Advantages: Sweet Intruiging Voice, Inspirational and Meanigful Songs
Disadvantages: No Lyrics in Booklet, Album Should Have Deserved More Success!

...I'm not an All Saints fan, I never was! But when Shaznay released her smart, sweet and soulful debut single 'Never Felt Like This Before', that perked up my ears in a big way! I also believe that it interested other people too! Before I go on, let me re-assure you, 'Open' is NOT an All Saints album. Even though she WAS the pinnicle of All Saints's success, she's managed to create an album completely different, and shown a different side of her, different to the one in All Saints. And I believe that many people have not given her a chance because she didn't get instant No.1's with 'Never Felt Like This Before' or 'Open' or 'You' ('You' is a different story which i'll go into later). Each song in 'Open' has their own unique way of Shaznay expressing herself. Shaznay mentioned in an interview that she's using a whole load... Read review

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Advantages: Great alternative to Microsoft, free, PDF support, compliant with Microsoft Office formats
Disadvantages: Missing advanced features, not as user friendly as Microsoft alternative.

...or image will be out of alignment. --OpenOffice.org Writer-- This is my favourite of the package, and graphically it is very similar to Word. It launches quickly, and will edit the Microsoft Office equivalent with relative ease. Many of your favourite options are still their, but at default the spell check is English U.S. If a word is incorrectly spelt, the word is underlined in a red line, identically to Word. If you know the word to be correct, this is probably because you still have English. U.S set to default. To remove the red line, right click on the word, and in most cases, the options "Word is English UK" and "Paragraph is English UK" will appear. I'd advise you to select the second option. To get round this message appearing all the time, you can set English U.K as default, and save this annoying message appearing... Read review

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Advantages: Lovely grounds, great tennis
Disadvantages: pricey food and drink

...I love tennis, in fact it's one of the very few sports I can watch and play. So when planning a trip to New York last year we decided to incorporate it around the US open held at Flushing Meadows…. *** History of event *** Celebrating its 125th year, the US open is the richest professional tennis event in the world, with the winner of the singles events winning $1,200,000! This is the hard court event in the grand slam series, held late August/early September at Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York. The first U.S. National Singles Championship for men was held at the Newport Casino, Newport, R.I., in August 1881. Only clubs that were members of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association were permitted to enter. That was the beginning of a 34-year reign for Newport as the tennis center of the country. Beginning in 1900, the U.S... Read review

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Advantages: Range of Songs - Easy listening
Disadvantages: Couldnt listen to it non-stop

...that is was fantastic. Lyrics It's so clear now that you are all that I have I have no fear cos you are all that I have It's so clear now that you are all that I have I have no fear cos you are all that I have. 2. "Hands Open" This was the first single released in the US. It hit no.21 on the US billboard of the modern rock chart. This is one of the most beautiful songs I have heard, great lyrics. Lyrics Hands open and my eyes open I just keep hoping that your heart opens 3. "Chasing Cars" This is a Great song, my favourite by far. It contains simple lyrics that are really touching. The vocals by Gary Lightbody are really good, his performance leaves no room for improvement. This is a song that you will know and recognise for a long time to come. It was one of there most well known songs to date. It strikes me as a very emotional... Read review

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Advantages: meet some great like-minded people if this is your thing
Disadvantages: can be technical changes to make the site work on your PC

...***UPDATE 19th Feb 2004 - The website is going to be closed and is already not open to new members. A lot of members of the community are going to continue to meet up on the forums at www.omnispirit.net - eventually I will completely change this review to a review of that site when I have more idea what it is going to be like. Bear with me...*** I stumbled on the site Open2Love, which has also been known as WandererCommunity and Alienation, completely by chance but later, like many others there, thought I had been guided there. It's really only for you if you are spiritually inclined (I don't mean religious) or if you are genuinely interested in spiritual and/or New Age ideas such as evolution to a higher dimension, channelling from spirit beings, the paranormal, ETs, quantum physics, philosophy, Wicca, angels, crystals, energy... Read review

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Advantages: Robust, fascinating, different...
Disadvantages: Wierd, unhelpful, demanding...

...I don’t want to offend anybody who was born and raised on the Isle of Sheppey, but well, it’s a rather odd place isn’t it? Due I’m sure, to the fact that there is only one road attaching Sheppey to the mainland there have been jokes in the Kentish area about gene pools and bottoms of barrels for as long as I can remember. Yet if you ever risk the journey into this most defensive of communities you might be surprised. The landscape is rather sparse, rather windswept, blasted and rather well, beautiful in a melancholy kind of way. I think it is singly the oddest, most interesting and most lonesome place in England. ***************************************************** Never underestimate the importance of the physical landscape of a novel. Nicola Barker chose to set her novel “Wide Open” in Sheppey for good reason... Read review

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Advantages: Great harmony, great lyrics, feels great to move to.
Disadvantages: Can be considered "Chick Music"

...of more Dixie Chicks and bought their Wide Open Spaces CD without having heard any of the songs off of it. Daring, I know, but I felt it was a good risk. If I didn’t like it, I could sell it on Ebay for a profit. Upon first listening, I fell in love with it. I listened to it all the time. I took it on vacation to my best friend’s house and she fell in love with it too. I ended up leaving the CD with her and buying another copy of it for myself. I cleaned house to it, I got ready for work to it, I listened to it at work. It was great for everything. This has got to be one of my all time, top ten favorite CDs. For those of you who are still reading even after knowing this opinion is about a country music group, here is a breakdown of the songs: 1. I Can Love You Better One of their less deep songs, the lyrics... Read review

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Advantages: It does sell toys I guess.
Disadvantages: Where do I begin?

...Hmmm. If Santa ran the Toys R Us operation around the Christmas period then (A) There would be a lot of pissed off children without presents and (B) There would be a lot of elves and reindeers down the local job centre. Yes I am a bitter 'customer' (I have a right to be having spent over £2,000 there in the last 8 weeks) and I'm not going to spend much time in this opinion delving into the good points about Toys R Us. I am instead going to moan like Pauline Fowler... Ok children, are we all tucked in and ready for a bedtime story? Once upon a time in a Toys R Us store in Liverpool, a handsome young prince and his pregnant wifelet went shopping for baby goods. This is the story of how the cruel Toys R Us overlords made their experience a bad one. First off, we bought the whole John Lennon range for the babys nursery... Read review

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Advantages: Now CHEAPER!! Always on, mega fast..., doesn't tie up phone line.
Disadvantages: Installation fee extra unless you go for new wires only, poor support staff

...at £23.44 which includes VAT! I'm going to stick with BTO for now though as I've had a more than decent service. So there's never been a better time to join up! Original review.... Given the recent findings that the UK is 21st in the league for people with ADSL connections, (0.8 percent reach, as opposed to 10 percent in Korea, 4 percent in Canada and 3% in US), all I can say is "what are you waiting for? Go for it..." Try not to pay too much attention to the horror stories you read about. The installation may be a nightmare, but you only have to do that once, and it may have improved. The overall home page portal package, and support, is OpenWoe-fully lacking. If these were better, I would be able to shift my overall rating to excellent. Sadly, I have a feeling these areas will never be greatly improved. But at the end... Read review

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Advantages: You are learning at home in your own time.
Disadvantages: You have to be motivated and keep focussed.

...in helping me. Once I had explained to him what my aim was he recommended a course called Understanding Health and Social Care. The course length is 9 months, the fee is £475.00* and if you successfully complete the course you are awarded a Certificate in Health and Social Care. * If you are on state benefits, disabled or on a low income there are grants available which can pay some or all of the course fee’s, this is not repayable and you may also qualify for £250.00 towards expenses for your course. For us disabled students there is a booklet called meeting your needs and can offer a lot of help enabling everyone a fair chance to study and further our educations if we want to. The course I have chosen is at Level 1 which is recommended if you are studying for the first time using the Open University but the 60 points that I... Read review

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