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Michael van der Ham Fall 2012
Every collection by Michael van der Ham consistently starts with the fabric. And so for fall the Dutch designer crushed, draped, and pleated rich organza, silk, and silk jersey into what has come to be defined as his beautifully fragmented, signature style. This time however, it was a deconstructing of the picture-perfect vision of the early 1930s American woman, as depicted in the Ziegfeld Follies, that van der Ham kept at the forefront of his mind.
In a season that is largely shaping up to be about oversize proportions and luxurious outerwear, what the delicate fabric arrangements dancing around the models in this troupe proved was that the Central Saint Martins–trained van der Ham isn't one for following trends or adhering to conventions of any kind. (Indeed, uninspired by the rolls of bespoke vintage prints that arrived at his studio, the designer set about reimagining them into something unrecognizably mismatched). Using flecked metallic jacquards, printed silks, and a dusting of embellishment as his base, van der Ham's form-fitting pencil skirts, sheaths, and sweater dresses (which marked a fully fledged foray into knitwear using tactile mohair and cashmeres) offered a hyper-feminine and charmingly imperfect approach to evening wear.
What resonated most strongly about the overall familiarity of these collaged silhouettes however (which are essentially a reconfiguring of traditionally feminine dress codes) was their enduring quality, which will only serve to heighten the collectability of van der Ham's growing line.

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Good morning elizabeth! Wednesday: 6 miles 47:15 - 7:52 avg. pace - steady state [7:25 last mile] + 2 miles walking. Back from neurologist, he only had good things to say - happy with my progress. Showing up in my running clothes he asked "Did you run here?" :>
Another meeting this morning, will try to get in an easy 10 afterwards. Then maybe hit the Y to work out the kinks before the Thursday night kick off. Whatever was going on with my hip / groin seems to have resolved itself with a couple of days OFF - the cheapest and often times best medicine. Have a great day Masters!
Good Morning elizabeth and MothAudio!! Also ... whoever comes in as I type.
Agenda for the day ... Run – 3 m ... Spin – 1.25 hours ... Plank @ 3 sets @ 2 min ... Squats @ 180 Donkey Kicks (90 each leg) ... Burpee – 26
Run may be pulled ... yesterday was cutting down a Honey Locust tree off the dam for my pond some of it got tangled up in the tree around it and when I cut it to release it ... it kicked back and caught me in the shin ... and is still sore as all get out ... oh well ... we do what Masters do ... Warrior on as always ... PRESS!!
MarshRunner OUT!!
Morning all,
Looks like another gorgeous day here. No complaints, that's for sure. :-)
I had bootcamp under the stars again this morning. Dang, my hammies are SORE from deadlifts yesterday. And I have a run planned for after work, but need to check my schedule to see how many miles. I think it's 7.
Back in a bit, I need to make coffee and get some laundry going.
Take care everyone,
Good Morning Everyone.
Moth - glad your hip is better.
MarshRunner - Sounds like a good workout
Elizabethnyc - Bootcamp, sounds like fun but hard. Have a good 7 tonight.
I'm going to run 4 probably about noon. Its my day off and loading up on some coffee right now. You all do so much in the way of mileage and workouts I feel almost embarrassed posting my few mileage.
Everyone have a great day.
Last night's track workout seems about red lined for me with the miles I am at. We did a 4 mile warm up then right into some strides, our workout was a continuous run of 6 X 1000 @ 4:00, 1:36 @ 400, 3:10 @ 800 with a 400 for recovery no slower than 2:20. We were a tad slow on #1 4:03 but hit the rest with each just a tad faster. Plyometrics and core at the end, he has me just doing about 1/2 the plyo and I will stop them all together next week. Running trails at lunch.
FF: Nice 8.13 in the fog and rain that nice when it's warm or cool
EIB: Nice double and 5
Tony M: Nice 3 hour in the woods
Fittes: 255 is a nice bench! When I was 30!
Jeep: Enjoy the time off
Mysol: Nice 5
Moth: Nice 6 great report from the Doc!
Snail: Nice double with 2 hours in the dojo
Opus: Enjoy your time with DS
Geetah: Congards, now the hard stuff starts. Sub 3:00 again!
Gship: Nice 5.16 and plyometrics! I am a true believer in the plyo, I think they had made me faster this year!
Marsh: Sounds like a nice total workout!
E: Nice job with BC, have a great run. I am starting to stop my Xting until after my race. I am swimming on Fri and have a swim race on the 6 oct then it will be over until after my race.
Labmom: Have a good run
Good morning Masters! A life imposed rest day.
Have a great day Masters!
SRD today. Carb'd up at Dennys this morning. My brother Art is running MoMa also, and we will be staying at my other brother's house the night before the race. Should be fun.
Brother Marsh: Good to hear from you, sorry about the kcik in the shins.
Mysol: Weston is crazy all the time. If he sees or senses another dog he goes berserk biting the grass or anthing else he can sink his teeth into. Does not play well with others.
Geetah: Congratulations for making the cut. No slacking off before Boston though. AFAIK, Boston runners are NOT allowed to be fat couch potatoes. :-)
gship: I'm as ready as I'll ever be. The "quick" run yesterday shook out a lot of the dust.
Liz: No need to remind you to watch it during boot camp.
labmom: mileage schmilage... putting the sneakers on and walking out the door is the hardest part. If you are doing that on a regular basis, there is absolutely no need for embarassment. Have a great run today.
good morning Masters ! I am a bit weary the day after my puva treatment so I will just head across the street to Bald Mtn and do a leisurely romp up, down, and around it. Should be nice since the temps are holding in the 60's today...about 2 miles and 24 mins with 176' gain / descent.
Good morning elizabeth! Wednesday: 6 miles 47:15 - 7:52 avg. pace - steady state [7:25 last mile] + 2 miles walking. Back from neurologist, he only had good things to say - happy with my progress. Showing up in my running clothes he asked "Did you run here?" :>
Another meeting this morning, will try to get in an easy 10 afterwards. Then maybe hit the Y to work out the kinks before the Thursday night kick off. Whatever was going on with my hip / groin seems to have resolved itself with a couple of days OFF - the cheapest and often times best medicine. Have a great day Masters!
8 miles 1:10:39 - 8:49 avg. pace - easy + 3 miles walking.
Lots of strong training. Today I will do 2x1000 and 3x500 on grass with the 7th graders(my son one of them) on the xc team. We did their first 5 miler yesterday and they are asking when can they run farther. Great kids
Liz: Thanks for starting us out on another day
Moth: Great news from the neurologist!
Marsh: Who says trees do nothing but stand around?
BOSNPM: You in a running club? Who gets to decide what the workout is? Sounds brutal.
81: Keep them young 'uns hopping!
All you other masters: thanks for the positive vibes and have a good day!
Rest day for me after yesterday's double.
8 miles on trails that just never got better, but they are done! Beats the office, even a bad run!
Tony M: Hope it is a good life imposed one!
Trail: Way to get out and get one in!
Moth; Nice 8
81: That is a great workout for the kids!
Hey all. No run this morning. I keep trying to get my runs back to 5:30AM, but can't seem to get up early enough. I made a concerted effort to get to bed and get up early, but I woke up at 3AM with running on my mind. Should have stayed up, because I fell asleep and then overslept. Ha, ha. So anyway, brought my stuff to work and hope to get 7 miles in before I go home. Will be good to run in a different area and the weather is perfect.
Liz - yup, you have 7 miles on tap tonight. Remember, you traded it for a 5 miler yesterday. Just sayin'.
81runner - welcome to the Masters.
BOS - great workout last night. I am impressed with the times and that you are able to hit your goals so closely. Nice job.
Jody - lots of luck to you and your brother this weekend. Sounds like fun.
Hi Moth, Marsh, Lab, Tony, Trail and Snail (hey, that rhymes).
Hey y'all, penance run for me today (the sin was oversleeping). So out at lunch for 7.05 in 57:10. Faster than intended. Did another 4.7 after work yesterday then went to spin with DW. Instructor is getting class ready for a LT field test (I'll be at drill) so a lot of time was spent in zone 4. My legs couldn't hang so I turned it into a "how hard can you go without going into cardio drift or cardio de-coupling. Turned out I was still able to go pretty hard.
Need to chase down a few things. As usual, I hope to get back later. Have a great day everyone.
Another late check in. Today was another day of core, jump squats, and lunges followed by 5.4miles(8:31pace), followed by a few strides. Legs have been tired throughout the day, but it's a good tired, no hurts. I started taking an iron supplement a couple of weeks ago and think that is helping.
Hi elizabeth, Hope you had a good run.
Hi Moth, Glad everything is feeling better. Nice job on the 8.
Hi Marsh, Hope the shin feels better.
Hi labmom, I like the support here no matter what we run. Hope you had a good run today.
Hi BOSNPM, That was some quick running on the track last night. I hoping the plyo will help, but I keep wondering if I'll be able to keep up with it as I increase mileage. As much a time constraint as also wondering if the legs will handle both. So do you do the plyo usually after runs? I guessing today's run was tough from last night's workout.
Hi jbyram, Nice that your brother will be in the race too. Will you run together?
Hi 81, Sounds like a nice workout you have planned and a motivated bunch of kids.
Hi Snail, Hope you had a good day.
Hi mysol, I figure that I will have to start pushing my wakeup time earlier if I want to hit 60-70 mile weeks in training. That's the one part of it I'm not looking forward to as it will be in the winter. Hope you had a good 7.
Hi Falcon, Nice job on the 7.
Have a great night masters.
Good evening! 10 miles including 6 mile tempo run, 7:37 pace. Have a great night!
BOSNPM: Just a really busy day with a couple of out of town meetings.


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Mark Schlakman: Florida's outreach to the Americas is put in limbo
Published: Sunday, July 14, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 6:57 p.m.
Florida is unique in many respects, and boasts one of the more diverse populations in the nation with proud and equally diverse heritages and strong cultural and economic ties throughout the world, particularly within the Americas.
International trade and commerce is a key factor for Florida's economic growth and prosperity, including insofar as agriculture, natural resources and the life sciences for which UF/IFAS has developed an international reputation.
Gov. Rick Scott's trade missions to Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Panama underscore the importance of expanding trade relationships within the region.
Curiously, however, when Florida's Legislature had more revenue at its disposal than at any time in recent memory, legislative leadership defunded Florida's International Volunteer Corps, an agile and very lean not-for-profit launched in 1982 under then-Gov. Bob Graham. As a casualty of the 2013 state legislative session, it's now struggling to survive.
Better known in the region by its acronym FAVACA than by its official name, the Florida Association for Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas facilitates sustainable relationships between private and public-sector interests in response to "in-country" requests for assistance.
It received state funding at varying levels over the past three decades. The relatively small annual investment of several hundred thousand dollars within the context of the state's overall budget paid substantial dividends and was leveraged to secure federal and host country funds, foundation grants, corporate and individual contributions, sometimes from the international community.
A significant portion of this funding was spent in Florida.
Jimmy Buffett's Singing for Change Foundation is one of FAVACA's principal strategic partners.
Govs. Lawton Chiles and Jeb Bush called upon FAVACA to help facilitate their respective Florida/Haiti Initiatives.
Florida's first lady, Ann Scott, visited a women's empowerment project in Bogota during the governor's trade mission to Colombia last December for which FAVACA leveraged U.S. State Department funds that also brought Colombian officials to Florida.
The U.S. Southern Command collaborated with FAVACA to sustain certain Humanitarian Assistance Program objectives.
The Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute recognized FAVACA for its unique approach to "smart development" in a USAID funded report, noting that it delivers demand-driven, short-term technical assistance and training, and facilitates engagement by diaspora groups and individuals essentially to improve the quality of life.
Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam remarked during International Days in Tallahassee earlier this year that FAVACA was an example of the state's unusual capacity to project "soft power." Simply put, there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. A convergence of compelling circumstances in the Caribbean and Central America that impacted Florida during the early 1980s, including spikes in migration from Cuba and Haiti, prompted Gov. Graham to establish FAVACA, believing that Floridians could play a meaningful role in shaping the stability and prosperity of the region.
From small island nations like Grenada and Dominica to Haiti, Nicaragua and Panama, the region faced significant challenges, sometimes the kind that highly skilled Floridians, many with regional ancestry, could help address.
Since its inception, 3,000 FAVACA volunteers have trained 30,000 people in 30 countries and territories to prepare for and respond to hurricanes and other natural and manmade disasters, target gang violence and an array of transnational threats, including disease vectors and agricultural blights that, if left unchecked, could adversely impact Florida.
Toward these ends, FAVACA has collaborated with UF/IFAS as well as UF's Center for Latin American Studies from time to time.
FAVACA also has trained air and seaport managers and customs officials; helped advance preventive health initiatives, including HIV/AIDS; worked with small farmers to increase productivity and eliminate medfly, and local authorities to protect fish stocks, coral reefs and mangroves.
Sometimes, host nations enter into contracts with FAVACA volunteers for longer-term support, generating revenue for Florida businesses and institutions of higher learning.
Visit FAVACA's website to learn more — www.favaca.org.
A Haitian proverb says, beyond mountains there are mountains. Given today's increasingly interdependent world, ensuring that FAVACA's engagement on behalf of all Floridians can continue is a mountain worth climbing.
Mark Schlakman, senior program director for FSU's Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, is FAVACA's immediate past board chair.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Students at my school are juniors and seniors when they take chemistry and we only offer one year. Since this is a one shot deal for them on chemistry I try to balance take home projects with class work that uses Chem ASAP computer disk with my Addison Wesley Book and General Chemistry CD from journal of chem ed. I also have the Active Chem CD but find it takes a lot of time to get students up and running on this.
I spend a lot of time with the students on understanding how the periodic table is their friend and it is like a book once they learn how to read it. Sometimes I do an "Adopt An Element" project where each is given an element and they have to "sell it" (give an oral report) to the rest of us as being the best element in the periodic table. They must include its family properties, valence, everyday uses and so forth. They also must build a model of a crystal of their element out of styrofoam balls and the best models are left to hang up around my room. Before computers, they had to make a poster of their element and we hung them around the room. This is still a great project as students spend a lot of time looking at the posters hung around the room.
Sometimes we do a 6 slide powerpoint electronic paper that must include discoverer, special chemical and physical properties, important compounds of the element and their uses, how it is recovered from nature and where is it found, and a bibliography with a miniumum of 3 internet sites and 3 books.The internet sites are written as links in the powerpoint so I can just click on them and go to the pages the student gets the info from.This project is given to them in the form of "The local library has asked us to set up a powerpoint show for the general public on the elements and has asked you to help them gather material about the elements that the general public can understand."
We also play element and ion bingo which never ceases to amaze me the first time as the students are generally clueless about where to find the elements on the periodic table.
I have done the balloons with the students which is good as they can see that the balloons have to assume a certain relationship as you hold them. I also have large models of s and p orbitals that must be 40 years old and don't know if you can even buy them any more. To start students thinking about 3 dimensions of space I ask them to draw 4 points on their paper and make them as far apart from each other as possible. Most do a north,south,east,west drawing and then I bring out the molecular model building set and build the tetrahedral shape to bring the 3rd dimension to life.
During nuclear chemistry unit I do the biography of scientists that developed atomic theory and then those that are related to nuclear energy. To keep students from just copying words off the internet I make the report be an"Interview the Scientist" report where they have to ask the who what when and where questions about the life of that scientist. My rubric includes creativity points, points for pictures and illustrations of famous discoveries of the scientist. Students like the opportunity to be creative and to not make this just another report. Some are in the form of headline news reports or some are reports from the grave.
We do periodic trends of the periodic table. In the essence of time I use the LCD projector hooked up to my computer and we graph the trends together as a class of atomic and ionic sizes, first and second ionization energy. and electronegativity. The students have to write essays questions explaining the trends. This is really hard for them. They would rather I just let them choose which atom is bigger or smaller than having to explain their answer. We are going to CORE 40 testing in a couple of years where they have to write essays so this is a good place to practice.
I do not have the wooden marble boards but they seem to work for the teachers that have them. We do have valence cards but seldom use them because of time restraints of a trimester schedule to fit all the science standards into the curriculum.
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This article was published 1/2/2013 (1663 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Last year at this time, tough-talking Manitobans who love to get outdoors were griping about mild weather and the absence of snow. This year, many of those same people are trying to book flights to Puerto Vallarta.
Thanks to actual snow and a sustained deep freeze, we actually have a winter this year. And those conditions have arrived just in time to prepare for a pair of races that celebrate genuine winter weather.
Here's what's planned for Winnipeg over the coming weeks:
Ice Donkey Winter Adventure
Sunday, Feb. 10
The goods: A five-kilometre obstacle course.
Location: The former Southwood Golf Course grounds at the University of Manitoba's Fort Garry campus.
What's up: Now in its fourth year, Ice Donkey has dropped its earlier multi-sport format in favour of an obstacle-course run. The change was made to open up the Winnipeg race to more participants.
"People loved the old format, but you needed all this equipment. As long as you can run, you can do this one," said Jan Cmela, one of the organizers with Swamp Donkey Adventure Racing, which runs a total of four events throughout the year: Ice Donkey, Pain In The Assiniboine (June 23), the Dirty Donkey Mud Run (Aug. 17) and The Swamp Donkey multi-sport race (Sept. 21).
Unlike some of the other events, There's only one tier of competition at Ice Donkey, although the large number of entries means the race is divided up into several heats. The idea is to encourage participation from anyone, not just superathletes.
"Our goal is to get people off the couch and outside, regardless of the weather," Cmela said. "The obstacles are meant to bring back the memories of when you were a kid and played outside in the winter."
Duration: An average of 45 minutes per competitor, though the very fit may finish in far less time.
Participants: Approximately 300 in 2012. Somewhere between 400 and 500 are expected this year.
Registration deadline: Feb. 8
Entry fee: $65 plus GST
More info: www.swampdonkeyar.com
Actif Epica
Saturday, Feb. 16
The goods: A 130-kilometre endurance race for cyclists and runners.
Route: St. Malo to The Forks in Winnipeg, passing through St. Pierre-Jolys, Otterburne, Niverville and St. Adolphe along the way.
The goods: Inspired by Minnesota's Arrowhead 135 winter race, Actif Epica launched last year with the intention of challenging cyclists to a marathon slog through deep snow. But mild weather last winter allowed three racers to complete the route in just over six hours.
Race conditions this year should match the expectations of an event that's intended to pit participants against the elements.
"We looked at the conditions here and thought southern Manitoba is the perfect place for a long race. The defining feature here is the wide open spaces and the extreme wind," said David Pensato, one of Actif Epica's organizers. "The idea is in Manitoba, we're tough and resilient and the winter doesn't stop us."
The race is open this year to people on foot, who get one extra hour to complete the course, which utilizes portions of the Crow Wing Trail, crosses the Red River Floodway and winds up with a section on the frozen surface of the Seine River. Both cyclists and runners are allowed to stop and rest along the way, provided they ensure their bivisacks are in sight of the trail, for safety purposes.
Pensato said he isn't sure who will find the race more difficult this year -- cyclists, who can move more quickly on open stretches, or runners, who don't have to carry bikes through deep snow. "It all depends on the conditions that day," he said.
Duration: Cyclists are allotted 24 hours to complete the race; runners get 25 hours. In 2012, completion times ranged from 6:10 to 13:28.
Participants: There were 35 races in 2012. Organizers are expecting 60 to 70 this year.
Qualifications: Entrants must have completed a 200-kilometre road race, 100-kilometre offroad race or a 130-kilometre mountain-bike race. Other racing experience and/or cold-weather experience may be considered.
Registration deadline: Feb. 9
Entry fee: $75
More info: actifepi.ca


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Jennifer Love Hewitt in a bikini
Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy slipped off to Hawaii for a vacation where apparently JLove wore a bikini while playing tennis. Which is amazing because I actually didn't want to rip my eyes out while whipping Jenny Craig meals at the monitor. Who saw that coming? Be honest.
EDIT: Had to remove the tennis pics because of copyright issues. But, hey, nothing sexier than staring at a woman through a fence. Jon Gosselin knows what I'm talking about.
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SEVERE storms earlier in the year brought down many local trees, but few as large as a 25 metre high black poplar which originally stood on the boundary fence of Alvechurch and Hopwood Cricket Club's ground off Birmingham Road.
The tree crashed down across Willow Brook and onto part of The Meadows playing fields, owned by Alvechurch Parish Council.
Parish council safety checks showed that the trunk and huge root ball were safe but with the cricket season about to start and the annual Picnic in the Park community event just round the corner, the pressure was on to remove the tree and allow easy access from The Meadows to the cricket club.
This is where Network Rail stepped in to help. The company and its contractors are currently working in the parish on the Redditch Branch Enhancement project. When completed later this year, this will mean increased capacity on the Cross-City rail link to Birmingham and better facilities at Alvechurch station.
Construction work on the railway includes felling many trees and as soon as Network Rail heard of the cricket club's tree problem, they were keen to turn their chainsaws to another use in the parish.
Their specialist tree surgeons, Wildside, who support main contractor Buckingham Group Contracting on railway-based tree work, spent two days reducing the black poplar to a massive pile of logs and wood chippings. The latter have helped improve the path from the playing fields through to the cricket club itself.
Parish council chairman Andy Humphries, said: "I'm delighted that Network Rail and their contractor could help the parish council and cricket club so quickly. They had the skills, experience and equipment needed for such a large tree."
Roger Clarke, Network Rail's project manager, said: "It's always good to be able to help local people out. We do understand that our construction work can disturb those living nearby and it's good to give something back to those communities."
Volunteers from Alvechurch Village Society have weighed in too by replacing a wooden footbridge smashed by the tree as it fell. AVS maintains the footpaths around the parish.


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Jim posted these last week and I knew that I had to try them out for myself. I won't get into much detail since Jim covered most of it, but I did do mine a bit different. I cooked mine at about 475 direct for about 8 minutes per side, turning 90 deg halfway through and pulled them when they hit 140 (not quite exactly 16 minutes). I did not do any portion of this cook indirect as he did.
Rubbed and ready to go
Plated up with Bush's Texas Ranchero beans and some corn on the cob.
I'm not really sold on this recipe. Maybe if you like steak sauce, you'd like this more than I did. I'm not a fan of steak sauce, so I actually had to go buy some. By itself, I didn't care for the sauce at all. When paired up with the chops, the flavor of the sauce and the ingredients of the rub worked well together. Not sure I would make it again, think I'll save the bourbon for the cook (me). Mrs. G took one taste of the sauce and refused to put any on her plate. Not everything is for everybody, I guess.


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The New York Times is all about nurses today!
In this "Fixes" piece on "The Power of Nursing," David Bornstein talks about the Nurse Family Partnership (where nurses make home visits to families beginning early in a mother's pregnancy and continuing until the child is 2) and its great successes in improving health and preventing all kinds of troubles — including criminality later in life for the kiddos. Perhaps the most interesting thing he notes? It doesn't work if someone who isn't a nurse makes the same kind of visits.
Lawyer's favorite part:
What's special about nurses? For one thing, trust. In public opinion polls, nurses are consistently rated as the most honest and ethical professionals by a large margin.
That's definitely not, er, something people say about lawyers.


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Does anyone know the identities of the unknown Death Eaters in the film version of OOTP? I thought they might be listed in the cast, but I can't seem to find them. I thought it would be good to have images of them in their respective articles, if we can identify them that is. Here's one I found, I think it's supposed to be Dolohov, but i'm not sure. . Jayce Carver Talk 13:44, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
- As far as I know, no source identifies which Death Eater is supposed to be which. With the release of the next couple of films, we may have something to compare them with if they keep the same actors. This list only identifies them as Death Eaters, although one is played by Peter Best, who also played the Executioner (who we know to be McNair) in Prisoner of Azkaban. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 14:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Ah, he appears to be the one in the Photo. Does that make this man Walden Macnair by default, as we know he participated in the battle. Jayce Carver Talk 14:12, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
- I agree that makes the Death Eater holding Luna Walden Macnair. I would think that Antonin Dolohov was the Death Eater holding Hermione (based on the novel version of the battle), but since the film version differed considerably, I'm not sure. Oread 14:21, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I've found another image with one of the unknown Death Eaters (left of Lucius Malfoy). I think it's the same one who was holding Ron a little earlier in the film, but I have no idea who it's supposed to be. Oread 07:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Nice image. No the one that was holding Ron was a lot older and had a bushy beard. I've just checked the clip out on Youtube and this guy was the one that was holding Hermoine. There was one with slicked back black hair that was holding Ginny, Macnair had Luna, Bellatrix had Neville, there was an older guy with curly gray hair and beard that had Ron in a headlock. As the (apparently) oldest of the group, I think the one with Ron was supposed to Dolohov, and the two younger guys are Rabastan and Rodolphous, but who knows. If we could get images of all of them it would be great. Also there was a number of Death Eaters who didnt take their masks off at all, do we know the full list of Death Eaters who took part in that battle? Ps, Who hasn't seen the new trailer yet, if not get on Youtube and watch it straight away, it's awesome, it shows the Death Eaters brining down the Millenium Bridge and tearing through the streets of London. Jayce Carver Talk 10:02, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I've just realised, this guy was also in the Azkaban breakout scene. He was the same cell as Bellatrix and was licking his Dark Mark, I think this leads some evidence to the Lestrange theory, he was probably Rodolphous himself. Jayce Carver Talk 10:13, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
We know the full list of Death Eaters who took part in the battle in the novel, but it seems as if fewer than 12 appeared in the movie version. They were:
- Lucius -- threatening Harry and not holding anyone
- Bellatrix -- holding Neville
- Macnair -- holding Luna
- Rodolphus -- maybe holding Hermione
- Dolohov -- maybe holding Ron
- Rabastan -- holding Ginny (?)
- Rookwood
- Avery Jr.
- Nott
- Jugson
- Mulciber
- Crabbe
I agree that your Lestrange theory probably fits best, given that the same actor played the person in Bellatrix's cell (is it this guy I managed to find a picture of?). Since the film did not include all the details from the book, it would make sense if they prioritized including the Lestranges. The only thing is, if we try to follow the books, it would make more sense if the Rodolphus and Dolohov figures were reversed. In the novel version of the battle, Dolohov attacked Hermione and dueled with Sirius (and the above actor played the Death Eater who held Hermione and briefly fights Sirius), whereas Rodolphus was part of the group that tracked Ron, Ginny and Luna. Of course, the scene is so wildly different in the film that that could be entirely irrelevant... Oread 01:34, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Well they appear to be the same guy. I don't think we can use the book to allocate them identites, like you said the two scenes are just two diffrent. Although I agree from a film makers perspective it makes sense that putting the two other guys in the same cell as Bellatrix creates the imperssion that they are the Lestrange brothers, so it was probably intentional. I'am going to try and find images of the other two. Jayce Carver Talk 09:54, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Here's another image, terrible quality I know, but it illustrates the point. This I think is Dolohov. Jayce Carver Talk 10:43, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
- I agree that we can be pretty certain those two are the Lestrange brothers. I'll try to find images of the others as well... Oread 16:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Right a breakthrough. I've identified the actor who plays Ron's captor, Richard Cubison. According to his article here, as well as a few others on Harry Potter fansites, Antonin Dolohov is played by Richard Cubison, I'm not sure if it's concreate, but were getting somewhere at last. Jayce Carver Talk 20:09, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
- Excellent. The actor shown in the Azkaban break-out is Arben Bajraktaraj -- Rodolphus or Rabastan, though I'm guessing the former, since it would make more sense for Bellatrix to be with her husband than her brother-in-law. The other actors IMDB lists as Death Eaters are Tav MacDougall and Richard Trinder. The latter (I've confirmed it's him based on his filmography) has a video on YouTube; do you recognize which Death Eater he was? Oread 20:57, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Yep, unless I'm much mistaken thats the guy who holds Ginny. Jayce Carver Talk 22:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Okay, so from what I can tell we've confirmed the identities of two of them:
- Richard Cubison = Antonin Dolohov = guy holding Ron hostage
- Peter Best = Walden Macnair = guy holding Luna hostage
And we're pretty certain that:
- Arben Bajraktaraj = Rodolphus Lestrange = guy holding Hermione hostage
- Richard Trinder = Rabastan Lestrange = guy holding Ginny hostage
We only need to figure out who Tav MacDougall played -- I'm not sure how we can narrow him down, though. Oread 00:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
I think I've figured it out. They all wear masks in the hall of phrophecy, when they get into the death chamber they take their masks off, except one guy who doesn't have a captive. This guy gets slamed into the wall by tonks when she apparates into the room, and later gets a blast from Moody's staff which sends him over the edge of the death chamber. This must be the one played by Tav MacDougall. We will unlikely ever know his identity but at least we can eliminate him from our enquiry. Well we've confirmed two eliminated one and have another two who we are fairly certain of, now we just need to find good quality pic's of them all. Jayce Carver Talk 08:18, 17 November 2008 (UTC)Ş
- I've adjusted the appropriate articles and images in line with our conclusions. I didn't add the picture of Richard Cubison/Antonin Dolohov with Ron, in case we manage to find a better-quality image. So I'll try looking for that as well as Richard Trinder/Rabastan Lestrange holding Ginny. Oread 15:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
What about the guy who longbottom defeated in the hall of prohocies (bad spelling sorry) the guy looks bald also he may be Tav who could of played Jugson or Rookwood (also Crabbe and Goyle were unmasked in the fourth movie I was suprised not to see pics of them.) also their were more than just five death eaters in the Hall I counted many of them were probaly stunt men. for good pics check out Screencaps thier pretty good and at one point a DE was chasing harry he was unmasked he also could have been Tav but he looks alot like Roldolphus. (126.96.36.199 01:21, 19 November 2008 (UTC))
- As far as I can tell, there's no way for us to identify all the others, especially since only six of the actors portraying Death Eaters are identified in the film credits (Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Richard Cubison, Peter Best, Arben Bajraktaraj, and Tav MacDougall). Oread 01:55, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
I know that I was just saying that Thier were alot of deatheaters and they wouldn't have credited one with no face time like the one Moody toke down but at one point Longbottom puts an unmasked Bald deatheater in a full body bind before every one got cought this is probaly the one Tav plays thats all I just started to rample (184.108.40.206 03:22, 19 November 2008 (UTC))
- I'm uploading some better quality stils of the death eaters. -- Seth Cooper Owl Post 17:27, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
I completely forgot about the bald one who neville puts in a full body bind curse. Yes, that must be the one played by Tav, the guy who chases Harry down the hall of prophecy is Rodolphus. I'm sure you're right, it would not make sense for the other masked ones to be credited, and they probably are played by stunt men. Jayce Carver Talk 14:55, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm guessing that Tav played Rookwood because he dosen't have a partner when you see the other death Eaters in that area they are 2 close by Malfoy and DE who attacks Luna or the 2 who attack Ron Harry and Hermonie one of wich I think was Rodolphus. also Crabbe Goyle and Avery were cast in GOF and if they brought back Peter Best theyed probaly bring them back (184.108.40.206 01:51, 22 November 2008 (UTC))
- How do you know he was Rookwood, though? In the novel, there were twelve Death Eaters involved. From the movies, we've matched six actors with six characters. Tav MacDougall could have been any of the remaining six. Oread 04:20, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Well in the Novel Nott was taken out before the chase so he would have been one of the guys that were stunned before they ran. next Malfoy was teamed up with Mulciber in the book so the DE who appeared and attacked Luna right after Malfoy is stunned was probaly Mulciber. then thier are the two who attack Harry Ron and Herimone Since after the first guy is taken out Rodolphus showed up probaly meant that it was his brother making the other guy who was being hit by orbs Crabbe that leaves Rookwood and Avery and since Avery is snapes age he wouldn't be Bald of course the Movie makers probaly didn't even bother naming them making it the actors who gave them the names. (22.214.171.124 15:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC))
I don't think we can rule out Mulciber simply because he is bald, people do shave their heads you know. Jayce Carver Talk 16:05, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
I ruled out Avery because he was bald Mulciber was the guy who attacked Luna right after Malfoy was hit since they were partners. and since Macnair and Dolovhov made it to the Death room Jugson and Avery were probaly the DEs who were masked and taken out by moody and one of the order in their Aparated form. and the Three guys who attacked Harry Ron and Hermy were most likely the Lestrange brothers and Crabbe Since the unmasked one was Rodolhus, Rabaston was probaly one of the other two ethier the one harry takes out or the one being hit by orbs since he was partnered with crabbe would be ether one or the other, as I said above Nott wasn't in the chase in the book and was probaly stunned in the beganing. Also the Bald guy wasn't saved the was defintly Bald Bald that leaves Rookwood even though I strongly belived Rookwood was the guy holding Ron but movies never get bad guys right.(220.127.116.11 16:37, 22 November 2008 (UTC))
We can't rule out anybody because their bald. The film and book versions of the battle are too diffrent to identify the Death Eaters your way. And through the actor playing him we've confirmed that the Death Eater holding Ron is Antonin Dolohov Jayce Carver Talk 16:41, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm Not ruling any one out by being bald I was talking about age Avery and Mulciber are snapes age and snape like late 30s this guy looks early 50s Nott is 70 I belive thats what JK said. what about the guys from GOF 7 were umasked and Malfoy Crabbe Goyle and Macnair were named Also Avery was flimed but his Toruted Scence was cut the Actor was to the far left and you can tell were they cut it I belive Nott was their as well seeing as their was and Older deatheater with a Cane and if the brought back Peter Best why not these guys so that leaves Rookwood and Jugson. Jugson being Mentioned once is easly forgotten (188.8.131.52 17:17, 22 November 2008 (UTC))
I don't think we can use the actors ages to allocate them identities. After all, Alan Rickman, who plays Snape is in his sixties, despite his character being in his thirties. see what I mean. Jayce Carver Talk 19:13, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
I know just saying he probaly wasn't Nott (and you used age logic on the Lestrange brothers) or the guys cast in GOF (Crabbe Goyle Macnair Avery and maybe Nott) also well see Rookwood in the 7th movie when he kills Fred also Tav has said he plays Travers which makes no scense since travers was never their unless travers is a first name(126.96.36.199 19:33, 22 November 2008 (UTC))
He said that? Do you have a source? Jayce Carver Talk 19:46, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Its on the Main wiki in List of Harry Potter Cast members the sorce they got it from no longer exsists though. its probaly one of those us the actors name for the extra the do it alot on other movies (220.127.116.11 20:05, 22 November 2008 (UTC))
It's authentic. Well that's all of them. We just need a picture of Tav to go on the Travers article, and then we can move on to the GoF Death Eaters, which should be a lot easier, as Voldemort says their names before pulling their masks off. Jayce Carver Talk 20:13, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah and their are only 7 of them before the Harry Voldy face off anyway and one is a female DE leaving 6 guysand If Im not mistaken only six DE's were mentioned in the book Nott Crabbe Malfoy Goyle Avery and Macnair. out of these guys four were named in this oder Crabbe Macnair Goyle and Malfoy but all 7 were unmasked leaving Avery and Nott to be the other 2 Actors Avery was played by Richard Rubber Rithie Rosson His torture scence was cut but he's still standing in the circle I belive to the Far left That leaves Nott as the The DE to Malfoys left and to the Chicks right I believe he ha a cane so the Circle I belive goes from lefft to right Avery Crabbe Macnair Goyle Chick Nott and far right Malfoy (18.104.22.168 23:45, 22 November 2008 (UTC))
I've just had a thought. Doesn't Rodolphus have a picture on the Black Family tree? We have images of much lesser known and more obscure members. I think they come from the second disk of the OotP dvd. If such an image does exist it would confirm or refute Rodolphus's appearance, and would be usefull in his article. Jayce Carver Talk 08:26, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
What part of the DVD is the Tree in I don't remember it is it on the Blu Ray version? (188.8.131.52 00:15, 25 November 2008 (UTC))
The Tree is the main menu of the 2nd DVD. The camera goes through a section of the tree and then stops at the other section where are the main options. When the camera passes the names, some images of black family members a re shown. Guess I'll have a look for it. -- Seth Cooper Owl Post 18:25, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
- Nope, only Blacks have a picture. Only Rodolphus' name was present, under Bellatrix's name (on those little pieces of parchment) -- Seth Cooper Owl Post 18:51, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
Ok on the the fourth movie Death Eaters
- 1 Avery played by Richard Rubber Rithcie Rossom seen far right in circle tortuer scence cut
- 2 Crabbe first to get mask removed
- 3 Goyle Third to get mask removed
- 4 Nott guy to Malfoys left has Cane
- 5 Malfoy we already know
- 6 Female Most likly Narcrissca since its a movie and I don't think at that point it had been stated that she wasn't
- 7 Mcnair second guy to get mask ripped off
From the research I have done, Arben is Antonin Dolohov. YES Peter IS Walden Macnair.
Holding Ronald Bilius Weasley: One of the Lestrange Brothers (Maybe Rodolphus)
Holding Ginny Weasley: Travers
Holding Neville Longbottom: Bellatrix Lestrange
Talking to Harry Potter: Lucius Malfoy
Holding Hermione Granger: Antonin Dolohov
Holding Luna Lovegood: Walden Macnair
Standing against the walls: Jugson, One of the Lestrange Brothers, Rookwood, Avery Jr, Crabbe, Jugson, Mulciber Jr, Nott Jr. (188.8.131.52 19:50, 29 November 2008 (UTC))


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Ekua Bentil hopes to use one of the most cutting-edge lasers in the world to combat a basic, but devastating, problem: illnesses caused by burning firewood indoors.
A graduate student in electrical engineering, Bentil is the recipient of a Technology for Developing Regions fellowship to deploy a gas-sensing system in her native Ghana. Working with researchers at the University of Cape Coast, Bentil will use the system to detect carbon dioxide, ozone and water vapor in the air.
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Bentil returns to Ghana this year under far different circumstances than her re-entry into the country nearly two decades ago. Her family moved from Ghana to Liberia in 1986 for her father to work as a professor at the country's national university. In 1990, eight months after the Liberian Civil War began, the family escaped by walking some 30 miles on foot before boarding a crowded ship to Nigeria. They then spent a week in a Nigerian refugee camp before boarding a cargo ship back to Ghana.
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PELLA — A 12-0 second-half run helped extend the Central College women's basketball team's surprising start with a 67-52 victory over Presentation College (S.D.) Saturday.
Under interim coach Chelsea Petersen, the Dutch are 5-0, matching the program's fastest season start ever, which was first achieved in 2000-01.
Guard Rachel Evans (junior, Fort Dodge) had another strong floor game with a game-high 16 points and eight rebounds along with four assists and four steals. Guard Kaitlin Stump (sophomore, Lancaster, Mo., Schuyler R-1 HS) added 15 points and five assists while guard Kenzie Vander Molen (junior, Pella) had 14 points and five assists.
Central had a seemingly comfortable 29-21 halftime lead but Presentation (2-8) opened the second half with an 11-0 burst for a 32-29 lead at the 16:55 mark.
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Central was still down 45-42 with 9:44 left when senior guard Courtney Kelderman (Pella) knocked down two straight buckets, including a 3-pointer to start the decisive 12-0 spree.
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Central outrebounded Presentation 35-27 and but was outshot by the Saints, 47.4 percent to 42.9. But the Dutch came up with 10 steals and sank 21 of 27 free throws while Presentation made just two of four. And Central had just three turnovers in the second half, and 14 overall.
"I thought offensively, Kenzie Vander Molen, Kaitlin Stump and Rachel Evans did a great job of attacking the rim more (in the second half) than they did and ended up shooting a lot of free throws," Petersen said. "Overall, we just settled down the last 10 minutes. We really committed to the offensive end and did what we needed to, to get defensive stops."
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For much of his career, Clive Barker has been known as the young-turk novelist once famously dubbed "the future of horror" by Stephen King. But Barker has worked in a wide variety of media, as a playwright, an artist, a toy designer for McFarlane Toys, a photographer, and a stage and movie actor. He's also directed a handful of movies based on his work, including the 1987 horror classic Hellraiser, which has spawned five sequels to date, and 1995's Lord Of Illusions. Most of his novels are in some stage of production as movies or TV shows. Still, Barker's phantasmagoric, often massive horror/fantasy books--notably including the Books Of Blood series, Weaveworld, Imagica, The Damnation Game, and the surprisingly kid-friendly The Thief Of Always--have been his most consistently successful works. Barker's latest novel is Coldheart Canyon, a Hollywood ghost story about a failing movie star named Todd Pickett, and his encounters with supernaturally preserved Hollywood icon Katya Lupi. Barker recently spoke to The Onion A.V. Club about the hazards of Hollywood, his work process, and the universality of the extreme.
The Onion: At the moment, it looks like you've got at least 20 projects in the works, at various levels of activity. What are you devoting the most time to these days?
Clive Barker: Two things. Abarat, which is the book which comes out next year, which I've just turned in to my publishers, which is the first book of a quartet of fantasy books for children and adults, which is not just text, but is also associated with about 400 oil paintings that I've done. Now that I've turned in the text, I'm starting to design this book, which won't look like anything I've ever done before, because it's sort of an art book with a huge fantasy structure. It's pretty challenging. The other thing I'm doing is pitching a television show which [Francis Ford] Coppola and I have created. Francis and I are going in, along with the writer, David Goyer, who wrote Blade, to pitch the show.
O: Is this the Lord Of Illusions TV spin-off?
CB: No, it's an entirely different thing. This one is a secret project.
O: You've had a lot of problems with studio censorship of your films. What's it like working with Disney on Abarat? Disney is an incredibly image-conscious company.
CB: Yes, no question. But they have been wonderful. They know what the rest of my life is like. They know I pose naked for photographs. Disney's been very cool about it. They understand that Barker is more than one person. I have an identity as somebody who writes for children, I have an identity as someone who writes very graphic horror novels. They know that's who I am, and I think they're fine with it. They've understood that from the beginning. I think, in a curious kind of way, they feel as though that's what makes me interesting as a potential working colleague. I'm not someone who has just made safe work throughout my life.
O: Do you ever find you have to rein yourself in when you're writing a piece that's meant for children?
CB: Actually, no. In my head, I have a very clear idea of what the model should be, what I should be doing, where I should be going. When I've been writing Abarat, for instance, there's some dark stuff in it, but I'm aware that there are 10-year-olds reading it, and there's just some stuff you don't do. On the other hand, when I'm writing Coldheart Canyon, there won't be any 10-year-olds reading it, so there's no limit.
O: Coldheart Canyon takes the sexuality in your work further than usual.
CB: Definitely a little further than I'd previously gone, no question.
O: From things you've said about writing the book, it seems like it was intended as a much shorter, lighter work, but it developed along the way. Did the sexuality of the book evolve in the same way?
CB: Yes, it absolutely did. It came out of a lot of researching, for one thing. When I started to research old
Hollywood, I discovered... I think I was pretty innocent about old Hollywood. I didn't realize it was a place where people were really being wild. The things that came up over and over again in my reading about the Hollywood of the '20s and early '30s... It was really an unpoliced environment, at least at the level that Katya would have been working at. Until the Hays Commission came along, a lot of the movies were extremely wild, and that reflects back on the personal lives of these folks. If you look at a biography of Valentino or Navarro, or any of these folks who had very sexual public images, that was going on in their home lives. These were pretty wild people during pretty wild times.
O: How did your own movie-making experiences feed into your portrayal of modern-day Hollywood?
CB: I'm very conflicted about modern Hollywood. I've had great times here, and I've had terrible times here. I've met some wonderful people, and I've met some dreadful people. It is a shark-infested pool, but there are also some really nice people here, too. Most of them are missing a limb, but that's what happens when you swim with sharks. Even though the book is a fantasy, I wanted to provide the reader with the feeling of what it's like to be here, to be dealing with the egos, to be dealing with... Some of this stuff is almost in passing. For instance, when Todd is at home in the Canyon, and he can't go to the Oscars, there's this section given over to what the Oscars are really like, beyond all the glamour and E! Television and Joan Rivers talking about the gowns. The kind of fake smiles, the fake kisses, the "Oh, I really hope you do well and I wish you all the best" kind of stuff. And you go to the parties afterwards... I've seen Oscar losers drunk after the ceremony, cursing the person who took the Oscar out from under their noses, saying they're worthless sons of bitches with no talent. It's the stuff that doesn't get shown on the telecasts. In a sense, it's entirely predictable, but it doesn't get spoken about that often.
O: Is that the actor's fault for being petty, or the media's fault for glossing over anything that doesn't reflect well on Hollywood stars?
CB: What we expect of our stars is something abnormal. We expect our stars to be bigger than life, don't we? We expect their behavior to be more generous, more forgiving, but of course they're subject to envy and anger and all the other things. Whose fault is it? I think the issue of fault is perhaps even irrelevant. We all conspire in the illusion-making: the media, the stars themselves, and we who are accepting these fictions, who are applauding these fictions, who turn on our televisions ready to watch these fictions.
O: Given that Coldheart Canyon is so much about the fallacies of celebrity and vanity, it seems kind of ironic that the book uses a glamour shot of the author as cover art.
CB: It's very
O: How did that come about?
CB: It came about in a very interesting way. My husband took a picture of me in the style of George Hurrell, a photographer of the '40s, which I loved. And we gave it to HarperCollins, and they loved it. They did a bound version of the text for BookExpo America, so people could read the text, and they put the author photo on the cover, and everybody went, "Wow, that's a really great cover." Meanwhile, they're designing a cover with the mansion on it, and all the regular things you'd think: klieg lights, you know, Hollywood. And everybody said, "Well, this looks great, but it doesn't look as good as the cover we used at the BEA." Eventually, everybody says, "You know what? Let's just go with the cover we've got." And I said, "No problem. People will pretend it's [Canyon protagonist Willem] Zeffer, or they'll know it's me, or they'll say, 'Isn't this paradoxical? Here's the author playing Todd Pickett, at the age of 49.'"
O: The parts of the book that resonate most strongly, that seemed most real, occur wherever Todd comments on celebrity, and the shallowness of fans, and how it mixes with his need to be seen and to receive approval. Is that you talking, or are you speaking for people you've known?
CB: I'm blessed with not having to be an actor. It's certainly me speaking for people I've known and still know. But then, I've known screenwriters and agents who have committed suicide. It isn't just actors. This is a deeply envious culture, and a deeply competitive culture. I'm not saying anything the world doesn't know, but this is a place where if you fail one too many times, you're erased. You don't exist anymore. I don't like to name names, so I've changed the names in the book, but everyone I've spoken of, I know or have knowledge of. I've known directors who were at the top of the tree whose names you would not now know. They made a wrong turn, they believed their own publicity, got a little too confident, a little too much ego, and suddenly they were in a dark cul-de-sac, without an agent holding their hands. When Nightbreed came out, my own agent called me up and said, "I think it's time I let you go." I said, "Well, it's only one movie. I hope to do better next time." "No," she said, "I think I'll let you go." No room for failure.
O: Is that why you haven't directed a movie in so many years? Lord Of Illusions was back in 1995.
CB: I've been up to my neck in books. But I don't think I'll direct any more movies. I think it's a young man's game, I really do. You've got to really, really, really love cinema, to almost an obsessive degree, to put up with the bullshit. I love books to that degree: I'll put up with any amount of bullshit to get my books out. And I love paintings to that degree. But I don't love cinema to that
O: Is there any compensation in directing your own work, in getting the extra level of control over your adaptations?
CB: Oh, sure, absolutely, yeah. You're getting to choose the actors, the costumes... You get lots of control. But there are also incredibly petty battles, battles of painful pettiness, which don't stop when you finish making the movie. I'm still fighting battles about money owed, or how they package the DVD, with movies I made 10 years ago. In a way, it never ceases. You could say, "Are you arguing about those things where books are concerned?" And, no, I've never had to put a bunch of lawyers on a publisher to ask where my money is. If they send me a cover design I don't like and I say, "Hey, change it," it gets changed. But one of the problems with this town is that there's very little consistency from day to day, month to month, year to year. It's a game of musical chairs here. And even though it's true that there are only 50 people running this town, so eventually if you stay here long enough you'll meet the same people, there's very little accountability. When your movie goes onto DVD, the person in the DVD department has nothing to do with the features department, so you can't say, "Well, I was promised..." Whatever promises were made, they'll just say, "Well, that was them." But also, the regime will have changed by the time you make the movie. I had this happen to me in the middle of Nightbreed. One of my executive producers flew over to London to see me, and said, "I have some bad news. I've parted from the person I've been working with. You haven't met him, but he's a mad dog." I said, "So, where does that leave me?" He said, "I'm afraid it leaves you working with a mad dog, because I'm leaving to do something else." So you work with the mad dog. You have no choice.
O: There was a project you were going to direct later this year, in theory: American Horror Movie.
CB: There's a perfect example. I turned the script in to Mike De Luca at New Line, and he laughed and went off to head up DreamWorks. The script is stuck with New Line, who decided it's too dark and violent for them to make, but they won't release it so I can take it anywhere else.
O: You mentioned that you changed the names of some of the real people appearing in Coldheart Canyon, but you also use the actual names of some actors, who don't always appear in a flattering light.
CB: We had a lot of lawyers on the issue, a lot of lawyers asking questions, and they had me change things to disguise people a little better. One of the issues was, "Are you saying something that people will really believe?" Because to defame someone, readers have got to genuinely believe that these things might be true. I don't think anyone believes that the ghost of Theda Bara is somewhere in the
hills of Hollywood, mating with strange animals. The book moves into a fantasy zone. The places where I had to be more careful, and where the lawyers made sure I was more careful, was where there was a very close likeness to people that exist.
O: Are you taking an active hand in any of the dozen or so potential adaptations of your works floating around Hollywood at the moment?
CB: It depends on which ones. Some of them, I just let them go on their way. It also depends where they are in the process. At the very beginning and at the very end, I tend to be active. When the thing is going through various drafts, and there are notes, I leave my staff to do a brilliant job of making sure all that gets done, and I concentrate on the books. There are only so many things you can do in a day, especially when you're getting to the end of a book. And I've had the last three months on Abarat. Occasionally, I'll take a meeting, but it's pretty rare. You delegate and rely upon people to do the work on your behalf. I have a brilliant agent who's been extraordinarily supportive, and not only that, he understands where my tastes lie. A lot of that is important. You want to be dealing with people who understand who you are sufficiently well that they can make a choice on your behalf in your absence.
O: Are any of the potential adaptations pet projects for you? Any you'd particularly like to see made?
CB: Damnation Game would certainly be something I would love to see made. Abarat, at Disney, I'm very passionate about. Weaveworld has been in development for eight years at Showtime, and one of these days, one of these years, one of these millennia, I'd like to see that made, too. There's nothing I actively don't want to see made, or I wouldn't have put it into production in the first place, but there are certainly things where you think, "Yeah, that would make a great movie."
O: What happened with the multimedia CD-ROM you were doing with Korn's Jonathan Davis?
CB: He has all my images. I think we're looking at Jonathan having the music finished by the end of the year.
O: When you get up in the morning, how do you decide whether it's going to be a writing day, or a painting day, or a creating-new-toy-designs-for-Todd McFarlane day, or what?
CB: Some of it's about meetings that have been set at long distance. Todd is a very busy man, so we tend to set meetings two or three months ahead, always for the later part of the afternoon, when I've finished writing. Every day, I write. I'm at my desk between 8:30 and 9 every day without fail, seven days a week, because that's the heart of everything. Whether it's a screenplay, a novel, or a short story, that's where I'm going to be beginning. Once I get into the latter part of the afternoon, I'll take meetings. I'll sit with my team and talk about where things are going, maybe
sit and read a screenplay. And then in the evening, I'll paint.
O: What's the writing process like for you?
CB: With the large novels, I tend to plot them pretty carefully, because with a book like Coldheart Canyon, where there's a lot of research to be done, and the resonance lies in being able to plot a character arc... If you look at the characters in Coldheart Canyon, almost none of them end the novel in the same psychic or spiritual state that they began it. Not to speak of the physical state. [Laughs.] They also change physically, obviously. But the selfish, inward-looking, self-obsessed Todd Pickett of the beginning is not the Todd Pickett of the end. That journey is one of the things that novels allow you to do. It's one of the great things about having a story at that length to tell. You get a chance to luxuriate in the narrative. You lean back in the narrative and have fun with it.
O: One of the unusual aspects of your books is the way they carry on after the point that would be a traditional ending for most novels. Coldheart Canyon, for instance, goes on for about 50 pages after where a movie version would probably end.
CB: Right. [Laughs.] Right. I think there's lots more to tell. Sometimes, I think there's more fun to be had, and more insight to be had, in the last 50 pages of a book, if you continue to observe how the characters respond to the sights they've seen and the horrors they've endured. To give you a kind of dark parallel, we are, as a country right now, only [a short span of time] into reeling from the events of Sept. 11. And we will continue to reel. And watching us as a group of people, as a society, as individuals, respond to those things—to rediscover our spirituality, perhaps, or to lose faith with our spirituality, perhaps—those are extraordinary things that are happening, changes that will continue happening long after, if you will, the story has ceased. I'm interested, as a storyteller, in seeing what happens after other people would have written "The End" at the end of the manuscript.
O: You've said in interviews that you're not a horror writer, but you tend to use traditional horror-novel tropes, which you usually remake with new rules, like the ghosts in Coldheart Canyon. Why begin with something that's been written to death when you're going to set out in a new direction anyway?
CB: Everything has been written to death. There are no fresh things in all the world. The dead are the dead and the living are the living, now let's go on—right. The idea of the ghost, the talkative dead, is as open to re-imagining as the idea of the solider, the nurse, the seamstress. I could venture out into space. What do you find out in space? You find, as generations of science-fiction writers have discovered, the same old stories. Stories of love and the loss of love, and disappointment, and anger, and avarice, and so on. Even when we create entirely new species—when I travel to a new dimension in Weaveworld, or in Abarat, or in Imagica—the things which motivate people don't change, in part because these are the facts of what we know about the world, but in part also because the audience needs something to relate to. The things that motivate people, and creatures, are universals. One person has more than another, one person is loved more than another. These things are places we return to. What I'm trying to do, constantly, is make them fresh, make them feel new.
O: Thematically, your work is pretty far out there. You deal a lot with the grotesque and the extreme, with images from sadomasochism to self-consumption. Do you think these kinds of things are universal motivators?
CB: Yes. Completely. But I think if you were to do a page count in Coldheart Canyon and see how many pages deal with S&M, it would be a very small count. Those extremes are things I like to be able to press into the fiction, but I like the people who experience those things in the fiction to be people that I've familiarized the audience with by telling the audience about them in some detail. An obvious example would be the death of the dog in Coldheart Canyon. Todd is not a very pleasant man, and if we didn't have that extended passage in which nothing supernatural happens, and he just tends to his dog, I don't think we'd like him very much. But once we've gotten into his skin, once we realize he's really just a guy from out of town who has a beautiful face and mourns his dog, then we can go on an adventure with him. That adventure will take us to some pretty extreme places, as you say, no question. But I think that the universality comes in the portions with the guy and his dog, rather than the adventure he's going to go on, or what lies at the end of the adventure. All of us have extreme moments in our lives. All of us have had times when we've thought, "Is this really us doing this?" Sex, sexuality, the erotic instinct, can make us do extraordinary things. They may not be the things I'm detailing in my books, but they can be different things. One of the things I get out of the fans... I had a signing last night, and several times at the signing people came along, saying, "You make me feel like I'm not the only one."


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