So, we will be starting out with this land acknowledgement from San Jose State University. And while we gather at San Jose State University, we're gathered on the ethno-historic tribal territory of the Tamien Oloni, who were the direct ancestors of the lineages enrolled in the Moekma Oloni tribe and who were missionized into Mission Santa Clara, San Jose, and Dolores. The lands on which San Jose State University is established was and continues to be of significance to the Moekma Oloni tribe. We also recognize that the ancestors of the Moekma Oloni constructed and maintained the three Bay Area missions. Our campus extends to surrounding areas that held a tupenteque, a traditional roundhouse, which were once located at the historic Lope Inigo's land-grant rancho posolmi, pardon me, ipositas de las animas, little wells of souls, and also Marcelo Pio and Cristobal's land-grant rancho ulystac, which were places of celebration and religious ceremonies as well as nearby ancestral heritage shell mounds that served as the tribe's traditional cemetery sites and territorial monuments. San Jose State University also just desires to honor the military service of the Moekma who have honorably served overseas during World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq, and who are still serving in the United States Armed Forces today. So welcome to this information session. The Bridging Knowledge Scholarship Program is made possible by a generous Laura Bush grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and multiple collaborative partnerships between the American Indian Library Association, the Alaska Library Network, the Alaska State Library, the Sustainable Heritage Network, and the San Jose State University School of Information. The IMLS is an independent federal agency that provides library grants, USIM grants, policy development, and research. The American Indian Library Association, or ALA, is an affiliate of the American Library Association and is a member action group that focuses on improving library and information services for Native American Indians and Alaska Natives, breaking down public perceptions of who Native Americans are, elevating conversations around Native American issues, promoting Native education, literacy, and community. The Alaska Library Network is a non-profit and tax-asempt organization working on behalf of all Alaska libraries that is supported by funds from the IMLS through the LSTA and member libraries, and it sustained through a generous work effort of Alaska Library Network member librarians, the Alaska State Library, and the University of Alaska Consortium Library. The Alaska State Library provides access to government information for state agencies and other researchers, collects, organizes, preserves, and makes accessible materials that document the history of Alaska and promotes the development of libraries, archives, and museums statewide for benefit of all Alaskans. The Sustainable Heritage Network is a collaborative project that complements the work of indigenous peoples global age, preserve, share, and manage cultural heritage and knowledge, and is an answer to the pressing need for comprehensive workshops, online tutorials, and web resources dedicated to the life cycle of digital stewardship. And San Jose State School of Information is a fully online grad school that prepares individuals for careers as information professionals, and we have been continuously accredited by the American Library Association since 1969. And so here is our agenda for today. Well, we welcome you to this one-hour presentation, and we hope the presentation will be informative to you as you think about making a decision about applying for your MLIS with San Jose State and the Bridging Knowledge Scholarship Program. So we'll cover more about the scholarship, student benefits, how to apply, about the school, and about our MLIS program. We're going to offer you a Q&A, and then we will recap due dates for the scholarship. And then this recording will be available on the Bridging Knowledge website. It may take one to two weeks for that link to be active. And now it's time to meet your Bridging Knowledge Scholarship team, and I'll ask some members of the Bridging Knowledge team to quickly introduce themselves. And we'll start with Cindy first. Hello, thank you. So nice to see you run online today. I'm Cindy Hall. I am the Director of Branch Operations at the Kansas City Public Library, board trustee for the Freedom to Read Foundation, standing member of the Indigenous Matters Section for IFLA, the International Federation of Library Associations, and I am the past president of the American Indian Library Association. I am Dakota of the Isantea, Nebraska, and it's so nice to see you run. I look forward to meeting you. Hello, everyone. My name is Julie Niederhauser, and I work at the Alaska State Library. I'm the public library coordinator for the Alaska State Library. And in this role, I provide consulting, services to public librarians throughout the state, and I also work with library boards.  Hi, everyone. I'm Valerie. I'm one of the co-directors. And right now I'm the program manager for the Impact Library and Native Library Initiative with the Little Free Libraries. It's a nonprofit. I'm also a circle of learning scholar and high school, SJSU alumni. So really excited to have you. I am Nubiaq, and I live in Seward, which is the farthest out of Everlift. So nice to meet you. Hello, everyone. I'm Jodi Jakes, I'm the associate director of the Alaska Library Network. Nice to see you here. All right. I think we're now ready to introduce the SJSU iSchool team, which will be supporting our bridging knowledge learners. So Dr. Viya Gron. Hello, everyone, and welcome. I'm so glad you're here. I'm an assistant professor with the iSchool School of Information, and my research teaching focuses on diversity, cultural competence, and also on cultural intelligence and the phenomena in libraries. So welcome. And Dr. Viya Gron will be the faculty advisor for our bridging knowledge scholars, so you'll get to work with her when you have questions about planning your electives through the program. And I'm also a moderator for today's session. My name is Sheila, and I'm a student outreach specialist for School of Information. I work closely on graduate advising, outreach, and student success tools for our students. I'm formerly, I worked on the Circle of Learning grant, which was another four-year IMLS funded grant supporting indigenous library science students from 2010 to 2014. And I'm also a graduate of the program as well. I earned my MLIS way back in 1999 and worked as a credentialed teacher librarian. So it's a pleasure to meet all of you today. Another member of our student support team was not able to be with us today, but I wanted to introduce Taryn Reiner, who just joined us about six months ago, and her background is in counseling. And she tells us that she was raised with Native American and Native Hawaiian cultures, both in New Mexico and in Hawaii. And she works closely with our newly admitted students and also students, any students experience academic difficulties. She also provides one-to-one coaching on goal setting for these students. So I think at this time, I'll turn it over to Cindy. Great. Thank you, Kat, for the landing page for the Bridging Knowledge Scholarship. And on that webpage, you will find a lot of information on how to apply, who's eligible to apply, and the most important part, the deadline. So for the Bridging Knowledge Program, we're going to ask for applications to be received by November 15. And the most important part is to make sure that everyone is applying to San Jose State by that December 1 deadline. Another important component is making sure that you have your support letters that are accompanying your applications so we can have that information as we move forward. So this is a three-year program sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This project will provide financial and scaffolded student support to 15 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students. You will earn an online Masters of Library and Information Science degree from San Jose State as well as an Advanced Certificate in Strategic Management of Digital Assets and Services. The classes will begin spring of 2022. So we're looking to move this all forward with a kickoff in January. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at bkscholar21atgenial.com. And I will place that link in the chat as well. So when we were preparing to write the IMLS Grant for Bridging Knowledge, we conducted key informant interviews with Indigenous librarians who had received their MLIS and are currently working in the field. And analysis from those interviews revealed that securing reliable financial assistance that covers more than just tuition was one of the critical conditions necessary for Indigenous graduate students to be successful. So Bridging Knowledge, this scholarship will provide students with financial assistance that includes tuition, books, technology stipends, internships, library association memberships, and travel stipends. So specifically, what that means is that students enrolled in the program will receive over $7,000 each year of the project for tuition and textbooks. And they will receive a technology stipend in the amount of $2,000 the first year and $1,000 in years two and three. And those technology stipends funds can be used to purchase a laptop, a desktop computer, printer headset, and to cover your associated broadband service fees. The project funds will fund 10 eight-week-long paid internships at tribal museums or archives, at state libraries or other institutions. And those internships will include funds for travel and for housing and for a per diem. So it's a fantastic opportunity. And then as I mentioned, there's a real focus on professional development. So we've included a stipend for professional development. And students will receive $250 each year to use for additional professional development webinars, training, conference attendance, or professional dues. And then finally, each student will also receive ALA student membership. So it's a really fantastic program. And we really took what the key informants told us to heart and tried to make it successful. Thank you. So I'm having slow internet. I'm looking for the link to put into chat for the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Conference. This is going to be held October 5th to the 9th at St. Pete's Beach in Florida. This is a conference that is held every four years and library professionals from all over come and attend this conference. We anticipate about 1,200 attendees for this conference. And it's going to be a wonderful opportunity for this cohort of students to meet in person, to gather at this conference, to network, and go through mock interviews and to meet professionals from all across the LIS field. And we will also be attending the Association of Tribal Archives Library and Museum Conference in 2023 that date and location has yet to be determined. ATOM is a wonderful annual conference. It provides a great learning opportunity as well as cultural programs and informational events to support everyone in your career. Our closing workshop, of course, we are going to celebrate your success and gather in California at your graduation and also have that opportunity for us to move forward in a good way towards your future in libraries. If you have any questions about conference travel, feel free to send me an email and detailed information will be rolled out throughout the program as well so students have that information. And I think we're moving over to Valerie for the next slide. All right. OK, so a little bit more about some of the support for the scholarship recipients. So we will have fellow students who are often like the best resources and the best supporters and you also have just amongst the leadership a lot of people who have experienced online learning and going through the whole process. So that's really helpful. There will be an extensive network of leaders and professionals who are passionate about supporting and elevating indigenous digital and information scholarship and work. So there is a lot of us that are really excited about this program and can't wait to help out. And there will be both virtual and in-person gathering centered on supporting indigenous practice and studies in the field. Some opportunities to develop to contribute to a community of practice and to develop and share professional skills and scholarship will also be may threat the whole entire program. OK, it's a little challenging to try to do this in the office here. OK, so one of the really unique things about the bridging project is that not only is it a scholarship that provides deep support for students to get their MLIS and we have this real focus on mentorships and peer-to-peer learning and learning from each other. But there's a supplemental curriculum that's going to go along with students receiving their more foundational MLS curriculum. And it's going to be developed by alumni from the circle of learning. Those students that received their MLIS from SJSU about 10 years ago and have been working in the field in a wide variety of capacities. So those quarterly webinars will be led by the alumni and will feature all aspects of librarianship and working in tribal libraries and working in archives and Indigenous scholarship. And then they will be recorded and added to the Sustainable Heritage Network. So the Sustainable Heritage Network is a collaborative project that complements the work of Indigenous people globally to preserve, share, and manage cultural heritage and knowledge. And it's a platform where anyone can go and look at recorded conference sessions, online tutorials on all aspects of digital stewardship. So what's really unique about this is we're developing a curriculum specifically to support Indigenous librarians. It will be developed by Indigenous librarians and then it'll be available for everyone to take advantage of. Thank you, Julie. So we shared the link for the landing page for bridging knowledge. And to be eligible to apply to bridging knowledge, we are accepting applications from applicants who identify as American Indian, Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian. And you need to, like I said before, apply with San Jose State. That's a very important part of this process. So if you have any questions, feel free to email me and I will be happy to get right back to you. And I believe we are moving over to Valerie again for the next slide. All right, so some important dates to be aware of. Is that where we are? Yeah, okay, so some important dates to be aware of is our deadline is on the November 15th and the semester 2022 deadline will be, it closes December 1st on 2021. So the first semester of the first day of the spring semester will be Wednesday, January 26th of 2022. And there is a early start information, one of the beginning courses that will become available earlier in January. So you can click on this link to find out a little bit more about the application process to the school, but we just wanna be sure that it wasn't confusing to kind of separate the application for the scholarship with the application to the school. So don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions. All right, so that's me again. So we wanted you to have an idea of who some of our, who is serving on our advisory committee. This is just really a sampling of the people. It includes those of us on the team that are with you today. And it includes people from Hawaii and Alaska and other people across the nation. The, both the committee and the subcommittees are made up of archived and library professionals, Indigenous leaders and scholars, Knowledge River alumni, which is another scholarship program. And the Circle of Learning alumni, San Jose State University alumni, academic instructors and trainers. And there's additional subcommittees with more people involved that include a recruitment committee, applicant committee, selection committee, supplemental curriculum committee and a mentoring committee. So there's a whole team of people supporting this project. Okay, I'm going to move fairly quickly through the next slides and we wanna make sure we leave enough time for Q and A at the end. So a little bit about admission to San Jose State's MLIS program. The admissions requirements are that applicants must have a regionally accredited bachelor's degree in any discipline with at least a 3.0 in your degree or in the last 60 semester or 90 quarter units of their entire academic record. And applicants do not need to submit a GRE nor do they need to submit references or a statement of purpose for the MLIS application. So it's very easy. You go onto our Cal State apply website and submit that electronically. You do need to have a general understanding of computers and technology. And we have some examples of this on our website and appropriate internet connection and software which if you're admitted to the Bridging Knowledge program you're going to receive support with that. And just a little bit of brief background about the school. I believe I mentioned earlier we are ALA accredited since 1969 and our teacher librarian credential program is also accredited by the California Teacher Commission. The school is led by our director, Dr. Anthony Chow and we've grown to be an award-winning industry pioneer in online instruction. And here are a few of our folks who have shared their stories with us. You can learn about them on our website. And then a little bit about San Jose State University. We were founded actually in 1857 as originally as a state teacher school. And we are really centered in the heart of Silicon Valley. We were recently named the number one most transformative university in the nation by Money Mag. And here's a view of our beautiful Martin with their King, Jr. San Jose State City of San Jose Joint Use Library with our campus shown behind and it's facing the eastern foothills of the Santa Clara Valley. But most of our students never have to come to the physical campus because our library and technology services including dedicated library science liaison librarians they all work together to seamlessly support students completely remotely. Here's a little quick overview of our MLIS program. It's comprised of 43 semester units with 16 units of required courses and 27 units of electives. Now you can choose your electives from among 14 optional career pathways they're there for guidance. You can also receive a certificate in digital assets. So more on that later and you will be given a choice to complete either a three unit e-portfolio class or thesis and nine out of 10 of our grads do choose that e-portfolio option because it's only a semester long. And this is more about our advanced certificate in strategic management of digital assets and services. So this is a certificate that you'd be earning within your MLIS degree with no additional charge. Again, we're known among the iSchools for a really wide range of electives and pathways and just a glance through our schedule of classes page would reveal an amazing array of elective topics such as artificial intelligence in the library, information security, Python, problem solving data, digital copyright, project management, digital forensics for archivists, metadata, intellectual freedom, early childhood literacy, medical and health sciences librarianship. And we have so many more topics and you can browse our career pathways and view a list of elective topics from the academic section of our MLIS program pages on our website to get more detailed information. And then every year our staff compiles an annual analysis of job listings in our field in our industry and these were some of the job titles that were found in that analysis. And I encourage you to download our free annual report it's called MLIS Skills at Work from our website. And the report covers many skills and trends that are most in demand by employers. And then I just included this image. This is actually our associate dean for academics who formerly led our school as director, Dr. Hirsch. This was at an in-person commencement event in San Jose a few years ago. And I chose this image because I think it really celebrates the feeling of community at our school because wherever you go in our profession whether it's at a library conference or reception or a virtual lecture, you're bound to meet other members of our iSchool family. And so we'll go through quickly some of the exit survey data on the next slide from our graduating students. So you can see what they found as the top factors for choosing our program. 96% of our exiting MLIS graduates from last fall indicated that they would recommend the program. So that's a great sign of quality. And that's not just what our students report, pardon me. A couple of years ago, the school also earned a prestigious award from the online learning consortium. So we continuously are updating and evaluating our curriculum in line with all the industry standards and we innovate and pioneer in the online space. Now this one is gonna be a little bit longer. So bear with me. We're gonna talk about cost. And cost is one factor in which you'll find us to be very competitive. Applicants apply to either our regular session program for those who live in the region's closest to Northern California and the Bay Area or they apply to special session for those who live outside of the state of California funded regular session attendance area which is postal zip codes 93900 through 95899. Now if applicants live outside of that zone, such as Southern California or another US state, then they would apply to our special session program which does not have access to campus services such as like housing, childcare, recreation, transit, medical services at our wellness center, et cetera. And so the special session students currently pay a per unit tuition fee of $474 per unit that they enroll in each semester. So the total tuition cost for special session is $20,382. Now students who come in as regular session, those are the local Northern California people, they would pay a flat rate per semester which includes campus services for up to six units in a semester or if they go 6.1 units and above per semester. And then the regular session students may also take summer session in special session. And so they're only gonna pay the per unit price for optional summer school classes because we only offer summer classes in special session. So the total cost if you live in the Bay Area, Northern California and you're admitted to regular session, it's going to differ depending on how many classes you take in a given semester. Whether you take summer school and then whether or not you request to permanently change to special session. We do have an option within a San Jose State for regular session students to request a permanent switch to special session once they're at or near 19 units in the program. Okay, and so I just have a little bit more info for this slide which is we wanna mention that we also have high school scholarships for new students. So you get more than welcome to apply for those in addition to the Bridging Knowledge Scholarship. And then we also link to outside scholarship resources and funding opportunities from other organizations on our website. And you could find this if you visit our website in the student resources section or from the hamburger menu which is in the top right hand corner of your browser when you're looking at our website which is another top factor from our graduating students. They consistently tell us the number one program strength is our flexibility. So you're going to have access to digital materials to do your studying day or night. Most of our classes are offered asynchronously which means you don't have to meet together in most of our classes at a specific time. You're offered full-time or part-time schedule. It's up to you every semester. You have up to seven years to complete our program. You could take one semester off. And then again, you can customize your electives with 14 career pathways and you can get optional internships for school credit. We offer virtual and site-based options. That another important part of joining our online learning community is that you'll take the responsibility to expand your professional network with other student colleagues. And we do have a robust and lively number of student chapters of professional organizations. You can see on this slide. We even have a first-generation student group for people who are first in their families to receive a graduate degree. We have many student groups that you can become involved with including our student research journal if you'd like to get your work published. Again, lots of supports for online students. We have a whole team of student services professionals here to help you. We have an accessible education center. We have poster sessions at conferences. Those are a lot of fun. The school provides MLIS students with a free membership as well in a professional organization of their choice. We have peer mentors in our program. We have a wonderful career center that will help you determine your goals and help you job search. We have a veteran center here and online writing tutors. The list goes on and on. So finally, just in summary, we think and we hope that you'll find us to be a very welcoming, supportive and inclusive learning community here at the iSchool. And we hope that you'll consider joining us and applying for the Bridging Knowledge Scholarship. All the steps are available on our website. You navigate to our Cal State Apply Application. And then once you've submitted your application, you'll make sure to turn in your transcripts from your degrees to SJSU graduate admissions by the December 20th document deadline. If you're applying for FAFSA at the same time, make sure you do that right after you apply to the MLIS program because it could take up to 14 weeks for that aid package to process. And then yeah, for other admissions-related questions, admissions at sjsu.edu can help you out. They also offer live chat service. And as well as the School of Information, we offer two hours a day of live chat to help you with any questions. If you need assistance when you're working on your application, we'll be glad to help you out. And then this is just in summary. If you have questions specific to the scholarship and applying to the Bridging Knowledge Scholarship, please email bkscholar21 at gmail.com. If you have questions about MLIS program, application, the curriculum, et cetera, please contact me at iSchool at sjsu.edu. And then at this point, I think we're all available to open up to Q&A. So and yeah, let's see what questions you have for us. You can either type your questions in the chat or if you're comfortable and if you'd like to turn on your mic and let us know, we are available to help with any questions you may have. Looks like the first question has come in in the chat. Is it recommended that Bridging Knowledge Scholarship or recipients still apply for financial aid? I didn't catch how much of the scholarship would cover the cost of the entire program. I believe that this Bridging Knowledge Scholarship is for up to three years. Perhaps one of the BK team members would like to address that. Whether you take longer than the three years. Hi, this is Julie, I can address that. The Bridging Knowledge Scholarship should cover all of your associated costs for the online program if you're able to complete it within, as Julie said, the three years. Some people may need additional funds for whatever reasons and they're always in, we don't know what everyone's individual situation is. So it may be advisable for them to look for additional funding, but that's definitely an individual decision. So I don't know if there's a downside to applying for additional financial aid or seeing whether or not you apply. If there's any additional financial aid available to you, it may be worthwhile to do that. But we kind of developed the program so that folks wouldn't necessarily have to seek additional funds if they were able to complete the online program within three years. So hopefully that addresses the question. Hi, I'm the one who answered or who asked the question. It did. I was just curious about since the cost depends on how many units you take if someone were to decide to take more than the average if it would mean they would have to find other alternatives to fund those units, I guess. Julie, is there a cap on how many units each bridging knowledge student will be allowed to be covered per semester or if they wanted to go at a quicker pace through the program they can? Well, I think in our grant we wrote that they would receive, I believe it was $7,544 per year for tuition and books and the tuition would go directly, many for the tuition would go directly to the university and then the rest would be available to the student as a, not sure if it was a reimbursement or a stipend for the books. So I believe anything in addition to that. But you know, I don't know, I think we're still new in it and we're still trying to figure it out. So I don't know, I can't really say a definitively whether or not we would allow a student to take more. Cindy, do you have an opinion on that? Well, we kind of wanted the students to go through the program as a cohort together offering support and what have you. Of course it is up to the individual based on their needs and their outside employment situation, housing, et cetera. I think that definitely we wanna make sure that we're supporting everyone's success so that they can really maximize not only their productivity but their understanding as they're moving through this master's level program. Going back real quick to applying for financial aid, it is another consideration perhaps that if we receive more applications than the 15 scholarships we have available, there's the possibility that we may not be able to fund everyone who is interested in attending this program. And so if they would want to move forward with their library school application, they would need to secure funding elsewhere. So that's probably something to keep in mind. I think we had another question in chat regarding the internships. So Julie was sharing the amount of paid internships that we had written into the grant. And so we're going to offer a paid internship opportunity for each of the 15 students that go through this program. I hope that answers your question there. No, you don't need to complete 10, eight week long internships that would be the investment of your time on top of going to school, living your life and perhaps working. So this is a program for non-traditional adult students who have responsibilities across the board. We really wanted to make sure that we are providing everyone with the support they need. So that they can be successful and really prepare themselves for the career. Katrina, you have your hand raised. Yeah, I'm just so pumped for this program. It sounds amazing. And I'm assuming that there will be more than 15 qualified applicants for it.  My question is if somebody that's elected as in the cohort of 15 people to start in the spring of next year, if one of those people has to drop out of the program for whatever reason, will their funding become available for like a backup student? Does that make sense? Or is it just for you have to be selected initially and if you don't get it this time, then that's it. That's a very good question. I don't know that I can speak to that but our hope is that we have 15 strong applicants who are prepared and ready to begin the program and successfully complete it. But life does happen and you never know what could transpire along the way. In the past circle of learning program, I know we did have a student or two that needed to prolong and take that semester off. So we will be flexible with providing them with the support they need. So again, they can be successful in this program in regards to reallocating the funds. I don't believe that that is a step we would take at this point depending upon how many students this would impact. We haven't really planned to have a reallocation but if another bridging knowledge member has another idea or more information, please unmute and share that. So, Eka Trina, that's a really great question. We are bound by the rules of the IMLS. They're only gonna allocate a set amount of funding for each year of the project, funds that aren't spent. Ultimately, we'll have to go back to the IMLS. If a student starts the program and then is unable to complete it, that would certainly be a discussion for the applicant. We have a committee that is designed to help select the applicant. So I would expect that if we have a really great group of candidates and not all of them are selected, there may be one or two that they kind of designated as potential future candidates should somebody not be able to complete the program. I think that's kind of what normally happens in these kind of scholarship programs. The goal is that we are gonna support the select candidates that are gonna complete the program. We're gonna be offering support throughout it and the goal is to get as many people as possible to complete but that's an excellent question. Okay, thank you. Thank you. And Jesse Morgan has their hand written. Yes, thank you. Thank you. I'm so excited for this opportunity. I am about a year away from a bachelor's. It's a opportunity when I finish my bachelor's for this program and is there anything that you recommend considering for it? I'm sorry, I don't know that I caught your question. So you said you still have a year to go to complete your bachelor's program? That's correct. Okay. Is there any, will this opportunity be available and or is there anything I can do to prepare? Well, for this funding opportunity, it is for current applicants that are with the eligibility that they already possessed their bachelor's degree and that their GPA is the 3.0 or higher. So this funding program is for the spring of 2022. If applicants do not have the bachelor's already completed by the time they move forward with the application process, they would not be eligible at this time. Does that answer the question? Yes, is it offered every year? No. The last time this was offered was 10 years ago with a similar program that was called the Circle of Learning. So this program team has been working on this grant program for about a year and a half before we received the award. So the funding that's available is available at this time for this cohort that would be going through the program starting in the spring. Thank you. Thank you. And Jessie, I just wanna add, Sheila shared, there's SJSU has other financial scholarships available to students. So if you don't qualify for this one because of the alignment of your graduation date and the start of this program, there may be other scholarships that just wouldn't be this particular one. I'll add that those scholarships both from San Jose State and also outside organizations are on our website. We have links to other outside diversity scholarships such as Spectrum Scholarship from American Library Association. That's a diversity initiative of ALA. So please do look at other opportunities as well to help. I know we had many Circle of Learning students that piggybacked multiple scholarships from different organizations to get them through the program in addition to their Circle of Learning funding. So that's an option. Thank you both for adding that. And I am also a Spectrum Scholar and happy to provide information about that great program. I put the link in the chat. Also the Lincoln Library Association offers an annual Virginia Matthews Scholarship opportunity. So that's something else that you need to look into. Okay, it looks like we have a few more questions. Summer is an optional term here at San Jose State. We do offer classes in the summer. You can take the summer off or you can take classes. It's optional as far as your coverage in your one year of tuition. You'd have to speak with the Bridging Knowledge folks as far as planning out how you're gonna use that funding over the spring, summer and fall. And then there was another question about travel assistance from Hawaii to the East Coast. Does any of our project staff want to address that? Yes, we have taken into consideration the travel costs outside of the per diem for students in all areas. So that funding will be available and will be provided to students as they travel for these conferences and gatherings. Okay, the next question is for the scholarship team. Will you be asking applicants to provide tribal membership documentation? No, we will not. Okay, there was another question. Application process does not include inclusion of a resume or CV. Is that something we should submit? I'm not clear if that's a question about the Bridging Knowledge Scholarship or SJSU. And I'll just say for SJSU, MLIS application you do not need to submit a resume or CV. So I'll hand it over to the BK team to answer the remaining part of that question. Is just statement of purpose or are you requiring any CV or resume? We are not requiring, I'm pretty sure. I'm drawing a blank right now, but I'm pretty sure we don't require a resume or a CV. It is just a statement of purpose and the references to letters of support from a professional and a professional, I believe it's a professional and a personal reference. Okay, the next question is, are current SJSU MLIS students welcome to apply for the scholarship or is it only for new incoming students? Anyone on the scholarship team? I don't know that we discussed that. I'm trying to see in the chat where that was for the specific question. Yeah, I'm sorry, I've missed that. So is this someone who's already enrolled? Yeah, so the question is, if it's a student who's already enrolled in the MLIS program at San Jose State, are they eligible to apply for the Bridging Knowledge Scholarship as a already continuing student or is the scholarship only valid for those who are joining the program in spring 2022? Julie, do you have any information about that? Yeah, I think the intent was for a cohort to develop a cohort of students that would support one another as they went through the process. That being said, if there's only 13 applicants and I think it would definitely be something to take into consideration. So if somebody was willing to apply and they met the criteria of this project, I would encourage them to submit the application but just to understand that the intent was that we would be shepherding this group of students throughout the three-year project. Because there's so many benefits of going through all three years. There's just so many wonderful experiences that have been planned for these students. And so to miss out on that would actually be really kind of unfortunate. So just to understand what the intent was. And so then there was another question. Ekatrina has her hand up, go ahead. Thank you. I think that the specialized training in digital access management is really awesome. However, I've been working in a public library for seven years and I'm just, I guess my question is, do I need to be able to demonstrate that I'm immediately gonna be able to use this training in digital asset management in order to qualify for the scholarship? I mean, I have a lot of ideas about how to indigenize public library services where I work, but that may or may not include culturally specific digital assets. So I'm just wondering how to temper my expectations. Given where the direction that I'm already headed versus what looks like part of the focus of these scholarships are. So I guess to maybe clarify, is it required that we will immediately be able to use our digital asset management skills upon completing our MLIS? Like, I mean, do I need to be working at the Burke Museum or the Alaska Syrupal State Museum? Or would you consider someone working at a public library or not a non-tribal library? Absolutely, I think we would consider librarians from all types of libraries. I think that's the beautiful thing about our profession is that you can get this foundational training and apply it in academic, in a public, in a special, in a tribal, in a combined school public. The digital asset management, those skills, I work as a consultant and that kind of knowledge comes in handy with the online courses and things that I teach. So it's very applicable in a lot of different ways. And the thing about training is once you have this background of understanding, you see more opportunities to actually utilize it in different ways that may not be aware, you may not be aware of now. And once you have that knowledge, people will come to you oftentimes and suggest working with you on some project that may be a little bit outside of even your scope of your library. So the idea is that we're building skills that people will be able to utilize in all kinds of different library settings. So I guess the answer is you do not need to necessarily apply it right away. We are providing those internships so that people can work in a setting. You mentioned working in a lot in a museum. We're hoping that people will be able to have internships that take them outside of the type of library that they're working now and open up those opportunities for them to work in a completely different setting and experience what that's like and be supported in that. Because that's just really valuable. That's part of your professional development is to see yourself working in all these different types of settings. So does that answer your question? It does, thank you, Madam. Thank you. Well, I see that we've reached the hour of three o'clock. I wanted to thank all of the panelists and the project team members for joining us in this webinar today, as well as all of our participants. Please do reach out to the Bridging Knowledge Scholarship Team at BKScholar21 at gmail.com. I think that you've all been provided links. You can reach me at ischool at sjsu.edu for questions about MLIS program or applications. So just final thoughts, thank you so much for your participation today. In this session, we will have a link to the recording on the Bridging Knowledge Scholarships Portal as well as San Jose State's YouTube presence. Please do follow up with us with any questions and we encourage you to reach out at any time.


Studies of populations who eat a lot of coconuts are frequently cited by those who sell coconut oil, as evidence that it does not have harmful effects. For example, there was an apparent absence of stroke and heart disease on the island of Cotiva. What were they eating? Well, their diets centered around tubers, like sweet potatoes, with fruits, greens, nuts, corn, and beans. Yes, they ate fish a few times a week, but they were eating largely whole food, plant-based diets, so no wonder they may have had such low rates of artery disease. And one of those whole foods was coconut, not coconut oil.  But what's a population eating 87% plant-based? Red meat, chicken, and eggs only eaten seldomly, no dairy, doing with cholesterol levels over 200. Well, they're eating all these coconuts every day. What are their disease rates like? We don't know. There's no clinical surveys, no epidemiological data, no autopsies. They did do some EKGs, which can sometimes pick up evidence of past heart attacks and found few abnormalities, but the sample was too small to be a definitive study. And even if they did have low disease rates, they weren't eating coconut oil, they were eating coconuts. Coconut oil proponents pointing to these studies is like the high fructose corn syrup lobby pointing to studies of healthy populations who eat corn on the cob. Or the sugar industry pointing to studies on fruit consumption saying, see, eat all the refined sugar you want. But fruit has fiber, and so do coconuts. Just like adding psyllium fiber, metamucil, to coconut oil can help blunt the adverse effects on cholesterol, fiber derived from de-fatted coconut itself can reduce cholesterol levels as much as oat bran. And the plant protein in coconut, also missing from the oil, may also help explain why whole coconut may not have the same effects on cholesterol. Although coconut fat in the form of powdered coconut milk may not have the same effects on cholesterol's coconut oil, frequent consumption defined as three more times a week has been associated with increased risk of vascular disease, a stroke and heart attack. And no wonder, as coconut milk may acutely impair artery function as badly as a sausage and egg McMuffin. They tested three meals, three different meals, a Western high-fat meal comprised of an egg McMuffin sausage, McMuffin and two hash browns, versus a local high-fat meal. This was done in Singapore, so the more traditional high-fat meal was rice cooked with coconut milk, though there were also anchovies and an egg, versus the same amount of calories in an unhealthy low-fat meal comprised of frosted flakes, skim milk, and juice. Here's the artery function, the ability of the arteries to relax normally before Mickey D's and after, significantly crippling down artery function within hours of consumption and the same thing with the coconut milk. So whether mostly meat and oil fat or coconut milk fat, the artery similarly clamped down, whereas that horrible sugary breakfast had no effect, no bad effect on artery function, because as terrible as it was, it had no saturated fat at all, though it also didn't have any egg, which may have also helped. Coconut oil proponents also try to argue that coconut oil has MCTs, medium chain triglycerides, shorter chain saturated fats that aren't as bad as the longer chain saturated fats in meat and dairy. But you can't apply the MCT research to coconut oil. Why? MCT oil is composed of MCTs, the medium chain fats, caprylic and capric acid, about 50% of each, whereas those MCTs make up only like 10% of the coconut oil. Most of coconut oil is the cholesterol-raising longer chain saturated fats, loric and meristic. It is therefore inaccurate to consider coconut oil to contain predominantly MCTs, so you can't extrapolate from MCT studies to coconut oil.  Actually, coconut oil is mainly loric and meristic, which have potent LDL, bad cholesterol, raising effects. Coconut oil should therefore not be advised for people who should or want to reduce their risk of the number one killer of U.S. men and women heart disease.  Yeah, but it also has palmitic and meristic. That, like loric, does raise cholesterol. If you compare the effects of different saturated fats, yes, steric has a neutral effect on LDL, but palmitic, meristic, and loric shoot it up. And frankly, so may MCT oil itself bumping up LDL like 15% compared to control. So this popular belief, spread by the coconut oil industry, that coconut oil is healthy, is not supported by science. So basically, coconut oil should be treated no differently than animal sources of dietary saturated fat. The latest review, published March 2017 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, put it even more simply in their recommendations for patients. Avoid.


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David, and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're gonna look at the new butterfly cards from Andre, Seneca, and Cardamundi cards. Alright, so what are the butterfly cards? Originally this was a Indiegogo campaign that Andre put out. It was successfully funded, of course. And originally, I think it was just the blue-backed cards, and they were originally gonna be marked cards. And then after that, there was the addition like, well, let's do marked and unmarked, and then let's do red. So there's now blue-marked, blue-unmarked, red-marked, and red-unmarked. And these cards were designed with two goals in mind. They have to be complex and irregular enough to disguise the markings. So the back patterns, so that people can't distinguish where the marking is. And they have to be pretty enough to justify the use over a more common deck of playing cards. This back design is very beautiful. It was designed by Stefan Eriksen. Stefan is a graphic designer, and he is also a magician. And there's just so much to talk about, let's get into it. As of this video, I think most of the cards that you're gonna find on the Internet for sale are the marked cards. But if you are lucky enough to get marked and unmarked, you're gonna notice right away that the tuck cases are identical. So if you bought two decks, they're gonna look identical to you. And so the way to tell if your deck is marked or unmarked is the top scripts right here. It says butterfly playing cards. And because this deck here that I'm using as my example, this one's marked, if you run your finger along the top of it, this wording is embossed. If you have an unmarked deck and you rub your finger across it, it'll be flat. So that is your clue. So let's say you had two of these in your jacket pocket, and you're using one as the marked and one as the unmarked, and you're switching them in and out. All you'd have to do is when you reach into your pocket, you could feel the top of the box. You know you are grabbing the marked, and you could pull them out. You're good to go. The tuck case is very minimalistic in design.  It just has a butterfly image there right there in the front. The sides and back is blank. The top just says butterfly playing cards. And the bottom has some ad copy, and it has the small black butterfly logo. The inside tuck flap is all ornate, and it's made on the same design work as the back design of the cards. And it carries over all the way to the inside of the tuck flap as well.  And pretty much going from the blue deck to the red deck, they're completely identical in that regard, only the blue ink is red. That is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. Like I said earlier, these cards were printed from Cardamundi out in Belgium. And when I first pulled these out of the box, they were incredibly smooth. Like smoother than smooth.  Like they are just slick, slick slides, slick edges, slick surfaces. When I would talk to Andre later after the decks came out, he indicated to me that there's a surface on them. So there is some sort of coating. You want to call it plastic coating? I don't know, something like that. But there is a coating on top of the surface. And I asked him why the final result card had a plastic coating, whereas the prototype didn't. And he indicated to me that because of where the marking system is and how the marking system works, and I'm not going to get into that with you, then the plastic coating is helping to keep that marking system in place so that your cards last longer. So whereas I know some card magicians and I know some cardists don't like the slick feel, it makes the card slippery, and I know that's not their preference. The slickness is there for the magicians that want to use the marking system. It's there so that the marking system doesn't chip away. And then if you're going to ask, well, then do the unmarked cards have the coating system? Yes, they do too. The back design is just this beautiful full bleed image going all the way to the edges. You have the shadow of the butterfly on the top and the bottom with that center flower in the middle. Now, you'll probably notice right away that center flower is not a two-way image, so that does make the back design a one-way back design. The other thing, of course, is the marking system. The marking system is only on one end of the cards. It's not on both ends. So that marking system also makes it a one-way back design. With this deck, you're going to get two original jokers. One is a full black shadow, and the other is a blue ornate butterfly. I think for the most part, your Pips and Indici cards will appear to be completely standard, which makes them great for magic, gameplay, and flourishing. On closer inspection, these cards are also a one-way design. Andre has done something unique for magicians to make these one-way, and of course, even in the unmarked version, that feature is there as well. Your court cards are also going to be bicycle standard, instantly recognizable for everyone. Your Ace of Spades is a beautiful PIP that's comprised of the back design that's kind of come together, kind of coalescing together in the center, forming a large spade PIP. It does say butterfly playing cards. So just a little bit about the marking system. I can't get into a lot of it because obviously I don't want to give anything away. So the unique marking system that's hidden in the back design of the butterfly playing cards actually contains two different marking systems that you can use separately, but they will make you a miracle worker if you combine them. And so if you look through the Indiegogo campaign, you're going to see a couple different videos that Andre has put together that will show you some of the tricks that are available and possible with this amazing tool. I got to say, I love this deck. It's been on my nightstand ever since I got it. I've had a deck of the marked and a deck of the red unmarked right there, and every time I'm going through a book, I bust out the butterflies. And it's amazing because all those tricks that you're already familiar with, even self-working tricks, it doesn't matter, all those tricks that you're already familiar with, you add the butterfly deck and it just becomes that much more amazing. There's just so many things that you can do with this type of system. It just boggles the mind. Andre has created a really unique, really powerful marking system that I think is going to blow a lot of minds. Go back to the campaign, read some of these quotes that other magicians and creative people have been saying about this deck. Their minds are blown just like mine. I couldn't wait for this set to come in and I'm so glad it's here. Keep checking back at the.com. I know Andre is going to open the.com up one day soon and the cards will be available for sale there. I think this is a phenomenon. I think it's catching on. I think Andre has ideas for more decks. So definitely want to follow Butterfly Cards on Instagram. Definitely want to keep up on what Andre is doing. And I think you'll see plenty more ideas in the months and years to come. All right, so that is my review of the Butterfly playing cards. And of course, I want to thank Andre Seneca for just making a really beautiful deck. As always, we ask that you like this video just so other people can find it faster. And we ask that you subscribe to this channel just so that you can stay up to date on the latest in cards and card magic. 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So what are the supplements that you really need to lose fat and gain muscle? In this video I'll be going over my favorite supplements that help me stay lean and strong year round. So let's go ahead and hit that intro. You ever walk into like a supplement store like GNC and then end up just being super overwhelmed? Like it makes me feel lost and confused just thinking about it. And the biggest thing is it's just like you're like I have so many options there's so many supplements out there which one should I choose? And I usually tell people do this one thing. First off figure out what do you want to use that supplement for and then two make sure you're choosing a reputable brand for the supplements that you are choosing. Now the three supplements that I love are my multivitamins, my whey protein and my pre-workout. In fact let me get these guys right here. So these are the multivitamins that I use. I usually try to get them with omega threes as well but the whole point is you just want to make sure that at the end of the day we don't always get all the nutrients and vitamins that we need throughout the day and taking a multivitamin every single day is good to get those extra nutrients. Now I'm not saying it's got to replace you know whole foods but it's just good to make sure that your bases are covered. So I usually do the chewable ones.  I know I'm like 12, 13 really. And the main brands that I use are Nature Made or Centrum. Those are the only two that I've really been using for like the last I would say 12, 15 years. The second supplement I use is whey protein. Protein are not a lot of people get enough protein throughout the day and throughout the week and protein is super important because it helps to rebuild your muscles after workouts, it helps you stay full, it helps to just kind of form the structures in your body. So protein is extremely important and sometimes you just don't get enough through the day with food and that's why I like to supplement whey protein. I usually like to have it right after a workout and mix it with like oats and yogurt and just have a very powerful protein shake to make sure I'm getting enough protein in. I used to do mass gainer and to be honest if you're trying to gain weight or gain muscle I just wouldn't suggest to just eat more foods because the fact that that mass gainer gives you some protein and then everything else is like just empty calories of like carbs, fats and just a lot of stuff that I just don't think your body necessarily needs and the main company that I use is Optimum Nutrition. Their gold standard whey has been like literally my gold standard since forever, ever since I started taking whey protein. So very reliable company and a great brand. The last and final supplement that I use is pre-workout. Now let me tell you that I don't think pre-workout is for everybody. The reason why I use pre-workout is because I usually work out in afternoon after a long day of work and I commute forward and back and I'm just a little bit tired and I just don't lift as well. So I just need that little boost of energy. So pre-workout usually does it for me. Now the brand that I have right here is C4. I've also used Ghost. I've also used Jim Sopani's pre-workout. All of them were pretty good. The only thing about pre-workouts is you do sometimes get used to it so that's why I kind of switch brands sometimes between those three once I start getting adjusted to it. But again it's not necessary. I will say caveat. Sometimes when I take pre-workout like my ears and toes tingle it's like the weirdest feeling. And then also every time I use pre-workout I've had to go to the bathroom. Just keep that in mind before you do pre-workout.  You don't necessarily have to take pre-workout. That's just what I like to use. Now let me make sure I make this really clear. These supplements themselves are not going to make you lean, toned, all that. They just help. They are adding tools to your toolbox. So I always recommend to all of my clients especially the ones in the Body Conference Academy that the main thing that you want to do is make sure you're eating the right foods first. Eat whole foods and really focus on those first. Then go ahead and add the supplements because that's what they do. They supplement. They're not replacements, they are supplements. So they're supposed to supplement your holistic diet and that's what's going to help you get lean, gain more muscle, lose more fat, lose more weight. So just remember supplements do not make you lose weight. They help you to live a better lifestyle and will help you lose fat over time with a whole holistic diet and a good workout plan. And if you do want to try supplement, I say try something. Like see if you could try it out first. Like maybe if a friend has it or you can go to a GNC and ask if you can have a sample first before you do it and see how it affects your body. See if it works for you. See if it doesn't. See if you like the taste. See if you don't like the taste. If it's pre-workout, see if it affects your body in a weird way and just do that. Test it before you're committing 100% to it. So what supplements do you use? Are there any favorite brands that you like to go towards? Let me know in the comment box below. I hope this video was super helpful. If it was, go ahead and drop in a like, share with a friend and I'll catch y'all next time. You already know, embrace the hype.


Hey everybody, this is Hari Swaminathan, it is Wednesday, September 14th and we are looking at our swing trades and what a day it was yesterday. First of all, all the market analysts got it wrong. The pre-market futures were anticipating a slightly lower inflation number but it actually came out a little higher. But regardless, this is what happened yesterday. As you can see, it started going down and then somewhere over here. So I want to use this trade as an example to manage iron condors and so I'm going to get into some detail. Obviously when it's going down, the call vertical is going to be near max profit. So you want to close the call vertical and at some point, whenever you close the call vertical, you can put in a new call vertical and get some fresh premium. But what about the put vertical? So I think I was waiting for it to, because it was going down quite a bit and I figured there will be some bounce but there was no bounce. So over here, I closed the put vertical, of course for a loss. But and then around here, I opened a new put vertical and I figured, okay, I'll go down to about 3900. So let me explain here. So I opened this 4060, 4065 when the market was just around over here near the 4000 mark and then it never really bounced back and so I put the put vertical at 3900 and then it went down. So today it's moving up because the futures are up about 13 but our barefoot is going to be doing well and then I wanted to give enough room on the put side. So today you can see, so what ended up happening is, we had a net loss of 2100. I think the call vertical had a profit of about 1200 and then the put vertical had a loss of about 3100 or so and so the net loss was 2100. But now if you see this and today all of these are going to expire. So I think if you want to hold on to it and just get some more premium, there's still a little bit of premium here on the put side. I wouldn't take too much of a risk really because if you look at the futures today, what's happening is it was higher and it's been moving down steadily. So we don't know how it's going to go. Right now, this position has about 5200 and of course we've booked a loss of, what is it? 2100. Net, it's still a $3200 profit trade and I'm going to close everything and once again, we're going to go clean. Let's see how the price action happens today because yesterday's number jolted the markets and we want to make sure what kind of sentiment is coming in today. So I'm going to close everything today and I'm going to book this $3200 approximately. So I'm going to put this as plus $3200 and that will make it a profit of 1100, not a whole lot but I think we are lucky to get out of this this kind of a situation with a win. So I'm going to close this and let's start fresh tomorrow and see how the price action goes because it's still suspect at the moment and we'll take action tomorrow. Thanks.


What is an IPO? As part of our series on banking, we have looked at the different divisions within a full-service bank. In this video, we are going to look at the role of equity capital markets in the successful launch of an initial public offering. An initial public offering, or IPO, is when a private company decides to sell a proportion of its total share capital to investors who buy and sell public company shares listed on stock exchanges. The upsides for a company contemplating an IPO are clear. An IPO gives the company access to significant pools of capital to execute growth plans, whilst also providing an exit event for founders and early investors. However, the road to a successful IPO is long and winding. This is why equity capital markets teams within the investment bank are appointed. The first stage in an IPO process is to ensure that the company is IPO ready. Regulatory bodies and market participants require a level of organisational and reported sophistication for all listed companies. Banks will carry out due diligence to ensure that the company is an eligible and attractive IPO target. Once due diligence has been completed and marketing materials prepared, the company and its lead bank, also known as the lead underwriter, conduct a roadshow, presenting to prospective investors around the world. The goal of a roadshow is to succinctly explain a compelling investment case, wetting the appetites of IPO investors. Next, the lead underwriter sets a share price floor and ceiling along with a target share issuance volume. As part of this stage, the bank might appoint other banks to market a slice of the overall book to their investors. Once everything is in place, the pre-IPO book building process starts. Here, banks get in touch with investors who bid for a varying volume of shares depending on the price level. Once all commitments are received, the lead underwriter can set an IPO price and finalise the size of the offering. Now a successful process will see significant oversubscription, meaning that the IPO price can be raised or more shares can be offered. If all goes well, the IPO launches and is well priced, with the company's share price increasing slightly in its first day of trading. A successful IPO also means a healthy payday for the underwriting banks who can pocket up to 7% of all of the proceeds of the IPO. The main risk for the underwriting banks is that after the book building process has been completed, the IPO is undersubscribed. In this instance, the underwriting bank might take a loss selling its allocation at a discount in the secondary market.


Welcome. My name is Victoria Quiroga and this presentation shows how FloDIV achieves reproducible cytometric diversity estimates. Bruno, Andre, Fernando and I are the people behind FloDIV. Some background. The Flocytometer acquires single cell multiple data called channels like scattered light and fluorescence and storage in FCS files. Cytometric data can be visualized through cytograms which are by plots of channels where dots represent cells and 3D color their abundance. We generate gates to remove noise and identify the standard and the cytometric population of interest and cell populations. Each sample has a characteristic cytogram that can be considered as a cytometric fingerprint but comparing cytograms is not straightforward because environmental samples are generally acquired with different instrumental settings and deletion factors. Regarding that approach, before FloDIV, we generated gates for the sub-populations and the standards in the FloDIV software and exported their channel median values and cell counts into Excel. Then data handling involved transforming the channel median values of each sub-population into relative values according to the standard and applying deletion factors for each sample. The output had reduced that dimension and was further used for multivariate analysis. With FloDIV, we only need to generate the gates for the population and the standard. Here, we delete the subjective sub-gating and FloDIV directly imports the gates into R containing single cell data with multiple channel values. FloDIV implements channel normalization and volume correction before calculating diversity indexes. This output has higher data dimensions and can be further used for multivariate analysis in R. Some FloDIV arguments use this to activate the channel normalization step. Cell's position in the cytograms depends on the instrumental settings. So FloDIV centers all cytograms based on their standard mean. This is an interactive code that suggests the best number of things for channel clustering. In this example, the channels were clustered into five bins and the contingency table shows the cell count for each cytometric category. The deletion argument activates the volume correction step. Here, the input is a vector containing the deletion factor for all samples. The channels unfit the goals. Each time FloDIV implements a change, we need to wait for dependency updates, mainly these three bioconductor packages, and then update FloDIV accordingly. We believe that the path forward involves developing a suitable gating approach in R and also a FloDIV tutorial with the LearnR package. For questions and feedback, please contact us and thank you.


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Amazing chair, how comfy you are. Welcome to Church of the Chair, where we forgot our intro. Welcome to Church of the Chair, where we celebrate all the things we do while seated. I'm your host, E, and today I have an announcement for you. It is Sunday, so it is game night. At 5pm Central Standard Time tonight, this evening, we are going to be playing something. Maybe a little incoherent, which is up there. Maybe some campfire stories again. I will be reading the short story that we wrote last week on Sunday, and the Sunday before that. It took two sessions because of technical difficulties. I will be reading that at the end of the stream. So come hang out, or come and play, either way. But until next time, I'll hail the chair.


Let's learn about polygons. So what is a polygon? The word poly means many and gons means angles. So a shape which has many angles is known as a polygon but what is a proper definition? Let's see what is a polygon and what is not a polygon? There are two things that need to be followed by a polygon. It has to have straight sides like this. So anything which has a curve as a side is not a polygon and also the polygon need to be a closed figure. It cannot be open. An example of an open figure is something like this. It doesn't end exactly where it started. So you take any point on a polygon, it starts there and it ends there with the straight sides but this is an open figure and this is also not a polygon. So you already know about few polygons. One of them is a triangle, a triangle which has three sides. So all the polygons with three sides are known as triangles. Then you also know about a quadrilateral like this which has four sides. So this is known as a quadrilateral, quadrilateral, quad means four. It has four sides or four angles. If you draw a shape with five straight sides, then this will be a pentagon which has five sides. Then you can also draw a hexagon which is known as hexagon and hexa means six. So it has six sides or six angles. Similarly, the shape having eight sides or eight angles is known as an octagon. So this is an octagon having eight sides and this is how we classify different polygons depending upon how many sides they have. Do we see these shapes in real life? Let's see. There are many opportunities to spot three sided polygon which is a triangle. So here you see the triangles with three different sides. So these are flags which is one of the examples of a triangle. You also see quadrilaterals as well. Quadrilaterals have four sides like this. So the screen of your laptop has four sides, your mobile might have four sides. So this is a quadrilateral and an exercise for you to find more triangles and quadrilaterals around you. Let us look at an example of a pentagon. Now you see here a logo which has five sides. One, two, three, four and five and the five sided polygon is known as a pentagon. Can you find more shapes which include pentagon as a shape? I can show you another shape which you will love seeing. pentagon as well as pentagon and that's a football like you can see here. See this white shape and it's a hexagon right has six sides and a black one is a pentagon. So in football you can spot both hexagon and pentagon. Also have you ever seen this top sign? This top sign has eight sides one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight. So that's an octagon having eight sides. Think about if you can find more such shapes around you and comment down below.


Biophysical environment, a biophysical environment is a biotic and a biotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution.1 A biophysical environment can vary in scale from microscopic to global in extent. Biophysical environment can also be subdivided according to its attributes. Examples include the marine environment, the atmospheric environment and the terrestrial environment.To the number of biophysical environments is countless, given that each living organism has its own environment. The term environment can refer to a singular global environment in relation to humanity or a local biophysical environment, e.g. the UK's environment agency.


The inclusion programme is aimed at young people with disabilities aged 18 to 25 to offer them opportunities that they may not be able to get with other services. Even though the young people have learning disabilities, their voices still massively need to be heard. We can work in a way through communicating with them, through help of support workers and social workers as well as care plans, risk assessments. We're able to take their ideas, hear their voices and deliver the opportunities that they really want to be involved with. What do you like doing when you come here with a statement? Coming here? And what do you like doing here? Coming out with me? Cooking? Do you enjoy the cooking? Yeah. Being nominated means the world. It's fantastic. Not only that my manager tells us often that we're doing a good job, but to have a national organisation. I think that's good enough to be nominated and shortlisted. It's absolutely fantastic. It means the world. E'n nhw'r project i'w clwb ar ôl ysgol neu. Mae'r project i'w gyd ar helpu pobl ifanc efo yn y bleddau i gellu cwmysgu'r ffrindiau, a'r hyn o bryd os ymbydd fel hyn arall i'r gael yn yr ardal. Mae ond rhaid confidence i'r pobl ifanc. Da ni'n coginio arall i'r llunion, a dyn ni'n neud bots i'r iau. Yn ni'n neud pesa grannol, fe'n ni'n neud at dda, a dyn ni'n coffinu, dyn ni'n ffrindio newydd. Dyn ni'n ddoch yn ddweudio. Mae'n ddweudio'n cefnwysgol ar ei dfodol i'n ddweudio. Mae'n ddweudio'n cefnwysgol arall i'n ddweudio i'w ddweudio. Mae'n ddweudio'n cefnwysgol arall i'w ddweudio. Mae'r gallu yn weppy yn hiwn i'r ffantastig i'n mynd i'r heidio. Mae'n hyn o'r hyffordd arall i'n ddweudio, ac mae'n rywbeth i'r blynedd. Once a month, we ran LGBT group in the basement. It's for young people aged 11-25 and two years ago, I was identified that there was nothing for young people that had LGBT. They can't be who they want to be, sometimes in school at home because of parents, peer pressure, bullying. It is essential that they go there in safe space and that we can provide them with an environment that they can be themselves. Ac nid oes i hefyd ac eisiau gyntaf wedi eu cyfan o'r ffordd gael oherwydd hyn. A gwneud bethau amdano'n credu hyn oedd ym mwyaf. Mae hetsoiaeth gan drosi waith. Mae hefyd, bethau sy'n cael ei gwahanol hefyd. Prosesiaeth ym bullwys, yn gwybod, yn swyddwyr ein gweinydd yn ddweud i ni, yn ddweud eu gwahanol hefyd. A byddwn ni i wneud i ei gweithio, yn fwy yn danau cwyr. Mae'n gwybod fel i wedi pwg, ein bod yn cyfod amddangos Friends.