Afar

Passionate about travel I find this newer magazine irritating. To me it says more about its target market (affluent) than it does about an enriching cultural expansive window on the experience of travel (international or national). The all too apparent leading edge from tips on high end places to stay, eat, etc. along with ads for those with a big budget, evokes the realm of the privledged traveler, no mater the "featured" destination.

A seasoned traveler, the AFAR subscription was given to me as a gift and I will not bother to renew it. I want to feel enriched after reading about a subject I love, not annoyed.

Shhh... the best kept secret among travel magazines. Wonderful articles. Beautiful photography. Warm stories about people and places ... and food! Written for an intelligent audience. Minimal ad content.

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A really great travel magazine with beautiful photography and engrossing stories. I've enjoyed it from the first issue several years ago.

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Sometimes you want to just sit on your couch and feel connected to interesting people who love traveling as much as you do. This is what AFAR magazine gives you! Most travel magazines have disappointed me because they are just a lot of ads and stock photos. But this magazine introduces you to people who travel often and you get a glimpse into their lives and where they've been. For example, the highlights for me in the latest issue: a short essay by an editor about how as a child his family of six kids did summer road trips all around the country and how it was his mom's curiosity that drove the trips despite his dad's reluctance, an article about a yacht racer and how alive he feels when seeing cities at night from the water and a list of his favorite ports, and an article by a cultural educator in Waimea Valley, Oahu explaining how he grew up in Hawaii going to Kamehameha School (elite school for native Hawaiians) and what Hawaii and the North Shore culture mean to him. You feel really inspired to go out and see the world after reading this magazine.

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Greensource : the Magazine of Sustainable Design

Don't let the great cover photos fool you. This magazine is all advertisement. It does not have any good articles. It is only a source book with the same products. It should be sent out free.

I read these magazines cover to cover and find they are full of great information for those interested in sustainable design. There are articles on those in the field and what they are doing but what I find most interesting are the case studies. These studies are absolutely inspiring and full of helpful knowledge.

I will say the first time I ordered a magazine, Architectural Record, from McGraw Hill (publisher of Green Source and Architectural Record) I never received my magazine either but I cancelled it and got all of my money back. I decided to take the chance with them because I was really interested in this magazine and was not disappointed.

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I do have to agree with the other reviews about there being a lot of ads. However, I am not complaining. That is one reason that I subscribe to magazines actually. There is a lot of innovation in the sustainability field and at times it is hard to keep up on new technology that is available. I am a renewable energy systems installer and like to know about new technology before my customers do. That is why I really like this magazine. There are also some pretty complex ideas that I have came up with and this magazine was the spark for those ideas. Would I recommend it to someone outside the field? Probably not unless you really like to be on the cutting edge. Unlike tv's or computers, most of these technology upgrades require a significant an investment, especially when retrofitting. Hope this helps.

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I enjoyed this magazine but find I no longer have time to read the many magazines I receive so I let my subsription end.

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I ordered this magazine in November and I still haven't received 1 issue (April 5th). It is supposed to come every 2 months, it was scheduled to ship in March (10th)... so they have had plenty of time. At the very least, this magazine must be very unorganized.

Organic Gardening (2-year)

I subscribed to Organic Gardening decades ago when the magazine was digest size, printed on non-glossy paper, and jam packed with in-depth, substantive articles that took hours to read and even longer to think about. Now I can read the entire magazine in a brief sitting, and rarely find much to mull over afterward. It's departed from its origins as an intelligent publication focusing on the precepts and practicalities of growing organically, in favor of pandering to the attention-challenged reader who can't--or won't--concentrate on anything beyond quick bytes and pretty pictures. In short, it's abandoned a grown up approach for that of a little child's picture book without much content. I may or may not renew my subscription when it expires in another year. The few interesting bits that crop up--surprisingly--from time to time may keep me engaged. We'll see what the next year brings.

I've received the magazine for a few years and its pretty good. Not so much groundbreaking, but some interesting articles. But I give it one star because of new policies in place. I got a pretty nasty letter from the "Rodele Credit Department" (the publisher of OG) with harsh phrases like "in an attempt to collect this debt...", "to give you a chance to resolve this matter before it goes further...". "You must respond to this letter to resolve this matter." I thought, wow, this is how you ask me to renew my subscription? Using strong-arm tactics for renewal of a Green Magazine? This is unexpected. I'm feeling bullied.

Talking to their customer service today, twice, they freely admit that customers are slammed into auto-renewal if they don't respond saying "no" to something I don't even remember receiving. Then they are threatened with collection procedures for not paying "what I already owe". Yuk! Double yuk! This can be straightened out with a phone call, and they say they won't ding my credit report for "non-payment", they allowed me to "cancel". But who needs this? Who wants a magazine that wants to add stress to my life?

Come on Rodele, clean up your act please. Treat us with dignity and courtesy and we'll be loyal customers. Hazing and threatening us is not the experience we're looking for.

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This is a pretty decent magazine for organic gardeners. It is rather thin though. I haven't found myself needing some of the info given, but other articles have been useful. This of course makes sense because we all grow different things! There are articles that aren't related to gardening. For example, the issue of organic & non organic milk. I think this would relate more to an issue on farming not gardening. Plus it wasn't even about raising your own cows, it was about factory cows, milk in the store. Anyway, it's a decent source for the beginner. The best resource out there is the Rodales Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. It is simply PACKED with useful information.

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So far I am dissatisfied with the format change in this magazine. I agree with other reviewers that I find fewer useful articles that describe techniques I can use in my own garden. They seem to have expanded the cooking/recipe sectionthis doesn't impress meif I wanted recipes, I would subscribe to a cooking magazine specific to the kind of food I like to cook.

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Love the magazine but the customer service is not to my liking. Right

at this moment the "contact customer service" feature is not working

online. I cannot send them an email.They have made a mistake with my bill and I want to talk to someone. There is no number available to talk to a real person.I did contact customer service earlier and got

back what seemed to be some pre-programmed answer that did not help

me and that I was not able to forward a response to. They also have

an automatic renew feature that you have to be careful about. I was

able to cancel this feature with no problem.Love the magazine. Poor

rating because of customer service(it's just a magazine!). I can go

to the library. I have 2 subscriptions and I will not renew.

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Novosti Kosmonavtiki

Best information from first hands...

Deep, well informed and well illustrated magazine.

Will recommend to anyone who is "space ill".

Yes, it's in Russian. But for those in the know, this is absolutely the best hard-core space-technology and space-history magazine published anywhere.

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Trinidad Express Newspaper

The Trinidad and Tobago Express (and the Sunday Express) is one of three daily newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago. The Express is published by the Caribbean Communications Network (CCN) and is headquartered on Independence Square in Port of Spain. The newspaper commenced operations on June 6, 1967. The website for the Trinidad and Tobago Express was first registered in 1997 and launched subsequently very soon thereafter.

With a considerable Trinidadian diaspora spread across the globe, the Trinidad and Tobago Express news website, then known as the Internet Express, grew quickly into one of the top visited websites about Trinidad and Tobago. Given the large audience of the website, with up to 10,000 hits per day, it has become one of the online centrepieces of CCN. In 2002, newscasts of the television channel CCN TV6, and its televised daily polls, were carried out using an integrated website of the Trinidad and Tobago Express. That same year, the joint staff of the Trinidad and Tobago website also created an e-commerce venture online called the Express MarketPlace, which was later renamed CaribBuy in 2003. In order to remain focused, a CCN New Ventures division was created within CCN to take control of the various websites.

The Express newspaper is the second oldest of the daily Trinidad and Tobago newspapers.

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