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'Bachelorette' Writer/Director Leslye Headland on Flawed Female Characters
By Joe Marine
It's obvious that we are in a very male-dominated industry, so it's refreshing to see a female filmmaker getting attention for breaking stereotypes with her work. In this DP/30 interview, Leslye Headland, writer for the cancelled television series Terriers, and writer/director of the Sundance comedy Bachelorette, talks about the support she received from some comedy legends and geeks out about film narrative structure -- specifically the movie Back to the Future.
First, here's the trailer for the film:
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The DP/30 interview:
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Headland's persistence to stick to her guns and keep her characters real and flawed is admirable. The $3 million dollar budget certainly did not keep the Hollywood stars away - proof that well-written material, comedic or not, can still attract big-time actors. Though Headland has a strong theater background, she gives some great advice about screen-writing and storytelling in this quote from an Indiewire interview:
I think the perfect film is "Back to the Future." It's a perfect script. The A-story and the B-story connect at exactly the right point, and you're never given a piece of information that you don't need, and in the second part of the first act, they explain time travel for you in like two minutes. It's so succinct, and it's so fast, and you're never wondering what's going on in the moment, and you're just with it the entire way. That's something that was a big inspiration to me, even in writing this film, which, of course, has nothing to do with sci-fi or anything. I just kept thinking that you've got to keep going. I always said to the cast when we were filming, and I said to Will and Adam that we're doing everything right if the audience isn't sure if Isla's character is going to wake up. If we've suspended the disbelief to the point that they're freaking out that we might kill off a major movie star, then we've done our job.
Though it may seem like a knockoff of other films (specifically another female driven film, Bridesmaids) at first glance, these characters were first created to be on stage in the theater version of the story well before that film (which was also written by Leslye Headland). Characters designed to be on stage in my experience are rarely one-dimensional, and have many different layers beneath their exteriors. Having just seen Ruby Sparks (highly recommended for any aspiring writers out there -- it will definitely hit home), which was written by one of its stars, Zoe Kazan, it's interesting when a story and characters traditionally written by a male play a little with preconceived notions. In the case of Headland, female writers can be every bit as vulgar as their male counterparts, but they have the added advantage of actually being inside a woman's head.
Who are your favorite female writers and directors? Are there any particularly interesting interviews you think we should share from said individuals? If so, please share below in the comments.
Link: Leslye Headland, Bachelorette - Indiewire
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so after the very funny 'bridesmaids' they decide to make another movie with exactly the same theme but this time lets add a little 'hangover' as well to make it stand out. lame.
IMO most female directors/writers are overrated, one hit wonders and i swear to God you can tell if a movie is directed by a woman or not. *cough* Sofia Coppola.
The late Ephron was one of the best of her generation, Bigalow is awesome too with some very underrated movies under her belt, and I am looking out for Brit Marling, 'another earth' was good, flawed, but good debut, and looking forward to watch 'the sound of my voice'.
Debra Granik is great too, Winter's Bone was excellent.
July 25, 2012 at 6:04AM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
I'm sure Bridesmaids helped actually get this movie funded (even at this low of a budget), but to be fair, the stage play existed long before Bridesmaids was a film.
As for the quite sexist remark about female directors/writers, I'll let our female audience deal with that one if they so choose...
Joe Marine
It's not exactly sexists, you are being too much PC right now. It's still his opinion about certain female directors and female directors in general, like it or not. Personally I've seen some amazing movies directed by very different women, each one was unique in it's own right.
August 19, 2012 at 9:57AM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
WOW. You swung and missed MULTIPLE times there.
"'another earth' was good, flawed, but good debut"
flawed? please do expand upon that opinion and grace us with your explanation, your holiness
I know right. If you debut is "that flawed" you've done something incredible.
Lliam Worthington
@Lliam Worthington. right. the moment when the communicator-lady with the other planet turned round the paper with the answer already witten on it, was one of the most suspense-shock moments i remember feeling in a film for years. very effective and well done IMO
Please spare me the feminists diatribe Leslye.
We work in a male dominated industry, yet many male characters are relegated to stereotypical he man types, bumbling idiots, philanderers, rapists, wife beaters, abusers, etcetera.
I would love to see less stereotypes across the board, but stereotypes are easily recognizable and tap into popular belief systems (of both men and women), so they will always will be used.
moebius22
My bad on attribution of the article.
Not be too picky, but what exactly is a "Sundance comedy"? Granted, it's a law of the indie world that nothing unkind (or truthful!) can ever be said in public about Sundance, the IFP, Tribeca, etc., but do we really have qualify every film with the word "Sundance", just because the film happened to play there?
Ever heard of a "Cannes comedy" or a "NYFF drama"?
Bear in mind also, that the Sundance qualifier is likely to kill the film in some quarters.
geraldH
I originally wrote this in February when I first started writing here so it was more relevant then (right after Sundance happened), I just didn't change it. It took them 6 months to release a trailer for some reason, so that's what I've been waiting for. It's a little funny that you picked out something completely inconsequential in relation to the rest of the post and the interview/content.
Also...it took me a little while because, you know, I've been busy trying to work on this site, but I finally saw a pattern with some of the names (lowercase first name, uppercase for last name or initial of last name) and figured out what you've been doing geraldH, or should I say JasonD, annoyed, samDee, nadia, jd, kitl, KarenB, SullyG, foul_humor, and djohnes? If I got any of those wrong or missed one, my apologies, but it's tough to keep up when you change identities so often! Commenting on your own comments with different names was interesting - I'm sure it's happened before, but I don't think most people who have negative things to say would keep coming back as you have - even though you did say you weren't coming back.
On the Read Scripts, Watch Movies, Write Pages: the Scott Myers 1,2,7,14 Formula post back on June 17th, (as samDee) you said this: "But that said, I think you're right about something else: this site is not the place for me, and this post will be the last one."
I actually took you for your word (I know, strange), since you seem intelligent enough, and I just hadn't been paying close enough attention. Either way, you have been abusing the fact that in the past we haven't really done anything about anonymity and fake emails/names. It comes with the territory, I guess, but it's a little surprising that someone with so much intelligence has felt the need to change their online identity so often. The other troubling fact, is that out of the 50 or so comments (haven't really counted), almost none have been positive. It takes quite a bit of energy to produce that much negativity, but I applaud your persistence - obviously you believe strongly or you wouldn't keep coming back to this site so often.
Anyway, now that I've gotten that out of the way, here is a response that was crafted if you did decide to continue coming back (obviously you have):
"We very much appreciate real names and email addresses so we can get in touch with you. One of the reasons for this is we like to solicit guest posts from people who have differing opinions. Looking over your IP address's comment history, you are obviously involved in the industry in some manner and seem to have a bone to pick with folks like us who are always talking about the democratization of the medium and all of the new opportunities that digital acquisition and distribution tools offer. If you would like, we can offer you a platform to vent these thoughts/frustrations as perhaps a productive jumping-off point for a discussion here on the site. You can say what you think the industry is REALLY like, since we're apparently constantly getting it wrong. However, I'm guessing if we reach out to the email address(es) you're leaving comments with, we'll get an error or the wrong person. So if you really want to take this discussion to the next level, please reach us at editor@nofilmschool.com and we can talk about accommodating your perspective in a more official capacity. If you're not interested, that's fine, but we simply ask that you stop using numerous names and email addresses and own up to your name and role in the industry."
That response is in no way facetious. That is a genuine offer. We'd like to give you a platform to tell us what we're getting wrong so we can actually get somewhere productive. Unfortunately, it also means you wouldn't be able to hide behind the anonymity that the comment section currently provides - we'd need a real name and some way to verify that you are who you say you are.
I'm willing to give not just a post, but many posts to start a meaningful discussion. Whether you've got anything positive to say or not, I think your thoughts and opinions might be something our audience wants/needs to read.
I don't know where your IP detective work has led you, but Samdee and that host of others are not my doppelgangers. If we all have the same IP #, they'd have to be using this computer telepathically.
Otherwise, you're right: this is not the place. So, on that basis, this is the last word. Really!
July 25, 2012 at 10:46AM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
It's not even really detective work, in Wordpress every comment has an IP address associated with it. When we click on that IP address, we can see every comment made from that IP. I understand your reasoning for trying to deny it, but one IP address in particular matched many of the "doppelgangers" that you've created. For the same IP address, to be commenting on the same site, in similar time-frames, with similar writing styles, and similar negativity, is an impossibility - and I wouldn't have said anything unless I was 100% positively sure. I won't post that IP address out of respect for you (even though I know you don't have any for me), but here are the usernames associated with it along with the emails you used for those usernames (with the domain removed just in case any of these are real addresses for real people, they don't need any more unnecessary spam):
JohnDee
jdd33@
kHolleran
vaas22@
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SullyG
hapstance33@
hal88@
KarenB
kbbbb8@
samDEE
jr233@
jr2333@
annnoyed
hel2777@
HaroldG
hg11he@
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Coppola_skeptic
regs2rr@
It's not always the same IP address, that's true, but for the ones above - it's the exact same one. You also give yourself away a little bit at the end of the last comment by suggesting that this will be your last word (just like you already have). If this is a blatant lie, and I am making some grand mistake, where is the anger I see so often? I would have thought you would have enjoyed the podium - we are actually giving you a place to vent your frustrations with the industry in a constructive way.
People would probably think I'm crazy for doing this, but I am leaving the offer of a guest post on the table. That's how much I believe in this community and in the independent film community, that I would want to hear a well-reasoned post from someone who could easily be cast away as a troll. You're very intelligent, obviously, but to spend so much time being negative does not benefit anyone. The writers here spend hours upon hours working on this site and answering questions, and Ryan spent years of his life building it. We care about this community and we want to see people succeed. If you disagree with the idea behind this site, why come here so often - and if you disagree so vehemently that you have to come back time and time again and change names, why not take the opportunity to vent to the world on a pretty large stage? It takes a lot of courage to put your real name out there and allow other people to criticize everything you say - in fact it's what we do here every single day. We're giving you the opportunity to be front and center and clear the air about the topics we cover and how we are steering people in the wrong direction.
If some day you change your mind, we'll be here.
I wish I could "like" Joe marine's comments.
July 26, 2012 at 6:35PM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
+1, Mr. Marine. +1.
Joe Sugo
You guys are too generous. I'd have stopped at the point where you called out this individual who in most quarters of the online world would be labelled a troll and you guys could be accused of feeding the troll.
Still, I applaud your response Joe. I have to say, I've long wondered if certain commenters on here where masquerading under different names. Personally, I'd like to see this site adopt a similar policy to sites like Philip Bloom's or DVXuser where one has to register with ones real name. A little accountability goes a long way.
I'm sure there are more, but rarely do they comment with such an eloquent negativity. We're exploring all of those things for the future, but right now until we do a redesign, we'll just have to deal with the comments as-is.
This comments section is a pretty good comedy too haha. I love the comments on this site. I always learn so much.
Thomas Ramble
I really like Sofia Coppola´s films, and I doubt anyone can always just "tell" a woman directed a film. Even if you could, is that a bad thing? Maybe a feminine touch brings something new and fresh to the table. A slightly different perspective perhaps. I loved The Hurt Locker, Lost in Translation, The Piano, Lords of Dogtown. Agnès Varda, Mira Nair and Sofia Coppola are all great. Sure there a fewer female directors now, but I watched The History of Film, and in one episode they spoke about how Hollywood was once dominated by female writers, producers etc. and that many great Male directors actually just ended up putting there names on other people´s (often woman´s) work.
"Terriers" was a terrific show, one of my favorites at the time. It's a shame they canned it, so much potential.
This article/interview has nothing to do with any sort of feminist agenda - such an ignorant, insecure reaction. The idea you can tell the gender of a director by the quality of a film is just as unsupported. Like Ida Lupino directing the gritty noir, The Hitch-hiker? Or Antonia Bird directing the amazing and underrated Ravenous?
Regardless, well-written lead female characters (and I don't mean 'strong' female characters - whatever that means) are few and far between. Never really took any notice of the issue until I watched Rosanna Arquette's doc "Searching for Debra Winger". Completely changed my opinion on the matter. I feel like if any indie filmmaker wants an amazing performance to anchor their movie, all they have to do is write a great lead female character and they'll own the market. It's exploitative, and it's unfortunate, but it's all too true.
And Terriers was amazing. I feel like if it was given a little longer they could have found some support with a netflix audience and kept it going. The episode, "Asunder", stands out as some of my favorite writing ever for television.
Thanks for the piece, really enjoyed it (and the comments).
The play Bachelorette on was written in 2007, I think the script was optioned in 2008. It never had the $ or star power behind it to push it out the gate until Bridesmaids made bank, which both brought it to life and killed it. Too bad.
August 4, 2012 at 12:38PM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
I'm all for the idea of having real names. steadicamforum.com switched to that a couple years ago, and it's it's been invaluable...both for weeding out trolls, and allowing professionals/semi-professionals/and dedicated noobs to meet and interact with each other or give referrals. It helps people actually find each other in the real world. Just based on people's comments, I know people I would definitely work with or work for on NFS.
Anonymity seems to make people more negative, as is showcased by geraldH/JohnDee/whatever...
Especially in production...very few professionals knock other professionals without a very good reason, so it would probably get rid of some of the more negativity I've seen pop up in the last year or so.
August 4, 2012 at 3:32PM, Edited September 4, 7:54AM
Daniel Mimura
Yeah we're looking into all of our options but unfortunately it just can't be done overnight.
Someday soon hopefully...


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Hagel, Kerry, and Brennan Confirmation Hearings: Middle East and North Africa Issues
Report Middle East
January 17, 2013 5 min read Download Report
Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
James Phillips is a senior research fellow for Middle Eastern affairs at The Heritage Foundation.
The United States Senate will soon hold confirmation hearings for the Obama Administration's nominees for three key positions: Senator John Kerry (D–MA) for Secretary of State, former Senator Chuck Hagel (R–NE) for Secretary of Defense, and White House Chief Counterterrorism Advisor John Brennan for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The confirmation process gives the Senate the opportunity to examine the qualifications of the appointees, explore the likely trajectory of the Obama Administration's foreign policy and national security policy during its second term, and seek guarantees from the appointees that they will safeguard vital U.S. national interests on key issues.
A Crucial Region
The Middle East and North Africa are critical focal points for efforts to halt Iran's nuclear program and its export of terrorism, the war against al-Qaeda, and the uphill struggle for freedom in countries affected by the so-called Arab Spring. The region also contains almost two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves. In addition, important allies such as Israel, Iraq, Jordan, and the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council are cooperating in containing Iran, mitigating the destabilizing spillover effects of Syria's intensifying civil war, and fighting Islamist extremism and terrorism.
The Obama Administration, after reversing the hard-line policies of the Bush Administration in confronting state sponsors of terrorism, vainly sought to engage hostile regimes in Iran and Syria, only to be spurned. The Administration distanced itself from Israel, America's foremost ally in the Middle East, and tilted towards the Palestinian Authority in U.S.–sponsored peace negotiations, which quickly broke down after Washington unwisely elevated the issue of Israeli settlements. The Administration also withdrew U.S. troops from Iraq, failing to arrange for a small residual force as it had promised—a failure that has undermined Iraq's security, jeopardized its political stability, and contributed to the resurgence of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
There are three key issues that loom large in the coming months:
Iran's Nuclear Challenge. Despite sanctions, Iran has accelerated its uranium enrichment efforts. This year Tehran is expected to cross a dangerous threshold to gain a nuclear breakout capability by producing enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear bomb. It will finish the job unless it is persuaded that the costs of doing so exceed the benefits of attaining a nuclear capability. Sanctions alone are unlikely to halt Iran's nuclear program, just as they failed to halt North Korea's. U.S. diplomacy must be bolstered by the credible threat of military force or Tehran will run out the clock.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Israel will be forced to take military action against Iran's nuclear program by mid-year if current trends continue. Strong and resolute U.S. leadership is necessary to resolve the nuclear issue before Israel is compelled to launch a preventive strike or Iran gains a nuclear capability. Also worrisome is Tehran's increasingly aggressive use of terrorism against Israeli and Saudi targets, including a foiled 2011 plot to bomb a Washington, D.C., restaurant to kill the Saudi Ambassador. The Obama Administration must apply maximum pressure to Tehran to deter it from continuing such terrorist acts.
Syria's Meltdown. The Obama Administration's naïve engagement of President Bashir al-Assad's barbaric dictatorship, as well as its wishful thinking about the possibility of inducing Assad to negotiate a political transition that would inevitably threaten his own survival has contributed to an increasingly bloody civil war. The outsourcing of policy on Syria to the U.N. Security Council has handed Russia and China a veto over U.S. policy and bolstered Assad's staying power.
U.S. passivity has contributed to a widening regional crisis. The Obama Administration must become more active in accelerating the fall of Assad, supporting the opposition, and working closely with Syria's neighbors to contain the destabilizing spillover effects and ease the suffering of Syrian refugees. It should identify key non-Islamist opposition leaders inside Syria who are worth supporting and provide them with effective economic aid, medical supplies, communications technology, and even covert arms aid if they can provide ironclad guarantees that the arms will not fall into the hands of terrorists.
Terrorism: A Resurgent Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremists have exploited the Arab Spring to expand their power. This has created direct threats such as yesterday's terrorist attack and hostage taking in Algeria and the September 11 attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. It also has enabled terrorists to carve out sanctuaries in Mali, Syria, Yemen, and Egypt's Sinai peninsula. Al-Qaeda also has staged a resurgence in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops and is poised to make a comeback in Afghanistan if the Obama Administration risks a precipitous drawdown of U.S. troops there.
Washington must undertake effective and responsible counterterrorism cooperation with as many states as possible to defeat al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and other Islamist extremists. But in failed or failing states where the rule of law is nonexistent, the Obama Administration's law enforcement approach is dangerously ineffective. The Benghazi attack and the faltering investigation to identify and arrest the culprits has underscored the weaknesses of this approach, which also failed to protect Americans from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Clarity and Guarantees on Important Issues
The Senate should use the confirmation process to question each nominee on the above mentioned issues. In particular, it should seek guarantees from Senator Kerry that he will:
Maximize pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear program and export of terrorism. Kerry should commit to supporting the use of force if Iran continues to drag its feet on the nuclear issue, as well as maintaining sanctions until Tehran has taken concrete actions to halt uranium enrichment, transfer its stockpile of medium enriched uranium out of the country, and dismantle its fortified Fordo enrichment facility.
Accelerate the transition to a post-Assad Syria. Kerry has been a leading advocate of engaging the Syrian dictator, which yielded no real benefits. He should commit to ousting the tyrant and replacing him as soon as possible with an inclusive successor government committed to democracy and opposed to terrorism.
The Senate should seek guarantees from Senator Hagel that he will:
Fully support Israel if it attacks Iran's nuclear program in self-defense. Hagel has advocated some of the same fuzzy engagement policies that failed to yield results for the Administration over the past four years. Coercive diplomacy is needed, backed by the strongest possible sanctions and the credible threat of military action. But Hagel has opposed both in the past. He must establish that he is willing to support Israel's inherent right to self defense and lead U.S. military strikes against Iran's nuclear infrastructure if called upon to do so by the President.
Support close strategic cooperation with Israel. Hagel has a history of perceived slights against Israel. He must commit to strengthening military cooperation with Jerusalem, which could pay dividends in containing Iran and fighting terrorism.
The Senate should seek guarantees from John Brennan that he will:
Maintain maximum lethal pressure on al-Qaeda. The impending drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan could undermine efforts to strike at al-Qaeda leaders who have taken refuge inside Pakistan. Brennan should commit to maintaining the infrastructure necessary to support targeted CIA strikes by drones and other means long after most U.S. troops have returned home.
Stronger Leadership Needed in Second Term
Given the Administration's feckless record on Middle East policy in its first term, a more realistic and proactive approach is needed to confront hostile regimes in Iran and Syria while helping to protect U.S. allies in the region. Both allies and adversaries are uncertain about the Obama Administration's goals and resolve. The three nominees must convince the Senate, the American people, allies, and adversaries that they have a realistic understanding of how to protect America's vital interests in the volatile Middle East.
—James Phillips is Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation.
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Renovating our business
When we founded Mihaly Slocombe in 2010, Erica and I had never been taught how to manage or grow a business. Naïvely we thought we could work it out ourselves, piecing together every fragment of the puzzle through trial and error. Our learning curve was steep and often rocky. I sometimes think back on those first few years and wonder how we managed to stumble along at all.
Out of necessity, we ran our business as lean as we possibly could. We set up our studio in our spare bedroom, we raided our parents' attics for furniture, and we hacked together our website. We had no staff, no marketing budget, and did all our own accounting.
Though we didn't know it, we had adopted a key element of Eric Ries' lean startup methodology, the Minimum Viable Product. An MVP is in essence an accelerated build-measure-learn feedback loop, a low-risk testing ground for a company to tease out the kinks in its product, then iterate and improve it. Our version of an MVP was the most stripped back version of Mihaly Slocombe we could envisage, a company with zero overheads and nothing in our personal lives (like children or a mortgage) that demanded we finance it.
A crucial element of our MVP was managing the business ourselves. We were lean, but we still needed to count things: money mostly, in its various forms, but time, progress and documents too. For all of these, I turned to good old Microsoft Excel. I used it for timesheets, invoicing and expenses. I cobbled together rudimentary project schedules in it, used it for our quarterly BASs and tax returns, and eventually payroll too.
In my opinion, Excel is without doubt the best business management tool for startups. It's light, cheap, infinitely customisable and exceptionally well supported.[1] But it also relies on a lot of manual data entry. When our studio expanded to four people early last year, this reliance exposed its two main shortcomings. First, it's very easy to make mistakes without realising it. And second, it's not readily scaleable. I had a constellation of spreadsheets that were creating as many problems as they were solving.
Of course, my spreadsheets were only one part of the many facets of our business. But the increasing trouble I was having with them triggered a broader realisation that six years into Mihaly Slocombe we had outgrown our lean startup strategies. Despite promising ourselves we wouldn't fall into the clichéd trap of undisciplined growth, we found ourselves with more work than we could handle but little in the way of organisational structure. We knew our business was thriving, but we had a poor grasp of how we could make it even better.
We had already relocated our studio out of our spare bedroom and into a swish new coworking space filled with beautiful furniture. We had commissioned a graphic designer to rebrand us and rebuild our decomposing website. We had two staff, a marketing budget, and an accountant. We were overdue in taking this same spirit of renovation to our business management systems.
So Erica and I put considerable thought into how we would tackle the huge job of transitioning the management of Mihaly Slocombe towards a more mature methodology.
I recalled some very useful advice from Simon Knott, who observed in a CPD event some time ago that he has always thought of his business as larger than it actually is. We understood this to mean that we needed to make decisions for our business as we wanted it to be, rather than our business as it was. Our ambition therefore was to prepare ourselves for growth, to set up systems that will help us monitor and improve the health of our business, and scale up as we do.
We put this philosophy into action at the start of this financial year, and embarked on a three year, three step renovation of our business management systems:
Step 1: Accountable accounting
Step 2: Predictable profitability
Step 3: Clear communication
In a nutshell, each of these steps was to be achieved by adopting software packages to address its specific goal: accounting software for accountability; resource scheduling for profitability; team collaboration software for communication. We would then build soft processes around the software to help enact our goals.
Now, as we near the end of the first year of this renovation plan, and gear up for the second, I feel it's the right time to share my experiences so far, the research I've undertaken to prepare for next year, and my hopes for the benefits that this strategy will bring to Mihaly Slocombe. Stay tuned over coming weeks as I cover each of the three steps in successive articles.
This and subsequent articles will be grouped under the tag, renovating our business.
Excel costs $100 a year, including the rest of the Microsoft Office programs. In addition to official Microsoft support, there are any number of useful forums filled with Excel geeks happy to share their wisdom. Try Excel Forum, Mr Excel or Excel Guru.
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Excellent article Warwick and I look forward to the future chapters!


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Option 1 - UPS - This is the "simplest" solution. Plug a UPS into the wall outlet, plug the A/C into the UPS and you're good to go. Any UPS large enough to support an A/C should also handle a florescent lamp and whatever monitoring device I come up with in Project 2 without breaking a sweat. However, UPS's aren't really designed to handle large inductive loads (like motors), so I have some doubts about how well this would actually work. They also are generally only meant to provide enough juice for a few minutes to shut down all attached loads when the power fails, so one large enough to run for say, an hour, is going to mean a huge battery and that means huge $$ as well - something in the range of $2500 by my estimation. They do have the nice feature of providing a near-seamless transition from wall power to battery power that other devices can't match, though power being off for 15 minutes honestly isn't going to hurt anything. We're more talking about outages that last longer than an hour.
Option 2 - Gasoline/LP/NG Generator - This is certainly more complicated no matter how you do the installation, but also provides a lot more flexibility. This requires getting some kind of generator, portable or permanent, finding a place for it in the back yard, possibly building a shelter for it, keeping it in working order, and ensuring that it has plenty of usable fuel. There are a lot of sizes and options out there, but if we're going to go this route, rather than having to run an extension cord across the house (bad idea) and up 3 stories (worse idea), we might as well get one we can patch into the house wiring, which means more complexity, but higher reliability and more flexibility. We could use it to provide backup power to other appliances as well, such as the fridge/freezer, internet router (we could still access internet via laptops), maybe some basic lighting, maybe even the central A/C if the genny's rated high enough. Obviously, cost and size go up as capacity increases, so we'd have to find a good balance between necessity and convenience. Between generator and installation costs, this is likely to be in the $2k-4k range. Generators can often be setup to start automatically when the power goes out, and can provide power directly into the existing wiring system, so you can pretty much whatever you want depending on which circuits have the backup wired in. Long-term, a permanent system is less hassle free, but those generally require a gas line connection, and since our house is 100% electric, we'd have to have a gas line run in from whereever, if that's even possible in our neighborhood.
This one I'm much more excited about. Here's kind of what I had in mind: A device that has temperature and humidity sensors and potentially a camera. It would have a configurable timer and warning/critical threshold for each sensor type. And then some kind of network connectivity, preferably wifi just to make installation easy. Every 10 minutes/hour/whatever (depending on timer setting), it would poll the sensors and, if available, do a camera capture. Then it would upload this information and its timestamp to a website where I could monitor this data from anywhere. This could be as simple as leveraging the Twitter API to post the info as the amount of test should be very small. Depending on the complexity of the camera capture software, it could also do an overlay of the image with temp/humidity/time and just dump that to Flickr or Twitpic or whatever. Then the second piece to this is an alert system. Whenever the temp/humidity approaches the set threshold, it would set a warning and when it exceeds it would send a critical alert. These alerts could be the same posts, but with higher frequency and perhaps a prefix like WARN or CRIT, or they could be emails or text messages to a location I specify. All of this would ideally be configurable through a web interface, though I'm not personally above having some separate configuration software that downloads to the module via USB or something.
I know there exist standalone cameras with their own webservers built in that you just put on your network and they do their thing. And there are modules for several home-security products that have cameras and various other environmental sensors. But I'm not aware of a product that does all the things I've just described. I've been scoping out information on the Arduino and it's extension boards, which seems like it would meet most of my needs in this particular area. I think I would have to write most of the code/interface myself (which would be fun), but I think pricewise this Frankenstein is going to get out of control pretty quickly (I'm thinking in the $400-500 range when all is said and done). Anyone know of any other product that does anything even close to what I described that I might be able to re-purpose?
Temporary solution might be to go with an existing webserver camera and just point it at the Oregon Scientific weather station sitting in the room. This still has the limitation of not being able to post updates when the power goes out due to power loss in the camera and router. But hopefully that will be resolved in some manner by Project 1.
Anyway, some more things for me to start considering and researching. By the time I come up with something, summer will almost certainly be over and then I'll start worrying about how to keep the house warm instead of cool when the ice storms roll around in about 6 months.


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Q: Regex to match cid for Email Signature Image I have a scenario where the signature images in the mail content alone needs to be removed. EWS converting all the email attachments with Content and assigning it CID which are embedded in mail.
Here in the email, lot of images are embedded but I need to figure out only the signature image in the email body and needs to remove it.
It does only have CID and nothing to figure out to identify the signature image. Is there any possibility?
Signature Image:

[cid:image001.jpg@01C451FD.99CD7240]

Some Other Image:

[cid:image001.png@01D2C230.B44CH170]

A: Are you asking if signatures have a CID which can programmatically be distinguished from other CIDs? The answer is no.
There may be hints in other MIME headers like a Content-Description: signature or similar, but nothing is properly standardized. It's just another MIME part, and entirely optional.
There are weak heuristics you could use, like "if this is the last inline part, and/or it's identical to an inline body part in other messages from the same correspondent", but this is obviously brittle and error-prone.

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""" An overlay for drawing "infinite" vertical and horizontal lines.

This module defines the CoordinateLineOverlay class, a Chaco overlay
for Plot (and similar) objects.
"""

from __future__ import with_statement

from traits.api import Instance, Float, Array
from enable.api import black_color_trait, LineStyle, Component
from chaco.api import AbstractOverlay

class CoordinateLineOverlay(AbstractOverlay):

    # The data coordinates of the lines to be drawn perpendicular to the
    # index axis.
    index_data = Array

    # The data coordinates of the lines to be drawn perpendicular to the
    # value axis.
    value_data = Array

    # Width of the lines.
    line_width = Float(1.0)

    # Color of the lines.
    color = black_color_trait

    # Style of the lines ('solid', 'dash' or 'dot').
    line_style = LineStyle

    # The component that this tool overlays.  This must be a Component with
    # the following attributes:
    #     x, y, x2, y2
    #         The screen coordinates of the corners of the component.
    #     orientation ('h' or 'v')
    #         The orientation of the component, either horizontal or vertical.
    #         This is the orientation of the index axis.
    #     index_mapper
    #         index_mapper.map_screen maps `index_data` to screen coordinates.
    #     value_mapper
    #         value_mapper.map_screen maps `value_data` to screen coordinates.
    # Typically this will be a Plot instance.
    component = Instance(Component)

    #----------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Override AbstractOverlay methods
    #----------------------------------------------------------------------

    def overlay(self, component, gc, view_bounds, mode="normal"):

        comp = self.component
        x_pts = comp.index_mapper.map_screen(self.index_data)
        y_pts = comp.value_mapper.map_screen(self.value_data)
        if comp.orientation == "v":
            x_pts, y_pts = y_pts, x_pts

        with gc:
            # Set the line color and style parameters.
            gc.set_stroke_color(self.color_)
            gc.set_line_width(self.line_width)
            gc.set_line_dash(self.line_style_)

            # Draw the vertical lines.
            for screen_x in x_pts:
                self._draw_vertical_line(gc, screen_x)

            # Draw the horizontal lines.
            for screen_y in y_pts:
                self._draw_horizontal_line(gc, screen_y)

    #----------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Private methods
    #----------------------------------------------------------------------

    def _draw_vertical_line(self, gc, screen_x):
        if screen_x < self.component.x or screen_x > self.component.x2:
            return
        gc.move_to(screen_x, self.component.y)
        gc.line_to(screen_x, self.component.y2)
        gc.stroke_path()

    def _draw_horizontal_line(self, gc, screen_y):
        if screen_y < self.component.y or screen_y > self.component.y2:
            return
        gc.move_to(self.component.x, screen_y,)
        gc.line_to(self.component.x2, screen_y)
        gc.stroke_path()

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Republican Governor Blames Trump for January 6 Riot
Gov Asa Hutchins blames Trump for Jan 6 riot
The Republican Governor of Arkansas came forward over the weekend to say that Donald Trump should be held responsible for the riot at Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.
Courtesy of NextNewsNetwork
Governor Asa Hutchins, who has clashed with the former President multiple times over the election, made an appearance on FOX News Sunday to push his version of the narrative.
The Governor told host Brett Baier that he believed Trump has responsibility for the riot while suggesting the committee may be overstating what they have on him when it comes to criminal charges.
"You can make the case, and I would agree, that he's politically and morally responsible for much of what has happened," the governor said. "But in terms of criminal liability, I think the committee has a long way to go before they could establish that."
Hutchinson made it clear that he was not relying on the Democrat-led January 6th Committee to deal with Trump. He believes it is the duty of the Republican party and their voters to move away from the former President following the last election.
"I hope we move in a different direction. I believe that what happened on January 6 is a lot at his feet. It was wrong for our country, and for him to continue to push that theory – I agree, is the wrong direction for the Republican Party," Hutchinson said.
He continued, "I think Republicans need to do a lot of soul searching as to – what is the right thing here? What is the right thing to say for our party and our democracy and our future?"
Governor Asa Hutchinson frequently butted heads with the former President, especially after Biden won the state over Trump with a mere 10,000 votes, or 0.3%. Trump has disputed this razor-thin margin, while Hutchins defends the count.
Do you think Governor Hutchins really believes Trump is responsible for January 6? Or is he just trying to resurrect his own Presidential ambitions but needs Trump out of the picture to do so?