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This is a great game in its own right, with 24-player online matches, fully destructible environments, and a full range of land, sea, and air vehicles in very large maps. All of these things are very impressive for a console, but may be nothing too exciting for fans of the older Battlefield games on the PC.



It may take a little while just to get used to the game, but it can be a lot of fun once you get into it. The game overall isn't as clean or realistic as Call of Duty 4, but you really have to keep in mind that they're trying to bring a lot more to the table, whereas COD4 focused on perfecting a few key aspects of the gameplay. Those are two really different approaches to game development, and so it's really not fair to compare the two directly.



With that said, however, the controls and aiming don't feel nearly as sharp or responsive as they should, and this can get frustrating when you're trying to frantically maneuver your vehicle out of harm's way or land a shot on the guy in the tiny window across the village.



It'll be a little while before you pick up on the full range of things you can actually do in the game (tagging enemy vehicles with tracer rounds so that your buddy can lock onto it with a rocket launcher, for instance, or deploying smoke from your tank to cover your retreat). That's when things really get fun (and you stop dying as much). Online matches tend to descend into chaos rather quickly, but if you find some friends to play with and stick together, the cooperative aspects of the gameplay really shine through and can make for a very rewarding experience.



In conclusion, there are a few areas for improvement, but it's a very good multiplayer game in its own right, and it's definitely worth checking out (especially if you're new to the series). Battlefield: Bad Company

I think this game is better than any of the COD games. No infinite enemies spawning, not as linear, great graphics, big environment and most everything blows up. Co-Op would be a big plus with all the vehicles, etc..I am going Live because of this game.

Battlefield Bad Company is a FPS for the XBOX 360, This is an open world combat game similar to Medal of Honor Airborne and Frontlines Fuels of War. But most people feel that it must be compared to Call Of Duty 4, which of course is the best FPS on the 360.



Playing the single player campaign in Bad Company has you fighting alongside a squad of three AI (artifical intelligence). Unfortunately, your AI sqaudmates are practically brain dead! They will stand out in the open and not shoot back at the enemies. The enemy AI are shooting hailstorms of bullets at you but seldomly attack the AI squadmates on your team. This shoddy programming takes away from the realism and makes the game feel cheesy and low budget.



Since your sqaudmates are useless, that you will have to take it upon yourself to get into the combat and mission objectives. Many of the missions have intense firefights and are pretty straight foreward. The maps are very massive and open for the most part. This open world combat lets you devise your own plan of attack which is an excellent experience in itself. There are plenty of weapon pickups and checkpoints which automatically save your progress. If you get killed, you just respawn from the last checkpoint you passed.



The levels use streaming technology which means no loading times when going from one part of the map to the next. The levels also are persistant which means that whatever destruction you caused or enemies you killed; they remain the same and DO NOT reset after you get killed. The best thing about Bad Company is the destructiblility. Trees, containers, vehicles, and walls can be destroyed. The graphics and sound effects do a good job of conveying the chaos from this destruction.



There are two game mode type for multiplayer online. The mode called, "Gold Rush" allows up to (12) players on each team. The defending team protects the gold crates, while the attacking team tries to destroy them by either planting a charge on the crates or simply shooting at them till they blow up. Gold Rush, is so much fun that it should be renamed to "Head Rush".



Recently the game's developer, made Conquest mode available as a free download. Conquest plays like a cross between capture the flag and territories. It uses four pre-existing maps that have been modified to fit its style of gameplay. It is a nice addition to the overall package.



Here's a small taste of what you should expect to see during the matches:

Mortars shower from above, attack choppers dominate from the air, battle tanks destroy by ground, artillary strikes are awesome, air strikes have lethal precision. All the while lots of small skirmishes are taking place-Specialists running around with their silenced smg, Demolitionist blasting with their shotguns, Snipers killing from afar, Support providing suppressive fire and Assualt soldiers aggressively attacking everyone.



Despite some of its flaws, the chaotic battles, destructive environments, and amazing sound effects make Battlefield Bad Company an enjoyable experience for FPS fans. It is not a perfect game by any means and it probably won't topple COD4, but Bad Company certainly is one of the best open world combat games available for the XBOX 360.



Pros:

+open world combat

+destructible environments

+massive levels

+excellent map designs

+ragdoll physics

+jaw dropping sound effects

+excellent controls

+excellent vehicles

+balanced weapons

+intense firefights

+conquest mode added recently



Cons:

-brain dead AI in single player mode

-It does not win over COD4

I've never played this game online, but I can say without hesitation that the single player campaign is one of the funnest I have ever played. The sound effects are top notch (there really aren't enough good things to be said for this part of the game), the graphics are beautifully rendered (as are the havoc and destruction you'll create), and the storyline and characters are all humorous and engaging. If you're interested in arcade-type first person shooters that emphasize thrills over realism then this is absolutely the game for you. - Video Games - Battlefield - Multiplayer - Bad Company'

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This ensemble cast delivered the goods and nailed each of their performances.



Tobey and Jake are very believable as brothers and Natalie was the true heart of this story as her beloved husband played by Tobey goes to a very dark place as a result of his experience in the war. All of the cast members were strong and made you really care about what happened to them.



I felt their happiness,pain and sadness.



Jim Sheridan the director is true to his style and storytelling theme about war and its effects on a marriage,family and forgiveness.



There was one scene with he and Natalie that reduced me to tears and that is not an easy thing to do, thus the five star rating which is well earned and deserved! Brothers

I am currently deployed in Iraq, first duty and hopefully my last. My significant other came back home from Iraq and totally cam back as a different person. This movie is as real as it gets. Highly recommanded. A truly magificant movie. Oscar winners in my book especially Toby. Left me speechless, he was right on the money.

I loved this movie. It instantly became one of my top 5 ever. Some of the films most intense moments are some of the most intense I've ever seen. Tobey Maguire deserves an oscar for this. Some critics have been saying that this movie is more of a melodrama than the original, but I would greatly disagreee. Great acting from all involved (including the dad) and terrific writing. After I saw it, I couldn't stop thinking about it the rest of the week. Highly recommended.

This is one of those times that I wish Amazon let us use half stars as I think this is more 3.5 stars than 4 full ones. I have not seen the Danish film and now I wish I had. This is because I just read here that in the Danish movie, the wife does start an affair with her brother-in-law. This film lost a lot of its punch when the director shied away from letting that happen in the American remake. As a result, it's as if someone punctured the air out of the movie past the halfway point. This should be a very taut, sharp drama throughout , which I suspect he Danish one is. The American one simply cannot sustain the same tension when the guts were removed from the script. The actors are very good, both the brothers and the wife. I think they make the best of what they've got. So the problem must be that director Jim Sheridan was worried about losing audience if he kept the film as stark as the Danish version (that a film is Scandinavian and stark borders on redundancy). This almost always happens in American remakes. We seem to do better when we use our own original source material.

This movie simply ran out of steam when it should have been revving it up. It lost me at the point where Brother Tom kissed the wife, and then went ..... where? Really seemed like the screenwriters didn't know how to imbue the story with the kind of conflict and emotion it needed.

BROTHERS



STARRING: Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sam Shepard, Bailee Madison, Taylor Geare, Patrick Flueger, Clifton Collins Jr., Ethan Suplee and Mare Winningham



WRITTEN BY: David Benioff; based on the screenplay Bodre by Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen



DIRECTED BY: Jim Sheridan

Rated: R

Genre: Drama

Release Date: 04 December 2009







I have always wondered if maybe Tobey Maguire had a dark side to him, buried away, deep behind that charming Peter Parker smile. Now that I have seen his disturbing performance in Brothers; I know that he does.



He plays Capt. Sam Hill of the U.S. Marine Corps and he does it miraculously. At first everything seems to be ok with Sam. He has a wonderful wife and two beautiful kids; a strong relationship with his father and he loves and defends his brother. However, all of that is about to change.



We learn early on in the film that he is to be shipped off to Afghanistan. He is proud to be a Marine and is equally proud to go.



Just days before he leaves, his brother Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) is released from prison. We don't know why, but Sam's wife Grace (Natalie Portman) isn't very fond of him.



Their father Hank (Sam Shepard) agrees with Grace entirely. In his eyes, the two brothers are worlds apart. Sam is the saint and Tommy is the family screw-up. Having been a Marine himself, Hank respects Sam and constantly puts Tommy down for not being more like his brother. There are some very well acted scenes between the three of these Hollywood greats; particularly the first dinner scene when Tommy is released from prison.



It's not a hard sell at all to buy Gyllenhaal and Maguire as brothers. Several people over the years have commented on their similar looks; they have been mistaken for one-another; and at one point Gyllenhaal was rumored to be relieving Maguire in the Spider-Man franchise. Their on-screen chemistry is more than believable, so fans will enjoy their scenes together, as did I.



The plot thickens when Sam's chopper goes down and he and his crew are believed to be dead. We know from the trailers, the opening credits saying Tobey Maguire's name first and just common movie-goer knowledge, that he is not dead. If you haven't seen the trailers, relax; it's revealed to us right away that he is alive.



Himself and another soldier have in fact been captured by the Taliban and are brought to a secret hideout in the Afghan Mountains. Having done a tour of duty there myself, I can tell you that wherever they filmed this sequence is very close to the real deal.



Sam is an officer and his counterpart is an enlisted Private. He constantly reminds him of their differences in rank throughout all of their scenes together.



I found this annoying as I don't think that nine out of 10 soldiers would be that over-zealous about their rank in a situation like this, but there is always that one guy. And it does serve a purpose as Sam is very good at reading people and can see that this particular soldier is weak and will most likely not be able to handle whatever sadistic torture their captors have in store for them.



I found the scenes in Afghanistan to be the most entertaining portion of the film and there are several of them. Tobey Maguire does an amazing job in these scenes and will show you dimensions of himself that you have never seen before. He is driven to do things that a lot of people may say they would never do in that situation; but I don't think any of us ever really know what we are or aren't capable of until we are put into a certain situation. This film will really make you ask yourself what you would do if you were in Sam's shoes.



I'm displeased to report that the rest of the film was a letdown. The only positive thing I really took from the rest of it, were the amazing performances of all the actors. There wasn't a single person in this film that didn't bring every bit of what they had to offer to each and every scene. Even small characters were casted well and delivered excellent performances. I don't know how they got Clifton Collins Jr. to do the two or three tiny scenes that he was in; but they did and he brought an impressive performance with him.



Natalie Portman is as amazing as ever. She plays Grace so effortlessly and has great chemistry with the actors playing her family. In the scene where she receives the news of her husband's death, she goes from smiling to an absolute wreck without so much as a second going by.



I feel Jake Gyllenhaal was cheated out of some screen time in the film. You never really got to know his character as well as you should have. Regardless of this, he still does a knock-out job with it anyway.



The same goes for Sam Shepard. I felt like this character should have had either a bigger part in the story or a smaller one. With an actor like Sam Shepard, the answer better be bigger. We get absolutely no closure from his character's issues in the film.



Scenes seem poorly edited and at times, too glamorized for this film. I feel like a lot of them were too bright and didn't fit well with the dark tones of the film as a whole.



The most disappointing piece of the film was the romance between Tommy and Grace. I kept waiting for there to be this moment where they fall in love for each other and have a secret affair; but it never happens. They have one intimate moment where they share a kiss and both of them seem to regret it instantly and it is never brought up again; because right after it they discover Sam is still alive.



I was expecting this huge love triangle to unfold. I think that based on the trailer and the poster alone, most would agree with me in thinking this is what was going to happen. There was opportunity after opportunity for there to be moments between them. Then when the romance never comes you are left wondering `what was the point of those scenes then?' Take the scene where she leaves in the middle of the night to go and pick Tommy up from the bar; or the idea of him offering to rebuild her kitchen for her. These are classic set-up scenes for a romance to ensue, and there is nothing!



I get the feeling that the filmmakers' intentions were not to have the over-done love triangle, and instead let it all be in Sam's head. For some, this may be a pleasant aspect of the film. I can even appreciate the originality in that; it's just that I kept expecting these other things to happen and when they didn't, I was disappointed.



I thought there would be hot and forbidden sex scenes; followed by the heart-throbbing suspense of them trying to cover it up, as they realize they are still in love even after Sam is back in the picture.



What we get instead is Sam returning and being wacked out of his frigging mind from the trauma he experienced over there. He is deathly thin and this adds a great deal to him being creepy. His children are afraid of him and his wife looks at him as if he is another man altogether.



Rather than the suspense, we just get what I would call annoying drama. Sam flat out confronts Tommy about sleeping with his wife, and Tommy never once denies having done so. Well no wonder the poor guy continues to think that something is going on!



As if that wasn't bad enough, one of Sam's daughters is so distraught that her daddy isn't the same anymore, she screams at him and tells him that her mother and Tommy have sex all the time. She yells this in front of everyone at the dinner table, and neither Grace nor Tommy says anything to comfort Sam by assuring him, this is untrue. Had it happened, this would have been a little bit more tolerable; but it didn't! Nothing happened! So why wouldn't either of them say something to deny it?



As far as I'm concerned, there was no justification for the daughter to act that way in the first place. There wasn't enough suspense of her daddy being frightening and different that would have caused her to do this. It seemed like two or three scenes between the two of them had been deleted and made it play-out wrong.



It's not a bad movie; just not what I had anticipated and looked forward to it being, nor is it what it could have easily been. I'm sure a lot of people will still enjoy it. In the meantime, to hold me over until another film delivers hot steamy romance mixed with suspense and a classic love triangle; I suppose I can watch Pearl Harbor again.'

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Some people keep complaining about the lack of content in this expansion pack, calling it a "glorified stuff pack". There is actually quite a lot more there than one might think. Therefore, since someone asked me to post this, here is a pretty nice list of what you can expect to find in this pack:



This list was not compiled by me, but by a Sims fan-site [...]



' There is not a new town for Generations. The town shown in photos and videos is Sunset Valley.



' There are 10 new community lots added to Generations.



' They have not added any new Rabbit Holes. (Still unknown if they have opened any existing ones)



' One of the new community lots added is a Playground complete with a Sandbox, Swing set, Seesaw, Playhouse Set, Spring-Rides, and a Treehouse(?)



Sims & CAS



' Body hair is a feature that has been added to CAS



' New accessory for Elders: Canes



Build Mode Features



' Spiral Staircases



' New type of Window



New Objects



' Usable Strollers to transport your toddlers. One per stroller. For more than one child, multiple strollers will have to be used with other sims pushing them.



' Bunk Beds and Loft Beds which can be used by Sims of all ages



' Tree-houses



' New Playground equipment



' Sandbox



' Water Slide which can be used by all ages (Slip n Slide) not a pool slide.



' Video Camera



' Chemistry Set to make lots of new potions



' Sleeping bags



' Children's toy boxes have been improved with costumes so kids can play dress up.



' Pink Limousines



' Costume chest



' Different sized picture frames



' Lava Lamps



New Interactions,Features & Events



' Children and teenagers can play pranks on strangers, neighbors, and even other family members.



' The Sims 3 Generations has two kinds of mischief: Traps and Pranks in public places



' Pranks & Traps include: booby traps, Water balloons, covering a neighbor's house in toilet paper (or TP'ing), Stink Juice (bombs), Flaming bag of poo, Ding Dong ditch, adding hair dye to shampoo, Throwing eggs, making the toilet explode, pouring buckets of water from the tree-house onto someone, messing with the sink to make it spray someone when they attempt to turn it on and whoopee cushions under the sofa!



' "Ninja Vanish-Potion" is used to disappear from the scene of a prank. Chemistry skill required to make the potion.



' Children & Teens can be grounded for mischief, have a timeout or have their video games banned.



' Pranks can contribute to your teen's social standing and will actually let you build up a reputation as a master prankster and local legend to the other kids at school.



' Children can sleep outside in their backyard and tell ghost stories. (Flashlight included!)



' Stories will effects how your sim sleeps at night.



' Sims can now have Nightmares.



' Children can have sleepovers and slumber parties!



' Children can dress up and be a "King or Queen" and reign over their subjects.



' Sims keep memories, so you can go back and review your Sims' milestones when you feel like reminiscing. Memories of significant life moments will be recorded in their Scrapbook.



' Adult Mid-Life Crises



' Pillow Fights have returned!



' Older Sims can interact with toddlers now by performing "claw" movements while in their arms. (most likely an add-on to tickling)



' Children can now have pirate attacks in their Tree-houses. A skull and crossbones flag is hoisted above the tree house, it hisses and pops on the inside and fire and smoke emerge from the windows.



' Children can now have Sci-Fi adventures in their Tree-houses. They dress as astronauts and UFO's appear.



' Children can now have "clubhouse" type adventure in Tree-houses where they spy on neighbors through a telescope to see what others are up to!



' If your sims decide to throw a wild party. a police car may show up! But don't be fooled as they are not real cops! They are there to add to the parties atmosphere.



' Grown-ups can now have elaborate bachelor and bachelorette parties before marriage, which include all manner of festivities like pink limousines, sexy dancers and plenty of "nectar".



' Bachelor parties, will include hiring a female "dancer" to pop out of a wedding cake and spray the lucky bachelor with a bottle of "nectar".



' Parents have the ability to send children and teens to different boarding schools. They can choose anything from military school to the sports academy, and has plenty to choose from to give their children a proper education! This happens outside our current world.



' Children won't go to college specifically, but what they will do are the following: Children can go on field trips now. Field trips are really cool. It is not just a new way of going with the community as they sometimes bring special things back from these field trips and have them in their memories.



' Teens will be able to have a Graduation and a party for it. (no details given on how a graduation will work)



' Teens can have prom dances. They will be able to take their date and go to the prom and they'll take their picture at the school. You can hang these pictures at home on their walls so they can remember this day and how it was like for them. Of course if they got prom king or prom queen - that's a very special moment for them.



' New parties include: Teenage parties, graduation parties and bachelor/ette parties! They have also added new fun interactions to weddings such as the "Wedding Arch" and "Cake Cutting"



' Sims can now have Dates.



' Adult sims can Woohoo in the shower and in Tree-houses. In tree-houses, you'll see the adults climbing up in there and the tree house is shaking. Leaves falling down off of it and birds will fly of the tree house .



' Not only can your Sims record home videos of their children growing up, but they can take the Data Discs out of the camera and replay their home movies on most of the in-game TV screens!



' Sims can view the world from the video's perspective while they record events around them.



' Sims are now able to record home movies, or even tape unsuspecting victims to use the footage as evidence (blackmail)



' Sims now have the ability to gift flowers and boxed gifts.



' Sims will now be able to stargaze from the ground.



' Hopscotch



' Children can attend ballet class



New Traits/Skills



' Nurturing



' Rebellious



' These traits are not specific to any one life phase in the game, but they'll provide different benefits to Sims throughout their lifespan!



' As of now we do not know of any new "exact" skills such as cooking that can be improved, but making potions with the chemistry set is something to improve on.



Careers/Professions



' Day Care profession



' Parents can take their children to Day Care at a specific time, which is an at-home daycare. How many children will your Sim be able to handle? An additional challenge is that children with rebellious ways might anger you with their antics. Having the "Nurturing" trait is a plus for this job.



' Sims have this new "Nurturing" trait. Sims with this new trait will be great in taking care of other kids; they can interact with them in a special way. It's a very active career. You have to guide your Sims through these experiences to help them advance. So other Sims bring by their kids and drop them off and you have to take care of them. As you progress through it, it gets more difficult - you may even have a problem child. They're going to pull pranks and get in trouble more often. But you make sure that you take care of them like they are your own kid. And as you keep going you will have more and more children and have the ability to manage them.



' Ambitions careers have been expanded.



Lifestate/Creature



' Imaginary Friends



' This fantasy creature with a fancy pants suit, different pairs of shoes and a glowing "light bulb" on the head, moves strangely. An imaginary friend stems from a doll which a child tends to nurture. Once the doll has turned into an imaginary friend, many new interactions become available.



' Only the sim with an imaginary friend can see them. Other sims will not be able to see someone else's imaginary friend. This will be odd seeing a pillow fight or a child on a seesaw with no one else in view!



' You will only be able to see the imaginary creature when the sim who created it is selected.



' Using a special potion, sims can turn their imaginary friends into a "Real" sim.



' Imaginary friends can perform actions that sims can. For example if you have to tidy up the house just ask your imaginary friend to do it!



' Sims can have romantic interests with imaginary friends when they become teens. This romance can continue into adulthood.



' Interacting with an imaginary friend, fills the social bar and gap for your sims.



Extras



' Collections (explained below)



' We now have this new filter in buy/build mode, where you click on it and select the icon of what product you want to see. So if you bought "Generations" and you just want to see the objects from "Generations" you click that icon and that's the only ones you will see. But it's a dynamic system. If you have "Late Night" as well you can click both of them you will see only objects from both of those. So you can show just the objects that you want.



' We will now be able to Upload Screenshots and Memories to our My-Page & Facebook. The Sims 3: Generations - Pc Game - Sims 3 - Sims'

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First of all, to use this you need a Control Center GE 45129 Choice-Alert Wireless Control Center.



A few things to note that were not apparent until I bought this and a Control Center:



- the motion sensor can connect to the Control Center in two ways, either in one of the first three Zones (1, 2, 3) or in the fourth Zone (4) and the Control Center has a different behavior in these two categories.



- In Zone 1, 2, or 3: the motion sensor can only operate in Alarm mode, not in Monitoring mode. Other sensors apparently can be setup to either Alert, Chime, or just show an indicator light for its assigned Zone based on a switch on the Control Center (the switch has settings of Alert / Chime / Off); this setting is applicable when the Control Center is disarmed (not in AWAY or HOME alarm mode). But the Motion Sensor DOES NOT work in this way - it ONLY WORKS in AWAY or HOME alarm mode, when assigned to Zone 1, 2 or 3.



- When assigned to Zone 4: the motion sensor triggers an Alert only, which ignores the Alert / Chime / Off switch. The Alert cannot be silenced, only muted once it starts.



Since the alarm is overkill for what we want (monitoring our sleepwalking child), we plan on keeping it in Zone 4, and unplugging the Control Center without batteries in it to shut if off during the day. The Alert itself should be sufficient to wake us up. GE 45132 Choice-Alert Wireless Motion Sensor Alarm System

The motion sensor was not capable of transmitting a signal to the control center which was located only 60 feet away and only one exterior wall in its path. The wall consisted of vinyl siding 2 windows and a fiberglass door with glass in it. My advice is to buy a more powerful motion sensor which undoubtly will cost more but will be dependable.

this motion detector works really well at detecting any movement but then doesn't set off the alarm for about 30 seconds, all the while beeping as if to give an intruder directions to the home unit so he can destroy it before the alarm actually sounds. the time between activation of the motion detector and the alarm needs to be shortened.

I bought two of these motion sensors. After initiating communications between the sensors and the base unit I found two disturbing things. First, they do NOT communicate up to 150 feet - I was lucky (after moving the base unit around a dozen times) to get about 35 feet with fresh batteries with nothing more than two drywall walls between them. Not very useful and this forces you to put the base unit in potentially awkward places. Second, as far as being weather-resistant? I found that they stopped working when their temperatures dropped below 35 degrees. So, unless you live in Florida, my observations indicate that these are not useful anywhere but in a nice, dry, warm environment. I did find the construction of the sensors to be adequate. But I must take issue with the base unit... it's cheaply built and does not function exactly like the manual states. Further, YOU CANNOT USE THESE motion sensors in ANY mode except for "Armed When You Leave The House Mode"... so I have to question, what's the point then! Final opinion: not a well thought out product, cheap, doesn't work well, and well, you get what you pay for and I'm upset I wasted my time and money on these. They're pretty much JUNK.

When setting up motion detectors, continued to get out of range/ low battery indication on new install. Discovered that poorly manufactured 9v battery connector failed to make tight connection. Hard to believe something this simple could be screwed up, until you note the country of origin. Complete lack of quality control. I'm sure GE was assured this part was made to spec. There is no telling how many of these have been returned, due to such a simple flaw. Wrap the 9v battery and connector once around with electrical tape to secure connection, and it works like a champ.

I purchased this product, the base unit, a remote, and a supplementary alarm. This product did not work at all. To start out, the base unit would not let me program a new code. I programed zones 1 and 2 for the motion detectors and tried the alert and chime settings. They went off whether or not the unit was armed. After about an hour, neither the chime nor alert worked and could not be reprogramed. The supplementary alarm worked because the remote panic button set it off but the motion detector would not set it off.

I bought this with the intention of placing the motion sensors throughout my house and having the receiver unit in the bedroom so that I could be alerted if someone came in the house at night. The system is described as having a "Home" mode with an instant alarm and an "Away" mode with a delayed alarm. What they don't tell you (until you open the product and read the owner's manual) is that the motion sensors don't work in the "Home" mode.

With the GE 45129 Wireless Alarm System Control Center, I am currently using only one of these 45132 Motion Sensors which resembles internally and externally the type marketed by SkyLink. So far, it's detection and selectivity have been superb. Setup and testing was a no-brainer. - Home Security Systems - Monitoring Systems'

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For a very inexpensive knife set, these serve very well. The blades seem to stay sharp for a long time. We don't use the steak knives much because I have a set of those we like very well, but I use the kitchen shears frequently, as well as the paring knives and the 7 inch knife.

The kitchen shears are fantastic. I want to pick up a couple spare pairs. They wash very easily and I use them instead of a knife to cut up chicken breasts for tacos, on tortillas to make corn chips and anything else I can think of instead of using a knife! Chicago Cutlery Metropolitan 15-Piece Block Knife Set

This set of knives is wonderful! It has a knife for every occasion! I've had the set for awhile now, put it through the washer quite a few times and they still look as good as new! Haven't had to use the sharpener yet and the way these knives still cut through everything I don't think I'll have to for a long while!! Great buy, highly recommended.

This seems to be a nice set for the money. The Partoku and Santoku seem to be lesser quality compaired to the rest of the set. They are thinner, lighter and more flimsy. However they are sharp and cut well. Will see if they hold-up as well as the others. Would have prefered the Chef and Slicing knives over them.

I purchased this set of knives for my sister for Christmas.



I had been given a set of the same brand Chicago Cutlery a couple of years back, and really like them.



However, I was dissapointed in the thickness of the blades, not nearly as thick as my set, but my sister seemed very pleased, hence a 4 rating.

First these are made by a Chinese Company contracted to produce under and old American cutlery name so they aren't an American product . They are stamped steel . The metal in these knives is only fair in hardness and durability . The larger knives do a fair job but edge holding will not be a key point . If a cheap set of cutlery is what you can afford these are fair but there is Tramontina cutlery (many items produced in the U.S. too) which is a better cutlery and still cheap . I have had a set of those for 25 years and they are good cheap cutlery . The Steak knives in this set are a joke, get ready to sharpen them right out of the box . They do have comfortable handles though . I have used the screw driver on the shears to tighten screws on a couple cooking pans . I honestly bought these to take on picnics etc. and if one is lost I don't lose that much . If you can afford better I would recommend in stamped cutlery the Victorinox brand . Have those and although the blades are thin their heat treating and chill methods make a superior blade that's almost as good as a forged blade . They do cost a bit more though . I have tried to write a very honest review so hope it doesn't sound too negative . I do reside in Illinois and feel it's a shame a once great American cutlery company has become a basically a second rate company contracting it's products . - Cutlery - Cooking - Kitchen - Knife'

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Dewalt Angle Grinder

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I purchased this grinder with the Dewalt DW4945 4 and a 1/2 inch rubber backing pad and DW4525 35grit sanding discs. I used this setup to sand some house facing down to the wood because the paint was peeling. Scraping and orbital sanding were taking hours per square foot, but this setup moves right along. There is some danger to gouging especially when the disc is in the first 10 minutes. Possibly a larger diameter would be safer but I don't know. On the other hand the small size lets you zero in on stubborn spots. 50 grit might work better. I can't see any courser working well.

The bearings/gear system don't sound smooth like a router but at speed the vibration is no trouble. There are higher priced models; don't know exactly the benefit but they do have a different trigger system. This one has one lever high and in front which you can lock and then shut off with the thumb on the hand holding the grinder while your other hand is say on a ladder or something. Not bad. DEWALT D28110 4-1/2-Inch Small Angle Grinder

This is the best value I've found in a grinder. I've had mine for nearly a year. I've used it to sand, grind high spots in concrete, cut steel bolts, scrub other tools, cut graphite golf shafts, and destroy bad hard drives for my computer. The most extreme use was running it one day for 6 hours of continuous use on a big sanding job. I've abused this thing in ways that it is not designed for and it still won't quit.



Pluses: strong, versatile, easy to change attachments, good switch locks on, handle attaches to either side



Minuses: On the noisy side... not such a big deal when you using a grinder. This model has only the side lock on switch rather than a dead-man switch.



I use it more than I thought I would. Knowing what I know now I'd probably buy the 10 Amp model that comes with the case and deadman switch. Four and a half stars rounded up to five, because of performance and durability.

It's small, light weight, compared to professional use grinders, while delivering lots of power and lots of wheels and brushes available for various uses, including heavy duty diamond wheels. I found it very easy to use and control. The average home user will not likely find this unit lacking.



The grinder is tool-less, if you use their rubber backer DeWalt DW4945 4-1/2-Inch Rubber Backing Pad with Locking Nut for fiber discs and sanding disks or if you use their grinding and cutting wheels that have an integral nut, like this oneDEWALT DW4522 High Performance 1/8-Inch Metal Cutting and Grinding Wheel that has the 5/8 - 11 arbor. In both cases, the wheels can be installed and used with hand/finger tightening.



As far as I can tell, this grinder will accept every 4 1/2 grinding accessory wheel that is available. Many (most?)of them are marked with a 7/8 arbor, which will work fine. Just make sure that you install the 7/8 arbor wheel so that it is centered on the backer, which has a little lip at the 7/8 mark. Then install the locking nut, which also has a 7/8 lip to use on their 1/4 inch thick disc.



To use a rubber backer for sanding discs, polishing wheels, fiber discs, you have to remove the backing nut. It is retained by a rubber O ring and is easy to remove. The instructions are in the manual, but are easy to miss. There are no spanner wrench holes in the locking nut of the Dewalt rubber backer. That means you have to use finger pressure to tighten/remove it. There are other rubber backers that do have spanner holes in their locking nuts, like the Bosch MG0450 4-1/2-Inch Sander Backing Pad with Lock Nut which I think are easier to use. You'd probably need another spanner wrench for the 3rd party backers. I use this one, Adjustable Pin Wrench because it's cheap but works just fine.



You can also remove the guard, if needed to get at certain jobs. If you do, just remember that the on switch is locked on, so if you drop the tool, it could be chasing you around the room.



My only complaints are minor. I wish that there were a threaded socket on top of the grinder for the handle, in addition to the 2 on the sides. The arbor lock button is in a rather awkward place for me.



This grinder seems like a great value and I'm very pleased to have one.

I have owned several (other makes) of grinders. All have functioned for awhile but failed under heavy duty. I needed to get a replacement so I selected the Dewalt D28110. I almost didn't buy it because it seemed too inexpensive compared to others & I was concerned it would fail me early. I am glad I did buy this Dewalt grinder as it has worked perfectly so far and seems to be destined to work for many years.



It is well constructed and I would agree with Dewalt's claim that it is "Heavy Duty".



It satisfies all my needs for a 4 1/2 inch grinder with ease.



Rob

This is a great budget grinder. I used it with a diamond wheel to cut out grout on about 40 sf of floor tile. Put it through the wringer at load with lots of dust for a few hours and had no trouble. I've cut several other large pieces of metal, pipes, etc. Works like a charm. Bearings are a bit noisy but it doesn't seem to cause a problem.



I do NOT think this is "wrench free" as DeWalt claims. It includes a wrench and the instructions do not explain how to remove the wheel without a wrench. I don't think it can be done. (Please post and tell me how if it can!) My other complaint is that the instructions are terrible, like all DeWalt instructions. It's so confusing to try to figure out what applies to this model and what does not, what is the right type of wheel, when a separate guard not included might be needed, etc.

The grinding wheel that comes with it has a 7/8" arbor hole, but the grinder arbor is 5/8." There is a backing plate with a raised portion to enable acceptance of 7/8" wheels. However, THREADED 7/8" accessories won't work. I bought mine for wood carving with a Lancelot, which has a 5/8" arbor hole, which is very thick, and which required me to pull off the backing plate. Said plate is hard to remove (very tight fit; requires pliers) and first-time users might not even know that it is removable.



I'll write more later; just thought I should get this on the record in case someone needs to know, as it's not explained well in the manual. I've only had this thing a short time; so far, so good. No reason not to give it 5 stars if it pans out.



PS. I published the identical review for the reconditioned model, which is the one I bought, but everything I had to say about that applies to, and is useful for, this one.'

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Combo - telescopic fishing rod

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I saw the price here and thought it was a "reel" good deal. I see why it is discounted so much.

This combo is not very well balanced. It feels tip heavy although weighing just 1.25 lbs. It has a size 40 reel which is set too far forward in the grip which may contribute to the tip heavy feel. The crank is a bit wobbly when fully tightened.

The (2) rod sections are a tight fit, but I found that applying a bit of o-ring lube/light oil to the rubber on the second piece made the assembly much easier. I would call this rod a medium/heavy (fresh water) comparing to my other (2) medium/light combos.

I will use this for trolling and big fish I may encounter.

Pay a few dollars more and get a better-balanced combo.

Jackson Quantum Optix Spinning Combo Optix Reel with 7'0-Inch Medium 2 Piece Rod

My husband and I took this rod out to the 3 mile bridge in Pensacola for some speckled trout action. Instead I hooked a monster redfish that bent this rod double (I was sitting on the bow and the fish pulled the rod tip into the water and tried to take it under the boat). My hook failed not the rod. My husband then landed a 24 inch 5 lb redfish with this rod. I am very pleased with this rod. Can't wait to take it out again (maybe a nice little shark next time).

This is a great deal! I think the pole is a second though, because of not being able to fit the poles together. The rubber end on the end pole was to large to fit into the lower rod. We cut the rubber off and put glue into the lower rod and put them together. The rod works great, it is now a one piece rod! - Telescopic Fishing Rod'

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Ryobi 18 Volt Battery - ryobi, battery pack

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After buying this 18v Ryobi Lithium battery through Amazon and retailer Minng 88, and paying 60$ plus, it stopped working after less than five months of light use. It gives a 'defective' signal when recharging. Because it was past 30 days, since purchase, I cannot return it or exchange it for a working battery. It means if you get a defective product from Minng 88, it has to fail within 30 days. If it stops working on the 31st day. you are out of luck. This is very unsatisfactory customer service.

When I had a similar experience with a defective Rigid 18v Lithium battery, bought at the same time through Amazon supplier, Damlow, the response was quite different. Damlow said to return the defective battery for a replacement despite being well past 30 days since purchase. That is great customer service and makes me a happy client. Damlow has gained a future customer. I will never buy from Minng 88 again. and advise all to do the same. Ryobi P103 18-Volt Li-Ion Battery - Ryobi - Battery Pack - Rechargeable Batteries - Lithium-ion'

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