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Michael Fort of the Baltimore County Public Schools discusses the importance of intuitive design and how VoiceThread encourages student-centered learning and engagement.
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in The Journal of Extension February 2018 // Volume 56 // Number 1 // Tools of the Trade // 1TOT6, Rebecca Mott, Senior Research Associate University of Missouri Extension Columbia, Missouri
In today's digital world, Extension professionals are using a wide variety of tools to gather feedback and data from program participants and stakeholders (Rowntree, Wittman, Lindquist, & Raven, 2013). Through online asynchronous discussion boards, chat rooms, and even online live synchronous discussions, the Internet has changed the manner of qualitative data collection forever (Stancanelli, 2010). VoiceThread (http://voicethread.com) is a multimedia platform used by primary and secondary school educators around the world as a storytelling and collaborative tool that also offers promise as a tool for qualitative program evaluation. The unique features of VoiceThread provide a rich backdrop for conducting virtual focus group interviews.
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in Karin Sari Saputra S.Pd., M.Hum.
English Literature Study Program, STIBA Invada Cirebon
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This paper discusses how synchronizing Web 2.0 technologies, particularly by using VoiceThread, is able to help English speaking teachers to improve their formative feedback in the teaching of speaking skills. This study shows that the use of VoiceThread able to become one of the solutions to help teachers who want to provide specific, clear and accurate feedback on oral performance activities. This study is an action research, which involves six EFL learners at one of the universities in Indonesia. Before VoiceThread can contribute to improving teachers' formative feedback, this study found that teachers need to do the following five matters, they are: (1) Making learners profile; (2) Making lesson plan; (3) Understanding formative feedback; (4) Determining assessment rubric, and (5) Implementing VoiceThread. Implementing VoiceThread is not only designed to help teachers improve their formative feedback, but also make their students able to notice and learn their teacher's formative feedback afterward. To achieve these objectives, the result of this action research study indicates that giving formative feedback by using VoiceThread is worthwhile since it is a mechanism that combines the asynchronous learning and face-to-face. Thus, this can be considered as an action research on blended learning.
Retrieved from: https://www.academia.edu/30534527/Synchronizing_Web_2.0_Technologies_to_Improve_Formative_Feedback_by_Using_VoiceThread
in JNCOLCTL Volume 21 Spring 2016, Oraib Mango, World Languages and Literatures California State University, San Bernardino.
The current study investigated the effects of the use of VoiceThread (VT) on the listening comprehension and attitudes of college students of Arabic as a foreign language. Thirty-five students in two 10-week classes of beginning Arabic participated in this study. The instruction in both classes was the same except that, for one group, the instruction was supplemented by the use of VT to enhance listening and speaking skills during the 10 weeks. Upon completion of the class, students using VT showed superior listening skills. Moreover, an Attitude and Engagement survey showed that the students enjoyed using VT and viewed it as a valuable tool that enhanced their language learning.
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in TechTrends, Association for Educational Communications & Technology 2017. Peggy M. Delmas
University of South Alabama.
A sense of belonging to a learning community has been identified as one of the factors contributing to greater student satisfaction and persistence in online education pro-grams. Using the community of inquiry framework as a theoretical guide, the purpose of this study was to explore the role of VoiceThread, a web-based platform that facilitates cloud communication, in creating a sense of community for U.S. adult learners in the online environment. This study surveyed 39 students in a College of Education fully online master's program and in a blended doctoral program regarding their experiences using VoiceThread in their courses. Results indicate that students perceive VoiceThread positively in the creation of online community. Students reported feeling more connected their classmates due to the tool's ability to add voice to online activities. Students also felt more connected to their instructor due to VoiceThread's ability to humanize, or make the instructor seem real.
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in VATESOL (Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2016), and the WATESOL (Winter 2017 Edition) Newsletters
This article describes a VoiceThread /FTC project carried out with advanced ESL students at the Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute in the National Capital Region. This project is the culminating activity of a series of tasks created with the "backward design" approach in mind. Backward design is a method of designing educational curriculum by setting goals before choosing instructional methods and forms of assessment (Wiggins & McTighe). In this unit, the overarching goal is an oral presentation on Art, which will be recorded by the students using VoiceThread.
Retrieved from: https://monicamulholland.com/2017/02/20/the-visual-arts-and-visual-literacy-in-language-education-an-interactive-project/
in Dr Mairead Seery, Department of Social Science & Design,
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This case study presents how VoiceThread, an online application used to create multimedia presentations and conversations, was used to enable first year students to give and receive feedback. In the process, the presentation skills of the student are enhanced.
Retrieved from: http://y1feedback.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/AIT-3-Mairead-Seery-2.pdf
in Journal of Professional Nursing January–February, 2017, Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 20–26. Ola H. Fox, DNS, CNL, Spring Hill College.
The movement to advance the clinical nurse leader (CNL) as an innovative new role for meeting higher health care quality standards continues with CNL programs offered on-line at colleges and universities nationwide. Collaborative learning activities offer the opportunity for CNL students to gain experience in working together in small groups to negotiate and solve care process problems. The challenge for nurse educators is to provide collaborative learning activities in an asynchronous learning environment that can be considered isolating by default. This article reports on the experiences of 17 CNL students who used VoiceThread, a cloud-based tool that allowed them to communicate asynchronously with one another through voice comments for collaboration and sharing knowledge. Participants identified benefits and drawbacks to using VoiceThread for collaboration as compared to text-based discussion boards. Students reported that the ability to hear the voice of their peers and the instructor helped them feel like they were in a classroom communicating with "real" instructor and peers. Students indicated a preference for on-line classes that used VoiceThread discussions to on-line classes that used only text-based discussion boards.
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First Katy Perry was moving out. Then Perry was staying and soon-to-be-ex husband Russell Brand was moving out. Now it looks like Perry is hitting the road, too — this time to a more private pad in the Hollywood Hills.
E! Online reports that movers have been spotted not only at Perry's home that she shared with Brand, but also at a posh Hollywood Hills abode three miles away. The $1.9 million mansion, spread across 4,000 square feet, is equipped with a gourmet, granite kitchen as well as five bedrooms, five bathrooms and a master bedroom with a walk-in closet and fireplace. Sounds swanky!
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Hillbilly Truffle
In France, they call them Périgords—and they're known as the diamonds of the kitchen. You probably know them as black truffles, those baseball-sized fungi that are sniffed out of the earth by pigs or dogs, get sold for thousands of dollars, and transform any meal into a luxury item. So what happens when—sacrée merde!—an obsessed Yankee learns to grow them in the scrub woods of Davy Crockett's Tennessee?
were you to visualize an ideal existence, this might be it: Awaken a mile from Davy Crockett's birthplace, the sun rising over the Blue Ridge Mountains, handily visible from your back porch. Phone for a rare Lagotto Romagnolo truffle-hunting dog to be brought around in an ever available Lexus SUV. Stroll your backyard hazelnut orchard with the happy hound bounding beside you, him sniffing the soft earth for precious Tuber melanosporum, you gathering them up—hardly stressful, since they conveniently grow only inches beneath the ground. Rinse, put in Ziplocs, add rice to absorb moisture, and establish the price you'll charge, about $600 a pound, sometimes more. Try not to fret about the overhead. After all, we're talking bags and rice.
Of course, you must find somebody to buy your harvest, but that's no problem. "I thought the real hard part was going to be the selling," says Tom Michaels, thought to be the only man in America who earns a living selling black Périgord truffles that he's cultivated himself. "They sell themselves."
His personal life isn't bad, either. Michaels's house, that of a divorced man devoid of domestic skills, looks at best like a college dorm room. "Besides being a slob, I'm not organized," he concedes, when I mention that most everything he owns is teetering in piles. On the occasions that his girlfriend, Vicki Blizzard, drives over from Knoxville, Tennessee, she finds it all just fine. "Tom's house is wonderful. He's got that backyard, that view. So what if it's not as pristine as mine. I'm comfortable there."
That's two treasures, a tolerant woman as well as a ready crop of black truffles, one of the most expensive edibles on earth. Long considered a mainstay of French haute cuisine, Tuber melanosporum, a.k.a. the black Périgord truffle, has not always been rare, but it has always been prized.
Black truffles are identified with the culture of French dining, and for good reason, although they were used much earlier by the Greeks and the Romans. Great thinkers among those ancients believed they were formed by thunderclaps, although Plutarch, the wisest of all, declared them to be mud cooked by lightning. Over the years, they have been eaten to gain strength in battle, to cure gout, and of course, as an aphrodisiac.
Until about now, truffles were not part of Tennessee folklore, and they certainly don't figure into the region's culinary traditions. "Most people around here," Michaels points out, "they want to know if you put gravy on truffles." He doesn't claim that his tastes are more refined than those of his neighbors, isn't trying to put himself or his Ph.D. in plant pathology on a pedestal, but he does enjoy his truffles chopped up and stirred into eggs, which is somewhat highbrow. On the other hand, he also admires them shaved over grits. To win the heart of Blizzard, he prepared truffled cheesy chicken breasts.
The black truffle found in Périgord and Provence, and now Chuckey, Tennessee, has dozens of fungal relatives, some of them used in cooking, a few of them not bad at all, none of them its equal in beauty or bouquet. Once cleaned, the black Périgord truffle glitters. Cut open, the veins resemble mica. (When they are cooked, the marbling disappears.) Although the truffle possesses a pleasant crunch, it is treasured not so much for its taste or appearance but for its aroma, which has been likened to bedsheets after a night of abandon, slatterns who disdain to bathe, all that is dark and alluring about the human body and soul. In the middle of the winter growing season, they can be fruity and floral. Later, they become muskier. Michaels remembers handing out samples at a festival, his truffles incorporated into a mushroom-truffle cappuccino: "When I'd be shaving a truffle that was musky, the women, their eyes would roll back. If it was the fruity kind, it was nice but not as high a level of ecstasy. When I talk to women chefs, they seem to like the earthy ones, too, the real ripe ones. I swear there is a gender thing here."
Indeed, the pleasure of truffles is often linked to pheromones, but I suspect they have more noteworthy virtues. Truffles are a dramatic example of a smell, taste, and appearance that should be undesirable but instead becomes the opposite. They are related psychologically to things that are nightmarish, that slough off flesh in the night. They are black, and movie-theater licorice aside, black is generally not an appealing food color. In truth, black truffles should give us the creeps, so alien are they to America's generally sunny dining habits. One would expect them to be categorized as bizarre, much like the oddities that freaky food-show hosts swallow, but in fact they are delectable, possessing a smell with uncommon allure.
They are not just pungent. They meld with certain foodstuffs, in particular fresh pasta, melted cheese, and runny eggs, enhancing their taste. They work well with vanilla ice cream, too. They are intoxicating. They weaken and captivate. All of us have at some time been desperately attracted to someone we knew was wrong. In the food world, that is the role of black truffles, although the only personal danger that results from coming under their spell is fiscal, not emotional.
In the wild, they are denizens of dark woodlands, underground dwellers that seek dampness and the roots of certain species of trees. Originally, they were pursued with pigs, lumbering beasts that sniffed them out and tried to eat their find before the farmer could yank them away. It's part of the romanticism of the black truffle that pigs are perfect hunters, but in truth they got the job because they were the primary farm animal attracted to the dark smells. Says Michaels, "A 300-pound pig will go through an orchard like a rototiller, digging up everything. Truffle pigs are out of control, and they go home when they decide they want to go home." Later came dogs, perhaps not as quixotic, but dogs had virtues. At about thirty pounds (the weight of a Lagotto Romagnolo), they were easy to pick up and heave into the back of a wagon, and they were less interested in eating than in the tongue-wagging joy of the hunt. For a truffle dog, the work has all the pleasure of an Easter-egg hunt.
Over the years, the availability of black truffles has wad and waned. Industrialization, rural exodus, two world wars, and the aging of nineteenth-century truffle fields is blamed for the current depletion of the crop. Once added lavishly to recipes, they tend now to be used cautiously. At the peak of production, near the end of the nineteenth century, about 1,000 tons of black truffles, many of them wild, were harvested in France. Now there might be as few as ten tons a year, almost all of them cultivated. They have become so expensive that almost no chef dares to be overly generous, but there was a hundred-year period, from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth, when they were abundant.
Larousse Gastronomique, the bible of French culinary arts, lists more than seventy-five truffle dishes, and I can't imagine more than a fraction of them being prepared today. (When's the last time you had sarla-daise sauce, prepared with brandy and truffles and served with roast meat, or were offered lobster cardinal, as much about truffles as about seafood?) To be a French chef—or for that matter a French grandee—was hollow unless your weighty pronouncement on the glories of the fungi was immortalized in print. Alexandre Dumas described them as "the gastronomes' holy of holies."
In the early nineteenth century, the epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (a famous cheese is named for him) praised them as "the jewel of cookery" and added, "It is safe to say that at the time of writing, the fame of the truffle is at its summit. Nobody dares to admit having been present at a meal which did not include a single truffled dish." Colette called the black truffle a "jewel of impoverished lands." (She probably considered rural life to be intolerable drudgery.) When Julia Child wrote her seminal book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, designed for the American kitchen, all but one of her truffle recipes called for canned truffles, probably because fresh ones were almost unknown in this country. (I've had canned truffles. They're quite good on pizza.)
I was fortunate enough to be around near the tail end of the era of abundance. I've had raw truffles sliced thin and served as crisps, accompanied by Château Margaux. (Terrible technically but gratifying spiritually.) I've had them added to a pot of winter vegetables at Alain Ducasse's Le Louis XV in Monaco. (Vegetables never tasted so fabulous, but they might have been nearly as sublime without the truffles.) I've had them at a garden party, on a warm winter day, at the home of Hervé Poron, owner of the Plantin truffle company in Provence, where he put out a bowl of cut-up truffles drizzled with olive oil and suggested we make ourselves truffle crostini. (The greatest outdoor dining of my life.) My neighbor's son once cooked truffles and eggs using Joël Robuchon's recipe for scrambled eggs, and no breakfast equaled his. (The kid wasted his talents by going into medicine.) I've had black truffles on risotto at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York. In my opinion, no white-truffle risotto compared, but then I'm no devotee of white Alba truffles (Tuber magnatum). Although they are more expensive than black Périgord truffles and probably higher on the gastronomic food chain, I find them wanting. They are unsightly and not particularly versatile, and they possess a regrettable olfactory profile that tips toward garlic.
Black truffles, on the other hand, are multitalented. They have always been the Hamburger Helper of haute cuisine, taking mundane fare and transforming it into something majestic. Yet today, with black Périgord truffles so uncommon and expensive, they tend to become the star of any recipe, just as they were with all but one of those great truffle dishes of my memory. They are in such short supply in France, where they are thought to be at their best, that efforts at cultivating them are taking place throughout the world, perhaps most successfully in Australia and Spain. In America, where production lags behind, the business of growing the black Périgord truffle is boutique level at best. There have been stunning failures, the most notable an orchard of tens of thousands of trees planted in Texas in the '90s that yielded only a few truffles.
Michaels is the most successful American grower, although he concedes in generous moments that in the next few years the orchards of others are likely to come on line. In his rare prideful ones, he hints that he knows more than anybody else and that other growers might not do so well. His Ph.D. thesis is titled "In Vitro Culture and Growth Modeling of Tuber Spp. and Inoculation of Hardwood with T. Melanosporum Ascospores." That means he studied black truffles, and the other guys did not.
It appears incongruous that gastronomic prominence has come to the hills of Tennessee. The region is hardly famous for fine dining, an exception being Blackberry Farm, the fabled resort outside Knoxville where the on-call truffle dog resides. The land around Chuckey, where Michaels lives, is soft and rolling, studded with tobacco-drying barns now so shrunken and weathered they look like ghosts. When I visited, a local radio station was promoting "a chance to win a weekend in a luxury RV," and Michaels bragged that he had found a Mennonite repairman who fid the hydraulic seal on his tractor for thirty bucks. To drive the countryside is to come upon horses in backyards, wisps of fog that give the Great Smoky Mountains their name, Christian bookstores, old stone churches, and locals who seem to welcome strangers as warmly as any people in America.
It is my belief, for which I can offer no evidence, that when French black truffles were at their most bountiful, some of those 1,000 tons sent to market must have been Tuber brumale, an inferior and despised competitor with few culinary credentials. In France, the truffle hunter has several natural enemies: the encroaching Tuber brumale (sometimes known as the musk truffle), the vigilant tax man, and worst of all, the much hated poacher, sneaking in at nightfall to steal from privately owned orchards. So far, none of these nuisances haunt the American truffle grower, and Michaels says of poaching, "Please, don't discuss it. There is no such culture here. Truffles are not like a watermelon patch. They are hard to see."
The true natural enemy of the American-grown black truffle is skepticism, a reluctance to believe that it can be the equal of the native French product. Anytime America duplicates what was first celebrated in that nation—cheese, wine, and foie gras come to mind—doubt immediately arises. And in truth, what we produce here often does taste different, a result of what in the wine world is known as terroir, a word that incorporates climate, soil, and a certain degree of mysticism.
michaels**,** 62, has always been a mushroom man, although over the years he has considered other occupations—he once attended community college to become a para-accountant. He was born in the suburbs of Chicago, his father a teacher who bought a mushroom farm and started cultivating them. "It was good enough to almost make a living," Michaels says. "I have memories—I'm not exactly sure how old I was—sitting on old mushroom crates, folding those little cardboard bos that we'd fill with mushrooms. We sold them as Fairy Ring mushrooms. I loved being there in the cellars, loved putting together those bos. We didn't have a car, just a paneled pickup truck with so many rust holes you could see the road. We lived on a shoestring, didn't get furniture until I was 6—before that, I remember sitting on mushroom crates in the house."
He recalls how hard his father worked and, more significantly, how the middlemen who bought from his father prospered while paying as little as two cents a pound for his father's mushrooms. "My dad laminated a sales slip to show what shysters the merchants were," he says. To this day, Michaels wants no part of bureaucracy, and he markets his black truffles either by bringing them to the kitchen doors of restaurants himself or by overnighting them to out-of-town customers. He remembers his father as an intelligent man, a radar specialist during World War II, and something of a genius when it came to mushrooms. He developed a way of curing and composting mushrooms that killed flies without the use of pesticides. Upset by the business practices that kept him broke, his father started a mushroom co-op to counter unfair prices, and it thrived until a virus hit the industry. Then he was done. After that came financial hardship, kited checks, and a move to California to begin again. Michaels has two brothers, Pat, a climatologist, and Bob, an economist. "My brothers tried to stay away from the business," Michaels says. "I always wanted to do it."
From the time he wrote his thesis until now, the domestic black-truffle industry hasn't accomplished much academically or agriculturally. "My data from 1982 is still publishable," he says. "The field hasn't moved. Since then I've been able to multiply the growth rate of the spores [in culture] by ten to twenty times, but they still poke along. You know, the logo of the Slow Food movement is the snail. They should change it to the black truffle. It's the ultimate slow food."
He seems a little disappointed when I earnestly write that down, failing to laugh.
"That's a little truffle humor," he says.
Almost nothing is known about Tuber melanosporum cultivation in America. The United States Department of Agriculture keeps no records or statistics and makes no effort to regulate their sale. "Black truffles are where button mushrooms were 200 years ago," says Michaels. In other words, he has pretty much the same freedom as the forty-niners who panned for gold in California in the nineteenth century. Much like them, he knows where the treasure is supposed to be, but he can't always be certain of finding it. And like prospectors, truffle growers aren't keen to share what they know. "We don't talk to each other that much," he says. The primary difference in the two enterprises is that truffles require enormous staying power, inasmuch as it takes five to seven years for truffles to appear in the roots of hazelnut trees—if they are going to show at all—and ten to twelve years for oaks. Although hazelnut trees are highly susceptible to a disease known as the eastern filbert blight, Michaels mostly plants them, not oaks. "Every American is in a hurry," he says. "I was willing to risk blight to get the truffles faster."
Black-truffle orchards are popping up throughout America, in states with climates as diverse as those of Texas and Idaho, but nobody has had his success. Nobody is close. He says of his proprietary findings, "There are three things I know for certain about truffles: lime the heck out of the soil, plant a good seedling, and hope for periodic rainfall." He later adds a bunch of others—putting enough distance between trees, irrigating when rain is insufficient, and looking for property with warmer south-facing slopes. "That's all I know for sure about truffles, and what works for me. This is art, not science."
He works at a disadvantage—he doesn't care for dogs. To see him in his living room, playing the piano (after moving aside piles of papers stacked on the bench), his cat hopping up to sit beside him, it's obvious what animal he prefers. "I know squat about truffle dogs," he says. "It's a strategic blunder to get into the truffle business without loving dogs." However, he does have the services of one whenever he needs it, which is once or twice a week during truffle-harvesting season, which peaks from mid-December to mid-February both here and in Europe. Whenever he phones, the truffle-dog loaner comes to him in an SUV provided by Blackberry Farm.
Michaels unearthed his first truffles in 2007, without canine assistance. Shortly afterward he attracted the interest of Sam Beall, owner of Blackberry Farm, which has a steadfast interest in anything gastronomic. Michaels brought some of his truffles to the resort's kitchen, and Beall was sold. He decided to plant a small orchard of 150 hazelnut trees on the property and to invest in dogs to hunt them. He says, "If I have one role here, it's to know a good thing when I see it. Tom sent me a little flyer that said tennessee truffles. It sat on my desk. I paid no attention to it, not to somebody claiming he had world-class truffles. But he was persistent. He drove down here, with his truffles in a little Tupperware container, packed in Carolina rice, and aromatically, there was no denying it. A little later, I was up at his place, and I said, 'What can I do to help, to be a part of it?' The next time we talked, he identified it: He needed some dogs. He didn't have any, acknowledged that he was not a dog guy. We came to an understanding that I would get dogs."
More good fortune followed. Tennessee happened to be the home of Mel Sykes and his wife, Hilarie Gibbs-Sykes, among the first Americans with a consuming interest in Italian truffle dogs. They had brought Lagotto Romagnolo dogs to this country in 1999 and bred the first litter of Lagottos born here. Hundreds of years ago, the breed was used as retrievers that worked the marshes of the Italian province of Emilia-Romagna—they're also known as Romagna water dogs. After the marshes were drained, the dogs went to work as truffle hunters. Gibbs-Sykes says, "It's just like job retraining in today's world. The old job went away, and so they changed careers."
Apparently, it's not an innate love of truffles that entices the animals to hunt. She says that Italian breeders put truffle oil on the nipples of the mothers when the pups are nursing, and later they add truffle oil to their food. The dogs play with rags soaked in truffle oil, which are then buried so the dogs can dig them up. She adds, somewhat sorrowfully, "They are not natural-born truffle hunters. They are natural-born diggers in your yard."
In October 2007, after Blackberry Farm decided to go into the truffle business, Hilarie Gibbs-Sykes traveled to Italy and picked out Tom, now 7, who was already a champion truffle hunter, as well as another Lagotto, Lussi, now 2, to be his mate. (Besides relentlessly digging, Lussi has another bad habit—she loves to chase chickens, and chickens are raised at Blackberry Farm.) The family is now three: Tom, Lussi, and Rolla, one of their offspring, a female who shows signs of surpassing Tom as a hunter. They are cared for and trained by Jim Sanford, who came to Blackberry Farm ten years ago after a career as an elephant trainer. "Training is training," Sanford says. He once raised Asian elephants for the Perth Zoo, and his last job in the elephant business was onstage as the opening act at John Ascuaga's Nugget Casino in Reno, Nevada. The cast consisted of two elephants named Bertha and Angel, him, and one pretty showgirl. "Elephant trainers like pretty girls on elephants," he says. In his career, he handled forty-three elephants, and, he says, "I think about every one of them every day."
michaels remembers precisely the moment when he found his first truffles, these coming from the orchard of 350 trees he had planted behind his house for that very purpose. It was January 3, 2007, a cold day, the sun going down. "I was blowing leaves, doing orchard maintenance, and I almost stepped on a little blister in the ground. It was roundish, black, sitting at the surface. I had looked at my trees, didn't think they were doing so well. I figured, 'Wait until next year.' This was under my foot. I almost crushed it. It was epiphany. It was eureka. And I almost crushed it. I went down on my hands and knees to get it—I knew what to look for. I put it to my nose. I started looking around. I found two more, bigger than golf balls. They were beautiful, perfectly round. I didn't have a dog yet. The next day, I walked around and found two more pounds close to the surface."
The first person he called was Blizzard. When they met, she asked him what he did, and he replied, "I'm waiting for my truffles to come in." For years he had endured teasing, the comments from friends, such remarks as "Say, Tom, how are those truffles of yours coming along?" He knew all of them wanted to roll their eyes, but none did, this being a polite section of the country. "They thought I was a crazy old flake, living with my trees on a hillside. I know they were thinking, Why doesn't he get out and earn a living?"
He cleaned, sorted, and packed up his small haul, then phoned a Knoxville restaurant called the Orangery, hoping he could bring them over. "Remember," he says, "I had raised mushrooms. I knew how to deliver mushrooms to a restaurant's back door."
The chef at the time, Chris Stallard, has a precise memory of what occurred. It was a moment that might well be immortalized as the day America's commercial black-truffle industry was born: "He phoned me during the lunch rush, and what I remember is this solemn voice telling me he had truffles he wanted to sell. In the back of my mind, I'm thinking, 'Right, you have truffles.' He said it was the Périgord strain. I thought, Nobody has those. I rushed him through, told him to come by the next week if he wanted. He shows up with this little basket. Inside it are GladWare containers, and he says, 'Do you remember me, the guy who called?' He popped open the container. An amazing smell filled the room. The line cooks stopped cooking. We knew instantly. They were the real deal."
michaels has four truffle orchards—he likes to refer to them as "tranches," for no reason other than he likes the sound of the word, one used in moneyed circles to designate a slice of a financial instrument. It's another rare appearance of that almost entirely suppressed streak of intellectual affectation. He buys trees or he nurtures his own seedlings, and he inoculates the roots himself, adding soil mid with chopped-up bits of black truffles that contain the precious spores that will develop into more of them. The result is a model symbiotic relationship, the tree and the truffle in the soil, assisting each other with nutrients and water. He says getting the spores to colonize the roots is the simplest part of the job. "It's not rocket science. It's not third-grade science. Thousands of species of fungus grow on the roots of a tree. What we are doing is giving the truffle a head start."
He planted his first orchard twenty-five miles from his home, in 1999. It consists of ninety hazelnut trees, on land he doesn't own, a handshake deal with a friend. A year later came the "home orchard," the one in his backyard, and the site of his first success. Both of those are planted with hazelnut trees. To fight off eastern filbert blight, he allows the trees to mature not in a stately upright manner but more like bushes, so that new shoots are always replacing dying ones. Next came 1,000-plus trees a few miles away at a spot known as Jockey Creek, where we are headed with Jim Sanford and Tom the truffle dog. (Michaels has a fourth orchard of 900 trees, planted in 2003.) The third and the fourth orchard are a mixture of hazelnut and two kinds of oak—the hairy oak and the pedunculate oak. You ask Tom Michaels about trees, the information keeps coming, although I received a warning from Blizzard that it could get worse. She said to me of her scholarly boyfriend, "Don't get him started on corn. He'll be talking about whacking enzymes all afternoon."
It is a bright day in early February, and Michaels, Sanford, and Tom the truffle dog are going to work. First they stop to show me the part-cinder-block, part-tin, part-wood falling-down structure that Michaels describes as "the ugliest shed in Tennessee." It contains sacks of hydrated lime for carrying out acid adjustments in the soil, and Tom begins his workday by peeing on the sacks. Sanford shouts a command in Italian, and the dog is off.
The Lagotto Romagnola is small, friendly, and energetic, with a tufted coat that makes it look like a cross between a poodle and a Berber carpet. Tom, who has a brown head and a white body with brown patches, is relentless in his pursuit of truffles. Says Michaels, "That dog can smell through snow, I swear. He smelled through ice in January. He was saying to us that the truffle was there, but he couldn't paw through the ice to get it. We got a shovel, pulled away the ice, and there it was." The orchard that Tom is prowling is no beauty, no Maine apple orchard, more like scrubland, because of the way Michaels allows the trees to develop. Beneath a great many of those stunted specimens are tiny orange flags poking out of the ground. They mark the spots where Tom has located truffles. Says Michaels, in praise, "Ninety-five percent of the time when Tom indicates that he's found a truffle, he's right."
Tom, on the job, starts scraping.
Michaels bends over, starts digging. Nothing. "Not this time," he says.
"You calling my dog a liar?" says Sanford.
Michaels tells about the time, a month back, when storm clouds started coming in, and Tom, seeming to sense the urgency, found five pounds of truffles in forty minutes. That's about $3,000. That's digging for dollars.
Soon the dog starts locating truffles, one of them a particularly sweet find because it comes from beneath a tree with no previous orange flags. "Lost its virginity," Michaels says. Suddenly Tom shoots out of the grove after a particularly wonderful prize: a rabbit. Say what you will about pigs, they don't do that.
After two hours of hunting, we leave for home with about two pounds of truffles, which to Michaels is a small haul, signifying that the season is winding down. He spins truffle tales, one about a ten-ounce behemoth, another about finding a cornucopia of "russet potatoes"—his term for the truffles of six to seven ounces that had been plentiful weeks earlier. The best day for him was December 21, 2008, when Tom located 24.2 pounds of truffles, worth more than $14,000. He says, "You can get 20,000 pounds of onions or 40,000 pounds of potatoes off an acre of land. At the truffle conversion rate [an estimate based on sunshine, rainfall, etc.], you should theoretically get a ton of truffles per year per acre. We're getting 1 percent of that. Isn't that pathetic?"
i returned to New York with a tiny payload of truffles, each one packed in rice, sealed in its own plastic bag. Michaels had taken the two pounds collected with the help of Tom the truffle dog and spread them across his dining room table, first pushing aside the clutter—books on truffles, and the microscope he uses to study truffles. Then I got to hunt, pick through them the way a kid scrutinizes candy at a corner store.
Each truffle looked and smelled different. Some had claw marks from Tom, the equivalent of bird shot in a wild Scottish partridge and prized by some chefs as a sign of authenticity. Inasmuch as I had been on site, I required no such reassurance. I felt the truffles for firmness. I smelled them for sweetness. I rejected the muskier ones, preferring the fruitier smells. Between sniffs I breathed in ground coffee to refresh my nose.
I selected the best of the previous day's harvest and paid the prevailing rate of $640 a pound, exactly what French black truffles were selling for in America. Michaels has always priced his truffles the same as the imports, figuring freshness would compensate for any perceived lack of pedigree.
I brought my truffles to the restaurant Cru in Manhattan, after chef Shea Gallante agreed to arrange a blind tasting, the French Périgord truffles he had on hand versus the Périgord truffles I'd brought back from Tennessee, melanosporum versus melanosporum. The Tennessee truffles were three days out of the ground, absolutely at their peak. The French truffles, at least two weeks old (not unusual for imports), seemed drier and more brittle when I looked them over in the kitchen. Five of us went to Cru for the tasting, and Gallante prepared two dishes.
The first was a poached organic egg on farro risotto, surrounded by a cheese emulsion. The second was pappardelle pasta with butter and Parmigiano-Reggiano, absolutely traditional. Truffles were shaved atop both.
To me, the bouquet of those from Tennessee was distinctive, probably because I had picked them out. I found them clearly superior, almost certainly because of freshness, not because of origin. I recalled Michaels telling me that truffles from trees growing next to each other were just as likely to be dissimilar as truffles from different countries. The Tennessee truffles were fresh, lively, and fruity, while the French specimens seemed tired. Said Gallante after the meal, "The Tennessee truffle was sweeter on the palate, almost like it had sugar content. In the kitchen we wondered if this was from the soil or due to the freshness. The French was more gaseous, the Tennessee more delicate."
I'm not claiming that my truffle tasting was the equivalent of the famous Judgment of Paris in 1976, when American wines were found to be more delicious than French wines, but here's the final tabulation, based on five voters tasting two dishes: Tennessee, 10; France, 0.
alan richman is a gq correspondent.


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New Statesman: Interview with Mike Carey
You can read my latest interview with the lovely Mike Carey, writer of The Unwritten, Lucifer, X-Men and more, over at the New Statesman. Carey is one of my favourite writers - Lucifer one of my favourite series - and we chat about Vertigo past and future, The Unwritten and upcoming plans, creator rights and women in comics, internet trolls and his Felix Castor novels. And more!
Stay tuned for more upcoming interview with David Lloyd, David Mack, Tim Seeley, David Hine, and the one and only Neal Adams as I count down to the London Super Comic Con next month.
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"Protocoles-méta" is a mobile, infiltrating, and progressively evolving experimentation project, whose aim is to explore modes of behavior and action in ways that go beyond conventional approaches to exhibitions, performances, and entertainment.
The project itself functions in an experimental mode that is always evolving depending on the situation. Every session (with or without a theme) brings into play the trinomial of encounter – indeterminacy – improvisation. We thus proceed by successive experiments, constantly concerned with sharing our ideas and practices.
These are "situated protocols," whose terms and modes can always be questioned and, if necessary, reenacted in a different way. It is a subtractive approach.
Since 2006 we have been regularly questioning the relationships between artistic, social, and political experimentation, and the misunderstandings (or misadventures) that crop up between them.
We maintain a necessary critical distance in relation to each event. We are not concerned with "creating a work" in the conventional sense of the term, but with collectively "living" the situation as we bring our methods to bear and feel our way forward, one experiment at a time.
We envisage this "congrès singulier" as a construction following a somewhat inverted plan, where the lines keep moving, time is malleable, the participants heterogeneous, and the experiment one of deproduction.
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Windows XP Service Pack 2
Like the Titanic's passengers, Windows XP users often find themselves in choppy, dangerous waters--instead of hypothermia, think Web viruses; instead of circling sharks, quickly crawling worms. Unfortunately, Microsoft's lifeboats have been, until now, just dinky security patches that saved us from only a few attacks at a time. Last Friday, burlier rescue boats arrived in the form of Microsoft's long-delayed Service Pack 2 (SP2), which will help all of us keep our heads above water. SP2 tightens your PC's security with a new Windows Firewall, an improved Automatic Updates feature, and a pop-up ad blocker for Internet Explorer. Plus, the newly minted Security Center gives you one easy-to-use interface for keeping tabs on your PC's security apps. We suggest you pause before jumping ship, however. We downloaded and installed SP2 and weren't surprised to find a handful of conflicts with existing apps and wireless network settings on some of our test machines. Starting Wednesday, August 18, 2004, Microsoft began offering SP2 to people who have Automatic Updates turned on, but it will still take several weeks before everyone will have the chance to update their computers. Our advice: Be patient and wait until SP2 is made available to your PC via Microsoft's Automatic Updates service. By then, Microsoft should have had enough time to work out the kinks. In order to get our hands on Windows XP Service Pack 2's final code, we downloaded the whopping 266MB network installation package for all of our test machines as soon as it was available at Microsoft's Download Center. We suggest you exercise a bit more patience. After installing SP2, we encountered problems with our wireless network, which we suspect were related to an existing driver that the new version of Windows didn't like. (Microsoft says that some driver conflicts are to be expected.) Previously stable systems developed a tendency to disconnect and jump onto other available wireless local-area networks (WLANs), and one of our test systems kept losing its connection to a secure WLAN completely. Only rebooting would reconnect it.
Microsoft expects to add SP2 to its online Windows Update service later this month. Download sizes will vary because your system will download only the components of the service pack it needs. If you've diligently updated XP, Microsoft estimates the download will be between 80MB and 100MB. That number could balloon to 270MB for less up-to-date systems, however. Dial-up users not looking forward to such a large undertaking should note that Microsoft will ship--free of charge--SP2 on CD-ROM, but delivery could take up to two months. Boxed retail versions of Windows XP with SP2 will be available by the end of October. If you've been waiting for a reason to upgrade to XP from an older version of Windows, this is as good a reason as any (Longhorn is still years away). Corporate IT managers will want to deploy with limited trials to check for compatibility with their current configurations.
Sign on for updatesIf you've disabled Automatic Updates in your copy of Windows XP, we suggest you turn it on now. Once you install SP2, it too will urge you to turn on Automatic Updates. You can set Automatic Updates to do its magic at a given time each day--a good idea, given what CNET security expert Robert Vamosi calls the Eschelbeck Theory. Within the first month of any security flaw going public, a rain of worms and Trojan horses flood the Internet to take advantage of that flaw. The faster you fix the flaw, the safer you'll be--and the safer we'll all be since the worms won't spread.
The new Automatic Updates feature gives you more say on how and when to download and install updates from Microsoft's Windows Update service.
Occasionally, a Microsoft fix may cause some problems with a particularly delicate Windows configuration. If you're worried that this will happen, you can set Automatic Updates to download but wait for your word before installing or simply alert you that there are updates available for download. Or, should you go it alone, you can just turn it off, but we reserve the right to say, "We told you so."
Front and Security CenterMicrosoft bundles most of SP2's security enhancements into a single interface called the Security Center, which hides in the All Programs menu, under Accessories > System Tools. In addition to providing a single interface for monitoring your system's firewall, (either Microsoft's or a third party's), Automatic Updates, and your third-party antivirus app, it tracks certain antivirus programs to make sure they and their virus signature databases are up-to-date. If you're using eTrust EZ Antivirus, F-Secure, McAfee Security, Panda, Symantec/Norton, or Trend Micro, SP2 hooks into your software and alerts you when updates are available. If you use more obscure software, such as Frisk's F-Prot, you can click an "I'll take care of it myself" box to avoid constant warnings that your system is not secure.
One-stop shopping: the new Security Center gives you control over your PC's security settings from a single, easy-to-use interface.
Microsoft built a software firewall called Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) into the first release of Windows XP, but it was turned off by default. For protection, you either had to hunt through system settings to turn it on, or more likely, you installed ZoneAlarm or another third-party firewall program. (The extremely security-conscious use a hardware firewall router between their PC and Internet connection.) SP2 ushers ICF out the door and replaces it with Windows Firewall, a more comprehensive and aggressive firewall. The first change you'll notice from the new software is that as soon as you install SP2, the firewall is turned on by default.
Since no single firewall in entirely foolproof, we ran Windows Firewall alongside an existing installation of ZoneAlarm Pro. In our tests, the two coexisted fairly well: ZoneAlarm flagged every attempt by a new or updated software component to access the Internet, so we did get several warnings after upgrading to SP2. This problem quickly went away, however; we needed only to grant access for a program once to avoid future warnings for it.
In some experiments with earlier versions of SP2, we found that the new Windows Firewall blocked programs with legitimate reasons to access our test PCs, such as ActiveSync connections with Pocket PCs. We didn't face this issue with the final version of SP2, however. Should you encounter such problems with your existing apps, you can easily make exceptions to allow your programs to skirt the new Windows Firewall. Using the new Firewall control panel, which you launch from Control Panel or by right-clicking any Internet connection, you can pick whatever networking or Internet connections you use (dial-up, broadband, or sundry networking connections) and set up exceptions and rules on a case-by-case basis.
Windows Firewall will block some programs from accessing the Internet or your network. Thankfully, it takes directions well, giving you the option of unblocking or continuing to block certain apps.
Windows Firewall is still rudimentary compared with firewalls in the security suites from McAfee, Symantec, and Zone Labs. It does an admirable job of blocking programs from accessing your computer, including during bootup and shutdown, but it doesn't block outbound traffic, a standard feature on third-party firewalls. Outbound blocking is important in case you do accidentally or unknowingly allow an authorized app onto your PC. Windows Firewall can't prevent such an application from broadcasting personal information it finds on your system or making you an unwilling participant in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. We recommend that you run Windows Firewall but that you don't rely on it. You should continue to employ more-capable third-party firewalls in addition to Windows' new built-in firewall.
Pop-up ads, begoneThe bane of most Net surfers is the constant stream of pop-up ads. Wander into the wrong Web neighborhood, and you not only get assaulted with unwanted advertising, you can also be infected by opportunistic code that changes your home page or worse. With SP2, Microsoft Internet Explorer gets a much-needed pop-up ad blocker. Like the new Windows Firewall, it's turned on by default.
Fortunately, the newly updated IE displays a gray bar beneath the address bar explaining what action its pop-up blocker has taken. To let pages through selectively, you just click this bar and select the Allow option. You can also add sites to an exceptions list by clicking a new Tools menu option and entering the URLs you want to allow through. Or if you prefer to use a third-party app, you can turn IE's new pop-up ad blocker off altogether.
E-mail and IM protectionBut SP2 blocks more than just pop-ups. The new update adds a feature to Outlook Express that's available in the Microsoft Office 2003 version of Outlook: It can prevent HTML-formatted messages from displaying images and executing code. The HTML code within Bagle.aq, for example, will automatically execute the download of a Trojan horse on some vulnerable PCs without a user's intervention. This setting is reversible; you can display images on a case-by-case basis.
Another SP2 security feature cautions you against opening e-mail and IM attachments. Whether you're opening or saving an attachment from your e-mail or IM client, you'll be given a warning to make sure you trust the source. This is the software equivalent of being asked at the airport, "Did you pack your bags yourself and have they left your sight since you packed them?" Yes, it's a good message to reinforce, but no, it's not a real security measure.
Don't forget about system memoryTo combat viruses and worms that take advantage of buffer overruns in your system's memory (Sasser, for example), SP2 includes its so-called data execution prevention (DEP) feature, sometimes referred to as no execute (NX), which prevents portions of your system's memory from running this rogue code. Only a small percentage of PCs, however, support this feature so far. No current Intel Pentium 4-based PCs can take advantage of DEP, and Intel won't release chips with DEP support until the end of the year at the earliest. The only desktop CPUs that support DEP are AMD's Athlon 64 and Sempron chips. Regardless of the type of system you own now, it's a good idea to install SP2. If you are considering purchasing a new PC soon and are really worried about buffer-overrun attacks, however, we suggest that you choose a PC with a new AMD processor or postpone your purchase if you want an Intel-based system.
SP2 also throws in a welter of retooled features, including DirectX 9.0b multimedia API for better graphics and sound, and a setup routine for SmartKeys. The service pack includes Windows Media Player 9.0, also with improved security features. And two special versions of Windows XP get a complete OS overhaul with SP2. Tablet PCs receive Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, which improves handwriting recognition among other tablet-specific enhancements. And first-generation Media Center PCs will be upgraded to Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, an updated version of the specialized OS for machines that also serve as media hubs.
Finally, XP's wireless capabilities are improved. There's a new user-friendly interface for wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) setup. But there are still too many configuration pages underneath the fancy new interface, and they are mostly unchanged from the previous version of XP. More substantive is XP's new native Bluetooth support. We plugged a Linksys Bluetooth adapter into our test system. Using XP's new built-in user interface and native Bluetooth hardware drivers, we were able to easily connect with a Bluetooth phone to transfer images and use it as a modem. Technical support for Windows XP SP2 covers the usual bases: you can e-mail questions to Microsoft or find answers to some questions on an online FAQ page. Toll-free phone support is available from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. (PT) on weekdays and from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends. We called the phone line with our problem of dropped wireless connections and spent nearly two hours getting nowhere. The support technician we spoke with chalked it up to a driver conflict and stressed that SP2 was essentially a new operating system and that driver problems were to be expected. At press time, the issue was still not resolved, but it was escalated to Microsoft's research division.


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Nelson Yuen needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 38 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Beef Jerky Ninjas
We sell an eastern style cured jerky snack called Bak Kua.
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The website you are designing for is http://www.beefjerkyninjas.com. Currently, the website lacks a border. We need a banner style navigation that has the form & functionality of a drop down, but also visually separates the header from the body content. (You will not be responsible for designing the drop down.
So again, what we need is a graphical representation of the main navigation that ultimately serves as a small border between the header and body content. The nav can stretch all the way across from left to write, or about 75% from left to right. See pictures for a better understanding. Feel free to be creative, redesign the logo if you want, but that's extra work and TOTALLY up to the designer's personal preference.
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Don Siegel, byname of Donald Siegel, (born October 26, 1912, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died April 20, 1991, Nipomo, California), American motion-picture director who specialized in action-packed films with tightly constructed narratives. He frequently worked with actor Clint Eastwood, and their collaborations include the classics Coogan's Bluff (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971).
Early work
Siegel studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After a brief stint as an actor, he joined Warner Brothers studios near Hollywood as an assistant film librarian. He later worked as an editor before joining the studio's montage department, where he contributed to Now, Voyager (1942), Casablanca (1942), and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), among other films.
Siegel's first directorial efforts were the short films Star in the Night and Hitler Lives? (uncredited; both 1945); they both won Academy Awards and resulted in his graduating to features. His first was The Verdict (1946), a solid Scotland Yard period piece that was the eighth and last movie to feature the popular on-screen team of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Night unto Night was shot in 1947 but not released until 1949. The romantic drama featured Ronald Reagan as an epileptic scientist and Viveca Lindfors as a widow haunted by her late husband; Siegel and Lindfors were married from 1949 to 1954. He next made The Big Steal (1949), a lighthearted crime yarn that reunited Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, the stars of Jacques Tourneur's noir classic Out of the Past (1947). Although not up to that level, The Big Steal showed Siegel's facility with hard-boiled action, the genre in which he would eventually make his reputation.
First, however, Siegel struggled through The Duel at Silver Creek (1952), an uninspired Audie Murphy western; No Time for Flowers (1952), an unsatisfying rework of Ernst Lubitsch's comedy classic Ninotchka (1939); and the fast-moving but far-fetched melodrama Count the Hours (1953), in which Macdonald Carey played an attorney defending a migrant worker (John Craven) who is wrongly convicted of murder. Siegel next made China Venture (1953), a middling World War II drama that pitted a U.S. Marine commando unit against Japanese soldiers.
Early action dramas
In 1954 Siegel registered his first major critical and commercial success with Riot in Cell Block 11, a classic prison drama made for producer Walter Wanger, who had served four months in jail and been appalled by the conditions there. The film featured the fast pace and tight editing that would come to define Siegel's productions. Almost as exciting was Private Hell 36 (1954), a noir about the problems that arise after two detectives (Steve Cochran and Howard Duff) decide to keep stolen money that they have recovered; Ida Lupino played a nightclub singer, and she cowrote the script (with Collier Young).
Although Siegel's forte seemed to be in action and crime dramas, his next picture was the forgettable An Annapolis Story (1955), about brothers (John Derek and Kevin McCarthy) who both love the same woman. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), however, was a huge leap forward. One of the best science-fiction movies of the decade, it triumphed over a low-wattage cast and a minuscule budget to become a classic of paranoia. It centres on a small town that is being quietly invaded by aliens, who take over the bodies of residents. Crime in the Streets (1956), an adaptation of a 1955 TV drama by Reginald Rose, featured original cast members John Cassavetes and future director Mark Rydell as disaffected teens, with Sal Mineo added for star power. Siegel's next project was Baby Face Nelson (1957), a violent look at the infamous gangster (played by Mickey Rooney).
Siegel had more success with The Lineup (1958), which was based on a popular TV series. It offered Eli Wallach as a paid killer who must recover heroin that was hidden in the luggage of unsuspecting travelers; Richard Jaeckel portrayed a mobster acting as his chauffeur. The Gun Runners (1958), the third screen adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, was disappointing. With Hound-Dog Man (1959), Siegel shifted gears. The dramedy centres on two teenaged boys and their adventures one summer; teen pop idol Fabian was surprisingly effective in his screen debut. Edge of Eternity (1959) was a contemporary western, with a deputy (Cornel Wilde) chasing down a killer (Mickey Shaughnessy).
Siegel then made the gritty Flaming Star (1960), which featured Elvis Presley in a convincing performance as a man whose allegiances are divided between his white father (Steve Forrest) and his Kiowa mother (Dolores del Rio). It is widely considered Presley's best nonmusical film. Hell Is for Heroes (1962) was a hard-as-nails World War II picture that starred Steve McQueen in an antiheroic role as a rebellious U.S. soldier who ultimately leads his weary fellow men (Fess Parker, Nick Adams, and James Coburn, among others) in an attack on a much-larger German force.
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