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Making it Work Perspective
Changes in Liblogs: Slouching Toward a Study
How are liblogs doing?
That's not a simple question and there may not be a plausible answer. That's never stopped me before. This Perspective is a note on what may be a work in progress. A few attendees at the Texas Library Association Conference heard snakk portions of it as part of my session on balanced libraries.
First, let's define liblogs. I don't care for the term "biblioblogosphere"—it implies too much and too little. That term might apply to a well-defined community of blogs about books themselves, one in which most participants are at least vaguely acquainted. Applied to libraries, it would necessarily include blogs from libraries and blogs about libraries.
Liblogs isn't an elegant term. When I use it, I mean what Steven Cohen calls "libr* blogs"—blogs by "library people" (as opposed to official library blogs), not limited to blogs by MLS-holding librarians. It's the term I used for the biggest study of the field: Perspective: Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle (C&I 6:10, August 2006). That study considered 213 blogs drawn from "a population of around 550 active liblogs represented in the directories and wikis." I tried to use objective, quantifiable methods for cutting the population down to size and deliberately left my personal feelings about specific blogs out of it—and avoided making personal comments on the blogs themselves. That's partly because of certain reactions to the 2005 article Perspective: Investigating the Biblioblogosphere (C&I 5:10, September 2005), which looked at 60 liblogs drawn from a pool of 238.
Second, what does "how are they doing" mean? Possible expansions of that question:
Ø Is the liblog universe growing rapidly, stabilizing or contracting?
Ø Are libloggers posting more or less frequently?
Ø Are people commenting on posts more or less often?
Ø Are people writing longer or shorter posts?
Ø Are readers more or less interested?
Ø Are bloggers losing interest or is the field flourishing?
Ø Are liblogs becoming more or less significant as sources of ideas and discussion on library-related issues?
Ø Do liblogs have more or less impact than they used to?
These are longitudinal questions—they assume a baseline against which change over time can be measured or judged.
I believe the two earlier studies provide a baseline for a sizable portion of the liblog universe. If this project continues, I plan to establish a baseline for a much larger portion of the liblog universe.
That last question? Unknowable or at least not provable. Technorati's "authority" number is a slight indicator of visibility among other blogs, but that's about it. As for Google or Live Search or Yahoo! result counts, unless they're small, those numbers are so problematic it's hard to say much about them. Longtime readers know my opinion on this issue, but it's a belief, not knowledge. The same is true for the penultimate question: It's a matter of opinion.
For that matter, "are readers more or less interested?" is probably unanswerable on a general basis or, from the outside, for an individual blog. Depending on how your blog is set up, you may or may not have a reasonably good idea of your own readership numbers, but all anyone else can do is look at Bloglines and Google Reader subscription numbers, at best a vague approximation of actual readership (and at worst simply wrong because of multiple-feed issues and abandoned aggregator accounts).
As for the other questions: "Losing interest" is tough, but I believe measures can provide clues for all of them. Are they worthwhile questions? It's fair to say that question is one reason I'm not sure whether I'll continue slouching toward the big study.
Before I started doing real-world measures, I had guesses based mostly on reading way too many liblogs and paying attention to conversational currents. Here's what I guessed in early 2008:
Ø The shine has worn off blogging. It's moved from being a shiny new thing everybody should be playing with to being an easy publishing medium that's just a tool. That might mean the universe is stabilizing or starting to contract, if you define the universe to exclude mandatory (and short-lived) liblogs created for library school courses and other web-tools learning experiences. It might mean that expansion is slower than it used to be. It might also suggest that many blogs would have less frequent posts than they had in former years, as some bloggers become less interested in blogging.
Ø The shine may have worn off reading blogs and commenting. There are too many things competing for people's attention and time allocation is the one true zero-sum game. If that's true, I'd expect to see slower rises in readership for blogs. On the other hand, good aggregators make it easier to follow multiple blogs, which might counteract this trend.
Ø Libloggers use blogs for serious, substantive discussions. It's an easy, effective publishing medium: That hasn't changed.
Put those together, and the answers to the questions in the first list might be:
Ø The universe is likely to be growing more slowly than before.
Ø I'd expect libloggers to be posting less frequently. I think some things that used to show up as short posts now wind up on Twitter.
Ø If libloggers are posting less frequently but with more substantive posts, there might be more comments per post, even with stable or slowly growing overall readership. That's my naïve guess as to what's happening—across the board, that is.
Ø It seems to me that libloggers are writing fewer but somewhat longer posts.
Ø While some bloggers have lost interest and others may be losing interest, the field as a whole is healthy, if perhaps not flourishing.
Ø As to the last two questions: I gave my opinion in August 2007 (Perspective: On the Literature), beginning with this forthright statement: "I believe that gray literature—blogs, this ejournal, a few similar publications and some lists—represents the most compelling and worthwhile literature in the library field today." I believe liblogs are becoming more significant—and within the library field as a whole, their impact is growing.
The starting point: 60 blogs with metrics for April-June 2005 and 213 blogs (including some of the 60) with metrics for March-May 2006. That doesn't add up to 273 blogs. Quite a few blogs disappeared by early 2008. (The trade paperback version of Cites & Insights 6 includes details on disappearances and changes as of December 2007.) My starting point for 2008 was 227 surviving blogs with earlier metrics; even that number is clearly too optimistic.
I wanted to expand that universe to include a reasonably comprehensive set of English-language blogs (keeping the handful of non-English 2006 blogs), with the following criteria:
Ø Not clearly defined as an official library blog.
Ø Somehow vaguely related to library people.
Ø Reachable on the open web.
Ø Established: At least one post before January 1, 2008.
Ø Not defunct: At least one post after August 31, 2007 (as of March 1, 2008).
Ø Visible: Sum of Bloglines subscriptions and Technorati "Authority" at least 9 when tested in first two weeks of March 2008. (That's a very low bar—six subscribers and links from three other blogs are enough, for example.)
If I do the actual study, I'll add one more criterion:
Ø Semi-active: At least one post in two of the three months March, April, May 2008.
PubSub is defunct and the Open Directory seems stagnant, but there are new ways to identify liblogs in addition to LISWiki, still the primary source for "libr*" blogs:
Ø Blogs included in the "Favorite blogs" survey done by Meredith Farkas as reported in Information wants to be free.
Ø Blogs in the LISZen source list.
Ø Blogs in the source list for Dave Pattern's "tag cloud" of liblog posts.
Ø Blogs I discovered on my own.
According to records I kept during the process, I added 48 new blogs from the "Favorite blogs" list, 81 more blogs from LISZen, 37 from LISWiki, nine from the tag cloud and 29 from my own Bloglines list. That's clearly wrong, since I added 315 liblogs and the sum of those numbers is 204. Where did I find the other 111? That's a good question.
I can say that, of some 450 new candidates from those sources, roughly one-third were defunct and another 90-odd are "invisible"—they have so few subscribers or links that they appear intended strictly for a small circle of friends. I believe many of the defunct blogs are mandated blogs, where the student has deleted the blog (or stopped posting) at the end of a course or learning session—but hasn't gone back and removed it from LISWiki.
In 2006, I thought there were about 550 visible liblogs (including a handful of non-English liblogs appearing in LISWiki). That appeared to be more than twice the number in 2005—a remarkable growth rate. In 2008, the universe of visible English-language liblogs (plus the same handful) appears larger, but only slightly: Maybe 650 to 800 with at least a hint of continuing activity. Looking at my current list of 542, I see this distribution, noting that start dates can be thrown off by changes in platform or names:
Ø Eight started before 2002.
Ø 24 started in 2002.
Ø 74 started in 2003.
Ø 84 started in 2004.
Ø 154 started in 2005.
Ø 112 started in 2006.
Ø 86 started in 2007.
First conclusion: The liblog universe isn't shrinking—but it's not growing as rapidly as it used to. Based on that distribution, the peak of new-blog creation came in 2005, which sounds about right.
This could be nonsense. Maybe liblogs have continued to double each year, such that there are now at least 2,200 active English-language liblogs, but two-thirds of them aren't in LISWiki or noticed elsewhere. That could be true—but I doubt it. I'd believe 1,100: I can believe that half of the liblogs with more than four or five readers still manage to fly under the radar.
If you subscribed to all of the liblogs in that "visible universe" (542 of them), could you skim the posts without being completely overwhelmed?
I tried that absurd experiment, adding every blog Bloglines could find a feed for (and keeping a handful of official library blogs already in my Library folder, for a total of 551 feeds).
The answer is Yes—although I can't imagine why you'd want to. Somewhere between 60 and 150 blogs were updated on typical weekdays, with an average of around 250 posts. I needed about 45 minutes to skim them and read the 30 or 40 that interested me. After a week, I deleted three very high frequency blogs. For the second week in mid-March 2008, I counted an average of 221 posts per day.
Just for fun (it's a meaningless comparison), I compared posts per day per blog for this larger universe with the two earlier studies. For 2008, the average was 0.41 posts per day per blog. For 2006, the average was 0.49 posts per day per blog—a difference but not a big one. For the 2005 sample, the average was 0.92 posts per day per blog, but that was a handpicked set of high-profile blogs.
First, I defined the preliminary universe for any 2008 study. Then I began assembling 2007 metrics, using March-May, to do two things:
Ø Establish an overall baseline for one-year change evaluation if I do the big project.
Ø Look at changes between earlier years and 2007, for the 227 blogs that were in earlier studies and still around.
This time, I looked at number of posts, number of comments, total length of posts—but also number of images (videos, photos, drawings, whatever) in the posts. I also made a couple of other changes for clarity and ease:
Ø If a blogger doesn't allow comments, I noted that in a validity column and left the comment space blank instead of entering zero.
Ø If a blog's archives have fully or partially hidden posts, I noted that in the validity column and just counted posts (and comments, if comment counts were visible), leaving the length and picture columns blank.
Ø If a blog's archives weren't available at all, I noted that in the validity column and left all columns blank. For the purposes of this preliminary note, I excluded the blog altogether.
Thanks to changes in my work environment and improvements in Word2007, the process of building metrics was much faster than in previous studies, so I could do the first part of the 2007 metrics before deciding whether to do the full study. The rest of this article offers notes from those metrics.
"But wait," you might say, "you're mixing 2005-2007 comparisons and 2006-2007 comparisons." That's true, but when I looked at the subgroups (43 blogs in the 2005 study that weren't also in the 2006 study, "all the others"), it appears that changes on a blog-for-blog basis are reasonably comparable.
The universe for these comparisons is 201 blogs. The other 26 were either unreachable or had unreachable or uncountable archives.
The total posts in the earlier study period (whichever it was) for these 201 blogs: 11,948, or an average of 130 per day. Total posts in 2007 for the same blogs: 9,618 or 105 per day—20% fewer. That's a reduction in overall posts, but not a large one.
For what it's worth, the earlier average posts per blog (for blogs still active) was 59 and the median was 38—but the standard deviation is 76, which makes "average liblog" a meaningless term. Similarly for 2007: average 48 posts, median 28 posts—but a standard deviation of 76.
Want a truly strange pair of figures? I calculated 2007 posts for each blog as a percentage of 2005 or 2006 posts. The average of those percentages is actually 112%—but the median is 76%, close to the overall 80% figure. The standard deviation for the percentages? 159%.
I thought it was worth looking at changes in post counts on a more granular level, taking into account extremes:
Ø One extreme is blogs with very high posting frequency. I used two posts per day in 2005 or 2006 as a cutoff (that is, 184 posts—but no blogs had between 176 and 194 posts). There are eleven such blogs, ranging from Attempting elegance (which had a different name in the earlier study) with 195 posts to beSpacific with 723, the other nine ranging from 206 to 371 posts. Seven of those eleven are within a change range I'd consider "roughly the same"—from three-quarters as many posts (75%) to four-thirds as many (133%), three having slightly more posts in 2007, four having slightly fewer posts. The outliers: Collecting my thoughts had 36% more posts, Out of the jungle had only 39% as many posts (88 instead of 225)—and Attempting elegance, a very different blog than its high-frequency predecessor, had 7% as many posts (13 instead of 195).
Ø The other extreme is blogs with too few posts in the earlier studies to make changes meaningful. I used nine posts as a cutoff. Thirty blogs fall into that infrequent-posting category. Every blog with more than 3.5 times as many posts in 2007 as in the previous study fell into this category—nine of them, none of which had more than eight posts the first time around or more than 50 in 2007.
Ø Of the other 160 blogs, 56 are "roughly the same"—the 2007 post count is between 75% and 133% of the 2005 or 2006 count. Sixteen had significantly more posts in 2007, including nine with at least twice as many posts. That leaves 88 with significantly fewer posts in 2007, including 46 with less than half as many posts.
It's fair to say a lot more people did significantly less posting to their blogs in 2007 than did significantly more posting. Will that trend continue for a larger universe and from 2007 to 2008?
Some liblogs don't allow comments. Others make commenting difficult. Still others, for whatever reason, don't attract comments. And in some archives with hidden posts, comment counts are also hidden.
For this note and comparison, I'm ignoring any blog that had no comments on posts during March-May either in 2005/2006 or in 2007. That omits some blogs with comments in one year but not the other and leaves 141 blogs with comments in both years.
The overall figure is clear enough: There were significantly more comments in 2007 than in the earlier years—about 37% more. Liblogs were, across a broad sample, more conversational in 2007 than in earlier samples.
For 2005-2006, the average comment count per blog is 57 and the median a mere 24—with standard deviation around 99. For 2007, the average is 48 and the median is 31, with a standard deviation of 62.
One extreme—blogs with loads of comments—could be 800 or 400 in 2007. Two blogs had more than 800 comments: A fuse #8 production (1,689) and Annoyed librarian (813). In the first case, comments more than doubled from the previous study. In the second, where the blog barely existed in time for the earlier study, there were nearly twentyfour times as many comments in 2007 as in 2006. Four more blogs had between 416 and 457 comments: Text & blog, Collecting my thoughts, LibrarianinBlack and Slaw.
Many blogs rarely have comments, but 93 more blogs had at least 10 comments in 2007. Roughly half of those had 50 or more comments, including 22 averaging more than a comment a day.
To consider changes, it's necessary to look at the extremes for 2005-2006. Viewed that way, there are three "many comments" blogs: A fuse #8 production, Zenformation professional and Slaw. 104 more blogs had 10 or more comments.
Within that middle group, ten blogs had at least three times as many comments in 2007. Another ten had at least twice as many comments. Another eighteen had substantially more comments—at least one-third more than in the previous study. Twenty-one blogs stayed roughly the same (75% to 133%), while 44 had significantly fewer comments overall. In all, leaving out extremes, 48 blogs had significantly more comments, 44 had significantly fewer.
If a blogger posts ten items a day and gets one comment per post, they'll wind up with a lot of comments—but a blogger who posts once a week and gets 20 comments per post has more extensive conversations.
Let's look at comments per post. Across all 142 blogs with comments in both quarters, the "average post" had 1.0 comments in the 2005/2006 studies—and 1.6 in 2007, a significant 60% difference. Looking at individual blogs, the average of average comments per post was 1.2 in the earlier studies, 1.7 in 2007—still significant.
Three blogs had very high conversational intensity in 2005/2006—more than four comments per post: Zenformation professional, Vampire librarian, and InfoTangle. All three have lots of comments per post in 2007, although Vampire librarian declined slightly. At the other end, 46 blogs averaged less than one comment for every two posts in the earlier studies.
Leaving out the extremes, five blogs more than tripled the average number of comments per post—and they're not all within the group that tripled overall comments. Another six more than doubled conversational intensity. 29 more increased comments per post by more than a third. 31 blogs show relatively minor changes and 21 had significant drops in average comments per post—in five cases dropping to no more than one-fifth the figure in the previous study. That's 40 with significantly more comments per post, 21 with significantly fewer.
Overall? There was more conversation—but not for every blog or every post. The first is encouraging. The second is certainly not news.
Here, comparisons include 162 blogs. The nature of archives in other blogs precluded calculating text length without doing an unreasonable amount of work.
The total length was less than in the previous study, but not by much: 89.5% as long.
For overall length, using earlier figures, there are two extremely long blogs (more than 140,000 words in 2005 or 2006), A fuse #8 production and Out of the jungle. The first is still extremely long, down just 3% in 2007. The second dropped to typical length in 2007. Another four blogs were very long, between 53,000 and 83,000 words: Slaw, Gypsy librarian, Collecting my thoughts, and the blog now called Attempting elegance. One of those grew considerably longer, one stayed about the same and two got considerably shorter.
It's hard to say what constitutes an extremely short blog, but I'll suggest two thousand words over three months as a cutoff. Twenty-three blogs had fewer than 2,000 words in the earlier study—including nine with fewer than 1,000 words. Three of those nine wouldn't be included using my current criteria, as they had only one post during the quarter.
In the middle? Eight blogs more than tripled in length, another seven more than doubled, and another 18 grew by more than a third. Forty-three stayed roughly the same (from 75% to 133%). In all, 33 grew significantly longer and 58 got significantly shorter—including 17 that had less than one-fifth as much text in 2007 as in the previous study.
Length per post is a more meaningful number than length per blog. Overall, posts were slightly longer. For the 163 blogs where I could verify length in both samples, the "average post" was 232 words in earlier samples, 262 words in 2007. That difference is only 13%, not very significant.
In both samples, one blog stands out for true essay-length posts: InfoTangle, which averaged 1,463 words per post in the earlier study, 1,713 words per post in 2007. In 2007, one other blog exceeded the thousand-word mark: Zenformation professional, where the average post grew from 634 words to 1273 words.
I'm not sure it makes sense to exclude extremes when looking at percentage changes, although it may make sense to exclude blogs with very few posts. Looking at the whole sample, here's what I see:
Ø Five blogs had at least a tripling of the average length per post: blogwithoutalibrary.net, Reflective librarian, Librarian's rant, Filipino librarian, and Information wants to be free.
Ø For fifteen more blogs, average post length more than doubled.
Ø Forty-one more blogs showed significant increases (34 to 99 percent).
Ø Fully 61—more than a third of the blogs—stayed about (the average post in 2007 was 75% to 132% as long as the average post in 2005 or 2006).
Ø Relatively few bloggers became significantly more concise: 37, including 17 where average posts were less than half as long.
Ø There are six blogs where the average 2007 post was less than one-third as long as the average in an earlier study—but in five of those cases, one of the quarters has so few posts that the results don't mean much.
Ø Overall, that's 61 blogs with significantly longer posts, 37 with significantly shorter posts.
For a fairly broad range of liblogs in March-May 2007, as compared to a similar period one or two years earlier:
Ø Bloggers post somewhat less often.
Ø People leave more comments in general and substantially more comments per post.
Ø Blogs are slightly shorter but posts are slightly longer.
Ø The universe of liblogs is probably not growing as fast as it was in 2005 and 2006, but may still be growing. It's certainly neither collapsing nor shrinking rapidly.
Will I do the full study? I'm still inviting comments; go to Walt at Random (walt.lishost.org) and search for "liblogs waste"—or go directly to walt.lishost.org/?p=751. Comments may help me decide whether or not to do the big study, and will certainly help me decide how to do it—what to include in the book that might result. Comments will be more useful before June 8, 2008.
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For My Grandma on Her 92nd Birthday
Grandma, you most definitely have to know
That your spirit in me certainly does show.
Your love, your respect, your generosity,
Those are the things you gave to me that others can see.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,
That is the main thing you showed me to do.
Not through just words but through actions.
You LOVED helping people and that's still your passion.
By watching you, I learned how to act,
Grandma, I don't think you will EVER know your TRUE impact.
My heavenly Father above placed you in my world,
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But Grandma, more than words, you SHOWED it to me.
My goal in life has always been to make you proud,
Even though I may not have said it out loud.
But the thing about you that makes me with pride puff up,
Is that me just being me, for you is enough.
When people see me and all that shines,
Grandma, please know that you're the one behind
That part of me that has this GLOW,
That everyone just rushes to know.
YOU'RE the one that always showed me,
That virtuous woman I was meant to be.
I LOVE YOU, Grandma and I thank God above,
For saturating my life with your unconditional love.
So Happy Birthday, my love, you should really celebrate,
Be BLESSED, you're LOVED, and please know that YOU ARE GREAT!
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Happy 92nd Birthday Grandma Winnie
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Most CEOs would say their companies don't train and orient new employees as well as they'd like -- including, until last year, Sally Tassani. Her solution? The buddy system. Each new hire at Tassani Communications Inc., Tassani's Chicago advertising and public-relations firm, is paired with a veteran employee at a similar job level, usually from another department. The buddy answers questions, makes introductions, and assays the ins and outs of Tassani corporate culture.
"We were frustrated that we weren't providing adequate job training, especially when going through fast growth," says president and founder Tassani. "New people really need someone they can go to and say, 'This is what they said, but I don't understand.' When the buddy is a peer from another department, new employees aren't as inhibited about asking questions."
New employees usually avail themselves of their buddy for a couple of months. "It's a great way to get everybody in the company involved with training," Tassani adds. "And it doesn't take a lot of any one person's time or money."


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To listen to a song clip, click on a song title below. This will take you to a list of links to CD and/or MP3 product pages from one or more online merchants that have sound samples. To find other songs by a band or artist listed on this page, click on a name.
- Back Home Again John Denver 1974
- Back In My Arms Again The Supremes 1965
(This song topped both the R&B and Pop/Rock charts and later also became a hit for Genya Ravan (1978).)
- Back Off Boogaloo Ringo Starr 1972
- Back On My Feet Again The Foundations 1968
- Back On The Street Again The Sunshine Company 1967
- Back Stabbers The O'Jays 1972
- Back Up Train Al Greene And The Soul Mates 1967
- Back When My Hair Was Short Gunhill Road 1973
- Backfield In Motion Mel And Tim 1969
- Bad, Bad Leroy Brown Jim Croce 1973
(This song topped the charts and later also became a hit for Frank Sinatra (1974).)
- Bad Blood Neil Sedaka 1975
(This song, in which Elton John provides backing vocals, topped the charts.)
- Bad Luck (Part 1) Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes 1975
(This song later also became a hit for the Atlanta Disco Band (1976).)
- Bad Moon Rising Creedence Clearwater Revival 1969
- Bad Time Grand Funk 1975
- Bad To Me Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas 1964
- Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) The Temptations 1970
- Ball Of Fire Tommy James And The Shondells 1969
- The Ballad Of John And Yoko The Beatles 1969
- The Ballad Of The Green Berets Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler 1966
(This patriotic ballad topped both the Adult Contemporary and Pop/Rock charts.)
- Ballero War 1974
- Ballroom Blitz Sweet 1975
- Band Of Gold Mel Carter 1966
(This song was previously a hit for Don Cherry (1956), Kit Carson (1956), and the Hi-Fi Four (1956).)
- Band Of Gold Freda Payne 1970
- Band On The Run Paul McCartney And Wings 1974
(This song topped the charts.)
- Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) Cher 1966
- Bang-Shang-A-Lang The Archies 1968
- Barbara The Temptations (Of 'Barbara' Fame) 1960
- Barbara-Ann The Regents 1961
(This song later also became a hit for the Beach Boys (1966).)
- Barbara Ann The Beach Boys 1966
(Same song as the above)
- Barbara, I Love You The New Colony Six 1970
- Barefoot In Baltimore Strawberry Alarm Clock 1968
- Barefootin' Robert Parker 1966
- (Love Is Like A) Baseball Game The Intruders 1968
- Basketball Jones Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces Cheech And Chong 1973
("Basketball Jones" is a parody of "Love Jones" by the Brighter Side of Darkness. In this hilarious spoof, the song narrator complains about not being able to get to sleep at night because he sleeps with his basketball under his pillow.)
- Batman & His Grandmother Dickie Goodman 1966
- Batman Theme The Marketts 1966
(This instrumental song, which was based on the TV series title theme, also became a hit for Neal Hefti (1966).)


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This post in part of a series about produce auctions across the USA. While this is not a comprehensive list, I have tried to include auctions about which I can find information. If you know of any others, feel free to leave a note in the comments section.
While the weather is turning down right frigid in various parts of the country, before you know it Spring will be knocking at your door. While you are looking through your seed catalogs and planning out your new garden's beginnings, try adding in a bit of fun and adventure – check out a local produce auction. In the Spring, you may find plants as well as fresh spring vegetables. Some of the auctions start in April others will hold off till May.
Wakarusa Produce Auction – Open 3 days a week: Monday 1 p.m., Wednesday 11 a.m., Friday 11 a.m. From their website:
"We are open from the last week in April to the end of October. We auction produce grown in Elkhart County by local farmers. "
Adams County Flower & Produce Auction LLC – from their website: Their website is currently down. The link will be updated if a new one exists.
"Opening for business in July 2004, our purpose is to sell high quality produce grown by local farmers specifically for wholesale buyers such as stores, roadside stands, farm markets, distribution companies, etc. Located in Northern Indiana, auctions are held April thru October EVERY TUESDAY & THURSDAY AT 10:00 AM, with specialty auction dates for Hay, Straw and Firewood."
Wayne County Produce Auction – located in Williamsburg, Indiana. According to an article written in 2013 on Amish365.com , "The auction is open every Monday, Wednesday and Friday through Oct. 19. The only exceptions are Oct. 3 and 10. The auction opens at 1 p.m. Mondays and 10 a.m. Wednesdays and Fridays."
"The auction schedule varies, but generally sales are held May through October, at 2 p.m. Mondays and 10 a.m. Wednesdays and Fridays. (Call ahead to confirm.) If you're planning to bid, buy a number in the front office ($10 per season) before joining the action."
Daviess County Produce Auction, located at 5667 N County Road 900 E, Montgomery, Indiana begins their auctions in mid-April and end in October. The year starts off with items you can use to decorate your yard, as well as plants for the garden. As the year continues you will be able to find in season vegetables and fruits. Their phone number is 812-486-2445. Sales begin at 1 p.m. on Mondays, 9 a.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays.


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As the June 30 deadline approaches for the Pennsylvania Legislature to pass the state budget, Penn State President Eric Barron is cautiously optimistic that the University will receive the level funding included in the governor's 2014-15 budget proposal in February, in spite of the serious revenue challenge the state is experiencing.
"The House Appropriations Committee has approved unanimously the bill that sets our appropriation at the proposed level, so it now is positioned to move forward for legislative action," said Barron. "This is good news, especially since the state currently is grappling with a significant $1.5 billion estimated budget gap, and we understand the tight fiscal situation officials face."
The legislation, House Bill 2334, sets the University's appropriation at $214.1 million for educational general support and nearly $15.6 million for Penn College. It still must be passed by the full Legislature, and signed by Gov. Tom Corbett, before the figures can be considered final. Typically, the governor signs the main budget package before addressing the state-related universities appropriation bills.
News out of Harrisburg on June 24 was that Corbett remains optimistic that he and the Legislature can meet the deadline to have a budget passed and signed before the new fiscal year begins on July 1, but there are some sticking points between the Legislature and the governor that could cause a delay.
The timing of the state budget passage is important to the University because it is difficult to develop a specific and final budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year that addresses tuition levels and other line items without knowing the final appropriation figure the University will receive. University officials have said they will work hard to keep any tuition increase in the same zone as the last two years. The most recent tuition increase — an aggregate increase of 2.76 percent for undergraduate students — was the second lowest at the University since 1967.
The Board of Trustees passed an interim maintenance and operating budget at its May meeting. The final 2014-15 Penn State budget is scheduled for presentation to the board for approval at its next meeting, July 10-11 at Penn State Schuylkill.
If the state has not yet passed its budget when the board convenes, it is likely that the trustees will need to call a special meeting of the Board to approve the budget when the appropriation becomes final.


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Caterpillar is establishing a clear lead in the design and production of liquefied natural gas fueled propulsion systems through its MaK™ branded products. With a global network, and industry-leading after-sales service, the company provides complete tailor-made systems extending from the shore-side bunker station to the ship's main engine and propeller, all from one supplier. New purpose-designed systems are available for a range of ship types while the engine maker's existing marine diesel engines have been successfully modified for dual-fuel use.
Now that liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering infrastructure is expanding in key locations around the world, ship operators are taking a fresh look at the feasibility of LNG as a marine fuel.Many see LNG as the smart new option, complying with all existing and upcoming regulations on emissions of SOx, NOx, particulate matter and CO2. The technology faces plenty of challenges – technical, operational and, of course, from a safety point of view – but it has already been successfully adopted by a number of progressive owners, notably in northern Europe and the US.
Cruise lines are pioneering the transformational move away from heavy fuel oils and distillates to LNG as the principal fuel for their ships. At the cruise sector's largest annual conference and exhibition in Florida in 2016, one cruise line CEO predicted that 80% of cruise ships will be running on LNG by 2025, an opinion that led to lively debate.
All of the cruise sector's biggest names – and a number of smaller ones – are weighing up gas-fuelled propulsion systems for next generation vessels. Their ships are highly visible, calling sometimes in populous city centres as well as remote environmentally sensitive beauty spots. 'Ships' hotel power load is heavy at all times, during port calls too, and any impact on the local environment is clear to see. Their cargo is people and they want repeat business. Black smoke from the funnel or soot on the deck by the swimming pool is unacceptable.
However, the cruise industry is not alone. Steadily tightening emission regulations pose new and complex fuel management challenges for many. Companies in the firing line include ferry firms, container lines, short-sea operators, offshore vessel owners and the providers of inshore and harbour service vessels including tugs and workboats.
Amongst the power system providers, Caterpillar is in pole position and has already developed tailor-made LNG propulsion systems for a wide range of vessel types. Via its MaK brand, Caterpillar is working closely with an external LNG and cryogenic specialist to offer tailor-made systems for retrofit and newbuilding. The cooperation means that every link in the engineering chain from bunker flange to propeller – and everything in between – is available from a single source.
Caterpillar specializes in all aspects of LNG fuel and propulsion – from front end engineering design (FEED) studies to engine architecture and the new technologies that raise operating efficiency. Its solutions include special features to minimise methane slip, incorporating variable valve timing, flexible camshaft technology and a Caterpillar patented 'waste gate'. These innovations collaborate to avoid part-load choking, optimize the fuel/air mixture to provide fast upload response times and efficient low-load operation.
System safety is ensured through Caterpillar's control and monitoring process, which continuously tracks engine performance in real time. In-cylinder pressure monitoring devices prevent engine knocking by adjusting fuel injection and valve timings within the accepted tolerance range, with alarms set off should out-of-range exceptions occur.
The bespoke handling solutions covers the entire fuel gas supply system, including storage tanks, scalable vaporiser system, double-walled piping systems inerted with nitrogen at up to ten bar, and components including pumps, valves, level sensors and insulation. Most importantly, the gas conditioning system expertise ensures that engine fuel is of the right quality to be supplied at the right temperature and pressure to vaporise into a gas which can be burned in the dual fuel engines. Effective fuel control and management is paramount.


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Topic: Oops (01/14/10)
- TITLE: L For Lucy | Previous Challenge Entry
By PamFord Davis
Truth is often stranger then fiction; and in some cases it is just as entertaining. We can all recall embarrassing moments, or something funny our children or grandchildren said. If Hollywood cameras were rolling, we might be nominated for an award. Can we see the lighter side of life and laugh at ourselves? Hindsight makes it easier. We are our own worst critic. Let's learn to roll with the punches.
Both Lucy and Ethel and their counterparts Laverne and Shirley became involved in various money making schemes. The packaging of candy at a conveyor belt by Lucy and Ethel is a classic that still keeps us in stitches. If my memory is correct Laverne and Shirley worked in a toy factory after the sitcom shifted from Wisconsin to Southern California. Learning the ropes on any job is not easy; and the stress level is high. Could that stress be switched to laughter?
I remember a time when I needed extra money as a young wife and mother. I filled out several job applications at stores and restaurants close to our home. After I finished an application at A&W Drive Inn, the manager approached me. He conducted a brief interview and hired me as a Car Hop-Dish Washer. It would be a part time job and seemed like something I could handle. I would soon get on the job training.
My hands were in and out of hot soapy water most of the shift. Dish washing has never been a hated chore. Electric dish washers are wonderful; but the comforting feeling of hot dish water up to my elbows is something I enjoy. Maybe I never grew up and I like playing in soap suds. There is a down side to most things; and I discovered going from dish water to cold outside weather conditions is not a nice combination. My hands were chapped, cracked and sore. Hand lotion offered little improvement.
Any fan of A&W quickly remembers the chilled mugs to hold the famous root beer. The foamy head of soda really hits the spot when sipped off the top of the heavy handled mug. The glasses were so popular that customers even purposely removed them before returning their trays. The owners took inventory and I came up short. They docked me for the cost; and my small pay check shrunk a little more.
I will always be grateful that I did not need to wear roller skates when I took and delivered orders. That would have been instant disaster. If some one dropped a banana peel after making a banana split, I would have found it the hard way. I can not blame my most embarrassing escapade on skates, only my clumsy hands. I carried the tray with the requested order including the famous heavy A&W chilled root beer mug. The man rolled down his window and a routine procedure turned into a super-sized suds spill. The sticky root beer ran down inside his car and I wanted to become invisible. Oops! I do not think he laughed and applauded his free soda shower. He wiped up as much of the spill as he could, and likely repeated the story with aggravation. Lucy would have rushed home to cry in the loving arms of Ricky. I found needed comfort and encouragement from my husband. I tucked the story away filed under L for Lucy. If life is a balancing act I failed the test. Today remembering my awkwardness puts a smile on my big mug.
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One of the best gauges for increasing data volumes from Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) is whether your lab is exceeding the scalability of a native ODBC driver. From recent engagements, I am seeing a growing trend with pharmaceutical companies running LIMS software on Oracle. These environments are increasing their data access loads that require DataDirect Connect for ODBC Oracle Wire Protocol drivers.
More specifically, integrating LIMS and Chromotography Data Systems (CDS) can exceed the capabilities of native ODBC drivers. The wire protocol architecture of DataDirect Oracle Wire Protocol drivers is designed for these environments (i.e. StarLims or Labware interfaces to Empower), and it is exciting to consult on data access for systems that are constantly adapting to advancements in scientific innovation and instrumentation.
Below is an interview focused around data connectivity with an end user PhD Biologist from a multinational pharmaceutical company in Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC. The DataDirect office in RTP is conveniently surounded by thousands of professionals using LIMS software (45% of tenants in the park are in Life Sciences).
What kind of data is stored in the LIMS systems?
As a biologist, the type of data we store is derived from biological experiments. This includes multiple fields starting from dates and unique experiment identifiers to type of cell lines, numbers of cells used, specific compounds tested, and the end results such as cytotoxicity concentrations or inhibitory concentrations.
What are the sources of the data?
The source is biological experiments in my set
Do you know the vendors of the LIMS application?
I have used generic applications such as ActivityBase and also home grown software that is specific (and integral) to each company.
How does performance of the system impact your daily work, and work done in the lab?
The system needs to be up and running consistently so that we can document any results produced in the lab on a regular basis for two reasons: IP purposes and the ability to share data in a time-sensitive manner.
What changes have you observed over time in these systems?
We are doing most of these things to ease accessibility and accommodate large data volumes. All of our systems are also integrated so that different data sets are linked based on a unique identifier. We use multiple software add-ons (mostly for Excel) that tailor to our specific needs, but there are biostatistic-specific software available for more involved data analysis.
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1) Land & House – In order to be self sufficient you must have land to produce the things you need and a house to live in. You must be able to secure your land, and you must own it all 100%. Banks and creditors are one of the biggest enemies.
2) Weapons for hunting (Talk to local hunting groups)
3) Open pollinated, Non GMO, Non-Hybrid Heirloom seeds for vegetables, grain, animal feed – In a truly self sufficient situation, the ability to produce crops year after year is essential. This will also provide you with a product you can sell or trade in the form of food or seeds. The addition of flax and cotton seed will allow you to produce raw materials for clothing as well. The lists is long and includes Hemp, Sugar, Tobacco. Fruit Trees, Herbs, Spices etc etc etc
4) Gardening tools – Tools such as a shovels, hoes, rakes, picks and broad fork can allow a person to plant small plots with a minimal amount of tools and expense. Ash trees on your land will provide good handles for ever.
5) Water filters – A good water filter will help keep your family healthy especially if your water source is above ground. The Big Berkey Water Filter is a good one.
Berkey BK4X2-BB Big Berkey Filtration System with 2 Black Filters and 2 Fluoride Filters. Must also make Animal And Garden Water Filters with 40 Gallon Drums, Sand, Charcoal and Gravel. Wind powered water pump. Hand cranked water pump.
6) Hand operated grain mill – These allow you to process your own grains into a more edible form. A good mill that can process herbs, grains and nuts will provide you with food staples and possibly even a barter item. Some can be attached to bicycles which is a good idea when the electricity is out.
7) Wood cook stove – This will provide cooking, heating and hot water capability and the ability to work with your own fuel from local sources.
8) Oil Lamps – These are the most basic lighting source you can have and the ability to make your own lamp fuel will make you truly independent. 10 Metres of Wick. There is another section on lighting.
9) Quality knives for butchering – An inexpensive set of knives may work just fine for normal kitchen preparation but for processing homegrown meat you need durable knives that can handle the stress and maintain a sharp edge. I'd personally recommend SMITHFIELDS London.
10) Cast iron cookware – This is something that can last you a lifetime. It can be more cost effective over a long period compared to the lightweight cookware many now buy, especially the kind with non-stick coatings.
11) Pressure cookers for canning and cooking – Pressure cookers are necessary to can some items and also enable you to cook some meals much faster helping you to conserve fuel. It can also make some cuts of meat much more tender such as older chickens.
12) Canning jars & Reusable canning lids – These would allow you to preserve some of the harvest for later use and provide you with a reusable storage medium that can last for decades. A supply of at least 10 cases of quart jars per person is a good average to start with but individual needs may vary from person to person.
13) Storable Food – Mountain House & Vitamins. Stored food must be supplemented. by fresh food and vitamins.
14) Ethanol still – This can provide you with alcohol to drink, use as an antiseptic or as a fuel for lamps or internal combustion engines. It provides an excellent product to sell or trade. Can also make essential oils and terps etc.
15) Charcoal foundry – This is a useful item on a homestead and can be nothing more than a metal 5 gallon bucket with fireclay lining and a crucible that can melt a few pounds of scrap metal. It can provide you with the means to make simple tools and hardware items such as nails and hinges. This can provide you with a good product to barter.
16) Sewing kit – This should include supplies to repair or construct clothing and may include a manual sewing machine and tools to sew canvas and leather. The more supplies you have the better. This can be a useful skill to sell or trade.
17) Wood cutting tools – Several good axes, wood cutting saw, wedges and a splitting maul are essential for building a homestead from scratch and for providing fuel for cooking and heating. If you plan to move logs, a good chain and skidder tongs would also be very useful. Tools that don't need electricity.
18) Basic carpenters tool kit – A good set of carpentry tools will allow you to build just about anything out of wood that you might need. A kit containing a saw, claw hammer, half hatchet, coping saw, wood chisels, tin snips, chalk line, 25' tape measure, 300' tape measure, level, manual drill and set of bits, brace and bits, block plane, draw plane, tri-square, miter box and saw, staple gun, utility knife and extra blades, plumb bob and string and a set of wood files will give you good capabilities.
19) Salt – This is an item that many may forget. The human body needs salt to function properly. Many of the canned foods we now buy contain lots of salt but when you process your own foods it is something you will need to add. You will need salt for cooking and preserving meats. How much you need will depend on how much preserving you do but if you are storing salt for future use you can never have too much meaning hundreds of pounds would not be overdoing it.
20) Bee hives – This is an item many may not think about but it offers many advantages to a storage plan. Honey is a good substitute for sugar and you can make it in your own back yard. It can be used for cooking recipes, as a syrup and is a good antibacterial when used on wounds. Bees wax will also provide you with material for candles.
21) Fire starting capability – Fire is something that would be difficult to do without. We use it for cooking, light, heating and processing. Having a supply of butane lighters, matches or flint and steel would give you the ability to create fire when you need it in the short term. Wood supply and methane creator for the longer term.
22) Medical supplies – On a self sufficient homestead you may be in a location or in a situation where you don't have access to a doctor or professional help. In the event you have a mishap you will need the ability to care for yourself or a family member. Your medical supplies will reflect your ability and will increase over time with your knowledge but there are some basic items you should start with. Iodine, band aids, roll gauze, gauze pads, tape, trauma pads, blood stopper, antibiotic ointment, ace bandage, burn cream, splint, tourniquet, aspirin, calamine lotion, butterfly closures, cotton balls, oil of cloves, emergency dental kit, EMT shears, thermometer, razor blades, alcohol pads, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, Epson salts. Honey, apple cider vinegar and garlic provide healing capabilities for many illnesses and are good to keep around the house also.
23) Building Materials– Cement, Bricks, Woods, Nails etc etc etc
24) Good reference library – This is something everyone should have regardless of where they live. Knowledge is the first step to doing anything. Books that detail emergency medical procedures, growing plants, veterinary skills, cooking, herbal remedies, construction techniques using locally available materials, making cloth and clothing, butchering and preserving meat and dozens of other titles you may determine useful give you a distinct edge when you are thrown back on your own resources.
25) Household Goods - Bleach, Clothes, Soap, Terps and making them from scratch etc etc etc
26) Animals for food & Animal Shelters, Barbed Wire. - Chickens, Rabbits, Goats, Pigs, Sheep, Cattle.
Multiple Shelters, Containers and Feeders.
Duck pond.
Pig Arch.
27) Horses/Mule/Donkey
PULLING - Logs (out of the forest to sawing area)
PULLING - Mole Plough (Drainage)
PULLING - Plough
PULLING - Harrow
PULLING - Roller
PULLING - Cultivator
PULLING - Furrow
PULLING - Fence Tension
PULLING - Cart
28) Fishing Kit, Traps and Snares. Trapping is easier than hunting, as farming is easier than gathering.
29) Rope & 550 Cord. Something very hard to make yourself!
30) Communications Equipment HAM Station. Satellite Phone. Very important.
31) Smoker, Food Dryer (Plans for making)
32) Oil Press, Meat Grinder, Cider Press
33) All purpose Seymour Oven
34) Soap, Vinegar, Terps- Add distilled essential oils of things like lavender.
35) Gardening - Compost heaps, Manure, Nitrogen, Potassium, Fence Posts, Barbed Wire, Polytunnel etc
36) Making Black Powder - pine charcoal, potassium nitrate (saltpetre) and Sulphur. Creosote, get it from your chimney, it builds up if you burn unseasoned wood.
37) Old Farm Machinery - Tractor, Rotavator, Plough, Harrow. That can be used with a tractor or horse.
38) Colloidal Silver, Iodine - sterling 9.25 % silver, water (distilled water) and 9 volt batteries and electrodes. Iodine is harder, should at least have several gallons in stores.
39) Septic Tank - Also a good idea to dig multiple holes on your land to bury animals and other things if needed. 6 foot deep holes by hand is hard work.
40) Digester, Wind Turbine, Solar Panels, Battery Array. I'll explain this to you.
41) Lister Petter Engine. Can use Bio-Diesel.
PTO Threshing (Wheat)
PTO Pumping (Water)
PTO Sawing (Wood)
PTO Grinding (Grain)
PTO Milling (Flour)
PTO Pressing (Oil)
PTO Chipping (Fodder & Wood)
PTO Mixing (Cement)
PTO Generator (Electricity)
42) Steam Engine - can do the same as the lister petter using wood.
43) Chest Freezers - Low watt, kept in a cellar.
44) Security
45) Lighting - In a grid down scenario lighting is important. Solar powered outdoor lights are very cheap.
00) A good attitude and lots of determination – No matter how well you are prepared, things don't always go as planned. During a long term situation you will be faced with many obstacles on a daily basis. The only way to prevail is to maintain a positive attitude and never give up. When something doesn't work don't get upset and quit, you must be able to take a deep breath and try something else.


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JP. O'Hagan and Billy Heyen
January 29, 2016
Welcome to Point/Counterpoint, the back and forth sports bar style debate column. This week we are taking on the Cavaliers firing of head coach David Blatt, the impact it will have, and the reasons behind the surprising move. This transcript has been lightly edited. JP. O'Hagan (Sports Editor)...
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March 27, 2015
If you're interested in running for a position in the Undergraduate Student Government (USG), you're in luck. Letters of intent will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on March 31. All of the positions are up for grabs, ranging from representative to president. Most of the positions, except for president...


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I found this bold message by accident while walking through London. Only recently I found out that this is actually an advertisement for the beer brand 'John Courage', which was rather disappointing.
I hope it's old at least.
But it made me wonder & admire it for a while, so it was worth it. Plus it still makes a decent picture. So there you go, Johnny! Free online advertising.
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Rickey Vincent - the veteran Bay Area funkateer, radio DJ, University of California-Berkeley professor, and author of the bible of funk music (Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of The One (St. Martin's Press) is back with a new book that beautifully melds two of the author's passions - the history of local music and politics - and this month has doing some readings in San Francisco of his book. Next week he will be at the Main Public Library on Wednesday Feb 26th. "Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music" - recently published by Chicago Review Press is the story the short-lived five member funk band The Lumpen who, back in the late 60's/early 70's in Oakland, were the Black Panthers house band. Little known for many years after the fact the Lumpen were a close knit collective of activist musicians who used music and song as their medium to deliver their revolutionary ideology with the record "Free Bobby Now" about Bobby Seales. Even Vincent, a scholar on funk and local music, did not know about The Lumpen until he randomly found out about them about. Vincent instantly knew he had to learn more about the Lumpen, their music, and their historical impact, and to share this information with the public at large. The result is Party Music which neatly ties together the black music tradition with the black activist tradition. This week I caught up with Rickey Vincent to ask him about his new book, the significance of its content, and what to expect at his San Francisco book reading next week.
Amoeblog: How and when exactly did you first learn of the Lumpen and what was your initial reaction?
Rickey Vincent: Boots Riley called me around 2002 and said "did you know the Panthers had a funk band?" We had a good laugh, because we thought it was an absurd idea. We both knew how serious the Panthers were about revolution in our community. We also knew that many Panthers were soulful cats – because so many people from our community had joined the Party – but the idea of the organization putting together an R&B band just had an air of the ridiculous about it. But he told me to look into it and to ask so-and-so. And it all turned out to be true
Amoeblog: Can you tell me about the research you did for this book and some of the obstacles you faced in your investigations into this topic?
Rickey Vincent: I learned from Walter Turner (a journalist at KPFA) that the Panthers had a band called The Lumpen, and that they had a 45rpm single, with some good music on it. Locating the original artists took some time, but a few leads were helpful, like Billy Jennings and his Panther archival project Its About Time bpp.com. It took time to get each member talk about their time in the Party, and their time in the Lumpen. At first each one insisted that any discussion of their music is framed in the context of their revolutionary work in the Black Panther Party. They were not stars, they were rank and file members of a black revolutionary organization and that was important for them to make clear. After that, their stories all meshed and they provided a narrative that was relatively easy to weave together.
Amoeblog: How many of the band members are still alive or that you were able to contact?
Rickey Vincent: I located all four of the lead singers of the group, and a number of members of the backing band, whose membership changed a lot. (the backup band was comprised of youthful community supporters, not Panthers) All four of the lead singers of The Lumpen are doing well, around retirement age. They have lived lives of humble community service all of their years and none have renounced their ideals or have any malice toward their fellow former Panthers. It was a relief in a sense that there is a stereotype that many former Panthers are no longer support the ideals of the organization, but these guys stand proudly by what they did.
Amoeblog: Was "Free Bobby Now" the only record the Lumpen released?
Rickey Vincent: Yes the one single "Free Bobby Now" with a socially conscious ballad on the flip side "(won't be) No More" 4a) And that record label that released it - Seize The Time - was it their own independent label and did it release other records too? This was all that they released as Seize the Time. The Party did release music by Elaine Brown in 1969 and 1973. That was on existing labels, and I don't remember Seize the Time name being on those records.
Amoeblog: Besides the Lumpen if you were to pick the top 3 or top 5 other pro-Black/pro civil rights music anthems from that general time period what would they be?
Rickey Vincent: Hard to say. Curtis Mayfield came strong with songs like "Mighty Mighty Spade and Whitey" and "Choice of Colors." James Brown did "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" and "I Don't Want' Nobody to Give Me Nothin", and his camp also produced tracks by Hank Ballard: "Blackenized" and "How You Gonna Get Respect When You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet" Some songs were soul standards that were universally popular, but also spoke to black pride, like Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" and Aretha's "Respect" That's what the book is actually all about, how the black revolution made those songs relevant. The music did not need explicit lyrics to be a 'black power' soul song. But I always liked the New York deejay Gary Byrd's 1972 single "Are You Really Ready for Black Power"
Amoeblog: On that same topic - what, generally speaking, was the reaction of radio stations to music deemed "revolutionary" and their typical stance when it came to possible airplay of such records?
Rickey Vincent: Radio stations were scared of explicit message songs, but the feel was in all of the music, especially JB's funk. This is why so much great soul music supported black pride but also was presented as a universally inspirational message. Again, "Soul Man," The Impressions' "Woman's Got Soul," Ike & Tina Turner's "Super Soul Sister," Dyke and the Blazers' "We Got More Soul" were ways to get on the radio and still support the black pride movement of the day. In that sense it was radical forAretha Franklin to title her 1971 album "Young, Gifted and Black" and while the title song is great, the singles were more pop oriented: "Rock Steady" and "Day Dreaming"
Amoeblog: With your wide knowledge of the history of funk/soul music how do The Lumpen rate strictly from a musician and song-writing stance with other artists from that same period?
Rickey Vincent: Their work stood alongside many of the other unheralded yet quality soul stars, like Syl Johnson "Is it Because I'm Black" or the Five Stairsteps "Ooh Child" that type of thing. Had they been able to continue recording, they would have been respected as a recording group, but not played on the air no matter what. Lumpen member Michael Torrence, after leaving the Panthers, continued to sing and his singing quartet "Ladies Choice" was hired by Marvin Gaye, and the famous performance of "Distant Lover" recorded live at the Oakland Coliseum arena in 1974 featured Torrence and his group as background singers. That song will last for all time as a soul classic. To be good enough to share the stage with Marvin Gaye says all that you need to say about the quality of the Lumpen singers.
Amoeblog: What were some of the unexpected discoveries you made while researching your book?
Rickey Vincent: That The Lumpen had two white members of their band. And when they toured the northeast, the black nationalists they worked with (typically Black Student Unions on college campuses) didn't want the white players to join them. It was crazy. That the connections between soul music and the black power movement had not really been explored until I started researching them. There are a great many discussions of jazz and black power poetry and spoken word, and pop/rock protest anthems, but the role of soul music in the black revolution was always somehow on the side. Not any more. The Marvin Gaye connection of course.
Amoeblog: Does it surprise you that the history told in your book has gone untold for so long? And are there many other gaps in untold socio/political movements from recent decade American history?
Rickey Vincent:The entire field of history is a twisted mass of political agendas, distortions and omissions. History should recount the lives of a people at a given time and place. I was stunned when I started my research and looked up James Brown in the major Civil Rights History texts and for the most part his name wasn't even mentioned. People "lived" the James Brown experience at the same time that they lived the Martin Luther King awakening, and the Malcolm X influenced rise in Black Power consciousness. History needs to start telling the people's story.
Amoeblog: Since the book was published a few months ago what have some of the interesting or most rewarding responses to the book being?
Rickey Vincent: When Black Panther Party Minister of Culture Emory Douglas wrote a review of the book and made the connections between the funk that I'm known for, and the revolution that I wrote about. "Rickey Vincent, The Funk Master of the radio air waves has merged together in his book "Party Music" a wealth of comprehensive knowledge and insights about Panther Party Music and the history from which it evolved. Rickey masters the art of interviewing and writing about the revolutionaries in "Party Music" with the same will power and self determination as the Funk Masters he writes about, an amazing achievement." This review came just days after the book had gone to print, with the other great reviews on the back.
Amoeblog: Knowing Boots Riley's background and knowledge he seems like the perfect person for you to have write the book's forward. What did he bring to the table in his writing of the forward?
Rickey Vincent: Boots killed it! I think he always wanted to convey some historical background to his knowledge of music in the role of movements for social change, and this was his opportunity to do it.
Amoeblog: What can people expect from your upcoming book reading Feb 26th at the main SFPL branch?
Rickey Vincent: Should have some music, and maybe one or two original Panthers involved as well. Always connecting the music to the movement, and making connections so young people – hip hop generation folks – can see that their issues are connected to a legacy of struggle, and a legacy of soulful expression, which connects people across generations and movements for justice.
Amoeblog: What will your next book be about - assuming you will write another?
Rickey Vincent: As usual, I'm going in many directions. I'm teaching a class at UC Berkeley on the Free South Africa movement of the 1980s. That may develop into a more detailed account. Of course I'm also writing about P-Funk, and hope to have some works available soon.


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The Borough of Schwenksville will once again be hosting the 6th annual Schwenksville Community Day, Saturday, May 3, 2014. The event is held 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (rain or shine) at Meadow Park, 300 Main Street, Schwenksville, PA 19473,(behind the firehouse). Last year's event was a great success, filled with music, activities, food, crafters and information. The Community Day event is organized by the Schwenksville Borough Activities Committee and sponsored by Ambler Savings Bank and Greenfield of Perkiomen Valley, along with many other local businesses. Many local vendors and performers will be featured. Back to entertain us this year is The Chris Clark Bicycle Stunt Show. In keeping with the Bicycle theme, Tailwind Bicycles of Schwenksville has generously donated a Jamis Trail XR Mountain Bike to be raffled at the event. Great food will also be available at the many concession stands.
Schedule of events are as follows:
10:00-10:30 Opening Ceremony-Flag Raising by POS of A Flag Pole
10:00-3:00 What Knott Farm -Petting Zoo Field
10:00-3:00 Bounce House Field10:30-11:00 Judy Tudy Magic Show Pavilion
10:30-11:30 Community Music School Adult Jazz Band Main Stage
11:00-12:00 Judy Tudy Balloon Sculptures Field
11:00-11:30 Chris Clark Bicycle Stunt Show Field
11:15-12:15 Perky Promenaders Square Dancing Pavilion
12:45-1:15 Jerusalem Lutheran Puppet Show Main Stage
12:45-1:45 Schwenksville & Skippack Elementary Orchestra Pavillion
1:00-1:30 Chris Clark Bicycle Stunt Show Field
1:30-3:00 Music by Roadhouse Main Stage
2:00-2:30 Chris Clark Bicycle Stunt Show Field
2:45-3:00 BICYCLE RAFFLE DRAWING Main Stage
The Patriotic Order Sons of America Camp 387 will kick-off the Community Day Opening Ceremony with Raising the U.S. Flag, followed by The Pledge of Allegiance. The POS of A is a non-profit organization that also conducts the Flag Retirement Ceremony held in the Meadow on June 8.
The What Knott Farm petting zoo will be in the field all day for the young and the young at heart to enjoy. The petting zoo includes, but may vary with weather and availability of young animals: at least 2 miniature sheep, 2 miniature goats, giant rabbit, bunnies, tortoise, hedgehog, rooster, giant cockroaches, lizard, chinchilla, skunk, chicks, ducks, potbelly pig, turkey.
From 10:30 to 11:00 Judy Tudy will be presenting her show at the pavilion. This will be followed by an hour of balloon sculpting in the field. Judy Tudy is a Mommy Clown who has been performing for over 20 years. She has developed programs specifically designed for all ages.
The Community Music School Adult Jazz Ensemble will perform on stage from 10:30to 11:30. Community Music School is a non-profit organization where music education is at the core of their programming. Through private music lessons, classes, ensembles, a community concert series and art gallery, their mission is to contribute to the cultural life of the communities that they serve with programming for all ages.
All are welcome to join the Perky Promenaders square dancing session from 11:15 to 12:15 at the pavilion. Square dancing is friendship set to music! Square dancing has many benefits...music, fun, exercise, getting to know friendly people, and more!
Jerusalem Lutheran Church will present their Puppet Show on the Main Stage from 12:45 to 1:15. This show has become an annual tradition for kids of all ages.
Performing under the pavilion from 12:45 to 1:45 will be the Schwenksville & Skippack Elementary Orchestra. Parents, Grandparents, friends, classmates and teachers, please come out to support your school!
Music by Roadhouse will be performing on the Main Stage from 1:30 -3:00. Get up and dance, sing along, tap your toes or just sit and listen to this group that offers a much diversified range of songs and music.
Proceeds from Schwenksville Community Day are used to fund the Summer Concert Series that takes place in the Meadow, June to September. Mark your calendars now for these special free events.
On Wednesday, June 18th from 6:30 to 8:30 Mr. Fuzzy and the Barbarian will perform their unique sound. Don't be scared of the name. These are some of the nicest guys you can meet. A local group, from Rahns,PA., Mr. Fuzzy and the Barbarian joined together and formed this group a few years back with a gut bucket, a banjo and a couple of beards. From that moment their 'yawlternative' sound had been found.
The Raven Hill band is scheduled to perform on Wednesday, July 16th at 6:30 to 8:30pm. Raven Hill plays simple, straight-up acoustic bluegrass music. Traditional Appalachian songs about hard times and hard work, as well as contemporary tunes about love and longing are part of the band's repertoire. It is music mimicking that of Monroe, the Stanley Brothers, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs and others who created 'real country' from the mountain music played in the early and mid-20th century. For audiences who appreciate the toe-tapping, authentic American music, Raven Hill will deliver the goods.
Rock and Roll after school will be performing Wednesday, July 30th 6:30 to 8:30 pm. This school is based in Collegeville and is an innovative music school where kids ages 7 – 18 can learn guitar, bass, piano, drums and vocals. Unlike traditional music schools or in home lessons, this school is a place where kids interact as they explore their musical pursuits and where they learn to write and play their own music. This will prove to be a great evening out to hear the talents of these local kids.
Schwenksville's own DOG BITE MONEY will be performing Wednesday, August 20th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm! Always a local favorite, this band had a unique start. A group of mailmen formed to create the band, however they were looking for a name. When the drummer got bit by a dog while on duty and received money, the band's name was born! Dog Bite Money is a classic rock cover band with a song list that goes from Aerosmith to ZZ Top, and everything in between. What to expect at a DOG BITE MONEY show? Great songs, high energy, and always encouraged crowd participation can be expected from this show.
Schwenksville Community Day has become an annual tradition in the Schwenksville area. The event is organized by the Schwenksville Borough Activity Committee and sponsored by Ambler Savings Bank and Greenfield of Perkiomen Valley along with many local businesses and organizations. For more information on these events please call Gail Philips at Borough Hall (610) 287-7442 or visit EVENTS at the borough's website: www.schwenksville-pa.org.


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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Craig Reedie has said that the controversial therapeutic use exemption (TUE) certificate system 'works perfectly'.
The TUE system was thrust into the spotlight during 2016 after the Fancy Bears computer hacking group illegally obtained copies of TUEs for athletes attending the 2016 Rio Olympic Games via an account set up for the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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British cyclists Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Steve Cummings, Callum Skinner and Laura Kenny were among those whose confidential TUEs were published online.
>>> WADA explains how Fancy Bears hackers got into athletes' confidential medical files
A TUE is given to an athlete when they have been prescribed a substance on WADA's prohibited list for a legitimate medical reason. Questions have been raised since their publication, in particular as to why a number of athletes needed drugs to treat asthma.
"It's been given huge publicity by the hacking," said Reedie of the TUE system. "But as far as we're concerned the system works properly, the medical rules are quite clear and they are followed by sport."
"The TUEs are allocated and agreed by responsible people in sport. The presentation by the hacking [Fancy] Bears wasn't particularly on a sports basis, it was on a political basis. You notice it was always leading athletes from the western world, so you can understand why it was done."
>>> Steve Cummings's medical data published by Russian hackers
Although the exact identity and location of the Fancy Bears group is unknown, it is widely believed that they were based in Russia. It is also believed that the hacks were in response to the proposed ban on Russian athletes from the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
WADA called for the IOC to ban Russia from the 2016 Games on the basis that the country was responsible for organised doping among its athletes.
Reedie was re-elected as WADA president for a second three-year term on Sunday. WADA's responsibility is to "promote, coordinate, and monitor at the international level the fight against doping in sports in all its forms".


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ERIC Number: EJ734185
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Dec
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The Characteristics of Persistent Sexual Offenders: A Meta-Analysis of Recidivism Studies
Hanson, R. Karl; Morton-Bourgon, Kelly E.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v73 n6 p1154-1163 Dec 2005
A meta-analysis of 82 recidivism studies (1,620 findings from 29,450 sexual offenders) identified deviant sexual preferences and antisocial orientation as the major predictors of sexual recidivism for both adult and adolescent sexual offenders. Antisocial orientation was the major predictor of violent recidivism and general (any) recidivism. The review also identified some dynamic risk factors that have the potential of being useful treatment targets (e.g., sexual preoccupations, general self-regulation problems). Many of the variables commonly addressed in sex offender treatment programs (e.g., psychological distress, denial of sex crime, victim empathy, stated motivation for treatment) had little or no relationship with sexual or violent recidivism.
Descriptors: Risk, Recidivism, Sexual Abuse, Meta Analysis, Sexual Orientation, Adults, Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Individual Characteristics, Criminals, Antisocial Behavior, Violence, Self Control
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