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The AlphaTRAK 25 gauge lancets are slightly "thicker" than the lancets we had been using (29 gauge). I THINK I'm able to get a usable sample more often with these, and my dog doesn't seem to care. The down side is that they are more expensive.

When our cat was diagnosed a few years back with Diabetes it was devastating. Our vet informed us of the Alpha Trak products and we ordered our meter right away. We have religiously checked her once a day and gave her insulin from that ready - the products are top notch and I would highly recommend.

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This is my second order. The strips are half the cost of the ones I purchased through my insurance! Every single strip worked; none was defective. They arrived quickly, the packaging was more an envelope than anything, but the strips themselves were in a sturdy container so it didn't matter. The expiration date was shorter than my insurance-funded ones, but I would easily use them before they expired. I bought another 100 strips and a box of 100 lancets this time. The shipping was $10 which seemed a bit high for both items as my insurance ships free, but even with that I saved about $40. Told a couple of Diabetic friends about my savings.

These test strips can get kinda pricey when you continue to buy them from the local drug store. I found by purchasing them in bigger bulk online, like from this user, it saves a lot of money. I received the package sooner than expected & in the exact condition I expected!

1 lot of 50 worked fine, opened the second and they were 100% failures. There seems to be a lot of difference between lots, today i took a reading of 130 from one lot, and 60 seconds later took a reading of 100 from a different lot.

Delivery of this product seemed to be faster than what as indicated. Have not had any problem with the freestyle lite strips and am happy with the price though I believe that the price of all strips are really high considering that diabetic have to use them to maintain control of their diabetes. Still compared to buying them retail they are a very good buy.

This unit works very well, and is well thought out. It does need a switch though, I have put one in the line and it's fine.

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it is an excelent product and the price is the best that i ever found.

It's good that I had backup. Delivery took weeks. When you need this, there's no substitute.

The expire date of the item was not specified. It is expired in one month.

I have found these are the best testing lancets used with the muliticlix device, they are the best for virtually pain free testing. You can get this cheaper at some online pharmacy,but regardless your you buy, this is the best out there.

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I have a wheel, and I greatly admire traditional Japanese pottery. Looking for inspiration, I inferred from the title and the information that there are over 700 photos that the book would surely offer samples of pottery from different periods and locations. Wrong. While there are indeed hundreds of photos, all of the featured fired ceramics were made by the authors. Both are capable potters who make pots that spring from Japanese tradition, and many of Kusakabe's are very nice, but Lancet features a great deal of sculptural handbuilding (including lots of human torsos, most with windows in them, and a goat udder pitcher) that some will perhaps find interesting, but their only connection to Japanese ceramics seems to me to be that they have been wood-fired. If you are interested in the more arcane aspects of Japanese wood-fired kiln effects, this is your book. There are numerous photos of different surface effects, along with their Japanese names. A great deal of the book is devoted to kiln construction, but if you are interested in building one, you might find Fred Olsen's The Kiln Book a better starting point.

A more appropriate title for this book might be: "Wood-firing by Marc Lancet and Masakazu Kusakabe" as it is mainly about them. Although it is thorough and informative, I was disappointed to see the narrow spectrum of artists represented in it.

This book covers most everything I wanted to know about Japanese Wood-Fired Ceramics. The only area I wish it had was more pictures of finished pieces. Technique and building kilns it covered thoroughly.

I found this book a useful tool in thinking about the way I woodfire. If a person is not a woodfire potter or avid collector of woodfired work it may not be for you. The is definately not a casual read.

First saw this book at the wood-fire conference held in Flagstaff, AZ in Oct,2006. The coauthor Marc Lancet delivered an address that was drawn in large measure from the book. After Jack Troy's classic on wood-fire this book sets a new standard. The wide variety of wood-fire surface effects are connected to the japanese names for those effects and what causes them. The sections covering plans for wood-fire kilns is excellent.

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After finding out that what is taught in the West as `Traditional Chinese Medicine' was basically created by a Chinese Communist government committee from some but not all of the various ancient texts and practices that are available, I wanted to reconstruct Traditional Chinese Medicine (particularly acupuncture) as it actually existed prior to the Communist revolution. I came across Celestial Lancets in the process. Make no mistake, it is a tome, complete with more footnotes and references than most of us can read in several lifetimes. "Celestial Lancets" is written by one of the top academic researchers on China, Joseph Needham, in collaboration with his Chinese wife. It is part of his encyclopedic "Science and Civilization in China" series. It is written by a serious academic, for other serious academics or practitioners of acupuncture and moxa who want to explore as deeply as possible the history and understanding of these two ancient practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine. There are no less than three bibliographies broken down by language and dates. Needham is neither a starry-eyed believer in TCM, nor is he a scientific disbeliever. He simply explores the history to a very great, detailed depth, and then does the same for some of the western science that has been done (this chapter alone being almost 75 pages), letting the evidence show for itself. It should be said that the goal of the book seems to be history and explanation of acupuncture and moxa, not an attempt to PROVE the system to the most skeptic of Westerners. I like reading academic works, though I don't have even an associates degree, and I still found this book tough going, except for the last chapter on `The Lore of Vital Spots'. This chapter will be of particular interest to serious martial artists (which is how I began my own exploration of things Asian, particularly philosophy). Unless you are serious enough about Traditional Chinese Medicine that you have begun learning the Chinese language, you might want to skip buying this book, and try checking it out from a library first. It is a very good book for it's purpose, probably ground-breaking in many of it's insights. It is not for beginners like me who are just trying to get an accurate, broad overview with less historical detail. Or just use it as a reference book, rather than reading it cover to cover. Western skeptics of TCM should begin by reading the conclusion on the last two pages, a good idea also for the mildly curious. The writing style is not challenging, just the pace of the writing for the nonacademic. A better introduction for the layman (again, not the purpose of "Celestial Lancets") would probably be "Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine" by Ted Kaptchuk, the second edition.