designated active travel towns and from our studies, we have noted very low levels of existing cycling, with almost no weekday cycling recorded. However, there is significant leisure cycling observed on the weekend. This is expected to further increase as the Tawi Valley path is delivered. Ascol Brodineva is a major tripper tractor in the area. A show-of-hand survey of the school children indicated that many of them would like to walk or cycle to school. However, an initial assessment of journeys to school revealed that not many of the children live within walking and cycling distance of the school, with a majority of school children accessing the area by bus. We have identified that improvements could be made to the wider pedestrian and cycling network of Flandylo and Firefach by enhancing links between the town centre, school, railway station and residential areas. A walking and cycling audit has been completed to identify those streets and roads which could be enhanced. We have also identified the opportunity to implement an electric bike hire scheme in Flandylo and Firefach in addition to increasing cycle storage facilities in the study area. We have also reviewed the public transport bus network in the area to understand existing service patterns in Flandylo and Firefach and we have consulted with Transport for Wales and Network Rail to understand the increased opportunities for rail in the heart of Wales line. In Flandylo town centre, traffic surveys have indicated that the existing 172 Bay main public car park is operating at 85% of its capacity, which is considered full. The same survey revealed on average 53% of park vehicles on Frost Mine Street over the 12-hour survey period across seven days were parked illegally. Illegally parked vehicles inhibit traffic flow and contribute to the existing conflicts between pedestrians and other road users. We have considered an option to remove on-street parking along Frost Mine Street and Bridge Street, which would ease congestion. However, this could create difficulties for residents and businesses within the town centre. A review of the wider existing car parking provision within the study area has also been undertaken to identify where additional parking could be provided. As a result of the Welltag Stage 2 process, these four shortlisted options have been developed for consultation. These options, together with a series of complementary enhancements, will be discussed in further detail over the following slides. In B7, this option provides a local Flandylo town centre improvement with no relief road. This option could be delivered as a trial, and if successful, could be modified into a longer-term solution. Traffic signal control would be introduced on Frost Mine Street between the junction of King Street and Bang Street, shown green on the image. This would reduce vehicular conflict by removing two-way traffic flow through the main high street and present an opportunity to narrow the carriageway and create a safer, pedestrian environment with widened footways. During the Welltag Stage 2 commission, we have undertaken local measurement surveys throughout the town centre to determine the physical dimensions available. The 160 metre distance between the traffic signal heads results in a green-red time running in two-minute cycles. The traffic modelling is predicting opening-year traffic queues, shown red on the image on screen, to be at 120 metres for northbound traffic from the junction with King Street to the junction with Church Street, and 90 metres for southbound traffic from the junction with bank buildings to Hugh Williams' Son and Co solicitors. The queue lengths are expected to increase in 15 years, as shown in orange on the on-screen image, with queuing extending to 207 metres for northbound traffic and 115 metres for southbound traffic. Forecast traffic queues result in the loading bay outside the Côte d'Or Hotel, the disabled parking and loading bays adjacent to the post office, and the parking near St Talo's Church being removed. However, there is scope, subject to agreement with Camarventure County Council, to reallocate space within Crescent Road Car Park for loading and disabled parking. A change in the parking charge regime could also be considered. Any stopping or parking on the highway between the signals would restrict through movement, and enforcement would need to be increased. With this option, there is no change to current public bus services. TC1A. This option provides a one-way system on Frostmine Street. It can only be delivered alongside a relief road option, which would remove up to 81% of through traffic from Frostmine Street in Slandylo Town Centre and 95% of HGV movements. Frostmine Street would also see a beneficial decrease in air pollution, with nitrogen dioxide levels reduced to similar levels observed during the Covid-19 lockdown period. We have studied how the Town Centre currently operates, and have concluded that a one-way system in a southbound direction would be complemented by a relief road. The one-way system proposed along Frostmine Street would operate from the junction with New Road and Crescent Road, as by CK Supermarket, to the junction with Kamarthen Street and Abbey Terrace, that's by the old Lloyds Bank. By removing two-way traffic flow and creating a new one-way system, carriageway widths can be reduced, which facilitates the opportunity to widen the footways, creating a safer environment for walking and cycling. To discourage the inappropriate use of side roads, traffic approaching Slandylo from the south along the A483 will be directed along the relief road. Local traffic will still be able to access southern areas of Slandylo via Slandylo Bridge and Bridge Street. With this option there will be no changes to public bus services, existing loading bays or disabled parking along Frostmine Street and Bridge Street. This option presents a greater opportunity for Town Centre improvements, which could include part-time restrictions on Frostmine Street through traffic between certain hours or full-time restrictions with access and loading only to create an attractive shared-use environment for pedestrians and cyclists. Option BE1A provides full relief to Slandylo Town Centre and the Village of Firefach. Importantly, this option removes up to 81% of through traffic from Frostmine Street in Slandylo Town Centre and up to 85% from the Centre of Firefach Village, which in turn will allow further opportunities for Town Centre enhancements such as option TC1A and improvements to health, safety and well-being such as noise and air quality within these communities. During the well-tagged Stage 2 process we have developed an extensive three-dimensional ground survey and developed a detailed three-dimensional model of the relief road. From the north with a relief road commences at the A4D Roundabout to the north of Slandylo Town Centre, where an additional arm will be added to the Roundabout. The road heads then in a south-easterly direction with the initial section elevated between 1m and 1.5m above existing ground levels on an embankment. The route then heads in a southerly direction running parallel to the existing railway line, before heading south-west across the flood plain and crossing the River Tawi on a new structure. Where the proposed relief road meets the A483 trunk road just south of Slandylo Bridge, a new Roundabout will be constructed. Some minor realignment of the existing causeway and approach walls of the Grade 2 listed Slandylo Bridge will be necessary. To the west of the new Roundabout, a short section of a relief road is provided around the north-west corner of Firefire Village, linking the A483 to the A476 just east of a Skoll Broad and Ever. The section would be elevated between 1.5m to 2m above existing ground levels, and a new Roundabout would be constructed on the A476. The route then continues in a southerly direction on an uphill gradient, passing through a section of deep excavation approximately six metres deep and crossing both the Avon Kennan and Railway Line on a proposed structure, before joining the A483 with a new junction. A combined cycleway footway is proposed along the length of the relief road, with links to the existing network and pedestrian crossings provided at key locations. Ecology and environmental surveys have been undertaken to inform any mitigation works that may be required. Option BE1B is a shorter version of Option BE1A, and provides full relief to Land Isle Town Centre and partial relief to the Village of Firefire. Importantly, this option removes up to 81% of through-traffic from Cross Mine Street in Land Isle Town Centre and up to 52% from the Centre of Firefire Village, which in turn will allow further opportunities for town centre enhancements, Option TC1A, and improvements to health, safety and well-being such as noise and air quality within these communities. A combined cycleway footway is proposed along the length of the relief road, with links to the existing network and pedestrian crossings provided at key locations. Ecology and environmental surveys have been undertaken to inform any mitigation works that may be required. Option BE1C follows the same route as Option BE1A and BE1B between the A40 and the A483, but then crosses the flood plain between the River Tawee and Usko Brodineva before joining the A476 with a new junction west of Usko Brodineva. This option provides full relief to Land Isle Town Centre and partial relief to the Village of Firefire. This option removes up to 81% of through-traffic from Cross Mine Street in Land Isle Town Centre and up to 47% from the Centre of Firefire Village, which in turn will allow further opportunities for town centre enhancements, that's Option TC1A, and improvements to health, safety and well-being such as noise and air quality within these communities. A combined cycleway footway is proposed along the length of the relief road, with links to the existing network and pedestrian crossings provided at key locations. This could form part of the new Tawee Valley path, which is currently planned to finish at Firefire. A separate walking and cycling link is proposed to provide connection with Usko Brodineva. Ecology and environmental surveys have been undertaken to inform any mitigation works that may be required. All relief road options will require a new river bridge to cross the River Tawee. There are three different bridge options being considered and consulted on. We have looked at a three-span option and a four-span option, as well as a bow string arch single-span options. Note that the after image on this slide shows the bow string arch option. We have undertaken a detailed three-dimensional ground survey of the floodplain and river channel to inform the outline design of the new structure. The existing ground levels near to the proposed structure are generally flat, and the underside of the bridge has been developed so that it is a minimum of 600 millimeters above the highest flood levels. Here we see an artist impression of the historic view from Firefark looking north to Tlandailo. It is worth noting that all three relief road options at this location would look very similar with a new roundabout at this location. The three relief road options pass through the existing railway station car park and the narrow corridor between the Tlandailo railway station and the properties on Stepney Road. A four three-dimensional ground survey was undertaken in 2019 to help inform the geometric design of the relief road and ensuring accuracy of cross-sectional information. The railway station car park will be repositioned to the west, that's the townside of the new relief road with vehicular, bus and pedestrian access maintained from Station Road. A new traffic signal controlled crossing would provide access to and from the railway station. The existing pedestrian stepped access between Allen Road and Tlandailo railway station would be upgraded to current design standards. We have investigated both a lift and a ramp option to access the station from Allen Road. We will be seeking feedback on both options during our consultation. All relief road options cross the low-lying flood planes which is designated as being at high risk from flooding by the River Taui. Whilst Tlandailo is elevated above the flood plane and is largely unaffected by flooding, areas of Firefark are within the flood plane and protected by existing flood defences. To assess the impact of the relief road options a series of surveys of the River Taui and its tributaries was commissioned and a new hydraulic baseline flood model was prepared and approved by Natural Resources Wales. There was evidence that the existing flood defences at Firefark were breached by Storm Dennis in February 2020 and we have considered this within our proposals. The relief road options have been tested within the new flood model to understand the potential impacts of each option on flood patterns. The net effect was flood levels increased marginally and mitigation measures have been identified to resolve it. Mitigation could include improvements to the existing Firefark flood bund which include raising the levels and improving the impermeability of the bund. Mitigation measures may also include large culverts or approach structures each side of the proposed new river crossing to allow water to flow through the embankment. Additionally mitigation may include smaller relief culverts under the raised section of new relief road between the new river crossing and proposed roundabout south of the existing Tlandailo bridge to allow water to flow through the embankment and away from the existing flood defences. These mitigation measures result in a marginal increase of less than 100 millimetres in floodplain levels during a 1 in 100 year flood event and a 1 in 1000 year event. The Welltag Stage 1 consultation events primarily focused on improvements to Tlandailo. We've listened to your feedback and developed complimentary measures to improve Firefark which could work with any of the options being consulted on. Walking and cycling improvements. There are options to improve the connectivity in Firefark especially around the school, village centre and railway station. As outlined previously we could introduce an electric bike hire scheme with docking stations in Firefark and Tlandailo. Vehicle access to Ascol Broad and Ever School could be improved through a ghost island junction arrangement to help reduce peak hour congestion. The A476A483 junction has been examined by Welsh Government who have developed an option to signalise the existing mini roundabout which would provide dedicated controlled pedestrian crossing facilities. A review of the wider existing car parking provision within the study area has also been undertaken to identify where additional parking could be provided. Land in public ownership has been identified in Tlandailo and Firefark which could be used to create additional car parks for public use. What are the next steps? Following this consultation the independent review panel will consider all of your feedback and will recommend a preferred option to Welsh Government by the end of 2020. A Welsh ministerial decision on a final recommendation is expected by Spring 2021.


Well, welcome everyone to the first of what I hope to be, will be panel presentation each semester by a number of site supervisors who'd like to talk about their internship opportunities through the following semester. For this very first session, we have four presenters, and I will be introducing them separately, but I'd just like to get an idea if you'll be talking to us tonight. Rudy Galeris of Western University of Health Sciences, and Cynthia Johnson from Natividad Medical Center, Christina Sibler of Museum of Verdebrake Zoology, and Diana Wakamoto from the CSU East Bay. Diana is kind of special to us because she went through our 2UT gateway doctoral program, and we're very proud of her. You also see on the screen, I've got friends down there at the bottom, but you also see on the screen, I'm right, Melissa LaFranchise, she's our student research assistant that put together this entire panel presentation, so thank you so much Melissa for that. And I'm going to move right to our very first presenter, Rudy, who will introduce his topic, and also I'm not sure we've got Francis Lane here, Rudy, so is Francis here this as well? No, it's just me tonight. Okay, well then you can take it away. Thank you very much. Hello, my name is Rudy Barres. I'm the marketing and outreach librarian here at Western, the Harry Kane Philip Pomerance Library. Francis Chew is the associate director of reference and outreach here at Western University Pomerance Library. So between the two of us and the other three reference librarians that we have on staff, we kind of group supervise or supervise depending on the, how would you put it? The project that any of our people come in and intern under. So it depends on what project you'll be working on, who exactly is your direct supervisor, so to speak, but it mainly all finally gets filed by Francis, the associate director. If you want to go to the next slide, I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Thank you. So this is a picture of the Harry Kane Philip Pomerance Library here at Western University of Health Sciences. For those of you who don't know, Western University is a medical institution, so we have a variety of different disciplines here ranging everything from DOs or doctor of osteopathic medicine to pharmacists, veterinarians, optometrists, podiatrists, neuropathies. We have the nursing, the allied health field. I'm not missing someone, pharmacy, I believe I may have mentioned, as well as we've started a new graduate college of biomedical science that's working towards a PhD program. So the library is located at one end of the campus. The campus actually takes place if you're familiar with Pomona, the downtown area of Pomona, California. We occupy about five blocks. The university does the library anchors one end, the new buildings anchor the opposite end with the students going in between the two. As you can see there, we have a tagline of we are more than our four walls. That actually comes from the fact that we have a lot of distance programs of the nursing program is distance. We also have a remote site in Oregon that we have to service our students up there as well. So we have a lot of distance programs and we have a lot as a result, a lot of electronic journals, a lot of electronic databases and e-books that have to be managed. So as well as the reference department is also heavily involved in instruction and education. So we are spending quite a bit of time outside of the brick and mortar of the library and dealing with the faculty, students and staff of Western University. If you would like to go to the next slide please. So here at Western, specifically in the Pomona library, there are a lot of different tasks that as Fran laid out here, we laid out here that we need help with. We can always use another helping hand on any of these. We had actually just recently, I believe he's here. Tom Daley was our last intern that we had and he helped us tremendously on live guides and tutorial creation. He really took us to the different direction that we weren't expecting and it turned out wonderfully. So we're actually getting ready to institute some of the things that he put together for our live guides and rolled out across the board. But as you can see, we have live guides, we have tutorials that we're always constantly happy to work on and upgrade and change. Obviously, as I said, I'm the marketing outreach librarian. We have just forwarded out into doing surveys on a more systematic level. So we just finished a walking survey. I just crunched the data on that. We'll be going into focus groups and a longer survey based off of that. And we're doing a lot of data-driven marketing and service outreach with that. So we are doing a lot of that. We always are doing more and more promotion. We have enough of the library services and the library's different resources.  So we're actually able to have on LCD monitors throughout campus the ability to advertise our material. So we've gone out to that. We're publishing promotional material. We have Facebook page. So we are always doing social media. Obviously, whoever interns here will help out with the students, the faculty, the staff. And we also have collection assistants. So we're always looking about that and looking into anyone to help us with that. It's a great way to get a chance to really get to know cross-disciplinary, or as we're doing here on campus, interdisciplinary communication. So this is a great way to get your hands into the medical instructional field and just different disciplines. You may go to one different university or college that only has one, but you will have had access or exposure to them here at Western with the different disciplines we have. Next slide, please. Obviously, customer service skills are a must. We would like you to be technologically savvy.  We're really happy to look at them, integrate them and say, good job. Well done. Obviously, we work in a team. The reference and outreach team is very close. We're a very tight-knit team as Thompson attests to. So we're always open to working as a team and the ability to learn quickly, pick up stuff, and we'll let you run with it. Obviously, as Fran mentioned, they're friendly. A person will help. We will, we have the ability here on campus to introduce you to the faculty through different programs or instructional sessions that are available to faculty and staff. We've actually in the past taken our interns with us so that way they can be exposed to the other faculty and how we learn as faculty and staff at Western University to teach the students or expand our skills. So we take that with them so that way they get even more exposure to instructional material or instructional, I'm Luke John of White. Instructional, anyway, I'll come back to it later. So anyway, if you want to go to the last slide, if you want to or if you're interested in the intern here at Western University, feel free to contact either Francis at F2 at Western U or reference at WesternU.edu. We'll be happy to set up a meeting. You have to know what skills you have, how we can help you and how you can help us. And we look forward to working with you. I'm done. Thank you. Thank you, Rudy. I have one question crafted by what you have said about the way you work. Are you looking for a virtual intern or an onsite intern or a combination of the two? We like onsite, but we will take a hybrid, either virtual and onsite. I think totally virtual might not be enough because there's things that we'd like to expose you to here at the library. However, I believe Francis will be amenable to a hybrid where they come in and if they're able to do work. Some of the programs that we work with are only on specific terminals in our office. We have a program that isn't like, I believe Tom worked with Viewlet Builder when he was here. We only have a license for a specific terminal here at the library. So in order for him to work on the tutorials, he would actually have to come in and physically work on it. So in those particular instances, that's when they would have to come in. Okay, very good. That's just something the students can make a note of. Thank you very much. Thank you. What I'll do is move on to the next speaker and we'll hold our questions till the end unless something like that pops up again. But our next speaker is Cynthia Johnson from the Trinidad Medical Center and Cynthia, you can take it away. Thank you very much, Dr. Fritz. So let's begin. So many hats. So you want to be a medical librarian? I mean a special librarian or a director of a small world library. I mean a director of a small academic library. I mean an embedded librarian in a large teaching facility. How about, I mean an information literacy librarian, a research librarian in a pharmaceutical company. How about a technology librarian? Whichever hat speaks to you now, you will, I promise you, at one point in your career or another, wear them all. Your internship will be at Natividad Medical Center in sunny Salinas. Yes, it's sunny Salinas. Natividad Medical Center is a safety net hospital. We're providing care to all residents regardless of their ability to pay. It is only the teaching, it is the only teaching hospital on the Central Coast and it is nationally and internationally recognized for its family medicine residency program. We're one man bound. We have a small library with mostly medical journals, medical textbooks and reference books. A small computer lab with seven computers for medical staff and student research. And a world of information at our fingertips to accessing our online databases. One librarian, that's me, serving a community of 900 medical professionals serving a community of 150,000 hard-working constituents in John Stisegland. Where the land is green gold, everything grows. And agriculture, culture, a multilingual population. So only English is required for this internship. And where family means everything, no matter what the language. We're going to be doing special projects if you look at the bottom here and I need, oh my gosh, one man bound and I need help. We're doing new inventory, new automation, a new website in Drupal. We need public relations, database evaluations, training materials, surveys, everything that we could possibly do for a library. We're going to be doing in the next six to nine months. So which hand are you interested in today? You can help us with reference or one of those wonderful special projects. And what is required of you or what do we want from you? We want your attention to detail. You're willing to take the time to produce quality work over quantity. And most important, at least in my library, thinking outside the box. All level of students are welcome. So, hey there you, red hat in the fourth row. Metipidad Medical Center wants you. And you can contact us through me at Metipidad by email. Or in person, if you have any questions here online or offline, just ask. Thank you. Thank you, Cynthia. And then to be clear, are you looking for on-site interns, virtual interns, or hybrids? We're looking for on-site. You really need to be with the people on the floors, with the staff, with the residents, with the students. I think that experience is the greatest for any intern. And I hope we can get one of you guys to join us. Excellent. Thank you. And then we'll hold our questions again and move on to Christina Siblers. We'll introduce us to the Museum of Vertebrate Geology. Hi. And thank you again for having me. So, just a little bit about the Museum. The Museum of Vertebrate Geology is located at UC Berkeley. So, it's on campus in the Valley Life Sciences Building. So, if you are in the Bay Area, we're obviously very centrally located to BART and to all of the major bus lines in the East Bay. And the Museum was founded in 1908. But it didn't really have a formal repository in place. It received a clear grant. That's the Council for Library Information Resources. And it received a hidden collections grant from that body a year and a half ago. And so, I was brought on to help formalize the repository and put in place some basic infrastructure for supporting the research at the Museum. The Museum itself has roughly 640,000 specimens. So, I'll just mention now, it's definitely important that if you are uncomfortable around animals, especially specimens, that this might not be the best place for you. And I should also note that I myself am not a biology major. But I found myself fascinated by the work at the Museum and a similar natural history museum. So, please don't look at vertebrate zoology and think, oh, that can't be for me. If you're interested in history and if you're interested in archives, I think there's a lot of amazing opportunities that are repository. So, here is just a quick description of the kind of research that we support. And we really get people from everywhere, from small wildlife societies in the area to researchers in the area. To researchers who are looking at lead poisoning and condor populations over the span of 100 years. So, I mean, the range of research I think is interesting and I feel like I'm always learning something new. So, you can imagine with having this task of building this repository, we're really building this from the ground up. I don't have a mission statement that's, you know, decades old to fall back on. We really had to work hard to put together our processing manual, our mission statement. All of these things I think that we sometimes take for granted in established institutions. We're affiliated with the Bancroft Library. So, we do have some support through them for some basic documentation. But otherwise, what I really am looking for are students who are ready to roll up their sleeves. And get into some of this material and help make it available. The biggest thing about this grant is really exposing the collections that we have. And it's a pretty rich material. The majority of our collections are comprised of field notes. And so, researchers go out into the field. They observe what they see. They basically write down these formal conditions of a moment in time. And so, if we have this record from a hundred years ago, we can do surveys now to see how populations have changed. And that's the kind of material that we have that I think is so interesting. So, if you're interested in that, if you're interested in the history of California, these are the kinds of tasks that we have. So, I want to make a point that we have two very specific internships. We have one for somebody who has taken, so this one is for somebody who has not taken the archive class. If you're just curious about archives, maybe you have an interest in history, this is the internship for you. I get you started with some easier things like rehousing historical photographs. And then we move on to creating box lists of some of our collections that we may not get to right away, but we want people to know about it. And we're utilizing this new feature out of the OAC, it's the online archive of California to create collection records without necessarily processing an entire collection. I think it's a good practice to understand what the finding structure is without having to go through the whole process. So, I think that would be a really valuable tool and experience for a student who's somewhat interested in archives. So, again, looking for someone who's willing to get their feet wet and who's enthusiastic. I want our interns to be engaged and excited and to share our discoveries and we're always excited. We have a Facebook page and a blog and we do encourage all of our interns to participate in that. So, that's the first internship and that is an onsite internship to be there and to just learn about what working in an archive is all about. And then our second internship is a processing intern. So, this will be taking a medium to large collection and going through all the steps for processing that collection. And I help you every step of the way. We have this very well choreographed and we've worked really hard on our documentation for this. So, if you are hoping to get a collection under your belt and to put on your resume, this would be a good opportunity. We use Archivist Toolkit and I help you process that finding aid into an encoded EAD file out of Archivist Toolkit and massage it into a file that will be acceptable onto the OAC. So, you'd get EAD experience, XML experience, Archivist Toolkit experience and all the other steps that are involved in processing. I should mention that both of our internships are paid. This internship is paid at a slightly higher level because it does require a course. It requires the archives course and if you pick in preservation that's even better. So, those are the two internships. I do like this photo of the, I forgot I had put this condor photo in. I think condors have been on my mind and they're not really my favorite bird but I do like that photo. So, a student qualifications, an interest in natural history or biology is helpful. But again, absolutely not required. Like I said, I was an English major. I kind of fell into this through my own internship. I did my internship at the California Academy of Sciences. I graduated from SLIS in 2010 and it was a very important internship and I'm really glad that I did it and I fell into this amazing niche. So, I am the poster child of how important your internship is and how things can be very fruitful from that experience. I do prefer decent handwriting skills. I'm very, I'm very compassionate towards left handers. My husband's left handed and I will accept not so decent handwriting skills as long as it doesn't look like psychokiller handwriting which I've experienced and that can be hard. This handwriting, you're writing on folders that are supposed to last for years and years. So, decent handwriting is a big part of it. Enthusiasm and curiosity, that's a big deal. I guess everybody wants that. Previous candidates developed attachments to their collections. We had Nancy Rink is processing the Robert Stevin's collection. He was a herpetologist who wrote a field guide for reptiles and amphibians on the west coast and he just died. And while she was processing, she was actually almost finished when he died. And so, she is looking into ways of describing and saving all of the memorials and obituaries that have popped up online. There's a Facebook memorial page about this, herpetologist. So, now we're looking into how do we save this and put this into the finding aid and it's really fascinating. And I think she was pretty crushed when she heard that he died. I think we all get very attached to the people that we process that become so real to us. So, I'm looking for other people who are open to those kinds of experiences and making connections in history. Innovative ideas, that's something that we're doing with this collection. How can we connect our specimen data, our maps, our fields, all this data into something that's maybe even the next step for finding aid. I'm always looking for how can finding aids be more dynamic. So, I'm always looking for people who are interested in that, too. So, here's my contact information and the requirements. So, please, if you're at all interested, do contact me. We're always looking for somebody who's just kind of curious about what goes on at the museum and in its history. Thank you. Thank you, Christina. So, I do guess that, again, we're looking at individuals who are able to come on site and all of the options so far it's found it's fascinating. So, I appreciate your presentation. And we'll move right along to the last one, but not least, Diana. We'll talk to us about CSU each day. So, go ahead, Diana. Thanks, Pat. So, thank you all for having me and I'm so glad to hear about all these wonderful internship sites. It almost makes me want to do another internship myself. So, as Pat said, I work at California State University East Bay as one of the library faculty members there. And we are looking for on-site interns. And just to give you a little background of the University Libraries at East Bay, so we, our main library where your internship would be is located in Hayward, California. So, just a few bar stops down from Cal Berkeley. And our University Library has a very central teaching mission because we are a teaching university. And our library faculty all teach two credit information literacy courses that are required for our first year students to graduate. So, that's what most of our interns focus on. And it's also we focus on our reference philosophy is part of our teaching opportunity. We have 12 library faculty members at the moment. We're very collegial faculty and we love it when students want to intern with us. So, a little background on our internship. It is an instruction reference internship. So, if you would like to have experience teaching, helping to teach a credit level information literacy course. And you'd like experience serving at an academic reference desk, this internship is for you. And you can come and help us fulfill our teaching mission and share your ideas on teaching, learning, and librarianship. So, the internship was created to provide experience in reference and instruction to help us learn from you and you to learn from us new ideas from enthusiastic engaged graduate students. As I said before, it's on the ground and in person at our Hayward campus mainly. We do have the option of doing a slight hybrid so you can do some of the work because we do teach online as well for online modules. We would like to have our interns on the ground in Hayward so you can really come integrated into our faculty unit here. So, some of our interns do work with me. I'm the site supervisor for the overall internship program. You'll be paired with a faculty member or perhaps two faculty members who are teaching. We're on quarters so for spring, your spring semester you would overlap with our winter and spring quarters which is why you might work with more than one faculty member. And you get to help with lesson prep, delivering lessons. You get help with grading but you'll never be just having to do all the grant work of grading. You also get the opportunity to work at our reference desk which can be quite busy, especially in the middle and the end of the term. And you also have the opportunity for doing informational interviews with other library faculty members and staff members so you can get a really good overview of what it's like to be an academic librarian. And so this is more than just a TA position. You really get to learn about being a faculty member in the CSUs. All the librarians are faculty members which is really wonderful so you can get to learn to see if this is something that you really want to do. Everybody is really into talking with our interns and helping you grow and learn and we learn so much from our interns as well. So student qualifications, obviously because a lot of your internship will be in teaching, we would hope that you have a strong interest in gaining classroom teaching experience. Also if you've taken the reference course and or the information literacy seminar, that's very helpful but not required. Also if you have interest in creating learning modules, online tutorials and things of that nature, we do a lot of that so we have reusable material that we all share that is wonderful. And obviously as everyone else has said, a willingness to learn and being public service oriented is really key. Our past interns have been absolutely wonderful and have done fantastic projects for us. They've created games to use in our classroom on copyright to actually make copyright fun to learn about. Updated library guides helped with course related instruction both in the classroom and online. Come into our one session embedded information literacy sessions for upper division courses as well. So basically if you are good, humored, public service focused, serious about helping and you have a love or you think you might have a love of teaching, this internship is for you and we would absolutely love to have you. So if this sounds like something that you're interested in, you can contact me. My email and phone is up there and you just have to send in a letter of interest and your current CV to my email address and then we'll set up a time for an informal interview so you can ask more questions and decide if we are the right internship site for you. So thank you again for having me talk with you and I hope that some of you will consider Cal State East Bay as your internship opportunity. Thank you. Thank you, Diana. And I'm going to move right over to this slide right now and you could see the images of the speakers and also the institutions they represent and their names and we're up and down for questions. So if you have any questions at all on any of these internship opportunities you can raise your hand or you could just type the question in the chat area. What is the student that's graduating when in December or so then as far as solicits concerns it can't be part of our internship program. You have to be an enrolled student. D, I'm going to let Christina answer that one. Christina in the chat area is a question about hours and days of the week. Right. So I work, I have a very interesting schedule. I work Monday through Thursday. I work half days in the morning. I do work all day Wednesday and every other Friday. Now I don't expect you to remember that or to be able to do that but it is good that in the beginning we do have overlapping hours. So I'm basically there every morning between 8.30 and 1.00. So once we get the hang of things we always have paid staff there throughout the day every day. So once we get more familiar you are able to be there when I'm not there but there will still be somebody there to answer questions. But typically I try to work it out for my schedule and we do accept volunteers. So if you are graduating but you do want an experience like this we do take volunteers. Thank you Christina. That's a good point. Although this doesn't become involved in volunteer opportunities we do believe that it's very important for you to have experience and volunteer experience is also valuable. Something good to put on your resume and a great way to network as well. So keep that in mind. I'm going to go to the next question Julie asked for Cynthia to have some information from you two about the hours and days. This is Cynthia. I'm here from 8.30 to 5.00 Monday through Friday. The internship can be mornings, afternoons, the whole time. I'm very flexible. Again it is important to be together. Since it is a solo librarianship library the best mentoring that will go on is going to be working together. But I am flexible. I don't know how many hours are required in an internship to get credit for it. That hasn't actually been outlined to me but I'm more than happy to work out whatever is comfortable. Thank you. Thank you Cynthia. And for all of you our students work 45 hours for each credit that they're pursuing. However they must sign up at least for two credit courts, three credit or four credit. So most of our students work 135 hours during one term to earn three credits. That seems to be the norm. And we like to say it should be fairly even during the semester so that they can get done easily without a rush at the end. However that schedule when you work out with the intern you're not involved in the third time when it's slower for you or if the intern needs to take off or something. The two of you would work on that. We don't become involved in that. And I see a question there for Rudy and it's about what the veterinary librarians and if they're late to specialize. So I will give the mic to you. Thank you. Emily, we actually do have a each of us are liaison to different colleges, one or two colleges. So we do have a veterinary liaison. So you would be very easy for you to shadow this liaison. She spends a lot of time in the College of Veterinary Medicine talking with the faculty, talking with the staff, working with them. She meets with the students on a regular basis as well during their grand rounds, the first and the second year students. So she does spend quite a bit of time over in the College of Veterinary Medicine. As for specializing, I'm not too sure what you would do to specialize in that area other than the exposure and learn the collection that we have, the special needs that go along with our veterinary students. And also our veterinary program is different than Davis' program. Ours is a pure problem based program. So as a result, the veterinary students spend, I would have to say, even from two to three times the amount of time at the library during research than the other programs do. So they are heavy, heavy library users and we see them on a regular basis. So to specialize in veterinary librarianship, you could shadow our liaison and talk to her and really get to know how she works with the students and faculty and staff. Thank you. And do we have any, they're all very interesting opportunities, aren't they? Do we have any other questions or do we have any comments that you'd like to make? Again, introduce the chat area or raise your hand if you'd like to take the mic. Well, I'm sorry, my button turns off on me often. I just want to thank again all the students who attended, the program just presented. And I wanted to say that the link to this presentation will go out in the morning to all of our students so that they can listen to it if they were interested and were not able to attend this evening. And eventually we will also have a webcast made of this so that it is more easily accessible to other students. They won't have to go in to collaborate to listen to it. So thank you very much, everyone. I appreciate your attending.


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Hey everyone welcome at the prime five your five biggest Nintendo news stories in the last 24 hours and oh boy We have some doozies today because yes folks the video I made I don't know a week or two ago at this point about how hey the switch sales are sinking to a point that maybe Nintendo needs to consider replacing it or price drop or something has just gotten worse and This was actually kind of surprising today We have some brand new holiday deals announced by Nintendo that gave us their black Friday deals, so we get to Take a look at that. Let's just say I'm I'm unimpressed Next up we have news on sonic frontiers a brand new trailer plus some information on the switch version specifically Oh and maria plus rabid sparks of hope Gave us an idea of what their DLC is gonna be so we had to talk about that and Last but not least we're actually ending with a PlayStation story. What why we talk about PlayStation?  I would love to hit it by Thanksgiving if possible So go ahead and drop a like and subscribe to the channel. I really appreciate it to help support what we do here It's the number one thing you can do to really support the channel is subscribe to the channel drop a like and hey Maybe even leave a comment down below letting me know which of these stories is your favorite So our first story is that we have the updated to Femitsu charts from last week and These charts are quite interesting. So we have bayonetta three launch sales We'll get into that because those aren't quite as impressive as maybe Nintendo would hope but we have to first talk about Hardware sales. Let's get this out of the way PlayStation 5 has officially surpassed Nintendo switch last week PlayStation 5's base system plus all digital so 38,866 Units meanwhile the Nintendo switch the switch OLED and the switch light combined for thirty eight thousand six hundred and thirty forty units This is the first time essentially in six years that Nintendo switch was not at the top of the charts And this does not bode well for Nintendo. This does kind of show even in Japan Nintendo switch seems to have hit market saturation now I do suspect obviously the sales were boosted a little bit with the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and other things coming out in Japan and I understand that but also that never seemed to stop the switch before these are some of the lowest switch sales Numbers we have seen I think it will pick up again with Pokemon and maybe they'll be all right through December But the writings on the wall Nintendo's gonna have to do something now another game we want to talk about is bayonetta 3 and It debuted at number two number one is still Splatoon 3 but bayonetta 3 came up at 41 1285 units now We need some context for those numbers so bayonetta 2 that came out on Wii U So we're talking with the Wii U release now the switch one the Wii U release had about 39,000 units sold so that means this basically sold 2,000 more units and bayonetta 2 on a platform That is significantly more popular. I don't know about you that doesn't bode well for bayonetta 3 at least when it comes to well Japan We'll see obviously it could be evergreen it could have a long tail of sales It also could have sold incredibly well in the West but right now these are not that impressive of numbers You gotta remember Kamiya recently thanked Nintendo for even allowing bayonetta 3 to exist Suggesting that bayonetta 2 lost money So Nintendo funding the third one was certainly not guaranteed and he really thanked Nintendo for letting it happen Here's hoping the Western sales pick up for this one Otherwise, I have to wonder if this is the last we're going to see of the umbra which next up We have a brand new trailer for sonic frontiers called showdown And yeah, it does exactly what you would expect the showdown to do It's a him facing off against a bunch of new enemies showing off a couple new locales and bosses and ending with you know the Supersonic going against a giant robot punching thing. It's a pretty cool But what I actually wanted to know here while we're watching that trailer is we find on the sonic frontiers is using FSR just like some of Nintendo's games such as Nintendo switch sports and life is strange true colors Which is also using it on switch and we don't know what version of FSR it's using we would obviously prefer it uses 2.0 But we haven't seen that implemented on switch yet So it's highly likely it's using 1.0 which uses spatial upscaling for a small resolution boost So I'm really glad just that the game's using it because that's good obviously make it look better on Nintendo switch I think it's always better to use FSR 1.0 than not to Now again, we don't know which version it is Maybe we got fortunate and they decided to heavily invest and go with 2.0 But it's likely the 1.0 version I think FSR 2.0 and above is something we could see on future Nintendo hardware now stop the presses Nintendo has announced their holiday deals and their switch bundle is Amazing it is the greatest bundle of all time at least in one context Yeah, the Nintendo switch bundle is just the Mario Kart 8 deluxe bundle not even with a switch OLED It's with the red box switch. It's the neon red and blue and it includes three months of NSO You know the same switch bundle they've been running since holiday 2017 it costs $300. This is the same price. It's the same bundle all they've done over time is add three months of NSO In because NSO didn't exist back in 2017, but yeah It's the greatest holiday bundle of all time because this will now be what 2017 2018 2019 2020 21 2022 this will now be six holiday seasons that this bundle has survived and probably gonna sell well That makes it pretty amazing in one regard. It's got a lot of longevity Not because it's a great deal or because Nintendo has a lot of creativity around the holidays next up though Nintendo did announce $20 off of select Nintendo switch games are physical or digital So Mario Party Superstars Breath of the Wild Animal Crossing New Horizons Link's Awakening Fire Emblem Warriors three hopes and bravely default to so a couple of those in there are nice to see But the rest are kind of your usual lot There's gonna be 33% off digital and physical copies of WarioWare get it together and big brain Academy They're also knocking $40 off of Mario Kart home circuit now making that a more affordable $59.99 versus the $100 it usually costs look I think these deals are good that they exist, but also they're not extremely impressive and Nintendo continues to Not really care about doing a lot around the holidays and just hoping that their IP and platform is popular enough that it's gonna sell Well, I don't know. We'll see this might not be the holiday season that Nintendo does best unless Pokemon Really helps push switch sales this holiday next up Mario Plus Rabbids announced their DLC plan if you have bought the gold version You got the season pass or even if you don't we have some details here for you So let's just look at the graphic first of you the DLC part one that's landing in early 2023 This includes the Tower of Doom and it says face your doom in a new combat game mode So that should be pretty pretty interesting DLC pass 2 is gonna be coming in middle of 2023 So we're likely summer and it says that heroes confront a mysterious foe on a new enchanting planet So a new planet to be an added new foe. Maybe a new playable character We'll see and DLC part 3 that has Rayman comes late 2023 2023 and you see it says Rayman rabbit peach and rabbit Mario embark on their own adventure now It's interesting that we're kind of stuck using those certain characters Maybe Mario isn't allowed to team up with Rayman. Maybe Rayman becomes playable in the whole game afterwards Anyways, I have no idea But this is pretty exciting stuff the DLC 2 and 3 can be bought individually You can only have DLC part 1 if you have the season pass or you bought the gold version which includes the season pass Yeah, I don't know. I'm really excited for this stuff You know as someone who's yearning for more content for this game already. Hey early 2023 Tower of Doom. No, dude I'm there man. I'm already there. I'm already waiting. I'm already ready right after I finish off Fire Emblem Engage Now our last story I told you we're talking about PlayStation and it's quite interesting because we're talking about God of War Ragnarok That's right. It comes out in a handful of days It just had its review scores dropped and it got a 94 on Metacritic Sort of confirming that it's going to be the top competition with Elden Ring for game of the year reminder Elden Ring got a 96 on Metacritic Notably the 94 is exactly what God of War 2018 received those that love the game So just checking out some of the reviews find that it's better than 2018 game in almost every way Those that criticize it say it relies on the same story pacing and beats as the first one But now that it's spread over a much larger and more expansive world It loses intimacy and just doesn't work as well Some wonder if the formula set up in 2018 is getting old for what it's worth I would love for a formula to get old while my game is still getting a 94 on Metacritic and going to be a bestseller I'm sure most studios would accept our formulas getting old if that's the result Anyways, it makes you wonder a smidge if for some critics anyways If they're gonna say the same thing about tears of the kingdom next year when they compared to Breath of the Wild Yeah, I mean hey is the formula getting old is it's not working for you anymore after using the same storytelling Aspect is that not working for you. It's gonna be quite interesting to see Obviously, if you don't know enough about tears of the kingdom But right now God of War right now It's looking to be a game of the year contender and honestly Can it did throne Elden Ring? I don't know I honestly don't know but it's gonna be right there Me personally. I'm also hoping that maybe Zenoblade 3 and or Bayonetta 3 one of those to get into the mix as well I don't think they have a chance to beat out God of War or Elden Ring I think these are the two top contenders, but still hey I wanted to let you know because this is a major PlayStation 5 game It's been a bit since we got one last one was Horizon Forbidden West earlier this year. So whoa, there we go Anyways, folks, thank you so much for tuning in. I am Nathan and RoboJance from Nintendo Prime That was our Prime 5 today, and you know what? We're gonna catch you guys in the next video