peony23, I would still go with the Inax, though I would get the mid-ranged model, called the "R". I have the "L". They both have a wall mounted remote which I like, though others have said the seat mounted type on the "C" is working fine for them without issue. The "C" is the lowest priced model of the 3. The middle priced model "R" still has a blow dryer like the highest priced "L", but not the higher wattage fan that the model "L" has. But I hardly use the fan. The "R" looks like it has a lower profile in the tank area too. What I wish though, is that I could switch the one in this guest bathroom (referred to above) to my progressing remodel, and get the "C" Inax for the guest bath, as it has the lowest profile at the back and would go much better with my traditional toilet. But my new remodel has an elongated toilet seat and my guest bath is a rounded front. I will link the website to Inax. The price listed on the web site is not what you will have to pay. I think I paid around $800 for the "L" online. Terry Love forum sells them but I don't know if he has the "R", I only saw the "L" and the "C" on his site. The reason I would stay with the Inax is that I have had very good use with mine over the last year. They've been producing the advanced toilet seat for years and were the pioneers of the system. They have a good reputation. Another reason is that there are two wands that do the washing, one for the front area and a second, at a different angle, for the posterior area. These were strategically angled to provide the best cleaning of these differing areas. I went with the Inax initially because of recommendations by Herring_Maven who has very detailed comments and thoughtful post here, and on other forums at GW. I really appreciate the post H_M provides. Here is a link that might be useful: Inax advanced toilet seat This post was edited by enduring on Thu, Mar 13, 14 at 10:55

uscpsycho: Most of the parts on a water heater (controls, etc) are made by couple of manufacturers. Within the standard gas or electric tank water heaters much is going to be the same. Bradford White I believe is still only sold to licensed plumbers (they aren't available at Big-Box hardware, for example). Plumbers like to install them because the end customer can't see the retail cost of the unit (and the markup for the plumber). The brand has some "reputation" for quality because that's what the homeowner is told as a justification for the higher price. In addition, a professionally installed heater will generally have fewer issues overall. The point being that the hardware may not be better, but because Bradford White isn't installed by do-it-yourselfers, it can claim a reputation for better reliability. I'm reading the same issues about warranty that you are. In general my feeling about standard tank water heaters is that they are pretty much a commodity item. I've had good luck with Rheem - and a 40 gal, 12 year warranty is $560. Avoid too many bells and whistles that don't really add value (do you really need your water heater to like you on Facebook?) There are other types of water heaters - as you learned in your other post that went wildly off track (sorry about that). But I think that JRB451 is closer to right than wrong. If you start getting into condensing, or hybrid electric, or even fiberglass tanks - then things are different.

Probably Sopranos and maybe Six Feet Under? The Wire is up there. Sopranos makes you really care about these horrible, yet terribly interesting people. Also some good action and plotting, although it didn't know where to go towards the end and the last season sucked! Six Feet Under could be very bleak and moody at times but so quirky and artistic. I also have a soft spot for Dallas and Knots Landing. Those last two shows aren't nearly as good from an artistic standpoint, but love the nostalgia and the characters. Speaking of Six Feet Under, yes I loved Ruth's upstairs part of the funeral home. It was so vintage-y and old, but totally Ruth! Carmela Soprano---those fake leather couches with the big puffy arms? That godawful kitchen chandelier and the balloon valances? The formica kithen counters with the wood trim. I did kind of like the rugs in her entry and living room with the water lily motif and the coral colors in her living room. That musical note thing above her living room fireplace was gross. Does anybody remember Valene Ewing's pepto-pink living room? Loved the house and the grounds at Gary Ewing's ranch, but the inside was disappointing. You'd think with Abby living there it would have been a bit more grand. Karen McKenzie's house looked like real people may have lived there. Remember Valene's boyfriend Ben? He had that amazing beach house with the sunroom filled with exotic orchids.

Re Astrokath's link to 30 great opening lines: I've read 21 of the books from beginning to end and started 6 or 7 others but never completed them (Metamorphosis, Moby-Dick, Middlemarch, Peter Pan -- pffft!, The Portrait of a Lady, Love in the Time of Cholera, and I'm not sure about A Confederacy of Dunces because I disliked it so much and found it so gross that I got fed up -- I don't remember the ending at any rate, if I read it). Middlemarch is the one that I tried hardest to read, but Ms. Eliot's style of 'telling' the reader what to think has always irked me. She told me too many times that Dorothea Brooke was a paragon of virtue and that convinced me that Dorothea was not a character I wanted to know!! I only liked a couple of the minor denizens of Middlemarch; the main characters were mostly insufferable to me. That's too bad because when other readers describe Middlemarch, it has always sounded as if it would be a story that I would really like. I've heard or seen in discussions the first lines of the books I haven't read or tried to read, but, frankly, I probably won't ever read them because they just don't appeal to me (The Crow Road and Murphy).