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Archive for April, 2010

Machine is new. Have only done one whole house of carpet. My wife and I were both very pleased with the performance of the machine. The proof will be in the longevity of the unit. I did some online research, and this seemed to be one of the most reliable machines on the market, and a great value. time will tell, but so far we are very happy with it.
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This is an excellent book, I cannot wait to sink my teeth into the next one!
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Ordered 2 of these cables to play with a matrix switch and my new Blu Ray and they cannot detect the signal or the image is like a codified signal and you cannot see anything. My BluRay player on its display shows a HDCP error (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) when is hooked up to this lousy cable. On the go I change it to a medium quality HDMI cable like the ones DirecTv provides when they first install an HD receiver and it works fine.
I wasn’t even using the switch when I was testing the cables, this was a direct connection from the TV to the BluRay player.
Very dissapointed with these cables but due to the cost, not even worth it to return them.
I have a 720p LCD TV so I can use the cables with this TV and my previous DVD Player with UpConvert.
Will never buy cheap again, at least not that cheap…
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I love books but I them more on my Kindle. The Kindle could hold all the books on our shelves, the ones on the floor, and those stored away in the barn – - and still it fits in my purse. But the best of it is the free samples. No more buying books with good reviews or recommendations, reading a couple chapters, quitting, and then trying to give the book away. The samples are long enough for me to be reasonably sure that I’ll enjoy the book until the end. Or else delete it, at no cost.

Waiting has always been tedious for me. Now, whether standing in line, waiting for my husband, waiting for the doctor, etc., waiting is a pleasant experience as I take out my Kindle and read. And I feel that the time has not been wasted.

Of course, the Kindle saves money, since many books are free and none cost quite as much as from other sources (except thrift stores and garage sales, maybe). But I am reading more, so probably I’m not saving as much as I think I am. The Kindle is easy to read and my eyes don’t water like they do with other reading.

Before ordering the Kindle, I read lots of reviews. There were many complaints about various features, but these are overrun by the satisfactions already described, and don’t figure in my love for my Kindle. One thing though, I wish the hard copy instructions were more detailed.

I appreciate the chance to review this item which has improved my life, and I thank you for the review process that helped me make up my mind.
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Much as W.H. Auden achieved with his controversial The Age of Anxiety, Salinger’s “Catcher” revealed to a compliant U.S. citizenry that all was not well in America, contrary to President Eisenhower’s subsequent head-patting.

This is the genesis of a series of period tales concerned with the classic “troubled youth” of 1950s America. Most people became even more aware of this cultural rift through the most famous of James Dean’s three significant films: Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition).

“Catcher” was published in 1951 and was immediately banned from numerous school and public libraries. But like Peyton Place, by Grace Metalious, young people still managed to acquire a copy, hiding it under the mattress. By today’s standards there’s nothing particularly earth shattering in the novel, just a few instances of the f-word and some sexual tension. But that was pretty radical stuff back in the early ’50s.

The story’s protagonist is Holden Caulfield, a young man who struggles with the ethics of every situation. Since we live in an imperfect world Holden determines that nearly everyone is a “phony” and, as a consequence of his grim paradigm, he’s perpetually disappointed with the human race in general. He wants to “protect” children (thus he daydreams of being “The Catcher” [of children] in a fantasy-based rye field which borders on a dangerous cliff — once these children fall over life’s cliff [depravity] they are lost, in Holden’s view.) As one might expect, Holden has few positive encounters with prospective girlfriends and his interaction with male peers is usually not all that positive either.

This tale is pretty bleak but it does yield its lighter and more hopeful moments. It’s conveyed from the first person perspective of the protagonist, which was no easy task for Salinger. In any case this is fine American literature of the First Water. It seems like a straightforward read but upon subsequent readings one discovers much more.

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The author does a very good job with this subject matter and character development. Overall, very good and I would recommend it. I would even read another book. As an African American woman whose grandmother and great aunts worked as domestics, it was tough to get through at times, however the author’s naive sense of what it means to be black in America during the 60s with no education, helped to keep me reading. Overall, good storyline! – Trinice S. Moses – New Jersey
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I just finished reading this book — well worth the price & well worth your time. The story flowed even though each chapter is told through the eyes of a different character than the last. Couldn’t put it down! Great read!
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Twilight centers on the developing romance between star-crossed flirters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. Problem is, Bella and Edward have no chemistry. He’s a 100 year-old vampire. She’s a helpless, self-conscious klutz. They don’t do anything together except look at each other. They have nothing in common–except they’re both virgins–and so they talk about nothing.

Oh, sure, they talk about the weather, music, and their favorite color, but nothing important like what they believe in or their values. These conversations about nothing are fraught with artificial tension and abused facial expressions. There’s a glower, a simper, a chuckle, a smirk, a sigh, a blush after EVERY laborious exchange. It’s meant to be engrossing and edgy, but it’s distracting and silly. Edward the Emo shifts moods from cocky to lustful to angry to protective in the blink of an eye. Bella’s range of emotions exists between expressing embarassment for her clumsiness and awe of Edward’s smooth skin, his sculpted chest, his fiery eyes, etc.

The story is told from Bella’s perspective. She’s your typical upper-middle-class teenager: spoiled, snobbish, and uninteresting. After moving to Forks, Washington, she looks down on her high school classmates because they are nice and emotionally engaged. She acquires friends effortlessly and for no other reason than to have someone to sit with at lunch. Invitations extended to her to go shopping, to go to the beach, and to go to the high school dance she treats with ambivalence if not distaste.

She placates these little people by pretending to enjoy their company, but she is really just biding her time, waiting for love. When Edward enters her life, she drops all pretense.

Edward, as described through the eyes of Bella, is just as one-dimensional and unlikable. He’s brooding, intelligent, good-looking…basically a fantasy realized. Stephenie Meyer spares an editor to overwhelm us with descriptions of Edward with SAT words like “sinuous” and “transluce
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I bought one for myself.
I run with it all the time. I only use simple functions and I have no complain.
The function I use most often is the interval training function (run x min and then walk y min)
It shows distance, time, speed, heart rate, calories burned, etc very clearly.
I am very satisfied with it.

However, I probably didn’t read some descriptions well.
I was all excited and bought this back home (to Taiwan) to my father.
And then I realized it was sooooo difficult to get signal there…. (only succeeded once or twice…)
I believe it will work very well for a lot of countries (it has a lot of lanugage choice), but still please check first if you are going to use this in other countries.

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