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For today's dose of apple I must direct you to Martha's recipe, which we followed with much success last year. These seemed a little intimidating at first, namely because I feared I'd never see the bottom of my saucepan again. But I'm glad we didn't let that stop us - hot water will dissolve the mess away quite easily. And the reward couldn't be sweeter - a batch of homemade candied apples, all an enchantingly glossy red.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Apple Week: Candied Apples
Labels: Entertaining, Tutorial
7 comments:
- Saltina said...
Love the twigs. Again very impressed with the outcome and gorgeous picture!
- November 12, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- Katherine said...
You are so fortunate to have a house (or apartment is it?) with floors and walls like that. It's a shame such lovely details aren't more common. One of our first plans for our new (to us) house is to put in lots of molding and pretty tiling.
- November 12, 2009 at 8:39 AM
- Stacy's Designs 88 said...
Gorgeous! and yummy...red candied apples were always my Favorite. :0)
- November 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM
- Julia @ Mélanger said...
I can't remember the last time I had a candied apple. I am loving your weekly theme.
BTW, very inspired by your photographs. I have been wanting to create some more 'unexpected' creations myself - but worried about them turning out poorly!
Must give it a shot! :)
- November 12, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- Ash said...
I love this!!! And I love the photo!! I so want to make these now!
- November 12, 2009 at 3:35 PM
- Anna said...
Gorgeous pics...how inspirational..and so simple.
Love candied apples!! thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend!
- November 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM
- jodi of the creative JAR said...
love the picture!
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Our situation is sad one. I had plenty of milk and baby was gaining very very well at the beginning. But somehow (that is for separated post) our nursing relationship deteriotated to the point that he will nurse only in sleep. And last few days he is not sleeping so much and I can feel my supply dropping down. I used to pump between 2-4 times per day to get 200-300 mL for him to give him some milk while awake.
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All infos that I have found until now are mostly realtive for exclusive pumping. And I hope he will at least continue to nurse in his sleep. So how to combine pumping with sporadic nursing?


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This is the result of multiple trials in the FOOD52 test kitchen, and at home.
This is the result of multiple trials in the FOOD52 test kitchen, and at home.—Kristy Mucci
Makes: 1 large or 2 small mozzarella balls
Rennet Enzyme Tablet
Cup Cold Filtered Water (to mix with the rennet)
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Teaspoon Citric Acid
Cup Cold Filtered Water (to mix with the citric acid)
Gallon Whole Milk (non-homogenized is best)
Non-Iodized Coarse Salt, to taste
- In a small bowl, mix the rennet with 1/4 cup water to dissolve. In another small bowl, mix the citric acid with 1 cup water to dissolve.
- Pour your milk into a pot and heat it to 85 degrees over a medium-low flame, then add the citric acid solution. Using a slotted spoon, give the milk a gentle stir. Let the milk heat up to 100 degrees.
- Once the milk reaches 100 degrees, add the rennet mixture. Very gently stir the milk -- you'll start to see curds, just lift them up and down a few times (don't stir for more than 30 seconds). Keep a close eye on the temperature and let it heat up to 105 degrees.
- When the milk reaches 105 degrees, turn off the heat and cover the pot. Let it sit for 10 minutes. The curds will have come together into a solid-looking mass, the whey will have a yellow tint. To make sure it's ready, press the back of a spoon into the curds -- if the indentation stays, they're ready.
- Place a colander on top of a bowl. Using a slotted spoon, lift the curds and place them into the colander to let the whey drain off. Lift the colander to keep draining. Using your hands, very gently press the curds into the colander to release more whey. You want to remove as much whey as possible while handling the curds as gently as possible. They should feel firm when they're ready for kneading.
- Put a large pot of salted water on to boil. Make sure the water is salty enough to flavor the cheese (I like it to taste at least as salty as the sea). Once it's reached the boil, turn off the heat and let the water cool to 180 degrees, or as hot as your hands can handle. Food-safe gloves can help protect your hands from the heat if you're sensitive.
- While the water is boiling and cooling, break up your drained curds into evenly-sized pieces.
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- Using a large spoon, lift the curds to see if they're ready for kneading. They're ready when they are melty and stretching off the spoon.
- Now it's time to stretch and knead. If the cheese starts to get cold and stiff, dunk it back into the hot water. Keep stretching, kneading, and dunking until the cheese starts to feel smooth. This can take anywhere from 5-20 minutes.
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It's April and you know what that means!!!
In a post in January I wrote about how the Body Pump instructor talked about how she wanted to see all of us in March. If she saw us in March, then she knew we were serious about bettering our lives. Welll guess what, she saw me in March and she's seeing me in April. I'm working at bettering my life and I'm glad she's there to push me.
Another thing that's going on is that I decided to run a 5K. My brother and sister are going to do it with me. My sister keeps telling me I don't have to run the whole thing, you can walk, but I don't want to. The 5k is June 2nd and my training starts tomorrow. I'm registering and this is happening!!!
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Thanks to his involvement with the "Three Investigators" young reader book series (see yesterday's post) there is actually more biographical information available online about Ed Vebell than many other worthy mid-20th century illustrators. This week's posts, however, will draw mainly on material first published in American Artist magazine in February 1962. ~ Leif
Ed Vebell was born in Chicago in 1921 in a Lithuanian-Polish neighbourhood.
Drawing was a popular activity among his group of childhood friends - he remembers that he and many friends began drawing at age 5 or 6 and could draw well - though Vebell was the only one committed to a career in art.
How's this for commitment: as a freshman in high school Ed Vebell arranged to attend his regular classes from 7 a.m. 'til noon. Then, each day from noon 'til midnight, Vebell took additional art courses at the Professional Art School and the Harrison Art School in Chicago. He maintained this daily 17-hour regimen throughout his high school years.
E.W. Ball, Vebell's task master of an instructor, set the tone for the aspiring young artist's education: he insisted that students have a solid foundation in drawing fundamentals and complete understanding of the figure, including anatomy learned while sketching at cadaver dissections. Life models in Ball's class posed only briefly - the students then drew from memory - the models returning after the drawing so accuracy could be checked.
No erasers were allowed - bad drawings had to be redrawn from scratch. Constant practice was insisted upon.
As a result, Vebell said, he developed the ability "to analyze a subject and grasp its essentials at a glance and draw it later from memory." Later, when Vebell was working as a courtroom illustrator for Stars & Stripes at the Nuremberg war trials, E.W. Ball's training served him well. Looking through field glasses from the spectator's gallery, Vebell could draw the defendants directly in fountain pen and used only "a moistened thumb for the middle tones."
Being able to draw from memory "has inestimable value," said Vebell.
After high school, Vebell applied for several scholarship. He was accepted for two at the American Academy of Art and a third at the Commercial Art Institute. He studied at one in the morning, a second in the afternoon and the third at night. For the aspiring young illustrator, his relentless commitment to learning was about to bear fruit. At age 19 Vebell was offered a staff position at the Nugent-Graham Art Studios in Chicago.
Ed Vebell was on his way.
* Continued tomorrow
* Here's something cool: a group from the Society of Illustrators recently visited Ed Vebell at his home! Click here to take a look.
Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Ed Vebell: A Commitment to Life as a Professional Artist
Posted by Leif Peng at 3:18 PM
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Thanks Leif, for your post about a great guy! Ed and I became friends back when he was a kid of 70, and still deadly on the fencing strip (he an epee man, and I, foil). One of the finest draughtsmen of the generation that gave illustration its second Golden Age, your recognition of Ed Vebell was wonderful to read.ReplyDelete
Inspiring guy!ReplyDelete
As are you, bringing so many artists to our attention.
Fine draftsmanship...I like it lots! Thanks for bringing this artists work to my attention. ;-)ReplyDelete
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The 8 November election in San Francisco will have 16 candidates contesting the mayor's position. The city will, for the first time, use instant runoff voting for the city-wide mayor's election, avoiding the need for people to cast multiple ballots in the likely scenario that no candidate would get at least 50% of the votes.
Instant runoff works by creating virtual "rounds" of voting. Voters get a number of votes on their ballot. They list their first choice, then their second, then their third for the mayor's position. In principle there could be enough votes to rank all candidates (one less than the number of candidates), or more if you want room for write-in candidates. First, all candidates receiving at least one first-place vote are ranked, and the one (or multiple) candidates receiving the least number of votes are eliminated (assuming there's at least one candidate left). Ballots which had an eliminated candidate as a first choice have lower-ranked choices promoted until either the first-place vote is still in the race or the ballot contains no more candidates within the race. A ballot with no more candidates who have not yet been eliminated is considered "exhausted". The election continues until a single candidate has a majority of the votes from unexhausted ballots.
People have argued that exhausted ballots are a sign of the failure of the system. They claim that voters who submit exhausted ballots haven't had their voice heard. Of course this is false: the voters have had their voice heard but the candidates they supported failed to garner enough support. However, what an exhausted ballot implies is that among the final candidates in the race, that voter failed to have his preference counted. Not counting write-in candidates, for a voter to be guaranteed that his ballot will not become exhausted, he needs a number of votes equal to the number of candidates minus one. This allows specification of a preference between every pair of candidates, covering the every possible final round.
But San Francisco doesn't provide this many votes: not even close. Due, it is claimed, to limitations of the ballots used in city elections, only three votes are offered. I view this as a bit of a farce: of course it is possible to provide space for more than three choices, and there are plenty of examples of other nations which do so. Three is a long, long way from the fifteen choices which would be necessary to avoid ballot exhaustion.
I'll assume voters pick their honest top choices, no matter the perception of candidate viability. Of course this is an incorrect assumption, voters may prefer their ballot not get exhausted early, and so may want to pick at least one candidate considered likely to get a large number of votes. This "safety net" pick would likely be in the final spot on the ballot, since picking it earlier would likely render "long-shot" choices ranking below the pick irrelevant. But I'll assume here that there's no safety net strategy, and voters pick their preference every choice. I also assume voters vote for the full number of slots on their ballot: if they have six choices, for example, they don't vote for three and leave the final three slots blank.
In this case, exhausted ballots only make a potential difference if the winner, after all other candidates but one have been eliminated, fails to receive at least half of the total ballots submitted (not half of the remaining unexhausted ballots). If the winning candidate receives over 50% of all ballots, then even if all exhausted ballots would have had their next vote go to the second-place candidate, that second-place candidate still would have received fewer votes than the winner. And that's an extreme case: it would be virtually impossible that every one of those voters with exhausted ballots would have preferred the loser over the winner. So unless the number of exhausted ballots is sufficiently larger than the difference in votes received in the final round by two surviving candidates, it is very unlikely those exhausted ballots would have switched the result if the voters had had more picks.
So how many exhausted ballots is acceptable? I'll toss out a proposal that 1% is okay, assuming there is a "cost" associated with putting more choices on the ballot. But more than 1% and I think it's fair to say the reduced number of votes per ballot is seriously in danger of affecting the outcome.
If I want to estimate how many votes I need per ballot, with 16 mayoral candidates, to avoid at least a 1% exhaustion rate I need to make further assumptions. With 16 candidates, if one candidate is vastly more popular than the rest, then he'll get most of the first-place votes, and no ballot will be exhausted, since the election end on the first virtual round.
In the other extreme, if each candidate is equally popular, such that a voter chosen at random will have ranked candidates in essentially a random order (assuming candidate preferences are uncorrelated, which is clearly unrealistic), then the fraction of ballots which will be exhausted can be calculated fairly easily: suppose there are C candidates and V votes per ballot. Then the number of ways to vote or the C candidates with V votes = C! / (C ‒ V)! ("!" is the "factorial" operator), while the number of ways to vote without including the final two candidates = (C ‒ 2)! / (C ‒ V ‒ 2)!, assuming C ‒ V > 1. Therefore the probability a random ballot will exhauste among many random ballots =
This can be simplified to the following, eliminating the factorials:
But this case is unrealistic. Some candidates are more popular than others: the difference in votes isn't just due to randomness. So I'll make an assumption somewhere between the two cases of one super-popular candidate and all candidates equally popular. I'll assume the most popular candidate gets 20% of the first place votes. Then the second candidate gets 20% of the remaining votes. Then the third candidate gets 20% of the votes remaining after votes have been assigned to the first and second candidates. Etc. So the most popular candidate gets 20% of the first-place votes. The second-place candidate then gets 16% of the votes. Third place then gets 12.8% of the votes. This goes on to the least popular candidate, who gets 20% of the votes which haven't been assigned yet to that point, which is 0.7% of the total. If a voter has given his vote to none of the candidates after this round (2.8% of them), I try again starting with the most popular candidate. For second-preference votes and beyond, I do the same game, except a voter can only vote or each candidate once. So less popular candidates have a better chance of getting lower-ranked votes than they have of getting first-place votes.
This vote distristribution is simplistic, obviously. In a real election there will be pairs of candidates who will be close to each other: the gaps between canddidates won't be so uniform as they are in this model. But that's not so important. What's important is that the votes tend to be clumped toward the head of the field, rather than distributed uniformly over all candidates.
So I ran 100 thousand randomized votes using this approach, and I compared it to the "worst-case" where each of the 16 candidates is equally popular. Here's a plot of the percentage of exhausted votes versus the number of votes per ballot.
The result is for the equally popular candidates you need 14 votes per ballot to keep the exhaustion rate down to 1%. This is only one away from the 15 needed to fully rank the 16 candidates. For the candidates with different popularity, you need 9 votes to get the exhaustion rate down to close to 1%. In each case allowing only 3 votes per ballot will result in high exhaustion rates: 65% and 25%. With only 3 votes per ballot, the number of votes is affecting the outcome: either a lot of ballots get exhausted or voters, to avoid ballot exhaustion, will deviate from their true preferences by engaging in the self-fulfilling prophecy of voting for whom they think are "viable" candidates.
And since everyone agrees interim Mayor Ed Lee is a viable candidate, I don't like where this leads.
So in summary: I really like ranked choice voting, but surely we can do better than this. With 16 candidates, I want at least 9 slots to rank candidates, and would prefer 15, but would even live with as small a number as 6. 3 is obviously way too few, however.


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WINCHESTER, Ky. (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has lambasted a liberal group for criticizing the ethnicity of his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.
McConnell told home-state supporters at a Republican dinner in Winchester that Progress Kentucky engaged in "the ultimate outrage" when it used Twitter to distribute a message making an issue of Chao's Asian heritage. The tweet said McConnell's marriage to Chao "may explain why your job moved to (hash)China!"
McConnell's described the tweet as "a racial attack" against Chao, who was born in Taiwan.
Progress Kentucky removed the tweet after Louisville public radio station WFPL-FM aired a story. And the group issued two apologies over the past week for what they described as "inappropriate tweets sent by our organization."
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Sunday 1st June 2014
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Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2014 season
When: June 6 through Aug. 10
Performances: "The Tempest," "Henry IV, Part 1," "Henry IV, Part 2," "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "I Hate Hamlet."
More info: coloradoshakes.org
After a nationwide search, the University of Colorado has named interim director Timothy Orr the permanent producing artistic director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.
Orr, who learned Monday he had been selected for the job, said he was shocked.
"I was quite surprised," he said. "I dropped the phone. I thought that only existed in the movies."
Orr has been interim director since February 2013 after then-artistic director Philip Sneed resigned to take another job.
Orr started with the festival as a performer in 2007 and became associate producing director in 2011.
As interim director, Orr oversaw a 10 percent increase in ticket sales from the 2012 season to 2013. He also helped increase revenue by 18 percent during that same time.
The program had been under scrutiny in recent years for racking up to close to $1 million in losses between 2007 and 2009, and for finishing in the red by more than $150,000 collectively during the 2011 and 2012 seasons.
Under Orr, the festival in 2013 saw its first profitable season since 2006. He also helped raise $75,000 to replace the stage lights in the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre. The new energy-efficient lights are expected to cut electricity use by 25 percent.
"It's the team," Orr said Friday. "I'm embarrassed that I'm getting more credit for this than I deserve. It's the team that we're working with right now. The marketing team, the staff, the production team, the development team, CU Presents. They're just all first-rate."
Orr said the festival will continue to grow under his permanent leadership and produce "great plays done well."
Steven Leigh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said Orr's ability to return the festival to financial health was key to his hiring.
Leigh also said Orr was instrumental in better aligning the conference, which is run out of the college, with the academic mission of the university by organizing several classes last summer.
"He understood what we were trying to get at, and he greatly facilitated it," Leigh said.
At the same time CU's festival turned around its financial situation, the University of California-Santa Cruz ended production for Shakespeare Santa Cruz because of continuing debts.
The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival also suspended operations last year because of financial troubles.
But, despite financial challenges nationally, Orr said the Bard still provides value to the Boulder campus community and general public in Colorado.
"Such a great playwright encapsulated so much for what it means to be human or our own humanity," Orr said. "It's an opportunity for us to enjoy being together and what it means to be human.
"We find new meaning and new relevance in these plays every time we watch them, every time we read them and every time we perform them."
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Global Fabric Acoustic Panels Market Research Report 2011-2023Single User: $2195 Multiple User: $3195 Enterprise User: $4195
Report Summary:
Fabric acoustic panels, also fabric covered acoustic panels or fabric wrapped acoustic panels, belongs to the category of acoustic panels which are used to absorb sound with aesthetic pattern.
The global Fabric Acoustic Panels market will reach xxx Million USD in 2017 with CAGR xx% from 2018-2023. The objective of report is to define, segment, and project the market on the basis of product type, application, and region, and to describe the content about the factors influencing market dynamics, policy, economic, technology and market entry etc.
Based on products type, the report describes major products type share of regional market. Products mentioned as follows:
Installation Place
Acoustic Materials
Leading vendors in the market are included based on profile, business performance etc. Vendors mentioned as follows:
G&S Acoustics
Acoustics First?
CMS Danskin
Sonata Acoustic
Acoustical Surfaces
Carpet Concept
Forgreener Acoustics
Mantex Acoustic Material
Based on Application, the report describes major application share of regional market. Application mentioned as follows:
Based on region, the report describes major regions market by products and application. Regions mentioned as follows:
North America
South America
Middle East & Africa
Table of Contents / Index:Table of Contents
1 Market Overview
1.1 Objectives of Research
1.1.1 Definition
1.1.2 Specifications
1.2 Market Segment
1.2.1 by Type
188.8.131.52 Installation Place
126.96.36.199 Acoustic Materials
1.2.2 by Application
188.8.131.52 Commercial
126.96.36.199 Residential
22.214.171.124 Others
1.2.3 by Regions
2 Industry Chain
2.1 Industry Chain Structure
2.2 Upstream
2.3 Market
2.3.2 Dynamics
3 Environmental Analysis
3.1 Policy
3.2 Economic
3.3 Technology
3.4 Market Entry
4 Market Segmentation by Type
4.1 Market Size
4.1.1 Installation Place Market, 2011-2016
4.1.2 Acoustic Materials Market, 2011-2016
4.2 Market Forecast
4.2.1 Installation Place Market Forecast, 2017-2022
4.2.2 Acoustic Materials Market Forecast, 2017-2022
5 Market Segmentation by Application
5.1 Market Size
5.1.1 Commercial Market, 2011-2016
5.1.2 Residential Market, 2011-2016
5.1.3 Others Market, 2011-2016
5.2 Market Forecast
5.2.1 Commercial Market Forecast, 2017-2022
5.2.2 Residential Market Forecast, 2017-2022
5.2.3 Others Market Forecast, 2017-2022
6 Market Segmentation by Region
6.1 Market Size
6.1.1 Asia-Pacific
184.108.40.206 Asia-Pacific Market, 2011-2016
184.108.40.206 Asia-Pacific Market by Type
220.127.116.11 Asia-Pacific Market by Application
6.1.2 North America
22.214.171.124 North America Market, 2011-2016
126.96.36.199 North America Market by Type
126.96.36.199 North America Market by Application
6.1.3 Europe
22.214.171.124 Europe Market, 2011-2016
18.104.22.168 Europe Market by Type
22.214.171.124 Europe Market by Application
6.1.4 South America
220.127.116.11 South America Market, 2011-2016
184.108.40.206 South America Market by Type
18.104.22.168 South America Market by Application
6.1.5 Middle East & Africa
126.96.36.199 Middle East & Africa Market, 2011-2016
184.108.40.206 Middle East & Africa Market by Type
220.127.116.11 Middle East & Africa Market by Application
6.2 Market Forecast
6.2.1 Asia-Pacific Market Forecast, 2017-2022
6.2.2 North America Market Forecast, 2017-2022
6.2.3 Europe Market Forecast, 2017-2022
6.2.4 South America Market Forecast, 2017-2022
6.2.5 Middle East & Africa Market Forecast, 2017-2022
7 Market Competitive
7.1 Global Market by Vendors
7.2 Market Concentration
7.3 Price & Factors
7.4 Marketing Channel
8 Major Vendors
8.1 Armstrong
8.1.2 Profile
8.1.2 Business Performance (Sales Revenue, Cost, Gross Margin)
8.2 Saint-Gobain
8.2.1 Profile
8.2.2 Business Performance (Sales Revenue, Cost, Gross Margin)
8.3 G&S Acoustics
8.3.1 Profile
8.3.2 Business Performance (Sales Revenue, Cost, Gross Margin)
8.4.1 Profile
8.4.2 Business Performance (Sales Revenue, Cost, Gross Margin)
8.5 Abstracta
8.5.1 Profile
8.5.2 Business Performance (Sales Revenue, Cost, Gross Margin)
8.6 Texaa
8.6.1 Profile
8.6.2 Business Performance (Sales Revenue, Cost, Gross Margin)
8.7 Acoustics First?
8.7.1 Profile
8.7.2 Business Performance (Sales Revenue, Cost, Gross Margin)
8.8 Ekous
8.8.1 Profile
8.8.2 Business Performance (Sales Revenue, Cost, Gross Margin)
8.9 CMS Danskin
8.9.1 Profile
8.9.2 Business Performance (Sales Revenue, Cost, Gross Margin)
8.10 Sonata Acoustic
8.10.1 Profile
8.10.2 Business Performance (Sales Revenue, Cost, Gross Margin)
8.11 Acoustical Surfaces
8.12 Carpet Concept
8.13 Sontext
8.14 Soundsorba
8.16 Beiyang
8.17 Forgreener Acoustics
8.18 Same
8.19 Mantex Acoustic Material
9 Conclusion
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I became aware some time ago of conky, a minimalistic utility that can display these--and many other--types of helpful information under differing window managers or desktops and, though I'd seen screenshots of it configured to run as a sort of panel, most conky configurations I've come across actually have it display on the desktop background--not something particularly desirable for me since I tend to run applications full-screen on my evilwm desktops. But lately, I somehow came across information about another utility--Xmobar--that can display the sorts of system information I want but which seems to be configured to run mainly as a panel. So I decided to have a go with it. I was able to configure it to my liking fairly easily and decided to offer in this entry a further description of the program and to post the configuration I am using. That information follows.
To begin with a bit more information on Xmobar, it seems originally to have been written to complement the minimalist window manager Xmonad (which, incidentally, I've not tried). As the Arch Wiki entry--my main source for setting up and configuring Xmobar--informs us, it is written, as is Xmonad, in the Haskell programming language. In case you might be intimidated at the prospect of potentially having to learn something about that programming language, take heart; as the wiki entry further elucidates "while xmobar is written in Haskell, no knowledge of the language is required to install and use it."
As with many other GNU/Linux utilities, Xmobar relies on a hidden configuration file--named, predictably, .xmobarrc--located in the user's home directory. The Arch wiki contains a sample configuration file, and that's the one on which I based my initial experiments with Xmobar.
To start Xmobar, I simply call it as the last line in my .xinitrc file. That will, of course, not be the universally applicable way of starting the utility: those using a log-in manager will undoubtedly need to invoke the utility in some other way. Being the GUI-adverse type I am, however, this is what works for me.
Below I include a screenshot of the lower section of one of my desktops, which shows Xmobar running as it is currently configured on one of my systems.
Though a good deal will be obvious from the picture, I will nonetheless offer a verbal description of each section of the panel. After the description, I will provide the content of my .xmobarrc file for further reference.
On the left side of the panel we see, on the far left, of course, a CPU meter of sorts (CPU percentage meter). Next to that is the memory meter, showing percentage of main RAM and swap in use. Then follows a network meter showing current upload/download speed: the dash to the left indicates Xmobar did not find eth0 since, in the instance when the screenshot was taken, no network cable was attched to it. After the network speed indicator follows a keyboard layout indicator: at the moment the US keyboard layout is in use, but I also have Russian and Greek keyboards configured for this machine (more on keyboard layouts and switching between them in a future entry).
On the right side of the panel is seen first the date and time. Next to that is a battery meter that displays percentage of battery charge left as well as estimated remaining time; the screenshot comes from a laptop, of course. That is followed by a location indicator and outside temperature reading: I happened to be near the town of Mikkeli in Finland at the time I wrote this entry--thus the EFMI weather station code in the configuration file below. Finally, the kernel version and distribution are listed--this being derived, of course, from uname output.
Below, then, is the content of my .xmobarrc file. I added a few tweaks to the one I found on the Arch Wiki, mainly the battery meter as well as the keyboard layout indicator. I also did a bit of color tweaking since it seemed to me the section dividers (the pipe character--|) needed to be in a different color so as to more readily draw attention to the field delimitations. A bottom rather than top orientation was more to my liking, so I made that modification as well.
I am thus far quite happy with Xmobar. At the same time, I would be interested to hear from conky users who have their layout configured as a panel like this. Feel free to pipe in with your input on these or other minimalist panel utilities.


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In 1964, at UNCTAD I, member States gathered in Geneva for "a better and more effective system of international economic co-operation, whereby the division of the world into areas of poverty and plenty may be banished and prosperity achieved by all."
It is auspicious the UNCTAD's 50th Anniversary takes place at a time when the global community rallies towards achieving the MDGs and seeks to respond to people's aspirations around the world by setting the development agenda beyond 2015.
We invite you to celebrate UNCTAD@50 and embark on a journey towards achieving the vision of the founders of this organization, "to find ways by which the human and material resources of the world may be harnessed for the abolition of poverty everywhere", and to bring opportunity and prosperity to all.
As UNCTAD turns fifty, Mauritius foreign minister hails the organization's 'tailor-made technical assistance' to small island developing states.
ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré sends anniversary greeting to UNCTAD as the organization marks its first half-century of finding solutions for sustainable development.
Special message from the Secretary-General of the IMO Koji Sekimizu delivered on the occasion of UNCTAD's fiftieth anniversary.
Following on earlier Geneva Dialogues and in the context of fiftieth anniversary celebrations, UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi convenes the Third Geneva Dialogue at the Palais des Nations, Geneva on 18 June.
Rising inequality is the result of policy choices and not an inevitable consequence of globalization, argued policymakers and experts on the first day of the UNCTAD Public Symposium in Geneva on 18 June.
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cat destroying bedding?
So my cat likes to rip up sheets etc... she doesn't do it on purpose (so not really a behaviour problem) but she likes to play on the bed I guess and she gets stuck. So far she's ripped a giant hole in a sheet and also put holes in a down duvet & duvet cover... the sheets and duvet cover I don't care so much about but the duvet itself was expensive and is hard to sew up (not that it's okay for her to destroy the others).
We try to keep her claws short and I don't want to restrict her from the bed as this would make it even more exciting. I think my plan.. once I replace everything, will be to fold up the duvet during the day. If I was my grandmother I'd probably put a sheet of plastic over the bed, but that's not going to happen.
Does anyone have tips on how to "store" bedding, etc? There's not necessarily anything I can correct in the cat. She doesn't even know what she's doing.
Besides being very diligent about keeping her claws trimmed back could you just cover the new duvet with the old one during the day? That way she can still have her fun and nothing gets wrecked.
Assumptions do nothing but make an ass out of u and me.
We can stick our heads in the sand for only so long before it starts choking us. Face it folks. The pet population is bad ALL OVER THE WORLD!
Don't store it in plastic, it's bad for the fabric, especially cotton. Store in something breathable like cloth (I use pillow cases for my quilts).
I would just do like 14+ suggested and cover the good bedding with something else, like an old blanket, during the day.
As far as the cat tearing stuff up, if you keep the claws trimmed it shouldn't be an issue. You can file the end slightly with an emery board to dull it. You could also try soft claws, which are plastic covers that go over the ends. I have 11 cats here and none of my stuff gets ripped so I think that's honestly a bit odd unless your fabric is already in bad condition. If the fabric has been stored incorrectly it can weaken it and that may be part of your problem.
That's for Linen, but the storage rules are pretty much the same for cotton.
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NASHVILLE -- Bill Strauss has some very good news for the American auto industry. Or he has some very bad news. You can take your pick.
Strauss, a Federal Reserve Board senior economist and economic adviser for 30 years, has spent the past few years examining what's going on in auto manufacturing. He concludes, in a nutshell, that the United States is now sitting pretty.
The big factors that economists pay attention to, and the rest of us tend to glaze over -- wage trends, energy costs, capital costs, worker efficiency and currency values -- are all glowing green with opportunity.
"We're now on the leading edge in global competitiveness," Strauss said recently, as he prepared to travel to Atlanta to share his impressions with the Georgia Automobile Manufacturers Association. "We are better off than we were a decade ago. The auto industry is strong and it's going to get stronger in the next few years."
That's the good news.
The bad news is that "strong auto industry" is no longer synonymous with "jobs." That has become an antiquated notion, Strauss warns.
Auto manufacturing and its multiple arms are now far more efficient than the work was 20 years ago, or 10 years ago, thanks to automation, lean management, more sophisticated supply lines and computerized logistics, and workers simply are no longer needed to the degree they were to supply the market.
He proffers this uncomfortable statistic: Since the lowest point of the 2008-10 economic crash, industry output has increased by 83 percent. But employment has only come back by 23 percent, according to his measurements.
In other words, since the crash of 2009, automotive companies have learned to make do with fewer people. Granted, thousands of people are being hired these days -- but not to the same levels that jobs were eliminated when trouble hit, Strauss forecasts.
The industry is full of examples of this phenomenon, using long-ago comparisons. In the 1960s, the big Bethlehem Steel mill in Chicago employed upwards of 25,000 people. Today, owned by ArcelorMittal, the automotive steel supplier has only about a fifth the number of workers, yet turns out roughly the same volume of product.
That trend is still in progress.
"The common perception is that we can create all those jobs again." Strauss says. "That's not happening. Maybe the one thing we can do is make sure that people who do get jobs in the industry get all the technical training they're going to need."


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Our Toddler Sense programme, for children from 13 months to 3 years, is an Adventure Play activity that has been designed to build on the skills acquired at Baby Sensory.
Toddler Sense is an exciting introduction into learning through play and games.
The main emphasis is on mobility, excitement and adventure. It is a fast-moving, action-packed programme.
About the ProgrammeThe video below show aseries of activities from a typical Toddler Sense session andillustrate a number of unique games and activities for parents and their Toddlers.
Activities introduce toddlers and children to a magical, multi-sensory interactive experience that will keep them busy and stimulated. Great brain food! They will also have lots of fun on the way!
The various Adventure Play activities and games aim to help children learn through play and, as with Baby Sensory, activities vary weekly.
Carnival-style activities, creative dance, parachute, pom-poms and coloured ribbons give everyone, including parents and carers a great sense of wellbeing and achievement.
The Toddler classes have been designed to meet the specific needs of two separate age groups.
What Happens At A Toddler Sense Class
Our Toddler Classes are divided into three balanced phases incorporatingwarm-up activities and skill development activities, where children areencouraged to explore their environment and a challenging conclusion.
Activities are short, dynamic and fun with a clear sense of purpose.Children are guided on adventures to the stars, through the jungle,underwater and to different places around the world.Toddler Sense classes always start with the Adventure Play area, which is set outdifferently each week. Children enjoy scrambling over obstacles, balancing on stepsand blocks, crawling through tunnels and climbing over the trestles and ramps. Theyalso enjoy putting the equipment away after play.
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"Red" needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 152 designs submitted by 41 freelance designers.
Chocolate Redhead is an international Internet Marketing company, with the two officers based in San Francisco (the "redhead") and London (the "chocolate.") respectively.
Chocolate Redhead
Red's original thought was a very Deco-like logo for "C" and "R" with the name below; akin to what was seen in Who Framed Roger Rabbit's, R.K. Maroon studio or the original Warner Brothers logo with a 1930s, elegant look.
Chocolate's ideas were more whimsical and irreverent; while we are not a food-based company, a created character evoking a chocolate bar with red hair.
You can see we are running the gambit and are completely open to ideas. It needs to be relatively simple so it can be applied across many mediums including business cards and a website. Our name Chocolate Redhead must be strong within the logo.
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- Clean, possibly red/brown colors? Simple fonts.
- Too much color - no rainbows, no calligraphic fonts.
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Tonight the Jets are back in action after a couple of days of playing the Philadelphia Flyers in Philly. Once again the Jets face a team playing the second game of a back to back. Last Saturday they faced the Hurricanes in the same scenario and took it to Carolina. Tonight will be a much tougher test.
The Flyers come into this game after being pummeled by Montreal in shocking fashion last night. Ilya Bryzgalov took the loss and suddenly he has a 3-3-1 record with a bloated 3.16 GAA and .884 SV%. Jaromir Jagr has found instant chemistry with center Claude Giroux and now has 8 points in 9 games with 3 goals in the last two games. Giroux leads the team in scoring with 10 points.
Philadelphia and top defenseman Chris Pronger narrowly avoided a tragedy recently against Toronto when he was accidentally high sticked by Mikhail Grabovsky on Saturday. The news is surprisingly good considering how ugly it looked. Pronger is expected to be back in two-three weeks and must be thanking his lucky stars. His presence will be certainly be missed by the Flyers and is a bonus for a Jets team desperate for a road win.
Andrej Pavelec will get the start tonight after 5 periods off while Chris Mason played some excellent hockey. It will be interesting to see if Pavelec responds to the challenge, as Mason's numbers are now far superior; admittedly with a smaller sample size. Pavelec was not to blame for the two quick goals Carolina scored against him but the team rebounded with Mason once he was pulled.
Alex Burmistrov continues to be the best forward on the Jets and leads the team in scoring with 7 points in 8 games. His line has been juggled but he is still playing with Nik Antropov who is second on the team in scoring. Tobias Enstrom leads the blue liners with 4 points in 8 games and is a respectable +1. Expect a big game tonight from Dustin Byfuglien. Philly are not the bruisers that their reputation suggests, but they do love to get in the on fore check and cause problems for the opposition.
The Jets are still in the basement in the East but could move to 12th tonight with a win. In fact, despite their slow start, the Jets are only 4 points out of 8th place so all is not lost for hopeful Jets fans. That being said they are starting a nasty road trip that spans 7 games and they have to come home with 6 points or more or they will be behind the eight ball.
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Rick Alverson's The Comedy is a film about bored, aging hipsters and the film, which stars Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim And Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job! fame, recently screened at Sundance. James Murphy, himself the gold standard for aging hipsters, appears in the film and Alverson posted a clip on his Vimeo page featuring Wareheim, Heidecker and Murphy heckling a cabbie. Murphy doesn't speak. Watch it below.
No wide-release date yet for The Comedy, but Tim and Eric's own Tim And Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is available today on iTunes before it hits theaters.


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After speaking to her family, who is dispersed between Cedarhurst, Long Beach, New York City and Port Washington, and then reading comments on Facebook and viewing random online videos of the destruction Hurricane Sandy wrought in her native area, Boca Raton, Fla. resident Mara Cavallo Benkirane became determined to help.
The science department chair and advisor to the Builder's Club at American Heritage School in Delray Beach, Benkirane enlisted her school's faculty, staff, students and parents in an all out donation blitz that filled a 57-foot trailer truck with 22 pallets of supplies ranging from water to diapers to garbage bags, and many other items stuffed in it.
"The motto of the week was 'go bigger or go home,'" said Benkirane, who endured Hurricane Wilma in Florida and understands what people deal with after such a storm. Cavallo and her volunteer army collected the items between Nov. 12-16. She grew up in Inwood and Cedarhurst and graduated from Lawrence High School in 1991.
A truck transporting those supplies from Florida is expected to arrive in the parking lot of Cedarhurst village hall at 200 Cedarhurst Ave. on Sunday afternoon.
Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department 1st assistant Fire Chief John McHugh contacted local organizations such as the Five Towns Community Center, St. Joachim's R.C. Church, and several fire departments, including those in the Five Towns, Meadowmere Park, East Rockaway, Island Park, Long Beach and Oceanside.
"It's fantastic, she has done a wonderful thing and put and lot of time and effort into it," McHugh said, about Benkirane's relief collection. 'It's nice that people remember where they come from and do the right thing."
Another person "doing the right thing" is Lori Alf, owner of National Air Cargo trucking company. Alf, whose three children attend American Heritage School, donated the truck trailer and purchased $11,000 worth of supplies.


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New Year with (just) friends?
In 2010, both Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds ended their marriages. His split, obviously, was much less dramatic than hers. They closed the year together though, in Texas, over dinner at her restaurant surrounded by friends. There are photos. These photos have been embargoed, likely secured by some magazine for an exclusive about their "Hot New Romance!" when publications hit newsstands tomorrow before being released wide by the weekend.
The pictures aren't really all that exciting. They're at a table with other people, Sandra is wearing a black wig cut in a bob, seems to be dressed up like a dancer from the 20s, and Ryan is in regular street clothes with a pageboy cap on his head. They're talking. Not touching.
Her rep has already issued a statement to People.com:
"A group of old friends that included Ryan and Sandra spent New Year's together at Sandra's restaurant Bess Bistro. They all had a great time ringing in the New Year as they have in the past ... as nothing more than friends."
Free publicity for Bess Bistro!
And a very definitive statement about their relationship: "nothing more than friends", which reminds me of when Sandy was dating Matthew McConaughey, and her answer to the question back then was "we're friends", and then went on to clarify later, after it was over, that she never said "JUST" friends, and that was her way of getting around it.
Just Friends happens to be the title of one of Ryan's more forgettable features.
Are he and Sandy "just friends"?
Right now, I'd say yes. But friendship can evolve. And they certainly do have chemistry. I'm into it. You? We can discuss during the LiveBlog later today.
Here are Sandy and Ryan last year at the People's Choice Don't Mean Nothin' Awards and on promotion for The Proposal in 2009.
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Chris Fowler stepped on stage before a large crowd of football fans assembled on the shore of Lake Michigan on Saturday morning and addressed them like a preacher giving a sermon.
"We'll be back sooner than 18 years," the ESPN broadcaster said as the masses howled with joy.
Had you closed your eyes at that moment, you may well have forgotten you were on Northwestern's campus.
Evanston's about as well-known for being a college town as Northwestern is for being a football school. But for about 18 glorious hours Saturday, that all evaporated.
Tailgaters were out on campus early and in full force, bars were packed to the gills and there was purple everywhere. Literally everywhere. Signs, shirts, jerseys—even fountains at a plaza downtown bore the school's familiar purple hue. It was the polar opposite of seemingly every other game day experience in Evanston, electric, exciting, THE place to be if you were a sports fan in Chicago, even if you didn't have ties to Northwestern or Ohio State.
The crowd that showed up for the first "College GameDay" set in Evanston since 1995 was relatively small but raucous. Standing about eight feet in front of Fowler and his crew on the "GameDay" set, I couldn't hear a word they were saying over the chants and cheers of the masses.
Fowler's words resonated with a crowd that desperately wanted for the circus to come to town again. And if the showing on and off the field Saturday was any indication, the national spotlight isn't leaving the Wildcats anytime soon.
Northwestern's two-headed monster at quarterback, Kain Colter and Trevor Siemien, showed two can be better than one at that position, nearly leading the Wildcats to an upset. The defense made Ohio State all-world quarterback Braxton Miller look pedestrian, forcing him to turn the ball over three times while keeping him out of the end zone.
For recruits and fans watching the game, both on TV and in person, it was a sign of what could be at Northwestern. Ryan Field was positively electric from the opening kick until the bitter end (a 40-30 loss), Northwestern's fan base stepping up in much the same way you'd hope supporters of a major college football program in the nation's third largest market would.
It was Exhibit A of why Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips needs to haul coach Pat Fitzgerald into his office Monday, tear up his current $2.2 million contract and offer him whatever he wants for however long he wants to be here. Fitzgerald is to Northwestern what Ditka could've been to the Bears had Ditka's teams overachieved instead of underachieved, the rare Chicago coach somewhat deserving of the hype he receives.
Saturday in Evanston was nearly 20 years in the making, and just after the " GameDay" broadcast wrapped at 11 a.m., Fowler turned to the assembled masses one last time.
"We'll come back much, much sooner," he said as the crowd erupted yet again.
If Fitzgerald's Cats continue to play like they did Saturday, ESPN won't have much of a choice.
Matt Lindner is a RedEye special contributor.
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First time we heard from BrikWars was a few weeks ago, and we decided to give it a shot. Here's the result.
On one side of the town: the Cult of Cthulhu. These raving psychopats want to convince the whole world of their short-sighted and completely disturbed visions, and even went so far they built a giant Cthulhoid Mecha, obliterating anyone who doesn't believe...
Left is Mad Doc, with his personal copy of the mad Necronomicon, blasting his foes with rays of unholy fire. On the right we have Sthoghtothogoth 'call me Thog' Thogoshotothogoth, dual-wielding the Ritual Katanas and armed with his heroic ego. In the middle, the feared Mechthulhu, obliterating nonbelievers from afar with his twin-linked laser cannons or from closeby with the dreaded tesla claw.
On the other side of this rural village is a force at least as vile and feared, the skeletal army of the long forgotten John "cap'n" Bright'ook. Bringing his long-forgotten crew and ancient catapult from the depths of the sea, he search only revenge...
Bright'ook is sitting on the left, and even though the mist hanging around their vehicle obscures the photograph, you can see he's holding a pneumatic drill - undoubtedly scavenged from earlier victims. In front, we have Bernard Barbossa, driver of the vehicle, and skilled catapulteer. Indeed, the giant black construction is a jet-powered catapult. Nobody knows what pirates are doing with a catapult, let alone one with turbojets, but everyone agrees it's extremely dangerous to about everything in range. On the right, we have Madeline Hawkins, although you can't really say it's a she anymore. She's armed with her good old pistol. And in the back is 'matey'. Nobody knows his real name anymore, and nobody cares. When the captain once asked what he had done with his clothes, he said it was a sensitive subject...
Boringville is suddenly wide awake when the citizens see two giant war machines coming their way.
Hell will break loose soon enough. The objectives for both sides are simple: MAYHEM. Oh, and maybe killing those other guys as well.
The machines start rolling towards each other, and a worker is so scared he loses control over his vehicle...
Yep, he suddenly turned 180 degrees and magically created a propane tank. Why? Because it's cool. Luckily, the tank doesn't explode yet... Even though some flames appear.
The house in the middle is straight in the line of fire, and needs to come down ASAP. A laser shot goes stray, but a catapult boulder lands right in the roof.
The first casuality is a civillian. Thog leaps to the nearest car and lops the driver's head clean off - one car more for the cult!
The celebrations don't last long, for the next moment, Thog is squashed by a rotten elehant head, fired from the catapult. Yeah. A rotten elephant head. Today's pirates, not what they used to be.
While the other forces are nearing eachother, Mad Doc is suddenly assaulted by the drill-wielding Bright'ook!
But before the combatants collide, the tesla claw grabs Bright'ook and crushes his ribcage! Did you know skeletal pirate zombie overlord captains bleed blue?
Shrugging of a hitfrom the catapult, the rampaging mech proceeds to cut off the lower body of poor Bernard! The dried bones spontaneously combust.
A stray laser shot explodes a civilian cart, and somehow the driver is crushed under his burning vehicle.
The catapult misses as well, crushing a caravan. Apparently, someone was hiding inside...
Another laser shot takes out a chunk of a house.
Frustrated for the laser misses, the Mechthulhu throws the corpse of the captain towards Madeline, hitting her square, and the force of the throw smashes both pirates to pieces!
Only matey survives the Cult's onslaught, and in a desperate attempt he mans the catapult, and the boulder crashes into the mech, blowing up the fuel tank!
Mad Doc, being the only Cultist left alive, goes after Matey, while the latter hijacks the bulldozer.
While Mad Doc climbs the catapult for an Overwatch, Matey rams him and sends him flying! Doc makes a crash landing in the mech remains, and Matey wins the fight for the pirates!
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While not the best-known of the famous G series of Chevrolet vans, the G30 was an integral part of the lineup as a larger and more powerful version of the Chevy van. The most common models in the line were the G20s and the G10s, while the G30s were available in more limited numbers.
The Chevrolet G30 was part of the Chevy line of vans very popular from around 1964 through 1996. In 1996, the line was discontinued due to declining sales. This sales decline was likely largely a result of the rising popularity of other family-vehicle options, such as the minivan and SUV, as well as other options for professional vehicles, such as utility SUVs and more modern vans.
The G30 is not a well-known model within the Chevy G-series; in fact, it made very few showings in its long history of production. Generally the G30 was visually identical to the G20 and only distinguished itself by its more powerful standard engine. As a whole, however, the G-series was extremely popular and became the standard for vans after the line's inception in 1964—even enjoying moments of fame when versions of the G-series van took center stage in popular television shows like "The A-Team" and "Scooby Doo."
Because the G30 never enjoyed high visibility, it can be difficult to find old vehicles identified as G30s. The G-series, however, remains ubiquitous today. Chevy vans from 1964 to 1996 were the standard in full-size vans, and the G30 was generally the most powerful version.
The Chevrolet G-series replaced the Corvair van, and the series' first models were built on the Corvair platform. Throughout the G30's lifespan, there were limited changes to the vehicle. The 1992 G series saw a significant facelift, and only the G30 vans in the lineup that year came with a 4L80E transmission standard on all vehicles. This transmission was an option in some of the lower G-series vehicles of 1992 and the following few years. Also exclusive to the G30 was its 7.4-liter V-8, which boasted 230 horsepower at 2400 rpm in the second-generation models of the G series Chevy vans. This model was available in a four-speed automatic or a five-speed manual. Beyond these differences, the G30 models were not well-known or differentiated in the history of the van series.
The first generation for the G-series of Chevrolet vans spanned the years from 1964 to 1970. Specifically for the G30, its only unique attribute during this generation was an available 7.4-liter V-8 engine with 230 horsepower. At the time, the G30 was basically a more powerful version of the much more widespread G20. Few were made, and it was practically identical to G20 models during the first generation that the G30 was available.
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Fifteen of 17 booster seats introduced in 2012 earn the top rating of BEST BET from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, evidence that more than ever, manufacturers are designing seats to provide good safety belt fit for booster-age children.
The improvements mean that BEST BET boosters now outnumber seats in any of the three other categories for the first time since the Institute released its inaugural booster ratings in 2008 (see Status Report special issue: booster seats, Oct. 1, 2008). Boosters are supposed to improve how adult lap and shoulder belts fit children so the belts can properly restrain them in crashes. BEST BET boosters correctly position belts on a typical 4-to-8-year-old child in almost any car, minivan or SUV.
In all, there are 47 BEST BET boosters for 2012. This total includes the latest models, plus older top-rated designs still on the market. Five seats are a GOOD BET, meaning they provide acceptable belt fit in most vehicles. Two boosters are not recommended because they don't provide proper belt fit, and consumers are advised to avoid them.
Federal regulations don't address how a booster should position safety belts. Manufacturers crash test boosters, but these simulations don't tell parents how boosters will fit their children in their vehicles. The Institute launched its ratings program after research showed most boosters weren't doing a good job of fitting safety belts correctly and consistently in a variety of vehicles.
"Booster manufacturers have risen to the Institute's challenge to improve seat design, giving parents more choices than ever when shopping for a booster that will provide a good, safe fit for their children," says Anne McCartt, Institute senior vice president for research.
Using a belt-positioning booster is important for kids who have outgrown harness-equipped child restraints and aren't big enough for adult belts. Children ages 4-8 in boosters are 45 percent less likely to sustain injuries in crashes than kids restrained by belts alone (see "Boosters offer better protection than safety belts alone in a crash," Dec. 22, 2009). Children who are using improperly fitted belts are at risk of a host of crash injuries known as "seat belt syndrome." These include spine injuries and internal organ injuries. Boosters help by elevating a child into position and guiding the belts for better protection.
No crash tests are conducted as part of the evaluations. The Institute's ratings focus on belt fit. They don't assess how boosters might perform in a crash because safety belts do the main job of protecting children, not boosters. Some manufacturers say their boosters provide enhanced protection in a side crash, but the Institute hasn't evaluated these claims.
To assess belt fit, Institute engineers use a test dummy representing an average-size 6-year-old child. They measure how lap and shoulder belts fit the dummy in each booster under four conditions representing the range of belt configurations in real-world vehicles.
Top-rated boosters don't have to be pricey. The Graco TurboBooster COLORZ (right) is a BEST BET and retails for about $26. The COLORZ is a better choice than the Cosco Top Side (left), a new backless model that is a Check Fit because it doesn't consistently provide good shoulder belt fit. The Top Side sells for about $15.
The Institute evaluates models new to the market each year. Ratings of boosters with designs that carry over into the next model year remain on the list until the seats are discontinued. In all, the latest ratings cover 91 boosters.
Consumers have a variety of styles and a range of price points to pick from. BEST BETs retail for as little as $19 to as much as $300. Among the new BEST BET models, the backless Graco TurboBooster COLORZ sells for about $26, the highback TurboBooster retails for about $50 and the backless Harmony Carpooler starts at about $35.
Boosters come in two main styles: highback and backless. Highbacks have guides to route lap and shoulder belts and can offer some head support. Backless models have lap belt guides but may need a plastic clip to properly position shoulder belts in many vehicles. Some highbacks, called dual-use, can be converted to backless seats. These get two ratings, one for each mode, because belt fit can differ by mode. Consumers should pay attention to each rating and consider how they will use the seats in their vehicles.
Six of the 24 dual-use boosters included in the 2012 ratings earn BEST BET or GOOD BET in both modes. These include two from Harmony Juvenile Products, the Dreamtime and V6 Highback Booster; one from Combi USA Inc., the Kobuk Air-Thru; and three by Graco Children's Products Inc., the TurboBooster, TurboBooster Elite and TurboBooster Safety Surround.
Three dual-use boosters new for 2012 earn BEST BET: Graco TurboBooster, Harmony V6 and Graco TurboBooster Safety Surround (left to right). They join the Graco TurboBooster Elite and Harmony Dreamtime as top-rated boosters that provide good belt fit when used as highback or backless seats. Another dual-use model, the Combi Kobuk Air-Thru, is a GOOD BET.
Graco now has 10 BEST BETs, and all eight of the boosters Harmony makes are BEST BETs.
"Parents often tell us they want a dual-use booster that's a BEST BET no matter how they use it," McCartt says. "Having more to pick from really simplifies things."
For its dual-use TurboBoosters, Graco revised the instruction manual and relocated the belt clip to the back center of the seat from the side. The change allows the clip to correctly position the shoulder belt, lifting the backless mode rating from Check Fit, in line with the highback rating.
The 37 boosters in the Check Fit category may provide good fit for some children in some vehicles, but not as many as a BEST BET or GOOD BET. As with any booster, parents should make sure the lap belt lies flat across their child's upper thighs and the shoulder belt crosses snugly over the middle of the shoulder. If not, try a different seat.
Two boosters in this group are new for 2012, the Evenflo Big Kid Amp High Back and the Cosco Top Side. The Big Kid Amp High Back is a BEST BET in backless mode, but parents will need to check how the belt fits if the seat is used as a highback. In some cases, the Big Kid Amp may position the lap belt too high on the abdomen in highback mode. The seat is made by Evenflo Company Inc. Evenflo discontinued four models that had been not recommended last year (see "Take your pick," Oct. 13, 2011). The company picks up two additional BEST BET designations, earning it six BEST BETs and one GOOD BET for 2012.
Shoulder belt fit is the issue with the Cosco Top Side. The owner's manual atypically instructs installers to route the shoulder belt over the backless booster's lap belt guide instead of under it. This puts the belt too far off the shoulder in one measurement condition and against the neck in another. Some parents might be able to get good shoulder belt fit with the booster, depending on their vehicle setup and the age and size of their child. The Top Side is made by Dorel Juvenile Group Inc., whose brands include Cosco, Eddie Bauer Baby, Maxi-Cosi and Safety 1st. Five of Dorel's boosters are BEST BETs and one is a GOOD BET.
Combination seats like this Britax Frontier 85, a BEST BET in highback mode, can be used as a harness-equipped child restraint in addition to a booster.
The two not recommended boosters — both from Dorel — are older designs first evaluated in 2009 (see "Which booster is best for me?" Dec. 22, 2009). They are the Safety 1st All-in-One and Safety 1st Alpha Omega Elite. These models are 3-in-1s that can be used as rear-facing and forward-facing child restraints with a built-in harness. They can be converted to boosters by removing the harness and using lap and shoulder belts to restrain a child. Although these seats should work well as child restraints, they aren't the best option for boosters because they leave the lap belt too high on the abdomen and the shoulder belt too far out on the shoulder.
"Dorel should redesign the All-in-One and Alpha Omega Elite to improve booster function," McCartt says. "Parents who own these seats should use them with the built-in harness as long as possible, up to Dorel's recommended height and weight limits."
There are better options for consumers who prefer the versatility of a 3-in-1. Four BEST BETs are 3-in-1s. These include the Evenflo Symphony 65 e3 and three models from Diono LLC — the Radian R100, RadianR120 and RadianRXT. Another choice is the Evenflo Symphony 65, which is a GOOD BET.
McCartt points out that manufacturers sometimes use similar names for different seats, or even the same names for new models, so consumers should consult the Institute's website at iihs.org for model numbers, manufacture dates and photos when they shop for a booster.
She advises parents not to be in a hurry to switch to a booster. Kids should ride in harness-equipped child restraints in rear seats as long as possible, up to the height and weight limits of the seats. Many typically accommodate children up to about 65 pounds — and some go higher. When children outgrow child restraints, they should use boosters until adult belts fit properly, usually when a child reaches 4 feet 9 inches and 80 pounds.
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May this be a happy birthday with lots and lots of years to follow with the same. And may she know how much she is loved.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Happy Birthday To Ann!!!!!!
May this be a happy birthday with lots and lots of years to follow with the same. And may she know how much she is loved.
3 comments:
- Steve Blood said...
hard to believe that you're two years older than I am. Oh for those good ole days walking the fences. Love you Ann.
- December 1, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- Elizabeth said...
She is not! Just 1-1/2 years, for sure. Happy birthday, Ann - you are very young for your age. We quit counting years somewhere along the way, don't we? And, very well said, Judy. I call Ann for my canning, cooking, advice of any category. She can always keep me up to date! How did she get to be so wise?
- December 1, 2009 at 3:31 PM
- Ann said...
It's a mystery, Elizabeth! Steve is just trying to feel younger than he really is. I never did master walking the top rail of the coal bin, but we could really cover ground on the second cross board up from the ground. Judy, I am a little concerned about what is in those letters - my life was an open book.
Thank you for the sweet wishes, the phone calls, and for only remembering (for today) the good things. I am very blessed - and high among my blessings is the amazing relationship we have with each other. The distance only gets in the way if we let it. The blog has provided an incredible means of sharing snippets of our lives without being cumbersome and the nonsense has been a source for giggles, twitting, and encouragement. This is my third birthday on the blog - it is fun to open up the blog at the end of the day and see what myths have been posted. Love you all.
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This simple motion illusion can completely throw us off our game. And why? All kinds of reasons, from our brains trying to play catch-up with the world to the conscious mind fooling itself about what it already saw. Apparently, anything is better than accuracy.
Take a quick look at this (silent) film. What you'll see is two boxes. One moves steadily across a plane, like a good box. The other flashes in and out of existence. While the second box always flashes when the moving box is close to it, it never seems to get the timing precisely right and flash just when the other box is right in line with it. It's kind of irritating, really.
But wait, don't post that angry comment just yet! Every single time the second box flashes, the first box is perfectly in line with it. No it isn't, you say. I can see it with my own eyes! But, once again, your eyes are wrong. This phenomenon is called the Flash Lag Effect. When two objects are displayed in line with each other, one constantly moving while the other flashes in and out of existence, the eye will see them as not properly lined up. In fact, the eye will see the moving object as jetting well past the position of the flashed object.
This puzzled a lot of people, as there doesn't seem to be any reason why the brain should process the two object differently. There are three main theories about why our minds are letting us down. The first is that the brain is doing its best to help us out. It has clocked the motion of the object, and with experience it knows that moving objects are already ahead of where we see them, what with the way light takes time to travel. So it lets us see the moving object as ahead of the place we actually saw it, to attempt to give us a more accurate picture of where it actually is when we try to reach out and grab it. It's the brain's way of telling us not to run towards the ball, but run towards the space where the ball is going.
The second theory holds that, for some reason, we process moving objects faster than we do flashed objects. The body can't do much about sudden bursts of motion other than blink and flinch. If we see steady motion, though, we might be able to react to it in a constructive way. Therefore the brain will try to deal with a moving object before it turns its attention to the flash. It's the inverse of the first theory. Instead of seeing the moving box in the future, we see the moving box in the present and see the flashing box in the past. The brain is trying to help us out by showing the most important phenomenon first, and then dealing with the flash-in-the-pan.
Lastly, we have the theory that our brain has turned on us completely and is covering its tracks. It sees the flash and it sees the moving box, but it considers its position before it'll tell us what happened when. In the fraction of the second after the flash, it decides to show our conscious mind the flash a bit later than it actually happened. Sounds silly - why would it do that - but the body has pulled this stunt on us before. We perceive the past depending on what happens in the present. This is demonstrated by an experiment which presents people with two colored dots. It's very simple. The person is shown a dot that appears and disappears on the left in one color, and then a dot that appears and disappears on the right in another color. Overwhelmingly people will interpret this simple sequence of images as a ball moving to the right and changing color. But why? All they're seeing is two dots. And to begin with, all they saw was one dot. Since they can't have had the perception of motion or color change before the second dot appeared, argue the proponents of this theory, clearly what we perceive now affects what we saw in the past. People saw a second dot, and, even though it was a different color and in a different place, made the assumption of movement.
The flash lag illusion is one of those things that no one can conclusively attribute to any specific failing (or accomplishment) of the brain. What do you think causes it?
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