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by TheTechLounge - Recent Articles: Cases: Mid-Tower
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The ThermalTake XaserV WinGo Gaming Tower, with its LED fans, aluminum fan-control knobs and enlarged viewing window looks to add a little bling-bling to the Xaser lineup. But there is certainly more to this case than mere eye-candy.
Eumax Compro VideoMate Live USB2.0 External Tuner
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by TheTechLounge - Recent Articles: Multimedia: TV Tuners / Media Receivers
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Instead of replacing your video card with a TV tuner card, now you can hook up a little box and truly enjoy the glory that is the height of laziness. Watch TV while you browse the net, you can't get much lazier than this, unless you have a mini-fridge and a toilet in close proximity...
Little Town on the Prairie
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by Amazon Customer Reviews
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cheeto1 reviewed:
| | 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:  I was wrong - THIS book is the best Little House book!, March 27, 2004 (...) But this next book, Little Town on the Prairie, is outstanding. The Ingalls have a short winter this year and everything seems to go right. But like we all know, even though we are warm and fed, problems just seem to come along. Now that Laura is 14 and 15 years old, she learns to care about and appreciate other people besides just her immediate family. She likes Ida, Cap, Mary Power and Minnie. She goes to a fancy birthday party for a boy named Frank. We see that she is becoming a beautiful young lady and she starts describing clothes and hairstyles in detail.
She even buys the latest thing - name cards. And when she sees Almonzo,she says "I was just picking up my name cards". MY name cards. Like she was so totally in fashion forever. She is very smart and can do long division in her head. There are many fun social occasions in this book and some exciting power struggles with the teacher, Eliza Jane(Almonzo's sister), Nellie Oleson, etc. This is absolutely the most enjoyable book in the series. But I said that last time. Next will be "These Happy Golden Years". It can't be better than this one, but I've just got to see what happens! I can't close without again mentioning how much you learn in this book. This book teaches social history. You learn how to operate a corsett, hoop skirt, and what a lunatic fringe is, and how to curl your hair without a curling iron. You find out what to do when plagued by blackbirds and gophers, what to do when you're "home alone", and how to behave at your first paying job. This book is the beginning of the end of the little Ingalls family. Mary goes away to college, and soon Laura will become a teacher. We all have to face it sooner or later, our children will grow up. See how an ideal family handles it, with grace and love.
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Audioslave
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by Amazon Customer Reviews
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Janos Audron reviewed:
| | One of the best rock albums in a long time, March 26, 2004 After hearing several singles off of this CD, and being a rather big Chris Cornell/Soundgarden fan, I decided to pick this up. I can honestly say it is one of the best albums I've ever heard. Every song on this album could be a single. It's one of those CD's that you never get tired of hearing. The band shows a lot of variety, and just when you think you've heard the best song the album has to offer, the next one comes on and proves you wrong. My one gripe of the CD is that on some of the more fantastic tracks like "What You Are", "Shadow On The Sun" and "Bring Em Back Alive", the guitar solos just don't seem to fit the songs (and to be perfectly honest, I don't know what songs they would fit into), which is disappointing since on some of the other tracks the solos flow into the song rather nicely. But overall, I think this album deserves the highest possible rating, and if you are a Chris Cornell fan in the slightest, or just enjoy good rock music in general, this is a must have.
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The Book of Tobit (Jewish Apocryphal Literature Ser.)
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cheeto1 reviewed:
| | 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:  Tobit, March 4, 2004 I did my review on the book of Tobit from the Bible. The book of Tobit is about Tobit's son Tobiah and the angel Raphael. Tobit could once see, but got sick and went blind. Tobiah needs to make a journey to the city of Rages to get some gold that Tobit deposited in a bank there some years ago. Raphael, one of God's angels, accompanied Tobiah on his journey to guide and protect him. Raphael took the form of a human and said he was the son of one of Tobit's friends. Tobit consented, so Raphael went with Tobiah, and their journey began. Raphael helped Tobiah catch a fish that greatly helps him later on in the journey. That fish has great medicinal powers. Tobiah makes it to Rages and finds out that he was entitled to marry a beautiful woman. Her name was Sarah. She was possessed by a demon. That demon killed every husband that she ever had. Raphael told Tobiah that the fish's heart and liver could repel demons, and the bladder could heal blindness. Tobiah put the heart and liver on the embers of a fire and got ready to go to sleep with his new wife. The demon smelled the fish and fled to Egypt where Raphael captured him. Tobiah got the money and took it, his wife, and half of her father Raguel's animals back home. On the way home Raphael told him to rub the fish's bladder on Tobit's face to cure his (Tobit's) blindness. When they got there, Tobiah rubbed the fish's bladder on his father's face, and instantly his father was healed of his blindness. Raphael chose this moment to reveal to them that he was an angel. Tobit and Tobiah fell down in fear, but Raphael told them not to be afraid. He left soon after this. Tobit composed a very long poem in praise of God. This story's theme is trusting. Tobit had to trust that God would give him back his sight. Tobiah had to trust that God would keep him safe on his journey to Rages, and again he had to trust that God would protect him from the demon. He also had to trust that Raphael was telling the truth about the fish and about his ancestry. Tobiah's conflict was deciding whether or not to marry Sarah even though she was possessed. He chose to let God handle it and to just trust him. The author's writing style is Straightforward. He tells exactly what's going on in the story, without giving very many details. This is shown when he says "they made camp beside the Tigris River (Tobit 6:2)" and again when the author describes the setting simply by saying "it was dark (Tobit 7:6)."
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