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To: robert b furman who wrote (2659)	1/29/2015 12:27:26 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 27055

Agree. I almost got an S4 as it is a bit smaller and more comfortable in front pants pockets... but I decided to splurge on the S5 for the new technology, especially the bigger and by far best camera except for a 23MG Sony running Windows phone... since so many enjoy my photos on Facebook and I think it helps with my "brand" to post entertaining photos of food, gardening and windsurfing on Facebook. I do miss the smaller metal MyTouch 4G from HTC that I used for four years. It served me well but did not get the faster 4G LTE network and was intermittent so it needed replacing. I love reading in bed a bit before I fall asleep on my Nexus 7 Tablet or a few magazines I subscribe to. Trouble with the damn tablet is it seems bloatware or something has it running really slow after the Lollipop upgrade. I did some stuff to help but I think the last resort is a complete reset and start from scratch... always time consuming and painful. Much easier to read a few magazines.... I like Entertainment to see what is new on TV.... Nowhere as fun or easy to read on the Tablet. And I still love my real newspaper where I can scan pages at a time far faster than I can scan a newspaper on a tablet where they slow it down trying to cram in more ads for something I've already paid for.

To: robert b furman who wrote (2659)	1/30/2015 9:29:09 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27055

Looks like the big pullback in ECRI's WLI correctly "predicted" we'd see lower GDP. I hear many were surprised but I sure was not expecting another quarter of 5.0% GDP that we got for Q3. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has issued the following news release today: Real gross domestic product -- the value of the production of goods and services in the United States, adjusted for price changes -- increased at an annual rate of 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 5.0 percent. The full text of the release on BEA's Web site can be found at www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm Q3 GDP was unchanged from the last estimate of 5.0%.