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Canada tabs six from MLS for friendly

a host of greater fraternity soccer players will represent canada in a highly-anticipated friendly against brazil at quest greensward in seattle, undulate. on may 31, it was announced thursday by canadian coach dale mitchell.

Among those chosen for Mitchell’s 23-man roster were Dwayne De Rosario and Pat Onstad of the defending MLS Cup champion Houston Dynamo. Toronto FC has a pair of players on the roster in goalkeeper Greg Sutton and defender Jim Brennan, with the group rounded out by Los Angeles Galaxy defender Ante Jazic and FC Dallas midfielder Adrian Serioux.

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Canada also boasts a squad of 15 players who are European-based, including midfielder Julian de Guzman of Deportivo La Coruna in Spain’s La Liga.

The match in Seattle, which will be home to an expansion MLS team in 2009, is the first of two for Brazil on its U.S. tour. The Brazilians will also meet Venezuela at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., on June 6, following an MLS match between the New England Revolution and FC Dallas.

Canada will also face CONCACAF rival Panama in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on June 4 before beginning Stage II of World Cup qualification against St. Vincent and the Grenadines in a home-and-away aggregate series beginning June 15.

“Our first game against Brazil will be a big occasion, but both matches will be invaluable in helping us to assess and prepare for our main focus, which is the qualifying process that begins next month against Saint Vincent and Grenadines,” Mitchell said.

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Canada has faced Brazil three times before, including a scoreless draw at the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup in Ibaraki, Japan.

CANADA ROSTER

GOALKEEPERS: Lars Hirschfeld (CFR Cluj/ROM), Pat Onstad (Houston Dynamo/USA), Greg Sutton (Toronto FC), Joshua Wagenaar (unattached)

DEFENDERS: Jim Brennan (Toronto FC), Adrian Cann (Vancouver Whitecaps), Marcel de Jong, (Roda JC/NED), Tam Nsaliwa (AEK Athens FC/GRE), André Hainault (Sparta Praha/CZE-on loan from FK SIAD Most), Ante Jazic (Los Angeles Galaxy/USA), Mike Klukowski (Club Brugge KV/BEL), Richard Hastings (Inverness CT/SCO)

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MIDFIELDERS: Paul Stalteri (Fulham FC/ENG; on loan from Tottenham Hotspur), Adrian Serioux (FC Dallas/USA), Issey Nakajima-Farran (FC Nordsjælland/DEN), Atiba Hutchinson (F.C. København/DEN), Dwayne De Rosario (Houston Dynamo/USA), Julian de Guzman (Deportivo La Coruna/SPA), Patrice Bernier, FC Kaiserslautern/GER)

FORWARDS: Rob Friend (Borussia Mönchengladbach/GER), Ali Gerba (FC Ingolstadt/GER), Jaime Peters (Ipswich Town FC/ENG), Tomasz Radzinski (Skoda Xanthi/GRE)

HEAD COACH: Dale Mitchell Kaka - Best is yet to comeNo Schwarzer talks for BoroFire’s Frankowski excited for friendlyCompetition intense in friendly

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Four Colly Birds - Why Blackbirds Should be Wary of Mince Pies!

Now you may be thinking why this post isnât titled âFour Calling Birdsâ?

The truth is that the original wording of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ song is ‘Four Colly Birds’, an archaic nickname for blackbirds. Over the years, as ‘colly birds’ has fallen into disuse, the rhyme has transformed through misinterpretation into ‘Four Calling Birds’.

So do blackbirds have any significance at Christmas? Actually, they do, as they were originally one of the ingredients in the humble, yet popular, mince pie.

No way, I hear you cry! Mince pies are those small pastries filled with mixed fruit and spices. How could a blackbird be included in that?

Ah, but the history of the mince pie has a lot more to it.

The Origins of the Christmas Pie

The mince pie used to be a major and central part of the Christmas feast. Rather than being a small dessert or snack-sized pie, the mince pie was a huge and lavish dish, filled with as many lavish and luscious ingredients as could be found, including blackbirds.

This meant that the pie contained far more than fruit. In fact, any kind of meat and poultry was minced together with fruits and spices.

In medieval times, this was simply called âThe Christmas Pieâ, and would often be shaped into a crib, to reflect the religious festival.

Of course, when Oliver Cromwell led the Puritans to power in England during the Seventeenth Century, this type of âabominable and idolatrous confectionâ was outlawed. The Christmas Pie was made illegal.

But, as with other Christmas traditions during Cromwellâs reign, it went underground. The Christmas Pie became a round, traditional pie and was called a Mincâd Pie, so as to avoid prosecution.

After Cromwellâs regime was removed in 1660, the Mincâd Pies remained in their new form, growing larger and more lavish.

A Farm in a Pie

One incredible pie baked in 1770 contained the following.

The pie was so large that it needed to be fitted with 4 wheels to enable in to be served.

Other Blackbird Pie References

Of course, there is one other historical reference to blackbirds and pies, confirming their original popularity as a tasty pastry ingredient. In the popular nursery rhyme âSing A Song of Sixpenceâ the second line refers to âFour and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pieâ. Although the rhyme reveals these to be live birds, the implication is that a blackbird pie was certainly not unusual.

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Could the rhyme actually be referring to a Christmas Pie?

The Modern Mince Pie

It wasnât until the Nineteenth Century that the mincemeat was gradually omitted and replaced with suet, nuts, fruits, spices and syrups. Bizarrely, this concoction was still referred to as mince, and sometimes even still as mincemeat, in reference to the origins of the dish.

The pie became smaller, and found its new position as a traditional dessert or small treat.

These days, we buy jars of fruit mince to make our mince pies, even though there is nothing minced about these ingredients at all.

So next time you see a blackbird, consider how they used to be one of the favoured eating birds of Christmas, and how lucky they are the tradition has passed.

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Dear Yahoo: You Suck. Love, Carl

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carl icahn has written one-liner of his poison pen letters to yahoo’s chairman of the board, roy bostock, urging him to sell to microsoft or else. while bostock and his board were all busy “completely botching” the microsoft see to, icahn tells the chairman, he went and acquired a controlling stake in the circle and ginned up a tabulate of potential candidates for a replacement board, he says, among other niceties, and, well, it’s safe to say that someone is going to be crying into his pillow tonight. it is clear to me that the plank of directors of yahoo has acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders and microsoft. it is quite obvious that microsoft’s bid of $33 per share is a superlative surrogate to yahoo’s prospects on a standalone basis. i am perplexed by the board’s actions. it is irresponsible to go into hiding behind management’s more than damned optimistic financial forecasts. it is unconscionable that you would rather not allowed your shareholders to choose to accept an offer that represented a 72% premium in excess of yahoo’s closing price of $19.18 on the day before the inaugural microsoft offer.

Of course, he doesn’t really want to do all of those mean things, Icahn adds. It can totally be avoided! All Bostock has to do is to basically be his bitch. Now you have a nice day, Roy!

Icahn Says Yahoo ‘Completely Botched’ Microsoft Talks [NYT/DealBook]

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SCE Worldwide Studios gets new president

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ever since phil harrison shocked the games dynamism by leaving sony computer entertainment (sce) for atari, there has been a crucial vacuum in sony’s management. in the interim months, kazuo hirai was the acting president of the worldwide studios, but effective today, there will be replacement.shuhei yoshida has turn the fashionable president of the sce worldwide studios. he began his career with scei in april 1996 as one of initial members in establishing the playstation business. since then, he moved on to sony computer entertainment america (scea), where he ultimately became chief vp of the us studios.in a press story from tokyo, kazuo hirai, president and congregation ceo of scei commented about the additional position. “sce wws has been developing global hit titles, sharing resources and identify-how within sce group since its basement, and we will strengthen our software firm by auxiliary enhancing coordination develop into the studios under a new leader. under the leadership of yoshida, who has proven track record in managing creative talent, sce wws will accelerate the software development for the playstation(r)3 and psp(r) (playstation(r) portable) platforms and vigorously up the gaming vend.”the ps3 and psp are both trailing behind competing home and portable platforms. it will take refocused leadership on sony’s part if it wants to rejuvenate its former glory in the games energy. we wish yoshida the best of stroke of luck in his new job at sony.permalink email this linking blogs comments

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