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Is that why you're a lifelong bachelor, Jon?
I've followed Dylan all of my life, things have changed. The respect, once held for him, as one of the greatest Artist of my generation, has vanished, into thin air.
Bob Dylan Refuses to Return Plaintiff James Damiano's Songs That Were Produced During The Discovery Phase of Damiano's Half a Billion Dollar Federal Plagiarism law suit with Dylan
"The Stealing of James Damiano's Songs by Bob Dylan"
thanks for the appreciation..
(typo: "pored", not poured–)
In order to understand love you have to understand hate. Bob has a bi-polar type mind, he can grasp both ends of the spectrum and utilize it all in a very unique artistic way.He can get you to fall mystically in love just as easy as he can get you to run in the opposite direction. Certainly a very interesting individual.
As I'm scrolling the screen,as soon as I see Jon 'name someone who's not a parasite 'Friedman's name,I bypass the article.
This. Book sounds like its based on a very weak and contrived premise. I predict it will bomb.
the picture says circa 1970. surely not. 1965/66 perhaps.
why doesn't someone write a love song about dylan…..other than the flawless diamonds and rust…..it should be called 'tangled up in dylan'
a love song from all his fans:)
why such vitriol against this john friedman guy? this is not the first time i've come across nastiness to him in comments.
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Arrest warrants sought for captain, two sailors of sunken ferry
Arrest warrants were sought Friday against the captain and two sailors of the South Korean ferry that capsized off the country's southwestern coast Wednesday, killing at least 28 people while 268 are still missing.
According to latest reports, 179 people have been rescued.
South Korean prosecutors filed for arrest warrants against 69- year-old captain, identified only as Lee, and the third mate and the helmsman of the submerged vessel, which was carrying 475 passengers, mostly highschool students, Xinhua reported Friday.
The captain, who was among the first to abandon the ship, has already been arrested on charges of abandoning the ship resulting in deaths, professional negligence and violation of the rescue act. The two crew members were charged with violation of similar laws.
The additional punishment law on specific crimes was also applied to the crew members as they escaped from the ship without making efforts to evacuate passengers first.
Earlier in the day, prosecutors said the third mate took the helm of the submerged ship in the last minutes before the ship sank.
The prosecutors told a press briefing that there have been conflicting reports on the whereabouts of the captain when the ship was sinking.
The captain and crew members had been questioned by prosecutors to figure out why the ship sank. The captain reportedly came back to the steering room after the ship began tilting.
The 6,825-tonne "Sewol" passenger ferry capsized and sank off Jindo Island, near the southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula, Wednesday.
The disaster was believed to have been caused by a sudden turn in direction at about 8.48 a.m. Wednesday. The second turn was suddenly made four minutes later.
The Coast Guard received a distress signal from the ship at 8. 55 a.m., and the ferry remained afloat for some two and a half hours.
While the captain and several crew members left the ferry, many passengers were left behind and failed to evacuate timely.
The ship's operator Chonghaejin Marine said that the ferry's regular captain who had been on leave was replaced by the arrested captain.
He was a veteran with eight years of experience on the Incheon-Jeju Island route.
Prosecutors searched the operator's headquarters, seizing documents and records.
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Maybe he didn't mean to say it. Maybe he didn't realize he was saying it. Maybe he just blurted it out because he was tired of avoiding it. Maybe he just loves playing games with the media.
Whatever the reason, head coach Chip Kelly on Monday finally declared Nick Foles his starting quarterback for the rest of the season: "Why would we change?"
Before he backtracked a moment later: "I was being sarcastic."
Let's be honest.
It's no secret Kelly isn't going to bench the record-setting Foles for injured veteran Michael Vick. Foles isn't going anywhere.
Foles tied an NFL record with seven touchdowns in a win in Oakland last week, then threw three more TDs in a win Sunday in Green Bay.
He's the first quarterback in NFL history with a passer rating of 149 or higher in consecutive games. His 16 touchdown passes this year are second-most in NFL history by a quarterback before throwing an interception.
He has the best interception ratio in NFL history. His passer ratings of 158.3 and 149.3 the last two weeks are the highest ever recorded against the Raiders in Oakland and the Packers in Green Bay.
His 132.5 passer rating is highest in the NFL this year, and his 97.2 career rating is third-highest in NFL history among quarterbacks who've thrown at least 400 passes.
Obviously, Kelly isn't benching him.
Especially because Vick is 33 years old, he's been hobbled since hurting his hamstring against the Giants Oct. 5, he's not under contract beyond this year, and he didn't play that well the last few games before he got hurt.
But until Monday, Kelly wouldn't even speculate about what would happen if and when Vick got healthy.
Monday, he finally did. And although he quickly backtracked, it's pretty clear he has no plans to take Foles out of the lineup any time soon.
"I think what we've done for the last two weeks has worked for us pretty good, so we're going to stick with that formula," Kelly said. "It's got us 16 touchdowns, no interceptions and two wins, so why would we change?"
Moments later, when asked to clarify his remark or confirm that he was actually naming Foles the starter for the rest of the season when he said, "Why would we change?," Kelly claimed he was being sarcastic.
It should be noted that his tone when he said it was hardly sarcastic. In fact, he sounded totally normal and serious when he spoke.
But moments later, he had retreated to his usual position that Foles will get first team reps Tuesday and there's no reason to commit to anything beyond that.
"I was being sarcastic," Kelly said. "I thought that would go over big in this crowd. A lot of times questions coming this way, there's a lot of sarcasm. You have to be able to catch and receive, you know what I'm saying?
"We don't have a quarterback deal because one of our quarterbacks is out banged up. It may be a scoop for all you guys, but first-team reps tomorrow, Nick's gonna take 'em for Tuesday. I said that tongue‑in‑cheek all week long.
"That's the way it's going to be. We don't have to make any decisions on anything because Mike's not going right now."
Foles has completed 63 percent of his passes for 1,256 yards, 16 touchdowns, no interceptions and a 132.5 passer rating this year.
Vick has completed 55 percent of his passes with five TDs and three INTs and an 86.4 passer rating.
Vick has not gotten through a game healthy since September.
Foles has won three of his last four starts, all on the road. The Eagles, 5-5, have won four of their last six, with Foles finishing all four wins.
Foles has thrown 173 consecutive passes without an interception and just five in 401 career pass attempts.
"I think Nick's really, really smart with the football," Kelly said. "Very rarely do you see Nick throw a ball where all of a sudden it's tipped, you know, when it's almost intercepted. ... I think he has a really good understanding of what we're doing. He doesn't really ever put the ball in harm's way.
"Most of the time, to his credit, he's going to the right spot where it should be. He does a good job of protecting the football, especially when the pocket breaks down. A lot of times that's where plays occur where all of a sudden it's turning a bad play into a worse play.
"Sometimes the right thing to do is just kind of pull it down and let's get the next snap off. I think that's what he's done. He's a real good decision maker. ... He is a better athlete than people think. He picked up a couple critical first downs for us again in that football game because he can make good decisions.
"So just really happy with how he's played in the last two weeks."
Happy enough even to name him the permanent starter. Even if he claims he didn't.
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New College's flag football team proved that a bunch of art students are no match for the mighty NCF juggernaut this past weekend, as the Null Set crushed neighboring Ringling College of Art and Design 25-0 in the annual Turkey Bowl. via [aerogare/FoxSports]
Sexton's vision, and his argument, bears some resemblance to the famous G.M. adage of the fifties: What's good for NYU is good for New York City, and vice versa. And what it means in practice is that the core of downtown New York is on its way to becoming a college town. [via NY Mag]
When the Magic basketball blog Orlando Pinstriped Post started gaining popularity, some who worked for or close to the team, including Magic TV broadcasters David Steele and Matt Guokas, speculated that someone in the Magic organization wrote the blog and would jokingly accuse one another of being "Ben Q. Rock," the site's anonymous writer. So when New College of Florida student and Orlando native Evan Dunlap, now 22, introduced himself as the real blogger to Steele and Guokas at a game last year, they had a good chuckle. "That was a very weird, surreal thing. A few years ago I was watching these guys call games on TV, trying to figure things out in blogging and learning more about the game. Now I can talk to them," Dunlap says. [read more via SRQ]
Zeigler says the experience of female athletes who are gay is very different. Although they are openly gay in larger numbers than men, he said female athletes had to fight the opposite stereotype — the assumption that all women who play sports are gay. As a result, female athletes who are gay have sometimes encountered harassment from coaches and fellow teammates. For male athletes, however, "the response is either indifference, or it's positive," Zeigler said.
Too bad both men and women don't have the same acceptance. (via johncoughlin)
Filmmakers Ben Foster and Oren Moverman are two more luminaries who have returned to Sarasota after a memorable run at the Sarasota Film Festival where their film The Messenger screened last year. On Wednesday, they met with students at the Ringling College of Art and Design's Digital Filmmaking Studio Lab to discuss filmmaking and development. [via SRQ]
Some of the crowd at Ringling College may not have known what they were in for when they attended a screening of AMC's Emmy Award-winning show Breaking Bad about a chemistry teacher who turns to cooking crystal meth after being diagnosed with cancer. Though Ed Carroll, Chief Operating Officer of Rainbow Entertainment, which owns AMC, charmed during the subsequent Q&A session on Wednesday night, more than a few audience members were forced to walk out during the particularly tense and bloody episode of a show critically hailed for both its dramatic chops and, as Carroll told these viewers, "a macabre sense of humor." He explained, "What we try to do every time Walt White makes a bad decision—and he's made a ton of them—there are severe implications."[via SRQ]
Yeah, I got to see the next episode of "Breaking Bad" early.
Women are now just as likely as men to have completed college and to hold an advanced degree, part of an accelerating trend of educational gains that have shielded women from recent job losses. Yet they continue to lag behind men in pay.
Women with full-time jobs now have weekly earnings equal to 80.2 percent of what men earn, up slightly from 2008 but lower than a high of 81 percent in 2005. [via HuffPost/AP]
OK so women are about to surpass men in advanced degrees, already have higher B.A. numbers and represent more of the workforce. Yes, even when controlling for experience and education, numbers still indicate that women make less. Can we move closer to equal pay please?


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The rumba is the vertical expression of a horizontal wish. You have to hold her, like the skin on her thigh is your reason for living. Let her go, like your heart's being ripped from your chest. Throw her back, like you're going to have your way with her right here on the dance floor. And then finish, like she's ruined you for life.
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Fuck high school. In elementary school the whole classroom was your Valentine. We were in this shit together.
10 years from now people are gonna ask me how my teenage years went and I will just start crying
11 more days & i get to see this beautiful man's face!!!!!! <3333333333
It's scary to find someone that makes you happy. You start giving them all of your attention because they're what makes you forget everything bad that's going on in your life. They're the first person you want to talk to in the morning and the last one before you sleep just so you can start and end your day with a smile. It all sounds great to have that someone, but it's scary to think about how easily they could just leave and take that happiness away too when they go.
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So, normally with this type of review - the type ending in a big score - the criticisms are left to the end. Let's not do that this time - it means finishing on a sour note, and then trying to rope it back with a hasty "But it's awesome!" UT3 is insane, and brilliant, so we're going to get what's wrong with it out of the way early.
The PS3 version doesn't run quite as smoothly as the PC version, and the default controls will probably feel slow to you - luckily, you can make them more responsive in the options menu. For the fourth entry in the series, Epic has concentrated a lot more on the offline campaign. Here are the two worst things about UT3: the bots and the offline campaign. You play Reaper, a man in a dress with a hilariously crap goatee. You, your sister Jester, your token black sidekick Othello and apparently Catholic sniper Bishop are all that's left of the Ronin, a band of... yada yada... destroyed by whoever when they inevitably... etcetera. It's tragic. The campaign consists entirely of one-off matches comically unrelated to the absurd briefings, and punctuated now and then by cutscenes of you arguing with a man in a beret.
The matches themselves are great. Let's take a whirlwind tour of the changes to the basic combat: Shield Gun gone! The original Impact Hammer is back, and it's superb - smashing someone open with it jars your view and splatters you with thick, black blood. The Enforcer pistol still sucks. But to its eternal credit, if you fire it at point-blank range, you hold it gangster-sideways. The Biorifle is gorgeous and deadly, the Lightning Gun's shot-trace has been merged with the Sniper Rifle, and the Minigun is now absurdly overpowered.
Now brace yourself for this one: the Flak Cannon has been nerfed. A little. It's slower, but still lethal and even more gruesome when fired point-blank. After the initial outrage fades, this actually makes a lot of sense - it was so powerful before that there was rarely any reason to switch away from it. Here the Rocket Launcher firmly dominates medium range, so you're always flicking between the two when you're fully stocked. Movement is slightly slower, and there's a halt when you land from a jump, so there's less airy-fairy bunny-hopping all around.


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Bunji Garlin – "Differentology" and Tifa – "Champion Bubbler" fans put up a decent fight, but 2NE1 are MTV Iggy's reigning queens once more! Former Best New Band in The World, 2NE1′s CL, Dara, Minzy, and Park Bom once again show off their fierce allure in recent hit, "Falling in Love," MTV Iggy's 2013 Song of the Summer.
The reggae-inspired hip-hop track is the perfect accompaniment for a summer beach party. It's laid-back music video alternates between shots of the members lounging in the solid gold lap of luxury and flirty scenes with model-turned-actors Lee Soo Hyuk and Hong Jong Hyun.
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A one-month progression of our tomatoes since our first week:
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Soup of the week featuring leeks, snap peas, avocado, and mint. Served cold:
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Shelling peas!
Hello, folks! Austin here, a summer intern from Park Ridge, Illinois. This week was chock full of interesting experiences, whether it was building a fourth high tunnel over one of our fields or visiting Common Ground High School, a local environmentally-focused charter high school in New Haven. Despite our focus on our less-than-an-acre farm and repeated discussions of the importance of local food, I can't help but focus on some of the global aspects and influences present on the farm.
Focusing on the food, produce from the farm can end up in a variety of ethnic dishes. Just the other day, a man visited and asked if he could harvest some of the leaves from our grapevine in broken English. Mentioning that he was Turkish, I can only assume they were stuffed with meat to make dolma, a popular Balkan dish. Similarly, purslane is a weed on the farm cultivated by members of the surrounding community to be eaten as a leaf vegetable — common both to European and Asian cuisines. Our gorgeous Salanova lettuce and spicy mixture of mustard greens and arugula is delivered weekly to Miya's, a loosely Japanese restaurant in New Haven heralded for pushing its patron's preconceived notions of what sushi ought to be. Not to mention, we're growing ginger and horseradish for the restaurant that will be debuted in the fall.
While the dish that a food may end up in can be specific to a certain cuisine, let's not forget that some start out as regionally specific. The D'avignon radishes (also called "French Breakfast" radishes), Pimientos de Padrón (peppers native to Padrón, Mexico that each have a 1-in-10 chance of being extremely spicy), Hakeuri turnips (a Japanese variety of the root vegetable), and bok choy (often referred to as "Chinese cabbage") all exemplify the diverse crops we're growing and flavors we're tasting.
Even before our weekly harvest, though, the organic practices and Yale Farm traditions being implemented are not wholly original or necessarily unique to the Northeast. Our precision seeder is a product of Jang Automation Co., Ltd., a Korean agricultural supplies company. The natural pesticides we use, crushed chrysanthemums and neem oil, are native to Europe and India, respectively.
Perhaps most deliciously, I can't ignore how our pizza oven reminds me of the Italian-American immigrants that put New Haven on the map as a Mecca of "apizza" in the Neapolitan style.
While the movement to change the food system pits — among other dichotomies — local foods and long-distance or imported foods against each other, there's no denying that the "local" food we grow and techniques used to grow it — even on just an acre — are internationally inspired.
Farm intern Justine Appel '15 gives a personal account of the Lazarus Summer Internship:
It's impossible to pick which day of the Lazarus Summer Internship was my favorite, but here are some contenders: The day we pressed 1,300 soil blocks (imagine eleven large wooden flats loaded with brownie-like cubes of soil) and filled them with lettuce seeds so tiny they looked like coffee grounds. The day I hung hundreds of feet of twine from the top of a hoop house so that our climbing beans could grow upwards into a beautiful curtain of vines and leaves. Maybe the day we sliced up 25 basketball-sized cabbages, soaked them in brine, and packed them into big white buckets to ferment into incredible sauerkraut (if you think sauerkraut is gross, you clearly haven't tried making your own). Perhaps the day we visited the gorgeous Thimble Islands, and when the tide was too high to continue clamming, went trolling through the water at such a high speed that we would go flying whenever we hit a wave and couldn't contain our screams and laughter. Definitely the evening of our visit to the Yale-Meyers forest, eating blueberry crisp out on the porch and sharing stories as the sun went down.
The Lazarus Summer Internship is the Yale Sustainable Food Project's summer-long program in which six Yale College students manage the Yale Farm. This includes preparing beds, seeding, irrigating, and harvesting crops, and finally selling them at the CitySeed farmer's market at Wooster Square every Saturday. But what the internship offers beyond that is what makes it extraordinary. The interns get to go on weekly field trips to organic farms around Connecticut, and take weekly classes on topics such as the economics of small farms, food lexicon, and soil science. The educational dimension of the internship showed us how the principles and techniques of organic farming could apply to farms much bigger than our beloved acre, and farms that were more animal-based (including a sustainable oyster farm!) than ours. We picked the brains of brand new farmers, struggling farmers, farmers who managed large heated greenhouses, and farmers that had experienced significant losses due to pests and diseases.
At the end of the summer, we went to the Northeast Organic Farming Association summer conference: three days of classes and workshops taught on everything agricultural, from worm composting to efficient irrigation to increasing food access in impoverished urban settings. Between the beginning of June and the end of August, all six of us had gained not only an understanding of how to grow and care for a diverse array of crops, but also tremendous insight into the world of sustainable food and the many paths we could take to get more involved. The YSFP staff taught us not only how to make perfect pesto and how to properly grow leeks, but how to think critically about the big picture issues inherent in our food system.
The internship, like the Yale Farm itself, demands real effort from your mind and your body. Most days, I would come home and collapse on the couch with a book and a big spoonful of peanut butter, lacking the energy to even hop in the shower and wash all the soil out of my hair. But, also like the Farm, the rewards far exceeded the amount of work we put in. Fresh vegetables to take home every week, the opportunity to pick up several new skills and experiences every day, and the lasting bonds we formed with each other and with the incredible staff far surpassed the value of our monthly stipend.
I cannot recommend this opportunity more strongly. All of this past summer's interns had different areas of interest, and different reasons for wanting to work on a farm all summer. If you love to learn, and more importantly, if you love to eat, you should spend the summer on the Yale Farm and see what crazy adventures it brings.
Farm intern Justine Appel '15 on why caring about food and agriculture doesn't make her a hipster:
When I found out I was going to be a summer intern at the Yale Farm, I felt like I had secured a dream summer for myself: working outdoors, growing and eating wonderful food, and learning from and with people who cared as much about sustainable agriculture as I did. After volunteering on the farm throughout my freshman year, I was seriously looking forward to further developing my comprehension of the problems and challenges of our food system. But around the same time my interest in the sustainable food movement heightened, I started noticing a strong, adverse reaction to it.
One morning, I opened the Yale Daily News magazine to find myself labeled a pretentious hipster. When I expressed my frustration with factory farming to one of my close friends, she told me that I was developing extremist tendencies. When I told my mom that I was going to try to eat more seasonally, she became defensive about buying strawberries in December. "Don't you like strawberries, Justine?"
Whether being gently mocked by a Portlandia episode or accused of attempting to make food into some sort of religion or art form, I can't seem to escape the stereotypes associated with passion for farming and concern for how we can feed seven billion mouths without contaminating our air, water, and soil. What I thought were good intentions are often perceived as idealist, naive, and, most disturbingly, elitist.
I reject being placed in special category of people who think about the way they eat, one that is characterized by privilege and even by extravagance. Being food conscious is not something inherently white, wealthy, or seductively bohemian. Moreover, such a discourse is dangerous because it strips everyone outside a certain social category of his or her agency to eat well, affordably, and ethically. Accepting that eating sustainably and locally is somehow bourgeois is both denying history and legitimizing a system that restricts access to fresh, healthy food within poor communities.
Don't dismiss the sustainable food movement because it seems like a hipster's cause. People who think of it that way will tell you that you can't afford to buy organic. But with the world population expected to reach 9 billion within our generation's lifetime, what we really can't afford is ignorance or denial of the agricultural challenges ahead. No, we probably can't feed the world on small-scale organic farms, but we certainly can't go on burning more fossil fuels in order to have our winter strawberries while 870 million people go undernourished. We should strive to create a world where no one is too poor, too disadvantaged, or most importantly, too busy to exercise their right to healthy food.


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In this special episode of Two and a Half Geeks, we welcome Alex Chang from MSI into HotHardware's Connecticut lab to talk about some of the innovations going on at MSI. Alex and Marco talk about the new Z77 MPower motherboard, for which every board goes through an overclocked stress test before ever hitting store shelves. Alex and Marco also discuss the high-end MSI N680 GTX Lightning and its various customizations, including the "GPU Reactor", and the MSI R7770 Power Edition with its multi-mode TransThermal cooler with Dust Removal technology...
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Those designs are frickin awesome. I did not expect that motherboard to be that inexpensive, nor did I expect that video card to slide like that.
yeah I totally like the designs and the hands on look at those MSI boards.really deecent pricing on the Z77 mainboard too.. Definitely a great and flexible design with the cooling of the GPUs ..thanks Alan for stopping in and WTG HH with this video .
The motherboard validation process is cool. That they take the time to test it in real world conditions and don't charge a lot extra for it is awesome!
I like that the motherboard is not gaudy as well. It's a clean look.
The 680 card is well thought out too. (a power conditioner?) This speaks to system stability.
This was very informative (thank You Alex) and it ~does~ make me want to try this technology out now!
yeh that mainbaord does look clean and has some really great features for convenience with positioning and I think Alex mentioned that the Z77 series of mobos where a all real world tested and the price jump from the G series was only about $25 bucks for a heck of a lot more enthusiasts features and connectivity.
Thanks Marco and Alex ! My needs don't quite extend to apparatus in this performance class, but this stuff was really mouth-watering ! MSI seems to have really done some hard thinking here to provide enthusiasts with top class components. I'd very much like to build a machine using that motherboard and a top-class GPU and that Twin Frozr, just for the hell of it. But since I'm not a gamer, it'd just be overkill. In any event, I very much enjoyed this video....
Don't know how I missed this for two days lol.
Some very cool products indeed. Very nice price for that Z77 mobo. And I like the coordinated color scheme with the GTX 680.
But what really caught my attention was the adaptability built into the 7770 card. With the ability to configure the fans 3 different ways this card can be used in almost any case. Hopefully they can use this design for more of their video cards.
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More than one-half billion years ago, the central United States was covered with warm, shallow seas. Over the centuries, the seas laid down layers of sediments, shells, and lime deposits. Jordan sandstone, deposited during the Cambrian period, forms the oldest layer within Effigy Mounds National Monument. The sandstone is generally located along the base of the east-facing bluffs. Dolomite limestone of the Prairie du Chien formation overlies the Jordan sandstone. The limestone forms the dominant geologic strata of the area.
Fayette silt loams comprise the principal soils of the hilltops. Developed from silty wind-blown materials known as loess, the brownish-gray topsoil is four to eight inches thick. It covers a yellowish-brown clay subsoil which extends to twenty-eight inches below the surface. The steep hillsides are covered by a six- to twelve-inch thick layer of sandy soil resting on bedrock. The soil is very thin, and exposed bedrock is common.
Eastern hardwood forests overlap with western grass lands, resulting in a heavily forested area punctuated with prairie openings. Climax stands of oaks, hickories, maples, and basswoods claim the steep hillsides, while the drier, shallowsoiled southern bluff sides and the bluff tops bear small prairie openings with various stages of succession interspersed at random. Threequarters of the national monument is situated on these uplands; the remainder consists of floodplains, ponds, rivers and creeks. The Sny Magill unit, located about ten miles south of the headquarters area, is situated almost entirely on the Mississippi River terrace.
When the Mound Builders occupied the area, the uplands were dominated with sugar maple and basswood forests possibly dotted with openings of prairie on the ridge tops. Currently, vegetation is similar or at an earlier stage of succession. White and red oaks, shagbark hickories, basswoods, and big tooth aspens dominate the northern portion of the monument's north unit. Ironwoods, chinquapin oaks, eastern red cedars, and blue beeches are also present. The area immediately north of the Yellow River contains red oaks, sugar maples, shagbark hickories and big tooth aspens. Red oaks and sugar maples, white oaks and shagbark hickories comprise the south unit forest. The Sny Magill unit, a river floodplain which overflows annually, is dominated by elms, green ashes, silver maples, and swamp white oaks.
Today, the larger openings in the north and south units are remnants of historic agricultural activities, and are populated to varying degrees with exotic species of grasses and shrubs. Encroachment threatens to eliminate these openings.
Scientists have conducted no formal survey of wildlife present in the national monument, but the area seems to be typical of eastern hardwood ecosystems. There have been occasional sightings of gray foxes and coyotes; and although not sighted within the monument boundaries, evidence shows that such rare and endangered species as the black bears, bobcat, and river otters may inhabit the area. Almost three hundred bird species nest in or migrate through the national monument. These include peregrine falcons, redshouldered hawks (which nest on the Yellow River floodplain), and bald eagles. The Higgin's eye clam, a Federally endangered species, lives in the Mississippi River on the monument's edge. Other rare or endangered species located within Effigy Mounds National Monument include goldenseal, genseng, sullivantia, glandular wood fern, leather grape fern, golden corydalisut have produced a variety of studies resulting in an excellent information base on the park's cultural and natural heritage. [1]
The quests for information began before the monument was authorized. As mentioned above, the first archeologists to study the mounds in the area were Theodore H. Lewis and Alfred J. Hill, who surveyed the area in 1855. Ellison Orr conducted his research early in the twentieth century.
The National Park Service prepared several reports during the 1940s, when authorization of a national monument seemed certain. In 1946, Regional Historian Olaf T. Hagen prepared his "Pictorial Record of Features on and near Areas of the Proposed Effigy Mounds National Monument," which contained a photographic introduction to many of the area's archeological resources. The following year, NPS Archeologist Jesse D. Jennings wrote a summary report on the effigy Mound Builders culture based on Orr's work and other sources. [2]
With the national monument's authorization imminent, Service Archeologist Paul Beaubien traveled through Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio in late May 1949, to study mounds and artifact collections in those states. Beaubien also presented talks on burial mounds and the Mound Builders at the University of Illinois in Bloomington, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, the Illinois State Historical Museum in Springfield, Dickison Mound State Park, and Cahokia Mounds State Park near East St. Louis, Illinois; the Ohio State Historical Museum, Mound City Group National Monument, and Siep Mound State Memorial in Ohio; and Angel Mound State Memorial, Indiana. Beaubien met Dr. Charles Keyes, a major promoter of the movement to protect the effigy mounds, at Mount Vernon, Iowa. Keyes loaned some of his manuscripts on the northeastern Iowa mounds to Beaubien, which proved beneficial to the Service's understanding of the area. [3]
Beaubien conducted his first field work at Effigy Mounds National Monument in May 1950, when he and Superintendent Joe Kennedy surveyed and recorded the mounds in the south unit. The following month, Beaubien cut longitudinal trenches through a linear mound, a bear effigy, and three conicals near Hanging Rock. The excavations were intended to gather data and materials for interpretive purposes; unfortunately, the mounds yielded very little of either commodity. A five-foot-wide by seventy-seven-foot-long trench dug in a 106-foot linear mound, for example, was void of artifacts, as was the bear and most of the conicals. One conical mound yielded some charcoal, allowing the archeologist to fix the date of the mound at 930 years old plus or minus 300 years. [4]
The following autumn, the National Park Service entered into identical cooperative agreements with Clayton and Allamakee Counties' Soil Conservation Services whereby the county agencies prepared soil conservation plans in consultation with the National Park Service and then implemented the plans on nonFederal lands. The Park Service assisted with the preparation of the plans, and implemented them within the national monument. [5]
In 1952 Beaubien returned to Effigy Mounds to work with the monument's staff archeologist, Wilfred D. ("Wil") Logan. The focus of this research project was the large collection of mounds located south of the existing national monument in an area called Sny Magill. As discussed earlier, the Sny Magill mounds had been considered for inclusion in the national monument since the 1937 Baker, Butterfield, Hummel report, but was excluded from the monument's original boundaries for a variety of considerations. Sny Magill was managed in part by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and partly by the Fish and Wildlife Service. There was some fear that logistical problems in transferring the needed land from those agencies to the National Park Service would delay the establishment of Effigy Mounds National Monument. Others were concerned that the Corps' insistence on retaining flooding rights to ensure safe navigation of the Mississippi River could be inconsistent with the monument's preservation mission. All hoped the mounds would receive some measure of protection because they were already in Federal ownership. The exclusion of the Sny Magill mounds was never intended to be permanent, however, and in 1952 the National Park Service sought and received permission of the Corps and the Fish and Wildlife Service to do some archeological testing at Sny Magill to confirm or dispel the belief that the mounds merited the protection of the national monument. [6]
The field work took several weeks to accomplish, and conditions during the summer of 1952 were not pleasant. (Indeed, summer conditions at Sny Magill, a swampy area covered with poison ivy and thistle, are never hospitable to intruders!) Access to the mounds was difficult, as described in a letter from Beaubien to Regional Historian Merrill Mattes:
The 1952 survey work at Sny Magill left no doubt concerning the significance of the site, in spite of the fact that archeologists did not locate a village site as they had hoped. Excavation of Mound 27, a bird effigy, yielded important information about the Effigy Mound Builders culture. Mound 24, a mediumsized conical, contained Hopewellian artifacts, and Mound 7, a small conical, contained evidence of both the Hopewellian and the Effigy Mound Builder cultures. Mound 43, a large conical, contained several burials. The crew's investigation confirmed that several mounds at Sny Magill had been vandalized. Upon completion of their work, the crew refilled the holes and seeded the land, thus restoring the shape of the mounds. [9] Beaubien completed his report on the project in 1953.
Monument Archeologist Logan accomplished other work in 1952 independent of Paul Beaubien. His article, "Past Iowa Archeological Research and Future Research Trends," appeared in the first issue of the Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society. The article, which summarized work done by the several archeologists who had worked in northeastern Iowa, received commendations from National Park Service Chief Historian Herbert Kahler. [10] Logan and two assistants excavated Mound 33 during the summer of 1953, uncovering a coppery breastplate and several burials in the conical mound. Logan completed his report on the work the following year. [11] He used data he gathered in and near the national monument to prepare his report, "Woodland Cultures of Northeast Iowa." Logan, who was completing the requirements for his doctoral degree at the University of Michigan, also used this data as the basis for his dissertation. When he accepted a transfer to Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia, in mid-1957, Logan requested an extension on the due date for the Park Service version of the report until after his dissertation was approved. Superintendent Berrett objected, saying he needed the completed report as soon as possible to guide his interpretive programs. Acting Chief of Interpretation Merrill Mattes agreed, and the deadline was not changed. [12]
Early research at Effigy Mounds National Monument was not limited to the area's archeological resources. In 1956, the Service undertook an ethnobotanical study to identify wild plants in the area, photograph them, and use the data for interpretive programs. [13] At the same time, national monuments systemwide were preparing what were then called "administrative histories," summaries of resources and current management strategies, according to a nationally prescribed format. The program was intended to obtain information about park management to guide the Mission 66 development program. [14] Like many such programs, this assignment was to be undertaken by park staffs whether or not there was appropriate staff available to accomplish the work. At Effigy Mounds, where there was no historian on staff, the job was assigned to Archeologist Logan. [15] Logan's administrative history comprised three major parts: a brief history of the area; some discussion of the establishment of the national monument; and a description of major developments and research activities. The document, which totaled less than fifty pages, was the Service's first formal attempt to document the history of Effigy Mounds National Monument. [16]
In 1957 the Region allocated $50,000 for further research at Effigy Mounds National Monument. There was a need to prepare a base map of known archeological sites which would guide management decisions concerning Mission 66 developments, and for additional data for interpretive programs and exhibits. For the first time, Regional Chief of Interpretation H. Raymond Gregg advised against conducting further excavations at the national monument. He pointed out that hundreds of mounds in the general area had been excavated, producing very little in the way of artifacts. Gregg believed effigies already damaged by cultivation would produce sufficient data for interpretation, and that artifacts gathered in previous excavations could supply materials needed for museum exhibits. [17] The decision to conduct nondestructive testing has remained the standard at Effigy Mounds National Monument since that time.
The flurry of research activities continued during the late Fifties and early Sixties. In August 1957, Wayne H. Scholtes, a Professor of Soils at Iowa State University, took soil samples and conducted a pollen analysis of the samples. [18] The following year, Regional Soil Conservationist Fred Dickison visited to park to gather data to develop a strategy for vegetation maintenance at the national monument. [19] The monument staff worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1960-61 to record observations of bald eagles in the area. [20] Another cooperative venture enlisted the State Archeologist to survey and map the mounds in 1960. [21] In 1963, the Park Service contracted with an Iowa State University student to develop a herbarium for Effigy Mounds National Monument. The student located 329 species of plants within the monument's boundaries. [22] State Archeologist Marshal McKusick revisited the monument in July 1964 to study the Ellison Orr papers and make notes on excavations within the monument boundaries. [23]
In addition to all of the planned research, an important discovery was made quite by accident in the summer of 1963. Following up on a suggestion made by Wil Logan, formerly of the monument staff and then Regional Archeologist, staff Archeologist Garland Gordon noticed a few sherds eroding near the mouth of the Yellow River. James Gordon, who was with his father at the time, informed Garland he had "found some of 'those' near a spot where he fishe[d] occasionally." [24]
Garland Gordon investigated the site his son pointed out to him at the juncture of the Yellow and Mississippi Rivers on the Nazekaw Terrace and knew at once it was significant. Historically, the site was situated above the river flowage and protected by the bluffs immediately to the west. The series of locks and dams constructed on the Mississippi River during the 1930s, however, caused frequent inundation of the terrace. Exposed by unusually low water levels in 1963, Gordon discovered [25] a large middle Woodland site with some Late Woodland and Oneota materials. He photographed the area, then collected over 2,000 items including projectile points, celts, anvils, part of a gorget, and a "surprising amount of bone" from just below the waterline to approximately two feet above it. There were also some remnants of historic occupation of the area. [26] Based on his initial investigation of the site, Gordon recommended it for inclusion in the national monument. Further testing revealed the site probably extended across the railroad tracks and onto the terrace holding the visitor center.
Archeologist Gordon and Superintendent Donald Spalding shared concern over the lack of protection afforded the site, christened the "FTD Site," because of its exclusion from the monument's boundaries. They agreed to keep the site's location secret from all but the professional community until they could better protect it from vandalism. [27] Protection from vandalism proved less a problem than protection for the erosive action of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi, artificially high because of the Corps of Engineers' series of locks and dams, was scouring the bank and destroying the FTD site.
Subsequent testing has been coincidental with periods of unusually low water levels in the Mississippi River, as was the case in 1975 when the Luther College Archeological Research Laboratory under David Benn and Dean Thompson studied the FTD site. These investigations revealed successive layers of artifacts indicating long-term occupation. The Gordon and BennThompson investigations were stopped by water in the test pits, apparently with several feet of productive strata remaining below the water table. Groundpenetrating radar investigations recently indicated that archeological materials are present twelve or thirteen feet below grade. [28]
Benn and Thompson were so impressed with the site's significance and so distraught at the impact of wave action on the site, they submitted a copy of their preliminary report to State Historic Preservation Officer Adrian Anderson, and requested his help in protecting the site. Benn and Thompson also sent a copy of the report to the Corps of Engineers District Office in St. Paul, Minnesota; [29] the St. Paul office was responsible for maintenance and operation of the series of locks and dams north of Guttenberg, Iowa.
In June 1976, several Corps of Engineers officials, including Assistant Chief of Engineering Peter Fischer; Chief Counsel Michael Ferring; Arthur Pera, Chief of Hydrology and Hydraulics; John Seeman, Chief of the Reservior Regulation section of the Hydraulics Branch; Environmental Resources Chief Robert Post; and Archeologist Daniel Bowman met to discuss the erosion problem and determine what, if any, responsibility the Corps had in abating it. After considerable discussion, they agreed that Mississippi River navigation made possible by the system of locks and dams was a major cause of the erosion which was destroying the FTD site, and the Corps of Engineers had some responsibility to mitigate the effects of the erosion on the FTD site. [30]
Lack of funds and confusion over who was responsible for preparing National Register of Historic Places documentation for the site delayed any further action by the Corps. In 1979, the Corps of Engineers allocated funds for data recovery at the site, but a bureaucratic snafu prevented a contract for recovery from being awarded before the fiscal year ended; thus the Corps lost both the dollars and the proposed contract. [31] Coincidentally, Eastern National Park & Monument Association [32] offered $3500 in matching funds for research at the FTD site in 1979; the monument's Eastern National Parks agent, Archeologist James Mount, rejected the offer because of the Corps of Engineers commitment to take action. [33]
As it turned out, the technicality which prevented the award of a data recovery contract in 1979 saved the site. David Berwick, who succeeded Bowman as the Corps' St. Paul District Archeologist early in 1980, met with Stan Riggle of the State Historic Preservation Office staff at the FTD site in April of that year. Berwick believed data recovery of such a significant site should be undertaken only as a last resort; he resolved to determine whether the site could be preserved in situ. [34]
He discovered that it would not only be possible to preserve the site, it would be less expensive than the previous plan to recover and curate the materials. With the full support of the state historic preservation office, the Corps of Engineers contracted with Archeologist David Over street and the Great Lakes Archaeological Research Center to collect surface materials at the FTD site. [35] In consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages many of the islands in the project area, the Corps of Engineers hired a contractor to repair the scour holes and repair damage to the shoreline in the vicinity of the FTD site. J.T. Brennon Co., Inc., of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, accomplished the work in 1981. [36]
Not much formal research was accomplished at Effigy Mounds National Monument during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Luther College accomplished a reconnaissance survey of the Ferguson property in 1974; the college's report recorded the two bear mounds discovered by Ranger Bill Reinhardt a few years earlier. [37]
In 1975, Robert Q. Landers of Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa, conducted a survey of native prairie remnants in Midwest Region parks; this was the first time the Service studied the prairie stands at Effigy Mounds National Monument. Landers' study revealed that the national monument contained some prairie remnants of good quality, and recommended that action to preserve and restore the prairie be undertaken. A follow-up study by University of Wisconsin student Greg Moore in 1983 confirmed Landers' findings and recommended the use of prescribed burns to restore the prairie and prevent further encroachment of woody species. Dr. Thomas Blewett from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa, conducted a more thorough vegetation survey in 1986 and reiterated Moore's recommendations, adding that immediate action was needed to protect two of the field areas and eight bluff top prairie remnants. [38] Shortly there after, the National Park Service prepared a fire management plan to guide the prairie restoration efforts at Effigy Mounds National Monument.
The fire management plan was both a research and a resources management document. It studied "the historic role of natural fire in setting back succession of natural communities" and presented a strategy for using controlled burns to reduce fuel buildup and arresting succession while sup pressing natural and accidental fires within the monument. [39] Implementation of the fire management plan began in 1987.
Volunteers produced the first aerial photographs of the Sny Magill unit in 1980. Dr. Clark Mallam and several others from Luther College [40] worked with monument staff from March 15 to April 7, 1980, to clear the mounds of shrubbery and outline the bases of the mounds with sixteeninch wide powdered lime borders. On April 12, the Prairie du Chien Flying Club donated two hours of flying time and a pilot to fly over Sny Magill so they could be photographed. A $250 research grant from Luther College covered transportation costs related to the project. [41] The aerial photographs were very important in assessing the accuracy of information concerning the Sny Magill mounds. The photographs showed, for instance, that existing maps of the mounds in the unit were only approximate in size and arrangement; that five mounds were being eroded heavily by Johnson's Slough, and an unknown number of mounds north of the monument boundary had been destroyed by erosion. Further, the photos showed there were at least ninetyseven mounds in the unit, not ninety-six as previously thought. Twentyfive of the mounds showed signs of relichunting. Finally, the aerial photographs showed signs of late nineteenth and early twentieth century occupation of the vicinity. [42]
Apparently, the relatively informal 1980 aerial survey stimulated a desire to use similar techniques to test the accuracy of existing data, particularly in instances where one investigator's records contradicted another's. In autumn 1986, the National Park Service contracted with Aerial Services, Inc., of Cedar Falls, Iowa, to provide photogrammetric data and topographic maps of Effigy Mounds National Monument. Aerial Services' technicians flew over the area twice, taking measured photographs from elevations of 1500 and 3000 feet above grade. [43] In the summer of 1987, the National Park Service sent a crew of archeologists [44] under the leader ship of Janis DialJones to verify reports on previous archeological studies at Sny Magill. Vegetation in the area was already 1.5 meters high when the crew arrived, and working was difficult. [45]
DialJones and her team found the photogrammetric maps were accurate, but failed to show the lowest mounds such as numbers 58 and 60, nor did they show small features such as depressions in the mounds. Park Ranger Robert W. Petersen's 1983 "Summary of the Mounds in Effigy Mounds National Monument," which contained a map and verbal descriptions of the Sny Magill tumuli, contradicted earlier reports by T.H. Lewis and Paul Beaubien. Archeologist DialJones and her crew investigated three discrepancies raised in Petersen's 1983 report. They investigated Mounds 95, 9, 12, and 13, and found Petersen's map to be accurate; Beaubien's 1953 report showed the mounds to be further north than they actually were. The team found that Petersen's map of the area east/northeast of Mound 59 was not accurate. Finally, Petersen's verbal descriptions contradicted his own map in regard to the sizes and locations of Mounds 92, 93, and 94; the 1987 field check demonstrated that Petersen's text was largely accurate, but his map of these features was not. [46] Further, the crew identified fifteen mounded features not identified on previous maps which may be burial mounds. [47]
The DialJones team also prepared site forms for sixty-five of the known Sny Magill mounds and fifteen mounded features in 1987. The forms recorded the conditions of the mounds, including the presence of potholes, animal burrows, or trees. Where animal burrows were present, the forms indicated the size and number of burrows and whether they were active or inactive. Forms for mounds with trees stated the size and condition of the trees. All of this information served as a base for subsequent monitoring and management of the Sny Magill unit. [48]
While studying the mounds, the archeologists noted several indicators of historic latenineteenth and early twentieth century use of the area. Many of these failed to show up on the photogrammetric map of the area, and were discovered solely on the basis of careful field investigation. Although the tall vegetation made it impossible to determine the magnitude of the historic occupants' impact on the mounds, the crew noted considerable evidence of historic use of the central portion of the mound group, and recommended further study when vegetation was not so high. Because the water level of Johnson's Slough was exceptionally low in 1987, the crew used the opportunity to survey the bank of the slough, where they found both prehistoric artifacts and materials dating from the late nineteenth century to the present. [49]
Indeed, the summer field crew uncovered a great deal of information concerning the Sny Magill mounds, and set the stage for another flurry of research activity. The National Park Service contracted with Chuck's Surveying and Mapping, Inc. to conduct a new survey of the unit in November 1987. [50] The Service also contracted with Elizabeth Henning of Oneota Enterprises, a Calmar, Iowa, research firm, to prepare a land-use history of Sny Magill. The study involved researching documentary sources such as tax and land records, maps, newspapers, and other sources to determine how the area had been used historically. [51] The Service awarded a third re search contract in autumn 1987 to Arthur Bettis III of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to conduct a geomorphological study of Sny Magill. Bettis conducted twelve tests: eight with a manuallyoperated five-centimeter diameter probe, and four soil pit analyses. The study was intended to study how land forms at Sny Magill developed and how they had changed over the last 2000 years. This would help the National Park Service determine how the artificially high water levels caused by Pool 10 had affected the site; whether the frequent flooding of the area was a recent (twentieth century) or a centuriesold phenomenon; whether those floods were removing topsoil or leaving silt deposits, and where prehistoric occupation and use of the area was likely to have occurred. [52]
Bettis' "Surficial Geology and Pedology of the Sny Magill Unit of Effigy Mounds National Monument," the new survey, and the archeologists' 1987 field work provided the foundation for further archeological research in 1988. Janis Dial-Jones returned to Sny Magill in the spring of 1988 with Archeologists Rene Botts and Giselle Barrett to complete site condition forms for the remainder of the known mounds and for an additional mounded feature and to collect detailed transit information on the portion of the mound group adversely effected by historic occupation. As suspected, the mounds in the area were lower than in other parts of the mound group, and some were damaged or destroyed by historic use of the area. [53] One of the frustrations Archeologist DialJones faced while working at Sny Magill was inconsistent identification of the various mounds by previous researchers. Over the years, several archeologists had applied their own numbering systems to the Sny Magill mounds, resulting in much confusion. After two summers of intensive field work at Sny Magill, Dial-Jones noted that the maps prepared by T.H. Lewis in 1885 were the most accurate in terms of documenting the sizes and relative locations of the various mounds. She recommended that the Lewis system be used consistently for all future references to the mounds at Sny Magill. [54]
Also in 1988, Dr. Dale Henning of Luther College conducted a surface inspection of the unit and subsurface testing of the area between known mounds, including testing of some of the mounded features identified by Dial-Jones and her crew. When his excavation revealed a burial in one of those "mounded features," Henning verified that it was a linear mound, unrecorded prior to the 1987 field work. Henning also investigated three rock shelters at Effigy Mounds National Monument to determine whether they contained archeological materials; all three of the shelters tested contained artifacts. [55]
For almost half a century, the National Park Service has sought information on her wealth of cultural and natural resources in an effort to meet the mandate set forth by President Truman when he set aside the monument. While the Service has made steady progress in building a firm base of knowledge to guide its resources management activities and educational programs, there is still much to learn. Over the coming decades, new research techniques and conscientious application of current research procedures will continue to improve our understanding of the cultural and natural re sources at Effigy Mounds National Monument, and of the interaction between these two types of resources.
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The Beast
The sun dangled low in that dust-choked town,
just like the eyes of the folks all around
on that day when the stranger rolled in from the east.
Low whispers that murmured his name called him Beast.
The scars on his skin worn like medals of war
but it's what he kept hidden that frightened us more.
The bartender froze as he watched the saloon
fall prey to the spell, like stars courting the moon
The stranger just stood there, his hand on his hip
His eyes warned us all… don't you give me no lip.
From under his stetson, he eye-balled the place
bad life and dark shadows etched deep in his face.
We all coulda died there, that hot April day
cause the evil that lurked stole all breath away.
Only the fans from the ceiling above
dared make a noise. Then he slapped down a glove
on the bar. Let me tell ya, my heart skipped a beat
Even ants ran for cover out into the street.
It felt like a million light years had gone by
when finally that Beast made a move, blinked his eye.
He nodded his head to a bottle of Jack
Bartender poured it, sweat beads down his back.
We all took a breath, and a big shot of booze
'cause we knew if it happened…. we knew we'd all loose.
Whiskey and bourbon and smoke filled the air
those who were standing looked 'round for a chair
cause everyone knew this nite would never end
'til that stranger moved on 'round the next dusty bend.
I remember it well. It was one for the books.
How a man could stop time without words… with just looks.
The sound of her heels on the street claimed the nite
the woman in red - who gives blind eyes their sight.
Her scent filled the air, like a flower in June
her eyes like two gems, carved right out of the moon.
Sashaying her way to the bar…. and the Beast
We all closed our eyes, said a prayer at least.
But prayers and wishes, she needed them not
this dame claimed more hearts than pure gold could have bought.
From under long lashes, her gaze stole the floor
red lips slightly parted. We just evened the score.
A showdown in dust town this hot April Day
Believe me, I tell ya, it happened this way….
Her skin was like velvet…her hair like spun gold
Beautiful, dangerous, sassy and bold.
She sat on the stool beside him that day
and somehow her smile chased his evil away.
From under his hat, his eyes said "hello"
but what she said back, we will never know.
She lifted her gown, with red nails, to her thigh
Black garter and stockings….this dame wasn't shy.
I guess we all knew how this story would end,
and that stranger would never go 'round the next bend…
She knew what she wanted from this Beast in the nite,
with cigarette in hand, "hey handsome, got a light?"
(c) Kay O'Hara


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The Texas Longhorns basketball team travels to Norman tomorrow for a rematch with the Oklahoma Sooners.
Texas (21-7, 10-5 Big 12) is looking to exact revenge for an 88-85 loss to the Sooners in Jan. This is the only loss the Longhorns have had at home in Big 12 play this season. In that game, Buddy Hield hit four three-pointers on his way to a team-high 22 points. Oklahoma hit a season-high 13 three-pointers that night. Javan Felix led Texas with 28 points. Damarcus Croaker added a career-high 15 points off the bench.
Saturday's game is a crucial contest for both schools. Texas is tied with Iowa State for second place in the Big 12 standings. Oklahoma (20-8, 9-6 Big 12) is a game back. The winner of this game could very well be in the driver's seat for the second seed in the Big 12 tournament. Iowa State has tough road games remaining versus Kansas State and Baylor.
Texas rebounded from two bad losses to Iowa State and Kansas to beat Baylor 74-69. The Longhorns blew a 15 point halftime lead, but showed enough poise to hang on after Baylor drew within one late in the game. Felix hit seven three-pointers to lead the Longhorns in scoring with 21. Cameron Ridley owned the paint, scoring 20 points and grabbing 10 rebounds. Jonathan Holmes continued his workman-like season by chipping in 14 points and eight rebounds.
Oklahoma dropped a tough road game against Kansas. The Sooners hung around for most of the game, but could not find a way to stop Kansas late. Cameron Clark had 18 points in a losing effort.
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Dinner for a crowd -- preferably somewhat cheap!
- LaureltQ Jan 23, 2011 02:03 PM
In our circle of friends, we are the only ones with a place large enough to entertain and for everyone to get together in, and I am also known as the one who "can cook." We have a friend who is coming to visit from out of town this coming weekend, and our house has been designated as the location where we'll be having a party. That means that I'm tasked with providing dinner for about 10 people. I don't mind doing it, and I expect to spend several hours getting everything together, but I just need some ideas. I've done pulled pork bbq sammiches with coleslaw, corn bread, and baked beans before, BLT sammiches, tortilla soup, etc for them before. I don't mind going a little more complex, but strong ethnic flavors will probably scare these guys away. I'm basically looking for some rendition of man-food that can be served buffet style and will be delicious and somewhat inexpensive. I'd like to spend under $75 when all is said and done if possible. Dessert is cinnamon sweet rolls with cream cheese frosting and maybe some type of cookies or ice cream sandwiches made from said cookies.
re: LaureltQ
This lasagna won't fail you. Promise.
re: c oliver
It really won't. It's so good.
If, however, making fresh pasta for company puts you off, I also use Marcella's Bolognese and Besciamella combo when I make baked ziti (actually, I use cavatappi--the same thing, only squiggly).
I like it with a nice salad, also dressed according to Marcella.
I made these chicken pot pies over the weekend and they were pretty good. I made 4 pies, but had enough filling to do at least 8. I froze the rest.
Not exactly buffet style, but you can make them ahead of time and then bake them all at once when it's time.
re: Azizeh
I'm not sure that I have enough of the right dishes for pot pies for all of my guests. And hubby doesn't like them. :(
I'm so picky! Sorry!
re: LaureltQ
You can do it as one big pan.
I would go with cut up Baked Chicken or Roasted Chickens....or a full Loin of Pork. both are inexpensive presently in the markets @ under two bucks per pound. Salad, Rice or Potatoes, Vegetables some nice Crusty Bread should easily bring you in under $75. If you really want to fool them, get some Popeye's Fried Chicken for a buck a piece.
re: fourunder
I really like this idea! I was thinking of getting a pork loin at costco this week to make a bunch of irish bacon. I could just grab and extra and brine it beforehand.
Then mashed potatoes, gravy, roast broccoli, a big green salad with goat cheese, olives, cherry tomatoes, and freshly made croutons, oh my!
This is a great option. Any great recipes for pork loin? It's so lean you really have to keep on it, no? I have a gallon baggy full of hypodermic needles that I use to inject butter into turkey breasts. Perhaps I could use this method (rosemary infused maybe?) on the loin to help keep it moist.
re: LaureltQ
I'm a simple guy, so I like to use Kosher Salt and Fresh Ground Pepper mostly.....Rosemary and other herbs maybe, but my experience is there are many that fresh herbs are not enjoyed by most....especially guys. I also like to use dry rubs from the Szeged company, the Rib Rub specifically.
For a whole loin, I cut it in half, season liberally over night if possible, then remove fro the fridge a couple of hours before I plan to roast.... I pan sear, then transfer to a rack over a sheet pan allowing as much separation as possible between the two pieces of meat.....roast low and slow @ 225 for about 2-2.5 hours or 150*,shut off oven and it rises to 160* .....comes out moist and tender and I see no reason to wet brine, as it's almost impossible to overcook the meat this way.. Cutting into two pieces of meat makes it easier to fit into the oven and it also makes it easier to slice on the cutting board. I like to slice into 1/4 inch slices and fan out on a platter with the vegetables in the middle. For Loin specifically, I do not mind a short brine of an hour or two, but I am not a fan of 12+ hour overnight brines....it turns the meat into a texture of delicatessen or boiled ham in my opinion and not preferred.
re: LaureltQ
Pork loin braised in milk keeps it moist, succulent, and offers a rich and creamy sauce that isn't very different from gravy in the end, too.
re: LaureltQ
This is from Ina Garten's "Parties!"
Or, Marcella Hazan's loin of pork in milk (already mentioned here) is very good.
re: LaureltQ
I posted a recipe for pork loin earlier today. You put it in a cooking bag and dump 1 Cup each brown sugar, dried apples, dried apricots, dried prunes, and 1/2 cup wine. Cook to desired doneness. Serve sliced on a platter surrounded with the fruit, with rice. I never make this any more, but it was always the first dish to disappear any time I served it or folks I gave the recipe did. Came from the NY Times magazine years ago. If you don't like sweet meat dishes for dinner, nevermind! <Emily Litella voice off>
re: LaureltQ
I make Italian style pork loin, it's a family favorite:
Take your pork loin or your very long one cut in half so you have two.
Dip in beaten egg.
Bread in a mixture of bread crumbs/fresh grated parmesean.
Brown each piece on all sides in a pan with some hot olive oil.
When done, put in a deep pan, something like a turkey roaster. Cover very generously with either homemade marinara sauce or a good quality one like Rao's.
Cover with pan lid, or tightly with foil. Bake about two hours until done. Uncover, top with thin slices of mozzarella cheese and bake 10 more minutes uncovered until cheese melts.
When ready to serve, slice the meat and put it on a platter with some more grated parmesean on top.
Serve the sauce in separate grave bowls. Serve with pasta, green salad, garlic bread.
re: LaureltQ
LaurelQ - How do you make Irish bacon?
re: buttertart
The same way you'd cure normal pork belly Bacon, but use a pork loin. Its similar to Canadian Bacon but less freakishly round.
re: LaureltQ
Real Canadian "back bacon" is loin and isn't round. And it isn't that peameal stuff rolled in cornmeal or whatever either that some Americans are convinced is the real deal - that's a different item entirely. Do you have a recipe?
re: buttertart
Links to my blog posts. No particular recipe, just a technique, but it's super easy.
re: LaureltQ
Very interesting, thanks! If I can ever get space in my fridge, this will be on the list of things to try.
re: smtucker
I love making sloppy joes, but it feels like more of a weeknight meal to me. And I kind of feel like this is something my guests may make for themselves already, which kind of reduces the wow-factor.
re: LaureltQ
Ah, you didn't mention wow, just "man-food." I am impressed that your friends make their own tater-tots!
How about a polenta with a braised meat sauce over the top? Or a roasted turkey with all the sides that you like? A true Texas-style chili with cornbread and a few fresh salsas, and an avocado salad?
re: smtucker
Hahahaha, of course they don't make their own tater tots, I doubt they grind their own meat or even make the sauce from scratch, but it's still the same "meal."
Giada's Chicken Tettrazini is her husband Todd's favorite, she says. It's really delicious. I make it with penne instead of spaghetti. Add a large salad and crusty bread. It feeds a lot of people. Not quite sure it would go for ten, but you could make two platters.
Here are some of my favorite group meals. Lasagna, with Caesar Salad. Baked Ziti with meatballs and salad. Or just meatballs and fresh subs rolls. You can add a Pasta e Fagiola for a nice hearty soup. Sweet and Hot Sausage with roasted potato and onion or with Peppers and Onion for sandwiches. You can make a roasted, seasoned pork shoulder or pork butt, (Porchetta), and slice it up and let it sit in it's own juice for sandwiches. You can make chili with cornbread. Baked smoked sausage or Polish kielbasa and sauerkraut. You can make some baked, stuffed breads like pepperoni and cheese. You can do a Muffalatta.
Most of those are pretty easy and inexpensive to prepare and serve. Most will hold up to any buffets also.
Like you, I am the friend that "can cook". I find my expectations for myself are always WAY higher than that of my guests who are happy just to have real food. So I imagine you can go easier on your self than you imagine. I am learning myself how to lighten up a little.
Spaghetti with a homemade bolognese sauce is another good make ahead with salad and garlic bread.
This is the recipe that I have used to delight my friends. I have this cookbook and it is my go to. I started using Kendall Jackson Chardonnay back in the day when that was all I knew for the white wine and the results are so great I just stick with it. I follow the recipe exactly. I always double whatever I think I'll need though.
You can make the lasagne less expensive by making a Bechamel in substitute for some of the cheese.
Simple old fashioned baked chicken thighs and drumsticks with salt, pepper and dried parsley - makes even the pickiest connoisseur drool like I've done something magical. (Crazy I know - these are friends I've travelled the world with dining at some REALLY amazing places too.) With homemade mashed yukon golds with twice the butter you think you should use. You can make some cravy out of he chicken juices too.
Also, people LOVE a good meatloaf. I've cooked so many fancy and delicious dishes for my book club, but I get a lot of requests for my meatloaf.
I guess, at the end of the day, so many popele don't get homecooked food any more, that they really just LOVE great food - cooked well.
I'm sure you;ll get so many good ideas on this post and no matter what you choose, it will be a great night.
My suggestion would be oven baked BBQ tenderloins and some smoked sausages. You would need 4 tenderloins and about 3 pounds of sausage. You could serve potato salad and some beans. Maybe a sheet cake for dessert or in Texas, we serve banana pudding.
Another suggestion would be spaghetti and meatballs, salad and garlic bread. If you don't want the hassle of meatballs, you can add the ground beef and ground sausage to the sauce.
Another suggestion would be a casserole like shepherd's pie served in three 3 9x13 pyrex dishes.
since it sounds like they're a sandwich crowd, how about high-end grilled cheese? the possibilities for combinations of cheese and toppings are practically endless.
i was also thinking Banh Mi with Vietnamese meatballs, but you said this group doesn't go for the strong ethnic flavors...
These are the suggestions that I've offered the guys to choose. There's a poll on the local message board we're all on to stay connect (wow, what dorks).
A) Roasted pork loin with garlic mashed potatoes and gravy, some veggies, and a big green salad
B) Spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread and a big green salad
C) Chicken pot pie with a biscuit topping(instead of traditional pastry) and a big green salad
D) Boeuf Bourginon over parmesan polenta
E) Pulled Pork Tacos with all the fixins
re: LaureltQ
This is one of the funniest threads I've ever seen. After ONE HOUR you've already narrowed it down. What a hoot!
ETA: And you let your guests VOTE. LOL :)
re: c oliver
You gotta love the Chowhound community!
re: c oliver
I just couldn't muster up any ideas in my head. We're admidst the planning stages of a kitchen remodel, flooring replacement, and are in the middle of knocking out part of a wall adjoining our dining room to another room. I feel like my brain is fried and I can't get into menu planning!
re: LaureltQ
Its easy to draw a blank when your mind id full Good luck with your remodel and let us know how dinner turns out!
re: LaureltQ
How come the boeuf borguinon doesn't get the big green salad?
re: femmevox
Dunno? I usually have it in a bowl all by itself. Woulda been great with a salad. Unfortunately, none of the guys seem interested with foreign sounding food. Looks like pulled pork tacos are on the menu. :sigh:
re: LaureltQ
Just have to ask. What is a pulled pork taco? Is it barbecue or Latino flavor? Soft or hard tortillas? Corn or flour? What are the fixins?
And tell me why your guests get to vote? I entertain a good bit. My guests don't get to vote :) You cook what YOU want.
re: c oliver
Taco done with somewhat latino flavors. Pork butt rubbed with chili powder, brown sugar, etc. Cooked til tender, then shredded and topped with some lime juice. Served with warm corn and flour tortillas. Fixins include crema (creme fraiche), cheese, restaurant style salsa, guac, etc.
If there's something they'd rather have, then I'll happily make that for them. If they don't want something, I'll make it for myself to eat and have leftovers! I don't care that much either way.
re: LaureltQ
So do your guests actually tell you they don't want to eat something? This is kinda freaking me out. I hear a family member say such things but not guests. Whew.
re: c oliver
Absolutely not. They are very gracious whatever I make. I just don't see the point of making one thing if they'd rather have another and I don't really care either way.
re: LaureltQ
But if they don't 'protest,' how would you even know?
re: c oliver
I ask whether they'd like A or B. Their responses usually include "Well I don't know what that is, so I'll have the other thing." and even if I explain it to them, they'd still rather have something familiar.
I know that my tastes aren't generally the same as my peers (20 somethings who for the most part don't recognize food out of a box) and something that may be a regular meal for me is not something they're interested in. Of course I don't always ask what they want. Sometimes there's something specific I'd like to make, and if they don't want it, tough.
re: LaureltQ
Oh, I didn't realize that you and your friends are so young. It will change.
re: c oliver
I'm sure it will. I recently started doing a "cooking class" with 3-5 of the guys to teach them some strong basic techniques and recipes to build off of. Last week we did roast chickens. This week we're making beef stroganoff with homemade egg noodles.
Once they start feeling more comfortable in the kitchen, I'm going to work on broadening their horizons.
re: LaureltQ
I was just wondering about making homemade egg noodles. How would those differ from an egg pasta? Is it the same, or are there other, additional ingredients?
re: roxlet
Say, did you get around to trying the KA pasta attachment? Been meaning to ask.
re: roxlet
I make them just like normal egg pasta. Instead of using the cutter attachments though, I cut them into 1"x 2-3" sheets so they feel more like egg noodles from a package.
re: LaureltQ
That is very nice of you, LaureltQ! Obviously they are interested enough to attend "class" so I say good for you for taking their hands and helping them along.
Realizing that they can make delicious roast chicken and homemade noodles will open a world of possibility for them. Well done!
re: LaureltQ
Tacos were foreign sounding once--
re: femmevox
In the early 1960s, a women friend of my mother's announced to the assembled group, "Ohhhh, Tarcos (sic), I wouldn't insult my stomach with them."
Maybe not for this particular dinner, but I must tell you that Elie Krieger's White Chili recipe on foodtv.com is easy, not expensive, healthy and really quite good. I am NOT such a "Food Network" fan when it comes to making the stuff- although I LOVE to watch- but this one really turns out great!
You can adjust the proportions for the size crowd you have. I make it w/ homemade cornbread, salad, fun drinks and wine and all different sorts of things for add-ins. You can also make it in advance and then have everything ready when your guests arrive-including yourself!
re: LaureltQ
I find this one to be healthy, very flavorful and easy to "tweak" to one's own particular taste. On one occasion, I added portobello mushrooms to give it a different feel and enjoyed it that way, too.
If they vote for chicken pot pie, this one is really good:
Has a little ham along with the chicken and a biscuit topping with sharp cheddar.
It's leaning toward burgers with sweet potato fries. QFC has pot roasts buy one get one free this week, so I'll buy a few and whatever I don't use for burgers, I'll feed to the dogs.
Fixins for the burgers (as of this point, and please give me suggestions) include:
sliced avocado rubbed with lime juice to stay fresh and sprinkled with salt
sliced tomato
butter lettuce
homemade bacon, fried until crispy on the outside and tender on the inside
sharp cheddar cheese
caramelized onions
sautéed mushrooms
homemade mayo
ranch mix added to greek yogurt
dips for the sweet potato fries will be:
garlic aioli
ranch mix added to greek yogurt
caramelized onion dip
re: LaureltQ
So A B C D and E are out? Is this a joke???
re: c oliver
I added "F" on a whim and it's ahead by 3 points out of 10 dinner attendees. You must think I'm totally crazy.
re: LaureltQ
You're dealing with a bunch of people who care nothing about food so it's not a surprise that they opt for burgers. Maybe you shouldn't try to make them Chow-worthy at this point.
re: LaureltQ
I know I shouldn't ask.... You're buying pot roasts for the burgers? I guess you are grinding them yourself?
re: TrishUntrapped
Yep. I use the Martha Stewart method of grinding everything on the coarse die, then grinding half on the fine. That gives you burgers that hold together but still have a great beefy texture.
Fajitas. Just grill some chicken (boneless thighs) and beef with chunky sliced bell peppers, onions. Have bowls of shredded cheese, sour cream, avocado (with chopped tomatoes, lime, chopped onions, cilantro, garlic) on the table..and a stack of tortillas. Everyone assembles their own taco. Definitely under $75 with room to spare for beer. Also, the avocado can double as a chunky guacamole dip with chips.
Of course, pizza and pasta never fails too...