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Gareth Thomas calls on government to take action against homophobia in football
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The rugby legend was talking on the Don't Tell Me the Score podcast.
Rugby star Gareth Thomas has called on the British government to take action over homophobic abuse in football. Thomas was making the comments on the BBC's Don't Tell Me the Score podcast.
Speaking on the podcast, he said that football was better at reacting as opposed to taking action. "What happens in sport, I believe, in football definitely, is everyone in football is very good at reacting to situations," he said.
"So we will have an act of racism, it hits the headlines, everyone comes out reacting in the right way.
"Another two or three months later another racist act or homophobic act or transphobic act will occur and everyone will react in the right way – but when you look at it seven months down the line, nothing has happened because everyone has reacted enough."
He added there was "a blatantly obvious black hole in the law within football" and urged Boris Johnson to take action. Before the election, Thomas said he was planning on lobbying Damian Collins, the then Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, but he has since been replaced by Julian Knight.
"If you are running a country then you run the country to support everyone and to make better conditions for people to live in," Thomas said.
"Yes I am passionate about the LGBT issue, but I am just as passionate about the racism issue – it is in there, it is so simple, so just make the change. Do it Boris, do it."
He then added: "How can you have all of these organisations who run a multi-billions-pound game not realise that within a Football Offences Act, times have changed and maybe they should be amended?"
The FA responded to Gareth's comments, saying: "The FA is committed to tackling homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in football at every level of the game.
"We continue to work with partners across the game, such as Stonewall and LBGT fan groups, to encourage fans and players to report abuse, both at a national and county FA level, and work with the leagues, campaign groups and the statutory agencies to sanction and educate perpetrators."
Earlier this week, Gareth Thomas responded to the news that the Catalan Dragons had signed Israel Folau, who'd been dismissed from Rugby Australia over homophobic comments.
"Really upset by this as the game, players, and fans were so good to me," he wrote in a statement on Twitter. "All I hope is that as much as Folau wanted his right to speak, then players and fans alike are aloud [sic] their right to respond."
Related: Gareth Thomas in floods of tears after parents surprise him at awards show
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"But, I'm worried… it's still the Burning Heaven Clan… How about… How about you hide in the Imperial Palace? Even if they know that you're in there, they definitely won't dare to make trouble there." Cang Yue said in a panic as she tightly gripped Yun Che's hands.
Yun Che shook his head with a slight smile: "Even though Fen Juecheng was the one who started it, if you carefully think about it, I never avoided these conflicts, and had instead intensified them so far, that Fen Juebi died… Perhaps I had subconsciously planned to make the Burning Heaven Clan chase me… After all, being hunted is…" Yun Che let out a small breath of air. He was well familiar and accustomed to a life of being hunted.
"Mn!" Yun Che nodded, and raised his head, as if looking into the future: "Although I had been driven out of my clan, it is still the place where I grew up in. The most important thing is that my Grandfather and Little Aunt are there; wherever they are, is my home. It has already been a long time since I have left and there has not been a time that I wished to return… I want to bring Senior Sister home. They would probably be scared out of their minds if they knew that I actually brought home a princess for a wife."
The current me, finally has enough power to return. I can now beat anyone from Xiao Sect. I will return the continuous misery you two have suffered back, a hundredfold!!
The Sword Management Terrace, was now just up ahead.
Heavenly Sword Villa's Sword Management Terrace was several times larger than the ranking tournament's Sword Discourse Arena. As far as the eye could see, as many as ten thousand swords flew in the sky above the Sword Management Terrace, stirring up an even greater vortex of sword energy. When walking up the Sword Management Terrace, waves and waves of sword energy would occasionally flit by. The sharp energy dully ached, as if knives were cutting into their face.
Various kinds of swords also covered the entire surface of the Sword Management Terrace, and a few heavy swords were also included among them. Though their numbers was extremely low, it they were definitely not of common grade. Even the most inferior weapon there was at least a Spirit Profound Artifact.
In the middle of the Sword Management Terrace, a pitch-black sword as large as the heavens was halfway into the ground and halfway into the sky. The incomparably enormous sword body released an ancient and heavy aura, making the hearts of the ones who looked at it go silent.
"The demon is incredibly strong, but inside the sealing formation, his strength has greatly been suppressed, so he should never think of escaping. However, since it is a sealing formation, its power would naturally diminish through time. Every twenty years, Mighty Heavenly Sword Region would always send one person here to strengthen the seal formation.
"Oh! Listening to what he said, that demon seems to have come from outside of the Profound Sky Continent… Could it be those non-humans of legends?" Xia Yuanba asked with wide eyes.
"Very likely." Yun Che carefully nodded. At the same time, he silently thought to himself: The Four Great Sacred Grounds ought to have frequently come in contact with people not from Profound Sky Continent, then doesn't it mean that they… have come in contact with people from the Azure Cloud Continent!? And know of Azure Cloud Continent's existence?
"Bring about a great calamity to the Profound Sky Continent"... These words had undoubtedly shakened everyone's heart. What kind of an existence was this demon, to actually be this terrible?
Following Ling Kun's bizarre hand gesture, an enormous profound formation flashed from under the huge sword. In the profound formation's rotation, that huge sword as large as the sky slowly rose. Underneath the platform, was the lower half of the sword's body that had not seen night or day for twenty whole years.
The enormous Heaven's Punishment Sword continued to rise for a little while longer until it had finally stopped. The tip of huge sword moved a similarly sized surface which appeared at the previously empty space.
What appeared in front of the people's eyes was a huge light yellow half sphere barrier. Within the barrier, was the huge Heaven's Punishment Sword with several tens of chains on the tip of it firmly sealing a person with a full set of white hair. His hair had reached the ground a long time ago and covered half his body and face. His body was as thin as a match and had a face that was as wrinkled as an evil spirit, but his pair of eyes was as frightening as the sharpest knives in the world and radiated a resentment that was like the abyss of hell.
"So… so scary." Cang Yue nervously pressed closer to Yun Che, with half her body hidden behind him.
This "demon's" expression was quite terrifying, and his fury was great. It could even be said that to be the greatest that Yun Che had seen all his life. When he looked at him, even he, was a bit afraid, let alone Cang Yue.
"Jasmine, what kind of person is this? Can you tell?" Yun Che probed.
These strange words repeatedly came out of the two's conversation, causing Yun Che to become baffled. He looked all around, and noticed that bewilderment was written on everyone's faces. The only one different, was soley Ling Yuefeng, whose expression could still be regarded as calm.
Sacred-Ground level forces had qualifications to touch upon. It was obvious that there was an enormous animosity between them and the "Illusory Demon World".
During his ridiculous laughter, Ling Kun wiped the spatial ring in his hands and several ten lumps of light yellow crystals hovered in front of his body. The top of every crystal released a power so dense that it made people shake in fear. Along with a wave of Ling Kun's arm, these several tens of crystals all separately flew towards a corner of the imprisoned "demon's" light yellow barrier, slowly submerged into the barrier, and became part of the barrier's power.
Suddenly, the color of the entire barrier became even deeper, causing the tint to become sparkly, it looked as if the yellow light filled its entirety. Those several tens of yellow crystalline objects all contained an incredibly power sealing force. Along with their merging, a once in every twenty years of barrier stabilization was completed at this moment.


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Soil organic carbon storage and changes with reduction in agricultural activities in Hong Kong
H. B. Zhang, Y. M. Luo*, Ming Hung WONG, Q. G. Zhao, G. L. Zhang
Information on carbon (C) storages and the changes under the shifting of land use is of particular interest for estimating the gains and losses of soil C at a regional scale. The present study attempted to quantify the soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in the Hong Kong soils for the first time as well as to demonstrate the changes of SOC density after the transformations of paddy fields to other land usages due to the decline of agricultural activities. SOC storages were estimated by combining the land-use areas and profile data derived from our recent soil survey (248 samples were collected) and other reports. The results indicated that SOC densities to the upper 100 cm ranged from 25.06 Mg ha- 1 of urban park land to 288.65 Mg ha- 1 of swamp and mangrove, and total SOC storage in the upper 100 cm was 8.8548 × 106 t, approximately 0.51% of that in the soils of Guangdong Province China. Approximately 46.5% to 70.5% of the SOC pool was stored in the upper 40-cm depth, and SOC densities were much consistent in depth distributions under different land uses. Different changes of SOC density were evidenced after the conversion from paddy fields to orchards, vegetable land and grassland. The uncertainties were also discussed for lack of the data from a long term survey at a particular location.
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Zhang, H. B., Luo, Y. M., WONG, M. H., Zhao, Q. G., & Zhang, G. L. (2007). Soil organic carbon storage and changes with reduction in agricultural activities in Hong Kong. Geoderma, 139(3-4), 412-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2007.03.003
Zhang, H. B. ; Luo, Y. M. ; WONG, Ming Hung ; Zhao, Q. G. ; Zhang, G. L. / Soil organic carbon storage and changes with reduction in agricultural activities in Hong Kong. In: Geoderma. 2007 ; Vol. 139, No. 3-4. pp. 412-419.
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University course on extraterrestrial life goes global
Dr Michael Salla / July 19, 2012
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Edinburgh University is set to launch a series of six free online courses in Autumn 2012, one of which is titled: "Introduction to Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life". The course involves five lectures to be presented online and will result in a certificate to all that complete it. Edinburgh is teaming up with Princeton and Stanford universities in an effort to make available undergraduate courses to a global audience for free as part of the Coursera consortium. According to Edinburgh University spokesperson, Ranald Leask: "Something like extraterrestrial life comes out of a wide and deep base of knowledge and academic endeavour." Leask is referring to the progress made by the scientific community in confirming the existence of distant exoplanets and that some of these have the right conditions for hosting life as we know it. Princeton was the first U.S. university to offer a degree in astrobiology. Now thanks to Edinburgh University, astrobiology courses that focus on questions concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life are going global.
Edinburgh's "Search for Extraterrestrial Life" course will be taught by Professor Charles Cockell who has authored two books on Mars, worked for NASA, and is the current Director for the UK Center for Astrobiology. Cockell's course will examine questions such as "Is there life on other planetary bodies?" and "How is it distributed throughout the Universe?"
According to Rory Reynolds from the Scotsman:
The first two weeks of the course explore the origins of life and how beings survive in extreme environments, with the focus in the third week moving to the possibility of life being discovered on other planets. The final week includes asking how contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence would be dealt with and what would be the impact on society. It concludes with the question "who would represent Earth?" in the event of first contact.
The course is a direct result in the ongoing discovery of exoplanets, some of which have been confirmed to exist in the habitable region of their suns. This has sparked a number of academic conferences focusing on the social and political impact of the discovery of extraterrestrial life. Two were hosted by the Royal Society of London in 2010, and led to much media interest over scientific speculations over the likely motivations of extraterrestrial life. The most notable has been Prof Stephen Hawkings' view about space faring extraterrestrials being more likely predatory in nature than friendly.
Recent advances in space telescopes have now made it possible to detect alien metropolises on distant worlds. On May 8, 2012, NASA announced: "NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" beyond our solar system for the first time. While the planet is not habitable, the detection is a historic step toward the eventual search for signs of life on other planets." According to Dario Borghino from Gizmag: "This marks the first time that light has been detected from a planet of such a small size, and the find is telling astrophysicists where to look in their search for signs of life on planets beyond our own."
The question to be examined in the final week of the Edinburgh Unniversity course, "who would represent Earth" in the case of contact is very significant. It first came to public prominence in 2010 in relation to Dr Mazlan Othman from the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs who was a presenter at the Royal Society astrobiology conference in October 2010. There was much media speculation over a story in the Sunday Times mistakenly claiming that Dr Othman would represent Earth on behalf of all humanity. In an earlier talk, Othman did say however:
The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that some day human kind will receive signals from extraterrestrials. When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject. The UN is a ready-made mechanism for such coordination.
Edinburgh University's upcoming "Introduction to Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life" course will open up an exciting new era in the study of extraterrestrial life. Core questions regarding the existence and societal implications of extraterrestrial life are being raised by respected scientists, and will now be discussed by students around the world. According to Jeff Haywood, vice principal of the University of Edinburgh, the number of students for the online course is potentially 100,000 students or more. That projected enrollment figure is in itself a remarkable possibility. Whether 100,000 students enroll or not, it is clear that the scholarly study of extraterrestrial life and its societal implications has entered mainstream scientific discourse and is now going global.
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Another Delaware County graduate nears MLB
Ryan O'Gara
The Star Press
MUNCIE, Ind. — Justin O'Conner was so excited Monday night that he couldn't sleep. The former Cowan star phoned his parents, Randy and Kim, in the wee hours to tell them the news: He was one step away from the big leagues.
And instead of waiting until the morning to drive from Montgomery, the Double-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, to Durham (Triple-A), O'Conner made the eight-hour trip that night.
"He was too excited to sleep," Kim said. "We couldn't sleep either. It's just really exciting."
Added Randy, "It's been a long time coming."
This is O'Conner's first trip to Triple-A, and it puts him one step away from becoming what is believed to be the fifth player ever from Delaware County to reach the major leagues (former Wapahani star Jeremy Hazelbaker made it last season after seven minor-league seasons). This promotion comes after an up-and-down career since being drafted 31st overall by the Rays in 2010. The catcher battled hip injuries in the early part of his career and one season he had to strictly serve as the designated hitter because he wasn't allowed to crouch into a catcher's squat.
The road hasn't been easy for O'Conner, who led Cowan to its only appearance in a state baseball final in 2008. Since being drafted, he has been rated one of the Rays' top 30 prospects by Baseball America in each year and was added to the 40-man roster in 2014. But the Rays designated him for assignment last December, meaning he was removed from the 40-man roster.
The DFA was after he had back surgery in October and again in November. Kim flew down to Florida to be with him and they watched the Cubs win the World Series in his hospital room. It was quite a feeling for O'Conner, who had grown up playing against Kris Bryant in various travel tournaments and showcases and had hoped to eventually play for former Rays manager Joe Maddon, now with the Cubs.
After playing in just 20 games in 2016, the 25-year-old O'Conner has had a resurgent 2017. He hit .236 with seven home runs for Double-A Montgomery, earning a spot on the Mid-Season All-Star team.
"He has endured a lot of obstacles over the years," Randy said. "Nothing has been quick and easy, and he's managed to stay focused. He's progressed steadily and hopefully it keeps going for him."
O'Conner is reunited with manager Jared Sandberg, the nephew of former Cubs second baseman Ryan Sandberg, in Durham. Under Sandberg in 2014, O'Conner had his finest season in hitting .278 with 12 home runs and making numerous all-star teams, including the Futures Game, which is for top prospects. O'Conner is already off to a good start in Durham, going 3-for-4 with a double in his debut. Unfortunately for the O'Conner family and local fans, Durham has already made its two trips to Indianapolis this season. Durham and Indianapolis are both in first place, though, so there is a chance they could meet in the postseason.
While the offensive numbers are a plus, O'Conner's defense has always been his greatest asset. His arm has been graded an 80 on the 20-80 scale that pro scouts use.
Now just one step away from the big leagues, will that long-awaited moment come in September when MLB rosters expand from 25 to 40? Randy and Kim aren't sure.
"Ballplayers live day to day," Randy said. "You get called up, great. If not, you go back out there and keep working."
But either way, this week has been a major victory for the O'Conner family. This is Justin's eighth season in professional baseball, and after many ups and downs, he is on the doorstep of his ultimate goal.
"Baseball is a mental game," Kim said. "Justin has had to stay positive and mentally focused on what his goals are and just not give up. He has really worked hard to get to the point where he is today."
And now, Randy says: "One more step."
Contact sports features writer Ryan O'Gara at (765) 213-5829. Follow him on Twitter @RyanOGara.


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En terra hostil (títol original en anglès The Hurt Locker) és una pel·lícula estatunidenca dirigida per Kathryn Bigelow i distribuïda als cinemes l'any 2009, guanyadora de 6 premis Oscar, incloent els de millor directora i millor pel·lícula. Estrenada al Festival de Venècia de 2008, la cinta il·lustra l'experiència d'una unitat d'elit de l'exèrcit estatunidenc a l'Iraq dedicada a la desactivació de bombes. Ha estat doblada al català.

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A partir d'un guió de Mark Boal (guionista i periodista que també va escriure la història de A la vall d'Elah), Bigelow modela una pel·lícula propera al docudrama, amb moments de forta tensió on la càmera es converteix en l'espectador incòmode d'un infern ple de franctiradors, cotxes bomba, contractistes i homes-bomba... En aquest paisatge desolador, els soldats americans semblen un cos estrany i fora de lloc, que tot i ser els "guanyadors" de la guerra sempre estan en el punt de mira. La cinta és destacable per la seva capacitat en combinar situacions tenses amb imatges gairebé poètiques.

Bigelow va utilitzar a una sèrie d'actors desconeguts com a protagonistes així com breus intervencions d'actors més populars: Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, Evangeline Lilly i David Morse.

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 Jeremy Renner: Sergent William James
 Anthony Mackie: Sergent JT Sanborn
 Brian Geraghty: Owen Eldridge
 Guy Pearce: Sergent Matt Thompson
 Ralph Fiennes: Team Leader
 David Morse: Coronel Reed
 Evangeline Lilly: Connie James
 Christian Camargo: Coronel John Cambridge
 Suhail Aldabbach: Suhail Al-Dabbach
 Christopher Sayegh: Beckham
 Nabil Koni: Professor Nabil
 Sam Spruell: Charlie
 Sam Redford: Jimmy
 Feisal Sadoun: Feisal
 Barrie Rice: Chris

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The first time I met Wendy C. Ortiz was at AWP 2015 in Minneapolis. I met her at the bookfair during the day, and I was excited to meet her after obsessing over her memoir, Excavation. That night, I felt frazzled from talking with people all day long, but when I saw Wendy, she seemed totally relaxed and at ease. I did what any normal person would do—I asked to touch her forearm so I could "siphon" some of her "calm energy." She said yes, it worked, and we've been friends ever since. She lives in Los Angeles, I live in Brooklyn, so we decided to keep in touch in 2017 via a "year-long interview." Beginning in January, we took turns, devoting one month at a time to answer and ask a question of the other. This is the result.
When I proposed the idea of a year-long interview to Chelsea, one of my intentions was to formalize a relationship that has been mainly in the air and of the air (online) with a few (for me) electric moments in one another's corporeal presence. I had an instinct that Chelsea might appreciate the constraint of the concept and that we both might also appreciate the length and the format. I'm honored that she was game.
How would you describe your relationship to regret?
I almost never regret anything—I feel grateful for both the good and the bad. Doing the wrong thing (again and again) has taught me the most important lessons of my life. I'm not sure I've ever learned from something that made me happy. Knowing this softens the blow of regret.
I'm freed by the fact that I don't believe "everything happens for a reason." I believe humans are reckless and impulsive, so assigning meaning to something seems like a choice. I've decided my mistakes are meaningful to me.
Do you regret things? What kinds of events or details from your life do you deem important enough to write down in a journal (or elsewhere)?
I keep coming back to "almost never"—intriguing. I've thought all month about your response, mostly asking myself, do I feel like things happen for a reason? I think I'm mostly free of that. But I do follow synchronicities that appear and more appear the more I follow—but it feels less like things happening for a reason and more like, There's more here than what's happening on the surface. And looking at events in retrospect often underlines that feeling.
Humans are reckless and impulsive, yes! And it's interesting to me to see what happens when intention does and does not come into (conscious) play.
I remember once you tweeted a line of mine from Hollywood Notebook, about loss, and wanting to wear out the subject. My loss notebook could also be considered a mistakes notebook.
I've been told by more than one person who loves me that I seem to operate on no regrets. The first time I heard that I started asking myself, Is this true. But I do regret things. I regret a couple of major things. But one of them was a crucible that felt necessary to undergo. And the other I'm slowly starting to understand and become more neutral about.
In terms of my journals, it's mostly a dumping ground of whatever. I do consistently note emotional shifts and occasionally dialogue I want to remember. So some events make it in (because they result in emotional shifts) and other times events are missing but there's tonal evidence that something was shifting, even if I don't spell it out.
I've always thought of your Inventory project as a kind of visual public journal. Do you keep journals? How do you deem what's important enough to document there or elsewhere?
Inventory is the closest I've come to keeping a daily journal for a long period of time (one paragraph per day for 657 days straight). I'm constantly starting and abandoning a regular journal—usually at least twice a year, for a few weeks or months each time. When I do this, I think of Sarah Manguso's line from Ongoingness: "And then I think I don't need to write anything down. Everything that's happened has left its little wound." I'm often romantic, but I'm hardly ever sentimental—I get rid of possessions all the time, and I'm content leaving many things unwritten. And when I finally do write them down, it's so satisfying to see my life in a neat little box made of words.
This is one of the only sources of true pleasure for me: telling my side of the story as perfectly as I can. Any journal I keep is sloppy and frustrating to me, but Inventory was tidy and daily. I often started the entry's text with the object in mind, but then it would frequently turn personal. Only once I read aloud the series from beginning to end on the last day of the project did I see how personal and diaristic it had become—it was embarrassing to realize, actually. So, I can be disciplined, but I need a constraint, even if the writing is just for me, and I suppose the idea of a journal is so freeing to me that I don't even know what to do with it. Things I frequently write down are: lines of dialogue that strike me as particularly beautiful or insightful, dreams about people I hardly ever see but seem to live in my subconscious, and concepts for future projects.
Do you experience this sensation of satisfaction in writing something down as perfectly as you can? What non-writing things do you do that you feel are satisfying to you? I know you often hike to the Griffith Observatory—is that more satisfying than writing? Sometimes I really hate how quiet and stagnant the act of writing can feel, especially when I remember so much of it lives inside my computer.
Of the things you frequently write down: I would love to read all of those unedited.
The sensation of satisfaction is completely there, it's what I am going after. It's what I mourn when I can't quite catch it. More satisfying than writing—this changes for me over time, but where I am now, hiking is more satisfying, anything I can do with my body is far more satisfying than writing—it's like finally figuring out that I can get certain needs and desires met in this completely safe and neutral way. Just make your body do this (on the trail, on the waves, etc.). Also, my fantasy life is pretty rich and way more satisfying than writing something down as perfectly as I can. But then I try to write that out and find it mostly unwriteable, for now.
My journals, too, are super sloppy. They're like the marsh I'm cutting through with my machete. The dredge.
I loved going to Griffith Observatory when I lived in Los Angeles, but I hate being in the sun, so I'd always go at night and I'd take the much less scenic paved road instead of the hike you do. Now I mostly work out at a gym near Bryant Park (near the library I do most of my writing and research in). I use running like a reward, because it is so much more "satisfying" than writing to me, for the most part. Writing can be rewarding in many ways, but it's never made me feel literally strong the way that running does, and it also helps my anxiety. Another thing I do to combat the quiet of writing is playing guitar and singing. I do this softly and privately (an unplugged electric guitar in my room), but it still feels much different than the silence of typing into a machine. However, the most satisfying of all to me is organizing my room. Not cleaning, necessarily, but getting rid of things, meticulously organizing drawers, and so on. It gives me a feeling of control and efficiency—the same feeling I get when writing goes well, but of course it doesn't always go well.
I recently watched Author, the documentary about J.T. LeRoy, and have been thinking a lot about the element of persona in writing, especially nonfiction and memoir. I'm curious if you think about this at all in your writing—do you see your writing voice as a persona in some sense? Or do you see it as a previous version of yourself (if you're writing about events that occurred decades ago, for instance), or do you generally see it as "true" to yourself as you can be? Or perhaps all of the above?
Ahhhh, I have to see that documentary! I had such a preoccupation for a while with J.T. LeRoy before everything came to light. I think about persona a lot—and it comes up when I teach my brief workshop "Public Notebook to Book" because part of that process are the personas I work with internally and externally. My writing voices represent different parts of myself. I always have those previous selves lingering somewhere in me and sometimes they find expression. Still, every time I work with a part, whether it's the 14-year-old or the 24-year-old in me, I'm always trying to get as close to her truth as possible. Her truths might not be the same as 44-year-old me who is doing the reflecting and writing but it's where the charge is. There's a good friction there sometimes.
I relate very much to what you describe in terms of running, fantasy, and longing, and also the act of purging (you didn't call it that, but how you describe organizing and getting rid of things is an act I participate in regularly, which I think of as "purging"). This doesn't totally surprise me, as I feel I've always had a warm, easy, and yet depthful (??) rapport with you—so of course we'd find some similarities in this way (I also love that your preference is running at night versus my preference of morning).
I'm very interested in the destructiveness of fantasy and longing. It's an area where I've had to do a lot of growth personally. In fact, one of my recent tarot readings gave me a strong reminder that I need to focus more on what's in front of me, here and now—at least for now! I love writing from that place of fantasy and longing as well—my experience of that is that sometimes it invokes the very things I long for and fantasize about. This is exciting, dangerous, and, I've found, has to be used with intention and consciousness. How do you go about writing in/through fantasy and longing? Is it possible to avoid the destruction that threatens? What do you make of your own (potential for) destructiveness, and can it, does it, will it find its way into your work (more)?
"...but here I am", you say—and I am so glad you are.
I'm late responding this month because these questions are genuinely scary to me—it's like I read them and immediately turned away. I've definitely felt that my writing and obsessing over something or someone has conjured that exact thing or person in a way that's beyond explanation. I guess that means it's either coincidence or magic. Once, after a week of writing really vividly about my ex I hadn't seen in years, I ran into him on the street. A similar thing happened when I was writing about David Blaine holding his breath for 18 minutes—I saw him walking in Manhattan a few days later. I have other, longer stories like this. I tend to believe that people generally find what they're looking for, so it seems inevitable that obsessions would materialize eventually. I don't think it has to do with writing, necessarily, that's just how it plays out for me, especially in terms of obsession. I'm interested in self-destruction, and that happens to be the easiest thing to find. It's so easy it's almost lazy.
So, I don't really have an answer for how to avoid destruction associated with longing, and I certainly have a bad track record. But I have hope in the fact that fantasy, in itself, is not an act—it's the longing for the act, right? There's room to stop, but stopping is harder than letting yourself just roll along with the momentum. Plus, it's no fun to stop. But I don't even really like "fun," so there's hope for me, I think.
I'm interested in the topic of the workshop you mentioned—about turning a public notebook into a book. How much, if at all, do you consider your readers when you are writing a book, or curating a notebook into a published book? Does the public element of it feel inhibiting or freeing to you? Are you ever surprised by the reactions readers have to your books?
What you're saying is reminding me about past obsessions and how often I was satisfied with the longing/how often I was satisfied with the act.
I never think of myself as having readers, plural. I think of one person. That person changes over time—but that's what it comes down to. That person may or may not be aware that I'm holding them as my reader. I've lost my most valued reader in the not so distant past, and the ache is real. They were a real reader. Sometimes it's my fantasy of who I imagine will read what I'm working on.
The public element is delicious. I enjoy it because, like for instance with Tumblr, I feel I'm throwing everything into the black hole. I don't care about responses though I find them interesting when they arrive. If I'm using Instagram to share some piece of work, I'm definitely taking the temperature of the piece. The responses are another facet of the work-in-progress. I don't take them very personally but the responses have their uses.
Maybe it's both inhibition and freedom that I'm wrestling with. I feel myself, the friction of myself between those two. Inhibition is like a constraint. I love constraints. Theoretically I love freedom, too. Ha.
I'm always surprised at readers' reactions to my books. Always. Maybe this comes from never having assumptions about who is reading my books, or why. When reactions are shared with me, it's a constant, "Oh!" Occasionally someone will offer an insight into something about my experiences as related in books that I haven't already contemplated myself, and that's always a bit alarming. Maybe I'm most surprised, though, when readers take the feelings they have about the story, or the themes I write about, and assume we're on a special wavelength together. Often this will play out with them showing no understanding of basic boundaries. I mean, I notice when this happens to me with a few books, but I typically refrain from contacting the author with my belief that we are on a special wavelength together!
Which leads me to this question: Are you ever surprised by readers' reactions to your work? How do you engage, if at all?
I don't have to engage much at the moment, since I still don't feel I've published much—two chapbooks, a blog, a few poems and essays here and there. I remember, years ago, feeling totally desperate to put my work in the world—a sense of real panic that I might not have what it takes to be a "real" artist. The only way I was able to feel legitimate for about two years was to receive a rejection letter now and then, because at least that was acknowledging my attempt to do something worthwhile. But then I hit a stride of sorts after publishing Pity the Animal, and I began keeping everything private, choosing to keep my essays to myself instead of publish them one by one. As a result, I'm months away from publishing a book only a handful of people have read.
When Pity the Animal was published, I was thrilled to hear from people that saw themselves in it. It was really scary and humiliating to write about desire in such a specific way, so it was surprising to see others appreciating it, too. The only thing that really bothers me is when strangers think I should be immediately accessible to them just because they've read my work. Despite how I may seem in my writing, I'm very private, so people often end up disappointed if they come to me looking for elaborations on something they've read. However, I definitely understand the "special wavelength" feeling, and I actually write a decent amount of fan letters, too. Life is lonely—it's only natural to want to reach out.
You mentioned constraints—do you ever use constraints to kind of trick yourself into writing? I find that, even after years of writing, I have to constantly come up with new tricks and rules to keep myself unafraid of working.
I deeply admire the way you perform privacy (I mean that in the sense that as a reader and observer of social media, I see how you draw boundaries and this to me is a good model for how to be private). It's funny to me that people expect elaborations on something they've read. As ironic as this to say in the middle of an "interview" (though slightly unconventional, and present company is held in highest esteem!) I have to say I'm kind of over interviews. Or, I have higher expectations of people who want to interview me (the same people who expect elaborations).
About constraints… they operate as prompts to me… and I see prompts everywhere. Constraints are good for me. I like riding up against a constraint and the friction is where I think the gold is… and I also like being contained, so constraints offer my psyche a lot to enjoy. Constraints are also "assignments" and assignments are experiments, and I love a good experiment whether it fails or not and I love a good assignment because of the feeling of accomplishment that comes with having "completed an assignment." When I think of my own writing and which writing I feel has been the most satisfying, maybe "the best" from my perspective, the pieces were constraint-based and came from outside of me.
I wonder what you think about this interview, what it's been like for you now that we're in the eleventh month. Can you imagine where it might live, if outside of this Google doc? Does it die when we close the document up? Is the year our constraint?
Before I even read your response this month, this was the question on my mind as well—what will happen to our interview? Seeing something through to its end is often the only real source of satisfaction for me, so I like the thought of finishing our year of formal conversation and then letting it live elsewhere. I've recently acknowledged how quickly things change without any warning—publications shut down, jobs change, friends become strangers—it's made me hyper-aware of tying up loose ends. I like things sealed and delivered so that it makes room for new ideas in my mind.
I think I'd like to end with someone else's words that are stuck in my head. Does that ever happen to you? A sentence or passage swirling around like a pop song? This is one of my favorite things I read this year, and I think you might like it, too: "Awaken; return to yourself. Now, no longer asleep, knowing they were only dreams, clear-headed again, treat everything around you as a dream" (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations). It gives me immense comfort to read that, knowing it's two thousand years old. Is there a sentence or a passage that's stuck in your head?
I do like that, and I feel like I just recently came across a reference to Meditations elsewhere recently.
What of the loose ends? I feel like I'm constantly on a path of having to become more comfortable with loose ends, un-endings, detours, and minor derailment. Pauses.
These lines remind me that people are often operating from places we can't discern completely, so be gentle when possible. These lines also remind me of who I've been, who I am, who I hope to be. So I guess it's a reminder of gentleness to self, too.
Chelsea Hodson and Wendy C. Ortiz at Franklin Park Reading Series in November 2016. Photo by Taji Ameen.
Chelsea Hodson is the author of the forthcoming essay collection Tonight I'm Someone Else and the chapbook Pity the Animal. She teaches at Catapult and lives in Brooklyn.


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I'm having an issue when trying to style cells that have been merged. I'm trying to add a thin border to a merge cell with the following code.
Thanks for the report. We will investigate.
Looking at the way Excel does this is not very promising. It uses three styles: for B2 (open on the right); for C2:E2 (open on both sides); and for F2 (open on the left).
But as things stand we don't create cells within a merged area because they have no content.
I would accept a pull request for this but it would have to manage keeping the cells empty.
Thanks for the feedback. So my best bet is to make a helper function for styling a range of cells? A helper function like that might be a good thing to put into openpyxl.
I think the bigger problem is that Excel relies on creating dummy cells for this to work. The problem with this is that merged cells cannot have any content so they are usually deleted. This needs to be handled carefully otherwise any code working with the sheet could get confused: you could merge some cells, implicitly recreate them by applying some formatting, assign values to them by mistake and think the values will survive.
cells_from_range() already does most of the work for that. You don't really another function beyond that.
But there's still a problem that the cells are created and, therefore, can be assigned and read values which could lead to problems.
I don't understand openpyxl at the lower level yet, so I'm not clear on what issues could arise. For my use-case it seems to be working well at the moment. I would love a better solution if you had one. Thank you for cells_from_rannge(), however I searched the code and I'm not finding it.
I copy and pasted your typeo, when I searched. :) You had cells_from_rannge(). I'm using openpyxl==2.1.0.
It's great that it's working for you I was just trying to point out some of the potential issues. What about if you give one of the formatted cells a fill?
It's worth noting that the formatting will be probably stripped from such a file.
A more robust solution might copy the model of shared-formulae.
Closed because not really a bug and a workaround has been found.
Reopened as is a fairly common issue.
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Styles are not displayed, because no cells, which are attached styles.
I actually tried the same thing @Sergey Pikhovkin, but that only preserves some of the cells' styling. There's another issue that discussed this further, but basically it doesn't fix the problem entirely.
Your code will not work, because openpyxl loses the style of the last cell in the merged range, i.e. the right border of the last cell will not be traced because right border is not present at the first cell in the merged range.
I ran into this bug when editing the document, which were merged cells.
I think that the programmer himself must follow the styles merged cells when interacting with them. As an example, this is done with inserts rows - the programmer himself tracks where and what has changed. Just openpyxl shall not remove cells.
@Sergey Pikhovkin there is quite obviously a problem with the specification which is why we've raised an issue with the ECMA Committee. openpyxl does not remove cells that have already been merged: they don't exist.
Awaiting clarification of the specification.
Maybe a temporary solution to work with border on merged cells : define border on neighboring cells. I merge C2:F2 and define border top on C3:F3, border right on B2 and so on. I simply use it to get XLSX file (template), fill in with values and save it as new XLSX file. I don't know if it's the good place for this but I hope that can help!
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I'm going to raise this again and ask - so it seems like as demonstrated, a temporary fix is to prevent cells from being deleted in openpyxl/worksheet/worksheet.py. However, deleting them also seems a little aggressive? Is it possible to change the accessibility of those cells? For example, add a method to openpyxl/cell/cell.py that says that if cell is not accessible, a setter won't set a value?
And excel (2013) seems to handle it fine, by not displaying "Test2" in cell D1. When I UNMERGE the merge cell, "Test2" shows up in the appropriate cell. Any thoughts on this or does this help in a potential implementation fix? I'm guessing that based on what we've seen above, this is all expected behavior?
We're still waiting for an explanation on what should be expected from Microsoft. Until then deleting merged cells is the only way to avoid ambiguity.
Ok - I think this will be all internally implemented until then.. Thanks!
Yes, sorry about that. Please feel free to submit another bug report to the specification committee (no need to mention openpyxl).
This example shows that three ranges are merged. The formatting and content for the merged range is always stored in the top left cell.
This is how openpyxl behaves.
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I've added instructions for a more generic approach to the 2.4 docs. https://openpyxl.readthedocs.org/en/2.4/styles.html#styling-merged-cells A future version will have the concept of a MergedCell without a value.
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This is not resolved. I'm a bit frustrated because there are a dozen or so valid bugs marked as duplicates, indicating that people care about this issue. Several of the "duplicates" describe a situation that is more unambiguously a real bug, such as 533 and 700.
In one sense, I'd agree that they are duplicates in the sense that they are symptoms of the same defect, and would be repaired by the same patch. But the workaround that serves as the resolution of this bug does not resolve the supposed duplicates, where the damage to the styles is incurred passively when the file is loaded, so there really isn't a reasonable place to code the workaround. Because of this, the combination of marking bugs such as 533 and 700 as duplicates and closing this bug as "resolved" is problematic.
In other words, that workaround tells how to style merged cells, but not how to prevent the destruction of existing formatting.
To reproduce the more unambiguous manifestation of this bug, see 533 or 700.
Use Excel to make a spreadsheet with a merged set of cells with a border around it.
Write a short python script to load and immediately save the spreadsheet.
Note that most of the border is destroyed.
I consider it axiomatic that if you load a spreadsheet and then save it, and the result is different, that is a bug. Therefore, "Won't fix" is more appropriate than "Resolved".
Better yet, how about applying a perfectly good fix that was proposed, but previously rejected. I credit Sergey Pikhovkin with the fix.
Yes, I have read all the commentary, and I get that there is a motivation for those three lines of code. However the motivation appears to be prophylactic, in that it defends against a possible user error (e.g. expecting to be able to make use of "nonexistent" cells. I ask you to consider the notion that an actual bug has precedence over a hypothetical user error.
In the meantime, I offer this monkey-patch solution to the community. This is what I am currently using, and it works great. But it would be nicer if Sergey's fix were adopted into the actual code base.
'start_row', 'start_column', 'end_row' *and* 'end_column'"
The three lines of code in question are based on a particular interpretation of the model, where the act of merging cells includes the implicit destruction of the underlying cells (as opposed to erasing the content of the cells). Thus the lines are apparently justified because it would seem to be logically incorrect for the model to include cells that "don't exist". Doing things with nonexistent cells could yield unexpected results.
An alternative interpretation of the model, is to consider all of the cells to be present in the model, but hidden "behind" the upper-left cell, which is expanded to occupy the merged region. Note that borders of the hidden cells that line up with the borders of the merged region are visible (this is why borders of merged cells are destroyed by the current version of openpyxl).
The latter model has the virtue of being the actual model implemented by Excel. It is an afterthought that Excel happens to implement some additional logic to erase the hidden values and formatting, and that the user interface does not provide access to the hidden cells. Nevertheless, although the values and most of the formatting are erased, the hidden cells remain part of the model, and indeed are used for the purpose of border formatting.
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Actually, to simulate Excel behavior, an improvement would be the following: - erase values of the merged cells (except the top left) - copy non-border formatting from the upper-left cell to the range of merged cells - "merge" the border formatting across merged cells.
That last one may be a little more complex, but there are a couple clear constraints: - For each side, all of the exposed borders should match. - Non-exposed borders should be cleared.
This would be an improvement on my patch. Maybe if I have time I'll make a better patch, but I'm pretty sure the above suggestion is an improvement over the current situation.
Sorry, but that is just not true. Take a closer look. The merged cells do exist (in the Excel reference implementation), and openpyxl does indeed remove them (unless Sergey's patch is applied). See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openpyxl-users/6G7lLDJsy8E for details and empirical evidence.
Not only do these cells exist, but they all have the capacity to contain values and arbitrary formatting, even though under normal circumstances all but the top-left will have a value of None. Such constraints are a matter of user interface and business logic, not the model.
I had to this, and now it's flawless. Thanks kseehart.
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Could this be considered to be opened ?
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Reopened because more satisfactory resolution is possible.
Resolved in 2.6 See PR #261 and related for details.
When is release 2.6 with PR #261 coming out? I have 2.5.4 and the MergeCells behaviour still seems to be broken.
It would be good to know if this fix will cover my use case, which is updating cell values (only - not the formatting) in a worksheet that is already styled. This is as opposed to explicitly styling merged cells.
You can check by trying a checkout of the 2.6 branch. Details of how to use a checkout using pip are in the documentation.
I checked out 2.6 and found (in my use case at any rate) it visually corrects the formatting of the merged cells, but it does it quite differently to the way Microsoft is doing it (or would have done it) under the hood. I would recommend taking a look at that because if openpyxl is doing things differently to Microsoft it may cause similar kinds of issues in the future. To analyse this I did the following: 1. create a "genuine" Excel spreadsheet with merged cells 2. unzip that and examine the XML 3. update that spreadsheet using openpyxl 2.5.4 - not doing ANY formatting, but modifying the values of cells including the cell in the merged range. The use case is a language translation script, and there is not need to change the formatting. 4. unzip and examine XML 5. repeat for openpyxl 2.6 I have a document that shows the results. I can't see how to upload that for your review.
You should be able to attach files to the issue. Thanks for the comparison. I've seen Excel files. The problem is that Excel's behavious is both undefined and inefficient. In terms of the implementation, it is the lack of detail in the specification that causes problems: simply reverse engineering is not an option.
Opening and saving Excel files invariably leads to recombination of data so that the structure of files quickly diverges between implementations Where possible, openpyxl implements optimisations to reduce redundancy, especially in styles.
Understand your comments. Microsoft is late to the open source party, and publishing specs would not be in their DNA.
Having said that, it seems that PR #261 does not address the <worksheet> <dimension> "ref" attribute not capturing empty cells in a merged cell range that extends beyond the cells that have data in. That seems like it would be easy enough to fix.
PR #261 allows the cells in the merged cell range that were being deleted in the old code to continue to exist, so that works. What it goes on to do is to enforce formatting of those cells when they were already formatted in the input file. That may not have been necessary because the formatting was being lost as a result of the deletion of the cells.
The dimensions are a moot point. This is an optional "optimisation" in the format that turns out to be more or less useless and is, therefore ignored by all streaming producers. In standard mode openpyxl always knows the dimensions. As the extra cells are only used to hold the formatting they're not relevant in read-only mode. For openpyxl the important thing is that the cells are instances of MergedCell in case anything tries to read them: they're an artefact of formatting and not really worksheet contents.
If you think changes need making then I'd prefer to continue the discussion on the basis of a concrete PR.
Please see new PR #274 which retains the clean_merge_cells function and instead tidies up the format method in MergeCellRange to eliminate some of the spurious border formats that were getting into the xml. Test results are at PR 274 testing.zip.
The patch doesn't seem to be working anymore with version 2.5. Anyone have any suggestions or updates to the patch?
The patch is only available in version 2.6.
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This patch is not working for me, surely I'm doing anything wrong, but I don't know what. I'm using 2.6 version.
I have this same issue of styling merged cells, but in my case I load an existing worksheet and after saving I lose the styles of merged cells.
I apply this patch just after importing openpyxl, but again, merced cells still appear with the style stored in top-left cell.
Do you know if I'm forgetting anything?
Not sure if it is an option for you, but you may want to look back at my original PR #272. This is a very minor change to the library which causes it NOT to delete the other cells in the merged cell range in the first place. You will find they are still there when you save the file.
I understand where the openpyxl team is coming from with the reluctance to rush the more philosophically correct change that will come in 2.6 into the production code. I completely agree that the approach this team has taken to storing merged cells is the way to go, and Microsoft's method is clunky. Indeed the openpyxl method should become part of the OpenOffice standards.
Having said that, it is a pain in the meantime because most people use Excel, one way or another. You can try deleting those two lines as I proposed in PR #272 and see if it works for you. It did for me.
I think the problem is people who cannot either monkey patch or work with a checkout.
@David Wheeler actually ODF, the OpenOffice specification does things differently and uses and explicit overlay for a range of merged cells. This is fine because affects the UI only.
I'm working on an 11-page SS and I'm having the 'merged cell-loss of border' issue. I've applied the 'official' patch located here without success, still losing the borders. I believe I had the code correct because I am getting the gradientFill, alignment, etc.
One consistent condition I've noticed is the problem only appears when bringing in multiple pages Then the 'merged cell borders' are lost on all pages except the last page. I want to emphasize this point because I have repeated this experiment many times with always the same results.
Even using two pages leaves the 1st page without 'merged cell borders' and the 2nd page renders perfectly. And here is something else interesting: If I remove the last page and render only the page which had the 'merged cell borders' error, that same page renders perfectly with all borders. And I've repeated all this multiple times with different pages and same results. This tells me each page is coded correctly but something else is going on behind the scenes in the code which I am missing.
Does this help at all or any ideas on what I could try? I'm very active working on this SS and I'm open to suggestions.
The easiest fix if you have an editable copy of the library (pip -e) is to implement the change I proposed in PR #272. This is where the damage is done, and by deleting or commenting out those two lines all will be well with your spreadsheet.
I am not aware of any side-effects of that change.
It looks like that's working !! I have page 01 and page 11 rendering perfectly with pages 2-10 also imported in but no data yet. I'd like to follow the thread on what these two lines are doing exactly, especially considering Charlies reaction.
I'll let Charlie explain why this is not an acceptable approach. My understanding is that having the merged cells lurking in the data prior to saving and exiting could impact (slow down?) people with monster spreadsheets who just wanted to crunch numbers and crank out reports. I don't fully understand it.
For people like me, and presumably you and others who have commented on this discussion over the years (yes, years - it recently had its 4th birthday), it is desirable to have an Excel template with elegant formatting that you can populate with data that was collected from somewhere. In my case it cropped up when I was working on a language translator - see here.
There are a number of fixes around that deal with the issue one way or another, but for the application you and I have the simplest is to allow the merged cells to continue to exist after reading the file, which is what PR #272 does.
If someone had all the time in the world they could study the ODF and perhaps come up with a PR that would satisfy the various constituencies.
I'm using version 2.5.8 how do I patch it. I wasn't able to apply the checkout to fix the issue. Please release 2.6!
Issue #1147 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.
Yup, this is a very old and annoying problem, and there is a perfectly good fix. This has been going on for four years.
Sadly, Charlie is not willing to apply the patch to the main branch, and nobody else has the time to manage a fork. My understanding is that Charlie has a technical objection to perceived design flaw in the way Excel redundantly represents the style data in the presence of merged cells, and his code actively deletes the redundancy even though the end result is functionally destructive.
The patch, which is described earlier in this thread, involves removing a few lines that Charlie added for the purpose of removing the redundant cells. Those lines that the patch removes have no benefit to functionality whatsoever, other than slight memory and speed improvement that are unlikely to amount to anything close to 1% performance improvement in real situations. So it's really a philosophical issue, not a practical one. What matters to Charlie is that the Excel design is bad, so being compatible with that design is simply not an option.
Also, I don't really get why this ticket is "resolved". "Won't Fix" would be more honest. Charlies proposed workaround technically solves this particular ticket, but does not solve the underlying problem and does not resolve the numerous supposed "duplicates" of this ticket. The duplicates represent a generalization on this ticket. In particular, simply loading and then saving a spreadsheet that contains formatted merged cells will destroy the formatting (borders in particular), so Charlies workaround does not apply.
BTW, I have a different take on the interpretation that the so-called dummy cells are redundant. I think of the merger of cells as hiding some of the formatting of cells that are "underneath" the merged cells. So the cells that are merged still exist, but are hidden. One can argue about whether this design is bad, but as I see it, what matters is that the Excel design is logically internally consistent and predictable even though they don't conform to a particular interpretation. And this model is also followed by OpenOffice.
In summary: Charlie doesn't like the idea of the hidden cells, so he actively deletes them. The fix is to remove the lines of code that delete the hidden cells. If working code is more important than philosophical objection, this patch should be applied to the trunk.
If everyone disagrees with you, even if you don't like it, it's a good time to take a step back and take another look. I also find it really hard to do this sometimes, but when I do take a step back, I like the results. It's a win for everyone. What do you have to lose?
Other than that blemish, this is a really great tool. Thank you Charley.
Actually, here's a compromise: Can you make it a configuration option to disable _clean_merge_range?
It is absolutely insane that I need to search for a monkeypatch to prevent openpyxl.load_workbook().save() from mangling the formatting in a workbook.
No kidding. The openpyxl.load_workbook().save() point has been made in many of the supposed "duplicates" of this ticket (this particular ticket is sort of "resolved" by the Charlie's workaround, but the "duplicates" are certainly not, as many have pointed out, so these "duplicate" should be more accurately marked as "won't fix"). I wish I had more time for this. If I did, I'd go ahead and fork the project.
In any case, CharlieC has some valid philosophical concerns about the proposed fix. Before I proceed, I would want to know if these concerns actually affect anyone. In other words, are there any actual or hypothetical use cases in which the proposed fix would yield undesirable results that are visible to an end user? I'm not aware of any such use cases, but I'm open to the possibility that CharlieC has some understanding that I am lacking, since after all, I didn't write the code. But as far as I know, Charlie's concern might just be the presence of redundant data in the model due to poor design my Microsoft. I don't disagree with that assessment, but I'm more interested in working code.
Implement robust for merged cells so that these can be formatted the way Excel does without confusion. Thanks to Magnus Schieder.
I'm trying to get the "Styling Merged Cells" example on https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/styles.html working, with Python 3.6.8 and openpyxl 2.6.2, but I it doesn't work for me - only the top left cell in the merged cell range gets the border, the rest of the cells in the range do not.
Is it supposed to be working? I've also tried implementing the various monkey patches that have been suggested (and verified that the merge_cells method is being overridden) but to no avail.


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Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada - Canada's Winter Shipping Port - 1914
Gram's visitors had come and gone, but all that talking about the days of yesteryear and looking at pictures in the album got her thinking.
She was on a hunt and no amount of chocolate boxes to rummage through was going to deter here.
For days, it seemed all she thought about was finding a picture of her Uncle Hiram's blacksmith shop, but to no avail.
Ordinarily Gram seemed to enjoy my interest in who was who, but I got snapped at more than once as I leaned close to her, with my tongue wagging at both ends, asking about the people and buildings in these small boxes of curled up pictures.
I think she felt a little sorry for being out of sorts with me. She stopped looking for the picture and told me all about her Uncle Hiram's Blacksmith Shop. It seems he made horse shoes and shoed horses, fixed anything made of iron that was broken, made the rims for the wagon wheels, hinges and latches for doors and tempered tools. As iron is heated to increasing temperatures, it first glows red, then orange, yellow, and finally white, when it becomes soft and can be shaped by hammering or bending.
Back in 1914, under the direction of the Common Council of the City of Saint John, a book was issued, titled, "Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada - Canada's Winter Shipping Port" that had nearly two hundred pictures of businesses, churches, schools and better still gave information on many of them.
In that year, 450 people were employed at the Atlantic Sugar Refinery, 450 at the Cornwall and York Cotton Mill, 200 at T. H. Estabrooks Co. Ltd., 300 at T. S. Simms, 7 worked in the Electro Plating for Jules Grondines and 400 at T. McAvity & Sons.
Some of the companies mentioned:
The Saint John Hide Company of which R. Arscott is manager, was established by C. S. Hyman Company Ltd. Of London, Ontario, as the headquarters for their Eastern Canadian business.
The new Sugar Refinery will begin operations in October and will cost close to three million dollars and occupies seven acres on the harbour front.
The city had four daily newspapers in 1914.
Mr. C.P. Correly in an interview with R. E. Armstrong states the wood of New Brunswick was well adapted for the manufacture of furniture.
Sidd Suspender Co. Ltd. made suspenders with seven employees.
Jones & Schofield at 13 North Wharf were wholesale grocers who occupied a four story building.
A. E. Massie was the District Manager for the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co. Ltd. on 34 - 38 King St.
Some of the pictures include: Kennealy & Wetmore on Pettingill Wharf, A. W. Adams on 10 Nelson Street, Charles Robinson - Baker and Confectioner on Celebration Street, Wholesale Grocers of T. Collins & Co. on Water Street, St. John Desk Co. on the corner of Broad and Pitt Streets, E. S. Stephenson & Company was on 17 - 19 Nelson Street and the business of Carriage and Vehicle Builder of George Murphy was at 101 Paradise Row.
Put on your reading glasses and take a walk through the business districts of Saint John a century ago. Read the details of who were the owners or operators. You may be surprised at how many of these buildings are still around.
Looking at Saint John City Directories may enlighten you as to one of your relatives earning their wages to feed the family from one of the establishments mentioned in this 1914 publication.
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Markham - McLeod: The Gleaner and Northumberland Schediasma of August 10, 1861 announced the marriage on Friday, August 02, 1861 at Richibucto, Kent Co., New Brunswick by Rev. Jas. Law, of Alexander MacAuly Markham, H.M. Bengal Civil Service to Christina McLeod, fourth daughter of Wm McLeod, Esq., St. John, N.B. Alexander MacAuly Markham was of County Antrim, Ireland. The couple returned to Ireland before departing for India with the ICS. Any suggestions as to how this couple would have met?
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Last week, my reading plan took me to Mark 14:3-9, which describes a woman (identified as Mary in John) who anoints Jesus using a very expensive jar of perfume. It is a passage I have read and heard many, many times. Mark reports that some at the gathering were indignant that a three-hundred-denarii jar of oil—worth 300 days of wages for a day laborer—was wasted on such an elaborate display of affection toward Jesus. They would have rather, we are told, the "ointment of pure nard" be sold and spent on the poor.
When I have encountered this story in the past, my attention has typically been on the hypocrisy of Judas Iscariot. John tells us that his reason for protesting the "waste" of the oil was not because of his concern of the poor, but because he made a habit of lining his own pockets with money from the disciples' common treasury. (We are not told whether the other disciples' motives were pure or not.) For me, it has always been a simple story of Mary choosing to honor Jesus in a significant and sacrificial way, something that we need to remember is just as important as loving the poor in word and in deed.
It's human nature to be practical. I love talking about theology and philosophy of ministry, but at the end of the day, I usually choose the course of action as a leader that I think will "work." And that's not usually a bad thing. When you read the accounts of Paul's ministry travels in Acts and his epistles, there is a very practical side to his planning. In ministry, it would be unwise for me to not try to develop a strategy that I think is practical. This fall when we planned our fall Small Group Connect event where people can get into a new small group, I chose the date and time I thought would allow the most people to attend possible.
But I also know that I'm often guilty of only being practical when it comes to ministry. When I focus just on what is practical and what "works," I start to rely on myself and my own wisdom rather than God's. In addition, I also forget to step back and ask God to show me what he is doing from his point of view. I think that's why the disciples were so upset—at least those not named Judas Iscariot. When they saw what Mary did, they only could see what ministry could be done for 300 denarii. But Mary was doing something different. This wasn't just an act of worship; Mary was preparing Jesus' body for burial, foreshadowing the suffering he was about to experience for her and for the others in the room. Mary's move was anything but practical; but from God's point of view it made perfect sense.
The way this usually shows up in ministry is when we try to copy what's working for other churches and ministries, or when we try to recreate past successes. Don't get me wrong; I'm not trying to say it's bad to learn from the wisdom of others who have been there. However, when we try to replicate something that someone else has done only because it "worked" for them, we're really only thinking about the results of ministry, rather than asking God what he wants to accomplish through us.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines efficiency as "the ability to do something or produce something without wasting materials, time, or energy." In other words, efficiency is getting from Point A to Point B using the fewest resources or the least time.
Most leaders love efficiency. Since I live in the nonprofit world, anything that can be done in less time for fewer financial resources is usually considered a positive. Being a good steward of resources in this way is a part of pastoral leadership. However, there are times when being efficient isn't necessarily the best—or right—thing to do.
Those who witnessed what Mary did considered her act a waste of resources. Her choice to use expensive perfume in such a way scored pretty low on the Return on Investment scale. If she wanted to honor Jesus in some way, surely she could have chosen a different method that was a more efficient use of resources!
But sacrifice isn't always efficient.
There are times when following Jesus means not taking the shortest distance from Point A to Point B. And there will be times when loving others involves spending all day with one person when you could have used that time to tackle several other ministry-related tasks. Faithful ministry rarely resembles pinpoint precision or a well-oiled machine.
I've found that efficiency is often an enemy of ministry. This isn't a call to be disorganized or careless. Rather, it's a call to rely on God's roadmap and God's plans rather than our own. Perhaps the reason God's plans don't always seem very efficient to us is because he has all the time and resources he needs to accomplish his will.
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There is something about a high-profile tragedy that brings to light the fact that our world is very, very broken. Yes, on some level, we understand that the victims of violence at the Boston Marathon yesterday represented but a fraction of number of victims of the violent crimes that occurred yesterday in our country and our world. But when the violence occurs on such a large stage, we cannot avoid the news and we are forced to grapple with the questions that inevitably enter our minds when we see such brokenness. At our church office, we paid special attention to the news, as Roy Gruber, our lead pastor was running in the marathon. After about twenty minutes of tension, we finally heard he was safe, having finished the race almost an hour before the explosions turned a scene of joy into a cloud of chaos.
This world is broken because of sin. Yes, this one seems obvious, but it's an important piece of groundwork to lay in any conversation about tragedy. There is good, there is evil, and it's healthy to distinguish between the two. Even in the case of natural disasters, we can conclude that sin is what broke our world.
God is present, and he is good (and this can be seen in the people he created). When we see pain, it's natural and logical to ask where God is and whether he is truly benevolent. Of course, there is no "silver bullet" answers to those questions, but I appreciated what John Piper tweeted yesterday: "In the looping video of Boston's explosion ponder the reflex of empathy of many running toward the wounded not toward safety." Even in the midst of pain, God's mercy can be seen.
Evil of this magnitude exists each day in our world. Forty-four people in the U.S. are murdered every day, not to mention the violence, abuse, and slavery that exists around the world. This is not to diminish tragedies that do happen to catch our attention. My point is that in a month or so, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon will be forgotten my most people and media outlets, and we will also be lulled into forgetting we live in a broken world. A proper view of the world will see that things are not as they should be in our world, and it's okay to grieve.
Jesus came not just to save us for some far-off world called Heaven. He came to heal, to mend, and to set us free by reconciling us to himself through the cross. Our brokenness will mend, and Jesus is healing our world even now. One day there will be a day when "He will wipe away every tear from [our] eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away" (Revelation 21:4).
Jesus calls us to do something. We are not saved so that we can be arm-chair theologians who can't take our eyes away from the TV screen every time a tragedy strikes that warrants 24-news coverage. We are called to do something. Perhaps there is nothing practical that the teenagers you work with can do to help in Boston, but there are plenty of hurting people in our world and in your community that need to be loved and served. By all means, answer the questions teenagers will ask you this week to the best of your ability. But at some point we have to say, "I don't have all the answers, but I know there's something I can do to love someone in Jesus' name, and I think that's what God is asking us to do." If the teenagers you work with want to respond in some way, help them find a way they can serve others.


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Tenuta dell'Ornellaia was established by Marchese Lodovico Antinori of the Antinori family, behind one of Italy's most historic negociant firms,[3] with the help of winemaker Tibor Gál. The property is adjacent to Tenuta San Guido, producer of Sassicaia which is considered the seminal "Super Tuscan", and Ornellaia has been suggested to be Lodovico Antinori's competitive answer to his cousin Nicolò Incisa's Sassicaia, and his older brother Piero Antinori's Solaia.[4]
The vineyards of the estate were planted in 1981, producing the first vintage in 1985.[5][6] A modern winery was built in 1987, and a second 56-hectare (140-acre) property was later added, Bellaria, situated north of Bolgheri.
Robert Mondavi Winery took a minority interest in the estate in November 1999, and were full owners by 2002, while initiating a partnership with the Frescobaldi family.[7][8] In April 2005, Frescobaldi bought the remaining 50% shares of Ornellaia from Constellation Brands after their acquisition of Mondavi holdings, coming to own the whole estate.[9][10] Axel Heinz is the current winemaker with Michel Rolland, involved with the estate since its beginning, is retained as consultant oenologist.[11]
The sequence of ownership is featured in Jonathan Nossiter's film Mondovino and documentary series of the same name, which contain statements by Lodovico Antinori, and the Frescobaldi and Mondavi families then joint owners during the time of production, which displays opposing accounts on the events.[12]
A Salmanazar (9-litre bottle) of Ornellaia 2005 was sold for USD$ 33,600 at Christie's of New York
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Wine Advocate 92 "Lots of big, dark fruit and a lack of water in the grapes define the unique personality of the 2017 Le Volte dell'Ornellaia.
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Ornellaia, Estate's flagship wine, was first produced with vintage 1985, from an extremely careful selection of the vineyards Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot,
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Robert Parker 96 "This wine will be released in May 2016. The 2013 Bolgheri Superiore Ornellaia is an integrated and seamless blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet
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Wine Advocate 91 You get excellent value with the entry-level 2016 Le Volte dell'Ornellaia. This vintage radiates freshness and sheer energy, thanks to the excellent material
Robert Parker 97 The 2006 Ornellaia flows from the glass in a profound expression of ripe, dark fruit. With time in the glass layers of minerals,
Tenuta Dell Orneliaia Tocano 'Le Volte' 2013
Wine Advocate 90 "A blend of Merlot (50%), Sangiovese (30%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (20%), the 2013 Le Volte is a wine of great inner freshness and
Tenuta dell Ornellaia Toscana Le Volte 2005
Robert Parker 90 "The 2005 Le Volte (50% Sangiovese, 30% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon) delivers considerable pleasure in its fresh, vinous aromatics, perfumed sweet dark
Wine Advocate 89 "The 2009 Le Volte is a pretty, radiant wine laced with expressive bright fruit. It shows the generous, inviting nature of the year
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Robert Parker 94 "The 2005 Masseto (Merlot) is simply gorgeous. A wine of extraordinary class and personality, it remains very primary in its dark fruit, licorice,
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" Le Volte dell'Ornellaia is the expression of a carefully crafted blend. The cuvée brings together the best terroirs of Tuscany and combines the Mediterranean
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