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Exotic Shorthairs - The Shorthaired Persian
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This FAQ has been compiled by the following exhibitors:
Patti Dailey, Daisen, Eugene Oregon, email:
Claire Farmer, Revvilee Persians and Exotics, Spokane Washington
Mary Lou Mills (Tacoma Wash)/Colleen Power [California] Caliope
Copyright (c)1995 Patti Dailey, Claire Farmer and Colleen Power, All
Rights Reserved.
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* Description
* History
* Show Standards
* Exotic Shorthair Colors
* Price Range of Exotics
* Special Medical Concerns
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Exotic Shorthairs are wonderful shorthaired versions of the Persian.
They have the flat faces of the Persian but a short plush Teddy Bear
look, and the usual small squeaky Persian voices. Very responsive to
humans and human emotions, this breed has inherited their very tame
personality and gentle ways from their Persian ancestry. However,
twenty years ago, several shorthaired breeds were used as outcrosses
to bring in the short coated gene, and as a result, Exotics are
generally livelier and more inquisitive than Persians.
Showing the Exotic Shorthair has been called a "Persian wet tee-shirt
contest." It is like showing a Persian in its underwear or sopping
wet. The Exotic must meet the Persian standard with regard to nose,
eye, ear, chin, and build. There is no long coat to be trimmed to hide
ears that are too large, or set to high on the head. No massive ruff
to hide a neck that is too long. No flowing coat to disguise those
cats standing too tall or cowhocked. There are no great chops to be
shaped to embellish a head that is too small or not round enough.
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Recognized by most cat associations in the late 1960s, the Exotic
Shorthair comes in all colors. Some lines were developed using the
Burmese to introduce the short coat. Other lines were developed using
the British and American Shorthair, even Russian Blues were used by
some. But today, the only acceptable outcross is to the Persian.
In the early 1960s, American Shorthair breeders began using Persians
as outcrosses in an attempt to strengthen their type. However, the
resulting kittens were unique and had a decidedly different appearance
than they were looking for. This caused quite a furor between American
Shorthair and Persian breeders in CFA. Finally, because the look was
appealing, the breeders working with the hybrid lines decided to work
on a new breed to be called the Exotic Shorthair. American Shorthair
breeders were given a choice of registering the kittens as Americans
or Exotics, but once registered as Exotics they could not return to
American. In the mid-1960s, the core breeders expanded the program to
include other shorthair breeds such as Burmese and British Shorthairs.
In 1967 CFA gave formal recognition to the Exotic Shorthair as a
breed. Among the early pioneers was Lion House Cattery, where top
silvers and silver tabbies were produced from American Shorthair
outcrosses. Another early pioneer was New Dawn Cattery, owned by ACFA
judge Carolyn Bussey, who used Burmese as her shorthair outcross.
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Show Standards
"The ideal Exotic should present an impression of a heavily boned,
well balanced cat with a sweet expression and soft, round lines...
The large, round eyes set wide apart in a large round head contribute
to the overall look and expression...
The thick plush coat softens the lines of the cat and accentuates the
TICA Standard
(100 point total)
Head 30 points
Body 25 points
Head Type 10 points
Boning 7.5 points
Chin 5 points
Shape/Size 7.5 points
Nose Type 5 points
Musculature 5 points
Cheeks/Jowls 5 points
Legs/Feet 5 points
Ears 5 points
Tail 5 points
Eyes 10 points
Coat/Color 20 points
Shape/Size 5 points
Coat 10 points
Color 5 points
Color 10 points
Condition/Balance 10 points
Point Counts in CFA:
Head (including size and shape of eyes; ear shape and set) .......30
Type(including shape, size, bone and length of tail)..............20
Coat.............................................. ................10
Balance........................................... .................5
Refinement........................................ .................5
Color............................................. ................20
Eye Color............................................. ............10
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Exotic Shorthair Colors
The only colors recognized were traditional Persian or American
Shorthair colors until 1980 when TICA was formed and recognized the
Exotic Shorthair in pointed colors. Today ACFA and CFA recognize
pointed Exotics as well. TICA again expanded the acceptable Exotic
colors in 1989 when it accepted cats in the intermediate color
categories (sepia and mink).
Below is a short list of the many colors you can find in exotic
Black and White Bicolor
Cameo Tabby
Solid Black
Solid Blue
Solid White
Brown Patched Tabby
Blue Cream
Red Tabby
Smoke Sepia
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Price Range of Exotics
One of the unfortunate aspects of outcrossing to Persians means that
fifty percent of the kittens may be longhaired, and indistinguishable
in appearance from Persian kittens! Most associations recognize these
longhaired versions as Persians, and many have granded as Persians in
these associations. These kittens generally are priced the same as
Persian kittens in your area ($250-$600).
Exotic Shorthaired Kittens range in price from ($350-$1000) for an
altered kitten. Breeding or Show kittens range in price from
$800-$3500, depending upon the bloodlines and show expectations.
If you are interested in contacting a breeder, here is a list of
Exotic Shorthair breeders who are on-line.
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Special Medical Concerns
The Exotic Shorthair is subject to the same medical concerns as the
Persian. At the top of the list are problems associated with an
asymetrical jaw. These problems can affect the cat's ability to bite
and eat properly, and can also lead to dental problems. Other problems
that can manifest themselves in Exotic Shorthairs a Sinus problems,
tear duct problems, eye problems such as Keratosis Sequestrium (which
is prevalent in both Persian-types and Siamese, and is not
genetic-based, but rather a consequence of having an extreme amount of
exposed eye surface). Most of the other problems are caused by
careless breeding, excessive inbreeding, or overbreeding for the
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With much thanks to Marie Lamb for her help in establishing this FAQ.
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Exotic Shorthair FAQ
Patti Dailey,
updated 29 August 1995
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S1 E04 No Man's Land
Intimacy baffles Meredith Grey. She is trying to figure out the rules. How do you know when you've crossed the line? All she knows so far are that they come attached to the three R's: Relatives, Romance and Roommates.
Cristina Yang is determined to perform a surgery today and sneaks into SGH at 4:00 AM (yes, 4:00 AM) to call dibs on the perfect candidate—a pancreatic cancer patient who needs the rare "Whipple" surgery. The patient was a former scrub nurse at Seattle Grace and knows exactly the game Cristina is playing. Nurse Fallon puts Cristina in her place saying, "I'll call you Cristina. You call me Nurse Fallon." Yes, Ma'am! This is going to be fun—for us, not for Cristina.
Meredith asks Cristina if she has any other leads on surgeries but Cristina won't reveal a thing. She needs every advantage because "she's not the intern screwing an attending." Apparently, Cristina's not a morning person.
Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd invites Meredith to breakfast but she wants to keep it professional and says no. We'll see if she changes her mind.
Izzie Stevens' prostate patient refuses to let her touch him because she's only a model. He wants a real doctor like Bailey or Burke. Izzie thinks it'd be easier of someone else handles the case but Bailey refuses saying, "Easy isn't in the job description."
McDreamy operates on a guy who accidentally shoots himself in the head with a nail gun – 9 times! Cristina is so jealous that Meredith is in on this case and she's stuck with nagging Nurse Fallon.
Nurse Fallon calls Cristina "an aggressive little witch" right in front of Burke and the Chief. Snap! And then, totally rats her out for "hogging" her chart so the other interns won't get it. Chief Webber says that he was going to assign Meredith to Nurse Fallon but she's working on the Nail Gun Guy. We love when Nurse Fallon just rubs it in Cristina's face. Then Burke gets in on it too! It just keeps getting better.
Alex and George are relegated to researching nail gun injuries. Alex wants the scoop on Izzie and Mer and teases George that he's like their sister. George is mortified that Mer might think of him as one of the girls and not a potential boyfriend.
Cristina is so over being Nurse Fallon's "cruise director" and confronts Burke about why they haven't performed the "Whipple" yet. "Is she here just to die?" Burke doesn't answer. She knows she's right.
The MRI reveals that Nail Gun Guy has a brain tumor. Derek gives him two treatment options. Surgery which would give him 10 years but his personality might change. Radiation which would give him 5 good years.
When the couple chooses the surgery, Meredith tries to convince the wife to change her mind but the wife says (Warning: you are going to cry. We did.), "It's his decision. If it means 10 bad years, that's what I'll give him because I love him."
When Cristina asks Nurse Fallon why she didn't tell her they weren't going to do the ""Whipple"", she quips "But where's the fun in that?" You can tell she's growing on Cristina. They're so much alike. In the middle of their moment, Nurse Fallon starts crashing. Cristina jumps to save her but Burke tells her that she's DNR (Do Not Rescusitate). Cristina won't give up and Burke has to pry her off. Cristina calls time of death for the first time.
Meredith finally meets Derek for a date, a real one involving a meal. She wishes there was a guidebook for intimacy so you know when you've crossed the line, but maybe there are no rules. Maybe she has to define her own.

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The Ozone distributor in Spain just sent us the first Ozone Zephyr sample. Kites are currently in production at the Ozone factory and should be delivering in the next few weeks.
The Zephyr is a new kite model from Ozone, available in a single 17m size. It is an optimized design for this size offering a dedicated light wind kite, that is also a freestyle powerhouse in moderately light wind.
We took it out to Utah Lake last night where the wind was light and steady from the north. it had kicked up to 12mph by the time a 2oo + pound rider was planing upwind on a mid size board. (started on a glide and sized down after first tack)
As the wind came up it averaged 12-15mph over the 3 hour session. 3 riders switched off on the Zephyr, including a 160 pounder and myself at 190 pounds. I was powered on a Underground 132 deck.
So, the kite is well constructed with beefy material and no extra gimmicky stuff stitched into the leading edge, a total minimalist kite, all the way down to the bridle. Laid next to a 13 Edge and a 15m Sport kites, the Zephyr has a moderate aspect ratio that falls between the two other kites. The Zephyr has 5 struts and thicker tubes than the other Ozone models. On a scale, the new 17m weighed almost the same as the 15m Sport, must be the lighter weight material!
In 12mph the kite had plenty of power to crank upwind. It relaunched flawlessly and quickly, rolling over on itself. I'd even say it relaunched better than the 15m due to the new shape. The Zephyr flies on the standard Ozone 2009 4 line bar, so you can switch bars around to any 4 line kite.
In the sky the kites agility could be compared to the 13m Edge, it loops quickly and in a small window, allowing you to work the kite when needed, and maneuver quickly to get out of trouble. The bar pressure is light, especially for the size, you can tell when you steer and the bar swings easily left and right with direct input to the kite as there are ZERO Pulleys on the Zephyr. But, as you pull the bar in you can feel the power as the kite loads up and lets you lean way back digging in your board edge.
All in all a very fun kite to fly and a solid performer in the 17m range. I would give it thumbs up for the following:
Light wind power and agility.
Bigger guys kite for all conditions.
Big Air kite for light to moderate wind depending on your weight.
Hello Zephyr....Hello Light Wind.
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In the English Department at Saint Michael's College, we study literature both as art (the aesthetic representation of human nature and culture) and as artifact (a record of human nature and culture). From introductory seminars on the New Yorker and Road Trips to senior seminars on Monsters and Endings, we offer courses that encourage students to examine themselves, encounter difference, and embrace complexity within communities of other readers and writers. Our eclectic department is composed of thoughtful, passionate teachers, and our courses are dynamic, engaging, and challenging.
Our department offers courses in British, American, and world literatures, as well as writing and film. The ten courses of the major follow a natural pattern, from an introductory seminar (EN 110) through several survey courses and into Critical Theory (EN 325) and a choice of upper-level courses, culminating with a senior seminar (EN 410). All courses foster critical thinking through writing and discussion. Majors must maintain a high level of written expression and will be expected to learn and use the skills of literary scholarship. The Department also offers two minors: one in literature and the other in creative writing, each requiring five courses. The Creative Writing minor allows students to study literature "from the inside out," as writers of it, but fosters the same critical thinking, writing, and discussion skills as the major and the literature minor.
Our upper-level, special topics courses explore a theme in depth that you may have otherwise never known to exist. Some examples:
English Learning Outcomes
English Major Requirements
Creative Writing Minor Requirements
Literature Minor Requirements
* For students who enroll in the fall of 2018.
B.A., University of Notre Dame
M.A., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prof. D'Amore teaches courses in the English Department and the First-Year Seminar Program at Saint Michael's. He also serves as the Associate Dean of the College, a position that lets him meet almost every student who studies here and talk about the many great experiences they're having inside and outside the classroom and how they're facing and overcoming any challenges that come up along the way. He attended the University of Notre Dame as an undergraduate, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He loves all the stereotypical Vermont things that people who live in Vermont love, even skiing and snowboarding – neither of which he's ever actually done. He lives with his two young sons, two old dogs, and another St. Mike's English professor, his wife Maura D'Amore.
Ph.D., English (specialization: American Literature to 1900), with a five-course minor in American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
B.A., Classics and Literatures & Cultures, Brown University
literary geographies, print culture, gender studies, and American Studies.
B.A. National University of Ireland
Poetry and literature
I am a widely published Irish poet born in Cork, Ireland. I enjoy teaching all of my classes, and consider myself a lucky person to have a job teaching what I love - the reading and writing of poetry. I love teaching because I love poetry.
I like the ethos of the college. I find the Edmundite ethos and in general the liberal arts a healthy way of being in the world and a good way for young people to learn to be in the world for the rest of their lives.
We're the better for understanding through literature how other human beings have lived in the world. In the end, all learning is humility, and students will understand that and it will give them a better chance of understanding the good and bad of life and of adding to society in a positive fashion. We can't overestimate the interconnectedness of things. Literature shows us how to see our own uniqueness, to take off the mundane goggles, to see that no matter how small we are, we're important.
M.F.A., Columbia University, Creative Writing: Fiction
B.A., St. Lawrence University, English and Fine Arts
Academic writing, fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing
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M.A. University of North Carolina
B.A. Yale University
I teach courses on literary theory, environmental writing, and multiethnic literatures. I have written on western American literature, literary aesthetics, and nature writing.
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B.A. Colgate University
Writing, Modernist Literature, Literature and Philosophy
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B.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst
American Studies; American literature and cultural history; film studies; critical theory; popular culture studies
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A.B. Bryn Mawr College
In the English Department:
In the Humanities Program:
M.A., Ph.D. Cornell University
B.A., M.A. Middlebury College;
I have published on women and film as well as Middle High German and Old Norse literature and am working on a book, Engendering Romance: Women and European Medieval Romance.
I teach courses in film, early British Literature, mystery fiction, utopian fiction and women's literature.
M.A., Ph.D. Brown University
B.A. University of Massachusetts-Boston
African American literature, especially poetry
My classes offer the opportunity to engage students in discussions of race, racism, African American literature and history. I have worked hard to develop strategies for safely approaching what can often be loaded material that challenges students' comfort zones. I often incorporate experiences that combine classroom study with activities in the community. This includes overnight field trips to Charlestown, Massachusetts with my First-Year Seminar course and a three-week service-learning program in Ghana with students from my Middle Passage class. Through these cross-cultural encounters, students have a chance to examine and enlarge their own perspectives. I am also a faculty member in the college's American Studies program.
There is a real commitment here to teach the whole student. I enjoy having a chance to shape hungry young minds and develop personal relationships with students. Saint Michael's students have open minds and good hearts. They are very empathetic, kind, and friendly, and many are interested in finding ways to connect what they learn in classes to the larger world. They also have a strong desire to contribute to the community through service. My favorite class to teach is African-American Literature and The Middle Passage, because it's a chance to introduce our students to a tradition they know little about, and to push their comfort zones.
B.A. Saint Michael's College
M.A. University of Virginia
Ph.D. McGill University
Nineteenth Century American Literature; Antebellum women's writing; Vermont Writers
First-Year Seminar: Snow: the Art and Science of Alpine Crystals
Literary Studies: Vermont Writers
American Literature I
American Nature Writing
American Renaissance
Major American Writers
Senior Seminar: The Sublime
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on Shakespeare, Shelley, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia Sigourney
I love having the opportunity to introduce new students to the wonder of Vermont—both in my First-Year Seminar on Snow and in my Literary Studies course on Vermont Writers. This is a special setting for the liberal arts experience, and the sense of place in the valley between the Green Mountains and the glittering expanse of Lake Champlain has a powerful and inevitable draw for the students who study here. I served for eight years as the Associate Dean of the College at Saint Michael's from 2005 to 2013, and working closely with students on improving their academic performance was one of the most rewarding roles I've had in my professional life. Academic success can be encouraged and celebrated on many levels, and I am once again looking forward to the opportunity to work closely with students as a guide and mentor—this time as the Director of the Honors Program.
After graduation, English majors go on to careers in:
Our English graduates have used their background for jobs and careers in many fields. Especially because we emphasize critical thinking and written communication, our English graduates are well prepared for jobs and careers in many fields upon graduation. They have also gone on to teach at all levels, and have pursued graduate studies in many areas, including law, environmental science, and music. Anyone seeking a solid liberal arts background on which to build a future will find exactly that in the English major.


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Each of these publications is edited at Sigma Chi Fraternity Headquarters. From sharing stories about famous Sigs to guiding members through chapter processes, these publications will inform you about the ins and outs of the organization.
The Magazine of Sigma Chi
In April 1881, the first issue of the Fraternity's magazine, then called The Sigma Chi, rolled off the press in Gettysburg, Pa. Subscription rates were $1 per year, and by the time the second issue appeared in June 1881, 40 brothers were subscribers.
The Magazine Today
More than a century later The Magazine of Sigma Chi boasts more than 50,000 readers and is one of the most highly esteemed publications in the Greek-letter world, often collecting the most awards of any group at the annual Greek editors' conference. The Magazine is published four times a year and contains news and features to recognize, inform, educate and entertain members. It also serves as a report and record of the Fraternity's activities and programs to university and other Fraternity officials, families of members, and recruits.
Submission Deadlines
Submission deadlines for each quarterly issue are as follows:
Summer Issue — March 15
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Winter Issue — Sept. 15
Spring Issue — Nov. 29
Sigma Chi Bulletin
The Sigma Chi Bulletin is the internal publication of the Fraternity and, though not secret, it is directed specifically to members. Usually published as a part of each issue of The Magazine of Sigma Chi, it contains items of Fraternity business such as minutes of meetings, information on petitions for new active chapter charters, proposals for amendment of the Constitution and Statutes, and other information of interest to members. Established in 1887, The Bulletin is the oldest private, esoteric publication of a college fraternity in North America.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
The Standard Operating Procedures manual offers an extensive reference on Fraternity policies, procedures and rules and is an essential reference for all organization leaders, members, constituents and stakeholders.
The manual is divided into the following sections: Introduction, Governing Laws, Mission and Vision, Policies and Positions, Awards and Scholarships, Resources, Forms and Index. Click here to download the 2010 Standard Operating Procedures manual.
Sigma Chi Preview
The Fraternity also reaches its members via the Internet through its online newsletter, Sigma Chi Preview. This monthly newsletter is used as a outlet for Fraternity information and it contains important deadline reminders and important dates to remember for undergraduates, alumni and volunteers. Preview is emailed to about 4,000 members per month.
Fraternity History
The Fraternity's most recent historical publication is a volume comprised of biographical information about the seven Founders, entitled One in Heart and Purpose: The Founders and the Founding of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, which is based on the original manuscripts of 9th Grand Consul and 13th Grand Historian Joseph C. Nate, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN 1890, and compiled and edited by 21st Grand Historian and Order of Constantine Sig Dr. William P. Fleming Jr., SAM HOUSTON 1965.
Over the years, the Fraternity published several historical volumes, most notably the History of Sigma Chi 1855–1895, which was authored by Nate. He also authored manuscripts of the Fraternity's history up to 1915, but he passed away before they could be published. Following Nate's volume of the Fraternity's history was The History of Sigma Chi 1955–1980 by 62nd Grand Consul, 19th Grand Historian, Order of Constantine Sig and Significant Sig Douglas R. Carlson, MINNESOTA 1973. Fleming is currently working on The History of Sigma Chi 1980–2005.
There is also a book called the Centennial History of the Sigma Chi Fraternity 1855–1955 by 17th Grand Historian and Order of Constantine Sig Robert M. Collett, DENISON 1914, who wrote a fact-filled short-form version of the Fraternity's history from that time period. It is the only published Sigma Chi history book that covers the years 1896–1954.


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Gary Wilkinson scored 17 points to lead Utah State to a 50-37 victory over Louisiana Tech on Thursday night.
With the game tied at 37 with 5:29 to go, Utah State went on a 13-0 run to close out the victory.
The Aggies (14-1, 2-0 Western Athletic Conference) scored their lowest point total of the season in winning their ninth straight game. The point total was also a season low for the Bulldogs (7-9, 1-2), who were averaging 73.8 points per game at home – double their score.
Louisiana Tech led 29-20 with 5:55 left in the first half, but only 19-18 at halftime. After the Bulldogs opened the second half with a 5-0 run, the Aggies tied the score at 24.
Louisiana Tech hit only 6 of 21 shots in the second half (28.6 percent).
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Savory Mushroom, Walnut, and Celery Stuffing
7 slices sprouted whole-grain bread or other whole-grain bread, cut in cubes
1 teaspoon italian seasoning
1⁄2 teaspoon sea salt
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 sweet onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, with leaves, diced
2 ½ cups diced cremini or white button mushrooms
1 teaspoon reduced-sodium tamari
1⁄4 cup vegan margarine
3/4 cup boiling water
1 vegetable bouillon cube
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Oil an 11 x 7-inch baking pan. Put the bread, italian seasoning, and salt in a medium bowl and toss to combine. Transfer to a large, rimmed baking sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until the bread is slightly crisp.
Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and celery and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is translucent, 8 to 10 minutes. Add the mushrooms and tamari and cook, stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms are tender, adding a bit of water as needed to prevent sticking. Melt the margarine in a small saucepan over medium heat.
Put the water in a small bowl or measuring cup and add the bouillon cube. Stir until dissolved to make a strong vegetable broth.
Put the bread and walnuts in a large bowl and toss until well combined. Add the mushroom mixture, margarine, and 1⁄4 cup of the broth and stir gently until thoroughly combined. Add as much of the remaining broth as needed so the mixture is moist but not soupy. If the mixture still seems dry after adding all of the broth, add a small amount of water. If using for stuffed acorn squash, proceed as directed in the recipe.
If serving stuffing as a side dish, transfer to the prepared pan. Spread in an even layer and smooth the top with a spatula. Cover and bake for about 30 minutes. Uncover and bake for 15 minutes to crisp the top. Serve immediately.
Stuffed Acorn Squash
2 small acorn squash, halved and seeded
1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
Sea salt
Freshly ground pepper
4 cups Mushroom, Walnut, and Celery Stuffing, (se above recipe) prepared and ready to bake
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly oil a 13 x 9-inch baking pan. Put the squash halves cut-side up in the prepared pan. Brush 1⁄4 teaspoon of the oil over the upper surface of each squash half. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Spoon 1 cup of the stuffing into each squash half.
Cover the pan with foil and bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until the squash is fork-tender. Remove the foil and bake, uncovered, for 10 to 15 minutes, until the stuffing is brown and crispy. Serve immediately.
Yummy Yam Casserole
Makes 4 to 6 servings
5 to 6 medium yams or sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 inch thick
3 to 4 tablespoons maple syrup
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder
1⁄2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon
1⁄8 teaspoon sea salt
Pinch cayenne
1⁄2 cup pecan halves or walnuts
1/3 cup dried cranberries, optional
Steam the yams until crisp-tender, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl. Add 1 tablespoon of the maple syrup and the oil, garlic powder, pumpkin pie spice, salt, and cayenne. Toss gently until the yams are evenly coated. Arrange the yams in overlapping layers in a 13 x 9-inch baking pan. Scatter the pecans and dried cranberries over the top, then drizzle with the remaining maple syrup. Cover and refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours if time permits.
Put the pan in a cold oven. Set the heat to 400 degrees F and bake for 40 to 50 minutes, until the yams are tender and browning around the edges.
Let cool for 10 to 15 minutes. Serve warm.
Green Beans Almondine
5 to 6 cup green beans, washed and ends removed
1 to 2 cups sweet red pepper, sliced thin
3/4 cup sliced or slivered almonds
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon italian style herbs or all-purpose seasoning
1 to 2 teaspoon vegan margarine spread
1 clove garlic, minced
Steam the beans for 5 minutes. Add the red pepper slices and steam until crisp tender.
Meanwhile put the almonds and olive oil into a medium sauté pan. Top with italian herbs and saute over medium-low heat until slightly golden. Add garlic and cook for 2 minutes. Add vegan margarine and heat through. Move off heat.
Put the steamed beans and peppers in to a medium bowl. Pour the almond mixture over the top of the beans and toss to combine. Serve warm.
Holiday Sandies Cookies
Makes 24 to 26 Cookies
1 cup homemade oat flour (SEE NOTE 1)
1/2 cup ground walnuts (SEE NOTE 2)
2 tablespoons vegan confectioner's sugar
6 tablespoons cold vegan margarine
2 to 21/2 teaspoons cold nondairy milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ cup confectioner's sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a large cookie sheet with unbleached parchment paper.
Put the oat flour, walnuts and 2 tablespoons sugar in to a medium mixing bowl. Whisk together. Add the cold margarine, and vanilla. Combine using a dough blender or large fork. Add the cold nondairy milk 1 teaspoon at a time, until the mixture becomes the consistency of soft dough.
Form into a log. Put the dough log in the refrigerator and chill for 20 to 30 minutes, or until almost firm to the touch.
Slice into ¼ inch slices. Place on baking sheet and form each cookie into a crescent shape. Bake for 7 minutes, then turn the heat down to 300 degrees F. Bake 10 to 12 minutes more, or until slightly golden around the edges.
Meanwhile, pour confectioner's sugar into a medium size bowl.
Remove the cookies form the oven, cool 4 minutes, then roll each cookie in additional confectioner's sugar. Place on pretty serving tray.
Store leftover cookies covered in the refrigerator.
NOTE 1: To make oat flour, place 1/1/2 cups rolled oats in a blender and process until consistency of coarse crumbs. Proceed with recipe as directed.
NOTE 2: For ground walnuts, place 3/4 cups chopped walnuts into a blender and process until consistency of coarse crumbs. Proceed with recipe as directed.
Pumpkin Pie with Date-Nut Crust
Makes 8 servings
10 large pitted Medjool dates, plus more as needed
1/2 cup pecan halves
3/4 cup rolled oats
14 to 16 ounces firm regular tofu
1 can (about 16 ounces) pumpkin purée
⅔ cup maple sugar
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ½ teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
⅛ teaspoon sea salt
Bourbon Vanilla Whipped "Cream" (see recipe below)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Oil a 9-inch pie plate.
To make the crust, put the dates, pecans, and oats in a high-performance blending appliance and process until the mixture forms a dough. If the mixture is still too crumbly to hold together, add more pitted dates, one at a time, until the consistency is doughy. Form the date mixture into a ball and place it in the center of the prepared pie plate (see note).
Press the date mixture evenly over the bottom of the plate, pushing it up the sides of the pie plate as you go, to make a crust. To craft a pretty edge to the crust, use your index finger to push the inner edge of the crust out, while pinching the outer edge in with the thumb and index finger of your other hand to make a classic scalloped edge around the pie crust.
Put all of the filling ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Pour the filling into the crust and bake for 20 minutes. Remove the pie from the oven and cover the crust edges with small strips of foil.
Bake the pie for 20 to 30 minutes more, or until the filling is somewhat firm to the touch (the center will still be slightly soft). Place the pie on a wire rack to cool completely. Before serving, pipe whipped "cream" around the perimeter of the pie using a star tip, or simply serve a dollop of the whipped "cream" on the side.
NOTE: If you are serving the pie warm, let it stand it at room temperature for 45 minutes to 1 hour before serving. If you are serving the pie chilled, cool, then cover it with foil and place it in the refrigerator for 3 to 24 hours before serving. Covered tightly and stored in the refrigerator, leftover pie will keep about 2 days.
NOTE: If desired, you may use a rolling pin to roll the dough into a 10-inch round before placing it in the pie plate.
Bourbon Vanilla Whipped "Cream"
14 to 16 ounces extra-firm regular tofu, drained (sprouted variety is preferable)
3 tablespoons maple syrup, plus more as needed
1 teaspoon bourbon-flavored or plain vanilla extract
Put all of the ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Taste and add more maple syrup if a sweeter flavor is desired. Refrigerate 2 to 4 hours or up to 24 hours and serve.


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Delivering a PPT in the PNT
Was approached by a group at the Joint Staff a while back to present to a working group focused on a particular operational theater. The group regularly hosts speakers for an audience of about 75 flags, officers and senior civilians, with VTC to a large number of overseas commands. Audience also had a number of foreign senior officers.
The sponsor had asked to discuss near- and mid-term issues that could prove disruptive to security issues under their purview. Because my current brief is more long term, I saw this as a chance to brief a number of Wikistrat sims. So the bulk of the brief was on four sims we've done over the past couple of years now.
Little bit nervous going in, because it was a significant audience in terms of hierarchy, so a good test of the product line - as it were. Unlike a pitch where you talk about the methodology and the company, this was a pure product presentation. Not a demo, but actual product that had to stand on its own - as in, nowhere to hide behind hand-waving.
Joel Zamel was there as well to answer questions on the company and methodology.
I did 28 slides at a podium. Couldn't move around due to the VTC cameras. Also had to finger a screen to advance the slides (tap, tap, tap). All in all, a terrible set-up for somebody like me, and I often feel like I underperform in those situations (I don't get complaints; it just doesn't feel as gloriously un-self-conscious as the perfect set-ups - for me - do). But for whatever reason, it worked great and I got my head around the delivery and banged out about 30 mins of presentation, followed by another 30 or so of Q&A that felt even better. Audience was really great. Really interesting questions and super engaged. What you expect from that level of crowd. So you give what you get (e.g., my humor was above average), as the best audiences always get the best briefs. It's just how it works.
Still, you just never know going in. I tend to be pretty quiet right up to the point, because it takes a lot of energy. And yes, some nerves on the product. But the material was received very well, which was very gratifying. Big league audience in the bowels of the Pentagon and Wikistrat - at only three years old - comes off as top flight. We fielded a lot of powerfully positive comments and feedback. Extremely validating.
Follow-on lunch inside the Building with a crew of USA younger officers who are all elite something or other in some prestigious fellows program. Most had seen me give my current standard globalization brief at Belvoir during my regular lectures there. That was a really nice discussion. Decent bisque, too.
Only really hard part was getting up at 0400 to fly there and back on same day, but nice to be back home for a movie with the kids at the end of their school week.
All in all, it felt like a genuine milestone.
You know, we run a lot of training simulations at Wikistrat. Really pretty much nonstop. And one of the things I'm always preaching throughout the community is that everything needs to be of high-enough caliber that, if I'm standing in front of a senior audience of serious operators and policy types at the Pentagon or some COCOM, I sound like the real deal from stem to stern. That's really the first threshold. Everybody knows we can do it fast and far less expensively, so the only remaining question is, Is the quality as good as anybody else's out there?
And that test was passed today (actually yesterday) - with flying colors.
And that is no small achievement.
So the community should feel very proud of itself and what it is accomplishing.
Because the quality is only going to keep improving. I'm seeing that elevate with each sim. Less correcting work for me as Chief Analyst, and more time to really work the synergizing write-up, so elevation across the board, as well as product I can stand in front of - inside the Pentagon and with a senior audience - and deliver without a hitch.


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John F. Murray (1889-1944) was a lifetime Queens resident and a dedicated recreation supervisor for Queens parks for many years. Although his Parks job kept him busy, he also devoted much of his time to a variety of other activities.
Murray supervised the Long Island City Knights of Columbus, the local chapter of the famous Roman Catholic fraternal order. The association organized blood donation campaigns and sports programs for youths, promoted religious activities, and articulated Catholic opinion on social issues. In 1944, the New York Chapter of the Knights of Columbus became the holder of the permit for the Columbus Day Parade. Murray also helped supervise recreational activities for the Elmhurst Elks, another neighborhood fraternal society. He also organized local boxing tournaments and in particular, trained prizefighters. He and his wife, Catherine, had two sons, Colonel John Murray and Captain William Murray, who both served in the army.


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This is the third entry in a twenty part series discussing the wonderful time and priority management book Making It All Work by David Allen. New entries in this series will appear on Tuesday mornings and Friday mornings through December 10.
Making It All Work opens with what I would call three "introductory" chapters that precede what I would call the main section of the book. This third "introductory" chapter is quite short and mostly just sets up a few key concepts for the rest of the book. I identified five of these concepts that really stuck out at me.
Losing Control and Direction
On page 49:
From time to time you will experience yourself either feeling out of control or lacking direction – or both. If you didn't you'd probably be stale.
This could be true on a larger life scale, such as how you are experiencing your career, or, at a more mundane level, such as being disorganized in preparing a dinner for friends. This can (and will) happen in and with your project in the garage, your family, your team, your job, your company, your school committee, your life.
As I've mentioned before, there are times where I feel like my life is humming along wonderfully and everything seems to be in sync. I know what I'm doing. I know why I'm doing it. I'm really productive and full of energy.
Eventually, though, something happens that knocks this off of the rails. An emotional event. A crisis that eats a lot of time and energy. A slow change in my goals and directions.
I start to feel out of control. Sometimes, I start to wonder what exactly I'm working for.
The Two Keys
On page 51:
In the simplest terms, there are only two things you or your team or company needs to do to achieve positive and productive engagement with the commitments you face and to achieve all of the desired results […]: get organized and get focused.
Again, that seems simple. Yet virtually every common problem a person or team boils down to one of those two problems: a lack of organization or a lack of focus.
Organization problems come from not having the right resources available for the task. People problems. Information management problems. Communication problems. They're all signs of some form of disorganization.
On the other hand, focus problems include things like simply having too much to do or being bored without enough to do or not being engaged with what's going on.
How do we solve them? The solution really comes from putting aside time to evaluate what you're doing and why you're doing it on a regular basis. So often, people and groups view that evaluation as "wasted time," but I've found it to be the most valuable time that I spend.
The Price of Creativity and Productivity
On page 55:
Loss of control and perspective is the natural price you will pay for being creative and productive. The trick is not how to prevent this happening, but how to shorten the time you stay in an unsettled state.
Why are we worried about these things? Simply put, time spent out of control and without perspective is time lost.
I know that there are sometimes days when I just sit here spinning my wheels, trying to decide what to do next or not even being sure what I should be doing. I don't have ideas. I don't have direction. I just idle a bit.
That is pure wasted time. When I find myself in that situation, it's time to back off and take a larger look at what I'm doing.
What Exactly Is Work?
On page 56:
The definition of work I will use in this book is quite universal: anything you want to get done that's not done yet.
Allen's material is interesting because it doesn't make any distinction between the different types of things that a person needs to get done. A task to accomplish is a task to accomplish – you treat them all in the same way.
This is a really difficult bridge for many people to walk across. For many people, a work task stays at work and a home task stays at home.
The problem is that you often find yourself thinking about work at home and thinking about home at work during downtimes at each place. In those downtimes, you should be productive in those areas. If you have a great work idea at home, write it down. If you have a great home idea at work, write it down.
No "Personal" Versus "Work" Dichotomy
On page 58:
[…] there is an inherent fallacy in affirming that "life" and "work" are mutually exclusive spheres. The truth is, when you are "in your zone" – when time has disappeared and you're simply "on" with whatever you're doing – there is no distinction in your psyche at that moment between "work" and "personal."
Allen goes so far with this as to suggest that there really is no difference between "work" and "personal" when you are "in the zone." Regardless of whether you're at home or at work, you should strive to get into that zone – and when you're in that zone, the line between work and personal disappears. You just get stuff done.
For me, this line has completely vanished, but that's partially because I work at home on projects that have a flexible time schedule. I find that when I do get really "productive" over a stretch of time, I intermingle "work" tasks and "personal" tasks without skipping a beat.
My enemy is idle downtime. I don't mind taking a break or anything like that, but when I'm just sitting there doing nothing for the sake of doing nothing, I know there's a problem, whether I'm active in my personal life or in my work.


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The game Crysis 3 has been available for some time already and I took it for a spin to see how well it works on my stereo 3D setup with 3D Vision and do some benchmarks using the game of course. I should start with the fact that like its predecessor Crysis 2 the new Crysis 3 also uses 2D + Depth rendering method (Screen Space Re-Projection Stereo or SSRS in short) for its stereoscopic 3D output, regardless of what kind of stereo 3D display device you are using. This apparently has proven to be a good compromise between stereoscopic 3D quality and performance requirements and thus allowing the game to run in stereo 3D mode on the current generation of game consoles in stereo 3D mode as well. The fact that the 2D + Depth method is used also in the PC version of the game instead of providing two full stereoscopic 3D rendered views for each of the eyes on the PC as well has been criticized, but seeing how demanding the new Crysis 3 is it is no wonder that the developers did not provide us with full stereoscopic 3D rendering. The side effect from 2D + Depth rendering method is that it may not look as good as "true" stereo 3D rendering and there could be some additional artifacts (look at the halo around your gun), so it is not perfect, but it also takes up very little performance hit, something like just 5% decrease in performance as compared to about 40% or more for the alternative full dual view rendering. After playing the game for a while I suspect that it will yet again turn out to be more of a reference benchmark than a highly liked game by many, though it can be fun to play for a while and I do plan to finish the story when I have the time for that. But now let us take a look at some benchmark results…
The results above were achieved in stereo 3D mode in an open environment inside the game and are the average FPS achieved inside the game on a system equipped with single GeForce GTX 580 and two GTX 580 cards running in SLI with an Intel Core i5 2500K quad-core CPU (3.3 GHz) and 8GB system Memory under Windows 8 OS. All of the hardware was running in stock frequencies and was not overclocked, as you can see from the results the GTX 580 is either outdated already or more likely the new Crysis 3 game is way too heavy. Of course these results are in stereoscopic 3D mode, but the framerate increase you'd get switching back to 2D mode is minimal because of the performance optimized stereo 3D rendering mode that the game uses. Even with two GeForce GTX 580 cards in SLI the game is not comfortably playable in stereo 3D mode at Very High detail levels with no AA filtering enabled. And an average framerate of 60 FPS is not achievable even with the SLI setup at Low level of details, and no, the Crysis 3 is not a demanding game… it is a very demanding one.
Stereo 3D mode using Dual GTX 580 in SLI with AA:
– Very High, 8x MSAA – 21 fps
– Very High, 4x MSAA – 29 fps
– Very High, 2x MSAA – 31 fps
– Very High, SMAA mGPU (2x) – 31 fps
– Very High, SMAA Low (1x) – 31 fps
– Very High, FXAA – 31 fps
– Very High, no AA – 32 fps
Here is the situation when using the various AA filtering modes available in the game, as you can see apart form the high MSAA modes the situation does not change much in terms of average framerate achieved when using two GTX 580 cards in SLI.
How will overclocking affect performance:
– CPU + 1GHz @ 4.3GHz: Very High, no AA – 34 fps
– GPUs + 100MHz @ 872MHz: Very High, no AA – 34 fps
– GPU and CPU overclocked: Very High, no AA – 39 fps
It seems that Crysis 3 can push not only the GPU, but also the CPU and having more performance squeezed from either of them by overclocking does help in getting a few FPS more in the game. This however is an exception as still not many games can push the limit of multi-core CPUs as well as multiple GPUs running at 100% load and even pushing the video memory to the maximum. It turns out that with high AA levels Crysis 3 in stereo 3D mode can reach levels of video memory usage very close to the 1.5GB available on the GTX 580.
Now, considering that the above results in stereoscopic 3D mode were achieved using the 2D + Depth rendering, getting something like 40% lower framerate if full dual view stereoscopic 3D rendering was used the FPS would get even more disappointing. So yet again, I'm expecting that Crysis 3 will be used more for benchmarking hardware than being played for fun, something that we've seen happening with previous version of the game as well.


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Given some integer $k$, define the sequence $a_n={n\choose k}$. Claim: $a_n$ is periodic modulo a prime $p$ with the period being the least power $p^e$ of $p$ such that $k<p^e$.
In other words, $a_{n+p^e}\equiv a_{n} (\text{mod } p)$. But the period $p^e$ is smaller than I'd have expected (it is obvious that a period satisfying $k! < p^e$ would work). So how can I prove that it works?


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I wasn't surprised that Margaret and Louis were the lowest following their scores. I really REALLY wish someone would design some better costumes for Bristol. They are so old and matronly especially for someone 19 years old. I would have loved the dress better if it had been black with a better fitting top.
I agree TL.. I think though they dont want her to look too sexy out ther because of her commitment/ advocacy of teen pregnancy. so dressing her ina slek sexy dance out fit would suit the dance, performance and viewers well it may bring negative publicity to her underlying cause. also im sure she has some input from mama palin to keep it conservative.
Kyle and Lacey did amazingly well in the instant dance. Will tonight be the end of Bristol and Mark? I think so but she's surprised be before. I think she is hampered because she's never been a performer and she is shy but she's doing better and better every week so good for her.I did agree with Carrie Ann's comment that Kurt did more dancing than Brandy with the instant dance. He's also getting into the dance. I see either Jennifer/Derek or Brandy/Mak winning. What's your opinion??
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BOSTON, Mass. – Starting on January 3 the UMass Boston women's hockey team will be hosting the 6th Annual Codfish Bowl Tournament in the Clark Athletic Center Ice Arena. The Beacons who advanced to last year's championship game, will be hosting the four-team tournament on January 3 and 4.
Competing in this year's tournament will be Stevenson University (Md.), Lake Forest College (Ill.), and Plymouth State University (N.H.). This year tournament will crown a first-time champion with Lake Forest having only competed in one Codfish, while UMB despite hosting the previous five tournaments has never hoisted the championship cup. Plymouth State and Stevenson will be making their first appearances in the Codfish tournament this week.
Thursday, January 3
UMass Boston vs. Stevenson University, 1:00 p.m.
Lake Forest College (home team) vs. Plymouth State University, 4:00 p.m.
Friday, January 4
Consolation Game, 1:00 p.m.
Championship Game, 4:00 p.m.
The women's Codfish Bowl tournament has seen a combined 10 teams compete in it since its inception. Trinity College (Conn.) has hoisted four of the tournament's championship, while Bowdoin College earned their first-ever title last year defeating the Beacons in overtime by the final of 2-1.
Founded in 2008, UMass Boston has hosted three teams from Connecticut (Trinity, Wesleyan U., Sacred Heart U.), two teams from New York (Oswego, Cortland), one team from Minnesota (Saint Mary's), one team from Maine (Bowdoin), one team from Pennsylvania (Neumann), and now teams from New Hampshire and Maryland.
UMass Boston
Location: Boston, Mass.
Conference: ECAC East
Head Coach: Colleen Harris (3rd season)
Tournament Appearances/Record: 6/4-6
Overall Record: 3-6-1
Conference Record: 3-4-1
The Beacons are looking to end their five year drought and claim their first-ever Codfish Bowl title. In the first half of the season, the Beacons played a very competitive schedule including games against national championship contenders Norwich University and Manhattanville College. UMB did close out their 2012 slate with a huge 4-0 conference win over New England College.
Leading the Beacons offense this season has been senior Alli Greenberg (Stoughton, Mass.), who has bounced back from a knee injury in a huge way. To date the senior has five goals. Sophomore Kayla Kiernan (North Smithfield, R.I.) also stands as one of the Beacons top playmakers with her team-best five assists and nine points. Between the pipes sophomore Kailyn Burke (Franklin, Mass.) and freshman Casey Schaejbe (Arlington, Mass.) have shared time this season. Burke notched her first career win and shutout with the 4-0 decision over New England College, while Schaejbe leads the team with a combined 211 saves.
Stevenson University
Location: Owings Mills, Md.
Conference: Independent
Head Coach: Shera Vis (1st season)
Tournament Appearances/Record: 1st/0-0
Overall Record: 4-4-0
The Mustangs of Stevenson University are currently in their first season as a varsity collegiate program. Under the direction of first-year head coach Shera Vis, Stevenson has faced a variety of competition throughout 2012. They notched their first victory as a program on October 27 when they defeated Buffalo State College by the final of 4-1. In their first-ever regular season home game the Mustangs dropped a 4-1 decision to Neumann University.
Going into the tournament, Molly O'Neill (Aurora, Colo.) leads her squad with four goals. McKenzie Taggart (Centennial, Colo.) is the team leader in assists and points with five and eight respectively. Madison Lange (Califon, N.J.) is also tied for the team lead in assists as well. In total three different goalies have stepped onto the ice this season for the Mustangs, Sarah Modzelewski (Bloomington, Ind.), Anastassia Nelson (San Antonio, Texas), and Mackenzie Bruch (Hiram, Ga.). Modezlewski leads the trio in minutes played with 239:09 and saves with 126. She currently carries a record of 2-2-0. Nelson has seen a total of 178 minutes of playing time and has made 75 stops and has a record of 1-2-0. Bruch has played in two games making 60 saves and has a team-leading .938 save percentage.
Lake Forest College
Location: Lake Forest, Ill.
Conference: Northern Collegiate Hockey Association
Head Coach: Carisa Zaban (8th season)
Tournament Appearances/Record: 2nd/1-1
Overall Record: 3-2-4
Conference Record: 2-1-4
The Foresters of Lake Forest College return to Boston for their second try at a Codfish Bowl Tournament championship. Their first trip to the Clark Athletic Center Ice Arena occurred in 2010. In that year they were defeated by UMB by the final of 3-1 in the opening round. They then earned a 3-2 overtime win over Bowdoin College in the consolation game. Coming into this year's tournament the Foresters will be looking to build off of their 4-3 win over conference rival Wisconsin-Superior.
Logan Taylor (Grosse Isle, Mich.) and Melissa Paluch (Parma, Mich.) lead the team in goals scored with four each. Paluch also leads the squad in assists with four and has a team-best eight points. She is also one of three players to record a game-winning goal, while Michelle Greeneway (Sheboygan, Wis.) is the teams go-to scorer on the power-play with her three tallys. Jenna Brankin has played every minute in goal for the Foresters totaling 180 saves, a .923 save percentage, and a 2.07 goals against average.
Plymouth State University
Location: Plymouth, N.H.
Conference: ECAC East
Head Coach: Ashley Kilstein (2nd season)
Tournament Appearances/Record: 1st/0-0
Overall Record: 2-7-0
Conference Record: 1-5-0
No strangers to the Clark Athletic Center Ice Arena are the Panthers of Plymouth State University. One of the Beacons biggest rivals, the Panthers will be making their first Codfish Bowl Tournament appearance this week. The first-half of the 2012-13 season has been a tough one for Ashley Kilstein's squad having recorded just two wins and dropping their first five games of the year. PSU's first win came in the form of a 2-0 decision over Nichols College on December 1. They then tallied their second win (3-1) on December 7 at Franklin Pierce University.
So far this season Stephanie Newmark (Sydney, Australia) has been the Panthers most consistent scorer have recorded two goals and leads the team in points with three alongside Kelsey Cosby (Walpole, Mass.). Ali Ponte (Richmond Hill, Ont.) and Nicole Crandle (Bristol, Conn.) have shared time between the pipes, with Ponte recorded 201 saves, while Crandle currently holds a 2.67 goals against average.


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The American Red Cross returned to Estherville on Valentines Day for another successful blood drive. Quite a few volunteer donors found that donating blood on Valentines Day is a wonderful way to show and share your love.
Garald Guge received his 7-gallon pin. We had 6 new-or new to us-donors. So, we welcome or welcome back Gregg Bohl, Gilbert Amdahl, Jeffrey Kautz, Janette Forsberg, Barbara Schacherer, Nick Eden and Francis Spear. Hope to see all of you at the next blood drive.
The NorthStar Bank and Agency sponsored this blood drive. It is really not hard or expensive to sponsor a blood drive. You get advertising all over town on the Red Cross flyers, on KILR and in the Estherville Daily News. All that is required of a sponsor is to provide one roll of postcard stamps, 22 dozen cookies and 5gallonsof juice. You get the glory, and I do all the work! Please think about sponsoring one of the four blood drives we have here in Estherville every year and give me a call at 712-209-0922.
Our next blood drive will be on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at the Duhigg Center and will be sponsored by Dr. Baker and Dr. Webb of The Eyecare Center.
Thank you to all who came by on Valentines Day and shared some love.
Donna Day-Templin,
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The author is a dairy nutrition consultant for Central Connecticut Cooperative Farmers, who previously managed large dairies in California and Hawaii.
As commodity prices continue their ascent, evaluate whether your herd's production level can offset the cost of another pound of soy or corn.
This article appears on page 599 of the September 25, 2012 issue of Hoard's Dairyman.
Feeding cows is the single largest expense on a dairy farm, accounting for 50 percent or more of total outlays. Since 2007, feed costs have risen significantly after many years of commodity prices remaining relatively flat. The lion's share of skyrocketing feed costs can be attributed directly to grain, commodity by-product, and co-product prices.
As this is written in August, a drought of epic proportions is damaging or destroying a significant percentage of the U.S. corn and soybean crops. Both crops are the bellwethers for commodity pricing and trends. Where they go sets the rest of the commodity markets.
Price escalation begins in 2007
The graph shows how both commodities have taken big jumps starting around 2007. The price of corn more than tripled while soybeans more than doubled by mid-2012. It caused feed ingredients in dairy cow diets to spike over $100 per ton for finished feeds in less than a year's time.
For many years, the USDA has tracked and calculated an index called the "Milk-Feed Price Ratio." This ratio consists of the price of a pound of milk divided by the price of a 16 percent protein feed ration. Historically, when the ratio ranges from 2.5:1 or greater, dairy farmers tend to have a greater financial incentive to purchase feeds and produce milk.
For example, when the price of milk is 16 cents per pound ($16 per hundredweight) and the ration price is 6 cents per pound ($120 per ton), the Milk-Feed Price Ratio would be 2.67:1. If the price of the ration doubles and the price of milk remains the same, the ratio drops to 1.33:1.
As the price of a pound of feed approaches the same number as a pound of milk, it becomes more difficult for dairy farms to remain profitable. That's the situation that the dairy industry finds itself in. The ratio has not been above 2:1 since April 2011.
Milk-Feed is almost even
In many parts of the country, in mid-2012 the cost to feed a cow producing 65 pounds of milk has surpassed $8 per day. The cost per pound of dry matter, when consumption ranges between 45 and 50 pounds, then runs between 16 and 17.7 cents. Milk prices across the country on a 3.5 percent level of butterfat will most likely not average $18 per hundredweight for 2012.
Just to get the ratio back to at least 2:1, the milk price would have to ascend to over $30 per hundredweight if feed prices remain this high!
In the Northeast U.S., purchased feed costs have elevated $1.50 per hundredweight of milk over the past five years, and farming costs have risen about 17 cents per hundredweight. Dairy farmers are continually faced with the challenge of determining how much more they can pay for feed. To compensate for those production cost surges in the midst of volatile milk pricing, farmers, for the most part, must hike the production of milk and milk components per cow, improve feeding efficiencies, or milk more cows.
One of the unique aspects of the U.S. dairy industry is the diversity of how farms are operated and how farmers have resiliently adapted to adverse economic conditions over the decades. And while our industry continues to gravitate towards larger dairy herds that result in improved economies of scale, one can only wonder how many more cost spikes can be absorbed as all costs of production - not just feed - continue to climb while milk prices change little.
Income over feed a moving target
Averages are just averages. Statistically, there's always a deviation from the average (mean) with any data set which indicates that not every single producer has similar costs. While one producer may be spending $8 per day to feed cows, there's going to be another who's feeding cows for only $6 - and still manage to keep the net income-over-feed-cost (IOFC) at an acceptable level.
Maintaining a desirable IOFC is a continually moving target for dairies. Revenue per cow is a combination of milk price and milk production and components. The IOFC is the difference between milk revenue and feed cost, and the higher that value is the more money a dairy farmer has left after feed costs are paid. The worst-case scenario for IOFC, of course, is when the milk price plummets and feed costs soar. Improving IOFC almost always requires improving feeding efficiencies - getting more milk for the same amount of dry matter consumption or lowering dry matter consumption without losing milk production.
Now that corn and soybeans are in the process of hitting record highs, more attention is being focused on high-quality forages in dairy diets. Dairy farmers who have access to grass or legume forages with low neutral detergent fiber (NDF) levels can partially offset high grain costs and improve IOFC if these forage costs remain stable. Herd averages of over 22,000 pounds of milk are possible even while feeding rations containing 60 percent forage levels.
Every dairy farmer must find that "sweet spot"; where the maximum IOFC is for their dairy operation. The dairy industry has spent many years focusing on making more milk per cow, and that was a good model to follow when feed prices were moderate. But as soybean meal reaches $500 per ton and canola reaches $400 per ton and the price of milk struggles to make it to $20 per hundredweight, the law of diminishing returns begins to set in. That next pound of soy or canola in a high-cow ration may not result in the milk production to justify the cost. Dairy farmers must make good use of tools such as ration balancing models that can accurately predict what the next marginal pound of milk will cost and be willing to accept alternatives. It may be that scaling back a little bit on grains and commodities and doing a better job of utilizing forages may be more profitable in the future.
This article appears on page 599 of the September 25, 2012 issue of Hoard's Dairyman.


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This morning I received a call from our kindergarten. My youngest had been sick during breakfast. Aaaah! In those moments a film starts before my inner eye. "Child throws up on his clothes. On me. In the car. Special food for some days. He'll pass the virus to his brother. And his father. And me. The weekend ahead will be spoiled." Oh my. Do you know these "films"?
Luckily I have reason to hope that it won't turn out that bad. He was lively and cheerful when I picked him up and he was eager to get home to play. I guess he just tried to swallow too much of his breakfast and I hope that it's not a virus after all.
However I had to return from work immediately and have some hours at home that I wouldn't have had normally. So while he is playing with his Lego Duplo I can finally show you some things I made during the last weeks but never blogged about them.
First up are the blocks I made for Lush when it was her month in our Sew-Euro-Bee-an group in Oktober.
And then I made some easy keyfobs for my friend's birthday. She had asked for one some months ago and I had almost forgotten about it. I made them when I visited my parents and now my mother wants one as well (o: Can you hear a christmas jingle ?!
But the project that was most fun to make is Elizabeth Hartman's Quilted Panel Technique. I first tried it on a little sample I prepared for Saturday's Modern Quilt Guilt Bielefeld Meeting. I will turn it into a small birthday gift. Here is my panel sample and I'm going to show you the gift next week when it is safe to fully reveal it:
I used Brigitte's fabrics again and will definitely have to stock up on her black, grey, yellow and white prints. Oh those barcodes and commas!!!
I had so much fun playing with Elizabeth's technique that I made two other projects using it (christmas and birthday presents) and have started two more. (Needless to say that I won't get my Finish-A-long list done this quarter (o: Too many temptations along the way…)
So much for my miscellaneous projects that are worth showing.
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Coffee!! Which of these theories is not like the others?
Recently, I wrote on Evolution Weekend, an attempt to convince Christians, or anyway, people who go to church, that it is okay to be Darwinists.
I pointed out that discussions of evolution in school and in the popular press nearly always focus on teaching or defending Darwinism. In its present form, Darwinism looks like a project to market atheism at taxpayer expense. Someone wanted to know, well what about endosymbiosis, gene transfer or neoteny?
Sure, those are all plausible causes of evolution, sometimes discussed. But I have never heard anyone famously say, as Dawkins said about Darwinism, that they make it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Why not? Because it's not clear that these processes could not be guided. The mechanisms are proposed simply as mechanisms by which significant changes might take place, not as mechanisms that rule out guidance. It's the latter point that drives the fanatical attachment to Darwinism that guided Darwin's original atheist circle, which we now see in the new atheist movement, together with the sick-making adulation of Darwin.
And that, my dears, is the point to keep in mind. The best reason for doubting Darwin is his defenders.
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GALLERY: Sweet success for Special Olympians
THEY are often misunderstood or ignored, but for 350 of Australia's most talented intellectually disabled athletes this weekend they were the toast of the Hunter.
The Special Olympics junior national games were brought to a close last night as the ''Flame of Hope'' was extinguished in front of 1100 people at Newcastle Basketball Stadium.
Disabled athletes from every state and territory competed in swimming, cricket, athletics, ''gymability'', tennis, football, basketball and a multi-sport skill competition during the two-day event.
Hunter Valley Special Olympics club member Megan Nay, 10, won the first gold medal of the competition, in a 25-metre backstroke event.
Hunter musicians and dance groups entertained the large crowd during the closing ceremony before a parade of athletes, many with gold, silver and bronze swinging from their neck, took centre stage.
Newcastle Knights, Jets and Hunters players, as well as Wallabies and paralympians, visited the athletes during the competition, taking photographs and providing morale, support and advice.
Games co-ordinator Sally Hill said the weekend was a ''huge success'' and paid tribute to the 350 volunteers and carers who contributed.
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Don't you just love it? Something is making a noise and you finally track it down. Sometimes it's two or three things that produce the same noise, rub etc. You correct one, it goes away but the other things get worse and it comes back.
What's more is sometimes you can't know what's causing it until each one fails successively, it's a learning process that sets you up to know next time and check each bit.
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I'll start. My fixed wheel has been making a clicking noise for a while. Just a single click per pedal rotation. At first it seemed like poor rear wheel alignment due to basically rubbish hubs. When I got some new wheels that were well spaced it solved it at first. Then it came back and it seemed like the wheel was slipping. A quick loosen of the axle bolts and tighten would stop it for a couple of weeks. That was until last week when nothing would stop it, still just a single click, not hugely worrying but annoying. I considered whether the cog, chain and ring might be worn due to the previous problems but they all were fine on inspection. I took it out for a ride and noticed something funny, whenever I got out of the saddle it would stop clicking. Anyone guess what it was yet?
No! It wasn't the saddle It was the bottom bracket. The non-drive side bearing had slightly collapsed, allowing the spindle to move in the channel. It was also the cause of the wheel alignment issues due to uneven tension on the chain when the bolts were tightened. This changing tension was causing the wheel to slip slightly over long periods.
I swapped out BB and the perfect silence of a fixed wheel drive chain returned
TL:DR annoying click thought to be wheel/gear related was actually non-drive side BB bearing.


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|Dovedale and the White Peak. Although the town lies a short distance away from the River Dove, it commands the approach to Dovedale.
Church Street, which leads out west from the town centre, has many fine buildings, including of course St Oswald's church, the former Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School (founded 1585), Owfield's Almshouses (1614-30), Peggies Almshouses (1669) and The Mansion, which was the home of the Rev John Taylor from 1740 to 1787. A colourful character, Taylor was one of Dr Johnson's closest friends, and Johnson was a frequent visitor here.
The Grammer School, named after Queen Elizabeth and known locally as 'QEG', was founded in 1585 by Sir Thomas Cockayne and is a fine example of an Elizabethan public building. The Cockayne family were a notable local Derbyshire family with estates in the area from around 1200 onwards. Their alabaster tombs can be seen in St Oswald's church.
The town can also boast of visits by Charles I and Bonny Prince Charlie, who stayed here on his march south to Derby in 1745.
The streets in the centre of the town are quite narrow and the are overhung by the inn sign of the Green Man and Black's Head - a famous Georgian coaching inn once frequented by Dr Johnson and Boswell. To the left are the former Shambles (now called Victoria Square), which lead up to the Market Square, the hub of the modern town. The town has a fairly wide range of shops and of course numerous pubs.
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I've weeded out most of the obvious or old ones (although I think the fort cannons may be old). The Tokyo building we know from previous efforts: it's the Don Quixote dept. store. There are shots of India, a drum from Lijiang, and some Carnivale-looking shots. I'm not sure about the Potala ID. The helo livery is Zermatt Air.
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I really like this new intro, as most of the images directly refer to places in this season. The animals are especially awesome.
I can get a little more detail out of the sunset cap, but I'm not a photoshop expert.
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I have been flying edges now for the last year. i have a 2012 9m and a 2010 11m. i decided to sell my zephyr and get a 15m edge as i had a feeling it would mate better with my freerace board and from the feedback it didnt seem like i would be giving up anything on the bottom end.
So far i prefer the edge over the zephyr by a long shot, and i know a part of that is the way i prefer to ride. I like to go fast and boost primarily. I am not into wakestyle tricks so the edge works far better for this.
This kite is like all the other edges in that the faster you go the faster the kites flies and so on and so on. The board speed i can reach in 10-15knts of wind is fantastic. Once above 15knts the boosting of the kite is great. By far easier to achieve big jumps than the zephyr though i think the zephyr can match it. It just doesnt seem to require any technique to get really nice air on the edge whereas the zephyr requires more precise handling.
The bar pressure is very light and i can ride for several hours without my elbows screaming at me for days on end. The zephyr definitely would wear me out even though it has fairly light bar pressure.
when at the bottom of the windrange the 15m edge does not hold power during a transition well at all. definitely the zephyr has it beat in that department. however, once there is 14-15kts it is possible to come screaming into a powered transition and exit with lots of speed. This is one of the traits of the edge that i have come to love. The ability to pull in on the bar and feel the acceleration out of a powered carve is great. Definitely the 9m edge is special when it comes to that.
As far as my windrange goes, I was out at one of our lake with gusts to 20 knts and it felt like it was still in its sweet spot. Huge floaty air.
Then, the wind dropped to probably 8-12 and i got on my sector and cruised around for a while still flying upwind. I weigh 155lbs
Most lightwind kites will perform well in these winds but the edge is unique in its power delivery. Very smooth delivery of power with a turbo boost feeling when the gusts come in. It feels light and lively in the sky for a big kite.
I was looking for better board speeds in light breezes and this thing really delivers. I think is a great combination of low end performance in speed and jumping and lively handling.


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The Gravestone Photographic Resource project is gradually photographing and indexing more Welsh cemeteries and war memorials but there are still many to do.
If you live in Wales perhaps you could help the project by taking photographs of you local cemetery and sending them to the resource: see how to be a volunteer for more details.
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