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Internet Librarian – EpiloguePosted: November 2, 2006 Filed under: conferences/events, il2006 Leave a comment
I've been back for a little over a week and I'm still doing the catchup thing. Overall, Internet Librarian (IL) was a great experience. Got to do a little bit of everything: teaching, learning, networking…. you get the idea. One of the great things about IL is the small scale of it all. Enrollment tops at a little more than a grand which makes it easier to connect with all of the attendees. I had some extended conversations about libraries, code and workplace scenarios with a whole range of people. I've blogged most of the sessions I attended in earlier posts, so I won't bore you again with the details. Here are a couple of quotes from the conference:
Favorite Library Quote from the week: "Libraries are a collection of services, not books"
Favorite Non-Library Quote from the week: "I just checked the il2006 tag on Flickr. Who is that brunette you were talking to?" (from my wife jokingly…)
One of the major themes from IL 2006 was libraries using social software – Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Wikis… It's a rich topic and most of the tech is easily implemented. But there are other parts of the conference where I struggle to understand the "where does the rubber meet the road" code questions. Most of the IL sessions offer the broad ideas and have little time for explaining how to do it. (I'm including myself here…) That's not a criticism; that's just the structure of the event. There are some ways to get at the "how'd they do that?" code questions.
- Attend conference workshops to answer some of the in-depth code questions.
- Ask for code examples from presenters (I had a number of people stop me after the presentation and over the course of the conference to talk a bit more about code questions.)
- Network and talk to librarians with some programming chops. Talk shop with those who are building apps in your field of interest.
As I said earlier, it was a great conference and I haven't even mentioned Monterey, CA which is just a beautiful setting. I would suggest Internet Librarian for any public services librarian looking to understand what's on the horizon for libraries. The smaller scale of the conference and the forward-looking nature of the presenters makes for a great mix. If you have the means and the time, check it out.
Internet Librarian – Day 4: The Mobile WebPosted: October 26, 2006 Filed under: conferences/events, il2006 Leave a comment
Trends in Mobile Tools and Applications for Libraries
Megan Fox, Web & Electronic Resoures Librarian – Simmons College
I missed a similar session at a previous conference. Wanted to hear about how our resources are displayed in all kinds of settings. Fox has got a broad perspective on the topic and had all kinds of tips and gadgets.
Notes from the presentation:
Mobile tools – PDAs, cell phones, ipod
Mobile information needs – on a flight, stuck in traffic
The market
75% of all US adults have mobile phone service
90% of college students
The Devices
smartphones are the device of choice – nokia, samsung
-camera, calculator, phone, web browser, radio, interactive gaming
-large screens (relatively speaking) and keyboards
– other devices, UNPC, sony reader
The future network – 3G, even faster wireless to allow for streaming – think video conferencing on the bus
-not yet available in US, but taking off in Japan
The mobile web
– formatting content is the challenge – optimize for web
– limit images, simplify html, mobile css stylesheets, avoid device intensive programming languages (large javascript files)
Library mobile web options:
– hours pages
– quick lists
– library catalog search (Sirsi and Innovative)
– ready reference on the go – Handango, answers.com
– ebooks – mobipocket (U of Alberta has directions on downloading netLibrary into PDAs)
– databases (Ovid and LexisNexis have some mobile partnerships)
*Los Angeles public has ipods and smartphones, Thomas Ford Memorial, Duke Freshman Reading project – Billy Collins reading his poetry in a podcast
*check IMDB and New York times for examples of optimized web; convert web pages on the fly can be another option
Third party sites – google mobile optimizer, skweezer
– convert your sites for mobile "transcoding"
Mobilize your content with an RSS feed – simple format for display
Mobilize your mashups – Frucall (compare prices), RealTime Traffic
Drawbacks to mobile web:
1. Cost
2. Comfort with small size
*people are using the devices to text message because it's much cheaper
Content via SMS – texting: more acceptance
Communicating with mobile users
Next generation prefers the texting environment – we need to get in their network
– check altarama.com.au
– extending ready reference or library record lists
– JOOPZ web texting – fill out simple web form and translate to text message
LibriVox – auidobook version of project Gutenberg
Expected n 2007 – PVR (personal video recording on your mobile)
What's next?
*problem with data entry
– communicate using images "photo to search"
– voice recognition
– taking advantage of GPS – location interaction, geotagging
– face recognition for security
full url for presentation – web.simmons.edu/~fox/pda
Internet Librarian – Day 3: Repositories, a library opportunityPosted: October 25, 2006 Filed under: conferences/events, il2006 1 Comment
Repositories & The Impact on Digital Librarians
D. Scott Brandt
D. Scott Brandt talked about getting into the research network at the university. Brandt was pointing to a new library initative at Purdue to involve libraries earlier during the research process. It's not about managing finished, publishable objects; we need to insert ourselves in the data management, access and preservation needs when the research is happening in the lab. I like the sound of that.
Notes from the presentation:
The story of how Purdue Libraries got into repository initative?
Need for approaches, protocols and systems to store all of our natiaonl data
New dean, new directions – collect, organize describe, curate – for university community
"Librarians as participants – putting libraries salaries on grants for limited times"
-librarian does work or is project manager
Library faculty are better integrated into campus research agenda
How to foster interdisciplinary collaboration?
Researchers have data management needs
– seek researchers who undrstood that collecting and organizing and providing access to data
could make grant need stronger
Initial Questions:
Do researchers have data discovery management and organization needs?
Can library science solve some of these problems
Data related faculty needs they found:
- not sure how to share data
- lack of time organize data sets
- help describing data
- want to find new ways to manage data
- need help archiving datasets/collections
Departments served – Ag, Chem Eng, Biology
Brandt used the onstar car data example
Collaboration: crucial to research
– different aspects of dealing with data = library opportunity
Agronomy example:
1. working with simple data generation model, determine data/metadata workflow
2. libraries role is helping data producers
Chem Engr – discovery informatics
1. investigation of small science data needs
2. issues of what gets shared, when and how
3. libraries role is developing dataset ontologies – utilitzing language of electronic notebooks to define, navigate throughout research process
Library roles:
- metadata creation
- providing access
- providing preservation
- consult on ontologies and vocabularies
scholarly communication – data analysis
- published data/datasets
- unpublished research
- published research (non-traditional)
- published research traditional
- secondary tertiary resources
Libraries are being invited into the levels of development before these top 5 peieces of scholarly communication are finished
– actually participating during research and development – COOL STUFF
Data Curation Matrix – Johns Hopkins, looking at 5 types of scholarly communication and the opportunities across disciplines
Repository as a research platform
– focus on active verbs: access, preserve
– Distributed Institutional Repository
Going forward – new role for librarians
– serve as "bridge" between researchers and libraries
– library data research sceintist
Purdue e-Scholar library
Internet Librarian – Day 3: Mashups + APIsPosted: October 25, 2006 Filed under: conferences/events, il2006 Leave a comment
Mashup Apps: Community Dev
Chris Deweese, Lewis and Clark Libary System
John Blyberg, Ann Arbor District Library
I've been thinking about how we might open up some of our library data to an API. Chris Deweese and John Blyberg have taken some different approaches.
1. Use someone else's – e.g., Google Maps API
2. Build it yourself – PatRest add on to Innovative OPAC (XML REST web service)
It was interesting to hear their thoughts on encouraging users to "re-purpose" library data. I was wondering about using XML-RPC as quick and easy alternative to full-on SOAP and REST web services.
Notes from the presentation:
New buzzwords – Mashups = consuming and recombining two separate systems
Preparing for what's next – many parts, loosely joined
What's so great about them?
– don't require wicked coding skillz
– results are instant
– results can be striking
– Masups = the evolving web
Two categories of mashups
1. simple mashup
2. statement mashup – web as an authoring language – profound statement
"Net as a global operating system."
Call for "an open standards based API"
A first part of the semantic web – web services
Can libraries mash?
We already have a goldmine of data
It's all about markup
– xml + rdf (applying schema to loggically group data)
– OWL ontology definitions
– help machines read the data
REST? Sounds lazy
– representational state transfer
– accessed through URI
– simple for developers
PatREST (Patron REST)
– schema that was simple to use, easy to understand
Stuff you can do – electronic signage
Ed Vielmetti's (SuperPatron) Wall of Books
Library Gadgets
Why let the public do it?
– creates a sense of stewardship
– unlocks a potential brain trust
– encourages innovation
– benefits other libraries
– solicits high-quality feedback
– puts library data into new contexts
Google maps mashup: Mash-it-up Google Style
Google Maps API
1. Get Google Maps API key
2. Get Hello World example
3. Add markers to the map – lat AND long
Google maps API allows you to plot a series of points using a custom xml file
Lewis and Clark Library System – delivery routes
Internet Librarian – Day 2: Data DumpPosted: October 24, 2006 Filed under: conferences/events, il2006 Leave a comment
Got a chance to see some great speakers today. Wanted to collect some of my thoughts about Steve McCann's study of academic library web sites.
Analysis of US College and University Library Home Pages
Steve McCann, University of Montana
He's been analyzing the organization of popular academic library index pages. Steve was mostly interested collecting trends and then running a usability test to determine best practices. He hasn't conducted usability testing to hammer out the last part of his thesis, but it was still really informative to see library web design trends catalogued with the long view in mind.
Here are my notes from the session:
Making data work harder; talked about his business experience
Study of library college websites by analyzing wayback machine
Users are bypassing on-site navigation – getting to object directly
-search engines, weblogs, rss
-commercial sites have had sucess – flickr, youtube
Library Access: a long tail problem
-social software strategy; it can't all be on the front page
-how to address the bypassing of content
-does the index page even matter?
- google search: 1803 library websites found
- ranked with Alexa.com – tracking ip
- isolated sites ranked in top 100
- categorized top page strategy – browse OR search
Two Site Strategies for library web sites
- grid
- cascade
- frame
- radial
- no search box
- library search box
- site search box
- university search box
Data results:
- grids and cascades are most popular
- browse strategy has become most popular on sites
- search strategies are pretty evenly distributed – search is becoming a standard
-browse = grid, cascade with grid showing most momnetum
-search = some form of search strategy will exist
Next steps – usability testing with your user groups about preferences
hybrid – search and browse – u of oregon libraries (http://libweb.uoregon.edu/)
Internet Librarian 2006 – Day 1: Open up the NetworkPosted: October 22, 2006 Filed under: conferences/events, il2006 2 Comments
After teaching the Ajax workshop with Karen Coombs, I guess I should have been tired, but I wasn't. Someting about being around all kinds of people with novel ideas… Props to one of our workshop attendees, Josh Kline, who made me rethink how my library might use ContentDM and JPEG2000 to display our large maps and architectural drawings. Met up with Karen and Michael Sauers (Travelin' Librarian) for a bite to eat. More good conversation. Took a stroll along the Monterey pedestrian path, talked about book publishing, library tech skills and all matter of things.
All of this reminds me that chance meetings and frank conversations can easily be the best part of the conference. When you have an opportunity, strike up a conversation and learn about your colleague's work. Open up the network and see where it takes you.
Proof of concept – Ajax page updatePosted: October 22, 2006 Filed under: code/files, conferences/events, il2006 1 Comment
Yesterday, Karen Coombs and I had the opportunity to conduct an "Ajax for Libraries" workshop at Internet Librarian. The workshop went pretty well and it was encouraging to work with a group of attendees who were engaged and willing to learn. (Note to self: create a cross-domain Ajax query to show workshop attendees.) I wanted to start with Ajax basics so I created a simple Ajax example that pulls WorldCat data and a WorldCat "find in a library" search form onto a page. It's very basic, but it showcases the fundamentals of the Ajax method – take a look at the demo here.
The example uses the XMLHttpRequest object to make a micro-HTTP GET request behind the scenes creating a seamless date update without a full page reload. Feel free to download a zip of the sample files in an active server directory. Use modern browsers – Mozilla, Firefox, IE 6 and up.
Just wanted to share a bit, dig in and learn…
Update: Karen has posted links to the workshop files: presentation (.ppt) AND handout (.pdf)


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What's the Fuss About Frogs?
by Laurie Ann Toupin
Now you see them. Now you don't. Such is the game frogs seem to be playing with herpetologists (scientists who study amphibians) worldwide. Except that this game is not fun.
The gastric brooding frog, for example, was first discovered in 1973 in a small area of the Australian rain forest. "The frog had the most amazing method of reproduction," says James Hanken, professor of herpetology at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. After mating, the female ate her fertilized eggs and incubated as many as 25 young in her stomach. After several weeks, she burped or vomited up tiny, fully formed frogs.
Although the brooding frogs were never very common, scientists could always locate them. Then, about 1981, the species completely disappeared. "People don't know what happened, to this day," says Hanken. "Some people suspect that it may have been the result of a disease, but no one knows for sure."
Mysterious disappearing-frog stories like this are being heard all over the world. But not just frogs are disappearing: All forms of amphibians are on the decline, including toads, newts, salamanders, and a legless variety known as caecilians.
Canary in the Environmental Coal Mine
Amphibians occupy an important position in the community ecology for many reasons, says Hanken. First, they are a significant food source for other vertebrates such as snakes, birds, and small mammals. Plus, they eat insects such as mosquitoes, providing a natural pest control.
Amphibians also slow the greenhouse effect by eating the insects that normally contribute to decomposition of the forest floor, says Dr. Richard Wyman, executive director of the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station in Rensselaerville, NY.
But perhaps the biggest reason for paying attention is that they are the canary in the ecological coal mine, says Wyman. Coal miners used to carry canaries into the mines to warn of poison gases or lack of oxygen. If a canary died, then the men knew that they had to get out quickly.
Amphibians are the environment's warning signal. They are great indicators of what is going on in ponds, forests, the soil, and even the air, says Wyman. Many live their lives on both water and land and are more sensitive to the degradation of their environment than other animals because of their thin, porous skin, which absorbs pollutants directly into their bodies. "They are tipping us off that we are starting to poison our environment," says Hanken. "Ultimately, these poisons will affect other organisms, including humans, as well."
Scientific Detective Work
To assess the problem, the World Conservation Union organized the Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force (DAPTF) in 1991. This international SWAT team of 3,000 scientists has more than 100 working groups located in 90 countries. For ten years, these scientists sought answers to: Are amphibians really declining? If so, to what extent? What is causing the decline? What can we do about it?
"We have both good news and bad news," says Hanken. "The good news is that we know much more than we did about amphibians all over the world, and what is causing the decline. The bad news is that the problem is a lot worse than we expected. In fact, many more species are declining than we originally suspected, including those that were once abundant and common."
Hanken predicts that between one-third and two-thirds of the world's species of amphibians are on the decline. Several went extinct within just the last few decades.
A Polluted Mixture
Several of the causes for decline identified by biologists include climate change, habitat deforestation, pesticides, disease, and introduced species.
Unfortunately, few of these factors act alone. Several combined simultaneously can devastate a specific amphibian, such as in the case of the golden toad of Costa Rica.
"This was such a spectacular species," says Hanken, "that they were the symbol for the country." The males were flaming golden orange. The female ranged in color from dark olive to black with splotches of bright red edged in yellow. "During breeding season, hundreds of toads gathered around pools deep in the cloud forest," Hanken continues. Then, one year in the late 1980s, herpetologist Martha Crump was able to find only two frogs throughout the whole park. The next year, she found none. As in the case of the gastric brooding frog, their disappearance is also a mystery, because nothing obvious appears to have been wrong.
After years of studying the problem, scientists have a theory. They found that the rainfall pattern changed right around the time of the frogs' disappearance, says Hanken. Due to deforestation, global warming, and El Niño, the amount of rainfall, clouds, and humidity declined drastically. "When we talk about global warming, we are talking about only a fraction of a degree over a year," says Hanken, "but this is still enough to change local climate."
A Success Story
Once biologists know the cause, sometimes they are able to find solutions. Over the years, California Fish and Game (CF&G) stocked the high-altitude lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with trout. Trout don't normally live here, because these lakes are too cold for the fish to breed. But every spring, CF&G flies over and drops the trout from planes for local and touring anglers to fish. "We found a tight correlation between amphibian decline and released trout," says Hanken, because the fish eat the frog eggs as well as tadpoles.
So CF&G, along with the U.S. Park Service, started a scientific pilot study to stop stocking certain high-altitude lakes and see what would happen. In some lakes, anglers even removed all of the trout. The result? The frogs are coming back!
"In this case, the problem was easily discovered and reversed," says Hanken.
For more difficult situations, researchers are breeding endangered frogs in captivity. The Detroit Zoo in Michigan set up a special facility just for this purpose. "If we can maintain a population of amphibians in captivity, then perhaps in the future, when their habitat has been stabilized, we can reintroduce them into the wild," says Hanken.
You Can Help
There are so many different types of amphibians in the world that biologists can't monitor them all. If you want to help, Hanken suggests getting involved with the amphibian census. People can join the North American Amphibian Monitoring Project (NAAMP) and volunteer to listen to frogs during the breeding season. "We want to count the number of sites, or ponds where we hear the frogs calling during mating, and try to determine how many frogs there are," Hanken says.
Volunteers help herpetologists identify the type and number of frogs and toads in an area, determine if the amphibians are breeding, and try to gauge what is happening to that population from year to year. From this information, scientists are alerted to changes in numbers. If there is a decline, they will try to determine the cause and, hopefully, stop or reverse the process.
By conserving natural resources, we slow global warming, which in turn may stop and even reverse this decline. With help from us all, maybe the herpetologists of tomorrow can play "Now you see them" for fun.
Hopping Out of Sight
Amphibians have survived on our planet for more than 300 million years due to their amazing ability to adapt to their environment. However, even Mother Nature can't keep up with all the changes created by humankind. Here's a look at a few amazing frogs that just couldn't adjust.
(Rana fisheri) This olive-green frog with yellow back legs was the first frog known to go extinct. It was last seen in the wild in 1942. The two- to three-inch-long (5 to 7.5 cm) amphibian lived in the Las Vegas Valley in Nevada. Herpetologists believe that in addition to eating insects and spiders, they also ate fish and their own young. As the city of Las Vegas grew, water was needed to supply the continuous influx of people. Officials capped local springs and pumped groundwater to the city, totally destroying the frog's habitat.
(Discoglossus nigriventer) Very little is known about this two-inch-long (5 cm) frog that disappeared in 1955. Its back was a colorful combination of ocher (yellow-brown), rust, gray, and black. Small white spots dappled its dark belly. It lived in northern Israel and possibly adjacent parts of Syria. Herpetologists believe that it went extinct because so much of its wetland habitat was drained in an effort to produce farmland for a growing population.
(Litoria nyakalensis) The last mountain mist frog was seen in the wild in 1990. The two-inch-long (5 cm) amphibian lived in northeastern Queensland, Australia. The frogs sported large discs on their toes so that they could perch on rocks or low vegetation hanging over fast-flowing streams. The tadpoles had large, suction-like mouths that allowed them to cling to rocks in swift water. The reason for their extinction is unknown.
(Atelopus cruciger) This one- to two-inch-long (2.5 to 5 cm) frog was once so abundant in northern Venezuela that at certain times of the year, scientists could collect hundreds in just an hour. Cruciger comes from the Latin word crux, meaning cross. The frog boasted a dark cross on its yellowish-green head, shoulders, and back. Because of its poisonous skin, it had no known predators except for a nonvenomous snake, which was immune to the neurotoxins in the frogs' hide. Due to climate change and pollution, all were gone by 1982.
(Eleutherodactylus jasperi) The skin on this pale yellow frog's belly was so thin that you could watch its heart pump. It was less than an inch (2.5 cm) in length, and lived in the bromeliads or tropical plants of Puerto Rico. The golden coqui was the only New World frog known to produce live young instead of laying eggs. Unlike common frogs that must grow from tadpoles into adult frogs, these young resembled the adults from birth. The last one was seen in the wild in 1981. Herpetologists blame their disappearance on a number of factors, including loss of habitat, acid rain, overharvesting (killing frogs for food, hides, pets, and research), and their low reproductive rate.
Why Should We Care?
If you still aren't sure whether amphibians actually benefit people, listen to what happened in India. In the early 1980s, India and Bangladesh routinely harvested frogs and sent them to the United States, where Americans consumed more than 6.5 million pounds of frog legs annually. That meant killing hundreds of millions of frogs a year. Ninety percent of this total came from these two countries alone. As a result of fewer frogs, the mosquito population became unbearable. Cases of malaria (a disease carried by mosquitoes) ballooned, along with the need for pesticides. Eventually, both India and Bangladesh were forced to ban frog exports.
Deformed Frogs: Natural or Human-made?
Deformed frogs are a small aspect of the overall amphibian decline. Sightings of abnormal frogs appear to be on the increase since they were first reported in 1995 by a group of middle school students from southern Minnesota. Students found frogs with extra or missing legs, eyes, or digits, or with malformed jaws. But scientists are not sure if this is a natural or unnatural phenomenon.
"Deformed frogs are only the size of my pinky," says herpetologist Richard Wyman. "And they won't grow much bigger. They will be eaten first. A frog with an extra leg, for example, can only hop in circles. It doesn't have a prayer of escaping its predators."
The exact cause of the malformations is still subject to debate. According to researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, there are three popular theories: a parasite; pesticides and herbicides; or damage caused by ultraviolet light.
Wyman isn't even positive as to whether deformed frogs are really on the increase. "There have always been deformed toadlets and froglets," he says. Citing of abnormal frogs appeared in museum records as early as 1870. This was well before the development of insecticides or pesticides. "Once these frogs were discovered, people paid much more attention to tadpoles, thereby noticing them more."
Despite differences of opinion, there is one thing on which everyone can agree: More work is needed to understand what is truly going on.
Causes for Amphibian Decline
To date, herpetologists have identified eight primary reasons:
- Pesticides and herbicides:
- Chemicals used on lawns and agricultural farms to control insects poison amphibians.
- Global warming:
- The warming of the Earth's atmosphere affects the climate through decreased rainfall or increased temperatures.
- Habitat destruction:
- The filling in of wetlands and the tearing down of forests destroys animals' homes and breeding grounds.
- Habitat fragmentation:
- Roads, parking lots, and other obstructions prevent amphibians from moving freely throughout their habitat.
- Introduced species:
- Animals that are released in an area where they did not exist before eat amphibians and their eggs, young, and prey.
- UV light:
- The thinning of the ozone layer allows more harmful ultraviolet light from the sun to reach Earth, where it damages amphibian eggs.
- New diseases:
- A fungus discovered just 3 or 4 years ago is causing amphibians to die all over the world. But it isn't clear whether these pathogens are the primary cause, or if the amphibians were weakened by something else and then became susceptible to the disease.
- Acid rain:
- Acid rain caused by industrial air pollution damages soil and water and kills embryos of species that breed in lakes and ponds.
- correlation:
- A causal relationship between two things.
- ecological:
- Relating to the science that deals with the relationships among organisms and between organisms and their environment.
- El Niño:
- A warming of the ocean surface off the western coast of South America that occurs every 4 to 12 years.
- extinct:
- No longer existing in living form.
- pollutant:
- A substance that makes an area dirty or impure.
- porous:
- Full of tiny openings through which liquids and gases may pass.
- Why do you think it is important to understand why a species might be declining? Write a few sentences explaining your answer.
Answer: Answers will vary but could include that we may not know that something is wrong in the environment until a particular species is studied. When the declining species is studied, and the cause of its decline is identified, then we know more about what is happening in an environment.
- Why do you think it is important to understand why a species might be declining? Write a few sentences explaining your answer.
Answer: Answers will vary but could include that we may not know that something is wrong in the environment until a particular species is studied. When the declining species is studied, and the cause of its decline is identified, then we know more about what is happening in an environment.


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It's hard to converse with people who mumble or whisper. There are two parts to a conversation: Speaking and listening. When we are having a conversation with God, listening is more important than speaking. Psalm 85:8 says, "I will listen to God the Lord. He has ordered peace for those who worship Him."
The nation of Judea in the time of Babylon's invasion and the fall of Jerusalem lived in their fallen national capitol. Thousands of citizens were carried away to Babylon. However, a few of the people had been left in Jerusalem. They had been told by the Lord to stay in Jerusalem but they decided to go to Egypt. Jeremiah was forced to travel with them. (Jeremiah 42)
God told Jeremiah to speak to the people again. Jeremiah told them that they had not listened to the Lord again and again. God told them that they would all die in Egypt. God reminded them of all the ways He had spoken to them and how they had not listened. God told them that it was more important to listen to Him and to obey him than any thing else they might do.
Jesus told his disciples, "My sheep know my voice."
I was fearful and struggled with that for a long time. Like many people, I was afraid I would miss hearing God when He spoke to me. One day the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart, "Linda, it isn't that you must be such a good listener. I am a very good caller."
God knows all of us and he loves us passionately. He knows how to speak so that we can understand Him. He knows us and he knows our unique voice.
What we must do is have a heart that wants to hear God's voice and wants to be able to obey God when He speaks to us. There is no magic pill we can take to be sure that we are hearing God. But we do have a great loving God who will direct and lead us if we are willing to hear and listen to him.
The Lord speaks in a variety of ways. The Bible tells us more than 90 percent of what we want to know about Him and His will for our lives. The Church has faithful teachers who write and speak with God's authority. And the Lord speaks to our hearts. Iverna Thompkins once said, "You can tell the Lord is speaking to you when you have a thought that is smarter than you are."
The Lord wants to us to be able to obey. He will speak to us in a way that we can hear and understand Him.
I'm in love with a gift I was given to me months ago–a NEAT Scanner. I was told it was the best. However, I was concerned about setting it up in my computer. Finally, yesterday I bit the bullet and took it out of the box.
The hardest part of the set-up was taking it out of the box.
The set-up was two clicks and plugging in two wires. I've scanned everything in sight. I'm looking on the Internet to find a way to scan my favorite shoes so I won't ever have to buy another pair.
"It's a Christmas Play"
No transportation provided to or from the play. Refreshments served after the performance.
My favorite holiday, even as a child and young person, was Thanksgiving. It is a time for sharing love with family and friends. There are no gifts. However, to quote a good friend, "It's all about the food."
Nevertheless, as I grow older and the years of my widowhood increase, I'm often reminded that many people face Thanksgiving Day with little prospect of happiness. Families shatter; relationships crumble; careers vanish' drug and alcohol addiction grips more tightly.
Even one of these circumstances can overwhelm us during the holiday season. Couple several together and it becomes a recipe for deep depression and disaster.
Most of us realize that happiness and joy are two different emotions. Happiness depends on outward circumstances. Joy is a result of inner peace. Happiness is transient, fragile and temportary. Joy is permanent, strong and ever present. A teacher once described joy as a little bird in the middle of our belly that is always singing praise and songs of thansgiving.
As I wish you a wonderful holiday season, I'm praying that the Lord will give you His everlasting joy. Your simple prayer asking for the peace and joy of the Lord in your life is the first step to know that God is love and He desires what is best in your life.
Have a joy-filled holiday season.


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Here's what you can do to try and project yourself from bike thieves and what you can do in the event of a theft.
STOLEN: Phil Wood Wheelset
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Well, I'm sad to report that lightning apparently does strike twice. The wheels off of my Hunter track bike were stolen this afternoon while I was at Pedalfest in Oakland. Be on the lookout for a wheelset with black Sun Mistral rims laced to silver low-flange Phil Wood hubs. Radial lacing in the front (28h), 32h in the rear. The rims are rare and made in the U.S. Looks like I'll be going back to Laney College tomorrow to hunt them down.
Anyone want me to look for anything? I might as well help other people recover missing goods while I'm making the rounds in the morning. And it seems that my new calling apparently is "Bike Thief Detective", although it's doubly sad when I'm working on my own case.
Spotted in Portland: Stolen De Rosa Track Bike
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Here's an update on where things stand with my friend Justin's stolen track bike. We've lined up the assistance of Portland Police Officer Joe Santos, who's also a cyclist, by way of introductions made via of Kenji Sugahara and Lyne Lamoureux.
Jens Voigt's Army saw the bike yesterday afternoon: "FYI, one of my teammates spotted the bike @ Saraveza in North PDX. Went to get a lock to keep it there but it was gone." So we know it's still in the area and the buyer is perhaps unaware that it's stolen. If you do see this bike on the streets, be sure to explain to the individual that the bike is stolen and that there are dual police reports filed in San Francisco and Portland.
Thanks to Jonathan Maus of Bike Portland and everyone else who has been spreading the word for us. Justin is super appreciative of your efforts and can't thank you enough.
And lastly, if the original seller who posted the track bike on craigslist is reading this, you're a real jerk for not replying to Justin's emails. We hope you look forward to cooperating with the police.
Dear Portland: Let's Find This Stolen Bike!
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Bike thieves – they are the scourge of the cycling community. I recently had my mountain bike stolen, but it was miraculously recovered in just four days. Putting the word out online really helped with its return, and I'm hoping we can do the same for my friend Justin.
I asked him to email me the story about his missing bike and why it's so important to him. We can all assign a monetary value to our bicycles, but as you know, its real value isn't about its price tag.
"Here's the story of my favorite bike ever. A 1980's De Rosa Super Prestige pista. I purchased the bike from a gentleman on eBay in February of 2005. It was impeccable. Brand new. Mint. Not sure if the guy ever rode it. I took photos of the unopened box after the UPS man delivered it. Then I took photos of me opening the box, and pulling the frame out. I had never been so enamored with a bike. I was in bike love. All those years of staring at old De Rosa catalogs on the bulgier.net website, and now I had one, a perfect one. Not only was it a De Rosa, it also had an ornate decal celebrating a variety of Eddy Merckx's victories on the top tube. "Incredible", I thought. The bike was outfitted with Campagnolo's C-Record pista group and Cinelli bars and stem. It was 100% Italian. I rode it at Hellyer, I rode it around SF, I rode it everywhere.
In August of 2006, I moved to New York for a short time. Knowing full well that bike theft was rampant in the Big Apple, I opted to leave my De Rosa behind in a storage locker I had rented. I thought, "it'll be safe here". Now in New York, with fall approaching, I sent my wife (then girlfriend) to my storage locker to fetch a heavier blanket for me. She called me from the storage locker, "Justin, there are 2 locks on your door, I only have the key for one". Why were there 2 locks on my storage locker door? "There must be some mixup," I remember thinking. My wife fetched a Public Storage employee to ask about the additional lock. He explained to her that they put an extra lock on because they found my door open. THEY FOUND MY DOOR OPEN!? WHAT!? Why didn't anybody call me? She finally gets into my locker, and it's worst case scenario. Everything is gone. Computer? Gone. Records? Gone. Guitars? Gone. DE ROSA!? GONE. **An important side note to this was that, just a few months earlier, my band, Film School, had our van stolen while on tour in Philadelphia. All of our gear was stolen. One of the basses that the thieves took from my storage locker was the replacement bass from the Film School theft. I'd just been kicked in the nuts…TWICE.**
I frantically called friends, posted on message boards, put up fliers, talked to messengers, filed a police report, complained to Public Storage, posted on craigslist, etc. I was optimistic I'd find it. I thought there was no way a bike of that caliber could stay hidden for that long. I setup an RSS feed to notify me anytime something with the word De Rosa was posted to craigslist. I did the same thing on eBay. I did everything. It never showed up though. It was gone.
Then, a few days ago, a random stranger on the San Francisco Fixed Gear message board sent me a craigslist link. It was a De Rosa, blue, same color as mine. It had the same nicks on that incredible Eddy Merckx decal. It was my bike. I emailed the seller in hopes of buying it back, but received no response. The ad has since been pulled, and the bike is gone, again."
We've already started to put the word out in the Portland cycling community. Several friends of ours who live in Portland have already alerted their colleagues, co-workers and the media. But we also need your help getting this bike back! Share this post, be on the lookout wherever you go — bike shops, flea markets — and online. The De Rosa couldn't have strayed too far as it was just sold last night via craigslist. We hope with your help that Justin might finally be reunited with his beloved bike.


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Acceptable Use - Electronic Information Systems - Mo. Statutory Compliance
This policy is enacted to restrict minor from gaining computer access to material that is pornographic for minors in accordance with Sections 182.825 and 182.827, RSMo as expressed in Missouri 15 CSR 30-200.030 and 30-200-040, Public Access Computers in Public Libraries.
Definitions: Key terms are as defined in Section 182.825, RSMo.
Access to Inappropriate Material: All public access computers shall be equipped with software that limit minor's ability to gain access to material that is pornographic for minors or purchase Internet connectivity from an Internet service provider that provides services limit access to material that is pornographic for minors.
It is the opinion of the Library District's legal counsel that "tap on the shoulder" policies do not limit a minors ability to access pornographic sites by only control behavior after the fact, and that measures developed to restrict minors from gaining computer access to material that is pornographic for minors is not acceptable within the provisions of the above statue, making filtering of minors Internet access mandatory.
Statute and state regulations make no allowance for parental permission to use unfiltered computers, or allowing minors access to unfiltered computers when accompanied by parents.
Under provisions of Policy C024.4 – Acceptable Use – Electronic Information Systems – CIPA Compliance, adult customers may request that the filer on their computer be disabled. Ability to use unfiltered software shall not exempt adults from provisions of C024 Acceptable Use – Electronic Information Systems.
The District has complied with statute and regulation by adopting this policy with public hearing prior to December 31, 2002. Further modifications may be necessitated by public hearing o the state regulation which have been delayed until after the active date mandated by statute and regulation.
In using commercial filtering software, the District is making a best effort to comply with the statute and accompanying regulation. The District cannot guarantee that such software shall function to block all such offending materials.
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Burnley: end of an era as historic pipe 'retired' and removed
Kevin Hegarty
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Cadent is the UK's largest gas distribution network with a 200-year legacy. We are in a unique position to build on strong foundations whilst encouraging the curiosity to think differently and the courage to embrace change. Day to day we continue to operate, maintain and innovate the UK's largest gas network, transporting gas safely and protecting people in an emergency. Our skilled engineers and specialists remain committed to the communities we serve, working day and night to ensure gas reaches 11 million homes from Cumbria to North London and the welsh borders to East Anglia, to keep your energy flowing.
Cadent manages the national gas emergency service free phone line on behalf of the gas industry - 0800 111 999*
Cadent Gas Ltd is majority owned by a consortium of global investors composed of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (14.5%), CIC Capital (10.5%),
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How do Emerging Economies Achieve Economic Growth While Keeping Carbon Emissions Low?
Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland and South Africa are among the world's largest emerging economies. And in the past five years, all have made substantive shifts towards lower-carbon growth strategies – shifts that are still underway. In 2007, these countries represented 33 percent of global CO2 emissions. By 2010, three of them – Brazil, China and India – accounted for over 40 percent of global investment in renewable energy.


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During my many years as a writer, I've interviewed hundreds of people. But talking with Cindy Sheehan this morning was unlike any conversation I've ever had. Even though we were talking via cell phone -- and had a crummy, staticky connection at that -- her authenticity and passion reached through the receiver and both touched my heart and punched me in the gut.
She spoke with a combination of utter determination, unassailable integrity, fearlessness, and the peace of someone who knows that their cause is just. Her commitment was palpable -- and infectious. It reminded me an old quote about the great Greek orators: "When Pericles spoke, the people said, 'How well he speaks.' But when Demosthenes spoke, they said, 'Let us march!'"
That's the feeling I got from this former Catholic youth minister. She of the floppy hat and the six foot frame (though she's standing even taller than that these days). A woman driven by faith and conviction who used to think that one person couldn't make a difference and is learning otherwise. Her humanity stands in stark contrast to the inhumanity of those who refuse to admit their mistakes and continue to send our young men and women to die in Iraq.
She may not be the kind of media figure the cable news channels would order up from newsmaker central, a la Natalee Holloway. But she is the kind of unexpected leader I've been writing about for years. One who springs not from the corridors of power, but from among the people. One who may come from Vacaville, California, but who makes nonsense of red state/blue state distinctions.
The time has passed when we can stand around waiting for a knight on a white horse to ride to our rescue. We've got to look to ourselves -- to the leader in the mirror. Our elected officials have woefully failed to provide the leadership needed on this most vital issue of our time. And stepping into that void is Cindy Sheehan. Inspiring us. Touching our conscience. Calling forth our courage and our commitment. Focusing our outrage. And acting as a catalyst for the tens of millions of Americans who know that the war in Iraq is a disgrace.
Who knows, her example might even be just the thing to give Hillary and Harry and the rest of the Democratic leaders the spine transplant they so desperately need. But don't hold your breath. Instead, use it to show your support for Cindy Sheehan -- and for our troops.


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The Right Accessories and Aliment for Your Pets A lot of of the animals that are called as domiciliary pets plays a above role in the lives of the bodies who became their guardian and owner, in a acumen that they are already getting advised as the human's best associate and allotment of their family. A accompaniment animals is the added appellation acclimated for domiciliary pets, which is for a acumen that they are endemic and kept by their owners and guardians for aegis and as their aggregation during their abandoned days, and a lot of of the domiciliary pets are getting called by the animal beings depending on their close personality, nature, affability and appearances. The allowances that a pet guardian and buyer can accretion or access from accepting a domiciliary pet can be capital to their physical, social, cerebral and affecting aspects in activity and the humans who are a lot of acceptable in charge of accepting a pet as their aggregation are the earlier elderlies, and that is because for a basal acumen that they are bare if it comes to amusing interactions. The a lot of accepted types of animals that are frequently endemic as pets includes both the agrarian animals and calm animals, such as bastard pets like snakes, turtles and lizards; arthropod pets like tarantulas and anchoress crabs; amphibian pets like gold fish, close angle and frogs; aerial pets like canaries, parrots, corvids and parakeets; rodent like guinea pigs, adorned rats, chinchillas, gerbils and hamsters; ferrets; abode rabbits and the two a lot of accepted of all is the bodies and dogs. Accepting a domiciliary pet can absolutely be a harder assignment for the owners, back there are a lot of responsibilities and duties that you charge to do in adjustment ensure that your pet has a acceptable bloom condition, which is why the humans who wants to acquaintance accepting a pet should apprentice aboriginal the basal of caring for the specific pet that you ambition to own and the actual and adapted accessories and accessories for them. A lot of manufacturers of pet accessories and aliment can be begin in every locations of the world, and nowadays, a lot of of them are application the opportunities accustomed to them by the avant-garde technology in adjustment to accretion and access added audience from every locations of the world. The a lot of accepted aliment and accessories bare by pets which are aswell frequently awash by the assorted manufacturers in the online business bazaar includes food, treats and snacks, toys, bed, cage, clothes, collars with leashes, carriers, bowls or feeders, waterers, crates, admonishment products, furniture, clutter box, and a lot of of these articles alter appropriately to the attributes of anniversary blazon of domiciliary animals. Pet's guardians and owners who wants to accord their ambrosial and ambrosial pets the best things in activity should accept the manufacturers that offers acceptable superior of pet supplies, and they can absolutely do that and agreement themselves through the recommendations of their accompany and families or through the use of the internet.
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