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Recommendation on Hedge to Screen
I have a unique situation that invites many questions so I thought I would post here (first time posting on Landscape Design).
Most of my landscaping is borders with edging and low plants except for fountain grasses and trees. I try to add color with annuals otherwise it is only a rose bed or two that add colors other than greens.
I'm interested in adding a shrub hedge in a very narrow strip of yard between my short gravel drive/parking that comes off a busy street and my ornamental lily pond that is almost directly in front of the parking and at the side of the cottage/house. I have a small stone-lined rim around the lily pond currently and this is where I wish to place the hedge to screen a part of the lily pond. (Actually, I'm more interested in screening the car's front bumper from the pond).
So, I'm curious for suggestions.
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Near Kansas City, USDA zone 5, some zone 6 plants overwinter esp. near buildings.
Sun: an ever enlarging canopy from a nearby maple tree is stealing direct sun. Right now it's high shade in the area. Some direct at sunrise and sunset but not more than 2 hrs.
Adjacent garden soil: 7 - 7.5 pH (recently tested, this is reasonable as most of the soils around here are fertile but high pH)
Current Soil: raised due to pond edge and loose-laid stone walk; very rocky underneath but I will remove and ammend as needed.
Width: Need something NARROW. There's only about 3.5' to work with to keep a little circulation around a parked car or pond edge.
Height: looking for somthing that is atleast 3' and maybe taller if it can keep its dense-ness. Something 4-5' would work too, I plan to trim.
I think it would be best if it was something that could keep form and leaves/branches year 'round for screening purposes... so maybe evergreen, I know that I have boxwood shrubs in the front yard's garden and they do very well except the sun is different.
I've thought about a holly but worry about the fullness especially as it grows taller. Boxwoods, I wonder if there is enough sun. Laurels, do they do okay in high shade? I think most Junipers, which grow gangbusters around here, are too big. Other evergreens too spreading/arching for the location.
What would you suggest?
There are many questions that come here that would be best directed to your local nursery, master gardeners, or even garden writers, because climate matters, and because something I suggest might not even be available in your area even if it will grow for you. This may be one of them. That said, people from other zones can give you suggestions and then you can check if they might work for you.
One of my favourite plants is Ilex "Mariesii." I like this plant so much that I am hard pressed not to buy it again every time I see it although I already have it. It has nothing to offer but form and foliage interest, which is really my ideal sort of plant, and it might work in this setting. Mine grows as a narrow perfect tree, but I have seen multi-stemmed specimens and I imagine it can be pruned to suit. I do not know if it would provide the density you want (or if it works in your zone) but it is certainly attractive enough to distract you from your car's bumper even if you can see through it.
I think a light touch would serve you. Better than a solid green unchanging mass looming over that lovely pond, you could get seasonal changes with a mixture of plants and a section of trellis. Rhamnus frangula Fine Line is narrow and pretty and mine does well with only a couple hours' sun. The right climbing hydrangea could work for the trellis. Red-twig dogwood can be kept very narrow. Though they're all deciduous, they still provide structure, screening and color.


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One of Anders' watches, and it's a pretty rare military Eterna watch with the 520H movement.
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I have a 2002 Mitsubishi Eclipse gt spyder automatic with 139,500 miles. When I start driving, the first shift is good, the second shift is a little jerkish. I have changed the transmission mount motor mount, drain and refill tranny fluid. Any idea of it being a torque converter, timing belt,any kind of clutch. It is a automatic
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Homeowner's Insurance question
We recently received a letter from our homeowner's insurance company saying they would be sending a photographer out to update their files, etc. The photographer came out here a week ago and today we got a letter stating that the insurance company will drop our liability coverage if we don't re-roof our home and add a railing around our porch in the next 2.5 months. Our roof IS very old but not leaky and we'll replace it next summer when we add a second story above part of the house.
When we bought this place 8 years ago the ins. co. said they'd only cover the roof for actual cash value -- basically nothing -- until we re-roof. Fine. We've been happily paying premiums until now and have never had any kind of insurance claim. Why play the extortion game with excellent customers?
Has this happened to you? I'll call our agent/broker tomorrow first thing, but wondered if anyone else has dealt with this type of event.
"Why play the extortion game with excellent customers?"
I wouldn't call that extortion. You had 8 years to get the roof replaced, but you didn't.
The railing is a liability issue. If you have a folk victorian home, it was likely built before railings were required. You don't have to update it per building codes, but that doesn't mean an insurance company can't require you to do it in order to do business with them. It's like having old knob and tube wiring. It isn't illegal, but insurance companies don't want anything to do with it.
There are insurance companies who will insure old houses - warts and all. However, they will charge you a ton of money to do it.
Just try looking at this as though you were the insurance company. An old roof can still be damaged and even if they were going to settle ACV, they would still have to have to pay out something. Companies today are just trying to reduce their risk and if they don't, it affects your rates and the likelihood of your getting insurance in the future. And yes, inspections are getting to be the norm and they can be tough. Generally there has to be some kind of red flag to reinspect a current policy holder. Most inspections happen at new business. Keep that in mind if your shopping your homeowner's insurance. They will be looking for trees over hanging the home and any other structures on the property. Roofs, gutters and soffets. Any liability exposures such as dogs, unfenced pools, trampolines uneven sidewalks (tripping hazards). Missing rails are a big one. For now the inspections are generally just the outside but with the flood of foreclosed homes on the market, they may move to inside inspections. You may ask why, simple. Foreclosed homes are often missing things such as copper piping, appliances, cabinets etc. Once new ownership takes place then comes the "vandalism" claim. We are seeing more of that and yes, they are being heavily scrutinized.


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It wasn't an easy road when this landscaper jumped into the tech world.
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"As we were creating the app, it was extremely difficult to include the required complexity and yet still make it user-friendly," says Del Conte, who worked with his company's water manager, Logan Oates, to develop the product. "We actually decided to start over with our user interface when we were almost completed. As we rolled out our first prototype we did sample testing with a group of people and found the user experience was far too complicated to navigate."
Del Conte says it was extremely frustrating to watch a test user operate the device and not be able to tell them which button to click as he watched. But he wanted to ensure users could truly be self-sufficient once it was in their hands. "We could not tell them what button to push as the app would need to stand on its own if thousands were to adopt it. As landscape contractors, the absence of face-to-face customer training is new to us and something we needed to become familiar with quickly."
Once the app was released, Del Conte knew he couldn't be at users' side so he and Oates quickly revamped the original interface and made it as simple as possible to navigate. "The building process for a multi-page program was like building a house," says Del Conte. "Every turn had decisions to make along the way. It was extremely challenging to keep it as robust as we demanded and yet make it simple enough to use. But our attention to detail paid off, resulting in a complex yet user-friendly product."
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BELL, Calif. Just three Bell City Council members - the minimum required for city business - showed up at a meeting Monday night to schedule a recall election for the scandal-plagued Los Angeles suburb.
Mayor Oscar Hernandez and Vice Mayor Teresa Jacobo, both out on bail, appeared at the meeting along with Councilman Lorenzo Velez, the lone council member who has not been charged with a crime.
Hernandez, who is charged with misappropriating funds, called the meeting to order a half-hour late.
About 100 people packed the council chambers, and about 100 more listened outside on speakers.
The meeting's first hour was devoted to public comment. Several people had questions about trash collection fees and the police department's future, but some used part of their three allotted minutes to mock the arrested council members and the time they spent in jail.
"Did you enjoy the food? You looked really good in orange," Coco Ceja said to Jacobo.
A moment later, Ceja asked Hernandez, "Are you ready to go back?"
The mayor shot back softly but defiantly, "Yeah, I'm ready."
Later in the meeting, the council planned to schedule the recall.
Residents have gathered enough signatures to put an initiative on the ballot to oust Hernandez, Jacobo and Councilman George Mirabal, who was released on bail last week. Another councilman, Luis Artiga, resigned after his arrest, but because his name was already on recall petitions it will also be on the ballot.
Angry residents targeted the four members for recall after it was learned they were paying themselves nearly $100,000 a year for their service on the council, which meets about once a month. The four are among eight current and former officials charged with looting the city of $5.5 million. All are free on bail, pending a Dec. 8 pretrial hearing.
Recall proponents needed about 2,000 signatures of Bell's registered voters - about 20 percent of the city's total - to place the measure on the ballot. The number of valid signatures varied slightly for each official but ranged between about 2,700 and 2,800.
To save money, Bell's interim city attorney and interim city manager recommended the council, after accepting the certified petitions, hold off on formally announcing the recall election until Thursday. That will allow the council to schedule it for March 8 and still fall within a 125-day period required by law. March 8 is also the date of Bell's next regularly scheduled municipal election.
Because Artiga is no longer on the council, it was also recommended that a special election be held that day to elect someone to replace him. People who want to replace the others if they are recalled would be allowed to begin submitting nomination papers Nov. 15.
Only Velez, who was paid about $8,000 a year for his service, and who said he didn't know of the huge salaries the others were getting, was not named in the recall.
Other current and former Bell officials facing criminal charges are former Council members George Cole and Victor Bello, former City Manager Robert Rizzo and former Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia.


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Week 52, Assignment 2 for Take A Class With Dave and Dave.
Homework. A great stock shot is waiting to be taken!
It isn't that she doesn't love school, because she does. After being at school all day and then day care, when she gets home she wants to play with her Mommy and Daddy and Homework is usually at the bottom of her list of things she WANTS to do. She's real good at it, but she knows that the quicker it gets done the quicker she can play and watch cartoons so she rushes. When she rushes was and gets things wrong we make her do it again. As you can tell, she is thrilled with the prospect of doing it over.
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Cool pic! I like her against the dark background. I'll be feeling just like her in 2 weeks. Can't wait!
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Funny ^_^
awwwww, but its such a great shot!
I love the soft feel.
Seen in my contacts' photos. (?)
She is a great little actress! She was laughing shortly before and after this shot, but when I told her what I wanted she was all professional about it!
I was prepared for it in this shot, but can you imagine getting that face when you are prepared for it? She has definitely got her daddy wrapped about her little finger.
She is a perfect actress. Great picture.
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Terrific story within the shot. I missed it the first time around in Take a Class! Congrats on the newspaper! That is wonderful.
I think this pict just sums up what every student has ever felt about homework. Great pict.
all it's joy is represented precisely in her expression.
I'd like to use this photo in a suite101 article (about homework). Can I have permission for that?
Great picture - I was wondering if I could have permission to use this photo in a blog post? Thanks!
Hi Cayusa, just wanted to let you know I used your image in an article on Urban Times (see www.theurbn.com/2012/04/theres-no-place-for-homework-in-t...). Thanks!
Hi, thanks for sharing this great pic!
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This is a beautiful 1 bedroom 1 bath condo located in the Apollo. It is on the south end of the Island at 900 S. collier Blvd. approx. ¾ south of the Marriott. The unit is located directly on the beach and has a great view of the beach and Gulf. The whole west wall is a sliding glass door. Whether you are sitting in the living room or on the balcony the view is spectacular. You are directly on the beach and from the complex have direct beach access. The bedroom has a king-size bed and the couch pulls out to a queen size sleeper. The unit will accommodate 4 people. The unit is equipped with a full kitchen that includes stove, oven, refrigerator, microwave, dishes, pots, pans, utensils, coffee maker, blender, and lots more. The unit is equipped with 2 HD TVs with DVD player, FREE wireless internet, all linens, bath towels, beach towels, beach chairs, beach cooler, beach radio, beach umbrella, and kids beach toys (buckets, rafts, noodles, boogie boards). Rates for the week INCLUDE all your taxes and cleaning.
Some added amenities include hair dryer, binoculars, and two way radios for beach & Marco Island, Florida use. The unit has a balcony with table and chairs and the Sunsets are amazing. The Apollo condo complex has a huge pool, whirlpool, steam room, work out room, covered parking, two tennis courts, and after hours security. The Apollo condo also has an excellent restaurant and bar called the Tide. The bar was voted best happy hour on Marco Island Florida.
The unit is a non-smoking unit. This unit is available weekly or monthly. I always rent Saturday - Saturday to keep rentals flowing.
Rates are as follows:
Approx weeks between Christmas - Aprrox. Easter weeks are $1300 -$1900 per week (see rate details)
Approx Easter - Approx. Christmas weeks are $650 per week
I do offer multiple week discounts and monthly rental rates. All Rates INCLUDE Taxes and Cleaning.
I also require a $200 refundable security deposit.
I have a website at spartydad.com where you can see more information
Normal policy is $200 will hold the condo for you and I will then send you a receipt. Then 60 days before your arrival date I would require the rent payment. I will then send you keys, map of Island, information letter, and another receipt. Once you return from your trip, return my keys and I will send you your deposit back.
Amenities: see above
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A nice condo on a high floor (9 of 10). Great ocean view. Newly updated bathroom and kitchen. Owner is great and very responsive. Having a restaurant on the premises is very convenient.
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The Most Profound Prayer
It is somewhat of an exaggeration to say that Judaism has a blessing for everything. But only somewhat. After all, there actually exists a blessing for going to the bathroom.
There is something both absurd and profound about the existence of a Jewish bathroom prayer. Bathrooms have the distinction of being one place where prayer and Torah are to be avoided. The underlying assumption being that what takes place in a bathroom is fundamentally at odds with the holy name. And yet Jewish tradition mandates a blessing be said upon completing our business and exiting.
As a child, this blessing was the bane of my existence. The words, which seems endless and cumbersome to my 6 year old self, were a chore. Not simply irrelevant, in my no so humble opinion, they stood between me and recess, returning to class, or hanging out with friends. And in all honesty, even when I grew to understand the words, I could not fathom the need for such a prayer.
Whether or not we see ourselves as particularly religious, few among us do not feel awe when confronted with a rainbow, a beautiful seascape or mountain view. And for those moment when our own words may fail us, our tradition provides us with options. These moments are so obviously praise worthy.
By contrast, the goings on of the bathroom by contrast seem base, necessary but by no means extraordinary. That is until they don't work exactly as we need them to.
If you have ever toilet trained a puppy or a child, eaten the wrong foods or maybe too much matza at Passover, you know that the internal plumbing of a being is a finely tuned system not to be taken for granted.
And this speaks to the profound truth of the bathroom blessing.
Grand vistas may appear, extraordinary moments will happen but we do not need to wait for these to appreciate the holiness of the miracles of everyday life. Within the realm of healthy, everyday living, we can easily take for granted the small stuff. The ability to wake, to get out of bed are usually chores. Our tradition, by encouraging us to bless these moments provides us with the opportunity to reframe our understanding of what a miracle is.
The bathroom may not be a place for uttering the holy name, but that does not mean that what happens inside is not holy and miraculous. On the contrary, the very contradiction of Asher Yatzar points to a vision of everyday holiness that if taken seriously, as our tradition encourages us to do, has the power to imbue every moment in life with significant and profound meaning.
"Praised are You, Lord our God, King of the universe who with wisdom fashion the human body, creating openings, arteries, glands and organs marvelous in structure, intricate in design. Should but one of them, by being blocked or opened, fail to function, it would be impossible to exist. Praised are You Lord, healer or all flesh who sustains our bodies in wondrous ways." (Translation from Siddur Sim Shalom).
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Hanukkah is just around the corner. The smell of the freshly cooked latkes. The dreidels spinning on a table next to brightly wrapped gelt. The light of the candles on the menorah brightening up the darkness. Hanukkah brings us in touch with our senses and with beautiful memories.
At the heart of the holiday beyond the latkes and the dreidels is the notion that when we truly believe and we truly strive nothing is out of our reach. Hanukkah is the yearly reminder that the story of the Jewish people is one of miracles abounding; of not accepting what seems like the inevitable and of believing in the impossible because, just maybe, we can make it possible. Judaism is a four thousand year protest against fate and against chance and Hanukkah is a magnificent part of our protest movement.
The singer and song writer, Julie Geller, has released a beautiful new music video that makes us ask ourselves: What is our miracle? Whether it is finding the person you want to spend the rest of your life with in a world of more than 7 billion people or being saved from certain death by a passerby who knew CPR, what is the miracle that you lay claim to? Perhaps, the miracle is simply the gift of renewed life every day.
Watch the video and ask yourself, what is your miracle?
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I never used to think it would matter, but nowadays I think it would. I have no problem having religious debates but I wouldn't want my entire life to be a religious debate.
It does actually. It's important <br />
Because although I'm catholic I was baptised but didn't have a holey communion I'd still like to baptise my baby with my partners blessing. My partner wouldn't be religious only spiritual.
When it comes to dating, religion should not play importaint role, but when it comes to marriage, religios views are very importaint
Not really. I'm very loosely Christian and the only religion I wouldn't date are Satanists.
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Only if it matters to you. It doesnt have to have anything to do with the right one.
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need an 8 seater car with 3 ancorage points at the back and 3 in the middle
Started by 4+1more , Dec 12 2011 12:32 PM
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Posted 12 December 2011 - 12:32 PM
i have 4 children. my eldest is 5 so they are all still in car seats.
I have just found out i am about 6 weeks pregnant with my 5th( yet to tell my hubby) i just want to do as much research as possible.
I need some opinions on cars. i will need 5 ancorage points so i will need 3 in the back and 2 in the middle so the extra seat can fold down for the kids can get into the back.
Im not going to ask at car yards as the best i was offered by them was to get a 7 seater and have my older 2 climb in through the boot . and yes, he didnt have children
any information on cars would be greatly appreciated.
thank you
Posted 12 December 2011 - 01:07 PM
Firstly congrats
There are no new cars that have what you're after. If you're looking new, the best you'll find is the 8-seater kia (3 anchor points in middle, 2 in back, however, the middle seat in the back is a lap-only seat belt) or the Mercedes 8 seater with 4 anchor points.
If you're buying older cars I'm not so sure. I know the taragos used to have more anchor points than they do now (now they only have 3 in the middle).
A few people on here bought cars without enough anchor points and got more installed with a crab bar, you may want to look into that?
Posted 12 December 2011 - 02:45 PM
Depends really on your budget.
I have a Volkswagon Caravelle 9 seater. Personally I love it, as we can use the 9 seats (comes with two anchor points and you can get more installed) but its a 2/2/2/3 configuration. So easy to get into all seats.
Also while only needing 7 seats you can remove the middle two seater and move the three up giving you a 2/2/3 config. with a MASSIVE boot, bigger than the imax boot! Really depends on budget though and how many seats you need for the future etc.
The imax was ok as well, but we didnt like how it drove compared to the Caravelle, but it was also dearer than an imax....had we not had the budget for the caravelle we would have gone imax as a second choice. We didnt consider the smaller more "car" like 8 seaters as we have teens so wouldnt have lasted us long.
Posted 12 December 2011 - 05:37 PM
When we had 5, all in carseats/boosters, we had an older style Tarago. 3 anchor points in the middle, 2 anchor points in the back. I had the younger 3 kids (all in carseats) in the middle row, and the 2 older kids (in tethered boosters), in the back row. With the middle row as far forward as it would go, there was enough room for my older boys to squeeze past and strap themselves in without flipping the seat.
Posted 13 December 2011 - 08:01 AM
We're expecting our 5th too. They are all in carseats at the moment.
We have a 10 year old Tarago which has 5 anchor points. We bought it for about 10K. We have our 4 year old twins in the back and our 6 year old and 2 year old in the middle row. Our new bubba will go in the middle row when she is born.
We've been very happy with the Tarago. Haven't had any problems with it and plenty of room in the back even for a double pram (which happily we don't need now!). Apparently the older style Taragos have more boot space too.
Good luck.
Posted 13 December 2011 - 11:16 AM
If your eldest is already in a booster have you thought about using an untethered one, like the pegasus?
Posted 15 December 2011 - 02:06 PM
Why an 8 seater?
The VW Multivan (a real 7 seater) has 5 anchor points in the back!
There are also VW Caravelle's with 8 (real) seats and short wheel base (the 9 seater is long wheel base), but they only have 2 anchor points.
Posted 17 December 2011 - 02:50 PM
We have a Nissan Elgrand, it is an 8 seater and has 2 anchor points for the second row and three in back row. The middle seat has a movable seat so that there is no climbing over seats, and I find it pretty easy to get bubs in and out whatever the seat configuration.
They retail from $15000-$20,000 for earlier models (but being imports they have extremely low kms) (and up to $50,000 for the latest models) they are pretty easy to get parts for and servicing is not a hassle either, they have the same running parts as a Nissan Pathfinder (can't remember the exact year). Insurance is also pretty average.
Interiors are nice, you can get all leather interior, sunroofs etc in the Highway Star and Rider models, or a combination of leather/suede, or just suede in the other models. They are really cruisy to drive, don't feel big and clumsy on the road and are 4WD as well, they also have a fair bit of guts and aren't sluggish to drive. I'd never driven a big car before but I prefer it to my Commodore now, and that's saying something!
Boot space isn't enormous when the rear seats are right back, but if you move them both forward a bit there is still heaps of leg room and the boot space is ample. Even with them right back I can fit a stroller and full size pram in the back. For an added bonus, the rear seats fold up and to the side to allow for a large cargo area, and the middle row of seats swivels 180degrees to face the other way and pushes right back against the front seats, so if you ever need to take big loads anywhere there is heaps of room.
We've had our 99 Elgrand Rider for over 3 years now and have no complaints at all.
Good Luck and Congrats!
Posted 17 December 2011 - 04:07 PM
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Posted 17 December 2011 - 06:18 PM
Older Chrysler Grand Voyagers have 2 + 3 (captain's chairs in the middle row, so easy access to rear). Unfortunately, newer ones have done away with 2 of the rear row anchor points.
The Multivan is a great car with the same configuration as the older CGV. It's what we'll probably get next.
Posted 18 December 2011 - 07:10 AM
We're expecting #5 too and our eldest is 7, so in an anchored booster.
We have a Mitsubishi Delica 7 seater. It's a 2/2/3 set up so easy to walk right through from the front to the back (I love this feature).
It's not a new car though, but a grey import. It's also 4WD.
I think it came with 3 anchor points, but we had another two fitted which was easy enough.
The back row is a bit squishy so we have to have two slimer seats to fit in with a larger one.
Posted 07 January 2013 - 10:34 PM
We also have nissan elgrand , its good and reliable, my only problem was putting the car seat arranging it properly,I dont see where to hook it, anyone here can help me please?
Edited by hyacint18, 07 January 2013 - 10:34 PM.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 02:21 PM
I bought a Hyundai Imax. it's a 8 seater and has loads of room. I had extra anchor points fitted in the back. So now I have 5 anchor points. At $100 ea.
Posted 26 January 2013 - 04:40 PM
natr6 - We are about to purchase an Imax! Can i please ask where abouts your extra anchor points were fitted?
I know i can get a CRAB bar installed but would prefer extra points in the floor or roof if possible
Also are the ISOFIX points in the middle row only?
I'm so looking forward to our new car!
Posted 02 February 2013 - 11:46 PM
5-for-now I think it depends on which state you are in as to where they will put the anchor points.
As with natr6 Im in WA and our extra points are on the floor behind the rear seats. Some states require a CRABar.
There are 2 isofix points only on the middle row.
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