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Ellen Miller, the founder of the Sunlight Foundation, wants to redefine public information as online information. To have government accountability, we need "information for media and citizens alike" – and we need to find ways to make this information comprehensible through visualizations and other tools.
To date, Sunlight has been focused primarily on the US congress. They're spreading out, slightly, looking at US executive data and some state data. She nods towards the need for transparency in the international sphere, but makes it clear that Sunlight's focus is still close to home. Moreover, Sunlight focuses on two kinds of data: influence data (campaign finance information, information on lobbying and the investments of politicians) and spending data (government earmarks, grants and allocations.)
Sunlight both builds tools and funds other organizations (like Center for Responsive Politics or Maplight) to build tools and release data. She divides their work into five categories:
- analysis and awareness
- advocacy and community
- tools and resources
- thought leadership
- data sources
Much of Ellen's talk focuses on the tools Sunlight and partners have built. She shows a visualization of earmarks, using IBM's Many Eyes tools, which makes it extremely clear that Alaska (especially under Senator Ted Stevens) gets vastly more in earmarks per capita than any other state. She shows the beautiful map of defense appropriation earmarks mappen on Google Earth.
A recent project with Pew – Subsidy Scope – shows how powerful these tools can be. A map of TARP subsidies raises the question of how fair and effective the distribution of funds are. It also includes an interactive database allowing users to drill into specific funding commitments.
One of the least popular sites, but Ellen's favorite, is Capitol Words, a daily visualization of the Congressional Record. While it's not necessarily a surprise that the words "health" and "care" currently lead the day, a visualization that shows words frequently used by both Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner, is fascinating, showing common grounds that the left and right are both fighting to claim.
Some of the most powerful tools aren't generic ones, but specific visualizations – a web of former Max Baucus staffers working in the health care industry, or the connection between campaign contributions made to Representative Visclosky and earmarks issued. These single-subject visualizations can be very powerful and get amplified widely on sites like BoingBoing.
Ellen fields a couple of tough questions on evaluating the impact of these visualizations. She's very straightforward that it's hard to measure the impacts. She notes that the most important evaluative criterion at present is "the Ellen test", a test for whether a visualization or tool catches her attention and makes sense to her. It's a challenge, moving forward, to ensure that these tools aren't just cool and eye-catching but influential and game-changing.
This piece originally appeared on Ethan Zuckerman's excellent personal blog, My Heart's in Accra
Citizens are now faced with new types of challenges to participating in the governance of their communities. These challenges make problem identification, let alone change increasingly out of reach of most people. The very way people could traditionally influence the creation of the world around them is being pulled from their grasp by the combination of increasing levels of illiteracy (in terms of general understanding of civic responsibilities, roles, and powers); more complex governmental systems at all levels; and, stakeholder engagement processes which are becoming inherently elitist (requiring extensive and diverse expertise, finances, and influence out of reach for most people).
As Marshall McLuhan said "the medium is the message"; so we need to ask our selves if information is consistently presented in ways that the audience can not understand (in this case "the government" being the author and citizens being the audience) what is the actual message being sent by the medium?
The attention to information design in the examples listed above are an excellent step in empowering people to regain the reigns of control; it's not that we need more information, but ways of understanding what information is already available.


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Back our badgers!Tagged as: animal-liberation
Neighbourhoods: centre city nottingham
Over thirty campaigners protested outside a Tesco store in Nottingham today in a peaceful demo against the intended badger cull, which is scientifically flawed, unrepresentative of the public's views and morally reprehensible.
With the exception of supermarkets Co-op, Waitrose and Marks & Spencers, all the others will be selling milk that comes from within the cull zone. Campaigners were outside the store on Angel Row from 12:30pm until 4:30pm to raise public awareness about the issue and to encourage shoppers to use their consumer power and go elsewhere. They voiced their belief that supermarkets have an ethical responsibility to not support the badger cull: specifically to not sell products from cull farmers, especially when there is no shortage of more scrupulous farmers that will not have the cull on their land.
There was a fantastic amount of public support throughout the day, with bus drivers giving thumbs up as they drove by and lots of interested shoppers stopping to ask what was happening. Morale was high amongst campaigners, and was boosted by free vegan samosas and cake from the wonderful Veggies! It was so successful that the protest will be repeated on Monday 1st October at the same place from 4pm-6pm.
The very well-attended demo also received lots of media attention, with ITV Central giving it lots of coverage. They held a poll on Friday 27th to find out feeling towards the government's proposed badger cull as a measure to control the spread of Bovine TB. The results are an overwhelming majority at 92% against the cull, with just 8% saying they agree.
Their full coverage of today's demo can be seen on the ITV website: http://www.itv.com/news/central/story/2012-09-26/badger-cull-protest/
The Nottingham Evening Post also covered the event, and posted a minute long sound bite from one of the day's activists:
A spokesperson for the anti-cull group sent the following statement to the press before the demo:
"This autumn the government plan to cull badgers in two pilot areas, one in Somerset and one in Gloucestershire. The results from these pilots will determine whether or not the cull is rolled out to bTB hotspots nationwide in future years. DEFRA is prepared to kill at least 70% of our badgers within cull areas; this may effectively kill all the badgers in those areas.
We oppose culling badgers for three reasons:
1. It is unethical. Badgers are intelligent, sensitive animals with their own reasons to live rather than being an expendable piece of an environment just there for us to use. The species cleansing planned by the government is a harrowing violation of the badger's right to life. In addition the shootings planned are inhumane: there will not be 100% kill shots, inevitably there will be some maimings; and parents will be killed leaving cubs to starve.
2. It is unscientific. To determine the efficacy of badger culling, a study costing around 34 million pounds (and the lives of 10,000 badgers) was undertaken by eminent scientists (collectively known as the Independent Scientific Group or ISG).
It took almost ten years, was rigorously peer reviewed and remains the most thorough and widely respected investigation into the scientific validity of badger culling as a method of controlling bovine TB.
Their final report was published in 2007, and is freely downloadable from DEFRA here:
Helpfully, the ISG's chairman, Professor John Bourne provides the following executive summary at the front of the report:
'The ISG's work - most of which has already been published in
peer-reviewed scientific journals - has reached two key conclusions.
First, while badgers are clearly a source of cattle TB, careful
evaluation of our own and others' data indicates that badger culling can
make no meaningful contribution to cattle TB control in Britain. Indeed,
some policies under consideration are likely to make matters worse
rather than better. Second, weaknesses in cattle testing regimes mean
that cattle themselves contribute significantly to the persistence and
spread of disease in all areas where TB occurs, and in some parts of
Britain are likely to be the main source of infection. Scientific
findings indicate that the rising incidence of disease can be reversed,
and geographical spread contained, by the rigid application of
cattle-based control measures alone.'
3. It is unrepresentative. A public consultation was held by DEFRA which considered the question of a badger culling policy in areas of high TB incidence in cattle. The consultation document presented a summary of the scientific evidence, the balance of costs and benefits, and considered the implications of a badgers cull for animal welfare and
Over 47,000 responses to the consultation were received.
95% of all respondents were opposed to a cull of badgers.
Brian May's petition against the proposed cull has in a few weeks shot to over 130,000 signatures.
That the government is once again doggedly sticking to a policy of animal cruelty with a flagrant disregard for overwhelming public opinion, makes a mockery of our democracy.
People can keep up the pressure by signing the petition at: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38257
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Interview with David O on BBC Radio Nottingham
Here is an interview with David O taken during the demo. This was aired twice yesterday on BBC Radio Nottingham:

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NPR Stands Up To Islamophobia – Kudos To NPR For Firing Juan Williams!
If you were watching Morning Joke on MSNBC this morning, you witnessed how the media loves to change the narrative. Juan Williams was fired by NPR for making comments on Fox News that "were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR". Good for NPR. What Mr. Williams said was this…
"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot," Williams said on the "The O'Reilly Factor" Monday. "But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
If you watched Morning Joke, you might have noticed that they never mentioned why he actually was fired, they turned it into "he was fired because he works at Fox News", not that he said an offensive remark about a religion that has 1.57 billion members. Nah, it was all because he works for that respected news organization Fox…spit, cough, puke my guts out. And all these idiots who say his first amendment rights were violated, come on you idiots, do you even know what the first amendment says?
Now on to what he actually said that was not just Islamophobic, but in my opinion pretty stupid too. When I see someone in "Muslim garb", I usually think the exact opposite of what Juan thinks, that these people are devout Muslims. It is a peaceful religion and those who are devout are just as caring and loving as any other devout religious person. It is the fringes of all religions that bastardize their beliefs, whether Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, whatever….all of those religions have had extremists who don't represent the higher purpose of their religion. Can you imagine Juan being disturbed by a Catholic nun wearing a habit, "catholic garb"….because you know, Timothy McVeigh was a catholic. Many terrorists in Ireland were Catholics, right? So shouldn't we all be afraid of people wearing "catholic garb"?
I was offended by Morning Joe ignoring exactly what Juan said, because you know it doesn't matter if people bash Muslims, right? That isn't a good enough reason to fire someone. But just imagine if it were a statement about "catholic garb", oh my god, they would hit the fan (they being shit, hitting the fan…get it?). The fact that they completely ignored what he actually said, the basis for his being fired, speaks volumes about how clueless everyone sitting around that table was. Ron Brownstein was the only one who came close to presenting reality, but he clearly didn't want to go there either with so many people ready to pounce on him. This is just a continuation of the media allowing Muslim bashing, very similar to how they treated the community center two blocks away from "ground zero".
As a side note, I met and talked to Juan many years ago, in the mid 90's when he was in town for a speech. I videotaped the speech, which I should dust off and watch for the hell of it but who has time. When I chatted with him for about 5 minutes, it surprised me how conservative he was. I was used to seeing him on Crossfire as the person on the left battling Pat Buchanon but in my conversation with him I was surprised a couple of different times about what came out of his mouth.
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If Juan Williams used logic instead of reacting to stereo- types and fear he would be comforted by seeing Muslims who are dressed in garb. Just like many individuals stereotype Muslims in garb so do airport authorities who give them extra attention. Humans adapt to changing circumstances and so do extremists so one would obviously not wear full Muslim garb if that person were planning a terrorist activity. They would try to blend in as much as possible. Due to that a Muslim wearing garb would indicate that the individual is not a terrorist and should be a comforting site. As a final point I am in no way saying that suspicion should be cast on Arabs in non Muslim garb because that would be as ridiculous as being suspicious of all Caucasians because of Timothy Mcveigh.
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I liked that Houston Chronicle religion writer Jill Carroll calls out the "knuckle dragging" Islamophobic Obama-haters in an article this week in her column.
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Was looking for any practical travel advice in particular whether its worth doing Pandangaran on a 3 week trip:
|23rd August Arrive at 10am Jakarta airport
Damri bus to bogor
Relax and sleep
24th August Bogor botanical
(onto Bandung maybe the next day or late afternoon)
25th(26th) onto pandangaran by bus
29th get to banjur onto Yogyakarta
30th (31st) see Borobudur
3rd or 4th September travel to Bali
11th September 13.10 flight Denpasser-Jakarta, spend one night in Jakarta
12th September 7pm flight home from Jakarta
Is pandangaran worth taking worth the travel or shall we skip straight to Yogyakarta? If it is worth it is it possible to get from Bogor to Banjar then get a bus to Yogyakarta rather than having to stop in Bandung? If not is there anything to do in Bandung. Any advice would be appreciated thanks
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Dell Optiplex 780 the smallest PC with desktop chips
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New Dell Optiplex USFF uses full Core 2 Duo
Dell on Thursday touted a rare approach to pro desktops with one of the smallest ever. The Optiplex 780 USFF (Ultra Small Form Factor) at 9.4 by 9.4 inches is championed as the smallest system to use primarily desktop components and only uses a 2.5-inch hard drive as its concession to size: it uses desktop processors up to a 3.33GHz Core 2 Duo and even builds in the power brick where many other systems this size would move it to the outside.
A base configuration starts at $624 and comes with a 2.2GHz Celeron, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive running Windows 7 and Intel GMA 4500 video but also three years of on-site help.
Besides the newer design, the Optiplex 380 has been given a low-profile update that adds a new chipset with support for more processors up to the Core 2 Quad. Actual pricing remains the same at the existing $329 to $349 range depending on the choice of a desktop, mini tower or small form factor box.
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While high-major point guards have been committing left and right over the past couple of months, combo guard D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera has been playing it close to the vest.
Smith-Rivera isn't worried about that at all.
"He's choosing between some great programs," Kelana Rivera, his mother, said. "And we're more confident that wherever he goes, it will be a great fit for him."
The 6-foot-3 Indiana native left for Oak Hill Academy (Va.) a few weeks ago, and is just beginning to dive back into the recruiting process.
According to his mother, two official visits have been set: Georgetown the weekend of September 23 and Louisville the weekend of October 14.
"He won't be deciding before then," Rivera said.
A trip to Xavier – where Smith-Rivera originally committed – was in the works, but there was scheduling conflicts. The Musketeers are still very much in the mix, though.
"He has always been very high on Xavier, and still is," Rivera said. "The weekend that we wanted to visit them, D'Vauntes has a game and SAT. So we are still trying to figure that one out."
Michigan State is another school often mentioned with Smith-Rivera, although talks between the two have slowed down since Smith-Rivera left the Midwest.
"We haven't talked to Michigan State much since D has been at school," Rivera said.
Rivera said North Carolina State and Memphis are also trying to get involved in her son's recruitment lately, and they are both very much under consideration.
Smith-Rivera is a scoring guard who has the ability to handle the ball and initiate offense for other, but he is much more dangerous when looking to create his own shot. He has deep range on his jumper, and his strong frame enables him to finish effectively in the lane. Smith-Rivera ranks No. 39 in CBSSports.com's Top 100.
Since he has already committed to a school once, Smith-Rivera knows what he wants in a school and wants to be sure he makes the right choice.
"How well the school, staff and style suits the type of person and player he is," Rivera said. "Many other things, like player development, as well. But all those are key."
All signs point to a decision being made in the fall, but not for at least another month.
"Not sure yet exactly when he will be deciding," Rivera said. "No real timeline just yet."
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Ok guys, been brainstorming trying to figure out some answers that just can't be answered alone. On the 1970-72 Skyline any trim, even GTR is there a factory equipped, Factory installed rear deck spoiler as in oem? I'm having the time of my life trying to track one down. I know it's 40+ old but still with it's popularity and extreme value a guy would think he would stumble across a oem spoiler in the auctions. Now I can find repro ones all day long, well cover that in a minute. But I'd prefer oem because I partially worried about fit of repos. Been talking with a couple of guys, the parts catalogs have been searched and it seems a oem rear spoiler doesn't exsist. One guy from Australia says that even on the GTR the rear deck spoiler and front lower chin spoiler was not oem but was a works race car addition to create downforce. Anyone know if this was true, or E is thinking that it's a Nissan sports option which makes sense to me. But as a Nissan sports option would there be any bowtie markings or indication to prove its authenticity?
I have no problems with buying a reproduced copy as long as there's quality. There are some things I worry about when looking at what I think are repos though. I will included pictures. Hopefully no one minds me borrowing their pictures.
If you look at some of the wings it slightly dips down in the middle towards the trunk like. Which is either a bad repo mold, or how it's mounted on the trunk.
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PERTH, Australia (AP) - Searchers hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet were racing to a patch of the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday to determine whether a few brief sounds picked up by underwater equipment came from the plane's black boxes, whose battery-operated beacons are on the verge of dying out.
Ships scouring a remote stretch of water for the plane that vanished nearly a month ago detected three separate sounds over the course of three days. A Chinese ship picked up an electronic pulsing signal on Friday and again on Saturday in a small part of the search zone, and an Australian ship carrying sophisticated deep-sea sound equipment picked up a signal in a different area on Sunday, the head of the multinational search said.
But there were questions about whether any of the sounds were the breakthrough searchers are desperately seeking or just another dead end in a hunt seemingly full of them, with experts expressing doubt that the equipment aboard the Chinese ship was capable of picking up signals from the plane's two black boxes.
"This is an important and encouraging lead, but one which I urge you to treat carefully," retired Australian Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston, who is coordinating the search, told reporters in Perth.
None of the signals has been verified as being linked to Flight 370, which was traveling from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing when it vanished March 8 with 239 people on board.
"We are dealing with very deep water, we are dealing with an environment where sometimes you can get false indications," Houston said. "There are lots of noises in the ocean, and sometimes the acoustic equipment can rebound, echo if you like."
China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday that the patrol vessel Haixun 01 detected a "pulse signal" Friday in the southern Indian Ocean at 37.5 kilohertz - the same frequency emitted by the missing plane's black boxes.
Houston confirmed the report, and said the Haixun 01 detected a signal again on Saturday within 2 kilometers (1.4 miles) of the original signal, for 90 seconds. He said China also reported seeing white objects floating in the sea in the area.
The Australian navy's Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. Navy, will also head there, but will first investigate the sound it picked up in its current region, about 300 nautical miles (555 kilometers) away, he said.
Australian air force assets are also being deployed into the Haixun 01's area to try to confirm or discount the signals' relevance to the search, Houston said.
In Kuala Lumpur, families of passengers aboard the missing plane attended a prayer service on Sunday that also drew thousands of Malaysian sympathizers.
"This is not a prayer for the dead because we have not found bodies. This is a prayer for blessings and that the plane will be found," said Liow Tiong Lai, the president of the government coalition party that organized the two-hour session.
Two-thirds of the passengers aboard Flight 370 were Chinese, and a group of relatives has been in Kuala Lumpur for most of the past month to follow the investigation. Liow said some of them were planning to go home on Sunday.
After weeks of fruitless looking, the search team is racing against time to find the sound-emitting beacons and black boxes - one a flight data recorder and the other a cockpit voice recorder - that could help unravel the mystery of the plane's fate. The beacons in the black boxes emit "pings" so they can be more easily found, but the batteries last for only about a month.
Investigators believe Flight 370 veered way off-course and came down somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean, though they have not been able to explain why it did so.
The crew of the Chinese ship reportedly picked up the signals using a hand-held sonar device called a hydrophone dangled over the side of a small runabout - something experts said was technically possible but extremely unlikely.
Footage aired on China's state-run CCTV showed crew members in the small boat with a device shaped like a large soup can attached to a pole. It was hooked up by cords to electronic equipment in a padded suitcase as they poked the device into the water.
"If the Chinese have discovered this, they have found a new way of finding a needle in a haystack," said aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas, editor-in-chief of AirlineRatings.com. "Because this is amazing. And if it proves to be correct, it's an extraordinarily lucky break."
There are many clicks, buzzes and other sounds in the ocean from animals, but the 37.5 kilohertz pulse was selected for underwater locator beacons because there is nothing else in the sea that would naturally make that sound, said William Waldock, an expert on search and rescue who teaches accident investigation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona.
"They picked that (frequency) so there wouldn't be false alarms from other things in the ocean," he said.
"We are hopeful but by no means certain," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said of the detection of the signals.
"This is the most difficult search in human history. We need to be very careful about coming to hard and fast conclusions too soon," Abbott told reporters during a visit to Japan.
The search area has evolved as experts analyzed Flight 370's limited radar and satellite data, moving from the seas off Vietnam, to the waters west of Malaysia and Indonesia, and then to several areas west of Australia.
A senior Malaysian government official said Sunday that investigators have determined that the plane skirted Indonesian airspace as it flew from Peninsular Malaysia to the southern Indian Ocean.
Houston, the search coordinator, conceded that his organization first heard about the initial signal China had detected when it was reported by a Chinese journalist aboard the Haixun 01. He said that at "almost the same time" he was informed of the development by the Chinese government.
The agency was formally told about the second Chinese detection on Saturday "in absolutely the normal way," he said.
"China is sharing everything that is relevant to this search. Everything," Houston said.
Still, the search agency will be adding a Chinese-speaking liaison officer "to make sure nothing falls through the cracks," he said.
Houston also said there had been a correction to satellite data that investigators have been using to calculate the plane's likely flight path. As a result, starting on Monday, the southern section of the current search zone will be given higher priority than the northern part.
The signals detected by the Chinese ship were in the southern section, Houston said.
Up to 12 military and civilian planes and 13 ships took part in the search Sunday of three areas totaling about 216,000 square kilometers (83,400 square miles). The areas are about 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) northwest of the Australian west coast city of Perth.
Associated Press writers Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Rohan Sullivan and Kristen Gelineau in Sydney contributed to this report.


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The city tried to help residents deal with warm refrigerators and freezers yesterday as utility crews scrambled to repair power lines and trim trees.
Austin Energy officials said they expected more than 700 people to be without power until this afternoon.
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Great Northwest Music Tour
Freak Mountain Ramblers
Plus an interview with the band, beer samples and free apps!
Harvest Marionberry Sour
Special Beer Release
part of
Oregon Craft Beer Month
- Crystal Ballroom Property - Lola's Room |
- Sunday, July 7, 2013
- 7 p.m. |
- Free |
- All ages welcome
Every month the Great Northwest Music Tour blazes a fresh musical trail, bringing an ever-changing lineup of talent to McMenamins Historic Properties. There is no admission charge to the festivities, and our unique hotels offer food, handcrafted beverages and a cozy place to bed down after the last note is played. Bring your friends and family and jam to a different artist every month.
About Freak Mountain Ramblers
Portland's own Freak Mountain Ramblers bring a rollicking brand of rock 'n' roll, bluegrass, alternative country and country-blues to every show they play.
With a lineup including three members of the inimitable and notorious Holy Modal Rounders / Clamtones amalgamation of the '70s and '80s, Freak Mountain Ramblers has its roots in the underbelly of the alternative music scene that existed at that time, both in Portland and across the country. The Freaks have accumulated a loyal following in the Portland area by dependably creating beauty and bedlam at their live shows, and by producing CDs that successfully translate that energy and excitement to disc. Four lead singer/songwriters, each with a distinct character and approach to life and music, provide a dynamic show that packs the rooms with some of the most interesting music fans around.
The Freak Mountain Ramblers are veteran performers packing decades of experience. FMR members have been core musicians of the Holy Modal Rounders, Golden Delicious, the Clamtones, Richard Cranium and the Phoreheads, Prairie Dogs, Swingline Cubs, The Trail Band, and The Fly By Night Jass Band.
"... Freak Mountain Ramblers aren't your typical country western band. Not only have they chucked the slick yippie-ki-yay good looks of contemporary C&W singers for the haggard couture of mountain men, their lyrics have bizarrely warped the genre's storytelling. One song starts as a fable about two fighting neighbors and picks up speed until they have doused each other with gasoline. Strangely addictive and disturbingly fun, the song is sung in sweet tones and set to a galloping swing." - Portland Mercury
- website:
- http://www.freakmountain.com/
About Plus an interview with the band, beer samples and free apps!
Tonight we also have samples of a special limited-release beer, chats with the Crystal Ballroom brewers, and a live, onstage interview with the band.
About Harvest Marionberry Sour
Bold red in appearance with a pleasant tart presence on the nose and a lacto-sour finish that leaves you with a sweet afterthought of fruit. This beer was brewed at the Old Church Brewery in Wilsonville, Oregon, by newly relocated Crystal Brewer Mark Goodwin who used 3 pounds of fresh Oregon grown marionberries per gallon of beer and aged the resulting nectar for over a year on a house lacto culture as well as our proprietary yeast strain.
About Oregon Craft Beer Month
July is Oregon Craft Beer Month, a time to celebrate the many handcrafted ales, lagers, pilsners and stouts that McMenamins brews right onsite at many of our properties. So we're toasting this auspicious month with special beer events and tastings.
- Oregon Craft Beer Month:
- http://oregoncraftbeermonth.com/
- Oregon Brewers Festival:
- http://www.oregonbrewfest.com/


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The Power of Independent Thinking
Love Gov: From First Date to Mandate
Recorded: Monday, July 6, 2015
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Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Love Gov portrays the federal government as an overbearing boyfriend Scott Gov Govinsky who foists his "good intentions" on a hapless, idealistic college student, Alexis. Each episode follows Alexis's relationship with Gov as his intrusions wreak (comic) havoc on her life, professionally, financially, and socially. Alexis's loyal friend Libby tries to help her see Gov for what he really is a menace. But will Alexis come to her senses in time? Tune in to find out!
Episode 1: An Education in Debt
Episode 2: Protection from Jobs
Episode 3: A Remedy for Healthcare Choices
Episode 4: House Poor
Episode 5: Keeping a Close Eye on Privacy
Type: Independent Institute TVIssues: Banking and Finance, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Corporate Welfare, Culture/ Society, Drugs (Illicit), Economic Policy, Education, Environment, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Freedom, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Government Waste/Pork, Health Care, Housing, Labor and Employment, Land Use, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Privacy, Privatization, Property Rights, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation, Taxes, Welfare, Womens Issues
Freedom Act, Patriot Act or Status Quo Act
Recorded: Monday, June 8, 2015
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland appears on RTs CrossTalk program to discuss topics surrounding the US Patriot Act and whether or not Edward Snowden was a hero or a traitor. On a panel with other defense analysts, the US war against terror is debated. The panel discusses whether or not the US government is violating the constitutional rights by collecting metadata of phone calls and emails of US citizens.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Privacy
Mary L.G. Theroux | Childhood Poverty, Government Failures, and the Need for Economic Liberty
Recorded: Thursday, March 26, 2015
Independent Institute Senior Vice President Mary L. G. Theroux testified on "Childhood Poverty, Government Failures, and the Need for Economic Liberty", before the California State Senate's Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, at the request of State Senator Jeff Stone. The witnesses spoke about California's Maximum Family Grant rule for families on welfare. The rule caps grants and does not increase grant money to mothers on welfare when they have more children. Mary testified about the causes of poverty and of the need for other, non-government options for poor families. She introduced ideas for helping the poor through private resources and organizations, instead of government agencies where families and women often find themselves trapped in a cycle of poverty.
Experts: Mary L. G. TherouxType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Education, Family, Health Care, Housing, Labor and Employment, Politics, Privatization, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation, Taxes, Welfare, Womens Issues
Ivan Eland on Ranking US Presidents
Recorded: Sunday, October 26, 2014
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, appears on Fox & Friends to discuss his updated version of "Recarving Rushmore."
To order copies of "Recarving Rushmore: Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty," click here.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Freedom, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Government Waste/Pork, History (U.S), Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Regulation and Deregulation, Terrorism and National Crises, Trade
The War on Everything
Recorded: Monday, April 14, 2014
Research Fellow Anthony Gregory, author of "The Power of Habeas Corpus in America,"
discusses how politicians love to declare war on social and economic issues, and how these "wars" only manage to increase government power while reducing liberty.
Experts: Anthony GregoryType: Independent Institute TVIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Free Speech, Freedom, Government Power, Government Secrecy, History (U.S), Immigration, Law Enforcement, Regulation and Deregulation, Terrorism and National Crises
Ron Paul: All You Have To Do Is Scare Them
Recorded: Wednesday, April 9, 2014
April 9, 2014
In this clip from "Ron Paul: Liberty Defined," Dr. Paul talks about how governments instill fear in populations through propaganda.
Experts: Ron PaulType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Democracy, Freedom, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Politics, Terrorism and National Crises
Mary L. G. Theroux on the Epic Life of Willard Garvey
Recorded: Sunday, November 17, 2013
Mary Theroux, Senior Vice President at the Independent Institute, is interviewed by Bob Weeks of WichitaLiberty TV. Mary reflects on the
accomplishments of her father's life as told in the book Willard Garvey: An Epic Life authored by Maura McEnaney.
Experts: Mary L. G. TherouxType: TelevisionIssues: Business, Culture/ Society, Free Market Economics, Housing
Maura McEnaney on Willard Garvey at Wichita Rotary Club
Recorded: Monday, October 28, 2013
Maura McEnaney, author of Willard Garvey: An Epic Life, speaks before the Rotary Club of Wichita on October 28, 2013, about her new book published by The Independent Institute's LibertyTree Press.
Experts: Maura McEnaneyType: TelevisionIssues: Business, Culture/ Society, Economic Policy, Entertainment, Family, Government Waste/Pork, Housing, Privatization, Trade


text: Jun Acculador, flickr [ I Wish the Bullying Would Stop By Sue Moll October 8, 2013 It's National Bullying Prevention Month. Quite frankly, I can't even believe we have to have a month called this. Bullying ruins lives at any age you are. The statistics of bullying keeps rising in our school and it's just horrible. Read More|Comment Category: Articles, Ocean County Breakfast Show Tags: bullying, Jersey Shore, NJ High Schools, Ocean County Breakfast Show, Shawn & Sue, stop bullying Send to a friend! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr!


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Study Design: This is a prospective study of artificial disc replacement combined with cage fusion for the treatment of multi-level cervical disc herniation.
Objective: To evaluate the clinical outcome of Bryan cervical disc replacement combined with adjacent segment cage fusion in the treatment of patients with multi-level cervical disc herniation. To observe neurological improvement and interpret the radiographic findings.
Summary of Background Data: It is generally considered that one-level cervical disc replacement had an excellent intermediate clinical outcome. There was no final conclusion about the disc replacement for the treatment of multi-level cervical disc disease. The negative factors include possibile complication, high cost, and contraindication for disc replacement at one of the multi-segments. Disc replacement combined with adjacent segment cage fusion may be an option for the treatment of multi-level cervical disc disease for certain patients.
Methods: There were 26 patients with multi-level cervical disc herniation who underwent single-level disc replacement and adjacent segment cage fusion. Of the patients, there were 17 male and 9 female, aged between 35 and 63 (mean age 47[medium shade]y). The herniated disc was located at C3-4, C4-5 in 1 case, C4-5, C5-6 in 11cases, C5-6, C6-7 in 7 cases, C4-5, C6-7 in 3 cases, and C4-5, C5-6, C6-7 in 4 cases. There were 12 cases with myelopathy and 14 patients with radiculopathy. The stabilization and the range of motion of implanted disc, the fusion of cage and the displacement of cage were observed on dynamic radiograph postoperatively. The clinical symptom and the neurological function were evaluated based on the JOA score (17 points), NDI (neck disability index) score and odom's criteria
Results: All patients underwent single-level Bryan disc replacement and cage fusion on adjacent segment. The replacement segment and fusion segment were located next to each other among 23 patients. They were not next to each other in 3 cases. The follow-up was 24 months to 47 months. Definite stabilization was achieved for all Bryan discs. The average range of motion at replaced level was 9.5 degrees postoperatively. Solid fusion was achieved in all cage. There was no subsidence or displacement of cage. The JOA score (17 points) rose from 9.2 to 13.5 at final follow up. The NDI (neck disability index) was reduced from 40.8 to 28.5 at final follow-up. The clinical success (excellent/good/fair) based on Odom's Criteria were 84.6%.
Conclusion: Definite stabilization and satisfactory mobility were achieved after cervical disc replacement and cage fusion. This provides an effective option for the treatment of multi - level cervical disc herniation. The evaluation of high fusion rate of cage may need to accumulate more clinical cases.
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Offensive Grade: F
Defensive Grade: D
Starting Pitching Grade: B-
Bullpen Pitching Grade: B-
Managerial Grade: F
Front Office Grade: F
Overall Midseason Grade: D+
The A's entered 2009 as a darkhorse candidate to win the division. Now, at the halfway point, the team is a darkhorse candidate for the worst record in the American league. 2009 marks the first time in the past decade that the A's have entered the All-Star break with a record below .500. Offensively, the team has been a complete mess. Once again, Eric Chavez has found himself sidelined for the entire season, while the new free agent acquisitions have disappointed thus far. Even Matt Holliday , who was acquired in an offseason trade with the Rockies , has gotten off to a slow start and there are now questions as to whether or not the A's will be able to get what they want in return in a midseason deal. Defensively, the A's have struggled, mainly because injuries to gold glove caliber players in Chavez and Mark Ellis . However, this can also be attributed to manager Bob Geren for starting Jack Cust in right field in many games thus far. The starting pitching has shown signs of promise. Trevor Cahill , Brett Anderson , and Vin Mazzaro , already christened "the new big three", have looked brilliant at times....and other times have shown their lack of experience. Dallas Braden has been one of the best pitchers in the American League this season, but a lack of run support has failed to earn him recognition. So has Josh Outman , but he became the third A's player to fall victim to Tommy John Surgery this offseason. The bullpen was very good at the beginning of the year, but has started falter down the stretch, mainly from being used far too much. Michael Wuertz and Andrew Bailey have been the two bright spots though. As for manager Bob Geren, he looks lost. He refuses to let starters work deep into games, has failed to play the matchups correctly, and shows no confidence in his team. If he wasn't Billy Beane's best man at his second wedding, he might be the second manager to be fired this season. Speaking of Billy Beane , he has completely mishandled the farm system all year long and his trade for Scott Hairston is questionable. It's been a rough first half for the A's.
First Half MVP: Andrew Bailey - Closer
After trading Huston Street in the offseason and seeing Joey Devine fall victim to Tommy John Surgery, many that follow the A's were wondering who would step up and take over the role of the teams closer. Andrew Bailey answered that question. Since being selected as the last reliever to make the A's bullpen out of spring training, Bailey has forced everyone around baseball to take notice of him. He is the only rookie to be selected for the All-Star Game in St. Louis and is the A's lone representative. No one could dare say Bailey isn't deserving though. Bailey leads all American League Relievers in innings pitched and strikeouts and is 4th among American League Closers with a 1.92 era. Bailey features a mid 90's fastball, a curveball, and a cutter that does its best impression of Yankees future Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera .
Apologies to: Adam Kennedy, Kurt Suzuki, Dallas Braden
First Half LVP: Jason Giambi - First Basemen
If the Jason Giambi that the A's had on their team mirrored anything close to the young guy in the picture to the right, the A's were going to get a bargain in the offseason. Unfortunately, what they ended up with was an over the hill, aging veteran, whose bat can't catch up to an inside fastball. Giambi has been terrible this season. In fact, this is his worst season of his career. Currently, Giambi is hitting below the Mendoza Line at .192 on the year. The A's were hoping Giambi would be an upgrade from Daric Barton , but instead they only stunted Barton's development for no apparent reason. In addition, his inability to play the field everyday is causing manager Bob Geren to play Jack Cust in the outfield, a position that Cust should never play. Because of his performance, the A's can't trade Giambi. Jason has a team option for next year in which I don't think is going to get picked up. Unless Giambi has a strong second half, Giambi might be playing his last season in baseball.
sighs of relief for: Jack Cust, Bobby Crosby, Orlando Cabrera
Biggest Surprise: Adam Kennedy - Infielder
At the beginning of the season, no one wanted Adam Kennedy . In fact, the St. Louis Cardinals waived Kennedy, eating the $4 million dollars he had owed on his contract. The Rays signed Kennedy to a minor league deal, but then quickly sent him to the A's for career minor leaguer Joe Dillon . Oh how those two teams GM's wish they could have do overs...Since arriving in Oakland, Kennedy has been an offensive force and is having his best season as pro baseball player. Kennedy is currently hitting .291 with 7 home runs and 31 RBI. Mind you, those numbers are since May, as the first month of the season Kennedy was in AAA. His home run total is his highest since 2004 when he hit 10 in a season. Kennedy is also proving to be a versatile player, playing whatever position he has been asked to receive playing time. He originally was called over to play second base in place of the injured Mark Ellis, but when Ellis returned Kennedy has made the transition to 3rd, 1st, and even some time in right field and has kept on hitting. Because Kennedy is a free agent at the end of the year though, he remains a good candidate to be traded. A team like the Cubs would be a perfect fit.
Apologies to: Josh Outman, Andrew Bailey, Dallas Braden
Player Most Likely to Be Traded: Matt Holliday - Left Field
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: Adam Kennedy, Russ Springer, Bobby Crosby


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Veggie Thai red curry
Cooking timePrep: 30 mins Cook: 20 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 4
This fragrant Thai dish is sure to get your taste buds into action, and is ready in under an hour
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Dairy-free
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 233
- protein
- 8g
- carbs
- 11g
- fat
- 18g
- saturates
- 10g
- fibre
- 3g
- sugar
- 7g
- salt
- 3.06g
- 200g firm tofu, cubed
- 4-5 tbsp soy sauce
- juice 3 limes
- 2 red chillies, 1 finely chopped, 1 sliced into rounds
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 400ml can reduced-fat coconut milk
- 1 courgette, chopped into chunks
- 1 small aubergine, chopped into chunks
- ½ red pepper, deseeded and chopped into chunks
- 140g mushrooms, halved
- 140g sugar snap peas
- 20g pack basil, leaves picked
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- jasmine rice, to serve
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- Whizz the paste ingredients in a food processor. Marinate the tofu in 2 tbsp soy sauce, juice 1 lime and the chopped chilli.
- Heat half the oil in a large pan. Add 3-4 tbsp paste and fry for 2 mins. Stir in the coconut milk with 100ml water, the courgette, aubergine and pepper and cook for 10 mins until almost tender.
- Drain the tofu, pat dry, then fry in the remaining oil in a small pan until golden.
- Add the mushrooms, sugar snaps and most of the basil to the curry, then season with the sugar, remaining lime juice and soy sauce. Cook for 4 mins until the mushrooms are tender, then add the tofu and heat through. Scatter with sliced chilli and basil and serve with jasmine rice.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2010
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Made this using veggies I had in (mushrooms, carrot and green beans) but apart from that followed it to the letter. I found it was a lot of effort for poor results. Could only really taste lime, salt and chilli. The people using a store bought paste will, I imagine, get completely different results. Will continue my search for a from scratch thai curry that lives up to expectations.
I used a ready made red thai paste and used sweet potato instead of the tofu. I found the 100 ml water unecessary, as to my mind the dish became a bit watery. I would hold the water until half way through cooking and add it only if you think it's necessary. That being said - my family absolutely loved this dish. I will definitely make it again.
Made it for my girlfriend who's vegetarian. Although I usually hate tofu and these other types of meat substitutes it actually wasn't too bad! Have passed on the recipe and she's sure to make it again as she loved it (although I'll probably stick to a meat based version!).
Overall, a perfect dish for vegetarians looking to make a nice thai curry!


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Distinguished Alumni
Benny J. Hill - 2006
Benny J. Hill started his career as a research assistant at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for two years before returning to SWOSU as a physics instructor for one year.
He then returned to Los Alamos as a staff member performing computational modeling of various nuclear physics and other processes while taking graduate courses in physics and mathematics from the University of New Mexico.
In 1964, he returned to SWOSU and assumed the chair's position of the Physics Department which he held until 1990. His long and tireless service built the physics program into a nationally-known program which graduated 350 students.
Majors in biophysics and engineering physics were added under his leadership and he started a Society of Physics Students chapter that even today is routinely recognized as one of the nationally outstanding chapters of SPS.
Hill was very active in placing graduates in jobs or graduate schools and maintaining relationships with alumni to build a very strong SWOSU Physics Alumni Association that ensured placement of future graduates.
His contributions to science education went far beyond the SWOSU classroom. He was a regular presenter at local, regional, state and even international science fairs.
In 1985, Hill began part-time corporate defense work for BDM Corporation. Following his retirement in 1990, he joined the company where he managed numerous invention, design, manufacturing, testing and evaluation programs critical to the United States defense and security programs.
Hill retired for a second time in 2003. He now resides in Sante Fe, N.M., where he pursues interests in history, Indian and Spanish cultures, painting, writing and photography.


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On Wednesday, October 15th, the Metropolitian Evansville Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting on the second floor of Central Library to open a new, business-focused area of Central's reference and non-fiction collections.
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Port Huron Northern's Josh Karasiewicz kicks the ball back toward the goal as St. Clair's Derek McComas guards him Friday during their soccer game at East China Stadium.
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These are some recent stories of the IT organizations who brought in wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS) to secure their network environments against Wi-Fi vulnerabilities and attacks, and what they encountered was the incessant flow of security alerts that they could not keep up with. That is because, the systems constantly crunched signatures and thresholds from wireless… Read More
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As a follow-up to the "Happy Eyes" post (below), my son reminded me of something he heard me say on many occasions when he was but a lad: "You don't have to like it, you just have to eat it." This is a basic principle all children need to learn because they're going to need it when they're adults, and if they don't learn it, they won't really become adults.
Life is full of duties, and a duty is something we have to do whether we like it or not. Duty is something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation e.g., the respectful and obedient conduct due a parent, superior, superior, elder, etc. So, for example, a child is not required to like his carrots, but he is required to eat them if that is what his parent told him to do. The parent is in a position of authority and sees what is good for the child regarding the nutrition of carrots; the child, not appreciating this truth, complains, "I don't like carrots." The parent responds, "You don't have to like them, you just have eat them." When the child eats them he does his duty, obeying his parent. He also reaps the nutritional benefits. Perhaps, later, he will also come to carrots.
A person who has learned to do their duty, and not simply to follow the impulses of their likes and dislikes, has not only learned to see beyond the moment, they have learned to trust God who has given authority to others over them. A person who cannot submit to others cannot submit to God. Like a child, their short-sighted desires dictate their behavior. Moreover, like spoiled and indulged children, these "grown-ups" are no fun to be around.


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A former mechanic at the El Paso Independent School District was sentenced Thursday to six years in federal prison for having child pornography.
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After dropping a game to the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night, the Miami Heat have lost three straight, in no small part due to a sprained ankle for LeBron James that kept him out of action. James' fellow member of the Big 3, Heat forward Chris Bosh, also went down with an ankle injury during the third quarter of Saturday night's game against the Bulls.
With Chicago leading 73-68 with less than a minute to play in the third quarter, a loose ball scramble led Bosh to lean down towards the ground to secure possession. Bulls big man Omer Asik, who had been in a pile up in the paint, also made a play on the loose ball, diving over a second late and crashing into Bosh's left leg, sending the ball out of bounds. Bosh grimaced and rolled around on the court, holding his left ankle as Heat forward Mike Miller attended to him. After about five seconds, Bosh was able to get up and walk it off, yelping in some pain. Bosh sat out the fourth quarter after the injury.
Here's a look at the play, courtesy of YouTube user OutsideTheNBA.
The Sun-Sentinel called the ankle injury a "significant concern" due to Miami's thin frontcourt, but ESPN.com reports that X-rays taken at the United Center were negative. Also negative was Bosh's take on Asik's play, according to ESPN.com.
"C'mon, that is how guys get hurt, that is how serious injuries happen. You've got to watch people's legs. I know guys want to hustle and everything but we all want to play and provide for our families and have a job.We all want to be healthy and that is very important If it is by somebody's leg, don't dive for the ball, it's too close."Does Bosh have a point here? No.
Asik made a fair, if a bit awkward, play on a loose ball. Had Bosh laid out completely and dove for the ball, his leg wouldn't have been in harm's way. No one wants to see a big body come crashing down on an exposed knee/ankle like that -- it's an athlete's and fan's worst nightmare -- but, given the circumstances, it didn't warrant a lecture from Bosh. Asik did nothing for which he should apologize.
We should probably chalk up Bosh's statements to post-traumatic delusion, as he apparently is suggesting that his opponents, who are being compensated handsomely and are expected by millions of viewers to win at all costs, calibrate their effort level based on their proximity to other players and the potential for injury. That's not just unrealistic, that's against the best interest of the game. It doesn't make sense in theory and it would be impossible to put into practice.
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