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With the Bulldogs leading 33-32 in overtime, Wiggins made the initial hit as Pleasant Valley's quarterback tried to turn a bootleg play into a game-winning 2-point conversion. Ranburne coach Chad Young said Wiggins and defensive back Devin Rehberg each had coverage assignments on the play. When Wiggins saw the runner cross the line of scrimmage and head for the pylon he left his man first. Rehberg then came up immediately to make sure there was no second effort.
"Devin and Dalton, they made the tackle," said Young. "We try to just talk to everybody about doing their job. That particular play, that was what they were supposed to do and everybody else did what they were supposed to do and it kind of worked out for us."
Ranburne had taken a 33-26 lead in overtime when Dylan Tullis ran for nine yards on a power play on first down then scored the next snap from one yard out on the same play.
Freshman Jake Howle then kicked what proved to be the game-winning extra point.
The game was a back-and-forth affair from the beginning. Pleasant Valley led 6-0 after one quarter.
Ranburne's G.W. Caldwell scored on a 9-yard run on the first play of the second quarter but Howle's kick missed the mark.
The Raiders scored again with about a minute left in the second quarter. Tullis returned the ensuing kickoff to the Pleasant Valley 8-yard line. With seven seconds remaining before halftime, Caldwell scored on a 1-yard run.
The 2-point conversion try failed, leaving the game deadlocked at 12 at intermission.
Pleasant Valley scored first in the third quarter to lead 19-12. Ranburne answered on a 33-yard touchdown pass from Dylan Wiggins to Brayden Wilson with 4:34 left in the third and Howle's kicked knotted the score. The Raiders added another seven points in the final 30 seconds of the third quarter and led 26-19.
A 6-yard run by Tullis with 10:35 on the fourth quarter clock capped a 61-yard drive for the Bulldogs. Howle's kick made it 26-all.
""Jake Howle kicked well at extra points. … He tied it up at 19, tied it up at 26 then hit the one that put us at 33," Young said. After tying the game at 26-all, Ranburne punted twice and had the ball again when the fourth quarter ended.
Dylan Wiggins was 10-for-19 passing for 138 yards and gained 26 yards rushing. Tullis ran 18 times for 76 yards and caught three passes for 39 yards.
Caldwell ran three times for 14 yards and Brady Whittle picked up 11 yards on two tries. Kyle Lovvorn had three receptions for 25 yards. Wilson finished with two catches for 39 yards. Adam Shepherd's two catches gained 35 yards.
Lovvorn and Cole Yearta each added seven tackles to the defensive effort. Yearta had the only fumble recovery for the Bulldogs. Caldwell made six stops. Whittle and Tyler Connell had five tackles apiece. Austin Jordan had two quarterback sacks and one additional tackle. Wilson and Zach Patterson also made three stops each. Dylan Tullis, Donovan Tullis and Logan Otwell each made two tackles.
Now 2-0 overall and 1-0 in region games, Ranburne travels to Ohatchee Friday for its second region contest. The Indians are 0-2 and will be looking to upset the Bulldogs.
"We're a lot alike, just try to play fundamentally sound ball," Young said of the two teams.


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Mobile payments has become a mainstream tech topic in the last couple of years, mirroring the rise of smartphones and application stores. E-commerce is becoming m-commerce. The focus point of the buzz has been the evolution of near-field communications as related to smartphones. The thing is, nobody in the payments industry expects NFC to be a player in mobile payments for years, if ever. In that case, what does the mobile payments ecosystem look like in the short term?
The current mobile payments market centers around several cores: direct carrier billing, mobile wallets, online and offline sales, mobile credit card readers and application stores. During meetings with various mobile payments experts and executives at CTIA last week, the most uttered phrase was: "This is not something I would use to buy a fridge." Where are mobile payments going?
The Non-Promise of NFC
OK, let us get one thing straight: NFC may never be a widely used form of payments. There are so many reasons why it will not be. Foremost, the logistics of NFC are a nightmare. The actual technology is probably ready. The infrastructure around the technology is not. There are too many competing interests coming from above the retail market that creating a universal NFC reader between smartphones and financial services is not going to happen anytime soon. The closest thing to a widely used system would be Mastercard's PayPass, but even as widespread as that is, it is no where near the type of market penetration that would create an inflection point for NFC to take off. Second, PayPass needs a software upgrade to offer any type of deals, something that will be important in the mobile payments world.
See our series on NFC In 2011 for more on the world of NFC payments.
NFC payments on the top of Gartner's Hype Circle
The second half of the NFC conundrum is that there are a lot of hands reaching for the supposed pile of money that NFC payments will enable. Look at Google's announcement of the Wallet product. Or the ISIS partnership between Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T. Google is partnering with Mastercard, CitiBank, Sprint, FirstData, Verifone, VivoTech (the NFC partner), Hypercom, Ingenico and NXP (another NFC partner). All of these large companies are going to want a slice of the pie.
Where does that leave the retailers? You know, the ones that are actually trying to make money with good and services? Sadly, on the outside of the circle. The carriers are the biggest culprits, wanting to take as much as 50% of transaction revenue because it is "going over their pipes." The financial services companies will be happy taking their normal rates in the 1.75% to 3% range as long as there is a promise that more people will pay electronically (read: sans cash). Between retailers, partners and infrastructure, NFC has years to go before it will be viable for all parties involved.
Can the Google Wallet project really push NFC adoption?
What will happen in this time frame? Think about the so-called "4G" technology WiMax. The technology is already becoming antiquated with LTE and all the major carriers are working on the next version after that. Sprint is keeping a hybrid of WiMax and LTE going forward but overall it is a tech that died before it even matured. NFC may be the same. What if there are massive leaps in quantum teleportation in the next several years? Does NFC become the WiMax of the payment world?
Maturation Of Direct Carrier Billing
The "I do not see myself buying a fridge with this" line comes mostly from the direct carrier folks. Direct carrier billing is the perfect area for micro-payments and payments that stem from ease of use. Think of parking. If you could pay for your parking on the street with your phone, would that convenience be worth an extra couple of cents on the dollar to you?
The direct to carrier ecosystem has evolved to the point where it actually makes sense for offline and online use. Zong (acquired by eBay for PayPal integration), PaymentOne and Boku are the leaders in this space. PaymentOne has processed $5 billion in mobile payments and lets users pay with their phone numbers, validating transactions via text. Zong allows that capability as well.
Payment One's "One Care" features, announced last week at CTIA, makes direct to carrier billing safe and secure. Transparency is important in mobile commerce because consumers do not really trust their phones to handle their money quite yet.
The most important aspect of direct to carrier billing now is that the revenue mechanism has been flipped. It used to be that merchants only got some 40% or less of payments while the carriers and partners took the rest. Even with high margin transactions, that is unacceptable. Today, direct to carrier billing provides the merchants with more than 80% of the revenue, sometimes nearly 95%.
The Dongle World: Smartphones As Credit Card Readers
Square, VeriSign and Intuit are pushing hard into the dongle department. Jumio is doing the same thing, just without the dongle. There is not much to be said about the dongle world that we have not already touched on at ReadWriteWeb outside of the notion that it is bringing easy credit card readers to the mobile masses.
The dongle competitors are not worried about what is happening in the ecosytem because it does not really touch their core business. For instance, PayPal does not see NFC or dongles infringing on its business in any way, shape or form. As Laura Chambers, PayPal's head of mobile, said in a recent interview, "we are not worried about much in the ways of competition. There is a lot of white space in the industry for horizontal movement."
What Is PayPal Really Doing?
In the interview with Chambers, the first question I asked was, "Why does it seem like PayPal has become a 'me too' operator in mobile payments?" It is a fair question, even if Chambers balked to acknowledge that PayPal has been in 'me too' mode for the last year or so. PayPal has ignored the dongle movement and NFC is not on its radar as a technology it feels it needs to integrate.
"What is the difference between a tap versus a swipe?" Chambers asked. "We are working with what works in the current infrastructure ... We have sat down with consumers and merchants to work with them on what they want."
PayPal is growing sideways because there is not a ton of room right now to grow vertically.
PayPal will get into NFC solutions when the time is appropriate. Its strategy now is to create as much flexibility for consumers as possible through its mobile wallet program. PayPal's stance is data driven - the company can track when and what consumers buy from mobile phones and tablets. Hence, PayPal is focusing on the shopping end of the spectrum, as opposed to a pure payments play.
"60% of people buy more and spend more on mobile," Chambers said. "But, we see that people are not really buying different things on mobile ... the No. 1 driver of growth in mobile payments is boredom."
That fits in well with what PayPal sees as "couch commerce." They released a study recently saying that mobile shopping is going to boom this holiday season. As such, PayPal is ready to deploy an end-to-end solution for merchants and consumers to reward loyalty and provide deals and offers along with digital receipts.
PayPal believes that it has a lot of room to grow in mobile through these types of horizontal movements. We are also seeing this on a non-mobile front with eBay partnering with Facebook and the Open Graph API and the new X.Commerce initiative that consolidates the PayPal, Zong, Magento, RedLaser and Milo technologies. The company is calling it an "open commerce ecosystem."
Future Of Mobile Payments
This article is the first in a series of the trends in mobile payments that ReadWriteWeb will be working on in the next several months. There are a lot of questions and the answers are just beginning to emerge. Who are the winners in the space? Are retail shops in danger of "becoming expensive fronts for online shopping," as Chambers said in the interview? Does NFC really have potential to disrupt offline payments or is it just cool technology? These questions and more are what we will be tackling in the months to come.


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While testing our website https://www.fortresslinux.org, we got a "Assessment failed: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure".
It's obvious that your are using OpenSSL on your servers to test other https websites because it always tries to do a SSLv3 handshake by default. (Most) up-to-date browsers can negoiate with our https website though we have disabled SSLv3 support where possible.
We use our own modified and hardened versions of GNUTLS, OpenSSL, PolarSSL, NSS etc. on our servers. Is there any other way to test our website here?
The problem is not with OpenSSL, but with JSSE (Java's SSL stack). We use JSSE for the initial request. If that request fails, we do not proceed further. There is a small number of sites, like yours, where we get the handshake_failure message, and it's an JSSE interoperability issue. Because JSSE supports TLS 1.0 we can assess servers that do not support SSL v3. I suspect the problem is somewhere else.
If you have a better idea of the problem, please forward me the details. If not, I will proceed to investigate and fix the problem.
Edit: Maybe you meant SSL v2 handshake?
Ahh, your are using a Java implementation. I guess it works the same way as the older OpenSSL versions then. We try to stay away from everything that has something to do with Java, so it's hard to tell how your implementation exactly works.
You are right, we meant SSLv2 because SSLv2 support is completly disabled on our server (disabled during compilation of OpenSSL).
OpenSSL is horrible when it comes to server security. When you try to disable SSLv3 during the compilation of OpenSSL, you will also loose support for TLSv1.0. And if we do that, only our own FLWEB webbrowser, the latest Opera and the latest IE could connect to our sites.
So, I think this is the solution to your Java implementation. When it cannot handshake with SSLv2, you must assume SSLv2 is completly disabled (an give extra credits to the servers that doesn't support it, because it makes clear that the user is using a very old webbrowser).
The best way to do the testing in this following order:
* Check for TLSv1.2 support
* Check for TLSv1.1 support
* Check for TLSv1.0 support (Required for insecure browsers like FF and GC. They can't handle TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2)
* Check for SSLv3 support (and continue checking when it cannot do a handshake.)
* Check for SSLv2 support (and continue checking when it cannot do a handshake)
I hope this will be enough information to solve those problems.
As far as I can tell, the issue is that there are no common cipher suites in the initial handshake. I see that you support Camellia, but do you support any other cipher suites? I've noticed that your site does not work in Internet Explorer, for example.
There may be another issue, which is making my troubleshooting more difficult. When I test for cipher suite support in bulk, I can't even negotiate Camellia. Rate limiting? Because of it I cannot easily inspect your server to determine which cipher suites are supported.
Edit: Ah, no; I forgot to enable full protocol testing. I can see you supporting:
Is that correct?
Yes, we only support AES-256, Camellia and cbc/gcm modes, which should be supported by any modern webbrowser.
To use IE, you first have to enable TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support. I haven't checked if the latest IE version enables them by default. Maybe I should do that again anytime soon, although we Linux users cannot really stand working or testing in Windows
Nothing has changed so far. It still cannot handle our secure website.
I've noticed some security problems with this forum and I wish to remove my account.
Ivan, can you tell me where/how I can remove my account? Can't find a "disable account" or similair option.
I just wanted to let you know that today we deployed our first 1.1.x release (beta), which supports your web site. We're monitoring the operation to determine if there are still issues that need ironing out.
Dear Ivan,
The reason why it works is because we now also accept insecure/old handshakes for compatability reasons. It's not that we want to, but otherwise we cannot provide SSL encryption for customers who do not already use the Fortress Linux Operating system.
The funny thing is that our own web-browser (FLWEB) is the only webbrower that can handle the latest and most secure handshakes, TLS ciphers, MAC's, EC's etc. These encryption technolgies are not even supported yet by Opera, IE, Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
We can offer you paid support and even a test web server (containing the most powerful SSL encryption possible today) for your SSL check script.
We've monitored the data that was send from your servers and we found quite some mistakes in the protocol handling and some other test exchanges. The Qualys SSL script also cannot handle the true TLSv1.2 encryption of our test server.
Please contact us by email if you're interested. The Quals SSL checker is a pretty good program and I assume you want it to stay this way.
I will be happy to troubleshoot any issues if you can provide a server where we fail.
Thanks for your help so far.
Hi Ivan,
We are now in the top-rated list of most secure SSL servers. But we have noticed that something is still missing from your scanner:
Support for the Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Exchange with AES256 Galios/Counter mode.
This GCM variant is the most secure SSL encryption method available today, though it is only supported by our own latest FLWEB web-browser. But eventually all browsers should support this TLS cipher.
The scanner should also give a higher rating to servers in the server top-lists when this GCM cipher is supported and when the DH key is at least 4096 Bits.
We recently discovered that almost any other TLS cipher which uses DH or just RSA are vulnerable to a new TLS/SSL attack. But we cannot expose that for the moment
Our servers currently support RSA 8192/16384/32768 bits certificates with SHA512withRSA signing. Problem is that no CA supports them at the moment.
Maybe you know a CA who does support it?
Can you be more specific about what's missing? At the moment, the test currently lists your server as supporting 0xc030, which is TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384. We test for all suites specified in RFC 5289. If you support a suite that we're not detecting them, please send me a PCAP of one successful handshake and I will investigate.
I expect that we will be updating the rating guide early next year. Generally speaking, we expect to go deeper and incentivise security quality. I don't know the details yet.
As for CA support for better signature algorithms -- I have never come across such a certificate.


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Would you like a say in how white-tailed deer populations are managed in Florida? The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is developing a framework for you to do just that! This framework is based on Deer Management Units (DMUs).
FWC passes rule prohibiting importation of live deer into FloridaThe Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) at its Pensacola commission meeting on Sept. 6, passed a rule prohibiting the importation of live captive deer into Florida from out-of-state sources. The rule was passed in an effort to reduce the chances of chronic wasting disease (CWD) being introduced into the state. Eighteen other states, including Georgia and Alabama, also prohibit the importation of live cervids (deer, elk and moose).
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Grants Management:
EPA Needs to Better Document Its Decisions for Choosing between Grants and Contracts
GAO-04-459: Published: Mar 31, 2004. Publicly Released: Apr 30, 2004.
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Grants and contracts constitute over two-thirds of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) budget. In fiscal year 2003, EPA awarded $3.6 billion in grants directed by Congress, $656 million in grants awarded at its own discretion, and $934 million in contracts. Under the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977, whether EPA should award a grant or a contract depends upon the principal purpose of the award. In this context, GAO was asked to determine (1) the trends over the last 11 years on EPA's expenditures on discretionary grants and contracts and the types of goods and services obtained by each and (2) the extent to which EPA has and follows procedures for deciding when to use grants or contracts.
EPA's funding for discretionary grants and contracts had similar trends from fiscal years 1993 through 2003, suggesting limited migration between these funds in EPA's budget over this period. Although EPA grants data provide little information on goods and services obtained with discretionary grants, GAO estimates, based on its survey of grantees with grants closed in fiscal years 2001 and 2002 and that had project start dates after October 1, 1997, that the majority of goods and services fell into three categories: (1) research and development; (2) training, workshops, and education; and (3) journals, publications, and reports. EPA has specific procedures to guide decisions on choosing grants or contracts but often has not followed a very important one--documenting in its award decision memorandums the reasons for choosing a grant instead of a contract. EPA procedures define staff roles and responsibilities, provide examples of when to use a grant or a contract, and require documentation in the award decision memorandum to justify the use of a grant or a contract. However, in 64 percent (43 of 67) of the memorandums GAO reviewed, EPA did not fully justify its reasons for choosing a grant instead of a contract. It is unclear whether this shortcoming obscured inappropriate decisions to use grants instead of contracts. On the one hand, GAO's survey results showed that an estimated 8 percent of EPA's discretionary grantees would identify EPA as the primary and direct beneficiary. This estimate could suggest that the principal purpose of the grant award was acquiring property or services for EPA's direct benefit, and that EPA should have awarded some grants as contracts. However, for those grantees who identified EPA as the grant's primary and direct beneficiary, GAO's review of grant files and follow-up interviews indicated that some of these grants benefited both the federal government and the public and therefore could arguably have been awarded as either a grant or a contract.
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Recommendation: The Administrator of EPA should consider ways to improve project officers' compliance with EPA's requirement to properly document in award decision memorandums the justification for using a grant or a cooperative agreement instead of a contract.
Agency Affected: Environmental Protection Agency
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In response to the GAO report, on March 16, 2005, EPA issued new guidance to its offices to help them improve the documentation of the assistance versus acquisition decision. Specifically, the guidance is designed to assist program offices prepare more effective and comprehensive justifications for documenting acquisition versus assistance and grants versus cooperative agreement decisions. Several examples of good justifications are described in the memo. It also reminds them that a justification must be provided for all assistance agreements.
Apr 15, 2014
National Environmental Policy Act:Little Information Exists on NEPA AnalysesGAO-14-370: Published: Apr 15, 2014. Publicly Released: Apr 15, 2014.
National Environmental Policy Act:Little Information Exists on NEPA AnalysesGAO-14-369: Published: Apr 15, 2014. Publicly Released: Apr 15, 2014.
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Climate Change:Energy Infrastructure Risks and Adaptation EffortsGAO-14-74: Published: Jan 31, 2014. Publicly Released: Mar 4, 2014.
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Oil and Gas Management:Continued Attention to Interior's Human Capital Challenges Is NeededGAO-14-394T: Published: Feb 27, 2014. Publicly Released: Feb 27, 2014.
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Oil and Gas:Interior Has Begun to Address Hiring and Retention Challenges but Needs to Do MoreGAO-14-205: Published: Jan 31, 2014. Publicly Released: Feb 19, 2014.
Feb 12, 2014
Extreme Weather Events:Limiting Federal Fiscal Exposure and Increasing the Nation's ResilienceGAO-14-364T: Published: Feb 12, 2014. Publicly Released: Feb 12, 2014.
Feb 10, 2014
Drinking Water:EPA Has Improved Its Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Program, but Additional Action Is NeededGAO-14-103: Published: Jan 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Feb 10, 2014.
Feb 4, 2014
Coal Leasing:BLM Could Enhance Appraisal Process, More Explicitly Consider Coal Exports, and Provide More Public InformationGAO-14-140: Published: Dec 18, 2013. Publicly Released: Feb 4, 2014.
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Army Corps of Engineers:Cost Increases in Flood Control Projects and Improving Communication with Nonfederal SponsorsGAO-14-35: Published: Dec 20, 2013. Publicly Released: Jan 22, 2014.
Jan 13, 2014
Clean Water Act:Changes Needed If Key EPA Program Is to Help Fulfill the Nation's Water Quality GoalsGAO-14-80: Published: Dec 5, 2013. Publicly Released: Jan 13, 2014.
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From a distance, this Sky-catcher wall installation seems to be a simple wave-like pattern filling the walls of the Museum De Paviljoens in Amsterdam. As viewers step closer, a discovery of unimaginable details will blow you away. Artists Jonathan Puckey and Luna Maurer actually took the sky and hung it on the walls.
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Great alternative to a backpack! My niece is in 5th grade and this bag was just the fashion accessory to make her stand out this year! It's very unique, and the patterns are colorful and fun. She chose the ponies and loves it! Seems to be holding up well, too. I love GH designs -- they are always the most unique ones around. September 10, 2013
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Denali LED lighting for motorcycles - What sets our auxiliary headlights apart?
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Here we have an article comparing the Denali LED Lights to Vision-X Lighting.
This article demystifies Twisted Throttle's new Denali LED Lighting kits built specifically for motorcycles, and explains the similarity to Vision-X's line of automotive and utility lighting solutions.
We don't like to beat around the bush when it comes to finding the right gear for your bike. In fact, we usually just ride right through the bush, because we know our gear can take it.
Many companies make LED light kits with mounts and wiring harnesses designed for automobiles, but we've developed a kickass auxiliary lighting solution with road warrior bikers in mind! Rather than providing simple stand-alone LED pods, our LEDs are packaged in a motorcycle-friendly kit so that you have everything you need to install and use the lights on your bike right out of the box. The result: Denali Extreme LED Lighting from Twisted Throttle!
Here's a breakdown of how the kit contents differ from automotive kits:
- Denali LED kits include a full wiring harness that's the correct length to be installed on most makes and models of motorcycles on the market. This wiring harness includes a water resistant, flush-mount switch with LED indicators, so you don't have to worry about shorting out in foul weather. We decided to use a lighted switch so that you'd be able to see where the button was at night. Other brands typically include an automobile-length wiring harness, a non-water resistant, non-lighted toggle switch that requires a drilled hole for mounting.
- Denali LED pods have longer wire leads than similar Vision-X or PIAA automotive pods (24" vs. 6"). This allows you to install the lights in a variety of positions on your bike without worrying about an unattractive, bulky connector hanging in plain sight.
- Denali LED kits ship with black powder coated steel mounting brackets. Vision-X and PIAA brackets are unfinished galvanized steel that does not match the color of the lamp.
- Denali LED kits include 'Spot' driving beam lenses as well as wider 'Fog' beam lenses. The lenses can be swapped in seconds using a cross-head screwdriver, providing a wide range of available beam patterns. Vision-X and PIAA lighting includes only one type of lens per pod.
Twisted Throttle has developed bike-specific mounting kits to provide easy installation of Denali LED kits on all late model motorcycles sold in North America. From fender mounts to bike-specific light bars, we've done enough research to be able to offer two or three mounting positions for Denali LED kits on almost any make, model, and year of motorcycle. Most other brands have only developed a simple handlebar or crashbar mount and do not provide any bike-specific fitting information.
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There are so many signs of autumn in Maine this time of year: leaves falling, heaters clicking on, sweaters coming out of the closet.
Liza Bonnell's pumpkin pecan pie with bourbon cream won second place at the 2013 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest dessert contest.
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Oh, yeah. There are also pumpkin lattes, pumpkin doughnuts, pumpkin-flavored coffee, pumpkin-flavored beer, pumpkin pie-flavored Pop Tarts, pumpkin cream cheese and … well, you get it. (If you have fun keeping track of this kind of stuff, check out the Pumpkin Flavored Everything Facebook page at on.fb.me/1hqV6lt).
If you love pumpkin, why waste the calories on all of this artificial stuff? Real pumpkin is delicious, which is why its flavor has been incorporated into so many mass-produced products. Instead of downing a pumpkin Pop Tart, try baking with pumpkin at home instead.
"Baking with pumpkin is actually somewhat healthy, if you're going to bake, because it adds a lot of moisture in baked goods so you don't have to add as much oil or butter," said Rebecca Potter of Lyman, a nutritionist whose Pumpkin Brown Cake won first place in the Sept. 14 pumpkin dessert contest at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport.
I was a judge at the contest, along with Pamela Laskey, the owner of Maine Foodie Tours, and Christiane Hennedy, chef de cuisine at On the Marsh Bistro in Kennebunk.
Susan Axelrod, staff writer, judged the pumpkin dessert contest at the Oct. 12 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest. The 18 entries ran the gamut from simple and homey to elaborate creations, including pumpkin croquembouche – a version of the classic French tower of cream puffs – and pumpkin-chocolate caramels.
Several of the entries featured other ingredients that overshadowed the pumpkin, which kept them out of the winners' circle despite being tasty. The judges – including Alysia Zoidis of East End Cupcakes in Portland; Bremen native Jessica Meyers, a baking education instructor for contest sponsor King Arthur Flour; and Damariscotta municipal Judge John Atwood – awarded first prize to Pumpkin Icebox Dessert by 14-year-old Emma Goltz of Damariscotta. It kept the main ingredient front and center with perfectly spiced pumpkin custard on a gingersnap-pistachio crust.
"I took what I liked from one recipe and added and subtracted until I got what I wanted," said Goltz, a cook and avid baker who had never previously entered a contest.
We've compiled a few of the winning recipes, and some that just caught our eye. In all of these desserts, pumpkin is the star.
Rebecca Potter's Pumpkin Brown Cake
This is really a brown bread, but the raisins make it so sweet her family always calls it cake.
It's baked in an old coffee can, and Potter remembers having it at Saturday night supper.
"It's my mother's recipe," Potter said. "She adapted it from a children's book. My father always drank Folgers coffee in a metal can, so that's what she used. My mother also made her own baked beans, so we'd often have that on Saturdays – baked beans, hot dogs and cole slaw."
And pumpkin cake for dessert, sometimes with added nuts.
The judges liked the robust pumpkin flavor that shone through, and we could all imagine ourselves settling down on a chilly fall afternoon with a cup of tea and a slice of this cake.
Rebecca Potter, Lyman, first place, 2013 pumpkin dessert contest at Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport.
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Winners of the 2013 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest Dessert Contest, from left: Tyrrell Hunter, third place; Liza Bonnell, second place; Emma Goltz, first place.
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Pumpkin icebox pie by Emma Goltz was the first place winner in the 2013 Damariscotta Pumpkinfest dessert contest.
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Damariscotta Pumpkinfest Dessert Contest first place winner Emma Goltz (left) with contest chair Heather Troidl.
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Maegan Burke's pumpkin whoopie pies won second place in the 2013 dessert contest at Seashore Trolley Museum.
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MONTROSE – With the area's produce at its peak, it's time to celebrate nature's bounty, at the second annual Harvest Festival, Saturday, Aug. 8, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
"I think it is exciting to see what grows in this area, [to] see what your neighbors are doing," said Straw Hat Farms' Karen Byler.
"And if promoting healthy, local food can be fun, too, that's great."
The festival kicks off at the Montrose Farmers Market's regular Saturday sale,8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., in the new plaza at South First St. and Uncompahgre Ave., with approximately 25 booths of local vendors selling their fruits, vegetables, meats and other items.
But the Harvest Festival brings more to the event than just good food, with everything from chef's demonstrations to live entertainment from musician Chris Mullen to face-painting for the kids and workshops with Colorado State University Extension professional Frank Stonaker for their parents.
The workshops will be held in the Centennial Room, off of Centennial Plaza, across the street from the market.
Workshops covering how to make your garden grow, with a focus on healthy soil and fertility and organic planting, will be taught from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. From 2:45 to 3:45, learn tips and techniques from NAME Stonaker, an expert in the field, Brewer said. Then from 4 to 5 p.m., participants will learn about regional agriculture – about both small and big operations – and how they affect the local economy.
The market is seeking donations for the workshops, said Market Director Abby Brewer, who suggests attendees RSVP to 209-8463.
The festival, which started last year (and focused on garlic) has expanded this year, with something for everyone. There still is a strong garlic presence, however, at the Straw Hat Farm's booth.
Straw Hat Farms grows an acre of garlic and harvests between 60,000 and 70,000 garlic bulbs of seven varieties every year, Byler said.
"At the Harvest Festival, we will have garlic for planting which hasn't gone to the market yet," she said.
The farm will also sell tools for cooking with garlic, and sampler boxes ready to be shipped anywhere in the United States.
The garlic workshop will demonstrate how to braid garlic, after the stems have dried, in such a way that it's decorative and the garlic can be plucked without destroying the braid.
"We're in the height of the season – everything is in season right now," Brewer said.
The farmers' market will continue every Saturday and Wednesday at the outside venue until the end of September. In October, it will move to an indoor location, most likely in the Centennial Room, and take place on the first and third Saturdays of each month.
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Rana temporaria. Hyla cinera. Pseudophryne corroboree.
If none of this Latin rings any bells, it's probably because your junior high science teacher didn't burden you with learning a dead language during frog dissection day. The common names of those three frogs--the Common Frog, Green Tree Frog and Corroboree, respectively--are half of the characters serving as the dramatis personae of Ancient Frog.
Ancient Frog is a wholly original puzzle game from Ancient Workshop, a visionary one-man operation currently living "a better life" in New Zealand (a set of islands which, likewise, plays host to a variety of native and introduced frogs). When it comes to conservation efforts, some of Ancient Frog's represented species, like the Common Frog, are not a pressing concern when it comes to counting worldwide populations. Others, like the Corroboree, are critically endangered and can be found on the Red List for the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources). Without resorting to pedantry or subterfuge, Ancient Frog draws warranted attention to this beautifully-crafted branch of the animal kingdom.
The analogy has been used in other reviews--but it's an apt one--to describe the puzzles as indoor rock climbing gyms for frogs. Your sticky-footed four-legged protagonist traverses leaves, tree trunks, lily pads and even slabs of concrete in order to move from point A to point B. Point B is always a tasty goal; namely, a fly. Your frog is agile, but not impossibly so, which turns deceptively simple-looking "rock-climbing" puzzles into deft mind benders. One limb at a time, you move the frog across the shadow-played environment to the tune of jubilant birdcalls and rippled croaks.
The puzzles fluctuate in wavelength from "easy" to "impossible," and while it's largely done with steady succession, it's quite intentional to find a "normal" difficulty puzzle following a "challenging" one, and so on. Regardless, progression is linear by no means, and you may return at your leisure to the menu screen to cherry-pick which puzzle you want to try next (or again).
But when I say "menu screen," I mean "rows of flowers all found in various states of bloom": An unopened bud on the menu screen signifies an untried puzzle, while a fully-bloomed flower signifies a puzzle accomplished in the par number of movements. A par 17, for example, means getting your frog to the fly within 17 individually picked-up and put-down movements. Should you go higher than par, the par counter--depicted as a spring daisy--will begin to shed its petals like a game of He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not. This doesn't mean, however, that you straight-out lose. You can use up enough movements to strip your daisy down to its yellow capitulum, but if you (eventually) get the fly, you've passed. It may simply beckon you to a rematch later when you see that that particular flower (on the main menu) is reddened and diminished compared to the fuller-bodied and fresher flowers sprung from on-par puzzles you passed.
That, in addition to the absence of a timer, makes Ancient Frog a puzzler giving you all the time in the world. And if you complete all 100 of the puzzles, your steel-trap mind may still not rely on pure memorization to get you through revisited levels. The differing locations, be it on a cement brick or a mossy tree trunk, grow vaguely weary from replication--through no fault of the stunningly-rendered environs. Still, when you see how carefully crafted each leaf, each run of tree bark, and each verdant bed of moss is, it's hard to not harbor a desire to return at a future date. Still, after just so long, and after just so many visits to the same backdrops with the same species of frog, it begins to (unfairly) feel like Ancient Frog is nothing more than a one-trick pony. That's largely true, but considering the platform, the option to lose focus is a dangerous one.
Regardless, Ancient Frog's attention-to-detail swirls unobtrusively about the screen: The frog blinks, croaks, and flexes its toes in a wave pattern; the fly, with its teal abdomen and skittish, circular movements, waits patiently to be devoured (nature can be so beautiful and oh-so violent in tandem, kids); clingy drops of clear dew highlight possible "footholds" for your frog; and a gentle sparkle illuminates calculated puzzle-based movements. It's a vision that could only be "improved" upon by demanding that James Brown, the solo operation serving as the entire development and publishing brains and brawn behind Ancient Workshop, spend more sleepless nights creating new skins for the frogs (they currently number half a dozen varieties) and new blades of grass, branches and other natural paraphernalia for the cheeky little beggars to crawl around on.
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The always elegant Rowe was a guest speaker Tuesday at Holy Cross as the gymnasium once called The Pit was renamed for Tim McDonald, the school's first and highly successful basketball coach.
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