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Wilkinsons Sword Hydro 5 Review: Vs the Quattro and Gillette Fusion
Let the Battle Commence
As it seems to be unclear, this review is based on personal experience and may not apply to your past, present or future experience or experiences with this razor. This does not constitute an instruction not to purchase this razor or to use this or any other razor. It is entirely your choice.
I've used the Gillette Fusion Power pretty much since it came out and never found anything better. So when I saw the Wilkinson Sword Hydro 5, I was about as excited as one can get over a razor. Despite having just bought a pack of 20 Fusion blades, I immediately bought one to try. I did a previous review of the Quattro Energy versus the Fusion Power and found Wilkinson lacking in almost everything but price and ergonomics. The Fusion did everything of substance better. So when the chance to try the Wilkinson apple against the Gillette apple came along, I expected a fair fight.
As an aside, just to make things confusing, Schick is the company name when marketed in America and Australia. When marketed in the UK, the company is called Wilkinson Sword.
The first blood went to the Hydro 5 before I'd got it out of the shop. The price is still noticeably cheaper for the Hydro 5 cartridges than the Fusion blades. The Achilles heel of Gillette has always been the ridiculous price for replacement blades. We pay but we aren't happy and the moment a comparable product comes along with a better price, I'd dump Gillette faster than you can say razor burn.
As the Quattro and the Hydro 5 are similar beasts, this is more about what's better on the new model as well as a product review and comparison to the Fusion. I should point out that I'm using the Fusion Power. While there are two minds as to whether vibrations are gimmicky or not, I firmly believe they help and I see the results every day. Vibrating types give me less razor burn, a cleaner shave and less overall skin soreness. The reason I'm mentioning this is because it appears there isn't yet a vibrating version of the Hydro 5. I expect I'll get one just to try it out when it finally arrives, but for now we're stuck with the lo-tech version.
Here is a full comparison between the Quattro and Fusion.
This product now has five blades in the cartridge. As such, they've altered the layout. It no longer has the strange wire in the back of the cartridge case and it has a much more open design. Although it still clogged up with hair and foam, it's much easier to clean than the Quattro.
They've also improved the gel strip on the razor, turning it into a water activated reservoir, a solid lump of putty that turns into gel when you wet it. This actually does give a much better delivery of the gel, which is supposed to sooth the area you've just shaved.
It is quite bulky, however, so they've made it to flip up to expose just the razor blades when you want to shave the area around your lips or trim around a beard with greater precision. This is a fantastic system and beats the single blade in the top of the razor as both Gillette and Wilkinson have tried before. The gel doesn't get used while it's in this position, which is maybe a loss, provided the gel actually works, which is something I've never been able to discern.
There is a marked improvement in the smoothness as you are shaving. I always felt the Quattro tugged quite a bit when shaving and this was backed up by tiny cuts consistent with the razor bumping along on my skin. The tug is definitely gone with the Hydro 5, and for the most part, so are the cuts.
Unfortunately, that's it for me. The nuts and bolts of a razor, the feel of the shave immediately after and when your skin has settled a bit are substantially lacking. For some reason, it just doesn't give an even shave. I still had a major problem with a patchy shave that just doesn't happen with the Gillette Fusion.
I had a worse problem with my skin, worse than the Quattro even, and with a brand new blade! When I use a razor my skin doesn't like, I not only get razor burn but acne as well. Perhaps it's because I'm not using a vibrating version (I couldn't find one or I would have been using it) but I genuinely found the after effects of this razor to be one of the worse I've ever used. My skin was sore for days and I ditched moisturizer in favor of aloe gel an hour after shaving. I don't start seeing effects like that until I've accidentally used a fusion cartridge for a month! The verdict is quite simple: bleeding awful!
As if to add insult to injury, they've changed the way the cartridge clips onto the razor so you can't use your old Quattro version with the new blades, you have to buy the razor. I mention this partly because examination of the two different heads shows them to be not dissimilar, so only a small change could have made them compatible and also because I saw an advert from Wilkinson saying that all of their cartridges were compatible with each other. Of course, this was before the Hydro series.
My advice is think carefully, especially if you've had problems with Wilkinson products before. It is pretty cheap though. As a final word and the ultimate test, my girlfriend, who used the Quattro for about a week before giving up, declared the "new one" a potato peeler after one try. We used a lot of Aloe gel that week thanks to to this thing. Frankly, I'd rate the Quattro as slightly better at actually removing hair although feels more painful when you're doing it, but the after effects of this razor was a la Airplane! Neither are a patch on the Fusion, which gives me an even, relatively pain-free shave without a mirror.
I consider Gillette to be the Apple of the shaving world, but until somebody can match them, I'm sticking with them.
This content is accurate and true to the best of the author's knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.
Questions & Answers
The Fusion is idiot proof as it's hard to really carve up your face but it always gives me razor burn. In contrast the Quattro Titanium can cut you if you are not careful but if you master it you will rarely cut yourself. I find the Fusion 5 still randomly cuts me and gives me sore skin so I will not buy more blades after the blades I have run out. I tried shaving half my face with the quattro and half with the fusion and for me the quattro was a closer shave. I am haply with the quattro as long as they keep making blades but after hearing the positive comments about the hydro 3 I might give it a try. The Mach 3 is good also but it still leaves me with random cuts which I dont get with the Quattro.
Tried the Hydro 5 with "Shock absorber" technology just to see how they compare to my Gillette Proshields I use and was disappointed on my first shave. It missed a lot of spots and I had to go over the same area several times, worse was it gave my bad irritation on my neck. Threw it out and kept my Gillette.
I think it's a great blade very comfortable shave great flip up design also and cheaper then gillette all round winner
to all those lads out there having problems with shaving ! just wait until you reach between 50 & older when you discover that you have a problem ? my beard is like steel & I would love to get more than one shave out of any blade ! blades ! I started with a safety razor over 50 years ago when you could buy blue star blades which my father always used & was able to get at least 4 -5 shaves out of one blade ! now it seams that the makers are driven by price only because its so lucrative now we are expected to pay a minimum of £20 to buy rubbish that don't last me for even one shave regardless of how many blades they put in the razor head its all just a con ? I bought an electric razor years ago & that's what I have used for years ! but they are doing the same thing with those as well the cost for batteries is extortion & replacement blades , so now I shave with electric & finish with a safety razor & get 3 shaves out of a double edge razor blade because the blades on the electric need renewing & you can buy a hundred blades for a fiver £5 --I for one refuse to pay the sums of money they are asking these days its a no brain -er ! I am thinking now is the time to go back to the cutthroat & to hell with them all & save at least £200.00 a year & remember we all get old & your beard gets tougher every year..............
Ive read this review with great interest, and I must say, I was a bit chocked by your shaving experience with the the Hydro 5. I too have a sensible skin, and i have managed to avoid soars and others bi effects by using another shave foam. The foam wich was delivered with my Hydro 5 wasn't good at all, I had burns and soars as well. Then I bought a cheapo gel foam from Lidl (Cien for sensible skins and I use a brush to apply the foam on my face) and it does the trick. Painless shaving, no problems at all! Now back to the Hydro 5: It is (for me) an excellent razor, buuut the Gillettes Fusion performs slightly better. I use less runs on my face with it. But I keep the Hydro, its cheaper! About your acne, I was thinking that maybe your bears grows inside your skin? My stepfather had the same problem, he couldn't use razor blades, he had to use an electric one because a blade razor shaved too close and his hair growed inside his skin... Sorry for my poor English!
Blogs like this are tricky when trying to assess products.
Classic has to be the King of Shaves blog where the designer/sales guy expresses the virtues of suspension technology....absolutely great on paper but anyone tried the darn things. Terrible. Wrong angle, massively cumbersome and will cut you to bits if you get it wrong.
I've tried Hydro 5 after 25 years of using Gillette products and this blade and entire design is so amazing! Best shave ever!!!
Get over it already.....they're just razors. Some better on others than some and vice versa. None of them worth more thean £5 for 4 though, so go for the cheapest
Recently swiched back to the Gillete Sensor Excel.
Still got my old handle from all those years back, cleaned it up and managed to get the blades.
Heck, why did Gillete ever try to improve on it. It just works so well, without all these strange ergonomic, weird color gizmos with 5 blades.
I had forgot how beautifully it handles and it does the job perfectly, allowing you to easily see where you are going.
Kevin i agree about the blocking. Its closer to 6mm per side bytheway but i have not found it a problem so far just that your shave becomes over less blade area as it fills up.
Hi all. I have discovered a major flaw with the new Proglide.The shave is good, the blades wash out easy but do they. They do partly. If you look at the edge of both sides of the frame where the blades join the sidewalls, there is about 4mm per side which is backed by plasic. Ive noticed that these edges to the blades clog up quite badly after a few shaves and there being very little one can do about it. It caused missed spots at the edge of the blade.
In all none are perfect, so i think it maybe best to go to centre point of good blade and reasonable price. Quattro Titanium none power maybe, or possibly mach 3. Cannot find a Sensor handle that lots of you are on about.
Ive just been using the Hydro 5 and are not very happy. It seems like a great idea to have this flip away strip which presents the first blade like a single blade razor. It works to give a perfect clean edge to the sideburn but leave it like it and it will cut you and/or leave you very sore. Agreeing with Lymond it left me sore even with the flip down in the usual shave position. I think it does not have flexible mountings to the blade.
Proglide too expensive so sticking with Mach 3 for the moment then.
Ive had them all apart from the earlier Sensor models. The Proglide is the best thing ive ever used but just cannot seem to bring myself to buy the blades when in the chemist. Theres always other things i need as well and end up buying blades in the £5 to £6 area.
My wife similarly thinks they are a silly price.
If only Gillete realised this im sure they would be onto a world beating product, capturing the entire market.
I have just received a Proglide for free handed out in a shopping mall promotion. Its just the manual version but has proven an incredibly good shave. The back trimmer really works well and i geniunely cannot knock it regardless of cost.I like the color with black cartridges because i hate the bright orange of the Fusion ones. Cost will have to be considered when i come to replace the 2 blades in the little kit.
I rule out the Fusion because the back blade does not work. Could be Hydro 3 then but i don't think it will better than this thing somehow.
Lymond i agree too. I purchased the std Proglide 3 weeks ago (i don't bother with battery power) Got it on offer for £6 in Boots Chemist. Its easily the best shave ive had. Anyone stating less is lying. Super, super smooth with accurate trimmer and undernose precsion.
However when i returned for spare blades this weekend, i was utterly shocked at the £9 for 3. Yes thats 3 Not 4.
The 8 pack requires a small mortgage and i just cannot justify it really, especially in the light of me just reducing the kids pocket money.
I may evaluate this Hydro 3 at £5 for 4 blades which is a shame.
Well i did purchase the Proglide. It probably is the best shave. Super smooth and the trimmer seems a little better than hopeless one on the Fusion.
It certainly takes some beating. However, everyone in my sports club all bring out Mach3s, Hydros and King of shaves stuff. Its just to expensive to replace blades and i think owing to credit crunch they are not chucking their money at it. Gillette need to think about it. We all no they make these blades for less than quid so how can they justify 9 quid for 3
Ive used the Gillette sensor, excel version for many years. Get xmas gifts of all these other contraptions but never get me to move on from my Sensor.
I almost believe the Mach 3 power which i was given over 2 years ago might just edge it but do i need batteries and slight extra cost. Worryingly none in Boots last time i looked , i wonder if they have stopped being imported or Gillette are winding them up.
I then added the std Turbo mach 3 blades to it and these fitted and worked the same, which is an ok cost for a close shave without a large shaving head. Is the set up better than the Sensor? no i don't believe it is but Sensor excel blades are very hit and miss to get hold of now.
I cannot understand for the life of me why anybody needs 5 blades in their razor. If you can't get a good shave with 1 or 2 blades is 4 or 5 really going to help? Like I said in my earlier post I tried the Fusion and found it uncomfortable and it even gave me an ingrowing hair a couple if times. Plus with the extra expanse of metal it can get uncomfortably hot as well, contributing to the burning sensation when using it. Two or 3 blades is perfectly fine for my needs. Any more than said number of blades is just marketing nonsense and a blatant excuse fir the companies to charge us rip-off prices.
Also I don't like the fact that Gillette has the audacity to market their Snowplough skinguard as a 'breakthrough feature' when a Tesco 2-blade disposable has a similar feature way before the Fusion cane out.
Always wanted to find a gillette alternative, Hydro is looking good so far! First shave but gillette can get blunt quickly if you let you stubble grow. First wilkinson sword product I have thought comes close. Really some of you guys, PR people get a grip. No real punter believes such bull sh$t!
Im still using the mach 3. Tried all but think the Mach is a good combo of everything.
Nobody has ever said the mach 3 was a poor shave which will do me without extra expence. Couldn't get on with Hydro 5, leaves me sore.
Ive now purchased a satin stainless special handle for my mach 3 blades off ebay
Tricky one. I tried the old Sensor Excel against a Fusion recently (not spending the dollars on a pro glide)
The Fusion does seem to have the edge in smoothness.
Yu can hear the Sensor cutting with the traditional shaving sound but not the Fusion. However, the Sensor is much more manouverable around the nose and much easy to handle. I think this is the oversight of Gillette. They have gone all out smoothness but forgot the other needs.
Sensor is fast manouverable and a real pleasure. The slight drop in smoothness didn't bother me at all.
Mach 3 is somewhere between the 2.
Agree on the Sensor excel.
Its a great traditional shave that is safer than a safety blade but more easily weilded than these big headed multi blade units. Its good under the nose and gives a good line at the boards.
No blades last time i went in the store though.
Maybe Gillette needs to listen to this post.
Don't get sucked into this new safety razor hype though.
These old blades are cool things but get your line wrong and your slice your face off. They are fine provided you use in straight lines up and down but move sideways slightly and your gonna get cut big time. Sensor was good, i remember it well Hydro 3 not bad. Wouldn't pay the price for the Fusion stuff.....silly money.
Im a bit of an old timer but also favour the Sensor.
Did swap for the MACH 3 when it arrived but found i just couldn't geta perfect edge on sideburns with the thicker head. It probably is a tad smoother but do we really need all this smoothness. I shaved for almost 10 years with a safety razor...no fins or anything with them.
The Sensor is a precsion machine, simplistic and does the job very well. Do fear they will drop the blades though.
Just for the fun of it, I tried the Fusion Proglide Power and found it the biggest load of nonsense in razor history. It felt like dragging a block of cheese across my face with the vibration on and the shave was no better than my Sensor razor and £20 for 6 blades? You have to be joking.
Just tried this Sensor this week, entirely based on what you guys are saying here. Available in Boots.
Superb. Its the Sensor Excel 2 blade. Smooth even and close shave. No thick fins,slim head and no emoilents.
Great under nose and no soreness. However, not as cheap as you would imagine. 10 year old technology almost same price as Mach 3. Ill keep mine though as long they keep supplying the blades. Tried the Hydro. Very smooth shave.
Not intending this hydro 5 discussions to turn into fan site for the old Sensor but i also agree with the comments about it. Its possible that 2 blades were quite enough, being an optimum between a closer shave than single blade with its lift and cut ability (do we need anymore) but then get into tight spots by not being too bulk.Its interesting that many Barbers like the Sensor, possibly being a good comprimise between price, easy handling and good shave. Ive certainly not been able to better it (great sideburn trimming too)and wont change provided i can still get the darn blades. Shop never had them last time i went in!
Yah agree with the old Sensor. Cannot help but feel 2 blades probably reached the optimum between multi blade closeness and being able to weild the darn things properly. No closer really with 3 or 5 blades but like weilding a log for a load of wasted extra cash.
My Sensor always felt a little light so i bought a custom stainless handle.
Got to be honest im one of 1000s of old timers who endorse the old Sensor Excel. There are a number of forums that back my view. Im kinda thinking that 2 blades proved close enough while balanced against the ability to get under the nose easily and act as a good enough sideburn trimmer without the nedd for any special adaption features and added costs.
It was declared the best razor in the world around 1992 and ive tried nothing since to better it for an allround shave. The head isn't too big niether, being my biggest complaint with these later models.
Did recently try this Hydro 3 though. Pretty good all in but still not better for the extra features.
I have used the Sensor, Mach3, Quattro, Fusion and now currently using the Hydro3.
For me the Sensor, Mach3 and Hydro3 all gave me an excellent shave. The Fusion let my skin sore and I didn't like the way my chin appeared to bury itself into the bank of blades on it. The Quattro was terrible.
All you need is two or three blades. You don't need something resembling a radiator grille to get a good shave.
Ok sorry. I suppose it is a personal opinion but yours is not shared with either the main collection of posts on here or friends who used the Hydro 3 when it was free trialed amongst the men who worked at my dept store.
None of us had patchy shaves at all and certainly no soreness after the 2 weeks or so of using the blade.
Ive tested it back and forth againsta Mach 3 for about 3 weeks now and it clearly edges it for less cost.
The Fusion or Proglide may well compare but double the price.....no brainer really.
Lymond cannot for the life of me figure how your having a problem with the hydro 3. Its just the smoothest shave ever and you simply have to be making this stuff up.
The 5 is a little more bulky and really cuts too close imho but i have numerous buddies using this 3 version and all have said it exceeds anything they have used.
Nobody has purchased the the Proglide yet though but agreeing with the above poster reg the cost of the blades.
Think the Hydro 3 should be compared against the mach 3 and here it wins hands down.
yeah gotta agree first the reviewer slags off the hydro 5 and then does the same to the 3 when comparing against gillette products which paints the picture. This is not to say that all Wilko products whip gillette ones which they don't but the 5 and 3 are completely different razors.
The 3 has a def edge on gillette stuff below the proglide which i just tried. Proglide is the best but requires a small mortgage to invest in the darn blades.
rumbled this Lymond.......the Hydro 3 is absolutely superb on jaw lines and anywhere else. Does it matcha Fusion...maybe...lacks the back trimmer but the back trimmer is pretty poor but heck of lot cheaper
Lymond thanks but gotta disagree regarding shave quality with the 3 when compared to the Fusion. Agreeing with some above, it really is quite exceptional, being smooth, even and burn free. I found it a staggeringly good shave. Maybe you are comparing against the Fusion poer version then?....where that would probably be an unfair comparison like for like.
Yes, if a power version of the Hydro comes avail then a comparison with the Fusion power would be fair.
Ok managed 4 more shaves without the cream but seems to have degraded to the point where i will now use cream for the next shave. Its suggests that you could take it for a weeks vacation without the need to pack cream which i suppose is quite remarkable and a first for such products.
I dumped the Mach 3 for the Fusion and more cost but will probably dump the Fusion now in favour of this and less cost.
Packed the Hydro 3 for a recent over night field trip with the mapping service. Figured with a brand new blade i could dispense with packing shave cream to keep bulk down. Worked out ok. Seems to provide enough emoilent for atleast 1 or 2 field trip shaves. I may test to find out how many it can handle but the for the fact it obviously is not as good as a shave with canned cream.
Only ever had the Hydro 3 and works perfectly. Had planned on trying the Hydro 5 next but may not bother now. I would say its marginally better than a mach 3 but one of the cheaper blades around and could shave you ok without shaving cream should you run out if out of town.
Ok tried the 3 head on my 5 model. Works beautifully.
oh nearly forgot, the Hydro 3 heads are perfectly color coded enough to match the Hydro 5 handle incase anyone was wondering. Some guy above mentioned it was the answer. Hes right.
Lymond no definitely not how i intended.
Im suggesting everyone on here who hasn't tried it to try it then write an honest review because clearly there are some inaccurate reviews around. As regard your review (if you want the feedback) yeah fair assesment. Wouldn't have critisised the heads not fitting other models especially when 3 and 5 heads ARE interchangable.
The 3 really is that good though. I defy you critisise it especially at the price. Its almost not like shaving. Cannot figure why they put all their advert hype into the 5 which frankly isn't a great shave.
Tried the Hydro 3 its about the best shaving experience you will ever have. Try it and write an honest review.
Hydro 5 did leave me a little sore. Flip away lube strips works very well but frankly not needed on the smaller Hydro 3 head. Its about perfect in every aspect. Beautifully smooth, small head, a lube strip and relatively cheap blades.
I absolutely concur with what some of the comments regarding false reviews are saying. One site (The baldy forum)citicises the back blade????....hey.
It don't have no trimmer on the back of the blade!
Clearly someone is bored at work and just wants to slate the product. If you've actually tried it for real you will know that it has no blade on the back but a completely different method of trimming by means of a flip out of the way lube strip and absolutely no blade on the back whatsoever.
Best thing to do is average 10 reviews. 3 might have not even held the darn razor!
As for this thing itspretty good like most say about like a Mach but with a trimmer aspect.
My teenage son had the Hydro 3 and i had the Hydro 5 off my wife this christmas. We have used our first blade for about 3 weeks but agreed to swap our second blade over to try the other. I drove the idea so that i might buy the cheaper 3 blades and he was happy because he got the 5s more novel blade system.
The 3 proved suprisingly easier to use and gave a more comfortable shave. Didn't find the lube strip any more inpractical around the nose area than other models out there. I would agree its better than a mach 3. Trouble is my son is now sold on the better sculpting feature of the 5s lube strip flick back system.
I guess you pays your money and takes your choice but i wont be purchasing the Proglide. Think shaving is expensive enough!
Ive reviewed both across about 10 review sites before buying. All point to Hydro 3 being very good and cheap.
Hydro 5 gets slight critisism for head being too big in normal mode.
Gillette products getting hounded for being just too expensive now. My Fusion blades are not being replaced this weekend. Probably go the Hydro 3
Schick and you lot on here have all missed it and i think lymond may well be right in part.
Everybody the Hydro 3 is the answer. Why.
Because the Hydro 5 when clicked into normal mode doesn't pivot on the hinge well and thus could cause sore shaving.
Sad really because the Schick pivot on the these Hydros is potentially better than Gillettes (as scientifically tested on the Hydro review site and far superior to King of Shaves ACER.
Try the Hydro 3 then. Voted better than the mach 3 in a controlled study of 100 users but then spoiled slightly by making it more complex for the 3. Ive just put 3 heads on my Hydro 5 (they fit) they're cheaper and are better than the mach 3 for quite a cheap price.
Its the 3 that you all should try. Yes ive tried the hydo 3 and it is comfortable. Lacks the flick back feature but doesn't present a big lube strip when compared to other models. About as good as a fusion std. without power but about half the price of the blades. Shave is smooth and even and lasts for atleast 2 weeks of shaving.
Give it try
Im not totally sold. Outstanding idea that the lube strip can be flicked back out of the way presenting the blades where they should be. Gee its only taken 30 years to get back to where my dad enjoyed his shaving without the bulky strip but not sure on the shave. I would say edged by a Mach 3 for comfort but then the Mach 3 has no flip away strip feature. Ive recently tried single blade safety razor with a high quality holder. Looks great and hefts beautifully but lose concentration and you bleed out for the morning. Fusion should be boycotted by all due to stuid price.
Lymond that does like a bad review of that Precision.
The review was as big as this one and the main one you get if you type that razor in. Just goes t show that not all review sites can be trusted.
As regard yours here i just cannot figure why you have rubbished this Hydro 5. Have you tried a 3rd shave to see if its still leaving you sore. It also washes stright out as easy as pie. Don't understand it doesn't make sense
James if you mean the Wilkinson sword Quattro precision, i hear ya.
Not a great shave but the trimmer never neede cleaning out or drying off like that review mentioned. Used mine for 12 months and never rusted once.
However recently purchased this Hydro 5 and it blew the Quattro precision out the water. Yeah the first few shaves do leave you a little sore but because its so damn sharp. Perfect even shave with no cuts and great trimming in with the head
Im struggling to find a difference on a typical shave between the Mach 3, Fusion, or this Hydro 5 and a Mach 3 power i have gained over the years. The outstanding feature for me is the Hydro flip head which presents the top blade of the group within a hairs breathe of the crease of your nose which no other blade can do because of their lubrication strip being in the way regardless of how thin.
It also creates a perfect clean straight finish to the bottom of your sideburn.
You must watch out for posts reviews as one remarkably similar to this mentioned cleaning required to the power trimmer on the Titanium freestyle or would rust.
I had one and so did friends at the Rugby club and they never ever managed to get the thing to rust no matter what they did
I think that post by ste with comments like terrible is really sad for review pages such as this, where 1 immature kid can cast doubt on a product by people trying to find out about a product which is probabaly quite good.
No, im not a salesman but the Hydro 5 is a very good product now into its 4th week since xmas with the same blade. Its more or less impossible for even the newbee shaver to cut himself with it but seems impossible for an experienced shaver like myself.
On the note of soreness mentioned by the original article here i would agree with one other poster who said he experienced soreness for the first shave. Its been suberb since. I would say just about as good as a Mach 3 with a trimmer and perhaps not quite as a good as a fusion but which has a lousy trimmer. I also agree that the old Sensor takes some beating.
terrible! the blades last hardly any time too!
lastime i had to use my girlfriends razor as i needed a shave bad and this couldn't even shave me
plus it cuts me and gillette rarerly does
-1 out of 10
Just a thought has anyone tried the Hydro 3.
No trimmer feature but easy to weild in tight spots, seems to clean out ok. better than a Mach 3 dunno not bad and cheaper and heavier
I would agree that the Hydro is about the same as a Mach 3 but with the added benefit of a good sideburn trimmer. Cant afford Fusion really.
I also liked the old Sensor as many often report, where maybe 2 blade shaving is probably good enough
it poor or "not rated it very highly" as u put it. Clearly there is something wrong there. Everyone who has ever used a mach 3 correctly knows its perfectly usuable and good razor. Perhaps you are comparing all these against some top professional single blade shave in a barbers.....which is not really what the review is about.
Nothings ever going to match a professional shave!
....but there in lies the problem. Your reply does answer the question of suspicion reg you being a salesman for Gillette because you have just also rubbished their Mach 3 ...so i will apologise there but it does point to the fact that you are not a useful tool for reviewing razors. Why?....because nobody in western Europe has ever critisised the Mach 3. It may well have been compared slightly less favourably to say the Fusion (debateably IMO and many)but no one who has ever used it has called
Lymond i think the problem is that you have seemingly rubbished an excellent product which is in direct competition with Gillette. This leads one (incl me) to believe that something dodgy is at work like say one of the Gillette sales team under pressure etc.
I had the 5 for xmas.Its a match for say the mach 3 in shave and wash out terms being very difficult to save the 2 but then has a huge advantage with the flip head for getting under the nose.
The suspicion for me is that your review is just too extreme to be real.....or you had a damaged blade.
thank you Lymond, you save my money, great review
ps. unfortunately I' don't receive money for promoting Gillette :(
Hi.....as a Black dude i do tend to suffer shaving rash whatever i do but found this Hydro 5 on par with the Fusion i have. Just tested against each other like for like for washing out stubble and both are more or less identical. Sideburns are trimmed far better with flip head of Hydro 5 where the Fusion may as well drop their version as its useless. Think his is mentioned on most sites as its flaw now. Cheaper blades will probably see me let the Fusion go and i really don't agree with the post views. Hydro has nice heft also which i liked.
Interesting review. I just got the hydro 3 and it's the most comfortable shave i've ever had, even more so than my previous Mach 3 Turbo. With the added gel strip, I don't see how ANYONE could have such problems with such a gentle razor. Then again i've never really had any problems with any sort of cartridge razor, and to be honest in my mind there isn't really much of a difference between any of premium ones. As far as performace and price goes, the best two razors I would recommend is the Hydro 3 and the Gillette Sensor/Excel. Cheers!
Interesting review. I found he Hydro 5 to be excellent.
The hinged head which you flip back wih the thumb to trim boards way better than the utterly useless single blade on he Fusion. That said, i agree wih he review that the first shave did leave me a bit sore...he second didn't though. No sure if it maybe just too sharp on first use bu shaving has since been fine. I disagree that i doesn rinse ou easily. It does his as easily as he Fusion and the head can be flipped back to rinse inside.
Inability to interchange with other model shaving heads (as a critisism)is probably the most stupid and unhelpful comment on here.
I have just bought the Hydro 5 after using my Dads Hydro 3. Got both in Wilkinsons, H3 being £2 something (57?) and H5 being £3 something (36?) Cant remember...But far cheaper than the Fusion or the Mach 3. I used the Gilette Sensor 3s for a while, which I thought were excellent (like the Blue 3s were).
I wanted a closer shave so reading all these reviews and knowing how the Sensor 3s performed, I took the bait and got the Mach 3. Rubbish, no two words. I definitely did not want to try the Fusion, or the ProGlide version of it. It just looked like it would be terrible (maybe Im wrong - But definitely would not like to prove myself by buying one - Just not worth that much - specially for vibrating kind, sort of looks gimmicky!).
I definitely Don't want to take the side of Wilkinson Sword Hydro for the minute since I only had one shave (can't say how long the blades will last) but Dad says not long (2 weeks - shaving everyday).
Hydro 3 was miles ahead of the Mach 3. Although I got the 5 blade Hydro for myself, as far as performance goes, I think the extra 2 blades could be a gimmick. I love Gilette for their Blue 3 and Sensor 3, but not their Mach 3 or (without trying - but already discouraged) Fusion. I have not tried Wilkinson Sword Quattro, which many fellow shavers say pulls the hairs but the Hydro systems are far superior to a lot of razors out there. For the price, Id say definitely purchase and try for thyselves!
Well, I raised to the bait because basically, and with all due respect, I wanted you to dig yourself deeper. You are mentally incapable of arguing back and you repeat that same asinine question about why you would be doing it as if it was up to me to find out, and maybe while at you you should have asked me to tell you why politicians lie.
But anyhow, it's interesting to see how your reply, while offering absolutely no sensible answers, digressed into the familiar childish insults about my paranoia and how I should seek help etc.
Your response is typical of idiots and lonely people. The former are always the least likely to recognise that reasoning is not their forte, and because they hate being seen for what they are, they evade responding to simple arguments by hurling insults and accusations. The latter, are prone to emotional reasoning because any opposition to them is considered an invasion to their cyber sphere which is the only place they can feel that they matter.
Your beginning by commenting on the size of my reply was foolish because I'm tearing apart your fake review which is several times the size of my reply. And your claims about google Chrome are lies because if you download it in the UK google will read your IP address and gives you a UK version download with a UK dictionary. That piece was written by an American my friend, and you were not smart enough to change into British spelling when you received/copied it to portray as your own unbiased experience ;)
You will probably delete this or you will keep it then hurl more hysteric hallucinations at me. But unfortunately I have real people around me with whom I want to spend a nice holiday :) So feel free to say the last word then scream "I WON" :D
Merry Christmas to you and have a great 2011 :)
Hey Mate,
I like the idea of a reasoned argument, so I'll bite and let's see how it goes:
I don't understand the point of your first question. This is the internet, the most powerful tool in advertising today. If you were writing these "reviews" on a virtual domain WWW.I-WORSHIP-GILLETTE.COM no one would care about it. But a seemingly sincere word of a mouth from some average bloke on a blog would be more effective. Don't ask me why you would be doing it because I have no idea what your affiliations are and it could be one of a million scenarios. You are writing what I consider rubbish, and that's something I know. Only you would know why.
As for your second question about why they don't have 100% of market if "they were so wonderful", can you please point out the part where I said that Wilkinson were wonderful? I actually believe that the fusion is every bit as good as the Hydro 5, which is a testament for Gillette considering that the fusion is the older product, but the H5 has an edge only because of the lower cost.
What I said is that your review was biased because you were not talking about subtle differences or a slight edge for a product. What you said was, and I quote you:
"it just doesn't give an even shave"
"I had a worse problem with my skin, worse than the Quattro even"
"I not only get razor burn but acne as well"
"I genuinely found the after effects of this razor to be one of the worse I've ever used"
"My skin was sore for days and I ditched moisturizer in favor of aloe gel an hour after shaving."
"The verdict is quite simple: bleeding awful!"
I bet that now, even before I comment, you are thinking to yourself that maybe you went overboard with these comments. Right?
But anyhow, what you said means simply that the product is complete garbage that no one in their right minds would let our of a factory. For heaven's sake you call it inferior to their own Quattro! Do you know how that looks? It's like someone claiming that they did not like their new Rolex watch because it came from the factory without a dial or a movement and there was a used condom stuck behind the crystal. Doesn't make sense, does it?
Logic says that you are either making it up to promote the fusion, or that you really had these torturous effects coming straight from a slasher movie. I think it's the earlier, but if the later and you really had those effects, don't you think a reasonable person should have assumed that it was particular to their own skin or a faulty razor that escaped quality control? Would a reasonable person really think that something would leave their production lines with these major defects that makes it more of a medieval torture tool than a razor? I think I made my point clear enough.
A side question: Why would a Briton write "favor" and "moisturizer" in American spelling instead of the British "Favour" and "Moisturiser"? I think that even you agree that something stinks here.
Have a Merry Christmas my friend.
This is so transparent it's almost pathetic. Disguising a promotion for a product as an "unbiased" review is not a new thing, but you totally lack the skill required to make it able to fool anyone but the most naïve of readers. I guess the millions spent on R&D and hours of work by qualified engineers failed to spot the horrible after-effects of using the new razor.
Razor burn?? When using the fusion (powered or not powered)my face gets ravaged and during the day it will start burning. Sure it provides a closer shave than the Quattro,but at the expense of a pleasant skin feel. Of course you cant use Hydro blades on a Quattro handle: ITS A COMPLETELY NEW RAZOR SYSTEM. Did you make as much fuss when you could'nt use fusion blades on the Mach 3? ????
Well great job promoting Gillette, my friend, Hope they pay you well....perhaps in form of free razors
I often let my facial hair grow around my beard and mustache for a day or sometimes two.
The Fusion won't even pick up a hair, and without the vibrator on it is near useless for me. I am going to change razors next visit to the supermarket.


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|This oscillating tool kit can make dramatic long cuts as well as tricky plunge cuts with a quick and easy change of accessory. Producing up to 22,000 oscillations per minute (OPM), the 605K has yet to meet a household material that can stand up against it. Professionals and DIY types appreciate its power under control.
|A 3-Amp motor that generates optimal power for the toughest jobs
|Hyperlock holds changeable blades with up to one ton of force
|Universal fit system corresponds to attachments from most every manufacturer
|Shapes, polishes and removes grout, among other functions
|Speed dial enables exact settings
|A ten-foot power cord allowing for greater range of movement
- One Sonishear scissor attachment
- One carbide grout blade
- One sanding pad
- Three sanding sheets
- One scraper blade
- One HSS semicircle saw blade
- One bi-metal end-cut blade
What Buyers Are Saying
The diversity of materials with which the tool kit excels impresses contractors. One, for example, was amazed at the ease with which it cut through PVC piping when he was creating and mounting a custom rack for fishing poles. Still another praised the Hyperlock's hold on the blade: there was no "give" compared to other tool kits. The variable speed control is universally praised across the board in hardware forums as is the compact, hard-sided carrying case. For all of its assets as a cutter, this tool is also given plaudits as a metal polisher, sander and grouter, as well.
The Rockwell RK5140K Sonicrafter Hyperlock oscillating tool kit has a streamlined shape that makes it perfect for close-quarter work. Its Hyperlock Universal Fit system boasts several advantages: the fast and simple replacement of blades and accessories by virtue of its flip lock feature; a clamp that exerts up to one ton of force, keeping blades secure without slack; a configuration that adapts to attachments from many other manufacturers, thereby saving the user time and money. Other positives include its constant speed function. This is particularly helpful feature when cutting into tough or massive materials that otherwise cause blades to slow down. On the other hand, its adjustable speed control dial allows the user to fine-tune the speed for more intricate jobs like grouting. Regardless of speed, the tool kit is easy to handle, offering little kickback. It works well on virtually any material, including metal, fiberglass and cement board.
An objective Rockwell RK5140K review must give the critics their due. This tool kit's loudness can be excessive. In addition, a few users have observed that the blades wear down rather quickly if you use them on a regular basis. It should be noted, however, that this is a problem common to oscillating tool kits.
Our Verdict
A Rockwell RK5140K review is most helpful when it is performance-based. If the proof—as the old saying goes—is in the pudding, then the Rockwell RK5140K oscillating tool kit has satisfied the home repair palates of many purchasers. The Hyperlock system gives users confidence as they cut, sand and buff. Its capacity to adapt to accessories other than those made by Rockwell is a huge positive for those who are regularly engaged in home projects. Slim and compact as tool kits go, it works for tasks large and small, macro and micro. While its drawbacks are acknowledged, they are-as previously stated—also observed in competing tool kits. All users benefit from the knowledge that oscillating tool kits are still an evolving technology with room for improvement. Given that reality and the many strengths of this particular tool, it deserves a rating—in a scale of 0.0 to 5.0—of 4.5.

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Okoroafor: Government must tackle insecurity, multiple taxation to boost business
The chairman, Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), Bank Anthony Okoroafor, told KELVIN EBIRI in Port Harcourt that although doing business is tough in Nigeria, the challenges are not insurmountable if government addressed insecurity, multiple taxation and poor infrastructure.
Why is Nigeria's ease of doing business profile poor?
Our rating is poor, and that is the truth. Doing business here is one of the toughest things. Let me give you an example. You do a job and the contract says you will be paid after 45 days. Yet, eight months later, you have still not been paid. And nobody is sanctioned for owing you, for not following the contract. It happens even in the oil and gas sector.
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation and international oil companies have a joint venture agreement. The international oil companies bring in their money but the NNPC does not pay its cash call, which you are aware of. If you do business, you don't know what is statutory and what is not. Your business vehicles are held on the road for rules introduced the same day. So, you cannot plan. There is no stability. We are also living in an environment of fear. People sit down and make things difficult. Why should a contract cycle take two years? From biding to award of contract, why should it take two years? There are many factors that frustrate a lot people.
How is multiple taxation negatively affecting business?
It is a very big problem. If you come here, the local government people will hold you. They come to your business premises. The same thing applies to state government officials. Nothing is harmonised. If everything is harmonised, if you pay X-value and it covers everything, you will have rest of mind. So, when people come to your premises, you will show them that you have paid, instead of having to deal with several elements.
Multiple taxation is a big problem. In Rivers State, you have the state government. If you do business in Port Harcourt and Obio-Akpor local governments, you have to contend with them. If you go to Onne, you are held and asked to pay Federal Ocean Terminal tax. When people from outside the country see all these things they report back. If you go to other parts of the world, businesses pay one tax, and it covers a lot of things.
How about government's plan to harmonise taxation?
They promised, but has it been implemented? If they come up January next year and say, 'if you have a business premises here, pay up, and no state or local government will worry you again,' you will discover that by the end of the following year, the indexes will change.
People have been talking to government to harmonise taxation, to no avail. They need to make it illegal for any tout to be on road under the guise of tax collection. Some of these touts mount the roads pretending they are working for the government. You have local government and state government touts on the roads. Some wear uniforms; some do not. They move in groups to business premises. If government makes a law banning them from collecting revenue on the road, it will help.
They should harmonise local government and state taxes, so that once you pay, you're covered because it is all encompassing. An example is environmental levy. You pay to the local government and also pay to the state. It does not make sense. Let there be one. In the United Kingdom, you know what are you supposed to pay, and you pay it. It is straightforward.
Do operatives of the immigration service hamper your business?
First of all, getting visa to Nigeria is very tough. They make it very difficult. How can you attract investment when you make procurement of visa so difficult? These are the issues. Most companies encourage people to come in and invest, but immigration makes that tough.
I have had instances when I needed to bring people in and it took ages. The Nigerian embassy abroad keeps asking you to come back and come back. Sometimes, it takes three to six months before a visa is issued. That is not acceptable. Government often has good policy but the problem is implementation. The people who implement the policies are the problem.
Is registration of businesses now a lot easier?
I heard that the Corporate Affairs Commission is implementing a system where you can register a company within 24 hours. But I have not checked to know if it has started working. In the United Kingdom you can register a company 24 to 48 hours.
How does the country's infrastructural deficit impact business?
We lack supportive infrastructure for business to thrive. Internet connectivity is poor. We don't have good roads. Power supply is not stable. The telephone system is not very good. The train system also is nothing to write home about. We have dilapidated infrastructure everywhere.
What should be done to improve ease to doing business?
Let's start by changing the attitude of all our people. Let's remove multiple taxation. Let's create enabling environment and create law and order. Let's ensure security of life and property. Let's maintain the sanctity of contract. If we do these basic things, investment will come; the economy will thrive. The ease of doing business will improve and we will create more jobs and opportunity for our population. In the end, everybody will be fine. I don't know why it is difficult to do these things, but we need to have the will to do them. Once we have the will, every other thing will fall in place.
How has insecurity worsened ease of doing business?
Security is number one. Business does not thrive in an atmosphere of fear. Once the government can create an enabling environment where there is security of life and property, investment will thrive everywhere. We are not investing enough in security. How many CCTVs do you have on major streets in Port Harcourt? How many police people do we have? How many vehicles do they have? What equipment and gadgets do they have?
What's is the major challenge faced by businesses in the oil and gas sector?
The key issue is that they are not being paid for work done. The oil companies are saying NNPC is not paying them. A lot of companies have gone under. A lot of companies borrowed money from banks and they are sacking people. It is tough.
The second thing is that there are no jobs. Nigeria wants to start producing 4 million barrels per day in 2020. But there is no drilling. There is no exploration. So, how do you achieve that? You want to have enough gas to drive the electricity and you are not drilling for gas. Is the gas going to come from the air? Where is it going to come from?
There has to be economic activity to generate jobs. The non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill is also worsening the ease of doing business. People are not investing because they are not sure if the law would change. So, the National Assembly, as a matter of urgency, needs to pass the bill.
The way forward is create economic activities. Let's do a lot of exploration. Put in more money and then drill more wells. Create enough gas to drive our power system. Produce more oil to have more foreign exchange and resuscitate the economy. To boost foreign investment, you need to improve the security framework. Make sure you maintain the sanctity of contract. Make sure there is law and order.


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At issue is the phrase "come on you whites," an English soccer team motto California's DMV says has possible racial connotations.
A professor who specializes in constitutional law and First Amendment issues is suing California's Department of Motor Vehicles over its denial of his request for a custom license plate with a soccer team motto, which the agency deemed too controversial to display.
Jonathan Kotler requested a plate with the letters "COYW," short for "Come on You Whites." That phrase is a slogan for England's Fulham Football Club, a team that wears white jerseys and that Kotler says he has supported for years.
Kotler is an attorney and a professor at the University of Southern California's school for communication and journalism. He has previously argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and has served as legal counsel to the California First Amendment Coalition.
The California DMV denied Kotler's plate request last June. In a letter, the agency said it was unable to approve the plate because it "carries connotations offensive to good taste and decency."
Kotler filed an appeal over that initial decision, attaching materials like copies of game programs, social media, and images of other items that refer to the team as "the whites," or that featured the slogan "Come on You Whites," or the abbreviated "COYW" version of the saying.
"Any subsequent proceedings will provide a real world example for my students at USC of what freedom of speech entails and how it must be defended every day in the face of state action attempting to deny it," Kotler added in his appeal letter.
The department was unswayed and stuck with its original position. In a July letter, it stated in part: "the configuration is unacceptable. 'Come On You Whites' can have racial connotations."
The department's letter went on to cite language in state regulations that says a proposed plate design can be denied if it, among other things, includes vulgarity; terms of contempt, prejudice, or hostility; or terms that are insulting, or racially or ethnically degrading.
In a nine-page complaint filed earlier this week in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Kotler's attorneys with the Pacific Legal Foundation argue the department's decision to reject the license plate violates his First Amendment right to free speech.
"There is no evidence that the slogan carries racial connotations, and thus no reason that Mr. Kotler should not be able to express his message the same way that thousands of other Americans express their messages on personalized license plates," the complaint says.
It also charges that the state's regulations don't specify who decides whether a proposed license plate is acceptable, and don't set clear guidelines for this decision making process.
The regulations, the complaint adds, impose "a vague ban on 'connotations offensive to good taste and decency,'" and allows DMV decision-makers to discriminate on the basis of viewpoint.
Marty Greenstein, a spokesman for the department, said in an email on Friday that it does not comment on pending litigation. He says the agency in 2018 received 249,125 personalized license plate requests. It rejected 31,745. Four people work reviewing applications.
The program has been around since 1970 and money from it goes to support environmental initiatives in the state, according to Greenstein, who said California's DMV collected $59.3 million from personalized license plate fees during the past fiscal year.
Past Supreme Court Cases
Previous free speech cases involving license plates have made it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The high court in 2015 sided with Texas, over a division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, after the group sued the state, citing free speech violations, for denying a proposed license plate design that featured a Confederate battle flag.
In that 5-4 ruling, the court held that Texas's specialty license plates are a form of government speech and that therefore the state could refuse the proposed design.
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in the majority opinion that, just as the state cannot compel a private party to express a view the party disagrees with, Sons of Confederate Veterans could not force the state to include the battle flag on a license plate.
"When government speaks, it is not barred by the Free Speech Clause from determining the content of what it says," Breyer added.
Justice Samuel Alito, in a dissenting opinion, said the court's ruling passed off private speech as government speech and said doing so "establishes a precedent that threatens private speech that government finds displeasing."
In an earlier case, Wooley v. Maynard, the Supreme Court ruled in 1977 a state could not force someone to display a message on a license plate.
George and Maxine Maynard, a married couple and followers of the Jehovah's Witnesses faith, in 1974 began covering up the "Live Free or Die" state motto on their New Hampshire license plates because they said it was at odds with their moral, religious and political beliefs.
New Hampshire law made it a misdemeanor to knowingly obscure portions of the state's license plates and George Maynard was cited on multiple occasions for covering up the saying, spending 15 days in jail after refusing to pay fines after his second infraction.
The Supreme Court ruled that by requiring people to display the motto, New Hampshire had invaded "the sphere of intellect and spirit which it is the purpose of the First Amendment."
"Where the State's interest is to disseminate an ideology," wrote then Chief Justice Warren Burger, "no matter how acceptable to some, such interest cannot outweigh an individual's First Amendment right to avoid becoming the courier for such message."
Bill Lucia is a Senior Reporter for Route Fifty and is based in Olympia, Washington.
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I was walking through the courtyard earlier this week, taking a shortcut through the basement, when I smelled star anise and cinnamon. I thought instantly of Thai beef soup or kao lao. I knew I had to make it this week, even though it's been years since I last tried. From my years living in Thailand, I know that when it is served with noodles then it's called kway tieow. I decided to cook it, kway tieow style with Japanese soba or buckwheat noodles, which are higher in fiber and protein, iron and calcium than the traditional rice noodles. Soba like rice noodles is gluten free. There is a nutrition comparison of soba and rice noodles on skipthepie.org. If you're simply watching the calories, as I am, then it's important to consider that a half cup soba has twice as many calories as rice noodles.
Thai Beef Soup (Kao Lao) with Buckwheat Noodles (Soba)
Makes 4 servings
For Cooking
7 cups water
1 lb stewing beef, boneless, trimmed of visible fat, and cut into chunks
1 whole star anise or 4 cloves star anise
2 whole sticks cinnamon
3-4 whole peeled large garlic cloves
3 tablespoons fish sauce
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
2 teaspoons light soy sauce
2 teaspoons molasses or thick dark soy sauce
For Serving
1 cup fresh bean sprouts, rinsed and picked over
2 cups buckwheat noodles, cooked al dente
Fish sauce
Sambal or chili paste
1 lime, quartered
2 scallions, finely sliced on the diagonal
1/3-1/2 cup cilantro, minced
Combine the beef, star anise, cinnamon, and garlic in 7 cups water. Cover loosely. Put two wooden chopsticks across the top of the pot and rest the lid on top of the chopsticks. Bring to a simmer on the stove. After 1 hour, stir the soup and skim the broth of large floating particles. You want a clear broth with tiny particles suspended in the soup when it is stirred. Remove the chopsticks and cover the pot. Once covered, the pot will boil vigorously and some water will boil out. Continue cooking on low heat for 1/2 hour.
Add the fish sauce, salt, sugar, soy sauce, and molasses. Taste. It should be slightly salty and sweet. Adjust seasonings, if you wish. Continue cooking on low heat to develop the flavors, until beef is tender and falls apart easily with a fork, about 2 hours. Discard the cinnamon sticks, garlic, and star anise. Serve.
To serve, divide bean sprouts and noodles among 4 large bowls. Ladle beef soup over. Serve with little saucers of fish sauce, sugar, sambal, lime, scallions, and cilantro at the table, to season each individual bowl according to taste.
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|Xmas gift box houses in the making. Very close in size to my scratchbuilt foamcore stone house.
In other news, re-re-re-re-basing has commenced. The new bases have been cut from salvaged masonite fake wood panelling, probably 60's vintage. As I fiddled with the troops I had a nagging feeling that there was something I was forgetting. When in doubt, dally.
At last I remembered! The big battle 'thing' is intended to be an occasional change from the Teaser type games that I expect to remain my usual fare. Since I want my shiny 40's to be my main "thing", they should be geared to the Teasers leaving the 1/72 ACW lads to fight the occasional Big Battle. This is exactly what I had decided last December for the same reason. Phew!
So, I am long way from a rules draft but the framework is coalescing in my mind. There is nothing terribly innovative I fear though perhaps mixed a little differently. The main time period will be from 1837 to 1869 with provision to include the War of 1812. Since my ACW lads are based on stands 1/2 the size of tge 40's, I may be able to use the same rules for both with all measurements and ranges being halved for the small guys (in other words measurement in base widths).
Each base or stand of troops will be a game entity or "unit" representing an average of 3-400 men for infantry so a small battalion or a wing of a large battalion. Brigade formations with stands touching each other will be important for controlling movement. Possibly this will mean a return to DBA style orders dice with 1 PIP needed to move a 'formation' or else Brigade orders with out of command rolls for units not in formation. With potentially over 150 1/72nd stands or 100 40mm ones on the table in a big game, I might not want to track 4 hits on every stand but rely instead on some sort of disorder/recoil/rout combat result.
More revolutionary for me is that I am going to try to write them as solo rules pitting me against a sort of manual AI rather than as a convention game with me roleplaying both sides. We'll see how that goes, it may be a 2 step process where I get the rules settled and then add the enemy action and reaction tables.
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In the three and a half years since Sir Alex Ferguson has retired, there have been occasions when I've looked at the players on the pitch and struggled to like many of them.
You don't have to go too far back to find players who you were happy to see wearing our shirt. Even aside from the superstars, players like Patrice Evra and Rafael Da Silva did themselves and the club proud. Whatever you may have thought about Rio Ferdinand's determination to commercialise everything, there were no doubts over how much he loved United, and still does.
Characters like Roy Keane, Eric Cantona and Bryan Robson are a thing of the past, but under David Moyes and Louis van Gaal, it was difficult to find players who came anywhere close.
Angel Di Maria was a fantastic talent and Van Gaal didn't know where to use him, but he had nothing about him. There was no spine. No fight. He gave up so readily the moment things didn't go his way. Look at Morgan Schneiderlin, Memphis Depay, Matteo Darmian and Marouane Fellaini. Not even discussing ability, they're just so beige. There's nothing about them.
Under Jose Mourinho, predictably, there's been the beginnings of change. Players with huge personalities have been added to the dressing room and players who were already there have some added grit.
So, looking at 2016, here are United's best outfield players.
Juan Mata
The Spaniard has scored against Manchester City and Arsenal in 2016, as well as the all-important equaliser in the FA Cup final. He also scored the first goal of the Mourinho era too, something many media outlets had deemed an impossibility, given it was without question that Mata would be the first player sold last summer.
We already knew what a nice bloke Mata was. He was already well liked by large sections of the fan base. But the fight he's shown in the latter half of 2016 has been impressive, even if a bit surprising. I wasn't sure whether he would have it in him.
Mourinho didn't rate him, got rid of him at Chelsea, and it would have been easy for Mata to expect more of the same at United. But he's worked hard and proven Mourinho wrong.
Game after game, Mata has put in brilliant performances. He's looking more like the player that stole the show for Rafa Benitez at Chelsea than he has ever done for United.
Some of Mourinho's biggest mistakes have been taking Mata off too early when he's been playing a blinder and United have been forced on to the back foot as a result.
Competition is stiff in his position but we are better off for having him in the side.
Anthony Martial
Watching the Frenchman make a mockery of the 'what a waste of money' headlines has been thoroughly enjoyable. A young player, in a brand new league, hitting the ground running, is an impressive achievement.
Martial scored United's first goal of 2016 in our 2-1 win over Swansea. He went on to score plenty more in the second half of last season and finished the campaign as our top scorer.
Watching him fearlessly run at opposition defences was a sight to behold, particularly for fans who were so drained from the dire football that Van Gaal forced us to watch.
While I've said that Jesse Lingard's goal was our best of the year, for the technique and the occasion, Martial's winner against Everton in the semi-final was possibly my favourite. The joy of watching the ball hit the back of the net and the euphoria that followed was the first time in a long time we had experienced anything like that. It was like being transported to the good ol' days.
After being our hero last season, he's struggled to reach the same heights under Mourinho though.
He's shown signs of what he can do but he hasn't been given much of a run in the team. Still, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic taking on so much of the goal scoring burden, Martial is the joint second highest scorer this season.
Ander Herrera
Had Herrera been in the starting line-up throughout 2016, I would likely have named him as the best player of the year.
For whatever reason, both Van Gaal and Mourinho overlooked him. Despite United's best matches under the Dutchman coming when Herrera was in the team, he wasn't trusted by our former manager.
At the start of this season, Mourinho preferred Fellaini to our Spaniard. It didn't take him too long to realise the error of his ways though.
Herrera is a better version of N'Golo Kante, with leadership skills thrown in to match, as well as clearly being very dedicated to the club. He can't speak highly enough of United and his feelings for the fans are strong.
If he keeps this form up though he will be a strong contender for the Sir Matt Busby player of the season.
Manchester United's best player of 2016: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
It may seem silly to rate a player so highly who has only been here for half of the year, but when you look at the impact he's made in that time, you can't ignore him.
In fact Ibrahimovic has scored as many goals by Christmas as last season's top scorer did all campaign tells you something about how impressive the Swede has been.
After a bright start, he went through a dry patch and missed chances which cost us points. However, he's more than made up for that in the games that followed.
Even if Zlatan wasn't 35 and just a few months in to his career in England, what he has achieved so far would deserve recognition.
Now let's what he can do in the big games in 2017.


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Bessara Soup, Moulay Idriss, Morocco
'Bessara' - a Moroccan soup made with dried fava beans, Moulay Idriss, Middle Atlas, Morocco 2016-04-28.
Mostly found up north in the Rif and Middle Atlas regions, this subtly flavoured soup is traditionally made with dried, split fava beans, but is even better when fresh beans are in season. The secret to a good bessara is all in the seasoning; it is only lightly spiced and seasoned while cooking, leaving the real flavour to the final touches; a drizzle of olive oil, slithers of raw garlic and sprinkles of freshly ground cumin, paprika and freshly chopped chillis are added before eating.
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don't eat me! i'm not green (or even a plant)
DON'T EAT ME; I'M NOT EVEN A PLANT! That's part of the survival message that anthocyanin-rich emerging shoots of things like species peonies (above, which of course is a plant in disguise) and bleeding heart and others that are non-green in the vulnerable early going put out to hungry herbivores. "Can't you see, I'm not even green! Chew on somebody else!" I love the wild hues of spring foliage color as much as I love these non-green pigments when they shout out in autumn. More on anthocyanins in a little slideshow from the archive.


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Tanya Pixelcharmer has dug up a bunch of stuff on 'Social Informatics'. Queued.
Month: September 2002
Creativity, redux
Warren Ellis reviews one of the most beautiful considerations of human creativity I've come across: Snakes & Ladders by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell.
It's a wonderfully sensitive illustrated adaptation of a talk Moore gave at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square (which I walk through on the way to work every morning) – using the square's history, it's inhabitants and their encounters with the muse as a basis for the investigation of dna, magic and the creative urge.
There's a PDF preview [c. 500k] to give a flavour.
Lilypads and frogs
Short, thoughtful recap of a lot of the memes around wifi vs 3g by the old man of the seachange, Nicholas Negroponte:
"In the future, each Wi-Fi system will also act like a small router, relaying to its nearest neighbors. Messages can hop peer-to-peer, leaping from lily to lily like frogs the stems are not required. You have a broadband telecommunications system, built by the people, for the people. Carriers are aware of this, but they discount it because they do not feel there will be sufficient coverage. They are wrong."
» WiReD: Nicholas Negroponte: Being Wireless
[via warchalking.org]
Viridian Design BioFuture Robot Dog Contest
Just spent a couple of hours hacking together my entry in the Viridian BioFuture Robot Dog Contest, based on some doodles and sketches that have been mounting up over the last month. Here he is below, along with some of the sales-blurb that goes along with the entry…
"Introducing Von Neumanns best friend.
A self-replicating, self-structuring nanodog system designed to be fun for all the posthuman family. Advanced 'stinky-sneaker-simulant' tail-bonds ensure structural integrity whatever the game – from chasing a stick to digging tunnels through gas-giants.
Von Neumann's best friend is a canine companion that will last you from now until way after the singularity. He'll be your pal no matter what scale or how distributed your consciousness is."
Like the weather
From McSweeney's interview with Kurt Vonnegut:
'Q: It is a weird moment in history, don't you think?
Kurt Vonnegut: Well, my late brother Bernie, who was a great expert on weather at one point he knew more about tornadoes than anybody else on the planet, I imagine was always approached by people who knew his background and wanted him to be an expert about it. "Bernie, isn't this weather unusual?" And he would say, "The weather is always unusual." I mean, this is a very special time in history, but every time is.'
» McSweeney's: The best jokes are dangerous: interview with Kurt Vonnegut, pt. 1
The Observer interviews various leaders in their field about what creativity is, their creative processes and inspirations. Some heroes of mine in there:
J.G. Ballard
"If you've got a strong imagination it's there all the time, it's working away. You're kind of remaking the world as you walk down a street, sort of reinventing it. I have a walk every day and a good think about things. I sometimes think maybe this town is a complete conspiracy, or maybe it's a very advanced kind of psychological experiment – all these ideas occur to me and every now and again I think: 'Hey, that's not bad. That's worth pursuing.'"
Jan Kaplicky
"Architecture is generally presented by one name, but it's a fantasy and very 19th-century to claim it is a one-man product. A lot depends on the people you have around you and how good they are."
Peter Saville
"Ideas never come out how you first imagined them – something else happens along the way, and if you're lucky it turns out better. For me the process of thinking about things goes on all the time. I'm very often quite happy to sit down and watch some football, or pornography, late at night, in order to avoid thinking about things, to avoid reading another interesting magazine or journal or a new book."
Some good quotes in the intro to the interviews by Guy Claxton, a psychologist:
"Essentially, creativity is all about learning to listen to the unconscious and being able to cultivate that relaxed and alert time that is typical of meditation and dreaming. Very creative people may be able to do this intuitively, but it is important to realise that we were all born with creative minds."
This is great. I can't stand it when people maintain that "creativity", especially in the field of design, is some special exclusive right of those in the mysterious turtle-necked/expensive-vintage-t-shirt caste, and any idea originated outside of "the design team" is automatically to be discounted.
To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke again, creativity isn't magic, it's just indistinguishable sufficently-advanced thinking; and anyone can do that.
Linkin Park
Half aide-memoire, half-call-for-participation: things I have a burning need to write about/remove from my head by typing – but don't have the time to address right now. Outboard-brain-dump begin.
- Product-placement in MMORPGS
- More on the UK TV industry, risk, reward and creativity.
- Steven Pinker, s0cials0phtware and 'telempathics'
- Matt Webb's wondering what comes after the oyayubizoku + txting: is it Picting?
- Urban space, le parkour, yamakasi and impending superhumanity.
- Creating webservices for boot-strapping an online comicsphere.
- Victor's appeal for a digital design strategy plan from now till the Singularity.
Dump ends. Begin prioritisation. What first? If you get to any of them before me – let me know! la la la… i found my sooooldier girl… she's so far away… she makes my head spin around… la la la… BZZZT. End of line.


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I get this error when I try to log into sqlplus from my DEC ALPHA machine through a telnet session.
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ORA-07320: smsget: shmat error when trying to attach sga. DEC OSF/1 (AXP) Error: 13: Permission denied
Did some permissions get corrupted. I am able to connect using sqlplus from my oracle account. This happens when I try to connect from a different account.
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University of York students have voted for YUSU to remain affiliated with the National Union of Students. I would like to thank every single student that voted and took the time to engage in this important debate.
The referendum has been delivered at a challenging time of year, amid exams and end of term commitments. I know that students have not taken their votes lightly. Turnout has been strong with 15.7% of students voting. To put that into context, the last time YUSU asked students to consider the question of our NUS affiliation in 2014, 7.6% of students (1259) turned out to vote.
These turnout levels are a real endorsement of the commitment, dedication and hard work that both the Yes and No campaigners have put into delivering engaging and dynamic campaigns, campaigns that have been underpinned by informed debate. Yet while they mark a positive result for the Yes campaign team, they do not mark the end of our discussion about NUS reform. This has been a constant theme through the referendum period and it is one on which we must remain focused on in the months ahead.
I am firmly of the belief that working together will bring more benefits for more students but we need to build on the conversation that we have started to ensure that the NUS is truly representing all students. This means articulating a clear vision for change and ensuring that all members of the student body have the opportunity to remain involved in this conversation.
On 17th May the NUS officer team published an open letter to students in which they pledged to: "...spend our year openly and honestly addressing the concerns that students have put to us… learning what you want from your national union and exploring how we can best achieve that." We need to take them up on this offer and hold the NUS team to account for the commitments that they have made to listen and deliver a reforming agenda.
As the 2015/16 YUSU officer team prepare to handover to our incoming sabbatical officers we will be handing over a positive mandate for continuing the affiliation and considering the implications of the strong mandate for change that students at the University of York have backed.


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My Hair Until recently I would have described my hair as 'very curly', however according to the NaturallyCurly website, it looks like I only have 2B/2C wavy hair. Being told I only have wavy hair is a shock to the 8-year-old me who would always get cast as Scary Spice in living room Spice Girls performances. Back then, I had no idea how to style my hair so it would just … [Read more...]
What Tech Gadgets should you take travelling with you?
Tablet We bought the Google nexus 7 literally at the airport as we flew out – it hadn't been a planned purchase, but I'd received a last minute thank you bonus from work, so we thought we'd spend it on this! We 'ummed' and 'arred' before purchasing – do we really need it? Isn't it just another thing to get stolen? However it turned out to be an excellent purchase. We used it … [Read more...]
Round the World Packing Guide
For my 8 month round the world trip I packed the following (plus other essentials not shown below such as underwear and toiletries!): Clothes Bottoms 2 x shorts (1 x denim + 1 x cotton) 2 x knee length shorts (1 x denim + 1 x cotton) 1 x long black leggings (to wear under shorts and dress if cold) 1 x pair skinny black jeans Tops 5 x casual day tops ( … [Read more...]


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Last Thursday it was announced that U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras was mysteriously recused from the Special Counsel case against General Mike Flynn, five days after Judge Contreras accepting the initial pleading. No explanation as to 'why'?
(Reuters) The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia judge presiding over the criminal case for President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has been recused from handling the case, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday. (read more)
One might think the media apparatus, or pundit proletariat writ large, might be curious about why a U.S. District Court Judge would be recused. Alas One would be wrong. The recusal angle is transparently missing from any follow-up by media; and apparently the judicial cat also has stolen the tongue of congressional curiosity. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
The story has been memory holed into the concentric whirlpool of nothingness.
We have speculated that U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras was recused, either by himself or by challenge, because he is also a FISA Court Judge and could have signed off on the October FISA warrant that led to the wiretapping and surveillance of General Flynn. However, we have received information that it wasn't 'by challenge', leaving the preponderance of the motive for recusal directly upon Judge Contreras personal decision.
However, if Judge Contreras 'recused himself' based on the conflict within the FISA warrant he approved, the question then becomes why did he even allow himself to preside over the first hearing of General Mike Flynn's rather odd guilty plea?
Was the October 2016 FISA warrant part of the evidence in the overall process charge against Mike Flynn? What are the rules of FISA warrant content in cases where the warrant leads to a prosecution? Did Judge Contreras sit on the initial plea hearing so another judge would not see the FISA information, recognize any problems, and maybe not approve the plea?
The only two significant things that happened between the initial Mike Flynn plea hearing and the recusal from Judge Contreras was:
#1) The stories about anti-Trump FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his involvement with Fusion-GPS and Christopher Steele; and
#2) FBI Director Chris Wray appearing before the House Judicial Committee and hearing Representative Jim Jordan demand to see the 2016 FISA application.
In fact, Judge Contreras recused himself only a few hours after that House Judicial Committee hearing.
These are all just general questions that stem from Judge Contreras appearing to concede to a conflict, but doing so only AFTER the first administrative hearing on the case. If the conflict existed on December 7th 2017, such that a recusal was needed, would not that conflict exist prior to December 7th, 2017?
Apparently no-one else is in the least bit curious; and absent of anyone seeking such clarity; it leads CTH to wonder if U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras wasn't possibly the same judge that denied the initial FISA application in June of 2016.
It's very rare that a FISA application is denied. Considering he possibility the denial was based, in part, on the target (candidate Donald Trump) of the FISA warrant; and considering the massive ramifications within the U.S. government applying to monitor, wiretap and use surveillance upon a presidential candidate; it would not be a stretch to think Judge Contreras would establish a 'higher threshold' for granting such authority.
Given what we know now, that we did not know before, namely that FBI Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr were part of the counterintelligence operation that began in July 2016…. and understanding that Nellie Ohr, Bruce's wife, was working for Fusion GPS the contractor for Christopher Steele and the Russian Dossier…. ultimately hired by Hillary Clinton;…. and accepting that the information within the dossier was part of the underlying FISA application… the entire construct of the FISA application is suspect.
Adding yet another layer to that sketchy outline, today it is revealed that Peter Strzok's mistress within the DOJ, Lisa Page, might have been the actual DOJ official to apply for the FISA warrant. (SEE HERE)
Which takes us back to U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras. Was the recusal an outcome of Contreras recognizing the concerns he expressed in the June 2016 FISA denial, that were later presumably belayed with a more narrow FISA application, evidenced in his seeing how the FISA warrant he granted being used against the defendant that appeared in his courtroom.
Did Contreras see in Flynn's outcome – evidence of what he feared would happen? And that lead to Judge Contreras deciding to recuse himself from the case?
So many questions, and yet a transparent lack of overall curiosity around the recusal.
FBI Agent Peter Strzok's former boss was Bill Priestap, FBI Asst. Director in charge of Counterintelligence. [The same Bill Priestap James Comey stated was the person who decided not to tell congressional oversight of the investigation] Bill Priestap's boss was FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Directly above McCabe in the chain-of-command was FBI Director James Comey.
Inside the DOJ: Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce G Ohr's former boss was Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. Sally Yates boss was Attorney General Loretta Lynch.


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TTF fulfills its mission through the following programs and events through the support of our Grant Partners:
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee – received grant to "advance highway safety and help older drivers understand the impact that aging can have on their safe driving skills
State Farm – received grant to support the Teens and Trucks program
TN Highway Safety Office – received grant to support Teens and Trucks program and the TN Road Team and to wrap 4 TTA members' trailers with colorful, impactful No Zone graphics
TN Highway Safety Office – received grant to support a new "Drowsy Driving" campaign which was kicked off at our 2017 Safety Breaks across the state
Nashville Predators – received grant to support the Teens and Trucks program
Tennessee's Road Team educates the public, including students and driver education classes, Elementary Schools and Senior Citizens on highway safety and how to safely share the road with a large truck.
Teens & Trucks Share The Road Training Program was created in collaboration with the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance and American Trucking Associations. Together these partners developed a program to help educate teens about safe driving practices around large trucks and commercial vehicles. The program includes an instructor lesson plan, student workbook, and DVD.
Senior Citizens This year we have expanded our safety message to the driving public who are age 55 and over. This group of drivers has now become one of the age groups with the highest number of fatalities in automobile accidents in Tennessee. Tennessee's driver license renewal laws do not attempt to identify, evaluate nor regulate older drivers whose driving habits and abilities may be deteriorating as they age. Tennessee Trucking Foundation proposes to address the growing need to help Tennessee's older drivers polish their driving skills, increase awareness of their changing abilities, and learn to adapt their driving practices accordingly, especially around large trucks. Part of the approach will be to educate them about the difference in operating a big truck and an automobile, and how that knowledge can impact them on the roadway. The objective will be to prevent fatalities by positively impacting driving behavior. If you would like to schedule a Road Team Captain for your Senior Citizen Center, church, civic group or anywhere seniors gather, please call the TTA office at (615) 777-2882.
Big Rigs for Little Kids Golf Tournaments, held in four locations across the state, benefit a number of Tennessee children's charities and the TTF Scholarship Fund.
TTF Scholarship Program provides scholarships to juniors and seniors in a Tennessee College who are dependent children, spouses or employees of companies who are members of TTA. TENNESSEE TRUCKING FOUNDATION AWARDED $7,500 in SCHOLARSHIPs for the 2018-19 academic year. TTA congratulates all Recipients !! Information about the 2019-2020 applications coming soon!
Kroger Gift Card Fundraising Program is an excellent way to raise funds and support the Tennessee Trucking Foundation all year long! Just swipe your registered Kroger Plus Card each time you shop for groceries, buy gift cards, or fill your tank with gas! Kroger donates a percentage back to the Foundation! Please encourage your friends, family, and coworkers to link their Kroger Plus Card to the Tennessee Trucking Foundation and help raise funds to support Highway Safety Education in Tennessee!