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Now a popular part of the Christmas build up in towns and cities across the UK – squares and streets are taken over by quaint stalls and chalets selling all manner of seasonal produce. As well as exploring the festivities you can also make the most of your weekend on our fantastic Weekend Plus break. You'll enjoy four free drinks vouchers per person to use on a selection of soft drinks, beers, wines and spirits on Saturday night.
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Day One - Home to Melrose
We'll make our way from the interchange to Melrose, where we'll check in to the Bay Waverley Castle Hotel and will enjoy a sumptuous evening meal. (D)
Days Two and Three - Melrose
We'll have a great time, with time to discover Melrose's many sights at leisure, as well as a trip to Edinburgh to discover this city's wonderful historical sights and the excellent Edinburgh Christmas Market. (B,D)
Day Four - Melrose to Home
Time to say goodbye today; we depart after breakfast and make our way to the interchange before returning home. (B)
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Abbotsford House in snow
Today we'll enjoy an excursion to historical capital Edinburgh. Take some time to explore the magical winter wonderland of Edinburgh Christmas Market. Many of the activities are centred around the hustle and bustle of Princes Street and you can soak up the festive atmosphere as well as picking up a present or two!
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This is really cool :) dunno if I'd buy it or not, maybe for my girlfriend, but +1 anyway!
bellissimo!! ;)
its crazy that they haven't printed one of your shirts yet. they are all amazing.

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OverviewCub Peak sits at the Eastern end of Cub River Canyon. Its East ridge forms the divide between Snowslide Canyon and the North Fork of St. Charles Canyon. It is very seldom climbed even though the actual summit is only about 150 ft. above the well-used High Line Trail. It sits on the Franklin/Bear Lake County line but the actual high point is just to the West of the line in Franklin County.
From the West the mountain just looks like the high point of a pine covered ridge but from all other directions it looks like an actual peak. The East side is mostly bare and rocky and the West side is steep and thickly forested.
It is only about a mile North of the Franklin County High Point (Pt. 9484) and it offers a spectacular view of the highest portion of the Bear River Range to the South, Franklin Basin, Cache Valley, Bear Lake, and most of the major peaks in the Idaho portion of the range.
It has been officially surveyed by the Forest Service and there is an intact marker on the top.
The climb is an easy class 1 and there is only about 150 ft. of off trail bushwhacking. It is a very easy summit but the view is very rewarding. The main challenge to this mountain is that you must hike for some distance to even get to it no matter which direction you come from.
Getting There
From Preston, ID
Go south on Highway 91 til you get to Cub River Road. It's about halfway to franklin. Turn left on this road so you're heading east. Don't turn any where on this road until it splits well past the forest boundary. If you go straight it will take you to the Hull Valley BSA camp. You should turn right here so you're head towards Willow Flat campgraound. There will be a sign. Follow this road until you get to the campground. You will need to go over the bridge and then take the first left and follow this road to the end. It is very short. Park at the end and this is the trailhead.
The Climb
From the Trailhead follow the Bloomington Lake Trail to the top of the ridge. It is well used and well marked. This first part is actually the most difficult because of the elevation gain. The trailhead is at just over 6000 ft. and it climbs to an elevation of about 8500 ft. within about 1.5 miles. There are very few switchbacks and the trail is quite rocky as well. The other thing about this section of the trail is that there is not much timber and therefore not much shade so it is best to do in the early morning when it is still cool. Otherwise the heat could become a problem. Once you get tio the top of the ridge there will be an intersecion of the High Line Trail with the Bloomington and North Fork St. Charles Canyon Trails. There is a large stone cairn at the intersection and there are a few badly damaged signs on it. From here take the High Line Trail South for about 2 miles. This section is very easy hiking with mostly smooth elevation gain/loss. Cub Peak will be visible as soon as you get around pt. 8897. The rrail will go about 150 ft. below the summit. From there just leave the trail and bushwhack to the top. There will be a Forest Service marker on the top.
Red TapeThere are no restrictions except fire restrictions in dry years. The highline trail is also open to motorcycles so watch for them. You can usually hear them a long ways off though.
Once you leave the Cub River there is NO water on the trail. You will need to bring your own. It is possible to get water at Bloominton Lake but that is about a mile out of your way to the North.
Bloomington Lake also has a few decent undeveloped campsites. There are also restrooms.
There are also many, many beautiful places to camp along the High Line Trail that are not in a campground and are far from any roads. It is possible to camp just below the summit or even on the top!


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By Evonne Ermey
Natalie Portman isn't the first celebrity to bear her baby bump on the cover of Vanity Fair – See Demi Moore. – but the photo, which appears on the magazine's "Hollywood Special" issue, is making waves.
The photo is also drawing the obvious comparisons between Portman and Moore- Both photos shot for the same publication, both by the famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, and in various stages of undress. Moore's photo, which featured the actress completely nude, was published on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991, and was met with a lot of controversy and criticism.
Portman opted for a winding sheet, used as a cover-up from which her baby belly peeks out. Both photos are beautiful.


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CFL.ca StaffTORONTO — With the 3rd overall pick in the 2010 CFL Canadian Draft, the Toronto Argonauts announced that they have selected LB Cory Greenwood from Concordia. A three-year starter, Greenwood's athleticism, intensity and toughness earned him the Presidents' Trophy in 2009 as best defensive player in the CIS. The 3-time QUFL All-Star also led the league in tackles in 2009 with 62.
Commented Argos' Head Coach Jim Barker, "We felt both Cory and Joe were critical to what we want to do. Rather than wait on another team's choice, we did what we needed to do to move up in the draft to get the players we wanted. Cory is extremely athletic, very physical and plays with great instincts and aggression. Cory plays linebacker the way linebacker is meant to be played."
Greenwood remarked, "It's such a relief to finally know where I'm going to start and hopefully finish my professional career. It's been a long process and I've played my heart out, but I've enjoyed every minute of it. Growing up in Kingston, I've followed the Argos and especially the career of Mike O'Shea. I can't wait to work with him and the rest of the Toronto coaching staff. I've been in intensive training for a month now and plan to keep up that level of intensity going into training camp and the season. I feel so lucky and privileged to be a part of the Argonauts organization and thank them for the opportunity to play in the CFL wearing the Double Blue!" For complete results of the 2010 CFL Canadian Draft click here.


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There may be something specific about the documents you are trying to print or the printer itself. On my end (also using Windows 7 64-bit), the demo document of RadRichTextBox which contains 8 pages is printed to the XPS printer in less than 3 seconds. We have not observed such an issue with RadPdfViewer either.
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Someone has recreated the ruins of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fallout 3, an adventure game that features the player trekking through the ruins of Washington D.C. after a world war resulted in a nuclear holocaust.
A modification like this is probably going to spark questions about whether it's too soon to recreate this kind of disaster in a video game without offending anyone — Japan's 9.0 earthquake, devastating tsunami and radioactive leaks are still open wounds. But professional and casual game developers have been using video games as a medium to pay homage to lives lost in disasters or as a tribute to individuals for about as long as they have been able to create custom modifications of popular games. The ruins are an addition — or mod — of the original game, which featured destroyed landmarks like the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Games like Fallout 3 and BioWare's Star Wars epic, Knights of the Old Republic, usually end up creating massive communities that create modified versions of the game because they are so open-ended. That means it's easy to create new content for the games, which typically ends up generating more publicity for the game because many of the mods are major improvements over the original game or are very well written. Some of them are also controversial — but the same is true for just about any storytelling medium. However, modifications are typically restricted to PC versions of games because they are easier to develop, limiting their audience.
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D'Japanese Tunnel Family Resort and Restaurant
Matina Balusong, Davao City, Philippines
D'Japanese Tunnel Family Resort and Restaurant Davao City Reviews
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Great and affordable, with nearby historical site to see! Oct 06, 2009
This restaurant is part of the D' Japanese Family Resort and Restaurant.
The resort itself is a hotel with a pool.
Next is a historical site from WWII. A tunnel created by the Japanese during WWII. There is an entrance fee.
The restaurant is a great restaurant with tasty, large portion, affordable dishes, a mix of Filipino, Japanese, and western food.
We ordered mostly the Filipino dishes. And my favorite - mango juice.
The serving is meant for sharing and averages from PhP 100-200 ($2-4).
The staff is attentive and nice.
The atmosphere is relax and easygoing.
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August 5, 1861: The Battle of Athens, Missouri, was fought—a Civil War skirmish. You can visit the battle site today; it's an official state historic site.
This post was contributed by Ross Malone. A historian and a retired school teacher, Ross has authored many books about Missouri's history, weird facts, and folk tales. He has also written children's historical fiction. Visit his website, and buy his books in the Missouri Life store.


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With just two teams remaining, the list of candidates for the Conn Smythe Trophy honouring the post-season MVP has narrowed. Here's a look at five of those in the running based on their play thus far.
1. Dustin Brown
The Kings captain leads the team in several categories including scoring, hits and game-winning goals. His ability to get under the opposition's skin has added to both his reputation and his effectiveness through an alarmingly easy Kings run through the first three rounds.
2. Ilya Kovalchuk
Few skaters stand out offensively for the Devils, mainly because there is so much emphasis on the "team" game. But Kovalchuk is now the league leading scorer in the playoffs and his big-play ability late in the Eastern Conference was impressive.
3. Jonathan Quick
Quite possibly the early frontrunner given his astounding numbers thus far in the Kings' 12-2 run. The Los Angeles netminder has a 1.54 goals-against average and a .946 save percentage with two shutouts.
4. Martin Brodeur
There was a sense heading into the playoffs that Brodeur has lost some of his edge, but his play in the third period Friday night certainly eliminated that thought. But here's why he's MVP material: When things get a little off-kilter for the Devils, the team relies on his calming stability (not to mention his 2.04 GAA and .923 save percentage through 18 games.)
5. Anze Kopitar
Probably the least likely of the Kings candidates named here - though that could change with a big final. Strong up the middle, Kopitar has flash on offence but it is his two-way play that has distinguished him thus far.


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Or perhaps 1984 is a better analogy, and that would be rather poignant, considering that Apple is said to have made a huge initial impact years ago with its anti-1984 ad.
We should have known then that a company using 1984 as a means of selling itself would eventually develop into its own Orwellian nightmare.
The latest?
… a representative from developer relations informed the CEO of Mediaprovider, a small magazine publisher based in Denmark, that he couldn't put a magazine about Google's (GOOG) Android on the App Store.
According to Mediaprovider's Brian Dixon, the exchange went like this:
"So what's the problem?" Dixon asked, knowing full well what the problem was.
"You know… your magazine," replied the Apple rep, who identified himself only as Richard. "It's just about Android…. we can't have that in our App Store."
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Yummy, M&M's again! I'm right behind you at 32:09!
Thanks so much, siouxzn--this is another of those puzzles where I took an old one, embossed it with new colors, then added bits of other old puzzles to the sections, then changed some of the colors again. It's much freer than the original now, because that was all just sold colors! I'm so glad you liked it!
Overflowing with joy here. I really love colorful free forms like this. Thank you very very (not a typo :-)) much.


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This auction is for misc. Lionel train items. As of 01/31 this aution has been updated with as many details as possible so please send an email with any questions.A little History: This train was my grandfather's and father's Monday night hobby during the late 40s and into the mid early/mid 50s. They had a 50'x18' room in their basement where this train was setup and was actually quite a show piece. My grandfather was very neat and meticulous and I'm sure during that time it was taken very good care of, but after it left his hands the train was not treated as nicely; some my fault as a child. In the early 70s (when I was 8 or 9) I took a portion of the train and setup a small track at my house. Unfortunately, 2 of the trains (Santa Fe and Penn Steamer) had a head on collision and fell off the table. The Penn has some paint chips in the front and a portion dented and one of the Santa Fe engines has a cracked cover. After that occurred I was banned from using it and we moved a few months later and that was basically the last I saw of the train until a few weeks ago when my parents moved. In the back of a barn behind lawn machinery and under boxes of old family movies and slides were 8 boxes of train items. So since 1978 it has sat in a barn in boxes. Apparently many mice have had their fun living in the boxes and the elements ... read more


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'Not unhappy with new ministry, never haggled'
"The prime minister took me into confidence about the change in my portfolio and that was enough for me. I have never in my life haggled or bargained for portfolios," Reddy said.
"It has been my effort to be a faithful partyman under a truthful (prime) minister and that shall be my focus and that has been my focus," he added.
In the cabinet reshuffle Sunday, Jaipal Reddy was transferred from the crucial petroleum ministry to the ministry of science and technology Veerappa Moily is the new petroleum minister.
Asked whether he was given a reason for his removal from the petroleum ministry, Reddy said, "No minister is ever told about the reason and I think the PM should not give the reason for change in a portfolio." He added that he had an "excellent" relationship with the PM and that he had always been shown affection by him.


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does it find any other signal but yours. if it is that, try resetting your router and it may come up.
Hey! So I have this wii, can I installed the HBC and I started installing some CIOS and stuff to get USB games to work, but I couldn'd so I just uninstalled everything. Then, I didn't check for a long time. Now my Wifi doesn't work. It just can't find the signal, and it used to. Do you think its because of that? How can I fix it?
does it find any other signal but yours. if it is that, try resetting your router and it may come up.
You might've uninstalled something important... did you delete any IOSes at all?
It does not find any other signals, and there are others around.
I did not uninstall any IOSes either.
I have tried to create another connection. I have cleared everything and tried. I get no results from it, and my router has no buttons, but I can easily connect to my Wi-Fi using my DS lite or my PSP and I have at least 3 other computers that can connect to the router wirelessly.
Also, I would just like to add, I greatly appreciate your help.
I think you might have to accept a new license agreement from Nintendo. I'll double check this but I think I might've done this...
Wii Options >> Wii Settings >> Internet >> User Agreements >> Yes >> ACCEPT
But make sure you block online updates with Priiloader first.
It said the last update to the agreement was 6/22 or something like that, about when 4.3x was released.
Thank you also for your help. I also contact Nintendo support through e-mail and I didn't mention any of the hacking, but it turns out there are too many signals in my house. I mean, I have 8 cordless phones, 4 different sets of them, and tons of other stuff that interferes with it. I know in the wall, there are tons of wires and cell phones and stuff get in the way. Thank you all, I truly appreciate your time and help.


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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAlice in Chains MTV UnpluggedThis album is just so emotionally charged with all the tormented feelings of Staley. His vocal performance and there rest of the bands instruments go very well with the band creating a dark but melodic sound. The songs can become so brooding such as Nutshell and Frogs, the latter being actually quite disturbing. Of all AIC's albums I think this one will still be listened to years from now and people will still feel the same way. They will feel that same emptiness and hopefully view Staley as the tragic figure our generation views him as. 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He is still macabre even in this modern age were shock is a vital tool and goth culture reings supreme. His voice has dynamic rang and his music is a tight machine. 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But the reason I gave this album a 5 is because of there firey (and sometimes gross) live performances. Oddly enough Pyrotechnics, baby diapers, gimps, dildos, and Hitler's rolling "r" sound seem to make a huge impression on me and I'm sure other people. This album just happens to have most of their best songs when they play live. Thus this isn't really a rating of the album but a rating of there wild shows which will go down in music history.Rammstein SehnsuchtRamones Greatest HitsRick James Street SongsRob Zombie Hellbilly DeluxeShinedown Us and ThemSystem of a Down Steal This Album!System of a Down ToxicityThe Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandThe Flaming Lips Fight TestThe Mars Volta AmputechtureTool 10,000 DaysZao Liberate Te Ex Inferis3.0 good+44 When Your Heart Stops BeatingA Perfect Circle Thirteenth StepIggy Pop Lust For LifeMy Bloody Valentine GliderStone Sour Stone SourStone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... 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The composition is good, with the subject 'filling the frame', thus removing any unnecessary background disruptions.
I'm not an animal or wildlife photographer so not really qualified with such images. My initial thoughts are that it would have been better if the cat was looking at you. The left eye does not look as sharp as the right, a slightly wider aperture (f7.1) would have solved this. However, this is part of the problem when shooting with natural light. Sometimes there is not enough and you need to use smaller f stops.
I see you shot the image at 55mm. I'm not a Nikon user so not familiar with their lens range, but if you are using a zoom lens try setting it at 50mm.
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Thank you for the nice words. Yea, I had on my 55-300mm lens because I was trying to shoot other things. None of the other things turned out as well. The cat was just up on the handrail trying to get some morning sun and when I turned and saw him I had to shoot a few pictures. I've only spent a few days playing with my camera in A mode, but really enjoying learning how changing the aperture and or shutter speed changes the end product. I must admit this was shot in auto.
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The Echo Presents
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Novi Split
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Zee Avi is just 23 but she's an old soul. A huge talent in a petite frame bringing a universal message from the unlikely birthplace of Borneo, an ancient island east of Malaysia which remains an untouched, natural paradise, an apt description of her songs.
Born in the tiny town of Miri in Sarawak on the island of Borneo, Zee grew up near the South China Sea in a liberal, encouraging household where her father owned an energy consultancy. "I was bred to be a lawyer," she says, but music was in her blood. Her father's father sang and played double-bass, accordion, violin and guitar in bands.
With an eclectic pool of influences that range from such eccentrics as Cat Power, Regina Spektor, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, Daniel Johnston and Chris Garneau, to jazz greats Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, to classics like Velvet Underground and Led Zeppelin, this self-described "rock lover at heart" captures the dark, bittersweet qualities of romance with a crack left open for hope and optimism.
The songs on Zee Avi's debut are about an outsider's desire to belong and the tentative hope of moving on, filled with regret and loss, but boasting an impish, worldly wise sensibility. "I tend to be a loner," she nods. " 'Honey Bee' is about a romance between two nonconformists who are different from the rest of the hive, and are trying to avoid the pressure to be like everybody else."
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LOCATION: San Pedro, CA
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LYRICAL INSPIRATIONS: Records. Smart people with great ideas. I can't think of one inspirational moment that sent me over any edge though. I wish I had a Purple Rain moment to talk about. I wish I had a basement with a piano and a purple bike. You bet your ass. I write and record everything in a bathroom. It's what I've always done at the end of my nights. I swear to God, I sit on the can and play guitar all night.
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Here are several different types of organizational strategies you may wish to explore with your outline:
Standard structure: This type of organization is one you are probably very familiar with from your academic writing. It is a very versatile structure and is inherently logical in its presentation; however, if you're not careful, you may run the risk of sounding too formal and perhaps too derivative with your writing. As with all your essays, make sure you make your essay personal so your voice comes through.
In your first paragraph, you introduce the main points of your essay. In the following paragraphs, you provide evidence to support each of your main points (usually defending one point per paragraph). In your final paragraph, you reiterate your main points in the context of the evidence you presented, possibly leaving the reader with some "big idea" that takes your message one step further.
Comparison: This organizational structure attempts to draw a comparison or analogy between two seemingly unrelated things. In the case of medical school applicants, these essays usually compare a non-medical life experience/talent/interest/famous quote with the field of medicine or the applicant's desire to pursue medicine. It is common for applicants to begin with a story, personal anecdote, quote as a lead and then spend the rest of the essay describing how the lead relates to or sheds light on medicine or their goal of becoming a physician.
If you use this structure, make sure that you provide adequate reflection on how your two disparate ideas connect (or don't connect) to each other. Make your arguments explicit; don't leave it up to the audience to figure out your points. Also, don't get too abstract or philosophical in your comparisons. You don't need to say something profound; rather, just be yourself. Remember, your discussion should always lead back to you and your motivations to enter medical school.Chronology: In this type of outline, the writer takes the reader through the various steps in his/her life that led him/her to medicine. The introduction is usually the initial event that started the writer on his/her journey toward becoming a doctor. The writer then generally recounts the subsequent events in which he/she further explored and/or was further drawn into the medical profession before concluding with how all these events brought him/her to where he/she is today.


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It's BAAACK: Ready or not, here comes RoHS 2
Every North American electronics company that trades in the EU should make at least one New Year's Resolution: to learn how RoHS 2 will impact them, because ready or not, this regulation takes effect January 2, 2013.
RoHS 1 vs RoHS 2
RoHS 1, which has applied since 2006, restricted the use of six substances in a range of electrical and electronic products. The original six banned substances—lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium and flame retardants PBB and PBDE—still remain under RoHS 2, but the intention is to potentially include others, including 4 substances of very high concern as cited under the REACH legislation: HBCDD, DEHP, BBP, DBP. In RoHS 1, the directive applied to eight of the ten product categories which were listed in the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive: large household appliances, small household appliances, IT/telecommunications equipment, consumer equipment, lighting equipment, electrical/electronic tools (except large scale stationary industrial tools), toys/leisure/sports equipment and automatic dispensers.
Under RoHS 2, the remaining 2 categories have been added from WEEE: medical devices and monitoring and control instruments including those for industrial use. In addition, there's one more catch all category: all other EEE not covered by any of the other categories! Yes, there are exclusions, and I'll tell you where you can find them at the end of this blog.
RoHS 1 simply required that any product in scope should not contain any of the restricted substances and that the party placing the product on the market in the EU (could be the manufacturer, importer or distributor) should maintain records to show compliance, should they be asked. RoHS 2 demands a whole new level of compliance from all parties in the supply chain, including distributors. The precise responsibilities depend on the role, but can include a conformity assessment, CE Marking, maintenance of compliance throughout production, documenting evidence of compliance to be kept for 10 years and self reporting of non-compliance.
RoHS 2 Compliance Deadlines
January 2, 2013: All products covered by the original directive (the eight I cited above) must comply, paperwork and all.
July 22, 2014: Medical devices, monitoring and control instruments (excluding those exclusively for industrial and/or professional use) must comply.
July 22, 2016: In-vitro diagnostic medical devices must comply.
July 22, 2017: Monitoring and control instruments which are designed exclusively for industrial and/or professional use.
July 22, 2019: All other products (the category 11 catch-all)
This blog is meant to serve as an alert and to give you a broad overview of the differences and obligations between RoHS 1 and RoHS 2. Much more detailed information and access to legislation experts can be found here.


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The UCSF Headache Center is seeking a fellow for a one year UCNS eligible (accreditation in process) Headache Fellowship Program. The Headache Center has a comprehensive program of inpatient and outpatient headache management. The fellowship will encompass clinical management of adult and pediatric patients with variety of headache disorders. Pharmacological, behavioral, and minimally invasive injection techniques are taught and practiced. Interdisciplinary training is also done in conjunction with the UCSF Pain Medicine Department. The Fellow will have an opportunity to participate in clinical research projects and clinical trials. Fellows are also actively engaged in teaching neurology residents. Educational objectives will be augmented with sponsored attendance at appropriate Headache Society meetings.


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Updated: Lane to be Closed at 56th Street and Second Avenue in Kearney
The city of Kearney Utilities Department and Midlands Contracting have announced a lane closure along 56th Street in Kearney that is taking place Tuesday, Feb. 26.
The installation of a new sanitary sewer main is causing the closure of the most southern east bound lane of 56th Street on the west side of Second Avenue. The closure will begin at 8 a.m. Tuesday and will be closed through the end of the day Friday.
The new sanitary sewer main, which will connect to the existing line located south of 56th Street, will provide sewer service to the Oak Park Center subdivision.
The city is urging drivers to use caution in the area and to watch for construction workers and machinery. Whenever possible, the city asks drivers to find another route to reach their destination.
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Friday's CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA is the federal agency with the most effective leadership, according to an employee survey. NASA's Mars Curiosity benched by sun. The Hubble Space Telescope spots the most distant supernova. A Peruvian glacier offers evidence for rising temperatures. Experts continue to troubleshoot a sticky pointing system component on the exo-planet hunting Kepler Space Telescope. The Apollo moon landings faked? Only a few Americans believe so. Even a tiny white dwarf star has the mass to war space time.
1. From The Washington Post: NASA ranks tops among federal agencies in effective leadership, the Department of Homeland Security last, according to an employee survey conducted by the White House Office of Personnel Management.
2. From Space.com: The sun now stands between the Earth and Mars, blocking communications with NASA's Curiosity rover until May 1. The rover landed in Gale crater on the red planet in early August. Efforts to communicate during the Mars solar conjunction might result in the transmission of corrupted commands.
3. From Space.com: The Hubble Space Telescope observes the most distant supernova ever. Super Nova Wilson exploded more than 10 billion years ago. The detonation may help astronomers with future assessments of the age of the universe.
4. From The New York Times: High in the Peruvian Andes, scientists find more evidence for rising temperatures in a "rapidly" shrinking glacier.
5. From Space News: Experts continue to evaluate a sticky reaction wheel aboard NASA's Kepler space telescope. So far, Kepler's mission to find exo-planets similar to the Earth is not in jeopardy, say mission managers. The device is part of the system that steadies and points the telescope.
6. From Space.com: Seven percent of Americans believe NASA Apollo moon landings were faked.
7. From Discovery.com: They are small, but white dwarf stars can warp space time, NASA Kepler space telescope finds.
A. From the Los Angeles Times: NASA's Kepler space telescope gathers first evidence that a binary star system can bend light as it travels across the cosmos. Physicist Albert Einstein predicted as much in the early 1900s.
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Info concerning Ashland University rules, and registering for elective seminars and discussion sections. As a student, your first stop should be the registrar's office, where you can pick up a free copy of both the academic calendar and course catalog, in order to find available credit classes that you may be interested in taking. You may be surprised that you can enroll for a full-time course load, without having to attend any 8am classes at all. Finally, check with your major department for assistance with prerequisites, tuition payment deadlines, and Ashland University student life information. Please use the form above to request admissions info for Ashland University.
Research demonstrates that college freshman taking a full courseload go on to complete their degrees at a much higher rate than those students who study part-time. When choosing a major, plan ahead and be sure that you are picking courses that will meet transfer requirements of other colleges and universities later on. Further, by choosing your major early, you may be able to take some required core classes in a community college, saving both time and tuition fees.
Look at all the schools in your state first, as in-state tuition may be lower for state residents. The course catalog will outline which classes are required for a particular major, and what minimum GPA you'll need to maintain your class standing. Please contact the academic advising staff at the school you are interested in applying to about their specific course registration guidelines. Beyond consideration for Ashland University rules, you may think about Ohio State University Marion exam schedule for complementary electives to your primary course of study.
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Date: 3-4 March, 2009
Location: Vienna, Austria
Regular Price: 1,550
Learn the essentials of working as a ScrumMaster or Scrum team member in this course. While the Scrum Alliance provides a list of core concepts that must be covered in the class, each instructor creates his or her own material, allowing courses to differ based on the strengths, interests, and experiences of the instructor.
You are interested in a Certified ScrumMaster class? This class is going to be taught by the Author of "Scrum - Produkte schnell und zuverlässig entwickeln", one of the most experienced ScrumTrainers and Coaches. Boris Gloger was trained and mentored directly by Ken Schwaber and Norm Kerth. For Boris Scrum started in Vienna. This one reason why he put so much effort in making the classes in Vienna a creative experience.
Why a Certified ScrumMaster course?
I believe the ScrumMaster is a leader and a change agent on a mission. His duty is to make a Scrum development team successful. Throughout this course you can experience how to professionally take up the role of a Change Agent using Scrum as your swiss knife.
My vision for this course is that you learn that working together can create outstanding results. This is why I inlcude tons of hands-excercises with the peek event of cooking scrumish. During this Certified ScrumMaster course we will teach you how to make a development team, a project or an organisation agile and successful. What can you achieve from a Certified ScrumMaster course?
A detailed Agenda you will find here: AGENDA.
I promise: You will leave the ScrumMaster course with a new mindset and a new approach to work.
Prepare yourself for a two day long roller coaster ride full of creativity and emotion!
Stay tuned by showing up on my blog. News, insights and more you will find on www.borisgloger.com
All CSM courses are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers. Taking a CSM course, passing the CSM test, and accepting the license agreement designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to and understand the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team. This course also satisfies two elements of the CSD track: Scrum Introduction and Elective.
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How America's Police Became an Army
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The events in Ferguson, Missouri, have led folks to wonder why the police there look more like troops than cops. Here's a Newsweek article you should read. Short, partial explanation: our country is awash in military surplus gear. Our own Eric Celeste had a look earlier this year at how the phenomenon has played out in North Texas. ICYMI.


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Cross Country: Cannon Falls, Goodhue compete at ZMKW
The Zumbrota-Mazeppa/Kenyon-Wanamingo boys cross-country team took second at its home invitational Thursday with a score of 57, 20 points behind first-place Waseca.
The Cougars placed all five of their scoring times in the top 20, led by Eric Hokanson's time of 18 minutes, 6.7 seconds, which was good for sixth place. Micah Grove was close behind in eighth place with a time of 18:18.0 followed by Ben Nystuen's 12th-place time of 18:28.1. Ben Kleese, 15th at 18:42.3, and Craig Banks, 16th at 18:47.1, rounded out the scoring for ZM/KW.
The Cannon Falls boys were paced by Bjorn Pearson's ninth-place time of 18:18.9, as well as Karl Ritzman's 14th-place time of 18:38.8. The Bombers placed seventh as a team with 159 points.
Goodhue finished ninth as a team, with 221 points. The Wildcats' Joel Gadient took 34th with a time of 20:03.8.
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In the girls race, also won by Waseca with 39 points, ZM/KW's Skyler Jacobson took fifth with a run of 16:20.6. Callie Ryan finished 20th for the Cougars in a time of 17:18.0. ZM/KW took fifth as a team with 150 points.
Racing without top-ranked Emi Trost, the Cannon Falls girls were led by Katherine Hoffman's 16:39.6. The Bombers took ninth with 176 points.


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Roger Agnelli, 56, was among seven people killed when the plane crashed in a residential area of Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo, the O Globo news network reported.
The former boss of the Brazilian mining giant Vale was travelling with his wife and two children.
A pilot and two other passengers were also killed.
Dramatic images show firefighters battling to extinguish the blaze after the seven-seater plane slammed into a building in Sao Paulo's northern suburbs.
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Legal Question in Telecomm Law in Illinois
If my 13 year old is getting explict texts, what can we do to stop it?
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It's hard to answer this without more facts. Where are the texts coming from? Are they on a cell phone or some other mobile device? On a computer service? From a Web site?
The answer to your question will depend on the precise communications medium that is being used. Depending on the system involved, there might be some way to filter the messages so that your child does not receive them.
Also, who is sending them? Is it an adult? Another teen? An advertiser?
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High-power (multi-kW) fiber lasers are revolutionizing industrial materials processing markets by offering an unmatched combination of performance, reliability, and cost advantages. For example, in sheet metal cutting (the largest application, with more than $1B/year of laser sales), fiber lasers provide the highest cutting speed (especially for thin sheets, the dominant application), scalability to thick sheets (>1"), and the ability to process a wide range of metals with a single tool. Along with low power consumption and high reliability, these capabilities result in the lowest cost per part. Fiber lasers have thus been the fastest-growing segment of the laser market for the past decade.
As deployment of fiber lasers has increased, users have identified several shortcomings of existing designs:
- Their sensitivity to back reflections from the work piece causes frequent process interruptions, precludes processing certain metals or finishes, and can result in laser instability or damage.
- Their limited serviceability causes excessive downtime and service cost, and prevents system integrators from providing world-class customer service to the end-users.
Furthermore, several emerging applications would be enabled by more advanced performance, including higher beam quality and beam-shaping options, faster modulation rates and rise/fall times, and sophisticated waveform-generation capabilities.
The following sections cover:
- fundamental aspects of fiber-laser and component technologies that confer significant performance and reliability advantages,
- the design and performance of next generation fiber lasers that address the outstanding needs summarized above, and
application examples that illustrate the capabilities of next-generation fiber lasers.
Fiber Laser Basics
Figure 1 shows a schematic diagram of a generic laser system. All lasers are comprised of an optical gain medium housed in a cavity. A laser system may also include one or more amplification stages (additional gain media) that further increase the optical power. Key differences among laser designs include:
- the nature of the gain media,
- how the gain media are energized (pumped),
- the design of the cavity,
- the inclusion of components to control the spectral, spatial, and temporal characteristics of the output beam,
- the optical system employed to deliver the laser beam to the application, and
- the coupling among these components.
The choices made by the laser designer among these technologies determine all of the important laser characteristics, including performance (power, efficiency, beam quality, wavelength, polarization, stability, etc.) and practicality (cost, reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, etc.), which ultimately determine the suitability of the laser source for the intended applications.
Three key technologies have been especially important for the development of high-performance, high-reliability lasers for industrial applications:
- Diode laser pump sources: Diode (semiconductor) lasers directly convert electrical energy to light with high efficiency (>50%). Continuous improvements, particularly during and after the telecommunications boom of the 1990s, have dramatically increased the power, efficiency, and reliability of diode lasers. Diode lasers are particularly well suited for pumping solid-state gain media because of their brightness and spectral characteristics. Diode lasers are manufactured in two formats: (a) single emitters, in which each semiconductor chip includes one light-producing region (emitter) that typically provides 10 – 20 W of power; and (b) diode bars, in which multiple emitters are included within one semiconductor structure. Single emitters were developed extensively for telecom (and the advances continue to this day); they provide the highest power, brightness, efficiency, modulation rate, and reliability (>1,000,000 hr. mean time to failure), in part because the emitters are thermally and electrically decoupled, and they can be efficiently coupled into an optical fiber.
- Solid-state gain media: Solid-state gain media are generally more reliable and require less maintenance and consumables than gaseous or liquid gain media. Most solid-state gain media are composed of a rare-earth element, which provides optical gain, doped into a crystalline or glass host. The choice of the rare-earth dopant(s) and host material determines the absorbing (pumping) and emitting (lasing) wavelengths and the efficiency, which in turn determine the attainable power and beam quality. Yb-doped gain media are particularly well suited for high-power applications because they are pumped at 910 – 980 nm, where diode lasers offer the highest power and efficiency, and lase in the wavelength range of 1030 – 1090 nm, where the small energy difference from the pump wavelength ("quantum defect") enables operation at high optical-to-optical (pump-to-lasing) efficiency and correspondingly low thermal load.
- Optical fibers: An optical fiber is a strand of glass (typically silica-based) that guides light by total internal reflection, thereby eliminating the effects of diffraction. Confining a laser beam to a fiber enables low-loss transmission and delivery of optical power without the use of mirrors, lenses, or other free-space optics that are prone to misalignment, contamination, and damage and whose performance can be degraded by vibration, temperature variations, other environmental factors, and optical power changes. Passive optical fibers simply transmit light, whereas active optical fibers, in which the core is doped with a rare-earth element and pumped by a diode laser, provide gain. The fiber gain medium offers the highest optical-to-optical efficiency because of the long optical path length and excellent overlap of the lasing beam with the gain region. Furthermore, the high surface-area-to-volume ratio facilitates heat removal, making the fiber gain medium particularly well suited to power scaling. Finally, the mirrors required to form a laser cavity can be written into passive optical fiber (fiber Bragg gratings) and spliced to the gain fiber. As with pump diodes, advances in optical fibers have been driven by telecommunications applications and continue today.


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48 air-conditioned guestrooms at Bao Dai Villas Hotel feature minibars and ceiling fans. Bathrooms feature bathtubs or showers, makeup/shaving mirrors, slippers, and complimentary toiletries. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. Guestrooms offer phones. Televisions have satellite channels. Rooms also include hair dryers. Housekeeping is offered daily and guests may request a turndown service.
- Under Vietnamese law, a guest who is not a Vietnamese citizen cannot share a room with a Vietnamese citizen without proof of marriage to each other. Otherwise, a second room must be booked.
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Remy: I think the Rebound Roverandom was limited to 25 copies.
Oh, yes, I knew it was a small number, but I was too lazy to check it and I went for 10 copies...
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'Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea'
Re: A nice blog on collecting Tolkien books
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Re: A nice blog on collecting Tolkien books
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2007/4/29 5:29
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That's a nice book, but I think you may find it a bit restricting to collect only boxed editions of Tolkien's works from now on. But we'll see.
(as a matter of fact, there's nothing stopping you having boxes or slipcases made for your books - apart from the price, of course. I had my Methuen Silm. on the shelf, just as it comes from the printers, for years. Then last year I decided it needed a bit of protection from dust and general shelf-wear, so I had a bookbinder knock up a nice slipcase in paper-covered boards with a ribbon pull, which moves the book out of the case like silk. It cost me £20.00, which I thought reasonable.
As for the Harper Collins logo - forgive my bluntness, but what else can you expect? All the HC books have that logo. My older copies of LotR etc have the Unwin Hyman logo, and the ones before that have the Allen & Unwin logo (which is, simply, their name; but a logo nonetheless.) Branding is exactly what it is; it's been going on forever; and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. Now what is odd is that on the limited ed. Folio set, the name of the author is missing from the spines; all you see is the book title (TH, LotR, Silm), and the word 'FOLIO' in large capitals. Mind you, the designer makes up for it on the books' front covers.
India paper is lovely; though I've never been happy about reading my copies. The paper seems too thin, though actually I've read (in Sutcliffe's history of the Oxford University Press) that one ought to be able to support the whole weight of a book by one leaf. Not that I'd try it myself!
Tolkien called the 1969 India Paper LotR 'the Bible edition.
Posted on: 2010/9/1 14:17
Re: A nice blog on collecting Tolkien books
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2009/7/7 13:15
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I find the idea of focusing on just collecting boxed/slipcased editions quite a good idea. At a rough count there are about 50 UK different ones (I am including paperback boxed sets) on my shelves and I don't even have all the ones I would want in my collection (I don't have the pauline baynes hardback set for instance).
On garm's point about a single leaf suporting the whole weight: I have a really bad condition 1978 LOTR India-paper (no box, pages missing at the back and cover painted - yes, painted - grey - it cost a pound) so I have just tried holding one page and, lo and behold, it does work. Not even close to tearing. The paper is evidently deceptively strong.
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Boxed editions are restricting but if you take UK published books alone (both hardback and paperback, and include Folio Society editions) in slipcases or boxes, there are about 75 different sets to collect.
Some of the paperback box sets from the 1970's are now difficult to find, mainly because the cardboard boxes were poorly made and have fallen to pieces.
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Another season has departed us and already plans are being cemented for the 2013-2014 League One campaign.
The annual cull has materialised with seven players departing the Blues this May and fresh contracts offered to five current members of last season's mid-table finishers.
However, even though the rebuilding job for next term has already begun in earnest, the main conundrum to the supporters is what is going on with the new stadium plans?
It was many moons ago now that the club first came out with plans for a 12,000, all-seater capacity stadium in the north of the city.
At first, supporters alike were pretty keen on the idea and optimism filtered around the terraces about a new era possibly beginning with the move away from the rickety old Brunton Park.
A couple of years later and things have never taken much more than one step forward and two steps back.
The club have bickered with the city council about moving to the Kingstown area of the city and building a new stadium in such an area would be seen as problematic for the council.
Fans were initially in favour of the move and a new beginning but now it seems the fans are more split about leaving the famous Brunton Park, which is, after all, plonked near the city centre and ideal for most people to reach.
So, it seems for the time being we are staying at our current abode until notified otherwise.
However, is there a hidden agenda behind why the club are not making tracks to start the building work for the new stadium? We know the council are reluctant to let the club build on the proposed site at the Kingstown area of the city, but is this the real issue here?
We are well aware the club are struggling financially but maybe the core reason is that the directors really don't have that drive, power and ambition to drive this project through to completion.
Many murmurings in the city suggest that the club has become stale, that we have reached our limit in terms of progress both on and off the field. The signs are pretty ominous with the crowds depleting season upon season and now becoming a big worry.
If this is the case, I guess the same can be said for the current Blue Yonder project.
The club has done well in recent times: at the end of season 2003-2004, we were facing a spell in non-league football for the first time in our history yet the next season we had managed the near unthinkable and gained promotion back to the Football League at the first attempt - something only we and Shrewsbury Town have accomplished this Millennium.
The following season was supposedly about staying up and building for the future but we went a couple of steps further and won the League Two title.
After a fair few seasons in English football's third tier, we are now a mid-table League One club.
There is no shame in this, but the expectation levels have risen considerably with the success the club achieved in such short time.
My intuition is that the club has achieved too much in such a short time frame and this has brought some drawbacks.
I feel for the club to realistically reach the promised land of the Championship with the new stadium intact and have the belief we could compete and survive in the second tier of the English pyramid, we would need new ideas, fresh investment and somebody with the power to make this all a reality.
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The Washington Post's series "Biased Research, Big Profits" by staff writer Peter Whoriskey has won the George Polk Award for Medical Reporting.
The series uncovered ways drug makers seek to alter physician decisions through economic incentives and questionable research that has been accepted by the nation's best medical journals, universities and independent associations.
Sometimes, as a result of companies obscuring the dangerous side effects of popular drugs, tens of thousands of people have died while millions were pushed into medicines they never should have taken.
The award announcement credited Whoriskey for detailing practices that revealed how the pharmaceutical industry is "warping the practice of medicine and endangering patients."
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Paolo Cherubini's research interests lie within physiology, ecology, and evolution, with relevance to the knowledge and sustainable management of natural resources and nature conservation. He strives to understand the key processes behind tree growth, to gain a thorough understanding of the influence of environmental stress on tree physiological processes, with particular focus on intra- and interannual cambial activity and wood formation. Dr. Cherubini is Italian, grew up in Pisa, Italy, and was educated in forest sciences at the Università di Firenze, Italy, and in dendrochronology at the Universität Basel, Switzerland, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1996. In 1992 he moved from Italy to the ETH Zurich in Switzerland, and since 1993 he is with the WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute, Birmensdorf, Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Cherubini is currently Senior Scientist at the WSL, where he is Head of the Research Group "Dendroecology." He is Adjunct Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, Adjunct Faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA, and Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. He is editorially very active: he serves currently as Editor in Chief of the journal Dendrochronologia, he served in 2002–2011 as Associate Editor of Tree-Ring Research, and he is Editor of iForest and Member of the Editorial Board of Geochronometria and of Journal of Vegetation Science.
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Subject: Re: [NYALBANY] Grooms St. in Albany, NY?
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No Groom Street in the city but there's a Grooms Road in Clifton Park north
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> Can someone tell me if there is a Groom, Groomes or Grooms Street in
> Albany, NY? I have a GGGgrandfather, Peter Grooms, Jr, b. 1806, NY.
> Found him and Peter, Sr. living in Burlington Co, New Jersey in the 1830
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With children come great responsibilities. One thing that too many moms and dads do that makes me consider them irresponsible parents is not follow car safety guidelines. In the United States, all states currently have car seat laws that require children who are less than one years old and/or less than 20 pounds to be in a rear-facing car seat. In some states, the minimum age and weight is higher. However, safety recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and other groups state that children should remain rear-facing until age two and/or the child outgrows the specific car seat.
My daughter is now over a year old and weighs about 23 pounds. However, she is still riding around in a rear-facing car seat and will remain rear-facing until she outgrows her car seat. The car seat that we have goes up to 40 pounds rear-facing. After 40 pounds, she will still be in a five-point harness while forward facing until she outgrows the height and weight limits for the five-point harness. After that, our car seat converts into a booster seat. My daughter will be in the booster seat until she reaches its maximum height and weight limits.
All too often I still see smaller and younger children turned around to forward facing by their otherwise loving but irresponsible parents. For kids who are too small, facing forward can be deadly. Just take a look at the tragic story of three-year-old Emily Kay in Las Vegas. She recently died in a car crash because she was in a forward-facing booster seat. Due to her size, she should have still been rear-facing or at least in a forward-facing car seat, not a booster seat. Had she still been in a car seat, her chances of survival would have been greater.
I am sure that little Emily's parents thought that they were doing the safe thing by keeping their daughter in a booster seat. However, if more parents did more research, more children would remain in rear-facing car seats and then forward-facing car seats for longer before switching to a booster seat. Ignorance is not a legitimate excuse. Children should remain in rear-facing car seats and then in forward-facing car seats until they outgrow the height and weight specifications of the specific seat. Car seats save lives.
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Everyone ready to jump the gun? Of course you are. Well, no reason to play the games now I guess.
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Two things come to mind when we see what Tyrone has gone and done. First, is he going to have to keep shaving that? Because it's gonna get pretty hairy and gross, real quick. Nothing more embarrassing than a national championship tattoo of a team that bowed out in the second round, covered in hair.
Also, I suppose that if Kentucky doesn't win the NCAA men's basketball tournament, all is not lost. Other sports in which they could realistically still become national champs in 2014 are:
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Pune developer eats its words, starts refund
The sham has finally ended. Over a week after Pune-based real estate developer Maple Shelters waded into a controversy by claiming that it would build 10,000 houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY), it said on Friday that it had erred in interpreting the provisions of the scheme.
On April 14, it had published an advertisement in newspapers, bearing even a picture of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, announcing the launch of its project. The advertisement sought applicants for a non-refundable fee of R1,000. The builder's website also claimed that the project was aligned with the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
mid-day had on April 19 questioned the builder's authority in providing houses under the scheme when it didn't have the approval of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA), the nodal agency for PMAY in the state.
A day later, Maple Shelters had claimed that it could bypass MHADA's authority and had the documents to prove it.
Apologises to CM, PM
On Friday, though, it did a complete volte-face. A statement issued by Maple Group CMD, Sachin Agarwal read, "While admitting to its error of interpretation of the provisions of the government's Prime Minister Awaas Yojana (PMAY), the Maple Group remains passionate about providing affordable housing for EWS (economically weaker section) and LIG (lower income group) customers, which is the need of the hour and aligned with vision of the central and state governments to provide housing for all."
The realtor said it has also initiated refunds of its registration fee as per the government's directive.
"Maple has refunded registration fees of 13,500 Aapla Ghar applicants and 500-plus applicants reinforced their faith in brand Maple by refusing to take the money back," it said.
The builder also apologized to the CM and Guardian Minister Girish Bapat for posting their photographs in its advertisement as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
It said it has also initiated online refunds for around 10,000 applicants who had paid the registration fees through the payment gateway services.
Maple Shelters' blatant defiance of MHADA authority had spurred the nodal agency to launch and inquiry into the project. Fadnavis, too, had directed the Pune collector to begin an inquiry of his own into the issue. A senior MHADA officer said the inquiry is still on.


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