Pressure,pressure,blood pressure.

Advantages: Helps keep a check on your health.
Disadvantages: Price maybe, could get a little paranoid about health.

...I thought I would have a change from all the heavy stuff I have been writing about lately, and write about a little machine I bought about six months ago. The Omron MX3. It is a blood pressure monitor. All my life my blood pressure has been wildly erratic. The highest measured blood pressure I recorded was 180/100. High yes, but I had just spent 12 minutes on a treadmill having a heart test. Anyway it was back to 140/80 within 5 minutes. They told me that was great. Anyway when I go to the doctors it varies between 157/95 being the highest and 117/76 being the lowest. Generally though it is about 140/80-85 I have researched this a little and I have realised that your blood pressure can vary and change very rapidly. I have confirmed this by visits to the doctor and a medical friend of mine who uses a different machine to the one...

milleniumzeus 13.10.2003 · Read review
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Hitman - Blood Money

Advantages: Quality Assassination Technique's, Brilliant Graphics!
Disadvantages: none

...Media: Video Game Genre: Action/Adventure/Stealth Platform: Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, WII, PC Publisher: Eidos Interactive Developer: 10 Interactive Rating: 18 and over Release Date: 26 May 2006 Price: Varied This is Hitman - Blood Money, the non existent Assassin makes yet another comeback in this mysteriously, clever killing title. I have got to say, this Hitman is certainly the best one I've seen. The cloned assassin known as 'Agent 47' makes a huge comeback to all consoles, with extremely new moves and techniques. The previous Hitman titles, Codename 47, Silent Assassin, and Contracts were all great titles back when they were first released, but, Blood Money is certainly going to take some beating. Every level is amazingly huge, and brilliantly laid out, the graphics are the best yet, he's stance like movement has...

GavinWRogers 17.02.2009 (18.02.2009) · Read review
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Blood Brothers

Advantages: The best musical I have ever seen
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

...Blood Brothers is a fantastic musical that has been around for over 20 years and is still as popular as ever. I have now seen it 5 times and cant wait to go again its that good. Book, lyrics and music are all by Willy Russell. Plot is centred around the working class Johnstone family with Mrs Johnstone becoming a single parent quite soon into the story as her husband leaves her with a brood of children. To feed her family Mrs Johnstone gets a job at the upper class Lyons household as a cleaner and is a big hit. Soon after she realises she is pregnant with twin boys and cant possibly afford to bring up another two children. Mrs Lyons however is desperate for a child and unable to get pregnant so offers to 'buy the baby. Reluctantly Mrs Johnson agrees and the deal is done. The story follows the children growing up and one day they...

bexx0907 24.06.2009 · Read review
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Blood Eagle

Advantages: A good idea
Disadvantages: Overly descriptive and complicated in places

...After having read Russel's second book about Jan Fabel, Brother Grimm, I wasn't overly keen on reading anything else by this author. I had enjoyed Brother Grimm in places but found it to be disappointing over all. However, somehow I still ended up with Blood Eagle in my hands. This is the first book in the series of Jan Fabel, Erster Kriminalhauptkommissar (Principal Chief Commissar) with the Hamburg Police murder squad. The book starts with an email from "Son of Sven" to Fabel which makes it clear that this Son of Sven character is a murderer and who is taunting Fabel personally with the notion that this is only the beginning and that he will not stop until he is made to do so. So far so run of the mill crime book. However, the plot quickly thickens as Fabel starts to investigate the brutal and apparently ritualistic murders...

annaroos1 20.10.2007 · Read review
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Blood and Sand

Advantages: Good characterisation, writing and descriptions of Sicily.
Disadvantages: Poor plot.

...If "Blood Rain" had been the first Aurelio Zen mystery that I'd read, it would also have been the last. I finished the book but it was with more of a sigh of relief than enjoyment. Aurelio Zen is the Italian detective who stars in a long-running series of novels by Michael Dibdin. They're set in various parts of Italy and I've enjoyed every one - until now. Zen has been given the posting that's he's always dreaded - to Sicily - where's he's been sidelined into a meaningless liaison job. To complicate matters, the woman who might, or might not, be his daughter is responsible for the installation of a computer network in the building where he's working. A decomposed and unidentifiable body is found in a locked railway carriage. Is it the son of one of the local Mafia families? Zen is not officially on the case, but he can't help...

SueMagee 20.02.2006 · Read review
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Diamond's Really Do Cost Blood - Blood Diamond

Advantages: Gripping, Superb acting, makes you think about life differently, eye opening
Disadvantages: It is a very disturbing film and might be too disturbing for some

...Personal Opinion I watched Blood Diamond last night and it was an absolutely amazing film that was completely absorbing and gripping. It is a 2006 action/adventure drama film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick, director of Glory and The Last Samurai. It stars Leonado DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. The film was put forward for five Academy Awards of which included Best Actor (DiCaprio) and Best Supporting Actor (Hounsou) I admire Leonardo DiCaprio for his acting abilities he is a first class actor who is able to get deep into the character. As a character actress myself I know it is not easy to dig deep into a character that is so emotionally challenging as DiCaprio played. It would have made him feel a wide range of emotions and he probably had to dig deep to places that brought back that same emotion that...

Mickie26 06.08.2009 · Read review
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When the taste of bitter BLOOD combined with SWEET chocolate . .

Advantages: New view of romance, good story and some breathtaking scenes!
Disadvantages: Low budget film, some silly scenes and lack of special effects

... Please note it's a film only review One night . . . I wasn?t able to sleep . . . it was exceedingly hot and clammy, the mosquitoes were sucking my blood cheerfully while I was itching and scratching like a cat contaminated with fleas! Therefore, I looked for the remote control that was hidden by one of my little monkeys and I started to look through the TV channels looking for a decent film to watch and forget about my bruised skin from the bites! Ah . . . a film had just started! The tile grabbed my attention so I tuned in and concentrated! Blood and Chocolate . . . or maybe death and love? The first thing I saw was the name of the film . . . I thought how anomalous! It?s not the best and attractive film title but when I watched the film . . . I got the hidden message behind the name . . . The storyline...

karimkha 11.07.2009 · Read review
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Camping in blood...literally

Advantages: Entertaining in a really bad sort of way
Disadvantages: Dreadful story, acting, cinematography, script...

...Following a visit to Camp Blood, during which she and her friends were attacked by someone wearing a clown mask, Tricia has been spending time locked up on a psychiatric ward, accused of having killed her friends. Although she was the sole survivor, it seems proof is thin on the ground, so Tricia is allowed to go free - but her psychiatrists think it would be a good idea for her to face the problem. This involves helping a creepy director to make a film of what happened at Camp Blood, with Tricia as the Technical Advisor. Before long, the cast is recruited and they head over to Camp Blood, safe in the knowledge that the person in the clown mask is dead. But is she really? If so, why are people dying horribly again? . As the sequel to Camp Blood, one of the worst budget horrors I've ever had the pleasure of watching, I knew what to...

sunmeilan 22.11.2009 · Read review
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A taste of True Blood

Advantages: Interesting genre merge of horror and drama
Disadvantages: Some cheesy moments

...TrueBlood is the new HBO, Vampire TV series made by the people who brought us 'Six Feet Under'. The first season has only just started in America, but I'm sure it won't be too long before it heads over to somewhere like E4. The show is based on the series of books, 'Sookie Stackhouse, Southern Vampire Series' by Charlaine Harris. The show is starts in a time, at the creation of a new synthetic blood (called 'TruBlood') by Japanese scientists, giving the opportunity for the Vampire folk to 'come out of the coffin' (yes, they actually use that turn of phrase) and live amongst the humans for the first time in history. As the Vampires don't need human blood anymore, there is no reason for humans to fear them. Set in the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, we meet Sootie (Anna Paquin) who has the ability to read people's mind. Her psychic...

MarcoG 21.10.2008 · Read review
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Blood, Sweat, Tea and alot more

Advantages: Real Life, Cost, Author,
Disadvantages: Can be upsetting

...Blood Sweat & Tea Working with the Scottish Ambulance Service, I have always had a keen interest in blogs about the ambulance service whether than be London Ambulance service or Scottish Ambulance Service. I stumbled across a Blog written by Tom Reynolds an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) who works with the London Ambulance Service (LAS). Tom wrote fantastic blogs and always had you checking back for more updates until one day I went on to the site and seen a post ? Read my stories in a book? . I think back then you could pre-order the book. But I waited until the price came down and then ordered it. Cost and availability I know that many of you will either go over to his blog and check his work out or even order the book, so here is a quick rundown of prices. All prices are for online and brand new Amazon - £3.99 Play...

marcellep2 05.05.2009 · Read review
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