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July 3, 2016

Sunday; long run day... but my left hip didn't give me a resounding "yes", and since I wanted to run the Firecracker 10K the next day, I instead decided to do a nice ride up the coast, visualizing those big manhole cover-sized oatmeal cookies at the Whale City Bakery in Davenport to spur me on. Alas, when I got there the place was over-stuffed with people and a long line even to just get a quick cookie. So instead I parked myself in the sun outside and enjoyed a fig bar I'd brought along, and engaged with an interesting character on his own cycling sojourn. Devan was from SF, and doing a multi-day random ride through down the peninsula and up and down through the trails and paved roads of the Santa Cruz Mtns. Outgoing, healthy, andexuded a really nice positivity, which was exactly what I needed after working on the lastest climate science stuff. We swapped stories, advice on equipment; he love my Serotta and extolled the virtues of quality steel frame bikes on bumpy roads - I agreed. He got me thinking, too, once again about getting a Brooks saddle. I didn't know they made the lighter weight Brooks Swift, and Devan swore it was the most comfortable saddle he'd ever had, after a few months break-in of course. My experience with my Brooks saddle when I first bought a 10-speed bike back in the '70's, was tough; I soaked it in saddle oil, I rode it, I whacked it over and over with a big hammer... I did everything, and it never did break in. I broke, instead. Eventually sold it, and that was that. Of course, those who've succeeded to the break-in period, like my friend Kent, also wax poetic about their Brooks. To the extent of almost being.... unnatural(!). So anyway, something to reconsider.

Free spirit Devin, at the Whale City Bakery

My special stop on the way back down the coast, north of Scotts Creek. The fresh apricots had a Serotta theme'd color going on which complimented by bike

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Statement from the Catholic Education Service on the consultation on RE and RSE in Wales

High quality Religious Education is essential for producing well rounded, religiously literate young people. In a similar respect, well taught Relationship and Sex Education plays a vital role in preparing children for life in modern Wales as well as keeping them safe.

Therefore, Catholic schools already teach high quality RE and RSE, and they teach it well. In fact, our model RSE curriculum is widely recognised as best practice, not just for Catholic schools but for secular schools as well.

Nevertheless, parents are the primary educators of their children and schools exist to support, not replace them. This is particularly important when dealing with sensitive and deeply personal topics such as faith and RSE. To remove the right of withdrawal would, therefore, be huge erosion of parental rights and represent regressive step in the relationship between parents and the state.

The parental right of withdrawal is an essential principle which incentivises a constructive dialogue between schools and parents. This is what Catholic schools already do, and in 2018 no pupils were withdrawn from RSE in Catholic schools. We see this as a mark of success and not as an excuse to remove this right.

We are also deeply concerned about the proposed name change of RE to include ‘worldviews’ as this would represent a dumbing down of RE. By including a range of non-religious ‘worldviews’ into, what is in Catholic schools, an academically rigorous theological discipline, would water down RE and reduce it to an over-simplistic comparison exercise which fails to understand the deep fundamentals of faith and religion.

Notes to Editors

There are 85 Catholic schools in Wales educating more than 28,000 young people and employing almost 3,000 members of staff.

The Catholic Church and the Church in Wales are the only non-state providers of schools in Wales.

The belief that parents are the primary educators of their children is enshrined in Canon Law (the law of the Catholic Church)

RSE in Catholic schools is faithful to the Church's vision of human wholeness whilst recognising the contemporary context in which we live today.

Links to the Catholic model RSE curriculum can be found here: http://www.catholiceducation.org.uk/schools/relationship-sex-education

RE in Catholic schools is at the core of the core curriculum and accounts for 10% of the timetable. Whilst predominately focused on the Catholic theological tradition, it covers all the major world faiths as well as the atheist critique of religion.

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The Federal Government has announced its plan to submit a list of its food vendors to EFCC while denying allegations of food feeding scheme

The Federal Government has announced its plan to submit a list of its food vendors to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), while also denying allegations of spending N679m ($1,739,881.82) daily on school feeding programme.

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouk made the announcement after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alleged that the “school feeding claims by the Federal Government, when schools are shut due to COVID-19 pandemic, is a huge scam and a scheme by corrupt All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders and some officials in the Buhari presidency to siphon a targeted N13.5 billion public funds to finance their wasteful lifestyles.”

The main opposition party which described “the use of innocent school children as cover to steal and funnel not less than N679 million daily to private purses as sacrilegious, wicked and completely unpardonable”, added that “it is now clear that the APC-led administration’s school feeding programme had always been a scam, the claims to feed school children even when schools are closed are colossal racketeering taken too far.”

Sadiya Umar-Farouk who defended the federal government at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Friday May 15, denied claims of spending N679 million per day on the school feeding programme.

She said;

“For clarity, the programme which is funded by the federal government of Nigeria is implemented by the state governments and facilitated by the Federal Ministry of human Affairs, disaster Management and Social Development.

“And this programme, as modified is targeted at heads of the households, guardians and caregivers of these children – primary school pupils one to three.

“And also, we are not spending N679 million per day as alluded to, that number is inaccurate the take-home ration worth N4,200 per household and as planned as a monthly COVID-19 intervention for 3, 131,971 household in the participating states of the Federation.

“When the federal government ordered the closure of schools across the country in order to help flatten the curve on the COVID-19,  it interrupted the school feeding programme, which is one of our Cardinal project has a government and which preceded the COVID-19  outbreak, because the programme was already ongoing food vendors had already been contacted and mobilized for the project.

“We are also mindful of the fact that most vendors having mobilised are made purchases Preparatory to the project as official. It’s not just possible to ask them for a refund. This has been done before the school calendar was disrupted.”

The Minister further revealed that they opted for a modified school programme because asking for a refund from vendors who have already bought food items in preparation for the project is impossible.

Sadiya added;

“That is how we arrived at the modified school feeding programme of taking food rations into the households of this children. So how we got our data with children at home was another issue. When children are enrolled in schools, as part of the registration process has a detailed register which contains the address of parents and guardians of every people is kept with the school as well as the class teachers. We also obtained those from SUBEB and other sources.

“Also, in the community where these are children live, every child’s home can be easily identified by members of that community and management of these schools. So to ensure full transparency so that the programme is not compromised, we are submitting a full list of all the vendors to the EFFC and let me also state here that these vendors have been in the structure since 2016. So, we’re using existing structure is not a whole new programme that were enrolling, no.

“The vendors that have been in the programme that we are using because they used to provide these food and materials to the cooks to cook.

“We have also invited other agencies of government including the DSS, EFFC, ICPC code of conduct and a host of NGOs and CSOs to help us monitor. I’m sure you agree with me yesterday, you must have noticed a large number of people participating in the process or in the flag off because we engage as many stakeholders as possible to be part of that being very mindful of the social distance guideline.

“I am going into some [details] in order to disapprove some misinformation and misunderstanding around modified programme and to ask Nigerians to support this for active intervention designed to keep our children fed during this pandemic, So that objective of this National home work school feeding programme is not compromised.”

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  1. Senseless talk, could you hear what u just said? pls how did u located those you feed?

  2. We have heard all these on our radio but we did not see, even the #20,000 naira they said they paid through BVN, we have not recieve in SOUTH SOUTH, let them prove the beneficialy with phone number/pasport/names/account number

  3. So why is it important for schools to keep feeding their students? What additives are they wanting children to keep consuming?

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“OLCV is dedicated to advancing low-carbon solutions that will enhance Occidental's business while reducing emissions," OLCV President Richard Jackson said. “Participating in this study aligns with our goals of finding an economical pathway toward large-scale application of carbon-capture technologies to reduce emissions.”

The carbon-capture facility under review will employ Svante’s technology to capture carbon directly from industrial sources at half the capital cost of existing solutions. Occidental, the industry leader in CO2 management and storage, would sequester the captured CO2. Pairing carbon capture from a cement plant with CO2 sequestration is a significant step forward for the industry in reducing its carbon footprint.

“Being at the forefront of the low-carbon transition requires continuous innovation and partnerships,” LafargeHolcim CEO Jan Jenisch said. “LafargeHolcim has significantly invested in the development of low carbon solutions. Collaborating with Svante, OLCV and Total, we expect to realize a successful U.S. carbon capture project in the near future.”

“Svante’s capital cost advantage, combined with progressive tax credit policies such as the 45Q tax credit in the United States, can make carbon capture profitable across a range of large-scale industrial applications like cement,” noted Claude Letourneau, president and CEO of Svante.

“Total has slated 10% of its annual R&D budget to make significant advances in Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technology, a key technology to curb worldwide CO2 emissions. Our investment in this joint study is directly aligned with our strategy. The learnings from this study will help us pursue our commitment to the commercial development of CCUS,” said Marie-Noëlle Semeria, senior vice president, Group CTO at Total.

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All the Iraq War supporters who look at this post?

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I think this board was pretty much on the money - wasn't necessarily a bad idea, but exit strategy and overall cost were severely underestimated. Had the coalition instead planned for a 10-15 year semi-hostile occupation and worked tactics, timing, funding and supply with that in mind then things would have been much different.

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VW to bet big on mobility and NEV

By Li Fusheng in Paris | | Updated: 2016-09-29 09:44

VW to bet big on mobility and NEV

Volkswagen CEO Matthias Muller speaks at their media reception during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, January 10, 2016. [Photo/Agencies]

Volkswagen AG has built a company dedicated to mobility service as part of its goal to stay competitive as it has been, said a senior executive of the German car giant on Sept 29, the eve of the Paris auto show.

Addressing several hundreds of journalists, Matthias Muller, CEO of Volkswagen AG, said a company dedicated to mobility service has been established in Berlin and the management has been put in place.

Muller said the company, though its name has not been decided yet, will work on ride hailing, shuttle service as well as sharing urban mobility, with more details to be revealed in November.

Muller said the company, which he calls as the 13th brand, will rank among top three provider of urban mobility solutions and become a market leader in Europe by 2025.

All the other 12 brands are automakers, including Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Porsche.

Besides mobility service, Muller is betting big on new-energy vehicles, saying that the group is to roll out more than 30 electric vehicles by 2025 besides those that have already hit the market.

"The future is electric," said Muller. He said Volkswagen is showcasing a concept car called ID with a range of up to 600 km.

The car is based on MEB, the carmaker's new platform dedicated to new energy vehicles, and the new platform will be rolling out in the group from 2020.

Experts believe that some of its electric cars will be produced in China as it is in talks with Chinese automaker JAC on building a joint venture to develop and build new-energy vehicles.

Besides electric cars, Volkswagen AG is introducing 17 plug-in hybrids by 2018, with the first being Porsche's Panamera E-Hybrid also showcased at the Paris auto show.

Muller said Volkswagen is also working on a rapid-charging project for new-energy vehicles as he believes "the breakthrough for e-mobility cannot be achieved without substantial progress in batteries and infrastructure".

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The CSN’s Sunk Plans for the Great Lakes

This interesting piece of what-if history discusses a scuttled Confederate plot to target Northern shipping ports on the Great Lakes. My first reaction was to scoff at how little impact one steamer could have, but then I remembered The Alabama.

There was, however, an opportunity. In order to avoid an arms race on the Great Lakes, in 1817, the United States and Britain agreed to demilitarize them. In the Rush-Bagot Agreement, both nations agreed to maintain only a handful of small armed vessels on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. By 1863, there was only one American warship on the Great Lakes: the 14-gun steamboat USS Michigan, which is pictured above.

If the Confederate Navy could hijack the Michigan and crew it with skilled sailors, it could ravage American forces on the Great Lakes unopposed by the United States Navy.

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6) What have you learnt about yourself whilst being a Cosplay model? And were their any unforeseen obstacles you had to contend with?   I think I learned resolution, perseverance, tenacity. There are always obstacles between you and a complete costume and you must learn to overcome those and not let them dissuade you. And I learned to always be willing to “play the game”, because, even if through trial and error, you'll eventually reach your goal.

As the commercial says: impossible is nothing.

I had a clear demonstration of this when I was about to leave for Japan to participate in 2005's World Cosplay Summit. Just a few hours before my departure, I tried on my Silen (from Devilman) costume, and the wings on my head wouldn't stand still, always collapsing on one side or another. It was a really unforeseen problem (so to answer the second part of your question), but in the end my father came up with the idea that saved the day.

Giorgia Cosplay - Black WidowWe created a support for the wings and everything went fine.

I didn't let this difficult moment discourage me and eventually I won the championship that year and with none other than that Silen costume.

7) What was the best / worst convention you ever attended?   I've been really impressed by Paris' 'Japan Expo'. It's a very big event and yet they manage to disperse the crowd through the big exhibition hall, so you never feel overwhelmed. And as for the stage, the stage is wonderfully huge, with professional lighting and smoke for dramatic effects.

As for the worst, I won't tell names, but let's just say that there are too many 'little conventions' which regard cosplay as an out of season carnival and are able to attract only cosplays that fit that definition.

8) What would be your dream Cosplay gig and outfit?   Witchblade is kind of a dream costume of mine. Even though I've already made it, a lot of time has passed and I would like to attempt it again using the experience I gained meanwhile.

Unfortunately it seems the universe is conspiring against me, always putting in front of me some kind of obstacle, and I'm talking about people who should have provided professional aid for some parts of the costume leaving this world for good.

As for the skit, I haven't taken part in any contests since 2005 (when I won WCS), but there indeed is a skit I would like to perform if I was invited as a guest on the proper stage with the proper lighting, but I'll keep it a secret for now. Ha!

Giorgia Cosplay - Anime
9) Has their ever been an outfit you just did not like wearing? And if so, why?   I will answer that question without hesitation -- Mortal Kombat's Jade. Not only is this costume very uncomfortable, but I don't “feel it” when I wear it either.

10) Do you have a credo you live by?   I think that “live and let live” sums it up pretty well. If more people in the cosplay scene took this particular route, cosplay drama would be reduced by 99%.

So there you have it, folks. My pal Giorgia and her life as a cosplayer. When you have the time please feel free to check out her wares by visiting her website, facebook page, deviantart hub, plus intagram page. Go on. It'll be a blast.

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Get your spy on. We have just been sent over a first set of clips for McG & Reese Witherspoon's next film. The comic caper of two spys that fall in love with the same girl. If you missed the trailer then just head over here and give it a watch. It's well worth it!

Two of the world’s top secret agents are best friends who never let anything come between them -- until they inadvertently fall for the same woman.  It’s all-out war, as the two spies battle each other with high-tech surveillance, advanced tactics, and an arsenal capable of bringing down a small country.
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Corktrekking Tours in Alentejo - Getting personal with South Portugal
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Exploring Alentejo Cork Forest

Go through lush hills, listen to the sounds of the cork forest, feel the wind on olive groves,

the warmth of the vineyards, the echo of medieval fortresses and the whisper of abandoned chapels.

Join us! We open the heart of the real Alentejo to you.

Our activities

Cork Trekking

Corktrekking on our farm means quiet hikes with family & friends or longer trekkings to learn all about cork

Jeep Tour

Discover Alentejo fields easily on a 4x4 tour that takes you through the farm and beyond on beautiful dirt roads

Alentejo picnic

Enjoy a lovely picnic under a majestic cork oak tree tasting local products and the wine we produce

Alentejo typical Cuisine

Have lunch at a typical restaurant where the locals taste real Alentejo food

Megalithic Monuments

Adventure meets history when our archeologist takes you exploring dolmens from the Neolithic period in Serra d'Ossa

Vineyards and Wine Tasting Experience

Visit the vineyards where our award-winning wines come from and have your own wine tasting experience

Nature Activities

Nature activities like birdwatching and stargazing on the cork farm bring you closer to the stunning environment

Sleep in the cork forest if you are a nature lover, romantic person seeking countryside tranquility with modern conveniences

Maroteira Farm

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Herdade da Maroteira is a farm on the foothills of the Serra D’Ossa, in the Alentejo region of Portugal. Owned by an Anglo-Portuguese family  for over 5 generations, the 540-hectare farm was originally dedicated to cork forestry and livestock, activities administrated from its farmhouse built in the traditional style, overlooking the surrounding countryside.

Today, the estate also includes a vineyard, which produces an internationally acclaimed wine you can taste. It also has the perfect accommodation for agro-tourism on the farmhouse, a lodge and a cottage.  The amazing location offers opportunities for a number of country activities that bring you closer to nature. The way we should live every day, relaxing alongside nature, having picnics while drinking wine  and meeting authentic people in the countryside.

Cork Trekking

Discover the cork oak forest hiking through our quiet fields. Embrace your senses’ experiences. Learn all about what cork is today and its heritage.

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Set off on a 4×4 vehicle drive on dirt roads. Explore the cork oak forest top on or off. Reach further and higher in your unique cork learning experience.

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Friday, January 31, 2014

Happy New Year!

For our Vietnamese friends...
and for our Chinese friends...
and for all of our friends, we wish you a very happy, healthy and prosperous
Year of the Horse.

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Science Fiction Technologies which are now a Reality

Today, there are a lot of projects and companies from private companies and hobbyists that have taken advantage of latest technologies and talent to make things happen. In this blog post I would be sharing some of those cool products showcased in the past in science-fiction TV series, which are now a reality.

1) Tablet computers shown in ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, are now ubiquitous, thanks to Apple’s iPads and various other brands that have made Tablet computers a phenomenon around the world. Today Tablet computers are used across places, be it for education, brand feedback or for entertainment purposes.

2) In the Jetsons, one got to witness driverless and flying cars. Now we have driverless cars being regularly on trials across roads. And soon flying taxis as well, with drones looking to ferry passengers being tested by companies like Boeing and at cities like Dubai.

3) Again on ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, a holodeck was built to create virtual reality experiences for its participants. Today virtual reality headsets are becoming increasingly popularly, with these headsets being used for gaming, training, learning and development and even in the maintenance of equipment.

Here are some more that were showcased on movies, and which are now a reality.
4) Wearable Computing – Back to the Future II (1989)
5) Skype – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
6) Touch Interface – Minority Report (2002)
7) Robot Assisted Surgery – Sleeper (1973)
8) Smartphones/PDAs – Star Trek: The Original Series (1966)
9) 3D Printing at Home – Weird Science (1985)
10) Siri – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Check out these and more on this Gizmodo articleMany of these projects would not have been a reality had it not been for the generous support and funding of innovators in their research and development efforts.


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Porsche realizes they’re on Instagram

                                I have a friend that works with luxury brands and he was recently chatting with someone that he knows that works with Porsche; let’s call him William. It turns out, some of the executives had flown out to southern California for a meeting and the subject of social media came up...

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How Shoe Bows Give An Emphatic Look To The Sneakers?

How Shoe Bows Give An Emphatic Look To The Shoes?

If you wish to give a particular look to your fundamental shoe, then you could take the assistance of the shoe bows. These are maybe the good selection for including that particular contact to the footwear, which may remodel them in the best manner for the upcoming event you might be about to go. You possibly can even add the shoe bows even when you’re going to the workplace. You possibly can merely take a pair of plain black ballet flats and remodel them by including an awesome design, which you’ll be able to exhibit within the celebration to your mates or to the workplace mates. Shoe bows will make you look spectacular on all of the events. In case you are seeking to make your individual shoe bows, then it’s good to commit a superb period of time into it. The important thing to creating one of the best shoe bow is by having endurance. In the event you neither have the time, nor the endurance, then you may head on-line and discover the highest shoe equipment firm that offers in ready-made objects. You can begin by selecting the color of the bow you need to have. There are such a lot of totally different colors obtainable available on the market right this moment that you should have some downside in selecting the one which matches together with your character.

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David McDonald: How to search reams of text effectively

My name is David McDonald and I am the Nova Scotia Legislative Librarian, which means I deal a lot with politicians and the law. I have a mandate to ensure that all Nova Scotia government publications, both print and electronic, are freely available to all both now and in the future. As such I am constantly looking for new and innovative ways to provide electronic information to the public. I am a huge advocate of freely available information. I am also very interested in digitizing our existing print government and legislative materials so that they are easily accessible and searchable.
I need to find an inexpensive way to convert unstructured debates from the House into easily searchable text. Debates for one year are often thousands of pages long and they are very difficult to search using the Google appliance. So if any one has any ideas on how to search reams of similar text effectively, I’m all ears. I am an avid cyclist and have cycled all around the world. I haven’t made it to Australia yet, but I will.

Hannah Lee: Volunteers in the library

My name is Hannah Lee and I am a library technician from Alberta, Canada. I work in a small public library that’s serves a population of around 7, 500 people. My job consists of many different aspects; from helping with circulation duties, reference questions and computer help to administrative duties, my days can hardly be considered dull. This will be my first cycle for libraries, and though I wanted to train hard and help prove that Canadians aren’t always the slowest, my training slowed down over the summer, so I am quite nervous (but exited!!) to cycle with all you energetic library lovers.  What id like to discuss is volunteers working in the library and how they can  be properly utilized without over stepping boundaries such as over powering staff roles and responsibilities.

Sonia D. Kirkaldy Nielsen: Librarian’s skills needed

I’m Sonia D. Kirkaldy Nielsen and I live in a comunity just outside of Roskilde in Denmark. I work in the library at TV2 and I have been biking with  Cy4Lib three times previously. I look forward to meeting new and old participants. When I am not working at TV2 I do volunteer work and of cause spend time with my husband and 5 year old daugther. I am very active in “Cycling without age” where I am coordinator of Roskilde. In “Cycling without age” volunteers cycle with older people in Rickshaws. ( would like to talk to you about our librarian’s skills in relation to organizing volunteers and structuring our database in “Cycling without age”. How do we use our skills and how we do make our knowledge visible for people who do not work within the library world? – How can we “sell” our skills to others?

Ināra Kindzule: New technologies in libraries

My name is Ināra Kindzule. I’m from Ogre, Latvia. I work as a chief librarian in the Data and Knowledge Management Department of the Bibliography Institute of the National Library of Latvia. In my everyday work I’m dealing with indexation of incoming publications, creation of subject records and subject control of national importance databases and union catalogue. Basically I work with books and journals on music, dance, theatre, films, sports and scores. I’m interested in new technologies in libraries  and continuing education as a library and information professional. This is my fourth C4L. Looking forward to seeing you all in the Nordic countries!:)

Aija Jankava: School libraires

My name is Aija, I’m from Latvia.  I am a school librarian and library teacher in Secondary school library. There’s never been a doubt in my mind that the Library-teaching is a personal art and the most important tools for a successful school library are imagination and inventiveness. I do believe that an effective school library is a library lead by librarian, who has clearly defined his/her role in information literacy process. This is my fourth C4L.

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Andrea Oelgarten: Working with digitization and cataloging

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My name is Andrea Oelgarten and I have studied library science in Berlin. Cycling for Libraries I saw in Berlin in 2011. A friend has often participated and told about it, which made me more curious. For lack of  time and private matters it was not  possible for me to attend earlier. But here I am now. I’m curious about the people who participate on the route and of course to the libraries. Currently I am working in a digitization project and in a cataloging team of SRZ.

Mariël Geens: Speaking up for good library services

My name is Mariël and I work front office in a big branch library of the library network of Antwerp, Belgium. I love helping people with and advising them on multimedia, music, film and language learning (that’s my department), and I’d like to do more. So now I’m training to become a media literacy coach. To conclude this course I’m doing a project to further media literacy amongst colleagues, advise management on learning needs and find co-conspirators to discuss the need for a local communication strategy that is complementary with the city policy. These are my main challenges for the moment.

My greatest professional concerns are the library policy and education situation in my country, staff well-being, the skills and talents library assistants need to develop to continue to provide the best possible  services to our superdiverse and largely underpriviliged patrons, and what these services need to be. I’m also passionate about sustainability in all its shapes and forms. C4L is a way of killing many birds with one single stone. This is my third time. I’m looking forward to meeting you all and to talking about these and many other work, food, drink, bike and general life related subjects!

I’m experimenting with these media to find the best way to share library photos and ideas:

Urpo Nylander: New libraries and IT

Hi there! My name is Urpo Nylander and I’ve been part of the orange team since 2010. I work at Helsinki City Library as IT-designer and my main project at the moment is the upcoming central library. Waiting so much to see you all!!!

Bo Jacobsen: The library challenge

The evolution of information flow has forced our hands as public libraries and not only us, on a global level. Just as books once advanced from slabs of parchment to paperbacks, they are now transforming again, from paperbacks to pixels. With Plato only a download away libraries have lost their monopoly on knowledge. American library director Darrell Batson expressed it this way: “We’re caught between two worlds, the print collection has fallen 20 percent since 2009. But libraries have to evolve or die. We’re probably the classic example of Darwinism”.

By the way I´m Bo, Library Director of  the Vesthimmerlands Libraries. And I am very pleased to show you my “home grounds”.

Maria Šimunović: Helping and educating library users

My name is Maria Šimunović and I’m a librarian from Croatia. I work with students and researchers helping them to find literature and to manage a big amount of information for research purpose. My primal interest are official publications and providing information for all kind of users, educating them and helping them to realise simple way to find information. I’m also very active in Zagreb library association and Croatian library association as an editor of web page and social networks. My goal is to show that libraries are fun place and that librarians are fun and interesting people. This is my second C4L (C4L Amsterdam-Brussels 2013 ), and I’m looking forward to meet new librarians and library lovers as well as reunion with veterans of C4L.

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Chris Skog: What services should we integrate to the social media?

With the explosion of social media usage, we are feeling extreme pressure to be where our customers are. Most of our social media activity involves inviting customers to our home pages with links and such and we are also recruiting Facebook and Twitter followers. At the same time the customers are far more pragmatic and want value to their time, attention and data. It is time to get involved to understand our customer needs to reach their hearts and provide them with better services.  So how do we provide value in our solutions?

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Mapping the User Experience

Mapping the user experience - How to find out what the real problem is before we start solving it.

Working in a project where the users are ignored since “We have to focus on functionality first!” leaves me exhausted. The constant flow of cartoons and jokes about developers not really caring about the real needs of users seem to go on. And just to clarify, with developers I include project managers, testers and anyone in the process of producing software. We laugh at the jokes and go back to repeat them in our own way, often thinking that usability is some other person’s responsibility.

To be perfectly honest our craft still seem to be very immature in the art of satisfying the users for what we build. So how can we change this? I for one have made a vow to myself that I will do all I can to help building systems that the users really like to use. I truly believe that change comes from people putting their foot down saying, “No more of this!”.

Moment of Truth

Try this though experiment with me. A lot of people get really sick from using badly designed computer systems. There is a lot of statistics on this. Swedish readers can have a read at Jonas Söderströms blog - the book is an eye opener! English speaking readers can read the slides.  So if we accept the fact that the use of IT systems are making people sick, think about who built the systems. That would be us – the developers, testers, requirement analysts, scrum masters etc. So indirectly we are hurting people by building systems that are hard to use. Now take a moment to reflect on your personal code of ethics. Can you honestly say that you are ok with continuing building bad solutions knowing what the effects are?

Mapping the User Experience

The UX community have some really great ideas on finding out what the real problem is, before we start solving it? Sounds like a fairly reasonable idea to me.

Collecting Data

The Lean movement have a core practice – the cool English-Japaneese term is Go to Gemba.The only way of really understanding what people are doing is observing them doing it, preferably in their natural setting. The same idea goes for mapping a user experience. Observe users as much as you can, ask them questions about what they are trying to do and what problems they are facing. Try not to impose too much since that will disturb the users and may change their behaviour. I find it good to go out and observe in pairs since we observe different things. We never do any video recordings since that disturb users and we never seem to have time to watch the recordings anyway. It can be exhausting to be an active observer. Try to focus on what you see and hear and don’t try to find solutions at this point. Make sure to write down quotes that really make a point like : “ I wish I did not have to enter that data once more”.

It may not always be possible to observe all the users you want but hopefully you can at least meet them for interviews. To be honest, in the projects I have participating in we have mostly worked with interviews and have made only a few visits to observe users working. Done the right way interviews can be very revealing. We still avoid video recording and instead try to be active listeners and ask clarifying questions. Good questions you may ask are open-ended like:

-“Tell me more about what you just did.”

-“What information would be good to have when performing this task?”

You can spend a lot of time collecting data and there are as usual no rules for how much is enough. I have mostly built systems intended for specific professional users which means that the number of user groups is fairly limited. It is a good idea to interview at least three people in each user group in order to get valid personas. For larger systems you may want to interview many more than this but we need to start somewhere.

Analysing Data

Now is the time to start analysing all the data from your observations. A great way of doing this is to arrange a workshop where all the people that interviewed or observed participate. Condense findings by writing the main points on yellow post-its and putting them up on a wall. It is I good idea to put some butcher paper or some taped flip chart papers on the wall to be able to move the information when needed. Group the post-its together for the specific actions users try to do.

Now create a chronological flow of tasks on blue notes where one task may consist of several actions on green notes. I does not have to be perfect as flows in reality seldom are. You now end up with something looking like this:

Sorted observations of user experiences

Note that what is on the wall now is the group’s collective observations of real user’s actions grouped together. We still have not solved any problems but we ought to have a pretty good picture of what the real problem is. We should all literally be on the same page.

I attended a great one day tutorial by Chris Risdon where our sorted tasks looked like this.

Tasks for booking a hotel

Creating the Experience Map

There are several models for creating a more formal map.

Here is a task map based on the free downloadable templates at cxpartners. The templates accompany the book Communicating the User Experience which is a great start if you want to dig deeper into this matter after reading this post. The flow describes how to order a specific medical drug and is loosely based on a recent project.

Task Map for Drug Application

Some more examples can be found in Chris Risdon's slides. Read more about customer journeys and mood graphs.

Our hand drawn graph at the course looked like this

Since I strongly believe feedback is a key factor to any successful project this is a good time to show the graph to important stakeholders to make sure we all agree. If we find that we still have outstanding questions we may need to conduct some more in depth interviews.

This only a very brief introduction to the starting point of UX. The technicques are not the hard part - the crux is to become a great observer and interviewer. The ideas are not new - business requirements and processes have been a part of many development models. The problem is that thay have to often been ignored. UX is changing all that by really putting focus where it belongs - solving real problems for real users.

If you have read earlier blog posts you will recognise the four step flow of visual problem solving.

Visual Problem Solving
Visual Problem Solving

The experience map is a great way to start a project! There is plenty of information if you want to dig deeper in Mapping the user experience

The latest stuff I read and can recommend is

Communicating the User Experience: Caddick, Cable

Smashing UX Design: Allen, Chadley

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Copy Cat Verdes Enchiladas

I've been trying to eat more vegetables these days.  For myself, my health, my baby's health, etc.  But I'm also obsessed with Mexican food.  So what's a girl to do besides order Fajitas as much as possible and pretend the oil-sautéed onions and peppers are a "vegetable serving"?
Recreate her favorite enchilada from her favorite Mexican restaurant, that's what!
This was my inspiration, stolen directly from the menu at K38:
Verdes Enchilada
Flour Tortilla, Grilled Chicken Breast, Spinach, Mushroom, Monterrey Jack, & Tomatillo Sauce ~ Salsa Fresca & Sour Cream
See that description?  By my count, that's two vegetables.  I'll take it!
Copycat Verdes Enchilada
I started off by cooking 4 chicken breast in a slow cooker with some enchilada seasoning and chicken broth, on low for about 4 hours.  I just love that pulled chicken texture, but grilled would be just as delicious.
- 4 cooked and shredded chicken breasts
- One block of shredded Monterrey Jack Cheese
- One package of sautéed baby bella mushrooms
- 5 Flour tortillas
- A bag of spinach, sautéed and wilted down
- Sour Cream
- 4.5 oz can of diced green chiles
This whole recipe was made delicious by the discovery of this salsa.  I have searched high and low and even attempted to make my own tomatillo salsa, and nothing has been even close to as delicious as this.  Buy some today if you love tomatillo salsa.  It is in a jar just like this, except it says Tomatillo Salsa.  My apologies, I couldn't find the right picture online.

Just assemble each tortilla in the following order:
- Monterrey Jack cheese
- Serving of wilted spinach
- Spoonful or two of mushrooms
- Enough chicken to cover tortilla
- Several spoonfuls of tomatillo salsa
- A spoonful of diced green chiles
Place all stuffed tortillas in baking dish, cover with some more cheese bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees, top with more tomatillo salsa and some sour cream, and enjoy!
(I put my sour cream in a plastic bag and cut the tip off so I could spread it out more evenly.  It kind of worked...still didn't look restaurant quality).
So there you have it.  Mexican deliciousness packed with tons of spinach, protein, and whatever health benefits mushrooms have.  All topped with the zesty tang of tomatillo salsa.  Ole!
Real talk - If you don't make this yourself, please at least order it at K38.  It is the best enchilada ever.

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IMPORTANT - Please note that the maps and accounts are provisional, subject to change and further update.  The whole dataset still needs to go through the final verification process and it is likely that a very small number of records will not satisfy the present requirements and there are other records that have not been formally submitted.  The information is for guidance only.

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Number of individuals48
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For the region, we have a total of 8 records from 8 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1913.

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A Fascinating Book on Personal Responsibility, Character and Conscience

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Some books are just incredibly thought-provoking. I was recently referred to The Language of Conscience by two good friends whom I highly respect. So I ordered it and have been reading it (it is one of those books you do not finish in a couple of hours). And I am intrigued. I am not sure I fully understand all of the concepts — and I think I agree with most of the premises. But I am still thinking about it. The author, Tieman “Skipper” Dippel, Jr., sounds like a fascinating man. So I thought I’d share a bit — possibly to whet your appetite as well. Here are some quotes from the book:

“Conscience is good for society and civilization whether it is taught or whether it is instinctive. . . It is important to look at conscience as if it were a muscle or a nerve. The more you exercise it and the more you sensitize it, the more effective it is going to be.”

Tielman uses the term, “enlightened conservatism”, but do not think that he is talking about political conservatism — otherwise your assumptions and associations will lead you astray. “Enlightened conservatism, as a concept, is well described as trying create an environment in which ethical actions of character can best be performed. . . the character of choice of conscience and concern for others prevails over-self-interest.”

He goes on to contrast decisions made through convenience versus decisions made through conscience. “(D)isciples of conscience look to the future and their children to build a greater society. The disciples of convenience look more to their gains at the present. . . Leaders of convenience often have to step on teh people below them and pull down the people above them. Their weapons are personal attacks, distraction, and the negative emotions. Leaders of conscience use constructive leadership to help others move forward positively. . . Their weapons have to be integrity of purpose and devotion to common goals.”

“In order to achieve the common good, the world’s people must reach the point of saying, ‘What do I think about that?’ rather than just ‘How do I feel about that?’ . . It is in reasoning together in toleration and in appreciation of common values and common moral codes that one can seek the common good by looking beyond personal self-interest and past historical prejudices.”

Note that the book is actually a compilation of papers written and lectures given from the 1970s to early part of the twenty-first century. Tielman shows an amazing foresight on a number of issues:

“I do not see the future as being dominated so much by clashes of great ideologies such as capitalism vs. communism, as by more subtle but extremely potent influences on the culture that determines civilization’s direction. The new subtle concept is victimization and victimhood. It argues that society owes more than basic rights and that government should grow in order to fill those rights.”

“The right question is not whether you want big government or small government. The right question is what should be the role of government as the expression of the combined will of the people in regard not just to the protection of individual rights and dignity, but to the granting of economic benefits on the concept of victimization vs. individual responsibility.

“Character is the acceptance of individual responsibility. . . You cannot build character and courage by taking away initiative and independence, and you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.”

He then quotes Theodore Roosevelt: “The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” Wow. And that was state over 100 years ago.

He later comments on the Internet. “One of the Internet’s great benefits is that it will make information readily available to an enormous quantity of people on an individual basis. But, it is a double-edged sword since one benefit and detriment of the Internet is that it will provide information easily available to an enormous quantity of people on an immediate basis. With quick availability to information, people will feel less of a need to read books and to think about the concepts that help them remember those individual parcels of date and weave them together. Without the knowledge that is gained from in-depth thought, it is difficult to gain the wisdom of how to use the ever-increasing amounts of data.”

“it will likely occur in an information age that will have two parts — an age of knowledge that expands rapidly with the dissemination of information. And than an age of wisdom necessary to process the excess of information where trust and experience are very valued and character re-emerges. . . Wisdom requires a perspective, a very basic position from which to make judgments. It is at this point that leadership becomes particularly critical in providing guidance and direction. Leadership defines culture and thereby defines civilization, and whether those leaders are directed by conscience or merely by their own convenience will determine the direction that civilization will take. . . The contrast of the Renaissance and the Dark Ages shows that leadership can move culture both ways.”

There is much more thought-provoking (to me) content — and incredible foresight on issues regarding China, the movement of politics in the U.S., and the increasing role of non-profit organizations in our culture. I would highly recommend this book to others who are trying to make sense of the macro-economic, cultural and political confusion which seems to exist.

[A final side-note: This book has been translated into Chinese and reportedly is one of the few Western books used as a text in Chinese universities.]

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