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Blackwell Hotel es un pintoresco hotel boutique y centro de eventos ubicado en el encantador centro de Coeur D'Alene. A corta distancia andando de restaurantes, tiendas, vida nocturna, parques y el Lago Coeur d'Alene. Elija entre una de nuestras siete habitaciones únicas de lujo. Desayuno continental fresco cada mañana.
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4,2 en junio 21, 2015
Great location, could walk to many things. Beautiful home with wrap-a-round porch. Great continental breakfast. Not a fan of tubs with wrap-a-round shower curtains.
4,4 en abril 26, 2015
Only suggestions for me would be to launder the linens in an unscented detergent. Scent of what they use is very over bearing.
4,2 en abril 23, 2015
My sister and I rented room 5 for a weekend away to celebrate her birthday. We had the best time relaxing on the patio, soaking in the hot tub, and playing shuffle board. The staff was very friendly and offered wonderful suggestions on how to spend our time around town. We parked our cars Friday night and didn't get back in them until it was time to go Sunday. We enjoyed all the shops, the dock, and hiking Tubbs Hill which were all just a short distance from the house. I would highly recommend Blackwell Hotel for anyone seeking a wonderful weekend away! Thanks!
3,8 en marzo 16, 2015
We were pleasantly surprised when we arrived in our room it was beautiful. Not much service really, we checked in, got a tour. We did not see anyone the entire stay, it was odd for a B & B. Wanted to sit out on porch but the propane was empty. Had fun playing shuffle board in game/tv room. Best part was the room - gorgeous.
5 en marzo 02, 2015
The Blackwell Hotel was beautiful. So relaxing and charming. The staff are personable and accommodating.
4,8 en enero 17, 2015
My wife and I frequent the Coeur d'Alene and Spokane area, but this was our first time at the Blackwell Hotel. It's become our go-to for trips to the area after just one visit. The staff went out of their way to ensure our comfort and enjoyment. We happened to be late to check in due to ice on the roads into CdA, and I received a call from the desk clerk. Her first question was not about our stay but about our safety, since she knew the roads were slippery -- quite kind, and not the sort of thing you can coach your staff to do. Our entire stay was enjoyable. The breakfast was not lavish or outstanding, but was certainly more than we expected, and having it in front of the gas fireplace certainly didn't hurt. We stayed in room 6, on the top floor, and would definitely do so again. As the hotel made clear on their website (and on the phone), the bathroom did not have a shower head, only a tub. This actually made our morning more leisurely and enjoyable, and I'd certainly recommend it to anyone who is taking a trip with a flexible timetable. The decor in the hotel was really lovely. We aren't very trendy people but we also definitely aren't fans of the Old Country Roses style decor that is so ubiquitous among b&b's. Blackwell's decorating hit us just about right -- it was contemporary without trying to be mod, classic without being dated. Rich color palette, dark woods on the walls and lighter floors all worked really nicely together. Overall, a wonderful stay that we're sure to repeat.
5 en enero 15, 2015
My wife and I were very impressed with the service and great appearance of the place. The breakfast is exceptional. We stayed two nights for our anniversary and found it to be much better than we expected and look forward to our next stay.
4,6 en diciembre 23, 2014
The attention to details that the staff provided for our wedding and our 2 night stay was above and beyond our expectations!! I can't say enough about the professional, friendly staff and the level of dedication that each and everyone of them gave to make all our wedding wishes a reality.We look back on our wedding and wouldn't change a thing thanks to Blackwell hotel and the impeccable service that they provided. It truly is a class act B & B.and we look forward to another opportunity to enjoy their hospitality.
5 en octubre 27, 2014
My son and his lovely bride were married at the Blackwell Hotel on October 25, 2014. Both the accommodations and the wedding were "world-class!" Liz and Abby were not only very professional but also very personable. The accommodations were very clean (thanks to the hotel staff...so sorry as I forgot the two ladies names who prepared the rooms) and aesthetically pleasing. The wedding planner (Abby) was superb! Her ability to move things along during rehearsal and the main event were spectacular! Her leadership style enabled her to gain the attention of her clients in order to complete the task(s) at hand. My son who lives in Portugal was unable to attend the wedding and therefore, had to Skype-in to view the wedding. When the wedding began, the internet disconnected. Abby realized this and immediately went into action and re-established the connection and my son was able to watch his brother get married! Outstanding attention-to-detail! Liz was fabulous with the food preparation and would drop what she was doing to assist everyone and anyone! I would rate this experience a 10-star due to the flawless wedding event but this site will not allow it! Therefore, 5 stars! Rob (father of the groom)
4,8 en octubre 17, 2014
This was my husband and I's first trip to a bed and breakfast. We loved everything about it! The room was very comfortable and quiet. The bed was much nicer and more comfortable than our bed at home. The breakfast was delicious. We enjoyed the yard, fireplaces on the main floor, and the shuffleboard downstairs. It was also so nice to be so close to downtown. We enjoyed hiking nearby and the shopping and restaurants that we could so easily walk to.
Room 2 features a King size Sleep Number bed, seating area with 2 leather chairs, desk, Keurig coffee maker, flat screen tv, iHome music system, and a large closet. The private bathroom is located across the hall and features a clawfoot tub, perfect for a bath or shower. Non-Smoking.
Room 3 features a King size sleigh bed, fireplace, flat screen tv, 2 reading charis, desk, Keurig coffee maker, iHome music system, and a large closest. The newly renovated attached bathroom features a modern sink and large spa shower with multiple shower heads. Corner room with beautiful views of the back lawn! Non-Smoking.
Room 5 features 2 Twin beds, an iHome music system, closet, and a charming bathroom across the hall with a clawfoot tub/shower. Non-Smoking.
Room 6 features a low-profile King size Sleep Number bed, desk, flat screen tv, iHome music system, Keurig coffee maker, and an attached bathroom with a clawfoot tub, no shower. Non-Smoking.
Room 1 is our signature Blackwell Suite with traditional decor overlooking Sherman Ave. Featuring an elegant King Bed, flat screen tv, iHome music system, reading chair and a Keurig coffee maker. The large attached bathroom features a clawfoot tub/shower and a make up vanity. Non-Smoking.
Room 7 features a low-profile King size Tempurpedic bed, desk, flat screen tv, iHome music system, Keurig coffee maker, closet, and an attached bathroom with a clawfoot tub/shower. Views of our back lawn and Tubbs Hill. Non-Smoking.
King-size guest suite located in the Carriage House. Walk -in shower, flat screen TV, dresser, Keurig coffee machine and iHome music system, AC, hairdryer. ADA accessible room (please verify if needing ramp).
King-size suite located in Carriage House. Walk-in shower, flat screen TV, dresser, Keurig coffee, iHome music system, AC, hairdryer and sitting area.
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Situado en la esquina de E. Sherman Avenue. y la calle 9.
Compra de Antigüedades, Galerías de Arte , Playa, Cenas Elegantes/Gourmet, De Interés Histórico, Lago, Música en vivo, Cine, Parques Nacionales, Área natural, Hiking Trails, Biking Trails, Centennial Trail, Boating, Teatro, Área de picnic, Servicios Religiosos, Río, Area de esquí
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Aire acondicionado, Despertador, Albornoces, Escritorio, Secador, Servicio de Internet, Tabla de planchar, Radio, TV por Satélite/Cable, TV, Wi-Fi, Internet con conexión de cable
Pistas para bicicletas, Billares, Observación de aves, Pasear en barca, Jugar al golf, Pistas para senderismo, Pistas para Mountain Bike, Comprar, Visitar lugares de interés
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Wilver's Demise is a lovely little cocktail that is quite refreshing on a hot afternoon. Wilver's Demise can be your demise if you are not careful. This drink, like many in my stable of liquid driven charmers references the power of lightning and the swoop of thunder if you forget the Golden Rule.
Never more than four lest you experience Wilver's Demise.
Yesterday we exceeded 90 degrees here in New Jersey. Quite the shock to the system.
I keep many different bottles of liquor close at hand in various places in the house, depending on the seasonality of the product and temperature of the room.
The house is not air conditioned, so I like to keep a couple of bottles of Absinthe at the ready- chilling until needed!
There are several bottles of liquor, from digestives to full-blown mind erasers in the fridge, along with a smattering of simple syrups and bitters.
I must say that several sections of the fridge have given themselves up to the art of the mixed cocktail.
At least how I see it in my own blurry way.
Much complaining in the background???
Absinthe is a marvelous drink for hot weather. I first tasted it in Aix, in France. The summer air is bone dry, the heat ever present and the drinks flow like the animated conversations that surround the historic town center.
That means very easily.
Pastis is served- but I wanted something stronger- something with a memory, a kick. Absinthe is this kick.
At the time that I was traveling in France, it was impossible to buy Absinthe in the USA. So my desire for strong drink was sated. A glass of Absinthe with a 4:1 ratio to start. The next one a 3:1 ratio. I should have stuck with a 5:1 ratio. BZZZZZ in that hot sun!
For this cocktail I would hope you are able to find at least one of these marvelous brands of Absinthe. They are all unique so experiment until you find the one you like the most. I included a simple syrup, not yet to the market, but soon it will be- and of course cocktail bitters- where this is going nobody knows.
I will tell you for certain that Wilver in all his wisdom forgot to tell me not to enjoy more than four of these drinks.
They might be called the suffering Wilver.
Yet one or two Wilver's Demise seems to work rather well.
Wilver's Demise
Your choice: Tenneyson, Lucid, St. George, Amerique 1912, Nouvelle-Orléans.
It's up to you on the Absinthe
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Almond Water Ice (Almond water available from Victoria's Kitchen)
Freshly Drawn Seltzer Water from the Penguin (available at Williams-Sonoma stores)
Add a couple of large Almond Water ice cubes to some Rocks glasses
To each glass add about two tablespoons of the Royal Rose Syrup
Add 1.5 shots of Absinthe in each cocktail glass
Top with freshly drawn seltzer water
Drop exactly 3 drops of Bitter End Thai Bitters into the top of your drink.
Mix lightly and use a straw to bring the sweet syrup up from the bottom of your glass
As the Almond Water ice melts, the magic begins!
Danger Level #5 out of 5
April 19, 2012
Over 90 degrees in April? This Seattle girl would need 5 Wilver's Demise in that kind of weather! Okay, so maybe that would have nothing to do with the weather. This just sounds so delicious.It's 50 degrees today. Bring it on.
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"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak."
Yeah, I know, doesn't it seem like something Lost would stumble into?
You do the math..... I'll do the alfredo!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
There needs to be some explanation of this "award" ... mainly because the top unseeded wrestler to place was Mark McKnight at 125 ... taking fourth.
Wrestling seven seeds at a tournament has only happened twice ... 2000 with Mark Dufrense of Lehigh at 174 and last year, Tyler Turner at 149.
Branch only wrestled four seeded wrestlers when he won the title in 1994.
Doesn't make sense to me.
Kyler's record
W 5-2 over #10 Cleveland
W 5-3SV over #7 Ruschell
L 2-5 to #2 Griffin
W 14-6 over #12 Scott
W 7-6 over #10 Cleveland
L 3-8 to #4 Morgan
L 2-3 to #9 Gallick for 6th place
Mcknight's record
W 5-1 over #12 Shinn
L 2-5 to #5 Falck
W 5-2 over NR Orozco
W 7-3 over NR Morrill
W 5-4tb over #6 Flores
W 3-1sv over #10 Nicholson
W 7-5 over #5 Falck
L 3-5 to #3 Donohue
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Probably the unseeded guy that beat the most seeded guys.
Then again coming out of Flo maybe Martin got confused and thought Kyler actually was twelve, instead of just looking like he's twelve and decided to give him an award for being a preteen, and still AA'ing at a pretty tough weight class.
Sorry, I'm still looking for any set criteria, other than using an OSU wrestler's name for an award.
According to the numbers RYou posted above, both Kyler and McKnight had wins over four seeded wrestlers. Kyler went 4-3 in the tournament, McKnight went 6-2.
McKnight finished higher, had the same amount of victories over seeds.
Anyone got an idea what this "award" means? Because as this conversation shows, it's really up for interpretation.
Heres the interview where Martin "presents" him with the award.
Maybe this'll clear a few things up since it hasn't really made an appearance here yet.


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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Everything went Iowa's way Saturday.
Quarterback Drew Tate was sharp, the running game clicked and
the young defensive front held its own as No. 11 Iowa rolled past a
depleted Ball State 56-0 to extend the Hawkeyes' home winning
streak to 19 games, the third-longest in the nation.
"Based on the way things went today, I don't have an awful lot
to complain about," coach Kirk Ferentz said. "Offensively, we
haven't looked that sharp since we got started here in August. I
think they were really focused on what they were doing and played a
pretty clean game."
In limited action, Tate was 9-for-10 for 99 yards and two
touchdowns. His first, a 7-yard toss to Clinton Solomon, gave Iowa
(1-0) a 28-0 first-quarter lead.
On Iowa's next possession Tate connected on a 33-yard TD to Herb
Grigsby, who was wide open after a Ball State defender slipped just
before the catch, putting Iowa up 35-0 with more than 12 minutes
left in the first half.
Four Iowa running backs scored touchdowns, and the Hawkeyes
rushed for 241 yards overall, a major improvement for a team that
fielded one of the nation's worst rushing attacks a year ago.
Junior Albert Young, who missed most of his first two seasons
with knee injuries, gained 61 yards on five carries, including a
nifty 32-yard burst to set up Iowa's second score.
Freshman Shonn Greene led the team with 116 yards rushing on 18
carries and Sam Brownlee added two touchdowns.
"We got the running game started, and we haven't had that in a
while," said Young, who scored on a 2-yard dive in the first
quarter. "I think it's going to be great because we have a nice
rotation going out there."
The Cardinals (0-1) were overwhelmed in every facet of the game,
a fact made worse by 13 player suspensions handed down by the
university Friday. Seven of the players disciplined were expected
to start, including the team's top rusher, Charles Wynn, its best
offensive lineman, three defensive linemen and two from the
The punishments stem from an ongoing investigation into NCAA
rule violations alleging the players misused a book loan program to
obtain textbooks they didn't need or received improperly obtained
books from other players.
But coach Brady Hoke refused to blame the sanctions for his
team's performance on the field.
"We didn't change anything," said Hoke, adding he is uncertain
when the players will be reinstated. "I'm not going to talk about
it. It's not my job. It's about this game today."
Iowa's defense, anchored by four underclassmen on the front
line, held the Cardinals to 22 yards total offense in the first
half and helped Iowa notch its first opening game shutout since
The Cardinals' best scoring chance came late in the first
quarter when Martin Dunbar recovered a Tate fumble at the Iowa 36.
But Iowa's defense stymied the Cardinals, then did its part to pad
the lead.
Ball State set up as if to go for it on fourth down, but
quarterback Joey Lynch stepped back and delivered a quick kick that
was scooped up by Hawkeye cornerback Jovan Johnson at the Iowa 10.
Johnson slipped a pair of defenders, crossed the field behind a
wave of blockers and raced down the opposite sideline untouched for
the score, his first career touchdown and the fourth-longest punt
return in school history.
"My first instinct was to cut back," said Johnson. "I saw
[safety] Marcus Paschal direct traffic, and after I got past the
first guy, I knew I had a wall set up and had the end zone."
After that, Ball State never got any closer to the end zone. The
Cardinals, starting four freshmen on the offensive line, were held
to seven first downs and 144 yards total offense.
Lynch, replaced by backup Warren Suess midway through the third
quarter, was 6-of-10 passing for 37 yards and was sacked three
times. Suess was 5-for-12 for 56 yards against Iowa's third-string
The game was played before the biggest crowd ever to attend a
game in Kinnick Stadium. With the new renovations to the
76-year-old stadium, including a new grandstand in the south end
zone, Iowa set a new attendance record of 70,585.


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The number of Florida cruise ships to Bermuda is relatively small, compared to all East Coast departures to Bermuda from the ports of New York, Baltimore, Bayonce (New Jersey). That's the main reason for higher prices to cruise to Bermuda on ships leaving out of Florida ports. And as to the time of the year/season – search for Spring Transatlantic repositioning cruises to Europe departing from Florida by some of the world's best lines.
The cheapest "one-way cheap" prices for a ship cruise to Bermuda from Florida ports – and some of the best rates on top luxury ships and really big yachts are offered mostly on cruises to Europe leaving from Miami, Tampa or Fort Lauderdale. First stop Bermuda, than the Transatlantic crossing to some of the Europe's ports (usually in the Mediterranean) for a best European summer travel vacation!
Bermuda Cruises 2015 from Miami, Florida
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- OCEANIA Riviera 2015 Transatlantic from Miami, Florida, to Barcelona (Spain), visiting Kings Wharf, Funchal (Madeira) – 14n, April 01, prices from $3000.
- MSC Divina 2015 roundtrip from Miami to Nassau and Kings Wharf – 7n, April 11, prices from $650. Another option is the MSC Divina 2015 Transatlantic cruise from Miami, Florida to New York City, Kings Wharf, Azores (Ponta Delgada), Lisbon, Spain (Cadiz, Barcelona), Italy (Naples, Rome) – 20n, April 26, prices from $1,400.
- CELEBRITY Eclipse 2015 Transatlantic from Miami, Florida to Southampton, UK, visiting Kings Wharf, Azores (Ponta Delgada), Lisbon, Bilbao, Le Havre (Paris) – 16n, April 21, prices from $1,200.
- Caribbean PRINCESS 2015 Transatlantic from Miami, Florida to Southampton, UK, visiting Grand Cayman (George Town); Roatán, Cozumel, Bahamas (Princess Cays), Fort Lauderdale, Kings Wharf, Greenock (Glasgow), Ireland (Dublin, Cork) – 21n, April 18, prices from $2,100.
- Caribbean PRINCESS 2015 Transatlantic from Miami, Florida to Southampton, UK, visiting Kings Wharf, Greenock (Glasgow), Ireland (Dublin, Cork), Southampton, Barcelona, Corsica (Ajaccio), Rome, Italy (Livorno, Genoa), Marseille – 28n, April 25, prices from $4,000.
- Caribbean PRINCESS 2015 Transatlantic from Miami, Florida to Southampton, UK, visiting Kings Wharf, Greenock (Glasgow), Ireland (Dublin, Cork) – 14n, April 25, prices from $1,300.
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But the rest was horrible, thankyou Bob Iger for approving of this
RIP Sunshine Plaza
I think I'll miss the Golden Gate Bridge with its cartoony look the most
But the rest was horrible, thankyou Bob Iger for approving of this
RIP Sunshine Plaza
About the only thing I will miss is the california music loop. I do have fond memeories of going to the park before it opened (a cast member preview day). Other than that, I am in awe of the fact that I have watched an entire area of a Disney park pass into Yesterland like Holidayland or the Indian Village of Disneyland.
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I think Sunshine Plaza was Ok, but I really think Buana Vista Street will be far better, and I am looking forward to it.
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Fellow Disneyians. "Let us be glad! Let us be gratefull! Let us rejoicify that goodness could subdue, the wicked workings of You-Know-What." "No one mourns the wicked. No one cries 'They won't return!'. No one lays a lily on their grave." - No One Mourns the Wicked.
The murals are really the only thing I miss. I wish they could do something with those.
I just watched the BVS presentation at D 23 on youtube and all I can say is WOW! Its going to be an amazing area full of history, detail and a sense of place, everything Sunshine Plaza wasnt.
If they put in half the forethought (and guessing half the money) like they are putting into BVS, then we wouldnt have to see it get knocked down now.
What were they thinking when they built this area, no clue, but sadly it represented everything that was wrong with DCA 1.0...everything!
Yeah true! Again though, I do have to give them credit because PP was EASILY one of the worst lands for me, bar none at opening...now a few years later its now easily one of my favorites.
Now we have real attractions: TSM, TLM along with Screamin and probably in a few years something will take Maliboomers spot. SSS is heads and tails above OS since its just wonderfully detailed and just real fun to ride. In fact, its something I do everytime now. OS I did litterally once. I can still take or leave GSS, but it at least better done than MM.
We have some great sit down areas that are beautifully designed like Paradise Pier Park and Paradise Gardens that are just nice to relax in or have a beer or an ice cream. Paradise Gardens has great restuarants that took the place of a McDonalds...a MCDONALDS!!! If that doesnt say how badly the direction of PP 1.0 went down in, nothing says it more.
And finally, the crown jewel of the area: WOC! That show alone not only transferred PP into a nightly hot spot, but DCA in general!
So when you see how great of a change PP has had in just the past 3 years alone, I think they will knock BVS out of the park and UNLIKE PP where they basically just threw a Victorian overlay over the area and updated the attractions, BVS had the oppurtunity to start from scratch so NO relics of Sunshine Plaza would exist in any meaningful way and that alone I'm grateful!
This acctually existed? Jk but yes it was a neat area for me when I was 6-8 and didn't care about it being tacky and un-appealing to most. When I got older I started to dislike DCA more because it was "lacking" the Disney quality. Long story short yes it was tacky no it wasn't a horrible place to sit and people watch.
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mine is "tentacle-vision",I hate it because squidward got thrown out of his own house.
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mine is "tentacle-vision",I hate it because squidward got thrown out of his own house.
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|"Professor Squiward" is rubbish. Like, really. I know patrick and spongebob are annoying throughout the show but i didn't even smile in this. i have other least favorites too, but they've been mentioned (i.e. penny foolish)
It felt less like "Spongebob Squarepants" and more like "Spongebob Squarepants: Where they went wrong" Another one of mine that I hate is "The Splinter." It takes alot for me to cringe from gross tv, and yet I was watching that and had almost gaged by the end. Bad episode
penny foolish no doubt, and the one where spongebob got super rich. that was just STUPID.
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|Other than "The Splinter," I'd have to say "Choir Boys" was pretty bad. Not only did I find it to be boring, but the throat-clearing gag seems to go on forever, no matter how many times I see the episode.
Trust me, you ain't the only one! I hate it so much!
But for me, my least favorite episodes would have to be either Someone's in the Kitchen w/ Sandy, Rodeo Daze, or Atlantis SquarePantis.
|SpongebeachBob wrote:
Finally, I thought I was the only one hating that episode
|ShrinkinViolet wrote:
Trust me, you ain't the only one! I hate it so much!
But for me, my least favorite episodes would have to be either Someone's in the Kitchen w/ Sandy, Rodeo Daze, or Atlantis SquarePantis.
|Rosspel wrote:
|Alot of ''Penny Foolish'' haters, I actualy liked that episode.
Well my least favorite will have to be ''Good 'Ol Whatshisname'' & ''The Krusty Sponge''.
|ShrinkinViolet wrote:
|I completely agree with you about Krusty Sponge. I actually enjoyed the Krusty Sponge's beginning, but I hated it once it got to the "zombie" part.
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I HATED the end, man Squidward didnt deserve the abuse in that episode.
|CDCB wrote:
Jellyfishing is my least favorite pre-movie episode. Yes it has its place in history for introducing a major theme of the Spongebob world but taking an already injured Squidward, pouring soup onto him, getting him stung by giant jellyfish, and smashing a jellyfishing net through his tentacle is a bit too much if you ask me
I have quite few episodes I hate:
- Best Day Ever.
- Atlantis Squarepantis.
- Pest of the West.
- Truth or Square.
- The Splinter.
- Professor Squidward.
- Spongehenge.
- Clash of Triton.
Yeah, most of them are specials. It just shows how incompetent the new writers are these days.
The Splinter and Atlantis Squarepantis. Atlantis Squarepantis was---mmmm...I'd say an hour of singing and foolishness---and singing by the characters. But The Splinter was just...gross.
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UO has and will always be famous for its PVP.. It was never great at graphics but it gives a uncontrolled world were anyone can be anything they want. You can be a farmer and grow plants or a cloth maker or whatever you want to be in UO.. And it never ends.
The PVP is the best of any game.
Lake Superior is where UO came from. Many of the legends and old school players from LS left OSI shards and we have them all gathered to run and play on An Corp.
The shard's PVP system is never touched or the integrity of it. We never allow artifacts or any item blessing. Factions is alive and so is PVP like players will remember it from the old days before Powerscrolls, artifacts, and items based pvp.
For outside of fighting we have many systems. Paintball, CTF, Player run tournament system with stadium, Poker and gambling, Public Duel Pits,
An Corp has our own unique champ spawns with new champs. We have new dungeons and creatures. New tamables and much much much more.
The staff are experienced with over 7 years of UO under their belts. GM and up are not allowed to have player chars and we have an Admin whos sole job is investigating GM and Admin actions to make sure there is no unfair actions.
We have some of the best players and pvpers the game has ever known.
We have daily and weekly events as well as numerous tournaments and faction wars.
Right now we are sponsoring a Hall of Fame Duel Tournament that will award many prizes on An Corp as well as 10 Mil in gold on any OSI shard as well.
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by Suzannah Rowntree at Ladies Against Feminism - Is Stay-At-Home Daughterhood Biblical? But there was one thing missing from my convictions on "stay-at-home" daughterhood. Folks—particularly Christian peers—would remind me that the Bible doesn't specifically command, describe, or endorse the concept, and therefore one could not make it a rule for everyone. Up until recently, I found this reasoning pretty fair. None of the books I read on the subject of daughterhood and the family made more than a persuasive argument from Scripture—certainly nothing I found convincing. Most of the factors in my own decision had been personal, and while I loved the life so much, I couldn't recommend it to oth … [Read more...]
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Review: Pixar's Brave is Braver Than it Looks
by SierraPixar's Brave is every fairy tale and none of them. It's every trope and none of them. It's filled with lovable scamps, bumbling eccentrics, defiant courage, enchanted landscapes, stifling expectations and unintended consequences. And it's filled with beautiful brogue and wayward redheads.I'm going to talk my way through this movie. It's currently 10:30pm. I left the movie theater 30 minutes ago, oddly silent as I tried to figure out what the message was that I got from that film. What follows is my first attempt to process the story, and to figure out whether or not it follows in the footsteps of Tangled, the cinematic anthem for ex-fundamentalist daughters.My re … [Read more...]
Raised Quiverfull: Introductory Questions
by Libby AnneWelcome to Raised Quiverfull! Nine young adults who grew up in the Christian Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements have come together to answer a series of questions about their experiences. All of these young adults have since questioned and left these ideologies and have chosen their own life paths. The goal of the Raised Quiverfull project is to inform. Click here for the Raised Quiverfull introduction.This section, Introductory Questions, showcases the participants' responses to three introductory questions. If you would like to read the questions and answers to these three questions in one document, click here. To go to the other sections and read the par … [Read more...]
Introducing, Raised Quiverfull!
by Libby AnneNine young adults who were raised in families involved in the Christian Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements have come together here to answer questions about their upbringing, their questioning, and their transition to lives in the normal world. Ranging in age from their early twenties to their early thirties, all have questioned and left the Christian Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements and all but one blog against what they see as the destructive results of those movements.These nine young adults come from an array of backgrounds (no two families in the Christian Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements are identical) and have today arrived at a variety of perspectives … [Read more...]
Forming Boundaries Late in Life
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Emotional Incest Part 4: The Pain
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Emotional Incest: The Bottom Line
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PAWTUCKET --- For Pineview manager Joe Clark, traveling with his Big League ballclub to Dover, Del. on the second weekend of each July has become almost an annual tradition.
That weekend is when the Eastern Regional Tournament gets under way, and in six of the last eight seasons, Pineview has ventured down Route 95 to represent Rhode Island.
PineviewŌĆÖs best finish during those six trips has been a pair of third-place finishes, the last one coming in 2010.
ŌĆ£This team has a chance to really cause some damage,ŌĆØ said Clark, whose ballclub begins regional action on Saturday. ŌĆ£We have a lot of pitching, we play really good defense, and we donŌĆÖt have a lot of power hitters, but we get on base and weŌĆÖll take the singles and doubles all day long.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm confident that with our arms and our defense, weŌĆÖll do very well. We should be in pretty good shape.ŌĆØ
The tournament, which continues until the finals next Wednesday, will also feature ballclubs from Massachu-setts, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and a host team from Dover.
Pineview was 11-0 in District II play to handily repeat again as district champions, and in the state tournament, the Pawtucket team punched its ticket to the regionals by overcoming two sloppy innings to beat Smithfield in its opener, 10-7, and then producing 10-0 and 7-0 wins over Chariho/East Greenwich.
Smithfield, ironically, was the team that defeated Pineview in last yearŌĆÖs state title game, doing so by scoring four times with one out in the top of the seventh inning and then holding off a late charge in the home half of the frame by Pineview before earning a 7-6 victory.
After beating Smithfield, Pineview was expecting to see its tournament rival again somewhere down the line, but Smithfield never recovered from that loss and ended up dropping a 4-3 decision to Johnston in their losersŌĆÖ bracket opener.
ŌĆ£I was surprised they got bounced out (in two games),ŌĆØ admitted Clark. ŌĆ£I think it was one of those things where we both put so much into that first game because we knew we were the best two teams in that tournament.
ŌĆ£And I know how it feels to lose that first game. IŌĆÖve been there. ItŌĆÖs demoralizing and you never really recover from it, and I think thatŌĆÖs what happened with them. I thought they should have beat Johnston.ŌĆØ
In the first win over Chariho/East Greenwich, three Tolman pitchers took care of business, as Carlos Sanabria worked the first four innings and Andrew Larson and Zach Taber each tossed a frame. In the second win, former Shea ace Eric Geisman was the story of the night as he delivered a masterful three-hitter.
ŌĆ£He only threw 82 pitchers over seven innings,ŌĆØ Clark said of Geisman. ŌĆ£He struck out seven batters and didnŌĆÖt walk anyone. From the first pitch to the last pitch, Eric was just amazing.ŌĆØ
While PineviewŌĆÖs pitching and defense has been amazing, so has its offense, which from top to bottom, is dangerous.
ŌĆ£From one through nine in our lineup, weŌĆÖre a solid team,ŌĆØ remarked Clark. ŌĆ£Joey Fernandes, who is our No. 9 hitter, had five or six hits in the state tournament. And Andrew Larson bats eighth and he gets on base two or three times a game. ThatŌĆÖs how good our lineup is.ŌĆØ
Zach Taber is the teamŌĆÖs dependable leadoff batter, the 3-4-5 batters and chief run-producers are Franco DiRe, Ty Karalis, and Sanabria, and Ben Amerault ŌĆ£was also phenomenal in the state tournament,ŌĆØ added Clark.
Nearly half of PineviewŌĆÖs roster hails from Tolman, and joining Sanabria, Larson, and Taber are Fernandes, Robert Lima, and Adam Ghazal.
Javier Ortiz and Heriberto Rodriguez played for Central Falls, and the rest of the team, including Geisman, are 2011 high school graduates ŌĆō Harrison Jones (East Providence), Karalis (St. Raphael), Amerault (Bishop Hendricken), and DiRe and Ethan Studley (Barrington).


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Here is an excellent explanation of DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness):
Why Your Muscles Get Sore: Exercise and Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
by Matt Perryman
If you've ever done any kind of hard activity, you've had sore muscles. It's inevitable, even to couch potatoes. If you exercise on any regular basis, it's guaranteed you've gotten sore from it.
Muscle pain is just expected with exercise. What I'm going to talk about here is known more specifically as Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, or just DOMS for short.
This is to separate it from any pain or discomfort that might happen during your workouts, like the burning sensation that can occur when you do high reps or any kind of endurance training.
In contrast, DOMS is residual pain and stiffness that occurs the day or two following exercise.
Sometimes people will mix the two up. But the burning that comes from exercise is a different process, and it doesn't have anything to do with getting sore a day or two later.
The main goal of this article is to look at the physical causes of soreness and how it relates to exercise.
A lot of people assume that soreness is a sign of an effective workout, that you've damaged the muscle tissue, and that soreness means the muscle is growing.
These are all incorrect to some degree or another, and along with explaining the causes of DOMS, I want to touch on what's wrong with those statements.
What Causes Muscle Soreness
It's been a long-held belief in bodybuilding and gym-rat fitness circles that muscle soreness is caused when tiny tears that happen in the muscle in response to weight training.
This is an example of sound-bite science. There's a kernel of truth there, but some hasty assumptions and logical leaps that make it incorrect.
It is true that stretching of the muscle while it's under tension (called the eccentric or lowering phase of a movement) is known to cause a type of damage to the muscle. This damage affects both the individual muscle fibers and connective tissues that surround the muscle fibers.
We call this cellular microtrauma, and in a way it is similar to tiny tears in the cell's membrane.
Why this happens is still unclear; there are theories, but nothing conclusive. There's speculation that when you lower a heavy weight, you change the way that motor units are involved in the lift. Since less motor units are activated and able to help in lowering the weight, more stress is put on fewer fibers.
Some groups have observed that there's a difference in the way that the muscle proteins connect and detach during contraction, which physically damages those structures. Still others have noticed that calcium ions, normally responsible for contraction of the muscle, can build up and exaggerate damage.
It's possible that all of these, and potentially other things, contribute to cellular microtrauma. All that's important to know is that it happens; when your muscles are exposed to any sufficient amount of eccentric exercise, the tissue shows several signs of being damaged.
This can result from anything that involves eccentric muscle action, not just weight training. Even running or something as seemingly innocent as Yoga can be a culprit. As a consequence, just about any activity you can think of can cause soreness.
The body will adjust to soreness with time. If you're unaccustomed to doing a particular exercise or activity, you can bank on being sore the next day or two. But if you keep up the activity, you'll soon stop getting sore.
In research, this has been labeled the repeated bout effect. What we see is that after exposure to eccentric exercise, any follow-up exercise session won't tend to make the damage any worse.
Your muscle and connective tissues adapt to the stress. This, again, is a poorly-understood process that could be the result of several avenues.
The big candidates for this adaptation are changes in motor unit activation (so that more fibers handle the weight), thickening of the connective tissues around the muscle, and of course bigger and stronger muscles. Regardless of the cause, the muscles adapt so that future exposures to the same conditions won't cause any further damage. So we know there's some kind of adaptive force in play here.
The question is whether or not muscle soreness has anything to do with muscle growth, though. Repeated bout is well and good, but it doesn't answer that question.
From the looks of things, DOMS and actual muscle growth don't have much to do with each other.
Tissue Inflammation
The process of inflammation is how the body handles damages to it's tissues. Any time you get injured, inflammation is the response. It's why an injury will swell, turn red, get hot, and so on. The body is reacting to the injury by breaking down the damaged tissues and bringing in specialized cells that assist in repair.
Traditionally it's been thought that this inflammation process applied to muscle injury and repair, and this has extended to the damage caused by exercise. And there is research showing that tissue breakdown and inflammation do occur in human muscles.
Recent research has looked at markers of inflammation and muscle damage along with indicators of the growth response in human muscle. The results of this new research are interesting, and some of these older assumptions have been called into question.
Sarcomeres, which are the protein structures in your muscle fibers that actually contract, are known to become damaged after eccentric exercise. This disruption of sarcomeres was thought to be a sign of damage, and associated with inflammation.
In animal research, where most of this was done, this is probably what happens. A similar process does happen in humans, but there's some exceptions.
The research of Yu et al (2002a, 2002b, 2003, 2004) has shown that sarcomere disruption is actually the beginnings of tissue remodeling in human muscle. Tissue remodeling is a process of changes in the tissue that will end up with it being larger; this is how the body creates a bigger muscle, in other words.
Further, we see that growth can occur with no markers of muscle damage (LaStayo et al, 2007). While human muscles can be damaged and inflamed by exercise, they don't have to be in order to grow.
In humans, actual muscle damage and inflammation seem to happen only in cases of very high volumes of work usually after marathon runs and similar extreme endurance activities.
Strength training, by contrast, seems to have a much lesser effect. While higher volumes of eccentric strength training can create muscle damage and inflammation, the severity seems to be much lighter as compared to high-intensity endurance exercise.
A study by Cramieri et al (2007) indicates that muscle damage doesn't really correlate to soreness. This experiment compared electrical stimulation (ES) with voluntary contractions, and found that the ES protocol created far more muscle fiber damage.
However, the DOMS experienced by the two groups wasn't any different. The pain of DOMS was actually associated with the inflammation of the extracellular matrix which is connective tissue that binds the muscle fibers together.
All of this would strongly indicate that connective tissues are the source of the actual pain, not the muscle fibers themselves. The damaging effects of exercise on actual muscle fibers don't correlate with pain.
This is of interest because it means that inflammation and pain don't indicate damaged muscle fibers per se. There's tissue damage, and muscle fibers can be damaged along with that, but there's no actual relation between muscle fiber damage and the pain you feel.
Taken together, there's a very good chance that the processes behind DOMS and those responsible for muscle growth are only loosely related.
The damage and inflammation created in muscle seems to be dose-dependent. The more eccentric work done, the greater the damage and resulting inflammation. But we also see that damage and inflammation can happen without any growth signal, as in the case of marathon runs. Likewise, muscle growth can happen without inflammation, as seen in the studies showing growth responses without any significant tissue damage.
Inflammation and Muscle Growth
Because of this information and the conclusions we can draw, it might seem that tissue damage and muscle growth aren't linked. But it's a bit more complex than that.
Increased muscle protein synthesis, or building up of new proteins, is what's required for muscle growth to happen. This is balanced out by muscle protein breakdown. To grow, we have to increase MPS more than MPB (Tipton and Ferrando, 2008).
In practice, we see that both processes of building up and breaking down are strongly linked. When you increase MPS, MPB will tend to increase as well. This increases the overall protein turnover, or the total amount of protein coming in and out of the muscle.
Increased protein turnover with a net increase in MPS rates will result in more proteins building up in the muscle growth, in other words.
In muscle, this process is linked to physical changes in the sarcomeres. It was once thought that these changes were a result of damage, but it's been shown that this is actually the beginnings of the growth process. We see that both elevated protein synthesis and tissue remodeling can occur with no markers of inflammation.
Yet, inflammation of the muscle still seems to be integral to the growth process. Even though there's no direct link as yet between inflammation and increased protein synthesis, there's a strong correlation.
There are certain proteins in the outer membrane and connective tissues of the muscle fibers that are responsible for transmitting signals deeper into the cell. When the fiber becomes more resistant to damage, it's thought that it also becomes more resistant to this signaling. When a muscle is protected from eccentric damage, it also seems less sensitive to mechanical signals that stimulate growth.
This could be one reason that it's progressively harder to trigger growth with weight training. The more conditioned a muscle is, the harder it is to make it grow.
That's one possible link, although it's still just a correlation. It just happens that resistance to eccentric damage and growth signaling are linked by that one process. It doesn't mean that the two things are directly connected.
When certain anti-inflammatory drugs are taken, what we see is that protein synthesis rates are very low as compared to groups that didn't take the drugs (Trappe et al, 2002).
Specifically we see this in a type of drug called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDS. This includes things like ibuprofen, naproxen, and acetaminophen.
Researchers have traced this to the COX-2 enzyme, which is involved in some steps of the inflammation process. It seems that when COX-2 is blocked by drugs, protein synthesis and resulting growth is impaired.
Taking drugs that block COX-2 seems to compromise muscle. However, there's some recent research that calls this into question, at least with lower doses. Krentz et al (2008) showed that 400mg of ibuprofen per day had no negative effects during the six weeks of the study.
The research by Trappe et al used maximum over the counter doses, so this could be a dose-response matter.
Obviously we've got a little conflict here. Some of this research is telling us that we don't need muscle damage and inflammation for growth to occur; but we also observe that blocking some steps in the inflammation process can affect protein synthesis.
What are the possible explanations for this?
The time course of the changes is one possible avenue. Inflammation takes awhile to kick in, and is probably responsible for the longer-term changes in MPS rates. This is different from the processes that govern the immediate post-exercise changes.
Since protein synthesis rates in the muscle increase for upwards of 24 to 48 hours after an exercise session, it's possible that inhibiting the inflammation effects would become more relevant over time even if there's no problems immediately after the workout.
The process of long-term muscle growth requires satellite cells, which are immature muscle fibers found around muscle tissue. Under certain conditions, satellite cells are triggered to increase in number and become more like full-grown muscle fibers.
When an existing muscle fiber is damaged, these developing satellite cells will contribute their nuclei to those damaged fibers. The more nuclei that a muscle fiber has, the more protein synthesis it can support, and the bigger it gets.
Inflammation is strongly linked to the processes that activate satellite cells, and this is where COX-2 most likely contributes.
One of the biggest activators of satellite cells is a group of growth factors called prostaglandins. Specifically prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) has shown that it not only triggers satellite cell activity, but contributes to protein synthesis in existing fibers. Obviously, PGE2 is something you want around after a workout.
It just happens that COX-2 is what regulates the synthesis of prostaglandins, and thus it's linked to this long-term growth process. When you block the actions of COX-2, you wind up blocking that long-term process (Trappe et al, 2001).
Now, I'm not so worried about the effects of painkillers blocking growth; that's not the point. The point is to show that inflammation does play a role of some sort it's just that the role isn't what most people assume it is.
This is backed up somewhat by the fact that eccentric exercise doesn't seem to impact protein synthesis rates any more than other kinds of weight training (Phillips et al, 1997; Moore et al, 2005; Cuthbertson et al, 2006), but it does seem to correlate with greater muscle growth and protein turnover in some cases (Nedergaard et al, 2007).
Increases in muscle size without any noticeable increases in post-exercise MPS rates is hard to explain, unless you account for the contribution of satellite cells.
However, I have to stress again - DOMS itself is not a by-product of muscle fiber inflammation. Being sore does not mean that your muscles are undergoing growth. They might be undergoing repair, but these are not the same things.
I'm going tag-heavy here because emphasis is important.
Inflammation and Overtraining
The other issue that comes up is the protocols used in the research. Many of them, well, they don't resemble any kind of realistic workout. This is a needed compromise, since sometimes you have to exaggerate an effect in order to get data, but nobody's going to be doing something crazy like 8 sets of 10 maximum eccentric contractions.
Nobody's doing that in the gym, not if they're getting results.
Other methods use very high volumes of downhill running, which creates an eccentric movement every time you absorb the impact of landing. Downhill running can rack up a lot of volume in a hurry when compared even to some of the more outrageous strength protocols.
The extreme cases like that are connected with fiber necrosis, which is the actual death and breakdown of muscle tissue. This isn't really expected in moderate exercise, which most people are doing. In fact, that degree of tissue damage isn't likely to be helping you out if a bigger/stronger muscle is your goal.
Quite the opposite, actually.
Seeing muscle damage from some of the crazy research protocols is hardly a surprise, but it also doesn't mean that it will apply to your workouts. This just illustrates one of the potential problems of chasing DOMS.
The other problem is systemic inflammation that comes up from this. When you damage your tissues like this with extreme exercise, they release inflammatory signals called cytokines.
Cytokine levels are strongly correlated with muscle damage, especially in cases like downhill running, and large volumes of strength training are shown to elevate cytokine levels as well.
If you're one of those with the goal of getting sore every workout, and you do a metric ass-ton of training to make that happen, chances are you're causing a good degree of inflammation.
This isn't an issue if you only do it occasionally, but if you do this several times a week, you're going to feel it sooner or later - cytokines and inflammation are strongly linked to the overtraining phenomenon.
The more muscle damage you cause, and the more often you do it, the more likely you are to seriously compromise your gains.
It's a necessary thing if you're training to be an endurance athlete, but if strength/power or muscle mass are your goals, you need to avoid excessive work loads.
Suggestions and Conclusion
Just to reiterate, one more time:
There's no link between soreness and protein synthesis; no link between soreness and long-term growth; and no link between soreness and muscle fiber damage.
Soreness happens when you create enough total damage to aggravate the connective tissues. This will sometimes correlate with a muscle-stimulating workout. But just as often, it has nothing to do with muscle stimulation.
Just because you're not sore doesn't mean your muscles aren't inflamed and growing. Likewise, being sore doesn't mean you had a good workout.
DOMS itself will be caused by any eccentric exercise that you do for enough total reps. The less accustomed you are to that type of exercise, the worse the DOMS will be after the fact.
The actual tissue damage you do in a workout is a result of both high intensity and large volume. The more of either, or both, the more damage will result. Some damage is good, as it seems to link to satellite cell activity, but too much is bad.
Since we can't use DOMS as a reliable indicator of muscle fiber damage, it's pointless to use DOMS as a sign that you've effectively worked your muscles.
Sometimes people hear eccentric and think of the old bodybuilder technique of negatives. Negatives are where you load up a very heavy weight, then just lower it slowly. Usually the recommendation is given for 120% to 130% of your 1RM.
This is an example of an accentuated eccentric, where you intentionally emphasize the lowering phase. You can do accentuated eccentrics with lighter weights, too.
But this particular kind of strength training isn't the only place you encounter eccentric overload.
Downhill running is one method tested in the research, and it creates far more muscle damage than most observed weight-training protocols. Working the legs to paste with downhill running has a much greater impact than eccentric work for the elbow flexors (bicep curls), as one example.
This is probably due to the large amount of muscle involved, as the legs are a big muscle group compared to the arms, and the total volume of work done. Even a moderate distance run will involve more reps than almost any strength workout you'd ever do.
The fact that a damaging distance run creates less growth than strength training, which creates mild damage by comparison, is telling.
It's my thinking that there's an optimal amount of damage that should occur in a strength workout. Obviously you need some kind of disruption to go on so you can get those satellite cells working.
But doing too much work, and causing too much damage, just breaks down tissue and increases recovery time without giving you any real benefits.
Hence my emphasis on varying the difficulty of your workouts, instead of just mindlessly blasting your muscles into pulp at every chance. But that's a different rant.
When you're toying with your workouts, you have to be careful. Heavy eccentric movements can slip in from unexpected places. It doesn't just happen from intentionally loading up the bar and doing negatives.
If you're taking a lot of your sets to failure, you're probably kicking off this process. When you near the point of failure, you're actually putting a large eccentric stress on the fibers that are tiring out.
Same idea when you do a lot of volume and exhaust yourself by doing a lot of sets.
Even grinding through a 1RM is going to involve a lot of eccentric work on squatting and pressing exercises. You can drop a deadlift or a row without too much trouble, but a squat or press requires you to lower the bar first. On a heavy weight, that's an automatic eccentric overload.
The grinding seems to be the common point. When you have to fight through fatigue, you're creating a lot of eccentric damage in those muscle fibers that get tired. It doesn't particularly matter where the fatigue comes from, but tired muscle fibers that are forced to move are going to be worked over pretty good.
Sometimes this is a good thing. But sometimes it isn't. You want some hard workouts, but you don't have to destroy your muscles every time you step in the gym.
Make sure to reserve the harder types of training for workouts that intentionally overload your muscles. In lighter sessions, try to avoid these methods.
While I'm not convinced that NSAIDS or other anti-inflammatories in moderate doses are going to just crush your gains, it'd probably be a good idea to keep it moderate. Large doses taken on a regular basis could well add up to some long-term effects on muscle growth.
Along those lines, there's some data to indicate that painkillers don't affect DOMS pain that much anyway (Barlas et al, 2000; Stone et al, 2002; Rahnama et al, 2005).
People get addicted to the idea of soreness because it's quick feedback. It's not really a bad or stupid assumption; if you didn't know any different, I can see why you'd connect the two processes. You exercise, you get sore. Exercise harder, and get even more sore. It's reasonable enough if you don't have any information to tell you otherwise.
From there, people just assume that hard workouts = soreness = effective. But that's not the case. It's a case where correlation is mistaken for causation.
We know that workouts can still be effective even if you're not sore, because exercise is still effective after you stop getting sore from it. Being sore, stiff, and exhausted might feel good, but it's not a replacement for training intelligently.
Copyright 2008 Matt Perryman