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This product worked well for me for three months, and then it failed consistently. The failure is that it drills into the cork and then stops. I do not recommend this product.

This product works great. Pulls the cork out perfectly every time. Quite fun to use. We leave it on the stand so it is fully charged all the time. Highly recommend over any other style, even the well-known rabbit ears product. This just can't be beat.

We are very happy with this product we've used it about 12 times or so and it removes synthetic and cork stoppers effortlessly. Couldn't be happier.

I purchased the wine opener believing that it was like the previous ones purchased. This one does not pull out the cork, you have to pull it out with the opener. It does 'undo' the cork so you don't have to unscrew it.

I love this wine opener. Unfortunately, I didn't see the wax covering the cork on a bottle of wine and the wax got stuck way up in the opener. Being a handy type person, I opened the unit up and pulled out the wax. Not I can't get it back together where it will work. :( My advice: don't tear it apart.

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Just received the other day. My wife and I are red wine drinkers and red wine always taste smoother with the proper aeration. Taste tested on my wife and she immediately noticed the smoothness of the wine, the bouquet much more alive and just an overall refreshing taste vs. the wine without the aeration. It is smaller then I imagined but does the job and looks good on the wine stand. The down-side is that it does make somewhat of a noise (air flow into the vents for the aeration) so no more sneaking alone into the kitchen at 3 AM to have a glass a wine :-)...just kidding. Spend the $20....you WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. Wish I had made the purchase sooner.

This product works and it seems to function better than others I've seen that cost more. Honestly, get this one and use the money you save to buy yourself a nicer bottle of wine. It just seems to be better designed than the others I've bought or been gifted in the past.

I got this as a Christmas gift and had great fun trying wines with and without aeration, it worked very well reducing the tannins. I generally decant a bottle of red 45 minutes to an hour before I pour it and in restaurants I almost always have problems with servers who don't understand the benefits of getting air into the wine. It has a great grip, the wine to pass through easily at a medium pour and has a very convenient stand. I would suggest this product to anyone who enjoys red wine as it make a huge difference. I bought several as gifts for friends who also enjoy red wine.

A friend of mine had the Vinturi wine aerator red/white wine set and it worked well so I looked around to buy it. Then I saw this one. It looked pretty cool and was a bit cheaper $20 vs $26 for Vinturi, so I bought it. It works just as well I guess but it seems to allow the wine to flow through a little faster than the Vinturi so I wonder if it aerates as well or not. One thing I noticed was that Vinturi has a little mesh that filters the wine (if it's got cork in it or something) but this one does not. Vinturi has a separate red/white one and they claim that theirs has different aerating settings. I don't know if it matters THAT much but it's nice to have one for each red/white wine so that you don't have to wash and dry it for different wines. Or I guess you could just buy two of these too. Anyhow, I'm overall happy with the purchase, it seems to work well and do what aerators do, namely aerate the wine much faster than pouring it into a big vase aerator thing. It's also gadgetty so that's fun.

I purchased this for a friend as a get well gift. He is a wine lover who "has everything." He reports that this product is great and really does make a difference in the taste of the wine. It was a fun and a bit unusual gift.

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I am extremely pleased with this bead. The colors are awesome. Fits perfectly on my Pandora necklace.

The colors in this bead are gorgeous and makes a beautiful addition to your Pandora bracelet!!!

Beautiful bead and silver is same quality as my other Pandora bead charms. Very pleased.

This charm came in and looks even better up close than shown in the photo's here. It was delivered much quicker than expected and with a free gift as well. It is a lovely piece and I will most certainly purchase from Heirloom again as the quality was fabulous. Thank you Heirloom for going beyond the ordinary!

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This CD is excellent. Dare I say the best Celtic Woman CD yet. I don't know, they are all so good. I am definitely glad I got the Deluxe Edition. The calendar and charm are cool, but really I got this version for the extra songs. Well worth it. The extra songs were from the live recording of the Songs From The Heart DVD. The only trouble is that after hearing those live recordings you will probably want the new DVD also. You certainly won't regret that purchase either though. It was a stunning performance!

All the songs on this CD are awesome. There's nobody else that can sing together the way Celtic Woman do. There are songs that make you want to dance along to the rhythm, and then in the next instant, you're wanting to sob your heart out. Worth every cent!!!!

It looks as if this new hit from Celtic Woman has debuted at the top of the World BillBoard charts and appears destined to repeat another of their record-breaking runs there as experienced by their earlier releases. If you were among the millions of Americans who saw the broadcasts of Songs From The Heart from among the thousands of broadcasts from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) stations across the nation, you should know this is the music from that show. Celtic Woman is presently at the start of a nationwide tour in which performance of these numbers may be seen live. If you liked their prior releases, such as A New Journey filmed in 2006 at Slane Castle in Ireland, you will certainly love this! Filmed at the castle at Powerscourt, County Wicklow, Ireland in July 2009, it has all the elements we have come to the love of the group, created under the direction of the group's creator and musical director, David Downes, whom many regard as a genius from the body of his work thus far and his many fantastic accomplishments, which appear far beyond what one would normally expect of one of his years. If you care at all about this group and their music, you will certainly want to get it and having done so, will rue that you waited so long to do so!

Celtic Woman never ceases to amaze me with their beautiful harmonious voices and lively music. The added bonus song "O America" brings tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat.

I am rating this only four stars because some of the best songs they did at Powers Court are not on the album and can only be obtained from Amazon through the MP3 download sales. Other than that, it is a great album.

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This CD purchase was a Christmas gift to myself and it has already become a cherrished favorite. I'm particullary fond of the fiddle solos, especially Shenandoah. Anyone who likes music with taste and class will like this CD. Every note, every phrase touches me and lifts my spirits.

I am a big fan of Celtic Woman, and have been wanting this CD for quite some time. I had especially wanted "At the Ceili" and "Spanish Lady", two of the bonus songs. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the front insert had all of the words to all the songs. That may not be important to everyone, but it definitely matters to me. The charm is nice, and it comes with an explanation of the claddagh, but it's nothing impressive. If you want the extra songs, it's a great buy. If you don't care either way, get the regular CD - it much cheaper. For me, despite its being way more expensive than the basic A New Journey CD, I think it's worth it.

This is a tremendous CD and I am looking forward to their new CD to be released early 2010. A New Journey started my trip down a great inspirational belief that 5 Irish women can bring peace and harmony to everyone.

I bought this as a gift for a girl friend with an Irish heritage. She loves it.

Wonderful to listen to. They stick in a different sound (other than Celtic) now and again, but not so much as to take you away from Ireland or Scotland.

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I bought these DVD's for my 7yr old. I read to him all the time and he's always walking around with a book in his hand. He really enjoyed the DVD's but I was disappointed. I expected to hear the ORIGINAL theme song from the 80's. What you get on the DVD's in the newer version of the song from the 90's, I think, which SUCKS. Other than that the DVD's are great.

I bought this item for a gift. Although my great-grandson is too young right now for it, I am sure he will enjoy it in years to come. I know his mommy was thrilled with it. I appreciated the swift shipping of it.

I purchased it for my daughter and ourselves. we're not sure if she would like it or not, but she loved it. It's very sad to see this show off the air after 26yrs. Hopefully this company would produce more dvd sets for those love and enjoy the show.

I bought this to show my 2nd grade class. Reading Rainbows, in general are tops, but some are better than others. I like 3 out of the 4 DVDs,(but for the price, it is worth it even for the 3). I judge this purely by my class, they were not wild about the DVD that pertains to music. One of the episodes on that one is an older one, and honestly we didn't even finish it, but if I remember, it didn't use the typical Reading Rainbow format. All the other episodes in this collection were a big hit though, and the DVD with Taxi Dog on it was worth it right there!

The favorite TV show of my children was Reading Rainbow. The explanation to go with each story, the tours of factories to show how something was made are memories they carry today. I purchased this set for my Grandchildren as we can't even find reruns of this spectacular childrens program. My daughter can delight is telling her children about her favorite Reading Rainbow stories - two of which are in this set. The facts Lavar Burton presents to the children are remembered. They do think about the whales and mannatee - two favoriet topics for a library trip.

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This is a great thriller starring Amanda Peterson and Christopher Atkins about a beautiful lady who falls in love with a charming local boy who has a very deadly dark side of him.It's a must see!!

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Has there ever been a better actress to play a witch so wickedly glamourous? Could another actor be an unsuspecting boob so perfectly? Or have two of the biggest bumblers as relatives? Happily not! Kim Novac delivers a completely believeable performance as Gillian, the beautiful lonely witch who wants a "normal" life and can anyone top Jimmy Stewart as her clueless prey? These two should have done more movies together! As for the supporting cast, Elsa Lancaster (better known as the "Bride of Frankenstein") is perfect as Queenie, Gillian's aunt, Jack Lemmon in a surprising role as Gillian's beatnik brother who befriends a writer (played by Ernie Kovacs) and offers him an "inside look" at the witchcraft crowd, the head of which is none other than Hermione Ginghold (in a particularly hilarious scene with Jimmy Stewart - his facial expressions are priceless). This movie offers comedy, sadness, sweetness and a tiny bit of spooky plus a very crossed-eyed Siamese named Pyewacket. Great movie to see anytime of the year but certainly Halloween and Christmas fits best. This was not the first movie produced with this kind of storyline (Veronica Lake in "My Favorite Wife" for instance) but altho made in the 50's still holds it's own today. Even the fashions are timeless...as is this love story. So Ring the bell, close the book and light the candle - you may find yourself humming a little tune to your own cat or putting out all the street lamps just for fun!

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I would argue that the work of director John Waters and his Baltimore teen mania, circa 1955 type works are an acquired taste. And I have acquired the taste, having first gotten interested in his work through "Hairspray" that was revived on screen a couple of years ago. Of course, part of the draw is that the demographic territory that Waters surveys, circa 1955 teens, is very familiar turf to me. So when dear John spoofs a certain fashion, or a certain crowd, or a certain way of looking at things that were alien to the average teen back then he is giving off signals that I am attuned to. And that is the key; to know what is being spoofed, because the music is easy, very easy to figure out, the fight to get rock and roll to youth nation. Of course, as is inevitable in a teen-based film, spoof or not, there is the central theme of sex. Here that theme centers on the orphan bad boy, Cry Baby played by Johnny Depp, who deep down inside really has a heart of gold matched up with an upscale orphan good girl, who deep down inside want to be bad. No, that last phrase won't work here, deep down wants to redeem Johnny-bad boy. Along the way to this inevitable happy-ending everything not nailed down gets spooked from 1950s suburban cookie cutter lifestyles to seemingly odd-ball teen fetishes like- French kissing and, oh no, the love of rock and roll. For my money the best spoof though, and it must have been hard to do with a straight face, are the musical performances of the quartet of pre-roll and rock teen singers(one, good/bad girl's beau, for a while) doing the cutesy songs made famous by male groups like The Letterman that were squeaky clean but upon hearing sounded like scratching on a chalk board. And, incidentally, drove me to blues, rock, and folk music in nothing flat. Note: I haven't mentioned much about the performances here but for a long time now anything Johnny Depp appears in will get a look see, although it does not always turn out to be worthwhile. He has had a string of great roles, like in "Ed Wood", and some that it is better left unspoken like, "Sweeney Todd", but in this early film role (1990)as Cry Baby he gives a glimpse of why I will take a chance on any of his efforts. He does a beautiful parody of the James Dean/Elvis/Marlon Brando "rebel without a cause" style that the Cry Baby role called for.

Once upon a time there was a movie (or "film", since it takes itself very seriously), with a gay director and gay actors. Gays were repressed and seen as unamerican aliens (especially by the House Committee...). They could understand and show the plight of women and minorities. James Whale had done just that in WATERLOO ROAD and ONE MORE RIVER. The master George Cukor had directed one of his masterpieces with THE MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER.It was an opportunity to show teenagers as strangers in their own country, treated as enemies, as gays were. Alas, it was all about whining, led by a cry baby, pretty long in his teenager tooth. The adulterer cries that his wife doesn't understand him. The whining adolescents of the film whined that their parents didn't understand them. I would call that family adultery by whining. There was no real sens of alienation, except in a forced theatrical way. 35 years later, John Waters gives us a true masterpiece, which doesn't take itself seriously. The situation is simple: no guilty parents. The society separates easily the upper and middle classes from the poor people. The poor teenagers are juvenile delinquents by nature. They are very innocent here. The action takes place in 1954, the same year that the notorious "film" was shot (released in 1955. THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE was published in 1954, the tame but very good film was released in 1955.THE JUNGLE KIDS, also by Evan Hunter was published as a Pocket books original in July 1956. It is a heart wrenching American masterpiece. A MATTER OF CONVICTION followed in 1959 (another very good film). they deal with teenagers becoming unwilling J.D. The unexpensive DVD is a thing of joy: very good transfer for a very good cinematography and visual style. Waters wanting to recreate the saturated colors of the mid fifties (you can watch them in Paramount films,the Jerry Lewis movies if you are not prejudiced. It's all about what makes youth so important: joy of living, dynamism, in a latter Mickey Rooney sort of way, invention. The songs are exciting, the choreography is stirring. Everything is perfect. An inspired casting idea is POLLY BERGEN, still looking great, as the rich, straitlaced at first, grandmother. She didn't act in many movies but will be remembered for KISSES FOR MY PRESIDENT 1964 (unreleased in France) where she is elected as President of the US but soon sees her kids adrift, her husband without his firm. "Fortunately",she becomes pregnant and resigns. Sexism is not an invention by the East coast lberals.

This is one of my all time favorite movies.I saw it years ago on vhs and instantly feel in love with it. This movie you either love it or hate it within the first 10 mintes.I've had a few people compare the movie to Grease,as far as charecters(the typical Danny & Sandy romance) but this movie has soooo much more depth and humor.Its not as picture perfect and the sense of humor in this movie is hilarious.Helloooo this is a John Waters film so if you know his work than this movie of course a hit.I love this movie.It's a classic!

i love this movie for how bad it is. everything is over acted, but i love it. its so bad it s good!!! i love how over the top it is. and anyone who says its the worst movie ever should go watch movies made by ed wood. now those are some really bad movies.

I have about worn out my VHS copy of this movie so I purchased the DVD and the CD for the car. I watch it occasionaly just for the soundtrack.