Manages much better than I imagined it would

Advantages: funny
Disadvantages: acting

...Do you ever watch a film that you expect to be poor, but go into it with low expectations and come out happily surprised? Well, never was this more appropriate than with 'Management', the new rom-com from Jeniffer Aniston. The plot revolves around Sue a traveling sales-woman who stays in a remote motel run by a quirky family. The son in the family (Mike), takes a liking to Sue, and tries to chat her up during her stay. She guesses this, and just wanting to get rid of him, lets her feel his bum. This tips Mike over the edge, and he soon goes on a round the states road-trip to find her and woo her. This film is a mix of rom-com and wannabe 'Juno'-esque independent. The music and some of the plot is aiming for Sundance film festival, and noticeably so. Still, I quite liked it! The thing I liked about is the way it differs from your...

bruffyboy 25.09.2009 · Read review
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Great, versatile device.

Advantages: A respected MP3 player with a touch screen, mail, weather, stocks, etc.
Disadvantages: Slow Internet applications, DRM restricted music, no Linux compatibility.

...I've found my iPod touch a brilliant device, very versatile and useful. The iPod touch has a brilliant battery life, with up to 20 hours of music playing and around 3½ hours of video, truly making it a device which you can carry around as basically a PDA. With the very reasonably priced January Software Update, the Notes, Stocks, Weather and Mail applications are added to the application list. Notes allows you to keep short text-based messages on your iPod touch. Stocks allows you to keep an eye on any company's stock markets, very useful if you've invested in a few company and need to keep up to date on the market very quickly. The Weather application allows you to keep an eye out on the weather for multiple towns at once. You simply type in the name of the town and it gives you a list of towns with that name. Select...

shadowtreader 09.07.2008 · Read review
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Managed to entertain me

Advantages: Some good acting,
Disadvantages: Felt cheap, some silly bits

...Sue Claussen works selling art, and everything is normal in her life when she checks into a motel one night. Unluckily for her, the night manager Mike spots Sue and decides to woo her with a bottle of champagne. Sue tries to spurn his advances, but ends up letting him get closer to her than she expected. When she obviously has to return home, Mike decides to follow Sue even though she makes it clear she's isn't interested and has a boyfriend of her own. Mike won't give up though, and despite some of his own personal troubles, goes about trying to win Sue over and make her love him back. Will the bumbling hotel manager win the rich art dealer's heart, or can't she look past appearances and job titles? This was another of my library spots and one I watched simply because it's got Jennifer Aniston in it as I think she's a pretty good...

mummy2harry 11.11.2009 · Read review
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Management-Falls below the mark

Advantages: Steve Zahn's performance.Some funny parts
Disadvantages: nconsisntent,story is lost at times

...I didn't even hear about this till recently when I decided to give it a watch considering it was a romantic comedy.Directed by Stephen Belber and starring Jenifer Aninston and Steve Zahn,this film is rather slow for its genre. Sue(Aninston) is a travelling art seller and checks into a motel where the manager falls for her and comes up with new ideas to interact with her.Things take a twist when Sue allows her to grab her butt after he compliments her.The next morning, she ends up having sex with him before leaving the motel which makes it more complex. What she thought was a passing thing turned out to be more as Mike followed her and continued to keep in touch. The film takes place over the course of a few years as Mike keeps chasing her despite the presence of her boyfriend.Some scenes are really funny but the writing is weak...

aadnan613 03.11.2009 · Read review
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BSc Management Studies

Advantages: Great learning
Disadvantages: Hefty bills

...I attended a BSc Management Studies course at a north london university. Westmin ster. The course lasted 3 years on a full time basis, that meant no dole, no real time to work if i was serious about completing this course. The course cost approximately £1000 a year though i am sure the prices for a full time course are slightly higher these days. Though where there is a willingness to learn there is always a way regardless of the price paid. Method of study is lecture based on a 1 sometimes 2 hour in a lecture theater reading (per subject). A 1 hour seminar meeting with an allocated tutor is also offered every other fortnight. Some weeks there may be a seminar other weeks none. The quality of the lecturers. Some were completely useless in explaining foreign topics. What i mean by this, is that they would give out a piece...

costas1234 19.02.2008 (31.03.2008) · Read review
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Fifa Manager 2007 Computer Game

Advantages: Super impression of being a football manager
Disadvantages: Fairly addictive game once started.

...FIFA Manager 2007 (PC) Introduction Here the game involves starting off as a new manager for a club of your choice. There are so many British, European, and other International sides to manage. The game involves almost every aspect of managing a football side. This game is not an action sports game like FIFA 08, this simply involves managing a football club. The choice of which team to manage, is yours. Upon starting a manager is given a budget to work with, fan's and the club's directors expectations level to meet. The ambition of a team such as Manchester United or Chelsea would usually be to finish in the top 3 of the league or to win the Premier League in that season, or win the Champions league etc. If failing to meet these expectations, or losing too many matches, the manager is sacked. If people do well, people can...

costas1234 15.03.2008 (28.05.2009) · Read review
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Studying Environmental Management

Advantages: lots of FIELDTRIPS!!
Disadvantages: erm...actually having to do work on fieldtrips?

...Having just finished the first year of my degree in Environmental Management at Northumbria, having not yet found a job for the summer, and generally having nothing better to do I have decided to share my experiences of the course thus far... The course The degree I am studying for is Environmental Management (Bsc (Hons)); it is a full time three year program. I have just finished the first year (awaiting results- fingers crossed!) which you are required to pass by gaining over 40% and marks from this year do not count towards your degree classification. The final degree classification is based on all of the assessed work in Years 2 and 3 (40% : 60% ratio) or 100% in Year 3 (whichever gives you the better mark). In the third year all students carry out a dissertation project. Environmental Management encompasses a wide range...

Chuckles1987 10.06.2008 · Read review
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Use Biofeedback to help manage stress

Advantages: Can see your own stress level and control it
Disadvantages: Takes a little practice

...stressed you are, the higher the electrical conductivity of your skin. The GSR2 device is very simple to use - all you need to do is put two fingers on the little metal plates on the front of the machine and turn the little wheel on the side until the machine gives off an audible tone which is comfortable to listen to. Then sit back and relax and you will find that the tone begins to change, as you relax the tone becomes deeper, if you get more stressed the tone will rise to one which is more high pitched. The machine comes complete with an earpiece so that you can listen to it privately if you wish. The device costs around £45 as a standalone piece of equipment or you can buy software to enable you to link it to your PC so that you can watch on screen how much you are managing to relax. The software costs around £55 and is a very...

laramax 02.04.2007 · Read review
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The football management game

Advantages: 3D match engine, all players in the world are available, better than LMA manager
Disadvantages: Sometimes strange results like team in 1st place being beaten by team in 24th

...Football manager 2009 has continued the football manager series with the same features and layout of the game as the past versions, but this time features a new 3D match view. The game has many good features that would make me more willing to buy this game over the biggest competitor, LMA Manager 2009. Firstly, the game can be installed very quickly, and you can choose the countries and the leagues who wish to play in, or buy players from. For example, if you only wanted to play in the English leagues, you can do so by only entering the English leagues to play in, however if you then in future wanted to play in another countries' league(s) you would have to hope that that country or club makes you an offer to manage them. If not you will be stuck with only being able to take over teams in the country that you have selected. Many fans...

LukeG91 18.09.2009 · Read review
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Anger management

Advantages: fills the time
Disadvantages: plot, jack nicholson, quite a bit

...Giuliani AS HIMSELF - Judith Nathan AS HIMSELF - Tony Carbonetti AS HIMSELF - Robert Merrill AS HIMSELF - Roger Clemens AS HIMSELF - Derek Jeter ANGER MANAGEMENT RECEPTIONIST - Lori Heuring MAITRE D' - Stephen Dunham PORTER - Jeff Morris CABBIE - Tony Genaro BAR WAITRESS'S LAWYER - John Kirk BUDDY'S LAWYER - Ken Rosier MASSEUR - Clint Black DAVE'S CO-WORKER - Rob Steiner LADY IN RESTROOM - Lorna Scott Running time - 101 mins ***Plot*** At the begining of the film we find out that Dave (Sandler) has a problem with showing affection in public, which makes itself important at the end of the film. It starts by showing Dave, who is a very calm, mild mannered man, boarding a plane to go to a meeting with his boss. While on the plane he asks an air stewerdess for a set of headphones which then esculates to him being thrown off...

barney_mcrury 17.08.2003 · Read review
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