The inflation rate in Germany between 1991 and today has been 64.02%, which translates into a total increase of €64.02. This means that 100 euro in 1991 are equivalent to 164.02 euro in 2019. In other words, the purchasing power of €100 in 1991 equals €164.02 today. The average annual inflation rate has been 1.72%.


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Oscar is golden, but film business shows some tarnish
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Actress Whoopi Goldberg (L) looks at old Oscar statuettes at the "Meet the Oscars" exhibit at Grand Central Station in New York February 23, 2011.[Photo/Agencies]
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Oscar week is upon Hollywood and the champagne is flowing freely at numerous parties celebrating the world's top movie honors, but when the film industry wakes up with a hangover from Sunday's awards, it faces a cold reality.
Digital technologies are rapidly changing the way movies are delivered to consumers. DVD sales are continuing their multi-year decline with no end in sight. Theater attendance is off a whopping 23 percent so far in 2011 compared to the same point one year ago. And not even 3D is saving it, anymore.
Financial and analysts say movie makers and distributors need to keep up with rapidly changing consumer behavior in an era when entertainment is cheap and readily available on the Internet. Many in Hollywood agree, and are working to change. But profitable new ways of doing business have been slow to come, and the consequence could be an industry on the decline in much the same way as music industry was in the 2000s.
"The trends that we see today are similar in many ways, although I don't think we're the same as the music industry," said Mitch Singer, chief technology officer for Sony Pictures Entertainment, a division of Sony Corp. "Revenues are declining, people are finding other ways to access our content," he said.
Attendance at U.S. and Canada theaters so far this year is down to 173 million tickets sold compared to 225 million for the same time period in 2010 -- a decrease of 23 percent, according to tracking firm Hollywood.com Box Office.
There are bright spots for the movie industry, especially internationally. The Motion Picture Association of America on Wednesday said global box office receipts in 2010 hit $31.8 billion, an increase of 8 percent from the year before.
The Asia Pacific region saw the most growth with a 21 percent uptick. But the trade group acknowledged U.S. and Canada box office results were flat in 2010, at $10.6 billion.
Worse, consumers bought only $10 billion in home video entertainment products in 2010, compared to $14 billion in 2004 when the DVD market was booming, reports IHS Screen Digest.
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Johnson, founder and president of LawnAmerica in Tulsa, Okla., is speaking of his 2,175-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail to raise money for five charities. Yet, Johnson also speaks in the broader sense of his business, which has grown steadily since he started it. This year, he expects LawnAmerica to bill $5.2 million.
Johnson has never let the grass grow under his feet throughout his adult life. He taught middle school science, but his desire to be outdoors – coupled with trying to raise a family on a teacher's pay – led him to leave teaching and become the owner of a professional lawn application company. He bought a franchise operation, but later decided he preferred to be his own boss. In 1984, he started his own company out of his garage.
Brad Johnson attributes the success of Lawn- America to its company values and the employees who buy into them.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF BRAD JOHNSON.
He learned more about the business, and after 10 years got involved with franchising again, this time selling his independent business to a national franchise. But he didn't retire and he didn't leave the industry. A month later, he set up shop again in two Oklahoma and one northwest Arkansas locations, neither of which competed in the market he previously served.
Three years of life on the road and being away from his family prompted him to sell those operations and return to teaching, where he took up a post at a Tulsa inner city school. When the non-compete agreement expired, Johnson returned to doing what he loved best: lawn care. He called that company (the one he now owns and operates) LawnAmerica and focused on weed control and fertilization. The company offers various levels of lawn application services, from basic to premium.
Johnson says this company is a better company than any previous company he'd operated. He attributes its success to the company values and to his employees who buy into them.
"I try to get our employees to operate as if they were owners," Johnson says. "We give employees quite a bit of autonomy, freedom and responsibility, and trust that they will approach their clients with an owner's mindset.
"We expect a lot from them, but we treat them well and they treat our customers well," he adds. "They make 30 percent higher wages over the course of the season than the typical lawn care company employee. Because of that, they do a great job." Half of the firm's work force holds a college degree, and not necessarily related to horticulture or agronomy. LawnAmerica's employee retention rate has been an incredible 92 percent over the past few years.
LawnAmerica's staff getting ready to treat one of the many city parks it services for free in the Tulsa area as part of the annual PLANET Day of Service project.
Experienced, reliable employees are the backbone of any small business. They're the biggest factor in determining any company's success.
Customers who respond to the survey receive $25 gift cards, and employees with exceptional customer service rating on the surveys receive a $1,500 to $2,500 year-end bonus. In Johnson's world, good service merits financial rewards. He says that about 35 percent of employees' take-home pay is incentive-based, determined by both their success and the company's success.
Johnson says that word-of-mouth referrals remain the best way to attract new clients, but not a lot of companies promote it well. This year, the company has added more than 2,000 new sales, the majority of which came by word-of-mouth.
He admits that LawnAmerica has lost business to maintenance contractors that offer lawn care, too. The company also loses business to clients who want all of their property services done by a single company. Even so, Johnson insists his company is busy enough offering just lawn care and related services.
Johnson says he is open to and uses both traditional and organic fertilizers, but adds that the industry has lost some "good products" due to regulations. "I've always believed in the benefit of organic fertilizer. We've always incorporated some organic content into most of our fertilizers," he says. "Last summer in the drought we switched to a product that was 60 percent organic because of its safety aspect." While Johnson finds that organics are beneficial to lawns, he cites their costs as one of the main reasons that he doesn't promote them more aggressively.
Alternatively, LawnAmerica promotes its EnviroCare option, which utilizes soil amendments and slow-release nitrogens as well as PrimoMaxx plant growth regulator. "With that, we're able to cut back on the amount of granular fertilization that we're providing turf over the course of the season, but still have a superior turf," he says.
In keeping with the company's growing awareness of "environmental" options, LawnAmerica switched all of its spray units to propane power last fall. "It was quite a bit of investment on our part. We took the gas tanks off and put propane tanks on. We run these mainly in spring and fall when we're doing our liquid treatments and they've held up well," says Johnson, adding that he's hopeful that a tax rebate for using alternative fuels is reinsated.
This very early and unusually warm spring caused Johnson and his applicators to really move to get preemergent herbicides down before crabgrass germination. And that's not all.
Weather is always an issue in lawn care. Sometimes there's too much rain, making it difficult for applicators to do their routes; sometimes too little rain, which affects both lawns and the products to keep them green, weed and pest-free. Oklahoma, like neighboring Texas that got almost all of the publicity for last year's historic drought, suffered from lack of rain in 2012.
Johnson, now 58, doesn't have any plans to slow down – not yet anyway. Even so, he's been giving some thought to the future of the company, especially since his children have indicated that they want other careers.
Brad Johnson in December 2010 at the completion of his Appalachian Trail journey, which resulted in the collecton of $106,000 for Tulsa-area charities.
Lawn care business owner Brad Johnson has written a book, "A Compassionate Journey," which is being published by Tate Publishing. It will share the lessons Johnson learned about nature, business and life as he took a long, long walk – all 2,175 miles of The Appalachian Trail.
He started his journey in May 2010 on Springer Mountain in Georgia, heading north. Although he had to return home several times due to family emergencies, he conducted a flip-flop in late August of 2010 and hiked from Maine south to complete the remainder of the Trail, most of it solo.
Through his hike, he raised money in donations, with LawnAmerica matching the donations dollar for dollar. His efforts raised more than $100,000 for five charities that LawnAmerica supports, including Habitat for Humanity, Salvation Army, The Little Light House for children with disabilities, Young Life (a Christian mission focused on adolescents) and Folds of Honor Foundation, which provides scholarships for children and spouses of soldiers killed or disabled in service.
Giving back to the community is a big part of LawnAmerica. The company gives back 3 percent of its gross revenues to the community through donated goods, services or cash. This year Johnson estimates that will be $156,000.
What were some of the one of the biggest lessons Johnson learned as he hiked the mountains?
The importance of planning was another lesson Johnson learned. Or should we say relearned as he's also relied upon plans to help him accomplish his goals.
"I was surprised most of those 'thru-hikers' [those who complete the entire trail in one season] didn't have a plan. They winged it. It hurt them in a lot of cases, "Johnson says, admitting that while his plan to hike the trail was probably too detailed, it was certainly better than no plan. Beyond that, he says he had a reason for doing it – raising money for charity. And once he committed to doing it, he would have felt foolish not fulfilling his promise.
On returning home, Johnson and his wife bought and moved to a 20-acre farm so he could watch the sunset. "I was feeling trapped in the city after doing that trail and I had to get out where I could roam and have peace and quiet and see the stars," says Johnson, adding that he and his wife plan on opening up the farm, which has a guest cottage and meeting room, to the rest of the company employees and to outside groups, such as young people.


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UFC 74: Respect è stato un evento di arti marziali miste tenuto dalla Ultimate Fighting Championship il 25 agosto 2007 al Mandalay Bay Events Center di Las Vegas, Stati Uniti d'America.

Retroscena
Al termine dell'incontro tra Renato Sobral e David Heath il brasiliano si rifiutò di lasciare la presa di sottomissione, rischiando di causare asfissia all'avversario; per questo successivamente l'UFC allontanò Sobral dall'organizzazione.

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Card preliminare
 Incontro categoria Pesi Leggeri:  Marcus Aurélio contro  Clay Guida
Guida sconfisse Aurélio per decisione divisa (30–27, 28–29, 30–27).
 Incontro categoria Pesi Medi:  Thales Leites contro  Ryan Jensen
Leites sconfisse Jensen per sottomissione (armbar) a 3:47 del primo round.
 Incontro categoria Pesi Massimi:  Frank Mir contro  Antoni Hardonk
Mir sconfisse Hardonk per sottomissione (kimura) a 1:17 del primo round.
 Incontro categoria Pesi Mediomassimi:  Renato Sobral contro  David Heath
Sobral sconfisse Heath per sottomissione (strangolamento anaconda) a 3:30 del secondo round.

Card principale
 Incontro categoria Pesi Medi:  Kendall Grove contro  Patrick Côté
Côté sconfisse Grove per KO (pugni) a 4:45 del primo round.
 Incontro categoria Pesi Leggeri:  Joe Stevenson contro  Kurt Pellegrino
Stevenson sconfisse Pellegrino per decisione unanime (30–27, 30–27, 29–28).
 Incontro categoria Pesi Leggeri:  Roger Huerta contro  Alberto Crane
Huerta sconfisse Crane per KO Tecnico (pugni) a 1:50 del terzo round.
 Incontro categoria Pesi Welter:  Georges St-Pierre contro  Josh Koscheck
St-Pierre sconfisse Koscheck per decisione unanime (29–28, 29–28, 30–27).
 Incontro per il titolo dei Pesi Massimi:  Randy Couture (c) contro  Gabriel Gonzaga
Couture sconfisse Gonzaga per KO Tecnico (pugni) a 1:37 del terzo round e mantenne il titolo dei pesi massimi.

Premi
Ai vincitori sono stati assegnati 40.000$ per i seguenti premi:
 Fight of the Night:  Randy Couture (c) contro  Gabriel Gonzaga
 Knockout of the Night:  Patrick Côté
 Submission of the Night:  Thales Leites

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Renovating the Marolles is great… Still being able to afford to live in them is better!
The city of Brussels and the Region of Brussels-capital are launching the "Marolles neighborhood contract". 30 million euros will be invested into the renovation and the "embellishing" of the neighborhood.
>>> Sign the Call: Renovation : yes! Raising the rents : no!
This could mean good news, but only if strong measures are taken against a drastic raise in the rents.
100 new social housing units (through renovations and new buildings).
To render all empty houses inhabitable (whether public or private housing).
Transparancy over all housing units belonging to the public sector in the neighborhood (Régie Foncière, CPAS, commune's properties), as well as a list of addresses, rents, utility bills and method of attribution.
All these units must be accessible and destined prioritarily to the low income inhabitants and to those presenting a specific difficulty in regard to housing.
Renovation : yes! Raising the rents : no!
First signatories: inhabitants of Marolles, Ateliers des droits sociaux, Pavé dans les Marolles, Petite maison du Peuple, Union des locataires marollienne, Unité des scouts des Marolles.


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Arkansas is a pretty small state, but it has some amazing cities. One of the great ones in the state is Conway. The city is one that is amazing for so many different reasons. If you want to know what makes Conway a nice place to live or to visit, continue reading this helpful article.
First of all, the University of Central Arkansas, or UCA is in Conway. The school has a great reputation and is a nice place to receive an education. It has a beautiful campus and offers many majors for those who want to further their education and get their degree in a variety of fields.
Also, Conway has great shopping opportunities. You can find a nice selection of grocery stores, department stores, malls, specialty shops, and boutiques. No matter what you would like to purchase, or simply look at, chances are you can find it in the area.
There are many restaurants in Conway, too. What are you hungry for? Whether you want breakfast for dinner, international cuisine, a quick meal, or something home cooked, you can find a great meal, or two in Conway, Arkansas.
Then, Conway is quite close to the state's capital, Little Rock. Even though Conway has many great jobs, shopping opportunities, and restaurants, there is an even bigger selection in Little Rock. Not only that, but Little Rock is a great place to visit from time to time to enjoy all of its greatness, too.
In conclusion, Arkansas has some really nice places to visit and Conway is one of the best. If you are interested in visiting the area, or possibly moving there, there are many great reasons to do so. Use what you learned here to help you during your time in Conway, Arkansas.


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Q: Formatting Excel in VB.NET I am exporting DataGridViews to Excel using ClipboardCopyMode. However, I want to format the header and the cell width/height, because the cells aren't adjusting normally.
Also, I want to add some data in it apart of the data from the DataGridView.
This is the code of the sub I have:
     Dim appExcel As Excel.Application
     Dim wbExcel As Excel.Workbook

            System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("es-US")

            If Combo.SelectedValue.ToString().Trim() = "Something" Then

                dgv.SelectAll()
                dgv.ClipboardCopyMode = DataGridViewClipboardCopyMode.EnableAlwaysIncludeHeaderText
                Clipboard.SetDataObject(dgv.GetClipboardContent())

            End If

      appExcel = New Excel.Application
      appExcel.SheetsInNewWorkbook = 1
      wbExcel = appExcel.Workbooks.Add
      appExcel.Visible = True

      wbExcel.Worksheets(1).Range("A3").Select()
      wbExcel.Worksheets(1).Paste()

How can I do these things and beautify my exported Excel?
Thanks in advance

A: To style the cells, you can create an Excel.Style and apply it to a range. First, you need to get a reference to the worksheet like:
Dim xlWorksheet As Excel.Worksheet = wbExcel.Worksheets(1)

Then Create the style:
Dim RptHeader As Excel.Style = xlWorksheet.Application.ActiveWorkbook.Styles.Add("RptHeader")
RptHeader.Font.Bold = True
RptHeader.Font.Size = 14
RptHeader.Interior.Color = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.ToOle(System.Drawing.Color.LightSteelBlue)
RptHeader.HorizontalAlignment = Excel.XlHAlign.xlHAlignCenter

Then set a range/cell's style (For a range, just use something like  xlWorksheet.Range("A1:A2").Style):
xlWorksheet.Cells(1, 1).Style = "RptHeader"

...As for cell width/height, the basic syntax looks like:
xlWorksheet.Columns(1).EntireColumn.ColumnWidth = 25
xlWorksheet.Rows(1).RowHeight = 25

When you say the columns aren't "adjusting normally" though, I get the sense you're talking about autofit, which can also be accomplished like so:
xlWorksheet.Range("A:XFD").EntireColumn.AutoFit()

To add data that is not part of your copy from the datagridview, simply set a cell's value to whatever you want like:
xlWorkSheet.Cells(1, 2) = "1234" '1 being the row-index, 2 the column-index

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Joe Root: why has England cricketer chosen T20 franchise cricket in an ODI World Cup year?
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NFL fixtures 2022: How to watch battle for Super Bowl, UK TV channel and kick-off times
The race for a spot in this year's showcase event is hotting up.
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26th Jan 2022, 3:16pm
After 272 regular season games and a flurry of play-off activity, just four teams remain in the battle to play at Super Bowl LVI.
Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams are all just one game away from booking a place in the biggest clash of the American sporting calendar.
Both the AFC and NFC Championship games will be held this weekend, with the winners destined for a showdown in Los Angeles next month.
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AFC and NFC Championship Game teams
The four remaining teams battling out for a spot in this year's Super Bowl are Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, and LA Rams.
The Bengals saw off Tennessee Titans in a tightly-contested 19-16 victory last Saturday to set up a clash with the Chiefs, who themselves edged out Buffalo Bills on Sunday in an enthralling 42-36 overtime win.
For their part, the 49ers proved too much for Green Bay Packers in a 13-10 success, thanks in large part to a late blocked punt touchdown, while the Rams survived a spirited second-half display from Tampa Bay Buccaneers to hold on for a 30-27 victory.
When are the AFC and NFC Championship Games
Both fixtures will be played on Sunday 30 January.
The Bengals and the Chiefs will get underway at 8pm GMT, while the 49ers and the Rams go head to head at 11.30pm GMT.
When is Super Bowl LVI?
The biggest game in American Football will take place on 13 February in Los Angeles, with kick-off expected to be around 11.30pm GMT. The contest takes place at the home of the Rams, with Sean McVay's side having a chance of hosting the Super Bowl.
AFC and NFC Championship Game UK TV info
Viewers can watch all of the action live on Sky Sports' dedicated NFL channel, with coverage of the Bengals at Chiefs starting at 7pm GMT.
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Alison Sudol
by follers · July 9, 2015
Sudol in 2009, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Alison Loren Sudol
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 23, 1984
Ethnicity: Northern Irish, Polish, German, Austrian, English, Scottish, Irish
Alison Sudol is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and music video director. She is a Goodwill Ambassador for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). She is known for her role in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them films. As a musician, she is known by the name A Fine Frenzy.
Her father is acting coach John Sudol. Her aunt (mother's sister) is actress Caryn West.
Alison's paternal grandfather was John Edward Sudol (the son of Carl Joseph Sudol and Anna Stank). John was born in Pennsylvania. Carl was the son of Joseph Sudol, a Polish emigrant, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and of Mary C. Fedroff/Fadnoff/Federoff, whose father was from Austria and whose mother was German. Anna was the daughter of George Stank, a Polish immigrant, and of Mary A. McArthur, the daughter of Scottish immigrants.
Alison's paternal grandmother is Alice Catherine McAllister (the daughter of John McAllister and Mary Jane Hale). Alice was born in New Jersey. John was born in New Jersey, to parents from Northern Ireland, James McAllister and Alice Rutherford. Mary Jane was also from Northern Ireland.
Alison's maternal grandfather is Fraser Edwards West (born Fraser Crawford Edwards, the son of Fraser Crawford Edwards and Marguerite Jeanette Simpson). Alison's grandfather Fraser was born in Washington, D.C. Alison's great-grandfather Fraser was the son of Charles A. Edwards and Mary Fraser. Marguerite was the daughter of William Reuben Simpson and Alice Spick, who was English.
Alison's maternal grandmother is Thelma "Teddy" Charlton (the daughter of Earle Perry Charlton, Jr. and Elizabeth Louise Moore). Earle was the son of Earle Perry Charlton and Ida Kate or Mary/May Stein, who was of German descent. Elizabeth was the daughter of Edmund Lawrence Moore and Edith Lovering Puffer.
Alison is descended from Earle Perry Charlton, who owned E. P. Charlton & Company, a chain of five and ten cent stores.
Sources: Alison's maternal grandfather, Fraser Edwards West (then Fraser Crawford Edwards), on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Fraser Edwards West (then Fraser Crawford Edwards) on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Alison's maternal great-grandmother, Elizabeth Louise Moore (focusing on her own mother's side) – http://puffergenealogy.info
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Erik1714 says:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/GN42-KVY
>Sudol, a ethnic Polish immigrant from the Austrian Empire, and
>Mary C. Fadnoff/Federoff, the daughter of an Autrian father and a German mother..
>Stank, a Polish immigrant, and Mary A. McArthur, the daughter of Scottish immigrants.
>is Alice Catherine McAllister (the daughter of John McAllister and Mary Jane Hale). Alice was born in New Jersey, and is of Scot-Irish descent. John was born in New Jersey to immigrants from Northern Ireland, James McAllister and Alice Rutherford. Mary Jane was also an immigrant from Northern Ireland.
bablah says:
Alison's paternal grandfather was John Edward Sudol (the son of Carl Joseph Sudol and Anna Stank). John was born in Pennsylvania. Carl was the son of Joseph Sudol and Mary Fedroff/Fadnoff. Anna was the daughter of George Stank and Mary.
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Picturesquely situated on the south bank of the Okavango River, 12 km west of Rundu, Hakusembe River Lodge makes for the perfect stopover on the way into Caprivi and to the Victoria Falls. The 10 air-conditioned chalets offer magnificent views of the river and the lush vegetation which teems with diverse birdlife, while the swimming pool invites guests to cool off on hot summer days.
Experience the river world on a boat trip or join an excursion to the cultural village nearby. Relish the enchanting atmosphere during dinner in the restaurant and with a drink at the bar.
Activities at Hakusembe River Lodge include fishing and bird-watching on the Hakusembe River Queen boat, tiger fishing with skipper and equipment, sunset champagne cruises, and African cultural experiences.
The full amount as per quote must be paid 30 days prior to arrival date.
Dinner can be arranged at an additional charge as from N$300.00 per person.
The staff was friendly and helpful, the accommodation fine and clean. The location however unfortunate very noisy from the other side of the river, a caterpillar working until late into the night. We would choose an other overnight stay next time.
The resort has been completely renovated so the accommodation was much better than expected. They need to update their websites. We were warmly received with iced tea and showed around the lodge. All activities and prices were explained on our arrival. There is lots to do.The chalets are beautiful, spacious and luxurious.It was a pleasure staying there.
Two years ago we stayed already at the Hakusembe River Lodge, and this year again we stayed in the Floating Chalet. Again it was amazing, the service from Andre and Riska, the managing couple, was exemplary.Friendly, surprising actions, helpful, romantic diner outside with some campfire, you name it, they did it. We will certainly go back and this time for more nights.
Hakusembe River Lodge is 12.7km from the centre of Rundu , the nearest airport 13.2km (Rundu Airport).


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Title: R. L. S. and his Friends: Some Stevenson Memories
Author: Tangiwai
In: The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 2 (May 1, 1937)
Publication details: New Zealand Government Railways Department, Wellington
Digital publication kindly authorised by:
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Part of: The Railways Magazine
Keywords: New Zealand History
The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 2 (May 1, 1937)
R. L. S. and his Friends Some Stevenson Memories
R. L. S. and his Friends Some Stevenson Memories .
(Written for the "New Zealand Railways Magazine") by James Cowan. )
Ben Hird
(From a photograph about 1890).
Anything that will extend our knowledge and understanding of that always magnetic and lovable soul Robert Louis Stevenson is to be welcomed. It is therefore of particular interest, not solely a literary interest, to know that the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington has lately acquired a letter signed by him which had not previously seen publication. This letter came to light from the Gisborne district, where several of the recipient's relatives live. It is addressed to Ben Hird, one of the three Island traders to whom R.L.S. dedicated his "Island Nights' Entertainments"—a story for each of them. For me there was a special and particular interest in that discovery by our great treasure-house of Pacific Islands literature, for it renewed memories of the days when we used to see something of those Island friends in Auckland, and on too rare occasions of Stevenson himself.
Those were only fleeting visits, unfortunately, for the man of Vailima was only passing through by steamer on each occasion. His longest visit to Auckland was in 1890, in the South Sea trading steamer Janet Nicoll, it was in that vessel that he made the acquaintance of the three shipmates whose names are so familiar to readers of his books, though not one reader in a hundred thousand could have any inkling of who or what they were.
A Cruise in the Janet Nicoll.
Early in February of 1890, soon after the then forest - covered site of Vailima had been bought and orders given to clear it for a home, Stevenson and his wife and Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, his stepson, left Apia for Sydney. It was the much-travelled and greatly - suffering novelist's intention to visit England, but fate disposed otherwise. He caught a cold in Sydney, and there was nothing for it but to take to the tropics again on a lung-strengthening or at any rate lung-easing cruise. Mrs. Stevenson heard of a trading steamer about to leave on a long voyage among the Pacific Islands. After much trouble she persuaded the charterers of the steamer, the great South Sea trading firm of Henderson and Macfarlane, to take them as passengers.
The vessel was going on a business cruise, with one of the characters, Mr. Harry Henderson, on board, inspecting the nrm's stations throughout the mid-Pacific, and passengers were not at first welcome. But the Stevensons' immediately won the hearts of the Janet Nicoll; and it was the saving of the sick man's life; at any rate he was a comparatively well man in a few weeks.
A Visit to Auckland.
The great maritime strike of 1890, which affected all Australian and New Zealand shipping, was on when the Janet Nicoll was preparing to leave Sydney for Auckland, and there was some difficulty in getting a crew. She got away at last, with a scratch crew, a Sydney mixture, some white, most of them South Sea Islanders. Here come in my own memories of the ship with her six passengers and the non-union crew. I was at that time a youthful member of the staff of the "Auckland Star," learning the ropes of the news-gathering trade, with the waterfront and the shipping for my daily round. An always-interesting and often exciting field in those times, when ships were smaller and more numerous than they are to-day, and when deep-sea arrivals always held the charm of the unexpected.
The Janet's Crew.
I went aboard the Janet Nicoll when she arrived. She was an iron screw-steamer of some six hundred tons, square-rigged on her foremast; every steamer carried some sail in those days. There was trouble about the inexperienced crew; most of whom were "black" in a labour union sense. Two or three men, white hands in the stokehold, came to the "Star" office to complain about the inefficiency of the others; they mentioned, among other matters, that the chief officer had to lay aloft himself and go out on the foretopsail yard to furl sail because there were no deckhands who would venture up when it blew hard.
The men made a long statement which I took down; it was sworn to by them before a Justice of the Peace and published; and the chartering firm made a reply to it next day. But there were all manner of shipping troubles then which had to be got over in some way or another; ships must sail, with any kind of crew they could get. The Janet's hands were right enough, once the ship got away and the officers got them into sailorly shape. They were Line Islanders, and better hands in a surf-boat than Europeans.
She got away, she visited more than thirty islands on that cruise, as far up as the low-lying Gilberts and Marshalls, where one island is very much like another. It was now, after leaving Auckland and getting shaken down on board, that the Stevensons' party came to know their commerce-chasing shipmates. Of the six, but one is still living, Lloyd Osbourne.
Ben Hird and Company,
The managing owner, or part owner, Harry Henderson, became a trusty page 60 friend of the novelist, but the one of the three who captured his liking most was the ship's supercargo, Ben Hird, a burly, jolly, sailorly Scot (he seemed to me more Irish than Scot, though he came from Aberdeen). He had been at sea in one way and another for more than twenty years; he had voyaged all over the South Seas, and spent long months on lonely islands as trader. He could sing a good song, and valiantly maintain the reputation of his birthland when convivial spirits met. So, too, could the third and youngest member of the trading trio, Jack Buckland, whose nickname was "Tin Jack." He was a bright but somewhat irresponsible character, given to chatter and youthful pranks; a trader for his firm on one far-out island after another. He is considered to be the original of Stevenson's character, Tommy Hadden in "The Wrecker."
But Ben Hird was the most stimulating figure. He was a very great favourite among all the Island people, white and brown, whom he met on his long cruises in schooners, brigantines and steamers under the famous Circular Saw house flag.
Stevenson's letter now in the Turnbull Library was addressed to Ben Hird in May, 1893, from Vailima. It was dictated to Isobel Strong, his adopted daughter, and signed by him. He mentioned that "something is already out in England in which you are directly interested…. The book is called 'Island Nights' Entertainments,' and is dedicated to three rather decent fellows—Harry Henderson, Jack Buckland, and B—, but you will find it on the flyleaf. They are all people anyway for whom I entertain a particular esteem—and Be—there, I'm letting it slip again—is not the least."
R.L.S. was expecting and hoping Hird would visit Apia. "For months I hung on to my last bottle of good whisky for Ben Hird."
"You are expected," he added, "to sing 'Afton Water,' and to tell the latest story of Tin Jack with all details on the verandah of Vailima."
"Tin Jack" Buckland was a merry-hearted young fellow who was never likely to grow old. He came to a tragic end on Christmas Island, killed while handling explosives in the customary free-and-easy way of the Island. Ben Hird died when on a trading cruise in his firm's steamer among the Line Islands and was buried on the coral atoll of Funafuti. The last of the cheery trio, Harry Henderson, died in Melbourne in 1926.
I am inclined to the belief that Ben Hird was the original of London Dodd, the narrator of so much comedy and tragedy in "The Wrecker." True, he was not a smallish man, as the author described him in the introductory chapter, where Dodd comes in in the trading schooner from Auckland that arrived at Tai-o-hae, the French port of entry in the Marquesas. But he was the bearded supercargo with a pleasing flow of conversation, and he was "an old, salted trader," an accurate enough description of Mr. B. Hird.
A reference to one Tierney in the Stevenson letter to Hird is cryptic to most readers without some explanation. Stevenson wrote:"…. I was very sorry to hear about poor old Tierney, but I trust he is all on the mend and jolly again, like others of that vast clan of one-handed calenders, the sons of kings, who people the Line Islands."
The last portrait of R.L.S.
The allusion is to a Captain Tierney, a trader who lived on Apaiang, in the Gilbert Islands. As far as my memory serves me, he was reported in Auckland to have blown one of his hands off, or shattered it, when killing fish with dynamite. A rather common mishap in the Islands, holding the explosive a second too long before throwing it into the water, Evidently Hird had reported the accident to Stevenson, who had visited Captain Tierney on Apaiang in 1889, when he was cruising in the schooner Equator.
A Meeting With R.L.S.
Though we saw something of the Stevensons on that visit to Auckland in 1890, it was not until three years later that I met and talked with R.L.S. himself. That ever-treasured experience and privilege was on board the mailsteamer Mariposa, at Auckland on February the 24th, 1893. Stevenson was on his way from Samoa to Sydney; it was the year before his death, and he was indeed dying then. He looked pale and ill, as he sat there in the saloon; he was waiting for Sir George Grey to call for him, and I had the chance of a talk with him about his books and the always troubled politics of Samoa.
That pale, romantic figure is plain in the mind's eye, after all those years. Romantic is an ill-used adjective, yet I feel it is the right word here. His deep emotional eyes, with a humorous kindly glint, his lank black hair, rather long and rather damp-looking, his slender waxy-white hands, were features that do not pass from memory. Stevenson's eyes, the eyes of a poet and a lover of humanity, seemed Polynesian eyes too, the liquid, eyes of the golden brown folk.
He was worn and tired, but he was very kind to his young interviewer, and talked freely enough about the triangular political squabbles in Samoa, where affairs were rapidly approaching the periodical crisis. "Things are just about as bad as they can be," he said. "Every day deepens my belief that annexation by some one Power would be the best thing that can happen to the Islands. This divided control is a curse." The two head officials appointed by the Powers, were a curse also, I gathered. "There is no money in the Treasury at Apia. Not a salary has been paid for the last four months, either to the Municipal magistrate (Mr. Cooper, an Auckland man), or to the other officers or police— in fact, the only men who have got their salaries are the two Europeans— one is a Swedish judge—sent out by the Powers to run the farce of a Government."
I think that at the moment I was more concerned to get Stevenson's views about Samoa, present and future, than to ask about his books. He was expecting to be deported by the Germans. But when we passed on to writing topics, he told me about his latest job of work, as he called it. It was, he said, to be called "The Schooner Farallone;" it had been tentatively titled "The Pearl Fisher." This was the book that, as it developed, was eventually published as "The Ebb Tide."
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A view of Karori, a suburb of Wellington. (This photograph was taken after a fall of snow—a rare occurrence in the Capital City of New Zealand).
venerable man of great State affairs and the dying writer met and talked, and Stevenson recalled in one of his letters the pleasure of walking arm in arm with Grey and talking of Pacific Islands affairs, past, present and to come.
Mrs. Stevenson.
I recall also that some of the mailsteamer passengers professed, we heard, that they were shocked because Mrs. Stevenson went about the deck barefooted. So did Stevenson himself sometimes in warm weather, but it was excused in him as an eccentricity of genius; in his wife it was Bohemianism run to excess. It is amusing to recall to-day the stifling propriety of the young Nineties. That was in a mail steamer, where passengers dressed with the utmost regard for the Respectabilities. It was different when they travelled in their own chartered schooner, and in the easy-going South Sea tramp Janet Nicoll, where everyone, from the Captain down, often went barefooted in the tropics.
By the way, writing again of the Janet Nicoll, Mrs. Stevenson made a curious blunder in her book on the cruise. She misspelled the steamer's name as Janet Nichol on the title-page and all through the book, a curious example of carelessness or want of observation.
Stevenson and the Sculptor.
Stevenson had one more sea cruise after that. He visited Honolulu, where he was down with fever, and Mrs. Stevenson went up to nurse him and take him home. In October he noted in one of his letters: "I am being busted here by party named Hutchinson. Seems good." This brief reference is to Mr. Allen Hutchinson, the sculptor, whose bust of Stevenson was exhibited in London in 1895. Hutchinson came to Auckland a little later, and we saw a good deal of him there and at Rotorua, where he was making busts and plaques of Maori types. A gifted man, a stalwart Englishman, he had little encouragement in New Zealand, though his work was exceptionally good. He returned to America; I heard from him from time to time. He settled in San Diego, California, where he was British Consular Agent. Some of his Maori casts are in the Partridge collection, in the Auckland Art Gallery.
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A picturesque bend of the Buller River, South Island, New Zealand.


Fort McMurray – The Wood Buffalo Environmental Association (WBEA) acknowledges the significant findings of the Federal Oil Sands Advisory Panel Report "A Foundation for the Future: Building and Environmental Monitoring System for the Oil Sands", released December 21, 2010.
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WBEA's programs are adaptive and have evolved greatly since 2007, following a significant enhancement in funding. WBEA has a highly-trained technical staff and a senior scientist who oversees a team of 20 well-respected Canadian, American and European scientists. These scientists are principal investigators with WBEA and represent a range of universities and agencies. WBEA operates 15 continuous ground level air monitoring stations including 84 analyzers for major air pollutants, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, reduced sulfurs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The network and its data are rigorously scrutinized, quality assured and reported in real-time to the public. WBEA's also contributes data to Alberta's Clean Air Strategic Alliance.
To further strengthen our air quality monitoring program, WBEA recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Environment Canada. The initial project that Environment Canada and WBEA scientists are partnering on will contribute important data on the deposition rate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
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Dr. Kevin Percy, Lead WBEA Scientist said, "We appreciate that the panel recognized our effective, scientific monitoring program, and we believe that WBEA has a very important role to play in the panel's recommended shared national vision and management framework for monitoring in the oil sands region.
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Q: Centroid with side ratios Let $G$ denote the centroid of triangle $ABC$. Let $M$ and $N$ be points on sides $AB$ and $AC$, respectively, so that $M$, $G$, and $N$ are collinear, and $ AM/MB = 5/2 $. Find $AN/NC$.
I tried to approach this problem with vectors. But haven't been able to get anything reasonable. Any ides/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

A: You can transform any triangle $ABC$ into a triangle of convenient shape and size by doing linear transformations. Let's choose an isosceles triangle with base and height both $1$. We do a two-dimensional expansion/contraction to make $AB=1$, then a shear transformation along line $AB$ to make it isosceles with $AC=BC$, followed by a one-dimensional expansion/contraction perpendicular to line $AB$ to make the height $1$. Those three transformations do not change any of the data or the unknown, so you can assume without loss of generality that $AB=1$ and the height of triangle $ABC$ perpendicular to $AB$ is also $1$.

We can then place triangle $ABC$ on a Cartesian plane. If we place $A$ at the origin and $B$ at $(1,0)$ then $C$ is at $(1/2,1)$, and centroid $G$ is at $(1/2, 1/3)$. Point $M$ is at $(5/7,0)$.
Then find the equations for the lines through $A$ and $C$ (very easy) and through $G$ and $M$ (less easy but not hard), and solve the simultaneous equations to find the location of point $N$.
The desired ratio will then be easy to find from the $y$-coordinates of $A$, $N$, and $C$. I get the ratio $\frac{5/8}{3/8}=\frac 53$.
(A previous version of this answer made the triangle $ABC$ equilateral, but the current version makes all the relevant points have rational coordinates.)


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Morfa Nefyn is a village on the northern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. It lies on the crossroads of the B4417 and B4412. The village has seen a rise in popularity as house prices in nearby villages on the Llŷn Peninsula such as Abersoch and Llanbedrog have risen rapidly. Many homes are now holiday homes and a complex of holiday flats has recently been built by the entrance to the beach. The neighbouring town of Nefyn has more in the way of shops and services, and Pwllheli is  on the A497 road.

The beach is mainly sand with small amounts of shale. To the west is the fishing hamlet of Porthdinllaen with a pub, the Ty Coch Inn, at the top of the beach. Porthdinllaen has a lifeboat station which houses an inshore lifeboat, as well as a dock for the local Coast Guard.

Welsh Language
According to the United Kingdom Census 2021, 72.3 per cent of all usual residents aged 3+ in Morfa Nefyn can speak Welsh. The 2011 census noted 72.0 per cent of all usual residents aged 3 years and older in the village could speak Welsh.

References

External links

Llyn.info - Your online guide to the Llyn Peninsula
www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Morfa Nefyn and surrounding area

Villages in Gwynedd
Seaside resorts in Wales
Nefyn


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What we eat is intricately involved in our well-being. While caloric intake and body weight are major factors for good health, the effects of diet are far more complex than that. It's important that we get the specific nutrients necessary to support optimal vitality. It's also critical that we be careful to limit the intake of other foods that can potentially harm us. This includes foods that are categorized as "pro-inflammatory." Some of the most notable foods in this category include polyunsaturated fats, simple sugars, and refined carbs.
Chronic Inflammation Is Unhealthy and Can Be Dangerous
Chronic Inflammation is very bad for hormone balance because it leads the body to produce too much Cortisol and too many Cytokines. When the body is afflicted by Inflammation, it diverts resources away from the production of Testosterone, HGH, and other hormones that are important to long-term maintenance and function. A recent study published in The Journal of Urology provides strong evidence that a diet consisting of too many inflammatory products can deplete Testosterone to the point of Clinical Low-T.
The lead authors of this study, Zhang Chichen and Qiu Shi, are quick to point out that this study does not offer sufficient evidence to determine a causal relationship between pro-inflammatory foods and Hypopituitarism. On the other hand, data analysis shows that Low-T risk is at its highest for obese men who eat a diet high in overly refined products.
Researchers used the Dietary Inflammatory Index to determine the specific Inflammatory effects of various food/drink in the diet. This index was the first ever constructed to specifically categorize different foods by their unique inflammatory capacity using human and select cellular and animal studies as reference.
Testosterone Deficiency Impairs Quality of Life for Millions of American Males
Low-T is increasingly common among American men and is usually defined as below 300 ng/dL Total Testosterone. The effects of Testosterone Deficiency are widespread and have a significant impact on short-term well-being and long-term mortality, and quality of life. Male Hypogonadism leads not only to fatigue, loss of strength, erectile dysfunction, and depression, but it also contributes to heightened risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other dangerous conditions.
Linking Chronic Inflammation to Testosterone Deficiency with Medical Research
There are many animal and human studies that connect Low Testosterone to high Inflammation. Specifically, guys with Low-T have been shown to have elevated cytokine levels. Cytokines are cellular defenses released by cells in response to infection or injury. Sometimes cells respond to factors in the environment which trigger cytokine production. The Dietary Inflammatory Index is a tool to help researchers analyze the effects of diet on inflammatory activity in a uniform and consistent way.
This study gathered evidence from 4151 male participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The goal was to consider the potential correlation between a patient's score on the Dietary Inflammatory Index and their Testosterone Levels. All participants had sex hormone levels evaluated and were subject to a 24-hour dietary recall. Based on the dietary recall, researchers estimated a DII score.
In the DII, different foods are given ratings dependent on their inflammatory effects. Foods rated with a negative score are anti-inflammatory, and foods with a positive score are considered pro-inflammatory. Patients in this study scored between -5.05 and +5.48 on the DII. Patients were split into two groups based on their scores. The Low-DII group had Total Testosterone of 422.71 ng/dL, while the pro-inflammatory group had 410.42 ng/dL. 26% of participants had clinically low Testosterone Levels.
Foods that Promote Inflammation Appear to Suppress Testosterone
Overall, the guys in the high DII score group were around 30% more likely to have Low-T than the Low-Inflammatory group. This correlation remained strong even when accounting for smoking, BMI, and other factors. Patients that had a high DII combined with obesity were at the highest risk. They were almost 60% more likely to have Testosterone Deficiency than obese men that had a less inflammatory diet.
While this study shows a connection, future studies would benefit from a dietary index with a greater range of foods. Future studies can be arranged in a way that proves that a high-inflammatory diet directly contributes to Low-T. For now, this study is good evidence that you should consider transitioning to a less inflammatory diet, especially if you're worried about your hormone balance and Testosterone Levels.
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White Sox interested in Miguel Olivo
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ December 11, 2010 7:52 pm
Tags: A.J. Pierzynski, Kenny Williams, Miguel Olivo, trade rumors
Morosi @ YB:
Free-agent catcher Miguel Olivo has drawn varying levels of interest from the Rangers, White Sox and Blue Jays, a major-league source told FOXSports.com. The Red Sox could also get involved if they are unable to re-sign Victor Martinez.
J.J. explains (#3) how the Olivo interest and John Buck's Florida deal means A.J. Pierzynski will likely be offered arbitration.
A.J. Pierzynski close to signing with Toronto? No
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ December 2, 2010 7:34 pm
Tags: A.J. Pierzynski, Miguel Olivo, Toronto Blue Jays, trade rumors
MLBTR:
The Blue Jays are close to signing A.J. Pierzynski, according to Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times. Even though John Buck signed with the Marlins and Miguel Olivo declined the team's offer of arbitration, the Blue Jays still have two capable catchers. Jose Molina will return in 2011 and J.P. Arencibia showed power in a late-season call-up and won Pacific Coast League MVP.
Here's Cowley:
Later, Williams was asked about the talks concerning free agent A.J. Pierzynski, and again brought up the pursuit of Konerko as a big reason why Pierzynski is on hold for now.
"We've had conversations, we've had a lot of conversations," Williams said of bringing his catcher back. "Again, I value A.J.. I would love to have him back. My dilemma right now is do you take such an overture and let it take you out of the payroll zone that you may need to get a Paul Konerko back. We're in a holding pattern because to be honest the next thing I would like to put back in a Sox uniform is Paul Konerko."
The problem is that the Pierzynski ship may have already sailed. A source close to the situation said that Pierzynski was close to signing with Toronto.
That would leave the Sox going with Ramon Castro and Tyler Flowers, or pursuing Miguel Olivo.
Not so fast tweets Ken Rosenthal:
Sources: Pierzynski is NOT close to signing with Blue Jays. White Sox still appear in mix.
Levine: Adam Dunn is the primary target of the White Sox
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ November 23, 2010 11:06 pm
Tags: Adam Dunn, Hideki Matsui, Kenny Williams, Miguel Olivo, Paul Konerko, trade rumors
Levine @ ESPN chat:
Q: Hey Bruce is it true that the White offered Victor Martinez a 3 year $48 million dollar contract, and he chose the 4 year $50 million dollar deal from Detroit instead?
A: Don't know if the money is exactly what you say, but they were negotiating. At the same time, the Sox have talked to many agents, including Adam Dunn's, who is still their primary target.
Washington offered arbitration to Dunn, so if the Sox sign him you can wave goodbye to the 23rd draft pick.
Q: Assuming the Sox don't get Adam Dunn, would [Hideki] Matsui be the left handed bat we go after next? And is [Miguel] Olivo the Sox starting catcher in 2011?
A: I can't see how Olivo fits with the White Sox. The reason they got rid of him initially is he called a terrible game. Unless he's gotten a lot smarter over the last five years, I don't see it. Matsui is someone they are interested in. The agent and the Sox have had a solid history of communication.
Also, J.P. Morosi @ FS says:
After whiffing on [Victor] Martinez, the pressure is on the Chicago White Sox to come away with Dunn or their own free-agent slugger, Paul Konerko.
At this point, the White Sox will have a lot of splainin' to do if they don't re-sign their captain. Konerko hit .312 this year with 39 home runs and 111 RBI.
Dunn, meanwhile, could be a fit on the North Side.
BaseballAmerica's AL Central All-Decade Top 10 Prospects List
Tags: Aaron Rowand, Bobby Jenks, Brandon McCarthy, Gordon Beckham, Joe Crede, Jon Garland, Jon Rauch, Kip Wells, Mark Buehrle, Miguel Olivo
BA:
White Sox Top 1o prospects of the decade:
1. Mark Buehrle, lhp
2. Bobby Jenks, rhp
3. Jon Garland, rhp
4. Aaron Rowand, of
5. Joe Crede, 3b
6. Jon Rauch, rhp
7. Gordon Beckham, ss
8. Miguel Olivo, c
9. Kip Wells, rhp
10. Brandon McCarthy, rhp


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Michigan fruit growers appeal for low-interest loans
The Michigan fruit industry in appealing to the state's legislature for help in the wake of devastating losses to the fruit crop.
Phil Korson, president of the Cherry Marketing Institute, and Ken Nye, horticultural specialist at Michigan Farm Bureau, described the effort during the 57th annual Fruit Crop Guesstimate June 6 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Growers knew already in March that the tart cherry crop had been heavily damaged, Korson said, and apple growers knew the same by May 1, Nye said. So the effort began early to seek help in the wake of the expected loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in income by growers, handlers, packers, and processors.
A bill was introduced in the state legislature, was passed by the House, and moved to the Senate, where action was hoped for before the summer break started June 14.
Dawn Drake, manager of the Michigan Processing Apple Growers, summarized the basics of the bill:
—Growers would be eligible for loans up to $400,000 to cover their actual losses, minus proceeds from insurance payments. If insurance was available and the grower did not buy it, the loan amount would be reduced. Apple growers have insurance available, tart cherry growers don't, and sweet cherry growers have it available in two Michigan counties.
—Processors and handlers are eligible for loans up to $800,000, with a $1 million cap for those operating at multiple locations.
—Loans are for five years at 1 percent interest, with payments due annually starting after two years.
—The commercial lender keeps the credit risk and makes the decision on the loan size.
—The state is to provide partial payment of the cost of administration, origination fee, and part of the risk equal to 5 percent of the principal amount of the loan.
—Overall cost to the state is capped at $15 million.
Michigan is expected to have about 2.9 million bushels of apples, about 10 percent of a full crop, and about 12 million pounds of tart cherries, less than 5 percent of a normal crop.


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Four DC police officers who responded to Capitol insurrection have died by suicide
By Setareh Jalali
Two more police officers who responded to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol have died by suicide, doubling the toll of officers who have taken their life after guarding the building that day.
Officer Gunther Hashida was found dead in his home on July 29th, according to Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) spokesperson Kristen Metzger. Just hours later MPD confirmed that another officer, Kyle DeFreytag, died by suicide earlier in July.
Gunther Hashida was 43. Photo courtesy of Mountcastle Turch Funeral Home and Crematory
Hashida was an 18-year veteran with the MPD, while DeFreytag had been with the department since November 2016. MPD Officer Jeffrey Smith and U.S. Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood also responded to the Capitol riot and died by suicide in the days after the event.
MPD has declined to release video from Smith's body camera, but it is known that he was hit in the head with a metal pole during the confrontation, and later reported to the Police and Fire Clinic, where he was given ibuprofen and sent home. His wife says that after that day he slipped into a deep depression. Only eight days later, on his way to his first day back to work, he shot himself in the head.
Jonathan Arden, a former chief medical examiner for the District of Columbia was hired to review Jeffrey Smith's autopsy and medical records for his wife. According to the New York Times, he concluded that the "dramatic change" in Smith's demeaner is strong evidence that his time at the riot was the "precipitating event leading to his suicide."
Officer Liebengood had to work long shifts for the three days after the riot, according to his wife, Serena Liebengood. She described him in an open letter to Representative Jennifer Wexton of Virginia as "severely sleep-deprived" in those days. He killed himself after the third shift.
Of the hundreds of other officers who reported to the Capitol on that January day, many have given tearful testimonies of what they experienced. Last week Capitol Police sergeant Aquilino Gonell highlighted the traumatizing effect of the confrontation to a House of Representatives' select committee investigating the attack. According to the Washington Post, Gonell described fighting "hand-to-hand" with rioters, thinking to himself that that was the moment he was going to die.
Aquilino Gonell delivers a tearful testimony on July 27th. Photo courtesy of Oliver Contreras/The New York Times
MPD officer Michael Fanone told the committee he was repeatedly tased as rioters chanted "kill him with his own gun." After the event, Doctors diagnosed him with a concussion, traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
All four testifying officers told the committee that they were beaten, threatened, and taunted with racial slurs. They described the anxiety and PTSD that they've struggled with since the event, and the survivor's guilt that's haunted them after five people died at the riot, 1 of them an officer and the other 3 rioters.
If you or a loved one have contemplated suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or text TALK to 741741. The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide also provide contact information for crisis centers around the world.
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package vep.app.seo.views

import akka.http.scaladsl.model.headers.`Content-Type`
import akka.http.scaladsl.model.{ContentTypes, HttpResponse}
import akka.http.scaladsl.server.Directives._
import akka.http.scaladsl.server.PathMatchers.Segment
import akka.http.scaladsl.server.Route
import vep.Configuration
import vep.app.common.page.PageService
import vep.app.production.company.CompanyService
import vep.app.production.company.show.ShowService
import vep.app.production.company.show.play.PlayService
import vep.app.seo.SeoCommon
import vep.app.seo.views.render.{PageRender, PlayRender, ShowRender, SitemapRender}
import vep.app.user.UserService
import vep.framework.router.RouterComponent

import scala.collection.immutable
import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext

class ViewsRouter(
  val companyService: CompanyService,
  val showService: ShowService,
  val playService: PlayService,
  val pageService: PageService,
  val seo: SeoCommon,
  val configuration: Configuration,
  val userService: UserService,
  val executionContext: ExecutionContext
) extends RouterComponent
  with PageRender
  with PlayRender
  with ShowRender
  with SitemapRender {
  lazy val route: Route = {
    home ~ page ~ show ~ play ~ sitemap
  }

  def home: Route = pathEndOrSingleSlash {
    optionalHeaderValueByName("User-Agent") { userAgent =>
      found(pageService.find("home")) { page =>
        OkView(renderPage(page), userAgent)
      }
    }
  }

  def page: Route = publicGet("page" / Segment) { canonical =>
    optionalHeaderValueByName("User-Agent") { userAgent =>
      found(pageService.find(canonical)) { page =>
        OkView(renderPage(page), userAgent)
      }
    }
  }

  def show: Route = publicGet("production" / "companies" / Segment / "shows" / "page" / Segment) { (companyId, showId) =>
    optionalHeaderValueByName("User-Agent") { userAgent =>
      found(companyService.find(companyId)) { company =>
        found(showService.findFromCompanyWithDependencies(company, showId)) { show =>
          OkView(renderShow(show), userAgent)
        }
      }
    }
  }

  def play: Route = publicGet("production" / "companies" / Segment / "shows" / Segment / "plays" / "page" / Segment) { (companyId, showId, playId) =>
    optionalHeaderValueByName("User-Agent") { userAgent =>
      found(companyService.find(companyId)) { company =>
        found(showService.findFromCompany(company, showId)) { show =>
          found(playService.findFromShowWithDependencies(show, playId)) { play =>
            OkView(renderPlay(play, playService.findAllFromShow(show)), userAgent)
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  // Not sitemaps, kept for search engines
  def sitemap: Route = publicGet("sitemap") {
    optionalHeaderValueByName("User-Agent") { userAgent =>
      val pages = pageService.findAll()
      val shows = showService.findAllWithDependencies()
      OkView(renderSitemap(pages, shows), userAgent)
    }
  }

  private def OkView(content: String, userAgent: Option[String]): HttpResponse = {
    val normalizedContent = if (userAgent.exists(isBot)) {
      content.replaceAll("<script(.*)</script>", "")
    } else {
      content
    }
    Ok(
      entity = normalizedContent,
      headers = immutable.Seq(`Content-Type`(ContentTypes.`text/html(UTF-8)`))
    )
  }

  private def isBot(userAgent: String): Boolean = {
    val userAgentBots = Seq("bot", "crawl", "slurp", "spider", "mediapartners")
    userAgentBots.exists(userAgentBot => userAgent.toLowerCase().contains(userAgentBot))
  }
}


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UK's Police Complaints Commission: We may have given misleading information on police shooting that sparked riots
By Global Research
Independent Police Complaints Commission website, 12 August 2011 13 August 2011
Release of information in early stages of Mark Duggan investigation
Analysis of media coverage and queries raised on Twitter have alerted to us to the possibility that we may have inadvertently given misleading information to journalists when responding to very early media queries following the shooting of Mark Duggan by MPS [London's Metropolitan Police Service] officers on the evening of 4th August.
The IPCC's [Independent Police Complaints Commission] first statement, issued at 22.49 on 4th August, makes no reference to shots fired at police and our subsequent statements have set out the sequence of events based on the emerging evidence. However, having reviewed the information the IPCC received and gave out during the very early hours of the unfolding incident, before any documentation had been received, it seems possible that we may have verbally led journalists to believe that shots were exchanged as this was consistent with early information we received that an officer had been shot and taken to hospital.
Any reference to an exchange of shots was not correct and did not feature in any of our formal statements, although an officer was taken to hospital after the incident.
The original source of this article is Independent Police Complaints Commission website, 12 August 2011
Copyright © Global Research, Independent Police Complaints Commission website, 12 August 2011, 2011
Articles by: Global Research


Established as a department in 1930, the School of Psychological Science at UWA has always led the way in Australia in both the academic and professional fields. We have a proud record of turning out first-rate scientists and practitioners, widely educated in the theory, research and practice of the discipline. With over 40 full-time equivalent academic staff, The School is one of the largest in the University. Its strengths are well recognised internationally, and UWA has received the highest possible rating for Psychology in each of the three rounds of the national Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluations, an achievement matched by only one other Australian university.
These ratings reflect the quality of the academic researchers in the School, the strength our research students, the School's success in attracting substantial research grant funding and the high citation rates of our publications. The School has first rate research facilities, including large undergraduate and community participant pools, numerous networked testing stations that enable highly efficient data collection, and multiple eye-link stations trackers.
The Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion (CARE) is a vibrant and thriving research facility dedicated to investigating patterns cognitive biases that functionally underpin emotional vulnerability and resilience. A key objective of the centre is to bring together national and international leaders in areas of cognitive psychology, biological psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, and clinical psychology, to establish new innovations that advance the understanding of emotion.
The role presents an exciting opportunity to join an established team of researchers working within the Elizabeth Rutherford Memorial Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion (CARE). The Centre is led by Laureate Fellow, Professor Colin MacLeod, and co-directed by Dr Ben Grafton and Dr Lies Notebaert.
You will play a key role in an Australian Research Council funded Laureate research program that investigates patterns of cognitive bias that functionally underpin emotional vulnerability and resilience. This research program will delineate the individual differences in cognitive functioning that distinguish between the tendency to experience adaptive and maladaptive pattern of emotional functioning.
Using laboratory and fieldwork approaches to test innovative hypotheses, in commencing students and in bushfire-exposed community samples, this work aims to assess, predict, and explain the individual differences in unproductive and productive worrying that underpin variability in resilient responding to situations in which adaptive action can mitigate real-world risk.
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Prior experience in programming of experimental tasks and/or supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate student researchers would be desirable.


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11 Sailors Injured in Fire Aboard Amphibious Assault Ship Iwo Jima
Amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) departs Naval Station Mayport in preparation of Hurricane Matthew's arrival onto Florida's eastern coast. (Mark Andrew/U.S. Navy)
Military.com | By Gina Harkins
A fire broke out on a Navy amphibious assault ship Thursday night, leaving 11 sailors with minor injuries.
Sailors aboard the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima reported smoke in the cargo hold at 11:45 p.m. The ship was pierside at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, where it's undergoing maintenance.
Members of the crew -- along with sailors from the guided-missile destroyer The Sullivans, Naval Station Mayport Florida firefighters, and members of the Jacksonville Fire Department -- put the fire out about five hours later.
Eleven sailors were treated at the scene and were released, according to a statement from Expeditionary Strike Group 2. Injuries included heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation.
The fire didn't spread to surrounding areas, according to the statement, and did not damage the pier.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Related: Before the Navy's Tragic Fitzgerald Collision, the Crew Faced These Big Problems
"Sailors are rigorously trained to combat casualties such as this fire, and we are grateful for the assistance of the installation and the local community to help ensure the safety of our people our ships," Capt. Darrell Canady, the Iwo Jima's commanding officer, said in a statement.
There were no weapons or munitions aboard the Iwo Jima at the time of the fire.
The Iwo Jima is at least the third Navy ship damaged by fire in the last year while undergoing maintenance, USNI News reported.
In May, the commanding officer of the destroyer Fitzgerald reported more than 15 fire-safety incidents on the ship since it arrived at the Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding yard in Mississippi for repairs following a fatal collision. One of those incidents "caused damage to bulkhead lagging and electrical panel," according to USNI news.
In November 2018, there was an electrical fire on the destroyer Oscar Austin that took 30 people to put out, the outlet reported.
The Navy is still assessing the damage caused by Thursday night's fire.
-- Gina Harkins can be reached at gina.harkins@military.com. Follow her on Twitter @ginaaharkins.
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These group of individuals starting meeting on a regular basis to improve the economic welfare in El Dorado.
Through these meetings, came the city council's call for a $20,000 bond issue to be used in a drilling campaign. Members of this commercial club worked hard for this issue which eventually carried and although three tests drilled were 'dry holes' the results so interested private corporations that they came in and developed what became one of the worlds "greatest oil fields".
This oil boom necessitated a larger organized commercial body from which grew the current Chamber of Commerce.
On May 18th, 1921 the El Dorado Chamber of Commerce was incorporated. The reason behind the El Dorado Chamber of Commerce all those years ago, still exist today.
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Martin Conaghan is an award-winning journalist, producer and writer with a career spanning over 19 years at the BBC and on major freelance projects.
In 2012, he worked on the Bafta-award winning investigation into the financial collapse at Rangers FC, Rangers: The Men Who Sold The Jerseys. In 2013, the same team produced Sins of Our Fathers, a comprehensive documentary about historical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church that swept all of the major industry awards that year, including the Bafta Scotland Award for Best Current Affairs. In 2014, Martin produced and directed Boycotts and Broken Dreams, a one-hour BBC documentary about the financial and political calamity that engulfed the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, and in 2015, he produced the multi-award winning series Scotland's Game, about the social history of Scottish football. In 2018, he won the Best Current Affairs award at the Royal television Society Scotland Awards for Football Abuse: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game.
in 2019, he produced the archive series Rewind: 1990s for BBC Scotland's new digital television channel.
He has also written, produced and directed short drama films, the most recent being Spores for the Scottish Film Talent Network/Creative Scotland, written and directed by Frances and Richard Poet. He is currently developing various documentaries, short films and feature film projects.
Download a copy of Martin's 2019 CV here.
60min factual documentary about the political and financial calamity that engulfed the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.
4 x 30min archive television series about the 1990s, incorporating news, entertainment, comedy, drama and music.
4 x 60min factual television series about the social history of Scottish football from 1986-2016.
Awards: Won the Celtic Media Award for Best Factual Series and the RTS Scotland Award for Best Sport Programme.
60min investigative documentary about historical child sexual abuse in Scottish football.
Awards: RTS Scotland Award for Best Current Affairs.
15min drama short film starring Maureen Beattie, Lorraine McIntosh, John Kazek and Lewis Howden, funded by the BFI and Creative Scotland as part of the Scottish Film Talent Network's Emerging Talent programme.
15min experimental independent drama short film.
60min investigative television documentary about the financial collapse of Rangers Football Club in 2012.
Awards: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Current Affairs, AFP Award for Best Current Affairs, RTS Award for Best Journalism.
60min investigative television documentary about historical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Scotland.
Awards: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Current Affairs.
60min current affairs documentary charting the events in Scotland during 2014.
2 x 30min television ob-doc series about a group of Scottish athletes competing at the 2007 Special Olympics in Shanghai.
1min drama short film produced for BBC Scotland.
15min independent drama short film.
Burke & Hare Graphic Novel with illustrator Will Pickering. Won Best Writer and Best Graphic Novel at the 2011 Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards.


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Home Entertainment Moana 2: Is Release Date Confirmed or Cancelled? Check here!
Moana 2: Is Release Date Confirmed or Cancelled? Check here!
Moana 2: Is Release Date Confirmed
When Moana, an American Disney Animation, was released in 2016, it was a big success. As a result, the movie made nearly $600 million worldwide. Ron Clements and John Musker's daring picture succeeded to grab the hearts of many, therefore the issue of whether there will be a Moana 2 released. Moana 2 hasn't been confirmed, which is unfortunate.
Moana 2 Release Date
In the United States, Moana premiered on November 23, 2016. At Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, the release was made available in the United States on Blu-ray (both 2D and 3D) and DVD on March 7, 2017. An e-book version was made available on February 21st, 2017. The sequel to Disney's Moana has received less publicity.
According to reports, Disney is in negotiations with The Rock and Auli'i about a new project. Rumors about Moana's return have sparked conjecture that a new adventure is in the works. There hasn't been any formal word about this until today.
There's a good chance we'll be watching this animated series filled with exciting new adventures in the year 2022.
Moana 2 Renewal
The entertainment industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus epidemic, which has sickened people in nearly every sector of the economy. Even almost nothing is known about the sequel to Disney's long-awaited "Moana," every fan hopes that it will soon be released.
Moana 2 might arrive as early as 2022 or as late as 2022, depending on the studio. There are, however, no assurances. We'll have to see what happens.
Moana 2 Cast
Even though it's hard to guess who will make a return in this spectacular animated feature, you're hoping to see familiar faces like these:
Tui and Sina's daughter, Moana, was selected to restore Te Fiti's heart by an ocean that had been enchanted by her mother's spirit.
Dwayne Johnson stars as the heroic demigod Maui, who joins Moana in her quest as a traveling companion. An irritating demigod with a strong will.
As Tala, the mother of Tui and Moana's paternal grandmother, Rachel House takes the role.
Maori actor Temuera Marrison plays Tui, the father of Moana and Tala's children.
As a coconut crab from Lalotai's Realm of Monsters in What We Do In The Shadows, Jemaine Clement stars as a giant evil monster.
As Sina, Nicole Scherzinger takes the lead role in the film. All three roles: mother of Moana; wife of Tui; and chieftain of their community
Heihei, Moana's pet, is played by Alan Tudyk in Resident Alien. In addition, he voices Villager No. 3.
Baby Moana, played by Louise Bush
Tui's singing voice is played by Chris Jackson, and an angler is played by Oscar Kightley.
In addition to it, there are a number of others.
Moana 2 Plotline
A daring and strong-willed young woman is selected by the ocean to deliver a transcendental relic to the goddess Te Fiti, as told in the film Moana. While searching for Maui, a fabled demigod, she hopes to return the relic to her island and save her people from being obliterated by the light.
The beginning of Moana 2 is still a mystery. As Moana made her victorious return at the end of the first film, it is expected that the second movie will begin at this moment as well.
Moana 2 Trailer
The sequel has yet to receive an official trailer. Since no formal word on a sequel has been made yet, no production has even begun. To get a sense of what this is all about, you may watch the trailer for Moana.
Trailers, teasers, first look, or any other sources have not disclosed the sequel's release date. If all goes according to plan, the Walt Disney studio will begin production on the American animated series as soon as feasible. Rely on us to keep you up-to-date on all the latest news on Disney's Moana 2 release date.
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Find out what your kitten is eating before she comes home, and keep her on that for a week or so before you change it. The most important thing to remember in feeding kittens is that their digestive systems are still immature – so they can be prone to upset tummies.
The best and easiest solution is to feed an ultra-digestible food specially designed for kittens (the kibble size, shape and texture in dry foods are also good for her teeth), and to feed little and often.
In the wild, kittens and cats tend to snack, eating up to 20 small meals a day. So using a dry food means you can put the daily portion down (using the guidelines on the pack), and let your kitten feed at will – just as long as you are sure no other pet will snaffle it before she does!
During this period the kitten grows very fast. By the end of four months, it will be five to seven times heavier than its birth weight. The kitten's skeletal structure is also developing at this time and its energy needs are very high.
At this point, the kitten's growth slows down. This allows the skeleton to strengthen and muscles to develop. Energy requirements remain very high.
Kittens have two sets of teeth – the first, the milk teeth, appear at around two weeks of age. The final set of teeth will be in place at the beginning of the second stage of growth, between 4 and 6 months.
When a kitten is born, its digestive system is not fully developed and therefore its food must be specially formulated to ensure digestive safety. The kitten's digestive ability increases over time.
Between the 4th and 12th week of life, the kitten is particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases as its immune system is not yet fully functional, and the immunity gained from its mother's milk is decreasing.
ROYAL CANIN®'s kitten food contains a unique formula designed to help the kitten build their own natural defences. A synergistic complex of antioxidants (including Vitamin C and E, taurine and lutein) helps support natural defences. Mannan-oligo-saccharides are also included to help support defences in the intestinal mucosa and help support the development of beneficial bacteria in the intestine.


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Q: remote: Forbidden The requested URL returned error: 403 I have a repository called "Abc" in Bitbucket with three different Dev branches like Dev_1, Dev_2, Dev_3(All three developer are part of the team).
When Dev_1 or Dev_2 or Dev_3 want to push their code to their respective branch using
git push origin Dev_1
command. I am getting an error:
remote: Forbidden fatal: unable to access 'https://abdulsayeed27@bitbucket.org/dfe_team/dfe_repo.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

1.I tried config and set-url like command.
But not able to fix this issue.
2.password is also correct.