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		<title>You&#8217;re invited: A Discussion with danah boyd</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, Ibiblio.org and the UNC Social Software Working Group are proud to present a discussion with danah boyd.
Who: danah boyd
Where: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill Campus
When: September 14, 2006.  2-3:30PM.
Note: Seating limited, refreshments provided.
About danah:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://unc.edu/">University of North Carolina</a> <a href="http://sils.unc.edu/">School of Information and Library Science</a>, <a href="http://ibiblio.org/">Ibiblio.org</a> and the UNC Social Software Working Group are proud to present a discussion with danah boyd.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">Who:</span> <a href="http://www.danah.org/">danah boyd</a><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Where:</span> <a href="http://www.unc.edu/toylounge/">Toy Lounge</a>, Dey Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill Campus<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">When:</span> September 14, 2006.  2-3:30PM.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Note:</span> Seating limited, refreshments provided.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">About danah:</span><br />
boyd, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley&#8217;s School of Information, explores how young people negotiate the presentation of self in online mediated contexts. Her research focuses on how this young audience engages with &#8220;digital publics&#8221; &#8211; connected social spaces such as MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga and YouTube.</p>
<p>Currently, boyd is a Graduate Fellow at the USC Anneberg Center, and social media researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley. Her recent work has explored diverse topics such as the creation of digital publics in Myspace.com (<a href="http://www.danah.org/papers/AAAS2006.html">Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace</a>), the design of culturally adaptive software (<a href="http://www.danah.org/papers/Etech2006.html">G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide</a>), and the exploration of folksonomy (<a href="http://www.danah.org/papers/Hypertext2006.pdf">HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead</a>).</p>
<p>At Berkeley, boyd is advised by Peter Lyman and Mimi Ito. She holds an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied with Judith Donath at the Media Lab, and a B.A. from Brown University. boyd is frequently cited in top media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR and Salon.com. She even went toe-to-toe with scary old Bill O&#8217;Reilly once. boyd blogs at <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/">http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/</a>, a must-read destination for those interested in social technology.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">About this discussion:</span><br />
The discussion will be structured by audience questions.  <span style="font-style: italic">The audience is asked to submit questions in advance. </span> Questions may be submitted to Fred Stutzman at fred@metalab.unc.edu. From these submitted questions, we&#8217;ll structure a discussion that will be open and wide-ranging.</p>
<p>Please feel free to forward this announcement as appropriate.</p>
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		<title>Citizen Journalism Unconference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Monday I attended the Citizen Journalism Unconference. I wrote about my experiences on my blog.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This past Monday I attended the <a href="http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Journalism">Citizen Journalism Unconference</a>. I <a href="http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org/321">wrote about my experiences on my blog</a>.</p>
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		<title>Announcing BarCampRDU &#8211; July 22, 2006, Raleigh, NC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very pleased to report that we&#8217;ve secured a venue for BarCampRDU.  The kind folks at Red Hat have offered us space at their Centennial Campus offices on Saturday, July 22, 2006.  BarCampRDU will run from 8:30AM (registration and breakfast) to 5:30PM.   Now that we&#8217;ve got a date, please go and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to report that we&#8217;ve secured a venue for BarCampRDU.  The kind folks at <a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat</a> have offered us space at their <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;safe=off&#038;q=1801+Varsity+Drive+Raleigh,+North+Carolina+27606&#038;om=1">Centennial Campus offices</a> on <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/82296">Saturday, July 22, 2006</a>.  BarCampRDU will run from 8:30AM (registration and breakfast) to 5:30PM.   <span style="font-weight: bold">Now that we&#8217;ve got a date, please go and </span><a style="font-weight: bold" href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU">add yourself as an attendee to the wiki</a><span style="font-weight: bold">!</span></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s some other valuable information:</p>
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<li>To stay up-to-date with BarCampRDU planning (low-to-medium volume), add yourself to our <a href="http://ibiblio.org/">ibiblio</a>-hosted <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/BarCampRDU">mailing list</a>.</li>
<li>To keep up-to-date with BarCampRDU announcements (low-volume), add this blog&#8217;s <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Barcamprdu">feed</a> to your newsreader.</li>
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<p>Now that we&#8217;ve secured a date and a venue &#8211; we need sponsors. Sponsors will help cover the costs of feeding, caffeinating and t-shirting BarCampers. Sponsorship is absolutely crucial for BarCampRDU &#8211; so please consider (contact me at fred @ ibiblio.org if interested). Think of all the geeks you&#8217;ll be making happy.</p>
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		<title>BarCampRDU</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 13:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to announce that we&#8217;re planning a BarCamp in the Raleigh-Durham area!  A BarCamp is an unconference where lots of geek-oriented people get together to chat, teach, learn, eat and have fun.  If you&#8217;ve never been to an unconference before, they are a lot of fun and worth experiencing.
We&#8217;re in the very [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that we&#8217;re planning a <a href="http://barcamp.org">BarCamp</a> in the Raleigh-Durham area!  A BarCamp is an unconference where lots of geek-oriented people get together to chat, teach, learn, eat and have fun.  If you&#8217;ve never been to an unconference before, they are a lot of fun and worth experiencing.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re in the very early stages of planning <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU">BarCampRDU</a>, but we know a couple of things we need.  We need <strong>people to help out</strong> with BarCampRDU&#8217;s planning and execution.  We need <strong>sponsors</strong> to help cover the costs of refreshments and materials.  We need <strong>space</strong> to host the conference (150 people, hosted on a Saturday).  Most importantly, we need <strong>campers</strong> to come learn, teach and have a great time at BarCampRDU.</p>
<p>To get involved, you&#8217;ll want to visit the <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampRDU">BarCampRDU website</a>, where you can see the preliminary planning that&#8217;s gone on.  You should also subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/BarCampRDU">BarCampRDU mailing list</a>, as this will be the place we have most of our planning discussions.  However, if you just have a simple question &#8211; don&#8217;t hesitate to contact me at fred@metalab.unc.edu.</p>
<p>BarCampRDU will be <strong>free </strong>for all campers, it will be hosted on a <strong>Saturday </strong>in<strong> July</strong> (possibly July 8th), and <strong>everyone is invited</strong> to attend (You need not be from RDU area).  To help spread the word, we ask that you blog about BarCampRDU, email your friends, whatever.  We can only get the word out with your help.  Finally, I hope that you&#8217;ll think about coming out &#8211; BarCamps have been great successes around the country, and we&#8217;d like to do the same here!</p>
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		<title>Lyceum Public Beta</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for the formal announcment and code release at the end of this month, the Lyceum team is running a public test intallation of the code. Check it out:
Lyceum Public Beta
The front page explains everything. Basically, sign up for a blog (or several), write posts, adjust settings, comment on other people&#8217;s blogs, and then [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In preparation for the formal announcment and code release at the end of this month, the <a href="http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/">Lyceum</a> team is running a public test intallation of the code. Check it out:</p>
<p><a href="http://lyceum-jjb.ibiblio.org/lyceum">Lyceum Public Beta</a></p>
<p>The front page explains everything. Basically, sign up for a blog (or several), write posts, adjust settings, comment on other people&#8217;s blogs, and then send bug reports to <strong>lyceum-bugs AT lists DOT ibiblio DOT org</strong>.</p>
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		<title>SXSW Interactive</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/162</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be attending SXSW Interactive this year. Lyceum will have been released two or three weeks beforehand, and I&#8217;m hoping there will be a bit of Lyceum buzz among a certain geeky, bloggy crowd at the conference.
The SXSW Interactive folks put together an open-registration blog:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll be attending <a href="http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/">SXSW Interactive</a> this year. <a href="http://lyceum.ibiblio.org">Lyceum</a> will have been released two or three weeks beforehand, and I&#8217;m hoping there will be a bit of Lyceum buzz among a certain geeky, bloggy crowd at the conference.</p>
<p>The SXSW Interactive folks put together an <a href="http://2006.sxsw.com/community_blog/">open-registration blog</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The SXSW Interactive Community Blog is your space to discuss specific panels and events, rant about tech-related issues, wax philosophic, hookup with friends, talk about where to get some good BBQ… whatever. In fact, we want you to guide and develop this space according to your innermost needs and desires.</p></blockquote>
<p>A great idea. </p>
<p>I think I&#8217;m the only ibiblian going. ibiblio friend and lab fixture <a href="http://terrellrussell.com">Terrell</a> is going as well. If any ibiblog readers out there are going to be there, drop us a note in the comments.</p>
<p>I also might swing by <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampAustin">BarCampAustin</a>.</p>
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		<title>Jimmy Wales Speaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yugen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know Wikipedia rocks your world.  What other site has articles on UK Grime, toothpaste, and tasmanian devils?
We at Ibiblio had the good fortune to host Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales as part of our ongoing Ibiblio Speakers Series.  Wales shared the philosophy and methodology behind Wikipedia with a packed UNC lecture hall on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know <a href="http://wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a> rocks your world.  What other site has articles on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grime">UK Grime</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothpaste">toothpaste</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil">tasmanian devils</a>?</p>
<p>We at Ibiblio had the good fortune to host Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales as part of our ongoing <a href="http://ibiblio.org/speakers">Ibiblio Speakers Series</a>.  Wales shared the philosophy and methodology behind Wikipedia with a packed UNC lecture hall on October 5th,  2005 and presented 10 Open Culture challenges to the audience.</p>
<p>Since you missed the talk we thought we&#8217;d make it available on the interwebs in Mpeg1, Mpeg4, and Mp3 formats.  <a href="http://ibiblio.org/speakers/wales">Go get&#8217;em</a>.</p>
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		<title>Podcast of Facebook Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Russell, of Audioactivism.org, has podcast Fred Stutzman&#8217;s talk on The Facebook.  Check it out here!  Thanks, Brian!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://yesh.com">Brian Russell</a>, of <a href="http://audioactivism.org">Audioactivism.org</a>, has podcast Fred Stutzman&#8217;s talk on The Facebook.  Check it out <a href="http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/10/05/fred-stutzman-reports-on-student-data-sharing/">here</a>!  Thanks, Brian!</p>
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		<title>The Freshman Facebook Zeitgeist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2005 21:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the interesting things I&#8217;ve been doing with my Facebook studies (see here, here, and here for more info) is collecting data on the Freshman class over time.  I believe that the Freshman can tell us a lot about technology and adoption trends, and from a broader perspective, what social and political trends [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the interesting things I&#8217;ve been doing with my Facebook studies (see <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/?p=141">here</a>, <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/wordpress/?p=758">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/fred/2.html">here</a> for more info) is collecting data on the Freshman class over time.  I believe that the Freshman can tell us a lot about technology and adoption trends, and from a broader perspective, what social and political trends may be emerging on campus.  To both extents, it&#8217;s fairly easy to pull out some simple metrics on these from my collected data.  I&#8217;ll present a little of that data here.</p>
<p><b>First, who uses the Facebook</b></p>
<p>Basing my data analysis on <a href="http://www.admissions.unc.edu/academics/factsandfigures.htm">these UNC-provided figures</a>, I can say with relative confidence that nearly every Freshman on campus uses TheFacebook.  On day 1 of class, I was able to discover 3095 Freshman profiles (!!!).  5 weeks later, I was able to discover 3292 Freshman profiles.  88 percent of Freshmen have an active profile on the Facebook.  Lets look at these trends over time:</p>
<p><a href="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/facebook_use.jpg"><img src="/ibiblog/pics/facebook_use.jpg" width =350/></a><br />
<i>Click on any graph for a larger version</i></p>
<p>This graph shows total Freshman profiles found, and the lower line in the graph indicates the 2005 Freshman profiles with no &#8220;Privacy&#8221; flags set.  I&#8217;ve found that a little more than 1% of Freshmen use privacy flags.  Interestingly, privacy use has declined over time, at a constant rate (Week 1: 3% privacy use; Week 3: 1.5% privacy use; Week 5: 1% privacy use).  This feeds into the notion that students that do not share their profiles online are not &#8220;participating&#8221; as normal social actors.  </p>
<p>Interesting in this data is the &#8220;Week 4 depression&#8221;, which may represent students having buyers remorse about living so publicly.  This is just a guess, though.  </p>
<p><b>How often are Freshmen using the facebook?</b></p>
<p>One of the questions posed to me during a recent talk was &#8220;How often are students using the Facebook&#8221;, which I roughly translate to &#8220;How often are students logging in to the system, etc&#8221;.  Facebook does not provide &#8220;last access&#8221; data, though it does provide &#8220;last update&#8221; information, indicating the last time the user has updated their profile.  Accepting that &#8220;updating&#8221; one&#8217;s profile places a slightly higher bar on system use than simply &#8220;logging in&#8221;, I took a look at how often students are updating their profile.  The results amazed me.</p>
<p><a href="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/month_last_update.jpg"><img src="/ibiblog/pics/month_last_update.jpg" width =350/></a></p>
<p>Using data collected on September 27, I analyzed last update; as you can see, 2871 profiles were updated in September, with 1819 profiles updated in the last week.  I was really blown away by this, so I broke out the September data by day.</p>
<p><a href="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/last_update.jpg"><img src="/ibiblog/pics/last_update.jpg" width =350/></a></p>
<p>We can clearly see a trend that profiles are being updated most frequently in the days preceding the data collection.  Assuming that &#8220;last update&#8221; stands in as a good proxy for system use, I believe we can safely say that students are using TheFacebook extremely frequently.  </p>
<p><b>Friend network expansion</b></p>
<p>One of the interesting metrics we can pull out of the data is average friend network size; in doing so, we watch the obvious and interesting aggregation of a social network on campus.</p>
<p><a href="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/friend_net.jpg"><img src="/ibiblog/pics/friend_net.jpg" width =350/></a></p>
<p>The average moves up at a fairly regular interval.  For the network geeks out there, here&#8217;s data on the Freshman social network size:</p>
<p>Week 1: 3095 nodes, 144,260 edges<br />
Week 2: 3188 nodes, 167,783 edges<br />
Week 3: 3241 nodes, 198,668 edges<br />
Week 4: 3217 nodes, 218,534 edges<br />
Week 5: 3292 nodes, 245,883 edges</p>
<p><b>Freshmen political orientation</b></p>
<p>2423 Freshmen report a political orientation in the Facebook; this is 74%, or about 3 out of ever 4 students.  Reported <a href="http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2005/10/political-affiliation-on-campus.html">here</a> are some well thought out reasons why to take political orientation data in the Facebook with a grain of salt.  And to that extent, I agree completely.  The notion of labeling in the Facebook may be completely arbitrary; a good amount of the data in the system represents in-jokes and the like.  The students use codes in the system to communicate and display in-network group strength and identity.  Stepping back from that, though, I still think its interesting to see the data.  And of course, it has surprised me.</p>
<p><a href="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/freshman_poli.jpg"><img src="/ibiblog/pics/freshman_poli.jpg" width =350/></a></p>
<p>While Liberal students again outnumber Conservative students, there is suprising parity between the two factions (assuming, of course, that UNC is a liberal institution).  Is this what the post-9/11 student body looks like?  When political orientation becomes a face-value aspect of identity, how does it force factionization in friend-making behaviors?  If we all purport to know each other&#8217;s politics, is it not hard to imagine freshmen making decisions based on this highly characteristic identity element?  Please see <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/?p=141">this post</a> for more information on this data, the pooling that goes on, etc.</p>
<p><b>Now, for some fun</b></p>
<p>First, I present what I&#8217;m calling the Happy Index.  This is Freshmen relationship identification over time.  I&#8217;ve decided to include all fields available in the Facebook, though the graph can more effectively be segregated along Single/Not-Single lines.  It is interesting to see how Married and Open Relationship increase over time as the in-joke nature of the claim moves through the network.  Since the network size changes each week, this is presented as a ratio of the total network.  </p>
<p><a href="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/happy_index.jpg"><img src="/ibiblog/pics/happy_index.jpg" width =350/></a></p>
<p>Finally, I analyzed what sort of websites students are identifying as their personal websites.  As we might expect, the majority of personal websites claimed by students are of the photo, blog, or profile hosting nature.</p>
<p><a href="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/freshman_websites.jpg"><img src="/ibiblog/pics/freshman_websites.jpg" width =350/></a></p>
<p>Interestingly, only six <i>unc.edu sites were returned, with not one being a </i><i>unc.edu/~</i> personal site.  Not one freshman reports using his or her UNC provided webspace.  This is alarming, but not surprising.  </p>
<p>For questions about this data, please contact <a href="http://ibiblio.org/fred">Fred Stutzman</a></p>
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		<title>Notes from the Move</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Servers (well, sort of!), New Racks (very new), New Datacenter (again, very new).  Here&#8217;s pics from the ultra fun move.

Jon Manages

Boxes are Moved

Boxes are Trucked

Another View

Don&#8217;t show this pic to OSHA

A little art

The new Racks
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New Servers (well, sort of!), New Racks (very new), New Datacenter (again, very new).  Here&#8217;s pics from the ultra fun move.</p>
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Jon Manages</p>
<p><img width="320" height="240" src="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/move/2.jpg" /><br />
Boxes are Moved</p>
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Boxes are Trucked</p>
<p><img width="320" height="240" src="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/move/4.jpg" /><br />
Another View</p>
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Don&#8217;t show this pic to OSHA</p>
<p><img width="320" height="240" src="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/move/6.jpg" /><br />
A little art</p>
<p><img width="320" height="240" src="http://ibiblio.org/ibiblog/pics/move/7.jpg" /><br />
The new Racks</p>
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