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Reviews - DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Lincoln4
On Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln, LN1 1YW
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89% would recommend it to a friend
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DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Lincoln
attentive staff in the dining room.
All staff very pleasant , a credit to the hotel.
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Enjoyable 2 night stay with my daughter, comfortable bed and clean room.
Staff and contractors were very friendly and helpful. Will recommend to family and friends.
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The hotel was really excellent room clean beds are large everything great apart from the air con fan...ours was constantly on which I expect in a hotel but ours squeaked or a worling noise sounded as though on a space craft so I didn't get a great deal of sleep and the maintenance staff don't work wkend still didn't spoil our stay too much and would book again as these things happen just shame didn't sleep
Hilton Doubletree, Brayford Pool, Lincoln
My wife and I booked into the above hotel for a night as part of a weekend in Lincolnshire.
We have previously stayed at two Doubletrees and also at Hilton brands before, the best in our opinion being the Hilton at York. This is a new hotel and is in a fabulous location overlooking Brayford Pool, right in the centre of Lincoln. Likes:
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No "soul". The hotel feels bland and sterile despite the quality of it's fittings. There was simply no atmosphere at all, with large empty spaces such as reception feeling quite intimidating. It was significant that although the hotel was full the night we were there, very few people dined in the Electric restaurant. We did, and the food was good, but overpriced and a very limited choice. In fairness, the restaurant is about to be converted to a Pierre Marco White brand (why does everyone have to jump onto this branded bandwagon, don't they have enough confidence in the Doubletree brand?), but this was not reflected in the price. Our meal cost £68 for two of us from a limited choice and included a glass of wine each and a bottle of tap water for which we were charged £2.80. The city centre waterfront was heaving (we went for a walk after dinner), and there was the answer to the almost empty restaurant: we could have eaten a very nearly as good meal along the waterfront for probably £20-£25 less cost - and enjoying a close up view of the Pool area. There is a choice of at least 20 decent eateries within 10 minutes walk of the Doubletree, mostly at lower, much lower cost. Our room had literally no natural light. It was up against another building and you could not get about without the artificial lights on. Also, it had no natural ventilation either, just air conditioning which has it's place, but not at the total exclusion of real air from the outside. Inadequate car parking. We arrived at c 5pm and the car park was full. It only has 40 spaces apparently and costs £12 overnight. As a tip for future visitors, the nearby Lucy Towers car park is £7.50 for 24 hours and 2 minutes walk from the hotel, with easier access. We won't be staying at this Doubletree again. It may suit other visitors, but for us the lack of atmosphere, lack of natural light in our room (329) and high prices (total cost for one night DBB was £197), means that we can and will find better value and ambience elsewhere. A shame as the hotel has many good points, and the above comments are no reflection on the mainly young staff, whom we found to be universally cheerful and helpful.
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Fantastic weekend break
A lovely hotel with lovely helpful staff.
For us this hotel was in a brilliant location, was clean and quite.
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4 day break
Lovely room, king sized bed, very clean
Excellent city centre stay in great but quiet location
Highly recommend this hotel, wonderfully situated on the Brayford Pool, handy to tour Lincoln my favourite city.
Beautifully clean room, great food, and friendly, helpful staff!
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Would love to have stayed!
Another fiasco with LateRooms - they booked it when they should not have.
I stayed elsewhere on this occasion through no fault of the hotel.
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Great room but slightly noisy and no window to look out of
The room had some sort of ventilation system by the door that was quite noisy while trying to sleep.
Also huge curtains in the room but no window behind them. maybe the view was not very good. For one night was fine. I liked the cookies on check in, that was a nice touch
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Had potential to be a lovely getaway
The location was lovely with lots of places to eat and the city centre a short walk away.
We had a lot of little or easily avoidable issues that added up to spoil our stay and were then dealt with by a defensive desk manager that made the situation worse. I know that on their own, a lot of the issues could be argued against and I myself would, but when considered as a whole we would have had a much better experience from a Premier Inn or Travelodge type establishment without paying nearly double the price. We arrived a two hours before the check in time and were relieved when the lady on the desk said our room was ready. Unfortunately she was so slow that the people queuing behind us for four minutes, who then moved to a different desk to be served when someone came out from the back office, were allocated our room so we were told we'd have to leave our bags and come back a couple of hours later. By way of apology she gave us a voucher for two free drinks in the hotel bar. Everyone who checked in got cookies but we didn't. We don't need them and I could have asked but we weren't sure if they'd paid more or something. Why the inconsistency. The wardrobe hinge in the room we got was broken. There was only half a toilet roll and no spare. There was a massive curtain and when we pulled it back it revealed a small window and the rest of the curtain was covering a wall. Incidentally, there was no recess for the curtain at the end so it was difficult to close fully and meant I was woken early by the light.
The light was a minor issue though - there was no option to open the window and the aircon unit turned off completely every 40 minutes until you got up and turned it back on again. We didn't realise this until the morning when we'd spent the night way to hot and uncomfortable. Another minor annoyance was that I chose the hotel because I read 'most rooms have either a balcony or view of the castle'. I know it says 'most' but our car park view was just another thing to add to the list of disappointments. We also found there to be way too much noise coming through from other rooms around us. We paid £120 for the room then another £10 each for a mediocre, slow and disorganised breakfast and were also told it would be another £10 for parking at the hotel so £150 in total. When I raised my list of concerns I was offered a 25% discount which I wasn't impressed with, especially considering the Premier Inn Good Night Guarantee. I then found out it wasn't actually 25% off my total bill, it was just off the room rate. The lady said I could speak to the manager if I wasn't happy so I did. Unfortunately he was argumentative and kept cutting me off by talking over me when I tried to respond to him. He kept suggesting I'd made up the issues by saying "I'm offering 25% and I've not even been up to the room to check what you've said is true". After all that, he then got another manager to come and speak to me who was very professional and listened properly to my concerns. He said the best he could offer was 50% off my room (not my total bill) or I could wait until Monday to speak to someone else. At this point I was very late for my long journey home so decided to cut my losses and accept his offer. As I said at the beginning, the location is handy and the hotel has potential but even without the issues we had I would say it is over priced for what you get.
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Another great violin from Eastman Strings. This is a hand carved and finished violin. The top is of carefully selected Spruce and the back sides and neck are of highly figured Maple.
The pegs, fingerboard, Hill Model tailpiece and Guaneri chinrest are of fine quality Ebony. The violin is finished with hand applied spirit varnish and has been carefully antiqued. Most people would never believe this is a new violin, it sounds and looks like a much older instrument.
We have set this instrument up in our workshop with a French Despiau bridge and Dominant strings.
It's a fine instrument to play with a nice tone throughout the range, very well balanced from string to string and with plenty of dynamic range and power if you need it.
We appreciate that a violin of this quality might attract buyers who perhaps do not want to use Dominant strings, we are happy to fit your choice of strings with a suitable price adjustment.
This sale is for the Violin Only. If you would like us to make this up into an outfit with a suitable case and bow then please email us so that we can make you a suitable offer.
A very good violin for the price from a very well respected company.
Price: £585.00

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The intent of this paper is to extend theory and give tools for analyzing the complexities of the Lancaster Property negotiations. In this Hub, and on this trend of thought, my aim is to point out the importance of obtaining a holistic image of the manifestations of the culture of the Banguni/Bakone individuals a an energetic, vibrant and in-your-face way of life, filled with the exuberance and enjoy of life, that this method is not genuinely fully comprehended by the fly-by-night scholars of South Africa.
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Nowhere on our continent has a national liberation movement given up power – neither in Algeria nor Angola nor Zimbabwe, not in Eritrea or Guinea-Bissau or Mozambique – and the ANC in South Africa is no different, even now when the when generous struggle is decreased to the banding of robbers.
As Sampie Terreblanche has revealed in his critique, 'Lost In Transformation', by late 1993 large organization techniques – hatched in 1991 at the mining mogul Harry Oppenheimer''s Johannesburg residence – had been crystallising in secret late-evening discussions at the Improvement Bank of South Africa.
Stubborn refusal to find out from experiences planet wide (and even of one's personal) and preferring as an alternative to invent and propagate new (isms) which only exist in their minds, has made most present day policy makers in Africa neglect their men and women and frequently side with foreign interests.
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP)— Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari apologized Saturday for plagiarizing President Barack Obama's 2008 victory speech and said he will punish those responsible.
The announcement came as Obama is set to meet Buhari, the leader of Africa's largest economy and most populous country, this week in New York.
Adeola Akinremi in her Friday column for ThisDay newspaper denounced "the moral problem of plagiarism on a day Mr. President launched a campaign to demand honesty and integrity.''
Several lines were almost identical to Obama's in a speech Buhari made Sept. 8 launching his campaign "Change Begins With Me.'' The campaign promotes a new way of thinking to rid Nigeria of widespread corruption.
Buhari said, "We must resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our country for so long. Let us summon a new spirit of responsibility, spirit of service, of patriotism and sacrifice. Let us all resolve to pitch in and work hard and look after, not only ourselves, but one another.''
Obama said, "So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. … Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long."


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Celebrated jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan achieved fame in his late teens. He recorded numerous jazz albums during the 1960s, with The Sidewinder, released in 1963, as his greatest commercial success.
Lee was playing at the jazz club Slug's Saloon in New York City in the early morning hours of February 19, 1972. He and his common-law wife Helen had an argument between sets and she subsequently shot him. Because it was a very snowy night, the ambulance took a long time to get there and he bled to death before they arrived. He was 33 years old. Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin crafted this documentary as a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together.
Kasper Collin
Studio: Films We Like
Producer(s): Kasper Collin
Screenplay: Kasper Collin
Official Site: icalledhimmorgan.com
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Potluck Parties: Mag Club Cinco De Mayo
VENUE: Leora's Apartment, Chelsea
TYPE: Potluck
MENU: Cilantro Slaw (Phoebe); Chipotle-Pineapple Glazed Tofu, Grilled Pineapple, Guacamole, Bean Dip (Leora); Shrimp Tostadas (Sarah); Butternut Squash Nacho Casserole (Kate); Green Rice, Chocolate-Bottomed Blondies, Mexican Chocolate Cookies (Cara); Sangria (Jordana); Various Whole Foods concoctions and Mexican Cheer (Julie and Alana)Tuesday, the 5th of May, didn't really feel like a holiday, or like a day in springtime at all: the skies were dark, the sidewalks cold and rainy, and the mood so overcast we felt almost as somber as the would-be revelers of Mexico City stuck at home in fear of swine flu. Though corporate emails, newspaper headlines and magazine covers alike reminded us that human contact was probably a bad idea, it seemed only natural to embrace the viral doom and gloom, stir-up some homemade margheritas (or sangria), and gather around for some Mag Club May dish at Leora's apartment, where there is a year-round supply of Purell and not a pig product in sight.
The spread managed to be far more festive than the weather dictated—though with Leora's five dishes, there seemed to remain very little counter space for the rest of our contributions. Mag Club ESP at work, the homemade spread was as cohesive as ever, covering all the necessary categories and courses, despite the fact that no one dared to bring swine-filled enchiladas inspired by a horror-inducing piece in Time.
After we caught up on the new and old men in our lives, Cara, the only suck-up to bring an article this week, began a discussion on the fragrances that remind men of pumpkin pie—based on her article from Cosmopolitan (inherited, NOT purchased), which contested that a combination of pie and lavender is in fact the key to pheromone attraction. As some of us contemplated buying pumpkin pie bubble bath and lavender perfume, she explained how the Venn diagram on the page, an overlapping gradient of light and dark browns, inspired her two-tone blondies. We gave her Mag Club brownie points for making a little sense out of complete nonsense, and, by extension, a very delicious treat from leftover cookies and a pantry devoid of sugar.
The conversation eventually turned from insipid magazines to Kate's impending birthday activities, and, finally, to Leora's apartment's decorative Judaica and the various rhinestone animals and frilly pillows she would have to dispose of when she moved in with her boyfriend at the end of the summer. At once, we opened our eyes to the room around us, and collectively teased her about the statuettes, chamsas, and Jewish-themed rubber duckies—a rarified assortment of tchotchkes—she had been able to accumulate in the two short years of quarter-life existence in the apartment.
Cilantro Slaw
Makes 4-6 servings (about 1 ½ quarts)
2 limes, juiced
½ lemon, juiced
2 tbsp mayonnaise
1 garlic clove, pushed through a press
5 pickled jalapeños slices (canned), minced
½ tsp chili powder
Dash cayenne (to taste)
½ tbsp salt (to taste)
¼ cup olive oil
½ cup cilantro, chopped
½ head Napa cabbage, thinly shredded or sliced
Combine first 8 ingredients in a large salad bowl. Gradually whisk in the olive oil until all elements are combined. Toss together with the cabbage and the cilantro.
Serve along side any Mexican-themed entrée as a side salad, topping, or garnish. This dish works especially well atop fish tacos.
Chipotle-Pineapple Glazed Tofu
Makes 4 servings
Leora recommended a great veggie website which inspired her recipe (http://www.veggiemealplans.com/), but admitted that the overall result was pale in comparison to Cara's new favorite tofu which she recreated last week.
For the Glaze:
1/3 cup pineapple juice
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
2 teaspoons minced chipotle with adabo sauce
1 clove minced garlic
pinch of salt–or if your Phoebe more! Because we know she loves salt!
For the Tofu:
1 package firm tofu sliced into 1 inch cubes and well blotted with paper towels
In a small bowl, whisk together all the ingredients for the glaze. Heat a tablespoon or two of olive oil over a medium flame, and cook the tofu, stirring occasionally, until browned. Pour the glaze mixture over tofu and allow it to thicken.
Serve on a platter with Grilled Pineapple (recipe below) for garnish, or as a tasty side.
Grilled Pineapple
Makes 4 servings
1 medium pineapple, cored, trimmed, and sliced
Heat a grill pan over a medium-high flame until hot. Do not add any oil, the natural juice from the pineapple will keep it from sticking. Grill until both sides are browned and the pineapple is really juicy looking!
Shrimp Tostadas
Makes about 12
1 cup guacamole (Sarah used this recipe)
12 peeled de-veined shrimp with tails removed
3 large corn tortillas, cut into 4
Pico de gallo (optional)
Heat a grill pan over medium-high flame. Season the shrimp and toss together with 1 tablespoon of olive oil so they don't stick. Grill the shrimp on both sides until nicely charred.
On a sheet pan, arrange the tortilla slices. Place under the broiler for 5 minutes until hot and a bit crispy. Add a dollop of guacamole, one grilled shrimp, and a dash of salsa or pico de gallo for color to each, and serve!
Butternut Squash Nacho Casserole
Makes 6 appetizer servings
1 butternut squash, cubed
1 tomato, diced
¼ onion, diced
1 can of pinto beans, drained
1 pound of shredded cheddar
1 bag of tortilla chips
Cilantro for garnish
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Cook butternut squash in microwave for ten minutes. After the butternut squash is cooked, mix together with the tomato, onion, beans, and ½ the cheese. In a medium casserole dish, spread 3/4 of the butternut squash mixture, follow by a layer of chips. Top with the remaining mixture, the remaining chips, and the rest of the cheese.
Place the dish in the oven and cook for fifteen minutes. Garnish with cilantro on top after the cheese is melted and the nacho casserole is crispy!
Makes 1 pitcher
This sangria marks an epic mag club first: Jordana actually making something. As is rumored to be the case with the few other dishes she's made in her small kitchen, Jor's sangria turned out perfect: flavorful, fresh, and, thanks to a joint decision by Jor and Phoebe (who despises the fruit), orange-free.
1 bottle of red wine
2/3 cup of "fresh" orange juice
1/2 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of lime juice
2 apples, sliced
Orange slices (optional)
Combine all ingredients in a large pitcher and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Allow to chill in the refrigerator or serve over ice.
Chocolate-Bottomed Blondies
Makes 20
1 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick butter, softened, plus 2 tablespoons melted butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup maple syrup
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate cookie crumbs*
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
Note: I used some of the Mexican-spiced chocolate cookies I had made over the weekend, but you can use store-bought plain chocolate wafers. Either way, pulse them in a blender or food processor to create coarse crumbs.
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter a 9×9″ square pan. Combine the chocolate cookie crumbs with the cocoa powder and 2 tablespoons melted butter. Press this mixture into the bottom of the pan. Bake for 5 minutes, then remove from oven and set aside.
Meanwhile, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl.
In a separate bowl, beat the softened butter with the brown sugar until fluffy. Add the syrup, eggs, and vanilla, and beat to combine (mixture may look somewhat curdled). Add the flour mixture, stir just to combine, then pour over the prepared pan with the chocolate cookie crust.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until the top has firmed. Cool 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out and cool completely before cutting into 20 squares.
Mexican Chocolate Cookies
Makes about 24
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
extra sugar for rolling
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Combine the dry ingredients and set aside. In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar, then add the egg. Mix in the dry ingredients until the dough sticks together (it will be somewhat firm).
Pour about 1/3 cup sugar onto a shallow plate. Gather heaping tablespoons of the dough into balls and roll them to coat in the sugar. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and back for 10-12 minutes, until the tops have cracked. Serve warm, cool, or crumbled into bits and baked at the bottom of a blondie.


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Marathas are known for their fierce warriors who fought against Mughals and British in Indian history. Peshwa Bajirao I (18 August, 1700 – 28 April, 1740) was one such warrior who never lost a battle in his life time. In a short life span that he lived, he fought with unmatchable tactics to defeat his enemies. Peshwa Bajirao I is one of the most notable figures in Maratha history for his battle life as well as his personal life.
Peshwa Bajirao I – Early Life
Love and devotion for the Maratha Kingdom was in Bajirao's blood. Bajirao's father was the first to serve Chhatrapathi Shahu as a Peshwa. The parents of Bajirao – Balaji Vishwanath and Radhabai – were said to be close to the monarch. Bajirao learnt war skills and tactics at an early age thanks to his father who used to take along the young boy with him to war expeditions.
Peshwa Bajirao I – A Young Peshwa
Soon after Balaji Vishwanath died, Chhatrapathi Shahu decided to entrust the Peshwa title to the young Bajirao I who was barely out of his teens.
Peshwa Bajirao I – War Campaigns
Bajirao I was young and ambitious. He was eager to expand Maratha Kingdom at the earliest for which he had amazing war skills that matched his ambition. He had successful war campaign against Siddhis, Portugese, Mughals in Gujarat and Bundelkhand and Malwa.
Peshwa Bajirao I – Family Life Kashibai (m. 1712) and a Muslim Princess Mastani (m. 1719)
Bajirao entered into the wedlock at an early age of 11 with Kashibai who lived with him till his last breathe. He had four sons with her out of which two sons died early. Notably his successor was Balaji Bajirao I (Nanasaheb), another son was Raghunathrao. Bajirao I and Kashibai shared a very understanding and affectionate relationship. But later on in his Bundelkhand campaign he lost his heart to Mastani and married her. Mastani was the princess of Bundelkhand and the daughter of King Chatrasal. Mastani started living with Bajirao I at his family house in Pune.
Peshwa Bajirao faced a lot of criticism due to his association with Mastani as she was not a Brahmin but a Muslim. The Brahmin society of that time detested Peshwa's alliance with Mastani and as a result Bajirao became furious.
Bajirao I was helpless as he couldn't stop his family from plotting against Mastani. He was forced to keep Mastani away from his relatives. He failed to get his family like Mastani and accept her. Peshwa Bajirao I and Mastani had a son who was not accepted in the Brahmin Society and was named as Shamsher Bahadur I (Krishna Rao).
Peshwa Bajirao I – Death
Bajirao I fought tirelessly from the age of 20 till his death at 39 years. His last days were stressful as he faced personal and imperial conflicts. His ambition of conquering Delhi from Mughals remained unaccomplished as he succumbed to ill health on his way to Delhi in 1740. Historians believe that Peshwa Bajirao I suffered from possible a heat stroke which led to his death.


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Any idea as to the best place to research the account of a GWR track or bridge worker who was fatally injured at work either in the Shrewsbury or Oswestry divisions of the GWR? This is following a story I've heard where the cause of death was listed(?) as 'decapitation', so I would guess this was in the 1940's, as I think later would be termed 'multiple injuries' to spare the feelings of relatives. By repute, the GWR declined to pay the widow and daughter any compensation, as this man had volunteered to go and help a mate do this particular job, so shouldn't actually have been there! I am, however pretty sure that this incident occurred either in Mid, or the southern part of North Wales, possibly as far north as Dolgellau.
Thanks, and will write this up for the WRRC if I can get some more info.


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Friday, March 26, 2010
The Thorn in the Heart Trailer
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Labels: Documentaries, Videos
The Portfolio: Keeping in Touch
Following on from my post 'An Incident in Times Square' comes 'Keeping in Touch' a short film I made as part of the Irish Film Board's 'Short Shorts' scheme in 2007.
Featuring the recordings of almost three years worth of original voice messages that Patrick Dillon left on my mobile phone and inspired by Chris Marker's incredible 'La Jette', the film was made entirely with still photographs.
Frustrated with the US regime of then President George Bush, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the incessant 'cellphone techno-babble' that modern society thrives on Dillon, always popping up as an 'unknown caller' on my phone, vented his anguish in hours of voice messages that were eventually distilled into this short animation.
I had originally used the quotation below from Saul Bellow to introduce the film but it was made for the cinema screen and not the laptop and thus a little hard to read. Here it is in all it's moody glory...
"For Instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the failure of radical hopes. In a society that was no community and devalued the person?"
Saul Bellow, Herzog
Big ups to Producer Steven Courtney, composer Steve Lynch and of course the one and only Patrick for all their hard work on the project.
5 comments Posted by Ross McDonnell
Labels: The Portfolio, The Screening Room, Videos
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
AK Kimoto : 1977-2010
Enormously sad news that friend AK Kimoto passed away suddenly this week from a heart attack. He was 32.
I met him in Kabul this time last year and we became fast friends. He was a genuinely lovely guy with a huge passion for life and photography. His easy going personality, openness and patience permeated everything around him.
It's been a shock for all of us who knew him, our thoughts go out to his family and loved ones.
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Labels: Photographers
Josef Koukelka Interview
Koudelka, Spain, 1971
Not quite Rodney Dangerfield in 'Back to School' and proving that you can always teach an old dog new tricks, James Pomerantz is keeping us well informed over at A Photo Student where he's sharing his crazy college knowledge with the masses.
He just posted THIS interview with Josef Koudelka, perhaps my all time favorite photographer. Koudelka is held in such high esteem amongst so many, perhaps because he sacrificed everything to seek his soul through his journey in photography, hoping to 'find a passage from the unconscious to the conscious.'
His photographs bear witness to this journey and in them perhaps we can see a world somewhere in between those two states: not quite a dream world but not reality either.
Living without a passport, a home, a family or even an assignment and surviving on his wits for almost twenty years, Koudelka lived in his sleeping bag on a diet of milk, bread and potatoes (and presumably the good will of those who know him). He is perhaps the ultimate 'photographer's photographer' or as the Gypsies who he photographed for so long came to know him as: 'The Iconar'.
Koudelka, Ireland, 1971
I have taken great inspiration from Koudelka and of course began my own photographic process as a means to try and understand my place in the world and to use images as a tool to express that: not caring if they are seen but merely that I was there to take them and just to 'be': in the world and of the world.
Sleeping on couches, spending the last few cents on film, shooting and shooting. Very quickly though you realize that your life is slightly different, you are your own person and that there is, in fact, only one Josef Koudelka.
Cheers James.
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Labels: Bloggers, Photographers
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Plastic Bag and Other Stories
Proving that almost anything with the words Werner and Herzog in the synopsis probably gets my seal of approval, for your viewing pleasure comes this unbelievably beautiful short film 'Plastic Bag' by wunderkind director Ramin Bahrani.
I hold my hand up and admit that I haven't seen any of Bahrani's previous feature length efforts, Man Push Cart, Chop Shop or Goodbye Solo but all have been highly praised. Roger Ebert named Bahrani as 'Director of the Decade' for what it's worth.
Plastic Bag is that rare beauty, a short film that is perfectly suited to the short form. The film is kind of 'Wall-E' meets Herzog's own 'Lessons of Darkness' and is poetic, uplifting and timely all at the same time. It's social message touches on that black hole of human waste that no-one seems to want to dredge the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' alluding to the issue without beating us over the head with it or resorting to any kind of environmental hyperbole or hysteria.
Plastic Bag is part of the recently launched Futurestates project, a series of short films by established and emerging directors that aims to 'present a different filmmakers vision of American society in the not too distant future, fusing an exploration of social issues with elements of speculative science fiction.' Check em out...
3 comments Posted by Ross McDonnell
Labels: Documentaries, Films, Videos
Saturday, March 20, 2010
New Look Conscientious
Lord of the photo blogs Joerg Colberg has recently revamped the look of his Conscientious blog. Check it out this instant!
Hands down one of the best photography blogs out there, Mr. Colberg's articles on things Fine Art photo and beyond now seem even better with their sexy graphic makeover. Ooh la la.
Always well researched and thoughtfully written, this article on the ethics and practice of photojournalism titled 'Why We Must See' was a recent one that caught my eye.
Joerg's canny ear to the ground also led me to the work of Gerald Slota of whom I might write about a little later as his work is pretty interesting by any standards.
Well played Joerg.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Eugene Richards - The Blue Room
For any aspiring documentary photographer, for any aspiring photographer, for all of us who are thinking, feeling human beings, the first time you encounter the work of Eugene Richards is a moment not quickly forgotten.
Like being punched in the chest - winded and in that moment arriving at some uncomfortable truth about oneself, Richards' images confront us with our own humanity at it's most raw and it's most vulnerable.
From his seminal self-published photo-essay on the low income locals, daytime dilapidation and bubbling racism of his hometown in 'Dorchester Days', to his documentation of his partner Dorothea Lynch's battle with breast cancer in 'Exploding Into Life' Richards takes us to places that, sometimes, we'd rather not go. We are willing to go there however and perhaps it's because he's taking us there.
Shy and softly spoken it's wonderful to hear Mr. Richards discussing his latest book 'The Blue Room' - a study of abandoned houses across the US.
I guess it's fair to say this work is somewhat different from what I am referring to above both in style and tone however the images 'The Blue Room' remain laden with emotion and pathos.
His voice, poignant and wry, he recounts his journeys photographing these abandoned properties and the ghosts they have left behind, real or imagined. Wedding dresses and war stories. Swallows that fly upstairs but can't get down again. Stolen kisses and cigarette butts.
Worth the watch.
The original video file at better resolution from Host Gallery is here.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
The Portfolio: Turkana Notebook
Turkana in north-western Kenya is one of those places that is about as alien a landscape as a suburban white kid from Ireland can witness. Being there is the type of 'edge of civilization' experience that jolts you awake in the pre-dawn every morning you're there, dried sweat candied onto your body, half wrapped in a mosquito net, gasping for liquid and eager to spend another day in this amazing place.
These images were made as part of my project on the Turkana. After making my first trips there with Irish NGO Trocaire, I returned to continue the work and to delve a bit into the culture of the Turkana people, beginning to show how the impact of Climate Change is slowly eroding their traditions and heritage.
It's a region which feels as old as time itself and like much of sub-Saharan Africa there is something 'essential' there in the air, in the people, in the cycle of life. I'm putting it down to being another 'mzungu', captivated by the colonial exoticism of it all, but it's a tangible thing, you can feel it.
The Turkana, tall and impossibly lean, perfectly adapted for life under a mad hot sun; the women with their braided hair and beaded necks, primitive goddesses to the last. The men appear bound to the earth, walking great distances with long sloping strides, without possessions except a hand-carved stool and a stick (and an AK47), custom designed for the life nomadic.
The Turkana stand at a cultural crossroads like almost all indigenous societies around the world, their traditions are slowly disappearing generation by generation, the pull of the towns and cities draws the youth away, their villages becoming places that represent only drought, conflict and food scarcity. These images are part of an ongoing project documenting that culture and the changes taking place within it. From indigenous rituals to the uneasy security of Christianity and the missionary life, Turkana culture is in a kind of flux that is further accelerated by Climate Change and the constant cycles of drought that we in the developed world mostly the cause of.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Kilruddery Film Festival
For film buffs looking for something a little different (and who happen to be withing striking distance of Kilruddey House in Ireland) this weekend sees the second staging of the Killruddery Film Festival 'Celebrating Lost, Overlooked & Forgotten Cinema'.
It looks like a wonderful event with highlights including John Boorman introducing 50's nuclear thriller "Seven Days to Noon" and Rebecca Miller introducing Sanjit Ray's "Goddess/Devi" which looks absolutely amazing. Great to see such luminaries supporting the event.
Goddess/Devi, Sanjit Ray, 1960
The festival which has discussions on Film art, Foley workshops for kids and is all hosted in the majestic settings of Killruddery House and Gardens looks to be a real gem.
Seeya there...
Killruddery Silent Film Festival 2009 from DOCUMENTAVi on Vimeo.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Chris Doyle:
Sex Tourism Cinematography for Beginners
Watching this BBC Culture Show video with genius cinematographer Chris Doyle is kind of like watching a video of myself out drinking over the course of a long night.
Charming and poetic at the start, arrogant and self-aggrandizing after a couple of drinks and desperate, sleazy and grabbing at Asian girls by the end of another neon-soaked night with a gut full of cheap liquor...it's all too real.
Just about getting away with it while groping his way through the Bangkok red light district, Doyle shows us how his freewheeling lifestyle informs his ability to "create poetry" by "forming light in space".
Dirty old Aussie or not, you gotta love the results.
Kudos Chris.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Wisdom: Shomei Tomatsu
Atomic bomb damage, wristwatch stopped at 11:02, August 9 1945
"Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches... A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing." - Shomei Tomatsu
Protest, Tokyo, 1969
Untitled from the series Eros, Tokyo, 1969
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Mondo Cane: Baraka it Ain't
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Portfolio: 'An Incident in Times Square'
Patrick Dillon: The Last Doughboy
The images below are related to my (sort of) long term project 'Tales of The Last Doughboy' on friend and collaborator Patrick Dillon.
Mooching around New York at seven am one morning, shooting with my Rolleiflex found me somehow in the swirl of an international incident as someone, only hours previously, had cycled up to the door of the Army Recruitment center at Times Square and detonated a homemade bomb.
Luckily it was in the middle of the night and there was little damage and no injuries but New York being a somewhat sensitive city to international terrorism, cops swarmed, reporters gathered, undercover detectives whispered into their lapels. Smoke billowed...from somewhere.
But not from the bomb.
Commuters went about their daily business in the middle of a frantic live news story. The newspaper delivery guy was late.
And all this before breakfast. I recall the light that morning being just amazing. Strange and wonderful winter morning light that rattled off every glass surface like a pinball machine.
How this is related to 'The Last Doughboy' project will be revealed here in good time (inshallah) when the hard graft in the editing suite is done.
I stumbled across the resulting snaps while editing pictures today and thought I'd post em up.
Here's to you Patrick, you crazy bastard, I love ya.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Lance Acord at the ASC
I stumbled across this series of talks at the American Society of Cinematographers with incredible cinematographer Lance Acord discussing his work on 'Where the Wild Things Are'.
Director of Photography for both Spike Jonze and Sophia Coppola as well as countless innovative music videos and commercials, Acord is an inspiration for me, both for the simplicity and also the profound beauty of his work.
Always grounded in naturalism but using framing, camera movement and an ever-evolving but tell-tale colour palette that makes his work stand out, he makes it look easy.
Most interesting to me is the discussion about his early career, his love of Josef Koudelka, Robert Frank and getting his first gig as a photo assistant to Bruce Weber, making connections in the New York art scene, cutting his teeth on 16mm and getting the nod from Vincent Gallo to lens the indie classic 'Buffalo '66'. Great stuff.
Lance Acord at the ASC: Part I
Lance Acord at the ASC: Part II
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Documentaries: Do it Yourself
Official call for entries:
No-one sees the world the way you do. The BBC wants to see things from your perspective – and create a unique picture of our lives today across the planet.
We are asking you to use any camera you can find – a mobile phone, a point-and-click, or a friend's camcorder – and shoot a two-minute documentary with the theme MyWorld. We are looking for original films that you think the world should know about and will shortlist films that are emotionally touching, important or visually impactful.
The best will then be selected by a panel of the world's top documentary makers and assembled into sequences showing the stories of each continent.
About the Competition
We are looking for entries from across the planet
You can interpret the MyWorld theme any way you choose. Your film could be a compelling personal story, tell of a place that is changing, or document the joy or difficulty of your work life.
Each film must be relevant to one of the five major continents – Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania – and must be tagged as such. You can shoot a single shot documentary, if appropriate to your story, or edit your film with any editing software available to you.
A selection of all work received may be shown on TV and online and an ultimate winner will be selected based on the judging criteria.
After submissions close, five prestigious MyWorld curators will each be assigned films from a particular continent. From each, they will choose and assemble a sequence of up to ten of the best films creating a fascinating portrait of the world today.
Finally each of the five curated sequences will be available to view online and on BBC World News. An overall winner will then be chosen and receive a prize of a semi-professional HD mini DV camcorder.
No-one sees the world the way you do. Make and enter a short film about life from your perspective and you could be broadcast around the world by the BBC (Closing date 1600 GMT March 12 2010)
Americas – Cara Mertes, Director, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program
Europe – Greg Sanderson, Executive Producer, BBC Storyville
Africa – Mandisa Zitha, Festival Director, Encounters Documentary Festival
Asia – Fujioka Asako, Director, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Tokyo Office
Oceania – Stuart Menzies, Head of Documentaries, theclick Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC)
The closing date for the competition is 12 March 2010 so just under 2 weeks left to enter.
More information is on their website: www.bbcworldservice.com/myworld
You can also follow the competition via their twitter account: www.twitter.com/bbc_myworld
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The Coffee Table: Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia
First published in 2004 by Steidl/Fuel, the first edition of this book became both a publishing and a cultural sensation, lauded upon by anthropologists, ink jockeys, Russofiles and happy snappers alike.
Within months of it's small first run the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia was fetching substantial prices on the book market and became too rich too quick for my shallow pockets. Thankfully late in 2009, Fuel published a second edition and it's accompanying second and third volumes are also once again available.
The popularity of the book can be initially attributed to the curious nature of it's subject matter, or the widespread appeal of tattoo culture in general. The Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia however goes far beyond mere eye candy, representing a full visual ethnography that takes us inside the Soviet criminal system, it's characters and the complex language of the tattoos themselves.
The Encyclopaedia's originator Danzig Baldaev, uses the book's foreword to explain how the project began. The son of an 'enemy of the people', his father was a famous scholar and a political pawn of the Soviet regime. Imprisoned and persecuted for his rich Buryat-Mongol upbringing and his refusal to tow the party line in persecuting his own ethnic minority, he eventually spent his days keeping a low profile, working a variety of odd jobs, away from the watchful eyes of the NKVD.
Danzig recounts that on showing his father some pictures from the 'Crosses' (solitary confinement cells) that he had collected while working as a prison attendant he said 'My son, collect the tattoos, the convicts' customs, their anti-social drawings, or it will all go to the grave with them'.
It's not exactly the heart to heart you ever imagined having with your Dad but Danzig spent the next thirty-three years using his job, first in the prisons and then in the Ministry of Interior gathering what he calls the language and folklore of the criminal world.
Baldaev eventually collected some 3000 'stories' of the tattoos in drawing form with fellow prison warden Sergei Vasiliev compiling an equally unique archive of photographs of the subjects. The project leads us into the fabric of the criminal underworld giving us a kind of alternate history lesson of the Soviet Union we never got at school. From skulls, to grinning pussy cats, sexually explicit hairy devils with harems of whores to Madonna with child, the tattoos themselves run the gamut, offering a glimpse into a secret language that literally branded the criminals for identification, denoting their crimes, gang affiliation and rank within the prison system.
A unique, wonderful book that has truly entered the world of popular culture, influencing, among others, David Cronenberg's 'Eastern Promises' and snotty misanthropist Martin Amis' 'House of Meetings', it's been in a forgotten corner of my wish list for years. Get yours while you can...
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Obama Lunches With GOP Leadership
(WASHINGTON) -- After emerging from their closed-door lunch with President Obama, Vice President Biden, and White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley the new House Republican leadership touted in the White House driveway that there were some areas of common ground found.
"It was a very good lunch, and we're able to find enough common ground, I think, to show the American people that we're willing to work on their behalf and willing to do it together," Speaker John Boehner said.
The new Speaker pushed -- as did the other Republicans in the room -- for a cut in spending.
"Our number-one issue is getting the economy going again and getting people back to work," Boehner said, "And we believe that in order for that to happen, that we need to cut spending, we need to stop unnecessary regulation that's hampering small business's ability to hire people."
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the president thought the meeting was "very constructive" and echoed that they agreed that there should be a broad discussions about cutting spending and reducing the deficit.
Republican Leader Cantor said there was a "fairly robust conversation" about the need for everyone to work together "to send a signal that we're serious about cutting spending," and that there was some agreement on that. But, as Cantor said himself, the devil is in the details.
"I guess the particulars and the details will be where the disagreements may lie," Cantor confessed, "But we're coming out of this lunch committed to trying to do that, because the economy so desperately needs us to work together to send a signal that we should start growing again as America."
Republican Whip McCarthy said that the main portion of the entire lunch was talking about the economy.
"We looked to places that we could work together on, from jobs to cutting of government spending," McCarthy said, "And it was a beginning and a start. And we look forward to having the president on his word where we can move legislation, where we can create new jobs in America."
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So sore; Some new menu ideas; Saturday plans.
Saturday, September 19, 2009 by John Stone
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This past week I've had some amazing, extremely intense workouts. I am so ready for a couple of days off from training – my entire body is aching! My legs are still sore from Monday's workout, but thankfully this morning the soreness has subsided into a dull ache. It's nice to be able to walk again!
This week I'm going to try preparing some new Asian dishes. I'm going to serve shrimp and veggie spring rolls along with a Sriracha-based dipping sauce recipe that my mom suggested. The dipping sauce is made with Sriracha, natural peanut butter, soy sauce, chopped garlic, fresh ginger and toasted sesame oil. I think I'm also going to play around with variations on that sauce and use it in a chicken and veggie stir fry. I think meals like these served with some brown rice will make for a healthy, delicious and nutritious PWO (post-workout) meal #2.
I've got some errands to run this morning, and then I think I'm going to get outside and do some work in my gardens. It's still awfully hot outside, and I'm really looking forward to some cooler weather. I always love working in the garden, but it's especially enjoyable in cooler weather.
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text: 13 Richard Chamberlain Classic Horrors Club Podcast - Dear Margot Kidder Jun On May 13, we sadly lost Margot Kidder, best known for her role as Lois Lane in the four Christopher Reeve Superman movies from 1978 until 1987. However, she left her mark on the horror film world as well. So, this month on episode 19 of the Classic Horrors Club Podcast, Jeff and I sit down to talk about three of Margot's other films. We start off with Brian De Palma's Sisters (1973) before moving on to Black Christmas (1974) and wrapping it up with The Amityville Horror (1979). You can now


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In Chapter 7, through flashbacks interwoven with Stanley's digging, we learn the story of Elya Yelnats and the origin of the Yelnats family curse. In this historical flashback, Elya Yelnats is a fifteen-year-old Latvian boy who falls in love with a beautiful but shallow girl named Myra Menke. Myra's father demands that both of Myra's suitors - Elya and a fifty-something pig farmer - bring him their best pig, and declares that Myra's future husband will be determined by which pig weighs more on the day of Myra's fifteenth birthday.
Poor, young Elya despairs at first, but receives an unexpected chance at success thanks to his strange friend, old Madame Zeroni. She tells him that if he carries the runt of her own pig's litter up the mountain every day, lets it drink at a special spring, and sings it a lullaby, that it will grow strong and heavy by the morning of Myra's birthday - and Elya will become stronger, too. In return, Madame Zeroni requests that Elya carry her up the mountain and let her drink, too, once he is strong enough to do it. If he does not follow through on this promise, he and his descendants will be cursed.
Elya readily agrees to this, and enthusiastically follows Madame Zeroni's instructions - until the final morning, when he does not take the pig up the mountain one last time. It is found to be exactly equal in weight to his rival's pig. When Myra is unable to decide between her two suitors, Elya becomes disgusted, and realizes she is truly shallow. He buys a ticket for a ship to America, and leaves as soon as possible, forgetting to fulfill his promise to Madame Zeroni. Although he finds a wonderful wife in America, Elya is followed by bad luck due to the curse; the bad luck trails the Yelnats family all the way down to Stanley Yelnats IV, who blames his troubles on his great-great-grandfather.
Stanley begins to settle into the routine of life at Camp Green Lake. In Chapter 7, he digs his first hole, and discovers the difficulty of the task. The physical labor of digging huge holes every day exhausts him, but he learns that he is surprisingly resilient. Furthermore, he becomes accepted by the group of boys in D tent, receiving the nickname "Caveman" because of his large size. The knowledge that he is making friends - the kind of friends he never had in school - helps him push through the tough days.
Stanley writes letters home to his mother in which he pretends that he is having a fantastic time playing water sports on the lake - he doesn't want to worry her, he tells Zero, who annoys Stanley by looking over his shoulder as he writes the letters. When Mr. Pendanski asks all the boys what they want to do in the future, Stanley has a hard time thinking of a job he'd like to do, and he makes all the other boys laugh when he tells them about his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" (57). After being mocked by Mr. Pendanski about being "not completely worthless," Zero answers that all he likes to do is to dig holes (58).
Out on the lake bed, Stanley finds a fossil in a hole while digging, and eagerly shows it to Mr. Pendanski, hoping to get the rest of the day off as a reward. He is told that the Warden is not interested in fossils, but if he finds anything more interesting, he should make it known. X-Ray asks Stanley to give any future finds to him - he has been at Camp Green Lake the longest, and is most deserving of a day off. Stanley acquiesces to this demand.
Stanley does find something more interesting than fossils when they're out digging in the lake bed: a gold cylinder, which the boys think might be a bullet casing, but is actually a lipstick tube belonging to the outlaw Kissin' Kate Barlow. As promised, Stanley gives the object to X-Ray, and counsels him to hand it over the next morning, so that he can get a full day off from digging instead of just half an afternoon. X-Ray responds appreciatively to this advice, and Stanley's status in the camp increases: he moves up one place in the water line.
The structure of Chapter 7 consists of short scenes from the present, in which Stanley struggles to finish digging his first hole, and narrative flashbacks to the life of Elya Yelnats, Stanley's great-great-grandfather from Latvia. The constant switching back and forth between present and past serves to underline the strength of the connection between family history and an individual's present condition. Laura Nicosia writes on this subject that "[t]he two storylines alternate in narrative counterpoint throughout the chapter with no segues, no transitions. Rather than constructing connections between the story lines to ease the reader from the present to the distant past, Sachar fosters a sense of rushing urgency that propels the reader from the present, to the past, and back again. He does this by incrementally shortening the duration of each vignette over the course of the chapter."
This narrative technique essentially links Stanley's frustration and pain with the mistakes of Elya Yelnats. In this way, it can be said to follow Stanley's own train of thought, since he blames his bad luck on his great-great-grandfather. There is an interesting narrative question here, since the flashbacks are narrated by an omniscient third-person narrator, and yet their placement seems subjective in that it reflects Stanley's feelings about his past and present. When the truth of the Elya and Madame Zeroni story is called into question later in the novel, readers might think back to this chapter. Does its existence, coupled with the omniscient (and therefore objective) narration, prove that the history is true and really did happen?
The source of the song which first came up in Chapter 3 - the one that starts with the wistfully plaintive refrain "If only, if only" - is revealed in Chapter 7 to have come from Latvia, brought over to America and translated by Elya Yelnats and his America wife, Sarah Miller. This song is central to the identity of the Yelnats family, since it has been passed down from generation to generation: it is their link to their past, and it also seems to have a magic aura instilled in it by the magical Madame Zeroni. The lyrics also seem to capture a sense of regret that is part of the Yelnats family sensibility: they are always wishing, like Elya, that things could have gone differently, and that the past could be rewritten and set right.
Chapter 8 is a strange, short interlude from the daily life at Camp Green Lake. Less than a page in length, it draws an analogy between yellow-spotted lizards - the deadliest threat to anyone exploring the lake bed - and "curses" (41). The lizards have loomed large in the reader's imagination, as well as the psyche of the boys at the camp, since the first chapter. Readers are warned that "[i]f you get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard," you will "die a slow and painful death" (4). It is "the worst thing that can happen to you" (4). In introducing the setting of Camp Green Lake, Louis Sachar focuses on these lizards, since they seem to encapsulate all that is dangerous and threatening about the place.
But why link the yellow-spotted lizards to the Yelnats family curse that has been outlined in Chapter 7? Curses are important for the novel because they symbolize how a person or a family's past can infect and spoil the present, and how bad luck can follow people from generation to generation. Some people use curses, as we learn later, to explain away failures and bad luck. In general, modern-day society doesn't believe in magic or the power of curses, and this is why Sachar compares a curse to a yellow-spotted lizard: both can be extremely dangerous, but neither is believed in by "a lot of people" (41).


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Los Alamos Security Woes Worsen, Again
Double yikes: Still more computers are missing from Los Alamos National Labs.
Just weeks after the Project On Government Oversight revealed ongoing security problems at Los Alamos, the group obtained a memo in which security officials acknowledge that 67 computers are considered missing and that 13 have been stolen in the last year.
"The magnitude of the security risk that the missing computers pose to LANL is unknown to DOE at this point. POGO is also concerned that the memo does not mention a LANL BlackBerry that was recently lost in a 'sensitive foreign country,'" POGO wrote in a statement.
"It's great to see that the federal overseer is more aggressively pursuing its oversight role," says Peter Stockton, POGO Senior Investigator. "But, the true test of how rigorous the government will be in holding the Lab to high security standards will be whether LASO significantly cuts LANL's contract performance fees for FY09."
Just a reminder: This all follows repeated security breaches at a facility that's supposed to be one of the most security in the country. This from July 2007:
"The elements of the story were irresistable. A top secret nuclear weapons lab. A drug investigation. And classified documents discovered in a trailer, after police responded to a domestic disturbance.
"It was all there in articles last week about a security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
"On Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy recommended a record $3 million fine against the University of California, the contractor that ran the place. The energy department's National Nuclear Security Administration found the university's security procedures were riddled with gaps."
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PMA Group of Arlington and Congressman Murtha.A scandal right in your own backyard.Double yikes and oh geez how did I manage to miss this one? Is it possible that you have been so cozy relying on leads from POGO that you are just missing the big ones? Would it be too much to ask for some actual investigative reporting rather than unidirectional management of the dear readers "must read list." Does this blog add anything to the conversation if there is nobody in the discussion?
Posted by: skycaper21 | February 12, 2009 3:19 PM
Every person with connections to security mandated work should be tested at least once a year,. Lie detectors and drug testing. In spite of these precautions we know there will be screw-ups. God help us.
Posted by: lengyson1 | February 13, 2009 10:20 AM
O'Harrow aren't you a little too experienced to keep citing this type of poorly sourced and unsubstantiated story designed to arouse our negative feelings about the "big bad federal incompetents"? I know you are supposed to be making your living scouring the earth for waste, fraud and abuse but this is just a bit to puerile and obvious. Do i need to point out to you that allegations such as "considered missing", or "stolen" are really just code words that POGO and other so-called watch dog orgs use to scare us and generate support for their pitiful and highly partisan agenda. Do us a favor and make a simple inquiry within your organization. How many of the Washington Post computers can be accounted for as of COB on Feb 13th..I mean serial number, who it is assigned to and location? While you are at it you might ask how many have been "stolen in the past year. I think we would be quite surprised at the answers. Maybe you should ask your buddies at POGO to run a little accountability investigation of the Post. I imagine some of those lost or misplaced computers might even have sensitive information on them. Anxiously awaiting your answer.
Posted by: chuckaluk66 | February 13, 2009 3:49 PM
chuckaluk66 may have checked his reasoning at the door. he is almost certainly right that the WaPo would have the same asset management problem. but the WaPo ain't the US Government and does not deal in classified information. We expect more from our government. We expect the best results, not just trying "hard" (GW Bush). People that lose classified information concerning nuclear anything belong in the slammer. Thos responsible should be easy to pinpoint. At the Post, it doesn't mean anything.
Posted by: axolotl | February 16, 2009 10:19 AM
chuckaluk66 has a reasonable point.
Not all of LANL's computers are used in the classified environment (partition) or contain classified data or material. In fact, the majority of PC's, be they desktop or laptop, fall in the non-classified category. Every inventory at LANL turns up "missing" computers and other equipment; I recall at least three occasions during my tenure there when the lab 'stood down' for a wall-to-wall inventory and several more when my division or working group did so. Stuff moves around; computers and other items get taken home or off-site without the proper record-keeping, equipment gets stolen, people borrow items without telling the "owner", and on and on.
Of the ten thousand or so lab employees, probably half or there-abouts have an inventory list of more than five to ten items. Each lab employee has his or her very own list of equipment for which they are responsible; that's particularly true for physical and materials scientists, engineers, technologists and technicians; some employees have no controlled - inventoried - items on their list, and some have considerably more than one or two.
That's not to say that the sky isn't falling - just that we don't know how fast it's falling and how heavy it is; i.e., without a lot of clarification, which will almost certainly not be forthcoming from LANL, we have no idea what the status of the 'missing' computers is. Most of them probably aren't even outside the lab's boundary.
I'd give POGO a "B"; I'm tempted to say "C+". Are there security problems at LANL? Very probably. Is this one of them? Who knows - from this former insider, it looks more like yet another property control problem with a potential security infraction thrown in to confound the issue. I would suspect that there are similar problems, to greater or lesser extent, across the DOE complex, and the noise made about it depends on whether POGO has someone currently inside a particular facility that can feed them information.
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Attachment parenting as I know it from the book by William and Martha Sears is based on the principle of the the 7 baby b's; Birth bonding, breastfeeding, baby wearing, bedding close to baby, belief in the language of your baby's cries, beware of baby trainers and balance. However upon watching the 6 minute segment on Lorraine, only 3 baby b's are alluded to; breast feeding, bed sharing and baby wearing thus leading viewers to gain an inaccurate understanding of the attachment parenting principles.
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On a personal level, I am still breastfeeding my baby and will continue to do so until I feel that he is ready to stop. I sometimes have him in bed with us, but to be honest I don't sleep as well as I do when he is in his own little cot, which is right next to ours. As for baby wearing, I did this a lot when he was a few weeks old, but find I get a sore back now as he is quite heavy! The other baby b's are so important, I can't believe they were ignored; maybe the most important one to me is responding to baby's cries, we don't let our baby cry if at all possible (although sometimes I have no choice like if I am on the loo or something!) and pick him up as soon as he does. The principle of balance says that parents must approach each principle in a balanced way, it is not an all or nothing approach but a do what you can approach and make it work for you approach.
One left the programme feeling that attachment parents were hippiefied weirdos who selfishly keep their children close by for their own benefit and not for the children's. What a shame that yet again the media has failed to portray the truth and many many parents won't be able to take advantage of the benefits of attachment parenting.


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- Around 11 am, gunmen driving a black sedan car opened fire randomly at the Wathiq roundabout in Karrada neighborhood .five people were injured including three traffice policemen.
- Around 11 am, a roadside bomb targeted an army patrol at Al-Suleikh intersection in Suleikh neighborhood (north Baghdad).Three soldiers were injured in that incident.Later, clashes took place between gunmen and the Iraqi army with no casualties recorded.
- Around 1pm, a suicide car bomb targeted a Sahwa (American backed militia) headquarter during a meeting with some prominent people at Al-Amal AlShaabi Street of Amiriyah neighborhood .Two people were killed and 8 others were injured including the head of the Sahwa in Amiriyah .
- Around 5 pm, gunmen attacked a shop at Al-Maamoun of Mansour neighborhood (west Baghdad) killing the owner of this shop. Later, they bombed the shop .When the Iraqi army and people came to the scene the bomb exploded. Ten people were injured including 2 soldiers.
- Around 6 pm, a roadside bomb targeted an Iraqi police patrol at Palestine street neighborhood (east Baghdad). 6 people were injured including 2 policemen.
- Police found 5 dead bodies in the following neighborhoods in Baghdad : 3 were found in west Baghdad (Karkh bank); 2 in Bayaa and 1 in Amil.While 2 were found in east Baghdad( Risafa bank); 1 in Suleikh and 1 in Waziriyah.
- In the morning, gunmen opened fire on a police patrol in Hatra (south of Mosul).Two policemen were killed in that attack.
- Around 6 pm, a suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army check point at Tahreer neighborhood (east Mosul).There was a traffic jam near the check point when the car exploded.Three civilians were killed and six others were injured.
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how was your long weekend?!
(if you had one!)
unfortunately, i didn't...
and unfortunately, i didn't make it into the food fest this weekend either! boo
there were thousands of hungry people--some made it in, some didn't.
oh well. better luck next time!
i did have a pretty glorious weekend though (most of which revolved around food, good food!)!
and of course good friends.
and of course good friends.
bread bar scenes.
i'm having a hard time deciding whether or not i want to continue the "poladroid"-ed weekends.
i'm missing the postage of normal pics! and most of the pics i take are taken during the weekend...
what do you guys think?
to poladroid, or not?!
maybe i will mix it up.
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Articles > Redemption and the Word
Language is redemptive. On the path of language, evolutionary theory needn't mean nihilism. The acrimony between evolutionists and creationists grew still sharper in the Year of Darwin. But for Víctor Gómez Pin what was interesting about the spat -loudly echoed in the media- was that it was not so much a clash of opposing arguments as a struggle between unstated values and worldviews. Gómez Pin suspects that creationists and proponents of "intelligent design" are uncomfortable with a theory that appears to strip humanity of its special status, and suggests that their fears are misplaced.
We need never doubt that, at least in the United States, the Year of Darwin will be the occasion for renewed acrimony between evolutionary theorists and advocates of creationism-whether in its conventional form or in some more sophisticated guise, such as the claim that the origin and shaping force of nature and life is "intelligent design."
As in any controversy in which the practitioners of a rational method of inquiry clash with devotees of an aprioristic creed, the window for compromise is very narrow, and vanishes entirely when the issue is laid before the tribunal of reason that academia aspires to be. In a university setting it is impracticable —or at least unacceptable— for anyone to gainsay the fact that all living beings are subject to natural selection and share features pointing back to a universal common ancestor.
For a rationalist facing the creationists, the point is perhaps not to take up a position regarding what they have to say, but to consider the question of why they embrace creationist beliefs to begin with. Often, clinging to the theory of some God, disguised to one extent or another as "intelligent design," is a way of venting the unease that evolutionary theory can arouse when presented so as to deny the radical singularity of humans within the community of species.
However cautious Darwin himself may have been in drawing philosophical inferences from his scientific findings, his theory characteristically suggests that the difference between humans and other species, our "family relations," is merely quantitative, a matter of degree. The rejection of human singularity sometimes takes the form of a denial that any real difference holds between human language and animal sign-codes. It is accepted that the emergence of life was a qualitative leap in the history of the universe; but there is no willingness to recognize that the emergence of language —the essence or nature of the human— was a qualitative leap of no less import.
To see the fate of humanity, one among many outcomes of evolutionary history, as much the same thing as the fate of other animals may drive you to take shelter in irrationality or, if you acquiesce in that rational view, to lapse into nihilistic prostration. For the only being that knows itself to be a contingent offshoot of evolutionary history, the only being that is aware of its animal status, the finitude of that animality may be felt as a misfortune.
This nihilistic mindset, and the moral world it calls into being, is the outlook of a hero of Dostoevsky's, who holds that, if there is no God, anything is permissible. Luckily, there is an alternative. While it is hard not to seek refuge in God-or, if one denies that the rise of the human being involved a qualitative leap in evolution, to resist nihilism-everything changes if you trust in the radical singularity of our own nature, if you live the life of language and its laws: if, in fact, you follow in the footsteps not of Dostoevsky's hero but of the writer Dostoevsky himself.
The achievement of the past masters of language-I'm thinking here of some of the particularly luminous passages in Proust-is explicable only on the assumption that language is not reducible to a tool of subsistence or a mere vehicle of the cognitive examination of nature. Rational enquiry is the highest gift by which nature made us unique, but storytellers and poets aim higher still. Their wager is that language, a fortuitous product of evolution though it may be, can attain to the power of that Word that amazed thinkers from Aristotle to Chomsky and from the Gospel writers to Descartes, a power that, though not removing us from the world, does give us a sense that the irreversibility of the world's becoming is not the only force that determines the human being.
One needn't subscribe to any sort of irrationalist dogma to consent to the proposition "In the beginning was the Word." It is enough to accept that what comes first can only be whatever it is that gives things meaning, that allows us the only insight into the world we humans are capable of. It suffices to acknowledge that, if words are the source of meaning, then, absent words, everything is meaningless.
Novelists and poets propose that language can partly release us from the fetters that bind us in the brute state of nature; that language can rescue us from the humiliation that finitude represents for beings capable of speech; that language harbors a power that is literally redemptive.
Marcel Proust suggested that this power is actualized in each one of us whenever we fully express our unique nature; whenever, acting as word-beings, we do more than merely use words, and make the enrichment of language an end in itself.
El País, March 01, 2009
Translated by Mike Escárzaga
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Although the words "fried kway teow" and "healthy" may sound contradictory when used together, Heng Huat Fried Kway Teow in Pasir Panjang Food Centre serves one topped with generous servings of green vegetables and fried with no lard.
I ordered a $3 plate of fried kway teow and was impressed by the crunchy pieces of fresh chye sim that cleverly add a healthy component to the otherwise unhealthy dish. Well-fried with a remarkable wok hei flavour, the noodles come with the usual egg and juicy cockles but lacking in fish cake, Chinese sausage and lard.
If you are a health-conscious foodie who craves for fried kway teow, this one from Heng Huat will make you feel less guilty after eating. However I personally prefer my fried kway teow to come with plenty of lard and sweet sauce instead.
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Pasir Panjang Food Centre
121 Pasir Panjang Road
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Heng Huat Fried Kway Teow
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