Naked Rollercoaster - The Bumper Crowd of Nudes

Naked rollercoaster 'record broken' in Essex

102 naked people on Adventure Island in Essex broke the previous world record for the most naked people to ride a roller-coaster (previously held by 32 people at Alton towers).

"The rollercoaster ran three times to accommodate the bumper crowd of nudes"

Though this wasn't some kind of random nude happenstance, but a event to raise money for Southend Hospital Charitable Foundation to buy cancer screening equipment.

"More than £22,000 was raised for charity."

By: Unknown On 22.06

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The New Jorge Lorenzo !

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Helsinki Naked Run

People run during a naked run promotional event organised by RadioRock in Helsinki, Finland

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Naked KiteSurfing

Richard Branson suggests naked kitesurfing to premier
Branson well known for his 'brashness,' Christy Clark's office responds

Richard Branson has suggested B.C. Premier Christy Clark try kite-surfing with him, noting she should be aware of the 'dress code.' Richard Branson has suggested B.C. Premier Christy Clark try kite-surfing with him, noting she should be aware of the 'dress code.'

British billionaire Richard Branson has invited B.C. Premier Christy Clark to join him on a kitesurf ride — with the suggestion that she try it naked.

It appears Clark left a real impression on the founder of Virgin Group when he visited the province last week to announce a new airline service from Vancouver. Branson, who is a master of publicity, wrote on his blog that he asked the "delightful" Clark to kitesurf while riding on his back.

But he says he forgot to tell her about the dress code, and he even supplied a picture as an example.

The picture shows a fully-clothed Branson kitesurfing with a young, naked woman on his back.

A statement from the premier's office only says Branson "is well known for his brashness and ability to manipulate media coverage for his company."

Branson's last words to the B.C. premier: "The offer still stands Christy!"

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Ejaculation Really Equal to Sprinting 100 Metres

Investigating an Old Schoolyard Myth: Is a Single Ejaculation Really Equal to Sprinting 100 Metres?

There’s a myth that many young men in Japan are familiar with: the physical exertion involved in one ejaculation is the same as running 100 metres as fast as you can. Now, although many such claims often carry about as much scientific weight as the idea that dropping a cold key down someone’s back can cure the hiccups, as any men will tell you, there’s a reason why we often feel the need to collapse and fall asleep after a particularly vigorous session.

Nonsense or not, this particular myth is one that has existed for generations in Japan and refuses to die off, being passed from one huddle of teenage boys or young office workers to the next. For this reason, online magazine R25 turned to a medical professional to get the cold, hard facts.

“The male orgasm supposedly burns the same amount of calories as running 100 metres with all your might,” the magazine begins. “By this logic, ejaculating three times would require the same amount of calories as a 300-metre run, and five times 500 metres’ worth, meaning that doing it 10 times would be about on par with a long distance run.”

These figures all seem somewhat vague and conveniently neat and tidy, however, so the magazine asked Dr. Ryukou Suda from the Shinjuku Life Clinic to shed some light on the old schoolyard tale.

“This is an incredibly difficult thing to measure since there is no fixed standard for the amount of energy required for a single ejaculation,” the good — and clearly very patient — doctor explains. “At either end of the spectrum, the amount of energy burned during a bout of extremely athletic sexual intercourse differs greatly to that required during a relaxed solo session.”

So there’s no way to know? How will we ever survive as a species without the answers to daft questions such as these!? Thankfully, Dr. Suda goes on to elaborate, pointing us in the direction of good-old science.

Apparently, by using Metabolic Equivalent of Task (MET) calculations, we’re able to ascertain how much energy a man burns during hanky panky. This measurement is often used when calculating the amount of physical exertion a person who has suffered a heart attack ought to limit themselves to, with each task being given a MET “score”. We can use METs to calculate the amount of energy used in a number of physical activities, Dr. Suda explains: ”Regular walking costs between 3.0 to 4.0 METs, and jogging around 7.0. Averagely strenuous sex comes in at around 1.3 METs. So in other words, on the scale of exertion, it wouldn’t be possible to use as much energy in one ejaculation as flat-out sprinting.”

There you have it, folks; science has the answers. But then why, if the number of calories burned during sex is so much lower than strenuous activity like sprinting, should so many of us men slump over with all the life and enthusiasm of an empty pillow case seconds after we’ve released the doves? Perhaps it’s just down to feelings of sheer elation and gratitude that someone actually let us climb aboard for a spot of numpty…

By: Unknown On 02.09

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Chinese Model Masturbation Video

Model Isabella Yang Qi Han talks about her masturbation video

Yep, she hopes to be fit enough for the next World Cup, 2014, in Brazil!

Singer-model Isabella Yang (杨棋涵) has had a lot of hits recently for her seven-minute masturbation video.

Speaking on the TV talk show Entertainers’ Words, Isabella claimed the video, in which she pleasures herself with “adult products,” was released online by a spiteful girlfriend.

She said she originally made the video to show this friend, who was living in England at the time, on how to satisfy herself without a man.

She said they fell out and the friend posted the video to get back at her.

"I shared the video with my friend, who was living abroad, to let her know that there’s plenty you can do to replace the man in your life,” Isabella said.

"This way women won’t go out to seduce men. Such behavior should be promoted,” she added.

"It’s not a publicity stunt,” Isabella insisted, adding that in her three-year relationship with her ex she often "showed her love” via webcam.

"I’ve got hundreds of video clips to show off, which are sexier,” she warned in a sort of titillating manner. “But, I value my privacy.”

Isabella is actually most famous for setting the 2010 World Cup alight as a “soccer babe.”

She’s no stranger to guerrilla soft porn video postings, a recent one showing her and Li Meixi (李美熙), the supposed mistress of Nicholas Tse (谢霆锋), making out.

But she’s also becoming quite a controversial celebrity in that she speaks her mind on talkshows (as she does in this one, below, at about 3 minutes, starting at 3:12).

Even so, her photos and videos are at the time of writing being “harmonized” or firewalled off on Baidu, China’s leading portal, and video websharing sites like Tudou.

By: Unknown On 02.06

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The Naked Girls Calendar

'We're just raising money for charity': Female rower who stripped for naked calendar defends herself from feminist blogger's attack

Fundraising: The calendar was produced to raise money for cancer charity, Macmillan Cancer Support
The £7.99 calendar is available to buy through the rowing club's website

Calendar girls: From left, Jenny Clark, Hettie Reed, Fi Angell, Ella Peters and Lexie Titterington

When the boys of the rowing club stripped off for a charity calendar, it was met with praise, encouragement and the occasional cheeky compliment.

But it seems that it’s one rule for them and another for the club’s girls – who have been accused of being attention-seekers and damaging the feminist cause by posing for their own naked calendar.

The 15 members of the women’s rowing team at Warwick University have received a torrent of abuse on the internet since releasing their calendar, which is being sold in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Layla Haidrani, a University of Kent student who describes herself as a commentator on feminist issues, described the concept as ‘tacky’ and an ‘attempt to gain notoriety’ on a blog written for the Huffington Post UK.

Hettie Reed, a student at Warwick University, pictured second left in the picture above, said that singling out women is 'grossly unfair', adding that her rowing club's charity calendar was 'not about being part of some kind of watered down pornography.'

'There are some sad people out there and it's a waste of time to criticise people for making a charity calendar,' she told MailOnline.

'The calendar was done in a non-tacky, tasteful way - if you look at the images, they are actually nice pictures, naked or not.

'I do believe that women deserve equality  and in my eyes, if the men of our rowing club are able to make a naked calendar we should have the right to do the same thing without [receiving] derogatory and slanderous comments - that is what equality is about.'

Hettie's comments came in the wake of a blog on the Huffington Post website, which attacked Hettie and her friends, and said they had put the feminist cause back.

Layla Haidrani, who describes herself as a commentator on feminist issues, wrote: 'Groups of women posing semi-naked on a field with sticks doesn't sound a fundraising initiative for charity, it just sounds tacky,'

'Although many argue that it is purely for fundraising purposes, in my own university sports team, the majority of women who participated were not made aware and did not even seek to find out which charities were being helped.

'Rather, they just view it as an opportunity to strip and attempt to gain notoriety with friends and family both back home and on campus.'

She continued: 'I can't help but feel that women are just victims in the 'liberation game,

'As opposed to being liberated by posing semi-naked, they are in fact just helping women to be perpetually viewed as sex objects, something to be 'bought', 'sold' and then tossed away once the Christmas period is over.

But Haidrani, says Hettie, has got the wrong end of the stick.

'These naked calendars do make money for some fantastic charities and so what really is the harm in them?' she asked.

'We do have some good looking girls in there but our calendar isn't necessarily sexy and it certainly isn't demeaning.

'The charity we chose is one that's important to us because one girl's mother has breast cancer and and a couple of the girls have indirectly been affected by cancer, so we decided that Macmillan Cancer Support would be the best charity for us.

'Ours was done simply because we wanted to support the charity.'

Heidrani, in an echo of the campaign against the Sun's Page Three, also said that she thought women were 'hindering' progress rather than helping themselves.

'Why aren't women allowing themselves to be proud to show off their mental capacity such as academic ability?' she thundered. '[Instead they] have chosen the route of posing naked.'

'We're upset that some people describe the calendar as a setback for women,' added Hettie. 'I wouldn't describe myself as a feminist exactly but then I don't need to.

'Being a feminist is all about wanting the same treatment  for women as men get. In that way every woman is a feminist. I wouldn't personally advocate myself as a feminist but ultimately I am, there is no doubt about that.

'We have equality now, so there's no need for people to be like this.'

By: Unknown On 20.59

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The World's Cutest Chinese kid - Say No TO Paedophilia

林妙可 Lín Miàokě

Lin Miaoke (July 1, 1999 -), known as "China's first child star , was born in Beijing, now studying at secondary school. She appears in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to lip-synching the song "Ode to the Motherland". In fact, this original song was singing by another little girl, Yang Peiyi, whose sing behind-the-scenes concert.

林妙可（1999年7月1日－）号称“中国第一童星”演員，出生于北京市，现就读于北京一七一中学。她在2008年的北京奥运会开幕式上因对口型假唱歌曲《歌唱祖国》的新闻而为各国媒体所报道。其实此歌曲是由另一个北京小女孩杨沛宜幕后演唱，由林妙可假唱。

From 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS:

Attention was then turned to 56 young children representing the 56 ethnic groups of modern China, and donning respective costumes. They marched in the flag of the People's Republic of China as a young girl in red, 9-year-old Lin Miaoke (林妙可 Lín Miàokě), was seen performing Ode to the Motherland, while miming to the voice of Yang Peiyi. Only one-third of Ode to the Motherland was sung to save time. The flag of the People's Republic of China was then handed over to eight well-dressed People's Liberation Army soldiers who carried the flag in a slow, goose-stepping march over to the flag podium and the Chinese national anthem March of the Volunteers was sung by a 224-member choir while the flag was raised.

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The Sexiest Football Coach in The World

The beautiful game: Part-time model takes charge of Croatian men's league side

Many talents: Nemcic is a former Croatia women's international and part-time model
It's a woman's game: Tihana Nemcic has taken over as coach of NK Vuktorija Vojakovac in Croatia

Tihana Nemcic wants to be treated just like any other head coach. The 24-year-old Nemcic, a former Croatia women's international and part-time model, just happens to be getting more attention than usual.

That's because she has taken over as coach of a Croatian men's football team - fifth division side NK Viktorija Vojakovac.

Nemcic, a former club player in Croatia, graduated in July from the country's Sporting University. Since taking over at NK Viktorija Vojakovac, she has asserted herself as the one in charge - not the center of a media stunt.

'I am the head coach and I have full liberty to create and plan the team's tactics,' Nemcic said. 'If a woman and a man have the same professional qualifications for a coaching job, I see no reason why I should not get into male football.'

The team is currently eighth in the 16-team league standings with four points after one win, one loss and one draw.

Tihomir Jagusic, one of of the club's players, described Nemcic as 'very good, focused and serious during training'.

'We listen to her,' Jagusic said. 'She is very strict at training.'

Nemcic got interested in the sport when she used to follow her boyfriend to training.

'I was watching him play, how he played... and then I started to play myself and it has become part of me to this very day,' she said. 'This is a big challenge for me. I have had some experience with kids, but with men's teams - no.'

Nemcic is finding life as a coach very different from her days as a player.

'When you are a player, you worry only about yourself and your personal performance,' she said. 'Now, when I am a coach, I have to think about more players. But both jobs are equally nice. Both have ups and downs.'

Nemcic, who was among 15 finalists for the beauty title of Croatia Miss Sport in 2008, does face a particular challenge in coaching the men.

'We have a rule,' she said. 'Boys go in to change. When they are finished, one of them comes out and calls me in. I would never put myself in the situation to walk in on them inside the dressing room.'

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Naked Chinese Girl At Basketball World Championship

Han Yifei Naked Cheers for China Basketball Team

Yi Jianlian (易建联) led Chinese National Basketball Team to its first victory at the basketball world championship in Turkey, with his outstanding performance. The hot actress Han Yifei (韩一菲), who graduated from Beijing Film Academy, therefore shot a set of almost half-naked photos to cheer for the win. Han Yifei also announced that if the team advances from the group, she is willing to poses fully nude for them.

Han Yifei has ever been awarded Runner Up prize for 2010 World Cup Soccer Babes, and is going to film the hit TV series Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain (雪山飞狐). It is interesting to see this up and coming actress bare herself so early in her career. Let's enjoy her bare-ness now...

By: Unknown On 23.09

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From Slum Life To Disney Film

 From slum life to Disney film: Ugandan teen chess star 'the ultimate underdog'

 Phiona Mutesi relishes her first victory at the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia

She grew up in one of the poorest spots on earth. She couldn't read or write. As a child, she scrounged for food each day for herself, her mother, and her brother.

But a chance encounter with a chess coach turned her into a rising international chess star, the subject of a book -- and the protagonist in a future Disney movie.

Ugandan teenager Phiona Mutesi is "the ultimate underdog," her biographer says.

Those who work with her believe she's 16. But since her birthday is unclear, she might still only be 15, they say.

Her father died from AIDS when Mutesi was around 3.

"I thought the life I was living, that everyone was living that life," the teenager told CNN, describing her childhood in Katwe, a slum in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.

I thought the life I was living, that everyone was living that life.
Phiona Mutesi, Ugandan chess star

"I was living a hard life, where I was sleeping on the streets, and you couldn't have anything to eat at the streets. So that's when I decided for my brother to get a cup of porridge."

Robert Katende, a missionary and refugee of Uganda's civil war, had started a chess program in Katwe. He offered a bowl of porridge to any child who would show up and learn.

"It teaches you how to assess, how to make decisions, obstructive thinking, forecasts, endurance, problem solving, and looking at challenges as an opportunity in all cases -- and possibly not giving up," he told CNN. "The discipline, the patience ... anything to do with life, you can get it in that game."

Mutesi did not become a top player overnight. But from the time she first showed up in 2005, her aptitude was clear.

Her talent is "extraordinary," said Katende.

Mutesi liked chess, and started training and practicing regularly. "It took me like a year" to get very good, she said.

She walked about four miles a day to practice -- and to get that precious food.

Soon she found herself beating the older girls and boys in the program.

Mutesi and her family faced pressure from some people in Uganda who insisted chess was a white man's game, or at least not something girls should be playing, according to her biographer, Tim Crothers.

But in her slum, so few people even knew what chess was that they didn't give her a hard time, Mutesi told CNN.

Eventually, she became her country's champion -- and represented Uganda at international tournaments. In 2009, she traveled to Sudan. Then, in 2010, she boarded an airplane to Siberia.

When the flight took off, "I thought that I was maybe in heaven," she wrote in a letter to her mother quoted in Crothers' book. "I asked God to protect me because who am I to fly to the europlane."

Mutesi had also never seen ice before.

This year, she played in Istanbul.

Mutesi is not one of the world's top chess players. But she is the first titled female Ugandan player. She has a fighter's instinct to reach the top level -- and to achieve much more.

"Chess gave me hope, whereby now I'm having a hope of becoming a doctor and ... a grand master," she said.

A grant from a program called Sports Outreach has allowed her to go back to school. She's learning to read and write.

Meanwhile, Mutesi is becoming an inspiration to people all over the world.

Some learned about her through Crothers' article for ESPN, which went viral. Others have seen a brief documentary about her on YouTube.

Crothers' book about her, "The Queen of Katwe," was published this fall.

"That she's from Africa makes her an underdog in the world. The fact that she's from Uganda makes her sort of an underdog in Africa, because it's one of the poorer countries in Africa. The fact that she's in Katwe makes her an underdog in Uganda because it's the most impoverished slum in the entire country. And then to be a girl in Katwe -- girls are not treated as equals to the boys," said Crothers.

"Every hurdle that the world can place in front of her it has placed in front of her."

The extreme poverty and deprivation in Katwe is hard for many around the world to imagine. Crothers wrote that "human waste from downtown Kampala is dumped directly into the slum. There is no sanitation."

utesi wakes at 5 a.m. every morning to "begin a two-hour trek through Katwe to fill a jug with drinkable water, walking through lowland that is often so severely flooded by Uganda's torrential rains that many residents sleep in hammocks near their ceilings to avoid drowning," he wrote.

In the country of 34 million people, about one-fourth live below the poverty line, according to the CIA World Factbook. About three-quarters of the men in Uganda are literate; only 58% of women are.

Mutesi told CNN she's never heard of Idi Amin, the so-called butcher of Uganda, who helped plunge his country into economic chaos throughout the 1970s.

She does know the name Joseph Kony, a brutal Ugandan warlord who was the subject of a viral video earlier this year. Kids talk about him, Mutesi said.

"He was in northern Uganda torturing people and could kidnap children. That's what I know."

Chess could prove to be Mutesi's ticket out of a hard life -- particularly through a project that lies ahead.

Disney has optioned the rights to "The Queen of Katwe," and is starting work on a movie, Crothers said.

It's all too much for Mutesi to fathom.

"I feel happy," she said when asked about the growing attention. "I'm excited. I didn't have hope that one time, one day, I would be like someone who can encourage people, and they start playing chess," she told CNN.

As her world travels take off, she's in for more and more culture shock.

"I don't like New York because there's too much noise in it," the teenager said with a big smile.

But while it may be somewhat overwhelming for her, Mutesi's success at the game she loves is bringing joy to her family.

"Some of them cried. Years back we didn't have hope that ... one day it can happen," she said. "So they are very excited."

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Gay in Real Madrid CF

Affectionate: Sergio Ramos tweeted this picture of him giving Fernando Torres a kiss at Spain's training camp

Someone still loves you, Fernando! Spanish pal Ramos puckers up for a birthday kiss with poster of £50m flop

Having endured a largely barren season at Chelsea in which he has seemed at times to be carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, being overlooked by Spain for this week's World Cup qualifiers was the last thing Fernando Torres needed.

But it seems the out-of-sorts striker is still loved by someone.

International teammate Sergio Ramos has tweeted a picture of himself kissing a poster of the £50m flop at Spain's training ground.

The display of affection was no doubt the perfect present for Torres on his 29th birthday.

Real Madrid defender Ramos wrote: 'I want to congratulate a great friend who is not here, missing him lots... Happy birthday!!'

Despite ending his Chelsea scoring drought with a goal against Steaua Bucharest in the Europa League last Thursday, Torres was ignored by Spain boss Vicente Del Bosque.

By: Unknown On 18.19

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Pakistani Girl Pretend to Be A Boy

Maria Toorpakai: The Pakistani squash star who had to pretend to be a boy

Maria Toorpakai Wazir is a star squash player with a promising international career. Born in Waziristan, a highly conservative region of Pakistan, she had to disguise herself as a boy when she took up the sport - and later received ominous threats for playing in shorts.

"I am a warrior, I was born a warrior, I will die like a warrior."

Maria Toorpakai is courageous - and she's had to be, to play squash in a region where many girls are denied more than a primary education.

When she was four, she put on her brother's clothes, cut her hair and took all her girly clothes outside and had them burnt.

"My father started laughing and said, 'Here we go, we have a Genghis Khan in the family,'" she says, referring to the Mongolian warlord of the 12th Century.

As she grew older, Toorpakai was often involved in fights. She says it was how she made friends. "My hands, elbows, knees were always bleeding - my eyebrows and face were always swollen."

So 10 years ago, when she was 12, her father decided to channel her energies towards sport - in particular, weightlifting.

"He was a bit shy to tell people that I was a girl, so he said, 'That's my son and his name is Genghis Khan,'" Toorpakai says.

After a couple of months, she was entered for a boy's tournament - and won.

"Giving her a false boy's name allowed her to take part in whatever games she wanted," says Toorpakai's father, Shamsul Qayyum Wazir.

"Then someone told me that if she carried on weightlifting, she would not grow taller, and she would become plump and heavy. So I encouraged the interest she had already discovered in playing squash."

Squash is a popular sport in Pakistan and the country has produced many world champions. Women play it too - although not in Waziristan or other highly conservative tribal areas.

Toorpakai says she fell in love with the game the first time she saw people playing it.

"I just liked how the kids had so much determination, the beautiful rackets and balls, and the kit," she says.

Her father took her to a squash academy in Peshawar run by the Pakistani air force.

In the first month or two of playing squash, people didn't know she was a girl. When the truth came out, other players started taunting her.

"They used to tease me, use bad language. It was unbearable and disrespectful - extreme bullying."

She didn't give up. She locked herself in the squash court and played for hours, from morning to evening.

"My hands were swollen, bruised and bleeding, but I still kept playing. I locked myself away, trying to create my own shots, my own drills."

The hard work paid off. She won several national junior championships and turned professional in 2006. The following year she received an award from the Pakistani president.

But the extra attention brought trouble to the family.

"In our area, girls are not even allowed to leave their family homes," explains her father.

"They wear a veil all the time and are always accompanied by male family members. When people saw Maria and realised that she did not wear a veil and that she played squash wearing shorts, they were shocked. They said she had brought dishonour to our tribe and they criticised me heavily for it."

A letter was pinned to the window of Wazir's car telling him to stop his daughter from playing squash because it was "un-Islamic and against tribal traditions".

It threatened "dire consequences" if he did not act.

But he maintained that if his daughters wanted to pursue a career in sport, he would support them.

The Pakistani squash federation provided Toorpakai with security, setting up a checkpoint next to her house. Snipers were positioning around the squash court, but she decided things had gone too far.

"A [modern] squash court has so much glass in it, so if there was a bomb blast inside, it would kill so many innocent people," she says.

Instead she started practising in her room.

"Playing in the hard surface of my room caused me many painful injuries. My father when he saw this spirit in me said, 'If you want to play squash, then the only option you have is to leave the country.'"

So every day, for three and a half years, Toorpakai sent emails to clubs, academies, schools, colleges and universities in the West - everywhere she could find squash courts. By the time she was 18, she had sent thousands.

One of her emails reached Canadian squash legend Jonathon Power. His signature was emblazoned on the first proper squash racket Toorpakai had owned, given to her by the director of the Peshawar squash academy.

Power had recently retired from the professional squash circuit and had set up a squash academy in Toronto.

"It was pretty peculiar," he says.

"I got this email from this young girl, saying where she came from, that she was just trying to pursue her dreams and become the best player she could be."

Power had spent a lot of time playing in Pakistan, and been heavily influenced by Pakistani squash players. But he also knew the difficulties faced by girls and women in the country.

"I just couldn't understand that there was a girl from this part of the world that was a squash player," he says.

But Power discovered that in 2009 she had come third in the World Junior Women's Championship. He was startled that Waziristan had produced a female squash player.

"I thought, 'Wow that's an incredible achievement.' So I thought I had to find a way to help her out."

He replied saying he would like to teach her squash in Canada.

At first, Toorpakai couldn't quite believe he was the real Jonathon Power. Several months later, in 2011, she arrived in Toronto and started training with him.

She is currently Pakistan's top female player and ranked the 49th best woman in the world. Power is convinced that she will go far.

"She absolutely has the talent and determination to become the best player in the world," he says.

"It's going to take time - she did have four years where she didn't get to progress, playing in her room.

"But now she's in a great environment, she's got great people around her helping her physically and learning the game of squash on a tactical level."

As for Toorpakai's father, he couldn't be prouder. "Pakistan and the whole Muslim world should be proud of her," he says.

"In our society people celebrate when a boy is born and they are aggrieved when a girl is born - this attitude must change. I want every tribal girl to have the same chances as other girls."

Toorpakai herself credits squash with giving her the opportunity to live a different life.

"I think people are tired of so much war and fighting and bombs and kidnapping, I think they want peace and they realise now that they need education.

"They are very shy. They need someone to represent them, someone who can raise the voice for them and I think we are the people and we will bring change to them."

By: Unknown On 17.55

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Nazi in The Field

Giorgos Katidis, who gave Nazi salute, gets lifetime ban from Greek national team 

AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis has been banned from any Greek national team for life after giving a Nazi salute while celebrating a goal in the Greek league.

ATHENS — AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis has been banned from any Greek national team for life after giving a Nazi salute while celebrating a goal in the Greek league.

Greece’s football federation said Sunday in a statement that the player’s gesture “is a deep insult to all victims of Nazi brutality.”

The 20-year-old Katidis gave a Nazi salute after scoring the winner in AEK’s 2-1 victory over Veria on Saturday. His action provoked an immediate and overwhelmingly negative response on social media. Katidis apologized on TV and Twitter, pleading ignorance about the meaning of the salute.

“I would like to confess that I am totally unacceptable and I feel terrible for those I upset with the stupidity of my act,” Katidis said in a statement.

“I made the mistake so I will be the one to pay for it, AEK is not responsible. So that is why I have decided to put myself out of the team because I have now realized how much I have offended the history of the club…Also, I understand fully the reasons for the decision made by the Greek Football Federation to which I owe a huge apology as it has helped me to get where I am in the professional game.”

He said his “career is now at risk” after the salute, and apologized to his teammates.

“Unfortunately I cannot take the clock back but I want to clarify that I am not a fascist or neo-Nazi or racist. I have a step brother from Puerto Rico and all my family are from the Black Sea and have experienced racism in the worst ways,” he said.

“I sincerely apologize to my teammates and everyone involved with the club that I have insulted in not knowing exactly what I had done in my celebration. Nonetheless, the fact that I did not know what I was doing is no excuse.”

The team’s coach stood behind Katidis, adding that he “most likely saw such a salute on the Internet or somewhere else.” AEK and the Greek league are also considering separate sanctions. AEK could also be penalized.

“He is a young kid who does not have any political ideas,” Ewald Lienen said.

Hardcore AEK fans have issued a statement demanding Katidis’ dismissal from the team.

Katidis has played for Greek junior teams.

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A Dad With Brain Cancer Wins Marathon

 Iram Leon, Dad With Brain Cancer, Wins Marathon While Pushing Daughter In Stroller

Iram and Kiana cross the finish line.


Iram Leon was the first runner to cross the finish line at the Gusher Marathon in Beaumont, Texas on Saturday with a time of 3:07:35. But Leon, who has brain cancer, insists that his 6-year-old daughter was technically the winner -- he pushed her in a stroller the entire 26-mile race.

"Here sore, reflecting and grateful, I still can’t believe that I won a marathon. Well, I came in second behind Kiana," Leon wrote on his blog.

Leon, now 32, was diagnosed with a Grade 2 Diffuse Astrocytoma in Nov. 2010, shortly after his 30th birthday. "Life goes downhill fast after you turn 30,” he joked in an interview with The Huffington Post. Doctors have told Leon that he is not going to beat the cancer, but their goal is for him to live until he's 40.

His daughter, Kiana, knows that Dad is sick. Leon and Kiana’s mother are divorced and the first-grader lives with him the majority of the year. She has seen him suffer seizures. They practice "911 drills" at home. But Leon struggles with how much information to divulge to Kiana while she is still so young. “There’s no good balance between protecting a kid from this and sharing it with them,” Leon said. Through counseling, he has learned that he shouldn't alarm her, nor should he underplay how serious his disease is. "Daddy has a boo boo on his left temporal lobe," isn't the right approach, he explained.

Since the diagnosis, Leon's perspective on parenting has changed tremendously. “The one thing I'm not going to say on my death bed is, 'I wish I spent more time with my kid,'” he told HuffPost.

And so, six months after he found out he had cancer, when Kiana was 4, Leon decided that he no longer wanted to run -- an activity he's enjoyed since third grade -- without taking her along for the ride. Because of his cancer, which affects his memory and language skills, Leon isn't able to drive a car, work, or play contact sports like soccer. But running is "just one foot in front of the other," he said.

They completed their first half-marathon together in October 2012. Leon convinced his mother, who was then 60, to run with him and Kiana in a stroller too. Since then, father and daughter have competed in half a dozen races. On Saturday, at the Gusher, they took their first marathon medal home.

Before the race even started, Leon faced challenges. Marathons don’t typically permit strollers; he was turned down four different times before the Gusher said it was OK. Over the phone, he stressed that he was uncomfortable with the special treatment, but said the most important thing was being able to compete with Kiana.

Leon detailed what the race was like on his blog, noting several setbacks, including a flat tire on the stroller, strong winds and an untied shoelace. But Leon also took advantage of a teachable moment during the race. At one point, three bikers were cycling next to the pair. "Kiana asked why are they hanging out with us and why is everyone waving at us. I kept having to barrel down because of the wind and so I just told her to be polite and wave and say hi to anyone saying hi to her," he wrote on his blog.

One of the bikers captured video (above) of Leon singing Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" while pushing Kiana.

Kiana usually teases her Dad about placing behind her, but this time, Leon said, the girl was cheering "we won" when they crossed the finish line, instead of her usual "I won."

Still, Dad is always proud to give the credit to his daughter. "At the awards ceremony, I immediately placed [the medal] on her neck and like every other race she’s been part of it that medal hangs in her room," he wrote. Since the win, the two were featured in a local newspaper and on Outside Magazine’s website, and a photo of them was splashed across The Wall Street Journal's sports section. The Sports Society for American Health which hosts the Gusher Marathon has set up a college fund for Kiana with a goal of $30,000.

But perhaps the most touching keepsake from the race was made by Kiana, who loves to draw. She sketched her and her father running the Gusher, and he posted it on Facebook with the caption, "Kiana's version both better than the newsprint and my blog."

By: Unknown On 19.16

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How To Fight Online Bullying - Cyberbully

Internet troll James O'Brien wilts under glare of boxer Curtis Woodhouse

Boxer Curtis Woodhouse hunted down a Twitter troll. Picture from Twitter account @woodhousecurtis.

AN internet troll was forced into a humiliating backdown after the professional boxer at the receiving end of his abusive tweets discovered his address and tracked him to his doorstep.

Sickened by scores of tweets mocking him about lost fights, and even his father's death, Curtis Woodhouse, the former footballer who became English light welterweight champion, called the troll's bluff by driving to his home, and tweeting a picture of his street sign.

He gave his 18,000 followers a running commentary of his approach to the house, ignoring increasingly desperate pleas from the young man calling himself "The Master", that he was only joking. "Right Jimbob im here !!!!!," he tweeted, on arrival. "Someone tell me what number he lives at, or do I have to knock on every door #itsshowtime."

Only once he had posted a picture of the street sign on Monday afternoon, did James O'Brien, 24, from Sheffield, admit defeat and tweet his apology: "i am sorry its getting abit out of hand i am in the wrong i accept that," he wrote.

Woodhouse's troll-hunting exploits are being celebrated on the social media website, winning praise from admirers including Lennox Lewis and Lord Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister.

"Obviously, there was no way I was going to do anything and I would not advocate violence, as that would make me as bad as him," Woodhouse, 32, said yesterday. "This guy has been tweeting me for two or three months. Having been a footballer, I'm all up for banter and used to getting a little bit of stick, but some things are not acceptable."

He said that previous tweets included taunts mocking the death of his father, Bernard, who died five years ago of a stroke, aged 53, and wishing that he would die in the ring. More posts following the loss of his English title to Shayne Singleton on Friday night, proved "the straw that broke the camel's back".

"I just thought, 'I'm not taking this. If somebody was saying those things to me in the street, I couldn't just walk past'. So I spoke to some people, who know some people, who knew some people, as they say, and tapped his address into my sat-nav. Unfortunately for him, and luckily for me, it was only 47 minutes away. I thought, 'why not, I've got a spare hour'. But the way I was feeling then, I would have driven anywhere in England."

The former Birmingham City and Sheffield United player stopped short of confronting the troll in person. "I know who he is now. [Previously] I wouldn't have even known him if he'd walked by me in the street, and that's how these guys get away with it. He was all big and brave behind his computer, but when he realised I was outside his house, he started squirming. I was going to knock on the door, but I was bent over double laughing. We went away and had a cup of tea instead."

Last year, a student who tweeted racist comments when the footballer Fabrice Muamba collapsed during a match was released after serving half of a 56-day sentence imposed by magistrates in Swansea.

Another youth was arrested, and eventually released from custody with a harassment warning, after accusing Tom Daley, the diver of "letting down" his late father and his country by failing to win a medal in the 10m pairs Olympic diving competition.

As a father of three children, including a nine-year-old son who is beginning to express interest in Facebook, Woodhouse said he felt compelled to take a stand against online bullying.

"With trolling, I think people have had enough," he said. "I hope he has learnt his lesson."

Mr O'Brien declined to comment.

By: Unknown On 22.56

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Cannabis Lamps for Sale !!!

Notts County FC grow grass with seized cannabis lamps

Police said criminal gangs can invest as much as £20,000 in growing equipment

Heat lamps confiscated in raids on cannabis farms in Nottinghamshire are being used to help the grass grow at a football league club.

Notts County FC is using equipment seized by police to make lighting rigs for use on the Meadow Lane pitch.

University students are also involved in a project to design and build the rigs, with wheels for them being donated by a local golf club.

Supt Mark Holland said it was a "win, win" situation for all involved.

Greener grass
Greg Smith Mr Smith said the lighting rigs would help the grass grow during the winter

"This property would normally be crushed, so it is important it gets reused and a lot of people are getting the benefit from it," he said.

Stadium manager Greg Smith said it was "a massive saving for the club".

He said: "Normally to buy one rig you are looking at between £10,000 and £15,000.

"We have both sports at the club, football and rugby, and we've got a main stand that doesn't allow the light in during the winter.

"So, we can have them from the start of October through to the end of February, hopefully growing grass for us."

The grow lights will be used to heat up the soil and replicate warmer conditions.

The club has made a donation to a local charity supported by Nottinghamshire Police as a thank you for the lamps.

By: Unknown On 22.48

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The World's Strongest Vagina

Meet the woman with the world's strongest vagina: Russian gymnast Tatyana can lift a 14kg kettlebell using only her nether regions

Tatyana Kozhevnikova features in Guinness Book of Records
Started weight lifting after first pregnancy left her with a weak pelvic floor
Uses custom-made glass balls and weights to strengthen her muscles

 Powerhouse: Tatyana Kozhevnikova can use just the muscles in her vagina to lift incredibly hefty weights

A Russian gymnast who can lift a 14kg kettleball with her private parts officially has the world's strongest vagina.

Tatyana Kozhevnikova, who is set to show off her skills on E4's The Body Shocking Show, can use just the muscles in her vagina to lift incredibly hefty weights.

The programme will showcase Kozhevnikova in all her glory utilising her record-breaking nether regions to lift 6kg dumbbells.

In a sneak preview of the show, which will air on E4 later this month, she can be seen lifting the dumbbells, which are equivalent to the weight of two melons, using just her vagina.

Kozhevnikova has already made her mark in the Guinness Book of World Records which recorded her lifting a 14kg glass ball with her genitals.

Recognised: Kozhevnikova has already made her mark in the Guinness Book of World Records

Speaking to The Morning Star in 2009, she said: 'After I had a child, my intimate muscles got unbelievably weak.

'I read books on Dao and learned that ancient women used to deal with this problem using wooden balls.

'I looked around, saw a Murano glass ball and inserted it into my vagina. It took me ages to get it out!'

Weak muscles: She began lifting weight after her first child because her intimate muscles got weak

Kozhevnikova uses custom-made vaginal balls and a variation of weights to strengthen her core muscles.

According to her website, she even offers special pelvic training programmes for men, which promises 'ideal buttocks in five days'.

By: Unknown On 18.19

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Links: True Grit, Spidey, Gay Rugby, and "Original" Films

Movie|Line celebrates a year of "The Verge," their great up-and-coming actor series.
Cinema Blend goosing the sales of True Grit (the novel)
Today One of the Fantastic Four will die in the comic's #587th issue. Does anyone still believe in these marketing ploys? I'm sure they'll come back to life within 3 years. That's how comics do.
MUBI The great Michel Piccoli is 85 today. Has anyone seen La Belle Noiseuse (1991)? That's such a good one.
CineEuropa international actor Armin Mueller-Stahl will receive a lifetime achievement award at Berlinale this year.
The Guardian talks to Andrew Garfield about Spider-Man (with audio)
Blog Stage an informative and weird animated bit describing what's going on with Spider Man's Broadway disaster.
Towleroad Mickey Rourke to pay gay rugby legend Gareth Thomas in a sports bio. We've had a lot of sports bios at the movies but you can't say we've had a lot of rugby films, gay or otherwise.
Scott Feinberg, fine Oscar pundit, delivers his top ten.

Finally, the New York Times has a totally bizarre article called "Hollywood Moves Away from Middlebrow Movies" which is about the new quality edict in Hollywood. I never understand these articles which seem to find all sorts of bizarre trends that the box office data doesn't actually support like "originality sells!" Er, no... I wish! I knew the article was in trouble when it says that Hollywood is going for quality and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is referred to as "arty" example of directorial artistry. Let me get this straight, in an article praising studio interest in Quality Original Films one of the prime examples is a messily 3D converted 2D film of a story that's been adapted literally dozens of times for the movies back to the days of silent film?

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I swear to the cinematic gods that that one 2010 junkpile is going to be the death of me. It will not go away. I'll even have to be dealing with it in 2011 for the Oscars. Nooooooooooooooooo
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By: Unknown On 09.12

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