Samantha Ketterer March 24, 2019 Updated: March 24, 2019 8:51 p.m.
Officials at a Deer Park plant on Sunday announced "significant progress" in cleaning up chemicals that spilled during last week's chemical fire, allowing nearby school districts to resume Monday.
The re-openings come as crews on Sunday continued to secure the Intercontinental Terminals Co. plant and surrounding waterways where officials reported that thousands of barrels of chemical product had been removed after a breached containment wall sent the hazardous materials sprawling into the Houston Ship Channel. The incident sparked community concerns over air and water quality.
"We are in a safe place as far as protecting our responders and protecting the community," said ITC incident commander Brent Weber said at a Sunday morning news conference.
On Monday, districts including Galena Park, Goose Park, Channelview and Sheldon districts said they plan to welcome students back to classes. The districts shut their doors last week after detected benzene concentrations surfaced near the ITC facility in Deer Park. Houston ISD and San Jacinto College campuses also will be open for normal class schedules, according to officials.
La Porte and Deer Park ISDs, which are closest to the chemical storage facility, too, plan to resume classes. They said on Sunday that they've taken precautions to make sure students are safe, including cleaning outdoor playground equipment and inspecting air conditioning systems. AC filters were changed at College Park Elementary and Heritage Elementary, the campuses closest to the plant where fire broke out March 17.
La Porte ISD also shut off air conditioning systems Tuesday night, when winds threatened to push the plume toward their schools. They hoped to switch the units back on Sunday.
The Deer Park district has undertaken similar efforts to replace air filters and wash down playground equipment. Air filters have been replaced at San Jacinto Elementary School, Deer Park High School-North Campus and Deer Park Junior High. Air filters are currently being replaced at the Deepwater-area schools, according to the district.
Officials at Intercontinental Terminals Co. said that they have made "significant progress" after days of setbacks at the site, including chemical releases. The fire, which started last Sunday, ravaged 11 tanks at the plant and sent Houston-area residents into a flurry of questions and, for some, distrust over environmental safety as a result of flames and subsequent chemical releases.
"We did make the transition in unified command back to a proactive mode,"Weber said.
In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency has not received any reports in the past 24 hours of excessive concentrations of volatile organic chemicals in the air above one part per million.
The Environmental Defense Fund on Sunday released air sampling results, however, that showed concentrations of benzene up to 495 parts per billion on Saturday near the fire site. The concentration is about .5 parts per million, below a one that would trigger public health warnings.
Attention shifted on Saturday to the Houston Ship Channel when The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality reported that it found nine toxins in a drainage ditch that leads to the channel. The agency said on Saturday that it has yet to complete analyses of samples taken from Tucker Bayou, the Ship Channel and Galveston Bay.
U.S. Coast Guard officials said they're doubling and tripling down on removing chemicals from the waterway, which drives the economy of the region. An estimated 60,000 gallons of watery-oil product have been taken out of the channel, said Lt. Commander Jared Toczko of the US Coast Guard. Most of the remaining product has been contained within booms in Tucker Bayou.
The impacted area is a 2-nautical-mile-span from Patrick's Bayou to the Lynchburg ferry, Toczko said. Pockets of oil remain in parts of the 2-mile span.
Responders have deployed 27,000 feet of booms,. Oyster beds on the eastern side of the channel have also been boomed. More than 70 vessels are skimming the area, Toczko said.
The Coast Guard is working to recover the oil pockets and partially reopen the ship channel, which has been closed since Friday around noon.
The updates presented on Sunday stood in contrast to ITC's previous reports, which noted near-daily roadblocks to the company's mitigation efforts. After the fire was extinguished on Wednesday, authorities were unsuccessful in removing chemical from the remaining tanks while working to keep a protective foam layer intact on top of the spilled materials.
On Friday, a containment wall breached around the tank farm, sending the foam and volatile compounds into an adjacent drainage ditch that leads to the Houston Ship Channel. Several tanks re-ignited, and the fire spread into the ditch, sending up a plume of black smoke for the third time last week. It was extinguished shortly after.
The situation stabilized over the weekend, officials said. Crews have since removed more than 12,647 barrels of pyrolysis gasoline, or pygas, from one of the compromised tanks. The full amount has yet to be removed from the tank, as Weber said he estimated on Friday that about 20,000 barrels were in the holding area.
The tank includes a fixed roof on top and a floating roof inside. ITC removed all of the pygas above the floating roof, and the chemicals that remain are contained under the floating roof, Weber said.
ITC is working to remove the remaining chemicals from all of the tanks in the 15-block tank farm.
"The next steps today over the next 24 hours is to methodically go after each tank," Weber said.
About 650 barrels of product have also been removed from the ditch as of 6:30 a.m. Sunday, ITC officials said. Oil surrounding the tanks damaged in the fire is now sitting at 2 inches, instead of the 2 feet reported Saturday.
It's unclear how much liquid leaked from the site. The tanks held flammable compounds, including gasoline blends, xylene, naptha and pyrolysis gasoline.
Mayor Jerry Mouton said he was satisfied with how the cleanup has taken shape over the weekend, but cautioned that more work needs to be done.
"We're extremely happy with the progress that has occurred in the last 24 hours but yet I would say we're still very cautious in regards to what needs to occur," Mouton said.


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A President's Day Salute to Chester A. Arthur: The Accidental President who Put Country over Party and Drained a Real (Metaphorical) Swamp
For most people, the name Chester A. Arthur will conjure up . . . well, nothing. Our twenty-first president is mainly remembered for not being remembered for anything. A 2014 study published in Science asked five hundred American adults to write down as many presidents as they could remember in five minutes. Arthur came in dead last, with only 6.7 percent of respondents able to remember his name.
In a follow-up study in which participants were given names and asked which belonged to former presidents, Arthur again came in last, with only 46 percent of respondents identifying him correctly. The average participant in the study would have done better flipping a coin than trying to remember whether Chester A. Arthur had ever been president.
The eminent forgettableness of Chester Arthur obscures the fact that he did one of the most memorable, and indisputably positive things that any politician did in the nineteenth century. And he had to take on his own party to do it. Arthur reformed the civil service and ended the long-standing practice of political patronage.
When Arthur became president in 1881, the US government employed nearly one hundred thousand of the nation's fifty million people. Since the time of Andrew Jackson, the vast majority of these positions had been subject to the "spoils system," through which the winner of each presidential election distributed patronage appointments to loyal supporters.
By the time of the Civil War, members of Congress controlled most patronage appointments in their states, and this became the basis of their political power. All federal employees were assessed mandatory contributions to the party bosses who controlled their jobs.
The spoils system enshrined corruption. People needed to make contributions back to their patrons, and as long as they did, nobody looked too hard at where the money came from. Sometimes this involved illegal activities — Indian agents were notorious for selling items meant for Native tribes and keeping the profits. But there were also completely legal ways to augment civil service salaries. Customs inspectors, for example, could keep and sell a portion of any goods they found being smuggled into a US port. In this way, the head collector for the New York Customs House in the 1870s managed to earn $50,000 a year (more than $1 million in 2020). His name? Chester A. Arthur.
For years, Arthur was the poster child for an out-of-control patronage system. He lived lavishly on what should have been a modest salary. He rarely showed up for work before noon and spent every night socializing with wealthy New Yorkers and political donors. His patron and mentor, the powerful New York senator Roscoe Conkling, controlled the largest political machine in the country. During Ulysses S. Grant's presidency, Conkling gained complete control over New York's vast patronage network and used it to become the most powerful man in the nation's most powerful state. Conkling was the king of patronage, and Chester Arthur was his loyal knight.
But the patronage system was not universally popular. By the time Grant took office, a movement had taken root within the Republican Party to move to a nonpartisan, merit-based civil service system. Grant initially embraced civil service reform and created the Civil Service Commission to come up with and implement suggestions.
But the powerful senators and representatives who relied on patronage fought back hard, and Grant lacked both the political will and the personal courage to fight his own party. In 1876 Grant was succeeded by Rutherford B. Hayes, a committed reformer who was determined to end the spoils system. Hayes clashed with his own party for most of his term, and he was not able to convince Congress to pass any civil service reform legislation.
Hayes's attempts at reform angered members of his own party so greatly that he was not nominated for reelection in 1882. Republicans replaced him with James Garfield, a congressman from Ohio who also identified with the reformers but was perceived as more moderate and cautious on the issue. But because Republicans could not lose New York and win the election, they had to placate Roscoe Conkling, who had backed Grant for a third term at the convention. To do this, they placed Conkling's chief lieutenant — a man whose entire professional life was defined by and associated with the spoils system — on the ticket.
And thus Chester A. Arthur, who had never held an elected office in his life, became the vice president of the United States. Four months into his term of office, James Garfield was shot, and Arthur was as astonished as everyone else in the country to find himself president two and a half months later when Garfield died.
The circumstances of Garfield's assassination changed the conversation about the civil service. The assassin, a frustrated office seeker named Charles Guiteau, believed that his service to the Republican Party during the election merited a high-level appointment. After months of trying unsuccessfully to see Garfield (who had no idea who he was), Guiteau determined that Garfield was destroying the patronage system and the only way to save it was to make Chester Arthur president. A voluminous writer, Guiteau spelled all this out in great detail in letters published after the assassination, leading to a huge groundswell of support for civil service reform.
Nobody thought it would happen with Chester Arthur as president. Most people believed that Arthur, who had no real government experience, would appoint Conkling to his cabinet and let his patron run the show. Conkling, in fact, showed up in Washington before the inauguration and demanded to be made secretary of state. Arthur refused and showed him the door. To the horror of his allies and the shock of the entire nation, Arthur embraced civil service reform.
So, what changed Chester Arthur's mind? Several things. First, he could sense that Garfield's assassination had reshaped the debate and created a movement with huge momentum, and he didn't want to stand in the way of history. He may have concluded that civil service reform was going to pass no matter what he did and that he would be forever cast as a villain if triedto block it. And there is some evidence that he resented Roscoe Conkling's assumption that he could walk into the Oval Office and start calling the shots.
Arthur knew that everybody expected him to back Conkling and oppose reform because no one believed he had the character or integrity to do otherwise. And he did not want to be known forever as someone who came into office and fulfilled everybody's low expectations. But none of this quite explains Arthur's conversion. Even if he concluded that some kind of civil service reform needed to pass, he could have watered it down, given his allies control over the process, and enforced it halfheartedly.
But he did none of these things. In his first message to Congress after becoming president, he asked that body to outlaw political assessments and reauthorize the Civil Service Commission. It did nothing. When Republicans sustained major losses in the 1882 midterm election, Arthur reached across party lines and supported a bill written by Democratic senator George Pendleton. In 1883, Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, which, over time, eliminated the spoils system and created the merit-based civil service that is still in place today.
Arthur's actions were extremely unpopular with his own party, which depended on the patronage system for its political dominance. At the 1884 convention, Arthur was passed over for the nomination in favor of James Blaine, who had been his secretary of state. He died a year later and began his slide into presidential anonymity.
Arthur is one of our history's greatest examples of a person who changed his mind. But let's be clear about exactly what part of his mind got changed. He didn't go from thinking that patronage was a good idea to thinking it wasa bad one. Nobody in 1880 actually believed that political patronage produced better civil servants than a merit-based system would. It persisted because sitting politicians found it useful and refused to get rid of it. This was especially true of Arthur's Republican Party, which controlled the richest patronage sites in the country and used them to maintain its dominant position in the post– Civil War era.
To end patronage, Arthur had to be persuaded to place the interests of the nation ahead of the short-term interests of his political party. This tension between party and country has always been part of American politics, and it has colored some of the most controversial issues of our history: immigration, public works spending, the direct election of senators, women's suffrage, civil rights, congressional redistricting, campaign finance — and all sorts of other issues that produce tangible winners and losers.
It becomes very difficult with such issues to think of the long-term health of democracy instead of the short-term wins and losses of a particular faction. Much of our progress as a nation, however, has come because people like Chester A. Arthur have been persuaded that the interests of the party must give way to the long-term health of American democracy.
Michael Austin is the author of several books of history, several books of literary criticism, and a bestselling textbook. This tribute to Chester A. Arthur is drawn from his most recent book, We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition.
Michael Austin is a former English professor and current academic administrator. He is the author of We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition
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Zoe Clarke
Zoe Clarke is part of a community of artists at Maker Heights (Rame School of Arts), on the Rame Peninsula in Cornwall, where she has had an art studio for ten years. Her most recent exhibition of artwork was in the Officers mess at Maker heights, Christmas 2014. After obtaining a Masters in Entrepreneurship in Creative Practice at Plymouth College of Art in October 2014, she concentrated on her fine art practice and honed her print-based skills, using alternative portraiture as her theme to develop her body of work for her Masters. The project studied a select group of people from her community who live aboard boats; as a background to the project she also published two photography books on the boatyards of the area with Amazon.com.
Since leaving the course Zoe has started a portrait project, which will be finalised as a series of etchings, possibly using alternative surfaces and found materials. Since meeting with the curator of the Sterts Centre, Cornwall, she is in discussions with her to have an exhibition of her portraits later on this year. Over the summer of 2014 she worked on a photography project in the Azores, where she is organising an art exhibition with the curator of Horta Library gallery on the island of Faial.
During August 2014 Zoe ran a community arts workshop at the Labyrinth festival, near Looe in Cornwall, painting tshirts with children. As a short course tutor she is in her fourth year of running highly successful Creative Painting Short Courses at Plymouth College of Art (details available on the PCA homepage).
Zoe started working on a collaborative project to illustrate a food foraging recipes book with a friend, who runs food foraging walks, and is planning to develop some of the illustrations into soft furnishings to be sold in her friend's bell tent in the Summer of 2015.
In the future Zoe is planning to have an art auction at Plymouth College of art from her previous collections to raise capital for a printing press, a new camera and laptop to develop her fine arts practice. She is also hoping to exhibit and sell her work in London and beyond. Pre-arranged visits to the studio are welcome. See Zoe's website here.
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This week's ESPN Films offering in the 30 for 30 series is Unmatched, a film reviewing the decade-and-a-half rivalry (and even longer friendship) between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
Beginning in the late 1970s and stretching to the end of the 1980s, these two women battled back and forth across the world and the tennis rankings to be the number one women's player. They met 80 different times, 14 of them being in Grand Slam final, and their rivalry and respect for one another defined their careers.
The information of this film is old news, but what made this film different was its method. The filmmakers put these two together in a North Carolina coastal bungalow, turned on the cameras, and filmed a weekend of remembrances. The people behind the camera edited out their questions, presenting a film with only two voices--those of Martina and Chris.
It was, undeniably, a film targeted at more of a female audience than any of the previous films in this series (and NOT just because of the women's tennis subject matter). But I liked it quite a bit--even though I am not a woman. The height of their rivalry, in the 80s, was when I cared about tennis the most as a spectator, so I was very familiar with the subject matter.
If you get a chance to watch Unmatched, I recommend you take the hour.
i can't believe women are still allowed to play tennis. i hope the Tea Party fixes that.


 3D designs using sketchup. Product design and innovation through 3D rendering.
Design objects in 3D with example. Used in product design and innovating ideas.
A simple tutorial to demonstrate 3D design steps for a object idea using free tools like SketchUp 8 and render plug ins (for demo). You want to innovate use it to present.
Open Sketup 8, create new project and save the project.
Create first 2D object. A simple square sketch in two dimensions.
Convert 2D object into a 3D shape.
Steps to add an ARC or a curve surface.
Convert ARC to 3D semi-cylindrical shape.
Create a square opening in structure.
This project is to create a receipt collector device. This device collects and store receipts. Final rendered image below on right.
Elevate and smooth the edges. This step will show steps to add semi-circular curves to the edge surface.
Create a tray and covers for tray entry window. Also Position a drawer to store receipts.
Next open the drawer to show inside.
Shape inside of the drawer. Once finished drawer should look attached to the machine.
Also add stacks of old receipts and bills inside the drawer.
Next step is to add colors and life to the sketch. Different moving parts gets differntiated with different colors. Try to keep look and feel attractive.
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La famille von Tillier est une famille patricienne bernoise. Elle est éteinte depuis 1854

Histoire

La famille est bourgeoise de Berne depuis 1415. Johann Anton est anobli par Charles Quint.

Possessions
La famille a possédé le château de Bümpliz et le domaine de Villette en Lavaux.

Charges exercées par la famille
Johann Rudolph est membre du Petit Conseil de Berne, bailli de Cerlier et avoyer de Thoune.

Son fils Johann Anton est membre du Grand Conseil de Berne en 1525, avoyer de Berthoud en 1529, gouverneur d'Aigle en 1533, membre du Petit Conseil en 1536, bailli d'Avenches en 1536, banneret de la corporation des Fourreurs en 1540, bailli de Lausanne en 1541, banneret en 1548, trésorier du Pays allemand en 1552 et maisonneur en 1560.

Le fils de Johann Anton, également appelé Johann Anton est membre du Grand Conseil de Berne en 1555, seizenier et avoyer de Berthoud en 1556, maisonneur en 1560, intendant de l'arsenal en 1564, 1570, 1575, 1577, 1578 et 1579, bailli du Pays de Gex entre 1562 et 1567, membre du Petit Conseil de 1568 à 1589, receveur du Böspfennig en 1576 et trésorier du Pays romand entre 1579 et 1589.

Johann Anton, le fils du précédent est bailli de Lausanne.

Abraham est bailli de Schenkenberg en 1663.

Johann Rudolf est membre du Grand Conseil de Berne en 1651, receveur de l'ohmgeld en 1655, bailli d'Interlaken en 1657, avoyer de Thoune en 1674), membre du Petit Conseil de Berne en 1681 et trésorier du Pays allemand en 1687.

Johann Anton, petit-fils de Johann Rudolph, est membre du Grand Conseil de Berne en 1710, membre du Petit Conseil et conseiller secret en 1714, banneret de la corporation des Fourreurs en 1717 et trésorier du Pays allemand en 1723.

Samuel est bailli d'Interlaken.

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GSD slams 'exploitative' employment practices in GHA and Care Agency
The GSD has described the use of short term fixed contracts and sub-contracted labour from recruitment agencies within the GHA and the Care Agency as "exploitative of working people".
In a statement the Opposition said it has received "many complaints" over the issue adding that over time it has been carefully attempting to form a clear picture of the situation by asking questions in Parliament.
"As always our task has been complicated by the tendency of the Government to lie, mislead or simply not answer questions when they feel it is in their interests to do so," the GSD said.
By way of example the GSD pointed to the answers it received on the subject of vacancies within the GHA and the Care Agency.
"Right up to October 2016, the Opposition was provided the number of vacancies and, indeed, in September we were told there were 177.5 vacancies in the public service of which 76.5 were in public authorities including the GHA," the Opposition said.
"As soon as we questioned these very high levels of vacancies publicly the Government changed tack completely and the next time we asked about vacancies within the GHA and the Care Agency we were told that there were none."
According to the GSD, "the Government chose to remain unaccountable".
The Opposition explained that the issue of vacancies and the "abusive use of sub-contracted labour" are linked because in many cases vacant posts are being occupied by workers from recruitment consultants.
"It is the very reason why the Government says there are no vacancies," the GSD said adding that "here too the Government has been less than forthcoming with their answers".
"On June 30, 2016 the GSD was told there were 22 vacant posts occupied by sub-contracted labour in one part of the Care Agency."
"At the last session of Parliament we asked whether those vacancies had been filled permanently and the evasive answer was "subcontracted workers will be recruited as and when required"."
The GSD further stated: "Nonetheless, even with the handicap of a Government obsessed by media spin and which constantly closes the shutters on the democratic process when questions asked of them appear to be inconvenient, we have built the following picture."
There are a "staggering" 147 workers subcontracted from recruitment agencies within the Care Agency alone excluding Mount Alvernia, the GSD said.
It added that at the Dr Giraldi Home, 45% of all employees were until a couple of months ago recruited through recruitment agencies and 30% of nurses working within the Care Agency and Mount Alvernia were subcontracted through recruitment agencies.
"The picture within the GHA is much more difficult because of the lack of information or incomplete information provided by the Government in Parliament but we know that this is a major source of concern and that therefore the numbers are also high."
It did however state that on fixed term contracts, there are 126 workers on fixed term contracts in the GHA and 47 in the Care Agency.
"All fixed term contracts in the Care Agency post date the election of this Government in 2011 and in the GHA only 23 of 126 pre-date December 2011," the GSD said adding that many of these workers are also on their third, fourth or fifth successive contract.
Leader of the Opposition, Daniel Feetham, said: "There is nothing Socialist about these trends. It is one of the factors contributing to low morale at the hospital and elsewhere."
"It is exploitative of working people. For example, many sub-contracted workers are on minimum wage or close to it, while recruitment agencies get very wealthy indeed by being paid significantly above the wage paid to the worker."
He added: "We been tackling these issues in Parliament over the last year and we will continue to do so until this injustice is dealt with."


The video "is terrifying the conscience," said Lieutenant Weddington. "This is serious in our department."
Before coming to the woman, a voice was heard in the video saying to Mr. Thomas receives $ 200 to beat him and "the money is in his pocket," according to a police affidavit for a warrant of arrest.
The police said the victim, using the name Muhlaysia Booker, was hospitalized due to the destruction of a concussion and fractured pulse in defeat.
The episode started on Friday afternoon, Booker, who is driving a black SUV, backed up to a car on the parking lot, according to an affidavit. The car driver said he had tried to run his S.U.V. off the road and pulled the gun to Ms. Booker after he picked up.
Mr. Thomas was part of a large crowd who gathered at the parking lot, according to an affidavit. The video, according to the police, shows Mr. Thomas's shadow on the gloves before Ms. Booker in his blankets.
On Sunday evening, Mr. Thomas was an officer at a gas station about an irrelevant matter. The official later identified Mr. Thomas from the video, leading to his arrest.
Mr. Thomas recognized the defeat, but denied what he said was "breaking," according to the affidavit.
On Monday, Mr. Thomas in prison with a bail of $ 75,000. It is not clear if he or she has a lawyer.
Attacks on transgender people are rising, according to advocacy groups. At least 26 transgender people have been killed in the United States last year, most of them black transgender women, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a promoting group.
In 2017, that number was 29, the most recorded was told by the group.
Mayor Mike Rawlings of Dallas said in a statement after the attack that he was "very angry about what a sorcerer's violence against this woman was."
"What they did not represent how Dallas feels about our progressive LGBTQ community," he said. "We did not stand for this kind of behavior.


Here are some pics (courtesy of Jesse Draper) of last Saturdays head painting demo, held at my studio in Salt Lake City. Thanks to everyone who came. I hope it was of value to you. I think it went really well. I only shook a little and I don't think I offended anyone too badly.
'The robot stage'- I was tempted to call it done here, but I kept going for my students' sakes. Here is a shot of me getting Jiggy-with-it.
They are always so interested when I'm getting Jiggy-with-it.
After about 6 hours it was done. Cut me some slack, there were a lot of questions (Joann).
What do you mean…. Jiggy-with-it???? 🙂 Do you start breaking into dance? I would to if I could paint like you do!
Jeff,Wow. I didn't realize you did demos. I'll have to come to one of them sometime. Your work gets better and better all the time…not that it wasn't good in the first place. Beats texture painting in a room with 3 other people and walls and floors that rumble!Nice job!
that girl is a babe! I'd like to date her.
I'd cut you anything you want (including a check) to be able to paint like that!
Me gustan muchos tus pinturas y quiero por este medio felizitarte que DIOS te continue bendiciendo en gran manera.


Annoyingly (and somewhat unavoidably), this stupid cold I have jumped over to David, and we lost the weekend to it. We even had to cancel plans to attend one of David's birthday presents, which was tickets to see Tears For Fears down in Costa Mesa (it was a long, long drive and would be outdoors and David literally was lying like a slug on the floor last night). My Dad was supposed to visit this week and he canceled his trip. It turned out it was probably good that he did, because we mainly sat around with glazed looks in our eyes. At least we got to spend some good quality time with Chuck, who is soon to leave our land. That will be a sad, sad day and in the meantime I'm trying to pretend it's not happening.
Somehow, though, in the midst of that, we managed to start writing a song for a musical we're contributing to. It is really quite lovely, and David was doing awfully perty stuff to it. So take THAT, cold!
Hope you're feeling much better! By the way, the new Harry Potter book took me less than a day to finish. I got nothing else accomplished, but I finished it and I make absolutely no apologies!
My best to your hubby.


The Secretariat warmly welcomes the recent progress made in establishing a power exchange in Montenegro. BELEN, a company established by the Government of Montenegro to lead the establishment of a national day-ahead market, has selected Nord Pool as its strategic partner for setting up a power exchange in Montenegro.
The companies have announced that the cooperation will include support in establishing processes and procedures required to operate a national day-ahead market in Montenegro, market coupling with neighbouring countries and day-ahead clearing and settlement processes. The two companies also intend to extend the cooperation to include NordPool as a shareholder of BELEN.
The partnership is a key milestone that will contribute to the establishment of a liquid and competitive energy market in Montenegro and support regional electricity market integration, including via the new underwater power transmission cable linking Montenegro to Italy.
The selection process was supported by the project "Technical Assistance to Connectivity in the Western Balkans - Component 2: Regional Energy Market", which is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Energy Community Secretariat.


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Gossip: Sammy Clingan turns out for Charlton
FORMER Coventry City midfielder Sammy Clingan has turned out for Charton U21s as he tries to win a contract at The Valley.
The Northern Ireland international left the Sky Blues when his contract ran out last summer and has been searching for a club ever since.
Clingan, 28, started training with Championship club Charlton last month and recently played in their U21 win over Swansea.


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Ford invests $500 million into EV company Rivian to help build electric Ford
Ford seems to be positioning itself to develop the best electric F-150 possible
By Brad Bennett@thebradfad
Ford is taking steps to develop an electric truck by investing in the Plymouth, Michigan-based electric vehicle startup Rivian.
Rivian made waves last fall when it announced both a truck called the R1T and an SUV named the R1S. The EV company has slated these vehicles to go into production in late 2020.
Ford is investing $500 million USD (roughly, $674 million CAD). The automaker isn't the only one interested in the EV startup. Amazon announced earlier in the year that it's investing $700 million USD (roughly, $928 million CAD).
Why did Ford invest?
Ford's investment differs from Amazon's since the legacy automaker is forming a strategic partnership with the EV maker to help it develop its own electric vehicles.
The Dearborn-based automaker is going to use Rivian's 'flexible skateboard platform" to develop an all-new battery pack for Ford's portfolio of EVs.
Rivian's estimating that its upcoming vehicles have 640km of range, so if Ford can get its hands on that level of electric vehicle technology it will be able to beat established EVs like Tesla's Long Range Model S which has a 600km range.
"As we continue in our transformation of Ford with new forms of intelligent vehicles and propulsion, this partnership with Rivian brings a fresh approach to both. At the same time, we believe Rivian can benefit from Ford's industrial expertise and resources," said Jim Hackett, who's the president and CEO of Ford.
What does this mean for the two companies?
Ford is still developing EVs like the Mustang-based crossover, in addition to using Rivian's tech. Since the company has been teasing it for a while, it seems unlikely that it's going to use the skateboard platform. We can expect to see the EV Mustang crossover in 2020. Ford has previously stated that the crossover will have 600km of range.
Ford's other EV on the horizon is an emissions-free version of the F-150 pickup, but that one doesn't have any release date associated with it. So it's very possible that it could use the skateboard platform.
Partnering with Ford is likely a strong move for Rivian, too. Elon Musk often mentions the complications that came with trying to scale Tesla for mass production during investors meetings. Therefore, with Ford's expertise and assistance, Rivian won't have to stall as often as Tesla did.
The best part about this investment is that it's beneficial to both Ford and Rivian, and the more EV makers in the market, the more options there will be for consumers.
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This apartment in Moscow blends effortless charm and contemporary flair
Designer Leyla Uluhanli combines art deco, classical motifs, and American 1960s retro-chic for her apartment
By Barry Rodgers
Photography by Stephan Julliard
The strong link with the past is reflected in this Moscow apartment's clean lines, proportions and details
Visiting Moscow means you have to constantly be on the go. This city has a rhythm that is difficult to keep pace with. It is no wonder that when she had the opportunity to do up her own apartment, interior designer Leyla Uluhanli, of Leyla Uluhanli Interiors, took inspiration from neutral shades and a minimal elegant palette to create an oasis of calm in Tverskoy Boulevard, the historic centre of Moscow.
The lounge, hearth room, and dining room were brought together into a single open-space area by using items that save space
However, Uluhanli had her work cut out for her. Despite the apartment's large size—more than 270 square metres—and soaring four-metre ceilings (13 feet), it lacked functional space and sources of natural light. The project designer had to come up with a new floor plan.
"We had to increase the number of rooms, while gently combining the new floorplan layout with the refined historic features of the building, such as the classical stucco moldings," says Leyla Uluhanli.
The firm preserved as much of the original stucco that it could, replacing it with faithful copies wherever necessary. By using space judiciously, and deploying mirrors where needed, the rooms appear brighter and airier. The apartment takes on fresh, harmonious proportions. And what's Uluhanli's favourite corner in her home? The powder room!
The lounge, hearth room and dining room were brought together into a single open-space area by using items that save space, but work well for zoning—such as the American walnut shelving, and glass doors created by Portuguese craftsmen.
The strong link with the past is reflected in the clean lines, proportions and details. Classical decoration, light-coloured walls and parquet flooring provide the backdrop for minimalist post-modern furniture with narrow legs, and vintage and antique objects from Leyla's personal collections.
The apartment harmoniously combines three different stylistic periods—art deco, classical, and American 1960s retro-chic.
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COLUMBUS – The Ohio Department of Insurance has issued its fifth annual Ohio Medical Professional Liability Closed Claim Report, Director Mary Jo Hudson announced. Data collected from entities providing medical professional liability coverage to Ohio health care providers and health care facilities shows a total of 3,344 medical professional liability claims were closed in 2009. Claims that generated an indemnity payment, which is the amount of compensation paid on behalf of each defendant to a claimant, averaged $322,158 per closed claim.
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Mere words can't describe how much I hated, hated, hated the horrible, horrible "The Holiday." But I'll try below.
This cheesy, chuckleheaded chick flick is so relentlessly sappy, shamelessly insincere and insultingly stupid that I can't think of a Christmas movie I've ever liked less. And I've seen "Santa Claus vs. The Martians."
Cameron Diaz is mid-thirties going on retarded as an unlucky-at-love Hollywood workaholic. She screams a lot, she falls down, she's half independent businesswoman and half "can't remember to plug in the toaster" idiot. For Christmas vacation, she uses an online service to switch homes with a complete stranger who lives in London.
Said stranger would be the slightly frumpy newspaper reporter Kate Winslet, who has all the emotional sophistication and self-confidence of a dateless 12-year-old. She's in love with Rufus Sewell, who wants to keep stringing her along despite the inconvenience of his engagement to another woman.
Diaz ends up falling for Winslet's brother Jude Law. Law has a secret that is puke-worthily perfect for this kind of estrogen-amped wish-fantasy.
Winslet falls for Diaz business associate Jack Black (shamefully neutered here to sitcom-safe blandness). She also spends way too long in a blatantly unnecessary subplot about an octogenarian screenwriter neighbor (Eli Wallach) who encourages her to spend most of her time while visiting sunny southern California staying indoors watching rented old movies. Huh?
Winslet manages not only to free this old fart from his walker, but to cure his Alzheimer's after only a couple of dips in the backyard pool. Right.
Also, this is one of those movies that treats old men as if they are twinkly, infantilized eunuchs. Gramps expresses zero sexual interest in Winslet, even though her forwardness makes her seem as if she is actively angling to be his "young chippy," and even though we get the distinct impression that this widower Methuselah hasn't gotten laid in quite some time. Maybe it would have been asking too much to have him open his bathrobe and seductively reveal his withered old bone (which actually would have been funnier than anything we do see in this "comedy"), but the guy at least could have been allowed an appreciative leer or two.
"The Holiday" is nearly two and a half hours long long long, with a badly in need of tightening screenplay that veers from relentlessly boring to carelessly inept. Diaz goes into panic mode over driving Winslet's Mini Cooper on the left side of the road. She nearly sideswipes a truck, comes to a sloppy stop in town, then proceeds to drink with real purpose from a bottle of wine at a shop. Despite this setup, we never see her get back in the car for what promises to be an even more eventful drunken drive home.
Meanwhile, Winslet is shown driving Diaz's huge Lexus SUV on American roads with no trouble whatsoever.
Also, this is the kind of movie where characters "talk-type," voicing aloud the words they are composing on a computer keyboard. Shouldn't this cinematic device have been retired nanoseconds after the release of "The Net?"
Also, Winslet plays spasmodic air guitar in bed. And, God help us, there's even a scene of all the principals dancing around a dining-room table together.
"The Holiday" is as genuine as an aluminum Christmas tree, as warm as a video fireplace and as believable as Santa schtupping Sasquatch.


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Q: Importing Excel File to Access Form I have exhausted every resource I can find and before I determine my Access DB to be corrupt I wanted to post this question:
I am working on a tool that will import the data from an Excel form that is to be distributed to a couple hundred individuals. I have created an Access form in parallel and I am trying to create a macro that will auto-populate the Access form fields with the data from the Excel form.
Here is the code I am working with:
Sub Import_Click()
Dim objDialog As Object
Dim CEtarget As Form
Dim CEfile As String
Set CEtarget = Forms("Data Entry")
Set CEsource = Excel.Application
Set objDialog = Application.FileDialog(3)

With objDialog
    .AllowMultiSelect = False
    .Title = "Select Form"
    .filters.Clear
    .filters.Add "*.xlsm; *.xlsx; *.xls", "*.xlsm; *.xlsx; *.xls"
    .Show
    If .SelectedItems.Count = 0 Then
        Exit Sub
    Else
        CEfile = .SelectedItems(1)
        CEsource.Workbooks.Open (CEfile)
        CEsource.Visible = True

    End If

CEtarget.FirstName.Value = CEsource.Range("B14")
End Sub

The error occurs at the following string:
Set CEtarget = Forms("Data Entry")

I receive the following error:

Run-time Error '-2146500594 (800f000e)':
  Method 'Item' of object 'Forms' failed

Not sure what could be wrong. I did have the code working at one point, but somehow I started seeing that error message.
EDIT:I tested the code while the form was in Design View and it executed without any problems. The error prompt still persists while in Form and Layout View.

A: I never did figure out what the problem was, but I made a copy of the form and referenced that one instead. After that the code worked fine.

A: For future reference, decompiling the database will often fix this issue. Access will often get these "minor corruptions" when you're doing a lot of vba development. I think it has something to do with the way it stores the binaries. Be sure to also compact and repair after decompiling. That will remove any left over junk binaries. They cause the file size to bloat after a while.

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Ventricular fibrillation frequency characteristics are altered in acute myocardial infarction
Julia H Indik, Richard L. Donnerstein, Robert A. Berg, Ronald W. Hilwig, Marc D Berg, Karl B Kern
OBJECTIVE: Future automated external defibrillators are being designed to direct rescue efforts (chest compressions first vs. defibrillation) by inferring the duration of ventricular fibrillation based on its waveform characteristics such as frequency content. This approach assumes that the ventricular fibrillation waveform is an appropriate surrogate for ventricular fibrillation duration and is not affected by structural heart disease. We hypothesized that an acute myocardial infarction may alter the frequency content of ventricular fibrillation. DESIGN: Animal intervention study with comparison to control group. SETTING: University animal laboratory. SUBJECTS: Twenty-seven swine. INTERVENTIONS: Acute myocardial infarction was induced by occlusion of the mid-left anterior descending artery. Ventricular fibrillation was induced in swine with acute myocardial infarction and control swine. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Ventricular fibrillation was induced in 11 swine with an acute myocardial infarction and in 16 control swine. Ventricular fibrillation waveforms were analyzed for mean, median, and dominant frequency, as well as bandwidth and amplitude. All frequency characteristics were significantly (p < .001) altered in swine with acute myocardial infarction compared with controls. Specifically, these characteristics were significantly depressed and varied little over time in swine with acute myocardial infarction compared with controls. CONCLUSIONS: These data establish that ventricular fibrillation during an acute myocardial infarction has an altered frequency content and time evolution compared with ventricular fibrillation without coronary obstruction. Frequency characteristics such as mean, median, dominant, and bandwidth show little variation in time after an acute myocardial infarction and are not suitable surrogates for ventricular fibrillation duration. These findings have important implications for the development of "smart" automated external defibrillators designed to determine duration of ventricular fibrillation from the waveform characteristics.
https://doi.org/10.1097/01.CCM.0000259540.52062.99
Laboratory Animals
Indik, J. H., Donnerstein, R. L., Berg, R. A., Hilwig, R. W., Berg, M. D., & Kern, K. B. (2007). Ventricular fibrillation frequency characteristics are altered in acute myocardial infarction. Critical Care Medicine, 35(4), 1133-1138. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.CCM.0000259540.52062.99
Ventricular fibrillation frequency characteristics are altered in acute myocardial infarction. / Indik, Julia H; Donnerstein, Richard L.; Berg, Robert A.; Hilwig, Ronald W.; Berg, Marc D; Kern, Karl B.
In: Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 35, No. 4, 04.2007, p. 1133-1138.
Indik, JH, Donnerstein, RL, Berg, RA, Hilwig, RW, Berg, MD & Kern, KB 2007, 'Ventricular fibrillation frequency characteristics are altered in acute myocardial infarction', Critical Care Medicine, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 1133-1138. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.CCM.0000259540.52062.99
Indik JH, Donnerstein RL, Berg RA, Hilwig RW, Berg MD, Kern KB. Ventricular fibrillation frequency characteristics are altered in acute myocardial infarction. Critical Care Medicine. 2007 Apr;35(4):1133-1138. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.CCM.0000259540.52062.99
Indik, Julia H ; Donnerstein, Richard L. ; Berg, Robert A. ; Hilwig, Ronald W. ; Berg, Marc D ; Kern, Karl B. / Ventricular fibrillation frequency characteristics are altered in acute myocardial infarction. In: Critical Care Medicine. 2007 ; Vol. 35, No. 4. pp. 1133-1138.
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The Complete STANLEY KUBRICK Exhibit at LACMA – Skiffleboom.com » Stanley Kubrick at LACMA: Day of the Flight, Flying Parade, and The Seafarers
Day of the Fight (1951)
For his first documentary, Kubrick returned to the subject of a photo-essay that he had done for "Look" magazine on the boxing champion Walter Cartier. "Day of the Fight" shows the boxer preparing for a match later that same day. The film successfully captures the anxious wait until the moment when Cartier steps into the ring. It climaxes with the fight, which Kubrick shot from different perspectives and later cut into a fast-paced montage that emphasizes the dynamics of the action. Kubrick sold "Day of the Fight" to the distributor RKO and stopped working for "Look Magazine" in order to be able to make more films. Boxing would recur as a central theme in "Killer's Kiss."
Flying Parade (1951)
For distribution company RKO, Kubrick shot a documentary film about two days in the life of Father Fred Stadtmueller, who uses his small airplane to commute between his scattered parishes in New Mexico. Kubrick follows the priest to the funeral of a farmhand and shows him making peace between two quarreling playmates and flying a mother and her sick child to a hospital. The close-ups of the mourners attending the funeral convey great intensity and are very much like photographic studies. Here Kubrick drew on his experience as a photographer. As a director he made the film dynamic by employing changing perspectives and a lively editing style.
The Seafarers (1953)
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Q: How to make a "requireable" lua script Hello,
I was wondering, is there any possible way to make a lua script that contains one (or more) functions that you can "return" them, and require with another lua script?
I tried this, but didn't work
Functions
Func = {
function test(a)
 print(a)
end
}
return Func

Main Code
require(FUNCTIONS_PATH)

It gives an error on that point (probably because the code is totally wrong).
I would like some help on that.
Thank you.

A: Separate the name from function, like this:
Func = {
test = function(a)
 print(a)
end
}
return Func


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Campaign uses Apple Store opening queue clip to encourage organ donor registrations [Video]
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A Belgian campaign group used the queue for the recent opening of the Apple Store in Brussels to create a clever video encouraging people to register as organ donors.
People on the waiting list for organ transplants ask those in the queue how long they have been waiting at the store, say they know how it feels to wait and offer to take their place in return for signing up to join the organ donor register. Organ donors can save up to eight people's lives after their own death.
Back in 2010, Steve Jobs – who himself had a liver transplant – helped a California bill pass to make joining the register there a simple tickbox on the driver's license form. You can also record your preference in the Medical ID section of the Health app, introduced in iOS 8.
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Apple's health initiative (with Apple Watch) are set to be the company's next big thing. Its ECG readings and heart rate monitoring are changing and saving lives.
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Ben Lovejoy is a British technology writer and EU Editor for 9to5Mac. He's known for his op-eds and diary pieces, exploring his experience of Apple products over time, for a more rounded review. He also writes fiction, with two technothriller novels, a couple of SF shorts and a rom-com!
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