Fantastic!...with one Big booboo
358670
A great, practical and credible read for anyone interested in clearing the air on what to eat and why it's so important to know. I give his book 4 Stars because people should read it, but with one, and one very strong caveat.

Dr. Hyman is beyond a doubt a remarkably knowledgable clinician and certainly practices what he preaches. Highest accolades to him, his seminal work at the Cleveland Clinic and the untold number of human beings he's helped and will continue to help.

Here's what I don't get: He goes to great lengths to explain why we have our current epidemic of obesity, diabetes type II, dementia & heart disease to name a few, which all boils down to, "We got it wrong" as it relates to the lipid hypothesis of the 50's being the gold standard for now 5 decades up until the last few years.

He calls out the pharmaceutical industry and poorly conceived and interpreted studies as perpetuating this madness. He says NOTHING of the prescribing allopaths, the sales people for these dubious progenitors of this mess who evidently, under the hypnosis/superstition of somebody else's "studies" lined up like automatons and advised and prescribed away. For decades. The billion dollar cottage industry of Statins for example, where 75% of Statins prescribed BY ALLOPATHS offer NO protection and carry AWFUL side effects including heart disease, neuropathy, diabetes, cognitive deficit to dementia, etc, etc., are all just "OOPSED" away?

I mean I just don't get it. Is there something inherent in the way an M.D. is taught how to think about what s/he's learning that disables rudimentary knowledge of human physiology and clinical chemistry from being applied to clinical practice and human beings? Why is there no collective mea culpa by the time honored, elegantly educated and trained profession of medical doctors who perpetuated this lie?

Kudos to ALL who are jumping on the "wellness" bandwagon and finding ways to monetize it so that we can keep our at least, truer HEALTH care system's economic engine running. But for humanity's sake so we don't keep doing these egregious things again and again, how about a sincere apology for being complicit in this pernicious, wink-wink scam by the medical profession that perceives itself above it all?
2609811
My baby sister is 5 months old and we were looking for an educational stuffed animal for her, and this had everything we were searching for!

LOVE how it says her name! Sarina isn't a very common name, and I was pleased that it was in the database with the correct pronunciation.

My only complaint, and I'm saddened that this is even an issue, is the volume level. It's too low. All of our other toys are twice as loud, and the highest volume on the toy sounds like a shy child asking to go to the bathroom. For the loudest volume setting, I'd expect it to be audible from at least the other end of a room.

Thankfully babies' hearing is much better than ours, so it's probably fine for her. But for our liking, it's much too low.

Besides that one little annoyance, this is a great buy! Highly recommend because of how entertaining it can be for such a wide variety of ages.
2860920
I like this a lot and Kitten (name, not descriptor, "Kitty Pryde" in full) absolutely loves it. It's her favorite thing in the house. Which is great... but also a bit of a mess. Honest review time.
The device itself is well built. It's heavy, has a feel of being strong and not easily broken, and it's big enough to last for a while even with two cats (Meow'Dib if you must know) and a Dog.

The pump is adequate for the job, if only barely. It will need to be cleaned frequently. We disassemble and clean it out weekly. The magnetic impeller really collections debris. It's simple enough to clean and you can find a decent video of the process on the manufacturers YouTube page.

You'll notice in the "get them together" or "people also bought" areas some small fortune-cookie-esk shaped filters. You want those. Seriously, just buy them now and save yourself sooooo much trouble.

With the filters in the little clamshell that protects the pump, the entire device works more smoothly and requires significantly less maintenance. And I'm sure the furbabies appreciate filtered water. I mean, I do. It's not Birta or anything but it's noticeably improved.

Finally, you NEED to keep water in it. Aside from the pump sounding like the Devil's kazoo when it runs out water the pump will also lock up when dry. So you have to take the entire thing apart and get it going again in the sink before you can reassemble the fountain with a working pump.

All in all, this is a great buy at a decent price. Your animals will love it but really, do yourself a favor and get the accessories now.
3678891
Awesome, friggin' worth it, however it'd be cool if they made it a little bigger, or make them in bigger sizes. Omfg imagine a body sized one big enough to contort through your body! That'd be hella sick.
1589558
This Frankenstein is definitely a good looking and an eye-catching tall man. We love having him in our front yard and our toddler is over-the-moon happy - the neighbor kids have enjoyed looking at him, too. Though he stands very tall and is seemingly well put together, there are a couple of pitfalls. We sent our first back because the "loops" that are used for the ties to anchor to ground are not well sewn (there are three that are attached to his "hips") - two of ours detached (with zero way to "rig") within the first 24 hours, one broke immediately upon staking to the ground. The replacement Frankenstein doesn't prove much different, but he is surviving. Really, the only reason I'm not sending him back is because I think my toddler would be devastated to not having him in the yard. I'm considering other ways for him to survive, but I haven't found the right option myself, unfortunately, for $80 I shouldn't have to. Also, I agree with the other reviewer that he is not weighted well enough; he falls over easily and the slightest (and by slightest I mean that not even the tree branches are moving) of wind sends him tumbling down (which is why the anchors need to be better made). So... I guess this boils down to him looking nice but not really being "well made". Thank goodness for BZB Goods, we have a child who simply adores this character. Hoping he survives until next year.
2568955
Like another reviewer said, I really wanted to give this novel 5 stars; however, like the other reviewer said, the hundred page sex scene got to be a little much.  To me, the word "nipples" is funny and not sexy at all!  And when it is written forty plus times, session after session, the sex becomes funny, overdone, and far too overwritten.

I will say, though, that I am more than happy I read this book and will continue on to the sequel, along with the author's other novels.
1666790
Eureka!

Long had I been avoiding purchasing a "cat castle" (GROSS) because of their unstoppable tendency towards being the ugliest things ever built. Seriously. And look, I'm not some aesthetic snob. I find the high design cat trees equally as obnoxious, if only because they share a crucial misunderstanding with their disgustingly upholstered forebears.

Cats don't like that stuff. At least mine doesn't. But a cardboard box? You can't stop him. There's something textural about them that he just loves, so yeah, this cat condo makes a helluva lot of sense.

I also love the fact that they are modular. Let's me give my cat some vertical space (what with the dog biting his ankles). My one complaint is that there isn't one solid side. I know, I get it I get it, modular blah blah blah, crawl through the endless hole etc. etc. etc. but he's a big old boy! He can't lay comfortably on the top (as he is want to do) without an appendage or two drooping through the hole. I ended up having to cut a bigger piece of cardboard out to throw on top (taking some of their pleasing appearance away).

Oh yeah, by the way, they look ok! I'd go for brown, just because, you know, it's subtle, and who wants a fuschia cube in their living room (probably someone, not me).
2668787
I love this show and think the male leads, Ayoade and O'Dowd have great chemistry and are very funny as Roy and Moss. I'm a little iffy on Parkinson, although she is fine in small doses. I felt the same way on her tenure with Doc Martin. And I prefer Chris Martin's Denholm Reynholm to Matt Berry's Douglas Reynholm but that is but a minor annoyance. The only problem I have is with that damn laugh-track! JEEEZZZUUUSSS! When are studios/producers going to stop with that nonsense. After awhile all I can hear is the damn noise of that canned laughter (whether in studio or from people long dead recorded years and year ago). And more annoyingly are the times when the fake laughter drowns out the dialogue. Jeezzuuss! Enough already!
1534555
I saw someone with one of these BOOBZIES & I HAD to have one!!! The boobs on the coozie/koozie are actuallly SQUISHY (like real boobs)!!!! It's definitely noticeable at parties, the pool, or wherever. GREAT product!!! FUNNY & FUN!!! Works better than a normal coozie/koozie & is washable!!
4859974
Now that the William Hartnell years are cool again...
There's so much to enjoy about "The Sensorites", and not just the obvious stuff, either.  Obviously, we have to deal with the fluffs first.  Hartnell had this great habit, in scenes requiring great technical dialogue, of grabbing his lapels, "Hmm!"ing a lot, wandering up to the camera, and squinting his eyes into the distance, in the direction of the Mary Tamm Memorial Cue-Card Boy.  Do you think he would have tried, had he known that this story would be sold to the masses 40 years later, to learn his dialogue?  But then we would have been denied such great non-sequiturs as "I rather fancy that's settled that little bit of solution."  And, of course, the 28th century watches that he finds in "The Sensorites" are of "the non-winding time."  They sure are, Bill, they sure are.
Anyway, "The Sensorites" is an astonishingly radical bit of pacifism.  Part One concludes with the first-ever "monster face" cliffhanger in "Doctor Who": we'd already seen a Sensorite hand (in an ill-fitting wool glove) and heard how evil they are, but then we see a misshapen face, floating around in Spain, er, space, and the credits roll.  But, by the end of Part Six, it's the Sensorites who are the heroes of the day.  The villainy is traced back to three Earth soldiers, minds inadvertently warped by Sensorite telepathy, waging a war against an enemy that didn't exist.  And yet, the Doctor lures him out into the open not with weapons, but with sympathy -- and with that wicked bit of psychological byplay that helped later Doctors defuse so many villains.  The Doctor then carries the story's moral centerpiece when he says, after the Sensorite warrior refuses to kill that insane Earthman who has killed so many : "The fact is, you didn't kill him, shows great promise for the future of your people."
The Doctor's companion, Ian, again shows his natural aggression, which saved the Thal people in "The Daleks".  On the Sense-Sphere, however, he's helpless.  The Doctor admonishes: "Now let our own intelligence be our own offense, and attack!"  Radical, too, is the fact that Earth Captain Maitland -- the first human we meet in the story -- is completely impotent.  He can't even cut through a locked door in less than two episodes!  Whereas in other stories, Maitland would have been the human hero, in "The Sensorites" it is Barbara and Susan and Carol (and the Doctor, the unpredictable alien) who are the actors, the voices of reason.
Obviously this story has whopping production flaws.  Parts One and  especially Two are dragged to a near standstill by a script that under-runs: seven whole minutes in Part Two are consumed by a few characters slowly creeping down a dark hallway.  Think about that.  Seven minutes of nothing.  You could watch the Ali-Liston 1965 heavyweight title fight four times in those seven minutes!  And, even though it's radical and progressive, "The Sensorites" still has the Doctor being overly protective of his granddaughter, and Carol tells the Sensorites that they all look alike.  Actually, that last bit is clever -- on a planet of telepaths, wouldn't facial features be less important? -- but that bit has been laughed at for so long that it's too late to redeem it.  And when Part Two ends with a door closing ominously, Part Three begins with Barbara opening the door.  Wow.  Now that, Peter R. Newman, is top-tier suspense.
In the end, the Sensorites are philosophical monsters who are scared of the dark.  In the same year of "Doctor Who" that gave us the Daleks, maybe, just maybe, the Sensorites are the more representative alien species.
3336556
Still more bizarre adventures with the pretty young alien princess in those funky tiger stripes! And this time the whole gang goes off to spend a long, extragant holiday at the beach. Lots of crazy fun! However, there are  quite a few things in this manga book that makes me sorry that the  immensely talented creator happens to be a woman. For instance, there's  this one scene where a mysterious binkini snatcher forcibly rips a swimming  suit right off a female victim, leaving her in tears as the boys all laugh  and gawk at her naked body. I truly understand that Rumiko Takahashi is  living in a very male society, but this does border on gender problems.  However, other than that, I say hats off to one of the greatest manga  cartoonists ever lived for her very fertile imagination and her endless  supply of the most fabulous characters and creatures ever to grace her  pages!
3161731
I don't get all the negative reviews - I was concerned buying this for my (almost) 2-year-old nephew for Christmas, since everyone seems to be trashing the doll because of the roar. When it arrived, we gave it a squeeze and yes, the roar is absolutely ridiculous. My wife and I couldn't stop laughing.  The combination of the roar and the face is priceless.

Christmas day, my nephew unwrapped the dinosaur and gave it a squeeze.  Out comes the roar - my nephew bursts out laughing and gives the dinosaur a huge bear hug. It was adorable.  Everyone had to take turns squeezing it.

If you want something that sounds like a roaring, mean dinosaur, by all means get something else. If you want something hilarious that a toddler will get a kick out of, I can't recommend this guy enough.
1756821
This is a fantastic movie!  WOW plus!!  After seeing this film twice I can only give it one negative comment; the lack of detail at the end of the movie.

[spoilers] I think that somehow, NASA [specifically the military] should have been seen recovering her after re-entry.
2898777
Fantastic! Completely enjoyable. I practically wait on tenterhooks every year in anticipation of that year's release of another Two Lumps book. The comments added to each comic by both the artist and the writer are usually just as funny as the comic featured on the same page.

I have only one negative thing to say: Why, after eight years of producing beautiful books, all in uniform size, did the size of the book change? It truly is "17% Bigger", When I saw that statement on the cover image of the book on Amazon, I simply assumed it meant thicker, not taller and wider! It truly stands out on the shelf where I display my "Two Lumps" items. I wonder what Angry Fish would say if he knew anything about this seeming travesty?
845795
This is a terrific story with no sex and no gore or cussing that I can recall (I can't guarantee no cussing at all). It even plays nicely with text-to-speech. Why only 4.5 stars, you ask? Well, there are some mistakes. They weren't usually of the magnitude to drive me crazy, BUT I've listened to it via TTS (3 times so far). I didn't find them awful enough to dock it a whole star. DEFINITELY worth a look-see!!!
123200
as an avid fan of the Kingdom Hearts series, i just had to get one of my favorite heartless ^_^ and so i did....he was actually delivered before the estimate delivery which impressed me and he is just sooo cute ^_^....what is not mentioned....unless they changed it...is that his eyes actually GLOW!!!! when i was going to bed the first night with my shadow heartless....the glowing suprised me and made me think for a split second "OYFG!!!! they sent me a real heartless... o_o" ....after i turned my lights on and off for a couple of minutes i concluded that his eyes just glowed ^_^'........yea, half asleep when trying to figure this out......anyways, the only thing that just slightly annoy's me is the antennas....they contain wire for form and if not careful they can sink into the shadow's head and be quite difficult to pull back into the antenna...when they sink they leave the cloth used for the antenna limp and in the way...thats the only problem...and if you have furry animals, don't let them get near, hair does show up on it....overall, it's a good plushie ^_^
2893302
This is an excellent sports bra, and really holds them together in the middle, but the top part of the jubblies are definitely still jiggling. To the eye, I'm sure this is a more pleasing look, but sometimes all you want is to strap them down, you know?