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Brave Boks edge Twickenham epic
24 Nov 2012
RYAN VREDE watched the Springboks hold on for a 16-15 victory over England at Twickenham that secured an unbeaten tour.
The tour is over and the examination is passed. It was hardly a convincing pass. Certainly there are areas of their Test syllabus in which these Springboks and their coaches are desperately lacking. But they've gone unbeaten in Europe and achieved this with the least experienced side they've ever fielded and men ravaged by the excesses of the longest season in their careers.
They had no right to have the work-rate they did, the physicality they displayed, the sharpness of mind that marked their play at critical junctures. They refused to lose, and England, the better side for large periods, simply could not overcome that wall of will.
The value of this tour and the victories that accompanied it is immeasurable. Pat Lambie grew in confidence with every game, tonight looking a Test flyhalf of considerable promise. In Francois Louw, Willem Alberts and Duane Vermeulen they have a back row of brilliant balance. In Eben Etzebeth, the next step in second row evolution.
Then there's that defence, the cornerstone of their success in the last three weeks. England at times looked like they were attacking on a tennis court, so condensed was their space and so limited their options. That England opted to go for a penalty with two minutes to play will be perceived by some as a act of immense belief and by others one of breathtaking cowardice. Wherever you stand, save a little praise for the impact of the fearsome Springboks defence on the England psyche.
There was something special, something desperate, something determined about this rendition of the England national anthem pre-match. It was as much a declaration of war as it was an ode to their beloved Queen. And England were fittingly belligerent throughout – bullish in contact on attack and defence and absolutely rampant at scrum time.
With torrential rain belting this famous ground and a breeze that sent the temperature plummeting to the low single figures, this inexperienced Springbok side were always going to have to win a battle of attrition and a tussle for territory. They mastered neither.
Furthermore the attack once again lacked imagination, precision and tactical intelligence. In a season where they were battered for their pragmatic play, it was ironic that in conditions and against a folding defensive line (pushing in hard from the outside), that they would look to 'play' more than they have at any stage on tour. England's defensive pattern screamed for the Springboks' primary kickers to look for the space that was left vacant behind the hard-pressing outside backs. Instead their strike runners were frustratingly often tackled before they could build momentum and they subsequently never asked any telling questions on attack.
They were fortunate that England were equally impotent, the hosts enjoying appreciable possession and territory, but they never seriously threatened to score outside of a couple of broken-field opportunities. So organised and so brutal was the Springbok defence – led by the loose trio and amplified by the rest of the team – that England were reduced to hopeful high kicks, painfully few of which found their mark.
It therefore became increasingly apparent that the result of the Test would hinge on the goal-kicking of Pat Lambie and Toby Flood. Lambie banked three penalties to Flood's two before half-time. The England pivot, however, missed two, both stemming from scrum infringements. It was the only area of the game that England enjoyed clear dominance, but Flood's failure to capitalise on those opportunities saw his side trail 9-6 at half-time.
The Springboks' inability to engineer anything close to impressive on attack – not even their powerful rolling maul – was concerning, but then they profited from a bit of luck that gave them the ascendancy when Willem Alberts collected a ball that had squirted off an England player after a hacked attempted clearance. The big blindside flopped over the tryline and Lambie kicked his fourth penalty goal of the Test to give the Springboks a 10-point lead.
Meyer will lament the Springboks' inability to pin the English in the half more than they did after establishing that buffer, ill-discipline and poor decision-making ensuring that there was never a let up in pressure.
With 12 minutes to play and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot sweeping through the stands, England found their stride. Alex Goode made it a four-point game with seven to play. This was a defining seven minutes in the Springboks' tour, some would argue their season. A scrum on their 22m held firm when it most needed to. Ruan Pienaar cleared but England came again.
Then, inexplicably, England choose to kick a penalty with the final whistle imminent. Did they really think they would have the attacking prowess to score from at least 80m out? There'll be a mass inquisition in the English press on Sunday. But the Springboks won't care. Most will be nursing sore heads from a celebration they've earned.
189 Comments
25 Nov 2012, 10:15 am@poltergeist-77: out of line pal
25 Nov 2012, 10:16 amAt this stage and with the players he selected our strength is defense.
Yet when we play to our strength we get blasted.
We would all like to see free flowing and running rugby, but first priority is to win a test match.
The end justified the means. -
25 Nov 2012, 10:19 am@Hurricane-128: I'm a saffa and you won't see an argument from me. Our current game plan is rather pathetic and far bellow what's possible on a rugby field. It's pretty depressing stuff; you would think a national asset would have more smarts behind it. Hopefully things improve. …Sigh.
25 Nov 2012, 10:19 am@snivelling little kiwi pricks-93: Nama probably knows a hell of a lot more about the rules than you do.
25 Nov 2012, 10:30 amMeyer in Rapport:
Voorts word daar aan sisteme gewerk om die Bokke te ondersteun: "Jy moet sorg dat die onder-20-span min of meer dieselfde speelstyl as die nasionale span het, sodat jong ouens wat inkom dadelik hul voete kan vind."
O vadertjie tog…arme laaities moet nou ook geleer word om liewer rugby te speel om NIE te verloor nie eerder as om te speel met die doel om te wen.
25 Nov 2012, 10:34 am@nama1-155: watch victor @ the bulls fark up serfontein, small-smith's creativity as the "attack" coach…
25 Nov 2012, 10:42 am@greatest13gerber-143: He fits HM's game plan perfectly.Brilliant performance yesterday.
25 Nov 2012, 10:47 am@greatest13gerber-143: Um no. Kirtchner is the embodiment of the Boks current boring, one dimensional, limited gameplan. No talent, just a drilled robot.
25 Nov 2012, 10:49 am@Transformation-156:
Is this some new trend? The forward coach also being the attack coach.What will Slaptjips job entails as back line coach, I wonder?
25 Nov 2012, 10:53 am@Spiesisworthless1-158:
"…the Boks current boring, one dimensional, limited gameplan."That is a very apt description of our game plan.
When my AB supporting friends started to feel embarrassed on my behalf because of the way we played, you know we were kak.
Jislaaik, it was cringe worthy.
25 Nov 2012, 10:54 amThis tour could either become the definition of papering over the cracks where we're subjected to the misery of a Meyer/Van Graan/Loubscher game-plan over the next three years, or Meyer will build from this raw desperate caveman template and start adding dimensions to the Boks. He WONT be able to the latter with Van Graan and Loubscher, he'll need some quality assistance.
25 Nov 2012, 10:59 am@nama1-160: No joy at all supporting this bunch. One half of proper rugby all season vs the English at Ellis Park to go with the Wallaby implosion at Loftus. To call the rest forgettable is an understatement.
25 Nov 2012, 11:03 am@Spiesisworthless1-161:
Since he is looking for the same game plan across the different teams representing SA, what about Brendan Venter as back line coach for the Boks as well? -
25 Nov 2012, 11:04 amHi Nama @159: that were my comments exactly when the news broke. Slaptjips must be quite pis*ed about it!!
It seems that HM started a new "trend" with Van Graan and now Ludeke is doing the same with Victor.
I have no problem with VM being the forwards' coach – although it is quite soon after quitting the game – but attacking coach ?? Does not make sense -
25 Nov 2012, 11:49 amThat's the best which could done under the circumstances
I actually took a wager on the Poms by 4
HM was forced to play Steenkamp and JdJ who combined for a one tackle and a one ruck between them, while the Poms had no free loader in their line up!
HM did manage to upset few though by the clean sweep WHICH IS PRICELESS -
25 Nov 2012, 11:55 amWell Matfield firmly believes that HM is doing things right. So maybe that answers your question…
25 Nov 2012, 11:58 amI just voted for the Sharks to win the SA Conference of the Super 15 next year!
I do this in tribute of Sharks_Lover, Sharksgirl, and Puma.
The gilled trinity.
25 Nov 2012, 12:05 pm@cane-167:
I see 16 people voted for the Kings.
Must be the Watsons' family -
25 Nov 2012, 12:15 pmI didn't go down the list as far as the Kings.
If I had, I would have voted for them for sure.I just love Luke.
And Cheeky and Chong.Hope they go well in 2013.
(I do not however agree with the way things were done, in getting the Kings into the S15).
25 Nov 2012, 12:20 pm@Hondo-165:
You didn't see the three tackles that Gurthro made in under two minutes at one stage?He looked out of puff after that.
What do you make of the fact that we "only" scored 22 tries in the 12 matches that we played this year while 16 tries were scored against us.
Keep in mind that there were quite a few that were not well constructed tries by the Boks. From the top of my head, yesterday's try by Alberts, last week's interception by Strauss, the charge down by Fransie against Arg.
There may be more.
25 Nov 2012, 12:25 pmIt is obvious that in HM's world rugby is not about scoring tries…it is only about winning.
25 Nov 2012, 12:37 pm@nama1-171: Hang on Nama.
Isn't that the same plan of your Toetie?
I didn't see you on here lambasting Toetie during the S15?
Instead you kept saying all that is important is that the Stormers were winning and ugly wins were better than pretty losses (until they got absolutely crunched by the Sharks when it counted).
double standards?
25 Nov 2012, 12:39 pmExtract from BBC website,referring to England. Is this 'big is best' philosophy some kinf of international rugby coaches' delusion?
66. ron
Its high time we got out of selecting only the biggest, most muscled individuals. Perhaps selecting those with skill and intelligence as we used to before "professionalism" might lead at least to a more exciting and fluid formation? The overemphasis on robotic defence simply reinforces the fear of losing as opposed to an attacking philosophy which would foster the belief in winning. -
25 Nov 2012, 12:40 pmThe Stormers scored 28 tries and let in 21.
The Chiefs scored 47 and let in 30.
The Sharks scored 47 and let in 31.
Hell even the Bulls scored 50 yet let in 38.
Nama what's good for the sauce is good for the goose, no? Never heard you complaining in the S15…..
25 Nov 2012, 12:42 pmSo Nama did not criticize Toetie but criticizes Meyer for EXACTLY the same thing…..
I wonder what the difference is in Nama's mind?
Actually, I reckon I have a pretty good idea knowing the way our little Nama thinks….
25 Nov 2012, 12:48 pmI don't know what HM's got but to keep those 15 battered Boks on the field, defending like demons is special. Sure it was a slugfest between two tentative teams but good one for the Boks. I even enjoyed Mallett's crowing about the spineless ref. We need him in SARU. He'd sort the crokked Kwee's out! I'm pleased for the players for sure; Kirchner confounded a few critics. Naas bleating about consulting Andre Watson about the try – yeah right; the oracle for SA refs. Not! Go look at the scoreboard.
For those who sneer at the players – go out and try it yourself on freezing patch of mud in icy rain with 30 000 rabid Pommies baying in the background.
But plenty work to do. Scrums were a mess. Boks had a dominant lineout yet Pienaar and Lambie don't kick the ball out. Eish!
One moment of particular irritation was when Hougaard and Pienaar broke out with turnover ball and Pienaar kicks a GO from the frst breakdown. Nee man!
25 Nov 2012, 12:51 pmPartly true.
I am on record since last year questioning the "playing without the ball" game plan that AC adopted for WP. I was very critical of it.
The success of the Stormers this year did dampen ones criticism of the game plan somewhat, yes.
25 Nov 2012, 12:56 pmThoughts on how JPP was used as a first centre on many occasions instead of JdV ?
25 Nov 2012, 13:00 pm@Transformation-156: You are so right..
It pains me t see the Bulls pick up the best talent this country has to offer. The Bulls are boring.. Why go there as a back line player.
25 Nov 2012, 13:02 pm@Spiesisworthless1-161: why do SA outsource their attacking backline coaches and get a foreign Antipodean coach. Or Even a French attack coach. These guys will help our game.
25 Nov 2012, 13:08 pm@Tbozknows-179: TBoz
Look I am no Bulls fan but how can you say that when the Bulls scored 50 tries in this year's S15 and the Stormers only 28?
Only the Hurricanes scored more tries.
25 Nov 2012, 13:08 pmBulls 50 tries
Sharks 47
Cheetahs 35
Lions 30
Stormers 28 -
25 Nov 2012, 13:12 pm4 try bonus points
Hurricanes 8
Sharks 7
Bulls 6
Chiefs, Crusaders, Brumbies 5
Stormers 0 -
25 Nov 2012, 14:16 pmRubbish performance mediocrity is the new bok norm, we should be thumping Scotland, number 12 ranked team in the world, nothing on attack, next year will be the same old rubbish, watching the all blacks play the width of the field, why can't the boks play like that, they have bacls to do so, was Juan de Jongh even on the field yesterday? Meyer's selection of Kirchner at fullback spells out the lack of ambition, please make Francois Louw the springbok captain, de Villiers is not the answer.Please get a skills coach to improve the back play, Eddie Jones, Todd Louden, get rid of Ricardo. Loubscher, useless backs coach, coached Tukkies, now Springbok backs coach, what a joke.The All Blacks are so far ahead, if the boks cannot even beat them at altitude in front of 89000 people, who will, this springbok.set up is not striving for improvement. Beating England by 1 point is nothing to brag about, if Heyneke Meyer wants to be the best, then the mindset has too change, injuries are not an excuse anymore, building for the world cup is also a joke, the Boks are not going to win with they way they play now.
25 Nov 2012, 14:22 pmWhy was Morne Steyn even on the bench, useless player, why was Elton Jantjies not on the bench earlier? Our wings never see the ball, crash bash it up with the forwards, loss of possession, very predictable from the boks
25 Nov 2012, 15:45 pm@Liewe Luiperd-181: You have a valid point and the stats don't lie. However, their ability to score tries is purely down to the strength of their pack. Basson probably score the bulk of those tries on a overlap, but the rest would be down to forward drives etc.
That does not say anything about the" Morne Steynesk" backline personnel that either kick or crash. We need more flare coming from our players running into space.
25 Nov 2012, 19:35 pmAnd that strength would be:
SpiesAccording to the kenners of SA rugby and this blog…. The weakest pack in the compo?
25 Nov 2012, 20:12 pmThe bulls pack is good but the real strength at present in sa rugby is the stormers with the likes of fourie, etsebeth, vermeulen, kolisi and elstadt – pity they lost louw otherwise they'd prob win it next year.
25 Nov 2012, 21:28 pmWP are Currie Cup CHAMPIONS !!!! Champions, Champions, Champions !!!!
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If you're a subscriber to this blog, there's a chance you wince whenever you get an email saying there's a new post, or when you click the link to the main page and then scroll down to see how long it is, and scroll, and scroll, and scroll again, and head past a few images that haven't even started to load yet, and then keep scrolling, and by now you feel like Ed Harris at the end of The Abyss, because you keep scrolling and Jesus Christ, the space-age lung goop is drying up or something, where are the glowing aliens with their magical water technology? Well worry not. You won't have to dive too far. There's not going to be much in this review of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, because there's not much in the movie.
Based on Seth Grahame-Smith's novel of the same name, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter creates an alternate history in which Abraham Lincoln becomes a vampire hunter. Now, I want you to ponder that idea. I want you to think beyond your initial reaction, which is probably, "I wonder what the hashtag game is". Imagine now that you have to expand that, and come up with a story with three acts, antagonist/protagonist relationships, an inciting incident, and all the other important storytelling elements, extrapolating from that initial absurd collision of history and fantasy fiction.
I bet you come up with a story involving a tragic past, a quest for vengeance, a mentor with a dark secret, and some smattering of historical elements, adding plenty of winking references to the absurdity of the premise because it's just so silly. You'll start to write a synopsis down, and it'll go okay for a bit, but after a while you'll feel like you're wasting an opportunity to do something with some oomph, and you'll think that there's possibly more to this idea than just some daft jokes. Perhaps there's something deeper to be said, drawing a parallel between the mythical relationship between vampires and their prey, and the real-world relationship between Southern plantation owners and their slaves. Maybe there's more to this story. Out go the jokes, in come the metaphors.
Which is what has happened here, though this can only be said with a million caveats. AL:VH has been reshot and recut so extensively that it's impossible to judge it accurately with any confidence, because any clues to the filmmakers' original intentions have been lost somewhere in the editing room. Alarm bells ring early on with some clumsy time-skipping and conveniently expositional voiceovers; they become klaxons midway through when Lincoln's narration fills in large character arcs with a single line, and we go from Senate-debating Lincoln to president to civil war in the space of approximately 30 seconds.
So perhaps a longer cut, or an earlier cut, exists in which the connection between slavery and vampirism is made clearly, instead of here alluded to at times as some kind of equivalence, with slave traders sharing space with monsters who feast on the blood of the slaves — the merest hint of an idea, and not a particularly interesting one — but usually ignored in favour of generic monstery evil. Nevertheless, even if this metaphor worked more clearly — the repeated line, "as long as one man is a slave, no man is free", is obviously meant to bear the weight of the imagined comparison — it's still a miscalculation that cannot be fixed, at least as far as I can see.
This is not to say genre fiction cannot represent complicated and controversial themes. I've previously argued that genre fiction is often the best way to tackle such things. Artists freed of the obligation to depict real situations accurately — which never works out well and only creates discord between opposing sides of an issue — can tackle complex themes through metaphors that speak more forcefully than mere hectoring. Blade Runner's commentary on slavery, X-Men's metaphorical portrayal of the effects of racism and/or homophobia, The Handmaid's Tale's horrific and timely parable about the subjugation of women, Attack The Block's depiction of protagonists ignored by society until they can only find self-respect through criminality, before finding a real cause by defending their neighbours against a force that, as one character says, "is so black you almost can't see it" (I'm paraphrasing a bit from memory).
The genre fiction-as-gateway-to-truth argument doesn't apply with AL:VH, and in fact detracts from it. The real Lincoln fought against slavery already (I think that's a well-known fact), but instead of this being Abe's own ideological conviction, albeit a more complicated position than is often depicted, now we're presented with some needless alternate history in which he hates vampires more. Lincoln's position, one which was controversial enough that it tore a country apart, was a brave one, and to depict it here as being as much an act of revenge against the vampires who killed Lincoln's mother as an effort to right a disgusting injustice is incredibly problematic.
Even worse, it recasts real world tragedies as the consequences of inconsequential fictional events. The battle of Gettysburg is almost lost because of the presence of Confederate vampires who burst through the lines and massacre Union soldiers. The trade and abduction of slaves into the South is merely an appeasement gesture to keep vampires from invading the North. Lincoln's mother Nancy died of "milk sickness", and his son Willie died of typhoid, but here it's because of vampires; in the latter case the boy's death is an act of vengeance from the vampires who want to strike at Lincoln for opposing their plans to subjugate all of America.
Yes, not only is the actual death of the actual son of an actual president of the actual United States used as a manipulative plot point, his murder is avenged by Mary Lincoln, who shoots the murderous vampire with a silver bullet. A woman who in real life suffered from clinical depression caused by her grief is here cast as a vengeance-stricken action-hero-in-waiting, who gets to re-balance the scales of right and wrong with yet another tedious slow-motion mini-action scene. These people may be dead and may have no descendants, but even so, this was real tragedy, turned into a predictable dramatic beat in an undistinguished action movie. "You've got to be fucking kidding," doesn't even cover it. [1]
AL:VH is wrong on so many levels that by the middle of the movie I was openly saying, "What the fuck?" out loud at the screen in the hope that the manager would notice my anguish and set fire to the projector. [2] It's possible that the movie would be easier to swallow if it played the premise for laughs, even though the central conceit would struggle to fill out a College Humor skit. That might mitigate the gratuitous co-opting of real-world tragedy, replacing the tasteless dabbling in humourless social commentary with plays on the action-horror genre, or by appropriating Grindhouse exploitation tropes in much the same way Tarantino managed with Inglourious Basterds — a cheeky riff on real-world events that so obviously existed within an alternate universe beholden to cinematic rules that Tarantino could shockingly assassinate Hitler at the end and miraculously pull the moment off.
But Timur Bekmambetov and Seth Grahame-Smith (and the one known re-writer, Simon Kinberg, credited on the poster but not in the film) don't seem interested in trying to derive any fun out of that thin jokey idea, and instead doubles-down on the seriousness. Again, theoretically this approach could work, but only if dealing with a fictional premise. Grahame-Smith kickstarted this sub-genre of fiction with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and that may be easier to swallow. But it doesn't matter that this doesn't present itself as historically accurate (only an idiot would think it was, of course); using tragic historical events as raw material for a frivolous action movie made by people deluded enough to think they're making a statement is a colossal misjudgement.
The end result is ponderous, derivative, dull, and nauseating. It's not even interesting as a Timur Bekmambetov movie. He's never made anything good, but he has a visual imagination that has its own pleasures. He specialises in hollow treats, but what treats they can be. Anyone hoping for something as delightfully silly as the Loom of Fate or bullet-bending a la miserable nerd wank-fantasy Wanted will be very disappointed. Those signature moments are few and far-between here, likely a consequence of the (relatively) low budget. Instead of his usual bravura set-pieces, there's so much ramping that it should immediately be retitled Abraham Lincoln: Rampire Hunter.
And yet this could become the most beautiful unnecessary movie of the year. Whoever decided to hire Caleb Deschanel as the cinematographer deserves a medal, or censure; I'm not sure which yet. The last thing he worked on was Jim Sheridan's appalling Dream House; two movies before that the ethically muddled My Sister's Keeper. Both terrible, both luminously shot. It's heartbreaking seeing him squander his talent on this chaff, and I hope that William Friedkin's Killer Joe is a break from this trend. Deschanel's work on AL:VH is flashier than his stunning, ASC Award-winning work on Roland Emmerich's The Patriot [3], but there is pleasure to be derived from these autumnal colours, the American past repainted with a palette of auburn and rust, piercing blue moonlight serving as contrast.
It doesn't matter, though, and neither does the commendably focused work from star Benjamin Walker [4], co-stars Mackie and Simpson, and underused acting titan Alan Tudyk. Even if you're not troubled by the misappropriation of real events, there's nothing else going on here. It's not educational [5], it's repetitive, and the use of vampire mythology is confounding. The vampires have magical rules about not killing each other that exist only to power a silly mid-movie twist (involving that hoary old trope, the vampire hunter's trainer), they can be hurt by silver, and can walk around in daylight, meaning there's no reason they can't just take over the world. They're barely even vampires, merely inhuman cannon fodder to be dispatched by our axe-spinning hero.
This is the kind of soul-deadening guff that defies mockery, though one outburst by Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a bad-movie-hall-of-famer. Otherwise it's just an Underworld prequel with a silly punchline gimmick, less interesting than even the second Blade sequel, as competent as Scott Charles Stewart's Priest but with a dodgy historical aspect, as poorly edited as an Uwe Boll Bloodrayne movie; just another crappy vampire movie that has no reason to exist, and probably no audience to desire it. The reason this one stings the eyes more than the others is that it thinks it has the right to play with tragic events that haven't quite scarred America, because in order for the wounds of slavery and civil war to be scars they'd have to heal first.
Return 1. One example among many: the character of Joshua Speed, one of Lincoln's circle of friends, is obviously meant to have mixed feelings about Lincoln's urge to stop slavery; there are hints that this version of Speed (played by future Old Dependable Jimmi Simpson) has similar doubts to the real Speed, but this sub-plot has been utterly removed so that at one moment he's seemingly hostile to Lincoln's African-American friend William Johnson (played by current Old Dependable Anthony Mackie), and the next they're besties. Ten seconds later, he's gone from being oblivious to vampires to being a member of Lincoln's mysteriously efficient vamp-killing gang, with one hasty line of exposition to paper over the poorly edited excision.
Return 2. For those clutching their pearls, don't worry; the rushed release of this movie, which betrays the studio's shame at making it in the first place, meant there was nobody sitting anywhere nearby. Or maybe the room filled up after I got in and they were struck dumb by the hypnotic monotony of this film's familiar rhythms.
Return 3. A movie that also distorts history but only just enough to seem like truth, which is even more insidious and despicable than this gallumphing failure's gauche error.
Return 4. I look forward to seeing Benjamin Walker play Young Bryan Mills in Taken Begins, because dang, he's the spitting image of Liam Neeson in this, making me even sadder that the aging pretend-pugilist isn't playing the actual non-vampire-hunting Abraham Lincoln in Spielberg's forthcoming biopic.
Return 5. Actually, there is evidence that some effort has been put into depicting some elements of Lincoln's life in a new context. In real life Lincoln put off marrying Mary, which some have thought to be proof that the president was gay, but here Lincoln's reticence is borne of his fear of involving the woman he loves in his vampire hunting. As for William Johnson, the free African-American who acted as Lincoln's personal valet, he just fills the role of Falcon to Abe's Captain America, on duty for exposition-delivering needs, providing proof of Abe's liberal credentials, and getting in a little bit of vampire hammering at the end. His actual history isn't mentioned, and even his past is fictionalised; here he features in Abe's past in order to dramatise the future president's first encounter with slavery and vampires. The stories of slaves and even free men once more sidelined.


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The fifth Smoke House Deli in India has been launched at Hauz Khas village.
In continuation of the Smoke House Deli's sketchbook language, the walls are covered in hand-drawn illustrations, inspired by the history of Hauz Khas Village and its surroundings. Designer and typographer Kriti Monga is the one behind the beautiful handiwork you see on the walls.
The entire restaurant space is wrapped with teak wooden panelling. It has Jaisalmer stone flooring to give the guests a heritage feel to the space.
Hours: 10:30 am to 1:00 am
Location: 12, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi-16
In picture: Amaan Ali Khan, musician
The launch was attended by Delhi's most favorite faces. See who all attended the launch in the next few slides.
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Anand Bhushan, fashion designer
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Arjun Saluja, fashion designer
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Harmeet Bajaj, co-owner with Bina Ramani, designer-socialite
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Azaan Khan, singer
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Bina Ramani, designer-socialite
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Dilip Cherian, image consultant
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Gauri Karan, fashion designer
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Harmeet Bajaj, co-owner with Dino Morea, actor
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Kanika Saluja Choudhary, fashion designer
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Nandini Bhalla, Editor, Cosmopolitian
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Naresh Kukerja, fashion designer
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Nikhil Mehra, Fashion Designer with Vidushi Mehra, actress and Sujata, Brand Consultant
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Pallavi Mohan, fashion designer with Siddharth Mohan, industrialist
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Reema Mehra with Najum Sahi Thorpe
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Riyaaz Amlani, owner with Kiran Amlani
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Riyaaz & Kiran Amlani with Sid & Batasha Mathur
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Riyaaz Amlani with Shiv Karan Singh, co-owner
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Sanjay Kapoor and Sujata Assomull Sippy
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Shantanu and Reema Mehra
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Shiv Karan and Reema Singh with Aditi Gowitrikar, actress
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Shivan Bhatia, fashion designer
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Shriya Saran, actress
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Sujata Assomull Sippy and Shilpa Dhingra
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Sunil Sethi, President, FDCI
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Thenny Mejia, socialite with Rod Anker, hairstylist and Gauri Vohra
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The Asia Seven menu will now see an addition of a wide array of dishes with an emphasis on authentic Chinese dishes.
Additionally, Asia Seven has appointed the acclaimed chef - Chow Man as the new head chef. Chef Chow Man is an internationally respected chef who has spent 30 years in his culinary journey specializing in Hunan, Sichuan & Cantonese cuisines.
Thrilled with the outcome of the new menu, Chef Chow Man said "We have tried to bring new and more authentic flavors to the Asia Seven menu. I have personally handpicked key ingredients from Ghuangzou, Sichuan & Hunan region of China. Our seafood flavors are from Hong Kong origin."
Some of the items on the new menu are - Buddha Style Vegetables, Sweet and Sour Pork, Imitated Shark Fin, Poached Chicken Soup With Sesame Oil, Five Spice Roasted Chicken, Singapore Style Chili Crab, Ebi Tempura, among others.
In picture: Chicken with dry chili szechwan pepper and soy, braised pork with chu hou sauce and fish three flavors.
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A group of 13 New Zealand food & wine producers are in India, sponsored by Australia and New Zealand Banking Corporation Limited.
The business mission was launched this week with a cooking demonstration featuring New Zealand products and was hosted by Indian celebrity chef, Kunal Kapur, in New Delhi.
"We are excited to bring a variety of New Zealand food and beverage companies to India in partnership with ANZ. Indians are already enjoying high quality, safe and delicious products from our country and we are looking forward to sharing more in the future," says Richard White, New Zealand's Trade Commissioner to New Delhi.
The ANZ sponsored delegation led by Sunil Kaushal, Head of India Relations, ANZ New Zealand will be in India from 19 April to 27 April and will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.
In photo: The ANZ team with Chef Kunal Kapur, Jan Henderson, New Zealand High Commissioner to India and Richard White, New Zealand's Trade Commissioner to New Delhi at the New Zealand High Commission during a dinner hosted for the visiting New Zealand F&B companies.
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Get ready for an oriental journey of food at the very new Fat Ninja, a Pan-Asian restuarant in New Delhi. The Restaurant brings a treat of culinary delights and serves Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, Malaysian, Burmese & Vietnamese Cuisines.
Amongst the offerings on the menu are Fresh Spring Rolls, Tofu Katsu, Crispy Spinach and Bird's Prawns (in picture) to start the proceedings. A hearty soup such as Tom Kha, Khao Suey or Chicken Dumpling Clear Soup can do wonders for the appetite. The main course includes Shredded Chicken Cantonese, Crispy pork, Slice Chicken with Water Chestnut, Green and Red curry to name a few.
Address - 26, Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi, India
Contact - 097 11 993266
Meal for two : Rs.1200
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Look what we spotted at the dinner table of AXN's Hannibal premiere at New Delhi! A blood red mousse with spikes – aligning effortlessly with the theme of the premiere – horror.
The original series 'Hannibal' airs on AXN every Friday at 10 PM, close to the US premiere and stars Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale, A Royal Affair), Hugh Dancy (King Arthur, Black Hawk Down) and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix, CSI)
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Indulge in your favorites, as well as sample some inspiring cocktail options. The Smoke House Cocktail Club offers 1 + 1 on all smoked classics, molecular creations as well as the seasons' juicy best available on this new menu.
The launch event brought together achievers from all walks of life over an evening of savoring award winning cocktails like Watermelon Caipiroska, Smoked Melon Martini, Comfortably Plum, Watermelon Martini, Smoked Pineapple Mojito etc.
(In picture: Top to bottom)Gaurav Gupta & Divya Sen; Harmeet Bajaj & Suneet Varma; Priyanka Modi; Sujata Assomull Sippy & Sumaya Dalmia; Murli Kartik, Shiv Karan Singh & Shantanu Mehra; Rhea Singh; Merrymin Boro, Rod Anker & Atsu Sekhose; Masaba Gupta; Harmeet Bajaj & Tina Talwar; Karishma M Bedi.
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After Mumbai and Bengaluru, Foodhall opens at DLF Promenade mall, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.
Spread over 5000 square feet, this store provides daily essentials, gifting solutions, kitchen accessories, health conscious food and desserts, among other things.
Foodhall houses an open kitchen which serves fresh cooked food, it also has live cooking sessions at the 'demo station' everyday, a spice bar, tea bar and an olive oil bar.
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A few guests who attended the launch.
(In picture: Top to bottom) Dinaz Madhukar and Manav Gangwani; Saba Ali Khan, Muzaffar and Meera Ali; Ramola Bhachan; Hosts Savitri Singh of DLF and Avni Biyani of Future Group; Surita Tandon and Suneet Verma.
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Celeste chocolates launched its fourth signature chocolate boutique with Chef Vikas Khanna was the guest of honor.
Location: Sardar Patel Marg, New Delhi.
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Vikas Khanna who also unvelied his book cover at the event, said "We hear people say 'cook from your heart', but Khanna Sutra is all about letting your heart cook for you. And that is exactly what Celeste offers to people from all walks of life who want to experience bliss in chocolates. Love and chocolates has always been a beautiful concoction."
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Pind Balluchi opens new restaurant: Pind Balluchi -Grills & Platters in New Delhi.
Where: Hotel Te Delhi, A3, Pamposh Enclave, New Delhi
Timings: 11 am to 12 midnight
Highlights: Free Beer/Mocktail with every lunch buffet all seven days
Lunch buffet: Rs 350 onwards
Dinner buffet: Rs 600 onwards
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Located at The Village Restaurant Complex next to Siri Fort Auditorium (New Delhi), this 150 seater fine dining restaurant came into existence in 1983 and initially specialized in authentic Chinese food. But with changing times and changing palates, it explored into the vast South East Asian cuisines.
Glance at the full menu
The delicious food from their kitchen
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The restaurant recently underwent a radical change with the joining of Chef Amit Gurung (Head Chef-Oriental, Kwality Group).
This three times winner of the renowned Hotel & Food Service Award for its fine oriental cuisine will take you to an extraordinary journey of flavors of an Oriental kitchen. It has managed to keep up its legacy for the past three decades and successfully holds on to its loyal patrons while catering to the tastes of the new age food lovers.
Glance at the full menu
The delicious food from their kitchen
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Raveena Tandon at Tikka Town with Managing Director Mohnish Thadani at the launch of Tikka Town, Pune.
Old World Hospitality franchised its QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) brand Tikka Town recently to Mohinish Thadani, the well-known entrepreneur and food enthusiast of Pune, and opened its outlet in Inorbit Mall.
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Raveena Tandon with Executive Chef Rajiv Malhotra and Managing director Mohnish Thadani.
Mohinish Thadani, Managing Director, Tikka Town, Pune says, "I wanted to bring the very best in hospitality to Pune and Old World Hospitality was the obvious choice. I am very excited with the initial response and am hopeful for its success. We shall be opening more units shortly"
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Raveena Tandon serves chaat to the diners at Tikka Town.
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An acknowledged foodie, Raveena tasted an assortment of kebabs, kathi rolls, paranthas and chaat. She said, "These are among the best kebabs I've had in a long time – juicy and tender. The chaat is exceptional too! I will probably land up eating here whenever I am in Pune. I wish Tikka Town huge success and Puneris are lucky to be able to enjoy such good food at very affordable prices."
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Raveena Tandon with the Tikka Town team.
Mohinish Thadani, Managing Director, Tikka Town, Pune says "Our staff, including the chefs and servers have been trained to ensure quality food and friendly service. We look forward to welcoming Puneris".
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The 10th anniversary this month of the invasion of Iraq will remind most people of a divisive and dubious war that toppled Saddam Hussein but claimed the lives of nearly 4,500 Americans.
What it conjures up for me is the media's greatest failure in modern times.
Major news organizations aided and abetted the Bush administration's march to war on what turned out to be faulty premises. All too often, skepticism was checked at the door, and the shaky claims of top officials and unnamed sources were trumpeted as fact.
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I was working at The Washington Post at the time, and I took it upon myself to examine the paper's performance in the run-up to war. It was not a pretty picture.
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The star attraction will be Rhys Thomas, former Smithsonian Artist-in-Residence. Rhys will demonstrate the physics of fun at his fabulous Science Circus, where he will introduce Newton's laws using a blend of science, daredevil stunts and comedy. Rhys will juggle a bowling ball with a ping pong ball, spin nine glass bowls, balance a rose on his nose and wield objects from feathers to swords to help visitors appreciate the laws of physics.
On Saturday, the Walter Johnson High School Rubik's Cube Club will demonstrate how to beat the 3D puzzle that has stumped solvers for decades.
Former yo-yo world champion, Chuck Pribulick, will be on hand to teach guests the ups and downs of yo-yo mastery on Sunday, with help from the Eldersburg Library Yo-Yo Club.
Guests can compete in carnival games as they learn the tricks behind such circus staples as plate spinning and wire walking.
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Time | 12:00 pm–4:00 pm |
Who to bring | Everyone |
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They're building what they call "Ben's Bells." The project is named for a 2-year-old who lived in Tuscon, AZ. His family said it felt like they were living a nightmare after he died. They needed something to take their minds off the pain, so they started making clay wind chimes.
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Foreign tourists have voted Neuschwanstein Castle the best place to visit in Germany. Number two on the list is Europa-Park, followed at number three by Cologne Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The German National Tourist Board (GNTB) carried out the poll - the second of its kind - to find out which of Germany's many sights and places of interest were the most popular among foreign tourists. Between 1 July 2012 and the end of March 2013, visitors were able to vote for their 'top sights' at www.germany.travel/top100. This produced a list of 700 tourist highlights, which were then ranked according to popularity. The survey, which was available in 26 languages, registered more than 46,000 clicks.
Destination Germany is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe and is, according to IPK International 2013, the number one cultural travel destination for Europeans. It was ranked fifth out of 50 nations worldwide as a cultural destination in the Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index. Prominent among Germany's many cultural treasures are the 37 natural and cultural heritage sites that have been recognised by UNESCO. In 2014 the German National Tourist Board (GNTB) will be putting Germany's UNESCO World Heritage sites at the centre of its global marketing activities under the banner 'UNESCO World Heritage – sustainable cultural and natural tourism'.
A strong year for international travel by Europeans: according to the World Travel Monitor (WTM) and IPK International, in 2012, Europeans made more than 420 million trips to other countries. Nearly 85 per cent (355 million) of those were within Europe. This means that Europe maintains its prominent position as the largest source and destination market in international tourism.
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Still thinks about those who perished In October of 1942, Wakefield's Alfred Willett was an 18 year-old Maine farm boy. Twenty months later, he was storming Omaha Beach with the United States Army in the Invasion of Normandy. When the draft notice arrived, young Willett was working at Commonwealth Shoe & Leather Company in Gardiner, […]
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