Editorial: Winter poses danger for house fires | Vertical Socket

Jazmine Barnes was killed when a man in a red pickup truck pulled up next to her family’s car and opened fire Sunday

Drop another $4000-$5000 and Premium versions of each bring larger alloys, leather heated and ventilated power seats, power sunroof, paddle-shifters, bi-xenon headlights and wireless phone charging.

Hyundai Ioniq product planner Scott Yoon says the model’s brief was to have “attractive styling, be a normal looking car, have competitive fuel efficiency, engaging driving and advanced, smart technology”. In other words, an antidote to the challenging design of its Toyota Prius rival.

"So, when we did our first human patient and we put the bionic limb on him and we saw natural movements emerged, emerging through the mechatronics in natural ways it was truly exhilarating," he says.

As you stretch and strain to hook that light cord over an out-of-reach branch, remember this: The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates there were 14,700 decorating-related injuries treated in US emergency rooms during the 2016 holiday season, 41 percent of which involved falls — including three deaths attributed to falling off a ladder. Lacerations (10 percent) and back strains (5 percent) were the other most common injuries.

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Flip a light switch in the room to determine whether you have a half-hot outlet. Sometimes called a “lamp outlet,” this type of outlet is a little different from standard outlets in that half of it (usually the bottom half) is controlled by a switch on the wall. The purpose of a half-hot outlet is to allow you to plug in a lamp, turn it on, and then control the lamp from the light switch. If you’ve noticed a switch on the wall that didn’t seem to go to anything, it could very well control a half-hot outlet—flip this switch and then try the outlet again.

It warms my heart to see that one solution to our modern over-reliance on batteries is a battery-powered wall socket. That’s outside-the-box technological thinking, friends.

Sliding up the motherboard we’ve got even more connectors! The shiny left-most connector is a USB 3.1 Gen2 connector next to another 4-pin PWN fan connector. Next to that is the vertical mounted M.2 drive slot.

•If using a live tree, make sure it is fresh and green, with needles that are hard to pull from the branches.

The Sunday Observer is the oldest and most circulated weekly English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka since 1928.

OREI offers a number of different adapter options, but one of its simplest and most straightforward is one of my favorites for European travel.