Strollers
2010 Passage™, Alano™ and Spree™ Stroller Recall
Potential Problem:
The hinges on the stroller’s canopy pose a fingertip amputation and laceration hazard to the child when the consumer is opening or closing the canopy.

Injuries Reported: 7

Number of Units Affected: 1,500,000

Dates Produced: October 2004 through Feb 2008

MSRP: $80 to $90

Models Affected: 6303MYC, 6303MYC3, 6320IVY, 6320LAU, 6330CAP, 6330THR, 6330THR3, 6F00QIN3, 6F00RRY3, 6F03GLN3, 6G10CSE3, 7235GGA, 7235GGA2, 7236CDR2, 7237HOL2, 7237HOL3, 7240DNB, 7240DNB2, 7240MKL2, 7240MKL3, 7241DDH2, 7241DHO3, 7255CLP, 7255CLP2, 7255CRA2, 7255CRA3, 7255CSA3, 7255GPK3, 7255GRN, 7255GRN2, 7255JJB3, 7255ORC2, 7255WLO2, 7255WLO3, 7256CLO2, 7256SPM2, 7256SPM3, 7260BAN, 7260BAN2, 7260BAN3, 7260MRA2, 7260MRA3, 7260PKR, 7260PKR2, 7270BIA, 7270BIA2, 7E01JON2, 7E01JON3, 7F00LPE3, 7F00RSH3, 7F01FOR3, 7F02GLM3, 7F04TAY3, 7F07EMA3, 7F08DSW3, 7F08LAN3, 7G00DLS3, 7G00DLS4, 7G01CRL3, 7G04KRA3, 7G05GPR3, 7G06WSR3, 7G07ABB3, 7G07BAT3

Solution:
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled strollers and contact Graco to receive a free protective cover repair kit.

To order the free protective cover repair kit, click here.

For more information on this announcement, please visit our blog, FAQ page, or contact us at (800) 345-4109.

Formula to find a woman

This joke was emailed to me :)

What does all this mean? A website that has high page rank means that search engine such as Google, Yahoo and MSN will display your website in the top search result. I only mentioned the the top three search engines because the other players don’t matter, at least in North America.

I say when a SEO organization offers instant result and traffic, mark them as spam and never communicate with them. There is no such thing as instant results, search engine optimization take lot’s of TLC. It can take many days, months, years before you see the fruits of your labour. If your website competes with many hundreds of websites offering the same services, then the results of any optimization can take many months. But what if all your competition were also hiring SEOs for their websites, then you should pray really hard.

Seach engine optimization is not an excat science. Google, Yahoo and MSN guards their algorithms dearly. But this does not mean that some of the known tricks in the industry do not work. I can certainly say that they do for my website. Optimizing a site requires a lot of time and effort.

My internet dating website Cupid Post is rank very high for many keywords. For example if you search for the words internet dating on google.ca, you will see Cupid Post listed in the top 10 results, usually in the first page. This means that the probability of someone visiting Cupid Post is very high when the words internet dating or internet dating service are searched. This my friend took years of tender loving care from me, if only I had more time I could do even better.

Phase 1: You are listening to jazz — Your first day at work is great. Your coworkers are wonderful, your cubicle is cute, and your boss is the best!

Phase 2: You are listening to pop music — After a while you are so busy that you are not sure if you’re coming or going anymore.

Phase 3: You are listening to heavy metal — This is what you feel like at month end.

Phase 4: You are listening to hip hop — You become bloated due to stress, feel sluggish and suffer from constipation. Your coworkers are too cheerful for your liking and the walls of your cubicle are closing in. You have started thinking ‘WHATEVER’ about your boss.

Phase 5: You are listening to GANGSTA RAP — After more time passes, your eyes start to twitch, you forget what a ‘good hair day’ feels like as you just fall out of bed and load up on caffeine.

Phase 6: You are listening to the voices in your head — You have build a makeshift door on your cubicle to keep people out, You have a dartboard with your bosses picture on it in your cube, You wonder why you are even here in the first place.

The next morning Ed got up early and left for work. When his wife woke up she looked out the window and sure enough there was a box gift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway. Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, brought the box back in the house. She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale. Ed has been missing since Friday

This is weird, but interesting!

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Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
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FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT.

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HELLO FRIEND,
 
My name is DEBRA WHITAKER, .I work with International Models Journal(IMJ) company in NEW YORK  as senior Model  officer i will be coming to your city very soon for a beauty contest   and i will need a place to stay in. I am so much interested  to have yours if avaliable now.Kindly contact me via  e-mail whitakerprivate@yahoo.com
Hope to hear from you soonest and Have a nice day.
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Below is the email I just received in response to my rental home add.   Funny thing is all these email have the same story, I am a maiden in distress stuck in Africa…. .

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 I have a new email address!You can now email me at: marybrent11@yahoo.com 

Hi, I want to confirm if you still have the room/apartment for rent, if yes,I will like to have the description of the room/apt, Payment mode. Little about me ,I am 26 years old female and I work full time,Monday through Friday and have weekends off except for once a month. I was born in Ft. Worth, Texas, but I was brought up in Africa I moved to 23 years ago after the death of my father, one of my cousin who live and work in Africa took me there for my studies since my mother cannot take care of me after my father’s demise. I work in a fashion home as a designer director. I am not really a sports person, BUT I do love Hockey Games. I am a very out going person and fun to be with. I do play the organ and piano,, and I do have BOTH piano and organ here at my house. I don’t drink , smoke and I don’t do drugs. I like going to movies,, concerts ,, plays, I like camping, hiking, bike ridding, swimming, and I love to travel.I am a very dedicated individual who is totally committed to human development, friendly, very trustworthy and value relationship . I am an easygoing person and like to have an apt/roommate who is very responsible and understanding . I am presently in Republique Du Benin and I will be moving to the Canada to fully to start a new life and get my own business after 8 years of service in the fashion home in Africa… I will be staying in your apartment for six or a year depend ing on how the lease is drawn ,I will be arriving to the Canada as soon as possible. I need your response as soon as possible so as to arrange for you to get the money prior for my arrival as the company client I worked for before I quit wants to arrange for the payment. As I will like to make an advance payment ahead my arrival so that you can be rest assured that this is real since I am not in the Canada presently.Thanks and have a good time.

Warning to Canadians crossing the border

SOME OF YOU MAY NOT BE CROSSING THE BORDER BUT FOR SURE YOU HAVE FRIENDS THAT DO – A Warning to Cross Border Shoppers

A lady was driving back from shopping on Eureka Road with her Sister and children, and noticed that the same car had been Following them for a while. The car continued to follow them all the way back to the bridge, and even queued up behind them in line for customs.

Luckily, she was on the ball. When she pulled up to the customs officer she mentioned to them that the car behind them had been following them the entire trip from the shopping mall. The clerk told her that she was going to have them pull in for inspection, and that she was going to pull this other car in as well.

So here’s the deal. When the inspectors looked in and around her car, they found that drugs had been stuffed into the undercarriage. The inspectors told her that this is happening more often. The Drug dealers find a vehicle with Ontario plates parked at the mall, they stash the drugs and stake out the vehicle. They follow the car across the border and retrieve the drugs as soon as the car is Left alone. If the car is stopped at the border, it’s someone else who is arrested. This is not a joke. Please pass this on to anyone You feel will benefit.

Rick Bertok #7174 Constable Community Patrol Branch Chatham-Kent Police Service

436-6600 ext.87174

THE FORBIDDING CITY

No Kolkata locality is as neglected as Tangra, and no community as alienated as the Chinese. In spite of its overflowing gutters and filthy alleys, Chinatown still holds its charm in the city of joy. But it?s time to look beyond its chilli chicken and chowmein, says Subhro Niyogi

Dark alleys, overflowing drains, w at e rl o g g e d streets, heaps of garbage, filthy water, foul smell ? it?s hardly a place you would like to drive through, much less stop by. But over 10,000 people do just that every day. They drive down to the hell hole… to dine! That?s Tangra, one of the city’s most popular food destinations. The 38 Chinese restaurants in Chinatown have, over decades, retained a customer base loyal enough to brave the odds for a taste of the exotic. Tangra is also home to some tanneries that continue to operate illegally despite an order to shift out. Operating on smoke-belching generators, the toxic chemicals, used to treat hides at these leather units flow into the open drains of the locality. The stink is appaling. There is just one metalled road that runs through the Chinese settlement. South Tangra Road (now renamed Matheswar Tala Road) is the lifeline for the 3,000 odd
Chinese and nearly 100,000 more who work and live in the congested ghetto. The road has no prominent approach. Two alleys, hemmed between high factory walls, connect it to Christopher Road off the Park Circus connector. Big restaurants like Beijing, Big Boss, Hot Wok and Kim Ling are located along this road that is barely wide enough for two vehicles. With most customers parking their cars on the road, it is a nightmare to drive through in the evenings. It gets much worse in the monsoon, when the mildest of showers leaves Tangra in knee-deep water. The drainage system is not worth a mention. The serpentine bylanes and alleys off Tangra Road are veritable hell holes. The kuchha gulleys turn into water channels. When the water eventually dries out days after the
shower, it leaves behind a slippery, stinking slush that becomes impossible to negotiate.
With four open drains, the pungent stench of chemicals and waste hangs heavy over Tangra all year round. The drains are nearly always filled to the brim. A heavy run-off from one of the factories
or a light shower triggers an overflow. The muck from the drains simply empties out into a stretch of wasteland to the east of the colony and stagnates forever. A breeding ground for mosquitoes, the slush seeps into the watertable, contaminating the only source of drinking water for people in the colony. Since there is no conservancy service, garbage piles up till a restaurant or factory owner personally pays to get it cleared.

With KMC turning a blind eye to Tangra?s needs, the Chinese have themselves concretised a few alleys, mostly those leading to popular restaurants or big leather factories. There are no street lights here and the dingy lanes become dark and scary after dusk. Even Tangra Road is ill-lit. KMC?s neglect has led to the mushrooming of illegal constructions in the locality, which flout every possible norm in the book. The worst, though, is the total lack of adherence to fire safety. If a fire were to happen in Tangra, it would turn into a death trap.

Ironically, infrastructure should never have been a concern in Tangra. Spread across three wards ? 58, 59 and 66 ? it should have attracted enough development funds from councillors and MLAs to make the place more liveable. Instead, it remains one of the filthiest localities in the KMC area. Even some slums are perhaps better off.

Divided house crumbles from within The biggest stumbling block to development of Tangra is the community itself. Living in cocooned existence for nearly a century, the present generation Chinese in Kolkata is stuck at crossroads.

The community needs to come out in the open and speak up. We must express our aspirations to be understood by others. Though Chinese restaurants and shoe-shops are extremely popular, interaction with the non-Chinese has always been restricted to business transactions. It has rarely transcended into daily life. On the other hand, communities like Parsis and Bangladeshis have managed to become a part of the social milieu,? says Paul Chung, president of Indian Chinese Association for Culture, Welfare & Development. Now, with most youths migrating to the West and threatening the very existence of Kolkata?s Chinese Diaspora, many in the community feel the time has come to
act decisively. But what prevents them from doing so is their introvert nature,inherent sense of mistrust (thanks to years of alienation after the 1962 India-China war) and reluctance to take risks.
?The community was united till faced with the tannery shift issue. Then, a section of the people, who represented the Chinese at negotiations with the government badly let us down by agreeing to shift without compensation. It drove many tanners out of business and created a deep rift in the close-knit
community,? explains restaurateur Hsieh Ying Hsing.

With the house divided, there is no clear leader in the community. And that is a huge problem when it comes to taking major decisions. Mistrust, egos and differences scuttle most initiatives. ?A lot of people would be interested in the development of Tangra but are hesitant. We desperately need a leader to pull everyone together,? says Huan Bao Tannery Owners’ Council (HBTOC) secretary general Chu Yin Wah. Such is the level of mistrust that if someone wants to do something good, others will whisper about his or her ulterior motive, residents say. ?It is extremely discouraging. The youths are disillusioned because in the Chinese family system, the young ones are not encouraged to speak,? says Chung.

A few years ago, Hsieh attempted to float the idea of transforming Tangra into Chinatown with pagoda style gates, Indo-Chinese museum and Chinese garden. The idea was to transform Tangra from a place where one could enjoy Chinese food to one where one could get the Chinese experience. But few attended the meeting,he recalls.

HBTOC honourary director and former WTO consultant Ajit Kumar Sen feels it’s high time the Chinese set their house in order. ?Chinese businesses have always lacked transparency. Most of them do business worth crores of Rupees but fail to appoint chartered accountants. With business so central to their existence, once they develop good practice in trade, it will transcend to daily life,? he
reasons.

JOURNEY TO CHINATOWN

The first record of travel from China is provided in the travelogue of Fa-Hien who visited Tampralipta (Tamluk now) in the 5th Century AD. Many words in Bengali ? like chini (sugar) ? can be attributed to Chinese influence. The first person of Chinese origin to arrive in Calcutta was Yang Tai Chow, in1778. He worked in a sugar mill hoping to save enough to start a tea trade.
Calcutta was the easiest accessible metropolitan area from China by land. Many of the earliest immigrants worked in the Kidderpore docks. A police report in 1788 mentions a sizeable Chinese population settled in the vicinity of Bow Bazaar Street.
During the time of Warren Hastings, the first governorgeneral of British India, a Chinese businessman, Tong Achi, established a steel mill at Achipur, 33 km from Calcutta, on the banks of Hooghly river. A temple and grave of Tong Achi still remain and are visited by many Chinese during the Chinese New Year. The first Chinese-owned tanneries sprung up around the time of World War I. In1961, there were close to 7,000. The Sino-Indian War of 1962 ended further
immigration from China. An unknown number left, mostly to Australia, Canada, and the US
Those that remained were often branded enemies, detained and sent to an internment camp in Deoli, Rajasthan, between 1962 and 1968. The Chinese population in Kolkata dwindled from 20,000
to 10,000. Those who remained were deprived of right to free movement and dismissed from jobs in private and govt enterprises. The only occupations left for the Chinese were in the restaurant business, tanning and shoemaking. The treatment of Chinese residents and their isolation after the war were recounted in Rafeeq Ellias’s documentary TheLegend of Fat Mama India and China resumed diplomatic relations in 1976 but it was not until 1998 that ethnic Chinese were allowed naturalised Indian citizenship.
In 2005, the first road sign in Chinese characters was put up in Tangra Fusion of Chinese (esp Hakka) and Indian cuisine has given rise to Indian Chinese cuisine