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The History of Protestantism
by 'James Aitken Wylie'
Book 9 History of Protestantism From the Diet of Worms, 1521, to the Augsburg Confession, 1530
Chapter 5 Nuremberg (this chapter is founded on notes made on the spot by the author in 1871)
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Three Hundred Years Since Site of Nuremberg Depot of Commerce in Middle Ages Its Population Its Patricians and Plebeians Their Artistic Skill Nuremberg a Free Town Its Burgraves Its Oligarchy Its Subject Towns Fame of its Arts Albert Durer Hans Sachs Its Architecture and Marvels Enchantment of the Place Rath-Haus State Dungeons Implements of Torture.
NUREMBERG three hundred years ago was one of the more famous of the cities of Europe. It invites our study as a specimen of those few fortunate communities which, preserving a feeble intelligence in times of almost universal ignorance and barbarism, and enjoying a measure of independence in an age when freedom was all but unknown, were able, as the result of the exceptional position they occupied, to render services of no mean value to the civilization and religion of the world.
The distinction and opulence which Nuremberg enjoyed, in the fifteenth century and onward to the time of the Reformation, it owed to a variety of causes. Its salubrious air; the sweep of its vast plains, on all sides touching the horizon, with a single chain of purple hills to redeem the landscape from monotony; and the facilities for hunting and other exercises which it afforded, made it a pleasant residence, and often drew thither the emperor and his court. With the court came, of course, other visitors. The presence of the emperor in Nuremberg helped to assemble men of genius and culture within its walls, and invested it, moreover, with no little political importance.
Nuremberg owed more to another cause, namely, its singularly central position. Being set down on one of the world's greatest highways, it formed the center of a network of commercial routes, which ramified over a large part of the globe, and embraced the two hemispheres.
Situated on the great Franconian plaina plain which was the Mesopotamia of the West, seeing that, like the Oriental Mesopotamia, it lay between two great rivers, the Danube and the RhineNuremberg became one of the great emporiums of the commerce carried on between Asia and Europe. In those ages, when roads were far from common, and railways did not exist at all, rivers were the main channels of communication between nation and nation, and the principal means by which they effected an interchange of their commodities. The products of Asia and the Levant entered the mouths of the Danube by the Black Sea, and, ascending that stream into Germany, they were carried across the plain to Nuremberg. From Nuremberg this merchandise was sent on its way to the Rhine, and, by the numerous outlets of that river, diffused among the nations of the northwest of Europe. The commerce of the Adriatic reached Nuremberg by another route which crossed the Tyrol.
Thus many converging lines found here their common meeting-place, and from hence radiated over the West. Founded in the beginning of the tenth century, the seat of the first Diet of the Empire, the meeting-place moreover of numerous nationalities, the depot of a vast and enriching commerce, and inhabited by a singularly quick and inventive population, Nuremberg rose steadily in size and importance. The fifteenth century saw it a hive of industry, a cradle of art, and a school of letters.
In the times we speak of, Nuremberg had a population of 70,000. This, in our day, would not suffice to place a city in the first rank; but it was different then, when towns of only 30,000 were accounted populous. Frankfort-on-the-Main could not boast of more than half the population of Nuremberg. But though large for its day, the number of its population contributed but little to the city's eminence. Its renown rested on higher groundson the enterprise, the genius, and the wealth of its inhabitants.
Its citizens were divided into two classes, the patrician and the plebeian. The line that separated the two orders was immovable. No amount of wealth or of worth could lift up the plebeian into the patrician rank. In the same social grade in which the cradle of the citizen had been placed must the evening of life find him. The patricians held their patents of nobility from the emperor, a circumstance of which they were not a little proud, as attesting the descent of their families from very ancient times. They inhabited fine mansions, and expended the revenues of their estates in a princely splendor and a lavish hospitality, delighting greatly in fetes and tournaments, but not unmindful the while of the claims to patronage which the arts around them possessed, and the splendors of which invested their city with so great a halo.
The plebeians were mostly craftsmen, but craftstmen of exceeding skill. No artificers in all Europe could compete with them. Since the great sculptors of Greece, there had arisen no race of artists which could wield the chisel like the men of Nuremberg. Not so bold perhaps as their Greek predecessors, their invention was as prolific and their touch as exquisite. They excelled in all manner of cunning workmanship in marble and bronze, in metal and ivory, in stone and wood. Their city of Nuremberg they filled with their creations, which strangers from afar came to gaze upon and admire. The fame of its artists was spread throughout Europe, and scarce was there a town of any note in any kingdom in which the "Nuremberg hand" was not to be seen unmistakably certified in some embodiment of quaintness, or of beauty, or of utility. [1]
A more precious possession still than either its exquisite genius or its unrivalled art did Nuremberg boast: liberty, namelyliberty, lacking which genius droops, and the right hand forgets its cunning. Nuremberg was one of the free cities of Germany. In those days there were not fewer than ninety-three such towns in the Empire. They were
green oases in the all but boundless desert of oppression and misery which the Europe of those days presented. They owed their rise in part to war, but mainly to commerce. When the emperors on occasion found themselves hard pushed, in the long war which they waged with the Popes, when their soldiers were becoming few and their exchequer empty, they applied to the towns to furnish them with the means of renewing the contest. They offered them charters of freedom on condition of their raising so many men-at-arms, or paying over a certain sum to enable them to continue their campaigns. The bargain was a welcome one on both sides. Many of these towns had to buy their enfranchisement with a great sum, but a little liberty is worth a great deal of gold. Thus it was on the red fields of the period that their freedom put forth its earliest blossoms; and it was amid the din of arms that the arts of peace grew up.
But commerce did more than war to call into existence such towns as Nuremberg. With the prosecution of foreign trade came wealth, and with wealth came independence and intelligence. Men began to have a glimpse of higher powers than those of brute force, and of wider rights than any included within the narrow circle of feudalism. They bought with their money, or they wrested by their power, charters of freedom from their sovereigns, or their feudal barons. They constituted themselves into independent and self-governed bodies. They were, in fact, republics on a small scale, in the heart of great monarchies. Within the walls of their cities slavery was abolished, laws were administered, and rights were enjoyed.
Such towns began to multiply as it drew towards the era of the Reformation, not in Germany only, but in France, in Italy, and in the Low Countries, and they were among the first to welcome the approach of that great moral and social renovation.
Nuremberg, which held so conspicuous a place in this galaxy of free towns, was first of all governed by a Burgrave, or Stadtholder. It is a curious fact that the royal house of Prussia make their first appearance in history as the Burgraves of Nuremberg. That office they held till about the year 1414, when Frederick IV. sold his right, together with his castle, to the Nurembergers, and with the sum thus obtained purchased the Marquisate of Brandenburg. This was the second stage in the advance of that house to the pinnacle of political greatness to which it long afterwards attained.
When the reign of the burgrave came to an end, a republic, or rather oligarchy, next succeeded as the form of government in Nuremberg. First of all was a Council of Three Hundred, which had the power of imposing taxes and contributions, and of deciding on the weighty question of peace and war. The Council of Three Hundred annually elected a smaller body, consisting of only thirty members, by whom the ordinary government of the city was administered. The Great Council was composed of patricians, with a sprinkling of the more opulent of the merchants and artificers. The Council of Thirty was composed of patricians only.
Further, Nuremberg had a considerable territory around it, of which it was the capital, and which was amply studded with towns. Outside its walls was a circuit of some hundred miles, in which were seven cities, and 480 boroughs and villages, of all of which Nuremberg was mistress. When we take into account the fertility of the land, and the extensiveness of the trade that enriched the region, and in which all these towns shared, we see in Nuremberg and its dependencies a principality far from contemptible in either men or resources. "The kingdom of Bohemia," says Gibbon, "was less opulent than the adjacent city of Nuremberg." [2] Lying in the center of Southern Germany, the surrounding States in defending themselves were defending Nuremberg, and thus it could give its undivided attention to the cultivation of those arts in which it so greatly excelled, when its less happily situated neighbors were wasting their treasure and pouring out their blood on the battle-field.
The "Golden Bull," in distributing the imperial honors among the more famous of the German cities, did not overlook this one. If it assigned to Frankfort the distinction of being the place of the emperor's "election," and if it yielded to Augsburg the honor of seeing him crowned, it required that the emperor should hold his first court in Nuremberg. The castle of the mediaeval emperors is still to be seen. It crowns the height which rises on the northern bank of the Pegnitz, immediately within the city-gate, on the right, as one enters from the north, and from this eminence it overlooks the town which lies at its feet, thickly planted along the stream that divides it into two equal halves. The builder of the royal chateau obviously was compelled to follow, not the rules of architecture, but the angles and irregularities of the rock on which he placed the castle, which is a strong, uncouth, unshapely fabric, forming a striking contrast to the many graceful edifices in the city on which it looks down.
In this city was the Diet at this time assembled. It was the seat (938) of the first Diet of the Empire, and since that day how often had the grandees, the mailed chivalry, and the spiritual princedoms of Germany gathered within its walls! One can imagine how gay Nuremberg was on these occasions, when the banner of the emperor floated on its castle, and warders were going their rounds on its walls, and sentinels were posted in its flanking towers, and a crowd of lordly and knightly company, together with a good deal that was neither lordly nor knightly, were thronging its streets, and peering curiously into its studios and workshops, and ransacking its marts and warehouses, stocked with the precious products of far-distant
climes. Nor would the Nurembergers be slow to display to the eyes of their visitors the marvels of their art and the products of their enterprise, in both of which they were at that time unequalled on this side of the Alps. Nuremberg was, in its way, on these occasions an international exhibition, and not without advantage to both exhibitor and visitor, stimulating, as no doubt it did, the trade of the one, and refining the taste of the other. The men who gathered at these times to Nuremberg were but too accustomed to attach glory to nothing save tournaments and battle-fields; but the sight of this city, so rich in achievements of another kind, would help to open their eyes, and show them that there was a more excellent way to fame, and that the chisel could win triumphs which, if less bloody than those of the sword, were far more beneficial to mankind, and gave to their authors a renown that was far purer and more lasting than that of arms.
Now it was the turn of the Nurembergers themselves to wonder. The Gospel had entered their gates, and many welcomed it as a "pearl" more to be esteemed than the richest jewel or the finest fabric that India or Asia had ever sent to their markets. It was to listen to the new wonders now for the first time brought to their knowledge, that the citizens of Nuremberg were day by day crowding the Church of St. Sebaldus and the Cathedral of St. Lawrence. Among these multitudes, now hanging on the lips of Osiander and other preachers, was Albert Durer, the great painter, sculptor, and mathematician. This man of genius embraced the faith of Protestantism, and became a friend of Luther. His house is still shown, near the old imperial castle, hard by the northern gate of the city. Of his great works, only a few remain in Nuremberg; they have mostly gone to enrich other cities, that were rich enough to buy what Albert Durer's native town was not wealthy enough in these latter times to retain.
In Nuremberg, too, lived Hans Sachs, the poet, also a disciple of the Gospel and a friend of Luther. The history of Sachs is a most romantic one. He was the son of a tailor in Nuremberg, and was born in 1494, and named Hans after his father. Hans adopted the profession of a shoemaker, and the house in which he worked still exists, and is situated in the same quarter of the town as that of Albert Durer. But the workshop of Hans Sachs could not hold his genius. Quitting his stall one day, he sallied forth bent on seeing the world. He passed some time in the brilliant train of the Emperor Maximilian. He returned to Nuremberg and married. The Reformation breaking forth, his mind opened to the glow of the truth, and then it was that his poetic imagination, invigorated and sanctified, burst out in holy song, which resounded through Germany, and helped to prepare the minds of men for the mighty revolution that was going forward. "The spiritual songs of Hans Sachs," says D'Aubigne, "and his Bible in verse, were a powerful help to this great work.
It would perhaps be hard to decide who did the most for itthe Prince-Elector of Saxony, administrator of the Empire, or the Nuremberg shoemaker!"
Here, too, and about the same period, lived Peter Vischer, the sculptor and caster in bronze; Adam Craft, the sculptor, whose "seven pillars" are still to be seen in the Church of; St. Claire; Veit Stoss, the carver in wood; and many besides, quick of eye and cunning of hand, whose names have perished, now live in their works alone, which not only served as models to the men of their own age, but have stimulated the ingenuity and improved the taste of many in ours.
On another ground Nuremberg is worth our study. It is perhaps the best-preserved mediaeval town north of the Alps. To visit it, then, though only in the page of the describer, is to see the very scenes amid which some of the great events of the Reformation were transacted, and the very streets on which their actors walked and the houses in which they lived. In Spain there remain to this day cities of an age still more remote, and an architecture still more curious. There is Toledo, whose seven-hilled site, washed by the furious torrent of the Tagus, lifts high in the air, and sets in bold relief against the sky, its many beautiful structuresits lovely Alcazar, its cathedral roofs, its ruined synagogues, its Moorish castles the whole looking more like the creation of a magician than the work of the mason. There is Cordova, with its wonderful mosque, fashioned out of the spolia opima of Africa and the Levant, and spread around this unique temple is perhaps the greatest labyrinth of narrow and winding lanes that anywhere exists. There is Granada, whose streets and fountains and gardens are still redolent of the Moor, and which borrows a further glory from the two magnificent objects by which it is overhung the one of art, the Alhambra,whose unique and dazzling beauty it has defied the spoiler to destroy; and the other of nature, the Sierra Nevada, which towers aloft in snowy grandeur, and greets its brother Atlas across the Straits. And, not to multiply instances, there is Malaga, a relic of a still more ancient time than the Moorish age, showing us how the Phoenicians built, and what sort of cities were upon the earth when civilization was confined to the shores of the Mediterranean, and the mariner had not yet ventured to steer his bark beyond "Pillars of Hercules."
But there is no city in Northern Europeno relic of the architecture of the Germanic nations, when that architecture was in its prime, or had but recently begun to decline, at all to be compared with Nuremberg.
As it was when the emperor trod its streets, and the magnificence of Germany was gathered into it, and the flourish of trumpets and the roll of drums blended with the peaceful din of its chisels and hammers, so is it now. The same portals with their rich carvings; the same windows with their deep mullions; the same fountains with their curious emblematic devices and groups, in bronze or in stone; the same peaked and picturesque gables; the same lofty roofs, running up into the sky and presenting successive rows of attic windows, their fronts all richly embellished and hung with draperies of wreathed work, wrought in stone by the hands of cunning menin short, the same assemblage of curious, droll, beautiful, and majestic objects which were before the eyes of the men who have been four centuries in their grave, meet the eye of the traveler at this day.
In the middle of the city is the depression or valley through which the stream of the Pegnitz flows. There the buildings cluster thickly together, forming a perfect labyrinth of winding lanes, with no end of bridges and canals, and while their peaked roofs tower into the air their bases dip into the water. The rest of the city lies on the two slopes that run up from the Pegnitz, on either bank, forming thus two divisions which look at each other across the intervening valley. In this part of Nuremberg the streets are spacious, the houses of stone, large and massy, and retaining the remarkable feature we have already mentionedexceedingly lofty roofs; for in some instances six storeys of upright mason-work are surmounted by other six storeys of slanting roof, with their complement of attic windows, suggesting the idea of a house upon a house, or of two cities, the one upon the ground, the other in the air, and forming no unmeet emblem of the ancient classification of the citizens of Nuremberg into plebeian and patrician.
To walk through Nuremberg with the hasty step and cursory eye with which a mere modern town may be surveyed is impossible. The city, amid all its decay, is a cabinet of rare curiosities, a gallery of master-pieces. At every step one is brought up by some marvel or othera witty motto; a quaint device; a droll face; a mediaeval saint in wood, lying as lumber, it may be, in some workshop; a bishop, or knight, or pilgrim, in stone, who has seen better days; an elegant fountain, at which prince or emperor may have stopped to drink, giving its waters as copiously as ever; a superb portal, from which patrician may have walked forth when good Maximilian was emperor; or rich oriel, at which bright eyes looked out when gallant knight rode past; or some palatial mansion that speaks of times when the mariner's compass was unknown, and the stream of commerce on its way to the West flowed through Nuremberg, and not as now round the Cape, or through the Straits of Gibraltar. [3]
After a time the place, so full of fanciful and droll and beautifitl imagining, begins to act upon one like an enchantment. The spirit that lives in these creations is as unabated as if the artist had just laid down his chisel. One cannot persuade one's self that the hands that fashioned them have long ago mouldered into dust. No; their authors are living still, and one looks to see them walk out at their doors, and feels sure that one would know them those cunning men, that race of geniuses, whose wit and wisdom, whose humor and drollery and mirth burst out and overflowed till the very stones of their city laughed along with them. Where are all these men now? All sleeping together in the burial-ground, about a mile and a half outside the city gate, each in his narrow cell, the skill of their right hand forgotten, but the spelI of their power still lingering on the city where they lived, to fascinate and delight and instruct the men of after-times.
Of the edifices of Nuremberg we shall visit only onethe Rath-Haus, or Hotel de Ville, where the Diets of the Empire held their sitting, and where, of course, the Diet that had just ended in the resolution which so exasperated Campeggio and terrified the Vatican had held its deliberations. It is a magnificent pile, in the Italian style, and externally in perfect preservation. A lofty portal gives admission to a spacious quadrangle. This building was erected in 1619, but it includes an older town-hall of date 1340. To this older portion belongs the great saloon, variously used in former times as a banqueting hall, an audience chamber, and a place of conference for the Diet. Its floor looks as if it would afford standing-room for all the citizens of Nuremberg. But vastness is the only attribute now left it of its former splendor. It is long since emperor trod that floor, or warrior feasted under that roof, or Diet assembled within those walls. Time's effacing finger has been busy with it, and what was magnificence in the days of the emperor, is in ours simply tawdriness. The paintings on its walls and roof, some of which are from the pencil of Albert Durer, have lost their brilliance, and are now little better than mere patches of color.
The gloss has passed from the silks and velvets of its furniture; the few chairs that remain are rickety and worm-eaten, and one fears to trust one's self to them. A magnificent chandelier still hangs suspended from the roof, its gilding sadly tarnished, its lights burned out; and suggesting, as it does, to the mind the gaiety of the past, makes the dreariness and solitariness of the present to be only the more felt. So passes the glory of the world, and so has passed the imperial grandeur which often found in this hall a stage for its display.
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dungeons immediately below the building. This will help us to form some idea of the horrors through which Liberty had to pass in her march down to modern times. Our guide leaves us for a few minutes, and when he returns he is carrying a bunch of keys in one hand and a lantern in the other. We descend a flight of stairs, and stand before a great wooden door. It is fastened crosswise with a heavy iron bar, which the guide removes. Then, selecting a key from the bunch, he undoes one lock, then another, and heaving back the ponderous door, we enter and take our first step into the gloom. We traverse a long dark corridor; at the end of it we come to another massy door, secured like the first by a heavy cross-beam. The guide undoes the fastenings, and with a creak which echoes drearily through the vaulted passage, the door is thrown open and gives us admittance. We descend several flights of stairs. The last ray of light has forsaken us a long while ago, but we go forward by the help of the lantern. What a contrast to the gilded and painted chambers above!
On either hand as we go on are the silent stone walls; overhead is the vaulted roof; at every other pace the guide stops, and calls our attention to doors in the wall on either hand, which open into numerous side chambers, or vaulted dungeons, for the reception of prisoners. To lie here, in this living grave, in utter darkness, in cold and misery, was dreadful enough; but there were more horrible things near at hand, ready to do their terrible work, and which made the unhappy occupants of these cells forget all the other honors of their dismal abode.
Passing on a pace or two further, we come to a roomier cell. We enter it, and the guide throws the glare of his lantern all round, and shows us the apparatus of torture, which rots here unused, though not unused in former days. It is a gaunt iron frame, resembling a long and narrow bedstead, fitted from end to end with a series of angular rollers. The person who was to undergo the torture was laid on this horizontal rack. With every motion of his body to and fro, the rolling prisms on which he rested grazed the vertebrae of his back, causing great suffering. This was one mode of applying the rack, the next was still more frightful. The feet of the poor victim were fastened to one end of the iron frame; his arms were raised over his head and tied with a rope, which wound round a windlass. The windlass was worked by a lever; the executioner put his hand on the lever; the windlass revolves; the rope tightens; the limbs of the victim are stretched. Another wrench: his eyes flash, his lips quiver, his teeth are clenched; he groans, he shrieks; the joints start from their sockets; and now the livid face and the sinking pulse tell that the torture has been prolonged to the furthest limit of physical endurance. The sufferer is carried back to his cell. In the course of a few weeks, when his mangled body has regained a little strength, he is brought out a second time, and laid upon the same bed of torture, to undergo yet again the same dreadful ordeal.
Let us go forward a little farther into this subterranean realm. We come at length to the central chamber. It is much more roomy than the others. Its air is dank and cold, and the water is filtering through the rock overhead. It is full of darkness, but there are worse things in it than darkness, which we can see by the help of our guide's lantern. Against the wall leans what seems a ladder; it is a machine of torture of the kind we have already described, only used vertically instead of horizontally. The person is hauled up by a rope, with a weight attached to his feet, and then he is let suddenly down, the rolling prisms grazing, as before, his naked back in his rapid descent.
There is yet another "torture" in this horrible chamber. In the center of the roof is an iron ring. Through the ring passes a strong iron chain, which hangs down and is attached to a windlass. On the floor lies a great block of stone with a ring in it. This block was attached to the feet of the victim; his hands were tied behind his back with the iron chain; and, thus bound, he was pulled up to the roof, and suddenly let fall to within a foot or so of the floor. The jerk of the descending block was so severe as commonly to dislocate his limbs.
The unhappy man when suspended in this fashion could be dealt with as his tormentors chose. They could tear his flesh with pincers, scorch his feet with live coals, insert burning matches beneath his skin, flay him alive, or practice upon him any barbarity their malignity or cruelty suggested. The subject is an ungrateful one, and we quit it. These cells were reserved for political offenders. They were accounted too good for those tainted with heretical pravity. Deeper dungeons, and more horrible instruments of torture, were prepared for the confessors of the Gospel. The memorials of the awful cruelties perpetrated on the Protestants of the sixteenth century are to be seen in Nuremberg at this day. The "Holy Offices" of Spain and Italy have been dismantled, and little now remains save the walls of the buildings in which the business of the Inquisition was carried on; but, strange to say, in Nuremberg, as we can testify from actual observation, the whole apparatus of torture is still shown in the subterranean chambers that were used by the agents of the "Holy Office." We reserve the description of these dungeons, with their
horrible instruments, till we come to speak more particularly of the Inquisition. Even the political prisons are sufficiently dismal. It is sad to think that such prisons existed in the heart of Germany, and in the free town of Nuremberg, in the sixteenth century.
The far-famed "prisons of Venice"and here too we speak from actual inspectionare not half so gloomy and terrible. These dungeons in Nuremberg show us how stern a thing government was in the Middle Ages, before the Reformation had come with its balmy breath to chase away the world's winter, and temper the rigors of law, by teaching mercy as well as vengeance to the ruler. Verily it was no easy matter to be a patriot in the sixteenth century!
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The LLM (Law) provides ambitious graduates with a highly flexible approach to advanced legal studies, focused on the School of Law's specialisms in Criminal Justice, European Law, Public and Environmental Governance, Human Rights and International Business. The programme reflects the School's global orientation and its culture of critical enquiry and as such we encourage you to devise the pathway that best suits your scholarly interests and your career ambitions.
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|Dissertation of 15,000-20,000 words
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by The Horrors
Release Date: 05 May 2014
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Xl
THE HORRORS LUMINOUS Limited Vinyl 2LP Set + Download
· Recorded over 15 months in the bands East London studio-laboratory-bunker with co-producer Craig Silvey, its the follow-up to the bands 2007 debut Strange House, the Mercury-nominated Primary Colours (2009), and the critically-acclaimed Skying (2011) - a record that entered the charts at Number Five, featured prominently in the
end-of-year magazine / newspaper polls and was anointed NME's Album Of The Year.
· Luminous is trailed by I See You, which received its first broadcast earlier tonight on Zane Lowes Radio 1 show. The seven-and-half-minute synth anthem was recently unveiled at The Fly Awards in London, where The Horrors were joined onstage by Thurston Moore.
· Luminous is an album that, for once, merits that over-used phrase keenly anticipated. Tipped to be one of the biggest British albums of 2014, it follows the breakthrough success of the silver-selling Skying, an album beloved of heroes and peers such as Bobby Gillespie, Alex Turner and Trent Reznor and that also brought The Horrors into the world of the Radio 1 A-list and Later With Jools Holland.
· Tasking themselves as ever with moving onwards, The Horrors were determined to make an album that was brighter, more positive, more electronic. Weve refined our sound, affirms lead singer Faris Badwan, and in terms of songwriting it is the record I'm happiest with. Or, in the words of bass player Rhys Webb, its not so much about heavier guitars as a heavier potency We want to make music you can dance to, music that elevates
· Luminous by name, luminous by nature - this is an album radiating light and energy. These songs are The Horrors writing at their instinctive, intuitive and accessible best.
· By way of explaining the intense but unhurried writing and recording of the album, the frontman says that, If you're happy with one record I think you always have those fears that you'll somehow never be able to write a good song again. But I think between us we would never allow something that we werent happy with to be released. I can imagine it taking us 10 years to finish something - but Id rather that
than be a band who regress with each release.
· Shedding some light on the intra-band, in-studio creative process, keyboard player Tom Furse mentions a an ever-evolving playlist featuring so much, the usual - Beatles, Sabbath, Kraftwerk also Eno, J Dilla, Metroplex / Trax Records but as always psychedelic music from all over the world, soul, funk, dub.
· Further input came from producer Paul Epworth (Adele, Paul McCartney, Foster The People) on the track Falling Star. There was also a crucial role for a new piece of kit.
Badwan reveals that Richard Russell, boss of their label XL, had the pyramid synth from our Changing The Rain video built for us.
· The Horrors are Faris Badwan (vocals), Joshua Third (guitarist), Tom Furse (keyboards, synthesisers), Rhys Webb (bass) and Joe Spurgeon (drums, percussion).
· Double LP format includes a download code.
Featured Tracks:
1. Chasing Shadows
2. First Day of Spring
3. So Now You Know
4. In and Out of Sight
5. Jealous Sun
6. Falling Star
7. I See You
8. Change Your Mind
9. Mine and Yours
10. Sleepwalk
Release Date: 22 September 2017
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Caroline International
Release Date: 05 May 2014
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Xl
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Release Date: 13 March 2014
Format: 7inch Vinyl Single
Label: Polydor
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Advantage Allen. Woody has done well to leave New York for London. He's back in the game with 'Match Point.'
Match Point: Drama. Starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer and Matthew Goode. Written and directed by Woody Allen. (R. 124 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)
"Match Point" is Woody Allen's most satisfying film since "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994) and his most compelling since "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989). Philosophically and plotwise, it's right in line with some of his previous work. Yet "Match Point" breaks new ground in a handful of significant ways: For one, there is no Woody Allen surrogate. For another, he gets out of New York, and something about being in London and using British actors frees him of the tics and cliches -- the barnacles -- that have accumulated around his art.
At the same time -- and longtime Allen fans especially will find this interesting -- "Match Point" shows that even when Allen seemed to be stagnating, he was growing. In "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion," "Hollywood Ending" and "Melinda and Melinda," Allen explored a staccato style of quick, pointed scenes that began in action, advanced the story and then just as quickly ended. Not one of those films had a story that could reveal the effectiveness of that approach, but "Match Point" does. And with it, Allen's mature technique comes into focus: Direct, clipped, unsparing.
"Match Point" is plot driven, not character driven, and generous in the sheer amount of story presented. It follows the social climb and romantic tribulations of an Irish tennis pro-turned-instructor who comes into the inner circle of a fabulously wealthy English family. Through his work at a posh London tennis club, Chris (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) meets Tom (Matthew Goode), happily rich and blithe, who takes a liking to him. Tom brings Chris to his parents' box at the opera, where Chris meets Tom's sister Chloe (Emily Mortimer). Chloe falls in love with Chris almost immediately.
"Match Point" is a film that deserves a second viewing. Allen covers a lot of story very quickly, and at first glance there's a tendency to look upon Chris as a fellow to whom things simply happen. In fact, as played by Meyers, Chris always is aware of his opportunities and always is playing a kind of mental tennis with people. He may not have a grand design, but he always knows where he is placing the ball and what he hopes to achieve. This quality, though subtle, is there from the beginning, and so it should not come as a jolt when Chris, visiting his rich new friends in their home, suddenly makes a bold play for a young woman within seconds of meeting her.
The electric encounter between Chris and Nola (Scarlett Johansson) over a ping-pong table is Allen's answer to "A Place in the Sun," in which Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor did their mating dance over a pool table. In this case, both parties are poor and off-limits: Nola, a struggling American actress, turns out to be Tom's fiancee, and Chris is about to embark on a relationship with Tom's sister. But the attraction is there.
Nola and Chris recognize the climber in each other, as well as a certain desperate life force that their partners, raised in comfort, lack. They're also the most kissable people in the movie, with the best mouths.
It might seem as if I've revealed a lot of the story of "Match Point," but be assured I've told very little, just enough to identify Johansson's role in the action. I'll stop here, except to make the general note that there's no out-guessing "Match Point," that the movie goes its own way, always fascinating, often skipping months and even a year at a time without making a fuss, as if maintaining an intense yet detached scrutiny of the characters. Unlike a Bergman film, "Match Point" is not about emotions, not really; rather, it's the conveyor of an ultimately simple philosophical proposition about the all-important role of random luck in life and thus the implicit absence, according to Allen, of any overarching moral order. Despite that, the strange, fierce detachment of its gaze calls to mind Bergman.
The film contains references to Dreiser, Strindberg and Dostoyevsky, and these references are more than just clever. They're all there for a reason, though trying to figure the specific reasons will keep viewers busy until the finish. Allen never reveals more than necessary. Even the genre can't be identified until the finish: Is it a noir? A class study? A romance? A tragedy? Even once it's over, it's not easy to categorize.
In a film as constructed as this one, the actors are secondary, but they're important. As Chris' trusting lover, Mortimer acquires a loveliness as she goes along. She does this willfully. This is an attractive actress who subtly galumphs through her first scenes and just as quietly transforms. Johansson, by contrast, is a powerhouse from the word go. The role calls for sexiness but also demands a lack of vanity, and Johansson hits every note. She has a (slightly) drunken scene with Meyers in which she so perfectly conveys the thought processes of her character, both muddled and sharp, that she borders on astonishing.
But Meyers is the one. He is in almost every scene, and even when it looks as if he's not he's doing much, he's doing plenty. In between getting caught up in the story, take time to appreciate the understated specificity of Allen's craft and of Rhys-Meyers' performance. It's worth it.


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Pinterest, blogs, Facebook groups – The international DIY community is incredibly active online. Sure, sometimes things can go a little awry, but that's all part of the fun.
DIY Marketplace and Community Alike
DaWanda is more than just an online marketplace for unique DIY products – it's also a community for those who create and shop the items on the website. The site offers tutorials, features interviews with designers, and provides the community with a forum and other opportunities to connect, online and offline.
"Write It. Shoot It. Publish It. Crochet It, Sauté It, Whatever, MAKE"
– Joss Whedon
On October 17th DaWanda is hosting the third annual Long Night of DIY. The event – Lange Nacht des Selbermachens (short: LNDS) in German – is a celebration of DIY culture in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
We talked to Sarah Reichardt, DaWanda's social media manager, to find out a little bit more about this event.
Sarah, could you tell us a little bit more about LNDS, what it is and why DaWanda is organising it.
This is the third time we're organising the Long Night of DIY, Lange Nacht des Selbermachens in German. It's all about spending a day creating together with others and celebrating Do It Yourself culture. Many venues all over Germany, Austria and Switzerland are joining in.
How does it work and who is involved with it?
On October 17th DaWanda sellers and buyers, bloggers, sewing cafés, and other DIY enthusiasts will host a variety of DIY workshops. The workshops will go from 18:00 to 22:00, and anyone can sign up for them.
The possibilities for activities are endless: Knitting, crocheting, sewing, handiwork, painting, jewellery making, felting, etc. – all kinds of creative techniques are being taught during LNDS. The workshops are all self-organised.
DaWanda itself is hosting a full-day event on October 17th (from 10:00 to 22:00) in Berlin, at Bikini Berlin. The DIY event consists of 7 workshops, some organised in collaboration with partners and DaWanda sellers (e.g. myboshi, Gretas Schwester, Druckrausch, etc.). The whole event will be free-of-charge and DIY fans can just drop by without prior registration.
Is this the first time you're pairing the event with a hashtag campaign and what do you hope to gain from setting up a social media wall?
It's not the first time we are using a hashtag for DaWanda or for this event. But it's the first time that we're creating a whole campaign around a hashtag.
Our aim is to have the social media wall be a companion for the whole event, for the workshops in all the different locations as well as for the people who can't make it to any of the workshops. Furthermore, the workshops can even connect to each other, irrelevant of their location.
We want our channels, and the channels used by our community, to be all about our shared love for creative DIY that day. The social wall makes it easy for everyone to follow along.
How and where are you promoting the hashtag? How are you getting attendees and event hosts to use it?
We've been promoting the hashtag via our newsletter, the Facebook event, on Twitter, as well as Facebook and Instagram posts. We've also been using the hashtag quite vigorously when promoting the event on our Facebook page, so our followers and fans have already grown familiar with it.
During the events we'll also put up notices promoting the hashtag. We're incentivising the use of the hashtag further with a sweepstake [link in German]: We'll be raffling off 5 DaWanda vouchers worth €50 among all the users who post using the hashtag #2015LNDS during the Long Night of DIY.
The incentive for those hosting workshops is, obviously, that they're getting a free online presence on our public social wall.
Have you embedded the wall anywhere? Do you have any plans for displaying the social media wall physically at some of the events?
We'll be promoting the link to the social wall on our channels (Facebook, Instagram, etc.), starting on October 17th. The big all-day event in Berlin will get its own physical wall, which we will be projecting onto a screen with a beamer. That way even everyday customers, who are just dropping by at the venue, will also learn about what's happening under the #2015LNDS hashtag in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Do It Yourself – but together. Attend a workshop.
More than 150 LNDS workshops will be taking place this Saturday. Among the workshops at the all day event in Berlin there will be knitting, crocheting, watercolouring, printing, jewellery making and other topics.
So, what can you do?
Head to the Berlin event.
Check out the events happening in other places, maybe there's one near you.
And, if you have to stay at home for some reason or don't live near one of the workshops, you can still partake by following the DaWanda Instagram account [in German], where they will show you three simple DIY instructions throughout Saturday, which you can realise with a few simple things at home.
We're not sure someone will be DIY-ing any hashtag products during LNDS – but we'll keep our eyes peeled and check the #2015LNDS wall for potential crocheted or painted hashtags.


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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!) *Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
"I can't do it," I sob into the phone. "I just can't do it anymore. I'm not strong enough.".
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This is a good read, isn't it! I liked the suspense in this one. Hope you enjoyed the book! Have a great week and happy reading. Here's my teaser
This is on my list also, great teaser.
My TT
Terrific teaser! I'm giving away two ARC copies of Love to Tell from Pump Up Your Book on my blog – Enter Here
Sounds good!
Here is my Teaser Tuesday: The Tale of Halcyon Crane!
Ooh..you got my attention =)
Great tease. I am getting to this one soon!
I really enjoyed this one – it's made me want to read more of Lisa Gardner's work. Excellent teaser!
Excuse me… I will only allow 10 mins of sobbing before I say ENOUGH! No more tears and time to laugh it OFF! I do have to say though that I am intrigued as to the reason of the raindrops.
Have a great read 🙂
This is a suspenseful author!!! I love her books!!! Hope you are enjoying it!!
Here is my Teaser
Happy Reading!
Nice teaser–anxious to read your review!


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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., Oct. 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The New Year will begin with a bang when iconic British rock band Duran Duran takes the stage at The Theater at MGM National Harbor Saturday, Dec. 31 at 10:30 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 1 at 9 p.m. The legendary group joins an unrivaled opening lineup at the newest entertainment venue in the D.C. region. MGM National Harbor, a $1.4 billion resort and casino, will open December 8.
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She is preparing to pitch this summer for Team Canada, with the ultimate goal of making the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, where softball is back for the first time since 2008.
It's at once jarring and exhilarating to see Danielle Lawrie back in the pitching circle, a familiar look of intensity on her face as she rockets the ball toward the plate.
It's easy to be transported back to 2009, when Lawrie was the toast of college softball while leading the University of Washington to the NCAA title in a still-legendary feat of durability and dominance.
But it's 2018, and Lawrie is now known as Lawrie-Locke, 31 years old, married with two young children. The team she is facing in a batting practice session this past Wednesday is a group of slightly awed kids from Everett High School. And she's exhausted.
There's a serious purpose behind her work, which is followed by a similar session on Thursday at Huskies practice and capped by an extended appearance in a UW scrimmage Saturday at Husky Softball Stadium.
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Yes, after being retired for three years, happily settled into full-time motherhood with an occasional gig commentating for ESPN and Pac-12 Network, Lawrie-Locke is making a comeback.
She is preparing to pitch this summer for Team Canada, with the ultimate goal of making the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, where softball is back for the first time since 2008.
It's been an arduous road back for Lawrie-Locke, rife with the painful physical ordeal of getting her body, and specifically her magical right arm, back in shape for elite international competition. Lawrie-Locke has had to deal with the mental challenge of getting geared up again after all this time. And there's the logistical element of doing all this while juggling child care for 4-year-old Madison and 1-year-old Audrey.
Along the way, Lawrie-Locke has discovered that the softball field is still her sanctuary. And the appreciation she has for the sport that has consumed her life since her childhood in Langley, B.C., has grown deeper, and maybe even purer.
"I think back in the day when I played, I did it because I was naturally pretty good,'' Lawrie-Locke said, resting in the bleachers after the workout in Everett. "And I did enjoy it. But now making the choice to take time away from my family and kids and really having to make that time makes me realize I'm very much in love with the game again.
"Even when it stinks sometimes and I say, 'Man, my arm hurts,' I enjoy the grind."
Lawrie-Locke had last pitched in the summer of 2014 for the professional Florida Pride, based in Kissimmee. She and her husband, Drew, settled in the Boston area, near Drew's family, but relocated to Mill Creek in April 2015. And then, last summer, after a family vacation in Cape Cod, Lawrie-Locke put the little one down for a nap and fatefully turned on the television.
The World Cup of Softball was on. The announcer was Michele Smith, an All-American and Olympic pitching star whom Lawrie-Locke had long admired. Smith was asked when she felt she was at her best as a professional athlete, and she replied, "34, 35."
And back in Mill Creek, those words exploded in Lawrie-Locke's brain like one of her fastball's into the catcher's mitt. Lawrie-Locke had an epiphany, telling herself, "Man, I would really like to make a run at it."
The fact that the Olympics were back certainly fueled her decision. So did the fact that her previous Olympic experience, with Team Canada in 2008, had not gone well, marred by clashes with the coach. She saw this as a chance to create happier memories.
The next step, after getting husband Drew on board, was to call her old Husky pitching coach, Lance Glasoe, to see if he would work with her. No one knows Lawrie-Locke's mechanics better than Glasoe.
"He's the one I would need to have on my side helping me,'' she said.
Both Glasoe and Husky coach Heather Tarr bought into the comeback early, offering support, coaching and facilities. Considering that Lawrie-Locke's retired number 15 is hanging in right field, the only so-honored player in program history, it was an easy decision to welcome back the two-time Collegiate Player of the Year into their proximity.
"It's pretty comforting to me, personally, just knowing how valuable she is as a resource to our program,'' Tarr said. "Of course, she can't coach or really advise the players, but just her presence alone, them watching a 30-year-old woman continue to get after it every day, possibly harder than any of us still do, it's pretty amazing."
The final step was to call the head coach of Team Canada, Mark Smith, and lay out her plan. Considering the baggage she carried from past experiences on national teams post-Olympics, it was vital for Smith to fully endorse the comeback.
"I wanted to let him know where my head was at, especially about stuff in the past where we had butted heads over things, and I took a lot of blame on myself,'' she said. "So he knew I'm really making this a clean slate type of deal. I had so much animosity from the Olympics I think I almost took it out on him."
Smith invited Lawrie-Locke to participate in Team Canada's selection camp in Fort Myers, Fla., last January, where she made the first cutdown to 22 players, along with former Husky teammate Jenn Salling and another ex-Husky, Victoria Hayward. Now she is training for the final selection camp in Thousand Oaks, Calif., May 30 to June 10.
Also on tap for Team Canada this summer is the World Cup of Softball in Irvine, Calif., July 9-15, and the Canada Cup July 13-22 in Surrey, B.C., which has the added benefit of allowing Lawrie-Locke to stay at her parents' nearby home with the girls. Then comes the biggie, the WSBC Women's Softball World Championship that will take place Aug. 2-12 in Chiba, Japan, and serve as the first Olympic qualifier.
Right now, Lawrie-Locke is stepping up her workouts and trying to come to terms with the new normal for her. Part of that, of course, is the constant challenge of arranging child care. Sometimes she brings the girls with her to Everett, where the coach is the father of a girl she had been giving lessons to. She has found a softball player from Everett Community College who has agreed to nanny the kids while she is away.
"That's wonderful,'' she said, "but it's still really stressful. I've never been away from them longer than a week. The first leg will be three weeks where I'm away. I don't know how it's going to be. I wish I had an answer.''
The other main challenge for Lawrie-Locke is wrapping her brain around the fact that her past dominance — which included four perfect games and the fourth-most strikeouts in NCAA history and an 82-13 record over her final two seasons at Washington — is not likely be replicated. Nor will she be able to throw virtually every game like she once did.
"Even throwing today, I'm like, holy … I'm tired,'' she said in Everett. "I've made this decision to potentially figure out whatever the new role is. If it means I'm a starter and go a couple of innings, if it means I'm a closer — but I think that is harder for me to come to terms with."
Though Lawrie-Locke says it took a month and a half just to get to a point where her body didn't hurt, Tarr and Glasoe are seeing the work pay off.
Glasoe says that Lawrie-Locke's off-speed stuff "is still as good as there is in the country. She hasn't lost the timing or her overall feel for the game, so that part has been really fun to work with."
Throwing batting practice at UW on Thursday, Lawrie-Locke was timed at 67 to 68 mph, which at 43 feet from the plate is roughly the equivalent of a high-90 mph fastball in baseball. As Glasoe pointed out, that's 2 or 3 mph faster than she threw in her prime in the College World Series.
"Everyone thought she threw really hard. She never really threw really hard,'' he said. "She could touch really hard, but her offspeed stuff is so good it always speeds everything else up."
Glasoe also recalls Lawrie's indomitable competitive spirit as the difference maker in college
"She might be the only student-athlete I've ever been around who could will something to happen and people would believe her,'' he said. "If she said, 'Get me one (run),' 20 teammates said, 'Let's get one and we'll be OK.' ''
As Lawrie-Locke tries to resummon that mindset, she has a new secret weapon.
"I think her mom strength is what's going to carry her through,'' Glasoe said.
Tarr agrees. "It's interesting, because she has that little X factor of, she's given birth. It gives you so much strength and power, but also perspective. She's as competitive as she ever was. She's as strong as she always was.
"Now, she hasn't pitched in competitive games. You can't do anything about that. But I think that's going to be for her like riding a bike, where she has all these other strengths she's gained by getting married, having kids, balancing being a mom, all that stuff you don't get to be and do in college.
"She could be at her best. Whatever that is — we've seen her in amazing times. Can she be better than that? I don't know if she can be better than that, but she can be just as good, if not better in other ways."
It will be, Lawrie-Locke says, an adventure, one she is fully embracing. And, she hastens to add, it will be a one-off. When the Olympics end, so does her comeback, particularly with the thought of perhaps having another child.
"Obviously, this is a huge goal I'm going after and will do everything in my power to achieve what the team wants and however I can help,'' she said. "But when it's done, I'm done, and I'm totally OK with that."
Right now, though, you can find Danielle Lawrie-Locke back in the center of a softball diamond, ready to uncoil. And that's still a beautiful thing to behold.
|UW's top Dawg
|Danielle Lawrie leads the Huskies softball record book in most pitching categories and threw six no-hitters during her years with Washington (2006-10).
|UW record
|Career wins
|Danielle Lawrie
|Complete games
|Danielle Lawrie
|Danielle Lawrie
|Innings pitched
|Danielle Lawrie
|Danielle Lawrie
|Walks/7 inns.
|Jamie Graves ('97-00)
|Career ERA
|Jennifer Spediacci ('97-00)
|Danielle Lawrie
|Win percentage
|Heather Meyer ('95-96)
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Torrent freaks and mIRC monkeys take note. Starting on October 1st of this year, the all mighty Comcast is installing a rock-solid cap on your downloads. This 250GB limit is part of their shift towards "protocol agnostic" network management – or whatever the hell that means. Wait there is more my torrent-loving reader. There might even be an overage charge of $15 per 10GB downloaded over the cap so you might want to keep an eye on your traffic.
Comcast's statement puts the 250GB cap into perspective and shows why the vast majority of subscribers will never have to worry if they will go over.
- Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
- Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
- Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
- Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)
So what is a habitual downloader to do? Who knows how this cap is implemented. Perhaps some coders will release a work around for us script-kiddies. Alternatively, maybe this cap is only going to be on certain price plans, forcing subscribers up to higher tiers for "Unlimited downloads." Time will tell, but if history has taught us anything, you can bet your cable modem that other providers are writing up their new policies right now.
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One of my favourite things to do in the world is to treat myself to a bit of pampering. In an ideal world, this would mean escaping to Gleneagles every other weekend for mango oil showers, facials and massages. Unfortunately, until somebody decides to publish my book and make it into an amazing blockbuster movie, that's not really an option. But I hate to let a tight budget get in the way of some good me time.
So this is for you, my fellow broke girls. A step by step guide to my super budget at home facial.
1. Light a gorgeous candle.
This is very important. Also, stick on some chill out music or an episode of Don't Tell the Bride or something. It's time to relaaaaax.
2. Cleanse your face.
First, remove any eye makeup. I use a cotton pad soaked in Garnier Micellar Water. Be gentle with your eyes. Scrubbing at them can irritate your eyes and pull out your eyelashes, and tugging at the delicate skin underneath can cause premature wrinkles. Use soft sweeping motions to remove makeup. Then you can cleanse the rest of your face and neck. I have really dry skin, so I like thick, oily cleansers like Lush's Ultrabalm. I smooth it into my face in circular motions and then wipe clean with a microfibre cloth. Coconut oil also makes a great cleanser but because it's quite comedogenic, it can block some people's pores, so listen to your skin on this one. But if it works for you, it leaves skin feeling super soft and clean and helps grow long, fluttery eyelashes.
3. Exfoliate.
Exfoliating removes build up of dead skin cells, allowing product to penetrate more thoroughly and leave your skin fresh and glowing. But be careful, you don't want to overdo it. Don't sand your face, you don't want to take all your skin off, just the dead stuff. I'm still using my resurfastic, a microdermabrasion stick that was gifted to me a few months ago. But soft microfibre cloths also provide good exfoliation without damaging your skin. I picked up a stack of 6 of these for a pound in Savers. Again, use gentle circular motions and rinse.
4. Steam things up.
Fun fact: pores don't open and close. They're just little openings in your skin; they don't have the muscles needed to open and shut. So all the stuff about steaming your face to open your pores and splashing cold water to close them is basically a myth. But steam can loosen all the junk that is hiding in your pores, which makes them appear smaller. Fill a bowl with some boiled water and leave to cool for a few minutes. Seriously, don't stick your face over freshly boiled water. Steam that temperature will have no hesitation in messing your face right up. Once it's at an acceptable, non-scalding temperature, cover your head with a towel and hover above the bowl for about ten minutes. Only your face has to hover. No worries if you can't hover your entire body. If you have a cold, put a couple of drops of eucalyptus oil into the water and breath in healing goodness. Be warned, this will get a whole lot of crap out of your lungs. After ten minutes, rinse your face.
5. The mask.
Ah, the most satisfying and instagrammable part of the whole facial: the face mask.
I am currently obsessed with the Body Shop's Warming Mineral Mask, which uses kaolin clay to draw out impurities. Unfortunately, there has been no scientific research that definitively proves kaolin clay has benefits for the skin, but I'm willing to overlook this for how awesome this mask feels on my face. It warms up on your skin and gives the feeling of stepping into a hot bath, but on your face. My skin always looks brighter after I use it, but take any miracle claims with a pinch of salt. If money is super tight, you can make your own face masks using ingredients that you probably already have!
Stuff not to put on your face, even if the internet tells you to:
- Lemon. Lemon's spot zapping powers have nothing to do with its antibacterial properties and everything to do with its bleaching abilities. The acids in lemon juice can reduce the appearance of spots by bleaching away some of the redness. They can also give you face burns. Don't put bleach on your face.
- Sugar. Sugar is a great scrub ingredient for your body, but is waaaay to rough and jagged for the skin on your face. It will scratch your face right up. And ain't nobody got time to try and apply makeup on a scratched up base.
- Bicarbonate soda. Ooooh, I am guilty of this one! I used to use baking soda to exfoliate my face and was thrilled with how smooth it felt afterwards, oblivious to the damage I was doing to my skin. Bicarbonate soda is far too alkaline for use on your skin, as it disrupts your skin's barrier. And the more you use it, the more damage you do. Yikes.
- Toothpaste. Don't put toothpaste on your damn spots. Toothpaste gets rid of spots by drying out your skin, which I'd imagine isn't really what you're going for. Also, all that minty fresh menthol can be seriously irritating on your skin.
Stuff you should totally put on your face:
- Honey. Honey is antibacterial and hugely hydrating, so is a great ingredient in DIY face masks. Just stay away from beehives. And hungry bears.
- Porridge oats. Oats are an extremely gentle exfoliant, and their healthy fats also help to moisturise and boost your skin's protective layer.
- Yoghurt. The lactic acids in yoghurt make for a great chemical exfoliant – perfect if your skin isn't up to physical exfoliation.
- Avocado. Okay, if you're buying avocados, you probably aren't broke. But in case you just fancied getting hands on with your skin care, avocado's vitamin A and D content can help to repair damage in the skin, leaving it nourished and comfy.
Leave your mask on for the recommended time and then rinse well.
6. Toning
Swipe a cotton pad soaked in alcohol free toner over your skin. This removes any traces of dirt or face mask, and helps prepare skin to absorb your moisturiser. I use Garnier's Micellar Water again, because obsessed.
7. Moisturising.
Now that you've spent all this time cleaning your face, it's time to put some niceness back into it again. I'm currently using Inlight's Organic Night Balm, which I was gifted a sample of, and which I rave about here, but it's pretty pricey. On my budget days, I use E45 cream. Seriously, I slather my entire body in this stuff and it's magical.
And you're done! Sleep on your beautiful clean skin and try not to ruin it the next day by stroking your face incessantly.
Do you have at home spa days, or is this a weird Fiona thing? What do you put in your DIY face masks? Have I missed a vital facial step? Get in touch in the comments or at EscapologistGl!


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Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#664 closed bug (fixed (in master))
refactor get_brand_mult() & pseudo-by-use in attack.c
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get_brand_mult() should be taking a flagset rather than an object. can then rework the pseudo-by-use stuff so it prints a "your ring flares!" or whatever message, to make the effect of the item obvious to the player, apart from the extra verb used.
Change History (11)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by takkaria
- Keywords id added
comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
- Owner set to magnate
- Status changed from new to assigned
Brand multipliers are crying out to be abstracted into monster/constants.h (or wherever). They're called in attack.c, obj-desc.c, randart.c to name but three. I will try this.
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
Ok, [5b543d3] (SVN r1285) starts this. There are five bits left to do:
- Sort out the slays cache in obj-power.c (it needs to reduce to cache only the slay combinations found in ego-item.txt, as slay combos on artifacts are almost never repeated)
- Sort out the slay counting in parse_frequencies() in randart.c
- Factor out the slays and brands in self_knowledge() in spells2.c and use the new array instead
- Re-do the flag_type arrays in obj-info.c to derive from the new array
- Rework the pseudo-by-use stuff, which was actually the point of this ticket ...
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
Hmmm. [285c320] (SVN r1287) sorts out (2) above (and allows separate parsing of SLAY_ and KILL_ in future, if we want). I'm inclined to skip (3) and leave the horrible long list in self_knowledge(). If this was Python it would be easy, but creating a temporary char array of [N_ELEMENTS(slay_table)][SCREEN_WID] to store the info[i] strings for slays and brands is going to render the function unreadable. Anyone wanting to add an extra brand/slay is going to have to edit spells2.c as well as obj-info.c ...
Still planning on fixing (1) and (4) above, then working on (5).
comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
Oops. I forgot
- Refactor the add_brand and add_slay parts of randart.c to use the new array.
comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
[48e29e6] (SVN r1291) does (4) above, and finally enables us to distinguish between brands and slays with if (s_ptr->brand).
comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
(without using TR1_BRAND_MASK, I meant.)
[afc1d49] (SVN r1293) sorts out (6). Three down, three to go.
comment:8 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
I'm opening a new ticket for (1), because it's really nothing to do with this one. I'll close this ticket when (3) and (5) are done.
comment:9 Changed 12 years ago by anonymous
I think [fec456d] (SVN r1350) sorts out (5), which just leaves the self_knowledge() function. Takkaria did say it sounded like less work to remove it altogether than to rewrite it ...
comment:10 Changed 12 years ago by takkaria
[65a9167] (SVN r1355) closes this one, really, at last, though there may well be more tweaking to be done in future.
comment:11 Changed 12 years ago by magnate
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed
Ok, closing because of [65a9167] (SVN r1355). I'll open a new ticket for self_knowledge()


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Cradle Cap Treatments
Cradle Cap: 4 Treatments For a Scaly Scalp
Has your infant's scalp developed dry flakes or crusty yellowish scales? It's likely cradle cap. Known as seborrheic dermatitis when it appears elsewhere on the body, cradle cap is a noncontagious skin condition that commonly affects infants in the first few weeks and months of life.
Although the exact cause of cradle cap isn't known, some doctors believe one factor is a mother's hormonal changes during pregnancy, which stimulate the baby's oil glands. Unlike other common infant rashes such as eczema and diaper rash, cradle cap isn't itchy or uncomfortable for a baby. While cradle cap usually resolves itself within a few weeks or months, many parents prefer to try the following cradle cap treatments to hasten the healing process.
Keep reading.
1. Mild Shampoo With Gentle Scrub
Washing a baby's scalp with a gentle shampoo and gently scrubbing the scalp help resolve cradle cap in many infants. As Circle of Moms member Melissa M. advises: "Use a soft brush for babies. When shampooing his/her hair . . . gently massage the head while it's wet and soapy. Then rinse well. Brush the hair a couple of times a day." Once the cradle cap is gone, shampoo every few days to help prevent it from returning.
2. Medicated Shampoo
If a mild shampoo doesn't help resolve your baby's cradle cap, your doctor may suggest a medicated shampoo. Cheryl B. shares: "My pediatrician told me to use just a tiny bit of dandruff shampoo (like Head & Shoulders) making sure not to get it in the baby's eyes. Worked like a charm." Emily B. agrees: "I used dandruff shampoo on my son once a week, and it cleared it right up!"
3. Baby Oil
Many Circle of Moms members recommend treating cradle cap with baby oil or olive oil. As Lorrie C. explains: "I just put some baby oil on my daughter's head where she was getting the cradle cap and then I used her baby brush and scrubbed it softly until it was all gone. We never had any issues after that!" It helps to leave the oil on your baby's scalp to absorb for 30 minutes or so before brushing it off. Also, be sure to thoroughly wash off the oil, as if left on it can make the cradle cap worse.
4. Medicated Creams or Lotions
Your pediatrician may also suggest a medicated cream or lotion. Lisa B. recalls: "I tried baby oil, olive oil, and different dandruff shampoos on my daughter, but the only thing that worked for her has been hydrocortisone cream! Our pediatrician prescribed a 2-percent strength, so we use that sometimes and sometimes over-the-counter 1-percent. We rub it into her hair before bedtime at night and wash it in the morning."
Cradle cap can also be exacerbated by a yeast infection. If the rash reddens and spreads to skin creases, and if your child appears to be itchy or uncomfortable, yeast may be an issue. In these cases your doctor may prescribe an anti-fungal cream.
Did we miss anything? What has worked for you?
The preceding information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.


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|Mr. Simphiwe Mongwe
Simphiwe Mongwe has an honours degree in Politics and International Relations from University of Johannesburg obtained in 2015 and a BA Humanities degree in Politics and History from Saint Augustine College of Africa obtained in 2013. He is currently working for the Institute for Global Dialogue associated with UNISA as a DST-NRF intern. His research interests include: Foreign policy, International Organizations, International Diplomacy and Security, Regional Integration and conflict in the Middle East.