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Cereal addict begs for help to cure his addiction
Evesham Journal, 1st of February 2016
A MAN is begging for help to overcome his addiction to cereal - munching a staggering 13 bowls a day topped with a whopping 138 spoons of sugar.
Phillip Patrick, aged 19, had a healthy and varied diet until he left home three years ago and slipped into bad habits.
Now the dad-of-one only eats cereal - mostly Weetabix and cornflakes - topped with an enormous pile of sugar, scheduling his binges around his favourite TV programmes.
Mr Patrick - who has eaten an estimated 14,235 bowls in three years - devours six boxes of cereal and 15 pints of milk a week and a 5kg bag of sugar every nine days.
He washes it all down with regular cups of tea - with six sugars.
His weight has soared by four stones in the past three years to an unhealthy 15 stone.
And his bizarre diet has left him with barely enough energy to walk up the stairs and he can't go out for dinner or eat meals with his family.
He is now appealing for help to conquer his addiction after it has cost him his pub job and experts warned it could cause him to develop cancer or heart disease.
He said: "I know I'm still young but I'm not getting any younger and I need to be better for my son.
"I used to be quite an active lad, playing football, cycling and running.
"But now I've got no energy. I struggle to walk up the stairs because I'm so out of breath.
"It has become a habit now. It's part of my daily lifestyle. I've been doing it every day for three years.
"I need to get my life back - I could die from it."
Mr Patrick, from Worcester, started eating badly when he moved out of home and in with partner Sophie Richold, also 19.
Despite her healthy diet his new-found freedom saw him give up meals entirely in favour of cereal, as well as cups of tea - with six sugars in each drink.
He has two bowls in the morning - each piled high with 10 teaspoons of sugar - then four while he is watching The Bill, before another at 3pm and then 6pm.
Addicted Phillip has up to a further three during the evening - in between Emmerdale, Eastenders and Coronation Street - and then another before he goes to bed.
On an average day he consumes around 6,906 calories a day and has piled on around four stone in three years.
His carb and sugar overload saw him lose his job working in a bar last year because he didn't have the energy to stand up throughout his shift.
"It was really affected my life," he said.
"My sex life too - it used to be regular, but now it's a rare occurrence.
"Sophie gets annoyed at me because if we do go out for dinner I'll just have a fudge cake and be done in three minutes.
"I've tried to come off it a few times.
"The last time a couple of months ago I threw my sugar away and I only lasted two days.
"As soon as I saw a bag of sugar I had to buy it.
"I'm usually quite a patient person, and when I have sugar and cereal I'm quite happy.
"But in between bowls or if I can't have it I can be very, very moody.
"I need help to get my life back."
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'Unauthorised trousers' kill Canadian zoo's otter
BBC News, 18 February 2016
A Canadian zoo is under scrutiny following the death of an otter which had been given a pair of trousers to play with in its enclosure.
Logan, a 12-year-old American river otter, drowned at Calgary Zoo after being given the article of clothing as an "unauthorised enrichment item", the Calgary Sun newspaper reports.
The zoo's general curator, Colleen Baird, says Logan got trapped in one of the trouser legs, and two employees have subsequently been disciplined following an investigation into the incident.
"It was human error and we take animal deaths very seriously," she tells the paper, but refuses to be drawn on who was responsible. "It's irrelevant how exactly the pants got in there, it's more that the pants got in there in the first place."
"Enrichment items" are common in zoos, but they should be things which occur naturally in the animal's environment, Ms Baird says, and trousers don't fit the bill.
While the zoo says its animal care protocols "are among the most stringent in the industry", it has faced criticism over the otter's death.
Julie Woodyer, from animal welfare group Zoocheck, told Canadian broadcaster CBC: "It smacks of the kinds of things you might see at a roadside zoo, not in a professional operation."
It's not the first time that Calgary Zoo has experienced unfortunate incidents involving its animals. Among those highlighted by CBC were the 2013 death of a female penguin which swallowed a foot-long stick; and a spider monkey which died of frostbite after being left outside in cold weather.
In 2009, a gorilla was photographed wielding a knife which a keeper had inadvertently left in its enclosure, an incident the zoo described as "overblown" because gorillas don't understand the concept of using tools as weapons.
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Perverts Closely Monitoring Invisibility Cloak Developments
Scientists in the UK have demonstrated a flexible film that represents a big step toward the "invisibility cloak" made famous by Harry Potter, ensuring they have the undivided attention of perverts across the country.
The film contains tiny structures that together form a "metamaterial", which can, among other tricks, manipulate light to render the man watching you in the shower completely invisible.
Greeting the news with a joyous smile, long-time pervert Pete Williams told us, "This is simply wonderful news, no longer will us perverts be forced to suffer verbal taunts such as 'I'm calling the police' or 'get out of my garden'. They won't even know we're there."
"I'm sure this will help create a whole new generation of perverts, those currently put off by the potential embarrassment of being caught in the act."
"I believe this potential pool of new perverts is probably somewhere between 97% and 99% of the current male population."
"Ask any man what he'd do if he had an invisibility cloak, and if he can't instantly account for every single minute of the first six months, he's lying. We've all planned it with military precision."
"When I get mine all I can say is that Emma Watson better start spending her bathtime in a Burkha."
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Experts have warned that the military might need to wait for a few years before battle-ready versions of the technology are available for use on the front line.
Lead researcher Andrea Di Falco of St Andrews University, said "What we need to do is test the cloak in areas that are not life-threatening, like in the bedroom of Sheila Davis at number 24."
"We have a list of 2.9 million volunteers willing to take part in field trials, and once that's complete, in say fifty or sixty years, then the army can have it."
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Cameron 'Still Hopeful' Door Won't Hit Him On The Arse On The Way Out.
David Cameron has revealed that he hopes to avoid a door spanking his arse, as he inevitably fails to negotiate a way for Britain to stay in Europe.
"As was clear at the outset, I've set myself some really low expectations for these talks," explained Cameron, "and now that I'm not achieving them, it's time to aim a lot lower."
After failing to win legal guarantees for any of the tiny reforms Cameron had dared to ask for so far, advisors were hoping to keep the slippers from his hotel room, and a half bottle of Pinot Grigio.
"Look, we'd all like a pillow chocolate, or the pot of mints they keep at reception," roared Cameron.
"But the key to negotiating is to avoid asking for things that you know you're not going to get."
In an interview with the Telegraph, Cameron will reveal tomorrow that all he had hoped for was to eventually be allowed home, and to make it out of the exit without a bruised buttock.
"If you read carefully, that's what I pledged in our manifesto," claimed the PM.
"And I'm very glad to have achieved that 100%, disregarding the reddening where the door knob slightly got me."
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Anger as Southend bakery launches Hot Cross Buns WITHOUT 'offensive' cross
Southend News Network, MARCH 4, 2016
A bakery in Southend has upset a number of people in the local community by launching Hot Cross Buns WITHOUT a cross on them – the managing director has said that this 'difficult decision' was taken to ensure that nobody in the community gets offended by the cake over the next few weeks.
Michael Prove has been in charge of the Baker's Cupboard on Hamlet Street since 2002, and he explained his decision to the Chief Reporter. He said: 'We have produced thousands of Hot Cross Buns in the past without anybody getting upset, but 2016 has been very different. As soon as our traditional Hot Cross Buns went on sale last week, a maths teacher came in and demanded that we stop selling them as they can be rotated slightly, leaving an 'X' – he felt that the buns do not give out a clear signal about whether or not they are a 'plus' symbol or a 'multiply' symbol.'
He continued: 'He accused us of confusing children who are just starting to truly understand the world of mathematics, and to be honest I told him in no uncertain terms that I wouldn't be willing to remove the cross from the buns. He stormed out of the bakery shop area, and at closing time he came back with four other Maths teachers and they used baseball bats to smash everything up. I don't want any more trouble in my shop, so regretfully we will no longer be putting crosses on our buns.'
Unfortunately, this isn't the first time that fundamentalist maths teachers have gone on the rampage in Southend. Police were called to Southend seafront in 2013 when a group of them stormed Three Shells Beach and threw blankets over women sunbathing in bikinis. According to their 'leader,' a pair of contained breasts could be interpreted as a number '8' that has been written the wrong way up, and so the action was necessary to ensure that child numeracy rates remained at an acceptable level in the area.
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Pringles to celebrate birthday with Olly Murs gig
1 March 2016, by Katie Deighton, Event Magazine
The celebrations will include an exclusive live gig with singer Olly Murs, which will take place on 19 May.
The brand will give 50 fans the chance to win two tickets to the performance each. Launching this month, the competition will be open for 50 days, with one winner picked each day.
Guests will also be able to meet Murs personally at the Pringles-branded live event.
A fully-integrated campaign including shopper, in-store, digital, radio and TV will promote the competition, while promotional videos featuring the singer will trail online and across Snapchat, Spotify and Facebook.
Pringles is working with Wolf Brand Experience to deliver the campaign.
Jon Reid, director of the agency, told Event: "The role of music and entertainment is crucial in creating campaigns and content that cut through. As Pringles is such an iconic brand, we needed to partner with one of the UK's biggest entertainers - Olly Murs - to create the most awesome anniversary campaign and party."
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Japanese professor pushes for Hide and Seek at the Olympics
By Julian Ryall, The Telegraph
At 64, Yasuo Hazaki admits he may no longer have the speed of an Olympic athlete, but guile is as important an attribute in his chosen sport - competitive hide-and-seek - and he is lobbying for it be included in the 2020 Games
The International Olympic Committee is to announce the host city for the XXXII Olympiad at its meeting in Buenos Aires on Saturday, with Tokyo competing with Istanbul and Madrid for the right to host the largest sporting event in the world.
And Hazaki, a graduate of Nippon Sport Science University, believes Tokyo 2020 would be the perfect occasion for the Olympic community to embrace his chosen sport.
"I would like hide-and-seek to be one of the exhibition sports in 2020 and then it could become an official event at subsequent Olympics," Hazaki, a professor of media studies at Josai International University, told The Daily Telegraph.
Prof. Hazaki set up the Japan Hide-and-Seek Promotion Committee in 2010 and the organisation has around 1,000 members across the country. Many are university students, but the sport can be enjoyed by anyone, he emphasises.
"I want to encourage sport for all, meaning that anyone can take part, regardless of age, gender or ability," he said. "When you watch sport now, it's all about world-beating techniques and skills - fantastic dribbling, running or shooting skills in football, for example.
"But that's not sport for all," he said. "Hide-and-seek is a sport that anybody can play, from children as young as 4 years old to someone who is in their 80s."
The committee has set formal rules for competitive hide-and-seek, pitting two teams of seven players against each other in a 10-minute match. In the first five-minute half, one team is given two minutes to hide on a "pitch" that measures 65ft x 65ft . The opposing team then has to locate and touch the hiding players.
In the version for children under the age of 12, the pitch measures 55 feet x 88 feet.
One of the beauties of the sport is that it can be played pretty much anywhere, Prof. Hazaki said, although light woodland tends to offer the best opportunities for the hiding team. He has, however, staged competitions in gardens and even on beaches - a sporting experience that he described as "interesting."
Successful players generally have the ability to run very fast at the start of the game to put some distance between themselves and the seekers. Being able to identify a good hiding spot is obviously critical, as well as being able to keep very still. That becomes more difficult if the pitch has a lot of mosquitoes or other insects.
"We are trying to arrange games all across Japan so many people can play, to see how much fun it is and that anyone can play," Prof. Hazaki said.
"It may be difficult to get hide-and-seek into the Olympics - the IOC just kicked wrestling out, and that is a sport that has been around for a long time - but I see Tokyo 2020 as our big chance," he said.
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Golf is no longer a crime, decrees China's Communist party
The Guardian: Tom Phillips in Beijing
Thursday 14 April 2016 06.20 BST
Teeing off is not a crime, the Communist party of China has decreed, lifting millions of fairway fanatics out of the rough.
Banned by Mao Zedong – who despised the "sport for millionaires" – golf enjoyed a renaissance during the 80s and 90s only to be outlawed for the party's 85 million members in 2015 as a result of president Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive.
Articles in the party-controlled media have painted China's golf courses as cauldrons of profiteering where the palms of rotten officials are greased by favour-seeking business people.
"The golf course is gradually changing into a muddy field where they trade money for power," one state-run newspaper complained in 2015.
Party leaders appeared to step back from their condemnation of the game this week.
"Since it is only a sport, there is no right or wrong about playing golf," an article in the Discipline Inspection and Supervision News, the official newspaper of China's anti-corruption agency, declared.
The newspaper pointed to article 87 of the Communist party's disciplinary regulations which deals with potential punishments for the illicit possession of golf membership cards.
"Can officials play golf while the nation steps up efforts to clamp down on corruption and promote austerity?" the China Daily asked. "The answer is yes - if they pay out of their own pockets."
"Playing golf itself is not a wrongdoing," the newspaper confirmed.
A report in the Global Times tabloid suggested the Communist party continued to harbour serious reservations about golf.
Su Wei, an academic at a school for Communist party cadres in Chongqing, told the newspaper Chinese golf course had become "an arena for corruption" where bribes were routinely offered to government officials.
"Golf can satisfy some officials' vanity, corrupting their lifestyle, which can lead to damage to the Party's image and the erosion of officials' ability to serve," Su was quoted sa saying.
China's burgeoning golfing community is one of many to have been affected by president Xi's bid to eradicate corruption.
Since he came to power some of the party's most powerful figures have been thrown into jail including former security chief Zhou Yongkang and some of the most senior members of the People's Liberation Army.
Speaking in January Xi used words straight from the clubhouse to announce his determination to cleanse China's government.
"To forge iron," he said, "one must be strong."
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Israeli man seeks restraining order against God for not being nice
RT, 6 May 2016
An Israeli man has petitioned a court for a restraining order against God because He hasn't been too nice to him lately.
David Shoshan, a resident of Haifa in northern Israel, told the city's Magistrate's Court Tuesday that God had been unduly cruel to him lately.
"For the past three years He started to treat me harshly and not nicely," Shoshan told the judge, although no specifics of God's cruelty towards him were detailed, according to Israeli news site NRG.
The court is only the latest port of call for Shoshan, who has has been trying get the police to grant him a restraining order for the past three years, but to no avail, reported The Times of Israel.
The police did, however, send a patrol car to his house on 10 occasions, but that apparently wasn't enough for Shoshan.
Presiding Judge Ahsan Canaan denied Shoshan's request, branding it "ludicrous" and telling the modern day Job that it wasn't the court that he should be seeking help from, but some other institutions.
It's unclear at this stage who represented God in court or, in fact, if He attended at all.
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I'm always curious to see what iPhone apps people use. I wanted to share 10 apps I use all the time. (BTW, what did we do before iPhones?)
1. Wine Snob – I am addicted! This app helps me remember what wines I have tasted so I always have a record of what I like when I'm in the wine store. When you find a wine you like you can search for it and usually you will find someone else has already loaded it into the app. I know I am always tasting new wines, either at tasting events, restaurants, bars, parties or at home. This app makes it so easy to track all of the wine you like, or don't like. In Wine Snob you can add your own ratings and tasting notes and then annoy all of your friends by posting your note to Facebook or Twitter. I was thrilled to hear that my friends are actually paying attention to my Wine Snob postings and have started to use my recommendations!!
2. Foursquare – If you are not using Foursquare please download it immediately! You can "check in" to any restaurant, coffee house, cafe or place in cities all around the country. Once you are logged in you can invite friends and see where they've been. You can also see who goes to the same places you do, and of course, who the "Mayor" is. Foursquare will also post to Facebook and Twitter if you set it that way and all your friends will know where you are, when you want them to know. I even use Foursquare to find restaurants when I find myself craving sushi in the middle of Manhattan and I don't know where to go. It works every time! Gowalla is another app that I like and is very similar. Once Gowalla finds your location it will also list the trips and tours that are nearby. Both are great apps!
3. Horoscopes – Yes, it is true. I do have this app. It is interesting and entertaining when you're really bored. It has the usual star sign horoscopes as well as lovescopes and Tarot readings.
4. Hopstop – I could not survive in New York without this app! Hopstop will find your current location and you enter where you want to get to. It gives you choices like subway/rail/bus/ferry/walking etc and will find the best route for you to take. It also takes into account the time of day and any train delays.
5. GPS Drive – If your car doesn't have a GPS, or if you are renting a Zipcar like me then this will talk you through directions and get you to your destination. Something about the woman's calm voice is extremely comforting when you are navigating New Jersey's maze of freeways and crazy directions. No more printing out directions and almost crashing your car trying to read them. This is a life saver if you are not familiar with the roads.
6. Flight Track – Add your future flights and get notified if they are delayed. Track other flights and you can see where they are in route. Very handy for travelers of all types.
7.Flixster – Book movie tickets as well as check for upcoming movies. It will show you which movie theaters closest to you are showing the movies you want to see and what the movie times are. You can also access your Netflix queue and update it! Makes seeing movies very spontaneous and easy!
8. Twitterific -There are so many apps that allow you to tweet via phone. Twitteriffic Premium is great and makes it easy for you to update multiple twitter feeds. You can only see about 100 tweets at a time but it is very easy to tweet and retweet on the go.
9. Urban Daddy – Have you ever been asked for recommendations and you have no idea where to go? This app will pick up your location and show you how to get to restaurants that fit your criteria. You can say who you are with, what type of restaurant you are looking for. I like that it is not just about dates, but business lunches, single brunches, it knows the time, your location and asks you want you want. Basically a personal concierge. The layout and design of this app is extremely well done.
10. Personal Assistant – See all your finances, Netflix, Amazon, AT&T, you name it, you can add it to this app. You can see everything in once place quickly to remind you of paying bills, the health of your bank accounts etc. Very, very handy. I don't have a personal assistant, (but it sure would be nice) so this is the next best thing!!
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The State of Fighting in the NHL
For those who haven't heard, Brian McGrattan of the AHL's San Diego Gulls was knocked unconscious, and stretchered off of the ice, after a fight with San Antonio Rampage's Dan Maggio.
For the entirety of the video you can hear the fans cheering at the fact that Brian went down and, as you can hear in the video, went "night night."
Jonathon Willis, an NHL columnist, calls this the ugliest side of a beautiful game. While that holds truth, this side of hockey is also one of the most important.
Bearing no ill-will towards McGrattan (the San Diego Gulls reported that is alert and moving), his fight didn't happen without a cause and effect.
Fighting, and physicality in general, always happens for a reason in hockey. Whether it be for protection or to spark some sort of fire under a team's rear end, fighting and dropping bodies holds value. You'll hear players talk about an important hit or fight in a game as something that sparked momentum in their team's favor. Because, like it or not, physicality sends a message throughout the rink that no one is losing without a fight (metaphorically and sometimes literally).
Willis also has said that that fans pay for entertainment and pay to essentially see players fight and get hurt. I say that's wrong; fans pay to go watch their respective teams win and stand up for themselves.
Players that put their lives on the line, and unfortunately take a very bad cost psychologically for doing so, do so willingly. They know and understand the cost that comes with being an enforcer. I'm not implying that I condone such actions as I never wish players to get hurt, but I'm implying that I understand the road that said players, like Brian McGrattan, take to earn a living.
In the junior leagues or even the AHL, if you can't score or effectively move the puck you need to earn your keep by hitting and fighting to have any professional team even sneeze in your direction. The enforcers style of play isn't unwarranted in any aspect. It's a choice to get yourself noticed because you put in the heart and effort to get to the goal that all players work their entire lives for: The National Hockey League.
McGrattan tweeted this out on Wednesday after his fight:
Clearly players who live the bad-boy lifestyle understand the risk they put themselves under. Steve Dryden of TSN wrote an article claiming fighting should be banned all together because of the risk that it comes with, but in that same article he mentions that enforcers live by a code. So, clearly the players who put their lives on the line fully accept and don't mind the risks they live with.
The world of NHL enforcers as we know it may be coming to an end, for better or for worse. I don't know yet. The era of "dangle, snipe and celly" is at a full frontal. Some want it that way, some don't. No matter which outcome the NHL decides on going with, people will be upset. While I understand getting rid of fighting will be beneficial for the health and safety of everyone, it's getting rid of an aspect that every player has accepted and lives by: the aforementioned "Code".
Brian McGrattan sat down with Puck Daddy's Sean Leahy for an interview after the fight and said, "when I lose like that, that doesn't change anything for me. That's not going to change the way I approach going to the rink, change how I'm going to play. It's not going to change anything. I'm always ready for something like that to happen."
Case in point.
Here's to the ones with the busted knuckles, your work doesn't go un-noticed.
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Irvine Valley sophomore men's basketball player Daniel Hernandez has committed to play at NCAA Division II Cal State San Marcos next season.
Hernandez, a 6-0 guard, helped Irvine Valley finish with a record of 14-15 overall and 3-9 in the tough OEC during the 2017-18 season.
He was named second team all-Orange Empire Conference
Hernandez played and started in all 29 of the team's games. He averaged 11.6 points, 2.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game.
Hernandez scored in double figures in 18 games and had a season-high 28 points in IVC's 71-37 victory over Cuyamaca last Nov. 16. He went 6 of 10 from three-point range in the contest.
He knocked down 58 three-pointers on the season and finished his Irvine Valley career with 85 three-pointers made and 493 overall points. Hernandez made at least three three-pointers in 11 games this past season.
He averaged 5.5 points as a freshman for Irvine Valley during the 2016-17 season.
Hernandez, who came to Irvine Valley from Villa Park High, is headed to a Cal State San Marcos team that was 20-9 overall and 15-7 in the CCAA this past season.


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International School Musicians 2015
Teachers and Students from the Kilmore International School will sing and play for us at the Art Expo on both Saturday and Sunday. Bill Howard is the Head of Arts, Cello Teacher and a Professional Musician. Adam Przewlocki teaches the singers and guitarists. Some of the students participating will be, Angus Franks, Jonathon Pickup, Madeleine Lezon, Jeremy Howard, and they may be joined by Erik Franks, Lauren Pham and Madison Nuske. There will be a variety of music, guitar, cello, possibly piano, and singing.
We are looking forward to this additional feature and hope you will come along and enjoy it with us.
Students are also helping us with food service on Opening Night and with staffing the Cafe during the Expo. We are very fortunate to have their assistance.Share this with your friends:


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The Tacx Blue Motion Turbo Trainer is the highest spec of Tacx's newly launched Blue Trainer range. Although the design and build is very similar to the Tacx Blue Matic Turbo Trainer, it does however differ in wattage and the braking system.
As an entry-level trainer, the Blue Motion was designed to focus on one thing – a high powered training session to keep you fit. This trainer does not come with all the extras such as cadence and speed monitors, instead Tacx have opted to maximize the basic features so that you can get the most out of your trainer. These features include:
- Handlebar resistance lever, 10 positions
- Blue frame with solid back legs
- Universal fit for wheels with diameter 600 to 710 mm
- Easy to assemble brake system
- Brake system with 1 powerful Neodymium magnet and 1,6 kg flywheel
- Maximum resistance 950 Watt
Much like the Blue Matic, the Blue Motion Turbo Trainer is very easy to setup thanks to the quick mounting system. This is great as it means that using more than one bike is not such a mission. The blue frame itself is strong and goes a long way to providing a stable base. Those extra thick back legs easily supported me when I was doing hill climbs and sprints which is all that I ask. The legs themselves are not adjustable so you will need to find a level surface to train on.
Unfortunately, much like its brother the Blue Matic, the Blue Motion also has a very flimsy resistance lever which is a disappointment. This lever does not feel like it will last, especially under the pressure of my vigorous training sessions. This is such a shame really as Tacx have built the rest of the trainer to a very high spec.
There are 10 levels of resistance reaching 950 watts of power – recreational users will find this more than adequate. Unlike the Blue Matic, the Blue Motion's braking system contains a powerful Neodymium magnet which is the same as the Satori braking system. This is excellent as it allows for high powers at low pedaling speeds, thus enhancing your workout and pushing you further.
As far as the ride itself is concerned, the ride quality is surprisingly smooth and somewhat realistic (as realistic as one would expect from an entry-level trainer). This will be down to the 1.6kg flywheel which does well to smooth out dead points from your pedal stroke.
The other really nice thing about the Tacx Blue Motion Turbo Trainer is that it folds down to make a very neat, flat package so storage will not be a problem.
The Verdict?
The Tacx Blue Motion is certainly my favourite of the three Tacx Blue Trainers as you get a little more bang for your buck. The higher wattage and the superior braking system go a long way to improving the quality of your workout. If only Tacx gave more thought to the poor resistance lever, it would be the perfect entry-level trainer!


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When kids in the 1960s were confined indoors, the distractions were limited - no computers, iPhones or Xboxes and PlayStations. The technology was a black-and-white television with only three channels. Otherwise, if they didn't want to read a book, it was Lincoln Logs, Erector sets, board games and comics.
Reading Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Donald Duck, Archie, Superman, Flash, Green Lantern and Batman (Spider-Man wasn't created yet) at such an early age enhanced vocabulary, improved grammar and it was fun! Some even began collecting the books. In 1970, Robert M. Overstreet produced his first definitive pricing guide for collectors. Number 44, the 2014 "Overstreet Comic Price Guide," comes out this week. (The cover art by J.G. Jones commemorates the 75th anniversary of Batman.)
Overstreet is the most reputable and recognized price guide in the comic book industry. The book lists comics' values that are professionally graded. The better the condition, the higher the value. Just like a car, you would like them to be in pristine condition. Rated 9.4, Near Mint has an overall look like it was just purchased and maybe opened once. A rating of 1.0 is Fair: Very heavily read and soiled with small chunks missing from the cover; most or all of spine could be missing; multiple splits in spine and loose pages, but still sound and legible, bringing 50 to 70 percent of good price.
For collectors, the best thing to do is bag and board your comics keeping them upright so the spine doesn't bend, and storing them in a cool place away from moisture. Never keep them in the attic or basement. After eight to 10 years, replace bags and boards. This prevents the colors on the front and back cover from imprinting on the bag and board. If the comic is a special edition, buy two - one to read and share and one to save.
With this book you have everything needed to know about what your comics, posters, and even art are worth. A copy of the first appearance of Superman in Action Comics recently was graded at a 9.0 and sold at auction for $2,161,000! There are only 10 of these known on the face of the planet. So parents, before you throw out any comics, be sure to check Overstreet first.
Richard Moore lives in Orange Park and shops at mom-and-pop comic book stores.


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Week Six: Renee Gladman
Introduction to Renee Gladman's reading
Renee Gladman lives in Providence, RI, where she is the publisher of Leon Works, a press for experimental fiction and cross-genre writing. She also teaches in the Program for Literary Arts at Brown University. She is the author of four collections of prose (Juice, The Activist, Newcomer Can't Swim, and most recently TOAF) and one book of poetry (A Picture-Feeling).
In her newest work, Gladman examines the somewhat illusory categories of life and fiction. She asks what accumulates, beyond thought to create a narrative about another very elusive narrative, that being the narrative of writing the narrative in question. It is telling that this book was published by Atelos press, edited by Lyn Hejinian and Travis Ortiz, in which each text is specifically commissioned for publication and deals in some way with crossing traditional genre boundaries. The book back text reads: "Though she has been exploring multi-genres and hybrid spaces for almost fifteen years, she has no idea how to categorize this book." And of course, nor do I, except to say that there is something to articulate here about the uncategorizable. For Gladman, fiction, life, and place (in this case more specifically the urban street), are related processes that are demonstrated in her work. The project of writing is not separate from a body walking down a street, or a sensibility struggling with say, the common cultural conundrum of a cell phone. What does it mean that an object we once lived in utter harmony without now dramatically absorbs public space to the extent that we now find navigation unimaginable without it?
She writes in her newest book, TOAF:
"My work is easy, it seems to say, walk along here happily, but what I'm attempting to do is to make the reader suspect this progression. . . .That's what I want, to move and go nowhere."
"In this kind of writing it is hard to know how much you want to say about a thing that you are calling a failure."
In the recent publication Notes on Conceptualism, Vanessa Place and Rob Fitterman write the following:
"Failure is the goal of conceptual writing.
Note: failure in this sense acts as an assassination of mastery.
Note: failure in this sense serves to irrupt the work, violating it from within.
Note: this invites the reader to redress failure, hallucinate repair."
Gladman is one of the few writers of her generation clearly carving out a new space for fiction, for others to newly approach the "novel" as a form in flight, a form to be examined and reimagined. A form for which to hallucinate and execute repair. Gladman works with a delicacy and a deceptively smooth surface which penetrates assumptions always just beneath the veneer of the daily.
And that is perhaps why her work is such a reassuring combination of enjoyable reading and provocative sifting of thought which gently though persistently prods and uncomfortably probes. While reading Gladman's work I've found myself asking: What is an activist? What is a victim? What is public space? Where does one body end and another begin? What is the responsibility/responsiveness of the witness? What is the responsibility of the writer? Her work swims between descriptive and emotive. She creates fictive portraits, like captioned pictures, cinematic scenes, in which the culmination of action is always coupled with calamitous thought, and leaves the reader free to interpret her rendered scenes. She offers photographic exposures, seemingly untouched landscapes of language. We are invited to tint, light, zoom, develop, compose and ask as we read.
Renee Gladman reading at The Drawing Studio, Tucson, Feb 2009


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The adult version of Crush Crush: Moist and Uncensored released today on Nutaku, delivering Sad Panda's addictive online dating sim with a salacious new twist! No longer limited to a few chaste kisses, you're now free to pursue the cat-girls, mecha pilots, and interdimensional time travellers of the world's most hilarious dating-clicker adventure all the way to the bedroom. Best yet, they've included a new character for us in the form of Nutaku-Chan, an oversexed virtual girl with a taste for fast cars and money. It's practically poetry!
This is the first time that Nutaku has partnered with a mainstream developer to convert a successful SFW title to something more appropriate for our adult portal, and we couldn't imagine a more promising game to do it with. Sad Panda has been deluged by requests on their Steam and KongreGate page for hentai content in their game, and with the resources and guaranteed audience that Nutaku provides for such games, meeting the fans requests became imminently more practical.
The dating sim genre is tailor-made for sexy content in their climax scenes (pun intended), and we'd love to see more games of this style take the leap and offer an 18+ version. Whether downloadable or browser-based, our doors are always open to new developers who might be interested in including mature content for their titles, and we will never demand exclusivity. If you are, or know, a developer in a situation similar to Sad Panda - be sure to send them our way.
For players, check out Moist & Uncensored and enjoy yourself! Unlike many of our other games, Crush Crush distinguishes itself by how easy it is to get into: it has exactly the sort of entertainment value that our more casual fans have been requesting for ages, literally playing itself when you're not around. The characters are well-animated, charming, and a pleasure to get to know...
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Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed!
James Cameron's Avatar may just have been a big budget production of Smurfs playing Pocahontas, but it certainly went on to break and establish a large number of cinematic records. One such record, was the title of biggest first day opening ever in Hong Kong. Well, Cameron's film just got kicked off the top spot by 3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy which racked up HK$2.8 million (US$360,000) on opening day, compared to Avatar's previous record of HK$2.6 million. Curious filmgoers were apparently travelling in via tour groups from strictly censored mainland China to see the porn film which added to its success.
Just wait until they discover that there is actually a 3D porn version of Avatar.
It's been nearly four years since the passing of Don LeFontaine, or as most you know him, The Voice In Movie Trailers. Since then, there hasn't really been a single person to take up his crown. Until now. He's name is Jake Foushee. Oh and he's only 14.
Superhero films are all the rage lately and despite my feelings that we are really only now seeing the true cream of the crop coming through, there are already a large number of people asking for them to go away. Well Tom Hiddleston, who stars in this little movie you might have heard of – The Avengers – has written an incredible article for The Guardian, defending the superhero film. It's an incredible read which I highly recommend.
I may not have much love for Michael Bay's cybernetic douche-athon on the big screen, but man I really want to go on Transformers: The Ride at Universal Studios. Now you can have a look at this behind the scenes video, which serves the dual purpose of making me want to check out the ride even more, and also making me realize that voice of one most badass robots ever conceived looks he should work in fish and chips shop.
It's no secret that I love me some space ships. Unfortunately, there is the slight problem of reality standing between me and my dream of piloting an X-Wing starfighter. Luckily though, this handy infographic has provided me with the name of a very real alternative. I wonder what type of astromech droid an A-10 Warthog uses.
Oh and it's very long, so click and scroll.
How To Train Your Dragon is easily one of the best animated movies of the last few years. But did you know that Hiccup and Toothless's adventures are about to continue on the stage in an incredible looking live actions show?
Oh and despite what your ears are telling you, that is not Jake Foushee doing the voice-over.
Just to prove that it's not just capes and cowls around here, here's a nice list put together by Slashfilm detailing The Best Nature Documentaries You Probably Haven't Seen.
I am a firm believer in that old idiom of having to know where you come from, to know where you're going. And seeing as this week sees the release of superhero mega movie, The Avengers, it's only fitting for us to take a look back, all the way to 1988, to the last time that the Hulk and Thor shared some screen time.
Although I've never done the stuff, I'm pretty sure that 0:32 to 1:00 is a 100% accurate representation of a bad acid trip.
If you had hopes of seeing new Bond girl Naomi Harris showing off her girly gadgets, when then I'm afraid that I must be the bearer of bad news. Speaking to Total Film, the actress addressed the rumours of her stripping down in Bond's next outing, Skyfall.
"I don't reveal anything physically! What [the Bond girls on Skyfall] are offering is strength and intellect and wit and we're equals to Bond."
That doesn't mean that there won't be any skin on display though, as it appears that Daniel Craig – who suddenly discovered a whole new fanbase when he walked out of the ocean in nothing but a skimpy shorts in Casino Royale – will once again be getting his kit off:
"I have seen him partially undressed, I can give that away!"
If the above-mentioned Hulk vs Thor fight still did not sate your appetite for hilarious Avengers related videos, then Avengers (On a Budget) certainly will. And this time, the laughs are actually intentional!
Oh Hawkeye, you D-list superhero, you.
And that's all for today. Also, this makes two Extras in a row that has kicked off with a bit of porn related news. Totally coincidental, I promise. Oh and I'm just storing those magazines under my bed for a friend. Yes, my friend likes the kinky stuff, but I prefer not to judge. [email protected]#er.
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Caller: 39-year old mom calling on behalf of her teenage son
Problem: Marijuana abuse
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Reason(s): The mother is concerned that her teenage son shows signs that he may be struggling with marijuana addiction. She said she recognizes that certain states may have made the substance legal, but does not live in one of those states and also does not believe that underage people are allowed to partake anyway. The mother said, "I have read all the books about how teenagers, especially boys, are going to become more rebellious as they get older. However, he does not even leave his room anymore when he is here. Even when we ground him he leaves anyway, and of course I do not want to call the police on him but I also do not know what else we can do at this point." According to the mom, her son fell in with the wrong crowd two years ago and might be heading down the wrong path. She also said that she was worried about the gateway drug effect. She admits that while it might be legal in certain states, she is concerned that trying marijuana might lead to her son trying other illicit substances in the future. She said, "I would rather be a strict mom now and see what I can do to send my son for rehab now that can detox this stuff out of his body, than for a heroin addiction later and wonder what I could have done differently."


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Today I have pulled a card inspired by a parable Jesus tells in Mark. It is about a farmer who sows. Some of the seed falls in shallow ground, other seed falls on a road, some of the seed falls on rocky ground, and other seed falls in rich soil. The seed that falls in good ground bears many times fruit.
What ground is the best for my seed?
I have pulled Seven of Pentacles from the Fey Tarot.
The ground that I need for my seed is water! My seed will grow if it is sowed in my feelings. The person on the card is waits for the seed to grow and he loves that. He almost sleeps and is very relaxed. I like that. I need patience.
This is the second seven in a row; all sevens have an obstacle to overcome. Here it is me being impatient and hasty, wanting to see my seed grow really, really quickly. This is not the way to go.


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