For the price, it is a great deal and has patterns that provide something for everyone!

I highly recommend it!

Although there are a few of the standard cute animal wall hangings, shelves and such I found many different and useful ideas here. There are Chinese character trivets that go with my Oriental themes and a nice puzzle ball. I think the outstanding piece in the book is a free-standing plant stand that can be sized as needed. This beautiful item is shown on the front cover and is a solid piece of furniture that could be enlarged to be an occasional table with a multitude of uses. A wastepaper basket and flower pot stand in a similar style are also included.

There are a number of very nice corner and wall shelf patterns with sophisticated designs including wildlife and a beautiful ballerina. Another of my favorites is a mirror frame capped with a delicate scroll work pattern. With all the scroll saw pattern books out there I found this one to have plenty of unique and useful projects to make it a welcome addition to any collection.

Dow frankly states that "the markets are always more or less manipulated." But then later he admits... "...people in Wall Street...do not know what the market will do with any regularity..."

He advocates averaging down a few times, which is odd, considering what he wholeheartedly endorses several times...

Dow mentions cutting losses short and letting profits run more than any other single idea. It appears in almost every article.

On bear markets... "There will be a sifting of the better from the worse, visible enough at a distance, but not conspicuous at any particular stage in the process." Sounds like the "narrow advance" of today...the pinnacle market?...

One of the articles involves a description of discretionary accounts (managed accounts) that makes the swindling operators of them sound like the guys who are running LTCM (see WSJ 5-20-99, page C-1). They take your money and tell you it wasn't their fault when the market kills them. The only (possible) difference is that many of the swindlers of earlier this century never actually invested the money they received. They just took it and ran.

An interesting read. Buy a copy of S.A. Nelson's The ABC of Stock Speculation. That's where I read these articles.

Kellogg gently leads the reader through the transcendant and almost scared which surrounds and infuses our daily existence.

What do I like most about the book? Yes, it is being stretched to consider facets, spectrums, and hues I usually don't take time to notice. Yes, it is gaining a clearer perspective on questions like "What's the point?" But it is also the way Kellogg writes. It is vivid, personal, conversational, and flows with the energy and effervescence that characterizes Buzz's oral conversation. The writing is alive. He was excited and energized to write it and that joy shows in every page.

A mysterious young woman found naked off the road in the midst of Minnesota farm country (Crow Wing, to be exact), and possibly responsible for the violent death of an investigating police officer--possible murder weapon: telekinetic powers causing explosions--comes under the care of Dr. Kevin Blake of the Probe Project. Blake is respected or envied by his colleagues for his ability to successfully probe the minds of any disturbed or distraught patients, especially those who have been previously brainwashed by cults. But right from the start, "Jane Doe", as the quiet woman from Crow Wing is called, proves to be a unique case--she claims to have no memories of an childhood whatsoever. She may not need "re-programming" or "de-programming"; it's possible she needs a start-up program, so to speak. Physically, she's also an enigma, because it's as if various parts of her body--teeth, sexual organs, etc.--are too perfect to suggest any kind of previous existence (she's as virgin as virgin gets, and her teeth are pristine too) before she turned up spreadeagled in the wilderness.

What follows is Kevin Blake's extended examination of Jane Doe, and the feelings they develop for each other. He comes to believe that she has true telekinetic powers once he lets a colleague, the ambitious and somewhat unfeeling Dr. Swanson, perform some para-normal tests on her. The tests only prove what has already become obvious to the reader, though; our Jane Doe is not exactly safe to be around when she feels threatened in any way, and she has at her disposal amazing mental powers that can be lethal and out of control if she is confronted. And suddenly, everyone seems to want to confront Blake's unpredictable, but very attractive patient, from an older couple claiming to be her parents (they also say they were once abducted by extraterrestrials), to rival doctors who want to use her for their own purposes or to bolster Probe's public relations, to the CIA, who learn what Jane Doe can do, and would like to control it even if she can't.

This novel has a strong pace, considering that the plot is not all that exciting, and it really helps that Douglas has a very enjoyable style. But, about that plot, it decides to lose steam towards the end, when it settles for being a love story above most else, complete with fairly predictable ending. I enjoyed watching the adventures of Jane Doe, as she learned more about herself and whether she has a place in the world, or had one before she was brought to Kevin Blake, but ultimately, Probe does not take us anywhere new. Equal parts Splash, Carrie, Star Man, and Firestarter, meaning that lots of this will be familiar. At least it's done well, while being done again.

... Gary Allen was one of the better writers working in the genre of the paranoid and, even if his conclusions don't always hold up, one can't deny that he does a very good job of compiling and presenting his evidence. While The Rockefeller File doesn't quite match up to Allen's classic None Dare Call It Conspiracy, its a compelling presentation of a world view that many dismiss with ridicule without really giving it fair consideration beforehand.

This book I would recommend to anyone who is truly curious about the ideas behind the theories of those who the media dismisses as "anti-government extremists." Whether you agree with them or not, its hard to deny that they're a group who are often held up as easy targets by liberals. They're the scapegoats of modern America and deserve at least a chance to state their views without being shouted down in fits of moral indignation. The Rockefeller File presents one of their better cases. Read this book, consider the evidence and conclusions within, and then decide for yourself. Either disagree like me or agree like thousands of others, but at least give them a fair hearing.

And what is more important to me, the state of the world or the state of my own community? For too long, media has taken community attention away from tehmselves to focus on teh global community. This should not be tolerated.

Wahtever happened to teh autonomy of states, to city councils, to the true power of a local group of citizens to determine the course of tehir own destinies?

What i like best about the book is that the chapters are short - average chapter size is only about 15 pages.Thus material is presented in 'bite-sized' chunks, making it much easier to digest.Also, since the authors opt to focus on breadth more than on depth, the book isn't imposingly thick.The layout is also very nice,making it even more of a pleasure to read.

The clarity of writing is another strong point of the book, as are the illustrations.The authors go to the heart of the matter, successfully imparting the flavour of the topic, be it the basics, or the current state-of-the-art.An excellent chapterwise bibliography makes it easy to trace further details on any topic.

All in all, it's a great book, one which stands out for the originality of its approach and the expertise of its authors. In my opinion, anyone working in the area of Speech/Audio processing should have a copy of this most accessible guide.

This book actually lists some of the schemes that work their way in the industry. Fortunately or unfortunate;ly, the names of certain people are even called and the activities that relate to them!

It makes for interesting reading and can be useful depending upon your level of education and experience in the industry.

I think that this is already the baseline model that each of us brings with us when we start deciding how to accomodate an Alzheimer's patient that we love. No fresh new outlooks from the labs of academia here. Nor is there any educational material about how ethicists arrive at the conclusions they do.

The format of the book is descriptions of seven composite family scenarios. The tone of the writing underlines the judgemental quality of the thinking by narrating in a sing-songy rhythm, and using character descriptions that remind me of the lesson book we used in my Catholic catechism class during grade-school.

The selfhood discussion comes too late in the book. The concept of "selfhood" and the effects of Alzheimer's on selfhood would have made a much better focus for this discussion than the "family-care good" "institutional-care bad" framework that was so overpowering. They should have featured why a family would want to protect a patient's selfhood, and how other considerations like safety, inconvenience, and concommitant and equally important tasks (such as parenting young and teenage children) might come into conflict with (or dovetail with) protection of the patient's selfhood.

The long-term consequences to each individual of the choices that they make during an Alzheimer's convalescence would have been a less judgemental angle to approach issues of "selfishness" from. There was no recognition in any of the scenarios of the effect of long-standing mental illness in family members, including but not limited to the patient, or ethical ways of viewing "dysfunction" in families facing the care of an Alzheimer's patient.