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Not many singers have mastered the folky frail, warm warble like Matthew Houck. Under the moniker of Phosphorescent, Houck has released three notable LPs full of delicate yearning and humble heartwarmers. His music has a red-wine warmth to it steeped in the tradition of folk crooners, from Dylan through to Oldham. Very appropriate then that he should turn his attention to tackling one of the great troublatours, Willie Nelson; indeed, dedicate a whole album to covering the great country maestro.
Even for a Nelson novice like myself, it's immediately obvious why Houck is drawn to attempting to reinterpret these songs. Each one is - despite the hard-drinking bravado - essentially fragile, the sentiment veering from the self-deprecating to the self-loathing in a manner entirely suited to Houck's delivery: often little more than a murmur, always sympathetic. Perhaps more than anything else, the lyrical content and Houck's vocals work together because of the honesty of both; there's very little affectation on display. From the off it's raw, desperate stuff, 'Reasons To Quit' literally listing the title's intent, "I can't afford the habit all the time" being one of the most affectingly sincere. The instrumentation throughout the record has a lilting quality similar to Dylan's 'Pat Garret' soundtrack: slow, almost lazy guitars drifting over the echoic vocals.
Just as Houck's music has had a spiritual quality to it, so Nelson's songs deal throughout with morality – 'Too Sick to Pray' addresses God directly, explaining "why we ain't talked in a while". Elsewhere, on 'Permanently Lonely' Houck layers organ over the track, imbuing it with a similar religiosity. Indeed, it's perhaps for this reason why 'For Willie' remains engaging throughout – despite the bluntness of the topics (addiction, rejection etc), and Houck's own faltering delivery, the songs themselves, and Houck's interpretation of them, always remain hopeful: even though Nelson has been 'too sick to pray', at least he's praying now. Perhaps the best (and most heartbreaking) track is 'The Last Thing I Needed (First Thing This Morning)', where Nelson posits his partner leaving him as the latest in a string of domestic misfortunes ("this morning at breakfast I spilt all the coffee"). It's stirring, tragic fare that demonstrates why For Willie is a good introduction for those new to Nelson and Houck alike.
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Review: "Buried" A Relevant, if Underground Picture
"Buried" stars Ryan Reynolds as Paul Conroy, a civilian truck driver working in Iraq, who awakens to find himself entombed in a wooden coffin. Armed only with a cell phone and a Zippo lighter, Conroy spends the next 94 minutes – essentially the entirety of the film – trying to negotiate his rescue.
The premise presents a number of obvious challenges, but surely the most daunting was keeping the story moving. Yet director Rodrigo Cortes does an impressive job of pacing his narrative. Just when you think the film has run out of gas, Cortes manages to stage an action sequence in a box that's less than 50 cubic feet in size.
Reynolds is a pleasant surprise, stretching himself far beyond the comfort zone that has largely defined his career. Not only is he the focus of essentially every shot in the film, he covers a large swath of the spectrum of human emotion: fear, rage, sadness, love, sorrow... Let's just say he's come a long way since "Van Wilder." Screenwriter Chris Sparling and Reynolds wisely conspire to make Paul a bit of a dick, but still likable and human enough that you root for his survival.
Making Reynolds' performance all the more admirable are the fact that he pulled double duty as both leading man and head gaffer, handling all the lighting for the film. And because every scene could onyl be shot with one camera, maintaining continutiy was also primarliy his repsonsibility.
The film is pretty clearly a metaphor the United States' predicament in Iraq, without really taking issue with our involvement there. But Sparling, Cortes and Reynolds will all tell you that the film is not in fact about the Iraq War, a stance that is as frustrating as it is absurd. It's about a man trapped in Iraq desperately seeking a way out, but ineffectual bureaucracy and forgetfulness conspire to make escape virtually impossible – of course it's about the Iraq War. Yes, "Buried" is about other things as well, with scathing indictments of the federal government, big business and insurance companies, but c'mon…
"Buried" is impressive film even without taking into account the number of hurdles it had to clear, but given points for degree of difficulty, it's a minor triumph.

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- 1/4 cup chopped peeled cucumber
- 2 tablespoons chopped red onion
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
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When honoring Aaron Glenn's career with the New York Jets, fans should also walk away with a new understanding of professional football and — most importantly — life.
Forget every cliché about size and how big a man must be for a successful NFL career, because talent knows no size; and don't hurry to apply the 'bust' label to a man's name, because every set back is also a learning opportunity.
In the end, your first impression could be terribly wrong.
The Jets, holding the 13th pick in the 1994 NFL Draft, shuffled the board slightly when then-general manager Dick Steinberg sent a fifth-round pick to New Orleans and swapped places with the Saints for the rights to select Glenn, from Texas A&M, 12th overall.
When pre-draft speculation had the Jets targeting a wide receiver, the team instead went with the player who possessed the skills to cover them well. Instincts are, sometimes, everything.
Glenn played the first eight seasons of his 15-year career with Gang Green, racking up 24 of his 41-career interceptions in that time, including a career-high in 1998 with six picks. He represented the Jets in two of his three Pro Bowls, visiting Hawaii for back-to-back seasons in 1997 and 1998.
His achievements were well-deserved after his detractors were prepared to immediately dismiss the generously-listed 5'9" Glenn as a bust. The criticism slowly faded after Nov. 26, 1995 — Glenn's 27th regular-season start — when he notched his first interception in a victory against the Seattle Seahawks.
"It was a long time coming," Glenn joked to the New York Times after the game. "I needed it so I could get the media off my back."
That didn't happen right away, as former Daily News writer Paul Needell accused Glenn of whining. But with the first pick came the first brick in the foundation of a legacy that would see him become one of the most beloved Jets in franchise history.
No Little-Man Complex
Glenn knew people doubted his abilities because of his size. It wasn't something people whispered in fear of insulting him, or speculated upon in the media. The questions were blurted out, following him from college and into the pros.
People wondered how he'd match up against taller, more physical receivers. They wondered if he'd be able to disrupt a quarterback's timing, break down a receivers' pattern, or even become a legitimate starting cornerback.
Fortunately for the Jets, then-head coach Pete Carroll didn't share those concerns. Instead, he and his staff evaluated Glenn's game film and saw a player who didn't jump off the page, but dominated on the field.
Glenn was elite where it mattered most. He played bigger than he looked.
Carroll spoke of Glenn's "almost unmatched physical abilities" to the New York Times, and former defensive backs coach Ed Donatell echoed those remarks after working with Glenn. The young cornerback's dedication to becoming a top defender was evident to everyone who worked with him.
"He has unusual closing quickness that is very rare," Donatell said. "He can make up time."
Despite notching only one interception in his first two seasons, Glenn was known for his ability to throw a blanket over receivers. He may not have come away with the pick, but the receiver wasn't always going to come away with a reception.
"I had a vertical leap of 41 inches and I've played against tall receivers all my life," Glenn said after being drafted. "I don't think I have a problem at all."
The Defining Moment
The Fake Spike game lives in infamy, not only in the minds of longtime Jets fans, but in the heart of the cornerback who allowed the game-winning score.
A squandered 18-point lead resulted in a devastating 28-24 loss when Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino saw an opportunity to outsmart the Jets, and took it.
Marino distracted the defense by shouting, "Clock!" as he approached the line of scrimmage. Moving at half speed, everyone was caught by surprise when the ball was in the air for receiver Mark Ingram in the corner of the end zone — the same corner rookie Aaron Glenn was covering.
It was Ingram's fourth touchdown of the day and the beginning of the Jets' 1994 losing streak.
The following seasons were summarized masterfully by Times writer Gerald Eskenazi.
The Jets lost their final five games and have remained in the vortex of that loss. If they had won, they would have tied the Dolphins for first. Instead, it kicked off a stretch in which, over three seasons, the Jets are 3-20.''I learned a lesson,'' Glenn said. ''What it taught me was you can never take a play off.''
Despite losing seasons on struggling Jets teams, Glenn approached every snap with the intensity that made him one of the most reliable players to wear the uniform.
''I know it's hard to play for something when you have nothing to play for," Glenn said. "But my attitude is that this game that I play — the tape will go to 29 other teams and I want them to say, 'See that 31? He's playing hard.'"
''Plus, it's embarrassing to get beat out there all alone.''
When Pro Bowl voting ended in December 1997, Glenn learned he would be preparing for his first trip to Hawaii in February. Long gone were the days where quarterbacks looked in Glenn's direction and saw an undersized defender.
That was an elite corner roaming the secondary.
Lost in the Expansion Draft
In 2002, a high salary, a shift in the coaching scheme, and a new team in Houston looking to fill up their roster spelled the end of Glenn's career with the Jets.
Former general manager Terry Bradway and coach Herm Edwards made Glenn available for the upstart Texans, and they jumped at the opportunity to select a 29-year-old franchise cornerback fresh off a five-interception season in 2001.
Upset that Bradway or Edwards hadn't notified him of their decision, Glenn remained a consummate professional and took the prospect of wearing a different uniform in stride.
"I had a feeling it was coming, with the salary and everything," Glenn told the Daily News. "I don't know if I have a future with the Jets. I just don't think I'm their type of guy as far as a corner."
In his first season with Houston, Glenn nabbed five interceptions, returning two for scores, and recorded his only career sack for the right to attend his third and final Pro Bowl. He spent two more seasons with Houston before finding his way onto the rosters of the Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Saints, where he played in a limited capacity until 2008.
Through the Highs and Lows with the Jets
With more than half his career spent in a Jets uniform, the Texas-native embodied the underdog nature that often defines the organization.
After being discounted for his size, he was ultimately overlooked around the NFL for being part of dismal teams. When the Jets started winning, everyone took notice of the 5'9" firecracker sitting in the back pocket of every receiver he was tasked with facing.
Glenn was trusted to jump for balls against receivers like Herman Moore, and asked to slice the field in half for every quarterback he faced. And when he was finished doing that, he'd win the field-position battle on special teams as a lighting-quick return man.
A competitor as an athlete and a leader of men, Glenn embraced the opportunity to bring along former college teammate Ray Mickens after the Jets drafted him in the third round of the 1996 NFL Draft. Only two years (and one interception) into his career, and Glenn was the centerpiece of the Jets secondary.
While it was disappointing to see him go in the middle of his career, the impression he left on the organization isn't one that will ever fade. Honorable men rarely do.


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If you're the sort of person who follows tradition and you're looking for a kiss under the mistletoe, make your way to Mt. Hamilton where there's an abundance of the parasite.
You'll receive one, two, three kisses, all the smooching you could ever ask for under some trees.
There is some debate about whether or not mistletoe is good for the forest. NPR radio delves into the esoteric subject.
I think it depends on who you ask. The host may not think so, but the neighbors could see things differently — birds, insects, etc. It's kind of like putting up your in-laws for an extended stay.
But I digress. Mt. Hamilton today had plenty of sunshine, but the temperature hovered around 38 degrees all day long. I decided to ride today rather than January 1, a tradition for some.
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Thirty years ago, I had just been fired from my first job, as a Sacramento politician's press secretary. I unexpectedly had time and money to take my first solo vacation. I called up Western Airlines (yes, it was that long ago) and booked a flight to Maui.
It was beautiful, exotic and – best of all – the new home of J.D., a high school buddy from Long Beach who would let me crash on his couch in Makawao, upcountry on the slopes of Haleakala. J.D. worked as a beachboy at the old Intercontinental hotel in south Maui. He snuck me hotel snorkels, fins, lounge chairs and towels.
When not sunning and swimming, I would drive J.D.'s ancient, rusting Volkswagen van, nicknamed "bummer bus" for it's proclivity to break down. I'd go from Kihei to Kula, Wailuku to Wailea and everywhere in between. We'd party at night. On Saturday, J.D. and I drove up to Haleakala to see the sunset. Yes, sunset – I'm not getting up at 5 a.m. on my vacation to freeze my behind off. On Sunday, we made the drive out to Hana to go skinny-dipping with locals at Red Sand Beach.
When I left after a week, I was in love with Maui. Though my allegiance has shifted to Kauai over the years, Maui was my first love – and you never forget your first love. I've been back two dozen times since.
I was hardly alone in my admiration for Maui. Tourism has boomed over the past three decades. There are fewer than 150,000 residents on Maui, but more than 2.2 million visitors wing in each year. The island's landscape has been warped by mainlanders' needs, from the manicured swaths of golf courses to the Krispy Kreme and Walmart next to the airport entrance.
But the Maui I fell in love with still exists. Drive less than a half-hour out of the airport and you can be high up on the green flank of Haleakala, or strolling a deserted North Coast beach, or hiking around the wind-carved volcanic peaks of Iao Valley.
To mark 30 years, I'm rolling out my list of the over- and underrated on the island. For the hard-core Costco-to-condo crowd, this list won't matter much. For others, my underrated might be your overrated. We can agree to disagree – but I'm right.
Overrated: Lahaina. The former royal retreat, missionary center, whaling harbor and early Hawaiian capital seems to have turned into one big T-shirt-selling, timeshare-hawking, whale-watching, video-playing, luau-touting tourist trap. The banyan trees are amazing, the museums are interesting and the Pioneer Inn is tied for the oldest hotel in Hawaii, built in 1901, the same year as the Moana-Surfrider in Waikiki. But every time I drop into Lahaina, my mental meter is running the numbers on how many minutes until I can get out of town.
Underrated: Wailuku. In the past, I would have said Paia. But that once-scruffy North Coast counterculture outpost has become a trendy address in recent years. So I will double down on the ramshackle funkiness and go with Wailuku. A dud at first impressions, the county seat is dotted with ugly government office buildings and is far from the nearest beach. But the back streets are full of plantation-era shops and tiny Japanese stores and clubs. The Bailey House museum, dedicated to the early missionaries, leaves me shaking my head at how sour and dour these men of God could be – even before their sons began gobbling up land and importing Asian laborers at serf-like wages. Janice Fairbanks runs the lovely Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono, a B&B where guests on my most recent visit included Dutch tourists and a Honolulu businessman. The Wailuku Coffee Co. serves the best caffeinated brew on Maui. Best of all: only a trickle of tourists. On Hawaii's slickest tourist island, you can find a town the tour buses have passed by.
Overrated: Kapalua. This is no skanky Baldwin Beach. It's still a Maui beauty, the No. 1 choice in the first-ever "Best Beach" in the U.S. rankings. But its popularity has brought in ever bigger crowds. The once-open space behind the ring of palm trees has been developed into a resort area, giving it a less natural feeling than when I first visited three decades ago. It's no longer the best beach in the U.S. – or even on Maui.
Underrated: Hamoa. The best beach on Maui that you've probably never heard of (unless you listen to the English indie rock band Gomez). It is past Hasegawa's General Store on the Hana Highway, a long way from the sunscreen-slathered hordes on the resort-area beaches. Twice when I've visited, I've had the whole beach to myself. The crescent-shaped shoreline was once the lip of a small volcano.
Overrated: Zip-lining. Like an invasive plant that can't be rooted out, wires strung around natural places for people to hurtle down while bellowing at the top of their lungs has become one of the mainstays of overdeveloped resort areas around the world. Maui is no different. Adrenaline junkies love it. You, or your kids, might love it. But for me, it's the kind of hyperactivity I come to Hawaii to escape.
Underrated: Bodysurfing. With some of the best beaches in the world and well-shaped waves much of the year, learning how to get into the hollow of a wave and use your lead hand to scoot along the face of the short wall of water is a simple pleasure I can indulge all day. My favorite beach is D.T. Fleming State Beach, though in churning winter water you can end up with a face plant and a swimsuit full of sand if you pick the wrong wave.
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Overrated: Oprah Winfrey. The great land baroness of Maui, she has 63 acres outside of Hana and a big, white, two-story, Hawaii plantation-style mansion on the old Thompson Ranch, upcountry near the flank of Haleakala. Every "property for sale" sign sets off speculation that Oprah might add to her holdings. Whether she is visiting Maui or doing something on the mainland or elsewhere in the world, you will hear about it in the local newspapers and on TV.
Underrated: Charles Lindbergh. Yes, I know he has been dead since 1974. At least you can see his grave. Everyone else is hard to pin down. Clint Eastwood has a home in South Maui, while the counterculture lifestyle around Paia has attracted actor Owen Wilson, singer Willie Nelson, actor Woody Harrelson and Aerosmith frontman and "American Idol" judge Steven Tyler. The late George Harrison, "the quiet Beatle," owned more than 150 acres around Nihiku, near Hana. Most of the celebrities fiercely protect their privacy. Harrison sued his neighbors for using a pathway to the beach. Lindbergh, the great aviator, is buried in Kipahulu, just beyond Hana. You have to go behind the old Palapala Hoomau Church to find his pretty, lava rock-rimmed grave. Lindbergh was a pioneer in coming to Maui for celebrity privacy, and even in death he attempts to hide.
Overrated: Any luau. I've been to at least a half dozen commercial luaus around the islands and didn't enjoy any of them. The modern luau industrial complex has taken a traditional feast and turned it into a Vegas-style overeaters buffet of middling quality food, lots of expensive booze and then a floor show. It's a mainstay of group package tours and timeshare hawkers ("free luau if you come see our property").
Underrated: Ranch-grilled burgers. At the Honolua General Store near the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua and especially at Ulupalakua Ranch Store & Grill in the upcountry, you can have a great hamburger grilled to perfection and served at benches beside old ranch- and plantation-style buildings. Laid-back and delicious.
Overrated: Pools. Every resort hotel in West and South Maui has an amazing pool, with the ones at the Grand Wailea, Fairmont Kea Lani, Hyatt Regency Maui and Westin Maui among the best in the world. But to see people sitting at a pool with their backs to the ocean and a sparsely crowded, world-class beach just a few feet away is a crime against nature. I know why they do it – as my daughter said when she was younger about her preference for the pool, "There's stuff in the ocean." Well, darling, with all those people standing around with beers in hand, I can assure you there is "stuff" in the pool, too.
Underrated: Pacific Ocean. No island has more great beaches than Maui. Kapalua, D.T. Fleming, Napili, Kaanapali, Wailea and Hamoa just begin to cover the options. Even the airport has a good beach. Being slightly sunburned and having a lingering saltwater taste in your mouth is the feeling of being on vacation. If the pool is all you want, save your money and go to Las Vegas or Phoenix.
Overrated: Whaler's Village. Most of the same California-based surfwear stores and overpriced jewelry shops you'll find in Waikiki are packed into a two-story mall. The parking garage is striped for cars from the 1970s, so make sure you have your collision damage waiver on your rental Mustang before trying to squeeze it between two SUVs. I didn't and paid the price.
Underrated: Paia. The haven for hippies-turned-shop-owners on the north end of the island is a great stop on your way to Haleakala, the airport or the island's best fish restaurant, Mama's Fish House. In between the patchouli oil and crystals, you'll find plantation-era stores turned into funky boutiques selling secondhand aloha wear, artisan jewelry and interesting bathing suit designs. Maui Girls bikinis were featured in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.
Overrated: Summer. So you like bleeding out of your wallet? Hawaii sits just north of the equator, meaning there isn't a big difference between the seasons. Yes, it is marginally warmer and drier in summer. But the biggest difference is in prices, with summer costing twice as much as other times of year. Airfare from Los Angeles in early August: $1,000 roundtrip. Airfare in late September: $490.
Underrated: Fall. The summer crowds have gone home and the snowbirds have yet to arrive. There are no spring vacation hordes and Japanese "Golden Week" tourists clogging up a big chunk of April and May and driving up prices. With most vacationers having already spent their money on a trip to Hawaii, airlines and hotels have to drop prices steeply to get people to come. Many visitors won't go because of a fear of rainfall from a tropical storm or even a churning hurricane. But it's a long shot, and the savings are enough to offset any apprehension. My favorite time is right after Thanksgiving, when fares are low and the tropical-style Christmas season is in full swing.
Overrated: "Margaritaville," by Jimmy Buffett. Like the feeling after downing a pitcher of too sweet frozen margaritas, I am ready to hurl after hearing yet another Maui beach lounge act singing about "searching for my lost shaker of salt." The whole Florida/Mexico collection of songs beloved by Buffett's "Parrothead" fans has been transplanted to Maui. There's even that Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant in Lahaina that takes its name from another Buffett song.
Underrated: "The Last Resort," by the Eagles. "Call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye." Almost 40 years ago, the Eagles were singing about overdevelopment and greed changing places. The last part of the song is set in Lahaina and even references the famous neon "JESUS IS COMING" sign at the north end of town.
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Mrs. Thatcher's Revenge
The Path to Power
Letters from London
The Disenchanted Isle: Mrs. Thatcher's Capitalist Revolution
There is a mansion near Columbus, Ohio. It is very grand indeed. Horses in the fields, wrought-iron gates, a neo-Georgian style of architecture, a ballroom inside, and a hall as big as a movie theater. In that hall, on the occasion I had to see it, was an elegant side table, and on that table, picked out by a hidden spotlight, was a book, heavy as a Bible: the first volume of Lady Thatcher's memoirs, The Downing Street Years. The Baroness of Finchley, I was told, had dined at the house only a week before. Snobbish thoughts came instantly to mind (as they are wont to do when reflecting on the baroness). She had come a long way, I thought, from a corner shop in Grantham, Lincolnshire, to the baronial splendor of a mansion in Columbus. Then again, I thought, no less snobbishly, the lord of the manor was probably just her kind of guy, her ideal baron, so to speak: very rich, very selfmade, American, and Jewish.
Margaret Thatcher's often-professed philo-Semitism must be approached with some caution, to be sure. I'm not certain what Harold Macmillan was implying when he observed that Mrs. Thatcher's first cabinet contained "more Old Estonians than Old Etonians," but I have a feeling I don't like it. When a right-wing columnist for the conservative Daily Telegraph comments that Judaism was the creed of Thatcherite Britain, I'm sure I don't like it.1 And when a left-wing columnist in the Guardian called Mrs. Thatcher an "honorary Jew," British Jews did not like it either.2 Nonetheless, Mrs. Thatcher has often made a point of admiring what she sees as Jewish virtues: self-reliance and get-up-and-go. Indeed, she writes reassuringly in the second volume of her memoirs that she "was … to find some of [her] closest political friends and associates among Jews." As for the US, she continues to refer to it as her "second home."
What should we make of these professed affinities? Was the feeling mutual? In some ways, yes. Mrs. Thatcher was popular in her old constituency, the north London suburb of Finchley. I would not describe the place as particularly charming. But Finchley and Mrs. Thatcher suited each other. There is an air about it of hard work, self-improvement, and close-knit family life. It has a large middle-class Jewish population (and Chinese and Japanese too, but they don't vote). Finchley is tidy rather than elegant, with narrow streets of Victorian terraced houses, as well as pockets of Edwardian mock Tudor, and a cluster of "olde English" cottages built around the turn of the century. Small rather than big business is the norm. There are good delicatessens, stores, Chinese restaurants, and there is a place to buy Doric arches and marble fireplaces to touch up the home. In religion and politics Finchley is solidly conservative.
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I'm a new graduate, but I have been doing web development for about six months. When I was finishing university the server side languages (PHP, Java) were more important then client side languages. JavaScript was only used to validate data or use AJAX to beautify the page. The server side validation was of course done anyways.
As I dive into more projects, I can see that JavaScript is used a lot. It's mostly to create visual effects, but an important part is used to convey data (JSON) and make requests (AJAX). In a project I'm following, JavaScript takes up 30%-40% of the codebase!
My question is: "Is JavaScript that important?".
P/s: A lot of tricks, tips, library(like JQuery) and tutorials are out there, they are a lot but I don't know the best way to start. So I'm very grateful if someone could give me an advice.
UPDATE: As now i'm on the way with javascript, thanks for all helpful advices. I will try to summarize the answers, so that it can be a good source for anyone with the same problem.
Why it good:
- Best User interface
- Lots of good framework
- Server side javascript (MongoDB & Node.js)
- Many success application built from it (Gmail is an example)
- Object-oriented able
- Good support (HTML5 included)
Important Concept
- Closure (event handling)
Best practice
- Nothing global. Try to use "namespaces/libraries and classes"
- Never function (controversial). I still use function, and it seems not very bad.
- Mozilla Developer Network
- Douglas Crockford
- W3Schools (starter)
- Tizag
- Javascript - The definite guide (ebook) (recommended by Douglas Crockford)
- Head first Javascript (ebook)
- Head first Ajax (ebook)
- Head Rush Ajax (ebook)
- Object-Oriented JavaScript: Create scalable, reusable high-quality JavaScript applications and libraries by Stoyan Stefanov.
- Javascript Koans
- Mootools
- Prototype
- Dojo
- ExtJS
- Server side: MongoDB & Node.js
Alternative for Javascript (thanks Mike Samuel)
- GWT : code.google.com/webtoolkit (java)
- coffee script (python)
Again, I want to thank you for all the answers and opinion, as I got great benefit from all of them. Still, due to the fact that I just only can accept one answer, the answer of Renesis, for his mention about closure, which is helpful for me.


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To get eye level resolution in those screens Sony would have to have around 7000 pixels per inch. (1/2 inch screen, 6 MP)
Your 2000ppi screens are just hand waving because EH2 and Zero haven't thought of that. Because they haven't thought of it, the average consumer can't possibly find it useful, therefore you might as well be talking about unicorns and leprechauns. And trolls, don't forget the trolls. They are real. I've seen them.


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A California couple who travel across the country in an RV will be stopping by Hannibal, Mo., this weekend.
Author Brad Herzog and his wife, Amy, have traversed the country for 13 consecutive years, and he has written three memoirs from these travels.
Herzog spoke to The Quincy (Ill.) Herald-Whig earlier this week from the parking lot of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark., as the couple makes their way to the area. Other locations the couple has traveled to this summer included the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado, the Grand Canyon and the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
"It's like a big-screen movie of America is playing in front of you, and anytime you want, you can stop the film and enter the picture," he said. "That's a really cool feeling."
The Herzogs should arrive in Hannibal this weekend just in time for the national fence painting contests on Sunday (July 8) at the National Tom Sawyer Days.
Herzog said he is expects to spend a lot of time in Hannibal, which excites him because it was home to Mark Twain.
"As a traveling author, it's inevitable that I would be a Mark Twain fan," he said. "So we're going to take a riverboat on the river, visit the museum and (Twain's) boyhood home and that sort of thing."
Herzog boasts the benefits of traveling in an RV, instead of air travel.
"With an RV trip, you're not going from point A to point Z," Herzog said. "You're hitting all the points in between, and it helps immerse you in a sense of place. It makes the destination that much satisfying."
A RV vacation also could save families money when planning vacations.
A study prepared for the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) found that RV travel is 23% to 59% less expensive than other types of vacations for a family of four.
"The money that we save not having to pay for hotel rooms, by not having to eat three meals a day in a restaurant, by not having to deal with airlines and all the lack of control you have there, it really adds to the whole experience," Herzog said. "The affordability is one part, and there is the flexibility. I love the fact that in an RV, you're in control. You're traveling at your own pace and on your own terms, and to me that is how a vacation should feel."
The family sees many different towns and locations along the way to their destination. The treks last usually last six to eight weeks every summer, and most times they travel with their two sons. However, they are both at summer camp.
"It started in the summer of 2000," he said. "The first summer it was my wife Amy and I, and she was pregnant with our first child."
The Herzogs have since logged more than 100,000 miles crossing the 48 states in the continental U.S.
Herzog's latest book, "Turn Left at the Trojan Horse: A Would-be Hero's American Odyssey," explores classically named towns throughout America. He focuses on small towns in America in his writing.
"Hannibal and Quincy are humongous compared to what I write about," he said. "I pick the tiniest dots on the map, and I sort of develop a theme for an overarching concept I would like to explore in each book. Then I craft an itinerary that's going to take me through tiny little towns with names that match that theme."
Herzog also blogs for travel website GoRVing.com and also maintains his own website, bradherzog.com.


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Delya Pasinia - Part VISubmitted by Flendon on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 20:40.
Delya Pasinia - Part I
Delya Pasinia - Part II
Delya Pasinia - Part III
Delya Pasinia - Part IV
Delya Pasinia - Part V
Delya sat in her room for several hours trying to figure out how she would get out to see her father again. She had tried to leave a short while after Drivet had left, but the guards refused to let her out. "Drivet doesn't want you at the fridona," was all they would tell her. What did 'fridona' mean? She had never heard the word. Was she a prisoner after all? The windows wouldn't open and the only door was guarded. She checked the door several times over the next hour and never found it unguarded.
After awhile the guards feed her, though it still wasn't enough to fill her up. Moping about the room she came upon her box of frena and ate two of the remaining pieces. Feeling her spirits lift she looked about the room and tried to figure out how to get free. Spotting the wand on the floor she walked over and picked it up. Stupid thing did nothing but sparkle, glow or make a small flame. Drivet had claimed that it could do much more, but he hadn't shown her how.
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Delya Pasinia - Part VSubmitted by Flendon on Mon, 05/07/2007 - 21:34.
Delya Pasinia - Part I
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"Papa?" Where was she? Everything was dark. She could hear Papa though. She heard other men too. They all seemed to be arguing. Who was he talking to in the dark like this? Feeling along the wall she found a doorway leaking a faint light. Peering in she saw Papa along with the other men huddled around a table with a single candle.
Moving towards her Papa she tried to see the faces of the other men in the dark. If only it wasn't so dark. That one was huge though. Was he? "No," she gasped, "An Ortanan!" And that stocky one had to be a Mesini. Was that little one a Gnome, no they weren't real. It was a Bensian! Only the Trevvan were missing of the major races of Soria. Why were they here?
Delya Pasinia - Part IVSubmitted by Flendon on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 21:38.
The next two sections I wrote are both short and I'm a week behind on posting so I'm going to post them together.
Delya Pasinia - Part I
Delya Pasinia - Part II
Delya Pasinia - Part III
Delya walked down the hall side by side with Drivet. She was happy to be able to walk again. Looking up at Drivet again she grinned. He had helped make her better. Now he was taking her to see her family again. They were all going to be together again. She started to skip for a moment and then stopped again when her leg started to ache slightly.
They turned the corner and Delya saw the open door. She hurried in despite her leg and saw what was left of her family. Papa was sitting in a chair facing the door and Momma had baby Valya cradled in her arms. Papa reached over and set his hand on Momma's arm as he jumped up. Momma looked up at Papa's movement and let out a little squeak.
Delya Pasinia - Part IIISubmitted by Flendon on Sun, 04/15/2007 - 20:48.
Delya Pasinia - Part I
Delya Pasinia - Part II
Delya awoke with a scream. She screamed until her throat was parched and sore and she could scream no more. When she stopped she realized that the screaming hadn't. Someone else was still screaming. Where was she? The last thing she remembered was leaving her fathers room with Drivet. Papa had been screaming. Was that him screaming? Was that him? She had to find her Papa. She tried to sit up and she found that she could indeed scream more after all. The pain in her left side had returned and if anything it was worse. She was unable to move. As she lay there she just kept asking herself, "Is that Papa? Where was Momma and Gill and little Valya? Someone please help!"
Delya Pasinia - Part IISubmitted by Flendon on Sun, 04/08/2007 - 17:45.
Delya had horrible nightmares. She dreamed of constant screaming and crying. She cried herself, but she didn't know why. She had a vague memory of her bones being set, but the memory repeated over and over again. Were the screams hers? Who else would be screaming? At one point she had looked in a mirror and all of the skin had been gone from one side of her face. She remembered a knife. What about the knife? It wavered on the edge of her memory.
Delya Pasinia - Part ISubmitted by Flendon on Sun, 04/01/2007 - 18:15.
Here is the first part of a story I've been working on for a few months. I already have nine parts done, but I'm only going to post about once a week since I write slow. Later parts are somewhat disturbing and not suitable for work or small children. It started off as a fantasy due to it being based on an RPG character of mine, but I am re-writing it as science fantasy.
Delya stormed out of her hut yelling across the courtyard, "I've been with you to visit the Trevvan before. I want to go again! Why won't you let me come, Papa?" She watched as Pasinia Deriya turned back to gaze at her patiently. Her father turned back to gaze at her patiently. Giving him her best "I'm the cutest five-year-old in the world" smile she twirled her dark brown hair. She had manipulated him into bringing her along many times and she knew this trick was one of her best, but she could see from across the open courtyard that he was going to be unwilling to give this time. Still, she would not let him go without at least trying.


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PERRYSBURG, OH— Pulling into the parking lot at Owens Community College in Perrysburg Thursday, I briefly wondered if I was in the right spot. I cruised through a roundabout, in the shadow of a painted silo and a giant windmill— the tableau of rural past and green energy future no doubt a deliberate backdrop for an Obama campaign event featuring former President Bill Clinton.
The rock star of the campaign trail was still on his way as one straggling supporter from nearby Maumee and I squinted at each other's smartphone maps to locate the rally. We found the school's half-full gymnasium, blocked off at half-court by a red vinyl curtain descended from the ceiling.
Outside, there was no line, but there was a bit of a ruckus as two young people protested their removal from the rally. Kelli Miller, a 28-year-old student, said she and 25-year-old Nick Osberger were told to leave the event after she wrote "I will not support Obama" on the signage provided at the rally and displayed it. A Gary Johnson supporter, Miller objected to not being able to voice her political opinion at a political rally at the school she attends.
"This is my school," she said. "It's my constitutional right to express my beliefs, you know? I just held the sign."
I asked a student working on a laptop right outside the gym if she was planning to go to the rally. "I've got class," she said with a shrug.
Inside the gym, I moved past the curtain to the waiting crowd doing the usual milling and half-hearted chants you get before the headliner arrives. John Welch, a schoolteacher from Moline, was cautiously optimistic about the president's chances in the battleground state.
"I hope we're edging a little ahead, it feels like," he said, adding his objections to Mitt Romney. "I don't see how he relates to anyone in this room…someone who worries about the price of gas and milk."
As Clinton took the stage, the crowd, estimated at 1,900 by the Toledo Blade, perked up. He addressed them with a smile and his patented husky, trail voice, damaged from workin' so hard for you. He ticked off his recent campaign stops, saying he'd lost his voice for "a good cause" before announcing to the crowd he was "honored to be in Pennsylvania for President Obama."
"OHIO," the crowd shouted at Clinton's Bidenism as he corrected himself and pivoted into his stump speech. A prologue on Hurricane Sandy got a round of cheers for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Clinton was best when he was affably sarcastic, delivering barbs with an aww-shucks, amirite shrug. His impression of Romney when asked for details on his economics plan, for instance: "I'm a business guy," Clinton said, with a tug at his lapels, getting laughs from the audience.
He reserved his harshest criticism for Romney's position on the auto bailout and the Republican challenger's ads on the subject. The crowd, gathered just minutes from a Chrysler machining plant, was familiar with the ad, many finishing Clinton's sentence with "China" as Clinton repeated Romney's charge that Jeep is considering sending production there.
This was the most effective part of the speech, but it look Clinton plenty of time to get there, running through a litany of other issues, including a minutes-long discussion of Medicare Advantage's structure over the last decade. He indulges his wonky style on the trail just as he did in his State of the Union addresses. This was no mere sprinkling of stats but a slow-moving Sandy of policy numbers and explanations, marked by the occasional odd assertion.
Clinton, free-styling on Obama's claim to be an all-of-the-above energy guy, said Obama doesn't advocate "taking away incentives for natural gas and oil," just keeping incentives for green energy. This despite the president's frequent talk about taking away "tax breaks" and policies favorable to natural gas and oil.
He cited investments in green energy as important, especially to "Indian reservations that don't have gambling." The audience snickered briefly as Clinton himself seemed to sense he didn't want to go any further down that road.
The speech was mostly low-key and low on expectations. Clinton's summation of Obama's plan for green energy investment could stand in as his pitch for the entire second term— "Let's keep doing this."
His closing attempted to tie up all of the campaign's objections to the Romney/Ryan ticket in a racial bow, implying Republican xenophobia and racism toward everyone from African-Americans to Italians. The New York Times recounts:
"Oh, he endorsed him because they are both black," Mr. Clinton said, using his own paraphrase of Mr. Sununu's comments. (Mr. Sununu had quickly backtracked last week, saying he did not doubt Mr. Powell's endorsement was based on anything other than support for Mr. Obama's policies.)…
And Mr. Clinton wasn't finished. He mentioned how the Romney campaign had, in Mr. Clinton's words, stated that "now the Italians are taking your jobs away."
And the big finish: "Mr. Clinton, who says he has Irish ancestry, closed his remarks here by joking, 'Pretty soon, they'll come after the Irish – and I'm toast.'"
Perhaps my expectations were too high, but I expected far more people and more excitement for Bill Clinton. This is the rock star, in northern Ohio, 10 minutes from an auto plant, where Obama's support for the auto industry bailout is supposed to carry the state into the blue column. I'm not regularly on the trail, but I did attend a Paul Ryan rally in Colorado swing district. Like Clinton, Ryan's a rock star with appeal on par with the candidate himself, and the event was held in a nearly identical gym. Ryan's rally outdid this effort by a factor of four. That rally happened right after Ryan was named to the ticket, so enthusiasm was admittedly high, but shouldn't enthusiasm be high in northern Ohio four days before the election? If not, to borrow a phrase, maybe you're toast.


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The Shawnee National Forest is famed for its awesome Garden of the Gods, and is home to the Rim Rock Recreational Trail (the forest has a system of 403 miles of equestrian/hiking trails). Hikers are greeted by magnificent jutting walls of rock covered with emerald-green moss, and paths that meander through canyons under the forest canopy. Nestled between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, the stunning Shawnee National Forest landscape features rolling hills, lakes, creeks and rugged bluffs. If you're into climbing than a must-see is Jackson Falls, located near the town of Ozark in the Hidden Springs Ranger District in Shawnee National Forest. The climb takes place on 60 feet of sandstone cliffs and boulders that include numerous freestanding towers.
Meeting of the Great Rivers National Scenic Byway
Cruise along the Meeting of the Great Rivers National Scenic Byway, where the Mighty Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois Rivers converge. The 33-mile byway begins in Hartford, leading you through Alton and bends along the forested river bluffs to its end point in Grafton, at Pere Marquette State Park.
Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway
The experiences you'll find here are as unique, fun and memorable as the road is long. Route 66 defined a remarkable era in our nation's history - and it lives on today in Illinois Route 66's many roadside attractions, museums, restaurants - and the shining ribbon of blacktop we call The Mother Road. Illinois' stretch of this mythic road boasts the highest density of kitschy, interesting things to do you'll find from here to California. So, join us for the far out journey that never ends on Illinois Route 66.
Peoria's Grandview Drive "World's Most Beautiful Drive"
This quote from President Teddy Roosevelt describes his 1910 visit to Grandview Drive in Peoria Heights. The vistas gazed upon by the former president still sit upon bluffs unchanged from when the Indians first settled in the area centuries ago. Drive along the two-and-on-half mile drive to see the expansive panoramic view of Woodford, Tazewell and Marshall counties, where on a clear day, visitors can see more than thirty miles of the scenic Illinois River valley.
VILLE:Peoria Heights
This scenic drive follows the flow of the mighty Mississippi River as it curves along the western edge of Illinois and meanders for more than 550 miles, traveling through charming small towns and offering beautiful river and woodland views along the way.
Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive
The Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive Associates invite you to come to Fulton County, Illinois and enjoy the natural wonders of the Spoon River Valley. Spoon River has carved a wide scenic valley through Fulton County as it flows from London Mills to the south and east where it joins the Illinois River near the southeastern corner of the county. The Spoon River became nationally known from the work of Edgar Lee Masters, author of the noted Spoon River Anthology. Come on out the first two full weekends in October. There are over one hundred miles of scenic routes on the Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive to be enjoyed on this driving tour with beautiful fall colors. There will be food, arts, crafts, entertainment and flea market. Visit 17 villages and historic sites!
The Shawnee Hills Wine Trail features 12 award-winning wineries located along a 25-mile scenic drive along highway 127 and highway 51 in the Shawnee National Forest. Along the way have a picnic, go on a hike, visit a shop, and stay in a cozy B&B or cabin. Many of the wineries host special events throughout the summer and fall.
Magnificent, 1,700-acre museum of trees and plants from around the world. Hiking trails, paved roads, restaurant, gift shop, open-air tram and handicapped accessible facilities.
The Nest at Palisades Cabins offer secluded luxury cabins designed to provide charm, quiet luxury and romance. We're located on a wooded acreage high above the Mississippi River minutes from Savanna, the Palisades State Park and an easy 20 minute drive to Galena.
This beautiful 1.4 mile long piece of restored hand-laid brick road is a segment of 66 done in 1931 and placed over a concrete roadbed. Route 66 at its best.
Located on historic Route 66, this was originally a pharmacy built in the 1880's. The soda fountain was added to the business in the 1950's. Stop in for an old-fashioned treat or ice-cream. Doc's is also open for lunch and dinner.
Illinois River Road National Scenic Byway
The Byway unites more than 100 nature-based destinations throughout the Illinois River Valley, beginning in Ottawa and ending 140 miles south in Havana. Find the best spots for hunting, fishing, hiking, biking, canoeing, wetlands, gardens, birding and watching wildlife.
The Polk-a-Dot Drive In was founded over 50 years ago has become one of the most memorable attractions along Illinois Route 66. Stop in and see the collection of memorabilia and enjoy a great meal.
Built in 1927, Old Chain of Rocks was the fifth bridge to cross the Mississippi River, which shortened the distance between St. Louis, Missouri, and Edwardsville, Illinois by 15 miles.
This quirky must-see Route 66 attraction, information center and souvenir gift shop is home to rabbits of all kinds, bunny and VW, as well as Mother Road memorabilia.
This 10-foot wide asphalt trail winds 4.8 miles along the former Illinois Terminal Railroad Co. path. Build in 1991, the River Trail provides a safe scenic route for outdoor recreation year round, winter weather permitting. The trail affords patrons the opportunity to experience the natural preservation of wildflowers, grasses, trees and wildlife. With direct access at the Park Administration Center, Bunnell field, and Taylor Street ball diamonds, and in close proximity to Veterans Park, Central Jr. High, West Park, and local restaurants, the River Trail offers something for everyone!
VILLE:East Peoria
Located one mile west of Princeton in Bureau County, Illinois is the Captain Swift Covered Bridge. Built in 2006, the bridge derives its strength from its burr arch design, an idea patented by Theodore Burr of New York in 1804. Made entirely of wood using 1800s concepts (it has an outer skin of Douglas Fir), the Captain Swift Covered Bridge is the only two-lane covered bridge in Illinois. It has a 16'-3" vertical clearance, a 28 foot minimum roadway width and a 128' span over the Big Bureau Creek. GPS co-ordinates - N41 22.745 W89 29.871
The Palms Grill Cafe was a well-known restaurant during the heyday of Route 66. Recently the cafe was revitalized and reopened, and is serving up delicious nostalgia from the fabled Route 66 era. The Palm's Grill Café has been baking pies and feeding hungry travelers and residents for decades. Their pies are so delicious they've even won a few state pie competitions. Saddle up to the counter or take a seat at a table; either way, the pie and coffee with the community atmosphere is enough to make any first-timer feel like a regular. Conveniently located right across the street is the towering Bunyon's Statue, another one of Route 66's famous Muffler Man Statues.
The Gemini Giant is a landmark statue on U.S. Route 66. The 30 foot tall statue is named after the Gemini space program and holds a silver "rocket ship" in his hands, while sporting an astronaut's space helmet that looks more like a welding mask.
Pere Marquette Lodge and Conference Center
As a centerpeice of Pere Marquette State Park, the lodge and restaurant are an attraction for visitors from miles around. Visitors can spend a day at the park and explore the Great Room of the lodge, dine in the restaurant or even spend a night in a cozy lodge room or cabin. The centerpeice of the rustic timber 1930s Great Room is the 700 ton stone fireplace and life-size chess set. The Great Rooms beckons visitors to pull up a chair and a glass of wine with a view of the Illinois River. The Lodge restaurant is known for its family-style chicken dinner and season Sunday brunch buffets. Spend the afternoon or a weekend for an unforgettable experience.
Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge
Near the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers lies a veritable bird-watching utopia. Visitors to Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge can expect to see a variety of migratory birds, from waterfowl and warblers to Acadian Flycatchers and American Bald Eagles. In fact, Two Rivers is the winter home to one the largest Bald Eagle populations in the continental United States.
Black Hawk Statue at Lowden State Park
At Eagle's Nest Bluff in Lowden State Park, proudly stands a 48-foot statue of a Native American quietly revering the beauty of the River Rock Valley below. Commonly called Black Hawk, after the legendary Chieftain, the statue was created as a tribute to all the Native Americans who once called the area their home.
500-acre Illinois nature preserve offering 7 miles of hiking trails ranging from rigorous uphill courses to flatter, less strenuous paths. The center also features a natural history museum, spacious bird watching room, nature hikes, guided walks and a nature store.
Peoria area's only Segway tour and Quadracycle bike rental experience. Offering 30-minute, 1-hour, and 2-hour Segway tours as well as 30-minute Quadracycle bike rides. Gliding with World On Wheels is as fun as it gets. Use them for individual riding or corporate events. Open March thru November, weather permitting. Feel free to call for an appointment. Easy riding for all age levels.


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PHOENIX (June 8, 2010) – The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and Arizona Attorney General's Office announced today that the owner of a former Prescott convenience store and its affiliates have agreed to pay up to $400,000 in cleanup costs and penalties in a settlement involving underground storage tanks in Prescott and nine other sites around the state.
In a consent judgment filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, Rick Bell Oil Company and Bell Gas of Arizona, Inc. agreed to pay a $100,000 penalty during the next year for the Prescott site. Bell Gas Inc. will secure a certificate of deposit for up to $300,000 to guarantee Rick Bell Oil Company and Bell Gas of Arizona, Inc. clean the remaining nine sites.
The primary focus of the investigation was the former Buddy's Market in Prescott, located at 1310 Iron Springs Road. Investigators documented that more than 1,000 gallons of gasoline leaked from the underground storage tank system.
The other sites where cleanups are being conducted are Jobi's Market, 4520 Highway 191 in Safford; Buckaroo Roundup, 1496 Highway 69 in Chino Valley; Blue Hills Market/Blue Ridge Market, 210 S. Highway 69 in Dewey-Humboldt; Willow Valley Liquors, 8045 S. Highway 95 in Mohave Valley; MC Minit Mart, 869 N. Grande in Nogales; and Gordon Hills Station, Highway 75 in York. Cleanups also are being conducted at the former businesses Bullshipper, 19282 John Wayne Parkway in Maricopa; Sunset Liquors, 416 London Bridge in Lake Havasu City; and Ray Bell #416, 420 S. Arizona Blvd. in Coolidge.
The State Assurance Fund (SAF) has traditionally reimbursed owners of leaking underground storage tanks for 90 percent of cleanup costs. But the fund is scheduled to end June 30 and it is unclear if SAF money will be available for use in this case.
"These were serious, long-standing violations of environmental law," ADEQ Director Benjamin H. Grumbles said. "Maintaining safe underground storage tanks is good for business because it protects public health and saves money over the long run."
"Owners of fuel storage tanks need to rigorously comply with state standards to protect the health of our citizens and our environment," Attorney General Terry Goddard said.


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A floating swimsuit from Beverly Kids is the perfect way to introduce your children to water and swimming. The swimsuit has 8 built-in floats, which supports the child during swimming. Children are able to exercise swimming, without the fear of sinking. It is very important to choose the right size. The floating swimsuit has to be tight around the body, otherwise it will lose its functionality. Sizes:
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Do you have to register with the school boards in different provinces
if your only staying a couple months or do you just stick with your home province ???
Is there a time limit that you have to be under without registering with the other province?
We will be spending time in both Alberta, Saskatchewan, and maybe Yukon but our home is in Ontario and each province has different bylaws when in comes to homeschooling...
Homeschooling and Travelling within Canada....
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text: The Boston behemoth wants to give with one hand but take with the other at its original fund. By Bob Frick, Senior Editor June 28, 2011 Editor's note: This story has been updated since its original publication in the August issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. Shareholders of Fidelity's original mutual fund, Fidelity Fund (symbol FFIDX), are being asked to add a performance-adjustment clause to the fund's fee structure. That's good news. The bad news is that they're also being asked to raise the fund's expense ratio before any adjustments by 33%, from 0.6% to 0.8% a year. (Voting on the proposal will close in July.)We like the pay-for-performance concept. It rewards a sponsor with extra pay when a fund beats its benchmark and penalizes the firm by cutting its fee when a fund lags that benchmark. Less than 10% of all mutual fund assets are in funds with performance-based fees. Fidelity leads the pack, with fees for more than half of its assets tied to results, according to an October 2010 Thomson Reuters study. Next is Vanguard, with similar fees for about one-fourth of its assets, followed by Janus, a distant third place with 10% of its assets. But don't assume that pay-for-performance will have a big impact on actual results. A 2008 study by Lipper of performance over the previous ten years found two effects: First, funds that adjusted fees delivered slightly better risk-adjusted performance than those funds that didn't adjust fees. Second, funds with performance adjustments tended to be slightly more volatile, perhaps because their managers were making mildly riskier bets to beat their benchmarks. Advertisement The proposal for Fidelity Fund, which began in 1930 and today holds $5.3 billion, is typical of these plans. If the fund beats Standard & Poor's 500-stock index by one percentage point, Fidelity gets an extra 0.02 percentage point above the basic management fee (0.3% a year in the new plan). The formula is based on rolling three-year results so that Fidelity is neither rewarded nor punished for short-term swings. The maximum adjustment is plus or minus 0.2 point per year. But the adjustment is a trifle compared with the extra money -- about $10 million a year -- Fidelity would collect from the hike in the unadjusted expense ratio. From a shareholder perspective, a 0.2 point increase in the expense ratio will cost you $20 a year for every $10,000 invested. Yes, 0.8% is still below the average expense ratio of similar funds, as Fidelity points out. But since John Avery took over as manager in 2002, Fidelity Fund has beaten the S&P 500 by all of 0.2 point per year, on average. Had the higher fee been in place, Fidelity Fund would have essentially matched the S&P 500. Our advice: If you want a large-company fund with Fidelity, switch to Contrafund (FCNTX). Another solid choice is Dodge & Cox Stock (DODGX). Both are members of the Kiplinger 25, the list of our top funds.


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"Broadside Ballads" were part of the rich popular culture of Victorian Britain.
The ballads centered on popular subjects such as love, marriage, fantastic tales, humorous anecdotes, etc.
They were printed on broad sheets, often including illustrations of the story they told.
We offer our 2015 street music program "Broadside Ballads" in street musicians' dresses of the time for reenactments, Victorian extravaganzas, fayres and other Victorian themed events.
Our very unusual combination of instruments is the tenor recorder (which became a street musicians' instrument after the flute took over and the recorder went out of business for orchestral use) and a beautifully decorated yet small reed organ/pump organ.
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It's hard to believe that it's been four years since I started this blog! Four years ago I was overwhelmed, excited, determined, and a bit nervous about this new gluten free thing that I had started. It had been only about a month or two and I felt like I was being proactive in the process of my healing and support by starting his site... and I definitely was. I couldn't come up with a name for my site, but all I could think of was how much I love food and didn't want to feel deprived- I wanted to celebrate, so that's how I became "For the Love of Food!" :)
I have learned a lot and gained so much through the gf and food blogging community and I am so grateful for having this as my home base and place to chart my progress and keep track of ideas and recipes as they come to me.
Up until now I have had thousands of visitors from over 50 countries- from Denmark to Armenia, Brunei to Singapore. I love hearing from you- whether by comment or email.
So in honor of my fourth blogiversary, I have created a new Facebook page that you can "like" and hear more from me on, as well as share your own thoughts, ideas, and questions on.
So click on "For the Love of Food" and "like" the site and hopefully this community can continue to expand in great ways.
I have also decided to have a giveaway in honor of this event because who doesn't love free things?!
Here are the items that I'm giving away:
This little package I'm putting together includes a great cookbook "Sweet Alternative" by Ariana Bundy, a Cherrybrook Kitchens GF Pancake and Waffle Mix, and a Bob's Red Mill GF Pancake Mix.
Receive one entry for each of the following:
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- "Like" For the Love of Food on Facebook and let me know in the comments on this post.
- Leave a separate comment letting me know what type of dish you would like to see a recipe for.
- Share via your blog or FB about the giveaway and let me know.


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Wednesday 21 January 2015
January 08, 2015
Russia's Oil Problem In One Graph
For every $10 drop in the price of crude oil, Russia loses about $106 million in foreign currency income a day.* Russia's 2015 budget is based on global oil prices averaging out at about $100 a barrel. At the start of 2015 Russia was losing some $500 million a day in projected income.
December 18, 2014
Vaclav Havel's Place
Havel's Place is a memorial dedicated to Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright-turned-dissident who led the 1989 overthrow of communism in Czechoslovakia and later went on to become the country's president. Each Havel's Place comprises two chairs linked by a round table with a tree growing through its center to symbolize a willingness to sit down and talk. Here are the memorials around the world.
December 09, 2014
Unrecognizable: Grozny Then And Now
Diana Markosian traveled to the Chechen capital, Grozny, to document a city transformed. These images show streets and buildings pulverized during the first Chechen war of 1994-96, and how they look today - after the city's massive refurbishment.
December 04, 2014
Internet Freedom Around The World
A U.S.-based rights watchdog says Internet freedom around the world has deteriorated for the fourth consecutive year, with the steepest declines in Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey. In its "Freedom On The Net 2014" report, released on December 4, Freedom House says that Iran, Syria, and China are the world's worst abusers of overall Internet freedom.
November 14, 2014
Driving In Europe: It's Riskier In The East
More than two decades after the fall of Communism, Europe remains a continent divided in many respects. Traffic statistics offer one example. Eastern Europeans still own fewer cars than their Western cousins, but road fatality rates in the east remain far higher, on average, than in the West.
November 05, 2014
25 Years Later: The European Revolutions That Shook The World
They were Moscow's client states in Europe, providing a buffer against the democratic West and a base for Soviet troops on the continent in the wake of World War II. But through four decades of Communist rule, dissident movements persisted -- despite quashed bids for greater freedom in 1956 and 1968 -- and the luster of Russian-backed socialism faded. Beginning with Poland in 1988, and with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signaling Moscow would not interfere, the dominoes that made up Communist Central Europe fell one by one.


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So if it's Tuesday, Spotify has 1.5 million users on Facebook. The music service is reportedly gaining 250,000 users a day on Facebook following its launch at f8, or around 1.5 million users by Monday, according to Inside Facebook.
Spotify in particular was poised for explosive growth, as it already had the largest user base with 2 million paying customers compared to the next largest competitor Rhapsody which has 800,000. Spotify had also been aggressively pushing users to connect their Facebook accounts in order to view the playlists of friends via large prompts on the app's homescreen.
Because Spotify integrates Facebook accounts, the numbers are easier to track (you also need a Facebook account to use the service now.) The numbers peaked directly after Facebook's developer event on Thursday, approximately 1.61 million daily active users then fell slightly to 1.48 million on Monday. Either way, Spotify is being highlighted as the social network's featured music service -- something that will likely count for some quick and easy growth.
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Unfortunately, that growth may come at the expense of SoundCloud and iHeartRadio, which both lost daily users after the f8 conference.


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eCORP International, LLC together with its predecessor companies and affiliates ("eCORP" or "the Company") has been in business since 1978. The Company, which is privately held and based in Houston, London, Madrid and Zurich, develops shale gas reserves, natural gas storage facilities and related assets, including pipelines, and also natural gas‐fired power generation. eCORP is distinguished by its core commitment to green development, impeccable safety record and early mover status in both identifying business opportunities and innovating adaptive technologies across all of its business lines to address challenging geologic and environmentally sensitive conditions. The company's achievements have been enabled by one of the most globally seasoned management teams in the industry.
The global experience of the eCORP management team bridges the energy delivery industry from the reservoir to the burner tip or electric meter with an impeccable safety record. The team represents a combined several hundred years of experience functioning as entrepreneurs, operators and investors in joint ventures, acquisitions, debt, private equity and other financing totaling many billions of dollars. Management has career paths rooted in major companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Shell as well as in mid to large size independents and smaller private companies across the up, mid and downstream spectrum.
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I just returned from a visit to Romania for the wedding of an exchange student who had lived with us 10 years ago. While there I had the pleasure of meeting some beekeepers.
Even though we had quite a language barrier it was a wonderful experience. Beekeeping is very big, lots of honey for sale in the markets.
Along the road between Campina and Sinaia there were at least 6 roadside stands selling honey within a few kilometers. This is in the Prahova River Valley.
I took a few pictures which I wanted to share, showing the migratory bee wagons. They travel up and down the valley with their bees as the season progresses.
Romanian Migratory Bee Wagons
In Bucharest I met a beekeeper at the farmer's market near our hotel. He let me taste samples of all of his various honeys. The one that really stood out was "forest honey". "Padura" It is from the pine trees (as best as I could understand). It is a dramatic, dark and sharp tasting honey. He insisted on giving me a jar of it, and refused any payment. I have been enjoying it in my tea.
The Romanian name for bee is "albine" pronounced albeenay. The word for honey is "miere", or "miere de albine" (honey of the bee).
I hope to return someday and spend more time with them, perhaps visiting their hives. Because of the rainy weather and short time schedule I was unable to inspect their hives in detail. But check out the wagon with the numbered and various colored hives!
I was unable to communicate with them about mites. I used the word "Varroa" but they didnn't understand. So if anyone knows the Romanian word for mite please let me know! I hope they don't know the word because they don't have the problem!
But I do believe this is a country and people who have much to offer us!


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TLC to Kick Off New Saturday 'House Party' Programming Block Beg. 4/20
TLC is inviting viewers to its Saturday House Party! TLC opens its doors to a fresh line up of property shows with a weekly programming block dedicated to unique abodes, home improvement and no shortage of proud homeowners.
Kicking off on Saturday, April 20 at 9 PM (ET/PT), TLC premieres the second season of the hit series FOUR HOUSES, which features four passionate homeowners who are invited to preview, critique and score each other's homes for the chance to win $10,000. Each week, Four Houses is followed by all-new premieres of outrageously fun property specials with a twist. From insane bathrooms and relentless realtors trying to unload extreme listings, to hunky carpenters tackling "honey-do" lists and design obsessed homeowners, TLC takes how-to to a whole new level."Inside all of us is a borderline nosy neighbor, dying to catch a glimpse into the homes and lives of those around us," said Amy Winter, general manager of TLC. "Saturday House Party goes beyond home improvement, offering programs to satisfy that curiosity, revealing the surprising commonalities - and wacky personalities - behind their front doors." TLC's Saturday House Party programming line-up includes:FOUR HOUSESTwelve-part series Premieres with back-to-back episodes on April 20 at 9/8c on TLCFOUR HOUSES features four design-obsessed homeowners as they vie to impress each other with their unique decor and personal style. The contestants will have the chance to poke around each home and give their frank - and often harsh - opinions before awarding the home an overall impression score out of ten and later ranking it for originality, Style and livability. The homeowner with the highesttotal score takes home the $10,000 grand prize - and of course, bragging rights. TLC has upped the ante this season by featuring even more of the largest, architecturally appealing and oftentimes, quirky, homes across the country.INSANE BATHROOMSPremieres April 27 at 10/9c on TLCThe bathroom is a place we all spend time in every day - but you've never seen bathrooms that are quite like this. From a bathroom suite inspired by a Lalique chandelier and worthy of a 1930's movie queen, to a couple who have transformed every bathroom in their boutique hotel into a themed-design based on their favorite movies and TV shows; from a see-through public bathroom in The Middle of a busy city square, to a multi-million dollar mountain hideaway with a bathroom designed all ingold, INSANE BATHROOMS is a tour of the most unique, opulent, and mind-bending bathrooms in the world. TWISTED AND LISTEDPremieres May 4 at 10/9c on TLCIn the Seattle real estate market, there's only one person willing to list ANYTHING - Theresa Michaels. She dominates the market because she tackles problem properties that no other realtor will touch. She loves The Challenge of the quirky, the outrageous, and downright disastrous and in the end, she always finds inventive ways to get an offer. If it's twisted... she'll list it!HONEY DOPremieres with back-to-back 30-minute episodes on May 11 at 10/9c on TLCIn each episode of HONEY DO, a dream team of handy men will come to the aid of one wife with a totally relatable problem: she's got a "honey do" list a mile long - and her husband doesn't know where to begin. That's where our hunky carpenters come in. They'll bring their tools and talents and get to work doing all those things her man doesn't know how to do. They'll paint the dining room and finish the deck. They'll snake the toilet and swap the old can lights for a new chandelier. Oh, and they'll also make the husband a part of their team, so he knows how to do all those things after they're gone. SURREAL ESTATEPremieres May 18 at 10/9c on TLCIn this one-hour special, viewers will meet enthusiastic homebuyers in search of one-of-a-kind properties that appeal to their own highly unique tastes. With the help of their savvy realtors, buyers will take a look at an array of different properties - such as a house in the shape of a Pyramid, a converted missile silo, and a home whose interiors are loosely based off of a Dr. Seuss adventure. But it doesn't take long for both realtor and buyer to realize that finding the perfect place to call home isn't always as easy as it seems.


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Managing & Maintaining Windows 8 Online Course
Managing & Maintaining Windows 8 Online Courses in South Africa
2KO presents Microsoft Windows 8 courses in Africa. 2KO Africa also offers online courses to our international and local students. 2KO delivers cutting-edge IT products in the consulting and business services space, as well as offering top-rated training for various IT vendors. Our internationally recognised courses can be offered either as hands-on full time classes, or as online learning, enabling 2KO students the opportunity to study courses online world-wide, to ensure students have access to the best Windows 8 certification training in Africa. 2KO Africa's Managing and Maintaining Windows 8 training course provides full coverage of the skills required to plan and implement the installation, maintenance and management of Windows 8. This course also provides knowledge and skills on the methods used for installation, remote management using bundled tools, networking, access control, endpoint protection and user authentication.
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This new course from 2KO Africa provides you the needed training for managing and maintaining Windows 8, as well as profiles, settings, file/print resources, Windows Store apps, desktop apps, mobile device management with Windows Intune and more. This course brings together all the management features of using Windows 8. You can trust in 2KO Africa to bring you coverage on everything you need to be successful on exam 70-688.
Some of the skills you will learn in this class are:
Plan and implement local and remote management methods
Plan and implement Windows 8 recovery solutions
Configure cloud services and manage Windows 8 clients with Windows Intune
Manage and maintain Windows Store apps and desktop apps
Manage and maintain remote access and extranet connectivity
Manage user settings, profiles, file resources and print resources
Implement encryption and maintain endpoint security
Manage user authentication and intranet connectivity
Plan and implement Windows 8 installation methods
Below is the latest salary pay scale, from payscale web site, for jobs in Cape Town, on 9 March 2019.
Microsoft 70-688: Managing and Maintaining Windows 8
Module 1
Course Introduction
Instructor Info
Course Overview
Audience Profile and Prerequisites
Certification Overview
Chapter Review
Module 2
Windows 8 Course
Lab Setup
Server and Clients and Presentation Types
Module 3
Windows 8 Designing Installation Strategy
Windows 8 Editions
Windows 8 Requirements
Upgrade and Migration Limitations
Windows 8 Installation Option Types
Additional Considerations
System Image Manager
Activating Windows 8
Chapter Review
Module 4
Windows 8 Installation Strategy
Installation Basics
Installation Via Image
Image Tools
DISM Image Management
Disk Management
Virtual Hard Disks
System Cloning
Chapter Review
Module 5
Windows 8 Installation Alternatives: Virtual and Portable
Installation Alternatives
Remote Desktop Services RDS
Client Hyper V
Windows to GO
Dual Boot
Boot to VHD
Configuring Boot to VHD
Chapter Review
Module 6
Windows 8 Installation Via Migration
Migration Basics
Upgrade and Migration Limitations
Key Steps to Upgrade and Migration
Windows 8 Installation Migration Profile Options
Windows Easy Transfer (WET)
User State Migration Tool (USMT)
USMT Scan and Load State
Chapter Review
Module 7
Windows 8 Installation and Management Tools
Monitoring Tools
Administration Tools
Server Tools
Deployment Tools
Diagnostic Tools
Remoting Tools
Group Policy Object
Enterprise Management
Task Manager Tool
Computer Management Tool
Performance Monitor
Reliability Monitor
Windows PowerShell
PowerShell ISE
Chapter Review
Module 8
Windows 8 Networking 101
Networks Defined
Network Protocols
Wired and Wireless Networks
Network Access Protection
Networking Demonstration
Chapter Review
Module 9
Windows 8 Networking IPv4
IPv4 Basics
IPv4 Addressing
IPv4 Subnetting
Network (Adapter) Settings
Subnet Calculators
Chapter Review
Module 10
Windows 8 Networking IPv6
Protocol Migration from IPv4 to IPv6
IPv6 Basics
IPv6 Addressing
IP Tools
IPv6 Network Settings Details
IPv6 Calculator
Chapter Review
Module 11
Windows 8 Networking VPN
Virtual Private Network
VPN Types
Methods or Protocols for Connection
VPN Creation and Configuration
VPN Reconnect
Additional Components
Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK)
Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK) Setup
Chapter Review
Module 12
Windows 8 Networking Direct Access
What is Direct Access?
DA Features
DA Server and Client Side Parts
Name Resolution Policy Table
Network Connectivity: Internally and Externally
DA Setup
Chapter Review
Module 13
Windows 8 Security, Network and Local
Network Security 101
Layered Defense and Areas of Concern
User Access Control and Elevated Permissions
windows 8 Security Features
Local Security Groups and Credential Manager
Windows Updates
MBSA and Windows Defender
Chapter Review
Module 14
Windows 8 Security
AAA Security
Authentication and Authorization
Types of Authentication
Windows Secure Log in
Security Principals
Domain Access
Domain Accounts
Chapter Review
Module 15
Windows 8 Application Deployment
Application Basics
Group Policy Objects
GPO Target and Distribution Point
Assign Vs. Publish
GPO Drawbacks
GPO Application Deployment
Remote Applications
Delivery Methods
App-V Sequencer Basics
App Locker
Chapter Review
Module 16
Windows 8 Application Deployment
Cloud Applications
Cloud Service
Cloud Application Solutions
Cloud Storage
Cloud Service Concerns
Windows Applications and Windows App Store
Sideloading Applications
Windows Store
Office 365
Chapter Review
Module 17
Windows 8 Application Compatibility
Application Compatibility Basics
OS Migration
Permission Issues
Windows Tools
App Compatibility
Chapter Review
Module 18
Windows 8 User Profiles
Mobile Strategy
Folder Redirection
Roaming Tweaks
Primary Computer
Roaming Profile and Folder Redirection Setup
Offline Files
User Experience Virtualization
User Experience Virtualization Components
User Experience Virtualization Setup
Chapter Review
Module 19
Windows 8 Intune 101
Intune Deployment Basics
Intune Client
Intune Grouping
Software and Packages
Intune Deployment
Intune Client Side Installation
Intune User Side Installation
Chapter Review
Module 20
Windows 8 Intune Mobile Device Management
Mobile Device Management Basics
Exchange Active Sync
System Center Configuration Manager
Intune Client and Groups
Intune MDM Management
Creating Intune Users
Chapter Review
Module 21
Intune Updates, Endpoint and Software
Deploy Software and Updates
Software and Packages
Endpoint Protection
EP Security, Updates and Software
Intune Policy Creation and Deployment
Intune Update Configuration
Intune Installing and Deploying Software
Chapter Review
Module 22
Window 8 Files and Storage
NTFS and File/Folder Permissions
EFS and BitLocker
Windows Data Sync Center
Storage Spaces
Branch Cache
Creating a Storage Space
Chapter Review
Module 23
Windows 8 Backup and Recovery
File History
Windows 8 Backup
System Image and System Repair Disk
Windows Boot Manager
Windows RE
Advanced Booting Options
Full System Restore
BCD Store
PC Refresh and PC Reset
Windows 8 Restore
Windows 8 Restore Tools
Chapter Review
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How much distance should one move so that a shot that can be framed at xx mm be framed at yy mm?
I think the question is clear but I will provide an example.
To fill the whole frame with a subject using 60mm lens I have to be
X meters from it. With 35mm lens I have to be
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X > Y but how to calculate the actual distance (let's say that with 60mm lens, the distance is 1 meter)?


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As legal battles go, it's sash and burn.
Fallen beauty queen Carrie Prejean sued the Miss California USA pageant and co-executive director Shanna Moakler on Monday alleging religious discrimination, drawing a sharp rebuke from Moakler's camp.
"On Ms. Moakler's behalf, I can say unequivocally that Ms. Prejean's lawsuit is without merit," says Mel Avanzado, Moakler's lawyer.
"More importantly, as everyone who watched or read her public statements is well aware, Ms. Prejean's unfortunate and bigoted statements are responsible for any public humiliation or damages to her reputation that she has claimed to have suffered," Avanzado added. "Ms. Moakler strenuously denies that she did anything wrong and looks forward to proving that in a court of law."
Prejean was fired in June by pageant officials who cited missed scheduled appearances. But an attorney for Prejean says his client was ousted because of her anti-gay marriage stance. In April, during the Miss USA pageant, she stated that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Prejean, 22, is also suing for libel and slander, and also names co-executive director Keith Lewis and publicist Roger Neal in the lawsuit.


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A stunning example of a low mileage Triumph Thruxton 900 in beautiful jet black. This amazing machine has its two keys and two books and lots of history. The bike also comes with a Motone seat, a screen, chrome bar end mirrors tail tidy and Thruxton chequered decals.
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We can provide further reassurance with extended guarantees, again backed by The Warranty Group. Cover starts at just £320 for 12 months cover including UK breakdown assistance,
There is no limit to the number of claims that can be made, and each claim can be made up to the value of £1,000 (for bikes from 2 to 7 years old). Normal wear and tear items aren't included, and there is a list of items covered. Full details are available.
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