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Barcelona became the first team to make it to five consecutive European Cup semi-finals, potentially setting up another meeting with Chelsea. A 52nd-minute goal from Andrés Iniesta and the two previous penalties that gave Leo Messi 14 Champions League goals for the season, breaking José Atalfini's 50-year-old record, took them to a 3-1 victory over Milan. As an added bonus, they did so without suspensions and without the returning Zlatan Ibrahimovic scoring against them.
The night ended with songs and even an olé or two as the match slipped under Barcelona's control. But it had not always appeared comfortable. Ibrahimovic had caused problems, there will be debate about the second penalty and, at least until Iniesta struck, this was a night in which the nerves invaded Camp Nou.
The 0-0 draw in the first leg left the tie on an edge, making it so that a single goal either way meant the greatest of swings. It also appeared to pose a dilemma for Barcelona: go for goals or go for control? Pep Guardiola was adamant that his team would attack – "our objective will be to create chances" The reason was simple: Milan, he said, would score. There was little point in protecting a slender lead where a solitary moment could mean elimination. Possession was as important as ever but it had to be with an attacking purpose.
That posed another problem: how to drag Milan out and create space. With that in mind, Alexis was left out for Isaac Cuenca. He gave width, right out on the left touchline. Dani Alves prowled high on the right, effectively leaving a high three-man defence. Messi and Cesc Fábregas were part centre forwards, part central midfielders, often creating a line of four up front: Cuenca, Fábregas, Messi, Alves. The plan was familiar for Barcelona; occupy space outside to create space inside. It was also risky.
Milan spread three across the middle. Ibrahimovic and Robinho were their outlets, with Kevin-Prince Boateng close to them. When they progressed, there was space and for Barcelona, there were nerves, even after they took an 11th-minute lead. Messi blocked Ignazio Abate's pass and the rebound became a through-ball, the chase towards it a straight sprint. Messi beat Mexes to it. Rather than shooting, he laid it off to Xavi who, crowded out, nudged it to Iniesta. When the ball ran free to Messi, he turned past Luca Antonini and was brought down.
Messi's low penalty squeezed in between the post and Christian Abbiati's hand. Barcelona wanted an early goal, but this was not over. The home side continued to push. By half time Abbiati had made a handful of saves; few though were truly outstanding.
And just after the half-hour Barcelona had been caught. Ibrahimovic turned and slotted the ball into the path of Antonio Nocerino, who side-footed it past Victor Valdés. Barcelona had been warned and their nervousness was greater now. They had been looking for the second goal anyway but now desire became an obligation.
The second came from another penalty fractionally before half-time, and the first reaction all round this stadium was surprise. From a Barcelona corner, Sergio Busquets was held by Alessandro Nesta, pulled towards the ground, and Bjorn Kuipers blew. At first it was not clear what for but Milan's players surrounding the referee was a clue. The wait for Messi was a long one, but the pressure did not stop him finding the other corner and scoring his 14th Champions League goal – the highest total in the history of the European Cup. If before Guardiola had assumed the risk, he now sought to minimise it. He immediately sent Alves to full back, establishing a line of four, and switched Cuenca over the right wing. Barcelona still attacked, though and so did Milan – in the very first minute of the second half they were appealing for a penalty of their own. The game remained on edge.
Not for long. Soon Messi's run ended with his deflected shot squirming through to Iniesta, who controlled and knocked it past Abbiati. At last the home side had the cushion they craved; they could step down off that knife edge and keep the ball without the pressing need to score or the sense of impending doom every time Milan attacked. Robinho charged down Piqué's clearance and raced through. Valdés made the save – what he didn't know was that the referee had pulled the play back anyway.
The control was Barcelona's and they continued to press high up the pitch, denying Milan the oxygen to emerge and attack them. The best chances fell Barcelona's way too, Thiago putting the ball wide from Messi's clever pass, Messi sliding in to try to reach Thiago's late cross, and Adriano scuffing wide when clean through. There were few other opportunities. Barcelona no longer needed to seek them; they had earned the right not to. They had sought out and earned their place in the semi-final. Again.


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i. | Abel Farrar, born Abt. 1716 in Chesterfield Co., VA376; died Abt. 1761376 |
Notes for Abel Farrar: [Family Tree Maker, Genealogies of Virginia Families II, Cl-Fi, The Farrar Family p. 744, Broderbund Software, Banner Blue Division] In an act for paying militia who had been in active service, passed in 1765 (Hening), there appears, under the head of Chesterfield county, a payment for services in 1760 to George Farrar for balance of Abel Farrar's pay as Lieutenant. In the Journal of the House of Burgesses, November 16, 1764, is an entry of the submission of a claim of Abel Farrar as a Lieutenant in the new recruits for 139 days' service. |
More About Abel Farrar: Military service: Died in the French and Indian War.376 |
46 | ii. | William Farrar, Sr., born 1718 in Chesterfield Co., VA; died 1788 in Granville Co., NC; married (1) Winifred Clark; married (2) Lucy Medley 24 Jul 1780 in Mecklenburg Co., Virginia. | ||
iii. | George Farrar, born 1720 in Chesterfield Co., VA376; died Abt. 1761 in Mecklenburg Co., VA376; married Diana Hillsman Howard; died Unknown. |
Notes for George Farrar: I am making the assumption that death occurred in Mecklenburg Co., Virginia and not Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina. Source says only that he died in Mecklenburg County. |
iv. | Mary Farrar, born 1720376; died Abt. 1793376; married Thomas Moore Abt. 1744 in Mecklenburg Co., VA; born Abt. 1794; died Unknown. |
More About Thomas Moore: Will Probated: 13 Jul 1795, Mecklenburg Co., Virginia Will Written: 31 Mar 1793 |
More About Thomas Moore and Mary Farrar: Marriage: Abt. 1744, Mecklenburg Co., VA |
v. | Field Farrar, born 1724 in Chesterfield Co., VA376,377; died Aft. 1772 in North Carolina378; married Martha; died Unknown. |
Notes for Field Farrar: Field Farrow granted a deed on 6 Nov 1752 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. |
vi. | Thomas Farrar, born 10 Aug 1726 in Farrar's Island, Henrico Co., VA378; died 16 Sep 1809 in Franklin Co., GA378; married Elizabeth Howard Abt. 1752 in Franklin Co., GA; died Unknown. |
Notes for Thomas Farrar: May have been born in Chesterfield Co., Virginia. His obituary in Franklin County, Georgia stated that he was a cousin of President Thomas Jefferson. (Warren, M. B.: Marriages and Deaths in Extant Georgia Newspapers, 1763-1831, page 35; Athens, Georgia Express 9 September 1809; Augusta, Georgia Chronicle 10 September 1809, noted in Genealogical Journal Vol. 15, Summer 1986.) |
More About Thomas Farrar: Military service: Revolutionary War - Major378 |
More About Thomas Farrar and Elizabeth Howard: Marriage: Abt. 1752, Franklin Co., GA |
vii. | Capt. John Farrar, born 1728 in Virginia378; died 1808 in Wake Co., North Carolina378; married (1) Rebecca Puryear Bef. 1788; died Unknown; married (2) Judith Williams 1788 in Wake Co., North Carolina378; died Unknown. |
Notes for Capt. John Farrar: John Farrar took the oath as a Second Lieutenant on 08 Feb 1778; he took the oath as Captain on 09 Jun 1783. |
More About Capt. John Farrar: Military service: Revolutionary War - Second Lieutenant, Captain |
More About John Farrar and Rebecca Puryear: Marriage: Bef. 1788 |
viii. | Peter Farrar, born 06 Jun 1730 in Chesterfield Co., VA378; died Abt. 1815 in Edgefield Co., South Carolina378; married Mary Magdalene Chastaine 17 Jan 1754 in Henrico Co., VA378; died Unknown. |
Notes for Peter Farrar: Peter Farrow of Amelia County, Virginia and wife Mary Magdalene granted a deed for 395 acres in Lunenburg County on 26 June 1760. |
More About Peter Farrar and Mary Chastaine: Marriage: 17 Jan 1754, Henrico Co., VA378 |
ix. | Priscilla Isabel Farrar, born 09 Jun 1729 in Chesterfield, , Virginia379; died Abt. 1808 in Madison/Carlton, Franklin, GA380,381; married Henry Howard 06 May 1762 in Mecklenburg Co., VA382; born 09 Jun 1729 in Lunenberg Co., VA383; died 02 Dec 1781 in Winterville, GA383. |
More About Priscilla Isabel Farrar: Date born 2: 1740384 |
More About Henry Howard and Priscilla Farrar: Marriage: 06 May 1762, Mecklenburg Co., VA384 |
Notes for Lucy Harding: Her birth was recorded in the Rock Creek Parish Register. |
i. | Robert Lazenby III, born 27 Mar 1750 in Maryland395; died Abt. 1835 in Bedford Co., Virginia396; married (1) Margery Ridgway; born 08 Dec 1751397,398; died 28 Oct 1821 in Jefferson Co., VA399,400; married (2) Mary Aft. 1821; died Unknown. |
Notes for Robert Lazenby III: Robert Lazenby acquired land in Bedford County, Virginia on May 11, 1801. The land was located on the south side of the Staunton River. [Mary Elinor Lazenby, Lazenby - Some Account of Families in the United States Which Bear the Name, (Old Neighborhoods Press, Washington, DC, 1942), 13] Robert Lazenby probably married a second time, because his surviving wife was named Mary. |
More About Robert Lazenby III: Date born 2: Abt. 1750, Maryland401,402 Date born 3: 02 Mar 1749/50403 Died 2: 13 Jan 1835404,405 Military service: Patriot Service - Maryland406 |
Notes for Margery Ridgway: Margery Ridgway was probably the same Margery Ridgway who married Robert Lazenby. Robert Lazenby's wife was named Margery. Margery Ridgway's sister Sarah married Thomas Lazenby, brother of Robert. Robert Lazenby settled in Virginia, where Margery Ridgway died. |
ii. | John Lazenby, born Abt. 1750 in Maryland407,408; died 22 Oct 1787 in Georgia408; married Deborah; died Unknown. |
Notes for John Lazenby: John Lazenby was executor of his father's estate. He and his wife Deborah sold the family farm, "Wolf's Den," on 22 Oct 1787 to Samuel Bonifield (Bonifant?) for �297. John Lazenby joined his brother Elias in Georgia. He settled in Warren County, on Hart's Creek, about ten miles north of Camak. In Georgia, he was known among his descendants as Jones Lazenby. One of his descendants had tax papers and other papers relating to Wolf's Den, the homeplace in Maryland. [Mary Elinor Lazenby, research] |
More About John Lazenby: Military service: Patriot Service - Maryland408 |
Notes for Deborah: May have been Deborah Jones. |
iii. | Elias Lazenby, born 18 Mar 1751/52 in Maryland409; died 31 Jul 1819 in Columbia Co., Georgia410; married (1) Elizabeth Zachary; died Unknown; married (2) Martha Jones 29 Aug 1792411; born 30 Nov 1759 in Maryland412,413; died 19 Apr 1815 in Columbia Co., Georgia414,415. |
Notes for Elias Lazenby: Elias Lazenby was probably named after his mother's brother, Elias Harding. Elias settled in Richmond County, Georgia, in an area that was later incorporated into Columbia County. Descendants also live in Alabama and Texas. He probably had two wives. Family records indicate that he married Martha Jones when he was forty years old, and there were Lazenby men listed in the census who might have been children of his first marriage. [Mary Elinor Lazenby, research] |
More About Elias Lazenby: Military service: Ensign in Maryland Line, Revolutionary War416 Property: 03 Jun 1786, Secured land in Richmond (now Columbia) Co., GA417 |
Notes for Martha Jones: "The will of Samuel Jones, on record at Upper Marlborough, Maryland, speaks of daughters Martha and Deborah, and from family names it appears at least possible that the wives of John and Elias Lazenby were sisters and daughters of Samuel Jones." [Mary Elinor Lazenby, Lazenby - Some Account of Families in the United States Which Bear the Name, (Old Neighborhoods Press, Washington, DC, 1942), 27.] |
More About Elias Lazenby and Martha Jones: Marriage: 29 Aug 1792418 |
52 | iv. | Thomas Lazenby, born Abt. 1755 in Frederick Co., MD (now Montgomery Co.); died 05 Apr 1840 in Iredell Co., NC; married Sarah Ridgway 1786. | ||
v. | Alexander Lazenby419, born Abt. 1753 in Montgomery Co., MD420; died Unknown in Nashville, Davidson Co., TN?420 |
Notes for Alexander Lazenby: A will for an Alexander Lazenby was recorded in 1839 in Nashville, Davidson Co., Tennessee. He may have been the son of Robert Lazenby and Lucy Harding. |
More About Alexander Lazenby: Military service: Flying Camp of Maryland & Revolutionary War421 |
vi. | Joshua Lazenby, born 1759 in Layhill, Montgomery Co., Maryland422; died 02 Sep 1840 in Iredell Co., NC423; married Keziah Belt 1785 in Montgomery Co., MD424; born Abt. 1753425; died 05 Jan 1826 in Iredell Co., NC. |
Notes for Joshua Lazenby: "Six months after his father's death, [Joshua Lazenby] was in Rowan County, NC, as is proved by a cancelled note, dated December 1785, for 85 pounds, made by him to Thomas Bell and David Beall. David Beall had married Rachel Odell, the daughter of Joshua's step-mother." [Mary Elinor Lazenby, "Lazenby - Notes on the American Families," 1929, 22.] Joshua Lazenby settled on 200 acres of land on White Oak Branch, near the farms of his brothers Thomas and Henry and sister Elizabeth on Fifth Creek in Iredell Co., NC. The last will and Testament of Joshua Lazenby names sons Rezin, Henry, James and Robert. It also mentions "children of my two sons Robert and James." The pension application for Joshua Lazenby was never filed. Descendant Mary Elinor Lazenby forwarded his application to the pension bureau on 15 Dec 1927. The application was written on 22 Aug 1832, and mentioned brothers Alexander, Henry & Elias Lazenby. He stated that he left Maryland between 1785 and 1790, and settled near Statesville, Iredell Co., North Carolina. Joshua and Keziah Lazenby and four of their sons were buried in the Lewis family burying ground, located on the farm of Daniel Lewis - who was a friend and neighbor to Joshua in Maryland and in North Carolina. |
More About Joshua Lazenby: 1790 Federal Census: Iredell Co., NC; 158; 01-02-01-00-00 Burial: Unknown, Lewis Family Graveyard, Fifth Creek, Iredell Co., NC426 Estate Settled: 1842, R. Lazenby and Henry Lazenby, exrs.427 Military service: Co I, 29th Lower Battalion, Rev. War428 Will Probated: Nov 1840, Iredell Co., NC Will Book II, pp 215429 Will Written: 27 Sep 1834429 |
Notes for Keziah Belt: Her name may have been Keziah Bell. According to Mary Elinor Lazenby, Keziah may have been the sister of Thomas Bell, who married Rachel Odell. Rachel was the step-sister of Joshua Lazenby. |
More About Keziah Belt: Burial: Unknown, Lewis Family Graveyard, Fifth Creek, Iredell Co., NC430 |
More About Joshua Lazenby and Keziah Belt: Marriage: 1785, Montgomery Co., MD431 |
vii. | Henry Lazenby432, born 1760 in Maryland433; died Aft. 1830 in Tennessee433; married Elinor Baggerly; born 20 Mar 1763 in Rock Creek Parish, Maryland434; died Unknown. |
Notes for Henry Lazenby: Henry settled on Fifth Creek in Iredell Co., NC. In 1812, he sold fifty acres of land to Rezin Gaither. In 1814, he donated land for the construction of a Methodist Church. The land wasn't used to build the Methodist Church, but Providence Church was built on the site about 25 years later. [Mary Elinor Lazenby, Lazenby - Some Account of Families in the United States Which Bear the Name, (Old Neighborhoods Press, Washington, DC, 1942), 34.] |
More About Henry Lazenby: 1790 Federal Census: Iredell Co., NC; 158; 01-01-03-00-00 Military service: Soldier in Maryland Line - Revolutionary War435 |
viii. | Elizabeth Lazenby, born 12 Feb 1763436; died Bef. 1826 in Iredell Co., NC437; married John Farrell; died Abt. 1826 in Iredell Co., NC. |
Notes for Elizabeth Lazenby: Elizabeth Lazenby and her husband John Farrell left Maryland and settled on Fifth Creek in Iredell County, North Carolina, near her brothers Thomas, Henry and Joshua. |
More About John Farrell: Will Written: 13 Nov 1826, recorded in Iredell Will Bk 2, p. 43 |
ix. | Ann Lazenby, died Unknown. |
Notes for Ann Lazenby: She may have been the Ann Lazenby who married Zechariah Duly, recorded in 1799 at Rockville, Maryland. If this was Ann Lazenby daughter of Lucy Harding and Robert Lazenby, her brothers and sisters had all left Maryland by this date. There is also a version [Family of Robert Lazenby I] which states that Ann Lazenby married Josiah Jones, who was co-executor with John Lazenby of Robert Lazenby's estate. Other researchers refer to her as Ann Jones Lazenby, believing that her grandmother Ann's maiden name was Jones; and that she was named for her. |
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News Summary 2004
Last October, The El Rito Studio Tour was a wonderful event!
Grab your cameras and walking shoes and head to the El Rito Studio Tour Saturday and Sunday, October 16 & 17, 2004, from 10am to 6pm. More than 25 artists and craftspeople will be showing at 22 different locations. The fall colors will glow and the air will be crisp.
You'll watch sparks fly at a blacksmith's forge and view backstrap weaving, jewelry, baskets, sculpture, and tinwork where they are made. A special attraction will be the Skinwalkers young muralists working their painting magic on the wall of Martin's gas station.
For 18 years the artists and craftspeople of this small northern New Mexican village have welcomed the public to their studios. Visitors can park their cars and stroll from studio to studio. A short driving loop completes the tour. The elementary school will host a community mercado with arts, crafts, and food.
Enjoy a home-cooked lunch at the Methodist Church or the Parish Hall. Follow up with "Death by Chocolate" at the El Rito Library, where you can also view the work of El Rito's emerging young artists.
Participating Artists:
* Danny Baldonado
* Carola Bell
* Monika Bittman
* Barbara Campbell
* Carmen Campos
* Emmy Cheney
* Isatu/David Coleman
* Beth Ferguson
* Louise Grunewald
* Jeanine Hartman
* Michael Hennerty
* Molly Hennerty
* James Malone
* Barbara Martin
* Carol Martin-Davis
* Tracy McBride
* Patrick O'Dell
* Gedeon Santos
* Edward, Karen and Raphael Sexton
* Cindy Talamantes
* Joseph Vigil
* Julie Wagner
* Weaving Club
* Woodworkers of NNMCC
* The Skinwalkers young mural painters
Directions: Take 285/84 to Espanola; follow 84 north toward Chama 18 miles to 554. Stay on 554 for 11 miles to El Rito. Pick up maps for a self-guided tour at any of the well-marked studios.
Non-profit status under the sponsorship of the El Rito Library. Partial funding granted by the Rio Arriba County Lodger's Tax Fund.
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Short terms de-stressers
Load up on the liquids: Keeping hydrated at work is super important because office air-conditioning can strip the body of moisture which puts it under unnecessary stress. Try leaving a litre water bottle on your desk and finishing it every day. Drinking tea is also the perfect way to stay hydrated and calm down. Studies have proven that herbal and normal tea rejuvenates and relaxes the body. Just avoid too many coffees or sugary drinks they only spike your energy so high that it comes spectacularly crashing down.
Take a time-out: Your brain is not built to work at full speed for eight hours straight so give it a few reprieves throughout the day. Closing your eyes for 30 seconds and taking a few deep breaths or looking out the window will help your eye sight and your stress levels. If you feel uptight jump on the spot a few times to release the tension. Also be aware of your own stress warning signs. Knowing what sets you off means you can prevent a full blown breakdown before it happens by removing yourself from the situation.
Get and stay organised: It's a fact. A messy desk does not show that you're busy and productive, it just resembles your cluttered mind. Taking five minutes at the end of every day to clean your work space and write a to-do list for the next day will make your morning arrival that much more pleasant. Being able to find things first go will also save your sanity.
Know your chill out trigger points: Emotional Mindeze Therapy founder Richard Link believes that by applying pressure to certain parts of your body you can correct imbalances in your energy system. To ease a headache Link suggests sticking your tongue out and biting it as hard as you can without hurting yourself for 10 seconds. To relieve stress Link says that rubbing the back of your head near producing bones will help. You can also ask someone to rub in between your shoulder blades for the same effect. And to calm down when you're angry, tap your collar bones or hold your temples with your thumb on one side and two fingers on the other for 30 seconds to bring blood flow back to the forehead.
Scatter some inspiration around: Having clear goals will always help you get through the tough times. Remind yourself of why you're doing what you're doing and where you're going by keeping inspirational pictures and quotes handy. Why not put one as your computer screensaver? Also nothing lifts your spirits like some positive affirmation so don't forget to reward yourself when you do a good job and foster your own self confidence.
Long term de-stressers
Sleep anxiety off: Around 60 percent of people who say they're stressed also say they don't get enough sleep. Everyone needs a solid six to eight hours for their body to repair and rejuvenate. So if you're having trouble nodding off try a warm shower with some lavender body wash, followed by reading a good book. Try to avoid late night eating or TV as it puts your mind into overdrive.
Escape on a holiday: If you're in need of a two week break, often an overseas trip causes more stress than it's worth. If you take into account jet lag, expense, shots and travel time, you might have shaved several precious days from your vacation time before you've even arrived at your destination.
That's why it's often a good idea to look into domestic options, whether it's a two week break, or a few days away. A fortnight interstate, or a weekend on the coast or in the mountains can do wonders for your stress levels because it gets you out of the rut. Why not invite a few friends too? A bit of fun and laughter really is the best medicine.
Get active: We've heard it a zillion times before, but exercise is the golden child of stress busters. Just 20 minutes of cardio three times a week releases tension in the body and dispels toxins. You can also try yoga for relaxation. A healthy diet which includes a breakfast packed with protein (eggs, meat, wholegrains and greens) will get you firing on all cylinders and regular low-GI meals throughout the day will keep your energy up. Make sure to actually take a lunch break too and get outside for some fresh air and sunlight instead of slumping over your desk.
Spend weeknights relaxing: Rather than scheduling a ton of chores during the week, leave the big burdens for the weekend and take some time to chill out after work with a good CD, meal and company. Avoid alcohol if you can, as it makes you tired, and just talk to a friend or your partner instead. Mid week intimacy relieves stress as well, so if you're up for some bedroom bonding, that's as good an excuse as any!
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The number one rule when dealing with work place stress is not to ignore it! Letting stress fester will only cause you prolonged and serious grief. Speak up if your workload is out of control no one will frown on you for saying that you could do a much better job if you didn't have more pressure than a goalie in the World Cup Soccer final. If all else fails consider attending a stress management course or having a check-up with your doctor. Life and work is meant to be enjoyed!
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The man black history erasedBy LZ Granderson, CNN ContributorUpdated 9:18 PM ET, Wed August 21, 2013Just WatchedStrom Thurmond attacks Bayard RustinreplayMore Videos ...Strom Thurmond attacks Bayard Rustin 01:14Story highlightsBayard Rustin was a civil rights leader and Martin Luther King's mentorLZ Granderson says Rustin's role in March on Washington was largely erasedHe says Rustin was banished from a prominent role because he was gayGranderson: If we tolerate bigotry of any form, we can't achieve King's dreamOn August 13, 1963, in a last ditch effort to derail the pending March on Washington, Strom Thurmond took the Senate floor and hurled a series of vicious, personal attacks against the man organizing the largest protest in U.S. history.Thurmond called him a Communist and a draft dodger.He brought up a previous arrest and accused him of being immoral and a pervert.The man Thurmond was attacking was not Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. LZ GrandersonIn fact Thurmond used King's own words -- secretly recorded by J.Edgar Hoover -- in his attacks against the march's deputy director."I hope Bayard don't take a drink before the march," Clarence Jones, King's lawyer and close friend, said in the recording."Yes," King replied. "And grab one little brother. 'Cause he will grab one when he has a drink.""Bayard" would be Bayard Rustin, the most important leader of the civil rights movement you probably have never heard of. Just WatchedThe story behind 'I Have A Dream' speechreplayMore Videos ...The story behind 'I Have A Dream' speech 02:51PLAY VIDEOOpinion: Congress, stand up for civil rightsRustin was imprisoned for challenging racial segregation in the South before the phrase "Freedom Rider" was ever said. He taught a 25-year-old King the true meaning of nonviolent civil disobedience while the great dreamer was still being flanked by armed bodyguards. And before addressing the crowd of 250,000 that gathered at the National Mall nearly five decades ago, famed actor and activist Ossie Davis introduced him "as the man who organized this whole thing."No, the reason why you probably have not heard of Bayard Rustin has nothing to do with the significance of his contributions to the March on Washington or the civil rights movement in general. His absence is epitomized by the sentiment woven between the lines of that joke between Jones and Rustin's protege. You see, the organizer of the great march, the man who held a fundraiser at Madison Square Garden to help fund the bus boycott in Montgomery, the intellectual behind the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Council was also unabashedly gay. And it was the discomfort some had with his sexuality that led to his disappearance in our history books. "We must look back with sadness at the barriers of bigotry built around his sexuality," wrote NAACP chairman emeritus Julian Bond in "I Must Resist," a collection of Rustin letters. "We are the poorer for it."As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of arguably the single most important event of the 20th century -- as well as the speech that defined it -- there is a natural inclination to evaluate how close we are to achieving Dr. King's famed dream. Why some movements work and others wiltWith President Obama in office, it is silly to suggest no progress has been made. But considering that the wealth gap between black and white families has nearly tripled over the past 25 years or that a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 40% of white Americans don't have a friend outside of their race, who can view the election of one man as King's dream being fulfilled? Yes, the residue of the Jim Crow era still poisons the air like mold spores after a flood, manifesting in unjust laws such as Stop and Frisk and clusters of failing schools in poor black neighborhoods. But after recently reading the full text of Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech, it occurred to me that perhaps the reason why we're still divided as a nation is because we haven't figured out what is keeping us apart.Despite being a leading voice for racial equality since the 1940s, Rustin's marginalization is a direct reflection of oppression of a different sort. Thurmond used it as a weapon to attack the March on Washington. Adam Clayton Powell, a black congressman from Harlem, used it to gain power. Other black leaders, like Stokely Carmichael, used it to question his place in the movement. March on Washington: Fast FactsYou see as big and as looming and as destructive as racism has been and continues to be in society, we must remember it is only a branch.The root of the problem, the reason why we continue to struggle with equality, is our pathological intolerance, an intolerance no collective group of people has proven to be immune to."I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today, and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"Dr. King's dream has not been fulfilled because we began betraying the integrity of his dream the moment we started scrubbing Rustin's life out of Black History Month lessons and civil rights movies. We betray that dream each time a black person claims offense to the notion that gay rights are civil rights, as if the black community is the only community capable of being oppressed. We betray King's dream each time a white elected official is allowed to say things about the gay community in ways that would never be tolerated if directed at the black community.I don't say these things because I view the history and plight of these two minority groups as being exactly the same -- they are not. I say these things because racism and homophobia -- like anti-Semitism, sexism and xenophobia -- all have the same mother. And as long as concessions are made for one, we will never be free from the clutches of the others.The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian award. It was established by President Kennedy 50 years ago. Considering the anniversary of the march, it is fitting that Rustin is among the 16 being honored with it in November. But like King, he was more than August 28, 1963. He was a giant.And so while the medal is special, the best way to honor him is to talk about him, all of him, both now and in the many years to come. Bayard Rustin spent his life fighting for peace and equality and he did so unashamed of who he was. It's about time history, and the people he helped most, stop being ashamed of him. Follow us on Twitter @CNNOpinion.Join us on Facebook/CNNOpinion. 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Consumers may tune into TV on a regular basis, but they mentally tune out rather fast in favor of the array of "second screen" options.
By planning ahead, brands played it safe. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
In a recent email interview with Jeremy Toeman, we discuss his 'Future of TV Newsletter,' social TV and future TV trends, and up-and-coming companies to watch for.
Consumers living in a market with a NBC Owned Television Station will have access to the network's full lineup of live programming across PCs, tablets, and smartphones, in and out of their homes.
The rapidly increasing importance of online video, and its monetisation, has been shown clearly in the 2015 version of the BrightRoll agency survey.
While Netflix and Apple iTunes continue to dominate the US over-the-top (OTT) landscape, Amazon Prime video has begun to hold its own in terms of usage.
Brands who position mobile as the second screen of engagement risk losing their relevance with today's highly connected customer, and could be falling prey to the latest shiny new object.
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Occupation | Anesthesiologist |
Known for | Linux kernel development |
Con Kolivas is an Australian anaesthetist.[1] He has worked as a computer programmer on the Linux kernel and on the development of the cryptographic currency mining software CGMiner.[2] His Linux contributions include patches for the kernel to improve its desktop performance, particularly reducing I/O impact.
Kolivas is most notable for his work with CPU scheduling, most significantly his implementation of "fair scheduling," which inspired Ingo Molnár to develop his Completely Fair Scheduler, as a replacement for the earlier O(1) scheduler, crediting Kolivas in his announcement.[3] Kolivas developed several CPU schedulers such as the Staircase in 2004,[4] then Rotating Staircase Deadline (RSDL)[5] and subsequently Staircase Deadline (SD)[6] schedulers to address interactivity concerns of the Linux kernel with respect to desktop computing. Additionally, he has written a "swap prefetch" patch, which allows processes to respond quickly after the operating system has been idle for some time and their working sets have been swapped out.[7] Many of his experimental "-ck" patches, such as his prefetching and scheduling code, did not get merged with the official Linux kernel.
In 2007, Kolivas announced in an email that he would cease developing for the Linux kernel. Discussing his reasons in an interview, he expressed frustration with aspects of the mainline kernel development process, which he felt did not give sufficient priority to desktop interactivity, in addition to hacking taking a toll on his health, work and family.[8][9]
He has also written a benchmarking tool called ConTest[10] that can be used to compare the performance of different kernel versions.[11]
On 31 August 2009, Kolivas posted a new scheduler called BFS (Brain Fuck Scheduler).[12] It is designed for desktop use and to be very simple (hence it may not scale to machines with many CPU cores well). Con Kolivas does not intend to get it merged into the mainline kernel.[13] He has since begun maintaining the -ck patch set again.
On 13 July 2011, Kolivas introduced a new piece of software called CGMiner, which is used for mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Litecoin.[14][15]
- ^ Anaesthesia Information Page by Kolivas
- ^ CGMiner GitHub repository
- ^ Linux: The Completely Fair Scheduler at the Wayback Machine (archived April 19, 2007), 18 April 2007, KernelTrap.org
- ^ The staircase scheduler [LWN.net]
- ^ The Rotating Staircase Deadline Scheduler [LWN.net]
- ^ LKML: Con Kolivas: [PATCH]Staircase scheduler - experimental
- ^ Swap prefetching [LWN.net]
- ^ "Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas". APC Magazine. ACP Magazines. 24 July 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ^ corbet (2007-07-25). "Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23". lwn.net/Articles. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
- ^ The homepage of contest
- ^ Interview: Con Kolivas at the Wayback Machine (archived November 17, 2002), 16 October 2002, KernelTrap.org
- ^ Con Kolivas returns with a new scheduler [LWN.net]
- ^ CGMINER GPU FPGA overc monit fanspd RPC stratum linux/windws/osx/mip/r-pi 2.11.4
- ^ cgminer on GitHub
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A growing Ontario soy food manufacturer can trace its roots back to an entry into a student competition at the University of Guelph 15 years ago.
Brothers Erik and Francis Lo entered a soy-based cream cheese alternative into the Project SOY contest in 1998 and although they didn't win the competition, their company Flamaglo Foods is now recording annual sales of over $1 million.
Flamaglo, under the brand YoSo, sells dairy and gluten-free soy yogurts, gourmet spreads and dips using Ontario-grown soybeans. They've also started expanding outside of soy, introducing a line of coconut yogurts last summer.
Most of their products are found in the refrigerated organic or health food sections of major Canadian retail chains, as well as independent health food stores in Ontario and Quebec. Continue reading University competition helped launch Ontario soy food business


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Voices of Merit: Colorado Grateful
Boulder County's Daily Camera columnist Doug Thorburn recently wrote a column praising local judge James C. Klein. The piece reserves plenty of kind words for the system that put Judge Klein on the bench.
Thorburn summarizes the problems with judicial elections, including campaign contributions that create the appearance of bias and bitter, negative campaigns that sour the reputations of otherwise competent jurists. He then describes how Colorado's Merit Selection system works to correct these problems, and how it provides Colorado with qualified, impartial judges.
Colorado, Thorburn concludes, "should be grateful for a vetting of judges based upon merit from the outset." We agree with this assessment, and we hope that we'll soon be able to say the same thing about Pennsylvania's appellate judges.
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Love and Death Among Insects
In a Desert Garden by John Alcock Norton $27.50
In 1988, zoology professor John Alcock shocked his neighbors in suburban Tempe, Arizona, by annihilating his water-guzzling lawn, churning up the soil, and replanting with native desert flora. His account of this conversion from artificial to authentic habitat is so poetic, funny, and environmentally edifying that it's even possible to forgive his one-time use of Roundup.
An ensemble of desert milkweeds, aloes, chuparosa, and other plants came buzzing and flying and squirming to life with insects, about which he writes an intriguing, vigorous, and even reverent account: "How fortunate we are to live on a planet where insects rule supreme. How wonderful to have such a diversity of neighbors."
Patiently observing the symbiotic relations of insect and plant, Alcock renders even the slimier transactions with verve, like the caterpillar of the giant swallowtail butterfly fooling predatory birds by camouflaging itself as the birds' own unappetizing dung in an "interplay of size, shape, color pattern, the illusion of moistness" that "quite took my breath away."
And then there's the staggering variety of courtship strategies and sexual antics sometimes described well enough to rival the racy accounts of entomological trysts in Harold Ensign Evans' classic Life on a Little Known Planet. Of the milkweed bugs Alcock says, "the couple often stay together in copula for hours and hours . . . but as soon as the couple have completed their time together and separated, male and female almost immediately pair off again with someone else. As a result of their enthusiasm for copulation, most of the bugs I find on my tomatoes are literally engaged . . . tied at the tips of their abdomens via their elaborately interlocked genitalia."
Modern environmentalism is teaching us--or reminding us what Thoreau taught--that if we only learn to look, the small wonders of nature in our own backyards can be as dramatic as sublime vistas. Alcock has the rare gift of evoking these little miracles. --B.S.
Carsick Country
Asphalt Nation by Jane Holtz Kay Crown $27.50
As this review was being written, Ford announced the auto industry's latest crime against humanity, its three-ton, 19-foot-long sport utility vehicle.
This was a "response to consumer demand"--itself a response to auto advertising�which totals $40 billion a year, according to Jane Holtz Kay, in one of the best contributions yet to the growing volume of testimony for the de-automobilization of America. Kay, architecture critic for The Nation, lays it all out in ripest absurdity: road kill, people kill, oil spill, the destruction of neighborhoods and the dissolution of community, the horns and motors and wheezing lungs and other afflictions of automania are cleverly situated in the history of greed, gullibility, planners' arrogance, and suburbanized culture that brought us to this sorry overpass. She protests not only the assault on nature, "a blanket of concrete as big as Rwanda," but the social inequity resulting when billions of dollars pay for highways instead of mass transit: "In the end poor transport does not issue from poverty, but lies at its very roots and sustains and perpetuates it."
In chapters like "Depaving America," she advocates city planning reform, greenways, pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods, shifting $25 billion in annual federal subsidies from auto to mass transit, and facing hidden car costs like the billions of dollars' worth of space dedicated to the dubious benefit of employee parking. These solutions are not novel, especially to readers of this magazine (see, for example, "Twelve Gates to the City" and "Pedestrian Paradise," May/June). But Kay gives us further inspiration to demand a change, and the facts we need to make that demand credible. --Bob Schildgen
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Bay Area Wild by Galen Rowell with Michael Sewell Sierra Club Books $35
Watching the fog roll in at twilight over San Francisco Bay toward the Berkeley Hills is one of the joys of a region blessed with more wild greenbelts than any other in the United States. This collection of essays and 170 photos celebrates the Bay Area's incomparable natural variety.
New from Sierra Club Books
The Plundered Seas: Can the World's Fish Be Saved? by Michael Berrill. A look at the world's threatened fisheries and what can be done to restore them.
The Sierra Club Guide to the Natural Areas of California by John Perry and Jane Greverus Perry. An updated edition that describes 200 natural areas in California, including all newly designated wilderness.
The Sierra Club Guide to the Natural Areas of Oregon & Washington by John Perry and Jane Greverus Perry. This new edition covers 20 million acres of public lands.
The World of the Fox by Rebecca L. Grambo. A popular collection of fox photos and lore. Now in paper.
The War Against the Greens by David Helvarg. A startling report on right-wing violence against environmentalists. Now in paper.
Order these titles from the Sierra Club Store by phone, (800) 935-1056, online at www.sierraclub.org/books, or by writing 85 Second St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105.
Cadillac Desert: An American Nile Home Vision Select, $29.95; (800) 826-3456
Watching the hypnotic opening sequence of the churning Colorado River, it's hard to imagine that such a force could be contained. In this engaging account of the effort to "conquer the fatal dryness of the desert," the domestication of the Colorado is chronicled, from the halcyon days of the construction of Hoover Dam to the protracted battles over damming the Grand Canyon.
In the second segment of this four-part PBS series based largely on Marc Reisner's epic book Cadillac Desert, Jon Else's elegiac views of the Colorado underscore the enormity of the loss of this once free-flowing river. The spirit of mindless dam-building is captured by the skillful use of old newsreels, such as one that shows Native Americans catching salmon at a traditional site on the Columbia River for the last time: "Vanishing salmon for the vanishing Red Man."
While some backers still speak of man's triumph over nature in near-mystical terms, others have relented. Former senator Barry Goldwater, an early supporter of Glen Canyon Dam, contritely says he'd vote against it today.
As for the consequences of imposing these "magnificent concrete structures" on millions of years of evolution, Else concludes that the prosperity garnered from the natural order is short-lived: it's only a matter of time before we discover the heavy toll we've expected nature to pay. --Liza Gross
El Dorado The Video Project, $45; (800) 475-2638
The drama played out in Camino, a small town in the Sierra foothills of El Dorado National Forest, has been echoed across the country: once-friendly neighbors embroiled in hostile confrontations as workers fight to save their jobs and environmentalists fight to protect the national forests.
With 280 employees, Michigan-California Lumber was the lifeblood of the town. But in early 1993 a grassroots group, Friends Aware of Wildlife Needs (FAWN), challenged a series of U.S. Forest Service timber sales, charging that the agency had violated environmental regulations by selling trees to the mill. FAWN won its appeals, and the sales were stopped. The owners shut down the mill soon after.
It would have been hard to create a more compelling script for what followed. Workers blamed FAWN for the plant closure, even hanging one member in effigy. Mill owners and workers both fail to recognize that they too stand to benefit from sustainable forestry practices. After all, as director Frank Green points out, their challenge--and ours--lies in creating solutions that don't see protecting livelihood and protecting natural resources as mutually exclusive goals. --L.G.
Watching Wildlife Falcon Press, $19.95; (800) 582-2665
Here's a word of warning: there's a lot of mediocre video material out there. Take, for example, Watching Wildlife. Despite engaging footage and practical advice here and there, even the novice will find some of wildlife biologist Dave Case's tips painfully obvious. "Binoculars are great for two reasons. First, you see things that you probably couldn't see with the naked eye. Second, you get close to wildlife without getting so close physically that you disturb the animals." Thanks.
Though Case does mention that some species are endangered, he fails to explain why. Once he even blames the victim, saying that Kirtland's warblers are in trouble "in part because they're very picky about the habitats in which they nest and raise their young." Observing wildlife does teach us to protect it, but we need more sophisticated insights than this to make a very convincing case for its survival. --L.G.
by Sierra Club Webmaster John Kealy
For a group so often accused of chasing preindustrial fantasies, environmentalists have taken to the Internet, especially the interactive World Wide Web, like die-hard computer geeks. It's no surprise. The Web is the mimeograph machine of the 1990s, enabling activists to get their message out to a broad audience instantly and at low cost. (If you're too young to remember mimeograph machines, trust me, the Web is much cooler.) The Sierra Club's website, for example, includes "action alerts" that keep activists up to date on a daily basis and give background information on clean air, ancient forests, global warming, and other key Club topics.
There are hundreds of environmentally related Web sites out there. I'll sort through them and point out a few that can help you understand and protect your town, region, country, and planet. First up are a pair of "omnibus" sites that try to create order out of the Internet cacophony. One of my favorites, run by the Environmental Working Group at www.ewg.org, sets out "to provide the public with new, locally relevant information on environmental issues in their own states, hometowns, and neighborhoods." The site offers comprehensive reports on pesticides, drinking water, wetlands, farm subsidies, and campaign finance. A standing feature, "Where You Live," lets you tap into a database to see who's polluting your rivers, filling wetlands, how often tap-water contaminants exceed federal standards in your water district, and which anti-environmental "wise-use" groups are active in your area.
Another comprehensive site is Envirolink at www.envirolink.org, which is an online clearinghouse for green organizations and projects, and offers a place to post messages or "chat." The site offers a "low speed" option for those of us who don't surf the Internet on a Pentium connected to a T-1 line (and don't even care what that means). Envirolink is a pleasure to browse, but if you want to cut to the chase you can search several hundred issue areas in the Envirolink Library, the entire Web site, or the sites of 14 nonprofit environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club.
If your brain is full of environmental crises, take a break by turning to GORP (Great Outdoor Recreation Pages) at www.gorp.com, a site devoted to all things recreational. You can search outdoor information by geographic location, activity, and "attraction" (parks, forests, wilderness areas). GORP links you to a comprehensive and eclectic bunch of sites: most useful are the public-lands agencies' sites; potentially useful are the opinionated but thorough sites posted by recreation freaks; and sometimes useful are the many commercial sites that tease you with offers of gear, books, and outdoor expeditions.
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An Eye for Horror: An Interview with The Devil's Rock Director Paul Campion
[Frequent Rue Morgue contributor Peter Gutiérrez checks in with a Q&A with Paul Campion, director of The Devil's Rock.]
Although it just finished winning accolades at the genre-crazy Yubari Film Festival, The Devil's Rock is also newly released on R1 DVD. That should give North American audiences a welcome opportunity to see writer-director Paul Campion's long-awaited first feature, which is both ambitious (it's a World War II-set period film) and small-scale (you can count the cast members on your fingers). I myself first discovered Campion's work several years ago, through shorts such as the charmingly DIY Night of the Hell Hamster and the striking, unsettling Weta Workshop project Eel Girl. With The Devil's Rock, Campion demonstrates that the lessons he's learned in craft and attention to detail on films both modest and huge (The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia) were not lost on him. I was happy to catch up with him and discuss his uncomfortably intimate demons-and-Nazis tale.
Rue Morgue: The DVD extras show you doing a bit of location scouting, and while the German bunkers on Guernsey look impressive, seeing them in real life would not have prepared me for the striking exteriors in the film—where the setting resembles something out of Mordor. I'm wondering what a horror director with a good eye sees when he looks at a given location. Do you automatically imagine it under different conditions, maybe lit in a certain way?
Paul Campion: It's all about creating mood and atmosphere—how can I turn this location into something that will have the right atmosphere for a horror film? My background is in illustration and matte-painting, so when I'm looking at a location, I'm already working out in my head how I'm going to compose the image, and how I can use matte-paintings to change it to exactly what I need. We weren't in a position to light any of the locations, we just had to use whatever light was there, but then in post-production I knew we could go in and fix and replace and add anything we needed to make them ominous and atmospheric. Max Dennison, who was head of matte-painting on The Lord of the Rings, did one of the hero matte-paintings of the tower and gun pit for us. He painted it with this beautiful night sky, and we used that night-look as a basis for all the other shots, plus grading down the live-actions shots, which we shot day-for-night.
For the shots of the fortification, the original building in Guernsey already screamed out "horror film" to me. It's this Bauhausian concrete monstrosity sitting on the edge of a 300ft cliff. It just looks like the kind of place to set a horror film—well, to me anyway! All the shots of the bunker are 100 percent matte-paintings, based on photos of the real bunker. The only real locations were the beach, undergrowth, and the gun pit, which was a combination of the real thing with a CG gun for some shots, or a 100 percent matte-painting for others, but again based on photos of the real gun pit.
RM: Let's talk about the opening of The Devil's Rock and the fact that you have all-suspense with no real violence. Did you consciously view this as bucking the tendency in the genre where the audience is presented with a death in the first few minutes as a would-be grabber?
PC: I'm a big fan of films like Alien and Rosemary's Baby, where the story is gradually built up for the audience so initially they have no idea where it's going. In this case it was always the plan to deliberately start the story as a war film that became a horror film. In the earlier drafts of the script, when it was being written to an even smaller budget, there was a slightly different opening where we had to kill off one of the characters in the first five minutes because we couldn't afford to pay four actors. In that version Grogan and Joe have parachuted onto the island, and Joe has broken his back landing on rocks, so Grogan has to execute him as he's a liability to the mission. Rather than shooting him and wasting bullets, Joe makes Grogan drown him. It was actually a really powerful scene and it's a shame it didn't make it in (the commando kayak raid was more accurate, and eventually we had the budget to keep the Joe character in for a little longer at least). The other issue was that we were going to spend so much time in the two rooms, we were worried the film was just going to feel too small, so we really needed more locations at the start to give the film a much bigger feel, and the way to do that was with the beach landing, and expanding the locations with matte-paintings.
RM: Using demons as your monster seems like something of a double-edged sword creatively: you can have them do anything, so there's a degree of freedom there, but then again you have to provide, and maybe even make up, "rules" since audiences won't arrive with a lot of prior knowledge as with other monsters. Do I have that right or was your experience different?
PC: Yes, you got that absolutely spot-on. It was actually a bit of a nightmare trying to make it work in the script, which is probably why it ended up a bit too exposition-heavy—not only explaining what this particular demon can do, [but also] how do you make the audience understand what the demon can't do: why can't she just change into a different shape and escape from the chain, or escape from the island? In the end you have to just try and make up a set of rules for this particular world you've created and hope the audience buys into it. We did do a lot of research, though, into demons and black magic, e.g. binding demons with iron—"the Devil's old foe" which goes back to medieval times, and the protection spell is based on a (supposedly) real spell to protect against evil forces. Then it was a budget issue—yes, we can do anything we want with a demon, but how do you show how dangerous it's supposed to be with limited resources? We had to drop a lot of shots and scenes due to time issues, for example there was a shot where she escaped and ripped a dead body in two and a whole sequence where she assaulted Grogan and Meyer in the magic circle with the sounds of an air-raid and the bunker being bombed.
RM: Finally, I see a big thematic connection between The Devil's Rock and Eel Girl. Do you see yourself continuing in this vein, or maybe at some point challenging yourself by making your female lead a nice, girl-next-door type? And I'm smiling as I ask this, by the way.
PC: Well, my first short film Night of the Hell Hamsters had a girl-next door heroine, and there wasn't actually any plan or weird desire to make two films back to back with naked female monsters, it just kind of happened that way! In most horror films, however, the creature is almost always male, and the female characters are either the heroine or clichéd, vacuous, pretty prey. The Devil's Rock was a bit of a love child of Eel Girl to a certain extent—it was about twisting the conceptions of what the monster/creature normally is, and I think there's something a little alarming about a female monster that uses its sexuality to prey on and kill males. It makes it much harder for the male characters to have to destroy something that's offering to satisfy their most basic desires. In both Eel Girl and The Devil's Rock the two female monsters are in fact the most honest characters, it's the males that are ultimately the weaker characters who succumb to their base urges.
RM: So what's next from you that we can look forward to?
PC: Firstly there's Dark Hollow, based on the novel by U.S. author Brian Keene, which is about a satyr, a supernatural half-man, half-goat creature that terrorizes a sleepy Pennsylvania town, hypnotizing and abducting the local women so it can procreate with them and of course killing off the men who try to rescue them. It's a really fun monster story, with plenty of sex (something I think we've been missing in horror films for a while) and a fair amount of gore. I recently finished the script for that and the project is currently going out for financing. Then Paul Finch (Devil's Rock co-writer) and I are working on the story for Devil's Rock 2. All I can say about that is "less talking and more demons." I have a long term project called Scorpion Raiders, which is a true WW2 story, which came about from the research that I did into the commandos and New Zealand's involvement in WW2 for The Devil's Rock. It's about a combined New Zealand/British special forces unit called the Long Range Desert Group, who were primarily a deep reconnaissance unit operating hundreds of miles behind enemy lines in the deserts of North Africa. The film is about the unit's most famous mission, the Barce Raid, where they drove 2000km across the most inhospitable desert on Earth to attack and destroy an Italian airfield, then were attacked and most of their vehicles destroyed, and they had to escape on foot back across the desert. It's very much Lawrence of Arabia meets Black Hawk Down, a great "boys' own"-style action film and a drama about bravery and human endurance.
I'm attached to direct a great script called Roundabout Way, written by Kevin C. Jones, which is a Pulp Fiction/Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels-style black comedy crime film about intersecting storylines of criminals, gang-members, corrupt cops and a female assassin all trying to get their hands on a bag full of stolen cash. Despite my background in visual effects, I found when I was directing The Devil's Rock how much I enjoyed just directing the drama, and although I want to keep making VFX-heavy genre films I'm really keen to alternate with some straight drama/action.
And finally, as there are no guarantees how long any of these projects will take to get green-lit, I'm hoping to make another short film in the next few months called Who Shot Santa? about two criminals who accidentally shoot and kill Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, and that's also based on a short story called "The Siqqusim Who Stole Christmas" by Brian Keene.
RM: Wow, that's a lot on your plate. Now I'm even more thankful for your time.
PC: My pleasure, thanks for the interest!
A frequent Rue Morgue contributor, Peter is also a critic at TwitchFilm.Com, a columnist at Screen Education and, starting March 19, a blogger for School Library Journal. He tweets on media and horror via @Peter_Gutierrez.


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In an undated photo provided by Guinness World Records 2013 Book, Zeus drinks from the kitchen faucet in Otsego, Mich. The Great Dane is now officially the world's tallest canine according to the record book. The 3-year-old measures 44 inches from foot to shoulder. Standing on his hind legs, Zeus measures 7-foot-4. (AP Photo/Guinness World Records 2013 Book, Kevin Scott Ramos, HO)
OTSEGO, Mich. (AP) — A Great Dane from Michigan is doggone tall.The Guinness World Records 2013 book published Thursday recognizes Zeus of Otsego, Mich., as the world's Tallest Dog.The 3-year-old measures 44 inches from foot to shoulder.Standing on his hind legs, Zeus stretches to 7-foot-4 and towers over his owner, Denise Doorlag. Zeus is just an inch taller than the previous record-holder, Giant George.Zeus weighs 155 pounds and eats a 30-pound bag of food every two weeks.Doorlag says she had to get a van to be able to transport Zeus.


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India's cricket chiefs on Tuesday effectively sidelined head coach Duncan Fletcher for the one-day series against England following their 3-1 defeat in the Tests, placing former all-rounder Ravi Shastri in charge.
Shastri, in England as a TV commentator, has been asked to "oversee" the squad for the five-match series as part of a shake-up in which the bowling and fielding coaches have also been ordered to stand aside.
"The BCCI [Board of Control for Cricket in India] has decided to avail the services of former India captain Ravi Shastri to oversee and guide the team for the one-day matches against England," a statement said.
"Duncan Fletcher will continue as head coach, while Shastri will be the overall in-charge of cricket affairs of the Indian team."
Bowling coach Joe Dawes and fielding coach Trevor Penney were given "a break" with former Indian Test players Sanjay Bangar and Bharat Arun being appointed in their place as assistant coaches.
"In the continuing efforts to re-energise the support to the team... the BCCI has given a break to Dawes and Penney for the one-day series," the statement said.
England on Sunday inflicted yet another humiliating defeat upon India as they won the fifth and final Test at The Oval by an innings and 244 runs to complete a 3-1 series win.
India's spectacular collapse has set off a flood of angry criticism at home, with some fans calling for captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni to be sacked and others saying players should forfeit their wages.
Critics have also been baying for the blood of Fletcher, a former Zimbabwe batsman who has also coached England, saying his position had become untenable.
But former India all-rounder Madan Lal said that simply appointing Shastri was not going to yield results.
"You have to sit down and ask the coach what went wrong. Merely sidelining him is not going to help," he told AFP.
"His [Shastri's] presence is not going to make any difference.
"We are the cricket powerhouse, the world is looking at us. We must behave in a more professional way," he added.
The first ODI is on August 25 in Bristol.


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