 Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Encom with the slide. I'm Christopher Ernest, you're in the post. Encom supplies for the rest of the Library of Commission's weekly event that we can do every Wednesday at 10am central time. And it's just a collection of different activities and topics and you can think of them as giving you interest to the rest of the Library community. They are free, as I said, every week, every Wednesday morning, and they are recorded so if you do not get a little attended or live session, you can always watch a recording of anything that we're doing. And then a picture of different kinds of presentations, Q&A sessions, book reviews, web tours, little mini-train sessions, anything that might be of interest to you. Today, what we're doing is, as I said, on the 1st of November 2009, a lantern in your hand. So I'll just actually turn it over to you guys and you can introduce yourself if I can go over it again. Thank you very much, Christopher. We'll just go around and introduce ourselves and then we'll start talking a little bit about a lantern in your hand. We hope this will be a dialogue so if any of you have any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, questions, please text chat them in, type them in the text box or use your microphones to just pipe right in. We're open to whatever thoughts or ideas you may have or questions. I'm Mary Jo Ryan. I'm with the Nebraska Library Commission and I'm the communications coordinator and I've had the privilege of working with the lantern in our hand and the folks from the Best Reader Aldrich Foundation to get this 1Block 1 Nebraska selection up and running. So, Teresa. Hi, I'm Teresa Lawrence and I am the executive director of the Best Reader Aldrich Foundation and I'm glad to be here today and we're very excited to have been chosen for the 2009 book selection. I'm Dr. Rod Wagner with the Library Commission and also the Nebraska Center for the Book, one of the other key organizations involved in the program. And maybe what we'll do to begin with is talk a little bit about how the 1Block 1 Nebraska phenomena developed and a little bit about how this book was chosen. So, why have you been involved with it from the very beginning, haven't you? And you have, too. I think I have, too. Well, it helped me to remember, but back in 2005, or maybe even a little bit before, I'm not sure, it was the Catholic Foundation that chose to have a statewide book discussion as part of their 50-year anniversary of the Foundation. Yeah. And they selected Willa Kapther's book, My Antenna. They also started out a number of state organizations to help promote, help participate in the 1Block program. And I think there was such great interest and success that people started asking, well, that was fun. We did it! And we have had an annual statewide book discussion each year since then. The following year, the Southeast Library system stepped up and contributed, and they did some very good work in coordinating the book discussion program back here. That was One False Move? One False Move, Alex Kaba's book. And then the Mari Sandos Heritage Society offered to sponsor the discussion program the following year. And they chose Mari Sandos. Sandos' book, Crazy Horse, for that year. And just recently, this past year, Bill Kleffcourt's book Restoring the Bird Child was the book for statewide discussion. We've handled the arrangements and program a bit differently each year. The program has evolved nicely. We've continued to have great interest in the 1Block program. And we were delighted that the process this past year resulted in selecting a lantern in her hand for this year. And we've been very pleased with the enthusiasm and health and support of the Aldrich Foundation. Yeah, and if you're interested in a little more information about how all of this came about, how the 1Book, 1Nebraska activities evolved with the Nebraska Center for the Book. It's called the Nebraska Center for the Book News. I think I've got a link to that right there. And that link goes straight to the article written by our colleague, Lisa Kelly, who did a little research into how these 1Book phenomenas... It's really been a wonderful reading promotion, don't you think, Rod? I mean, libraries have really stepped up and enjoyed doing this from everything I've heard and from the evaluation. We've had great response from Nebraska libraries, from book groups, from really... Bookstores? Yeah. So any organization that has a connection with a book discussion activity has been great. So maybe we could talk a little bit about this particular book. And as great appeal, many people have told me that they read it when they were youngsters in middle school, in high school, and that the book had a tremendous impact on them. I mean, even some people have talked about having the book read to them by a family member or a teacher who has such a great appeal to Nebraskans for a book discussion. Yeah. It's definitely the book that... When people think about Aldrich, it's the first book that they think of. It's traditionally, if anybody's read one book, it's this one. And it's a good place to start. And we hope, of course, people will continue to read the others. But I don't know. I think a lot of the reason that it's so popular can be lantern in your hand. And that is listed in the front of the novel, if any of you have that. At least in more modern versions. I'm not sure if it's in the older versions or not. But it was written by Aldrich. And she explains in the introduction why she wrote the book and the reasoning. And it was really a personal thing for her. And it really shows as you read the story. It's based a lot on her mother's experiences as Raska as a youngster. But her mother did come to Blackhawk County in Iowa. And one of the things that she talks about, and I'll just read a little section. Bessa was just very fond of her mother. And she wrote, when she was in her 80s, she once related some pioneer experiences about the snow sifting through the chinks of the cabin and making grotesque figures on the bed quilt. And Bessa says, in a moment of sympathy, she remarked that we daughters were sorry that her life had been hard. And her mother looked at her with this odd little look and says, oh, story that, you know, yes, there were hardships. Of course there were. But it was really an adventure. And it was not everybody was all doom and gloom about all the hardships. They, you know, listed them and they triumphed over them. And you get a lot of that in the story. And I think it's even now today that we can get a lot from that. That, you know, things are tough, but you get past them and you're better for it. Yeah, I think that's a very universal theme. And it's something that even young people can kind of relate to. Even though they may not have the hardships and the problems that are described in the book, they've got their own problems. And they can see that if somebody can overcome this, then they can overcome theirs. I think it's a great book for discussion groups. I think that libraries are going to find it to be really useful. There's also a ton of history. Alders was very diligent about making sure her historical facts were correct. And so all the things that happened, you know, two people in Nebraska in those days are chronicled in this book. The grasshopper plagues, there's drought, there's dust storms, there's blizzards. So you get a lot of the history and a lot of the real-life Nebraska events along with it, even a fictional story. So things we've heard about in myth, the myth of our pioneer history, they're actually the true events are listed as they happened in this book. When she got ready to write the story, she was on a radio program and she asked people if you've got news clippings, diaries, stories, just any memories of your families from these days of pioneers. Would you please, yes, they would send them to her. And she got just tons and tons of books or tons and tons of boxes of stuff and she spent about 14 months organizing all of that. So it's bits and pieces of real people's stories that she accumulated into this fictional story. So that's kind of a twist on things too, that it's real people's stories. It all happens to one person in the book. Oh, that is just so cool. That is really neat that she did that. What would be the equivalent of that today? I suppose it would be like putting out on your Facebook account that you're looking for people's stories. People are so willing to tell their stories. I mean, you can see that in today's world, you can see that on Facebook. I mean, people just tell the most personal kinds of things about their lives and their stories. And here in a case like Best Reader Aldrich's research, sharing these very personal experiences for her book. It's pretty cool. And sharing the history of, I think by the time she was writing this, this would have been like the people's grandparents or parents that had experiences. So people wanted their families' history to be told and they shared that with her. Yeah, that's another thing we don't often think about. I mean, we think about this as happening obviously in the past. This story happened in the past, but it was a past to her too. It wasn't her history. It was for more the era of her grandparents and her mom. Yeah. So that's another thing I think it's kind of important to remember here, I'm holding this up. I don't think anybody can see it. You can see the book cover. The book cover shows that it is the One Book, One Nebraska selection. So we're pretty thrilled with that, that that new printing came out just in time for people to get the One Book, One Nebraska selection seal on it. You can also see on the slide that we have at the Best Reader Aldrich Foundation website, bestreaderaldrich.org, slash one underscore book.html. That's the website for that, the One Book, One Nebraska for this year. So if you want to, you can go to that and you can find all kinds of resources. I guess that'd be great. Just go to bestreaderaldrich.org and at first, so that people can see what it looks like. Woo! We're in all kinds of places here. I don't know if you can all see this, but we're traveling. Yeah, if you want, you can, oh yeah, there it is. So if you click on the homepage, that's what you'll get on the homepage. And so if you don't put the slashes and stuff in there like I never do and I'm looking for something, on the homepage, you can just click on that green box and that will get you right to the page with all the information. Perfect. And all the links are there on the bottom. Well, let's talk a little bit about what the resources are here on this webpage for libraries or others that are trying to do schools, book discussions. It could be Boy Scout troop book discussions. I don't know exactly where the discussions happen. A lot of times that they happen in the libraries, the public libraries, but I think they're happening all over the date. Book clubs, whatever. We have a press kit. So let's go there. And also if you have any questions or suggestions as we're talking, please just pipe up. The press kit was produced by one of our partners, which is the University of Nebraska Press, and I guess I should not be missing mentioning our partners. This of course is sponsored through the Nebraska Center for the Book. But we also have support and sponsorship from the Nebraska Humanities Council, the Nebraska Library Association, of course the Nebraska Library Commission, and the University of Nebraska Press, but especially of course the Best Reader Aldrich Foundation. They are the sponsors. They are the ones that are organizing so many wonderful activities that we'll talk about in a while. And they have been really helpful in developing this. Again, the press kit was developed by the Press, the University of Nebraska Press, and we have in the press kit a book description, a bio of the author, some reviews, discussion questions, and other information. Now the discussion questions, if we kind of zip down to those, I think those are really useful for book discussion groups. And I always encourage people when I hear about they're going to do a book discussion, be sure and take a look at these discussion questions because I think they can be most helpful. And then if we go back to the page. Thank you. There's also a place here for libraries when you're going to order to get a discount from the press. This takes you straight to the press and it tells you you can get 25% off when you've ordered three or more copies of the land on your hand. And you have to do it through this page because you have to use that discount code. So that's another good support that the press is giving us. And we're going to put up the proclamation very soon. We had a wonderful time at the proclamation ceremony in Elmwood. The lieutenant governor came and presented the proclamation. We had a representative from the legislature, Senator Dave Pankinen. We had fabulous representation from the Center for the Book Board and the Aldridge Foundation. The Library Foundation in Elmwood and the Elmwood Public Library staff. But we also had people from the public who just love this book and love Best Read Your All, which just showed up. The place was packed. It was very fun. Very cookies too. And I guess I should also mention that people were there from the Nebraska Library Association as well. And these are links to the association, the main website. But then if you go up to the top, it says Book Club Kit. And then the Book Club Kit, there's just a little information about how to set up the local activities. Obviously, you can just have a book discussion and it doesn't take any organization except getting people together and making sure they have the book ahead of time so they can read it. But there's also other things we can do. We have an opportunity to have Carol Miles Peterson, who is Beth Streeter Aldrich's biographer, give a program in your community. And if you go to this link here that's on this page, it'll take you to the Humanities Council where they describe what her program is and also, there it is right there, Beth Streeter Aldrich's Biography by Carol Miles Peterson. If you submit a form to the Humanities Council, you can request funding so that you can pay for Carol Miles Peterson's expenses. And if you go back to the previous page, I think it should have a link to where you go to, yeah, apply for a grant from the Nebraska Humanities Council to finance your event. And that's right there. If you click on that link, you can see you'll go straight to the place where you fill out a form. Very simple form. Requesting funding to have Carol Miles Peterson come and do a program for you. Exactly, yes. You've got to be an elementary, middle or high school, college or university, youth organization, but also public libraries. So if you go through, this is a good way to get the funding to have that kind of a program as well as a book discussion. So you can build a whole series of activities. You can have the book discussion. You can have the program. You can have the art contest by the kids in the school of what the prairie might look like, that she lived on, whatever. Also, we'd like to mention again that we would like to encourage people to borrow our books on kids. We actually ran out of books. We didn't have enough books in our kids because they were going so fast. And so we worked with the press to get more books. So we now have more books. So if you were unable to get the kit for when you needed it, or if you were unable to get as many books in the kit as you wanted, contact us again. This is the library commission contact page for getting the book club kits from us. We have more books now. And so do the systems. The regional library systems also have some kits. And we've sent them more books. So actually, this is a lot of kits, not just a lantern in her hand as Chris is showing you here. So you can keep your book club going. There it is right there. So indeed, we do encourage you to call again, especially if you were unable to schedule it for when you wanted because we do have more books, both at the library commission and at the system office. Then I think, let's see if there's anything we haven't talked about here. Did you want to mention the video at this point? Oh, thank you, Teresa. Yes, there's a wonderful video of Carol Miles Peterson and she opens it and she closes it. And then it's narrated by Laura Black that does a lot for the Nebraska Public Radio that's in public television. So she does a great job and there's about a 20 minute version that's a biography and then there's a longer 40 minute version also under the same tape. It's got a little more of Elmwood history and a little more of the time period that Aldrich was in Elmwood. So depending on what your interests are, you can use either or both of those. And you have permission to show this in the library. So here's the cool thing. Now you're up to four programs. You've got a whole series of programs. In that video and history, we've got several copies of that here at the library commission that you can check out or reserve if you'd like to reserve it for a future event. And there it is. Did you hear Chris just say that? She said here it is right here the contact information. Our 800 number, if you're in Lincoln our 471 number and if you want to email ready at nlc.state.ne.us So that's a good way to do it. Another thing we wanted to mention is that we do have digital resources now on Nebraska memories from the collection at the Best Reader Aldrich Foundation House. And what kind of things are out there? I know there's some pages from her original manuscript. It's very cool. To get started, we just put things that were related to a lantern in her hand specifically or to Aldrich's history that kind of led her to write the lantern in her hand. There should be a picture of the lantern itself on there. A lot of people are interested in this quote from that day. You could almost do with these pictures getting people to use these pictures you could almost do a portfolio like the little display. And that third item there is the original manuscript of the lantern in her hand that we have at the Aldrich Museum and she even scans a couple of the pages in there. So you can see the little corrections that she made as she was going along or maybe she liked a different word or she really phrased something which is really cool. Oh man, you just don't get to see this kind of original author work up close in person. So the first few pages of the book are in there. That's very cool. And you can see how in school these kinds of resources might be useful to kids. You know, maybe they wanted to a PowerPoint about a lantern in her hand and they could use some of these images to create a student PowerPoint. Yeah, that's cool. The lantern that inspired it all is actually a not an terrible lantern than the lanterns that we think of. Mrs. Aldrich's mother carried that from her native home in Scotland and it came to the states with them and then across the Midwest to Iowa. See, this is so great because if kids are reading this book, for example, they are going to have in their minds an entirely different picture of what this is about and then they see this and it changes everything. Which they're thinking into an older time, a different time. And all of these items that are on here are on display at the even the Bestreader Aldrich House or the Aldrich Museum. So one other thing you can add to your plans for the year is a tour. We do do group tours and we welcome school groups and adult groups and everything in between. Yes, in fact people may not know this, but Elmwood has really two sites. They have the house that the family lived in. At the library and museum. And the museums where we keep the smaller things that need to be in glass cases like the manuscript and the smaller lots of correspondence and letters and that's her writing desk. It's up on the screen now. And it's at the Aldrich House the actual desk that she used. Wow. And if you open it we'll even let you sit in the chair and sit behind the desk and take a picture. We'll have a hands on sort of museum. That's her real typewriter. Not actually. But it's like the one she would use. You can imagine what it was. So you could sit there and pretend that you're actually going to type a novel just as good as hers. Museum hours would be the same as the library hours I assume. Well actually the museum at the library is only used when we take a tour down there. You don't just go to the library and go to the museum. So it's typically it's best to come to the house during our regular hours which are on our website two to five on the weekends this time in year and then we can take you down to the museum. But if say a school group wants to come you'll make a special appointment. Yeah we will schedule group tours at any time and typically then we will start the museum and we'll show the video 20 minute video to get people acquainted with her and then we'll move over to the house after that. Sounds great. And then just to kind of go through some of the other things that are in the book club quickly because obviously you can go through this yourself but you can download posters and the press kit. The posters are great because they've got a little room on them so you can put your own information about your book discussion. Here we go. Now I've seen people just take a magic marker and put it to come to the bottom I think there's a little space down there and just put the time of the book discussion and the place of the book discussion right on the side there with a magic marker. It makes it easy. It's a simple way to do it. I think probably one of this is pretty much just links that you can explore on your own. I wanted to mention a couple of things Teresa because you've got some activities coming up and if you want to make a field trip these things that are coming up sound like they'd be a lot of fun. Yeah and if you would click on the news and events that should take you to our event stage. The birthday celebration that's finished. The next thing we have coming up there is the spring banquet and that's open to the public and the photographer is going to be our speaker. She's been a really good friend to our foundation and has really, just by having a biography of Aldrich out there has really been helpful. So she's going to speak about the story behind Elantra in her hand and we also host a short story contest every year and the deadline was the 17th of February for this year's contest and those winners will be honored at the banquet. There is a link on our website to the short story contest rules so that we will be holding another contest this year. There's middle school, high school and adult categories and we encourage anybody interested to enter and we would sure appreciate any promotion that our libraries can help us with. So we will honor those winners at the banquet also and all the information there are RSV peening. The summer family event when we do have a date on that now it's going to be August 15th and that is being organized mostly by our Elmwood Public Library and right now they're looking at having a daylong celebration with old fashioned games and activities, sack races, horseshoes that kind of thing. It's not fully settled but it's going to be the 15th of August and then Journey into Christmas is our big event for the year typically and we have some great local families and groups and clubs that will come and decorate the Aldrich House. So every room has a tree, every room is completely decorated and we do guided tours and serve refreshments so if you have never been that's a good time to visit because it's just a really festive atmosphere and definitely our biggest event of the year. Rod and I, we visited the house but not during the Christmas time. And if you've been at a different time it's another world at Christmas time so it's definitely worth visiting again. I bet the decorations are fabulous. They're just gorgeous. They're too creative some people. The houses got kind of an arts and crafts style to it and fabulous windows. I mean if you like older houses and you like to see what they were like you can actually see what the old closets were like it's never been modernized so you can really see old closets with windows in the closets because they didn't have lights in the closets. The home was built in 1922 and the Aldrich family did have it built so it was their vision, their dream they were the first people to live in it and it's been well cared for ever since so it does look a lot like it did when they were there. The kitchen was modernized that looked like in the 70s but man you go upstairs and it's just like you're stepping back in time. All the old lights, all the old push button light switches and everything. The other thing I wanted to mention that isn't on the events list yet but we'll be getting that up there is that we are on November 14th 2009 we're having the Nebraska Book Festival in conjunction with the Nebraska Center for the Book Annual Meeting and at that festival in the afternoon we'll be having a statewide Lantern Interhan discussion session and it'll be fun for everybody's invited you can come and read the book before November 14th and we'll all be discussing that book and I think it'll be very interesting because I think it'll be mostly adults but young people are welcome too to see what the reaction to the book is from a large sort of diverse group of people so that's another thing that is not up there yet but will be because that's just being planned. It is a book that is suitable for kids anybody who's upper elementary at least I think would be a fine book for them to get started on it's not just for grownups. Actually it's a terrific book to read aloud I can't tell you the number of teachers that have told me in the classroom it was sort of like a treat when the day's work was accomplished they would have 15-20 minutes of reading and they read this book to the classroom and you could hear a pin drop because they just were absorbed in it. Does anybody have any questions about the opportunities for programming around this? Go ahead and type a text Oh Claudette are you having trouble hearing us? Can you turn it Vanessa? Can you turn your speakers up? Sometimes on the speaker there's a little knob that gets turned down or muted. Sometimes there's a mute on the speakers. All are waiting to see. Does anybody have any questions? Questions, comments, suggestions about what you're thinking of doing at your libraries maybe? You can use your microphone if you have one hold down the control key and keep holding it while you're talking or go ahead and type into the text chat. Well this is Laura England over at Keen Memorial. Hello I'm just kind of thinking we might try and do the foundation banquet as a kickoff to our stuff and then do the discussion and things like that through May. That might be interesting to put together with some of our city group or city organizations to put together a bus or something. We make sure we have plenty of seating. We do have it at the Elmwood School so there's lots of room to finagle some chairs and tables but that would be a good problem to have. It would definitely be from you. I have to find out if they'll let me do it first but I will sure let you know. I think it'd be a great field trip and by then we'll have better weather and we'll have good food. Lips to God's ears Mary Jo. Where is Elmwood's located, Laura? It has his acts asking. Can you give her directions? Okay, Laura. Okay. Is that closer to Omaha or Lincoln's? My geography. Well, okay. From Lincoln it's a very easy trip where you just go right down on Highway 34 which is O Street from the east edge of Lincoln it's only about 18 miles and then you turn and go two miles north. From Omaha you can either come out on the interstate and exit at the Mahoney State Park exit and then there are paved roads that will take you across the country to get to Elmwood or you can come right out Highway 50 to Highway 1 so from Omaha it's only about a 40 minute trip so we're pretty close to either one of those and yeah there are driving directions on our website there. Is there a map further down? You go down. Oh, a map quest. Okay, sure. I get it. And if you would want to email me and I'd be happy to send you specific directions too. This takes me my brain a little while to figure it out. Yeah. It's very easy. It's a short drive from Lincoln. It's a pretty drive too. You'll enjoy it. Claudette's asking about, or she's mentioning that the local reading council may want to work with this. We think that's great. That is a fabulous idea. I didn't even think about sending the information to the reading council so we do appreciate it if you can share that information. Other ideas? One of the pages that was up earlier in being mentioned to the blog post about the program. And I noticed there was a statement there about encouraging people to use that as a vehicle to offer comments about programming activities. Thank you, Rod. I'm so glad you thought of that. If we go to the library commission blog post and I think didn't we find it by searching we search best through Duraldrich or do we just go right there? Okay. That's for your wanting people to offer comments about Yes. Yes, that would just be wonderful. Because this way we will get feedback for evaluation purposes but also all of you that go into the blog can see what other people are doing and get their ideas and then we're not reinventing the wheel if we can use each other's ideas. So you can go down a little bit, Christie, you can see right there anybody can post a comment with your name and your email address and just put in there what your thoughts are, what your ideas are what your needs are, anything you need help with. And we'll keep an eye on that and it'll be a sharing view. This post is originally posted up in November so in order to find it you can do it anywhere on the blog. You can just do a search for Aldrich or Lantern, any one of those will come up and just search for it and then you'll get a specific post. And if you go back to our front page Christie, we can show where the, not the main page the front page of our website. Over the page. Yeah, sorry. Now you can see at the bottom where's the blog. You click there and up comes the search box search on Lantern or Best Street of Aldrich and the post comes up. And also what will be up here in the future will be this podcast. If you talk to anybody who was unable to attend this, they can listen to it on this podcast. And throughout the year I mean yeah we'll stay in touch with each other on this. Any other thoughts? I would like to mention too that if anybody would like to receive notifications about things that are going on with the Aldrich Foundation especially this year but in the future there are a couple of ways there on the page on the website page there's a contact us that will email me and just let me know you'd like to be put on our email reminder list and then if there's news coming up or something that I think people should be notified or reminded about I will send an email or if you'd like to join and become a member then of course we send out a couple of newsletters every year which with a lot of the news and updates but the simplest way to do that would be just to email me under the contact page and let me know what you need and what you're thinking and we're happy to help. Great. Well I think if there are other questions please or suggestions or ideas please just type it right up if not I think I'd like to ask Theresa if she might be willing to read a little bit from the book or from any section. Well just to get ready for this I did look through the book and find one of my favorite passages and I mentioned there's a lot of references to different natural events and different plants and everything that's natural but there's also she talks about some more intangible things which really is what captures my imagination there's a lot of talk about grief and death and joy and one of the things one of my favorite passages is here it's if you've got the book it's starting with page 35 and Abby is Abby Deal is the main character she is a young girl at this time and they've just recently I think they're in Iowa at the time they haven't come to Nebraska yet as Abby had now passed her 14th birthday on an April afternoon with the river high and clouds of snow still at the roots of trees she went into the timber to look for anemones and Dutchman's breeches for dog tooth violets and the first signs of Mayflower buds coming out on her own particular grassy knoll in the clearing to look in one of those moments of desire to let out her feelings in song to the squirrels she may have seemed an ordinary girl clothed in the green checked gingham dress with reddish brown curls twisted up into a snood but the squirrels were not seeing correctly for Abby knew that she had a dark velvet dress that swept around her feet a string of pearls on her neck and in her hand a hat with a sleeping plume she was holding it carefully at her side with her long slender fingers that tapered at the ends at the top of the knoll she turned a sea of white faces looked up at her to the casual observer it might have seemed a mass of wild plum blossoms even before she sang the audience applauded vociferously and a few people stood up an onlooker who was not magic-eyed might have thought that the wind merely blew the blossoms Abby bowed, smiled and waited for her accompaniment to begin she fingered her pearls and smiled at the girl at the reed organ all at once she realized that the girl at the organ was a talented orphan whom she had been befriending and made her feel happy, lighthearted she threw back her head and began singing and then there's quote from the song The Lady of the Lea which is a recurring theme in the book and that's if you notice on the Nebraska Memories site there's sheet music for that so that's my favorite that is so great I love it, I think that gives you a real feel she had a lot of imagination and a lot of whimsy and a lot of wonder in her and she brought it out in ways like that and it's a perfect section for this time of the year where we could all go outside and see if there are any snow drops or violets or anything peeking out you can imagine how great it would feel to see some alright are they actually blooming or are they just the green pieces I'm telling you there is hope out there it's almost here today it's pretty cold in Lincoln well thank you all for being with us and please if you have any questions we're gonna be here for a little while or speak in the microphone and it's just been a pleasure thank you so much Teresa for joining us here today thank you for having us it's been terrific so anybody else any thoughts any ideas if you think of it later put it on the blog that'd be great we'd love to have that kind of communication any other thoughts for the good of the group oh thank you Claudette thanks for joining us Claudette and Paul now we're getting applause oh that's for Teresa's reading that was fun anything else I think we're good to go thank contact information on the last screen so if you need us for anything you can get us this is all the powerpoint that was emailed and we'll be on our slide share account as well thanks very much alright thank you that will wrap up today's end compass slide then we'll be back again next week Wednesday 10am central time on Gold in Nebraska and cheers local information health resources yes we have somebody coming from the medical center and she's going to talk about all the resources they have I think they've got displays that you can put up in the library I know they've got a telephone hotline that your customers can use when they need health information and just a whole lot of other stuff so that'll be a real interesting session