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I am on my second pair of these head phones and the same thing happened to this pair that happened to the last, only sooner: the right side stopped working. Apparently this is a common problem with these head phones. I might try one more pair, and maybe I’ll get lucky. Too bad because the sound is decent for what you pay and they’re fairly comfortable. My ears hurt a little after using them for several hours, but it’s not serious. I really like the lightweight, clip-on design. I don’t like ear buds or the over-the-head headphones, or the behind-the-neck ones either. This is an optimal design but the reliability is quite questionable.
Sony MDR J10 h

I am in third grade and my teacher recommended this book to me.
Artemis Fowl is a 12 year old boy who is trying to save his family fortune. He is a criminal mastermind and he works with fairy technology. The book is exciting because Artemis fights many different creatures including: centaurs, fairies, sprites goblins and gnomes. It was a fantastic book.
(Reviewed by my 9 yr old daughter)
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I enjoy well-written fantasy books, like the Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire series, books 1-7 (let’s forget books 8 -9 happened) and Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series. Those books feature female protagonists who have dimension, character, quirkiness, and occasional flaws. The characters are well-fleshed out and have internal conflicts, as any real person would. They aren’t perfect and they don’t live with perfect people.

Bella Swan, the main character in the Twilight, is a one-dimensional, whiny, sullen, bratty teenager. Her only flaw seems to be that she doesn’t fit in the town and that maybe she’s just too darn pensive and too darn pretty. She’s just too darn perfect. (I’m being facetious….) I won’t divulge much of the plot (little as there is) but during much of this book, Bella is either feeling like she’s too good for Forks (the small town she’s relocated to) or she’s fawning over Edward, the “mysterious” Cullen boy.

The author fails to inject any sense of character into her characters. They come across as flat, predictable and formulaic. Every vampire character is described as beautiful, attractive, alluring, etc. The school kids are stereotypical school kids. No one seems to have any real flaws, physical or otherwise. The “good” vampires are even – gasp – pseudo-VEGETARIANS…! (They feed on animals, but not people.) And of course, everyone knows the joke about the sparkling. If you don’t, I won’t spoil it for you but you can Google or Yahoo it, if you really want to know.

The writing was painful to read. The style read like a teenager’s diary, ironically, it would have made more sense had it been written in that way, ala Bridget Jone’s Diary. I would have more easily forgiven the endless ogling that Bella subjects Edward to. The author tries to write him in a sympathetic Byronesque fashion, but he’s simply bad tempered and chauvinistic. He’s not a tragic hero, Edward is just tragically boring. The supporting characters
Sony Cybershot DSC H10

When Sony made this camera, they were thinking of people like you and me, who were looking for a good camera, with a good resolution, enough features, and of course, not to spend too much.
The camera ’s 4.1 mp resolution allows you to get perfectly detailed 8″ x 5.33″ prints, if you want them.
Other features, like manual exposure, and scene modes, allow you to get more pro, so this isn’t a simple point and shoot camera if you want to do some tweaks to yor photos. The P73 helps you to take pictures like a professional without having to be one.
The P73 takes about 1 second to power up, and for continuous shooting, you only have to wait about 1 second between pictures.

PROS
- Low price / Great features
- Easy to use
- Good battery life
- Optical Zoom
- 6 Scene modes
- 3 Additional modes: Manual / Program / Auto (point + shoot)

CONS
- LCD fonts are tiny and hard to read
- Smart zoom only works at low resolutions (1mp – 3mp)
- Included 16MB MemoryStick is not enough (only 8 pix @ 4.1mp)
- Included “Picture Package” doesn’t have any edit capabilities
- Picture Package Software crashes sometimes causing damaged JPGS

Sony should give away larger MemorySticks with their cameras, but I guess that’s their strategy… if you buy a camera, you will need another MS.
If you buy the CyberShot DSC-P73 consider buying at least one 128MB MemoryStick (holds 64 pix @ 4.1MP) but I’d reccomend a 512MB that holds about 242 photos @4.1MP, so you can go on vacation and take enough great pictures without having to worry for the MS capacity.
A spare set of batteries and a carrying case would be a great companion as well.
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I purchased these as a present for a friend…and they did not do what I had hoped they would.
I was anticipating that there would be multiple uses for them, but there are not.
The one and only way they work is to plug them in with the included power cord. You cannot run them with no power, and not on batteries.
They sound decent enough, but I wanted them to be more portable than they are. They will be perfect for work computer, or with your IPOD as long as you are near a power source.
They are very cheaply made, and were lighter than I anticipated…there is nothing to them.
They do serve their purpose for the price, just dont expect much.
Sony Srsa201 Active Speaker

The Garmin portable friction mount is great for California use because it allows you to have it on the center of your dash where the driver AND the passenger can see it. Without a dash board mount, it can only be mounted in a small corner of the window. Actually they should outlaw the use of GPS devices, cell phones, iPods, etc., while driving, i.e., all the other drivers except me.
Sony HDR XR550V 240GB

A book titled “Conversations with God” can be read from three basic perspectives: 1) the reader can accept this as the absolute word or holy bible of an objective God (i.e. God stands apart from us as an Almighty Creator who sits in judgment of His creation); 2) the reader reads it as a dialogue with a subjective God (God does not stand apart and sit in judgment of us); and 3) the reader treats it as an interesting work of creative fiction.

A careful reading of this book should preclude the first perspective. The philosophy contained in these pages maintains that God is subjective. In other words, we are part and parcel of God and therefore we can know God experientially. If God is an ocean, then we are each a drop from that ocean. Therefore a conversation with God is the same as a conversation with our own divine nature–our higher (or highest) inner self. I read the book from this perspective, which enabled me to respect the thoughts therein as being perhaps divinely inspired, while still taking it all with a grain of salt.

I found the book to be interesting, inspiring, and perhaps even enlightening. I have read quite a bit of spiritual philosophy, ranging from “new age” to traditional religions and many paths in between. While many of the traditional established religions contain a lot of negativity in the way of threats of horrific consequences for displeasing God, I found it refreshing that there is none of that here. Walsch’s God doesn’t care what you do, but created life with immutable laws such as karma (cause and effect). You are free to do as you please and God will not get angry at you or condemn you to hell. Walsch’s God maintains that we were all created to be Gods unto ourselves, and that whether we realize it or not, we are creating every aspect of our own reality both consciously and unconsciously every moment.

I often read an interesting spiritual, inspirational or self-help book with a highlighter nearby. I don’t think I’ve ever hig
Sony VAIO VGN NW330F