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Labour Market Information (LMI) is not perhaps the most popular subject to talk about. But with the advent of open and linked data, LMI is increasingly being open up to wider audiences and has considerable potential for helping people choose and plan future careers and plan education programmes, as well as for use in research, exploring future skills needs and for social and economic planning.
This is a video version of a presentation by Graham Attwell at the Slovenian ZRSZ Analytical Office conference on "Short-term Skills Anticipations and Mismatch in the Labour Market. Graham Attwell examines ongoing work on mid and long term skills anticipation in the UK. He will bases on work being undertaken by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills and the European EmployID project looking, in the mid term, at future skills needs and in the longer term at the future of work. He explains the motivation for undertaking these studies and their potential uses. He also explains briefly the data sources and statistical background and barriers to the wok on skills projections, whilst emphasising that they are not the only possible futures and can best serve as a a benchmark for debate and reflection that can be used to inform policy development and other choices and decisions. He goes on to look at how open and linked data is opening up more academic research to wider user groups, and presents the work of the UKCES LMI for All project, which has developed an open API allowing the development of applications for different user groups concerned with future jobs and future skills. Finally he briefly discusses the policy implications of this work and the choices and influence of policymakers in influencing different futures.
The argument over whether technology creates or destroys jobs has been going on for as long as I can remember.
Only yesterday John Naughton, in an article entitled "We are ignoring the new machine age at our peril", worried about the impact of self driving cars and other technology on the future of employment. Naughton argued that there are "radical discontinuities that nobody could have anticipated", driven by "combinatorial" effects of different technology trends coming together. These, he siad, include: "the near-infinite computing power provided by Moore's law; precise digital mapping; GPS; developments in laser and infrared sensor technology; and machine-learning algorithms plus the availability of massive data-sets on which to train them."
He warned the outcome could be "that vast swaths of human activity – and employment – which were hitherto regarded as beyond the reach of "intelligent" machines may now be susceptible to automation." he went on to quote a studyby Dr Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, two researchers at the Martin School in Oxford,T heir report, The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?, estimates the probability of computerisation for 702 detailed occupations, based on US government classifications of those occupations. About 47% of total US employment, they conclude, is at risk from technologies now operational in laboratories and in the field.
However a study entitled 'Are ICT Displacing Workers? Evidence from Seven European Countries' by Smaranda Pantea, Federico Biagi and Anna Sabadash from the Institute of Prospective Technologies in Seville comes up with a different answer. Looking at micro data ins even European countries for companies in the manufacturing, ICT producing and service sector the study found "a non-significant relationship between employment growth and ICT intensity among ICT-using firms.: The authors say: "Since our estimates mainly capture the "substitution" effects of ICT on employment (i.e. those due to ICT substituting for some type of labour and to ICT increasing productivity and hence reducing demand for inputs, for constant values of output), our results indicate that these effects are statistically insignificant."
Of course this study and the American study are not directly comparable. They looked at different things and used different methodologies. One conclusion might be that whilst technology is not being directly substituted for overall employment, it is changing the nature of jobs available. Some labour market studies (for instance based on the US O*Net surveys) have suggested that what is happening is a bifurcation of labour, with an increasing number of high qualified jobs and of low skilled (and consequently low paid) service sector jobs. And of course another impact may be on the ;content' and different skills required in different jobs. For instance our work in the construction industry through the Learning layers project suggests increasing adoption of technology is leading to the need for new (and higher) skills levels within what was traditionally seen as a lower skills sector. This has considerable implications for vocational education and training. ather than training for presents skills demands VET systems need to be looking at future skills. And by providing those future orein3eteds kills this could provide a workforce and society with the abilities and motivation to shape our use of technology in society, rather than as John Naughton fears that "we're bound to lose this race against the machine" and in the course "enrich the corporations that own it."
As promised, a post on our stand and presentation at Alt-C on the LMIforAll Labour Market Data project, sponsored by UKCES. Working together with the Institute for Employment Research at Warwick University and Raycom, we have developed a database and APi providing access to a range of data about a wide variety of different occupations in the UK including data about:
The API is self documenting and is available free of charge to both for profit and not for profit organisatio0ns and developers. Working with Loud Source we have run a competition for Apps built on the API and together with Rewired State we have organised a series of Hack Days and Mod Days. We are currently redesigning the website to provide better access to the data and to the different applications that have been built to date.
One strange thing that took people visiting our stand some time to understand was that we were not selling anything (I think ours and Jisc were the only non commercial stands). The second thing was that we were not trying to 'sell' them a shiny out of teh box project. To get added value from our database and API requires some thought and development effort on the part of organisations wanting to use the data. We provide the tools, they provide the effort to use them. But when people got that concept they were enthusiastic. And most interestingly they were coming up with completely new ideas for where the data might be valuable. As you can see in our presentation above, we have largely focused on the use of LMIforAll for careers planning. University and Further Education researchers and developers saw big potential using the API as a planning too for future courses and curriculum. Others saw it as a valuable resource for measuring employability, a big agenda point for many UK institutions. It was also suggested to us that the labour market data could be mashed together with data derived from learning analytics, providing possibly a more learner centred approach to analytics than has previously been deployed.
If you are interested in any of these ideas have a play on the LMIforAll web site. And feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Technology Enhanced Learning, at least form a research perspective, has always tended to be dominated by the education sector. Coming from a background in vocational education and training, I was always more interested in how technology could be used to enhance learning in work and in particular informal learning in Small and Medium Enterprises.
Much early work in this area, at least in Europe was driven by a serious of assumptions. We were moving towards a knowledge economy (remarkable how quiet that has gone since the economic crash) and future employment, productivity and profitability, required higher levels of skills and knowledge win the workplace.. Prior to the rise of the World Wide Web, this could be boosted by enhancing opportunities for individual learning through the development of instructional materials distributed on disc or CD ROM. Interestingly this lead to much innovative work on simulation, which tended to be forgotten with the move to the online environment offered by the World Wide Web.
One of the big assumptions was that what was holding back learning in enterprises was the cost of releasing employees for (formal) training. Thus all we had to do was link up universities, colleges and other training providers to enterprises through providing courses on the web and hey presto, the problem would be solved. Despite much effort, it didn't really work. One of the reasons I suspect is that so much workplace knowledge is contextually specific and rooted in practice, and trainers and particularly learning technologists did not have that knowledge. Secondly it was often difficult to represent practice based knowledge in the more restricted learning environment of the web. A further issue was a failure to understand the relationship between learning nd professional development, work practice and professional (or occupational) identities. That latter issue is the subject on a paper entitled Facilitating professional identity formation and transformation through technology enhanced learning: the EmployID approach, submitted by my colleagues from the EmployID reject, Jenny Bimrose, Alan Brown, Teresa Holocher-Ertl, Barbara Kieslinger, Christine Kunzmann, Michael Prilla, Andreas P. Schmidt, and Carmen Wolf to the forthcoming ECTEL conference. Their key finding is that there is "a wide spectrum of how actual professional identity transformation processes take place so that an ICT-based approach will not be successful if it concentrates on prescribing processes of identity transformation; rather it should concentrate on key activities to support." They go on to say that " this is in line with recent approaches to supporting workplace learning, such as Kaschig et al. (2013) who have taken an activity-based approach to understanding and supporting collective knowledge development."
The following short excerpt from the paper explains their understanding of processes of professional work identity formation:
"Professional work identities are restructured in a dynamic way when employees are challenged to cope with demands for flexibility, changing work situations and skill needs (Brown, 1997). The work activities of practitioners in Public Employment Services (PES) need to be trans- formed due to the changing nature of the labour market. As their roles change, so do their professional identities. Work identities are not just shaped by organisations and individuals, but also by work groups (Baruch and Winkelmann-Gleed, 2002) or communities of practice (Lave and Wenger 1991; Brown, 1997; Ibarra, 2003). PES practitioners in particular need to develop multi-dimensional (individual and collective) professional identities to cope with socio-economic and technological change (Kirpal, 2004). This shift is underpinned by the increased importance of communica-tions skills, a willingness to engage in learning and reflexivity, while reflection on experience over time may be particularly significant in the build-up of implicit or tacit knowledge as well as explicit knowledge (Eraut, 2000). At the individual level, emerging new demands and associated skills shifts generate a potential for conflict with traditional work orientations and associated values, norms, work ethics and work identity patterns of employees. One important focus for support are individuals' strategies for dealing with such conflicts. While any identity formation process has to be realized by the individual, the process of acquiring a work identity also takes place within particular communities where socialization, interaction and learning are key elements. Therefore, supporting networks, of 'new' communities of practice (Lave, 1993; Wenger, 1998; Billett, 2007) and feedback from other practitioners are important aspects on which to focus."
Baruch, Y. & Winkelmann-Gleed, A. (2002). Multiple commitments: a conceptual framework and empirical investigation in a Community Health Services Trust, British Journal of Management, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 337-357.
Billett, S. (2007). Exercising self: learning, work and identity. In: Brown, A.; Kirpal, S.; Rauner, F. (eds). Identities at work. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 183-210.
Brown, A. (1997). A dynamic model of occupational identity formation. In: Brown, A. (ed.) Promoting Vocational Education and Training: European Perspectives. Tampere: University of Tampere, pp. 59-67.
Eraut, M. (2000). Non-formal Learning and Tacit Knowledge in Professional Work. British Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 113 – 136.
Ibarra, H. (2003). Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career.Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Kaschig, A., Maier, R., Sandow, A., Lazoi, M., Schmidt, A., Barnes, S., Bimrose, J., Brown, A., Bradley, C., Kunzmann, C., Mazarakis, A. (2013). Organisational Learning from the Perspective of Knowledge Maturing Activities. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technol- ogies 6(2), pp. 158 – 176
Kirpal, S. (2004) "Researching work identities in a European context", Career Development International, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.199 – 221
Lave, J. (1993). The Practice of Learning. In S. Chaiklin and J. Lave (eds) Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.
Lave, J. , & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning. Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
First the official stuff (from the press release).
"Talented UK students have won three out of four prizes in a worldwide competition to create a new app to help people develop their career.
The CareerHack open data contest was launched in November last year by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), and asked developers around the globe to build an app based on the UK Commission's "LMI for All" open data, which contains information on the UK labour market, including employment, skills and future job market predictions.
First prize winner for the competition was Tomasz Florczak from Logtomobile in Poland, who won £10,000 for his innovative Career Advisor app, while 16-year-old school student Harry Jones, from Bath, took home a £5,000 prize for his Job Happy entry.
The contest also had a special prize specifically for entrants aged 16-24 in Further Education. In this category 22-year-old IT apprentice Phillip Hardwick won the £5,000 prize for his entry, Career Path. And judges were so impressed with the quality of entrants from the category that they introduced an additional runner-up prize of £2,500, which went to a team effort from students at Barking and Dagenham College in London.
Competition judge Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE, Chair of National Careers Council and a Commissioner for UKCES, said:
"As judges we were all highly impressed at the outstanding contributions made by our winners, and of the talent and ability being displayed by the next generation of up-and-coming developers and programmers.
"The quality of the submissions was so high we felt the need to introduce an additional prize, but all those that entered should be extremely proud of their efforts."
The judging panel was made up of technology experts from Google, Ubuntu and HP, alongside representatives from the UK Commission and John Lewis. Judges made their decision based on how innovative the entry was, how viable it was as a working app, the potential it had for making an impact on society and the overall quality of the packaged app.
CareerHack judge Matt Brocklehurst, Product Marketing Manager at Google UK said:
"At Google we're well aware of the importance of making data open and encouraging young, creative talent. CareerHack was a fantastic example of this and we were very impressed by the high standard of entries from everyone who entered – the fact that three of the four winners are young people at the start of their careers is fantastic news. We hope these prizes will enable them to get a head start down whichever career path they choose to follow."
Fellow CareerHack judge Cristian Parrino, Vice President of Mobile and Online Services at Ubuntu, added:
"The CareerHack competition demonstrated how an set of open data can be used to cater to the needs of people at different stages of their career paths. It was wonderful to see the different flavours of high quality applications and services built on UKCES's data."
LMI for All has been developed by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, working with a consortium led by the Institute for Employment Research at Warwick University and including Pontydysgu, RayCom and Rewired State."
Pontydysgu's bit in all this is managing the technical side. I have to say I was a bit sceptical of producing an APi and then opening it up and encouraging contributions through a competition, but having looked at the videos I am gobsmacked by the inventiveness of teh programmers who entered. We will be looking in more depth at what has been produced. We are also seeking feedback from all those who participated and planning more events later in the year. If you would like to know more (and particularly we would be interested in similar approaches to Open data for Labour Market Information in other countries) please contact me at graham10 [at] mac [dot] com.
I don't normally post press releases on this site. Too much corporate speak. But I make an exception in this case. Regular readers will know that for the last three years I have been playing with the possibility of using open data for people to make choices about their future jobs and careers – whether it be moving to a new area to seek work, changing careers or selecting a university or college course. For the past two years we have been working with Warwick University and Raycom on the UK Commission for Education and Skills sponsored LMI for All project. the project has developed a database and APi providing access to a range of Labour Market Information. The work has proved challenging in terms of negotiating access to different data sets, ensuring the data is non disclosive and cleaning the data and in developing the technical infrastructure to provide easy access but at the same time ensuring the security of the data.
The beta vesrion of the APi was released in June this year. Whilst we provide access to a web based data explorer we do not provide apps. Instead the idea os to Over the autumn we have been upgrading the infrastructure and adding more datasets including the US O*Net data. Whilst we provide access to a web based data explorer we do not provide apps. Instead the idea to encourage third party developers, including careers web sites, to themselves develop web and mobile applications based on the API. And yesterday UKCES, working together with together with Loudsource have launched a CareerHack competition for apps based on the API.
The press release says:
A NEW competition launched today is calling on developers from across the globe to create an app to help people hack into a new career and win a share of £20,000 in the process.
The CareerHack contest, run by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), is asking developers to find innovative and inspiring ways of using data made available through its LMI for All data site. This is a unique portal containing Labour Market Information (LMI) on employment, skills and future job market predictions, which for the first time makes the different sources of information compatible with each other and available in the same place.
The winner will be given £10,000 to spend as they wish, with £5,000 going to the runner-up. A special £5,000 prize is available to college students aged 16-24, giving the opportunity for the tech-leaders of tomorrow to showcase their talents and skills.
Michael Davis, Chief Executive of UKCES said:
"We wanted to find a way to allow as many people as possible to benefit from our open data approach to careers and jobs intelligence. An open innovation contest for developers is the perfect solution and we're delighted that there is a special category for young people studying in college. I'm looking forward to seeing the creativity of app developers from across the world."
The LMI for All data portal brings together extensive careers intelligence providing a single point of access to the data needed to answer common career questions such as how many people currently work in a particular job, average salaries and the skills needed for certain careers or roles.
While LMI for All information is already being used in various ways by a number of websites, organisers hope the CareerHack contest will open the resource up to creative individuals from around the world – uncovering new and innovate ways to use data to help people map out their future career.
To help illustrate the ways in which the information can be used a Career Trax website has been created by the UKCES – highlighting just one of the ways the LMI for All data can be used.
All entries must be submitted with a brief YouTube video, showcasing how the app works and illustrating its potential. A panel of judges, including representatives from Google and Ubuntu, Further Education institutions and business leaders, will then pick the overall winner next February.
Both individuals and teams are eligible to enter. You will need to be capable of developing a workable app using LMI for All data. For more information, please visit the contest website at http://careerhack.appchallenge.net
The closing date for entries is 5pm on Friday the 21st of February 2014.
The Global 2013 STEMx Education Conference claims to be the world's first massively open online conference for educators focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and more. The conference is being held over the course of three days, September 19-21, 2013, and is free to attend!
STEMxCon is a highly inclusive event designed to engage students and educators around the globe and we encourage primary, secondary, and tertiary (K-16) educators around the world to share and learn about innovative approaches to STEMx learning and teaching.
To find out about different sessions and to login to events go to http://bit.ly/1enFDFB
Last week I wrote about projections of future demand for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM – or in Germany – MINT) occupations. I suggested that predictions of skills shortages were overstated.
The same applies to computer programmers. According to the European Commission, "many vacancies for ICT practitioners cannot be filled, despite the high level of unemployment in Europe. While demand for employees with ICT skills is growing by around 3% a year, the number of graduates from computing sciences fell by 10% between 2006 and 2010.
If this trend continues, there could be up to 900 000 unfilled ICT practitioners' vacancies in the EU by 2015."
This is not the first time the European Commission has predicted skills shortages for ICT practitioners. Prior to the Millennium bug, there were once more predictions of a massive shortage of programmers. And I suspect, with a little internet searching, it would be possible to find annual predictions of skills shortages and unfilled vacancies, especially from industry lobby bodies.
One reason for this, I suggested in my previous article, is that the ICT industry has an interest in keeping wages down by ensuring an over supply of qualified workers. In this respect, a report last week on the size and value of the apps industry in Europe is interesting. The report published by industry trade body ACT, claimed that there are currently 529,000 people in full-time employment directly linked to the app economy across Europe, including 330,000 app developers with another 265,000 jobs n created indirectly in sectors like healthcare, education and media, where apps are increasingly prominent.
At first glance then, this is a rosy area for young people with a good future. But digging deeper into the data suggests something different. According to the Guardian newspaper, "In the UK specifically, the report claims that 40% of organisations involved in developing apps are one-man operations, while 58% employ up to five people. It also points out that 35% of UK app developers are earning less than $1,000 a month from their work."
1000 dollars a month is hardly a living wage, let alone a sufficient level of remuneration to justify the expense of a degree course. However this does not discourage the industry group who amongst other measures are lobbying the European Commission to strengthen the single market and develop "a flexible and supportive business environment for startups and entrepreneurs." In other words, more deregulation.
There are a number of problems in looking at skills shortages in this area. My suspicion would be that although the numbers graduating from computer science have fallen, graduates in computer and ICT related courses has risen. And demand for ICT practitioners covers a wide range of occupations. Rather than increasing the number of computer science graduates, more useful would be to ensure that ll graduates are skilled in designing and using new technologies. Of course developing such skills and competences should start at a much younger range. It is encouraging the ICT has been included in the primary school curriculum in England from next year.
The EU policy on future employment is based on the idea of job matching – of trying to match skills, qualifications and vacancies. Of course this does not work. What they should be doing is looking at prospective competences and skills – at giving young people the educations and skills to shape the future of workplace3s and employment. That could include the ability to use technology creatively in a socio-technical sense. But of course that would not suit the various industry lobby groups who are more concerned with protecting there profits than shaping the future of our society.
The debate over skills shortages is looming again. For some years national governments and the European Commission have been warning over shortages of qualified workers in Science, Engineering, Technology and Maths (STEM) . Yet a number of studies refute these claims.
A blog post on SmartPlanet quotes Robert Charette who, writing in IEEE Spectrum, says that despite the hand wringing, "there are more STEM workers than suitable jobs." He points to a study by the Economic Policy Institute that found that wages for U.S. IT and mathematics-related professionals have not grown appreciably over the past decade, and that they, too, have had difficulty finding jobs in the past five years. He lists a number of studies that refute the presence of a global STEM skills shortage. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, for one, estimates that there was a net loss of 370 000 science and engineering jobs in the U.S. in 2011.
I doubt that figures in Europe would be much different. One of the issues is how to define a 'STEM" job. In the UK jobs are classified through a system called Standard Occupational Classification. This itself has its problems. Given the desire for comparability, SOC is only updated every ten years (the last was in 2010). In a time of fast changing occupations, it is inevitably out of date. Furthermore jobs are classified to four digits. This is simply not deep enough to deal with many real occupations. Even if a more detailed classification system was to be developed, present sample sizes on surveys – primarily the Labour Force Survey (LFS) would produce too few results for many occupations. And it is unlikely in the present political and financial environment that statistical agencies will be able to increase sample sizes.
But a bigger problem is linking subjects and courses to jobs. UK universities code courses according to the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS). It is pretty hard to equate JACS to SOC or even to map between them.
The bigger problem is how we relate knowledge and skills to employment. At one time a degree was seen as an academic preparation for employment. Now it is increasingly seen as a vocational course for employment in a particular field and we are attempting to map skills and competences to particular occupational profiles. That won't really work. I doubt there is really a dire shortage of employees for STEM occupations as such. Predictions of such shortages come from industry representatives who may have a vested interest in ensuring over supply in order to keep wage rates down (more on this tomorrow). For some time now, national governments and the European Union, have had an obsession with STEM and particularly the computer industry as sources of economic competitiveness and growth and providers of employment (more to come about that, too).
However, more important may be the number of occupations which require use of mathematics or programming as part of the job. One of the problems with the present way of surveying occupational employment is that there is an assumption we all do one job. I would be pretty pushed to define what my occupation is – researcher, developer, write, journalist, project manager, company director? According to the statistics agency I can only be one. And then how the one, whichever it is, be matched to a university course. Computer programmers increasingly need advanced project management skills. I suspect that one factor driving participation in MOOCs is that people require new skills and knowledge not acquired through their initial degrees for work purposes.
My conclusions – a) Don't believe everything you read about skills shortages, and b) We need to ensure academic courses provide students with a wide range of skills and knowledge drawn from different disciplines, and c) We need to think in more depth about the link between education and work.
The future of libraries
The NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry has released its library edition. Six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in technology are identified across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years, giving library leaders and staff, they say, a valuable guide for strategic technology planning.
The NMC Horizon Report > 2015 Library Edition identifies "Increasing Value of the User Experience" and "Prioritization of Mobile Content and Delivery" as short-term impact trends driving changes in academic and research libraries over the next one to two years. The "Evolving Nature of the Scholarly Record" and "Increasing Focus on Research Data Management" are mid-term impact trends expected to accelerate technology use in the next three to five years; and "Increasing Accessibility of Research Content" and "Rethinking Library Spaces" are long-term impact trends, anticipated to impact libraries for the next five years or more.
Online Educa Berlin
Are you going to Online Educa Berlin 2014. As usual we will be there, with Sounds of the Bazaar, our internet radio station, broadcasting live from the Marlene bar on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 December. And as always, we are looking for people who would like to come on the programme. Tell us about your research or your project. tell us about cool new ideas and apps for learning. Or just come and blow off steam about something you feel strongly about. If you would like to pre-book a slot on the radio email graham10 [at] mac [dot] com telling us what you would like to talk about.
Diana Laurillard, Chair of ALT, has invited contributions to a consultation on education technology to provide input to ETAG, the Education Technology Action Group, which was set up in England in February 2014 by three ministers: Michael Gove, Matthew Hancock and David Willetts.
The deadline for contributions is 23 June at http://goo.gl/LwR65t.
Social Tech Guide
The Nominet Trust have announced their new look Social Tech Guide.
The Social Tech Guide first launched last year, initially as a home to the 2013 Nominet Trust 100 – which they describe as a list of 100 inspiring digital projects tackling the world's most pressing social issues.
In a press relase they say: "With so many social tech ventures out there supporting people and enforcing positive change on a daily basis, we wanted to create a comprehensive resource that allows us to celebrate and learn from the pioneers using digital technology to make a real difference to millions of lives.
The Social Tech Guide now hosts a collection of 100's of social tech projects from around the world tackling everything from health issues in Africa to corruption in Asia. You can find out about projects that have emerged out of disaster to ones that use data to build active and cohesive communities. In fact, through the new search and filter functionality on the site, you should find it quick and easy to immerse yourself in an inspiring array of social tech innovations."
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Manuel Pastor is the director of the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity. Kafi Blumenfield heads the Liberty Hill Foundation.
In 1992, the acquittal of four police officers accused of beating Rodney King was the match that ignited a city, setting off a wave of violence that left 53 dead, thousands injured and hundreds of businesses destroyed.
There was a lot of accumulated tinder to burn. Los Angeles was struggling with a faltering and de-industrialized economy that left too many without good jobs, a wave of demographic transition that caused ethnic and generational tensions, and a widening gap between rich and poor that was just beginning to emerge into public view — a bit like the U.S. today.
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Why the EBPS/EBPV tube needs to be cleaned
First off, my EBPV has been disconnected at the plug on the turbo pedestal for about a year with no ill effects. I had been under the impression that once disconnected, the valve and sensor were essentially turned off. This is true of the valve but not the sensor. If you search for info about the sensor you will find statements that the sensor may also control the fueling tables in the PCM. Based upon my experience this is definitely true.
First off, here are the symptoms I was experiencing that led me to start searching for answers on here:
1. The truck would randomly shift into high idle after it was warmed up.
2. Intermittent weird idle. Not bad enough to be a concern on its own, but taken in conjunction with the other symptoms it indicated something was wrong. In fact, I initially blamed this on the gray cps.
3. Mileage progressively getting worse.
4. SOTP feeling when the TC locked up that the motor wasn't running as smooth as it should.
5. SOTP feeling that I'd lost some power along the way.
I did the Exhaust Back Pressure Sensor and Tube cleaning procedure found here on Guzzle's website:
Welcome to guzzle's Exhaust Backpressure Sensor Cleaning Maintenance Web Page
Couple of notes on the above procedure: Next time I'll soak both tube nuts with PB Blaster before I start. The bottom one was especially tough to get off. I ran some wire through the tube but did not feel the need to roto-rooter it with a drill. I found it impossible to reinstall the tube from the bottom - I guess Guzzle is better at finding holes in the dark than I am . I positioned the tube from the top, finger-tightened the bottom nut then connected the top nut.
What I found was the sensor orifice was more than half blocked with soot. More importantly, the sensor bracket was completely clogged with soot. Took more than a pipe cleaner to get it clean. I've attached pics of the sensor before cleaning and the bracket after cleaning. I should have snapped a pic of the bracket before cleaning it but I didn't realize how bad it was til I started digging into it.
Test-drive results...OMG, the gradual degradation in power and throttle response was worse than I thought. Drives like a completely different truck.
Perhaps I wasn't searching using the correct terms, but it took me a while to come up with enough info to convince me to do this procedure. Hopefully, I titled this thread correctly and it will help some other guys out.
Also, I noticed in my search that a number of people asked where the plug for the EBPV is. I've included a pic of it taken from the passenger side. It's white and has a piece of electrical tape on it.
2002 F-350 SC/SB/SRW 4X4 auto- Tymar intake, AIH delete, Swamps injectors, Swamps IDM, Dieselsite Coolant Filter,
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Re: Why the EBPS/EBPV tube needs to be cleaned
Guess this is something I could check on my truck even though I deleted my ebpv pedistal..
2001 F-250 4x4 ECSB
7.3 PSD DP Tuned
6.0 I/C Van Turbo & WW
6637 Intake 5" Exhaust
Custom RR Fuel System
05 Grille/08 Center Console
Raptor 372 w/ Toyo Open
Country AT2 35/12.50
Re: Why the EBPS/EBPV tube needs to be cleaned
Any other symptoms Jim? I got AE last week and noticed that my exhaust back pressure reading is 43.5 psi all the time, whether the truck is running or not. How long did it take you to get this done? I am wondering if some of my truck problems might be this. Thanks for any info!
early 99 F250 ex cab long bed 6 spd 160k+miles bone stock!
Re: Why the EBPS/EBPV tube needs to be cleaned
Rancher, the symptoms I listed were the main ones I experienced. I can't emphasize enough how much different the truck drives now. I could swear its quieter too, but don't quote me on that one. I guess that was the hard part for me cause the symptoms were subtle, and by themselves, not all too significant. It wasn't til after that I realized how much effect a clogged sensor/tube was having on my truck.
Took me about 1.5 hours including giving PB Blaster time to work in. I'm sure most people could bang it out in about 30-60 minutes; I'm still learning so don't laugh at how long it took me!
White, that was one of the lessons I took out of this - Just cause the EBPV is disconnected or deleted doesn't mean this thing won't give you any more trouble. I would, at a minimum, take the sensor off and see what you can see. It was immediately obvious to me when I did that I had found my problem.
Re: Why the EBPS/EBPV tube needs to be cleaned
Took me a while to understand that the EBPV and EBP sensor are not really part of the same system. The sensor under the pedistal controls the valve. The sensor on the front of the motor controls a lot more than the valve.
Mine is disconnected and the truck runs fine, if I plug it in, the truck instantly dies. Something I need to fix one of these days.
Early '99 F350 DRW, Excab, LB. Auto. 2WD, 2010 bed, 2005 headlights, 298K, on my way to 1000K.
H2E, 238 Hybrids, Adrenaline oil, Tuned by Tony. DIY Regulated Return.
Re: Why the EBPS/EBPV tube needs to be cleaned
What is the benfit of having the EBPV disconnected? I though it helped warm up? Is it the reason why if I take off cold I dont build boost? It seems everytime I dont let the truck warm up, it doesnt want to build boost and when it does, it dumps it ASAP
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Re: Why the EBPS/EBPV tube needs to be cleaned
ctc deezul, that has more to do with the programming than anything,iirc.
Mine does that still even with the ebpv unplugged. Its part of the cold start parameters in the pcm. I still have highidle even though I dont have the ebpv.
2000 F250 4x4 cc/sb. 6" w/37's and some other stuff.
Re: Why the EBPS/EBPV tube needs to be cleaned
Thanks for the info Jim, I will be looking at mine here asap.
2001 F-350, Auto, No Limit Tunes, Autometer Ultra-lite gauges.
Re: Why the EBPS/EBPV tube needs to be cleaned
I am currently running a 85/175 trq tune... I had it on a 40HP tow tune the other day and it did worse when cold...
Re: Why the EBPS/EBPV tube needs to be cleaned
EBPV can start leaking oil. The hope is that if it is not in use, it won't start leaking. FWIW, I haven't noticed a difference in warm-up times.
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...and Demosthenes is ashamed of you Gary. Gary says, "At 5.35oz medium, with more down than Montbell ExLight... this jacket IS way warmer than Exlight and Ghost Whisperer – just compared...
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Castellan, as you asked, I took a shot at it. I elected to do a "tweaked" version of the second attempt. The big change was the position of the nacelles and the orientation of the nacelle pylons. I kept the "dangly dish", even though I generally dislike those.
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OCZ is known mostly for their memory products but they have also been making some serious inroads with their CPU coolers as of late. In this review we take a look at the successor to their original Vendetta heatsink: the aptly-named Vendetta 2. Can this product match blows with some of the best the industry [...]
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Big Bus Budapest Hop-On Hop-Off Tour
- Big Bus hop-on hop-off sightseeing tour of Budapest
- Use a sightseeing ticket valid for 48 hours to see Budapest at your own pace
- See top Budapest attractions including Heroes' Square, Castle Hill and Széchenyi Baths
- Listen to captivating audio commentary while aboard the open-top sightseeing bus
- Redeem your voucher at any of the designated Big Bus stops
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What You Can Expect
For those who want to sit back and relax, take the full 2-hour loop, listening to the entertaining audio commentary as you go. If you want to explore the city on foot, hop on and off wherever, and whenever, you like. Big Bus offers a range of activities to do in between daily rides, including two walking tours, a nighttime bus tour and a Danube River cruise. See the Itinerary for a full list of stops and more information on the included daily activities.
Your ticket is valid for a full 48 hours from the time of first use, and you can use it as many times as you like during that time period. Travel to Heroes' Square (Hősök tere) to see historical columns, statues and the cenotaph, or stretch your legs on a stroll through the elegant Budapest City Park. Have your camera ready to capture sights of the beautiful Danube River that snakes through the city, and hop off near must-visit sites such as Andrassy Avenue, Széchenyi Baths, Castle Hill and the Hungarian State Opera House.
Click on the 'Additional Info' button below to see a map of the Budapest Hop-On Hop-Off Tour route.
Budapest Activities (operating daily; start times listed on your booking voucher):
Explore Pest Morning walking tour (1.5 hours)
Gain insight into Budapest's rich history on a leisurely walking tour with an expert guide. The walk starts from Andrássy Avenue 3 at the Big Bus Tours Customer Service Center.
Castle District Afternoon walking tour (1 hour)
Explore Budapest's famous Castle Hill district on an easy walking tour. Along the way, catch glimpses of the Danube River, Fisherman's Bastion, Matthias Church and the Pest neighborhood, among other sights. The tour starts at Szentháromság Square in front of Matthias Church.
Panoramic Nighttime bus tour (1 hour)
Rest your feet on a relaxing evening bus tour around the illuminated city. Hear fun facts about the city's culture from your onboard guide as you admire top Budapest attractions such as Buda Royal Palace, Dohany Street Synagogue and more. The departures vary to coincide with dusk; just ask the Big Bus staff on your hop-on hop-off tour about start times.
Customer Reviews
October 2015
Great way to see the city
October 2015
Excellent informative trip
October 2015
Perfect. Really friendly and helpful staff both on the buses and in the Big Bus Office.
September 2015
It was excellent. The audio was available in multiple languages using headphones. I really like the fact that the tour not only includes the hop on and hop off bus for day days but also includes two walking tours, which were really good, the boat cruise along the Danube, and the bus tour at night. We did them all. Great value for the money.
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This was a good orientation of the city for me so i can focus on what I wanted to see in detail.
August 2015
Great way to see the City and decide what specific stops you want to get off at on the second go around. This is a must-do anytime a Hop-on Hop-off is offered in any city. We have done this at other cities and are always glad we did.
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August 2015
I took the 48 hr pass.
I recommend participating in all the tour bus activities - riding around town, walking tour, Danube cruise and night tour. I did it all and it was ever so worth it, I could have used another day.
Get a window seat, no matter what, upper deck is best and even at the back, as long as you have a view that is not impeded.
The bus tour is very well matched to the audio, that is in 23 languages - count'em 23!!!
There are some stops that you just have to make and get off . . . The Opera, Heroes' Square, Market Hall, the Citadella, near Parliament, the Royal Palace . . . it just goes on and on. Atop the the Citadella you will get the most amazing pictures, of course it is also a good place to stop and have a local beer and something to eat.
The night bus tour will offer the opportunity to take the most amazing pictures with excellent lighting. Just know that the tour does not make any stops at night, so be ready with the camera.
The Danube cruise gives you the opportunity to take spectacular pictures you would not otherwise get.
This company totally knows what they are doing and I would recommend them over the other bus tours any day!!
July 2015
Great tour. The Castle tour included in our ticket was exceptional. Thomas was an excellent guide. Highly recommend.
July 2015
An outstanding service, buses arrived at the appointed time, the commentry was clear and very informative.You can also take advantage of the other free tours which Big Bus offer. Not to be missed


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The summer issue of Leadership, due in mailboxes soon, will focus on the impact of consumerism on our faith and ministries. To get the conversation started, in this post, pastor/professor and regular Ur contributor David Fitch discusses how expository preaching can make Scripture into a commodity that people consume. You can read more about Fitch's critique of consumer driven ministry at his blog, The Great Giveaway.
There is a myth surrounding expository preaching among North American evangelicals. It goes like this: if the preacher follows the text more closely in his preaching, both he/she and the congregation will stay true to the Word of God. No other agendas or human wisdom will slither into the preaching. Implied is, if the preacher but applies the exegetical historical-critical skills learned in seminary and studies the text in its original language, (s)he can arrive at the meaning of the text all by him/herself. This is the mythology I believe is behind expository preaching in the evangelical world.
Why do I label this a mythology? Well first of all, the historical-critical method in the hands of individuals has not yielded a singular meaning as "intended by the author" in over 100 years. Instead what we have is thousands of commentaries on the Bible that present numerous unresolved options for interpreting practically every verse in the Bible. Historical-critical exegesis hasn't generated more unity over Scripture; it has generated less.
In reality what guides interpretation is not individual analysis of the text. It is the broad consensus interpretation for the biblical texts found in the ongoing history of church doctrine. The myth that expository preaching is more faithful to the text is simply not true. There ...
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Global Studios takes you on studio visits around the world. Explore an artist's work space and practice then send them a question. Each participating artist regularly selects their favourite questions and replies via video, which you can watch on this page.
Global Studios is part of Bloomberg Connects: interactive digital projects around Tate Modern that invite you to connect with art, artists and other visitors and make your ideas visible around the gallery.
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Bardonecchia is not only a small fashionable mountain town or a popular all-year-round holiday destination, but also rated in the top ten of Italy's resorts. Skiers have been flocking to these slopes for many years, bringing with them all the razzle dazzle of the Italian ski world, indeed one of Italy's past Kings was said to be a regular visitor to this part of the Susa Valley.
In 2006, Bardonecchia played host to all the snowboarding events during the Turin Winter Olympics, so its a great opportunity to try out that crazy boardercross course they built.
As a town, this place has been around since the time of the Romans and although a lot of what you find here is old, clapped-out and in need of immediate repair, the place can still cut the mustard with a well set-out series of mountain slopes that are connected by some twenty-nine lifts.
The 140 kilometres of marked pistes cover a series of mountain faces that are split either side of the valley floor, and take in the hamlets of Campo Smith, Melezet and Jafferau. The main runs on the slopes of Bardonecchia will suit all levels, but overall are best for intermediates. Campo Smith and Melezet are pretty evenly split between beginners and intermediates, although one thing that is common with all areas are the constant lift queues, which at weekends and over holidays can be stupidly long.
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DERBY - The United Christian Academy sent six graduates into the world at a graduation ceremony at the Church of God, Saturday morning.
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Ending the processional march at lake Region Union High School's graduation Sunday is 91-year-old Maurice LeClair, who was on the founding board at Lake Region. LeClair left school at the age of 13 to work on the family farm when his father suddenly passed. He is a World War II veteran. For a story and more photos of Lake Region's graduation, please see Tuesday's Newport Daily Express. (Photo by Ed Barber)
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NEWPORT CITY – Monday night the city council rejected police chief Seth DiSanto's request to apply for a federal grant, up to $125,000, the department would have used to hire a new police officer.
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NEWPORT CITY – Major changes in local primary care are on the horizon for North Country Hospital.
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DERBY LINE — The new German/Austrian restaurant and inn in Derby Line has so far been wildly popular. The owners now want to add some seating options.
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At a groundbreaking event Tuesday at Burke Mountain Resort, Bill Stenger of Jay Peak announced that the AnC Bio development planned for Newport and the 150 investors have received federal approval. Stenger said that the "business plan and investment group has been accepted by federal government and project can move forward at a brisk pace..."
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Thread: My new Cousin is finally here!!
August 27th, 2013 01:35 AM #1
My new Cousin is finally here!!
I'm SO excited because my cousin's baby is finally here! This will be the first baby in our family in 10 years and I'm so excited for the Christmases to come!
The little girl was born August 26 in the evening; she was two weeks late! She was supposed to be a Leo baby but she came out a Virgo! For a sort of hipster couple, this is a pretty tame name; but its short and sweet with a vintage first name.
Her name is Els1e Qu1nn.
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August 27th, 2013 05:46 AM #3
Congratulations to your family! I am glad all went well and she is finally here; Virgos are the best, I know an adorable little girl who is a Virgo too, she is so neat, accurate and polite.Olympia/College student/Books, arts, glasses and coffee
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August 27th, 2013 06:35 AM #5
Congrats to your family"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
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August 27th, 2013 12:43 PM #7
Congratulations to the family! She has a lovely name.
August 27th, 2013 12:49 PM #9
She has my birthday!
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... was very hot as we descended into the canyon so I was glad of all the water and snacks I had packed. I don't know if you can really get a sense of the beauty of the place from the photos but being there was very cool. The afternoon was spent relaxing, showering and doing laundry. After supper we had a campfire and listened to Dan's chill playlist. It was the perfect end to another perfect ...
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Day 6: Kodachrome to Escalante
... like the second day from Fish Lake to Junction. We were riding through a beautiful State Park. 'Gliding' through that breathtaking environment had an almost freeing effect. Momentarily I was able to just be absorbed into the moment. The cloud cover also made the ride rather pleasant, as it was not dreadfully hot. Even my electrolyte mix did not taste like hot soup that day.
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... we TRIED not to have any expectations. Our map indicated that it was going to be a lovely day of downhill riding. (Even when going down, one could also be going up. A bit of a contradiction there.J)
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