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Podcast: Interview with John Sayles (1983)
Linda Griffiths (left) and Jane Hallaren in John Sayles' Lianna (1983).
From 1981 to 1989, I was assistant producer and co-host of the radio show On the Arts, at CJRT-FM (today Jazz 91.1) in Toronto. With the late Tom Fulton, who was the show's prime host and producer, we did a half-hour interview program where we talked to artists from all fields. In 1983, one of those guests was American independent filmmaker and screenwriter John Sayles.
When I sat down with Sayles in 1983, Lianna (starring Canadian actor and playwright Linda Griffiths) had just been released. Lianna was the second film Sayles directed, his follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut, Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980). Since 1983, Sayles has directed sixteen features, including Eight Men Out (1988), Lone Star (1996), Sunshine State (2002), and most recently Go for Sisters (2013).
– Kevin Courrier.
Here is the full interview with John Sayles as it aired on CJRT-FM in 1983.
Labels: Film, Interview, Kevin Courrier, Podcast
The Business of a Woman's Life – Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will
Charlotte Brontë by George Richmond, 1850. (National Portrait Gallery, London)
My story begins, dear reader, with a description of a not-so-distant journey that took me through the sky to the isle of Manhattan, and ultimately inside the workings of a most extraordinary intellect. The destination was that seat of high repute and learning, the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City. I entered through its glassy doors off Madison Avenue as the autumnal sky above streaked plum and apricot, the colours dancing rich and vibrant on the shadowy walls. After perusing the rare gilt-edged books and illuminated manuscripts lining what had once been banker J.P. Morgan's private library, I ascended to the second storey aboard a chrome elevator. Turning right, I spied a treasure of a different stripe, a simple cotton and wool dress, patterned over with the petals of pale blue flowers. It guarded the entrance of Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will, a unique collaboration between the Morgan and the Brontë Parsonage Museum in England. Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the author's birth in 1816, the intimate exhibition closed in January, but not without creating a lasting impression.
Labels: Books, Deirdre Kelly, Fashion, Visual Arts
Man vs. Nature – Kong: Skull Island
Tian Jing, Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston, and Thomas Mann in Kong: Skull Island.
I had one thought going into Kong: Skull Island, and it was a fervent hope that the film wouldn't cleave to the story we've all already seen more times than we can count. I went in ready to condemn the film if any of the following were depicted: the big ape and the titular island become separate entities; the humans want to capture or control him in any way; his murderous rage is soothed by his fascination with a beautiful blonde ingenue. I'm pleased to report that Skull Island contains none of those story beats, and is distinct enough from all the other iterations of the King Kong story to justify its own existence.
But if it isn't any of those things, then what the hell is Skull Island, exactly? This is a movie about King Kong, isn't it?
Labels: Film, Justin Cummings
In God's Country: The Joshua Tree by U2
A couple of weeks ago, I posted images of the inner-vinyl labels of side one and side two of U2's 1987 release The Joshua Tree (Island). It was my way of marking the 30th anniversary of the release of one of my prized albums. And I don't mean compact disc either. This was a vinyl pressing, gatefold jacket and lyrics insert edition as it was intended on March 9th, 1987. I was thirty years younger and listening to jazz exclusively, since pop music and rock 'n' roll in general weren't engaging my ears at the time. But U2 was the exception. I was immediately impressed when they launched in Canada in 1980, thanks to the support of CFNY radio and The New Music television program, long-time sources of new groups in the post-punk age of my generation. By posting the inner-label images on my Facebook page, I wanted to remember the record as a two-sided experience where you centered your focus on the rotation of the long-play album and flipped it to side two. In those days, music was a little more precious in its physical form. Digital files are simply no match for the texture and engagement in a record. To those pundits who fail to see the value in "things" such as vinyl albums, you're way off the mark and rude to think that "things" are worthless, backdated forms of media.
Labels: John Corcelli, Music
Off the Shelf: Lunch with Charles (2001)
Theresa Lee and Nicholas Lea in Lunch with Charles.
Lunch with Charles is a relaxed and genial romantic comedy about a number of couples who begin to feel dislocated and dissatisfied with the lives and partners they've chosen. Making his feature film debut, writer-director Michael Parker sets in motion a charmingly low-key Feydeau-style farce that's sprinkled with granola and cured in heady coastal air. Set in British Columbia, a province most easterners wrongly assume to be catatonically relaxed, Lunch with Charles examines with a droll undercurrent a number of partners who fear they've lost the itch for love, but turn out to be anything but sedate. The movie puts these mismatched duos, who are from different cultures as well as different walks of life, on a collision course that leads them to question the choices they've made in their lives.
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Labels: Film, Kevin Courrier, Off the Shelf
Return to La Grande Jatte: The Latest Sunday in the Park with George
Jake Gyllenhaal in Sunday in the Park with George. (Photo: Matthew Murphy)
I didn't expect to be reviewing another production of Sunday in the Park with George so soon after the Huntington Theatre's season opener last September, but who could resist checking out a Broadway revival starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford? Sarna Lapine – niece of the book writer, James Lapine, who did the original Broadway staging in 1984 – worked it up out of the sold-out one-night-only 2016 concert version, and though it's fully designed, it retains some of the intimacy it must have had in concert. Sitting in the front of the mezzanine at the newly refurbished Hudson Theatre, which dates from the turn of the twentieth century, I felt very close to the actors, especially in the two-character scenes between Gyllenhaal's Seurat and Annaleigh Ashford's Dot. Beowulf Boritt's set is a raked rhomboid with an upstage curtain hung like a circus tent that holds Tal Yarden and Christopher Ash's projections. In the 2008 revival, which came to New York by way of the Meunier Chocolate Factory in London, the projections felt like a cut-rate approach to a musical that was so visually vibrant in 1984, especially in the first-act finale, "Sunday," where Seurat puts together his canvas A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – which he had painted exactly a century before Lapine and Stephen Sondheim wrote their musical. But in this production of Sunday in the Park, the combination of Boritt's and Yarden's designs is elegantly understated and quite beautiful.
Electioneering at the Vatican: Robert Harris' Conclave
Author Robert Harris. (Photo: Karen Robinson)
"Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them."
– Robert Harris, Imperium
As a former political reporter, Robert Harris has considerable knowledge of the corridors of power and an understanding about the frailties and flaws of those who exercise it. He brings those qualities, along with a passion for detailed accuracy and compelling plots, to his historical and contemporary political thrillers. One only has to think of The Ghost Writer and its film adaptation, Harris' thinly-veiled, withering portrait of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; An Officer and a Spy, whose protagonist, Georges Picquart, was the French officer who initially fingered the arrest of Alfred Dreyfus, but whose investigation convinced him that an injustice had occurred, thereby invoking the wrath of his superiors; or The Fear Index, whose protagonist, Alex Hoffman, a mathematics nerd, runs a vastly successful algorithmic hedge fund, and whose vulnerabilities set him up for a financial and emotional crash. Harris's latest foray, Conclave (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016) is an engaging investigation into the political machinations and personal liabilities of those seeking the Keys of St. Peter when the Catholic cardinals assemble to elect a new Pope at Vatican City.
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Working on an idea for a personal project.
ETA: Virtual Monitor - as in split a single Display Monitor into two or more virtual monitors.
I think we need a lot more info. A project is already a real monitor. What's the virtual bit, or the project bit?
So you want something that is a "Window" on your screen, but is acts like a second screen?
No, he said Virtual Monitor Software. It has to be some kind of virtual monitoring of software. So not real monitoring. Or was it a virtual software monitor. Or maybe it has to do with the virtual monitor part. A virtual monitor has to be like something like a monitor you can't see but only imagine. Like you can virtually see it, but not really.
I only virtually got it previously.
I think you're right. I think I have to monitor any virtual software projections in this thread.
Are we talking Multiple "PC/DEVICE" inputs into a single Monitor?
No. Emulating having more that one monitor, and placing different applications on each.
@gjacobse Are you talking about hardware emulation or just that you want to be able to split up the screen and put different applications in each sub-screen?
The latter has been around for ages. Matrox and others had applications for Windows that could do that and you could do it under linux with x.org as well.
Typically for dual monitor under linux way back, you would use a dual head nvidia card with it's proprietary drivers so both monitors appeared as one from the point of the OS. Everything worked great except that if you maximized a window it would maximize over both monitors. So you would split the screen in x windows.
Under linux it was using the fake xinerama extention where you could define one screen into several. It was the inverse of xinerama - which was used to put multiple physical monitors into one.
I think it is can both be done in randr now. Been a long time since I've done this (decades) so I'm not sure anymore.
Does on of these two scenarios fit your goal?
Split the screen into multiple desktops and each space would have its own taskbar and running apps that would be trapped in that space?
The screen would be split into multiple spaces in such a way that if you went into Windows Display settings Windows would present you with what it believes are multiple physical monitors?


As we turn our national attention to Harriet Tubman today, following Secretary of Treasury Lew's announcement that her image will replace Andrew Jackson's on the $20 bill, it brought many questions to mind, about Harriet Tubman herself, and what meaning she has for us today.
What riotous imagination did it take to envision a life and world impossibly different from her present circumstances? To imagine freedom, having lived only slavery?
What deep well of bravery must she have plumbed to choose to fight for that life, knowing that failure meant torture, then death? And what deep wells of compassion, conviction, and still more bravery must she have had to turn around and help others do the same?
Or perhaps bravery is not required when the fight you undertake feels more like a compulsion than a choice?
And, for us…What kind of imagination will it take to envision the world we want — without war, without refugees, without hunger, without catastrophic pollution? What are we willing to do to build that world?
What if Harriet Tubman's image on our $20 bill, a totem we mindlessly carry around getting more stuff, reminds us every time we open our wallets to act for the world we want? To use her image, our money, for products made without child labor, pollution, and –sadly, still relevant (as Kevin Bales reveals in this Ted Talk)–slavery?
It wouldn't even require bravery. It would require a little bit of knowledge (hey Google), some compassion (we've got plenty), and — the hard parts — commitment to that image, and believing that we can change the world.
That is her gift for us: To be a ubiquitous reminder that the fight for a righteous and just world continues, that the struggle is now ours, that one woman or man can make a difference.


When will USPS services be suspended to Guatemala?
Effective November 29, 2016, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has suspended most mail services to Guatemala. This suspension was expected to be in effect until January 15, 2017. However, as of 2018 many services are still unavailable when shipping to Guatemala.
Why are USPS mail services being suspended to Guatemala?
Correos y Telégrafos de Guatemala (Guatemala Postal Service) requested this suspension of mail service due to staffing and logistical difficulties.
What USPS mail services will be affected?
One USPS service has been approved for shipments to Guatemala during the suspension: Global Express Guaranteed (GXG). GXG is not available from within ShippingEasy. However, you may purchase postage for GXG from your local post office.
What will happen in ShippingEasy if I attempt to select a USPS service for a shipment to Guatemala?
Select a service from a different carrier within ShippingEasy.
Take the parcel to your local Post Office and ship via Global Express Guaranteed.
What will happen if I ship a package via USPS to Guatemala during the suspension?
For items addressed to Guatemala, that have already been deposited and sent via a mail class other than GXG, the Postal Service will endorse them "Mail Service Suspended – Return to Sender" and place them in the mail stream for return.


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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has published a 23-page report titled, "Management for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's FY 2014 Consolidated Financial Statements Audit" and a 24-page report titled, "Independent Auditors' Report on U.S. Customs and Border Protection's FY-2014 Financial Statements." The first report prepared by KPMG LLP and contain twenty (20) observations related to internal controls and other operational matters; and the second reports four (4) significant deficiencies in internal control, one of which was determined to be a material weakness in the area of drawback duties, taxes and fees. The other three (3) deficiencies in internal controls were identified in the areas of property, plant and equipment, entry processes (including the in-bond program, warehouse entries and foreign trade zones, surety bond sufficiency, and entry reports) and information technology.


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six – harlingen – navignadum per hereditatem
On my last day on my own, I woke up to quite a stressful realisation.
Tides.
The Wadden Sea is one of the world's largest tidal areas. The region stretches across three borders, from Den Helder to Danish Esbjerg. The Wadden Sea is a one-of-a-kind see part of the UNESCO World Heritage. At least twice a day, the world changes. At one point, you come across a kilometre-long stretch of mud flats. The next thing you know, everything is submerged. The weather is frequently violent and difficult to predict. You must adapt if you want to survive. And it looks like Allegra and I will need to start our trip adapting as well. In fact, on top of the normal tide tomorrow Harlingen will experience another exceptional high tide from 10:20 to 14:40.
flat lands
Therefore tomorrow we will not be able to leave the harbour as soon as Allegra arrives around 12:30 as the two sluisen (dikes) will be closed in order to protect the city of Harlingen, its canals, and the whole countryside behind. In fact, the main characteristic of Dutch geography is the flatness of the land: about half of the territory is less than one metre above sea level and a substantial part (27% of the total area, where 21% of the population resides) is below sea level. The lowest point, 6.7 metres below sea level, is located near Rotterdam. The highest point, the Vaalserberg, has a height of 321 metres and is located in the southwest, at the convergence of the borders of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Today, 65% of the Netherlands would be underwater without the system of dikes, sluices and canals that regulate its level: a cohabitation painstakingly built over two thousand years of complex relations between man and nature. A polder is a Dutch invention that changed the physiognomy of the Netherlands forever and has been used in various other parts of the world since. Polder is a Dutch word that originally denoted a plot of grassy land that emerged from shallow marshes, land of this kind, later reclaimed, reclaimed is now called polder. This is how the use of windmills developed, around the 17th century, which used the power of the wind to operate the pumps with which to draw water from the polders. To increase the land needed for agriculture and a growing population, the Dutch built bigger and bigger dams and canals. For the past sixty years, everyone has had their feet dry and agricultural land, nature reserves and housing areas have increased without harming the climate. If one compares two maps, one from the 14th century and the other from the present day, one realises that seventeen per cent of the country's surface area has been claimed and obtained by water. After all, place names tell the story of centuries of Dutch engineering: 'dam' means dyke and the major cities have names associated with the first, ancient defence works. The Dutch have a unique bond with water, their best friend and most fearsome adversary. Economic prosperity has historically come along the waterways, a valuable element not only for trade but also for creating energy and for an agriculture that is now the world's second-largest exporter after the United States. Water has, moreover, caused tragedies in the past, the last one in 1953. The flood came from the North Sea and eight thousand three hundred and sixty-one people died. The water swept away nine per cent of the cultivated area.
outstanding protections
The Delta Works project defends the Netherlands from the enormous amount of freshwater they are crossed by and the salt water they are totally surrounded by. Thirteen large dykes have been built, together with sluices, tidal barriers, polders, and artificially dried land, most recently an entire province, Flevoland, in 1976. The Delta project, as far as large structures are concerned, was completed in 1997 and is characterised by its ability to give space to water when it is not dangerous. The work as a whole has been declared one of the seven wonders of the modern world by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Such a high level of vigilance and protection is not improvised: the windmills, with their ability to pump water, are a symbol of the early efforts of the Dutch to protect themselves. The nineteen windmills built around 1740 near Dordrecht, in Kinderdijk, have been declared by Unesco as a common heritage site of outstanding universal value. The Zuiderzee, the gulf called the South Sea, was transformed into a lake in the last century: in 1918, civil engineer Cornelius Lely's project was also approved after several floods, which put an end to the doubts of part of the public.
necessary compromises
All defence works are a compromise with nature: the dams allow, except in critical conditions, the normal flow and, in this way, clean water enters and polluted water leaves. The barriers have made room for large green areas: the Eastern Scheldt National Park has been carved out of dunes and sand and mud flats. Open dykes allow fish such as salmon or trout to migrate through special openings. More space is being created for some of the rivers to balance the impact of the works and also to create freshwater reserves that, it is estimated, will soon be precious. This is why the project involves the periodic flooding of some land considered indefensible and no longer inhabited. Living with water and even in water: a futuristic answer, but one that is very trendy, is the floating houses, usually, high-quality villas or duplexes, often designed by well-known architects, passive in terms of energy and super-technological in terms of equipment. The visual impact is remarkable. Indeed, environmental care, according to former Delta Works commissioner Peter Glas, must be taken responsibly, looking at the facts and listening to science. "We deal with, and prepare as best we can, even hypothetical scenarios. Even if the sea level were to rise by two metres."
On top of that, in the North Sea, the currents are very strong and parallel to the coast. The sea is shallow and very flat, so much so that it looks like a continuum of land. The Wattenmeer (the sea between the coast and the Frisian Islands) has a depth of about 30 metres, while in the more central area of the North Sea it is about 200 metres deep. The Mediterranean Sea can be up to 4000 metres deep. The North Sea is therefore characterised by the large difference between the Flut (high) and Ebbe (low) tide. This major difference is due to the currents parallel to the coast and its shape. The tides depend on the attraction that the moon and the sun have on the earth. A lunar month lasts 28 days and is divided into four weeks in which the phases of the moon alternate: full moon, first quarter, new moon and last quarter. Each week the moon is in a different position in relation to the sun: there is a maximum tide in the full and new moon phases, i.e. when the moon and sun are aligned on the same axis. In this case, the vectors of the moon and sun add up and the tide is called a sigiziale. There is a minimum tide in the first and last quarter phases i.e. when the moon and sun are perpendicular and not on the same axis.
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Tomorrow we will not only have flut tide, but an exceptionally high one, a trend more and more common in the Netherlands because the sea level has risen by 12 to 20 centimetres between 1902 and 2010. The rate at which sea levels are rising has accelerated. It has risen twice as fast in recent years as it did in the twentieth century, at a rate of 4 to 5 millimetres per year. The rate at which the sea level is rising also continues to increment. The study "Effects of sea-level rise on tides and sediment dynamics in a Dutch tidal bay" demonstrated that sea-level rise (SLR) not only increases the risk of coastal flooding, but it also has the potential to change tidal regimes in estuaries and coastal bays. The study considered the impact of SLR on tidal dynamics in the adjacent North Sea. The findings show that compared to the nearby shelf sea, the bay experiences higher increases in tidal amplitude and stronger nonlinear tidal distortion as a result of SLR up to 2 meters. Tidal asymmetry during SLR up to 2 meters influences an essential part of sediment transport. The altered tidal asymmetry may result in increased export when merely taking into account sand bed-load transfer, which could have effects on coastline management.
As a result, I will simply need to leave Noorderhaven earlier in the morning and dock outside the dike on the incredibly high Waddenzee while waiting for Allegra's arrival. Thankfully the harbourmaster will be my crew for a few minutes of support, and the Harlingen harbour authority will allow Tetide to dock right outside the dike, basically in front of the train station. Not too bad at the end of the day, but not thinking about the tangibility of climate change impact is impossible.
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Tom Hanks drives Disney PR crazy, pulls out Toy Story 4 talking points on Jimmy Kimmel
June 14, 2019, 11:04 AM ET
By Matthew Jackson
If you stay obsessed with pop culture long enough, at some point in your life you become aware of the at least semi-artificial nature of things like talk shows, red carpet interviews, and press junkets. If an actor is promoting a big blockbuster, they're usually not saying what they're saying entirely off the cuff. An entire publicity team has prepared talking points, told them which topics to embrace and to avoid, and generally prepared them to hype the movie in a spoiler-free way.
This isn't necessarily a problem, because some actors can work within those talking points to create something that feels natural, fun, and charming. Or, if you're Tom Hanks, you can just blow up a Disney publicist's whole evening by taking the talking points out and waving them around on a talk show.
Hanks was on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday nigh to promote Toy Story 4, the latest in a tremendously popular series of films that he's been starring in for nearly 25 years. Hanks is a veteran actor and a veteran of the talk show circuit, and he's always been at his best on shows like Kimmel when he's able to show the audience that he's often just as baffled and delighted by the trappings of his often-strange job as they are.
For example, Hanks mentioned he'd been recording dialogue for Toy Story 4 for years, but he didn't even know certain supporting actors were in the film because he'd never seen them in the both. It was only at the film's premiere this week that he was able to say hi to certain co-stars like the great Carl Weathers.
"I didn't know he was in it, because we never see each other," Hanks said. "We maybe will run into each other when somebody's session finishes and the other person is there waiting to go on, but at the premiere I saw Carl Weathers and I had to go shake the man's hand because not only was he Apollo Creed. He was Action Jackson!"
Kimmel then mentioned that the film's promotional machine has been keen to keep spoilers out of the press, and Hanks replied that he was worried he may have already let some things slip, and the reason he knew he may have let some things slip was because he had a stack of pages from Disney in his pocket. Hanks then pulled out the talking points given to him by the film's publicity team, waved them around, made a joke about spilling tomato juice on them, and started to read from the spoilers section, humming over the words he couldn't say.
"They also give you sample questions, which you have yet to ask, my friend," Hanks joked, before moving on to one of the film's most important talking points: The return of Bo Peep, voiced by Annie Potts.
"Bo Peep should be described as a strong character from the beginning," Hanks read. "Her recent experience perhaps made her stronger, but she was never a weak character."
Hanks' flouting of the Disney PR machine on live television (though he did play by the rules and avoided reading spoilers) is similar to Mark Hamill's recent assertion that he enjoys making fake spoiler jokes about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker because "What are they gonna do, fire me?" and it's perhaps even more delightful to watch, because Hanks' comedy chops allow him to work the bit for all he can get. And, because he's America's Dad Tom Hanks, he can get away with it.
"Do you know how many executives right now want to kick my ass because I brought this out?" Hanks asked as he put the pages away.
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This is the CSL G8 touch screen phone I got it from one of the shop in Wisma Saberkas. Its an iPhone replica but with Dual SIM function (which is good if you dont want to carry too many phone with you).
Order some eneloop rechargeable batteries from Shashinki yesterday for my photography need.
Today I just received my Olympus µ-5010 digital camera from Olympus Malaysia. Its not that I want to buy this camera purposely, its b'cause my old Olympus µ-720SW is faulty and it will cause me RM300++ to fix it.


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Everyone likes finding new music and bragging to friends that they 'hipstered' the band first. Check out two new bands that you can be the first to hipster.
One of my favorite things to do is to find new music from unsigned artists and bands. There are so many humans in today's world just trying to make music and share what they feel through an outlet that is easily relatable. We all have our own style and taste to music, but I do like to consider myself someone who is open to listen to all kinds of music. My boyfriend is in a metal core band (Devil in the Details, check them out!) and I could not be any prouder of the music they make. I also listen to artists like Post Malone, Julia Michaels, Khalid, and bands such as Neck Deep, Knuckle Puck and many others. The point is, do not let the term of genres shy you away from music you could potentially fall in love with. Keep your mind open to the art that any individual could create.
I wanted to share with you an artist and group that I have recently discovered and have fallen in love with and have been listening to on repeat the past few days. I have always enjoyed listening to music before anyone else and introducing new music to others. Take a look!
'Bogues is a concept work centered around Northeast living in the most problematic way possible. In this story, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Be part of the journey.
Bogues recently appeared in my discover playlist on apple music. His song "Orchard to Bartnick" was the original song I heard before I decided to investigate him more. I will link my two favorite songs by him below. Bogues recently dropped his new EP 'Life, Slowly,' and every song on this EP will have you crying all night by putting you in your feels. His EP guides you through a life of sadness and self-reflection, with vocals soothing and calming, and acoustic sound throughout. I would recommend checking him out as soon as possible! He only has 1,700 likes on his Facebook page and will take the music scene by storm soon. His work is something that should not be overlooked, and you can tell all your friends about him before anyone else.
Bogues - "Orchard to Bartnick"
Summer Wars is a pop punk band out of North Carolina and has the same sounds as other pop punk bands that are taking the charts right now, and influences from Jimmy Eat World, The Story So Far, and The Wonder Years, you will find yourself head banging to yourself when you listen to their music. A friend of mine recently introduced me to their music and I will keep an eye out for new music of theirs to come out soon.
Summer Wars also just released a new EP 'Borrowed Time,' and each song on the EP has a different sound to it. You don't feel like you are listening to the same tune six times over. This band only has 2,400 likes on Facebook and has 37,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Summer Wars - "Well Adjusted"


As one of the picturesque lakes in the renowned Chain of Lakes, Lake Harriet features 67 acres of land and 344 acres of water. It is noted for biking and walking trails, a variety of water activities and summer concerts at the stunning band shell. Trails around the lake are 2.99 miles for bikers and skaters and 2.75 miles for walkers and runners. A totlot is located near the band shell. Visitors can purchase refreshments at the concessions building, pump fresh drinking water at the well, and enjoy nightly concerts from early June to Labor Day.


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Q: factory-boy create a list of SubFactory for a Factory I am using django 1.6 and factory-boy.
class UserFactory(factory.Factory):
   class Meta:
      model = models.User

   username = factory.Sequence(lambda n: 'user%d' % n)

Here username is a simple CharField in model. So that each time I am calling UserFactory() I am saving and getting unique user named object.
In factory-boy I can use factory.SubFactory(SomeFactory).
How I can generate list of SomeFactory in ParentOfSomeFactory ?
So that, if I call ParentOfSomeFactory() I will create list of SomeFactory as well as ParentOfSomeFactory database

A: You could provide a list with factory.Iterator
import itertools
import factory

# cycle through the same 5 users
users = itertools.cycle(
    (UserFactory() for _ in range(5))
)

class ParentFactory(factory.Factory):
    user = factory.Iterator(users)

A: Use factory.List:
class ParentOfUsers(factory.Factory):
    users = factory.List([
        factory.SubFactory(UserFactory) for _ in range(5)
    ])

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"A slightly better view of the quarry - taken after an opportune 'loo break' at the site!"
The Movellan spaceship on the surface.
The Daleks are on their way to destroy the Movellan spaceship.
Masters Pit (The Caves of Androzani). Road: Follow Puddletown Road northwest until you reach the Masters Pit quarry on the right-hand side of the road in Stokeford Heath. Parking: unknown.
Lulworth Cove (The Curse of Fenric). Road: Head southeast along Tollpuddle Road towards Wareham. When you reach the A352, turn right (towards Weymouth) and then turn left onto the B3070. Follow this along until you reach Lulworth. Parking: car park (minimum £2.50 for two hours).
Winspit Quarry (Destiny of the Daleks, The Underwater Menace). Road: Head southeast along Tolpuddle Road until you join the A352. Turn left and head towards Wareham, then at the main roundabout head towards Swanage on the A351. After Corfe Castle, the B3069 is signposted to Worth Matravers and follow this until you reach a junction with a road leading to the vilage itself. Parking: £1.00 at the car park. There is a public car park as you enter the village. £1.00 for the day.
Hanson's Aggregates (Binnegar Plain quarry) (Death to the Daleks): 0.55 miles.
Warmwell Quarry (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Survival): 8.09 miles.
Athelhampton House (The Seeds of Doom): 8.37 miles.
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Fane Acoustics Ascension N30 Review
Looking for the tone of a vintage alnico-magnet speaker without the weight? Chris vinnicombe puts the Fane N30 option to the test…
Despite its critical position as the last link of the chain before the sound from your guitar, pedals and amplifier hits your ears, few of us spend as much energy researching (okay, lusting after) speakers as we do the more glamorous, visible components of our rigs.
It's also fair to say that the majority of electric guitarists who do express a preference when it comes to speakers tend to gravitate towards a very small number of brands and plump for vintage-style units with either ceramic or alnico magnets.
We're a conservative bunch, that's for sure. In the wider world, neodymium magnets (a rare-earth permanent magnet made from an alloy of neodymium, iron and boron) have superseded alnico and ferrite/ceramic magnets in innumerable applications and appear in everything from MRI scanners to e-cigarettes.
Their greater strength compared to alnico or ceramic magnets means that neodymium magnets can be smaller and lighter, and they are now commonplace in pro-audio speakers and headphones.
Neodymium magnets have been around for a while in guitar speakers, too, but the new Ascension N30 from Fane Acoustics sees the Yorkshire-based company bring its considerable heritage as a loudspeaker pioneer to bear on a product that aims to nail a vintage alnico tone in a lightweight format.
As part of the brand's recent relaunch, a great deal of attention has been paid to design aesthetics, and the smart cream and metallic red N30 is no exception. Time to get the screwdriver out…
Fane Ascension N30 in use
With a depth of 120.5mm, the fit inside our Swart AST combo is a much less snug affair than the 165mm deep Celestion Gold that we've been using recently.
As promised, it also shaves off a little weight, with our amp weighing in on a digital scale at 14.4kg with the Gold installed and 13.03kg with the N30. It's not an earth-shattering difference in a 1×12 combo with a pine cabinet, but if you're dragging a 4×12 up and down pub staircases every weekend then a 5-6kg reduction will be both noticeable and welcome – the difference is more than the weight of a Les Paul Custom!
Celestion's Blue and Gold are most players' benchmarks when it comes to alnico speaker tone, and in a direct comparison test, with all the drivers involved having been nicely broken in, the Ascension N30 fares very well indeed.
At 99dB, the Fane is slightly less efficient than the 100dB Celestions (this may well be a good thing depending on your playing circumstances) and there's a shade less high-frequency brilliance and complexity, but it has similar overall characteristics and plenty of the appealing chime you'd associate with vintage alnico speakers.
As ever, our preferences are very guitar-dependant, but we prefer the Fane to either Celestion in combination with a crisp Telecaster bridge pickup. Switching to a Gretsch or Gibson ES-335, the N30 has a little more low-end punch than either the Gold or Blue, which is most noticeable when playing deep, single-note lines on the E and A strings.
Throwing Fane's own Ascension A60 alnico speaker into the mix, the N30 has a little less woodiness in the midrange but, again, it's a close-run thing.
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• WEIGHT 2.7kg/5.95lbs
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'We are very concerned': 2021 fire season could set records, and Bay Area is at risk
By Jana Kadah | Bay City News Foundation | June 8, 2021
The skies above the Mormon Temple in Oakland, Calif. are turned an eerie shade of orange by smoke from nearby wildfires, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo by D. Ross Cameron)
With hotter temperatures and drier seasons, Bay Area wildfires are becoming more intense — and this upcoming fire season will likely be no different.
Jonathan Cox, deputy chief of Cal Fire's San Mateo County division, said that in the past decade, each year's wildfire season has grown in intensity.
"Without a doubt the worst wildfires on record were in 2020, and that came on the heels of the worst wildfires on record in 2019 and before that 2018," Cox said during a live chat Thursday with the staff of Local News Matters.
So, 2021 will likely follow in suit.
There is a chance the 2021 fire season may not break records, but Cox said it is unlikely. It could happen, however, if the summer was to be relatively cool with little wind.
"But if we do get anomalous weather events or a high number of wind or lightning events like last year, then I think we can expect to have an increase in the number and size and scope of the fires," Cox said.
He said in the Bay Area specifically, wind has been a major factor in the spread of wildfires, especially in the last five years.
So that means the region is most vulnerable to the flames in September, October and even late November, when the Bay Area has higher wind levels.
Jonathan Cox is deputy chief of Cal Fire's San Mateo County division. (Photo courtesy of Cal Fire)
Cox pointed to the October 2017 Tubbs Fire that burned 36,807 acres in Napa, Sonoma and Lake counties and the Camp Fire, which was the most destructive in state history, claiming 85 lives and burning 153,336 acres in Butte County in November 2018, as examples of wind accelerating the blazes.
In the Bay Area, fire season typically lasts from late June to October, but with the impacts of climate change, fires are occurring throughout the year.
Already, the state has seen 900 more wildfires than it did at this point in 2020, which broke wildfire season records when it scorched more than 4 percent of the state's land.
And for the Bay Area, it seems like wildfire season kicked off in the beginning of May, Cox said.
"We're going to our peak staffing level for our seasonal staff on June 1, which is basically a month ahead of where we would normally be for staffing," Cox said.
He also said Cal Fire has hired more seasonal firefighters this year than ever before — at least 1,400 additional firefighters.
"I think we're all anticipating another busy fire season," Cox said. "The fact of the matter is the vegetation is very dry so that's less of a threat for the grasses, but for our heavier fuels like our heavier brush and our timber — we are very concerned."
So, for those living on hillsides with low grasslands, the fire risks are not as serious as for those living in densely populated communities near forests, or hillsides of bush and timber.
In the East Bay, areas of higher concerns are near Moraga, Orinda, Lafayette, Oakland, Richmond and Berkeley. There are also areas near Danville and Pleasanton that have very high wildfire risks.
"We're always concerned about the whole (state Highway) 24 corridor," Cox said. "You know, all of those Western facing slopes and in that interface."
OAKLAND, CA – SEPTEMBER 24: A high fire danger sign is seen along Skyline Boulevard in the hills of Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. A red flag alert is in effect until Wednesday, with high temperatures and winds forecast. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
Marin County also has a lot of communities at risk, especially around the Mt. Tamalpais area like Mill Valley and San Rafael, Cox said.
In the Peninsula, the areas of concern are always "all those interfacing communities," from Burlingame, Belmont and Woodside over to El Granada, Cox said.
And in the South Bay, most threatened are Los Gatos, the upper Palo Alto area and Saratoga. Parts of Morgan Hill and Santa Clara County's east foothills near Alum Rock also have a high-severity risk for wildfires.
"Basically, if you look at the rim of the Bay Area, any community that's in and around that rim of the Bay Area's mountain range in some degree has some elevated risk for wildfire," the deputy chief said.
He said that Cal Fire and other fire departments are doing all that they can do prepare for the wildfire season again, including some but not many prescribed burns.
But for the most part, Cal Fire is the agency that comes in after disaster strikes.
Cox said it is up to residents to make sure their home and family are as defensible as they can be in the threat of fires this summer.


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By Fumnanya Agbugah
A poetry festival has finally taken roots in West Africa. The inaugural edition known as the Lagos International Poetry Festival took place from 28th of October to 1st of November at different locations in Lagos.
According to the organizers, the African Artists Foundation, they noticed that poetry has been experiencing resurgence in Africa over the past two decades. Urban centres have seen bars been converted to open mic venue where poetry enthusiasts gather to listen to poets. "It is against these odds that the Lagos International Poetry Festival was formed" said Efe Paul Azino the director of the event.
The theme for this maiden edition "Border less words" tried to explore the idea that words can enter spaces that bodies cannot. The organizers also tried to show the capacity of poetry to bridge cultural divides and create collaboration. This year's edition was graced by strong literalists who had more than two years of experience such as Prof J.P. Clark, one of Africa's leading authors who has held visiting professorial appointment in several universities across the world. Others includes Akeem Lasisi, AJ Dagga Tolar, Chuma Nwokolo, Inua Ellams, Lebo Mashile, Sage Hassan, Nick Makoha, Titilope Sonuga and Kola Tubosun.
At the panel discussion which took place on Saturday 30th October at the Freedom park, titled "Poets at large: The Diaspora writes Back," Titilope Sonuga, Nick Makoha and Inua Ellams told stories about their journey to becoming poets, particularly how they were accepted in the western community and what triggered them to become poets.
Titilope Sonuga who left Nigeria for Canada at age 12 started to write when she got to Canada and was confronted with her blackness in a way she had never considered. Poetry was the only way she could negotiate that experience and remind herself of whom she really was. She started to write because she was too shy and introverted and she was also in an environment that didn't value her voice, but her Africaness.
"They would always ask me to tell them about my village, about lions walking on the street. They also asked me if there are tall buildings in Africa," said Titilope during the discussion.
Nick Makoha left Uganda for London because of the Idi Amin regime. He moved back and forth between Uganda, Kenya, London and Saudi Arabia. He realized that poetry was the way to go because it holds emotion, archives history and takes you wherever you want to go. He started writing because he was trying to impress a girl. He wrote poems for 30 days and the girl told him that he would have to perform those poems.
"After moving back and forth to different countries I think I was finding a place I could fit in and poetry gave me that space" Nick said
Inua Ellams moved to London when he was 12 he started writing because he loved English and his English teacher loved his writing. He knew he could write when they were given an assignment to write a story and in trying to get the attention of an Iranian girl in his class he wrote the story of the man in the Iron mask. His teacher asked him to read the story to the whole class and after he was done the Iranian girl ran across and gave him a "full hug."
"After she gave me a full hug I realized there was something I could do with words which was working" said Inua Ellams.
"Sometimes I imagine my laptop as a formless earth and my fingers hovering around the keys like God hovering over the potential,"Inua said.
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A great introduction to the world of Jasmine teas. Try it today!
Don't let this delicate tea brew for too long (or too hot!).
If you don't have a thermometer, simply bring your water to a boil and add some cool tap water (1 part cool to 5 parts hot).