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Sorry for the paradoxical title, but this is really the best way that I can sum up Twilight. I actually saw the movie before reading the book, and the movie made me want to pick up the book. Plus I just had to see what all the fuss was about. This book is about a girl named Bella Swan who moves to Forks, Washington to live with her dad after spending the past 17 years living with her mom. She soon meets a mysterious boy named Edward Cullen who behaves very strangely around her. The first part of the book spends a lot of time describing their interactions together (I’m trying not to provide too many spoilers here), and they eventually fall in love despite the fact that Edward is a vampire and wants to drink Bella’s blood.

This book is extremely enjoyable if you don’t take it too seriously. The story itself is a good one… star-crossed lovers with a dangerous twist… but the way that it’s written leaves much to be desired. Words like “murmured” and “incredulous” are overused to the point that it becomes difficult to believe that the author herself has a degree in literature. Bella wavers from being vaguely annoying (”holy crow”? Seriously, who talks like that?!) to completely non-believable as a human being (What is it that makes her so appealing not just to Edward, but to all the guys in the story? The intelligent mind would like to believe that it’s more than a pretty face and endearing clumsiness). Edward’s attraction to Bella is never properly explained, other than the fact that she smells good and is “fascinating” to him. All of the characters, Bella and Edward included, remain very two-dimensional, and Bella never seems to associate with anyone other than Edward unless she wants something from them. Edward is the prototypical knight in shining armor, but we never really learn why he would want to protect Bella in the first place.

All of this said, I admit that I’ve read this book over and over, and will likely continue to do so. If you’re seeking complex ch
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I LOVE this! I do need to learn to use it so it’s more functional, but for running and biking, It’s nice to not have to map my route to figure out how far I’ve gone. The distance alerts are great to let me know how far I’ve gone without having to look at it every so often.
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When my doctor told me last fall that I was obese (and I knew I needed to lose weight, but obese??), I was shocked. I’m 6′ and at the time weighed in at about 245. That’s overweight, not obese. I was wrong, it is obese. But that was the best thing I could have been told. I had been saying for years I wanted to get my weight back down, and hearing the O word directed at me, made me decide to do it.

One of the first things I did was to get into a weight loss program, including going to group meetings. The first day we were given literature and the neatest little tool – a pedometer. Well, the pedometer was not a really good one, and I never really trusted it. But, the basic concept was working. I saw how little I was walking. I work in an office, so I don’t get around much, but I had no idea I was so sedentary.

I decided that, since walking is a really good way to burn calories, and it’s good cardiovascular exercise, that I wanted a better pedometer. And then, to speed up the decision, I somehow managed to lose the one I was given. And then I ordered my Omron HJ-112. I figured with all the excellent reviews, this had to be a great device.

I’ve had it now for a week, and I love it. I like that it keeps a week’s worth of data. It has been very accurate as to the number of steps. My first one, after walking 50 steps was off as much as 10%. If I tried to adjust the sensitivity, I couldn’t get it any closer than 10%. My HJ-112 counts 50 steps when I walk 50. The most steps I’ve confirmed with a count were 75, and it was dead on.

I read reviews that said when driving, it can add steps. Well, that may be. I did pick up 6 steps on my drive to work one day, but I hit a couple of pot holes that may have done the trick. I also ride a Harley Davidson, and riding it to work one day, no extra steps were counted. I avoided pot holes on that trip. The next time I drove, I took the ped off my belt, set it on my lap, and no extra steps. To be honest, I’m no
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This book that so many have pertained to as “insightful,” was merely a waste of time and money in my opinion. If you are reading this book thinking about how insightful the questions are, you’re obviously not very insightful yourself. If you’re reading the answers to the questions and thinking how insightful they are, you’re not very creative. The opinions this man offers as “answers from God” make me feel like I am watching a political debate between our worthless government involving a j*ck*ss and elephant poop.(Catch my drift?)If you really want a truly interesting read, try The Satanic Bible or the real Bible. The writing in either of those two books put this one to complete shame.
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I’ve used this vacuum for more than six months now, and I can tell you that this is a terrific overall vacuum and a great value for the price. Suction pressure is excellent, design is very simple and easy to use, and the light weight makes it easy to push around the floor and transport up and down stairs. However, when you get a machine like this that is generally so well designed and built, it does make you shake your head in perplexed amazement over how the product engineers would allow a major and obvious performance flaw, namely the vacuum’s performance on bare floor. As has been mentioned, the carpet brush on the head of the vacuum runs continuously, there’s no way to turn it off, and its rotational speed is so high and brushing action so strong that most anything on the floor, even just dust, gets pushed away from the vacuum before the suction has a chance to pull it up. The obvious solution is to pull the suction hose out of its normal socket connected to the head (which is elegantly simple to do), connect it to the extension wand, and use one of the attachments on the bare floor. If there were only a bare-floor nozzle attachment at least nine inches wide, this would be a more than adequate solution to the problem and I would have rated the product with the full five stars. However, such an attachment is not included (which I find inexplicable given the product decision not to provide a means of stopping the floor brush), so you have to use the furniture nozzle that’s only 3 inches or so wide. In smaller rooms, this is an adequate solution, but with larger areas of bare floor I find it more efficient to use a broom to sweep the dust into one corner where it’s quick and easy to pick up with the furniture and crevice nozzles.

Aside from this most unfortunate combination of poor product decisions, I don’t find any other real flaws (including the motor noise, which I find quite tolerable), so I still recommend it.
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I accidentally ran this Pedometer through the wash and once it was dried out, it worked like new again.
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I love my Wii. I have never owned any video game player before & thought they were too hard to understand. Wii is fun & simply to play. Hours of fun. My neighbors have a Wii & we get together with all of our remotes & play together. Great entertainment no matter what age you are.
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I’ve tried a lot of different combs and brushes on my various dogs over the years, so I was skeptical that all the hype could be true. But I first used the Furminator on my double coated Akita mix and removed half a dog! She loved it as well, and afterwards I think she felt more comfortable as she kept coming back to get Furminated again when I was trying to use it on my other dogs. I found it worked best on the dogs that have a downy undercoat, like my Akita mix and my Pug Chihuahua mix. It worked well on my Lab mix too, but the difference was less significant. There is SO much less hair around the house now, and the dogs look better without the tufts of hair hanging off their hindquarters. I have a drawer full of dog brushes and combs that I can now donate to the Humane Society thrift store as I won’t need them anymore.
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