Over the Edge, February 24 - March 10 2010 Page 7 Maple Syrup News The news that lacks credibility and style Haakon Sullivan Staff Writer With all that went on in the world this week this is a sum- mary of the top news stories that every world citizen should read, analyze, and promptly ignore when they realize that they have nothing to do with them. In other words, this is Olympic news: International evil genius Dr. Devilbrunner has retracted his threat to melt the slopes on Cyprus mountain using his giant heat ray. Last year, he demanded that the world must pay him a total of five million dollars and let the Swiss men's hockey team win a gold medal. When asked about the retraction, he promptly replied that mother nature was a bitch by beating him to it and that he would use his giant heat ray to chase around polar bears on the north pole. People who have had their tickets canceled due to bad Stephanie McCullough Managing editor 1 - Alternate Day Fasting — Lent began on Wednesday for all of you that are unaware. | strongly suggest you do some- thing to commemorate this event. Research has been showing that skipping meals makes a human more resilient and that missed calories can actually influence your weight-loss goals. There are two approaches | trust. The first one is exactly that, fasting every few days. You are to eat normally and then not eat for two days a week, you could choose Wednesday and Saturday for example. The fast begins at 6 pm until 6 pm the next day, so it’s not really a full day. We must remember that your body “starts to eat itself’ after three days without food, so don’t worry about losing muscle in this ONE day. | still went to the gym, albeit not that energized, on my non-eating day. The other option is a little easier where you fluctuate between con- suming 500 and 1500-2000 calories per day. So Monday you may consume 500 (a fasting day) and then on Tuesday you go back to your regular eating schedule. All of these seem pretty simple and if you don’t believe in them that’s your loss. | will be doing the 500-1500 plan for all of Lent and | will hopefully have some good news and a smaller frame to share with everyone. Today is Wednesday, | only get 500 calories. | am with my grandparents so | will simply eat sparingly at dinner as the rest of the day | can make myself busy and not be home for mealtimes. If any reader has any questions shoot me an email and | will try to quell your wor- ries, over-the-edge@unbc.ca . 2 — Hed Kandi — It is a music/lifestyle brand that originated The Hurt Locker movie review 5 things I weather has started their own Olympic sport: The Beer Biathlon. After many people had their tickets canceled, Molson decided that it would be best to give those people something to do by starting their own sport. It goes like this: each con- testant drinks a beer and stacks up a bunch of shot glasses. People then take another drink and the next event is a game of darts. Whoever gets three bulls eyes in a row drinks a beer and goes to the next round and those who don't take a drink and play darts again. Lastly, the contestants drink another beer and eat a bowl of pretzels. Whoever makes the best time wins the Molson gold medal. Results are not in yet, but it looks like everyone is failing at the dart stage to get free beer. The question of how the Olympic torch has been burning for all this time has been answered. An anonymous Olympic of- ficial has reported that the flame is being fed by a constant stream of cash. Canadian $100 bills can apparently burn a good colour, and burn for a long time. Our source also reported that they tried burning fives and twenties, but it just wouldn't burn well enough to make a good impression on the world stage. Due to a shortage of cash, a $10 fee will be charged when- ever the word “Olympics” is used. A fifty million dollar system has been established to enforce this fee using a series of cam- eras and enforcement agents. The Canadian Olympic Committee had made a shocking announcement today. Due to other countries such as Great Britain not liking the fact that Canada will get the most medals by the end of the Olympics, all athletes have been put on quar- antine to avoid sabotage. All have been instructed to avoid any foreign crumpets, schnitzel, or saki and stay in their rooms when not competing. The COC made it clear that if Canada did not win the Olympics, then it was clearly an act of foreign intervention. ’m in love with this week in the UK. They produce many Remix CD’s and | am a huge fan. I’m guessing they pay the royalties for using the song but lucky for them most of the music begins as unknowns so I’m guessing it’s cheap! Fantastic beats, fantastic lyrics. | love this for doing dishes, driving, cleaning, exercising, etc. They have a mood for every activity you could possibly dream up. The Serve Chilled is currently my favourite; | picked it up at HMV for 12 bucks or so. Stellar stuff. 3 — The Olympics — Well obviously | love the Olympics, it's all about business! There is marketing everywhere: spon- sorship, official titles, legalities, athletes’ uniforms, food/drink agreements, commercials, etc. It is EVERYWHERE. Now, many people have an issue with that much advertising and | have a bone to pick with you. If we had MORE ads/sponsorships/official products then we probably wouldn’t have so much debt. Garmin could have been the official GPS for all the buses, there could have been more concession areas sold off to big companies, wireless internet could have been provided and publicized, we also could have had specific times where athletes were available to sign autographs. As you can see, the advertising was pretty low-key and not in-your-face. It's comforting to know that most of the brands who paid to be the official product of the category publicized themselves enough in the beginning that the average consumer recognizes them. Example: Visa, Coca-Cola, Dell, and Rona... Which one was- n't official? 4 — House Plants — How nice does some greenery look? Y’all should go out and get some. House plants are like boobs, they make things look good whether they are real or fake. 5 — Afternoon sun — When it is beaming in through sun roofs and windows of parked cars, Prince George almost seems like a nice place to live. We will soon have heat outside, natural light and warmth for the majority of the day. | will soon be able to go rollerblading after work because it will be WARM enough and LIGHT enough. Two stellar aspects of summer. 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Already, the film has won over twenty awards at various film festi- vals around the world. Most notably, Bigelow was the first female to win top honours at the 62nd annual Directors Guild Awards beating out James Cameron and Quentin Tarantino. If Bigelow wins the Oscar for best director, she will make history by being the first female director to do So. The film follows a group of American soldiers in Iraq who are bomb technicians and must travel around Bag- dad to dismantle and detonate improvised explosive de- vices (IEDs). Staring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty the film follows the characters as they deal with internal tensions and the every looming threat of insurgency. Heralded as one of the most realistic repre- sentations of war in Iraq, the constant tension throughout the film will have the viewer holding his breath on more than one occasion. The story was written by Marc Boal who is an Ameri- can journalist embedded with a bomb squad in Iraq. The film is so compelling because it deals with more than just the obvious affects of war. The viewer is able to see just how pervasive PTSD is for the soldiers who must en- counter death defying situations on a daily basis and are surrounded by an unidentifiable enemy. Along with being wrought with tension and emotion- ally compelling, The Hurt Locker is also visually stunning doing what, | can only assume, is justice to the arid cli- mate of the Middle East. The camera angles and cine- matography do a great job of conveying how difficult it would be do diffuse a bomb not only in staggering tem- peratures, but in tight knit neighborhoods and city cen- tres where the possibility for high casualties is only adds pressure to the already intense situation. The Hurt Locker is the leading contender at this year’s Oscars second only to James Cameron’s Avatar. 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