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NEC EA244UHD Reviewby Chris Heinonen on August 7, 2014 2:30 PM EST
Meet the NEC EA244UHD
The NEC EA244UHD is the first UltraHD (UHD) monitor from NEC. While it's not from their professional line, it has many of the features we've come to expect in their monitors: uniformity compensation, a wider color gamut but also sRGB and AdobeRGB support, and many user configurable settings. It also has a few things NEC has never done before including SpectraView calibration support on an EA-series model and full USB 3.0.
The EA244UHD is also loaded when it comes to connectivity. There are dual DisplayPort 1.2 inputs, HDMI, HDMI with MHL, and dual DVI (but these are only single link). I wish there was a Mini DisplayPort input like Dell has on their UHD displays, but there are still enough inputs here for anyone. With so many inputs, the NEC can display a single input at once, two side-by-side (with auto-expansion), three at once, or even four where each gets a FullHD 1920x1080 area. The Auto-Expansion mode allows you to customize the width of one half of the display and the other half automatically adjusts. There is also a USB 3.0 hub with three USB 3.0 ports, and as a sign that someone is listening to comments, the headphone jack is on the side of the display instead of the bottom or rear, where it is easy to access. Hooray for small victories!
One difference with the NEC EA244UHD compared to other UHD monitors so far is that it defaults to MST being enabled for DisplayPort 1.2. With other UHD monitors I have had issues where MST would stop working, or the monitor would not come out of sleep. The NEC is designed to drop out of MST mode if a display card doesn't support it, but I can't test this since all my video cards do support MST. I'm not certain if MST always working correctly on the NEC is because it is enabled by default, or because video drivers have been updated since the last display to fix the problem. Whatever the reason, the NEC EA244UHD works at 60Hz without a problem.
The backlight of the EA244UHD is a G-B LED one as we have seen on other displays. This allows for a larger color gamut than traditional white LEDs but the lower power use and heat output of LEDs compared to CCFL backlights. Built into the EA244UHD are preset modes for the sRGB gamut, AdobeRGB gamut, DICOM (medical imaging), and the Native Gamut. There is also a Programmable mode, which relies on the SpectraView II software to calibrate the display.
Also in the menu system are a few more custom NEC features. The Human Sensor detects when you are at your desk and keeps the monitor on. If you're away for a defined period of time, it will turn off. Yes, you can use the power options to do this, but there might be reasons you don't want to do that and you can accomplish it here. The Uniformity option increases panel uniformity at the expense of maximum brightness. I always test with this on as the maximum brightness is still bright enough for almost anyone and the uniformity really does improve.
If you want to hook up more than one NEC monitor, you can chain up to six of them together. Doing so will let you adjust the brightness, mode, and other settings from a single unit. (This is just in case you need six UltraHD displays, because that sounds nice.) NEC also ships the EA244UHD fully assembled, including a stand with height, tilt, and pivot adjustments. NEC is using a new air-packing method for this display, which is a nice change from the styrofoam most people use. It weighs less, is easy to reuse and recycle, and makes no mess. Those that test 15-18 monitors a year like myself really like to see this, and I hope more vendors follow this method of packaging.
|Video Inputs
|2x DisplayPort
1x HDMI/MHL
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x Single-Link DVI
|Panel Type
|Pixel Pitch
|1.07 Billion
|350 cd/m2
|Contrast Ratio
|Response Time
|6ms GtG
|Viewable Size
|Viewing Angle (H/V)
|178 / 178
|Power Consumption (operation)
|Power Consumption (standby)
|Screen Treatment
|Yes, 5.1"
|VESA Wall Mounting
|Yes, 100mm VESA
|Dimensions w/ Base (WxHxD)
|22.0" x 15.2" x 8.6"
|19.2 lbs.
|Additional Features
|3.5mm stereo out, ControlSync, 3x USB 3.0
|Limited Warranty
|3 year
|DisplayPort Cable, ControlSync Cable, USB 3.0 Cable
|$1,366 online
DPI: Too High?
The real question with a 24" UltraHD display is how well can you see/use it at native resolution? To me, it's simply not usable at 3840x2160 resolution without DPI scaling. If you want to try and use it at this resolution you can, but I imagine you will stop after a short period of time. Scaled to 150% (or 2560x1440, which OS X Yosemite also supports as an option) it is easy to read and use everything. With applications that support DPI scaling correctly, like Lightroom, you can also have elements that are scaled while images utilize all the pixels that UHD offers.
Talking to NEC, they also realize that most people will be scaling images on the display. One issue, beyond OS support, is that applications that use custom UI elements take more work to improve for HiDPI and UltraHD displays. Those applications that only use standard OS elements (normal menus, no icons or images like Photoshop or Paint.NET) can migrate to supporting HiDPI far more easily.
There are many areas where UHD displays, even a smaller 24" one, are very valuable for their larger screen area. Content creation, including images and videos, can utilize the extra space. Financial users, who always want as much data on hand as they can have, are another large market. NEC includes DICOM support so the UHD display works for examining x-rays in as much detail as possible.
As I mentioned before, SpectraView II now works with the EA-series displays starting with the EA244UHD. Compared to the PA-series there are a few limitations to what SpectraView can do. It will calibrate the grayscale and color using the internal LUTs, but your only color gamut target is native. Since the EA244UHD has a large gamut that covers AdobeRGB, this causes issues. SpectraView II will create an ICC profile that lets ICC-aware applications see colors perfectly, but non-ICC applications will have a blown-out gamut. Since the EA244UHD also has an sRGB emulation mode, you can still use non-ICC applications and get an accurate gamut, but you must do so without calibration.
SpectraView II also now supports the BT.1886 gamma curve that is becoming more common in home theater use. One feature I was hoping to see, but NEC says will not be there, is support for 4:2:0 chroma subsampling over HDMI. Since HDMI 2.0 chipsets are just now becoming available, fitting a 60Hz UltraHD signal into the HDMI 1.4 bandwidth requires use of this chroma subsampling. For video content this is perfectly fine, Blu-ray and DVD content has always used it, and some vendors have used it with HDMI 1.4 chipsets. The NEC does not so the highest refresh rate you can achieve with an UltraHD signal over HDMI is 30Hz.
Brightness and Contrast
For all of the measurements I enabled the display uniformity option. This can reduce brightness and contrast ratio, but it also produces a more uniform image which I believe is worth the tradeoff. Given the target for the EA244UHD I feel most people would also leave this enabled.
The maximum light output with this enabled is only 269 cd/m2. Setting the backlight to minimum drops this all the way down to 16 cd/m2. This is a very wide range but it's not incredibly bright. Most people using the EA244UHD probably have some sort of light control but if you don't, bright sunlight will wash it out pretty well.
With an IPS panel and uniformity compensation, black levels are what I expect to see from an NEC display. They are okay but not excellent. NEC could improve these by using a VA-panel, but that leads to sacrifices in off-angle viewing. Instead of uniformity compensation, NEC could use some sort of dimming system to improve blacks, but those almost always harm image quality.
Due to those so-so black levels we get a contrast ratio right around 750:1. IPS panels can do 1,000:1 or almost 1,200:1 now, but not with the uniformity compensation feature. When we look at display uniformity later we can see if this is worth the tradeoff that NEC has made.
This section could have been copied almost verbatim from any other NEC monitor review I have done. The EA244UHD isn't as bright or punchy as other IPS displays, but it might offer better uniformity because of it. This is the compromise NEC has always made before, and in the past it has proven to be worthwhile.
sRGB Test Bench
The NEC EA244UHD has a built-in sRGB mode that is used for all of these measurements. SpectraView II can only calibrate the NEC to native gamut and while CalMAN 5.3.5 can use ICC-aware patterns for doing measurements, we do not use that option. Most programs are not ICC-aware and we want to show the most real-world performance that we can.
200 cd/m2
80 cd/m2
|White Level ( cd/m2)
|Black Level ( cd/m2)
|Contrast Ratio
|Gamma (Average)
|Color Temperature
|Grayscale dE2000
|Color Checker dE2000
|Saturations dE2000
The sRGB mode has a slightly red tint to the grayscale that gets worse as you get closer to 100% white. The gamma has a larger issue with it falling below 2.0 past 70% and giving us an average gamma of 2.06. Even with this gamma issue the color checker has a very good average error of 2.21 and the saturations error is only 2.42. The largest issue we see is actually the 100% white error, and this is something that calibration can usually correct quite easily.
As expected, calibrating to 200 cd/m2 using CalMAN gives us an RGB balance that is almost perfectly flat. The gamma drops down a bit at the end, but I expect we will see this happen more as I move to 256-point readings instead of 21-point. If I drop the readings back down to 21 it looks virtually perfect, so I wouldn't worry. The grayscale dE2000 has an average of 1.0, so it is very good.
Color saturations are not adjusted, but the luminance is adjusted because of the improved gamma after calibration. This lets the color checker error fall to 0.79 on average and the saturations error fall to 0.77. Both of these are incredibly good and it means you won't see any flaws when using the NEC EA244UHD after calibration. The contrast ratio takes a small hit from correcting 100% white, but not a major one.
Calibrating for the sRGB gamma and 80 cd/m2 also produces results that are very good. They are not as good as at 200 cd/m2 but are still good. I included gamma using both 21-point and 256-point charts so you can see the difference it makes in reporting. I don't see this gamma issue past 90% that the chart indicates, but I also don't do much work with nearly-white images. Overall these results are great and only look not-great when compared to the 200 cd/m2 ones.
I wish that SpectraView II could calibrate the gamut of the EA244UHD for sRGB but it doesn't need it. If you own the hardware that can calibrate it you can use software like CalMAN or DispCalGUI and get fantastic results.
AdobeRGB Test Bench
Pre-calibration the NEC AdobeRGB preset is still good but not great. Unlike sRGB the grayscale has a blue-tint instead of a red one. The gamma has the same roll-off in it, and I expect we will see this a lot going forward. Color Checker and Saturations are both very good pre-calibration with most of the issues at the lower light output levels due to some gamma issues. The color points also seem to indicate that we have the full AdobeRGB gamut here.
200 cd/m2
80 cd/m2
|White Level ( cd/m2)
|Black Level ( cd/m2)
|Contrast Ratio
|Gamma (Average)
|Color Temperature
|Grayscale dE2000
|Color Checker dE2000
|Saturations dE2000
Post-calibration at 200 cd/m2 the grayscale moves to being almost perfect. The gamma is very flat and virtually every grayscale point has a dE2000 below 2.0. The color checker average has fallen to 0.644 and the saturations dE2000 has fallen to 0.77 on average. Again the post-calibration numbers for 200 cd/m2 are just about perfect.
Calibrating to 80 cd/m2 the results are just like sRGB: very good but not as good as 200 cd/m2. Everything is improved, from grayscale to colors, and it measures very well. There isn't too much to say when there aren't any large performance issues to be found.
Display Uniformity
As I mentioned earlier, I think giving up some contrast ratio to get better uniformity is worth it for the NEC EA244UHD. When you are a graphics professional, one of the major targets for NEC here, having what you see in one area of the monitor look the same as another section is essential.
NEC has delivered here with the EA244UHD as it has some of the best uniformity I have seen to date. On the white uniformity test, the largest error is +/- 6.8%. I usually consider 10% to be excellent and 15% to be good, so this is very good. It is a shift that is barely visible to the naked eye, if visible at all. You really don't need to be concerned about the brightness uniformity.
Black Uniformity isn't as good due to a bright corner in the lower-left. The top of the screen is actually darker which lets it have a better contrast ratio, but the lower left is the main issue here. That's the only spot that is really bad so this is still good overall for black uniformity.
The contrast uniformity is very good overall except for the lower-left corner. Take that away and we see the main contrast issues is that it gets better at the top, not worse.
The big story is the color uniformity. Since this test includes the brightness and color gamut, it really measures everything at once. Here there is not a single point with a dE2000 over 2.0. You can see that everything is a dark green indicating almost perfect performance. What you see at the center of the screen, or anywhere else, is going to be the same as another point on the screen. This makes the NEC EA244UHD an ideal display for media work.
With these uniformity results I think the trade-off of contrast for uniformity is worthwhile. It might make the display worse for watching a movie, but it makes it much better for the kind of work that is going to be done on the NEC EA244UHD.
Color Gamut, Input Lag, and Power Use
Measuring the color gamut using our calibrated profiles, the NEC EA244UHD in sRGB emulation mode encompasses 67.2% of the AdobeRGB gamut. This is a little low but not by much. We also can't fix it since SpectraView II only lets us calibrate to Native gamut. In the AdobeRGB mode we see 92.9% coverage, which is also lower than expected.
Input lag is measured using the Leo Bodnar lag tester over HDMI. I agree that DisplayPort testing would be better, but with no CRT that can do 3840x2160 resolution to pair with it there is not much to be done about it. The EA244UHD lets you disable scaling, so we can measure if that plays any factor. It turns out that it doesn't make any change as the lag is 28ms with scaling enabled or disabled. This is almost 2 frames at 60Hz so it probably isn't suitable for hard core gamers, but it likely wasn't going to be anyway.
Power use is pretty high but might be typical of UltraHD panels. At maximum backlight the disaply uses 76 watts of power on a white screen and 25 watts at minimum power. This is much higher than other 24" monitors but we haven't seen any other UHD 24" monitors for comparison yet. You can find monitors that use less power, but not with this resolution.
Is a 24" UltraHD display worth it? Yes, you get a lot of pixels but they're almost impossible to use at native resolution. I know many commenters have said they are fine with a 24" UHD display, but I can't use it without scaling. I don't think many people can if you're sitting the usual 1.5-2' away from it. If you can, consider yourself lucky to have such good vision at this point in your life.
Running with everything scaled to a resolution of 2560x1440, the EA244UHD is much more usable. Text is very crisp and there is still lots of room for editing photos and other aspects where you want high resolution. Combine this with the uniformity performance of the EA244UHD and you have a display that might make a good deal of sense for content creators.
For the average person, I'm not as certain it makes as much sense. It is cheaper than the 32" UltraHD displays by a good margin, but it isn't as easy to use with the smaller image size. The Dell UP2414Q, which I haven't reviewed, is available for under $900 often now (and sometimes much less) and also has the AdobeRGB gamut. It also has USB 3.0, multiple inputs, and a LUT you can access to calibrate the gamut. However given the issues I had with the 32" model waking up from sleep, I'm more hesitant about this. Dell has supposedly solved many of these problems but I haven't tested it to see.
I can't take much away from the NEC performance. Out of the box it isn't as good as I expect from their professional line, but it calibrates to be almost perfect. Even without calibration it still offers the flexibility to move between sRGB, AdobeRGB, and other color gamuts quickly that other displays cannot. The display uniformity cannot be undersold either, as that alone makes it work for certain professionals. For a general user, I don't think it is going to be worth the extra price to get the UHD resolution in a 24" screen size. We're still waiting for hardware (DisplayPort 1.3 and HDMI 2.0) and software to catch up to UltraHD displays a lot of the time.
I think there are certain classes of users that can do well with a 24" UHD display: photo and video editors, financial professionals, and medical imaging users immediately come to mind. For general users after a single display, the LG 34UM95 remains a better pick I feel, or multiple 27" displays if your desktop has room for that. If you are in the group where the NEC EA244UHD fits your needs, then it performs very well and is a solid, if expensive, pick.


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Fashion Week is approaching and I am getting super excited! Yes, it has the aura of being an uber exclusive invite only affair, but Fashions Night Out gives any and all fashionistas the chance to experience it and get a taste of the designers & boutiques without being a fashion editor like Anna Wintour or one of her poor assistants (a la Devil Wears Prada).
What is Fashions Night Out?
In simple terms it is an evening during Fashion Week in which retailers and some designers that may not have showcased in an actual fashion show and some that have host an event for the general public. Among the things you can expect to find is free flowing champagne, A-list celebrity appearances and if you are lucky enough, some great giveaways.
Do's & Don'ts:
- Don't be fooled by my 'open to the public' statement and definitely do show up 30-45 mins ahead of time for the bigger events.
- What to wear to FNO:
- Don't dress like you are going to a club.
- Do wear an outfit that is trendy and hip.
- Don't wear uncomfortable shoes if you plan on party hopping.
- Do wear your best accessories like layered chains and your best bag.
- Don't overdo your makeup.
- Do put in the time to get flawless skin and try a bold lip.
Here is evidence of some craziness that went on during Fashions Night Out last year and based on this, I am definitely not going to miss it this time either!
Click here to go to the Official Fashions Night Out site.

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League Two Bradford have asked the city council to put celebrations marking their historic Capital One Cup run on hold until the end of the season. Phil Parkinson's side were beaten 5-0 by Swansea in Sunday's final after becoming the first club from the fourth tier to reach a major final at Wembley.
"Any celebration is on hold at the moment at the club's request until they've got the next challenge out of the way," Councillor Smith said.
"They've got two very important league matches coming up this week and we think we're going to hold it, with the club's agreement, at the end of the season so that Phil and his side can concentrate on the league.
"There are plans afoot. The city will expect a celebration certainly. What the club have achieved throughout the season has been nothing short of sensational and the council will extend a full civic celebration.
"They have had some amazing results in the Capital One Cup and while the fans were disappointed at the outcome, Swansea are clearly a very talented Premier League side and played better than us on the day.
"But the spirit of Bradford's fans was a real feature. The bigger the challenge became, the more they cheered and waved their flags. I was proud to be among them. It was wonderful.
"I would expect an open-top bus parade would be a fitting way to mark their incredible achievements. We're just waiting for the season to end, hopefully on a high, and for the sunshine to come and we'll start waving those flags again."
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With baseball heating up, and the Olympics right around the corner, now's a great time for kids to check out all the Sports books KDL has to offer. Swing by the library and race home with some today! To see ten of the most popular Sports books for kids at KDL this month, click on the link to the KDL Top Ten List!
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(EDIT: this article is now out of date as you no longer received double points on petrol with an American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card. The best option is to pay with a British Airways American Express Premium Plus or Lloyds Premier Avios Rewards card.)
I first wrote about this topic 18 months ago, but I thought it was worth re-running. It needed updating to reflect the new earning structure for buying petrol at Esso garages, the fact that you no longer receive double points for Tesco Momentum fuel and the changes to the Lloyds and TSB credit cards.
If anyone ever tells you that they know a lot about Avios, ask them how you should maximise your Avios earning when buying petrol. It is such a painfully complex calculation that most people will collapse in a gibbering heap before getting to the answer.
Even now, I am not 100% convinced that the answer I offer below is correct. However, I have given it my best shot.
When buying petrol, you have various permutations of garage and credit card to choose from.
Loyalty scheme options, presenting either a Tesco Clubcard or a Shell Drivers Club card:
(This analysis ignores the potential of higher Avios per £1 from Tesco during a Tesco to Avios conversion bonus, ignores Clubcard Plus, ignores those grandfathered onto a higher Tesco to Avios conversion rate)
This is what you would earn (excluding Avios points from your payment card) by handing over either a Tesco Clubcard or a Shell Drivers Club card when buying petrol:
1.2 Avios per £1 spent at a Tesco-branded filling station (ie 1 Clubcard point per £2 spent)
2.4 Avios per £1 spent at a Tesco-branded filling station when you use your Tesco credit card AS A CLUBCARD (technically 1 Clubcard point per £1 spent). No-one seems to know why this odd rule exists but it is true – Tesco even puts it in writing here.
0.8 Avios per £1 spent at an Esso filling station which has a Tesco convenience store attached (1 CC point per £3 spent). Full details of the Esso earning rates are here.
1 Avios per £1 spent at any other participating Esso filling station (technically 1 CC point for every 2 litres of fuel purchased, based on £1.20 per litre)
0.42 Avios per £1 spent at a Shell filling station (technically 10 Avios per 20 litres, based on £1.20 per litre). You need to join Shell Drivers Club and choose to convert your points to Avios.
0.8 Avios per £1 spent on V-Power fuel at a Shell filling station (technically 20 Avios per 20 litres, based on £1.25 per V-Power litre)
Credit and charge card options when paying for your petrol:
These are the Avios points you will earn when using the main Avios-earning credit and charge cards to pay for your petrol:
2 Avios per £1 spent on Amex Gold if you are in your first year of card membership (technically 1 Membership Rewards point per £1, but this is doubled on petrol transactions)
1.5 Avios per £1 spent on British Airways Premium Plus American Express, Lloyds Premier Avios Rewards American Express
1.25 Avios per £1 spent on Lloyds Avios Rewards American Express, TSB Premier Avios American Express
1 Avios per £1 spent on Amex Platinum, Starwood Amex, British Airways American Express, Lloyds Choice Rewards American Express, TSB Avios American Express
0.6 Avios per £1 spent on Tesco MasterCard (technically 1 Clubcard point per £4)
The most difficult thing to get your head around here is using your Tesco credit card as a Clubcard. If you have a Tesco credit card, you can use it as a Clubcard as well – you don't need to carry around two cards.
Usually, a normal blue Clubcard gives the same points as a Tesco credit card used as a Clubcard. However – when buying petrol – the Clubcard element of the Tesco credit card gives you double points.
So, what is the answer? What is the best way to earn Avios when buying fuel?
Based purely on standard fuel (not V-Power or Momentum) the answer is:
Buy standard fuel at a Tesco-branded garage. Use your Tesco credit card as a Clubcard but use your Amex Preferred Rewards Gold card to pay! This assumes you are in the first year of Amex Gold membership when petrol transactions earn double points.
For every £4 spent on petrol, you would earn:
4 Clubcard points (earning rate is 1 per £1 when using a Tesco credit card as a Clubcard) = 9.6 Avios
8 American Express Membership Rewards points (2 per £1 when buying petrol) = 8 Avios
That is 17.6 Avios points per £4, or 4.4 Avios per £1.
You may earn even more. Sometimes, when using an Amex Gold at Tesco to buy fuel, you will actually receive triple points. This is the 100% bonus for buying petrol and the 100% bonus for visiting a supermarket! In this scenario, you would earn 5.4 Avios per £1.
If you don't have an Amex Gold – or are out of your first year of card membership and no longer receive double points for petrol – your best payment option is the British Airways Premium Plus Amex or the Lloyds Premier Avios Rewards Amex, both of which give 1.5 Avios per £1.
For every £4 spent on petrol at a Tesco-branded filling station, you would earn:
4 Clubcard points (earning rate is 1 per £1 when using a Tesco credit card as a Clubcard) = 9.6 Avios
6 Avios points (1.5 per £1 spent) = 6 Avios
That is 15.6 Avios points per £4, or 3.9 Avios per £1.
If you need to use Esso for fuel card reasons, note that an odd disparity has opened up now that the price of fuel has fallen. You actually earn fewer Avios at an Esso with a Tesco convenience store (1 Clubcard point per £3 spent on fuel) than you do at non-Tesco Esso stations (1 Clubcard point per 2 litres of fuel). As petrol prices continue to fall, this disparity will widen.
Finally, it is worth noting that Shell Drivers Club often makes generous bonus point promotions available which can make Shell a good deal. Some of these are exclusive to its app. It is worth downloading this and seeing what offers are selected for you.
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Shared Toys & a Public Shaming
Hi Amy,
I would really appreciate your advice and any insight on the following issue:
My local library offers a "baby story time" each week for babies 0-12 months old. We regularly attend this event along with about 15-30 other babies.
The facilitator will pass out different items (shaker eggs, board books etc.) and she will always say "don't worry if the babies put these in their mouths, we clean them off after every session." So of course, doing what babies love to do, most of the babies happily chew on the various props and books. Here is where my question comes in. In an adjacent area of the library, there are various toys and books for kids and babies to play with. On another day of the week, I will bring my 8 month old daughter to play in this area. Of course, she will also pick up some of the blocks or other toys and put them in her mouth.
One particular day, another mother was there with two older girls, (maybe 7 and 8 years old) and when the mother saw my daughter put a toy in her mouth she loudly remarked "that's disgusting!" so everyone in the vicinity could hear. I felt so extremely embarrassed and judged. I have never felt that way before at the library and I immediately packed up and we left. My question is, should I not allow my daughter to put the toys in her mouth? As you can imagine it will be almost impossible to prevent her from doing this, unless I take all toys out of her reach. I understand these are shared toys, and as long as I make an attempt to wipe or clean them when my daughter is finished, should this be enough? It was clear that the other mother thought I should not allow my daughter to put any toys in her mouth; but this area of the library is especially for babies and pre-school age kids, so shouldn't some of this be expected? I am not sure if the library routinely cleans these toys as they do with the story time toys.
Please help me understand the etiquette in this situation. I don't want to be uncomfortable going back to the library and I want to know what the right thing to do in the future. Was that mom overreacting? Didn't her children put toys in their mouths when they were babies? I believe a little bit of germ exposure is good for kids too.
Thank you so much for your advice!
Holy overreaction, Batman. (Batmom?) And this may be just me, but I cannot even imagine loudly commenting on another person's baby using the word "disgusting." Even if yes, babies are kind of disgusting sometimes. BUT THEY ARE BABIES. YOU DON'T CALL THEM THAT.
Clearly, that mom has some issues with germs. That's her damage, not yours. And memory issues, I guess, unless she raised her girls in bubbles and followed them around with sanitizing wipes and sprays 24/7. And rudeness issues, because CALLING ANOTHER BABY OR TYPICAL BABY BEHAVIOR "DISGUSTING" IS NOT OKAY. Your daughter was doing what babies do. And what many, many babies had probably already done earlier that day. Good lord, my babies routinely shoved dirt, dog food and the bottom of my shoes in their mouths. That's disgusting, and yet I still never called them that. At least not to their faces.
Now, whenever I've taken my babies to community play areas with shared toys, I did always TRY to make an effort to keep the toys out of their mouths. I'd gently pull their hands down and show them what the toy "did" to try to distract them. Like you, I'm all for a little germ exposure; I just figured that the next kid/parent probably wouldn't like picking up something that's been pre-slimed. I still appreciate seeing other parents give a toy a quick wipe-down if it's been in their kid's mouth — and I will also accept that wipe-down simply being done with the edge of their shirt, because seriously. That's about all a pacifier would get from me at this point, if it fell on the floor. (And the worst illness we ever got was a cold, and even then it'd be impossible to "blame" the shared toys at a library group rather than the 2380374048534908 million other possible germy places/people they came in contact with.) There's always going to be someone with different standards and opinions, of course, but I think MOST parents/caregivers at your little library play area understand that little babies mouth things and nobody is going to die from it. Go back with your head held high and your baby's cute little mouth drooling at the sight of those awesome toys.
For the record, if I'd been a witness to the "that's disgusting!" thing, I totally would have spoken up and made you feel better. I've gotten quite feisty since my nervous/unsure first-time mom days and quite enjoy butting in to shut some petty judgment down, or at least going over to talk to someone who's clearly feeling shamed and packing up to leave. "Oh, please, all three of my babies put every object in this place in their mouths and they turned out just fine. I mean, mostly. Whatever. Good enough!"
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That lady was way outta line. "Disgusting?" Oh come on. A baby being a baby.
Just this weekend, I was there and my 10-month-old was being a normal baby, and put a little toy in her mouth. I was checking out books so I restricted her to THAT toy instead of spreading her slobber everywhere, and then I wiped it off and asked if the librarian would put it in the "clean these toys" bucket. Which they have.
Babies are fast and slobbery and it's what they do at this age. That lady…grr!
Marie Jul 28 at 12:22 pm Reply
Wow that lady was rude!! On the flip side thought, my son has severe food allergies just from skin contact on shared surfaces. He has had his worst reactions at the library from the books and toys. I appear to be a germophobe because I am scrubbing (as discreetly as possible) the toys before he touches them. I could care less about germs, its the remnants of goldfish crackers that scare me. However – I would expect that babies would be putting stuff in their mouths, I don't expect those toys to be sterile, and no one else should! I try to avoid cleaning a toy that a baby just had specifically because I don't want anyone to think that I think their baby is germy.
Susie Jul 28 at 12:34 pm Reply
If it helps, my toddler just "kissed better" the bottom of someone's shoe the other day. That's waaaaay more squick inducing than an infant chewing…anything ever.
MR Jul 28 at 12:40 pm Reply
That other mom was waaaaay out of line. You did nothing wrong. Please don't let her affect your enjoyment of the library!
DontBlameTheKids Jul 28 at 1:05 pm Reply
Definitely an overreaction. I generally assume all public toys have been chomped on.
My not-quite-two-year-old bit her tongue yesterday and wanted it kissed better. Now that was disgusting…and I still did it.
Another Amy Jul 28 at 1:21 pm Reply
OCD mom at the library needs her meds adjusted. I agree with Amy (as usual). That's all on her, not on you. Go on back with your head held high.
s Jul 28 at 2:39 pm Reply
Oh, GIVE ME A BREAK. Babies put things in their mouths. If the library has a kids' section, where they are making toys available to the public, I GUARANTEE you that the under-age-2 public is putting those toys in their mouth.
I am exceedingly liberal in the baby germ department. Whatever, dude. Slobber away. Like Amy, I might try to clean things up after we leave, but… yeah. Baby and toddler mouths are just magnets for that kind of thing. I'm sorry you bolted – if I were you, I'd like to think I would have laughed and/or shot her a dirty look along with a rallying cry of "immunity!!!" and kept on playing.
True story – I used to take my munchkin to a playgroup and everyone would just kind of throw their toys out in the middle, so all the babies were all over each other's stuff. Mine had a little boy's ball in her hands/mouth one day, and he had her bunny. His mom turned to me and said, "Oh, don't worry, I washed and sanitized everything before we came!" It was all I could do not to laugh as her son slobbered all over our (secondhand, I might add) bunny that has, to my knowledge, never been washed and had very much indeed been hauled around in the diaper bag/car for months. Oh well.
christine Jul 28 at 3:02 pm Reply
First of all, I feel really bad for that other woman's two daughters. If that's how she reacts towards a random stranger in the library (the LIBRARY, of all places!), imagine what it would be like to have her as a mother. Dear lord.
Second, I agree with everything Amy says.
I feel really bad that you were shamed like this… I might have cried if it happened to me. I hope you can put it behind you and not worry about it the next time you go to the library. And good for you for teaching your girl a love of libraries and books early in life!
Amy L Jul 28 at 6:15 pm Reply
Children's librarian here. Way to go Mom helping instill a love of reading early on in your child's life. Readers are made on the laps of their parents. Keep it up!
Being a public library, anyone in the public can use the facility so it can be germy. Duh.Toys, board books, etc. in the children's area are bought specifically with children in mind and we know children can be rough on things. Adults can be too for that matter. Some libraries will check out toys and puzzles to families. If that mom thinks the item your child gummed was gross, she should see the gunk that can be found in kid and adult books. Ugh!
Tasterspoon Aug 08 at 4:00 am Reply
Mmm, or the potty book we recently checked out that had…brownie?…stuck to the pages. I'm assuming it was brownie, I didn't taste it.
Amy Renee Jul 28 at 6:25 pm Reply
The other mom was being a jerk, ignore her. But as to your thought "I am not sure if the library routinely cleans these toys as they do with the story time toys." – just ask one of the children's librarians -maybe the storytime one, if you feel comfortable with her. Say something like "I know you mentioned you clean the storytime toys, but what about the ones in the play area? If my daughter grabs one and puts it in her mouth before I can stop her, is there I place I can put it for cleaning? Or do the toys get cleaned on a regular basis there?"
It can't hurt to ask. Then if rudemom says something to you, you have facts behind you like "these toys get sanitized every x days" or whatever.
Otherwise, just ignore.
Becky Jul 28 at 10:48 pm Reply
Want disgusting? My four year old recently peed in the play area ON the toys as retaliation for correction (don't pull siblings hair). That was SUPER fun.
My only saving grace is that they know I'm potty training my youngest so I just told them my kid peed. They didn't know it was the older one. But I might never go back.
Rebecca Jul 29 at 2:51 am Reply
I also used to be totally paranoid about germs when my oldest was a baby. But I would have never shamed another mom like that lady. We all have different parenting methods, and barring actual abuse, no method is superior.
My oldest is now 2 and a half, and he's licked all sorts of gross stuff (always choosing the time when I'm distracted or not right next to him, grrr). After the time he licked his shoes and didn't die from the Ebola virus, I figured I could calm down a bit. Thank goodness, since it would be impossible to keep both my him and his 9 month old sister in a germ-free bubble. As Amy said, a cold isn't the end of the world. It's annoying and inconvenient, but a necessary evil in growing up.
Caroline Jul 29 at 12:20 pm Reply
I would suggest that she retreat back to her oxygen tent if you see her again and ask – with a fake-sympathetic face if she's always been subject to debilitating OCD and does she now that there's good therapy for it?
Just ignore lunatics like that, giving them credibility only makes them worse! You did nothing wrong… your baby is a normal baby… she is the freak, not you. Tell her that from me! Another quick response is to pick something about her that you don't much like (like an ugly colour top or something) and say "oh well, we all have our standards. Take me for example, I would NEVER wear a scrunchie in public / own anything in burnt ochre / dye my hair an implausible shade. Isn't it WONDERFUL we're all different?" and smile… exiting stage left…
slydegirll Jul 29 at 1:50 pm Reply
Shame on that lady. I can't believe she forgot what being in the trenches with a little is like and was so rude!
However…while you absolutely cannot control what other people say or how they act, I think it would have been OK if you had stood your ground. Ignored her, glared, smirked, whatever. Letting yourself get upset over it and taking your little one away from a fun place isn't worth the energy, in my eyes. And then tell all your friends the horrible story and feel supported and how sympathetic they are.
sarah Jul 29 at 3:52 pm Reply
Another children's librarian here. The other mom was totally in the wrong, and I hope you won't let her scare you off. I expect the toys are cleaned regularly, but here it's always fine to hand a toy in at the desk and let us know it's been chewed on or dropped in the potty or whatever.
Alison Jul 29 at 9:58 pm Reply
I wish I could have been there to lash out at that woman with all my sleep-deprived, misplaced rage. She was out of line.
Anyway. I was at the park today with my toddler and 9 month old. The baby is no longer content to be held and wants to GET DOWN! and GO! like his brother. So I let him. Crawl around in the grass and gravel – getting incredibly dirty and trying to stuff rocks in his mouth at intervals (which I try to prevent, of course). But come on – you do your best.
Bee Jul 30 at 2:00 pm Reply
I have a kiddo with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD – Crohn's or Ulcerative Colitis). I follow a lot of new research coming out that shows that a healthy variety of gut bacteria is essential to good health, and that the rise in antibiotics both for humans and food animals may be part of the issue behind not just IBD but things like obesity, skin disorders, depression – it is truly amazing. While antibiotics are life savers and I wouldn't go as far as the folks who deliberately infect their kids with diseases (I'm talking gut bacteria, not strep or chicken pox), I think we'll find the healthiest kids get the occasionally friendly saliva exchange. You want disgusting? When kids (or adults for that matter) get severe IBD symptoms sometimes a fecal matter transplant is the only way to get their bacteria levels back to normal. Put that in your Google and search it! LOL
Angelique Aug 04 at 3:50 am Reply
So several months ago I took my daughter (then about 16 mo) to the park. She grabs the attention of another baby (14 mo) who follows us around, mom in tow, the entire time. This child had a gooey nose painting her upper lip in layers of snot. Still cute but obviously congested and chronically since mom seem to have given up all hope of keeping her face clean. Well I had my daughter's straw sippy cup hanging from my belt loop by the handle. I did not see or feel when this cute little booger pulled the cup off my belt loop and started licking the top! Luckily the straw was covered. Her mom leapt forward, wrestled the cup off of her, and gave it back to me apologizing.
I wiped it off without worries and hung it on my belt loop again. About half an hour later my own little booger got the cup off of my belt and started drinking her water. I took the cup off of her knowing deep down in my heart that it was too late. Sure enough for the day or two she was congested and had a runny nose for a week or so.
and do you know what I thought about that? BIG. FREAKING. DEAL! Kids get sick. They spread their germs. It's what they do.
S Aug 08 at 1:51 am Reply
The lady was totally out of line. However, it was best to probably to leave as all the other commentators noted she obviously has issues. She needs the not my kid, not my problem motto, excluding emergencies. There was a big kid who peed a lot on the floor of our library in a high traffic area. I just told the librarian discretely and told mine not to say anything. When you go to the library with the baby, it is assumed they chew, it's how they learn.


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With a resident saying that he and his children hit the dirt in their backyard one afternoon due to gunfire believed to have come from a nearby gun club, the Muskego Common Council decided last week to try to set safety standards for gun ranges.
The incident that happened Nov. 18 was only the latest of 11 years of complaints claiming that bullets have flown off the range and toward three homes, Muskego Police Capt. John LaTour said. The club has promised to do something about it, but complaints haven't stopped, he said.
An official of the Schultz Resort Rod and Gun Club, S8025 Schultz Lane, said people routinely hunt in the area but the gun club gets blamed for any time there is a problem. The club also has instituted internal reforms since 2010 such as required safety training, testing, access control system and video surveillance.
The club has berms and a baffle to catch the flying bullets, but city officials plan to get expert help to write an ordinance embodying up-to-date safety standards. Then when the gun club asks to renew its annual permit, the city will see if the club's safety arrangements meet those new standards, Mayor Cathy Chiaverotti said. The Schultz Resort Rod and Gun Club is the only private outdoor shooting range in the city, she said.
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Explaining the middle class job drain
The Baker City Herald did us a great service by printing the first of three, Associated Press articles examining the relentless impact of automation on jobs and our economy ("Technology stems return of lost middle-class jobs," Feb. 6). Among its findings is the conclusion by economists that "the developed world may face years of high middle-class unemployment, social discord, divisive politics, falling living standards and dashed hopes."
This is not a new issue. Automation, combined with union busting and off-shoring jobs to nations like China and Mexico, has made major inroads on good-paying jobs for about 35 years now, and the median wage in America has flat-lined since then. Until now, the drain in middle-class purchasing power was at least partly hidden by increases in the number of two-income households and the ability to obtain home-equity loans during the housing boom. But the "jobless recovery" from the Great Recession has made the true impact painfully clear, though not yet fully understood.
A closely related issue is how our nation's wealth has shifted from the middle class to the top one percent during this period. Improved "productivity" stemming from lower wages and a smaller workforce has meant improved profits, even in a slowly-growing economy. The stock market is doing quite well, thank you, reflecting strong corporate earnings.
This experience puts to rest the myth of the wealthy as "job creators." Clearly, additional investment will be made in ever-increasing automation.
Of course, it's not all bad. We face a great opportunity for reducing boring, T.G.I.F. jobs and expanding human creativity. This is not about calling a halt to the progress of technology. But we must also face the increasingly urgent challenge to fairly distribute the benefits of the sharply increased "productivity."
I urge my fellow readers to dig out the Feb. 6 issue, read the article, do some research, and engage in a wide-ranging discussion about the implications for us and our future generations. Additional information and resources, including links to the three Associated Press articles and a related segment on 60 Minutes depicting accelerating advances in robotics are available at www.progressivevalues.us/resources.html.
Marshall McComb
Baker City
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My daughter and I just wanted to publicly thank a local man and his son, Clay and Taylor McEnroe from North Powder, for helping us when my truck hit a patch of ice and flew off the road on the evening of Feb. 4 between La Grande and Baker City. They pulled my truck out with theirs, changed my tire, and then followed us to make sure we got back on the highway okay. Talk about angels watching over us!
Mr. McEnroe also called ahead to the local tire store to see if they could take a look underneath to see if the rocks we landed on had damaged anything important. (Unfortunately, by the time we drove the 10 miles or so to Baker City, said tire store had closed). A nice young man at the Chevron station, however, did take a look for me and said it looked okay for us to keep going on to Boise with the spare. Thankfully we hadn't rolled the truck and were just shook up some but not hurt worse than that. We were able to make it that night to Boise, albeit going 35 mph the entire way. It's just nice to know there are some awesome, caring people out there. If you know these folks please give them a shout out for being so great! We certainly won't forget their kindness.
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SCHOFIELD BARRACKS - The operational tempo of today\'s Army has affected every facet of a Soldier's life - from awards, to pay, to educational benefits.
Human resources leaders from the 8th Theater Sustainment Command (TSC) and other units took some time out of their busy schedules to meet at the Post Conference Room, here, Nov. 23-24, to iron out standard operating procedures in order to take care of their ultimate customer, the Soldier.
"That is why we exist as human resources specialists, to take care of the men and women in our Army," said Sgt. Maj. Tony Cespedes, 8th TSC G-1.
More than 60 human resources specialists attended the two-day conference, hosted by the 8th TSC. The attendees were briefed by the 8th TSC career counselor, Sgt. Maj. Brad McDonell, on the specifics of the new Post 9/11 GI Bill.
Leaders from the Warrior Transition Unit also briefed Soldiers on the process for wounded warriors, and the Judge Advocate General's office spoke at length about "line of duty" investigations.
One major change discussed at the conference was the Deployment Extension Incentive Program, or DEIP. According to a Pentagon military personnel message, DEIP is an Active Army incentive program designed to encourage enlisted Soldiers who do not intend to re-enlist to extend their service voluntarily in order to complete a deployment with the unit to which they are currently assigned.
"(DEIP) is a great program for Soldiers who are coming up on their ETS (expiration, term of service) to extend their enlistment so that they can voluntarily stay with their unit during a deployment," Cespedes said. "The Soldier can make some extra money, and the unit benefits by keeping an experienced Soldier on the team."
The U.S. Army-Pacific G-1 briefed conference attendees on the approval process for personnel actions. Cespedes said that his goal for the conference was to speed up the personnel actions process and set one standard across all 8th TSC units.
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I know... it looks like a social housing estate with bits and bobs, but I do keep the water top notch..
Realistically, do all take the piss as I have seen some amazing fish tanks on here that I have absolutely no chance of beating with my limited knowledge at this point...
If you put a black bacground on the tank, get rid of a few of those caves and add some bunches of live plants, your fish will pop and be the main focal point of your tank.
I see you have rainbows :thumbsup: Love mine too!!
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Orange rock
Fake plant
small shell cave
The rest is entirely superfluous... Nice idea on the black background. Seems a bit silly I had not thought of it before.
On the subject of the blue rainbows, might I ask for some help on the following link
http://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/t...ow-fish-95130/ just an odd case for one of them.
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I'm working on a DirectShow filter which takes input samples and turns them into modified output samples but where there isn't a one-to-one correspondence between input and output samples so CTransformFilter doesn't seem to be the way to go.
The best way of writing this appears to be writing a filter using CBaseFilter, CBaseInputPin and CBaseOutputPin where samples are received on an input pin and processed by a worker thread which creates and delivers new samples from the output pin. The worker thread copies the input sample data before starting work so that my filter doesn't have to maintain a reference to the input samples outside the input CBaseInputPin::Receive call.
What's the best practice for maintaining thread safety and avoiding deadlocks in this case? Should the input and output pin share the same streaming lock or should they have a streaming lock each for their streaming operations? Do buffer allocation, sample delivery and other output pin operations need to hold the streaming lock(s) and/or the filter lock? Any sample code that does something similar? Any other gotchas to watch out for in this situation?
The DirectShow bases classes contain scary comments for CBaseOutputPin::Deliver and CBaseOutputPin::GetDeliveryBuffer which I don't fully understand (pasted below).
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have locked itself before calling us otherwise we may get halfway through
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disconnected us from the input pin. If the filter has no worker threads
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when the worker thread is ready to deliver. There is a wee snag to worker
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The Clerk of the National Assembly, Honourable Thomas Kashilila was this week quoted by the print media as saying that plans were afoot to stop live transmission of parliamentary session.
He said the objective of the move, which was roundly condemned by all and sundry, was due to what he described as growing indiscipline among a section of members of parliament.
Although honourable Kashilila would not pintpoint the culprits the move was aimed at, but going by what has been going on in the august House coupled with pronouncements often made by the chair in the house, the ruling party's Mps have been heaping the blame on opposition camp.
What was perhaps quite interesting were whispers that made the rounds outside the august House.
For instance one man whispered that 'it was just a matter of time before the public is told, in the same manner the honourable Clerk said, that the august House is no more!'
What is interesting about the foregoing comment is that the world is used to such august House being dissolved by the president either before the general election or because the president has differed with members of parliament and therefore goes back to the people for a decisive decision.
"But the way things are going on right now, we should brace ourselves for such eventualities…if a private motion can be killed simply because it has been brought by a member of opposition, what else is left," asked the man. Live transmission of sessions of the National Assembly of the United Republic of Tanzania is the first in sub-Saharan Africa and was praised by a visiting group of Kenya's members of parliament.
The move which is not only a mark of transparency in the country's body politic, has for a long time served as one of the country's pillars of its growing democracy.
And moving to another issue, but within the realm of the august House, the Deputy Speaker, Honourable Job Ndugai, the mover of the private motion, Ubungo Legislator (Chadema), Honourable John Mnyika, brought the private motion on water because he wanted to be seen to be doing something for his constituents.
He said when he was vying for Ubungo Constituency during the 2010 elections, he had promised his constituents that he would bring them water. "And because the next general election was just around the corner and the honourable MP has failed to deliver, he decided to bring in the private motion on water as an excuse for his failure," said the controversial deputy speaker.
Commenting on honourable Kashilila's bombshell, the Chairman of the opposition Civic United Front, CUF, Professor Ibrahim Lipumba said the very act of implementing selective gags was increasingly turning reducing the ruling party into a witch-doctor's conduct which was very unfortunate.
But rumour mongers were quck to point out that while substantial number of people believed in what witch-doctors said, it was however, quite different when people other than witch-doctors displayed conducts similar to that practiced by the latter!
A number of rumour mongers who spoke to the Whisperer said it was time both the Speaker, Honourable Anne Makinda and her deputy sat up and took notice before it is too late.
Others said the move to do away with live transmission of parliamentary sessions could be likened to what used to happen in the communist block of eastern European countries under the leadership of the then Soviet Union.
One rumour monger reminded the Whisperer what befell the ruling party in the 2010 elections which saw the incumbent, President Jakaya Kikwete losing 20 percent of what he had scooped in the 2005 election.
She cited a variety of factors, that included the ruling party's refusal to participate in debates in the electronic media with opposition parties' candidates, finally led to the reduction of CCM's victory.
"The message that the majority of members of parliament (from the ruling party and speakers) is sending to the rest of Tanzanians through the blocking of live transmission of parliamentary sessions is that the government had something sinister to hide," said the rumour monger.
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There is yet another delay for a woman accused in the 2005 killing of 9-year-old Christopher Foggs.
Vonzeil Adams' trial was supposed to begin Monday at the Pitt County Courthouse. But it's been continued after Adams' attorney, Davis Sutton, was charged with contempt of court. Court officials said the contempt charge happened after Sutton was arguing with the judge.
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Jaoul Raoul Green was sentenced for the fatal shooting in 2006. Four other women face charges in the death of Foggs but have not gone to trial yet.
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Placer County Sheriff Ed Bonner has selected a sergeant with lifelong Colfax ties to take command of the substation. Sgt. Ty Conners is the new commander in the City of Colfax, a Sheriff Office's contract city. Conners, a 15-year veteran, will oversee the substation and the deputies assigned to the Colfax beat. Conners, 40, attended Colfax Elementary School and his family has roots there that go back 50 years. He is looking forward to giving back to a community that had a big part in forming him. "I grew up in Colfax and now my life and career have come full circle," Conners said. "I have an opportunity to give back to this small town that has a lot of pride. I want to maintain that pride and the trust the city has with the Sheriff's Office." Conners has worked in many assignments within the Sheriff's Office. He has served on the Special Enforcement Team and the dive team, and has worked in patrol and corrections. He is a longtime member of the Honor Guard and is taking over its leadership from Andrew Scott, who was recently promoted to lieutenant. Conners is also well-known in the Auburn art community. He works in several media, but is best-known for his charcoal drawings. He shows his work at the Auburn Old Town Gallery and his charcoal drawings of the Sheriff's special teams hang in the lobby of the Auburn Justice Center. Conners recently painted a brightly colored children's mural at the Placer Multi-Disciplinary Interview Center. The painting at the MDIC created a peaceful place where children who've been involved in horrific incidents are taken for interviews. – Staff report


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1988 Conquest Steering Column Tilt Lever
lever pops loose after some driving
8th January 2011 - 03:10 PM
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hi everyone.
i'm new here and was hoping someone could help me with this.
i just recently purchased a 1988 conquest.
the lever on the underside of the steering column that allows for height adjustment for the column comes loose.
i was told that to fix this i had to install a new column.
there has to be an easier fix for this.
any ideas would be appreciated.
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Just bought a 1986 Starion Esi-R. And although the stock turbo gets this Mitsu up to speed pretty quickly I'm looking for a little more power with what I hope to be, maybe an easy swap out. For example can I run a 90's eclipse turbo in it or any of the other fine breeds that Mitsubishi has to offer. ? With possibly the same inter-cooler set up that's standard in my Starion? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Hey I'm new to the Starion/Conquests and was wondering if I could get some help. I just put a new head on my Starion and I'm having a heck of a time getting the cam timed. I know where the tdc marks are on the crank shaft pulley and timing cover. isn't the pin on the cam just suppose to be on the top or the bottom?
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I will admit I am a newb when it comes to this starion and also this forum but I just can't find the information I need to figure this issue out. I checked the other threads on this issue and mine is not exactly the same so I will ask for someones help who knows better than I. I have been a mechanic for over 20 years and am an ASE master in both truck & car just for quick background, but have never worked on a Starion before this though. I bought this 87 Starion turbo with a bad motor. The car came with a good used motor that the previous owner heard run but the car and motor both sat for almost 10 years. I thought my best move would be to hear the car run with the original motor first to make sure there were no hidden issues. I drained and cleaned the tank, purged the lines and got the car running but only after cranking it for about an hour or so with no spark. Eventually it just began sparking like it should but I couldn't explain why. I replaced the motor using all the original components off of the original engine because I new it was operational as I heard the old motor run (although it knocked). Now with the replacement engine installed I again have no spark at all. From memory I believe I have 12 volts to the coil but don't have any power at either terminal on the plug going to the distributor but don't know what I should see anyway. I have two distributors, two coils, and two sets of caps,rotors,and wires so I have tried swapping these parts to no success. I have a manual on the car but it is very general and non specific so I don't have scematics or troubleshooting for this ignition system. If anyone here could help me out with some detailed diagnosis or maybe have been in this same situation I would appreciate anything I can get. I appologize for the long post but I wanted all the information included so it would be available to anyone that could help. Thank you in advance.
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Hi, im Juan and i bought an 87 conquest tsi, it was working good but after a while it started hasitating, and boging to the point of turnin off at every red light... now after 15 minutes of running it desides to just tun off on mE... HELP PLEASE....what should i try to fix now?
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I've been wanting to build a daily driver/weekend track car (road racer, not drag) in the 300 hp/mid-to-high 12 second range for some time now; I originally looked at dsms, but was unable to find anything decent in my area for the right price, so I ended up with an '89 5.0 Mustang. It's a nice car and all (yeah, right), but I've had an open mind about acquiring a mk3 turbo supra or other rwd turbo car for a while; by chance I happened upon my "new" 87 starion at the local junkyard and bought it as a builder car for $500, and they're selling me a motor out of another starion for $120 as was negotiated into the deal. I'll have my work cut out for me for a while just getting the car tuned up and running halfway decent, but I need to know asap what it will take me to get her to >300 rwhp.
I've been looking around in what little spare time I've managed to get this weekend, and I see no shortage of high-hp starions, but everyone seems to have a different combo. I'm a little vexed that I made the mistake of thinking that this starion had a 4g63 in it -- a motor that I already knew had good aftermarket support and is capable of making well over 300 whp without breaking the bank.
So, since I'm stuck with an rg54b, what kinda "recipe" do I need to make a reliable 300-400 rwhp car? I'll have an extra motor, and once I sell my Mustang I'll have some money to throw at it, so I can take my time with the build and do it right, but I need to know if this will be something that I can afford. What I've seen gives me the impression that most of the higher hp starions and conquests are very custom -- a stark contrast from the 5.0 world, where a simple head/cam/intake/other boltons combo with a tune will get you that 300-400 hp relatively easily.
I want to go big with this car, or go with something else entirely if it's beyond me; what's a realistic figure for the $$$$ that it will take to accomplish this, and where do I start looking for information?
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87 Conquest.compression In Motor
18th November 2008 - 02:42 AM
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what is a good compression on my 87 conquest. I have 125 across the board. derek thanks
87 Conquest Please Help
car revs but wont hold rpb
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This car was a daily driver up till this happened 3 weeks ago. About 3 weeks ago it overheated on the highway after a radiator hose blew, and after that incident it wouldn't start, after getting a new head gasket put in I am still having some problems. The car starts now, but when I give it gas it won't hold the rpms, If I put the gaaccelerator down it jumps up, but even with the accelerator to the floor , the rpms drop back down and it wants to stall. If I don't give it asny gas it will sit there and idle at low rpms fine. It is also backfiring a little when it drops from the high rpms and I can't tell if the turbo is spooling up right but the boost gage really seems to lag behind the rpms. Is it possible I messed up the turbo when it overheated ? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would like to get it running right before I put in a new radiator. Thanks for any help.
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So THIS is what a post-apocalyptic Secaucus Junction looks like.
I elected to use a little bit of the most precious commodity of all – gas in North Jersey days after Hurricane Sandy – to drive to the major train station at 1 p.m. today, then catch a ride to New York Penn Station for a Madison Square Garden "transformation" media tour (more on that later).
Not being a regular mass transit commuter, I thought I would be lucky even to find a parking spot at all in the Edison Parking lot (I've seen every spot fill up at times, with curbs being pressed into service as makeshift parking spots and with entry and exit lanes narrowed like a Manhattan street).
Instead, I found the unexpected:
First off, the parking lot was at least two-thirds empty (though not so empty that I'd be convinced it was closed).
The electronic ticket machine was down, so I thought I'd just ride right in. Then a woman with an official-looking jacket spotted me and told it was $10 cash to enter (turns out this is half the regular price). Playing the role of the naive traveler, I asked her if any trains were running.
"I think so," she replied. Not too encouraging, nor was the maintenance worker who shrugged or the police officer who shrugged but at least added, "I just got here."
Making my way toward the non-working giant stairwell (the escalator was as powerless as the nearby traffic lights that forced police to monitor traffic), I scaled the steps without another soul in sight.
The train ticket machine inside worked, at least, but it still seemed odd to seemingly have the place to myself – this is a classic NY/NJ metropolitan area hustle-bustle center, even in mid-day.
Scaling lots more stairs, I found that only backup lights worked, every single store was closed, it was very cold for an indoor train station (50 degrees tops, inside and out) – and two more passengers and just two employees.
The latter told me that another train for New York Penn Station was coming – in 40 more minutes.
The good news? The trip was free, they said (too bad I already bought a ticket).
I finally boarded the train with only six other souls, including Seton Hall freshman Sam Matino, who graciously offered his printed-out train schedule. At least the train itself – from Trenton on the Northeast Corridor line – had a respectable amount of people on it.
This is what happens when the Bergen, Main, and Pascack Valley lines – among others – cannot supply passengers to the station – and when gas-hoarding drivers elect to stay home rather than schlep to
The return train at 3 p.m. was about the same as the trip in. The most noticeable thing about traversing Secaucus Junction toward my car was not only seeing only a handful of people again, but that none of them were together. And eerily, no one was talking at all, not even on a cellphone (thanks to very spotting reception).
There are days when that must seem like a blessing – the Sounds of Silence, indeed.
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SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil prices fell to near $99 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after a report showed U.S. crude supplies unexpectedly jumped last week, suggesting demand may be weakening.
Benchmark oil for September delivery was down 36 cents to $99.23 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude rose 39 cents to settle at $99.59 on Tuesday.
In London, Brent crude fell 13 cents to $118.15 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
The American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday that crude inventories rose 4.0 million barrels last week while analysts surveyed by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos., had predicted a drop of 2.3 million barrels.
Inventories of gasoline dropped 600,000 barrels last week while distillates rose 2.9 million barrels, the API said.
The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration reports its weekly supply data later Wednesday.
Investors are also closely watching negotiations among U.S. leaders to raise the government's debt limit and Europe's bid to contain its own debt crisis.
"There is no doubt that U.S. recovery to date has been extremely fragile," said Richard Soultanian of NUS Consulting. "The uncertainty created by each of these challenges, at best, could derail the nascent economic recovery and, at worst, plunge us back into recession."
In other Nymex trading in September contracts, heating oil fell 0.2 cent to $3.12 a gallon while gasoline gained 0.7 cent to $3.10 a gallon. Natural gas futures for August delivery rose 1.4 cents to $4.38 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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