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|Kenwood VH-600 / DM-VH7 Mini System
|Home Theater AV Receivers AV Receivers
|Written by Tony Kaklamanos
|Saturday, 01 July 2000
This contemporary mini-system isn't for the faint of heart. The VH-600 is the amp, receiver and CD player section. The DM-VH7 is the MD (mini-disc) section, which is optional and sold separately. The list price of this system is $599.00 for the VH-600 and $399.00 for the DM-VH7.
Before we go further down the road with this review, I've got to tell you, I was quite a skeptic about the whole MD format thing. I thought, oh boy – great – another format to deal with. Well, I'm pleased to say this unit has turned my head. Read on.
We'll start off with the features. First, the VH-600 / DM-VH7 is a bookshelf system. Kenwood has had the foresight to design the units for vertical placement. You might say; well, that's all fine and good, but how would I read the display? I'm glad you asked: the units have a gravity-triggered ReadRight backlit display, which adjusts itself according to whether the unit is set vertically or stacked horizontally. The VH-600 includes a slot-loading CD player (similar to many car players), which has 32-track programming, repeat play, random play, HDCD (High Definition Compact Disc) compatibility and the ability to accept both five and three inch CDs. This CD section also features One Touch editing, which allows you to either record a single track or a whole CD to the DM-VH7. Okay, okay, just one more CD player feature - if the CD is coded properly, the display will scroll the artist name and track title in text. Pretty cool stuff. Moving ahead to the digital tuner section: the VH-600 offers 40 AM/FM stations and auto preset, which automatically enters stations, as well as seek and step tuning. The amplifier section delivers 20 watts per channel, using discrete power amplifier circuitry, and offers a two-position natural bass feature, which comes in very handy at low listening levels. Another power handling feature is the VH-600's Class A or AB operation through Pure A amplification. At low listening levels, the unit automatically switches to Class A amplification for lower distortion levels, which equals better sound. When the volume is cranked up, the unit switches to Class AB operation for more power.
The front panel is cleanly laid out, with button-style basic controls and a mult-purpose control knob (most of the features are controlled by the remote). There is also a mini-stereo headphone jack that automatically cuts off the loudspeakers.
Speaking of loudspeakers, the VH-600 is equipped with a pair of two-ways. The enclosures are blue, with a maple veneer front insert that beautifully matches the top and bottom panels of the VH-600. Fabric grilles are included, but these little guys are just too pretty to hide – I left the grilles off while testing the unit for this review. The four-and-one-half-inch polypropylene woofer cone comes in a shade of blue that complements the enclosure. A one-inch metal inverted dome tweeter supports the high end. The enclosure has a front port to release energy that can build up within the enclosure and cause resonance. And, for all of you gear-heads out there, impedence is rated at six ohms, 30 watts maximum input power, 85 dB/W at 1M sensitivity. The crossover frequency is 2,500 Hz.
Moving around to the back, the VH-600 has a host of input and outputs: tape RCA stereo input and output, spring clip AM antenna input, FM antenna input, MD RCA stereo input and output, aux stereo RCA pair inputs, subwoofer preamp RCA output, binding post speaker terminals, Toslink digital output from the unit's CD player and the system control jack that activates the one-touch recording feature for the DM-VH7.
There are additional bells and whistles, such as a sleep timer, auto power save function, two daily timers and an OTT timer, which allows you to play back material from a specified source at a pre-designated time; the power then completely shuts itself off after one hour.
And now, let's talk about the DM-VH7 MD recorder. Cosmetically, this unit matches the VH-600 perfectly, right down to the gravity-activated display. It also matches up functionally through the use of the system control cable. There are some incredibly cool features within the DM-VH7, including Quick Moving, which allows you to move the order several tracks within one operation. Not only that, the tracks being moved don't have to be adjacent to one another; neither do their destinations. There are also four repeat modes: disc, track, program and random, along with 32-track programming. The DM-VH7 can record and play back in mono, which doubles the playing time of a disc. It also uses 20-bit digital to analog and analog to digital converters (not to get too techie), which means that a "greatest hits" compilation can be produced using your favorite HDCDs. Another fun feature is Titling. This allows you to input up to 1792 characters per disc (80 characters per track). You then can view what you've input on the display during playback. Titling also comes in very handy if you plan to use the Title Search feature.
The rear panel has the following inputs and outputs: analog RCA input and output pairs, two system control cable jacks (one connects the DM-VH7 to the VH-600; the other connects the DM-VH7 to the optional X-VH7 cassette deck). Two Toslink digital jacks are included. One is an input from the optical output of the VH-600; the other is an output that can be connected to an external DAT or CDR. Whew!
Since the system is compact, I decided to set it up in my home office. I figured that this would keep the unpacking mess out of sight and my wife off of my back. Hooking up the system is a no-brainer. Kenwood has included not only pre-scored speaker wires, but also a wrench to position the unit's feet for horizontal or vertical orientation. After about five minutes, I was ready to power up the units.
I slid in Eric Clapton and B.B. King's 'Riding With The King' (WEA/Warner Bros.). Listening to a couple of my favorites, from the Chicago style of title track to the swampy delta feel of "Key To The Highway," gave me the chills. The VH-600 played it well. To tell you the truth, I was actually suprised at the sound quality. I personally prefer loudspeakers with a flat frequency response, and these bad boys held up really well - not too thin at all, even at low listening levels. Those natural bass filters really work. Next, I inserted Matchbox 20's 'Mad Season' (WEA/Atlantic/Lava). The track "Black & White People" is a horn-blistering rocker. I drove the volume up and the unit held on just fine with very little distortion. I calmed things down a bit with a taste of jazz. One of my favorite pieces of software to use for reviews is the HDCD. I checked out Zoot Sims' 'Quietly There' (Fantasy, Inc.). The brushes on the snare underpinning Zoot's tenor sax were extremely real. By this time, I was wearing a big smile and wondering just how long I would be able to hang onto this system.
Moving on to the DM-VH7: As I mentioned earlier, I was a big skeptic when it came to the mini-disc format. Playing with this DM-VH7 thing and making my own blues compilations was so much fun that I'm forced to re-think my hesitancy in relation to this format. After all, you can erase, replace, move tracks around, etc. So what if I can't take the disc into the living room and play it on my DVD player? I tend to make compilation discs with my computer and CDR. However, I have found that many of the new players – including my DVD – won't play CDRs. Who cares? The DM-VH7 rocks.
At this price point, the downsides are far and few between. Cosmetically, I would have done a couple of things differently. The front left and right edges have a scalloped treatment that I don't really care for. Sonically, I would have like one more natural bass filter preset, making a total of three. However, Kenwood does have a built-in way of working around this low-frequency issue: the SW-500 powered subwoofer. The only disc that I reviewed – Vonda Shepard's 'The Radical Light' (Vesper Alley Records) – could have used a little more natural bottom end.
A word to the wise: this is a near-field system. Don't expect it to sound wonderful in a room much bigger than approximately 20 x 15 feet.
I guess that by this point, you've figured out that I really enjoyed reviewing the VH-600 / DM-VH7 system. If you're looking to purchase a mini system with industrial flare, a touch of elegance and great sound for the price, the VH-600 / DM-VH7 might be the one for you. I can't think of a better system suited for the office or bedroom environment. Hey Kenwood, is it too late to get the matching cassette deck and subwoofer?


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The inimitable, brilliant, and always interesting Seth Godin posted a critique of banquet tables for 10 on his blog recently (http://bit.ly/1hcjqHH) and it brought up the issue of room layouts for speakers in a powerful way for me.
As Seth says, the banquet table is designed to make life better for the banquet organizer: "The table for ten is a platonic ideal of the intersection of the geometry of bread baskets, flower arrangements and salad dressing. Bigger and you couldn't reach, smaller and there's no room."
Unfortunately, the same table makes life immeasurably worse for the speaker at the banquet. No matter what you do, someone – indeed, a good portion of the audience – has her back turned to you, and to each other. It's impossible to communicate with someone when his back is turned. And the audience itself is fragmented because of its self-alienation.
Seth's solution is to put 5 people at 4-person tables. The crowding promotes good conversation and networking. Sadly, it doesn't really solve the speaker's problem. A good portion of the audience still has its back turned to you.
What's to be done?
The obvious solution is to eliminate round tables altogether when a speaker is present. The only justification for round tables is eating, so let's institute a ban on speakers while eating. In most of the cavernous conference centers around the world, there's plenty of room to eat in one room and then move to another for the speaking and listening.
It might improve everyone's digestion. And allow people to focus on networking over the breakfast, lunch, or dinner – and listening to speeches at other times.
Let me repeat: round tables of any size doom the speaker-audience relationship to failure. Let's eliminate them for better conferences.
What's the alternative? Following are my takes on various room styles, their pluses and minuses, from an article I wrote a little while back. As you'll see, I suggest a compromise for improving rounds: fill them half-full, so everyone is facing toward the speaker. That, of course, won't help with networking.
My favorite room layout by far is the U. You can begin your speech in the center, at the top of the U, and work the audience easily up and down the sides. You're never far from anyone, and everyone feels connected. Some U's are several rows deep, and for those you may want to walk up – once or twice only – into the second row, depending on how hard it is to navigate. But never stay long deep in an audience, because some people will experience your back to them, and that's not good for the reasons I've already outlined.
The success of a classroom style layout depends on how many aisles there are. If there's at least one, you can work the aisle to get deep into the rows at least once or twice. If there's no aisle, then the studies show that you'll only connect with people who are in an inverse triangle in relation to the front. The base of the triangle is the front row, and the tip is at the back center. It's why goodie-goodies sit at the front of the classroom, and hooligans sit at the back. The former want to connect with teacher, and the latter do not.
Auditorium style layouts give you lots of opportunities to work the aisles, provided that they're accessible, and you don't have to leap over obstructions, or climb down dimly lit stairs to get to them. When you study the hall beforehand, decide on your strategy. If it's too difficult to get into the audience, then work the stage. The audience will interpret your efforts as attempting to get to them, and that's second best. Once again, don't spend too long deep in the aisles, because people can only turn with difficulty in auditorium-style seating.


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Roger Federer Does Not Need to Beat Rafael Nadal to Prove He's Still a ContenderJanuary 23, 2014
While every tennis fan will have an opinion on Roger Federer when he takes the court against Rafael Nadal in a highly anticipated semifinals match at the Australian Open, the result will mean very little going forward.
Sure, whichever top competitor wins will have a great shot at winning the first Grand Slam of the year. Stanislas Wawrinka waits in the finals for the first time in his career, but either Federer or Nadal are capable of adding to their impressive resumes with another title.
However, Federer had a simpler goal with this tournament. Even if he does not win, he needed to show that he could still compete at a high level every single week. Fortunately, he has already done that with an impressive run to the semifinals.
Heading into Melbourne, this was far from guaranteed, even if Federer is considered by many to be the greatest player of all time. The Swiss star only won a single tournament last season and fell early at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.
After dropping down to No. 6 in the world rankings, there were legitimate concerns about whether he could ever contend for titles again. The 32-year-old aimed to quiet these doubters at the Australian Open, telling Melissa Isaacson of ESPN:
I'm not thinking about [last year's] Wimbledon [where he lost in the second round] or the US Open [where he lost in the fourth], even though those were my last two Slams, which didn't go well for me.
The way I entered this tournament now is very different. … So it's in the past, and the past you can't change anyway. I'm looking to the future. I have worked hard, put in the hard work, so from that standpoint, there are no regrets.
I feel good, and it's about me. … I want to show, to prove to myself, that I can bring it every match. I'm really excited. It's a tough draw, but I'm open for it and I'm ready to go.
This does not seem like someone who is satisfied with a world-record 17 Grand Slam titles. Instead, he wants to go out and win more.
Even with a difficult draw this week, Federer has proven he can accomplish this feat. He swept through the early stages with straight-set wins over James Duckworth, Blaz Kavcic and Teymuraz Gabashvili. He then had little trouble with an extremely talented Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, winning once again in three sets.
The first person to bring a challenge was the No. 4 player in the world: Andy Murray. Still, Federer disposed of the British star the way he has won every other match in this tournament. He is using serve and volley to dominate on his first serves, making very few mistakes and winning the points that matter.
This sets up an exciting battle against someone Federer has not seen much success against outside of Wimbledon:
Nadal has won this rivalry matchup 22 out of 32 times, including all four matches in 2013. It will take a huge effort for Federer to get a win over the current No. 1 player in the world.
However, many are still hyping this match as one of the biggest in both of their careers. Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated is one of those people, explaining:
Apart from the stylistic differences, Federer-Nadal now also mesmerizes us because history and legacy are at stake. Federer and Nadal are competing for more than superiority in the present. They are competing for superiority in the future. That mystical distinction of the most accomplished player of all time—the tennis crowd has abbreviated it to the GOAT (greatest of all time). Nadal stands in Federer's way. Federer stands in Nadal's way.
So, as much as we all abhor hype and sensationalism, here we go: Friday's semifinal has the capacity to be a career-defining match for both players.
It is true that a win for Federer could prove that he is still capable of beating anyone in the world and should remain a threat for the rest of the season. Of course, a loss in this match would do little to disprove this theory anyway.
Looking at this year's Australian Open, it is clear that the sport has become extremely flat. There is depth across the tennis world, and it leads to plenty of upsets that sent Novak Djokovic, David Ferrer and others home early.
While all of these players were going down, though, Federer was using his experience and savvy to survive and advance into the semifinals. If he can do that in this tournament, imagine what will happen at Wimbledon or the U.S. Open, where he has had even more success in the past.
The only thing that a Nadal win would prove is that he is the best in the world right now. Then again, if 10 titles in 2013 did not convince you, there is little chance anything could.
However, he cannot touch Federer's legacy or even affect how he is viewed going forward this season. The Swiss star has proven his ability in the first five rounds and will certainly be a tough out in every tournament.
Although it will be fun to watch this incredible matchup between two all-time greats, it should not change anything about 2014 following the Australian Open.
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PITTSBURGH - Since some of you might have missed the stats I shared last night on Andrew McCutchen's dominance against the Nationals, I feel the need to pass them along again.
Sorry. While it might sting to look at these numbers, they're so ridiculous that I feel like they have to be shared.
In 24 career games against the Nats, McCutchen is batting .456 (41-for-89) with 11 home runs, 22 RBIs and an insane 1.448 OPS.
"He's not going to hit a home run every time," said Ross Detwiler, who allowed a solo shot to McCutchen last night, "but it almost seems like against us he does."
The McCutchen home run was the Pirates' first longball of the day off Detwiler. The second probably never would've taken place if the Nats had been able to execute a pickoff play one batter before Jordy Mercer launched a two-run shot to left that gave the Pirates a 3-1 lead in the fifth.
With two outs, Starling Marte reached on a single, and then with Detwiler preparing to fire to Mercer, Marte took off for second. Detwiler saw Marte's first move and threw over to first, behind the runner.
Adam LaRoche stepped out toward home plate to try and give himself a better throwing lane to fire down to second base to cut down Marte, but he couldn't find a grip on the baseball in his roomy first baseman's mitt. That inability to get off a quick throw allowed Marte to swipe second base cleanly, and instead of the inning being over, it continued, allowing Mercer to smack an 0-1 sinker into the seats.
"It's one of those, it's a high, slow leg kick. I know how fast the guy is," LaRoche said. "And I've got one shot at it. And that's the only negative of having a big glove is times like that where I go in to get it, can't find it for a split second, it can cost you when a guy can fly on the bases."
Those are the types of plays that, when you're clicking, go your way. Maybe LaRoche makes a clean throw. Maybe Marte stumbles trying to get into a full sprint. Maybe Detwiler responds to the botched pickoff by retiring Mercer and notching the third out of the inning.
When you're not clicking, those are the situations that backfire on you. That's what happened last night.
The Nationals scored just a single run, and that two-run blast after the failed pickoff was the difference in the game.
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DETROIT (AP) -- The Detroit Red Wings have agreed to a 7.55 million, two-year contract with defenseman Kyle Quincey. The team announced the agreement Wednesday that avoided arbitration. Detroit drafted Quincey 132nd overall in 2003 and the Red Wings got him back from Colorado last season for a first-round pick in a three-team trade. He had three points in 18 games with the Red Wings and 23 points in 54 games with the Avalanche last season. The 26-year-old Quincey has 18 goals and 95 career points in Detroit, Colorado and Los Angeles. The Red Wings will be counting on Quincey to help a defense that will be without Nicklas Lidstrom and Brad Stuart. Lidstrom retired this offseason and Detroit dealt Stuart to San Jose instead of losing him for nothing in free agency.
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The dog is a good boy trapped in a good girls body. :-)
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physically they mostly seemed to really embody the essential s of the character they were playing except that I did not think Felicity Jones bore much resemblance to Jane Hawking. Having not seen the movie I do not know how well she did portraying the rest of the character.
I did not think most of them looked that bad until the last 3 Especially Bill and Bush Jr.
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Like some of you I was a toddler in the late 60's and early 70's so of course did not have any of the specific pop culture toys, but those fisher-price toys seem to span several generations (though as many have pointed out the current versions are pale imitations).
oh yeah because you brits are always so classy (see tabloids above)
You are, course, entitled to your opinion, but you are horribly mistaken
Probably no less or more healthy than the rest, but IMHO definitely amongst the worst tasting across the board. The only reason to go there used to be the fries but even those are not what they used to be (not that they are anywhere fast foody). Wendy's fries come the closest to being decent amongst the big chains IMHO.
Does that mean it actually tastes edible when it is not cold?
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I have no desire to be one, but would have no trouble dating one
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True, Tex Mex is not what I usually consider southern, but I do love me some good hot chili, some I'm gonna let it slide. :-)
seems like a really nice place to live, but $72M?
actually those last 4-5 sound kind of interesting, and I really want to know why those girls are being such bitches in 16.
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I am not sure what the actual guidelines are, but I tend to think of most YA titles being written for the 12-15 crowd.
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That was kind of fun, but was not the 20 stages of anything
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I am thinking the faith tones look like 3 dudes in drag
1-more than half are wearing slacks and shirt with tile not suits
2-as mentioned above most of them will be working for good money in air conditioned offices.
I would switch in a second
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Christopher Walken totally looks like an old lady in that picture with that hair
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# 9 he clearly had 2 fathers during this phase of his life. :-)
A:she is wrong
B:even if not wrong that is mean
C:Has she looked in a mirror lately? (and yes I know that is Hypocritical)
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In my opinion several of these young ladies looked better before the makeover
How can anyone loathe Meg Ryan?
loved DiCaprio in Aviator and I think he had the character down great, but physically I do not see much resemblance
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Seriously. I did not see a darn thing on the list I would eat on a dare
Screw his terrorist ass. give him a head start and then shoot him while escaping and save everyone a lot of time and money
Quite a few of these "long lasting romances" are only a few years old.
history major, no class before 11 am
It is funny actually, She looks just like a grownup version of her should look. That cute face looks exactly the same.
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Nah mantis know Mantis Style :-)
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It was a short, somewhat bittersweet, and definitely unprecedented effort.
The 17-year-old Al-Malki was the first Qatari woman to compete in track and field at the Olympics, after the country decided to include female athletes — four in total — in its delegation for the first time.
Wearing a maroon headscarf, long sleeves and leggings, she stood out among the starters in the preliminaries in the women's 100 metres at the London Games on Friday morning. She was slow out of the blocks, appeared to be very tight, and finally clutched at her right leg before stopping after about 15 metres.
The official result is listed as DNF, but just being there was a significant achievement.
After covering her face momentarily, Al-Malki got to her feet and slowly limped off the track, encouraged by support from a crowd of around 80,000 which had packed the Olympic Stadium mostly to support local hope Jessica Ennis in the heptathlon in the opening session of track and field at the London Games. Al-Malki was pushed out of the competition arena in a wheelchair.
It wasn't exactly a loud statement of arrival on the international stage, but she's still a trailblazer for other female athletes from the region.
Conservative Islamic nations Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Brunei were the last countries to enter women in the Olympics, each sending female athletes to the London Games. The first Saudi Arabian woman to compete in the Olympics was easily defeated earlier Friday by a Puerto Rican opponent in a judo bout that lasted only 82 seconds.
Wearing a tight-fitting black cap after judo officials would not allow her to don a headscarf, Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani lost the one-sided match to Melissa Mojica.
Al-Malki had more people watching on the busiest day so far at the Olympic Park. And while Al-Malki didn't speak to the media as she left the arena, the International Olympic Committee thought she'd done enough.
"I think we should be celebrating today because we have woman athletes from two of the three countries who haven't sent women to the Games before competing," IOC communications director Mark Adams said of the quick exits of Al-Malki and Shahrkhani. "It is a great symbol, it is a great message to women in those countries. I think we are entirely happy about that."
Adams was convinced Al-Malki was injured, and hadn't succumbed to stage fright or anything else.
"I believe the Qatari woman athlete had an injury," he said. "If she had wanted not to compete, she wouldn't have come. Clearly she wanted to compete and she couldn't compete."
"Did we expect them to win gold medals?" Adams added. "Probably not. But they're here, they're competing and I think we should be very happy."
London organizers said the participation of Al-Malki and Shahrkhani was a significant step — for the first time every one of the 205 competing nations has included female participants in the Olympics.
"The taking part is also a huge part of these Olympic Games," said Debbie Jevans, director of sport for the local organizers. "I definitely regard that as a huge positive and it is a thrill for us to see them competing."
Another female athlete from the Middle East, Jordan's Rima Taha, ran in the first heat of the 100 preliminaries and will forever remember the experience.
"It was even more than I expected ... This is a big encouragement for me to do better in the future," she said, adding that she wanted to inspire other young athletes in Jordan.
"I am still young," she said, "but that's my priority for the future."
Al-Makri's personal best time of 12.61 seconds is almost two seconds outside the Olympic record and the 1.55-meter (5-foot-1), 43-kilogram (95-pound) sprinter isn't going to be challenging the world's best any time soon. But she's already served as an athlete ambassador for the Qatar Olympic bid for 2020, and for women across the region.
Al-Walki, after learning of her Olympic selection as one of four female competitors on the Qatar team, hoped to lead by example.
"I want to tell all Qatari girls and women that sport is very good," she was quoted as saying by the Olympic News Service. "I want to show all people that sport is very important and we should support all who want to take part in it."


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Roush Fenway Racing did not enter Trevor Bayne in this week's Nationwide Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.
A lack of sponsorship forced the team to sideline the No. 60 Ford, even though Bayne is ranked fourth in the series standings. He trails series leader Elliott Sadler by 34 points.
Roush team president Steve Newmark says the organization had hoped running Bayne in the first five races of the year would attract sponsorship to keep the team going deep into the season. Now, Newmark says the hope is to get Bayne back on track on a part-time basis in NASCAR's second-tier series.
Bayne is scheduled to race this weekend in the Sprint Cup Series for the Wood Brothers. It will be his third Cup start of the year.


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Lorenzo Insigne is hoping to make a dream start to the season with Napoli. "I want to score against Juventus."
The local boy has returned to the Stadio San Paolo this summer after loan spells at Foggia and then Pescara under Zdenek Zeman.
Although he admits that it may take him some time to break into the first team plans of boss Walter Mazzarri, he wants to make an impact in the Italian Super Cup Final.
"I will gradually enter the squad," he commented. "For the moment I am learning from the great champions that I have ahead of me, but I want a goal against Juventus."
The Azzurri, Coppa Italia winners, will take on League champions Juve in the Super Cup tie in Beijing on August 11.
Insigne, born in June 1991, is an Italian Under-21 international.
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I am going to compare these two good games and you choose which you like, this will be decided in 3 parts, prices, community, final thoughts. Each category has two parts. May the best game win!
Pricing Part 1:Roblox
Roblox has many different "BCs", or upgrades and you need to buy something or you might as well not play.
BC is 5 bucks per month and a good starter choice but maybe less appealing to those who want to be more involved and known in the game. TBC is the next thing and is 10 bucks per month, this is one for newbies who decided they need more ingame cash than BC can provide. OBC is 20 bucks per month and give the highest allowances in the game, this is something I reccomend after playing the game for atleast 3 months and if you decide you like it then go ahead and buy it.
These prices are monthly so you end up spending hundreds no matter what, lifetime is available but it costs from 200 bucks to 500! The price is very high and it ruins the game for many people, but irresponsible players cost them bandwith with thier hundreds of alts and they are forced to do it or shut down the game.
Pricing Part 2:Minecraft
Minecraft has a appealing price which is only 14 dollars and you get the game forever (the price will go to 20
when it is fully released so buy it fast!). The game is not overpriced and they planned it well and the creators of minecraft have made millions from thier constant stream of money from people buying the game. The only thing you can say about the prices are...EPIC!
Community Part 1:Roblox
The Roblox community is a majority of kids then teens and a few adults. There are friendly people but in the forums or people with a higher BC than you are stuck-up and constantly attempt to show that they are superior in an online world that doesn't matter. The forums are constantly hunted by mods and dozens are banned everyday, I once got banned for saying to a friend, "Hey I got Portal!". They need every penny so any mention of another game, even if you insult it, you get banned. Yes you can be a guest in Roblox but the little kids who are constantly bullied by teens or adults with better bcs take thier anger out on guests and kill them at every opppurtunity. The Roblox community is in ruins.
Community Part 2:Minecraft
The minecraft community is not perfect but it is pretty good, people help you out and it is easy to make friends and play, I have only had Minecraft for a week so I am not so sure about the forums but you guys can tell me about it in the comments. Minecraft is also fun because while you save up to buy it you can play the free mode and still make friends!
Final Thoughts Part 1&2
Both games are good and Roblox might have been able to win in my opinion if it didn't go crazy with prices and bad community. Minecraft is a very good and fun choice, you can build huge structures and survive wave after wave of zombies and teleport to a mysterious world known as, "The Nether." Roblox has about 2 or 3 million people since 70% either never play, log on once a year, or are just alts. Minecraft has about 7 million who bought the game and are playing it with millions more a part of the community. Minecraft wins in my opinion but I guess you guys choose.


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Average Rating: 5.0
Posted December 21, 2010
amazing but....
i was DEVASTATED when these boots didnt fit me. ordered the ten and they were too narrow at the front, and not long enough for my foot! normally i fit into size tens so this was very disappointing, but nevetheless they are amazing. i gave them to my mum and she adores them too. they are just an awesome pair of boots, its going to be painful watching her wear them in winter... definitely buy but i would go up a size for sure. 5/5 if they fit me.
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Posted December 13, 2010
amazing statement piece
this is the perfect ring for those wanting to make a statement - it adds glamour to a dull outfit and i cant wait to wear it! i loved it that much i also bought it in silver!
Sizing: True to Size / As Expected
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Posted December 13, 2010
These shorts are amazing! they are so beautiful and detailed and a perfect length. I was worried because i purchased the size 31 and normally I am a size 32 (Australian 12). I recommend these and the fact that they are on sale is an added bonus!
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Canyou find out more about the parents of James Ragin that would help me give you some info if could get that information. My grandfather's family is from there and there were a lot of Ragin's in the area. So if you can narrow it down some I may be able to help you. A lot of family migrated up to the North to NY some NYC some Upstate.. just find out a little more info.


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The full moon will be rising tonight, weather permitting, of course. Photographers: Where will you be shooting it from? I would love to hear your location choices and suggestions.
The full moon will be rising at 18:33 @ 88.2 degrees. I'm thinking perhaps high up in the Marin headlands (which is closing Monday) you'll get both Alcatraz and the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge with the full moon.
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Assembly Democratic Majority Speaker Sheldon Silver was a lot more supportive toward Gov. Spitzer's budget proposal than his counterpart in the Senate, Joe Bruno.
"Generally, I think we're pleased with the overall approach," said Silver who lauded Spitzer's proposed $89 million increase on Pre-K education spending and other education hikes. "The governor basically keeps his committment," Silver said.
Silver, though, said his members weren't thrilled with some ommissions  including a planned $60 million cut to BOCES education programs and a lack of increase to community college base aid.
Assembly members, Silver added, also are concerned about plans to tax internet sales.
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