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SKB 2SKB-4814W Deluxe ATA Golf Travel Case
$259.99
Traveled with the case the first time this week. There is not much room left for any extra's once you put a standard size bag in the case. The club head area is surrounded with foam, but a towel wrapped around the club heads will prevent rattles and clicks. There is no name tag or name tag area on the bag, you need to supply your own.

The TSA lock is a bit still and I felt I had to use it to prevent the latch from popping open. The other 2 non-locking latches work fine though. No problem with the locks at the air port. Overall the case is what I was looking for. It's got a lifetime warranty on parts too, but I hope not to have to use it.

Changes: A Love Story
$15.95
Modern Ghanaian women suffer daily sacrifices, lifelong barriers to their advancement, and an emerging modernity which has multiplied their duties but not simplified their lives. Changes focuses on a three year period in the lives of Esi Sekyi, Opokuya Dakwa, and Fusena Kondey, three women approaching their mid thirties in Accra, Ghana.
In Changes we can see the evidence of a complex struggle in the name of modernity between African women and society, families, traditions, and their own desires. From the perspectives of Esi, Opokuya, and Fusena, Aidoo shows us how such modern African women view their lives, and with what methods they are willing to fight to improve their lives.
Esi, Opokuya, and to a lesser degree the much-suppressed Fusena, fight against more than just an accumulation of oppressive tradition that favors men. They struggle for appreciation of their talents and for an equal part in guiding their marriages. Esi and Opokuya struggle to build marriages and relationships that allow them to reap their benefits of their individuality and their educations, and exercise their own free wills, without making them overworked, or being labeled mad women and witches. The reaction of their families, husbands and communities to these women reveal modern dilemmas for educated African women. Aidoo's love story traces Esi's distinctly rebellious and independent path to love and marriage, as contrasted to the more traditional married lives of Opokuya and Fusena.; in doing so, the novel illustrates women challenging a postcolonial African society on all fronts. This front is as diverse as the workplace, in hotel bars, in the kitchen, on the road driving alone in their new cars, in the rural traditional village, and in the bedroom. Despite often finding that lonely independence is untenable, Esi and Opokuya achieve moderate success in their fight. Their resiliency indicates shifting gender roles in Africa, and some compatibility between tradition and these new roles. I give this book 5 stars because ot is an extremely rich story told frankly and believably. The material even seems politically important (perhaps all novels should try to be so?) in that it addresses real problems facing Africa and does not always provide answers, although it certainly proveds a rich cast of characters attempting to do so.

Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM 8MB Buffer Ultra ATA/100, 3.5INCH, 8.9MS Seek, Caviar Series Se Re
$79.99
It arrived quickly and is working as expected. I didn't try the disk that came with it, just replaced the drive, re-installed the OS, and loaded a complete backup from CDs I had taken previously. It was the best deal I found in a name brand EIDE HD.

Linksys Internet Phone Adapter with 2 Ports for Voice-over-IP PAP2T-NA - VoIP phone adapter
$65.99
Be aware that there are a lot of counterfeit PAP2Ts being sold, primarily from Hong Kong, with fake MAC addresses and serial numbers. If you buy a PAP2T, make sure you get it from somewhere reputable. I bought mine from the main Amazon.com store, and it was genuine.