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If you've ever eaten a full meal at a Southern table during the summer, chances are good that you ate some homegrown squash. In my family, chances are good that the squash in question was fried.
I first remember eating fried squash at my grandma's house, along with a plethora of other things--cornbread, green beans, peas and dumplins, either mashed potaters or taters in white sauce, and corn on the cob, to name a few. The method is simple but a bit time-consuming, especially when you consider all the other things going on simultaneously in and around the oven.
No one ever left the table hungry, that's for darn tootin'.
Fried Squash
(as taught to me by my grandma and ma)
2-3 yellow summer squasherinos
1 egg, beaten in a bowl
1/2 cup cornmeal, possibly more
salt and pepper
Heat a frying pan over medium-high heat and melt a tablespoon or so of butter until it sizzles.
Cut the squash into approximately 1/4" thick slices. Dunk each slice in the egg mixture and then dredge it in cornmeal. Place carefully in the heated pan, add salt and pepper, and fry until brown. Flip to fry the other side, add salt and pepper, and apply more butter as needed--you must never get a dry pan. After both sides have browned, remove to a plate lined with a napkin or paper towel to drain. Eat as soon as possible.
July 16, 2009
a southern summer stapleYum
If you've ever eaten a full meal at a Southern table during the summer, chances are good that you ate some homegrown squash. In my family, chances are good that the squash in question was fried.
Labels: sides and snacks
87 comments:
- Lori said...
I tried to make green tomatoes this way a few years ago but it so did not look like yours. I will try again with squash- darn tootin'
You kill me!
- July 16, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- Albany Jane said...
Oooh, I love cornmeal coated squash. The textures are just great - you've got a soft and tender squash, and some nice crunch and grit from the meal. Yummmmmmm
- July 16, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
Oooh one of your Nanna and Mamma's recipes! Psst we're doing a book called Secret Nanna recipes. Would you consider putting this in it? It sounds wonderbubble! :D
- July 16, 2009 at 9:26 AM
- Zoe said...
I just fried green tomatoes but squash sounds good fried too! Actually, what isn't good fried, ya know?? Yours looks perfectly golden and delicious.
- July 16, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- oneordinaryday said...
Mmm. Coated w/ cornmeal... sounds divine! And looks perfect too. Nicely done and kudos to your grandma and mama!
- July 16, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- BigSis said...
That brings back memories of my Grandmama's cooking. She did the taters in white sauce (haven't thought of those in years), and sometimes the green beans with new potatoes mixed in, crispy fried okra that was almost burned, and blackeyed peas with snaps. And each meal was always served with a stack of white bread on a saucer!
- July 16, 2009 at 10:42 AM
- Melleah said...
Those look so good!
- July 16, 2009 at 10:48 AM
- Anonymous said...
Yum yum yum. Along with the bag of peppers we also got some ginormous squash. Hubby's favorite thing is fried squash. I use my mandolin and slice them potato chip thin then fry them. Sooooo good.
- July 16, 2009 at 10:53 AM
- Anonymous said...
I've never heard of fried squash before, but anything along the lines of fritters would definitely fit in my household!
- July 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- Jacque said...
We always had fried zucchini slices... same idea, except the breading always fell off.
Yours look absoluteley perfect! and delish!
- July 16, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- Sharon said...
I feel like my childhood must not have been the same...I've never been graced with homegrown squash. I'm making this asap!
- July 16, 2009 at 11:37 AM
- Patricia @ ButterYum said...
Perfect timing on this post... a friend just gave me a bunch of squasharinos :).
- July 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- OhioMom said...
...and I just knew this was going to be about "sweet tea" :)
Yep, fried squash in the summer was served frequently in our home, my southern father had my mom fix all his favorites.
- July 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- Pam said...
I've never had fried squash but I KNOW I would LOVE it. Great photos Grace.
- July 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM
- Christo Gonzales said...
one of my favorites and it totally brings back summer memories - in fact you have inspired me so much I am making some today - but I will layer mine in a lasagna - another favorite.
- July 16, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- Delicious Dishings said...
I don't think I've ever had fried squash (just zucchini among tempura veggies), and I'm not sure why... it sounds right up my alley. Your pictures look beautiful. There has been tons of squash at the farmers' market... I think I need to pick some up next time I go!
- July 16, 2009 at 1:13 PM
- Barbara said...
As usual, your photos are mouth-watering! I adore fried squash- had it often as a child- we always had squash growing in our garden. I fry zucchini a lot but for some reason have never tried it with the yellow or with cornmeal. Yum.
- July 16, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- La Cuisine d'Helene said...
Wow, looks so good, I've never seen this before. I would love to try.
- July 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- foodcreate said...
Delicious fried squash healthy will give it try:)
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- July 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM
- Marjie said...
I always saute mine in butter with lots of pepper. I just love summer squash, a statement which earns me some very odd looks. It's nice that you have such happy childhood food memories!
- July 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM
- ♥Rosie♥ said...
Grace I would love to sample homemade southern American food. I have read about great recipes in some of my cookbooks. Thank you for sharing recipes that hopefully I can try to recreate in England and do them justice.
- July 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- Aleta said...
Squash! OH YEAH! Now you're talkin! I LOVE squash! Never fried it, will give it a try. I came up with a recipe all my own (yes, me).. saute onions on the side... cook down the squash in boiling water. Drain the squash, add the sauted onions and top it with parm. cheese - oh yummmm...
- July 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM
- Daniel B. said...
Fried in butter. Drool. Butter.
I thought this was going to be just another decadent deep fried southern treat.
Wasn't expecting the butter.
Sounds so good.
No way my wife will let me make it.
- July 16, 2009 at 4:09 PM
- Marta said...
Well, I've never enjoyed a southern meal like you describe... and now I feel like I'm missing out on the most delicious of feasts! This dish seems to complement the array you described quite well. It looks delicious!!!
- July 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- Chef Jeena said...
So delicious Grace really delicious.
- July 16, 2009 at 4:25 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
I do adore fried squash.
- July 16, 2009 at 4:45 PM
- Eve said...
This recipe excited me so much not only because I love squash but also because I have a huge bag of cornmeal I have been looking to use! Thanks :)
- July 16, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- Maria said...
Never tried fixing it like that. Looks good!
- July 16, 2009 at 5:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
Fried squash.....a staple in my Grandma's household, as well! I love seeing different recipes for basics like this - every Grandma has her special technique. We cut ours into lengthwise and coat it with a 1/2 and 1/2 blend of cornmeal and flour. I could go for some right now - either way!
- July 16, 2009 at 6:43 PM
- Ingrid_3Bs said...
Fried squash? Yum! Also, good roasted with some butter and garlic! :)
- July 16, 2009 at 7:15 PM
- foodhoe said...
I'm hungry and that sounds decadent and delicious! I have a few squasherinos in the fridge... can that be breakfast with eggs?
- July 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM
- Gloria Baker said...
Grace look absolutely yummy!!!! love it!! hey How are your pussy cats??? are lovely I think !! xoxox Gloria
- July 16, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- Creative Classroom Core said...
This sounds incredible! How tasty!
- July 16, 2009 at 9:38 PM
- Donna-FFW said...
I am loving, loving the sound of this. I would like to dip it in some ranch and chow down baby!
- July 16, 2009 at 9:42 PM
- Kathy Walker said...
I have never thought to batter squash and fry it. It does look delicious!
- July 16, 2009 at 10:29 PM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
Oh yea, I love fried yellow squash, Grace- it's one of my fondest food memories from childhood! My mother always rolled it in cracker crumbs, but bet it's equally yummy in cornmeal!I have to make it at least once every summer... used to do it much more often. Thanks for the memories!
- July 16, 2009 at 11:31 PM
- ♥peachkins♥ said...
This is the first time I've heard of fried squash and it sounds wonderful.I'm going to try this recipe. Thanks!
- July 17, 2009 at 12:15 AM
- Rebeca said...
Classic make something healthy into something not so healthy... but this would be soooo worth it :D
- July 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM
- Jackie at PhamFatale.com said...
Great fried food! I love the addition of the cornmeal, I'm sure it adds a nice crunch
- July 17, 2009 at 2:30 AM
- pigpigscorner said...
Coated with cornmeal and fried! The texture must be wonderful! yum yum!
- July 17, 2009 at 7:40 AM
- Anonymous said...
Mmmm, yum! My garden is producing these babies in big numbers:) We like ours on the grill too...or fry them up with onions, green peppers, fresh mushrooms, and venison sausage:)
- July 17, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- kat said...
Oh I bet those are tasty with the cornmeal breading
- July 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- LilSis said...
Our Grandmama made a lot of fried okra, instead of squash, but basically used the same method with the cornmeal. I love fried green tomatoes this way.
- July 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM
- Sophie said...
I've never had fried squash! I get so bored with my daily veggie mix, I think I'll try this over the weekend. Another awesome way to use cornmeal, I love that stuff :D.
- July 17, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- lisa is cooking said...
The meal you describe sounds perfect! And, your squash sounds incredible browned in butter. I want some for dinner!
- July 17, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- April said...
Oh my... That looks so tasty!
- July 17, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- Deborah said...
I have SO much squash coming out of my garden right now - you can bet I'll be trying this!
- July 17, 2009 at 2:01 PM
- Laura said...
Oh yeah. I know this is awesome. YUM. I should have been a southerner.
- July 17, 2009 at 3:24 PM
- Peter M said...
Is this one of those "make ya wanna slap grandma" kinda' recipes? It looks that way...golden & crispy.
- July 17, 2009 at 3:26 PM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I would never have "thunk" to venture into frying squash...thanks for the inspiration t try something new:D
- July 17, 2009 at 3:55 PM
- La Bella Cooks said...
I would definitely take the fried squash over fried green tomatoes any day. This sounds fantastic and nowhere near being all that healthy. How can you beat that??
- July 17, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- Dewi said...
Good grace, that look so good. I love fried anything in general, but fried squash sounds so tempting.
- July 17, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- alexandra said...
Why are fried foods so damn good? These definitely look worth the effort. Yum!
- July 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- Amanda @ Mrs.W's Kitchen said...
Nice! You've got my mouth watering for squash now...
I remember some of my favorite meals in the south--and most of them were with either fried squash, green tomatoes or okra (from the garden, of course), pintos, cornbread, boiled potatoes and hot dogs. I don't know why the hot dogs, but it was so good all together on a plate. Simple pleasures.
- July 17, 2009 at 7:56 PM
- kimberleyblue said...
well, i've never even heard of this - much less tried it - but then again, i live waaay up north. :)
it sounds fantastically delicious. gotta head down south, it seems.
- July 17, 2009 at 9:08 PM
- Sophie Sportende Foodie said...
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I just gave you 2 awards! Come on over & please pick them up!
- July 18, 2009 at 5:29 AM
- KJ said...
I'm not sure what squash is exactly. I always thought it was like pumpkin. I've never thought to deep fry pumpkin.
And I love your little kittehs. So gorgeous!!!!
- July 18, 2009 at 6:03 AM
- Leslie said...
"darn tootin" lol lol!
Deep fried anything...yes please!
- July 18, 2009 at 8:49 AM
- LyB said...
I have so been missing out, I've never had fried squash! It looks delicious, I'll have to try making some very soon. :)
- July 18, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Dorothy said...
ooh fried squash is yummy! though, i always have it as tempura. is there a difference??
- July 18, 2009 at 1:37 PM
- Anna said...
I have a business proposition for you, okay? You come round to my kitchen, I'll give you free reign of my fridge, and you fry its entire contents in butter. How does that sound? Cause I just can't see a downside, at the moment.
- July 18, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- Louise at Livin Local said...
Oh, the tease of simplicity! Never having been able to master this art, I take advantage of really good fried veggies when eating out. But boy do I appreciate them!
- July 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM
- Abby said...
Fried okra and squash were some of my favorite childhood foods. Shoot, they still ARE some of my fave foods. One of my first kitchen tasks was being the one to watch the squash frying in the pan and flip it when it was time. I spent a lot of time in front of that stove!
- July 18, 2009 at 9:22 PM
- Glenda said...
I'm going to try your recipe, it looks good! I once tasted this dish made of fried squash - it had a sauce made of salted egg and it was really good.
- July 19, 2009 at 5:23 AM
- Jaime said...
never had fried squash before, and i lived in NC for 6 yrs!
- July 19, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- Eve said...
Brilliant! Made them today and my son (16 months old) loved them! These will be a usual now for sure. Thanks :)
- July 19, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- giz said...
I've never made fried squash. Come to think of it, I've never even tried it. Something new to add to my "must try" list.
- July 19, 2009 at 1:41 PM
- Penny said...
Oh my gosh, Grace. I just had this at my friend Barbara's house last weekend. As a matter of fact she was so busy with the country ham, pickled beans and mashed potatoes, that she put me in charge of the squash. I was planning on blogging about them - still may. They take some time but are sooo good. Love Southern cooking during summer.
- July 19, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- Jessica@foodmayhem said...
I am so jealous of your home grown squash.
- July 19, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- Heather said...
i LOVE squash! yours looks amazing! hope your summer is going well :)
- July 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM
- noble pig said...
Well I just love people who FRY squash!
- July 20, 2009 at 12:18 AM
- eatme_delicious said...
Oh wow I would not be able to stop eating these if I had a plate in front of me!!
- July 20, 2009 at 2:10 AM
- Emily said...
I love fried squash! And all of those other things too. You are a true southern grace, Grace.
- July 20, 2009 at 4:25 AM
- Sophie Sportende Foodie said...
MMMMMM,...looks so lovely & yummie!!
Dear Grace, A few days ago, I gave you 2 awards :please come over @my foodblog & pick them up!!
Why?? You can read it @ my foodblog!!
- July 20, 2009 at 5:05 AM
- SarahKate said...
I grew up in south Georgia, but I now live in England. I wanted to fry some zucchini last weekend, but I didn't have any cornmeal. So... I used a package of instant grits that my mother-in-law had mailed us. It worked perfectly!
- July 20, 2009 at 8:44 AM
- ♥peachkins♥ said...
I haven't tried fried squash but as this is the 2nd time I've sen this recipe I will definitely try this!
- July 20, 2009 at 10:27 AM
- Teanna said...
WOW. Those are just gorgeous. I could just imagine the light crunch giving way to the smooth squash inside. Delicious!
- July 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- Baking Monster said...
This looks so good! I can imagine taste!yum.and it looks pretty easy, thanks!
- July 20, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Veronica said...
I've never had fried squash with a cornbread crust...but that sure looks good and it sure sounds easy. Sometimes I wish I had a Southern grandma..my two Grandmas from Ireland sure didn't come up with any tasty treats like that...oh a fine soda bread, but that's about it!
- July 20, 2009 at 4:45 PM
- Lisa said...
Ah, Grace, this one speaks to me! When i was a little girl I loved to eat at my aunt's house. One of my favorite things she made was little cornmeal pancakes. I would watch her fry them in her cast iron skillet. Then one afternoon I was really watching and I saw that they were in fact battered squash slices. I don't think I ever ate them again. Now, for years, I've been wishing I knew just how she made them so I could have a taste. It may not be exactly the same but I'd say this is a good place to start!
- July 22, 2009 at 1:28 AM
- Jude said...
Never had fried squash before, always pureed or baked. Can't leave out the cornmeal on this southern dish, I'm sure.
- July 24, 2009 at 12:45 AM
- Mrs. L said...
Anythings better fried :) I so have to try this!
- July 24, 2009 at 6:17 PM
- Sherri said...
My mom and grandma taught me to cook and these are always one of my favorites along with potatoes in white sauce. My grandma always called them potatoes with thickening my hubby loves them (we've been married 23 years) and he still asks for it when its time for new potatoes. Thanks for sharing the memories and keeping up a wonderful tradition.
- July 26, 2009 at 5:52 PM
- Julie said...
I just made myself some fried squash a couple of days ago after not having any for years. Boy did that take me back! Yours looks beautiful!
- July 27, 2009 at 10:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
All your recipes are right on. Now how about a slight twist. Instead of regular corn meal, use Jiffy Mix.
I've never liked squash until we began using Jiffy Mix in place of regular corn meal. It add a little sweeter taste and now I can just about eat my weight in it.
Just a thought from an old Kentucky Gentleman
- August 2, 2009 at 8:05 AM
- Kourtney - Atlanta, GA said...
OMG i just made this and love it!!!! after they came out of the pan i squeezed a bit of fresh lime juice (didnt have a lemon) over them and it gave them a great twist. this is one of my new fav recipes!
- July 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM
- Unknown said...
Sunday dinners at either one of my beloved Grandmothers houses.. yummmmmmy southern homecooking delicious to the palate! thanks for this recipe, brings back a lot of memories from childhood.
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The goal is to manage behaviors so these patients "can learn, and spend time with their family and friends," the statement said.
The center makes its own devices on-site and does not offer them for sale. The devices are used only with prior parental consent or authorization from a Massachusetts probate court, the statement said.
Disability advocates have urged the FDA to ban these controversial tools. The United Nations has said use of electro-shock devices by the Rotenberg Center constitutes a violation of the UN Convention Against Torture, according to the FDA report.
"It's like putting a shock collar on a dog," said Margaret Nygren, executive director of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. "It's designed for them not to be able to remove it. It's just degrading."
These types of devices have been around for decades, and there currently are four FDA-approved models. Two similar devices are approved for use in smoking cessation and stopping nail biting, but those are not being considered for the ban.
The instruments in use at the Rotenberg Center lack FDA approval because they have been substantially modified from earlier models. One device "has an average output current that is almost three times that" of the FDA-approved model, the agency said.
Studies have shown that negative reinforcement does not provide a long-term solution to behavior problems in developmentally disabled people, Nygren said.
"In the long run, as the punishment is removed, the behaviors return," she said.
A better strategy involves figuring out why the behavior occurs and then making changes that head off the behavior, Nygren said.
For example, a student might be hurting himself because he is hungry but can't think of how to communicate that need. Once instructors figure this out, they can come up with other ways for the person to communicate -- for example, by providing a card he can hold up when he is hungry.
"It takes a little bit longer to do than attaching a shock device to someone, but in the long run the individual has much better outcomes," Nygren said.
But dozens of parents with children at the Judge Rotenberg Center argue otherwise in letters of support submitted to the FDA.
"Our kids are one punch away from going blind or killing themselves and need treatments that work quickly with minimal side effects," wrote the parents of a daughter with a rare form of epilepsy. "It would be a terrible injustice to deprive a child of such an effective life-saving treatment when all other available treatments have consistently failed."
More information
To read the government report on a potential ban of electrical stimulation devices, visit the FDA.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl ads this year morphed into mini soap operas.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shrugged off aliens so he could get more milk for his kids in a Super Bowl spot for the Milk Processor Education Program. Anheuser-Busch's commercial told the story of a baby Clydesdale growing up and returning to his owner for a heartfelt hug years later. And a Jeep ad portrayed the trials and triumphs of families waiting for their return of family members.
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Chrysler started the long-format commercial trend last year, with a two-minute spot starring Clint Eastwood that became very popular.
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Wendy Ochoa, a high school teacher who lives in Novi, Mich., said the ad was very emotional. "It tugs on your heartstrings," Ochoa, 44, said. "How can it not?"
Anheuser-Busch also pulled at heartstrings with a spot about a baby Clydesdale growing up and moving away from his farm and his trainer. Years later, the horse remembered the trainer after returning for a parade. He raced down a street to hug him.
"The Budweiser commercial with the Clydesdale made me cry," said Wendy Ponzo, 49, who was watching the game in Pont Pleasant, N.J.
Lincoln's 90-second ad was inspired by tweets by fans about road trips. The company asked people to send their stories, and Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon," decided on which tales would be used.
The ad, which was based on more than 6,000 tweets from fans, shows adventures during a fictional road trip. A woman picks up a German hitchhiker, and they go to an alpaca farm, get stopped by turtles crossing the road, and drive through a movie set.
Rap pioneer Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons and Wil Wheaton, who acted in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," made cameos in the spot.
Coca-Cola created an ad based on an online campaign that pit three groups — a troupe of showgirls, biker style badlanders and cowboys — against each other in a race through a desert for a Coke.
Starting Jan. 23 and continuing through the end of the Super Bowl, viewers voted online for their favorite group. The group with the most votes — the showgirls — were revealed when the Super Bowl ended.
Audi also went with an ad that told a story — and was inspired by viewers. The company's 60-second ad featured an ending that was voted on by viewers prior to the game.
In the ad, a boy gains confidence from driving his father's Audi to the prom, kisses the prom queen once he arrives at the dance and gets decked by the prom king. In the end, he drives back home with a smile on his face.
The Audi mini-epic was a favorite of Super Bowl viewer Stephanie Bice, 39, a business development director in Oklahoma City.
"It was fun and whimsical," Bice said.
Not all of the storytelling ads were dramatic, though.
Samsung's two-minute ad showed Seth Rogen ("The Guilt Trip") and Paul Rudd ("Role Models") getting called in to do a "Next Big Thing" ad for Samsung. But they're agitated once they realize that they're sharing the spotlight. LeBron James, an NBA basketball player for the Miami Heat, makes a cameo, appearing on the screen of a tablet.
The ad won over some fans in the ad world.
"I could watch the Samsung ad over and over again," said David Berkowitz, vice president at digital marketing agency 360i. "It's as good as any Seth Rogen movie."
Budweiser, a long-time Super Bowl advertiser, also told a continuing story in two of its ads. One showed rival 49ers and Ravens fans each creating a voodoo doll for the other team with the help of R&B legend Stevie Wonder. In the other ad, fans go to great lengths to curse a rival fan's "lucky chair."
"It's only weird if it doesn't work," the words in the ad read.
Mercedes-Benz's 90-second ad had a Faustian plot.
A devilish Willem Dafoe ("Spider-Man") shows a man everything that comes with a Mercedes-Benz CLX: A date with supermodel Kate Upton, dancing with Usher, driving around with beautiful girls, getting on the cover of magazines including Vanity Fair and GQ, getting to drive on a racetrack.
The man almost signs his soul away for the car. But then he sees a billboard that says the car starts at $29,900, and doesn't sign.
Although many advertisers tried to pull people in with lengthy story lines, there were a few that stuck with short, quirky spots with no particular plot.
GoDaddy.com's ad was one of them. It showed a close up, extended kiss between supermodel Bar Refaeli and a nerdy guy wearing glasses to illustrate GoDaddy's combo of "sexy" and "smart."
Some viewers thought the ad was too explicit for the Super Bowl.
"I don't care who wins the game. I just don't want to see that commercial again, ever," said Stephen G. Smith, 63, an editor at The Washington Times in Washington, D.C.
Stephanie Malone from DeKalb, Ill., agreed: "GoDaddy should be ashamed."
Striking a less controversial note, Best Buy's 30-second ad in the first quarter starred Amy Poehler, of NBC's "Parks and Recreation," asking a Best Buy employee endless questions about electronics.
"Will this one read `50 Shades of Grey' to me in a sexy voice?" Poehler asks about an e-book reader. Then, when the staffer says no she asks, "Will you?"
M&M's spot showed its red spokescharacter singing Meatloaf's "I Would Do Anything For Love," and wooing beautiful women. But the M&M stopped short when the women try to eat him.
And Oreo's ad featured a showdown in a library between people fighting over whether the cookie or the cream is the best part of the cookie. The punch-line? The fight escalates into thrown chairs and other destruction, but because the fight is in a library, everyone still has to whisper.
The ad directed users to follow Oreo on Instagram photo-sharing site, where they could continue the "cookie vs. cream" debate. Meanwhile, Oreo was quick to capitalize on the blackout that hit the game for about 30 minutes in the third quarter. It tweeted a picture of an Oreo in the half-dark with the words: "You can still dunk in the dark."


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MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Officers stormed an underground bunker in Alabama where a 5-year-old boy had been held hostage for nearly a week, rescuing the child and leaving the boy's abductor dead, officials said Monday.
Steve Richardson with the FBI's office in Mobile said at a news conference Monday afternoon that negotiations had deteriorated with 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, a man neighbors described as an isolated loner. Dykes had been seen with a gun, and officers believed the boy was in imminent danger, Richardson said.
Officers stormed the bunker just after 3 p.m. CST to rescue the child, who was taken to a hospital in nearby Dothan. Officials have said the child has Asperger's syndrome.
However, it was not immediately clear how Dykes died.
Melissa Nighton, the city clerk in Midland City, said a woman had been praying in the town center Monday afternoon. Not long after, the mayor called her with news that Dykes was dead and that the boy was safe.
"She must have had a direct line to God because shortly after she left, they heard the news," Nighton said.
Neighbors described Dykes as a man who once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property, and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm.
Government records and interviews with neighbors indicate that Dykes joined the Navy in Midland City, serving on active duty from 1964 to 1969. His record shows several awards, including the Vietnam Service Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. During his service, Dykes was trained in aviation maintenance.
He had some scrapes with the law in Florida, including a 1995 arrest for improper exhibition of a weapon. The misdemeanor was dismissed. He also was arrested for marijuana possession in 2000.
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David Cameron on the NHS
This is what David Cameron said today:
We do not want to see the state withdraw from [the NHS] in any shape or form at all.
Yes. That is what he said on The Andrew Marr Show. Does this mean what it seems to mean or was this some very clever use of words? Is it a genuine reassurance or is it false? You could look at the draft manifesto to check but electoral manifestos are written to court popularity and, according to Wikipedia, "the status of electoral manifestos has diminished somewhat due to a significant tendency for winning parties to, following the election, either ignore, indefinitely delay, or even outright reject manifesto policies which were popular with the public". So where should we look for the truth? Perhaps a policy document not so widely read as a manifesto would be the place. And that is what Dr Grumble has done. This is what the Conservatives say in their Renewal/Plan for a Better NHS (pdf):
Over the past eleven years Labour have missed a golden opportunity to work in partnership with the private sector to provide better care, not privately, but free at the point of need on the NHS. Despite believing that market mechanisms work, they have failed to open up the market for the provision of NHS care so as to drive up standards.
We need a level playing field. All NHS patients should be free to choose any provider of care for their treatment – so long as that provider can provide treatment at the NHS price. So that could be an independent hospital or an NHS Foundation Trust, depending on the patient's preference. Moving to this system, driven by patient choice, means people will get treatment more quickly and there will be a far stronger incentive for standards of care to improve.
Dr Grumble's patients cannot choose a private provider for their care. Not without paying anyway. Actually, and this is the truth, Dr Grumble would not necessarily advise them to obtain private care even if they wished to pay for it. Private care is not necessarily better and Dr Grumble is quite certain that it can be worse. Some of the very best doctors work for the NHS. Getting to the top in the NHS is not easy but any doctor is free to set up privately. It has been like that since 1948. It is one of the great strengths of our health service.
So Dr Grumble is left confused. Apparently David Cameron does not want the state to withdraw "in any shape or form" but we know from the policy documents that NHS patients should be able to "choose any provider of care" which could be "an independent hospital or NHS Foundation Trust". That presumably means a choice of either NHS or private provision or maybe third sector provision. How can that be achieved without "the state withdrawing from the NHS in any shape or form"? You work it out.
OK. If you have read this far you will now be wanting to know exactly what the wording is in the draft election manifesto. Here it is:
To give patients even more choice, we will open up the NHS to include new independent and voluntary sector providers – if they can deliver a service that patients want, to a high standard and within the NHS tariff, then they should be allowed to do so.
So there you have it. Essentially the same thing twice. No real obfuscation - except from David Cameron himself. There will be more independent and voluntary sector providers - full stop. The plans of the major parties for the NHS seem to to be much the same. When David Cameron says "We cannot afford to carry on like this" he is right. He can't. He needs to find something different. Not more of the same.


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From Openmoko
Things changed
This page will be updated soon. Those are the current Kernel plans.
Is this page meant for you?
This information is mostly useful for developers and power/curious users. If you are looking for a kernel to flash into your GTA01/GTA02 you might want to grab one from the daily builds (scroll down and you'll find it) or get one that ships with one of the Distributions. The good thing with daily builds is that the newest might be the better. The bad thing of daily builds might be that you can get a broken kernel. If you feel way too uncomfortable making decisions about which kernel to try first and you are not willing to spend the time finding out which one works for you, then this page is not meant for you and you should be looking for stable Distributions instead. The distributors make this easier for you. You might want to scroll down for the 'blessed' kernels in the daily builds.
Linux kernel developers from the community and Openmoko Linux kernel developers maintain a working kernel for the Freerunner (Also known as GTA02) and also for the Neo1973 (Aka GTA01).
Right now there is an ongoing effort to reduce the difference between current Linux 2.6 (mainline) and the kernel in the Openmoko repository and thanks to this work we can run the most recent released version of Linux 2.6.
Sister pages
The sources of the Openmoko Linux kernel live in a GIT repository. With the WEB interface you can peek at the contents of the repository:
GIT is a fast version control system suited for the workflow that many kernel developers use. It is specially useful when you need to send patches for a project (who in turn might need to send them upstream). This is an over-simplification but it gives you the idea in case you did not know.
GIT might seem complicated at first but once it's usage is learned, you will find many ways for it to increase your productivity. For completeness in this page we include the GIT commands which you need in order to build a working kernel.
If you are very new to GIT you might want to read the good manuals that already available.
If you would like to contribute code we also have a page with Hints_on_using_GIT_and_stgit where we all hope to share some cool tips and tricks that can help you. You do not need to learn stgit in order to send patches to the Kernel Mailing List but we have to tell you that once you know git, stgit will make you more productive when you need to send a few patch at once (patchsets).
GIT allow developers to use different branches that help speed up development (and even make it possible). You might have noticed we have a few branches if already you visited the WEB interface (http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=summary).
The andy-tracking branch is the one where most of the action takes place these days.
We have branch policies that explain what each branch is for.
Daily builds
Automatic revisions
Think of a robot that takes whatever kernels are the most recent in GIT, builds them for you and then makes them available here:
Blessed revisions
Another robot but this one only builds the versions picked by our friendly OpenEmbedded developers. Download from:
If you understand OpenEmbedded you will get this: Those versions are tied to a specific GIT revision through conf/distro/include/sane-srcrevs.bb.
Building the 2.6.32 branch
Those are the minimum survival commands.
Get kernel sources from git repository:
$ git clone git://git.openmoko.org/git/kernel.git linux-2.6 $ cd linux-2.6
Next switch to the branch:
$ git checkout --track -b om-gta02-2.6.32 origin/om-gta02-2.6.32
Copy the config for the gta02 to be used:
$ cp arch/arm/configs/gta02_drm_defconfig .config
Now you need a few additional patches for the kernel. You can merge gdrm-2.6.32 or gdrm-for-merging branch directly from Thomas White (http://git.bitwiz.org.uk/?p=kernel.git;a=summary) or all patches used in SHR kernels (http://gitorious.org/~jama/htc-msm-2-6-32/openmoko-kernel/commits/om-gta02-2.6.32). Gitorious branch is usually rebased on top of origin/om-gta02-2.6.32 when we change SRCREV in linux-openmoko-2.6.32_git.bb recipe (http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/log/recipes/linux/linux-openmoko-2.6.32_git.bb)
$ git remote add gitorious git://gitorious.org/~jama/htc-msm-2-6-32/openmoko-kernel.git $ git remote update $ git merge gitorious/om-gta02-2.6.32
Now before building this kernel you need to install a cross compiler toolchain like Toolchain from openmoko. Alternatively, feel free to use emdebian toolchain for the deb based systems, or crossdev on gentoo.
Also set two variables for cross compiling (second one is om toolchain specific):
$ export ARCH="arm" $ export CROSS_COMPILE="arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-"
Now you can configure the kernel:
$ make menuconfig
$ make xconfig
To compile the kernel you just do:
$ mkdir GTA02 $ make $ make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=GTA02
The new compiled kernel is now "arch/arm/boot/zImage" and the modules are within the "GTA02" directory. Now you just have to copy the "zImage" file to "/boot/uImage" and also copy the modules from within "GTA02" to the same directory structure on the freerunner (/lib/modules/2.6.32).
Building the 2.6.39 branch
Get kernel sources from git repository:
$ git clone git://git.openmoko.org/git/kernel.git linux-2.6 $ cd linux-2.6
Next switch to the branch:
$ git checkout --track -b om-gta02-2.6.39 origin/om-gta02-2.6.39
The real issue with this branch (at time of writing) is finding a working defconfig. My thanks go to PaulFertser who pointed me to OpenEmbedded git and their defconfig. Don't be alarmed that many options appear as 'NEW' when you build it. When I simply left the default values alone it booted fine for me on the Freerunner.
Copy the downloaded file into the linux-2.6 directory and rename it to .config.
Now before building this kernel you need to install a cross compiler toolchain like Toolchain from openmoko. Alternatively, feel free to use emdebian toolchain for the deb based systems, or crossdev on gentoo.
Also set two variables for cross compiling (second one is om toolchain specific):
$ export ARCH="arm" $ export CROSS_COMPILE="arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-"
Now you can configure the kernel:
$ make menuconfig
$ make xconfig
To compile the kernel you just do:
$ mkdir GTA02 $ make $ make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=GTA02
The new compiled kernel is now "arch/arm/boot/zImage" and the modules are within the "GTA02" directory. Now you just have to copy the "zImage" file to "/boot/uImage" and also copy the modules from within "GTA02" to the same directory structure on the freerunner (/lib/modules/2.6.32).
Building the andy-tracking branch (obsolete)
Those are the minimum survival commands.
Get kernel sources from build.shr-project.org:
$ wget http://downloads.openmoko.org/developer/sources/git_git.openmoko.org.git.kernel.git.tar.gz $ tar xf git_git.openmoko.org.git.kernel.git.tar.gz -C linux-2.6 $ cd linux-2.6 $ git pull
or clone from a git repository:
$ git clone git://git.openmoko.org/git/kernel.git linux-2.6 $ cd linux-2.6
Next switch to the branch:
$ git checkout --track -b andy-tracking origin/andy-tracking $ mkdir GTA02 $ cp ./arch/arm/configs/gta02_moredrivers_defconfig GTA02/.config
Before building this kernel you need install a Toolchain.
$ ./build GTA02
Once the script finishes you will get two files. The first is uImage-GTA02.bin and a second file with a longer name but same contents, for instance uImage-moredrivers-GTA02_andy-tracking_c16287685cb59f91.bin. Please use the second file if you publish your kernel in some server or if you talk about it in public (specially in bugs reports) because it will allow others to know what kernel you were trying (in case you don't have local changes).
In order to build the modules you can:
$ ./build GTA02 dummy
This will create a file called modules-GTA02_andy-tracking-<git hash>.tar.gz. The contents of this file have to be copied to /lib/firmaware and /lib/modules and one way to do it is untarring the file on the root directory of the device.
If you want to update the local copy of the repository so that you get the latest changes, you can type:
$ git pull
Before reporting that the new kernel does not build please first check for changes in the configuration file provided by Openmoko.
kernel building tips
If you are modifying Linux kernel code and building it quite often you really want to be using ccache. It will save you a lot of time.
TODO: submit a patch for the build script that makes ccache use easier. Note: There is a patch being reviewed.
Old troubleshooting information
If it fails with error message "arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-ld: unrecognized option '-Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/local/openmoko/arm/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib'" until /usr/local/openmoko/arm/setup-env is modified. LDFLAGS should be changed from:
export LDFLAGS="-L${OMTOOL_DIR}/arm/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib -Wl,-rpath-link,${OMTOOL_DIR}/arm/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib -Wl,-O1"
export LDFLAGS="-L${OMTOOL_DIR}/arm/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib -rpath-link ${OMTOOL_DIR}/arm/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib -O1"
I also had to change the 'build' script to hardcode the path to the compiler.
The development resources Openmoko offers are:
- Git repository: http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=summary
- Mailing list (Online Archive)
We appreciate your contributions. Check the Open Issues at the end of this page to check where we need more help.
If in doubt ask in the mailing list.
"Verifying Checksum ... Bad Data CRC" with U-boot
U-boot might not be reading the whole kernel. To fix this you need to:
setenv bootcmd 'setenv bootargs ${bootargs_base} ${mtdparts}; nand read.e 0x32000000 kernel 0x300000; bootm 0x32000000' saveenv
Could someone please explain this more in detail for example: Login your freerunner with firstname.lastname@example.com
- home_pc > firstname.lastname@example.com
- freerunner > setenv ...
You might also move to Qi.
What happened to usb0?
Now you will get eth<n> instead of usb0. Check:
Who's Andy and why is he sticking his name in the kernel?
He created the branch and maintained it for a while. It is an usual practice that in kernel development some branches are named after the person who is taking care of them
Check Kernel_branches if you care about the details.
Kernel developers are not polite! They do not even care to say "Hello" when they reply to my emails!
The long version is here: Kernel-developers-are-not-polite.
To the point:
All these opensource programmers are nicer in person (if you don't interrupt them while they are programming). On the internet they might appear to be very rude, but in person things are very different specially over lunch or when sharing a beer.
They just tend to write very short text because they have to read and write a lot every day.
Why does Openmoko cares about sending code upstream instead of (insert your task here)?
There are two very different approaches and both of them would be doomed if we committed all our resources to only one of them.
The first approach is not to care about upstream kernel development efforts and stick to an old kernel while struggling to make it work, ignoring the fact that it is upstream where the people who want to help us improve, maintain and support the code running in our devices, hang out.
The second is to care way too much about upstream to the point that we are not willing to ship a temporary dirty hack that makes users happy and able to better use their phones. We cannot afford that kind of purity.
As with many things in engineering (and life), we have to find a point in the middle that works well - we will try hard to do it.
Known issues
Sysfs paths
Unfortunately we had to update many sysfs paths (see GTA02_sysfs) and since we did it the kernel stopped working properly with some distributions. Unless the distribution is abandoned it will likely catch up with the newest kernel soon.
FSO developers realized that this problem could be prevented from from happening in the future and they decided to code a nice daemon called odeviced.
WSOD with u-boot
There is work in progress to fix this issue that does not happen with Qi. Latest kernel from andy-tracking.
Open Tickets
This report will show the bugs that are a priority for us now.
Please read this report if you wish to know what the current issues are.
If you can help us with one of those issues it would be a great way to help us move forward. If in doubt please write to the Openmoko Kernel Mailing List. Let us link some bugs here without overdoing it because trac is better than a normal wiki for this. If we have more than 10 bugs the following lists then we might be doing it wrong.
Easy bugs
Those are the bugs that active kernel developers believe can be fixed by new kernel programmers that might want to join us. Thus they are leaving them unfixed for some reasonable time while they work on the harder bugs.
TODO: list of bugs linking to trac.
Normal bugs
Those are the bugs that we have not fixed because they might be hard and/or because we have not found the time to fix them. They might end up being Easy Bugs or Evil bugs. We will use trac for them.
This is the complete report with all the bugs (some of them might be invalid).
Hard bugs
Those are the evil bugs that we haven't fixed either because:
- We do not know how to do it in reasonable time
- The hardware vendor does not want to release documentation or to fix firmware (some of them do that unfortunately / even breaking promises they made to Openmoko about making things easier for developers)
- More testing is needed (perhaps a hard-to-reproduce bug)
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I'm unclear: Is this an adjunct to the Stop Forum Spam add-on? Or is it a replacement? i.e., to install this should the Stop Forum Spam add-on be disabled or uninstalled?
Reference this feature ...
New registrations are checked against the known spammer database at StopForumSpam.com. If the email, IP, or username exists in their database, the user (or bot as the case may be) is denied registration on your forums.
Using the StopForumSpam mod, we have found that blocking based upon IP address is a killer and a LOT of legitimate registrants were being blocked, so we turned OFF this option allowing the email address and user name to continue being checked.
Does your mod allow the same configuration options?
I can't really tell by your sample pic as the text is so small I can't read the AdminCP options ...
On a side note, this looks really interesting and could consolidate several methods we use now ... :)
Hello Badger,
Yes, it does what you want.
"Test the IP address against the StopForumSpam database:"
Select "Yes" or "No."
I will work on that screen shot as well, I agree.:up:
Problem is vbulletin.org has a max height of 768 px so I cant find a good way to put a screen shot of admin settings here without chopping the image into 3-4 pieces which is a bit sloppy. Best to just install the application, and check the settings yourself. :)
The simple answer is this mod has all of the same settings as the older mods, and some additions.
Long day. I guess. Badger I have updated the previous post. What you want is included.
Anyway to include the infraction system as well? I currently use the infraction system to move spammers to a usergroup that isn't banned users but a separate group that has no posting privileges. The spammers seem less likely to register again when they are still able to login even though they can not make any posts.
This module blocks bots which will be 80-99% of your spammers, then when you train your Spam-O-Matic Auto-Moderation to your specific needs, your auto-moderation filters will catch the human ones that are stupid enough to try and login to post. The spammers that get past those two checks are checked by Akismet. The ones that get past all of that are determined humans, lucky, or have new techniques. Those users should be reported so make sure to get your API keys.
I don't see much point in moving spammers to a special group. It wastes your time, it wastes database space, it wastes server resources, etc. The only upshot of doing that is to boost member count and that can be done in other ways if you want your boards to look like they have more members.
I may have overlooked something though. Let me know. :)
Awesome! Can we have this for vb3.8.5?
It is untested on vB3. However, it probably works.
If you want to try, you need to download the zip file and edit the file called "product-glowhostspamomatic.xml" on line 12.
And replace with:
Then view the readme, follow the destructions and see how it goes.
If it works or doesn't, let us know. :)
Works well so far ... does conflict with Merge Double Posts Mod By Paul M
One more clarification as previously asked ...
Do you recommend either disabling or removing completely the current "StopForumSpam" mod and just using yours in lieu of it, as opposed to trying to run them concurrently?
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