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First post (not including those by my exes)
place a '!' somewhere and reverse the effect?
Wonder how long will it be before somebody does precisely that to FaceBook's new panic button?
"The marketing possibilities are endless."
As are the anti-marketing possibilities.
Don't like Coca-Cola or Pepsi? Gone. Apple's turtlenecky hipness is getting cloying? Never hear of them or their fanboys again.
And of course, if you're one of the less morally scrupulous companies out there (as in, pretty much all of them), it could be very tempting to have a botnet provider silently install a filter that removes any trace of your competition on a few million computers out there.
Right-wing Republican?
... just erase Obama from your world.
That seems to pretty much be the opposite of what a conservative or a libertarian wants. After all, they observe the realities of the world and deal with them while the progressives like to implement their own idealistic policies, regardless of the consequences.
He didn't say conservative or libertarian. He said right-wing Republican. The nut jobs currently running (ruining?) the Republican party don't have much in common with conservatives from, say the Barry Goldwater era.
The current Republican party is purchasing votes from an extremist religion while demonizing a different extremist religion.
All very similar to the current Democratic party who is purchasing votes from the poor, disenfranchised minorities and immigrants.
No matter which party wins, guess who ends
"Extremeism in defense of liberty is no vice" -- Barry Goldwater. Even Nixon was too ashamed to be associated with Goldwater. And for all the under-handed stupidity that Nixon engaged in, he did open up trade with China and get us out of Vietnam where as LBJ just wanted to keep escalating the war. On the other hand, Goldwater was the one who said "you don't have to be straight to shoot straight".
JFK was all about pushing the best and brightest to succeed for the good of the nation, but little brother Ted
I'm on board.
Next presidential election I am writing in "the undead corpse of Andrew Jackson."
No Child Left Behind . . . is perhaps one of the stupidest pieces of legislation ever conceived
What makes you say that? I had some teacher friends who were complaining about it, and they said it was unfair to rate a teacher's performance by the performance of their students on a standardized test. And they complained that the testing was not a fair reflection of the quality of education received. I'm sorry, but when you make your living literally determining students futures by judging their performance
I just think resources should be distributed in such a way as that the students who are going to make better use of them get first dibs. AP and Honors classes should get first crack and shouldn't have to have their time wasted by putting remedial kids in their classes to suck up the teacher's time and attention.
There is a difference between wanting to leave some children behind and wanting to just call a spade a spade. Some kids don't care. Some kids aren't able to "get it." Not everyone is created equal. Perhaps morally equal, but not mathematically equivalent. I dunno, frankly I'd just as soon stay out of it. My mother's a high school teacher (undergrad from an ivy in Romance languages with a concentration in French and Italian; masters in Spanish; teaches Spanish 4 and 5, with the AP classes) so most of w
I'm starting to get a better understanding of our disagreement. NCLB does not actually make any effort to leave no children behind. The entire bill is designed solely to shut down failing schools by eliminating funding.
You really shouldn't listen to a teacher about it (apologies if she is your mother), because that would be like listening to a police officer's opinion of internal affairs. No one believes they should be held accountable for their performance, because they know that a lot of it is out of t
guess who ends up paying the bill for these purchases?
A: YOU!! ah where would we be wid out da white man
No, actually I was thinking 'The struggling middle class' (all colors).
But enjoy your rage anyway.
Well, it IS in fact an "automated religion". Or in other words: An automated distortion of reality, twisted to repress something you can't stand. Your own little North Korea / China. Your own little schizophrenia.
True to the popular motto to never ever face your fears, but always run away from them, 'till the end on time, no matter what the costs (in freedom) may be.
Face it, everything your ex loved will still remember you of her. You can not run away from it all, and still live a no
What if your ex-girlfriend's name is JESS3?
I thought you wrote "Jesus" at first glance. Nice.
Yeah, my girlfriend's name is, uh
reminds me that a lot of people are living in fantasies completely cut off from reality.
that gives worms to ex-girlfriends.
Make sure you think about all possible meanings of that sentence before you make your genie-wish.
Granted! The next girlfriend you have will now have worms. She was someone's ex, after all.
Can we have options to block annoying public figures without having to type in all their names? Like an "every guest who was ever on fox news" button would be nice for me.
Obama was a guest on Fox News...
And for Slashdot, the internet looked the same...
Obviously this is for *women*, not men, otherwise why would they mention the possibility of an ex getting elected!?!?
Plus, moving on...? That's not how we roll.
won't somebody please write a plugin that strips all that horrific fucking waste of space we all know as "Urchin" from all URLs? I want something thorough. It must strip all that "&utm_source=xxx&utm_campaign=xxx" etc off every link rendered in the html, and off every URL pasted into the browser, and everything copied into the clipboard. It's not that I fundamentally hate being tracked (well, I do, but...), it's just that when you have a URL consisting of 200 chars, 150 of which are Urchin tracking bullshit, you know YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. The necessary information could easily be stored in a single GUID, with a bit of forethought.
In case you're wondering, yes, Urchin and I were an item until she ate my last Rolo, punched my mom and ran away with my siamese twin sibling.
It's not a browser plug-in but otherwise, Privoxy [privoxy.org] is your friend. Quoting from their home page:
"Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks."
Aha, I figured there would be a greasemonkey script for it
While preaching anti-censorship at the same time. Think about it. The best you can do about ex'es is to forget they exist. Mental programming is much more effective than a browser plugin
You're a hypocrite if you think this is cool while preaching anti-censorship at the same time.
Completely wrong. If you defend personal liberty, you defend the right to censor yourself. The problem is forcing that on to others.
In fact, that's what anti-internet censorship people say: if you don't want to see porn or whatever, instal a filter on your PC - don't try to filter everyone. This is exactly the same thing.
I wouldn't do it, but it's not hypocrisy in any way.
Censorship, as people object to it, is when someone else prevents you from seeing something they don't want you to see.
This browser tool, by contrast, allows YOU to choose things you don't want to see on the Internet.
So no, this is not hypocrisy. It's only censorship in the sense that choosing not to look at something is censoring your vision.
"Censorship, as people object to it, is when someone else prevents you from seeing something they don't want you to see."
Or, more generally, when someone else (C) prevents or alters communication between two other people (or groups of people, etc).
If the government stops you from making a political speech, that's censorship.
If I choose not to spend time listening to you, that's not censorship.
You have a right to speak, but there's no right to be heard.
I can choose to censor myself, as well as filter what I bring in.
Censorship becomes a problem when others try to forcefully censor me, or filter what I bring in.
I see no hypocrisy.
Everyone makes very good points about it not being hypocrisy, perhaps in some cases this might not be true.
Example: I can prevent myself from seeing bestial porn, because it goes against my moral values;
While: blocking updates from my ex, who describes her latest cooking expedition, and causes no objective moral dilemma, just proves that I'm a childish ignorant fool who doesn't want to deal with reality.
Censorship is preventative if it occurs *before* the said expression is made public, and punitive *after*
I don't get it.. how is this better than just breaking their ankles and keeping them tied up on a bed? They can't get elected if they can't run. (Get it?) Plus they'll probably fall in love with you all over again while you nurse them back to health. Win-win.
That's cool and all, but what I really want is a way to block certain sites and content from search results and "delink" them from pages. For Google it would be a maintained list of -site: switches, and for general sites it would be the removal of the anchor tag when targeting a site in the same list of sites. Probably a Grease Monkey script would be the easiest route, but I'm better at making Slashdot comments than I am at making scripts, so here I am.
The current user has had all memories of <ex's name> removed from their memory.
Please do not mention this person.
"Wish not to seem, but to be, the best." -- Aeschylus


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Press Release
CDC Celebrates National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
March 19, 2010
March 20, 2010 is National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. On this day, we recognize the impact of HIV/AIDS in Native populations, and encourage increased efforts for HIV prevention and care among Native peoples, including American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. It is essential for our national HIV prevention efforts that members of Native populations take a leading role in learning more about HIV/AIDS, getting tested, and getting involved in HIV prevention at both local and national levels.
Historically, Native communities have suffered from increased health disparities, including HIV infection and AIDS. For example, in 2007 in 34 states with confidential name-based HIV reporting:
Further, in 2006, American Indians and Alaska Natives had the third highest estimated rate of new HIV infections (14.6/100,000) in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Race and ethnicity are not, by themselves, risk factors for HIV infection. However, American Indians and Alaska Natives face challenges that have been associated with increased risk for HIV infection, including poverty, substance use, discrimination, and limited access to prevention and care services. Additionally for American Indians and Alaska Natives, life expectancy is shorter than that for persons of other races/ethnicities in the United States; the rates of many diseases, including diabetes, tuberculosis, and alcoholism are higher; and access to health care is poorer. Many of these same issues also affect Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. These factors further demonstrate the increased vulnerability of Native populations to additional health issues, including HIV infection, and point to the crucial need for increased awareness, access to services, and linkage to care.
We hope this day will raise awareness of HIV/AIDS among persons native to the United States. CDC supports efforts to reduce the health disparities experienced in Native communities that are at high risk for HIV through CDC-funded prevention programs that state, territorial, and local health departments and community-based organizations provide for American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. These programs aim to help tribes and local communities expand HIV prevention services and improve services for persons infected with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS; build and strengthen the capacity of tribal organizations, local communities, and urban Indian health centers throughout the United States to develop effective HIV prevention through networking and collaboration; provide HIV prevention education in Native communities; and support implementation of evidence-based HIV prevention interventions.
On this fourth annual NNHAAD, CDC reminds partners that getting tested for HIV is crucial since early diagnosis of HIV increases opportunities for treatment and prevention, and allows Native people to live longer, healthier lives. For more information on NNHAAD, please visit www.happ.colostate.edu/nad.html. Thank you for your commitment to HIV prevention.
This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Visit the CDC's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.

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Is it time to put a stop to sprawl?
By Meghan Murphy-Gill, a writer living in Chicago.
[Sounding Boards are one person's take on a many-sided subject and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians.]
Please take the survey that follows this essay.
I went to high school in a small town northeast of San Antonio. Our school district was made up of three towns just like mine, none big enough to support its own school. But even in our tiny town, I couldn't walk or ride my bike to school despite that it was a mere mile from my house. The dirt farm road leading to my neighborhood had been covered in asphalt at least a decade prior, literally paving the way for subdivisions to branch off. The city planners had chosen to leave out sidewalks, and with the speed limit set at 40 mph (which meant people drove at least 50), biking just wouldn't have been safe. Still, despite that my family lived in one of those brand new housing developments, we could occasionally hear a cow bellow a long "moooooooo" from our front porch. The end of our street was adjacent to a farm.
While visiting Texas last year, I drove from San Antonio to Austin and passed by my old town. But as I headed north, I recognized nothing. The interstate was littered on both sides with billboard after billboard alerting me to a Bed Bath & Beyond, Home Depot, Walmart SuperCenter, Sam's Club, or Costco. We'd had a McDonald's and a local barbecue chain 15 years ago. Now there was a Chili's, an Applebees, a Chipotle, and a Macaroni Grill. I was surrounded not by the farmland that had once draped the gently rolling Texas Hill Country, but by cars, some on the road, most baking in the sea of parking lots that flanked both sides of the interstate for miles.
Austin Bramwell of The American Conservative rightly identifies as sprawl as "an umbrella term for the pattern of development seen virtually everywhere in the United States." It's likely that you, too, watched your hometown transform over the past 20 years into row after row of chain restaurants and stores that meander aimlessly. Your roads probably also seem to get widened every year in order to add turn lanes into shopping centers and subdivisions. And traversing a big box parking lot or trying to get back on the main road from one takes skills they don't teach you in driver's ed.
A failure to measure successful growth and development in long-term sustainability can have detrimental effects not just on the environment but on public health, our sense of community, and the poor. Sprawl is such a, well, sprawling problem; its negative effects reach far and wide. And those negative effects are found in many of the social justice issues that the Catholic Church is already working to address, making sprawl a political issue that we cannot afford to ignore.
It's a complex problem that will take a long time and a lot of people to solve. Yes, it is an issue directly impacted by government policies, but that doesn't mean Catholics as individuals--and the church as a whole--can't do their part.
Of course, urban development can be a good thing. It can increase a city's revenue and create much needed jobs. But measuring growth in terms of short-term economics has not always served us well. "[S]ome growth brings more costs than benefits," says Donella H. Meadows, director of the Sustainability Institute in Hartland, Vermont. "That kind of growth makes us poorer, not richer. It shouldn't be welcomed or subsidized or managed or accommodated; it should be stopped."
Good growth is carefully planned and takes into consideration more than just the desire of businesses to make profit and cities to increase tax revenue sources. In fact, laser focus on the immediate economics of growth can end up costing a city more money. For example, when a Walmart built on former farmland starts drawing more car traffic, it will eventually need a wider road, not to mention a traffic light or two. Then there is the parking lot and all of the polluted run-off it will inevitably create. And what about the costs associated with getting city power and water to the outskirts of town? Who will pay for these added expenses? Not Walmart.
During the 2012 presidential election, more Americans became familiar with the term subsidiarity—an important principle of Catholic social teaching—thanks to vice presidential candidate and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. Because urban sprawl varies in its forms and causes from city to city, subsidiarity is a principle better applied to the response to unplanned, unsustainable development than to meeting the immediate needs of those experiencing poverty.
In Pacific Northwest cities like Portland, Oregon, where care for the environment is increasingly important to residents, "green belts," boundaries where urban growth is prohibited, are being enforced. Such designated areas aren't likely to work in regions that don't enjoy the type of landscape that prevents developers from leapfrogging these green belts to develop just beyond them. What may work better (or in conjunction with green belts) are incentives that attract developers to more centralized areas, making it less expensive or more profitable in the long-term to open a business in the center of town, rather than build one just on the outskirts. In Boulder, Colorado a limit on building heights allows residents to maintain their views of the mountains. In the Midwest building up prevents building out.
How do individuals do their part if government policy seems to be the best way to attack the problem? It's one thing to recognize that the most effective way to slow sprawl is through better government policies and regulations. It's another thing to excuse yourself from any and all responsibility. No one likes to be told what to do, especially when it comes to the choices that affect our everyday lives, but part of the gospel message is to examine our day-to-day actions and consider if they are reflective of God's call to justice and community.
If you're fortunate enough to be in the market for a new home, try to think beyond your family's immediate wants and needs. When my husband told his brother that we were in the process of buying a condo in Chicago, his brother was surprised. "Don't you want kids? Where will they play if they don't have their own backyard?" Personal outdoor space is a luxury, especially in cities with high population density. Fortunately, our new home is within walking distance of several public parks, one of which is even on Lake Michigan. It may not be as convenient as playing in our own backyard, but the tradeoff is that we'll have more opportunities to encounter our neighbors, who in our neighborhood are economically, ethnically, and religiously diverse. Plus, we'd never be able to afford a swing set as cool as the one at the park four blocks away.
Maybe you parents, or even you, are aging and looking to downsize. Would a move to a more populated area with services like public transportation make more sense? There's no required eyesight test for a bus pass. When seniors can no longer (or simply don't want to) drive, public transit options can be the difference between making it to church on Sundays—and being part of a parish community—and simply watching Mass on EWTN.
When it comes to making big changes, local government really is where the rubber meets the road. It's the place where individual voices count most. Sure, voting in presidential elections is important, but the way to really have a positive effect on your community is by staying informed on local issues and attending city council and neighborhood meetings. Churches are important voices in the community, and politicians, from presidents to members of the city council, are known to listen. There's something to be said about strength in numbers, and churches have a long history as spaces for grassroots movements to emerge.
But while a parish is an excellent place to join forces with other members of your community, parishes also have to put their money where their mouths are and be shining examples of the kinds of decisions they want local businesses and government to make. For example, paving over a grass lot may be a cheap and easy way to combat the parking lot fiasco that takes place after each Mass on Sundays, but will the problem just creep back up in a few years? Is lobbying the city council for a crosswalk and a traffic light that would encourage more families to walk to church a more sustainable alternative?
Solving the complicated and vast problems of urban sprawl will not take a single initiative or simple solution. But that's not an excuse to throw our hands up and do nothing. Slowing sprawl, an umbrella term, will take the umbrella church, with its diversity of voices, locations, and experiences, and ideas.
Flickr photo of urban sprawl in Texas cc [1] by Saucy Salad [2]
Home page image: Flickr photo cc [3] by halffrisian [4]


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College funding bill eyed for illegal immigrants' kids
ALBANY -- State legislative leaders indicated Tuesday that momentum is building toward creating a fund to help children of illegal immigrants pay for college, but differences still might prevent an agreement.
The Democrat-dominated state Assembly advanced a bill that would allow children of illegal immigrants to participate in state tuition-assistance programs. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Republican co-leader of the state Senate said the GOP would take up the idea of a privately funded scholarship program "at the appropriate time."
At stake is whether New York would approve a "Dream Act" or "Dream Fund." The former involves access to publicly funded college financial-aid programs; the latter means creating a program through private funds. Republicans balked at such proposals a year ago.
This year, after forming a power-sharing agreement with dissident Democrats, Senate co-leader Dean Skelos has said the notion of a Dream Fund "has a possibility to pass." A Skelos spokesman said Tuesday Republicans would air the issue in a closed-door conference.
"At the appropriate time, we will discuss the Dream Fund with all of the members of the Senate Republican conference," said spokesman Scott Reif.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) said he'd push for immigrants' full access to tuition-assistance programs and called Skelos' idea "half a loaf."
"I don't believe it is acceptable to the members of this conference," Silver, flanked by more than two dozen Assembly Democrats, said at a news conference. "There is no logic to it."
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has said he supports a Dream Fund at the federal level but has been noncommittal about a separate state program. A spokesman said Tuesday the governor would review the legislative proposals.


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Monday, October 12, 2009
You Stupid Bloggers Killed Gourmet Magazine
Kimball is the publisher of Cook's Illustrated, author of several cookbooks, and host of "America's Test Kitchen". He bemoans Conde Nast's decision to close Gourmet magazine (with three others) and he clearly blames you knuckleheads that read and/or write food blogs and search for recipes online.
"The shuttering of Gourmet reminds us that in a click-or-die advertising marketplace, one ruled by a million instant pundits, where an anonymous Twitter comment might be seen to pack more resonance and useful content than an article that reflects a lifetime of experience, experts are not created from the top down but from the bottom up."
I would argue that an issue of Gourmet (I once had a free subscription) was a collection of a few recipes buried under hundreds of annoying advertisements. The magazine was more like a woman's fashion magazine than a cooking periodical. To me, it was too similar to other checkout rack garbage to bother renewing when the free subscription lapsed.
Kimball's rag uses an entirely different business model. His magazine does not contain scores of scratch and sniff perfume and Jaguar ads. Subscription and retail sales drive his business (along with many pull-out mailers hawking their latest book). Maybe he should have focused his criticism on Conde Nast's business model as he has not gone down the same road.
Cook's Illustrated is another periodical to which I no longer subscribe. I grew tired of all the provincial New England type recipes but what really turned me against the magazine was their God-awful attempts to cook anything that did not include roast turkey or "chowdah". An "Essential" salsa recipe better have more than one jalapeno in it or you are just a bow tie wearing candyass afraid of anything that actually has flavor. Stick to "chowdah".
Kimball's editorial in the NY Times confirms his status as an effete snob. I will continue to both shun his products and use the Internet to find things I'd like to cook.
Unlike Mr. Kimball I welcome your opinion. Now, if you will please excuse me, I have to go microwave a SpagettiOs, corn dog and Cheez Whiz casserole recipe I found online.
19 comments:
- Kim said...
I couldn't have said it better myself. Although I've learned a lot from the Cook's empire over the years, I've also learned that when I try to follow their recipes to the "T" I become a frigid, uptight b*&ch in serious need of a stiff drink. Who cares if a recipe is from some nobody on the internet without (god forbid) "experience", if the food tastes good?
I thoroughly enjoy your blog (and others like it, although yours is my fave) because you cook the types of things I like to cook and eat, in the ways I like to cook and eat them (not on fine china). There is something earthy, relaxed, and soul-satisfying about that type of cooking that is just not captured in many of the mainstream food media.
There is a fundamental distinction between the motivations of the food media and, say, food bloggers. The food media are basically writing and testing recipes because they have to in order to complete an assignment. The food may be good, but they didn't pay for the ingredients, and it probably isn't what they are actually eating for meals. In contrast, food bloggers write about what they have chosen to buy, cook and eat for their meals - something I can relate to on a personal level. I just don't see how the food media can compete with that level of authenticity.
- October 12, 2009 at 9:03 PM
- R. Mansfield said...
Power to the people! The internet has been a terror to the elitists of any field.
It's interesting, isn't it. I get a cast iron skillet in the nineties. 15 years later, I'm so into cast iron, I hardly cook with anything else. I start my own blog with some friends who also like cast iron. They hardly ever contribute anything, but I'm hooked, so I keep writing even if they don't want to.
Then I get contacted to write for a cooking magazine because all of a sudden I am seen as an authority of some kind. I've never thought of myself in that manner, but I suppose the internet has become the great equalizer.
So now, I'll be a published food writer, come the January issue of Louisiana Cookin' magazine. That would have been impossible or at least a lot more difficult without the internet.
But the reality, Greg, is that you and I are already published food writers--from the bottom up as Kimball would say. He doesn't have to like it, but here we are. And as you imply, Kimball's comments are a bit disingenuous based upon his business model.
- October 12, 2009 at 9:13 PM
I don't disagree with you, but in all fairness, Kimball DOES mention his business model in the editorial
"...Cook's is today alive and well (I restarted the magazine in 1993) and Gourmet has foundered. The difference? We abandoned advertising in 1993 for a 100-percent subscriber-financed model, including a thriving paid Web site."
- October 13, 2009 at 8:09 AM
- Robin said...
Power to the people.
- October 13, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- Greg said...
Kim - Thanks for reading my gibberish.
You make an interesting point about writing assignments vs. writing about what you choose to blog about. I have not had a writing assignment since college and I'd forgotten that feeling. I suppose a real professional would turn out solid material in either case but I can't do it. If it doesn't interest me I can't write about it.
Rick - Congrats on the Louisiana Cookin' gig and you are right about the Internet.
I've never been able to decide if this is a food blog or a cast iron blog or some horrible hybrid of both.
Jeff - You are correct and I changed the text of my post. I guess I found other parts of Kimball's editorial to be eye popping enough that I glossed over that line.
Robin - Amen!
- October 13, 2009 at 6:29 PM
- onocoffee said...
In one of the more recent issues of Cook's Illustrated, they reviewed "green" non-stick pans. The one that won costs $129. So much for cookery for the proletariat.
I read Kimball's opinion in the NYT and was immediately struck by the elitist flourish that only a self-important gourmand would write. It's fluff and nothing of substance. Quite simply, Kimball's piece is nothing more than a blog rant run amok.
As he writes, Gourmet "...was the triumph of the American magazine model, one driven by lifestyle rather than nuts and blots, and floated by the billions of advertising dollars..."
From what I've seen in the industry, a "gourmet lifestyle" is something that only the rich can afford. I see the cooks out there drudging it out on a daily basis and it ain't glamorous. There's no cooks I know living a "lifestyle" and jetting off the mysterious lands seeking out rare ingredients. They're at the Asian grocery store buying saffron flowers for 89 cents a pack.
Another telling note by Kimmel: "...a respect for those who had earned the chops, as it were, who had a lifetime of good breeding and experience to stand at the cultural helm."
If that isn't the perfect example of white elitism, I don't know what is. That culture is dictated by the well-bred (read: white-bred). Of course, the hypocrisy is that today's "cultural helm" celebrates offal and charcuterie and all those things that the old day elite used to stick to the poor while getting fat off of the prime cuts.
Finally, I'm glad that Kimball wrote his piece and had it published. It underscores the difference between him and myself and that's important to know.
- October 14, 2009 at 6:07 AM
- Pokeberry Mary said...
Do you have the recipe for that spaghettiOs thing? LOL
- October 15, 2009 at 6:48 AM
- Chilebrown said...
I am such a Looser! I still have four years left on my subscripton. I liked the pictures and stories. Is there supposed to be more?
- October 16, 2009 at 8:22 PM
- Becky said...
I am still in mourning for the passing of Gourmet magazine (over 60 years of culinary history, including the contributions of MFK Fisher, James Beard, Laurie Colwin, and other stellar writers, tossed in the trash) and I cannot support your hasty (and, imho, rather ignorant ;-) dismissal of the publication as "Vogue for Cooks" True, the massive ad pages sucked--but how else to pay?--but the direction the magazine took under Ruth Riechl, advocating sustainable and local foods, alerting readers to horrific practices such as the "Tomato Slaves" of Mexico, and encouraging the inclusion of indigenous foodways from traditional cultures into the daily menus of former French Cuisine snobs, was really admirable!
Gourmet had a million readers. It had a venerable history. It was murdered by Chuck Townsend of Conde Nasty in favor of the lightweight pap like Bon Apetit and Vogue, instead of being representative of the same ilk...
However, you'll not get a peep out of me about bloggers causing the demise (if anything, Gourmet appealed to the READER as opposed to just the Recipe Seeker, and we readers never have enough to read ;-) and I'm in complete agreement with your assessment of Mr. Candy Ass Bow Tie.
I've subscribed to Saveur.
- October 18, 2009 at 1:11 PM
- Zio said...
Apparently Kimball doesn't agree with Chef Gusteau.
We're not novice cooks and we've tried a couple of recipes from famous "chefs" only to find they've left out a rather important bit or two causing culinary disaster only hours before the guests are to arrive. And maybe Mr. Kimball would argue that a chef "with a lifetime of expeience" would not have needed to be told to add that bit. But in my opinion if you're going to publish it then it damn well ought to be complete. Some of the best dishes we've made recently have come from blogs just like this one Mr. Kimball.
- October 19, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- Greg said...
onocoffee - Lots of items marketed as "green" cost significantly more. I was in REI he other day and saw the Recycled version of the North Face Cat's Meow sleeping bag costs an extra 40 dollars over the regular version.
I kinda think the greenest skillet is a reconditioned cast iron pan that you can hand down to your great grandkids but that's just me.
I wonder if Kimball has any writers remorse for that stupid editorial?
Pokeberry Mary - You should wait for the "America's Test Kitchen" version. It will be infinitely better. Good breeding you know....
Chilebrown - No
Becky - I'm sticking to my guns on the Vogue point just because of the ads and the dopey photos that accompanied any story about a gathering.
I have no doubt that excellent writers and photographers worked there. The problem was the delivery mechanism for their work.
Re: how else to pay? I remember the subscription mailers in the magazine basically offered a years subscription for a buck or two an issue. They had to lose money at that rate and obviously the ad revenue didn't make up the diff.
Raise the price and lose some ads?
Might have been worth trying but they had already gone down the "lifestyle road".
Zio - There are some food blogs that I used to have in my sidebar that I dropped after making a few recipes. There was just something I didn't like about the taste. Other blogs like "101 Cookbooks" and "David Lebowitz" have never let me down.
We can all pick and choose and decide for ourselves. I do the same thing with cookbooks. I probably still have 40+ cookbooks but I gave a bunch away to the library and friends.
I do find myself turning to blogs more than the books lately and if I were disappointed I wouldn't do that.
- October 19, 2009 at 8:23 PM
- Pokeberry Mary said...
I'm thinking great writers and chefs -- can blog. ;)
- October 20, 2009 at 5:45 AM
- Pokeberry Mary said...
I wonder if the internet is kind of like a new French Revolution. In a way it opens the door to the comman man--the one who has always been wondering if he'll have a job tomorrow. It's so interesting to me that in America there is a class of people who truly believe their breeding makes them better than anyone else. I guess that's the feeling I got from the Time's article. Certainly a person can learn to cook and know what's good without a culinary degree. Not that the classic expertise is useless--but to think the common people are useless is the real foolishness. "Let them eat boxed cake."
- October 20, 2009 at 6:23 AM
- synchronicity said...
@onocoffee - I agree with you re: "gourmet lifestyle". You wanna know the "gourmet" meal I've been making a lot recently. Take a corn tortilla (packs of 12 sell 3 for a buck at my local supermarket), heat one side in an old cast iron skillet (what brought me to this site was, after 20 years, looking at the underside of it), then flip it over, smear on some refried black beans, add some cilantro (59 cents a bunch), some lime juice (from a ten cent lime squeezed in a handheld lime squeezer bought for about 4 bucks from a supermercado in the local hispanic neighborhood), some cumin (bought in bulk from...some spice shop somewhere), heat for another 2-3 minutes, then take off the skillet and top with salsa, lettuce and tomato.
Let's face it, it's cheap peasant food, but it's damn good tasting (my wife loves it) and not terribly unhealthy. But no, my lime squeezer was not bought at Williams-Sonoma, and my produce isn't from Whole Foods. I didn't get "the recipe" from some glossy book filled with full-page pictures of Mexico. In fact, there is no "recipe"; I threw it together one day. And THAT is what most people who cook for themselves and their families do. I own two Charlie Trotter cookbooks and will never make a darn thing out of either one. I also have index cards with handwritten thai recipes (legacy of an old relationship) that I still make on a regular basis. I could probably learn more in one day from the ladies shopping at the Asian grocery store than I could in a year-plus of reading about "the gourmet lifestyle".
- October 20, 2009 at 7:12 PM
- synchronicity said...
BTW Greg, those spaghettiO's better have sliced franks in them!
- October 20, 2009 at 7:13 PM
I really don't care what Christopher Kimball says as long as the recipes his CI test staff makes are good. (After having a subscription for a couple years now, I would say most of his staff is very good. And even if I don't make the recipe, the "how I came up with this recipe" editorials, which oddly show up in the physical magazine only, are normally interesting to me as a newbie cook.)
I agree some of the CI recipes are insane, but some of the recipes like the Blueberry Scones, Best Buttermilk Pancakes (cast iron griddle), and Pork Chops / Steaks (cast iron skillet) are excellent.
Btw... In the Sept/Oct 09 issue they specifically recommend a Lodge 12" skillet instead of getting one of the Green Skillets they were reviewing. (The best of the "new green" skillets was "recommend with reservations" which is just one step above "not recommended")
Here is the full callout (pg 29):
"The Original Green Skillet"
It's heavy, and it needs to be seasoned - but a cast-iron skillet is a chemical-free, inexpensive (our favorite 12-inch model, from Lodge, costs $33.95), with great nonstick performance that will last you a lifetime. You can't get any greener than that.
And… Based on recommendations from this blog, I just bought a #8 Wagner & #9 Griswold off Ebay to add to my collection... (Before these I just had Lodge skillets. I do find it odd to be able to see your reflection in the cast iron as you cook. :o)
- October 20, 2009 at 11:47 PM
- Sheri Wetherell said...
Too funny! Our site (Foodista.com) is a the type of business model that Kimball railed against since the NY Times & TIME wrote about us and other recipe wikis. He issued the "Wiki vs. Test Kitchen Challenge", which we gleefully accepted! We wanted to prove that food bloggers and other home cooks can (and do!) crank out some seriously good food too. We're still waiting for him to accept our acceptance :)
- November 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- Anne said...
Russel, just an FYI the editorials do show up on the web you just have to accidentally click on the teeeny-tiny "article" tab next to the "recipe" tab somewhere between the header and the recipe.
...figuring that out took me way longer than I'm willing to admit to the internet. It's not the most obvious thing on the site.
- November 16, 2009 at 3:04 PM
- Greg said...
Pokeberry Mary - I think you are right about the common man being able to use the Internet and it appears to make some defenders of the old order nervous.
syncronicity - The franks in the spaghettiOs might clash with the savory elegance of the corn dogs.
Russell - I have Kimball's Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook and I bet the buttermilk pancakes are the same recipe. They are very good.
I just don't think CI has shown an ability to do Southwestern food worth a crap and I'm sure people from Louisiana cringe at what they might do to a gumbo.
33.95 is way too much for a 12" Lodge but at least they see it has merits that will far outlast the disposable skillets.
Sheri - That is funny. I wonder if he finally decided to walk away from the editorial and the dumb challenge. It just is a no win position as far as I see it.
Anne - Hope your tip helps some people.
- November 16, 2009 at 5:49 PM


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Kuhio 1985~2002 (Koo-He-Oh)
In honor of Kuhio's third anniversary (August 6), we'd like to take the opportunity to encourage folks to microchip their pets. Even if your pet is an "insider", accidents happen. A door, window or gate left ajar and your baby could be wandering lost.
There are several chips out on the market. Please inquire with your vet to see what they recommend. Then, register your chip# everywhere you can and keep your information up-to-date. You can search the web for registration services. We can'tt begin to tell you how much this has relieved our minds. When you take your pet to the vet for their annual exam, have them scan to make sure the chip is still in place and working.
A couple of registration places that we've found: http://www.24petwatch.com/
If your baby is ever missing, there are several things YOU need to do. You need to be actively searching. A good resource can be found at: http://www.petrescue.com/petlibrary/...st-cat-or-dog/
Had we known this tip in advance, Kuhio's life might have been spared: VISIT your local Animal Control, humane societies, and animal shelters, including the ones in surrounding areas.
You must actually visit the animal control and humane shelters every day or two. It works well if several family members can take turns visiting the shelters.
Your description of your pet and their description rarely match. YOU MUST GO LOOK! Be sure to check all areas of the shelter, including the infirmary. Also be aware that dogs may be housed in the cat section and vice-versa.
Leave a picture of your pet and your phone number at each shelter. Befriend them.
Find out the holding period of each animal control and humane shelter. Be aware of how much time you have to claim your pet before it is euthanized!
Government Animal Control agencies usually keep an animal for only 3 days and then they either adopt it out or kill it. You only get one chance at this. Be there!
If you ever find a lost baby, please do everything possible yourself to reunite it with its family. Animal Control should be the last resort. They don't have the manpower or resources to try to reunite you with your pet. (Silly me, I thought that's what they did). So, you have to do everything possible to increase the odds that your baby will be identified. Vets and shelters scan for microchips and look for tattoos.
Kuhio was put to sleep at our local shelter. The day AFTER we were there looking for her. She was in the shelter because a well-intentioned neighbor though she looked abandoned (she was on medication for a hyperthyroid condition). The shelter personnel directed us to look at the cats in cages in a certain room and when we didn't find her there, had us fill out a lost cat form. It turns out that the personnel directed us to only look in the room where cats are put when they have been cleared for adoption.
By the time we talked to our neighbors and found out she was at the shelter, it was too late. Kuhio had been kept in the clinic/infirmary due to her advanced age and fragile health. The shelter personnel never even told us about this room. (Dear God ~ Did she hear our voices while we were there looking for her? Did she think she had been rescued?) Kuhio was never going to be in the room they had us search because she was never going to be offered for adoption. The shelter personnel never bothered to tell us to search the "found pet forms" and they didn't search their own database. If they had, they surely would have noticed that she was reported found on the same street (only 4 houses away from ours). If we hadn't taken off her collar, she would be alive. If we had known about microchipping at the time, she would have survived. If our neighbors had asked around instead of calling the shelter, she would have survived. If the shelter had bothered to search their own database, she might be with us today.
Please keep Kuhio in mind if your baby is ever missing. Don't rely on the shelter employees to direct you. Tear the place apart. Look in every room of the shelter. And if you are a shelter employee or volunteer, please take the time to help out a distraught pet owner. Kuhio deserved better. They all do.
Princess Kuhio, thank you for 17 years of wonderful, irreplaceable memories. Thank you for visiting us from time-to-time to let us know you continue to be a part of our family. As you know, 3 new babies have entered our lives since you left us. (One from the same shelter that put you to sleep). They are reaping the benefits of all the loving lessons you taught us. We are better people for having known you. Until we are reunited again...
Bob, Lisa, Kuhio
The Artist Peak Trio
UPDATE 8/7/06: Another year has come and gone since Kuhio left us. We speak of her often and still cry every now and then. How lucky we were to have had her for 17 years. We couldn't just sit around and feel sorry for ourselves, so we schedule the annual exam for Halo, Cammie and Pepper to coincide with Kuhio's bridge day. All 3 kitties got a clean bill of health today. All 3 kitties had their microchips scanned to make sure they still work. Dr. Townsend told us that Home Again (microchips) has bought out Avid. So, perhaps some day soon there will be a universal scanner that can read all brands of chips.
Dr. Townsend was pleased with the kitties. Pepper's heart murmur is still the worst he's ever heard. But she is happy and healthy. Halo's fatty liver tumor continues to swell and shrink at will but she is happy and healthy and managed to drop some weight. Cammie was a crabby as ever but very healthy for a Senior Citizen. All kitties behaved. (i.e. Halo didn't pee on anyone). They're not speaking to us right now, but it will only be a matter of time before they forgive us for putting them in the port-o-prison.
Princess Kuhio ~ You will never be forgotten. Thank you for teaching us the proper care of kitties. We love you so.


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Ok. Somehow, I managed to drop my storm on the toilet. :17:
Battery immediately came off and I dried it the best I could. I have the red square-o-death in the battery compartment.
Phone is turned on, and it is ringing when I call I call it, and it is alerting me of emails. The LED light is on, but there IS NOOOOO SCREEN!! :cussing:
So, my question is, what should I do? I have insurance, but don't I still need to pay for a replacement? Verizon. Is there some good lie I can give Verizon to tell them the phone is defective so they will give me a new one? Had it since February. Anyone know how to fake the red square, and make it white again? Will the techs there scratch it and see if I painted it? Will they open the phone and find water? Is there a way to open the phone and dry it out without voiding my warranty?
What is your experience with Verizon insurance?
Anyone have an extra Storm 2 sitting around that I can "borrow"? **Wink, Wink" :09:


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By manipulating the PlayStation Plus Automatic Update feature you can now download game patches in the background, and new system information screens displayed during the process suggest this is a planned feature which may be officially implemented in a future firmware update.
OMG this is GREAT NEWS especially for those like me with slow connections! many times, I just want to play the damn games offline but still connected to PSN for any incoming messages but can't because the damn game must be updated 1st and the updates are slapped in your face and you can't do shit about it and huge patches are a pain in the a**! 1 of the most annoying feature on the PS3 for me and man was I glad the Vita is different! come on Sony, don't just do this for the PS+ members, this should be done for all games since the beginning!
Yeah I haven't touched bf3 ever since that massive 1.5 gig update.
but a 1.5GB update/patch? WTF are these devs thinking?
lol.... 1.5GB update/patch!
What the f*** is in it?
Being a BF3 premium member i have to download the patch first and then the DLC, so something around 3 to 4 GB every time a new DLC is available.
And i do it with this trick, downloading the patch and DLC in the background
Are you jealous?
Just being curious. :)
@ blackbeld
Why would anyone be jealous about a 1.5 gb patch to the OS so that downloading can b done in the background?
If he only had a 360 and was hooked up to xbl....I assure you he wouldn't be jealous. XBL already allows for background downloads and doesn't need a 1.5 gb patch.
That was a really juvenile question.
I prefer all bandwidth/latency assigned to the task at hand while Gaming online...
I make sure very computer, and console on my network is not downloading anything while Playing MP...
Call me old fashioned.....
why did this take soooooo long?
Yeah, that was long overdue. Mind you, ps+ has automatic update that you can do in your sleep.
it's always been available for PS+, you just interrupt it when it's Downloading during it's set time.
Honestly, I don't use it becuase the set time I have it is 4 AM
So i gotta get PS+ to use this?
So you have to pay to get patches?
that is not even REMOTELY what it says. All it says its that with Plus, you can download patches in the background.
You get the patches whether you're a Plus subscriber or not.
So to answer your question, NO, you don't pay or patches.
You know ALLWRONG, you're funny. Just a couple of days ago you moaned and whined about PS3 fanboys being all over xbox news here :
Yet here you are, trolling PS3 related news like second nature. Doing the EXACT thing you claimed Black911 was doing.
Not to answer your old question but...NOW do you see why I have five bubbles when you have just two? Common sense factor bro as I stated to you before
Just a simple question. I mean since you have to pay for extra features like "downloading patches in the background" than there should be no more debate about other pay services.
lol are you illiterate? It says if you have PS+ you can download the patches in background. If not, you have to do it like we have been doing for both consoles for years.
lol at twisting a simple concept to push your agenda
@lodossrage the dude has a point. live gets trashed allmost daily here because people pay for it. didnt u do the same thing just the other day in a free xbox game news? paying is paying no matter how u look at it. not defending just saying he has a point. maybe you dudes can stop arguing now about trivial things.
Actually no, I responded to when your pal ALLWRONG made an attempt to trash the free games given within the Playstation Plus program. In other words, making a "point" the same way you're "trying" to say he is. There was no "trashing" going on until your buddy threw the first salvo there (go back and read it if you need to) Unless you call someone saying "I got Walking Dead 1 and 2 free from PSN Plus a fire off. Would it have been any less of a salvo had he said "I got Walking Dead 1 and 2 off Steam"?
So go right ahead, keep defending him :). Even with your so called "looking at comment histories" and now you see blatantly how your pal stealth trolls.
And if this "argument" is so trivial, what are you even putting yourself into it? :)
Black911 had a point when he said what he did right? Why didn't you jump and try to save his balls the way you so promptly jump to save ALLWRONG'S? :) But I probably already know the answer to that question anyway
didnt black911 and allwrong both get removed 4 trolling? thats what i thought. fact is you r all hypocrites but on this site there r more hypocrites on one side. you r just as guilty of it. not once have i ever said anything bad about ms sony pc or nintendo. can u say the same? will u be in the next cry about live news? how about your buds will they b there 2?
Nice troll attempt.
The difference is clear.
Automatic downloading is a premium version of a free service. Online play on Live is the premium version of no service. Free members can download patches before a game starts on PS3. On 360, free members get to look at a really cool prompt to pay for Gold when they try to play online. The difference? PS3 gamers get a basic, and standard version of a feature. 360 gamers get nothing.
You might have a point on the day Sony restricts all forms of patch downloading to paid subscribers.
As usual, your comments live up to your name.
let me see if i get this right. trash live 4 charging things psn and steam give u 4 free but defend psn 4 charging u 4 things steam or live gives 4 free? its like right there and u dont see it? thats like smokers telling other smokers they shouldnt smoke. btw sorry using phone.
EXCEPT for the fact PSN DOESN'T charge for it. You only tried to make it sound like they do with your first account (ALLWRONG). If they did charge for patches, the media would have been all over it.
You'd think on one of your accounts you'd exercise some knowledge. And yes, I AM implying you have more than one. Since you conveniently seem to come to Allwrong's rescue. Not to mention you seem to pop up JUST when Allwrong has no more bubbles.
If that wasn't enough, just check your genders on both your accounts. You could have did yourself a favor by changed at least one of them fromm "u". If you're going to have multiple accounts and stealth troll, be less obvious next time.
@ ALLWRONG & the dupe account JaconKCK
You're a moron and fail to understand why Live is "trashed" on here on a "daily basis(?)".
The service itself is not trashed. Microsoft are criticized for charging their customers for basic Peer 2 Peer online gameplay and there's nothing illogical or fanboyish about recognizing that it's a fundamental rip off and disrespectful to consumers to give them no option. I would probably own an Xbox console if it was free to connect to online games, and that is the cutoff point for me. When I can't even connect to a P2P game for free, it's game over.
And I think you know the difference between this feature on PS+ and MS FORCING you to pay.
"""I mean since you have to pay for extra features like "downloading patches in the background" than there should be no more debate about other pay services."""
No comparison. It's just that - an "extra" feature. It's not something so fundamental to what games are, like online gameplay to the majority of the games you own. The choice to download patches for free is still there. Just because it offends you that people can see what MS has been doing for years, doesn't mean we're not gonna express human logic.
So just face it, no one with any logic is bagging on the quality XBL service. Just Microsoft's poor industry standards and removing your option of something so basic that the rest of the industry gets for free.
If you think what you're saying about PS+ is any sort of comparison, you'd be dead wrong. ALL wrong.
Wait so I am confused.
With PS+ which is a paid subscription, I can download patches and upgrades in the background where if I wasn't a paid subscriber to PS+ I would still obviously get to download upgrades and patches but just not in the background.
I'm sorry but if I do have this correct, this feature should be standard across the board and not to people who pay. This is not a privilege service feature.
I hope we can stop with all this Paying for XBL bs to use apps when in actuality people are paying for the online service and features first and everything else is just free extras because that same bs argument can be said that people have to pay for ps+ just to download upgrades and patches in the background
No surprise ALLWRONG looking for any ammo he can get his hands on.
I can't believe you even asked such a question. Why would Sony charge people for patches?
Anyhow this isn't even a feature. It helps to actually read the article. This is a work around/trick, hence the tutorial given in the article, but this trick can only be utilized by PS+ users. It uses the "automatic update" which automatically downloads things such as software updates while the system is off(when the power light is red) and this function is only available to PS+ users.
This article is just showing us a trick to use the automatic update to download things such as patches in the background. This isn't official though I wish Sony made a much more convenient official background download feature though, PS+ exclusive or not.
The main issue with Xbox Live isn't that the free apps are exclusive to gold. If it bothers one so much just have your laptop next to you if want to use the "apps that are free elsewhere" that people go on about. The main issue is that you have to pay in order play the online portion of your games. You say that people pay for XBL because of the service and features first which I'm sure a large percentage do, but I'm willing to bet the major reason why people renew their payment regularly is because not doing so would result in them losing the online multiplayer on their games which honestly should not be a "privilege service feature."
Yes , you are confused.
Compare all you want, but PSN, with no cost, allows you to play the multiplayer portion of the game you have purchased... Thats right, no extra cost. Like very other platform, bar 360.
The day online play becomes free on Live, is the day I will actually consider your pro live posts as informing....
But we know, that probably wont happen.
LOL someone was caught
And? what does either of them being removed for trolling have to do with the question I asked?
What I asked was this:
"Black911 had a point when he said what he did right? Why didn't you jump and try to save his balls the way you so promptly jump to save ALLWRONG'S? :) But I probably already know the answer to that question anyway"
Not a hard question to answer is it?
And I don't cry about live. If you checked my comments the way you say you did, you'll noticed I'm hardly ever in 360 news.
And no I can't say I haven't said anything bad about MS. But then again, I'm not the one that constantly goes around purposely trolling my gripes about them either. Go right ahead, check and see how many "cry about Live" articles I'm in.
And for as "trivial" as you say this is, you're sure enough "all-up-in-it" aren't you?
EDIT: ALLWRONG, do I look like your girlfriend. Stop PMing me.
Just figured this out when my PS3 was updating after shut down
you could do this since ps+ in summer 2010
only for psn+? steam does this all the time.
thats not the what the article is trying to say or the point of it. They aint saying only ps plus does this, they are saying a way to do this on ps3 is with ps plus
This is a great feature for PS+ subscribers. I like how it downloads and installs the patches / updates, syncs trophies and has new firmware ready and waiting for install.
But I do think this should be a standard feature.
There is nothing more annoying than trying to jump in to an online game and having to wait for an update to download. If something impacts users ability to play the games they have bought in this way, then it should not be reserved for PS+ subscribers.
"If something impacts users ability to play the games they have bought in this way, then it should not be reserved for PS+ subscribers."
i just let + do it's thing while i sleep.... i already push to many buttons when i play the work around is just to many steps ;-)
I haven't seen a patch download screen in forever. Psn+ with 6am automatic updates = win lol
Easily worth it just for that feature alone, saved me so many hours of updating.
This has been a feature of automatic updates from the start..... How do you think game patches were downloaded and updated for auto updates? Really people... Took you this long to continue playing your ps3 during an auto update.
I just install the game then let PS+ update that night. I always play single player first so don't need the updates right away for that. When I got my slim and had to reinstall all my Rock band songs, it was awesome to download all the songs and packs and have the icons all showing then that night plus auto installed them. No 1x1 reinstalls of 100 songs and packs.
Wouldn't a hard freeze while installing an update brick a Ps3? Too many games these days are sold with game crashing, hard freeze errors. You don't want a hard freeze when your system is trying to install something.
If you mean a system update then there is a fail safe to prevent bricking now. I believe a copy of the original software is stored on the system firmware. I had the power go out during an update about a year ago, and when I restarted the PS3 had a fussy message about not turning off the power during an update, it did a disc check, then installed the update afterwards.
If a game freezes you usually have to do a hard restart and it'll recheck the hard drive(happened to me quite a lot on ME1 this past week). I'd imagine if it's during an install or update you may have to reinstall the game software and updates since they could be corrupted or incomplete, but the system files are likely protected on the hard drive.
I'm just glad you were able to survive a shutdown from a power outage during an install. I've experienced the hard freeze system check/restore with black ops2 and fight night champion but I don't think it's ever had to actually restore anything yet.
both sony and ms need to get on the ball next gen with multitasking, consoles right now are so far behind, it feels like im using a computer from my elementary school...the ones with beige cases
i want to be able to dowload 3 demos, while i'm playing a game AND four of my games are getting the patches they need, I should be able to, at the same time, pause my game, check my email, check the forums of a game im currently playing and ask a question to the community and then call a friend who is doing all the same things on his system with entirely different games.
steam can do all that and more plus it has mods, and AMAZING sales and it has a console coming out soon!
sony, microsoft...make it happen! your new systems need to be able to do all of those things
"i want to be able to dowload 3 demos, while i'm playing a game AND four of my games are getting the patches they need, I should be able to, at the same time, pause my game, check my email, check the forums of a game im currently playing and ask a question to the community and then call a friend who is doing all the same things on his system with entirely different games."
You can already do almost all of that with consoles minus visiting forums.
you can have four games patching at once while downloading 3 demos?
to my knowledge, and i could be wrong, you need the disc of the game in, and then it to be launched to patch a console game
With plus you can but i agree that we need to see a lot more multi-tasking on the next consoles.
PS. You don't need the disc in to get patches with plus, all it needs to know is that you've played it recently.
I believe it will update regardless of when you last played. That's what that thing is whenever you start a new game it asks if you want to use the cloud and turn auto-update on/off for it. I never thought to check if I could turn it off for individual games I don't play anymore. With auto-update I haven't seen a patch screen unless it's a brand new game.
... steam isn't doing that. Your PC is. Steam is a program, and can only do as much as the hardware it's on- your PC- can handle.
Steam is doing it. Your hardware would not be downloading steam games without steam. None of this is heavy, my intel atom laptop can do this.
Cool feature, but honestly this should be a feature for everyone. Same thing with automatic updates.
My PS3 downloads and installs any patches overnight while I'm asleep so I don't really understand what the big issue is!!!
I've been doing this for a while now when I realised the system put the patches in my download list. What I don't get is why if it can be done its not a standard feature now, they've had quite some time to add it to a firmware update.
I think it was used as a selling feature at first for PS+ but i don't think it needs it now.
Hopefully the PS4 will make it standard.
maybe, but when i get a new game its kinda annoying to wait 3 hours(slow net and some patches are huge) to download a patch when I should be able to do other things on my ps3 in the meantime.
now i have to set my auto update time to whatever time it is, then switch off my ps3, then give it a couple minutes if auto update and finally exit it to see it in my download list, all it needed was a "download in background" option that they added so long ago to games and videos and almost every other downloadable thing.
It's not an official feature offered by Sony. Just a workaround. Could even be called an exploit. It's funny because this has been possible to do for a while, yet now everyone is crying foul. I might as well if it were officially supported by Sony.
it always annoyed me but I just never went vocal with it and this was a good opportunity to do so.
Being vocal isn't a bad thing. I don't really think N4G is the place to do so though if you want to see them make change. Sony has forums for this kind of stuff. They even have a feature request thread. Your much more likely to be heard there, because I highly doubt Sony's engineers are spending time here.
"puts on steel helmet"
Hasn't this been a feature on xbox live since day 1?
In a sense, yes...but better. From day 1, the 360 game patches have been incorporated into the launching of a game, so it downloads, installs, and reboots the game, all in a matter of seconds. There have never been any ridiculous game or system updates on the 360 that tie up your console and knock you out of gaming for a while. On the PS3, that's been a common theme. MS has always had very stringent certification protocols for updates, DLC, etc...but for a damn good reason. Just one of the many things that make XBL the superior service it's always been.


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Francis, best known as Laura from GENERAL HOSPITAL, is currently playing Genevieve on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS. Her other soap roles include Ceara on ALL MY CHILDREN and Diana on DAYS OF OUR LIVES. She has also appeared in a number of primetime series and films including the hugely successful Taking a Chance on Love on Hallmark in 2009.
Silverman hints there will be a scene, or two or three, between Francis' PRETTY character and Denise Alexander, which would be a huge treat for fans who loved them as mother and daughter on GENERAL HOSPITAL. In our recent interview, last season's PRETTY guest star Joan Van Ark called Silverman a "Junior Ryan Murphy" (Murphy is the brilliant mind behind NIP/TUCK and GLEE).
PRETTY won for Best Ensemble at the 2nd Annual Indie Soap Awards in February and the cast continues to get better.
Francis will join other big name guest stars including Martha Byrne (GOTHAM producer/star ; ex-Lily/Rose, AS THE WORLD TURNS), Anthony Anderson (ANACOSTIA), Denise Alexander (Lesley, GH), Melanie Hutsell (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE), Melissa Peterman (REBA) and more.
If you have never watched the show, PRETTY centers around the Champagne family and Proud Pageant Father Michael's desire to see his daughter Annette win a beauty pageant. One twist, young Annette (5 in Season 1 and 6 in Season 2) is played by an adult actress, Stacy McQueen. For more on PRETTY and to catch up on episodes from the first two seasons, visit prettytheseries.com.
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text: In Libya, rebels have consolidated their control over the main city, Tripoli. Reports of human rights abuses are surfacing, with reports of apparent retaliatory murders. Reporters Sunday were taken to an apparent massacre site near a military camp held by supporters of Moammar Gadhafi. Meanwhile, a Gadhafi spokesman reportedly offered to negotiate with insurgents. Guest host John Ydstie discusses the latest news from Libya with NPR's Jason Beaubien.


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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Hail, Hail To The Chief
Ford lived an extraordinary life: He was born Leslie King Jr. in Omaha on July 14, 1913. Ford's mother divorced his abusive, alcoholic father when he was a toddler. He adopted the name of his step-father, who together with his mother raised Ford in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ford excelled in the classroom and on the gridiron, enrolling at the University of Michigan following his graduation from high school.
A standout offensive lineman for Wolverine football teams in the mid-1930s, Ford bypassed opportunities to play in the fledgling National Football League to attend Yale Law School. After receiving his law degree, Ford served in the United States Navy during World War II, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
After returning from the War, the 35-year-old Ford surprisingly defeated an incumbent Congressman, leading to a career in the U.S. House of Representatives that spanned almost a quarter of a century. Because of his reputation for integrity and trustworthiness, Ford -- then the Minority Leader of the House -- was selected by President Richard Nixon to replace the scandal-ridden Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973. A year later Ford ascended to the presidency when Nixon resigned due to the disgrace of the Watergate. As President, Ford did much to help heal the nation during this turbulent time, though he narrowly lost the presidency to Jimmy Carter in 1976. Ford enjoyed an active retirement in Colorado, California, and Michigan since leaving office; his 30 years as former president the longest such stint in American history. He is survived by his wife Betty and their four children.
It is appropriate to note here at the MZone that Ford remained a proud Michigan Man throughout his life, often instructing the Naval Band to play "The Victors" instead of "Hail to the Chief" at official presidential functions.
The MZone sends our sincerest gratitude to President Ford for his impressive and important commitment to the University of Michigan and the United States of America.
This post was written by MZone contributor IC.
19 comments:
Very well written IC.
- December 27, 2006 1:42 AM
- Matt W. said...
Nicely done. I was shocked to find out he was already 93 years old -- he lived a long and full life.
- December 27, 2006 1:48 AM
Matt, me too. If only we could all be so lucky.
- December 27, 2006 1:56 AM
- MGoBlue93 said...
What a sad ending to this year... two great Michigan men lost in the last two months. Thank-you and God bless Mr. Ford and Bo.
- December 27, 2006 2:09 AM
A man of integrity, trust, and character. Too bad they don't make them like that anymore.
Nicely written piece, IC.
- December 27, 2006 8:39 AM
- MGOBLUE94 said...
He was a Michigan Man, but above all he was a man of integrity through and through!
These things come in Threes ... some one go tell James Earl Jones to go see a Doctor!!
- December 27, 2006 9:08 AM
- The Penalty Kill said...
I didn't know about him having the Naval band play The Victors, very cool. Indeed a great man.
- December 27, 2006 9:09 AM
It's probably impossible in this corporate age, but they should officially change the name to the Gerald R. Ford College Football All-America Team.
That's what he was his entire life...
Well said, IC.
- December 27, 2006 9:13 AM
He was a Michigan Man, but he was first and foremost a great American. We were blessed by his lifetime.
R.I. P. Jerry !!
Fritz Steiner
Huntsville, AL
- December 27, 2006 10:20 AM
- Andy said...
Bo must have needed a tough center for the football team up there...
- December 27, 2006 10:57 AM
- MGoBlue93 said...
Fritz... Michigan Men (and women) are always Michigan Men (and women) first and foremost.
- December 27, 2006 11:43 AM
A lot of great men have come out of Michigan. FIGHT ON, President Ford.
- December 27, 2006 12:03 PM
- TitleIX said...
Remember too that he was a DeKE, and the house that he lived in is still occupied by the fraternity at the corner of Olivia and Cambridge.
Here is a link to a story from the Michigan Daily (2/2006)
- December 27, 2006 2:10 PM
I am a liberal, but I am not heartless and I am a Michigan fan first anyway. RIP Gerald Ford. You made Michigan fans proud.
- December 27, 2006 6:57 PM
My family that roots for UM is all from Grand Rapids, so they're taking his death kind of hard today.Ford was a true Michigan Man and class act.
- December 27, 2006 9:00 PM
The only president to never be elected into either the presidency OR the vice presidency.
(the only way a UM grad could get into office......)
- December 27, 2006 9:10 PM
Can you imagine Gerald Ford being asked if he wears boxers or briefs?
Something tells me we need to get back to having real men, as opposed to crowd pleasers, in the office of president.
-from Grand Rapids
- December 28, 2006 3:45 AM
anon 6:10
Let me guess, your from Ohio and and you feel like bashing UM at any cost. Show some respect and class for once and respect the dead. You NEVER saw UM fans joking it up when that player broke something in his neck over the summer. So instead or being an ass, show some respect, just for once.
- December 28, 2006 11:21 AM
Thank you Johnny...I hate OSU fans so much. They are so immature and arrogant. Let's see if they have the same attitude next season when their thug and true gangsta, Troy, is no longer in an OSU uniform.
- December 28, 2006 12:48 PM


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One play symbolized the Batavia mastery over Glenbard East on Saturday afternoon in Oswego.
Leading a two-on-one fast break in the opening quarter, Batavia junior Liza Fruendt displayed a flair for the dramatic in opening-round action of the six-day Oswego Girls Basketball Holiday Classic.
The point guard threw a behind-the-back bounce pass to Miranda Grizzafi for a simple deuce as the Bulldogs never trailed in administering a 58-28 victory over the Rams.
"My high school coach (at Plano, Scott Miller, currently the Rams' boys coach) would have taken us out of the game for doing that," Batavia coach Kevin Jensen said of the dazzling Fruendt pass. "You can tell (Fruendt) has a lot of basketball sense."
The three-year starter scored the opening pair of buckets in the game and drained two-3-pointers during the Bulldogs' 20-point second-quarter outburst that provided Batavia more points at halftime than the Rams could muster the entire game.
"It's something Miranda and me have been practicing on all the time," said Fruendt, who scored a game-high 15 points. "There was an angle to do (the pass)."
The other major development in the Bulldogs' one-sided victory was the complementary play of twin posts Hannah Frazier and Erin Bayram.
Frazier, a 6-foot-2 freshman, and Bayram, a 6-1 junior, controlled the paint with a combined 19 points, 10 rebounds and 4 blocks.
"I think the (two) big girls killed us," Glenbard East coach Dan Finnie said.
"It's really helping us to have two girls over six feet (tall)," Fruendt said. "People can't match up with us. We can really do some damage (on the low block)."
As if Frazier, one of three Batavia players in double figures with 12 points, and Bayram were not enough to contend with, the Bulldogs' perimeter game was equally frightful.
Freshman southpaw Bethany Orman was lethal with three 3-pointers off the Bulldogs' bench to finish with 10 points.
"I like playing with these girls," Orman said.
Offensively, it was a game-long struggle for the Rams (1-9) in effectively countering the Bulldogs' alternating man and zone defenses.
Glenbard East, which did not reach double figures until Sammie Symonds' 3-pointer with less than three minutes to play before the break, shot 11-for-52 (21 percent) for the game.
Batavia (7-3), meanwhile, showcased efficiency in all aspects, converting all but one of its 14 free-throw attempts.
"I thought we had some real nice possessions on both offense and defense," Jensen said. "When we play fast (offensively) we're at our best."
Allison Hansen scored 7 points to lead Glenbard East; reserves Symonds and Tajanae Key added five apiece.


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A federal appeals court says a Nevada developer must exhaust his legal battle over the Grand Canyon Skywalk contract dispute in tribal court before going to the federal level.
A lawyer for Las Vegas businessman David Jin told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco last October that the Hualapai tribal court system lacks authority to hear the case.
Tribal attorneys say the operation of the popular glass bridge in northern Arizona is governed by Hualapai law.
Jin invested $30 million to build the bridge that opened in 2007. He and the tribe have disagreed on management fees and an incomplete visitors' center.
The tribal corporation that manages Skywalk also is appealing a $28 million judgment for Jin upheld last month by an Arizona federal judge.
"This is a significant victory for the Hualapai people and for tribal sovereignty," said Hualapai Tribe spokesman Dave Cieslak. "The 9th Circuit's ruling shows deference to the tribal court system and its jurisdiction over these matter."
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I don't get the idea of a graduation before H.S. But, I think in America it is really a "You are now an adult" thing rather than a "Graduation" thing. There seems to be an engrained need to celebrate entering adulthood. There are other celebrations for subgroups, but the H.S. Graduation seems to be the generic American version.In America, theoretically, everyone gets the same education that takes 12 years. So, you graduate when you are 17 or 18-years-old. 18-years-old is when you are considered an adult for everything except alcohol. Generally speaking, after H.S. you are expected to move out of your parent's house and either work or go to college. p.s. I am the one that started the other thread.
We're pretty low-key in Canada as wellIME, very close relatives (such as grandparents who live nearby) might attend the ceremony along with parents - but you generally don't find people traveling long distances to attend a young relative's HS graduation. Parents might hold a party, but it's for their graduating son/daughter and his/her friends. It's not the kind of thing that they'd invite their own friends, adult neighbours, far-flung relatives etc. to. And gifts would only be expected from parents.I know things are different in the US. I've never heard of anyone sending HS graduation announcements here, but I know that they're common there. And re "graduation" from elementary and middle school - the administrations here seem to go to some effort to call them "leaving celebrations" rather than graduation. You really don't graduate from anything prior to grade 12.
Hi everyone!I was just reading a thread in Life in General about how much money to give for a high school graduation, and was surprised to see everybody suggesting sums instead of questioning giving money in the first place. I'm pretty sure this is a cultural thing.I grew up in New Zealand but now live in North America. In New Zealand (at least when I was there) there was no such thing as a high school graduation. Usually the students held a party, but that was organized by them, not the school. Nobody gives gifts, or even really congratulates you. I think it's just not considered a big deal; it's just something you're expected to do, rather than being an achievement. Even when I finished university, I got a couple of small gifts and a family dinner, but that was it (again, it's just something you're expected to do).So obviously North America is different. What about other countries? Is it all of North America, or just parts? I just thought about it, and I come from a family that's not easily impressed. Some of this may be my personal experience talking (but I maintain that graduation ceremonies for kindergarteners is silly!)
I'm in the US, to me the big fuss behind high school graduation is that it's the ending of one stage of your life and the start of another. Most of the people that I know went away to college and didn't return back to our hometown. After spending 13 years in school with the same students, it's a big change. Graduation presents are intended to help the students prepare for college or moving out on their own. Besides money, I received towels, bedding, and just general stuff that were needed for a dorm room. Most of the people had open houses, so it's kind of a thing to go to multiple open houses for various students that you know.
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Monday, December 17, 2007
The Unhappiest Man in Ann Arbor
MZONE: Ryan, what do you think of Michigan bringing in Rich Rodriguez and his spread offense?
MALLETT: Fuck cocksucking sonofafuckingbitch ratballs fuckknuckle assfuck shit motherfucker cockstain anal beads fuck cockshit hairyballnuts fuck piss shit fuck fartsucker cum jabber dick fuck me with a spoon ball farts ass wiper munching piss fuck taint grabber whore fucker asshole shit licker fuck fuck FUUUUUUUUUCK--!!!!
MZONE: Hello? Ryan? Are you still there? Ryan?
12 comments:
- Katie said...
So much for that integrity comment I left yesterday...LOL
- December 17, 2007 4:09 AM
- Bo said...
My web filter at work is hurting...
- December 17, 2007 7:43 AM
- surrounded in columbus said...
i wouldn't count Mallet out completely. yeah, he can't run the option. he can throw out of the shotgun, however. not too hard to modify that offense to have a less mobile QB w/ a quick trigger. wouldn't be surprised to see them try & do that, at least to start.
- December 17, 2007 9:07 AM
- surrounded in columbus said...
watching the presser now- R2 is going to great lengths to suggest that he can fit a passing QB (& wide receivers, etc.,)into his spread (says that's the best part of the spread- you can adapt it to your people).
if nothing else, the very concept of adapting your game to your people will be a bolt from the blue.
- December 17, 2007 9:23 AM
- Bigasshammm said...
I really hope that this doesn't bring MI into an option style of offense. You can run the spread without ever having to run the option. Just use more quick outs to your rbs or wrs and let them run which basically are like long handoffs. I think with Mallet and the incoming kid from TX (his name escapes me - amazing white tailback) They could do a number of different things with the threats they have. Now if only we could get a defensive coordinator who doesn't suck.
- December 17, 2007 11:28 AM
- Maize said...
Let's just ponder for a moment.
Mallet can succeed with RR as head coach in a spread offense. Mallett ran one in high school. Mallet is comfy at the shot gun position.
RR can and will adapt his offense to Mallett. He has as much said so and has demonstrated in the past with Tulane.
Now ponder adding Terrelle Pryor to the mix. He can be used in certain situations when his running ability is called for. Just look at Arkansas and what they have done.
But, the BIG question is if Mallett will be comfy sharing the QB position. The jury is still out on that. So is if TP comes to UM.
It's been said that Toney Clemons and Pryor or cousins.
But man oh man, things are gone from 0 to 150 mph faster than you can sneeze.
- December 17, 2007 12:16 PM
- lane said...
i get a tingly feeling all over with the thought of playing a Rodriquez coached defense in early November.
smiles for miles!!
- December 17, 2007 2:48 PM
- TitleIX said...
uh, no lane, you missed the memo.....
NO MILES for Michigan
we've got a coach
- December 17, 2007 6:51 PM
- Studevets18 said...
Mallett can and will take this team to the promise land next year. I can't wait to see him in the gun with 3 wide and back, 4 wide and 1 back or 5 wide. He's gonna be filthy.
- December 17, 2007 7:22 PM
- Bigasshammm said...
How about Mallet and 3 wides with 2 backs. Oh the possibilities. Could still even run the option with a two back system.
- December 17, 2007 7:43 PM
- lane said...
49 UM points are great, but when the other team has 56 it doesn't really matter.
just planting the seeds of reality!
- December 18, 2007 8:21 AM
- John said...
Good Luck with Rich Rod .WVU'S gain is your lose . Believe a life time WVU fan Michigan is making a big mistake. One only has to look at the integrity of a man that would call recuites from his office at WVU to say if they want to play for him he will be at Michigan . You will find out just what kind of person you have hired,and it wont take long.
- December 20, 2007 11:13 AM


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I think it might have to do with the way he was developed. He developed tunnel vision, he developed a deer in headlights like detachment to his errors, he developed a habit of throwing the ball right to a defender.
(last time I checked, winning games is the single most important statistic in football)
I really hope Sanchez goes to a team that helps him out...the guy definitely needs a change of scenery.....he had alot of things working against him the past 2 years....lack of support......lack of coaching......ridicule from the media and fans...Tebow...he never had a chance. Like I said in previous threads the New York Jets will never ever have a homegrown franchise QB...the organization has no clue how to develop one...combined that with the rabid media and a fan base that cannot go through a developmental growth period and you have a organization that operates like shampoo..wash, rinse and repeat.....It wont be long until we are as bad as the Cleveland Browns. Oh by the way, they are the only team that has more head coaches changes then the Jets...only by one.
I agree with the sentiment that Sanchez was never all that good.
The organization has not done a good job of putting talent around him, but at the end of the day, Sanchez simply falls short in the mental department, which is the main issue holding him back.
From the rookie season color code system to the perpetual ball security issues, it's been proven time and time again that the NFL game is simply too fast and complicated for him. His entire career has been mired in inconsistency because he's inaccurate, he doesn't see the field well, and his general awareness is very poor.
Sanchez peaked too early, and he never came close to hitting his ceiling.
From a purely non-skill perspective, he doesn't look like he's having fun anymore. This town sucked the life out of him.
The guy that told Schotty he sucks on Hard Knocks, the guy who was pumping the ball in excitement after their first W in Houston in 2009, the guy jumping up and down running into the endzone when he threw the go-ahead TD to Keller in the Chargers playoff game. Haven't seen that dude in a while.
They took away every decent WR he had a chance to bond with, left him with troublemaker Holmes and a cast of nobodies. They let the OL go to hell by cutting two vets, turnstile Hunter gave him a real pounding. They never replaced Washington or Tomlinson, two scatbacks who could turn an emergency swing dump-off into a first down. They waited too long to pull the plug on the offensive coordinator, never replaced the QB coach, and gave him Tony Sparano. They built the offense to dominate on the ground and neglected to get a good running back, forcing us to throw 40-50 times a game routinely to a second-rate group of receivers that don't belong on an NFL gridiron.
If you drew up a strategy to deliberately f-ck up your first round franchise quarterback after watching him go 4-2 in the playoffs, you couldn't have executed it any better if you tried.
I, for one, want to see Sanchez another season for two simple reasons. First, we're not going anywhere next season anyway, second, with some playmakers addressing the offensive deficiencies perhaps he improves and turns out to be a good quarterback.
Done as a starter ANYWHERE. Career backup the rest of the way (except he starts for the Jets next year because of the ridiculous contract).
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The reason for the two AFCCG losses is that Rex Ryan's supposedly stellar defense failed to show up and gave up 41 unanswered points in back-to-back halves of both of those games.
Do not forget that the Jets go 7-9 in 2009 if not for the Colts laying down and the Jets go 7-9 again in 2010 if not for Mark Sanchez bailing out the pathetic defense in 4 games with miracle 2:00 drills.
This team was built to win on defense and the running game. They suck at both. The quarterback is the least of our concerns. Replacing him is not our ticket to Lombardi.
You have a pro-Sanchez and anti-Rex Agenda and yesterday it just blew up in your face.
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McHENRY – Last summer, a neighbor gave little Dayana Garcia a new bicycle.
Today, the memory of the smile that gift brought to her face is all that neighbors have to remember after the young girl died Friday morning in a house fire.
She was 12 years old.
Garcia was inside her family's home in the Lakeland Park subdivision of McHenry when the fire broke out. Her parents and three brothers managed to escape through what witnesses described as a leap from the home's second-story windows.
An autopsy revealed that Garcia died of smoke inhalation.
She was remembered fondly by neighbors and those at Parkland Middle School, where she was a seventh-grader.
"Dayana was a wonderful young lady who was well-liked by the entire Parkland staff and students," Principal Mike Adams said in an email to the Northwest Herald. "This is a sad day for her family as well as our entire school family."
Counseling was being offered Friday at the school, he said.
When emergency crews arrived at the 4510 Parkway Ave. home at 1:20 a.m., it was fully engulfed in flames, fire officials said. The McHenry Township Fire Protection District called for assistance from several area fire departments, and it took several hours to extinguish the blaze.
Garcia was found dead inside once the fire was under control, police said.
Dana Rolewski lives across the street from the Garcias' split-level home. She was returning to her neighborhood early Friday when a police barricade stopped her from entering her street. She parked nearby and could see the flames several streets over, she said.
She remembered Garcia as a motherly figure to her brothers – two were older than she and one was younger, Rolewski said.
"Dayana didn't say much, but she was so sweet," she said. "From what I knew and what I saw, she was a total sweetheart."
Rolewski and others are collecting donations for the family.
"They're a really nice family," she said. "They're really great people."
There were no signs of foul play, and the fire is considered accidental. It will take several days for the investigation to determine the cause and origin of the blaze.
The house was destroyed and will likely have to be torn down, McHenry Township Fire Protection District Chief Tony Huemann said. The home had at least one smoke detector, but it is unknown whether it went off during the fire.
The American Red Cross has set the surviving family up with temporary shelter at a local hotel.
The Cary, Wonder Lake, Richmond, Fox Lake and Woodstock fire departments also assisted with the incident.
• Reporters Lawerence Synett and Jim Dallke contributed to this article.


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We now have a DVD of the Reinbeck Centennial celebration from 1976. The Centennial Committee had given the library reels of film shortly after the celebration, which were recently rediscovered, and converted to a DVD using memorial money from the Mary Jans family. The DVD is about an hour and twenty minutes long and includes the kiddie and main parades, children's activities, water fight, beard contest, threshing, home tours, helicopter rides, antique displays, and more! The DVD is available for a week long check out period.
Other new materials include:
Non fiction: The Parkinson's Disease Treatment Book, donated by The Grundy County Area's Support Group; A Happy Trails Christmas two stories by Roy & Dale Evans Rogers.
Fiction: Josiah for President by Martha Bolton, A Duke's Promise by Jamie Carie, Westward Hearts by Melody Carlson, The Amish Bride by Mindy Starns Clark, A Plain and Simple Heart by Lori Copeland, Susanna's Christmas Wish and Where Love Grows by Jerry Eicher, Full Disclosure by Dee Henderson, River of Mercy by B.J. Hoff, The Trouble with Cowboys by Denise Hunter, A Wreath of Snow by Liz Curtis Higgs, A Heart Made New by Kelly Irvin, The Breakthrough by Jerry B. Jenkins, A Heartbeat Away by Harry Lee Kraus, A Hidden Truth by Judith Miller, Taming the Wind by Tracie Peterson, The Face of Heaven by Murray Pura, A Home in Drayton Valley by Kim Vogel Sawyer, Nowhere to Run by Amy Wallace, The Reunion by Dan Walsh, The Shadow on the Quilt by Stephanie Grace Whitson, His Love Endures Forever by Beth Wiseman, A Season for Tending by Cindy Woodsmall.
Large print: The Bridesmaid by Beverly Lewis.
Children's books: Don't Copy Me! by Jonathan Allen, Just One More! by Tracey Corduroy, I Know a Wee Piggy by Kimberly Norman and Bear Says Thanks by Karma Wilson.
Harriet White did children's story time on October 23. The next story time will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 10:00. Ellen Schweppe will do the program.
The book discussion groups will meet one week earlier than usual due to Thanksgiving, on Wednesday, November 14. Both groups meet at Westview. The afternoon group will meet from 4:00 to 5:00 and discuss the book Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors. The evening group's selection is Mudbound by Hillary Jordan. They meet from 7:00 to 8:00.


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"grain part of corn," from Old English ear (West Saxon), æher (Northumbrian) "spike, ear of grain," from Proto-Germanic *akhaz (genitive *akhizaz; cf. Dutch aar, Old High German ehir, German Ähre, Old Norse ax, Gothic ahs "ear of corn"), from PIE root *ak- "sharp, pointed" (cf. Latin acus "husk of corn," Greek akoste "barley;" see acrid).
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What Does a Million Cornstalks Looks Like?
There's little question about what caused this phenomenon. Just the immense amount of old corn stalks in such a small area is mind-blowing.
Just off Highway 18 east of Davis is part of the area that got huge amounts of rain last week. As a result, the water carried the leftovers from the old corn crop out of farmer's fields and deposited those stalks mainly in the ditch on the south side of the highway, up the back slope and into the field.
This may be as close to seeing a million of something as you can get.