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Twins of Evil (1971) [31 Days of Hammer Horror Review]
Posted on January 20, 2018 in 31 Days of Hammer, Movie Reviews, Movies
Jules picks up where he left off in October by running through some of the choice horror offerings from the fantastic Hammer back catalogue.
You can check out the rest of our "31 Days of Hammer" by CLICKING HERE.
Starring: Peter Cushing, Mary Collinson, Madeleine Collinson
Director: John Hough
The final chapter in the loose Karnstein trilogy, Twins Of Evil shifted the focus away from the bewitching Carmilla to her (initially at least) human descendant, the debauched and very decadent Count Karnstein.
With a taut script that rattles along at a fair pace, Twins Of Evil ups the sex and violence quota (especially the violence) that was the norm with Hammer at the time, but with its brilliantly realised gothic setting and a powerhouse performance from Peter Cushing, it stands out as a perfect blend of Hammer's golden and modern eras.
The village of Karnstein is plagued by the activities of the local Puritan witchhunters led by the cruel and pious Gustav Weill (Peter Cushing), a man on mission to do God's work, even if it involves burning innocent young women alive on a regular basis.
Up in the castle that overlooks the village, Count Karnstein (Damien Thomas) is a bored, decadent nobleman, tiring of petty debuacheries. When he offers up a peasant girl as a human sacrifice, his prayers are answered, calling forth his ancestor Countess Mircalla Karnstein (Katya Wyeth) from her grave, who turns the willing Count into a vampire.
When Weill's newly-orphaned twin nieces arrive in the village, both immediately capture Karnstein's interest. Maria (Mary Collinson) is an innocent and good-hearted soul, but her sister Frieda (Madeleine Collinson) has somewhat of the devil in her, and soon gives herself to the Count, willingly becoming a vampire herself…
Hammer might have been arguably past it's prime, but Twins Of Evil is up there with its very best. The slow and measured pace that characterised even some of their finest films in the past is completely abandoned here, with Tudor Gates' script moving at a relentless pace from that first shocking scene of Weill's Brotherhood acting as judge, jury and executioner.
Damien Thomas makes an immediate impact as the debauched Count and would have made a fine villain in any other film, but is faced with an impossible task here of competing with the peerless Peter Cushing in one of his finest ever performances.
Initially, Gustav Weill is to all intents and purposes a villain. Ostensibly a man of god, he sees evil everywhere and acts accordingly. Playing him almost like a Van Helsing gone badly wrong, Cushing is magnificent here, cold, callous and downright malevolent, he's a holy terror and a truly frightening presence on screen.
There's more to the character though and the great man carries it magnificently. His conversation with his wife when he first finds out about Frieda's turning and has to be talked out of turning the Brotherhood on Maria too is beautifully played, subtly showing the man underneath the cloth, who genuinely believes he's doing the right thing until challenged.
Similarly, seeing him almost broken when he realises he's almost burned the wrong sister is almost heartbreaking, with Cushing making you feel for a man you've been hating for most of the film. He's never anything but superb, but in Gustav Weill, Cushing gave one of his very best performances and he's nothing but a joy to watch here.
As the eponymous twins themselves, Hammer made a real discovery with the Collinson sisters. No mere eye candy, both actresses are totally believable in their very different roles, with Mary's vulnerable but essentially strong Maria holding her own against her sister Madeleine's more showy turn as the wilful and corruptible Frieda.
Beautifully shot by director John Hough, Twins Of Evil is laden with atmosphere, evoking an almost fairy tale quality within its dark morality tale. There's no real heroes here, just well-rounded characters of varying shades of grey up against the darkest of evils, with only David Warbeck's schoolteacher/would-be love interest Anton Hoffer taking a stand.
It's that ambiguity that makes Twins If Evil stand out, that and its relentless pace, thrilling set pieces, gorgeous design and most of all, that towering central performance from Mr Cushing.
Their twilight years might have been approaching fast, but in Twins Of Evil, Hammer proved that they still could be a force to reckon with. Magnificent.


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McKee Road Reconstruction
90% Plan Update
Based upon the feedback from the public informational meeting, the design team has been progressing towards a final plan submittal in August 2019. Below are links to the 90% plans and are grouped to smaller file sizes for quicker downloads.
McKee 1, McKee 2, McKee 3, McKee 4, McKee 5, McKee 6, McKee 7, McKee 8, McKee 9, McKee 10
Public Informational Meeting #2 Scheduled for November 19 at 7:00 PM
The City of Fitchburg will be host a second public informational meeting on the project at City Hall in the City Council Chambers. Based on the selected alternative and public input, the project has continued to engineer towards those goals and standards. One significant change that has occurred since the last public meeting is changing from a proposed tunnel under McKee Road, to an elevated bridge over the road to provide the separated crossing for the Badger State Trail. Please take a moment to stop by and get an update and provide input.
Resolution R-203-17, Approving a Typical Section for the McKee Road Reconstruction Project from Commerce Park Drive east to Seminole Highway
Resolution R-203-17 has been introduced to select the preferred typical section for the McKee Road reconstruction project. The Resolution, as prepared by staff, recommends Alternative C as the proposed typical section. Alternative C is the typical section that includes buffered, on-street bike lanes, an off-road bike path on the south side, and sidewalk on the north side. This typical section offers premium on- and off- bicycle accommodations and maintains separation between vehicles and bikes and between bikes and pedestrians. There has also been public support for the Alternative C typical section. This resolution will be referred out for recommendation to various boards, committees, and commissions following the schedule below:
Board of Public Works - Monday, Dec. 4
Transportation and Transit Commission - Thursday, Dec. 7
Finance Committee - Tuesday, Dec. 12
Council Action - Tuesday, Dec. 12
To view the Resolution and the memo to council, click here, and you will be redirected to the Agendas and Minutes page of the City's website. From that page, you can click on the packet for any of the meetings listed above to view the Resolution documents. These meetings are open to the public and anyone can attend to provide their input or opinion on the typical section alternatives.
Typical Section Alternatives
There were 3 typical section alternatives presented at the 9/20 Public Involvement Meeting. After collecting input and comments from the public, a fourth typical section alternative was developed. In an effort to select a preferred typical section for the McKee Road corridor, between Commerce Park Drive and Seminole Highway, a report was prepared to compare the various alternatives. The report recommends Alternative C as the preferred typical section within the next 3 weeks.
McKee Road Typical Section Alternatives Report
September 20, 2017 Public Involvement Meeting
The City held its first Public Information Meeting for the McKee Road Reconstruction project on Wednesday, September 20, 2017. The City would like to collect input on the conceptual typical sections that were presented at the meeting. Please submit a written comment by Wednesday October 4, 2017 to ensure that your input is recorded. Comment forms and information that was presented at the meeting can be found at the links below:
Public Comment Form
Project Handout
Alternative A Project Overview with Aerial
Alternative B Project Overview with Aerial
Alternative C Project Overview with Aerial
The City of Fitchburg has received a Federal STP-Urban grant to reconstruct 3,200 feet of McKee Road from Commerce Park Drive east to Seminole Highway.
The reconstruction of McKee Road has been listed in the Capital Improvement Program for several years and the City has submitted, and received, a grant to assist with the cost of reconstruction for this 4-lane divided highway. The federal grant will fund 60% of the construction costs and construction is planned for the year 2020. This will line up with the McKee Road reconstruction that is planned as part of the WisDOT Verona Road project, allowing the construction process to be streamlined between the 2 projects.
In 2015, the City conducted a traffic study to evaluate the future needs of McKee Road from Commerce Park Drive to Seminole Highway. The results of the study can be found here. The results of that analysis suggest maintaining a 4-lane divided roadway, but adding turn lanes at various intersections to address congestion, delay, and queuing along the corridor.
McKee Road, also known as County Highway PD (CTH PD), serves as a minor arterial that continues east-west through the City, connecting Fish Hatchery Road (CTH D) to Verona Road (USH 18/151) and beyond into the City of Madison.The pavement condition has a PASER rating of 6 (out of 10) and continues to degrade with the increased traffic that is traveling on McKee Road due to the development activity occurring throughout the City. Also, the 2017 City of Fitchburg Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan designates McKee Road as a primary bicycle route. Due to the speed and volume of traffic on McKee Road, the project will be considering both on- and off-road accommodations for bicyclists. There are also some gaps in sidewalk that will be reviewed to consider a continuous pedestrian facility on both sides of the road.
Based on all of the above, the primary goals for the McKee Road Reconstruction project are the following:
Replace deteriorating pavement
Incorporate intersection improvments to address current and future development and growth near the corridor
Provide pedestrian accommodations for the length of the project
Enhance bicycle accommodations along McKee Road
Construct a grade-separated crossing for the Badger State Trail
Become aware of and avoid impacts to cultural, historical, and archaeological sites
Crack & Chip Sealing
Lacy Road Reconstruction
Novation Campus
Quarry Vista Plat
Street & Park Improvements
Verona Road Reconstruction (D)
Fitchrona/Nesbitt Intersection
North Fish Hatchery Road Reconstruction

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On March 20th, Cisco released a security update for their line of 7800 and 8800 Series Cisco phones.
The vulnerability is in the web-based management interface of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Software. This vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition or execute arbitrary code.
According to Cisco, the vulnerability exists because the software improperly validates user-supplied input during user authentication. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to an affected device using HTTP and supplying malicious user credentials. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a reload of an affected device, resulting in a DoS condition, or executing arbitrary code with the privileges of the app user.
Cisco has released free software updates that address the vulnerability. Customers may only install and expect support for software versions and feature sets for which they have purchased a license.
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Condition based maintenance (CBM) aims to schedule maintenance activities based on condition monitoring data in order to lower the overall maintenance costs and prevent unexpected failures. Effective CBM can lead to reduced downtime, less inventory, reduced maintenance costs, reliable operation and safety of entire system. The key challenge in achieving effective CBM is the accurate prediction of equipment future health condition and thus the remaining useful life. Existing prognostics methods mainly focus on constant loading conditions. However, in many applications, such as some wind turbine, transmission and engine applications, the load that the equipment is subject to changes over time. It is critical to incorporate the changing load in order to produce more accurate prognostics methods. This research is focused on the bearing prognostics, which are key mechanical components in rotary machines, supporting the entire load imposed on machines. Failure of these components can stop the operation due to machine down time, thus resulting in financial losses, which are much higher than the cost of bearing. In this thesis, an artificial neural network (ANN) based method is proposed for equipment health condition prediction under time varying conditions. The proposed method can be applied to bearing as well as other components under condition monitoring. In the proposed ANN model, in addition to using the age and condition monitoring measurement values as an inputs, a new input neuron is introduced to incorporate the varying loading condition. The output of the ANN model is accumulated life percentage, based on which the remaining useful life can be calculated once the ANN is trained. Two sets of simulated degradation data under time varying load are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed ANN method, and the results show that fairly accurate prediction can be achieved using the proposed method. The other key contribution of this thesis is the experiment validation of the proposed ANN prediction method. The Bearing Prognostics Simulator, after extensive adjustment and tuning, is used to perform bearing run-to-failure test under different loading conditions. Vibration signals are collected using the data acquisition system and the Labview software. The root mean square (RMS) measurement of the vibration signals is used as the condition monitoring input for the validation of the proposed ANN prediction method. Two bearing failure histories are used to train the ANN model and test its prediction performance. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in dealing with real-world condition monitoring data for health condition prediction. The proposed model can greatly benefit industry as well as academia in condition based maintenance of rotary machines.


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English wants to flog state houses to Aussies
Posted by Phil Twyford on June 27, 2015
Bill English's admission that he would sell hundreds of New Zealand's state houses to the Australians is the latest lurch in the Government's stumbling, half-baked housing policy, Labour's housing spokesperson Phil Twyford says.
"Bill English should face reality and admit his state house sell off policy has collapsed. The Salvation Army didn't want a bar of it. Iwi leaders said they'd only take them if they got them for free.
"The Government has had to admit that opening up this multi-billion dollar public asset to property developers and banks is the only way it can make it work.
"Now Bill English is so desperate to keep his failed policy afloat that he'll even flick the houses off to the Aussies.
"The finance minister fancies himself as a reformer. The Minister has admitted "a lot of money has gone into these houses" but said the tenants more important than the houses.
"In reality his state house sell-off is just a warmed over version of National's 1990s ideological burp that saw 13,000 state houses flogged off.
"It is old-fashioned privatisation because of Bill English's ideological view that the Government should not be in the business of providing decent housing for the most vulnerable Kiwis.
"Bill English has yet to provide a scrap of evidence that Australian companies in cahoots with property developers will do a better job of delivering state housing.
"It is time Bill English gave up his nutty crusade to sell off state houses and got on with the job of fixing up state houses and building new ones," Phil Twyford says.
Contact: Phil Twyford 027 444 9161
MoBIE largesse doesn't stop with TVs and hair-straighteners
David Clark on June 28, 2015
Exports continue to fall as Government fails to diversify
Grant Robertson on June 26, 2015


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Battered Brand
Amul federation could be soured by corruption charges against its oldest cooperative in Gujarat
Kaira Union's managing director resigned last month after board members accused him of overseeing a Rs 450-crore scam.
Apr 16, 2018 · 09:00 am
Sam Panthaky/AFP
On March 31, K Rathnam abruptly resigned as managing director of the Kaira Union, the oldest of the 18 cooperatives that market their products under the Amul brand name.
The announcement came shortly after some board members of the union, including vice chairman Rajendrasinh Parmar, alleged a Rs 450-crore scam during Rathnam's three-year stint running the cooperative.
For their part, Rathnam and Ramsinh Parmar, the long-standing chairman of the Kaira Union, said the resignation was a routine matter. Rathnam, 55, told The Indian Express, "I have given Amul 22 years of my life. Now, I wish to spend time with my family that is settled in Tamil Nadu and America." Both said talk of corruption was politically motivated.
Two weeks later, as public attention has gradually moved away, the contradiction between these claims and counter claims has not been discussed much in the media. In the process, urgent questions about the functioning not just of the Kaira Union but also the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, which coordinates the Amul cooperatives, are slipping under the radar.
What happened at Kaira?
For several weeks now, an unsigned 26-page document has been doing the rounds within the Kaira Union. Written in Gujarati, with a title that loosely means "Unconventional methods adopted by Amul MD Rathnam", the document levels a series of allegations against the former managing director. Among other things, it flags cost overruns at Kaira's plant in Mumbai's Virar area as well as its new chocolate factory. It also alleges that spare parts and dairy equipment are being purchased from a few handpicked companies; that bulk milk chillers are bought at higher rates than prescribed by the federation; that labour contracts in the dairy are inflated.
Several former officials of the Kaira Union and serving directors on its board told Scroll.in they believed the allegations had a ring of truth about them and should be examined. Scroll.in took a closer look at one of the major allegations: the Milky Mist transaction.
K Rathnam resigned as managing director of the Kaira Union on March 31. Photo credit: Twitter/K Rathnam
Why buy privately?
Between January 23, 2015 and December 18, 2017, the Kaira Union bought 8,734 tonnes of Cheddar cheese – input material for processed cheese – worth Rs 262.32 crore from a private dairy in Erode, Tamil Nadu, called Milky Mist.
This was a puzzling transaction. First, Kaira has its own cheese-making factory that can produce Cheddar. Second, it bought Cheddar from Milky Mist at prices between Rs 292 and Rs 315 per kg even though – as a financial officer at the sister cooperative diary in Mehsana who did not want to be named pointed out – cheese from the Gujarat milk federation's Banaskantha and Sabarkantha cooperatives was cheaper by about Rs 50. In addition, halfway through this period, in April 2016, the Banaskantha cooperative launched a large cheese factory that effectively doubled Amul's cheese-making capacity. This unit, according to a former senior official at Kaira, is severely under-utilised. "One hundred per cent of its capacity is lying idle right now," the former official said. "It is odd Kaira Union did not tap into that and instead brought readymade cheese from outside."
As a part of the Amul federation, Kaira must comply with a set of cooperative principles. "If Kaira dairy did not have enough raw material, we should have bought from a sister dairy cooperative in Gujarat," Kaira union vice chairman Rajendrasinh Parmar said. "If that is not available, then from another dairy cooperative in the country." In the Amul network, transactions with private companies are rare, small in size and usually handled by the federation, not by individual cooperatives.
Through this period, Rathnam was managing director, a professional appointment. Ramsinh Parmar was chairman, an elected position. Rathnam took charge in March 2014 while Ramsinh Parmar has been at Kaira for 20 years.
Contacted on the phone, Rathnam confirmed the transaction with Milky Mist and described the allegations as baseless but declined to elaborate. In a subsequent email, he said: "All the points mentioned in your mail for my response are part of the ongoing audit process. Hence I wouldn't like to comment as it would [be] inappropriate and let the process complete so that outcome can be known for all."
Ramsinh Parmar said the federation had asked Kaira to produce more cheese than Banaskantha could deliver, leaving Kaira with no option but to buy from outside. This decision, he said, was approved by both the Kaira board and the Amul federation.
Scroll.in wrote to RS Sodhi, managing director of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, asking if the federation had cleared the Milky Mist transaction. Scroll.in also asked about the protocol to be followed for an out of federation transaction. He did not respond.
Rajendrasinh Parmar, vice chairman of the Kaira Union, rejected chairman Ramsinh Parmar's explanation. He claimed to have found out about the transaction only in February when he visited the union's own cheese-making plant at Khatraj. He also dismissed the explanation for needing to buy cheese from Milky Mist, pointing out that the federation allots manufacturing targets to each union after factoring in its manufacturing capacity and milk production. If anything, he said, Kaira should have converted its surplus milk into cheese. Instead, he alleged, they turned the surplus milk into milk powder and bought cheese from outside. "Why were we converting milk into powder when we needed cheese?" he asked. "Why did we not buy cheese from Banaskantha? Why did we buy at a higher price? And from a private dairy?"
There are other questions that have gone unanswered. Did the federation approve the Milky Mist transaction? How was Milky Mist chosen? Was the quality of the cheese it supplied approved by the federation?
Scroll.in phoned and sent text messages to Milky Mist's managing director T Sathish Kumar to ask how the firm had been chosen for this supply contract. He did not respond.
Milky Mist is not the only company in Erode that Rathnam, whose hometown Salem is 75 km away, has tied up with in recent years. The other is a cattle feed supplier called RGS Feeds. The founders of Milky Mist and RGS Feeds are both associated with Olirum Erodu Foundation, which self-describes as a non-profit "to recreate a world-class Erodu".
Ramsinh Parmar left the Congress for the BJP last August and was elected chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation in January. Photo courtesy Indiancooperative.com
Political conflict?
The transaction with Milky Mist continued for three years. One reason it is being flagged at this stage has to do with the politics of Amul.
As Scroll.in reported last December, between 2002 and now, the Bharatiya Janata Party has come to control all 18 Amul milk cooperatives in Gujarat. Kaira union chairman Ramsinh Parmar, a former Congress legislator, was among the last of the holdouts from the old regime. But last August, he too switched. Kaira union vice chairman Rajendrasinh Parmar, on the other hand, has remained with the Congress. Some observers believe the current standoff is a conflict along party lines.
Another view traces the events back to the Assembly election late last year which went badly for several BJP leaders associated with Amul. Ramsinh Parmar lost his Assembly seat in Thasra. His party colleague, Shankar Chowdhury, former health minister and current chairman of the Banas Dairy, the biggest Amul dairy, lost as well. This, a retired federation official who did not want to be identified said, triggered attempts by some district milk union chairmen to become chairman of the federation as the post is a way to regain political muscle. Eventually, in the election held in January, Ramsinh Parmar prevailed. As per the norms, the retired official said, only a serving chairman of a cooperative can become chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation. So, the official added, an effort is underway to dislodge Ramsinh Parmar from the Kaira union. If he loses chairmanship of the union, he would automatically lose the leadership of the federation as well.
Asked about the timing of the allegations, Ramsinh Parmar said that his appointment had caused some unhappiness. He alleged that the head of another district milk union was backing Rajendrasinh Parmar and Tejas Patel, one of Kaira's directors, in a bid to dislodge him. Rathnam repeated this claim. "This is all about politics that I do not want to get into," he said.
But, as the Milky Mist transaction shows, some of the questions raised are valid. The whole controversy cannot be dismissed as political theatre.
Ineffective oversight
Though the Amul system discourages "out of federation" transactions by unions, it failed to stop Kaira's dealing with Milky Mist for three years. This raises questions about the quality of checks and balances in both the Kaira Union and the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation.
Amul has financial checks and balances operating at four levels.
A copy of every purchase order goes to Kaira's internal auditor.
The Kaira Union board has monthly meetings at which the managing director updates directors about the dairy's operations.
Not only does the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation have a nominee on the Kaira board – in this case, Sodhi himself – it also has monthly planning and coordination meetings. At these meetings, which are chaired by Sodhi, "all MDs come together and decide production, dispatch, sales and inventory", said the former Kaira Union official. These meetings help the federation balance production between unions and treat them all fairly.
Then, there is the state audit. This, said the official, is current and concurrent. The auditors, who have an office in Anand, send quarterly reports to the milk unions, the federation and state government.
None of these mechanisms flagged the Milky Mist transaction. As for the board, Rajendrasinh Parmar and Tejas Patel claimed that they got little information during board meetings. Another possibility is that as long as the board was loyal to Ramsinh Parmar, it did not raise any questions.
Scroll.in asked Sodhi how effective the Amul system's checks and balances were. We also asked why the planning and coordination meetings, and he himself as the federation representative's on the Kaira board, had failed to flag the transaction. He did not respond.
The government audit, said Patel, did not flag the transaction either.
Workers pack processed cheese cubes at an Amul satellite dairy in Khatraj village. Photo credit: Reuters
Hurting the poor
Private transactions such as the Rs 262 crore deal with Milky Mist hurt the interests of the nearly seven lakh farmers who are part of the Kaira Union's milk procurment societies. Going by the federation's assertion, 80% of the value of finished products goes back to farmers. If Kaira had bought locally, the dairy farmers' income would have gone up by Rs 210 crore, that is, each would have earned about Rs 3,114 more.
Kaira's financial records show something odd. Even as its annual revenues have grown at 16%-20%, the growth in what it pays farmers for milk for fat content per kg has fallen below 6% since 2013-'14. This suggests, said the former official at Kaira, that the gains from growth were going elsewhere – into heads such as debt servicing or operating expenses.
When asked about the slowing fat per kg rate, Ramsinh Parmar said: "That is not correct. You do not understand the business." On being pressed, he said he is answerable to his board, not to outsiders.
The farmers' troubles run deeper. At a village between Anand and Nadiad, cattle owners alleged that Amul's milk procurement centres were under-counting the fat content. They claimed that when they sell their milk to a private diary called Polson, the machines always show a higher fat content. Sometimes the difference is as much as 20%, said a young dairy farmer near Vadtal who did not want to be named for fear of retribution from his milk society.
This echoed what a senior dairy manager had told Scroll.in last year. He had alleged that unions were undercalibrating the machines that measure the fat content in milk. As a result, the farmers were underpaid and the surplus was siphoned off.
The villagers were categorical that this was not a recent trend. Yet, so far, the authorities' response to such allegations has been dismissive. While working on an earlier report about Banas Dairy, this reporter was repeatedly told by senior officials at the federation and Banas that there could not be any level of corruption because the villagers would not tolerate it.
On the ground, though, the story is different. In Vadtal, the young farmer was not very hopeful that the fresh dairy elections would bring any real change. "Anyone who gets voted in behaves well for three months and then becomes like the rest," he said.
As such, instead of opposing these structures, he is navigating them with care. He has 10 milch cattle and supplies milk from three of them to Amul 20-25 days a month. The rest of the time, he sells to Polson. As for milk from his remaining livestock, he sells that directly to homes in the vicinity. "We were so tired of the Dairy that we started selling from home to home," he said.
He listed three reasons for why he does not sell milk from the three cows to Polson alone. First, because he does not want to lose access to other services Amul provides – veterinary care and annual bonus per head of cattle. Second, if they sell to Polson too often, the village society officials threaten to slash their annual bonus, which can be anywhere between Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 per milch animal.
Third, he said, "If we stop supplying, the dairy will shut down. Then we will be dependent only on the private dairy."
Rathnam declined to answer the questions put to him, saying two audits were underway. The first of these is being conducted by the Kaira Union, the second by the state government. The first is investigating itself. The second is the BJP government investigating possible malfeasance in an organisation the party controls.
It is anyone's guess how far they will go in examining how India's much-loved dairy federation is doing.
This is the first part of a two-part series on the recent debates around Amul. The second part can be read here.
Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation
Kaira Union
Mehsana Diary
Milky Mist
Political meddling to financial impropriety – it is all going wrong at Amul


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How to Know the Birds
The Art and Adventure of Birding
By Ted Floyd
Category: Science | Home & Garden
About How to Know the Birds
Become a better birder with brief portraits of 200 top North American birds. This friendly, relatable book is a celebration of the art, science, and delights of bird-watching.
How to Know the Birds introduces a new, holistic approach to bird-watching, by noting how behaviors, settings, and seasonal cycles connect with shape, song, color, gender, age distinctions, and other features traditionally used to identify species. With short essays on 200 observable species, expert author Ted Floyd guides us through a year of becoming a better birder, each species representing another useful lesson: from explaining scientific nomenclature to noting how plumage changes with age, from chronicling migration patterns to noting hatchling habits. Dozens of endearing pencil sketches accompany Floyd's charming prose, making this book a unique blend of narrative and field guide. A pleasure for birders of all ages, this witty book promises solid lessons for the beginner and smiles of recognition for the seasoned nature lover.
Published by National Geographic
Mar 12, 2019 | 304 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781426220036
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"Those of us who might feel intimidated by the competitiveness of many bird watchers couldn't ask for a warmer, kinder, more helpful companion out in the field — carrying binoculars and a mobile phone. Floyd is an avid Wi-Fi birder, with a helpful "urge to eBird"; his is "a manifesto for the modern bird lover."—The New York Times
"Listeners who've been curious after bird sightings will find a range of ways to dig deeper into birding." –AudioFile Magazine, on the recorded edition
"So after years of celebrated field guides, books that embody "holism and experientialism" are coming to the fore. Mr. Floyd, for instance, demystifies birding in a short-essay format that is accessible and fun. Enlisting 200 species, he uses a single page of text for each bird to make a point, or impart a truth, about vocabulary, taxonomy, controversies, cutting-edge websites, common abbreviations, vocalization, migration, puzzles of plumage and much more. Still, he punctuates his pieces with the primal. Recall your first sighting of any species, he writes: "It was, it still is, it forever shall be, a part of who you are and what you're all about." –The Wall Street Journal
"Floyd challenges our reflexive dismissal of [robins] as ordinary and unremarkable. And indeed, now that we know all they have been through, their easy abundance seems all the more wonderful today." –The Washington Post
"After extensive discussions on the how and what of birding do we get to the why. Floyd's answer to that is among the best I've heard: birds are "proclaiming that this world of ours is full of wonder and beauty, still exhorting us to go out and drink it all in…The mini lessons in [the book] whet the appetite for the possibilities in birding. For newer, and maybe even some not-so-new, birders, this could be a real eye-opener. For them, this book should be required." –The Birder's Library
"These essays are captivating, shining with the author's warmth, teacherly patience, quiet expertise, and literary skill. Floyd's writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal." –10,000 Birds
"How to Know the Birds is a field guide like I've never seen before…Ted Floyd solidifies his place as True Expert and personal hero of mine, and I recommend this for any birder or nature lover." –Jonathanbluebirdmontgomery
"How to Know the Birds will help you delve deeper into the intricacies of birds and birdwatching and answer a lot of the questions kids come up with when observing birds." –Just a Secular Homeschooler
"…allowed me to appreciate birds more than I ever thought would be possible for me…For a novice like myself, I enjoyed the introductory section which talked about birds that I often see in my back yard. As a technologist, the section of how technology changed ornithology was especially fascinating." –Man of La Book
"Floyd's writing is very accessible; straightforward, entertaining, and educational at the same time. Each essay is short – one page only. This is the kind of book you can pick up at leisure to read a random essay, or read in chronological order throughout the year." –Mockingbird Hill Cottage
"The author's enthusiasm shines throughout this whole book. He perfectly captures the many joys of birdwatching." –Doing Dewey Decimal
"This is a delightful book to keep by your side for a quick read when you have 5 or 10 minutes here or there." –Broken Teepee
"I loved that this book was not a standard field guide. It delves deeper into bird behavior and anecdotes about birds. I found it much warmer and much more readable than a traditional nature guide." –View from the Birdhouse
"This is a book that should be savored over time more than read straight through like a novel. It is formatted to take place over a year." –Based on a True Story
"Normal, well-adjusted people, people who will never be found tramping through the Ramble on freezing-cold March mornings with up-to-the-second app-fed information about a rumor of an early migrating Eastern Phoebe, might, if pressed, supply even more accurate words than 'serious' or 'methodical' to describe the motley crowd to which Ted Floyd openly pledges fealty. How to Know the Birds will please that crowd enormously – and it will serve as a both field guide and meta field guide for the rest of us." –Open Letters Review
"Like the Petersonian original, this new How to Know the Birds is illustrated with simple and appealing drawings, this time from the pencil of N. John Schmitt. The cover is a tour de force of book design, with words and image overlapped and intertwined—a perfect evocation of what is inside, a wonderful text combining science, art, and joy in a way sure to inspire any birder." –Tucson Audubon
"You can't find a better guide to birds and birding than Ted Floyd. This snappy, chatty book is a fascinating primer to both, and will make you a much better, wiser birder." –Scott Weidensaul, author of Living on the Wind
"What a delightful study of birds and birding, smart, witty, engaging, and beautifully observed. If you love birds and want to know them (and their devoted watchers) better, this book is for you–to dip into and to revisit for the priceless rules of thumb." –Jennifer Ackerman
"Birding is our most democratic way to connect to nature, because birds are everywhere — from inner cities to the deepest wilderness. Here's a new take on birding certain to inspire people to connect more deeply with the lives around them." —Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle and Vitamin N
"This is an introduction to 21st century birding, where digital tools, global data sharing, and an acknowledgement of the dynamism of a rapidly changing earth combine with good old fashioned love of the birds. Ted Floyd teaches us that seeing the bird and checking it off a list isn't really the core pleasure of birding—it is knowing the bird—its behavior, ecology, personality, and role in the evolving human ecology of the Anthropocene, that is the true pleasure of contemporary birding. Buy it for anyone you want to fall in love with birds, or for yourself, so as to fall in love a bit more."
–Emma Marris, author of Rambunctious Garden
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Khiron Appointments Larry Holifield, Former U.S. DEA Regional Director, Mexico and Central America as Khiron Security and Compliance Director, Mexico,- Joins Chief Compliance Officer Matt Murphy to Ex
Khiron Appointments Larry Holifield, Former U.S. DEA Regional Director, Mexico and Central America as Khiron Security and Compliance Director, Mexico,- Joins Chief Compliance Officer Matt Murphy to Expand Company's Leadership in Compliance and Security
TORONTO, April 17, 2019
Appointment of Mr. Holifield enhances Khiron's Mexico security and compliance capabilities and operational network
Mr. Holifield joins a growing team for Mexico that includes country manager, Luis Chaves, and Mr. Vicente Fox, former Mexican president and Khiron board member
Company taking leadership position in Mexico as co-host of Cannamexico World Summit 2019, April 25-26, a medical, regulatory and industry cannabis conference with over 2,000 attendees from ten countries, making it the largest of its kind in the region
Appointment expands on Company's stated multi-market growth strategy with highly experienced and well-connected operations teams in each jurisdiction
Mexico comprises over 124 million people, 11.7 million potential patients and a market estimated at over 10 Billion USD (Source: Prohibition Partners)
TORONTO, April 17, 2019 /CNW/ - Khiron Life Sciences Corp. ("Khiron" or the "Company") (TSXV: KHRN), (OTCQB: KHRNF), (Frankfurt: A2JMZC), a vertically integrated cannabis leader with core operations in Latin America, announced today that it has appointed Mr. Larry Holifield as the company's Security and Compliance Director, Mexico. Mr. Holifield, formerly a senior executive with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA") with responsibility for Mexico and Central America, will play a key role as the Company builds out its operations and stakeholder relationships in the fast-developing Mexico cannabis industry.
Mr. Holifield is a recognized security and compliance expert with deep knowledge of the Latin America region. With 35+ years of increasingly senior law enforcement experience, including over 12 years serving in Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, Mr. Holifield has been a leader in the management and direction of long term and complex domestic and international operations for local, state and federal agencies, as well as for leading Fortune 500 companies.
As Security and Compliance Director for Mexico, Mr. Holifield will work with Matt Murphy, former DEA Chief of Pharmaceutical Investigations and Khiron's Chief Compliance Officer, and the executive team to further the Company's strategy for Mexico, including working with legislators, law enforcement and government agencies to ensure the Company is positioned for a leadership position as the Mexican market moves towards a legalized environment.
Mr. Holifield comments, " As Mexico moves towards a legalized cannabis environment security and compliance are key. Khiron has one of the most dynamic, skilled and highly experienced teams currently operating in the LatAm region . I look forward to adding my compliance capabilities and knowledge of the region to ensure that the Company participates in the market with industry-leading, safe and secure operations."
As previously stated, Khiron has indicated its intention to participate in the Mexican cannabis market, having conducted an in-depth regulatory review of the country's cannabis landscape, a comprehensive market-needs assessment indicating a potential medical cannabis market of 9% of the country's population, and the incorporation of the Company's Mexican subsidiary, which counts experienced brand builder and entrepreneur Mr. Joseph Mimran on its board, subject to TSXV Venture Exchange Inc. ("TSXV") approval.
Alvaro Torres, Khiron CEO and Director stated, "As we continue to execute on our multi-market growth strategy it is important that every operational role is led by an experienced specialist with a strong understanding of the region and market. A highly experienced security director, and former U.S. DEA executive with decades of knowledge of the LatAm region, Larry will play an integral role in the development and expansion of our business in Mexico.
About Khiron
Khiron Life Sciences Corp. is positioned to be the dominant integrated cannabis company in Latin America. Khiron has core operations in Colombia and is fully licensed in the country for the cultivation, production, domestic distribution, and international export of both THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol) medical cannabis. In May 2018, Khiron listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, becoming the first Colombian based medical cannabis company to trade on any exchange globally.
Further information on Khiron Life Sciences can be found at https://investors.khiron.ca/
To be added to the distribution list, please email khiron@kcsa.com with "Khiron" in the subject line.
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This press release may contain certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. All information contained herein that is not historical in nature may constitute forward-looking information. Forward-looking statements may be identified by statements containing the words "believes", "anticipates", "plans", "intends", "will", "should", "expects", "continue", "estimate", "forecasts" and other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements herein include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the anticipated benefits of the distribution agreements, including online and physical retail consumer exposure, and potential expansion into other jurisdictions, among others. Readers are cautioned to not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by these statements. Khiron undertakes no obligation to comment analyses, expectations or statements made by third-parties in respect of Khiron, its securities, or financial or operating results (as applicable). Although Khiron believes that the expectations reflected in forward-looking statements in this press release are reasonable, such forward-looking statement has been based on expectations, factors and assumptions concerning future events which may prove to be inaccurate and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond Khiron's control, including the risk factors discussed in Khiron's Annual Information Form which is available on Khiron's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com. The forward-looking information contained in this press release is expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and are made as of the date hereof. Khiron disclaims any intention and has no obligation or responsibility, except as required by law, to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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On August 25th, Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) presents the inaugural Salmon-Safe IPA Festival. The first beer festival of it's kind, invites 20+ breweries to make special beers with Salmon-Safe certified ingredients, which means each beer's ingredients come from farms that are committed to protecting clean water in regional watersheds. The Salmon-Safe IPA Fest is all about showcasing ways breweries and farmers can work together to keep our waterways and our planet healthy. Attendees will enjoy delicious beers from craft breweries ranging from some of the largest in the country to some of the smallest, and from some of the most established breweries to some of the newer breweries in the region.
The festival will be divided into two sessions. The first is an all ages session that runs from 12-4pm and Session #2 is 21+ and runs from 5-9pm. Each ticket package costs $25 and comes with 10 drink tickets, an order of HUB's world-famous pretzels, a HUB 10th anniversary chalice and a raffle ticket for prizes from various Salmon-Safe certified businesses. The festival also invites attendees to enjoy music, food, lawn games, and art. Each session has only 400 tickets available and the event is expected to sell out, so make sure you grab your ticket in advance.
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• Maria breaks down as she waits for news of Danny
• Scott blames himself for Danny being in hospital
• Max arranges to meet Pete for a drug deal
• Scott and Danny agree to talk to each other about their problems in future
• Maria tells Shane that the hall wants $500 for the damage caused at the party
No 24 - Lounge: Shane thinks that $500 is a bit steep and wonders how they're going to pay it. He thinks about telling Max, but Maria doesn't want him involved - she'll take responsibility for this, and will just have to hope that they'll give her some time to pay the bill. She goes to get ready, as Danny walks in the back door. Shane tells him what's happened, and Danny wonders if some of the guys from the party will help to pay it, but realises it's unlikely. He apologises to Maria as she leaves, and then wonders how Max will take the news. Shane explains that he's not going to find out, as Maria doesn't want him to know, and Danny is relieved, thinking his father would have killed him.
Bedsits - Hallway/No 26: Max is on the phone to Scott, asking him for some ideas for something to get Danny, as he's been through a lot lately. Scott recommends some tapes.
No 24 - Kitchen/Dining Table: Shane comes in to find Danny moping about all of the trouble he's caused. Shane jokes about his brother being cursed, but then reminds him that everyone makes mistakes, and the family has survived worse than this. Danny isn't quite comforted by his words.
Hall - Office: Mr Freeman shows Maria in, and, having seen the damage, she agrees that $500 is a reasonable amount to ask. She requests that she pay back the money in instalments, but Mr Freeman explains that they will need the whole sum within one week, or they will begin legal proceedings.
No 24 - Lounge: Max walks in, surprising Danny who was listening to music with his headphones on. Danny's happy to see his dad - and explains that Maria and Shane are both out - and Max says that he needed to come by as he has a plumbing job later. He then gives Danny some tapes as a birthday gift, and Danny is delighted with them. Des then walks in, looking for Shane, as he's got a problem with some leaking pipes in the bathroom. Danny and Des are both surprised when Max agrees to help, and says he'll be over shortly. Des leaves, and Danny reminds his father that 'Daphne the stripper' still lives with Des. Max tells his son that he's not quite the ogre everyone makes him out to be - and besides, he can't afford to turn down work at the moment. Danny looks guilty after Max leaves.
No 28 - Lounge: Daphne is surprised to hear that Max is on his way over, and there's a knock on the door. Des opens it to find a woman who introduces herself as Yvette, and she already seems to know who Des and Daphne are. They're slightly confused, until Harry walks in - he explains that Cleo liked it so much on the Gold Coast that she decided to stay, and she gave her return ticket to his new friend, Yvette. Yvette says that her boyfriend is Tiger Thomas, the boxer. Des and Daphne realise that Harry and Yvette aren't 'together' and she won't be staying. She thanks Harry for his help, and he again borrows money from Des to pay for the taxi. Yvette leaves, making sure that Harry has her number and as she goes, Max arrives. Des shows him through to the bathroom. Daphne, meanwhile, warns her grandfather to slow down, or he'll have a heart attack. As Harry goes to his room, Des returns, and says that they'll have to do something about Harry - he's costing him a fortune. Daphne says that they can't just kick out an old man, and she'll pay Des back for everything once she's earning again.
No 24 - Kitchen: Scott suggests that Jim could lend Maria the money, but Danny thinks that she'd be too proud to accept it. Danny tells Scott about Max being in a good mood, which was strange. Scott leaves, as Terry arrives, and Danny tells her that she has to load up the van. Terry wonders what sort of mood Max is in, as she's a bit late, but she's surprised to hear that he's in a very good mood today.
No 28 - Kitchen: Max has quickly finished the job, and Des takes him to one side to pay him - subtly reminding Daphne to talk to Harry about money as he does. Daphne then tries to talk to Harry about all the money he's been taking from Des, but Harry quickly turns the conversation around, saying that, at his age, he's so grateful to them both for their generosity in taking him in and helping him - it's really restored his faith in human nature. Before Daphne can say anything else, Harry quickly takes Squawker outside for some fresh air.
Ramsay Street - No 24 Garage: Terry is loading the van, when Shane walks up and introduces himself. He tells her that he tried working for Max once - he only lasted two days - and he's impressed that she can do it. They talk about his accident, and that he can no longer dive, and they flirt a little as he offers to help load the van. Max then turns up, a little grumpier, and asks Terry if she can manage the job on her own today. She agrees, and goes to get some more equipment, with Shane going after her.
No 24: Danny is pacing around the house, when Max walks in, in a good mood again. Danny suddenly asks if he can borrow $500, explaining about the damage to the hall. Max is annoyed that nobody told him, but Danny explains that they were trying to keep it to themselves, so as not to bother him. Max gets annoyed, saying that he came here and gave Danny expensive presents, and he didn't say a word. Shane and Terry walk in and hear them, and Shane is angry with his brother for opening his big mouth again. Max storms out, telling Terry to give him a lift home. Danny turns to Shane and says that he didn't think Max would mind.
No 28 - Lounge: Daphne is hoovering, and Des comes in, trying to find out what Harry said when she spoke to him. They shout at each other for a while, until Des decides to turn the hoover off. Daphne explains that she tried to talk to Harry, but he started talking about how much he appreciates their hospitality, and she couldn't do it. Des realises that Harry put on the vulnerable old man act. Daphne reminds him that he'll be old one day too, and that he's a really nice person, who won't let Harry get him down for long.
Bedsit: Max answers the door to Maria, who says that she was passing and thought she'd say hello. Max suddenly blurts out that he knows about the $500 - Danny told him - but Maria explains that she tried to keep it quiet as she didn't want Max to take it out on Danny - Max was so caring at the hospital, and she didn't want to spoil that. Max gets annoyed and says that they never had this sort of trouble with Shane - Maria replies that maybe that was because Max showed some interest in him. Max, however, believes it was because he actually was Shane's father. She says that she just came over to thank him for the way he was with Danny at the hospital last night.
No 26 - Scott and Paul's Bedroom: Danny can't believe that Max turned on him so quickly, and he thinks that Max only gave him those tapes because he felt guilty about being such a rotten father. Scott thinks that he should just have been honest about the $500 from the start, but Danny thinks that it wouldn't have made any difference - and now Max has a new excuse to hate him. He already knew that his parents split up because of him, and now he's gone and ruined things all over again.
Ramsay Street - No 24 Driveway: Shane is putting some suitcases into the van, believing that this is the only solution. Terry thinks that Max is going to kill her when he finds out that she helped with all of this. Shane takes a look back up at the house, and gets in the van.
Ramsay Street - No 24 Front door: Max and Maria are walking up to the house, and she wants them all to just talk things through as a family, and doesn't want an angry Max going in there and taking it out on Danny again. Max says that he just wants to sit down and find out how Danny proposes to pay the bill for the hall.
No 24 - Lounge: Max and Maria walk in, and she goes to look for Danny. Max then notices that all of Shane's trophies are missing, and is about to call the police when Shane walks in and stops him. He says that they weren't stolen - he sold them. He gives Maria an envelope containing $500 for the hall, plus $50 extra. Max angrily tries to take it, saying that they earned those trophies, but Shane says that they were his, and he couldn't stand looking at the trophies and photos all the time, as he needs to put that part of his life behind him. Maria comforts him, and Max storms off again, saying that he doesn't understand Shane at all.
No 24 - Back Garden: Max is about to leave when Danny comes through the gate. Max says that Shane would never have done this if it weren't for Danny, who is confused and doesn't understand. Max sends Danny inside to speak to his brother, saying that he's thrown away the only thing that the family could be proud of. He notices the photos in the bin, and picks up one of him and Shane.
Featured Regular Characters: Scott Robinson, Max Ramsay, Maria Ramsay, Shane Ramsay, Danny Ramsay, Des Clarke, Daphne Lawrence
Guest Cast: Maxine Klibingaitis as Terry Inglis, Johnny Lockwood as Harry Henderson, Brian Worth as Mr Freeman, Denise Drysdale as Yvette
• Denise Drysdale is incorrectly credited as Denis Drysdale
• Yvette works in, and lives above, a topless bar called Freud's
• Scott recommends albums by Icehouse, The Stranglers and Culture Club for Max to buy for Danny
• The registration number of Max's van is ANM 138


The immunity from puppy vaccination weakens over time and your pet can again become susceptible to disease. Annual health checks and booster vaccinations, as required, will provide the best protection for the life of your pet. Some of the vaccines we offer actually last for 3 years. You need to discuss this with your Veterinarian to see if this vaccine is suitable for your pet.
Initial puppy vaccination programs should provide at least two to three vaccinations 3-4 weeks apart starting at 6-8 weeks of age and should protect against some or all of the following; canine parvovirus, canine distemper virus, canine hepatitis, canine kennel cough.


Across the undefended border of Brooklyn and Queens.
Although Dutch immigrants established some homes and farms in Brownsville and East New York in the 1700s, the area did not gel as a community until the early-to-middle 1800s. East New York was developed by John R. Pitkin, a Connecticut merchant beginning in 1835, while Brownsville is named for Charles S. Brown, who subdivided it in 1865.
East New York's easternmost section, Cypress Hills, is named for a common variety of plant found in the hills separating Brooklyn from Queens, left from the retreat of a glacier over 10,000 years ago, which produced a lengthy line of hills stretching for miles in Long Island.
After the foundation of new cemeteries was outlawed on the increasingly crowded Manhattan Island in the 1840s, a great number of cemeteries, Christian, Jewish and non-denominational, were founded in Queens along what came to be known as the Cemetery Belt. In the vicinity, 17 separate cemeteries can be found.
Force Tube Ave. cuts diagonally across the Cypress Hills street grid. The name refers to high-pressure tubes, or conduits, that ran under the street, connecting Ridgewood Reservoir, just north of Highland Park, to a large pumping station that stood until the mid-1960s at Atlantic Ave. and Conduit Blvd. It was part of a water system connecting Freeport in Nassau County where the Milburn Pond was tapped in the 1890s to supply water to the then-city of Brooklyn. A water conduit through southern Nassau and Queens was constructed along streets that came to be known as Conduit Ave. and Boulevard. Aqueduct Racetrack, which sat near the conduit, was also named for it.
The pumping stations, conduits and reservoir had all gone out of use by about 1970. The Romanesque Brooklyn Water Works building in Freeport, visible to generations of Long Island Rail Road commuters, was damaged in a fire in the early-1990s before it could be converted to residential use, and was then demolished. The Ridgewood Reservoir remains, awaiting revival.
The Dawn of Glory statue in Highland Park at Jamaica Ave. and Cleveland St. was dedicated in 1924 and is the work of Italian-American sculptor Pietro Montana. This memorial, dedicated to the Cypress Hills World War I dead, reportedly employed bodybuilder Charles Atlas as the model.
The city of Brooklyn purchased the original parcel of Highland Park in 1856 for the construction of Ridgewood Reservoir. In 1905, New York City added to the park by purchasing land originally situated on the Schenck family farm, and the final piece was added by 1908 with the purchase of a few acres belonging to the former Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity.
The oldest house on Jamaica Ave. is at #494, between Elton and Linwood Sts. The house was built shortly after 1800 and was located on the farm belonging to Wilhelmus Stoothoff, who acquired the land from Jan Barents Bloom in 1799. After the Civil War the Stoothoff family sold the building to Edward F. Linton, who owned a lot of property in ENY, selling some of it to the city of Brooklyn which then created Highland Park.
It's one of a handful of remaining colonial-era homes in Brooklyn. It has undergone a myriad of renovations over the years, the latest of which is this version with aluminum siding.
Every one of National Cemetery's over 21,000 stones bears the cross that appears on the gravestone of a military veteran. The Cemetery's front gate is at Jamaica and Hale Aves.
On July 17, 1862, Congress enacted legislation that authorized the President to purchase "cemetery grounds" to be used as national cemeteries "for soldiers who shall have died in the service of the country." The cemeteries were soon did a good business. In that first year, a National Cemetery established in Sharpsburg, Maryland became the final resting place for 4476 Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, the bloodiest day in US history. Today the National Cemetery network consists of 136 cemeteries, 120 administered by the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Cypress Hills National Cemetery is one of the original 14 National Cemeteries. Additional land was acquired in 1882 with the aid of Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln (son of the President) as well as 1941, when its Mount of Victory and Union plots were donated by New York State. The Mount of Victory plot is the final resting place of the last surviving veteran of the war of 1812, Hiram Cronk, who died in 1905 at age 105.
Over 7000 Civil War veterans, Union and Confederate, are buried at Cypress Hills National. Only the Gettysburg and Arlington Cemeteries contain more Civil War veterans killed at Gettysburg than Cypress Hills National. Twenty-two Congressional Medal of Honor winners, marked by gold-lettered, marble headstones, are here. The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action given to a member of the armed services; it's generally awarded personally by the President.
Three members of the 7th US Calvary who survived the battle of Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876, are interred at Cypress Hills National, including Italian-born bugler John Martin (Giovanni Martini) who had served in his youth under Giuseppe Garibaldi for Italian independence. Martin served as a ticket taker in the NYC subway before tokens were introduced.
Nine other countries, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain and the U.K., claim interments in the Cemetery, including 25 French sailors who died while on duty in American waters in WWI, and British Revolutionary soldiers whose remains were transferred to Cypress Hills National in 1909, the earliest war dead in the Cemetery.
The flowers and decorations placed on the stones at Cypress Hills Cemetery, second largest in the area after Cemetery of the Evergreens, give it an almost festive air. The cemetery was established in 1848; interred here are ragtime musician Eubie Blake, painter Piet Mondrian, entertainer Mae West and baseball's Jackie Robinson.
…reportedly when he was just 17 years old, in 1811.
The Jamaica Elevated has snaked here from the Williamsburg Bridge, following Broadway, Fulton St., and Crescent St. and joins Jamaica Ave. via a sharp curve at Crescent St. Jamaica Ave. will be shrouded by it all the way to about 124th St. in Richmond Hill, where it detours underground to meet the IND E line at its Parsons/Archer terminal. It was rerouted there in 1988 after the elevated structure out to 168th St. was demolished in 1978.
The former Franklin K. Lane High School's tower looms over City Line. When built in 1923 and named for the Secretary of the Interior under President Woodrow Wilson, it was one of the largest high schools in the world. Over the decades it gained notoriety as one of the city's toughest. After the graduating class of 2012 it was split into five separate schools. Among its alumni are Red Holzman, the only coach to pilot the New York Knicks to titles (1970, 1973) and actress Anne Jackson.
We've now crossed into Woodhaven, Queens. Woodhaven and Ozone Park were settled in the 1600s by Dutch and English settlers, who gradually eased out Native Americans; Woodhaven became a racing hotbed in the 1820s when Union Course, at what is now Jamaica Ave. and Woodhaven Blvd. was built in 1820s. Centerville and Aqueduct Race Tracks would follow.
From the 1830s to the 1850s, what's now East New York and Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, and Woodville, Queens, were developed by Connecticut businessman John Pitkin. To avoid confusion by the Post Office with an upstate New York State town in the days before zip codes, Woodville residents voted to change Woodville's name to Woodhaven in 1853.
A historic sign at the C-Town supermarket on Jamaica Ave. and 78th St. commemorates a supermarket founded by Frederick Christ (pronounced "krist") Trump, who began building middle-class houses in Queens during the 1920s and built Trump Market at Jamaica Ave. and 78th St. in the 1930s; he sold it to King Kullen shortly after he opened it.
Trump Village, the project for which he is best known in Coney Island, was constructed in 1963. He married Mary McLeod in 1936 and had four children, Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald, Robert and Fred Jr., who passed away in 1981. Both of his residences in Jamaica Hills, where Donald spent his formative years, still stand.
Neir's Tavern at 78th St. and 88th Ave., by many accounts, was founded in 1829 as The Pump Room, or Old Blue Pump House, to serve Union Course patrons. The racecourse once stood across the street and hosted match races between northern and southern race promoters until the Civil War broke out in the 1860s. The racecourse closed soon after the war.
The founder was Cadwallader Colden, and that name might raise a scintilla of recognition for New York State history scholars: his great-grandfather, who had the same name, was acting governor of New York and mayor of New York City in the colonial era. The Neir's name comes from Louis Neir, who purchased the place in 1898, adding a bowling alley, ballroom, and rooms for rent upstairs.
Mae West, who was born in Brooklyn but spent some of her youth in Woodhaven, is reputed to have sung at Neir's. More recently it has been used as the venue for several major motion pictures. Several scenes of Martin Scorsese's mob epic Goodfellas were filmed here, as well as a Ben Stiller vehicle, Tower Heist, in 2011.
Awesome history. I was born in Ozone Park, and have a sister still living in Woodhaven. Our parents were born and met in Williamsburg. Thanks for the research!!


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4 José María Aznar Madrid, Spain 4 May 1996 – 16 April 2004 People's Party
5 Felipe González Seville, Spain 1 December 1982 – 4 May 1996 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
6 Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo Madrid, Spain 25 February 1981 – 1 December 1982 Union of the Democratic Centre
7 Adolfo Suárez Cebreros, Spain 3 July 1976 – 25 February 1981 Union of the Democratic Centre
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9 Carlos Arias Navarro Madrid, Spain 31 December 1973 – 1 July 1976 Falange
10 Torcuato Fernández-Miranda Gijon, Asturias, Spain 20 December 1973 – 31 December 1973 Falange
11 Luis Carrero Blanco Santoña, Cantabria, Spain 9 June 1973 – 20 December 1973 Falange
12 Francisco Franco Ferrol, Galicia, Spain 31 January 1938 – 8 June 1973 Falange
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22 Manuel Portela Valladares Pontevedra, Spain 14 December 1935 – 19 February 1936 Independent
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28 Alejandro Lerroux La Rambla, Córdoba, Spain 12 September 1933 – 9 October 1933 Radical Republican Party
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30 Niceto Alcalá-Zamora Priego de Córdoba, Spain 14 April 1931 – 14 October 1931 Liberal Republican Right
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33 Miguel Primo de Rivera Jerez de la Frontera, Spain 15 September 1923 – 30 January 1930 Military Dictatorship
34 Manuel García-Prieto Astorga, León Province 7 December 1922 – 15 September 1923 Liberal-Democratic
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Guizhou, one of the most scenic provinces in China, is also one of the most poverty-stricken areas of the nation. Many villages hidden deep in the lushly mountains amid the thick foliage are still without basic infrastructures like electricity and running water.
Its unique landscape configuration dominated by the rocky hills with perilous peaks is stunningly beautiful. But a land as such is by and large unfertile for crops, and difficult for the residents to communicate with the outside world. Therefore historically, it has always been the desolate backyard of China.
Never encounter a local man who owns more than three pennies.
Although three decades of rapid economic development in China is phenomenal, its benefits have not been widely shared, and its impact has yet to be felt by the people in the deep of the Guizhou mountains.
A resident of mountainous village Chahua, in Guizhou Province Roasted potatoes are the daily meal of the villagers, nothing else.
When the sorrowful situation of the mountain settlements in Guizhou, such as Chahua village, became known to the public through the Internet, a group of university students quickly realised that they could spend their summer vocation in a more meaningful way. Instead of taking casual jobs to earn quick cash, they took their savings and travelled to the village, working as volunteers.
A young volunteer on a class. The sentence on the blackboard read, "At night Beijing is a sea of light…"
The students are probably trying hard to work out just how many candles are needed in order to make a sea of light.
A volunteer from Zhongnan University's Medical School returns from his visit to the village patients.


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Kenneth Lonergan returns to 'This Is Our Youth'
By Chris Wallenberg Globe Correspondent,August 5, 2013, 6:00 p.m.
Jennifer Taylor for The Boston Globe
BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y. — Kenneth Lonergan is the quintessential neurotic New Yorker with a cranky demeanor and a jaded outlook. Which is why he relishes the story about finding himself in the spotlight, in 1996, as the city's hot playwright-of-the-moment. His breakthrough drama, "This Is Our Youth," about a couple of disaffected, drug-addled young adults, had burst onto the scene to rave reviews. Suddenly Lonergan's star was on the rise. But as he was waiting in line for the bathroom at intermission a week after the play's opening, he overheard a middle-aged woman turn to her friend and remark, in a voice dripping with derision, "Well, it's not my youth!"
Eyes twinkling, Lonergan, 50, chuckles at the recollection of getting smacked down out of his heady orbit by a couple of unimpressed, cynical New Yorkers after his own heart.
These days, though, the playwright seems to be dialing back the crankiness, cracking wise about trying to look more cheerful and not like a dour "Project Innocence beneficiary" for a photographer who's about to snap his picture.
During an interview at a diner in the Hamptons — where he's staying for the summer with his wife, the actress J. Smith-Cameron, and their 11-year-old daughter — Lonergan even sounds elated about the new revival of "This Is Our Youth" that's being mounted at Gloucester Stage Company this month. The production previews Thursday.
Still, some people would allow Lonergan a little irritability considering the roller coaster ride he's endured the past eight years. After a meteoric ascent in the late '90s and early aughts — he was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2001 for "The Waverly Gallery" and pocketed Oscar nominations for his screenplays of the 2000 indie hit "You Can Count on Me" and Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" — Lonergan faced several frustrating career setbacks.
First there was the saga surrounding his long-delayed film "Margaret." Bogged down in a tumultuous editing process and ensuing legal battles, the film was finally released in 2011, six years after it was shot, in just a few theaters and to little fanfare. It might have receded into obscurity if not for a coterie of critics and fans who championed the film through an online campaign, which led to a belated wave of acclaim.
There was also the negative early press that plagued Lonergan's 2009 play, "The Starry Messenger," which featured the playwright's best friend, Matthew Broderick, whom he's known since they were teenagers. The play, which Lonergan directed, struggled to get out of the gate with last-minute script changes, an actor who departed, and reports that Broderick was fumbling his lines. Despite the drama, the play opened to glowing reviews. But an expected transfer to Broadway never materialized because, the playwright believes, commercial producers got skittish due to the bad press.
All of which left Lonergan feeling more than a little deflated.
"There's things that happen to you when you get older that burn you out and threaten to really make you want to give up and quit," he says. "While I don't feel like giving up now, I certainly have felt like giving up a number of times in the last few years."
Despite his cantankerous reputation, in person Lonergan proves to be an engaging, gracious, and self-deprecating presence — laughing, joking, and even occasionally flashing a still-boyish smile.
Lonergan says he's focused on the future, but today he's talking about the past. Specifically the vivid memories of coming-of-age as a curious, articulate teenager in the late '70s and early '80s on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, which partly inspired "This Is Our Youth."
In that blisteringly funny drama, set in 1982 at the dawn of the Reagan era, Lonergan paints a portrait of wealthy, wayward young Manhattanites smoking pot, dealing drugs, and struggling to navigate those often troubled, tormented years between adolescence and adulthood.
Lonergan says his own teenage years were filled with meandering philosophical discussions, impromptu creative experimentation, and copious marijuana use coupled with hours of record-spinning. "We spent a lot of time in these little rooms getting really stoned and talking a lot and thinking about things," he says.
When he was 20, Lonergan remembers seeing the 1982 Barry Levinson film "Diner" with his tightknit group of friends and becoming enamored with its story of former high school buddies for whom the carefree-youth clock is fast running out.
"We loved it because those guys were kind of like us," he says. "But they're not going to be able to have that kind of life for much longer. That's sort of what the movie is about, and it's a little bit what 'This Is Our Youth' is about. You can't sustain that particular lively existence where you just do things for the fun of them, with no goal in sight."
In the play, Warren, a dejected 19-year-old, has impulsively absconded with $15,000 in cash from his domineering father. He's holed up in the apartment of his friend Dennis, a drug-dealing dynamo with a foulmouthed wit. Dennis rips into Warren for his foolishness, but he's soon hatching a plan to score some drugs and turn a tidy profit for themselves before delivering the money back to Warren's father. Meanwhile, Warren decides to blow some of the stolen cash on a overwrought plan of seduction aimed at Jessica, the girl he's been pining for.
Among the upper middle-class teenagers Lonergan hung around with, "no one wanted to be grown up. Everyone wanted to be a kid. And I thought that was odd and not good — but interesting."
"Other people have to go out and work for a living," he says. "We had the option not to. . . . We could [mess] up 600 times, and we'd still get our parents' help."
Lewis Wheeler, who's directing the play for Gloucester Stage, appreciates the compassion that Lonergan has for his flawed characters, but also the cold-eyed clarity with which he writes about them. He also praises what he calls the "brilliant, rhythmic, colloquial poetry of the language."
While the teenagers in "This Is Our Youth" struggle with inertia, the protagonist in "Margaret," Lisa (played by Anna Paquin), becomes disillusioned by the growing realization she's unable to affect the world in the way she once naively thought possible. The story begins when the young woman witnesses a tragic bus accident, which she and the bus driver had a hand in causing.
Interestingly, the roots of "Margaret" and its inciting incident can be traced to part of a scene involving Warren and Jessica that Lonergan discarded from an early draft of "This Is Our Youth."
As for post-production drama and legal wrangling that engulfed the film, Lonergan says it's mostly a blur at this point. He struggled to finish editing a version he could live with that was under the required 150 minutes. Then things spiraled out of control. One of the film's producers, Gary Gilbert, is suing both him and co-producer Fox Searchlight, while Fox is suing Gilbert.
"It was a shame that it took so long and was so difficult because a lot of mental and emotional energy went in places that weren't profitable or useful or stimulating except in a negative way," Lonergan says. "But hopefully that's all behind us now."
He's even grudgingly made peace, for the moment, with an artist's most hated foe — the critics. He knows the film's second life is, in part, due to their ardent advocacy.
"You're not supposed to be grateful or owe anything to critics. It's embarrassing," he says, with a laugh. "Even when they like you, you're not supposed to care."
Chris Wallenberg can be reached at chriswallenberg@gmail.com.