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With our 11th session of Ignite Portland fast approaching, we announce the latest crop of talks. These speakers and their wonderful presentations will be on display at the Bagdad Theater come Wednesday September 19th, 2012.
In no particular order:
- Greg Dunlap — Are slot machines rigged?
- Austin Ramsland — The Quantified Toddler: lessons learned from applying modern technology to my 13 month-old daughter
- J-P Voillequé — Muppetology
- Chris Haskell — Blowing up the grade book: What games have taught us about how to save our schools
- Rob Wilcox — Elusive Democracy: A Personal Journey of Continents and Ideas
- T.J. VanSlyke — Trailer Chic: Tales of living in an RV in Portland
- Darrel Plant — Chain Mail and Church Groups: The First Decade of Dungeons & Dragons
- Daniel Bailey — How to climb a mountain without killing yourself
- Josh Bancroft — Bronyism in Modern Culture: WTF is Up With My Little Pony?
- Chris McCraw — the politics of nudity
- Sarah Giffrow — You can become more awesome at roller skating!
- Monk Funkster — What the FLAC!?
- Christopher Krupa — Not Dying in Antarctica
- Ken Westin — Pwnd by Gadgets
- Greg Qualey — Themed Pubcrawls- More Than Just a Theme or a Pub or a Crawl
- Matt Allen — The future of live-streaming music, concerts and festivals
- Jackie Wirz — Collagen: the skin we're in
- McKenna Pickett – Should Video Games be Viewed as Art?
- Morgan Rich — Crazy responses to stupid school questions
- Dusti Arab — Rebel Mama: How to raise your kids without losing yourself
- Angela Wheeler — Dying on an Alaskan Highway: What a PhD in Sociology Didn't Teach Me About Resilience
Thank you to all who submitted talk ideas and remember to save them for next year. We always need burning ideas and with competition like this, your talk could be up there next time!
For the others looking to help out, there is always room for more hands-on volunteers on the night of the event. If this sounds like your thing, head to our volunteer page and sign-up! We will be having a Volunteer Meetup Night (TONIGHT) August 22nd, so try and make it out to meet our volunteer coordinator and the others helping out. If you can't quite make it, go ahead and sign up anyway and we'll be in touch.
Looks like another fantastic session, we'll see you there!


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Harrington Hoists' Growth Spurt
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The manufacturing plant in Manheim, PA, which has served as the home of Harrington Hoists, Inc., no longer is large enough to support the company's growth, so the firm has leased a 97,000-sq.-ft. facility in Elizabethtown, PA, to house its warehousing and assembly operations. The new facility should be operational by May 2013; operations, fabrication and production manufacturing remains at the Manheim plant. Harrington Hoists manufactures electric-chain and wire-rope hoists, air-powered hoists, lever hoists, trolleys, cranes and other products.
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This morning I was flicking through Marie Claire and Vogue and noticed pink, pink and more pink. Pink is not a common colour in my wardrobe, I don't think I own any pink clothing!? This made me come to the conclusion that -
"I'm not really a pink kinda girl"
My mum laughed, I thought about it;
even though my wardrobe isn't very pink, I own way more pink stuff than I first thought.
1. Cath Kidston Tumbler, £3 here 2. Potted Plant in a jam jar 3. Moleskine volant notebook, £5.43 here
4. Peonies from Waitrose, £5 5. Tea light holders 6. Charbonnel et Walker, Pink Mark de Champagne Truffles, £15 here
9. Topshop socks, £3.50 here
12. Mac lipstick (Girl About Town), £15 here
13. Nars blusher (Orgasm), £21.50 here 14. Calvin Klein undies 15. Homemade floral card collage
After seeing so much pink in 2013's Autumn/Winter trends, I'm starting to think I need to add some pink to my wardrobe.
My pink wish list is growing, fast:
I've always wanted some Gucci loafers and an American Apparel leather pouch
I've already got them in black but need more JuJu jellies (blast from the past), would look super summery with some amazing 3.1 pink oversized Phillip Lim sunglasses
and I can never have enough lipstick, I'm desperate to try Limecrime lipsticks, anyone tried them? The packaging and names are incredible, this ones called Great Pink Planet!
The Autumn Winter catwalks have seen an array of rosy and feminine pinks, powdery, pastelly, pinky goodness and I quite like it.
How about you?


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I was drawing yesterday and came up with an idea for a chibi character. Now, I'm sure it's no surprise to you all that there is an abundance of chibi tutorials at your disposal, I just felt like making a new lesson that was brighter, cuter, and maybe a bit easier. That is why I will be "drawing a chibi", and showing you how to replicate it using easy steps that will aid you to making this chibi character drawing a breeze. I have talked so much about the many different versions of chibis, and with every lesson I have always found something new to say about them. Today when you are drawing a chibi of your own, you should really try and use some of your artistic talents by adding something different to the character you are about to draw. Maybe color in the eyes blue instead of dark amber, how about drawing a sweater instead of a shirt, or maybe you can turn this boy into a girl. Anything you can think of will actually customize your drawing into something original even if you are following steps to draw a chibi. No matter what, I know you will do a great job because everybody here on Dragoart is a great artist. Meet me back here in a few to see what else I have for you. Hey, that rhymed. Well peace out people, and keep enjoying your drawing day.
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Relentless heat takes a bite out of the bounty of backyard tomatoes this year
Add another victim to the casualties of the drought: backyard tomatoes. These are usually the salad days, the happy time of year we should be swimming in the red fruit, delighting our neighbors with gifts on their doorsteps, making sandwiches with slices as thick as a T-bone.
But not this blue-blazing summer.
Tomatoes get fat and happy on warm days between 75 and 85 degrees and nights around 60 in the high desert. This diurnal pendulum gives tomatoes and melons their rich, sweet flavor. There's no replacing the sun's touch, which is why store-bought, grow-light tomatoes taste like damp Styrofoam to my homegrown-cultured palate.


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What demographers call the "silver tsunami" began in 2011, when 10,000 members a day of the huge baby boom generation began to retire. That will continue until 2030, and will shape our state, since nearly one-third of Connecticut's population is made up of baby boomers.
So it's promising that Gov. Dannel Malloy's efforts to emphasize in-home services are beginning to pay off for the elderly and disabled who need long-term care.
One sign? Nursing home vacancies in the state have increased. Only 11 of the 230 licensed nursing homes in the state were at capacity this spring, according to an article in the Connecticut Post, and the nursing home occupancy rate has dropped over the last 10 years.
Currently, the state pays $2.7 billion on patients who need long-term care through the Medicaid program, the government health care for the indigent and disabled. Of that amount, $1.2 billion a year goes for nursing home care alone.
There will always be a need for nursing home beds, particularly with the elderly population on the upswing. But home or community care is far less expensive, and generally preferred by most patients.
The state's challenge is to create a system that gives people equal access to any institution when they need it and home care whenever feasible. We aren't there yet; there's a waiting list of several months for the state-funded Home Care Program for Elders. "People call in a time of crisis, and they need the services, but they end up going to a nursing facility," said Julia Evans Starr. That winds up costing state taxpayers even more. That waiting list needs to be winnowed down.
The state needs to keep striving toward its goal of serving, in the community, 75 percent of Medicaid patients needing long-term care. Other states, such as Oregon and New Mexico, are nearly there. Currently, in Connecticut, a little over half the Medicaid patients requiring long-term care get services in the community. That's good. We need to keep improving.
Connecticut should also think in broad terms about the demographic trends ahead, aside from the laudable goal of saving money. It's undeniable that the state's population is going to gray in the not-too-distant future. Towns and cities should be included in a dialogue about what it will mean to have an increasingly aged population, with more people getting home care. The trend will have an impact on issues as varied as transportation and disaster preparedness.
Most of all, there should be ways for people receiving home care to be part of the life of their communities. Inclusion, rather than isolation, will be key.


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Chili Serrrano 50 Seeds
Site. Grow peppers in full sun (at least 6 hours per day) in soil that is rich in organic matter, moisture retentive but well draining. Peppers prefer a soil pH of 6.0 to 6.8. If the pH is below 6.0 add limestone to the soil; if the pH is above 8.0 add peat moss to lower the pH. A safe bet is to always work aged garden compost into beds prior to planting. The optimal soil temperature for peppers is 65°F (18°C) or warmer. Choose a site protected from wind. Avoid planting in beds where other members of the Solanaceae family (peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, and potatoes) have recently grown. Some peppers such as Jalapeño, cayenne, and mirasol prefer arid regions; others such as habanero, Scotch bonnet and datil prefer humid regions.
Planting time. Hot peppers grow best in daytime air temperatures 65° to 80°F (18-26°C) and night temperatures above 55°F /13°C (nighttime temperatures between 60° and 70° are best). Peppers are most easily grown from transplants. Start seed indoors 7 to 10 weeks before the date you intend to set peppers into the garden. Peppers can be seeded in the garden or transplanted out 2 to 3 weeks after the last frost in spring after the soil temperature has risen to at least 65°F. In temperatures greater than 85°F (29°C), peppers may drop their blossoms although set fruit will ripen. The ideal temperature for hot peppers is a daytime temperature around 75°F (24°C) and a nighttime temperature around 62°F. Generally, you can set out peppers at the same time you set tomatoes or basil into the garden.
Planting and spacing. Sow hot pepper seeds ¼ to ½ inch deep, 18 to 24 inches (45-61 cm) apart depending upon the variety. Space rows 24 to 36 inches (61-91 cm) apart. Sow three seeds to each spot and thin to the two most successful seedlings. Peppers can be transplanted into the garden when they are 4 to 6 inches (10-15 cm) tall.
Water and feeding. Keep peppers evenly moist but not wet particularly when blossoms appear and fruit begin to form. Soil that goes too dry can result in flower drop. Keep the soil evenly moist just after transplanting peppers to the garden; avoid under or over watering peppers early on. Add aged compost to planting beds before planting and again at midseason.
Once hot pepper plants are established you can vary the watering. Hot peppers that are deprived of water and become slightly stressed will produce more pungent fruit.
Companion plants. Beets, garlic, onions, parsnips, radishes.
Care. Keep planting beds well weeded to avoid competition. Peppers are shallow-rooted, so cultivate around peppers with care. Mulch to keep soil temperature and moisture even.
Avoid high nitrogen fertilizers which will create large leafy plants with few or no fruits. High temperatures and wind can cause flowers to drop and plants not to set fruit.
Plastic mulch can improve pepper yields. Organic compost mulches will reduce weeding and watering, but not fruit yields.
Hot peppers can put out shoots that become leggy. Cut these shoots back to keep the plant compact.
Peppers will begin to flower almost as soon as the plant forms branches. Pepper plants have complete flowers which means each flower contains both a male and female part; as a result, the pepper is self-pollinating. Wind, bees and other insects, and a light shake of the plant by a human hand can aid pollination.
Container growing. Peppers can be grown in a large container. An 8-inch (20 cm) pot will accommodate a single plant. In larger containers, set plants on 12 inch (30 cm) centers. Peppers can be grown indoors. Peppers started indoors before the last frost in spring will get a head start on the season. Extend the season in the fall by moving plants indoors if frost threatens or if temperatures warm to greater than 90°F (32°C). Bring outdoor started peppers inside for a few hours a day at first until they get used to the lower light available indoors.
Pests. Peppers can be attacked by aphids, cutworms, flea beetles, and hornworms. Discourage cutworms by placing a collar around each transplant at the time of planting; hand pick hornworms off of plants. Flea beetles and aphids can be partially controlled by hosing them off the plants and pinching out infested foliage.
Diseases. Peppers are susceptible to rot, blossom end rot, anthracnose, tobacco mosaic virus, bacterial spot, and mildew. Plant disease-resistant varieties. Keep the garden clean and free of weeds where pests and diseases can shelter. Remove infected plants before disease can spread. If you smoke, wash your hands before working with the plants to avoid spreading tobacco mosaic virus.
Harvest. Hot peppers are ready for harvest in 60 to 95 days after sowing depending upon the variety. Most hot peppers mature from green to red as the seeds inside mature. Green hot peppers are not ripe, although some people prefer the flavor of green hot peppers. Red peppers are ripe and have a fruitier flavor. The hottest chili peppers are usually orange colored. Cut the peppers off the vine. Pulling a pepper away from the plant may cause the plant to come out of the soil. To prolong the harvest, cut peppers from the plant regularly; a hot pepper harvest can last from one to three months.
Harvest safety. Hot peppers contain organic chemicals called capsaicinoids which can burn the skin and eyes. Wear rubber gloves when harvesting hot peppers and be careful not to rub your eyes. The best antidote for burning skin to to rub them with isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol.


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Interview: PSY on 'Gangnam Style,' posers and that hysterical little boy
It's been a hell of a week for PSY, the K-Pop sensation of the moment.
From a hit music video, a spectacular concert stage fire in front of 33,000 people last weekend, a spontaneous 'guerrilla' gig at Gangnam Station on Tuesday, to flying to LA following a call from Justin Bieber's label, the comic hip-hop/rap star is riding one high-flying rocket to international stardom.
The 34-year-old rapper's "Gangnam Style" music video has gone mega-viral since its release a month ago -- clocking in at around 34 million YouTube hits as of the time of writing.
Thanks to PSY (real name Park Jae-Sang), the whole world is talking about Gangnam, Seoul's ritziest district, and wondering where -- or what -- it could possibly be.
And over on Facebook, feeds continue to be peppered with posts about the comic K-Pop singer-songwriter's frenzied "horse dance," which foreign media is calling "the second Macarena" because of its catchiness.
Amidst all this, we caught up with PSY (short, apparently, for psycho) to ask him to find out more about Gangnam, his video, that crazy dance and his take on his rising popularity.
Look out for announcements of future concert dates, tentatively planned for Christmas and the end of the year.
CNNGo: What on earth were you thinking when you dreamed up that video?
PSY: With this new album, I just wanted to make something that was purely comedic – something that could make people laugh like crazy even in the midst of all this global economic slowdown.
I wanted to make them forget -- just for a moment even -- about their immediate troubles, and to entertain them the way entertainment should be all about.
CNNGo: It's been very entertaining to read foreign media's explanations of what Gangnam is and why you are singing about it. So what IS your reading of Gangnam, and why are you singing about it?
PSY: I've heard it said that Gangnam is the Beverly Hills of Korea. But I would say that Gangnam is the capital of Seoul, which, of course, is the capital of Korea.
People who are actually from Gangnam never proclaim that they are -- it's only the posers and wannabes that put on these airs and say that they are "Gangnam Style" -- so this song is actually poking fun at those kinds of people who are trying so hard to be something that they're not.
CNNGo: So where would you recommend people go when they come to Korea?
PSY: First of all, I would recommend a PSY concert! I'm having a few more at the end of the year so that's a great reason to come to Korea. But also Gangnam of course. It's just a great place to party and have fun.
CNNGo: How did you feel when you saw yourself on CNN?
PSY: I didn't believe it. When I saw articles on the other foreign sites like Huffington Post and Gawker I thought it was really cool. But when I saw the CNN video, I actually thought the video wasn't real! I thought someone had edited it as a joke.
CNNGo: Where did you find that little boy in the video? He's hysterical.
PSY: Isn't he great? His name is Hwang Min-woo and he's five. The night before the music video shoot, I was watching Korea's Got Talent and saw him dance to Michael Jackson. His moves were ridiculous. So we called him up and asked him to be in the music video, which was shooting the very next day, and he came and it all worked out.
CNNGo: What is your favorite song off this album? 'What If,' with Lena Park is great.
PSY: I've noticed that a lot of women in their 20s and 30s really like that song! Something about the lyrics about wondering about past loves really hits home for them.
My personal favorite is actually 'Hot Goodbye' which I collaborated on with Sung Si-kyung.
CNNGo: A lot of foreign artists have tweeted about how they love "Gangnam Style." Are there any foreign artists who you would like to collaborate with?
PSY: Anyone who has tweeted about me, I would love to work with haha. Robbie Williams, T-Pain … But actually the biggest influence in my music, especially when I was starting out, was Queen. I know that's probably surprising, but you'll know if you've ever been to one of my concerts that I love to emulate their style when I'm performing live. So yeah, that would be amazing!
PSY's concert, by the numbers
Fires on stage: 1
People in the audience: 33,000
Days it took to build the stage: 5
Number of staff behind the scenes: 400
Number of dancers: 20
Bottles of soju drunk on stage by one extremely excited artist: 2
Number of hours said artist went overtime: 2
More on CNN: The trials and tribulations of bringing UMF to Korea
We've had many enquiries asking where parts of his popular video was shot. Here are some of those and other locations where you can find some "Gangnam Style."
Cheongdam Station (music video opening sequence): 75-1 Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul (서울 강남구 청담동 75-1)
Gangnam Station (guerrilla concert site), 821-1 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul (서울 강남구 역삼동 821-1)
Royal Saddle Equestrian Society (the stables from music video), 402 Gyeondalsan-ro Ilsandong-gu, Goyang (고양시 일산동구 견달산로 402); +82 31 977 2662; royalsaddle.com
Han River yoga, Jamsil Easy Yoga, 12/F, 13/F, Roy Tower, 175-11 Jamsil-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul (서울특별시 송파구 잠실동 175-11 로이타워 12층, 13층); +82 2 416 3733; 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m.
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Vangelis has a lot to answer for. It's not, however, how he prolonged the career of seagull-voiced Yes frontman Jon Anderson through their chart-harassing Jon and Vangelis collaboration of the early Eighties – that misdeed is balanced out by his role in unleashing the mighty Demis Roussos upon the world. No, Vangelis's main, if unintentional sin, is the way in which his soundtrack for Blade Runner welded so perfectly to Ridley Scott's futuristic visions that pulsing synth instrumentals are now forever tied to dark skyscrapers, to neon overload, to the listener racing through a city in perpetual motion, driven by intent and dogged by paranoia as both pursuer and pursued.
It's near-impossible to listen to the new Roll the Dice album, In Dust, without such accompanying mental images of urban dystopia, a fact of which they themselves must be well aware. One half of the Stockholm duo is Malcolm Pardon, whose DeadMono production company's achievements range from film and advert work to remixing Lykke Li; we'll skirt tactfully past his co-writing credit on Ronan Keating's less-than-memorable 2003 song 'Turn It On Again'. The other is Peder Mannerfelt who, in his techno guise The Subliminal Kid, has also remixed Lykke Li as well as carrying out mixing work on Fever Ray's album.
For them, Roll the Dice is a deliberate, monkish move away from commercial nous and studio luxuries towards self-imposed musical austerity: analogue equipment (a sonically if not financially restrained choice – have you seen the price of vintage gear these days?) and semi-improvised songs, the pair making themselves complete each one within a single session with a minimum of overdubs. With pulsing basslines, hazy synth washes and melodies that gradually emerge, blossom then fade with the turn of a filter dial, their self-titled 2010 debut album referenced 40 years of brooding waveform manipulation, from soundtracks by John Carpenter and the aforementioned Vangelis, to kosmische pastoralists Cluster, mid-Seventies Tangerine Dream and Steve Reich's restless minimalism.
As the title hints, In Dust turns that template in a doomier direction. Press shots show Pardon and Mannerfelt dour-faced and coated in an unidentified dark-coloured muck, as though they were either nineteenth century treacle miners or sole survivors of an unspeakable incident involving someone pressing the wrong button in the cab of a festival toilet-emptying lorry. And opening track 'Iron Bridge' uncompromisingly sets the scene, with its haunted-warehouse clangs and growing toxic-cloud hiss. The arrival of a throbbing, octave-hopping bassline and synth froideur takes it unavoidably into Deckard-on-the-beat territory, yet 'Iron Bridge' muscles on through according to its own merciless, unknowable logic. 'Calling All Workers' paints an equally grim picture, its metallic sampled bell and dehumanised pulse suggesting a Metropolis-like world of downtrodden drones.
What follows is, for better or worse, in much the same vein. 'Maelstrom' builds up dense synth textures and needling synths, softened by a gently rocking piano motif. In contrast, 'Dark Thirty' leaves space around its dolorous clangs for wan rays of melody and a gently aquatic, almost Eno-esque pairing of piano and synth. By the time the stalking piano of 'The Skull is Built into the Tool' heralds further barren wastelands, however, Roll The Dice's sonic asceticism starts to seem less like a bold challenge to the creative self and more like a handicap. Would the odd juicy LFO wobble or dalliance with a soft-synth mellotron really be such an indulgence, guys?
That said, what In Dust lacks in sonic breadth, it makes up for by bringing richness to its palette of oppressive mists and dread-filled shadows. With its jarring delay effects, 'The Suck' comes on like something nasty caught on the CCTV of a walk-in freezer, whilst 'Way Out' goes for the oldie-but-goodie trick of disorientating out-of-phase rhythms. The crafty duo have a final trick up their sleeves, however, with the advent of an unexpectedly redemptive four-note synth line, a change of mood which continues with the closing track, 'See You Monday' in which pianos tumble fluidly and the synths almost hiccup with confusion at the prospect of a happy ending. Maybe somewhere under a Stockholm studio there's a lead-lined box containing the director's cut.
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Meeting in Canberra, U.S. President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced plans for up to two hundred and fifty U.S. Marines to be stationed in Australia, which will be eventually ramped up to twenty-five hundred, intended to counter China's growing military presence in the region. The agreement also includes increased access to Australian bases for U.S. aircraft and ships, and more joint exercises and training. The move is a reflection of a gradual shift in U.S. foreign policy to increase involvement in the Asia-Pacific, as the United States winds down its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In response to Obama's announcement, China's foreign ministry said (RTHK): "It may not be quite appropriate to intensify and expand military alliances and may not be in the interest of countries within this region."
Some experts say the advancement of China's precision-guided strike capabilities, namely long-range ballistic and cruise missiles, have put U.S. bases in Japan, Korea, and Guam at risk, and the deployment of Marines in Australia would offer the U.S. military a "new operational sanctuary beyond China's striking range." The United States also seeks to expand its relationship with Australia "from a Pacific partnership to an Indo-Pacific one" (ForeignPolicy), which recognizes Australia's strategic advantage amid the growing integration of the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean regions. This region, which includes India and China, contains over half of the world's population, boasts the world's largest militaries, and is responsible for the bulk of global consumer production. As Michael Auslin of the American Enterprise Institute notes in the National Review, "America's economic health and global leadership in the next generation depend on maintaining our role in the world's most dynamic region."
The Debate
With China emerging as Australia's largest trade partner, enhanced defense ties with the United States have led some Australian analysts to question the wisdom of aligning more closely with Washington at the risk of angering Beijing (TIME). Australia is also a party to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a U.S.-led multilateral free trade deal in the region that excludes China. The agreement has become a "battleground for influence" in the Pacific between China and the United States, says Simon Tay of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.
Some experts like Hugh White of the Australian National University call U.S. military expansion in Australia "a potentially risky move" (GlobalPost). In a controversial essay last year, he argued for the United States to relinquish primacy in the region (Australian) and instead share power with China and other major powers. Other experts, like former Australian defense official Paul Dibb, say a greater U.S. military presence in Australia will prove to be a deterrent (Australian) against potential aggression. Yet others like the University of Sydney's Tom Switzer call for a delicate diplomacy that balances Australia's military and economic goals (VOA).
Policy Options
The Australian government is expected to provide a national blueprint next year on navigating "the Asian Century." The Lowy Institute's Rory Medcalf says the U.S.-Australia alliance will need to adapt to an era of Chinese and Indian power and recommends coordinating U.S. strategies toward China and India with those of Australia.
CFR President Richard N. Haass says "U.S. policy must create an environment (Project Syndicate) in which a rising China is never tempted to use its growing power coercively--within or outside the region." Auslin of AEI says Washington must commit "to defending against the slow deterioration of security in the Indo-Pacific region, leading the continuing growth in economic production and trade, and furthering the trend of political liberalization."
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"Our Chance to Align with the U.S. Pivot Point," The Australian
"Why America No Longer Gets Asia," Washington Quarterly
"Managing Instability on China's Periphery," CFR Report
"The United States in the New Asia," CFR Special Report


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Letting outsiders into your operation is a scary proposition. Will they bring along a pesky pathogen that could infect your livestock? Could they be undercover activists recording your activity, trying to expose you for mistreatment of animals? Are they scoping out your property to possibly rob you?
For Fair Oaks Farms these problems are fairly non-existent. The farm tourism destination in Fair Oaks, Ind., has successfully built its brand on the principles of "fun, food and learning" while doing it sustainably.
I had the opportunity to tour Fair Oaks Farms while I was in the area for the Rensselaer Swine Services' 2013 Client Appreciation Meeting, and I'm really glad I made time for this stop.
Fair Oaks Farms started doing tours at one of its dairies in 2004 and has since grown into a 27,000-acre farm encompassing 11 dairies with 32,000 cows. Visitors can ride a tour bus through the large open-stall barns while listening to their guide explain what it takes to get a glass of milk to their kitchen tables.
After riding through the barns and around the farm, a stop is made at the milking parlor. Inside visitors can see the 72-cow rotary parlor from an elevated view behind glass.
At the main campus housing The Dairy Adventure, guests can witness the birth of a baby calf in a large auditorium with the cow on center stage.
If seeing the livestock isn't enough, kids and adults can spend their time jumping on the inflated silage pit, climbing the milk jug rock wall, riding the dairy cow carousel and a myriad of other activities. Annually the farm attracts 400,000 visitors, with people coming from as far away as Argentina, Australia and Japan.
A recent development for the farm is The Pig Adventure. While there, guests will see the process of raising pigs including day-to-day farm activities like farrowing, artificial insemination, teeth clipping, tattooing and vaccinating. The facility houses 2,700 sows that can be seen from the second floor via many different glass viewing areas. In all, the farm is expected to produce between 80,000 and 90,000 piglets per year.
The Pig Adventure was opened on "Hogust" 5 and prior to that a soft opening was held on July 1. For the month of July, Fair Oaks Farms saw 18,475 visitors to the agri-tourism portion, with many of them coming specifically to see The Pig Adventure.
My tour was guided by communications director Jed Stockton, who shared with me the vision for the future Fair Oaks Farms.
"Fair Oaks is branching out into different areas. This is not just going to be a dairy anymore. This is going to be a one-stop agriculture experience," said Stockton.
New features will include a restaurant, a sporting arena and a resort with a water park. More farm segments will be added, including a caged laying-hen operation and a fish farm.
"Any aspect of agriculture you could possibly think of we're going to have it here so you can come and see how 21st century agriculture practices are done," explained Stockton.
Some of those innovative practices include using group sow housing and digesters to create electricity for the farms via the pig and cow excrement. The methane in the manure is also used to run 42 milk trucks that deliver milk as far away as Florida. This is saving the farm from using the equivalent of 2 million gallons of gasoline per year.
It was great to see so many families out during my tour and many of them had likely never been to a farm. Another interesting group that I saw was a group of retired people and within that group were several farmers who were in awe of all the advancements that have been made in agriculture.
If former farmers are amazed by this operation, I can only imagine what kind of impact this experience will have for little kids and even their parents. I'm sure it's the kind of impact that will keep those families reassured the agricultural products they buy are in safe hands.


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Q: Why does algae keep growing in my pond, even after I treat with algaecides?
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A: Algae seems to take on a life of its own sometimes, doesn't it? Once that green slimy, stringy or seaweed-looking stuff crops up, it keeps growing and growing until you wind up with a messy situation in your pond or lake. Even if you treat it with algaecides, it still grows back.
Turns out that all these tiny plants need to grow is sunlight and food source – both of which are abundant during certain sunny times of year and when there's a healthy mix of detritus built up along the bottom of the lake. To make things worse (or better for the algae!), when a pond is treated with chemicals, the process just adds dead algae to the pond, which is actually a food source for the growing algae.
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It won't officially hit developers until the 15th of this month, at which point it'll be pirated even more rampantly, but if you want to start now—which you shouldn't because it's illegal!—you could, technically, illegally. Which you ought not to. [The Verge]


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Our best friends are moving out of their gorgeous Riverside Drive apartment (to another beautiful apartment further uptown). They asked me to come by and shoot it for the memory files which I did 20 minutes ago. Those pics are for them but, they also have a spectacular view of the Hudson River. I'm heading out of town in 20 minutes so did not have a lot of time to work on anything but here is one pic from a 60 mph, 50 degree day.
"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
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The 20th World Precision Flying Championships was held in Brits, South Africa from 23-29 October 2011.
The winner of the event was Michal Wieczorek (Poland). He was followed by Boleslaw Radmoski (Poland) in 2nd position and Michal Filip (Czech Republic) in 3rd position.
Poland were the winners of the team trophy with the Czech Republic and France in 2nd and 3rd prosition respectively. The team landing was also dominated by Poland. They were joined on the podium by South Africa and France in 2nd and 3rd prosition respectively.
The Czech Republic fared well in the individual navigation trophy by taking up three of the top five positions. The navigation trophy winner was Jiri Fillip (Czech Republic), followed by Eric Daspet (France) and Boleslaw Radomski (Poland).


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Space tech on the run – Paralympics record breaker
On the final day of the Paralympics German Wojtek Czyz surpassed his wildest dreams by breaking the world record for long jump, earning him his third gold medal. Competing with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, he got the gold in all three of his events, 100 m sprint, 200 m sprint and long jump.
This was an outstanding achievement for Czyz at his first Paralympics. Having lost part of his left leg three years ago in a sports accident, he uses a prosthesis, parts of which are made from high-performance materials designed for space systems. Space expertise made it both stronger and lighter.
"This is the most beautiful day of my life. I never expected that I could run such a fast time," said Wojtek Czyz with tears in his eyes just after winning his first Paralympics gold last Tuesday in the 100 m sprint, "When I came into the stadium I knew anything was possible, today is my day, I thought".
Czyz repeated the success last Saturday when he won the 200 m sprint. "This is like a dream. I cannot believe this, I got the gold metal with a new world record, this is just unbelievable," he said, as he was congratulated by the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. "The 200 m is like a marathon for me. Originally I am a long jumper," Czyz went on to explain.
The miracle did not stop here. Last night Czyz won the long jump competition setting a new world record, 6.23 m improving his earlier world record of 5.85 m set in June 2003.
In March 2004 European Space Agency's Technology Transfer and Promotion Office and its German partner MST Aerospace started working with a specialists in high-performance materials for space systems, the German company ISATEC, to strengthen parts of Czyz' prosthesis.
"I had a big problem with my old prosthesis as the connecting angle between the knee and the lower-leg spring often broke when I was doing long jump," he explains.
"The objective," says Pierre Brisson, Head of ESA's Technology Transfer and Promotion Office "was to find solutions based on space technologies for disabled people to help them participate in sports at competitive levels as well as enjoy a better quality of life." The first step was to improve Czyz's prosthesis for long jump and for 100 m sprint.
Two versions were designed and developed in record time, both taking advantage of special materials developed for space programmes. The first, optimised for long jump, uses carbon-fibre-reinforced-plastics to reinforce the weak part in the prosthesis; the second, for running, uses ultra-light, high-strength aluminium.
Training at the German Sports University in Cologne (DSHS), ESA's Human Spaceflight Directorate made available to Czyz the Percutaneous Electrical Muscle Stimulator (PEMS) II developed by the Swiss company Syderal. PEMS II and its predecessor PEMS I, both created for use on the International Space Station, prevents the effects of microgravity on astronauts particularly muscle atrophy and accompanying effects like bone mineralization and cardiovascular de-conditioning. "I was able to train for 10 weeks with PEMS and this significantly improved the muscle mass of my leg so that I no longer have problems fitting my prosthesis," says Czyz.
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I'ma great white on the mic, servin fishscale
Livin life like I co-star with Denzel
Hip-hop been my life since kids meals
Lee jeans, label blocks and Big Wheels (uhh)
Ever since then I've been a FUCKIN problem
Feelin like Bruce Wayne, and this is Gotham
Now I got them haters watchin
Waitin for my next hit like a nigga boxin
(And the NEWWW!) On this mic you can see I'm blessed
Some say I'm the (One), like (KRS)
Shoutout to Clue, Flex and Doo Wop
R.I.P. Big L, Pun, Biggie and Tupac
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A booth, ProTools and a MP
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Now wonder where I'd be without Funk Doc
So this toast goes to Redman and hip-hop (yo)
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(Check mic one) Check mic two
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(Cheers! This ones her for hip-hop)
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We gon' do it like this nigga
Yo, watch out now I talk like a old man
But still got that UHH like Jor-dan
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Cause they yell my name like Nor-man
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And I faced it, it's a new ballgame
It's like when (Baby Boy) met Ving Rhames
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But it's hard when ya boy lackin a million
I'm so brilliant, cause I work the Eastside
And do the same damn thing on the Westside (West coast!)
For hip-hop I'ma die - you fuck with it?
I'm O-Dog, I ain't lettin that shit ride!
Whoever outside with a eardrum
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Hip-Hop (yessir, yo neph' I got it nigga)
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Summertime, my rhyme's in your droptop
Yeah, the LP is "Reggie"
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Even white chicks want black in 'em like Pernelli
Yeah, the rap game is star studded
It's like the NBA, you gotta love it
Whattup Big Unc? Watch nephew
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Haters watch me ball like the ref do
And still can't get it right like a left shoe (hahahaha)
I'm 'bout to bubble like a Lex Coupe
"What's my motherfuckin name?" like I'm Big Snoop
Ready Roc hear the crowd scream
Now my name hold weight like a triple beam
Wu-Tang showed me how to get the C.R.E.A.M.
I'm a microphone, I'm a microphone fiend
This is my life, this is my life
Hip-Hop, until I dieeeeee
Until I die, whoaaaaaa-ohhhhhh
Cause this is my life, my life
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One of MJAFT!'s founding members, Erion Veliaj headed the movement from 2003 to 2007. Erion was a child when Albania's communist regime collapsed:
"On my way to get drinks for a family lunch, I came across the largest rally ever held in Tirana. This was the rally that culminated in the violent removal of Enver Hoxha's mega-statue from downtown Tirana's Skanderbeg square. It was the most exciting event of my boyhood.
At the time, I was finishing 4th grade. The system degenerated in front of our eyes even in elementary schools. Shouting that we were 'fighting for the causes of the party ? always ready' every morning was no longer mandatory. Reciting communist poems was no longer required.
In economic terms the situation changed for the worse ? at the time only dilled baby-onions were seen in the state-owned stores. The bread queues were a daily agony."
Erion lost his father to a terminal illness in autumn 1991. His mother was left alone to take care of two sons.
"She realised that she could not bring us up alone and had to let go of me. With an uncle I set out to cross into Greece, illegally. After 20 hours walking through the mountains on foot across the southern border near Gjirokaster, always trying to avoid Greek border patrols, we ended up working with relatives. I washed dishes in a restaurant and worked on a farm, for about 6 months.
When I returned to Tirana the steady exodus of people was also visible in my neighbourhood. As we would meet other children for our daily football games we realized that we could not keep our regular teams together. Kids went missing, teams shrunk. It wasn't until later that I realized that our friends had left for good, picked up by their daring parents and headed mostly for Italy and Greece."
Erion left Albania in 1998. He went to the US where he studied at Grand Valley State University (GVSU). After a semester he returned to Albania to help with the Kosovar refugee crisis, working in a refugee camp in Peshkopi.
"After TV images showed Kosovar refugees pouring across the border, Albanians mounted one of the largest hospitality operations of their history. Every city, town and village had a refugee welcoming center, families lined up to take people home and thousands of young volunteers from schools, NGO-s, churches and mosques were involved in running the relief operation of their lives. Many knew they would meet a Kosovar at some point in their life, but none had predicted that the two halves of a nation would have a 'date' of this scale. For most Albanians this marked an unprecedented life-time experience. My mom hosted a young couple from Gjakova, and with other co-workers was permitted a leave from her regular job to helps serve in the assigned refugee camps during daytime."
In June 1999 Erion moved to Kosovo to help rebuild and refurbish the six main regional hospitals as well as clinics in the Dukagjini valley. r A year later, his university, GVSU, agreed to allow him to work internationally and study through distance learning at the same time. He spent most of 2001 in Central and Latin America, and in 2002 working and doing research for his thesis in Africa.
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In December 2002, Erion came back home to Tirana and met up with three friends, including his high school friend, Endri Fuga, who was also studying abroad.
"By Christmas 2002, we were all home for the holidays ? Endri and myself planning to go back abroad after the New Year. We met at a caf?, catching up with each-other after years away. At some point, we couldn't avoid the million dollar question: 'What the hell is wrong with this place? Why is it lost in transition and led by incompetent politicians'? Our relatives would argue that the 500 years of Ottoman rule were to blame, or others would blame the communists. Yet, we couldn't help but realize that in few years we'd most likely have our own kids, and we couldn't blame their broken schools and hospitals on the Turks and the communists any more. We must find better answers, there must be something we could do, at least address one problem. Which problem was the question, which was Albania's biggest problem?
During that Christmas break we made it a mission to find that answer. We met with UNDP to hear how poverty was the biggest problem, the World Bank claiming it was unemployment, the IOM talking trafficking, the Interpol blaming organized crime, UNEP saying it was the environment, and so on ? each organization declaring their turf was Albania's biggest problem.
Granted, all were important, we realized back at our caf? reunion. But there's probably one invisible thread that connects all of these, we figured. It was APATHY! Indeed, the average person had resigned themselves to a reality they thought they could not change, the everyday citizen had simply ceased to care. One either got a visa and left for the West, or gave up, letting sometimes clueless internationals and certainly incompetent politicians take charge. We had found our niche: a smart, provocative, offensive campaign against civic apathy ? call it MJAFT ? Albanian for ENOUGH! Enough of this apathy, enough of an agonizing transition, enough of sitting idle while all goes wrong!"
MJAFT's symbol became an instantly recognisable red hand:
"We needed a strong image. A stop sign, a fist, a stretched palm ? indeed, the latter worked great. We painted our hands in Ina's red lipstick, then stamped them on A4 white paper to see which one looked best. Later we framed it on the red and black colour scheme of the Albanian flag ? why not make activism the new patriotism?
In February 2003, we printed a few hundred posters with the red hand logo, and the date MARCH 15 beneath it ? signalling our launch. It worked well as people got puzzled and wondered what this could mean. Some said it was another 'international day of something', or that U2 was coming to town, or that the Albanian flag would be changed on that date ? although this latter one couldn't have come from someone sober. On March 15, together with a few hundred friends and curious onlookers, we launched MJAFT ? the new brand of civic activism. Everyone was invited to dip their hands in red paint and sign-up to civic engagement by stamping their palm on a white cloth board."
MJAFT has spoken out whenever it felt it could make a difference:
"Albanians have grown weary of classical politics and the inflated rhetoric of transition and reform. Most have grown into pragmatic citizens who care less about demagogy and more about the pricing of utilities, quality of education and health, and administration of their taxes by politicians. In this regard, MJAFT became a self-appointed 'people's ombudsman' advocating for issues of basic importance to everyday lives."
"There was one unique campaign to stop the construction of a waste incinerator in the heart of Albania, intended to burn imported refuse from southern Italy. A shady group with links to the eco-mafia had bribed Albanian officials into accepting a very rotten deal for the country that would bring a daily intake of tens of containers with unclassified waste. Our role in exposing the deal, mobilizing NGO-s and citizens to take part in large organized protests, changing the legal provisions for the import of waste and ultimately reversing the deal, made this one of our most effective campaigns."
After four years, Erion and his three fellow founders felt that the time had come to pass on the baton. They stepped down in September 2007 from their positions in MJAFT. Since early 2008 Erion is a senior analyst at ESI.
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