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We are down to the wire for our appliances and DH loves Miele. Considering the 30" Master Chef, Speed Oven and the Steam oven. Is this overkill? oh, the warming drawer too. Does anyone love/hate any of these choices, we have a friend who did the steam and is not impressed at all with the way the food comes out. Any thoughts? Also after much thought we are going to be brave and go with their induction over a gas rangetop. HELP and thank you...
Yes, it's overkill. And the difference between you and me is I have Gaggenau and Monogram for all of the above and a little bit of Wolf gas too. My kitchen isn't done, so I just look at them longingly, but they're there (breakers off).
What I wouldn't do, didn't do, is put more than two in one stack. I have the combi-steam over the big oven, and the Advantium over the warming drawer. The induction and gas will be side by side under one hood. The optimal place for the warming drawer is just below the counter, and right near the cooktop. Mine is the first, but it's between the cooktop and eating areas, where it would fit the rest of the design. I think it'll work for my uses, but a lot of people want it closer to the cooktop.
After having to practically stand on my head to provide proper hot meals for my whole family (a couple dozen at a time), and doing too many lunches as a way of avoiding the one, impossible, nasty oven the house came with, I went for oven space. When I'm not cooking for the mob, I assume I'll be using the combi-steam and the Advantium more.
The big difference is that the Gaggenau combi-steam is plumbed (no tank to fill) and is also a proper convection oven. No need for a countertop "toaster" oven (though I also want a teeny, old fashioned toaster oven for making toast).
I almost got Miele induction. It's really excellent. If you like the MasterChef program, it's great, and the Miele oven is second only to Gaggenau, and at that by a functionally imperceptible amount, when it comes to temperature variation.
I think they have a combi-steam in Europe. I wouldn't put in a steam only oven, even though my biggest use for it is steaming vegetables. But then, I also have the mobs. If you have the space in your kitchen, and cook a lot, a steam only oven might be very practical for you. It will take getting used to. There are all kinds of other ways to steam things, however, and a steam oven, especially steam only, is pure luxury. That's the first thing I'd cut.
I remember choosing the Advantium over the Miele for its features and response on GW (impression of what owners of each had to say about them). Unfortunately, I don't remember why I chose it.
I really like the Miele warming drawer design, but I think it didn't do a low enough temperature for me. I need to be able to warm plates, and I might use it for rising bread on cold days. Gaggenau also has the open sides and has the temperature spread. I ended up with the Monogram because it, like the Miele, can take a cabinet panel, and has the temperature spread, so I gave up the open sides and kept a bunch of money (it's lots less expensive).
In all, I think Miele makes great products, and none will be bad. My only real qualms are on the steam oven if it's not a combi. You really should read through the manuals online, and read through the manuals of the competitors in the same classes, to be sure you're getting all the features you want.
Do yourself and your hubby a favour, if you have an appliance store nearby. Go look at the Electrolux Speed oven and their regular Convection oven/oven. I just did as I was down to Pacific Sales, checking out induction cooktops for another user here.
First compare the displays Electrolux vs Miele.
I would need my glasses & I did to read the Miele display
and it is reallly kinda "Ho Hum yawn etc etc" when compared to the Electrolux Wavetouch which displays everything in big blue bottons for you, on both the speed oven and the regular oven and then disappears afer a min or so if you don't poke any buttons.
Next open the door on the Electrolux and the Miele, Notice the thickness of the doors. Notice the inside, Electrolux Cobalt Blue Porcelain, Miele "Clean black Enamel paint".
Now pull out one of the shelves on the Miele, ya, you have to lift up on it a bit and make sure it doesn't turn "Kattiwomis" as you tug in out---must be a real joy with a 20lb turkey on it????(no wonder those Euro Women have great arms????)LOL. Now put your small finger on the Electrolux rack, notice how it glides smoothly out and fully extends.
Now look above each oven at the price.
Electrolux $1999
Miele $3999
Now google reviews for the Electrolux Ovens, you will see a lotta 5 stars out of 5, and in the reviews they tell how it actually cooks. Try that for Miele----hard to find reviews---yep---keep trying , they are there. pretty much a "Mixed bag". Few tell how it actually cooks---more about "Great German Engineering"
Hmmmmmm, Great Engineering, Small Display, must be a very expensive paint inside? door that does not have a quality feel or look when you open it, and racks that would make "Shakin Stevens" proud.
You can always "tell a fib" and tell them you paid twice as much as you did for the Electrolux---if that's what impresses (whoever).Course I will feel sorry for you, or whatever the other poster was hinting at,That said,to the affect, "That if you can't or shouldn't spend that much, You will just have to settle for 2nd best" Miele.
Good news is I asked Pacific Sales if they had any complaints about the "Perfect Clean" on the last generation of Miele Ovens. Their Reply? "We don't sell enough of them to know, Tooooooo Expensive!"
There is a good review in the kitchen section of GW on how the Electrolux Speed oven did with a chicken.
Good Luck on your pending decisions.
Gary, I've heard you mouth off about "Perfect Clean" for long enough to get motivated to give you some home truths.
"Perfectclean" is in Miele's NON-self-cleaning line of ovens. They aren't a new concept that didn't pan out. They aren't "too expensive" / "non-robust" / "uncleanable" or whatever is your latest explanation for why they have been discontinued. They have been discontinued in the USA because "*we*" lazy yankee blighters do not want to have to clean ovens and so haven't been purchasing them. It is a waste of their money to bother to inventory up and make things available that "we" won't buy.
These hypothetical PerfectClean defects that you've been coughing up all over the place - no such thing. PerfectClean ovens were sold by Miele in Europe and they continue to sell them in copious quantities. In fact, while I can't swear to it, I think that they only introduced the self-cleaning ovens in Europe and Australia AFTER they developed them for the US market. Which was a good bit after they came into the US market. Their PerfectClean has much longer legs than does the self-clean. And they continue to be widely available overseas.
Also, as for the track record, why not ask the people such as Rococogurl and trailrunner who actually have the PerfectClean ovens and have had them for a few years rather than regurgitating what an appliance salesman who says that "we don't sell enough " to have any experience with them.
(Personally, I don't want to pay for a feature that I don't want to use and so hate the idea that the Perfect Clean is no longer available. And, frankly, I blame nitwits and ninnies like you who wouldn't have a stupendous oven if it doesn't self-clean, if it bit you on the bum. ;-) ).
Lastly, the last time I looked at a large enough range of ovens (which was about 3 or 4 years ago), Electorlux did not have anywhere near the performance of a miele or a gaggenau. Shallow ovens (front to back depth) make for inadequate circulation and it showed in the fairly widely varying browning results on the stuff being cooked on it. In contrast, the Miele, Gaggenau and Wolf (and my own too-old-for-school now, Bosch oven) showed ridiculously even cooking results. Electrolux was certainly cool and certainly plenty "good enough" but not up there with the others.
Shar, all I can say is that 4 ovens would the needs of for my own use or any person I know, to be beyond overkill. But only you know your needs. Miele is a good brand and they make good products and very good ovens - I agree with Plllog that Gaggenau's are engineered perhaps even more spectacularly (for technical performance, it left me agape) although probably not observably more impressive (most food, afterall, behaves as a low-pass filter).
Oh Gary, you have so much misinformation in your post.
First of all, if you are buying an oven for the readout and the interior color and telling others to do so, it's tragic. Quoting some salesman, whomever that is, about what he does/doesn't sell in the middle of the worst economy in 50 years. Seriously?
People like the Electrolux and they get good reviews. You are entitled to your opinion about what you have. But it's not helpful to make derogatory comments about an oven that you clearly have not used and know nothing about.
Mindstorm's information is quite correct.
There are a number of posts about the perfect clean surface. I did not make it up!!! Here is one from our own GW site---There are others but users can find those and since it is a "Non-item" not sold in US anymore, The only reason I post this one is due to your accusation of my making it up. so Here Tis:
"We have had our Perfect Clean ovens for about 4 years and they are covered with baked on gunk. In the beginning I was pretty diligent about wiping up spills, but I never found them easy to clean and finally it seemed that nothing we did would get them clean. We are extremely unhappy with the Perfect Clean surface. BTW, I am also not happy with the convection feature. I do not feel that the baking is as even as it should be. I had GE convection ovens years ago (which were MUCH cheaper) and I think they worked better!
In contrast, I LOVE my Miele dishwasher!
Miele Too expensive.
No glide out racks
Smalish display
Inside, Enamel Paint
Double the cost of the Electrolux
If you care to read, there are many many
reviews on how great the Electrolux cooks.
We do not use the self clean on the Electrolux
anybody that has a porcelain coated pan certainly
knows it easier to clean than a "Painted pan".
I know you prefer we "Non Believers" keep quiet
hard to sell something that is twice the cost
doesn't cook any better than any other oven(Oh I Know
your food tastes twice as good)..
That's the only way they gonna sell, (and they aren't at least at the Pacific Sales Store I went to, is if only
people, who just automatically push the "Twice the Cost Button" continue to be the only ones that speak or offer info.
Yep it really gets me, when someone says (or Implies)
"Oh Sorry Dear" that due to your budget constraints or whatever----too bad, You have to do with 2nd best"
If you like Miele more power to ya, like I said I like my Optima, but I certainly dont think anybody has a 2nd or 3rd rate dishwasher, just cause it's not a Miele.
Different strokes for different folks.
Tell what's good about the Miele and why you like it, but you put somebody's elses down in the process (Not saying You personally did that), unfortunately you don't havta look far so see it) then I will be quiet as a mouse,
Otherwise, Otherwise
Gary -- When you write that the inside of an oven you don't own and haven't used is paint then that is misinformation. That's simply untrue.
How do I know? I clean it, it's heavy duty enamel and it's easier to clean than the other brand of self-cleaning oven I had before.
I don't happen to care for those oven racks with the wheels in them. I don't like the sharp edges and I love the drip pan that slides under my racks -- that's easier to clean than my roasting pans.
The Miele racks are plenty sturdy and slide easily even with a turkey. If that gives me better biceps, you'll hear no complaints.
I can see the display across the room -- it may have looked small to you in the showroom but the size is adjustable. Mine is large.
I'm not responsible for what you read into my posts -- that's on you. I can only be responsible for what I write based on my own experience.
I stated: "People like the Electrolux and they get good reviews. You are entitled to your opinion about what you have. But it's not helpful to make derogatory comments about an oven that you clearly have not used and know nothing about."
I stand by that.
If you do a search you will find detailed posts going back 3 years now on what I like about the oven and don't. Other owners -- trailrunner, loves2cook4six, chinchette -- have done the same.
When someone comes on the forum and says they are looking for a Kenmore slide in it's not nice to suggest La Cornue.
When someone comes on and says they are looking to go with many specialized pieces on a high end brand, it's not helpful to tell them what a dope they are and that they should buy something else. They've already been to the appliance store.
* * * * * * * * * * *
To answer one part of the OPs question: I did look at replacing my micro with the steam oven at one point but decided that, for us, it wouldn't pay. We use the micro too often and I got a great countertop Oster steamer for $30 which does everything I need. Love my Optima. Only wish I had the induction (or the Gaggenau induction) and the fridge. LOL!
"Does anyone love/hate any of these choices, we have a friend who did the steam and is not impressed at all with the way the food comes out. Any thoughts?"
"When someone comes on and says they are looking to go with many specialized pieces on a high end brand, it's not helpful to tell them what a dope they are and that they should buy something else."
If you look at the first paragraph, you can see what the Op Asked? I did not tell them they were dopes. As I mentioned I went down to Pacific Sales with frying pan in hand to do a noise check on different induction units per a suggestion from a user on another post. Pacific told me none of the induction units were powered up due to safety.
So I thought , as long as I'm here, I would try to figure out myself why a Miele oven is worth more than 2x the price of the Elux. I've had an Elux for over 3 years and it cooks great, true I haven't cooked on a Miele--that's why I offered "There are many many reviews on cooking with the Elux, and a few Non_GW on the Miele.so I figured we had the cooking aspects settled or at least we offered the user the info on how to find this info.
Of course the ovens weren't powered up for use at PS either. So I looked at the things I could, to see how the 2X price is justified.
We looked at the displays, it's one of the first things you see when you look at the ovens, not hard to see that the Elux is easily twice as big, and since I own one, I know how easy it is to read. Next we tried the doors, I expected the door on the Miele to be built like a "German Tank" compared to the Elux---Not so, the door was not only much thicker on the Elux but it open and closed much more smoothly and felt more solid--I tried 3 Elux ovens and 3 Miele ovens. I didnt measure the thickness of the door, but eyeballing I would say the Elux is about 1.5 times thicker than the Miele---- (So we gotta look elsewhere for the 2x factor) We look inside, Now I know it's a Personal taste matter, but to me the Cobalt Blue Porcelain interior look more upscale than the black enamel paint in the Miele----again no 2x factor here.
So next we tried the racks, I found you have to lift up slightly to pull out the miele rack,(3 different ovens) and it will try to turn on you if you dont pull straight on it. Then I tried the Elux, gave the rack a small tug with my baby finger and it glided right out---course I'm usta that having one for more than 3 years now. So again, I don't see a 2x factor here.
I did "Specifically type", "(Not saying You personally did that)", so in no way was I taking a personal shot at you or any of the Ladies or Gents here.
My Shot is at posts where they claim X is the Best or Y is the best and everything Else is just a compromise.
I guess you could also say I'm taking a Shot at the "2X" factor and a recent 3 to 5% price increase.
I guess I'm getting old, Maybe you Ladies and or Gents can enlighten all of us here, why something is worth more than 2x of something else, when we see good cooking reviews etc etc about both products.
If it takes a Miele to make ya happy, great, your "2X" My goal is to helpfully save somebody that is thinking about really overstretching their budget and buying something that even though 2X the price, may not deliver all that they were lead to believe it was.
So "Have At it" Educate us Please.
whew....thank you rococogurl and mindstorm...I can't say enough good about the Miele Perfect Clean ovens. I have used them for 4 years. Mine look like new inside. I DO clean them after every messy use. You have to. As to lazy folks not wanting to do that...well...hmm....these would be the same people that sit in the parking lot at the grocery waiting for a parking place near the front entrance...hm...I will say one thing more...we have a disposable, lazy society.
I baked 9 yes 9 loaves of bread in my Miele the other day...3 at a time in the lower oven on my baking stone...wanna see ???? Even browning Perfect as can be ...the convection works. Yes you have to put in some elbow grease but the quality is well worth it.
interior oven 10 min into the bake :
finished 9 loaves packed into the basket for presentation:
this was last week :
week before :)
week before that :
interior oven pic w/ challah !
rotisserie :
ok I'm tired,,,if you love them then you do ...but this guy Gary is "full of who shot John " as my MIL used to say...c
Should we mention it on the Wolfs too, Antss? We know at least the outcome of one of the 3 posts about the Electrolux, It was replaced under warranty, and She just posted , yesterday, that She was happy with the new oven and Electrolux service, seems she did mention that "One Company" was just replacing the liner and not the whole oven----hmmmmm since we have seen 3 different companies with this problem, Elux, Wolf and Dacor-----and we know Dacor replaced the whole oven but new one had same problem, U takes a guess at which one Antss. Also the new Electrolux ovens still have the Cobalt Blue Interiors, while Miele felt it prudent to take the perfect clean off the market. Electrolux, in this case Studied what American Consumers wanted, whilst Miele did not, but nice try Antss.
Anway I kinda get the message here, Those without Miele, Gag or similar credentials, need not apply to this post, So I bid ya all Adieu _on this post Only.
Dodge sings as He leaves, "We Belong To A Me Ah Lee, Admiration Society----Yes we belong-----Dodge fades into the distance.
I must say a few words here. I have been watching this site for months and got many great ideas from dodge. I only notice he tries to offer suggestions to users to compare what they need and he seems genuinely interested in even going to the stores to follow up on questions that he could not answer until he shopped himself.I have never seen him say a nything against the miele just tried to get the user to compare especially i did see he was concerned if the user could not afford a Miele. I did go and compare and i did decide to go with electrolux and its super but in no way would i knock down the Miele nor did dodge. All i ever saw was a gentleman genuinely interested in helping people. Am sorry he chose to leave this post i did get a lot of useful info from his posts and have seen many thank him for his suggestions. Thanks
pasture19, Miele is now putting in a bottom gliding rack to their ovens beginning Feb. 1. I have one on order to be delivered in March, and they assured me of this. I also called the Miele regional office in New England and asked if Miele would be coming out with micro/steam oven in near future in the U.S. - the answer was no. I also asked if they would be coming out with a plumbed version of the steam oven and again the answer was no. She said that the Miele steam oven was outselling the Gagganeau and one of the main reasons was that the Gagganeau often has some issues with the pipes getting "clogged" up - I'm not recalling the exact wording of what she said but I know it had to do with the piping.
Dodge - you could mention that Wolf has some issues with their blue interiors too, I did not since they were not part of the conversation or the OP's orig. ??? about Miele.
You felt compelled to bring Elux into the conversation and I don't think you were giving the WHOLE picture. Yes it's an attractive value, but it has drawbacks too.
Dacor does not have blue interiors or it's associated troubles that manuf. other than Gaggenau do.
Miele does do market and consumer research, you obviously have a reading comprehension problem as Mindstorm laid it out for you. Research shows than Americans are lazy and want to push a button to clean their ovens, Miele responded. They have responded with a a larger washer and dryer to meet demand too, they will offer the super slick quiet as a mouse glide racks that Americans can't seem to live without these days too.
Where did you get that Miele has paint inside their ovens? From the PS sales weasel?
They ARE NOT pulling off the market, it will just not be available in the USA for the reasons mindstorm told you, and it's not because there is a defect in it.
Oh, and once again you run and sulk in the corner when your opinions or facts are challenged, way to go fella.
I did not run and Sulk in the corner, if you care to check GW, for other posts I have made. Yes you are correct that Dacor does not use the Cobalt Porcelain Interior, after more googling, I found out it was Fisher Paykel. The reason I mentioned other ovens, was first to address it, since "YOU" brought it up & and to show how the different companies dealt with the problem, You saw the post about how Electrolux handled one of theirs, but I have not seen posts about how any of the other problems were handled.
My original goal here, was just to get the user to compare brands, As I had just done, in person, 6 ovens and if they still thought the Miele best fit their needs , so be it.
Compare (again beating a dead horse) and I just use it as you say I have a "Reading Comprehension problem". OK lets say Miele did do their "Market and Consumer Research", at least in the case of the US Market & the "Perfect Clean Ovens"---that research did not "Pan out" for the American Market---maybe for the reasons given by posters here.
Had their been any real serious problems with the Cobalt Blue Porcelain Interior, Elux would not continue to offer it 3 to 5 years later. While speaking of interiors, what do you think "Clean Enamel is" last time I heard, it was baked on paint, and cost significantly less than a procelain finish---recall I was looking for the 2X factor to justify double the price, and I, at least didnt find it in the interior finish.
Anyway, like I said, I just wanted to give the user a comparison of the 2 products. I guess what the user wanted was a "Warm Fuzzy Post" to assure them that pushing the 2x button was the correct thing to do.
This kinda looks like games our typical politicans play, "Attack Attack Attack" in lieu of of answering what I thought would be a simple question, "Why Should I pay Double for a Miele"
Anyway, "Back to my Corner", I wanna give the folks in this post some "Peace"
My original goal here, was just to get the user to compare brands, I just wanted to give the user a comparison of the 2 products. I guess what the user wanted was a "Warm Fuzzy Post"
Gary, it's a matter of style. And, yes, warm and fuzzy is more pleasant, but no one posts just to hear lockstep agreement. They want information, and you're trying to give it, but communication is a lot smoother if it's done in a warm and pleasant tone. The way you write it comes off as "you're being stupid--if you don't agree with me you're an idiot." This perceived nastiness gets people's hackles up. If you can word your posts pleasantly people will pay more attention to the information you're trying to provide, rather than just scrolling past your posts, and people (except those whose behavior is worse than anything you've done here) won't be attacking you for posting your opinion.
If you said, "I really like Electrolux Icon. Why don't you get your husband to compare them before you settle on Miele. The Electrolux display is easier to read, it has smoothly operating full extension glides, and a fabulous interior surface. Plus it costs a lot less," no one would be up in arms and battling with you.
Instead of wording your dislike of the Miele in such excited terms, try saying, "Some people have posted having problems with the enamel interior of the Miele," (or whatever the issue was--I had trouble following that). "It has old fashioned racks rather than the full extension glides, and I had to put on my glasses to read the display."
Just present the facts. Your own experiences, and what you've gleaned. And be open to having a misapprehension corrected. I was really happy when you chimed in on another thread and corrected my mistake in thinking that Electrolux also used the Fagor inductors. It's been a year since I was immersed in the data and I obviously misremembered. It's important to give people the best info possible, so really useful that your corrected that so quickly.
Unless you're trying to stir the pot because you don't have enough drama in your life, and actually look forward to people hurling verbal brickbats at you, I think you'll find that with a little practice, being nice is actually fun, and worth the trouble.
It really is possible to provide a differing opinion while being pleasant.
I really love my Miele Induction cooktop. I also really love the rotisserie on my Miele oven. Love the way it looks and love the display. What I really dislike, I mean REALLY dislike is the way Miele Customer Service treats a warranty customer. My ovens are off in temp, my clock is running fast. I would like someone to come out and take a look at the oven. Miele went over voltage with me two times, it is correct. They will not send a person out, I DON'T GET IT! I have been in contact with the distributor. It has been three days, NOTHING! Again, what is going on? Even with my incredibly CRAPPY Electrolux refrigerator, they would at least come out, if only to try and fix a problem with a piece of tape; but Miele won't even do that. I am sure in the end, I WILL get service. Who knows when, but it will happen. I will be writing Germany. (There was someone on here who did, if you are that person, do you have the contact info?) Until this problem is remedied, I will NEVER recommend a Miele product to anyone, not even a dishwasher. I don't care if they do make great products, stand by the ones that do get through with a problem! IMO, Wolf has the best service - if I can ever afford to do this again, I will be buying a Wolf. And say what you want about Asko and issues with their DWs, they have been great. Courteous and prompt with replacing a broken wheel. Miele USA get your act together!
No, it's running about 15sec/min fast initially, about a minute every two weeks. It really is hard to pinpoint. All I know is I have a microwave and an atomic clock, both of which are spot on. I'll reset the Miele and within a day, it is off by 15 seconds. The oven temps are off by 10-20 degrees and it took 50 minutes to get the oven thermometer to within 10-15 degrees of the preset 400 degrees. It's a single 30" MasterChef.
Oy vey. I came to this post to hopefully learn more details on the Miele warming drawer. AEG has discontinued the panel ready 30" drawer. I can either buy a display model at 10% off, or consider the 24". If I am looking at 24", then I thought I would consider the Miele. We are going with the AEG combo-steam oven (no it's not plumbed, however, the interior is larger than Miele and for extra money you can get the gliding racks). Anyway, there was some mention about Miele not having the temperature range, so I will have a look at the Monogram.


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Catherine A. Eder, 79, Detroit Lakes, died Wednesday, June 16, 2010, in Emmanuel Nursing Home, Detroit Lakes. Catherine Anastasia Eder, was born Nov. 27, 1930, to Nicholas A. and Hazel M. (Buscher) Schmit on the family farm in Tenney, Minn. She graduated from Tintah (Minn.) High School, and was united in marriage with Maurice J. Eder June 20, 1951. Her family was her treasure and sharing her time, talents and a listening ear were her greatest gifts. She enjoyed crafts and used her ingenuity to create anything out of almost nothing.
Dorothy M. Olson, 78, Lake Park, died Thursday, June 17, 2010, in Sunnyside Care Center, Lake Park. Dorothy was born Nov. 15, 1931, in Lake Park to Ernest and Minnie (Olson) Nelson. She grew up and attended school in Lake Park, graduating from Lake Park High School. Dorothy moved to Virginia where she married Harvey Olson on June 20, 1952, at Camp Pickett, Virginia. They moved back to Lake Park in 1954, where they made their home.
Leslie A. Dodd, 39, resident of Strawberry Lake, died Monday, June 14, 2010, in St. Mary's Innovis Health, Detroit Lakes, after a long and courageous battle with Lou Gehrig's Disease. Funeral services for Leslie will be held Friday, June 18, 2010, at 11 a.m. in Strawberry Lake Mennonite Church, rural Ogema. Visitation will be held Thursday, June 17, 2010, from 5-7 p.m. in David-Donehower Funeral Home, Detroit Lakes. Visitation will also continue at the church one hour prior to services on Friday. Interment will be held in the Strawberry Lake Mennonite Cemetery, rural Ogema.
Allen R. Sellers, 66, Lake Park, died Sunday, June 13, 2010, in St. Mary's Innovis Health, Detroit Lakes. Allen was born February 17, 1944, to Roy and Alice (Anderson) Sellers in Detroit Lakes. He grew up and attended school in Lake Park. Allen then worked various jobs before he began his career in sales. He found his niche in selling siding. On May 10, 1963, he married Joyce Happel. Together they lived in Moorhead and Detroit Lakes for a short time before moving to Audubon. They lived there for several years until settling in Lake Park. Allen will be remembered for his sense of humor.
Vernon E. Benson, 97, of Detroit Lakes, formerly of Waubun, died Wednesday, June 2, 2010, in The Cottage on Emmanuel Community Campus in Detroit Lakes. Vernon Emil Benson was born January 9, 1913, in Waubun to Ben and Hannah Benson. He grew up in the Waubun area and attended Adam's School and Waubun High School. Vernon met Edna Krueger in 1931, and they were married on Nov. 3, 1934. From there, they began building a life of over 75 years together. Vernon and Edna raised three children: Lloyd, Beatrice and Wayne, and assisted in "care and maintenance" of nine of their grandchildren.
Danny E. Ringstad, 75, died June 10, 2010, in Woodbury, Minn. He is formerly of Detroit Lakes. Funeral services will be Tuesday, June 15, at 4 p.m. in the Wulff Funeral Home, Woodbury. Burial is at Fort Snelling.
John Leo Robe, 83, died peacefully Saturday, June 12, 2010, in St. Luke's Hospital, surrounded by family after several months of loving care at Linn Manor Care nursing home. John was born June 28, 1926, in Lamoure, N.D., to Nicholas "Nick" and Selma (Schmidt) Robe. His father was a harness maker and owned a candy store. In 1932, they moved to Shoreham, Minn. John attended grade school and high school in Detroit Lakes.
Julie Rae Brandt, 36, Detroit Lakes, passed away Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in her home surrounded by her loved ones, following a courageous battle against cancer. Julie was born Nov. 14, 1973, to Darrell and Joyce (Holmer) DelMain at St. Mary's Hospital in Detroit Lakes. Julie grew up and attended school in Frazee, graduating with the class of 1992. Following high school graduation, Julie attended college in Fergus Falls for two years, then attended college in Bemidji for a year, followed by a year at Detroit Lakes Vocational School.
Alfred L. "Jing" Arthur, 71, Detroit Lakes, died Tuesday, June 8, 2010, in Emmanuel Nursing Home, Detroit Lakes. Funeral services for Jing will be held Friday, June 11, 2010, at 2 p.m. in Emmanuel Nursing Home Chapel, Detroit Lakes. Visitation will be held one hour prior to services on Friday. A graveside service will be held Saturday, June 12, at 2 p.m. in Breck Memorial Cemetery, Ponsford. Memories of Jing may be shared online at www.daviddonehower.com . David-Donehower Funeral Home in Detroit Lakes is assisting the family with arrangements.
Alice E. Heille, 72, of Detroit Lakes, died Thursday, June 3, 2010, at MeritCare Hospital in Fargo. Alice was born to Edward and Edna Jahnke Grindberg on October 2, 1937 in Frazee. The family moved to Mapleton, N.D., when Alice was a young girl. She grew up and attended school in Mapleton. On February 16, 1959 she was united in marriage to Clyde Heille in Fargo. They made their home in Mapleton and later moved to Fargo, where she worked at Elieses's Drapery Shop. In 1970, they moved to Detroit Lakes, where Alice owned and operated Alice's Draperies.


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Building A Snowman
Sisters Ashley, 11, and Camryn Ranney, 7, build a snowman Tuesday afternoon in the front yard of their Middletown home. The two were not disappointed that there was no school today even though their school-wide holiday concert, in which Ashley has a solo, was scheduled for today. But no worries... Cloe Poisson


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Bobcats trade for McRoberts
The Charlotte Bobcats did a deal at the trade deadline Thursday, but it won't exactly change the course of the franchise.
The Bobcats moved one little-used power forward, Hakim Warrick, for another little-used power forward – Orlando's Josh McRoberts.
This makes the Bobcats a bit younger: McRoberts, who played collegiately at Duke, is in his sixth NBA season, while Warrick is in his eighth. It also shaves about $800,000 off the Bobcats' salary cap.
Bobcats president of basketball operations Rod Higgins and general manager Rich Cho said they've had interest in McRoberts for a while and want to explore his potential the rest of this season.
"He's got good size (6-10) and a lot of skill – he can shoot, dribble and pass well for a big man," said Cho. "He has a very high basketball IQ. We're excited to add him."
McRoberts was one of the country's top recruits when Mike Krzyzewski signed him in 2005. He went in the second round of the 2007 draft to Portland and has bounced around to three other teams – Indiana, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Magic.
He averages 3.9 points and 3.3 rebounds this season. His shooting has fallen off considerably this season, from 50 percent for his career to 39 percent in 2012-13.
McRoberts' contract, which expires after this season, pays him nearly $3.2 million. Warrick makes $4 million this season, and the Bobcats are sending some cash to Orlando to make up the difference in salaries.
Warrick played in only one of his last 11 games as a Bobcat. McRoberts played in three of his last four games with the Magic, never for more than 14 minutes.
The Bobcats acquired Warrick early this season in a trade that sent Matt Carroll to the New Orleans Hornets. The Bobcats needed depth and more scoring at the power forward position.
Warrick started 14 games while Byron Mullens was out with an ankle sprain in January. Coach Mike Dunlap made a switch to Jeff Adrien in late January, shortly before Mullens' return. That dropped Warrick out of the rotation entirely – he played in one more game, six minutes at the end of a blowout loss at Cleveland.
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picked our first crop of lettuce
We picked some of our lettuce assortment tonight - yea! It was tender and fresh, such a thrill. Our other veges are doing well, but DH is going to put some organic fertilizer on the tomatoes. They are all starting to bear some fruit, but the plants themselves are a little scrawny. Tested the soil and all else seem fine except for fertilization.
Doesn't that give you a sense of satisfaction?
We had our first salad from the garden last week, lettuce, radishes, red onions, cherry tomatoes. The only thing that didn't come from the garden were the carrots as they weren't ready yet.
Thanks for the reminder as I haven't fertilized toms yet.
I love this time of year, not the heat, but the digging is done, now just weeding, watering and watching the garden grow!
I have to interject and state I have a butterhead variety 'Mottistone' that has had two days over 95ºF and several more over 90ºF and still isn't bolting. Except for mid-July to end-August, we have lettuce all year and I recommend planting more!
I tried some lettuce and spinach this year for the first time. It is really nice to have fresh lettuce ready for picking in the garden for things like sandwiches, burgers, salads, etc. I'm just not sure it's that much better than what you can get at the store. At least not like the difference between store and garden tomatoes. Also my spinach already bolted before I could eat much. I'm on the fence whether I'll plant them again next year, probably would if I had more room.
We started eating lettuce out of the garden a couple of weeks ago, and I was happy to finally be eating something homegrown again. Radishes are already bolting, and I should plant some more. Peas, what few I have, are starting to produce a few pods here and there. Tomatoes are just starting to flower, so it will be a while on those. A fresh cucumber would be an awesome addition to my homegrown salad, but no blooms on those yet.
Jeremy, I can understand where you are coming from. As far as the taste goes, there's not a lot of difference, but I know that mine is chemical free, which gives me peace of mind. Plus, lettuce seed is very cheap, and those plastic containers of salad mixes are ridiculously expensive at the grocery store. I quit growing spinach and chard, not because of the space issue, but because I have such a problem with leaf miners. I know you can use row covers to minimize them, but my veggie garden is in the front yard, so I'd rather not. One thing you might consider is growing your greens in containers. They do very well in pots, and can tolerate more shade than most veggies.
On the lettuce, it's likely some type of caterpillar. The leaf miners lay eggs on the underside of the leaves, and when the eggs hatch, the larvae eat tunnels through the leaves, so they are easy to identify by the little roadmap patterns that are left behind on the leaves. They don't usually bother the lettuce though, but they love chard, spinach, and beets.
Jeremywildcat: Something you might want to consider if you want the spinach is to plant it about a month before your first frost in the fall and let it overwinter. As long as it has germinated and is up, maybe with leaves to the size of a quarter, you'll probably have 75-80% of the ones you get germinated make it through the winter and start growing much more quickly in spring. It will give you a serious head start on when you can start to pick it next spring. I use "Bloomsdale Longstanding" for overwintering. There are probably some better varieties but that one is the best I've tried so far. It worked for me last winter at 8200 ft elevation with the low temp over the winter being -13F (before wind chill, about -25F including wind chill).
I have just gotta try that spinach overwintering thing, sometime! It never even occurred to me until, I believe it was, David pointed it out here.
I can testify that lettuce won't overwinter. An out-of-the-way bed was sown with lettuce, bok choy and fun jen last year. I was planning on an October harvest but only got a little bok choy. Of the 3, only the bok choy survived a very mild winter and it bolted immediately to seed at the first sign of any warmth.
Leafy vegetables respond really well to nitrogen, Mstywoods. It might be this way: a lot of the nitrogen is in the plant's chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is mostly in the leaves and responsible for photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is responsible for plant growth. That's why you can get in trouble with too much leafy growth and not enuf fruiting, if that's what you are hoping for in a plant.
Early in the season, leaf and general plant growth is what we are trying to get for every crop. Early fertilizing for everything probably always makes sense.
Of course, we don't want lettuce to fruit. But, I find that growing lots of greens improves my garden soil generally because I give them lots of organic fertilizer. ("Lots" by definition of my Organic Gardening Encyclopedia). They grow quickly and then they are gone. About half of my lettuce is gone and the sweet onions are growing into the space where those rows once were. I find that those 2, especially, are good together in a bed.
Organic fertilizers persist in the soil for more than 1 season. Even tho' this kind of fertilizer is expensive, it amounts to "money in the bank" because it stays around for awhile.
. . . just my 2¢'s worth. (And, a reminder to myself NOT to plan on cultivating every square inch of the salad garden in October. Gotta leave some room for spinach that I'll have to remember to sow about the 1st of September . . . First of September? Does that sound about right?)
Before the hailstorm trashed the place (the garden replant is finally taking root and things are growing again), my niece and I planted what I like to call 'salad bowls': two shallow plastic bowls about 20 inches across filled with a mixture of manure, moisture-retaining potting soil and a little garden dirt that hold fifteen lettuce plants each. We set the romaine lettuce plants in the center and surrounded those with butter and red-leaf lettuce in an alternating pattern. I water them every day and the plants have steadily filled in with lettuce leaves. I picked enough for two large salads (along with some basil leaves) the other night and will so so tonight as well. As long as they are kept picked and out of the worst of the heat in semi-shade of the back pergola, the lettuce doesn't bolt.


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December 4th, 2014
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Just a note that I blogged on some of the creatures of Mars over at the Onyx Path blog. In general, expect to see new Cavaliers content turning up there on a regular basis.
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December 4th, 2014
Just a note that I blogged on some of the creatures of Mars over at the Onyx Path blog. In general, expect to see new Cavaliers content turning up there on a regular basis.
June 3rd, 2014
The fourth issue of Epidiah Ravachol's Worlds Without Master zine is now out. It includes "Two Swords of Mars," a new Cavaliers of Mars short story. Meet rogues-for-hire Valentine and Soteria, and find out what they do with a dead body, an ominous young woman, and a monastery full of blind — but sword-wielding — priests!
This is my first fiction published by someone other than White Wolf or Onyx Path.
January 6th, 2014
I released two core books in 2013.
Demon: The Descent is a game of techgnostic espionage, where you play a rogue angel who's defected to the human race.
Blood and Smoke: The Strix Chronicle is a standalone update to Vampire: The Requiem that revitalizes the game's focus on visceral drama and personal horror.
Deeper personal reflections on these might be in order at some point. Demon is my game about the masks we use to get through daily life, the different identities we adopt with our family and friends. Vampire is my game about the difficulties of adult relationships, and what happens when they slide into exploitation.
I also stepped up as Onyx Path's development producer, coordinating the schedule and all products in the manuscript process. That's been an interesting road. While our project lifecycle is similar to that at White Wolf until the PDF/print stages, the work environment is totally different. For a company that's spread out across the Western world, much less one composed mostly of freelancers, you have to take a very different approach to managing teams. I've learned a lot from software development here, and am continuing to work on refining the process.
Cavaliers of Mars is running late because of all the WoD and administrative work this year, but it's moving along. The core system works, and merely needs some additional playtesting for recent tweaks, and sections of the corebook (like the bestiary) still need writing. Onyx Path is still lined up to publish it as our first creator-owned project.
I've been doing a lot of game hacking this year that hasn't made it to Fantasy Heartbreaker. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I tend to get more feedback over on Google+, but I think people's eyes glaze over faster when I start to get into detail. I'm rather attached to my blog, but when you're doing game design, feedback is fundamental. For example, I got way more comments on my space opera hacks of Cortex Plus Action there than here.
My latest small hack is Mouse Guard to run a game in the spirit of Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory. Mayhap I'll post more on it here, but the G+ issue lurks there.
I don't know if anyone's still bothering to comment here after my long silence, but if so, what are your opinions on the social network/blog divide?
March 18th, 2013
Cavaliers of Mars is about the contrast between the sadness of a dying world and the frantic vitality of its last renaissance. So there's a sense of melancholy to it, as well as a reckless energy and a sense of laughter at the morbid and absurd.
That laughter is a trait of the better sort of heroes. Fritz Leiber wrote of Fafhrd and the Mouser:
There is something in the inmost core of you… [s]omething that lets you laugh in a way that only the Elder Gods ever laughed. Something that makes you see a kind of jest in horror and disillusionment and death.
Howard described Conan as:
…black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth.
More famously, Raphael Sabatini wrote:
He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world is mad.
I have a suspicion Leiber was referencing Sabatini. In part, it's the friction between romance and cynicism.
But I wonder if that laughter is something that could go into the mechanics. The jovial at the morbid, the gigantic mirths that follow the gigantic melancholies. The echoing laughter of the Elder Gods.
What would you call that trait?
August 17th, 2012
At Gen Con, White Wolf creative director Richard Thomas has announced his new venture, Onyx Path Publishing. Onyx Path has a really cool lineup of roleplaying games, including:
The Onyx Path web site will go live soon.
I've been waiting a long time for this news to go public. I literally jumped for joy.
April 27th, 2012
Do you allow your players to declare that their characters automatically fail?
Let me tell you about my character. Trooper Shiv came from rural Georgia. He joined up with the 3:16 because in the unbearable lightness of the far future there were only so many jobs. So Shiv signed on the dotted line, went through basic on the moon, and promptly got shipped off to a war nobody could possibly be prepared for.
Shiv had a lot of bad luck. He was blinded on an early drop, and the replacement eyes the 3:16 gave him never actually worked. The best thing that ever happened to him was when he got stuck with an alien brain parasite. At last he had a friend.
He wasn't a bad soldier. He just wasn't the kind of guy things worked out for. A lot of the time, I'd roll the dice for him, and I'd be hoping for a failure. Not really to torment him, just because I didn't really think that his story was a happy one.
In 3:16, there's no upside to failing conflicts or even individual tasks.1 It's not Buffy the Vampire Slayer, where you get points for taking one for the team or the story. I just hoped my character would fail.
One of the themes of Cavaliers of Mars is that characters' fortunes swing wildly. While they're generally competent, sometimes they're just going to be down on their luck… and sometimes the dice are going to bring them low. But players can also choose to blow a task check. Specifically, they can choose to critically fail. In exchange, they get a point of Luck, so that things will swing back their way at some point in the future.
The Luck point is there to encourage certain kinds of drama, but the main reason characters are allowed to just fail is that I think that players should be able to shape the hardships their characters face. It's really just an extension of allowing players to choose impossible odds.
Does a player deliberately screwing their character up break your immersion? Do you feel that your favorite rules cause failure often enough that letting a GM or player inflict more of it damages the tone of the game? I only addressed games with a roughly traditional player/GM divide here… are your preferences different when it comes to games like Fiasco?
April 25th, 2012
In addition to Wushu, Cavaliers of Mars will ship with swashbuckling rules powered by Barbarians of Lemuria and Honor + Intrigue.
Some of the earliest playtests of Cavaliers of Mars were done with Barbarians of Lemuria, and Honor + Intrigue takes the game to the next level in providing exciting melee combat.
Cavaliers will feature new stealth infiltration and chase mechanics, as well as a number of other new, light subsystems.
The game will ship dual-statted for both Wushu and Barbarians. I'll be posting some dev blogs in the future talking about the adaptation process.
March 20th, 2012
The free quick start adventure for Cavaliers of Mars is now available at DriveThruRPG. This demos the Wushu version of the rules; the full version will include both Wushu and Barbarians of Lemuria.
Return now to dying Mars in its last age of glory.
A planet of flashing swords and choking sands, of winking courtesans and lantern-lit canal cities. Mars, where fortune and death are two sides of the same obsidian chit, where lost cities and dry oceans stretch between the last bastions of civilization. Where the First Martians, the monument-builders, are but a haunted memory. Where the Red Martians become decadent and reckless in their last days. Where the Green Martians rule the wastes, remembering a history whose weight would crush a lesser people.
Tonight, find yourself in Vance at festival time. When revolutionaries strike a visiting prince, you'll need to explore the city's dark underbelly, before racing across its towered tombs! Save lives, end lives, and earn your water!
Live, fight, and love on Mars, a world of red death and strange mystery, a world of savagery and romance.
The quick start includes:
March 4th, 2012
"The Apprentice's Tale" is my exploration of the world of Cavaliers of Mars. It tells the story of a young girl taken from her broken home by a cavalier and raised as his apprentice. As she recounts their years together, we see the world they live in.
Here are links to each part in order:
March 4th, 2012
This concludes "The Apprentice's Tale," a serial exploration of the world of Cavaliers of Mars.
As I was saying, during my recovery, we began to plan an expedition to the lost places. We traveled to Chiaro. We took up lodging in a tent city in Chiaro-that-is, but within sight of our goal: Chiaro-that-was. Chiaro-that-is is a reasonably hospitable place. Poor, but the basic necessities of life are available. Oases within the city space provide food, along with some yumocs raised for meat. We were just two more would-be tomb robbers spending our last chits on the chance of a fortune.
At night, by blue flames, we would stare out at Chiaro-that-was, silhouetted against the stars. Staring out at what the First Martians left behind.
In that epoch, the world was filled with life. Plants, beasts, and sentient creatures all thrived and multiplied. The First Martians built grand cities along the azure seas, yet still pushed back the many-colored jungles only a little. They even built cities under the oceans, protected by crystal domes from the water and from the great leviathans of that impossible age.
In Chiaro, as in a few other places, they left monuments of unimaginable scale. Here were the pyramid-tombs that must have housed their kings, and sphinxes with their eyes towards heaven. Why they built on this scale is hard for those of us who remain to imagine, but I think they did so simply because they could.
Now, these places are abandoned. No throngs fill the city streets, no worshippers gather at the feet of the pyramids or in the eyes of the sphinxes. Many of the treasures of the First Martians lay untouched, as they have since times undreamt of. Not that that's ever stopped anyone from dreaming of the treasures themselves.
The First Martians are so long gone that even their ghosts have likely scattered on the winds. Yet their treasures still have guardians. The tomb stalkers are strange, tripodal machines that move quietly through the ruins. Their voices are keening and creaking… I only heard them from miles away, and still the memory makes me shudder. They sweep the abandoned streets of all life, sparing the occasional beast only so that it can chase intruders into their paths.
In Chiaro, I was told many times that those tomb stalkers that can be seen within the ruins are only a fraction of their number. Many more, I was told, lie slumbering beneath the sand.
Of course, the ruins of the First Martians are not the only forsaken places on the Red World. Lesser peoples have risen and fallen, leaving their own abandoned cities and degenerate remnants. These so-called dusk cities lie empty, or inhabited by small, cult-like populations who cling to the homes of ancestors they can no longer comprehend.
All of these lost places are tempting targets for graverobbers and treasure hunters, such as my master and I. We spent weeks in Chiaro-that-was, hunting for an untouched tomb, for a cache of relics no one had yet dared plunder. We carried blue flames to keep the tomb stalkers at bay… perhaps they worked.
Perhaps we would have found our treasure there. But one evening, as the blue star rose and we made camp, my master's coughing was a little worse than it had been. His body seemed a little more bent than the day before, and it had seemed a little more bent the day before that. As the twilight dwindled, he told me stories about my father. I don't know if they were true; I hope some of them were.
He talked, and he sang, a little feebly. Old soldiers' songs, maybe learned on the steppe in his youth. He told me of the end of the world, of the days when the atmosphere processors would breathe their last, of desert winters that would last forever. He kept asking me to refill his cup; when there was no more liquor, I filled it with water. He didn't seem to notice. And as the ice of night fell around us, my master died. His final words were simple, affectionate, and then he closed his eyes forever.
I packed up our camp. I could hear the tomb stalkers, and had no desire to take any chances. In the icy night, I began my walk back towards the blue lamps of Chiaro-that-is.
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I literally hold my breath when my teacher announces the people in the group. You see, my teacher is REALLY TOUGH, she gets really mad over little things and overreacts alot, sooo... If my group doesn't focus and do like, perfect, she tells us to go to the office or out in the hall.
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I have had many issues when teacher assigns the groups because I get stuck in the leadership role with all last minute guys, like are video games more important than this?
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Group projects can be so awesome if say your crush is in your group..but they can also make for lots of drama and issues. I always like hold my breath when teachers announce they're assigning groups..lol Thanks for the awesome article GL!<3
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I'm not a leader-type person but if my group is being totally quiet, I always try to initiate things and get things going even though I'm kinda shy myself.
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Moving Forward: Paralyzed Immokalee high football player after 10 years
IMMOKALEE - George Smith learned to tackle when he was a kid, playing on his father's Pop Warner teams.
Lead with the head up. Put a shoulder in the ball carrier's numbers. Wrap at the waist and drive forward.
But no two tackles are the same.
And life in a wheelchair, well, George Smith is still getting his arms around that one.
It has been 10 years since Aug. 28, 1998, the night George made his first start for Immokalee High's varsity. Ten years since he lost his grasp on the world he knew.
Playing safety in a preseason game at Barron Collier, George extended to make a tackle at an awkward angle. By the time he hit the turf, the junior's neck was broken and his spinal cord badly bruised.
"It's one of those things I'll never forget," former Immokalee coach John Weber recalls. "I knew the minute he got hit there was something wrong. I can still see it today — the way he fell to the ground. Something was off. Everything he did was right, but I had a bad feeling the moment he went down."
Now 26, George still lives on Gaunt Street in Immokalee, in the four-bedroom, handicapped-accessible home the community rallied to build for his family. He is still paralyzed from roughly the chest down. He can move his arms, but he still has no movement in his hands or fingers. He still requires daily care from the people around him.
This is his reality.
A decade in, George is still learning to tackle it.
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On a recent Sunday afternoon on the edge of the Everglades, the challenges inside the Smith home, as always, carried the force of a thousand ball carriers.
George had been awake for about an hour. His mother, Rommy Smith, had pulled him out of bed, dressed him and put him in his motorized wheelchair. George wore a white T-shirt and a black cap, with baggy denim pants. His legs quivered, a sign that the bones are weak.
At one point, George's niece, LéAsha, reached a packaged candy bar over her uncle's lap, motioning for him to open it. George wedged the snack between his wrists, lifted it to his mouth and tore the wrapper apart with his teeth.
This is not the life George pictured. These are not the images he doodled in his notebook during middle-school math classes.
The way George drew it up, he'd be in the NFL by now. He'd be intercepting passes and making headlines. He'd be making it big.
"That's all I thought about," he says. "I thought I'd go up to Gainesville and play for Florida and then take it from there. Or maybe I'd be an actor or a rapper. That's all I thought about — doing something big."
When he looks back on that one play in that one game, George can't help considering what it took away.
Growing up, he always had his hands in the dirt or his feet off the ground. He always stayed busy and had fun, financial restraints be damned.
To play golf, he and his friends would dig holes in the park and hit balls with sticks.
To play basketball, they would nail a bicycle rim to the trunk of a palm tree in George's backyard.
To catch fish, they would scoop grasshoppers and minnows out of ditches and use them for bait.
"I'm kind of the opposite," George says, "of what I was before I got hurt. I used to be real active. Always outside doing something."
These days, George spends most of his time at his computer making music.
He pecks the keyboard with his index fingers and the knuckles of his thumbs, letting his forearms do the work. He scrolls SoundClick, SNOCAP and other digital music service sites using the mouse pad he keeps on his wheelchair tray.
When he needs a break, George will pick up his X-Box controller, modify the buttons to meet his needs and challenge online opponents to football games.
After that, it's more music.
This is George's passion now — his dream. This is the future he sees for himself.
"I want to be a producer," he says.
George steers his wheelchair out a side door, into the garage. It is here that the family plans to build a studio, complete with soundproof walls and top-of-the-line equipment.
"It's all he talks about," Rommy Smith says. "I know he won't be happy until he gets it."
His mother, though, wants more of the old George. The active one.
On trips into town, Rommy might notice a man in a wheelchair greeting customers at Wal-Mart. Or taking tickets at the movie theater.
She gives her son a nudge. That could be you, she tells him.
"George needs to do something with his life," Rommy says. "I think I've been easy on him, but he needs to make a move. He needs to step out a little bit."
The occasional weekend trip to Fort Myers for dinner or a movie provides the only change of pace.
The last time George went to an Immokalee game? Maybe two years ago, but he's not quite sure.
Dates, in general, elude him.
"It seems like he's gotten comfortable with his situation," his brother Yoshi says. "I think he needs to push himself to do some other things."
About two years ago, George sure seemed to be on his way.
He was in school at Florida Gulf Coast University, within 20 credit hours of graduating. He was attending physical therapy sessions at a local clinic.
Then, he hit a roadblock.
While changing his clothes, Rommy noticed a massive pressure sore on her son's backside, caused from sitting in the same position too long.
It took about a year for the sore to heel. Forced to spend most of that time in bed, George lost his grasp on the momentum he'd built.
He hasn't returned to school.
And he hasn't recovered the weight he lost. The bones in his legs are so weak that he can't use the standing machine in his room to strengthen them.
"My goal right now," George says, "is to get my body back where it needs to be. After that, though, I want to go back and finish school."
• • •
George Callins pleads from 150 miles away, craving footage of a game played a decade ago.
Callins, who lives in Plant City with his second wife, must see his son's last tackle once again. He yearns for a replay of those final steps.
"I need that copy," Callins says, his voice cracking. "I need that."
Callins thought George Smith was invincible. In his son he saw a teenager in the prime of his life, ready to meet the world head-on.
Weeks before George's junior year, Callins welcomed him to Plant City for a summer visit. He watched his son take the final steps toward the season ahead: Runs on the beach during the day, trips to the Pizza Hut buffet at night.
George had worked his way through the Immokalee farm system, from the lowest levels of Pop Warner ball to the varsity starting lineup.
Finally, this was his time.
"He had put some weight on and still had good, quick feet," Weber recalls. "Everybody thought he was going to have a really good year."
But George's only shot at varsity lasted less than one quarter. He'd hardly broken a sweat when he met Greg Orick on that fateful play.
"As soon I hit the ground," George says, "I couldn't feel anything."
Surgery was done hours later. Within days, his family was given the prognosis.
George likely wouldn't walk again.
"It's been 10 years," Callins says, "and still here we are. I just knew my baby would be walking and running in 10 years."
In his dreams, George does.
He has visions of himself walking the Immokalee streets or carrying a football beneath his arm. He feels what it's like to be on his feet again.
"It keeps me thinking what could have been," George says, "what I could be doing."
George knows he can't change that one moment in that one day of his life. He knows he can't find that old game film, press rewind and erase it from his past.
The best he can do is build on what he has learned. Lead with his head up, wrap his arms around the challenge and try to push forward.
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