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There aren't many DJs you would choose to Get Lost with… However Craig Richards is certainly one. Following on from timeless Get Lost episodes from Acid Pauli and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Craig Richards is renowned for his role as resident and musical director at London's fabric over the last 15 years. This is a rare insight into the aficionado and musical maverick's all time favourite records from his 40 year old collection. The result is an extraordinary adventure named 'Get Lost VII' and a contender for mix of the year.
This is Craig's eighth DJ Mix album, but this is his most personal to date, spanning the sonic landscape from the late 1980's to the present day. The two discs pack as much as you would expect and more, with forwardthinking choices that are instantly gratifying but largely unrecognisable. Disc one is one for the serious music lovers and puts Mr Richard's wealth of experience and vast influences into the spotlight, whilst disc two takes a darker ride through the late night abyss. The collection heeds hard to find rare gems such as Backroom Productions, Black Rascals, 2House and Kenny Larkin, as well as modern vinyl only treats by Mike Ozone, Ruf Dug, STL and Velvet Season & The Hearts of Gold. It also features tracks from Craig's own groundbreaking label: The Nothing Special, with tracks from Trevino, Calibre, dBridge, Keith Tenniswood, Billy Nasty and Craig himself.
Label: Crosstown Rebels
Cat no: CRMCD027
Web: http://www.crosstownrebels.com
Distribution: !K7 / Above Board
Released: Monday September 22nd, 2014
01 JTC – Through The Looking Glass
02 Black Rascals – Blaze Theme Track
03 Trans Mania Boing,Boom, Jack (Alexander Robotnick Remix)
04 Untitled – Untitled (Thorny Hill Edit)
05 Raiders Of The Lost ARP On And On (Patrice Scott Sistrum Remix)
06 Zsou Vs Velvet Season & The Hearts Of Gold – Fantasy Princess
07 Calibre – Getter Go
08 2 House Go Techno (Tony Humphries Dub Mix)
09 Trevino – Revolve
10 Steve Bug – Big Cheese From Wisconsin
11 The Model Dungeon Man
12 Lerosa – Blinkerskate (Her Mix)
13 Backroom Productions Definition Of A Track
14 dBRm – Darnley
15 Mark A Brook – Sound Barrier
16 Kenny Larkin Groove
17 Ruf Dug – 1 4 Ron
18 Michael Ozone – Perfect Systems (Steve Summers Remix)
19 This Side Up Love Starts With An L
01 Spesimen Calibus
02 Pametex Reflectie
03 ERP Lodestone (Ideograma Bsas Mix)
04 Klorex 55 Mystisk
05 Amfibian PaRelax (Jark & Prongo Remix)
06 Craig Richards – Sleeping Rough
07 DMX Krew – Undesirable Element
08 Neil Landstrumm – Keep Up
09 Arpanet – Wireframe Images
10 STL – Something Is Raw
11 Unknown – Untitled (Jonny Rock Edit)
12 The Parallax Corporation Anti Social Tendencies
13 Redshape – Finizh
14 Joey Anderson Musical Tentacles
15 Samuel L. Session – Givin You Part 3
16 Brooks Mosher – Encroachment
17 Radio Nasty – Radio 1
18 Bangkok Impact – Junge Dame Mit Freundliche Telefonstimme


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Carter Roy, aka Michael Stearns, founder of the Upstart Crow Literary agency, is taking in the view from the other side of the desk with his children's book debut, The Blood Guard (Amazon/Two Lions, Mar.) The middle-grade fantasy adventure introduces 13-year-old Ronan Trueblood, who learns that his family is connected to a secret organization appointed to protect a tiny segment of society called the Pure: 36 individuals whose inherent goodness sustains life on Earth. Ronan joins forces with an immortal pickpocket from 19th-century England, Jack, and a quick-witted redhead from his previous school, Greta, to battle the Bend Sinister, a nefarious faction determined to destroy the Pure and hasten the end of the world. PW spoke to Roy about the appeal of writing for children, the origins of the ideas behind The Blood Guard, and how his years spent in the publishing industry have informed his creative work.
So we have to ask: why the pseudonym?
In the past, I've published stories and part of a memoir, which are "adult" in terms of language and content. Thanks to the Internet, kids can easily find these and other things I might publish online. Better [my work for children and adults] should be separate worlds. Or that's how it strikes me, anyway.
Is there any significance to the name Carter Roy?
My middle name is Roy and I loved the John Carter stories when I was growing up. As there is a bit of swordplay, fantasy, and derring-do in The Blood Guard, I thought it was a nice tip of the hat.
You've served many different roles in the publishing field over the years. Can you talk a little about your background and your relationship with children's books?
After I left film school, I spent a period of relative unemployment painting houses and picking up odd jobs, and I saw and applied for a temp job at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. I'd never planned on working in children's books, but I came to understand that they matter to the world much more than adult books do. As a kid you read a book and it can change your life; as an adult, not so much. And the books kids read and love they remember their whole lives.
Which books have influenced the books you wanted to publish, represent, and now write?
I read a lot of Beverly Cleary – the Henry Huggins books and The Mouse and the Motorcycle – as a kid, but also great scads of fantasy and science fiction stories, such as [Edgar Rice] Burroughs's John Carter novels. Books brought the thrill of adventure to my life; they were my escape hatch. With The Blood Guard, I wanted to write the sort of incredibly action-packed, humorous book that I longed to read when I was a 10-year-old. But I also wanted the events of the story to be something that they could imagine happening to them. Ronan's not the son of a god or a wizard; he's just an ordinary boy.
How do you separate your roles as writer and agent? Do you find that you have been influenced in any particular ways by the books you read "for work"?
My voice and the way I write were probably set in stone 20 years ago. But working in the industry has made me more aware of the market while in the process of writing. It doesn't guide my decisions as a writer, but it has helped to stop some writerly indulgences that typify a lot of writing for adults. I make better judgment calls about what content is worthwhile.
Greta is a strong female character and so is Ronan's mother. Do you think girls will be as drawn to the book as boys?
I certainly hope so! In children's books, the older the readership, the more girls tend to dominate. At this age [middle-grade], it's a crapshoot. But I consider Greta to be as important a character as Ronan. She's really a tough, smart, no-nonsense girl.
And though Ronan's mother isn't present throughout the entire book, her influence is there. Can you talk about her character? Was she based on anyone in particular?
She's not necessarily my mom, but some idealized version of my best friend's mom when I was a kid: Mrs. Morrison. You didn't mess with her. As I was writing her character, I thought about how it's more interesting if the responsibilities of adulthood are shared by moms and dads, whether that means doing the dishes or wielding swords.
Can you discuss the origins of the idea for the 36 Pure in the book?
The idea for the 36 Pure originated in a mystical idea from Judaism called Tzadikim Nistarim, which means The Hidden Righteous Ones. Drawing from this idea, I started thinking, what if there really were 36 people so saintly that they are the reason the world exists? Who would protect them? What if they stubbed a toe? Initially, there was a tad more religious material in the book, but this is entirely not a religious story, so it was stripped out of the novel between drafts.
Any additional information to give readers about the second book in the series?
Our heroes start the book in a bit of a bind; they're essentially trying to make up for the mistakes of book one. They encounter characters who should be long-dead but mysteriously are not; four dogs almost named after the Four Horsemen – War, Pestilence, Famine, and Brenda – and discover disturbing connections between the good guys in the series, The Blood Guard, and the bad guys. There are lots of surprises and action set pieces and funny business. I hope it's as fun to read as it has been to write. There have been days when the writing hits a certain rhythm that left me cackling. Those are moments when all the pieces just drop into place and everything feels right in the world.
The Blood Guard by Carter Roy. Amazon/Two Lions, $17.99 Mar. ISBN 978-1-4778-4725-1

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The educational center is a Catholic organization that teaches and empowers "underserved women of all races and faiths to reach the fullness of their potential," according to their mission statement.
What started as a small GED program with a first class of 18 students has grown considerably over the past decade, and this year, the center handed out 55 ESL and ten GED certificates.
Back in 2003, Sisters Catherine Feeney, Jean McLoughlin and Janice Algie opened an educational center in South Ozone Park. They were told that the neighborhood needed a GED program.
But, according to Executive Director Sister Catherine Feeney, the need went much deeper than simply GED classes. More remedial work was needed, and they soon began to offer literacy classes with a small computer component.
"We began with three of us and we did everything," Sister Cathy said. "We had one volunteer teacher and we taught everything and did all of the administrative work."
For five years they stated in South Ozone Park, but they realized they needed to move. Their numbers were not growing considerably, and they needed to be closer to public transportation.
That was when they opened the School Sisters of Notre Dame Educational Center in Woodhaven.
After the move, the Sisters widely expanded their ESL program, numbers grew and now the center has helped, in some shape or form, over 700 women in ten years.
"The center has grown and changed because we evolved," Sister Jean said. "We moved slowly, we made shifts and changed as the needs arose. We came with the idea of meeting the needs of these women, so the ESL program has expanded because there's such a need for people to know English."
The staff has grown as well, growing from the three founders to now having two full-time and three part-time teachers, as well as some staff for administrative work.
Students come for ESL classes three days a week for two and a half hours, while GED students come for four and a half hours every day. ESL students usually spend two or three years at the center, while GED students will stay in school anywhere from six months to a year.
The School Sisters of Notre Dame was founded in Bavaria in 1833 by a woman named Theresa Gerhardinger, whose mission was always to educate and nurture women.
Sisters Cathy and Jean said that mission is what continues to drive their efforts.
"We felt in our hearts it was a call from God to serve women today," Sister Cathy said. Sister Jean agreed, saying she had a "deep sense of call from God."
Sister Jean, who heads much of the spiritual dimensions of the center, including a daily generic prayer, said the center has strengthened her faith.
"I've grown deeper in spirit because I've been a part of this program. The women are awesome to be around," she said.
For Sister Jean, the relationships that the women build are just as important as the education they receive.
"Many of the women are successful in the sense of getting better jobs or going to college, but I think deeper than that is this: they, in their interacting with each other, really help and support their neighbors. They grow close to each other, they help each other out, they share recipes, they babysit for each other. In a sense, we back off and they form a community of friends. And that I think is the deepest gift to them," she said.
In order to celebrate their anniversary, the Sisters hosted their annual Mardi Gras party with over 200 guests, and the students at the center created an international cookbook.
"It's the most fun I've ever had in a ministry," Sister Cathy said. "I wake up every morning excited."


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PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE -- The Man Who Would be Premier is behind the wheel, talking about civility and changing his ways, in particular reforming his once-infamous reputation as a rookie MLA in Gary Filmon's provincial government in the early 1990s, long before the Manitoba Conservative Party took a nose-dive into obscurity.
"When I started I was a mean son-of-a-bitch," Brian Pallister, now 58, says bluntly. "Excessively partisan. A heckler. A lot of anger. I think I went too far, and I regret that."
The anger came from a lot of places. His father, Bill, who he adored, had died of cancer in 1993, a blow that left his son in an emotional abyss. The insurance business that Pallister had started out of his car a decade previous was struggling in a nose-diving economy. And so a towering man of 6-foot-8, who attained national-level success as an often intimidating agitator in several sports -- the fastball diamond, the curling rink, the basketball court -- wasn't afraid to get his elbows up in the political arena, either. Or pitch high and tight.
But since assuming the job as Manitoba's PC leader last July, one of Pallister's first edicts to fellow Tories was to tone down trash talking in the hallowed confines of the Legislative Building. As in, "Pretend your family and children are sitting in the gallery."
On this day, however, Pallister is headed for Marquette, just northeast of Portage la Prairie, where a frustrated mob of angry farmers, cottagers and cattle producers are simmering at the Meadow Lea Community Hall, waiting to vent their collective displeasure with the NDP government's handling of relief from the devastating flood of Lake Manitoba in 2011.
Pallister is already in full game-face. He's hinting that under his leadership the provincial Tories will be more aggressive in pressing their agenda.
How aggressive? Replied the man behind the wheel: "You'll get a sense of that today. I've never been afraid of speaking truth to power. I'm not starting now."
It doesn't take long. Shortly after NDP Finance Minister Stan Struthers does his best with a short-straw gig, pleading for patience in a room full of stern faces that long ago run out of the stuff, Pallister ambles up to the podium.
Within short order, the PC leader, with a handful of caucus members in tow, describes Struthers' presentation as "weasel words and excuse making."
As for the NDP's intimations that the federal Tories are cutting back on provincial transfer payments: "Bullshit!" Pallister tells the crowd.
Apparently, the civility Pallister was preaching an hour before is a work-in-progress. But it's music to the ears of some of the frustrated flood victims. They're chuckling at Pallister's small town anecdotes, like when his father would tell him, "The more I work with people, the more I like my cows."
Heads in the crowd bob in unison. "Where do I sign?" one calls out.
When Pallister leaves the hall a few minutes later, he's pumped. The adrenaline is still flowing. He leans his lanky frame on a car hood and explains his agitation.
"Condescending crap like that angers me," he said.
Maybe it's the adrenaline talking. But Pallister has a burning desire to be in charge; the company boss, the guy holding the ball, the skip throwing the final stone. And it shows.
You see, it's not just the farmers inside that hall who are frustrated. Pallister has assumed leadership of a political party that has been out of power since the 21st century began, with 19 sitting MLAs to the NDP's 37-seat majority.
He's auditioning to run the province, but what do Manitobans really know about the guy? After all, Pallister's political resume might be thick -- provincial MLA from 1992-1997, failed bid for the federal leadership of the disintegrating PC party in 1998 and Portage-Lisgar Member of Parliament from 2000-2008 -- but his personal history has heretofore been relatively scant.
Know this much: Pallister is not used to throwing lead stones, not familiar with being irrelevant to the outcome.
"I feel like a steer," says the Leader of the Opposition, before leaving Marquette. "But it's not because I don't have the balls. It's because I can't feel the power."
-- -- --
Spend any amount of time with Brian Pallister and behold a (literally) giant, walking and (most likely) talking contradiction.
He can be described as both uber-competitive and compassionate. The ultimate team player or a self-serving, what's-in-it-for-me political animal. His friends vouch for the former, his critics the latter.
Pallister himself admits to being overbearing at times.
Ask Pallister what his friends might say of him when they're drunk, he at first muses, "Well, it's not hard to imagine my friends being drunk." Then more serious: "They'd probably say they could only stand me in bits, I would think. I'm too intense. A little too focused. People like me tire even me out, right?"
More contradictions. Pallister is a certified jock whose current list of night table reading includes such mind-numbing titles as, Negotiating the Numbered Treaties, The Leadership Challenge and This is Not a Peace Pipe.
He's a piano player and wedding singer -- about 35 gigs and counting -- who, during his own marriage ceremony to bride Esther, sang Crazy Love by Van Morrison. And even his harshest critics acknowledge whatever faults Pallister might possess, he's most often the smartest guy in the room.
"There's two people in my life that are the most intelligent people I know. One's a crook. And then there's Pally," offered long-time friend Randy Dutiaume, who in the 1980s travelled with Pallister to New Zealand to play competitive fastball. "He's a thinker. He sits around and thinks about stuff. He combines well-read book smarts with street smarts. That's a quality where you have to be out on the streets and down-and-dirty to know."
Dutiaume is a former provincial men's curling champion who has represented Manitoba at three Briers (twice as an alternative on Jeff Stoughton's rink), and one of Pallister's myriad of sporting accomplices, who universally characterize their former teammate as competitive to the point of combative.
"If you were on his team, great," offered one-time curling teammate Mike Sullivan. "If you weren't, look out."
Although constantly espousing the necessity for teamwork -- in life, in politics, in sport -- Pallister is equally clear about just who is leading the team.
"He likes to skip, let's put it that way," replied younger brother, Jim, when asked about any childhood disagreements with his older sibling. "And when it comes to baseball, it's 'Give me the ball.'"
"I'm demanding," Pallister conceded. "I expect nothing more from people than I would give myself, though. The coaches I liked the most were the most demanding. If you slacked off in a drill your coach told you. A bad coach wouldn't."
Then there's the mansion, of course, a $2-million, 9,000-square-foot spread on Wellington Crescent, complete with basketball court and seven-car heated garage, which Pallister purchased last October. Pallister bristles at the notion his current lush digs make him tone-deaf to poverty, citing a rural upbringing where cows were milked before school and the cream was used to buy groceries on Saturday.
Pallister paid for that River Heights real estate with the proceeds of his insurance business, which he started in the early 1980s, and now serves some 300 clients.
"I understood poverty enough that it's a place you don't want to be," he insists. "I understood when I was nine years old: No work, no eat."
Yet another contradiction: Pallister is a seasoned, well-spoken politician with almost two decades experience in both provincial and federal politics. He's charming and folksie, and a consummate story-teller. Yet if comfortable in your presence, the former cabinet minister in the Filmon government can curse like a sailor. Or a trash-talking basketball player. (At one point, a reporter asked Pallister's communications director Mike Brown, half-joking, if his boss would use such salty language in front of an elderly woman on the campaign trail. Brown thought for a moment and replied, "It depends if she swore first.")
In fact, watching Pallister behind the scenes, at his most excitable moments, is to imagine a sequel of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ... directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Yet in the same conversation, Pallister's eyes will well up just at the memory of his father, who survived polio to raise three children with his wife, Anne, in a modest farm house southwest of Portage that didn't get indoor plumbing until 1967.
"People don't see that side of Brian," offered Larry Dewis, a one-time fastball teammate who now works at Pallister's insurance business in Portage. "Tears can come to his eyes at the drop of a hat. People see him as a bad-ass, but under that exterior is a very sensitive guy."
The most apparent soft spot is Pallister's father. Bill Pallister was one of six children born to Harry and Jessie Pallister, who started out farming 300 acres of dirt near the hamlet of Edwin after their marriage. The homestead was originally settled by Pallister's great grandparents John and Mary-Jane, who lived in a house where the floor was half wood, half dirt.
Brian Pallister was raised tugging on his grandfather's overalls around the farm. Father Bill worked the fields, despite having one leg just over half the size of the other, the result of a bout with polio as a boy. Recalled Brian: "My dad never wore shorts. We never went to the beach. I never knew why."
Until one day, when Pallister was in his teens, and he got the first glimpse of his father wearing shorts in a sauna. Nothing was said.
But affection and sharing weren't the fabric of the Pallister home. Love and respect, sure, but the first time Pallister went to embrace his father, after returning from a year at university, Bill Pallister squirmed.
"We don't hug," his father said.
Pallister's mother, Anne (Poyser), was one of five siblings whose mother died of pneumonia when she was 12. At a teenager, she worked her own way through high school, literally, as a nanny tending to homes within blocks of the Legislative Building.
Anne would become a public school teacher and so would daughter, Peggy, Pallister's younger sister.
When it came to his boys, however, Bill Pallister always said he wanted a farmer and a pitcher. Younger son, Jim, now owns one of the largest white bean operations in Western Canada, which includes those original 300 family homestead. Brian became a fastball pitcher who, during his peak, once shutout Canada's national team 1-0, and became a starter for the Winnipeg Colonels, late of the now defunct Western Major Fastball League.
As a boy, in fact, Pallister would throw fastballs at the side of the brick wall of the family farm house. Hundreds of pitches a day. Thousands a year. In what would become a life-long trait, Pallister would stubbornly and relentlessly attempt to prove himself to those who thought otherwise.
Even though Pallister would eventually become one of the premier fastball pitchers in the country, competing at several national championships, he was never invited to try out for Canada's national team -- admittedly because his self-taught farm house technique was unorthodox and clunky.
Besides, Pallister would always push the envelope -- whether it was arguing with the coaches for more of the ball or feuding with catchers for more control from the mound.
In fact, for a man whose entire sporting background has revolved around teamwork, Pallister has a rebellious, independent streak that defies convention.
For example, after graduating from Brandon University with a teaching degree in 1976, Pallister's first job interview was with a principal at the high school in Gladstone. At the time, Pallister had shaggy hair and a beard, a popular style of the day.
The principal asked Pallister, pointedly: "If you get the job, are you going to shave off your beard?"
The young applicant was perplexed: "No. Why would you even ask me that question?"
Pallister got the job anyway. (True story: The future leader of the provincial PC party served as the teacher's union representative in Gladstone.)
However, in 1979, Pallister returned to Brandon University to get his Bachelor of Education degree. But the little boy who had grown to live up to the lofty expectations of his parents (mother Anne was a public school teacher) was adrift. Fat and out of shape, Pallister had ballooned to 290 pounds.
"He was almost a Goodyear blimp," recalled Jerry Hemmings. "He was a big boy."
Now 65, Hemmings is still teaching Physical Education at BU. But back in 1979, the head coach of the Brandon Bobcats men's team was building championship calibre teams, largely by recruiting New York kids straight from the asphalt courts of Brooklyn.
So Hemmings already had enough raw talent. In Pallister, however, he immediately recognized an oversized-but-athletic farm boy big enough to "go bear hunting with a stick."
It turned out to be a perfect fit: Hemmings was looking for muscle, Pallister was desperate for direction.
"I needed to change my life," Pallister said. "I was headed for mediocrity, lethargy, complacency. I knew there was someone inside of me that had the drive for more than that."
Whatever was inside of Pallister, Hemmings literally ran it out of him.
"I ran him until his tongue came out," the coach said. "I can still see him walking out the doors to go vomit. But he'd always come back."
Pallister never started for the Bobcats. But he became a valuable sixth man on a team that eventually lost the national final to the University of Victoria in 1980. Pallister was voted the Most Improved Player.
"It gave me some self esteem, a little confidence," Pallister recalled.
Pallister's marks improved. The weight stayed off. But the teaching days were over.
After leaving BU, Pallister's streak of self-reliance continued when he began selling insurance. "He had no office," Sullivan noted. "I signed my policy on his trunk. I still have that policy."
Over 30 years later, Dr. Sullivan is Pallister's dentist. They remain close friends, usually meeting once a week if schedules allow.
Pallister will tell you he remains very loyal to friends because he had so few growing up. Despite his height (over six feet by age 12) he was bullied at school. In his first week at tiny Edwin Elementary, a fellow student, at the urging of older kids, stabbed Pallister just below his eye with a pencil. For years, Pallister had difficulty sleeping on Sunday night. Why? "I hated Mondays," he said.
Tall and gangly, Pallister took up piano and played in school recitals, where the competition was almost exclusively tiny girls in flowered dresses.
That image, of course, is a stark contrast to the grown politician who stood before a packed house in Marquette and essentially branded the ruling NDP government as -- to quote Pallister -- weasels and bullshit artists.
But Hemmings, for one, has seen this movie before; how when his lumbering, once-overweight forward would relentlessly bang opponents, who were often more talented, under the basket, to the point of their distraction.
"Now I see the same things in Brian's politics as he was as a player," Hemmings said, with a level of pride. "Nobody can get under other people's skin like he can. He was a real warrior."
Yet when you ask the "warrior" how his father died, the other side of Pallister emerges. The PC party leader is sitting in a fried chicken restaurant in Portage when he recalls when his father was first diagnosed with primary liver cancer in 1993.
Bill Pallister broke the news with Jim and Brian at his hospital bed side.
"It's fast," the father said, as if to reassure his sons.
"Well," Brian noted, "it's better than Aunt Beth (Bill's sister), getting chopped up over ten or 15 years."
It was one of those awkward moments for men raised on the farm. They shed a few tears. Cleared their throats a lot. Tried to make jokes.
Then Jim reasoned, "It's better than getting hit by a goddam truck."
So the father eyed up his two boys -- in an old school attempt to lighten the pall -- and concluded, "Well, men. I think we've established it's all for the best."
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Dark days followed Bill Pallister's death.
"When my dad died... I shut down," the eldest son admitted. "It wasn't a good time. There was a period of my life where I wouldn't let anybody in. I went into my work. Went into the Legislature. I left Esther with a one-year-old daughter (Quinn) in here (Portage) and... I wasn't a very good father.
"I don't like to live my life with regret. Nobody does. When I look back on that period I just say, 'It wasn't good.'"
What would Pallister have done differently?
"Hug my kids more. Hug my wife more. Should have opened up. I should have talked to somebody. There's people out there who could have helped me, but I'm too stupidly self-reliant sometimes."
Esther Johnson met Pallister, quite by accident, at a basketball game at Riddell Hall in 1974. Johnson was a forward for the University of Manitoba Bisons, and retired as the school's all-time leader in rebounding. Together, they have two daughters; Quinn, 21, currently studying at the U of M's Asper School of Business, and 15-year-old Shawn, a promising basketball prospect for the Oak Park Raiders high school team, who already stands 6-foot-1.
Naturally, Pallister's wife believes her husband has a "ton of potential", too.
"He does care deeply. At the same time it doesn't make him weaker, it makes him strong," Esther noted. "It gives him greater depth. When you have to lead, you can feel what you need to feel, but still take the proper actions."
As for that period when Pallister confessed to being emotionally AWOL for his family, she only said: "He's hard on himself."
Maybe, but not as hard as some former political foes who aren't yet convinced that Pallister has evolved from the "mean son-of-a-bitch" whose win-at-all-costs reputation they feel got him both rich and elected.
Al Collins worked for Pallister's early provincial campaigns back in Portage in the early 1990s. Now, with Pallister newly installed as PC leader, Collins isn't a believer anymore.
"Brian is a bright man," Collins said. "I liked what he said. But I have never liked the politics of self-interest. This might sound harsh but Brian's confidence -- if you hang around long enough -- is his sense of entitlement. There's an arrogance that just puts blinders in his eyes.
"People find out that's the thing he can't fix. People are worn out because nothing comes back to you. It just gets sucked in. It's an exercise of how quick does he get what he wants before everybody finds out the Emperor has no clothes."
It was little things that bugged Collins, who believed Pallister didn't thank his volunteers enough. He wasn't engaged with the public.
For the record, Collins also campaigned for David Faurschou, who in 1992 lost the PC party nomination for Portage to Pallister. Faurschou told the ÀÜ that, "Brian only respects Brian's opinion."
Sour grapes, perhaps. But that Pallister's sometimes blunt, sometimes abrasive, often in-charge persona can rub the wrong way is no secret. In fact, even old teammates would understand -- and most certainly his old opponents. So what?
"Not everybody likes me, either," Dutiaume reasoned. "When you're on one side of an issue and someone's on another that can stir up some resentment. That's just the way it is. You can't go through life worrying about who likes you or who doesn't. You have to do what you think is right in your heart and is good for everybody. That's the way Brian is.
"You name any politician; half the people like him, half the people hate 'em. Sometimes you ruffle feathers the wrong way. It's the business you're in.
"He lets his actions speak for him," Dutiaume concluded. "Not just his size and his big mouth."
Maybe Pallister will emerge as a polarizing figure, who critics contend will never get elected but whose close friend Sullivan will boldly venture: "If we go back 100 years (in the future), he'll be remembered as one of the best premiers we've ever had."
When confronted with Collins' criticism, Pallister first responded by saying he hadn't seen the man in "15 or 20 years." Then sitting on his couch in the Legislative office of the Leader of the Opposition, he finally said, "But he was probably right."
Still coping with his father's death. Business struggling. A political back bencher in a starter's world. "At that time, I was thinking a lot about myself," Pallister admitted.
"But I hope I'm better at that now," he said. "People see other people in different lights at different times. People take time to change, but you've got to believe they can. Otherwise, what's the point? Why be involved in public policy debates if you think everybody's got a fixed position and nobody will change their mind? You've got to believe that most people are open minded."
Curious, but it was early on in the interview process when Pallister was explaining why he didn't mind opening up about his past. He's figured that between all the games he's played -- both in political and sporting arenas -- he's failed enough for a lifetime. He's heard more "No's" at the door, selling insurance or canvassing for votes, than any traveling salesman.
In fact, friends will tell you Pallister feeds off failure, and being labeled an underdog. If that's the case, political observers would agree, he's found the perfect job.
"I'm more comfortable in my own skin than I've ever been," he said. "Self-doubt is a natural aspect of most people. I've confronted a lot of my own demons in my life. I've been forced to. I've lost people I've loved, I've lost good friends. I've behaved in ways I've regretted.
"I've always believed life is a canvas and you try and paint it the best way you can, right? I don't want to look back with any regrets. And it's taken a long time to respect myself, to believe in myself, to feel I have something to offer. But I do."
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Baby sleeps in a sleep sack. He also has an open swaddle now that he can roll over so his arms are free, but we alternate depending on the laundry rotation. It's been tricky for him to roll over in the sack, but he can. He loves rolling onto his tummy. But today, he rolled onto his back in the sleep sack. If he can do it in the sleep sack, it'll be a piece of cake with clothes on! He looked so proud of himself if not a little surprised. We lavished praise on him accordingly.
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Simple message worth repeating: Don't drink and drive
Let's allow the statistics tell the story. The Department of Transportation estimates that, nationwide, at least 45 people will die each day during the holidays in alcohol-related crashes.
In the last decade Mothers Against Drunk Driving found between 52 percent of all crashes at Christmas were alcohol related. The number jumps to 57 percent at New Years. The average drops to 41 percent the rest of the year.
These are sobering numbers and that's why we wanted to take this time to talk about the life-saving importance of driving safe and sober this holiday season.
With office parties, family gatherings and New Year's toasts, the temptation to get behind the wheel after consuming alcohol is great. Just last week in Howard County, officers conducted a sobriety checkpoint and made five arrests for driving under the influence -- five drivers taken off the roads before they could injure or kill unknowing motorists sharing the road with drunk drivers.
If you drink and drive this holiday season, you could be arrested. That's the good news. The bad news, you could kill someone. The message is truly that simple, don't drink and drive.
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This unique combination of flavors has been on the menu at Restaurant Jean Georges since its opening, and it continues to draw raves. The form of the layered scallops and cauliflower is basic but lovely, and the dark green sauce has a mysterious, mustardy flavor; few people could guess what is in it, and almost no one could imagine how simple it is.
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- Makes 4 servings
- 1/3 cup capers, drained of all but 1 tablespoon of their liquid
- 1/3 cup golden raisins
- 8 to 12 cauliflower florets
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter
- 4 tablespoons canola, grapeseed, or other neutral-flavored oil
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons minced parsley leaves
- 12 large sea scallops (at least 1 pound) cut in half through their equators
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg, plus a little more
- 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
- Preheat the oven to 250°F. Combine the capers and raisins in a small saucepan and add 3/4 cup water; simmer gently until the raisins are plump, about 10 minutes. Do not cook rapidly; you don't want to reduce the liquid. Let the mixture cool for a couple of minutes, then purée it in a blender. Return it to the saucepan.
- Meanwhile, use a sharp knife or mandoline to cut the cauliflower florets into 1/4-inch-thick slices; you will need a total of 24 slices. Place 1 tablespoon each butter and oil in a large skillet and sauté the cauliflower over medium high heat; do this in 2 or more batches to avoid crowding (add another tablespoon of butter or oil when necessary.) Season it with salt and pepper as it cooks. Don't turn it too often; you want it to brown nicely. Total cooking time will be about 10 minutes, after which the cauliflower should be brown and crisp-tender. Remove and keep warm in a bowl in the oven.
- Deglaze the pan by heating 1/4 cup water in it and stirring and scraping the bottom over high heat for a minute or two. Add the parsley and pour this juice over the cauliflower; gently stir and return the cauliflower to the oven while you cook the scallops.
- Place 1 tablespoon each butter and oil in another large ovenproof skillet and turn the heat to medium-high. When the butter foams, add the scallops and cook on one side only until nicely browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Again, do this in batches to avoid crowding (adding another tablespoon of butter or oil when necessary). Remove the scallops from the pan as they brown and season with salt and pepper; keep them warm in the oven.
- Reheat the sauce, then add the nutmeg, vinegar, and pepper and salt, if needed. Taste and adjust seasoning.
- Spoon a little of the sauce onto each of 4 serving plates. Place 6 scallop pieces, browned side up, on each plate; top each scallop with a piece of cauliflower. Finish with a tiny grating of nutmeg.


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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:46 pm
Post subject: Ideas for a 30th birthday celebration in Paris?
I'm going to Paris to celebrate my 30th birthday! This will be my second time. My husband and I love food, and have gotten wonderful ideas from Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris for restaurants and shops to try. But, what's a really great place to celebrate a birthday, specifically? I was thinking about a day trip to Reims - the birthplace of champagne seemed like a really fun place to toast one's day of birth.
We love traditional and nouveau French cuisine (or any cuisine, for that matter) but hate to spend hundreds of dollars at restaurants. Does anyone have ideas for restaurants, or other ways to celebrate in Paris?
Merci beaucoup!
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:38 pm
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Amy, check out Barbara's post above! This sounds like and exciting and innovative way of spending a special evening!!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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I'm intrigued! Dining at a "concept" restaurant such as that would definitely be a first for me - and what better way to start a new decade in life by celebrating in an original way?
Plus, wine is truly one of my favorite foods
Thank you, David!
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:21 pm
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Hee hee, agreed Amy! It does sound both intriguing and stimulating! For other ideas scroll down the topics on this page until you see "Romantic Evening for Two and a half" started by Andrew le Gourmand. There is a load of interesting ideas in there as well.
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:15 pm
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David, thank you again! I did peruse that post, and now have a long list of romantic options written down with all of my other Paris "to dos". As I'm visiting with my husband, this is not a bad thing!
However, I'm wondering if anyone out there has suggestions for restaurants they have visited in Paris that are ... fun? I know there are many dedicated foodies on these forums, and as I grow older and wiser I appreciate the high culture of cuisine more. I do hope to leap into my next decade in life with a celebratory, optimistic, hopeful attitude, and I'm trying to find places that matches that mood.
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:45 pm
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What do you mean by "fun"?
Fine dining is a serious business here and so most places concentrate on a great dining experience with good food and wines.
If that is your idea of fun then that is great, but otherwise if you are looking for a themed type resto you may be disappointed.
What about trying the Jules Verne, the dinner/show option at one of the cabarets, etc. There are many of those types of things but a lot of them cater to tourists and I do not think that the food experience is as good as what you will get elsewhere.
We recently did the Crazy Horse dinner show for a birthday party. I was really disappointed to be honest and would never go on one of those outings again - no matter whose birthday it was.
Hope that doesn't ruin your ideas, but thought an honest opinion would be more worthwhile to you. Would not like anyone else to feel as ripped off as we did afterwards.
If you cannot feel your arteries hardening, eat more cheese. If you can, drink more red wine. Diet is just "die" with a "t" on the end. Exercise is walking into the kitchen.
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:21 pm
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I agree with Debbie, we went to Crazy Horse years ago and it was definitely a rip off but enjoyable once in a lifetime - I remember the outing everytime I hear YMCA played at the Gym - it certainly has the beat to make you work just that little bit harder, but I digress from the subject. There are so many lovely local restaurants in Paris that serve good to excellent food and provide entertainment just watching the other customers.
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Oh, no, I don't go to themed restaurants in the US, I wouldn't dream of going to one in Paris! The best examples I can give of "fun" restaurants are a few in my hometown of Chicago. At Spaca Napoli on the North Side, the owner will sometimes come around to those who are waiting for tables, pour everyone prosecco, and hand out appetizers for us to try. That usually starts a friendly, impromptu discussion while we all stand around holding our little plastic glasses of prosecco. Or at Nacional 27 in River North, the tables in the center of the restaurant are removed to make a small club space for Latin dancing. So after a great meal you can stay at your table, sip a mojito, and take to the floor to samba.
Right now we have reservations for the "restaurant with a difference", Il Vino d'Enrico, followed by jazz somewhere on the Rive Gauche. I will definitely avoid the Crazy Horse!!
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A view from the back!
Liberty's Kindergarten Graduation- Liberty was so sad to have school come to an end. She realized that she wouldn't be going back to Kids Village next year. She has fallen in love with her teachers Miss Cheri & Miss Alycesun. She did really well in her program and looked so cute in her cap and gown. I have to admit I cried. But what else is new!!! She has grown so much from the day she stared there and I am so sad to see her leave. She will do great at Grovecrest! (If anyone has been a long time reader you will know that Liberty graduated from Kindergarten
last year...when she started at Kids Village the 4-5 year old class was not challenging her so I moved her into the Kindergarten class, this year we started her in 1st grade there but they moved way fast for her so she did Kindergarten again which is where she was supposed to be anyway! I know it is kind of crazy but she enjoyed both years in the Kindergarten class and now is way ready for 1st grade!)
Lib just waiting for the program to start. She was looking at her dad when I snapped this photo. I love her expression.
Lib and Miss Cheri
Lib with Miss Alycesun...someone Libby really looks up to. She fell in love with her!
Here he is receiving his award from the Principal
Here is the mouth thing I was talking about!
Craig moving dirt! But of course with the Bobcat...he made it fun!
Craig on the roof cutting down tree limbs to burn.
Zach and Liberty getting ready to pick up rocks...they somehow turned this into a huge adventure.
After pulling out most of it with the car, here is Caleb trying to get the rest with his big muscles!!!
If you look really close you can see our "line of fire"!!!
My favorite photo is Craig acting out the scene from Castaway when Tom Hanks finally gets a fire started. I was laughing so hard!
Zach and other 2nd grade boys getting ready to run.
Zach and Stockton (cousin) just after the race.
Zach keeping the beat!! He is a cute dancer don't you think???
Our "girls night" (plus Brit) self portrait.
And this is what I felt like while living this whirlwind, eventful, fun packed week or so...
( Have you ever reviewed your pictures on your camera and find a photo that you don't ever remember posing for??? That would be this one! Just don't ask!)


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February 8, 2010
1976: Dick Vermeil Hired as Head Coach by Philadelphia Eagles
Since winning the NFL Championship in 1960 under Head Coach Buck Shaw, who promptly retired, the Philadelphia Eagles had gone through a long period of successive coaching failures. Through the 1975 season the Eagles had five coaches, who combined for a won-lost record of 74-127-9 with just two winning years along the way. The last of those, Mike McCormack, went 16-25-1 from 1973 to '75 and was let go.
Owner Leonard Tose had hired three of those coaches since taking over the team in 1969, and interviewed several candidates for the latest vacancy, including those with pro head coaching experience such as Hank Stram and Allie Sherman, as well as Norm Van Brocklin, the quarterback of the 1960 championship team who had gone on to coach the Vikings and Falcons. On February 8, 1976 he signed 39-year-old Dick Vermeil, who had drawn national attention after coaching UCLA to an upset of top-ranked Ohio State in the Rose Bowl.
Vermeil had been an assistant coach at the pro level, having served as the first designated special teams coach in NFL history under George Allen with the Los Angeles Rams. He had led UCLA to an overall record of 15-5-3 over two seasons. Initially reluctant to accept the job, he was taking on the task of trying to turn around an organization that had been mired in losing and had mortgaged its future, primarily in deals for QB Roman Gabriel before the 1973 season and LB Bill Bergey in '74. They did not have a draft choice until the fourth round in '76 and the fifth round in '77, and would not choose again in either the first or second round until 1979.
Vermeil was signed to a five-year contract and took the first season to evaluate the talent on hand. Gabriel was still with the team, but clearly on the downside of his career at age 36 and primarily utilized as a backup to the mediocre Mike Boryla. There was quality at tight end, where Charle Young was considered one of the league's best (and was prone to being outspoken about that fact) and wide receiver, with 6'8" Harold Carmichael providing a big, if sometimes inconsistent, target.
Rookie FB Mike Hogan played well prior to an injury that ended his season after eight games, while veteran HB Tom Sullivan suffered through an injury-plagued campaign. The offensive line needed work, but had some promising players in tackles Jerry Sisemore and Stan Walters.
With a lack of quality defensive linemen and a better group of linebackers led by the All-Pro Bergey, Vermeil chose to use a 3-4 alignment. Strong safety Randy Logan was a rising star in the defensive backfield.
The biggest change Vermeil brought to the club from the beginning was intensity and a solid work ethic. He personified it by working long hours and often spending the night on a cot in his office at Veterans Stadium. It took time for the results to show, but when they did, the change was dramatic.
"I always had a sense that we were moving in the right direction," Bergey said later. "Even in the early years when the wins were few and far between, we could see the intensity of the play picking up. Dick's personality rubbed off on us."
The wins were most definitely few and far between initially. The club duplicated the 1975 record of 4-10 in '76, and was 5-9 in 1977. Young, who had become involved in a contract dispute, was traded to the Rams after the first year for QB Ron Jaworski (pictured with Vermeil below); "The Polish Rifle" took over the starting job and improved along with the team. Carmichael showed a greater maturity and became an even better receiver and team leader. At the end of the 1977 season, rookie Wilbert Montgomery emerged as a quality running back. Moreover, six of the nine losses were by six points or less, pointing to the increasing competitiveness of the team.
The hard work was rewarded in 1978, as the Eagles went 9-7 and earned a wild card playoff spot while Montgomery set a new team single-season rushing record with 1220 yards. The record improved to 11-5 and another wild card berth in '79, and in 1980 Philadelphia won the NFC Championship with a 12-4 tally, although they faltered badly in the Super Bowl. Some fans and commentators blamed Vermeil for allowing the team to become too tight going into the Super Bowl, and the loss seemed to be a negative turning point for both the coach and team.
While the club got off to a 6-0 start in 1981, it faltered in the second half and just made it into the postseason as a wild card entry with a 10-6 tally; they lost to the Giants in the first round. It was the first time that the team had failed to improve on the previous year's showing since Vermeil had arrived.
The Eagles went 3-6 in the strike-shortened 1982 season, and Vermeil resigned, citing burnout. The emotional Vermeil's intensity had ultimately proved to be his undoing in Philadelphia. He left with an overall record of 57-51.
Vermeil moved to the broadcast booth and did not return to coaching until he signed on with the Rams fifteen years later in 1997 (after flirting with the idea of coming back to the Eagles in 1995). But from 1976 through '80, he turned a perennially losing team into a contender and was twice selected as NFC Coach of the Year by the Pro Football Writers of America for his efforts.
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One of my favorite all-time coaches. He had the remarkable ability to get the absolute most out of ordinary teams and players and make them look like superstars, which earned him two trips to the Super Bowl (and one win) with two different teams (Eagles, Rams). Did a pretty fair job with Kansas City too, considering their dearth of talent.ReplyDelete
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I have arch linux 3.6.10-1-ARCH, and Laptop HP 6735s. I installed syslinux from arch guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … e#Syslinux , and when I restarted system something appeared like this : "non-system disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready".
When I using livecd and choosing boot existing os , everythink works
I tried install other bootloader , but none works. I don't know what is wrong. It's seems like bootloader is not working, of course a have selected partition as bootable.
Plesase help.
Hi and welcome to the forum.
When you used the LiveCD, I presume you pressed Tab over "Boot existing OS" and edited the details. What did you use? "hd0 1"? Syslinux counts BIOS drives from zero and partitions from one.
Make sure that the drive with Arch on it is the first to boot from the BIOS settings. Unless the laptop uses UEFI.
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When I am using "Boot existing OS" , appears syslinus which I have configured and I just press the system.
This is my syslinux config.
LABEL arch
MENU LABEL Arch Linux
LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
APPEND root=/dev/sda6 ro
INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img
LABEL archfallback
MENU LABEL Arch Linux Fallback
LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
APPEND root=/dev/sda6 ro
INITRD ../initramfs-linux-fallback.img
LABEL windows
MENU LABEL Windows
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd0 2
and this are my partitons
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90909090
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2 20973584 239256044 109141230+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 239256048 430654454 95699203+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 430654516 571576634 70461059+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 430654518 434863484 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 * 434863548 522754172 43945312+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 522755163 571576634 24410736 83 Linux
I installed syslinux on MBR.
(sorry for my english)
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What is /dev/sda7 Mark?
Also, make sure your hard drive is set as primary in your BIOS.
What is /dev/sda7 Mark?
It's my /home directory.
Of course my hd is set as primary.
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Is this a UEFI system?
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I don't think so .
Did you do the next command?
# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m
because doing "pacman -S syslinux" just installs the package, thus you still need to let the package install all the necessary bootfiles.
Can the boot partition be on an extended partition in MBR? I know this would have previously not worked.
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Glamour magazine had the chance to chat with The Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg. What followed was a live chat on their facebook, with plenty of Breaking Dawn Part 1 scoop:
Favorite scenes in the movie/books?
"I'd have to say the honeymoon scenes. very romantic and playful. lovely to see Edward and Bella having fun".
Percentage of book (Breaking Dawn) actually in the movie?
"Because we split the one book into two movies, it gave us a lot more room to include as much as possible from the books. Particularly in the first part. We wanted all our favorite scenes to be included - of course everyone has different favorites, but hopefully you'll be happy."
Wondering what to look forward to (other than everything?):
"There are some AWESOME romantic scenes for Bella and Edward! Seriously. The wedding is lush and emotional, the honeymoon is truly sexy. Trust me on this one."
On the wolves:
"There was a lot of discussion about the inter-wolf dialogue. In the end, the book pretty much dictated our approach making most of it voice over - but in a stylized way".
On the music:
"Music is obviously a HUGE component of our movies. But the story always comes first. I actually don't write to music. I find it can color my mood, and hence a scene. The only outside influence I want when I'm writing is the book."
On Stephenie Meyer:
"Stephenie has been a wonderful collaborator. She, like the Producers, director and studio, gives me feedback on every stage of my process - from outline, to first draft to finished draft. Additionally, whenever I'm stuck on a scene or a storyline, I'll call or email her to either ask her about a certain character's backstory, maybe even the color of a certain wolf's fur, or to just bounce ideas around."
On Edward:
"Indeed Edward begins BD1 in a much lighter place - and yes, it was a very conscious choice. He's marrying Bella! He's the happiest vampire in the world. And then the honeymoon, though not without its... complications, is playful and romantic. But then - things get very dark, very fast, and Edward is at his darkest moment yet."
Has she seen Breaking Dawn Part 1?
"I've seen a couple different cuts, and will see the most recent soon. I was sitting in the theater with some other people and began to hear gasps - I was worried for a moment, thinking, oh no, they're laughing (at a very serious moment). Then I realized, no, theyre crying. Not just crying, sobbing!"
On actors and their roles:
"Watching Kristen and Rob embody those characters is a screenwriter's (and everyone else's) dream. Their chemistry is amazing, and very rare. But writing for Jacob, tracking his growth, translating his passion, fire and sense of humor - that's fun."
On scenes that may have been cut:
"There's not a screenwriter alive who hasn't had favorite scenes cut, either for budget reasons in production, or for pacing and storytelling reasons in editing. But honestly, when I saw the various cuts of the movie, I have to say I didn't miss them, can't even really remember what they were!"
On adapting Stephenie Meyer's books:
"Nothing's harder than the completely blank page of an original screenplay. So it was a joy to adapt Stephenie's work, which lends itself beautifully to film storytelling."
On her cameo appearance in Breaking Dawn Part 1, working with Bill Condon, the birth scene:
"I was on set for the most important scene in the movie! The wedding! If you look closely, you'll see me as one of the wedding guests (along with our producer Wyck Godfrey and Stephenie too!)".
"After writing for Dexter for four years, I've come to understand that what's most terrifying isn't necessarily what you see, it's what you DON'T see. The book really informed the way I wrote the scene - all from Bella's point of view. It conveys her terror, and the terror of Edward and Jacob. And Bill directed it with such intensity, I was mesmerized." (Read more on Bill's perspective of the birth scene).
"I've worked with many directors over my 20 year career (wow, 20... that just aged me!). And of course, I've work with several on the Twi series alone - ALL of whom were truly unique, great experiences (and I'm not just saying that). But I will say that, in my very long career, my collaboration with Bill was the best writer/director collaboration I've ever had. I think a lot of that is because he himself is a screenwriter (academy award winning no less!). So he spoke my language - story, stucture, character, theme. He helped me take the characters to new emotional depths... He's generous, and collaborative. I could go on and on."
That's pretty much the transcript of Melissa's Q&A with Glamour. Plenty to look forward to when Breaking Dawn Part 1 is released in just over a month from today!