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{mosimage} Everything is going wrong for girl detective Judy Drood. First her car breaks down outside the creepy, clown-infested burg of Obidiahs Glen, where every telephone is out of order and the townsfolk have all gone missing. Then she gets harassed by the gang of teenagers whove taken over the place. They mock her and throw her into a dungeon with a tentacled monster.
Comic book artist Richard Salas new book, The Grave Robbers Daughter, is essentially a short but sweet explication of the little-girl-lost-in-the-woods trope. Judy Drood, who predates both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars in many ways, both are her spiritual heirs was born of Salas fascination with the Nancy Drew mysteries (specifically, Russell Tandys spooky book-cover illustrations, in which ordinary items like grandfather clocks are infused with eerie portent) and his subsequent desire to understand what a girl detective would truly be like. A girl who was constantly snooping and prying into other peoples business, Sala decided, would have to be completely out of her mind.
Like her foil, the gothy, waifish adventuress Peculia, Judy Drood is a Sala masterpiece. Where Peculia (who does not appear in this book) is all soul and instinct, Drood is all spleen, the quintessential loose cannon. As with any great pulp detective with a shady past and ambiguous morals, youre never really sure if her intentions are good or bad. She cares as much about self-preservation as with helping the helpless who in a Sala story are likely not as helpless as they seem.
I came to Salas work at an optimal time: that mad point in life when freakish concepts like vampires, dagger-wielding assassins, secret societies of mysterious hooded men, disfigured evil scientists hiding out in towers, and pretty girls caught under the swoon of sinister influences all favorite subjects of his can, to the more imaginative among us, actually seem like viable career options. Which is to say, in high school. My appreciation for his work has only deepened over the years. His is an appealing landscape of weird old museums (which he professes to have loved as a child), gloomy forests, hidden corridors and staircases that spiral into nowhere. Hes known for a happy kind of tilting geometry; his angular city streets and doorways look like theyve been yanked up into corners by unseen hands lurking just outside the edge of the page. Plots in a Sala story are deliciously lurid. Events twist and turn with little or no warning or even sense. He tells noir stories the way a child a screwball, twisted child would tell them.
{mosimage}These days, Sala lives a kind of reclusive existence in an old Victorian flat in Berkeley, from which he recently spoke to the L.A. Weekly by phone. Cant you tell that my voice sounds a little... strangled? he says, referring to a one-time diagnosis that, having spent so much time by himself, he had lost his voice and forgotten how to speak. He talks now about his recent divorce and how his ex-wife, a child psychologist, suspects that the strangulation has to do with Sala choking down a whole lot of anger.
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Now that hes single again, I ask, which of his characters would he rather date? Peculia is more my fantasy idea of a girlfriend, he tells me. Shes ethereal and strong, and makes you see the world in a completely different way. A good way. She talks to bats. Judy sees the world as I already see it, as a messed up, horrible place that you have to fight through.
When the clowns in The Grave Robbers Daughter finally, inevitably attack, Judy Drood must fight her way through a sea of knife-wielding, funny-nosed villains who are more genuinely menacing than any of Salas previous bad guys. Theres a sense of speed to his line work, as if the artist is in a hurry to discover how it all works out. As if Drood is caught in a nightmare she barely manages to escape. More than any other art form, comics are life in gestures, life distilled down to its most fantastical or epic or absurd qualities.
Nevertheless, there is a very real-life kind of vulnerability to Drood. Just before the clowns go berserk, the leader of the teen gang asks Judy, Didnt you ever want to fucking kill that bastard for screwing up your life? touching on another recurring theme in Salas oeuvre: the evil father. (Droods serial-killer dad, the late, insane Colonel Drood, had a nasty habit of collecting severed limbs and brains, and is ostensibly the reason why she gets into scrapes. Its in the blood.) Nah, Drood says. The whole thing has just made it easier to deal with lifes little disappointments.
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Still? Just curious.
It's torture, just torture! Hey mods, bring back the can will ya'?
Please? Pretty please....with a cord of well seasoned oak on top?
What do you want to put in The Can that you can't put in the Inglenook? The Ash Can was originally designed to be the Penalty Box. That is why we put in the Inglenook so there was a place for off topic chat.
Replies to threads in the Ash Can.
Kinda like having a lid on the ash can myself. It makes me think higher of some folks
So hanging out in there is a bad thing?
(said with a whiny voice) But I learn so much there.
Nothing the Moderators can do about it...only Craig. Even if we could, we wouldn't unless he said so.
Actually that's one think I do like about the can... I can disagree with folks there but find common ground and agreement in the other forums.
This kind of illustrates what we need more of the in this country in general...congenial agreement to disagree while also looking for common ground and the mutual respect then created.
Craig is aware:
I respectfully disagree and figure you and I must be reading different posts in there then
Which part do you disagree with....that Hearth members can disagree on political issues in the Can but agree on technical issues in other forums
or that those in this country can disagree while striving to find common ground?
Or, are you just messing with me and I'm not getting it?
in the inglenook, if you refer to someone as a fascist pig-dog it can be taken the wrong way...in the can it is well understood to be a term of endeerment. hugs.

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With some diligence, you might be able to catch all five visible planets in July 2011. The visible planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
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Mercury at greatest elongation on July 19
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I've got Samsung Pixon and to take my phone out of idle mode, I have to switch the screen from menu to widget .
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BILL Shorten came to a Labor party members' forum sausage sizzle in Perth dressed in a smart-casual shirt and trousers, while Anthony Albanese wore a Rip Curl shirt and jeans.
Perhaps that says something about their different approaches to tackling the federal Labor leadership contest.
Despite their differences, the pair have kept their rivalry friendly and as each addressed the 500 people gathered at Hyde Park on Monday - a public holiday in Western Australia - both agreed to work with whoever won the leadership battle.
For the first time, rank and file party members will have their say in choosing Labor's leader and both contenders were given 10 minutes to convince members why they should be leader.
Mr Albanese said he believed he could unite the party, reminding members that he was leader of the house when it was a "fairly difficult" parliament that still managed to pass 596 pieces of legislation.
"I think I'm in a very strong position to advance Labor's cause, to defend our legacy, hold the Abbott government to account, but also help develop Labor's new agenda," he said to cheers from the crowd.
Mr Albanese also used part of his speech as an opportunity to remind Western Australians that the new coalition government had slashed the amount of federal infrastructure funding going to the state.
He said Prime Minister Tony Abbott had left a $500 million hole in the WA government's plans to build a light rail network through Perth's northern suburbs and a new rail line to the city's airport.
Mr Abbott had also withdrawn funding for other projects including $140.6 million for three new interchanges along the Tonkin Highway, $307.8 million for upgrades to the Great Northern Highway between Muchea and Wubin, and $174 million for improvements to the North West Coastal Highway, Mr Albanese said.
Mr Shorten was more impassioned during his address, telling members he wanted to make Mr Abbott history and present a brave Labor party.
"We need to be a party who people want to vote for because they like us, not because they just don't like the other mob," he said.
"We need to make it clear that we're not anti-mining.
"I just don't confuse people who own mining companies with miners. The miners do the work."
Mr Shorten said he also wanted to tackle domestic violence and promised that factions would not run Labor.
The former union boss also drew applause when he said Australia should be pro-immigration.
"We should not shy away from saying the refugees are a legitimate part of the Australian population," he said.
Among the attendees was WA Labor leader Mark McGowan and opposition treasury spokesman Ben Wyatt.
Mr McGowan told reporters the event gave people a feeling of empowerment and made sure leadership aspirants were in touch with members.
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'Victoria was just so vivid and had a real lust for life'
Former Doctor Who assistant Jenna Coleman delved into the monarch's private life for inspiration for her role in ITV's new drama, Victoria.
Minutes before my scheduled interview with Jenna Coleman, to promote her role as the young Queen Victoria in ITV's new eight part costume drama 'Victoria' - and in the very room in Kensington Palace where the eponymous monarch was born in 1819 - the 30-year-old actress suddenly feels unwell and has to postpone. It's hardly surprising given the closeness of the hot August afternoon and the unexpected airlessness of the high-ceilinged rooms in the royal residence that Princess Diana felt was "more of a prison than a palace", and that Victoria herself came to hate.
The young queen endured, in her own words, a "rather melancholy", childhood in the Christopher Wren-designed building on the fringes of London's Hyde Park. The ITV drama - the first two episodes of which have been screened - meets the young queen at the age of 18, as she inherits the crown on the death of her uncle, William IV. "I've never played anyone real before," says Coleman when we catch up later.
"When taking on someone iconic and who really existed, I think you want to be sure you can do it, but ultimately it was impossible to turn down."
The offer arrived just as Coleman was preparing to film her final scenes as Clara Oswald, the Doctor Who companion that she had portrayed for the previous four series. "I was I coming up to filming my last couple of episodes and working out what to do next," says the 30-year-old actress from Blackpool. "It's always kind of strange to be reading other scripts while you're working."
Several of the actresses playing Doctor Who's female companions have sunk back into obscurity after their time in the Tardis, so such a high-profile role as Queen Victoria must have seemed heaven-sent. But that's not how she operates, says Coleman. "I never quite know what I want to do until I read a script," she says. "Doctor Who takes up, in terms of filming, 10 months a year plus press, for four years, so it was more deciding what I actually wanted to do next -- what's attracting me after I've been in a contract for so long. When I left Doctor Who the first thing I said was 'I just don't want to do a series for a while'. And then Damien took me out to lunch ..."
'Damien' is executive producer Damien Timmer, MD of Mammoth Screen, the independent production company that also makes Poldark (ironically enough, Victoria will go directly up against Poldark on Sunday evenings). "There was only Jenna," says Timmer of his casting shortlist. "She alone has star quality and diminutive power to be queen." Actually, Coleman, at five feet two, is three inches taller than Queen Victoria, but Timmer is right about her star quality - this is indeed a luminous performance that dominates a big, colourful production that skilfully weaves historical accuracy and Sunday-night melodrama (the writer is Daisy Goodwin, who has been obsessed with the monarch since her days studying history at Cambridge).
Coleman's own research included biographies by AN Wilson and Kate Williams, and Marina Warner's 1979 tome, Queen Victoria's Sketchbook, in which the author explored the monarch's private life through the medium of her drawings and paintings. "The best things for me were the sketch books," says Coleman.
"They're the only things that haven't been censored. Her daughter (Princess Beatrice) destroyed some of her journals so we don't have them all - but with her sketches it's her eye direct without any censorship. The role has been quite a revelation actually, and I'm quite surprised at how little I knew. A lot of people instinctively say 'you can't play Victoria ... she's stern and old and wore black for the rest of her life'. And actually I don't think people are quite aware of how vivid she was and what a lust for life she had."
Victoria came to the throne as an 18-year-old, and not for the first time in her career, Coleman is playing younger than herself. After her four-year stint as teenage lesbian Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale - a role that would see her kill an attempted rapist and finally be imprisoned for manslaughter - she was cast, aged 23, as 16-year-old Lindsay James in Waterloo Road.
"The costumes in Victoria really helped," says Coleman. "I look like a little girl but you see her grow up over the series and become a mother in the end. And I fall in love - unrequited love - and that was fun to do."
The unrequited love is for her first prime minister, Lord Melbourne, played by Rufus Sewell. Melbourne was a widower - his late wife having been Lady Caroline Lamb, famous for her affair with Lord Byron - and the queen's close relationship with her advisor led to Victoria being nicknamed 'Mrs Melbourne'.
Happily a far more requited relationship was to arrive in the shape of her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, played by Tom Hughes (The Game). Asked whether her drama would in any way resemble BBC2's raunchy Versailles, and show us the sex life of the monarch, Daisy Goodwin replies: "All I can say is that Victoria and Albert had nine children together and Albert had installed a device at Osborne House (their summer retreat on the Isle of Wight) so that if they wanted to get it on all they had to do was to push a button by the bed and the door would be locked and the children and servants couldn't interrupt them."
In any case, the resemblance isn't so much that between Victoria and Versailles, but between it and Downton Abbey. There is a cast of (fictional) servants in the ITV drama that will feel familiar to audiences of Julian Fellowes's world-beating costume drama. "It's a household," says Coleman, while playing down the comparison. "It's a piece about Victoria and her inner life and outer life, but also about Victoriana, I suppose. For example we have a chef and you see the invention of hot chocolate, you see photography coming in, you see railways starting to appear, you see all the things that shaped the world as it is now."
The state of Coleman's own love life remains opaque - although if Press reports are to be believed about the actress cosying with Prince Harry, it might not be playing out too far from Kensington Palace. Either way, she certainly seems to have split with her long-term, on-off boyfriend, former Game of Thrones star Richard Madden.
Victoria also had a very long reign, one whose 63-year length was only recently surpassed by our own present queen. Would Coleman happily follow the monarch into middle age and beyond? "I'm not entirely sure," she says. "The story is there to be told until she dies, effectively; there's no lack of real substance to follow. But ultimately that depends on the audience and their appetite for it."
She does however preclude any re-appearances as Clara Oswald in Doctor Who - for the time being at least. "I've only just left... they're only just filming the next series now," she says. "I feel very proud and happy with what Steven (Moffat) did with my exit and that's not something I would want to unpick just for sake of popping up. Besides, the Doctor doesn't even remember who she is any more," she laughs, referring to her final episode, Hell Bent, in which the Doctor's memories of Clara are wiped. "So it in terms of storytelling... she'd pop up and he'd go 'who?'. Or he'd probably just walk past her... Anyway, I've still got my Tardis key!"
Coleman has never met her successor as Peter Capaldi's co-star, Pearl Mackie, but wishes her well. "Genuinely not," she replies when I ask her whether there isn't a tiny part of her that is jealous of Mackie for taking over this coveted role. "I started Doctor Who knowing it was only going to last a certain amount of time and I couldn't be happier with what I've had and got from it. It was so wonderful you kind of wish that for the next person."
Victoria continues on ITV on Sunday, 9pm
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Lost in the Wilderness
This essay was featured in the January 10 issue of Quid Novi?:
Making History: Lost in the Wilderness
Few explorers combine remarkable achievements with wide-ranging foolishness like Rene Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle. In the late 17th century, La Salle journeyed far and wide, starting one ambitious enterprise after another, almost all of which ended in failure. His last venture into Texas ended with the successful fifth attempt on his life by his own men.
Born in Rouen on November 21, 1643, La Salle was the second of three sons. He also had one sister. La Salle's relationship with his older brother Jean was stormy at best. At its worst, they actively conspired against each other. Jean Cavelier the elder, La Salle's father, made his fortune as a textile merchant. He supplied Rouen's numerous churches and convents. Jean the younger and La Salle entered religious orders. Jean was ordained a Sulpician priest, but this seems to have had little impact on his greed and shady business practices. La Salle entered the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. When his father died in 1666, La Salle left the Jesuits, probably much to the relief of his superiors, for La Salle was far too willful for the order's strict rule.
Unfortunately for La Salle, he left the Jesuits and found himself completely broke. He had taken a vow of poverty while with the Jesuits. His father rewrote his will, excluding La Salle from any inheritance. La Salle's father died in January 1666, and La Salle left the Jesuits, but by that time it was impossible to amend the will. La Salle received nothing from his father's sizeable estate. La Salle needed money, and so he cast his eye on the New World.
La Salle traveled to Canada in the spring of 1667. The Sulpicians, perhaps influenced by La Salle's brother Jean, gave La Salle a land grant on the St. Lawrence River near the present-day Montreal borough Lachine. His new seigneury (a landed estate held in Canada by feudal tenure) was on its way towards successful. It grew into a small village that provided profitable rent to La Salle. During this time, La Salle had learned enough of Native American languages to understand reports from Seneca Iroquois about a river that La Salle though would offer a link to the Pacific Ocean. La Salle sold his seigneury concession in order to outfit an expedition to search for the fabled Northwest Passage.
La Salle vanished for about a year. His own reports about his accomplishments during this time are so unreliable that they are widely discounted today. For example, reports claim that La Salle discovered the Ohio River. He didn't. They also claim he discovered the Mississippi River. He didn't do that either, although he was the first choice to explore that great river. Unfortunately for La Salle, he was gone too long without reporting his whereabouts, and the honor of traveling down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico went to Jolliet and Marquette.
While La Salle did not find his way to the Pacific, he did get involved in the illicit fur trade on the behalf of le Comte de Frontenac. In 1674, La Salle was given a grant to Fort Frontenac, which he had helped rebuild. From this base near present-day Kingston, Ontario, La Salle established a ruthless hold on much of the Canadian fur trade. It was during this time that La Salle survived the first of five assassination attempts. A domestic servant put hemlock and verdigris in La Salle's salad, but La Salle made his Fortitude save. After this, La Salle turned his attention to getting control over the Mississippi in order to corner the market on the fur trade.
In 1678, La Salle launched this horribly mismanaged venture with the approval of the Royal Court. In the end, about all La Salle had to show for his efforts was a huge debt, wrecked ships, and three more unsuccessful assassination attempts. In spite of these setbacks, La Salle refused to give up his dream of gaining control of the Mississipi River and the fur trade. He would journey to France again in order to convince the Crown that he could establish a French colony in Spanish East Texas that would include a port on the Gulf of Mexico.
But first, he had to prove to himself and others he could navigate from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi. On February 6, 1682, La Salle started down the Mississippi with about two dozen Frenchmen and nearly three dozen Mohegan and Abnaki Indians. A broken compass, an unreliable astrolabe, and cloudy weather combined with the river's winding course to utterly confuse La Salle. Along the way, he twice laid claim to the entire Mississippi River valley, northern Mexico, and Spanish Texas. Without a reliable method to determine latitude, La Salle ended up greatly misjudging the location of the Mississippi's mouth on the Gulf. Rather than Louisiana, La Salle was convinced that he entered the Gulf of Mexico near Corpus Christi Bay on the Texas coast.
Flushed with what he presumed to be success, La Salle returned to France with his plans to establish a warm-water port on the Gulf of Mexico. Machinations within the Court combined with La Salle's seemingly limitless ego to turn a trade mission into a military action against Spanish Texas. Spain and France had started a short war with each other by this time. La Salle had visions of leading hundreds of soldiers from Canada down the Mississippi to conquer Mexico. By the spring of 1684, preparations were undertaken in La Rochelle, France, to sail back to the New World. The Crown provided two warships, the Belle and the Joly, the latter to return to France after La Salle reached his destination. La Salle needed more ships, however, and went even further into debt to lease the Aimable and the Saint-Francois.
On July 24, 1684, La Salle set sail with his four ships carrying supplies, gentlemen volunteers, soldiers, traders, priests, and colonists. The trip was fraught with the usual perils. The Joly's bowsprit broke three days out. The voyage resumed on August 1. There were conflicts between La Salle, his captains, and the passengers and crew. Gale-force winds separated the ships. Illness broke out on the Joly. Only three of the four ships reached Petit Goave, Haiti. The Saint-Francois was captured by Spanish pirates.
In Haiti, La Salle fell perilously ill. Several of his men defected to either return to France or join the local pirate fleet. Others died of sickness. All told, La Salle lost thirty men. Replacements for these men included less than trustworthy sorts, including a pirate called Hiems. Later, along with the surgeon Etienne Liotot and the Duhaut brothers, to whom La Salle owed money, this riff-raff would prove La Salle's ultimate undoing. The remaining three ships set sail again, heading not to the actual Mississippi but to the Nueces River in the Texas Coastal Bend.
From Petit Goave, the ships sailed to Cape San Antonio and then into the Gulf of Mexico proper. On January 2, 1685, somewhat west of the Sabine Pass, the ships lost sight of each other in dense fog. They reunited about two weeks later near Texas's Cedar Bayou. La Salle ordered soldiers ashore on Matagorda Island. Bad weather turned this into an eight day long operation, after which La Salle and the soldiers were marooned without provisions due to heavy seas. La Salle decided he was not near the Mississippi's mouth, but wrongly concluded that Galveston Bay back to the east was the correct place to be. He sent soldiers marching eastward while the ships were to follow along the coast.
The Belle and the Aimable had lost their anchors in the heavy seas. The soldiers sent to the east discovered that they were on an island, and that their path was blocked by Matagorda Bay. It was decided to establish the Grand Camp on the easternmost part of Matagorda Island while it was determined if the ships could sail through Pass Cavallo into Matagorda Bay and then, perhaps, to someplace more hospitable. The Belle crossed into Matagorda Bay safely. The Aimable, despite being lightened by off-loading cargo, ran aground off the eastern coast of Matagorda Island.
La Salle's men raced heavy groundswells that were causing the Aimable to sink slowly, steadily into the sand reef. An outbreak of dysentery complicated matters. Up to six men were dying each day. Karankawas from a village north of the Grand Camp showed up to help themselves to the Aimable's cargo. The choice of La Salle's hot-headed nephew, Crevel de Moranget, to get the stolen goods back from the Karankawas proved disastrous. Two of Moranget's men were killed, and the Karankawas remained enemies of the French. About this time, the Joly left for France.
The Grand Camp's location was less than ideal. Exposed to the sea with hostile Karankawas nearby, La Salle decided it was time to move the colony inland. He left about 100 soldiers at the Grand Camp. After a fifty-mile march northward, La Salle found an ideal site for the French settlement near today's Garcitas Creek in Texas's Victoria County. The closest anchorage was several leagues to the south, requiring supplies be shipped by canoe to the new site. About three dozen men were left at the Grand Camp. Approximately seventy colonists started out on the hike to the new site.
The Garcitas Creek site is often referred to as Fort St. Louis, but no one ever called it that during its short duration. The "fort" did have eight cannons, but no ammunition. It was never fortified. Many, if not most, of the colonists were ill, and the deaths continued. The work was grueling. Timbers for housing had to be dragged for nearly four miles. In less than six months, La Salle lost half his people either to death or desertion. Brackish water, heavy labor, scarce or dangerous food, and disease devastated the colony.
La Salle still believed he was close to the Mississippi. He ordered the Belle loaded with supplies in preparation for moving, but La Salle abandoned that plan. Instead, on October 31, 1685, he set out on foot to find the Mississippi. While he was gone for two months on this wild goose chase, the Belle was wrecked. The fates of La Salle and his colony were sealed.
On January 12, 1687, La Salle and sixteen other men set out on a desperate, hopeless mission to find the Mississippi. La Salle was lured into an ambush and shot. The pirate Hiems was part of the murder plot, as was Pierre Duhaut, one of the brothers to whom La Salle owed money. The surgeon Liotot killed La Salle's nephew Moranget and two others with an axe. The French expedition to conquer Mexico via Texas ended in total failure.
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What DM hasn't wanted to run a sea voyage? Put your player's characters aboard an expedition commanded by a man cut from the same cloth as La Salle, who knew just enough to be dangerous and wasn't above blaming others for his failures. Toss in pirates, ship-board sickness, some violent weather, and a shipwreck in a hostile wilderness. Then throw in a murder plot against the expedition's commander. What do your players do? Help the conspirators? Save the commander? Take charge and try to save everyone?
Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar. The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion. Translated by Martin A. Favata and Jose B. Fernandez. Arte Publico Press: University of Houston, 1993. (While this has nothing to do with La Salle, it is a fascinating first-person account of life in East Texas before widespread European contact.)
Weddle, Robert S. "Tarnished Hero: A La Salle Overview" in Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Vol. CXIII, No. 2. The Texas State Historical Association, October 2009.


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Avanço is the record including "Mas Que Nada," Tamba Trio's greatest and most famous recording. While listeners will prefer one of the many various-artists collections featuring "Mas Que Nada" plus a host of other Brazilian standards, the trio acquit themselves nicely on this full LP. Other highlights include their versions of "Garota de Ipanema," "So Danço Samba," and "Vento do Mar." ~ John Bush
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Detecting movements with Motion
The motion detector software, Motion, monitors the video signal from one or multiple cameras and is able to detect whether a significant part of the picture has changed, record and track movement, or launch arbitrary external commands to trigger other actions.
The free Motion [1] software, by Jeroen Vreeken and Kenneth Jahn Lavrsen, can help monitor your office or home while you are away. Motion takes photos and captures videos when movement occurs and, if needed, the computer running the software can mail or text you the images. You can install Motion locally or use a web interface to control it. If needed, the software can monitor multiple cameras.
The install on Ubuntu is relatively simple. Feisty Fawn (7.04) and Edgy Eft (6.10) include version 3.2.3 of the software in their Universe repositories. You also need to install the FFmpeg and nasm packages. Users with Ubuntu 6.10 and 6.06, Debian Sid, and Fedora Core 4 can use the latest version 3.2.7 of Motion. Users with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn will need to build from the source code to have the latest version. Users with SUSE (SUSE Linux 10.1 or openSUSE 10.2) will need to build Motion whatever, as the "Building Motion" box describes.
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PROVO Nearly 40 percent of registered Republican voters in Utah's 3rd Congressional District are undecided with Tuesday's primary between incumbent Chris Cannon and challenger John Jacob just days away.
Cannon is running television ads and both candidates are scrambling to line up influential endorsements even though it is unlikely they can change the minds of most voters or effectively craft messages to the undecided voters, consultants with both campaigns said while discussing their strategies Wednesday during a Public Relations Society of America luncheon in Provo.
"Our polls show that 38 percent haven't decided who to vote for," Jacob press secretary Hayden Hill said after the lunch.
Cannon campaign manager Nathan Rathbun confirmed during the event that a large bloc of voters are undecided, but he and Hill agreed the Cannon-Jacob race would boil down to how well the two campaigns do at getting voters who have chosen their candidates to go to the polls on Tuesday.
"This election will be won or lost based on who does better getting their voters out to vote," Rathbun said.
The turnout for the early summer primary is expected to be low, between 13 percent and 18 percent. For Jacob, the lower the better, with the hope that Cannon supporters would stay home while Jacob backers, energized by his challenge, would then cast enough ballots to push the election his way.
Cannon launched his television ad campaign Sunday night with commercials on three Salt Lake City stations. The spots have run on local cable during breaks on Fox News Network and CNN.
Cannon also has a new radio spot that slams national immigration reform groups for "their vicious smear campaign" against him. Those groups, mainly Team America, which is running a radio ad ridiculing Cannon for saying he is tough on illegal immigration, want Cannon replaced by Jacob, who they believe is stronger on the issue.
Jacob and others have tied Cannon to a Senate bill that creates a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. They have complained that it is similar to a bill Cannon backed two years ago.
Rathbun said Wednesday that Cannon is against any path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Instead, Cannon supports legislation that would create a guest-worker program that would allow some illegal immigrants to remain in the country for up to three years. The program would be extendable but would not provide an opportunity for citizenship, Rathbun said.
Jacob and others have called that an amnesty. Cannon has said it is not because it does not allow for citizenship and would likely require those who qualified to return to their native country at some point in the process.
In a week where Cannon has received endorsements from President Bush and first lady Laura Bush, he released a new one Wednesday from one of the toughest critics of the Senate bill and its path-to-citizenship proposal, House Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.
In a recorded message, Sensenbrenner said Cannon is "a major force in Congress."
"And long before it was fashionable, Chris Cannon was working with me to stop illegal immigration. Just about everybody in Congress is talking about immigration, but Chris Cannon is one of the few doing the heavy lifting to actually solve the problem."
Cannon also was endorsed Wednesday during a press conference in Salt Lake City by seven Utah state senators, 18 state representatives and 16 mayors in the district, including the mayors of Provo, West Valley City, Herriman and Orem.
Jacob has taken a hard line on illegal immigration. He is against any amnesty and any guest-worker program, Hill said.
Meanwhile, Jacob has an endorsement from the Vietnamese for Fair Immigration.
"Since 80 percent of illegal aliens are from Latin America, amnesty for illegal aliens is preferential treatment for Latino immigrants and discriminates against non-Latino immigrants. In short, amnesty is racism," VFI director Hoan Hoang said in a statement. "John Jacobs opposes this racism; it is why we endorse John Jacob for Congress."
"I appreciate the sincere support of this worthy group and echo their sentiments that the immigration problem has many facets that are often overlooked," Jacob said. "Amnesty is not the answer. It disregards the rule of law and unfairly rewards people for breaking the law by entering our country illegally."
Rathbun and Hill said they have carefully crafted their campaigns to target Republicans with a propensity for voting in primaries.
Hill said the negative Team America radio ads, which include a laugh track after each claim by Cannon that he is tough on illegal immigration, have been one of the three largest issues she's had to address.
"We support Team America and agree with some of their policies," Hill said. "They're our friends. But by law we can't talk to them or coordinate anything. And some outside groups don't understand the nuances of Utah campaigning."
The main nuance is that "Utah hates negative campaigning," she told the public relations professionals. "Utahns won't tolerate it. If you go negative, they won't like you. They want you to be their friend. They want to like you and to think you'd be a great neighbor."Comment on this story
Hill tried to inoculate Jacob against backlash from a Team America-style ad. Jacob's first radio spot, which continues to run, has him explaining that he won't go negative and that if an ad doesn't include a statement from him that he approved it, he had nothing to do with it.
Cannon was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. The House Resource Committee approved a bill Cannon introduced in May 2005 to trade scenic, state-owned land in Grand and Uintah counties for less sensitive land owned by the Bureau of Land Management.Revenue generated from the state land will go to public education in Utah.
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Rating: 5 by 159 users./
Runtime: 86 minutes
Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack, Joe Gallagher, Karen Scully, Ruth Bradley, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Dillon, Karl Johnson, Bonnie Wright, Missy Keating, Padhraig Parkinson, Paul McCloskey, Amy Molloy and Fionnuala Murphy.
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Inside the Blogger's Studio
Drew over at the Longhorn Mafia has a fun post that's a take off on the ultra-pompous Inside the Actor's Studio on Bravo. The same ten questions close every show, and, the originator of those questions, Bernard Pivot, turns 70 today. In his honor, bloggers are taking a stab at answering the questions. Soods like a good Friday post to me!
1. What is your favorite word?
2. What is your least favorite word?
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
4. What turns you off?
5. What is your favorite curse word?
Mother Trucker
6. What sound or noise do you love?
(to borrow an idea from Drew) The opening strains of The Bud Song
7. What sound or noise do you hate?
My cat Claude's incessant whining when he's vaguely dissatisfied
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Nature Resource Management
9. What profession would you not like to do?
Grade School Teacher
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Good morning, sunshine
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Limelight Eventplex Presents
Blues For A Cause 2016 with Selwyn Birchwood
Toronzo Cannon
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8102 N University Street
Peoria, IL, 61615
Doors 6:00 PM / Show 7:00 PM
This event is all ages
Selwyn Birchwood, Florida's rising young blues fireball, is a guitar and lap-steel-playing bundle of pure energy. He delivers his original songs with a revival tent preacher's fervor and a natural storyteller's charisma made all the more impactful by his raw, unvarnished vocals. Birchwood plays high-octane blues – at once deeply rooted, funky and up-to-the-minute – with true passion and honest emotion. With his band feeding off his drive and exuberance, the striking 6'3" 29-year-old with his trademark Afro roams the stage (often barefoot), ripping out memorable guitar licks with ease. His ability to win over an audience – any audience – is proven night after night on the bandstand. With his warm, magnetic personality, Birchwood is as down-to-earth as his music is fun, thought-provoking and vital. His mission is to spread his music far and wide, to share his joy, to play his heart out, and to push the blues into the future. "There's nothing I'd rather be doing than playing the blues," he says. "And I try to convey that with every song and with every performance."
In 2013, Birchwood catapulted from local hero to shooting star. He won the world-renowned International Blues Challenge, beating out 125 other bands from the U.S. and abroad. He also took home the Albert King Guitarist Of The Year Award. It wasn't long before Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer offered Birchwood a contract. His debut album, Don't Call No Ambulance, is a fully realized vision of contemporary blues. Birchwood's original songs range from raucous romps to hill country stomps, from searing, serious slow blues to modern blues rock. Between his uninhibited sense of fun and adventure and his serious-as-a-heart-attack musicianship, Don't Call No Ambulance is a window into the future of the blues. "All originals and no filler," he says of the album. "It's that genuineness of emotion in the songs that people can hear."
The Tampa Tribune says Birchwood plays with "power and precision reminiscent of blues guitar hero Buddy Guy. He is a gritty vocalist [who is] commanding with his axe." According to Iglauer, Birchwood is the real deal. "Selwyn Birchwood is a terrific young blues talent with a huge future. He writes smart, infectious, fresh songs and delivers them with a warm, conversational vocal style and a fun-loving attitude. He's a killer guitarist, switching between a regular six-string and lap steel. Live, he's a ball of energy, interacting with the audience like they were in his living room. Selwyn is destined to be one of the next stars in the blues world."
Birchwood, his father from Tobago, his mother from the UK, was born in 1985 in Orlando, Florida. He first grabbed a guitar at age 13 and soon became proficient at mimicking what he heard on the radio. But the popular grunge rock, hip-hop and metal of the 1990s didn't move him, and he quickly grew bored. And then he heard Jimi Hendrix. "He was larger than life. What he did was mind-blowing. When I realized Hendrix was influenced by the blues, I found my path," he says. By 17 he was deep into the blues, listening to Albert King, Freddie King, Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins and especially Buddy Guy. As luck would have it, just as Birchwood was discovering Guy, the blues master had a concert scheduled in Orlando. Birchwood was there, front and center. "I was floored," he recalls. "I completely connected with the blues. I knew I had to make this music."
As Selwyn's guitar proficiency grew, a friend told him that his neighbor was a blues guitarist and had a band. The 19-year-old Selwyn went over to check it out and jam. The guitar-playing neighbor turned out to be the Texas-born blues legend Sonny Rhodes, who was instantly impressed with the enthusiastic young guitar slinger. Within one month's time, Rhodes asked Birchwood to pack his bags and join him on the road. It was an incredible experience for Birchwood, as Rhodes took the youngster under his wing, not only teaching him guitar and lap steel, but also how to conduct business, how to run a band, how to reach an audience. "Sonny always said, 'Play what's in your heart.' I've never lost sight of that," says Birchwood.
Rhodes insisted Birchwood go to college and always held the guitar spot in his band open for Selwyn whenever he was available. It was a win-win situation, as Birchwood – through hard work and scholarships – received his MBA from The University of Tampa. "I challenged myself to get that degree," Birchwood says. "These days, it's not good enough to just be a good player." Combining the musical lessons learned from Rhodes and his business acumen, Birchwood, now living in Tampa, formed the current version of The Selwyn Birchwood Band in 2010. The band, with the same members still together today, features veteran musicians older than Selwyn, testifying to Selwyn's musical chops and his leadership skills. On stage, they play off each other with ease, feeding each other energy, sharing the fun with the audience.
In 2011 the self-released FL Boy helped the band land gigs outside of their Tampa home, where they were becoming local heroes. Birchwood and his band won their way to spots at the 2012 and 2013 International Blues Challenges in Memphis. After taking ninth place in 2012, they came back determined the next year, taking first place. Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer was sitting at the judges table at the time. "I saw Selwyn's potential in 2012. He absolutely deserved to win in 2013," he says. The victory opened more doors for Birchwood, increased his exposure and helped the band land a deal with Intrepid Artists booking agency, which led to more and better gigs.
The Selwyn Birchwood Band has been touring non-stop since winning the IBC. The band has performed at festivals including The Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, Springing The Blues Festival, The Tampa Bay Blues Festival, The North Atlantic Blues Festival, The King Biscuit Blues Festival as well as on The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Birchwood has opened for major blues stars including Robert Cray and Buddy Guy and has shared the stage with another friend and teacher, Joe Louis Walker (who guests on Don't Call No Ambulance's The River Turned Red). He recently had the opportunity, when performing in San Francisco, to bring his friend and mentor Sonny Rhodes on stage to sit in with his band. It was a moment Birchwood will never forget. "He did so much for me; it was a real honor to return the favor, if only a little."
With Don't Call No Ambulance, Selwyn Birchwood steps onto the world stage, bringing a new wave of blues to a new generation of blues fans. "If I can play my music, travel the world, bring happiness to people, then I'm blessed and happy," he says. "It's like Sonny always told me, 'If you follow your heart, you'll always get what you want.'"
Toronzo Cannon
oronzo Cannon is ready to write his own story as he claims his place as one of the city's most popular and innovative blues musicians.
Cannon's unofficial launch from local hero to national star took place on June 13, 2015 at the world-renowned Chicago Blues Festival, where he performed as a festival headliner for the massive crowd. After announcing that he had just signed with Alligator Records, he delivered a riveting set, instantly earning tens of thousands of new fans. Of the performance, The Chicago Tribune said, "Cannon made the most of his opportunity as a festival headliner to win over a new audience."
The Chicago Way is the Alligator debut by the electrifying Windy City bluesman, produced by Cannon along with label president Bruce Iglauer. The album, featuring nothing but Cannon originals, is powered by his blistering guitar and soul-baring vocals. His songwriting is inspired by his deep, homegrown Chicago roots, his years observing the public while working as a city bus driver on the West Side, and his own battles and triumphs. From searing blues anthems to swinging shuffles to soulful ballads to roof-raising rockers, the songs tell timeless stories of common experiences in uncommon ways. "I've never worked harder on my writing," Cannon says. "I challenged myself at every step, writing each song to connect with someone in my audience. I try to write songs that will be both up-to-the-minute and timeless." He writes about shared experiences with a keen eye for detail. "Blues is truth-telling music," he says, "and I want my audience to relate to my stories." As a singer, his impassioned vocals add muscle and personality to his already potent songs. With The Chicago Way, Cannon knows more and more people will be hearing his message: the future of Chicago blues is in good hands.
According to Cannon, "To be from Chicago and be signed to Alligator is unreal. To be part of Alligator's history...I'm at a loss for words." Iglauer is equally excited to have Cannon join the Alligator family, saying, "I've watched Toronzo grow as a singer, player and songwriter over the last ten years. He's now become a major blues talent, using the Chicago blues tradition as a launching pad to create his own unique, contemporary vision. His music comes right from the heart of the city."
Cannon was born in Chicago on February 14, 1968, and grew up in the shadows of the notoriously tough Robert Taylor Homes. Theresa's Lounge, one of the city's most famous South Side blues clubs, was nearby. As a child, Cannon would stand on the sidewalk outside the door, soaking up the live blues pouring out while trying to sneak a glance inside at larger-than-life bluesmen like Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. He also heard plenty of blues growing up in his grandfather's home, and listened to soul, R&B and contemporary rock on the radio.
Cannon bought his first guitar at age 22, and his natural talent enabled him to quickly master the instrument. Although his initial focus was reggae, he found himself increasingly drawn to the blues. "It was dormant in me. But when I started playing the blues, I found my voice and the blues came pouring out." He absorbed sounds, styles and licks from Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Hound Dog Taylor, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Al Green, Jimi Hendrix, J.B. Hutto, Lil' Ed and others. Although influenced by many, Cannon's biting, singing guitar sound is all his own.
From 1996 through 2002, Cannon played as a sideman for Tommy McCracken, Wayne Baker Brooks, L.V. Banks and Joanna Connor. But he was determined to prove himself. In 2001, while continuing to work as a hired-gun guitarist, he formed his own band, The Cannonball Express. By 2003, he was working exclusively as a band leader. Cannon's first three albums — 2007's My Woman (self-released), 2011's Leaving Mood (Delmark) and 2013's Blues Music Award-nominated John The Conqueror Root (Delmark) — document his rise from promising up-and-comer to star-in-the-making.
Toronzo Cannon has become one of Chicago's most recognized and most popular bluesmen through the sheer force of his music, his songs, his live charisma, and maybe most impressively, his passion for what he is doing. He's played the Chicago Blues Festival on nine separate occasions, either as a sideman, a special guest, a band leader or, most recently, as a main stage headliner. When he's home, Cannon drives a Chicago Transit Authority bus by day and performs by night. Using every vacation day and day off and working four ten-hour shifts a week, Cannon arranges his schedule to gig out of town as much as possible. He's performed in a number of U.S. and European cities and continues to build his audience one roof-raising show at a time. It isn't easy, but, like all of the Chicago greats who have come before him, blues is his calling. "I am proud to be part of a movement," he says, anxious to hit the road and bring his music to new fans in new places. "I'm proud to be standing on the shoulders of every great Chicago blues musician who came before me."
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