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A: In order for a geothermal heat pump system to operate at its specified heating and cooling capacity and efficiency, the proper ground water flow rate through the water-to-refrigerant heat exchanger must be maintained. The ground water aquifer, source well, and pumping system must be able to supply the required flow rate.
The water flow requirement of a geothermal heat pump is dependent on its sizing (which varies over a wide range for individual home, office, or other commercial applications), its design, water flow per Btu (British thermal unit)/hour of heating (which varies over a wide range for different manufacturers), and the temperature of available ground water (which varies from 44°F in the north central states to 80°F in the extreme southern states).
The requirements of geothermal heat pumps sized to provide 50,000 Btu/hr space heating output (typical sizing for an average modern home) can range from 5 to 15 gpm (gallons per minute), approximately 7,200 to 21,600 gallons per day, depending on the design of the specific equipment. Such geothermal heat pumps can require even higher water flows during the summer if equipped with ground water heat exchangers for space cooling, and an additional water flow of 1 to 3 gpm (1,440 to 4,320 gallons per day) can be required if a separate GeoExchange unit is used for water heating in the home. The required water flows for geothermal heat pumps are therefore much larger than the 300 to 400 gallons per day required for most domestic water supply systems.
The consumption of geothermal heat pumps supplying 75, 20, and 15 million Btu/year of space heating, hot water heating and space cooling, respectively, can range from 500,000 to 2,000,000 gallons per year. This depends on the characteristics of the specific equipment and installation.
The water flow requirement per ton varies with the water temperature and the manufacturer's choice of design. As a general rule of thumb, a minimum flow of about 2.5 to 3 gpm for every 12,000 Btu per hour (ton) of heating and cooling will be needed (though some units specify flows as low as 1.5 gpm/ton for open-loop systems and 3 gpm/ton for closed-loop systems). For instance, one manufacturer says that if the ground water temperature is 55°F, the company's 3-ton (36,000 Btu) unit requires a flow rate of 2.5 to 3 gpm/ton. If the water temperature is 50°F, the required flow rate for this equipment in the heating mode grows to 5 gpm, while at forty-five degrees water must flow at the rate of 10 gpm. Water temperature has the opposite effect in cooling mode. The system should be designed to handle peak water consumption (including any ground water used for other domestic needs), whether peak consumption occurs during cooling or heating.


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It's 3AM.
It's also almost Halloween, which is the perfect time for me to inform you, if you didn't already know, that I'm a horror writer. That's right, horror. Considering that many literary agents, per my handy copy of "Jeff Herman's Guide To Book Publishers, Editors, & Literary Agents," lump horror into the classification of things they DON'T want to represent, along with sci-fi, fantasy, westerns and porn--I think this is a brave thing to come forward with.
In the recent "book in a month" class I took at the Loft, I was the first writer to volunteer to read a chapter in class. Afterwards, there was a stunned silence. The teacher was the first to break the ice saying:
1) "Looking at you, Mark, I wasn't expecting that type of story." And
2) "That was genuinely creepy."
Some writers when told that their work is creepy might be discouraged, but well, that's where us horror writers differ: guy-next-door types who blend in pretty well until you see what we put on the page. The rest of the comments in class generally concurred. Chillling, scary stuff. I made a note: Keep doing more of this.
Recently I was amused by a fellow writer who shared that while writing a climactic and scary scene for his mystery novel in progress that his imagination got the best of him and he imagined a raccoon, yes, a raccoon, entering his basement and was unable to finish any writing that night. I didn't have the heart to tell him that in my last writing session (plenty late at night) the body count had added up to six dead in that session alone, or six billion, depending on who you want to consider dead--or undead. Raccoon? Us horror writers aren't afraid of no stinking raccoons.
So why do I write horror?
There are probably lots of reasons, but for starters, blame my parents, or more particularly, my father. I have some strong childhood recollections of sitting in my father's den playing while he smoked Carter Hall tobacco and read the latest Ray Bradbury book or Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery magazine.
When I finally started doing my own reading I was hopelessly lost, drawn to books by Stephen King and Ray Bradbury and short story collections with titles like, "Book of the Dead" and "Horror Times Ten." (The latter contains a really good August Derleth story called "The Lonesome Place" that still gives me chills when I think of it).
My parents taste in literature didn't fall far from their taste in TV and movies, either. I have just as many memories sitting between my parents on a weekend with a bowl of popcorn watching black and white Twilight Zone episodes and Saturday afternoon Creature Features like "The Blob," "The Island of Lost Souls" and "The Fearless Vampire Hunters." My parents also managed to expose me to my first ever walking dead movie at the age of seven. I was supposed to be sleeping while they watched "Night of the Living Dead." I managed to see most of it in its entirety—which ultimately kept me, and them, up most nights for the rest of the month with nightmares.
In a screenplay class (another Loft offering) I took within the last year another student asked the instructor: "So what is the point of all the really bad horror movies out there? Or for that matter, the point of horror at all?"
I wasn't about to defend some of the crap movies that the class started to name, but I did feel compelled to mention box office hits like Jaws, Alien, Seven, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, and so on, that were well written and directed and contain not just terrifying villains but equally strong main characters who must overcome horrifying creatures and circumstances to live, survive, grow and hopefully make it out of their stories alive. To me, good horror follows all the other rules of good story telling. Just because it's scary doesn't mean it can't be damned good writing.
Getting back to those agents who openly say they don't want to agent horror—it is interesting to me just based on the sheer success of many horror books and movies. What publishing house wouldn't want another book like "The Stand" or a series (even though I'm no fan) like "Twilight"? (If it's got vampires in it, it's got to have some horror elements, yes?) I can only guess that maybe it's because of the sheer number of bad/unoriginal stories that are out there for every truly good one.
So there are probably many other reasons why I enjoy reading and writing horror, but I suppose ultimately it's because that's how I'm built. These are the sorts of stories that interest me and I want to tell. Supposedly when Stephen King was asked why he writes horror, he replied, "What makes you think I have a choice?"
Ditto for me.
Below are some links (sorry, I'm not taking the time to make them pretty), a couple of them to some of my favorite scary stories.
Happy Halloween. I'm going to bed.
One of my favorite Halloween stories, Ray Bradbury's October Game:
GoodReads scariest book list: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/121.Scariest_Books
(I've ready about half of this list)
Supernatural fiction database: http://freepages.pavilion.net/tartarus/d9.htm
The Monster Club.Com sci-fi horror collection: http://www.themonsterclub.com/radiolibrary.htm
Per their own instructions, use the password Boo13 (I notice another of Bradbury's stories in the mix: Zero Hour)
Note: The image accompanying this post is part of one of my paintings. Scary art is fun, too.

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At Monivae we aim to equip our students with enquiring minds, brave spirits and kind hearts. Situated in the heart of the scenic Western District Monivae College offers outstanding facilities and exceptional value while encouraging all to realise their unique potential.
Established in 1954 by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, the College has a reputation for producing graduates that are compassionate, relational and confident young men and women. Many of our notable alumni have progressed in their chosen field to particularly high levels of leadership both here and overseas.
'Heart spirituality' underpins all that we do. Heart spirituality is a gentle Christian spirituality that focuses on God's love for us and our calling 'to be on earth the heart of God'.
One of Monivae's significant strengths is the wide range of curriculum opportunities and subject choices available to our students. Being the largest secondary provider in the region it has a breadth of offerings that caters for the very brightest academic students to those who have a vocational focus in their studies.
While Monivae College is in its 66th year and has a rich history we are very much focussed on the future and wish to prepare our students for 21st century living. While we are proud of our great history and the achievements of so many Old Collegians, we continue to be a school of many opportunities for our current students.
Our Chevalier Centre has a focus on Positive Education and wellbeing that helps to enhance the learning experiences for our students. This assists in producing happy, confident and well-adjusted young people.
We invite you to experience all that Monivae has to offer. The best way to make the decision is to visit our school, talk to current students and where possible find the opportunity of speaking to their families.
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As an online professional you communicate your tight reports with rising lines. Through ingenious Excel sheets, you show green boxes. Hooray: The visitor count rises month after month, and the time-on-site is on the rise… Yet sales are still lagging behind and consumers are not buying from you, but from a competitor. Those aren't hard numbers, they are a gut feeling. You have your figures in order, but they apply to you.
What do you mean? Our company has a very strong customer focus! Of course you carry out the occasional lifestyle survey, you have focus groups, a contact form on your website, pop-up or side-up feedback forms, talks with die-hard fans and great promoters. You know exactly who your visitors are, right? Maybe you even have consumer consulting boards for very deep insights. And you carry out pricing analyses, or maybe you have someone else do them. Does all this help? Of course it does. But not enough.
Look at yourself relative to the others
We advocate a new perspective: "Outside Out". As an online professional, you are too much inside your own "Box", and we recommend looking further, not based on instinct but based on research. At WUA! we have the vision that it is not enough to go "Outside The Box". To win in digital, you'll need to go a step further: "Outside Out" thinking, and actually "doing" that. You shouldn't compare your current results to your previous results from the distant or recent past, you should compare them to the results of your direct competitors. The following mantra clarifies the Think Outside Out idea even more:
Turn your (optimisation) question around…
Most online marketers only look at the conversion they get themselves, which they will then continue to optimize. While almost everyone knows that your potential customers are also orientating themselves on the website of your competitor. With an average conversion of 3%, 97% is ignored, and there lies the real potential to grow! Why doesn't that 97% buy from you but from your competitor? Answer this question and you'll turn this group into customers as well. Answering this question is only possible if you change your perspective: Think Outside Out!
Winner Takes All & your path to Digital Excellence
What we also know about online orientation and customer journeys: In Digital, The Winner Takes All… the best website in the market shows 52% more preference than the number 2. Is it therefore important to be the best and compare your results to those of the competition? Our research shows it is, and therefore you need a roadmap that produces your path in the direction of Digital Excellence.
Think Big & Go Incremental
At WUA! we believe in ambitious goals and in manageable incremental steps towards an ambitious goal. You determine those steps through continuous measurements of where you stand. You also constantly measure whether you are taking the right steps. Small steps are easy to amend. The WUA! Benchmark is extremely suited to provide you with you this insight and give you direction – not only relative to your direct competitors, but also relative to the best outside your industry and even the best worldwide. The best inspire you to define your ambitious goals – the best digital experience you can imagine.
Customers won't ask for it themselves, but they do expect it!
Confusion is the basis for change…
In the meantime, you're organizing your thoughts, slowly moving away from your rather introspective approach, changing direction, and via "Out Of The Box" you landed at your first thoughts about the Think Outside Out approach, and you wonder how that looks. What is your ambitious goal and how do you achieve it? Theoretically, like in the image below. It is a roadmap to Digital Excellence with your digital performance on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis.
Digital Excellence Program
At WUA! we are working for ABN AMRO, Vodafone and CZ, amongst others. For them we measure structurally different sales and customer journeys. Where are they relative to the competition? Where are they performing well, and which areas are in need of attention? What are the concrete areas for improvement and how should these be implemented? If necessary, we go deeper with usability studies with eye tracking at our offices. The cycle could be summarized as follows:
- Gain insight into where you stand
- Determine your priorities
- Go deeper with additional research if necessary
- Implement the concrete areas for improvement
- Evaluate, learn
Therefore, our Digital Excellence Program isn't a snapshot: it is a structural program with a clear research cycle with dynamic delivery. The intensive collaboration is thus focused on continuous measuring and improving in incremental steps, no gut feeling, but based on what (potential) customers are actually experiencing.
We are passionate about this approach, the unique products we use to obtain the necessary insights, and the largest and best worldwide digital experience benchmark we're building with it. We're happy to help you!


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Air drying is an ancient, effective method for preserving your harvest which has been used for millennia. Used by civilisations from Incas to Greeks and Romans to preserve produce for the winter months and for enhancing flavours.
The Nether Wallop Herb Dryer is stylish in design, easy to assemble and simplicity itself to use.
The wooden frame holds three unbleached cotton hammocks, the three tier system saves valuable kitchen space.
It is safe, effective and environmentally friendly and lets you use your own home-grown produce all year round. It is suitable for drying a wide range of herbs, spices, chillies or even seeds ... the list is endless.
When assembled the Herb Dryer measures 37cm wide by 37cm deep by 26cm high (14½ x 14½ x 10in).
The Herb Dryer is packaged in an attractive cardboard tube which measures 40cm long. It comes with full instructions and would make a suitable gift, perfect for any keen cook or gardener with a herb patch.
The Nether Wallop Herb Dryer was short listed for the Product of the Year at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The judges said that it was:
"...a contemporary twist on a traditional practice, the Nether Wallop Herb Dryer dries herbs, chillies, mushrooms and seeds with no power required. Innovative, practical and easy-to-store, the dryer can be used time and time again.
How to Air Dry
Leaves, stems, flowers, seeds and roots can be dried. They can be used for culinary use and teas, but also some can be used for ingredients in lotions and salves.
Most guides recommend picking herbs and other plants for drying just after the morning dew has dried. If the plants have large leaves, strip them from the stems and lay in a single layer on the screening.
For those with tiny leaves, like thyme, keep the leaves on the stem until drying is complete, then just run your fingers down the stem and they drop off. For long leaves like chives and lemon grass, cut the freshly picked leaves with scissors, into pieces 6 to 12mm (¼ to ½ in) long.
Drying time is influenced by the type plant, the amount of air circulation and the ambient temperature. Most flowers and herbs are dehydrated in a few days.
Examples of leafy herbs suitable for drying are parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, mint, lemon balm, lemon grass, chives, marjoram, stevia, holy basil, horsetail, and sassafras. To preserve the flavour of the dried herbs, store in a tightly covered jar, away from heat or light.
Dry the flowers of borage, lavender, dandelion, and calendula. Flowers dry best when newly opened. If they are large or bulky, dry them on the top of the rack where the airflow is greater.
Save seeds of dill, fennel and nasturtium and coriander (the seeds of the cilantro plant), use them as a spice in cooking. Harvest and dry seeds of annuals and perennials for sowing the following year.
Seeds are pretty well dry by the time they are gathered, but will benefit from a little air drying before they are stored. Always label and date seeds immediately to save confusion later.
Roots that can be harvested garlic, horseradish, echinacea, and liquorice.
Roots often hold a lot of moisture. Slice fresh, cleaned roots into smaller pieces, exposing more surfaces to the air to expedite drying.
Nether Wallop:
The company Nether Wallop is based in and named after the village in central Hampshire, England. It is part of The Wallops: Nether, Middle and Over Wallop. The name Wallop derives from 'waella' (stream) and 'hop' (valley) or 'the valley of springing water'.
The town was the site of the Battle of Guoloph that took place around the year 439. The element 'Wallop' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Wallope'; 'Wollop inferior', that is to say Nether Wallop, is first attested circa 1270 in Episcopal Registers.
The village contains many old thatched cottages and has been featured in books and TV programmes as one of the prettiest villages in England.
Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane, Nether Wallop was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC adaptations, played by British actress Joan Hickson of the Agatha Christie Miss Marple novels. The house and many of the surrounding lanes within the village were used as the setting and are commonly seen throughout many of the Miss Marple films (where Joan Hickson played Miss Marple.
Sir Richard Reade (1511-1575 ) Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was a native of Nether Wallop
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I was looking forward to a day with just me and the mister after a hectic week that included making Valentine's cards with a 5-year-old and 3-year-old whose idea of fun is mushing together my expensive and brand new (unopened since I bought them 5 years ago) craft ink stamping pads ("Look Mommy! A new colour!"). Scratch that: I was looking forward to a day with just me and the mister because the last time we were together, alone, with no kids, for more than 3 hours was my third kid's birthday 15 months, 5 days, 17 hours and 52 minutes ago.
Armed with gift certificates for spa services at the Honeymoon Bay Lodge & Retreat (thanks to the ever-generous Sheila Ie, editor of the Cowichan Valley Voice), the mister and I drove out of a drizzly Maple Bay and into the sunshine along the south side of Lake Cowichan. (Is it Lake Cowichan or Cowichan Lake? I always thought the former until we drove past the big "Welcome to Cowichan Lake" sign).
We were greeted at the lodge by Tim, the soft-spoken and gracious owner, who is quietly passionate about this facility. He and his wife have made many modifications to what used to be a school, and now accommodates 17 bedrooms, a dining room, meeting rooms, and a hot tub.
Tim helped us plan our day at the retreat. Spa services first, followed by a complimentary lunch in the dining room, then a walk around Honeymoon Bay to digest our meal, and lastly a dip in the outdoor hot tub before heading back home.
As the mister said, it was just so easy. Thanks to Tim, the only decision I had to make during the entire visit was whether or not to have a second helping of chicken chili from the lunch buffet. Tim's gentle and helpful manner extends to his whole staff; they all made us feel like we were their priority.
Having walked around Honeymoon Bay (the entire turn took 20 minutes), we wondered why so many people drive to the Okanagan in the summer when this is in our backyard? A huge pristine lake with hardly anyone on it. Coming from the UK where every single space is accounted for and inhabited, the mister is blown away by the potential in our relatively young country.
Where was this place when we were getting married? It's perfect for group events. In fact, there was a large group of scrapbookers working hard on creative projects. They would have empathized with my heartbreaking story of two ink pads colliding to make one, dark, indefinable colour. They probably have a few horror stories of their own. Maybe next year, I'll ditch the kids and the mister and book myself into the lodge to make Valentine's Day cards for the kids' classmates on my terms.
Did you know? BC Transit has a bus service all the way out to Gordon Bay. Makes for a cheap excursion with the kids!
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American Thrash Metal legends WHIPLASH sign to Metal Blade Records!
- 18/07/18 –
New album in the making!
Metal Blade is very happy to welcome East Coast thrashing legends WHIPLASH to its ranks! WHIPLASH is an original thrash metal band, and Tony Portaro delivers over 30 years of power thrashing death.
Comments WHIPLASH's very own Tony Portaro on the signing: "My main influences were the West Coast thrash bands that Brian Slagel brought into the limelight in the early 80′s. Without them attracting my attention in the first place, I never would have written 'Power and Pain.' And the fact that Metal Blade is still promoting old school thrash and believing in me, gives me the inspiration to continue creating my East Coast style of metal."
Known for his lightning speed riffs and leads, Portaro heads a power-trio lineup delivering metal old school style. WHIPLASH exploded onto the US metal scene in 1984, branding the East Coast with its original thrash sound. Debuting its Roadrunner release "Power And Pain" at Ruthie's Inn, Berkeley, CA, they followed it with two additional releases, "Ticket To Mayhem" and "Insult To Injury." From its East Coast thrash beginnings, WHIPLASH claimed its place in the metal archives.
As a New Jersey native, Tony Portaro made his chops at NY clubs, including CBGBs and L'Amour. Always attracting talent, Portaro led band members through various incarnations of WHIPLASH, always trying to realize the musical vision he heard in his head. Producing four more WHIPLASH records through 2009, WHIPLASH stamped its way around the globe, gaining thrash followers whose ranks still grow to this day.
WHIPLASH have recorded a full new album and in order to get a more old-school sound, Portaro opted to record to 2″ tape. Also, with the advice of renowned mastering engineer, Maor Appelbaum (Faith No More, Halford, Armored Saint, Sepultura, Candlemass, Anvil, Goatwhore) he chose to have the mix done by Phil Anderson, a long-time collaborator of Maor. Phil mixes on an analog board which should further benefit the project and push it in the direction Portaro is looking to reach.
Besides Tony Portaro, WHIPLASH consists of bassist Dank Delong who had been recruited by Portaro in 2010. Dank Delong's presence onstage was undeniable. Dank's energetic and animated stage performance continues to be electrifying, as he wields his formidable bass missile-like and over his head! He is a long-standing member and VP of the world-wide metal support club, NYDM – Rockland.
Ron Lipnicki's thrash injection to WHIPLASH in 2018 would begin a new era for the band on Metal Blade Records. Hailing from New Jersey, Ron's drum skills need no introduction, coming off a 12 year run with OVERKILL, and before that, hitting it with HADES. With his precision guns firing, Lipnicki obliterates the kit while setting rapid-fire pace! This is thrash – this is WHIPLASH thrash!
WHIPLASH continues to bring old school thrash to a new generation of metal heads. THRASH 'TIL DEATH!
Stay tuned for more updates on the new album which is about to drop in early 2019!
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recycle & CASH IN old jewelry!
Economic times are tough. Call it a recession, economic downturn, no matter how you call it, everyone is hurting. The good thing is that you are not alone and there are things that you can do to get a little cushion of support.
During tough times, people cut back in many areas, but mainly in buying unnecessary goods. When we find our paychecks barely covering our monthly bills, it is not hard for us to give up luxury items.
With inflation rising faster than our paychecks, we find ourselves getting rid of things we own but we don't need. Some people are fortunate enough to sell us old gold jewelry items that they don't even wear. A number of people are digging into the bottom of their jewelry box finding old jewelry that they didn't even know they had. They simply brought it to SeguinGold and received $500 to $1000 cash! During these times, cash like that is priceless!
Even though jewelry sales are way down, gold prices are up. This makes it the perfect time for you to capitalize on selling your old jewelry. Many people think those old necklaces or earrings are worthless until they receive cash from us that can cover the car payments for a couple of months. This is much needed relief for most of us these days.
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The Indian Ecommerce sector is seeing a renaissance of the sort with the entry of more and more new players. The entry of Amazon into the market recently is poised to shakeup the sector and result in consolidation of the fragmented market. But a key problem faced by many shoppers while shopping online is paying for their transactions. The increasing incidence of online fraud is making consumers scary to make payments online. Below are some of the tips to safely shop online:
Don't Shop on Untrusted Sites
Never shop on untrusted sites. Always check the reputation of the site before you start shopping on it. A simple way to do this is by reading the reviews written by people who have already shopped on a specific website. For websites whose reputation is questionable, online tools like F-Secure Browsing Protection and AVG LinkScanner Drop Zone give historical information about a website and examine it on a real time basis. If you are still suspicious about a website you can opt for Cash on Delivery (C-O-D) option as most of the Indian Ecommerce websites now offer this payment option.
Use Passwords While Paying Online
Always register for a password authentication system for the credit cards you want to use for online shopping. All the leading credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard offer online fraud protection services like Verified by Visa using which you set a password/PIN for making online transactions. If you find it difficult to remember passwords, some banks are now offering one-time password (OTP) services for transactions made online. Banks send an OTP to customers' mobile phones just at the time of completing the transaction.
Use Online Payment Services
If you are making purchases from a foreign website, you can use online payment services like PayPal, Payoneer, Google Wallet, etc. These payment services offer an additional layer of security as the payment will be first transferred to your accounts with the service provider from where it is finally routed to the merchant. Your Credit Card/Bank A/C details are never revealed to any third person.
Install Good Antivirus on Your PC
Hackers install malware on your Computers which can steal details of your Credit Cards and Bank Accounts. These kind of malware quietly sit in your PC and steal the data when you are shopping from an Ecommerce site. Always have a good antivirus software with protection against online ID theft installed on your PC. Also remember to keep your antivirus up to date.
Keep Checking Your Bills
Owners of malicious sites and hackers don't wait for more time to steal money from your Credit Cards and Bank Accounts. They will generally try to steal as quickly as possible. So keep monitoring the online statements of your Credit Cards and Bank A/Cs in the days following the purchase. Contact your bank/credit card company immediately after you find anything fishy. This way, you can get your Bank A/C/ Credit Card suspended quickly and control the damage.
Be Careful with the Networks You Use
Be careful to properly protect the networks through which you connect to the Internet. Try to avoid using public Wi-Fi networks and Internet Cafe's for online shopping. Lax controls on such unprotected networks can expose your sensitive data to risk. Your Private networks are not totally safe from hackers. Protect your home/office Wi-Fi networks by installing proper firewalls. Extra care is advised when shopping online through your mobile phones/tablets. Check the veracity of the short URLs that the mobile versions of websites use when browsing on portable devices. Hackers use wrong short URLs which are difficult to detect to route unsuspecting customers into malicious websites.


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Computer-aided text analysis is a technique that bridges qualitative and quantitative research, enabling the researcher to conduct quantitative analyses based on the rich narrative content of a text. This technique has been used in a broad range of literatures to measure constructs of interest unobtrusively and with nearly perfect reliability.
CAT Scanner is a free Windows-based application for conducting computer-aided text analyses. CAT Scanner was designed by Aaron F. McKenny, Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Central Florida and Dr. Jeremy C. Short, Professor and Rath Chair in Strategic Management in the Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma.
CAT Scanner has three main tools:
First, CAT Scanner has a text file cleaning tool. When collecting texts from images or PDFs, garbage characters (e.g.,↑, ¤, or ¬) may be created as a result of the impreciseness of many optical character recognition tools. These garbage characters reduce the validity of computer-aided text analyses by breaking up otherwise coherent words. CAT Scanner can systematically eliminate special characters from text files, resulting in clean narratives, and by extension cleaner data.
Second, CAT Scanner has an inductive word list generation tool. When developing and validating custom dictionaries for computer-aided text analysis it is a best practice to use a combined deductive (theory-driven) and inductive (data-driven) approach (Short et al., 2010). CAT Scanner's inductive word list generation tool identifies all words that are used three or more times in a set of text files, facilitating the inductive aspect of dictionary development.
Finally, CAT Scanner has a dictionary-based computer-aided text analysis tool. CAT Scanner allows the user to use dictionaries developed by others or to develop their own custom dictionaries to measure any construct for which a word list can be developed.


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Martin Eshitemi had to bargain hard for his latest sartorial acquisition, haggling a good 15 minutes with the owner of a wooden stall overflowing with shirts. When it was over, the taxi-driver paid $1.50 for his prize: a used T-shirt with the N.F.L. logo on the sleeve and Budweiser emblazoned across the chest.
"I don't know what Budweiser means," Mr. Eshitemi, 36, acknowledged as he stuffed the shirt into a plastic bag. "I bought it because I like foreign designs. I can't get these kinds of T-shirts in the local shops. I'm looking for some jeans to go with it."
All along the crooked dirt streets of the Gikomba market here, hundreds of merchants were ripping open bales of clothes with knives, spilling shirts, pants, underwear, all manner of clothes, into rough-hewn kiosks. As hawkers sang out prices in Kiswahili, crowds of buyers surged around the stands with the latest shipments, jostling to get the first pick of sweaters, hats, jeans, shoes, slacks, even three-piece suits -- all second-hand.
This sprawling and muddy market in East Africa's biggest city is the final destination for tons of clothes that Americans and Europeans give away each year to charities like the Salvation Army and Goodwill. But by the time they reach the Gikomba stalls, they are anything but charitable gifts.
In fact, the second-hand clothes market is a growing, multi-million dollar industry here, a capitalist free-for-all where dozens of middlemen make a profit before the consumer finally wears the clothes. Last year, American companies exported more than $81.1 million worth of cast-off clothes to sub-Saharan Africa, making worn textiles one of the top eight exports to the continent, rivaling airplanes and wheat.
Most of the clothes come from charities in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, United States Commerce Department officials say. Only a fraction of the clothes many charities collect are re-sold or given away to the poor in their own region. The rest are sold to companies known as "ragpickers," which sort and export them, executives in the business said.
The charities say that selling the clothes for resale abroad is the best way to use some of the clothing donations they receive to raise funds and serve their clients.
"Americans throw away gobs of good clothes, and they get graded, fumigated, baled and exported," said Sally Miller, who heads the Africa desk at the Commerce Department. "For Africans, these are garments being sent over, not rags."
Every morning, tons of second-hand clothes, packed tightly in 100-pound bales, are trucked to Nairobi from the port of Mombasa. Known in East Africa as "mutumba," the bales of used garments fuel a booming industry that provides thousands of jobs, from truck drivers to hawkers to tailors working out of doors in the marketplace.
Markets like Gikomba can be found in almost every major city and in many small towns in Africa. Zaire alone imports $11 million worth of mutumba from the United States each year; Niger is second with $9 million. By some estimates, one-third of the 550 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa are walking around in cast-off clothing.
"There isn't a single market in Africa you can go to and not find second-hand clothing," said Joseph Wanjohi, the spokesman for the Kenya's Ministry of Commerce and Industry. "The original donor to a charity probably doesn't know that somewhere down the line, someone is making money."
The Kenyan Government attempted for years to ban or restrict the sale of imported cast-offs in order to protect its textile industry. A few years ago, President Daniel T. arap Moi even suggested in speeches that people could contract diseases by buying used clothes. But importers continued to smuggle the clothes into the country anyway, attracted by the seemingly inexhaustible demand.
"We have banned it and unbanned it," said one Kenyan official. "We have done everything we can, but we can't get rid of it. They are giving job opportunities to a lot of people in the low income group."
Last summer, the Government gave up trying to interdict the clothes and instead slapped a 85 cent-per-pound import duty on the shipments. The tariff has eroded the profits of some of the merchants in the market and persuaded some Mombasa importers to switch to other products, officials say, but it has hardly dampened the enthusiasm of consumers.
The reason for the used clothing's popularity is clear. With the gross national product per person hovering at $260 a year, most Kenyans cannot afford to buy new clothes sold in shops, where the prices are comparable to those in Europe or the United States. Even middle-class office workers, students and shop clerks come to the Gikomba market to outfit themselves, shoppers said.
A two-piece designer suit can be purchased in the market for $16, while even the cheapest domestic-made suits cost more than $100 in downtown Nairobi. A pair of wool slacks can be bought for $6. A plain T-shirt or a pair of cotton trousers can be picked up for as little as 50 cents or $1.
Beside the kiosk owners, the market is full of ordinary people who are buying clothes they hope to re-sell in the countryside, or even in the market itself. For instance, there are dozens of youths who purchase a couple of choice shirts each day, mend them and then resell them for just enough profit to get something to eat and start over again the next day.
"That's my routine," said Godfrey Karugu, 22, who was trying to find buyers for two dress shirts he had bought one recent morning for $3. "I take them to a tailor and I will try to sell them for 300 shillings" -- about $6.
"You really suffer a lot here," he said. "It's just for survival really."
Many of the shoppers in the market said they prefer the American clothes to local products, not just because the fabrics are more durable, but because American products have a certain cachet here.
So while tourists are paying hard currency for the traditional Kenyan clothes like kikois and kangas, Kenyas are scrapping together their money to buy T-shirts with logos like those of the Chicago Bulls or New York Knicks. Hats with sports logos are all the rage among young Africans, along with washed out jeans and T-shirts sporting beer advertisements.
"The main thing is that the clothes be from the U.S.," said Richard Njeru, 22, who was shopping in the market sporting a Chicago Bears hat and matching T-shirt. "Especially if they have the names of sports teams, you know -- N.F.L., N.H.L., N.B.A."
Not everyone is making a killing in the market. Since the Government started charging a tariff on the imports, small- and medium-sized merchants have found themselves squeezed. The major importers in Mombasa have raised the price of bales to cover the duty, but the wholesalers and retailers cannot pass the cost along to consumers without risking pricing themselves out of the market.
Some have complained that the higher duty means they can never hope to make enough to import the clothes themselves. The market is dominated by a few importers, who either have the money to pay the tariffs or, more often, to bribe customs officials and evade the tariff altogether.
Grace Shira, one of several women who own wholesaling operations in the market, says she is now making less than $4 a bale for some items. A 100-pound bale of top-grade T-shirts, for example, costs her about $76 to buy from an importer these days, but she can only get about $80 from the retailers in the market.
"People are getting tired because they are working for nothing," she said. "Sometimes we don't make anything. We have to sell them at a loss. If the Government agreed to lower the duty, we could import for ourselves."


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Former KSFO, KGO Host Lee Rodgers Dies
February 1, 2013 at 3:52 AM (PT)
Condolences to family and friends of former KSFO-A and KGO-A/SAN FRANCISCO host LEE RODGERS, who died early THURSDAY morning.
RODGERS had been battling heart ailments for some time.
Best known for 14 years co-hosting mornings at KSFO with MELANIE MORGAN until his 2010 exit, RODGERS also hosted in several other major markets, including at WIND-A/CHICAGO and KIRO-A./SEATTLE.


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Good morning and thank you for attending today's meeting.
Before I begin I would like to thank past Chairman Mike Ennis, fellow Tulare County Board members, elected officials, our CAO and his staff, department heads and employees for their hard work, dedication, and leadership this past year.
2016 Year in Review
Working together, we have achieved many great accomplishments in 2016.
One collaboration in particular stands out, and that is our emergency drought response partnership with state and federal agencies and the City of Porterville. This resulted in the first of many homes in East Porterville being connected to the City of Porterville's water network. The work in East Porterville is far from over, but progress is underway to connect hundreds of additional households to the system. We continue to work collectively with partner agencies to provide a permanent solution for the remaining homes in that community.
Other major achievements the County accomplished in 2016 include breaking ground on our new South County Detention Facility in Porterville and purchasing the Tulare/Akers Professional Center.
The County continues to promote economic development activities throughout the County. To highlight a few of these: we assisted Foster Farms with a $17 million expansion of an organic feed mill in Traver, the first phase of what will eventually be a $60 million expansion. We assisted Setton Farms of Terra Bella in its efforts to permit more than a dozen massive silos to significantly grow their international sales of pistachios. Additionally, the County celebrated the opening of a new McDonalds in Earlimart.
Our Tulare County Fire Department and CalFire boldly fought the 30,000 acre Cedar Fire and successfully saved hundreds of threatened homes in our South Valley mountain communities without any injuries. In addition, Tulare County Fire doubled its station staffing in Terra Bella to improve response times in the South County area. Tulare County Fire also partnered with the Resource Management Agency to obtain $460,000 in grant funding to purchase tools, equipment and a new Water Tender.
The Office of the Tulare County District Attorney and the Tulare County Sheriff's Department partnered with seven other law enforcement agencies to form a new Tulare County Human Trafficking Task Force. This greatly expanded the effort by local law enforcement to hold accountable those who abuse others and to help end the suffering of affected crime victims.
In 2016 Tulare County remained fiscally sound and passed a balanced budget that provided ample funding to all county departments, made necessary salary adjustments, and increased our financial reserves. This Board will remain dedicated to fiscal responsibility and living within our means, regardless of Federal and State budget impacts.
In addition, our efforts in succession planning were demonstrated by filling several senior department head vacancies without any interruption in department operations or customer service.
As Chairman in 2017, I plan to move Tulare County down a path towards a sustainable future for a strong quality of life for the people of Tulare County. Like every County, we have our challenges, but I believe if we are proactive in preparing for those challenges, we can withstand any obstacles that come our way.
Today, I would like to cover some key issues facing our County that will challenge our ability to be sustainable. I will share some strategies including the proposal of a financial plan and ways in continuing economic development efforts to combat these potential challenges. In addition, I will touch on some work of our various County Departments and what you can expect to see in 2017.
Strategic Financing Plan
In maintaining the Board's focus on fiscal responsibility, I would like this Board to consider the adoption of a Strategic Financing Plan to address current and future financial challenges that will serve the best interests of the residents of Tulare County.
To implement, I ask our County Administrative Officer to return as soon as possible with an agenda item to go before the Board in proposing the establishment of an Ad Hoc Committee of this Board to help guide the preparation and presentation later this year of this Plan.
This proposed strategic financing plan should prudently address the following key components:
(1) Potential reorganization of the County's financial services departments;
(2) Construction, operational staffing and provision of health services for the criminal justice and public safety facilities now under construction;
(3) Construction of transportation improvements and infrastructure to better our rural communities, roads, bridges, water facilities, wastewater facilities, flood control facilities, and parks;
(4) Public employee compensation including health benefits, retirement and salary; and
(5) Structural balancing of key departmental budgets that are routinely in deficit.
Economic Development
This Board will continue to promote economic development within Tulare County.
This means the County will seek to guide, where feasible, economic development by creating the conditions under which business development can thrive. This includes maintaining a business friendly permit process, a reasonable permit fee structure, and the expeditious construction of public improvements and infrastructure.
It continues to be our policy to help create private sector jobs, increase the income of our residents, and add value to our local real estate and businesses. In doing so the goal is what our CAO regularly proclaims: "the rising tide will lift all boats."
To help accomplish this goal, we intend to continue to proactively work with our partners and stakeholders, including, our cities. We truly are all in this together.
Looking ahead, an important part of the County's ongoing economic development program will be to approve a "Target Marketing Plan." I would request the CAO to return to this Board this year with a proposed Target Marketing Plan designed to promote economic development on a countywide basis.
Looking forward to 2017 Departmental Projects
I want to share with all of you some of the projects and programs we expect to turn out this year. With more than 4,200 employees working in 22 departments, we have hundreds of programs, services and projects happening throughout the year. I will not be able to cover all however, I do want to share a few in particular to be on the lookout for.
First off, I would like to start with the return of evening meetings of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors this year. Five Board meetings in 2017 will be held during the evening hours and will be located throughout the County, one in each Supervisorial District. This effort brings the County to the people and improves the accessibility of the Board to members of the public unable to attend Tuesday Board meetings at 9am.
I would also like to mention my anticipation of the results of the efforts put forward by various newly constituted Advisory Committees. The Homeless Task Force will have a busy year collaborating with all jurisdictions in the County to address the many issues surrounding homelessness. The Parks Advisory Committee and the Animal Services Advisory Committee will also be busy helping to guide the operation/policy of their respective subject areas.
Moving on to additional Departmental efforts upcoming over the next year.
Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux and his Department are to be commended for continually bringing forward innovative ways to strengthen local public safety.
The Sheriff also recently established a robust Internet Child Safety Campaign that seeks to engage parents, educate the public and enforce laws. This program's focus on the three E's will prove a useful means of protecting our children.
In addition, the Sheriff just rolled out a SmartWater CSI program - the first law enforcement agency in the western United States to employ the use of a forensic tracking system that uses "mineral DNA" markers to
paint property that, if stolen, can be tracked and traced, and thus help prevent and reduce ag crimes in the number one Ag county in the nation.
This year the District Attorney's Office will use a recently obtained grant from Cal OES to expand its elder abuse program, allowing for increased capacity to serve victims and to help strengthen a countywide coordinated response to elder abuse.
The District Attorney moved just weeks ago to also strengthen efforts by the Child Abuse Response Team to provide comfort to younger victims during various interactions by deploying Fortune, a K-9 who in just a few short weeks of service has become one of the most popular members of the District Attorney's team. We applaud the DA's commitment to providing comfort and dignity to crime victims and their family members as they are faced with the aftermath of some of the most difficult and traumatic events in our society.
RMA will make a presentation later today that represents 28 important community improvements totaling more than $5 million-worth of road and school safety projects
Additionally, construction will start this fall to widen Caldwell Avenue to four lanes from Akers to Highway 99. This is a $14 million project.
Soon to be under construction is the Earlimart Community Park. This project is a creative collaboration of state parks funding, County funding, school funding and state and county Safe Routes to Schools funding. In addition to the $2 million state grant, the County is contributing $1 million to create this cutting-edge recreation area equipped with numerous state of the art amenities. This project will be completed before Christmas.
A $2.4 million project will repave a five mile stretch from the Kings County/Tulare County line to State Route 99. This road segment is one of the most heavily traveled dairy roads in our County. Construction begins this summer and will be completed by this fall.
RMA is also set to begin final design and construction of a new $5 million Seville water system and will begin construction next month of a new $2.1 million Monson water system.
57 County intersections will receive safety improvements this year. These projects will enhance visibility and provide other safety features at various intersections in the county and are to be done at a cost of $1.2 million. Construction begins this spring and will be completed by summer.
A $680,000 bridge replacement project on the Traver Canal will begin this fall and be completed by the end of the year. The bridge is located along old State Highway 99 just south of Avenue 368.
The Avenue 196 at Orange Belt Signal Project will retrofit the existing signal at the intersection, converting the current pre-timed signal to an actuated signal. The update will reduce traffic delays and reduce vehicle emissions. The $400,000 project is grant funded begins this spring and will be completed this summer
The final RMA project I will highlight is the Avenue 144 Overlay. This $3.5 million high priority Farm 2 Market project consists of approximately 5 miles of road rehabilitation starting at State Route 99 heading toward State Route 43. The project begins this spring and will be completed this summer.
Moving on to the County Space Planning project. Last year we purchased the Tulare/Akers Professional Center also known as the CIGNA building, and tremendous efforts have been made by the space planning ad hoc committee to prepare this building for occupancy by the Sheriff's Administration as well as the Tulare County Fire Administration. We also are near agreement to lease out remaining commercial space and provide additional revenue to the County.
We anticipate that by this summer, our Human Resources and Development department will be fully relocated in the former planetarium building that has been fully remodeled and revamped to fit the needs of the Department. Once that move occurs, our County Counsel's Office will expand and utilize the space freed up by the relocation of HR&D.
The Board's goals to continuously improve County facilities, will be seen again as our Child Support Services will be modernizing and making improvements to its various offices. This will give team members, as well as the public, improved spaces for interaction.
2017 is an exciting year of change for the Tulare County Library.
The Tulare County Library is opening three new locations this fiscal year. The new London Branch Library just opened in October. In the coming months the County will also open new branch libraries in Farmersville and Pixley.
Significant improvements to broadband internet service will be deployed in 11 Library Branches this year, including Visalia, Three Rivers, Exeter, Ivanhoe, Woodlake, Dinuba, Tipton, Earlimart, Springville, Lindsay, and Orosi.
Working with the California State Library, the Library's Literacy program began offering the Career Online High School scholarship program to our County residents. Two students have already graduated and another two are currently enrolled. Thanks to additional funding from the State Library and a Edison Grant through the Tulare County Library Foundation, an additional 7 scholarships are still available for this program.
Our Health and Human Services Agency in collaboration with Tulare County Probation have worked together this past year on the implementation of AB 403, better known as the Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) for foster care. Starting this month, the new law changes the foster care system to reduce congregate care utilization, to ensure youth have their physical, mental and emotional needs provided for in their own communities, and to better prepare and support the families who care for youth. Over time, it is expected these reforms will further improve the outcomes for foster children, as well as work to reduce the overall length of stay for the youth in the foster care system.
The Mental Health Branch of HHSA, in cooperation with the Tulare County Housing Authority, has begun construction on two permanent supportive housing sites, one in Porterville and the other in Tulare. This
exemplifies the wellness and recovery model designed to nurture and promote wellness, recovery and resiliency of the consumers of mental health services.
And to now to conclude…
This Board is dedicated to laying the groundwork for a viable future for Tulare County. We plan to look ahead and not only address the challenges approaching us tomorrow, but also prepare for the obstacles we expect will come our way in the years to come. We continue down the path the Board has historically traveled upon and we will strive to lay the foundation for a sustainable future.
Thank you for your attendance at today's 2017 State of the County Address.


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As we do every year, this year we are once again participating in FABTECH, North America's largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event. FABTECH 2015 takes place in Chicago, November 9-12 at McCormick Place, and we'll be on hand at the four-day show to introduce the newest PFERD products. While they may be new products, the innovative grinding, cutting and surface-finishing tools we've added to our catalog provide the same excellent results and the outstanding value PFERD products have been producing for our customers throughout the past two centuries. We're known for providing single-source solutions for hand finishing, grinding, cutting and specialty applications.
FABTECH attendees have the opportunity to preview our new PFERD TM22 tool manual, and can see live demos of PFERD products. The new PFERD TM22 tool manual has enhanced navigational features, in depth technical data references and over 600 new product innovations. The live demos we'll be hosting at the show will highlight key applications for many of our grinding, cutting and surface-finishing tools. Plus PFERD representatives will be on hand to answer questions and discuss in-depth details about all of our products.
The PFERD TOOL MOBILE van service will also be onsite demonstrating how we provide firsthand onsite local training to our customers. Feel free to talk to one of our representatives to learn more about scheduling a visit at your shop location.
At FABTECH 2015, see for yourself why manufacturers all over the world rely on our products to get their jobs done, and you can discover why we like to say, "The combination of innovative, high-performance products, world-class customer support, and your expertise guarantees the optimum result for every task!"
Look for the PFERD team in Booth #N8025 at FABTECH 2015. In the meantime, or if you can't make it to Chicago, if you have any questions about PFERD products, reach out to us through our website, or give us a call at 800-342-9015.


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I spoke with a friend recently who told me about his experience at a business launch party he attended in New York City. At this party, he spoke to many people between the ages of 20-30, who expressed a shared fear that at around age 30 (or maybe 35), they will get married, have children, work a steady job, and life will stop after that.
His story really resonated with me, because I had the realization that, 'WOW, I have this fear too! I am 25 and actively building my life right now to avoid this VERY thing because I don't want my life to stop after 30!'.
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Twice in a handful of days people came up to me at an event and told me that they were grateful for the posts I'd shared about my own experiences with mild clinical depression. I'm sharing these links to those posts, in case you find yourself in that situation, or if you are trying to understand a friend or relative dealing with depression.
I should state a few disclaimers:
- Everyone is different. This is just my experience.
- I'm no expert. Just someone who's dealt with his own experience.
- My own depression was diagnosed as "mild." There are many people who have it much worse, though that's never a really great way to look at it.
- No matter what, know that everyone deals with things their own way and there's no blueprint for it.
Some Thoughts on Depression
Here's a post I did called depression is an offline event about the fact that it's hard to seek help online. Online is great for many things, but using it as a way to "fix" our depression is tricky.
Every Time I Talk About Depression about what I want folks to do with that information when I share it (about me), and also there are even more thoughts on talking about it, if that helps.
Here's an interview with Amy Clover that I did about depression. (She's a GREAT resource for this as well).
And finally a post I did called Depression for Entrepreneurs.
Use These to Move Forward
If I have one personal position on depression, it's that we have to acknowledge it, AND we have to move forward. Yes, I'm working through depression AND I have work to do today. <--- Like that.
By the way, at the time I'm writing this, I haven't gone through many bouts of depression in a handful of years, so I'm feeling pretty darned good. Not everyone's so lucky. And I still get the blues sometimes, but that's not the same. Just know that I see you, that I understand what it's like from my perspective, and that I hope you find what you need to move forward.


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A Recap of our Week May 13th-20th, in pictures.
WOW! This week has flown by! First we were given a sweet little potbelly pig who we named Stella. Her first outing was at Tractor Supply Company when Trevor and Garrett helped me showcase our farm for their Farmer Market Day. It was so much fun meeting many new kiddos and being able to give away 4 free weeks of farm camp!!
The grass grew soooooooo fast, waiting for Anthony to get home and cut it wasn't going to happen. So my stylish little princess helped me…well, she did for about 10 minutes before the hum of the ZMaster put her to sleep. And yes, I FINALLY put the snow boots away. 😂
Even with the rain we enjoyed lots of new families out at the farm. And one little girl who has come back multiple times to bottle feed the baby goats. Ms. Charlotte is a natural goat whisperer. ❤ I'm so thankful for all the families sharing their pictures on our Facebook page.
With all the racing around and working with the boys Anthony finally got back from a mission and I was able to find some down time. How did I spend it? Laying in the grass, enjoying one of my favorite flowers (or weed) and listening to all the kids giggle and wrestle in the sprinkler. It was perfect. ❤
And then… it was off again starting another task and making yet another trip to Menards! The chickens are very happy with their new windows. Soon we will have new cover to protect them from owls as well as special roof vets to increase the amount of fresh air circulating in the coop. More to come this week as we finish the projects.


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I know. You're probably thinking, "I don't EAT fossil fuels!" In essence, though, you do – we all do – because our current food system relies so heavily on inputs of petroleum and natural gas at every stage.
Most fields are plowed and planted using petroleum diesel. Commercial farms use fertilizers manufactured from natural gas feedstocks, and pesticides derived from petroleum. Harvesting by machine consumes additional diesel. Processing and packaging require energy and petrochemical plastic while distribution consumes yet more diesel as well as gasoline.
A 1994 study led by David Pimentel of Cornell University examined these issues and calculated that feeding each American consumes about 400 gallons of oil equivalents per year. Based on that figure, each of us consumes a little over a gallon of oil per day when we eat – and as we do this, we feed the demand for oil that leads to risky deepwater drilling and the degradation of ecosystems like the Gulf of Mexico.
Eating less petroleum is thus another important part of recovery from oil dependence. Fortunately there are several delicious ways to cut back on consuming crude when we eat.
1) Eat organic. About 2/3 of petroleum-derived pesticides used in the U.S. are used by agriculture, says a background report from the Congressional Research Service. You can avoid that by eating certified organic foods – which are better for you, anyway, based on recent research. A study from University of California at Davis, for instance, found that strawberries grown without pesticides contain more antioxidants – good news for all my friends who've been picking organic strawberries this season here in Upper Michigan.
2) Avoid processed and plastic-packaged foods. Processing and packaging consume fossil energy as well as adding petroleum-derived plastic to the food chain. Packaging food in plastic not only increases our use of oil, it can add undesirable chemicals to the food itself. As noted in this fact sheet from Berkeley, California's Ecology Center, compounds in plastic wrappings can migrate into food; eating that food can expose you to hormone disrupters and possible carcinogens.
3) Skip the factory-farmed meats. As Michael Pollan has written in The Omnivore's Dilemma, it takes nearly a barrel of oil to grow just one factory-farmed steer to slaughter weight. All the hormone and antibiotic residues in factory-farmed meat are another good reason to avoid it. Even though I don't have numbers I suspect the equation changes for locally raised, organic, grass-fed meat and hunted game, neither of which are likely to consume as much petroleum as factory farming. Author and organic grower Eliot Coleman, for instance, has argued that more fossil fuel is used and CO2 generated by "a vegetarian eating tofu made in a factory from soybeans grown in Brazil" than by local production of a grass-fed steer. I'm not advocating for or against vegetarianism here, just saying that the decision of whether to eat meat at all is complicated. However, whether to eat factory-farmed meats is much more black and white, as the evidence against factory farming is so compelling.
4) Eat more locally. Like the meat issue, this can also get complicated. Writer Sarah DeWeerdt pointed out in a recent World Watch Magazine article that how much local eating cuts energy consumption can vary. Still, the petroleum we use to transport food is significant. Paying attention to where food comes from can help reduce the average 1500 miles that standard grocery items travel as they're trucked from farm to table. Check labels in grocery stores to see where foods are from; get to know growers in your area and buy direct from them; attend farmer's markets and buy from growers there. Farmer's markets, often lively and beautiful events, have the added benefit of featuring many certified organic growers.
5) Grow your own. There's nothing more local, tasty, and petroleum-free than fresh-picked organically-grown produce from your own garden. The garden photos in this post come from ours, which provides us with wonderful salads and vegetables. The kind of garden space we have is nice, but not required; even apartment dwellers can grow some of their own food by gardening in containers. And just about anyone can grow sprouts, a wonderful source of fresh, raw nutrition. It's a favorite approach to food growing for my friend Jill Nussinow, The Veggie Queen, who gives these instructions for sprouting on her blog, along with her recipe for Rainbow Sprout Salad.
Our passive solar greenhouse helps us grow our own greens, like these collards and kale, during long winters.There's plenty more interesting reading about making our food more sustainable and less petroleum-based all over the web; one I like is the Locavores site, locavore being a coined word referring to one who eats from within a specified local area. One tragedy we are witnessing now is how drilling for oil has made the accessing of local foods – mainly fisheries – difficult, unhealthy and/or impossible for a big segment of the Gulf coast population. This lost access to local food is a big part of what shocked Gulf residents now lament. Like oil and water, oil and sustainable food don't mix, and I'm hoping we will fully understand that before it's too late.


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Jewish World Review Oct. 27, 1999/17 Mar-Cheshvan, 5760
David Limbaugh
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- IN THE REAL WORLD of domestic politics, Republicans have a tougher road to hoe than Democrats. So, why do they always want to make it harder on themselves?
They begin the battle for ideas with several PR strikes against them, so they have to be just a little bit smarter when it comes to selling their ideas. The trouble is, they aren't.
Just think about it. Republicans are always depicted as mean-spirited ogres, and the liberal press does everything it can to further that image.
Instead of being properly portrayed as champions of liberty, Republicans are fraudulently accused of:
But with the Reagan-engineered victory in the Cold War and the Bush-led triumph in the Gulf War, Republicans have vindicated themselves and have pretty much owned foreign policy issues.
President Clinton took office with a draft-dodging cloud hanging over him and with little foreign policy mandate. Since taking office, he has gutted the military budget while expanding our overseas commitments. He has rarely met an instance of foreign unrest that he believed was inappropriate for U.S. intervention.
Clinton's foreign policy has been as aimless as it has been ambitious. In very few of his internationalist adventures has he bothered to articulate a justification for our intervention, least of all the vital security interests of the U.S.
Last week, Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, expanded on a theme first propounded by President Clinton after the Senate rejected his nuclear test ban treaty. The theme: Republicans have fallen into a "new isolationism."
Well, the charge has been made. Are the Republicans good for it? Of course not, and Clinton knows better. But "isolationism" has a negative ring to it. It fits nicely into the portrait Clinton and liberals always try to paint of Republicans.
The intended implication is that Republican capitalists care only about themselves and have no compassion for the less fortunate in their own country, much less for those in other nations.
But the truth is that before Clinton called Republicans isolationists, Republicans were accusing each other of the same thing. As I have written before, certain Republicans have denigrated other Republicans who opposed the Kosovo intervention as Buchananites, meaning "isolationists."
All Republicans, both hawks and doves, believe that U.S. military intervention in foreign countries is appropriate only when our vital national interests are at stake, though they don't always agree to when that is.
Before the Clinton pejorative "isolationists" sticks, Republicans should try to forge a consensus as to what constitutes our vital national interests. Do we have an interest, for example, in Serbia but not in Rwanda? Why?
Those who refuse to ratify nuclear treaties that may result in our unilateral disarmament or that surrender decisions concerning our nuclear security to international bodies cannot fairly be called isolationists. They are patriots.
Republicans cannot prevent Bill Clinton from mischaracterizing their
positions, but they don't need to aid and abet him. But unless they get
about the business of defining themselves on foreign policy beyond this
nuclear treaty, Clinton will define them by
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Former Buffalo Sabres D-Man Christian Ehrhoff has begun our free agent frenzy by signing a 1 year, $4 million dollar deal with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Ehrhoff was one of the biggest names on the market when free-agency opened up today, and his quick signing with Pittsburgh is big news.
Ehrhoff, who was just bought out by Buffalo, scored six goals, and tallied 27 assists for the Sabres last season. He's a very good defenseman who will look to make a big impact in Pittsburgh, possibly filling the powerplay hole left by Matt Niskanen.
The Pens got Ehrhoff for a very good price, as he could have probably made more by signing somewhere else.
Nonetheless, our free-agent frenzy has begun.
Stay tuned.
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The Master Breed List
Equus Admin Administrators
Master Breed List
How to use this list:
- Find your breed
- If your breed has multiple strains, check for the specific strain you are interested in
- Colors that appear on the list are allowed for your breed
- Extra details on color expressions may be in the Breed Information section
- Breeds your breed can be crossed with to produce purebreds of your chosen breed are also listed under "Permitted Outcrosses"
Master Breed List (Filters)
A version of the MBL with built-in filters for breeds, groups, base colors, modifiers, white markings and outcrosses.
How to use this:
- Use the dropdowns to filter out colors, modifiers, etc.
- The more modifiers and white markings you include in your search, the slimmer your results will get.
- For outcrosses, type words in the box under "Permitted Outcrosses" to search the outcross rules for. Use things like "TB", "WBFSH", "Danish" or "Hanoverian"
Q&A - Please Check for your question here before asking anything!
- I have Mr Snoodle registered as a Knabstrupper (Sporthorse) but he is palomino, which is not a permitted color for the breed. Do I have to re-register him as another breed?
Horses that are already breed registered will not need to be re-registered regardless of whether they meet the requirements outlined on this sheet. However, I would urge you to try and switch them to a more appropriate breed if possible. If in doubt, look at the International Sporthorse and Grade options
- Darth Vader is my prized Shetland pony stud and he is a pink spotted badger. I have definitely seen many pink spotted badger Shetland ponies. How do I get the list changed?
Post a Master Breed List Change with the title "Pink Spotted Badger in Shetlands.
- If you believe that a breed can be a certain color that is not already permitted, you will need to show that it actually exists in the real life breed
- There should be horses of this color registered in the main book/registry for the breed that the BC uses as a guideline. Beware of "alternative" registries where a horse may be called a certain breed but not have actually qualified for the studbook (especially Warmbloods)
- The POSSIBILITY of that color/pattern coming to exist in the breed due to theoretically permitted outcrossing is not adequate
- However if a modifier is already in the gene pool (for instance there are palominos), you can assume that related colors are also present (e.g. buckskin, cremello).
- In some cases real life breeds limit these colors arbitrarily (e.g. the British Warmblood permits palomino but not cremello). In cases where the breed has a fully closed studbook (e.g. Friesian as opposed to most WB breeds), this may be overlooked and the arbitrarily prohibited color permitted on Equus.
- Registries that state "all colors allowed" are not evidence for all colors actually existing
- Remember that real life registries/owners/breeders do not always use accurate terminology and should not be assumed to be accurate. For instance "albino" is a popular term for certain Andalusian colors, and Buckskin is frequently called Dun, even the breed does not carry true dun.
- I urge other members to contribute to the search. But please ONLY post evidence/argument for or against. Random chatter and/or personal opinions will simply slow the process down.
- Once your request has been assessed, the thread will be locked and "Approved" or "Denied" indicated. This is final in the absence of further evidence.
- I breed Straight Egyptian Arabians, but I can't find any information about Arabian strains. Panic!
EQUUS only tracks strains that are unique enough to warrant different discipline caps. If you have reason to believe that your breed is missing strain information that would warrant a new sub-breed to be added, please post a Master Breed List Change.
- Do I need to calculate percentage ancestry for my horse?
Check the Grade Breeds tab of the MBL to see what breeds need their breed percentage added at registration, and fill out the Grade Breed Makeup Form if you have a horse of these breeds who's already registered that is missing its breed makeup.
- My favourite breed/strain is not on the list. Can it be added?
To get a new breed added, start a thread titled [New Breed: Breed Name]
- Must be a real life breed with some kind of registry
- Must not already be covered by an existing breed on Equus unless you can demonstrate the distinction between them and the value of adding the new one
- Must have some distinguishing characteristics
- Please read the Equus Breed Request Template before posting.
- My perlino dun is a mix of AQH, Thoroughbred, Danish WB, Percheron, Caspian and Criollo. Will it qualify as an International Sporthorse?
As long as it has a "sporty" build (i.e. somewhat Warmblood-like), yes.
- What is meant by medium sabino/minimal splash/high white etc?
Look in the "Definitions" tab.
- This breed says it allows appaloosa. Is snowflake allowed?
Yes. ALL appaloosa patterns are allowed.
- Oh noes... My X is incorrectly listed as X!
Breed Change Form
- How long will breed changes take?
Unfortunately, while I can approve them, actually making the changes requires direct access to the database at the moment and as a result breed changes may take some time. Please be patient with us and we will do the best we can.
If you have any further questions, please contact @Nikki-Calvaria (preferably by DM on Slack) and if your question hasn't already been answered, I will add it to the list.
Puck Cantrell Administrators
Master Breed List: Automatic Registration Update
Our old friend the MBL is finally getting a face lift!
This version of the Master Breed List is almost fully automatic, meaning it updates with new breeds and their color information as soon as they are added to the system. It also means there are no differences between what is accepted by autoreg and what is listed on the MBL; everything a breed is accepted to carry in the registration system is displayed on the MBL. However, this new version of the MBL is designed to only be a reflection of what is allowed and denied by autoreg, meaning there are now some differences between the MBL you've been using for years and the new one.
Some changes you will notice:
- Grey and Appaloosa are now listed under modifiers and white markings, respectively.
- Any breed that is accepted to carry Agouti (Bay) is now listed to carry Wild Bay and Seal Brown as well.
- Sooty has been removed completely from the list of modifiers. You can still create sooty coats in any breed, but they are not tracked at registration.
- Rare colors have been completely removed as well, as color rarity does not affect registration.
- Ranges of expression (minimum splash, maximum sabino) have been removed from the white markings list. Any relevant notes about what the real-life registry prefers or accepts in terms of chrome or other color expressions have been moved to the "Color/Pattern Notes" section.
- You will notice that a large number of strains have been removed. Any breed that is listed as one breed on the mainsite is now listed as only one breed on the MBL, and multiple strains within a breed have been compiled into a single breed (for example, Arabians.) If you believe a breed needs to have multiple strains added as distinct breeds, please post a breed change request. Keep in mind, however, that new strains are unlikely to be added unless they are very distinct from each other (either by need to restrict allowed colors or requiring different discipline caps.)
If you believe a breed is missing color or outcross information, or has some incorrect information listed, please do not hesitate to post a Breed Change Request to show your evidence. If you find a color that has been mistakenly removed from a breed please post a bug report in the Automatic Registration thread.


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1924 Winter Games: Next Winter Games
Host City: Chamonix, France
Date Started: February 4, 1924
Date Finished: February 4, 1924
Events: 1
Participants: 27 (27 men and 0 women) from 9 countries
Youngest Participant: Franz Wende (19 years, 246 days)
Oldest Participant: Anders Haugen (35 years, 102 days)
Most Medals (Athlete): 3 athletes with 1 medal
Most Medals (Country): Norway (2 medals)
The ski jumping competition was held on the hill named "Du Mont", which had a K-point of 71 meter. It was situated outside of Chamonix, near Les Bossons.
|Men's Normal Hill, Individual
|Jacob Tullin Thams
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I think I'm one in a long line of people to admire those expensive sunbursts you can buy. I thought I may be able to achieve the same effect with paper. This is just a prototype before I go out and buy the nice paper. Each piece is made out of folded typing paper, and they are all glued onto a scrap of cardboard.
A plus is that it is so light when complete, you can hang it with a single thumbtack and not make your landlord angry!


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At 15, Sister Cecilia Pham boarded a crowded boat in her beloved homeland of Vietnam and set out with a few family members on a difficult journey to the United States. They were fleeing an oppressive Communist regime that among other atrocities had taken possession of their family business. It was their third attempt to escape. The family left relatives, friends and everything they owned.
But Sister Cecilia has found hope, community and purpose in St. Louis, serving God and her fellow country people through her work at the Vietnamese Health Clinic at St. Francis Community Service's Southside Center.
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Recognizing that everything we have and everything we are is a gift from God and then being grateful and generous with those gifts is how we are all called to live. A stewardship lifestyle is part of being a good disciple of Jesus. It puts us on the path to holiness, to becoming a saint and hopefully, gets us to heaven. The concept of stewardship is easy to understand, the hard part is putting it into practice.
Has your parish embraced stewardship? Over the past six years Dave has met with 140 of the 180 parishes in the Archdiocese of St. Louis on personal and parish stewardship formation.
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Last summer, while mowing his lawn and thinking, Paul felt like he got a message from God about the 2017/2018 REAP Team retreat year …"Divine Appointments"… He knew then that, with about 170 events in the coming year, there would be certain moments when God would put a young man or woman in contact with just the right person, and at just the right time, for them to open up, to get the help they need, and to grow closer to God.
When St. Patrick Center opened Biddle Housing Opportunities Center in 2016, Brian was one of the first guests. A former Marine, he had fallen on hard times after losing his maintenance job and his gig maintaining family-owned properties.
"What will this look like in a parish?" is a constant mantra at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary where 124 seminarians are preparing to become healthy, holy, joy-filled priests. The seminary has an integrated program of human spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral formation. In the classroom, the faculty regularly incorporates pastoral applications.
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Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras gathered for an exceptional concert, narrated in this documentary.
On the evening of July 7, 1990 an 'impossible dream' came true. Against the majetic backdrop of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, superstar tenors José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti were joined by conductor Zubin Mehta and more than two hundred musicians for a spectacular event that was to make musical history.
The Impossible Dream is telling the extraordinary story of this massive musical mega-hit. Featuring interviews with the three star tenors, this documentary offers a unique glimpse behind the scenes, documenting the creation and impact of this unparalleled musical phenomenon.
Paul McCreesh, Graham Vick – Plácido Domingo (Bajazet), Jennifer Holloway (Irene), Sara Mingardo (Andronico) – Teatro Real Madrid
A film by Christopher Nupen
Waldbühne 2001: A Spanish Night – Berliner Philharmoniker


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Annual General Meeting
Native Plants Queensland's Ipswich branch meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month (except January).
We meet at the Queens Park Environmental Education Centre, Merle Finimore Avenue, Ipswich. Meetings start at 6:30pm, after which we welcome a guest speaker to give a talk starting at 7.00pm.
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Student Testimonials
PICA has been a great stepping stone into the hospitality industry. The Chefs really push for excellence in all of their students. PICA has become a home for the past six months.
PICA combines a thorough culinary education with valuable real world kitchen skills! What a great program for preparing students to enter the culinary workforce.
My six months at PICA surpassed all types of expectations I had. Education quality is excellent. I feel like I grew not only in cooking but also as a person. The people I met influenced my life and made me a better person.
The biggest lesson at PICA isn't the technical skills you pick up – although they're second to none - the biggest lesson is the attitudes the chef instructors inspire in their students; their ability to push you past your limits and leave you with the judgment and discipline to temper your own creativity.
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Ever looking at ways to help the Happy House become more self-supporting, Sue has introduced daycare services for babies.
Following requests from local business people, so impressed by the way we look after our children they wanted us to look after their own, we have the first two fee-paying admissions.
They are Joe, who will be two in September, and Vicky, 15 months.
Joe's dad is an accountant and his mum the pharmacist in Watamu. Last year on Joe's first birthday, September 26, they brought him to the Happy House so that he could share his own celebration with our kids, bringing cake and juice for the kids and gifts of food for our store cupboard.
Vicky's dad is an insurance agent and her mum a beautician.
Both sets of parents felt that spending all day with a housegirl was having negative effects as their children were not reaching the developmental milestones they should be. At the Happy House, they will be cared for in a safe and happy environment with lots of playmates and planned activities to stimulate both little brains and little bodies.
Sue and her team believe offering day care is a good way of encouraging early learning and introducing the pre-school concept, whilst generating an income at the same time, plus setting the pace for more enrolments in nursery school, and generating an income at the same time.
As you can see Joe (in yellow) has soon settled in buddying up with our Stevie, while our Harry seems nonplussed by having a not-so-sure Vicky join him in the baby banda.


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Welcome to the JavaFX Resource Center. These are some of the many online resources we found helpful when writing the JavaFX chapters for Java How to Program.
The JavaFX™ Community website is a great resource where you'll find blogs from community leaders, news, videos, projects and more.
The FX Experience website includes new links each week to JavaFX news, blogs, demos and more.
JavaFX FAQ from Oracle.
Blog: "Most Often Asked Questions About JavaFX," by Michael Heinrichs. Discusses JavaFX on the iPad and mobile devices, the status of Swing and how to migrate Swing applications to JavaFX.
Article: "Why, Where, and How JavaFX Makes Sense," by Bjorn Muller. Discusses reasons for choosing JavaFX, its architecture and more.
The "Rich-Client Java Blog," by Jim Weaver of Oracle Corporation, includes a link to the sample chapter, "Getting a Jump Start in JavaFX."
Tutorial: "JavaFX for Swing Developers," by Irina Fedortsova from Oracle. Discusses the JavaFX advantage for Swing developers, integrating JavaFX into Swing applications, enriching Swing applications with JavaFX functionality, leveraging applications with media features, and implementing a Swing application in JavaFx.
Blog: "A Heartfelt Ramble on Swing and JavaFX," by Amy Fowler.
Blog: "Integrating JavaFX and Swing (Revised)," by Pedro Duque Vieira. Discusses why you may want to use JavaFX in a Swing application, how to embed Swing in JavaFX, the architecture, coding and tips.
Blog: "JavaFX 2-The New Swing? (!)" by Roman Kennke.
https://weblogs.java.net/blog/ixmal/archive/2011/06/02/using-javafx-20-inside-swing-applicationsBlog: "Using JavaFX 2.0 Inside Swing Applications," by Artem Ananiev. Discusses the JFXPanel, some simple code, and events and painting.
http://blog.admadic.com/2013/03/javafx-and-swing-on-mac.htmlBlog: "JavaFX and Swing (on a Mac)," by Rainer Schwarze. Discusses JFXPanel (embed JavaFX in Swing), preparation, approach 1, approach 2 initializing AWT before JavaFX, and approach 3 embed JavaFX in Swing.
http://blog.idrsolutions.com/2012/12/integrating-javafx-with-swing-the-jfxpanel/Blog: "Integrating JavaFX with Swing: The JFXPanel," by Leon Atherton. Discusses creating a standard JavaFX project.
http://www.guigarage.com/2012/11/custom-ui-controls-with-javafx-part-2/Blog: "Custom UI Controls with JavaFX (Part 2)," by Kate Gorien. Discusses floating point bounds, a basic layout, preparing custom control for a layout, useful hints, and transformation.
http://www.jroller.com/peter_pilgrim/entry/javafx_is_alive_and_doingBlog: "JavaFX is Alive and Doing Very Well, Thank You Very Much," by Peter Pilgrim. Discusses the point of it all, switching from Swing to JavaFX, the politics, cross compiling, portability, networks and security.
http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/integrating-javafx-2x-and-swing-its-simp/240005970Article: "Integrating JavaFX 2.x and Swing: It's Simple," by Eric Bruno. Discusses the containment model, the pseudocode, and a working example.
http://www.javafxcookbook.com/visual-controls/swing-controls-in-javafxArticle: "Swing Controls in JavaFX," from The JavaFX Cookbook. Discusses SwingLabel, SwingTextField, the SwingButton, SwingRadioButton, SwingCheckBox, and the SwingList.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2012/120306-practical-javafx2-1.htmlArticle: "Practical JavaFX 2, Part 1: Architecture of a Swing-Based Notepad," by Jeff Friesen. Discusses what JavaFX is, the JavaFX release history, changes in JavaFX 2, the JPad, architecture of the JPad, handling events, dialog boxes, accessing the clipboard, drag-and-drop support, and implementing undo.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2012/120306-practical-javafx2-2.htmlArticle: "Practical JavaFX 2, Part 2: Refactoring Swing JPads's Basic UI Features to JavaFX," by Jeff Friesen. Discusses JPadFX, architecture of the JPadFX, creating the UI, JavaFX Scene, JavaFX Stage, event handling in JavaFX, menu events, window events, and change listeners.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2012/120306-practical-javafx2-3.htmlArticle: Practical JavaFX 2, Part 3: Refactoring Swing JPads Advanced UI Features," by Jeff Friesen. Discusses dialog boxes, the About dialog, the Alert dialog, the AreYouSure dialog, the system clipboard, and the drag-and-drop in JavaFX.
http://www.slideshare.net/skrb/from-swing-to-javafxSlides: "From Swing to JavaFX: Migration Guide to JavaFX," by Yuichi Sakuraba. Discusses the basics of JavaFX, JavaFX in Swing, Swing to JavaFX without FXML, and Swing to JavaFX with FXML.
http://www.oraclejavamagazine-digital.com/javamagazine/20120102?pg=46#pg46Article: "JavaFX and Swing Integration," by Simon Ritter. Discusses how to use the JFXPanel, structure of a simple application, and the JavaFX TableViewControl.
http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/why-im-so-excited-about-migrating-from-swing-to-javafx-2/The article, "Why I'm so excited about migrating from Swing to JavaFX 2," by Thierry Wasylczenko. Discusses the improvements from Swing to JavaFX 2.
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/scenegraph/jfxpub-scenegraph.htmThe Oracle documentation, Working with the JavaFX Scene Graph.
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/scene/package-summary.htmlOracle's Package javafx.scene documentation.
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/scene/Scene.htmlClass Scene documentation.
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/canvas/jfxpub-canvas.htmThe Oracle tutorial, "Working with Canvas."
https://oraclein.activeevents.com/connect/fileDownload/session/6310809A2949EBDADBEDBAF800CAE255/CON1141_Weaver-whats-new-for-javafx-in-jdk8.pdfDocumentation: "New JavaFX Features in JDK 8," by Jim Weaver. Discusses application development with JavaFX, new features of JavaFX in JDK 8, what JavaFX is, creating a UI, creating a scene, handling events, call animation methods, and more.
http://java.dzone.com/articles/whats-new-java-8-part-i-javafxThe article, "What's new in Java 8 (Part I – JavaFX)", by Pedro Duque Viera. Topics discussed include Swing Node, changes to the controls API, video and audio recording, printing support, the new Modena theme, the new DatePicker and TreeTable controls, WebView enhancements, improved 3D support, 3D primitives, loader support and more.
http://parleys.com/play/52505774e4b0a43ac1212410The JavaOne 2013 presentation, "What's New in JavaFX 8," by Richard Bair and Jasper Pots.
http://www.slideshare.net/OracleMiddleJP/jjugwhatsnewforjavafxinjdk8The slide presentation, "New JavaFX Features in JDK 8," by Jim Weaver, Java technology Ambassador at Oracle Corporation.
http://javafxdeveloper.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/new-features-in-next-major-release-java-fx-8-0/The tutorial, "New features in next major release—Java FX 8.0." Topics include Swing Node, the merging of the event dispatch thread and JavaFX application thread, Modena, rich-text support, printing support, TreeTable and more.
http://fxexperience.com/2013/01/modena-new-theme-for-javafx-8/The article, "Modena—new theme for JavaFX 8," by Jasper Potts.
http://www.devoxx.be/dv13-jim-weaver.htmlThe presentation, "What's New in JavaFX 8," by Jim Weaver, Stephen Chin and Michael Hoffer.