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The Canberra Raiders side have pulled off a stunning 28-24 extra time victory over the Brisbane Broncos in today's Toyota Cup (National Youth Competition) Under 20s Grand Final.
After 80 minutes of football, the scores were locked up at 24-all, the deadlock being broken when Raiders forward Jarrad Kennedy scored a try in the 87th minute.
In a close opening encounter, the scores were locked up at 6-all after 16 minutes. The Raiders edged ahead to 12-6 in the 26th minute before the Broncos scored the next two tries and post a 16-12 lead at half time.
The Broncos went further ahead soon after the break with a try winger Jharal Yow Yeh and at 20-12 they looked to be gaining the acendancy. But opposing winger Drury Low struck back in the 53rd minute to put the Raiders in the back in the hunt.
A converted try to Raiders fullback Josh Dugan gave the minor premiers 24-20 lead with less than 14 minutes of normal time remaining.
But the Broncos hit back again with Yow Yeh getting a double after pulling off a clever one-on-one strip in the 68th minute. Yow Yeh's try and unsuccesful conversion attempt from halfback Ben Hunt made it 24-all, with the match eventually heading into golden point extra time.
Following a number of unsuccessful field goal attempts, the contest was finally decided thanks to a speculative chip kick from Raiders five eighth Michael Picker on his own side of half way. A regather from a forward standing wide of the ruck, and some handy support play saw Kennedy into a gap and enough open space to score under the posts.
Match Details Canberra Raiders 28 vs Brisbane Broncos 24 U20s NYC Grand Final - Sunday :: October 5th, 2008 2:15pm Venue: ANZ Stadium, Homebush Referee: Shayne Hayne Touch Judges: Adam Reid & Brenden Wood Half time: Broncos 16-12
Canberra Raiders 28 Tries: Michael Picker (2), Drury Low, Josh Dugan, Jarrad Kennedy Field Goals: Michael Picker (0/4) Goals: Josh Dugan (4/4) Brisbane Broncos 24 Tries: Ben Hunt, Michael Spence, Brendon Gibb, Jharal Yow Yeh (2) Field Goals: Ben Hunt (0/1), Jared Kahu (0/1) Goals: Ben Hunt (2/5)
LeagueUnlimited.com Player of the Match 3 Points: Michael Picker (Raiders) 2 Points: Travis Waddell (Raiders) 1 Point: Ben Hunt (Broncos)
LeagueUnlimited.com Live Commentary
TEAMS: Canberra Raiders 1. Josh Dugan 2. Drury Low 3. Jarrod Croker 4. Daniel Vidot 5. Michael Brophy 6. Michael Picker 7. Matt Smith 15. Andrew Edwards 9. Travis Waddell 10. Nick Skinner 11. Jarrad Kennedy 12. Zac Merritt 13. Shaun Fensom (c) Interchange: 14. Brock Dunn 16. Justin Carney 17. Todd Rheinberger, 18. Levi Freeman Coach: Tony Adam Brisbane Broncos 1. Josh Hoffman 2. Mitch Rivett 3. Will Tupou 4. Brendon Gibb 5. Jharal Yow Yeh 6. Jared Kahu 7. Ben Hunt 8. Josh McGuire 9. Andrew McCullough 10. Mitchell Dodds 11. Matt Handcock 12. Troyden Watene 13. Alex Glenn (c) Interchange: 14. Michael Spence 15. Dunamis Lui 16. Guy Ford 17. Tom Butterfield Coach: Anthony Griffin
TEAM CHANGES: Raiders - 8. Matt Britt is out. 15. Andrew Edwards into the run on side. 18. Levi Freeman on the bench. Broncos - No changes.
Teams on the field. 1st v 2nd with the Raiders starting as favourites.
A delayed start due to the NSW Cup fixture going into extra time.
Broncos kick off and the U20s grand final is underway!
5 min: Still 0-0 with the Broncos pressing the Raiders goal line in the opening couple of minutes. Raiders defence holds them out.
10 min: TRY Canberra Raiders Five eighth Michael Picker scores next to the sticks after setting up play earlier on. Forward Jarrad Kennedy in there as well with a line break in the lead up. Conversion attempt by Josh Dugan successful. Canberra Raiders 6-0
16 min: TRY Brisbane Broncos Halfback Ben Hunt scores next to posts and the Broncos strike back. Set up by hooker Andrew McCullough who made a bust up the middle from 25m out. Conversion attempt by Ben Hunt successful. 6 all
26 min: TRY Canberra Raiders Picker gets a double after chasing an up-and-under. Broncos winger Mitch Rivett unable to take the kick and perhaps unlucky as a Raiders chaser may have tackled him mid-air. Referee said it was OK and awards the try. Conversion attempt by Dugan successful from right in front. Canberra Raiders 12-6
29 min: TRY Brisbane Broncos Forward Michael Spence crashes over 10m wide of the posts. Spence running a great line onto a McCullough pass from 10m out. Conversion attempt by Hunt successful. 12 all
33 min: NO TRY as Broncos backrower Troyden Watene crashes over after receiving a pass from Hunt. The referee immediately calls it back for a forward pass.
39 min: TRY Brisbane Broncos Centre Brendon Gibb scores in the corner, showing plenty of strength to get around the cover defenders. Conversion attempt by Hunt unsuccessful. Brisbane Broncos 16-12
Half time: Broncos 16-12 A fairly even match. The Broncos try right on the stroke of half time would be a heart breaker for the Raiders. This contest is close to call but the Broncos just doing a little more to look better of the two.
Second half underway...
44 min: TRY Brisbane Broncos Winger Jharal Yow Yeh scores in the corner on the end of overlap. Early in the second half and the Broncos forcing errors in defence and looking sharper in attack, especially around the ruck. Conversion attempt by Hunt unsuccessful. Brisbane Broncos 20-12
46 min: A great 50m kick from Hunt and excellent chase traps the Raiders behind their goal line, and the Broncos will get another opportunity. Possession flow and field position now going all the way of the Broncos.
53 min: TRY Canberra Raiders Winger Drury Low on the end of some razzle-dazzle and a top team try which includes two kicks and numerous passes across the back line. Sideline conversion attempt by Dugan successful. Brisbane Broncos 20-18
62 min: Broncos with plenty of chances but the Raiders defence is holding firm.
63 min: Raiders backrower Zac Merritt makes a 50m break wide of the ruck. The final pass to his side supports goes to ground with the eventual recipient being tackled into touch. Coming into a crucial period of the match.
66 min: TRY Canberra Raiders Fullback Josh Dugan runs onto a well timed pass from hooker Travis Waddell, Dugan running through the hole and 30m to score under the posts. Conversion attempt by Josh Dugan successful. Canberra Raiders 24-20
68 min: TRY Brisbane Broncos Yow Yeh manages a one-on-one strip against Waddell and then scampers down the touchline for 30m before being ankle tapped. He recovers well enough to get up and dive over the line to score his second try of the day. Wide conversion attempt by Hunt unsuccessful. 24 all
72 min: ATTEMPTED FIELD GOAL Brisbane Broncos Hunt makes the Broncos first attempt at field goal. 40m out, low, has the distance but goes well wide. 24 all
75-77 min: Broncos with the opportunities, a penalty, a lucky bounce and repeat set all putting the Raiders under pressure. But the Raiders survive and we're only a few minutes from full time.
77 min: ATTEMPTED FIELD GOAL Canberra Raiders Raiders field goal attempt from Picker from 40m out is a shocker, turned into a 35m grubber kick. 24 all
79 min: ATTEMPTED FIELD GOAL Canberra Raiders Picker has another shot from 40m out. This time too high and doesn't have the distance. 24 all
80 min: ATTEMPTED FIELD GOAL Brisbane Broncos Jared Kahu has a shot from 35m out but no dice. We're off to extra time for the second time today! 24 all
GOLDEN POINT EXTRA TIME: 24-all
81 min: ATTEMPTED FIELD GOAL Canberra Raiders Picker rushes and misses the first extra time attempt to break the deadlock. 24 all
85 min: ATTEMPTED FIELD GOAL Canberra Raiders Picker from 40m, too wide and too low. 24 all
Half time in extra time: 24-all Its now unlimited time until we get a result. Next scorer wins.
86 min: Deep kick from Hunt sees the Raiders trying to ruck it out from their own 10m line.
87 min: TRY Canberra Raiders Forward Jarad Kennedy races away to score under the posts and that's full time! Kennedy the final receiver in a 55m movement following a clever chip kick from Picker in his own half. Canberra Raiders 28-24
Full time: Raiders 28-24 Raiders win the Toyota Cup - the 2008 premiers in the Under 20s National Youth Competition.


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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Homes of Suspected 'Anonymous' Hackers
The FBI executed search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group Anonymous early Tuesday morning, FoxNews.com has learned.
More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, N.Y., home of Giordani Jordan at 6:00 a.m. EST with a search warrant for computers and computer-related accessories, removing at least one laptop from the premises.
The agents spent an hour and 40 minutes at Jordan's house; other agents investigated a second Long Island, N.Y., home and one in Brooklyn, N.Y., sources told FoxNews.com.
Jordan's system was identified as allegedly being used in a coordinated distributed denial of service attack against several companies, a law enforcement official told FoxNews.com.
The targets of the FBI searches are all in their late teens to early 20s.
Tuesday's search warrants were part of an ongoing investigation into Anonymous, which claimed responsibility for attacks against a variety of websites including Visa and Mastercard. Anonymous is a loose collection of cybersavvy activists inspired by WikiLeaks and its flamboyant head Julian Assange to fight for "Internet freedom" -- along the way defacing websites, shutting down servers, and scrawling messages across screens web-wide.
A tweet purportedly from the hacker group sent out around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning -- following the Monday defacement of the website for British newspaper The Sun -- trumpeted "We had an awesome day, loud hail to all #AntiSec vessels: We are winning."
Another Twitter feed purportedly connected to the Anonymous group issued a defiant message Tuesday morning in response to the FBI's action: "It doesn't matter how many people the 'FBI' arrest. Whether they are core members or not. #anonymous have started something unstoppable."
The Anonymous vigilante group turned its efforts to the Arizona police department in late June, posting personal information of law officers and hacking and defacing websites in response, the group claims, to the state's controversial SB1070 immigration law.
While Anonymous is largely a politically motivated organization, splinter group LulzSec -- which dominated headlines in the spring for a similar streak of cyberattacks -- was largely in it for the thrills.
The metropolitan police in London arrested the first alleged member of the LulzSec group on June 20, a 19-year-old teen named Ryan Cleary. Subsequent sweeps through Italy and Switzerland in early July led to the arrests of 15 more people -- all between the ages of 15 and 28 years old.
The two groups are responsible for a broad spate of digital break-ins targeting governments and large corporations, including Japanese technology giant Sony, the U.S. Senate, telecommunications giant AT&T, Fox.com, and other government and private entities.


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Mini Cooper is an iconic and instantly recognizable brand of automobile that first came to prominence in 1960s England. After being discontinued for a couple of years, the Mini Cooper brand was re-launched by BMW in 2002. Since then, Mini Coopers have become very popular among young drivers for its stylish, retro looks, BMW engineering, and relatively good fuel economy.
Mini Cooper History
The original Mini appeared in 1959 and produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC). The Mini Cooper was conceived largely in response to a fuel shortage caused by the 1956 Suez Crisis. With gas being rationed in the U.K. for the first time since the end of World War II, there was a demand for a reliable, lightweight car that offers excellent fuel economy.
The name Mini wasn't actually used until 1961. Until then, Minis were originally sold under BMC's imprint brands: Austin and Morris. While the Mini, with its 34 hp engine, was never the most powerful car on the road, it proved ideal for driving on the compact streets of European cities. However, the Mini proved it was also capable of providing performance when it was redesigned by John Cooper in the early 1960s.
Cooper, a designer and builder of Formula One race cars, revamped the Mini to feature a 76 hp engine and a more sporty suspension. Regardless, the Mini became enormously popular in Britain and Europe during the 1960s. The car's compact style, fuel economy, and entry-level price made it particularly popular with young people during the heyday of Britain's swinging 1960s era.
Minis remained in production in the U.K. and Europe throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1994, the Mini Cooper brand was acquired by BMW who continued to produce the cars until 2000 when it was put on hiatus for a couple of years.
Mini Cooper in America
The Mini was first made available in the U.S. back in 1962. However, the brand largely failed to catch on at the time. Stringent emissions regulations in the U.S. forced the manufacturers to end the Mini's initial run on the American market in 1968.
BMW revamped and re-launched Mini Cooper in 2002 when it released the Mini Cooper hatchback in the U.S. The "new" brand was spelled in all caps MINI brand refers to the brand as well as all new models. With front-wheel drive and a suspension engineered by BMW, the Mini Cooper showed itself to have a diverse appeal with the American auto-buying public. Also, its retro-cool style makes the Mini Cooper popular with celebrities while its affordability also makes it a reasonable option for entry-level buyers.
In the decade since the brand was reintroduced to American drivers, Mini Cooper also diversified its offerings to include performance models and even a crossover SUV.
Mini Cooper Models
The Mini Cooper, which was initially released in the U.S. in 2002, is currently available as either a two-door hatchback or as a convertible. Although both models are capable of seating four people, the back seat is rather on the cramped side. While the base model Mini Cooper may be fairly demure, it makes up for this by being stylish, relatively decent fuel economy, and fun to drive.
Drivers looking for a boost in athleticism might consider the high performance Mini Cooper 5, which boasts 181 hp. The John Cooper Works model, which boasts 208 hp, is available for those wanting even more power.
If added interior space is what you're looking for, you'll find it in the form of the Mini Cooper Clubman. The Clubman is a two-door Mini Cooper that's been elongated and outfitted with added space in back, courtesy of a station wagon-like hatchback body design. Like the standard Mini Cooper, the Clubman is available in a base model, the Mini Cooper 5, and the more powerful John Cooper Works version.
The Mini Cooper Countryman is a four-door model that's longer than any previous models of Mini Cooper. With added space for cargo and a backseat that's actually capable of accommodating adults, the Countryman may just be the most practical Mini Cooper yet introduced to the U.S. market.
The most recent addition to the Mini Cooper vehicle lineup is the Mini Cooper Coupe. The Coupe is a sporty 2-seater and the fastest Mini Cooper to be produced commercially.
The Mini Cooper continues to endure and attract new drivers for its retro-style, BMW suspension, relatively decent fuel economy, and because it's a fun compact car.
MINI Clubman
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The original MINI Cooper debuted in 1959.
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R. J. Stove's A Student's Guide to Music History is a concise account, written for the intelligent lay reader, of classical music's development from the early Middle Ages onwards. Beginning with a discussion of Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century German nun and composer, and the origins of plainchant, Stove's narrative recounts the rise (and ever-increasing complexity) of harmony during the medieval world, the differences between secular and sacred music, the glories of the contrapuntal style, and the origins of opera. Stove then relates the achievements of the high baroque period, the very different idioms that prevailed during the late eighteenth century, and the emergence of Romanticism, with its emphasis upon the artist-hero. With the late nineteenth century came a growing emphasis on musical patriotism, writes Stove, especially in Spain, Hungary, Russia, Bohemia, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and the United States. A final section discusses the trends that have characterized music since 1945.
Stove's guide also singles out eminent composers for special coverage, including Palestrina, Monteverdi, Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, Debussy, Richard Strauss, Sibelius, and Messiaen. As a brief orientation to the history and contours of classical music, A Student's Guide to Music History is an unparalleled resource.
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"Pithy (135 pages), rollicking, and informative."
"A short, lively, opinionated book that is a miracle of compression. It should greatly entertain those who already have some musical knowledge. For the student or novice, it is a welcome addition."
"A Student's Guide to Music History packs into one neat volume a treasury of information, history, and anecdote that brings to life the fascinating history of Western art music from Hildegard of Bingen in the 1100s to the post-war era. Stove manages to extract from each era and each composer, not only the essence of their contribution to music, but also intriguing details."
"At less than 140 pages, including a useful bibliography, Stove's book paints in broad but vivid strokes about the Western European art music tradition."
"What Stove does in the first eighty-odd pages is to cover music history from Hildegard of Bingen to, roughly, Mikhail Glinka in a light-hearted, will-o'-the-wispy way that I find irresistible. . . . The book is of use, first, to music lovers, who know most of this stuff, but find its cheerful, idiosyncratic encapsulation bracing. It works, second, for students, provided a responsible teacher stands by as occasional corrective. Finally, and perhaps chiefly, it scores as a piece of delightfully sophisticated writing, a good summer, or even winter, read. . . . You cannot deny his Student's Guide the privilege of being the only music history that can be savored, muscatel in hand, in the green shade of a beach umbrella."
"First and foremost this book manages to be both knowledgeable and readable and gets a remarkable amount of information crammed into these 135 pages while you never feel any indigestion. . . . Perhaps his greatest virtue is that repeatedly he makes you come away thinking that you would like to learn more about a particular topic."
"A pleasure . . . This book is extremely informative for an untutored student short of spare reading time. Indeed, it is a controversial delight to read."
"[Stove] has amassed an enormous amount of material in this small volume. . . . Stove's style is entertaining, a decided plus for a book of history, and wherever possible he includes humorous episodes/trivia often omitted in the more scholarly works on music history. Interspersed throughout are brief biographical sketches of several of the more famous composers. The reader will find the brief glossary of music forms and the bibliography most helpful."
"Stove's opinions are grounded in sanity and developed with common sense. Fourteen composers are accorded detailed biographical treatment apart from the main text, and they are the right ones. . . . R. J. Stove can be mentioned in the same breath as Neville Cardus. And his Student's Guide to Music History can be recommended not only to music students, but to anyone who cares about the great European tradition in music."
"His narrative is thereby improbably but successfully carried, burbling along happily while washing up nugget after nugget. :. . . Every page is full of beautifully crafted and quotable sentences. R. J. Stove paraphrases Tertullian in his preface: 'this volume exists because it is impossible,' and he has here in some sense achieved the impossible. . . . Read it, and you will be inspired to go out and listen to some of that beauty."
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Thomas Hackett isn't a wrestling fan.
From his Manhattan apartment, Hackett has spent the past 20 years writing for publications that occupy space on coffee tables and in waiting rooms around the country - Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, GQ, and The New York Times have all borne his byline.
Little did he know that over three years, he'd be working on a book about professional wrestling, a topic Hackett considered (and in some respects, still considers) cult-like and childish.
"When it was suggested to me, the first thing I said was, 'I'm not a fan,'" Hackett says. "But I realized that the more you watch it, the more fascinated you end up."
Slaphappy: Pride, Prejudice and Professional Wrestling, published by Harper Collins, hit bookstores in March, but became Hackett's life back in 1999 when he began attending live events, both professional and small-time, going on bus trips and talking to as many fans as he could.
The book, a look at the story behind the spectacle, also features interviews with some of the best known names in wrestling including Roddy Piper, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Bret Hart. But it's Hackett's conversations with some amateurs and fans that will intrigue (or disgust) even the most unfamiliar reader.
"My wife, she's pretty immature," Hackett quotes one nameless fan as saying. "She got mad and what she did is, she took it out on my action figures."
The point of these stories isn't to humiliate fans though, Hackett says, but to illustrate the devotion to the culture to someone who doesn't regularly tune into RAW or Smackdown! or attend live events. In fact, he says, he assumes most hardcore fans won't even pick up Slaphappy.
"That was something I struggled with. I realized that my ideal audience or reader would be someone who was pretty well read and interested in culture, but not a snob. Someone that watches but isn't an over the top fan," Hackett says. "I met a fair number of fans that fit into that category. It would be those boys I talked to on the bus trip, who in 10 years will age out of wrestling and ask themselves, 'What was that all about?'"
Throughout Slaphappy, Hackett said he worked to remain ambivalent in his judgment of wrestling, but he grew to enjoy the ruckus surrounding smaller, local matches. He held the louder and more violent contests close to his heart because of the fan interaction.
At one point in the book, Hackett interviews former Combat Zone Wrestling star Matt "Wifebeater" Prince about his compulsion to self-mutilate with weed whackers, glass and thumbtacks during matches. Presented as one of the more insightful competitors mentioned in the book, Prince impressed Hackett with his honesty and candid observations about the industry.
"He's very soft-spoken and shy and very reflective. I feel really lucky to have met him. He helped me understand things," Hackett says.
Prince was one of the few wrestlers interviewed for the book that Hackett said seemed to "get it."
"It's all about not being a little bitch," Prince tells him.
Hackett agrees.
By his own logic, wrestling requires that an athlete go to desperate lengths to prove their manliness, which for many wrestlers includes becoming vanity-obsessed and almost feminine in their character portrayals.
Wait, what?
"The entire thing is a homoerotic ritual," he says. "Essentially, it's one ritual male rape after another. It's affection disguised as aggression, and that's just what it is -- a disguise."
The idea that wrestling is vaguely homosexual isn't news to fans, but it's usually blown off and not given a second thought. After all, attend any WWE event, and you're likely to see a bikini match, lingerie contest or pillow fight between two well-endowed Divas being cheered on by the crowd.
But at the events he attended, Hackett said the crowd cheering for the women was much quieter than that egging on the men.
"The women are a beard," Hackett says. "It's kind of like a gay guy taking a girl to a party -- it's to look straight. The women are there to make it seem like it's very straight. I don't want to say wrestlers or fans are gay. The fans I met were very insecure about their manliness. With wrestling, they're able to assert their homoerotic interest and deny it at the same time."
But for all its implications about fans and participants, Slaphappy gives the average reader a look inside the sport that they may not have otherwise gained. On Amazon.com, the book has received a multitude of favorable reviews from readers who viewed it not just as a book about wrestling, but an outsider's view of sports entertainment in terms of its relevance to pop culture.
Sure, sprinkled amongst the pages, you'll discover no shortage of obsessed fans, arrogant superstars ("I dealt with a lot of egos," Hackett says), and sweeping generalizations about the pastime, but there also a few good messages.
"It's a healthy thing," he says. "But I talked to some people where it was just, I mean, it was sad. You're talking to these guys who are completely clueless. These young guys who are telling you their win-loss record like it means something, who think they're fighting real matches. That's sad."
While he says he hasn't received much feedback on Slaphappy yet, Hackett says he isn't worried about the reception he'll get from wrestling fans. After all, he says to me as we wrap up our conversation at midnight, if they can accept that wrestling isn't real and still remain fans, they can handle a little criticism for the sake of their 'sport.'
"One of the nice things about wrestling is that you're able to express yourself. Fans can go and yell at a wrestler and call them a name, and that's just the way it goes," he says. "They'll be okay with it. It's people like that, who go and say what they want to, that gave me a deeper appreciation for this whole thing."
Amy Lawson is a 21-year-old journalist in Connecticut. When she's not interviewing people, she's reading, watching movies or traveling to keep herself busy. She's been writing professionally since age 17, but is a criminal justice major at college. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Author Notes: My sister who has lived in England since the 70's, has introduced me to many British traditions over the years. I also spent a summer working on a dig in York, England, another in Lowestoft and one in Bognor Regis, where I grew accustomed to various meat pies for our short lunch breaks. For this recipe I have elected to "New Englandize" a steak pie recipe. I am suggesting puff pastry (if you have 3 days to make a proper one, I have a great recipe) or a shortcrust pastry with a bit of pumpkin and corn meal added in. I bought my grassfed sirloin from a local farm and the fresh harvest vegetables at my local farmer's market. The pumpkin ale hails from New England. The maple syrup is a gift from a neighbor and herbs from my garden The flour comes from Vermont. If you wanted, you could add some fresh lamb kidney (6 oz.) to this, but I usually don't care for it all that much. This pie has some root to the British humble pie with the original dish dating back to 16th Century England. Then it was called "umbles pie" — a meat pie made from deer umbles (the innards). These less desirable meats would be taken home by the huntsman who killed a deer for a nobleman, while the nobleman would get the venison. The "umbles" would be baked into a more modest dish eaten by the working class: "Umble pie" indicated social order. The term has evolved to have many new meanings and forms, now known as "humble pie," including many meats and even sweet fillings such as huckleberries. For the new year and the coming of spring we make a steak and oyster pie, which is great. Using a sirloin here, the meat was plenty tender. You could also use other cuts of natural preferably grassfed beef, as long as they will be tender for stewing. I have made this using fresh venison and a few juniper berries, when a hunter friend gave me steaks. - Sagegreen —Sagegreen
Food52 Review: We absolutely loved this pie! Sagegreen truly selected thoughtful ingredients that are just brimming with autumn flavors. I thought the pumpkin ale imparted a nice subtle hint of spice and that combined with the maple syrup, (I used a good one, though not homemade), really added an extra depth to the essence of this savory pie. Take her advice if you go with the shortcrust pastry (as I did) and don't forget to add the pumpkin and cornmeal. . . wonderful!! – TiggyBee —The Editors
Serves: 6
excellent quality commercial puff pastry or shortcrust pastry made with @ 1 tbl. each of cider vinegar, buttermilk powder, pureed pumpkin, and fine corn meal added to recipe if possible
tablespoon grapeseed oil
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pounds grassfed sirloin, sliced bite size (or fresh venison steak with 2 juniper berries)
kosher salt to taste
fresh milled pepper to taste
teaspoon fresh thyme leaves, minced
two inch sprig of rosemary, leaves only, minced
fresh sage leaves, rolled and sliced
bay leaf
ounces flour
cippolini onion, peeled and sliced
tablespoons maple syrup
ounces pumpkin ale
ounces homemade stock, vegetable or beef, with more in reserve
leek bulb, sliced
parsnip, peeled and sliced
red bliss potato, peeled and diced
cup fresh sugar pumpkin, peeled and diced
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- Heat a pan with the oil. Add the beef with some milled pepper and sear quickly. Remove from heat and dredge in flour seasoned with herbs, salt, and pepper.
- Saute the onions in the pan until translucent. Add the stock, ale, and syrup. Bring to a boil, then simmer.
- Add the vegetables, bacon, and dredged sirloin with all the flour and herbs to the pan. Add the apple about 15 minutes later. Simmer gently for about 40 minutes. Make sure you achieve a gravy-like consistency here at this stage. Balance this out by the end (add flour to a cool stock and then add to pan to thicken or add more stock to dilute). Let this mixture rest for several hours or overnight for the flavors to mingle.
- Then line the deep dish pie pan with your selected chilled pastry crust. I hope you are able to integrate some pureed pumpkin and corn meal into your crust, just by adding a tablespoon of each to your recipe (I have a shortcrust recipe with my peach pie on this site, if you need one). Brush lightly with oil. Add the filling.
- Add and seal the top crust, either as a solid piece with vents or a lattice design to the bottom crust using some cold water. Brush with an egg yolk thinned with about a tablespoon or less of milk. Bake until golden brown in a 400 degree oven (35-40 minutes). Cool but serve warm with some wilted greens like swiss chard in light olive oil and lemon.
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July 5, 2006
A group of 12 Wabash College students are getting a crash course in business and entrepreneurship this summer. And they're applying their newfound knowledge to one of the most important projects in the community.
It's called the Summer Business Immersion Program, established three years ago and funded by a Lilly Endowment grant.
During the eight-week course, the students learn the importance of entrepreneurship through field trips and intense class work. Guest speakers, many of them alumni, offer their entrepreneurial expertise or knowledge on finance and law.
There is no business undergraduate program at Wabash. Students who enroll in the B.I.P., many of them economics majors, do so because they're interested in entrepreneurship, said Kathy Wise, a research fellow at the college's Center of Inquiry who co-directs the B.I.P. with Lu Hamilton. The students receive no grade or credit for the course. They're paid like in an internship.
"It's been great because you don't have the usual incentive structure set up, so the students are quite motivated," Wise said.
The program culminates in two projects, both involving the students working in groups of four. In one they must develop their own business plan, do the necessary research and present their idea to an evaluation panel during the course's last week.
The other assignment is known as a local consulting project. Wise said the idea is to have the students out in the community working with local businesses or organizations.
Scott Feller, an associate professor of chemistry, is a board member in 4-H Inc. He told Jim Luzar, director of Montgomery County's Purdue Extension Office, about the B.I.P. Luzar thought the construction of a new county fairgrounds by I-74 would make a good example for the class and contacted Wise last winter.
"The timing was right where students could lend assistance to a lot of the strategic planning to the new fairgrounds," Luzar said. "It was a fit for us and them."
Each group is studying various aspects of the project. One is looking into rental of the fairgrounds, who rents and who might be interested. Another group is working on the marketing, including what facilities will be available and demographic information. Others are concentrating on advertising and equipment needs.
"I think the overriding goal with this project is it has to be an asset to the community all months of the year in a variety of interests, and really support our economic development in terms of tourism and continuing education," Luzar said.
Luzar thinks the project is a worthy challenge for the students, given the makeup of the organization they're researching.
"It's pretty daunting," he said. "A fairgrounds isn't a same-old, same-old business. We've got public support. We've got multiple users. We're a not-for-profit organization that administrates the operations. We have volunteers. It's more of a community project and a community alliance. Decision-making is a little bit more complicated. Most people don't realize a fairgrounds is a unique creature in terms of cost, income and marketing."
The Business Immersion Program students present their research during a seminar with 4-H board members and the county Extension Office 11 a.m. July 5 in Trippet Hall on the Wabash campus. Both sides have expressed benefits about the alliance.
"It's been a great opportunity for the students to learn more about the community they're in," Wise said. "They've been out talking to folks. They've learned more about 4-H and the important role it plays in the county. And they've enjoyed it and said this is great, I wish we'd had other opportunities to do this and I hope it continues."
"It's really the first time with this fairgrounds that we've had someone look at it objectively, in terms of what type of facilities does the fairgrounds need, who would use the fairgrounds, who are our current users," Luzar said. "So it's been kind of refreshing because it's new ideas.
"It's still a work in progress. But it's going to be usable feedback. It's not fictitious. It's not like they're doing a case study. They're seeing real-life issues. And it's a project that's important to the community."
Businesses and organizations interested in partnering with the Business Immersion Program for a local consulting project are encouraged to call Kathy Wise at 361-6581.
Coggeshall is a reporter for the Crawfordsville Journal Review.


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School of Natural Science and Mathematics faculty members Markus Pomper, Dale Beach and Mike Foos (emeritus); IU East B.S. in Biology graduate and former laboratory coordinator, Nickie May; and co-authors Don Ruch, from Ball State University, and Kathy Sheehan, from the University of Colorado, received notification that their paper, "Phylogeny of Pilobolaceae," has been accepted for publication and will appear in an upcoming issue of Mycologia. This paper re-describes a family of fungi and proposes the use of phylogenic species identification to distinguish among isolates of the genus Pilobolus more accurately. This publication represents the culmination of a multi-year collaboration utilizing the laboratory facilities at IU East.


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I am endlessly intrigued to find players judging the difficulty of the encounters and how long lived the content is by how pro players, some of the most skilled and focused players in the world, engage the content. It's a little like judging the difficulty of juggling eight chainsaws by what the best jugglers in the world can accomplish. Sure, it might be easy for them, but when was the last time you tried it?Call me a homer if you want, but I agree with Blizzard's take on this situation. I find it difficult to judge an entire tier on the progression of a few elite guilds. Here are my reasons why.
The content wasn't designed to be 'quick'. It was designed to be epic, engaging, challenging and fun. It can accomplish those goals without being punishing.(src)
Elite Players vs. The Rest of Us:
Let me ask you this. What if a new golf course was opened in your area and as a promotion they had Tiger Woods come and play an early round to generate publicity. Would you say that the course was too easy if Tiger Woods hit 15 under par in that round? If the course was designed to be a championship level course then probably, but if it's intended to service the local population then maybe not.
If the WoW endgame was intended to test the most elite players then I would agree that Firelands is too easy, but that isn't the case. The raid encounters are designed with a broader population in mind.
The funnier part of this argument in my opinion is that as far as I know, the members of Paragon and the other 17 guilds that are 6/7 aren't the ones making this argument as of yet. If they want to say that Firelands is too easy, just as Ensidia did after Tier 7 content WotLK, then they may have a point since they've seen most of the content. However, many of the players I see complaining aren't even close to the 6/7 standard. I always think it's funny when players complain that they are bored or that content is to easy, when they haven't completed the content that is available to them. It's little like when my children tell me they don't like a food when they haven't even tasted it yet.
How Did They Get to 6/7 HM?
It's also important to ask is how those guilds got to 6/7 in one week. We should remember that the Elite Guilds like Paragon approach new content much differently than a vast majority of guilds do.
PTR Experience: First and foremost, the Elite Guilds were on the PTR when most of the guilds are not. Tuesday July 5th wasn't the first time those guilds had seen these fights. So the first question is did they really get 6/7 after just one week of trying or do you have to consider the time they spent on the PTR. It's true that the PTR versions of these fights are not exactly the same as the Live versions, but the basic mechanics are the same. Adjusting to these modifications shouldn't be as difficult as learning the fight from scratch like a majority of guilds. I think it's very telling that the one fight that wasn't tested on the PTR is the only fight that wasn't killed last week.
Raiding Schedule: It's also very important to consider the elite guilds raid schedule. Blood Legion was already 2/7 Hard Modes before I left work last Tuesday. The elite guilds take extraordinary measures to get World Firsts at the start of a new raiding tier. They take of work and raid very long hours to try and get to kills first. I guarantee you that all 18 of those guilds at 6/7 raided at least 30 or 4o hours last week, and I would be willing to bet that many of them raided more than 60 hours last week. At the same time, most "Hardcore" guilds raid less then 20 hours a week now. Since the elite guilds put in significantly more hours you can't really compare the progression of more normal guilds to the elite guild, because their first week of raiding was equivalent to three weeks of raiding for the other guilds
Exploiting Staghelm: Being at the bleeding edge of content means that you encounter bugs and such before anyone else. Most of the time this isn't a good thing, every so often a guild comes up with a strategy that Blizzard hasn't thought of that significantly reduces the fight's difficulty. And in Firelands we have that situation with Majordomo Staghelm.
In case you hadn't heard there is a new Strategy that basically turns Majordomo Staghelm in to Patchwerk. If you've done the fight you know that it's a big dance switching him between forms with lots of stacking and spreading out. The longer he says in one form the more damage he deals and the more you switch him the more damage he deals. So the basic strat is to keep him in one form as long as you can take it and then switch.
In the new strat, guilds have used a Beast Master Hunter to tank the boss in Scorpion form with his pet. The Scorpion form's Flame Scythe is considered AoE damage and therefore didn't hit the pet. Every one else stands behind the boss doing as much DPS as possible without pulling threat off the pet. This basically takes every single one of the bosses abilities off the table. You don't have Cat form, Human form, or Flame Scythe. Since the raid is stacked behind the boss and not taking damage they also get full stacks of Concentration without any difficulty and can do 100% more damage. Literally, the fight is all about not pulling threat at this point.
Obviously this is a VERY clever strategy, but it's also clearly an exploit (though I doubt anyone will get banned for it). I guarantee you Blizzard won't be happy that someone discovered a way to completely avoid all of the bosses abilities and turn the fight into a tank and spank. I guarantee you that in the next few days you will see a hotfix that allows pets to get hit by Flame Scythe or something to that effect. So it's important to remember that some of the guilds that got to 6/7 this week got there because they used a strategy that most likely won't be available to the rest of us this week.
What Haven't We Seen?
WoW is six and a half years old, and in that time Blizzard has created hundreds of raid bosses. If you consider 5-mans that number goes even higher. At this point it's got to be difficult for Blizzard to come up with new abilities and fight mechanics that we haven't seen before or can't immediately throw into a bucket on how to deal with it. We have addons like Deadly Boss Mods and Power Auras that help us to know when we are standing in something bad or if there is an ability coming up that we need to avoid. If a mob needs to be kited or interrupted we have our go-to classes and players who we know can handle the job.
This isn't to say that Blizzard can't or won't come up with new and unique mechanics that will throw us for a loop. However, we as a player base are more educated about fight mechanics than we ever were in the past. When Blizzard throws a new ability at us most of the time it fits one of the standard buckets that informs us on how to deal with it. As a result high progression raiders are able to adapt to these new abilities more quickly than people who have not played as long or raided as much.
More 4.2 First Impressions:
I wanted this to be longer and its own post last week, but due to work issues that ship sailed. Anyway here are some quick thoughts on the other bosses in Firelands.
Alysrazor: I've done both aspects of this fight. I've been in the air and on the ground. From the ground it's a fairly standard fight. From the air, it's something completely new. To be honest I've found managing an Eclipse rotation while in the air to be quite difficult. Moving and casting the normal rotation at the same time is strange enough, but having to focusing on where the next Ring of Fire is took some of my attention away from making sure I was casting the correct spell.
Overall, I think it's a good fight, and I find the air phase very challenging. My main complaint would be that the Rings of Fire are a little difficult to see given that the entire zone is pretty much orange and they blend in pretty well to the scenery. I would like Blizzard to make them a little more visible.
Baleroc: It's probably different from the point of view of a tank or healer, but as a DPS I found this tank to be very disappointing. There's absolutely nothing to it as a DPSer. If your soaking a crystal all you have to do is make sure you keep the rotation straight. Other then that all you have to so is make sure your not near one of the spawn points and to make sure your not spread out to much to make the soaker's job difficult. Very simple in my opinion, and the heroic version doesn't sound all that impressive either.
Majordomo Staghelm: I've said in the past that my favorite fight of all time is Shade of Aran in Karazhan, and the dance of the Staghelm encounter reminds me of the dance of the Aran encounter. I like having the stack phase and then the spread phase. I like having to manage Searing Seeds and the Burning Orbs. All in all I like this fight.
Ragnaros: I have to say that this is a classic final boss encounter. It has multiple phases that build on each other. Lots of abilities to deal with. I think it has a good balance of complexity and difficulty and is a good fight. I'm not at all disappointed that my guild cleared it in the first week (without any PTR testing experience). As a guild who went 13/13 in tier 11 I think we should be able to pick up the normal modes quickly.
Heroic Shannox: Heroic Shannox was a little disappointing for me. I expected us to get him quicker. We spent about two hours using the wrong strat because we thought it was more like the normal version. Once we figured that out the fight went more smoothly. In generally I think it's a good fight for moonkin because it doesn't require a ton of movement, and our high amounts of damage reduction allow us to eat the immolation traps.
Heroic Rhyolith: We didn't kill this boss this week, but I think I've gotten a good impression of the fight. The heroic version is more complicated than I expected it to be. It's another good fight for moonkin if you can multi-dot and uses your utility well. Fungal Growth and Typhoon are great for dealing with the Obsidians. Our main issue was figuring out the steering and I think we figured that out and the end of our attempts this week. Hopefully he will go down quickly this week.


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ussoccer.com: How do you like Monterrey so far and where are you staying?
Jonathan Bornstein: "I really like the city; it's actually a beautiful place to drive around. I bought a car and found a really nice area to live. It's a nice tight-knit community, and there's a lot of great places to go eat. It's pretty cool."
ussoccer.com: How is your Spanish coming along?
JB: "It's coming along pretty well. I've been taking classes now for a month, and just living here you have to speak it on a daily basis to get around. If I go to the store I have to speak in Spanish and with my teammates everything is in Spanish, so I'm learning rather quickly. I'd say that I can understand it a lot better than I'm able to speak it. They keep telling me 'poco a poco', so I'm in no rush to hurry it along and just taking it day by day in my studies."
ussoccer.com: Have you run into any situations where the language barrier was a problem?
JB: "I bought my car speaking all in Spanish, so there may have been a few times where I needed help understanding. The owner of the car dealership spoke English and he's a friend of the vice president of our club, so he made sure everything was good for me and he was able to translate for me if I had any questions. It was the same thing with renting my house. For me it was just all about making sure that I understood what was being put in front of me. Overall I've been able to get by and haven't really had any problems or issues with not being able to do something because of the language."
ussoccer.com: What about when you're talking to Tuca (Tigres head coach Ricardo Ferreti) because he speaks more of a Portuguese mix?
JB: "He speaks pretty good Spanish. He's actually one of the ones I can understand the best when he speaks because I think he understands that I don't understand it as well. When he speaks to me, he really enunciates his words and speaks slower to me so I've had no trouble understanding him at all. Even in the meetings and on the field, there's really never been a time I didn't understand him so he's been one of the ones I can understand the best."
ussoccer.com: So now that you've been immersed in the Mexican football culture, how would you describe it?
JB: "I would say the style of soccer down here is a lot different than it is in the United States. Here it is a lot more technical. The players have the ability to pass and move on and off the ball very well. In the United States, it's a little more defensive minded and very strong and you run very hard. I'm definitely enjoying the type of soccer we play. I'm trying to fit in as best as I can and as quickly as I can so I'm trying to learn on the job. Also for the lifestyle, I'm learning what Mexico is all about. There are definitely some differences in my life; for example, I have a maid who cooks and cleans for me. That's pretty standard custom here, which is something I'm not used to."
ussoccer.com: What is it like playing in front of Tigres fans? They are pretty notorious for being passionate. They call the stadium El Volcán because it sounds like a volcano is erupting all of the time…
JB: "I would say that we have the best fans in all of Mexico. After playing in front of them for the first time, everything that everyone had ever told me about Tigres fans and how great they are definitely was true. I think they're extremely passionate about the sport. They understand what it's all about, and I hope I can keep winning over their hearts by playing better and proving myself to them each time I can go out there."
ussoccer.com: You said you are learning what Mexico is all about from a cultural standpoint. Are there a couple of things that you can point to?
JB: "One of the things is definitely the food. Growing up in L.A. we obviously had a lot of Mexican food, but I think it's a little bit different the way it's prepared here and the way the service is here. Every day I come home from training and I have a very good 2-3 course meal. You always have a soup and then a salad, then a main course and always a 'postre,' a dessert. so that's a lot different. At home, I'm used to just having a whole meal at one time and not such a fancy presentation."
ussoccer.com: Have you started putting chile and salsa on everything?
JB: "Not too much chile, but salsa and definitely lime. They put lime juice and limón on everything, whether it is soup or fish or salad."
ussoccer.com: Have you noticed any big differences in the training sessions?
JB: "I would say that we do a lot more intra-squad scrimmaging here than I'm used to doing. We never did so much of that at Chivas USA, and usually not with the national team either. We usually have enough numbers here by bringing up younger players to get a full field scrimmage. I would say many days, like Wednesday and Thursdays if there is a Saturday game, are devoted to full field games. That's a lot different here and it's something that I actually like because you get to play on a big field for a majority of the time. We do have normal drills that we do and that I've done throughout my career, shooting drills, passing drills, and crossing and finishing. Much of it is pretty standard, but in terms of just having more of a playing aspect in terms of full field games is different."
ussoccer.com: Are there any team rules that are very different than you're used to?
JB: "They call it 'concentración' here, and I know they do it around the world but we never did it at Chivas. The day before the game, even if it's a home game, we go and stay at the hotel and we eat as a team and we stay there over night and we go as a team to the game the next day. That's definitely something that's different for me and I know it's a cultural thing here that they like to do."
ussoccer.com: Have you had the signature Monterrey dish called 'cabrito' yet?
JB: "I haven't actually had it yet. I always see signs all over the place and I keep meaning to try it at a restaurant but I always end up getting something else like tacos or chicken. I will try it sometime though."
ussoccer.com: What's been your most memorable experience there so far?
JB: "I would probably say the soccer aspect has taken over the majority of my life. Getting my first start was pretty uplifting for me, just being able to feel like I'm part of the team and contributing. Every game I've played in so far we've won, so I'm just hoping to keep that streak going as long as I can and hopefully getting more assists and more goals because I've gotten pretty close to scoring a couple of times."
ussoccer.com: How are they playing you?
JB: "I'm playing in a position called 'contención'. It's a defensive center midfielder, tilted to the left a little bit. It's a lot different than left full back, but I'm getting used to it. It's soccer, and I've always said it's a game that you've got to adapt to. Once again I find myself learning on the job and kind of starting over at a new position, but I'm enjoying it."
ussoccer.com: What is your team's tactical formation?
JB: "It's kind of like a 4-2-2-2. We have a line of four defenders and then two 'contenciónes' and then we play with two side attacking midfielders and then two forwards. Sometimes we switch it up and throw a 3-3-4 or a 3-3-2-2, but most of the time it's pretty standard."
ussoccer.com: How have your Mexican teammates taken to you?
JB: "I think we've been getting along pretty well, and whenever they get asked about me they say they enjoy my company and enjoy having me on the team. I think I bring a different aspect to the team, an American mentality that they've never really experienced. I've just been trying to prove myself in terms of soccer as much as I can. I really enjoy my teammates on a personal side and getting to know them each day has been very fun."
ussoccer.com: Have you become fast friends with anyone?
JB: "Yes, Carlos Ochoa. We carpool to practice every day and spend a lot of time together. I'd definitely say he's a friend. There are a couple guys on the team I've hung out with off the field. I'd say they are all great guys."
ussoccer.com: Has anyone brought up the U.S.-Mexico rivalry yet?
JB: "Up to this point, no actually. I'm sure it will come up when the games for the U.S. and Mexico start getting a little closer."
ussoccer.com: Not even Ochoa because he was part of that rivalry for a while?
JB: "We've talked about it between me and him, just about some games that he played in and some games I played in. With the Gold Cup coming up, we've talked about who is going to win this one. He speaks perfect English and that is probably one of the reasons we get along so well. He tries to speak to me in English and I try to speak to him in Spanish. It's a pretty good relationship there."
ussoccer.com: Have you played against any Tigres rivals?
JB: "We've played against Santos. They consider us a rival game, but for us it's against Monterrey, the Rayados. That's coming up next weekend, so we'll have our clásico. That's all anyone talks about around here. We've got to win that one and prove who the better team in Monterrey is."
ussoccer.com: Do people recognize you on the street now in Monterrey?
JB: "Yes it's starting to get to that point. If I go around with Carlos Ochoa he definitely gets recognized and then they'll recognize me. If I go by myself to the supermarket or something occasionally people will be like 'Oh, Bornstein!' and once one person recognizes me then a lot of other people catch on. As of right now I'm able to go undercover and do my own thing, but everyone keeps telling me the more I play the less I'll be able to stay hidden."
ussoccer.com: Do you read the soccer coverage in the Mexican newspapers?
JB: "A little bit. I try to stay up to date on what the other teams are doing and how they're playing and sometimes I'll grab a newspaper and read about it. There's a great deal of coverage for soccer here, and there are full pages devoted to Tigres and Rayados here in Monterrey and then there's always pages devoted to other teams. The press is very big here in terms of soccer and they like to cover as much of it as they can."
ussoccer.com: Other than taking Spanish lessons, have you done anything else to try to adapt to your new environment?
JB: "I got a nice house here and I'm neighbors with Carlos so I've been able to get adapted by hanging out with him and his family. He's got two pretty amazing daughters, so I hang out with their family a lot. My girlfriend is actually coming to live here with me, so that will be a good change for me. It's been pretty easy to adapt. Everyone here is pretty helpful in terms of the club and helping me with finding a car or finding a place to live. Everything has been very easy."


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Just being able to afford a nice car doesn't mean you know how to drive it, as our celebrity-adoring culture is quick to prove.
It's hard to find a celebrity who is a worse driver than Usain Bolt, world record holder in the 100m, 200m, and 4X100m. You'd think someone who's so fast on his feet would keep from crashing BMWs, but you'd be wrong. He's crashed one M3 and flipped another.
What failed actor-turned-racer or drunk drama queen do you think sucks harder at driving than the world's fastest man?
(QOTD is your chance to address the day's most pressing automotive questions and to experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits, and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good Question of the Day, send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)
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Thanks for the feedback. Regarding your final comment, the existing RIF specification for externals *is* a general and extensible method for attaching procedures, which could be builtins or be defined using existing programming languages. See FLD Section 2.4 item number 8:
[External] terms are used for representing built-in functions and predicates as well as "procedurally attached" terms or predicates, which might exist in various rule-based systems, but are not specified by RIF.
DTB is a list of externals that are *required* for interoperability, but does not preclude defining others.
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Tom Gordon wrote: > The time is ripe for a W3C standard for rules and RIF looks to me to be > a very good proposal, building on the experience of previous work on > SWRL and RuleML, among other initiatives. I particularly like its > modular structure and its extensibility using FLD. It remains to be > seen whether FLD will be expressive enough for requirements in the legal > domain, for defining a dialect capable of modeling legislation in an > "isomorphic" way, which is important for both validating and maintaining > the models. In a three year European project, ESTRELLA, which ended in > 2008, we developed a rule interchange language for models of > legislation, called the Legal Knowledge Interchange Format (LKIF) > expressly for this purpose. We may have built LKIF on top of RIF had it > been available at the time. It may be an interesting task to see if > LKIF could be reconstructed as a RIF dialect using FLD. > > One nitpick: RIF, like SWRL before it, define a bunch of "builtin" > predicate and function symbols. I would have much preferred a more > general and extensible method for attaching procedures, defined using > existing programming langauges.


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Pa. town latest to force drivers over and ask for cheek swabs for federal study
Drivers in a southeastern Pennsylvania town were forced off a local street and into a parking lot, so a federal contractor – aided by local police --could quiz them about their road habits and ask for a cheek swab, in a replay of an incident last month in Texas.
The checkpoint, in downtown Reading, was one of several conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, which was hired by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Although the questioning and cheek swab were voluntary, local residents said they were directed by police to pull over, and that the questioning was persistent, according to the Reading Eagle.
"I feel this incident is a gross abuse of power on many levels," Reading resident Ricardo Nieves told City Council Monday, three days after being stopped.
Last month, the police chief in Fort Worth, Texas, apologized after allowing his officers to take part in a similar federal survey in which random drivers were pulled over and asked to submit breath, saliva and even blood samples. The drivers were also asked to pull into a parking lot, where they could give a cheek swab and volunteer for a blood or breath test, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Those who agreed were paid $10 to $50. Those who declined were briefly interviewed and allowed to leave.
"We realize this survey caused many of our citizens frustration and we apologize for our participation," Fort Worth Police Chief Jeffrey Halstead said.
Reading Police Chief William Heim told the Reading Eagle the federal agencies are trying to see what can be done about crashes and injuries, and the swabs were not to get DNA samples but to test for the presence of prescription drugs. He said police were there for site security only and did not pull drivers over or ask questions.
"In the grand scheme of things, I think it's a pretty innocuous and minor issue," Heim said.
An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania said such checkpoints are legal only if designed to protect public safety.
"A car driver or passenger cannot be required or pressured into providing a DNA sample and, in fact, can't be stopped at all except on suspicion of a crime or for a properly conducted sobriety checkpoint," Mary Catherine Roper, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Pennsylvania, told the Reading Eagle.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducts similar surveys every 10 years or so to determine the prevalence of alcohol and drug use by drivers. Checkpoints to collect samples have been set up in 30 cities nationwide, and samples remain anonymous, according to federal officials.
But law enforcement agencies in other jurisdictions have taken measures to ensure that motorists know it is a "paid volunteer survey," and that they do not have to pull over.


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After missing on Martin, Broncos try to stop him
December 1, 2012
Denver — (AP) — Starting with the Peyton Manning signing, almost every big decision the Broncos front office has made since John Elway took over has worked out.
One exception: the time they tried to draft the "Dougie."
While zeroing in on Doug Martin in this year's draft, the Broncos traded away a late-first-round pick, thinking the running back from Boise State would still be there when they picked a few spots later. Their trading partner: Tampa Bay, which used the Broncos' pick to take Martin 31st in the draft.
The teams meet Sunday with the Broncos (8-3) needing a win to wrap up the AFC West title and the Buccaneers (6-5), with their prize rookie, Martin, trying to stay in the thick of the NFC wild-card chase.
"He was very high on our board," Broncos coach John Fox says. "He's a guy that I know our personnel people liked, our coaching staff liked. His success doesn't surprise me whatsoever."
Propelled by Martin, fourth in the NFL with 1,050 yards rushing, a strong comeback season from quarterback Josh Freeman and the tough-love approach from first-year coach Greg Schiano, the Buccaneers are among the league's biggest surprises.
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They have won four of their last five and are tied with Minnesota and Seattle for the NFC's last wild-card spot.
It was at the end of October that Martin's potential went on full display. He had 214 combined yards in a 36-17 win over Minnesota on Oct. 25, then ran for 251 yards — highest total in the league this year — in a 42-32 win over Oakland on Nov. 4.
Schiano says his rookie running back reminds him of Baltimore's Ray Rice, the 5-foot-8, 215-pound two-time Pro Bowler who Schiano coached at Rutgers. Martin is 5-9, 210.
"They both have some unique abilities: vision, patience, balance, strength, those kinds of things that allow them to be really good running backs," Schiano says. "Some of those things you can develop and some of them are God given, and that's what makes those two special."
For his part, Martin says he knew the Buccaneers were among the teams most interested in him as the draft approached, while he hadn't heard much from the Broncos.
"I had a good feeling, because earlier on, I got a call from Tampa Bay, and they were just seeing if I was basically still alive and still moving," Martin says.
Though the Broncos failed to land Martin, they still made some productive picks in the draft.
The second-round choice they received from Tampa Bay turned into defensive tackle Derek Wolfe, who has started every game and picked up three sacks.
The Broncos filled their running back needs in the third round by choosing Ronnie Hillman out of San Diego State; Hillman has given the Broncos depth and provided a change of pace. He has 52 carries for 197 yards.
Meanwhile, Knowshon Moreno, a former first-round draft pick, filled in for the injured Willis McGahee last week. He rushed for 85 yards in a 17-9 win over Kansas City and is expected to start again Sunday.
Before starting last week against the Chiefs, Moreno spent eight weeks as a game-day inactive, mostly working on the scout team.
The forgotten back? Hardly.
"He wasn't forgotten with us," Broncos linebacker Wesley Woodyard says. "He's been kicking our tail on defense. That's part of the reason why we've been so good in our run defense, because the looks that he's been giving us, it's like 'Dude, as soon as you get your chance, you're going to explode.'"
It doesn't appear Martin will be relegated to the scout team anytime soon, though last week in a 24-23 loss to Atlanta, the Bucs' running game was held to 50 yards, its poorest showing of the season.
Tackle Donald Penn said it's a priority for Tampa Bay to get its running game revved up again against the Broncos. Nobody wants to try to match Manning and the Broncos' offense pass for pass.
"It's very important, especially when you look at it in the context of, we kind of took a step back last week and you want to take two steps forward this week," Penn said.
Of course, Manning and the Denver offense took a step back last week, too.
The Broncos managed only 17 points, the result of two missed field goals, an interception and an inability to string together much momentum against a stubborn Kansas City defense.
The Buccaneers have the league's last-ranked passing defense, but one that takes big chances and makes big plays. The defense leads the league with 94 plays that have gone for negative yardage. Led by 16-year veteran Ronde Barber (4) and undrafted rookie Leonard Johnson (3), Tampa Bay ranks third with 16 interceptions. The Buccaneers have produced 22 turnovers and converted those into 89 points, fourth most in the league.
"I see a team that's causing turnovers and their offense is turning those turnovers into touchdowns," Manning said. "They're not giving it right back to the other team or settling for field goals. Sometimes it's 14-point swings."
The last time Manning faced one of the league's worst pass defenses was Oct. 28 against New Orleans, then ranked No. 30. He threw for 305 yards and three scores in a 34-14 win. It's the last time the Broncos' offense has really clicked for an entire game.
"You're always trying to play that perfect game," Manning said. "Whether you can or you can't, you still strive for that."
The Broncos could still lose this game and wrap up the AFC West. If San Diego loses to Cincinnati, Denver would win its second straight and 12th overall division title.
Win or lose, the Bucs will have no guarantees, though their next three games are against Philadelphia, New Orleans and St. Louis, none of which has a winning record.
Tampa Bay has taken the league by surprise even if its star rookie, Martin, hasn't.
"There was a collective agreement," Schiano said, "that this was a guy that fit what we wanted to do."


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February 16, 2000
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After considering public sentiment on the location of the new federal courthouse in Gulfport, Miss., the U.S. General Services Administration today announced that it intends to build the project on the old high-school site.
GSA will seek public comment, in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, over the next two weeks. In mid-March GSA expects to announce the final site decision.
GSA has been working with Gulfport officials for some time to find an appropriate site for the new courthouse. Congress authorized its construction, and it is a priority for the U.S. Judicial Conference.
"We had a public hearing, we heard the concerns, and we listened," said Robert A. Peck, commissioner of GSA's Public Buildings Service. "As a result, we're moving off the library site, building a beautiful new courthouse and preserving a historic high school."
The new courthouse, designed by Kliment-Halsban of New York and Canizero Trigan Architects of Jackson, Miss., in a joint venture, will enhance Gulfport's central business district. Plans call for adapting most of the exterior of the old high school, a recognized jewel designed by Mississippi architect M.W. Overstreet, in a renovation that will produce offices for U.S. Attorneys.
The budget for the entire Gulfport project, including renovation of the old high school, is $52 million, including site, design and construction. GSA already has received money for site and design. President Clinton has requested $42.7 million in construction funds for the project in his FY 2001 budget. GSA hopes to break ground on the 220,000-square-foot project in after Nov. 1, 2001. The project should be complete by November 2003.
"We like to think that when we build federal projects in communities that we're working for the local citizens, along with the federal government -- which also represents them, of course," said Thomas W. Walker, assistant regional administrator of GSA's Southeast Region. "We've found an option that keeps the library as it is and contributes a beautiful new federal building on same street as Gulfport's City Hall and other municipal service buildings."
Walker said he is especially pleased that, while achieving the above goals, the beautiful oaks on the old high school property also will be preserved.
"Since I transferred to this region, which gave me a chance to come back to the South, I have enjoyed working on this effort by Congress and the federal judges to build a new federal courthouse in my home state," Walker said.


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Following the release of the Torque3D engine under the MIT license (latest release 3.5 here), there was a lot of back and forth regarding a port to Linux (the engine actually used to have a good Linux port, but that one was dropped a few years back). At some point there was even an official Kickstarter crowed-funding attempt, which however failed to reach the estimated funds (but nether the less more than US$10k were pledged). After that things quited down, but several people continued developing a OpenGL renderer and Linux port.
Now it seems like all these efforts seem to be near a somewhat usable Linux port or at least that's what I understand by following this forum thread.
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In the short term the most interesting application of this Linux port is probably that the creator of RotC has announced on his currently running indigogo campaign to liberate (and update) the game, that now there will also be a Linux port.
Great news if you ask me, so don't forget to pledge some of that Christmas money you got towards reaching the funding goal (currently $388 out of $1500, with 36 days left). Let's make this happen!
Edit (nearly forgot): these two projects related to Torque3D might be interesting to follow: Project GREED and Zentense.


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It isn't just the U.S. government that's hinting at military action against Bashar Assad's government for its alleged use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians.
On Wednesday, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the use of such weapons "cannot go unanswered." Even the president of France -- yes, that France, whose forceful opposition to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq prompted congressional action on "freedom fries" -- declared that he was "ready to punish" the perpetrators of the chemical attack.
But judging by much of the reader reaction to a possible military strike against Damascus, you'd think the U.S. was ready to go it alone in starting another war.
The reason? Iraq.
As we all remember, the George W. Bush administration sold its preemptive invasion of Iraq in 2003 with ominous warnings of mushroom clouds and other deadly attacks against the U.S. and its allies if our military didn't remove then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power. It's precisely the memory of those warnings -- based on intelligence that, to put it mildly, turned out to be off base -- that's causing many readers to question claims by the U.S. government that Assad likely used chemical weapons against Syrian civilians.
Several reader letters on Syria will likely be published in Thursday's paper. In the meantime, here is a selection of letters recall the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Los Angeles resident Ronald Colby says the U.S. should take its time:
"I recall very well the hysteria about Saddam Hussein killing his own people and allegedly having weapons of mass destruction. Our impetuous bombing and invasion of Iraq was and is a disaster.
"Why rush to action on Syria? They're not going anywhere. What is the likelihood of Assad again using chemical weapons as the entire world turns opinion and cruise missiles against him?
"It's worth a wait."
Bob Walter of Altadena says inspectors must be given time to do their job:
"Under no circumstances should we unilaterally intervene in Syria.
"We wrongly entered into conflict with Iraq without allowing the inspectors to complete their job. It is said that we do not learn from history, but this is such recent history, how could we forget?
"Now once again in Syria, we are contemplating intervention before the inspectors have completed their assessment. And even if there is ironclad proof that chemical weapons have been used, we should not respond unilaterally but rather as part of a United Nations combined response that involves other major countries.
"We get nothing from being the policemen of the world other than hatred, lives lost and worse situations than before we began to meddle. We must step back."
Phil Brimble of Los Angeles says we shouldn't be so trusting of our government:
"Americans should demand more from their government than unsupported posturing before we kill people in Syria.
"Secretary of State John Kerry says that the evidence of a chemical attack on civilians by the Assad government is 'overwhelming.' Where is the evidence? A clear and convincing demonstration of Kerry's claims is required, particularly since one surely scratches one's head over the notion that the Assad regime would do the one thing it knows is likely to bring about foreign military intervention. There is no rational basis here for secrecy. 'National security' demands complete candor.
"Kerry dismisses U.N. efforts to collect evidence as 'too late to be credible' but offers nothing to prove his own assertions. The American public is in the dark and is being asked to simply accept government rhetoric as an excuse for war. Did we learn nothing from the fiasco of Iraq, when we were just asked to trust leaders who were at worst lying and at best simply wrong about weapons of mass destruction?"
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