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Thursday, August 6, 2009
The Perfectly Packaged Gift: Fresh Petit Soaps
My mother's gift closet is amazing! Over the years, she has taught me to stock up on small, but beautiful items to keep on hand for unexpected gift-giving occasions. You never know when you'll be invited to your cousin's beach house or brunch at your college roommate's home.
While on vacation, I stumbled upon these lovely packaged soaps at a Fresh store. Their beautiful wrappings initially caught my eye. Upon further investigation, I was truly mesmerized by their exotic, yet natural fragrances. Even through the packaging, I could get a whiff of exactly what was inside. And let me tell you, it was not your grandmother's stinky fake rose or violet scented soaps. Instead it was pink grapefruit, currant marine, apple cranberry, fig apricot, and more. I purchased apple cranberry to give my mother-in-law who was dog sitting for us. She adores everything apple and cranberry. Well...after a week in my suitcase, I didn't want to surrender the soap. Yep, I ended up keeping it for myself. No self control here!
For those of you who do have self control, I highly recommend picking up several bars for your gift closets. I guarantee that your recipients will appreciate the packaging, as well as the soap's nourishing shea butter. And for an even better gift presentation, be sure to include one of Fresh's clever soap dishes.
Purchase info: Fresh Petit Soaps are available at Fresh stores, as well as Fresh.com. Each soap retails for $12 (5 oz. bar). In addition, you may consider the larger oval bars, which retail for $14 (8.8 oz. bar). According to my research, the soap dishes are sold exclusively at the Fresh stores.
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Happy Saturday folks! How's the weekend going?
It's your regular date with the Letter To My Next series, and tonight we have @DayrinmartiN in the building. Enjoy.
Dear next,
All of my life I have been a giver, I give too much, I sacrifice too much, I mother too much and I forgive like it never happened. I am not a crazy bitch that will slap the girl she sees you with, get drunk to stupor, cancel plans with you if don't make it on time, not cook and clean for you because it comes out as slavery, not have sex with you even though I don't want to, heck! I am the type that does whatever to keep my man happy. I'm the type that will not ask for money, not care if you don't buy me fancy things, wont mind spending the little chicken change I have, satisfied with being the one to call you, see ehn! I was a lover girl. I was the girl you could satisfy with little things, the one that thought she was being loved and not lobbying for love and I was doing it not because I'm desperate, but because that is just me.
So you see next, these rules are going to change.
I am not going to be romantic until you try to
I am not going to make love to you until we can truly be in love
I am not going to go out of my way until you genuinely can
I am not going to introduce you to anyone as my boyfriend until I am sure you truly are
I am not going to visit your home until I find one in your heart
I am going to expect gifts from you else I'm not letting you in
I am not going to cancel dates with other guys until I can make out you are serious
I am not going to place you above my girlfriends
I am not going to break my grandmother's 10pm curfew
I am not going to cook or clean until you can carry my bag in public
I am not going to share my pains until I can tell how brave you are
I am not going to pretend I am not troublesome to see if you can deal with me
I am going to be selfish to discover if you're worth the real me. To discover if you're worth every drop, taste and flavour of undiluted love that I have bottled up. I don't intend to make you pay for what the ex did, but I have discovered that healthy selfishness is what will let the "ex" in "next" remain in it. So I am hoping that when you find me you'll understand me, that there won't be another next and that you would be sincere and genuine enough to make me love and have a reason to be me again.
Wow! Deeeeeep!
See you again tomorrow!

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I'm sitting in the garden overlooking the Mekong River, which means I am also looking at Laos across the river. Funny thought.
I took a nice fan (versus A/C) bus up here- about 3 hours- they were so sweet. I went to the bus station to ask about a ride to Nong Khai and they told me where sit and when the bus arrived, a little chubby Thai guy came over and got me. Then I got on and they just watch over me when I travel alone... they know where I am going and tell me, "This isn't your stop." Etc. Usually someone who speaks English will come and sit by me. This time it was a girl, probably in her 20s on her way home to see her mom, dad and son. She works in a different province and goes home for three months out of the year. She asked, "Do you mind if I sit here, Madame?" (We get called Madame a lot over here.) After a while on the bus, I was cold and put on my green corduroy coat (proof I have acclimated to Asia heat again) and stared out the window with Radiohead on my IPod. I thought, "I still haven't seen Radiohead in concert." This obsession started in 2001 in a little apartment in Portland with the four optometry guys. (The Radiohead concert is now one of my life goals.)
Sunday, February 8, 2009
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I changed my card up just a little from the TAC sketch for the week, and rotated it, but most of the sketch elements are still there. This little bird from the Singing Praises set is so much fun to color! I colored him with copics, and sponged in some pink clouds to go along with the free "Robyn" digi paper that I used for the background. You can get the paper free on the TAC website. I printed one 8.5 x 11 sheet of each pattern and I've really made quite a few cards from it!
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Face Plant Friday
I know you want to look at this. I know you do. But I also know that you are thinking "this is just WRONG!!! You can not call them that!".
Yea, I know. But labels aside, I know you are going to click this link.
Midget Face Plant Friday.
So just go on and click the link to see what Midget Face Plant Friday is all about. It is a massive face plant. A legendary face plant.
I had fun Thursday. Sort of. I am going to send the lawyer all I have. And here is the fun part! It seems I have done all the work already. I have pretty much already written the letter. All the lawyer has to do is add a few lines of angry law stuff threatening to take it up a notch if the letter is not answered and mention my willingness to settle this whole matter right now by giving me the stuff I want, sign the letter, and mail it off.
Actually, I could probably write the angry law stuff too. But I may overdo it so I will leave it to the pros. They know better than I do what is and is not a good idea.
Like this for example. Sending the letter with a "Happy Easter" card. That would probably be wrong. And modifying the card to say "Happy Fucking Easter" would be even worse. Yet this has occurred to me that I could do this.
But then I would come off as angry and unstable and stuff - and I am not really about all that. I am annoyed, but not really "angry". I have found that being angry requires far too much effort. I am not about that. The effort that is. But being annoyed is more low key. I can keep that up for a long time. And I can do it without a significant increase in blood pressure.
So they can ignore my emails. They have ignored my emails. They can send me half of the shit I ask for. They can leave out important details that I ask for in writing. They can treat me like I am a dumb ass. Fine. I can live with that. And they may think they can get away with it.
But now lets see them try that shit with my lawyer. Go on, try. I want to see the results. It will amuse me.
And at this point, my life is all about MY amusement. So dance trained monkey. Amuse me.


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Two Dead In Fishing Trip Accident Near Cocoa
An investigation is ongoing and an autopsy will be scheduled later this week, officials said. Ofcr. Kat Kelly, a spokesperson for Florida Fish and Wildlife, said alcohol was not involved.
Officers, however, already believe that wearing life vests would have given the men a chance at survival.
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The CWs division should just be closed. As it is, it has no value for me and it just seems like WWE wanting to add original programming to their network.
205 Live is better booked and more entertaining than Raw and Smackdown most weeks. But they either need to crossover more with the main roster or be entirely exclusive.
All the new entrances themes sounded like rush jobs.
Michael Cole seems to flubbing his lines more often lately (mixing up wrestler's names, calling moves wrong). Either his memory is slipping or Vince is shouting in his headset.
I really hope they pull the trigger on Strowman, if not at SummerSlam then at Wrestlemania because he's consistently the best part of Raw, IMO. I'm not holding my breath, though.
So long as Brock loses the Fatal Fourway. Sure he's the biggest star they have not named Cena but his value is declining fast because his matches are literally Suplex, Repeat, F5 and he's not that big a ratings draw. Give him a win back at No Mercy (he's rumored to appear) or at Royal Rumble then go out on his back at Wrestlemania. They can't even afford pyro any more yet they're paying him millions.
I saw something interesting today on YouTube. It was a 1961 episode of Stampede wrestling. I have never really gotten a chance to see much wrestling pre-1970, so it was interesting to see how it was run.
Now before anyone throws the, "Why are you talking about this in a WWE thread?", question at me, I put it here because Gorilla Monsoon was on the card. Seeing how Gorilla was the voice of the 1980's WWF, I just thought this should go here.
Gorilla was wrestling under his Gino Marella name and he was doing a gimmick where he put his own money in a pot and if his opponent was able to beat him via pinfall or submission in under ten minutes they would win whatever the amount was in the pot. He actually lost the match via count-out but his opponent did not win the pot because the match had to be won by pinfall or submission.
The only other wrestler that I recognized on the show was Bulldog Brower. Stu Hart was there as well but he was doing "commentary" and they acknowledged that he was the owner of the company. I say that he was doing "commentary" because his commentary consisted of a couple of what seemed to be grunts. I am not sure if words actually came out of his mouth or not and if they did, I sure as hell did not understand what he was saying.
The highlight of the show was Stu and the announcer (whose name I did not catch) getting into the ring to interview wrestles. Which actually took up a good portion of the show, far more than I thought they would have been done back then. Anyway, at one point Stu asked for the fans to call him and tell him what they would like to see as far as matches go in the future. The announcer asked him if he was sure he wanted the fans to call him and he said yes and proceeded to give out what I assume was his home phone number (granted it could have been for his office, he did not state one way or the other). I would if people cranked him back then, I know I would have.
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Why would they have Naomi face Carmella one on one without the MITB briefcase being involved. And she still won the match! *sigh* and it was really to remind us the Ellsworth hadnt been thrown off a cliff yet.
If they just wanted to do that could have done it in any other ways. I remember when they used to have MITB cash ins on regular TV shows, should still do it sometimes instead of the big PPVs or even have them jump ship to win the RAW titles.
Cross-dressing Tyler Breeze is genuinely prettier than all the Smackdown women not named Lana. All the Real World Mods have grossly underrated his Sex Appeal stat.
Tyler Breeze and Fandango have done the impossible and made the Ascension entertaining.
Between Fashion Peaks, AJ/Owens, Baron Corbin, Nakamura and Rusev Smackdown has been fun.
That said, Carmella looks like an idiot. She beats Naomi and Naomi is out, why not cash in right then and there?
I love her, but that was dumb.
I grew up in the touring territory of Stampede and watched it on TV as well, so there is a lot of nostalgia there for me. That was early to mid 80s Stampede, so quite different. But it was definitely unique in that era. I always giggle when someone compares North of the Border Pro Wrestling to Stampede, probably based purely on the technical styles of Bret and Owen. But 80s Stampede was even more SE than CGC. They had a ****-ish manager and a guy in a Jason mask with a machete, named Jason the Terrible lol
My dad went to a lot more Stampede shows than I ever got to, and going back into the 70s. He's mentioned seeing guys like Harley Race and Andre the Giant touring spells with Stampede.
I don't know that I've seen Gorilla's in ring work that I can recall. I know he was supposedly quite the worker.
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hope it is ok to ask here. I have asked in the diary questions thread in 2016 dynasties but figured I'd ask here as well as I am looking to start a WWE diary soon and wondered if people could take a few minutes to fill out a very quick poll on a few questions that could shape the direction of parts of my diary. It would be very much appreciated if you could.
She could've used her "connection" with Big Cass to have him come over to boot her in the face so she'd be able to cash in. As well as a myriad of reasons.
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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. -Ray Bradbury
I got lost both times I was in Paris.
Was I frustrated? Sure. But, there is a huge advantage to being lost. You get to see things you wouldn't have otherwise seen. You are literally off the beaten path. At first, you start to try to think logically, pull out your smart phone's GPS app and type in the first landmark that comes into mind. However, I beg you, stop for a minute. Take a look around, You might just find yourself getting caught up in the street names and the beauty of the architecture. You will discover that there is so much more to a city than its' famous landmarks. You might just find a great little cafe with the best lemon tart you've ever had.
Go on, get lost.
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I went shopping for a bit yesterday. As most of you have probably seen the Christmas stuff is starting to get out in the stores already. So the first thing I picked up was the Barbie A Perfect Christmas Book.
I'm going to save it for closer to Christmas to actually read but there are a bunch of glittery stickers in it that I'm super happy about.
The other thing that I bought was a penguin bath tub bubble maker. You put really soapy water in his top hat and bubbles come out of his tummy.
I am so lucky to not have to hide my stuff because at this point I think I have too much to hide even if I wanted to.
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The news comes via GSM Arena, who also supplied these pictures. Pictures which are, as you can see, just CGI renderings. Still, they're enough to get the idea: the Leo looks to be more of a camera with a phone tucked inside than the usual phones we see, which have the camera added as an afterthought.
All we know of the Leo, to be launched next month at the CommunicAsia exhibition in Singapore, is that it will feature this overcrowded sensor, shoot HD video and (barely) contain a 3x optical zoom lens. There will also be a Xenon flash, a touch-screen, Wi-Fi and 3G.
A little extra snooping of the pictures reveals the lettering around the lens, which shows that it will be a 6.5-19.5mm zoom with apertures running from ƒ3.1 – ƒ5.6. Not too bad for a cellphone.
The design of this beast gives us some hope that this is a real camera with a decent-sized CCD inside: the dedicated zoom-buttons, for instance. We'll also be interested to see whether this will be sold under the Altek brand, in which case we'll probably never see it in the West, or sold as OEM gear normally is: with somebody else's logo slapped on it.


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Future Preparation
This time of year heralds a number of interesting changes in Magic, and this time around, it seems no different. Magic: The Gathering—Conspiracy finally saw some widespread spoiling, and I cannot wait for the set, but I will refrain from talking too much about the financial ramifications until we have more spoilers and an idea of how limited the print run will be. This time of year also brings about the last chance to dump Standard cards before we see the gradual decline that occurs over the summer, inevitably leading into rotation in the fall. Next week, I will begin to piece apart Standard, deciding what to hold and what to move while you still can. This week, I want to jump back to a subject I discussed earlier this month: Block Constructed and what the Pro Tour this past weekend has taught us about the potential translation of Theros into the new Standard.
The Pro Tour taught us a few very valuable lessons about Theros block as a whole, and the most notable of these is that, so far, it seems midrange is king. Most of what we saw dominating the top tables all weekend were midrange value decks that either attempted to end the game through large plays such as Elspeth, Sun's Champion or included ways to drop an opponent low enough to finish him or her when the opponent did tap out for the big 'Walker. That being said, it is important to note just how influential Elspeth was; the fact that people were testing every deck to either race or outpace the white 'Walker shows just how much of an impact she may have in the future Standard. 6 mana may seem like a lot to invest into her, but considering how quickly she can either reset the board or take control of the game, it is no wonder people were either looking to play her or had a strong idea on how to beat here.
Currently, Elspeth is sitting right around $20, and though that is certainly a number that keeps me from wanting to buy in, I do recognize just how much influence she may have on the next Standard, and that certainly makes me comfortable trading for them or getting into them with cash if you can find a good deal. With the introduction of Temples as the primary fixing, it is much easier to consistently hit land drops in any midrange deck as long as you can survive playing a turn behind. This means that playing something like Elspeth—while you're not required to run twenty-six or more lands—is viable, allowing her to fill roles in a multitude of decks, and that gives me even more hope than I usually would have for something with such a high mana cost.
Ashiok has been among my personal favorites from this block, and Ashiok certainly shined this past weekend, both milling and gumming up the board with opponent's creatures. Unlike the other two 'Walkers, you can easily find Ashiok for just over $5 making the investment to at least pick up your personal play set relatively low. If you do not already have copies to play with, snag them now, and if you want a fairly safe card to sit on for a few months, look no further.
Straying from all of the higher-end cards, there are some other mythics and rares that fall in line with Ashiok—or that are lower in some cases—in terms of price. Some of the most-played rares in the set are almost certainly underpriced at this point. Both Sylvan Caryatid and Courser of Kruphix seem to be the focal points for the success of green-based ramp, as those cards provide efficient mana while also being relatively good walls, thus preventing aggro from really shining. We saw this time and time again all weekend as Sylvan Caryatid on 2 usually spelled disaster if it was not answered right back. This card will certainly be a player next year, and I expect Courser to follow suit. It may seem a bit high to be buying in on Courser, as it may have a ways to drop, but I would certainly snag your set if you can. The card may fall some before it spikes, but it will not be far, and it may just as easily hit $15 and never look back for the next year. Rarely do we have the ability to identify such a strong player in the format from just one event, but this Pro Tour showed us exactly what those two cards can and will do next year.
Hero's Downfall is the most expensive of this lot, but given that, it is among the more versatile and cheap removal spells ever printed—it may have a shot at real Modern play down the road, which means that if the price spikes, it may not be solely from Standard, and it can, in turn, have a higher ceiling. That being said, Reaper of the Wilds, while one of the cheapest, has also been reprinted a number of times now, and though I do expect it to rise, it may be the one I focus on the least. I expect black and green to be best friends next year, but the other cards on this list probably have more homes as well.
Prognostic Sphinx's price baffles me. I understand that it is not playable in this current Standard, but anyone who has had the pleasure of turning that card sideways knows just how impactful it can be on the game. Built-in protection, even for the price, certainly will make this a contender come next fall, and it would take something fairly overpowered to replace this effect in my opinion. Though it's certainly not the card many decks were built around, it fit nicely into a number of roles and always seemed to change the pace of the game when it resolved.
Thank you, as always, for reading. I know most people do not completely understand the relevance of Block, as it sees very little play, but for a financially-well-minded person looking to minimize the expense of this game, it can be a great window into what you may need well in advance of when the cards will spike. It doesn't hurt to at least be safe on cards as cheap as the rares I mentioned and just keep in mind the direction your current Return to Ravnica cards will be going comparatively to the Theros cards that are flying under the radar. Join me next week as I get back to the Magic theory and stray away from particular cards that I have spent the past few weeks concentrating on.
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Nikon Coolpix: Helicopter Boyz
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To tout the new Nikon Coolpix, which has a built-in projector, GT Tokyo strapped several of the cameras to the bodies of Japanese pop stars, Helicopter Boyz. When the Boyz performed with the cameras attached at Japan's Yomiuri Land recently, their images were projected on a screen behind them.
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You will be sent back in time when you step into the pleasant restaurant at DET GAMLE RÅDHUS in Gråsten. We make our food from scratch with an eye to organic and local ingredients.
Again, this year we have chosen to participate in the Southern Jutlandic Gourmet Week. We think it is an excellent opportunity to promote our beautiful region and the vast gastronomic culture in the area.
In this year's gourmet menu, we have chosen to collect the best from Southern Jutland. You will have a culinary experience based on the good local ingredients we use every day. We hope that you will leave with the impression that food is our great passion at DET GAMLE RÅDHUS.
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Duet of beef: Slices of juicy beef tenderloin and braised beef brisket, browned in the oven with horseradish and brown sugar. In addition, celery cream, baked red onion and fried potatoes with parsley and lovage and also a creamy port wine sauce with mushrooms.
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From around 8am, I was looking over Waveney Dock from the car park and after 10 minutes I saw the excellent adult Iceland Gull flying around. Again flying low and appeared to perch of the ground in front of the fish market. I could see Chris D looking from Hamilton road but otherwise there was not a soul about. I tweeted the news out and just after 9am the bird even flew up and perched for some 10 minutes on the fish market roof. As it alighted onto the roof, I received a call from OFB.
After some 30 minutes I was belatedly joined by James B, Tony B, OFB, Paul & Jane and others.
OFB and I looked at Leathes Ham, we had close views of 4 Gadwall, 4 Wigeon and 2 male Pintail, one had a pale buff- brown head.
On Oulton Broad, from Caldecott road, I saw a Shag perched on a post and from the railway bridge, I spied 4 Shags swimming around the ship, a Redshank and Turnstone were on the near shore. I was back at Leathes Ham mid afternoon but just missed the Iceland there and went onto Fritton woods via Bradwell where the Ruddy Shelduck was with c40 Egyptian Geese viewable from the road down to Belton.
From Fritton woods, I saw 2 Short- eared Owls, 1 perched on a post, one on a gatepost, they later quartered the fields/ reeds area. 4 female Marsh Harriers flew around and later on c6000 Pink- footed Geese flew north over the marshes, an impressive sight.
Near Dusk, a Buzzard flew into Fritton woods, definately a Common and not the hoped for RFB, so disappointingly again despite a 2 hour vigil until 5.05pm, I again missed the RFB, 3 Snipe flew out from the woods over the marshes. Birds heard only were Bearded tit and Green Sandpiper.


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Saturday, November 14, 2009
A Balance Between Ferocity and Control
Thys beeth ye lettr yt stondy in hys sygte \ To teche or to play or ellys for to fygte...
This is the letter (way), [for] standing in his (the opponent's) sight \
[either] to teach, or to play, or else for to fight...
- Man Yt Wol.
Hello, dear readers.
You'll all be glad to know that yours truly has fully recovered from his unfortunate zombification. As luck would have it, Casper burst in just as I was about to descend upon the wife and feast upon her succulent flesh. He claims it was to "check up on me," but I suspect that the real reason was to abscond with all of my swords. It's what I would have done, after all.
In any event, he kicked in the door - armed with silver crucifix, holy water, and sharp, bright blade - and pressing the crucifix to my forehead while chanting the psalms, he forced me into a chair, and then had the wife secure me to it with some stout rope. Long story short, after about thirteen exorcisms, a course of some rather strong antibiotics, and a rejuvenating colonic, I was back to my old self. I now only get the urge to devour human flesh every once in a while.
Nothing new there.
Anyway, on to the point:
A couple of months ago, one Andrew Maxwell left the following comment regarding my article The Medieval and Renaissance Martial Arts in the Digital Age:
I am basically in agreement with what you have said, but I am curious as to what you envisage as the test for "martial intensity"? As a member of a small group of relative newcomers to the world of HEMA, this sounds somewhat ominous, for all that I am in agreement in principle... Further explication would be appreciated.
The fact that he posted that comment in September, and I only just became aware of it tonight shows just how on top of things I am. Nonetheless, it's a good question, more or less, and deserving of some further explanation. After all, in an article where I write at some length about Victorian swordsmen killing people with their weapons, in seeming regret that we probably won't get the chance to share similar experiences; all the while advocating a high level of martial intensity, it's easy to see how this may indeed sound "ominous" to some. It should certainly be something that the newcomer to the Art should think about.
So, what do I mean by "intensity"? Well, I dare say that this is a good example of intensity:
As you can see, neither of us died. That said, and I cannot stress this enough, anyone going into this endeavor should be cognizant of the dangers involved. Medieval and Renaissance swordsmanship is an inherently hazardous pursuit. You are likely to get sprains, welts, bruises, and none too few incidental minor cuts. This is something that any practitioner simply must accept beforehand. That hit at the end of the clip - I was attempting to strike Casper's blow away from below, and miscalculated - was real. It hurt, and it messed up my wrist for a couple of weeks. Nothing too major, and I've had worse, but it might just give some pause.
All this said, how far is too far, and how do we balance the need for intensity with common sense safety and control? Several modern practitioners have weighed in on this issue, and there are differing takes. Some claim that play, or sparring, was not something historical swordsmen did, so the issue of intensity is therefore moot. In response to these fools, we can point out that there exists a relative wealth of historical evidence for play, the above quote from the English martial poem Man Yt Wol being but one example.
Indeed, Man Yt Wol offers perhaps the best example available to us for intensity in regards to play, because it affords us a deeper context to play (as in "swordplay"), or sparring. And this deeper context? The poem admonishes the swordsman that there is only one way to pursue the Art of the Sword, whether teaching the Art, engaging in play with a partner, or in life or death encounters going at it for real: in all cases, you must engage the student, the fellow player, or the bitter enemy with deadly seriousness, as if it were for real (and in the case of an enemy or attacker, of course, it was). Another 15th century English poem, dubbed "The Poem of the Pell", echoes this sentiment:
Have eche his pile or pale upfixed fast
And as it were uppon his mortal foe
With mightyness and weapon most be cast
To fight stonge, that he ne skape him fro
On hym with shield, and sword avised so
That thou be cloos, and Preste thy foe to smyte
Lest of thyne own dethe thou be to wite
Have each [man] his [pell] upfixed (placed in the ground) fast (strongly, securely),
And as [if] it were upon his mortal foe,
With mightiness (with ferocity) and weapon must be cast (attack the pell with the aforementioned);
[Remember] to fight strongly, that he (the enemy) not escape from him (the swordsman training at the pell, who is envisioning the pell as his mortal foe).
On him (as in "go at him") with shield and sword advised so (as has been said).
[Make certain] that thou be close (to the opponent - don't let him get away from you), and presently [make certain] thy foe to smite.
Lest of thine own death thou be to know, (i.e., for if you don't do this, you'll likely be the one to die).
In each of these examples, the need for intensity is inculcated upon the student of the Art. It was necessary in the days of personal close combat that this be understood in no uncertain terms. It was a matter of life or death. Today, if we hope to reconstruct the methods of our ancestors, or the knights and masters we admire (or both), then we must realize that the mechanics of the techniques that we now breathe new life into require that selfsame intensity of the past. Anything less is just that...less...rather than a martial art, what we end up indulging in is a martial sport.
This has all been gone over by others, of course - perhaps most notably (incessantly might be a better word. I acknowledge that I may not be the best person to criticize on this front, possessing hobby horses of my own) by the director of the ARMA - but for the novice (which this blog is most especially geared towards), it bears some rephrasing and repeating. But the real question is, how do we simulate fighting for real - how do we bring intensity to our play - today? Well, one might ask, "How did they do it back then"? This is perhaps better suited as the subject for another posting, however (though the pic above should give you a pretty good idea. Note: what kinds of equipment are they using?) Instead, let's focus on what has been tried today.
We've already gone over the "they didn't practice sparring historically" crowd (a small crowd, to be sure, which is perhaps telling). So much for them. What else has been tried?
One well known organization has taken something of a supplementary approach: engaging in play with padded simulators, which allegedly allow for "full contact" sparring; in addition to slightly more controlled sparring and drilling (both solo and partnered) with wooden (and later plastic) wasters. Eventually, this group began to employ foils, or blunt steel practice swords, as well. Round this off with some test cutting against various targets, as well as practicing techniques against a pell, and you get the picture.
I used to favor the above approach myself, but I have since left the padded simulators to the boffer/LARP groups, where they no doubt belong. As to wasters, these have replaced the padded sparring "weapons" for me and my cohort, for the most part, though we have no further use for the wooden variety. For those interested, I can recommend the Cold Steel plastic "longsword" wasters. These don't measure up in terms of length - at least not according to my own taste - but they are well nigh indestructible and are quite affordable. Does this mean that I'm advocating whaling on your practice partners with plastic wasters? No, but I'll get to that in a minute.
Another popular approach, particularly in Europe, is the use of converted shinai, usually with a gambeson or modern sports padding, together with a fencing mask. This has merit in that it recognizes the need for intensity; nonetheless, I must confess a certain disdain for it. A shinai isn't designed to handle like a European sword, no matter how many alterations are made to the thing. Though I do give credit to those hardy souls that use converted shinai sans padding, as I have seen a certain Swedish group do in several videos. Still, this is not an approach that I can personally recommend.
Others take an almost SCA route. They don full plate, or nearly full plate, and practice unarmoured techniques on one another, both in drill and play. To say that I believe that this leads to some severely skewed ideas is something of an understatement. Armour bashing is decidedly self defeating, at least in my opinion. There was an entire method designed for fighting with swords in armour, and they didn't include hitting the other guy as if he wasn't wearing armour. Swords don't cut through armour. Let's stop pretending that they do.
There are these, and many admixtures and permutations thereof, besides. So, all that said, what do I recommend (for those who have read to this point, and by some miracle are still interested)?
The paramount thing is control. Basically knowing how to "put the brakes" on a cut or a thrust. This necessitates a keen understanding of range, power, and being able to read your practice partner. These things can only be developed with time and experience. So, if you're just starting out, take it slow and steady. Practice rote drills with a partner to get the feel of things. In truth, you should never stop doing this. Rote drilling is essential. One never outgrows the need for including it in one's routine. Search the fechtbucher for techniques you'd like to try out, and do them slowly with a partner. Take turns executing them on one another. Get them into your muscle memory.
Practice speed and ferocity against a pell, just as the poem quoted above said to do. Practicing at the pell will teach you range, and how to flow from one attack to another with strength and speed. Practice solo drills, both free-form and rote, in the air. Incorporate everything you know into these, and pay no attention if the neighbors think you've gone mad. This is another fait accompli of this pursuit. All my neighbors are convinced I'm stark raving crazy. Being a bit of a misanthrope, I consider that a bonus. They tend to give me a wide berth.
When you deem yourself ready to kick things up a notch, buy yourself a good three weapons fencing mask (and, if you're male, a cup wouldn't go amiss), and go at things a little faster. This time, however, try to actually defeat your partner. Continue rote practice, but now engage in play, or sparring. Make sure that you make contact, and make sure that said contact is palpable (no touch tag, or edge smearing), but always remember control. You can make contact without beating up your practice buddies. Keep things slow to start. You may use wasters or foils, but to start I recommend wasters. When you're more accomplished, you can go at one another with yet more speed and intensity, while still retaining control. You may even want to try it without the mask occasionally.
As I've said before, there is an inherent element of risk in all of this. The question you have to ask yourself is this: how badly do I want to do this?
2 comments:
- Djihad Joe said...
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- November 20, 2009 at 4:24 PM
- Lessons on the English Longsword said...
You are clearly a man of taste! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. As you can no doubt tell, humor is part of our philosophy. Others involved in the RMA/HEMA may take themselves a bit too seriously, we feel that things like humor make the subject both more accessable and more fun. This is true in our forthcoming book, as well, (some of the photos, while representative of the prescribed actions, are mildly tongue-in-cheek, for example). If I can get someone interested with humor, then the rest may follow. Glad you're enjoying the blog.
- November 26, 2009 at 12:44 AM


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It's been a while since we've posted for Norwood's Eyewatch Friday, but we're back! We don't know why he rates it, but here's our little one--with the big, soft, bovine eyes. He gets away with murder because of those things!
Here is Theo in the bed, um, before he wet it!
18 December 2009
EyeWatch Friday: dry bed edition
Posted by Jacks, Narra, Tuchuck, and Rousseau at 18.12.09
2 comments:
- wally said...
OMD! I think YOUR EYES ARE THE GREATEREST, TOO! Let's play together IN THE SNOW, OK?
ps. My ma ape had those sheets in college. She prolly peed in 'em too HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH! OBST RULES
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- NORWOOD UNLEASHED said...
Oh snuggy bear theo!
I love looking in those angel cookie face eyeballs..
Don't worry, that look will keep the human hooked on you no matter what u do.
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"I reckon that wasn't much like either you or me," said Dunn slowly, "was it? But if you'd let me drop then you'd have stretched out the biggest fool in the Sierras." He paused, and looked at her curiously. "What's come over you; blessed if I seem to know you now."
She was very pale again, and quiet; that was all.
"Teresa! d--n it, look here! When I was laid up yonder in Excelsior I said I wanted to get well for only two things. One was to hunt you down, the other to marry Nellie Wynn. When I came here I thought that last thing could never be. I came here expecting to find her here with Low, and kill him--perhaps kill her too. I never once thought of you; not once. You might have risen up before me--between me and him--and I'd have passed you by. And now that I find it's all a mistake, and it was you, not her, I was looking for, why--"
"Why," she interrupted bitterly, "you'll just take me, of course, to save your time and earn your salary. I'm ready."
"But I'M not, just yet," he said faintly. "Help me up."
She mechanically assisted him to his feet.
"Now stand where you are," he added, "and don't move beyond this tree till I return."
He straightened himself with an effort, clenched his fists until the nails were nearly buried in his palms, and strode with a firm, steady step in the direction he had come. In a few moments he returned and stood before her.
"I've sent away my deputy--the man who brought me here, the fool who thought you were Nellie. He knows now he made a mistake. But who it was he mistook for Nellie he does not know, nor shall ever know, nor shall any living being know, other than myself. And when I leave the wood to-day I shall know it no longer. You are safe here as far as I am concerned, but I cannot screen you from others prying. Let Low take you away from here as soon as he can."
"Let him take me away? Ah, yes. For what?"
"To save you," said Dunn. "Look here, Teresa! Without knowing it, you lifted me out of hell just now, and because of the wrong I might have done her--for HER sake, I spare you and shirk my duty."
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"You think so?" she said, turning her head away.
"There, d--n it! I didn't mean to make you cry. May be you wouldn't, then. Only tell that fellow to take you out of this, and not run away the next time he sees a man coming."
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Star Wars Celebration Anaheim
As I mentioned, I am really looking forward to Star Wars Celebration Anaheim in April. On Friday, I received approval for a media pass for this event!
You see this right? I am not dreaming this?
Excuse me I have to do this:
Fangirl flail!!!
Ok now that is out of the way.
This means that I can interview those that have worked or are working on Star Wars projects and post them right here!
I have some realistic targets that I want to interview including fellow Fangirls Ashley Eckstein, Tricia Barr and Vanessa Marshall!
I would also like to interview some awesome fanboys, who support us fangirls, including Steve Sansweet, Stephen Stanton and David W Collins.
I need your help to get some great interviews!
I am looking for a list of questions to ask these Star Wars celebs that may not have been asked of them before. If you have any ideas of questions I can ask of them or anyone you would like me to interview, please share by posting in the comments.
Thanks in advance and May The Force Be With You!


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ARLENE FOSTER tonight stood firm on the Brexit deal which was scuppered by the DUP – and blamed the Irish government for the collapse of the agreement.
Theresa May has been pleading with the unionist party to agree with her Irish border plans, but the DUP leader snubbed talks in London today and has yet to speak to the PM on the phone.
Mrs Foster said she vetoed the proposed deal yesterday because it risked signing up Northern Ireland to keep EU rules while the rest of the UK adopts different standards.
The party leader told Sky News tonight: "We want to see progress. We don't want to see a hard border.
"We want to have good relations with our next door neighbours in the Republic of Ireland but we are not going to cut ourselves off from the rest of the United Kingdom."
The agreement was expected to be signed off by Mrs May and EU leaders yesterday afternoon, but it was postponed after the DUP raised last-minute objections.
Mrs Foster suggested it was the fault of the Irish government that the unionists had not been sent a draft of the deal in good time for yesterday's summit.
She said: "There have been reasons given to us about why we didn't receive the text – one of those reasons apparently is because the Irish government wouldn't allow them to.
"In many ways, I can understand that, but the important thing is that once we've seen the text, we knew that it would not fly, for Northern Ireland, for Scotland, because once you start separating parts of the UK out, then it has ramifications for other places as well."
After yesterday's row over "regulatory alignment" the Brexit Secretary David Davis risked the fury of hard-line Tories by making it seem likely the UK was willing to stay signed up to Brussels legislation in crucial areas such as agriculture, energy and transport in order to get a trade deal.
But he flatly denied the Government was prepared to sign up to terms that would risk Northern Ireland's future, vowing that the "integrity of the UK comes first".
The PM is likely to meet Jean-Claude Juncker for further discussions either on Thursday or over the weekend.
Nigel Dodds, the DUP's Westminster leader, was meeting with the Government's chief whip Julian Smith in Westminster this afternoon.
But earlier he gave a press conference where he said the DUP did not receive the proposals until "late yesterday morning", when he said they "indicated to senior Government representatives that it was clearly unacceptable in its current form".
And he appeared to suggest the Irish government's "aggressive stance" on avoiding a hard border could scupper negotiations and lead to Britain leaving with no deal.
Mr Dodds denied the party now had a veto over the UK's dealings with the EU, saying: "No, the DUP doesn't have any veto. The Irish Republic does have a veto.
"They are uncomfortable with that veto because they keep trying to say 'No, it's not our veto, it's the EU's', but it is very clear that the EU have given a veto to the Irish Republic and the Irish Republic are flexing their muscles and using their current position to try to gain wins for them."
But he did also appear to soften his stance on trade arrangements, saying there could be regulatory alignment in certain areas.
Mr Dodds added: "Northern Ireland already has a single energy market with the Irish Republic, so there are areas where we can co-operate with the Irish Republic.
"And, indeed, where it may make sense to have some kind of regulatory alignment in certain, specific areas.
"But not in relation to following the rules of the single market or the customs union for Northern Ireland as a generality."
No10 confirmed Mrs May would speak to Ms Foster as well as the Sinn Fein leader Michele O'Neill at some point today.
And a Downing Street spokesman hit back at the criticism of the border plans, saying: "We have been clear that the UK is leaving the single market and the customs union – we are leaving as a whole.
"We will not be jeopardising the UK's own internal market."
They added that the PM told the Cabinet this morning the "UK and EU were very close to getting an agreement" on Brexit – but there are "a small number of issues outstanding".
And welcoming the Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy to Downing Street at lunchtime, Mrs May said: "Our talks with the European Union have made a lot of progress.
"There are still a couple of issues we need to work on.
"But we'll be reconvening in Brussels later this week as we look ahead to the December European Council.
"But I know in everything we do we want to ensure, particularly, that we recognise the needs of Spanish citizens here in the UK , and UK citizens living in Spain."
The furore began yesterday when Mrs May had lunch in Brussels with Jean-Claude Juncker, where there were high hopes an agreement that "sufficient progress" on the first phase of talks would be made.
They had been expected to unveil the publication of a 15-page document, outlining details of a deal that would clear the way for the next phase to begin this month.
It appeared one of the key sticking points – the Irish border – looked to have been solved after a change in the wording in the draft proposal on trade regulation.
The Irish PM Leo Varadkar said the European Commission, the UK and the Republic were all agreed on saying we would keep "regulatory alignment" on the island after we leave the bloc.
But the meeting was interrupted by a call between the PM and the DUP leader, who then dashed any hope of something being signed off.
Ms Foster's party were reportedly left seething by the proposal – which it was claimed would have allowed the province to "effectively stay in the Single Market" once we leave.
So instead of unveiling a deal Mrs May and Mr Juncker had to tell the waiting media at a press conference delayed by Ms Foster's intervention they had failed to sign on the dotted line, and would need more time to iron out the final few issues.
And Mrs May, who had asked for several hours of Parliamentary time to be set aside for her to explain to MPs the nature of the deal, ditched her statement in the Commons today to engage in crisis talks with the DUP.
But the Speaker John Bercow granted Labour an urgent question about the progress in the Brexit talks, where the opposition pored over yesterday's shambles.
They are calling on Mrs May to "rethink her reckless red lines" and consider remaining part of the customs union and single market.
Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said there needed to be a UK-wide response to Brexit, as her current one threatens "the break-up of the union".
But David Davis hit back, saying Labour's policy had changes "10 times" in a year, and said leaving one part of the UK in the single market and customs union "is emphatically not something that the UK Government is considering".
Earlier further pressure was piled on Mrs May by the leader of the Scottish Conservatives – who in pointed remarks tweeted that any Brexit agreement must be UK-wide.
Ruth Davidson said: "The question on the ballot paper asked voters whether the UK should stay or leave the European Union – it did not ask if the country should be divided by different deals for different home nations.
"While I recognise the complexity of the current negotiations, no government of the Conservative and Unionist Party should countenance any deal that compromises the political, economic or constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom.
"All sides agree there should be no return to the borders of the past between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
"Similarly, jeopardising the UK's own internal market is in no-one's interest.
"If regulatory alignment in a number of specific areas is the requirement for a frictionless border then the Prime Minister should conclude this must be on a UK-wide basis."
And former top Foreign Office official Lord Ricketts said the row was "damaging" for Mrs May, and will leave EU leaders with the impression that she lacks the authority to get through Brexit negotiations.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I mean, it's pretty extraordinary that this wasn't all stitched up with the DUP beforehand.
"We're used to prime ministers going to Brussels and having a row with the EU and coming back without an agreement, but to go agree with the EU and then have a row on your own side is inconvenient."
He went on: "It leaves an impression, I think, in Brussels that the Prime Minister hasn't got authority over her own side and that will knock confidence in doing a final deal."
And the former Brexit minister David Jones said "there will be people in Downing Street who will have regretted not making the position clearer with the DUP".
Mrs May is now set to go back to the Belgian capital later this week, when she will hope to have brought the unionist party on side and can finally sign off on the first phase of negotiations.
But she is cutting it fine if she wants a deal to be done to convince the leaders of the remaining 27 EU nations at a summit on December 14-15 to move Brexit talks on to their second phase.
The Sun also reported that as well as Ireland differences also remain over the issue of European Court of Justice jurisdiction over EU nationals living in the UK after Brexit.
However Mrs May insisted she was still "confident" of getting a green light for trade talks at next week's EU Council meeting.
Mr Varadkar told her "the ball is in your court" in terms of resolving the Brexit border issue, and reiterated his "regret" the UK Government had backed down from the proposal .
But Mr Dodds, speaking earlier in the Commons, said Anglo-Irish relations have been set back by the Irish government's "aggressive and anti-unionist" approach in the Brexit talks.
He warned relationships said will "take a long time to repair".
And his fellow DUP MP Ian Paisley asked Mr Davis to speak to the Dublin government and "let them know that if they continue down this reckless path they will end up stumping up a further £1.5billion in membership fees to the European Union if they do not get a trade deal with us".
Cross-party silence on Brexit this morning
But BBC presenter Nick Robinson claimed Labour and the DUP also told their senior politicians to not appear on TV or radio to talk about the Brexit talks.
The Radio 4 Today programme host hit back at complaints that representatives from the parties were not appearing on the show for interviews by revealing they all asked their spokesmen not to appear.
Backbench Tory MP and former Brexit minister David Jones did appear on the show, alongside crossbench peer and former top Foreign Office official Lord Ricketts.
But no ministers, shadow cabinet members or senior DUP figures were available for questioning.
Robinson tweeted: "Calling all those complaining that their party is not on @BBCr4today today: the DUP, Tory & Labour press offices asked their spokespeople not to appear."
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A carnage heavy no holds barred stalk-and-slash fright-fest that recalls the genre's late '70s heyday Switchblade Romance is an uncompromising and brilliantly unsettling film from writer-director Alexandre Aja. Best friends and holidaying students Marie (C''cile De France) and Alex (Maiwenn Le Besco) travel to the countryside to visit Alex's parents but when a homicidal maniac turns up at the house leaving a trail of corpses in his wake Alex and Marie are forced to fight for their lives with some heavy-duty weaponry. With a heart-pounding pace as brutal as its husky truck-driving killer Switchblade Romance delivers a truly visceral experience. Undoubtedly the film that horror junkies have been waiting for viewing alone is not advised.
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Max, An agoraphobic golf fan, leads a secluded life in the woods. While practicing, he stumbles on the body of an unconscious young woman covered with blood. He takes her home and takes care of her. He asks her no questions. But when she runs away in the middle of the night, he follows her and finds out that she seduces men and eats them alive while having sex with them. Bewildered and fascinated, Max will start with her a relationship mixed with fear and tenderness. Yet, he's not the only one who's interested in the young woman when she's abducted and taken away from him. Max will have to face the urban violence of his gangster's past.
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Louis van Gaal's turbulent two-year reign at Manchester United was brought to an end as FA Cup glory was unable to mask poor Premier League performances in terms of style and substance.
The former Chelsea manager signed a three-year deal at Old Trafford, with an option to stay at the club until at least 2020.
As Mourinho takes over at the Manchester club, he finds himself in what is a most unusual position for him. For the first time in his career he enters a new job with a lot to prove. For the first time in his career the curve of his fortunes is showing a steep decline. And for the first time too doubt has entered the equation.
For most of his career Mourinho has been like one of those cartoon characters who blithely carry on running even when they've gone over the cliff and journeyed into thin air. But lately he's started to look down and, feeling round with his feet, realise that he's bound by the same rules of sporting gravity as everyone else. If he plummets into the ravine at Old Trafford it will lead to the unravelling of a reputation once second to none. The Special One has an awful lot to lose if things go wrong at his new club. Failure will be regarded as proof that he has become yesterday's man.
You couldn't have imagined this happening just three years ago when Mourinho was named third best manager of all-time in a poll carried out by World Soccer magazine, behind Alex Ferguson and Rinus Michels. OK, these polls don't mean a great deal and are absurdly slanted towards the contemporary, 21 votes for Mourinho and 18 for Pep Guardiola when Udo Lattek (a European Cup, a Cup Winners' Cup, a UEFA Cup and eight Bundesligas) received one and Miguel Munoz (two European Cups and 10 La Ligas) none at all.
But this 2016/2017 management change at Manchester United have also come with some questions and lessons.
PR Team Knock
The Red Devil's PR department has had one of their less glorious spells over the last few days.
Ibrahimovic's Instagram message on Thursday, 30th of June beat them to the punch in announcing he was headed for Old Trafford, while on the following day a website gaffe saw new away kits advertised in the United online store with Mkhitaryan's name on the back a full 24 hours before Dortmund admitted he had left them.
And that comes hot on the heels of the clumsy way they pushed aside Louis van Gaal for Mourinho. But as United fans take a look at their squad taking shape for 2016-17, few will care one jot about how things have made it into the public eye. Bailly was a good, solid addition.
Ibrahimovic is the eye-catching mouthpiece and totem attacker who will make people sit up and take notice of United again. Yet Mkhitaryan is the signing which most exemplifies their drive for success.
Ibrahimovic's unveiling on that same Friday, 1st of July, was the big-name signing of the week, but Mkhitaryan's capture is undoubtedly the big statement addition.
Behaviour & Reputation
There's no doubt that Jose Mourinho's reputation has taken a pummelling since August, with the Eva Carneiro affair, results slipping and his frequent paranoid outbursts not reflecting well on the Portuguese.
Given that, according to most reports, Mourinho didn't replace Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013 because there were concerns among the Old Trafford hierarchy about The Special One's behaviour and how it might affect a club like United, the fact that the club even considered him now suggests a marked shift in policy.
But with that history, you'd have to expect Ed Woodward to remind Mourinho from the outset that his previous behaviour won't be tolerated at United. For the first time in a long time, Jose is unlikely to be taking a job on his terms. There are only so many demands you can make in his position and, chastened a tad by the year's events; we could see a mellower Mourinho than ever.
Mourinho and his team will need to let their on-field actions do the talking and prove himself one again that he is still worthy of his self-acclaimed title of the "Special One".


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THE BANK of England's finance sector models are hopelessly out of date, leading the central bank to wrongly push for banks to hold more capital even though the sector has made enormous progress since the financial crisis, a top analyst warned yesterday.
Policymakers at the Bank have repeatedly said banks will see the cost of equity fall – potentially to as low at five or six per cent – if they raise capital levels further.
But UBS's Alastair Ryan warns this is based on market data that is years out of date.
"The Bank of England's argument is based on a model that is at its most powerful when markets see banks as grossly over-leveraged," he said.
"The policymakers' conclusions are drawn from 2008-9 when markets discovered banks were in this position. But as capital levels have risen, diminishing returns set in, and we can see how markets treat banks now."
Instead, he doubts the cost of equity will fall below 11 per cent.
Ryan also warned the European Central Bank's latest policy of promising to buy Spanish bonds will only work in the short term, leading to another year of recurring crises in the Eurozone.
"The outright monetary transactions (OMT) programme could buy perhaps €200bn (£160bn) of Spanish debt – what can the ECB do next?" Ryan asked. "This is only a stop gap, and, like previous programmes, will be at its most powerful before it is triggered."
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frank ocean (aka lonny breaux) released his nostalgia, ultra album not long ago. it's alright. while parts of it are amazing, uplifting and beautiful there are more than enough songs that fell off due to laziness. i find it boring lifting entire pieces of music without changing it in any way but i guess that's between frank's lawyers and the artists he jacked. a lot of people seem to love it so good on him for knocking this one out of the park.
american wedding is a direct lift of hotel california, which for the record, i can't stand in the first place. the reason this is stuck in my head is because the last 49 seconds of the track is a little acapella build up that sounds like it would be a killer song if it had been developed a little further. i love how uplifting the message is and the way the harmonies are layered is brilliant. i just kept listening to that last bit over and over again which is apparently the exact same thing everyone else is doing. frank, turn that shit into a full song would you please?


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BACKGROUND: Some pediatric tracheostomized patients who receive inhaled drugs undergo decannulation, and it is unknown whether the dose has to be adjusted. Pressurized metered-dose inhalers (pMDIs) and soft mist inhalers (SMIs) used with valved holding chambers (VHCs) made of non-electrostatic material are available. We hypothesized that using an SMI and changing the delivery route from tracheostomy to oronasal would increase lung dose.
METHODS: Four units of a metallic VHC were studied with albuterol hydrofluoroalkane (pMDI) and albuterol/ipratropium bromide with an SMI using an anatomically correct in vitro model of a 5-y-old spontaneously breathing tracheostomized child. The drug was captured in a filter and was termed lung dose. We tested breathing patterns with tidal volumes of 50, 155, and 300 mL. A mask and a special adapter were used as interfaces for oronasal and tracheostomy delivery, respectively. Spectrophotometry (276 nm) was used to determine albuterol concentration.
RESULTS: The use of SMI resulted in a higher lung dose than the pMDI for all tested conditions except delivery through tracheostomy with tidal volume of 155 mL (P = .69). Switching from oronasal to tracheostomy delivery increased the lung dose for all tested conditions except for the pMDI with the 300-mL tidal volume (P = .83). The use of SMI resulted in higher deposition in the tracheostomy tube than the pMDI.
CONCLUSIONS: In general, an SMI delivers a higher lung dose than a pMDI when using a metallic spacer during oronasal and tracheostomy route with the latter providing a higher lung dose.
- tracheostomy
- drug delivery
- aerosol
- valved holding chamber
- metered dose inhaler
- artificial airway
- soft mist inhaler
- Respimat
- pediatrics
- Correspondence: Ariel Berlinski MD, Pediatric Pulmonology Section, 1 Children's Way, Slot 512-17, Little Rock, AR 72202. E-mail: BerlinskiAriel{at}uams.edu.
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`Austin Powers' Soundtrack Just Doesn't Swing
2 stars
VARIOUS ARTISTSAustin Powers : The Spy Who Shagged Me/Music From the Motion Picture Maverick, $17.97
Shag-atrocious, baby! Terribly sorry to report that the new "Austin Powers" soundtrack is to the original what "Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp" was to Sean Connery's James Bond -- nothing more than monkey business. The Bond movies tell us "You Only Live Twice," but this album (in stores Tuesday) doesn't bode well for Mike Myers' spy send-up sequel. Full disclosure: I'm an evangelist for the original "Austin Powers." That ridiculous accent, the ruffled shirts, those catchphrases ("Oh, be- have!"), that brilliant steamroller U- turn scene. Don't get me started. The first soundtrack was a minor classic, too: The Lightning Seeds covering the Turtles, spot-on revivals of Sergio Mendes' "Mas Que Nada" and Quincy Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova" and the return to the high fashion of Burt Bacharach. From the modern day, Edwyn Collins, Matthew Sweet and the Cardigans all helped preserve the disc's ingeniously dippy daisies-and-scooters atmosphere. Unfortunately, the surprise success of the first film led to the inevitable -- a bunch of music-industry gorillas throwing their veteran weight around to land a piece of the sequel action. Madonna, Lenny Kravitz and even Scary Spice don't have much business trying to re- create the sound of swingin' London, but they obviously know it's good business sense to have a go at it. Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger" kicks off the record -- it's her label, after all -- with a space-age pop track crafted by techno artist William Orbit, the guy behind last year's "Ray of Light" album. It's appropriately arranged as a period piece -- harpsichord, flute, squawking and whooshing synthesizers -- but Madonna sounds unwilling to let her hair down, as Austin requires. There's no room for "Ray of Light" dead seriousness here. The members of R.E.M. have always acknowledged their record- geek debts, but their take on Tommy James' "Draggin' the Line" is neat, tidy and uninspired. As for Kravitz, who covers the Guess Who's "American Woman" (these are hits from the early '70s, not the '60s, but who's counting?) -- the less said, the better. If you passed over the credits you'd be certain it was the Brian Setzer Orchestra, not Green Day, doing the spy-surf instrumental "Espionage." It's a shame, because Billie Joe is reportedly such an "Austin Powers" fan that he got his son's middle name (Danger) from the Myers character. And Scott Weiland's disposable version of the Zombies' "Time of the Season" (backed by Big Blue Missile) is one of those cover-song redundancies that are fast becoming one of our biggest environmental hazards. The second half of the disc finally gets moving in the right direction -- about as quickly as the first movie's steamroller. With original songs, the suitably weird Flaming Lips and Cardigans knockoff the Lucy Nation provide the sort of fresh take on the paisley era that should be mandatory for any Austin Powers release. (Might we suggest the Lilys, Fantastic Plastic Machine or Ladybug Transistor, for example, for "Austin Powers III: Get Smarter"?) The disc closes with a pair of amusing ruses recycled from the first soundtrack. Bacharach invites his recent collaborator Elvis Costello to sing "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," and the fabulous turntablist Dimitri From Paris tinkers with Jones' dizzy "Soul Bossa Nova." It's not enough, not by a long shot. Ever get the feeling you've been shagged?
2 stars
RANDY NEWMANBad Love Dreamworks, $16.98
After 10 years of slopping out mawkish hits for Hollywood, Randy Newman reverts to his old misanthropic self on "Bad Love," out Tuesday. It's jarring, to say the least, to hear the man who most recently provided the tunes for everything from the short-lived "Cop Rock" television series to big- budget flicks like "Babe: Pig in the City" get down and dirty again. By the album's second song, "Shame," however, Newman has al ready transformed himself into a dirty old man, channeling his lust for a 19-year-old girl. Meanwhile, on "I'm Dead (But I Don't Know)," he reels off some fairly accurate self-criticism: "I find my talent has gone/ Why do I go on and on and on and on and on?" He worked overtime on that one. Producers Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake (Bonnie Raitt, Suzanne Vega), meanwhile, make the music sound so dark and prodding that any intended jollity never made it out of the studio. Newman is lucky there's a "Toy Story" sequel on the way.
-- Aidin Vaziri
3 stars
ANI DIFRANCO AND UTAH PHILLIPSFellow Workers Righteous Babe , $16.98
Independent folk-rocker Ani DiFranco teams up with folk icon Utah Phillips on their second collaboration, "Fellow Workers." This follow-up to 1996's "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere" pays tribute to American labor organizers. The album is something of a history lesson, but Phillips' narratives are lively and funny, and the stories are triumphant, tragic and quintessentially human. He spins stories about the famed Mother Jones and the Haymarket Riots but also elevates the struggles of everyday heroes. His yarns are more like those of a liberal grandfather than a stiff history professor. Recorded live in New Orleans, "Fellow Workers" is fleshed out by DiFranco's vocals, guitars and band. A down-home, organic-jam feel pervades the recording, from the call- and-response vocals between DiFranco and Julie Wolf on "Why Come?" to Dave Pirner's guest trumpet performance on "The Long Memory." Phillips' passion for history is infectious throughout the disc; on one track he has the audience shouting "dump the bosses." His knowledge and humanity are immense, and DiFranco backs him skillfully, allowing Phillips' tales to shine.
-- Beth Winegarner
3 stars
MOBYPlay V2 Records, $16.98
About the only thing certain on a Moby album is that it will be different from the one before it. "Play" takes its lead from 1995's wonderfully eclectic "Everything Is Wrong," but the stylistic swings aren't quite as pronounced. The parameter-breaking spirit is identical, though, from the block-rocking "Bodyrock" to the percolating "Machete" to moody vibe pieces such as "Rushing" and "Porcelain." In an ambitious twist, "Play" fea tures several songs on which Moby samples Alan Lomax's folk field recordings, constructing instrumental beds around them. An unnamed singer soulfully delivers "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad" amid Moby's trip-hop touches. A spiritual provides the root for the soundscape of "Natural Blues," and a blues singer repeats the title lyric of "Find My Baby" as Moby layers on instruments until the song is darn near symphonic. Moby's great attribute is he can pull off something like this without sounding academic or overly clever. He never loses the essence of the songs.
-- Gary Graff
POP CDs IN BRIEF
4 stars
CAETANO VELOSO, Livro, Nonesuch, $15.98
With the release of Livro ("Book"), produced in Rio de Janeiro, musical revolutionary Caetano Veloso proves once again that he is one of the world's great songwriters. A pioneer of the innovative "tropicalismo" movement of the '60s, he freely mixed Brazilian styles with other musical and poetic textures. Thirty recordings later, we find Veloso serving up a sumptuous, surreal feast of lush orchestral pieces, drum and percussion extravaganzas, sensuous ballads and minimalist raps. And for those who like traditional music, earthy Bahian roots are here, too, wrapped in dreamy tenderness and passion.
-- Sandy Miranda
4 stars
HARRY CONNICK JR., Come by Me, Columbia, $17.98
Harry Connick Jr. has put his big band back together after an eight- year break to create what is easily the crowning achievement of his career. A delightfully quirky collection of songs -- half standards, half originals -- "Come by Me" melds elements of bop and New Orleans R&B into the Sinatra-inspired pop approach that made Connick a matinee idol a decade ago. From the delicate Ellington-esque timbres of "Time After Time" to the James Booker-meets-Count Basie treatment of the title track, Connick surrounds his velvet tenor pipes and commanding keyboard work with self-penned orchestrations rich in musical color and rhythmic surprise. -- Lee Hildebrand
2 stars
KOOL KEITH, Black Elvis/Lost in Space, Columbia, $16.98
Eccentric rapper Kool Keith has spent the past few years operating under the guise of degenerate characters like Dr. Octagon. Hearing him play himself on his latest record is a bit of a letdown. He's still got a way with mind-boggling prose, but in this rote hip-hop setting he sounds uncharacteristically listless. A superior offering is Dr. Doom's new release, "First Come First Served," which offers Keith yet another opportunity to play dress-up.
-- Aidin Vaziri
5 stars........Classic
4 stars........Excellent
3 stars........Good
2 stars........Average
1 stars........Below Average