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Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) recently finished their multi-year study to determine the availability of classes offered in national law schools that specifically focus on reproductive rights and justice. They found that out of 177 law schools who participated in the survey (out of 197 J.D. granting law schools accredited by the American Bar Association) that only 32 offer reproductive rights courses. Though the classes are available in 17 states and the District of Columbia, it boils down to the fact that 82% of law schools in the U.S. do not yet have a reproductive rights law & justice course in their course catalog.
It's a mixed bag of results. On one hand, the good news is that from 2003 to 2010 (the length of the study) that the reproductive rights course offerings are slowly but steadily increasing. Three-quarters of the courses were introduced since 2008. Perhaps there is growing interest in this discipline? On the other hand, many of these courses have only been offered once which suggests a possible lack of interest as measured via registration. According to Catalyst.org, 44% of the 2008-09 class were women. Not that being a woman makes you automatically committed to reproductive rights but it could increase the potential for increased interest.
The study excludes courses that cover reproductive health issues under a broader context, for example if the class only covers these issues in one or two sessions, and eliminates those that deal with bioethics or assisted reproductive technologies (ART) since those classes tend to be taught from a biological and philosophical perspective rather than focusing on constitutional law, human rights or critical theory.
While the stats may seem disappointing, we cannot discount the important efforts of LSRJ since more than one-third of known classes have resulted from advocacy by LSRJ chapters. With this as a starting point, the community can figure out how to maintain momentum in the schools where these classes already exist, and how to create opportunities in schools with no reproductive justice curriculum. Also, how do we cultivate enough interest in reproductive rights that these classes would be well-received? How can we ensure this is seen as a viable career choice? It seems like within the movement there is an increasing need for lawyers to work specifically in support of the reproductive justice movement as we see more battles over "personhood," inflammatory rhetoric (see anti-choice billboards in Atlanta), and vicious attacks against providers.

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It suddenly got hot - way too hot for our tastes - so while we're hard at work testing some new recipes this weekend, we are going to be doing that with a glass of something cool near to hand. Here are some of our favorite recipes from the last week, and a little weekend reading too. (Did you see that new kitchen tour yet?)
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• Several new recipes we want to try this week, starting with no-bake Sunflower Date Cookies.
• We are also liking the look of that roasted beet and barley salad and this raw artichoke and mushroom salad with Parmesan.
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clafouti, for sure, as it is cherry season here... and I am pondering whether I am brave enough to make rabbit with green olives, out of Patricia Wells' Bistro cookbook...
I think we might try to grill a pizza for the first time. I've always been nervous about doing it on charcoal, but there's no way in hell I'm turning on the oven.
It's still a bit nippy and wet here in Vancouver, so no fear of turning on the oven. Alas. We made quesadillas (yum) tonight. Tomorrow night we're making coconut-crusted shrimp and hoping that a tropical meal attracts warmer weather.
I just finished eating the breakfast pizza I put together this morning from the AT recipe: ricotta, prosciutto, herbs, eggs, and a smattering of leftover pecorino. Delicious.
The boyfriend was almost in awe that someone could put together a fancy breakfast pizza in under 30 minutes total, incl. the dough- way to boost my status as a cook, AT!
cakekick, grilling pizza is great! I always make individual ones because they're easier to deal with on the grill, and make sure you've got a hot zone and a cooler zone, and you'll be good to go.
Summer? What summer? I'm still thinking soups and braises and hearty potato dishes. So tomorrow is potato skillet pie from Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Suppers. Lettuce is the only thing growing in the garden, so we'll have a side salad and some crusty bread to go with.
French toast for breakfast tomorrow; I've got challah in the freezer I saved just for that purpose...
Ugh, yesterday was NOT a good day to do what we'd planned: eight people for brunch, a double recipe of Marc Meyer's lemon-ricotta pancakes and a goat-cheese-dinosaur-kale strata which had to bake...to make matters worse, one of the guests was an hour late and I kept the strata in the oven too long....Since it's ok cold, i should have just taken it out instead of drying it out in the oven....
And our air conditioner seems to be out of coolant...
Pizza on whole wheat pita - carmelized red onion, hunks of roasted garlic, mushrooms, orange sweet pepper, old Cheddar. Now cherries for a snack.
Trying to find some no cook recipes... I wish I'd made some whole grain salads before it got hot. I suppose I still could, but that would involve me going outside into the sauna and walking to the store, which is pretty unappealing at the moment.
I got lucky and it was pleasant without being hot here this weekend. Saturday morning started with a trip to the grocery store for lemons and butter and eggs and continued on with a cake to be baked, lemon curd to be made and a chicken to roast. My guests showed up at noon and we didn't leave the table for hours. It was soothing and delightful for me to have company and feed people. I can only hope they enjoyed it, too.


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Changing clothes :3
Got to get in the romantic spirit <3
based off this meme
im laughing because pb has a picture of her and marceline in her wardrobe
they're literally in the closet
Welp, I did it. I finally drew what you all wanted. Where are my fireworks.
Felt like working on mushy character interactions. I like to imagine Marshall being sweet and considerate to Gumball, instead of always the other way around. I don't know, I'm just being really cheesy right now.
Kind of needed a break from homework…
To draw boys in shorts because this is exactly what the world needs.
So Romantic~<3
Happy Valentine's Day!
Gumball obviously doesn't know what to say at the worst of times.
Angsty lighting is always fun to paint. I missed drawing these two so much.
It was a Magical Boys Night. Stupid beautiful idiots.
The comic is killing me right now.
Not that he minds.
One of my friends really liked it when I drew fluffy bat Marshall Lee. I just like drawing fat fluffy animals.
and Gumball.
The daily life of fluffy Marshall Lee.
Just dreaming of the lazy days.
It's been a while fluffy Marshall, it's been a while…
Naaaaw, I still like drawing him, being squished and all ❤
Someone won't be getting any sugar tonight.
These two are a tragic romance.
Everyone please forgive me, this is such a bad idea to lazy doodle on a hot day and watch Dance Moms. I am so done with that show.
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Big MACs: Fixed Price Deals Lag
Wednesday - 5/16/2012, 7:36am EDT
Friel joined The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp Wednesday to discuss the study.
Executive Summary: (By Brian Friel)
President Barack Obama in 2009 ordered agencies to favor fixed-price contracts over cost-reimbursement contracts, which leave the government exposed to expensive cost overruns. At the same time, the federal government is seeking to do more work with vendors using multiple-award contracts, or MACs, an arrangement designed to speed decision-making without sacrificing robust competition.
Brian Friel, federal business analyst, Bloomberg Government (Bloomberg)
Under fixed-price agreements, agencies and contractors agree upfront to a total price. Under cost-type contracts, agencies agree to pay contractors' costs as they accrue.1 Profit percentages are capped on cost-type contracts. With fixed-price deals, companies can increase profit by reducing their costs below the amount they originally bid.
Under multiple-award contracts, agencies first select a pool of qualified companies to perform certain kinds of work over a period of years. Those companies then compete against each other for specific task orders placed by the agencies. Having a pre-selected pool of vendors allows agencies to more quickly fill orders than they can by holding full-blown competitions among all comers. Buyers retain the ability to drive down costs through competition among MAC companies.
In fiscal 2011, 53.6 percent of spending on multiple-award contracts went through fixed-price orders, compared with 63 percent of spending on all other federal contracts.
The lower rate of fixed-price orders on multiple-award contracts means contractors that rely on MACs for most of their federal revenue may have less ability to increase profit by reducing their operating costs, although there is the potential for MACs to follow the trend toward fixed-price contracts. Meanwhile, companies that rely on cost-type orders via multiple-award contracts assume less risk that cost overruns will erode profits. Amid declining federal contract spending, many companies are facing pressure from shareholders to increase their profits on existing contracts.
This study's findings also include:
- Cost-reimbursement orders and a subset of these arrangements called "time-and-materials" are more prevalent on MACs than on other federal contracts. On time-and-materials orders, contractors' profit is included in the hourly labor rates they charge the government.
- Forty-two percent of multiple-award contract spending went through cost-type orders in fiscal 2011. Such deals accounted for just 34.4 percent of spending on other federal contracts in fiscal 2011. Time-and-materials orders accounted for 8.8 percent of MAC spending in fiscal 2011, compared with 2.5 percent of other contract spending.
- There is a notable shift under way from time-and-materials to cost-plus-fixed-fee orders on MACs. On cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts, agencies agree to cover contractors' costs and to negotiate a fee that provides for their profit. The percentage of MAC spending through time-and-materials orders fell to 8.8 percent in fiscal 2011 from 12.4 percent in fiscal 2010.
The shift away from time-and-materials orders may threaten MAC companies' profits. Profit is fixed ahead of time on a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, meaning extra hours of work don't translate into more profit. Under time-and-materials orders, companies make more profit when agencies request extra hours of work because profit is included in the hourly rate. Companies also can increase their profit margins on time-and-materials contracts by lowering the other costs included in their hourly rates. Companies cannot control profit margins in the same way on cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts, which separate cost reimbursement from profit payment.
The study builds on three previous Bloomberg Government Studies on MACs including "Big MACs: The Rapid Growth of Multiple Award Contracts," published Dec. 15, 2011; "Big MACs in 2011: Continued Growth, Tougher Competition," published March 27, 2012; and "Big MACs: Funding for Information Analysis Centers Transformed," published April 18, 2012.
(Brian Friel is a federal business analyst for Bloomberg Government. The views expressed are his own.)
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Cheers to Community for failing to purge all the weirdness from its system.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Despite Troy and Abed's ill-fated attempt to "de-whimsify" themselves in honor of Shirley's (second) wedding to Andre, NBC's collegiate sitcom returned to the schedule after a cruel interruption with its freak flag flying hilariously high. How else to describe Andre's declaration of his decades-long devotion to Shirley: "I've loved you ever since there was a Soviet Union and only one Damon Wayans!" (Shout-out to Happy Endings!)But no matter how bizarre Community gets — and this is a show in which Chevy Chase's Pierce had to remove parts of the prototype for his "trouser bench" from his butt — its heart remains in the right place. Britta might've questioned the timing of a wedding when "people are dying in Uganda!" (an inadvertently timely reference in light of the "Kony 2012" viral video), yet in the end, Shirley and Andre's endless love for each other won out. After all, who could've resisted his adorable Boyz II Men-themed proposal?What do you think of last night's Community? Was it cool, cool, cool or the Jim Belushi of episodes (per Annie, "it accomplishes nothing but everybody keeps using it and nobody understands why")?Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
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2014 Hyundai Elantra release date and spec
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Boosted 2014 Hyundai Elantra model was presented in South Korea. After the extension of the front bumper to 15mm, Hyundai has included full length freshened Elantra models of 4550mm. Avante 2014 model got brand-new lights, LED daytime running lights and new rear lights.
Understood as the Avante in the Korean market, the 2014 Hyundai Elantra likewise gets an LED light guide, projection headlights, and revamped 17-inch wheels. On the inside, the Korean automaker has upgraded the Elantra with subtle improvements based on customer feedback.
Compared to the previous 2014 Hyundai Elantra, the facelifted 2014 model is 20 mm longer, though its wheelbase remains the exact same. To give it a more stable, balanced design, Hyundai extended the front bumper 5 mm and the rear bumper 15 mm. In addition, the Korean market will see the addition of a diesel variant to the Elantra lineup with a 1.6-liter including 126 horsepower and 206 lb-ft of torque. The diesel model geared up with an automatic transmission also comes with Hyundai's innovative Idle Stop & & Go innovation.
2014 Hyundai Elantra Price
Price of the base model 2014 Hyundai Elantra sedan variant will be around $ 17,000, and with a well-appointed version of the 2014 Hyundai Elantra reaches the figure of $ 25,500. Some optional functions cost some additional cash, so for the automatic transmission you will require to remove about $ 1.000 even more.
Base or conventional cost to purchase brand-new Hyundai Elantra is about $17,470– $21,910. The cost could be different from one resource to others, but it is examination expense.
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This is a pretty easy scarf but the result is stunning. I've had people stop me on the street and ask where they could buy one. It's also a very thick scarf since it's knit in the round. I used what I had on hand to make this scarf, but if you used a more luxurious yarn, this would be downright decadent! There are so many variations that could be made to this and I'd love to see what everyone comes up with. I was very pleasantly surprised by the number of people who asked for this pattern. So, by popular demand (!) here it is:
Materials needed:
2 skeins I love this Yarn! (from Hobby Lobby) in Cream (MC)
Just one skein and a teensy bit of the second are used
Any worsted weight will be fine, but make it something soft.
1 skein I Love this Yarn! In black (CC)
Size 8 circular needle or DPNs
Crochet hook (for attaching fringe)
Gauge isn't critical here. My finished scarf is roughly 6" X 6' excluding fringe.
With MC, cast on 58 stitches
1. (P1, K28) twice. Making sure your work isn't twisted, join in the round.
2. (P1, K28) twice
4. {MC P1, (CC K3, MC K1) X7} twice
5. {MC P1, (K1, CC K3) X7} twice
6. {MC P1, (MC K1, CC K1, MC K2) X7} twice
Repeat rows 3 through 6 29 more times. Cut CC (or for a different look, cut MC and do ribbing in CC. You might need more than one skein if you do.)
{(P1, K3) X7, P1} twice
Work this row 49 more times
1. {MC P1, (MC K1, CC K1, MC K2) X7} twice
2. {MC P1, (K1, CC K3) X7} twice
3. {MC P1, (CC K3, MC K1) X7} twice
5. (P1, K28) twice
6. (P1, K28) twice
Bind off.
Cut 56 strands of each color. Using crochet hook, pull one strand of each color through corresponding stitches on front and back of scarf to make a loop. Pull ends of strands through loop to knot. I find it works well to tie a knot at the ends of each strand. This adds a tiny bit of weight to the end and makes it hang better as well as keeping it from unraveling as quickly.
Copyright of this pattern is mine. All I ask is that if you make them to sell, give me some credit somehow. If you wanted to send me a buck or two that would be all right, too ;)


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Nudie Jeans SS 2012 Collection Preview
Last week CONTRA was invited to preview Nudie Jeans 2012 collection in New York. If you love your Nudies now, wait till you see what they have in store. Photos by Dre Pitt
SS 2012 has an overall very subdued, dark palette. The pieces work together as a collection, but each piece shines in its own light. Expect coated fabrics for outerwear which will age over time, just like the denim Nudie is known for.
Knits have an incredibly soft hand and loose-weave, making them look effortlessly cool. The knits also hang beautifully on the body, giving a feminine edge, complimenting the grittiness and darkness of the collection. Striped tees have a wonderful hand, due to the cotton and linen fabric blends. The colors are muted, and weight-wise they are surprisingly light, again hanging beautifully on the body.
As for denim, what's new is our 'dry' denim with wonderful clean surfaces. Stitching on back pocket has gone tonal or bright blue. All in all denim against the collection looks extremely sophisticated and understated cool. Unmistakably Nudie!


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A slew of bar exams started yesterday, and the rest got underway today. And yet we already have stories about "crazy things" happening during the administration of the tests.
When things go wrong during the bar exam, most people will overcome the adversity and still pass the test. But those who end up failing the bar will remember these events forever.
So let's take a brief stroll around the bar exams to look at the stories some test takers will be telling from now until February…
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On several occasions in the past year, David Coleman, the president of the College Board, which administers the SAT, has suggested that changes need to be made to the vocabulary tested on the exam. In a talk he gave at the Brookings Institution a year ago, Coleman remarked, "I think when you think about vocabulary on exams, you know, how SAT words are famous as the words you will never use again? You know, you study them in high school and you're like, gosh, I've never seen this before, and I probably never shall." Coleman co-opted an old criticism of the SAT, that it forced students to learn difficult vocabulary that is useless for much of anything other than scoring well on the exam. He went on, "Why wouldn't it be the opposite? Why wouldn't you have a body of language on the SAT that's the words you most need to know and be ready to use again and again? Words like transform, deliberate, hypothesis, right?"
Jim Montoya, the College Board's Vice President of Higher Education, in an interview on NPR, reiterated Coleman's criticism of "SAT words." Asked why the SAT is "always [testing] the word 'unscrupulous'," Montoya replied, "Yes, you're right. It's one of those words people identify as an SAT word. All I can say is that as we move forward, one of the things we want to make absolutely certain of is that the vocabulary that students are expected to know will be vocabulary that they will be able to use as college students, and which will be valuable to them."
Coleman's comments on vocabulary provoked little response at the time, although one commentator accused him of "sending a message that devalues language." The notion that some words are not worth knowing is bound to raise the hackles not only of people who love the wealth and power of all kinds of words, including fancy ones, but also of people who know just how much importance educational experts attribute to what they call "lexical richness," or a large and diverse vocabulary. Coleman just so happens to be both of those kinds of people, and he understands that the question is less what vocabulary students should learn vocabulary than how they should learn it.
The College Board's unfortunate remarks make it sound like the choice is to decide which of two classes of words to teach and test—the technical (e.g., "hypothesis") or the writerly (e.g., "unscrupulous")—neither of which is particularly likely to appear in ordinary conversation. The real choice, though, is between treating vocabulary as part of a strong education that incorporates a lot of reading in all the disciplines or teaching vocabulary explicitly with word lists, flashcards, quizzes, and high stakes standardized tests. The surprising news is that the College Board seems to be adopting the first view, even if it has done a poor job in saying so.
There is a simple explanation why the SAT does not test words like transform and hypothesis. They are too easy. The linguist Dennis Baron, who runs The Web of Language, suggested that it is inevitable that some SAT words are on the obscure side. Baron said, "If [the College Board's] goal is to [test] words that only the most massively memorizing kid is going to know. . . then [it is] going to have to reach. It's like the spelling bee," although he acknowledged that the SAT's words are not as extreme as those used by the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which itself added a vocabulary test this year.
The College Board has to preserve the difficulty of the Reading section of the SAT, because it a norm-referenced exam: It ranks students by percentiles along a bell-curve distribution. As a result, the exam must be designed so that only a small minority of test takers will be able to answer over 90 percent of the questions correctly. In contrast, most state standards assessment tests are criterion-referenced exams. They set a standard for test-takers to meet, with the hope that all of them will do so. Everyone cannot get an 800 on the SAT Reading section, but all the students in the nation could test at or above grade level on a Common Core State Standards assessment exam; indeed, that is the aim of the Common Core. The difference between the SAT and standards tests lies, ultimately, in what they are designed to do. State assessments are designed to identify failing students, while the SAT has historically been used to identify the most successful ones, those who can get into the relatively small fraction of selective schools among the nation's 6,000-plus colleges and universities.
When Coleman and Montoya talk about the testing the words students "most need to know," they make the SAT sound like a criterion -referenced exam, designed to shape teaching and curriculum. Instead of talking about measuring a student's potential for academic success, they make it sound like the exam should play a role in shaping that potential. This is most likely not a mistake. Before Coleman became the president of College Board in 2012, he played an instrumental role in creating the Common Core Standards. It looks like he is now trying to bring the College Board's work in line with the Common Core. In order to understand Coleman's remark about SAT words, Georgia Scurletis wrote at Vocabulary.com, we need to understand how the Common Core thinks about vocabulary, and, in particular, about different classes of vocabulary.
The Common Core Standards are unambiguous about the value of vocabulary. They state, "The importance of students acquiring a rich and varied vocabulary cannot be overstated." They are just as clear about the importance of reading for this acquisition: "vocabulary acquisition eventually stagnates by grade 4 or 5 unless students acquire additional words from written context." The Common Core is no enemy of language, but an advocate for its study within its natural habitat. It is a friend of reading.
The same cannot be said for the SAT. From the exam's inception in 1926 and almost without interruption, the SAT has relied heavily on testing vocabulary, perhaps most notoriously in its antonym questions, which asked examinees to pick the best antonym of a stem word from among five choices. Since the mid-'90s, the test has moved away from such contextless questions, which were particularly rewarding to those who memorized the dictionary definition of vast numbers of words. The problem has not gone away, however. Ben Zimmer, the executive producer of Vocabulary.com, suggested that "a lot of what might be considered the traditional SAT words might have been a little esoteric and also very specific in their meaning," which meant that "you just learned this strange-sounding word and its meaning and you're done," rather than learning the kinds of words that take on different meanings in different contexts.
On the current SAT, vocabulary is tested in two ways: within the context of reading comprehension passages and in discrete sentence completion questions. Sherral Miller, Vice President of Assessment Development at College Board, reported in an email that both the reading comprehension passages and sentences used in the sentence completions are drawn from published material; they are not written for the test. College Board does not use a word list for developing questions. The words they test, Miller wrote, "are all important words to know in academic and even civic life; words are not used if they are extremely rare or precious, overly discipline-specific, etc." Questions are reviewed by high school and college teachers to determine their "relevance" and "appropriateness," and their difficulty is assessed by field-testing with students. Miller did not explain what the criteria are for determining what is appropriate, relevant, difficult, or important to academic and civic life.
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TOPIC: Fast vs. Slow - How Not to Get Discouraged?
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Joined Aug 2012
Posts: 240
March 4, 2013 9:24 AM
A friend recently celebrated a 27lb loss in 8 weeks in a "biggest loser" contest , and I overheard an infomercial promising a 3-size clothing drop in the same amount of time.
I've been working really hard both on food and exercise, and while I'm not discounting my 10lb-ish loss, I'm not even close to a drop in clothing size, and look about the same.
It's hard not to get discouraged when it feels like its goooinggg sooo slowwwwww. Besides comforting myself with the fact that losing 3-lbs+ a week (when we have the same amount to lose) isnt sustainable, and informercials are just trying to get money out of my wallet, how do you keep going when you start to feel that you should SEE more for all the hard work you've done?
Joined Jan 2012
Posts: 282
March 4, 2013 9:39 AM
I feel the same for a different reason...my partner is outpacing me in the weight loss department in terms of percentage lost. She doesnt have nearly as much to loose in the first place and doesnt appear to be trying that hard.
MPFers tell me to remember everyone is different and you shouldnt compare youself to others yadda yadda..but gee whiz, it hurts to see someone more successful than you when you are trying so hard.
This whole thing makes me feel like a failure despite my own weight loss success. Instead I am quiet about my weight around the house...cringing whenever the subject of weight loss comes up. I wanted to high five someone this AM when the scale revealed my 1.6 pound loss for the week...but I have come to know if I mention mysuccess, my partner will reveal an even morse successful number of her own thereby diminishing my result.
Uggh very frusrtating...fell your pain!!
Joined Aug 2012
Posts: 240
March 4, 2013 10:47 AM
Gracious, that has got to be hard! My hubby is supportive, even if generally disinterested, but what a challenge to have that in your face all the time. Well, let me first to give you a virtual high-five- great work! Guess that's why we come here? Still annoying as &*%@ though.
Joined Jan 2012
Posts: 47
March 4, 2013 10:53 AM
Sorry I have no tips but I know EXACTLY how you feel. I feel like I changed everything I eat and should be losing more every week than I am. I guess the old adage about it being better to lose it slow is true... at least we probably won't gain it back. No fad diets here. We are learning to change our routine and choices.
Joined May 2012
Posts: 2,076
March 4, 2013 10:58 AM
I just kept plugging away. I kept telling myself I was making real, sustainable changes. Yes, my husband has successfully stuck to and Atkins type plan for years, but me? Nope, I'll lose 20, gain 25 back and so on and so forth. Doing it slowly the calorie counting way and changing habits (some I'm still working on 2 years later) and moving more and making it a habit, has completely changed my life. I lost almost 50 pounds. I did slip up bad at the holidays and gained about 12 back, but I was lifting heavy at the time, so I tell myself that at least a teeny bit of that was muscle. ;) Besides that slip up, I've kept to my new lifestyle for almost 2 years now. I maintaing my loss for a year. I have never, ever done that in the past. Ever. Even with the weight gian, I weigh less now taht I did in college. I'm pretty sure I weigh less than when I graduated HS (I know at my lowest pre-holiday weight I did), and I weigh 15 or so pounds less than when I got pregnant for the first time. Just keep that in mind. You are going slow because you are make life changes. This is not a diet for weight loss, a temporary thing, it is a lifestyle makeover for a healthier you with weight loss is a happy side effect!
Joined Nov 2012
Posts: 174
March 4, 2013 11:06 AM
I definitely know how hard it is to be patient. I'm losing very slowly right now but I just keep reminding myself that when I lost weight very quickly in the past, it always came back and then some. This might be happening very slowly but I'm making true lifestyle changes, not going for a "quick fix." One time I was feeling particularly down about the scale not moving despite all of my efforts and my boyfriend said to me, "So what are you going to do? Go back to eating unhealthy foods and stop exercising? You know that won't work. Just keep doing what you're doing, results will come." I think of that every time I feel discouraged or impatient.
Joined Nov 2012
Posts: 12,350
March 4, 2013 11:09 AM
I focus on the process of being a healthier me and my health in general...not just the results on the scale. The scale really only tells a very small part of the whole story.
Here's a short list of NSVs for me:
1.) Blood work has done about 180* improvement in the last 5-6 months. I'm talking Dr's jaw dropping progress on my blood work here.
2.) I now have the energy of a man in his mid 20s...I'm 38 and until I got my **** together I felt like I was about 78.
3.) I used to take multi-vitamins because my diet was so void of actual nutrition, I was deficient in a number of areas...now all I take is vitamin D (still deficient) but I get everything else from my food.
4.) Overall fitness level is greatly improved. Before I started exercising, just walking for 30 minutes just about killed me. Now I'm jogging 2-3 miles 3x weekly. I've also made major strength gains with my weight training as well.
5.) My resting HR went from 104 back in Sept/Oct to 65 now. Still high, but it keeps going down.
And yes, I've had scale victories as well...but really, the number on the scale and looking better is just gravy in relation to my overall health improvements.
Joined Dec 2012
Posts: 54
March 4, 2013 11:17 AM
Try remembering that losing too quickly may mean eating too few calories which is hard to mentally and physically adjust from once it's time to switch to maintenance. As far as I am aware, too speedy a loss can cause a drop in muscle mass, which long term makes you less of a food burning machine and so it's harder to keep the weight off. You are doing brilliantly! Slow and steady = building good habits for life.
Joined Jan 2013
Posts: 400
March 4, 2013 10:52 PM
Hey! Sadly I am really susceptible to this and just want to lose weight as fast as possible!
But this time i'm reminding myself to do it slow, because I have did it the unhealthy way (restricting badly, over exercising) and have never been able to sustain it, leading to extreme binging and gaining all back and a lot more. It also makes me depressed and stuff. Yes when I get used to restricting I am so strong and I feel like I can sustain it, even though I was dizzy and weak a lot of times, but still managed to push myself to do HIIT running for an hour on the treadmill everyday. But eventually one binge leads to a bigger binge, they become more rampant, and eventually everyday. I lose my sense of hunger and don't know when to eat. I look at all foods as calories, and it is on my mind 24/7. Binging is so dis-empowering? it is something I wouldn't even wish on my greatest enemy. That being said, I have battled anorexia, and now battling overeating, binging, food addiction and bulimia! So maybe it is an extreme case..
But what i'm saying is that whatever you do, know that you will have to do it for the rest of your life, and drastically increasing your calories for a long period after your 'diet' would definitely lead to weight gain and more, and starvation also triggers binging and once you acquire the binging habit i'm afraid that it is something that seems to be incurable, and battling to curb it every day is a real struggle for me. So if you don't already have problems, trust me I SWEAR ON MY LIFE, do it slow, and do it healthily, and makes small changes that you are happy with, and can sustain the rest of your life. If you feel that you are not doing enough, then increase your deficit/add more exercise bit by bit, and see how it goes. There is really no need to rush it!!! That is something I really need to tell myself :/
In my third bout of beating the daily junk binge of 10000 calories, I restricted to a few fruits, a few veg smoothies, and at least one hour of intense exercising and loads of walking. It was terrible but I felt 'strong' and held on to it. I had a couple of binges here and there, but after losing about 13lbs I stopped losing. And then it became really frustrating because I am already struggling to sustain it, so if I wanna lose, i'd have to eat lesser or exercise more! That is just insane.... I actually did eat lesser after an environment change, and did lose like 5lbs but it took like 1.5months, which to be honest could be done the healthy way... And I felt deprived all the time because if I ate with friends that was the only meal I can have the day and I'd probably even need to starve the next to stay within my measly calorie intake for the day!
Always remember, if you're eating xxxxkcals you will have to stay around there forever. I random binge/spike in calories would do no harm but if you start eating more you'll definitely gain.
Sorry for the rant but I really don't want to see people falling into the habit of overeating/binging/calorie obsession/losing the sense of hunger cues because I know how dehabilitating it is and now this is my life....
Joined Mar 2013
Posts: 2
March 5, 2013 2:23 AM
Yea, it is all about staying patient and motivated. One of the ways I stay motivated is to watch Youtube. So much inspirational and motivational videos on there. it just makes it too hard for me to just quit.
Edited by Dubber12 On March 5, 2013 2:25 AM
Joined Oct 2011
Posts: 419
March 5, 2013 4:45 AM
I think the best way to think of it is the old hare and tortoise fable. Apparently people who lose weight really quickly have an extremely high rate of putting it back on something like 97% (can't remember where I read that think it might have been the fat 3 fit website) but going slowly and doing it in a more sustainable way will be much better in the long run. I have done the eating next to nothing and exercising loads before and I did lose a lot of weight BUT I put it all back on and then some.
This time I'm working on what I can live with doing for the rest of my life. If it takes me 3 years to get to my goal so be it. As long as 3 years later I am still at my goal it will have been worth it.
Joined Feb 2013
Posts: 8
March 5, 2013 6:04 AM
Stuck to my calorie amount all last week, but lost nothing this week, begining to think whats the point. My pals seem to loose weight much quicker than me. Never mind hopefully will loose some nxt week.
Joined Apr 2012
Posts: 5
March 5, 2013 7:18 AM
I don't have a huge amount to lose - somewhere in the 10-15lbs range - but for me it's helping to focus on the the micro-goal: 1lb/week. It took several years to put the weight on, and so it will take time to work it back off. When I think about the small goal of a weekly loss, rather than how long it will take me to get to the finish line, then each week is a victory rather than a slog. It's hard not to feel competitive, particularly when you and your partner are both working on weight loss, but you're probably both doing it for the same reason: you want to spend many more happy, healthy years together. Keep up the good work!!!
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March 5, 2013 7:22 AM
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March 5, 2013 7:30 AM
I try to keep my patience in check by remembering I don't want loose skin and I don't want to reduce maintenance calories through metabolism adaptation. When your body is restricted to lose weight, it adapts and lowers the metabolism so you have to eat less calories to maintain your weight then someone who didn't restrict that is the same size. I am aiming for long term solution, not a quick fix. The more calories I get to eat now and later, the happier I will be.
Joined Jun 2012
Posts: 139
March 5, 2013 6:40 PM
I try to keep my patience in check by remembering I don't want loose skin and I don't want to reduce maintenance calories through metabolism adaptation. When your body is restricted to lose weight, it adapts and lowers the metabolism so you have to eat less calories to maintain your weight then someone who didn't restrict that is the same size. I am aiming for long term solution, not a quick fix. The more calories I get to eat now and later, the happier I will be.
Yep, definitely helps to remember the long term benefits!
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Born Free USA: 2013, the Year in Review
In 2013, Born Free USA forged ahead with its vision of compassionate conservation and a world where all wild animals are safe in their natural habitats. We welcomed nine baboons to our Sanctuary in Texas and our first hyenas were rescued in Ethiopia; we had three major federal legislative initiatives launched; and we had monumental successes at an international trade conference in Bangkok. Read all about it below!
Federal Legislation
Born Free USA applauded U.S. Representatives Renee Ellmers (R-NC) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR) for introducing the Humane Care for Primates Act in November. Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regulations allow the importation of primates for "bona fide scientific, educational, or exhibition purposes," which excludes sanctuaries and prevents needy primates overseas from being rescued by U.S. organizations. This bill would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to include certified animal sanctuaries within the categories for which primates may be imported in the CDC regulations. The Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary has been asked to take in primates from abusive circumstances abroad, but has sadly been unable to do so. This bill would allow our Sanctuary to welcome primates from overseas who need lifetime care.
Born Free USA spearheaded an important Congressional initiative to protect nonhuman primates through the Captive Primate Safety Act, which would prohibit interstate commerce in monkeys, apes, and other primates in the exotic "pet" trade.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) worked with Born Free USA and our colleagues to introduce the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act. This important initiative would ban all body-gripping traps — snare, Conibear, and steel-jaw leghold — from being used on national wildlife refuges.
We advocated for the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act. This important congressional initiative would prohibit future possession and breeding of lions, tigers, and other big cats in the exotic "pet" trade. The bill would also require all current "owners" to register their big cats with the federal government.
Legislative Victories
Signed into law in October in California, The Bobcat Protection Act of 2013 (A.B. 1213), introduced by Assembly member Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), prohibits the commercial trapping of bobcats, along with the commercial sale and export of bobcat pelts.
As a result of Born Free USA's undercover investigation linking the slaughter of lions and national lion meat sale to Illinois, Representative Luis Arroyo (D-Chicago) introduced H.B. 2991 to ban the sale of lion meat and the slaughter of the animals in Illinois. Born Free USA will continue fighting hard for the bill's passage.
Born Free USA and the State Humane Association of California sponsored the California Swap Meets Bill (A.B. 339) which was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in September. This law prohibits the sale of animals at swap meets and flea markets and thereby prevents the suffering of animals, protects consumers, and eliminates related public health and safety risks.
California Trapping Act (A.B. 789) was also signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown! As a sponsor of this bill, Born Free USA had advocated for its passage for many, many months. This law bans the most heinous methods of killing wildlife such as drowning, chest-crushing, and injection with chemical solvents such as nail polish remover. It also reduces the size of Conibear traps ("kill traps") on land to decrease the chances of family dogs being inadvertently killed.
Finning is FINished in New York! Governor Andrew Cuomo signed A. 1769b/S. 1711b, a bill that will finally make the possession and sale of shark fins illegal in the state. We applaud the New York legislature for taking strong action to put an end to it, joining the groundswell of similar successes in other states around the country.
Animal Rescue
The Lucky Nine — Pearl, Missy, Chloe, April, Friendly, Spicey, Brooke, Kennedy, and Lulu joined 13 other baboons, 3 vervets, and more than 600 macaques at the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary in Dilley, Texas. These "lucky nine" female baboons, ages 13 to 23, were recently retired from a laboratory research program. Before receiving Born Free USA's loving care, they lived in separate cages, never experiencing the outdoors, and only rarely the company of other baboons. Upon arrival at the Sanctuary, they reached through the fence of their covered safety area to touch grass for the first time: a touching moment for all.
Three orphaned hyenas now have lives worth living at our Ensessakotteh wildlife center in Ethiopia. Matama, a spotted hyena, was the first hyena ever to be in our care. He's lucky that he isn't in Sudan, where he would have been cruelly kept as a "magic charm." Found tied around the neck and in a desperate situation, the young cub was rescued when Stephen Brend, our sanctuary director in Ethiopia, sprung into action. The latest two hyenas came to us from Haramaya University, in the eastern part of Ethiopia. Tigeste, an adult female who endured years in a small, barren cage, has adjusted well to life at Ensessakotteh. We fear that our third hyena, young Uwerr, may be blind—but we are monitoring Uwerr's condition carefully.
In October, Toka, Thika, and Iringa were finally moved to the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) sanctuary in Northern California. The Toronto City Council voted in 2011 to send the elephants to the U.S. facility after facing pressure from Born Free USA and other animal protection advocates to make the move, partly because the aging animals weren't well-suited to cold weather, and because the concrete floor of their enclosure was hard on their feet. But, the move was delayed on several occasions by clashes with zoo staff and city officials. Toka, Thika, and Iringa are now settling into their new home, which provides them lots of space to roam, in an appropriately warm climate, and in the company of other retired elephants who were once in zoos or circuses.
The Trapping Victims Fund was established to help defray emergency veterinary care costs for companion animals, for wildlife hurt by traps, and for expenses associated with rehabilitating and releasing a wildlife trapping victim back into the wild. Assistance from this fund has recently benefitted Max the cat, who had to have a leg amputated after he was caught (for three weeks!) in a neighbor's leghold trap, and Tr�a, a young black Labrador stray dog from Princeton, Minnesota. She was reportedly in horrific condition, partially mutilated by a snare trap.
Exposing Injustice
In May, Born Free USA Executive Vice President, Adam Roberts, appeared on "Inside Edition" in a segment about lion meat. Incredibly, and very unfortunately, the "king of the jungle" — a species in precipitous decline — is appearing on restaurant menus from California to Florida in the form of burgers, tacos, and other culinary "adventures."
Born Free USA and a coalition of other animal protection groups continued to pressure the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the African lion as "endangered" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) following our 2011 petition. Listing the African lion under the ESA would almost completely prohibit the import of and commercial trade in lion parts, and thus would considerably reduce the number of lions taken by Americans each year.
Global Projects
We are on the ground in Burkina Faso, fighting against the poachers who slaughter the country's elephants for their precious ivory. With a population of between 4,000 and 5,000 elephants, Burkina Faso is home to the largest remaining elephant population in West Africa. A vital habitat for elephants in Burkina Faso is Park W, a 10,000 kilometer Protected Area that spans three countries — Burkina Faso, Benin, and Niger. We have raised funds to support the anti-poaching teams in Park W.
We were able to continue our much-needed support of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme (EWCP)! The Ethiopian wolf is found in only a handful of pockets in Ethiopia. With fewer than 500 Ethiopian wolves remaining, they are in serious danger of extinction. But good news is on the horizon. EWCP monitors the wolf populations, and last year it reported a high number of births — and, even more importantly, the majority of the pups have successfully made it to sub-adult status!
Public Policy
Elephants, poaching, and the ivory trade took center stage when former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in collaboration with Born Free USA, governments, and other conservation partners, implored the international community to end poaching and the smuggling of exotic animal parts such as elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn. "Unless we find a way to work together to protect such iconic animals, they will be lost to future generations," she said.
The Obama Administration has established a Presidential Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking. Born Free USA is part of a group of NGOs advising the Council on strategies aimed at combating illegal wildlife trafficking and poaching of endangered species.
At the 16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), Born Free USA fought to address the rhinoceros and elephant poaching crises, the intensive captive breeding of tigers, the commercial logging of endangered tree species, the unsustainable fisheries that consume tens of millions of sharks each year, and so much more. Our delegation won success after success in these hard-fought debates. Vietnam, a major rhino horn consumer, was taken to task and urged to reduce demand; the West African manatee received the Treaty's strongest protection with the support of almost all of the species' range states; the African Elephant Action Plan, a blueprint for the species' survival across the continent, was reaffirmed and mechanisms for allowing new ivory trade were postponed; renewed calls to act on big cat conservation were sounded loudly; and commercially fished shark species and tree species were added to the CITES list of protected species for the first time.
Born Free USA, along with several other organizations, filed a petition with the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to strengthen the Animal Welfare Act by prohibiting potentially dangerous public contact with big cats, bears, and primates.
Legal Victory for Antelopes. Born Free USA, along with a coalition of other wildlife protection groups, filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for allowing the canned hunting of three species of captive-bred African antelopes (scimitar-horned oryx, addax, and dama gazelles) — despite their endangered status! In August, the court ruled that the FWS must apply the restrictions of the Endangered Species Act to protect these antelopes. Born Free USA — and the antelopes — win!
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The Indians came into Monday riding a three-game losing streak and suffering from a serious loss of positive momentum. To make matters worse, they were already down Asdrubal Cabrera, Travis Hafner, and Carlos Santana when it was announced Jack Hannahan would be headed for the DL with a lingering back issue.
Enter Lonnie Chisenhall, who made his triumphant return to the big league club for the first time this season with Hannahan out. We also saw the return of Josh Tomlin to the mound for the first time since May 7 against the White Sox. He wasn't dominating—far from it actually—but what Tomlin gave the Indians can't be overlooked. He pitched five solid innings and put the Tribe in a position to win the game, something that wasn't the case during against Chicago this weekend. In his five innings of work, Tomlin gave up four runs on four hits (two of which were home runs) and two walks. It was a vintage Tomlin performance, although it didn't start that way.
The Tribe fell behind 2-0 thanks to an Eric Hosmer home run off of Tomlin, and Chisenhall led the comeback charge in the bottom of the third. Chisenhall delivered on Kansas City starter Nate Adcock's 1-1 pitch with a screaming line drive to right field that would find it's way into the Royals' bullpen. It cut the Royals' lead in half and opened the flood gates for what would eventually turn into a five run inning.
Luke Carlin, Shin-Soo Choo and Michael Brantley all reached base to set the stage for the star of the day, Jason Kipnis. Looking to make something happen with the bases loaded and one out, Kipnis delivered with a line drive single to center that scored two and give the Tribe a 3-2 lead. For Kipnis, the single continued a torrid stretch of hitting; he would finish the day 3-for-4, and over his past six games he is 12-for-24 with 6 RBI.
Next came the most unusual and controversial play of the day. With Brantley on third and Kipnis on first, Jose Lopez hit an insanely high chopper off of home plate. Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas snagged the ball on the way down and faked a throw to first, but had no play on any of the three runners. Everyone was safe and the Indians were up 4-2.
However, Kipnis misread the fake throw and, in an attempt to be aggressive, rounded second base. He was dead in the water with Moustakas running at him. Instead of conceding the tag, Kipnis gave a few shimmies, ducked the Moustakas tag, and made his way to third. The replay later showed that Moustakas did in fact make the tag, but Kipnis wound up safe at third. Casey Kotchman followed with an RBI single, and when all was said and done the Indians had a 5-2 lead.
To their credit, the Royals made a game out of it. They closed the gap to 5-4 on a Bryan Pena home run and a Jarrod Dyson Little League-style home run (he tripled and was awarded home thanks to an errant throw into the stands). They would also tack on a fifth run in the seventh inning, but the Indians were having no part of it on a day when they desperately needed a win.
Lopez got two more RBI and Brantley would add a run-scoring single of his own. The Indians jumped out to an 8-5 lead in the bottom of the seventh. All that was left was for the Indians bullpen to take the reigns and and send the crowd of 25,000 strong home with a smile on their faces; they did just that as Chris Perez received another standing ovation before working a perfect ninth inning for his 17th save of the year.
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The Good: First off, Josh Tomlin was solid in his return to the mound. He did exactly what we've come to expect from him during his time with the Indians. The two home runs he allowed threatened to sabotage what was an otherwise outstanding day, but it was good to see him succeed right off the bad.
Second, Jason Kipnis and Jose Lopez were outstanding. Kipnis has been on fire lately. He went 3-for-4 on the game and was constantly in the center of the action. I can't possibly say enough good things about how he has stepped it up a notch with the loss of the big three (Cabrera, Hafner, Santana) in the middle of the lineup. Lopez also got back on track after a horrendous series in Chicago. He had three RBI on the day and continues to make a case to keep playing once everyone returns.
Lastly, Lonnie Chisenhall came up big. In his first big league action of the year, Chisenhall delivered with a solo home run to get things going and ended the day 2-for 4. Yes, he left five men on base, which was bad, but the dinger could serve as a major confidence builder for him moving forward.
The Bad: Johnny Damon and his o-for-3 day at the plate. He was the only Indian not to get in on the hit parade and now his average sits at a ridiculously low .152. Should the Indians keep running him out there day after day or should they consider playing Aaron Cunningham or Shelley Duncan more at this point? How much can they keep playing Damon before it becomes detrimental not only to the team but to Damon's confidence?
The Huh?: Lonnie Chisenhall's Fu-Manchu mustache. It's totally awesome, but at the same time such a confusing facial hair choice. Why not the handle bar mustache? Or perhaps some Martin Van Buren style mutton chops? Someone needs to get to the bottom of this, ASAP.
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We cannot get enough of it.
Why? Because there's something enormously comforting about grinding. It offers a completely straightforward relationship between work and reward. When you log into WoW, you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if you just plant your ass in that chair for long enough, you'll level up. It doesn't require skill. It just requires putting in the time. Play 10 hours, you'll do better; play 50, you'll do better yet; and yet more so with 500 hours.
The thing is, almost no arenas of human endeavor work like this. Many are precisely the opposite, in fact. When you go to your job at the office, there's little or no linkage between effort and achievement: You slave like a madman all year long, only to watch the glad-handing frat guy hired two months ago get promoted above you. And if you're a really serious nerd, the logic that governs interpersonal relationships — marriage, kids, your parents — is even more abstruse: Things can actually get worse the more time and effort you put into them.
But grinding? Grinding always works. Always. You get a gold star just for showing up. This is a quietly joyful experience. It feeds our souls, as well as our sense of justice and fair play. We grind because we can't believe what a totally awesome deal we're getting handed here, often the first time in our entire suck-ass put-upon lives.
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Nick Mongiardo CONTRIBUTOR (4)"I am not the fortune and the fame nor the same person telling you to forfeit the game"...mmawilkinson82 (5)A stunning album that takes Linkin Park in a whole new direction and really shows off the ...Will C. (4.5) Linkin Park has undertaken a major step forward in their career, from the va...Emson652 (4)"It seems ugly, but it could get worse, 'Cause even a blueprint is a gift and a curse. 'Ca...
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Andrew Cannon (4)...Chevy182 (2)Some potential found but that doesn't justify this album, because of the sequence or mes...Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration (3)Is it Hybrid Theory 3? No. Is it worth listening to? If you're willing to overlook fact ...David James Young (3.5)Several steps closer to the edge, Linkin Park jump off into the unknown....
J. Ponton EMERITUS (1.5)Rest in peace...Dr Dave De Sylvia STAFF (3.5)An extremely well-crafted rock album from a band whose (self-directed) anger is, for once,...
This does not deserve so much praise. Album is painfully average, but at least an improvement over M2M.
Album Rating: 1.5too. many. reviews
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Album Rating: 2.5NO NO NO NO! Not another goddamn Thousand Suns review! Please stop.
Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Offreview number 9.
says nothing new than the other pos reviews for this.
from now on, whenever someone else reviews this i'm troll negging it. no matter how good the review is.
enough is enough.
Album Rating: 2.5Gonna write another review for this album. Nah. Just kidding.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offhahahahhahaahahaha....i already reviewed the album a week ago, but it got deleted, so i just waited
for the album to be released. I liked it. Thanks for not trolling. But I anticipate I'll get some
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Offyou'll get flamed if you change this to a 5.
not by me, but the trolls will fuck you with a soldering iron. sideways. without any lube.
Album Rating: 4.0Good review, I liked it. Very detailed, and it does well to recall the band's previous works, and contrast how their latest offering stands up to their last one.
Also...if you've seen up to nine reviews of album X already and it makes you bored...then you could just not read the latest review of album X if there is one. Right? In other words, there's no need to troll/put down those who come here to practice reviewing and share their opinions, really.
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This album hasn't even been out for a week and already I'm sick of hearing about it.
Its not so much that there's a high number of reviews, but just that's been so many so quickly
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Album Rating: 4.0@ Deviant: Well-called. That's absolutely true.
It's not so much about how fast people are pumping these reviews out, it's how much all of them say the same..... fucking..... thing.
Album Rating: 2.5Yeah these reviews are about as pointless as the Band.
Could staff put a block on reviewing this for a couple of weeks? I mean FUCK!
Finally listening to this. I'm not even a hater, but this really sucks. Minutes to Midnight was definitely better than this.
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Album Rating: 1.0So six paragraphs and you only have one sentence that actually describes the music beyond a simple adjective like mellow or exciting... I get the hint that they've gone electronic, but seriously. What does this sound like? If I'd never heard it I'd have no idea if I'd like it or not. You're too caught up in trying to convince us that there are good parts in the album that you forget to mention any of them explicitly.
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Every great baseball player has a hype song. A song that, while they stroll from the on deck circle to the batter's box, hypes testosterone and pumps the fans?
Mike's hype song is Daisy Dukes by 69 Boyz.
Matt's hype song is anything by the 4 Non Blondes.
- Bought Matt a Jeff Smardzija t-shirt.
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We can't wait for game 2 tonight! :)
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Matt and Mike, Mike and Matt. wearing pink hats, swingin' bats.
Mike and Matt, Matt and Mike. LIGHTNING STRIKE! (three and you're out.)
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Baseball! Duh. :)
O Pitcher! My Pitcher!
Why did you balk with loaded bases?
You threw nothing but junk, then slipped on the mound.
This isn't sexual innuendo, the game's over,
The corn has been canned.
I wouldn't trade you for a spaceship.
Think of all the cool things I could have done with that spaceship.