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Happy 2014! I don't care that it's almost February. I'm not dead!
Sure, I neglected my blog for six or eight months — classic dead person behavior — but I'm not dead. So.
Sorry for disappearing. I had my reasons, some better than others. Hypochondria. Stalking Adam Ant. A brief but intense problem with online shopping that left me with box full of rusty and possibly radioactive mechanical parts from Latvia.
At least I didn't go off the grid because I ran out of things to talk about. In June, I celebrated a year of sobriety. December marked a year and a half. Between those milestones, my penchant for sewing — a hobby I adopted as a form DIY therapy in early recovery — underwent a mixed media metastasis that now involves playing with power tools, lighting things on fire, and rocking a NIOSH-approved respirator.
In fact, if you mosey over to the sewciopathic shop, you'll see about fifty — seriously, that's not an exaggeration — brand-spanking-new creations … because despite being productive over the past months, I've been almost as bad about stocking the shop as I have about feeding the blog. I'm gonna throw some pictures of crafty things in here as well, because people like pictures. I'm told.
And I've done other stuff too — even stuff outside my daily routine of flaking out happy hours so I can clean the blood off my craft table* **.
Since my last post, I:
- drove through the desert and wound up in a brothel less than 24 hours after getting dispatched from a Vegas emergency room;
- followed Gloria Steinem up the steps at the Women in Media Awards before realizing, holy shit, that's Gloria Steinem;
- wrote a fake name on a guest list so I could get into a cult-sponsored event, where I wolfed down most of a wheel of brie and scurried out the door;
- glitzed up local drag legend's dress for her gig co-hosting DC's infamously fabulous Miss Adams Morgan pageant; and
- finally found an excuse to wear my South Park dress to the office.
So. Why haven't I been writing?
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Extra nipples.
I don't have them — not that I know of, at least. But you know who does? One in ten Americans. ONE IN TEN. It's the fourth most under-diagnosed condition in the United States.
Now, I know what you're saying, besides "someone needs to do something about this extra nipple epidemic." How do the extra nipples I don't have explain my disappearing for months on end?
They don't. At all actually. It's the fact that I know about these kind of things now: That's what helps explain why I disappeared. I'm sure people have a use for this kind of trivia. Game show contestants. Dermatologists. Plastic surgeons. Extra nipple fetishists. People with extra nipples. I'm none of these. I'm a budget analyst by day a pseudo-artist by evening. When people like me not only start watching House but find themselves able to follow the medical jargon and occasionally catch errors in the script … something's gone wrong.
And there we have it. Something has gone wrong, and for lack of a better explanation, that's why I went AWOL.
People blog at least on some level out of an urge to share — and usually, sharing is good. But not always. (Sharing needles is bad. Sharing state secrets: also bad. ) See, the good share/bad share thing gets tricky when something you'd rather not share starts to take over major parts of your life. It's hard not to talk about it. And when it's something you'd rather not talk about, sometimes it's easier not to talk at all. And so … I stopped talking. But I reckon that can't be to healthy.
So I'm going to spit it all out and be done with it — if not forever, for long enough to pick back up and get to blogging about OTHER stuff for a while.
I've had a fever for about seven months now. It's mild, usually 99.5 or so, but it's persistent. After a couple weeks, it'll go away for a few days, a week if I'm lucky … but it always comes back.
I doubt I'd have noticed the fever if other things hadn't made me think to take my temperature: Nausea, stomach trouble. Pain — just the abdomen at first, but lately the chest sometimes too. Randomly achey joints. Deep, pulsating headaches that get worse when I lie down. Hives. Rashes. General fatigue, malaise. Sometimes, when I stand up, I'll get disoriented and my vision blacks out around the edges.
Shitting blood. Night sweats.
You know, the usual.
Since June, I've seen three gastroenterologists and a rheumatologist. I've been admitted to the ER three times. I've had two CAT scans, two colonoscopies, an upper endoscopy, and enough blood tests to single-handedly cover a lab tech's salary. At one point, I even ruptured a lung … we think. The medical term is "spontaneous pneumomediastinum", which is diagnostic speak for "those aren't your lungs!" Basically, I somehow managed to get air stuck in the middle of my chest and up in my neck. Good rule of thumb, for the record — if the question you googled is "Why does it feel like there are pop rocks in my neck", the answer is always GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL.
If you know me, you know something's been seriously distracting me — I LET TWO COLONOSCOPIES PASS WITHOUT BLOGGING A SINGLE POOP JOKE. NOT ONE.
Apart from high white blood counts and some other transiently odd but medically insignificant labs, no one's been able to fumble their way into any kind of explanation. One doctor found a vitamin D deficiency, but everyone North of the Mason-Dixon line has that. My heart rate's always a little too high, and my blood pressure's more bipolar than my moods have ever been. Other tests have shown signs here and there suggesting inflammation, but it could easily be stress.
It's gotten to the point where I'm actually frustrated when I don't have a fever — because the fever's one of the only things you can point to to prove something's wrong. When it goes away, I start to wonder if anything's wrong in the first place. But hell, if that's the case, my head can't be in great shape … so I'm still sick, right?Sick with the crazy, or crazy sick. One of the two.
Either way, that's the last you'll here from me on the hospital front for a while. Something about declaring "DUDE, I HAVE BEEN FEELING LIKE HELL" feels really cathartic. End vent. Back to crafts and stuff, ya'll. New creations forthcoming.
* My blood. Because I'm a klutz. DEFINITELY not because I'm harvesting organs.
** Would I really rather clean than go to a happy hour? Yeah. Thanks to a couple years standing in front of my ex's guitar amp in cacophonic bars, I'm pretty much deaf at high decibels. Since I quit drinking, the remaining appeal in a happy hours comes from conversation — and for me, having a conversation in a noisy bar is like watching a foreign film without subtitles. Even if I can kind of tell what's going on, I have no idea what anyone's saying.


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It seems amazing that the universe could be characterised by a mere six numbers, yet, according to Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, this is the case. He makes an excellent case for the necessity of these numbers, though he does not show that they are the only numbers we need.
Bill Bryson - he's a travel writer isn't he? He goes places and writes about them, tells amusing anecdotes about things he sees and people he meets, making his readers laugh at the same time as teaching them something about the places he visits?
The Code Book on CD-ROM, by author Simon Singh and designer Nick Mee, is the interactive version of the best-selling book of the same title. Singh has already shown in The Code Book and Fermat's Last Theorem that he is an excellent communicator, able to explain complex ideas without using obscure jargon. But while the main achievement of The Code Book is to make codes and ciphers intelligible to everybody, the CD goes further and allows you to become a code builder and code breaker yourself. You will find yourself first turning into a code builder, fearful of being cracked, and then into a dedicated code breaker, following tips on how to crack the ciphers.
The Four Colour Theorem - the statement that four colours suffice to fill in any map so that neighbouring countries are always coloured differently - has had a long and controversial history. It was first conjectured 150 years ago, and finally (and infamously) proved in 1976 with much of the work done by a computer. The published proof relied on checking 1432 special cases, which took more than 1,000 hours of computer time.
Geometric dissection is the mathematical art of cutting figures into pieces that can be rearranged to form other figures, preferably using as few pieces as possible. You may already have come across puzzles such as the Aviary Tangram, the pieces of which can be used to form an egg, a chicken and many other shapes; but the ingenuity of the dissections shown here may still be a revelation to you, as they were to this reviewer.
George Szpiro has a most unusual day job for someone writing about the abstract world of pure mathematics. Although he first studied maths at university, he has been a political journalist now for a number of years, working as Israel correspondent for NZZ, a Swiss daily. He wrote this book at night, after the paper's deadline, and as it was being finished lost one of his closest friends in a suicide bombing. The contrast between sphere packings in three dimensions and his daytime subject material must often have struck him.

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I became a vegetarian for awhile after reading Bataille's Theory of Religion. I was very moved by the idea that we've gone from religions that took the whole earth into account to religions that made us masters of creation. Eventually free range and organic came along and that fit in with my beliefs so I'm back to being an omnivore. I feel like that by not being an omnivore I'm disrespecting the earth and the diet biologically I'm supposed to be eating. I want to be part of the circle of life. And I want to be mindful of it. I've never thought it wrong to eat an animal just wrong to disrespect it. I think factory farming disrespects animals and veggies and fruits too.
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I like Rowena, still mad my husband vetoed it. Isabella doesn't excite me (prefer Isabel) but it's nice.
The princesses:
Ashlyn - I like Aisling (ash-ling) but the -lyn suffix is more trailer than castle to me.
Blair - Pleasant but prefer Claire.
Courtney - I'm an '80s baby and I know for a fact Courtney used to be a friend of Skipper in Barbie-universe, I guess she got promoted!
Delia - Love this.
Edeline - I love most -line names but... this one is... hard to love.
Fallon - No.
Genevieve - Nice, fits the princess thing, pretty but I wouldn't personally use it probably.
Hadley - Ewwww.
Isla - Like it, but it doesn't say "princess" to me.
Janessa - I don't like Vanessa, and I don't like Janet, and I certainly don't like their baby.
Kathleen - Not princess-y, but nice. Underused compared to Katherine or all the Caitlin spellings, and I like Kitty and Kay as nicknames.
Lacey - Gosh, I hate this name so much.
April 8th, 2013 03:01 AM #8
i think its a bit of a weird collection of names.some are trendy classic or outdated.i think the producer needed to come on nb for some help.August John//Skandar Finn/Albert Igor/Samson Hugo/Dorothea Nim/Rani Jemima/Eimear Cosette/Olwen Eliora
Julia Robin/Margo Milena/Nadia Willow/Primrose Iola/Cosmea Ruth/Emeline Hope/Ottilie Rowena/Miriam Celeste
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Isabella sounds great but way over used right now
Rowena, I think I like...mainly because of a book I read. Not sure I would ever use it
Ashlyn Do not like
Blair Do not like
Courtney is OK
Delia Do not like
Edeline Eda what? Yuck
Fallon I really like this one
Genevieve is OK
Hadley HATE horrid name for a girl
Isla OK, a little odd
Janessa Funny! My mom wanted me to name my daughter this (21 years ago) I told her No Way. I still do not like it
Kathleen I have always liked this one
Lacey I have a niece in law with this name and I think it is a "nice" name. not in love with it
I agree with many of the berries here, not very "princessy" namesMom to:
Autumn Elizabeth
Patrick Alexander
Nicholas Ivan
Nana to
Jaime Mae Michelle
Nicholas Ivan II
Rylie Meshele
April 8th, 2013 08:38 AM #14
I always thought that they had very terrible names for princesses.
@whirlgig they should have!!〜Ebs〜
Isobel*Eloise*Matilda*Alice*Eleanor*Amelia*Elena* Mirabel* Felicity* Phoebe*Tallaulah*Eilidh*Rosalia*Roisin*Azalea*Elsa *
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Girls track and field: Irish third at Prior Lake
Shae Buchman and Sydney Hanson scored first-place finishes while leading the Rosemount girls track team to a third-place tie in its first official outdoor meet of the season last Thursday in Prior Lake. The Irish matched Burnsville with 57 points. The Host Lakers doubled up...
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The Rosemount girls lacrosse team was on both sides of a couple of lopsided final scores to start the season. The Irish fell behind 11-1 by halftime in a season-opening 17-2 loss to Farmington last Thursday at Tiger Stadium. Two days later, the team rebounded with a 17-1 rout...
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The Rosemount boys tennis team rode a sweep of four singles matches to a 4-3 win over Hastings in its first match of the season last Wednesday. Anshul Bharath set the pace at No. 1 singles with a 6-2, 6-3 victory. Matt Simmering, Sairam Sunkam and Gunnar Anderson also won in...
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April 16, 2014 - 1:15pm
Baseball: Pitchers propel Irish to 3-1
Three strong pitching performances have propelled the Rosemount baseball team to its best start in five years. Ben Smith tossed a two-hit shutout in a 10-0 blanking of Eastview Monday night, moving the Irish to 3-1 after a busy stretch of four games in six days to start the...
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April 16, 2014 - 1:13pm
Softball: Irish drop opener, 2-1
Bad weather has postponed five of Rosemount's six attempts to get in a softball game over the last 13 days. The only day the Irish got on the field was last Wednesday when they lost a 2-1 pitcher's duel on the road at Burnsville. The Irish (0-1) managed just three...
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Boys track and field: Irish third at Prior Lake
The Rosemount boys track team officially began its outdoor season with a third-place finish in windy conditions last Tuesday at the Prior Lake Invite. The Irish scored 92 points to finish right in the middle of the five-team field. Prior Lake outscored Blaine 126 ½-96 ½ for...
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Grim, Otterdahl named Lions Club Award finalists
Rosemount seniors Payton Otterdahl and Hannah Grim have been selected as finalists for the St. Paul Downtown Lions Club Amateur Athletes of the Year Awards. Finalists will be honored at a luncheon at the Prom Center in Oakdale May 20. Grim will attend Marquette University on...
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April 9, 2014 - 10:15am
Boys tennis preview: Three bring Irish singles experience
Rosemount boys tennis struggled as a team last spring, winning just one game in South Suburban Conference play, but a group of returning players should give the Irish a solid foundation to build around this season. The Irish return both of their players who advanced through...
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Grim selected to All-Star basketball team
Rosemount basketball player Hannah Grim is one of 40 seniors who has been selected to play in the Minnesota Girls Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Game April 26 at Carleton College in Northfield. Games will be played at 1 and 3 p.m. at Carleton College's West Gym. Grim...
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The several inches of snow that fell on Tiger Stadium last Friday melted just in the nick of time. Warm weather over the weekend, and a little bit of shoveling, cleared most of the track, and allowed the Farmington and Rosemount track teams to make their outdoor debuts in a...
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A pair of juniors won events for the Rosemount girls track team at last Wednesday's Grade Level Showcase indoor meet at St. Thomas. Chella Maltese bested the runner-up finisher by over two feet with a winning toss of 32 feet in the shot put. Teammate Liz Evenocheck won just...
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The way head coach Jeff Smith sees it, his Rosemount girls lacrosse team was more competitive last season than its 2-12 record would indicate. Among the team's 12 losses were games decided by scores of 16-15, 16-14, 15-12 and 13-11. Three others were decided by five goals...
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Losing a few key players to graduation hasn't stopped Rosemount from consistently fielding very competitive lacrosse teams over the last few years. It doesn't look like this year will be any different. Seven seniors helped the Irish to their fourth straight 10-win season...
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Betty P 2011 May 12 10:06AM
I know that a lot of the newer churches have done away with Sunday School altogether and have gone to small groups. Why not have a classroom setting Bible study other days and call it something besides Sunday school? I love the idea of learning about the Bible and teaching it... but to be honest, some of us would rather leave it at that. Small groups can get too touchy feely with people sharing marital problems and whatnot... count me out of that. But a good Bible class with discussion? Can't beat it. Has anyone tried Sunday School on other days of the week?
jmillerkelley 2011 May 12 10:34AM
I think both Bible study and more relationship-focused groups are valuable, and there's honestly more overlap than you realize. Most small groups do a Bible study or book study together as part of their fellowship, so what's wrong with that?
If you're worried that small groups meeting in homes will be the downfall of serious Christian education, I don't think classes will ever totally go away, but building connections with others is also extremely important. I think it's a great trend, and since it's a mark of vibrant, growing churches, I think it shows it's a real felt need for people.
Betty P 2011 May 12 10:57AM
I'm not against fellowship, just the group therapy sessions and whine-fests. That's why I've almost stopped going to UMW-- you can only take so much of that sort of thing in a public setting. Bible study is important, and so is prayer-- but if you share too many personal things in a group of people, the prayer chain is activated and everyone gets on the phone-- but most of them tell everyone but God! You said that home groups are a felt need for people. I'd love to see a Gallup poll on that. I bet a lot of men are turned off by the typical small group. I'm a lifelong Methodist and sister, believe me, I could give you an education on the United Methodist Church.
phatBartimaeus 2011 May 12 12:12PM
For sure, what a disaster that 'small group' idea would undoubtedly turn out to be. Heck we wouldn't want to do anything crazy like getting real with each other or anything.
Whew! That was a close call.
Dawn Cherie 2011 May 12 1:22PM
As a graduate student, I think small groups are essential. Students are so transitory, that it can be difficult to establish fellowship both at your home church -- where you are gone for most of the year -- and at school where roughly 25% of the congregration moves away each year. I love being connected to a group that forces me to get to know people on a personal level. I do not think a cut-and-dry Bible study/Sunday school would help me to grow in my faith as much as my small group experiences have. Small groups are where, in addition to biblical study, I get a sense of being part of a community of believers, and where I am challenged to dig in and love my neighbors.
Betty P 2011 May 12 1:55PM
I wasn't trying to raise a fuss, just share what I see are weaknesses of small groups. Yes we need to have community and be real with others, but I for one don't want all of my personal business on the six o'clock news. Plus, if people aren't careful, small groups can become a case of the blind leading the blind.
phatBartimaeus 2011 May 12 2:26PM
So, i guess this ( http://ow.ly/4Tlzi ) is what you have in mind, eh? ;-)
No one is trying to say that doing small group well is easy, just saying it's really important, even crucial.
by God's grace only...
Rev-Kev 2011 May 16 10:14AM
I agree with some of Betty's points. Some small groups I've been to are too inwardly focused. Rather than rehashing our own issues, maybe we should focus on those outside our group? Fighting poverty and injustice through awareness and service projects are much more important than sitting around in someone's living room navel-gazing.
twbe 2011 May 17 9:58AM
So I see this as being about covenant.
Maybe it's not a formal covenant. Maybe it's a mutually understood and unspoken set of groundings and boundaries for what the group will or will not do.
But every group needs one. And once there are rules or boundaries, the group needs to be accountable to living the rules and defending the boundaries, else what Betty describes may be the inevitable outcome.
This applies to Sunday School classes to, by the way. If the class is there to study and learn, and not primarily to "fellowship," then the majority of the in-class time should be devoted to that activity. Otherwise, it won't happen.
Small groups are not created equal. Different kinds of groups do different things, with different levels of accountability, intimacy, study, project orientation, etc. Kevin Watson put up an excellent post on small groups that I highly recommend. You can find it here: http://is.gd/9uO7bh
pitcheng 2011 May 18 8:17PM
Betty, The problem isn't small group versus Sunday school. It's that the people of the group don't have the same goal.
I ran into this as a Sunday school teacher. I had a class that didn't want to do any Bible study. They wanted strictly the social aspect of the group. It created a lot of battles.
However, in the same church, I've taught other Sunday school classes and led small groups that were extremely study based. In many instances, the groups were made up of some of the same people from the first Sunday school class!
Let the church know what you are looking for and see if can create a group that meets those needs.
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Quality looks to be good this year as well, thanks to the good weather.
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Novell Alliance with VMware and Preview of SLES 11
An alliance is forming between virtualization providers Novell and VMware with a strategy for teamwork. At the same time Novell is providing a glimpse of its upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) version 11.
On February 17 Linux Magazine covered Red Hat's virtualization agreement with Microsoft, followed shortly thereafter with Red Hat's vision for its new virtualization products. Now Citrix has gone into a pact with Microsoft to announce its free Citrix Xen Enterprise Server.
Not wanting to be left behind, Novell is now collaborating with VMware. The two partners are working to allow independent vendor redistribution of virtual appliances built on SLES. ISVs can use WMware Studio to build an appliance optimised for the VMware ESX platform. Novell sees VMware Studio as a complement to its own SUSE Studio for SLES applications. One of the first ISV implementors is Zmanda, which will "soon" produce an open source backup appliance as part of VMware's Virtual Appliance Marketplace. Novell and VMware plan a further collaborative project on their own virtual appliance variant. The cooperative agreement extends also to common support and marketing, alternately for VMware ESX and SLES.
Meanwhile completion of Novell's SLES version 11 is in high gear. SLES 11 should provide some new system management capabilities and improved power management, including control groups that allow more granular handling of CPU, memory, storage and network resources. Power management solutions include tickless idle to allow the CPU to remain longer in power-saving states. A fast update stack could jack up SLES performance by accelerating the resolution dependencies "by over 100 times," making applications easier to run. Systems should also deploy faster through improvements to the YaST manager and configuration framework, including the YaST partitioner and AutoYaST.
Users wanting to test SLES 11 before the official release end of March can order the Server version as well as the Desktop (SLED) alpha version from Novell's sneak preview website.
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Vibe CD - Relive and Renew
Out now through Vibe Hotels and SonyBMG "Sounds to relive & renew", an album of 37 original and lavish tracks that will stop you in yours.
After chart topping success and combined sales of almost 20,000 copies for the first two Vibe CD releases, the latest CD, "sounds to relive & renew" has been created and is possibly the greatest mix since gin met tonic!
The record features the talents and vocals of musicians and singers that are world renowned and admired. Coldplay, The Killers, Groove Armada, and Moby are a few that feature on this album. This quality album is the perfect soundtrack to pump you up before you head out and to chill out when you get home.
Warm-up with the uplifting tracks from disc one featuring Fatboy Slim, The Black Eyed Peas and TV Rock. Then cool down and chill out with some smooth beats on disc two including Ben Lee, The Audrey's, Angus & Julia Stone as well as Lily Allen.
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You could argue the Ford Mondeo didn't need its recent face-lift – it was still one of the best family cars around. But useful improvements have been made to the latest car, not least the 161bhp engine. This version of the 2.0 Tdci combines plentiful punch with strong economy and low emissions. With 251lb.ft of torque, there's plenty of muscle to cope with any suitable match, as the 30-60mph time of 12.8 seconds shows.
Our test car matched this engine to the Powershift gearbox. From a driver's perspective, Powershift behaves like an automatic gearbox, although it uses clutches rather than an auto's torque convertor for greater efficiency and improved economy. According to official figures you can expect 50.4mpg on the combined cycle. We found Powershift to rival a good auto for smoothness.
The Mondeo stops as well as it goes. In the 30 0mph brake test it needed just 9.8 metres to come to a halt – one of the shortest stoppingdistances we recorded this year. Apart from a slight tendency to follow road contours, our driving judges were very satisfied with the Mondeo's stability, right up to the legal limit and beyond.
Sharp and informative steering was a driver's ally in the lane-change test. However ragged the caravan became behind it, the Mondeo continued to go where it was pointed.
There's plenty of room in the cabin, and luggage space is cavernous. We'd like more comprehensive towing info in the handbook, however.
A brilliant estate, as well as a swift and secure towcar.
Until now SSangYong has offered big cars with little price tags, but too many rough edges. The Korando promises the same value but with fewer compromises. If this two-wheel-drive model is anything to go by Ssangyong is part-way there.
The steering has an over-strong self-centring action and the engine is noisy, but otherwise the Korando makes a decent towcar. Straightline stability stands comparison with many more expensive cars, and the 30-60mph time of 13.1 seconds shows that while the engine may be noisy, it's not short of pulling power. The 30-0mph stopping distance of 10.8 metres is on the money, too.
Pushed hard through the lane-change test the Korando was less assured, as the stabilitycontrol cut in suddenly at high speeds whenever the outfit got out of shape. It's a mixed picture inside the cabin.
There's plenty of space but the finish still feels downmarket. There's 486 litres of luggage space – not quite enough for every item in our test load of holiday luggage but not far off. The handbook has useful information on towing, and we're pleased the Korando has a full-sized spare.
The Peugeot 5008 is one of our favourite seven-seat MPVs. The combination of powerful diesel engine and smooth-shifting auto gearbox adds to the car's appeal. It's the same engine used by the class-winning Ford Mondeo, and performance is similar, pulling from 30-60mph in 14.2 seconds.
Strong brakes stop the outfit from 30mph in just 10.2 metres. The electronic parking brake makes starting and stopping on a steep hill less nervy, holding the outfit steady at the touch of a button. The 5008 pulled up the slope in first gear and reverse without complaint. With the back seats folded our holiday luggage fitted in, but the towing electrics are hard to get at.
Last year's class winner was still on the shortlist when the judges debated this year's result. The huge cabin is the Skoda's stand-out feature. There's more passenger space than in the Ford Mondeo, and we loaded all our holiday gear with space to spare.
However, it took a very firm pull before the handbrake would hold the outfit on the 1-in-6 test hill, although there was no problem driving uphill in first gear or reverse.
The Superb performed well, hauling the caravan from 30-60mph in just 12.3 seconds. although stable, it didn't quite match the Mondeo in the lane change test, and isn't quite as solid at speeds over 60mph.
Estate cars with four-wheel drive may be niche products, but it's a niche worth exploring if you tour all year round.
The Subaru outback is a sound choice, albeit rather a pricey one. There's plenty of passenger room, and 526 litres of luggage space with the back seats upright. We found space for most, but not all, of our holiday luggage.
Soft suspension offers a comfortable ride, but it does the Subaru no favours in the lanechange test. The 'van pulled the car off course at speeds that the best cars in this class coped with easily.
The electronic parking brake held the outfit on the 1-in-6 slope, but rather a lot of revs and clutch slip were needed to climb the hill.
The Mercedes c250 cdi is quick, even with a tonne-and-a-half of tourer to haul. It took just 10.2 seconds to go from 30-60mph. The brakes are just as strong, stopping the outfit from 30mph in 10.2 metres on a damp track.
Power counts for little without control, but the c-class was stable at speed, with little movement recorded by the al-Ko aTc sensors. However, in the lane-change test on faster runs the driver felt the 'van pull at the back of the car.
The hill start was straightforward, whether forwards or backwards. Our practicality judge couldn't find room for all our luggage, but was impressed by the handbook.
The Mitsubishi ASX is a solid enough effort, but isn't special enough to challenge the best cars in this class.
The ASX earns middling scores pretty much across the board. The 1.8-litre diesel has 221lb.ft of torque – enough muscle to pull car and caravan from 30-60mph in 16.8 seconds – and happily pulled up to 70mph. There is an intrusive whistle from the turbo at times, though.
Better-controlled suspension would make the aSX a more relaxing car to tow with. The lack of finesse was noticeable in the lane-change test, although the aSX was untidy rather than ragged. The handbrake struggled to hold the outfit on a 1-in-6 slope. It took a really firm pull to stop car and caravan slowly sliding backwards.
The ASX pulled up the slope cleanly enough in first gear, although some judges found the clutch began to whiff after reversing up the hill. driven solo, the ASX puts the emphasis on comfort rather than alert handling. Keen drivers should look elsewhere. There's enough head- and legroom, front and rear, and luggage space is reasonable. our practicality judge found room for most, but not all, of our holiday luggage, and also noted the towing electrics were fiddly to connect.
A solid effort – but there are better towcars for similar money.
The Peugeot 508 SW is one of the best family estate cars. It's a capable towcar, too. The 2.0 Hdi engine musters 240lb.ft of torque – enough for determined acceleration, even when towing. The 30-60mph sprint took 16.6 seconds.
If you need to stop in a hurry, the brakes are reassuring. car and caravan came to a halt in just 10.5 metres, and felt stable. The same could be said of the 508 in the lane-change test. Although the caravan moved around behind it, the Peugeot wasn't pulled off course.
Relatively firm suspension means bad road surfaces are felt more than if you are driving, say, a Volkswagen Passat, but the Peugeot is far from uncomfortable. Anyone riding in the back will find there's less legroom than in a Passat or Ford Mondeo, but only tall passengers will complain. There's plenty of room for your feet if you're sitting in the middle.
Our practicality judge was pleased to find room for all our holiday luggage in the 512-litre boot. Folding the back seats ups the capacity to 1,598 litres – not as big as some, but enough for most needs. The £24,325 price is competitive. Because the 508 SW is new to the market, haggling probably won't save more than a few hundred pounds.
Judged Purely on its towing ability, the Volvo S60 was close to the top of most judges' score sheets. The S60 is as stable as they come. The al-Ko aTc sensors recorded almost no movement from the 'van, even when slowing from 70mph.
Through the lane-change the Volvo refused to be bullied by the tourer, although the stability control did kick in earlier than with many rivals. It's a quick car, too. driven solo, the engine's 309lb.ft of torque makes short work of any overtaking opportunity. even towing, you won't be stuck behind slower traffic for long.
Be prepared to turn up the stereo, though, as the engine is gruff and noisy when worked hard. That's a shame, because otherwise the Volvo is a quiet enough car for long drives. It's comfortable, too. The driving position is sound and there's enough space for tall drivers to stretch out. rear-seat space is comparable with the Mercedes c-class. The boot didn't have space for all our holiday luggage. Our practicality judge was also disappointed that the towing electrics were fiddly to access. However, the Volvo scored well for having a Towing Stability Programme.
The Peugeot Starts off at a disadvantage because of its low towing limit. A maximum of 1300kg is well below the 85% match figure, and rules out many family caravans.
That's disappointing, because otherwise the Peugeot has many positive points. One judge described it as "supremely practical". The tall body provides great headroom, and there's plenty of storage space dotted around the cabin. The boot is huge, swallowing our holiday luggage with ease. We're also pleased that it comes with a full-size spare wheel.
The van-like appearance might not promise much fun for the driver, but the Partner Tepee is surprisingly good to drive, so long as you're not in a rush – foot on the floor, it needed 21.7 seconds to go from 30-60mph with a 'van in tow. Along with more poke, better brakes would also be welcome. The stopping distance of 11.3 metres is mediocre on a dry track. In the lane-change test, the 'van was soon swaying around behind the Peugeot, but it was only at high speeds that the back of the car was pulled off-line.
The Hdi 112 outdoor isn't cheap, but it is the top-spec model. Generous discounts knock about £2,000 off the asking price.
You might expect a Volvo estate to be one of the most practical cars in this year's tests, but the V60 places style before practicality. It took all our holiday luggage, but only after some very careful packing when most mid-sized estates had room to spare.
Compared with the d5 saloon, the d3 has noticeably less muscle – it took around 15.6 seconds to pull car and caravan from 30-60mph. Strong brakes stopped car and caravan in 10.7 metres from 30mph.
Through the lane-change test the V60 put in a textbook performance, without any aggressive intervention from the stability control system. In strong crosswinds the Volvo moved around a little at 60mph and needed some steering corrections, but on less windy days it felt secure and steady.
The electronic parking brake held the outfit steady on the 1-in-6 test hill. Although the Volvo pulled up the hill without fuss in first gear, it was a little laboured in reverse and the clutch did smell afterwards. The list price of this version stays just that side of £30,000, although it should be possible to persuade Volvo dealers to knock about £2,000 from the price.


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George Aye and Sara Cantor Aye want to help improve the experience of using mass transit in the Chicago area, and they are appealing for your participation.
The husband and wife team last year opened the Greater Good Studio, a Chicago firm that uses design methods to solve social problems. Sara Aye, an innovator and educator, is research director at Greater Good Studio, and George Aye, who formerly was lead designer at the Chicago Transit Authority, is the firm's design director.
The couple said they believe that people are fully capable of creating their own solutions to problems, but it takes certain tools, and research, to make it happen.
A new project they recently launched, with the goal of making the mass transit system work better for commuters, starts by asking riders to pay attention to signs and posters and to listen to announcements — and identify other cues — as they ride buses and trains.
A signal that a CTA rider who sometimes missed his stop found useful was the sun shining into his train between buildings in the morning as the train rounded a certain curve in the tracks, signaling to that sleepy commuter that it was time to start heading toward the doors, George Aye said.
Wouldn't it be great, Aye said, if there were a cellphone app that performed the same function, especially on cloudy days? Or how about a commute-planning app that tells CTA Red Line riders on the North Side whether the Cubs are playing at Wrigley Field that day?
Today's existing transit tools — like CTA Bus and Train Tracker, transit websites operated by CTA, Metra and Pace, email alerts informing riders about service changes and commercial transit-related apps — represent bare-bones components of what commuters need and want, according to the Ayes, who last week won a prestigious design award called The City 2.0 award from TED.
There is the potential for offering much more to help transit customers know where they are and to get them where they're going, they said.
So instead of experts observing transit riders and essentially scratching the surface by inferring what basic information they might find useful, the project invites riders to become the researchers — they're called "urban agents" — to help design a bottomless toolbox for navigating potentially each moment of the transit experience.
"We are engaging lots of different people from all over Chicago and the rest of the world to help us create what will be ultimately the mother of all transit apps," Sara Aye said.
Holly Swyers, a Lake Forest College professor who lives in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood, is an urban agent. Her major complaint about current transit apps and information is that not enough specific guidance is provided.
Swyers, 41, commutes to Lake Forest on the Metra Union Pacific North Line, sometimes bringing her bicycle.
"If you are a bike rider, you kind of have to learn through osmosis what to do with your bike on the train," Swyers said. "And you don't know until you are on the platform and the train arrives whether there will be room for bikes."
She would welcome a transit tool that uses real-time information to answer that question.
Urban agent volunteers can sign up at http://designingchicago.com/sign-up.
Here's what is requested of urban agents: When you notice yourself using a transit tool, take a picture and email it to email@example.com. Name it in the subject line of the email. Then, answer these questions: What information is this tool giving you? Why are you using it right now? What's helpful about it? What information do you really want to know that this tool isn't giving you?
The purpose is to learn about missing information that commuters would like to know and that current transit tools aren't providing. Later in the process, volunteers will be asked to do other tasks, including going somewhere where they haven't been on transit before.
The final step, which the Ayes expect to occur next year, will be to design the new transit app.
"We want to create an app that helps people to actually not just have an easier commute, but maybe even have a more enjoyable commute, a more integrated commute, maybe one where they trust their transit and believe in their city," Sara Aye said.
Commuter Dave Sonders is all in favor of those goals. The 15-year Chicago resident and his wife recently moved in with family in Crystal Lake on a temporary basis while their new home in the city is being renovated.
Sonders, 35, who says he is a big fan of the CTA, has experienced a difficult learning curve on Metra.
Aside from having to learn the train schedules, Sonders said it took him three or four attempts to figure out the parking regimen — including memorizing his parking space number and entering it on the parking meter fee box — at the Pingree Road Metra station in Crystal Lake.
So he wouldn't miss his train on his first failed try, Sonders had to ask his father-in-law to drive to the station to pay the parking fee so his car would not be towed, he said.
A parking app that would allow park-and-ride commuters to drive into the Metra lot and have the fee paid through a process similar to the Illinois Tollway's open-road tolling is badly needed, said Sonders, who is also an urban agent in the project.
"There is no reason we have the current system with all its frustrations and expensive infrastructure like remote parking pay boxes," Sonders said. "Everybody carries around their own infrastructure in a smartphone or in a smart credit card. Using an app, that's the only terminal you should need."
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