Great informative review. I only have a few comments. I am not a fan of cookware sets. I find they have pots/pans in sizes I'll never use, don't need, and take up room. And they lack pots/pans I do need. Not a good use of your money. I'd rather just buy pots/pans individually. When I renovated my kitchen, I gave away so many duplicative pots/pans, or pots/pans I never used, and distilled down my cookware collection to an essential few. Whew, what a relief, space-clearing, space-saving money-saving change. My other comment is in response to your comment about the Le Creuset knobs. Le Creuset makes a stainless knob to replace the phenolic plastic one. The stainless knob takes about 30 seconds to replace on the LC lid. It can withstand any heat in the oven. Le Creuset Stainless Knob. Alternatively, you can just go to a hardware store and buy a stainless drawer knob for a dollar or two, plus the correct size screw (I believe it's 3/8" diameter, not sure the length). If you don't want to spend the money on a Le Creuset dutch oven ($275+), buy a Tramontina enameled cast iron dutch oven at Walmart. It's fantastic. It may not last a lifetime the way LC does, but for $40, it'll last several years and is a great pot. It is induction-compatible. It does carry a lifetime warranty from Tramontina, plus Walmart's generous return policy. Tramontina 6.5 qt. Cast Iron Dutch Oven at Walmart

"Maggie wrote:- I also hate the suggestion to use tutorials 'Maggie how can you expect to learn anything if you resent the idea of tutorials? Every item we buy seems to have a user manual (tutorial?)" I am not opposed to tutorials so I don't need that condescending lecture. "Please don't allow your bad experience with BB sour your computer use, these are pretty incredible machines. Help is available all over the internet at sites such as this one" Owbist and damccoy, I was the director of the night school at a college and hired the IT folks and paid them about $70K a year for a night job. One characteristic they had to have as a teacher was the understanding some of their students were not going to succeed in the networking field. Their students, like my autistic students of today, have gifts in other areas. Teachers or IT experts should not have a holier than thou attitude. Yes, we all can read the tutorials but they do not address the multiple outrageous decisions of staff at BB or Comcast and the numerous problems they cause by trying to fix something they are not trained to work on. Microsoft can not anticipate what untrained employees will do to your computer. My last computer I kept for 13 years and had friends in the business to look at it when I could not find the answer on my own. We should not have to keep a computer that is ruined at the hands of a BB employee I taught special needs kids and most recently adults.Almost all are autistic. They try to learn all they can and I teach them to use resources like reading on-line if they can read. It is part of their daily living skills. We all have the same ones. We all try to be independent, save money and seek self achievement. All the words you above have batted around smugly. Geesh!! I send them out into the world and hope I have recognized their talents and brought out the best. So, I am not an impatient whiner. I think one must recognize the diversity of the people who come here for help with their computer instead of boasting. For myself and my students and friends I do not want them to become victims of these kinds of BB creeps nor to suffer the comments like the above eluding to laziness if computers are not ones area of knowledge. I don't see the point of damccoy and owbist responding on here and insulting people.

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Another Sort of Learning (James V. Schall) 1988 In this book with the unorthodox subtitle, "Selected Contrary Essays on the Completion of Our Knowing or How to Finally Acquire an Education While Still in College, or Anywhere Else: Containing Some Belated Advice about How to Employ Your Leisure Time When Ultimate Questions Remain Perplexing in Spite of Your Highest Earned Academic Degree, Together with Sundry Book Lists Nowhere Else in Captivity to Be Found", Father Schall has written a delightful collection of essays for people like me who made it all the way through college without managing to get a truly liberal education. The book talks about gathering books on diverse subjects for a personal library. There are essays on reading, education, teaching, philosophy, sports, politics, history, and prayer. After each essay there is a short list of the books such as, "SchallÂs Unlikely List of Books to Keep Sane By", "Books You Will Never Be Assigned", "Eight Collections of Essays and Letters Not To Be Missed", "Ten Books on Grace and Thought", and "Five Books Addressed to the Heart of Things". True bibliophiles will love the lists. Schall states in the book: "Education, philosophy, science, politics, history, revelation - these are the themes that I have considered here in various ways. I have often talked of Plato and Aristotle, of Augustine and Aquinas, of Chesterton, Pieper, and C.S. Lewis. I have done this to underscore their importance. And I have repeated favorite book titles worth emphasizing in different contexts. I wanted to suggest that anyone with some diligence and some good fortune can find his way to the highest things even if such higher level concerns are not formally or systematically treated in the schools, even if they are in fact denied there or by our own friends or culture. Indeed, I would suspect that there is a certain basic loneliness in our relationships to the highest things. I am not a skeptic here, but we should not expect too much from our formal educational institutions in this regard. "Throughout these pages, I have talked of 'another sort of learning.' I have talked about why we should read, what we should read, books we should keep. In a sense, we can tell a lot about anyone by looking at what books, if any, he reads, at what books are on his shelvesÂ."