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Welcome To Our New Website

Welcome to the brand new website for the Lion & Key Hotel, rated by customers as one of the best-value hotels in London.

Lavishly illustrated throughout, the website allows you to see exactly what you’ll be getting by booking at the Lion & Key. You can examine everything from the exterior to views of individual rooms, or go on a virtual tour of the hotel.

You’ll be greeted on the Homepage with a brief description of what we offer, plenty of images and easy links to every part of the site. And we’re confident enough about our customer ratings to put them upfront, broken down into a breakdown of scores. A link takes you to a page that gives complete reviews — even the very rare bad ones.

About Us is just what it says — an explanation of where the hotel is, the rooms and facilities we offer, nearby transport and an overview of some of the things you can easily do while staying at the Lion & Key.

The Rooms page offers links to descriptions of the three types of room we offer. Besides descriptions of the furnishings and facilities, each type is well illustrated, so you can see exactly what we’re talking about.

Every page has plenty of images, but on the Gallery page you can see absolutely everything. We show you the exterior and interior, and everything in the rooms from the beds and bathrooms to the complimentary toiletries and even the TV remote. If this isn’t enough, you can go on a Virtual Tour, exploring the lobby and the street outside, as well as various specific rooms.

The Things to See page offers some tips on what you can enjoy while staying at the Lion & Key Hotel, both locally in the Leyton and Stratford area and in Central London. We’ll be regularly updating our Latest News to give a wide range of news and tips our customers will find useful.

The Contact Us page, of course, gives our phone number and email address (which also appear on every page of the site) and you’re welcome to book that way, but an important feature of the new website is that you can now book directly online. Just click the link in the top right-hand corner of any page, fill in the dates and number of people, and you’ll be taken straight to the booking page. It couldn’t be easier.

And, whether or not you want to book right away, you can sign up for our mailing list. Either way, we look forward to seeing you soon.


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@galleryladyana – Ana: Isolation, Breathe, Water. Ana She woke up laying on her back, one hand and one foot dangling in the water. There was a moment of splashing and struggling when she tried to sit up and the board under her almost capsized. She managed to regain her balance and look around, and she […]

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🍾 VEGAN WITH NO STEVIA OR ERYTHRITOL – We’re on a mission to get the UK drinking real Kombucha. Our Kombucha is not mass-made and we don’t add sketchy “natural flavours” or processed sweeteners like stevia or erythritol in order to create a “zero sugar” liquid. We use real organic fruits and a little organic cane sugar which is essential for true kombucha to feed the friendly cultures transforming it into healthy organic acids producing a delicious drink that’s naturally lower in sugar

🍾 ONLY IN BOTTLES NOT CANS AND HERE’S WHY: Unrefrigerated kombucha explodes in cans unless you remove all the sugar, but if you do that you have to pack it full of sweeteners and questionable flavourings to make it palatable. The other way is to pasteurise but that kills off all the good stuff. We don’t do either and we fill our raw kombucha into gorgeous sustainable glass bottles fresh from the tanks and then deliver straight to your door

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It’s raw fermented tea, made from 4 simple ingredients: tea, sugar, live kombucha culture and water

What are the health benefits?
It naturally contains lots of good stuff including friendly bacteria, antioxidants, enzymes, vitamins B and C and healthy organic acids

Why drink Kombucha?
It’s a health drink, an adventurous soft drink, an alternative to alcohol, a brilliant mixer and it’s great for kids too

Why Booch & Brew Kombucha?
It’s organic, vegan, unpasteurised and never ever made with ultra processed sweeteners

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Yes it does. Sugar is essential to a proper fermentation. Sugar feeds the yeast and bacteria. Residual sugar is broken down during fermentation so it’s much easier for the body to process. Booch & Brew Kombucha contains between 2.5g and 3.3g of sugar per 100ml, compared to 8g in a glass of orange juice

Why don’t you use sweeteners?
For a start, sweeteners cannot be used in a real kombucha fermentation. Microbes do not eat sweeteners. We use only natural ingredients in our kombucha. And whilst sweeteners might sound good on paper, there is some evidence to suggest that sweeteners may have a negative effect on the way our body deals with normal sugar, leading to an increase in blood sugars and weight gain

Does Kombucha contain alcohol?
Only, in trace amounts, like every fermented food – and even fresh orange juice and soy sauce! It is classed as non-alcoholic because it has less than 0.5% alcohol

Does it contain caffeine?
Yes, it’s made from tea, but significantly less than either tea or coffee (around ⅓ of the caffeine in a cup of tea)

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A Complex Accident of life by Jessica McHugh

I have a deep and unwavering love for Frankenstein. It is a story that holds so much sadness and some hope. I personally think that everyone should read it. It fuses horror and science. But it is mostly about humanity. How horrible we can be. With this in mind and my love for horror poetry my amazing friend Jen from over at Book Den (If you don’t read her blog you really should it is amazing) was reading this lovely collection of black out poetry inspired by Frankenstein and told me that I had to buy it. So I did, she know my taste better then I do. If you don’t know what black out poetry is. It is poetry made from taking words from a texted and highlighting them by blacking out the other words.

Synopsis: Blackout poetry inspired by Frankenstein.

My thoughts: This collection is a freaking mazing. There is so much beauty in this collection. There is a lot of pain as well. It hits so many of the notes that I love in a poetry collection. What I really loved was the scanned pages of Frankenstein with the blackout art. Some are true art pieces….some are sparse as just crossing the words out. But each piece suits the poem. The poem itself is on the next page. It gives the entire collection a visually tactile feel. I am so glad that I ordered the actual book. I don’t think e-book would have done the art justice. The flow of the collection is so perfect. It starts with a poem titled a Girl of Twenty and it ends with a poem titled Vanish. You get this feeling like you are following this girl through a journey. Sometimes this journey is good and sometimes it is bad. But it is beautifully hers. Which is why this collection was so beautiful. Our journeys are never entirely good or entirely bad. They veer all over the place. I feel that this collection is really about the poets journey. I really hope that we see more blackout poetry. It is an art form which give texture to the words. My favorite poem was Be. McHugh is truly a gifted poet and artist. I truly love this collection and I hope that I get to read more from Jessica McHugh.

Star Rating: 5

A Collection of Nightmares by Christina Sng

2018 was the year that I decided to do things that are outside of my comfort zone. One of the things that I decided to do was to read more poetry. At first I was like I will read some non-genre poetry. That went pretty well. So I started venturing out into horror poetry. I am glad to say that I am never looking back. I have read more poetry in the last year then I had since I was in school. I love it though. There are so many talented poets. Christina Sng is defiantly one of the top tier.

Synopsis: A amazing poetry collection based on nightmares.

What I liked: Sng’s ability to weave nightmare scenarios with pretty language really made my heart happy as I read this. She is so skillful at choosing just the right imagery to create the creepy feeling of many of these poems. Sng takes these dreams that we all have at night and puts them to words. It is like she has snuck into our minds while we are sleeping and took all the bad dreams and put them between the cover of this book.

What I didn’t like: It ended to soon.

Star Rating: 5 Stars

My Thoughts: I really loved Sng’s writing style. I had a really hard time putting this collection down. The art on the cover was beautiful. This collection made my heart happy and I can’t wait to read more from Sng. If everything else is as wonderful as A Collection of Nightmares then I can’t wait!!

The Devil’s Dreamland By Sara Tantlinger

I started reading poetry this year. It truly spoke to me in a way I didn’t expect it to. I liked what I was reading. But it didn’t really gut punch me until I discovered Horror Poetry. I am totally and completely hooked now. The way many of these authors mix the grotesque with the beautiful. This is the second poetry collection that I have read this year by Sara Tantlinger and she is so talented I can’t stand it! Just kidding Sara. But in all seriousness if you have a penchant horror, poetry or true crime The Devil’s Dreamland will fill that itch…

Synopsis: A poetry collection based on the life and crimes of H.H. Holmes.

What I liked: Tantlinger is able to mix the grotesque with the beautiful with such ease. In this collection which deals with one America’s first serial killers Tantlinger is able to mix historical fact and murder with pretty words. There is no other way to say it. I love the snippets of historical facts scattered throughout the collection. It says a lot about the amount of research that Tantlinger put into her collection. The layout of the collection is perfection; starting with his birth to his death Tantlinger covers the madness into which he descended with skill and ease.

What I didn’t like: Absolutely nothing. This collection hit the nail on the head for me with every single poem.

Star Rating: 5 Stars

My thoughts: If you haven’t picked up this collection yet what are you waiting for! Tantalinger absolutely slays (pun intended) she expertly weaves beautiful words and grotesque acts together. I truly enjoyed the way she followed the transformation of H.H. Holmes from a conman to a cold blooded serial killer. Tantlinger is so talented. If you haven’t picked up any of her poetry you are certainly missing out and need to have your head examined. So darkly delicious.


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Not Enough Franky Doyle in #Wentworth S4 via @stacyamiller85 @nicdasilva @Wentworth

What rises Wentworth above just being another show about people in prison is the characters. They are not stereotypes of those incarcerated but could be real individuals who made mistakes and are now answering for them.

One character who has made an impact on Wentworth since the beginning is Francesca (Franky) Doyle. She is a woman who may appear tough on the outside but on the inside hides unresolved issues from her abandonment by her father as a child. As Wentworth Correctional’s top dog, she sought to protect the women of her crew. But ironically, the women in authority like ex-Governor Erica Davidson and prison psychologist Bridget Westfall wanted to protect her to the extent of putting their jobs on the line by pursuing an against regulation romantic relationship with her.

At the end of Season 3, Franky was paroled. I had mixed emotions about this. On the one hand, I was happy for her and wanted to see what she’d make of her life on the outside. But on the other, I was concerned that a freed Franky would mean a limited story for this great character as all the drama happens behind bars. I watched Season 4 and enjoyed seeing new prisoner Joan Ferguson continued plotting, new governor Vera and Bea Smith battling Kaz Proctor to retain control as top dog but something or rather, someone was missing. As I feared, Franky had no place in this action and was absent for several episodes.

But then Ferguson’s botched murder attempt of Bea and the introduction of Jhiana’s son Shane brings Franky back into the fold. As Bea’s woman on the outside and now a paralegal, Franky helps by learning the plan Ferguson has for Shane. Franky is also determined not to let a good kid like Shane go down the wrong path.

Wentworth and viewers need Franky Doyle and the acting talents of Nicole da Silva.

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I can't recall the last time I bought clothes for myself.

hong mei sharing her reducing waste journey

As an apparel merchandiser in my previous career, I tended to buy a lot of clothes for work as well as buying for my own retail therapy as a result of working and travelling extensively.

I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to embark on my own zero waste journey quite naturally after discovering the lasting impact plastic and waste has on our planet.

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Trying to “Fill Her Holes,” Melissa Broder Fine-Tunes A Marie Calloway Genre With So Sad Today

Melissa Broder is all about filling her holes. It’s meant to sound less perverse than it does, though one imagines Broder’s sense of humor could appreciate the sexual connotation as well. One can barely get through a ten-page block of her essay collection So Sad Today (named for the Twitter account that inspired it) without the mention of hole filling. And, by whatever means necessary–sex, the internet, what have you–Broder seeks to stuff these metaphorical vacancies. From the very moment the book begins, opening with the Seneca quote, “For if we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago,” it’s clear that Broder is seeking out to do the very same thing that Marie Calloway failed at: catharsis through stream of consciousness stylings–parlayed from a social media platform.

For those unfamiliar with what purpose did i serve in your life, a book (though some might argue with this classification) released in 2013 by Calloway, it is a telling addition to the twenty-first century annals of literature in its internet-obsessed slant. Published by Tyrant Books, Calloway’s brand of self-deprecation through Facebook screenshots and Gchat conversations now comes across as an embryonic form of writing through the medium of social media–and subsequently turning the vomit of emotion into a successful book. And, speaking of vomit, Broder has no qualms about mentioning the ways in which she fetishizes the act of throwing up–how it stemmed from the first time she ever felt truly accepted at her worst by her own mother was when she yakked and got taken care of in her most vile state. From thence forward, it became a masturbation fantasy (you know, since it can be a challenge to get people to fulfill this type of sexual desire). More than the act itself, however, vomit is a means to fill spaces and to unclog the orifice that is the mouth. And unclog it Broder does, commencing with her much appreciated railing against parents and their cruel need to have children: “Bringing a child into the world without its consent seems unethical. Leaving the womb just seems insane.”

Yes, it’s true. There ought to be a system in place by now that lends unborn fetuses the option to opt out upon seeing the future that awaits them. Because, most of us, like Broder, felt the following sentiment upon being ejected from Mother’s vag: “Less than twenty-four hours on the planet and I was already trying to fill my many insatiable internal holes with external stuff. I was trying to sate the existential fear of what the fuck is going on in here with milk. I was sucking and sucking, but there wasn’t enough milk. There would never be enough milk. One titty is too many and a thousand are never enough.” So there it is, the establishment of Broder’s constant mention of her holes. The sexual ones come later in the book. Specifically, chapter two, entitled Love in the Time of Chakras, in which she admits, “I’ve had sex with a lot of gross people… enough gross people that I feel like I should have gotten paid for most of them.” And who among most of the women subject to residing in New York City hasn’t? Hence Broder’s numerous hole-filling readers.

Then there’s the matter of addiction–an appetite for everything that’s bad for one in order to mask that everything in life is bad. From alcohol to drugs, Broder did it all, but her real addiction passion was food, as outlined in the chapter, I Want to Be a Whole Person But Really Thin.

The “whole” versus “hole” word pattern and frequency persists throughout the essay collection. The fact that there’s even a chapter with the phrase “filling a hole”–called Love Like You Are Trying to Fill An Insatiable Spiritual Hole With Another Person Who Will Suffocate in There–speaks to Broder’s preoccupation with doing so at any cost, even when it entails enduring inevitable heartache after temporary romantic and sexual bliss.

Help Me Not Be a Human Being is the section that speaks most succinctly to this phenomenon, with real talk sentences that end in “: a love story” heightening the simultaneous absurdity and veracity of common plights like, “When you said you just wanted it to be a one-night thing, I kinda hoped you meant one night over and over and over until we die: a love story” or “I guess you aren’t going to rescue me from my life: a love story” or “I only had sex with you to get you to stop talking about your art: a love story” or “Wish I had a dick too: a love story” or “I never really liked you but everyone else was worse: a love story.”

Her desire to use men–and sometimes women–as a distraction from herself is another Calloway practice, but one she’s better at explaining how to implement in your own life, e.g. “You take a living, breathing human and try to stuff them into the insatiable holes inside you. These holes are in no way shaped like that person (or any person). But you believe that this fantasy person will fill you, because he or she possesses all the imaginary qualities you seek in a lover.” Absolutely, this is how women choose to stop up the fissures of their minds, which always tend to wander toward the manifold ways in which they don’t measure up to anyone’s expectations–least of all their own.

Exploring her post-relationship comedowns, Broder adds, “I have holes in my brain where I want to hide from life. The holes are filled with voices that tell me we were nirvana, over and over. The voices seem like truth to me, because I am an addict and I want being high to be the truth. I don’t know if I will ever fill the holes. But I am trying really hard not to enter them again.” But enter them she does, in other new-fangled fashions. For instance, in Hello 911, I Can’t Stop Time, Broder explores her unwanted attraction to being attractive. Moving to Los Angeles augments this as she grapples with a plastic surgeon calling attention to three distinct lines in her forehead. Though she tries to resist initially, the part of her that still wants to fuck younger men gives in. In the end, she admits, “Physically, the Botox has shaved off a few years. I’m definitely fooling something. Spiritually, however, the Botox has had no positive effects. I still feel fucked a lot. I’m not whole. I’m human.”

Whole holes will probably never be in the cards for Broder, or any of us with a brain that functions beyond a primeval level. Like Broder, we “may never become a completely whole person, but [we] might have a shot at becoming three-fourths of a person. Three-fourths of a person isn’t bad.”

Then again, it isn’t great either. In the chapter Never Getting Over the Fantasy of You is Going Okay, Broder again one-ups Calloway’s presentation of the ways in which women have a tendency (augmented by that term “online presence”) to project their false notions of a man they’ve cyber-stalked into a non-existent being. She defends the concept of “fake love,” questioning, “Is fake love better than real love? Real love is responsibility, compromise, selflessness, being present and all that shit. Fake love is magic, excitement, false hope, infatuation and getting high off the potential that another person is going to save you from yourself.” But, invariably, they’re not. And never will. That’s why we keep fucking, hoping against hope that a yin to our yang will actually materialize.

Going back to the start of it all, perhaps what Broder does best–far better than Calloway ever could–is deflect blame for the actions carried out during our existence, the actions that frequently call into question our dignity. It’s like she says in the first chapter: “So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours. It’s your fault we’re here to deal with the void in the first place.”

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Why Do People Keep Talking About Spoons?

Autoimmune diseases are specifically the 100+  diseases that are caused by a blip in our autoimmune systems. Basically, something in our body perceives another part of our body as a threat, so your body responds like it would for any threat, and starts to attack it. Those of us wth autoimmune disease are bad asses for literally living every day with a body that keeps attacking itself.


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Ertugrul Ghazi Season 4 Episode 22 in Urdu – PTV Home Drama

Ertugrul Ghazi Season 4 Episode 22 in Urdu on PTV Home TV only. New drama Serial Ertugrul Ghazi Urdu Season 4 Episode 22 TV on today PTV Home Drama. Ertugrul Ghazi Season 4 Cast series is created by Mehmet Bozdag (2014-2019).

This is the great heroic story of Ertugrul Ghazi, the father of Osman who founded the Ottoman Empire. This series is created by Mehmet Bozdag (2014-19). The show is famous in Turkey & abroad particularly Pakistan and Azerbaijan but also has been banned in Arab countries and Fatawa has been issued against this show.

The Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Imran Khan praised the show and recommended people to watch it. Now officially, the series is broadcasting now on PTV in Urdu dubbing.

Nothing is known with certainty about Ertuğrul’s life, other than that he was the father of Osman; historians are thus forced to rely upon stories written about him by the Ottomans more than a century later, which are of questionable accuracy.

An updated coin, supposedly from the time of Osman, with the text “Minted by Osman son of Ertuğrul”, suggests that Ertuğrul was a historical figure. Another coin read “Osman bin Ertuğrul bin Gündüz Alp”, though Ertuğrul is traditionally considered the son of Suleyman Shah.

  • Show Name: Dirilis Ertugrul
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  • Season: 4
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Vikings season 6: Bjorn Inronside’s murder on the show was way worse than in real-life

Vikings season 6: Bjorn Inronside’s murder on the show was way worse than in real-life

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The popular historical drama was full of betrayals and battles from the very beginning. Brutal deaths aren’t unusual to fans of Vikings, with some of its main characters dying in battle and earning their place in Valhalla, while others were captured, tortured, and killed. But while the show attempted to stay as historically accurate as possible, there aren’t any records that detail how many of the characters in the show actually died, so they had to make some of it up and it ended up being way more brutal.

Bjorn Ironside (played by Alexander Ludwig) was one of the characters to receive this fate.

The son of Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) and Lagettha (Katheryn Winnick), he was in constant conflict with his half-brother Ivar the Boneless (Alex Høgh Andersen).

But unlike other characters who are based in myth, Bjorn is based on a real-life Viking chief: a legendary Swedish king and the first ruler of the Munsö dynasty.

The fantasy element in his story comes from the Scandinavian legends that say he was the son of Ragnar and Aslaug (Alyssa Sutherland), Ragnar’s second wife after Lagertha.

Though when it comes to his death, the show added more than just a touch of fantasy.

Bjorn, who died in season six of the show, was killed by Ivar who stabbed him with a sword, though he didn’t die on the spot and managed to pull one final trick on his enemies.

The wounds were so severe though that he eventually passed away.

As for his real-life counterpart, there are no records on how he died, so it’s safe to assume that he didn’t suffer such a gruesome yet legendary death, but probably died of old age or illness.

Probably the second most iconic death in the show after Bjorn’s is that of his rival Ivar, one of the show’s most feared and hated characters.

For a long time, he believed himself to be a God, but it became obviously apparent to everyone when he met his end in the last season.

After seeing his brother Hvitserk (Marco Ilsø) had been injured in battle he stepped into the fight so that his sibling could stand back and survive.

At that moment, Hvitserk spotted that Ivar’s eyes have turned blue, which in the show is a sign that he is in serious danger of breaking his bones, already fragile from a birth condition.

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Ivar urged his warriors to continue fighting but when turning around, he was attacked by a young man with a dagger.

While in the show Ivar is killed on the spot and doesn’t die due to his bone condition, the story of the real-life Ivan played out differently.

The real Ivar the Boneless was also born with weak bones, a condition called osteogenesis imperfecta.

He was considered one of the greatest Vikings of all time but when it comes to the events surrounding his death there are multiple versions.

Some records seem to say that he died due to a sudden and horrible disease.

However, a recent discovery of a mass grave in England might give some credit to the versions theorised by the scriptwriters of the TV show.

It would be possible that Ivar actually died in battle, as was shown on Vikings, though we can’t be sure about the precise circumstances.

Fans of Ivar can hope that he followed in Bjorn’s footsteps and that that the death of his real-life counterpart was less painful than what he endured on screen.

Vikings season 6, part 2 is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

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Another Sense, Eilish Hendry

My father once told me he knew something was wrong the moment I was born. He said I cried too loudly. They couldn’t take me anywhere: shopping malls, parks, the more people there were, the worse I became. I would scream and cry and fuss; nothing could make me relax. He said I emerged from the womb determined to spite him—that I had always hated him. But I didn’t, how could I? I was an infant. It took me years to accept that he would never love me. He’d decided against it the moment I uttered my first words because he could never understand them:

‘Too loud.’

The world was just too loud for me.

Eventually, I adjusted to larger groups of people. I didn’t really have a choice. When my kindergarten teacher said I had socialisation issues, my mother defended me. She insisted it was because I hadn’t been to preschool. If only it were that simple. It would take me a long time to learn that there were certain things I shouldn’t say out loud—things that would make people angry.

‘What do you mean you don’t like anyone, Ella? You just said you like Billy.’

‘What’s the point of silent reading if everyone’s still talking?’

‘Oh, Jeremy stole your chocolates, Miss. He’s laughing about it right now.’

My classmates called me a tattletale, my teacher labelled me a compulsive liar. But Mama refused to believe them; she pulled me from that school and found a new one. But the teacher there accused me of cheating. Soon, I was changing schools every six months. Somehow things just kept getting worse.

When I was eight, Daddy told Mama he was going to work, but he told me he was going to a hotel with Helen. I didn’t know who she was, so I asked him about her later and he got mad. He told me he didn’t know what I was talking about, but when I mentioned the name of the hotel he almost looked scared. He begged me not to tell. He told me that I wouldn’t understand, that my mother wouldn’t understand. He took me out for ice cream and that made Mama smile, so I thought it was okay.

I didn’t tell her the truth until he left us for good. Mama had no words when I finally admitted it, but by then she didn’t have any tears left either. Pretty soon after that, she told me we were going to a doctor. At first, I was happy. I thought the doctor was for her; I knew how sad she was, I knew what she smelt like, so I thought she was getting help.

‘No Sweetie, the doctor is for you.’

My father was a doctor, so I’d never been to anyone else, let alone a psychologist. I was sitting on a beanbag surrounded by stuffed animals, while Mama sat on a rickety chair, listing my problems for at least an hour.

‘She’s a very sweet girl, very smart… But I know something’s wrong. Her teachers’ say she plays games with them in class. She’ll say she can’t work out a problem but the moment they sit down with her she knows all the answers. She can’t go to school assemblies or the park. I thought it might be sensory overload, so I bought a few books. But it doesn’t seem to matter how loud a place, she just can’t handle it.’

‘That’s not true.’

‘Alexandra please, we’re here to be honest with the doctor. You know you don’t like—’

‘Mama I didn’t mean what you said. I meant what he said.’

‘Excuse me?’ the doctor said, face crinkled with confusion, ‘I didn’t say anything.’

‘Yes you did,’ I told him. ‘You said it’s Asperger’s. I read Mama’s book and I don’t think I have it.’

I still remember feeling like I was the only person in that room that was making sense. Mama seemed happy when I spoke up, not because she agreed with me, but because the doctor had just witnessed what she’d never been able to explain. It took three sessions for him to finally admit I was right. After that, he didn’t seem to have anything else to say. We went to see at least twelve more doctors, and a priest, before Mama finally gave up. She used to say that there had to be an explanation. She’d say it over and over like it was the only thing binding her to this Earth. She needed something—something to make me make sense.

One doctor was convinced I was schizophrenic, another said I was an autistic savant. They threw around every personality disorder they could think of from borderline to histrionic. They tried ADD and ADHD but nothing could explain me away. One doctor said I just had a wild imagination. He said that this is what happens to children raised by single mothers. Mama didn’t hear the bad word he called her, but I did. I hit him for that and we had to leave. But she needed answers, far more than I did. Every misdiagnosis made her shatter like the glass that surrounded her.

She needed someone to tell her that it wasn’t her fault. That I wasn’t her fault. But it was too late, too quickly it was too late.

It was loud that day. I could hear her in the next room, screaming for someone to answer her. I went to check on her and she was lying in bed, dry-eyed and staring at the ceiling like she had been for days. I asked her if she wanted to talk about it, but she told me she was fine, she just needed some rest. I didn’t blame her, neither of us had slept in three days. She didn’t because she couldn’t, I hadn’t because she hadn’t. She promised me everything was going to be fine, but I could still hear her pain. I couldn’t ignore it; it hammered into my skull and my heart screamed like a wounded anvil. So, I checked on her a second time, then a third. I didn’t check a fourth… I should have checked a fourth. But instead, I stuffed my ears with tissue paper and prayed to every god in existence for it to be silent.

And then it was.

Everything felt cold and for the first time, it was peaceful. I could still hear the whispers of the world, but they were so far away. I cried because all of a sudden, I could breathe. That night, I slept more serenely then I ever had in my life. And when I woke up, it was still quiet. And that was beautiful. There was a part of me that thought that this was what control was. That maybe it had finally stopped. There was something that could make the world go quiet, I could be what my mother needed me to be. A normal child who didn’t need doctors, who could make friends. A girl who couldn’t hear what no one had said.

I ran to tell my mother the good news. To my surprise, she had slept peacefully too. All she needed was a bottle of pills.

My father didn’t take me in after the funeral—he refused. He told his new wife that he didn’t want me getting into her head or their baby’s. He had a new daughter now, so he set me up in a crappy apartment and never looked back. He paid my rent remotely and wouldn’t take my calls. He told me that as soon as I turned eighteen he wouldn’t be legally responsible for me anymore. At fourteen, he was counting down the days until he could be rid of me for good.

I can’t tell you how loud that apartment was. There were fifty people just on my floor and they all just seemed so busy. My neighbours were nice to me at first, they’d bring me leftovers and offer to help me with my homework. By then I had learnt to only respond when I could see someone’s lips moving. But it’s impossible to catalogue what someone has and hasn’t told you. I started to wonder if it was even right for me to hold back. I knew their pain, their struggles, their grief. Why should I let someone suffer in silence when words might make the world a little bit quieter?

The landlord came to see me, he told me to move out. The other tenants complained, he said. I was disturbing them, he said. I had never been more desperate in my life. I knew my father wouldn’t take my calls even if I was homeless. It was like there was something buried in my chest, something alive and thrashing. Maybe it only came into being in that moment or maybe it had always been there, threatening to burst free. That was the first time I saw true fear; it burned in my landlord’s eyes and his mind descended into howling chaos.

Yet somehow, I made it go quiet.

I told him I wasn’t leaving and he agreed. I told him that the people complaining about me should be evicted and they were. Suddenly, I had someone who was incapable of turning me away—who couldn’t tell me no, who couldn’t hurt me. That was all I’d ever wanted. For the first time, I had a voice in this screaming world and now one wasn’t enough. One of my teachers was next. Then a classmate, then a neighbour, then anyone who tried to silence me. I couldn’t win anyone over with affection or kindness. I had tried loving the world and it did nothing but break me to pieces.

The very thought spread through me like wildfire because I knew its source. I knew the one who had begun it, who had stolen my voice—It was time to take it back.

‘You’re going to tell me the truth, Father. I’m tired of your lies. You knew what I was and you prayed for it to destroy me.’

He stared back at me with those big brown eyes, the one’s strangers used to tell me I’d inherited. Seeing him look so trapped was a joy I had never expected. He was so flustered, so panicked. For once, I had the upper hand and it was a power I never knew I craved.

‘Alexandra, you need to leave now,’ he tried to sound confident, but his voice shook with every word, ‘My family will be home any moment. They know to call the police if they see you.’

I could hear his mind racing at a million miles a minute, desperate for me to accept his lies. He couldn’t figure out how I’d found his home, let alone how I’d made it inside. His eyes were locked on the safe on the wall, wondering if he could make it in time.

‘Your new wife and daughter went to the Hamptons for the weekend. It’s so sweet you bought a little summer home for them. It was Mama’s favourite place, remember?’

‘No, they’re at Cassie’s dance class,’ he spluttered, suppressing a gulp, ‘They’ll be right back—’

‘Don’t lie to me,’ I snarled in a voice I didn’t recognise before I walked over to his safe and began turning the knob, ‘You don’t think I can hear it? Your mind’s in a tailspin because you know no one is coming for you.’

The safe clicked open and from it, I pulled out his gun, ‘Lexi,’ he breathed, as all hopes of escape melted in front of him, ‘Put it down, let’s talk.’

‘Okay.’ I smiled, even as I began loading it with gloved fingers. ‘How about you tell me about Uncle Michel? We never got to talk about him.’

He repeated the only thing he had ever said about him, ‘my brother was sick.’

‘Sick? Sick? He was just like me and you know it.’

I could smell his sweat as I flicked off the safety, ‘I thought that he might be, but I didn’t know for sure. He—’

‘Hung himself, in a mental hospital. Was that what you were hoping I would do? Is that why you cut me off? So I would kill myself like your brother? Like my mother?’

‘Stop calling me that, you gave up that right when you left.’

‘…Alexandra, just because I’d seen it before, doesn’t mean I knew what to do. I couldn’t help you, I felt like a failure, so I left and I’m sorry but—’

‘You let my mother think it was her fault,’ I hissed and the gun cocked with a sickening snap. ‘It was your genetics, you’re the reason I am what I am. It had nothing to do with her but you told her “it’s the mother’s responsibility to take care of the child,” while you busied yourself with your work and your affairs and your life outside of us.’

‘I couldn’t have known she—’

‘I don’t care! You don’t get it, do you? You still haven’t figured out what I am, have you?’

He spluttered and I couldn’t help but laugh, ‘I’m not a freak, I’m not a monster. I am evolution incarnate and I’m not alone. Mama’s last gift to me was making sure I knew that. You’re a doctor, maybe you’ve heard the stories? There was this guy in Yokohama, absolute sweetheart, called his grandmother every day but she’d been dead for three years so they locked him away.’

I stepped closer and he shuddered, ‘Did you hear about that fifteen-year-old in Siena? She was living twenty years in the future, there’s no telling the good she could’ve done. But instead, she was ridiculed until she ripped her all-seeing-eyes out.’

I grabbed his chin, wrenching it upwards until he was forced to look me right in the eyes. ‘Or the six-year-old, just over in Pittsburgh. He liked to make his teddies dance, but he didn’t need his hands to do it. You remember him, Daddy?’

I was standing so close to him now, that I could see the sweat being crushed in the wrinkles of his forehead, he was silent so I spoke again, ‘He starved to death… during his fifth exorcism.’

His mind became quieter and quieter, every thought grinding to a stop as I ensured he could do nothing more than to listen to me.

‘And what about me?’ I asked, before beginning to recite the explanation he had tried to rob me of, ‘Alexandra Priam, nineteen. Hyperthymesia. Telepathy. Mind Control.’

His breath quickened, his knees quivered, and for a moment I wondered if he was going to faint. ‘Wh-what?’

‘Didn’t know that last bit, did ya? Why do you think you haven’t run away? Why you haven’t called for help?’ a laugh escaped my throat, yet I didn’t know what I found so funny. ‘It’s because I removed the idea from your head. I mean, think of the possibilities, I could cure addiction in seconds, break apart toxic relationships, rewire criminals. I could hand my father a loaded gun and tell him to pull the trigger.’

‘Please… Please don’t…’

‘It’s my people’s destiny to replace your kind. What I want you to know, is that this is just the beginning. There’s a storm coming, we won’t be silenced. We won’t let people like you control us. It’s almost a shame you won’t live to see it because let me tell you, the new era of humanity is going to be beautiful.’

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

On the Street...Via Roma, Paris

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Anonymous Anonymous said ... (8:55 AM) :

i dont see what's so special about these two. very plain and boring. and brown bag with black shoes. hell to the no.

Blogger Unknown said ... (9:17 AM) :

Absolutely stunning!

Blogger Butch said ... (10:02 AM) :

The very definition of the haute bourgeoise couple out for a stroll!

Check out his pants length and weep with pleasure.....

Blogger The Spicers said ... (10:28 AM) :

This couple perfectly refutes the assumption that youth=style, and one must get frumpier as one ages (at least in the U.S.) I'm just happy when I see an elderly couple at the mall NOT wearing pastel track suits or elastic waist pants and white sneakers!

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (10:39 AM) :

Bella fortuna out for a stroll.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (11:16 AM) :

Another great idea for a show, Sart - chic couples with great style!

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (12:02 PM) :

He looks fantastic, i wish my father would dress like this, she looks dull, there's no energy to her outfit.

Blogger Laguna Beach Fogey said ... (12:04 PM) :

I love this photo, Sart. This is a lovely couple: elegant, distinguished, unobtrusive, with a pinch of chic. There is something dignified about them; dignity is something one rarely sees today. I particularly like the gentleman's coat and scarf. Sweet.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (12:04 PM) :

8:55 anonymous - you don't seem to have much of an eye for detail, do you? And what's wrong with a brown bag with black shoes? Is the fashion police coming to get her?
IMO, a great picture of an elegant (in an understated way) couple!

Blogger tintin said ... (12:33 PM) :

Part of the fun of these pictures (for me) is making up a story about the subject(s). Is this husband and wife? If so, he looks like George C Scott and in his youth he was so attractive she had to watch him like a hawk.

Brother and sister? She was gonna marry a Sergeant from the 82nd Abn Div and he put the kibosh on it. She's resented him and and loved Americans ever since.

Are they widowed lovers? Then they just rolled outta bed and are on their way to a bottle of wine and lunch.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (12:45 PM) :

What a sophisticated pair, and I say brown bag with black shoes, why the hell not? The brown bag, the color combo of the man's pants, shoes, coat and scarf, her hat and scarf, glasses and earrings, all these things make this NOT plain or boring. They look perfectly stylish and chic, and at the same time cozy, warm, and comfortable. 99% better than most people I see on the street.

Blogger Unknown said ... (12:55 PM) :

breathtakingly elegant - I want to look this refined at that age!

Blogger Mrs. Fox said ... (1:14 PM) :

Blogger J.P. said ... (2:40 PM) :

They look lovely.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (3:40 PM) :

to anonymous 8.55am -

what's wrong about plain and simple? for many that already is hard to achieve.
plain and simple can leave room for elegance. as for those two. their outfit just whispers grace and dignity.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (3:43 PM) :

In response to Laguna Beach Trad's comment about the absence of dignity today. What? Dignity has always existed and will always exist. I don;t know if dignity has disappeared in your little enclave nut it's alive and well everywhere else in the world. Yes, there is a world outside the states afterall.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (6:42 PM) :

I think they are wonderful. So chic, so smart

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (9:14 PM) :

At first glance I liked this, but on closer inspection (after fiddling with the angle of the computer screen), I must say I am In Awe.

Her hat is so beautifully quiet, as is her scarf and coat combination. His coat with with brown stitching is lovely. The scarf and trousers compliment one another very well indeed.

Sublime clothing and beautiful faces. The sartorialist master class is now in session!

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (9:26 PM) :

I adore this couple. I home Mr. Pepper and I look like that in a few (very short) years.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (10:13 PM) :

To get well dressed is an effort. Sometimes it takes all I have not to show up at my daughter school at 8-am looking like so many moms... that just step out of bed with sneakers and a coat. I refuse to let my looks go. This couple is remarkable, they both look adorable, well groomed and comfortable.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (10:17 PM) :

They are a more conservative version of my parents!
So cute...they look like they have fun dressing up, her handbag matches his shoes, love it.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (10:19 PM) :

Look at her scarf! Is that not the biggest you've ever seen? Certainly makes this an unique look imho.

Blogger MELI. said ... (1:59 AM) :

this could be the cousin/brother of that handsome man you pictured with the red leather portfolio+scarf and the gorgeous bike, he is my ultimate favorite, this picture looks very local italian. nice

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (9:27 AM) :

anonymous 10:17 -
i didn't notice before that her bag matches his shoes - it's true. so thoughtful - i love subtile matching details on couples.

Blogger alexpolina said ... (10:02 AM) :

i love this couple.they are fashionable and fresh. it is so nice to see people not dressing a ceratin way for their age. i think this would look good on any age but in a different way.

Blogger Diana said ... (10:22 AM) :

Black is beautiful, but sometimes (especially when you are not forever young) you have to be careful around your face.
The gentleman with the nice gray hair is very good looking.
The lady is very mumie-like. too much black. Imagine her with a nice gray do and without sunglasses.
It would be much better.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (2:13 PM) :

I love to see older couples dressing nice just to got out for a stroll. They have a very chic atmosphere about them. Wish my grandparents (even my parents!) dressed this well. Though, I'm not for head-to-toe black everyday.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (5:27 AM) :

Their message: establishment. Period.

Blogger Heinrich said ... (11:50 AM) :

I am always amazed when people shriek at the pairing of brown and black. How arrogant to fault the Creator in his choice of colours for the Rottweiler. Would you outraged fashionistas prefer Rotties to come in black and blue or perhaps brown and pink?

Blogger doanything24 said ... (1:03 PM) :

classic and refined!

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (7:03 PM) :

Interesting what people see. Neither of them are wearing head-to-toe black, yet someone says they are. Her brown bag does not match his shoes, yet someone says they do. (Her bag is like a milk chocolate brown, his shoes are more of an oxblood, no?) Anyway... I can say for certain that it's far and few between that I see an older couple looking so current and chic.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (12:54 AM) :

stunningly simple. elegant. I don't think white hair counts as an acessory, but it just works SO well as a contrast to all the black.

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (3:26 PM) :

Overall impression is good.even, very good.
Specifically though? I find the use of the color black to be too much of it.
The man is very handsome for his age, and his silver hair is thick: could be made use of better by use of the color white and gray, instead of the colors black and brown; his body-colors do not include any browns, and it is a hard color to wear for a lot of people anyway. Am not a fan of brown.
Were they to be dressed in grays with touches of oyster-white boots in nubuck leather accessories, would be far more attractive.;-)

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Monday, August 31, 2009

Not Giving Up, NYC

I don't usually shoot homeless people. I don't find it romantic or appealing like a lot of street photographers, and if you asked homeless people they are probably not to happy about their situation either. That's why I was surprised to be so drawn to taking a picture of this gentleman.

I was being interviewed for an article in British Vogue; and while we walked down Bowery back in April I barely stopped walking when I took the shot. Fiona Golfar, the writer, asked why I took the photo. At that moment I couldn't really explain - but I just had a feeling about the power and grace of how he was sitting there. It wasn't until later that night when I was working on the image that I realized why I had noticed this man.

Usually people in this man's position have given up hope. Maybe this gentleman has too, I don't know, but he hasn't given up his sense of self or his sense of expressing something about himself to the world. In my quick shot I had noticed his pale blue boots, what I hadn't noticed at first were the matching blue socks, blue trimmed gloves, and blue framed glasses. This shot isn't about fashion - but about someone who, while down on his luck, hasn't lost his need to communicate and express himself through style.

Looking at him dressed like this makes me feel that in some way he hasn't given in or given up.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

So What Do We Think About This?

This month Glamour magazine ran this photograph which has created quite a stir here in the US.

It seems women desperately want more images that highlight the variety of beauty that the female form has to offer. If that is true, then this should become one of the biggest selling issues in Conde Nast history.

Actually it just might become the biggest seller. When we wanted to do a post about this Tracy went to three different shops to find the magazine but all three were sold out. We had to scan this from the NY Post.

When I am shooting on the street older women and larger size women often say "no" to my request to shoot them. Actually, much more than any other category of people I shoot. I think they have a real suspicion about how the image will be used. I also think there continues to be a growing disconnect between the fashion community and "average" women in general

However, do you think that this economic crisis has forced the fashion community to open it's eyes a little bit to what the customers want?

Thursday, August 27, 2009

On the Street....Summer Pattern Mixing p2

I love the bold pattern of his jacket, and he takes it to a whole new level combining it with the small check pattern of his pants.

On the Street....West Village, NYC

Short skirts are so hard to wear in a sporty way. I thought this young lady did a great job looking sporty chic on a warm Summer day.

On the Street....Pattern Mixing to Beat the Heat, NYC

It's hot as New York in August here in New York in August. Nobody feels like getting dressed up, or even dressed for that matter. The city is awash in tiny solid color Summer dresses or tees and jean shorts.

However, there are occasional glimmers of inspiration. For example, this young lady without adding any extra layers was able to skillfully mix florals, dots, geometrics and lace into one chic but subtle summer look.

To me this shot isn't about if this look is perfect, but about the inspiration of doing a lot with a little. Actually I look at this and think about color mixing. If you kept the shape of all these pieces but each was a different color, or even shades of the same color - with or without the patterns.

Looks like this remind me that in Summer, even though we are working with fewer layers, we can still have fun playing with pattern.

On the Street....Watch It, NYC

It seems the watches on the guys in Europe (especially the Italians) are getting so big and gaudy that soon they will need two wrists to carry them.

I think that is why I don't wear a watch. With smart phones, iPods, etc. always having a time function it is hard to justify wearing such a ginormous hunk of metal.

However, I have had a growing fascination with small vintage watches. They are sleek, chic and almost hidden. I stopped this gentleman coming out of Starbucks because I thought his watch looked so cool, retro and yet totally modern.

So this question is for the guys - but answered by the ladies. Ladies, are you really attracted to guys with giant watches? Doesn't it feel like a bit of overcompensation? Or does it read like a symbol of success - like a shiny sporty car for your arm (and not much smaller)?

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

On the Street....New York Bike, NYC

Maybe it is all of the new bike lanes (thanks Mayor Bloomberg), but New Yorkers have fallen in love with their bikes again. What I am proud of is that like any real style capital New Yorkers are doing it their way - sporty, sexy, and built for speed.

Just look at the difference between these New York ladies I shot yesterday and the young ladies Garance shot recently in Amsterdam. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it is great that something like this can be so reflective of a cultures taste and aesthetics.

On the Street.... Starting the Transition

Mid weight cottons, rich colors, light is still the dog days of Summer, but transition is right around the corner.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

On the Street.... So Simple, Florence

Monday, August 24, 2009

On the Street.... Well Suited, Florence

On the Street.... at Pitti Uomo, Florence

Friday, August 21, 2009

On the Street....Garance Doré in Full Summer Beauty, Paris

On the Street....Grey Suit, Milan

How do they do it?
Without fail, no matter the miserable weather outside, September fashion magazines make me start dreaming of flannels and cashmere.

I guess I am partly to blame. I took this photo of a Cucinelli suit in Milan recently, for the September issue of GQ, and have been thinking about it ever since. Shame on me.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

On the Street....Seventh Ave., NYC

On the Street....Soho Bike, NYC

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

On the Street....Greene St., New York City

It has been so hot in NYC that it is actually refreshing to see a young lady in anything besides denim cutoff shorts.

On the Street....Childish Color, New York

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

On the Street....Fabrizio Against the Heat, Paris

Monday, August 17, 2009

On the Street...Fifth Ave., NYC

On the Street...Ninth Ave., NYC

With all white the slightest touch of color can be just enough.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

On the Street...Greene St., NYC

On the Street....Slim Sleeve, Florence

I love the simple color story of navy, tan and brown; but what really caught my eye was the slimness of their jacket sleeves. Look how narrow they are around the wrist - so many of today's jackets are cut so loose to fit everyone (or at least everyone with fat wrists).

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

On the Street....Crisp on a Hot Summer Day, Florence

A Simple Portrait

More than the Comme Des Garcons black/green camo jacket, I love the gentle spirit of this young man.

For me, the whole shot is about the way he holds his hands and his posture. This is where personal interpretation comes into play - is this heartbreaking? tender? calm? sad? reflective?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Sartorialist Via The Selby @ Lanvin Homme

My very plugged in assistant Tracy found this photograph of Lucas Ossendrijver's (Lanvin menswear) design studio on The Selby. Instantly she recognized two of my images on his inspiration board.

I often hear that designers use my images for inspiration, but I never believe it until I see it, so this is pretty cool.

I'm often asked in interviews if my photos have a direct effect on trends. I always say that designers don't really look at my site for direct copying, but instead for a spirit - and the photos that Lucas has chosen are a perfect example of this idea.

On the Street.... Mr. Rubinacci, Florence

On the Street.... Anna Dello Russo, Milan

Monday, August 10, 2009

On the Street.... Summer Plaid, Florence

So I guess the only question about this look is the belt/shoe coordination thing. I didn't even really notice they were unmatched until later, so for me it works because it's not distracting. However, I know a lot of people are very obsessed with things like this.

On the Street....The Man, Milan

It's his world and we are just his subjects.

On the Street.... Eva in Black & White, Milan

I know I shoot Eva a lot, but come on, when she looks like this all the time how can I not shoot her.

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Style Piccoli

So finally I get to share the shoot I did for Style Piccoli with my kids and their friends. Claudia (above) is such a ham and a natural model. I would just tell her the concept of the character and she somehow just got it. I used to shoot kids a lot more, but I'm such a big kid that I could never get them to sit still or stop jumping on me long enough to get the shot.

Saturday, August 08, 2009

On the Street.... Model Style, Paris

Friday, August 07, 2009

On the Street.... So Simple, So Perfect, Paris

On the Street.... Vintage Shirt, Florence

What a great way to make a 50 year old vintage shirt look so new and modern. So often vintage just screams VINTAGE! I think it is a real skill to integrate vintage into a look and keep the viewer guessing if it is a modern piece or very old. I think that is a subtle, but huge part of the success of Prada.

Thursday, August 06, 2009

On the Street.... The Next Step, Florence

On the Street.... High-Top Cons and Jackets, Florence

When we first met.... Lucy

Above is Lucy, I took this picture when I first met her at a cafe in Melbourne. I thought she looked so cool sitting there during her coffee break - so French somehow. I knew the picture wasn't right for the blog, but when the Saba job came up she was one of the first people I suggested we shoot.

I'm really proud that with each of the people we shot we were able to maintain the true nature of the subject.

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|| September Plans ’18 ||

August was a blast ! What with galloping round the hills on a common ride, Eva jumping her heart out in some unaffiliated showjumping that was the first in a while and watching top class eventing at Blair horse trials it is going to be nice to have a weekend off!

This month there is not too much planned in comparison. I am going to book myself in for one or two, much needed, lessons!

There is also two jumping events on. One is a jumping pizza night in which I think I might attempt the meter class! That is if I don’t chicken out first!

The second is an unaffiliated showjumping show in which the max height is 90cm so I think I will enter us for that as well.

The horses start coming in during the night for the winter in October, therefore it is the last month for Eva to be out 24/7. On the one hand I do think she likes being out but on the other hand she does settle down a lot when she is in the routine being brought in and put out at certain times. Hopefully as she was in for the winter last year she will settle pretty quickly.

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SBT Gift Guide: The Theater Geek

Of course, I’m always going to recommend books as gifts. For your neighborhood theater geek (I can call them that because I sort of am one… I most certainly was in my youth), books are a fantastic option–and by books, of course, I mean plays. Or screenplays, if your theater geek is also a movie buff which, naturally, quite a few of us are.

But maybe a play isn’t the thing. Okay. Something Shakespearean might be fun:

And of course, theater kids love to let the world know that they are theater kids.

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Sewanee welcomes 40th annual Medieval Colloquium

The 40th annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium met at the University of the South, April 4-5, 2014. The theme of this year’s colloquium was “Medieval Emotions,” and the meeting will include papers and roundtables discussing medieval literature, music, art, history, philosophy and religion. The colloquium featured plenary lectures by William M. Reddy (Duke University) and Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London). Dr. Reddy is the William T. Laprade Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology at Duke, and a major theorist of the emotions. His most recent book, The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia and Japan, 900-1200 CE (University of Chicago Press, 2012), explores the differing practices of “love” across medieval cultures, and won the 2013 David H. Pinkney Prize for the Society of French Historical Studies.

Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History and Head of the School of History; she studies the social and religious culture of Europe, and is the author of numerous books and articles on medieval culture and religion, including Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Emotion and Devotion: The Meanings of Mary in Medieval Culture (Central European University Press, 2009) and Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (Yale University Press, 2010). She often appears on the BBC to speak about the Middle Ages. The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium will also feature a roundtable on “Scholastic Emotion” led by Mark D. Jordan, Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics at John C. Danforth Center for Religion and Politics (Washington University, St. Louis).

Dr. Jordan is the author of numerous books, including The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (University of Chicago Press, 1997), The Ethics of Sex (Basil Blackwell, 2002), and Rewritten Theology: Aquinas After his Readers (Basil Blackwell, 2006), and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1996-97. All events, excepting meals, were free and open to the Sewanee community. Professor Rubin’s lecture was at 9:30 AM, Friday, April 4; Professor Reddy’s lecture is at 4:30 PM, Saturday, April 5; Professor Jordan’s roundtable is at 10:30 AM, Saturday, April 5, all in Gailor Auditorium.

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Year: 2015
Director: Afonso Poyart
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell, Matt Gerald, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Marley Shelton, Xander Berkeley, Kenny Johnson, Joshua Close, Sharon Lawrence, Janine Turner, Luisa Moraes, Jordan Woods-Robinson, Niyi Oni
Genre: Horror, ThrillerBuy from Amazon
Rating:  3 (from 1 vote)
Review: Another body has been found murdered and FBI Agents Merriwether (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Cowles (Abbie Cornish) are on the case, but this apparent serial killer is proving a tough nut to crack with no clues left behind and not much connecting his selection of victims. However, Merriwether has a colleague who used to be a valuable member of his investigating team, a psychic named John Clancy (Anthony Hopkins), though he has become a recluse since his daughter died of cancer. Can he be coaxed back to work? That's what the agents hope, so drive out to Clancy's house in the country to speak to him face to face, for if anyone can find out the identity of the murderer, it is him...

It's often a bad sign when a film is moved to explain its title with a short paragraph at the beginning, not so bad if that title is something obscure, but the word solace was not exactly ancient Aramaic. But here we were, asked to believe that one of Wales' greatest actors was an FBI psychic, a position that doesn’t exist because, well, because no case has ever been solved with the help of a clairvoyant and any supposed evidence to the contrary would be laughed out of court. We were also asked to believe Hopkins thought that hairdo was a good idea, which put his abilities into question, not that this stopped director Afonso Poyart presenting his visions as if Clancy had a channel playing nineties goth rock videos through his mind.

But you can tell these images were the real deal, because they included one of the great signifiers of ESP, which was a glimpse of a coffee mug falling to the floor and breaking in slow motion, a trope that has been used in, ooh, every psychic thriller and many non-psychic thrillers for what seems like ever since the eighties (call it The Omen effect, though that was a goldfish bowl). With its horror inflections, Solace was closer to something like The Cell, though not as ornate, and Hopkins barely altered his expression throughout the whole performance, perhaps to indicate the loneliness of the long distance mind reader, or perhaps because he was getting confused about what he was meant to be doing.

He certainly looked glaikit for a man with an incredible power, or maybe veh veh tired, but in spite of appearances and his general "let's get on with it so I can get paid" demeanour we were asked to find Hopkins' character sympathetic as our focus of attention. Labouring under some truly atrocious dialogue coupled with flat characterisation, the cast struggled to bring the yarn to life, though given the whole affair was obsessed with the pros and cons of euthanasia that could have been entirely appropriate. That said, it was difficult to argue that executing the terminally ill in elaborate murder schemes was the correct way to go about ending their misery even if you were on the pro side of the debate, so the suspicion this was overfond of straw man arguments and less fond of actual facts was strong.

So convinced was Sean Bailey and Ted Griffin's script on the imminent circumstances of each of us facing up to the death of either ourselves or a loved one that it seemed as though every person here was about to expire or knew someone who was, often to the distraction of what we were supposed to be here for, a serial killer suspense effort. With the bulk of the action taken up increasingly with Clancy's visions and portents, every one shot with the utmost pretentiousness in a style that was looking very past it by now, the patience was truly tested, particularly when the twists they conjured up were perfunctory and still in the thrall of saying something meaningful about terminating life when it was nothing of the sort. They even threw in a car chase halfway through (this was originally posited as a sequel to Se7en until its director David Fincher objected) to come across as the semblance of a thriller was at least being attempted, which only made you thankful they hadn't made it the issue drama it was straining to be, and with a celebrity as the reveal of the murderer plus a big cheat for one of the predictions, Solace was only good for a few laughs. Music by BT.
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Which Premier League Managers Have Been the Most Effective?

Many things on the pitch are up to the players, but a great manager will put their players in the best position to get the best Premier League results.

Whether it be managing egos and getting the best players in the world to gel together or squeezing the most out of a team on a small budget, the Premier League has seen some top managers over the years. Some have had a brief spell of success, while others have fundamentally changed English football.We will discuss a handful of managers who have been most effective in their craft, ranging from all-time greats to rising stars.

The Greats

Without a doubt, former Manchester United manager and club legend Sir Alex Ferguson is the greatest Premier League manager of all time; he was knighted, after all. Especially in his absence in the technical box for United, we have seen just how great of a manager he was.

The Scotsman won the Premier League a record 13 times and led United to two Champions League victories. Not only was he the best Premier League manager ever, but perhaps the best football manager the world has ever seen.

His mark on the Premier League is indelible, leaving an untouchable legacy, as well as signatures such as “Fergie Time.”

While no manager has ever come close to Ferguson’s success, one other manager has had a similar impact on one club, Arsène Wenger. Wenger may have faltered in his later years, but his Arsenal teams were unbelievably consistent in quality during his 22 years at the club.

Arsenal enjoyed its greatest period, finishing in the top four 20 seasons in a row and winning the Premier League three times during the peak of United’s dominance. Wenger also managed the best season ever by a Premier League club, the 2003-04 Invincibles season wherein Arsenal did not lose a single match.

Modern Managers

Two managers deserve to be mentioned first in this category and stand in a league of their own for the impact they have had on the English game, Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola and Liverpool’s Jürgen Klopp.

Guardiola has enjoyed an immense transfer kitty at City, but it has taken an excellent man manager to finally put the pieces together. Under Guardiola, Manchester City has played some of the best football the Premier League has ever seen.

Guardiola relies on a disciplined defence that aggressively cuts off all passing lanes, and once in possession beautiful counterattacks can be seen at the Etihad. As high-pressing became the norm in the Premier League, in large part thanks to Guardiola and Klopp, the Spaniard has focused even more on his goalkeeper and defenders being skilful on the ball and being able to pick out a beautiful long ball.

In a similar way, Klopp has changed the way the British play football, thanks to the success he has enjoyed at Liverpool. Klopp plays an even more aggressive pressing style known as gegenpressing.

This style requires players with great stamina and work rate who can press the opponent far up the field. While Guardiola’s team relies more on possession, Liverpool springs out of their press fast once they win possession, resulting in break-neck counters and beautiful goals.

Mangers like José Mourinho and Claudio Ranieri also deserve a shout. Mourinho won the Premier League three times at Chelsea, but some rocky times at other clubs make his case to be the most effective somewhat weaker. Ranieri won the league with Leicester City, a sporting fairy tale that will live on as long as football is played.

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Advertising: Amazon vs. Goodreads

Great Information from the Guru CMcM 😀

Since KDP introduced Advertising Marketing Services (AMS) for KDP Select books earlier this year, I’ve placed 50 ads on a variety of nonfiction Kindle e-books.

I’ve also placed over a dozen ads with Goodreads. It’s interesting to compare the two options for advertising e-books.

There are two great things about advertising right on Amazon’s website or on a Kindle device (both are possible with AMS via KDP):

  • Many of the customers who see your ad are already shopping for other books, i.e. they are looking for books to read, they have their wallets out, and they are ready to spend money.
  • Since they are already on Amazon, your ad isn’t interrupting some other activity and trying to persuade customers to leave one site to visit another.

If you advertise at Goodreads with a link to your Amazon product page, you’re asking readers who were busy doing something…

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Geesman Named All-American at NCAA Division III Championships

By just qualifying for the Division III national wrestling tournament, MIT heavyweight standout Glenn J. Geesman ’09 had already accomplished the remarkable. But what the junior sensation achieved Friday night at the U.S. Cellular Center was beyond extraordinary. In the late evening hours, MIT’s most prolific muscleman was hailed as an NCAA All-American after pinning his opponent from York College in 2:27. Just before that match, Geesman soundly defeated his counterpart from the State University of New York at Oswego, 10-1.

“Personally, I am extremely proud of Glenn on his outstanding performance,” said MIT head wrestling coach Tom Layte. “I am so impressed with how Glenn came back from his first round loss and won five straight matches in dominating fashion. He was the talk of the tournament. All the coaches and fans were very impressed with Glenn’s performance.”

Geesman became MIT’s first All-American in 24 years, as the Engineers closed the tournament ranked 15th as a team in the country, their best ever finish in NCAA history. Kenneth R. Shull ’84 secured Tech’s last All-American accolade in 1984.

After losing his first match by a 6-2 score, Geesman won his next five matches, the clincher being a takedown of York’s Luke Panizzi at the 2:27 mark.

Geesman earned a berth to the nationwide tourney after posting a 6-1 record, including five pins, to win the New England College Conference Wrestling Association heavyweight championship on Feb. 23-24.

Geesman finished the season with a 32-5 ledger, including 21 pins to lead the competitive Pilgrim League. The star also ranked second overall in the league in his weight class, while standing in the top three in the country in pins in all divisions. For his outstanding efforts, Geesman earned Pilgrim League All-Star Honorable Mention honors. He was also named to the Pilgrim League 2008 Scholar-Athlete All-Star Team along with teammate Joseph B. Silverman ’10.

“The great news is Glenn will be back next season to accomplish his goal of becoming a national champion,” Layte said.


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Hong Kong Export Growth Fastest Since 2018

Hong Kong’s exports grew at the fastest pace in over two years in December, survey data from the Census and Statistics Department showed on Tuesday.

Exports rose 11.7 percent year-on-year in December, which was both the first double-digit growth and the fastest rate of increase since October 2018.

In November, exports rose 5.6 percent. Exports climbed for a second straight month.

Imports increased 14.1 percent year-on-year in December after a 5.1 percent rise in November. The growth was the fourth in a row and the fastest since October 2018.

On a month-on-month basis, exports grew 3.3 percent and imports rose 8.1 percent.

The visible trade deficit widened to HK$45.7 billion from HK$25.6 billion in November. In the same month a year ago, the shortfall was HK$32.4 billion.

In 2020, a year when the global trade activity was savaged by the coronavirus or Covid-19 pandemic, Hong Kong’s exports shrunk 1.5 percent from the previous year and imports declined 3.3 percent.

The visible trade deficit was HK$342.2 billion versus HK$426.7 billion in 2019.

A government spokesman attributed the strong export growth in December to a further revival in import demand in many major markets.

Exports to the Mainland China accelerated notably, and those to the US and the EU also saw faster growth. Shipments to many other major Asian markets also improved.

“Looking ahead, while the Mainland economy is expected to strengthen further and render support to Hong Kong’s exports, the prospects of other major markets will depend on how the pandemic situation evolves,” the spokesman said.

“Evolving China-US relations under the new US administration, persistent geopolitical tensions and post-Brexit developments also warrant attention.”

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Dollar Slides Against Other Major Currencies

The U.S. dollar turned weak against other major currencies on Friday amid a drop in bond yields and upbeat euro zone economic data.

The dollar found some support after data showed a sharp surge in new home sales, and a marked improvement in activity in service and manufacturing sectors, but retreated subsequently.

Data released by the Commerce Department showed new home sales in U.S. skyrocketed by 20.7% to an annual rate of 1.021 million in March after plunging by 16.2% to a revised rate of 846,000 in February.

Economists had expected new home sales to spike by 14.3% to a rate of 886,000 from the 775,000 originally reported for the previous month. With the rebound, new home sales soared from the eight-month low set in February to their highest level since August of 2006.

The flash reading of the IHS Market US. composite purchasing managers index rose to a record high 62.2 in April from 59.7 in March, suggesting both the manufacturing and services sectors are recovering rapidly from the coronavirus pandemic.

The yield of 10-year Treasury Notes was somewhat static around 1.56%, falling nearly 0.2% from the previous week.

The dollar index dropped to 90.81, losing nearly 0.6% from previous close.

Against the Euro, the dollar weakened to 1.2096, sliding 0.65% from Thursday’s close. The flash reading of the IHS Markit eurozone composite purchasing managers index rose to a nine-month high of 53.7 in April from 53.2 in March.

France’s private sector returned to growth for the first time since August 2020, flash survey data from IHS Markit showed.

The Pound Sterling firmed up against the greenback, fetching $1.3884 a unit, compared with $1.3839 yesterday. The preliminary “flash” reading of the U.K. Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 60.0 in April, the highest reading since November 2013, from 56.4 in March.

Meanwhile, U.K. retail sales grew more than expected in March, rising 5.4% month-on-month, faster than the 2.2% increase in February. The forecast was for an increase of 1.5%.

The Yen was stronger at 107.88 a dollar, firming up from 107.97.

The AUD-USD, at 0.7749, was firmer, gaining from 0.7707. The manufacturing sector in Australia is continuing to expand in April, and at a faster pace, flash estimate from Markit Economics revealed on Friday with a survey record manufacturing PMI score of 59.6. That’s up from 56.8 in March.

The Swiss franc, at 0.9137, was stronger, having firmed up from 0.9173, while the Loonie advanced to C$1.2477 a dollar, gaining from C$1.2507.

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  1. Econobran says:

    It seems odd that this type of information is available in this day and age. I know that when companies are looking to locate in an area, it can sometimes be difficult to get maps of utilities. Sure, they will mark where their utilities are, but they are usually very cautious about sharing that information. I suppose this is more true with gas/oil companies than electric companies (since their means of transmitting energy is in plain site), but I’m not sure if that’s any more rational. Interesting, though.

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