September 2010/ vol. 385/ no.3

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“Shoeless” Eric Love

The Market

Ride:Minds Behind the riders

Warriors:Sean O’Donnells Army

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“The Violinist”

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Ingredients1 (5 to 6-pound) duck 1/4 cup canola oil 1 pound ground pork 1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic 7 tablespoons Jan’s Special spice, recipe follows 1/4 cup masa harina 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup beer 1 onion, finely chopped 1 red pepper, finely chopped 3 poblano chiles, finely chopped 1 jalapeno, minced 4 cups chicken stock 1 (4-ounce) can green chiles, chopped 2 corn tortillas, fried crisp or 8 tortilla chips Kosher salt 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro leaves 3 tablespoons lime juice 1/2 cup sliced scallions, for garnish 1/2 cup sour cream, for garnish DirectionsRemove the duck meat from the bones. Remove the skin from the meat. Cut the meat into 1/4 to 1/2-inch cubes.

In a large Dutch oven, heat the canola oil over medium-high heat. Add the pork, cook until browned, about 5 to 10 minutes.

Add the chopped garlic and duck meat, cook until duck is browned, about 5 minutes. Sprinkle with ground spice mix, masa harina and flour. Cook, stirring, until flour is lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Add the beer, onions, red pepper, poblanos and jalapeno. Lower the heat to medium, add the chicken stock and chopped canned green chiles.

Crumble the tortillas or corn chips into a blender. Ladle out enough of the chili liquid to cover the tortillas in the blender. Blend until smooth. Add back to chili. Simmer until duck is tender, about 1 hour. Season, to taste, with salt. Keep on simmer until serving.

Dont Forget to add your Visual Variety, and Wide Medium Tight. Serve with Crackers.

Green Duck Chili

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People from Baltimore County, Md. came together in support of local farmers for one of the summers’ last Farmers’ Markets in Cantonsville, Md. Aug 25.

The market has been held weekly on Wed. since May 5th and is one of many open-air farmers’ markets held in Maryland during the summer months.

“The farmers’ markets give local people a chance to try different foods that are not normally available in local grocery stores,” said Barry Pugh, a Leopold Smokery vendor at the market.

Foods available included fresh baked goods from Atwater Breads, fresh fruits and vegetables from Swamp Fox Farms, fresh ice cream and cheeses from Keyes Creamery, and fresh smoked meats and cheeses from Leopold Smokery.

Veteran vendors at the market suggest patrons arrive early, because the best food goes first and the parking is very limited, said Jonathan Cartwright the market vendor from Swamp Fox Farms.

Jennifer Rende, right, visits Jasmine Anderson at the Can-tonsville Farmers’ Market every Wednesday to purchase fresh vegetables and baked goods.

Austin Sutliff hops a fence after checking on the bulls before the Battle of the Beast summer event at the J bar W Ranch in Union Bridge, MD Aug 7, 2010. If a rider is not pres-ent at the appointed time before the rodeo the rider forfeits and the bull is turned back out to pasture.

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attle + Horses + Bulls + Leather + Reigns + Guts + Blood + Dirt + Pain = The Rodeos and Cowboys

The American Rodeo began July 4, 1869, in Deer Trail, CO when two groups of cowboys from neighboring ranches decided to settle an argument about who was the best at performing the everyday chores associated with ranching. They rode and roped in events ranging from bronco busting to cattle roping. That competition is often considered the very first rodeo.

Although the modern rodeo has evolved consider-ably, the cowboys who rode then and the cowboys who ride now are still very similar as their basic reasons for rodeoing and risking it all haven’t changed.

Rodeos didn’t begin to become an organized sport until the Cowboyss Turtle Association was formed in 1936 after a strike at the Boston Garden World Cham-pionship. The CTA’s goal was to standardize the com-petitions with judges, uniform rules and regulations.

The association eventually became the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, and most official rodeos today fall under its jurisdiction.

A rodeo typically has five standard events includ-ing, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, calf roping and bull riding.

“I always loved to ride bulls,” said Loren Smith, a 31-year-old rider from Oklahoma who has been riding for 15 years. “I started riding in the rodeo when I was 16 because I had some buddies that rode bulls and they thought I was pretty good. My grandpa rode saddle broncs and taught me how to ride when I was a kid.”

The cowboys of today are born from the same stock that they were 200 years ago. Most grew up farming and riding and just like their predecessors they have the same reasons and motivations to compete.

“I grew up breaking horses n’ stuff for my dad,” said Jeff Askey, a recent college national bull riding champion. “He used to buy and sell riding horses and I’d break ‘em. I was pretty good at riding colts, and I

had a best friend that lived a couple miles away whose dad used to ride bulls. We were always hanging out, and I thought I would be all right at riding bulls ‘cause I broke colts, so I gave it a try down at his house. I rode my first bull and have been riding ever since.”

That most ride for love of the sport and the rush they get riding a 1,500 pound crazed, bucking animal, is something else that spans the generations.

“When I won my first world title in 99’ it seemed like the ride took forever,” said Smith. “I didn’t think I was going to be able to ride the bull, it had been unrid-den all year long but it was a fantastic ride.”

Smith said that while he is riding bulls, in the ring, hanging on for all he is worth, he tries not to think about anything other than trying to match the bull move for move in every twist and buck, and once it hits that eight second mark and the ride is considered quali-fied, it is an amazing feeling.

“There ain’t no drug out there that a person can take or anything like that, that can make you feel like you do when everything goes right and you ride a rank bull, there ain’t nothing like it, said Blaine Whipp a 37-year-old two time world title winning bull rider. “I love my job, that’s why I do it time and time again.”

Whipp said it is the competition that he loves most. It is a battle between the rider and the bull from the very beginning of the ride. It is either you or the bull.

“The greatest bull ride I ever made, I rode a bull at Des Moines, IA,” said Whipp. “The bull was six years old and unridden, it had been to the PBR finals, the national finals in Las Vegas, the IRA finals in Okla-homa City and he was unridden. At that point I was on top of the world, I was winning the world. That year I was on fire. The bull was on fire. It was a match of two champions and I came out on top. I rode him and I got 91 points.”

One rodeoer once said, “Just being able to come up with a ride makes you feel good. It gives you the confidence that you can still ride. I just have to keep a positive attitude. I know I have done it before, so I will just have to be patient and keep on trying.” Lane Frost said that 22 years ago after becoming the top qualifier for the “Walt Garrison All Star Rodeo.”

The winner of the upcoming PBR World Finals in Las Vegas might say the same thing after a similar ex-perience years after Frost’s ride, with the same feeling and confidence once held by the first cowboys almost two centuries ago.

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< Shane Stiffler, a rider in the Battle of the Beast summer series laughs off a hit to the head after trying to ride a bull at the J bar W Ranch in Union Bridge, Md Aug. 7, 2010. Shane went on to take second place in the competition with a 72 point ride.

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^ Shane Stiffler, Loren Smith and Austin Sutliff rest behind the pens after their rides waiting for the second round at the J bar W Ranch in Union Bridge, MD Aug. 7, 2010. The next round of the rodeo is known as the short round in which the top members of the previous round compete for the winning title and the prize money.

< Children at the Battle of the Beast summer series at the J bar W Ranch in Union Bridge, Md Aug. 7, 2010 have a chance before the rodeo to learn the skills used by every day ranchers.

“There ain’t no drug out there that a person can take or anything like that, that can make you feel like you do when everything goes right and you ride a rank bull, there ain’t nothing like it.”

--Blaine Whipp

Rodger Perrin attempts to replace the neck of a violin destroyed by a musicians pet mongoose. Perrin & Associates Fine Violins was es-tablished in Baltimore in 1994 with a vision to provide violins, violas, cellos, and repair and restoration services to the professional and the aspiring musician.

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warriorsI can be the general. I can be the conquering villian. I can be whoever i want to be that day.

warriors wI can be the general. I can be the conquering villian. I can be whoever i want to be that day.

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he Craven were bearing down on the Warriors of Chaos. They were seek-ing to rout and finish off the army of

battered Northmen. The Warriors had been outnumbered from the beginning of the battle.

From the other side of the field came a cry “Everchosen!”

At the sound of the cry, the army raised their heads and began to surge forward knowing now that their general, the “Everchosen”, was there they could not possibly lose.

“The general for my ‘Warriors of Chaos’ was originally a hero from the good guy’s side,” said Sean S. O’Donnell a worker at the Games Workshop at Arundel Mills Mall. “He was what they call a warrior priest. He was a scholar, a warrior that tended to the needs of the people and defended them.”

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Sean S. O’Donnell has been playing Warhammer for more than ten years. Sean works at the Games Workshop at Arundel Mills Mall and has worked there for the last seven months.

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“But, he found out a dark secret and kind of lost it. He burned down his home, burned down his village and marched off to the north. Over time he became stronger and cults had begun following him. Eventu-ally he became what they call the Everchosen, the greatest warrior to ever be proclaimed in the North-land and he is going to try to bring about the apoca-lypse. He wants to bring down the shackles of the previous society and raise up his own.”

“That is the story of my army,” said Sean, while he pointed down to the tiny army of plastic and metal creatures strewn across the table.

Sean, a Maryland native found his love for table top fantasy games over ten years ago, after years of working with normal models and finding little enjoy-ment in allowing them to sit around unused.

Sean’s grandfather first got him interested in model building when he was very young.

“My grandfather always built models,” said Sean. “He always had a model train set in the basement

and built model airplanes. When I used to go to their house on the weekends I was always interested in building models because other people were doing it.”

While his grandfather instilled in him a love of building models, Sean said he wished he could do more with them.

Sean was walking through the mall one day and came across the Games Workshop where he discov-ered an entire store dedicated to model building and table top games like Warhammer, Warhammer 20,000 and Lord of the Rings.

“I was like, ‘oh hey, what are these,’ and they were miniature soldiers, not just model airplanes and model tanks,” said Sean. “I could actually build an army and have fun with that. Then they said oh yeah, you get to play with it too, and I was hooked.”

“Sean is a lot of fun to play with,” said Tom Har-ryman, a worker at the Arundel Mills Games Work-shop. “He is enthusiastic and really knows his army. He knows his story and the story behind all of his

Players use multiple six sided dice in order to determine how many times and how hard they attack during a game of Warhammer.

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characters. He is a really good strategist as well, so it is always fun playing a game against him.”

“I chose the Warriors of Chaos because they are Vikings,” said Sean. “I mean, who doesn’t like giant Viking warriors just stomping across the battlefield hollering and screaming and shouting battle cries at the enemy? I thought they were very intimidating and they are fun to paint.”

Sean said it would take more than two months of working 8 hours a day 7 days a week to fully paint his entire army.

“Usually when I paint I will do one guy to comple-tion and then I will start, step by step, going through all of them,” said Sean. “I will base them all in the greens, then go through and do all of the browns and the fur colors, and then I will go back and do all of the details.”

When Sean finishes the army he said he will continue to design the main character in his story, building and painting each stage in the evolution of his protagonist.

Sean S. O’Donnell has been playing Warhammer for more than ten years and is working on creating his army “The Warriors of Chaos”.

Sean O’Donnell paints during a model building seminar at the Games Workshop. Each piece of Sean’s army was hand built and painted.

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“Shoeless” Eric Love

Eric Love, from the Severn Athletic Club Seminoles, sucessfully carries the ball to first down after losing his shoe in the process. The Seminoles lost 26-28 to the Crofton Cardinals in one of the last games of the blank tournament in Severn, MD Sept. 4.

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