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Friday, February 27, 2015
Being wise
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little, and do less.
- P.D. James
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
Social Media for Investigative Professionals
Notes from presentation at SLA-2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada June 9, 2014
Social Media for Investigative Professionals
How to find people who don't want to be found!
Julie Clegg
, President,
Toddington International Inc.
Prior to working at Toddington, Ms. Clegg worked for 10 years as a detective with the West Yorkshire Police in the UK.
Images are from her slides.
We are living in a digital world!
In order to be a competent, successful citizen, you need a new set of tools
Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center
The largest group of digital users is in Asia, but they constitute less than 30% of the Asian population.
North America and Europe are pretty saturated with 78% and 63% of the population already digital users.
Greatest growth potential is in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Digital use will take off as we move into the Internet of Things – when we are connected with our refrigerators and cars and we get reminders of what we products we need at home while we are shopping.
Technological change is happening twice as fast social change in incorporating the new technologies.
Business is moving even more slowly.
It is hard to keep up and we can't always afford to keep up.
New phone technologies are rolled out annually.
Among new technologies – geo-tagging (in social media posts and photos) has led to geo-fencing.
Building an electronic fence around a spot and harvesting the Twitter, Insta-gram and other posts within the fence.
Metcalfe's Law:
The value of a network grows as the square of the number of its users increase.
Robert M. Metcalfe, co-creator of Ethernet
Social Media:
There are a variety of Social Media categories:
Collaboration and Crowdsourcing – vBulletin Dicussion Boards, Google Groups
Blogs – Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, LiveJournal
Microblogs – Twitter, Tumblr, Weibo
Content Communities (Wikis) – Wikipedia, Wikispaces, Gamepedia
Social Networks – Facebook, Linked-In, Google Plus, QZone
Image Repositories – Flickr, Picassa, Imgur, DeviantArt
Virtual Games
Virtual Worlds
YouTube is social network platform but it is also a search tool.
It is a good resource to find training and product information.
Gaming platforms – World of Warcraft and virtual worlds like 2
Life are great places for social interaction and research and investigation.
There can be product reviews.
Some universities have set up campuses in 2
Life and you can take classes by placing your avatar into a classroom.
Both are good ways to access person-to-person interaction.
From a law enforcement perspective it is important.
As technology develops there are complaints of online offenses requiring new definitions and reporting of crimes.
Blogs tend to have low readership currently, but when they first took off in 2007 people were sharing a lot of personal information.
Some blogs are online diaries and still good sources for personal information on individuals.
Foursquare is an example of a space timer.
Sites like this tell you that a person was at specific place at a particular time.
Space locators are location-sensitive only.
TripAdvisor and Yelp tell you where people have been.
Quick timers are time-sensitive only – Twitter and Facebook are examples.
Slow time – neither time, nor location specific.
Sites like Wikipedia and YouTube.
Items here will be around for a long time, generally.
Social Media Building Blocks:
Ms. Clegg talked about the elements of social media – Presence, Relationship, Reputation, Identity, Groups, Conversation and Sharing.
Linked-In is focused on Identity and pulls in elements of Reputation, Relationship and Groups.
Foursquare focuses on Presence with elements of Identity and Relationship.
YouTube is about Sharing – and secondarily about Conversation, Groups and Reputation.
Facebook is a big winner – it is really about Relationships with elements of Presence, Reputation, Identity, Conversation and Sharing.
Twitter is another big winner – but its primary focus is on Sharing and secondarily about Presence, Relationship, Reputation, Identity, and Conversation.
How connected are we?
Ms. Clegg showed examples of people putting social media ahead of personal safety.
Posing for photos at fire scenes
Updating Facebook status while driving (her example was related to an actual fatal accident)
An incident with a man taking a hostage and posting to Facebook – and others updating with police movement and activity.
Tracking people using Social Media:
Now there are tools (some free, some for purchase) that allow you to draw a digital fence around a location and pick up the Twitter, Instagram and other posts at that location.
You can draw a fence around someone's house and follow their posts and tweets.
Use this to find a Twitter user name and perhaps a Facebook profile.
Search in Facebook on photos – or photos that someone has liked – find their friends.
Often an individual is careful to monitor his/her Internet activity and profiles, but their friends and family members may not be as careful.
Using Geofeedia Ms. Clegg's company found a posting by an employee at a secure location.
There was a clear photo showing the employee's desk – his monitor that was displaying a classified document and his personal laptop that was in used.
Both are violations of security guidelines.
Another location they found a posting by a soldier who was scheduled for deployment.
She was posing with her rifle.
From that post they could pull up her Facebook profile and photos of herself and her friends.
Knowing her Twitter profile name they could search on the Teaching Privacy website for other posts by her worldwide and see where she has been deployed.
Google tricks:
One trick that Ms. Clegg showed was an enhancement of the familiar
wild card
search in Google.
Put a name in quotes but add an * - "Lisa * Smith"
The * acts as a wild card and will cover up to 4 additional words between the names.
Ms. Clegg used this on one project and was able to find the name of a subject's wife.
The subject had done a good job of keeping his own online profile low, but not his wife and family.
With the wife's name she was able to find associations with the children's school and then photos on Facebook and Twitter of the children.
Following Twitter posts and the time and location stamp she was able to trace the subject's route to work – dropping the kids at school and on to his place of business.
For all this geo-tracking – Ms. Clegg concluded by showing us a site:
A person can log in with his/her Twitter ID and select any location.
Then post a tweet and it will appear in Twitter that one is Johannesburg when she is really in Detroit.
All that means is that we have to be careful when we use any of these geo-tracking tools.
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Friday, June 13, 2014
KM in the Trenches
Presentation by Ulla de Stricker, Cindy Shamel and Connie Crosby at SLA-2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 8, 2014
Presenters are authors of
Knowledge Management Practice in Organizations: The View from Inside
Chapter 2 – KM Culture
, by Ulla de Stricker is available for download –
If a city tears up the same street three times over a six month period to install three different cables, there's a KM problem.
If KM is imposed by IT – no one will do it.
There are often multiple KM groups within the same organization.
You have to look at the cultural aspect of the organization in order to see how you can incorporate KM practices.
How do we proceed?
Short term – it may be easy to fix an immediate KM short-coming.
Provide someone with the information s/he needs.
But what about the long term?
Knowledge Audit:
How do you find out what you need to know about your organization?
Hire a consultant.
Conduct a survey.
Become an Undercover Boss!
Just like the TV show, go undercover to find out what problems exist in your organization so you can fix them.
New hires are another source of information on what is going on and what isn't working.
They have their experience at another job and can communicate on any difficulties they are having in finding information at the new place.
KM by stealth
– if management doesn't like KM – do it anyway, just don't call it KM.
Managers lose sight of the grass roots after about two years.
Many times good workers become managers because they know how a department works.
They know what it takes to run things well.
But as they focus more on administrative duties, they begin to lose sight of the work.
KM Culture
– there is not always enough Time, Thought or Reflection to implement KM.
People cycle through the organization faster and faster.
It is harder to keep track of what KM efforts have been made before and what is in place and/or working and not working.
Often KM technology is rolled out – but we forget that human oversight and interaction is needed.
We often forget to train people on how to use the technology and think that the technology will just do the work of KM.
Human oversight and intervention is IMPORTANT!
Be Agile
– add value to the KM process every day or every week.
Work toward accomplishing the KM solution for the organization incrementally.
How do we get buy-in?
Listen – eavesdrop!
Where are people suffering?
Where is the pain?
What is keeping the boss awake at night?
Build the KM strategy around what is worrying the boss.
If you can find a solution to her/his concerns, you will get buy-in at the top.
3 questions:
Ask the following questions to people in your organization and listen to their answers.
You will learn a lot.
Tell me about your day – what does your department do?
Tell me about your research?
What are you working on?
What's the buzz in your field these days?
Facts and Findings:
When preparing a report on the Knowledge Audit there are three sections:
Facts and findings – the current state of things – just the facts.
Pointers – this prepares them to think about and get ready to hear solutions.
But don't include the solutions in the report.
If you do, they will skip to the solutions and explain away why they cannot afford to implement the solutions.
Solutions – find out where the organization is in pain – and tailor the solutions to ease that.
Ownership of systems is essential.
Scale-up over time.
Start small and build out.
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The Googlization of Everything
Notes from a presentation by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor in Media Studies, University of Virginia at the 2014 FEDLINK Spring Exposition at the Library of Congress, Montpelier Room on
May 14, 2014.
Mr. Vaidhyanathan is the a
uthor of
TheGooglization of Everything - and Why We Should Worry
Libraries have done so well that they are taken for granted.
They become invisible – like an offensive line in football.
You only notice when it doesn't do its job.
Google is 17 years old.
In that time it has changed our expectation of how companies should operate and on the availability of information.
Google is pervasive and we have become dependent.
Right to be forgotten
What about the recent European Court decision that people can remove information about themselves from the public record.
The European case involved a Spanish man who at one time owed a large debt.
He repaid the debt – but anyone searching his name on Google finds a page about the debt – but not the information that the debt was repaid long ago.
In the days before the Internet anyone doing research on this man would have to go to a local library, courthouse or records office and search through records and likely learn that he had repaid a debt that he owed at one time.
This kind of searching takes time and costs money.
In the age of Google it is cheap and easy – but it fails to provide the context of the information.
Yes – there was a debt – THAT WAS REPAID!
Following the European Court decision, the New York Times opined that this was an attack on the free press.
But we had a free press before Google – why does this threaten the press?
Another reaction to the court decision is the sense that if we cannot find something on Google, then it doesn't exist.
Social Circles
Facebook has changed the way we connect socially with others.
In the past one managed one's circles of friends and would selectively share personal information.
Our co-workers would know some information; acquaintances we meet at conferences would know some, perhaps not the same information.
Our family would have other information – but our siblings might know things that our parents did not know.
Facebook scrambles those circles – so that everyone is suddenly on the same level of knowing the same information about us and our associations.
Unless we learn to control our Facebook privacy settings.
Google scrambles our ability to control our reputation.
The links that point to us are skewed by the weight given to some websites.
Some news sources are given more significance than other sites.
For example, Huffington Post articles seem to stay at the top of the search results.
NSA has had a partnership with Google and Facebook, but we only recently learned that NSA has gotten even more access to our personal information at these sites than even the administrators realized.
Google's Mission:
The mission statement is not – "Don't be evil."
It is
To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible.
When Google started in 1988 – that was ambitious – so much material was being added to the Internet on a daily basis.
Yahoo approached the organization with people to do the sorting and categories to help.
Google folks were in university and applied for a National Science Foundation grant for library research – and they developed the algorithm to sort and organize the web sites.
Organizing is a job of discernment, judgment and training.
It needs training and guidelines.
This is the hubris of Google – to think that they can organize the world's information.
Not all of the world's information is on the Internet – and they still cannot make it universally accessible.
Libraries have the skill and the ability to provide access to their collections – and they have better metadata!
But this was part of their purpose in launching GoogleBooks, GoogleScholar and even taking on YouTube.
GoogleBooks – was a deal with Harvard University, Stanford, New York Public Library, the Bodleian Library and a few others that gave Google, a six-year old start-up company, the access to hundreds of years of acquisitions and materials with the purpose of digitizing and putting on the Internet – without any plan for copyright and license agreements.
But these projects are losing money for Google.
More about Google Rankings
Google is a benevolent dictator.
In the early days of the Internet porn sites came up pretty regularly in Internet searches.
Now Google downgrades the ranking of porn sites – the sites are still there – just not on the first page.
Personalization and localization are great for shopping and for business, but they are not very good for learning – when we are trying to research some principle or standard and it isn't tied to something within our immediate vicinity.
What is missing is the learning and the context of information that comes from doing real research.
Algorithms favor the interests of developers.
Popularity of sites plays a role in search retrieval on Google.
The more popular sites come up first.
This is disastrous when you are searching for health information.
Search on vaccination and you get a lot of sites by vaccine-bashers and Huffington Post articles.
That is a subject area where brand names should matter – Centers for Disease Control or WebMD etc.
What is the goal?
Google has already won the battle of the search engines.
So far they haven't won the battle of the operating systems of the Web or of Mobile devices.
The goal is become the operating system for life – when our appliances and our cars and our clothes are all connected to the Web.
What is the long game?
On the open Web, Google wins over Facebook.
If you spend your time on Facebook – then Facebook wins.
The big players are Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook.
Who will win when data is flowing through our lives?
Who will we trust to manage all of that?
Who will be the operating system of our lives?
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Strong Roots, New Branches – how I grew to become a librarian
Here is the presentation I gave at the
National Press Club
, Washington, DC this morning. The was Government Libraries event sponsored by Lexis/Nexis and moderated by
Marie Kaddell
Other presenters were Samir Goswami, Director, Government Professional Solutions, Lexis/Nexis, and an expert on human trafficking, and Kris Vajs, Chief Librarian at the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors Research Library.
Strong Roots, New Branches – how I grew to become a librarian
Thank you, Marie, for inviting me here today.
I have come to this event almost every year and I have gained much from the speakers.
Marie asked me to share the story of my career as a librarian.
I hope that you will find it encouraging and find something from own experience to aid yours.
Building on the theme for today – I think of trees with strong roots and new branches.
So I will use the analogy of the life of a tree as my framework.
While growing up I remember a poster in my sister's bedroom.
Bloom where you're planted.
Posters were the tweets of the 1960's.
Trees grow everywhere: Forests, Groves & Orchards, Homes & Neighborhoods, Tree boxes, Bonsai pots and in cracks in the sidewalk.
They grow naturally, or planned by landscapers, arborists, homeowners, farmers and bonsai masters.
Some grow to be majestic oaks or redwoods while others remain small.
Some die as seedlings while others live to be hundreds of years old.
Taking root
I often say that I fell into being a librarian.
After college, with no real career plan, my godmother steered me toward federal service.
She had made a career working in human resources and thought that would be a good path for me as well.
This was back in the day – before personal computers and smartphones – and I went to OPM a few blocks west of here to take the Clerk/Typist exam.
The first job was with the FDIC and I started my library career by weighing, opening and sorting the mail.
I checked in serials using a Kardex system.
I shelved, I weeded, I did loose-leaf filing and I filed cards in the card catalog. I replaced pocket parts and even learned how to handle Shepard's Citations volumes.
Not use them – that wouldn't come for another 15 years, but I figured out what to keep and what to toss.
I left that job to become a Personnel Clerk/Typist at the VA Medical Center in Washington, DC.
It seemed to have more chance of advancement.
It was an interesting experience and I learned a lot about HR rules and benefits.
But one day, a friend from my FDIC days, told me that they were looking for a cataloger.
This was not a position that required an MLS.
I took that job and since then I have always worked in libraries.
Growing and nurturing
But I needed library skills to go along with this job.
I got OCLC training at FEDLINK and I took a cataloging course with
Dr. David Battey
If any of you had the privilege of knowing him or taking a course from him – you are lucky.
He was a brilliant man and one of the first librarians I ever met who wore his quirkiness with pride!
Luck had much to do with my career – that and some talent to learn.
I took on the cataloging, and other duties as assigned.
I learned how to take care of the library system that the FDIC had at the time.
I took over running the back-ups.
I dismantled and rebuilt system furniture.
I had a good boss and good directors for the library.
After I had been on the job for a year or so – and figured I knew everything – I got a new boss who helped to give me a new attitude in my job.
She helped me to see the bigger picture of how my job fit in with the structure of the library and the agency and why it was important.
She was a dedicated civil servant who took her responsibilities seriously.
She was also fair-minded and encouraging to others.
Then the Internet happened and life as we knew it changed forever.
In this case I was again lucky.
I learned about gopher sites and ftp and html.
I learned about the reality of electronic resources.
And that interest prompted me to get my MLS.
Again, I was lucky – my agency helped pay for my degree.
I attended the University of Maryland, College of Information Studies.
After I finished there were some staff shifts and I moved into a librarian position.
Over the next few years I made the most that I could from professional development, training classes and attending conferences and workshops.
I took advantage of
to network with other librarians in the area.
From the start I would write up my notes from attending conferences and share them with my colleagues.
It was during this time that Blogs and then
came into vogue.
A colleague was testing a site for supporting library services and asked me if I would consider starting a blog.
I did and used it to post my write-ups on conference and workshop sessions.
I had some following – not a lot.
I talked to some speakers who were successful bloggers.
One gave me the advice,
if you don't have anything special to say- don't blog.
I applied that same notion to my tweets.
I mostly tweet from conference sessions I am attending or to promote a new blog entry.
I also provided weekly updates on what I was doing.
This helped me to mark my successes and achievements.
I worked on projects in the library but also volunteered for programs at my agency as a way to promote the library.
While it is important to blossom and reach out on the job, it is also important to have hobbies and interests outside of work.
Face it, sometimes work can be a drag.
I find comfort in music.
For many years I sang with a choral group and for the past 14 years I have played trombone with a community band –
DC'sDifferent Drummers
I also enjoy helping my husband work in the yard.
There are many ways to re-create oneself.
Storms and drought
Sometimes we face difficulties on the job: down-sizing, budget cuts, or difficult colleagues.
And personal life presents challenges: illness, finances, care for children, parents, partner or spouse. These are times when we need to learn to be resilient and be strong.
A challenge in one job led me to take a look at my health – and that took me on a journey of its own and a
successful weight loss
Calling to mind the analogy of a tree – you have to bend during the storm in order to survive.
If you become rigid – you can break or topple.
And having had two trees come down at my home – you want to avoid that!
We all make mistakes.
Yes, it is embarrassing. What is important is to learn from our mistakes.
I have had some setbacks, just like many others – but I have tried to be optimistic, improve myself and move ahead.
The reason that we laugh at clowns is because they do the things that we do – they trip and fall – but they do it in the spotlight of the center ring.
And then they laugh at themselves.
Transplanting trees is a tricky endeavor.
You have to pick the right time so the tree can survive the move.
As librarians we have to be ready to learn new skills so we are ready for our next move.
I have worked in Technical Services, Electronic Resources, Reference and Acquisitions.
I have trained contractors in using library systems.
I have built databases and webpages.
I have trained agency staff on library services and Internet searching.
I realized that I have had some experience in most areas of librarianship.
Most of my library career was with banking agencies.
I started out with the FDIC.
Then I went to the Comptroller of the Currency and then to the Federal Reserve Board Research Library.
From there I worked a couple of contract positions – one at the National Agricultural Library and another in the private sector for a company called LMI that does consulting work with the Department of Defense and some other agencies.
The breadth of this experience, the way I marketed it and no small amount of luck or providence landed me in my current position with the
USArmy Corps of Engineers
It is perhaps the coolest job title I could have ever imagined –
Command Librarian
Branching out & Bearing fruit
Now I am in a position where I need to branch out and learn from my colleagues as well as support them.
It is my role to provide guidance to the
USACE Library Program
We have 21 district libraries, 3 research libraries and two other library sites.
Fortunately I am not their supervisor, but I have visited each site and try to find ways to help them.
Looking ahead, I am reaching out to other groups and divisions at my agency to see how the library can provide better support.
I will also reach out to those districts that no longer have libraries and learn what help they need.
And it is my turn to mentor and help others.
One day I got a phone call from a training officer in our Sacramento District.
She had an employee who was a clerk and was interested in going to library school.
Over the next several months we traded emails and chatted as she embarked on her training and transition to becoming a librarian.
I have also been active with DC/SLA and the
Some of us on that team have met with library students and reviewed resumes.
We should regularly look at our careers and what we are doing and cut away the dead wood.
This can be as simple as reviewing our resumes and removing irrelevant skills and training.
It can also mean letting go of some of the negatives in our lives, letting go of bad will and grudges.
Sometimes this is easy – sometimes it requires counseling.
Don't be afraid of it.
Old trees and by-products
What can be said about old trees?
They give shade & comfort.
They beautify the landscape.
Their branches provide nests for birds and homes for squirrels.
Their roots help to give stability to the land.
Their wood can be used to make homes, doors, desks, tables and chairs.
They can be milled into pulp to make paper for printing of books, currency and much else.
What we do as librarians and information professionals helps our agencies accomplish good for the people of America.
I think of the librarians I have known throughout my career.
Teachers in library school who were demanding and challenged me.
Another librarian earned a Master of Divinity and retired early, but applied her skills to helping at a theological library.
She went on to lead others on pilgrimages in Benedictine spirituality.
People like
Sharon Lenius
who, though retired, still support other government and military librarians.
We don't have to end up on the wood pile.
I leave you with something a manager said to me on my first day in a job waiting tables.
The worst thing that we can do to you is to fire you.
You've looked for a job before and you can do it again.
The phrasing struck me as odd – but I took it to mean – if you're not happy with what you are doing then look for someplace where you can be happy.
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Information Culture in the Agency
Another speaker at the 2014 FEDLINK Spring Exposition at the Library of Congress was
Rob C. Thomas, Deputy CIO, FEMA
. Here's a summary of his remarks.
Talk about Big Data often misses the essential connection between those seeking knowledge and the information.
The human factor is the key.
Librarians and information professionals make the difference.
Every federal agency has an obligation to leverage information.
We need to leverage information to serve the core mission of the agency.
Information is a strategic asset.
It is dynamic and it needs to remain agile.
Strategies evolve to meet the changing environment.
We must collaborate with others and increase participation and engage the whole community to leverage and make use of the data.
We need to have participation by all stake-holders.
Collaborate to improve effectiveness across the agency.
Transparency is needed to promote accountability.
Release information on a regular, on-going basis.
The culture of an agency is the source of its action or its apathy.
Obtaining the knowledge needed will make the difference.
If the Information Culture in an agency isn't fed and grown, it will stifle.
Information that is shared is the ripple in the pond.
It will stir the waters and help make things happen.
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
– Mahatma Gandhi (citation needed.)
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Women Leaders in Technology
It has been a full week. On May 15, I attended
at the Washington Convention Center in
Washington, DC. The only session I was able to get to was the panel on Women Leaders in Technology.
Panelists: Anne Altman, General Manager, US Federal and Government Industries, IBM Corporation; Teresa Carlson, Vice President Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services; Renee Macklin (Invited), Chief Information Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, SBA; Debora Plunkett, Director of the Information Assurance Directorate, NSA; Barbara Rivera, President/GM, Public
Sector Business, Experian; Lisa Schlosser, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of E-Government and Information Technology, OMB
Gray Tsunami:
45% of the federal workforce is over the age of 50.
A lot of people will be retiring in the next several years.
Can we capture that knowledge?
Employees under 30 years of age account for only 7.1 percent of the federal workforce. –
Fed Figures 2014, Partnership for Public Service, April 24, 2014
Panelists said that mentoring was the key to encouraging young people to work in the federal government.
Leaders and managers need to learn how to work with younger workers who have a different approach to work and tackling projects.
Thoughts - This is a challenge.
Young people have ideas and energy but often their ideas are shot down by older, longer-serving workers.
Many agencies are Microsoft shops and because of IT security concerns, they are aren't flexible or open to Open Source software and other systems.
Many Gen-X, Gen-Y and Millennials grew up using Apple products in their schools.
They can work with Microsoft – but often prefer the Apple systems.
Social Media:
It is pervasive and business and government is making use of it.
Amazon runs all product launches through social media.
This saves money that can be put back into services and products.
They are also using social media to communicate within their organization.
Government agencies are issuing alerts and news releases and other updates via social media.
Thoughts – Social media is perfect for business.
Consumers interested in products are always on the lookout for news about the products that they like.
Government cannot rely solely on social media.
Not everyone uses social media or is necessarily following every agency.
News services track social media, but they have to confirm before they broadcast and not everyone is tuned into news media (television, online or print) 24/7.
Women in the IT World
The moderator asked about the experience of being a woman in the IT/Computer Science world.
Three of the panelists are also women of color.
Debora Plunkett of NSA said that she was given the advice to
know that you belong.
Learn to be okay with being the
one and only
. Conduct yourself with honesty, integrity and transparency.
Be happy about what you do.
Other women spoke of the influence of a particular teacher or mentor.
They went on to suggest that we conduct outreach to STEM students in high school and college – but maybe we should focus on elementary school to get women and minorities interested in careers in IT.
You own your career.
Your boss is not responsible for helping you to move ahead – it is your responsibility.
If you aren't happy where you are, go to where you can be happy.
Teresa Carlson said that we should build our EQ as well as our IQ.
Our EQ is our emotional quotient.
Learn to handle changes within the workplace.
Be resilient.
The Aha Moment
One of the speakers mentioned that her Aha Moment was when she realized that she could create a place for herself by finding a need and filling it.
When we encounter a hole we have options: walk around the hole, jump over it, turn around, or fill the hole.
If we find a way to fill the hole in our organization, we show that we are part of the team and we can meet a need – provide something that was lacking.
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Family Bible Study resources - our favorite books and materials for teaching children about faith.
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31 Days of Character Building Books, I have 31 books listed that have wonderful character lessons for your children.
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31 Days of Character Building Books, character lessons for your children.
31 Days of Character Building Books, I have 31 books listed that have wonderful character lessons for your children. http://www.pinterest.com/momperkins3/read-me-a-story/
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Free character development cards with conversation starters, questions, and prayer prompts. A fantastic circle time activity or use for table topics!
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Free character development cards conversation starters
Hand motions to memorizing the books of the Bible
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Best thing you will ever teach your child! Tips for praying with kids
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Can't wait to my future children do this someday.
Teaching children how to build their relationship with God at an early age. Tips for praying with kids. Read the comments under the post too! Great ideas!
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In order to have good friends you need to be a good friends and the keys to being a good friend are found in these 10 bible verses.
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Teaching Toddlers about God
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Ministry to Children (Bible Lessons)
Simple Bible lessons to help toddlers understand their Creator! :) good for my Sunday school class!
Bible Lessons for Toddlers: Knowing God
31 Days of Building Character in your home. Some AMAZING before & afters! Totally using this site for inspiration.
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Great idea for coffe table
Love the lantern trio on the coffee table. The Yellow Cape Cod: 31 Days of Building Character: More on The Floor
Love the floor (Sam's Club Select Surfaces in Oak), love the black door, love it all! Great site for decor ideas! The Yellow Cape Cod: 31 Days of Building Character: More on The Floor
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Rules of a Gentlemen. The perfect southern gentleman :)
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This is great. It should be framed in little boys rooms
Very important to me!! I want to find a book like this about Being a Gentlemen, to right little quotes on a dry erase note plate for my kitchen.... I'll change the quote each week for Ryder, I. Guess he needs to get a little older so he can actually read them though.
Free Bible trivia flashcards that go along with "What's in the Bible?" DVDs (but you can use them without the DVDs)
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What's in the Bible? Printables - All Our Days
Radio theatre (also called radio drama or audio drama) is a great way to add character training to your home. Great for all ages and lots of amazing discussion.
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Free "Consider the Lilies . . . " Plants of the Bible Lapbook. Perfect for springtime studying.
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Every parent should read this!! - Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World
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FOR THE FUTURE (hopefully): raising grateful kids in an entitled world.
Story for parents: how to teach kids to be grateful.
Such a great reminder of raising kids to be grateful.
Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World - Not only a great read on how to raise grateful children, an incredible reminder for myself to be grateful.
Teaching Gratitude
Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World - We are THAT Family
Simple ways of instilling humor in kids. Such a fun post. I love my kids' senses of humor!
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Simple ways of instilling humor in our kids. Such a fun post. I love my kids' sense of humor!
Instilling the Value of Humor in Our Kids - What's up Fagans?
Books of the Bible Spinner game - This is a fun game we have used for years in Bible Drill. Create a spinner (or purchase a blank one from a school supply store) with four sections. Label section 1 - Pronounce it, section 2 - Say the book before, section 3 - say the book after, section 4 - Find the book. Add cards with the names of the books of the Bible. Great review!
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Books of the Bible Spinner game - This is a fun game we have used for years in Bible Drill. I think we found the original idea in Lifeway's kids Sunday School Material. Create a spinner (or purchase a blank one from a school supply store) with four sections. Label section 1 - Pronounce it, section 2 - Say the book before, section 3 - say the book after, section 4 - Find the book. Add cards with the names of the books of the Bible. Great review!
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream activities
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Nebuchadnezzar's Dream activities. Mystery of History Volume 1, Lesson 59 #MOHI59
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream activities - Adventures in Mommydom
5 Things to Teach Your Children about Prayer! 31 Days of Intentional Parenting!
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8 ideas for family prayer when you don't know where to start. | IntentionalByGrac...
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Parables of Jesus Lesson Pack: The Divine Dozen
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How Do You Teach Theology to Kids? -
"He shall write for himself a copy..." (The 30 Day Challenge) @thechuppies
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30 Day "copy the bible" challenge (list of key verses)
"He shall write for himself a copy..." (The 30 Day Challenge) ~Kara Chupp @thechuppies..... Going to play catch - up and participate in the challenge!
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Solebon Solitaire – 50 Card Games
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Enjoy classic Windows style solitaire (Klondike), new favorites such as Demon, Free Cell, Pyramid, Scorpion and Yukon, 4 versions of Spider, plus 10 original games from Solebon not found anywhere else including Russian Revolver!
Our leading solitaire suite wraps high-resolution graphics within a clean, intuitive interface developed exclusively for Apple devices. Solebon is only available on iOS.
• Available on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
• Portrait and landscape play on all devices
• 50 solitaire games
• 10 original games
• Pinch to Zoom gameplay
• Game Center Leaderboards
• Favorite games feature
• Easy-to-read cards
• Sound effects with Bluetooth muting
• Simple tap card movement
• Right or left handed play
• Foundation autoplay
• Unlimited undo
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"Cellular Data turned off" - they are still spying on you.
The app is still spying on you over a year after I contacted the developer about the "no cellular data available" when playing in airplane mode. At least in the latest update you won't see the message any longer in network-connected mode. I was told that when they merged the paid and advertising-supported version into one, they forgot to turn off the message for paid (I bought it years ago when there were separate versions). The app gathers data about the game you are playing plus your location and other data (for the ads) and reports it to the developer. That's what they told me in reply. I didn't agree to give up any privacy when I bought the app (before free and paid merged) and have seen no updated privacy policy since.
I had hoped with the quick-turn update they would have removed the spying on paid users but apparently not. Now it appears to just partially be hidden.
They don't tell you what data they are gathering or how it's being used. Is it a big deal? Maybe or maybe not, but the whole point of paying is to remove the advertising which in my mind includes any reporting of location, identification, and any apps that I might be using on my phone. At least in honesty they should mention what they are doing in writing and ask your permission first.
On a positive note, I noticed that the game startup in the latest update is much faster.
Good app
This is my go to app when I'm bored. Sometimes I'll play it for hours. There are a bunch of games I haven't tried yet, I generally stick to yukon or klondike (the kind of solitaire most people are used to). Klondike even comes in 2 options, you can pick a single card each turn, or 3 if you want more of a challenge. This app is also good at explaining how each game is played if you need help. I'd highly recommend it. I bought it ages ago and it's made it through years of app purging. Try it! You wont regret it :) It has a free version available to try (or at least it used to) if you're still leery of it. But hands down this is the best solitaire game I've ever downloaded.
This Solebon is the BEST
I've used this app thru several iPhone upgrades and a lot of enhancements. Its interface is far better than any other I've tried. Never a glitch. Five stars for sure. The only little irritation is that it's started lowering a banner welcoming me back for a couple seconds every time I start it. I can usually swipe it away but sometimes I'm a little clumsy and I find I've performed an unwanted action instead of swiping it away. So just one little irritation in an otherwise fabulous app. Please provide a setting to turn this off!
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I have been lurking for months and decided to join. Anyways, I recently became the owner of 2 kegs, one stainless and one aluminum and am in the process of converting them on the "ultra cheap". So I am just wondering what kind of hardware store miracles you guys have put together to create your own bulkhead fittings. Lets see your creations!
It's hard to beat pre assembled tried and true kits from places like http://www.greatbargain.net/order/index.html
I know this is a DIY forum but I pressed the easy button. Most hardware stores will not have exactly the sized nipple washer etc that you are looking for. By all means take a look at his kits and use it as a guide.
Yeah man. I built a bulkhead for my MLT cooler conversion and even though I now know how to make one, I'll never make one myself again. You can buy it from a place like bargain fittings for roughly the same price without the headache of making it yourself.
I like the challenge of DIYing. I'm building a MLT in a square cooler right now with ideas from these forums. I found all of the parts to build my own bulkhead for about the same price as the greatbargains.com site mentioned above. The only thing I can't figure out is a good way to connect the 1/2" copper pipe of the manifold to the bulkhead on the inside of the cooler. I want something that can be disconnected easily in order to clean it. How have others done this? TIA.
You can use either a compression fitting or a "union".
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Melvin Dorta
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|Melvin Dorta
January 15, 1982
Valencia, Venezuela
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|July 21, 2006 for the Washington Nationals
Last MLB appearance
|October 1, 2006 for the Washington Nationals
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Melvin A. Dorta (born January 15, 1982 in Valencia, Venezuela) is a retired professional baseball infielder. Dorta bats and throws right-handed. He made his Major League Baseball debut with the Washington Nationals on July 21, 2006.
Dorta, who has played every position in the field except pitcher, was acquired by Washington from the Boston Red Sox on January 5, 2004.
In 2005, Dorta established career highs with 11 home runs, 50 RBI and 121 games played for Double-A Harrisburg Senators. In 2006, he was selected for the Eastern League All-Star Game and was promoted to Washington. At the time of his promotion, he was batting .277 with 15 doubles, three triples, four home runs and 24 RBI in 85 games. He left Harrisburg ranking fourth in the league with an organization-best and a career-high 25 stolen bases. Dorta rejoined the Senators after two games with Washington, where he was 0-for-1 as a pinch-hitter and was caught stealing as a pinch-runner.
On January 24, 2008, Dorta signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He became a free agent at the end of the season and signed a minor league contract with the Baltimore Orioles in December.
In 2013 he became an assistant coach for the Harrisburg Senators.
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Music festival planned for Salida: Officials hope to draw 35,000By Jason Blevins | February 27th, 2015 | 2 comments
Salida on Monday will announce the musical acts anchoring a two-day festival that could lure 35,000 concertgoers to town ŌĆö more than double the population of Chaffee County.
Planning for the still-unnamed festival started with a phone call last fall from Gov. John Hickenlooper, who asked Salida Mayor Jim Dickson if the city would consider a proposal by festival organizer Madison House Presents.
A whirlwind courtship ensued, with Madison House Presents representatives hosting public meetings and hammering out a contract with the City Council.
But some people in town are worried about the environmental damage and noise impact of the one-off event that could swell SalidaŌĆÖs population of 5,000 sevenfold and perhaps set the stage for a future annual music festival.
The city has offered most of its Vandaveer Ranch property, where plans are well underway to develop a residential community, as a venue for the Aug. 20-22 festival. Madison House has pledged $40,000 toward a new pedestrian bridge across the Arkansas River and will cover all logistics and costs of the festival.
SalidaŌĆÖs 66-year-old FIBArk festival draws about 20,000 to town over four days every June, with maybe 4,000 people gathering in the downtown park for Saturday nightŌĆÖs concert. Salida hosted several thousand people during the Pro Challenge bike race and Ride the Rockies bike tour.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs just hard for us to imagine something of this size,ŌĆØ Salida city administrator Dara MacDonald said. ŌĆ£There is no comparison. This is hands down the biggest event to ever come to Chaffee County.ŌĆØ
The city has reached out to other small towns where Madison House Presents has organized festivals, such as Dixon, Ill.; Troy, Ohio; and Guthrie, Okla.
ŌĆ£They had nothing but good things to say about working with Madison House,ŌĆØ MacDonald said. ŌĆ£From beginning to cleanup, that eased everyoneŌĆÖs minds a lot.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Great boon to economyŌĆØ
The 24-page facilities use agreement ŌĆö finalized by the City Council in February ŌĆö is the first step, with Madison House Presents in May presenting a logistical plan that addresses ticketing, camping, noise, residential impacts, food and drink plans, emergency services and car, bike and pedestrian flow in and out of the festival.
Madison House is paying the town about $10,000 to use the land, $1 for every ticket sold and about $63,000 to cover city services from police and fire to code enforcement. The organizer has promised to reseed and repair the property after the festival.
Madison House Presents organizers told the city it would charge between $110 and $150 a ticket for the two-day camping festival.
The city hopes the surge of visitors will lead to a sizable bump in spending and tax revenue.
And the exposure from opening Salida to so many visitors ŌĆö many of whom likely will be visiting for the first time ŌĆö ŌĆ£is more than we could ever afford through straight marketing,ŌĆØ MacDonald said.
Salida has about 1,000 hotel rooms, so most of the festival visitors will be camping. But Madison House is planning a variety of live music in SalidaŌĆÖs historic downtown ŌĆö at the cityŌĆÖs riverside park, the SteamPlant Event Center and in a host of local bars and restaurants ŌĆö to spread spending beyond the festival grounds.
Organizers plan to offer music all day Friday in downtown before the festivalŌĆÖs first-night concert and then more music after the festival on Friday and Saturday nights. Buses will transport attendees between the festival grounds and downtown.
ŌĆ£The intention on the part of Madison House is absolutely to get festivalgoers into the downtown to provide the community with more benefit,ŌĆØ MacDonald said. ŌĆ£We see this as a great boon to the local economy.ŌĆØ
Josh Albrecht was the head of Main Street Dixon when Madison House Presents hosted its August 2012 Gentleman of the Road festival in Illinois, headlined by Mumford & Sons. The festival drew 15,000 people to Dixon, roughly doubling the size of the city.
The event spurred ŌĆ£millions of dollars in spendingŌĆØ in Dixon, Albrecht said, noting how many local businesses count the weekend as their busiest ever.
Albrecht, who visited Salida with Madison House officials for a public meeting in November, called the festival a ŌĆ£transformative experienceŌĆØ for his town.
ŌĆ£It will be something that people will talk about forever,ŌĆØ he said. ŌĆ£Not a week goes by without someone bringing it up to me, saying, ŌĆśHey, you ever think that will happen again?ŌĆÖ It was such an adrenaline rush for the community.ŌĆØ
Not everyone in Salida is stoked.
An online petition by residents urges locals to help stop the festival, arguing that the crowds at the Vandaveer property will damage riparian habitat and the noise will impact residents.
Salida City Councilwoman Melodee Hallett voted against the festival, saying the city needed at least a year for planning.
ŌĆ£It takes a lot of city personnel to plan and implement this sort of event, and the more preparation time, the better for the event and all involved,ŌĆØ Hallett said. ŌĆ£I believe we have better areas to stage the event, where the soil conditions and infrastructure are more conducive to a successful experience for all.ŌĆØ
Buena Vista is watching
Madison House Presents officials are not planning this as an annual event. Salida is years into sculpting a residential development on the Vandaveer property. Still, MacDonald does hope the event could be ŌĆ£a potential springboardŌĆØ for an annual regional music festival in the city.
A half hour north in Chaffee County, Buena Vista developer Jed Selby is mulling a plan to transform a 274-acre ranch heŌĆÖs acquired into an annual festival venue.
While those plans still are very much in the concept phase, Buena Vista officials will be watching SalidaŌĆÖs planning process with Madison House Presents.
ŌĆ£I imagine that as things iron out in Salida, there will be a lot of lessons that could be applied to Buena Vista if there were ever a need,ŌĆØ Mayor Joel Benson said.
In a way, the festival planning process is practice for Salida, too.
If artist ChristoŌĆÖs plans to drape the Arkansas River between Salida and Ca├▒on City ever reach fruition, visitor estimates during the brief display are in the hundreds of thousands.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs been mentioned many times that this is a warm-up for Christo if the ŌĆśOver The RiverŌĆÖ project ever occurs,ŌĆØ MacDonald said.
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Contorted Jujube Root system - how invasive and strong is it?
I planted a Contorted Jujube tree in the upper tier of a dry stacked natural stone raised bed about 2 weeks ago.
Since, I have read a few horror stories about the invasive jujube root systems (e.g. sending out suckers 30' feet away) so my main question is this:
Are the roots strong enough to move/break through a stone wall (the way bamboo would) or can the stone contain it properly? The bed is about 4' wide, 2' deep and 18" high. And it sits on top of another bed about 18" high.
If I need to move it, can you grow a contorted jujube in a whisky barrel?
How tall and wide will a contorted grow? Is it larger or smaller as compared to other varieties?
Thank you to anyone who might shed some light on this for me.
I have a contorted, 7 years old, 15 ft high, 10 ft wide. I've had suckers 35 ft away. My guess is your stone wall will block the roots; unless there's a very good water source on the other side of the wall. The jujube will get to water no mater what it needs to do. In my yard the suckers don't damage anything, but I wouldn't plant close to my house, it'd find the water pipes
WOW! 35 feet away! Well, I am going give it a water source going down (drive a pipe in ground next to it and water inside the pipe). Someone recommended that I put 3' deep sheet metal on inside of planter to protect the wall. it doesn't have mortar, just dry stacked stones so it wouldn't last long if the jujube is strong. Thanks for your response.
My jujube is 10 feet away from a section of the lawn watered by a sprinkler; all the suckers are in this watered section. I've always felt/hoped that once the roots found a good source of water they would be happy and not be too bothersome; though this may take some time to see. If you're watering the jujube, hopefully the roots won't need to spread too much.
Suckers don't bother me, they're easy to mow/cut. And most posters don't seem too worried about the roots; maybe because we only get 35" of rain, so my jujube goes searching for more water--areas with more water might not have suckers so far from the tree.
But I'd never plant a jujube close to a house. I've heard horror stories from Korea, roots getting into pipes and foundations. Some friends just took their jujube out, they got tired of the thorny suckers showing up in the vegetable and flower gardens.
This contorted is my favorite of my 10 or so jujube varieties. Bore fruit 2nd year, A very round shaped tree its the prettiest of my jujubes, The branches are loaded every year with great tasting fruit.
OTOH, I planted 2 more contorted at my office 3 miles away, & after 4 years they're only 6 ft tall & I only get a half dozen fruit each year. I have no idea why the trees turned out so differently.
Do you have indian Jujube and thai giant jujube? I Heard its not cold hardy. I have got one indian jujube but its in the pot inside, planning to plant it outside, this year. Can I plant it outside?
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"We've gone on a hiring binge. We've thrown out the civil service book, we've thrown out the salary restrictions. Pay them more than the governor! Do whatever you have to satisfy these problems," Brown said. "Common sense says, `Enough.'"
A federal judge is already moving slowly to end a court-appointed receiver's control of prison medical care because of improved conditions, Brown noted. The administration filed a court motion to also terminate a different judge's oversight of inmate mental health care, arguing in part that further federal involvement tramples on state sovereignty.
Brown ended a 2006 emergency proclamation by former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that let the state send thousands of inmates to private prisons in other states. Brown's move cleared the way for them to be returned to California starting in July.
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Hawai, Arizona, Germany is showing there are LIMITS to how much solar and wind can be added to the grid before destabilizing it.
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The issue is nuclear is being put against an idealized, impossibly perfect solution.
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Nuclear is safer than solar and wind will ever be. Because nuclear is a dense power source, making it economical to adopt the extreme safety attitude it currently enjoys. Just because Japan was irresponsible in it's nuclear regulatory system, doesn't mean North America and Western Europe is.
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Cyclists in Carlisle are campaigning to have a disused railway viaduct across the River Eden reopened as a cycle route and footpath. The Waverley Viaduct, which is Grade II listed, previously carried the Carlisle-Galashiels-Edinburgh railway line, but closed in 1969.
Since then, pedestrians have used the viaduct as an unofficial footpath, although there have been occasional efforts to prevent them doing so by the British Rail Board, the body responsible for the land, and which last summer erected steel fences at each end of the viaduct to permanently restrict access.
The News & Star reports that according to its retrospective application for planning permission for the fence, the British Rail Board says: "The structure is in a rural location carrying private lands over the river. The temporary fencing is in place for public safety and asset security until a permanent security solution is implemented at a later date."
The newspaper adds that Carlisle City Council has received three objections to the application, and that if one more is received by 24 February the matter will need to be debated by councillors. If no further objection is raised, then planning officers will be able to make a decision using delegated powers.
One objector is Geoff Brazendale, a member of local cycling campaign group Cycle Carlisle, who told the News & Star: "It's a jolly nice walk and a very accessible means of getting from one side of Carlisle to the other. They have really snookered that now. It should be a public right of way and a cycle way."
Mr Brazendale continued: "I know it would be expensive to repair but it did withstand two enormous floods last year and in 2005, so structurally it's not in bad condition," adding, "it's a crying shame that this wonderful structure is being just left to fall to bits."
Sustainable transport charity Sustrans has in the past considered incorporating the viaduct into its Connect2 cycle route from Kingmoor to Currock, but those plans were shelved in 2006 in favour of a proposed bridge close to Bitts Park.
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